"What time do you have an appointment with a lawyer tomorrow?"

Jiang Limei concentrated on driving and was startled: "You didn't sleep?" ”

It's almost home at this point.

Jiang Limei's apartment is far less high-end than Ren Yujia's community, there is no privacy at all, the taxi space in the underground garage does not even have a lock, she saw a white Chevrolet parked in her parking space from a distance, and got out of the car to call the owner according to the number plate.

Ren Yu also got out of the car and stood behind her, pounced on by the smell of tobacco mixed with mint.

Jiang Limei supported the wall full of graffiti with one hand, a fine cigarette between her fingers, and held her mobile phone impatiently with the other hand:

"Get down and move the car, you occupy my parking space." No more nonsense.

I don't know what to say, so I hung up. Jiang Limei spit out a thin puff of smoke and complained to Ren Yu, as if talking to herself: "Fuck, the parking fee of 600 a month is parked for others half of the time." ”

"Is there no distinction between public and private parking spaces?"

"There's a fart."

Jiang Limei stretched out her hand and turned around, signaling Ren Yu:

"Look at this tattered, you don't even change a light bulb, and you still expect the property to be a person?"

There is a sign of a private parking space overhead, but it is not conspicuous, and the parking space is tight, and there are often cars parked blindly. Jiang Limei was so unbearable that she wanted to lock it herself, but she forgot it when she was busy.

They waited for ten minutes, and a tall man came out of the elevator wearing flip-flops, his hair was scribbled, his steps were dragging, he shook the car keys, and glanced at Jiang Limei:

"In the middle of the night, you can't find another place to stop? Will it not work? ”

It's a bit of a scoundrel.

Jiang Limei didn't care, she put out the cigarette butt and laughed: "Well, across these two streets, there is a parking space in the open air, you move the car out, can you just go there?" ”

The man snorted, and wanted to continue to raise the bar with Jiang Limei, but Ren Yu took a step forward and protected half of his body in front of Jiang Limei.

The man looked Ren Yu up and down, but finally didn't say anything.

In the elevator, Jiang Limei yawned: "I'm sorry, it's very messy at home, so I don't invite you to go up." Thank you for accompanying me back, you can take an online taxi when you go out at the main gate. ”

Ren Yu didn't speak, standing behind her, a pair of deep eyes fell on her white shoulders and neck, and the elevator ceiling lamp plated her skin with a layer of light gold, like a delicate unripe fruit.

The man's gaze in the parking lot just now also fell on her like this, and that gaze made him uncomfortable.

Dark garages, apartment buildings without any security measures, small advertisements and graffiti posted everywhere, old buildings, and complex personnel.

Even he didn't realize it, and the hand hidden at his side clenched tightly.

He was a little impulsive and blurted out, "Do you leave work so late every day?" ”

Ding, the elevator from B1 to F1 only takes more than ten seconds.

The elevator door opened, Jiang Limei took the lead in walking out, and a sentence floated in: "Yes, what?" ”

She just had to go to the courier locker at the front door to pick up the delivery.

When entering the pickup code, Ren Yu was behind her, and his voice was low: "You may be able to move, the environment here is not good." ”

He weighed the proportions of his words: "If you want, I can help you find a house elsewhere, you don't need to worry about it, I'll tell you." ”

"No, you don't." Jiang Limei understated: "I like to be lively, this building is a little messy, but it is the best house I can afford in this area." ”

She didn't think there was anything to hide, so she turned to Ren Yu and smiled: "You know how outrageous the rent in Ling City is, after all, not everyone has a rich family background and can afford a high-end community, we are different, Ren Yu, I am not a rich second generation." ”

She was.

Not anymore.

During those days at my stepfather's house, it was like a tumultuous dream in an ordinary life, and the moment I woke up from the dream and the sun shone on the bed, everything returned to reality.

There are some things that you shouldn't have, and sooner or later you have to return them.

Things are, and so are people.

Jiang Limei suddenly became a little irritable. She picked up the courier box in her hand, and her eyes fell elsewhere casually:

"Renyu, let's make it clear whether it's okay or not."

Ren Yu's expression was calm, but his eyes were dark: "You say." ”

"I am very grateful for your help to me during this time, I remember that there are many favors, I will consider paying you back one by one, but you really don't have to interfere in my life repeatedly, I am not a teenage girl anymore, I can take care of myself, I have lived well all these years."

"With you and without you, over the years, I've come over like this."

"I'm doing well."

