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She was also hesitant to buy the flowers on a detour on the way to the airport. Later, because she felt that it was a bit silly for a woman to wait for another girl with a large bouquet of flowers in the middle of the night, she stayed in the car, but she didn't expect...

Embarrassment mixed with bitterness flashed across Jiang Li's face, before she had time to say something, Lin Zixin turned her head curiously: "What's wrong?...Oh..."

When she saw the flowers, she raised one eyebrow, seemed to glance at Jiang Li beside her, and said casually, "Well, I'll get it, you do it."

Lu Mingsen did not doubt that someone from him handed the flowers to Lin Zixin, and then got into the car.

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In the middle of the night, the elevated highway was extremely open and unobstructed. Lin Zixin sat in the passenger seat and chatted with Lu Mingsen behind him, while Jiang Li sat beside her silently, taking care of his hybrid Roewe. It has the momentum of a twin-turbocharged supercar.

Lu Mingsen got out of the car first, and when he took out his luggage from the trunk, he thanked Jiang Li politely to Jiang Li who was on the driver's seat. Jiang Li smiled, and his tone of "you're welcome" was obviously not very interesting.

"Let's talk later." Lin Zixin leaned slightly, looked past Jiang Li in the driver's seat and made a phone call gesture to Lu Mingsen.

Lu Mingsen nodded with a smile, and before he had time to say anything, Jiang Li kicked the accelerator and drove out.

Lin Zixin looked at the dazed look of the handsome boy in the rearview mirror, but he didn't see any expression of resentment or injustice on his face. He just glanced at Jiang Li, who was sullen at the side, and looked at it with great interest. He muttered: "No manners."

Jiang Li's hands holding the steering wheel paused slightly, and a trace of embarrassment of being exposed quickly flashed across his face. He didn't know how to save face at the moment, so he had to look forward without squinting, pretending that he was concentrating on the road conditions.

Lin Zixin squinted her eyes and examined her for a few seconds, then curled her lips in disgust.

After talking silently for a while, Jiang Li finally couldn't hold back and asked, "Why did you come back with Lu Mingsen?"

The tone sounded casual at first glance, but she got up and closed in a hurry, which more or less revealed her inner restlessness. Lin Zixin curled the corner of her lower lip unobtrusively, bowed her head and plucked the bouquet in her hand, and answered yes Very frankly: "Oh, they are all on vacation!"

Jiang Li slightly squinted his eyes in displeasure, and asked again: "Did you make an appointment with him to go to Phuket?"

This time, Lin Zixin didn't answer right away. She turned her gaze back to Jiang Li, the smile on her lips became a bit ironic, and her voice became a little more provocative: "The position is reversed, it should be I'm the one asking the question."

After finishing speaking, she took out her mobile phone and played a voice. When the person in the driver's seat heard her pitiful and flattering voice, "You have to give me a chance to explain", she suddenly felt like a defeated rooster. Slumped shoulders.

In the middle of the night, he drove to pick up the airport and bought flowers. The purpose of Jiang Li's trip was indeed to show his goodwill.

It's just that Lu Mingsen's appearance was like a small bomb, which disrupted all the psychological construction done by the elders, so now when Lin Zixin asked him this question, Jiang Li suddenly felt...a dilemma and hesitation .

Between her and Xie Canglan... Strictly speaking, nothing really happened; but if you look into it carefully, it is really impossible to confidently make such a conclusion.

Some things are really difficult to fully explain in words, or some things, the more they explain, the more they sound like they are looking for excuses.

Later, when I occasionally recalled my time in London, Jiang Li could always find reasons such as "the atmosphere was just right" and "it was just a joke" to comfort me, until I heard Xie Canglan's words "I can't give you anything in return." No, I never regarded you as a friend." Only then did she realize that those so-called reasons were just excuses she made for herself.

After all... She also...

Jiang Li remained silent, Lin Zixin sat in the passenger seat and had a panoramic view of the anguish and struggle on her face. She couldn't help but frowned, showing both nervousness and impatience in her eyes, but there was still a look on her face. With a brash arrogance, he reiterated with a warning: "I told you, if you lie to me, I won't forgive you easily."

Jiang Li's hand holding the steering wheel tightened slightly, and it happened to be a red light, so she stopped the car, turned her face to look at Lin Zixin, the latter's sweet baby face seemed a little tense, and she wanted to She tried her best to put on a cold look, but she still couldn't help feeling a little uneasy. Against the light purple flower in her bosom, it made people feel sore and soft inexplicably.

There seemed to be brilliance in Jiang Li's eyes flickering for a while, and gradually settled down, and finally turned into a color somewhere between a desperate compromise and unbearable guilt.

