Five years after Su Qingxin left, Hefei.
Huamei is the largest electronics brand in the city, and its marketing manager is Su Qingxin. Back then, Su Qingxin took more than a year to complete her undergraduate studies and then joined this electronics company.
Here, she met a man whose features and eyebrows looked very much like Wei Ran. This man became her boyfriend a year ago.
Su Qingxin still remembers that when she first entered Huamei, she told Zhang Yishi the good news, and Zhang Yishi invited her to eat at a food stall until she was full before going home. But the next day, Su Qingxin went back with red eyes. She said that she met a man in Huamei, and his eyebrows and eyes looked very much like Wei Ran.
Zhang Yishi said: "Then let's go to another place and not go there!"
Su Qingxin said: "No, I want to go, I want to make money and pay you back."
At that time, Zhang Yishi smiled and touched Su Qingxin's head, teasing her, "I'm not in a hurry."
He was not in a hurry at all, he just needed to support himself and did not want to get married, so he had no need to spend money.
Su Qingxin continued to work at Huamei. She cleaned up a mess for the former manager of the marketing department, and luckily she replaced the former manager and took the position of manager.
As for the man who looked like Wei Ran, his name was Chi Yuecheng, and he was the general manager of the production department. How Su Qingxin met him and how she became his lover was a dream she didn't want to mention.
"Be careful." Chi Yuecheng, who was wearing a suit and had an upright figure and a mature and handsome face, opened the office door and walked in, pulling the blinds shut. He said, "As you wished, the man named Feng Qiang gave up his shares. I guess he has to pay out his savings, so he won't have much left."
"He deserves it. The accident happened on the construction site he was in charge of, and both he and his real estate company have to pay compensation. Since he gave away his shares in the company, is the house the only property he has left?" Su Qingxin stopped typing, looked up and asked Chi Yuecheng.
Chi Yuecheng sat on his desk, crossed his arms, and said, "That's right, but this house is in Tongcheng and is not worth much. I heard that Feng Qiang is now at home doing nothing and getting drunk every day."
Su Qingxin thought for a moment and said, "Where are his son and wife? How are they now?"
"His son is still hanging around in the local university in Tongcheng. He is still uneducated and has no skills. His relationship with his father is getting worse and worse."
Su Qingxin leaned back in her chair, took a deep breath, and wanted to ask something but never asked it.
Chi Yuecheng looked at her, knowing what she was thinking, and said, "As for his wife...she seems to be getting more and more depressed."
Hearing this, Su Qingxin did not respond. She picked up a cup of tea next to the computer, took a sip, and said, "Thank you, you can leave when you are free."
"Yeah." Chi Yuecheng caught the look in her eyes and said softly, "Don't forget the date next Sunday."
Su Qingxin nodded , her mind no longer on this. After Chi Yuecheng left the office, Su Qingxin finally showed a tired look on her face. She supported the desk with one hand, pinching her brows with her index finger and thumb, rubbing them constantly.
She had been in Hefei for three years and often secretly learned about Feng Qiang's family. She asked someone to lobby other shareholders of Feng Qiang's company to get Feng Qiang's shares to prevent the company from losing too much due to compensation. As for Shu Fan, she actually knew what she was like now.
Su Qingxin couldn't explain what kind of feelings she had for Shu Fan. She loved and hated her. The love came from blood ties, and the hatred was that she abandoned her father. For so many years, she had not had the courage to say "no" to Feng Qiang. Even when she disappeared at the age of 18, she did not come to look for her.
The reason Shu Fan became like this was all because of her selfishness!
But even so, Su Qingxin still couldn't help but go visit Shu Fan.
Zhang Yishi would always accompany her back to Tongcheng. Su Qingxin wore a hat and heavy makeup, so no one would recognize her. She saw Shu Fan, who looked tired and dazed, carrying a basket and wearing slippers, walking from the vegetable market to Feng's house, like a walking corpse.
A young man came by the street like the wind, wearing a pair of roller skates. When he passed by Shu Fan, he just brushed past him lightly, and Shu Fan was knocked down, and the basket in his hand fell to the ground instantly.
Su Qingxin was somewhat moved and wanted to help Shu Fan, but she suddenly stopped. Zhang Yishi turned his head to look at her and saw sparkling tears in her eyes.
In fact, Zhang Yishi could see that Su Qingxin's love for Shu Fan was greater than her hatred.
