The lingering on the ceiling didn't officially come to an end until three o'clock in the morning.
Gu Kaiyang fell asleep a long time ago, while Ji Mingshu lay on the other side of the bed, wrapped tightly in a small quilt, closed his eyes, but never fell asleep.
At six o'clock in the morning, the alarm clock rang on time.
Gu Kaiyang sat up from the bed, yawned, picked up his phone again, and ordered takeaway breakfast.
Today is the magazine finalization day once a month, and she needs to arrive early. Even if she hasn't slept enough, she has to get up to wash and put on makeup.
After tidying up, Gu Kaiyang glanced upstairs, just in time to see Ji Mingshu slowly sitting up from the bed and leaning against the head of the bed.
She wiped off the excess lipstick and asked, "Why did you wake up so early? Did my alarm clock wake you up?"
"without."
Because she didn't sleep at all.
Gu Kaiyang didn't ask any further questions. He glanced at the time and hurriedly explained: "I bought breakfast, soy milk, fried dough sticks and steamed buns are on the dining table. I put it on the dining table for you too, remember to have breakfast, no, I have to go to work."
"Well, you go."
Ji Mingshu responded, wrapping his hands around his legs, resting his chin on his knees, his heart was beating extremely fast due to insomnia all night.
Hearing the door was closed with a "bang", she didn't move, but quietly closed her eyes.
It has been two days since the incident happened. Compared with the intense emotions at the beginning, her heart has returned to calm.
But it was in this calm that she felt unprecedented confusion about her future life.
In fact, when she misunderstood Cen Sen cheating on Zhang Baoshu, she was confused: if she got divorced, how would she live.
Later, she hesitated to participate in the show, and she also seriously considered Gu Kaiyang's advice to persuade her to develop her career, but she was comfortable for more than 20 years, and it was difficult for her to be prepared for danger in times of peace.
Although in the current situation, she still talks about being poor with Gu Kaiyang, and she doesn't want to face the reality that the marriage is inseparable and that she is really useless after leaving Cen Sen, but when people can't sleep in the middle of the night, she thinks a lot , also reflected a lot.
Wondering if Cen Sen would apologize and compromise to take her home;
Thinking that since she has understood her feelings for Cen Sen, can she still be satisfied with maintaining the life style of a plastic couple with him before, willing to never get his love and respect;
I also thought about whether the root of all this is because——she is not good.
During the period from the summer solstice to the winter solstice, the daylight hours are getting shorter and shorter. In the late autumn and early winter, the sky does not suddenly brighten until 7:30 in the morning.
There was a new day of heavy traffic outside, and Gu Kaiyang's little beetle had already flown into it. Ji Mingshu closed his eyes and slowly lay on his side, then curled up into a ball again, and fell into a drowsy sleep.
This sleep lasted until two o'clock in the afternoon. When Ji Mingshu woke up, the sun outside was already very hot.
She went downstairs and turned on her mobile phone to scan the bill. Yesterday, she bought skin care products and household items casually, and she had already spent nearly 100,000 yuan.
She looked through the news from the producer of the "Designer" program group. She didn't notice it before. It turned out that the reward for participating in the program had already been paid.
But the point is that she didn't like this small amount of money at that time, and the card she filled out at random was neither brought out nor bound to her mobile phone, and she didn't know where it was.
So now, she only has the last 100,000 yuan that Jiang Chun donated.
She sat quietly for a while, then picked up the key card, changed her shoes and went out.
The magazine office where Gu Kaiyang works is not far from Xinggang International. Ji Mingshu went to a nearby tea restaurant to pack an afternoon tea, and then went straight to "Zero Degree".
Today is the day of finalizing the manuscript, the magazine office is very busy up and down, everyone shuttles back and forth for the work at hand, and there is no time to talk to her at all.
She saw the familiar little assistant, so she stopped and asked, "Where's your deputy editor?"
The little assistant knew that Ji Mingshu was Gu Kaiyang's best friend, so he pushed his glasses and said awkwardly, "Sister Gu...she is in the editor's office now, she should be being lectured."
She said the last sentence very softly, almost only out of breath.
Ji Mingshu: "Why were you scolded?"
The little assistant said cautiously: "Sister Gu asked for a temporary leave yesterday, the work was not handed over, and something went wrong accidentally, it was very troublesome when I finalized the draft today, and the entire layout was rushed to change, so..."
Ji Mingshu was taken aback.
The little assistant said again: "Miss Ji, if you are looking for Miss Gu, you might as well go to the office and wait."
"No need." Ji Mingshu suddenly stuffed the packed afternoon tea snacks into the little assistant, "you can eat it, don't say that I sent it, and don't tell your deputy editor that I have been here."
"ah?"
The little assistant looked at the back of Ji Mingshu who turned around and walked away after finishing speaking, and was completely dumbfounded.
In the imperial capital in autumn and winter, the dawn is late, but the darkness is early, and the sunset is not seen at six o'clock.
