power over

On the last day of April, Yang Ke was invited to a nightclub newly opened by an investor.

He wanted to stay in the office to work, but his partner Zhai Di knocked on the door of his office and pulled him out of the company with half persuasion and half threat.

The nightclub atmosphere is one that Yang Ke doesn't like very much. The music is too strong and there are too many people.

He chatted with the investor for a while, went upstairs to the quiet booth on the second floor, drank half a glass of wine, looked at his watch a few times, and was about to find an excuse to leave earlier, when suddenly a beautiful lady sat beside him , asked him if he was alone.

He chatted with her politely, offered her a drink, but declined the invitation to dance.

After the lady left, Zhai Di walked over with his girlfriend in his arms, and teased Yang Ke to his girlfriend: "It's rare that someone dares to strike up a conversation with you, so don't take it well."

Yang Ke took a sip of his wine and didn't respond to his joke.

"What type does Yang Ke like?" Zhai Di's girlfriend asked kindly, "Let me see if there is any suitable one around me."

Zhai Di sighed, and said, "Forget it, he just—" He paused, but chose not to continue.

Zhai Di's girlfriend also brought a few girlfriends, and they danced on the dance floor.Zhai Di didn't go, and sat with Yang Ke for a while.

Zhai Di is Yang Ke's college classmate and a member of the fraternity with Yang Ke.After graduation, they founded a company together, and they can be regarded as the one who knows the most about Yang Ke's private life among his friends.

After drinking for a while, Zhai Di suddenly said, "A few days ago, Lawyer Li asked me to meet."

Yang Ke didn't move, and he said again: "He asked me to persuade you not to test the bottom line of the trust law. But I said that you haven't told me anything, and you don't know how to persuade you."

"I didn't do anything." Yang Ke told Zhai Di with certainty.

"It doesn't matter," Zhai Di shrugged, "Just don't provoke a lawsuit."

"I won't." Yang Ke said.

Zhai Di said "Yes", clinked glasses with Yang Ke, remained silent for a few seconds, and couldn't hold back his curiosity, and asked, "How long has Yu Zhinian been back to China? Has it been half a year?"

"Forgot." Yang Ke said briefly.

"He really never came to see you again?" Zhai Di asked again.

Yang Ke glanced at him and replied blankly: "No."

The DJ downstairs played a less intense dance music, and the surrounding area became a little quieter.

"Actually," Zhai Di said to Yang Ke when he was silent for a while, "When Yu Zhinian just left, I thought he was playing hard to get. He chased you so hard in college, and finally lived with you. It's unreasonable to give up suddenly. .”

"But it's a good thing that he left on his own initiative," Zhai Di suddenly began to advise Yang Ke, "Don't think that marriage is not important. Marrying someone you don't love is still very painful."

Yang Ke didn't express his opinion on his emotion, but drank by himself.

Zhai Di probably drank a lot downstairs, and when he got drunk, he talked more.

He and Yang Ke reminisce about their college days, and he remembers the things Yu Zhinian did that made him feel sick. He thinks that Yang Ke didn't call the police and didn't apply for a restraining order. Yu Zhinian should already be grateful.Yang Ke didn't answer.

After another glass of wine, Zhai Di changed the subject and asked about Yang Ke and Yang Zhongyun's inheritance.

He said that Lawyer Li kept the details of this matter secret and did not tell him in detail, but more or less revealed some key information: "I heard what he said, if Yu Zhinian wants to get the inheritance, is it just Can it be achieved by marrying you?"

Yang Ke said "Well", Zhai Di thought for a while, and said: "The law stipulates the time of cohabitation. If there is a fact that there is a close relationship before marriage and they have been separated for more than half a year, they cannot be registered."

"I have a hunch that it won't be long before he comes back to find you, and it will be troublesome if you delay." Zhai Di thought for a while, and even began to suggest that Yang Ke change places to live for a while.

For some reason, Yang Ke was a little irritable. He changed the subject, and after drinking a glass of wine, he called the driver to pick him up at the door, and left the nightclub first.

On the way home, he flipped through the chat records with Lawyer Li, and saw Yu Zhinian's flight number.

Yang Ke looked at the screen of his mobile phone and let himself go in the car for a while without thinking about anything.

Then, the secretary sent him the itinerary for next week.

After reading the itinerary, Yang Ke read his text messages. He scrolled down many pages and found the last text message Yu Zhinian sent him.

The text messages Yu Zhinian sent to him before, Yang Ke would delete them after reading them, and would not keep them in his phone, so the one Yu Zhinian sent when he left was the only text message from this number stored in Yang Ke’s phone .

Yang Ke just glanced at it quickly, then exited the SMS interface.

Many times, when Yang Ke saw this message by the way, he felt that it should be treated equally, and it should also be deleted, and it should not be given special treatment.

But because it was the last one, Yang Ke didn't delete it.

When he got home, all the workers had rested, and there was only a night light left in the entrance of the house.

When Yu Zhinian first moved in, he waited for Yang Ke several times in the living room.

Of course, Yu Zhinian is not proficient in his so-called waiting for the door, he always waits until he falls asleep on the sofa.He kicked the blanket on the ground because of his poor sleeping position.

Yang Ke ignored him and went upstairs. He sometimes catches a cold.

I don't know exactly when, Yu Zhinian stopped waiting for the door.

Yang Ke walked to the cooking counter, poured himself a glass of ice water, and went upstairs to work until 01:30 in the morning. When sleepiness finally hit, he took a book and went back to the bedroom.

This sociology book is full of technical jargon, which was quite hypnotic for Yang Ke, who studies finance, and Yang Ke fell asleep after reading a few pages.

In the dream, Yang Ke's cell phone was broken, and it was not repaired until about 48 hours later.

When it was turned on again, a large number of missed calls and message notifications flooded the screen, and Yang Ke read it slowly.

Among them are calls from his deceased grandfather, text messages from his father, Zhai Di, clients, university professors, and Yu Zhinian.

According to the content of Yu Zhinian's text message to him, Yang Ke guessed that this text message came from their high school days.

At that time, their relationship was not bad. Yu Zhinian was probably working with his grandfather in his study, and texted Yang Ke, saying that he was bored.

Yang Ke high school will reply to Yu Zhinian, so in the dream, Yang Ke also replied, saying: There is no free lunch in the world, bear with it.

Yu Zhinian sent him an unhappy expression.

In the next dream, Yang Ke didn't delete the text messages they exchanged and chatted, but just played back the missed calls on his mobile phone one after another, and talked about topics he wasn't interested in with people he wasn't interested in.

Until the end, the scene related to Yu Zhinian did not reappear in the dream.