two years later.
The heavy rain continued.
In the morning after not seeing the sun for a long time, Yan Liang went downstairs to have breakfast in her nightgown.
The restaurant was lit with ceiling lights, and the glass wall on one side was continuously washed by the heavy rain. The green plants in the garden were withered ahead of schedule under the ravages of the midsummer rain.
Today's Xu family mansion has already been redecorated according to Jiang Yunan's preferences, Yanliang has lived in this newly decorated home for two years, but has not been able to produce a sense of familiarity. And the number of times she dined at home in the past two years can be counted on one hand, and it can't be blamed that these newly hired servants in the past two years are still not familiar with her taboos, Yanliang looked down at the stacks of quilts being served Breakfast at the table, fried dumplings, scallion pancakes, rice porridge with shallots, egg custard with chopped scallions... didn't say anything, didn't touch anything, just picked up the glass of honey water to drink.
Seeing her indifferent expression, the servant subconsciously looked at the vacant seat opposite Yan Liang, and after comprehending it for a while, he said in a wrong way: "Madam, sir, I don't know that you have returned from vacation in New Zealand. Yes, he worked overtime last night, that's why... he didn't return all night... "
Yanliang seemed to turn a deaf ear to this, put down the water glass, picked up the neatly ironed newspaper on the other side, flipped through it casually and asked, "Where's my luggage?"
"I packed it for you and put it all back in the locker room."
Yanliang nodded, and was about to put the newspaper back, but her eyes were startled.
After being stunned for two seconds, she took the newspaper back and read word by word the entertainment news that she almost missed.
After Libo Group successfully acquired the Xu family, relevant people have been silent in newspapers and magazines for two years, but this did not prevent the news that Jiang Yunan, the current CEO of Libo Group, and a mysterious woman went to a private club together, once it was released, it dominated the entertainment news.
At the end of the news, a meaningful sentence was added: "As of press time, the two have not been seen leaving the club."
The photo was taken last night. Although it was night and it was raining, the photo was not clear enough to make people see the woman's face clearly, but the graceful figure can also make people imagine what this is Class stunner.
As for Jiang Yunan's appearance, even if it turned into ashes, Yan Liang could still recognize it.
The servant's voice trembled immediately: "Madam, sir..."
Yanliang still didn't say anything, put the newspaper back to the original place, the expression on his face was still the same lack of interest, but he just didn't pay attention, and put a fried dumpling into his mouth, the smell of green onion immediately filled Between his teeth, Yan Liang came to his senses and had to swallow it reluctantly. The servant was still standing aside anxiously looking at the newspaper as if he wanted to take it away, but Yan Liang had already put down his chopsticks, and was about to get up and leave. I didn't realize how bad my tone was: "Remember, I don't eat onions."
She was planning to go back to the second floor, but just as she turned around and walked towards the stairs, a voice came from her ear: "Mr. Jiang... Good morning!"
Yan Liang subconsciously stopped in her tracks.
The sound of leather shoes moved from far to near, followed by the sound of a chair being pulled away, Yanliang thought he was going to sit down and have breakfast, and was about to step away again, but at this moment, someone grabbed her wrist.
"Let's have breakfast together." Jiang Yunan's voice sounded from behind her.
"I'm full." Yanliang didn't turn her head back, but only exerted force on her wrists, trying to break free. But Jiang Yunan pushed a little harder, and he pulled her back into the seat.
Jiang Yunan then sat down beside her.
The servant hurriedly prepared a set of tableware, Jiang Yunan's hair and coat were wet from the rain, but he ignored it, took the tableware and began to eat.
Yanliang didn't leave either, just sat there watching him eat, sneered: "Which woman did you work overtime last night and have such a good appetite now?"
Jiang Yunan's hand holding the chopsticks stopped, and just when Yanliang thought that he was going to continue to pretend that nothing had happened with the chopsticks, he put the chopsticks down.
The servant couldn't hold back this time, and rushed over, took the whole stack of newspapers into his arms, and kept apologizing: "It was my negligence, I... forgot to sort out the newspapers before bringing them over. "
Compared to the servant's eagerness, Jiang Yunan was extremely calm, he took a napkin to test the corner of his mouth, his movements were slow and graceful, but his eyes were like knives, coldly gouging out Yan Liang's body.
Jiang Yunan smiled as if comforting a servant: "There's nothing to be sorry about. My wife who kept saying that she was going to New Zealand to visit her mother was also photographed traveling in New York with other men?"
