Four Starry Nights
Some people say that the night under the stars is the most beautiful.
The world under the stars is a metaphor for the vastness of the universe, through which humans can imagine themselves as gods, omnipotent and fearless. In fact, we are only lonely and insignificant, and the things we love and hope for are not enough, and we think we are great. Under the stars, nothing is just a blink of an eye, but it will pass away.
At this time, in the sky lounge of the Caesar Hotel, looking at the starry sky above his head that penetrates the deep blue of glass, he feels extremely intoxicated. The fossilized clock embedded in the wall has struck 12 o'clock. The pianist gently closed the lid, the bartender silently cleaned up the ice lowball glasses left over from the bar, and the interior lights slowly dimmed by a notch. And the two men beside her were also a little trembling on the eaves of the bar, staring at her with confused eyes. In fact, they have drunk and realized that all things are beautiful, and they have begun to become self-absorbed.
"You say, what's wrong with a life where you have food and drink, and you have to have wind and rain? He has to wander around the world and make it precarious. Is it hypocritical? Xue Yichen swept his arm over Guan Yulan and slapped Feng Jingxi on the shoulder heavily.
"He has ideals." Guan Zailan's voice was already soft, and her eyes looking at the starry sky slowly fell, and she turned her head to look at Feng Jingxi with interest.
"Who doesn't have ideals? He has ideals! So are we reluctant? He's sick! Or moaning without illness. How many years did you say you had treated him? Can you heal him? β
Xue Yichen glanced at the two of them, frowned, and continued:
"I don't think you can cure it, just sleep him and be happy." With that, he withdrew his hand and pushed the cup out again.
Feng Jingxi still had no waves, Guan Zailan's cheeks turned red when he heard it, and he glanced at Xue Yichen with incomparable contempt.
The bartender looked at him hesitantly, and he made an OK gesture and had to renew it for him.
He usually shouts so loudly that he pulls people to the member lounge for a drink at every turn, but in fact, he can really drink one glass, two glasses will be drunk, and when he is drunk, the conversation box will be opened, and the image of how good he usually pretends to be is thrown into the back of his mind.
"As soon as you return home, you will be gone. I say my best buddy, do you know how I've had my year? There's no one to talk to, and sometimes I can't wait to look at your picture and don't know if you're still in this world. We are still called twin brothers? But there's no telepathy at all. I often wonder if you're missing and want to report it. Xue Yichen had already pulled off his shirt and bow tie, and his words became more and more disregardful.
Feng Jingxi listened, the corners of his mouth curled imperceptibly, but he didn't laugh. Qingjun's face also had a layer of red, but there was a little more warmth. Just now they have killed a bottle of Johnnie Walker, and this bottle of famous passport whiskey is almost at the bottom, and most of it is drunk by Xue Yichen, he doesn't speak, he can only drink more. After retiring from the celebrity's noisy and bustling dinner party, Xue Yichen brought the two of them to the lounge inside the hotel, one was clean, and the other was to show off the place where he often haunted after he settled in Caesar.
"You can stay in that kind of place in East Africa for a few months! You can do it. Why didn't you have a relationship with the lions, and immigrated to the prairie? Feng Jingxi's Sven mask was completely put down, his face was red, his eyes were covered, and the wax on his head had also changed shape.
Xue Yichen was still silent. The communication between him and Feng Jingxi has basically always been like this, and everyone is used to it.
And Guan Zailan looked at his face, and he only felt that Feng Jingxi's voice was buzzing in his ears, and it was no longer real. She looked at it and was a little fascinated, and a trace of inexplicable joy hit her heart. Looking at him so closely, she found that he was so good-looking, even more handsome than she had always thought. People say that the sword eyebrows are deep-eyed, and the face is like frost but the eyebrows are affectionate, is this the case?
