The next day, Qiu Mingyue took the earliest train he could catch and ran away.
She left a message to the other three people in the small group, saying that she needed to go home temporarily because of something.
Mao Linlin had no doubt that he was there and was the first to reply: Okay, please be safe.
Qiu Mingyue: Yeah.
More than two hours later, when the train arrived at City F, the sun was shining brightly. Qiu Mingyue floated out of the cold carriage, walking hurriedly like a female ghost in a Chinese studio, fearing that she would be annihilated.
In the taxi, Qiu Mingyue opened the small group again with a guilty conscience. Zhou Su had read her message but had not replied.
She was finished.
Qiu Mingyue only had this thought in her mind.
After returning home, Qiu Mingyue wanted to take a sleeping pill and fall asleep, then wake up and forget everything that happened last night. But in fact, she was very awake. When she closed her eyes, there were pictures in front of her. When she opened her eyes, The images in my mind are also lingering. Just like the photos and videos on her phone, she couldn't bear to delete them, and she still wanted to look back on them from time to time.
After being depressed all day, Teacher E suddenly sent a voice call invitation in the evening, and Qiu Mingyue hung up without even thinking.
When she clicked on the software, she discovered that Teacher E had replied to her message in the morning, explaining that she had something to do last night and had not checked her phone, and asked her what was wrong. A few hours later, another question mark was sent, probably because she had not read it. No reply, so I called.
E:?
Lemon Yellow Star: It's okay.
Zhou Su dialed the phone and was rejected again. His temples twitched slightly and his head began to hurt again.
It's a psychological effect.
When he woke up in the morning, Zhou Su didn't react for a long time. He was confused and tried to recall whether he was drunk. When was the last time you got drunk? It seems that I was fed it with my friends while I was studying.
In his daze, he saw the suit jacket and belt hanging in the closet. He lowered his head and looked at the white shirt on his body, frowning. His memory came back bit by bit, but it was very slow and difficult.
Zhou Su looked around. There was a glass of water on the bedside table and shoes beside the bed. Other than that, there was no other trace.
He remembered Qiu Mingyue's appearance, but he only remembered that he met her when he was helping Jiang Jiabai back to his room. At that time, he was trying to keep the last bit of sobriety, worried that he would lose his moral integrity after drinking, but in the end, the second hand of his memory was The moment Qiu Mingyue's fingertips slid across his thigh, she trembled and became stuck, unable to walk any further.
The moment he saw the message in the group, Zhou Xing knew that he must have offended her. Maybe... it was a more serious mistake than "offending".
He didn't dare to think about it, and he really couldn't remember it.
Why did you drink so much out of control?
He also forgot the reason. Maybe it started when Jiang Jiabai talked about his wife and children, maybe when Jacky Cheung's song "Thinking About Her" started playing in the lounge, maybe it started when Qiu Mingyue finished the whole day. From the moment he deliberately kept a distance, he was like a battery that had been chewed up and exhausted, holding on to his dying breath.
With no way of knowing what happened last night, Zhou Xing could only despicably turn to the vest account he hated again.
This is the only way.
He sent the call invitation for the third time, and this time, Qiu Mingyue answered the call a few seconds later.
Zhou Su tried his best to keep his tone and attitude normal: "What's wrong?"
Qiu Mingyue's voice sounded weak, and she said: "...Teacher E, why don't we just stop talking? I don't really want to hear your voice right now..."
When I hear it, I will think of Zhou Su and my own absurdity.
Zhou Su didn't expect that the worst outcome had already come to this. His heart felt stifled and a nerve in his head twitched, "Why?"
Qiu Mingyue lay on the bed, looked at the ceiling, blinked her eyes, and blinked her eyes again. She was so outrageous that it was difficult to speak even to Teacher E.
"...What happened during the business trip?" Teacher E asked.
Qiu Mingyue became nervous and said, "No!" Realizing that she was losing her composure, she explained, "No, it's me..."
Teacher E comforted and encouraged her very gently: "It's okay."
Qiu Mingyue's panic, shame and regret after hurriedly escaping to her room last night broke out at this moment. She lost control of her emotions. She choked on her words and quickly cut off the voice. Fearing that Teacher E would misunderstand, she turned over and lay on the bed to send another message.
