3 - You Should be More Realistic
The bar is not a noisy one, it is a blues romantic bar. Today is the Chinese Valentine's Day. On the opposite stage, a woman wearing a suspender dress with long hair shawls speaks a lingering and lazy voice. In this psychedelic atmosphere, let People can't help but indulge in it.
When Jiang Zhe heard this song, he said nostalgically: "I didn't expect to hear this French song "Elaine". Do you still remember the girlfriend I was talking about when I was in the youth class? I really like this song, as long as I When we are together, you have to take me to listen to the MP3."
He sighed with emotion about his lost youth while listening to the song.
Unexpectedly, the man opposite him didn't show any respect at all, and now he was staring down at his phone again.
"I said your phone is so beautiful. You are already off work now. Do you know what it means to be off work? After work is to rest, you will never deal with the company's messy matters." Jiang Zhe felt that he had some workaholic attributes in him. But he didn't expect that compared with Rong Qi, he would be a dwarf.
As soon as he said this, Rong Qi looked up in dignity. He looked over with a nonchalant expression: "Are you talking about the girlfriend who quickly dumped you and fell in love with someone else after knowing that you were only fifteen years old?"
Chen Nianjiu's arrow was suddenly shot over and pierced into his chest.
Jiang Zhe reached out and covered his chest: "You have to mention my emotional pain, right?"
Compared with how comfortable he is in love now, Jiang Zhe, who was still in the youth class back then, was obviously too immature.
Probably after entering the juvenile class, the management was not as strict as in the junior high school. In addition, I was surrounded by college students and many campus lovers. So someone was ready to make a move, and Jiang Zhe was the one who was ready to make a move.
At that time, he relied on his height and good looks to bluff people, and he actually found a girlfriend who was studying art in his freshman year.
The good times didn't last long. After the other party found out that he was only fifteen years old, he dumped him without hesitation and started to fall in love with another art department senior at the same school.
"Bad woman, you said you wanted to be my Elaine for the rest of your life, but now that I think about it, I really miss her," Jiang Zhe sighed with a smile.
Things I did when I was young and frivolous, now when I mention them again, I only feel nostalgia.
Rong Qi raised his eyes and looked at him: "That's not what you said when you cried in the dormitory."
Fuck.
This is the only bad thing about an old friend. Everything he had learned from many years ago was completely revealed in front of him.
Jiang Zhe felt that he could not just sit still and wait for death, so he asked, "Come on, come on, tell me about your girl Yi Lian."
"Who?" Rong Qi said calmly.
Jiang Zhe: "Don't pretend. You are the only one in our group who has gone to high school. There are many girls of the same age in the school. It's not like us. When we look up, we are surrounded by seniors. They all think that we are Children, I don't like them at all."
They were classmates in the same youth class. They were all thirteen or fourteen years old when they entered school and had basically never attended high school.
After Rong Qi dropped out of school, he became the only one in his class to attend high school.
"Then let's put it another way, first love? Bai Yueguang?" Jiang Zhe looked at him and sighed: "Don't tell me, with this face, you don't even have a first love."
At this moment, someone walked over from beside him. A girl, holding a mobile phone, looked at Rong Qi shyly and said, "Well, can I add your WeChat account? My friend thinks you are very handsome, but she is too embarrassed to come over."
The girl has long curly chestnut hair and is wearing black clothes. She wears a small skirt, has long legs and a slim waist, and tilts her head slightly when speaking, making her look cute and shy. She is the kind of pure lust that can arouse boys' protective desire.
Jiang Zhe immediately laughed and looked at Rong Qi teasingly.
Rong Qi glanced at the girl and said lightly, "No."
"It's the third one," Meng Yuange touched Cheng Li's hand.
Cheng Li: "What?"
Meng Yuange raised his chin to the left: "This is the third girl who chatted with Rong Qi tonight, but I looked carefully and found that he was quite clean and self-possessed, and he didn't even talk to anyone."
