Min Xi was drinking lemonade and noticed that Cheng Zhuo was looking behind her from time to time.
Cheng Zhuo wasn’t sure whether that person knew Min Xi, because the look in his eyes didn’t seem like he was looking at a stranger.
"Did you meet someone you know?" Min Xi asked.
Cheng Zhuo said: "I don't have many acquaintances in Beijing, he should be your friend."
Min Xi turned around curiously and met Yu Chengtan's gaze unexpectedly.
Yu Chengtan had a wine glass in his hand. He tilted the glass slightly, tapped it on the table, then picked it up and took a sip, silently greeting her.
Min Xi smiled faintly and responded to him with lemonade.
At this time, the woman opposite him also turned and looked at her.
Ju Youyou said that he was going to have a blind date tonight. The woman was beautiful and elegant, and she matched his aura very well.
Yu Chengtan swallowed the red wine and took another sip.
The woman opposite him asked him, "Your friend?"
Yu Chengtan: “Not a friend.”
Someone special.
The woman no longer had any hope for tonight's blind date. Before the meal began, Yu Chengtan confessed that he could not refuse the class teacher's affection and that he already had someone he liked.
She couldn't help but wonder if the beautiful woman he had just toasted was the one he liked.
After sitting for another two or three minutes, Yu Chengtan paid the bill and their table was the first to leave the restaurant.
At Min Xi's table, Cheng Zhuo asked the same question: "Your friend?"
"Well, no personal friend." Min Xi said: "He is my boss Yu Chengtan."
When Cheng Zhuo met Yu Chengtan in person, he had a concrete idea of Yu Chengtan's personal charm.
After drinking the water in the cup, they paid the bill and went downstairs.
Min Xi asked him which hotel he was staying in and sent him back.
Cheng Zhuo doesn't like to trouble others. "I'll take a taxi back. It's very convenient."
There was no way Min Xi would let him take a taxi, so he insisted on giving him a ride.
As soon as the two entered the elevator, Fu Yanzhou and Chu Yi also came out of the restaurant. Before they reached the elevator, the elevator that Min Xi was riding in closed its door and moved downwards.
Chu Yi sighed more than a hundred times in his heart tonight. He expected that Fu Yanzhou would be upset when he heard that Min Xi liked him so early, but he didn't expect that Fu Yanzhou would remain silent for so long.
After he said, 'She has liked you for a long time, but I don't know how long,' Fu Yanzhou stopped talking.
Chu Yi: "No one probably knows when she started to like you. You can only think about it and see if you can find some clues."
Fu Yanzhou finally opened his mouth: "Min Ting doesn't know either?"
"Yeah. Min Xi said it herself. Even her brother didn't know." He was the only one who knew it at the time.
Downstairs in the restaurant, Min Xi and Cheng Zhuo got in the car. She fastened her seat belt and just drove the car out of the parking space. Before she had driven a few meters away, Chu Yi's magical voice behind her penetrated the car window.
"Min Xi!"
Min Xi stepped on the brakes. She couldn't see clearly from the rearview mirror, so she slid down the window and stuck her head out to look back. She didn't see Chu Yi clearly, but she caught a glimpse of Fu Yanzhou walking beside her.
Chu Yi lowered his voice and said to Fu Yanzhou: "You can take Min Xi's car back."
Fu Yanzhou wanted to say that he was kicked out of the car by Min Xi a few hours ago, and it was impossible for him to get a ride again. She had stopped, and he went over to chat with her.
Chu Yi knew what to do and didn't move forward. He put a cigarette in his mouth. He didn't have a lighter, so he held it in his mouth to kill time.
Fu Yanzhou walked to the passenger side and pulled the handle to open the door, but the door was locked and he couldn't pull it.
Looking inside through the black glass, I could vaguely see someone in the passenger seat.
Suddenly, a dark shadow stood next to the car, and Cheng Zhuo was startled. He was looking down at his mobile phone and processing work messages, and did not look at the rearview mirror.
He knew Fu Yanzhou, but Fu Yanzhou didn't know him.
I heard from Lu Zhen that Min Xi and Fu Yanzhou are divorced.
Cheng Zhuo lowered the car window, and Fu Yanzhou was visibly startled when he saw him in the car.
The two nodded slightly to each other.
Fu Yanzhou looked past Cheng Zhuo and towards Min Xi, and said calmly on the surface: "Want to introduce me?"
From the time Chu Yi called Min Xi to the time Fu Yanzhou came over to open the car door, it was only a dozen seconds, and everyone was a little confused.
Min Xi: "My university classmate is Cheng Zhuo. The boss of Lingyu Group is Fu Yanzhou."
The introduction to Fu Yanzhou was very official.
Cheng Zhuo put away his phone and pushed the car door open.
