no wind in the valley

After Shi Yan left, Zhou Qiyao asked Fan Ning why he lied to her.

The reply I got was only: "Businessmen pay attention to the greatest certainty."

Fan Ning intends to send someone abroad, but Zhou Qiyao gambles on self-abuse, and finally makes Fan Ning compromise.

She hired Zhou Qiyao a tutor to prepare her for the college entrance examination.

Zhou Qiyao imprisoned herself in that villa every day, never leaving the gate or entering the second door.

Just after twelve o'clock in the morning, the sound of blessings came from the mobile phone one after another.

The person at the top remained aloof all the time.

She selectively replied to several people's birthday wishes.

Faintly hearing the doorbell from the outside door, Zhou Qiyao wondered who was still ringing the doorbell in the middle of the night, took a broom from the side as a protection, and went to the window downstairs to see who it was.

Standing outside the gate was a woman holding flowers, wearing the overalls of the florist downstairs from Blue Whale.

The woman outside saw a figure in front of the window, and waved to her: "Hi! I'm from a flower shop, and I have your flowers!"

Zhou Qiyao was looking forward to whether it was from her, but she was afraid of failing.

The man walked to the gate, and the woman handed her the flower, "Happy birthday to your flower!"

"?"

"Who sent it?"

The person who sent the flowers was the manager of the flower shop. She knew Zhou Qiyao, and Shi Yan did not tell the story of the two of them. Of course, she also heard about the incident in the Blue Whale Organization.

The store manager "Shi Yan" felt a little regretful, she always remembered the starlight in the girl's eyes when she talked about her and Zhou Qiyao, but in the end she couldn't resist the secularism.

When Zhou Qiyao heard this answer, she didn't know how to react for a moment. It was the answer she wanted, but she was afraid to accept the bouquet of flowers. She felt sorry for Shi Yan's intentions.

"This is a letter from her to you." The store manager handed the letter to Zhou Qiyao, "Please sign for it. This is what she ordered in advance in February. The flowers are all selected by her."

With the flowers and the letter, Zhou Qiyao entered her bedroom.She put the flower on her desk, it was a rose.

Zhou Qiyao didn't have the guts to open the letter in her hand. During this period of time, she sealed everything about Shi Yan, and this letter was like a sharp weapon that cut her scar again.

Zhou Qiyao put it in the drawer and didn't dare to open it, afraid that she would not be able to control herself to find the person who was abandoned by her own hands

For that bouquet of pink roses, she found another vase and put them in it, and stopped looking at them, letting it grow and die freely.

At night, it was too quiet, and the endless barking of cicadas outside was annoying.

The person on the bed finally stopped turning over on the bed, got up and walked to the desk, opened the drawer, and opened the envelope with the cute cartoon image of a cat.

When Zhou Qiyao saw the cover of the envelope, she couldn't control her tears. Shi Yan also knew how to do what she liked, using her favorite kitten as a facade.

[Chou bureaucrats, hello:

Allow me, in a very official way, to greet you with love.

First of all, to my dearest person, happy birthday!

Unexpectedly, I would actually give you a birthday greeting in the early hours of the morning, which is actually like this.Just ask if you are excited!Do you love me more, do you feel that you can't leave me again!

Secondly, this is the first time for me to celebrate your birthday with you. Although I was absent from every birthday of yours 18 years ago, I want to spend every birthday and festival with you since you turned 19 !

The first time I saw you, I was attracted by you. I was also looking for your figure at the opening meeting. I haven’t seen your figure for a long time. Come in the door.

The first time I had a good impression of you was when I fell out of the revolving door and returned to the dormitory, when you disinfected my wound.It is you who make me feel cared, my Yaoyao is the most gentle girl in the world~

I like that you look at me with bent eyes, and that you call me Shi Tuotuo, and that you drop all your disguises and appear in front of me.This is all your exception to me!

