Marriage Crisis: Lonely Apricot Blossom

Chapter 8
Today, when the boss is on a business trip, Yan Jia doesn't have to walk around the office like a waiter. Except for collecting documents occasionally, she has enough time to sit comfortably in a daze.

Xiao Yan was very envious, and secretly passed a note to Yan Jia, asking her to help download a new movie.

Yan Jia sat in front of the computer, feeling a little restless for some reason.

The mailbox notifies that there is a new mail.

Yan Jia clicked to check, and it was actually written by Mike, with a short sentence: "justatest, plsreply."

Yan Jia clicked "Reply" and typed two Chinese characters: "Received." Just as she was about to send it, she hesitated for a moment, and typed a few more words: "Can I ask you a question?"

Mike quickly replied, "Just ask."

Yan Jia thought for a while, then knocked: "If a man behaves unnaturally in front of a woman, what does it mean?"

After a while, Mike's email came, "This man cares more about this woman."

Yan Jia lost his mind for a long time at this sentence.

It took a while to knock again, "Do men never forget their first love?"

Mike replied: "Normal people, both men and women can do it, aren't you?"

Yan Jia called back: "My first love is my current husband."

Mike sent a small picture of a cartoon lying on the ground on his back spitting blood.

Yan Jia couldn't help chuckling.

Xiao Yan poked her head over and looked at her suspiciously, "Who are you chatting with so happily?"

Yan Jia didn't have time to change the screen, Xiao Yan saw Mike's name at a glance, she took a breath, and whispered: "Yan Jia, yes, you! You actually met that person?"

Yan Jia defended, "What nonsense are you talking about, I don't have it."

Xiao Yan nodded her head as if suddenly realized: "I said, why does he look down on me? It turns out that the drunkard doesn't care about drinking."

Yan Jia stopped paying attention to her, and Mike came in with a new email, "I think you are worried about your husband, right? Otherwise, you bribe me, and I will be your informant to help you keep an eye on him?"

Yan Jia half-truthfully asked: "Is your fee expensive?"

Mike replied: "According to the standard, my labor is 20 dollars per hour, but I can be free for you."

Yan Jia smiled: "Why?"

It took a long time for Mike to reply: "I also want to know why."

How could Yan Jia not be able to read the meaning contained in this sentence, she thought about it for a long time facing the screen, not sure whether he was joking or for real, but no matter what it was, for her, the result was the same.

She didn't reply to Mike again.

Turning her head, she suddenly saw Xiao Yan's sharp eyes staring at her, Yan Jia said angrily, "Why are you looking at me like that?"

"Look at your pink face, is it true that Mike Han has successfully settled in your empty heart?" Xiao Yan looked worried, "I was wondering if I should inform Fang Zhenqian?"

Yan Jia grabbed the document at hand and threw it at Xiao Yan's head.

Xiao Yan yelled while hiding: "You actually want to kill someone!"

When he was about to leave work, Mike suddenly sent another email to Yan Jia, "Boss Fang is in a meeting with a beautiful woman."

Yan Jia hurriedly asked: "Where is the sacred place?"

Mike knocked over: "Hua Mei from the publishing house."

Yan Jia came to Tianyu's front desk with her head poking around. The receptionist was off work, and a security guard was sitting there. Seeing someone coming, she asked politely, "Who are you looking for?"

"Is Fang Zhengan here?" Yan Jia glanced at the empty hall.

"Boss Fang is in the meeting room, are you?" The security guard looked at this strange and handsome girl curiously.

"I'm his wife." Yan Jia said.

"Oh, ah! Then you go, turn right and go to the end." The security immediately became enthusiastic.

Yan Jia thanked him and walked in the direction he said.She rarely came to Fang Zhenqian's company, and the most troublesome thing was to meet Chen Liwei. His ability to make jokes without opening his mouth really made her a little disgusted and overwhelmed.

At this time, in Tianyu, most of the employees had already left work. In Nuoda’s office, there were only a few scattered lights. When I walked closer, I saw one or two engineers working hard. In the quiet space, only the keyboard could be heard. The knocking sound is clear and rapid.Weird, didn't see Mike.

