Chapter 220: Leave Him
After the meeting, Xu Huaisheng was able to take a breath and finally take a break. He leaned back in his chair wearily, pressed one finger against the center of his brow, which was faintly painful, and closed his eyes.
Exhausted by the continuous overtime, he rested for a while, stood up, picked up the coat on the back of the chair and walked out of the office and walked to the underground parking lot.
The car drove out of the underground parking lot and along the road up the elevated road. It was the evening rush hour, and a long dragon was jammed on the elevated highway, and the traffic was moving slowly at a turtle speed.
The raindrops smashed into the windshield of the car, and it instantly poured down, blurring the vision ahead. Xu Huaisheng put one hand on the steering wheel and one hand on the joystick, his eyebrows frowned slightly, and irritability rarely appeared on his gentle face.
After being blocked for more than 20 minutes, the elevated highway was finally opened to traffic smoothly, and after getting off the elevated road, Xu Huaisheng walked around the city center, and saw through the car window that there was a beautiful bracelet in the window across the road. I drove to the downstairs of the favorite apartment.
He sat quietly in the car, staring at the floor where he wanted to live in a daze. There was a beautifully wrapped gift box on the co-pilot, and he thought, Zhong would love it.
Since that Zhongyi called to tell him that she would not be back for about a month from a business trip, it was as if they had lost contact, and they had not sent a single text message to each other, through a phone call. Today, he didn't know what was going on, so he drove around the city center for no reason, and then ran downstairs to her apartment, did nothing, and sat in the car quietly looking at her window.
Glancing at the time on his mobile phone, Xu Huaisheng started the car and was about to leave, and in an instant he saw the window that had been black, and suddenly lit up, and the faint light was like a ghost in the rainy night, like real and illusory, and he couldn't see clearly.
Xu Huaisheng didn't bother to take the gift from the co-pilot, turned off the fire, opened the car door, stepped on the rain all over the ground and walked into the corridor, and walked a few steps to the floor where his favorite was.
He gasped slightly, his body was wet with rain, his trousers were still dripping, he looked at the familiar number on the door, and raised his hand to ring the doorbell.
Zhong Yi had just come out of the dark room, and the corners of her forehead were oozing dense sweat, and when she heard the doorbell, she hesitated to open the door.
The lights in the hallway have been up and down for the past few days, and it is raining heavily outside, and the light is very dim. She had just come out of the dark room, and her eyes were not yet very comfortable, so she squinted, and for a moment she didn't recognize who was outside.
As soon as she wanted to speak, she heard a familiar voice penetrate her eardrums: "Zhongyi, it's me." ”
Zhong Yi tilted his head, and this time he finally saw the face hidden in the shadows. The eyes that crumpled the stars were covered with a thin layer of white mist, and the bangs on the forehead were constantly dripping.
Zhongyi found a towel and handed it to him, and poured another cup of hot water, she wanted to boil some ginger tea for him to drink, but there was no ginger at home. Then he stood quietly to the side and watched Xu Huaisheng wipe his hair.
"When did you come back? Don't even let me know. Xu Huaisheng put a towel on his head, glanced at her sideways, and took a sip of the water cup.
"In the near future." I have to say that Zhongyi's level of lying has improved a lot now, his face is not red and his heart is not beating, "I wanted to give you a surprise, but I didn't expect to be exposed by you so quickly." ”
Xu Huaisheng didn't notice anything wrong with her words at all, and tore the towel off his head and threw it aside. He stood up and walked over to Zhongyi, hugged her gently, rested his chin on her shoulder, and closed his eyes.
Zhongyi's body stiffened obviously, but he quickly adapted to it again. The air he breathed with the familiar breath on his body suddenly rushed into Zhongyi's nasal cavity, but it did not have the reassuring effect he imagined.
"What's wrong?" She asked.
"I just want to hug you."
In the quiet living room, the sound of their heartbeats became clearer, accompanied by the intermittent sound of rain outside the window, as if they were playing a small concert.
Xu Huaisheng rubbed her gently, a small piece of fair skin was exposed on the back of his neck, and he smelled the good fragrance from her hair and whispered in her ear: "Zhongyi, we are also like an ordinary couple......
Ordinary couples? Is it a weekend to have lunch outside, watch a movie, or go to the playground for a long day? Or stay at home on the weekend, download a few movies from the Internet to pass the time, and snuggle up on the couch while eating snacks while doing what you love......
They are obviously ordinary people, but time is never enough for them. What forces them like this is life.
Gu Wei asked Zhong to have an opinion, and the time was decided by her at will. The venue for the appointment was a coffee shop not far from her apartment, Zhong Yi thought she was arriving early, but she didn't want to, Gu Wei had been sitting there waiting for her for a long time.
Seeing her, Gu Wei smiled politely, and it had nothing to do with remembering the old love. She had a faint smile on her face, "Drink something?" ”
Zhong Yi guessed a few points, the reason why Gu Wei asked her to meet at this time was just to see her fall off the horse and break her bones, and take the opportunity to mock and humiliate her. She doesn't care, there are still few gossips on the Internet, I'm afraid that I can't control my emotions and do things that hurt her, which is really worse.
"You're not just here to catch up." I don't like to beat around the bush, so I directly omit the foreshadowing before and after, and get to the point.
