2 Chapter 2
"What are you daydreaming about?" The intern across from her paused, waving his hands in front of her eyes. "We haven't even spoken."
She even felt a little aggrieved, and Chen Ying was stunned.
She laughed again and said, "Hehe, my name is Song Xia. I like roses and love freedom."
"Hello, my name is Chen Ying."
"I know, I know," she said, still grinning. "Your name is Chen Ying. You like to daydream and love your work."
Chen Ying smiled. She knew Song Xia. They worked in the same office together. Although they had never spoken together, they saw each other every day, so they were quite familiar with each other. She was always full of energy, always full of energy, and always had a smile on her face.
"So, my dear girl, can you tell me what you are thinking about?" Song Xia bit the straw, raised his eyebrows, and smiled like an ancient bandit who robbed women on the road.
Chen Ying chuckled, and Song Xia simply sat next to her and put his arm around her shoulders. "My beauty, you're definitely not thinking about work, so what are you thinking about? Do you want to tell me during lunch?"
Chen Ying understood and she was making a dinner appointment.
The new job was different from the previous one and was not as busy, so after work, Chen Ying went straight to the hospital in her business-style dress.
"Chen Ying!"
Just as she stuffed the medicine box into her handbag, she heard that familiar voice again. Chen Ying didn't dare turn around, fearing it was hallucination.
But that was clearly Zhou Baixi's voice.
"Chen Ying?" While he was hesitating, the man in a dark suit had already arrived, standing right in front of him. His eyes lit up, and the next second his voice was actually a little excited. "It's really you! Long time no see!"
Chen Ying was stunned, her mind blank. She could feel the blood in her veins surging and threatening to burst out, her fingertips trembling slightly, and two little figures fighting in her mind.
One said: "He must know that you liked him back then. He just wants to make fun of you. Ignore him."
Another said, "But you obviously miss him very much."
My head is about to explode.
Zhou Baixi also looked nervous. He rubbed his hands together, not daring to look at her. "I... need you to tell me something. Can I have your contact information?"
The villain in my mind was talking again: "Old classmates meet, and I asked for my phone number out of courtesy. Do you take it seriously? Just turn around and leave."
Another villain said, "You came to the hospital because of him. Have you forgotten those times when you couldn't figure it out? Why were you so anxious? Don't be reserved, give it to him!"
Zhou Baixi didn't know that so many conversations had flashed through her mind in an instant. He just blinked and looked at her with a smile.
This behavior was really unlike the extremely arrogant Zhou Baixi in her memory, but Chen Ying was also panicked. She didn't care about anything else. She hurriedly took out a pen from her bag and hurriedly wrote down her contact information. She tried her best to keep her hands still and wrote a string of numbers smoothly, then said goodbye in a hurry.
After returning home, Chen Ying was still in shock. She leaned back on the sofa and remained silent for a long time. Ye Jinyi was on a business trip and didn't know when he would be back. Without her noise, the house was strangely quiet.
Chen Ying suddenly seemed to remember something and pulled out an incomplete drawing from her iPad, which had been locked. The figure in the drawing had no facial features. His thick, dark hair fell just above his eyebrows, incredibly smooth and shapeless. He wore a Taekwondo uniform and a black belt around his waist. He was doing nothing, just standing there. But Chen Ying worked for a long time and couldn't draw his face.
It's not that she couldn't draw it, but at that time, her longing and disappointment were intertwined. She drew Zhou Baixi with many expressions: angry, resentful, smiling, unwilling. Each one was the Zhou Baixi she had seen before, but they were never quite the same.
She deleted those layers again and again late at night, imagining what Zhou Baixi looked like when she first met him, but a long time had passed and his appearance gradually became blurred. Chen Ying only had a rough shadow in her heart, and she struggled to outline the look she imagined him to look like over and over again. In the end, she didn't dare to draw it anymore, and gradually couldn't remember his complete appearance.
"haven't seen you for a long time."
Zhou Baixi's voice echoed in her mind again. Chen Ying grabbed his face in an instant, and the stylus made a rapid sound as it drew on the iPad. She finally completed the drawing, and it was the smile she saw in the hospital today.
The eyes in the painting were too bright, and Chen Ying didn't dare to look him in the eye.