The boy took off his baseball cap, and Su Qingxin could see clearly that it was Feng Ruixing. After five years, Feng Ruixing had become much more mature. He walked over with a stern face to help Shu Fan up, picked up all the vegetables and put them in the basket, then carried the basket and skated home on his roller skates.
Shu Fan stood there with her head down. Suddenly, she moved her head as if she wanted to look towards Su Qingxin.
Su Qingxin turned around quickly and left without hesitation. She didn't know why, but she didn't want Shu Fan to see her.
Zhang Yishi followed Su Qingxin and said, "Girl, bring your mother out."
Su Qingxin walked quickly without paying any attention to Zhang Yishi.
Zhang Yishi stopped Su Qingxin, put his hands in his trouser pockets, and said, "Are you really willing to let your mother live the life she has now?"
"I'm very confused now." Su Qingxin lowered her head and spoke in a low voice.
Zhang Yishi sighed and didn't force her. He said, "Then let's go back first. When you want to take your mother to Hefei, you tell me, okay?"
Su Qingxin nodded and said nothing.
Zhang Yishi couldn't do anything to her. They actually came several times, and every time Su Qingxin was in this state. He couldn't interfere with all of Su Qingxin's life, but he knew better than anyone that Su Qingxin was successful in her career and had such an excellent boyfriend, but she was not happy at all. She had something in her heart that she couldn't let go of, and this concern was her mother, and also another boy who lived in her memory.
After Zhang Yishi sent Su Qingxin home, he returned to his own little house. Since Su Qingxin had Chi Yuecheng, Zhang Yishi had not allowed her to live with him. But Su Qingxin did not want to live with Chi Yuecheng so soon, so she rented a small apartment to live in.
The next day, Su Qingxin went to work as usual and met the HR manager in the hallway. The HR manager greeted her: "Mr. Su, the new recruits from the marketing department are waiting for you in your office."
"Oh, okay, I'll go right away." Su Qingxin responded quickly.
She was so busy that she forgot that a subordinate had been scolded and left a few days ago. Today, she hired a new person and she still had to assign work to him.
Su Qingxin was wearing a gray-black business suit that outlined her beautiful figure. She strode to the office, opened the door, and saw a plump figure fiddling with a stuffed doll on the table.
"Sorry for the long wait." Su Qingxin closed the door with a smile on her face.
She was so frightened by the back view that she almost dropped the doll in her hand. She quickly put the doll away and turned around to say, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."
The woman's words were suddenly choked in her throat. She stared blankly at Su Qingxin in front of her, frozen in shock.
Su Qingxin looked at the person in front of her in confusion, and an inexplicable sense of familiarity came over her.
"Su Qingxin!" The woman screamed, rushed up and hugged her. Then, she heard the woman's muffled cry coming from her shoulder.
Su Qingxin stood there in a daze, with both hands raised in the air, and shouted, "Pan...Pan?"
The person holding Su Qingxin still couldn't stop crying. She cried and beat Su Qingxin's back, reproaching her: "Where have you been? Where have you been? Over the years, I missed you so much, Qingxin..."
Su Qingxin gently pushed the person in front of her away, grabbed her arm, and looked her up and down several times, with surprise in her eyes. She asked, "Are you really Panpan?"
How could this be Zhu Panpan? This is not the chubby Zhu Panpan from back then!
Zhu Panpan's eyeliner was smudged by tears. She sobbed with a pair of dark panda eyes, "It's me, I'm Panpan, I, I lost weight."
Su Qingxin was speechless when she saw the changed Zhu Panpan. The memories of her youth suddenly came to her mind, making her thoughts overwhelmed. She thought she would never see Zhu Panpan again in this life, but she didn't expect that God would take pity on her and let her reunite with this only good friend.
At noon, Su Qingxin invited Zhu Panpan to dinner, and the two told each other everything that had happened in the past five years. When Zhu Panpan learned the reason for Su Qingxin's disappearance and her later life, she was shocked. She, Yang Ye, and Wei Ran thought of thousands of reasons for her sudden departure, but they never thought that Su Qingxin had suffered so much pain at that time.
Zhu Panpan held back her tears and said, "Qingxin, you wronged Wei Ran."
Su Qingxin smiled, poked the steak lightly with the fork in her hand, and said, "Whether it's a misunderstanding or not, there's no possibility for him and I to be together in this life."
"Then...then you and that Chi Yuecheng, and Zhang Yishi..." Zhu Panpan was very curious about these two men.
