Chapter 57: Cosmic Latte (9) After so many years, sweetness is still sweet...

After a busy half month, various Halloween products were launched one after another. The backend showed good data, and all the staff in the design center couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Internet companies are generally tolerant of diversity, and on Halloween, MT encouraged everyone to cosplay at work. This was exactly what the young crowd wanted, and everyone was excited. Some were playing pranks, some were dressing up, some were having fun, and some were going for traditional horror. The whole place was completely overrun with demons and monsters, each displaying their own unique abilities.

Last year's Halloween was too hot, so Lin Xia was too lazy to dress up. She just put on a white dress and let her hair down to cosplay Sadako to get by. This year the temperature has dropped a little, so Lin Xia is ready to go and has already bought her clothes online. She plans to cosplay one of her favorite childhood cartoon characters, Mona the Witch.

Unfortunately, this cartoon is a bit niche and unpopular, and there is a generation gap between people of different ages. Lin Xia walked around the company several times with a head full of pigtails and a purple cloak, but no one recognized her. Lin Xia was extremely disappointed.

Mika comforted her: "Don't be sad, isn't it just this little girl who transforms into a different character every morning? I've seen this before."

Lin Xia was even more sad and angry: "That's 'Martin's Morning'!"

"Hey, the styles are all similar. Look at me, no one recognized me. We all feel sorry for each other."

Lin Xia looked at Meijia, who was fully armed with a hat, sunglasses and a mask, and didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "Who on earth would cosplay as an 18th-tier celebrity who's both afraid of being recognized and afraid of not being recognized when going out? No one would even recognize you as Su Meijia, right?"

"Hey, my face has been breaking out lately, so I don't even need to put on makeup."

At noon, Lin Xia originally wanted to order takeout, but Meijia said that a new and delicious clay pot porridge restaurant had opened nearby and only offered dine-in services, so she wanted to take her with her.

"Is it convenient for me to go out like this?" Lin Xia said helplessly.

"Yours is actually fine, except that your hairstyle and makeup are a little exaggerated. Halloween is all about being weird." Mika pondered for a moment, "How about this, if you're embarrassed, we can take Youyou along. That way, everyone will only pay attention to her and not you."

Of course, Youyou from the effects team wore a doll costume today, cosplaying as an American cockroach. This is a common topic in Guangdong. Because it was too realistic, no one within a few meters dared to look directly at her.

Youyou, who was disliked by the entire company and was feeling depressed, happily went to Meijia's invitation, and the three of them took the elevator downstairs together.

From the moment she left the house, Lin Xia had been praying silently in her heart, please don't run into any acquaintances, don't run into any acquaintances, especially that guy on the 19th floor!

They haven't met each other these days. It can't be such a coincidence, right?

However, there is a law of attraction in this world, or as the old saying goes, what you fear will come to you. The elevator really stopped when it passed the 19th floor.

The elevator door opened and several people were standing outside, one of whom was He Chuan.

This group of people were not waiting outside the door. When they heard the prompt tone, they turned around and were all startled at the same time. Several of them subconsciously took several steps back.

So there was a middle school witch in the elevator, a [beep——], and a suspicious person who looked like a celebrity but no one knew what kind of celebrity he was. Outside the elevator was a group of political and legal elites in suits and ties, and everyone looked at each other in bewilderment.

Finally, He Chuan couldn't help laughing.

The awkward atmosphere was instantly relieved, and the others also relaxed and said happily:

"Halloween?"

"Yeah, Halloween."

"It's the MT upstairs. I saw Ultraman this morning."

They were all lawyers from other firms, and a few of them had foreign faces. They had a certain acceptance of Halloween, but Youyou's cosplay still shocked everyone, and no one dared to come in for a while.

Meijia pressed the elevator door button and urged, "Are you guys going to get on?"

At this time, another elevator arrived nearby. Everyone rushed over as if they had been pardoned. Someone called He Chuan to join them, and the latter replied:

"You guys go ahead. There's no room over there. I'll be fine here."

A capable female lawyer with short hair and wearing a Chanel professional suit was standing next to him. She looked at Youyou with fear, gritted her teeth and followed He Chuan into the elevator.

The elevator door slowly closed, and the people in the enclosed space who had nothing to do with the elevator plummeted down, as if they were heading to the eighteenth level of hell.

There was quite a lot of space in the elevator, but Youyou's clothes took up too much room. Lin Xia didn't want to be close to He Chuan, but she didn't want to be close to [Beep]'s furry tentacles even more. After weighing the two options, she could only move a few steps towards He Chuan without making a sound.

"Mona?"

A voice came from above her head. Lin Xia looked up suddenly and met He Chuan's smiling eyes.

"Today, you are the little witch Mona, right?"

Lin Xia was very surprised. This was the first person who recognized her today. She was about to speak when the vampire plastic dentures in her mouth hit her. She hurriedly took them out and asked:

"You actually know him?"

