Chapter 20: Rainy Day

In the rain, Rong Di came to the coffee shop where he met the editor with an umbrella. Placing the umbrella in the designated position, Rongdi looked for the figure of the editor, but there were only a few male guests who were sheltering from the rain and playing with their mobile phones with their heads down, and there was no girl. Rong Di breathed a sigh of relief, he looked at the time: "Eight and twenty minutes in the morning, it's early."

The time agreed with the editor is half past eight, and there is an appointment with the ladies, and the first arrival of the men seems to be the default rule. If Rong Di was late, he would definitely be glared at by her with cold eyes.

Sitting in his usual position by the window, Rongdi stared blankly at the rain scene in the window, when an SUV Mercedes drove over and stopped outside the café under his gaze. Then the door opened, and a pink umbrella came out of it, and with the umbrella as a barrier to keep out the rain, a pair of white and flawless legs poked out of the car.

Wearing high bare-toe heels and a black work skirt paired with a white shirt, this professional beauty walks into a coffee shop with an umbrella in the background, with a high-end car with flashing lights when the lock is closed. With a beautiful woman and a wealthy birth, it's no wonder that so many men are crazy about her.

The café staff who opened the door was a young woman, and she couldn't help but look at her a few more times when she saw the beautiful woman with extraordinary temperament walk in before she was instructed to put her umbrella in the designated place.

Tao Ling's appearance can't help but attract young men playing with their mobile phones, but they are just peeking. After all, the cold aura of "don't get close to the living" on other beauties is enough to make them feel weak, she just has invisible magic, just an ordinary eye is to make that man ashamed and inferior.

"You're early." Her first sentence was not "just wait", although she said it with a smile, but she still invisibly exuded a superior momentum.

"I've just arrived." Rong Di was once again overwhelmed by her momentum, and the deadline was only a few days away, and it was not a good thing to be called out at this time.

She seemed to enjoy the man's whispering in front of her, she smiled, but her voice became serious: "I'd better get straight to the point, the manuscript you sent before was too ordinary."

Rong Di knew that it would be like this, he had no inspiration some time ago, and Zhang Tongtong's matter made him haggard, so it was strange to be able to write a good manuscript.

"How do you want me to change?" Rong Di said a little tiredly.

"The story you wrote about swapping bodies with cats has a good response, although it is not scary, but it has a very good grasp of human nature." She said with some anticipation: "Please write this kind of story again, we can create such a selling point, so that it will be good for you and for the magazine."

"You're going to make me popular?" Rong Di's eyes lit up.

"You can understand it this way." She said this, but didn't make it clear.

Mixing under someone else's hands is like that, no, it should be said that this society is like this. As long as you give a certain benefit, it is natural that someone will work for you willingly, and the people above will always hide some information and deceive the people below, so as to obtain greater benefits.

Rongdi signed the book, not the person. If one day he gets tired of the deceit of the publishing house, he will definitely give up writing books. Writing books is just a tool he uses to make money, his original intention has always been to experience the wonderful story of spending time with youkai like his grandfather, he can also be a doctor, he still has a choice, not hanging from a tree.

But is it right to continue to break away from the original world and step into that dark world? Zhang Tongtong's incident hit him hard, and he was a little shaken.

"I see." Rong Di smiled bitterly.

"Please come on." Tao Ling smiled sweetly. She still knows some rules in the workplace, and for beautiful women, a smile when necessary can always make men energetic and work for themselves.

Rong Di knew her little abacus, and he didn't want to be led by this woman, so he asked, "Can you tell me the story of you and that peach blossom god?" I don't have any inspiration right now, so you should just help. ”

"Hmph, we're not good enough to say that, are we?" She seemed to be angry and immediately stood up and wanted to leave.

"I believe in the existence of youkai, and I have really swapped bodies with cats." Rong Di didn't stop her, and said to himself.

Her beautiful eyes hesitated slightly, and she looked Rong Di up and down, "Have you really seen a monster?" ”

"What are you lying to?"

Her gaze swayed, and every now and then she used her fingertips to pull her hair behind her ears, which seemed to be a small gesture when she was nervous.

