Yang Shu finished smoking and went back to the door of Yi Kun's office, unexpectedly bumping into this scene. She heard the quarrel in the office, and before she could fully react, Jing Ming rushed out the door. His complexion was so pale that even his lips turned white.
She froze for a moment, glanced at Du Ruo and Yi Kun in the office, turned around and walked away with Jing Ming with a cold face.
All the way down to the parking lot with low pressure, Jing Ming got on the car and stopped for nearly ten minutes without asking the driver to drive.
Chen Xian went up and asked Yang Shu: "What's going on? The expression is so scary?"
Yang Shu took a puff of smoke and said to herself, "I'm going crazy with jealousy."
Chen Xian didn't understand: "Huh?"
She explained: "I had a fight with that vice president."
"Arguing? Why are you arguing? For the acquisition?"
"Um."
Chen Xian was puzzled: "Acquisition is a good thing for mutual benefit. It helps Yuanqian improve his competitiveness and bid ability, and expand the market to avoid being squeezed out. She can also concentrate on research and development instead of exhausting chores and public relations. Isn't the boss just for She's fine. What's the fuss about it?"
"Who knows what your young master said?" Yang Shu said, "He didn't have any good things to say in the first place, and he met Yi Kun, a deadly enemy. New and old grudges, don't get angry? How can you let that The vice president met. Hey... It's hard for a child to fall in love."
"Then this acquisition...?"
"It's okay, Yi Kun is more mature than him. He is still sensible." Yang Shu was quite calm.
Chen Xian felt distressed: "But I think the boss is really angry."
"It's good to be angry. Someone should have kicked him a long time ago. It's exciting, what if it's all right?" Yang Shu saw the Mercedes-Benz in front of him started, put out the cigarette butt, and said, "The car is driving, let's go. "
…
Jing Ming's gloomy and anxious mood has not diminished all the way, and it is becoming more and more intense. It seems that an unspeakable panic has arisen in his heart.
It was as if there was something very important left that could no longer be grasped.
The "I love you" she said on the flyover that night is still in my ears, but now it has become "we" with others.
Ah.
The feeling of suffocation was like a pair of iron hands strangling his throat.
He was so suffocated that he got out of the elevator and walked to the office. The oncoming employees of the company did not dare to say hello and gave way one after another.
He walked all the way to the office door with a cold face, and saw He Wang.
Her footsteps stopped, and her expression suddenly changed.
He Wang stood up from the chair and called him, "Jingming."
Jing Ming stood there for a few seconds without saying a word, went to open the door and walked into the office.
He Wang followed him in and closed the door.
A desk with two people sitting opposite each other.
At the end of September, thin sunlight poured in from the floor-to-ceiling windows, cutting the table into light and dark sides.
He Wang is in the sunshine, and Jingming is in the shadows.
Companions who once fought side by side, who have known each other since they were teenagers and started chasing dreams; confidants with the most similar temperaments and talents, time has passed between them for six years.
At this moment, everything is unspeakable.
He Wang spoke first: "The matter of Du Ruo taking you to watch the game was an idea that we came up with together."
Jing Ming didn't move, staring at the light-dark dividing line cast by the sunlight on the table.
"Du Ruo told me what you said, including the reason why Prime No.2 crashed." He Wang licked his lips, and said with some difficulty, "Jingming, you are not the only one who discovered it. Later, I discovered it. People have also discovered it. Perhaps it is because of this that our group of people have not contacted anyone during their respective studies, and we have deliberately avoided it."
Jing Ming was startled, and raised his eyes to look at him.
He Wang also looked at him: "It's okay, Jingming, Prime can't just break up like this. Over the years, everyone has always remembered this matter in their hearts. No matter how far people go, their hearts are still here, and they have never broken up.
