Praise You
Ye Yuanyin made a phone call, but the other party took a while to pick up the phone, and the scene sounded very quiet.
Chen Dian didn't say anything. She felt the atmosphere was strangely quiet and didn't know how to start.
After waiting patiently for a while, seeing that she was still silent, Chen Yan had no choice but to ask, but his tone sounded particularly cold, "What's the matter?"
"No—" Ye Yuanyin was stunned for a moment. Because he couldn't see the other person's expression, he didn't know how to express his feelings. "I... wanted to ask, were you here last night?"
"No."
She reached out and stroked the wrinkled bed sheet, then bent down and smelled it. "Really? Don't lie to me."
"What will happen if I go? Do you care?"
"Of course I care." She said coldly, as if she was angry at his unusually distant attitude: "I miss you so much."
Chen Yan was so angry that he laughed. He said with a straight face, "I didn't hear that at all. Why do I feel like it's more appropriate to say he hates me?"
"If you don't believe me, forget it!" She was unhappy and wanted to put a big hat on him, "You won't believe anything I say anyway."
"That's not the case."
Ye Yuanyin thought about his recent behavior and felt a little aggrieved. She hadn't done anything wrong, so why was she being left out for no reason, or being teased indifferently, which made her feel terrible.
"Shan Xi'an," she called him by his full name, "Why are you so annoying!"
The voice coming from the phone wasn't as subtle as one might imagine. In the conference room, a dozen or so executives exchanged glances, their eyes straining with suppressed laughter, their faces veiled in awe.
He was young and in a high position, so he was usually stern and decisive, which made others feel distant from him. But his girlfriend's fuss made him seem even more down-to-earth.
Several older executives were very pleased and advised sympathetically, "Mr. Shen is busy now, it won't be too late to hold the meeting later."
Ye Yuanyin then realized something was wrong and was so embarrassed that he even stuttered, "Are you, are you working?"
"right."
"Then why are you answering the phone?!"
He smiled and said, "Wouldn't it be more annoying if I didn't answer?"
There was a busy tone on the phone. She was too embarrassed to listen to it and frantically pressed the red hang-up button.
Yaya pushed open the door and saw the ball wrapped in a quilt rolling around on the bed. She asked curiously, "Sister, what are you doing?"
"Don't talk to me..." Her muffled voice concealed unspeakable annoyance. "Ah! I'm so embarrassed!"
Later, Zhang Chang called again, but Ye Yuanyin didn't even have the courage to connect.
The phone rang for a long time, persistently.
She couldn't pretend to ignore it anymore and could only grope for her phone with her eyes closed.
“What?!”
Maha was startled. He was being bullied for no reason and couldn't help but tickle her loudly, "Oh, Mrs. Shen, you are so arrogant!"
Ye Yuanyin suddenly opened his eyes and looked at the caller's name on the phone screen. He visibly relaxed. "... Stop teasing me. What's going on?"
"I have good news for you," Maha's cheerful voice nearly burst the microphone. "The group's board meeting just this morning, the project has been saved!"
"Really?!" Ye Yuanyin still felt unsure, "Isn't Xiao Ruan's case being pursued further?"
"Well, what are you pursuing? It's just a matter of your husband's words!" Maha became more and more complacent. "I never thought that the trump card would be in my hands! Hahaha!"
Zhou Ye came over to watch the fun and put his hands together, treating her like a bodhisattva who would grant any wish. "Cousin, I want to buy a Harley-Davidson, please!!"
"Get out of the way! A broken motorcycle costs one million, are you trying to rob me?" Maha grabbed his neck and threw him away, then continued to lobby Ye Yuanyin on the phone, "Xiao Ye, let me tell you, our project will be tested in a week. Please, for the sake of my mother's old age and poverty, be sure to fulfill your request and serve your husband well."
*
You Jing came in the evening.
The night gave his feminine and handsome features the best coat.
Ye Yuanyin looked at him with eyes full of vigilance. In their six years of entanglement, those strong but fruitless emotions of family, friendship, love... had exhausted her to the extreme.
"Jiang Xue came to see you?"
"yes."
"Ayin, don't you have anything to say?"
Ye Yuanyin wondered, what could she possibly say? Had she only known him for a year or two? Things like this happen all the time; it's just a matter of replacing one woman with another.
"I think Miss Jiang is a nice person and a good match for you."
You Jing smiled tiredly and said sadly, "So you don't love me at all. Why? You never loved me?"
For many years, they have been arguing, arguing, and insisting endlessly about the same issue, as if they were playing a script-killing game in which the murderer would never be found.
Ye Yuanyin's heart was already calm. "Ms. Jiang said that you have already met each other's parents and are dating with the intention of getting married. I think this is a good thing."
"So?" You Jing deliberately made things difficult for her. "Do you think we'll completely cut off contact from now on? Do you think I can completely let you go after I get married? I'm telling you, it's impossible."
Ye Yuanyin is much calmer than him. He never rejects the girls around him. Perhaps it is because he has been with the one the longest, so he would feel it is a pity to lose him.
She said seriously, "Please don't come to see me again in the future."
"You're planning to marry Chen Di'an, right? Are you worried that if you continue to get involved with me, your husband will misunderstand you?" You Jing smiled cruelly. "There will definitely be a misunderstanding. Given our relationship, we'll inevitably meet in the future. You can't escape it. I just don't understand, what exactly am I inferior to him?"
Ye Yuanyin did avoid him a lot, because she always felt that even if they couldn't be lovers, they still had friendship after knowing each other for many years.
But if one day we really have to discuss this issue face to face seriously, it won’t be long before we fall out.
