After finishing speaking, I wiped Luo Xiangdong's arm and walked out of the door. I didn't cry because I wasn't sad at all, only calm and stable.
He said he didn't like me, and I finally got an answer.
When I entered the elevator and was about to close the door, Luo Xiangdong appeared again. He stretched out his hand to block the elevator door that was almost closing, and then stepped in.
I didn't let him go out, nor did I go out myself. I just pressed the number '1' calmly.
In the small enclosed space, Luo Xiangdong looked at me, with tension and worry in his eyes. After a few seconds, he opened his thin lips and said loudly: "Zijin..."
I rushed before he could speak and said, "You don't have to say sorry to me. There's nothing wrong with not liking someone. I don't mean to force you to do anything. I have to thank you for giving me an answer. This I feel relieved."
I thought I would cry. At the very least, I would feel so uncomfortable that I almost felt like suffocating. But no, I didn't shed a single tear, and I didn't feel any pain in my heart, so I spoke very smoothly, as if I was talking about other people's affairs.
When Luo Xiangdong heard this, the worry in his eyes became more obvious, even mixed with heartache.
I raised my lips at him and smiled, with the same relaxed tone as before, and said, "Don't look at me like that, or I will feel very pitiful."
I don’t know if this sentence touched him, but I saw his brows furrowed, and even his Adam’s apple moved slightly.
He didn't say anything, and neither did I. The elevator quickly went down to the first floor. I stepped out and Luo Xiangdong followed behind me.
I stretched out my hand to push the outermost security door. I don’t know if it was because I was weak or because the security door was too heavy. I couldn’t push it halfway until it stopped. Luo Xiangdong stretched out his arm from behind me and pushed the door with one hand, and the door opened quickly.
His casual action made me feel very sad. My throat was choked, I held back my tears and strode out.
As I walked towards the street, the wind blew under my feet, as if I was afraid that Luo Xiangdong would catch up with me. When I walked to the street, I looked sideways and planned to stop the car with my hand.
Luo Xiangdong said to me: "Why do you want to move?"
I didn't look at him and replied calmly: "I'm no longer your assistant, why do I still live in such a nice house?"
Luo Xiangdong said: "When you were not my assistant, didn't you always live here?"
I said, "I didn't know before that you let me live here just for the sake of your nephew. Now that I know, I'm not that shameless."
Luo Xiangdong was silent for a few seconds, and then said: "Zijin, you don't need to be so stubborn."
What he said was calm and gentle, but my heart was filled with turmoil, and a deep-buried anger was gradually being aroused.
I glanced sideways at him and said with no emotion or anger on my face: "Why am I so stubborn? You treat me well because you want me to be with your nephew. Didn't he tell you that in the United States? I told him at that time that I didn’t like him and wouldn’t be with him?”
Luo Xiangdong didn't answer immediately, so I added another sentence: "I have received a lot of benefits from your care in the past. I have already spent the money I should have spent, and I can't remember how much I owe you. But fortunately, we also sincerely After being a sincere friend for a while, I know that you are not short of money, so I will not say any polite words about paying back the money. I will give you back everything I can, so don’t take it too little.”
The conscience of heaven and earth, when I said this, I just touched my own conscience and did not mean to criticize Luo Xiangdong. But after hearing this, he frowned, looked at me and said, "Do you have to be like this?"
I looked calm and replied aloud: "I think it's better for us not to meet each other in the future. After all, you are Yi Yang's biological uncle. Our relationship is easy to talk about, so you have to avoid suspicion."
There was an expression on Luo Xiangdong's handsome face that I couldn't understand. He was silent for a few seconds, and he only replied to me with three words: "I'm sorry."
I smiled and replied cheerfully: "It's okay, just like you said, although you lied to me, I also received a lot of benefits. If I continue to worry about it, wouldn't I lose my face?" ?”
A flash of distress seemed to flash across Luo Xiangdong's eyes very quickly, so fast that I had no time to catch it, so I had to think it was because I was dazzled.
"Don't worry, I won't vent my anger on Yi Yang. From now on, he and I will be the same as before. It's just that the two of us don't meet again. I don't know whether to call you boss, brother...or uncle after I meet you."
When I said this, I always kept a light smile on my face, because I thought that only in this way could Luo Xiangdong feel that I was relieved.
After that, before Luo Xiangdong could reply, I saw an empty car coming from the front, and I stretched out my hand to stop it.
The taxi stopped in front of me, I opened the passenger door, bent down and got in.
I closed the car door and forced myself not to look at Luo Xiangdong's face. I told the driver the address. The driver stepped on the accelerator and the car quickly drove away.
