"You don't need to be angry with me or mock me." Xie Yi raised his head stubbornly, "Besides, you were not like this before."
"What was I like before?" He sneered.
“I guess he wasn’t crazy then.”
After Xieyi finished speaking, she picked up her handbag, quickly stood up and rushed out the door.
Li Zeliang was left standing alone in the room with the door still open when he heard her running down the stairs again. Mingming... Mingming was extremely surprised when he saw her appear in front of him just now.
But... he didn't know what was wrong with him. Yes, he was insane. He had been insane since the first time he and her got angry before the car crash on the highway last time.
Xieyi ran to the street in one breath. Fortunately, she was on a busy street, otherwise she couldn't guarantee that she wouldn't cry. She saw Li Zeliang was abusing himself so much, and she wanted to persuade him with a heartache, but she didn't expect that the topic between them would turn out like this. Moreover, every word he said to ridicule her was reasonable, and she was speechless. They both knew each other's pain points, so they deliberately poked at them with every word, like a double-edged dagger, hurting each other. He would never chase her out like the male protagonist in the movie, hug her and kiss her, and then say eagerly: "I love you, everything is my fault." Fortunately, he didn't do this, otherwise she couldn't guarantee that she wouldn't surrender.
The green light came on, and she followed the crowd to cross the road on the zebra crossing. When she was a child, she also liked to choose the white line to cross the road to avoid the concrete road. If the road of life can be chosen in this way, it would be great, and you don't have to stop at places you don't like. Before seeing him, I thought the wound had healed, but when I saw it open, I realized that I was just deceiving myself.
Li's stocks kept falling, but he just ignored it and hid in the place where they used to be together. This was totally not the Li Zeliang she knew. However, he would definitely not let himself go for too long, because she knew him.
After Xieyi returned home, she stayed alone for several days before returning to work at Tangqiao. She knew intermittently that Li Zeliang had indeed returned to Li's and was actively raising funds everywhere, so the mess was not unsolvable. Besides, for a man like him, as long as she didn't give up, it seemed that nothing could knock him down.
City A is a big city, and if there is no intersection and fate, then the two separated lovers living in the south and north of the city may never meet each other in their lives. She and Qiao Hanmin went to the Westin to meet a client, but met Li Zeliang there.
As soon as she got on the elevator, Qiao Hanmin realized that she had left a document in the car, so she asked Xieyi to go back to the parking lot to get it. She came out of the parking lot and took the elevator to the multi-purpose hall, but when she got there, she found that she didn't recognize anyone there. She seemed to have remembered the wrong place. After confirming the place over the phone, she found that it was another place on the same floor.
She turned around and walked in another direction. When she passed the elevator, it stopped with a ding-dong sound, and then the two doors slowly opened. Xieyi saw three people in the elevator, one was Ji Yingsong, one was Xiao Lin, and the other was Li Zeliang.
He was actually sitting in a wheelchair, holding a folder in his hand and reading with a frown on his brows.
The first person to see Xie Yi was Ji Yingsong, "Miss Shen...."
Li Zeliang's expression froze for a moment, and then he slowly raised his eyes from the document, but when he saw the pair of feet outside the elevator, he lowered his eyes again and continued talking to Ji Yingsong.
Xiao Lin said to smooth things over: "Ms. Shen, what a coincidence."
Xie Yi smiled faintly and nodded.
They happened to be arriving at this floor, and Ji Yingsong pushed Li Zeliang down the elevator.
Xiao Lin deliberately said, "Didn't Miss Shen happen to be looking for Mr. Li that day? Then Manager Ji and I will go in first and you two can chat slowly." She didn't know that the matter that Xie Yi wanted to talk about had already been resolved by the two of them in City C, and it was resolved rather decisively.
After Xiao Lin finished speaking, he quickly pulled Ji Yingsong away.
"I'm calling about the last agreement." Xieyi explained hurriedly.
"I know." He said lightly.
Then the atmosphere became a little awkward, so Xieyi said, "There are people waiting for me over there, I'll leave first." Then he walked around and prepared to leave.
Just as he passed by Li Zeliang, he suddenly said coldly: "There is a book missing from my bookshelf, did you see it?"
"Uh..." Xie Yi was suddenly embarrassed, "I picked up the wrong thing."
"So when are you going to pay it back?"
"I... I'll send it back to you when I have time."
"What time are you free?" he asked aggressively.
"Tonight." Xie Yi had no choice but to answer like this. What a precious book, he had never read it for several months, but now it seemed like it would be turned to ashes if he didn't read it immediately.
Li Zeliang sat in a wheelchair, his body straight. Because he was sitting, the buttons of his suit jacket were unbuttoned. There was a document on his knees, his hands on it, and the cuffs of his shirt that showed from under his suit were washed white. Xieyi always liked to see him in white shirts. To some extent, from childhood to adulthood, in the eyes of others, she was not worthy of him. She had never seen Li Zeliang sitting in a wheelchair. No matter how bad his body was, he insisted on standing up like a normal person. Such stubbornness was almost paranoid.
