Chapter 1: Seeing Deer in the Deep Forest Yu Nansheng03
I stared at Shen Yuxi not far away, there was a gleam in his eyes. This was the first time I saw him being interviewed outside. I have to say, he was so charming at that time.
The air in S City was unusually fresh after the rain. He stood next to the musical waterfall, his off-white windbreaker swaying gently. The children's laughter and his clear, somewhat cold voice came and hit my heart.
I squinted my eyes slightly and looked at his back against the sunlight.
He is so thin, but I don’t know how he can shoulder the so-called justice in this society.
In my heart, he is such an existence, as powerful as a god.
He sat on a park bench, casually put his coffee aside, flipped through the photos in his camera, and suddenly turned his head. I was distracted, and he suddenly approached me, which scared me. I stepped back quickly, my hands were empty, and my body leaned back. I was about to fall off the bench, but Shen Yuxi grabbed me.
I was stunned for a moment, then I felt Shen Yuxi's hand exert force and I leaned forward.
After I sat down, Shen Yuxi let go of my hand and said helplessly, "Don't be distracted all the time."
"What's wrong?" I took my hand back and clenched my fist tightly.
Shen Yuxi glanced at me, her tone cold and cold: "This is a good photo. Remember to look at it from the side, focusing mainly on..."
Things had developed to this point. I thought Shen Yuxi had already accepted me as an intern, but I didn't expect that the manuscript I submitted in the evening would still be rejected. At this moment, I was sitting in Qi Qi's seat and taking a deep breath.
Qi Qi looked at me eagerly as I drank up all her collagen in one go. She swallowed and said, "Nan Sheng, reporter Shen is just striving for perfection, okay? Why are you so angry? I see that you two have been working together very well on the news these days! You love each other so much!"
I looked up at the whirring air conditioner and threw the small purple glass bottle in my hand directly into the trash can.
I stayed up for several nights for this report. My stomach hurt so much that I couldn't straighten my back. I had to look up information even while lying on my stomach. Yet, he got back at me with just a few words. How could there be such a person?
Thinking about it, I rubbed my stomach.
"How do you know that we love each other? What's wrong with my report? If he disagrees with my point of view, just say it! Didn't he say in the afternoon that my focus is very clear? My writing is too sharp? He must be timid and afraid to write anything! He doesn't sympathize with those who should be sympathetic. How can there be such a cold-blooded person!"
The dry air bothered me even more. I licked my dry lips and picked up the first draft resignedly.
Qi Qi immediately made way for me and said with a smile: "Well, you should have expected this day to come when you followed Reporter Shen, a great Buddha. Have you forgotten what kind of life you lived in the first few days after you arrived! Tsk tsk, it was so difficult, I wanted to turn into a knight and save you from the water and fire!"
I was powerless to refute Qi Qi.
In comparison, Qi Qi, the intern, had a much easier time than me. She only did some proofreading and other work every day, or followed other reporters to cover small news stories. It wasn't very tiring. After two weeks at the newspaper, I was only a little familiar with Qi Qi, and occasionally felt puzzled by her wild fantasies.
"Yuxi."
Just as I was working hard on revising the first draft, there was a knock on the office door. I looked up and saw who was coming, and was stunned for a moment.
The editor-in-chief usually comes late and leaves early, so he never gets to meet us little people. I am not even qualified to attend formal meetings in the conference room. It’s been half a month since I last saw him.
I smiled at my uncle and lowered my head to continue making changes.
"Editor-in-chief, what's the matter?" Shen Yuxi nodded slightly, put down the pen in her hand, crossed her hands, looked at the editor-in-chief and asked.
The editor-in-chief is my father’s cousin. There are so many relatives in my family that I can’t tell them apart, so I call them all uncles and aunts.
The editor-in-chief smiled and said, "Tonight is Nan Sheng's grandfather's birthday. I'm here to borrow someone from you."
After hearing this, I was stunned for a moment. Big birthday? Grandpa’s birthday?
