Chapter 1: Engagement
The days in March gradually warmed up, and Jincheng entered the rainy season after spring, and it rained for many days, and the air was filled with the smell of humidity.
Outside the window, the rain was pouring down.
Lin Ran sat in front of the hospital bed and looked at the unconscious woman, and the heart rate monitor on the side came with an even dripping sound.
The woman wore an oxygen mask and seemed to be sleeping deeply.
After that accident, my mother had been lying here for almost a month.
She caressed the woman's hand and massaged her arm with the other. That's when the phone in the bag rang.
"Ranran, come down, I'll wait for you in the parking lot on the ground at the main entrance of the hospital."
"Okay, it'll be there in ten minutes." Lin Ran held his mobile phone on his right shoulder, and he was packing up his things in his hand.
"Yes." Xie Lan hung up the phone and let out a long breath.
Xie Lan is one year older than Lin Ran, twenty-three this year, and both of them are from Cloud City.
In the year of the college entrance examination, because of the difference of five points, he failed to Jincheng University, and then re-enrolled in Lin Ran's class.
They had been neighbors for almost ten years, and now they were classmates again.
In the second year, the two were admitted to Jincheng University at the same time, and they became classmates again in the same major they chose in college.
Thinking about this fate, Xie Lan couldn't help but smile.
In the driver's seat, Xie Lan held the steering wheel and stared intently at the crowded road ahead.
This road is the only road leading to the Polyflor Hotel, and there is not much traffic on weekdays, except for the rush hour, although there is no congestion.
And today, it's a special day.
The night is slightly hazy, the bright light in the Polyflor Hotel, as bright as day, the hall is full of brightly dressed guests, they talk and laugh freely, and the venue is full of clothes and sideburns, and the scene of staggered planning.
On the first seat in the center of the hall, there sat an old man wearing a Tang costume with gray hair, his eyes were blazing and staring ahead, and his innate nobility showed his extraordinary identity, and the people around him congratulated him.
"Mr. Xu, hasn't Zhuo Ran arrived yet?"
A tall lady dressed in a navy blue cheongsam with her hair tied in a bun holding a wine glass walked gracefully in the direction of the man, and as she walked, the huge diamond studs on her earlobes reflected the sparkling light in the light.
"Mrs. An, I have already ordered someone to call to urge me, saying that the company is delayed, and this will be almost there."
The old man looked at the blue cheongsam woman walking towards him and said slowly.
"Okay, don't worry, Zhuo Ran is young and promising, and naturally focuses on business, hehe." She finished her sentence with a proper smile.
"Mom."
Here, An Jiajia saw Zhao Manli talking to the old man of the Xu family, and she quickly flashed over the table, ready to ask her mother about the situation.
However, she appeared too suddenly, and just happened to collide with the oncoming waiter with red wine.
With a thud, the glass fell to the ground, and the dark red liquid spilled down the cracked glass, and she almost slipped on her high-heeled foot.
Zhao Manli hurriedly came over when she heard the sound, and quickly helped her up.
An Jiajia stared at the waiter who was squatting on the ground, her eyes red with anger.
She grabbed the waiter's hand, which was cleaning up the broken wine glass, and was about to have a seizure.
Zhao Manli pushed her elbow and looked down at her.
Anjiajia understood.
She immediately hugged the waiter, "It's okay, I should apologize to you, don't pick up the glass with your bare hands, be careful with your hands." ”
The waiter thanked An Jiajia gratefully and said sorry repeatedly.
Zhao Manli is very satisfied with her daughter's improvisation.
In the distance, Old Man Xu looked at this side with concern, and Zhao Manli nodded, indicating that it was fine.
"Mom, Zhuo Ran hasn't arrived yet, I'm in a hurry, such an important day, I have waited so long, and those people in the newspaper tomorrow don't know how to laugh at our family."
An Jiajia looked at the wall clock in the center of the hall, it was already half past eleven, and the banquet that originally started at eleven o'clock was half an hour late.
"It is said that the company's affairs are delayed, and even the engagement banquet can be late, his Xu family is really relying on his family's big business, and he doesn't take people seriously, although we are not as good as the Xu family, but we are also a figure with a face in Jincheng." Zhao Manli complained dissatisfied.
Thinking of her future son-in-law, although Zhao Manli was a little dissatisfied, her daughter was desperate and fell in love with others.
Although this Xu Zhuoran is a little arrogant, who makes the family have arrogant capital, looking at the entire Jincheng, who is not afraid of the Xu family.
Such a golden beetle son-in-law fell into her house, even if people didn't want to see her, she could only complain a few words behind her back.
"Okay Mom, maybe something is really delayed, I believe him." An Jiajia looked at her mother, a little lost.
She and Xu Zhuoran have known each other since childhood, and she has always admired him, but he knew it but didn't respond at all.
The so-called falling flowers are affectionate, and the flowing water is unintentional.
That's probably them.
Until half a year ago, she saw a large group of reporters blocking the door of Xu Zhuoran's room in the hotel, when he had just taken a shower and was still wrapped in a bath towel.
And on the big bed lay a disheveled woman.
She didn't have to think about it to guess the purpose of this group of reporters.
She stood behind the group of reporters, thinking to herself, it would be better to gamble, if it succeeded, then she would be able to marry him as she wished.
Thinking like this, she said loudly behind the crowd, "Zhuo Ran, why did you go to the wrong room, I told you about 1201, how did you get to 1207, you are really, the bad people have a good meal." ”
After speaking, the crowd looked at her.
She took advantage of this kung fu to step forward and take Xu Zhuoran's arm, he did not refuse, and the two entered room 1201 together.
Sure enough, the next day, she and Xu Zhuoran made the headlines of the newspaper.
The eye-catching headline, she still remembers.
'Hui's President Hui Zhuoran Hotel secretly dates An's daughter'.
That day, she became his girlfriend as she wished.
Looking at the photo of her and Xu Zhuoran on the electronic screen in the hall, she raised the corners of her mouth slightly.
She leaned her head on Zhao Manli's shoulder, and Zhao Manli stroked the top of her daughter's hair, her eyes full of love.
Around the corner.
Lin Ran leaned against the wall, boredomically shaking the red wine in his wine glass.
She wore a red dress with shoulder-length linen-colored wavy curls like a falling waterfall, silky and shiny.
The waist and hips tightened slightly, just right to wrap her delicate figure.
The fiery red color and her natural cold white skin tone complement each other, and the two extreme color differences intertwine the beauty of ice and fire.
Seeing this mother and daughter, she couldn't help but snort coldly.
Sure enough, there is a mother and a daughter, they are all two faces, both in front of and behind, this acting skills, it is really condescending if you don't get a queen.
Clang!
The bell rang on time at twelve o'clock, the door of the venue was opened again, and the male host of this banquet, Xu Zhuoran, was late.