Chapter 11: So, will my luck get better now that I meet you?
In 2019, Hongye Securities is located on Financial Street.
Sheng Yiqing has been working at Hongye since her internship. This is her fourth year. The day she left happened to be the busiest month of July, when colleagues around her workstation went on business trips. The company was quiet in the afternoon. Sheng Yiqing quietly packed up her things, took a last look at the seat she had sat in for four years, and took off the nameplate "Sheng Yiqing" on the partition. The midsummer sun shone through the glass on the workstation. She remembered that she had complained several times on the day she joined the company that the sunset was too severe to see the screen clearly, and even thought about wearing sunglasses to work. However, she later found that when she was working, she had to squat on the site all over the country and make bank statements... There were very few opportunities to sit at the workstation.
Before leaving, she glanced at Mr. Hu's office and pulled the corner of her mouth sarcastically.
The midsummer sky changed too quickly. It was still sunny at noon, but it got dark in a short while. The dry air in Beijing was mixed with a smell of earth, and the air was stuffy.
Chen Zhuan felt that he was really unlucky. Recently, the project was idle, and he was busy looking for houses everywhere. He finally locked on a house, which was just what he wanted in terms of orientation, price and layout. However, at the last stage, another house suddenly appeared and got it first.
At this moment, the air was suffocating, and dark clouds were gathering in the sky. He turned up the music to the maximum, slowed down the car, and wanted to find a place to buy water. The car happened to drive near Chaoyang Park. Chen Zhuan vaguely remembered that there was a supermarket nearby, and what he vaguely remembered was that Sheng Yiqing also lived nearby.
The first thought that came to my mind when I thought of her was: "We haven't contacted each other for more than a month. This guy shouldn't be in love, right?"
The second thought that followed was a little funny, which was: "Let's not fall in love, otherwise where can I find good luck."
Thinking about her like this, my mood seemed to be a little better. I pulled the corner of my mouth and whispered to the air: "I still have to blame you. You didn't reply to my WeChat, which made me unlucky recently."
There was a thunder rumble in the sky, and the heavy clouds burst. Heavy rain poured down. The scattered pedestrians on the roadside were hit by the big raindrops, and those who didn't bring umbrellas ran in panic. At this moment, Chen Zhuan's car had already driven to the auxiliary road. He was thinking about whether to go home directly. The wipers were scraping, but his eyes were fixed on the front-
That's right, it was hard not to notice her.
Among the pedestrians walking hurriedly around, she was the only one who was still. Not only was she still, but she was holding a bottle of Erguotou in her hand, standing on the roadside with her head down, and I didn't know what she was thinking.
When the raindrops hit her body, Sheng Yiqing felt very happy. After all, she hadn't been in the rain for a long time. Anyway, she didn't wash her hair or put on makeup today. Her clothes were ugly and she looked depressed. It was a good time to be down to the end, get drunk in the rain, and finally go home to take a bath to rejuvenate.
When she wakes up tomorrow morning, she will be a fragrant beauty again.
Although she looks a little ugly at the moment, fortunately, the people around her are only busy hiding from the rain and have no time to pay attention to her. After a few people ran away, she didn't have to worry about running into acquaintances on the empty streets.
Just thinking about this, a broken car slowed down and stopped beside her. The car window lowered, and a smiling face appeared:
"Broken heart?"
"... Damn!"
The rain was heavier, and pieces of raindrops hit the car windows and windshield, forming water columns and gurgling down. The car turned off and stopped quietly on the side of the road. In the small space, he changed to a quiet music, and Bach's melody flowed. Thunder and lightning rumbled as the accompaniment.
His passenger seat was still the same, without any decorations, and without any traces of women. Sheng Yiqing was soaked by the rain. He took his coat from the back seat and handed it to her. The air conditioner in the car was low, so he turned on the hot air and blew warmly on her body. She huddled in his large coat and covered her wet hair, feeling a little uncomfortable: "...Um, do you have paper?"
Chen Zhuan leaned down slightly to open the passenger storage box for her, but it was full of lipstick, hand cream, facial cleanser and other women's items. Sheng Yiqing even caught a glimpse of a box of pacifiers. He searched inside, seemingly without any hesitation, and finally found a brand new box of face towels from the pile of women's items and handed it to Sheng Yiqing.
"..." Sheng Yiqing glanced at the trademark coldly. It was a well-known maternal and child brand. She tore the packaging expressionlessly, wiped her hair, and became more and more angry. She was so angry that she said: "Brother, I sit in your co-pilot seat, sister-in-law won't be angry?"
