During the meal, Le Yao's emotions were not stable. I knew that she must be anxious before getting my affirmative answer. After all, she was just a woman, and she was different from Jian Wei and Mi Cai. She was a woman who relied heavily on others. She looked careless, but in fact she lacked the most sense of security.

The dinner was finally finished in the silence of the two of them, and I helped Leyao book a room in a hotel near the train station.

Before leaving, Le Yao grabbed my arm and asked, "Zhaoyang, when will you give me a reply?"

"Soon." I replied concisely. I had to make a choice about this matter as soon as possible, because Le Yao couldn't afford to wait.

Le Yao let go of my arm, nodded and said, "Then I'll wait for you to make a decision in Xuzhou."

"Well... you have a good rest. If you have something to do, call me and I'll leave first." After that, I left the hotel in Le Yao's expectant eyes.

...

I sat on the street bench covered by the city light and shadow, looking at the cars coming and going in front of me in a daze. My confusion was completely due to my lack of choice. If I gave up my job to Suzhou for Le Yao, how should I explain to Li Xiaoyun? Or is the explanation useful?

If I don’t go to Suzhou, it means that I will watch Le Yao fall into the abyss in helplessness. I can’t do it because I think of her humiliation being slapped by other actresses for my job opportunity, and my heart twitched. This twitch made me feel in pain. Only by agreeing to Le Yao’s request can I get rid of such pain.

During the tearing of choices, I felt helplessness and confusion... The ringtone of the phone was accompanied by a cold wind that woke me up from my confusion.

I took out my cell phone from my pocket and looked at the number. It was called by Li Xiaoyun. Then I remembered that I had promised her to have dinner with her, and it was already 9:30.

I answered the phone with complicated emotions, but I was silently waiting for Li Xiaoyun on the other end of the phone to speak first.

"Zhaoyang, have you received your friend?"

I said with apologies: "Well, I just had a meal with her..."

Li Xiaoyun responded in a low tone: "That's what it should be."

"Have you eaten?"

"...Not yet, I've been waiting for you." Li Xiaoyun was silent for a while before saying.

"Then I'll go find you now, and I'll go with you to eat."

"Um."

"Don't you like to eat Western food? I'll invite you to Fez to have a grilled steak."

Li Xiaoyun finally smiled and said, "You have eaten it all, so you don't have to spend so much money. Just eat something casually." After thinking about it, he said, "Just go and eat rice noodles. I haven't eaten rice noodles for a long time."

"Okay..." I responded, but my emotions were brought into the scene of eating rice noodles with Micai when I was in Suzhou. But after a flash, I felt a very delicate feeling in my heart, Luo Ben, Fang Yuan, Yan Yan, Micai, "Empty City" restaurant, and these people or things are all related to Suzhou, but they represent a kind of beauty that makes me nostalgic. This beauty actually made me suddenly miss my life in Suzhou.

I obviously hate everything in Suzhou, but why do I miss it at this moment? Why did my mentality change like this because of? I don’t understand very much! And people often don’t really understand themselves.

...

Twenty minutes later, Li Xiaoyun and I met at a rice noodle shop. Li Xiaoyun asked for a bowl of rice noodle, and I sat opposite her and ate with her.

Li Xiaoyun didn't eat quickly. She looked at me who had been silent and asked, "What are your friends coming to you for?"

I didn't know how to answer for a while, and after a long time, I said, "Please help me if you have something to do."

Li Xiaoyun smiled and said, "It should be a big deal, right?"

"How did you know?"

"Why did you come to Xuzhou to find you if it's not a big deal? But this is your private matter with your friends, I won't ask."

I looked at Li Xiaoyun and felt a sour feeling in my heart. In fact, she is really a very decent and good woman. I have a good impression of her, so it is difficult for me to choose to leave Xuzhou. In addition, we are already in a marriage contract. If we really quit our job and choose to return to Suzhou, our relationship will undoubtedly be fatal.

I nodded and fell into silence again, but the feeling of tearing in my heart became even more intense.

Finally, when Li Xiaoyun was about to finish her meal, I took a deep breath and said to Li Xiaoyun with solemnity: "Xiaoyun, I want to discuss something with you..."

Li Xiaoyun looked at me in confusion and said for a while: "You said."

"...There is something wrong with the music bar run by my friend. I may have to go to Suzhou to help for a while." I said after a long period of silence.

Li Xiaoyun almost subconsciously frowned and asked, "What should I do when you go to Suzhou?"

After another deadly silence, I whispered: "I can only quit this job, I know it's abrupt..."

Before I finished speaking, I was interrupted by Li Xiaoyun angrily: "You know that Tang Abruptly shouldn't make such a decision... Don't you know how many nights and how much effort you have spent in Orson Advertising?"

"I have no choice, hope you support my decision, okay?"

Li Xiaoyun laughed furiously and asked, "What should we do with our relationship? How long do you have to stay in Suzhou?"

"I don't know how long I will stay. If you want, you can wait for me to come back..."

"When you come back, find a job again, and let me cooperate with you to rebuild your relationship?...I'm sorry I can't do it."

"Xiao Yun, don't you be so extreme, okay? My friend's bar invested more than one million yuan and borrowed a large amount of usury. The bar operation also had a considerable situation. Do you let me watch her die and refuse to save her?"

Li Xiaoyun nodded heavily and said, "Zhaoyang, what I admire most is your honesty. Can you answer my questions honestly?"

"Yes." I replied with almost no hesitation.

"Is your friend a man or a woman?"

Li Xiaoyun's first question caught me off guard, and after a while, I replied in a low voice, "She is a woman."

After I finished speaking, Li Xiaoyun's expression suddenly became ugly. It took me a long time to ask, "What is your relationship with her?"

"friend."

"Friend? Is an ordinary friend worthy of your good future in your job? Even our relationship?"

I was upset, but I still gritted my teeth and said, "I have to help with this... because I owe her this."

"Okay, if you insist on doing this, I won't force you, nor can I force you to come. But I still hope you will go back and ask your parents to see if they agree to you doing this." After Li Xiaoyun said that, he picked up the handbag placed aside and left with resentment.

The opposite of me suddenly became empty. Looking at the bowl of rice noodles that Li Xiaoyun had not finished eating, I felt in the pain that my life was ruthlessly torn by fate...
Chapter completed!