Chapter 24 Can He Do It?
When Xu Mo realized that the person on the other end of the phone was not the courier but someone else, it took her a while to realize it was Zhao Tingyu.
She and Zhao Tingyu hadn't spoken on the phone for more than a month. To be honest, she was a little unfamiliar with his voice on the phone.
Although she blocked Zhao Tingyu's number in order to break up completely, she didn't really want to have no contact with him forever.
After all, the two have known each other for ten years. Not only are they neighbors, but their parents also know each other. Moreover, Zhao Tingyu once lived with her under the same roof.
The breakup was peaceful and we were still able to talk to each other.
As adults, we should part ways amicably. She wasn't that pretentious.
"Why did you change your phone?" Xu Mo left the meeting room and went to the fire escape to answer the call. "I didn't recognize it was you."
"Can I get through to you without changing your number?" Zhao Tingyu said in a low voice.
Xu Mo: "That's right."
She was silent for two seconds and asked, "What's wrong?"
There was silence on the other end of the phone for a moment.
"No. I just wanted to ask you how you're going to go home for the New Year this year."
Xu Mo: "Take the high-speed rail."
"Don't you want to take my car?"
Xu Mo: "No need, I'll go back with my husband."
When Zhao Tingyu heard the word "husband", his face darkened. He felt as if his heart was being grabbed by a slender yet strong hand, and his chest suddenly felt tight.
Why did she emphasize the word "husband"?
Are she and Lin Jingchuan so loving and sweet, and so inseparable?
It's only been a short time! She clearly knew that he didn't agree with this marriage, but she deliberately reminded him that she was already married. Was she deliberately trying to make things difficult for him?
But this was not Xu Mo's original intention. She just didn't want to trouble Zhao Tingyu anymore, nor did she want to get too close to him. After all, she was married now, and keeping a certain distance from her ex-boyfriend was a basic respect for her current boyfriend. In order to find an irrefutable reason to reject Zhao Tingyu, she said that she was going back with her husband, which was the simplest, most direct and effective way.
Zhao Tingyu's face was gloomy. He felt uncomfortable when he thought of the scene where Xu Mo and Lin Jingchuan both returned home. He couldn't help but said sarcastically, "Why doesn't your husband drive? Can't he drive long distances? Is he capable of doing it?"
How can you talk like that? You suddenly start making personal attacks.
Xu Mo frowned: "Why are you so impulsive?"
Zhao Tingyu snorted coldly, "Why, you feel bad when I say a few words to him?"
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Xu Mo knew she was emotionally upset and didn't want to argue with him, so she frowned and said nothing. However, this was seen as tacit agreement in Zhao Tingyu's eyes. The fire in his heart grew more and more intense, and he blurted out: "Xu Mo, are you crazy about him now? It hasn't been long since you fell in love with another man so madly?"
Xu Mo could hear the sarcasm in his words. He just wanted to mock her for being so devoted to him, Zhao Tingyu, when they were young, and now she quickly fell for Lin Jingchuan. To put it bluntly, he was just saying that she was cheap and worthless.
Xu Mo's expression turned cold: "Zhao Tingyu, if you are sick, go get treatment, don't act crazy in front of me."
When had Xu Mo ever treated him like this? She had always been a gentle and lovely sister. Zhao Tingyu had never experienced her losing her temper like this before. Before he could react, the phone was busy.
Xu Mo hung up the phone, walked back to the meeting room with a cold face, and slammed the phone on the table.
Wu Siyue noticed that she seemed to be in a bad mood and asked, "What's wrong? Why are you so angry?"
Xu Mo shook her head. Zou Kexin glanced at her, put the makeup mirror into her bag, and asked, "Momo, how are you and your boyfriend doing lately?"
"..." Xu Mo didn't know what Zou Keyin had learned from various sources, and looked at her suspiciously.
"The last time I saw your boyfriend come to the company to look for you, you were out." Zou Kexin explained, "I saw that he was in a bad mood at the time, and I thought you had a fight."
