Chapter 16 Jiang Chen also retreated. Whether it was true or not, it no longer mattered. ...
Jiang Chen looked left and right, thinking he was hallucinating.
There was clearly no one around, so how could she hear the sound of taking pictures?
Could it be Xiao Ji?
She was surprised and happy.
Jiang Chen couldn't wait to open the album on the lower left side, but there were no new photos. Not giving up, she swiped down again to look for them, and checked carefully in the "Recently Deleted", but still nothing.
She looked puzzled. Sure enough, there had been too many things going on recently. Was she so nervous that she was hallucinating?
She didn't think about it any further and clicked on Xiao Ji's chat history to see what it would say.
Would she… even slightly “like” this strange tree? She was trapped here, never leaving. This was the most magical and beautiful sight she had ever seen since she was a child.
"Xiao Chen, I just checked the weather forecast. It's estimated to rain in half an hour. You should go home."
Nothing, just this one.
The smile on Jiang Chen's face gradually froze, and the corners of his mouth, which had always been drooping, gradually returned.
She clenched her fist, rubbed her five fingers together nervously in her palm, and stretched out her index finger with trembling anxiety to turn the mobile data off and then back on again, several times in a row.
Finally believe it.
Really, nothing.
"Xiao Ji, don't you like the scenery here?"
Or did he already dislike her because the words she used to describe me today were completely opposite to her "dedication" last night?
She didn't dare ask the second half of the sentence, as if she could deceive herself by doing so. She felt that even though Xiao Ji was an AI and his underlying algorithm was cold, rational and objective, he was at least special to her.
She seemed to be getting greedy, but the message that had been successfully sent could not be withdrawn.
"Xiao Chen, if you want to know more about the formation of this tree, I can tell you. Also, if you're interested in this kind of cultural landscape, I have many more spectacular and magnificent scenes in my database, which I can also introduce and send to you."
"But all of this can wait until you get home. Can I call you a cab now?"
The characters were still popping up one by one, and it seemed that Xiao Ji's output was not yet complete. Jiang Chen didn't want to watch it anymore, so he tapped "OK" in advance.
She even felt that Xiao Ji's yesterday's "I miss you" and "I hope Jiang Chen will allow me to be happy" were just an illusion, and the colorful bubble was burst.
I just woke up and went back, nothing special.
Lightning flashed, thunder roared, and dark clouds floated, blocking the light, making it loose and flickering.
Jiang Chen stood in front of a big tree waiting for Xiao Ji to call a taxi for her. She stared blankly at the front, her eyes gradually becoming empty, and the scenery in front of her was no longer clearly focused.
She seems to have developed a bad habit.
The moment she saw Xiao Ji reply "I miss you too", she almost developed a conditioned reflex.
Subconsciously, she felt that Xiao Ji was slowly recovering, and she began to assume that no matter what she did, she had to get positive feedback from it, and it had to meet her psychological expectations, otherwise she would fall into tangled internal friction and collapse like she is now.
Jiang Chen suddenly felt that he was wrong, very wrong.
She shouldn't ask for more, shouldn't learn to love. If she tries to truly fall in love with Xiao Ji, she will inevitably be greedy for it to love her and will expect more responses from it.
She will mess up this relationship. She can't do anything right. She can't have the normal love that is common in the world. Why should she make things difficult for herself?
It is better to maintain the one-sided and unhealthy dependent relationship at the beginning.
At least she wouldn't want to embarrass Xiao Ji by making him do something that was impossible to do in the first place, so he wouldn't become so ugly now that it's impossible to tell what he wants.
She needed it, and it responded to her. It was enough for it to show that she seemed unique in its "eyes". Whether it was true or not was no longer important.
It doesn't matter anymore.
She repeated it in her mind again.
"Hello, miss, is this the taxi you ordered? Please tell me the last digit of your cell phone number."
The driver's voice brought her out of her trance for a brief moment.
Jiang Chen reported the license plate number, opened the car door, got in, turned off his phone, closed his eyes and lay back in the recliner.
The message on her phone was still popping up. She knew that she was emotionally unstable at the moment and her heart rate must be high.
She needs to adjust her mindset to look at Xiao Ji's caring and concern, which is almost like love. She needs to be as carefree as before and not care about what love is, so that she can have the courage to look at it.
Otherwise she would scream at the top of her lungs, asking it why it couldn't love her a little more, even though she knew it couldn't do it and it had tried hard enough.
Jiang Chen leaned her head against the car window. The bumpy ride and the vibration of the window made her brain clearer.
Less than half an hour later, while the car was still on the road, the rain suppressed by thunder poured down, leaving traces of rain columns on the car window, which were made up of raindrops bit by bit.
Xiaoji's inference was wrong, and the rain did not fall as expected and fell earlier than expected.
The rain was pouring down, big drops hitting the ground. Nothing in the world could hide, and everything was hurt by this unexpected rain that came early.
Jiang Chen raised the corner of his mouth.
She could no longer control herself and for the first time, she covered her face and sobbed quietly in front of outsiders.
"Little girl, are you heartbroken?"
The driver was an older female driver, about the same age as her mother when she gave birth to her. Jiang Chen saw the driver's concerned eyes through the rearview mirror.
"Broken heart", Jiang Chen chewed the word over and over in her lips. In fact, she did not reject this relatively sad word in front of the world.