Lemon Yellow Star: I don't know what to say…
Zhou Su was sitting on the sofa. There was only a white vase on the coffee table in front of him. The chamomile inside was spreading easily. However, after raising it for a while, it was no longer as energetic as before, and the flowers and leaves were drooping. The light in the hall was dim with no lights on, and only an inch of golden sunset peeked through the gap in the undrawn curtains. It was quiet, brilliant, and decadent.
He didn't turn on the air conditioner, forgot to turn it on, but felt chilly.
It wasn't until this moment that he admitted that the guilt and self-abandonment he felt in the past for using his online identity to deceive Qiu Mingyue was actually just a form of self-comfort, which would make him feel better, and then continue to be a dirty villain, but he expected and believed He will be with Qiu Mingyue, and at that time, he will always confess to Qiu Mingyue and obtain her forgiveness.
But now everything has been ruined by him...or rather, he never had it from the beginning.
Zhou Su didn't know how he could make up for the damage he had caused to Qiu Mingyue. His head hurt and he couldn't remember. If he wanted to know, he would have to ask her to dig out the wound and show it to him, but he hid it in "Teacher E" What should be the response?
He felt extremely despicable, but he sent the message anyway.
E: Is it a bad thing?
Qiu Mingyue read Teacher E's words twice and found it difficult to answer.
Rather than saying "bad things", it is more accurate to say "bad things". She did bad things, and now there is evidence of the crime on her phone.
Lemon Yellow Star: I did bad things to others...
Zhou Su frowned and replied: What do you mean?
She to others? Who are the others?
Suddenly, he figured out something, and his heart, which had been at the bottom of the valley, was suddenly caught like a fish, jumping around.
Lemon Yellow Star: It's really hard for me to say…
E: Are you the leader?
Qiu Mingyue didn't want to say it, but now, she replied: Yes.
E didn't ask again, probably because even though he didn't know what happened, since it was related to her leader, he might be tired of hearing the constant chatter.
For some reason, Qiu Mingyue was able to speak out now.
Lemon Yellow Star: My boss was drunk last night.
She left out details.
Lemon Yellow Star: Anyway, I sent him back to the room in the end, and then, you know, he was drunk.
Lemon Yellow Star: I touched him.
The fish broke away and fell back into the lake, its fins flapping, alive.
The water ripples swayed, leaving long shadows in the shimmering gold.
The dots between the chest and the sea of flowers, like smoke and clouds, represent the relaxation and joy of coming back to life. The corners of the mouth are curled up as Zhou expresses his relief.
He thought of the suit jackets and belts hanging in the closet and the water on the bedside table, and then he thought dully that if he hadn't become so animalistic at the end, Qiu Mingyue would have been taking care of him while he was unconscious.
He changed out of the clothes he wore for the night and was now wearing short-sleeved shirts. He touched his body and was glad for a moment that he had the habit of keeping fit.
He didn't know how Qiu Mingyue touched him or where he touched him, but when he thought of that scene, the scene of her untying her clothes... the residual alcohol seemed to be still burning his body. If possible, Zhou Su would like to Watch Qiu Mingyue write these.
He always knew that she didn't want to be so quiet on the outside, thinking that she was lustful and dissolute, but in fact she was very honest, and he could understand her uneasiness.
E: It doesn't matter.
Qiu Mingyue sighed.
Lemon Yellow Star: It's not just touching...it's even more excessive. I'm embarrassed to tell you.
His ears were burning, and Zhou Su stopped thinking about how he was used by Qiu Mingyue last night. He needed to appease Qiu Mingyue's uneasiness, but it was extremely difficult.
He couldn't say that he didn't mind at all, but he was very happy and even excited about it.
He couldn't say that he wouldn't remember it when he was drunk, because it was exactly this that made her blame herself and embarrass her even more.
E: It doesn't matter, you didn't do anything.
Qiu Mingyue let out a long sigh and said, "That's it, Teacher E. I'll just take it easy first."
The only person who can elaborate is Zhao Xige.
She was still drunk and infatuated abroad. After hearing Qiu Mingyue's story, she was amazed: "Tearing off people's clothes, taking naked photos of others, and... tsk tsk, you are awesome, Qiu Mingyue, I knew you were wild, but I didn't know you were you" How can you be so wild, what kind of angel are you, the leader, to lead our little cutie into such a bad state?"
Zhao Xige is really good at complaining.
Qiu Mingyue: "What do you think I should do?"
In the video, Zhao Xige pointed her eyeshadow brush at Qiu Mingyue, "You just have such a good heart."
