He had a crush on him for 12 years and divorced

It was a hasty display of love.

At the corner of someone else's wedding banquet, there are no roses, no candlelight, no surprises and careful planning.

It was even interrupted midway.

Zhao Chen came to look for Ren Zhaoyuan, and only after calling someone out did he realize that the atmosphere was not right: "What's the matter, I'll come back later, you two talk?"

Ren Zhaoyuan said "no need", hurriedly left a "sorry" to Tan Zheng and left with Zhao Chen.

This apology is complicated and simple, and Tan Zheng didn't know for a while whether he should attribute it to a response of showing love or to be more affectionate, thinking that it was just a polite apology for interrupting the conversation.

He could sense that Ren Zhaoyuan had no intention of developing a relationship with anyone, so even though his thoughts had been made clear, he hadn't confessed for a long time. Now that he said it suddenly, there was no reason and no support, even if Ren Zhaoyuan didn't hesitate. He won't be surprised if you give him a wishful thinking.

However, no.

What really surprised Tan Zheng was Ren Zhaoyuan's evasive gaze and the vague refusal at the end.

At least as far as he knew, Ren Zhaoyuan should be used to all kinds of confessions, and he was never a person who would drag his feet when dealing with feelings.

If you can, you can, if you can’t, you can’t.

It was the first time he said his love, but in fact, he had said it thousands of times in his heart, in a place where no one was around, and every time he responded with a disgusted expression and a cold rejection.

After the sudden upsurge of emotions gradually subsided, Tan Zheng thought back bit by bit, analyzing every movement, every expression, and every word of Ren Zhaoyuan just now.

Tan Zheng turned around and stood at Ren Zhaoyuan's position just now, clenched and loosened his hands on the railing, and finally let out a deep breath, with the corners of his lips slightly bent.

Halfway through the reception, Zhao Chen came over and handed Tan Zheng a glass of wine.

As soon as I got close to Tan Zheng, I smelled that the cup contained the Absinthe with the highest concentration on the scene. There was a basic introduction and a sign of [alcohol content 52.0%] where it was placed, and there were special service staff nearby to remind you to drink carefully.

Generally, high-strength wine is not prepared for banquets, let alone such unbrewed and bitter wine. Today, it is specially placed because the two newlyweds became attached to it. The meaning is only to commemorate, and few people take it.

Tan Zheng took it, and immediately a service staff with a tray stepped forward to pick up the original champagne.

Zhao Chen raised his glass with a smile, tilted the glass slightly higher than Tan Zheng's wine glass and made a crisp sound: "Mr. Tan, I have long admired your name."

"Mr. Zhao," Tan Zheng also said, "I have long admired you."

This was the third friend of Ren Zhaoyuan that Tan Zheng had met, and it was different from Tongzhou and Yao Qiming.

He could easily feel a little bit of targeting from Zhao Chen, but he didn't show it.

Absinthe's unique bitterness and high alcohol's pungent numbness filled the mouth, Tan Zheng took a full sip as if he didn't notice it.

Seeing him swallowing it as if drinking champagne, Zhao Chen raised his eyebrows and smiled: "You know me?"

"I know," Tan Zheng said with the usual expression, "I heard Brother Zhaoyuan and Brother Yao talk about it."

"Then you shouldn't call me Mr. Zhao if you talk about it like this. I'm born."

Tan Zheng was neither humble nor overbearing: "I am young, so I should call him Brother, as long as Brother Zhao doesn't mind."

"I don't mind." Zhao Chen shook his glass, "I'm uncomfortable with the surname Zhao recently."

"Brother Chen." Tan Zheng took them one by one and changed his words calmly.

Zhao Chen really laughed now: "You have called me that, then I have to give you a gift."

The contract for a real estate project invested by Tan Zheng has already been signed, but because Zhao Yuanqing intervened, rumors about black-box bidding are flying all over the sky, too many reports alarmed the relevant departments, and one of the building materials dealers was also involved in an old lawsuit.

Now all the progress is forced to suspend, and one more day of delay is burning money for one more day.

This investment is the largest project of Tan Zheng's company recently, and the prospect is promising. It doesn't matter if it takes a while to pay some money to get in and solve it. I'm afraid that the higher-ups will decide to re-examine it.

The re-examination process is cumbersome. If you want to start from a certain link to invalidate the bid and start all over again, it is too simple for Tan Zheng to guard against.

Once the bidding document is invalidated, Tan Zheng's project will be over, and it is unknown how many wrangling lawsuits will be involved in the later stage.

This project happened to be in City J where Zhao Chen had been staying for many years, and he had all his influence and connections there, regardless of Zhao Yuanqing or Tan Zheng, in City J, no one was more effective than him.

