Jiang Ying held the square post-it note in her hand, and when the company opened it again, the paper was wet with sweat from her palm and wrinkled.
Fortunately, the numbers above are not blurred.
She handed the cardboard box to Zhou Qingqing and asked her to distribute afternoon tea to everyone.
As soon as he heard there was something to eat, no matter what he was doing, he stopped and surrounded him like a square feeding pigeons.
Jiang Ying retreated to the crowd and returned to his seat.
She clicked on WeChat's search function and typed in the numbers one by one, slowly and seriously.
Soon the person's business card popped out.
The WeChat nickname is Jianshan, and the avatar is the cloud and the moon at night.
The area is written in Beijing, no wonder he doesn't have an accent like a local.
I didn't post a few posts in the circle of friends, and some were just unimportant daily life.
Facing the little information, Jiang Ying looked at it repeatedly for a long time.
Until Zhou Qingqing came over with the cake and asked, "Did you buy it by the cloud?"
"Yunbian?" Jiang Ying peeled off the lid of the coffee cup and lifted it to take a sip.
Warm latte, slightly bitter, with a faint milky aftertaste in the mouth.
"Just the newly opened coffee shop next door, I told you."
"Ah..." Jiang Ying nodded, it turned out to be Yunbian.
She has been there twice, but she didn't notice the name of the store.
Zhou Qingqing leaned on the edge of the table and ate the cake, and chatted with Jiang Ying openly: "How, have you met their boss?"
"Boss? What's wrong?" Jiang Ying pressed Add to Address Book, flipped her phone on the table, and opened the cake in the box.
Zhou Qingqing tutted: "A rare high-quality handsome man, didn't you notice?"
Before waiting for Jiang Ying to say anything, Zhou Qingqing said to herself again: "Recently, the topic of these women is him. If he is in the store today, what clothes he is wearing, you can click on any group to find out."
Jiang Ying paused when eating the cake: "Does everyone know him?"
"Yeah. People are very gentle, so they should be single. The most important thing is—" Zhou Qingqing approached Jiang Ying and said softly, "Young coffee shop owner, financial freedom, time freedom, and good looks, he is the perfect boyfriend. Persona."
Jiang Ying poked the mango pulp on the cake with a spoon, a little absent-minded.
Zhou Qingqing was still chattering: "You know the beautiful photographer in the studio downstairs? He is very literary and has a temperament. I heard that I have been going to the cloud every day to brush up my presence. Hey, I don't think about it when I wait for the grass-roots. It is enough to appreciate and admire the face and feast your eyes.”
Waiting for a piece of pulp to be poked beyond recognition by Jiang Ying, she put down the spoon with a snap: "Speaking of the character design, think about the character design and plot outline of the new chapter's male protagonist in the past two days, and give it to me before next week."
Zhou Qingqing held the spoon in her mouth, and instantly fainted: "Ah, but today is Friday."
Jiang Ying patted Zhou Qingqing on the shoulder: "Then work overtime on weekends, and I'll accompany you."
Zhou Qingqing squeezed out a fake smile: "Okay, I see."
The ear was quiet, Jiang Ying breathed a sigh of relief, picked up the phone and opened WeChat.
The top of the message list says "You've added the point, now you can start chatting."
Jiang Ying straightened his back and became nervous for a moment.
Her fists clenched and loosened, she typed "Hello, I'm Jiang Ying" on the keyboard and sent it.
Seeing "the other party is typing...", Jiang Ying breathed a sigh of relief, his eyes fixed on the screen.
[Jianshan: Hello.]
Hi.
and then
And what does she want back
Jiang Yingzheng was worried, suddenly glanced at the cake at hand, and immediately regained her vitality.
[Sunset Orange: What flavor is today's cake? It was delicious.]
[See the mountain: Mango Melaleuca.]
[Sunset Orange: But I still prefer the one I ate last time.]
