The Merry Executioner

The flight from Beijing landed steadily on the runway of San Francisco Airport.A tall, handsome oriental man, wearing sunglasses, was the first to walk out of the cabin with his luggage.

After leaving the airport, he took a taxi and found a hotel to settle down.The plane landed in the early morning, that is, in the evening of Beijing time. Chen Jie's biological clock was completely confused now, but he didn't feel sleepy at all.At this moment, his mood is still not much calm.Just after dawn, he called Elena.

"Jason?" Elena who answered the phone was obviously surprised, she never thought that Chen Jie would call her at this time.It could be heard from her voice that she was obviously not awake yet.

"Where are you?" Chen Jie's tone was cold, although calm, but with an indescribable atmosphere.This made Elena hear it all at once, she immediately sat up straight, and her whole body became energetic, "At this time, if I'm not sleeping at home, where else can I be?"

Chen Jie sneered, "With that Sheridan?" All of a sudden, Elena fully understood, knowing the real purpose of Chen Jie's call. "Jason, do you have to talk about this kind of thing at this time?"

"Of course, otherwise how long will I be kept a secret from you?" Of course Chen Jie refused. "Hey!" Elena sighed slowly, "Why don't we talk about it when we have time to meet each other."

"I'm in San Francisco right now. If you want to meet, you can do so at any time." Chen Jie's emotions were once again agitated, and he tried his best to control his tone.

"What?" Elena was surprised again, and was silent for a while, "Okay, I'll go over now." After speaking, she asked Chen Jie for his specific address, and then hung up the phone.

Chen Jie, who put down the phone, took several deep breaths to calm himself down, and sat on the sofa to smoke a cigarette.But even so, his heart was still pounding.

After an hour of work, just after dawn, there was a slow knock on Chen Jie's door. "What is it?" He said politely in English. "It's me, Jason." The familiar Elena's voice came from outside.

Chen Jie hurriedly opened the door, made another gesture of invitation, and let her into the room.Elena walked into the room, and immediately saw the opened suitcase, there were still several pieces of clothing that hadn't been taken out in time.

"You just arrived in America?" She turned her head and asked in surprise. "Of course, I'm not here for tourism. Since I'm here to see you, of course I want to meet you right away." Chen Jie's tone was still so unreasonable.

Elena lowered her head and was silent for a while, "You just got off the plane, you must be hungry. Why don't I take you out for something to eat." While talking, she walked over and patted Chen Jie on the shoulder.

"Elena Petrova!" Chen Jie opened her hand at once, "I repeat, I'm not here for tourism. You'd better tell me clearly about you and that shit Sheridan!"

"Don't you just want to talk to me about this here? I'm not afraid of the paparazzi and I want to take you out for a ride, what else do you want?" Elena also raised her tone.After saying this, there was a brief silence in the room.

"Okay." Chen Jie finally nodded and made another gesture of invitation.

"How are you doing recently?" Sitting in the coffee shop, Elena had recovered her former calm and elegance, and said to Chen Jie with a smile. "Hmph, it was pretty good at first, but after reading the news on the Internet yesterday, it didn't feel good." Chen Jie said with pouted lips, more like a accusation and complaint.

"How's the business going? Is the stock price still so low?" Elena couldn't find anything to talk about, and she didn't want to make Chen Jie too excited, so she could only ask questions.

Chen Jie, on the other hand, assumed that he liked to drink coffee, and took a long sip like drinking water, "Are you going to use these boring topics to procrastinate the time?" He couldn't care less, so he just opened the door, Don't worry, I won't throw chairs in public. Tell me about you and that Sheridan." Fortunately, his mood has calmed down a lot now.No matter what, you still have to give people a chance to speak.

Elena was silent for a long time. After taking a deep breath, she slowly opened her mouth, "Yes, I have established a relationship with him. I have been with him for nearly half a year. I I felt that the time was right, so I confessed to the media. It's as simple as that."

"Then what about the two of us?" Chen Jie couldn't believe his ears, so he asked immediately.Elena bit her lips, "The two of us will still be best friends from now on. You can come to me anytime. If I decide to get married, then you will be the first special guest to be invited." Her answer was very Calm and honest.

"That is to say, what happened to us in the past 15 years has already been regarded as bullshit by you?" Chen Jie couldn't stand it anymore, but he still tried his best to control his volume.If something goes wrong in this kind of place and is exposed by the media, it won't do any good to either of them.

Elena smiled helplessly, "Jason, I thank you for being with me for the past 16 years. But friendship is friendship, we are just ordinary friends."

"What an ordinary friend!" Chen Jie was already a little aggressive, "You are a Christian, do you dare to swear to God that you have never had any feelings for me, never loved me?!" Although the two This kind of tacit understanding has been maintained for more than ten years, but Chen Jie can't care so much now, so he just said it out.

"Even if I have, so what?" Elena replied immediately, the answer seemed to have been thought of long ago, "I admit, I did have extravagant expectations for you in the past ten years. But that was already It's the past, I don't have any feelings of admiration for you anymore. Now, I just want to get along with Sheridan. I don't know if this answer is satisfactory to you."

Chen Jie was so angry that he couldn't speak at this time, he just kept nodding and gnashing his teeth.Elena took a deep breath, "Jason, cheer up. You already have Wei and Gao, they are the ones who really love you. You can live a happy life. If nothing happens, I I will excuse you first."

After speaking, Elena stood up and quietly left the coffee shop from Chen Jie's side.It wasn't until she walked a long way that she wiped away the tears she shed.