Feng Jingxi couldn't stand it anymore as he spoke. "In Lan, did you fall in love with him at first sight? This kind of unrequited love hurts the most, you should be careful. With that, he finally got a little too drunk, so he had to go to the bathroom to wash his face.
"You're free to play for a few minutes, I'll pretend I don't know." He didn't forget to leave a word before he took a messy step.
"Are you too drunk? Don't talk nonsense, can't you wake up? Xue Yichen finally spoke, and raised his eyes to give Guan Zailan a helpless look, as if they were all men.
Guan Zailan supported his sinking head with his hand, sinking little by little. Alcohol ferments and churns in the brain, as if producing some wonderful hallucinations. She tilted her head, and suddenly said to Xue Yichen faintly,
"Kiss me."
Xue Yichen couldn't help but be surprised, and the wine also woke up for half a minute. The neck froze there, pretending not to hear.
"Kiss me." She continued, her voice firmer.
Xue Yichen turned his face to look at her, and there was a trace of gentleness, faintness, and quietness in his eyes.
Guan Lan's heart turned a thousand times in an instant, she suddenly propped herself up and stretched out her face, and kissed Xue Yichen's lips, his lips were unusually soft and had no temperature. Then she stopped there, and with the strength of the wine, she didn't want to take it back. His face was reflected in a pair of flickering eyes, his eyebrows, his lips, his own hot face against his, and the sound of his own sudden and rapid heartbeat, and she could even feel his eyelashes trembling slightly. This abrupt kiss took her courage for too long and too long, and it grew like a whole galaxy going upstream.
He didn't dodge, he just stopped there. His snort was still gentle, with the smell of wine and a vague fragrance. It's a unique smell that has been left on the body over the years with the same soap. She knew that it was a Japanese soap, made with honey and lemon, which entered the Chinese market 20 years ago and is still available in some humble stores. She knew that he used the same soap wherever he went, with the same smell, and it would never change. She knew that tears were gradually oozing from her eyes as she looked at him, and she was so foggy that she could no longer see him clearly.
Xue Yichen saw her tears swaying in her eyes so closely, her lips trembling slightly, after all, she couldn't bear it, and it hurt somewhere.
He reached out and touched her face, gently wiping away the tears from the corners of her eyes, and his warm fingers roamed over her face, comforting a child. He is still silent, unreverberating, and unreverberating.
"The girl at the dinner party...... Isn't it like ...... She? When Guan Zailan suddenly said this, he could barely hear his own voice.
And he heard it. There was finally a sparkle in those dark pupils. The surface of the lake moved, and a slight wind arose.
Xue Yichen didn't make a sound, just withdrew his hand, touched the blue one with his wine glass, and drank another glass. Then she looked up, as she had just done, to see the starry sky beyond the openwork glass top. As the night wore on, the stars seemed to be getting closer, and it seemed that they could shake off a few of them.
Guan Zailan stopped looking at him, returned to his place, raised his glass of wine, and drank it all.
The low-ball cup was made of ice cubes, and the temperature of the fingers stopped on the walls of the cup, and it was cold to the bone. She knew he wouldn't tell her, that this fragment of his memory was like a graveyard buried in his life, and that he himself would step into this grave in the future. No matter how she pulled him to move him, it seemed that he would not change. Facts and secrets are cold things that break people's hearts. She is so smart, but she still can't guess his heart, she is a psychiatrist, but she can't walk into his memory.
When Feng Jingxi came back, his pace was quite steady, but he was really drunk. When someone entered the lounge to greet him, he turned a deaf ear, just climbed into the chair and sat down, thought for a moment and suddenly jumped up again, only then did he realize who that person was, it was his marketing director, the top boss of their entire department.
He quickly straightened his collar, stood up, tried his best to return to his usual state of the company, and hurried to meet him.
"Mr. Mu is here? It's so late, you're tired today. β
"I haven't seen you all night, so it's here." Naturally, the visitors also took a seat at the bar.
"I just came here." Feng Jingxi was unusually obedient at the moment.
