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I struggled with irritability and contradictions until it was almost dawn before I passed out of a daze. When I woke up, the mobile phone by the bed had been ringing for a long time.

"Hello..." My voice was a little hoarse when I answered the phone.

"Yue Jiao, overslept? Did you forget about your appointment today?" Lin Yadong's anxious voice came from the phone.

Date someone?By the way, it was yesterday that Hu Xin told me that a lady who didn't want to be named asked me to talk to me by name, and the appointment was at 10:30 this morning.

I immediately looked up at the wall clock on the wall, it was already 10:45.

"Oops..." I moaned depressingly: "I had a headache last night, and I just fell asleep not long ago, can you help me change the time with her?"

"Okay, I guess even if you want to rush over now, they may not be able to wait for you. Let them set the time. Next time, don't keep your promise like this. It will affect our company's reputation."

"Got it, got it." I got up after hanging up the phone, because my head really hurt and my mouth was a little dry.I walked towards the door, ready to go to the kitchen to get a glass of water, but when I opened the door, I found that the door was locked by myself, and then I remembered what happened last night.Ling Guo is at my house, sleeping in the next room.

I unscrewed the door lock, walked out lightly, went into the kitchen and poured myself a cold cup, then opened the refrigerator and took a box of yogurt, and was about to insert/put the straw in when I heard slippers rubbing against the floor in the living room Then the kitchen door was pulled open, and Ling Guohu's face with big eyes appeared outside the door.

"Woke you up?" I asked apologetically.

"Do you see my face looks like I just woke up?"

Doesn't it look like, apart from the pajamas he was wearing, he looked very energetic. "You woke up early?"

"It's been more than an hour since I got up, and I didn't come out because I was afraid of making noise."

"Just come out and quarrel with me. I overslept and released my client's pigeons."

"Does it matter?" He had a bit of embarrassment on his face.

"Of course it has an impact. Maybe people won't come to me again. You know, if you name me to handle a divorce case for him, at least I will charge you [-] for hard work."

"You are too dark!"

"Black? If he doesn't come to me, he will have to pay hundreds of millions more for the breakup fee. Is one hundred thousand worth it?"

"Oh, that's it, then it seems that you are quite rich?"

"A little bit, not too much. After all, there are very few people who come to me by name."

"Cut! So you're bragging!" He glanced at me, turned and walked away.

I laughed, took out another box of yogurt, handed it to him and said, "It's not bragging, is it? The lawyers in my company are all very good, and I don't need to do it at all. The company takes five Yes, it's my money."

He took a straw and took a sip of yogurt and asked, "Then the customers who come to you are not ordinary people, are they?"

"Well, most of them are entrepreneurs, rich people, and celebrities. They either don't want people to know that they are going through a divorce, or they want to leave the other party and refuse to leave, or the two parties can't agree on the breakup fee. What they want and what they give The amounts vary too much."

"Then..." He hesitated for a moment before continuing to ask, "Did Xu Shihao look for you after the divorce?"

"No. I said I couldn't help him."

"Is it true that you can't help or don't want to help?"

"Of course I don't want to help. Since we broke up, I don't want to have anything to do with him anymore."

"It's...unpleasant?"

"Nonsense? Is there any happy breakup?"

"Is there too? My aunt and my uncle."

"That's different. Some old couples will break up after their relationship is flat, and the harm will be much less."

"Then you and Xu Shihao... broke up in love?"

"Almost...well. Why are you asking these questions? Don't inquire about things that have nothing to do with you." I threw the empty yogurt box into the trash can and walked into the bathroom.

"Who said it has nothing to do with me?" He stood at the door of the bathroom, looked at me, and said seriously, "I want to fall in love with you."

"Go away!" I slammed the bathroom door and locked it inside.

"Yue Jiao! What's your attitude? Didn't you say you liked me last night?" He knocked on the door outside.

I ignored him and lingered in it for more than half an hour before I came out. I saw him just coming out of my bedroom door. I asked strangely, "Why did you go to my bedroom?"

"Go to the balcony to look at the clothes, they are not dry."

"Oh, then you can wear my clothes and go."

"Your clothes are too formal."

"It's not serious." I smiled.

He also smiled: "Do you still have any unscrupulous clothes? Is it tights or a halter?"

"Do you want to wear it? I want to buy it for you."

"Don't! I get goosebumps just thinking about it."

