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The day after Li Jinglang followed the company's bus into the mountains, Tang Ningyue's engagement party was hyped up all over the media. Even the short videos he watched were about the various charity projects and activities that Tang Ningyue had organized in advance for the engagement party.
Li Jinglang lost the mood to continue reading after seeing the first message. He turned off his phone, stuffed it into his bag, closed his eyes and pretended to sleep. He was quiet for less than two seconds before the noise came again.
"Tang Ningyue, the current CEO of Fanxing Entertainment, is getting engaged soon. She and her fiancé, Mr. Zhou Yuhe, will officially establish the Hope Fund to provide support for children with cleft lip and palate..."
The voice of a marketing number suddenly rang out in the quiet carriage. Li Jinglang frowned and tilted his head slightly to glance at the source of the sound.
"Sorry, sorry." The guy in the baseball cap raised his hand apologetically. "The Bluetooth is disconnected."
“....”
The noise finally stopped, but Li Jinglang couldn't calm down. He leaned back in his chair and adjusted his posture several times, staring at the mountains and cliffs outside the window. He didn't feel refreshed at all, only bored.
It was already night when we arrived at the camp. The team leader said there would be a meteor shower that happens only once in a century. Everyone rented telescopes and went to wait on the distant hillside. Only Li Jinglang was still lying on the bed in the camp, staring blankly at the swaying lantern above his head.
Going into the mountains in the summer wasn't a good idea. There were so many mosquitoes, and Tang Ningyue was especially prone to mosquito bites, so her family rarely went to the mountains during the summer.
Why do I think of her again?
Li Jinglang turned over in frustration, and his cell phone slipped out of his pocket and fell to the ground.
It was a coincidence that the phone had just rolled to the ground when the team leader's phone called. The noise was buzzing non-stop. Li Jinglang frowned and listened for a long time, and finally picked up the phone and answered it.
"Hello?"
"Come to the mountain quickly, the meteor shower is coming soon."
“.....”
People are sometimes very strange. Maybe things will come to them when they have hope, but some people just like to crush all hopes and deny them completely.
"There's no such thing as a meteor shower. Just use it to trick children."
Li Jinglang turned over and refused.
The team leader couldn't persuade him and said he would send him the video after seeing the meteor shower. Li Jinglang felt that there was no hope from the bottom of his heart.
He lay on his side on the camp bed, closed his eyes and waited for a while. Then the disinfection personnel of the park came to clear the area, saying that it was the fixed disinfection time every night and a mandatory project for epidemic prevention.
Lying down was no use, so Li Jinglang was finally driven to the mountain to wait for the meteor shower.
The mountain was extremely bustling. Halfway through the walk, one could see a sea of heads. Li Jinglang sighed, but still gritted his teeth and continued to move forward.
There are quite a few steps leading up the mountain, but each step is decorated with a different shape. The scenic area also held a meteor shower market on the top of the mountain for the meteor shower. They were desperately trying to take money out of tourists' pockets everywhere. Li Jinglang found it troublesome to even take a look at it.
With the same old tourist spots and crowded corridors, Li Jinglang sometimes really doesn't know what the meaning of travel is, and he doesn't know why everyone loves to take photos in these man-made parks, pursuing some exaggerated and illusory things.
But thinking about it carefully, it seems that he hadn't been so opposed to traveling as a child. In fact, he loved traveling. It was only now that he realized that everything was overriding his subjective consciousness. When Tang Ningyue was with him, even if she bought him a piece of ordinary bread as a birthday cake, he would remember it for a long time and feel very happy. But now that Zhou Su asked him to leave Nancy and return to the company at home, he was reluctant and felt painful.
Li Jinglang sat on a small stool at the edge of the place. There was a huge crowd of people around, and he couldn't even wait for the meteor shower. However, he didn't know where he got the kindness from, so he donated two months' salary to Tang Ningyue's foundation.
The interface immediately popped up a recording of a child with cleft lip and palate being rescued. Li Jinglang stared at it silently for a while, then finally clicked the button.