This man is not tall, handsome, with a gentle face but a sense of distance, and a little older. His dark blue suit was a modest fit, but the hand-stitching on the collar and cuffs revealed its value, as did the two custom cufflinks with black onyx and platinum M letters. It seems that such a man is especially suitable for such a lounge.
It seems true that Caesars is still a family business, and Muhammad does have real power in the group. This is Mu Pengfei's eldest son, who has just returned from the UK and is in an important position, but there are many rumors about his inheritance, although the group values him very much, but people seem to pay more attention to his younger brother who is still a minor.
The manager of the lounge also appeared at this time, bowing slightly to Mu Luyu not far away, but he was extremely respectful but did not come to disturb. The Fazioli antique piano, which had just stopped playing, restarted its gentle sound, and the bar area was slightly brighter. The bartender expertly pushed over a glass of Hennessy, apparently to save the wine.
"Can you still drink?" Mu Luyu asked Feng Jingxi.
Feng Jingxi has always been astute, how could he let go of such an opportunity to coexist with the leader. "Such a good wine, if Mr. Mu is willing, I will accompany you to drink a few more glasses." Although Feng Jingxi said this, he knew at a glance that he had reached the level of abandoning armor and defecting.
Mu Luyu smiled knowingly and asked the bartender to pour Feng Jingxi a glass as well. The light was still very dim, he casually glanced behind Feng Jingxi, and suddenly he was startled, and said in a low voice,
"In the blue?"
Guan Zai Lan turned around when he heard the sound, and only then did he recognize this Mr. Mu as Mu Luyu? No wonder the sound sounds so familiar.
"Brother Xiaoyu? It's you?! I don't recognize it in a suit. Guan Yulan jumped off the bar chair, walked over and walked around Mu Luyu, it seemed that she had forgotten what had just happened, and the tears in her eyes had evaporated. It's just that her pace is not very neat, and her drunken appearance is particularly charming.
Mu Luyu hurriedly reached out to support her, got up and let her sit in his chair. Raising his eyes, the bartender hurriedly brought a glass of warm water.
"Please don't come to the next post, so come here to hide and be clean? Still drinking like this? Mu Luyu took the water cup and fed her water, and blamed, full of concern without concealing it.
Guan Zailan didn't think so, she took a sip and pushed his hand away, not taking this Mr. Mu seriously at all.
Feng Jingxi, who was standing on the side, saw this move fall through his glasses. He always knew that he was decently locked up in the Lan family, but he never thought that she was actually a person in the peak circle of his own company.
Guan Zailan replied, "I went to the dinner, it was a grand scene." But this lounge is even better, you can watch the stars and drink. Feng Jingxi brought me here. β
"Nice here? How many times have I called you? I asked you out when it was completed and opened last year. When didn't someone send someone to you for a post? Feng Jingxi and you...... Do you know each other today? β
"He was a good friend of mine when he was in the United States. Today happened to be your post and I met a get-together. Guan Zailan didn't introduce Xue Yichen again, and left him aside. But from time to time, his eyes would still drift to him. He was at ease, and had quietly gotten up and walked alone to the terrace outside the floor-to-ceiling window.
"I looked for you for a long time at the party, thinking you didn't come. It turns out that Manager Feng is your good friend? Why did you never tell me? I don't dare to slack off your friend when he works in the company, he can pour bitter water and complain to you at any time, right? Mu Luyu said affectionately, his eyes looked at Guan Zailan, and his funny style was completely different from the unsmiling style in the company. Guan Zailan smiled playfully when he heard this, and glanced at Feng Jingxi. Feng Jingxi was a little honestly afraid, and he could only follow this joke in his mouth.
"If I had known that Lan was Caesar's person, I don't know if I would have dared to play with her. If this provokes her, how will I live this life? Feng Jingxi pretended to be clever and said.