Jiang Limei finished the last sentence and stared up at Ren Yu. She saw herself clearly in Ren Yu's deep eyes again, and her excessively clear eyes also made all her desires nowhere to hide.

Ren Yu obviously has no expression, when he looks at others, his expression is focused and serious, such eyes are often deceptive, making people mistakenly think how affectionate he is.

So just now in the bar, when Jiang Limei and Huang Youhui were chatting about the history of their entrepreneurial blood and tears, she saw Ren Yu standing in the dark of the light, and her heart suddenly ached.

When Ren Yu heard it, he would show such pity.

But she really didn't need mercy.

"Ren Yu, I'm not pitiful, and I don't need you to be the savior, it seems that my life is a mess without you. You help me, I thank you, but that's the end of it, I don't want you to have any fingers at my life, any medical check-ups, any moves, I don't need any, and ridiculous fights for me. ”

"Whether as a friend or a suitor, do you care a little too much about me?"

A moment of silence.

At the main entrance of the first floor of the apartment, someone pushed an electric car into the elevator. The rule that electric cars are not allowed to go upstairs is a joke here.

The astringent noise of the elevator doors also broke the suffocating silence.

Ren Yu exhaled heavily: "I know." His jaw tensed, and his Adam's apple rolled: "I don't pity you." ”

I just feel sorry for you.

Jiang Limei stared at him for a while, and hurriedly looked away: "Forget it, it doesn't matter." ”

Among her former suitors, there have also been caring men who help her solve some tricky difficulties.

When the company first started, there was a lack of funds, she had to do everything, and at that time, a turtle with a successful career stood up and said that she could take their angel round of investment, so that she could recruit employees and the company could get on the right track. Jiang Limei hesitated, but still refused.

She is afraid of any sticky relationships.

There is no eternal companionship and association in the world, and there is less to do with it, so as not to even cause pain in the flesh and skin when parting.

She lowered her eyes, suppressed her emotions, and pointed out to Ren Yu where to take a taxi. The traffic lights here are complicated, and some online car-hailing vehicles do not go to this intersection for the convenience of making a U-turn.

lost her temper inexplicably, and Jiang Limei herself felt that she was a little excessive. It's hard to say whether it's bullying the soft and afraid of the hard, Ren Yu looks gentle and polite and humble, and she doesn't have any pressure at all when she loses her temper at him.

"I'm sorry."

She threw down a silent apology, turned and walked away. The elevator just automatically returned to the first floor, and she hurried to catch up with this trip, but was grabbed by Ren Yu's wrist in a panic.

There is a silver bracelet on Lingding's wrist bone, and a small red rope is strung with a small Ruyi, which was given by Wu Yusi in the year of her birth, and she has been wearing it. At this moment, the little Ruyi was on the fine flesh of the wrist, and it hurt and hurt.

Ren Yu clenched tightly, and showed no signs of letting go when he noticed her frowning.

"Jiang Limei," he said in a deep voice, "Can you tell me how you have spent all these years?" ”

In the empty hall in the middle of the night, there are slight echoes when speaking, and the voice is like a stone thrown into a deep pool, and the ripples are rippling layer by layer, hitting the ears, crispy and numb.

"I know you're doing well now, you have your career and your life, but I just want to know how the most difficult years came through before this."

Jiang Limei's heart jumped for a moment, she held her breath and shook off the hand she was holding:

"Let's talk big, Ren Yu, you said it yourself, I was eighteen to twenty-eight years old, you know every step, and now you want to ask again?"

"Yes, I said that."

Ren Yu's chest rises and falls slightly:

"But there is always something I don't know, you had an accident at home in your sophomore year, and you broke up with Ren Xun, deleted the contact information of all your old classmates, and you worked three part-time jobs a day near the school, how did you survive at that time?"

"You got your degree certificate in your senior year, and you suddenly disappeared without even taking a graduation photo, I asked my tutor for leave, and I looked for you in Yangcheng for half a month, and no one knew where you were. You tell you, where did you hide then? ”

"After that, I didn't hear from you until you opened your own company, I didn't know that you were also in Ling City, you don't know how happy and scared I am."

"You don't want to be known about your current situation, I'm afraid that if I rush in front of you, you'll have to hide in a place where I can't find it."

Ren Yu suddenly shouted, with a pair of dark eyebrows and eyes, and terrifying waves lurking inside:

"Jiang Limei, can you tell me, what are you afraid of?"

(End of chapter)