After Gu Chang finished speaking, Xue Xiaoman was silent for a moment and a half. She opened her lips lightly and changed her tone to a lighter tone: "She is very eloquent and speaks very pleasantly."
After the conversation ended, Gu Changzai and Xue Xiaoman stopped communicating. The silence extended until the sports car parked at the east foot of Building A in the industrial area, and until the two parted ways when the elevator rose to the 11th floor.
"goodbye."
"Yeah." Xue Xiaoman said.
Gu Changzai's back disappeared behind the closed elevator door. Xue Xiaoman crossed his arms and pursed his lips slightly, with a complicated expression that showed something on his mind.
She didn't like the words Gu Changzai said. They seemed too heavy. Obviously, the reason why I mistakenly fell in love with Gu Changzai is not because that man has value worth cultivating, and as a man, he is lovable in all aspects. If you do it because you like it, then it’s not “like”. Why should you seek to upgrade it to “favor”
Is it possible that it would be a good thing for Gu Changzai to accept with peace of mind that he was wrong
Xue Xiaoman patted his heart gently. The elevator had already risen to the 15th floor. She put all non-work-related thoughts behind her, gathered her thoughts, and prepared to get into work.
After the east shift the next day, Xue Xiaoman did not find Gu Changzai in the east building. Gu Changzai walked alone in the department office in Xiyangdong for half an hour, sorting out the data and experience records obtained from the actual inspection at the power mecha warehouse tomorrow, and took a look at the folding computer that sent no message. , I went to work alone.
The sky full of purple clouds gradually turned into a dark blue moonlit night. Everything in the huge building A was dark except for an office on the 15th floor that was brightly lit.
Xue Xiaoman walked alone in front of the desk, supporting the table with his elbows and pressing his fists against his temples. Her desktop is full of data rooms filled with formulas and pictures, and the whole thing is quite messy.
The last piece of information in the pile of information lay quietly on an analytical portrait of the human brain. There were thin lines extending around each area of the human brain and densely packed text annotations. That image is like a magic spell, it has been imprinted in Xue Xiaoman's memory, so imprinted that it can even be dreamed of.
When it was time to close the door of the building again, Xue Xiaoman let out a long breath.
She could not give up, but she could never see hope, a hope that would allow the research phase to break through the current impasse.
There are still two months left before the deadline. Two months later, the half-year research phase has reached the first third of the stage. If the A3 department she leads cannot deliver perfect results after that time, She will be held accountable. Holding accountable is not a trivial matter. The failure of the A3 department to shoulder the heavy responsibility and the improvement of the military defense capabilities of Noah Base are the top priority.
Xue Xiaoman packed up the shit and stewed the noodles, turned off the lights in the office and walked out. In the elevator, she couldn't see the light in the darkness. She habitually took out her folding computer, scanned the list of information, and clicked on the chat box to contact Gu Changzai.
Xue Xiaoman hesitated for a while and turned off the screen of the folding computer after the elevator reached the first floor.
... ...
Xue Xiaoman drove his sports car to the business district for a spin. She was not in the mood to go to Cape Cavis tomorrow because drinking alone to drown her sorrows during an already bad work period would only make matters worse. She thought about it for a while, parked the sports car on the street, and walked into the commercial building in the middle of the business district.
The skyscraper-like tall commercial building has bright lights everywhere on the outside. Noah City has the largest flow of people at night. The commercial building also perfectly imitates the commercial buildings in the civilized era. The exterior has almost all the features that can be reproduced in the apocalypse. Entertainment in a civilized age.
Xue Xiaoman will be more energetic in places with many people, but she doesn't have that kind of personality.
At that time, there was a slight vibration in the leg bag. Xue Xiaoman didn't know who would be able to find her so late. Someone's face flashed through her mind, and she immediately took out the folding computer.
The person who sent the message was Gu Xianglin. Xue Xiaoman looked at Gu Xianglin's face and wrote on it, "Sister Xiaoman, am I in a commercial building?"
Xue Xiaoman sent out a line of words: "Wrong, how do I know?"
The other end quickly replied with a message: "It turns out they were right. Sister Xiaoman, I'll look back."
Xue Xiaoman looked back and saw Gu Xianglin jumping out of the crowd.
"Sister Xiaoman, good morning!" Gu Xianglin trotted over and held Xue Xiaoman's leg. Apparently she was very happy to meet Xue Xiaoman after class.
"Good morning. Wrong, I didn't say 'they' just now. Who is with me?" Xue Xiaoman did not miss that detail.
"No." A mature male voice came from the side. As soon as Xue Xiaoman heard that voice, the smile on his face suddenly dropped by three points.
She looked up and saw Gu Changzai standing five steps away from her. He touched his nose and looked at Xue Xiaoman with a slightly guilty look.
"Why am I with Linlin?"
"We met by chance." Gu Xianglin didn't notice the subtle change in Xue Xiaoman's tone and said with a smile.
Gu Changzai met Gu Xianglin again, and looking at Gu Xianglin, that man Gu Changzai probably made her happy again.
