The short vacation passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, on the 4th, Ruan Zhiyin went to work as usual.
Although it is not an exclusive supply, but to win the cooperation of CF with Nakamura Bio, Nan Yin's brand name has become a lot louder, and it has even attracted a lot of inquiries from investors, but Ruan Zhiyin has no intention of large-scale financing yet.
In the office, Kang Yugang reported to Ruan Zhiyin about the new product line on the C-side. Ruan Zhiyin signed the document and handed it to her, asking, "How is the job that I asked you to do before?"
Kang Yu naturally knew what Ruan Zhiyin was asking, and replied, "After Lin Cheng was imprisoned, Su Xun cut off his source of income, and after returning to China, he directly entangled with Lin Jingfei, I'm afraid she won't stay in Landbridge any longer. "
Su Con is the lover who gave birth to Lin Cheng's illegitimate child, and has been placed abroad. Before Lin Cheng was imprisoned and his assets were frozen, Su Li's mother and son suddenly had no source of income and had to return to China.
As for why the other party would entangle Lin Jingfei, it was natural that someone had disclosed Lin Jingfei's news to her.
To be honest, Ruan Zhiyin didn't think about embarrassing Lin Jingfei at first. She is very clear that Lin Jingfei has never participated in the affairs of the Lin family in the past.
As for Lin Jingfei's careful thoughts, not to mention that Ruan Zhiyin has never misunderstood, even if there is a misunderstanding, she will not trouble another woman because of men and feelings. After all, in a relationship, it is only the man that a woman should solve herself.
If Lin Jingfei hadn't used Lin Wei to provoke her, Ruan Zhiyin would not have done it for Ji Yijun's sake.
After Kang Yu walked out of the office, Ruan Zhiyin received a call from Qin Xiang.
"Sister Zhiyin, Lin Jingfei has sold several properties in Landbridge, as well as some calligraphy and painting jewelry. I have asked someone to buy them back for you."
"Xiangxiang, thank you." Ruan Zhiyin smiled, got up and walked to the window, "I'll ask Kang Yu to call you the money."
"No, it's my investment." Qin Xiang's voice was a little hurried, "Now I want to take my parents to the airport, let's not talk about Sister Zhiyin for now."
After hanging up the phone, Ruan Zhiyin shook her head. She was really worried that Qin Xiang's simple temper would be deceived one day.
Lin Jingfei saw that several imitation products sold well before, so she expanded the company's production line in a hurry and borrowed a lot of money from the bank.
Now that the company is bankrupt, she has been listed as a dishonest person to be executed by the court, and she urgently needs to pay off the large debts owed by the bank.
The bank moved so fast, Ruan Zhiyin intervened. After all, she didn't want to be disturbed by Lin Jingfei anymore.
She knew very well how much Lin Jingfei cared about her face. If the other party could leave Landbridge, it would be the best result for her.
Lin Jingfei has a lot of expenses, and the current situation can no longer cope with life. It is enough to worry about Su Ying's entanglement. It is estimated that there is no time to think about her again.
—
Just as Kang Yu said, Lin Jingfei has been entangled by Su Yi. Just as he walked out of the elevator in the apartment, he bumped into Su Ran who was squatting at the door.
Being grabbed by her arm, Lin Jingfei frowned and looked at the other party with a bad tone: "Su Rian, how long are you going to be entangled?"
Su Yun didn't talk nonsense with her, and said directly: "As long as you pay Jiajia's tuition abroad, I won't pester you again."
"He has your mother, what does it have to do with me?"
"Jiajia is your brother, how can you ignore it?"
Su Rian dropped out of school to follow Lin Cheng in her freshman year. After giving birth to a child, she has no job and is all supported by Lin Cheng.
Lin Jia went to the best school when she was abroad. Now all of Lin Cheng's property has been frozen. She didn't want her son to go to school, so she could only find Lin Jingfei.
"My mother never gave birth to a younger brother to me." Lin Jingfei forcefully shook off Su Li, "And I have already said that I have no money at all right now."
Hearing this, Su Yun suddenly became angry: "You drive a sports car every day, how can you possibly have no money!"
Naturally, Su Yun didn't know that Lin Jingfei's car was about to be mortgaged.
Lin Jingfei looked at the lover of her father in front of her, and felt that her current situation was extremely ridiculous.
At the age of 15, Ruan Zhiyin appeared in the Ruan family. At that time, she saw that everyone's eyes were taken away by Ruan Zhiyin little by little, and all the halo was put on Ruan Zhiyin's head, but she was suppressed by Ruan Zhiyin everywhere and became Ruan Zhiyin's foil.
