"Welcome—" Fang Yuanyuan raised her head, but her voice froze just in the middle of her words.
Jiang Chen, who was standing at the door, was also stunned, and then a strange expression appeared on his face.
He didn't expect that by such a coincidence, he would meet this woman again.
Aisha tilted her head and looked at Jiang Chen, then looked at the front desk.
As if she understood something, she gently pulled Jiang Chen's hand and whispered: "How about changing to another company?"
"No need." Jiang Chen smiled and gently squeezed her little hand.
Although I dislike this person, it's not to the extent that I can't bear to see him.
Seeing Jiang Chen walking towards this side, Fang Yuanyuan lowered her head.
"Hello, what do you need?"
Her tone was a little unnatural. Jiang Chen noticed that her fingers were trembling slightly.
It must be fear.
"Cake, including chocolate and lemon... Forget it, just give me the menu." Jiang Chen sighed, not bothering to bully her, so he said simply.
Taking the menu from Fang Yuanyuan, Jiang Chen and Ayesha started choosing together.
Looking at the girl next to Jiang Chen, Fang Yuanyuan suddenly felt a soreness on the bridge of her nose for some reason.
At this moment, the store door was suddenly pushed open, and a man in plain clothes walked in, holding a bag of exquisite thermal boxes in his hand.
"Yuanyuan, you must be hungry." There was a scar on the man's forehead, but his smile was bright, showing a mouth of white teeth.
Fang Yuanyuan's face showed a blush, nodded, and silently took the lunch box from his hand.
"Well, thank you. I'm still working..."
"Then you get busy first. I have to go back to work. See you later."
Jiang Chen glanced at the two of them with interest from the corner of his eye, watching the man leave the store with a happy smile on his face and brisk steps.
"This cake should be good."
Ayesha pointed enthusiastically at a chocolate cake decorated with fruit.
"Then this one will be fine." Jiang Chen returned his attention to the menu and readily accepted her proposal.
Cake shops with higher standards like this usually provide door-to-door delivery services. Taking the invoice from Fang Yuanyuan. Jiang Chen suddenly asked with a playful tone.
"Your boyfriend?"
Fang Yuanyuan looked aside with a complicated expression and nodded.
"Um."
"Does he know about your past?" Jiang Chen said with a smile.
"I don't know." Fang Yuanyuan whispered, biting her lips.
"Do you regret it?"
Fang Yuanyuan did not answer, but turned to look at him. His eyes were full of pleading.
"Don't tell him, okay? I know you hate me, but Xiao Cong is a good person, and I don't want him to-"
Jiang Chen raised his hand to interrupt her and smiled easily.
"First, there's no hatred. Second, I'm not interested in causing trouble for others. I'm just curious... Forget it, I already know the answer."
Looking at the cake hat on Fang Yuanyuan's head and the simple makeup on her face, he already had the answer in his heart.
Looking at Jiang Chen's back holding the girl's hand and leaving, Fang Yuanyuan had a somewhat complicated look in her eyes.
She once dreamed of marrying into a wealthy family one day and living the life of a heroine in a TV series. She almost did it. When she was working as a sales girl, a boss once proposed to her. However, she chose to wait for the price, thinking that she could get more with her beauty in exchange for more material enjoyment...
unknowingly. She gradually transformed herself from a green tea watch to a pure watch.
In the end, it was no different than selling.
On what day did I wake up...
Perhaps that night, she was thrown out of the Hongyi Club like a prop. The mocking eyes and the 10,000 yuan thrown at her like a beggar were like a basin of cold water poured on her head.
It was already late at night and I didn’t have my phone with me. After waiting on the side of the road for a long time, she could not find a taxi. She had no choice but to drag her tired body and disheveled clothes and walk towards the rental house numbly.
On the way home, she met two hooligans smelling of alcohol. Those people obviously mistook her identity for a young lady in that profession, and they tried every means to molest and disrespect her. She resisted desperately. However, the more she resisted, the more excited the two people became.
Just when she was about to despair, he appeared.
He is not tall and does not look very strong. But he still stood up bravely and stood in front of her.
She was surprised that there were idiots in this world who were willing to stand up for a dirty woman like her.
Of course he couldn't defeat those two hooligans on his own.
After only a few seconds of parrying, the beer bottle shattered on his head.
The blood was flowing like a stream, and the "idiot" who acted bravely did not even flutter, and fell to the ground softly.
Perhaps it was stimulated by the dripping blood. The two men sobered up immediately. Because they were afraid of taking their lives, the two gangsters didn't care anymore and ran away.
Looking at the man lying on the ground, as well as the broken glass and blood, Fang Yuanyuan froze. "Reason" told her that the easiest thing to do at this moment was to run away without saying a word, pretend that nothing happened, and leave this "hot-blooded idiot" who was willing to stand up for her here.
