"My biggest wish is to live a better life." Xu Qian said truthfully after thinking for a while, "I used to live on the first floor, although I always wanted to forget those days, but it turns out that it was the deepest part of my life. Every night there, I would swear in my heart that if I leave there one day, I will never go back.”
"So you never went back after you left there?" Zhang Heng asked.
"That's right, what's the problem?" Xu Qian asked, then she continued after a pause, "I've come so far, I've come all the way here, now I just need one more step, the last step, and I can realize my dream Yes, I know what you think of me, a vain anchorwoman, I don’t deny this, but being a resident of the fourth floor is really important to me, not to mention my boyfriend is also very nice, He would be a qualified life partner."
Zhang Heng was noncommittal when he heard the words, but said, "It's getting late, go to bed early, we have to go out tomorrow."
Xu Qian nodded and stood up unsteadily from the ground. While letting the housekeeping robot clean up the uneaten snacks on the ground, she said to Zhang Heng, "If you have physical needs, I can pay you Find...professionals to deal with it, I just hope you don't hurt me because of the fact that we are getting along happily during this time."
"Oh, you're thinking too much," Zhang Heng said, "I'm your bodyguard, isn't our contract over yet?"
"Yeah, anyway, uh... thank you for helping me find out who was following me in the mall." Xu Qian crossed her arms and walked back to the bedroom door, "Also, that... good night."
"Good dream."
When Xu Qian returned to the bedroom and closed the door, Zhang Heng did not lie down to rest immediately, but came to the French windows in the living room, detected someone standing here, and slowly opened the automatic curtains to both sides.
The night scene outside the window was exposed.
Xu Qian's apartment is located close to the city center, from here you can see a small half of the third-floor space.
There are colorful street lights and electronic billboards under Zhang Heng's feet. Although it is late at night, there are still many vehicles shuttling on the street. The suspended light rail whizzes past under the circular track. Futuristic office buildings, half of which are still lit.
A group of elite white-collar workers had just solved the problems encountered in the project, and walked out of the office building talking and laughing. Although their faces were still tired, they were more excited. They didn't go home to sleep, but Let's go to dinner together to celebrate.
Although Xu Qian has been laughing at herself that she is just a vain little anchor, as long as she compares this place with the first floor, it is clear why she wants to climb up so much.
Compared with a bleak, crowded and messy first floor, this place is indeed full of vigorous vitality. Apart from the gaps in education, living environment, and consumption levels, the most important thing is that everyone here is full of hope for the future. confidence.
Convenient and trendy technological products, row upon row of department stores, clean and tidy streets, and a beautiful night sky, even the harshest critics have to admit that this may be the most ideal future for mankind.
And this is only the third floor of New Shanghai 0297, above which there are even more dreamy and beautiful fourth and fifth floors.
Zhang Heng finally took a look at the huge shuttle track that runs through the sky in the center of the city. It is like the Babel Tower described in the Old Testament, connecting the world and heaven.
After that, Zhang Heng turned off the lights in the room, and said to the hamster on the table, "Good night."
...
Although she received Zhang Heng's promise that she would not hurt her, Xu Qian was still a little nervous the next morning, especially when she had asked several times while having breakfast, Zhang Heng didn't tell her that the two of them would meet later. Where are you going.
So Xu Qian couldn't help but feel uneasy. It wasn't until the two of them arrived at the station after breakfast that Xu Qian saw the electronic ticket bought by Zhang Heng and realized where the two of them were going next.
"First floor?" Xu Qian had an unbelievable look on her face, "I told you, I will never go back there again."
"Relax, I'm not asking you to settle there, just treat it as a short trip." Zhang Heng said.
"But I don't want to travel there because it reminds me of my life there."
"I forgot who said that when we want to understand the present, sometimes we need to face the past directly." Zhang Heng said, "Anyway, I have already bought the ticket, as long as you go with me once, I won't bother you anymore is you."
Xu Qian's expression seemed a little tangled, because the series of things that happened there made her very resistant to going back to the first floor, and the security situation on the first floor itself was not good. If Zhang Heng wanted to do something to her there, it would change. more easily.
But if Xu Qian yells now and asks the guards at the station for help, then although she can get out of trouble immediately, Zhang Heng is likely to be arrested and then recalled by the company in advance. It can't get rid of it, and it will undoubtedly affect her engagement.
In the end, the strong desire to live on the fourth floor overwhelmed the fear in her heart. Xu Qian chose to accept Zhang Heng's arrangement and got on the shuttle to the first floor.
"You said that when you first came to New Shanghai 0297, you worked as a receptionist in a small restaurant. Do you remember where that restaurant is?" Zhang Heng asked Xu Qian on the shuttle.
"Of course." Xu Qian moved her body fixed by the seat belt a little. Although she had already made a decision, once she realized that she was gradually approaching the first floor space, Xu Qian would still feel inexplicably upset and just wanted to get out of the seat immediately. She got up and fled from the car, but once the shuttle started to move, the seat belt on her body could not be undone, so Xu Qian could only sit obediently until the end.
Then she frowned again, "You plan to let me go with you to the small restaurant where I worked at first, why? I don't like the boss there, and I don't want to see him again."
"You are much more successful than him now, don't you want to go back and avenge your past?"
"What's the point? It all happened a long time ago." Xu Qian shook her head and said, "And with his thick skin, he would probably take a group photo with me and advertise his small restaurant. I don't want to take advantage of him anymore. .”
"You don't have to worry about this, I'm here, if you're unhappy, I can even beat him up for you." Zhang Heng said.
"This proposal sounds good." Xu Qian forced a smile on her face when she heard this.