Gu Wei smiled elegantly, his eyes flashing with love for what he once had but had lost, confidence, pride. She didn't go around the bend with her too much, and said, "Leave Ah Sheng, Zhongyi." ”
"Why?" Didn't she even take the opportunity to humiliate herself? When something like this happened, the first person to see her joke was not Gu Wei or anyone else! This time, she lost, and she lost so badly!
"Do you think that now that you are with Ah Sheng, you will not mess up his life." Gu Wei picked up the coffee and took a sip: "If you love Ah Sheng, you should choose to let go." Instead of protecting him in your way, self-righteously. In addition to causing him some trouble and affecting his normal life, you have all other options. ”
Gu Wei pushed a folded newspaper in front of her, facing a photo of Xu Huaisheng participating in a business event, with a gimmicky headline, praising him as "the youngest entrepreneur".
"According to the stains on your body that can't be washed away now, if netizens pick up that your boyfriend is a public figure, the impact on his career and life is not just an ordinary thing." Gu Wei paused and said, "Leaving Ah Sheng, this is the only way to keep him from being harmed." ”
Zhong Yi lowered his eyes, not knowing what was going on in his heart. Her hands on her knees were clenched into fists, her heart was turbulent, her face was still unwavering, and she said, "Are you finished?" It's time for me to go back. ”
Zhong Yi stood up, his eyes didn't even sweep the newspaper on the table, he raised his feet and left, and Gu Wei's affirmative tone sounded behind him again: "You will leave him, sooner or later!" ”
When he got home, he threw himself on the bed, face down, until he couldn't breathe well, turned his head slightly, and wandered around the room with a blank gaze, and finally fixed on the head of the bed, framed with a photo taken by the two last Christmas.
She had a headache in her head, and then she remembered that she had forgotten to take her medicine before going out. After lying on his stomach for a while, Zhong Yi dragged his heavy body to the living room, found out the antipsychotic drugs he often took from the bottles and jars of medicines, poured a glass of water, held dozens of capsules in his mouth, mixed with water and swallowed.
Xu Huaisheng did what he said, rested on weekends, drove his favorite car to go out to play and relax, and turned around the scenic spots that he wanted to go to but couldn't go to for various reasons.
It turns out that what you have never been able to get, after a long time, you have lost the excitement and enthusiasm you had at the beginning, and in your eyes, it is just an inconspicuous thing.
The location of the lunch Xu Huaisheng chose with ulterior motives, an old hot pot restaurant near Z University. When I was in school, my favorite place to beat my teeth was this hot pot restaurant with a unique secret recipe for many years, where several people were surrounded by sweaty food, and their lips were spicy and red, but they still couldn't stop their passion for hot pot.
When I arrived at the door of the store, I looked at the store that I often came to from the university, and my heart was as calm as a pool of stagnant water. She tugged at Xu Huaisheng's sleeve, turned around and walked out: "Forget it, let's go eat the rest." ”
Gu Wei is right, as a public figure now, how can he be committed to sitting in a greasy hot pot restaurant with her, surrounded by hot pot shabu slices, and eating with the smell of hot pot that can't be washed off.
They went to a new Western restaurant and ordered pasta, and Xu Huaisheng ordered a medium-rare steak. The pasta tasted good, and she rolled it up with a fork and ate it in small bites, which was laborious and torturous, but it was also stronger than the smell of hot pot all over her body.
After lunch, Xu Huaisheng accompanied her to hold hands and press the road together, they talked about everything, and they automatically omitted Gu Wei to ask her to meet. It was almost dark, Xu Huaisheng wanted to watch a movie, and he liked to say that he was tired and wanted to go back to rest. Xu Huaisheng drove her back to the apartment, originally planning to send her upstairs, but Zhong Yi refused.
He turned on the headlights and stayed at the dark entrance of the stairway, watching Zhongyi's figure disappear around the corner of the stairs before getting in the car and leaving the apartment.
After going out to play for a day, the depression in Zhongyi's heart still did not dissipate, her unhappiness was all written on her face, and she knew that this was her own reason, and she couldn't blame Xu Huaisheng at all. He's been working very hard to make himself happy, hasn't he?
She walked forward slowly, and was about to reach the door of her house, when a tall figure suddenly appeared in the shadows, An Shu silently looked at her for a few seconds, her eyes flickered slightly: "Zhongyi......"
Zhongyi took out the key, inserted the keyhole and turned it around, turned the doorknob to push the door in, fumbled around the wall for a while, found the wall light switch, pressed it, and the light in the living room immediately turned on.
I like to hang the bag I have been carrying all day on the hanger, take off the high heels that I have stepped on all day, and replace them with comfortable slippers. Standing with An Shu, he instantly became more than half a cut shorter.
"Do you want milk?" She walked straight to the kitchen and opened the refrigerator door, which was filled with plenty of chilled milk and yogurt, enough to keep her up for a month before the expiration date.
"When did you come over, why didn't you call me." I like to tear open the wrapper on the top of the yogurt and scoop it with a small spoon.
"Just now. Xu Huaisheng sent you back, did you go out to play? Anshu unscrewed the cap of the bottled milk, held it in his hand and did not drink it.
Zhong Yi said "um" and didn't speak.