After a long times, Chen RuoYu did not meet Meng Gu again. It was Liang Sisi who had helped her with the hospital checkout formalities. After hearing that Meng Gu was not in a good mood in the hospital, Chen RuoYu didn't even dared to venture out right at the door of her house.
Going into hiding for a while had benefitted her. She did not have any 'romantic opportunity enounter' again and went out again later. She didn't go to the hospital, the supermarket nor the cafe anymore.
Infact, Chen RuoYu felt that Meng Gu was right.. they really don't match each well. He was calm, collected and understood the situation earlier.
Infact, she was blind and naive, only feeling the pain after hitting the wall.
The distance between them was like being separated by land and sea. Not only was their life circle different, their personalities were also different. It was also because of certain shameful, disgraceful and stupid acts that occurred infront of him that had separated them too.
He was very clear that she pursued him not because she love him. He even knew she had chosen and picked him between Lei Feng because Lei Feng already had a fiancee. It sounded like she was a woman who disregarded feelings, emotions and cared about practicality. This made Chen RuoYu feeling shameful.
She wanted to say she's not an indecisive woman, not one who has high standard but with little ability and not one who fickle in the matters of love. She hoped to find a man with good qualities and live a peaceful life together. There's nothing wrong with having this kind of hope. One who's not always be able to meet someone with good qualities, and if by chance, was able to meet someone good, was it wrong to take the initiative first.
This's also similar to, going on a blind dates. At the first meeting, perhaps one may not be able to fall in love directly but if the other person's can get along and willing to try, wouldn't this be the same thing? Feelings can be slowly be cultivated.
Well, Chen RuoYu also has to admits that although this argument's somewhat reasonable, it's also feeble. Just like the time she was caught red-handed on the spot bad-mouthing Meng Gu with someone else. It had a sense of indisputable helplessness.
In short, it must have given him an impression of an unlikeable person she's. So he had clearly rejected her and said they could only be friends.
But she does not want to be friend with him. She likes him very much, so they can't be friends. She also does not want this to happen. After completely destroying her own image infront of him, then only she realized she likes that person. She really does not want to this stupid things again.
She had to face it since this had happened already. She wants to silently cut off all her emotional feelings and emotions for him. She does not intend to meet him again.
She wants to continued living her ordinary and chaotic life. Maybe in a later days, she'll find someone more suitable to love and get married. But first of all, she must brace herself and go through all the unlucky events that had happened to her before.
Recently, Chen RuoYu's luck is indeed bad, so bad that it cannot get any worse.
The first unlucky thing that happened was, two wicked people who had assaulted her refused to pay for her hospital expenses. Before that, they have agreed to pay compensation but now they back out, unwilling to pay up. Although, Chen RuoYu was a wastrel and afraid to get into trouble but for this matter, she half hardened her heart to seek justice. With her injured body, she had ran to the police station back and forth, even consulted a lawyer. If necessary, she planned to bring this two wicked man to court.
She looked at Liang Sisi and held her hands. "If anythings happens to me, I'll have to rely on you to settle things for me. Help me inform my family. I've brought insurance for myself and the beneficiary is my mother. And as to my bank account, there's not much money inside. There's also my best friend, Gao YuLan.. if any misfortune befalls me, you will only tell her at the last minute."
"Okay.., okay.." Liang Sisi interrupted her. "Please don't entrust me with this type of heavy responsibilities. Take good care of yourself. If anythings really happens to you, you will find out you'hv entrusted the wrong person later. I'm afraid that you'll not rest in peace."
"I look forward to your sterling performance."
"You should curtail your sterling performance. You've already done your best and those two men don't look like they're good people."
Chen RuoYu nodded. Although, she feel scared, she was also reluctant to back down. In this life, she had always been timid and afraid of trouble. Only in this matter, she was brave for once. It had nothing to do with anyone else except she was doing for her own sake, so she persisted.
Fortunately, her client finally received his full insurance compensation which gave her some comfort.
