The day Su Yunbai left was in mid-July, a sunny day perfect for a long journey.
The car drove on the road, leaving behind all the familiar scenes of Su Yunbai. She quietly looked at the shadow of the city of A flying away in the rearview mirror, and found that her mood was calmer than she thought.
In the car, Su Yunbai's good friends were still teasing her.
Xu Shiyuan said: "My little one? How do you feel? Are you reluctant to let go? Don't panic, it's not too late to turn around now. At most, I will take care of your food for half a year, but no more. There are still children to raise at home, and it's a burden."
She looked miserable.
The former lawyer said jokingly: "If it really doesn't work, being my assistant is barely enough. I eat meat and you drink soup! How about that, isn't it nice?" She was still fantasizing, "Not to mention, having an associate professor as my assistant, it's so nice to think about it."
Xu Jinzhi, who was driving, took the lead: "I'm different, I'm more direct, an assistant professor, do I need to be supported? I'm not talented, I have little family wealth~"
She shook her head.
Su Yunbai also followed suit: "Words are not enough, the money must be in place first, let me see your sincerity first."
Regarding Su Yunbai's going abroad, her good friends accepted it well. Everyone has their own way to go. Although they are reluctant, seeing their friend can pursue the life she wants, they mostly bless her.
In fact, except for Xu Shiyuan who is more of a homebody, the other two people in the car fly around all year round, so it is easy for them to go abroad. Several people
made an appointment to travel and shop in the city where Su Yunbai is in the future, and joked that they would make Su Yunbai bleed a lot... The atmosphere was not dull at all.
Soon, the international terminal of City A was in sight.
City A is a big city, and there are six entrances to the international terminal alone. If you look down from the air, from entrance number one to entrance number six, it is a long C shape. The car enters from the head end of the C shape and can only stop briefly in front of any terminal entrance in the middle. The parking time cannot exceed two minutes, and then leave from the tail end of the C shape.
After Xu Jinzhi pulled over, he, along with Xu Shiyuan, who was driving the car, and Lawyer Yuan, who was in the back seat, got out of the car one after another to help Su Yunbai move her luggage. Su Yunbai
didn't have much luggage. Both the large black suitcase and the travel bag could be checked in, and the only thing she really needed to carry was a simple, clean handbag.
When all the luggage was ready, Xu Shiyuan reminded her, "Are you sure you brought your passport, wallet, cell phone, etc?"
Su Yunbai patted her handbag and nodded, "Don't worry."
Lawyer Yuan said, "Don't worry about the house. I will definitely find a good tenant for you."
Su Yunbai was going abroad, but she didn't plan to sell the house in the North District of A Garden. The property rights of the house were completely under her name, and she was in a hurry to leave, so she asked Lawyer Yuan to help rent it out.
Su Yunbai was not worried about this. "It's a pity that it's a little far from your company, but it's acceptable, right? Haven't you always felt that the conditions of the apartment you rent now are average? Why don't you move to my place?"
The former lawyer rolled her eyes elegantly: "I want to sleep a little longer."
This is not a place where you can park your car for a long time. After a few words, it was time to say goodbye.
The three good friends all looked a little sad.
Su Yunbai smiled and opened his arms to them, "Come, free hugs."
First it was Lawyer Yuan: "Have a safe journey."
Then it was Xu Shiyuan: "I'll wait for you to return home with wealth and honor, but remember to come back early. I don't want my kid to go to elementary school without you coming back. By then, I'll brag to him every day about how great my sisters are, and he'll think I'm lying to him."
Su Yunbai laughed: "Okay."
Last was the eager-eyed Xu Jinzhi.
She hugged Su Yunbai especially tightly, and whispered softly: "Oh, I really can't bear to leave now..."
Su Yunbai stopped and waved to the few people, "Okay, go back, I'm not not coming back."