" As expected of a reporter, he is very observant," Cheng Li chuckled.
"These three girls probably don't know who he is. They just went for his face."
Cheng Li didn't have any objection to this point.
Rong Qi has always been recognized as a handsome boy. He has three courts and five eyes. He has good bones, smooth and clear cheek contours, black hair and long eyes, and the ends of his eyes are slightly raised, showing a sharp and cold look. Those unruly and frivolous things in his youth should be today. All his mature and stable years were hidden in the corner of his eyes.
Every time he appears in the media over the years, it triggers various discussions.
For ordinary people, he cannot even feel jealous about Nuwa's graduation work.
I can only watch him from a distance, watching his dazzling existence become even more dazzling.
"Okay, don't worry about which girl this kind of winner in life likes," Cheng Li reached out and pressed her temples.
She rarely drinks alcohol. After all, she works in technology and doesn't have any work that requires socializing and drinking.
Now after a few drinks, I have a splitting headache.
After the female singer on the stage finished singing two more songs, Cheng Li looked at the time on her phone: "It's half past eleven. Let's go home."
"No, why are you going home so early?" Meng Yuange said in surprise. : "I'm ready to stay with you until I get drunk tonight."
"I have to go to work tomorrow." Cheng Li reached out and picked up the bag lying next to her.
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She poked her chest with her fingers, but her steps were sloppy and her body swayed.
"He is the next chief architect in his mind, so we won't ask for leave until the earth explodes, and we won't rest until the universe restarts."
Meng Yuange quickly reached out to support her to prevent her from falling.
Cheng Li was getting louder and louder now, perhaps because of the numbness of alcohol. Her seemingly strong and calm appearance was gradually unable to maintain her original line of defense.
"So I have to go to work tomorrow, and I have to work hard."
Meng Yuange, who was distressed, supported her while coaxing: "Okay, okay, let's work hard and let the scumbag go away."
Hearing this, Cheng Li nodded heavily.
"You can get out of this scumbag, but you can't give up your promotion!"
As she yelled these words, she raised her foot forward, but at this moment, the slender high-heeled shoes on her left foot were thrown away. , crossing a perfect parabola in the air.
"Ah!"
Meng Yuange screamed beside him.
Cheng Li opened her confused eyes and looked over.
Not far away, Rong Qi tilted his head slightly and firmly grasped the high-heeled shoe with one hand.
Lazy looked over and met her eyes.
The air in the bar was filled with embarrassment at this moment.
Rong Qi just looked at her, his dark eyes calm and indifferent, but there was no blame at all.
Help...
help!
After realizing what happened, even in a dimly lit place like a bar, Cheng Li's cheeks turned red at a speed visible to the naked eye.
She stood there stunned, even her earlobes were burning.
However, Rong Qi stood opposite her, looking at her calmly, holding her high heels in his hand as if he were holding her handle.
"Ci, how about I help you get the shoes..."
Before Meng Yuange could finish the three words when he got them back, Cheng Li, who was standing next to him, turned around and ran away.
Ran.
"Your Cinderella has run away, why don't you return her shoes quickly?" Jiang Zhe, who was on the opposite side, turned his head and saw Cheng Li's fleeing back, laughing and shouting.
Rong Qi lowered his eyes, glanced at the high heels in his hand, and ignored him.
"She's not."
An inaudible whisper was lost in the noisy environment of the bar.
...
Cheng Li was standing outside the bar when a gust of night wind blew over, blowing her head that was about to turn into paste and sobering up a bit.
After a while, Meng Yuange chased her out and finally found her. He said speechlessly: "Why did you run away? You don't even need any shoes."
"Between social death and one shoe, I think one shoe can still be given up. " Abandoned," Cheng Li said calmly.
Meng Yuange handed over the shoes in his hand: "These are Jimmy Choos. If you really lose them, the cost of your company's death will be too great."
