Mrs. Zhang stared at the closed door, sighed, turned her head, glanced upstairs, sighed again, she went to the kitchen first, turned off the fire that was still cooking porridge, and then made a cup of tea , just as he was about to go upstairs to report the situation to He Jichen, the doorbell rang.
Mrs. Zhang hurriedly ran to the door and opened it. When she saw Ji Yi returning, a smile suddenly appeared on her face: "Miss..."
As soon as she shouted two words, Ji Yi handed an envelope to Mrs. Zhang: "Sister-in-law Zhang, please pass this envelope to Mr. He, thank you."
After saying that, Ji Yi smiled at Mrs. Zhang and politely said "goodbye", stepped into the elevator, and left again.
Mrs. Zhang waited until the floor number of the elevator reached "1" before closing the door and walking towards the stairs. After taking only two steps, she noticed someone standing at the railing on the second floor and she suddenly stopped. , raised his head and shouted: "Mr. He."
He Jichen stared at the closed living room door and said nothing.
Sister-in-law Zhang stood downstairs for a moment longer, then raised her feet again, went upstairs, and walked to He Jichen. She handed over the envelope first, and then said in a low voice: "I persuaded the lady several times. The lady still didn’t stay for dinner.”
After a slight pause for two seconds, Mrs. Zhang continued, "Not long after she left, she came back and gave me this envelope."
After Mrs. Zhang finished speaking for a while, He Jichen didn't respond. She spoke again: "Mr. He?"
This time, He Jichen hesitated for a long time, then slowly turned his head to look at the envelope handed by Mrs. Zhang. His Adam's apple rolled up and down twice, and he stretched out his hand and took it.
Sister-in-law Zhang didn't say anything more and stepped back wisely. Before she entered the kitchen, she raised her head and glanced at the railing on the second floor. He Jichen was still there, but there was a burning cigarette in his hand.
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In fact, he knew some things even if Mrs. Zhang didn't tell him.
Because the moment he heard her voice from downstairs, he opened the bedroom door, stood at the door, and looked at her quietly.
He heard her rejection of Mrs. Zhang, and also saw the scene of her folding back the envelope and handing it to Mrs. Zhang.
Do you know how it feels to watch someone you love leave but be unable to do anything about it
At that moment, he felt that way, as if he was in dire straits and enduring the punishment of being cut into pieces by a thousand knives.
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Ji Yi didn't dare to wear low-cut clothes for several days, whether in the dormitory or the classroom.
It took a full week for the traces He Jichen left on her body to completely fade away.
Fortunately, it was already late autumn, so she wore thicker clothes and didn't look out of place.
On the eighth day after that incident, Ji Yi received a call from Xu Yi, Director Liang's assistant.
Xu Yi told her that he mentioned her in front of Director Liang, who still remembered her and asked her to come to the film and television city for an audition this weekend.
After hanging up the phone, Ji Yi received an email from Xu Yi not long after, which was the character outline of Director Liang's latest movie.
For Ji Yi, this was the opportunity that she had been waiting for for half a year. Naturally, she did not dare to take it lightly, so she spent two days designing the character for the movie.
The audition started at ten o'clock, and Ji Yi arrived at nine o'clock.
The audition order was arranged in advance. Ji Yi waited until eleven o'clock on the 14th before she heard the staff call her name.