smouldering

After returning to the study, Le An closed the door, the sound of Le Yi watching TV outside was cut off by the door, and she could hardly hear it, and she had a quiet and solitary environment again.

Putting on a bluetooth headset, she opened the small can where the coffee beans were stored, picked and weighed the beans from the inside, and ground them.

Compared with espresso made by machine, Le An prefers hand-made coffee. She enjoys all the delicate steps, warming the cup, steaming, extracting...even including the pre-preparation work.When doing these procedures, she sometimes empties her mind, and sometimes thinks about things freely. In short, she will be in a relatively relaxed state.

The powder pile in the filter cup was boiled by her water flow into a small hillock, which was bubbling and bubbling.

She remembered what Master said in class, "Coffee should not be steamed for too long, otherwise it will become astringent."

Glancing at the photos on his phone, Le An took a deep breath.

From Tang Weiran's point of view, the acquaintance between her and him is probably the time when she reached out to help in the stairwell.In Le An's eyes, they have known each other for a long time.

Le An, a freshman in Yunteng University, was required to report to the school in advance because of military training. In the hottest season, after training one day, Le An passed by the small auditorium of Yunteng University to buy a bottle of iced drink.That was the first time she saw Tang Weiran appearing as a senior, standing on the stage as an outstanding representative of their liberal arts graduates.

She was a little taller, with straight and slender legs under a bachelor's uniform, standing in a row of outstanding students, she was particularly eye-catching.

Her voice was crisp and pleasant, like the ding-dong of water, diluting Le An's heat.

Le An couldn't resist taking out his mobile phone to take a picture of the stage. When he lowered his head to check, he found that it was out of focus. Unfortunately, when he looked up again, Tang Weiran had finished speaking and walked off the stage.

This photo is stored in Le An's old mobile phone. She has changed two mobile phones so far, but she has never been willing to delete it.For no reason, in Le'an's 18 years of life experience, she became curious about a person who was completely unfamiliar and even didn't know his name.

Yunda has a very wide range, and there are three campuses in this city alone. It is difficult to find a needle in a haystack just knowing the college and graduation time, and Le'an also has his own studies to be busy.Time passed like a gap, and this incident was buried at the bottom of the memory box.

Le'an graduated, Le'an refused to go home, Le'an found a job that had nothing to do with her major, and then she leisurely fished with pay, and saw familiar faces on video sites again, before she had time to be surprised. When he looked up, the person on the screen was already in front of him.

Dong Yiqiu, a frequent customer of the coffee shop, brought her in, and the two chatted intimately and joyfully, and after Dong Yiqiu packed up his things, they went out together arm in arm.The whole process took no more than 3 minutes, just like the first time Le An saw her, Tang Weiran passed by Le An's life again like a gust of wind.

Later, she followed Tang Weiran's video blogger account, and later, she learned a lot about this friend from Dong Yiqiu.

In the relationship with Tang Weiran after finally getting acquainted, Le'an never told Tang Weiran about the fate of the two, because Tang Weiran didn't clean up his mood, and neither did Le'an.

Le An saw her relationship end and a job end, she was naturally only immersed in the confusion of her future, so even if she had a chance to learn that Le An and herself were alumni, she did not ask Le An What class is it, and have they met on campus.

Her silence and indifference to this topic stopped Le An's desire to express this matter.

Sighing softly and slowly, Le An put down the kettle and tasted the filtered coffee, which was bitter, burnt, and overly sour.

Master's teachings seem to be useful everywhere. It's been too long, and she seems to have lost the strength to tell Tang Weiran about it, or she doesn't know how to speak at all.

Anyone who has been coveting for such a long time will be frightened.

After calming down, Le An came out of the study.As soon as the door was closed, she heard the sound of keys, followed by Tang Weiran's anxious figure. She didn't care about ruining her leather boots, so she took off her shoes with a kick and stepped on the cotton slippers at home.

With half an orange in his mouth, Le Yi turned his head to look at the entrance in a daze. Le An also stood in front of the study door and looked over.

