She sat on the cold park bench in his arms, silent for ten minutes, recovering from her paleness, counting the time it took to get a taxi from the funeral home, she was as quiet as a piece of ice, but he could do nothing about her.

He couldn't figure out why she was in pain to the bone marrow, could it be that she really had any vague but sincere feelings for Ahn Jae-chen? He didn't dare to guess, he didn't dare to ask, for fear that he wouldn't be able to face her answer. But she didn't say anything, and finally recovered, and she pulled away and stood up.

"Aoi?"

"I'm fine, I'll go back." She pressed her palm and motioned for him not to come with her and not to ask more.

"But I'm worried about you now."

"I'm fine, I'm fine." She didn't turn to face him, because at this moment, she couldn't make a proud smile. She walked forward.

"Aoi?" He could only watch her walk away.

Akihabara flipped through the latest magazine and boasted about Aoi's work, "I was given three alternative works, and they chose this one, I said...... When did you use Lian Boxi as a model again, I've never seen this picture before. ”

Aoi didn't understand until the magazine was spread out on the table, and the pill she had just put into her mouth was almost stuck, and she looked at the picture in a daze, "This is the picture I emailed to you that day?" ”

"yes, there are three of them."

"What a joke, damn it." She crumpled the entire coloring page and leaned heavily back in her chair. This painting is clearly the one painted by Shou Xiaonian for Lian Boxi, and the damn Lian Boxi Fei wanted to pass it on to her, but the backup was wrong.

Although Shou Xiaonian signed a contract, the authorship of the work belongs to her, but now looking at what kind of annual award Shou Xiaonian's painting has won, this result is quite dazzling. Even if the magazine borrowed her fame to move an award to her, the result was still dazzling.

"What's the matter, what's the problem?" Akihabara didn't understand, "Do you think that if you use this one, if you are recognized as Lian Boxi, there will be a scandal, or will his current bad reputation interfere with you?" It's been a while since that happened, not to mention that everyone's attention has already shifted to Jiang Yuan......"

Sunflower turned the chair and didn't face him, he sensed that she was really unhappy, so he changed the subject, "Are you feeling better?" Mourning, this thing is really unfortunate, you are seriously ill, you look a lot haggard, you finally came to work, don't be unhappy about anything, it's not good to be angry. ”

Akihabara babbled a lot, but seeing that she didn't say anything, she found an excuse to hide, "I remember that I still have to send a fax......"

Sunflower sat in her office, and she was the only one left in the room, and it turned out to be big and cold. Ahn Jae-chen's computer and office supplies are still there, including a photo frame, what a warm couple they are in the photo, smiling so sweetly, but now it is a dusty memory, stills from old movies, no one wants to watch.

The mobile phone rang, even Boxi's text messages, every day from morning to night, she obviously didn't reply to a single one, but he just wanted to send it, and she didn't look at it.

Shou Xiaonian resigned, and he lost a small inside line.

Will Shou Xiaonian resign just because he doesn't want to be the line of heaven and earth? God knows.

Aoi turned to the desk again, picked up the water glass, and finished the medicine.

She takes good care of herself and doesn't need to be reminded by anyone.

After taking the medicine, she got up, because she was sick and lying at home, she didn't come to the company for a few days, and many things didn't have time to be sorted out, and now she found a cardboard box and put Ahn Jae-sin's things in it, and their photos were all pulled out and torn up and thrown in the waste paper tube next to them. When the desktop was clean, she went back to her computer and got to work, never taking her eyes off the other as if no one had ever sat there.

She opened the shrimp and listened to a song by Faye Wong, called "New Tenant".

"Wait for the night, greet the day, clean during the day, pray at night. Leave the hustle and bustle, look for troubles, the ends of the earth, whims. Is anyone there, is anyone looking for it, I say hello, you say bother. It's not too late, it's not too early, it's a long way to come, where to find it, where to find it, everything is fine, there is no shortage of troubles. ”

A sunny afternoon, the best time for afternoon tea. Aoi pushed the door and walked into the long-lost Sanmingzhi store, the familiar aroma of coffee and baked bread, the familiar table and chair, like walking into the softest and most touching place in the world, which may be the reason why she has been reluctant to come back to see it later.

The brittle brass bell rings behind the door, indicating that a guest is coming.

