Let go of the past

Li Ziqing came out of the conference room and walked straight to his seat, but was stopped halfway by Liang Anni excitedly, his face was full of gossip and curiosity.

"Ziqing!" Her voice couldn't hide her excitement and curiosity, and her body language was rich and exaggerated: "There are flowers for you at the front desk downstairs!"

Li Ziqing was a little confused: "What kind of flower?"

"Flowers," Liang Anni beamed, "It's a big bunch. Two courier guys worked together to move it in. Go and have a look!"

"???" Li Ziqing's first reaction: "Is it the wrong delivery?"

"Whatever, let's go down and take a look first." Liang Anni was eager to try: "I just saw a girl who ran down to watch."

Li Ziqing turned around and took back the steps that he was about to take, "...Then I will not go down."

Liang Anni's eyes widened in disbelief: "Rose," she stretched out her arms vigorously: "Then—well—a big handful!"

"It's probably a wrong delivery." Li Ziqing said more firmly.

Liang Anni simply grabbed his arm, tried his best to lead him to the elevator, and kept yelling: "It must be some girl who is pursuing you. How can this kind of thing go wrong?"

Li Ziqing was forcibly taken into the elevator by Liang Anni, and after closing the door, she continued to ask with a gossipy face: "Recall quickly, which confidante gave it to you?"

A bit of embarrassment and embarrassment appeared on Li Ziqing's face. Hidden under the exposed emotions, there was still a trace of uncertain panic, but facing Liang Anni's pressing questions, he could only shake his head and say, "I don't know what to do." Know."

When the elevator reached the first floor and opened the door, there were indeed two or three young girls standing at the front desk, surrounded by a bunch of giant yellow roses with a diameter of more than one meter, chirping with envy and novelty.

"Dangdangdangdang~ The protagonist is here!" Liang Anni howled fearing that the world would not be chaotic, and immediately successfully attracted all eyes, and they all looked over in surprise or gossip. The urge to retreat into the elevator and return the same way,

"Are they flowers for you?" One of the girls looked at Liang Anni and hurriedly asked for confirmation.

Liang Anni waved his hand quickly, stepping aside to let the protagonist appear, "It's for this gentleman."

The girls couldn't close their mouths from ear to ear, and after a while they let out exclamations one after another.

"My God, are women chasing men? Isn't it too high-profile?"

"What kind of local rich lady is this, chasing boyfriends so generously?"

"It's so romantic the other way around..."

Liang Anni kept pushing Li Ziqing's arm, "Go and have a look, go and have a look..."

Under the attention of a group of girls, Li Ziqing bravely stepped forward and walked over. The girls who were clustered together consciously spread out to both sides. Such weird movements suddenly made Li Ziqing's scalp tense again.

In the center of the crowd, a large bunch of delicate yellow roses, with fresh morning dew on each petal, are scrambling to send out bursts of fragrance into the air.

Li Ziqing was completely at a loss for words for a while, he slowed down, looked around, and asked a little girl next to him awkwardly: "Do you have a card or something?"

"Yes, yes," the girl at the front desk hurriedly handed it over, not forgetting to remind in advance: "But there is no signature on it."

"So mysterious?" Liang Anni was surprised and excited.

Li Ziqing took the card, and then realized that not only was it not signed, but even the message was printed directly, just five words.

——Ziqing, I'm sorry.

Lujia Riverside Hotel, bar restaurant on the [-]th floor, Li Ru swayed the wine glass in one hand, leaned on the edge of the bar counter, and flirted with a graceful and beautiful girl in front of him.He just said a rather connotative dirty joke, the girl covered her mouth and laughed wildly, but suddenly her eyes fixed on a place behind him, and her beautiful eyes immediately showed a hunting look undisguised, and then the water snake twisted her waist , rubbing his shoulders and walked over, leaving Li Ru aside in such a grandiose manner.

Li Ru's evil and smirk froze on his face, and his eyes instantly burned with the fierceness of the beast's territory being violated. He slapped the wine glass heavily on the bar, turned around suddenly, and roared: "I want to see it!" Who the hell is it - Ji Bing?"

