No one knew who was talking in the office of "Starlight" magazine, but at least at this moment Chu Li was shocked by his roar and couldn't move... She stood there stupidly, holding her suitcase as if her feet had taken root. The next second, she heard footsteps coming from the office. Her breath was choked, and she didn't even have time to turn around and escape from the scene. The man had already arrived at the door like the wind.
The two met each other unexpectedly.
Chu Li’s first reaction was: This person is so tall, can he be 1.9 meters tall?
Although she was not really tall, this man was a whole head taller than her - he was about twenty-six or twenty-seven years old, with a straight nose, thin lips, and sword-like eyebrows. He looked very handsome, but his brown eyes were as cold as ice due to the anger in the previous second, as if he was keeping people away from him... He was wearing a black sweatshirt, jeans, and Martin boots, and in his hand was a black down jacket that he had not had time to put on.
When he walked out the door, he unexpectedly met Chu Li's eyes and was stunned.
...Maybe he didn't expect there was someone standing in the corridor.
But the daze disappeared quickly. He glanced at the suitcase Chu Li was carrying behind her and her hair and clothes which were a little messy because she had run all the way to the interview. He didn't know how he had positioned Chu Li in his mind. For a moment, he saw sneer in his brown eyes. He curled the corners of his lips sarcastically, glanced at Chu Li, then retracted his gaze and passed by her with an arrogant and beautiful coffin face.
Chu Li: "..."
This person.
One second he was furious like a lion whose territory was invaded, and the next second he suppressed his anger——
He turned into a cold-hearted and arrogant fox.
…
After the fox left, Chu Li also turned around and followed the fox out of the Yuanyue Society office building - but the fox had long legs and walked fast, and when Chu Li stood under the eaves of the first floor of the building and tried to use the mobile phone app to call a taxi to the hotel he had booked before, it was raining heavily outside and the fox had no hair left.
...Is it the author who would argue with the editor about the first print run?
Guessing absentmindedly, Chu Li got on a taxi to the hotel. After getting in the taxi, she couldn't help but glance at the Weibo of the great author Zhuo Chuan, who was highlighted on the blackboard in front of the editorial department. She was shocked.
【Zhuchuan: I encountered a very unhappy thing.
While I am angry, I can’t help but wonder if these things happen because I don’t work hard enough.
Maybe I really need to keep going and keep working hard to deserve the respect I want from others. 】
——The above is the Weibo post that Chu Chuan posted 20 minutes ago.
Below were a bunch of compliments like "You are so gentle", "Oh my god, there are people who don't respect you QAQ What kind of bad person is that", "Reflect on yourself before you meet someone, you are such a gentleman, you have done a great job" and so on.
Chu Li couldn't help but sigh that this is the style of painting that a normal scholar should have, right? Even when angry, he is still so elegant...
Looking at Zhuchuan's Weibo, Chu Li had completely forgotten about the mean fox by the time she arrived at the hotel - she got up at six in the morning to catch the train to this city for an interview, and she didn't even have time to eat breakfast. Now she was sleepy, hungry and a little cold, and she felt like she was going to catch a cold. At this moment, apart from wanting to eat something hot to fill her stomach and go to sleep, she no longer had the energy to think about anything else.
I took the room card key, entered the elevator, walked to the end of the corridor according to the room number, and swiped the card to open the door of the last room.
Order takeout.
bath.
Eat takeout.
Go to sleep and wait for Yuanyue Society to notify the interview results tomorrow.
When Chu Li fell on the bed in the hotel, her brain was about to go on strike. She placed her phone on the pillow to charge and fell into a deep sleep...
She didn't know how long she slept like this, when she suddenly heard a "rustling" sound coming from the pillow, as if something was tickling her pillow. Chu Li opened her eyes in a daze, only to find a person squatting next to the pillow - a man in a black sweatshirt and jeans, but his head was a fox's head where it should be, and the fox's eyes were staring at Chu Li on the bed through the cat's eyes!
Cold sweat dripped down his body, soaking his T-shirt. He froze beside the bed. Chu Li could only hear his heart skip a beat.
The fox's breath was right beside her ear, wheezing and wheezing. Chu Li could even feel the hot breath from its nose hitting her earlobe... The feeling was too real. Chu Li wanted to scream, but no sound came out. She watched with her peripheral vision as the fox raised its slender, pale fingertips that belonged to a human male and gently flicked her earlobe.
Very itchy.
The fox chuckled softly as if he had succeeded in his prank.
Chu Li's heart was already racing: Is this a mixture of sleep paralysis, supernatural, sexual dreams, and beasts? !
In the darkness, the fox's face seemed to be getting closer and closer. It felt so realistic that Chu Li almost thought it was real and her hair was about to explode. She tried to open her eyes wide, but at that moment, she suddenly found that the fox's face had changed. The fox's eyes turned into human eyes with slightly upturned corners, the long mouth turned into a tall nose, and the corners of the thin lips were raised into a playful arc...