His legs...
Xie Yi knew that he hated it the most when people mentioned this, and she wasn't the one who was going to bring up this topic, but she couldn't help but ask, "Is your leg okay?"
After looking at her, he turned his face away and said awkwardly, "It has nothing to do with you." These four cold words brought their conversation to an abrupt end.
At noon, Xieyi suddenly received a call from Aunt Ren in City B, saying that a foreign expert had come to the Medical College in City A to treat Xieqing's illness. Unfortunately, Xie Minghao was on a business trip.
"I'll pick you up." Xieyi said.
"I just don't know if Xieqing can take the bus?"
Xieyi thought that Aunt Ren's worry was justified. In such a noisy place, if she had an attack, it would be difficult to control her.
"Well, I'll find a way."
What could she do? She didn't have a car and couldn't drive, so she had to call Zhan Dongzhen.
Zhan Dongzhen said, "I'll take her there."
"But..." Xie Yi thought to Xie Qing after seeing Zhan Dongzhen's reaction. Although she didn't know him very well most of the time, once she was stimulated by him, she became hysterical and crazier than anything else.
"It's okay. It's not like she'll get angry every time she sees me." There were some mixed emotions in her tone.
So, Xieyi contacted the hospital and picked them up at the highway exit in the evening. There were two cars, the driver took Xieqing and Aunt Ren to sit in the front, and Zhan Dongzhen drove the car behind. Xieqing was really well-behaved and looked very quiet the whole time. After getting off the car, she was holding Aunt Ren's hand. Her hair has always been in good quality. She dyed and permed it all day long but it was not damaged. Now it has been changed to ordinary black. The soft long hair was lifted by the breeze, and her well-behaved appearance caused the opposite sex next to her to look back frequently. People say that children who are too beautiful will become mediocre when they grow up, but Xieqing has been a beauty since she was a child. Therefore, Xieyi has always wondered if this kind of words are specially used to comfort children like her to make them psychologically balanced.
Xieqing's attitude towards Zhan Dongzhen changed again. Whenever he appeared, she would shyly avoid him, causing Zhan Dongzhen to smile bitterly. She remained the same towards Xieyi, treating her completely as a stranger.
"Let's stay in a hotel." Zhan Dongzhen arranged the next step.
Xieyi originally prepared beds for the mother and daughter at home, "I can accommodate them there."
"How big is your thing? What if it squeezes your aunt?" Zhan Dongzhen's words made Aunt Ren smile.
He said a few more words and finally persuaded Aunt Ren to go to the hotel.
After they settled down in the hotel, Xie Yi let out a long sigh.
"Thank you." she said to Zhan Dongzhen.
Or maybe Zhan Dongzhen understood her and knew that she would definitely feel uncomfortable if he went to live with her, so he deliberately acted against her.
"What's there to thank me for? It's just a personal habit." He smiled.
"What personal habits?"
“Take good care of the habit of freehand writing.”
Xieyi shook her head and smiled. He always spoke in a pleasant way, which was completely different from someone else. At this moment, she suddenly remembered something.
"It's over!" Xieyi looked at the watch and it was already past ten o'clock.
"What's over?" Zhan Dongzhen replied.
"I have something else to do, so I'll leave first." Xieyi looked at his watch.
"Then where should I sleep? Your house?" asked Zhan Dongzhen.
"Whatever you want." Xieyi hurriedly threw the house key to him and hurried to Li Zeliang's apartment. Xieqing's arrival disrupted her schedule, and she completely forgot about what she had promised him. But she was dumbfounded when she was almost there. What was she running for? She didn't even have her books with her, so she had to turn around and go back. When she got to her door, she found that the key was still with Zhan Dongzhen.
After this, her heart cooled down. She couldn't indulge herself any more, using these illusionary excuses to keep getting involved with him again and again. She took a few slow steps and sent a message to Li Zeliang: "I have something urgent to do and can't come. I'll return your book to you next time."
When Li Zeliang saw this text message, his eyes, which had already gloomy, suddenly turned cold.
He started waiting for her at seven o'clock, from full of hope to uneasiness, and then to despair, but this was the result he waited for in the middle of the night.
At noon, he asked the hourly worker to take away all the wine bottles in the house and opened the windows to get rid of the smoke. He turned down the evening social event and sat on the sofa for four hours, rehearsing in his mind what he would do if she rang the doorbell; how he would deal with her if she came in, put down her book and left; or how he would talk if she argued with him again; and even what he would do if she was upset with him and refused to go upstairs. He thought about it one by one and brewed it in his heart.
During these four hours, he had almost imagined all the ways to save their relationship when Xieyi arrived. This kind of humility was the most humble Li Zeliang had ever experienced in his life, but even so, it was shattered in an instant by Xieyi's two nonchalant words. Li Zeliang closed the screen and smashed his phone against the French window opposite. The phone hit the tempered glass and bounced to the ground, and the battery popped out.