Tao Ling was indeed surprised, but she didn't know how to say it, if her truth was exchanged for his ridicule...... She didn't want to relive the shame of her school days.

"I'll wait until you're done writing a new draft." She prevaricated about personal matters and talked about work.

"Then you just wait for my good news."

Clever people heard what she meant, and she wasn't going to say any more. Rong Di didn't plan to continue, so he had to watch her leave.

When she was about to step out of the coffee shop, she suddenly glanced back at Rong Di, the woman with a serious expression frowned, and she seemed to smile. Although she didn't dare to guarantee that she would open her heart, Rong Di felt that there was a play.

Rong Di himself likes to listen to supernatural stories, and the person who told the story is still a beauty, so he can't help but smile slightly.

The rain is still falling. When he returned to the apartment, Hongyi was playing chess with the landlord, and when he saw Rongdi coming home, he put down the chess pieces, clamored to read the book he wrote, and followed him upstairs together.

Although the red face was full of "happy", Rong Di knew that this girl was worried about herself.

Walking to the fourth floor, the two men were surprised to find a man in the corridor, this man was a roe deer, a small body, dressed in gray, like a corpse crawling out of a grave.

He turned his back to Room 407 and looked at the distant sky under the rain curtain. Although there was no expression on his mouse-like face, Rongdi could see his sadness, because it was the same face as the one he had appeared in the mirror the other day.

"Hello, Mr. Hal." Red-clothed smiled and waved his hand at him.

"I'm not Hal, and he's not on duty today. I'm Jerry. The man said in an eerie tone, retracting his gaze from the sky, and then he looked directly at Rong Di for a moment. The latter was suddenly creepy, and goosebumps fell to the ground.

"Cheer up, there is no need for the living to show the expression of a dead man all day long."

He said this and seemed to laugh. He must have laughed, and the muscles at the corners of his mouth twitched stiffly. It's a scary scene, like a zombie in a horror movie smiling at you.

Rong Di was stunned for a long time before realizing that this person was caring about himself. Although the people next door are all strange people, they should all be some good people, and they gave hints when Rongdi and the cat exchanged bodies.

Perhaps, they don't want to be so impersonal on the surface.

"Thank you for your concern, I feel much better now." Rong Di said a polite word, but he always felt that something was strange.

The man's eyebrows seemed to stretch, and his expression changed slightly—it became softer.

"The dead will never be resurrected, mourn."

His tone was still so cold, but he wasn't mocking, I don't know if it was an illusion, his smile was more like an ordinary person, should he say more skilled?

"I know......" Rong Di smiled wryly.

He also looked in the direction Jerry was looking, and as far as he could see was the city drenched in heavy rain, and the rain was getting heavier and heavier, and there were not half pedestrians on the street. Rong Di couldn't help but wonder, "Who are you waiting for?" Will that person really come back after such heavy rain? ”

Hongyi tugged at the corner of Rong Di's clothes, shook his head vigorously, and said in a low voice: "Grandma said that you can't inquire about them, and the people in this room will be unhappy."

Jerry didn't seem to hear Red's words, and continued with Rongdi's words: "Yes, he said he would come back to pick us up."

As he spoke, his tone changed, and he completely lost his previous confidence, and became very lost: "But...... We can only wait. ”

"Can't you just go to that person?" Rongdi asked.

"We couldn't get too far from this room, we tried to look for him at night, but we couldn't go any further than we walked down the street." He reached out and pointed to the street in the distance, the rain drenching his arm, but he didn't care, and continued, "There is the edge, there is an invisible barrier blocking us."

Rong Di looked at the place he was pointing to, which seemed to be Xicheng Road, next to an artificial lake.

"Who the hell is that guy you're talking about?" Rong Di continued.

Hongyi was very anxious, and the child who listened to her grandmother's words naturally attached importance to her grandmother's words, and she made a big look, but Rong Di didn't notice it.

"Do you want to know?" His tone was more eccentric, but also more sad, as if an animal was wailing.

Rong Di nodded, and the red clothes couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva, the girls are all curious creatures, saying that she is not curious about the things in room 407 is fake, she lowered her head shyly, but her glasses kept staring at Jerry.

"I can tell you." Jerry smiled faintly, then pushed open the door to room 407.