Chapter 42 Chapter 42 Confrontation
After returning home that day, Li Jinglang had a good sleep for the first time in a long time. He didn't dream and didn't wake up in the middle of the night. He slept completely and completely. After waking up, he felt relaxed all over. He hadn't felt this way for a long time.
Before, he always felt that the bed was too soft and his waist hurt when he slept, but last night he felt like he was sleeping in the clouds, light and airy, and his mind was relaxed.
Even at breakfast the next day, he ate more than usual. Zhou Su stared at him with satisfaction for a long time, then asked with a smile, "Anything happy happened recently?"
He paused for a moment while eating the Eight Treasure Rice Pudding, then returned to normal and replied, "...No."
Zhou Su was still smiling, but he himself couldn't notice it. However, his mother was very sensitive to his changes, especially the rising tone of his voice. She hadn't heard him speak like this for a long time. He was always lifeless and unwilling to say a word.
"You look quite happy." Zhou Su picked up a cream shrimp and put it on his plate. Li Jinglang was in a good mood, so she was happy too, and the smile on her face never faded.
"No," Li Jinglang denied. He looked up at Zhou Su innocently, puzzled, "Why should I be happy?"
"Have you reconciled with your sister?" Zhou Su joked. She always loved watching the two children quarreling, and never thought it was a big deal. Instead, she felt particularly happy. "Are you no longer quarreling?"
Zhou Su watched the two of them grow up. Even though she was not at home often, she could still sense the subtle atmosphere after each conflict between the two. Especially after Tang Ningyue came back this time, the atmosphere between the two was always subtle.
But she never asked why, nor did she intervene. They always made up, without exception, because the two of them had their own way of getting along, and it had been like this since they were young.
Zhou Su still firmly believes that Li Jinglang's illness has nothing to do with Tang Ningyue. This is Li Jinglang's innate character. Zhou Su is unwilling to blame the daughter she raised personally. This has never been partiality.
"....." Li Jinglang took another bite of the fried asparagus and refused to admit, "I didn't have a quarrel with her."
"Okay." Zhou Su nodded and smiled again, "As long as you are happy, it's enough. Be happy every day from now on, okay?"
“…I’m not happy.”
Li Jinglang denied it again. He looked up and met Zhou Su's gaze. She stared at him with a smile for a while, then he looked away with a sullen face, as if his secrets had been exposed.
"This asparagus is too old. It's not tasty." He took the last asparagus from the plate and stopped eating. "I'm full. I'm going to school."
Zhou Su looked at his watch and called him again: "So early?"
"Yeah." He responded, "It's not early."
It would take a while for Tang Ningyue to drive here, so he planned to go down and wait for her. After he came back yesterday, she promised to take him to class today, and he had been looking forward to it all night.
"It's Ningyue's birthday, and her mom asked her to come home. Can we celebrate with her together?"
"No need." Li Jinglang refused subconsciously. He glanced at her, then turned around and explained while changing his shoes, "...You are going on a business trip, aren't you? I can just buy her a cake to celebrate."
"That's fine." Zhou Su agreed, "You can invite your friends to celebrate together, and you can go out and have fun more."
"Yeah." Li Jinglang didn't object to the mention of friends this time, but just replied halfheartedly, "I'm leaving."
As soon as he finished speaking, the door was closed.
Zhou Su laughed and sighed behind him.
“Still so active in class…”
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If Li Jinglang knew that the person coming to pick him up was not Tang Ningyue herself but her male assistant, he would definitely not be standing at the door blowing in the cold wind so early.
He was like a fool at the moment.
The male assistant was dressed in a suit and had a fang when he smiled, looking like a college graduate. He drove Tang Ningyue's car skillfully, sat on the seat cushion she bought at a high price, and held her car key with a Stitch pendant in his hand.
He really didn't understand why Xu Qing wanted to recruit so many young men as interns in the company. He really wanted to realize social value and create jobs for more people.
It's simply sick.
It would be better for him to walk 15 kilometers by himself than to let her male assistant take him to school.
Li Jinglang was unhappy, but he didn't say anything. After arriving at the destination, he sent a thank you emoticon to Tang Ningyue.
Tang Ningyue saw through his sarcasm at a glance, so she didn't reply to him. She threw the phone aside and pretended not to see it.
He still needs to strengthen his desensitization training.
Sitting on the sofa, Tang Ningyue took a sip of scented tea and glanced in the direction of Duan Jiayu, signaling him to behave well.
