We are passersby from now on

Chapter 7

Chapter 7

Lu Ran was stunned.

"Why, don't believe it?"

Stopping the car, Xiang Yan looked at Lu Ran. Lu Ran tried to find a joke in those eyes, but Xiang Yan's eyes were so serious for the first time since they met again, even with a little self-mockery.

"At that time, I was very inferior. I was born in a rural area, and I thought that everything would be fine if I was admitted to university. I didn't expect that university would be more difficult than before. What mobile phone, computer, and club activities? Student union activities are all like heaven to me. Night tales, let alone know any girls." Xiang Yan rubbed his chin and thought, "Speaking of which, you were the person I had the most contact with during college, so it's not surprising that I like you, isn't it?"

Lu Ran had recovered, sighed lightly, and said, "Sorry, I didn't feel it at all at that time."

In her memory, Xiang Yan was a meticulous teacher. Except for telling her about homework, no matter what she talked with Xiang Yan, the result was that Xiang Yan blushed, repeatedly grabbed his glasses with his fingers, and faltered for a long time. Come up with a word.

How could she be so affectionate that she thought Xiang Yan liked her?
Xiang Yan chuckled: "I'm a poor boy with nothing. You are a rich lady. The gap is so big. How can I let you find out? What's more, you still have Han Moyan in your heart at that time."

Lu Ran thinks about it too.

Not to mention Xiang Yan, at that time, in her eyes, the boys in the school were all immature, unable to arouse the slightest interest, and in the end they couldn't even remember what they looked like, and they didn't care whether anyone liked her or not.

"Okay, I'm done." Slightly approaching Lu Ran, Xiang Yan's eyes raised higher, "Miss Lu, someone confessed to you, you should also respond."

Lu Ran stopped drinking immediately: "The light is green."

Xiang Yan was helpless: "Okay, I'll drive."

The car parked in front of a hot pot restaurant, the hot atmosphere mixed with the unique food smell of hot pot can be felt from a long distance.

"eat hot pot?"

After Lu Ran got out of the car, Xiang Yan got out of the car and closed the door.

"Don't you like to eat?"

Lu Ran nodded, but still said honestly: "I thought you would take me to some high-end and luxurious French restaurant."

Xiang Yan laughed loudly: "Don't think of me as an upstart. You don't like it, and I don't like it either. Isn't it a crime to eat there?"

Although two people in black suits go to eat hot pot is actually quite out of place, but hot pot is delicious after all, soon Lu Ran forgot the discomfort, took off his coat and ate with Xiang Yan, sweating profusely .

Until the two of them couldn't eat anymore, looking at each other's messy cups and plates, they both looked at each other and smiled.

Xiang Yan drank the beer in his glass and said suddenly: "Lu Ran, you don't want to be my assistant, so how about being my girlfriend, I'm missing anyway."

After a while of silence, Lu Ran replied: "You are not my type."

Xiang Yan laughed: "I've already transformed once, you can't expect me to change again."

"It's okay to be friends, but it's not necessary to be a boyfriend."

Shaking the bright yellow liquid in the cup, Xiang Yan moved his lower lips twice: "Why are you so unwilling to give up? You have already resigned, so you just choose to let go. I don't understand, what's so good about Han Moyan, why would you So determined? Say you don’t like my type, so are you and him suitable? Can he accompany you out for hot pot and beer? Can he give up work for you? The most important thing is...do you think he knows how to love? Is it?"

"A wise woman chooses a man who loves her, only..."

"Lawyer Xiang, your eloquence is really getting better and better."

Lu Ran interrupted Xiang Yan, smiled and said, "Yeah, I'm just an idiot. I just like him and can't let go, so what?"

Looking at his distorted figure reflected in the wine glass, Lu Ran's smile was also mixed with a bit of bitterness.

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Lin Jing called Lu Ran again to go out and play.

Lu Ran suddenly felt dull, so what if she played again, she felt it the last time she went there, although she could get used to it, it couldn't arouse her interest, or even make her feel happy.

A few years ago, she forced herself to be like this.

Now, it can't be broken back.

I stayed at home for two days, relying on takeout and massive movies to survive.

On the third day, when she heard the doorbell ring, she went to open the door in a daze. As soon as she opened it, she saw her serious brother Lu Qi standing at the door with a well-maintained woman.

"mom?!"

Lu's mother walked in aggressively carrying an LV satchel: "Do you still remember that you have a mother?"

While talking, looking at the fast food boxes piled up in front of Lu Ran's dining table, he became even more angry: "Is this how you take care of yourself?"