They were preparing to get in the car and leave, when a black commercial vehicle suddenly drove over from a distance, gradually slowed down, and finally stopped behind Xu Jinzhi's car.
The door opened, and Ji Cheng got out of the back seat in a hurry.
Su Yunbai was stunned.
The remaining three people's eyes were flying around, but they reached a tacit understanding in a moment. Not only were they no longer sad, but they also yo-yoed with a tactful look: "Let's go, you guys chat, you guys chat..."
The red sports car quickly disappeared at the end of the sight. Su Yunbai retracted his gaze and looked at Ji Cheng.
Ji Cheng waved to the driver. The black business car started to move, slowly moving away from the terminal, leaving only Ji Cheng behind.
Su Yunbai subconsciously pulled the strap of the handbag on her shoulder and asked, "Senior, why are you here?"
Didn't you agree not to come and see me off?
Ji Cheng walked up to Su Yunbai and looked at her, "I hesitated for a long time and persuaded myself for a long time, but I still couldn't let it go. I was afraid that I would regret it again, so this time I came, I want to seek clarification...
"Yunbai, look at me. Tell me, why is it Qinian, and not me."
Su Yunbai was stunned.
She subconsciously wanted to say something to "persuade her to let go."
Ji Cheng seemed to know what she was thinking, and interrupted her directly, "I want to hear the truth. Tell me, how am I not as good as Qinian? "
After so many years of waiting... he was really unwilling.
Su Yunbai said seriously: "Senior, this comparison is meaningless... I have never thought about it this way."
"Then think about it now." Ji Cheng looked at her, "There are more than three hours before the plane takes off, we still have time." He pursed his lips, "Did I do something wrong? I'm not blaming you, but why have you never considered me all these years? "
Su Yunbai actually thought about this question seriously, and more than once. Ji Cheng gave her a three-month deadline, and she was not really just avoiding it.
Su Yunbai also asked herself, the opposite sex around her came and went, and the intersection was not very deep. In detail, the one who stayed the longest was Ji Cheng. He had excellent personal conditions, outstanding abilities, and was not much different in age from her...
There were so many "suitable" conditions in front of her, and she was even close to him, but why didn't she think about it from beginning to end?
She was not really indifferent, and she was not really unable to understand the high eyebrows and low eyes, but why was she so slow when it came to Ji Cheng?
Let alone whether she liked Ji Cheng or not, why didn't she even notice that he liked her?
Su Yunbai never believed that there is love and hate without reason in this world, and she doesn't think that love is unreasonable. At least for her, her feelings are very clear, and love and hate have their origins.
She was attracted to Huo Qinian because she was attracted to him on the podium and felt that he had a hot and boiling sense of responsibility and passion...
What about Ji Cheng? What stopped her from considering the possibility of being with Ji Cheng?
Su Yunbai actually had a vague answer in her heart.
It's not complicated. They met at the wrong time.
When Su Yunbai met Ji Cheng, she had almost no strengths except her academic performance. Even her family relationships were very complicated.
But Ji Cheng is different. At that time, he had just transferred from City A to City C. Not only was he good-looking and good at studying, he also had many extracurricular talents...
To be frank, Ji Cheng was a star-like figure in that small high school in City C.
Such a person had extremely good family conditions.
The Ji family came from City C. Back then, Ji Cheng's father was the richest man in City C. As the son of the richest man, Ji Cheng was born with a halo.
Such a person was too far away from Su Yunbai.
She didn't know how others felt about Ji Cheng, but she herself had always been a pragmatic person. Her education since childhood told her that she and Ji Cheng were definitely not the same kind of people.
Su Yunbai would not belittle herself, but she never dreamed of becoming a phoenix. From the very beginning, she had not thought about any possibility between herself and Ji Cheng, and she even drew a clear line in her heart.
Ji Cheng did not show any specialness to her, so their relationship as a senior and a junior student was stable for a long time.