"It has nothing to do with him! It has nothing to do with Professor Sun either. This is between the two of us. What if it's just this once? Do you want me as a person? Or do you just want me like a toy, fighting for it when you can't get it, and throwing it away when you get it?"
You Jing's eyes turned red, and he blurted out reckless words: "That's right, aren't you just a plaything? I just can't stand seeing you with other men. I'm not happy, okay?"
"I think you're unhappy too." Ye Yuanyin looked at him, his voice soft, but his expression was filled with resoluteness. "You're an out-and-out hedonist. You can't control yourself, yet you use your immense affection to gild your philandering ways!"
You Jing was briefly shocked by the meaning of her words, but it only lasted for a second. He asked in disbelief, "Ayin, are you possessed?"
"Don't touch me!" She dodged his hand that was about to touch her.
"Ayin, even though you lost your temper and scolded me, I actually felt so happy!" You Jing looked crazy, making a bunch of crooked arguments, "Think about it, if you don't love me, why are you so picky? I'm your first love, right? Didn't you like me from the beginning?"
Ye Yuanyin just wanted to sneer.
He tried to be honest with her, his voice still full of confusion. "Some men are like this. They just stand there and do nothing, and women will naturally come to them. It's not something I can change."
"Just because someone likes you, do you have to accept them? If people don't know how to control themselves, what's the difference between them and animals?"
"If you care, you should have told me earlier. Why haven't you said anything yet?"
"I don't care."
There are some things that can't be said without the right person, the wrong time, or the right atmosphere. At first, she did have a brief moment of affection, but once she realized he wasn't reliable, it quickly ended. Then came a long period of rejection and exhaustion, like a seesaw battle.
Life unfolded before her in a vast manner. For her, just living had exhausted all her strength, and love was the most insignificant thing at that time.
"I don't care." Ye Yuanyin said again firmly, "I don't care who you like, and I don't care which woman you get entangled with. Let's make it clear today, and don't come to me again in the future."
"Do you really have to treat me like this? Can you really not see me in the future? Then what will our relationship of all these years mean?"
"Yes, I can only do this to you." Ye Yuanyin's expression looked like the moon sinking in ice water. "I don't know what kind of feelings you are talking about. If you mean love, then your love is really the worst experience for me."
You Jing watched her leave with his own eyes. When she reached the upper floors, he suddenly realized something and started to chase her again.
A strong hand suddenly reached out and pinched his face, and the next second, the defenseless You Jing was pressed heavily against the hood of the car.
With his cheek pressed against the scorching engine cover, You Jing glanced upwards and saw Chen Yan. His face, backlit and shrouded in darkness, stared at him expressionlessly.
You Jing was furious, "Fuck, you dare to hit me?"
Chen Yanan smiled contemptuously, exerted a little more strength in his hands, and said in a calm voice: "I dare to do many things."
You Jing struggled, turned around and broke free from his control. He raised his hand to wipe the dust off his face and spat. "What do you mean? You want to send me away? I'll see if you have the ability to do that."
"I know you're an artist and don't care about worldly opinions." Shen Yan said regretfully, "Unfortunately, I don't care even more. If you don't believe me, just try it."
"Don't be so fucking mean to me, Chen Di'an." You Jing raised his head, glanced at him sideways, and was smug. "Do you think you're still a good person? Without Zhang Siling, there's Ji Quan. Without Ji Quan, there are countless A, B, C, and D. Don't act like you have to have her. No matter what we've become, I'm still her first love. No matter how much pain I've caused her, she'll never forget me in her life."
Chen Yan sneered, "Yeah, how come I didn't know that being dumped could be so glorious? You have to be such a jerk to mess up a good hand."
You Jing reached out and grabbed his collar. Secretary Ma wanted to come over to stop him, but Chen Yan stopped him: "Xiao Ma, you don't have to do anything." He just stared at You Jing and smiled slowly, "Do you think Xiao Ye is still the same Xiao Ye as before?"
"What do you mean?"
"I'm different from you. Once I've made up my mind about someone, I'll never show mercy. Even though you've made her, who was already timid, even more distrustful of love, and have invisibly caused me a lot of trouble, I still want to thank you. If you weren't so weak, I wouldn't have been able to win her over so quickly. After all, you're the first love I can't forget, right?"
You Jing's changeable expression concealed an unwilling struggle.
Sediment held onto his iron grip around his neck, as if victory or defeat was already decided.
"Nice clothes, shoes, jewelry, even love or loyalty... I can give them all. But Xiaoye is very down-to-earth. Even if I give them to her, she may not care, so I don't want to be so stingy."
"Do you know what else I can give her? I can give her many, many choices. She can choose to be Mrs. Shen, or she can choose to be herself. She can choose to stay in Ancheng, or she can choose to go to every corner of the world. Here, there are not so many restrictions, she can come and go freely."
"Can you give me what I can give you?"
You Jing's hand withdrew from him weakly.
Secretary Ma looked at the dejected man walking away and thought that his boss was really murderous.
*
In the past few days, the temperature in Ancheng has reached 40 degrees.
At night, Ye Yuanyin was awakened by the heat again and suddenly found a man lying next to him.
A few rays of moonlight filtered through the undrawn curtains, shining on his forehead, and beads of sweat shone with crystal silver light.
She propped herself up on her arms and leaned across him to find the air conditioner remote.
Amidst the rustling sounds, Sediment An was finally awakened.
As the air conditioner started up with a "beep", she was pressed under him.
The two looked at each other, and the cool breeze was like a cyclone lying high in the sky, exhaling wisps of white air, illuminating the person with red eyebrows and eyes below.
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