Fang Musen looked down at the document in his hand, and the pale light also fell on his face, but it was different from the sternness of the man beside him, only a slight faded feeling was reflected.
Without even raising his eyes, he said calmly, "Dong Lu and Young Master Lin are in a de facto marriage, but we are not."
Geng Zhi's breath was stagnant, and the hand holding the steering wheel tightened instantly, the veins on the back of the hand burst out, and the color was distinct.
Fang Musen didn't seem to realize it, and turned a page of the document, and continued to read and talk.
"If I remember correctly, Mr. Geng, we seem to have broken up ten years ago."
Geng Zhi's jaw was tense, and the line drawn was straight and sharp. His chest suddenly rose and fell, but when he spoke, his tone was calm.
"Ten days ago, I chased you again."
"You haven't answered me yet."
Fang Musen's eyelashes twitched slightly, but his eyes still fell on the paper.
Geng Zhi took out a cigarette from the cigarette case with one hand, held it between his lips, and did not light it.
"You're obviously also on a blind date."
Fang Musen was about to speak.
Geng Zhi said again: "You also went on a blind date with me."
Fang Musen: "..."
That's when you scare your blind date away.
Fang Musen took a shallow breath, and finally raised his gaze, looking at the night scene outside the car window ahead.
"Mr. Geng, it's not that I don't answer, it's that you don't need it."
he said calmly.
"I'm on a blind date, but you're not."
Geng Zhi raised his hand to take out the cigarette, and held it between his fingers.
His mouth was empty, but he didn't speak.
The speed of the sports car gradually slowed down, and the destination was in sight. Although the light at night is not sufficient, Fang Musen still recognizes the surrounding environment.
He breathed a sigh of relief.
This is the neighborhood where Fang Musen lives.
It seems that today there is no need to bother arguing with people about not wanting to go to him, and the other party is probably tired of this seesaw. The sports car drove downstairs, Fang Musen was about to open the door and get out of the car, but found that Geng Zhi didn't intend to stop at all, and drove the car directly to the underground garage.
The sports car was parked in the garage, and when Fang Musen got out of the car, Geng Zhi, who was in the driver's seat, also got out, turned off the car and locked it.
Fang Musen frowned and asked, "Mr. Geng, is there anything else?"
Geng Zhi walked around from the other side of the car, with the sports car key carelessly hooked on his little finger. He walked in front of Fang Musen, the light in the underground garage was not very good, and Geng Zhi was half a head taller than Fang Musen, standing like this almost blocked all the light.
Geng Zhi leaned slightly to look at him, Fang Musen was standing in a bad position, with a sports car behind him, he couldn't move back, so he could only look at people face to face. When Geng Zhi approached, there was a faint scent of grapes and roses on his body, a slightly boozy sweetness, I don't know if it was men's perfume or wine.
Geng Zhi looked at Fang Musen intently, his handsome face even showed an illusion-like coquettishness under the dim light.
He asked, "Who says I don't have blind dates?"
It actually answered Fang Musen's words in the car just now.
Fang Musen was taken aback, then listened to Geng Zhi continue.
"Not only do I have a blind date, but I also hate marriage."
Fang Musen: "..."
He frowned slightly, he didn't really want to joke with Geng Zhi about this kind of thing.
Fang Musen was about to say something, but another car pulled up beside him. The owner of the car knew Fang Musen and greeted him by the way.
The underground garage is a public space after all, so it is not convenient to talk about it here. Fang Musen greeted his neighbor with a nod, then turned around and went to the elevator to go upstairs.
Geng Zhi still followed behind him, as if he had made up his mind to go together. There were other people in the elevator, Fang Musen didn't say anything, until he got to the door and was about to get the key to open the door, Fang Musen turned around and said to the man who was following him.
"Thank you, Mr. Geng, for sending me back."
After walking this distance, his tone has become calm again.
"I'll transfer the taxi fare to you later, please go back, I have to go to work tomorrow morning."
