Chapter 96
"Oh my god!" exclaimed "Lu Xixi's Lu" in an exaggerated tone, then pressed Su Ningna for an answer, "And then? And then? Did that guy from Chengshi move in here? Our Central Park is a middle-class community, how can we let someone like that live here? It's so dangerous for the residents!"
Sun Pengfei always thought that this internet celebrity couple must have been tired of hearing their marriage story by now, and that their mockumentaries had gone on for so many episodes—it was time to end it. But to his surprise, the two remained enthusiastic after hearing the story for the nth time, as if it were the first time they'd heard it. So Sun Pengfei secretly rolled his eyes at "Lu Xixi's Lu."
The woman named "Lu Xixi" looked to be about the same age as Suningna, but she was shorter and heavier. Her hair, whether genuinely white or bleached to a yellowish-white, made her appear older and listless. She also wore glasses with exaggerated white frames but no lenses. Sun Pengfei felt these frames did nothing to flatter her face shape; in fact, they made her face look even flatter.
However, this woman, who claimed to be a former producer, seemed to be a very confident woman. She didn't seem to care about her appearance or what her neighbors thought of her. Sun Pengfei thought her life principle might be "ugly people are often eccentric," so when he saw her nonchalant attire and heard her exaggerated, incessant questioning, he became even more convinced of his judgment of this woman.
“No,” Su Ningna replied to “Lu Xixi’s Lu”’s question as if she were telling the story to these two people for the first time. “As soon as the funeral was over, Cheng Guo and his gang took the two kids back to Shenyang. Xiao Cheng also went to Shenyang for a few days to help the kids adjust to the new environment and with their school registration. I heard he went to Shenyang to see the kids every weekend afterward. Sigh, thankfully transportation is convenient now. I heard it only takes a little over two hours by train from Beijing to Shenyang. What would have happened before? I guess those two brothers would have just wanted to stay like that forever. Although Xiao Cheng’s brother looks fierce and seems to have never been married, he’s a big businessman and almost 50 years old, so he must know a lot and should be able to take good care of the two kids. I just don’t know if the kids will learn well with someone like that, and I don’t know what the education level in Shenyang is like…”
“We didn’t see Xiaocheng after that until the month before last, I think it was around then, I remember it was a while after the Spring Festival, he came back to sell the house, which was the time you met him. He came to our house and sat for a while, we talked a lot. It was on that occasion that he told Pengfei and me that he found the note left by Xiaohuang. He also said that if he hadn’t seen the note, he might have committed suicide that day.”
"Pipilu's Pi" coughed softly. He was a large, fat man who spoke very slowly and always had a pipe in his mouth, like Sherlock Holmes. It was said that he had made a lot of movies and won a lot of awards when he was young, but no one had ever seen any of the movies he mentioned on the market.
“You know what? Things like this,” Pipilu paused, observing the smoke rising from his pipe, then squinted his already small, swollen eyes and said, “can leave a lot of room for imagination.”
“That’s right! We met him on the day of the signing. He’s really handsome, manly yet scholarly, absolutely photogenic. If he were younger, he could definitely debut. I was even thinking of signing him, but…” “Lu Xixi’s Lu” exclaimed exaggeratedly, “But, does he seem to have… has he recovered yet?”
Su Ningna sighed deeply. She tugged at her clothes and awkwardly curled her legs up on the sofa. "Well, he's lost a lot of weight. He used to be quite strong, though not as strong as Pengfei. But aside from being thin, he looks alright. He told us he'd been receiving psychological treatment, and it was working well, but he didn't go into too much detail. He did mention his job, though. He seems to have found a new job—no, actually, he's still at the same company, but in a new department, something like that. I didn't quite understand. Pengfei, he went to a new department, right?"
"No, I went to a new company, Zheyuan Consulting."
“Oh, I know this company,” said Pipilu’s Pipi. “Their company is inside the China Zun building. I contacted someone from their company in a KOL group. I heard it’s a pretty interesting new company. Simply put, they use AI as an entry point to provide public relations and technical support to the health and wellness industry, because they’ve developed their own AI system. I don’t know if it’s true or not. Apparently, their first client is Haoskai, the American company that makes health supplements, and I heard they’ve already developed other new clients. If they really have developed their own system, then they definitely have room for growth in the next few years.”
“He used to be with Hoska, so he went to a new department, I didn’t mishear.” Suningna continued, “Anyway, he seems really busy, and he seems… I don’t think ‘cheerful’ is quite the right word, but that’s about it. I think he… how should I put it? He’s pretty brave, yes, very brave.”
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