It turned out that Zhao Tingyu had come to see her once before. Xu Mo was a little surprised: "When?"
"It was a long time ago, when you first said you wanted to form a team."
That seemed to have happened a month ago, Xu Mo said with an "oh".
If Zhao Tingyu had taken the initiative to come to the company to find her in the past, she would have been very happy, but now when she heard the news, she was completely calm.
Over the past month, Zhao Tingyu's influence on her emotions seemed to have weakened considerably. Xu Mo even began to wonder if her deep affection for him was an illusion. Had she ever truly loved someone this way?
Is she in love with Zhao Tingyu, or with the self-touched self?
Xu Mo shook her head and said, "I have broken up with him."
Zou Kexin looked at her in surprise, but there was a hint of relief and heartache in Wu Siyue's eyes.
A few years ago, during a departmental dinner, everyone drank a few glasses of wine. Wu Siyue heard Xu Mo talk about her boyfriend. At the time, Xu Mo, with misty eyes, asked her if her boyfriend never took the initiative to contact her, and since college until now, she was always the one to find him. Did he not love her enough? The sisters looked at each other in confusion. One of the girls, who was not shy, said bluntly, "I don't know if he loves you, but if a man really likes you, he will definitely want to see you."
At that time, Xu Mo was slightly drunk. She was silent for a while, lying on the table with her eyes open blankly, and then she started crying.
But this was when I first started working.
Later, she mentioned her boyfriend less and less.
Wu Siyue gently touched Xu Mo's hand and joked, "It's better to break up. Give other handsome guys a chance."
Cheng Ming also comforted her, saying, "Yes, Momo, didn't the general manager of that clothing company ask for your contact information last year? I think he's quite handsome and a good match for you. If he marries you, you won't even have to work."
Wu Siyue frowned: "Cheng Ming, what does getting married have to do with not working? Don't think that you can entrust your life to someone just because you get married. Just like you men, the only person a woman can rely on is herself. She can still work after getting married."
Cheng Ming was speechless. He muttered, "Why do you keep arguing with me lately, Wu Siyue?"
"I'm not being harsh on you, I'm helping you," Wu Siyue said. "If you accidentally say this to a female client in the future, she'll be offended."
Zou Kexin looked at Cheng Ming and Wu Siyue meaningfully, put the lipstick on the table into her bag, and glanced at her watch: "Oh, it's half past five, I'm off work."
As New Year’s Eve approaches, the number of people in the office becomes fewer and fewer, and those who stay are basically locals.
Xu Mo received a New Year gift box from the Personnel Department and took it home. This year's gift box was similar to last year's, still containing some not-so-delicious so-called Guangzhou specialties, various dry things like crispy cakes and biscuits.
In fact, this is not a real Guangzhou specialty. The real Guangzhou specialty is the morning tea shop hidden in the old residential area, which is loved by uncles and grandmothers, the beef offal stalls that can only be seen in the alleys, the Xiguan mansions near Yongqingfang, and the trendy brand stores in the small Western-style buildings in Dongshankou.
The charm of Guangzhou can only be experienced by coming to Guangzhou and feeling the local atmosphere.
But they couldn't go home empty-handed for the New Year, so the night before going home, Xu Mo and Lin Jingchuan went to the supermarket to buy some New Year's goods to take home.
Lin Jingchuan pushed the shopping cart, and Xu Mo took things from the shelves. She took some of each category, including dried fruits and snacks, dried seafood, cigarettes and alcohol.
Xu Mo discussed the New Year's itinerary with Lin Jingchuan. Lin Jingchuan would first visit her parents at her home, and then in a few days she would follow Lin Jingchuan to Lin Jingchuan's home to visit his elders.
So Xu Mo always takes double the amount of New Year’s goods.
In addition to the things Xu Mo bought, Lin Jingchuan also prepared an extra gift for Xu Mo's parents, and of course some red envelopes for the elderly and children in the family.
At two o'clock in the morning on the 28th of the lunar year, the two of them boarded the high-speed train back to Nanshi together.
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