Qin Fanglu rarely lets his emotions take over, but after reflecting on what he did that day, he clearly realized that he had lost his composure.
From the moment he stood upstairs and spied on his employees' private activities, to the moment he impulsively went downstairs with an umbrella to pick someone up, and even the moment he asked an offensive question like "Is this gift from your boyfriend?", all of it showed his abnormality.
Qin Fanglu's approach to dealing with problems was very methodical.
Analyze the source, list the causes, find corresponding solutions, and finally summarize. All situations, big and small, in the company are handled in this order without any omissions.
This time it doesn't apply, because from the very beginning it has been a mess like smoke and fog.
Qin Fanglu solemnly invited Cheng Kaifa to have a chat on the weekend.
The location is still the Secret Base Cafe. It has been open for a while and the business is good, especially on weekends.
Cheng Kai reserved a secluded private room, and Qin Fanglu walked in with two glasses of ice cola.
Cheng Kai sat across from Qin Fanglu with his legs crossed, pretending to adjust his nonexistent tie: "Boss Qin, Cheng's consulting service is 300 yuan an hour."
Cheng Kai completely shut down and stood in the freezing cold wind for five minutes.
Cheng Kai was still immersed in his own grief: "Wow, Qin Fanglu, you betrayed the organization. You won't be single earlier than me, right?"
Qin Fanglu asked straight to the point: "How do you feel when you like someone?"
Qin Fanglu took notes seriously, drew a line segment and marked four points on it, namely "heartbeat, desire, liking, and love".
Cheng Kai said: "Then I will definitely be unhappy! I want her to only look at me."
Qin Fanglu pointed to his body: "My heartbeat, skin, and sexual organs all respond to him."
"Shit." Cheng Kai cursed with a smile, feeling that he was asking for trouble, so he changed the subject, "What could possibly happen to Teacher Dan when his career and side business are both booming? This is the first time that he has called me out in such a serious manner."
After a while, Cheng Kai suddenly stood up and shouted loudly in the coffee shop, pulling Qin Fanglu's collar and yelling: "Qin Fanglu! Do you mean that you have fallen in love with a three-dimensional living person???"
Cheng Kai choked and said with his neck stiff, "Xijiang."
"Investigate." Qin Fanglu took out a pen and a notebook, and seemed ready to take notes.
Qin Fanglu continued: "The last time I masturbated, all I could think about was him."
Cheng Kai collapsed and cried, "Qin Fanglu! Teacher Dadan! Aren't you a paper-sexual? You are ruining your character! You are OOC!!"
His hand trembled, and half of the Coke spilled onto the table. Cheng Kai's eyes widened: "Why are you asking this?"
He should have just asked casually about "gifts" and "boyfriend". Later, his attitude towards Ruan Cunyun did not change at all, and he still had a poker face and was serious about work.
"That's not necessarily true! You know, liking someone requires a process, from being moved, to desire, to liking, to loving. - I love her, but others only have desire for her!"
The teeth loosened and Cheng Kai's straw fell into the Coke bottle.
"I mean I like three-dimensional real people. Didn't you say you've had many relationships?" Qin Fanglu asked. Cheng Kai's face turned pale, remembering that this was just a boast he made in college.
Cheng Kai turned a deaf ear and continued to yell: "Who is it? Which three-dimensional immortal can make your two-dimensional Chi Chi stand up? "
"What if you see her getting close to other boys?" Qin Fanglu asked.
Qin Fanglu's head was buzzing, and he suddenly felt that it was a mistake to find Cheng Kai, a otaku, to discuss ordinary people's love.
Cheng Kai understood when he saw Qin Fanglu's expression. It turned out that Teacher Dan was collecting materials for drawing pure love comics!
Xijiang is a virtual singer in the second dimension.
Cheng Kai became increasingly emotional: "Wow, there's a guy who is so lucky that he got the chance to be connected to her via microphone. I'm so pissed off. How am I inferior to that guy?"
He never thought that the word "like" would come out of Qin Fanglu's mouth.
That's okay.