Not wanting to lose everything, she could only try her best to catch Qin Jue.
Once upon a time, Lin Jingfei felt that the only thing she could do better than Ruan Zhiyin was that she still had her father's love. But now, it's all a joke.
From the beginning to the end, she never thought about competing with Ruan Zhiyin for shares. But still, she couldn't get what she wanted.
Ruan Zhi's voice is high and high, like a mountain in life, forever blocking her eyes.
And what about yourself
In the end, I could only live in this cramped apartment and deal with countless troubles in front of me.
Thinking of this, Lin Jingfei shoved the relentless Su Ran away, she had had enough!
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Linheng Building.
In the conference room, Cheng Yuelin sat at the top with an indifferent expression, listening to Zhong Yi finish the annual report.
"YT's profit is five points less?"
With a cold voice, the man flipped over the financial statement that Bai Bo had just handed over.
Zhong Yi paused for a while, then thoughtfully replied: "The overall profit of the market has declined this year, and YT should also be affected."
When Cheng Yuelin spoke, Director Fei, who was sitting under Zhong Yi, raised his heart, for fear that the boss would be held accountable.
Unexpectedly, Bai Bo, who was on the side, suddenly whispered a few words next to Cheng Yuelin. The latter nodded lightly and stood up: "The person in charge of YT is doing a market research report. Today's meeting is here, and the meeting is over."
The dignified atmosphere was dissipated, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and began to wonder what Bai Bo had just said to President Cheng.
Cheng Yuelin took the elevator and returned to the office on the top floor, with Bai Bo and Qian Fan following behind him.
"Boss, my wife just called and told you to go to the restaurant after get off work."
In the past few years, the boss has not had his birthday. Today is obviously different, Bai Bo can see that Cheng Yuelin is in a good mood.
"Oh, I see."
Qian Fan laughed when he heard the words, and his voice was ridiculed: "Brother Lin, sister-in-law, is this going to live with you in a two-person world?"
"Come here now, what's the matter?" Cheng Yuelin drooped his eyelids slightly, flipping through the financial statements without raising his head.
Qian Fan clicked his tongue: "I really value sex over friends. I'm not here to give you a gift."
He has a better conscience than Cheng Yuelin.
The man looked up at the box Qian Fan put on the table, it must be a watch.
He nodded and stretched out his hand: "Thanks, that coffee machine, move away."
This Nespresso coffee machine is custom made, that's it. Qian Fan loved coffee and stared at it for a long time.
"Brother Lin, hello." Qian Fan was able to bend and stretch, and complimented people skillfully.
Cheng Yuelin raised his eyebrows to look at him and asked, "Have those things been dealt with?"
"Don't worry, after beating, Qin Zhize won't be ignorant." After Qian Fan finished speaking, his eyes turned slightly, and he said, "But Brother Lin, what if my sister-in-law finds out one day? Don't you say that women hate deception the most? "
I don't know if Qin Jue was disheartened and thought about going abroad. Qin Zhize was very thoughtful, and he still wanted to ask Brother Lin to help him. How could it be possible
After speaking, Qian Fan received the man's slightly indifferent gaze, turned his head, and smirked: "It's my crow's mouth, how could my sister-in-law find out."
After he finished speaking, he hurriedly left the president's office with the coffee machine in his hand.
—
Thinking that today was Cheng Yuelin's birthday, Ruan Zhiyin got off work early and didn't let the driver pick him up, so she drove to work by herself in the morning.
She took the elevator to the parking lot, but before she got to the car, she saw Qin Jue standing beside her car.
"Zhiyin, do you have time to talk?"
Qin Jue came alone. Seeing that she was about to speak, she followed closely: "Don't be in a hurry to refuse, I will leave Landbridge soon. This is the last time I will bother you."
The voice was a little cautious, for fear that Ruan Zhiyin would ignore her directly.
He knew very well that she didn't want to see him at all, she just hoped that he could disappear from her life completely. But before leaving, I couldn't help but want to see her one last time.
Ruan Zhiyin's expression paused, she looked at the time and sighed helplessly: "Let's go to the coffee shop outside."
"Okay." Qin Jue twitched the corners of his mouth.
The cafe is not far from the company, and before the closing time, there is only not-so-congested traffic on the street.
The two walked out of the company building one after the other and walked towards the cafe opposite. Ruan Zhiyin took out her mobile phone and prepared to send a WeChat message to Cheng Yuelin first.
