Chapter 289: A Slap in the Face of Fate
Before Jiang Nuan completely turned his face, it was Bai Luo who opened his mouth first. "Jiang Nuan, are you disgusted with such a life in the market?" He sat across from her, and the navy blue suede box had just been thrown to the ground like an abandoned baby.
In fact, this is not the case, Jiang Nuan looked at Bai Luo in shock, she didn't know why this person would speculate about herself so much. But maybe he's more or less right.
Her gaze fell on Bai Luo's left wrist, which had been wearing a Patek Philippe men's watch, but now, it was empty.
"Where's your watch?" She didn't answer the question.
Almost since college, Bai Luo has been fond of wearing a watch on his left wrist. It was also from that time that Jiang Nuanbai knew that boys' love for this kind of textured watch was actually no less than girls' love for bags.
On the day he left the Bai family angrily, Bai Luo was carrying a Patek Philippe watch in his hand. The most basic and simple style, with a black surface, a buckle design strap, and a dial with a mechanical frame, looks elegant and atmospheric.
But now, the watch is gone, replaced by the Cartier diamond necklace in front of me. Jiang Nuan was disappointed, and immediately understood the origin of this necklace.
If it was before, she didn't need to care about the origin of this necklace at all, and even if it was a complete set of diamond jewelry, it was just a drop in the bucket for Bai Luo.
But now, when they couldn't even pay the rent, he took out a valuable diamond necklace as a birthday present, which was really unbelievable.
Almost subconsciously, Bai Luo shrank his wrist, and the cuffs of the cardigan drooped down slightly, just covering the position of the wrist. "Put it in the office." He explained far-fetchedly.
The two of them have been together for too long, so long that they almost melt into the blood and bones and become one. So with just one look, they know each other which is true and which is false.
"You lied to me." Jiang Nuan opened quietly. "How did this necklace come about?" She asked directly.
As calm as Bai Luo, he was a little weak-hearted. "It doesn't matter." He glanced to the side, trying to brush it off.
"You sold that watch." Jiang Nuan's tone was very determined. "Isn't it?" The latter sentence is almost a stroke of the tongue.
Bai Luo didn't answer, he just stood coldly and twisted his face to the side. The two people, who were obviously close at hand, were like a drowning river in the middle, maintaining death-like silence for each other.
The atmosphere in the room became eerie, and the dishes on the table that were still steaming white seemed to have cooled, fading their bright colors and making people lose their appetite.
"Nuan Nuan, the dishes are going to be cold, otherwise we can eat first, okay?" In order to ease the atmosphere, Lin Qingqing had to act as a peacemaker for the two.
Glancing at the food on the table, Jiang Nuan picked up the chopsticks sullenly. "Eat." Her voice was barely audible.
Seeing that she was finally willing to start eating, Lin Qingqing breathed a sigh of relief. But when she also raised the dishes and chopsticks, she suddenly realized that Jiang Nuan had been solved here, but Bai Luo over there was still like a statue, standing motionless at the dining table.
Just when she wanted to comfort Bai Luo, Jiang Nuan spoke before her. "Sit down and eat." Her tone was almost imperative.
"Jiang Nuan, you know very well in your heart, is it the life of ordinary people that makes you feel unhappy, or is it ...... This gift. Bai Luo's tone was very flat, but his words were very heavy.
These words smashed on Jiang Nuan's heart word by word, making her grin in pain, but she didn't dare to pounce and cry. She knew that the person in front of her was also tired.
Today's long-accumulated resentment actually started a long time ago, and when will it be? It probably started when I saw off Xu Yanran at the airport.
At first, the two of them were too impulsive, thinking that love could be the foundation of everything. They sanctify this feeling, thinking that as long as there is love, it doesn't matter if the sky falls, even if tomorrow is the end of the world.
But it wasn't until this so-called deep love like the sea encountered trivial daily life, encountered firewood, rice, sauce, vinegar and salt in ordinary life, and encountered the economic crisis in front of them, that they began to panic.
In the face of Bai Luo's calmness, Jiang Nuan seemed not so calm. A mocking smile appeared on her face, and even her voice sharpened. "Are you tired?" The orange-yellow light hit her, making her look like a paper man.
Out of sight of everyone, her hands shrunk into the wide sleeves of her sweater, trembling desperately. She remembered the time when the Bai family's parents came to look for her, they looked at the thin Jiang Nuan, their eyes were full of disdain.
"Seriously, Miss Jiang, with Xiaobai's conditions, you can find a perfect partner who is both talented and good-looking, but you, except for being passable, have almost no advantages."
"I know that the most precious thing for girls is youth, don't worry, we will compensate you for a loss, even if you never work, you can live a good life."
Bai Mu's words floated beside Jiang Nuan's ears one by one, almost tearing her apart and crumbling her. The stubborn villain in her body tore at her remaining self-esteem, inch by inch, making her feel painful.
At the end of the day, when she politely "invited" the two old men to leave their home, Bai Mu pointed to the talent recruitment interface on her computer with great disdain. "Miss Jiang, these jobs are not enough for you to get married and have children, and even it is a problem for you to be fed."
At that time, Jiang Nuan was very hard, she clenched her fists to brainwash herself, she firmly believed that as long as the two of them worked together, they would definitely get better and better in the future.
In this city with a population of tens of millions, so many people can live well on their own, why can't she and Bai Luo?
Now, however, those harsh words seem to have become prophecies overnight. After all, the people who have come are the people who have come over, and their eyes are spicy and thorough, even if they are ugly, they are also reality.
"If you just want to live this life comfortably, I'm sorry, I can't give you anything now." Bai Luo's words were the last straw that crushed the mule.
A crisp slap sounded in the room, and when it snapped, everyone, including Jiang Nuan himself, was shocked. This is the first time she has beaten Bai Luo, and it was a slap.
He didn't say anything wrong, and if anything was wrong, it was that he was too direct and explicit. He made public what Jiang Nuan didn't want to admit in his heart, leaving her with no way to escape and making her flustered.