Awakening Secret

Chapter 9
Many years ago, Fang Ziwen was also a fresh, romantic and talented man; especially when he first pursued Lin Xiyin, he had the appearance of an elegant urban upstart.It's just that as the age increases, the literati feelings have already been mixed into the daily wine, food and food, slowly dissolving, and disappearing.

Fang Ziwen thanked himself for not further revealing his wrongdoing, because he first saw a sense of inexplicability in Lin Xiyin's irritable eyes. Couples who have been together for more than 20 years don't say they have a tacit understanding, but they still have some understanding.

"Honey, I was wrong..." Fang Ziwen knelt in front of Lin Xiyin, his mind spinning rapidly.

Lin Xiyin is not a vegetarian woman either, so she put on a face and asked angrily, "Where did you go wrong?"

Fang Ziwen glanced at the photo of Lin Xiyin on the sofa. It was a photo of A Yin and her parents who died young.In the group photo of the three of them, Ayin is still a high school girl who is more charming than Huajiao.Fang Ziwen suddenly thought that today is the Double Ninth Festival, or the death day of the father-in-law and mother-in-law whom he had not seen above!Immediately, his face was stained with sadness, Fang Ziwen knelt in front of Lin Xiyin and said, "Today is the death day of my father-in-law and mother-in-law, I actually forgot...I'm sorry, wife, I was wrong..."

In a bar full of people and grotesque, Li Luo sat on a bench and watched the bartender make a good show, probably the most flattering relationship with her, the bartender stopped and said to her: "I would like to make a glass of wine for you for free, I want to drink What?"

"Then have a glass of Vegas Ice Tea." Li Luo ordered a glass of Vegas Ice Tea unceremoniously, and did not forget to make a small request, "No vodka, more lemon juice, Thanks."

"OK." The bartender began to mix drinks.

Today is the anniversary of his parents' death, Li Luo didn't want to stay in the apartment alone, so he found a bar to pass the time.There are so many people, you won't be too lonely.

In fact, before mom and dad had an accident, she was often alone as she is now, free and easy.At that time, she will not feel lonely, because no matter how far she flies, she has a home, just like a kite flying high has a string to hold it...

It has been 25 years since the accident, and I still remember it vividly tonight.That day she was just about to go back to China, and she bought a lot of presents, including knives for her father, perfume for her mother, and she also chose the most exquisite gift for Lin Xiyin.

In the phone call two days before she came back, her mother begged her and said, "Qingjia, don't mess with Xiyin, okay? Just be a mother and beg you. I know you and Xiyin don't get along, but since Xiyin is your sister , you have to respect her... Your father and I adopted her, and she is the daughter of my parents."

She agreed, bought a gift and planned to get back with Lin Xiyin.Like a childish rivalry, she still asked her mother: "Mom, Xiyin and I, who do you love more?"

The answer, of course, was in favor of her.

"Of course it's you, silly boy!" Mom's smiling voice came from the other end of the phone, "Qingjia, you are the favorite baby of parents, and parents are willing to give everything for you..." Distantly, Li Luo felt Her mother's voice floated into her ears again across time and space, evoking all her memories and emotions.

Then, she came back full of joy to face the sad news of both parents passing away.

After a glass of Vegas iced tea was prepared and placed in front of her, Li Luoan lay quietly at the bar without getting up. After the bartender greeted her with concern, Li Luo raised her head stiffly and took the glass of iced tea.His fingers were icy cold, showing a faint numbness.

Unexpectedly, at this time, I received a call from Secretary Wu.Li Luo took a sip of iced tea and said crisply, "Hi, Secretary Wu."

At this time, it was not very late, and Secretary Wu was going to accompany Mr. Shang to a banquet.The black car was driving in the flickering city lights, and Shang Yu leaned on the back seat, vaguely able to hear the noisy noise of the bar and the sound of music.Shang Yu's expression was a little unclear in the dim light.

Li Luo's side was so lively, Secretary Wu tried hard to hear every word Li Luo said; trembling, she hung up the phone and said to Shang Yu: "Miss Li said that she had read the contract, but she said she would rest at night...not to talk about work. matter."

