Cocoa Flight is not a real flight, it is the name of a café that sells coffee drinks and cocoa products.

Located on Guanghua Road in the north of the Academy of Arts and Design of Tsinghua University in Beijing, this store has attracted a large number of fashion-loving young men and women to gather here since its opening because of its fashionable and avant-garde appearance and romantic and warm interior decoration.

Generally, those who come here are young white-collar workers under the age of 30 who like petty bourgeois life, or students who are full of youth and vitality on campus.

But today, there is an uncle-level figure here, at this time this uncle is sitting lonely in front of the window, basking in the warm sun and looking out of the window, his image is a little out of place with the atmosphere of the whole store.

He seemed to be reminded of the past many years ago, his eyes were melancholy, his brows were furrowed, and sometimes the corners of his mouth would turn up slightly and smile bitterly, and soon he shook his head and returned to a sad appearance, and this person was me.

It's Valentine's Day, February 14, 2014, and every year on this day I come here for an afternoon to order a cup of mocha and a box of Cool Paths Louis XIV Chocolate Roses.

But every time I drink coffee today, my heart is sour and not the taste, every time I eat a bite of chocolate, I feel a sharp shovel digging open my heart, the pain goes deep into the bone marrow, and the whole body is cold after the pain.

Actually, it's been a decade now, and I understand that it's not that the coffee has become sour, it's not that the chocolate has become astringent, it's because the seat across from me has changed – because it's empty. And my heart was empty ever since, so empty that no matter how hard I tried, it was never filled again. Outside the window, there was not a single cloud in the clear blue sky, and a lonely plane streaked through the sky, and my mind followed its course back to thirteen years ago......

The year was 2001, I was 28 years old, and I was working as a design director for a well-known design company in Beijing. Six years ago, when I was a senior at the Academy of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University, I interned at this design company for half a year.

On the last day of the six-month internship period, when I was communicating with a client about the design plan, Mr. Yang happened to pass by, so he came to say hello to my client, and the client's words changed my fate from then on.

The customer pointed to my design plan with satisfaction and said excitedly: "Mr. Yang, if your company has more designs like this, I think you will get bigger and bigger!" ”

I saw a flash of joy in Mr. Yang's eyes, and then I started my design career in Beijing with a contract.

In the past six years, due to frequent negotiations on projects across the country, resident construction sites to guide construction, inspection of new material merchants, and often all-night design plans, I have not even taken a day off for a month, so I have not been able to solve my single problem.

However, I was not in a hurry, but my friends and colleagues around me saw that I was anxious, and every time they kindly persuaded me, I always had a casual attitude.

Because I've always been more repulsive about blind dates, I don't like to treat feelings deliberately, I still believe in fate, I believe in a natural feeling, a heart-pounding feeling, and this feeling really makes me wait......

On that day, I was working overtime in the company alone, because the competition for the design of a five-star hotel in Chengdu was fierce, and I was under a lot of pressure.

During this time, I stayed up late almost every day, and I saw that my colleagues were very tired, so I asked everyone to leave work early that night, invited them to have a meal, and arranged for them to sing karaoke in the song hall after the meal, and I left early after singing a song.

Then I returned to the company, ready to read the plan again during this period of time, to see if there is any unreasonable layout and imperfect functions, and then modify it.

At this moment, the phone in my office rang, and when I looked at my watch, it was almost ten o'clock, thinking that it was probably Mr. Yang calling again.

Because Mr. Yang knew that I often worked overtime until late before going home, he liked this time every day, and teased me for a while with the wine after the entertainment, and by the way, he learned about the progress of the design project bidding.

When I picked up the phone, I habitually said: "I said, even if you check the post, you don't have to be so diligent, you call every day." Didn't you see that I'm still giving you this capitalist to stay up late to change the plan? If you force me again, I'll jump from the eighteenth floor! ”

However, to my surprise, I didn't hear the familiar voice of Mr. Yang on the phone, but a woman's voice also learned my ridiculous tone and said: "It's okay to jump off the building, but can you be two days late, and then jump after completing my plan." When the time comes, I will be disappointed when I see your plan, maybe I will dance with you! Haha......"

When I heard that it was not Mr. Yang, I was a little embarrassed: "Excuse me, who are you?" ”

"I'm in the same league as the so-called capitalist you just mentioned, and I'm a female capitalist. He said you have a lot of ideas for design, so give me your phone! If you didn't jump tonight, I hope that at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, you can go to No. 128 Guanghua Road, north of Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts, and wait for me at the door of the restaurant that says transfer. Haha......" After the female capitalist finished speaking, she hung up the phone very arrogantly.

Just when I was so embarrassed that I really wanted to jump off the building, the phone rang again, this time it was Mr. Yang: "My Director Su, what are you busy with?" Did a beautiful woman look for you just now? ”

"I'm looking for you!" I gritted my teeth and said, "You're going to make me embarrassed and throw me home, from my uncle's house to my grandmother's house." Say it! Who is this witch? ”

"Haha......" Mr. Yang laughed on the phone and was almost out of breath, "I guess you will take her call as if it was me, and it will be repaired!" Ha ha! ”

I was speechless with anger, and when Mr. Yang laughed, he continued: "Seriously, you really have to thank me for giving you this opportunity, this girl is the sister of one of my classmates, called Lin Keer." Her father was a deputy minister, her mother was the chairman of a restaurant group, and she herself was a flight attendant preparing to retire. In fact, she is only 28 years old, not yet the age of retirement, the reason why she retired is because her mother hopes that she can find a boyfriend quickly, have a child after getting married, and then the group wants to take care of her in the future. You two are a match made in heaven! Ha ha! ”

"Thank you? Thank you for your size! You're trying to hurt me, aren't you? This kind of second generation of officials and rich second generations, I can't afford to serve the pampered daughter! Besides, I'm just a small design director, just the little annual salary that your old man gave me, I don't know where the next meal is, and I can only wear one person who buys a pair of socks without a mortgage, can I afford to climb the big tree? And her little mouth seems to be the kind that is unforgiving, don't you push me into the fire pit as pure as a blank piece of paper! I was filled with righteous indignation and spoke of my "suffering" in a sonorous voice.