[See the mountain: Cheese ice cream, right? Unfortunately, the little master didn't do it today.]
[Sunset Orange: Then wait for the next time.]
[See Shan: Hmm.]
The chat ended again, Jiang Ying slumped on the back of the chair.
It's really time to learn from Zhou Qingqing's ability to find words.
There are still two hours before get off work, Jiang Ying intends to make a list of work arrangements for the next week before the weekend.
The cafe was the theme she was thinking about temporarily today, the progress was zero, and she was busy with a plan.
Although Jiang Ying's achievements were not top-notch since she was a child, she has an advantage. Once she starts something, she will devote herself to it.
Colleagues clocked in one after another to get off work, and she was the only one left in the cubicle.
Jiang Ying hit the last Enter key to save the document and pack up.
When she picked up her phone, she realized that Yun Xian had sent her a new message an hour ago.
[See the mountain: Next week, the little master will make new products, red velvet and sea salt taro paste, you can try it.]
In the evening, the setting sun is blood orange, sinking between the buildings and trees, and the sky blows with a breeze.
Jiang Ying's mood was relaxed and happy because of the sunset and the approaching weekend.
Also for this reluctant invitation.
[Sunset Orange: Good.]
—
"Likes make people stingy."
Jiang Ying's eyes stayed on this sentence for a long time, biting the straw and not knowing what to think, a cup of red grapefruit soda water was about to bottom out.
The computer beeped. It was a new email from Zhou Qingqing.
Jiang Ying put down the phone, moved the mouse and clicked on the attachment. A few pages of documents were the preliminary plot outline and characters.
Zhicheng Studio was established two years ago, and its game "Small World" has been officially launched since the end of last year. It is a food-themed mobile game for young people, combining traditional business simulation games with role-playing. Players start the story as the protagonist Su Xiao, retrieve lost memories on the way to taste the food, meet new friends, experience various interesting events, and gradually solve the mystery for many years.
When touch-screen mobile phones were first used, stand-alone games were the first to be popular. With the continuous development of mobile phone performance, the most popular mobile games are large-scale real-time battle games. A game of this kind takes more than ten minutes, and even for the elderly, it takes up to half an hour, so it is not easy to use the fragmented time.
The small world is different, and the promotion of a level and plot often only takes two or three minutes. And the plot and new modules are constantly updated, players are like chasing a serial comic, and the experience is stronger. In addition, the small world painting style is fresh and healing, and the pictures of food are exquisite and realistic, which is called "the best meal game" by players.
"Small World" was originally a girl's cartoon created by Jiang Ying in college. By chance, he met the current boss Li Zhicheng and adapted it into a mobile game. The story games that have progressed in the comics have been synchronized, and several new characters will appear in the next update.
Jiang Ying took the digital tablet, clicked on the drawing software, and drew according to Zhou Qingqing's character design.
[Jian Ying: The owner of a coffee shop, 32 years old. Dark brown hair and eyes, attire: light blue shirt and trousers, silver-rimmed glasses. Gentle and steady personality, humble and polite with alienation, no one knows where he came from.]
The requirements of the person design picture are that Jian Ying sits in a corner of the store, holding a book, the coffee on the table is steaming, the cherry blossoms are blooming outside the window, and the spring is in full bloom.
It was not difficult, Jiang Ying put on the headphones to play music, and moved the paintbrush on the digital tablet while thinking of ideas in his mind.
I don't know if this person's design was unexpectedly compatible with someone, or because he went to Yunbian too many times recently. After he sketched a rough sketch, Jiang Ying suddenly realized that he had been substituting Yun Xian's appearance all the time.
Even at the end of the writing, she zoomed in on the character's eye and placed a small mole under the eyelid.
With a guilty conscience, the more Jiang Ying looked at the characters on the screen, the more she felt like Yun Xian.
His face turned red, as if his secret thoughts had been revealed.