Su Qingxin did not hide her feelings. Zhu Panpan deserved her heart. Su Qingxin said: "Zhang Yishi is like a relative to me. He saved me when I was on the verge of collapse and had nowhere to go, and helped me find the meaning of life again. I owe him too much, and I will never be able to repay him in my lifetime. As for Chi Yuecheng, he is my boyfriend now, and we are doing well."
Zhu Panpan pursed her lips and said, "Since they are so nice to you, I have nothing to say. I am with Yang Ye now. Wei Ran left Tongcheng when he was a junior. We didn't know where he went, and he didn't contact Yang Ye. Yang Ye only told me that his parents finally divorced, his father left a letter and went to do business with money, and his mother left with the man driving a white BMW. No one cared about him anymore. In the three years after you left, he went to your downstairs to wait for you almost every day, staring at your window in a daze, and sometimes he waited for a long time. We all advised him not to wait, but he said, 'What if? What if Su Qingxin comes back?' He was afraid that you would be scared if you couldn't find him, so he kept waiting there..."
Su Qingxin sniffed, her eyes misting with tears. She held back her tears and laughed, "Hahaha! Really, forget it, let's not talk about the past, let's eat. After dinner, find time to call Yang Ye out, and the three of us can get together."
She deliberately avoided the topic of Wei Ran, and Zhu Panpan knew it; she was afraid to mention Wei Ran again, and Zhu Panpan also knew it. But five years have passed, and they don't have the time and energy to entangle with each other. No one will suffer from memories, they all need to live, and need to endure the sadness and move forward.
Su Qingxin never dared to hope that she could see Wei Ran again.
After they had dinner that day, Su Qingxin took Zhu Panpan back to her home.
In bed, Zhu Panpan shyly told Su Qingxin how much she fell in love with Yang Ye and how she lost weight for him.
Yang Ye watched Zhu Panpan lose weight and become so exhausted that she looked like a nobody. He couldn't bear it, so he pulled her and shouted, "Okay, you are already very beautiful! I like plump girls. Don't you like me? Let's be together."
Zhu Panpan was sweating as she hugged Yang Ye. When she was little, she would hit Yang Ye if they didn't agree with each other, but now, she was very gentle to Yang Ye.
Zhu Panpan said, this is the charm of love.
Su Qingxin smiled but said nothing. Maybe, this might be the charm of love, but she has never experienced it. Although she is dating Chi Yuecheng, she can't experience the feeling of loving someone regardless of everything.
Sunday was the day when Su Qingxin and Chi Yuecheng had known each other for a year, and Chi Yuecheng had already made an appointment with her to go to the aquarium.
That day, Su Qingxin dressed herself up, wearing a slim black embroidered A-line skirt, and took the subway to the place Chi Yuecheng mentioned. Chi Yuecheng didn't drive to pick her up this time, maybe he wanted to prepare a surprise for her.
Su Qingxin has become accustomed to Chi Yuecheng's surprises.
There were quite a lot of people on the subway, and Su Qingxin squeezed in the doorway, holding the handrail and listening to music. The song in the headphones randomly switched to Jay Chou's "Sunny Day", which sang: "But the wind gradually blew the distance away..."
As time has become very far.
Su Qingxin took out her cell phone, turned off the song and switched to another one.
The subway was crowded, and Su Qingxin moved slightly, but when she turned her head inadvertently, she saw a face that came from across time.
She stood there in a daze. The noise around her seemed to disappear in an instant. Her heart seemed to be about to jump out of her throat. Many complicated emotions hit her brain, making her uneasy and at a loss.
Looking over the shoulders of several people, Su Qingxin saw a person standing there whom she thought she would eventually forget. He still had the same hairstyle as before, and his profile was still exactly the same as before. But the look in his eyes was no longer childish and willful, but mature and gentle.
Su Qingxin stared blankly in that direction, watching the grown-up boy lower his head and whisper softly to the woman beside him, with a casual smile on his face. The woman held his waist with one hand and supported her back with the other. Su Qingxin clearly saw that her belly was slightly bulging, as if she was pregnant.
"Wei Ran..." Su Qingxin absentmindedly pronounced the name that had not been mentioned for five years, but she had earplugs in her ears and was unaware that she pronounced Wei Ran's name.
The man in front of him seemed to have heard something, frowned slightly, and looked over in the direction of the voice.
Su Qingxin didn't know why she was so panicked. Before she met Wei Ran's gaze, she hurriedly ran out when the subway door opened.