On the way from the racecourse to the clubhouse, Zhou Jiaheng reported to Cen Sen the progress of the follow-up finishing work at Star City.
Cen Sen leaned back in the seat, closed his eyes and dozed off, and didn't answer.
After Zhou Jiaheng finished his report, he paused for a moment, then changed the subject without changing his tone, and said, "Today, my wife went out at 2:30 in the afternoon and went to the tea restaurant to pack some snacks. I arrived at the "Zero Degree" magazine office at 3:00, and came out at 3:10. .Walk along Huainan 3rd Road to Luxend Supermarket at the intersection of Huainan 2nd Road and Dongjing Street, and bought a bag of ingredients. Walked back to Xinggang International at 4:30 and didn’t come out again.”
Cen Sen still didn't answer, but just changed the direction of his hands in low embrace.
Bentley drove all the way to Heyonghui. Jiang Che returned to the imperial capital today to meet a professor from the chip research and development team, and made an appointment with him here by the way.
Jiang Che is currently in the period of passionate love, he is proud of his spring breeze, and he is a little bit easy to be a teacher.
Seeing Cen Sen, who didn't drink much in private meetings, come in and ordered a bottle of whiskey, he suddenly asked, "Did you find out that you have a problem?"
Cen Sen raised his eyes slightly.
Jiang Che's arms were stretched out on the back of the sofa, his head was slightly tilted, and he looked indecently lazy.
The smoke between his fingers leaked a little scarlet, and the smoke curled up, making his voice hoarse and lazy, "You are especially not good at dealing with emotional matters, you don't know how to deal with An Jia, and you don't know what to do with your wife .”
Cen Sen lowered his eyes again, he never touched cigarettes on weekdays, but today he lit one on Jiang Che's fire, held it low between his finger bones, and let it flicker.
"Do you remember that when you first came to Nanqiao Hutong when you were young, Ji Mingshu liked you so much that he went to visit you with snacks every day."
"Is there?"
He only remembered that Ji Mingshu was very princess sick and childish, as if he had isolated him with a few children.
"Why not? At that time, Shu Yang still laughed at her for sticking her hot face to your cold ass every day, and said that she had forgotten Cen Yang so quickly, she had no conscience."
When Jiang Che mentioned Cen Yang, Cen Sen had some impressions.
Because Shu Yang and Cen Yang have a homonym in their names, they have always had a good relationship. Because of this, Shu Yang didn't wait to see him at first, they were young and only played together later.
Jiang Che dusted off the cigarette ash, "Let me speak objectively. In fact, I quite appreciate Ji Mingshu's personality. He is relatively simple and straightforward..."
Cen Sen looked at him.
"I don't mean anything else. I just want to say that when you get along with a girl like your wife, you should be more straightforward. You should bear a large part of the responsibility for such a trivial matter like Li Wenyin to cause a lot of trouble in the city."
Neither Shu Yang nor Zhao Yang knew Cen Sen as well as Jiang Che did. Jiang Che had witnessed the whole process between Cen Sen and Li Wenyin.
If Cen Sen would insist on divorcing and remarrying for Li Wenyin regardless of the friendship between Cen Ji and his family, he would first not believe it. First of all, Cen Sen is not a romantic mind, and second, Li Wenyin really doesn't have that ability.
He thought of something, and suddenly teased lazily: "I still said something that I shouldn't have said, do you know that you are now... as soon as you hear that something happened to Ji Mingshu, you run back, and when something happens, you drink to relieve your worries The behavior of smoking is especially like what I would do when I quarreled with Zhou You."
Cen Sen paused, put the cigarette out in the ashtray, and said in a very low voice, "Shut up if you don't have to say it."
Jiang Che snorted lightly.
Naturally, the two of them didn't meet to chat, and Jiang Che was not an old lady who liked to worry about other people's emotional life, but after a few words, the topic quickly turned back to the business of the cooperation project.
At nine o'clock in the evening, the night is shrouded in dots and stars in this luxurious city.
Cen Sen and Jiang Che were talking in low voices in Heyonghui's private room, and Gu Kaiyang finally finished his overtime work and rushed back to Xinggang International.
She was worried that Ji Mingshu didn't have a good meal, and when she came home, she saw Ji Mingshu squatting in front of the coffee table looking for the medicine box with his bloody finger raised.
"Ji Mingshu, what did you do? What's wrong with your hand?!" Gu Kaiyang was so nervous that he stepped forward without changing his shoes, and stared at her bleeding fingers, "Does it hurt?"
"Nonsense, of course it hurts!" Ji Mingshu wrinkled his face pitifully, seeing that Gu Kaiyang was concentrating on putting on the band-aid for her, he endured it again, and said forcefully, "But it's okay, so I just stroked it lightly, It won't hurt after a while."
Gu Kaiyang put his heart down a bit, and continued to ask: "What's the matter, what did you touch? Are you trying to scare me to death?"
"I'm not thinking about your hard work, and I want to cook a few dishes for you."
"...?" Gu Kaiyang had a black question mark on his face, "You, cook?"