But the continuous effect of this incident did not end here. Her company was not happy with her actions in creating trouble over this incident. To some leaders in the company, her actions had created disruptions for the company. Not only did she caused trouble but also the interests of the company. Fortunately for Chen RuoYu, her immediate supervisor supported her but during the following days, she had constantly go for meetings and be reprimanded. As a result, she was both mentally and physically exhausted.
During this period, Meng Gu had called her twice but she was afraid to answer his calls. She stared at the screen showing Meng Gu's name until the ringtone stopped and the screen finally blackout.
Chen RuoYu's family also made several phone calls to her, informing her that.a relative would be going to A-City and reminded her to receive and entertain him. They also asked whether she could let him stay at her place for few days and requested her to bring her relative to visit her company.
This's simply taking her life. Her rented apartment's so small that there's not enough room for him to stay and even, if there's ample space, she wouldn't let him stay. How can she allow a male relatives squeezing into her small apartment with two girls' sharing?
Sometimes, Chen RuoYu really could not understand what her family's thinking and also she has to take her relative to visit her company. This type of common people's purely show-off attitude really makes her shameful. In addition, she cannot allow her family to know her company.. how can she tell her family she's selling insurance?
Chen RuoYu made various excuses to decline her family's request. She even lied that she would be out of the city on a business trip but did not expect that her job as an insurance salesperson would be exposed.
One day in a coffee shop, she had a meeting with her manager and a client.. after the client left, her manager sat there giving her advice patiently for half-an-hour. He taught her how to behave and deal with the customer understandingly. She had put in a little consideration for her last client that she had serviced, etc... She did not refute, bowed her head and listened. When they're leaving, she found out a friend of her hometown rival Qi Na, sitting at the next table. His face showed full of interest and happy expression and she knew his gonna gossip about her being scolded by her manager.
Chen RuoYu quickly left but in her heart, she felt a large stonr pressing down heavily, making her unbreatheable.
This person will certainly tell Qi Na about this. And since Qi Na had resented her, she will definitely spread the news and apart from that, she would add spiced and salts to her rumors to make it juicy too. She wondered whether Qi Na would make a special trip to her home to tell her parents and relatives, expressing her sympathy and regrets for Chen RuoYu as a failure daughter.
With all the unlucky things piling up together, Chen RuoYu felt defeated.
She had just lost her love, avoiding his calls and had offended the person she likes. She had deceived her family and was going to be exposed soon. She will be treated as a joke by the person she hated. Soon she will be a laughing stock of her social circle in her small hometown. She was assulted but the culprits had yet to be brought to justice. Her life was still in danger and her work wasbat stake as her superiors kept a closed watch over her....
These few days, Chen RuoYu didn't have the spirit to sigh.
Her phone kept ringing endlessly, threatening by the two evil men, cursing her vulgarly and warning her to watch out. Her mother had called to checked whether she had left for her business trip and told her that her relative would come to visit A-City as soon as she had returned A-City. One of her new hometown's friend who's still in contacts, Yang Yang told her that Qi Na had recently spread damaging news about her. Yang Yang told her to be prepared. Prepared? Why should she be prepared?
Everytimes her phone rangs, she tembled and felt scared.
Finally, she decided and did not care anymore. Since her mobile credit had been already used up, she did not intend to top up the credit and initially let the phone line be suspended. After pretending to be dead for a few days, she finally reached a decision and simply de-registered her line. She wanted to alienate herself from all these unnecessary problems and start afresh.
She did not believe that she will continue to be so unlucky. She didn't believe that she will encounter an even more unlucky event apart of all these. But she was wrong.
She really met with an even more unlucky matter!
She had acute gastroenteritis and was hospitalized again!
She was in a bad mood, drank a can of beer and ate a bowl of spicy soup which caused her to suffer from acute gastroenteritis and admitted to the hospital.
Chen RuoYu who's lying in the.hospital's bed, felt like crying.
The only good news was that she was conscious enough to choose her hospital for admission. The hospital was located faraway from where Meng Gu was working and faraway from the people she knew.
She needed loneliness but however, her loneliness did not make her feel better. She becomes vulnerable and felt sad. She really wanted to hide in a place where nobody knows her. What Chen RuoYu didn't know was that times during her hospitalization, her circle of friends was frantically looking for her.