Wei Ran caught a glimpse of Su Qingxin's back and felt confused. He grabbed the hand of the woman beside him and hesitantly squeezed out of the subway.
The woman looked at the platform and said, "Wei Ran, we haven't reached the station yet."
Wei Ran seemed not to hear her words. There was an inexplicable emotion surging in his heart. He murmured, "Qingxin, Su Qingxin... I seemed to have seen Qingxin just now..."
The woman looked around and asked, "Did you see it wrong?"
Wei Ran shook his head and hurried to the exit, saying "sorry" repeatedly as he got on the escalator. After he jumped in line and ran up, he found that Su Qingxin was not at the exit.
Su Qingxin did not go to the exit. As soon as she got out of the subway, she hid nearby and watched Wei Ran rush onto the escalator.
She didn't dare see him.
How dare she see him?
Su Qingxin raised her head, wiped the tears from her cheeks, and got into a subway train going in the opposite direction. She sent a text message to Chi Yuecheng, saying that she was not feeling well and could not go to the aquarium.
Wei Ran looked for Su Qingxin but couldn't find her. He covered his face with his hands, suppressed his emotions, and persuaded himself to calm down. Maybe he had really seen it wrong. For so many years, there was no news about her at all. How could she suddenly appear now?
"Wei Ran." The woman who was accompanying him followed and comforted him considerately, "Are you okay?"
Wei Ran breathed a sigh of relief. Fearing that she would worry, he said, "It's okay. I may have really seen it wrong."
The woman patted his back and said with a smile: "I'm glad you're okay. We won't go to the mall today. Take me home first."
"Aren't you going to choose clothes for the child?" Wei Ran asked absent-mindedly.
The woman patted her belly and said with a smile: "It's still early for the baby to be born, there's no rush."
"Okay, let's go back first." Wei Ran turned around, supported the woman, walked back, and took the subway again.
The woman knew that Wei Ran was definitely not in the mood to accompany her shopping at the moment. She had heard Wei Ran talk about the girl named Su Qingxin, who was his obsession that he could not let go of.
Su Qingxin, who had met Wei Ran by chance, returned home and fell on the sofa and refused to get up. The text messages rang many times, WeChat rang many times, and the phone rang many times, but she did not get up to answer it.
Su Qingxin, who was leaning on the sofa, did not move until she heard the sound of a key turning in the lock. Chi Yuecheng was worried about her health and called her several times but no one answered, so he came back to check on her.
"Qingxin?" Chi Yuecheng walked over, opened the curtains, looked at Su Qingxin lying motionless on the sofa, poured her a glass of water and put it on the table, and asked, "What's wrong?"
"I feel like life has lost its meaning." Su Qingxin turned around, facing the back of the sofa, with her back to Chi Yuecheng, and spoke in a cold voice.
She would say this every time she was in a bad mood. Chi Yuecheng knew that she didn't really think that life had lost its meaning, but she just didn't want to tell him. Seeing Su Qingxin curled up on the sofa, Chi Yuecheng walked over, lay down on the sofa, hugged Su Qingxin from behind, gently bit her ear, and said, "Then let's do something meaningful to make your life fuller."
Su Qingxin slowly opened her eyes, indifferent to Chi Yuecheng's teasing, and said, "We have made three rules. You can't touch me without my consent."
Chi Yuecheng buried his head in the back of Su Qingxin's neck, smelled the fragrance of her long hair, and said, "You didn't think so before."
Su Qingxin frowned, thinking of the night she didn't want to mention again. She pried open Chi Yuecheng's hand that was restrained on her waist, climbed up from the sofa, tied her hair and put on an apron, and said, "Since the date is off, I'll make you a delicious meal."
Chi Yuecheng sat up, crossed his legs, leaned lazily on the back of the sofa, squinted at her, and said, "Okay."
Su Qingxin turned around and went to the refrigerator to get some vegetables, then went into the kitchen and started cutting vegetables and cooking.
Chi Yuecheng was bored, so he walked into the kitchen, hugged Su Qingxin from behind, and watched her cutting vegetables with a smile on his face.
Su Qingxin stopped her kitchen knife in mid-air and said, "You'll distract me like this."
"Then I don't care." Chi Yuecheng didn't care at all and said, "I'll just hold you. This doesn't violate the agreement between us."
Su Qingxin ignored him and started cutting vegetables.
