"How about this office building? Real-Car's headquarters will be located here in the future." Chen Xi looked away from the glass window and looked at Yuan Shuai with a smile.
"Yes, but the place is opposite Carsales. Only you can come up with such a bad idea." Yuan Shuai paced in the spacious office, his face filled with excitement that could not be concealed.
But when he thought about the possibility of returning to China in the future, his head suddenly stopped again.
According to Yuan Shuai’s parents’ wishes, he was asked to go back after graduation.
Now that he has graduated, Yuan Shuai is a little hesitant.
It’s hard to make a career in Tu’ao, why don’t you have to start from scratch when you go back?
"Even if I choose here, I will hang the Real-Car sign high above the building to make that Norbert angry." Chen Xi pointed to the top of his head.
"Have you found out about Shazhi's whereabouts?" Yuan Shuai asked cautiously. After all, we are all high school classmates and still have feelings for each other.
"..."
As night fell, Chen Xi said goodbye to Yuan Shuai and walked into a bar alone.
Looking around, the men and women chatting and laughing seemed to be out of tune with him.
He sighed silently. During this time, the bar at night became his only place to relieve his worries.
Every night, he would come here and taste a few glasses of fine wine alone, letting his thoughts drift away temporarily under the influence of alcohol.
"Brother, you come here and have a few drinks every day. Are you worried about emotional matters?" The bartender is also a white guy, and he is quite handsome.
Now that Chen Xi is also a regular customer, he will naturally come up and chat.
"Oh? Do you have experience?" Chen Xi smiled and took the wine from the other party.
"Of course you have experience. Judging from your age, you should be an international student. There are many international students who come here to get drunk, and most of them are trapped in love." The bartender is not much older than Chen Xi. He is a bit experienced in speaking.
"Then how did they solve it?"
"Hey, did you see, this, this, that, that, at first they were all drinking alone, and as they drank, they became We are a couple, and when we walk out of this bar, we will forget all our worries." The bartender pointed at several couples chatting happily over drinks.
"Tch, I thought you were going to say something. I'm not interested in this." Chen Xi waved his hand.
"There is another way to solve emotional troubles."
"What is that?"
"Go out and turn right, find a club to stay for one night, and all your love will disappear immediately. ." The bartender raised his eyebrows with a smile.
"You are a pimp, right? Did you go there and get a kickback?"
"Hey, it turns out you are also an old gangster, so I didn't tell you." The bartender's face turned red and he quickly made a drink, trying to ease the embarrassment.
Chen Xi took out his cell phone while drinking and dialed Ma Yueling's number.
This is the first time I have called the other party recently.
“Why do you keep calling me?” Ma Yueling on the phone seemed a little impatient.
"Sister Ling, do you have any news about Shazhi?"
"Why do you think I have news about her?"
"You have so many paths, I don't believe you don't know."
"I think you should think carefully about why Shaozhi left."
"I..."
Beeping sound came from the phone before he finished speaking.
Hey.
Chen Xi sighed deeply in his heart.
This conversation has actually been repeated many times. Chen Xi knew that Ma Yueling must know the whereabouts of Shazhi, but she just didn't want to tell her.
Just when he put away his cell phone, he suddenly saw a figure appear at the door. The next second, the person pushed the door open in a panic.
Chen Xi immediately jumped up from his chair and quickly chased after him.
In a dead end, Chen Xi looked at the woman shaking like chaff in the dark and shouted: "Why did you run away when you saw me?"
"It's nothing. I suddenly had to urinate urgently and wanted to go to the toilet..." Tess huddled in the corner, looking around for possible escape routes, but unexpectedly, a rat jumped out from under her feet, scaring her almost out of her mind.
"Don't come up with such lame excuses. Jack has told me everything. Tell me, what did you do to Shazhi last time?" The angry Chen Xi had one hand like an iron plier. He grabbed her by the throat and pressed her against the wall.
Tess felt it became increasingly difficult to breathe, and her legs kicked helplessly in the air.
Just when she thought she was about to die, the pressure on her neck suddenly disappeared.
Tess collapsed to the ground, sitting on her knees, her face flushed, and she was breathing heavily.
"I didn't say anything... I just showed her the girl's photo and told her about you being in two different places..." Tess sat on the ground and hesitated.
"TMD." Chen Xi gave the other party a slap in the face, causing her face to become red and swollen instantly.
“You did this to your classmate just for some money, you bitch.” After a few glasses of wine, Chen Xi raised his foot and wanted to kick him. After thinking about it, he finally decided to let it go.
