Chapter 95 Happy Wedding! You don't know that he broke up with us long ago for you...
Summer passed in a flash.
During the busy month of October, Luo Shu was basically on business trips.
She still remembered that night that she didn't have time to confess anything. Shen Qianshu received a phone call and left in a hurry. Later, she heard that there was an accident at home and he was busy and overwhelmed. The awkward situation between her and Fang Qingzhuo was also ended because of the appearance of Tong Menglin.
The business trip was over, and Angela Leong's wedding was on the agenda. As the lead designer, Fu Ze, after holding a meeting with the couple to revise the plan, immediately came to Luo Shu to report the results.
"The plan has been basically finalized, but some minor details are still being worked out."
Luo Shu reviewed the effect video: "Okay, thank you for your hard work."
"Then do you want to go with us when we go to the venue?" Fu Ze had heard some gossip. The newlyweds came for Luo Shu, but she rejected them. To put it bluntly, he got a great deal by luckily getting into this wedding.
"Did someone ask you?" Luo Shu asked.
Fu Ze was speechless: "This..."
Luo Shu didn't intend to embarrass him. She grabbed the documents and stood up. "With an old veteran like you in charge, I won't join in the fun. I have a meeting later. You decide on the implementation team and plan. Let's not talk about it for now."
The monthly performance meeting for department management lasted a full two hours, and Leo spent an entire hour just finding faults.
On the other side, Fang Qingzhuo, who was also attending the closed beta test meeting, received a message from the 4S store.
[Mr. Fang, your flooded car has been repaired. Would you like to come pick it up at our store or have it delivered to your door?]
Fang Qingzhuo's eyes rolled around, and he suddenly came up with an idea. He typed "I'll come over later" on the keyboard, then put his phone upside down on the table and continued to listen to the analysis of the gameplay.
As the meeting was coming to an end, Fang Qingzhuo found an excuse to leave early and rushed to the 4S store without stopping.
The receptionist led him to a BMW and said, "We have replaced it with a new car of the same model as you requested."
Fang Qingzhuo scanned the car body: "Will you be able to tell?"
The staff replied: "Don't worry, it is a one-to-one restoration of the old car."
Seeing that it was almost time and Luo Shu was about to get off work, Fang Qingzhuo made a prompt decision and made a voice call.
If the first one is not answered, the system will automatically disconnect.
Fang Qingzhuo continued his efforts.
The second one was cut off halfway through.
Fang Qingzhuo was not discouraged and dialed again.
The third one rang once and was answered in seconds: "Fang Qingzhuo, you better be busy. Don't you know I'm very busy?"
The tone of dissatisfaction overflowed the screen, and Fang Qingzhuo defended himself aggrievedly: "That's why I waited until after get off work to call you."
The other party was silent for two seconds, and seemed to be taking a deep breath: "If you don't say it, I'm dead."
Fang Qingzhuo was afraid that she would really die, so he quickly told her the truth: "Your car that was flooded in Yuncheng has been repaired.
The air was filled with a deathly silence. Fang Qingzhuo suspiciously put down the phone next to his ear. He didn't hang up, as the call was still ongoing. He tried to speak again: "Since you're busy, how about I bring it to your house?"
I thought the other party was going to play dumb again, but unexpectedly this time Luo Shu answered simply: "Whatever you want."
It was dusk when Luo Shu stepped into the residential complex. From a distance, she saw a white car parked downstairs of her apartment building.
The man waiting outside the car had a clear outline and showed no impatience as the sky darkened.
Luo Shu shed her tiredness and slowly approached the white car. The man turned around in response, but she was completely stunned. The person who came was not Fang Qingzhuo.
The 4S shop staff smiled and said, "Ms. Luo, is that so?"
Luo Shu was stunned for a moment and nodded: "I am."
The man handed over the car keys with both hands: "Hello, Miss Luo, Mr. Fang asked me to deliver the car."