Shang Yu chuckled twice.

Secretary Wu didn't understand what the boss was laughing at, so he analyzed the phone call, "I heard the voice just now, and Ms. Li should be in the bar. Thinking about her, she might be more fun-loving. Can we match her up? "

"Not for now." Shang Yu rejected the proposal, paused, "Send someone reliable to follow her."

What?Secretary Wu didn't understand the boss' intention, why did he find someone to follow Ms. Li?
"It's dangerous for a girl to play in bars at night. Send someone to protect her." Shang Yu said, and was silent for a while, "A young girl came to study across the ocean. As the host, we should take good care of her."

Secretary Wu understood what Shang Yu meant: "Okay. I will find a suitable person to protect (follow) Miss Li."

Shang Yu stopped talking, looking at the speeding vehicles outside, his tone was not calm.Like, really like!Not only the body and face are similar, but even the temperament and the way of speaking are like Qing Jia back then...

If Qing Jia is not alive, what is the possibility!Shang Yu closed his eyes and suppressed his emotions.He is looking forward to more surprise discoveries.

In the bar, Li Luo played with his mobile phone boredly.If there is anything that can stop her from taking revenge, it is the mobile phone these days, which is simply frustrating.

Surprised to find that Xie Yuning, who has never posted on Moments for thousands of years, reposted an article about a scientific idea. Li Luo clicked on it and read it. It was a very interesting and fun idea.As a lover, Li Luo immediately liked it, and then reposted the text Xie Yuning reposted like a dog.As a result, Shang Yan, who also refreshed his circle of friends, liked it twice in a row.

So helpless, Xie Yuning looked at the little heart left by Li Luo, and asked privately, "Haven't you slept yet?"

"No, I can't sleep." Li Luo typed word by word. It was rare that Xie Yuning took the initiative to chat with her. Before Xie Yuning could reply, he sent another series of messages.

"Professor, I'm a little sad today, I miss my family. Do you think it would be boring to live in this world without relatives..."

Xie Yuning did not reply, and directly dialed a phone number.After half an hour, Xie Yuning appeared at the door of the bar.

Li Luo sat at the front bar and waved to him, with another wig on his head.But it was more pleasing to the eye than last time. Her straight black hair was tied into two pretty braids, paired with a red beret, like a retro girl on TV.

Xie Yuning walked over, Li Luo explained: "Professor, I'm really in a bad mood today."

"I know." Xie Yuning said.

The reason why he came here tonight was because he heard the lively background sounds of the bar on the one hand, and on the other hand, it was the first time Li Luo showed his fragility.Originally, he had already had dinner with his parents and returned to his residence, but then he turned around and rushed to the bar.

After repeated inquiries by the waiter, Xie Yuning said lightly: "A glass of water."

The waiter warmly reminded: "Sir, the water also costs 50 yuan."

Xie Yuning glanced over, did he look like someone who couldn't afford 50 yuan of water?

Oh, how can you talk like that!Li Luo was also unhappy, and directly took out a 100 yuan note and threw it to the waiter: "Two glasses of water!"

Future!The waiter was aggrieved, because many customers thought that water was free, so he reminded him; he reluctantly took the 100 yuan that the female customer slapped on the table, and the waiter served two glasses of water indifferently.

Li Luo pushed one of the glasses of water in front of Xie Yuning, his black pupils were flickering, looking very guilty.

"In a bad mood?" Xie Yuning asked.

With a gentle and deep word of concern, Li Luo raised his head, his eyes flickered, and then he nodded. "Professor Xie, I..."

"Okay, don't talk about it." Xie Yuning didn't listen to the explanation, and said directly, "Later, I'll go back later."

"...Professor, you are so kind to me." Li Luo sighed while lying on the table, and turned his head, "Why are you so kind to me?" Did you really like her?
Why, there was a bang in Xie Yuning's ear, and he only felt that the bar was getting louder.