Chu Li couldn't see his specific appearance in the darkness, she could only feel him lowering his body, closing the distance between them with excessive intimacy - until his lips were almost touching hers, he stopped mercifully, leaned over and smiled at her, and said to her in a gentle voice: "Listen to my advice, no matter where you want to go, it's better not to go, it won't be a good place after all."
His voice was ambiguous, and his hot breath spread on Chu Li's cheek, making her feel as if the temperature was going to burn her cheek as well... As he spoke, he playfully hooked Chu Li's chin with his cool fingertips.
But after he finished speaking, his smile faded.
At that moment, Chu Li suddenly saw clearly: it was indeed a very handsome face with brown eyes, but the expression between his eyebrows was cold and calm like water.
Looks very familiar.
…
"ah!"
Chu Li suddenly sat up from the bed!
This time I really woke up.
Her heartbeat could not calm down for a long time, and it was beating so fast that it seemed like it would jump out of her chest in the next second. She glanced with lingering fear at the tightly closed and locked hotel room door not far away, and the pillow beneath her that was a little wrinkled from sleeping... It was exactly the same as in the dream.
After staring at the door for a long time to make sure it would not be pushed open and a man with brown eyes would not walk in, Chu Li raised his hand and touched his forehead, covered in cold sweat.
Chu Li: "..."
She actually had such a dream about a fox she had only met once? The straightforward voiceover background music by Mr. Zhao Zhongxiang in "Animal World" naturally rang in my mind: Spring is here, everything is revived, and the animals finally ushered in the mating season of the year when they are eager to mate...
Chu Li: "..."
I'm going to die.
With her shaking hands, she took a sip of the mineral water on the bedside table. The cool water flowed down her throat and cooled her internal organs. She came back to her senses. Chu Li glanced at the time on her phone. It was exactly midnight. The screen showed that she had several unread Q messages...
Chu Li took the phone, opened it and took a look. Only then did she realize that it was Comrade L, who had disappeared for most of the day, who had replied to her at around 8 o'clock this evening, in response to the nonsense message she had left in the morning because she was too nervous during the interview.
[The disappeared Mr. L: I am here. I went out for something in the afternoon. ]
[Disappeared Mr. L: Did you go for an interview? Where? ]
[Disappeared Mr. L: How was the interview result? ]
【Mr. L disappeared: Where is he? 】
…
Three hours later, around 11:20 pm.
[The disappeared Mr. L: I just didn’t reply for a while, and you’re still angry and blocked me? ]
【The missing Mr. L: Was he kidnapped? 】
[The disappeared Mr. L: That’s not right. You can’t sell a fool like you even if you kidnap him. You can only kidnap him but not sell him. I feel bad.]
【The disappeared Mr. L: Hello? 】
…
The disappeared Mr. L was a gay friend that Chu Li met a few years ago due to some coincidences that will be explained in the next episode. Over the years, the two have maintained a pure friendly online relationship without any phone calls, gossip, or gossip.
Chu Li: "..."
[The water army hired by Monkey: You also know that I studied Chinese language and literature, so of course I went to the publishing house for an interview, the publishing house that was my dream when I was young... I just went back to the hotel after the interview and fell asleep, so I didn't have time to check QQ. ]
Unexpectedly, Mr. L was still there and responded immediately -
【The missing Mr. L: Publisher? Which one?】
[The disappeared Mr. L: If I am not sleeping, then is it a ghost talking to me now? ]
When Chu Li saw the word "ghost", his head started to hurt.
I wish I could pull this guy who is talking nonsense out of the phone screen and beat him up——
[The Monkey's hired navy: I had a nightmare and woke up in shock... I happened to be staying in the last room, and I dreamed that the hotel was haunted and a monster with a fox face was touching my face! ]
[The disappeared Mr. L: ...Is this a nightmare? This is a spring dream. 】
[The water army hired by Monkey: Get lost. You asked which publishing house does what, but you don’t know even if I tell you. It’s that Yuanyue Publishing House—did you read “Little Story King” when you were a kid? It was published by Yuanyue Publishing House.]
Chu Li boasted about Yuanyue Publishing House and sent it to L. He was waiting for L to admire him for having the courage to go to such a big publishing house for an interview. Unexpectedly, L, who had responded quickly before, suddenly remained silent for a long time... Just when Chu Li wanted to ask him if he fell asleep, his phone vibrated with a message reminder. The content of L's reply was a bit confusing -
【The missing Mr. L: Yuanyue Society?】
[The Disappearing Mr. L: When I got this name, I felt like I was about to die.]
[Disappeared Mr. L: Have you ever thought that the hotel is actually haunted, and even the ghosts are trying to stop you from going to Sima Publishing House, which is about to close down? ]
Chu Li: "..."
This scoundrel, why is he scolding the publishing house for no reason?
I owe you money.