Back in Hangzhou, Xu Huaisong began to work at the law firm from nine to five, devoting more energy to Zhou Jun's case.
Ruan Yu knew what this was for.
For the old case ten years ago, the predecessors have tried their best over and over again. As a lawyer, it is difficult for him to do more for it.
But they have all seen, for ten years, how mother Xu felt guilty, how father Xu was notorious, how the victim's family was indignant, and how the suspect who was acquitted was destitute.
All three families were bruised and bruised in that case.
Xu Huaisong could do nothing about it, so he tried to find some hope from the similar case of Zhou Jun.
If Zhou Jun's case can be found out, if the tragedy can be prevented from happening again, he can prove to his mother that maybe his father did nothing wrong back then.
He was busy with the case, and Ruan Yu was bored at home, but whenever he didn't have to go to Global Vision, he got up early to stick to him, and went to the law firm with him to change the script, saying that it would save the electricity bill at home.
Xu Huaisong didn't expose her. He paid the law firm's electricity bill, which was also his own money.
More than half a month later, because Zhou Jun insisted on pleading not guilty during the interrogation, and the factual evidence was not sufficient, the procuratorate proposed to conduct a supplementary investigation on the case.
For this reason, Zhang Ling and Xu Huaisong, who had been struggling day and night, finally got a breather.
But Ruan Yu calculated and found that he was about to return to the United States.
Fearing that he would "take off suddenly" like last time, Ruan Yu asked him in advance this time.
Xu Huaisong sat in front of the computer busy working, took a sip of the milk she handed over, and said, "You can leave a few days later than originally planned."
"Can the trial time be postponed arbitrarily?"
Xu Huaisong shook his head: "It's not a trial. Originally, I went back to sign a few important documents that were just generated two days ago. I can't use electronic signatures and I can't bear the risk of mailing."
"Then don't you need to sign now?"
"To sign."
"Then why don't you go?"
Ruan Yu blinked a little puzzled. Xu Huaisong's speech has always been accurate, and it is rare for him to be unclear once or twice.
What's going on here
He said silently, "Come here."
Ruan Yu walked over without knowing why, and was wrapped in his arms.
After she sat firmly on his lap, Xu Huaisong explained: "Lu Shenglan just happened to be in China on business, and he said that he could bring me the documents to sign, and then bring them back to San Francisco with him."
It turned out that this was the only way to stay by her side for a few more days. No wonder it's vague.
Ruan Yu hesitated, and nodded to show that he understood.
Xu Huaisong looked down at her: "Don't think too much, there are only a few documents, and there is no need to meet each other. I will ask Xiao Chen to fetch them for me."
"Hmm..." Ruan Yu dragged his voice, paused and said, "I'm not thinking about this, I just think...she can help you, and I just ask you to go back and forth for me."
"Colleagues share work with each other. Besides, I'm not making trouble for you."
"Um?"
Xu Huaisong smiled: "I don't see you, I feel uncomfortable first."
Ruan Yu didn't say anything, but raised the end of his eyes with a smile, put his arms around his neck, kissed his chin, and fell apart instantly.
Xu Huaisong lowered his head and spent thirty times as long fighting with her lips.
Three days later, Ruan Yu went to Universal Television to hold a script meeting as usual.
Xu Huaisong sent her to the door, and told her to keep in touch with each other at any time as before to avoid placing orders, and if she met Wei Jin face to face, keep it natural.
The police's stalking was deepening step by step. As an insider, Ruan Yu had to pretend not to know, so after getting out of the car, he secretly rehearsed the details of his expressions and words in his heart.
But the reality is that she doesn't need to think about the question of "Which Peking University and Tsinghua University choose?". Because half a day passed, the meeting room on the seventh floor was quiet, and Wei Fujin, who was on the nineteenth floor, did not come down.
Just when she was feeling lucky, at lunch time, she saw the secretary of producer Zheng Shan come to deliver milk tea.
Exactly the same brand and taste as last time.
Just as an idea flashed through her mind, she received a WeChat message that confirmed the idea.
Li Shican: [Don't be nervous, I'm on the nineteenth floor.]
It turns out that good luck is fake.
It was Li Shican who found another reason to turn on the air conditioner on the 19th floor, which saved her from possible contact with Wei Jin.
She replied: [Thank you, sorry for the trouble, and wasted another day of your time.]
Li Shican: [It's okay, I'm idle, the air conditioner here is easy to blow and doesn't cost money.]
She didn't return. Just about to press the lock screen button, she suddenly noticed a new friend request below.
Click to open it, it seems to be a newly registered user, the avatar is still the default, the verification content: [Hello, I am Lu Shenglan.]
Ruan Yu was taken aback.
The day before yesterday, Lu Shenglan asked his assistant to send the materials to the law firm, but he hesitated and did not meet Xu Huaisong, and now he should have brought back the documents he signed. What does it mean to suddenly add her on WeChat
She nodded in bewilderment.
Lu Shenglan quickly sent a message, straight to the point: [Miss Ruan, hello, sorry to bother you. I'm going back to America today, and I'd like to invite you to drink tea before I leave, if it's convenient for you.]
Ruan Yu did have a lunch break.
