When she returned to the Shengtang Hotel, it was almost noon. She checked her phone in front of the hotel. There was no call or text message. She walked back to the hotel and was about to go back to her room when her phone rang suddenly.
She lowered her head and saw that it was Secretary Gao who was calling. She felt a little disappointed for no reason. She looked back at the closed door of room 1909 and answered the phone.
"Hello, Secretary Gao?"
"Miss Ji, Mayor Gu asked me to convey to you that if the bruise on your wrist has not gone away, go to the hospital and apply some medicine. He has been busy these two days. You can just deal with the reported matter in the hotel.
No need to follow him around anymore, let you have a good rest in the hotel."
Ji Xinyao was startled. Just when she was about to reply, she heard Secretary Gao say again: "I asked the hotel attendant to put the laptop in your room an hour ago. You can use that computer to organize the meeting reports. The mayor doesn't need it now."
It's convenient to answer the phone. Miss Ji, if you need anything, you can call me directly."
"Did he go back to the hotel last night?" She looked hesitantly at the closed door opposite.
Gao Hai's voice over there paused, and he said with a smile: "Mayor Gu didn't come back last night, but he called me around 6 o'clock in the morning and asked me to convey it to you so that you can have a good rest."
"Oh." Ji Xinyao said lightly, then glanced at the closed door opposite, pushed open the door of her 1908 room and walked in.
Sure enough, there was already a laptop on the table. It seemed that Gu Nanxi had not forgotten the matter of borrowing the computer from her. A smile appeared on her face and she called the guest room computer to ask the staff to bring some.
After eating a simple meal, I sat in front of the computer and started sorting out the information for the conference reports.
She logged into MSN and suddenly saw a message, which was left for her by Qin Muyan: Little Red Face, there is an important cooperation project with an American company that requires my presence in person. I have returned to the United States and will be back next week. Remember to think
Me~
She stared at the oversized narcissistic expression sent from the computer, smiled, and typed a few words on the computer to reply, but after thinking about it, she deleted those words and closed the conversation without replying.
Before closing the box, I noticed that the time of the message was the afternoon of the day before yesterday.
No wonder Qin Muyan was so angry about her sudden business trip. It turned out that he was going back to the United States for a week, and he went to the company to see her before going back, but he couldn't find her, so he called and lost his temper.
She sighed and began to carefully organize the meeting reports.
During the process, she looked at the mobile phone quietly placed on the table several times, wondering what Gu Nanxi was busy with. During the afternoon, she occasionally sorted out reports, and occasionally looked at the dark mobile phone screen in a daze.
She didn't know what was wrong with her. She shouldn't have the mentality of these little girls anymore. How could she be restless all afternoon just waiting for a call and always looking at her phone.
She felt as if she had been stabbed in a fatal spot. Gu Nanxi's protection and respect, Gu Nansha's care and warmth, were like the gentlest sulfuric acid, silently corroding the thorns all over her body, removing the thorns a little bit.
A little corrosion and purification, revealing the softness inch by inch.
She obviously shouldn't be like this, she shouldn't be too attached to a man's kindness and gentleness. She doesn't know that Ji Xinyao, who is already riddled with holes, will still love with all her heart as she did four years ago.
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At that moment, she seemed to feel like she was wandering on the edge of the waterfront, yearning for all the beauty, but fearing the hidden dangers. She thought that she and Gu Nanxi would treat each other like guests like this for the rest of their lives, and never thought about this marriage.
There will be love, but... Ji Xinyao is just a woman, she also needs to be loved and cared for... Even though these were things she once said she didn't need at all, but Gu Nanxi is like the softest
That tentacle penetrated into her heart little by little, washing away all her emotions...
I don’t know where the love started, but it goes deeper and deeper.
This feeling is a strange happiness, but also a bit scary.
She clearly remembered that there was still a lingering presence in Gu Nanxi's heart. Maybe they would fall in love over time, or maybe this marriage was the best way for them. She couldn't see through Gu Nanxi's heart, and she couldn't see through it.