Mu Luyu looked at this notoriously handsome guy for a while, who heard that he would soon be promoted from the project team company to the PM of the headquarters market. He had just heard this promotion information from personnel, and he didn't know it yet.
Guan Zailan didn't want to join the two of them, her mind was not here. "You two big men caught me in the middle and guessed the trick? I'm not going to do it. She got up and walked to the terrace outside the lounge.
"Where are you going? It's still cold outside. Mu Luyu called her softly.
"I'll go outside and sober up, and you guys drink slowly." As she spoke, she had walked through the million-dollar piano and into the corridor full of long windows.
Mu Luyu hurriedly took off his suit and asked the waiter to send Guan Zailan over. His eyes followed her until she pushed open a door and hurried out, only to find that there was another person in the night outside.
"We also have a friend who also came back from the United States last year, who is a freelance photographer, and he was probably called by Lan." Feng Jingxi could also see that Mu Luyu was not ordinary to Guan Zailan, and was busy explaining to him.
"It turns out that she has so many friends in the United States, I thought she was a female student bully who was lying on her homework every day." Mu Luyu slowly drank the wine in his cup and said, his eyes retracted and looked at Feng Jingxi.
At this moment, Mu Luyu let go of the vigilance in his heart, it couldn't be the man in front of him, he was too loose and had no appearance but would not attract a girl like Zai Lan.
"I remember you came back from the United States for a master's degree, which university did you study?" He began to casually chat with Feng Jingxi.
βStanford γβ Feng Jingxi was very cautious in saying this awesome name.
Mu Luyu was surprised when he heard this, and he didn't want to be surprised by this casual question. In the past few years, I have seen all kinds of people working in the group, but it is still rare to graduate from Stanford at such a young and effortless level, and I don't feel that I look at him differently.
"MBA program?" He asked.
"Yes, it's a matter of luck." Feng Jingxi had no choice but to say this.
"Wow! You're also too low-key, how can there be no special records of personnel? Tomorrow I will communicate with the HR of the headquarters, Caesar's background like you should have been reused a long time ago. Mu Luyu said in an aggravated tone.
He was already keenly aware that this person he should be pulled into, so the information of the promotion headquarters should be the best opportunity, so it is better to take advantage of it. It was not his authority to promote someone to the headquarters in the first place, but it made sense for his subordinates to think so.
"Where, Caesar is full of talents, I am nothing, thanks to Mr. Mu's view."
After Feng Jingxi finished speaking, he suddenly felt like a spring breeze blowing through, refreshed, and the wine woke up. When this luck comes, it can't be stopped. Today he unintentionally met his career nobleman. Usually, in the project team, those leaders set up various obstacles to suppress him because of his educational background. Soaring? The word popped up in his mind, and he himself was startled, a little embarrassed to start conjecturing so quickly.
They clinked their glasses and toasted the rest of their glasses.
At this time, all the other guests in the lounge had left, except for the sound of the piano, only the sound of the two of them was gently undulating. Mu Luyu actually came here alone to have a few drinks at night these days, and the current atmosphere of the group is becoming more and more treacherous, complicated and difficult to argue, and many things at tonight's annual dinner are even more unbelievable to him. Alcohol can give him a moment of relaxation, and although he didn't relax tonight, it was a windfall.
At this time, he began to feel something, Guan Yulan had been out for a while, she was not a girl who would drink with men, and it was an accident to meet her here today. She's not a girl who would be alone with a man for so long. Mu Luyu suddenly wondered who that friend on the terrace was?
He asked the bar to make two cups of warm-up ginger ale and send them outside, and he also got up and walked out with Feng Jingxi.
The night was deep, and the temperature outside did cool down, and I was afraid that I would sneeze after a while. But it was a clear night, and the cold stars were obscured by the city lights at night, and now the night was quiet, and the neon was half extinguished, and then the stars and the distant moon were so beautiful. The two of them quietly walked to the top fence of the iron tower, only to see that the two people were not chatting, but looking up at the sky silently from a distance. It's a lot of indecent two people.