At the end of the corridor is the meeting room, the light shines through the glass door and sprinkles on the carpet in front of the door, forming a square bright block, Yan Jia tiptoed to it.

Can faintly hear voices coming from inside.She was a little nervous, and felt ashamed of her sneaky actions, but she couldn't help her curiosity after all, she walked to the door lightly, and looked inside.

Hua Mei and Fang Zhenqian were sitting at a small round table near the door discussing a document.With Hua Mei's back facing the door, Yan Jia couldn't see the expression on her face, only saw her long black hair pouring like a waterfall on the round glass table and the white documents, and heard her melodious voice softly addressing Fang Zhenqian on the opposite side. Explaining something, Fang Zhenqian listened carefully, and occasionally smiled at Hua Mei, expressing understanding and agreement, with rare tenderness in his eyes, which hurt Yan Jia so much that when Fang Zhenqian found her and opened the door to her When she came, she was a little bit unresponsive.

"Why are you here?" Fang Zhenqian pulled her into the door in surprise.

"Oh," Yan Jia licked her dry lips, and said the reason she had made up long ago, "I have an appointment with my colleague to eat nearby, and I want to come up to see if you can go together."

With a slight smile on the corner of Hua Mei's mouth, she looked at Yan Jia. There seemed to be another meaning in that smile, which made Yan Jia very uncomfortable.

Fang Zhenqian looked at Huamei in embarrassment, and said to Yan Jia: "Wen Xing is helping us with an interview and wants to send it out this weekend, so we have to finalize the content today. It's only a third of the way now. "

Yan Jia said, "Then, I'll wait for you outside." When she said this, Hua Mei's expression froze.

Fang Zhenqian pondered for a while, and said: "Okay, then you can go to my side and wait, and you can play with the computer by the way." He led Yan Jia to his office, settled it, and asked: "Do you want some water?"

Yan Jia smiled considerately, "Go ahead, I will pour it myself."

Only then did Fang Zhenqian walk out.

Yan Jia looked at Fang Zhenqian's office. Except for a large desk and a row of cabinets against the wall, there was nothing extra. Even the desk was neat and clean, just like his meticulous person.

Yan Jia flipped through the documents on the table. They were all professional things. She couldn't understand them, and she didn't want to play any computer games. She could only sit aggrievedly in the comfortable big leather chair with her eyes closed.

Think about how two months ago she was complaining about the dullness of her life, hoping for something shocking to happen.But now, he was actually sitting in a daze in her husband's office with only one purpose, to guard against that woman who was interested in her husband.

Yan Jia thought it was ridiculous, but she couldn't laugh. Once something happened that approached her, she realized that it's better not to have anything happen.

During this process, Yan Jia sneaked out of the meeting room to spy a few times, but found no clues, but there are some subtle things that cannot be seen or touched. They float in the air as if they do not exist. People get annoyed over and over again.

"Hi." Someone knocked on the office door.

When Yan Jia opened her eyes to look, it was actually Mike standing at the door with a half-smile.

"You're really here." Mike said playfully.

Yan Jia suddenly felt embarrassed, "Why didn't you leave, didn't I see you when I came here just now!"

Mike stood at the door, not intending to come in, and said leisurely: "I went out to do some errands. I just came back and saw that the meeting room was not finished yet, so I guess you might be here. How about it, is my information accurate? allow?"

Yan Jia blushed slightly, quickly stretched out her index finger to her lips, and warned, "Keep your voice down."

Mike shook his head at her, "Come out, there's nothing interesting inside, I'll show you something good."

Yan Jiazheng was very bored, so he followed him to his seat in the hall.

Mike dragged a chair from the side and asked Yan Jia to sit down, then turned on his computer, found a folder under the layers of paths, clicked on it, and there were many flash files in it.

"What do you want to show me?" Yan Jia asked suspiciously.

Mike clicked on one at random, and the computer screen was immediately covered by a beautiful scene.

Under the heavy snow all over the sky, a girl with fluttering long hair walked from far to near.

"Look, who does this girl look like?" Mike whispered.