However, just after the two had walked a few steps, a red car parked on the side of the road suddenly started and drove towards the two of them with a screeching sound of friction.
"Be careful-"
The sound of the approaching motor was as loud as the man's exclamation.
When Ruan Zhiyin saw the person sitting in the driver's seat, Qin Jue hurriedly pushed her away. After a short while, the phone fell directly to the ground and was run over by a vehicle.
After being buffered by the roadside railings, the red sports car still smashed the glass of the cafe. The originally peaceful street fell into a panic, screaming endlessly, and all the customers in the coffee shop ran out.
The incident happened too suddenly, and Ruan Zhiyin was still standing there stiffly in the midst of the surrounding noise. Looking at the unconscious man who was knocked to the ground, she froze for a moment, then hurriedly borrowed the passerby's mobile phone and called the ambulance.
…
It was two hours after Ruan Zhiyin cooperated with the police to record all the transcripts.
Qin Jue had completed the operation and was placed in a separate intensive care unit.
Pushing open the door of the ward, there was a faint smell of disinfectant inside. Before the anesthesia for the operation, Ruan Zhiyin was sitting on the chair next to Qin Jue who was lying quietly in the hospital bed, her thoughts were a little complicated.
She really did not expect that Lin Jingfei would hold such a deep resentment towards herself, even at the risk of doing so. As for Qin Jue, that's how to shield her from the disaster.
After an unknown amount of time, the eyelashes of the man on the bed twitched and he slowly opened his eyes.
Qin Jue's lips turned pale, and she noticed the piercing pain in her legs, she frowned, and after seeing Ruan Zhiyin beside the bed, her voice became hoarse: "How are you?"
"I'm fine." Ruan Zhiyin took a breath and added, "After you fell unconscious, Lin Jingfei was taken away by the police."
Qin Jue injured her leg and hit her head again, but Lin Jingfei was only slightly injured.
"Yeah." Qin Jue hummed softly, with a somewhat indifferent attitude.
Ruan Zhiyin frowned and continued: "I have already called Qin Xiang, she will be here soon."
After Qin's father had heart surgery, his health was not very good. Not long ago, Fang Weilan accompanied Qin's father to go abroad to recuperate. Without Fang Weilan's control, Qin Xiang went to Beiyao with his classmates, also not in Landbridge.
"I hired a nurse for you, just outside the door. Now that you are awake, you can call her for anything."
The reason why he stayed in the hospital was because Qin Jue was injured because of her.
Fang Cai Ruan Zhiyin borrowed the nurse's mobile phone and sent a message to Cheng Yuelin, but the man didn't reply, and she didn't want him to think wildly.
Hearing this, Qin Jue looked at her with a heavy look: "Is this going to leave? Can't you just stay with me for a while?"
"Qin Jue, thank you for saving me." Ruan Zhiyin's expression became solemn, and her eyes fell on Qin Jue's leg, "The doctor said that you will have to have another operation on your leg, and there is a small chance that there will be some sequelae, I used to accompany you. When my mentor went to Germany to communicate, I met a doctor who was good at leg surgery—"
"But Zhiyin, you know this is not what I want." Qin Jue suddenly interrupted her 'make up'.
The moment he just woke up, Qin Jue was even a little fortunate. Even if this leg is not good, I feel that at least they finally have an intersection again.
Even if it's based on ridiculous kindness.
Ruan Zhiyin's tone was slightly dark: "Then what do you want?"
Qin Jue's expression froze when he heard the words.
Yeah, what does he want
She is doing well now, and every time she looks at her from a distance, she is undisguised and relaxed. The more I understand this, the more I can feel the unspeakable jealousy in my heart.
"Really, is it impossible?"
His throat seemed to be blocked, and he was silent for a long time before he asked this sentence with difficulty.
She seemed to be getting more and more unfamiliar. The shy and well-behaved girl she met when she was young was like fine sand that she couldn't hold, and gradually moved away from him.
Qin Jue realized once again how hard her barriers were. And he never broke.
Ruan Zhiyin stood up, her voice very soft, but with unquestionable firmness: "Yes, it is impossible."
Even if Qin Jue saves her, it does not mean that there will be other possibilities between the two. It's okay to say that she is ruthless, she will not repay her debts with her feelings.
She didn't let go in the slightest. After a while, Qin Jue laughed at herself and said, "If I hadn't returned to China..."
He hesitated.