It is said that people who are heartbroken are not suitable for listening to love songs, and at this time, the song "The Most Familiar Stranger" was playing in the car.
We have become the most familiar strangers in the world, and from now on we will each have twists and turns and have our own sorrows; it’s just that our love is so fierce and deep, so we wake up from the dream, become stranded, become silent, wave our hands, but can’t recover; if we had met when we first met If I can hold back my excited soul, maybe I won’t let myself sink in longing tonight.
From the moment the car started, the sourness in my heart surged, and now with this song, I burst into tears.
My throat was so choked that it hurt, and I tried very hard not to make a sound. However, the car was too quiet, so the driver cautiously looked at me sideways.
I am a very face-conscious person, but I just couldn't bear it at this moment. I turned my head and looked out the car window and sobbed.
I cried for more than ten minutes, and then my tears gradually stopped. Looking out the window at the night scene with red and swollen eyes, all I could think of was Luo Xiangdong's words: But I don't like you.
I thought I always just wanted an answer, but I didn't know until tonight that what I wanted was not just an answer, but the answer that he loved me in his heart. It's a pity that he can't give it to Luo Xiangdong.
Thinking about this, it's not just the pain of heartache.
They say love is like a plague, it comes silently and leaves with corpses everywhere. I thought that the heart-breaking feeling would only happen once in my life, but in just over half a year, I experienced it twice.
By the time the taxi arrived at the hotel door, my tears hadn't dried yet.
I paid to get out of the car and walked inside with heavy steps. At night when it was almost early in the morning, there were no people on the street, but there were still people in the hotel lobby.
Several men were standing in the hotel lobby talking, and it was obvious that they had drunk too much. I lowered my gaze slightly and walked towards the elevator entrance. Suddenly one of the men looked at me and said, "Hey, are you the one who's lonely and bored and looking for company?"
There were also front desk and security guards in the lobby at that time, and everyone turned to look at me.
I paused for a moment, and then walked forward expressionlessly.
When the man saw that I was ignoring him, he actually stepped forward to block in front of me, and even tried to reach out and pull my arm. I immediately became furious, raised my eyes and glared at him and said, "What are you doing?!"
The man smelled of alcohol and couldn't speak fluently. He licked his red face, looked at me and said, "Aren't you the woman who just talked to me on Momo?"
I frowned and replied, "You have the wrong person."
After saying that, I planned to bypass him and walk to the elevator, but this man refused to let me go, blocked my way, pointed his hand at my face, and said to the person next to me: "Isn't this the same thing Momo gave me just now?" That’s the girl who made the erotic video.”
The other man chuckled and said, "It looks similar."
The man standing in front of me looked at me intently, smiled and said, "Are you here specifically to find me?"
I was already angry, but now that he was hitting the muzzle of the gun, I didn’t even think about it and just cursed: "Are you sick? Stay away and don’t block the road!"
With that said, I stepped forward. The man suddenly reached out and grabbed my arm, and said with a smile: "Come on, let's go upstairs and give me a live performance."
The smell of alcohol mixed with the smell of a strange man made me feel sick and repulsed at the same time. I instinctively reached out to push him and shouted: "Let me go!"
The hotel security and front desk were shocked and rushed over to try to pull us away. As a result, several other men blocked the security guard and the front desk. I vaguely heard them say: "Don't try to get involved, we know each other."
I couldn't push away the man who was holding me, and in the confusion I even tore off my bag.
I turned around and called the security guard for help, but the security guard was an uncle in his fifties. He was blocked by two men and couldn't do anything at all. There was a young girl at the front desk who was not much different from me in age. She was even more frightened when she encountered this scene. When the other party scolded her, she immediately stood there and did not dare to move, and could only look at me with panic in her eyes.
I shouted loudly: "Let me go, do you believe I will call the police?!"
I never thought that I would be pulled into the elevator in front of everyone, nor did I think that a grown man would be so strong. He grabbed my arms and clothes and dragged me to the elevator entrance like I was carrying luggage.
The man frowned and looked at me and said, "It's for sale. How do you pretend to be? You name a price and I'll keep it for you tonight."
I couldn't pull him, and I was afraid of being dragged into the elevator, so I kicked him hard on the calf and yelled, "Fuck you!"
I used all my strength with this kick, and the man let out a sound of pain and let go of one hand, but the other hand was still holding on to my clothes. I pulled hard and he pushed me forward in anger.
He pushed me straight away, and I fell to the ground. The back of my head hit the marble floor. Suddenly my eyes turned gray, my ears were buzzing, and I couldn't hear anything.
The feeling of having your eyes open but not seeing anything is so scary that it makes you tremble.
I didn't know what would happen next, so I lay straight on the ground.