What he said was obviously to comfort the servant, but his eyes never left Yanliang for a moment. Being stared at by him, Yanliang couldn't help frowning anymore.
At this moment, Yanliang was extremely anxious in his heart, but wanted to pretend to be peaceful on his face. Two years ago, Johnny Welle introduced a consortium to the Xu family, but missed the opportunity because Zhou Cheng was arrested at the airport. After two years, the matter turned around. She and Zhou Cheng both went to New York, just to Meet with the person in charge of the consortium - Liang Ruiqiang, who is well-known in the New York Chinese business district, and have a detailed discussion.
It happened that a group of college classmates invited her to New York to attend the annual reunion. With the reunion as a cover, even if this man found any clues, she could easily lie.
It's a pity that the original Xu's products have been hidden one by one by Jiang Shijun, and now she only has "Yayan" on hand. The brand value is low and the prospect is not promising. It is so difficult to get Liang Ruiqiang's capital through this. . She and Zhou Cheng stayed in New York for two full weeks, but they could only negotiate with Liang Ruiqiang's chief operating officer, and they didn't even meet Liang Ruiqiang in person.
Yanliang cleared up her mood, and said to the innocent and troubled servant: "You go down first."
The servant obviously didn't want to get involved in the dispute between the couple. After nodding his head, he immediately ran away. At this time, Jiang Yunan rested his hands under his chin and looked at her with a half-smile: "Why are you frowning?" What? It seems that you and Zhou Cheng didn't have a good time in New York."
After working so hard to travel between New Zealand and New York, she has not made any progress. How can she not frown? What should I use to cover up my disappointment? She could only ask in a hard tone: "Are you looking for someone to follow me?"
"I'm so busy, how can I have time to control your private life? It's the editor-in-chief of that newspaper who has a friendship with me and suppressed the news for me."
This man didn't seem to have discovered her real purpose of traveling with Zhou Cheng in New York. Yan Liang thought she could breathe a sigh of relief, but for some reason, seeing him in a good mood, she just felt something blocked her throat , making her extremely depressed.
The photo in the newspaper suddenly flashed in my mind, those two people... looked at each other and smiled. Yanliang was almost restless, and the pretense of the classmate reunion that she had planned long ago was instantly forgotten by her, but she still had to pretend to be calm and composed: "It seems that everyone is in the same place, and no one can understand it." No one has the right to blame."
As soon as Yanliang finished speaking, she couldn't wait to get up and leave: "I have to go back to the company to work, so I won't disturb your meal."
This time Jiang Yunan didn't try to stop her, and let her rush all the way, almost reaching the middle of the stairs in an instant. He watched her off with a blank expression all the time, but at this moment he suddenly said, "Let's attend a friend's engagement wedding together in two days."
Yanliang's footsteps slowed down, and then quickly recovered: "Mr. Jiang already has a ready-made female companion, so he still needs me to accompany him?" While talking, she had already gone up to the second floor, and from Jiang Yunan's point of view, this woman was about to walk out His gaze, at this moment, he added leisurely: "That's your mutual friend."
"..."
"Road sign."
Yan Liang's footsteps came to a halt.
How ironic should this scene be in the eyes of the man sitting firmly at the dining table? So much so that he lowered his head and didn't want to look directly, and when he looked up again, she had disappeared in the corridor on the second floor.
Yanliang went into the locker room to change clothes, intending to go back to work in the company, when she picked up a black suit hanging from the hanger, her movements stopped unknowingly. A voice could not help but echo in my ears: I will attend a friend's engagement wedding together in two days...
road sign...
As if someone he knew in the previous life, when he thinks of this name now, Yan Liang just feels like it's been a lifetime...
She stood in front of the hanger for an unknown amount of time, when Jiang Yunan's voice suddenly sounded behind her: "Take time to buy a dress for the engagement."
Yan Liang abruptly withdrew her mind, stayed there for two seconds, but never looked back.
Jiang Yunan glanced at all the black, white and gray clothes hanging on the hanger: "I almost forgot what you look like in anything other than professional suits."
Yanliang acted as if she hadn't heard anything, immediately took off her nightgown and prepared to change: "I won't go."
Jiang Yunan, who was completely ignored, did not feel disappointed, but leaned against the door, "Aren't you curious, what kind of woman did that man who fell in love with you end up marrying?"
Looking at her back, it seemed that she was taking a deep breath. Sure enough, when she adjusted her breathing, she turned around and gave him a very polite smile: "Please go out, I want to change clothes."