This is the first time I write a love letter, I don’t know if I wrote it like this, but I want to tell you: Your Shi Tuotuo will definitely bring the dowry gift he has worked hard to marry you.

I will fight for our future and build a strong protective layer for you so that my loved ones will not be harmed.

The sky is not old, love is inevitable. (①)]

The person who read the letter covered his face with one hand, and let the tears wet his palm. The hand holding the letter kept shaking and couldn't control it.

"The heart is like double silk nets, with thousands of knots in it. Even after night, the east window is still bright and the lonely light goes out. (②)" She finished the rest of the sentence for Shi Yan.

After that night, Zhou Qiyao went to the institution to find Li Ran and the others.

Li Ran looked across at the culprit who had completely lost contact with Shi Yan, and was really not in a good mood and temper to talk to her.

It was An San who took care of the other party's face and pulled Li Ran aside: "Don't worry, she has such a personality."

"We don't know about her, and her parents don't allow us to contact her. We only know that she was sent to the countryside, and her mobile phone was confiscated." Before he could finish speaking, Li Ran interrupted.

"What to say to this unconscionable person, she is cold-hearted, not like you who are so soft-hearted and tell her that we only know a little bit of news. After you finish talking, maybe they will treat Shi Yan the same as before. You kicked it."

Li Ran's dislike and dislike for Zhou Qiyao has been very obvious, and no matter what kind of person Zhou Qiyao thinks she is, she has made her good sister like this, so she still has the face to come to us?

"She has already left. You clearly know her feelings for you, but you still want to hurt her. Do you know how many times she was threatened by your mother for you?"

Shan Yi was afraid that Li Ran would say anything more, so she pulled her away, and motioned An Sanxun to talk to Zhou Qiyao.

Zhou Qiyao heard that Li Ran said that she was threatened by Fan Ning, and she couldn't believe that Fan Ning would do this.

"She just said my mother"

"Your mother came to her several times and told her to leave you. Even if your mother threatened her future, she didn't back down." An Sanxun looked at the soulless man and continued, "Shi Yan for you You did a lot, but you let us down too much."

"We don't know where she is, so don't come to us again. I'm talking to you calmly now because of Shi Yan, but I still have a big opinion of you in my heart. Goodbye."

Since then, Zhou Qiyao has cut off contact with Shi Yan's friends.

Qi Qianqian occasionally chatted with Li Ran and the others, and revealed some news to Zhou Qiyao from time to time, but after all, she didn't have the answer she wanted.

It was also from then on that she began to pull herself together so that she would not fall again.

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A few days before he was going to go to school in the capital, Guo Jinming asked Zhou Qiyao out for a meal to practice for her.

When Guo Jinming and Liu Hengyu saw the person they hadn't seen for several months, "The hair is so long, why haven't you taken care of it?" Guo Jinming and Zhou Qiyao hugged for a while and asked her.

Zhou Qiyao touched the ends of her hair when she heard the words. Before the college entrance examination, she was preparing hard for the exam. After the college entrance examination, she went to be a tutor. She had a family in the morning and a family in the afternoon. She did two jobs a day. She didn't have time and energy to pay attention to these things. Clean and tidy.

Zhou Qiyao smiled, "Go and fix it before school starts."

Liu Hengyu patted Guo Jinming quietly, telling her to stop talking, "Sit down quickly, your little sister Guo and I ordered a few dishes, and you can see if there is anything you want." she looks.

"Let's eat first, I don't need to order it, and I will order it if it is not enough." Zhou Qiyao shook her head.

After finishing speaking, there was a moment of silence at the dining table, with a somewhat awkward atmosphere, and finally Guo Jinming said, "Your sister Liu and I have resigned."

Zhou Qiyao was puzzled and asked, "Didn't you do a good job at Blue Whale?"

"Blue Whale is good, but...not suitable for us." Liu Hengyu said.

Zhou Qiyao also knew what she meant, and everyone in Blue Whale knew about her trouble with Shi Yan.