Then Lin Zixin heard her voice, a little sad and a little helpless: "I...I have a crush on Xie Canglan."

The little girl's hand, which was fiddling with the bouquet, stopped suddenly, and there seemed to be panic, sadness, disbelief and other emotions in her usually lively cat eyes. Jiang Li, who was looking at her, didn't miss any of them. He stretched out his hand to touch her, but unexpectedly Lin Zixin shrank back.

Jiang Li's outstretched hand immediately froze in the air, and she didn't realize that the intersection had already turned green.

After an unknown amount of time, she heard a kitten-like whimper from the passenger seat: "You said you don't have someone else's."

The words of accusation at any time are full of grievances, which makes people feel even more ashamed and distressed.

Jiang Li withdrew his hand and said softly: "I didn't lie to you. Nothing happened between me and her."

This rhetoric sounds weak, but it is also realistic.

Lin Zixin didn't respond, just looked down at the flowers in her arms in a daze, as if she didn't look at anything anymore, Jiang Li looked at her for a while, finally sighed deeply, and silently started the car again.

She sent Lin Zixin to the gate of the villa, the little girl didn't seem to notice, her eyes were empty and she was still thinking about something, Jiang Li didn't rush her, she turned off the engine and waited quietly.

Suddenly it began to rain outside the window, and the raindrops hit the car window, causing a slight sound. Lin Zixin seemed to have just recovered, and finally raised her head again.

"Oh, it's here." She said in a very flat tone.

Jiang Li was taken aback, as if she hadn't expected her to react like this at all. She frowned and wanted to say something. On the other side, Lin Zixin had already unbuckled her seat belt and was about to get out of the car. Letting her get out of the car as if nothing had happened would cause irreversible consequences, so he couldn't help but reached out and grabbed her again.

Lin Zixin turned to look at her, with a rare and fragile expression on her face, her cat's eyes were wide open, making her look even more pitiful.

Jiang Li pursed his lips, sighed in his chest, grabbed her shoulders and pressed Lin Zixin into his arms.

"I know I'm wrong, don't do this."

These words were almost pleading, Lin Zixin moved in her chest, but didn't respond.

The helplessness in Jiang Li's voice was even worse: "Xie Canglan introduced me to BAE back then, so it was kind of a kindness to know her, but after getting along with her for a long time, she is... tsk, I was really just in a daze for a while, nothing else There will be no more."

Xie Canglan was a cold and quiet person, and she had never seen her get very close to anyone. Jiang Li was in her eyes, from the doctoral supervisor at the time to the director of the company, and even Jiang Li himself felt a little weird.

The word "special" is too provocative.

In addition, Jiang Li and Xie Canglan share similar interests and work together. During the years away from their hometown, they supported each other in the white-dominated workplace and cared for each other in life.

If not...

Thinking of something, Jiang Li lowered her head, the little guy in her arms only left her with a black head, her hair was thin and soft, but with a lot of volume, black and thick, it looked smooth and soft, easy to touch, The older man couldn't help it, he raised his head and stroked it as if smoothing his hair, the person in his arms rarely resisted, and the well-behaved one made Jiang Li feel that his heart was soft as if it was about to melt away.

Although some details were vague, she never lied to Lin Zixin.

Most of the time, the relationship between her and Xie Canglan is just a kind of tacit understanding. If she didn't still miss a certain annoying little hedgehog in her heart, maybe she and Xie Canglan would have remained so plain as water.

Only once, when Jiang Li looked at Lin Zixin in his arms, thinking of what happened at that time, he couldn't help frowning.

That was the first patent that she and Xie Canglan won together. Because it was so worthy of celebration, the two drank in the pub until the early hours of the morning, and then made up a dozen drinks in the supermarket to renew the stall in the apartment she rented.

It's hard to tell if he was dazzled by the joy of success, or because of the effect of alcohol that destroyed his mind, and he couldn't remember who took the initiative first. If it wasn't for the phone ringing suddenly, Jiang Li thought, it probably was the real one. He was about to do something that Lin Zixin could not forgive.

Jiang Li looked for the phone in a panic and haste, and was stunned for a long time when he saw the reminder on it.

It’s just past morning in London at this moment, and a certain little girl on the other side of the ocean has finally crossed the threshold of 20 years old.

Jiang Li still smelled heavily of alcohol, and seemed to be drowsy with a jar of paste on her neck, but even so, there was an unstoppable desire in her heart to meet the one who always wanted to be with her. Singing the opposite tune by herself not only made her heart beat, but also called her a guilty little girl.

He couldn't help but fell into memories and reveries, so much so that Jiang Li didn't even notice when Xie Canglan left.

Obviously she was the one who hid first, but it was Jiang Li who couldn't hold on and submitted a transfer application to her boss