Yan Jia observed carefully, and felt a bit familiar. She touched her face subconsciously, and Mike's voice sounded in her ears, "Does it look like you?"

Yan Jia smiled shyly, feeling a little nervous, "Where did this come from?"

Mike narrowed his eyes and said, "I created it."

Yan Jia couldn't hold back her smile, "What do you mean?"

Mike took a look at her vigilant and cautious appearance, and quickly explained: "Don't get me wrong, this was done before I met you, and I drew it based on my own imagination, my... dream lover."

Yan Jia's face was hot.

"So, you should now understand why I was so surprised after seeing you. You are as beautiful as the anime image I created. I almost thought it was destined by heaven! Unfortunately, you are already someone else's wife. "

Yan Jia stared at the screen for a while before saying, "You don't have to feel sorry, even if I look like her, my personality and temper may not be what you imagined."

Mike scratched his head, "That's right. I just want to show you the wonders I discovered. It's nothing else. It shouldn't hinder our pure friendship, right?"

Yan Jia pursed her lips and laughed.

Mike is an avid fan of animation production. He has made many small animations in his spare time, and many of them have been widely disseminated on the Internet.

"When I was studying abroad, I was very bored, so I just wanted to find something to do."

Yan Jia flipped through Mike's works, the colors and details were well grasped, and Yan Jia was amazed by the delicateness of the pictures.She always thought Mike was a carefree boy, and now she couldn't help but look at him with admiration.

When Fang Zhenqian stood behind Yan Jia and Mike, Yan Jia didn't notice that she was eagerly learning the most basic knowledge of animation from Mike.

"Yan Jia!" Fang Zhenqian's voice was almost harsh.

Yan Jia hurriedly stood up and saw Fang Zhenqian's livid face.

"It's over?" She smiled guiltily, and even forgot to pay attention to the whereabouts of Hua Mei, the target of her pursuit.

Fang Zhenqian glanced at Mike's computer and Mike who stood aside and looked at them coldly.Without saying anything, I turned around and went back to the office to turn off the lights, lock the door, and walked over again.

Yan Jia grinned at Mike in embarrassment, "Well, we're going back, thank you!" Fang Zhenqian's performance made her feel embarrassed.

Mike nodded with a smile, and glanced at Fang Zhenqian again. There was a trace of sullenness in the latter's gaze. He looked directly at that gaze, bowed slightly with great grace and said, "Goodbye, Mr. Fang!"

After getting into the car, Yan Jia asked, "Where's Hua Mei?"

Fang Zhenqian said coldly: "Let's go." She was so focused that she didn't even notice that he left.

"Then, where are we going to have dinner?" She approached fawningly and asked with her face up.

Fang Zhengan ignored her with a sullen face.

Yan Jia waited for him for a while, then suddenly became angry and turned her face away.

Fang Zhenqian's car drove fast, as if he had revealed his thoughts.

Yan Jia couldn't stand the oppressive atmosphere, and shouted: "Stop!"

Fang Zhenqian didn't listen at all, and drove forward like crazy, almost hitting an oncoming motorcycle.Yan Jia was terrified, she screamed, "Fang Zhenqian, stop, stop!"

The car finally slowed down and pulled to the side of the road.

Yan Jia panted heavily, looking at Fang Zhenqian as if she didn't know him.

Fang Zhenqian turned around angrily, and asked her: "I told you not to associate with Mike Han, why didn't you listen? Can't you see that he has ulterior motives for you?"

"Where do you see that he has ulterior motives? Isn't it just that we had a meal together and chatted happily!" Yan Jiali retorted bluntly.

"You!" Fang Zhenqian glared at her sullenly, but couldn't speak. There was a feeling that could only be understood but could not be expressed in words.

Seeing that he was speechless, Yan Jia gained the upper hand, "Besides, what he thinks is his business, what does it have to do with me? Should I avoid him because of this?"

"No matter what, it's better for you to have less contact with him." Fang Zhenqian took a soft breath.

Yan Jia didn't show any weakness, "What about you, don't you know that Huamei is interested in you, and you still keep in touch with her frequently? Why don't you leave the business to others?"

