I kept waiting for Mi Cai to make a choice. She pondered for a long time and finally said to me: "I have promised him... Let's do this, I will at least show off at the cocktail party. I will go to Fangyuan's house to find you before 8:30."

I did not object and accepted Mi Cai's compromise choice, but I always wondered whether Mi Cai was willing to attend the cocktail party or for commercial purposes, I forced herself to go there?

After calming down for the moment, I drove to Fang Yuan and Yan Yan's residence. When I arrived, it was just after 7:50, and Yan Yan had already prepared a table of food. Seeing me coming alone, I asked in confusion: "Why are you the only one? Didn't you agree to be with Mi Cai?"

"She has a cocktail party to attend, and she's here before 8:30."

Yan Yan took off her apron and smiled and said, "Then let's wait for her for a while. Anyway, the dishes in summer are not easy to cool down."

I looked around and asked, "Where is Fang Yuanren, haven't you come back yet?"

"I just came back and was reading documents in the study. He has been very busy recently!"

I smiled and said, "Why do you say that he is also the executive vice president of a department store now? Is it better to be more busy than he can be in line with his status in the world!"

"I would rather he be idle. This status in the world is too tired and sacrifices too much time outside of work."

After Yan Yan complained, I subconsciously looked at Fangyuan’s study, and didn’t know whether it was correct or wrong to push him and Chen Jingming into Zhuomei’s huge vortex!

......

He pushed open the door of Fangyuan study and leaned back on the office chair, closing his eyes as if thinking about something, and a gust of wind blew from the unclosed window, blew the documents on the table and his hair into mess.

I stood in front of him, and he finally opened his tired eyes and suddenly asked me: "Zhaoyang, what exactly is life?"

"Life?...Life is anger, sorrow, and sometimes you will get a little joy!"

Fang Yuan smiled and said, "Life is a game for me... Then I gained honor and disgrace in this game. At the end of the curtain call, there may be such a person holding a wreath and waiting for me."

I looked at him for a long time, but I didn't understand what he wanted to express, but it seemed a little pessimistic and casual. This was not like what a person who had already formed a family should say.

"You have planned your life too far and have not yet passed on the family line. Instead, you are thinking about the person who is waiting for you to die and send you a wreath..."

"People will always die... We fall into this world, which is a game, and in this game, all kinds of accidents will always end the game early..." Speaking of this, he lit a cigarette for himself and said in a low voice: "Poly Department Store, do you still remember Xiao Yang from the Operations Department?"

"It's a bit like that. Didn't he leave Poly and go to work in Shanghai later?"

"Well... I died in a car accident last week, and his game ended early... He and I went to Polytechnic Department Store on the same day. Although we were not in the same department, we encouraged each other for several years. We were determined to make a fortune in the department store industry... He died like this!... This is a fucking bad game for him! When he died in the end, he could not fulfill his original promise, stand on a high ground, and look down on the group of people who once looked down on themselves and even stepped on themselves!"

I vaguely remembered Xiao Yang's face that was wearing thick glasses but always liked to smile, but it had turned into dust and buried deep in the soil. Ten years later, maybe five years later, no one can remember him anymore.

I lit a cigarette for myself until I was about to finish smoking, and then said to Fang Yuan: "Isn't life so impermanent! As long as I live, I must sell myself to life and wait for it to arrange it."

Fang Yuan shrugged, extinguished the cigarette in his hand in the ashtray, and then picked up the documents on the table and looked at the city under me. A hundred years later, these towering buildings may still be left behind, but the people at that time have already ended in the game, but what is the meaning of these buildings? Just to prove that those people at that time have walked through this game of life weaving?

......

After a long time, the door of the study room was finally knocked again. Mi Cai's voice came from outside the door. Then he pushed open the door and walked into the study room, saying with some apology to Fang Yuan, the owner, "Sorry, I've been late. Have you waited for a long time?"

Fang Yuan quickly stood up to greet him: "It's okay, it's okay. Mr. Mi, you can come to our house as a guest. Yan Yan and I are already very happy!"

I patted Fang Yuan on the shoulder and said, "What are you going to be at home?... She is my girlfriend. You should quickly recognize the situation and call me brother and sister."

Fang Yuan looked at Mi Cai and me awkwardly. Mi Cai smiled and said to him, "I also think what Zhaoyang said makes sense. You should just call me casually when it is not working hours."