Because of today's Chinese Valentine's Day date, Cheng Li wore out all the shoes she had packed at the bottom of the box. .
Unexpectedly, I haven't worn high heels for a long time, and I ended up doing something like this.
"So your sister, I, resolutely helped you get your shoes back in this social death situation."
Cheng Li put on the shoes, reached out and patted her shoulder: "Good besties, forever."
Meng Li Yuan Ge: "You're welcome, after all, it's not me who died in society."
Cheng Li: "..."
"How come your kicks are so accurate?" Meng Yuange finally couldn't hold it in any longer, and the sound echoed in the air. In addition to her hearty laughter, she also laughed and said: "If the national football team was half as accurate as you, why would my dad scold me every day?"
This friend can no longer be with him.
Early the next morning, Cheng Li was woken up to go to work.
Her mother, Ms. Ling, was shocked when she saw her walking out of the room: "What's wrong with your face? It's so swollen?"
Cheng Li tossed and turned all night and barely fell asleep.
Every time I closed my eyes, the image of Xu Jiheng kissing that woman would appear in my mind.
When she was ready to go out, Ms. Ling looked at the box she was holding and asked curiously: "Why are you holding a box so early in the morning? What's in it?"
When she thought of Xu Jiheng's sweet dinner, Maybe he went directly to the hotel he had already booked. Cheng Li was so disgusted that she packed up the things he had given to her overnight.
She took care of it for a long time. Xu Jiheng was not a stingy person.
I gave her many expensive gifts.
"Garbage," Cheng Li said expressionlessly, "throw it away."
When she arrived at the company, she immediately called a city courier to send the box directly to Xu Jiheng's company.
Then she got back to work, occasionally looking at her phone.
Finally, around three o'clock in the afternoon, her cell phone rang. It was Xu Jiheng calling.
Cheng Li took a deep breath and answered the phone.
"Lili," Xu Jiheng's voice came from the other end of the phone, still so gentle until he said, "Are you free now? I want to chat with you."
Listening to the other party's tone, Cheng Li suddenly laughed in anger. .
Because his tone didn't sound like he was explaining or asking for forgiveness. Instead, it sounded like "I won't pretend now that you've found out." It felt like a showdown.
Cheng Li calmly said: "Okay, let's talk."
Xu Jiheng made an appointment at a five-star hotel near her company. The afternoon tea in this hotel is very famous, because the open-air observation deck is very popular, and many Internet celebrities come there. Check in here.
When Cheng Li arrived, Xu Jiheng was already sitting down.
When she saw him sitting there, the scene of him kissing another woman last night came to Cheng Li's eyes again.
"Lili, what would you like to drink?" Seeing her sit down, Xu Jiheng asked warmly.
Cheng Li was pretending to be disgusted by him. Why hadn't she noticed before that this man was so good at pretending? If he was caught cheating, would he act as if nothing had happened?
However, Cheng Li was too lazy to act with him and said directly: "I went to Restaurant J last night."
"Sure enough." Xu Jiheng didn't show any surprise.
It's just that Cheng Li was so stimulated by these two words that her fingernails almost dug into her palms and bled.
So she drank again last night and almost went crazy and embarrassed in the bar. In the end, she got the word "him".
"Actually, I don't know how to tell you. I don't want you to get hurt, but I also know that sooner or later, I have to tell you clearly about this kind of thing."
Cheng Li said expressionlessly: "So you cheated on me. I have to thank you for taking so much trouble to think about it for me."
The word "cheating" seemed to make Xu Jiheng frown.
He endured it and finally said: "Lili, I'm different from you. For someone like me, who comes from a small city, to be able to get into J University, I was once the proud son of heaven and the target that others looked up to. But now I If I want to stay in the city of Shanghai and gain a foothold here, I have to seize every opportunity to climb up. Do you think I am willing to do this? Her family has money and connections. If I were not with her, This time, I will work hard to do everything as I did before, and then be kicked out. "
I don't want to be like others, who are not even a VP (senior vice-president of an investment bank) at the age of 40."