After all, Saori left, and he had his own problems. Some things cannot be hidden for a lifetime.
As he walked out of the alley, a woman's cry could be heard behind him. Chen Xi stopped a taxi with a wave of his hand and headed home.
At home, Dongdong was lying on the sofa having a video chat with Zhang Ruoxi.
After returning home and looking at the drunken Chen Xi, Dongdong couldn't help but turn off the video.
“You drink outside every day, why not drink with us at home.” Dongdong stood up and took out two bottles of beer from the refrigerator.
“Where is Xiao Ming?”
“This guy went to live with his uncle. I can’t help it. I’ve been unhappy with Zhang Yi recently, and it’s hard to tell us anything. I can only Go to his uncle to complain. But having said that, I think that woman Zhang Yi is not good. The rumors about you in the group were spread by that woman. I asked Ruo Xi to ask a few people indirectly. This woman seems to be related to Xu. Yun mixed together." Dongdong opened the beer.
At this time Jin Nana also came down from upstairs.
She grabbed the wine Dongdong had just opened and took a sip.
“Don’t let him drink it, he has to work the next day.” Jin Nana patted Dongdong’s hand.
"By the way, you have graduated, why haven't you returned to Kimchi Country?" Dongdong picked up another bottle of beer and put it into his mouth.
"Chen Xi didn't even go back, so of course I stayed here. I don't know what happened to my brother recently. His temper has become more and more weird. He would get angry after talking to me for a few words. What happened? I don’t even want to go back.”
"Ha, you people in Kimchi Country don't have normal tempers."
"Who are you talking about!" After hearing Dongdong's words, Jin Nana raised her leg and kicked him on the butt.
Rubbing the slightly swollen trigeminal nerve, Chen Xi said nothing about taking a shower and walked upstairs.
"I said you haven't found out Shazhi's address yet. Aren't you two good friends?" When the man went upstairs, Dongdong asked in a low voice, still looking at the stairs. Afraid of someone eavesdropping.
“No, do you know Chen Xi’s home address?”
"I don't know."
"That's fine."
"..."
Jin Nana's rhetorical question left Dongdong completely speechless.
Although they studied together and lived together in Tu'ao.
But they don’t know each other’s home addresses in various countries at all. "Then you must have other contact information." Dongdong asked again.
The contact information he mentioned are nothing more than some popular communication software on mobile phones today.
Such as WhatsApp, Line, Viber, Skype.
If you want to say that the most popular communication software in Asia, especially in Kimchi Country and Sakura Country, then it is Line.
It's the same green icon as WeChat. As for who imitated whom, well...
"I left a message on Line, but Shazhi never responded. It can be said that she has never been online." Jin Nana Sighed.
"Then you still have business in Tu'ao, did she just give up?"
"I received a document and Shazhi transferred all the shares to me. Now I am the boss..."
"Pfft~"
After hearing this, Dongdong spurted out the wine in his mouth.
"Then you can find her contact information from the entrusted lawyer."
"Everyone has professional ethics, how can they help you contact your employer." Jin Nana turned over A roll of eyes.
“Then we really can’t find her?”
“Hey~”
Jin Nana sighed and drank the wine in her hand.
She waved her hand, burped and trotted upstairs.
In the bathroom, Chen Xi held one hand on the cold tile wall, while warm water poured down from the shower head above his head, washing his tired body, but it could not wash away the worries in his heart.
Water drops slid down his angular face, mixing with the liquid that accidentally spilled from the corners of his eyes. It was unclear whether it was hot water or tears.
Thoughts are like uncontrollable water flowing through my mind.
Every moment with Shazhi is played back like an old movie: from the youthful ignorance in high school, to the mutual support in college, to the sudden separation... every scene is so clear, yet so far away.
Chen Xi closed his eyes and took a deep breath, trying to suppress those disturbing emotions.
But every time this happened, Saori's smile, her voice, and even her occasional temper would come flooding in, making him unable to extricate himself.
He stretched out his hand to wipe away the water droplets on his face, opened his eyes, and looked through the hazy mist. He seemed to be able to see Saori standing outside the bathroom door, looking at him with a smile, her eyes twinkling. With gentle light.
But in the blink of an eye, it all came to nothing again, leaving only the empty room and the cold tiles.
Why?
Why does this happen?
Chen Xi shouted silently in his heart, but his voice was swallowed up by the water flow and the echo of the bathroom.