The smile in He Chuan's eyes deepened:

"I remember you used to love watching this."

"yes......"

This was one of Lin Xia's favorite cartoons when she was a child. She was still watching it when she was a teenager, but it was only broadcast on CCTV-6. That summer, she went to Xiaolin Farm and couldn't see Mona, so she complained to He Chuan many times.

In the past, whether it was movies, animations, or TV series, they were only broadcast on TV at fixed times and channels. If you missed them, you would never see them again. At that time, she didn't know that ten years later, the Internet would be so developed and all kinds of resources would be available at your fingertips. Now, you can watch the endings you missed and the plots you missed over and over again until you get tired of them.

He Chuan recalled for a moment and asked her:

"Did she and her friends finally defeat the Wicked Witch?"

Lin Xia laughed: "Of course I defeated him."

After all, it is a cartoon for children. No matter what difficulties or dangers there are, they are just to add twists and turns to the plot and hone the protagonist's will. In the end, justice will always defeat evil, good guys will defeat bad guys, and everyone will be happy.

After watching too much, you will inevitably have the illusion that you will be like those brave and kind protagonists, invincible, persevere to the end, and win the final victory.

But children don’t know that real life is not a cartoon, or even a comedy.

After this question and answer without paying attention to others, the atmosphere in the entire elevator became a little subtle.

Youyou looked at Lin Xia, then at He Chuan, turned her head and was about to say something to Lin Xia when her [beep] tentacles swung and hit the face of the female lawyer on the other side. The female lawyer screamed and squatted on the ground with her head in her hands.

At this time, the elevator stopped on the 8th floor, and the female lawyer rushed out without even looking.

"Ji Min!"

He Chuan called her, but she didn't listen and ran very fast in her high heels.

He Chuan had no choice but to hastily explain to the others. Although he said others, in fact, his eyes only fell on Lin Xia:

"This is a colleague from our Shanghai office. Sorry, I have work to do next."

After saying that, he chased her out the door.

Then the elevator smoothly descended to the first floor. When Lin Xia and others walked out of the door, they happened to see He Chuan's white Cayenne passing by them. He honked the horn slightly to greet them. There was someone vaguely sitting in the passenger seat, but they didn't know if it was Ji Min.

Lin Xia stared at the car's receding silhouette until it disappeared. When she came to her senses, she saw Meijia and Youyou staring at her from the left and right, with malicious expressions.

Meijia chuckled and said, "Tell me the truth, who is that handsome guy?"

Youyou was calm and composed: "Ex! Based on my years of experience in the love world, this is definitely an ex!"

Lin Xia was speechless for a moment.

She didn't know how to describe their relationship, but subconsciously, she didn't want to use words like "ex" or "ex-boyfriend" that carried negative connotations. Their relationship was more than just love. Even after breaking up and saying goodbye, she and he were still incredibly important people in each other's growth journey, and they couldn't be crudely labeled. As she'd said before, they could no longer be friends, nor strangers.

After hesitating for a while, she finally chose one of the options given by He Chuan:

"Just a distant relative from my hometown."

Not to mention that Meijia and Youyou did not believe Lin Xia's lies later, not to mention how many horrified looks they encountered while eating, the store owner almost didn't let Youyou in, and not to mention that the clay pot porridge was really delicious, which washed away Meijia's reputation of always having trouble finding a good restaurant.

She only said that after returning to the office that afternoon, the front desk said someone had delivered a package to Lin Xia and left it there for her to pick up. She was wondering if the building had recently allowed deliverymen and couriers in again. But when she got the package, she saw it was a huge box of Ferrero Rocher chocolates with a note saying "Happy Halloween".

There was no signature, but Lin Xia recognized it as He Chuan's handwriting.

Tick ​​or treat? She didn't ask him for candy.

When she was little, wages were low, prices were low, and snacks were scarce, often cheap and of low quality. The finely packaged Ferrero Rocher chocolates lining the shelves of Wangchun's only major supermarket were a luxury Lin Xia could only dream of as a child. Once, someone asked Lin Xuedong for a favor and sent him a box of Ferrero Rochers. But before Lin Xia could even open it, Zhao Qianyi gave it to someone else as a favor. Lin Xia clung to this memory for a long time. When she grew up and started working, she'd buy a whole box every few days and devour it all, until she grew older and could no longer stomach such sweet treats.

She didn't remember whether she had told He Chuan about this. Perhaps he had always remembered it, or perhaps he just bought it casually, or perhaps, in their partially overlapping childhood trajectories, it was the most expensive and best candy in his mind. Even after he grew up, went abroad, studied abroad, and saw the world, the initial impression in his memory would not change.

But food has a best-case scenario, so is there a time limit for making up for regrets?

The little witch Mona took out her canine teeth, peeled off a chocolate ball and took a bite. The rich aroma of cocoa butter and nuts instantly filled her mouth.

No matter what, after so many years, sweetness is still sweet.