It's hard for Lu Ran to explain to her, and it's only these two days. She used to eat at the company restaurant with Han Moyan...

Lu Ma's tossing energy is far better than that of Lu Qi, and unlike Lu Qi who will help her clean up, she directs Lu Ran to pack things up, buy vegetables and cook, with a skillful posture like a queen.

In fact, Lu Ran didn't expect that this mother who likes to run around all the year round to dress herself up would come to see her.

At the dinner table, a family of three sat at the table to eat.

Not to mention warm, and even faintly indescribably weird.

The fact that Lu Ran developed such a stubborn and stubborn temper has something to do with her family.

My parents were busy since I was a child, my father was busy with work, and my mother was busy with travel.

In such a big family, she and Lu Qi are the only two people left all year round. Lu Qi is not a talkative person, and she doesn't care about her affairs. The look of a girl.

By the time her parents noticed her daughter, Lu Ran was so stubborn that she dared to move out without saying a word for an inexplicable relationship.

After eating, Lu's mother lost the momentum she had when she first came here, and asked her softly, "Are you resigning now?"

Lu Ran cleaned up the dishes and answered.

"Then do you want to come back?"

After a delay, Lu Ran said, "I don't want to go back now."

"When are you going to be stubborn?"

"I'm an adult, that's my business."

"Lu Ran!"

The 40-year-old woman in an exquisite and expensive suit with no blemishes or wrinkles on her face stared at her, but her expression seemed to have aged suddenly.

"Why can't you be considerate of your mother's feelings? Do you have to embarrass your parents for such a man from the Han family? It's been three years, and if you don't recognize you, do you think you are not a piece of flesh that fell from your mother? "

Lu Ran threw the bowls and chopsticks into the dishwasher, stood in the kitchen without looking back, and sighed: "What are you talking about so seriously, I didn't deny you. You are the ones who have denied me from the beginning to the end. .”

"What if Mom says your father is ready to make peace with old man Han?"

Looking back at his young mother suddenly, he blurted out: "How is that possible?"

Yeah, how is that possible?

One mountain cannot accommodate two tigers.

The competition between the Han family and the Lu family has always been there. It can be traced back to the generation of Grandpa Lu Ran. Both of them started their business in this city by making food, and gradually extended their business to various fields, such as clothing, Shopping malls, supermarkets, catering...the markets that they have competed for over the years are not much different.

But also because of mutual restraint, each has its own winners and losers, and no monopoly has been created. Except for the two companies, they occasionally allow others to share a piece of the pie.

After becoming Han Moyan's assistant, Lu Ran understood even more that the competition between the two sides was terrifying. How many times he stayed up all night and worked overtime to modify the proposal bidding, and how many times he cooperated with Han Moyan to formulate strategies and analyze data bit by bit. I didn't use some despicable means to abide by the agreement, I'm afraid the meeting will be even more embarrassing.

"Things in the mall, who knows, may be impossible. If you don't believe it, you can ask your brother."

Lu Ran's expression froze, and then darkened again.

"Mom, I know. Anything else?"

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If it was a few years earlier, no, a few days earlier, Lu Ran would be very excited when he heard the news.

But after she decided to give up, hearing the news was...incomparably ironic.

Thinking of Han Moyan's new girlfriend whom he saw that day, this sense of irony overwhelmed him even more.

In the evening, I received a text message from Xiang Yan, asking her to go to the movies, weekend movie tickets, the latest movie, it is said that the movie reviews are good, when chatting, Lu Ran mentioned that she did not expect Xiang Yan to remember.

He really didn't give up.

That night, Xiang Yan sent her back to the door of the house.

Seemingly wanting to follow in, Lu Ran opened the door, said "good night" and then closed the door with a "bang", without waiting for any reaction from him.

Afterwards, Xiang Yan sent her a text message saying that since he became a lawyer Xiang Yan, it was the first time he was rejected so simply.

Lu Ran laughed when he heard the words.

I was thinking about what to watch tonight when my phone rang suddenly.

Lu Ran picked it up, and the female voice on the other end of the phone was clear and anxious: "Sister Lu, Sister Lu, it's not good! Can you come and help me now!"

"Xiao An?" Lu Ran heard the voice of intern Gu An, and continued to listen with another ear.

"It's me! I'm in the company now... We messed up something just now, can Sister Lu come to my rescue?"

Hearing that Gu An over there was so anxious that he was about to cry, Lu Ran pondered for a moment and said, "Wait, I'll go over right away."

(End of this chapter)