Luo Shu took the key and thanked him, but she didn't find out why Fang Qingzhuo broke the appointment. Anyway, this guy is always unreliable. He went upstairs in a rage without even checking the car.
Meanwhile, the lights in Fang's residence were on brightly. After listening to a series of elaborate accounts, Fang Qingzhuo's face was filled with disbelief. "You're saying that my dad, the chairman of Yike, disappeared for over a month without any reason?"
Tang Yan's brows were filled with unconcealed worry and frustration. "It's not without reason. According to the information provided by Old Chen, the last time I drove Fang Zong to meet Shen Qianfan of Jiangrun."
Fang Qingzhuo scolded softly: "It's the Shen family again."
Then he asked, "And then?"
Tang Yan: "I received an email the next day."
Fang Qingzhuo: "What email?"
Tang Yan handed over the phone.
Fang Qingzhuo read ten lines at a glance and returned the phone in just a few seconds.
The general meaning of Fang Jueshan's email was that he had become a hands-off boss, so please don't disturb him. If you need anything, please go to his son.
"Does anyone else know?"
Tang Yan: "Except me, no one in the company has done that."
Fang Qingzhuo: "Where's the old lady?"
Tang Yan: "I probably don't know."
Ten minutes later, the two of them walked out of the study one after another.
Fang Qingzhuo went down to the first floor. The servants on the first floor had been completely replaced after what happened with Lin Su that year, so it seemed that he could not get any useful information from them.
After leaving the villa gate, before Fang Qingzhuo got into the car, Tang Yan called out to Fang Qingzhuo, "Mr. Fang."
Fang Qingzhuo paused in opening the car door and turned back: "Do you have anything else to say?"
Tang Yan has been in Yike since graduation. From being an ambitious young man following Fang Jueshan to now participating in many strategic support activities, this is the first time he has seen Fang Jueshan act so unrestrained.
He spoke sincerely, "I know you never interfere with the group's business, but right now the board of directors and shareholders are asking about Mr. Fang's whereabouts every day. In the long run, rumors will inevitably spread and affect the launch of new projects. Since Mr. Fang left that email, the most urgent task now is to reasonably conceal Mr. Shen's absence and stabilize the morale of the troops. So, someone must step up and take charge of the situation now."
Fang Qingzhuo looked up at the sky, which was extremely low and dark. He had a bad feeling: "What do you need me to do?"
"Tomorrow is the Yike product launch conference. I hope you can attend and show up on behalf of Mr. Fang."
Six or seven o'clock in Shenzhen is the short-lived bloom of autumn dew.
Luo Shu heard about Fang Qingzhuo again in the tea room a week later. The female colleagues no longer shared which beauty projects were worth recommending, and the male colleagues no longer compared how many carnivals they had given to the female anchor. Instead, they talked about the old topic of buying a house.
"Have you heard? Yike is going to start selling houses again after five years."
"So what if we heard about it? We can't afford it even if we work hard for two lifetimes."
"I can afford it, but I'm also afraid of it. There are countless real estate crashes these days."
"I don't agree with that. Yike has been rooted in Shenzhen for many years, so it still has some credibility."
"Exactly. A real estate developer with its own resources. I remember their last launch was all over the news, breaking the Shenzhen city's first-time sales record and selling out immediately. They even held a press conference a few days ago to hype up Ideal City, which was about to open. Media, partners, and even the CEO's son, who's never been seen, personally attended the event."
During the meeting, someone questioned: "Don't you think it's strange? Wouldn't it be more convincing if the chairman appeared in person on such an occasion?"
"I saw this. It seems he's recuperating in the hospital due to illness. Anyway, there are rumors flying everywhere."
At this moment, the mobile phone held in Luo Shu's hand rang with two prompts in succession. One was a text message from the airline announcing the upcoming boarding, and the other was a message from Fu Ze's executive team about the progress of the on-site construction.