Geng Zhi's reaction to this obvious order to chase away guests was unexpectedly free and easy by Fang Musen.
He said "Oh" and said, "Then you go to bed early."
Fang Musen said politely, "You too."
But in the next second, he could no longer maintain his calm expression—Fang Musen drove Geng Zhi with his own eyes, took out a bunch of brand new keys, and opened the door opposite his house.
"Tomorrow, Lu Yingying's car will take Xiaoniao to school, and I will also go to Jin Mao's meeting in the morning, and I will take you with me."
Geng Zhi opened the door casually, tapped his fingernails on his lips, and sent his fingers forward lightly.
"Good night, new neighbor."
Only the stunned Fang Musen was left in the corridor.
—
night.
Geng Lili: Xiaoniao, do me a favor, don’t walk tomorrow, go to school by car
The message was sent out for a while, but no reply was received.
Geng Zhi glanced at the dialog box that was still silent, picked up the phone and called.
But the phone rang once, and Geng Zhi thought about it, then hung up the phone again.
If I don't reply to the news at this time, I don't think he will mention it tomorrow, and Lin Yuhe will have to go to school by car.
Geng Zhi's guess was correct, Lin and He were indeed picked up by car the next day.
Because it is not convenient to walk, it will hurt when you grind it.
But Lin Yuhe also called and asked about last night's information.
"Did you have something to do with me yesterday?"
Geng Zhi, who was sitting in the hall of the meeting place, glanced at the slender figure who was talking with someone from afar, his eyes wandered over the handsome side face, and then replied.
"It's okay, it's settled."
Seeing this, Lin Yuhe didn't ask any more questions. He was obviously more curious about another topic.
He even quietly lowered his voice and asked.
"Brother Geng, are you... chasing your first love recently?"
"Um."
Geng Zhi responded lightly.
There was a pause on the phone before continuing to ask.
"Yes, Brother Fang?"
Geng Zhi raised his eyebrows.
"How do you know?"
It's so strange that elm lumps can be resuscitated.
But it's not difficult to guess, Geng Zhi immediately understood.
"Lu Nan said?"
There was another pause on the phone before a vague answer.
Finally got taught by... yesterday.
I taught it over and over again for a long time.
Lin Yuhe coughed lightly, and changed the topic back.
"You used to be together?"
"Um."
Geng Zhi half leaned on the leather chair, unscrewed a bottle of Evian with one hand, and took a sip.
"He was adopted by the Chen family when he was 14 years old. The Chen family and my dad did business, and we have crossed paths."
The Geng family's business is doing very well, and now it has become a listed company. There are countless people who have business contacts with him. Speaking of which, the reason why Geng Zhi noticed Fang Musen was because of Lin Yuhe.
When Lin Yuhe's mother passed away, Fang Musen was sixteen years old. It was because of a chance meeting at Lin's mother's funeral that Geng Zhi noticed this quiet and reserved boy.
Fang Musen's family was poor, his parents died early, and he was fostered by relatives since he was a child. When he was in elementary school, the poverty alleviation work in remote areas was not as good as it is now. Fang Musen couldn't even pay the tuition and miscellaneous fees. It was Lin Yuhe's mother who sponsored him to finish elementary school and junior high school.
At the age of fourteen, Fang Musen's relative passed away. Although Lin's mother had sponsored him for many years, her physical condition did not allow him to adopt another child. Besides, Xiaolin and He were still recuperating at that time.
Therefore, in the same year, with the help of the local orphanage, the underage Fang Musen was formally adopted by the infertile Chen family.
The Chen family's family background is well-off, although it cannot be compared with the Geng's family, it can be said that it is very different from Fang Musen's original family environment. Fang Musen was lucky to be adopted, but it is inevitable that he will not adapt.