My aunt sat alone behind the counter, reading the details of the account book while drying her well-smeared scarlet nails, and when she looked up and saw the sunflower, she was stunned for a second before she recognized her with a smile, "Yo, my eyelids have been jumping this morning, I think there should be a distinguished guest." ”

Aoi smiled, sat down at the counter, and looked at her calmly, without the past youth and shyness.

"Tsk, look at ...... you now," the uncle walked around the counter to her, looking her clothes and accessories up and down, and then immediately noticed her hand, "Yo, what a beautiful French crystal nail, what a made." ”

"A private manicurist in Jing'an Villa, an English girl, offers door-to-door service and can do Sophy Robso

The design of the model, I am still fluorescent this night, do you like it? Next time I ask her to serve us? ”

"Yo, it's still glow-in-the-dark, it's so demonic." My aunt couldn't help but shake her head, "Okay, okay, now these fashionable toys, I have to come back to consult you." Aoi Oh...... You're now, tsk......"

"Auntie, can I make my own cup of milk tea?"

"Of course you can, isn't it the same back home?" Aunt smiled, "It's a pity that Qiaoqiao just went out to deliver takeaways, otherwise I don't know how to be excited when I see you." ”

"It's great, I'm using my brain to get married, and I'm still wondering if I've already gotten on the boat first and made up the ticket later." My aunt still likes to joke as before.

Sunflower walked to the counter and looked at the bottles and cans, everyone was the same, but she suddenly couldn't remember what the first step in making milk tea should be.

"I heard you're seriously ill, okay?" My aunt asked.

Aoi looked at her.

"Seriously, for so long, I almost feel that one of the members of our family has changed, and even Posey has been running here twice in three days, and you are obviously no longer here, so he rushed over when he was fine, and the chicken cutlet he made on the first day of the store was also sent to us to eat. Although you are not here, we have been listening to your news, what's wrong with Xiaokui, what's wrong with Xiaokui. ”

Aoi suddenly remembered how to make a cup of rock salt cocoa, so she started to make it.

My aunt still said, "I used to think that Lian Boxi was a little man, I couldn't imagine that he could really be such a small man, sticky and greasy, but every time I hear him talk about you, that kind of happy look, sometimes I don't want to worry about us and pretend to be happy, really, I feel sorry for him." In the past, we all felt sorry for you, but now even your uncle thinks he is really good. ”

Aoi was expressionless, brewed two cups of cocoa, walked over to her aunt, handed her one, sat down again, and smiled, "It's been a long time since I've drunk the hot drink I brewed." ”

After speaking, he took a sip, and naturally ignored everything that his aunt had just told about Lian Boxi.

"If you like it, you often come back, although your uncle has always been very hard-mouthed, whatever you say, you can go, in fact, he cares about you very much, especially knowing that you are sick this time, and the surname Ann is ......" Aunt changed the topic, "Eh, you still don't look very good, you look weak, you have to take good care of yourself." ”

"I will, aunt." She smiled, "That's what I know best now." ”

"I don't think so." My aunt shook her head.

"What's wrong? Is it because of the good stuff of the new season that I didn't buy? She joked.

My aunt still shook her head, "Since you know how to pamper yourself, why do you have to make trouble with yourself?" ”

"Do you still want to say that Lian Boxi, I think that if I give up such a man who loves me, I am making trouble with myself?" Aoi is not stupid.

"Who's to say it isn't? At least you understand that I can't believe that you will love anything Ahn Jae-chen, and I can't even talk about liking it. ”

"Okay......" Aoi played with the small stapler on the table, "How can I say it, it's not like I haven't gotten along with Lian Boxi, but I just don't think it's suitable anymore, don't force ourselves to be together again and waste our time, right?" This reason is always reasonable, right? ”

"Really?" Aunt smiled, "You don't dislike him for being just a little man selling chicken cutlets now, and he won't have much success in the future, right?" Your uncle doesn't just sell milk tea and rent a house, but he's taken good care of us all these years, right? I don't expect him to make a fortune with that little bit of broken stock......"

Aoi poured out a few staples and counted them on the table, "You know, the people I've interacted with, one is crazy, one has a career, and the other is dead...... I would especially like to call myself Black Widow now, and if the property of these people is moved to my name because of this, I am more than happy to continue like this, one after the other, like making a movie, which is very interesting. ”

"Just kidding." My aunt naturally heard the meaning of her words, "Xiaokui, don't think like that, something happened, it can only be said that it was a coincidence, and it doesn't have much to do with you." Let's talk ...... again."

