Fake it on a dating show

When getting off work, Zhao Minglang was always restless.

When the assistant delivered the materials, he found that the boss was still flipping through the one hour ago.

Glancing at the page numbers, only two pages have been turned in an hour.

For Mr. Zhao, who pays attention to efficiency, this is almost impossible.

"What happened?" asked the attentive assistant.

"No...it's nothing." Zhao Minglang came back to his senses and saw a stack of documents in the assistant's arms, "Is there any important work in the past few days?"

The assistant shook his head: "There is only one contract left to be signed by you."

But that's after tomorrow.

The high-intensity work some time ago has just come to an end, and I have been a little unbelievably free recently.

Zhao Minglang glanced at the time, packed up the things on the table, and signaled to the assistant to leave work early after putting down the things.

Before leaving, the assistant hesitated to speak, and when Zhao Minglang got up, he informed her: "Mr. Zhao, that Miss Gu came to the company in the afternoon, asked Miss Lin about her recent situation, and then left."

Zhao Minglang recalled for a moment, and realized that the "Miss Gu" that the assistant said was Gu Wanqi.

When Lin Xingyue first came, she bumped into Gu Wanqi, who had an evil heart. Zhao Minglang inevitably paid more attention to this, and when she heard that she was indistinctly flirting with artists under his company, he asked his assistant to pay more attention.

However, ever since Lin Wenxuan's manager thought he had offended Mr. Zhao and gradually abandoned this promising newcomer, he didn't think he would appear in the company again, and there was no news about him even with Gu Wanqi.

It's too far away, and it's not something that makes people feel happy, so it has long been left behind.

But at this time, this name suddenly appeared, and Zhao Minglang happened to be uneasy, so it was hard not to pay special attention to this name.

"Didn't you go to find Lin Wenxuan?"

The assistant shook his head: "I didn't even mention it."

"What did you say?"

"There's a young girl who just arrived at the front desk. She doesn't know what's important." The assistant said, "But the others didn't tell her too much. She just guessed that Miss Lin has a good relationship with you."

As for the "good" method, it's not as tactful as the assistant put it.

Zhao Minglang turned cold: "Notify her that she won't come to work tomorrow."

The assistant nodded in response, and then asked, "Where is Miss Gu?"

Zhao Minglang said: "Go and find out what she did, and how she got into the company."

When the assistant left, Zhao Minglang stood at the door in a daze for a while, clicked on the address book and found Lin Xingyue's phone number. After a moment of hesitation, a new call came in.

It was Cheng Yichen calling.

As soon as the phone was connected, there was an urgent voice from the other side: "Is Xingyue with you?"

Zhao Minglang's hand that opened the door stopped, his footsteps stopped, and the feeling of uneasiness in his heart became stronger and stronger: "What's wrong?"

"I saw my cousin say in the group that my uncle went to find Xingyue." Cheng Yichen said, "But she usually makes a fuss, and I don't know if it's true or not, so I dare not go there to mention it." , Xingyue can't get through on the phone, so I'll ask you first."

After speaking, Cheng Yichen asked again: "Is Xingyue with you?"

Zhao Minglang had already opened the door, frowned and walked out quickly. Along the way, when she saw the employees she wanted to say hello to, they were frightened back, and they shrank their necks and stepped aside, not daring to provoke Zhao, who was obviously in a bad mood. total.

"I just got off work." Zhao Minglang went down to the garage and said, "She has a part-time job outside today, or she may be at work—I'll try to call her later and go to her working place to see .”

Zhao Minglang spoke calmly, but he couldn't help feeling a little flustered in his heart.

Even she herself didn't understand where this panic came from - the worst thing was that Lin Xingyue was brought home.

Lin Xingyue sent Zhao Minglang an approximate address before going to work. Although the original intention was to study how long it would take to get home from there, it was a great help at this time.

When Zhao Minglang rushed to go, the last person just came out from the door.

The other party had just finished locking the door, and when he turned around, he saw Zhao Minglang who was full of anxiety.