Chi Yuecheng is steady and mature in front of outsiders, but he is very domineering in private. Su Qingxin has known this for a long time. She admires Chi Yuecheng's acting skills, which really dazzles people around him. Fortunately, Chi Yuecheng is a bit rogue, but he will listen to Su Qingxin and will not really force anything. If Su Qingxin doesn't want to say something, he won't ask to the end. The two are obviously lovers, and they obviously care about each other, but they just don't look like lovers.
Su Qingxin prepared the meal and ate it peacefully with Chi Yuecheng.
As usual, Chi Yuecheng hugged Su Qingxin before leaving after dinner, kissed her hair, and said, "Come to me if you need anything."
Su Qingxin nodded and watched him go away. Then, Su Qingxin returned to the house, fell on the sofa again, and sighed deeply. Her memory went back to the night that Su Qingxin didn't want to mention. She still remembered clearly that the candle on the windowsill that night was particularly scorching.
Chi Yuecheng really looks like Wei Ran. I don’t know if it’s because Su Qingxin missed Wei Ran too much. Every time she saw Chi Yuecheng, she would always stare at him silently from behind for a long time, but when Chi Yuecheng met her eyes, she would hurriedly look away.
Chi Yuecheng noticed this girl who was full of thoughts and always appeared in front of her for no reason.
At that company party, Chi Yuecheng sent the drunk Su Qingxin home. Su Qingxin grabbed Chi Yuecheng's sleeve on the street and said, "No, don't send me home. If Zhang Yishi sees me drunk, he will scold me."
Chi Yuecheng asked: "Then...I'll take you to my house?"
Su Qingxin was greedy for the smell of Chi Yuecheng, and even more greedy for his eyebrows and eyes that resembled the person she was obsessed with, so she did not refuse. That night, no one forced anyone, no one was wronged, and the two people who were both drunk and had their own thoughts were so passionate.
When Su Qingxin woke up the next day, she was surprisingly calm. She was wrapped in a thin sheet, standing in the bathroom, facing the mirror on the wall that was blurry and clear, clear and blurry, feeling lost.
Chi Yuecheng hugged her from behind and whispered in her ear, "Su Qingxin, let's date."
Su Qingxin had no expression on her face and asked blankly, "Don't you mind that the person in my heart is not you?"
Chi Yuecheng buried his face in her neck, and his lazy voice hit her brain directly: "There is no other way... If you mind, I can only drive the person in your heart away."
Chi Yuecheng thought he could drive away the person in Su Qingxin's heart. He was such a confident man that no woman would not surrender to his suit pants.
But Su Qingxin, he spent a year, but he still couldn't hold her tightly. She was on the edge of his palm, and if he wasn't careful, she would fall and escape from his palm.
Chi Yuecheng was upset but never showed it.
Since she failed to keep the appointment at the aquarium last time, Su Qingxin has not been paying much attention to her work and is always distracted. Chi Yuecheng has encountered this many times, including at important meetings.
Chi Yuecheng found Zhu Panpan and asked, "What happened to your boss?"
Zhu Panpan glanced at Su Qingxin's office worriedly and said, "I don't know either, but I always feel that she is very tired and needs to rest."
Chi Yuecheng frowned slightly and stared at a certain place in a daze.
After get off work, Su Qingxin received a call from Chi Yuecheng, asking her to go to the parking lot. Su Qingxin got into Chi Yuecheng's car and asked, "What do you want to talk to me about?"
Chi Yuecheng started the engine and drove out of the parking lot. He said, "Let's eat."
Su Qingxin sat in the car, not saying anything, staring at the scenery outside the window. She was very frugal with words in front of Chi Yuecheng, and Chi Yuecheng was used to it. More than ten minutes later, the car stopped downstairs of a western restaurant. Chi Yuecheng opened the car door and took Su Qingxin into the restaurant.
"The environment here is good and the food is also good. It's quite suitable for you." Chi Yuecheng walked in front and talked to Su Qingxin.
Su Qingxin looked around and said, "It's pretty good."
As they spoke, the two sat down at the window seat. Then, the waiter came over with the menu. Chi Yuecheng ordered two steaks and a bottle of red wine.
"You don't look well. Go out more often when you're free. Didn't you say that Zhu Panpan was your good friend from childhood? Go out with her more often." While waiting for the dishes to be served, Chi Yuecheng said to Su Qingxin, who still looked a little haggard under her makeup.
Su Qingxin smiled and said, "I know. You don't have to worry about me. I will adjust quickly."
"Of course I believe you." Chi Yuecheng looked at Su Qingxin's face and tidied up her drooping hair.
