"You're back!" Excited tone.
"Are you back?" In a normal tone.
"Are you back?" In a coquettish tone.
"You're back..." In an aggrieved tone.
Xiang Ning practiced each of them several times.
"No, no, it's better not to talk." Miss Xiang put her two long legs on the back of the sofa, lay down, reached out and grabbed a handful of snacks and stuffed them into her mouth, discussing with herself, "Or just pretend Tsukuru fell asleep, and when he picked me up, it seemed as if he had just woken up, hugged me, and looked at him..."
"What about the interrogation?"
"Reconcile first or ask first?"
"But he seems to be very serious, do you want to coax me first? Wait for him to hug me, pretend to be asleep... kiss me directly?... That's too cheap for him..."
Xiang Ning changed the battle plan one after another.
the other side.
Xu Tingsheng didn't chat with Lao Wai for too long, Huang Yaming called in halfway and called him away.
Two people sitting in the car, smoking and chatting...
At first, Xu Tingsheng thought that Huang Yaming came to care about him because he heard about his graduation party. It turned out that the bastard came to talk to him about his concerns.
Fortunately, after a while, Li Linlin sent a message saying that Xiang Ning had arrived safely.
Xu Tingsheng naturally thought that what Li Linlin said was that Xiang Ning had already arrived home, so he replied and asked her how she was feeling. Hearing that Li Linlin said that she was much better, he felt relieved for the time being.
"Should I go to Bingzhou after graduation, or to Shenghai?" Huang Yaming asked Xu Tingsheng's opinion, "Anyway, I won't stay in Yanzhou, this place is too small... Besides, I have already arranged the management of Mingyao here."
In fact, Xu Tingsheng had already made arrangements. He opened his backpack, took out some documents and patted them in Huang Yaming's hands, "Let's go to Shenghai."
"Hmm. What?" Huang Yaming picked up the document and looked at it, "Why did you transfer the shares in Tianyi to me?"
"It's convenient for you to help me with things. I don't have the energy to take care of that one right now." Xu Tingsheng was well prepared and replied in a natural tone.
"Then you don't have to transfer it to me, do you? Anyway, whoever doesn't know about Tianyi, I represent you."
"It's not that I can't transfer it to you, is it?" Xu Tingsheng was worried that Huang Yaming would see that he was arranging "funeral affairs", so he pretended to be angry and said, "Is it because of birth or something? You were not like this before."
Huang Yaming looked at him, smiled and stuffed the documents into his arms, and said "angry": "What the hell? I can't pretend?! This piece should have been let me go."
After saying this, he secretly observed Xu Tingsheng's expression and eyes.
"Why do you look at me like that?" Xu Tingsheng asked.
Huang Yaming clasped his hands behind his head, leaned on the back of the chair and sighed deeply, "It's okay."
Xu Tingsheng had something to do, others couldn't tell that Huang Yaming didn't know, but he...had already noticed it.
But the problem is the same here, he knows Xu Tingsheng too well, Xu Tingsheng is usually used to compromise and retreat, but if there is one thing, he has made a decision and doesn't say anything, it means that this matter cannot be changed.
"There is one more thing I want to tell you, it's quite hypocritical." Huang Yaming changed the subject, hesitated and said, "I will go to Shenghai without Han Xiu and his wife."
"What's wrong?"
"I've said it all, it's quite hypocritical. There are two reasons. First, I found that it is impossible to treat a person as a blank sheet of paper and shape it as I like. Han Xiu is now exposed to more and more things. , It is getting farther and farther away from my original idea... It's not that she has become bad, it's just that in reality, it is impossible to deliberately create a perfect lover in my mind."
"Agreed." Xu Tingsheng nodded. In fact, Xiang Ning in this life is also the same. She was not shaped by Xu Tingsheng. Even if she got in touch with her in advance, it brought so many changes to her life. The most essential thing about her is to grow naturally.
"The second reason," Huang Yaming said with a smile, "I think it's unfair to her. Like a man-made bonsai, the branches are tied with ropes and let it grow into what it expects... She is a living person , not bonsai."
