Dark clouds gathered in the sky, and the weather forecast indicated that there would be heavy rain tonight.
Jiang Rui was driving on the Panshan Highway. She knew very well in her heart that when she went to Lou's house today, there would be a tough battle to be fought.
Having been in this world for so long, Lou Wenyuan's attitude towards her is still no different from that of others. He is gentle and gentle, but also alienated and indifferent. Perhaps because of her deliberate actions these days, she still has a bit of connivance and care. But this is far from enough.
Lou Wenyuan is far from being as harmless as he appears. As long as he wears a mask in front of her for a day, it means that the relationship between the two is still estranged.
What she is doing now is to ask him to take off this mask. But this degree is not easy to grasp. It is too light, neither painful nor itchy, and if it is too much, it may backfire.
Jiang Rui stared at the road, imagining the possible scenarios over and over in her mind for a while.
The building's courtyard gradually appeared in front of her. She took a deep breath, calmed her emotions, and put on a smile on her face.
Seeing her coming, Sister-in-law Li was the first to greet her and said in surprise, "Miss Zhou is here."
"It's me, I haven't seen you for several days." Jiang Rui greeted her with a smile.
"Isn't it? I was still reading just now. I said that Miss Zhou hadn't been here for a while, but she was looking forward to it. Have you eaten yet?"
Jiang Rui nodded and looked around the room, "Have you eaten, what about Mr. Lou?"
"Upstairs." Mrs. Li carefully observed her face, and said with consideration, "Miss Zhou, don't blame me for taking the liberty. I haven't been here for a few days. Are you upset with your husband?"
"No." Jiang Rui said puzzled, "I contacted him yesterday."
"That's fine, that's fine," Sister Li breathed a sigh of relief, but she was a little worried, "Sir, I don't know why these days, I'm not in a good mood. I didn't even eat dinner today, so I went to the study as soon as I got back."
"Really?" As soon as Jiang Rui heard it, she immediately walked upstairs, "What if you don't eat, I'll call him down."
The third floor was quiet, and there was no one in the corridor. Jiang Rui locked the door twice in front of Wenyuan's study in Lou, and waited for a while. Before she could respond, she said outside, "I'm in." After waiting again, she pushed the door in.
In the study, the curtains were not drawn, and the lights were not lit. It was dim and dark, and I could only vaguely see a figure sitting behind the desk.
"You're inside, and you don't make a sound when you knock on the door, making me think there's no one there," Jiang Rui said.
The man in the dark didn't respond.
She took a few steps closer, put her hands on the desk, leaned over her upper body, and tilted her head to look at Lou Wenyuan. It's just that the light is too dim to see his expression clearly.
"What's the matter with you? Sister Li said you didn't eat dinner. Are you worried about the company? Or too tired? I told you long ago that you can't earn enough money, so why are you working so hard?"
Lou Wenyuan was silent in the dark.
"Could you be sick?" Jiang Rui went around the table and stretched out her hand to touch his forehead, but when she was about to touch it, her palm was suddenly blocked.
Lou Wenyuan finally made a move.
"Enough," he said.
I don't know if it was because of the relationship hidden in the darkness, his voice was a little cooler than usual.
Jiang Rui withdrew her hand after realizing it, only to realize his abnormality, and wondered: "What the hell is wrong with you? What is enough?"
Lou Wenyuan raised his head to look at her.
Jiang Rui discovered that the glasses that he usually never left his body were not on his face now.
There was a sudden flash of lightning outside the window, and through this light, she could clearly see the coldness in his light gray pupils, like the eyes of a snake, cold and inorganic.
It happened that the thunder was loud, and she unconsciously took a step back.
Seeing her actions, Lou Wenyuan sneered at the corners of his mouth.
Jiang Rui pursed her lips and seemed a little unconvinced, and took another step forward, "Why are you so weird? What is enough? Why don't you just say something?"
"I've said enough, I don't want to play boring games with you anymore, this is the end of the matter."
Jiang Rui's eyes widened, "What do you mean?"
Lou Wenyuan chuckled, his smile was always gentle and polite, but now it sounds cold and a bit gloomy.
"It doesn't matter if you're acting stupid or whatever, and no matter what you want from me, I don't want to play anymore. Go to Lou Minglang. In the future, whether the two of you want to get married or break off has nothing to do with me."
"It's nothing to do with you, we... Didn't we say we were going to get married?"
"Just kidding you, are you serious?" Lou Wenyuan said a bit harshly, "You are crying and entangled with me, if I don't pretend to agree, how can I get rid of it? I thought it was very interesting, I don't mind accompanying you. Just play, I'm tired of playing now, it's that simple."
