Sitting in the co-pilot, Cen Ning watched the neon lights of the nearby buildings rushing backward like a tide.
It was late at night, but the city did not go quiet. From a distance, the night was rendered colorful by the noisy lights. Through the car window, she saw the twinkling light in her eyes and the silent panic.
"What's the matter with your colleague?" Yan Xingzhi suddenly broke the silence in the car.
Cen Ning muffled: "I know she doesn't like me, but I didn't know she didn't like me so much."
He closed his words, glanced sideways at his words and deeds, "What she said just now is all false."
His words and deeds sneered: "I don't know? I watched you grow up. I don't know what kind of temper you have."
Cen Ning muttered: "...you didn't watch me grow up."
He glanced at her in words and deeds, heh, he was quite fussy.
Cen Ning pursed his lips and closed his mouth in time.
Looking back at words and deeds: "You don't need to be too polite to others outside, otherwise everyone will think you are a soft persimmon."
Although, it was originally a soft persimmon.
"Understood." Cen Ning hesitated, "I'm not that easy to bully..."
"Yeah."
A tone of complete disbelief.
Cen Ning: "..."
There was no sound from the side, and he glanced at her out of the corner of his eye, only to see that the latter lowered his head and grabbed his fingers, with an aggrieved expression on his face.
"Cen Ning."
"Um?"
"It's so difficult for you to say something about your boyfriend?" Yan Zhizhi looked at the front with a cold expression, "It's not so troublesome to say no just now."
Cen Ning's heart tightened, and his temples thumped nervously: "But... you are not."
Words and deeds held the steering wheel tightly: "Why, you don't even want to tell a lie?"
Cen Ning glanced at him secretly: "I'm afraid that others may misunderstand."
"Do you care who misunderstood?"
Cen Ning bit his lip, not knowing what to say.
In fact, she didn't expect anyone to misunderstand this level at all, but this matter was so important to her that she didn't dare to say such nonsense at all.
Her temperament is not the kind of person who can talk about "my boyfriend is my boyfriend", even nonsense.
The car continued on, and the topic seemed to end with the phrase "do you care who misunderstood". No one answered, and no one continued to ask.
One was a little angry because he had his own answer in his heart, and the other didn't dare to approach because he was too cautious.
Sometimes liking is like this, getting close is afraid of hurting yourself, not getting close and thinking about each other everywhere.
The car stopped in front of a private kitchen restaurant with a lantern hanging at the door. The lantern was very unique. The moment you stepped into the gate, time seemed to go back thousands of years ago.
Silent all the way, Cen Ning followed behind his words and deeds, looking at the dim light and the chic ink paintings on the walls of the corridor as he walked...
Come to this kind of place for supper, I'm really afraid of indigestion.
"Mr. Yan." Turning a corner, a waiter waiting by the door opened the door for him.
In words and deeds, he said thank you to the waiter and walked into the private room. Cen Ning followed in, obediently found a seat and sat down.
"Look at the menu, and order what you want." The tone of words and deeds was indifferent, and the aura of strangers not to enter was very obvious.
Cen Ning was always afraid of him being like this, but she didn't know what made him angry.
"Oh." He took the menu, ordered two vegetarian dishes, and pushed the menu to Words and Deeds.
Words and deeds looked at her order, added a few meat dishes, and handed them over to the waiter.
There were not many people at this point, so the food was served quickly.
Cen Ning ate with his head down, then got up to go to the bathroom outside. Cen Ning was left alone in the private room. She chewed the food in her mouth slowly, and suddenly felt that the food was tasteless.
In fact, she was not very hungry at all.
Putting down his chopsticks, Cen Ning took a sip of juice, leaned on the sofa and looked at the rippling river view outside the wooden window.
It's so beautiful here.
When Yan Zhilin came back, the phone rang.
Looking down, he saw the words "Meng Peiyan" displayed on the screen.
As soon as he stopped, he stopped directly at the end of the corridor, "Hello."
"Where are you?"
No answer in words or deeds, just said: "Is there something wrong?"
Meng Peiyan: "I heard people from Tianying say that Bai Yi went to shoot at night, making up for the gap that my previous photos disappeared?"
"Um."
"You arranged it."
"how?"
"Why don't you call me? If you call me, I will definitely go."
He listened to the phone, looked at Jiang Se outside the window, but wondered why the girl in the private room had such a small appetite, she didn't finish eating a small bowl of rice for a long time, no wonder she was so thin.
"They should have called you." Words and deeds said, "Since you are not going, I will naturally find someone who is free."
Meng Peiyan: "That was someone calling me, you clearly know that if it was you I-"
"I don't need you to be special."
"..."
"Peiyan, you know what I mean."
Meng Peiyan smiled coldly: "I am willing to protect Cen Ning for you, but you didn't come to me because of Cen Ning, did you..."
Words and deeds are indifferent: "If it's okay, I'll hang up."
"Doesn't she have a boyfriend?"
Words and deeds: "..."
"We've all seen that boy before, right?" Meng Peiyan tried her best to calm herself down, "Brother Xingzhi, Cen Ning has someone she likes."