Ruan Zhiyin shook her head: "Even so, nothing will change."
After speaking, she smiled and said, "As long as Cheng Yuelin is here, my destination is him."
"He?" Qin Jue's eyes were red, "Zhiyin, who do you think designed you to go back to China? Do you think Cheng Yuelin's hands and feet are clean? If he hadn't helped Qin Zhize behind his back, how could we have come this far? "
He never said those words to her.
Because Qin Jue understood that even if he said it, he would be inferior in front of her.
But now, what worries would he have.
The sudden words made Ruan Zhiyin's face slightly startled.
The ward fell into silent silence.
After a while, Ruan Zhiyin spoke again: "Qin Jue, do you remember why I agreed to be with you?"
"That Christmas, I received a piece of Jade Buddha from Dean Chen." She paused, "I thought that was sent to me by you, Dean Chen."
Qin Jue seemed stunned, and murmured, "So, is it Cheng Yuelin?"
Ruan Zhiyin nodded calmly.
Qin Jue suddenly felt a little absurd: "You are telling me this now to explain that without Cheng Yuelin, you wouldn't be with me at all?"
"If you think so, maybe you're right." She closed her eyes and said no more.
Looking at her calm eyes, Qin Jue smiled: "You are so cruel, you will break even my last thought."
He couldn't watch her and Cheng Yuelin together again and again, and he even wanted to leave Landbridge regardless of his parents' obstruction. Just because I feel that I can still live with memories.
But now she told him that everything just started with a misunderstanding. He was just, she was mistaken for Cheng Yuelin's substitute, a ridiculous damn substitute.
"Zhiyin, this is unfair." Qin Jue looked at her with burning eyes, "Could it be that you can forgive Cheng Yuelin for his concealment?"
…
Ruan Zhiyin came with the ambulance. After she came out of the hospital, her mobile phone had been scrapped in the accident, and it was not easy to take a taxi.
She walked aimlessly along the street for a while. When I regained my senses, I found myself standing in a somewhat familiar place.
Ten years later, Lanzhong has also moved to a new campus. The old campus has long been abandoned and has been re-planned as a citizen library.
The original wall was dismantled and covered with flat stone slabs, but Ruan Zhiyin still recognized that the place where Cheng Yuelin was standing was where Cheng Yuelin climbed over the wall.
Just because of the luxuriant banyan tree overhead.
Years passed, and the surrounding scene ceased to exist. Only this tree is still standing here, as if condensing all the time, bringing her thoughts back to the past.
When she first arrived in Lanzhong, she also had times when she was timid, faced with the misfits around her, and even wanted to flee back to Xu County. When the mood is low, Ruan Zhiyin will walk in circles on the playground.
There was a big tree in the corner of the playground, which was extremely hidden. Ruan Zhiyin had run into Cheng Yuelin who tried to skip class more than once.
Seriously speaking, he was far more unprofessional at that time than he is now.
After gathering some complicated emotions, Ruan Zhiyin stood on the side of the road, took a taxi, and returned to the villa.
Open the door and go in, there is no light in the living room.
The silent figure of the man sat quietly on the sofa in the living room. On the coffee table, there was a gradually annihilating red light.
Ruan Zhiyin smelled the pungent smoke.
"I'm back." Cheng Yuelin didn't get up, his voice couldn't tell the emotion, "Did you go to the hospital?"
He knew what happened and where she went.
Cheng Yuelin was still in the car when he received Ruan Zhiyin's text message. He told the driver to go to the hospital to find her, but stopped at the door of the hospital.
"Sir, are you not going in?"
"Go back to the villa."
…
Recovering from his thoughts, Cheng Yuelin heard Ruan Zhiyin humming softly, and she turned on the light in the living room.
The man looked sideways at her: "Is there anything you want to tell me?"
Ruan Zhiyin met his dark eyes, thought for a while, and then asked, "After I returned to China, did you intervene in the scandals between Qin Jue and Lin Jingfei?"
Before she was taken away by the police, Lin Jingfei looked at Qin Jue who was pushed into the ambulance, her face was depressed, but she suddenly turned her head and said to her, "Ruan Zhiyin, do you think that those scandals back then, no one else would add fuel to it? fire?"
At first, Ruan Zhiyin didn't understand, but later she was puzzled by Qin Jue's words.
She didn't know why Lin Jingfei suddenly reminded herself, maybe she really gave up on Qin Jue at that moment, or maybe she just wanted to make a gap between her and Cheng Yuelin.
But I have to say, at least she is angry.