"My brother is young, and his eyes are quite sharp." Zhao Chen clinked glasses with Tan Zheng again, "There will be many benefits in the future."

Tan Zheng didn't understand Zhao Chen's specific meaning for a moment, but even if Zhao Chen didn't help him out, just because he was Ren Zhaoyuan's friend, there was nothing he couldn't drink with two sips of bitter wine.

"Hey," Zhao Chen remembered after watching Tan Zheng take another sip, "I forgot, don't drink this, let Zhaoyuan see it and blame me for bullying him..."

"Zhao Chen."

As soon as Ren Zhaoyuan's voice appeared, Zhao Chen lit a stick of incense for himself in his heart.

He found that he was quite evil, no one would eavesdrop when he wanted to do something good, but he would be caught if he did something bad.

Sure enough, as soon as Ren Zhaoyuan came over, he found that Tan Zheng was holding a wine glass specially made for Absinthe in his hand.

"You gave it to him?"

Zhao Chen had a lifeless expression: "Ah, I gave it."

Ren Zhaoyuan frowned slightly: "Why don't you drink it yourself?"

Originally, Tan Zheng and Zhao Chen stood face to face with a little distance apart, but now Ren Zhaoyuan came over and stood beside them, Zhao Chen took another step back, the three of them roughly formed an obtuse triangle, and Ren Zhaoyuan blocked Tan Zheng a bit.

Tan Zheng looked down at Ren Zhaoyuan's shoulder with his back turned to him, and had the illusion of being protected behind him for a moment: "Brother Zhaoyuan, it's okay..."

"He just drinks it for you?" Ren Zhaoyuan didn't know what to say, so he beckoned someone to come over and take it away.

In the time it took to turn around and say a word, Zhao Chen had long since disappeared.

As the reception drew to a close, many guests bid farewell to the Kang family one after another and left. Tongzhou, Zhao Chen and Ren Zhaoyuan were not on their way. Tongzhou had already left. If Zhao Chen was not suddenly seen by Tan Zheng's side, Ren Zhaoyuan would also have left.

Only the two of them were left facing each other in this area, and the air became thicker and thicker.

"Zhao Chen..." Ren Zhaoyuan sighed lightly, and said to Tan Zheng, "I apologize to you on his behalf, and it won't be like this in the future."

Tan Zheng looked straight at him: "You don't have to apologize to me, it's nothing."

——"No matter what happens, you don't have to apologize to me."

Ren Zhaoyuan lowered his eyes: "Don't be like this, Tan Zheng, you don't need to be in front of someone..."

"Zhaoyuan!" Zhao Yuanqing yelled, and strode closer, "You are here, so I can easily find you."

Earlier, I promised to find a place to talk after the wedding banquet. Ren Zhaoyuan was not surprised that he came over. Just as he was about to speak, Zhao Yuanqing said: "The bar we used to go to has been renovated, let's go and sit together? That uncle is still in charge .”

"Well," Ren Zhaoyuan didn't say much, "I'm going to say goodbye to Mr. Kang."

Zhao Yuanqing nodded with a smile on his face, watched Ren Zhaoyuan walk away and then turned to Tan Zheng, with undisguised triumphant pride in his eyes.

Tan Zheng said something that Zhao Yuanqing couldn't think of: "Mr. Zhao, he has a bad stomach and can't drink. He has drunk a lot today, so don't go to the bar anymore."

"That's the place we first met. If you want to see things and think about things, you need to get Mr. Tan's consent?" There is no one around at the moment, so Zhao Yuanqing doesn't need to pretend to be friendly. "Besides, Mr. Tan can find a good excuse even if he is jealous. Does he have a good stomach Well, I know better than you."

Tan Zheng looked back coldly, stopped talking, took out his mobile phone and tapped a few times to show Zhao Yuanqing the report in the album: "Chronic gastritis with erosion, if you really care, at least don't let him spoil your stomach."

Zhao Yuanqing was stunned for a moment, and after looking at it intently, he wanted to reach out to take it, but Tan Zheng had already put it away.

"He didn't have stomach problems before.."

Hearing this, Tan Zheng couldn't help clenching the hand holding the phone.

He remembers when the doctor asked when he felt stomach pain, Ren Zhaoyuan said last year, heavy smoking and alcohol was also last year.

It was all because of Zhao Yuanqing, but Zhao Yuanqing didn't know, and was still saying that Ren Zhaoyuan had no stomach problems before.

There is nothing to explain.

Tan Zheng said in a low voice: "You know, that was in the past."

Zhao Yuanqing turned his head and saw that Ren Zhaoyuan was already coming this way, he said "Don't worry about it" and turned to leave.