Receiving the puzzled eyes of the two siblings, Tang Weiran said embarrassedly, "There is something urgent at work that needs to be resolved, so..." There is no need to explain next.

Le An nodded, "Then you go and deal with it."

Tang Weiran smiled at her, "Yeah!" After nodding her head vigorously, she rushed into her room, and after a second, the door opened, and she poked her head out to face Le'an, "I... Hurry up I should be free tonight."

After speaking, he closed the door again.

Le An paused, and then smiled slightly after realizing what she was saying.

Le Yi looked like a dog that smelled something unusual. As soon as the radar sounded, he got up and ran towards his sister, "Night? What are you going to do at night?"

Le An smiled and said nothing.

Le Yi became anxious, "Sister! Why are you smirking? What are you going to do?"

Le'an suppressed her smile for a moment, and glared at him with the majesty she used to be a sister who was 3 minutes older: "Go put on your coat and go shopping with me."

"Oh." Le Yi went to get the down jacket from the coat hanger in the hallway, and asked persistently, "What do you want to buy?"

"Buy some New Year's goods."

Le Yi was even more confused, he glanced at the coffee table again, "Didn't I buy this? I ate it all."

"Buy...buy some," Le An unzipped his zipper, buried Robusta's head in his head, "buy a couplet or window grilles, it will have a little atmosphere for the New Year."

There are also some fairy sticks and fireworks boxes that Tang Weiran likes. I wonder if there will be firecrackers at the stall she went to last year?

Le Yi lowered his head and murmured in a low voice, "It's the first time I've seen someone buy these on the first day of the Lunar New Year..."

"Why do you have so many questions?" Le An unhappily pushed Robusta's forehead with the hand that touched Robusta, "Go out first, don't disturb her work."

"I know, I know!" Le Yi tied the laces of his leather shoes, and walked out with his head raised.

Xiaoying, who had made an appointment to come to the house for a talk, was temporarily unable to come due to business. It is normal to deal with private matters on the first day of the new year. Tang Weiran would not be so unreasonable. The reply made her feel at ease, and she can just contact online if she has something to do.

So when she could only face this mess by herself, her mood became more and more unstable.

In irrational anger, Tang Weiran passionately wrote an "appeal" against Manager Meng and Iris.Although the wording of the article is quite euphemistic, the connotation directly pointed out that Iris plagiarized her work, and fans beat her back.She cites evidence of multiple screenshots as proof of her originality.

After writing, she let out a long breath.Send the article to Dong Yiqiu with the last ounce of reason, and ask Mr. Dong to correct it.

Even during Chinese New Year, Dong Yiqiu was online at any time. After receiving it, she began to read it carefully. After reading it, she thoughtfully corrected a few grammatical problems in the text, but in the end, she sent another piece of advice.

Tang Weiran pinched her eyebrows and clicked on the video call she made, "You mean, tell me not to send it?"

Her tone was not straightforward, to the effect that Dong Yiqiu, a good friend, did not stand by her side at the critical moment.

Dong Yiqiu knew that she was still angry, so she shook her head and explained patiently, "According to what you said before, this manuscript must have been sent to Iris through Meng Tongwei, so aren't they two people on the same side? Tell Meng Tongwei about this What is the difference between suing the county magistrate and suing the county magistrate?"

Seeing Tang Weiran fell silent, Dong Yiqiu knew that she was thinking about what she said, so he continued, "Actually, I think Meng Tongwei's approach looks familiar. Have you ever heard of PUA in the workplace?"

Tang Weiran, who was inexperienced in the actual workplace, frowned, "What?"

"Don't you think he's a little mentally handicapped like this? There are three people who handled the manuscript. Kindergarten children can count them on their fingers, and they can catch the real murderer in minutes. He insists on doing this to you? You Why do you think?"

Tang Weiran asked naively, "Why?"