She knew that his feelings for her were useful to some extent, but the scary thing was that she drowned in him overnight, lusting after the feelings that were so close before her eyes but seemed so far away.
Ji Xinyao, who had nothing to do but be strong-willed, was so driven by this tenderness that she almost lost all reason.
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It was around 7 o'clock in the evening, and Ji Xinyao was really hungry. Although the food in this hotel tasted good, she still wanted to eat other things, such as those snacks on the street.
What's more, City Y, a northern city, originally had many authentic snacks. It was hard to go back to City Y. Even though this place didn't give her any good memories in the past, the snacks were still quite attractive to her.
At this time, Gu Nanxi still hadn't come back. In order not to disturb her sleep when she didn't get up in the morning, he asked Secretary Gao to convey that there hadn't been a call yet, so I'm afraid he was really busy and she was too embarrassed to be there.
He called to bother him when he was so busy, so he put on the newly bought coat by himself, put on light makeup on himself in a rare good mood, got up and went out to find food by himself.
Finally finding an alley in the market night, she bought many kinds of snacks and sat in a beef noodle restaurant to devour them. She didn't care whether these snacks were hygienic and clean, or whether she would have diarrhea tomorrow, at least when facing these delicious snacks.
, reason will also be temporarily thrown away.
After eating, I went shopping by myself. Although I didn’t buy anything, I was in a very good mood, so I wanted to walk back to the hotel.
The distance between this snack street and the hotel took about half an hour by car. She was in a good mood and too full to eat, so she wanted to take a walk first, and then take a taxi back when it got too cold.
After walking about a few hundred meters away, she caught a glimpse of a high-end hotel not far away. She just glanced at it briefly and then turned away. Suddenly, she stopped in her steps and suddenly turned her head to look over there again.
A black business car parked in front of the hotel, and you could vaguely see two people stepping out of the car when the door opened.
That's Gu Nanxi and... Yin Tong?
The business car seemed to have just parked in front of the high-end hotel, and the exhaust behind the car was filled with layers of white mist.
Ji Xinyao looked at Gu Nanxi who got out of the car from a distance, and Yin Tong who took the initiative to hold his arm after getting off the car and walked hand in hand.
Seeing the two of them walking into the hotel, Ji Xinyao stopped directly and looked expressionlessly in that direction a hundred meters away from the hotel entrance.
The commercial vehicle that took them to the hotel slowly left.
Ji Xinyao stood there without leaving, just looking at the main entrance of the hotel. She knew very well that Gu Nanxi was just dealing with Yin Tong as if attending a necessary dinner. Perhaps she sent her to the hotel just out of politeness, so
She wanted to wait for him here and go back with him later.
Gu Nanxi has given her trust, and she will naturally give him the same trust. Trust is mutual. She is not a suspicious accounting woman, and she also knows that Gu Nanxi will not let her down. 13acv.
In the cold wind, she raised her eyes to look at the night sky, and counted nearly a hundred stars out of boredom. From the corner of her eye, she always noticed the direction in front of the hotel door, but even after so long, Gu Nanxi was nowhere to be seen.
Ji Xinyao glanced at the lights in every room on every floor of the hotel. She stared at them for a long time until her feet went numb and the cold wind completely penetrated her thick coat. She couldn't help but shudder and rubbed her hands.
He rubbed his hands, raised his hands to his mouth, breathed, and stood there tapping his feet lightly to warm his hands.
Time passed little by little. She lowered her head and glanced at the time.
11:05.
Two and a half hours. It turned out that she had been standing here like a fool for two and a half hours.
Her body had already been pierced by the cold wind, and the bone-chilling chill seemed to spread straight to her heart. She stiffly moved her frozen feet, took two steps on the spot, and looked up at the door of the hotel.
People who come in and out occasionally can't tell what kind of clarity they have.