Closing the notebook, Qin Fanglu shook his head, thought about the wording for a while, and chose to describe the objective facts: "Recently, I have restored my sexual function with three-dimensional humans."
Qin Fanglu glanced at him calmly: "It's quite cheap."
"… "
Qin Fanglu was convinced. It turned out that it was a mistake for him to look for Cheng Kai.
The topic could not be continued. Cheng Kai suffered tons of mental damage. Qin Fanglu planned to throw him back into the pile of comic books to calm him down.
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After the rainy day, Ruan Cunyun gradually realized that his worries were unnecessary.
It seemed like something strange had sneaked in. Qin Fanglu frowned: "Who is the 'she' you are talking about?"
Qin Fanglu was poked again, and asked carefully: "Does being unhappy mean that you like her?"
Qin Fanglu calmly pulled Cheng Kai's claws away, picked up the notebook and explained: "It's not love. According to the process of love you just described, I think I am still in the stage of 'desire'."
He said weakly: "Does it count if I held hands with a girl from the next class in elementary school..."
"Then you finally asked the right person!" Cheng Kai leaned back comfortably into the cushion, smiling through his glasses, "It feels so good to like someone. Every time I see her, my heart beats like a pounding jack. I want to be with her all the time. Even when I look at her, I miss her and want to hug and kiss her."
Cheng Kai looked up blankly, his eyes empty.
Qin Fanglu's eyes showed a bit of loneliness: "But he seems to already have a boyfriend, and he is a modern person, so he may not understand people like us."
Qin Fanglu paused with his pen and wrote the words "thumping" and "miss" on the paper. He was indeed hit.
Qin Fanglu is not the kind of person who would bring personal emotions into work.
Cheng Kai raised his eyebrows: "But what I said about the process of love is still correct. It's enough for you to learn for a month. What's the matter? Are you going to draw a pure love campus romance comic? Asking these things."
Qin Fanglu explained conservatively: "A subordinate, a boy."
As the CTO, Mr. Qin had little direct work-related communication with a junior engineer like him, so Ruan Cunyun quickly put the matter behind him.
What made him happy was that he got Teacher Dan’s meeting journal in advance. When no one was in the office, Ruan Cunyun would secretly take it out and flip through it.
As expected, the paintings of Mr. Dan printed on paper are the most beautiful! Every stroke is clear.
Ruan Cunyun didn't expect to encounter something even happier—
Late at night on the weekend, Teacher Dan posted a new picture.
She has been updating a lot recently.
However, what was different from the past was that this time she posted an oil painting.
The red, orange and red paints are piled up on the paper, with rough and three-dimensional brushstrokes. At first glance, it looks like a blazing fire, but if you look closely, you can see the shape of the flames clustered together, like a warm maple forest. In the center of the picture, there is a small back figure, walking towards the end of the colorful and prosperous scene.
This obviously does not belong to the category of two-dimensional, and looks more like a work of art.
The comments section was somewhat surprised.
[Teacher Dan can also paint oil paintings! Is he a fine arts major? ]
[Wow, the style is quite different this time, but it’s worth a look! ]
[Teacher Dan, can you post more of this style?]
This time, Ruan Cunyun did not rush to grab the front row or flatter others. Instead, he looked at the big picture on the computer screen and always felt that he captured some subtle emotions from the painting.
It is neither a realistic painting nor completely abstract. There is a small silhouette of a person in the bright paint.
Ruan Cunyun was leaning back and forth on the bed holding his phone, typing out the comments word by word.
[The drawing is so beautiful, could it be that Mr. Dan has someone he likes? (Don’t beat me up for my blind guess, doge)]
Because the comment was posted late, no one liked it and it quickly sank.
After Ruan Cunyun posted the comment, he ignored it and went to take a shower in his pajamas.
After coming back from taking a shower, Ruan Cunyun checked Weibo as usual, and suddenly found a private message on his small account.
BALLS: [Is it so obvious?]
His pupils trembled violently. Ruan Cunyun read it once, exited Weibo, and read it again.
I was frozen in place in disbelief, my mouth opened wide but unable to shout.