Cheng Li was really laughed out of anger: "This is the first time I've seen someone take soft food and say it with such humiliation. Since you want to rise to the top, you want to climb up, why did you pursue me so shamelessly in the first place."
Xu Jiheng smiled bitterly: "Lili, I really love you, and it has never changed since the first time I saw you."
This affectionate gesture, which was meaner than grass, made Cheng Li feel sick with chest tightness and shortness of breath.
"You said when can we own a decent house in a place like this with our own efforts alone?" Xu Jiheng paused and looked out the window. From here, he can overlook the prosperity of Lujiazui. The luxuriant life here has attracted countless people. Desperate to have it.
Xu Jiheng: "Lili, be realistic. Love and ideals cannot be a living thing."
At this moment, Cheng Li suddenly understood Xu Jiheng's purpose of asking her to meet here.
From here, you can see the most prosperous part of the city. He wanted to use this method to make her clearly realize that the reason for his cheating was so sufficient and legitimate.
Because her family background alone cannot give him everything he wants.
She should be obedient and quietly wish him success in getting rich, and from then on he would rise to the top of his career and reach the pinnacle of his life.
Facing such a shameless person, Cheng Li finally exhausted her lifelong patience.
She had already stood up and was about to leave.
But she found that she had never been as angry as she was now. If she was still more sad than angry last night, then at this moment, the overwhelming anger completely overwhelmed her, making her whole body tremble.
Xu Jiheng looked at her back and seemed to want to speak.
But Cheng Li suddenly stopped. She looked at the bustling scenery outside the floor-to-ceiling glass window and felt ridiculous.
It was obvious that he was the one who cheated on her, so why should she run away after being educated.
Cheng Li turned around and asked, "I returned all the things you gave me. You counted them, and there should be nothing missing."
Xu Jiheng: "Li Li, you don't need to do this, I really want to give you those things. "
Oh," Cheng Li was amused by his expression. She was still pretending to be affectionate. "It's good to receive it, because I have to take back the things I gave you."
Xu Jiheng was slightly startled. After he finished speaking, he took away the mobile phone on the table with lightning speed.
"Lili." Xu Jiheng didn't know what she wanted to do.
He stood up and wanted to hold Cheng Li back and get his phone back.
But the moment he stepped forward, Cheng Li deliberately tilted her body to the side, and the phone flew out of her hand.
There was a loud "bang" sound.
The mobile phone hit the decorative fountain in the restaurant. After the screen fragments flew, with a "dong" sound, the mobile phone sank to the bottom of the water and looked useless.
Such a big movement attracted other people in the restaurant to look over.
Cheng Li deliberately raised her voice and said in a tone of disbelief: "We broke up. I want to get back the things I bought with my own money. You actually don't even agree to this?"
For a moment, people in the restaurant were either scornful or condemning. Everyone's eyes looked at Xu Jiheng.
I'm afraid I'm thinking that the person who looks like a dog in the clothes actually eats soft food and doesn't return anything after the breakup.
How shameless.
Cheng Li's acting skills all exploded at this moment.
After venting her anger, she felt that most of the air in her chest had been vented out.
As a professional, Cheng Li certainly understands the importance of mobile phones.
Not to mention that people in the financial circle like Xu Jiheng would like to have a mobile phone in their hands.
The scumbag also wanted to use the mobile phone she bought to flirt with the mistress.
Go ahead and dream! ! !
Under the gaze of everyone, Xu Jiheng frowned and looked at Cheng Li, and whispered: "Lili, I hope we can get together and part ways."
Oh, do you think she didn't break up decently?
Why didn't he think about dignity when he fucking cheated on her?
Not to be outdone, she looked at Xu Jiheng: "Who the hell wants to get together with you? I will officially inform you now."
"We break up!"
After saying that, Cheng Li held her head high and held her chest high under the gaze of everyone in the restaurant. leave.