She looked back at the kitchen, not to mention, the pots, pans and spoons had been touched, "What about the dishes?"
"You are annoying."
Ji Mingshu patted her hand away in disgust, got up on his own, and sat down on the sofa, feeling a little guilty in his righteousness, "Isn't this a lack of practical experience, and you are still exploring on the road of socialist construction?"
It was expected by Gu Kaiyang that the dishes were not cooked, but what shocked her now was that Ji Mingshu, a young lady who is so good at cooking, suddenly thought of cooking.
Ji Mingshu wanted to expose this black history, so he sat up straight again, and said to Gu Kaiyang seriously: "Yangyang, I have thought about it seriously today, and I think what you said is right. I can't keep relying on others to support me like this. .Jiang Chun specially asked me about the gossip today, saying that Junyi withdrew the investment in Li Wenyin's movie two days ago."
Gu Kaiyang couldn't keep up with her train of thought, "Then, isn't that a good thing? I told you that you and Cen Sen must have misunderstood. Wait, why did you suddenly think that you can't rely on others to support you..."
"Whether he asked Li Wenyin to go through the normal process in a business-like manner, or he didn't know the content of the movie at all, he didn't consider my feelings at all at first, and he didn't respect me. This is a fact."
"He doesn't respect me because he thinks I'm just a canary he raised, and there's no need to respect me. In fact, in the final analysis, I blame myself. I want money and respect. I want too much. And my two Bo and the others, aren't they sure that I will not be able to live without Cen Sen?"
Gu Kaiyang was shocked by Ji Mingshu's serious face, hesitantly said: "Are you going to transform into Niuhulushushu?"
"Be serious, I'm serious. Aren't you all working hard in your life? Although Cen Sen is hard to describe, his work attitude is worthy of praise. I heard from his assistant that he once Talking about a merger and acquisition case, I only slept for three hours a day for half a month. And you, you work so hard every day and are scolded by the editor-in-chief for being a fool, I should also... "
Gu Kaiyang: "Wait, how did you know that I was scolded by the editor-in-chief?"
Ji Mingshu paused, and reacted quickly and said: "Why are you like this? It's all because you interrupted my train of thought. I forgot what I wanted to say."
She looked at the time again, "It's almost ten o'clock, why don't you go to bed? Gu Kaiyang, are you still going to work tomorrow?"
Gu Kaiyang thought of the box of snacks she liked that his assistant sent this afternoon, and suddenly understood something.
Both Ji Mingshu and Gu Kaiyang went to bed early that night. Ji Mingshu closed his eyes, remembering what he heard when he went to the magazine office in the afternoon, and the roadside vendors he met when he walked back in a daze, and tightened the quilt.
In this world, everyone is working hard on their own to live, so why can't she, Ji Mingshu.
I have to admit that when she received the news from Jiang Chun today, she felt a little bit secretly happy, but if she just went back without a spine like this, Cen Sen would probably look down on her for the rest of her life.
She is so greedy, now she not only wants Cen Sen's money, but also wants his respect, wants him to like her, wants his heart.
When Ji Mingshu and Gu Kaiyang fell asleep early, the nightlife in the imperial capital had just begun.
Cen Sen is a very restrained person on weekdays, except for entertainment, he rarely participates in entertainment activities, and never goes to nightclubs.
But today when Jiang Che came over, Shu Yang kept calling them both, asking them to go to the pub, saying that he wanted to buy wine to make amends, so the two moved away.
This pub was the one where Ji Mingshu came out for Jiang Chun. After the publicity at Mr. Zhang's birthday party, it has become the new favorite entertainment place for the party animals in the imperial capital. Those who love to play often meet each other on weekdays.
When Cen Sen and Jiang Che passed by, the night scene was at its climax, the dance floor was full of men and women, and the lights of five colors interlaced.
The two walked forward along the deck, amidst the sound of music and noise, Cen Sen suddenly heard someone nearby mention "Ji Mingshu", he turned his head slightly following the sound.
"It's just a Yangzhou skinny horse. I really don't know what she is so proud of all the time, and she wants to divorce her husband. I really want to die laughing. If she really divorces, I will write her name upside down!"
"What's the point of writing it backwards, I can still have her last name, hahahahaha."
"It's no wonder she's getting a divorce. Her husband is going to invest in a movie about his first love. Damn, I've never seen such a novel and unique way of slapping faces. Her husband is absolutely amazing."
"I heard that the movie to be made is to commemorate the love between the two? Ji Mingshu will be damned if he can bear it. Haven't you seen how noble and glamorous she is usually?"
"Don't tell me, Ji Mingshu is still really beautiful. It would be nice if the marriage is really divorced. I'll get it for you too. Let's see what this princess..."
The man's dirty words hadn't finished yet, when suddenly there was a white light in front of his eyes, and he felt some warm liquid dripping down from his forehead.
"ah!"
The girls in the booth screamed and hurriedly got up to avoid the shattered glass shards of the wine bottle.