Tang Ningyue was very careful in this matter, providing full support from rescue to subsequent treatment, and even invited many well-known media to film and promote it.
In fact, there have been rumors about this project for a long time, but everyone says that charity from rich people is just a gimmick. However, a gentleman judges by deeds, not by the heart, and as long as the children are helped, that is enough.
Li Jinglang scrolled from the homepage to the end, and finally saw Zhou Yuhe's face in the last video. He immediately felt disgusted as if he had eaten shit.
Zhou Yuhe gently held Tang Ningyue's arm, and the two of them seemed to be a model couple who treated each other with respect and equality. In the video, Tang Ningyue did not wear her sparkling pink diamond, but wore a pair of plain rings with Zhou Yuhe. When the two shook hands, the rings would collide and rub against each other, as if they were caressing each other.
“.....”
Li Jinglang watched the video expressionlessly. He didn't hear what was said from beginning to end. He just watched the two people singing and matching each other perfectly.
“....”
If only people didn't grow up, he would rather stay in that sad childhood. At least there was still happiness at that time. But now, getting closer to happiness means getting closer to pain. His whole body is filled with pain like needles, and the dense tingling pain only occurs in the middle of the night.
Li Jinglang exited the video, found the only number in the address book and dialed it.
The phone beeped several times, but no one answered.
He dialed again, but still no one answered. Li Jinglang began to get anxious and his heartbeat started to accelerate.
[Why don't you answer the phone? Is it inconvenient?]
He couldn't help it and sent a message.
Two seconds later, the phone suddenly received a message.
[I'm getting engaged tomorrow. After the team-building is over, you can return to Beining. Aunt Zhou has arranged for someone to pick you up at the foot of the mountain. I wish you good luck with your graduate studies!]
What are you talking about?
[Can you answer the phone?]
What happened?
After sending several messages in a row, there was no response from the other party.
Staring at the text message, Li Jinglang felt cold all over. After going through so much trouble, she actually just lied to him.
After all this time, he was still cheated out of everything because of the little benefit she gave him.
Li Jinglang didn't believe it, and didn't dare to believe it. He even suspected that the text message was sent by Zhou Yuhe. He tried desperately to redial the number, but no one answered.
He had clearly compromised and moved out, he had clearly agreed to see her once a week, he had clearly given up his position to Zhou Yuhe, he clearly didn't want anything anymore.
Still couldn't keep her, not even a little bit of mercy.
Li Jinglang then called Ouyang Che and asked him for the address of Tang Ningyue's engagement party. He still had time to go down the mountain and make it.
"Li Jinglang, don't waste your energy. Her engagement party wasn't held in Nancy at all."
"Why did you help her lie to me?" Li Jinglang was a little out of breath and felt dizzy.
"I didn't lie to you." The person on the other end of the phone sounded a little anxious. "Tao Yun introduced me to Zhou Yuhe's company, and I've been assigned to Singapore now."
"Where's Tao Yun?"
"She and her husband just had a fake divorce to merge the family business." Ouyang Che smiled bitterly, "I signed the company's contract, and now there's no way to go back. You know, I can't afford the penalty."
“.....”
For a moment, Li Jinglang felt dizzy, and even the sounds of people around him screaming that a meteor shower was coming were blocked out of his ears.
"Jinglang, we have all been deceived."
"Don't struggle anymore. Go back. Go back to Beining."
"Where on earth did Tang Ningyue go?"
"I don't know, and I'm not qualified to know. I'm sorry, Jinglang."
After the last sentence was finished, only a series of beeps were left on the phone, and then there was no sound.
There really was a meteor shower that night, and the entire mountaintop was filled with laughter and joy. The girls standing at the front took turns checking in and taking photos, and the front row was full of people bowing their heads and making wishes.
Everyone was very excited to see the once-in-a-century meteor shower, and almost everyone made a wish.
I don’t know who at the edge opened his eyes first and screamed loudly.
"Someone jumped!"
"Someone jumped!"
"Call 120!"
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