"It's okay. You go ahead. I'll go back by myself." My voice was calm and without any temper.
Luo Xiangdong said, "What happened?"
I know his character. If I don't make it clear today, he will have to get to the bottom of it.
Sighing secretly, I said aloud: "You know that Yi Yang is with a man named He Xile, right?"
Luo Xiangdong reacted quickly: "He Xile is causing trouble for you?"
I said, "Please help me take away the dead rat from the door. I'm too scared to go home."
Luo Xiangdong's face suddenly turned gloomy, and I quickly said: "You don't have to go to He Xile, she is venting her anger on Yi Yang's behalf, forget it."
I was worried that Luo Xiangdong's behavior would be like that time in Lianzhou, which caused people to go bankrupt. I thought to myself that apart from being a little frightened and not getting hurt, there was no need to be so cruel.
After Luo Xiangdong was silent for a moment, he said, "Let's go, I'll take you to the hotel."
I said, "No, please help me take away the dead mouse and I'll go back to live there."
But Luo Xiangdong insisted: "It's not safe for you to live here alone. It's better to stay in a hotel for one night. I'll ask you to clean up for you tomorrow."
I said several times that I could just ask him to help me, but Luo Xiangdong always had to avoid the topic. I raised my eyes and stared at his face, and an idea suddenly came to my mind.
"Are you afraid of rats too?"
Luo Xiangdong looked at me when he heard this, with a clear look in his eyes that he wanted to deny it but was afraid that I would really ask him to get it, so he weighed it for a few seconds before replying to me: "I feel disgusted."
Well, after all, you are not as afraid as me.
Seeing that I looked away in disgust, Luo Xiangdong said, "Stop being so stubborn, go to the hotel for one night, and we'll talk about anything tomorrow."
Ji Guanxin was not in Night City, and I had nowhere to go at midnight, so I had to go out and get into Luo Xiangdong's car. The moment I got into his car, I still felt emotional in my heart. What does it mean that things have changed and people have changed? What is the vicissitudes of life
In the car, neither of us spoke, and the quiet car made me a little nervous. I don't know how long it took, but Luo Xiangdong spoke first. He said aloud: "Ji Guanxin is not in Night City. If you need anything, call me."
After a second's pause, before I could answer, he added: "You call me brother, and I have no reason not to help you."
This sentence made me frown slightly sadly.
Luo Xiangdong drove me to the five-star hotel closest to the travel agency. When he parked the car on the side of the road, I unbuckled my seat belt and said, "You don't have to get out, I can just go in by myself."
Luo Xiangdong said: "I will take you to the door."
After saying that, he unbuckled his seat belt, opened the door and stepped out.
The two of us walked towards the hotel entrance together. Because there is a square in front of the hotel, the distance was still quite far. After walking for almost a minute, we arrived at the hotel entrance.
As expected, Luo Xiangdong didn't follow me. He just stopped and said to me, "Be careful in the future."
I nodded, turned around and walked inside.
I stayed in a hotel for one night and when I went to the travel agency the next day, everyone in the agency knew that someone had thrown paint on me and killed a rat.
Xu Yifan specifically didn't go with the group just to wait for me. We were standing in the tea room. Xu Yifan stared at me and asked, "Zijin, what's going on? Who is so wicked?"
I was still wearing the same clothes I wore when I came to work yesterday. When I heard this, I flat-mouthed and replied: "He Xile was the only one who warned me recently."
Xu Yifan frowned and said immediately: "Why did you offend her?"
I pursed my lips and said nothing, but Xu Yifan skipped the topic and said, "No matter what, she is maliciously intimidating and disrupting your normal life. You can go to the police station to file a record to investigate her."
I said, "Don't Lu Cong say that she is Guanmei's daughter? Since she dares to do it, she will definitely not leave any evidence. It would be in vain for me to go to the police station to report the crime."
Xu Yifan sighed, and then said: "That's right, those guys in uniforms all work for the rich."
After he finished speaking, he asked me again: "So your personal safety is in question now, what are you going to do?"
I spent the whole night in the hotel thinking: "I'll change places and move out, so that someone won't come over to the dormitory and cause trouble and disturb my colleagues."
"Brother Yifan, I'm sorry."
Xu Yifan said openly: "Hey, why are you talking about this? I'm just worried that a girl like you will encounter something like this..."
Halfway through, he suddenly thought of something, so he asked me intently: "By the way, where is your boyfriend? You said before that he went to Canada to visit relatives. How long have you been gone? Why haven't you come back yet?"
I said, "His second sister-in-law is having a difficult delivery. Both mother and child are in the intensive care unit now. He has to stay there with her for a while."
Xu Yifan said 'Oh', and then said: "It would be great if your boyfriend was here. You might as well move to live with him. He is so rich, and he lives in a place that most people can't enter, and it is safer."
Thinking of Ji Guanxin, I suddenly remembered that his cell phone was turned off last night. After talking to Xu Yifan, I returned to my desk. There was a document express on my desk. After what happened last night, I was afraid that He Xile would send someone something to scare me again, so I asked Xu Yifan to come over and help me unpack it.