Dong Yiqiu slapped her thigh, "Sisters, obedience test!" On the screen, she raised her cup and drank, wiped her mouth and said, "Hey, let me tell you, there are so many anchors who run away on this kind of platform, Everyone has an eye for money! Whoever pays more will jump there! The platform wants to restrain you, let’s see if you can handle it well, and using some unconventional means to suppress it is the normal situation in their industry.”

"what do you mean......"

"If you endure it, maybe the share will be increased in the future, and there will be more exposure resources. If you make a fuss, I'm afraid..." Dong Yiqiu shook her head as she spoke.

Tang Weiran gasped when he heard that, "Why do you want to do this? What benefits can it have?"

"What good can it do?" Dong Yiqiu looked at her helplessly and smiled, "Of course, what's good about you, you are protected too well by your mother..."

Tang Weiran felt his head swell, and the troublesome things in front of him were still unresolved, as if another boring thing was coming.As soon as the peach blossom makeup was removed from the shelves, her New Year's theme event was considered a skylight. It was supposed to be a very good opportunity to expose and increase fans, but now it turned into a mess.

"Then I...but I..." Of course Tang Weiran is not willing to compromise, but if not, is there any way to solve it as soon as possible?Her head and eyes were stuffy, and she asked dizzily, "If I make trouble, can I just terminate the contract?"

"Terminate the contract? It would be easier to terminate the contract. You will definitely be asked to pay liquidated damages, and you will be hit first. And the new company that is willing to accept you may not have a cleaner method than this. The industry atmosphere is like this, who can do it?" Can you run away? Of course, I'm not hitting you, but the reality is, I don't want...I don't want you to follow my old path."

Dong Yiqiu paused, his eyes drooping.She resigned resolutely back then, to a large extent because of her strong personality. Although she is not short of food now, she always has some regrets that she could not flex her muscles.

"However, it's easy to break through the past." She gave another word of persuasion, finally sighed, and added: "But no matter what you do, I will support you. At worst, come share a bed with me."

Tang Weiran slowly said, "...Thank you." He tapped the red cross button.

The green icon flashed in the lower right corner, and Tang Weiran pinched his temple and clicked it, it was Xiaoying who asked for a question.

"Sister Ranran, how is the progress? Is there a new draft today to fill in the pits?"

Tang Weiran felt a headache.She thought about it, raised her hand and typed on the keyboard, "It won't work, I'll try to retransmit it again."

Xiaoying displayed "The other party is typing" for a long time, and finally sent a sentence, "Okay, Miss Ranran."

Tang Weiran entered the background page again, and re-uploaded the peach blossom makeup video that had been removed from the shelves with the label of New Year's theme activities.As she expected, the video was rejected in less than 2 minutes, and the four big characters of review failure were printed on the screen.

Tang Weiran gritted his teeth and clicked upload again. After 1 minute, the review failed.

Upload again, fail again.Uploaded again, failed again.

Tang Weiran propped his forehead and told himself that this was the last time.

Upload the video, write the title and copy, put the activity tag on it, and click OK.

After five seconds, ten seconds, 30 seconds, the review...passed?

Tang Weiran stood up from hopelessness to surprise, she rubbed her eyes and took another look in disbelief.It is indeed approved.

The green icon flashed again, and Xiaoying also sent a message, "Sister Ran, Sister Ran! Passed!"

But two seconds later, she sent another crying face: "What if Iris' fans come to find fault?"

Tang Weiran pressed the keyboard: "I have a screenshot of the time when I first posted the video as proof."

Xiaoying is not completely relieved, but at least she has a little bit of confidence in her heart, "Sister Haoran, then go and eat quickly! It's so late!"

Tang Weiran turned his head and looked out the window when he saw this. Night fell, and the sky was very dark due to the cold winter.She came back to her senses, she didn't expect it to be so late after all this trouble.

After sitting in front of the computer for a long time, she felt sore and tired in her waist and neck.

Opening the door, Le An happened to be standing at the door, holding a large red plastic bag in her hand, raised a hand to Tang Weiran, and asked with a smile, "Did you forget our agreement?"

Tang Weiran's heart warmed, and his brows and eyes immediately relaxed, "I haven't forgotten!"