Chapter 59 Chapter 59
Although Ren Li was the one who treated everyone to dinner, the dinner location was chosen by Wen Shuo. The restaurant was booked in advance and was upstairs, not far away.
Ren Li sat down, her eyes never leaving her phone.
The messages in the work group kept ringing, and she replied while eating, her whole meal absent-minded.
Wen Shuo turned his phone to flight mode, sat opposite her, and looked at her while eating.
When the dessert was served, Wen Shuo finally put down his chopsticks and asked, "Are you always this busy?"
Ren Li hurriedly took a bite of the strawberry cake and continued typing on her phone: "Not entirely, mainly because today is a workday."
Wen Shuo: ...
"Then can you not look at your phone once less while eating for my sake?"
Ren Li shook her head. "I'm different from you. You're the boss, and I'm the intern. There's a huge disparity in our status, and our relationship isn't equal. Whatever you want to do, your secretary will do it for you, and I'm the one who's ultimately responsible for it."
Wen Shuo looked at her and thought, after all this time, she really hasn't changed at all.
I like strawberry-flavored desserts, but I don’t like seafood. Oh, and my ability to irritate people is still as strong as ever.
But he still didn't want their only time alone to be occupied by work.
He took out his phone: "Okay, then I'll call your CEO Ling and ask her to give you a night off."
Hearing him say this, Ren Li's typing hand suddenly stopped, and she looked at him with some vigilance.
She still remembered that one night on the playground of No. 4 Middle School, Wen Shuo posted something on the campus forum without her noticing.
"No." Ren Li said, "I finally got the offer from my current company, and I'm still in the internship period. What are you doing? Don't call Mr. Ling. Wen Shuo—"
When she saw Wen Shuo holding up his cell phone, she stood up in a hurry and tried to stop him across the table, but accidentally touched Wen Shuo's raised wrist.
After realizing what she had done, she paused noticeably, then quickly withdrew her hand, touched the tip of her nose guiltily, and sat back in her seat.
But it was too late.
The false illusion of a friendly atmosphere between the two that they had been trying to create was exposed, and Wen Shuo didn't plan to keep pretending anymore.
He looked at Ren Li and said, "Don't you have anything to say to me today?"
Ren Li lowered her head, pretending to read a new work message on her phone, but in fact she didn't read a single word: "Really? I was talking to you the whole time."
"Let's be honest between you and me," Wen Shuo said. "Ren Li, I think you owe me an apology."
Ren Li finally raised her head.
She just felt that Wen Shuo's words were incredible.
She never felt she had done anything wrong. If anyone had to apologize today, it should be Wen Shuo.
"Why should I apologize to you?" Even though she was angry, Ren Li's tone was still gentle. "I don't feel like I need to apologize to you. It was you who blocked me, disappeared, and now it's you who suddenly appeared in front of me. It was you who stopped considering me a 'friend' in the first place."
The corners of her eyes turned red when she said the last few words. Wen Shuo didn't want to argue with her. The quarrel that year had already made him lose everything. What was the point of discussing these things now?
His tone softened: "Okay, I admit that I deleted you first. But Ren Li, are you really as innocent as you say?"
"What do you mean……"
"What I mean is, I really should thank you," Wen Shuo said. "If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have chosen to drop out of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, wouldn't have gone to the United States, and wouldn't have everything I have now at StarWind."
He suddenly laughed at himself, "But even though I have everything now, when I see you again, I still feel like I have nothing."
"Ren Li, you were the one who chose not to let me go first."
These words were so shocking that Ren Li stared at Wen Shuo, as if she had suddenly lost all ability to speak.
Wen Shuo dropped out of university? When did that happen?
As far as she knew, she had never thought that someone would choose to drop out of school.
"How could that be...didn't you go to the United States from the beginning?" Ren Li asked.
The amount of information was too much at once, and she was eager to know the answers to the questions, trying to figure out the reasons from the conversation just now.
But she obviously missed some important information.
At least from Wen Shuo's perspective, he was the one who betrayed him.
