Si Liang was a little embarrassed, smiled dryly and said, "Is that so."
I did not speak again.
The wedding banquet was lively going on, but there seemed to be silence around me. Even though everyone was talking, I felt so far away that I could almost hear my own heartbeat.
Ye Rong asked Zhuang Xu with a hint of intimacy: "Why are you here, don't you want to accompany the boss and them to toast?"
Si Liang and the others looked at Zhuang Xu in unison, but Zhuang Xu seemed to have not heard, and took a sip of wine quietly, without saying a word.
The wine table was quiet for a while, and finally Si Liang said, "I think their relatives can drink it quite well, so they probably don't need Zhuang Xu. By the way, Zhuang Xu, Zhuo Hui said that he was in the Rongzi Building a few days ago. I saw you."
Zhuo Hui replied, "Yeah, I forgot to ask you yesterday. Did you go to Rongzi Building last week? I went to work and saw a person who looked like you. I wanted to call, but I couldn't see anyone in the blink of an eye. Now, is that you? How did you get there?"
"I work there now."
The cold voice sounded, at such a close distance, it seemed to ring in my chest.
Zhuo Hui was taken aback: "When did you change jobs?"
"You..." Ye Rong blurted out at the same time as him, and then closed his mouth tightly.
"A month ago."
"You are very tight-lipped, and you don't say anything about changing companies, but Bank A is already very strong. Where did you change jobs?"
"It's still line A, but the department has changed."
"What department?" another classmate asked.
"Investment Banking Department."
The classmates were stunned for a while, looking a little shocked at his expression.
A foreign-funded universal bank like Bank A also has commercial banks and investment banks. Commercial banks operate traditional deposit and loan business. Zhuang Xu would come to our company before, and he should be doing loans in commercial banks. Investment banking is a completely different business type, doing IPOs or mergers and acquisitions and so on.
It is very difficult for commercial banks to enter such a top bank in the world, let alone their investment banks. Those who are not very good can't enter at all. He jumped to the investment bank of Bank A in half a year...
However, if you are in the investment banking department, you have to entertain customers often, right? Zhuang Xu's personality is suitable
As soon as this thought popped into my head, I pressed it down hard. What's it got to do with me, I think it's ridiculous too. Moreover, although Zhuang Xu is proud and lofty, his popularity has always been very good. He used to like him from teachers to classmates at school, and even Jiang Rui was very convinced of him. In front of other people, he is not as blunt as he is to me.
He probably gave all of his aloof and indifferent side to me for free...
Zhuo Hui was still stunned: "I know that you are professional and hardworking, and you will start sooner or later, but the speed of this leap is too fast. For the investment banking department, the monthly salary should at least be doubled? I heard that the year-end bonus is all six figures. With your speed, it is not uncommon to earn an annual salary of one million within a few years."
"What's this?" Zhuang Xu's tone was slightly mocking.
I couldn't help but turn my eyes away.
It just happened to meet his eyes.
I was stunned for a moment, and suddenly I remembered the way he looked at me before graduation when I learned that he went to Line A...
As if wondering how I would react.
It's just that it's even deeper now, as if there is a layer of frost.
The table full of people is only Xiaofeng who doesn't care much about the topic here. She is asking Lin Yusen about our "love history".
"It turns out that you and Xigua are in an office romance! If you were Xigua's boss, you'd be about the same major as us, right? Is it an MBA?"
"No." Lin Yusen's answer was a beat slower, and his tone sank, "I study medicine."
"What? It's a big difference, so why don't you be a doctor?"
Why is she so gossipy! I hurriedly turned to interrupt her.
"Why are you asking so much?"
Xiaofeng let out a "dwarf oil", "I can't even ask. Do you want to be so possessive? I never noticed that you are so jealous of watermelons before. I just wonder why you don't become a doctor when you study medicine."
She also said!
I glared at her. "What's so strange about this, I've never seen an all-rounder."
Lin Yusen suddenly burst into laughter, "She has never seen you brag like this." Then he said to me in a soothing way, "It's okay."
It doesn't matter where, he is usually such a calm person, but the loss in his tone just now, even I can hear it.
I changed the subject: "The fish soup tastes pretty good, have you had it yet?"
He looked at me, the corners of his mouth curved slightly, "Not yet."
He didn't seem to have any intention of doing it, so I spontaneously turned the turntable on the table and gave him a bowl of fish soup, then another bowl for Xiaofeng, and another bowl for myself.
I put down the soup spoon, paused, turned around as naturally as possible, lowered my head and started to drink the soup, inevitably seeing Zhuang Xu in the corner of my eye.
He just picked up the glass and drank it.
The topic at the dinner table continued, mainly with a few male classmates chatting.
"It's also quite suitable for you to go to an investment bank. Anyway, you are originally working 80 hours a week. Unlike me, you are all hooligans."
