reprieve

President Huai's words shocked the two of them.

Ruan Shuo's face was full of shock and suspicion of "you are so respectful of what I fucking trashed."

Sui Ran was taken aback. Boss Yu'an Tangtang and the senior executives of Zhaoyue's headquarters are not good at sending invitations directly. They actually lowered their stance so low.

So much so that Boss Huai whispered but firmly asked her to go up first, and she stared up in bewilderment.

After entering the security door and going up a few steps, Sui Ran realized something was wrong, dropped the suitcase and went downstairs.

The two didn't go far, just arrived at the intersection, but seeing that one was going to the left and the other was going to the right, there should be no dispute.

Sui Ran calmed down a little, and didn't dare to take it too lightly, and hid behind a tree against a bush, watching President Huai's figure disappear at the next intersection, and tiptoed back like a thief again.

Going upstairs and locking the door, Sui Ran blacklisted Ruan Shuo on WeChat, and sent her a message: "Let's talk sometime."

Ruan Shuo replied in seconds, first asked "what are you talking about", and then a video call came.

Sui Ran refused: "We will meet and talk tomorrow, we will arrange a place to send you."

She would not be so stupid as to have a private conversation with Ruan Shuo, so she carefully selected a newly opened shopping mall that had activities recently, and made an appointment with Haicheng and Mr. Fu, who was said to want to meet her, on the sixth floor of the same shopping mall. Restaurant, time is 12:30.

Sui Ran had already made up her mind before deciding on the place, with Ruan Shuo at the front and Hai Cheng at the back, so that she could seize the right time to leave, and also adjust the content of the conversation according to the time, control the initiative, and avoid endless entanglement with Ruan Shuo go down.

In case of Ruan Shuo's shameless face, there are many people in the public place, and Mr. Hai who came later will also be a big help.

After finalizing the plan for the next day, Sui Ran was about to ask President Huai if he was home, when she clicked on the chat box, a sentence popped up on the screen that made her puzzled, "Follow the trend, I don't intend to cause trouble, please don't mind."

Instead, it reminded her of those words.

The more I think about it, the more frightened I become.

Sui Ran put down her phone to pack her things, took a shower after packing, locked the door and lay down. For nearly an hour, she repeatedly told herself not to think about it.

I didn't think about it again, but I tossed and turned on the bed but couldn't find sleepiness.

Unable to sleep anyway, and seeing that the time was before twelve o'clock, Sui Ran intercepted this sentence and sent it to Hai Cheng, asking, "If someone did you a big favor, and you posted something like this later, what do you think it means?"

Haicheng: "It's easy to do, don't think too much, just wash up and go to sleep."

Sui Ran stared at this sentence and read it many times, until the semantics were saturated and he couldn't recognize any of the words, and suddenly remembered that he hadn't returned the message to President Huai.

She replied: "I don't mind, but I feel deeply about the five hearts [Bixin]"

Huaian: ":D"

Sui Ran smacked it, thinking that it doesn't look like [smile] has double meanings, so he put away his phone and slept until dawn.

........................

At 10:30, Sui Ran went to the semi-open coffee shop on the third floor of the shopping mall.

The mall has not been open for a long time, and there are not many people. Most of the third floor is a restaurant. Occasionally, one or two takeaway riders come and go, and the atmosphere is deserted.

She ordered a cup of American style, opened the mobile browsing system, and prepared resources for customers.

At [-]:[-], there was no call or message, so she took the initiative to send Ruan Shuo the location, along with the route—two options, which exit of the subway corresponds to which door of the shopping mall; if it is a taxi, which door is more convenient to park.

Ruan Shuo is quite proud of her local identity, and feels that the whole Haicheng is her family's territory.

Essentially a road idiot.

She is probably used to relying on a compass when traveling in the wild, but she can't adapt well when returning to the city.

The planning of Haicheng was more than ten years later, and it was demolished and repaired everywhere, and high-rise buildings were erected to repair the subway. It was the same for ten days and a half months. Ruan Shuo often got lost when he came back.

