After saying this, I felt a little regretful. Was my sourness too obvious
But fortunately, my relationship with Luo Xiangdong was already familiar enough to make such a joke. He didn't take it seriously, and just smiled and replied: "Can a girlfriend be the same as a good friend? I can change my girlfriend, but I can't. Change to a good friend.”
What he said... I don't know whether I should be happy or sad.
I am a very important person around him, but I am not the person I want to be.
Trying to overcome the pain in my heart, I raised the corners of my lips and replied with a smile: "I am so lucky to be your good friend."
Luo Xiangdong raised his eyebrows and said, "Why do I sound weird? There's something in your words, right?"
I said, "Seriously, 100% true."
Having said that, I didn't want to stay in Luo Xiangdong's office for another half second. I stood up and gathered the shopping bags on the table. I said to him: "Thank you boss for the reward. I will work hard when I go back and strive to break through the seven-digit annual salary as soon as possible." ”
Luo Xiangdong smiled and replied: "Go ahead and have dinner together at noon."
I subconsciously asked: "Aren't you going to eat with Du Ting?"
Luo Xiangdong said: "She will be busy with work after she comes back."
I said oh and teased: "Is your relationship using me as a spare tire?"
Luo Xiangdong glanced at me and said, "You are getting more and more cunning. If you continue like this, you will ride on me."
I said, "I don't think so. I will use my humor appropriately and won't touch my nose or face."
Luo Xiangdong smiled helplessly and said, "Okay, stop being poor and go out to work."
I walked out of Luo Xiangdong's office carrying more than a dozen shopping bags, large and small, just as Guan Yue and Han Xuetong were walking to Luo Xiangdong's office with folders. The three of us faced each other, and the two of them glanced at the bag in my hand subconsciously, and then smiled at me.
I was a little embarrassed, so I smiled back. After everyone said hello, I returned to my office.
Now that I'm used to it, who in the entire Luo family doesn't know that I was transferred to the top through 'relying on connections'? Who doesn’t know that I studied languages and ended up working as an assistant? Who doesn't know that Luo Xiangdong clearly has a girlfriend and has been close to me
I asked for leave every three days and didn't come to work. Basically, apart from Luo Xiangdong, I seemed to be the only one in the company who had this privilege. Moreover, Luo Xiangdong didn't come several times, and neither did I.
It's not that there are no rumors in the company, and it's not that there aren't some gossips that have reached my ears. At first I still cared about it, but a while ago I suddenly thought about it. My body is not afraid of the shadow being slanted, and my feet are not afraid of the shoes being crooked.
But in the past few days, I have begun to be afraid again.
Because of my different state of mind, I always feel guilty when others say something.
When I returned to my office, I put all the shopping bags on the sofa, and half of the sofa was full.
If it were before, I would have opened the gifts with great interest to see what Luo Xiangdong had bought for me. But Luo Xiangdong's words, "Du Ting picked it for you," already made me lose all interest.
After getting off work at noon, I went to have dinner with Luo Xiangdong. During the dinner, I deliberately ignored the fact that I liked him and chatted and laughed with him as usual.
In fact, after getting in touch with him, Luo Xiangdong is very easy to get along with, and I am not as afraid of him as I was at first. Sometimes I even dare to look at him, but he won't care about me.
I think it was his pampering of me that led me to become the virtuous person I am today.
Before lunch was finished, Luo Xiangdong made an appointment with me for dinner. He said, "Let's have dinner together tonight, with Zheng, Zeyu and the others."
I lowered my head to cut the steak and replied aloud: "I'm not free tonight."
Luo Xiangdong looked up at me and asked, "What do you want to do tonight?"
I didn't answer but asked, "Why don't I have any friends of my own?"
Luo Xiangdong replied with a half-smile: "Yes, I always thought you had no friends."
I raised my head and glanced at him, and he replied casually: "Forget it, you go out to eat with your friends."
I lowered my gaze and didn't answer. In fact, I didn't make an appointment tonight, but I didn't want to stick with Luo Xiangdong like conjoined twins anymore. I would go wherever he went, as if my life schedule was all designed with him as the center.
In this way, if one day he suddenly has other arrangements, he will leave me behind without hesitation. For example, he went to Thailand with Du Ting.
He said he wanted me to buy a plane ticket to go to Thailand, but he never thought about how a third person could be accommodated in a world of two people.
Even if I go there shamelessly, what will Du Ting think of me
I'm not Luo Xiangdong's biological sister yet. Even a woman would be bored if I followed him wherever he went.
And I don’t want to watch them show off their affection in person.
I have already thought about it. In addition to work, Luo Xiangdong will ask me to come out to eat, saying that I will come out twice at most after five times. Otherwise, I will form a habit if I use it too much, and I will notice something strange if Luo Xiangdong is missing.
I'm going to pull away slowly, bit by bit. Maybe in this way, everyone will feel better.