"Very good," Xu Tingsheng asked, "Then how do you deal with their mother and daughter?"
"It's still the same. I need to take care of her. I found a job for her mother at my friend's place. If Han Xiu's, I will stay in the training school... In short, let them live as normal as possible. After a few years, Han Xiu will grow up naturally. After that, if she still likes me and I like her, that's good, but if not, it's not hard to accept."
Xu Tingsheng pondered for a moment what did not sound like Huang Yaming's style, and asked casually, "Why do you suddenly think so?"
The two of them knew each other too well, Xu Tingsheng knew that if Huang Yaming hadn't been touched by anything, he wouldn't have time to think about it.
Huang Yaming hesitated for a moment, and said with a smile: "One day, I drove by downstairs of your house. I was bored after thinking about it, so I planned to go up to find you, but when I knocked on the door, you were not there... only the female bodyguard, brother Du's sister , Du Jin is... it's hot, I drank a glass of water there, and then... "
"Just..." Xu Tingsheng interrupted Huang Yaming with an exaggerated expression, remembering Du Jin's usual blunt and indifferent attitude towards him.
"Get out, can you stop thinking of me so dirty... Besides, even if I really have ideas, I have to beat her!" Huang Yaming cursed, and then said: "Brother Du has two brothers and sisters, and the family is very poor after hours. Du Jin got sick and had no money to treat her... so she was adopted by someone who was willing to pay for her medical treatment."
"So that's how it is," Xu Tingsheng continued, "No wonder I said that Brother Du was a young boy, playing wild boxing, and going to jail...how come my younger sister went abroad to receive professional training instead."
Huang Yaming nodded, "Du Jin was made according to the planned template. Before she came to your house, she never lived a normal life. Didn't you notice that she never wears short sleeves in summer? ... Scars all over her arms It wasn't that she got injured when she was a bodyguard, it was because she was punished for violating the rules since she was a child."
Huang Yaming glanced at Xu Tingsheng, "I came home after chatting with her that day, and it happened that Han Xiu asked me timidly if she could skip the body and etiquette class that day. I immediately thought of Du Jin's words. I said to Han Xiu, Isn't it like the person who adopted Du Jin treated her? So... "
Xu Tingsheng nodded.
He didn't wonder why Du Jin, who was used to being indifferent to him, would talk so much to Huang Yaming... because to some extent, Huang Yaming must be the kind of person Du Jin is more accustomed to and admires, and who is easier to talk to.
The two chatted for a while.
"Where are you going?" Huang Yaming asked.
"Put me on the side of the road, I'll go home tonight." Xu Tingsheng said.
What Xiang Ning told Li Linlin before was correct. On the night when Xu Tingsheng met Xiang Ning, even if Xiang Ning was not there, he would still want to go back to the home where the two of them lived together, and live in a place that smelled of her.
…
"It's ten o'clock!"
"It's half past ten."
"It's eleven o'clock."
"Falling asleep."
"Why don't you come back?"
"Is there something wrong, why don't you come back?"
Miss Xiang was so tired from crying before, but now she was so sleepy that she didn't know how nervous she was, but Xu Tingsheng didn't come home as she expected.
Holding the phone, Xiang Ning hesitated whether to send him a message.
She didn't know that Xu Tingsheng was actually downstairs at the moment.
After separating from Huang Yaming, Xu Tingsheng walked for a while as a distraction, came in from the gate of the community, turned downstairs to his own house, and casually looked up to see that the light was on.
"It seems that Du Jin is here."
It is not convenient for Du Jin to go to Xiang's house during this time, but he is still staying in Yanzhou. On the way to and from school, he will follow Xiang Ning to ensure her safety.
Without Xiang Ning, Xu Tingsheng thought it would be inconvenient for him to be alone at home sometimes, with Du Jin and Du Jin, so he renewed the rent of the house that Fu Cheng rented before moving to Ning Yuan and let her live there.
She has keys on both sides, except for sleeping, she basically moves freely.
Take two more steps.