Geng Zhi didn't know him at that time, so he didn't know much about Fang Musen's life when he was first adopted, but in the party that year, Geng Zhi saw Fang Musen twice, and both times Fang Musen was rejected, snubbed, and even laughed at.
The cause seemed to be something as trivial as the way he held the knife and fork.
At that time, Geng Zhi was just a bystander. It was not until Lin Mu's funeral more than a year later that Geng Zhi really noticed Fang Musen.
That year, the Chen family had just given birth to a son.
The sudden birth of a new life is a great joy for the Chen family who have not had children for many years, but this incident makes Fang Musen, who is not able to adapt to the environment of the new home, even more embarrassed.
At that time Fang Musen was already sixteen or seventeen years old, his appearance became more and more handsome, his body was also stretched, thin but not weak, with the unique beauty of a teenager.
When he was bullied and teased again, he would no longer turn red and be embarrassed like before, but just smiled lightly and ignored it.
It was true that someone was so amazed by that smile that they even forgot the words to make things difficult for an instant, and just stared at him blankly.
Geng Zhi still remembered the boy he had met at Aunt Zhu's funeral, and helped him get out of the siege a few times. Later things spread slowly, and rumors spread that Geng Zhi was interested in Fang Musen and seemed to want to chase him.
When the rumor spread to the deity's ears, Geng Zhi only thought it was funny and didn't pay much attention.
It's just that he didn't care, but someone listened to him. After the Chen family heard about this incident, they tried their best to report Fang Musen to the tutoring institution where Geng Zhi was studying.
Geng Zhi was not interested in this kind of thing at first.
In any case, what cannot be denied is the conspiracy and purpose that have been laid out naked for a long time.
But later, the development of things was somewhat different from what he expected.
Who can predict their own love
Geng Zhi didn't say too much, but simply mentioned to Lin Yuhe the reason why he and Fang Musen knew each other, Lin Yuhe sighed after hearing this: "It's really a coincidence."
He asked again: "Then why did you separate?"
Geng Zhi pressed the bottle cap back to the mouth of the bottle, pressed the bottle cap with his thumb and twisted it half a turn, said calmly.
"There was a surprise."
Although Lin Yuhe was somewhat dull in terms of emotions, he was not really stupid. He could tell that Geng Zhi didn't really want to talk about this matter, so he didn't pursue it and changed the topic.
"So are you back together now?"
Geng Zhi's eyes fell on the young man wearing thin-rimmed glasses in the distance again, and he was silent for a moment before speaking.
"not yet."
"Come on, Brother Geng." Lin Yuhe said, "I called Uncle Geng two days ago and mentioned this matter. He and Auntie also support you and want you to settle down as soon as possible."
Geng Zhi listened expressionlessly, and responded lightly.
Then, he changed the subject.
The business cooperation with Lin Yuhe is only part of Geng Zhi's job, he also has many other businesses. This time, Gunn's business expansion in China involved cooperation with Taiping, and Fang Musen was the contact person.
The joint project made the two of them have a lot of intersections at work, and they lived in the same building, and they didn't see each other when they looked up.
Fang Musen intentionally avoided it at first, but later he couldn't avoid it, so he gave up.
The man who had been with him for a long time finally got his wish, and the time they spend together has almost doubled compared to before.
It's just that most of these relationships are related to work. Fang Musen seems to have learned from his boss, Lu Nan, that he doesn't care about anything when working. Director Lu still has the conditions to eat at any time, but Fang Musen has no conditions, if he misses it, he simply doesn't eat.
Over the past few days of cooperation, Geng Zhi has brought many things to Fang Musen, including desserts and dinners. But after he delivered it a few times, Fang Musen came to find him and discussed it with him very politely.
"Mr. Geng, you don't need to deliver anything to me next time. It's very convenient for the company to order takeaway."
"I can't reply to you. It's still a debt to collect your things. It's really hard to feel at ease. This is the meal money from the previous few times, and it has been transferred to your card."
