After breaking off the engagement, she became the CEO's favorite

Lu Ranran didn't react at once.

"Wait, wait a minute," she thought for a while before tilting her head and asking, "When you say leaving, do you mean..."

Zhang Xiaoyuan looked at the bamboo stream in the distance.

As if she had made up her mind, she turned and looked at Lu Ranran.

“I received an invitation from World Geographic.”

"They hope that I can be a photographer stationed abroad and a regular member of the interview team."

Lu Ranran was happy for Zhang Xiaoyuan.

But she couldn't laugh.

Both of them remained silent.

After a while, Zhang Xiaoyuan pretended to be angry and gently pushed Lu Ranran with his elbow.

"What's wrong? Aren't you happy for me?"

"How can it be!"

Lu Ranran immediately retorted.

Then her shoulders slowly dropped like a punctured balloon.

"Just thinking that we can't see each other more often..."

Neither of them is a person who expresses their emotions outwardly.

Some things can be understood if you just stop at the point.

Zhang Xiaoyuan tried hard to curl the corners of his mouth, moved away and made an expression of disgust.

"Eh—you are really, disgusting."

Lu Ranran was so angry that she hit her, but Zhang Xiaoyuan dodged nimbly.

The two chased and fought for a long time before they stopped.

Zhang Xiaoyuan looked at Zhuxi from afar with a relaxed tone.

"It's not like I'm out of touch, unless you don't want to pay for international calls?"

"Not really, you've married into a wealthy family."

Seeing Lu Ranran clench her fists again, Zhang Xiaoyuan calmed down and begged for mercy.

The winter sun has little heat, like crystal clear ice.

Zhang Xiaoyuan lowered his head, gripped the edge of the bench with both hands, and crossed his long legs in front of him.

A waterfall of black hair fell down, covering her face.

"Ran Ran, thank you."

She turned her head, her hair tucked behind her ears, revealing her bright and colorful face.

Lu Ranran sat up straight in a pretentious tone and looked down at her.

"no need thank me?"

It seemed that Lu Ranran would not let her go if Zhang Xiaoyuan didn't explain clearly.

"Thank you for helping me..." Zhang Xiaoyuan made a gesture of wiping his neck, "—— Zhang Heng."

Lu Ranran waved her hand, "You're welcome. Even without me, you would——"

"I can not."

"?"

Zhang Xiaoyuan nodded seriously with a somewhat sad smile.

"Without you, without you all, I simply wouldn't be able to..."

"No way to resist."

"I mean it."

This was beyond Lu Ranran's expectations.

But soon, she understood Zhang Xiaoyuan's inner struggle.

If she really doesn't care, or is really disappointed with her family.

Then she wouldn't still be in touch with the Zhang family.

Even when Gu Lian dragged her to a "blind date", she did not object substantially.

"I understand that I am actually a very cowardly person."

"No one in that family cares about me, but I still want to stay there."

"Do you think I'm a bitch?"

Lu Ranran shook her head firmly.

"you are not."

Zhang Xiaoyuan's gaze wandered from the stream to the sky, aimlessly and without focus.

She looked and talked, as if lost in her own memories.

"Actually, my parents and Zhang Heng haven't always been this weird..."

"My dad obviously has a very stinky face, but when I was little, he would take lots and lots of pictures of me until I was so tired that I wanted to sleep."

"And my mom, she cooks delicious food."

"When Zhang Heng was still in high school, he secretly played games with me. I still remember the first game we played was "Chinese Paladin III"..."

Speaking of this, Zhang Xiaoyuan smiled self-deprecatingly.

"Every time they do something weird."

"I would unconsciously think of how good they were to me before, and that we had happy memories together."

“It always made me wonder, what made them the way they are now?”

“Did I not do well enough?”

"What do I need to do to make them look like the way I remember them?"

"Once I really leave them, does that mean those happy memories will disappear with them?"

A cold wind blew, and Zhang Xiaoyuan's face looked unusually pale in the sunlight.

“But fortunately I have you.”

A lively smile broke out on that pale face, and a healthy blush appeared on his cheeks.

"After that incident, I realized that I was desperate about them only because I still held out hope."

"But when I realized that I don't have to rely on them alone, I can still have friends, Grandma Cai, and my aunt."

“I suddenly felt relieved.”

"Maybe I have some good memories with them, but that can't be a reason for me to compromise, right?"

“Even if I am alone, I can still have happy memories and precious emotions with anyone in the future.”

"Isn't it?"

Having said that, Lu Ranran understood that Zhang Xiaoyuan had completed her own practice.

From now on, the sky and the sea are vast, she will be a free bird, and the world is her stage.

Lu Ranran felt genuinely happy, and the myriad thoughts in her mind finally turned into a simple sentence.

"Well, I wish you success!"

Zhang Xiaoyuan blinked proudly.

"Of course I will succeed."

At this time, a shout was heard from a distance.

The two turned their heads.

Gu Nianzhi, who had recovered with full health, was waving at them.

Lu Ranran suddenly remembered something and approached Zhang Xiaoyuan and said:

"Does Gu Nianzhi know that you are leaving Nancheng?"

Zhang Xiaoyuan had already stood up and was ready to wave to Gu Nianzhi.

After hearing what Lu Ranran said, her hands froze in mid-air and her face suddenly changed.

Lu Ranran walked around to Zhang Xiaoyuan and stared at her seriously.

"So when are you going to tell me?"

"Don't tell me you were planning to just run away, leaving no one to find you, and only then did you come to ask me about your escape, right?"

Zhang Xiaoyuan scratched his face in embarrassment, said two words to the cadre school, then turned and walked towards the stream.

"Ha, ha ha ha, nice weather, ah, there are fish in the water!"

Lu Ranran was speechless.

Gu Nianzhi had already jumped to their side.

Running made his face flushed, and his whole body was emitting heat like a hot steamed bun.

"I'm back!" he announced loudly. "Let's get on with it!"

“We haven’t even finished shooting the first shot yet!”

Zhang Xiaoyuan looked at the stream without looking back.

Lu Ranran cleared his throat and said seriously:

“We’re not filming anymore.”

Zhang Xiaoyuan's figure trembled noticeably. She paced around in a small circle at a loss, and finally made up her mind to walk away.

"Hey!" Gu Nianzhi keenly noticed Zhang Xiaoyuan's actions, "Where are you going?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhang Xiaoyuan ran away.

"Hey, why did you run away!"

Gu Nianzhi immediately ran after him, but Lu Ranran suddenly pulled him back.

"Why are you stopping me?"

Lu Ranran warned:

"She has something to tell you, run faster!"

Gu Nianzhi frowned, obviously not understanding what Lu Ranran was saying.

But Zhang Xiaoyuan had already run far away, so he didn't bother to ask more questions. He just walked around Lu Ranran and ran away.

At this time, Shen Xiling walked leisurely to Lu Ranran.

"What happened again?"

Lu Ranran looked at the direction where the two left and sighed meaningfully:

"It's still the lucky ones who enjoy the world first."

Shen Xiling didn't understand.

"What luck?"

Lu Ranran turned around, winked at Shen Xiling playfully, and made a heart shape with her hands.

"Lucky to meet you~"

Shen Xiling's body stiffened, then he turned his face away, speaking in a helpless tone.

"You're really... a little abstract."