For almost a month after that, I went to and from get off work every day, met with clients with Luo Xiangdong, and had breakfast with him more than three days a week. I strictly followed the plan that he would call me five times and I would come out twice at most, so apart from the breakfast we were used to, I didn’t have much lunch and dinner with him. After all, he was still in a relationship, so we couldn’t. If possible, take some time to spend with Du Ting.
Speaking of Du Ting, I really feel that this woman regards me as Luo Xiangdong's sister.
From time to time, she would ask me to come out to have dinner with her and Luo Xiangdong, even if I was forced to watch the two of them show off their affection. She would always find various reasons to give me many expensive gifts. I didn't want to accept them, but Luo Xiangdong asked me anyway. Leave.
Sometimes I feel angry, thinking that you are willing to spend money on me, but I don’t want it in vain. But after I brought these things home, they filled up half of the closet and I had never touched them. After all, I can't get over the hurdle in my heart.
When Xu Lu came to my apartment, she would occasionally look through my wardrobe. She knew that I was living a comfortable life and had nothing missing, so she sometimes used my clothes to wear.
It's a normal thing for women to exchange clothes, and I never mind.
One day Xu Lu opened the large wardrobe in my apartment and found that it was filled with shopping bags. Inside the bags were good things without removing the labels. She took out one at random, which was an AP women's watch.
Xu Lu stared at me and asked, "Is it true or false?"
I was lying on the bed watching cartoons. When I heard this, I replied without raising my head or eyes: "This is a gift from Luo Xiangdong."
Xu Lu immediately said: "That must be true."
I didn't answer, so Xu Lu asked again: "Last time you said that Du Ting gave you a Hermes bag?"
I hummed.
Xu Lu said: "If you don't want to carry it, why don't you lend it to me? I'm going to meet a big client tomorrow and I want to look decent."
I said, "It's in the cabinet, you can take it yourself."
Xu Lu said while rummaging: "Zijin, to be honest, I really envy you. You said that Luo Xiangdong was the only one who gave you gifts before, but now there is Du Ting. Many of the things she can get are limited edition or even domestic. It’s not on sale at all, tsk tsk, I feel so happy just thinking about it.”
I rolled my eyes and said, "Then why don't you think about how suffocated I am? Every time I eat with the two of them, do you know what the first thing I do after I get home is?"
Xu Lu said: "What? Are you crying?"
I glared and replied, "Take stomach medicine! It's so fucking blocked!"
Xu Lu laughed loudly and said to me: "Your humor is still as good as ever."
I rolled my eyes and continued watching the anime. With my level of Japanese, I am actually no longer restricted by subtitles. I always watch the original version without subtitles.
But when I thought of Luo Xiangdong and Du Ting, I felt angry. Japanese was crackling on the earphones for a long time. I didn't take a word to heart, so I had to drag it back for a while anxiously.
Not long after, Xu Lu held a purple Hermes bag in one hand and covered her face with unlabeled Gucci sunglasses. She looked at me and said, "Hey, Zijin, why haven't I heard you mention Ji Guanxin recently?"
Speaking of Ji Guanxin, I took off my headphones, looked at Xu Lu and replied, "You think it's really strange. He suddenly stopped flirting with me."
Xu Lu said: "Didn't you always say that he loved to pester you before? Why did he suddenly stop looking for you?"
I was also puzzled. Contact was really cut off suddenly. He called me every three days, but now he can't be found.
Xu Lu said: "Could something happen?"
I subconsciously retorted: "He is the judge next to the King of Hell. He is the only one who finds trouble with others. What trouble can he have with himself?"
Xu Lu nodded and said, "That's right. I scared you so much that you cried at the cemetery last time. To be able to make fun of dead people in a place like that, I mean he really doesn't have any taboos, or he has a good heart."
I said: "The year before last, he knew his true colors, so he had no taboos."
Xu Lu asked: "Then you didn't call him to ask?"
I immediately raised my eyebrows and replied: "I'm so thankful that he didn't come to me. You still want me to take the initiative to flirt with him? I don't want to live anymore?"
Xu Lu couldn't help but smile when she saw me looking like a warrior. "Is it that exaggerated? Didn't you tell me that Ji Guanxin is actually a very nice person?"
I instinctively turned my eyes, and after a few seconds, I said, "That's true."
When Xu Lu said it, I was really worried about Ji Guanxin inexplicably. It's impossible for a person like him to 'disappear' for no reason. I didn't mess with him, so why did he suddenly disappear
Is it possible…
I imagined various scenarios in which he would get into trouble, such as a car accident, taking the wrong medicine, or being kidnapped by a woman, then raped and then killed...
Shaking my head, I quickly drove away the bad thoughts from my mind.
Think silently in your heart, good things work, bad things don’t work.
Maybe it’s because I was raised by my mother since I was a child. I have the feudal thoughts of the older generation in my bones. I instinctively don’t want to think about bad things and think about the good in everything.
Maybe Ji Guanxin... just found something new and fun, so forget about me.