A man and a woman were alone in the hotel, and they didn't come out for two and a half hours. The moment she faced this reality, her trust suddenly became ridiculous.
Is she taking it too seriously? Or does she not understand Gu Nanxi at all?
She should have left as early as the first hour, why did she have to stand here and wait? Waiting for such a ridiculous result proved that she had lived in vain for twenty-four years and actually believed in love again and again.
But she was unwilling to give in. Even though she couldn't help shivering in the cold wind, she still raised her eyes and looked at the door of the hotel.
She should believe him.
Nancy Gu deserves her trust. Maybe he was delayed by something, maybe they were just chatting inside, or...
Another half hour passed, but there was still no sign of him.
Three hours of motionlessness, on a 0-degree northwest windy autumn night in Y City, is enough to freeze a thinly-clad beggar to suffocation.
Ji Xinyao thought that she should be calm.
She lingered slowly in front of that door for a long time, using the excuse that she couldn't stop a taxi for another half an hour, until the hearty midnight bell rang in the center of Y, and a taxi saw her standing frozen in the wind.
He stopped in front of her kindly.
"Miss, where are you going? Can I see you off?"
She stared blankly at the taxi in front of her, and then at the female driver. She was like a statue of Buddha that could not move. She could no longer bear the cold, so she moved her stiff legs to the side of the car and opened the door.
After sitting in, the warmth in the car seemed to be unable to warm her already cold body, and she shivered while sitting in the car.
When the female driver saw that she was so cold and her whole face was turning pale from the cold, she turned up the heating a little and asked, "Where are you going?"
"Shengtang Hotel." God bless her, she could still say such clear words.
While driving, the female driver looked at her dull eyes through the rearview mirror and said with a smile: "Why did you stand in front of that hotel for so long? I just passed by here when I was taking passengers to District xx, and I saw you.
Standing there, I passed by here a moment later and saw that you were still standing there. If my calculation of the time was correct, it had been more than three hours, right? With the weather in Y city now, it’s such a cold day and you just stood there for three hours.
It will take an hour, but don’t get cold, do you want me to take you to the hospital first?”
"No need." Ji Xinyao's voice was a little hoarse, and she turned to look at the passing neon lights outside the car window: "Just take me back to Shengtang Hotel."
The female driver sighed, said nothing more, and drove her back to the hotel at high speed.
Back at the hotel, as soon as Ji Xinyao got out of the car, she felt dizzy in her head and her eyes went dark, but she endured it and walked in with stiff steps under the concerned look of the female driver.
After returning to the room, she endured the splitting headache and quickly sent the information she had compiled during the day to the assistant who worked with her at the meeting yesterday. Because the meeting report had been released by a dedicated person in the morning, she was actually
There was nothing important, not to mention that the meeting was over. Secretary Gao also said that she had nothing to do these two days, so she directly booked a flight for tomorrow morning online.
Turning her head to look at the neon lights at night outside the window, City Y was in the dark night, and she suddenly realized that this city had always been so strange to her.
For Gu Nanxi, maybe he only has a temporary affection for her, but because of the shackles of this marriage, they are both close to each other, and it is not an exaggeration to be in love for a long time, but is this feeling deep or shallow?
, she no longer wanted to think about whether it was temporary or permanent.
Just treat it as an accidental temptation. It's not like she hasn't experienced betrayal before. This time at least she hasn't fallen into it completely. At least she can tell herself soberly to escape as soon as possible.
She is afraid of the chess game of life. She walks alone and becomes a fan of the authorities.
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She stayed up all night because the flight she booked was at 6:30 in the morning. She packed her things and left at 4 in the morning. Before leaving, she sent text messages to Secretary Gao and Assistant Su, saying that she was in an emergency and would reply first.
They were all probably still resting at that time, so she took a taxi and left without waiting for their reply.
The plane was delayed, and boarding didn't start until 7 o'clock. Just as she walked through the long aisle and walked onto the plane, she faintly heard her cell phone ringing in her bag. She didn't know who was calling. She didn't answer it, but the cell phone rang.