Li Luo smiled. Right in front of him was the place where the band sang. A young boy stood on the stage, nervously picked up the microphone and said, "Today is my friend's birthday. I will sing "AU" for my friend. , happy birthday to him."

"AU" is the title song of the most popular idol group this year.Li Luo applauded, Xie Yuning also clapped twice.

"Professor, I also want to go up and sing a song." Li Luo said suddenly.

Forget it, he's heard her sing before, and he's really not that good.Xie Yunning put one hand on the bar, after all she couldn't bear to give up Li Luo's interest; then Li Luo had already stepped up to the stage and started communicating with the band.

The guitarist of the band clapped hands with her.

After the amazing ending of the young boy's song "AU", Li Luo came up.

Clearing his throat, Li Luo said, "Sing a song "The Moon Represents My Heart" and give it to the most handsome man in the audience today. He is..."

Under the stage, Xie Yuning's heartbeat quickened twice.

"Xie Yuning is the first friend I made when I returned to China. I respect him as a teacher and hope that he will be happy every day and everything goes well!" Li Luo happily ended the last sentence on the stage. Xie Yuning's heartbeat returned to normal. Next, Li Luo began to hum this old song that Xie Yuning hadn't heard in 800 years - "The Moon Represents My Heart".

Then the guests listening to the song in the audience were all shocked, the contrast came too quickly.Such a beautiful girl walked up, beautiful and confident, and they had no doubt that the singing must be good.It turns out that singing well has nothing to do with being pretty.

Of all the people in the audience, only Xie Yuning listened carefully.Following Li Luo's singing, it was as if the spring breeze was blowing across his heart; and it was also as if the cup of water that Li Luo paid for tonight poured into his heart.

Tenderness is like water, and it is also a mess.

At night, Xie Yuning returned to the 26th floor where she lived, and exercised in the gym at home for another hour; after taking a shower, she lay on the big bed in a vest and trousers, and fell asleep with her eyes closed.

The bedroom window was open, letting in the night wind from the tall building.

In the gentle night wind, Xie Yuning fell into a dream.In the dream, he stroked the softness under his body inch by inch; as if he was eager to vent the heat in his body, he restrained himself so much that he couldn't restrain his rationality and covered it up. Suddenly, the person under him suddenly asked him: "Call the beast, what are we going to do?" What kind of experiment..."

Suddenly, Xie Yuning opened his eyes.What kind of messed up dream was he having!With lingering fears in his heart, Xie Yuning rubbed his forehead and stood up, thankful that it was just a dream.

But, if he didn't wake up, would he have done something to Li Luo?For a while, Xie Yuning couldn't face her own soul anymore.

Xie Yuning got up to drink water, leaned against the one-shaped bar in the living room, and outside the floor-to-ceiling windows was the quiet night city.

As a rational man, Xie Yuning can rationally face up to his physical needs, even though he hardly ever had that kind of dream just now.But it's normal for a young man of marriageable age to have physical needs, so he doesn't need to pay attention to them.

However, he couldn't persuade himself to accept that the heroine in the dream was Li Luo.

Xie Yuning picked up the water glass, took another sip of water, and heard what Li Luo said to him tonight again, she said that he is the person she respects the most, she respects him like a teacher, and she likes that he treats her like a child ...

So, he did that to a child?

The next day was Thursday, and Xie Yuning drove to work at the Qinghuai Cell Biochemical Institute with his usual expression.As a result, I met someone again early in the morning.

Li Luo came to the Qinghuai Institute of Biochemistry every day at about the same time as Xie Yuning. Basically, she got off the bus and walked to the gate of the Institute of Biochemistry, and Xie Yuning drove in.Seeing Xie Yuning's car again this morning, she happily waved to Xie Yuning.I thought that Xie Yuning would slow down the car to respond to her greeting, but in the end it only left her exhausted.

Li Luo pulled his lower lip, are you blind?

There is still a long way from the gate to the laboratory building of the Institute of Biochemical Cells. Li Luo walked slowly, and two crisp bells came from beside him, tinkling.Li Luo tilted her head, and Shang Yan rode on the bicycle to greet her: "Hi, good morning!"