Xiao Guo and Xiao Liu are lovers, so they can't work there all the time, not to mention their parents have agreed, and they said that they are preparing for a wedding recently.

"However, your little sister Liu and I opened a photography studio, remember to help us promote it."

After Guo Jinming finished speaking, he turned on his mobile phone and showed Zhou Qiyao their newly renovated studio.

After dinner, Guo Jinming took Zhou Qiyao to fix her hair: "Stop procrastinating, I just want to do a hairstyle, your little sister Liu has bad eyesight, I need you to watch me, walk around..."

Zhou Qiyao, who was still trying to avoid it, had no choice but to follow.

She knew it was because they were afraid that she would not get her hair trimmed later, after all, she was in financial difficulties now, and since the college entrance examination was over, she no longer asked for money from Fan Ning.

After fixing her hair, Zhou Qiyao insisted on paying the bill herself instead of asking them to pay for her.

Guo Jinming joked, pretending to be very disappointed and said, "Oh, I thought so, so that you owe me money, I can still look for you all the time, and I won't let you cut off contact with us."

This made Zhou Qiyao laugh so hard that she patted her, "I seem to be saying something wrong..." Like Han...

It's not a heartless man who has broken the history...

Seeing that her expression was not right, Liu Hengyu said, "Your little sister Guo just hates you. She has a good relationship with you. In the past few months, she has been saying that you don't take the initiative to find her. I have been sad for a long time."

Zhou Qiyao took Guo Jinming's arm, "I will keep in touch with you, it's not that I won't come back, not to mention I have to take care of your business."

...

On the day of going to the capital, Zhou Qiyao was pulling the suitcase alone, and saw Guo Jinming and Liu Hengyu standing there at the gate of the airport.

Very pleasantly surprised.

Zhou Qiyao hurriedly pulled the suitcase and ran over, "Sister Guo, why are you here!"

"It wasn't Qi Qianqian who told us that she started school earlier than you, and let us take you to the plane for her." Guo Jinming said.

Liu Hengyu helped Zhou Qiyao pull up the suitcase, "Go in quickly."

At the security checkpoint, Guo Jinming told Zhou Qiyao: "Take care of yourself, you are still a little girl, you should also protect yourself."

Suddenly feeling a little sore in the nose, Zhou Qiyao nodded, "I know, I will take care of myself."

"Safe trip, I wish you success in your studies." Liu Hengyu waved to her, watching her pass the security check and go in.

Liu Hengyu wiped away Guo Jinming's tears, "Don't cry~"

"Do you think she and Shi Yan will meet again?"

"If two people are working hard for each other, no matter how many misses there are, they will meet again."

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It was the first snowfall in the capital, and Zhou Qiyao was sitting on a bench at the Beijing Medical University.

Reaching out to catch a snowflake, feeling the temperature in the hand, it quickly turned into a drop of water.

Last year's first snow, and you hugging me behind me, looking at me carefully and lovingly.

I don't know where you are now, whether you don't want to see me, or you are avoiding me, even the only place where I know you might be, you are not there.

The snow fell heavily at the beginning, and he was turned white in a short while, and his hair turned into drops of water because of breathing.

When she was about to get up and leave, Zhou Qiyao felt that the snowflakes on her head hadn't fallen, and when she looked up, she saw a girl holding an umbrella for her.

"Thank you, no need, I have to go." Zhou Qiyao declined.

Li Chengshu just felt that the girl sitting there looked familiar, so he came over to cover her from the snow.

"I just feel like I've seen you somewhere." Li Chengshu didn't remove the umbrella, and kept thinking in his mind where did he see you?

Zhou Qiyao thought she was accosting her, frowned and wanted to leave quickly.

"Oh! I remembered, you are Shi Yan's girlfriend!"

It was the first time in the past few months that Zhou Qiyao heard someone say her long-lost name.

"...I am her... ex." Zhou Qiyao said the words of her ex, her heart was pierced.

