Inside Seaview Hotel.
An Qiqi tossed and turned in bed but couldn't fall asleep. She slowly sat up and looked at the room with a dull look, feeling inexplicably depressed.
The growth of this negative emotion was not entirely caused by the end of her first love and her breakup with Liuzi, but because An Qiqi began to seriously examine her life for the first time and was full of confusion about the future.
She has been questioning her choice recently. In the past, she only wanted to measure the world with her feet and become an excellent geologist, just like a firefly flying into the sky and trying to embrace the sea of stars. Her ideals are lofty and free and easy.
But for some reason, this ideal and vision gradually became less firm in An Qiqi's heart. She began to reflect on her past. If she had listened to her parents, used her family's connections to join the army, applied for the Army University, and become a politician, would she not have to be so anxious and entangled now
As far as her family was concerned, An Qiqi only enjoyed herself and was not responsible. She always felt that her life should be decided by herself. She was not the continuation of her parents' will, and there was no need for her to follow in her parents' footsteps. She should live her life according to her own wishes.
But recently, this idea in An Qiqi's mind has gradually faded. Perhaps a breakup was just an opportunity for a change of mind.
She watched her father, who was over fifty years old, fighting on the political battlefield and was in danger of being doomed at any moment, but she could not help at all and could only worry and feel confused.
She watched her mother wandering around various social venues every day, exhausted by dealing with her father's situation, while she herself was using the wealth given by her family to go on a lovelorn trip.
She was also reluctant to give up the relationship between herself and Gou Liuzi, but in the end, due to various political reasons, they had to say goodbye to each other at a desolate crossroads...
An Qiqi always emphasizes that one should be the master of one's own life, but in the end, she finds that her so-called freedom is all dependent on her family and parents. Everything she has is not obtained by her own decision.
She felt as weak as a baby, wanting everything but unable to keep anything.
confused!
These two words are a true portrayal of An Qiqi's recent situation.
…
After sitting on the soft bed for a while, An Qiqi reached out and picked up the phone, and accidentally saw a text message from her mother.
"When will you be back? I want you to stay with me."
An Qiqi looked at the text message, put on her slippers, walked to the window, and after a long silence, she called her mother.
“Beep!”
The phone rang busy. An Qiqi stood in front of the French window, looking at the night view downstairs, and suddenly noticed that a man whose face could not be seen clearly took Wang Ying into the car.
"Hey, girl!" the mother's voice sounded: "How is it, are you having fun?"
"Mom, I'm having a lot of fun." An Qiqi withdrew her gaze from Wang Ying, lowered her head and said while holding the phone: "How have you been lately?"
…
downstairs.
Wang Ying got on a business car and said softly, "Don't go too far. I can't be out for too long, otherwise they will get suspicious..."
"Haha!" The young man smiled and drove to a nearby place.
In the car, Wang Ying pursed her clothes, turned her head to look at the scenery outside the window, and did not speak.
The young man stretched out a hand and rubbed it on Wang Ying's big white legs with a smile: "Didn't you miss me?"
"Let's talk business." Wang Ying replied indifferently.
"Shouldn't you say it?" The young man replied while driving: "Have they agreed to invest?"
“No.” Wang Ying frowned and said, “I prepared for this for a long time, crying and making a fuss… but it was useless. An Qiqi is very sensitive and cautious in this regard. She clearly rejected my investment invitation.”
When the young man heard this, his face darkened.
"But Qiuqiu agreed."
"What's the point of her agreeing? We're not targeting her." The young man said with a bad look on his face, "You said before that you and An Qiqi have a special relationship. You're childhood friends. You can definitely accomplish this. Now there's no effect at all. It's hard for me to...!"
"Yes, I did agree." Wang Ying immediately argued, "But... but we haven't seen each other for a while, and I didn't expect that she would think so much now. This may be related to her father's situation, or her mother's advice. After all, her family is not doing well now..."
"It's useless to say all this." The young man responded calmly: "If you have no value, then there will be no benefits in return."
Wang Ying gritted her teeth and took the initiative to reach out and hold the young man's arm: "Xue Nan! I really tried my best. I accompanied the two of them here for more than a week before I proposed the investment, but I didn't expect that she still refused. It's not that I didn't try... I really had no other choice."
The young man named Xue Nan did not reply.
"Please help me! I'm really fed up with this kind of life. I don't want to have to look at the faces of those idiots above me anymore." Wang Ying begged, "Just help me get the money over here! I told you, if the project is successful, you'll also have a share!"
"The purpose of looking for you is to get An Qiqi to join the game. She is the key to opening up the An family." Xue Nan replied indifferently: "But you haven't made any progress at all. How can I help you? Why would the higher-ups approve the funding for you?"
"That's not what you mean. I also..."
"Stop! There's no point talking about these objective factors. My superiors only look at the results." Xue Nan paused and said, "Since there's no way to get her to invest, let's try another approach."
"What method?" Wang Ying asked.
"How about this, I'll start organizing a party tomorrow, and you bring An Qiqi over." Xue Nan turned his head and looked at Wang Ying and said, "Just tell them that your new project is about to start, and ask them to come over to play together and have a few drinks. Well, it's a business banquet, and beautiful women are the ones who support it. It's nothing unusual."
…
Sri Lanka town.
Su Tianyu walked into Jiangzhou's room carrying a can of iced beer: "Hello, brother!"
Jiangzhou glanced at Su Tianyu and said, "You call me big brother every day, and it sounds like you are very affectionate to me, but in fact you don't show any affection at all! I am here at your home ground, and you come to see me in the middle of the night with beer in your hand?"
Su Tianyu was stunned for a moment: "What do you mean?"
"It's late at night, and you're just drinking beer. Can you drink it?" Jiangzhou asked.
Su Tianyu blinked his eyes: "Monkey, go, call the aunt who helps in the kitchen to come in and have a drink with my brother... It should be black, something exotic...!"