Fu Yanzhou took a step back and made enough space.
Chu Yi, who was a few meters away, screamed in his heart. He never dreamed that there was someone else sitting in the passenger seat of Min Xi, and it was the man she had a blind date with.
If it were him, he would have to find a hole to hide in the ground in embarrassment. Only Fu Yanzhou was mentally strong enough to shake hands with Min Xi's blind date without making a fuss and even say a few words of false politeness.
It turns out that the man is an alumnus of Minxi University, and his personal abilities must be outstanding.
Chu Yi sighed for the one hundred and eighth time tonight. If he had known earlier, he would not have asked Min Xi to stop the car, and it wouldn't have been so embarrassing. He meant well but ended up doing something awful, causing Fu Yanzhou to be stabbed again for no reason.
Min Xi got out of the driver's seat and said to Cheng Zhuo very embarrassedly, "Please go sit in the car first. I want to talk to Mr. Fu for a while."
Asked Fu Yanzhou: "What do you want to talk to me about?"
"It's nothing important." Fu Yanzhou pointed to the back seat of the SUV, "I'll get my suit."
He opened the back door and lifted his suit from the seat.
Cheng Zhuo: “…”
Only then did he feel embarrassed.
Haven’t they already divorced? And what’s the situation with Fu Yanzhou’s suit being in Min Xi’s car?
"Drive slower." Fu Yanzhou closed the car door.
Seeing Fu Yanzhou holding a suit in his hand, Chu Yi was dumbfounded.
Min Xi's SUV drove away slowly, and Fu Yanzhou put on his suit while walking towards Chu Yi's car, leaving Chu Yi disheveled.
Chu Yi drank tonight and asked the driver to pick them up.
"Wait a moment." He strode to catch up with Fu Yanzhou.
The car has no fender, so the driver can hear whatever you say.
Since this concerns Fu Yanzhou's reputation, it is better to talk outside the car.
Chu Yi's brain was not slow, and he guessed what happened: "You went to Jiachen to find Min Xi today, but Min Xi dropped you off halfway, so you came to me for dinner?"
The suit was in Min Xi's car, and Fu Yanzhou could not deny this fact.
Fu Yanzhou glared at him and said, "Why don't you use your IQ to do business?"
Chu Yi: “…”
It seems that he was right.
He wanted to say something to comfort Fu Yanzhou, but found that any consolation was a bit self-deceptive. Min Xi liked him so much before, but now she dropped him halfway and went on a blind date with a university alumni, and even sent the alumni back personally.
No matter who it is, it is difficult to understand this kind of situation with just a few words of comfort.
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After returning to the villa, Fu Yanzhou sat in the living room downstairs for a while. After calming down, he took out his mobile phone and logged into the social platform.
I used some social platforms a lot when I was in college, but in recent years I only use them to browse news and rarely visit my friends’ pages.
Min Xi is among his followers on every social platform.
The reason why he knew that she often checked in at major Ivy League schools was because he saw her updates on social media.
Fu Yanzhou clicked on Min Xi's homepage, and all her updates had been cleared at some point.
This is true on every social platform.
After a pause, he sent a message to Yan Heyu asking him if he remembered that Min Xi used to go to his school often.
Yan Heyu’s university alma mater is next to Fu Yanzhou’s, and Min Xi always checks in at several schools. He replied: [Remember. What's wrong? 】
Fu Yanzhou: [How many times has she been there? 】
[I can’t remember this.] Quite a few times anyway. 】
Yan Heyu added: [She doesn’t always come to see me when she goes there. 】He asked again:【What's wrong? 】
Fu Yanzhou: [Nothing. I suddenly remembered this. 】
Finally, at eleven o'clock, he estimated that Min Xi was almost home, so he called her. When she answered the phone, he couldn't ask anything.
I have no right to ask about blind dates.
She didn't have the heart to ask when she started to like him.
"Sent Cheng Zhuo back?"
"Um."
"Next time you send any friend back, I'll help you do it."
"I have a car, no need to bother."
"Your business is not a problem."
Min Xi had just taken a shower and blow-dried her hair, then took some moisturizer and sat on the bed.
The wooden table lamp at the head of the bed was on, casting a soft light.
She put her phone aside on speakerphone and began applying lotion to her arms.
"If it's alright, I'm hanging up."
Fu Yanzhou commented on the restaurant today: "The food is average, I'll take you to another one next time."
Min Xi said: "I think it's good."
Fu Yanzhou followed her words: "Then I'll go eat with you in two days."
"I don't have time. I have to go on a business trip to the northwest."
"Wait until you get back."
Min Xi applied the lotion carelessly and still refused: "I don't like eating meat. One meal will last a long time."