At the kitchen door, the waiter who had just taken the order suddenly held his stomach and looked unhappy. He waved to another man who was busy nearby and shouted, "Wei Ran, Wei Ran, come here."
Wei Ran came over and asked, "Xiao He, what's wrong with you?"
"I have a stomachache, I'm going to the bathroom. This is the steak and red wine ordered by table 23, can you help me?" Xiao He stuffed the order menu into Wei Ran's hand and bent over to go into the bathroom.
Wei Ran looked at the order menu in his hand in confusion and waited obediently at the kitchen door.
After a while, the steak was cooked and Wei Ran brought the meal to Xiao He.
Wei Ran saw Chi Yuecheng talking to a lady from a distance, with a smile on his face. Most of the people he met in a western restaurant were couples, and Wei Ran was used to it. He walked over, raised the tray to the middle with one hand, placed one of the steaks in front of the lady, and smiled, "Hello, Miss, yours..."
The words are not finished.
The face in front of him seemed to have appeared across time and space. Wei Ran had not put down his hand holding the steak yet. He stared at Su Qingxin in front of him, and his emotions surged.
Su Qingxin raised her head slightly and met Wei Ran's gaze. After just one glance, she couldn't look away.
They still met, and in this way.
Beneath the two people's calm faces was a bursting flood that caused a disaster in an instant.
"Waiter?" Chi Yuecheng called Wei Ran.
Wei Ran came back to his senses, glanced at Chi Yuecheng, put down the steak in his hand, and finished the unfinished sentence: "Your steak."
Then he put down another steak: "Sir, your steak."
He opened the red wine in one go and poured a glass of red wine for Su Qingxin and Chi Yuecheng. During the whole process, his eyes never left Su Qingxin. Su Qingxin kept looking at Chi Yuecheng with a smile, as if she didn't know him, as if she had never seen him before.
Wei Ran stepped aside and stood there staring at the person in front of him.
Why did she suddenly appear? Why did she pretend not to know me? Where had she been all these years? What had she been through? What was her relationship with this man?
Too many questions occupied Wei Ran's mind. He tapped his forehead lightly, his face full of pain.
Su Qingxin glanced at Wei Ran and lowered her head to fiddle with the steak on the plate.
Chi Yuecheng noticed Su Qingxin's glance, and calmly reached out to help Su Qingxin cut the steak. He said gently, "Look at you, where is your mind? That's not how you cut steak. Let me help you."
Su Qingxin put down her knife and fork and said, "Thank you."
"Why thank me? You're my girlfriend." Chi Yuecheng said lovingly.
Wei Ran was stunned, a white light flashed through his mind. She is his girlfriend?
Su Qingxin watched Chi Yuecheng cut the steak until he forked a piece of steak and passed it to her mouth. Su Qingxin leaned forward slightly and ate the steak. Chi Yuecheng immediately smiled and said, "That's right."
Su Qingxin put her arms on the table and said, "Acheng, let's go back first. I feel a little uncomfortable."
Chi Yuecheng stuffed a piece of steak into his mouth, and when he heard Su Qingxin say that she was not feeling well, he hurriedly said, "Okay, let's go home right away."
As he spoke, he threw the car keys to Wei Ran who was standing next to him and said, "Please help me drive the car out. It's a white Audi with the license plate number 55."
"Okay." Wei Ran agreed, turned around and went out to help him drive.
Chi Yuecheng smiled at Su Qingxin again and said, "I'll go pay."
Su Qingxin nodded and walked to the door to wait for Chi Yuecheng. Chi Yuecheng's white Audi and Wei Ran's face in the driver's seat appeared in her sight. She hesitated for a moment and walked over.
Wei Ran parked the car, unbuckled his seat belt, opened the door and got out. As soon as he closed the door, he saw Su Qingxin walking towards him.
The two stood face to face, and could touch each other with just a stretch of their hands. But the distance was so close, yet it felt so far.
Wei Ran could finally see Su Qingxin's face clearly. Five years had passed, and she had lost her youthful immaturity and was more beautiful than before. It was just that he hadn't seen her for so long, and he missed her so much that he never stopped for a single day. But when they really met again, he didn't know what to say.
"Qing..." Wei Ran opened his lips slightly, but was interrupted by Chi Yuecheng before he could even call out her name.
"Sorry for the long wait. Take care." Chi Yuecheng came out after paying the bill and smiled at Wei Ran again, "Thank you, little brother."
