"What kind of city do you think this is?"

There are only two people in the West Wing room, Mu Pengfei and Miao Haoshi.

Today he asked her to come, and he could not ignore it, at the time of the luncheon, when the number of people was the most and the most mixed.

When Miao Haoshi received the long box of this dress in the morning, the card inside was printed with the words "Happy Birthday" in round English, and then the message on his mobile phone arrived:

'Come to Caesar's Mansion at noon and have lunch with me, I'll wait for you.' ’

It turned out that today was her birthday, and she forgot it.

But wasn't her birthday also set by Mu Pengfei? He said that this day is, this day is it, and the overnight judgment will also determine her life as if it were true. How important is it that she remembers it herself?

Miao Haoshi looked at the red clothes in the gift box, and remembered two Japanese songs, which were deep and terrifying.

Don't eat golden persimmons, they are depraved inside. Scarlet lily is beautiful, ominous, don't fold.

It is said that the fox girl in the legend of Japanese gods and ghosts, things gather by like, and in China it is a female fox demon, with a red face and trouble.

She didn't want to wear such a dress in front of everyone, and she was as proud as she was, how could she pretend to be a vixen? But she never had the courage and qualifications to say to him, no.

"Hershey, the world, does not believe in the weak. It's not that you look down on the weak, but you can't see the weak. ”

He said this expressionlessly, unfazed. But when she was 7 years old, it was seared into her brain, her heart, her temperament. Because she clearly knows that she has been a complete weak since birth, and if she doesn't want to lose badly, she can only become a strong person. This sobriety may have come 15 years earlier than her peers.

No. It is the language of the strong, and she is not a strong man, let alone a strong man in Mu Pengfei's eyes.

Mu Pengfei asked and saw that Miao Hao didn't respond for a long time, and turned his head to look out of the unobstructed window, his expression was far away, and the Buddha was like an empty string. The expression he had been showing so often lately had become more and more difficult to fathom. The high-rise buildings on both sides of the Pujiang River are slowly receding in his field of vision, and the buildings and forests of Pudong and Puxi are far across the river.

"I ...... I don't know. ”

For a long time, Miao Haoshi had to look at him and replied softly.

In fact, she is no stranger to Shanghai, and she spent a long time growing up here. However, at that time, Pudong was still an empty beach, with no skyscrapers and no materialistic desires. On both sides of the riverbank, there has not yet been a Suzaku Voyage and a floating dream bridge. The mystery of the old glory and the current prosperity and seclusion have not yet been intertwined, and it has become a city full of magic.

Miao Haoshi watched the glass of the tall building opposite him gradually move in the sunlight and mist, waiting for his next step at the speed of the earth's rotation that is undetectable.

"She's not your city, and it's not my city. But it is the city in the hearts of many people. Mu Pengfei seems to have more feelings when he speaks today.

"Hasn't this hotel of yours become a landmark?" Miao Haoshi still asked naively.

"It's not exactly mine. Caesar didn't belong entirely to me either. ”

Mu Pengfei was still looking into the distance, and his deep voice was not as sonorous and powerful as usual.

"When I first arrived in Shanghai, I was as old as you are now. 22 years old. He continued.

Miao listened quietly and watched him. She didn't know what was going on in her eyes, and it seemed to be real, but in fact she was confused. Recently, she often has a detailed view of the world with her eyes wide open, trying to use Mu Pengfei's gaze and perspective, but it can be seen that she is completely out of the point.

"I didn't know anything about her back then." Mu Pengfei turned his head and looked at Miao Haoshi with an unfamiliar winn look, and continued.

"And now?" She had to ask.

"We're tired of each other now."

After listening to this, Miao Hao smiled, and two small dimples appeared faintly at the corners of his mouth.

Mu Pengfei tasted her smile with satisfaction, and gently took a sip of the red wine added by the sommelier who had just come in, the 2005 Fujiuyuan Kamusai.

"Very nice. A new collaboration in your cellar? He complimented, looking at Miao.

"Yes, the accompaniment to the President's Table at the Weekend Dinner. The wine in Fujiuyuan is very difficult to screen. Talked for two months. ”

"Starting a business at the beginning, it's still so complicated and heavy, do you have bitter water to pour on me?"

"There is a problem in everything, and you will never finish listening to it." Miao lowered his head and took a sip of wine.

Mu Pengfei took a rare drink, and stretched out his hand to gently shake the hand that Miao Hao had placed on the edge of the table, and suddenly said very seriously:

"I'd like you to come to dinner with me in the evening."

Miao Hao was stunned for a moment, and looked to the side of the partition glass, as if he could see people outside.

"They've seen you just now." Mu Pengfei withdrew his hand and said softly opposite her.

"What do you see? Didn't the glass just have a partition? Miao blurted out when he asked, looking a little flustered.

Mu Pengfei smiled. He stood up, paced to the window, leaned back against the back of his semicircular dining chair, and looked at the Global Center and the Jin Mao Tower on the other side, which were slowly approaching as the restaurant swirled, and looked at them for a long time without replying. The glass and steel bars separated him from the continuous rumbling of the Shanghai Tower not far away.

After a moment of silence, Mu Pengfei's secretary, Wenny, called to inform the other executives that the meal was nearing its end.

Mu Pengfei stared at Miao Hao for a while, "I'm just finding a suitable time for them all to see you." ”

Miao Haoshi looked at the figure with his back to her with his eyes open and bewildered.

"Can I not see it?" She still plucked up the courage to say half a word.

"You have to see it, we have to face it." Before she finished speaking, Mu Pengfei had already thrown out his opinion.

Miao Haoshi was silent when she heard this, and in order to avoid being embarrassed by the silence, she took a knife and fork and carefully cut the peachfish meat on the plate, and lowered her head to eat a little. She has always been such a quiet and obedient person.

In fact, she silently hoped that there was poison in this meat, and if not, why should she eat it.

Mu Pengfei saw her emotions and pretended not to know. returned to her seat and accompanied her to eat a few bites silently.

When he looked up again, he already knew that time was running out, and it would not be good to come over there to urge him again. So he lifted up his voice and said to her:

"I almost forgot the most important thing of the day, and I haven't given my birthday gift yet." Then he took out a business card and pushed it in front of her.

"Do you remember this girl?"

The name on the business card, the moment on the paper, and the memory of the good times, instantly jumped.

She looked up suddenly, and was about to ask something, but he was lightly blocked back.

"You, even if you're lonely, you won't make more friends. Shanghai is so big, don't you have any girlfriends they say? I heard that she was your best friend when she was at St. Mary's, and that she is also in Shanghai now. ”

Miao Haoshi picked up the corner of the business card, carefully put it in his handbag, and a smile appeared on his face, flashing. Mu Pengfei saw it in his eyes, and her smile was the most beautiful in the entire Shanghai Shangzhi corner.

"Happy Birthday! I hope this gift is quite satisfactory. ”

With that, he didn't linger for another minute, and walked out of the room to another box. He told Helen, who was waiting at the door, to contact the administration to add a badge to the people in the room, and he invited her to all his afternoon meetings.

Miao Haoshi did not follow Mu Pengfei out of the room, she continued to stay in the box alone for a long time, she looked at the sparkling microwaves on the surface of the Huangpu River in the distance, looked at the reflection on the glass of the two skyscrapers that had just left in front of her, and looked at the symmetrical and sharp facets of the Guojin Twin Towers, the sunlight suddenly shining between them, so that she couldn't help but close her eyes.