My aunt smiled bitterly, "There are many beautiful women." Don't you think that in this society, those women who whitewash themselves have innocent backgrounds, which demon has a little bit of grace and hasn't had a few experiences that make others jump around? Bad faces, it always has something to do with the destruction of the family......"

"That's what I think." Sunflower nodded.

My aunt felt that she didn't express her meaning clearly, but she was also a woman with a dusty atmosphere, and it was inevitable that her words would have a strong taste of the rivers and lakes, "I want to say, if you drill the horns, you just don't give yourself a chance." You have expelled all the men, and you feel that they have either been deceived by you or killed by you, and they all deserve to be cheap. It may be useful to use this kind of thinking to transition those unhappy things, but it will not be good for you in the future, Aoi, my aunt has seen a lot of people, no matter what you become now, my aunt still thinks that you are not the kind of woman who is ruthless and pursues superficiality. ”

"Isn't it?"

"There is still someone in this world who can make you settle down and love you well. You are not using, not deceiving, not acting, you are someone who is worthy of protecting each other, this person is your future. ”

"Really?" Aoi's eyes were faint.

Auntie's brows furrowed slightly, feeling that today's Aoi was so secretive that it was really difficult to guess her thoughts. What she said just now was ambiguous, obviously thinking that she cared too much about being too calculating to say cruel things, but in a blink of an eye, I didn't know how ruthless she was.

The doorbell rang, and someone pushed the door in, it was Shou Xiaonian.

"You can sit there for a while, I have something to do here, let's talk for a while." Shou Xiaonian was not an uninvited guest, she was invited by Sunflower, and she asked her to sit on the corner barstool for a while.

My aunt looked at Shou Xiaonian, her eyes lit up, and she was just about to say something, but my uncle came in with his heels, looked at the sunflower in front of the counter, was startled, and pointed at Shou Xiaonian again, "Damn, I saw her from afar, and I thought that Xiaokui from before was back, why is the back so similar!" Oh, it turns out that you are really here, tsk, dressed so demonicly, you still know to come back. ”

"What's the matter, Xiaokui is super beautiful now." Aunt and uncle will always help Xiaokui, because now they seem to be more of the same kind of people.

"Yes, yes, if you don't say it, you two still think you are sisters, what else is going on with me here." Uncle was not angry, "Why didn't Lian Boxi come along?!" ”

"Hey." My aunt made her look at her.

"You're done. Okay, people can't be resurrected after death, and you don't have to think about that An Zaichen, it's all over. I said you should take care of yourself in the future, don't mess around. "Uncle just doesn't open which pot to mention, every sentence is more ruthless than the other.

Aoi originally wanted to talk to her aunt, but now she felt that there was nothing more to talk about, she pointed to Shou Xiaonian, "I still have a guest over there, I'll go over and talk to her about something." Uncle, can you please help me make a cup of tea? ”

"Oh, you still want me to make tea?!" Uncle rolled his eyes, but had already gone to get the cup.

So Aoi walked over to Shou Xiaonian, sat down beside her, opened her handbag, and took out a thick envelope from it and gave it to her.

Shou Xiaonian has never seen sunflowers since he resigned, and now he sits next to her, smelling her charming perfume, nervous, shy and indescribable emotions, his eyes have been looking down, and he didn't dare to look at her.

Aoi pushed the envelope in front of her, "This is for you." ”

"What, what."

"Didn't follow me on Weibo? I have another work that won the annual award. ”

"Oh...... That's congratulations......" Shou Xiaonian wiped his nose.

Aoi smiled, knowing that she must have seen it, "That work is yours, the mobile phone wallpaper you drew for Lian Boxi." ”

Shou Xiaonian is silent, she naturally has her grievances.

"Because of a backup error, I mistransmitted it, and now that I have won this award, it is impossible to change the ending."

"Me." Shou Xiaonian plucked up the courage and said, "I actually don't care, because I signed a contract, all works must be signed by you, and during this time, all the progress I have made is all the training of the studio and your training, I don't think there is anything wrong here." If you're looking for me to say this today, I don't have a problem. ”

"Then what do you think I'm looking for you? Or so much so you hope. ”

"I ......" Shou Xiaonian was embarrassed, his eyes were very confused, and he was very panicked.