"Okay, I will call you brother and sister as Zhaoyang wishes."

Mi Cai looked at me with a smile, then took my arm and signaled to eat outside the face.

......

The meal was finished quickly, and Micai and I did not leave immediately. We chatted with Yan Yan and Fang Yuan respectively. Perhaps one day after Micai and I got married in Suzhou, we would often visit Fang Yuan's house like today, and maintain a close friend relationship as before.

On the side of the window of the balcony, Fang Yuan stood side by side with a beer can. After he clinked a glass with me, he asked, "How are you thinking about what you said to you last time?"

"You mean going to talk to Mi Zhongde about this?"

Fang Yuan took a sip of beer, nodded and said, "Yes, Weiran and his zh investment company are lying ambushed by Mr. Mi like a time bomb. Can you rest assured?"

"I'm worried, but I can't change her decision. Fang Yuan, you should understand that in this incident, I have always been an outsider. Mi Cai has blocked me out of the door now!"

"So she went to Weiran's private cocktail party today, and she still hopes that Weiran can change her mind?"

"Maybe."

Fang Yuan said after a moment of silence: "Mr. Mi's various actions now will only make the relationship with Mi Zhongde more and more irritated. If Mi Zhongde is angered and he makes him take a gamble, it may be very unfavorable to Mr. Mi!"

I looked at Fang Yuan and asked him for a long time: "What position do you have to talk to me about this matter now? I don't understand?"

"Of course, I am also a member of Zhuomei... I just hope that the storm caused by their upper-level interests can pass as soon as possible. Zhuomei can no longer miss the opportunity for development. With reliable news, its opponent Polytechnic Department Store has also had new capital injections. This year, there may be a series of big moves in Suzhou, the hinterland. Zhuomei will face more severe challenges... Zhaoyang, even if you are an outsider, do you really want to see Zhuomei face such internal and external troubles?"

I fell into silence and hated such a situation in my heart. If Zhuomei could control her smoothly in Micai's hands and seek higher development smoothly, maybe she had already started planning to marry Micai.

Fang Yuan said to me again: "Find an opportunity to persuade Mr. Mi. If she could talk to Mi Zhongde in person, this matter might really turn around. There is no news in the company. Mi Zhongde's situation is also very bad now, and Mr. Mi is a family after all. If he can use cooperation to turn war into jade, wouldn't it be a good thing for everyone to be happy?"

These words have entered my heart. Although I have always despised Mi Zhongde, if he can change his mind, abandon his sinister business intentions, and give Mi Cai's relatives warmth with his uncle's mentality, I will definitely be the first to welcome and feel happy, because I really hope that Mi Cai can live a happier life. As long as she is happy, nothing can be forgiven.

I finally said to Fang Yuan, "I will talk to her again."

Fang Yuan nodded, our conversation ended here, and the night fell so deep... But in this depth, I seemed to see the life defined by Fang Yuan as a game. Since it is just a game, why should I treat it so seriously and bloody? And living comfortably is what I should pursue most in this game.

Looking at Fang Yuan again, his eyes seemed to penetrate the depth of the night. I was eager to see the final result of the game. I realized that our understanding of the game may be biased, but I can't say where the deviation is, because we have never been the same type of people.

......

On the way back, Mi Cai was driving and I was sitting in the passenger cab. Although I looked at the somewhat vain world outside the car window, I was thinking about how to talk to her about Zhuomei again.

Waiting for the green light, Mi Cai looked at me and asked, "What are you thinking? You don't say a word along the way!"

"I'm wondering how to talk to you."

Mi Cai smiled and said, "Do we still need to think about chatting?...Any topic is OK, for example, this week's weekend, should you invite me to see a movie?"

"No, I don't want to talk to you about this now..."

Mi Cai rarely interrupted me and said, "Then let's talk about others, by the way... How is Leyao's malicious hype now dealing with the incident?"

"She has just returned to Beijing and has not had time to issue a public statement."

"Oh..." Mi Cai responded, took advantage of the green light to drive past the intersection in front of her, and then focused on driving.

I finally asked tentatively: "Mi Cai...What do you think of your uncle? Can you talk about it?"

Mi Cai slowed down the car, then looked at me, and then replied for a while: "What's wrong with you? Suddenly I want to talk to me about this!"

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