On the phone, her voice was sometimes far away, sometimes near, sometimes loud, sometimes soft.
Fu Yanzhou said, "It's okay to go have a glass of lemonade."
Min Xi: “…”
Fu Yanzhou said to her, "After applying the moisturizer, go to bed early."
After saying good night again, he ended the call.
Min Xi really wanted to ask how he knew what she was doing.
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On the morning of the 19th, Min Xi set off for the northwest. Sheng Jianqi and the filming team have arrived early and are selecting the best shooting route.
Sheng Jianqi sent the line "find yourself in endless confusion" from Min Xi's proposal to the director, hoping that the director could capture this mood.
It is easy to capture this feeling in the boundless Gobi Desert, but Shengshi’s new energy off-road vehicle has more fashion and lines, is less rugged, and the sense of artistic conception is invisibly compressed.
Sheng Jianqi shared his thoughts: "UAV filming, zooming in from far away."
Director: "But this won't highlight the car itself. The ad is only a few seconds long, and the audience will be easily distracted by the magnificence of the Gobi Desert."
The director has his own ideas and ways of expressing his shots. “Let me shoot each version and see which one works better.”
Sheng Jianqi nodded, "Okay."
While they were discussing, a message came on his phone saying that Min Xi had arrived at the station and asked where they were.
Sheng Jianqi: [You go to the hotel first, we are shooting the scene. 】
They lived in a small town, and the filming location was more than 100 kilometers away from the town, and it took more than an hour to drive back.
Accommodation facilities in the town are limited, and the best hotel is only four stories high.
The roadside is filled with off-road vehicles from all over the country. This season is most suitable for self-driving photography.
Sheng Jianqi booked a room for her. Min Xi checked in directly, had her luggage delivered to the room, and then ate local specialties at the snack bar nearby.
It gets dark late here. When I came out of the snack bar after dinner, the sun was still high in the western sky.
The most abundant fruit in the town was honeydew melon, which was delicious and cheap. She bought a few and shared them with Sheng Jianqi and the director in the evening.
After walking down a street, she was carrying large and small bags in her hands.
As it gradually darkened, she walked towards the hotel.
There was a car honking behind him, and Min Xi thought he was blocking the road, so he moved to the side of the road, but the honking continued.
She turned around and saw that the person in the car was Sheng Jianqi.
Sheng Jianqi saw that she was carrying so many plastic bags, including honeydew melons and various dried fruits, all bought from street stalls.
He got out of the car with a smile, "You're going to the market."
Min Xi also smiled: "You know what, I really love going to the market. I often go there when I'm abroad." On weekend mornings when she didn't go to see Fu Yanzhou, she would drive to the nearby market, buy two bouquets of flowers, and look for some things she had never seen before.
Sheng Jianqi put seven or eight plastic bags in the car and asked the driver to go back to the hotel first. He accompanied Min Xi back.
While walking and talking, Min Xi asked him how the shooting went today.
Sheng Jianqi: "The scenery is good, but I don't know if I can capture the effect I want."
In the evening, everyone went to Sheng Jianqi's room for a meeting, and the discussion lasted until midnight.
The next morning before dawn, they headed to the filming location.
The temperature difference between day and night is large in the northwest, so Min Xi went there wearing a down jacket.
It took one hour and twenty minutes to reach the destination.
Min Xi got off the car and saw desolation everywhere. It felt like he had reached the end of the world.
The cold wind penetrated into her bones, and she zipped up her down jacket to the top.
The part where the spokesperson shoots while driving is scheduled in the afternoon, and the drone takes the distant shots in the morning.
The sky was turning pale, and the director wanted to shoot a version before sunrise.
A professional test driver will drive the off-road vehicle and speed back and forth on the designated road section according to the director's requirements.
The director and Sheng Jianqi were staring at the monitor, while Min Xi stood aside, occasionally glancing at the monitor.
This long shot of looking down at the Gobi Desert from a high altitude was less than ten seconds long and was finally edited into the official commercial, but it took a full half an hour to shoot. This is just the version that shows sunrise.
It is not certain whether this Sunrise version will be used in the end.
During this time, Sheng Jianqi went to the car to get a coat and put it on. When he came back, the director played the shooting video back to show him.
As they were watching, Sheng Jianqi suddenly called for a stop and asked the director to rewind the scene.
The director knew what Sheng Jianqi was making a fuss about, and saw other off-road vehicles intruding into the camera.
He said indifferently: "It's okay, it won't be used in this filming."
Sheng Jianqi: "Let me see what the license plates of those cars are."
The camera flashed by just now, and he noticed that it seemed to start with "京".
The director rewound and played the high-definition footage back in slow motion for him to see.
There were two off-road vehicles in total, one red and one black.
It was definitely a Beijing license plate, as he always felt that the license plate looked familiar.