Wei Ran moved away and bowed, saying, "You're welcome. Welcome to visit us next time."
Chi Yuecheng put his arm around Su Qingxin's waist and said, "Get in the car."
Su Qingxin got in the car, followed by Chi Yuecheng. He helped her fasten her seat belt, put his arm around her shoulders and gave her a deep kiss on the lips before driving away.
Wei Ran stood there for a long time before slowly turning around.
It turned out that for so many years, he was the only one between them who missed her every moment, and it turned out that she had already had someone else by her side.
A gust of wind blew, and a withered tung flower fell at Wei Ran's feet. Wei Ran didn't see it, stepped on the tung flower, and walked into the western restaurant. The already withered tung flower was even more scattered at this time.
That day, after Su Qingxin returned home, she watched Chi Yuecheng drive away, and then took a taxi to Zhang Yishi's house again.
Zhang Yishi opened the door for Su Qingxin with his upper body naked and cucumber slices on his face. Seeing Su Qingxin's unhappy expression, he hurriedly said, "Wait for me." Then he washed the cucumber, put on his clothes and walked out.
Su Qingxin leaned crookedly on the sofa and said absentmindedly: "Zhang Yishi, I saw Wei Ran..."
Zhang Yishi made a cup of tea for Su Qingxin, sat down opposite her, and asked, "What next?"
Su Qingxin got up and said a little aggrievedly: "I found that I still haven't forgotten him."
"Haven't you never forgotten him?" Zhang Yishi said disapprovingly, lifting his legs and picking the dead skin on the soles of his feet.
Su Qingxin frowned and said, "That's different."
"How is it different? You're so nagging. Just tell me whether you want to dump Chi Yuecheng and be with Wei Ran?" Zhang Yishi said unhappily when he saw Su Qingxin complaining again.
Su Qingxin stood up, propped her hands on the coffee table, leaned over and stared at Zhang Yishi, and said word by word: "It's impossible for Wei Ran and I to be together. I want to forget him, but I can't. Please help me."
Zhang Yishi raised his head lazily, his eyes just falling on Su Qingxin's vaguely visible chest. He looked straight in the eyes and said, "I've never been in a relationship, how can I help you..."
Su Qingxin caught Zhang Yishi's straight gaze, and immediately covered her chest, picked up a pillow and smashed it into Zhang Yishi's face.
Zhang Yishi caught the pillow, glanced at Su Qingxin with his eyes slanted, and said, "Okay, I'm not a friend of women."
"You are in my heart!" Su Qingxin started to act like a scoundrel, then said, "How about you help me this time, and I will introduce you to a girlfriend."
Zhang Yishi still squinted his eyes at Su Qingxin. Two seconds later, he suddenly laughed and said obscenely, "I want the kind with big breasts and big buttocks."
"I know." Su Qingxin broke out in a cold sweat and said with disdain as if she was looking at a gangster.
Zhang Yishi stood up, stretched himself, and said, "Hey, Su Qingxin, it's not hard to forget someone, you're just being stubborn. Let me tell you, you don't have each other's contact information anyway, and Hefei is so big, how can you still meet every day? You already have a boyfriend, Wei Ran can't take someone else's love away, right? If you really can't avoid meeting, I think you should just shake hands and make peace, hold hands and be good friends."
"Oh——" This is not reliable at all, Su Qingxin sighed.
Zhang Yishi glanced at her and said, "A day is so short. You go to work, eat, take a walk, wash dishes, meet up, and sleep. A day is gone just like that. You are the marketing manager of Huamei, and you actually have time to miss a yellow-haired boy?"
Su Qingxin sat down on the sofa again, crossed her legs, and nodded, "That's true."
"If you have that much time, you might as well help me find a girlfriend ." Zhang Yishi said again.
Su Qingxin looked depressed. He went around and around, but still ended up getting himself.
"Besides big breasts and a big butt, are there any other requirements?" Su Qingxin asked lazily. Forget it, Zhang Yishi is her great benefactor, and Zhang Yishi's affairs are the most important.
Zhang Yishi tilted his head back, pretending to think, and said, "Well, she also has to be beautiful, especially sexy, and full of charm..."
"Snapped!"
Another pillow hit Zhang Yishi's face accurately. Su Qingxin shouted, "Go find it yourself!" Then, she walked out with her hands on her hips.
Zhang Yishi hugged the pillow and shouted, "Hey, don't leave yet, I have something else to tell you."