"Morning." Li Luo replied.

Shang Yan was wearing a thin coat, holding breakfast in his hand, and asked her in a clear tone, "I bought an extra breakfast, do you want it?"

"Breakfast?" Li Luo was too late to respond.

Shang Yan had already handed her the breakfast bag wrapped in kraft paper.Looking at the breakfast in his hand, Li Luo jokingly asked, "Is this supposed to be for Jiaqi?"

Shangyan didn't say much, it was the default.

Li Luo was not polite, and accepted Shang Yan's kindness without hassle.Shang Yan pushed the car and walked beside her, and the two bumped into Xie Yuning who had parked the car head-on.

"Professor, good morning." Li Luo took the breakfast and said good morning to Xie Yuning.You can always see her now.

Of course he can see, he is not blind.Xie Yunning walked over to Li Luo and Shang Yan, and swept the two of them with the same breakfast.

"Morning, uncle." The child Shangyan also said early.

"Morning." Xie Yuning replied simply, his eyes lightly passed over Li Luo, feeling that he should not take last night's dream too seriously.Li Luo is indeed very beautiful, with fair skin and healthy development, which satisfies his aesthetic appreciation for women.In addition, during this period of time, she was the woman he had the most contact with, which led to the accident in the dream.

The newly established psychological defense soon collapsed again because of Li Luo's words.They came in from the laboratory building together, and Li Luo, who was walking beside him, suddenly asked Xie Yuning: "Professor, what experiment are we doing today?"

In the morning experiment, Xie Yuning stayed in Li Luo and Shangyan Basic Laboratory as calmly as possible, watching the two study and analyze microorganisms.Both did well.Leaning lazily on the laboratory table, Xie Yuning rubbed his forehead, watching Li Luo and Shang Yan discussing and analyzing the results under the microscope; walked over, pushed the two away and said, "Let me take a look."

After the experiment was over, Shang Yan received a text message from Lin Jiaqi about having lunch, and rode away.In the text message, Lin Jiaqi sent a series of crying emoticons, crying and saying, "Shangyan, you haven't had lunch with me for a long time!"

How long has it been?Obviously we had dinner together yesterday.

In a restaurant outside Landa University, Lin Jiaqi said logically, "Is lunch the same as dinner? Since you went to the Biochemical Institute for an internship, I can only eat in the cafeteria with my classmates."

Shang Yan returned to Landa ahead of schedule, and Li Luo waited at the entrance of the corridor that Xie Yuning must pass through at noon; when Xie Yuning came down, he walked beside him with ease, planning to go to the cafeteria with Xie Yuning.

"Li Luo, you don't have to wait for me..." Xie Yuning said in a really helpless tone.

"Oh." Li Luo lowered his head and understood.She felt that she had been relying on Xie Yuning a little recently, and she might get used to having company all of a sudden, and she was not so used to having lunch alone.

Xie Yuning looked at Li Luo and lowered her head, explaining: "I don't necessarily eat in the cafeteria every time."

"Oh..." It turned out to be like this.Li Luo laughed, raised his head and said to Xie Yuning, "Professor, you can go outside if you want, we can AA... I am not short of money."

Why!Xie Yuning took Li Luo outside for lunch, and the two had a delicious wild mushroom hot pot together.

Li Luo once again discovered the benefits of eating with Xie Yuning. Xie Yuning has a pickier appetite than ordinary people, so the restaurants and restaurants he took her to eat are naturally good, such as today's nourishing soup base, which tastes extremely delicious.

After a nourishing hot pot meal, Li Luo ate heartily.Xie Yuning leaned on the square chair and put down her chopsticks. "One thing." Xie Yuning said, looking at Li Luo with a serious face.

Xie Yuning was so serious all of a sudden, Li Luo was a little confused, not knowing what Xie Yuning was going to say to him, so he asked seriously: "What's the matter?"