The two cars appeared in the camera for about ten seconds in total.
Sheng Jianqi asked again: "Are there any more of these two cars in the back?"
Director: “Yes, it took about 30 to 40 seconds.”
Show the other paragraph to Sheng Jianqi.
After reading it, Sheng Jianqi called out to Min Xi: "Come over and see who it is."
Min Xi was discussing creativity with the head of an advertising company, and was confused: "What is who?"
The director replayed the video on the monitor again. In the video, at the 32nd minute and 5 seconds, the two SUVs were still driving. At the 39th second, they stopped on the side of the road. The person in the front car got out. It was Fu Yanzhou. He opened the trunk. At this time, the camera cut away and they were not filmed again.
Min Xi was stunned and asked a question without thinking: "When was this video taken?"
"...Just now." Sheng Jianqi said: "He should be about one kilometer away from us." Fu Yanzhou may have been afraid of disturbing the filming, so he stopped and did not drive forward.
Fu Yanzhou called her last night and said he was working overtime at the company, but it turned out that the overtime was just a smokescreen.
Sheng Jianqi told her again: "It's a Beijing license plate. I drove all the way from Beijing to here."
Min Xi also saw it in the video. He was driving one car, and Uncle Chen and his friends were following closely behind.
"Let me make a call." She walked away with her phone, went to the side of the road and called Fu Yanzhou.
Fu Yanzhou's phone vibrated, and the word "wife" appeared on the screen. He was a little bit unbelievable because she hadn't called him on her own initiative for a long time.
"Hey, Xixi."
"Our drone captured you." Min Xi paused for a few seconds, "Don't you dislike self-driving?"
Fu Yanzhou: "I can't say I don't like it."
For him, who is in the ups and downs of business, self-driving is not attractive enough because it is not challenging. He likes to fly a helicopter through the rainforest and go fishing in the open sea with friends on a yacht. Only when he conquers the rainforest and the sea does he feel insignificant. He and Zhou Yu often did this when they were in their twenties.
He was also interested in cars in the first two years after he got his driver's license. He was less than 20 years old at that time, but he mostly drove sports cars and only occasionally drove an off-road vehicle for travel.
Self-driving tours have been away from him for many years.
Two days ago, he suddenly decided to drive to the northwest to find her.
From the windshield of the SUV, Fu Yanzhou saw a tall figure in a white down jacket on the roadside about a hundred or two hundred meters ahead, talking on the phone with his back to him.
Min Xi looked at the endless desert road in front of her. She had lost her sense of direction in the Gobi Desert and thought she was facing the direction Fu Yanzhou was driving from, but she never saw his car appear in her sight.
The call continues.
Most of the time I am silent.
Fu Yanzhou said to the car phone: "Don't you like driving off-road vehicles? Driving in the city is different from driving in the Gobi Desert. When you are done, I will drive you back."
In the silent and uninhabited Gobi Desert, Min Xi could clearly hear the thumping of his own heartbeat.
She received her first off-road vehicle from her grandparents when she was eighteen, and she has been obsessed with off-roading ever since. Even though her reversing skills were very poor before, she didn't want the driver to follow her and wanted to drive by herself.
She felt as if a car was approaching from behind. She was about to turn around when Fu Yanzhou's deep and gentle voice came from her phone: "Xixi, look back."
Min Xi turned around suddenly and his big red SUV stopped, her favorite car color.
He got out of the car, wearing a gray and black sports suit.
The sun gradually rose, and the morning light dyed this barren land with magnificent colors. Not far away, there were two or three wild camels moving slowly forward.
Time seemed to have stopped.
After a few seconds of daze, Min Xi slowly took the phone off his ear.
Fu Yanzhou didn't close the car door and took a few steps towards her.
As they got closer, Min Xi looked up at him and asked, "How many days have you been driving?"
"Two days."
Their breaths intertwined, but Fu Yanzhou restrained himself from lowering his head to kiss her.
On the way here, he kept thinking about the past, but he was still not sure when she started to like him, whether it was when he was a graduate student, or even earlier.
She often went to his alma mater under the guise of checking in at major Ivy League schools. Originally, she went to see him, but sometimes he was not in school and she couldn't see him.
“How many times have you been to my school before?”
The topic jumped too quickly and Min Xi was slightly startled.
Fly over forty-one times.
She said: "I don't remember. Who would remember these things?"
As she spoke, she pointed to the filming base and said, "I still have to work. Go somewhere else. There is a small scenic spot about 50 kilometers away."
As Min Xi turned around, Fu Yanzhou grabbed her wrist and pulled her back to him. He held her tightly in his arms and said in a hoarse voice, "Let me hold you for a while."
He added: "I'm right here, you can see me when you get off work."
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