At eleven o'clock, Sui Ran sent another message: "I have an appointment with my colleagues at noon, I won't wait when it's over [frown]"

Ruan Shuo was a quarter of an hour late.

It can be seen that they have been carefully decorated, and when they are seated, there is a strong fragrance of flowers. Unfortunately, it is the kind that Sui Ran dislikes the most.

The scent of the perfume set the tone for the conversation.

Sui Ran frowned, restrained the urge to rub her nose, and cut straight to the point: "We've already broken up."

"We broke up and continue to be friends." Ruan Shuo said, "You promised me."

Sui Ran clenched the water-condensed cup, wondering for a moment whether she could carry on this conversation smoothly and get the result she wanted.

"That's because of the breakup you mentioned, Ruan Shuo, you told me that you should concentrate on your career, end your relationship with me temporarily, and be friends and business partners first."

Ruan Shuo broke up suddenly, which actually hit Sui Ran very hard. She cried uncontrollably for several days, even during the day.

At that time, Ruan Shuo seemed to be "considerate" to accompany her at home, comforting her, and once hinted that there would be a chance to get back together in the future.

Sui Ran really didn't think much about it at that time, she even thought that the reason for the breakup was hers - she was in a bad state during that time, restless, and had persistent insomnia, so she urged Ruan Shuo to end the trip and come back.

For the first time in four years, she urged Ruan Shuo to come back early, but Ruan Shuo's fourth sentence was "Let's break up".

The reason Ruan Shuo gave was very convincing and Sui Ran kept blaming herself: she wanted to concentrate on her career, and didn't want to always worry about someone at home who needed her company and care.

……

Ruan Shuo asked: "Don't you ask me why I broke up with you?"

—Isn’t it because you have a new love?

Sui Ran smiled, thanking the other party for letting her get away from the short memory and adjust her mentality and tone.

"Is there any point in saying this now?"

"You didn't go out with me." Ruan Shuo asked and answered, still very aggrieved, "In the past two years you often went out with me, we went to many places. I am too lonely by myself."

"When Xiangxi fell into the water, you said it yourself, I won't go out if I don't want to go out in the future." Sui Ran said.

"It's been two years, so... it should be over. Don't you touch the water after you fall into the water? Impossible."

"I'll go out with you, but you always say I can't do this or that."

"You can't handle it well. I asked you to take a picture of me. How did you take a picture of me? I can't even post it. And I'm sick twice a day..."

"..."

Sui Ran pursed her lips and swallowed back a swear word, let go of the cup, picked up the phone to check the time, interrupted the meaningless "you come and I go", and said: "You have a girlfriend and you still come to me, isn't it appropriate? .”

Ruan Shuo showed an unhappy expression: "You promised me to live in my house all the time."

The back of his head was dizzy for a while, but he wasn't angry. It's not worth being angry about this kind of person.

It's like meeting a customer who asks for a high budget and a low budget. No matter what you tell the other party, the market price is like that. It is impossible to buy what you want at that price. The other party will say "I won't listen, I don't want you to think , I want you to search all over Haicheng to satisfy me", a sense of powerlessness arises spontaneously.

Sui Ran made up his mind and tried to persuade: "Ruan Shuo, you also said that this is your home. Xiao Mu will graduate this year, and will come to Haicheng after graduation, right? When you come to Haicheng, you have to find a place to live? After you break up with me, The reason why I stayed at your house was that I didn't know that you had a new girlfriend, and that there were still some things that had not been dealt with, so I didn't move in. Then I found out that you had a girlfriend, how could I stay?"

She bit her tone and reiterated, "That's your home."

"I've discussed it with Xiaomu, Haixi still has a suite, she can live there..."

Sui Ran pressed hard on the small blue veins on her forehead, "Ruan Shuo, before I moved out, before I knew you had a new girlfriend, once you wanted to talk to me about the problems between us just like today, do you remember?"

Ruan Shuo is not very sure: "I seem to remember."