The uncle brewed the tea and handed it to Shou Xiaonian, who hurriedly said thank you and wanted to pay for it. Uncle wanted to accept it, but Shou Xiaonian's hand was pressed by Sunflower.

"No need, this is my family's small shop, this is my uncle, he treats guests." Uncle and Shou Xiaonian were stunned at the same time, but they didn't expect Sunflower to introduce them, "The one sitting at the counter is my aunt." I grew up in this neighborhood, which used to be a small grocery store and then a sandwich shop. ”

"Oh......" Shou Xiaonian nodded, not knowing what these had to do with her.

"Hehe, this is your friend? At first glance, it looks like you. Uncle smiled, "Then let's talk." By the way, Lian Boxi came to fight today, and said that he would accompany me to play mahjong. ”

"Didn't you use fire and water before?" Aoi really admires him, but Shou Xiaonian's eyes are full of curiosity. Because of his uncle's kindness to Posey.

"Is there one?" Uncle didn't admit it, "That little guy is very good." ”

Uncle slipped away after speaking.

Aoi is left face to face with Shou Xiaonian.

"You all know each other, huh?" Xiao Nian asked.

"My uncle watched me grow up with Lian Boxi, twenty years, neighbors and classmates. My uncle is right, I used to be very much like you now, a tomboy, a follower of Lian Posey, running stupidly behind him all day long, carrying his school bag, buying cold drinks for him, and even helping him fight and get into trouble, and doing a lot of stupid things. ”

"I see!" Shou Xiaonian seemed to verify the speculation in his heart.

Aoi smiled, "If you want to say that we are childhood sweethearts, maybe we were, but I don't think so." ”

"But he was drunk that day......"

"Well, I know you sent him back."

"Yes...... I'll send him home......" Shou Xiaonian's face turned red all of a sudden, obviously something else happened that day, "He took me for you......"

"I've been holding you and yelling my name, haven't you?" Aoi is actually not difficult to guess.

Shou Xiaonian puffed out his mouth, and his forehead began to sweat, which was very, very embarrassed.

"If it were another man, I would tell you that first love and pure love are cannon fodder, and men are worthless all the way. But the other party is Lian Boxi, I can imagine his kind of magic, how many girls have come to bow down so desperately, right here, in front of this glass window, I don't know how many women who are infatuated with him look expectant...... I know it too well, so when I look at you now, I don't think it's anything, it's a dream that will always wake up. ”

"I, I don't understand what you're talking about......" Shou Xiaoxiao began to defend himself, and his first reaction after being debunked was natural.

Aoi smiled and pointed to the envelope, "The prize money of the annual grand prize is not much, 50,000 yuan." Still, it's the same as my first bonus, and although I don't have the right of authorship, I hope this bonus will prove your success. ”

Shou Xiaonian's eyes widened, obviously he didn't dare to guess that the envelope was money, and he was stunned, because Aoi didn't need to give her all the bonuses. If it was a well-known painter who won the prize, it would not be possible to have 50,000 yuan.

Shou Xiaonian didn't dare to take the envelope, he didn't dare to look at it, "No, no, really don't ...... I signed a contract, I know the rules, and I fully accept that the painting is published and won in your name, and I have nothing to do with it. ”

"So what does it matter to you? What is the reason why you should give up your painting career and quit your job to have a better job opportunity? No way, look at the wrinkles and paint on your collar and clothes, stay at home all the time, and be confused about the future. Aoi smiled, debunked her again, I don't know why, Aoi looked at the details of Shou Xiaonian, like a super detective looking at the crime scene, nothing could escape her eyes, because she knew too well that state of life.

"I ......" Shou Xiaonian was completely choked, not knowing what to say.

"Take the money, it's important to you. The first pot of gold in my life was 50,000 yuan, and based on that, I had my own studio. Of course, you are still far from this goal, but it can be your faith. Aoi felt that what she was doing today was almost divine, generous, selfless, and full of kindness and strength.

I just don't appreciate this stupid girl.

"I ...... I ...... "Shou Xiaonian is so embarrassed that he can't speak, and he keeps talking about it, so he can only drink water desperately."