I know exactly what you're thinking. To be honest, if I were the captain, I might as well... But Jingming, I always think that your decision is not wrong. If you go back to the beginning, I will still support you. At that time, your idea of "improving step by step" was absolutely correct. It’s just that at that time, none of us could have imagined that taking one more step would already be the limit. Where do we think that is our limit? "His eyes were red, sad, unwilling, all of them," Li Wei couldn't think of it, so he didn't believe it. "
Jing Ming tugged at the center of his brows, and his gaze lost for a moment, as if he saw the scene where No.2 led Li Wei to the end.
"I admit that you, as the captain, were not responsible for sobriety at that time, and you should bear the responsibility for the failure. But after that, all the attacks and abuse were directed at you. You took all the charges and guaranteed the future of all of us. It is enough up.
You said that you no longer believe in machines, no, what you no longer believe in is the weakness of human nature. But there will always be people walking on the road of driverless driving! If you don't go, others will go. Are you going to leave this path to someone else? "
He Wang stared into his eyes and asked word by word,
"They are human too. Do you want to hand over those weaknesses to others, or keep them in your own hands?"
Jing Ming's chest rose and fell slightly, and he inadvertently clenched his teeth.
Almost every sentence He Wang said hits on his pain point and unwillingness.
He was silent for a long time, and finally said: "I will find you in a while."
He Wang was stunned for a moment, and in the next second, there was almost a flash of light in his eyes.
A person with his personality actually nodded with extreme restraint: "Okay."
He flew out and took out a pen, tore off a sticky note, and wrote his phone number on it: "I know it's a little bit reluctant to let you think it over for a while. Take your time, don't rush."
After finishing what should be said, He Wang stopped pointing and didn't put any pressure on him: "I'll wait for you." After speaking, he stood up, but suddenly stretched out his hand to him.
Jing Ming was taken aback.
He Wang smiled suddenly, and said softly, "We haven't shaken hands for six years."
Jing Ming stretched out his hand a little slowly.
Across the table, the best friend's hands are clasped together, hot and powerful, reaching directly to the heart.
After He Wang shook hands with him, he left.
Jing Ming stayed alone in the huge office.
The September sunlight moved slowly, moved across the table, and spread to his side.
A pale golden halo enveloped his face.
There are several strong and surging emotions in the chest cavity, restlessness, agitation, cleansing, mixed into a ball, bumping around, as if looking for an exit, seeking redemption.
He took a deep breath, but still unable to clarify and relieve it by himself, he suddenly lowered his head and pressed his palm to his forehead.
…
In Yi Kun's office,
Du Ruo was sitting at the desk, also propping his forehead with his hand.
Yi Kun put a glass of water in front of her, walked over and sat down opposite.
She looked up at the water glass, her face calmed down a little, and she said, "I was impulsive just now, I'm sorry."
Yi Kun was silent for a while, and said: "Needless to say I'm sorry, I'm glad you defended me just now. But I must also make it clear that you misunderstood him about the acquisition. Maybe you just heard that I didn't agree with him. Friendly dialogue. There is no way, I have known him since the beginning. The attitude is bad, but it has nothing to do with the acquisition itself.”
Du Ruo was bitter and speechless.
She wasn't defending Yi Kun, it was just that she had suppressed it for too long and was about to explode, and just taking advantage of this slight misunderstanding, she wanted to push Jingming again.
She looked at him: "Didn't you say you wanted to start your own company?"
"But I also said that this is not something I can decide on my own. It depends on the ideas of other shareholders." Yi Kun said, "In the final analysis, I am a businessman."
Du Ruo was silent, and asked again: "Why did you argue with him?"
"Negotiations naturally diverge for their respective interests. He and I have never been able to have a polite conversation."
"The matter of the acquisition..."
"Wait next week for a few vice presidents and supervisors who are on a business trip to come back and have a meeting to discuss. This matter is very complicated. Maybe everyone disagrees, or maybe they agree but the terms cannot be negotiated. It's possible. It's too early to say anything. Take it easy. Work and wait and see."
"Um."
Coming out of Yi Kun's office, Du Ruo felt that it was time for him to adjust his state. Because these things have been distracting, it is really not the result she wants.