"Ms. Lin? Didn't she go back early?" said the person in charge of locking the door, "Because she came here on the first day today, and the list form assigned to her has not been completed yet, so let her go back first if there is nothing to do today. .”

"When did this happen?"

"It's about four o'clock." The other party glanced at the clock on the wall and said, "It's almost two hours now."

"Thank you."

After Zhao Minglang left a sentence, he hurriedly turned around and headed home.

It's not too far from Zhao Minglang's house, even if he walks back, it's only half an hour's journey at most.

But at the moment the house was pitch black, and there was no one there.

The angles of the slippers at the entrance were exactly the same as when they left in the morning, and there was no sign of anyone entering or leaving.

Zhao Minglang knocked on the door of the neighbor's house, because it was inconvenient to work on the first day, and their dog was temporarily entrusted to the neighbor to take care of it. The neighbor came out with the dog, thinking that Lin Xingyue had returned.

"Didn't you come back?" The neighbor was also a little surprised. "I didn't see anyone coming before. I just heard the door next door opened and thought she was back."

"Has anyone else been here?"

"That's not true." The neighbor shook his head, "Our place won't let strangers in casually. If you're worried, just ask the security downstairs."

Zhao Minglang thanked the neighbor and took the dog home along the way.

Lin Xingyue's call was still unanswered, and just as Zhao Minglang hung up the third unanswered call, the assistant's call came in.

The assistant went to the front desk to find out about the situation, and after a little intimidation, she told everything.

Although she didn't have a good mouth, her gossiping nature also played a lot at this time. Gu Wanqi didn't tell her too much about herself when she came, but the front desk was curious about her reason for coming, so she asked the neighbors A group of people chatted and knocked Gu Wanqi's identity to the bottom.

When Gu Wanqi was with Lin Wenxuan before, she also came to the company to get close to people, but there were really one or two people who had a good relationship with her.

The assistant Shun Teng found Gu Wanqi's friends, most of them were wine and meat friends, who knew who could be offended and who could not be offended, and in just a few words, he sold out Gu Wanqi, who was not too experienced in the world.

So the assistant quickly figured things out.

Someone went to the place where Lin Xingyue worked to look for her before, and Gu Wanqi happened to be there, so she borrowed words from Qi Siyu and volunteered to help find someone, but in fact, she took some time to find "evidence".

Zhao Minglang's expression became colder the more he heard it.

What "evidence" can Gu Wanqi find?

It was nothing more than to prove that Lin Xingyue had an unclear relationship with Zhao Minglang, and then make a small report with the parents, so that the family would be restless.

"She seems to think that Lin Wenxuan was left out because of Ms. Lin." The assistant repeated Gu Wanqi's complaints with her friends as objectively as possible, "But she said it was for her own good, that she should consider her parents and not make things difficult for them. .”

"Don't Gu Wanqi know the Lin family?"

"The Lin family has almost no overlap with our circle, so they probably don't know each other." The assistant replied.

Zhao Minglang sneered: "It doesn't matter, it's enough for her to know who I am."

The assistant couldn't help being silent for a moment when he heard the words, it sounded like Zhao Minglang was completely annoyed.

He has been with Zhao Minglang for several years, and it is rare for him to see her venting her anger.

It seems that some people are going to be unlucky.

The assistant silently mourned for some people for two seconds in his heart without much sympathy.

But finding someone to settle accounts is a matter for later, what matters now is Lin Xingyue's affairs.

When Cheng Yichen received the call, he had already calmed down, leaving nothing but helplessness.

"I asked, and it seems that Xingyue was really taken back." Cheng Yichen sighed, "It was because her mother was sick, so I took her back."

The countless thoughts in Zhao Minglang's mind were dispelled at that moment.

If you go back to visit because your family is sick, there is nothing wrong with it.

On the contrary, it seems that they are making a big fuss in such a hurry.

But there is no way to eliminate the uneasiness in my heart so easily.

The reason Cheng Yichen sighed was definitely not because he was relaxed or discouraged.

"But I think...[-]% of it is just pretending." Cheng Yichen paused before continuing, "I just went to visit them when I came back a while ago, and my aunt—that is, Xingyue's mother looks pretty good, and my cousin came on It took me a month to accompany her to the physical examination, and they said there was nothing wrong with her, and the doctor even said that her physique is much better than before."