It took a long time until she sat on the plane and the announcement was announced before taking off to inform everyone to turn off their mobile phones. She took out her mobile phone and saw four missed calls. She turned off the phone without checking the caller number.
Maybe she is selfish, she admits it.
She didn't have the courage to face the facts, nor did she have the courage to expose everything. She just wanted to calm down and pretend that everything that happened in Y City these days didn't exist. She was afraid that she would be unable to afford it, so she simply ran away.
Yes, maybe Nancy Gu did the right thing back then, she should have lived in a world that belonged only to her and lived a life that belonged to her.
Because last night, she found that her heart was weightless.
It felt as if my heart was being plucked out by someone, drifting aimlessly, and finally fell heavily to the ground, shattered and never able to be put back together again.
She could never guess what Gu Nancy was thinking. Even his protection, tenderness, kiss and care the night before seemed to her like a snake and scorpion that she could not avoid. Obviously, he was still like that.
Attitude, anyone can do it, and he can freely control his feelings. It's just a whim for her, or maybe she is just one of those "anyone can do it" women. She knows what her mood is like now, and she is not
She is really cowardly. She needs time to calm down. Temporary forbearance does not mean that she will not settle this debt in the future!
No matter how kind Nancy Gu was to her, she could not hide the fact that he had played with or even deceived her!
She was ridiculously looking forward to it forever.
She once thought that An Yueze was a devil and Gu Nanxi was her salvation, but it turned out that he was always the same cold and heartless figure seven years ago, and this time, he personally crushed her hands.
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At this moment, she actually hated Gu Nanxi's kindness to her. It was like a seemingly gentle double-edged sword that made her unable to see the light in hell.
Since anyone can do it, can he be so gentle and kind to every woman? So Wen Qing always thought that Gu Nanxi loved her.
So, Ji Xinyao, Ji Xinyao, have you become the second Wen Qing?
But she was lucky, at least when she was about to entrust her body and mind to him, she could clearly see the true and unbearable face of all this.
Gu Nanxi, do you think I, Ji Xinyao, am a fool who can only beg for mercy?
If everything you do is not to protect my dignity, but to show sympathy and pity for me...
Well, I don’t need it!!!
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Back in G City, I took a taxi back to Nippori, but as soon as I returned to the house, looking at the fresh, elegant and simple decoration, I felt like I was seeing Nancy Gu, who spent two hours unpacking all her luggage.
Packed it out, put the keys on the coffee table, left without leaving a word, picked up the suitcase and took a taxi to leave.
I didn't have a place to live for the time being, so I had to look around some newsstands to see if there was any rental information. I saw a house close to the company at a reasonable price, so I called the landlord and made an appointment with him an hour later.
See.
after an hour.
Ji Xinyao carried her huge suitcase to the residential complex where she had met, looked at the house, checked the electricity and water meters, etc., and paid a deposit to move in first.
By the time she cleaned up the house, it was already past 9 p.m.
She sat on the floor, raising her hand to wipe the sweat from her forehead. Her eyes were in a daze, and she suddenly noticed a slightly dusty calendar hanging on the wall. She got up and picked up the calendar, flipping through it casually.
I was about to throw it away, but when I turned to the October page, my eyes widened.
Today is October 26th, and Friday, October 30th is An Yueze and Ling Feier’s engagement party. It’s actually three days away...
She had a headache, raised her hand to press her groggy head, turned around and entered the bedroom. She stopped beside the bed in vain and rubbed her temples. She originally wanted to find some cold medicine, but as soon as her legs leaned against the bed, she...
Subconsciously, I threw myself directly on the bed, and instantly fell into darkness.
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(The plot of today’s chapter is not looking for abuse, nor is it deliberately designing a bad drama like misunderstanding. This is a plot that has been designed in the outline a long time ago. It is a very necessary small transition. You will understand what I mean in a few chapters.
Chapter completed!