It was a very young and handsome man. Although he wore a new Thom Browne slim suit of the season, he was dressed in style. But it was difficult to hide a cold sense of alienation around his body and face, his hair seemed to have not been taken care of for a long time, it was too long, and it was gently flying with the evening breeze, but it was very beautiful. At this time, Mu Luyu found that Guan Zailan was no longer looking at the stars, but turned his head slightly and looked at the man silently, although he couldn't see the gaze, but his heart suddenly tightened, and he had never been flustered and uneasy.
That arrogant priestess is actually peeking at a man's face? Mu Luyu hurriedly walked over and patted Guan Lan's shoulder, like waking up a sleepwalking person, no matter how dangerous it was, he couldn't tolerate such a thing.
"Ahh You scare me. Guan Zailan exclaimed, and a layer of damp mist was faintly visible in his eyes. She lowered her eyes to hide her past.
Mu Luyu's heart fell into something. He set his eyes on Xue Yichen, smiling slightly but with a cold light.
Xue Yichen also looked at him, his eyes were as calm as water, and he didn't seem to feel his hostility.
Mu Luyu looked at his face at this time, and after a few seconds, he suddenly had a strange feeling in his heart, he turned his head to look at Feng Jingxi's face again, and his heart was shocked, and he was shocked to realize that these two people looked so similar, but they looked a little like twins.
Guan Zailan saw Mu Luyu's expression, noticed his reaction, and understood in his heart what he was wondering about, but he didn't show anything unusual, and only introduced lightly:
"This is Xue Yichen, who is also my friend in the United States. This is Mu Luyu, Caesar's executive, as for how tall, Feng Jingxi knows, I don't know. After she finished speaking, she looked at Mu Luyu, but she didn't say a word about the appearance of these two friends, as if such a coincidence was not worth mentioning because he was making a fuss.
Mu Luyu could only stretch out his hand, "Fortunately." β
Xue Yichen also stretched out his hand, his hand was unusually rough, but it was warm and powerful. "Fortunately."
Guan Zailan glanced at Feng Jingxi cautiously at this time, and Mu Luyu caught the information he was looking for in these intertwined eyes. His instinct immediately told him that Guan Jae-lan was deliberately hiding something.
They knew each other so well that they spent their adolescence in the same house, and he had always known the distant cousin as if it were a treasure. In the words of Zailan, like two radishes growing in a pit, too ripe.
He was too familiar to say anything to her, and if it weren't for the fact that the time had not come, he would have started to pursue her, because in the depths of his heart, she was the only woman who could match his wife and Caesar's future mistress.
Guan Zailan resumed her goddess style as usual, she took a few sips of ginger coke and smiled sweetly at Mu Luyu to express her gratitude. However, if this smile was compared to the expression she had just stared at Xue Yichen, it would be too heartless.
At this time, Xue Yichen suddenly let out a low voice, "Look, meteor." β
The four of them looked up at the sky at the same time, and between the twinkling stars, one or two intermittent bright lights streaked across the sky, and disappeared into the night sky in an instant.
It was so coincidental that the four of them saw a meteor at the same time. Guan Zai Lan looked at the hidden direction of the stars and meditated for a long time; Xue Yichen looked at the starry sky, and his heart was hollow, and there were bursts of sadness; Feng Jingxi looked at the boundary of the horizon, where the stars and lights were connected, and suddenly felt at a loss; Mu Luyu was looking for the next meteor in the starry sky, and his heart was full of thoughts.
The world is so close and so far away.
Some people say that the most beautiful stars are shooting stars.
In the night sky, that moment fell, burned, collapsed, and fell into the vast atmosphere. Is it an unknown prophecy illuminated, or is it an eternity in people's memories?
We look at the sky, but we don't know what our hearts really want, under the stars, all the good things become vanishing secrets. That's why meteors are the most beautiful.