She bit her lower lip and wiped away the small black spots under her eyes, and then she was cruel, and adjusted the facial features and demeanor of the characters in the picture.
But the facial features of the characters just painted are more precise than Lie, and if this is to be changed again, the whole body will have to be mobilized.
She wiped the line here and filled the shadow, but the result was stretched, and the more she looked, the less pleasing to the eye.
Jiang Ying has always been a perfectionist in her work. She must first change the drawing to her satisfaction, and if it doesn't work, she will start over.
She created a new canvas, took a deep breath, and redrawn the pen to outline the lines.
two hours later.
Jiang Ying ruffled her hair irritably, threw her paintbrush and lay on the table weakly.
The man on the screen has his legs crossed, his posture is calm and elegant, he is holding a book in his hand, and he smiles with his eyes lowered, as if his mind is immersed in the plot of the book, and he is serious and focused. He sat on the dark green fabric sofa, half of his body bathed in sunlight. The coffee is steaming on the wooden table, and next to the white porcelain cup is a golden hollowed-out moiré bookmark.
Outside the glass window behind him, the spring sun is warm, and the trees are blooming like clouds.
No matter how you draw, you can see Yun Xian's shadow on Jian Ying's body.
Could it be possible to intoxicate in coffee? How can you be full of people
Jiang Ying maintained her prone position, stretched out her hand to the drawer beside the table, opened it familiarly, probed with her fingers, and found the cardboard box and lighter in the palm of her hand.
This was her last pack of cigarettes. At the beginning of the year, she decided to quit, so she kept one pack, and couldn't help smoking another one.
Marlboro double burst, a classic and popular ladies cigarette.
Jiang Ying had smoked it for a while before, and it was delicious, but it would leave the flavor. The lady's smoke is milder, but has more eccentric flavors and doesn't leave an overpowering tobacco flavor.
When you open the lid of the box, you can smell the sweet aroma. The popping beads are one powder and one orange. When you breathe in, you smell strawberry, and when you breathe out, you smell orange.
The soft lips contained moistened cigarette tails, White Teeth bit the pink beads around his mouth, and the sweet strawberry flavor poured into his lungs along his breath.
It is fresh and sweet when exhaling.
Jiang Ying was sitting on the small swing on the balcony. She was busy with work a few days ago and forgot to take care of the flowers and plants. In this spring, when everything grows, her orange rose hung her head listlessly.
She smoked a cigarette lightly and slowly, puffing it lazily, staring out the window with her legs crossed in a daze.
On Saturday afternoon, some children were chasing and making trouble downstairs, their laughter was tender and clear, not noisy, but added a bit of excitement.
On a sunny day in March, the wind blew through the vines on the windowsill of the neighbor's house, and the golden sunlight spilled into the room, and the orange petals were reflected brightly.
After the smoke was exhausted, the sweetness of the orange lingered in the teeth.
Jiang Ying snuffed out the cigarette butt in the ashtray in the shape of an orange cat. This is the treasure that she found when she and her best friend went to the neighboring city during the Spring Festival.
That time, I also stopped by Dajue Temple.
Hundreds of steps in the temple, climbing up to it cost her half her life. Jiang Ying doesn't believe in gods and Buddhas, but since everyone has come, he always asks for something.
She knelt on the futon, closed her eyes and kowtowed reverently, making a vulgar wish.
-Bodhisattva, Buddha, I have been waiting for a long time, and I am really lonely. You can help me send a letter to Yue Lao, and ask him to ensure that I have a good marriage in the coming year.
She doesn't know if Yunxian is her good marriage or not.
It only took a cigarette for Jiang Ying to understand that she had a crush on others.
Because he looks good to her, because of the apple-scented aromatherapy in the rainy night, because of the two post-it notes he wrote.
Because she found that when Zhou Qingqing talked about how popular he was that day, her unhappiness should be called "jealous".
After all, liking someone can make you stingy.
The author has something to say: Love comes too fast like a tornado~~~