Fang Zhenqian closed his eyes, "So you came to spy on me today?"

"Yes!" Yan Jia replied loudly.

Fang Zhenqian looked at her speechlessly, and the two exchanged their eyes for a while, he sighed a little tiredly, "When will you become more sensible, Yan Jia?"

Yan Jia felt her heart drop a little bit, and after a while, she softly replied, "When will you give me enough sense of security?" She couldn't forget the scene of four eyes meeting each other tenderly just now.

"Yan Jia, can you be reasonable, I met Huamei for work, unlike you and Mike, there is no need for you to meet."

Yan Jia bit her lower lip, no longer defending herself.

After all, they didn't have dinner outside, and the two returned home without any appetite. Fang Zhenqian entered the study and closed the door at the same time.Yan Jia was sulking in the bedroom.

This is the first cold war in three years of marriage.Yan Jia thought, who had the problem, Fang Zhenqian, or herself?
When she was finally too hungry, Yan Jia went into the kitchen to prepare instant noodles. She took out two packs of noodles, thought about it, and put another pack back. .

After eating, Yan Jia returned to the room again, feeling empty in his heart.She couldn't make up her mind whether to take the initiative to find Fang Zhenqian.

The phone in the living room rang suddenly, Yan Jia was not in the mood to listen to it, so she resisted answering it, and Fang Zhenqian in the study did not move.

The phone rang persistently, five, six.

Yan Jia sighed, got up and went out.

"Sister-in-law? I'm Zhenkun, is my brother there?"

It turned out to be Fang Zhenqian's younger brother. He was very excited to hear the voice, and he didn't know what good news was going on.

Yan Jia walked to the door of the study, knocked twice, and said in a low voice, "Listen to the phone, it's Zhenkun."

The door opened, and the first thing that came out was a strong smell of smoke, and he actually smoked inside again.Yan Jia turned around angrily and went back to the room.

Fang Zhengan walked to the living room and picked up the phone.

The younger brother told him happily on the other end that he had been transferred from the police station to the Municipal Public Security Bureau as a criminal police officer.

"Interpol? Will it be dangerous?" Fang Zhenqian became worried.

"A criminal police officer is always a bit risky, but it's too boring to be a small policeman in charge of household registration files at a police station for a lifetime. Only when you become a criminal policeman can you be considered a real policeman." Zhenkun said.

Fang Zhenqian also knew that although his younger brother was very honest and obedient, once he had his own mind, he would not change it easily, so he had no choice but to follow him and tell him to pay attention to his health and safety.

After hanging up the phone, he went to the bathroom to wipe his face.

In the mirror, his face was pale and pale, very stiff and ugly. He took the water with his hands, threw it on his face and rubbed it vigorously twice, and then wiped it dry with a face towel.

Walking into the bedroom, I saw that Yan Jia was already sleeping on the bed with all her clothes on, her curled up body became thinner and helpless.

He walked over, sat down by the bed, and lightly touched Yan Jia's hair.

"Asleep?" The voice was soft.

Yan Jia's nose became sore all of a sudden, she sat up suddenly, turned around and hugged him.

Fang Zhenqian sighed secretly, and hugged her tenderly.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have been so cruel to you today." He apologized softly, feeling a little ashamed in his heart.

Yan Jia just hugged him blindly, "Honey, I'm so scared, I'm afraid you will leave me one day."

Fang Zhenqian stroked her hair and back over and over again, and said softly: "How could it be, I promised your parents to take good care of you."

Yan Jia was silent for a moment, then straightened up suddenly, stared at Fang Zhengan, with a serious expression: "Husband, if one day your heart is no longer with me, you must tell me, I don't want to live with a soulless body."

Fang Zhenqian was completely stunned.

Looking at the determination on Yan Jia's childish face, he began to wonder if he really knew her as well as he thought.

An inexplicable fear swept over his heart, he hugged Yan Jia tightly, and whispered in her ear, "What a silly girl."

Early on Friday morning, Fang Zhenqian and Yan Jia agreed to pick her up after get off work before leaving the house, and then went to the reception together.

(End of this chapter)