Shen Yuxi looked at me, probably seeing the confusion in my eyes.
"Grandpa's birthday? Why don't I know?" I murmured.
The editor-in-chief uncle was helpless and said with his forehead against his chest: "Look at your phone yourself. Your dad sent you many text messages and called you several times but you didn't answer. He wanted you not to work overtime today. At worst, you can come earlier tomorrow."
I took out my cell phone from my bag with great effort, my eyes widened, then carefully turned off the phone and looked at Shen Yuxi with a smile.
"Go ahead, I'll revise the manuscript." Shen Yuxi mercifully let me go, but why did I hear a hint of sadness in Shen Yuxi's voice?
I frowned and packed up the things on the table, put the manuscript I had just revised on his desk, and followed the editor-in-chief, looking back every step of the way.
Sitting in the car, I asked in confusion: "Uncle, reporter Shen always works overtime, and I haven't seen him take any private calls. Where are his family members ?"
The editor-in-chief was fastening his seat belt and paused when he heard this.
"He..." The editor-in-chief uncle turned the car around without blinking and said meaningfully, "Editor-in-chief Shen has no family. When he was still young, his father was framed and imprisoned, and his mother committed suicide. He has been alone since then. It was also thanks to his father's brother who was very loyal that he raised him all these years." He only said this and didn't say anything else.
It was a lively party, but I couldn't fit in. All I could think about was Shen Yuxi sitting alone in the cold office, revising manuscripts on the computer. I couldn't calm down.
Dad noticed that I was distracted.
"What's wrong? Are you too tired?" Dad served me a bowl of soup and put it on the table.
I leaned back against the chair, but my fingertips were still wrapped around the edge of my skirt. I looked down at the smooth edge of my nails, and suddenly remembered that day when Shen Yuxi held my hand to prevent me from falling off the bench, and I clenched my hand tightly.
"Dad, I still have some things to do at the newspaper office. I have to go back quickly!" After saying that, I stood up and trotted to my grandfather, bent down and kissed him on the face: "Grandpa, I still have some things to do at the newspaper office. I wish you a long life and good health! I will go to your house to play in two days!"
Before my grandfather could finish his joy, I turned around and ran out of the banquet hall.
The editor-in-chief took a sip of white wine, smiled, and said to the father who came to ask questions: "It's okay, this girl knows how to make progress." His eyes were full of smiles.
The lights in the office were dim. Only the small desk lamp on the table and the dim light of the laptop were on.
"You haven't left yet!" I thought about how my father always said that I liked to play computer games without turning on the lights, which was bad for my eyes, so I said, "Close your eyes quickly."
The lights in the office suddenly lit up. Seeing him close his eyes subconsciously, I smiled and waited for him to open his eyes, his eyes full of surprise.
"you……"
Shouldn't this be the time to be with your family?
"You helped me revise the manuscript, I have to thank you anyway! Here, this is my thanks to you!"
I packed food from the restaurant, and just from watching him eat takeout these days, I have a rough idea of his taste.
I took out the food one by one and said, "I'm telling you, you're so thin because you always eat takeout!"
"Why are you back?"
Shen Yuxi still asked.
I blinked, walked around Shen Yuxi, and opened the curtains behind him. The moonlight shone in and hit the table.
I pointed out the window and said, "Look, even in the dark, even at night, you can still see beautiful scenery! The full moon is beautiful, and the waning moon is a vision. Senior, please don't always teach me that darkness cannot be broken through! Haven't I broken through it?"
I turned on the flashlight and shone it out the window.
I pointed at the beam of light and looked at the bare tree trunks, which had a decadent beauty.
"How is it, senior? Can it be better looking at night than during the day?" I looked at his somewhat dull expression, smiled and handed the chopsticks to him, "Try it, my grandfather's longevity noodles!"
He didn't look at me again, just said "hmm" and whispered, "Happy birthday to your grandfather."