But why did she suddenly invite her to drink tea
Her hand paused on the screen for a long time, and she was about to exit the dialog box and ask Xu Huaisong what was going on, when she saw her message: [I have no other intentions, I just want to talk to you about Huaisong's current situation. The situation in the United States, if possible, please keep him a secret for the time being.]
The situation in the United States
Ruan Yu frowned, and typed: [I'm in Global Vision, and I only have one hour.]
Lu Shenglan: [Then I'll drive here, can you arrive at the main gate in ten minutes?]
Nephrite: [Yes.]
Ruan Yu arrived at Huanshi's entrance and got into Lu Shenglan's car.
She was still dressed in neat business attire. When she saw Ruan Yu, she took off her sunglasses and greeted her. Afterwards, she was silent all the way until she entered the box in the opposite tea room.
The tea was served, and seeing that the person on the other side seemed to be brewing, Ruan Yu asked tentatively, "How does Ms. Lu know my WeChat ID?"
Lu Shenglan lowered his head and smiled: "That was the time."
With just four words, the atmosphere suddenly froze.
Lu Shenglan immediately raised her eyes: "I'm sorry for what happened that day, but I'm not here to apologize to you today. What I'm going to say next will also generate a new apology to you. It's just these words, if I don't say , you may never know."
Ruan Yu frowned.
Coming out of the tea room and returning to Huanshi, Ruan Yu was absent-minded all afternoon. He was called by the producer several times, and he didn't even hear the discussion clearly.
It wasn't until the meeting ended in the evening, when Xu Huaisong said that he had arrived at the door, that she cheered up and went downstairs.
In the lobby on the first floor, Li Shican was sitting on the sofa with his elbows propped up and playing with his mobile phone. He watched her get out of the elevator and looked up at her.
Ruan Yu was taken aback for a moment, and then understood.
He should have calculated the time for the end of the meeting and came here to ensure that she returned home safely.
Although it seems like a bit of an overkill.
Ruan Yu looked back at him gratefully, walked out of the hall, got into Xu Huaisong's passenger seat, put on his seat belt but did not see the car leave.
Xu Huaisong tilted his head, his gaze was still in the direction of the hall.
Ruan Yu followed his gaze and saw Li Shican glanced in this direction, then picked up his phone and turned to leave.
She explained: "He is because..."
"I know." Xu Huaisong interrupted her.
Although it was far away, he could understand Li Shican's intentions at a glance.
He said: "It's very good. You can rest assured with him. Your safety is the most important thing."
Ruan Yu looked at his expression and saw that he should be genuinely relieved, so he didn't say anything more, tilting his head and leaning against the back of the chair.
Xu Huaisong turned his head, looked at her sleepy look, and asked, "What's wrong?"
She opened and closed her mouth, and shook her head silently: "No, I'm just tired from the meeting."
"Then don't go back to cook, and eat outside at night."
"Um."
The car started slowly and poured into the endless stream.
Ruan Yu turned her head out of the window, watching the sky get darker and the tall street lamps on the side of the road turned on one after another, just like at noon, Lu Shenglan said one sentence after another plainly, telling what she hadn't seen all this time. Huai Song's world slowly illuminates.
She said: "You probably don't know why Huai Song chose to study law in the first place. In fact, he didn't understand his father from the beginning. At that time, he also felt that Uncle Xu seemed to be a person who 'takes people's money and eliminates disasters for others'." So he chose to study law in the United States at first because he wanted to be a lawyer different from him, but looking back now, it may seem a little childish and a little funny.”
"It's not easy for people of the yellow race to be there. I'm okay. I've been used to it since I was a child, and I have many friends in school. But he didn't. He was alone. When he was discriminated against and treated unfairly, he could only talk about his grades."
"Americans really do this. When his grades repeatedly topped the list, they gradually became convinced that the Chinese boy was a genius. But they didn't know that the genius they talked about had been admitted twice because of overwork. Hospital."
"He graduated with the best grades in the whole grade, and was admitted to the most difficult bar in the United States. But then, you should have guessed it. He took up the law with a rebellious heart, and rubbed and conflicted with his father all the way. But in the end, after becoming a lawyer, he walked back to his father's track step by step, smoothed these edges and corners, and understood his father's difficulties."
"On the day Uncle Xu suffered a cerebral infarction and was diagnosed with cerebrovascular dementia, he sat in the hospital all night. Afterwards, he began to take over his father's case and took over everything. He didn't say anything, but I It can be seen that since then, he has really put his heart into it. Being a lawyer is no longer a job for him, but a career."
"You may not imagine that a person like him has ever been addicted to cigarettes. It was Uncle Xu who contracted it shortly after he fell ill. The pressure in the first two years was too great. There was no way but to rely on external stimulation. Until the third Years later, he returned to his normal state and quit smoking."
"The man you see now is the man who has achieved great success after eight years of hard work. He has capital, so he can return to China as soon as he returns, but this does not mean that he gave up easily."
"No one else knows about these things. If I don't tell you, he may never tell you. Compared with you never knowing, I think it's better for me to talk about it. Anyway, we couldn't become friend."
"Finally, let me say something that makes you hate, give up eight years of hard work overnight, maybe he is really willing, but this is really not a matter of course, if you still don't consider accommodating him to go to the United States, at least, yes His sacrifice is cherished."
Ruan Yu pursed his lips, watched the traffic outside the window, and squeezed the passport in his bag tightly.