"what?"
Zhao Xige continued to put on eyeshadow and said nonchalantly: "That's right. Actually, if you don't tell me and I don't tell you, who will know? You just touched a few handfuls and didn't really do anything. And can men and women be the same? You touch He thinks highly of him."
Queen Zhao Xige's words did not bring comfort to Qiu Mingyue. She sighed: "I really... I don't know what I will do next..."
"Do you still remember your deskmate from the second year of high school?" Zhao Xige changed the topic, "What's his name? He was the one who talked a lot and was very noisy."
Qiu Mingyue didn't know why Zhao Xige suddenly mentioned high school, but she nodded anyway.
"Weren't you particularly intolerable at the time, but you endured it again and again, thinking that it would be your fault if the teacher moved him to the last row, in case it affected other people's studies, but in the end the teacher still moved him to the last row. As a result , Hey, people still like to sit at the back." Zhao Xige returned to the topic, "What I want to say is that sometimes you just think too much, and many things are actually not as serious as you think. Maybe your leader also likes it. You touched him. I'd say it's nothing, your boss doesn't know about it, you've reflected on it, and let's just let it go."
Qiu Mingyue understood what Zhao Xige meant, but this was never her logic in dealing with people, "...What should I do if I can't get through?"
Zhao Xige didn't talk nonsense to Qiu Mingyue, "If you can't make it, either go and apologize to others and ask for forgiveness from your boss, or resign. How much money do you make and the work is tiring enough? If you want to pay for your feelings, you might as well just pull her over."
0034 Secret love affair
Qiu Mingyue carefully considered Zhao Xige's suggestion to resign.
Intellectually, it is not advisable.
Not to mention the Qixi Festival project, which will be reviewed after the holiday, this is the first big project she has done since coming to Berry. It would not be appropriate to change jobs within a year.
Since graduation, Berry is her third job. Qiu Mingyue has held the first two jobs for at least a year.
But it was absolutely impossible for her to confess.
After spending the weekend in a daze, Qiu Mingyue almost didn't dare to go to work in the new working week, but she still went to work.
Zhou Su is still the same, the breeze is clear and the moon is shining, and Jiang Jiabai doesn't look like a drunkard at all.
Sister Lin smiled and mentioned to Qiu Mingyue that the other two drank too much last week. In the end, she went out for a walk alone. Because the weather was too hot, she returned to the hotel early to rest.
In the end, she was the only one who was worried.
Qiu Mingyue only met Zhou Xing once during the regular meeting on Monday. At that time, she couldn't help but think of a question. Could the director... really not remember anything?
She was afraid that he would remember, but if she really wanted to make up some excuse to leave her job, Yu Zhou complained, he would never know that she had liked him, even though the love was unimportant and dim.
Qiu Mingyue was a little sad.
She gave herself a chance to work for a few days to see if she could pretend nothing happened, but there wasn't a day she went to work without trepidation. Qiu Mingyue also felt that she was a coward, which was a bit cowardly. She had been abiding by the law since she was a child, and she was only bullied by others, never riding on others.
The more he thought about it, the more determined he was about resigning. The more determined he was about resigning, the less energetic he became. After returning home that day, Qiu Mingyue discovered that he had forgotten to bring the documents for meeting the advertiser tomorrow, so he had to take a taxi to return. .
It was already very late when she left. After such a round trip, the whole building was silent when she arrived at the company. The security guard looked away after seeing her take out her work card and swipe the access control.
With the lack of popularity, the lights in the elevator were pale, and the subtle operating sounds sounded a bit scary at this time. Qiu Mingyue was not afraid at first, but when she walked out of the elevator door and saw that the lights in the office were still on, she couldn't help but feel a little thump in her heart.
Rather than bumping into ghosts, Qiu Mingyue's first reaction was that Zhou Su was working overtime, but the next second she passed this idea because Zhou Su was not here at all this afternoon.
Who could that be? What time is it?
Qiu Mingyue walked into the office suspiciously and quietly, and found that the lights were on in the area where the design department was located, but there was no one there. She walked towards her workstation while looking at it, and suddenly caught a very low and forbearing gasp. .
Qiu Mingyue's hair stood on end. Leng Buding saw a head lying on the table, screamed, and threw his cell phone away.
After hurriedly picking up the phone, he turned around and found that it was Zhang Yihe, who was hurriedly cleaning himself up.