After a long pause, he pounded the bed frantically, making a loud clanging sound.
Ahhh, Teacher Dan actually sent him a private message!!!
Unable to hold the phone steadily, Ruan Cunyun held his pounding heart, took deep breaths, and told himself to stay calm, stay calm!
Ruan Cunyun took a closer look and found that Teacher Dan had sent this private message twenty minutes ago. He actually waited for Teacher Dan for a full twenty minutes!
Before sending a WeChat message to show off, Ruan Cunyun’s first priority was to reply to Teacher Dan.
He typed out his reply in a soft and reserved manner.
BALLS teacher cured my Yangwei: [Wow, teacher Dan sent me a private message, so happy! ]
BALLS teacher cured my Yangwei: [It's not very obvious, I'm just guessing, I feel that the emotions in Dan teacher's painting today are a little different from the past *^O^*]
Looking at his nickname and that of teacher BALLS together, Ruan Cunyun suddenly felt very ashamed.
BALLS: [You guessed it right, but I don’t know if this is love. ]
Ruan Cunyun was shocked. Did Teacher Dan reveal his feelings to a stranger so frankly? Is this acceptable
But when he thought that this was the unconventional teacher, Ruan Cunyun felt it was quite normal.
Teacher BALLS cured my Yangwei: [Teacher Dan, do you mind talking about it? I don’t mind being the teacher’s tree hole~ I promise I won’t tell anyone! ]
BALLS: Thank you.
BALLS: [I have a crush on him, but he seems to already have a partner. I am hesitant about whether to express my feelings, fearing that it will cause trouble to him.]
Ruan Cunyun noticed the word "he" and didn't find it strange at all. After all, Teacher Dan is a girl, and heterosexuals still account for the majority.
How outstanding must a man be to catch Teacher Dan’s eye
And Teacher Dan is really gentle. He is worried about disturbing the other person, so he is struggling alone.
Teacher BALLS cured my Yangwei: [I think the teacher could try to ask about his emotional state first, others may not be accurate. ]
BALLS: [Okay, thank you.]
BALLS: [His interests and hobbies are also different from mine, so we may not have a common language.]
BALLS teacher cured my Yangwei: [Hahaha, are you referring to anime, games, and the two-dimensional world? Most people around me don’t like these either, which is really frustrating, haha. ]
Teacher BALLS cured my tail: [But common interests can be cultivated~ You can find something you both like to do together! ]
Qin Fanglu stroked the cat with one hand and held his chin with the other, thinking.
Speaking of this, he and Ruan Cunyun actually have common interests, such as they both like to look at the moon.
By the way, I have to say that strangers on the Internet are much more helpful than Cheng Kai.
BALLS: [I see.]
Teacher BALLS cured my Yangwei: [Yeah! And Teacher Dan is so powerful and gentle, it will definitely work! ]
Qin Fanglu held his fingers in the air, looked at the encouragement from netizens, and silently analyzed his own feelings, but still felt uneasy.
As if seeking strength, Qin Fanglu revealed his true feelings to a stranger online -
BALLS: [I don’t know whether I should take this step. I’m afraid to face the consequences.]
BALLS: [I’m afraid of screwing up everything and ending up not even being friends.]
—In a company where you see people everywhere, Qin Fanglu was afraid that he wouldn’t even be able to do his job.
Ruan Cunyun looked at Teacher Dan’s reply, stunned, and felt sad.
It turns out that even great gods feel insecure in love.
Teacher Dan, maybe you don’t even know it, but the reason you are so scared is precisely because you have loved so deeply.
Somehow, Ruan Cunyun suddenly thought of what Qin Fanglu said to his employees on the day they watched the red moon.
Mr. Qin said at the time: "It's a pity to miss the red moon because of overtime. You can do your work tomorrow, but you won't have the chance to enjoy the moon tomorrow."
Ruan Cunyun typed his reply carefully.
[I remember that Teacher Dan also saw the red moon that night. ]
[The red moon will appear again after 26 years, but if you miss someone, you may never find them again.]
(End of this chapter)