There was a sudden series of vomiting sounds on the phone, and I guess it would be difficult to see tomorrow's sun if I could vomit like this.

Just when I was worried that he wouldn't really hang up if he vomited like this again, then I really ate the last meal and didn't have a second time, he finally spoke: "The white gold diamond socks you bought?" I'm not going to give you a low annual salary. What a big-tailed wolf in front of me? I'll serve this guest tomorrow, you know? Otherwise, come to me! Hum! ”

The last few words were almost shouted out by Mr. Yang, and I hurriedly left the microphone away from my ears to avoid perforating my eardrum. After hanging up the phone, thinking that I would have to meet this eccentric witch tomorrow, a chill hit my whole body, and I suddenly fell asleep, I knew that I was destined to be sleepless tonight......

The next afternoon, at 1:50 a.m., I arrived at the door of the restaurant appointed by the witch, and from the outside, it seemed that the restaurant had been closed for some days, the locks on the doors were a little rusty, and the windows were many broken. Looking through the broken windows, the original decoration inside can be demolished, and you can see bare wires and some broken wooden boards everywhere.

Over the years, I've made a habit of arriving ten minutes earlier than guests to show respect.

At 10:10 a.m., a red BMW stopped in front of me, and a woman with a devilish figure in sunglasses opened the door and walked out. The jade hand, which was as white and tender as a lotus root, pushed the sunglasses to the top of his head, revealing a face that "brought disaster to the country and the people".

The moment I saw her, I suddenly felt a sense of familiarity and familiarity. At the moment when I lost my mind, she also looked me up and down with playful eyes: "Presumably you are the director of Su who was going to jump off the building last night, right?" No, I'm ten minutes late, and you're going to jump off the building again, right? ”

"Where, you are a distinguished guest, don't say ten minutes, it is my honor to wait for ten years." This is the "good" professionalism that I have cultivated through years of hard work in the shopping mall, that is, talking about people when I see people, and talking about ghosts. Although I was not satisfied with the witch's sarcasm, I had to be hypocritically polite, and by the way, I respectfully handed her my business card.

"Su Feiyang, this name suits you very well! You almost flew last night, haha......" The witch laughed wildly, ignoring my inner embarrassment but extremely calm hypocritical expression, and after laughing, she looked at her watch and slowly retracted her expression, "Okay, let's get down to business, I have an international flight in the afternoon, and the time is very tight." I'll take you around the scene, tell me what I'm asking for, and I'll take a look at the concept design when you go back and come up with a design. Time is not in a hurry, I still have more than two years to retire, just open before I retire, is there a problem? ”

When I mentioned retiring, I saw that she suddenly became a little sad and seemed to be reluctant to do this job.

"Of course there is no problem, with your identity, it is just a matter of opening tomorrow!" I replied with a pretended deference on my face, still smiling hypocritically and quietly retorting.

She gave me an "affectionate" look with her beautiful eyes, and pursed her sexy cherry lips disdainfully: "Humph! Less come, work! Oh, this is my contact information, call me if you have something, if I turn off the flight is on the flight, you can leave me a message, I will contact you when I get off the flight. ”

She took out a small brown blank card the size of a business card, wrote a name and a number in a special silver fluorescent pen, and gave it to me like a check. I pretended to be more respectful than when I gave her the business card and took it with both hands.

When she looked at my exaggerated movements as a compliment, she gave me a white look with her phoenix eyes.

I ignored her white eyes, took a closer look at the freshly baked business card in my hand, and saw a line of graceful silver fonts on the card reflected in my eyelids, and Lin Keer 1559495****.

Suddenly, I secretly exclaimed in my heart, what a beautiful word!

Next, she took me to see the whole scene inside and out.

I estimate that the whole store is about 1,000 square meters, and the layout is not very square, in the form of a narrow passageway, but the floor height is very high, about eight meters.

To be honest, from a design point of view, this space is not ideal, and at the best position at the entrance of the whole space, there is a pile of very thick pipes that extend from the ground to the upper floor, which cannot be removed or moved at all.

For this kind of awkward space with hard injuries, it is easy for inexperienced designers to make the design fail. But if I meet an experienced designer, it is a highlight of the design to handle it with ingenuity, and in the past six years of design experience, I have also encountered a space that is worse than this, so I am still confident that I can do this design well.

She also saw that I didn't seem to have a good impression of this space, so she said: "This was originally a small shop used in a row, each shop is not large, but it is not uncomfortable to look at, but now after all of them are opened, they are long and tall, and it is really not easy to use." However, this place is prosperous, close to several universities such as Peking University and Tsinghua University, and the rent is relatively reasonable, so I decided to rent here. But I found several designers, and I was not satisfied with their proposals. I heard that you have your own ideas in dealing with this unreasonable space, and I have also seen your design case in the Chinese version of American interior design on the Internet, which is really great. If you can't design it, I'm going to jump off the building! ”

I thought to myself, you'd better jump now, save me from damaging countless brain cells to serve you as a witch! But he still said very sincerely: "Thanks to Miss Lin's wrong love, I will do my best, do my best, and die." ”

After saying that, I also felt a little like vomiting because of my extremely hypocritical words, but I still held back.