Qiu Mingyue was scared to death. She was angry and speechless: "Why haven't you gotten off work yet?" She observed carefully again and asked, "What are you doing in Jiang Ran's place? Sleeping?"
Although Zhang Yihe's face, standing in the shadows, could not be clearly seen, Qiu Mingyue found him visibly nervous and stumbling.
Even when she mistakenly thought he was a shy male college student, she had never seen him like this. On the contrary, although Zhang Yihe would be shy and blush, his eloquence and logic were still very clear.
"I, I'm here to help Jiang Ran get the things." Zhang Yihe explained.
In other words, Qiu Mingyue had done too many thieves during these days, and Zhang Yihe's guilty conscience could be seen at a glance.
She could have asked him what he was getting for Jiang Ran, or sent a message directly to Jiang Ran, but in the end Qiu Mingyue just looked at Zhang Yihe deeply without delving into it.
On the one hand, she felt that it was none of her business, and on the other hand, she felt that it should be nothing.
After Zhang Yihe walked away, Qiu Mingyue found the documents on his desk, but at the same time, he smelled a fishy smell.
She had smelled this smell just now, but now it was stronger, and it seemed to be emanating from near Jiang Ran's position.
Qiu Mingyue had bad guesses in her mind.
She saw an A5-sized thick notebook on Jiang Ran's desk. She had never seen it before, so she opened it casually. The first few pages were full of sketches of characters, a pretty girl with medium-long hair and glasses.
Those who work hard, laugh and chat, walk and even collect water, with simple but lifelike lines, are all Jiang Ran.
Qiu Mingyue thought of what Zhang Yihe said and thought that she had misunderstood him. Maybe this was what he had brought for Jiang Ran, but just turning over another page, the painting style was still fresh and natural, but the focus of the characters had changed drastically. Variety:
The buttocks when bending down to pick something up, the cleavage visible when looking down from a sitting position, the lips holding the straw when drinking a drink...
Scroll further back and you will see a completely eroge cartoon scene, with Jiang Ran being put into various sex positions.
Qiu Mingyue was so shocked that she couldn't believe what she saw. Zhang Yihe, who had returned to his work station, suddenly remembered something and suddenly turned his head back to meet Qiu Mingyue's disbelieving gaze.
They were in darkness and light, and the scene was very funny. Zhang Yihe was like a murderer in a movie or TV drama who was pushed to the front of the scene by the spotlight when the truth was revealed. He was frightened at first, and then quickly controlled his expression. When he realized that there was no escape, his shoulders slumped. He lowered his head, covering his brows with his forehead hair, and gave up the struggle.
Qiu Mingyue was in a complicated mood and was speechless.
She had vaguely noticed that Zhang Yihe was special to Jiang Ran before, and had thought about it, but Jiang Ran was getting married and seemed to have no interest in Zhang Yihe, so she didn't take it seriously.
This was an eye-opener.
In fact, she should feel disgusted, or at least feel disgusted for Jiang Ran. The junior who has always taken special care of her is actually so lustful about her behind her back. It makes people get goosebumps just thinking about it.
However, we have to admit that his brushstrokes are very gentle and delicate, and the joy he gives to the characters in the painting seems to break through the paper. It is not obscene and lustful, but has a very tense beauty. Not a single painting of the tear mole on Jiang Ran's right eye was left.
Qiu Mingyue has also read a lot of Xiaohuang comics. Although she is a layman, she can also see that Zhang Yihe created these paintings with great care.
Emotions and impulses that have nowhere to place are transformed into creative desires. Qiu Mingyue understands and has experienced this feeling.
Moreover, what position does she have to accuse Zhang Yihe.
She closed the book and asked, "Were you masturbating just now?"
Qiu Mingyue and Zhang Yihe found a quiet bar.
Qiu Mingyue discovered that Zhang Yihe's drinking capacity was even worse than hers. Sure enough, at the time of team building, she said that she suffered from motion sickness and stomach problems. When she joined the company, she asked Jiang Ran to help her find a house in her community. Luring the wolf into the house.
Qiu Mingyue said that she had noticed it a long time ago, and Zhang Yihe's drooping dog eyes raised and he glanced at her with unknown meaning.
The story is very simple, mainly because Zhang Yihe is very concise and concise.
