Chapter 76 Chapter 76 Golden House
It was already nine o'clock in the evening when Li Jinglang was taken to the apartment arranged for him by Tang Ningyue with his suitcase.
Everything in the room was ready, even slippers and tissues were neatly arranged, and half of the clothes in the cloakroom were hung. He could have just come and stayed here without any luggage, but he still opened the suitcase and placed the things inside on the shelf like treasures.
There was nothing valuable in the box, but he would carefully touch each item he took out. Tang Ningyue didn't remember their old friendship, but he still remembered it and would never forget it.
Tang Ningyue had someone send him dinner, but he sat at the table and had no appetite. He ground a piece of Hericium erinaceus into fine pieces for a long time but didn't even put it into his mouth. Tang Ningyue was about to get angry just by watching him on the surveillance camera.
Li Jinglang always dawdled when it came time to eat. It was probably because Tang Ningyue spoiled him too much when he was little, and she'd always coax him if he didn't eat...
In fact, if you think about it carefully, the two of them had quarreled and made a lot of noise in the past, but in the end they still snuggled together. Looking back, there were only their two footprints along the way.
The rest are just shadows.
But childhood is childhood. Back then, you could choose to forget the mistakes you made, or you could be forgiven. But now, that’s not the case. Now, every step and every word counts.
Tang Ningyue suddenly felt tears welling in her eyes. She was not a sentimental person, but she did not have much empathy. However, when she saw Li Jinglang, especially when she looked at him through the screen, she felt a tightness in her chest, as if cotton was stuffed in it and she could not breathe.
The apartment she arranged for Li Jinglang was not big, only about 100 square meters, but it was equipped with several surveillance cameras. She could hear every move of Li Jinglang, even his own talking.
From Bac Ninh to Nancy, he had always been her prisoner.
Li Jinglang ate a few bites of the meal and went to pack up again. He took out a woman's pajamas from the suitcase and held it in his arms. He squatted on the ground with his head buried in it for a long time. It was not known whether he was crying or what. Tang Ningyue didn't think about it, but she realized that the clothes were hers.
She liked that dress very much and had worn it many times, but she couldn't find it when she left. Now it seems that this boy had hidden it.
He sat on the ground for a while, folded his clothes and hid them secretly under the pillow. He took out his mobile phone from his pocket and stared at it for a long time. Tang Ningyue couldn't see his mobile phone screen clearly. Just as she was about to zoom in, Li Jinglang's text message popped up.
【I have arrived. 】
Just a few words, nothing else.
Tang Ningyue pursed her lips, straightened up and looked towards the bathroom. Zhou Yuhe was still taking a shower. She lay back on the bed and called Li Jinglang.
"Hello? Have you eaten yet?"
"Um."
The man on the other side was not in a good mood, probably because she did not agree to accompany him in the evening.
"I've given you the keys, but you're still not happy?"
Tang Ningyue did give him a key, but it was the spare key to her office. She didn't know whether Li Jinglang had found her or not, but she managed to keep him under wraps for the time being.
"I'm not unhappy."
"That's fine." Tang Ningyue pretended not to hear. "Isn't your company going to Penang for a team building trip? I've prepared a few sets of clothes for you and put them in the cloakroom. Do you like them if you try them on?"
"...."
Li Jinglang has never been interested in this kind of group activity, but Tang Ningyue insisted on getting him out of the way, as if he had to attend this activity.
He didn't understand why Tang Ningyue regarded him as such a thorn in her side. Her only intention from the beginning to end was to make him leave Nancy. She either locked him up or drove him away.
Li Jinglang clenched his fingers, speechless. He obviously had a lot of things to tell her and a lot of new things to share with her, just like before, when he would pester Tang Ningyue to chat with her after school. Things were good back then, but he could never go back.
It seemed that there was only quarreling between the two people.
"Yue'er, help me take down the bath towel."
A man's voice came from the other end of the phone again. Li Jinglang's heart seemed to be pulled by someone. He stared at Tang Ningyue's bright name on the phone screen, hesitated for a while, but still did not hang up the phone.
But because of his selfish motives, he didn't press the red button, but Tang Ningyue cut off the call without hesitation, without even saying goodbye.
The advanced feature of mobile phones is that when a call is disconnected, there is not even a beep sound, and the connection is immediately cut off.
