Chapter 43 Seeing clearly that it was Yan Zhiru’s…
It took Tao Siyun more than a month to slowly recover from his foot injury.
The first thing he did after recovering was to fly to Shenzhou City with Zhao Yiran, who also received an invitation letter from the alumni association via email.
Zhao Yiran was quite interested in some artistic home spaces and niche designer brands this time. While visiting the art exhibition center, he was appreciating these works with an "investigating" eye the whole time.
The dinner is basically free working.
These returning graduates add WeChat users they don't know, then follow the usual process, sharing their entrepreneurial experiences, pitfalls, and career development. Ultimately, the goal is to make new friends and expand their network.
The most outstanding among them is Zhao Yiran, a representative of the rich second generation. She is very comfortable in such social occasions. As the heir to a large company, she will not miss any opportunity to cooperate with her own company.
Compared with the "high-end business talks" that were going on on Zhao Yiran's side, Tao Siyun's side was obviously much more down-to-earth.
She and some friends she met during graduate school ate desserts and cupcakes, shared their experiences after returning to China, and then reminisced about their nostalgic college days. They could even talk for a long time about a delicious restaurant they mentioned casually or a vintage shop hidden in the block that they often visited on their weekends.
It felt like we were just here for a class reunion.
The trip only lasted one day. The next afternoon, Tao Siyun had just returned home and had no time to rest when she received a call from her best friend. On the other end of the phone, Bian Chengzi asked her to have a drink together in the evening in an unusual manner.
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The dance floor was ablaze with colorful lights, almost blinding everyone's eyes. On the 360-degree rotating and elevating DJ stage, a young internet celebrity DJ, wearing a red leather jacket and black sunglasses, instantly got the whole audience excited with his passionate DJing with his free-spirited and showy performances.
The live music was deafening, and everyone's emotions were aroused. Scantily clad men and women danced passionately, their bodies pressed together, their heads shaking, and the atmosphere in the nightclub reached its peak.
Bian Chengzi had already ordered a mess of drinks before Tao Siyun arrived, and now he was drinking and cursing loudly -
"Bastard! Fucking bastard!!"
Seeing her drinking one glass after another as if she was risking her life, Tao Siyun quickly grabbed the glass from her hand and said, "Hey, stop drinking..."
"Dorothy, wuwuwu..." Bian Chengzi suddenly hugged Tao Siyun's waist tightly, buried her head in her shoulder, and cried breathlessly, "Am I a cheap person? Or am I just a part of their play?"
Tao Siyun was completely confused. She patted her friend's back and asked her patiently, "What happened?"
…
As someone who has been addicted to all kinds of Korean melodramatic love stories since childhood, Bian Chengzi, who thought she was strong enough to be invincible, never thought that such a melodramatic plot would happen to her one day.
A few days ago, Liang Jingchao, the man who had long disappeared from her life, actually sent her a WeChat emoticon package.
For some reasons, Bian Chengzi had blocked him from her circle of friends a long time ago. She guessed that Liang Jingchao probably just wanted to know whether she had deleted him.
So at first, Bian Chengzi ignored it. She was so busy at work every day that she didn't even have the time to ask, "Has your account been hacked?" and she had no interest in thinking about what Liang Jingchao meant.
Until yesterday, Liang Jingchao suddenly sent her a WeChat message asking: [Have you ever had a crush on me before? ]
“…”
Bian Chengzi stared at the words on the mobile phone screen with a frown, as if he was reading his own dark history. His originally calm heart suddenly became uneasy.
She subconsciously thought that it was Wei Lu and that talkative guy who told Liang Jingchao, and for a moment she wanted to kill her cousin!
How should we respond to this question?
There is no benefit in admitting it or not, especially since the other party is married and is still a married man. Having contact with this kind of opposite sex is extremely risky in itself.
After thinking for a long time, Bian Chengzi felt that it would be better to delete it.
Unexpectedly, less than five minutes after deleting her as a friend, Liang Jingchao added her on WeChat again.
To Bian Chengzi, those little adolescence incidents were nothing. They were long gone, and she had no desire to look back. To put it bluntly, those years of unrequited love were purely for her own amusement.
Bringing up the past now would only cause her embarrassment, social unhappiness, and increased psychological pressure, and would have no other practical significance.
She didn't understand what Liang Jingchao meant. He didn't want to apologize to her because he felt so guilty that he couldn't sleep after knowing that she had been secretly in love with him for several years, right?
Bian Chengzi has always been a person who can let go easily. When she likes someone, she really likes them, and when she doesn't like someone, she really doesn't like them. There is nothing to hide, so she just admits it: [That was all in the past]
She thought it would be better to make things clear all at once so that he wouldn't harass her endlessly.
Unexpectedly, after sending this message, she didn’t receive a reply until the evening, when she was about to go to bed. The reply was from a different perspective: [Thank you for your love for my husband. He is very happy now.]
!!!
The attitude that the words wanted to express was so obvious. It not only stated his own identity, but also displayed a petty sense of superiority in front of Liang Jingchao's former admirer.
This sentence was like a loud slap in Bian Chengzi's face!
Bian Chengzi was confused, not knowing who had tricked her, Liang Jingchao or that... her?
Or maybe they both played a trick on her.