"..."
"..."
He raised his eyebrows and looked at her, unmoved.
Yanliang sneered shortly, and didn't push him out, she just turned her back, took off her nightgown, put on a shirt and put on a skirt.
Thin shoulders and neck, slender waist, slender legs...
Compared to two years ago, this woman was much thinner, but every inch of her skin was covered with the paleness that he was familiar with. Jiang Yunan leaned there, his movements remained unchanged, but his eyes dimmed several times.
Until finally she closed the zipper on the side of her skirt with a "wow," turned her head and took out a leather bag from the glass cabinet, and then walked towards the door without looking at him again from the beginning to the end.
Only Jiang Yunan leaned against the door, blocking her way forward.
Yan Liang had no choice but to lower her head, brushing her hair, waiting for him to make way. But he didn't mean to get out of the way at all, he just said in a salty way: "The opposite of love is not hate, but ignorance—Mrs. Jiang, you have interpreted this sentence very well in the past two years."
Yan Liang couldn't help laughing this time.
She raised her head leisurely, and looked at the man in front of her with a smirk, "Love? Don't use this word to disgust me. At the beginning, I chose you only because you could help me defeat Xu Ziqing. But in the end, I suffered the consequences. The family was ruined by you. We all ask ourselves, have you and I had the word 'love' in our hearts from the beginning to the end?" Yanliang pointed his fingers at his chest, "It's just mutual use."
Yanliang withdrew her hand pointing at his chest, forcibly brushed against his shoulder, and left.
At the moment when the shoulders rubbed against each other, a slight pain went straight to the heart along the eight extraordinary meridians. Jiang Yunan stood there, feeling heart-piercing for a moment.
Then gradually restore calm.
I don't know how long it took before footsteps came upstairs. Jiang Yunan was still standing there with his back to the direction of the stairs. The footsteps stopped behind Jiang Yunan, and then it was Secretary Li's voice: "Liang Ruiqiang's private plane takes an hour and a half. Arrive later, Mr. Jiang, it's time for us to set off."
Jiang Yunan seemed to have come to his senses, pinched the center of his eyebrows, turned his head and said expressionlessly: "Let's go."
After speaking, he followed Secretary Li to the stairs.
Jiang Yunan, who had already walked halfway, stopped involuntarily, looked back at the empty dressing room, and gradually heard familiar words:
From beginning to end, do you and I have the word 'love' in our hearts...
It's just using each other...
Jiang Yunan withdrew his gaze and walked down the stairs, finally forgetting the familiar voice completely.
The heavy rain seems to span the entire summer, and I haven't seen a clear blue sky for a week after I returned to China. The sky is dark and there is no rest.
But she ushered in a glimmer of light in such a bad season.
I believe this is definitely not the dawn of her alone, otherwise Zhou Cheng's voice would not be so excited to the point of trembling: "Mr. Liang is in China, and I have asked for his address through my relationship."
Good luck fell from the sky, so that Yanliang didn't dare to believe it: "You mean, Liang Ruiqiang??"
"I'm at the hotel where he's staying right now. He only gives us thirty minutes. You bring all the documents."
thirty minutes…
It's... 4pm.
For a moment, Yan Liang could only think about this time point. She pushed the seat away, squatted down, and opened the door at the bottom of the desk. All the papers she had brought with her on her last trip to New York were stored in this small safe in the door. Time was running out, and Yanliang was so anxious that he entered the wrong password twice, finally took out all the documents, got up to pick up his bag, and rushed out of the office.
Zhou Cheng has sent the hotel address to her mobile phone. Yanliang's mind went blank, she only knew that she was going to gallop all the way, and the only sound in her ears was the continuous operation of the windshield wipers.
Originally, she took a shortcut just to get there faster, but when Yanliang saw that the downhill road in front of the car had been completely submerged by heavy rain, she immediately became nervous and stopped the car suddenly.
Her thunderous heartbeat had already overshadowed the sound of the windshield wipers, Yan Liang glanced at her watch, if she changed her course now, she would definitely not be able to reach her destination in 30 minutes.
The road was not flooded too deeply, she gritted her teeth, restarted the car, and drove directly into the downroad.
Seeing that she was about to drive to the middle of the road, and the water only covered half of the car windows, Yan Liang reckoned that the car should be able to pass this road smoothly, and finally heaved a sigh of relief, and couldn't help shifting gears to speed up.
at this time…
There was a "hiss—" sound.
The car turned itself off...
The rain outside the window is getting stronger...