☆、122、The Suicide Incident (2239 words)

Li Yaxi leaned back in her chair, idly flicking her paintbrush across the white cloth.

Feng Zihao, drying his hair, looked at him and asked, "What are you drawing? This is so abstract."

Li Yaxi glanced back at him indifferently, then turned her gaze back to the canvas in front of her.

"I'm just bored! Abstract my ass!"

Feng Zihao looked at him amusedly, "If you're so bored, why don't I go on a trip with you in a few days!"

"Who wants to go on vacation? I'd rather stay home and play with my little tails! I'll go back in a few days to see Little Ears and Little Seven; I miss them."

Li Yaxi threw down her paintbrush

"Oh, by the way, I have an appointment with Wang Liang tomorrow."

"But didn't I make plans with Lu Wei to have dinner and play cards at his house tomorrow?"

"I'll go see Wang Liang first. Anyway, you guys are going to play cards after dinner, so it's fine if I arrive a little late."

"Then I'll come pick you up."

"No, you go ahead and play, I can go by myself."

Feng Zihao sighed and resignedly helped Li Yaxi clean up the mess.

Li Yaxi stood at the intersection with her hands in her pockets, and Wang Liang opened the car door.

"Have you been waiting long?"

"Not long after, he was just standing there dumbly in the cold wind, looking utterly ridiculous. Couldn't you have let me be stupid a little longer? Why did you come so early?!"

Wang Liang quickly smiled apologetically, "My bad, please order whatever you like for dinner."

"What do you want? Let me make it clear first, I have things to do tonight, so I can't stay with you for too long!"

Wang Liang parked the car in the club's parking lot and took Li Yaxi to a private room.

"Please sit down."

"Why bother? Just find any place. We can't just burn money!"

Li Yaxi looked at the automatic mahjong table, billiards, a fishing game machine, a huge bed, and the swimming pool on the balcony.

"Speak, what do you want from me?"

Wang Liang placed a glass of wine in front of Li Yaxi. "Tang Qing committed suicide by cutting her wrists."

Li Yaxi was stunned for a moment, then said, "You're getting married?"

How did you know?!

"Just a guess!"

Wang Liang gave a troubled, helpless smile. "Tang Qing has been with me since he was little, but I can't just stay single for the rest of my life because of him! But I also can't just dump him and abandon him."

"So what do you want? To have women on both sides? To keep the red flag flying while colorful flags flutter?! Dream on!"

"Ya Xi, I asked you out today to help me think of a solution, not to ridicule me!"

Li Yaxi crossed her legs and looked at him, "What can I do? I have no experience! Hey? That explains why you guys always come to me with your problems!"

"You're so smart! Hurry up and use your clever brain to come up with a compromise for me."

"There's never a perfect solution to this kind of thing! Loyalty and righteousness have always been difficult to reconcile! Don't expect to find peace in something that has never been harmonious throughout history!"

Wang Liang sipped his red wine and poured himself another glass. "How come you're making it sound like the world is ending?! Ya Xi, can you stop exaggerating?"

Li Yaxi shrugged. "Is there dinner tonight? If not, I'm going to my friend's. I can't solve your problem!"

Wang Liang was just about to ask someone to stay when a phone call changed his expression. Li Yaxi looked at the annoyed and angry Wang Liang.

"What's wrong? Are your stocks stuck?"

"Tang Qing's mother is threatening to jump off a building!"

Wang Liang grabbed his car keys and headed out, but seeing Li Yaxi sitting motionless, he turned back and pulled him away.

"Why are you moving?! Stay still!"

"It wouldn't be suitable for me to go, I'm not a negotiation expert!"

"Enough talk! Let's go!"

A group of people were gathered on the roof of the hospital, and Tang Qing, wearing a blue and white striped hospital gown, stood on the edge.

Li Yaxi shook her head helplessly, "What a melodramatic prime-time drama!"

"What are you saying if you're not going to try and break up the fight?!"

"That's your man, not mine! If I go, he'll probably jump even faster!"

Wang Liang walked up to Tang Qing and said, "What are you doing?! Is it fun to make such a scene?!"

Tang Qing stared at him blankly. "It's meaningless, truly meaningless! Wang Liang, I've been with you since I was fifteen, it's been ten years now! You shouldn't have saved me, I can't live without you, not even for a day! Now that you're getting married, what can I do but die!"

Wang Liang scratched his head in frustration. "Have you had enough?! Jump! Jump right now! It must have taken me at least an hour to get here from Hefeng, and you're still standing there after all this time! Jump, jump now! Just die already!"

As soon as Wang Liang finished speaking, the doctor and police officer standing beside him trying to persuade him hurriedly spoke up against him.

Li Yaxi shook her head and sighed helplessly. Seeing the despair in Tang Qing's eyes, Li Yaxi couldn't bear to watch him jump, so she turned away and stopped looking.

Turning around, they saw Yan Kuan and Xu Wen climbing the stairs, Xu Wen panting heavily with his beer belly sticking out.

Li Yaxi smiled as she looked at them, "You've all arrived. Tang Qing is quite impressive!"

Xu Wen waved his hand, unable to speak, while Yan Kuan smiled at the group of people outside.

"Come see what's going on. I've never seen anyone jump off a building before, it's something new."

Li Yaxi was speechless. What kind of hobbies does this person have?

Wang Liang turned and walked towards the stairwell. "Everyone's here, let's go eat!"

"You guys have no humanity! What about Tang Qing? Are you just going to abandon him like this? Then why did you rush over here in such a hurry!"

"See if he jumped! If he did, then collect his body!"

"They're all talented! So what's going on now!?"

"Have a meal!"

Wang Liang grabbed Li Yaxi and started to leave, when Tang Qing suddenly shouted, "Wang Liang! You bastard!"

Tang Qing jumped down from above and rushed to Wang Liang, grabbing him by the collar.

"You really don't want me anymore? You're really going to marry that woman?"

Wang Liang grabbed his hand and pulled him away. "I have to get married, but I'm not trying to get rid of you. If you keep making a scene like this, we're really finished!"

Li Yaxi glanced at the group of people standing on the rooftop and felt she could fully understand their speechlessness at that moment.

Tang Qing glanced at Li Yaxi, then sneered at Wang Liang.

"If it were him, would you choose to get married?"

"What nonsense are you spouting! This is utterly absurd!"

Li Yaxi rubbed her itchy nose, realizing she had inexplicably caught the ailment; she hadn't checked the almanac before leaving home.

"I'm talking nonsense? You think I don't know your little schemes! Wang Liang, you dare to dump me, you dare to marry someone else, but you won't dare."

"Shut up! Tang Qing, I never said I was going to dump you, why the hell won't you listen!"