At this moment, a pair of small white hands hugged his body tightly from behind, and then a soft ball was pressed against his back.
A little drunk, he did not turn around, but allowed the other party to apply shower gel and cleanse carefully on his body.
More than ten minutes later, Chen Xi lay on the bed and looked at Jin Nana who climbed onto the bed in a bathrobe and asked: "Did you really not find Saori? Aren't you two best friends?"
"Are you doubting me? I know you like Saori, but you don't have to think so low of me." Jin Nana pouted angrily.
"I just saw the document on the table. Shazhi transferred her shares to you. Do you need to defend yourself?" The man seemed a little reluctant.
"Please, I think it's a little sudden. You've been too sad recently. You wouldn't have thought about problems like this before." Jin Nana sighed, lowered her body and kissed his face gently. Kissed.
She also knows that the man feels uncomfortable, and all she can do now is to appease him.
"I know that you have been very upset recently and need to vent." Seeing that the man was speechless, the woman spoke again, and the bathrobe on her body slipped off.
After taking a bath, Chen Xi, who was already upset, was feeling hot all over. Seeing this scene, the flames that had been suppressed for a long time also burst out at this moment.
In the dim room, whispers and sighs in two languages intertwined into a wordless song, and the air was filled with the faint smell of shower gel and sweat.
Waves of invasion came like a tidal wave, and Jin Nana ushered in a transformation in her life on this special night.
The next day.
When Jin Nana opened her eyes again, she found that the man beside her was gone.
The note left on the bedside table told her that the other party had gone to the company in an emergency.
Looking at the man's careful report and recalling all the craziness last night, a happy smile appeared on the woman's face.
Lifting the quilt, the naked Jin Nana stood in front of the mirror and looked at the red marks on her body, and then at the plum blossoms on the sheets.
stroking the delicate patterns on the sheets, she felt an inexplicable touch. At the same time, a faint pain came from somewhere in her body, which instantly touched her sensitive heartstrings like an electric current.
This sudden feeling made her heart beat violently involuntarily.
Suddenly, a strong sense of dizziness swept through her mind like a whirlwind, and Jin Nana couldn't help but hold her head tightly.
Immediately afterwards, it felt like there were thousands of needles passing through my skull, but the pain was fleeting.
"How could it be like this?" She murmured to herself, with indescribable emotions surging in her heart.
She clearly remembered that she and Chen Xi had already had skin-to-skin contact.
"Why... why is this happening?" She asked herself over and over again, but couldn't find the answer.
At this moment, a powerful force seemed to surge out from the depths of her head, taking her back to those past memories and pictures.
She saw the quarrel between herself and Shazhi, the excessive words she said impulsively, and the ups and downs with Chen Xi last night.
Thinking about it now, it only makes her feel endless regret and self-blame.
Jin Nana covered her face helplessly with her hands, tears bursting out like broken beads. Her whole body seemed to be drowned in endless sadness and regret, unable to extricate herself.
City.
Chen Xi sat on a chair in the conference room, holding a copy of today's newspaper in his hand.
"We need to have our own professional public relations department. I don't want to see this kind of news in the future." Chen Xi slammed the newspaper on the table with a cold face.
The above content is all negative news about HungryDragon, HailHop and Real-Car.
These reports point directly at them, and the initiators behind them are self-evident.
Carsales undoubtedly wanted to seek improper benefits by discrediting them.
Chen Xi stood up angrily, strode to the floor-to-ceiling window, looked down, and locked directly on a piece of glass in the Carsales office building opposite.
A bloated white man was standing in front of the window, waving to him with a smile on his face.
Chen Xi stared at the man coldly, while Norbert deliberately picked up a newspaper, pasted it in front of the glass, and winked provocatively at Chen Xi, his behavior full of arrogance and pride.
“I have contacted major Chinese newspapers. If Carsales can discredit us, we can also follow suit.”
"I also found people on the Internet to troll them."
Yuan Shuai and Lin Yu said.
“In Tu’ao, large local newspapers such as TheAge are what Gui Lao focuses on. Most of our customers are local people, and Chinese only account for a small part of Tu’ao’s population base. If you rashly publish some untrue news, these newspapers will definitely reject it. If you want to tell the truth, We are attacking the other side, but we still need something real.
Carsales is currently launching a car rental service. I have seen this service and the rules and regulations are actually very detrimental to consumers. We can make a fuss about it..." Chen Xi put one hand on the table and gestured with the other hand in the air. (End of this chapter)