I went to the closet and got him a whole set of spring clothes inside and out.A high-necked white shirt with light purple dark flowers on the neck and cuffs, a V-neck black sweater with water green Swarovski rhinestone trim on the neck, water ripples on the front and back, khaki cotton long johns, dark blue jeans, wool with holes, The last is a pair of CK underwear, which is brand new and has not yet been tagged.

Seeing me throwing this pile of clothes on the sofa, he went over to pick them up and looked at them one by one, and then smiled: "I really didn't realize that you still have this taste! I always see you in a suit, and you are almost visually fatigued." gone."

"Not always? Didn't you wear casual clothes on Christmas Eve?"

"Ah, yes! You were amazing that day!" He turned his head and looked at me with bright eyes.

I turn around and leave. "Go to the bedroom and change your clothes, and then go downstairs to have breakfast together."

"It's time for lunch, right?"

"up to you."

"Don't you cook at home?"

"Won't do it."

"That……"

I didn't give him another chance to say anything, went into my bedroom, closed and locked the door, and started changing clothes.When I changed into a suit again and came out, he had already changed into that suit and was standing in the living room.Seeing him looking so handsome in my clothes, I couldn't help but raise the corners of my mouth: "It's not bad, it fits me well."

"Isn't he handsome?"

"Do you dare not look handsome in my clothes?"

"But I really want to see the effect of wearing this dress yourself."

"I'm old, and I can't wear your effect anymore. I bought this several years ago."

"Isn't it? Lawyer Yue, your taste was so high-end a few years ago? It's not out of date now."

"High-end fart, it depends on who wears it. You look good in it, but you might look like a fool in someone else's body!"

He laughed for a while, and stood in front of me happily and asked, "Are you boasting that I look good in any clothes? Then what if I don't wear anything?"

"You can take off your clothes and try it on the street, and see what passers-by say."

"Why am I stripped naked for passers-by to see? I just want to show you."

"Get away! I'm not interested!" I took the key and was ready to go out.

He suddenly hugged me from behind, put his lips next to my ear and whispered: "Is it true or not that you said you liked me last night?"

"Fake!" I regret now that I didn't keep my mouth shut.

"Fake?" He yelled and turned me around, looking at me nose to nose and eye to eye, and shouted, "Try to say fake again?"

"What? You still want to bite me?" I pushed him but didn't push him away, and he still held me tightly.

"If you tell lies again, I dare to bite you!" His eyes were red.

Seeing him like this, my heart softened again, and I said softly: "Really, really, don't get excited."

"Then you are responsible." He muttered.

"What?" Am I hallucinating?Are you right?If you like it, you have to be responsible, right?

"You can't fall in love with me casually, can you?"

"What do you mean?"

"I like you, and you like me too, let's be together."

"It's fine if you want to be together, you let me be on top!" I want him to retreat.

"Fuck!" He glared at me.

"This matter...you have to think about it seriously, and you can only be with me if you let me go."

"...Fuck!" He gritted his teeth.

"I know you want to fuck, that's why I said you have to think about it seriously. If it's me, you don't have to think about it at all. Just lie down."

"What are you kidding?"

"I'm not joking. Between the two of us, in terms of age, height, qualifications, and wealth, you are not as good as me. Why do you want to fuck me?"

"Which thing do you have more than me? Who is taller between us can be measured by a ruler. In terms of wealth, the house and car my father gave me are worth millions. Although I didn't take it, it was also in my name. At least Shall we make a draw?"

"Better wealth, do you think of your father? I worked hard on my own, and I didn't rely on my father for a single cent."

"Then..." He bit his lips, frowned and said, "It's because I like you more than you like me."

I was speechless for a moment, but there was a warm and sweet feeling deep in my heart. It seemed that this kid was really serious.

"Listen to me." I also looked at him seriously, but I still firmly rejected him: "It's my own business who I like. I can't talk to him before I think about whether I can be responsible for him. together."

He understood, and pursed his lips tightly, looking unwilling.

"Let's go, go eat, you can't stay with me all the time, your family definitely needs you to help take care of your grandma's funeral."

He finally nodded, stopped talking, and went downstairs with me silently.

In the next few days, Ling Guo didn't look for me, and he didn't even have a phone call. I guess he was too busy with grandma's funeral affairs, but an unexpected person came to me, and I sent pigeons to me the day he overslept. The client—Shen Lin, Xu Shihao's wife.