Geng Zhi's temper has always been not very good, otherwise his parents would not have deliberately let him get in touch with Lin Yuhe when he was a child, and wanted to let the gentle and quiet children of Lin Agong's family who practiced calligraphy since childhood cultivate Geng Zhi's temperament.
Fang Musen naturally understood.
He was prepared for Geng Zhi not to take the money and get angry and furious, but he didn't expect that the other party just looked at him calmly for a while and then replied.
"oh."
oh what
Geng Zhi didn't give any other response.
Afterwards, Geng Zhi really stopped sending things to Fang Musen.
It's just that Fang Musen didn't feel relieved for a long time before he realized that Geng Zhi had directly changed to ordering meals for the entire project team.
"It's really convenient for your company to order takeout," he said.
Fang Musen: "..."
Fang Musen was so busy that he really didn't have the energy to argue with the other party. Fortunately, Geng Zhi's frequency of ordering food was not outrageous, and seeing that the time limit for cooperation was approaching, Fang Musen didn't get distracted anymore.
In addition to going out together and attending meetings, most of the cooperation and exchanges between the Gunn and Taiping project teams are still conducted online. When Fang Musen was working in Taiping Building, he would not be with Geng Zhi.
But every time he came out from get off work, he always saw a familiar figure.
Geng Zhi had settled abroad before, so it stands to reason that there should not be many things in China, but Fang Musen could not count how many new cars Geng Zhi drove. A tall man leaning against the car.
For a while, Geng Zhi's car was even changed every day, and the body was still the same color as his clothes.
It's not that Fang Musen has never met a rich man. His boss has a lot of cars, but most of them are business models, and they are usually selected according to their purpose. Where have you seen such... flamboyant ones.
It's not a problem for the car to overturn, the problem is that no matter how late Fang Musen works overtime, he can always see Geng Zhi downstairs in the building.
Waiting to take his neighbor "drop in" back.
One week before the end of the cooperation, Fang Musen came out of the office, and by the window of the hall, he saw the flickering light downstairs.
It was very late, and most of the lights in the square at the entrance of the building were turned off. The building was almost empty, colleagues who didn't pass by would look sideways, so Geng Zhi drove the car from the inconspicuous side of the road to the tree not far from the door, and stood there waiting for him.
Fang Musen's eyesight is not very good, and he can't do without glasses on weekdays, but for some reason, he saw the light spot the size of a star at a glance.
It was a cigarette waiting for his man to light between his fingers.
In early summer, the wind at night is a little muffled, but it still feels cool after blowing for a long time.
Fang Musen stood silently by the window for a long time.
He did nothing but look down.
Geng Zhi had just finished smoking one, and put out his hand to extinguish the cigarette in the ashtray in the car. He felt it, and looked up towards the floor where Fang Musen was.
A row of windows was lit up empty, and the original warm yellow light faded to a bleak paleness under the night.
A week later, the cooperation project that kept both parties busy for nearly two months was finally completed.
There are still some finishing touches in the follow-up, but it is much easier than the previous days. It is already off-duty time. Fang Musen finally finished processing the documents at hand, so he went to Fengqi Bay first.
These days he is busy with cooperation projects, and most of the work on Lu Nan's side is handled by other assistants. However, Fang Tezhu was the only one who could enter Fengqi Bay.
When Fang Musen brought the report over, Lin Yuhe was also there.
After school, he is working on a problem in the study.
When Fang Musen was reporting to work, he noticed that Lin Yuhe had been watching him.
Some time ago, Fang Musen was working on a cooperation project, so naturally Fang Musen hadn't seen Lin Yuhe for some days. He can probably guess the reason - the other party should already know about his previous relationship with Geng Zhi.
After the report was over, Lin Yuhe called him again.
"Brother Fang."
Are you going to talk about something related to Geng Zhi
Fang Musen thought about it, he answered, and then he heard Lin Yuhe say.