But thinking of the quarrel with Jingming just now, he felt guilty again, and deliberately provoked him, wondering if it would be counterproductive.
And she also reached the edge of the cliff, with nowhere to go. If this trick doesn't work, she really doesn't know what to do.
She walked into the office with a confused mind and a bitter heart.
Unexpectedly, He Huanhuan called and screamed in surprise: "It's a proposal! Xiaocao, Zeng Kefan proposed to me!"
Before Du Ruo had time to calm down, his headache was about to split, and he said in a daze, "Ah, congratulations."
He Huanhuan clattered a lot of details about the proposal, and said excitedly, "Didn't I say I wanted to pretend to be a surprise? There's no need for it. When he really spoke, I was so moved! I cried!"
Du Ruo sat at the desk, propped his forehead, and forced a smile: "That's good, congratulations."
He Huanhuan noticed something: "Are you busy? Oh, I'm sorry."
"Ah, no." Du Ruo came to her senses and apologized for not sharing her joy wholeheartedly. She hurriedly got up and walked to the French window, took a deep breath, and smiled compensatingly, "Tell me more."
"There's really no meeting?" Huanhuan was suspicious.
"No. There's time now."
"Okay then, let me tell you..." On the other end, Huanhuan started talking happily.
Du Ruo looked at the autumn outside the window, smiled and listened.
Until the end, Huanhuan said that he had made an appointment with Xia Nan and Qiu Yuchen, and the four of them would get together in the evening.
Du Ruo said yes.
…
When Yang Shu was about to get off work, she passed Jingming's office and asked the secretary in a low voice, "Are you still there?"
"Yeah." The secretary nodded, and whispered, "I've been locked inside for a day. There's no sound, I don't know what's wrong."
Yang Shu also didn't expect that the quarrel with Du Ruo this morning would stimulate him so deeply, fearing that it would be too much, she hurried over and was about to knock on the door.
The door was opened, and Jing Ming came out with a confused expression: "What's the matter?"
Yang Shu was surprised, he rarely showed his inner confusion on his face: "It's okay, I'm asking what you plan to eat tonight."
"Don't worry about me. You get off work first, and I'll go out for a while." He started to leave.
Yang Shu turned her head: "I asked Chen Xian to follow—"
"No need." He had disappeared at the corner of the corridor.
The Mercedes-Benz drove all the way to the door of the office building where Yuanqian Company was located. Before the car stopped, Jing Ming went to push the door. The driver hurriedly got out of the car and opened the door for him, but he had already got out of the car and strode away.
He followed some of the white-collar workers who got off work early into the building, took the elevator up to the 22nd floor, got out of the elevator, went straight to Yuanqian's office area, searched with his eyes, and locked on Du Ruo's office, his eyes were like those of a drowning man finding driftwood.
He strode over, so anxious that he pushed the door open without knocking.
As soon as the office chair was turned, He Huanhuan happily turned around, playing with the ring box in his hand.
The two looked at each other and were stunned for a moment.
He Huanhuan hadn't seen Jingming for many years, so he looked him up and down, marveling at how he grew and looked better, no wonder Du Ruohun couldn't stay at home.
Jingming asked, "Where's Du Ruo?"
"She, go to the bathroom." He Huanhuan swallowed his throat. After all, he was a man of the hour, with a strong aura, which inexplicably gave her a sense of oppression.
Jing Ming turned around to go out to look for it, but he caught a glimpse of He Huanhuan's hand, which was resting on Du Ruo's desk, holding a ring box in her palm.
The diamond ring in the box is dazzling.
Jing Ming stopped where he was, with a slightly frozen expression, and asked, "Whose is it?"
He Huanhuan rolled his eyes and lifted his chin: "Someone gave it to Xiaocao. It should be a marriage proposal."
His face changed in an instant, and he stared at the ring.
"Our Xiaocao is very popular. She is beautiful, kind-hearted, hard-working and smart, down-to-earth and not vain, who will marry her..."
He Huanhuan was startled when the door was closed with a bang, and when he looked up,
The Jingming people had disappeared.