"I don't have time to listen." Su Qingxin opened the door.
"About your mother." Zhang Yishi threw away the pillow and waited for Su Qingxin to turn around and come back.
Sure enough, Su Qingxin opened the door halfway, was stunned for a moment, and then turned to look at Zhang Yishi.
Zhang Yishi brought Su Qingxin to the corner of the corridor where he lived. There was a small house there that was empty before, and Zhang Yishi rented it.
Zhang Yishi opened the door, and Su Qingxin saw that the small room was furnished with a bed, a table and chairs, a wardrobe, and a TV. There was also a small kitchen and bathroom in the room.
A woman with a hunched back was sitting under the only window in the room, looking out the window with a dull expression.
Su Qingxin walked over slowly, stood behind the woman, and followed her gaze. Outside the window was an unknown tree with a bird's nest built on it.
Su Qingxin squatted in front of her and called softly, "Mom."
Shu Fan didn't seem to hear it, and didn't even blink. She was too old now. She was so beautiful before. Dad once told Su Qingxin that when he married Shu Fan, all his relatives and friends said that he had eight lifetimes of good luck to marry such a beautiful wife.
"I took her to see a doctor, and the doctor said she had depression," Zhang Yishi walked in and said.
Su Qingxin stood up, feeling strange, and asked: "Did you go to pick her up? Is Feng Qiang willing to let her go?"
Zhang Yishi shook his head and said, "It was the kid from the Feng family who brought your mother out to see me."
"Feng Ruixing?" Su Qingxin said in surprise.
Zhang Yishi nodded and said, "Yes, when I went to Feng's house, it was Feng Ruixing who opened the door. I explained my purpose and said I wanted to see Feng Qiang. But Feng Ruixing didn't let me see him. He told me, 'Take Aunt Shu Fan away. She is not having a good time here.'"
Su Qingxin glanced at Shu Fan, feeling troubled.
Zhang Yishi continued, "Feng Ruixing said that your mother and Feng Qiang never got married in all these years, so it doesn't matter if your mother is gone. It's just that your mother is worried about you, and she goes to your room every day to wait for you, and she always comes out with red eyes. Feng Ruixing said that although your mother is a little depressed, she treats him very well, and he doesn't want to see her continue to suffer. After he learned that I was your friend, he asked me to bring you a message."
"What?" Su Qingxin asked.
"He said... sorry."
Su Qingxin said: "Even if he says sorry, even if he sends my mother back, I still won't forgive him and Feng Qiang!"
Zhang Yishi smiled and said, "Whether you forgive them or not, your mother is back safely, and that's enough."
"Thank you, Zhang Yishi." Su Qingxin stood up and thanked him with her hands behind her back. Zhang Yishi always did these things for her silently, which she dared not face. She didn't know how to repay him.
Zhang Yishi seemed to be thinking about something, and with a meaningful smile, he said, "You don't have to thank me. This house is not expensive, only 500 yuan a month. I paid the rent for the first three months for you. All the rent, water and electricity bills, and your mother's living expenses after that will be borne by you. As for me, I don't care."
"Got it." Su Qingxin hit Zhang Yishi and turned to look at Shu Fan.
This was enough for her. As long as Shu Fan was by her side, that was enough. She would spend the time she spent missing Wei Ran with Shu Fan until she could remember her daughter.
Su Qingxin would go to Shu Fan's place every other day after get off work, prepare two days' worth of meals for her and put them in the refrigerator, and remind her to heat them up in the microwave when she was hungry. Shu Fan would nod stupidly every time, but never answer. Zhang Yishi lived close to Shu Fan, and would often go to help Su Qingxin take care of her, and then send her a text message to report.
When they were free on weekends, they would push Shu Fan out to walk around and bask in the sun. It was not a good idea to stay in the house every day. Su Qingxin was too busy to take care of herself. Work and her mother's affairs had almost occupied her entire life.
That day, Su Qingxin was so tired that she fell asleep in the office. Just as she fell asleep, she was woken up by a phone call. It was a call from the front desk.
"Boss Su, someone's looking for you in the lobby."
"I understand. I'll be down right away." After hanging up the phone, Su Qingxin rubbed her eyebrows and staggered downstairs.
Seeing that Su Qingxin was in a very bad mental state, Zhu Panpan was very worried about her and followed her.
In the hall, Wei Ran and others were at the reception area. In front of them was the brochure of Huamei Company. The brochure was turned to the page with Su Qingxin.