Suddenly, Xu Tingsheng's mind went "buzzing", and his whole body was so excited that he felt goosebumps...
The upstairs room with the light on was his. And Du Jin would never enter his room or study. This point, after Xiang Ning left, Xu Tingsheng carefully observed and even tested it several times to confirm that it was correct.
"So... Could it be that Xiang Ning is back?"
Xu Tingsheng's breathing became disordered, and his heart was beating wildly...
The light was indeed turned on when Xiang Ning looked at his room earlier.
The return of Miss Xiang, whom Xu Tingsheng had been thinking about day and night... This means a lot... because she returned to their home.
After adjusting his mood, thinking about whether Xiang Ning would be afraid by himself, Xu Tingsheng walked towards the stairs.
"Congratulations, you graduated."
A voice came from behind.
Zhou Yuandai.
Besides her, there were five other people standing, four men and one woman.
"Ms. Zhou..." Xu Tingsheng looked at her, "You..."
"In April, New Century Financial Corporation, the second largest subprime mortgage company in the United States, went bankrupt. So, you are planning me? I don't care about you... I will endure you until you graduate. But what are you doing?..."
Zhou Yuandai's expression gradually became distorted and hideous.
"I'm tired of your childish play and constant provocation."
"So now... play by my rules."
"Let's go."
Zhou Yuandai will attack in this way sooner or later, Xu Tingsheng is very clear, he has not strengthened his own defense because of this... because it is useless. Cen Qishan has already described a sufficiently specific Zhou Yuandai to Xu Tingsheng.
There is a big gap in wealth and power between Xu Tingsheng and her, but the real biggest gap is that Xu Tingsheng has so many people he cares about and cherishes, while Zhou Yuandai... no, she only cares about herself.
With the current situation, if the time was changed, Xu Tingsheng would go with her calmly.
But tonight, right now, that light upstairs...
"You don't have a choice."
Seeing Xu Tingsheng hesitate, Zhou Yuandai waved his hand.
One of the men behind her opened a portable notebook and showed Xu Tingsheng what was on the screen.
The framed picture seems to be the scene seen from a sniper rifle scope. The center of the crossed circle falls on the temple of Xiang Ning, who is lying on the sofa, holding his mobile phone and muttering something. A building aimed at the…
Almost the same picture, the center of the circle...
It fell on Fu Cheng who was far away in Shenghai.
It fell on Song Ni who was in Jiannan.
It fell on Fang Yuqing who was in Suzhou.
Between Nian Nian and Fang Yunyao, they swayed back and forth.
Cruising on the bed in Mom and Dad's bedroom.
Not at school, not at Qingbei, not at Apple, not at Lu Zhixin... Libei's house has it, but there is no one in Yuan's heart, only the scene outside the house...
"Let's talk."
Zhou Yuandai said.
Xu Tingsheng followed them into the car.
Mobile phone vibration. The beeping sound is particularly clear in the compartment...
"Let's take a look. I just can't go back." Zhou Yuandai said with a gloomy smile.
Xu Tingsheng took out his phone.
"Have you gone home yet?" A text message, contact person: Miss Xiang.
Xiang Ning finally couldn't hold back... and sent a message.
After a while, there was another one: "I'm at home, sister Du Jin is not here, I'm a little scared to be alone."
After another ten minutes, another message: "Are you angry with me? Come back, let's have a good chat, and I will find a way to forgive you!"
"What's wrong with you? Don't you want me anymore?"
"If you don't come back, you don't want me."
"I took the initiative to go home, what are you doing, Xu Tingsheng."
When the car left the range of Yanzhou.
Text message alerts turned into incoming calls, again and again...
Zhou Yuandai smiled ferociously, and looked at Xu Tingsheng provocatively.
At that moment just now, Xu Tingsheng was so close to Xiang Ning, only a few floors up...
However, he knew that it was very possible that it would be the shortest distance between two people in the end.
"You don't even answer my calls."
"Hate you. Big liar."
"Coax me well, and don't want me."
"I'll just stay here and not go."
"I won't separate."