Sui Ran then asked: "The other day you asked me, did you treat me badly in the past four years, or did I have any dissatisfaction with you, I didn't answer you at that time, do you want to know now?"

Ruan Shuo nodded: "Yes."

Sui Ran took a breath and said, "Actually, I think you didn't respect me very much during those four years."

Ruan Shuo actually showed a serious expression, "I might... You know me, I can't respect anyone. Even the old man, and my mother."

She paused for a few seconds and smiled, "Xiao Ran, do you know that Xiao Mu is the first person I am willing to respect."

Sui Ran: "...that's great."

Sui Ran drank half a cup of iced coffee in one go, took out her mobile phone and sent Haicheng a message: "Where are you? I'm at the coffee shop on the third floor of the shopping mall, talking to Ruan Shuo."

"So it's not my illusion." Sui Ran raised her head and said calmly, "You never thought of respecting me."

"I will change it slowly." Ruan Shuo brought out a slightly sticky Haicheng accent, "If we are friends, I will change it."

Haicheng replied to the message, and replied with a voice message of more than ten seconds, Sui Ran clicked to convert the text, and saw a series of "fuck".

"To be honest, I now feel that we have been joking and playing house for the past four years-I am playing house with you, and I am a pet you raise."

Anyway, he was talking about himself, Sui Ran didn't mind using words that were too heavy.

"It was only after I returned to work that I realized that I was a human being, and I felt that I was a human being again."

A blank space appeared on Ruan Shuo's face, "Are you kidding me, playing house?"

Sui Ran looked at her flatly and said seriously: "Yes."

truth.

Sincere feelings.

When she returned to society, she found that the intimacy had faded away, and it was easy to deal with each other with what they needed and simple transactions.

Receive immediate feedback.

You do a good job and people will say thank you.

When encountering a brain circuit that is not the same as that of a normal person, just saying "Don't argue with idiots, waste time and life" can easily shake off negative emotions and start a new job.

Out of sight, out of mind is a solution. When you encounter someone with a stake, you can find a way to fight back.

In short, please feel kind and enmity.

It is different from the compromise of smoothing out all edges and corners in order to live in harmony with the "partner"-Sui then later indeed put Ruan Shuo in this position.

Sui Ran thought, love is mutual, two people are bound together, after all, need to adjust and tolerate.

She tried her best to accommodate Ruan Shuo.

She will praise and flatter Ruan Shuo's works - deliberately ignoring the shortcomings and erasing her own contribution.

She felt that helping Ruan Shuo to provide material selection and repairing her later stage was very insignificant and insignificant.

Because the film was shot by Ruan Shuo.

Ruan Shuo is talented, bright and full of vitality.

This makes her exude an attractive scorching light at certain times.

Some people will be overwhelmed by such light, and then cover their eyes, and lose themselves over time.

It was only after Sui Ran broke up that she realized that when she began to feel "I should be tolerant, I should take a step back and reflect on myself", there was something wrong with this relationship, and most of the reasons came from the other party.

Ruan Shuo likes freedom, pursues freedom, and puts freedom first.

At the same time, she also needs someone who can greet her immediately and hand her shoes no matter when she comes back.

In short, what she needs is a pet that is on call, lingering and not throwing a tantrum.

For the past four years, Sui Ran has been the "pet".

But Sui Ran is not a harmless little animal, she has a brain and a heart, and she is the one who needs feedback.

Emotions need feedback, Sui Ran can't get a positive response from Ruan Shuo, and gradually, she can't give Ruan Shuo the meticulous care he wants.

Four years is not long or short. In the first two years, the two of them spent two-thirds of the time together like shadows and glue.

Falling into the water is a watershed.

After that, Sui Ran became a dead house under Ruan Shuo's connivance.

But there are also video calls every day, as long as conditions permit.

I forgot the day when there were fewer and fewer calls, and they were either unreachable or in the middle of a call.