However, to her own surprise, this time she did not believe in the "reason" that had supported her so far. Without much thought, she squatted down. He picked up the glass shards, cut a slit in his skirt that cost more than two thousand yuan, pulled off a piece of cloth, and simply bandaged his head.
The shocking blood stains made her heart tremble uncontrollably.
On the deserted street, she shouted for help, but the passing cars stepped on the accelerator and left.
No one was willing or dared to stop the car and lend a helping hand to them.
It's twelve o'clock in the evening, and the security in the suburbs is already very unsafe.
A man with his face covered in blood was lying on the ground. If he stopped and gave them a ride, what if the man died in his car
Go to court, and then pay a sum of money for it. If you are unlucky, you will have to stay in jail.
In this indifferent society, the price of kindness is too high.
Not to mention I have to go to work the next day.
However, there are still good people in this world after all. A pickup truck stopped, and the driver enthusiastically helped carry the dying young man into the truck, and hurriedly drove the two of them to the nearest hospital.
After some rescue efforts, the man finally came back to life.
She didn't know why, but she, who had always loved money, didn't hesitate too much. So he used the 10,000 yuan "reward" he received from Zhou Zihao to pay for the medical expenses.
And she stayed with him until he woke up.
His name is Wang Cong, a very common name that goes with his white shirt. It even seems a bit rustic.
I just left school this year and work as a programmer in an IT company.
When Fang Yuanyuan asked him why he stood up to help her at that time, the man blushed and looked away.
"I didn't think much about it at the time. I saw a girl like you walking outside and being entangled by two people who were obviously not good people. As soon as my mind got excited, I went up to it."
"Have you ever thought about the possibility of dying?"
Wang Cong looked at her blankly and smiled reluctantly, "Probably not. No matter how you talk about killing someone, it's just too much."
Not knowing which tendon was the problem, Fang Yuanyuan asked out of nowhere: "Then if you knew you were going to die, would you still come to help me?"
There was silence for a moment.
Wang Cong scratched the back of his head and smiled innocently.
"Okay... You can't watch a good family being ruined."
That night, she wore a snow-white dress.
Good family
Hearing this word, Fang Yuanyuan suddenly felt a bit sour on the bridge of her nose for some reason.
she cried. I regret it too.
Later, she quit her job in the sales department and found her current job again.
Later, they came together.
Although he does not own a house or a six-figure savings.
One night, Wang Cong proposed to her.
She accepted.
As for money, it doesn't matter anymore.
... ...
After coming out of the cake shop, Jiang Chen suddenly laughed.
Ayesha looked at him confused and tilted her head.
"Did something good happen?"
"It's nothing, it's not a good thing. I just think it's interesting." Jiang Chen smiled and stretched out his hand to rub Aisha's head gently.
"interesting?"
"Well, there is an old friend who got her own ending."
"The ending?" Ayesha extended her index finger thoughtfully and touched her lower lip. "What exactly is a person's ending?"
Jiang Chen was stunned for Aisha's question, but then a smile appeared on his face.
"It's hard to say, but from the perspective of a bystander, the rest of the story is nothing to look forward to. It's probably the end."
Ayesha nodded in understanding.
... ...
apocalypse.
By the Taipu River.
There was heavy snow like goose feathers in the sky. A thin layer of ice has covered the river, the bridge across the river has been blown off, and there is a vast expanse of snow on the other side of the river. On top of the snow, several black spots were faintly visible.
"What are those mutants doing?"
Huddled in the snow-covered bunker, Zhang Ling held on to the digital telescope and stared at the other side of the river with a frown.
Zhao Gang stood silent, but his expression was also quite gloomy.
Originally, they thought that the mutants who had their outposts removed and lost their supplies would be more honest and at least wait until next spring before making plans, but now it seems that they are planning to fight to the death.
According to intelligence obtained from drone reconnaissance, there are approximately two hundred mutants stationed across the river.
A large amount of construction materials were transported to the open space and a small supply station was built. Snowplows and slaves managed to carve out a passage on the dozens of kilometers of road buried in snow.
The armored trucks formed a square formation, the infiltrating quadruple anti-aircraft machine guns formed a steel forest, and there were even black holes of artillery.
"What should I do?" Zhang Ling couldn't help but look at Zhao Gang.
Taking a deep breath, Zhao Gang said calmly.
"Feedback to the base. If another 500 people come, we may not be able to hold on here..."
The water flow in this section of the river is the slowest. Once the ice age enters, the river surface will be frozen very solid. Even the mutants in steel armor can run freely on the ice.
At that time, if the mutants with a numerical advantage launch a charge, it will be difficult for Fish Bones to resist with just these five Jaegers.
Once they secured the river bank and repaired the bombed-out bridge, their armored forces would cross the Taipu River and advance toward Qingpu.
Looking at the snow hills in the distance, Zhao Gang also frowned.
A fierce battle is inevitable. (.)