She did not plan to attend Angela Leong's wedding, but she would give her blessings. Plus, it happened to be the weekend, so she would come back after giving her gift money.
The 8 o'clock flight took off and landed on time. It was early morning when they arrived at the hotel. Luo Shu took a shower and sat on the head of the bed while watching the real-time video in the work group.
A gorgeous and romantic fairy tale wedding has taken shape.
Luo Shu took out a stack of red bills that she had just withdrawn from the airport ATM from her bag and put them all into the red envelope. She raised and lowered the pen repeatedly, and finally wrote four words on the cover: "Happy Wedding", without signing her name.
When the red envelope was handed over to the check-in counter the next day, the girl in charge of registration carefully checked the signature several times and found that it was blank. She asked: "Excuse me, who are you?"
"The girl's friend."
After saying this, Luo Shu turned around and left with a smile. Unfortunately, she ran into Guan Siqi, a young man who looked somewhat similar to her.
Their eyes met, and the two people who were chatting stopped and looked at her in unison. Guan Siqi's expression froze for a moment, but soon returned to normal. He said something to the butler beside him, then walked straight towards Luo Shu and said hello: "An Qi will be very happy to have you here. I'll take you in."
Don't hit a smiling person, Luo Shu used her best courtesy to deal with customers: "I have a flight soon, so I won't be coming in."
Guan Siqi was disappointed but then tried to get some help: "Well, could you please let me talk for a moment?"
Luo Shu thought that there was still some time before boarding, so she nodded.
As soon as they left, a man appeared at the gift registration office.
The girl holding the pen had just finished writing Luo Shu's note when she felt a shadow covering her head. She looked up and saw a stern man in black and a large red envelope he handed her.
I took it and turned it over. It was also empty. Compared to the beautiful lady just now, this one didn't even have a blessing.
As a classmate of the bride, the girl also couldn't recognize all the guests: "Excuse me, which side of the family are you from?"
"The man."
Over here, Guan Siqi found an empty lounge. "It's quite dramatic. I was planning to wait for Ah Zhu at the door, but I didn't expect to wait for you."
"He's coming?" Luo Shu blurted out in surprise, then she thought, how could she have forgotten that they were childhood friends who grew up together.
"I invited him, but he didn't agree to come. Besides, Uncle Fang was in the hospital, so he couldn't get away." Guan Siqi added regretfully, "We haven't been in touch much over the years. I can only count on my fingers the two times we've met: once at the bar where I ran into you, and once at a gathering of elders."
Luo Shu didn't know how to react for a moment. Her mind flipped to the page it was on, and her language system seemed to malfunction. She blurted out, "That shouldn't be the case. At that time, he chose to believe you."
Whenever he woke up in the middle of the night, the thing that bothered him the most was that he asked her to apologize, and asked her to apologize at the most helpless moment when she asked whether she was willing to believe him.
The atmosphere suddenly fell into a gloom. Guan Siqi licked his lips and explained slowly, "He said that for a reason."
Luo Shu suddenly laughed out loud, without any ambiguity, just a melancholy about how things and people have changed: "What reason could there be? It's been so long."
"Yangzi has bipolar disorder. We found out about it when school started. I was the one who begged Azhu to break up with you for the sake of our friendship, but he refused. With no other choice, we had to act together just so Yangzi could get proper treatment."
Guan Siqi didn't dare look directly into Luo Shu's eyes. "It was such an accident that you caught him red-handed that day. Before you came, he was like a fool, holding his phone and waiting for your news. I laughed at him. I also blamed me for fanning the flames that day, for forcing him and reminding him of Yangzi's illness. Otherwise, you wouldn't have ended up like this. I know it's late, but I still have to say I'm sorry. I wronged you back then."
The curve of Luo Shu's mouth drooped as she spoke. For a moment, she froze in her seat like a statue, her heart pounding wildly. She took a hard breath and said, "I didn't come here to hear your confession, but to understand the whole story. You said Gu Yang had bipolar disorder because of me?"