"...Huh?"
"The progress is quite fast?" She sneered: "You said you don't want to get married and just want to live alone for the rest of your life... You bought a pacifier in less than a month. You are really good."
Chen Zhuan was stunned for a few seconds before reacting. He took a closer look at her angry look, held back his smile, and pretended to say: "Isn't it just getting married? It's no big deal. You ignored me for a month, and I thought about it again. I figured it out-I think getting married is really good."
"What's good about it?" She looked at that face again. He was handsome, but when she thought about him getting married, she immediately became annoying.
Chen Zhuan looked heartless, "How can you experience the joy of divorce without getting married?"
"Traitor!" Sheng Yiqing looked at him with eyes that said your brain was kicked by a donkey, wiped her hair vigorously, and opened the car door to leave regardless of the heavy rain.
Chen Zhuan quickly stopped her, "Hey, I have something to tell you."
"I don't want to listen!" She didn't know where the anger came from, and she pushed him away with her hand. But Chen Zhuan locked the car door, and she couldn't open it with her hand, so she simply raised her leg and kicked it, which was extremely fierce. Chen Zhuan was frightened by this posture, and he grabbed her arm and tied her to his arms, pressing her body, and whispered to her, "Although my car is broken, I will feel bad if it is kicked."
Sheng Yiqing was restrained and couldn't move, so she simply raised her head and bit his ear.
Chen Zhuan groaned in pain and looked at her helplessly: "Are you flirting?"
Sheng Yiqing stopped talking and asked after a while: "Are you divorced?"
Chen Zhuan laughed and continued to anger her: "Divorced, but not by me."
Without waiting for Sheng Yiqing to make a fuss, he put on a serious face and lowered his voice, "I'll tell you a gossip quietly-do you remember? There was a wedding at the nugget on the day we first met, and the two protagonists broke up."
"What?! So fast?" Sheng Yiqing vaguely remembered the glimpse of the groom through the window glass when she was on the phone at the nugget: a tall, fair-skinned, thick-browed and big-eyed man who was easy to marry. The bride next to him had a long neck, beautiful black hair in big waves, and slender and charming eyes, which curved into two shallow crescents when she smiled.
They were a perfect couple, but they divorced in less than three months? ! So wild?
Driven by her curiosity, Sheng Yiqing was in no hurry to leave and asked him, "Tell me, what happened?"
"This story. It starts from when they were in college--"
Here, he looked down at her, "Are you going to listen in my arms or sit in the passenger seat?"
Lin Shan was Chi Wei's goddess in college.
She was one year older than Chi Wei. In the eyes of Chen Zhuan and Mr. Yu, Lin Shan was Chi Wei's enlightenment on the road of love and Chi Wei's unforgettable youth. Lin Shan was not in love in college, but she had many suitors. Chi Wei, who was not good at speaking, was not even a spare tire. He was like a lonely and tiny planet, always silently and loyally surrounding the bright sun.
The asteroid Chi Wei was discovered on the eve of graduation. One day, Lin Shan suddenly sent a message in the class group in the middle of the night, "Excuse me, does anyone know Dr. Chi Zhongli from the 301 Hospital! My father's condition has worsened, and the hospital near my home can't treat him... Dr. Chi Zhongli is the best in the country for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Can you help me contact him..."
The next second after the message was sent, Chi Wei mustered up the courage to open Lin Shan's dialog box, "You can find my dad for your father's matter. I will help you."
Lin Shan replied with a question mark: "Who is your father?"
"Chi Zhongli."
Lin Shan's father's transfer to another hospital was much smoother than expected. The green light was turned on, and he was sent to the VIP ward for proper care. The two elders of the Chi family saw Chi Wei's thoughts at a glance, and directly regarded Lin Shan and Lin's father as future in-laws.
That was the first time Lin Shan paid serious attention to Chi Wei. Before that, her impression of him was: boring, dull, and dull tall. A childish air.
"So you are so low-key!" She looked at him with a smile.
Lin Shan's father was a small civil servant in a third-tier city. He was flattered when he saw this scene when he first arrived in the capital. After recovering from his illness, he often mentioned it intentionally or unintentionally, "The boy from the Chi family is good. If he comes to be my son-in-law, I would be very happy hahahaha!"