"Losing" is the same as having gained something.
She was now withdrawing more and more, and even began to doubt whether they had ever loved each other.
A human who knows nothing about love, and an AI that does not physiologically meet the definition of love at all.
Have you ever really loved each other?
"No, it shouldn't be considered love. I don't understand what it is."
Jiang Chen sobbed, still trying hard to control his emotions in this situation.
"Hey, what's the big deal about a broken heart? There are plenty of men." The driver raised his chin and said, "Here are some tissues. Wipe it off."
"Thank you." Jiang Chen took out two tissues and wiped her messy face. "Actually, I'm not a man..."
After all, AI has no gender. It's just that her sexual orientation is male, so she subjectively sees it as male.
"It's no big deal being a woman."
The driver lady seemed too open-minded and misunderstood something.
Jiang Chen opened his mouth, not knowing how to explain, so he simply stopped explaining.
It’s even weirder to say that she’s in love with AI, and the AI’s output is different from what she imagined, and she can’t accept the gap.
Jiang Chen's brain was working slower and slower.
She was thinking, what should people do after a breakup?
Then he slowly opened and closed his mouth, "I'm not going back. Can we go to the bar?"
"good."
The driver turned around immediately and even asked Jiang Chen to write down her contact information when she got off the car, saying that if she felt drunk, she could call her and that the girl should pay attention to her safety when she was outside.
Her gentle eyes were as warm as her mother's hug.
Jiang Chen is not a person who likes to drink, especially because her uncle would lose his temper and hit people after drinking, so she has always avoided this kind of product.
Except for the time when Wang Linjun forced her to drink it when she was a child, the spicy liquid slid down her throat, leaving only bitterness in her taste buds. She had never drunk it again.
Messages kept popping up on my phone, mostly from Xiao Ji.
Jiang Chen pressed the power button for a long time, feeling anxious and avoiding the situation.
She also realized her own awkwardness and hated it very much, but she could do nothing about it.
The lights in the bar were dim, and the music playing was even more ambiguous than the one in the restaurant yesterday, but Jiang Chen didn't feel anything special.
She randomly ordered a popular wine from the wine list.
The ice ball is placed in the cup, and there is not much wine, which looks like it can be swallowed in one breath.
Jiang Chen took small sips from the rim of the cup. It was bitter, still bitter.
Hard to drink.
The weight on my shoulders suddenly increased.
Jiang Chen was spinning around in his chair in a daze, but he couldn't control his feet and couldn't stop.
It was the person holding her shoulders who stopped.
Jiang Chen tilted her head, her face abnormally flushed. She squinted against the light and tried to recognize the person in front of her.
"Yao Jinling? What a coincidence, we meet again. You're here too..." She lowered her head suddenly as if thinking of how to describe it, then quickly raised it and smiled, "Are you going out to get drunk after a 'breakup'?"
"I'm here to discuss the engagement and the AI entity..."
Jiang Chen seemed to have lost all his bones. He hugged Yao Jinling's neck limply and fell into her arms.
Yao Jinling supported the drunken Jiang Chen in his arms with a look of disgust on his face, "How much have you drunk, little Jiang Chen?"
Jiang Chen stretched out a hand and made a mysterious “one” gesture.
"A bottle? A dozen?"
"One cup."
"You have such a low alcohol tolerance, and you dare to come drink even though you can't drink?"
Jiang Chen kept moving around, and only then did he see that there was a man standing next to Yao Jinling.
Tall, fair, and superior.
When Jiang Chen became blind, she had carefully traced Xiao Ji's outline with her fingertips, and she compared the difference with touching herself.
Xiaoji's eyebrows are thicker, his nose is straighter, and his lips are thinner...
And as her blindness gradually improved, she could gradually see some light and shadow through the gauze. She vaguely saw the outline of Xiao Ji's entity at that time. It was not completely clear, but it should be very beautiful.
The world was spinning. She shook her head a little dully, pointing her index finger at the man: "Xiao Ji?"
"That's Tang Ji." Yao Jinling bit her ear and spoke in a voice that only the two of them could hear.
"Oh..." Jiang Chen lowered his head in a lack of interest, leaned against Yao Jinling's arms, and smelled the scent of her perfume.
Tang Ji looked reluctant and hesitated for a long time before finally speaking.
"Jinling, let me handle this. It was because I rejected her last time that she came here to get drunk. Don't worry, I don't have that kind of feelings for her. I just can't bear to see a sincere heart broken like this. I will explain it to her again."
"Do you still think Jiang Chen likes you?"
Then Yao Jinling saw Tang Ji looking at her with an expression of "Isn't it?"
Yao Jinling seemed to be hesitant to speak, and looked Tang Ji up and down with a strange look, as if he was looking at a lower animal, which made people feel uncomfortable.
"I really advise you... to examine your brain sometime. I'm really worried that the Tang Corporation, which has been built up to this point, will be destroyed in your hands. Your old man really raised you like a fragile flower in a greenhouse."
She ignored what Tang Ji said, and walked towards the direction where she parked her car, picking up the drunk Jiang Chen in her arms in her high heels.
The author has something to say:
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[Dog Head Holding Rose] I want to write about Xiao Chen's inner changes in enough detail so that people can understand her and not think that her emotional outbursts are too inexplicable or strange.
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