Jiang Rui shook her head and stubbornly pursed her lips: "I don't want to hear such words, don't say it anymore. I know you're in a bad mood these days. When I'm in a bad mood, I always think of strange things. , as long as you go out for a walk, go out to relax, eat something delicious, and there will be no worries."
Lou Wenyuan didn't speak, looked at her with a strange look, and then said almost frivolously, "Do you also look like this in front of other men?"
"what?"
"Pretending to be innocent, playing with applause men and watching them being stupid for you, isn't it particularly rewarding?"
Jiang Rui's lips trembled, and she looked at him in disbelief, "In your eyes, am I that kind of person?"
Lou Wenyuan's eyes flashed quickly, but when he thought of seeing the two people hugging each other in the cafe in the afternoon, his voice was even more indifferent: "Otherwise, what do you think it is?"
"Lou Wenyuan!" Jiang Rui was annoyed, her chest heaving violently, "I don't know what medicine you took wrong, what are you crazy about! But you'd better take back what you said!"
"Heh," Lou Wenyuan's tone was surprisingly calm compared to her excitement, "Don't be angry with Miss, I have no one to coax you here, I'm going to find Lou Minglang."
"Lou Minglang Lou Minglang, what does Lou Minglang have to do with me? Why do you keep mentioning him today?!"
"It's really unkind. A month ago, he was your fiancé, so it's none of your business today? That's right, if he can satisfy you, why would you come to me?"
The implication in these words was so unbearable that Jiang Rui almost forgot to be angry and looked at him blankly.
Lou Wenyuan got closer, his breath was about to touch her face, his attitude was so ambiguous, but his words made people feel cold, "After I refused, which man are you going to find?"
Snapped-
"You bastard!"
With a slap on his face, Lou Wenyuan turned his head slightly.
Jiang Rui's eyes were flushed, and blood rushed to the top of her head, she could barely stand, she clenched her fists tightly, stuck her neck and said, "You are right, if Lou Minglang is satisfied with me, why would I come here? Looking for you? It's a pity that I'm blind, what's so good about you, an old man! He has a quirky temper, no sentimentality, only work and work in his eyes, Lou Minglang is a hundred times better than you!"
She pushed him away hard, and suddenly choked up and said, "Those who like you are all fools!"
Lou Wen took a step back.
No one spoke in the room, only Jiang Rui snorted softly.
It was already completely dark, and several lightning bolts ripped apart the sky covered by dark clouds. The dull thunder seemed to be right next to my ears, and the rain that had been brewing for most of the day finally fell.
"Fool, fool..." Jiang Rui muttered to herself, suddenly she took something out of her clothes pocket, smashed it on Lou Wenyuan's chest, turned around and stumbled out.
"I'm a big fool!"
It was a small box. After hitting someone, it rolled to Lou Wenyuan's feet. He stood motionless.
I don't know how long it took, there was a sound of hurried footsteps in the corridor, and Sister Li hurriedly knocked on the door: "Sir, sir?"
No one answered. In normal times, she wouldn't dare to make an assertion, but today she couldn't care too much and pushed the door open, "Sir, what's wrong with Miss Zhou? It's raining outside."
Lou Wenyuan didn't respond.
Sister Li stomped her feet in a hurry, and then hurried downstairs.
The windows were not closed tightly, and the night wind mixed with the smell of rain blew into the study.
Lou Wenyuan suddenly returned to his senses, slowly crouched down, and picked up the box at his feet.
Inside is a pair of delicate cuffs, made of platinum in the shape of a kitten, with one yellow and one blue eyes, a pair of Persian cats.
"You actually have a cat."
"What about your cat? Where did it go?"
Someone asked him in a trance, what did he say at that time
"old."
In fact, the cat, as his only childhood playmate, was not old, but suddenly disappeared one day.
He almost rummaged through the entire house, and even offended his father's mistress for this. He suffered countless ridicules and could not find it until three months later, when it returned as if nothing had happened.
But he did not open the window to accept it.
He's used to being alone and doesn't need it anymore.
Just like his father's mistress sneered: "Do monsters need people to accompany them? Even cats don't like him."
Don't even like cats, let alone people
For so many years, he has always remembered this sentence.
But very rarely, in the dead of night, in the corner of dreams that cannot be filled with work, he also thought, would he—
"Sir, sir! Come and have a look. We can't stop it. Miss Zhou didn't drive her car or take her umbrella, so she just ran out! It's raining outside!"
Wouldn't he be so lucky that he met a fool
Lou Wenyuan suddenly stood up and rushed out.
The author has something to say:
Jiang Rui: You are the fool, big pig's hoof!