Today is his movie premiere. Although he only plays a small supporting role in it, Tang Ningyue’s main task today is not him.
Tang Ningyue is the producer of this film. This is her first project after taking over the Nancy branch. She is already familiar with these things. Before she came back, she had already produced several well-received works. She is tired of these jobs.
She actually found it interesting to switch careers and take on the role of an artist.
Tang Ningyue posted the group photo of today's event on the social platform. The first person to like it was still the private user. She smiled and sent him a message with her phone.
【Are you beautiful today? 】
As soon as this message came out, the other party immediately showed offline status, as usual.
Every time this private user accidentally liked and then canceled a post, Tang Ningyue would send him such a teasing message, and he would immediately log off.
There are always some bad guys on social platforms who send harassing messages, but this person won’t do that. He has never replied to her messages, but he is always the first to like them. Of course, he doesn’t make many mistakes.
Tang Ningyue suspected all her ex-boyfriends, but almost all of those who would spy on her would reply immediately after she sent a message, and no one would remain silent.
She has too many admirers and she can't ask them all, so she just treats it as fun. If she is interested, she will flirt with them, and if she doesn't remember them, she will just forget about it.
"Sister." Duan Jiayu approached her attentively, "Did I perform well?"
"It's much better than the last time I shot an underwear commercial." Tang Ningyue didn't look at him and concentrated on replying to the message on her phone.
"Sister..." Duan Jiayu's face flushed instantly, and he looked around, "She's outside."
Tang Ningyue sneered and patted his shoulder. "Very good, you've made progress. I'll reward you with roasted bird today."
"Sister, I have an appointment with people from Tianyu to have dinner together today." Duan Jiayu interrupted him.
"Ah." Tang Ningyue slapped her head, "Yes, I almost forgot."
This meal was actually a celebratory banquet, but Tang Ningyue naturally would not miss the opportunity to win over people, so she called all the people she could recruit under this pretext.
Xu Qing has been busy with social engagements since the beginning of the year. A few days ago, he drank too much and had gastric bleeding, so he went to the hospital for recuperation. This time, only Tang Ningyue went there alone. Xu Qing was worried about her, so he asked a few young men to accompany her. That day in the hospital, Tang Ningyue gave him a thumbs up and sincerely praised his magnanimity.
He laughed and scolded her, saying that he had no intention of giving her any fun, but Tang Ningyue ignored him.
Several young boys accompanied her. Tang Ningyue turned her head left and right all the way, her mouth never closing. The long tassel earrings on her earlobes swept back and forth on her neck, and someone considerately helped her to clear away the tangled hair.
The entire business car was filled with laughter and joy, except for Duan Jiayu, who was fidgeting and constantly looking back in the rearview mirror, like a concubine banished to the cold palace, and dared not say anything.
Most of the people in the group are interns who have just graduated. They work harder than each other and drink a lot. However, some of them are old foxes who are always cunning and make things difficult for others.
After finally sending the partner away, Tang Ningyue was the party A in the next game. She straightened her back and asked people to remove all the alcohol and replace them with brown sugar ginger tea, saying that it was for health reasons.
Several young men followed suit, and Guangmingding, with his big belly, had no way of refutation, so he just continued.
Once people have power and status, their words are effective wherever they are. Moreover, no one really loves the drinking culture, and most people just go along with it and kowtow for money.
Once you are caught in the social torrent, no one can really reach the shore.
Tang Ningyue didn't expect Sheng Shiyang to come along. She was the party A in the contract being negotiated this time, and it was the opponent's turn to bargain. Tang Ningyue had heard of Sheng Shiyang's eloquence, but they had never met in this capacity.
Sheng Shiyang had always been the passive one in relationships, and he always seemed tongue-tied and unable to argue clearly in front of her. This was the first time Tang Ningyue witnessed his professional qualities as a lawyer, and she really looked at him with admiration.
By the end of the meal, we had finished discussing the topic smoothly, and it turned out that drinking was not necessary.
After seeing the person off, Tang Ningyue went back to the bathroom to touch up her makeup, and as expected, she ran into the person she expected.
Sheng Shiyang smells like a typical urban man. He is dressed in a suit and looks gentlemanly. It is really inappropriate for him to show his current expression of forbearance and seeking peace.
"I really didn't mean to do that that day..."
The first thing Sheng Shiyang said when he saw her was that he wanted to explain.