She had never felt so embarrassed before. Even though she had disliked him for a long time, her love for him in her girlhood was not fake.
Bian Chengzi thought about it for the whole night, but sadly, she couldn't even remember why she liked Liang Jingchao in the first place.
She thought back to their wedding day a few months ago.
It must have been wonderful to know that the person who once had a crush on your husband was a bridesmaid at their wedding, witnessing their happiness firsthand. You might even feel quite proud...
The woman's smug tone seemed to be mocking her in her ears.
Bian Chengzi covered his forehead with his hands, and without worrying about who sent the message, he just left the words "delete each other" and blocked the message directly.
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Secret love is a personal matter. You may not like the other person, but no one's feelings are inherently humble. For any person with a conscience, the four words "unable to respond" themselves are a kind of debt and regret with a sense of apology.
So don't take advantage of others' love for you to hurt others unscrupulously. At least you should respect them instead of treating it as a reflection of your own charm or a source of showing off.
So, as a person of the same sex, you who think you have been carefully chosen by Liang Jingchao and stand out among his suitors, and who have already found happiness, why are you now showing off maliciously to the girl who once liked him?
Was Liang Jingchao your husband at that time? You were still his A, B, C, and D. So what if I liked him a little?
If I don't compete, I'll die, right?!
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The cause, process, and result of the whole incident are full of unreality. Girls' Generation's innocent love has become a boomerang that hurts themselves, piercing their bodies and causing blood to flow.
Bian Chengzi was really sad. Tao Siyun had never seen her cry like this since she turned eighteen.
Bian Chengzi has never left Jingfu since she was a child. She came to Shanghai West to attend university for Liang Jingchao.
Thinking of this, Tao Siyun suddenly felt very uncomfortable.
How could someone be so unlucky as to fall for the same man twice...
"Liang Jingchao is not a good guy! It's all Wei Lu and that idiot's fault... I'm so unlucky to meet him in my zodiac year, woo woo woo... I must have been blind before, how could I like such a person? I'm not a mistress, why is she provoking me? She's showing off in front of me! Are they crazy?"
"Okay, okay, it's okay..." Tao Siyun sighed and comforted Bian Chengzi with mixed feelings, using the words her best friend used to say: "Just think of it as being bitten by a dog. There's no need to be sad because of this kind of person."
"Is he worthy of being a dog?! If I were a dog, I'd despise him!" Bian Chengzi was drunk and cursed incoherently: "He's just a narcissistic scumbag! A beast! That woman thinks all the women in the world like her husband! She's afraid that someone else will snatch him away from her. Bah! I'm not a rag collector. Lock them up!"
After persuading him for a long time, Tao Siyun finally realized that Bian Chengzi was just unhappy tonight and came here on purpose to get drunk.
"You'll vomit if you drink any more." Tao Siyun pried her hands apart, snatched the empty wine glass, turned it upside down on the table, and patted the dizzy Bian Chengzi. "I'll get you a bottle of ice water to sober you up. We'll be leaving soon. Be obedient and stop drinking!"
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On Christmas Eve, the female bartenders and waitresses in the nightclub all wore uniform Christmas-style miniskirts, put on Christmas makeup on their faces, and wore reindeer headbands on their heads. They were all dressed cutely and beautifully, and the Christmas atmosphere in the nightclub was particularly strong.
Tao Siyun squeezed for a long time before he finally reached the bar. After getting two bottles of water, he walked back. The way he came was already blocked by the huge crowds of people dancing and having fun.
She didn't want to squeeze, so she changed direction and walked the other side.
After walking around in a big circle, I was accidentally bumped into by a female bartender carrying a tray when passing the bathroom.
"Excuse me."
Tao Siyun was so cold that he couldn't help but hissed, and quickly lowered his head to wipe it, "It's okay——"
The voice on the other end suddenly changed, and the next second, she accurately called out her name: "Tao Siyun?"
Tao Siyun paused while wiping his clothes and raised his head in surprise.
The colored lights overhead continuously changed into various brilliant colors to the dense, thunderous beats of electronic drums. The female bartender sneered in the shadows of the lights, "It really is you."
The moment he saw that it was Yan Zhiru, Tao Siyun was dazed for a moment.
This moment was like a dream. The hustle and bustle of the nightclub had disappeared from her without her knowing.
The coolness that had just touched my skin from the alcohol was slowly spreading and penetrating my entire body.
Yan Zhiru had deer makeup on her face, looking very innocent. He looked her up and down with a cold gaze, and suddenly picked up the glass on the tray and splashed it on Tao Siyun's face!
The wine is ice cold.
The liquid flowed down his jaw, and Tao Siyun's collarbone and collar were soaked.
Yan Zhiru looked her up and down with an unclear gaze, then suddenly gave a malicious smile and sneered, "You've come to a place like this, why are you still dressed so conservatively? Are you pretending to be a good girl in a nightclub? Are you kidding me?"
Tao Siyun's knuckles were clenched until they turned white, his lips were trembling slightly, and even his teeth were chattering.
She raised her hand to wipe her chin, picked up the beer bottle on the tray without saying a word, blocked the bottle mouth with her thumb, shook it vigorously a few times, raised it high, and poured it down over Yan Zhiru's head like watering a flower!
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