"So, you didn't end up with Lin Jiacheng? If you were together now, I might think that my choice back then was the right one." Wen Shuo seemed to have finally come out of his memories, and said calmly, "But obviously, you didn't."
He seemed to be speaking the last words to himself.
"But how did you know that I originally wanted to go to Shanghai to go to university?" Ren Li finally grasped a key point of information.
Wen Shuo wiped his hands and stood up from the table. "After all these years, you really haven't changed at all. You're always like this, trying to solve all problems lightly by saying you don't remember anything. This time, I won't believe you anymore."
"Goodbye, Ren Li." He picked up his coat. "I've already paid the bill. I'm leaving now. I don't plan to work overtime with you anymore."
"Wait." Ren Li stopped him.
Wen Shuo stood there, waiting for her next words.
She pulled out a small black box from the canvas bag she carried and placed it on the table. "You gave me this a while ago. I've kept it for you for so long, I think it's time to return it to its rightful owner."
"What's this?"
Ren Li opened the box.
The diamond sparkled under the light. Wen Shuo saw the diamond lying quietly on the black velvet fabric. It was clearly the true love he had once given to her.
He suddenly felt relieved, "Ren Li, you know, I've given it to you, and I can't get it back."
Ren Li thought he was talking about the necklace, "Well, if you don't want to take it back, then I'll donate it."
"Okay, whatever you want."
His patience was exhausted and he was about to leave.
At that moment, Ren Li instinctively felt that she had to do something, anything at all, otherwise it would be too late.
"One more thing..."
Her voice sounded behind him, and Wen Shuo finally stopped again and turned around.
"Then today's materials..."
Wen Shuo was so angry that he laughed: "Yes, the materials are very good. Until just now, I even had some unrealistic fantasies about you. Now I finally admit that you win. I will ask Lao Song to send you the materials. Let's not waste each other's time in the future, okay?"
"No." Ren Li shook her head, lowered her eyes, and said softly, "But I just want you to send it to me."
"What's the difference?"
"Because only in this way can I have a legitimate reason to add you back." Ren Li said.
Such a simple sentence was enough to make Wen Shuo's heart start to waver wildly.
What he said just now was actually just angry words. If he didn't have an important meeting tomorrow, he wouldn't have flown back in such a hurry.
He had already decided that he would return once things at the American company were over. But Ren Li got nervous when she heard he was leaving, and even used the lame excuse of "requiring materials" to get him back.
He suddenly wasn't so angry anymore and nodded: "Okay."
"Hmm?" Ren Li suddenly became happy after hearing a positive answer. She quickly took out her phone, as if she was afraid that Wen Shuo would regret it the next second. "My account hasn't changed. It's still the same one."
Wen Shuo didn’t have any domestic chat software downloaded on his current phone, but he still opened the App Store on his phone and downloaded a new one on the spot.
It took him a while to log in again, and then he took some effort to find the chat blacklist and remove Ren Li from it.
The moment her name was erased from the blacklist, the familiar avatar appeared at the top of the conversation list.
"Are you okay?" Ren Li asked from the side.
The conversation record was restored, but at that moment, Wen Shuo did not have the courage to open it.
Hidden there is the boy's sincerity and unbridled love.
It is the breeze brought by the girl's skirt on the school bus, it is the beating heart that cannot be cooled by the heavy snow in winter, and it is also a brilliant and lonely dream.
He suppressed his inner turmoil and silently put away his phone: "As for the materials, I'll send them to you when I get back."
Hearing him say this, Ren Li suddenly felt happy: "Okay, then you must remember it."
The girl's eyes are curved, as if containing countless stars.
Many years ago, she had smiled at herself like this.
He finally changed his mind: "Have you finished eating? If you have, let's go together."
Ren Li blinked: "I've finished eating, but why."
"Why so many whys?" Wen Shuo said, throwing his coat over his shoulders, as if returning to the unruly self he used to be when he refused to wear school uniforms many years ago. "I'll go to the extra class with you."
Because this time, he didn't want anyone to break their promise again.
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