Xu Yifan reached out to pick up the express delivery, squeezed it, and then said: "Don't be afraid, such a small bag can't hold much."
After that, he tore the seal in front of me, then reached out and took out a pile of things.
"It's a photo." Xu Yifan glanced down naturally as he spoke. Seeing his expression change, I asked nervously: "What photo?"
Xu Yifan's face became even worse. His first reaction was to turn the picture side of the photo away from me, and then said, "Ah, it's nothing, just some prank photos. I took them away."
Maybe men will never understand that their self-righteous lies look particularly ridiculous in the eyes of women. I could tell almost within a tenth of a second when he lied that the content in the photo was not as simple as what he said.
So I immediately stood up from my chair, grabbed his arm with one hand, and reached for the photo with the other.
"Zijin, don't look..."
He couldn't grab it from me, so I snatched the stack of photos from his hand and looked at them carefully.
My heart suddenly thumped, as if someone had lifted me up.
I finally understood why Xu Yifan was so nervous not to show it to me. It wasn’t that the images in the photos were scary. Yes, not only were they not scary, they were also beautiful.
I don't know what expression to use to face what I see in front of me.
The people photographed in the photo are a man and a woman. The man is wearing a light-colored turtleneck thick-line sweater and light-colored casual pants; the woman is wearing sweaters of similar color and style and is standing next to him. They came out of the hotel together, and the name of the hotel was: Tokyo Hotel.
Xu Yifan was standing next to me. My face was expressionless, but he was like an ant on a hot pot, with the air of an emperor who is not in a hurry and an eunuch who is. Because the man in the photo is Ji Guanxin.
The woman standing next to him is Zhou Mengyi.
After looking at the first photo, I calmly turned my hand over and turned it down. The photo was taken from a distance using a telephoto lens, and it looked like it was taken secretly.
The two people in the picture appear together in hotels, restaurants, bookstores, and even parks full of cherry blossoms.
From the first photo of the hotel, I knew this was Japan. The background of the photo is full of Japanese cultural colors, and Ji Guanxin told me... He is in Canada, waiting for his second sister-in-law to be discharged from the hospital.
I looked through no less than thirty or forty photos without saying a word. Xu Yifan finally couldn't help it. His Adam's apple twitched and he said cautiously: "Zijin... don't be angry."
I suddenly raised my head, raised the corners of my lips and said to Xu Yifan, "It's okay, the woman in the photo is his sister."
Xu Yifan looked at me with obvious disbelief, but he was afraid of irritating me, so he had to act as if he had suddenly realized something, and said repeatedly: "Look, I'm just saying, it's impossible..."
I felt sorry for him pretending to be tired, so I calmly said, "Brother Yifan, go and do your work. I'll give him a call."
"Hey, okay, you guys can call me and talk to me if you have anything to say."
After Xu Yifan persuaded me for a few words, he ran away quickly.
I took my phone into the bathroom and made sure no one was there, then I called Ji Guanxin with a sullen face.
"Sorry, the phone you dialed has been turned off. Sorry..."
When I heard the word "power off", I was so angry that I wanted to drop the phone.
Ji Guanxin, you are cruel!
I was bullied last night and couldn't go home. When I called him, he turned off his phone. I thought something happened to him in Canada, but he was in Japan with Zhou Mengyi!
I was so angry that I wished I could contact him now and scold him immediately.
Rather than being angry, I actually feel more grievance and distress in my heart. What harm did I, Liang Zijin, do in my last life? Why is it so difficult to find someone to fall in love with in this life
As I thought about it, I felt sad, my throat was choked, and tears came to my eyes.
But this is a travel agency, and yesterday's storm has not passed yet. If people find out about my boyfriend cheating on me now, I will probably become a laughing stock.
So I gritted my teeth, clenched my fists, and endured it.
After leaving the bathroom, Xu Yifan deliberately checked to see how I was feeling. I tried my best to smile at him and said, "It's okay."
Xu Yifan said: "I won't be taking a group at noon. Can I treat you to dinner?"
I felt aggrieved in my heart, so without much hesitation I said with a slight smile: "Okay, you treat me, I'll pay for it."
Xu Yifan smiled: "You have the final say."
At noon, Xu Yifan and I found a nearby restaurant for dinner. Sitting in the private room, Xu Yifan said: "Zijin, actually there are some things I don't know whether I should say, but you know that I am a fast-talking person, and if you don't say it, I feel aggrieved in my heart."
I said, "Just tell me, it will save you the pain of holding it in."
Xu Yifan said: "You are good-looking and have strong working ability. Logically speaking, it is natural for you to find a rich boyfriend. But then again, not everyone can marry from a rich family. If you just want to have a date, I won't say anything about the love of wealth, but during the time we have known each other, I know that you are not the kind of person who just wants to get married. If you really want to get married, rich people are not your first choice, at least not you. Now my boyfriend is so rich that you can’t control him.”