"I just opened the door for you, and I feel that your wrist temperature is not right, can you let me take a look...Brother Fang, do you have a fever?!"
The cool back of his hand was pressed against his forehead, and Fang Musen realized his own high temperature.
No wonder I feel a little tired.
he thinks.
The driver helped Fang Musen to a nearby pharmacy. Lin Yuhe was going to take an exam recently, Fang Musen declined his offer to accompany him, and planned to get some medicine by himself.
As a result, the person in the pharmacy shook his head after taking his temperature: "This temperature is not good, it is too high, you should go to the hospital to have a look!"
Fang Musen went to the hospital again.
The doctor prescribed an intravenous drip. Fang Musen originally wanted to go back with a fever-reducing injection, but the doctor said that he had had a low-grade fever for several days and his lungs might be inflamed.
There was no other way, Fang Musen had no choice but to put on a hanging bottle.
Fever clinics are overcrowded all year round, and the seasons change in these two days, with alternating hot and cold, and more patients. The benches provided for the patients were already full, and Fang Musen had no place. Finally, the nurse went to the side to ask around, and finally found a folding bench.
He sat for less than five minutes, and another elderly mother-in-law walked over tremblingly with a needle, looking around for a seat.
But the surrounding area was already full, and finally Fang Musen gave his own bench to his mother-in-law.
Fang Musen stood top-heavy for half an hour, and when a seat was vacated on the bench, the mother-in-law sat down and returned the bench to Fang Musen, so Fang Musen was free to sit down.
He leaned against the wall and soon fell asleep.
There are so many people in the outpatient clinic that it is impossible to be quiet, and you have to shout when you are one meter away. Fang Musen didn't fall asleep for a long time, the noise was too loud, he woke up drowsily, and when he opened his eyes, he saw Geng Zhi.
The man was wearing a gray-blue shirt. The neckline was already wet and stuck to the side of his neck. The color was once darker. It was not difficult to imagine what was going on behind the scenes. He unbuttoned his cuffs and rolled them up, revealing his strong forearms, with blue veins on the back of his hands, beating up and down.
Fang Musen didn't know how long the other party had been here, he didn't hear anything, Geng Zhi didn't speak, just took a small hand warmer in silence, gently held Fang Musen's cold and pale fingertips, and carefully placed the hand warmer on the The underside of his palm with needles.
The weather was very hot, but Fang Musen only felt cold, and when he was touched by the other party's fingers, he could feel the temperature difference more clearly.
Geng Zhi was already tall, and when he was standing and looking at people, he looked even more imposing, but he didn't say a word, and brought out a glass of honey water, inserted a straw, and handed it to Fang Musen.
Fang Musen was very tired, so he didn't answer, and he didn't say anything.
He didn't say anything until Fang Musen took the bag, took out the tablet, and started to deal with the mail.
"Let's see after the infusion."
Fang Musen didn't answer, nor looked up.
Geng Zhi's voice was also calm: "The project is over, you have time to rest, can't you take care of your body first?"
Fang Musen was already suffering from the burn, and was annoyed by the noise around him, so he didn't want to listen to him.
Geng Zhi stretched out his hand, directly wanting to take away his tablet.
"Is work so important?"
It was a "pop".
Fang Musen patted Geng Zhi's hand away vigorously with the hand with the needle.
"yes."
He finally raised his head and looked at Geng Zhi coldly.
"It's that important. I have nothing but work, and I know nothing but study."
"Hasn't it always been like this? You already knew."
Fang Musen's voice was still a little weak, but every word was slow and clear.
"I'm just boring, rigid, and uninteresting."
Throughout the ten years, the past has been engraved and repeated.
Geng Zhi's complexion turned ashen in an instant, and there were bloodshot eyes in his eyes.
That's what he said himself.
Word for word.
Fang Musen raised his hand, supported his heavy forehead, and closed his eyes tiredly.
His voice is very soft.
"Don't come to me again, Mr. Geng."