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After moving to the new house, Li Jinglang's commuting time was twenty minutes shorter than before, so much so that when Zhou Ruian arrived, he was no longer the first one.
Li Jinglang was puzzled by his behavior of trying to be the first to enter the company, but he was too lazy to care. Everyone has his own way of living, and it doesn't matter to him what other people's weird powers are. Even if the sky leaks, he will say as little as possible and never say a word more.
Arriving early is not a good thing. Li Jinglang sat at his workstation in a daze for a long time, his head in a mess and he didn't know what he was thinking about. Maybe he was not used to not hearing Zhou Ruian shouting all morning.
"Why are you here so early today?" Li Jinglang came to his senses after hearing the familiar voice from a distance, turned around and smiled at him.
His smile was so forced that Zhou Ruian didn't even feel comfortable staring at him.
"You didn't have breakfast again?"
Zhou Ruian had already figured out that Li Jinglang didn't eat breakfast, so he took out a rice ball from his pocket and threw it on his table.
"Tuna." Zhou Ruian said happily, and the rice ball packaging he threw over was also different from usual.
"You came quite late today." Li Jinglang didn't look at him. He picked up the rice ball with plenty of fillings on the table and stuffed it into his mouth.
The rice balls also tasted different from usual ones, probably because they were not bought from a convenience store.
"My girlfriend is here."
Zhou Ruian excitedly handed the phone screen to Li Jinglang and enlarged the photo of the two of them.
Li Jinglang hated it most when people showed off their girlfriends in front of him, but since the phone was right in front of him, he had no choice but to lower his head. What's more, Zhou Ruian even let it go that he was not the first one to arrive. So today he would definitely have to listen to him bragging for a while.
Li Jinglang lowered his head helplessly and took a look, and the rice grains almost choked in his throat.
"Chen Jiaxin?"
Li Jinglang subconsciously called out the name of the girl in the photo.
"Do you know each other?" Zhou Ruian was a little surprised.
"Not familiar." Li Jinglang pushed the phone and shook his head.
"That's not right." Zhou Ruian moved closer to Li Jinglang and stopped him from trying to put a rice ball in his mouth. "You're always so reserved and don't talk to anyone. You don't even know the name of the colleague across from you, so how do you know my Xinxin?"
Zhou Ruian cared about it to death, and Li Jinglang had no way to escape, so he could only agree to him.
"She is...Tang Ningyue's...godsister."
"puff...."
Li Jinglang said this reluctantly, and Zhou Ruian laughed so hard after hearing his introduction.
"When you mentioned that, I almost forgot... Hahaha." Zhou Ruian patted Li Jinglang on the back, "She came here for Mr. Tang's engagement party."
It's not surprising that Tang Ningyue invited her, but Li Jinglang didn't like her very much and didn't care about her affairs.
"So you knew each other when you were little?" Zhou Ruian became interested. He ignored his work and the rice balls he had brought him, and leaned in front of him to ask carefully, "What was she like when she was little?"
"Forgot." Li Jinglang focused his eyes on the screen and didn't want to talk about Chen Jiaxin.
".....Not you, you?"
Zhou Ruian was so angry at his deadpan expression that he rolled his eyes. "Well, it's just as well that you forgot about it. It saves me from worrying about those men around her who are eyeing her covetously."
“…”
Less than half a minute passed in silence before Zhou Ruian came closer again. "Eh? Does she have another boyfriend?"
"Are you so unconfident in yourself?" Li Jinglang glanced at him.
"My eldest brother's handsome heir has been dumped, so of course I'm worried. You don't know, I heard from my family that my sister-in-law is going to bring that pretty boy to Sister Ning Yue's engagement party. Don't you think it's outrageous?"
“....”
"Don't let me see him. I hate people who interfere with and destroy other people's families. They have harmed so many people, and their descendants will suffer as well." Zhou Ruian became more and more excited as he spoke. He couldn't control his emotions when he thought of the suffering he had endured as a child.
"If I see him I'll beat him up."
"Don't you have a bad relationship with your eldest brother?" Li Jinglang believed that Zhou Ruian could do this. Fortunately, he was forced by Tang Ningyue to participate in the team building. Otherwise, if the two of them really fought, he would not know which side to pull first.
"This has nothing to do with whether he and I are friends. My Xinxin said that being a third party makes you a jerk!"
"That's not a good thing!"
"If I see one, I'll beat one. If I see two, I'll beat them both!"
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