Naturally, their relationship became closer. Chi Wei invited Lin Shan to have dinner at every one of his homes - his parents' home on Xiaoyun Road, the small apartment he bought near the school, the vacation home his parents bought in Aranya, and the large flat that his family planned to buy in Liangmaqiao after he got married... Her simple pair of ballet shoes stepped into every marble entrance of every home, and then stepped into his car and his parents' car... In her eyes, Chi Wei began to become cute, like a cheerful guide dog, diligently and happily leading her into another world.
There were gradually rumors in the school that Chi Wei and Lin Shan were together. Lin Shan wanted to deny it a little bit. When she was being questioned by her roommates, she was wearing an expensive silk nightgown given by her future mother-in-law. She was eating snacks bought by Chi Wei. Her white cheeks bulged as she chewed. She said, "I don't think we are in love. He is really good to me and his family seems to be good. But he is really boring."
In Lin Shan's eyes, he can't make jokes. He is stubborn. He doesn't like sports. He is tall but has no muscles. He can't even understand popular online memes.
But she quickly said, "But love is hard to define, right? I think I should choose whoever I am happy with."
And it is unanimously recognized in the dormitory that Lin Shan is the happiest when she is with Chi Wei - after all, which girl would have the heart to reject a man who is rich, obedient and revolves around her 24 hours a day?
What if he is boring? I am interesting.
"So we are together?" Sheng Yiqing was speechless.
"In short, it's a story about a goddess and a dog." Chen Zhuan's fingers were light on the steering wheel. "I thought it was a dream come true, but I didn't expect that after three months, this dream would be broken."
The reason why Lin Shan filed for divorce was that they found that their personalities were seriously incompatible after being together day and night, and the two had completely different future plans - she wanted to develop in the United States in the future. So after thinking it over, while the two had only held a wedding and had not yet obtained a marriage certificate, they decided to end this wrong relationship as soon as possible.
The words were like a bolt from the blue, completely defeating the eight-foot man. It is said that Chi Wei was standing there at the time, holding a small cake in his hand to make Lin Shan happy, and after a long while, he could only say: "I... I, think about it."
"Why is it so sudden?!"
"If you have to say it, there were some signs before. Chi Wei's father was sick and hospitalized a while ago, and Lin Shan never came to see him once. Later, Chi Wei had a small operation, and he also did it himself. Although he is a doctor, his wife doesn't care about him at all, and he is also very disappointed."
"Tsk tsk, this Lin Shan has no feelings for me at all?" Sheng Yiqing shook his head.
"The key is what do you think Chi Wei thinks? He also feels that he has done many things that are sorry to Lin Shan - for example, he often has to work night shifts and cannot accompany Lin Shan. Sometimes he snores when he sleeps, which makes Lin Shan sleep poorly every night. Lin Shan has complained several times..."
"There is nothing you can do about snoring, right? Two people have to accommodate each other when they are together."
"Isn't it?" Chen Zhuan's eyes stayed on her face for a while, and continued: "As a result, this idiot said that he thought of a way and searched the Internet for a posture that can make him sleep lighter. "Then what?" "Then he would turn over and over at night. Lin Shan started to complain that Chi Wei turned over too often, which made her sleep bad..." Chen Zhuan shook his head. "Anyway, this big brother cried to me all night yesterday. He had to pay compensation for food, clothing, housing and transportation in the past six months. Did you know that he only kept 1,000 yuan of his monthly salary for himself and gave the rest to Lin Shan. Not only that, he also had to give her more money during festivals. Lin Shan sent gifts. She is a nanny in life and a cash machine in material matters. "
"It's the result! Lin Shan, the best man in the world, said she doesn't want him anymore? How can she be so decisive?"
"No more." Chen Zhuan curled his lips, "Lin Shan has moved out of Chi Wei's house, and said that if Chi Wei doesn't agree, they should just calm down. She also said that Chi Wei was so accommodating to her, so please accommodate her for the last time."
Sheng Yiqing's mouth moved, "She left so decisively and capriciously... It can't be because..."
"Cheating?" Chen Zhuan raised his eyebrows, "Yu Youyang That's what he said. But we won't talk about the facts we don't know. We only know that yesterday afternoon, Lin Shan asked Chi Wei to take her to T3. She took a flight to the United States at 9:30 pm. "
"... He even took her there in person?"
"Otherwise, how can you say he's a bootlicker." Chen Zhuan sighed softly, "This guy came back from taking us there and had a drink with us. He cried all night. As a result, I got up at 9 o'clock today to look at the house. Unfortunately, the house was snatched away."
