At 10 p.m., Li Tangyan used the excuse of feeling dizzy to escape the noisy environment.
Yao Qing wouldn't be back for a while, so she was left alone in the large house.
It felt empty and desolate, carrying an indescribable loneliness.
Li Tangyan slumped on the sofa. She hadn't actually drunk too much at the bar, but the lingering smell of alcohol made her feel uncomfortable.
The scenes of encountering Wen Zhaonian tonight still echoed in my mind, until my memory stopped at the last image of the man and woman sitting side by side.
A slight frown appeared between his brows, it was hard to tell whether it was from the faint haze of alcohol or the lingering unease in his heart.
Finally, with a barely audible sigh in the air, the woman who was leaning against the sofa got up and walked towards the bathroom.
When she came out again, Li Tangyan seemed to still have a thin layer of moisture on her body.
As an inexplicable fatigue crept in, Li Tangyan yawned and was just about to go back to her room to sleep when her phone rang on the table.
She glanced at the familiar number appearing on the screen, paused for two seconds, then took a deep breath and pressed answer.
Hey, Mom. It's so late and you're still up!
Before she could finish speaking, Wu Chang interrupted her on the other end of the phone, followed by a string of complaints that Li Tangyan was tired of hearing.
As Li Tangyan listened to the increasingly shrill female voice in her ear, she pressed her aching temples and sank into the sofa.
"Mom, is there something you need to talk about tonight?"
Li Tangyan's voice was somewhat muffled, and her less-than-enthusiastic attitude only fueled Wu Chang's anger on the other end of the phone.
But she didn't continue. After calming down, she returned to her usual strong businesswoman persona.
Proud and assertive.
I've found you a blind date. Go meet him tomorrow, and if things go well, we can set you up.
I'm not going.
Hearing this, Li Tangyan frowned even more, but as soon as she finished speaking, she heard the voice on the other end rise again.
【What kind of attitude is this! You're always so aimless, you might as well just marry anyone for that meager salary. Don't even think about saying no; whether you see him or not isn't up to you. If you don't go tomorrow, I'll have that person come to your place to talk.】
You're just like your father; I'm just unlucky to have ended up with your family.
Even fifteen minutes after the call ended, Li Tangyan could still remember the tone of Wu Chang's last words.
She sat up from the sofa, stared at the low table in front of her for a while, and then took a piece of candy from the candy jar on it.
Li Tangyan chewed twice, and the fruity aroma soon filled her entire mouth.
But she only felt a little soreness in her nose: "Yes, even the candy doesn't taste sweet anymore."
"If possible, let's set a date to finalize it."
In the quiet environment, the melodious piano tune slowly drifted from the radio.
Li Tangyan rested her chin on her hand and quietly looked at the man opposite her. She felt a sense of irony, but she didn't find it particularly strange.
This is indeed the kind of person Wu Chang would choose.
Li Tangyan smiled, her eyes darting around as if she were thinking about something.
She then leaned forward slightly, closing the distance between them. While the man was momentarily stunned by her sudden action, he moved his lips...
*
"Aren't you going in? I'll assume you're trying to skip out on the bill."
Zheng Chuan waited in the private room for a long time but Wen Zhaonian's call never ended.
I was just about to go out and check the situation when I turned a corner and saw him standing there like a stone pillar, looking at something.
"What are you looking at? Do you think there's money to be picked up over there?"
Zheng Chuan followed his gaze and happened to see Li Tangyan leaning close to the strange man and saying something to him.
Then the man opened his eyes slightly and grabbed her wrist.
Her lips moved rapidly as if she were excited, but Li Tangyan did not pull her hand away, and a smile remained on her face.
The scene was somewhat ambiguous, making it easy for viewers to have inappropriate thoughts.
"Hey, isn't that Little Chestnut? When did she get back?"
Zheng Chuan smiled and patted Wen Zhaonian's shoulder again, seemingly gloating: "The two of them seem quite familiar. Could he be someone she just met over there?"
Wen Zhaonian withdrew his gaze, as if he felt the air in this corner was a bit thin, and quickly tugged at his collar with three fingers.
He glanced at Zheng Chuanyi, his gaze slightly cool: "Very free?"
"A little." Zheng Chuanyi wasn't unaware of the sudden drop in pressure emanating from Wen Zhaonian.
But for some unknown reason, they were so audacious as to think they were determined to go all the way with this grave-dancing spree: "Go over and say hello?"
"Go ahead, I won't stop you."
"?"
Unexpectedly, Wen Zhaonian suddenly became so easy to talk to. Zheng Chuan, who wanted to tease him, was immediately stunned.
He couldn't help but utter a soft "Hey!"
After Wen Zhaonian finished speaking, he turned around with a blank expression and prepared to go back in the opposite direction.
Before following, he turned back and glanced over again, unsure of Wen Zhaonian's attitude.
However, before he could figure it out, he saw Wen Zhaonian suddenly pause in his steps.
He then turned around, a hint of gloom appearing on his usually cool face, and the coldness in his eyes startled him so much that he couldn't help but tremble.
He spoke slowly, his gaze shifting from himself to a spot behind him.
The voice was low, like an invisible knife held to the neck, creating a strong sense of oppression.
"While the wheelchair hasn't been finalized yet, we should walk around more."
*
After resolving her blind date, Li Tangyan seemed much more relaxed.
She reached out and stretched it outwards.
The warm sun fell on me, dispelling the chill of the cool breeze that had blown past me.
She glanced at her phone and realized that it was almost time to meet Xiao Yi, so she walked to the roadside and hailed a car to head towards the newspaper office.
As the car drove away, it kicked up some fine dust, which fell back down after a short while.
As the spring breeze blew by, the closed shop door was pushed open again from the inside with a muffled thud.
The corner of the trench coat was blown up, and the light and shadow cast through the gaps in the leaves of the large leaves next to it stretched the shadow on the ground longer and longer.
Wen Zhaonian stared in the direction the car had just driven off, his dark eyes as deep and cold as a still pool.
Li Tangyan actually returned early this time, with half a month still before her reporting date, so she was quite curious when Xiao Yi asked her to go back to the newspaper office.
Upon arriving at the newspaper office, Li Tangyan looked around the place she hadn't been back to for some time and noticed that in addition to familiar faces, there were also many unfamiliar faces in her line of sight.
It seems they've hired new people.
As she thought about it, she walked familiarly toward the innermost part of the path.
After knocking on Xiao Yi's office door, a familiar female voice soon came from inside...
—The door's unlocked, come in.
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