People have inertial thinking. Su Yunbai has become accustomed to the relationship between Ji Cheng and her, and she always feels that he is too far away from her in her heart. How could she think too much?
And Huo Qinian...it's still a matter of timing. She met him for the first time abroad, and was amazed by him on the podium...At that time, she didn't know Huo Qinian's background, and just thought he was an ambitious peer who wanted to start his own business.
Later, she met Huo Qinian in City A. At that time, she had just returned from her studies and was an associate professor at University A. In terms of social status alone, she was no longer the gloomy junior high school student.
Strength is a person's best courage. Huo Qinian never boasted to Su Yunbai about how extraordinary his family background was. Although Su Yunbai had seen the tip of the iceberg through his own observation, he didn't know the whole picture.
At that time, she was a novice, and her brilliance was revealed. She didn't think she was not worthy of Huo Qinian at all. Of course, she later realized how naive this idea was.
But at that time, she really didn't think there was such a big gap between her and Huo Qinian. She couldn't see the line between Huo Qinian and her, she thought they could have a future.
In this world, whether it's love or work, if you don't even think about the possibility of success, how can you expect it to really succeed?
After listening to this, Ji Cheng was distraught and speechless.
During this period of time, Huo Qinian always had a vague feeling that something was not quite right in his heart. This feeling reached its peak for a moment after seeing the list of new professors at A University.
Su Yunbai was not on the list.
Huo Qinian was not so domineering that he felt that Su Yunbai must be selected, but the two people who had been selected... he couldn't see where Su Yunbai lost.
He knew his limits and did not openly question the fairness of the results. He just asked Teacher Tan in private, in a joking tone: "Teacher Tan, what exactly is wrong with your students? Tell us. We will correct it if there is any, and encourage it if there is nothing."
At that time, the look in Teacher Tan's eyes when he looked at him was particularly complicated for a moment.
Huo Qinian was a very sensitive person and subconsciously asked questions.
Teacher Tan gave a series of reasons. He said that Su Yunbai was young, had little experience, had a short teaching period, etc.
Huo Qinian reluctantly believed it, but there was a lingering weird feeling in his heart.
He always went to Su Yunbai to show his presence. Su Yunbai has always ignored him, but strangely, she doesn't seem to scold him much, even though he did something rather excessive sometimes...
This is a bit wrong.
Huo Qinian took this matter to heart, but he couldn't find anything convincing.
Until today, the landmark building of the new district was completed. The municipal government specially held a completion ceremony and invited people from all walks of life to participate. Huo Qinian and Ji Cheng were naturally among them.
Huo Qinian noticed that Ji Cheng seemed to be distracted frequently and seemed a little anxious. Of course, he didn't pay attention to Ji Cheng deliberately, but he could notice the abnormality without paying attention... This was a bit obvious.
Halfway through the ceremony, Ji Cheng suddenly left in a hurry and drove away.
Huo Qinian's eyebrows twitched, and he had a strange intuition in his heart - Ji Cheng's departure this time must be unusual.
He was unexpectedly concerned in his heart, and couldn't help asking people to inquire about the news.
Ji Cheng's news was not so easy to inquire about. Huo Qinian waited patiently for a moment, and finally left the table on the pretext of having something to do.
Ji Cheng's car was not a common brand, Huo Qinian tentatively asked the child at the door. The child really had an impression and pointed to Huo Qinian in a direction: "I remember the car went in that direction."
Huo Qinian looked in the direction he pointed, and his eyebrows twitched slightly.
You can say that he is overly sensitive, but there are so many destinations leading to that intersection, but the first thing he saw was the big sign of "City A Airport".
Huo Qinian seemed to have a flash of inspiration in his mind, followed by a feeling of heart pounding.
He immediately called Teacher Tan: "Aunt, tell me, what did Yun Bai hide from me?! I want to know everything!"
Two minutes later, Huo Qinian's face was as gloomy as water, and he strode away, chasing after Ji Cheng's car.