A few steps away, Ji Bing shook his head slightly at the beautiful woman with a gentlemanly and alienated smile on the corner of his mouth. Under the disappointed and gloomy eyes of the other party, he looked away without hesitation, and strode towards Li Ru with big strides. come over.

Li Ru looked up and down Ji Bing's attire with a little surprise. It is common to see his meticulous appearance in high-end suits, but today he changed his style for the first time. The top is Givenchy's black motorcycle leather jacket. Wearing a pair of silver-gray trousers, with wide shoulders and narrow waist, he has a tall and straight figure, and his demeanor is less indifferent, making him look wanton and unrestrained.

"I have something to do with you." Before Li Ru could speak, Ji Bing cut to the chase and said, "Do you have time now?"

"Yes, time is what I have the most." Li Ru said carelessly, "What are you going to do, please come and find me yourself?"

Ji Bing didn't hesitate, and said straightforwardly: "Tomorrow is Li Ziqing's birthday, please give him a call for me."

"Ah?" Li Ru didn't understand for a while, "Who are you calling?"

Ji Bing glanced at him and repeated: "Li Ziqing."

Li Ru understood this time, not only did he understand, but he was a little horrified.

"Aren't you embarrassing me?" Li Ru said incredulously, "I called Li Ziqing? To use an inappropriate analogy, it's like a weasel giving a chicken New Year's greeting."

"It's not that I haven't fought before." Ji Bing reminded lightly.

"It happened suddenly that day, can it be the same?"

"It happened suddenly now," Ji Bing said, "and lives are at stake."

Li Ru was stunned, and blurted out: "Who is going to die?"

"I'll tell you when you're done."

Li Ru struggled a few times on his face, remembered another incident, and asked, "Why don't you fight yourself?"

Ji Bing glanced at him, and said coldly: "If I can get through, can I still use it to find you?"

"..." Li Ru was stunned: "You have blocked your number? Then it seems that this time I really want to break up with you..."

Ji Bing took a deep breath, and said in a cold tone, "Call."

Li Ru clicked his tongue twice, took out his mobile phone in a good manner, weighed it in his hand, and asked Ji Bing, "What did you call?"

"Ask him what he has planned for tomorrow night."

"Can he tell me?"

"You call first." Ji Bing raised his voice by two decibels, obviously impatient, "Press speakerphone."

Li Ru held the phone in front of him, and the ringtones hit the eardrums and heart one after another. After two or three rings, the other party picked it up and asked politely, "Hello, who is it?"

"..." Li Ru expected that Li Ziqing would never save his number, and he never saved it. He raised his eyes to look at Ji Bing, and said mechanically, "I'm Li Ru."

Li Ziqing paused for a moment, his attitude quickly turned cold, and asked him, "Is there something wrong?"

Ji Bing typed the lines on the mobile phone and held it up to Li Ru. He looked at it intently and said, "I want to talk to you about some project cooperation matters. Do you have time?"

"No, I'm in the technical department, not in charge of business contacts."

Li Ru continued to read to the lines: "Your leader asked me to call you directly."

Li Ziqing was obviously skeptical, hesitated for a moment, and then said again: "What's the specific matter, let's talk on the phone first."

"That's not good," Li Ru said, "Do you have time tomorrow night? Let's make an appointment to eat and chat."

"..." Li Ziqing seemed to have misheard, and his tone was extremely unbelievable: "Shall I have dinner with you?"

Under Ji Bing's gaze, Li Ru continued to attack the Oscar winner: "If you feel embarrassed, we both bring someone else?"

"Sorry," Li Zi rebuffed coolly, "I don't have time tomorrow night."

"Have you got an appointment?" Li Ru asked eagerly.

"Have."

"How many people? If you can't, let's join together and make a table to have fun."

Li Ziqing paused for a moment, then asked Li Ru: "Is Ji Bing by your side?"