"Don't call me a professor anymore." Xie Yuning said.He is not a professor himself, although a senior researcher is at the same level as a professor, and Li Luo was taught by him before, so it is okay for her to call him a professor.It's just that after last night, he doesn't want to wear the title of professor anymore.Being a teacher by example should have the appearance of being a teacher by example.

call!What else did she think.Li Luo pulled his lower lip, thought for a while and said, "Then I will call you Teacher, Teacher Xie?"

Teacher... not to mention!Xie Yuning shook his head.

How could there be such a curmudgeonly person!Is Xie Yuning teasing her?Li Luo couldn't understand, and asked wonderingly: "Then what should I call you? Should I call you Xie Yunning directly? Didn't you say that we are not of the same generation..."

Of course, not a generation of people.Xie Yuning thought about it together, Li Luo is the same age as Shang Yan, why not call him according to Shang Yan?Forget it, never.Xie Yuning said lightly: "You can call me like Zhou Bei."

"Okay." Li Luo agreed, and immediately called out cheerfully, "Old Xie."

Xie Yuning: "..."

Li Luo smiled, quickly changed his words, and called out respectfully: "Okay, team leader, deputy director!"

What a child... Xie Yuning stood up to pay, took the bill, and did not mention the AA he agreed with Li Luo.But when Li Luo ordered, he had already calculated the money.With a beep, she transferred half of the money to Xie Yuning's WeChat account.

Xie Yuning looked at Li Luo's transfer amount and said nothing.

At noon today, Xie Jingyi also invited Lin Xiyin to have dinner, and ordered a vegetarian restaurant that she often visits.Every Thursday afternoon, she and Lin Xiyin would have a beauty treatment together; then they would have lunch together and chat about trivial matters.

Xie Jingyi is not a sociable personality, she is very indifferent to everyone except her family, and she doesn't have many friends from wealthy families.She met Lin Xiyin after she married Shang Yu.As early as 20 years ago, Lin Xiyin's husband, Fang Ziwen, was still working under Shang Yu. Whenever the company had any activities, Lin Xiyin would take the initiative to accompany her to arrange them.

Xie Jingyi wanted to talk to someone about receiving the photos.She can't talk about this matter with her family, she can't talk to her husband Shang Yu, and she can't tell her son. She can only tell Lin Xiyin to help her out.

Taking out a photo, Xie Jingyi put it in front of Lin Xiyin.Women are sensitive, Lin Xiyin took a look at the photo and basically understood.Knowing what happened, Lin Xiyin scolded: "These young girls are really shameless." After a pause, Lin Xiyin asked, "Do you want to check?"

Xie Jingyi was in a dilemma, and didn't want to make things big.

Lin Xiyin took Xie Jingyi's hand, and said in a contemptuous but affirmative tone: "Jingyi, this photo must have been deliberately provoked by you to send it... Anyway, this kind of thing must be investigated thoroughly, and we will find that bitch together! "

In fact, since Xie Jingyi's birthday, Shang Yu has not contacted Zhang Ziyue.

On the one hand, he intentionally snubbed him out, on the other hand, Shang Yu admitted that his interest in Zhang Ziyue dropped drastically.Then Zhang Ziyue, who had been staying in the island city, went crazy and called Lao Feng directly.

Facing the other end of the phone, Old Feng respectfully spoke for Shang Yu, and did not forget to remind him with all kindness and righteousness: "Miss Zhang, everything is too late."

Too much is too much, the thing is like this, sometimes the relationship is nothing more than the same-love too greedy and paranoid is not a good thing.

In the AC office building, Shang Yu leaned on the executive chair, dialed the internal number, and said to Secretary Wu who came in: "Wills' cooperation, you can arrange it again. You can't drag it like this..."

Li Luo received a call from Secretary Wu again, sitting alone in the Lancang River Park watching uncles and aunts dance, imagining boredly, if she hadn't chosen to "sleep", would she dance here like them now?

Of course not, if she hadn't slept deeply, she would have already been a pile of ashes.

When Secretary Wu asked her to play golf, Li Luo practiced Tai Chi and said, "...I don't know how to play golf that you like to play."

