Fang Yuan opened the personnel files of Zhuomei Shopping Center in doubt, his eyes stayed on the first page, and his expression changed rapidly, no less than the shock I felt when I first saw it.

Yan Yan beside her noticed Fang Yuan's abnormal behavior, said "What's wrong" and looked at the personnel file in Fang Yuan's hand. She only glanced at her in shock, covered her mouth and stared at me with her big eyes. After a while, she said, "Oh my God, the CEO of Zhuomei Shopping Center is your girlfriend!... Is this too exaggerated, or is it my hallucination?"

Fang Yuan put down the file in his hand, looked at me with the same expression as Yan Yan and said, "Zhaoyang, what's going on? I haven't heard you say before. Mi Cai is Zhuomei's ceo!"

"I only found out after reading this personnel file this morning. Just like you, I also feel it's my own hallucination!"

Fang Yuan and Yan Yan looked at each other, and asked me with a shocked expression: "How did you and her know each other?"

"Do you remember I told you that the old house I lived in was bought by a woman driving a luxury car?"

"Well, you told me."

"It was bought by Micai, and then we got to know each other for granted."

Fang Yuan nodded, suddenly as if he had thought of the key to the problem, and asked with a look that pierced my eyes: "In less than a month, she became your girlfriend?"

I also tried to hide it: "There is no way, it can't be stopped when fate comes!"

"Zhuomei's CEO was caught by you Zhaoyang in less than a month? The plot of the novel has not developed so quickly, right!"

Yan Yan echoed and said, "At the beginning you introduced Mi Cai to us. We all thought you had been dating her for a long time, but we didn't reveal it because we didn't expect that you had known each other for less than a month. Zhaoyang's skill in picking up girls has reached its peak!"

"Can you two stop talking to me so sarcastically?" I said and glared at the two of them.

Fang Yuan and Yan Yan asked in unison: "Then let's honestly explain to us, what is the relationship between you and Mi Cai?"

In fact, when I showed Mi Cai’s file to Fang Yuan, I already knew that today’s paper would not be popular anymore. Who would believe that a top shopping mall would fall in love with an unreliable employee? If you want to blame it, life is too damn nerve-wracking. Why is Mi Cai a Zhuomei’s CEO? Even if she is the daughter of a township business owner or pops up from a crack in the stone, I would not face the dilemma of being exposed.

After a while, I said impatiently to Fang Yuan and Yan Yan who were staring at me: "Don't look at me like a criminal, I can't help but I'll take it!"

"Hurry up, if you don't want to attack, we will torture you." Yan Yan said with a pink fist at me.

I lay on my back on the chair, finally looked at the ceiling, and said with a gamble, "She is not my girlfriend. At your wedding that day, I was very empty, so I called Mi Cai to treat her to dinner and tricked her into your wedding banquet. Then I met Jian Wei. When I got angry, I said she was my girlfriend. Then I kept using lies to cover up the lies, until all of you really thought she was my girlfriend..."

"Oh my God! Zhaoyang, does this mean that you still can't forget Jian Wei?" Yan Yan asked me in surprise despite the crowds of the restaurant.

"Fang Yuan, I'll give your wife a tranquilizer, it's so noisy!" I said in the calmest tone.

Fang Yuan gave Yan Yan a look to show her peace. Yan Yan finally glanced at me apologetically, then fell silent, leaving the space for conversation to me and Fang Yuan.

After a moment of silence, Fang Yuan said to me, "Zhaoyang, why do you use this naive approach to deceive yourself?"

I smiled and said, "Are you childish? I just want to make myself feel better. There are Jian Wei and Xiang Chen. At least everyone doesn't seem so bitter and deep hatred. At least they can say a few words like a friend."

Fang Yuan sighed and then fell silent. The most powerless thing in this world is the love between men and women. There is no way to go, and no one can save the past between Jian Wei and me. Fang Yuan chose to remain silent because he understood this truth.

I was also silent, helpless in silence, sad in helplessness, but no leaf could break through the waves and take me away from the sad boat on this late autumn night, so I confine my desire, sway my soul, and look at me restlessly...

...

After dinner, I walked on the street alone, not a loss, but I wanted to leave the city. In fact, I wanted to leave very early because this city made me fantasize about it for two years and also made me tired for two years.

I was on a sleepless night countless times, fantasizing that one day Jian Wei would return to me, but the fantasy was shattered again and again, so I became more and more tired. Now I finally didn't have to fantasize anymore, because Jian Wei already had something to do, and when Xiang Chen put a love necklace for her, I was already awake.

I really want to leave all my fantasy, loss, and loneliness in this city, spread it away, and then let the cold autumn wind shatter this damn everything. From now on, it has nothing to do with me. How fucking it should be!

I want to leave! Leaving here and returning to the city where I grew up, I got cold sweaters knitted by my mother and hot herbal tea made by my father...

But I can't live without this city. My soul has long been buried here. There is a guitar singing lonely here, an empty city hiding the past, and an old house that soothed me.

Sitting on the bench on the bus stop, I watched the buses carrying passengers heading towards every corner of the city, but I seemed to have nowhere to go on this night.

The last bus No. 32 was parked at the bus stop. I suddenly woke up, then ran up in panic and threw coins. So I finally got an identity called passenger. On this night, I would follow this bus No. 32 and go back to the old house through 6 streets.

...

Subconsciously, I didn't want to leave this old house, so this morning, I took the risk to Micai's room and found a string of keys to this room. I naively thought that Micai really left this room to me and would never come back.

I took out the key and opened the door of the room, but unexpectedly heard the sound of washing in the bathroom. I looked at the shoe rack and saw a pair of chanel-shaped women's leather shoes, which was undoubtedly Mi Cai was back.

I stood quietly at the bathroom door, looking at Mi Cai who was washing up and suddenly said, "Are you back?"

Mi Cai was not scared. She might have heard the movement of me just opened the door, but she ignored me and seemed to be angry about my slutty behavior yesterday.

"Did you just rinse your mouth?" I asked Mi Cai again.

Mi Cai subconsciously looked at her toothbrush before saying, "What do you want to do?"

"I woke up late this morning, so I didn't have time to buy toiletries, so I used yours." I replied.

Mi Cai's expression suddenly became unstable, and her breath became heavier: "You..."

"You left so resolutely yesterday. I thought you wouldn't come back, otherwise I would definitely tell you in advance or buy you a new one."

Mi Cai seemed to see the cockroach expression that day and said angrily: "Are you disgusting?"

"I definitely don't feel disgusted when you are a beauty. Just use it!" To be honest, this is actually a trivial matter for me. In college, a few men smoked a cigarette, and they all squeezed their saliva into their mouths and sucked it. Using this as a reference, they would not mind using the toothbrush used by the beauty. Besides, I really plan to buy her a new set, and who knows that she will be back tonight.

"I mean your behavior is disgusting!"

I said innocently: "I'm really not disgusting with your toothbrush, I really don't have to worry about me."

Mi Cai's expression became even more angry. She threw the toothbrush, towel, and even cosmetics into the trash can, walked to me who was blocking the bathroom door, pushed me hard, and sweared for the first time: "Don't open!"

I grabbed Mi Cai and said, "Ah!... It turns out that I used your toothbrush, you feel disgusted!... Look at your expression ability, it's really worrying, it's hard to explain it clearly!"

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