Maybe it's really fate. Li Yongxuan smiled, with a miserable smile.
"Forget it, thank you for your help." She lifted the travel bag, hesitated for two seconds, and handed over the entire set of keys.
No need for it anymore.
Seeing her quiet and docile appearance, the two men in charge of monitoring were also a little unbearable. They're used to dealing with the director's pink mess. The bad drama of the director and his wife has been staged too many times over the years, but this is the first time that I have seen a girl so lonely and simple, neither making trouble nor arguing, but silently accepting humiliation and expulsion.
"Is there anything else I can help with—"
They looked at each other for a moment. Li Yongxuan shook his head, "I don't know who it will be."
The big man went to open the door, and a young man, holding a basket of flowers, probed his head.
"Is this Miss Li's house?" the flower shop boy said, "This is a flower for her, please sign here."
The flowers are splendid and fragrant, all of them are fresh and delicate pink roses, and the petals are still stained with water droplets, which is breathtakingly beautiful.
Li Yongxuan walked to the door and took the card blankly. The top is just a standard congratulatory message typed on the computer, wishing her a happy birthday, and the bottom is printed with congratulations from Mingyang Group.
Ah, so today is her birthday.
This is just an annual routine, issued by the personnel department, but in the past, she would still be happy for a few days when she received such flowers - at least, someone remembered her.
But at this moment, she didn't even have such humble happiness.
"No, this is not Miss Li's house." She said quietly, letting go of her fingers, and the card fell to the ground.
Not now, never will be, not possible in the future.
She has long since gone home.
After speaking, she left silently and never looked back.
【chapter Five】
The sun outside was so merciless, as if she didn't know that her world had just collapsed.
The administrator of the building was kind, asked where she was going, and called a taxi for her. Li Yongxuan didn't think much, and sat in the car dully. The driver asked several times before she casually gave the address of the training center.
Maybe to say goodbye. She thought only vaguely as she walked slowly into the familiar, cold training center.
On the contrary, the center was quite lively, with many people coming in and out near the conference room. She was attracted by it like a sleepwalker. She walked to the back door and looked inside. The venue for the press conference had been set up. The long table was covered with a white doily, and a microphone was on. Several media were taking pictures inside.
The head coach and captain were sitting at the table as usual, and where there was McWay, the reporters also took pictures frantically as usual, and the shutter sounded one after another. Mai Weizhe himself was unmoved.
Well, it's the post-match press conference. She looked at him from a distance.
They just came back and they have a press conference before they can rest. Ying Ting's face is tired, and the mustache has grown out, not to have a decadent handsomeness.
The head coach next to him didn't know what to say. He raised his face and smiled, as if the sun was shining in all directions in the conference room, and the shutter sounded more intensively for a while.
"Sister Xuanxuan!" Suddenly, she was discovered. An Run, who was also standing at the back of the crowd, called her happily, squeezed past the crowd and walked towards her.
Then, one, two, three... The players on the scene slowly approached. They lowered their voices but told her happily that the results of the observation match were very good. The coaches decided to give the players two more days off. After the press conference, they could rest. two days! Holiday whole, whole, two, days!
No matter how bad Li Yongxuan was, she couldn't help but smile when she saw how happy they were.
"Okay, what are you going to do?"
"Sleep." They answered in unison.
Although she smiled, her nose was sour.
How I hope to infect their happiness and be such a simple person.
"Sister Xuanxuan, you haven't come to the center these days, we're not here." An Run asked with a smile, "Then what do you want to do? Do you still want to work?"
Li Yongxuan shook his head. She doesn't know what to do, but it's definitely not a job because she just lost her job.
Glancing at them, she seemed to feel more at ease. She said gently, "Then I wish you... a good rest and a successful competition. I... go first."
They watched her leave.
"how so?"
"I haven't even asked her if she wants to go to the celebration party together."
"An Run, do you think Sister Xuanxuan is a little strange?"
Soothing her chin, she pretended to be mature. "Well, it's really weird. Which of you has a pen and paper on you? Lend me a little."
The pen and paper were quickly found, and An Run quickly wrote a few words. Then, like a reporter in the back row, he relayed the note all the way to Mai Weizhe on the stage.
Mai Weizhe unfolded the note and looked at it for a moment.
"...The third stage of training will start next, and our goal will be... Mai, what are you going to do?" The head coach who was answering the question looked at Mai Weizhe who suddenly stood up and said in confusion.
McGill shrugged, "Sorry, coach, I have to go first."
"You—" The head coach's eyes were about to pop out.
"Emergency." He shook his head recklessly, and after apologizing to the reporters, he waved his hand and pointed at An Run, who was standing at the back, "The deputy captain came up to answer the question."
Then, he just walked out of the press conference, causing an uproar and didn't care.
Of course Li Yongxuan didn't know what happened. After leaving the training center, she just walked and walked, not knowing where she had gone. The travel bag in his hand was getting heavier and heavier, and sweat began to come out. When he got tired, he saw a bus, so he didn't even think about getting on the bus.
Where is the bus going? She found that she didn't mind either. The car started and stopped, the passengers got up and down, the world was still running as usual, but she was like an outsider, looking away from herself and watching it all.
After a long time, all the people on the bus got off, and finally, when the bus reached a certain stop, it stopped going forward. After parking the car, the driver turned around and said to her, "Miss, it's the final stop."
"Oh, okay, thank you." Li Yongxuan picked up the travel bag and got out of the car.
When I got off the car, the salty smell of the sea breeze came on my face. It turned out that she came to the beach.
The roads were empty, and so were the bus shelters. After the bus left, she sat there dumbfounded. For a long time, no one passed by, only the gradually westward sunset dyed the road golden.
The sun went down, she was tired, her stomach was empty, and her heart was even more empty; when everyone went home for dinner, she had nowhere to go, and no one would worry.
That's what loneliness feels like. Unforgettable and indescribable.
Suddenly, a figure appeared in his dazed line of sight. Bathed in the splendid sunset, he came over, like a god, his eyes shone like the light refracted by amber.
With a plastic bag from a convenience store in his hand, Tenjin approached, handed her a jar of water, and sat down beside her without saying a word.
He sat with her until night fell, and darkness enveloped her all around. Neither side said a word.
This man is horrible. He knew exactly when to talk and when not to.
When the stars began to twinkle, Li Yongxuan finally spoke and said the first sentence, "I was fired."
"Um."
There was silence again between the two, except for the faint sound of him chewing gum.
"Where did you get the gum?" she asked suddenly.
"There's a convenience store over there, don't you know?" He gestured for directions with his chin. Water is also bought there.
She thought about it. Mai Weizhe followed her on the bus, sat all the way here, and then got off the bus. She only knew that he was in a daze. He had already gone shopping and was going to accompany her to fight for a long time