Zhou Baixi said he had something to talk to her about, but he didn't say what it was... She suddenly remembered that phone number! In a hurry, she wrote down the one she hadn't planned to use and was about to cancel!
Thinking of this, Chen Ying immediately recharged the phone bill for that number and checked the network signal again. Only then did her restless heart calm down a little.
She was very panicked, and she didn't know what she was panicking about. She could only keep wondering if she was having another attack.
I still have some expectations.
Chen Ying waited until evening, but Zhou Baixi didn't call.
"This is good," she thought. Otherwise, she wouldn't know how to talk to him.
Memories of him flooded back, and Chen Ying didn't want to admit she was a little disappointed. She was looking forward to hearing some news about him. Perhaps she could add him on WeChat someday, checking his Moments every day to see what he had eaten, what he was working on, and if anything interesting had happened...
What if he doesn’t post on WeChat Moments?
Will he send it?
Chen Ying doesn't like to post on WeChat Moments, but there are many successful people in her circle of friends. She often posts photos of herself on business trips or meetings, or signing contracts with clients, and every word and sentence is filled with pride.
Chen Ying felt like she was crazy. She was like a voyeur, wanting to spy on Zhou Baixi's life and couldn't wait to know how he had lived in the past eight years.
Sure enough, whenever she encountered something related to Zhou Baixi, she would easily lose her mind.
Chen Ying couldn't bear it anymore and opened the chat box with Ye Jinyi.
"I met Zhou Baixi today."
"It's very exciting and very embarrassing."
"He asked me for my phone number and said he wanted to talk to me about something, but I didn't know what it was."
"He hasn't asked me yet."
“…”
Ye Jinyi didn't reply, probably because he was working overtime again. Chen Ying waited until one in the morning, but still no news. She put down her phone and prepared to go to bed.
She felt a little lost before going to bed.
She comforted herself that it was okay. They were already distant from each other, and the other person might just be being polite. How could he really have something to ask her?
The alarm clock rang at exactly seven o'clock. Chen Ying turned on her phone and saw two unfamiliar text messages.
"How is it going?"
"I'm Zhou Baixi."
Two text messages, one sent at 3:15 am, the other at 5:19 am.
Nine words, plus two punctuation marks, it was not difficult for Chen Ying to imagine that the person opposite should have the same serious expression as always.
She replied: “Very good.”
Then sent another one.
"I'm Chen Ying."
After waiting for a long time, there was no reply. She scratched her hair, got up, washed, and went to work.
At lunchtime, Song Xia asked her out again. During the break after lunch, she couldn't help but click on the unfamiliar number, her eyes fixed on the words "I'm Zhou Baixi."
There was still no reply to his text message, and he was still at the stage of introducing himself.
During high school, Zhou Baixi often gave speeches on stage. As an excellent student in the eyes of his teachers and parents, Zhou Baixi was often busy giving speeches at various positive energy events.
In the first sentence, apart from the polite greeting, he always introduced himself seriously: "I am Zhou Baixi."
The sound is very nice, as pleasant as the wind chime hanging at the door of the classroom.
Chen Ying was bored and flipping through her phone, so she simply found Ye Jinyi. She probably had some free time, so she sent a lot of messages to Chen Ying. She replied to the messages about Zhou Baixi, and after a series of exclamation marks, she started talking about her own things.
Most of the time she was talking to herself. It didn't matter that Chen Ying was at work and had no time to read it. She just assumed that Chen Ying had seen it after she sent it. Chen Ying didn't get tired of sending messages over and over again without saying much, and then she just mechanically sent emoticons.
The work started to increase in the afternoon, and there were only two interns. Chen Ying and Song Xia were busy all afternoon without looking up, and only finished it at the end of the get off work day.
They both looked up at the same time and smiled at each other.
"There's another document I need for a meeting tomorrow. I need to organize it and print five copies. Anyone can do it."
The senior threw a folder over, and both of them wailed at the same time. Chen Ying sighed and said, "I'll do it. You go home first."
It's strange that only one of the two interns can be converted to a full-time employee in the end. However, these two people are very simple-minded and often have dinner together. They don't look like competitors, but more like sisters who have been separated for many years.
Chen Ying received a call from Song Xia just after she finished printing the documents.
"Hey Chen Ying, I'm downstairs. Someone wants to see you."
"Who is it?"
"He said his name was Zhou Baixi."
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