"It's not entirely you." Guan Siqi pondered for a moment, "It's also Azhu, because of his betrayal."
Luo Shu's eyebrows were furrowed with suspicion: "Betrayal?"
Guan Siqi gave a wry smile: "Don't you know that he broke up with us a long time ago because of you?"
Luo Shu took a deep breath and sorted out her complicated thoughts: "I always thought that it was all your design from the beginning to the end."
Guan Siqi shook his head in denial, "We weren't involved much. In the beginning, it was indeed us who instigated him to approach you. It took a lot of coaxing before he reluctantly agreed. I was in the private room upstairs for the hotpot, and I was the one who made the extra spicy base. You were drunk, and we stopped by at Azhu's house that night. We ran into him on the sofa trying to coax you to sleep. Yangzi and he got furious. We had just reconciled at the basketball court, and we were watching from a distance. After that, you two started dating. When Yangzi heard you were dating, he set up a trap to test him. He was afraid you would meet us, afraid you would know the truth, so he cruelly scolded you and sent you away. We were hiding behind the surveillance camera and watched the whole thing. It was after that night that our relationship plummeted, and not long after, you went public."
Guan Siqi paused to rest after saying too much at once, but Luo Shu pressed him with a stern face, "Continue. What next?"
Guan Siqi withdrew his hand from unscrewing the bottle cap in frustration. "Then, the whole school laughed at him when he asked for a kiss and was rejected. That's when those nine people jointly released a PDF online condemning you—no, condemning your roommate—for the immoral behavior of having multiple relationships. It just so happened that Yangzi saw it."
Luo Shu tried her best to keep her voice calm: "What about the night Anqi came to school?"
"The night Anqi came to school was unexpected. It was also the first time we met after our cold war. He even begged me to stay away from him. The whole conversation could only be described as stubborn."
Guan Siqi was deeply impressed by that night. Not only was he angry, but he was also beaten. "He said a lot about how he saw you, how you were stubborn, but you had never been stubborn with him. It was only after meeting you that I realized that those who are truly loved are like children everywhere and have candy everywhere. He also said that if you can lie to him forever, he can pretend forever."
"I know very little about what happened afterwards. I only know that Yangzi found those people and gave them Azhu's contact information. But nothing happened afterwards. I don't know what method Azhu used to make them shut up."
"Then, during winter break, they got into a huge fight. The straw that broke the camel's back was probably New Year's Eve. I didn't catch the details, but when I got there, Azhu was being beaten up on the ground without fighting back, saying he didn't owe Yangzi anything. I ended up taking him to the hospital to get stitches."
Luo Shu lowered her head, her thick black eyelashes masking the emotions in her eyes. A boarding reminder popped up on the phone tightly clenched in her hand: "What about the supermarket?"
Guan Siqi looked puzzled: "What supermarket? I don't know."
"It's the supermarket where Fang Qingzhuo and I first met, the one near the men's dormitory." Luo Shu suddenly raised her voice.
Guan Siqi was startled, then explained seriously, "I really don't know what supermarket it is. My impression is that the first time you met was the night you and Duan Ran showed up together. When he got home that night, he looked extremely bad. I even teased him about running into Duan Ran, saying, 'What's the big deal?' It's not like we haven't run into each other before."
A light rain began to fall from the sky, and the humid air quickly took on the coolness of autumn.
The moment Luo Shu got off the car at the terminal, she tightened her windbreaker. At that moment, Fei Wei's call came in.
Luo Shu picked up the phone without hesitation: "How come you have time to call me at this hour?"
Fei Wei's choked sobs instantly filled the receiver: "I just landed and came to see Qian Fan off for the last time."
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The author has something to say: I just realized that the version I sent out has two different commas, bushi. When I copied it from WPS Songti 5 to the Writing Assistant preview, everything was fine, the commas were normal, but how come it looks so weird from the reader's perspective? ? ? This is giving me OCD...
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