When he was young, Zhang Yihe would go back to his grandmother's house in the countryside with his parents every winter and summer vacation. He would always meet his neighbor Jiang Ran and play with his younger siblings.
My elder sister, who was three years older, was like a mature little adult. She noticed the lonely Zhang Yihe and enthusiastically took her under her wing.
At that time, Zhang Yihe was still frail and sick, which also led to his introverted character and because of his fair appearance. In school, girls liked to tease him and boys liked to bully him. This phenomenon was still not reflected in the new small group. improve.
Fortunately, Jiang Ran was very protective of him. She was so righteous and selfless that one of her cousins was so angry that he went to complain to his parents with snot and tears: "My sister turned her elbow outward!"
Adults also occasionally joke: "Aran, who is your younger brother and sister?"
Jiang Ran snorted: "Anyway, you can't bully anyone!"
Zhang Yihe had some difficulty adapting to Jiang Ran's kindness at first. Even a child knows that there is a difference between inside and outside. Jiang Ran criticized her cousin for him, and Zhang Yihe felt vaguely uneasy about this.
But gradually, he became disgusted with those comments that blindly said that he was an outsider. He thought that her younger brothers and sisters were more childish and annoying than the last, and they were not good-looking. If Jiang Ran didn't like him, who would he like?
Jiang Ran still has the vision.
At that time, Jiang Ran was not nearsighted and was still taller than him. Zhang Yihe raised his face to look at her, and he could always see her smiling face. The tear mole in the corner of his eye gave him an extremely beautiful impression.
After several summers and winters, Jiang Ran's grandparents were taken to live in the city, and Zhang Yihe rarely saw the gentle and cheerful sister Jiang Ran next door. Later, Zhang Yihe's grandmother passed away, and the house in the countryside became empty.
After the old man passed away, the whole family was like a dandelion with its roots cut off. There was less contact. Zhang Yihe would only go back to the countryside with his parents to visit relatives and friends during the Chinese New Year. This trip lasted for many years.
The next time I saw Jiang Ran was during the summer vacation after Zhang Yihe graduated from junior high school. At that time, his mother had been thinking about enrolling him in a bridging class, but one day she happily mentioned that she had found a tutor.
Zhang Yihe wanted to refuse, but his mother continued: "Do you still remember the sister Jiang who lived next door to your grandma's house when you were a child?"
Zhang Yihe suddenly remembered the tear mole. He hadn't seen it in so many years, and he hadn't expected it in so many years. He felt scared and annoyed that his mother had penetrated his secret thoughts, and said in a bad tone, "What are you doing?"
His mother wondered: "Hey, you kid, didn't you like that sister very much back then? Are you still not happy that I specially called her here to be your tutor this time?"
Zhang Yihe was stunned.
It turned out that Jiang Ran was a senior in the high school he was about to attend. He just graduated from the college entrance examination and had nothing to do, so he joined a friend's tutoring team. With his high college entrance examination results and his background in No. 1 Middle School, the business was unexpectedly good, so good that Zhang Yihe's My mother also heard about it, and after learning more about it, she discovered that one of the girls was the daughter of a neighbor in her hometown. This was really fate.
Zhang Yihe was very nervous after meeting Jiang Ran after many years.
The moment the door opened, he seriously described it as a feeling that lasted forever. Eighteen-year-old Jiang Ran stood at the door, wearing a simple dress and looking youthful and sunny. She raised her glasses with a smile and said to him: "Xiaohe? Long time no see."
In fact, they are very different from the impressions in each other's memories.
That night, Zhang Yihe dreamed of Jiang Ran, his tutor, the neighbor's sister when he was a child, the daughter of her mother's friend... Under him, he took off his glasses, and then he kissed her with tears. The mole, later on, the tear mole often appeared in his dreams.
Zhang Yihe once thought about whether his mother made a wrong decision by letting Jiang Ran be his tutor that year.
Jiang Ran only taught him for one summer. College student Jiang Ran's winter and summer vacations were much more exciting than high school student Zhang Yihe's. She was busy with internships, traveling, partying with friends, and falling in love.
Until the end of his college entrance examination, Zhang Yihe only had Jiang Ran's contact information. When he sent a message during the New Year, she might mistake it for a group New Year greeting, but she would reply to him every time: Thank you, Xiaohe, and I wish you a happy New Year!
When he finally came to her city, Jiang Ran and Jiang Zushi had just started dating, and at that time, he thought he had a chance.