Li Ru cursed inwardly, looking up at Ji Bing as if asking for help, and the other party wrote him a line without haste, asking him to continue reading.

Li Rubai's eyes were about to roll out, but he still swallowed his anger and said according to the script: "Yes, over there drinking alone, do you want to find him?"

"...No need. Ask him for me, is he responsible for the roses delivered to my company today?"

Li Ru looked at Ji Bing, Ji Bing's thoughts stopped at Li Ziqing's words of roses, and he didn't give a timely response for a while.Li Ru got the answer from his facial expression, and acted on his own: "He said it wasn't him."

Ji Bing came back to his senses: "..."

Li Ziqing: "...Oh, I see."

Li Ru wanted to continue, but Ji Bing took the phone directly, turned off the speakerphone and held it to his ear, asking in a deep voice, "What flower?"

Li Ziqing: "..."

Seeing that he didn't respond, Ji Bing asked again without audible emotion: "What flower?"

Li Ziqing's tone was indifferent: "Since you didn't do it, then it has nothing to do with you."

Ji Bing's complexion was gloomy, he paused for a moment, then changed the topic, and asked him: "Do you really have an appointment tomorrow night?"

"Yes." Li Ziqing said, "With a blind date."

The other hand placed by Ji Bing's side slowly clenched his fist and tightened, his breathing became involuntarily fastened, he relieved himself for a few seconds, and still asked without giving up: "So, are the flowers also sent by the other party?"

"If it's not you, it can only be him."

Li Ziqing waited for a while, but Ji Bing didn't speak again for a long time. The two fell silent while holding the mobile phone. In the end, Li Ziqing was still the first to break the deadlock.

"I'll hang up if there's nothing else to do." He said flatly, "Please don't contact me again in the future. I don't want to look back, I just want to move forward. I hope you do too, Mr. Ji."

With a click, the other party hung up. For a long time, Ji Bing remained in the posture of listening to the phone, motionless, as if petrified into a statue.

Li Ru waited beside him for a long time, but didn't hear him continue to speak, so he walked over and asked uncertainly, "Finished?"

Half of Ji Bing's face was hidden in the shadows, and the other half was illuminated by the strange lights of the bar with a metallic coldness. He handed the phone to Li Ru expressionlessly, put his hands in the pockets of his trousers, and said nothing. He turned around and walked out.

"Hey!" Li Ru chased after him, his thirst for knowledge blinded him, and he said persistently, "Did you find out? What's your plan for tomorrow night? Do you want my help?"

"There is no plan." Ji Bing's voice seemed to be covered with a layer of frost in an instant. He stopped, his eyes drifted somewhere in the air, wandering, and his tone was light, as if there was no support, and he said slowly : "For him, maybe my Do Not Disturb is the best birthday present."

Li Ziqing put the phone back on the table, but his fingertips were visibly trembling. He had to use his left hand to press down on his right hand, trying desperately to restrain it, but found that it was counterproductive.

Breaking up is a painful enough thing. The other party has been alive in your life for ten years, every frown, every move, or just by the frequency of breathing, you can fully perceive his emotional ups and downs.

Ji Bing was indeed hurt by him. This is a very gratifying thing, but why can't he find a little bit of happiness at all?

Why are you calling?

Why bring shame on yourself?

Why do you have to spare no effort to give me a chance to hurt you?

Li Ziqing lay on the table, buried his face deep in his arms, tried to get rid of distracting thoughts, and completely emptied his chaotic brain, the effect was obviously there, because he didn't become passively conscious until Lei Wei next to him patted him. Returning to his seat, he heard the phone on the table beeping again.

"Hello," Li Ziqing picked it up, calmed down, and greeted in a friendly tone: "Hello, Mr. Gu."

"Mr. Li," Gu Xien said with a smile, "I made an appointment with the restaurant at six o'clock tomorrow night, is your time okay?"

"no problem."

"Okay, do you need me to pick you up?"

"Don't worry, I'll drive over."

"Then be safe on the road, see you tomorrow night."

"Ah."

"Happy birthday, Mr. Li."