"Sister Xiaoman, I haven't had dinner yet, right?" Gu Xianglin asked.
"Um... ... "
"Then the three of them will be together."
Neither Gu Changzai nor Xue Xiaoman refused and agreed.
A moment later, the three of them were walking outside a hot pot restaurant. The decoration style of the store is antique, the environment is clean, and the fresh ingredients used outside the store are all from the plantations of Noah City. Although it reproduces the low-to-medium level consumption of the civilized era, it is quite high in the apocalypse. High-end enjoyment.
As soon as the dishes were served, Gu Xianglin was humming a song to make the sauce. In front of and behind a small square table, Gu Changzai and Xue Xiaoman walked away from each other, and the atmosphere was slightly awkward.
The awkward atmosphere ultimately came from Xue Xiaoman's blunt reply to Gu Changzai's heartfelt words at noon. It was not a big deal at first, but it would naturally be resolved after Gu Changzai finished his studies in the A5 department a week later and the two of them talked about their work.
However, just outside of such a delicate period, the two of them met again, and this time there were three of them including Gu Xianglin. Just yesterday they became lovers. The scene at this time gave both parties a kind of unclear encounter, whether it was fate or not, but it seemed that there were more bad elements in the encounter.
"Don't you want to explain Yidong? If I had no luck and met him, wouldn't I have kicked Gu Xianglin from their department?" Xue Xiaoman said calmly.
"It's not what I thought. They met by chance in the square outside the commercial building, and he didn't dare." Gu Changzai responded like that.
"No? He thinks Linlin likes me. His relationship with me is limited, and I can definitely develop a normal relationship." Xue Xiaoman said as he put vegetables into the pot of boiling soup.
Gu Chang cursed in his heart. If he said that 10,000%, Xue Xiaoman would be jealous! But if he said it out loud, or even showed the slightest hint of seeing through it, he would probably be done with it.
Xue Xiaoman is not the kind of person who gets emotional when she is angry. Gu Changzai, based on his understanding of Xue Xiaoman's character, would definitely act coldly when she is angry. A cold war is always harder to deal with than a quarrel.
"A true love offensive? Maybe his heartfelt words directly aroused her disgust at noon." Gu Changna thought to himself.
Furthermore, where did he get the touching true feelings
Gu Changzai hesitated, and Gu Xianglin came back. Then Dong Gu Changzai had no chance to explain to Xue Xiaoman. In the following time, the two of them communicated normally at the dinner table, deliberately not revealing any clues that would let Gu Xianglin notice that there was a problem in their relationship. The secret stalemate continued until the end of the dinner with no sign of breaking the ice.
Gu Changzai went to the front desk to settle the ledger shared equally between three people. As soon as Gu Chang left, Gu Xianglin suddenly leaned forward, leaning towards Xue Xiaoman mysteriously.
"Sister Xiaoman." Gu Xianglin called in a low voice.
"What's the matter?" When Xue Xiaoman and Gu Xianglin shut up, there was always a hint of pampering in their tone of being an older sister and a younger sister.
"Is there something going on between me and Lao Gu?" Gu Xianglin asked tentatively. Is this the first time she made the mistake of bringing up personal relationship issues with her boss and eldest sister, Xue Xiaoman.
"Lao Gu?" Xue Xiaoman raised the corners of his mouth slightly, as if he found that title a bit funny.
Gu Xianglin said sheepishly: "Sister Xiaoman, please don't make fun of him. It's obviously not what I mentioned before, 'one old Gu and one young Gu'. So when they met for the second time, Lao Gu suggested that the two of them be like each other. Called."
"It's a bit interesting." Xue Xiaoman smiled lightly.
"Sister Xiaoman, why didn't I answer his question?" Gu Xianglin asked.
"Me," Xue Xiaoman poked Gu Xianglin's forehead with two leg fingers without hesitation, "if you have the spare time for gossip, you should study more subjects that you can't conquer."
Gu Xianglin's eyes widened slightly: "Then Sister Xiaoman's answer is 'nothing'?"
"Yeah."
Gu Xianglin said with a little disappointment, "Okay. When he saw us dancing and leaving the dinner together, he thought something happened between the two of us."
"You just like to peek with my big beautiful eyes, don't you?" Xue Xiaoman scolded with a smile.
"Hehe." Gu Xianglin smiled very patiently.
Having reached that point, Xue Xiaoman couldn't suppress the throbbing in her heart, and blurted out a sentence out of the control of her brain: "Linlin, could I be wrong about Gu Changzai's thoughts on men and women?"
Gu Xianglin was stunned for a second, then waved his legs: "Forget it, the age difference between the two of them is a bit big, and he doesn't agree with the image of the red horse prince in his dream."
For some reason, Xue Xiaoman felt relieved. A slight sense of guilt quickly arose in her heart, and she felt that it was very unkind of her to use Gu Xianglin to exploit her intimacy and trust to explore her thoughts.
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ps: There will be an update of 4000 every weekend. I have been in a bad state recently and there have been a lot of troubles, big and small. I really hope that book friends and fathers will understand this. Be cruel to us.