At first I thought it was because she knew about the past incident between me and Xu Shihao, so she came to Xingshi to question me?In the end, after sitting down and chatting, I realized that she didn't mean it. Of course, I'm not sure if she knew about it. What I can be sure of is that she is willing to divorce now, but the conditions are very harsh.In other words, she almost wanted Xu Shihao to leave the house, and he wanted me to be her divorce lawyer.

Alas... Both the husband and wife wanted me to be their lawyer, so I really had the illusion of being flattered for a while.But I didn't agree to her. Although I didn't want to get involved with them was one of the reasons, but I really couldn't let Xu Shihao go out of the house.If I really had to choose one of them as their lawyer, I might choose Xu Shihao too.The love for him is gone, but there is no hatred, at most it is disappointment, and I don't want him to become impoverished because of the divorce.

I rejected Shen Lin, and didn't go into the details of whether there would be any consequences. At most, I thought that she would go to another firm to find someone to help her, but I never expected that she would go to Lin Yadong.

After Yadong knew that Xu Shihao was going to divorce Shen Lin, he almost broke into my office.

"Yue Jiao! Why have you never told me about such a big thing?"

"What's the matter?" I looked at him wonderingly and didn't know that Shen Lin had gone to him.

He turned around and closed the door, then walked up to me anxiously and annoyed and asked, "How can you hide from me that Xu Shihao is going to divorce his wife and reunite with you?"

"Ah?" I stood up and looked at him like a ghost and asked back: "Who told you that I will be reunited with him?"

"You haven't?"

"Do I have it?"

"How do I know if you have it? Isn't this asking you?"

"Who told you that? What nonsense is this!" I gave him a good look and sat down again.

"Really? Then what his wife said is true?"

"What?" I jumped up again: "You said he...his wife said it?"

"Well, if it weren't for our relationship, I wouldn't be able to tell you about it. This is a serious violation of the client's confidentiality agreement."

"When did his wife tell you?"

"An hour ago."

I let out a heavy breath, sat down again, and said weakly: "She approached me a few days ago and asked me to be her divorce lawyer, but I rejected it. But she didn't know it at the time. Did you come here to test me? Maybe my refusal misled her, and I don't know what that bastard Xu Shihao has said to her."

"Xu Shihao probably didn't say anything to her. I heard what she meant... She asked someone to investigate Xu Shihao's past, so she suspected you..."

"No matter whether Xu Shihao told her or not, it is a fact that we were together in the past. Based on this alone, she has an absolute advantage in negotiating divorce conditions. It is almost impossible for Xu Shihao not to pay a heavy price."

"Then tell me, should I pick it up or not?"

"What did you tell Shen Lin then?"

"I said that Xu Shihao and I were old classmates, and it was not appropriate to take this case. She said that because I was old classmates with him, she would not embarrass him by unscrupulously poaching his privacy just because I wanted to win the lawsuit. It's all fair. She also said that she didn't want to hurt Xu Shihao, but she just didn't want to be fooled by him for so many years, and she always wanted to teach him a lesson."

"So you agreed?"

"Otherwise, what should I do? Tell her to find another lawyer? What if she encounters a vicious person who digs up the past between you and Xu Shihao, and then accidentally leaks it out? Xu Shihao's famous name will be lost, and even you will be implicated. our office."

I couldn't help sighing, although I didn't want Yadong to take this case, but he was right, it might be worse to hand it over to others.

"Since you accepted it, I don't want to say anything, but I don't want to have anything to do with their affairs. You can handle this case by yourself. Don't discuss anything with me."

"Yue Jiao, I... can I not consult with you? You are the key person in this case." Lin Yadong looked at me with a distressed expression.

"I said, it is impossible for me to reunite with Xu Shihao through a broken mirror. If there is a mirror, it would have been shattered to the point where there is not even a scum left. Let him not be whimsical, and let Shen Lin not think wildly. Even if his husband likes men, it has nothing to do with me." .”

"It's easy for you to say. If I were Shen Lin, I wouldn't believe it either." He muttered.

"Then do you believe it or not?" He glared at him.

"Of course I believe you." He said quickly.

"Isn't that enough? Try to persuade Shen Lin, don't let her do it too badly, husband and wife for a day, a hundred days of kindness, let's do it and cherish it."