"How about tennis?" Secretary Wu said, "We play tennis well at the General Chamber of Commerce. If Ms. Li is interested, how about we learn from each other?"

"Oh, Mr. Shang can still play tennis?" Li Luo took the mobile phone, walked to the quiet cobblestone path, and agreed, "Okay, I am looking forward to competing with Mr. Shang."

"Okay, then I'll arrange the location and time, and we'll talk after the game." Secretary Wu said.

Li Luo hung up her cell phone and rode out from Lancangjiang Park; passing by the high-end residential area where Xie Yuning lived, she raised her head and called Xie Yuning.Xie Yuning was running on the treadmill, and stopped to answer Li Luo's call: "What's the matter?"

"It's okay." Li Luo stopped beside the bicycle, raised his head and said, "Professor... no, team leader, which floor do you live on? I passed by the building where you live and wanted to say hello to you."

Xie Yuning: "..."

Xie Yuning still got off the treadmill, walked to the French windows, and then really saw Li Luo who was riding a bicycle parked beside the green belt. 26 Looking down, she was wearing a white coat, looking up at his building.

It's terrible, Xie Yuning said: "I live on the 26th floor, on the east side. Look to the left, I'm standing at the window."

"One, two, three, four..." Li Luo counted the floors and said pleasantly, "Professor, I saw you!" Following Xie Yuning's instructions, Li Luo saw Xie Yuning standing by the window on the 26th floor.She raised her hand and waved to him, saying hello.

For some reason, she was in a mess, so she wanted to talk to Xie Yuning.Thinking of Xie Yuning's explanation yesterday, Li Luo changed his words: "Then I'm leaving...the team leader."

Xie Yuning sighed and said, "Call it whatever you want, you don't need to change it specially."

"Okay." Li Luo agreed, smiled at Xie Yuning again, hung up the phone, and rode away with a relaxed mood.Accompanied by street lamps along the way, Li Luo rode very fast, the wind blowing head-on bulged her coat, whirring with the wind.

Regarding the matter of Li Luo changing his name to Xie Yuning, Shang Yan stayed in the study room the next day and asked curiously, "Li Luo, why did you change your name to my uncle?"

Li Luo was also very helpless: "I don't know, the professor won't let me call him a beast."

At the end, Li Luo mispronounced the word "beast" on purpose.The reason is nothing more than this, Xie Yuning thinks the professor is not nice?Li Luo's explanation made Shang Yan amused, and then he thought that his little uncle cared more about Li Luo recently than he cared about himself.

On the opposite side, Li Luo raised his head from the front of the computer, and said another thing: "Shang Yan, do you know AC Group?"

"AC Group?" Shang Yan touched his nose and asked curiously, "Li Luo, what do you ask AC for?"

"Isn't AC the best daily chemical company in China? The skin care products I transferred to Wells before they want to find domestic cooperation and development, because I'm in China, Wells let me get in touch with AC people." Li Luosan After explaining the ins and outs clearly in two sentences and Shang Yan, he smiled and said slyly, "Because the president of AC is named Shang, let me ask you."

"So that's how it is." Shang Yan smiled and told her, "Shang Yu is my father, and AC is our family's company."

"Oh my God." Li Luo looked surprised and said with emotion, "It turns out that there is a real young master sitting across from me, so I'm so disrespectful."

"Li Luo, you are making fun of me." Shang Yan pursed his lower lip and asked, "Have you contacted me? How did the talk go?"

"It's not bad." Li Luo replied, speaking casually, "I had a meal with the president of AC, oh, that is, your father. Today he invited me to play golf in the afternoon, and then we will talk about the contract in detail."

"Playing? Afternoon?!" After Shang Yan was surprised, his voice fell silent for a while, and his mind became entangled.He felt that he shouldn't think of his father that way, but the picture of the young woman getting into the car he saw that day still lingered in his mind.Why do you still make an appointment to play ball after talking about things?Then, Shang Yan's face turned red.

"Li Luo, let's go together." Shang Yan said.

Li Luo's eyes lit up: "Great, I'm having this idea."

(End of this chapter)