Ren Zhaoyuan's report card in Tan Zheng's mobile phone and Tan Zheng's "that was before" are enough to annoy Zhao Yuanqing, and Ren Zhaoyuan's insistence not to ride with him in the same car is even worse.

The two still went to the bar.

Zhao Yuanqing calmed down when it was time to order wine, and said to Ren Zhaoyuan: "There are several new fruit drinks here, and I drank a lot of wine today, why don't order wine."

Ren Zhaoyuan ordered a cup by himself, Zhao Yuanqing was dumbfounded for a moment.

That was the drink they ordered most often in the past, and it was only available in this bar.

"I want the same."

After Zhao Yuanqing ordered the order, he turned to look at the person opposite. It seemed that he hadn't changed for so many years.

He is always gentle and polite in his dealings with others, and he has a coldness and arrogance in his bones. He is the most easy-going, and he is also the most stubborn.

"Zhaoyuan, you remember everything, right?"

"remember."

Zhao Yuanqing straightened her waist, moved her lips, and smiled a little at a loss: "I knew... Zhaoyuan, is it because of the wedding? As long as you nod, we will have a grander wedding, I promise. Also, You didn’t want the keys I gave you before. I’ve already arranged them all to your liking.. Didn’t you always want to be a place for communication and learning? I’ve already bought the place you said was good, and I want to make it I'll tell you later..."

Ren Zhaoyuan sat motionless in the same place and did not interrupt until Zhao Yuanqing felt something was wrong after he finished speaking and tentatively called his name.

"What you do has nothing to do with me."

"Zhaoyuan?"

Downstairs, a group of children were celebrating their coming-of-age ceremony, and two of them were hugged together amid booing, and one of them blushed and shouted loudly: "I—for this life! I will always love you——"

Ren Zhaoyuan looked sideways and smiled slightly.

really weird.

People say forever when they are young, and they say that year when they are 80 years old.

"Zhao Yuanqing, I'm not here today to reminisce about the past."

"I want to make a break."

"Totally."

"Who loves me, how long have I loved me, and what have I done? I don't need to explain to you. Who I love, how many people I love, or if I don't love anyone, it has nothing to do with you."

"I've heard enough of such questioning. You are the least qualified person to question me."

"There has been no possibility between you and me for a long time. You threw away those ten years with your own hands. It has nothing to do with anyone except you. But if you must say that it is because of others, it is good to shirk responsibility and reduce the sense of guilt." It’s okay, whatever you think is up to you, it has nothing to do with me.”

"In the beginning, it was because of what. Alcohol, love drugs, impulsiveness, it doesn't matter. It happened and it happened. The cheating that lasted for half a year is also a fact."

"I don't want to show those evidences, I don't want to lose my dignity in those years, and I don't want to entangle you again, but if you must continue to do these meaningless things, I don't mind being ugly."

The ordered wine was delivered, and Ren Zhaoyuan downed half of the glass as if drinking water, but he couldn't feel the attraction of it before.

Zhao Yuanqing clenched his teeth and spoke after a while: "Because of what? Agree to come out with me, come to this bar, order this glass of wine, and say these things, why? For him, Tan Zheng!"

"If you must say this, well, it's for Tan Zheng."

"Before today, I want to negotiate with you and persuade you to stop. Now I just want to tell you that he invested 500 million in me before. If you continue to fight, I can invest 5000 million or [-] million in him. You can do whatever you want."

A group of people downstairs suddenly laughed, loud laughter and cheerful music merged together, interweaving another world.

"Zhao Yuanqing, it's not an opportunity to start over after everything is done."

"You have countless opportunities. Every day, every second, every little bit of panic and guilt from the moment you have an idea is an opportunity. You didn't want it, and you ruined countless opportunities with your own hands."

"Nothing is nothing, and what is lost is lost."

"Last time, goodbye."

What Zhao Yuanqing said again, Ren Zhaoyuan didn't listen.

Another glass of wine was slammed down the table and shattered all over the floor with a "crash", Ren Zhaoyuan didn't even look at it.

He drank what was left of his wine, took his coat, and left.

It's snowing again outside.

Cousin Wen Gu called to ask him when he would be going home, but Ren Zhaoyuan said he had something to do and would not be going back tonight.

He hates snow.

The car was thrown outside the bar, Ren Zhaoyuan didn't call for a driver, and walked along the road alone.

He himself didn't know how long he had walked, but he felt that the whiteness under his feet was getting darker and darker, and the darkness of the night seemed endless.

On the road, a child making a snowman laughs at him like a snowman.

Ren Zhaoyuan hates snowmen.

There is no end to snow.

The shadow under the light became shorter and longer, then longer and shorter. Ren Zhaoyuan finally walked downstairs. When he looked up, he saw another snowman in a daze.

"..Tan Zheng?"

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