Every time he saw her, he looked like he had suffered a great injustice, completely shedding the chatterboxing state he used to have at dinner parties.
"I know." Tang Ningyue walked past him and went to the sink to get her lipstick and touch up her makeup. "You don't need to apologize anymore."
"....Then have you forgiven me?" He walked over and picked up her silk scarf that had fallen on the ground.
"Sheng Shiyang." Tang Ningyue faced herself in the mirror, tilted her head and smiled.
"Hmm?" His brows, which were unable to relax, were now particularly melancholy.
"I still prefer the way you just argued with me."
Especially... exciting.
Sheng Shiyang's appearance is not sharp, but soft and sexy. Tang Ningyue especially likes the feeling of having sex with him, which is like nestling in a soft plush blanket while enjoying the night view and drinking strong liquor.
But he was only a little fierce in bed. Once the lights were turned on, he became like this again.
"I didn't argue with you just now."
He wanted to hold her hand, but she dodged him again.
"I don't like you being like this..." Tang Ningyue turned around and shook her head at him, "I don't like you being so humble. Can you be a little more powerful?"
"Um?"
"I...."
I don’t know if he was scared by her unreasonable request, but Sheng Shiyang hesitated for a long time and couldn’t form a sentence. He didn’t want to be tough, so how could he bear to be tough with her.
Tang Ningyue is really hard to please. One moment she makes people cry in front of her, and the next moment she makes people act mean to her. She is so changeable that I wonder how many people it will take to satisfy her.
“.....”
She was getting addicted to teasing Sheng Shiyang when a cold male voice suddenly came from a few meters away.
"Tang Ningyue."
Before she could wait for Sheng Shiyang's answer, Li Jinglang had been standing at the end of the corridor for an unknown amount of time.
He was wearing a black coat and was tall and slender. From a distance, he didn't look like a college student, but rather a mature man.
Tang Ningyue sneered, pretending to be serious.
"...Why are you here?"
Seeing him walking towards her, Tang Ningyue looked at him in confusion. She didn't expect him to speak in such a sarcastic tone.
"If I don't come, are you going to rekindle your old relationship with him?"
“.....”
He frowned and shifted his gaze from Tang Ningyue to Sheng Shiyang, as if he wanted to tear out his tendons and skin him.
"It was just a misunderstanding between Yue'er and me." Sheng Shiyang interrupted him, his heart instantly ignited, "We never really broke up."
"What's true or false?" Li Jinglang looked at him coldly. "If we break up, we break up." How could that be true?
"you..."
"It's obviously you who's causing this."
"You should blame yourself for being a fool." Li Jinglang hit back bluntly, refusing to prove himself.
Sheng Shiyang was obviously annoyed by him, and in Li Jinglang's eyes he looked extremely furious.
"What nonsense are you trying to talk about this time, Li Jinglang?"
"How can you be so thoughtful at such a young age?"
"I just love her, is that wrong?"
Li Jinglang was always calm and composed in front of outsiders. Even when Sheng Shiyang was shaking with anger, he still had a calm face and a clear mind. He had not changed since he was a child, but he did not dare to do that to Tang Ningyue.
"Don't be so unreasonable!" Sheng Shiyang was extremely angry. He almost never lost his temper this much, especially outside.
"Sheng Shiyang, why don't you open your eyes and take a look."
"Who is messing around now?"
"Okay then." Sheng Shiyang admitted defeat. "I'm asking you to fight back now. Don't mess around between me and Yue'er anymore."
"Do you think everyone is as accustomed to solving problems with violence as you are?"
Li Jinglang responded indifferently, and Sheng Shiyang really wanted to punch him again.
"You're still talking nonsense!" He didn't know why, but his professionalism was completely gone at this moment. His mind was in a mess and he couldn't sort out his thoughts. He had clearly gone home and carefully reviewed what had happened last time.
"Last time you fainted, do you dare to say you didn't do it on purpose?"
"....." He suddenly sneered, "Yes, I did it on purpose, but Tang Ningyue also broke up with you, she is also an accomplice."
"Specially to help a bastard like me."
Li Jinglang raised his chin nonchalantly, invincible.
“…”
The two people were arguing fiercely. Tang Ningyue had no chance to get a word in, and was too lazy to do so. During her break, she answered a phone call and had no time to take care of the two of them.
"Ningyue, are you done?"
Xu Qingye's voice came from the receiver, and the not-so-spacious corridor instantly became quiet.
"I'll wait for you in the lobby."
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