Li Chengshu felt a little regretful, "Ah..."

"Do you know her? Is she a classmate?" Zhou Qiyao felt hopeful and asked quickly.

Li Chengshu nodded, "I was roommate with her classmate who was a preparatory student in this school. She seems to have gone to a foreign school now, but I don't know where. I heard from the teacher that she went as an exchange student, and I won’t come back in recent years, basically I graduated abroad.”

It's better to have news than nothing, Zhou Qiyao's body, which was still feeling cold just now, is slowly getting warmer, "Thank you!"

"Do you know what kind of matching schools are there?"

Li Chengshu scratched his head, "I'm not sure, how about I ask my teacher and tell you?"

Of course Zhou Qiyao felt that there was no problem, and soon exchanged WeChat with Li Chengshu.

A few days later, Li Chengshu told Zhou Qiyao about several universities, "The teacher refused to tell me which school she was in, but only mentioned these schools, and I'm sure she was in one of them."

Looking at these schools, Zhou Qiyao fell into deep thought. These three universities are not located in the same country, and the round-trip air tickets are astronomical for her now.

...

In the semester when she was about to enter her junior year, Zhou Qiyao and her classmate Zhu Qi participated in the innovation and entrepreneurship competition and won the first prize in the country and won a lot of bonuses.

In addition to the money I saved in the past few years, I can just go to a country.

Unfortunately, Zhou Qiyao stayed there for five days, but she didn't see anyone she wanted to see.

If this school doesn't have it, then change it, don't be angry, Zhou Qiyao!

After graduating from senior year, Zhou Qiyao and Zhu Qi's previous innovative and entrepreneurial projects also officially landed. They got sponsorship from a company and successfully registered a small company in Beicheng.

With the financial foundation, Zhou Qiyao spent half a month going to the remaining two schools, returning with the same regret as before.

Four years... still haven't found you...

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She and Zhu Qi founded Microsoft, a literary creation company.

Because many of the management and development were not perfect when it was just established, the first two years were very busy, and in the third year, it was also well-known in the industry.

Fan Ning has talked with Zhou Qiyao no less than ten times in the past few years, and each time she feels that Zhou Qiyao has grown up...

Now Zhou Qiyao also has her own career, and she is no longer an ignorant little girl who can be controlled at will...

Sooner or later, the company will need Zhou Qiyao to take over. She doesn't have the energy to cultivate another unknown collateral, and she doesn't want the collateral to stare at her shares and position.

"Go back to your own company and manage it." Fan Ning looked at the transformed child, the immaturity on his face had become mature.

"No..." Zhou Qiyao quickly refused. Although she doesn't have much ability now, she is no longer afraid of Fan Ning's methods.

Fan Ning was a little distressed. She used to focus on the company and family infighting, but she always let this child aside.

Before she was an adult, she had always been well-behaved and obedient, but contacting herself was a little strange and scary.

As an adult, everything you do is beyond your expectations and completely out of control.

At that time, she was still very controlling, and she used some unscrupulous means, which led to an even colder stage in the already cold mother-daughter relationship.

"Back then... I did do something wrong... Now I'm sorry..."

"I'm getting old, and the company needs you." Fan Ning put aside his so-called stature, and said these words to Zhou Qiyao with apology.

Never thought that Fan Ning would say these words, Zhou Qiyao was hit in the head.

There was a long silence: "Give me some time..."

Zhou Qiyao was actually moved by whether it would be easier to find Shi Yan if she walked higher. After all, Fan Ning used this position to do everything back then.

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①, ② from: Song Dynasty Zhang Xian "Thousands of Years Counting Sounds"

Sorry, the character Li Chengshu mentioned in the last chapter has actually appeared before, but because I haven’t written it for a long time, I have forgotten it myself. I felt very familiar when I wrote it, but I didn’t remember it at the time. Wait until I write this article , When I was writing that paragraph, I remembered that I had already changed it, sorry, it was changed to Li Jia.