Cheng Yuelin frowned, stopped for a long time, and whispered, "Just let the hot search hang for two more days."
"Well." Ruan Zhiyin nodded and asked again, "What about you and Qin Zhize?"
Cheng Yuelin pursed his lower lip lightly: "There are some intersections, not familiar."
"Unfamiliar?" Ruan Zhiyin looked at him with a light smile, her eyes calm.
The two seemed to be silently confronting each other.
After being silent for a while, Cheng Yuelin squeezed out the cigarette butts in the ashtray: "Yes, I deliberately split you up."
Even if she didn't want her to know, since she had noticed it, denial was obviously a worse choice.
Ruan Zhiyin frowned subconsciously: "Why do you do this?"
"Ruan 嘤嘤, from the past to now, I don't know what to do." The curvature of the corner of his mouth was very light, "I admit that this method is a bit extreme. If you are angry for this, you can punish me."
"How to punish?"
"The highest punishment, you can... break up with me."
But you can't get a divorce.
A breakup will always make up, but a divorce will never end.
Cheng Yuelin was a little fortunate that he had already put a lock on her relationship with the two.
Ruan Zhiyin nodded lightly, her voice still calm: "Okay, let's break up first."
"You can reconsider—"
"No," she interrupted.
Cheng Yuelin sighed and tried his best to maintain calm: "Well, I'll go up first."
Knowing that he needed to calm down, the man got up and walked towards the stairs, but was stopped by her.
"Wait." Ruan Zhiyin glanced at the clock on the wall, "Five minutes left."
Cheng Yuelin turned around and stood quietly a few meters away, looking down at her as if he didn't understand her words.
Ruan Zhiyin stared at the slightly bewildered man, but suddenly smiled: "Cheng Yuelin, I haven't given your birthday present yet."
She stared at his handsome eyebrows, which were still the outline in her memory. After a long time, she was still the same as before.
Ruan Zhiyin remembered that on the day she graduated from high school, she went to the school to collect her files and graduation certificate. After coming out of the office, she stood by the window of the teaching building and saw Cheng Yuelin, who hadn't seen her for half a month, on the playground not far away.
That day, he put aside Qian Fan, who was always by his side, and stood under the banyan tree beside the playground for a while. After a while, the tall and straight figure disappeared from sight.
After the college entrance examination, students only go back to school once.
At that time, she didn't know why he deliberately went under that tree when he went back to school. Only just now did she find the traces he left on the trunk.
The tall and straight branches are engraved with deep or shallow numbers, each of which seems to condense the past time.
Seemingly disorganized, only Ruan Zhiyin knows that on the left is his score in each exam. On the right is hers.
556—671
593—689
604—685
…
The last line, which stayed in the college entrance examination, was probably left over from the time he returned to school.
Angry, it's true, mad at his concealment.
However, when I saw those, most of the anger in my heart disappeared, and it was replaced by a dense sourness.
Just like him when he was a teenager, he has always been approaching her step by step with that enthusiasm, stepping on those missed times.
Suddenly, I don't want to force myself to struggle with reason and cause and effect.
She also said that this time, she will give him the best birthday present.
If it was his premeditated efforts before, then now, it was her turn to take the initiative.
Ruan Zhiyin stared at the man in front of her, her soft voice was meticulous and sincere: "Cheng Yuelin, since we broke up, are you willing to skip love now and accept my proposal?"
She always remembered that between them, the marriage proposal was over, and there was also a lack of a wedding that truly belonged to them.
The man paused slightly: "What did you say?"
"I'm proposing to you very formally." Ruan Zhiyin smiled, "Of course, if you don't want to, you can reconsider."
Glancing at her smiling eyes, Cheng Yuelin frowned lightly, and then said with a smile, "Ruan 嘤嘤, are you playing with me?"
"Are you only allowed to play with me?"
He clearly took her step by step, and calculated her into the pit.
"So, do you agree?"
She looked serious and asked again.
Cheng Yuelin didn't answer, he took a breath, and asked, "With such a good opportunity, Qin Jue didn't make any excessive demands?"
He did not deny that if it was him, he would always try to rely on her.
"I did mention it."
The man frowned: "Then, what do you say?"
- "Can you forgive him for hiding?"
Ruan Zhiyin suddenly remembered Qin Jue's words.
"I told him-"
She smiled at him.
"No way, I love you, it's more important than anything."
Just like Ruan Zhiyin always believed that among countless possibilities, she would always only have the ending that leads to him.