There was a moment of silence, just when Meng Peiyan thought that her words and deeds would not say anything, she suddenly heard a voice from the receiver that said her words and deeds were not in a hurry.
The voice was scattered in three parts and calm in seven parts. It was obviously not harsh, but Meng Peiyan's heart felt cold when he heard it.
He said: "But everyone knows that she is mine."
After returning to the private room, he saw the little girl lying on the dining table.
He walked up and glanced at her face facing the river, only to realize that her eyes were closed, and she was actually asleep.
Words and deeds did not wake her up, she had been busy all day today, her body and spirit were tense, and she was probably extremely tired now.
So he sat down in his original position and looked at Cen Ning silently.
The cabbage that has been raised for so many years will be raped by pigs outside
Leaning back between words and deeds, a hint of sarcasm flashed across his cold brows and eyes.
He has always looked down on the promises made by the fiancée at home, and he has always been willing to give her the freedom to choose.
What he thought was willing, but he didn't expect that when he really saw that the person who grew up with him wanted to choose someone else, he would feel so bad that he couldn't put it into words.
**
Half an hour later, words and deeds decided to take Cen Ning back.
Sleeping here is not the same thing.
After words and deeds, he left his position and walked to her side. He bent down and planned to hug her directly.
As he got closer, he heard her shallow breathing.
He stopped in words and deeds, and looked down at her. She was really asleep, her mouth was slightly open, pink and moist.
His pupils tightened, he didn't know what he thought of, and suddenly averted his gaze.
After a moment of silence, he put one arm around her back, the other hooked around the bend of her leg, and easily hugged her.
But Cen Ning still woke up after all. The sudden flight gave her a momentary sense of weightlessness. She opened her eyes in a daze, and saw the words and deeds right in front of her at a glance.
As if waking up from a dream, she subconsciously reached out and touched his cheek: "Um..."
In words and deeds: "Wake up."
Cen Ning is too tired today, and she hasn't recovered yet: "Huh?"
"Go back to sleep, you don't need to close the door when you sleep here."
Cen Ning's pupils constricted, as if awakened from a dream: "Brother..."
The pace of words and deeds stagnated, and he gave a sound of grace.
"I accidentally fell asleep."
"Yes, still snoring."
"..."
"Affecting business, the customer next door almost came over."
"..."
She always believes what she says in words and deeds, and Cen Ning was so embarrassed that she blushed and wanted to come down. The smile in the eyes of words and deeds flashed away, and he let go of her.
"When Aunt Wei asks why you came back so late, you just say you went to a party with me."
"oh."
On the way home, Cen Ning thought of Bai Yi, hesitated for a moment and asked, "Before contacting Bai Yi, did you ask Meng Peiyan first?"
He looked ahead in words and deeds, and said nothing.
Cen Ning was a little surprised: "Why?"
"what why."
"I thought you'd ask her first... is it because she really has a job?" Cen Ning said shyly, "Actually, I contacted her before, and her assistant answered it, and then her assistant said no."
"Besides Meng Peiyan, there are many other people who are suitable for your magazine." Words and deeds turned to look at her, "It's not because of her."
Cen Ning was stunned for a moment, then slowly nodded.
**
The next day, when Cen Ning went to work, he was pulled aside by a colleague.
"Ningning, I know it might be a bit late to tell you this now, but... But I'm really uneasy, and I decided again and again that it's better to tell you."
Cen Ning: "What's the matter?"
"It was the matter of Meng Peiyan's photo yesterday. In fact, I saw someone enter the studio at that time, but I just saw her enter. I didn't think much about it at the time..."
Cen Ning frowned: "Who?"
"Liu Xin."
"Liu Xin?" Cen Ning was shocked, but after the shock, she became clear again, because after yesterday, she was not surprised that Liu Xin could do this.
"Ning Ning, do you want to tell Teacher Xue?"
Cen Ning has never caused trouble, but this matter is of great importance, and she absolutely does not want to be considered by her superiors as dereliction of duty because of some people.
If it wasn't for what she said and what she did yesterday, if it wasn't for Bai Yi, then she would have to be fired.
And the person who did this was to drive her to this point!
"Are you going to be my witness?"
"Me?" The colleague looked hesitant, "Ningning, in fact, we have no proof, I'm afraid, it won't be of much use if we talk about it."
Cen Ning knew that this embarrassed her colleagues. Indeed, how could she prove that Liu Xin did this? There aren't even cameras there.
"I see."
"I'm sorry, Ningning."
"It's okay, it's good that you are willing to tell me about it."
In the workplace, when things do not threaten their own interests, everyone is better off doing something more than something less. Everyone wants to protect themselves, which is true.
Cen Ning knew that he was not close enough to the person in front of him to let her help him like this.
Cen Ning: "I will figure out a way myself."
"Well... But it doesn't matter if there is really no way to prove it. You see, yesterday's matter has been resolved very well. Thanks to you, we managed to capture Bai Yi."
Cen Ning smiled, but said nothing.
One size counts for one size, and those who do wrong will always have to pay the price.