9. Drink a cocktail

The atmosphere of the Forbidden City in September is similar to that of August, and due to the climate characteristics of the big cities, the temperature at this time is only slightly cooler, and the temperature is relatively mild compared to the obvious autumn in the Eye City. At night, the streets and alleys are as brightly lit as ever. Locals and outsiders come and go to merge into an indistinguishable flow of people, and butterflies are interspersed to the agreed bar.

There are only one or two bars in this area, and it's noticeably quieter than the lively nightlife spots. A slightly lonely folk singer strokes his guitar and sings in a low voice. Two or three acquaintances and friends, talk around the table.

In the corner, a woman in casual white clothes, with long hair and a shawl, held a goblet in her hand, and stared at the door. Seeing Painted Butterfly coming, she smiled and raised her glass to greet Painted Butterfly. Butterfly walked up quickly, hugged the woman and smiled. The tips of the noses of the two women smelled each other's fragrances at the same time, and they exchanged their favorite familiar tastes with each other.

"Sister Manla, why did you come back today?" After Painted Butterfly sat down, he asked with a silver bell-like joy.

"Your best friend, tell Lao Zuo about my return time! So I came back early to scare her. Hey, she's just a mediocre person. Actually, I arrived in the morning, did some things, bought something. Manra said, raising her right hand and motioning for the waiter to come over and order something. The waiter obediently arrived and handed the drink list to Manla, "Give her a classic cocktail and a small fruit bowl." Thank you. The waiter nodded in response, then put away the drink list and went back to the service desk to prepare the corresponding items.

"Sister Manla, don't blame Riffy, she has a stupid head and doesn't have so many eyes, so it's easy to be used as a gun." Butterfly worries that Manla hates Riffy, so she explains to Manla.

"Indeed, you three, Riffie is the stupidest. However, the smartest is not you, but Gui Yan. Manla leaned back, teasing with her forehead.

"Guiyan is indeed the best, an international certified public accountant, before marrying into the corrupt country, he was already able to enter the domestic office of the corrupt country's accounting firm." Painting Butterfly sighed.

"I don't say she's smartest because of that, it's because she knows how to use her connections to grow her career. On the honeymoon, I didn't forget to find a way to get a project from me. What about you, you obviously want funds to start your own business, but you still want to refuse my investment. You're not as shrewd as she is! Manla held up her goblet, and the wine shook in the glass.

At this time, the waiter at the bar brought classic cocktails and fruit plates. Butterfly raised her glass, touched Manla's glass lightly, smiled shyly, rolled her eyes, but didn't say a word.

Manla smiled and shook her head, reached out and touched the head of the butterfly, and said, "Perhaps, Zhicong wants you to be yourself and do what you like." ”

"What I'm doing now is what I love." Butterfly put down her wine glass and rested her cheek on the table with one hand, her eyes twinkling, looking at Manra.

"Although I support you to start your own business, I want you to do what you love from the bottom of your heart. I'm worried about you, I've lost myself. Happiness becomes a burden, and it is impossible to make oneself happy. After all, as you said, the city is a dream of Zhicong. I don't think that's necessarily your real dream. Manla learned to draw butterflies with one hand on her cheek, approached her, and propped her elbows on the table, "You can't let go of the emotions you once had, nothing." If you don't take a step forward, I don't think I'll want to see you indulge in this state. ”

Hua Die put her other hand on Manla's face and said softly: "Love, which happens in everyone's world, is a real perception that few people can say clearly." Because I'm just me, it's harder for me to perceive what love is for others. Whatever it is, as long as the person is happy, it should be right. For me, there is no special situation in the love between me and Zhicong. We naturally fell in love with each other, and it became a habit for each other. Not vigorous, not bumpy, inexplicable. ”

"Your habits, if, before it happened, you all went to other cities and met other people who could have habits, would you not have the current love?" Manra grabbed the hand that drew the butterfly and rubbed it against her face.

When she heard this, she felt that she was familiar with it, but she couldn't remember where she had heard it for a while. So, he said: "After a thousand sails, I suddenly looked back, and it was indeed possible that the correct person would appear in the dim light. Although, Zhi is never there, strangely enough, I am used to the self we grew up with. To be an aroma studio, to be an aromatic garden, to make me more like myself. I did this not because I couldn't let go of the love I was used to, but because it was my true dream. She sat upright and shook her other hand.

"There's some convincing force for you to say that, and I'm starting to support you from the bottom of my heart. Therefore, you should accept my investment even more. It's hard to say whether Manla really started to come from the heart, but from the bottom of his heart, he hoped that Butterfly would accept his investment.

"I can't accept it right now, my current business plan is not very well executed, and I still need to figure it out. I want to go through several rounds of financing roadshows to polish my business model. Sister Manla, when the time comes, I need your investment, and I will never be polite to you. Now, Sister Manla should go all out and deal with the company's affairs. Like, the chairman, she's going to fight a tough battle with you. Speaking of the company's affairs, Hua Die's tone was a little more serious.

"There's nothing to deal with - originally they just wanted to slowly dilute my shares and swallow my profits. This kind of partnership, which has not been baptized by tribulation, will not last long. I don't want to partner with them anymore, so I have a plan to withdraw my investment, and they just want to delay my withdrawal. "Manla is clearly not in the same way as the company's troubles.

"Do you want me to stay and help you for a while?" Painted Butterfly is still not at ease, and cares.

"That's not necessary, I will only leave them with two ways now, one is for them to sell their shares out of the market, and the other is to let me withdraw smoothly according to my proposal." Manla was also afraid that the painting butterfly would be too concerned, and continued, "I came back early, but I have already started to deal with this matter, and I really can't be interested in a struggle of this scale, but if you do it casually, it will be enough for Lao Zuo." ”

"If Sister Manla successfully divests, is she going to stop doing things in China?" Butterfly asked.

"My original plan was to either divest and re-establish a company, which would be run by you and Chen Xingchen. Now, seeing that you're so determined to do your thing, I might have to rethink my next steps. Manla raised her hand and touched the butterfly's head again, "Your resignation application is with Mr. Chen, and he doesn't want to let you go, so he keeps pressing it." For you, the top management doesn't want to let you leave the company. ”

"I want to thank my sister, if you hadn't named me to protect me, I wouldn't have been taken seriously." Butterfly pursed her lips and smiled.

"Are you blaming me for delaying your departure?" Manra laughed.

"How dare I, four of the six shareholders of the company are a family. I usually only focus on work, and I don't get close. At the same time, several of them are particularly taboo to have a good relationship with you. If you hadn't protected me, I would have been wiped out a year ago. "Huadie began to have the meaning of coquettishness, and she herself was strange, Sister Manla invested in her Zuo's cosmetics group a year ago, and it should be an employment relationship that is not close, but after just a few contacts, it became a good friend. The relationship between them is even harder than those two iron-clad girlfriends.

"It's all the result of your own efforts, and it has nothing to do with me. During the time I went back to Siam, I still missed you, and I was always thinking about you. I, as a sister, still care more about your personal life no matter what. If you are happy in the company, you will be happy in the company. If you are happy to start a business, you can be happy to help you start a business. Manla's concern flattered the butterfly.

"Sister Manla."

"Huh?".

"Or, the two of us will have a lifetime?" As soon as the words of the butterfly came out, both of them were startled.