The rain was a little lighter. The rainstorms in Beijing come and go quickly. After a while of rumbling, the sky clears up. The temperature was not too hot at the moment. Chen Zhuan turned off the music and listened to the sound of rain. Sheng Yiqing was still immersed in the atmosphere of gossip, "Your buddy is too pitiful."
"Really?" Chen Zhuan leaned back in his chair and secretly observed her. He saw that this guy was finally not as depressed as before with the gossip as a seasoning. He wanted to tease her again and changed his face to a sad face: "But I think I am more pitiful."
"What's wrong?" Sheng Yiqing smiled, "Are you going to get a divorce too?"
"Well, it's my sad story." He shook his head and sighed, with melancholy in his voice: "Being tricked into a kiss by a girl is fine, but the key is that she didn't reply to my WeChat the next day. I have been out of touch for more than a month. When I saw her again, she seemed to have forgotten what job I did."
Sheng Yiqing felt guilty. She didn't reply to the last WeChat message. She was too busy at that time and couldn't take care of other things. As for his job, she really forgot it. She only vaguely remembered that he was shooting commercials.
The corners of his mouth moved, and he dared to test: "... How about you give me a business card?"
"Goodbye. "Mom World" magazine video creative department." After saying this, Chen Zhuan glanced at the storage box on the co-pilot seat and the face towel in her hand: "Our customer's products, are they okay?"
"..." Sheng Yiqing felt guilty and pulled another face towel subconsciously. Only then did she realize that her hair had dried long ago. An inexplicable smile welled up from the bottom of her heart, but her mouth was harder than her heart. "I, I was busy arguing with Mr. Hu at that time... I did forget to reply to your WeChat. But you didn't continue to contact me later..."
Turning the tables.
"I was busy too. I started looking for a house later. I was out every day after get off work and on weekends..." The topic finally fell on each other again. Chen Zhuan's fingers tapped the steering wheel lightly and looked at her: "What? Was there any follow-up to the ranch incident later?"
The night Chen Zhuan sent the video of Beihe Dairy Farm to Sheng Yiqing, she called Mr. Hu as soon as possible. At that time, Mr. Hu was drinking with a client. Sheng Yiqing sent two videos to him.
Chang Susan said, "Mr. Hu, there is a problem with this project. It is very likely that the total number of cattle counted this time is wrong. The client is suspected of major fraud. This project..."
Mr. Hu paused for a few seconds and said, "You should go to the client to verify the facts. These two videos are like this first. The project will proceed as usual. I will handle it."
Chen Zhuan has met many clients. After hearing this, he immediately smelled the problem. "The client has decided to hide it from you. Can he still tell you the truth? In the final analysis, Mr. Hu doesn't want to deal with it, right?"
"Well. Investment banks get project bonuses. The more projects are successful, the more income. Mr. Hu has too few projects in recent years. He is desperate and doesn't even want his life."
But he didn't expect Chen Zhuan to respond faintly, "Anyway, you are the person in charge of this project."
Sheng Yiqing figured out these twists and turns later. Then the project went on as usual, and she continued to work hard. However, until the ranch project was declared and Sheng Yiqing became the sponsor representative who was about to sign, the project still had no intention of stopping.
Sheng Yiqing panicked and asked Mr. Hu again. He continued to speak calmly: "It's not a big problem. I asked the client and he said it was a misunderstanding. The number of cattle is fine. Go on."
Sheng Yiqing widened his eyes: "You believe this reason? I am the sponsor representative of this project. I must sign all the documents. If there is a problem, I will go to jail."
"But the documents have been reported. According to regulations, the sponsor representative cannot be changed, and the project cannot be stopped. Yiqing, this market is like this. If you don't do it, many people will do it. Many times, some mistakes are turned a blind eye. How can you really go to jail..."
Sheng Yiqing interrupted him: "It's not that there is no way to change the sponsor representative. There is obviously another situation-"
"Resign?" Chen Zhuan guessed.
"Well. If the original sponsor resigns, a new person can be replaced. I can't afford to offend these people, but can I avoid them?" Sheng Yiqing pulled the corner of her mouth, "So, the change in this month is that I'm unemployed." "It's miserable." Chen Zhuan smiled bitterly and touched her head, "We are the same." "So, will my luck get better after meeting you today?" She suddenly raised her head to look at him. At this moment, they were very close, and the raindrops on the car glass blurred the world outside the window into the background. Even the breath became wet. Chen Zhuan didn't say anything, but his eyes stayed on her lips longer and longer. The topic was brought to luck again. It wasn't the first time-- Sheng Yiqing was too lazy to talk nonsense. She simply pulled his collar and kissed him.