"You also know that you're a fool." Si Liang had not spoken for a long time, and she started to complain about Zhuo Hui. She looked at Zhuang Xu with a complicated expression, "I didn't expect you to develop so fast, and you could buy a house in Shanghai soon. Bar."
Xiaofeng said vaguely while drinking the soup, "Didn't your family, Zhuo Hui, buy a house as soon as they came to Shanghai? You will get married when you get the house, right?"
Zhuo Hui laughed, Si Liang didn't make a sound, and turned to talk to Ye Rong, who suddenly became silent.
Another male classmate interjected: "By the way, Zhuang Xu, I bought two stocks recently, do you have time to help me? Don't be so rude as you were in college, I heard, senior year Then you buy a stock, and the next day it's a daily limit."
Zhuo Hui agreed: "Yes, but unfortunately he took it out immediately."
Zhuang Xu lowered his head and poured himself a drink: "I can't make these investments in my current job, and my account has been cancelled long ago."
"That's what I said, but give me some advice..."
He was interrupted in the middle of his words, and in a commotion, the bride and groom came over with wine glasses to make a toast.
As soon as the groom came up, he apologized: "Thank you for your praise, they are all brothers, I won't come one by one, everyone will pay respects together."
Seeing that his face was flushed from drinking, everyone had no objection, stood up together, and picked up the wine glass after a few words of congratulations.
Glasses full of wine collided in the air.
I don't know why, Zhuang Xu's wine glass didn't seem to be holding firmly, and when it touched it, it fell towards me. I couldn't dodge in time. All the red wine inside spilled onto the sleeves of my white sweater, and quickly spread a large area. .
Si Liang made an "ah" sound, and everyone stopped.
"Sorry." Zhuang Xu turned to look at me, and said apologetic words, but his expression was not even perfunctory, and his eyes were full of coldness.
"...It doesn't matter." I took the tissue from Lin Yusen and scribbled it a few times.
The boss asked, "Watermelon, are you alright?"
"It's okay." I picked up the cup and saluted them again: "Hundred Years of Harmony."
"I'm sorry, I didn't hold the wine glass firmly just now, so I punished myself three times." Zhuang Xu also turned back, apologized to the bride and groom, took the red wine bottle, poured a full glass of wine, and drank it with his head up.
Then he lowered his head and filled it up again, another glass.
And then the third cup.
After he drank three glasses, everyone seemed to wake up and drank the wine in the glasses one after another.
Lin Yusen smiled and finished drinking slowly.
"...Thank you, thank you, everyone eat slowly." The groom greeted and walked to the next table with the bride.
I took another tissue and wiped my hands, but it was still a little sticky, "I'm going to the bathroom."
I said to Lin Yusen.
He didn't answer.
For a while, the surroundings were strangely quiet. I didn't even feel it when I was sitting, but when I stood between two equally tall men, I suddenly felt a strange sense of oppression.
When I raised my head, Lin Yusen turned his gaze back to me and said slowly, "Go ahead."
The water gushed through his fingers.
If the sound of the wedding banquet outside seemed to be heard, I looked up at myself in the mirror, I wondered if it was because I played too late yesterday, and suddenly I felt a little tired...
In fact, it's almost time to go back. Although it's a bit early, it seems reasonable to use the excuse of going back to Suzhou Road which is farther away.
Well, go back and say goodbye to the boss.
I made up my mind, turned off the tap, and walked out of the bathroom.
Going back to the banquet hall, I have to go through a long corridor. I lowered my head and walked back slowly, feeling empty in my heart, until a pair of black leather shoes suddenly appeared in my sight, blocking my way.
I look up.
The handsome best man at the wedding was standing in front of me.
Why is he here? Going to the bathroom too
Should I say hello? Or leave without saying a word
I didn't expect him to speak first.
"what is your phone number?"
The footsteps stopped hesitantly, and after a few seconds, I said, "It's still the same."
"Me too." He looked at me, his eyes cold.
"Remember to send me your bank account number."
Sure enough... is he going to pay for my clothes
Why am I not surprised at all.
"… No."
"Yes." He nodded, with a slight mockery in his tone, "I haven't congratulated you yet, it's the right match."
You and Ye Rong are the real matchmakers, right
"You too, congratulations."
A moment of silence.
I raised my steps and was about to walk away when he suddenly sneered.
"Nie Xiguang, why did you just look at me like that?" He looked up at me, his eyes full of ridicule, "Half-minded? Or do you remember my old love?"
I was embarrassed all of a sudden.
What does he want to prove? Prove that I still don't give up on him, or do I still like him
yes…
I'm!
I raised my head and forced myself to look him in the eyes without flinching, "Yesterday Ye Rong apologized to me, I was surprised, I thought she would pretend that it never happened all her life and would not admit her fault. But since she apologized , I remembered that I still owe her an answer."
I looked at him without blinking, "at that time she asked me, 'Don't you like Zhuang Xu anymore?', I think I can answer her now."
"I don't like it anymore." I said word by word.
"Please tell her, please rest assured, I don't like the happiness of others."