If she had a fever and was sick, Lu Zhishu would not stay with her.
It was rare for him to have time to accompany her, but a call from the company could quickly pull him away.
At first, Shen Pan could understand it, but after it happened so many times, he couldn't help but become suspicious.
She also expressed her dissatisfaction by acting like a spoiled child, and half-jokingly asked Lu Zhishu, "Do you have another dog outside?"
Lu Zhishu was amused by her words, "What nonsense are you talking about."
And then nothing happened.
Chen Pan thought he didn't want much, just to be alone and have a piece of sky.
But Lu Zhishu was so stingy that he would not agree even if he swore on his five fingers and lied to her and said, "There is no other dog but you."
Her complete break with Lu Zhishu was because she realized that they were not on the same path.
So she found an ordinary working day, cleaned the house, prepared the most sumptuous meal, and begged him with the most gentle words to give her two hours.
Her long-term well-behaved behavior earned her a bit of favor from Lu Zhishu.
He came back, exhausted.
Shen Pan turned around in front of him in her new dress and asked with a smile, "Honey, does it look good?"
Lu Zhishu nodded cooperatively, "Very good." But he couldn't detect the sadness in her eyes.
"Let's eat." Shen Pan said.
Lu Zhishu took a seat and looked at the time on his wrist. "I can only stay for an hour at most. I have a dinner party later, and it will take an hour to drive there."
The implication was that he couldn't even fulfill the two hours he promised her.
Shen Pan's smile froze completely on her face. She secretly exerted force on her chopsticks, but her face remained calm. "Well, I don't have anything special to say. I just have a few words to say."
"What?" Lu Zhishu asked, "Can't you say it over the phone?"
Chen Pan was completely disheartened. She put down her chopsticks and said, "You want to hear the breakup words over the phone?"
Lu Zhishu obviously didn't expect her to break up, his expression suddenly became serious, "Why break up?"
"We are not suitable," Chen Pan sighed, trying to calm down, and continued: "I can feel that my existence is quite a delay for you. I waste your money to rent a house for me, and I waste your time to accompany me. If I were not there, you should be able to devote yourself more wholeheartedly to your career and succeed sooner. So..."
Shen Pan extended his hand and said, "I wish you success in your business soon. Let's say goodbye now."
"Chen Pan..." Lu Zhishu's shocked and hurt eyes seemed to be caught off guard.
Shen Pan stood up, walked to his side, grabbed his hand, and shook hands with him briefly, "I have finished what I want to say. Don't you have something to do? You can leave now."
"Can't we wait a little longer?" Lu Zhishu asked.
"Waiting for what?" Chen Pan asked back.
"Once I finish this project this year, I'll have a good profit. Then I can move to a new house, or even consider buying one..."
Chen Pan smiled, wantonly and indifferently, and even the corners of his eyes lost their warmth, leaving only harshness.
"And then? You bought a house and asked me to be your house sitter?" Chen Pan never wanted to live that kind of life again. "Lu Zhishu, human greed is endless. You made 100,000 today, and you'll want 1 million tomorrow. You did this project this year, and you'll want a bigger one next year. I'm a human being, not a canary in a cage that you can run back to entertain when you think of me, and ignore me when I'm sick or hungry."
Shen Pan rarely spoke at length, but what he said today left Lu Zhishu unable to refute.
"I want to break up, please give me your attitude," Shen Pan urged impatiently.
"Let me think about it," Lu Zhishu lowered his head and frowned, saying, "You're angry, let's all calm down."
"Well, just calm down slowly," Shen Pan turned and went back to the bedroom.
"Didn't we talk about eating?" Lu Zhishu called her.
Chen Pan turned around and said, "Don't you have a dinner party tonight? Save your stomach for dinner. The client is the most important."
She closed the bedroom door.
Sitting by the bed for a long time.
There was no movement in the living room.
About ten minutes later, Lu Zhishu's voice came from the living room, "Chen Pan, I'm leaving first. Be careful on your own."
A quarrel that started with her provocation and was neither a quarrel nor a quarrel ended in vain.
Chen Pan was also completely disheartened.
When she came out of the bedroom, Lu Zhishu had already left.
She originally planned to throw away all the prepared food, but then she felt sorry for the food and was afraid of wasting it, so she thought she should eat it herself first.
After all, it cost her a lot of money to order these.
When she walked to the dining table, she found that the rice in Lu Zhishu's bowl was gone. It was obvious that he had finished eating before leaving.
Shen Pan felt a mixture of emotions in his heart.
She ate a few bites and packed the rest of the meal into the refrigerator.
Turned back to the bedroom to pack up.
…
When Zhou Mo came back, Chen Pan was still taking a shower in the bathroom.
"I'm back," Zhou Mo said.
Shen Pan's voice came from the bathroom, "Oh Kalina Sai."
Zhou Mo chuckled, which was Japanese for "Welcome back".
She was deveining shrimp in the kitchen, and Shen Pan stood at the kitchen door, wiping her hair. "How about you teach me how to cook?"
"Sure," Zhou Mo asked, "What do you want to learn?"
"Stir-fried shredded potatoes," Chen Pan said, "I heard that stir-fried shredded potatoes is the dish that tests a chef's skills the most."
To make delicious shredded potatoes, you need to be very skilled in cutting the potatoes evenly and controlling the heat.
"Why, you want to change your career to become a chef?"
"No, I just want to learn," Chen Pan said, "or you could teach me how to scramble eggs with tomatoes."
"Okay, let's add scrambled eggs with tomatoes today."
Shen Pan dried his hair, then quickly returned to the kitchen to help Zhou Mo pick out the shrimp threads.
After getting two, she complained, "Eating shrimp is such a hassle."
"What else?" Zhou Mo said, "Good things take time, and delicious food naturally requires complicated craftsmanship."
"It seems I'll have to find a cook in the future. I can't do this kind of thing."
"We just broke up, and you're already thinking about finding the next one?" Zhou Mo asked.
"What else?" This time it was Chen Pan's turn to ask back, "I can't let my youth hang on a tree. I'm twenty-five this year, and I'm five years past the legal marriage age. If I don't get married soon, I'll be too old."
"It's okay, as long as you can think it through." Zhou Mo likes people like Chen Pan who can think clearly about feelings.
Much better than Zhang Lanlan.
"How's work going lately?" Zhou Mo asked.
"That's good," Shen Pan said, suddenly becoming interested when talking about work. "Don't you know Mr. Wen from our company?"
"Well, what happened to her?"
"Her husband is amazing," Chen Pan said with envy. "On President Wen's birthday, her husband treated everyone in our company to milk tea and afternoon tea, even the workers in the factory workshop. He even drove to our company personally to pick up President Wen from get off work and celebrate his birthday. This kind of man is every girl's dream lover."
Zhou Mo just smiled and said nothing.
Seeing that she didn't react much, Chen Pan asked, "Why aren't you envious at all?"
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