"To trick Xingyue back?" Zhao Minglang asked.

"Maybe." Cheng Yichen continued to sigh, "It may also be true, but to be honest, I don't trust them very much, just like the story about how wolf came."

"Xingyue's relationship with her father is average, but her relationship with her mother is not bad."

"This kind of thing has happened before. The most serious time, when Xingyue was promoted to university, she wanted to study in other provinces. The university was not bad, but her father wanted her to stay in this city, not even the branch campus in the west of the city. she goes."

"At that time, Xingyue was quite determined and had a quarrel with her father, but her mother fell ill at that time because of their quarrel. Xingyue compromised during her hospitalization and went to the school chosen by her father and major."

And this is not the most regrettable.

"Later she found out that her mother was actually pretending to be sick. It was a play colluded with her father to make her 'obedient'. At that time, she was only ten years old. She was young and easily soft-hearted. How could she doubt it? They make jokes about it."

After Lin Xingyue gave birth to Lin Xingyue, Mama Lin's health has not been very good.

But she always uses it as a bargaining chip to threaten her daughter.

A soft knife pierced in, and the daughter could only bear it without saying a word.

When Cheng Yichen said it, he felt as if something was stuck in his throat, a bit bitter.

One compromise is followed by more compromises until the next wave of more serious outbreaks.

Zhao Minglang is always shocked by such a deformed family relationship every time.

Although she knew intellectually that such a family was not uncommon, when it happened to her, she still felt a stick in her throat. She couldn't believe it—hope it was just an exaggerated lie, and at the same time, she felt sad from the bottom of her heart.

So much so that she didn't know what to say for a while.

Should I go directly to Lin Xingyue?

What if her mother was really sick.

But if you let it go, you can't let it go.

Zhao Minglang was silent for a while before asking: "If her mother is not sick... what will happen if she is taken back?"

"I guess it will be in confinement." Cheng Yichen's voice was a little heavy, "Her father is very concerned about her authority. In the past, sometimes Xingyue would punish her for disobedience, until she took the initiative to reflect on herself."

He won't do anything, and he won't short her food and clothing, just let her reflect in a quiet environment.

Even her mother would not touch her husband's eyebrows at this time, at most she would just send some food, and then persuade her daughter to admit her mistake earlier.

No one is on her side.

Just the feeling of it can be overwhelming.

"Is there no one else in charge?"

"Some people have talked about them, but there's nothing they can do if they don't listen to anyone. After all, it's someone else's family business. Although relatives see each other, I'm sorry to make the relationship too rigid, and most of them are very busy. I don’t have time to meddle in other people’s affairs.”

"Besides, her mother is not in good health. If she gets mad by saying a few more words, no one wants to take responsibility, so they just turn a blind eye."

"That……"

"It wasn't much better when I was here to be honest." Cheng Yichen said ahead of Zhao Minglang, "At most, I would help her cover up, but after being discovered, I would double blame her for not having self-control. The more I persuaded her, my father would Angrier with her."

Because Cheng Yichen is an "outsider", no matter how angry he is, Father Lin will not get angry with him.

So all the accumulated anger was doubled on Lin Xingyue.

After a long time, Cheng Yichen didn't dare to intervene too much, for fear of bringing more troubles to Lin Xingyue, at most he could divert her parents' attention without harming the situation, and comfort her sister afterwards.

The only effect is probably to make Lin Xingyue feel that she is no longer completely alone and helpless.

But the symptoms are not the root cause.

Although they are close relatives, they are still constrained by the relationships of all parties.

When it comes to Lin Xingyue's family's family affairs, Cheng Yichen can do very little, so when he heard that his sister ran away from home, he would rather she not go back.

Zhao Minglang only pondered for a few seconds, then asked: "Her home address, can I trouble you to send me a copy?"

Cheng Yichen was stunned for a moment: "Are you going to go directly to her?"

Zhao Minglang replied: "No. I'll go and bring her back."