Probably because of some kind of intuition, she subconsciously knew that Ruan Shuo's heart was no longer with her. She couldn't sleep well, always woke up in the middle of the night, and her dreams were often entwined with black mist.

……

"...Xiao Ran." Ruan Shuo knocked on the table, "But you can't deny that I treat you very well, and I gave you very generous conditions. At the beginning, I really love you, and I really feel that I can be with you For a lifetime."

"I admit it." Sui Ran said.

Ruan Shuo spent a long time persuading Sui Ran not to do this business again. Ruan Shuo felt that her intermediary colleagues were "smooth" (the original words), and people would degenerate after a long time.

People are more or less lazy and loath to work, and Sui Ran is hardly an exception.

Being a consultant is tiring for sure.

When I was spinning around, I couldn't touch the chair all day long for several weeks. After finally sitting down, I had to write a report for the client.

Once Sui Ran was so tired that she crossed the road in a daze, thinking the red light was a green light, and walked onto the zebra crossing without knowing why, and a car passed her by.

The car didn't even stop and scolded her, "Are you courting death?" and hurried past.

The rhythm of Haicheng is like this. The "aging" and "sickness" of birth, old age, sickness and death can be ignored, and "life" and "death" are irrelevant.

One day five years ago, someone jumped from the 37th floor of the building next door to the Haidong Branch and fell into a pool of rotten watermelons on the spot. The scene was horrible.

However, in just two hours, the ground was clean, except for water marks, there was nothing else.

Later passers-by will not know, and most of them will not care that there was a life in this place that fell to death.

Sui Ran had seen the scene of the banner pulling from a distance, but that afternoon, she and her colleagues walked into the building with the client on the wet road as if nothing had happened.

Sui Ran was terrified the moment his face was scratched by the whistling airflow.

It is impossible not to be afraid of life and death.

In addition to Liang Qian's incident, she and Hai Cheng lost their temper, and finally lost to Ruan Shuo's offensive.

Who doesn't want to reach the sky in one step.

Even if they know that what they are climbing is a castle in the air, but the scenery and even the clouds are within reach, how many people can resist the temptation.

Anyway, Sui Ran didn't stop him.

So she had a premonition when it was on the verge of collapse, but she was calm when it collapsed.

"Ruan Shuo, you brought up the breakup. I also said hello to my uncle and aunt. I really sincerely hope that everything will be fine for you in the future. You don't have to doubt this, and don't worry that I will take those things in the past to social platforms. "

Sui Ran never thought of using social platforms to retaliate against public opinion—in fact, she never thought of revenge at all.

She wants face, more because she thinks it is unnecessary.

A few years of youth are gone forever, so why take up another second in the future.

It's over when it's over, it's meaningless to push and pull, everyone should get together and break up, and stop losses in time.

However, everyone understands the truth. There are always some people who judge others by themselves. It is rare to think differently, but they use their own wickedness to speculate on how the other party will retaliate.

Ruan Shuo looked at her carefully for a while, as if judging whether it was credible.

Sui Ran's tone was calm, but she was telling the truth, she was not afraid of the scrutiny from the other side.

The phone vibrated, Sui Ran lowered his gaze, it was Hai Cheng: "Of course, I'm at the parking lot! Wait for me! I'll be right there!!"

Sui Ran didn't want Mr. Hai to come over to watch the joke or help her clean up the mess.

"If you're worried, just change the password. It was authenticated with your ID and mobile phone. It's easy to change after contacting customer service." Sui Ran got up, "My leader is here, I have to see her, so just Come here."

"Xiao Ran." Ruan Shuo stopped her, and asked hesitantly and curiously, "You just said that I don't respect you, how much do you think the degree of disrespect is...?"

"..."

Sui Ran gritted her back molars, raised her legs and walked to the bar, asked the clerk for a glass of water: "Add more ice."

"Xiao Ran?" Ruan Shuo followed closely.

Sui Ran lifted the lid of the cup and splashed it back——

The author has something to say: a small change.

Still hot.

This tells us to love ourselves more and keep our eyes open all the time.