Ji Liangchuan, I have loved you for so many years

Chapter 66 Protecting a Person's Heart (3)
I nodded heavily in his arms, again and again, and he laughed with a "puchi": "I already called you wife, but you didn't say you called me husband."

"husband!"

"Good boy!" He laughed, hugging me even more dotingly.Today is the first time I saw him smiling so happily, like a naughty big boy, smiling brightly and innocently, as if carefree.

"Okay, now I can return this thing to you." He gently pushed me away, and took out a red cloth bag from his arms.

"what is this?"

"What you left with me."

I opened the cloth bag suspiciously, and it turned out that it contained the wedding ring that I had once cruelly dropped to the ground. I didn't expect him to keep it all the time.

"You still keep it?" I raised my head and looked at him with teary eyes.

He took the ring and put it gently on my ring finger: "Mengmeng, I have been wearing it all year, because I can't believe that we are separated like this, and I always believe that one day You will come back to me."

That night, I hugged him all the time and passed on all my warmth to him.When I saw him falling asleep, I closed my eyes with peace of mind.In the dream, he and I seemed to be crying.

On the second night, at Midnight Flower, I performed in my solo show in full costume, and sang all the most popular songs at the moment. They laughed, and I could only make up for it.After stepping off the stage, Lily and I were drinking at the bar, seeing the faint mark on her neck, I actually had the urge to cry.

I couldn't help calling out to her: "Lily..."

"What's wrong?" She asked, looking sideways at me.

"I'm sorry, you and that boss Chen..."

"Oh, it doesn't matter! This is the way I am in my life." She smiled, raised her neck and drank melancholy, like a flower that blooms until midnight.

"By the way, did you hear what Boss Chen said yesterday?" She said again, "He said that our Boss Ji here, I always thought this place belonged to Boss Wang, but I didn't expect that Boss Wang still has people on top of him. Will Boss Ji..."

"Impossible! Ji Liangchuan won't..." I immediately shook my head.

"I didn't mention him, it might be his father."

"Ji Dong?"

"I don't know either, maybe his father bought the land, maybe Ji Liangchuan bought it when he was still the general manager, or maybe it was the big boss with the same surname."

"I hope they have the same surname..." I don't want this kind of dirty place to have anything to do with Ji Liangchuan.

"Boss Wang told me before that this land has the potential to increase in value in five years, and it will bring a lot of money if it is sold at that time, so there have been many people rushing to buy land in the past few years."

I drank in silence.

"Okay, I'll ask Boss Wang tomorrow to find out who is behind this scene." Lily patted my hand and said.

While chatting, a waiter came over, patted my shoulder and said, "Miss Jasmine, there is a customer looking for you at table 1."

"I'll go with you." Lily patted me and walked over with me.

I lowered my head and walked forward with difficulty. Table No. 1 was in a dark corner, and there was only one person crossing his legs flamboyantly, with his hands resting on the armrests of the sofa.As he approached, a beam of colorful lights poured down, which just illuminated that corner of the darkness and hit the man's face.When I saw his face clearly, I clearly felt my veins throbbing violently, as if they were about to burst out at such a fierce speed.

"Miss Jasmine, it's been a long time." Her tone was cold and alienated, with a hint of blatant contempt.

I bit my lip, turned my head and said to Lily: "Lily, I know him."

Lily gave me a tactful glance and then left. The noisy world outside and the quiet and dark corner here suddenly seemed to be isolated.I stood there blankly, looking at his eyes with cold light, and called out to him with difficulty: "Little belly..."

He laughed with a "puchi", picked up the wine bottle and filled the two empty glasses on the table and said, "Miss Jasmine, sit down, I respect you."

"Little belly, listen to my explanation..."

"Shen Meng, do you still remember that when you first came here, I brought you to the stage and warned you that if you don't respect and love yourself, you will become a woman like Lily. Now, You're finally on this path."

"I didn't! You listen to my explanation!"

"Explain what? Explain how pure you are? Explain how noble you are?" Every word he said was a thorn, piercing into my heart.

"No! Listen to me!"

"You don't need to be so excited. I don't have any other intentions here today. I just miss you. Anyway, even if you don't become a singer here, you have already been ruined by Ji Liangchuan. When did I care?" He raised his head and looked at me. Smile, but that smile carries a bone-chilling chill.

At this moment, I really don't want to explain anything to him anymore, because he has changed, he has already become a stranger to me, and I am terrified.The simple and sunny Du Xiaohang from before died a long time ago, and I drained his blood little by little, turning him into a body with no temperature.

When, forgot, he started saying over and over again that he would never believe me again, and now, this result is just a doomed endgame.

"Now I am no longer an ordinary employee in the company. I use my own efforts to break into my own business. I have now been promoted to deputy director. Shen Meng, are you happy?"

I looked up at him and he was protesting at me, more like another guy.Sure enough, he said lightly: "Sure enough, Feng Shui turns around. I already know about you and Ji Liangchuan, and I can almost guess why you are humiliating yourself here."

"Little belly, can you stop speaking so sharply?" This is my only beg to him. There is no forgiveness, but at least respect.

"Sharp? Did I hurt you? It's not as deep as you and Ji Liangchuan hurt me, right?" His pupils dimmed, and he said coldly.

"Little belly, I know I'm sorry for you..."

"How many times have I said this, I don't want to hear you say this anymore, I have no other purpose here today, and I will give you two ways."

I raised my head to look at his indifferent eyes, but there was a smile in his eyes, which I was not familiar with.

"The first one, I want you to move out of your little crappy house to live with me now. The second one, if you don't agree to the first one, I'll tell Ji Liangchuan about your singing here."

My heart suddenly panicked, anger, shame, chill, all emotions swept over me, and I started yelling at him recklessly: "Du Xiaohang, why did you become like this! How can you push me like this! "

He finally froze, but soon his eyes returned to coldness: "It's fine if you don't agree with the first one, but you have to think it over carefully. If you think it through, let me know at any time."

He got up, smiled, and passed by me without any hesitation, flashing past with a biting cold wind.

I lay on the table and cried for a long time, until my throat was choked, until I could no longer shed tears.

When I was in junior high school, Du Xiaohang sat next to me with short, clean hair. He always turned his face to grin at me silly.In high school, Du Xiaohang sat in the group near the window, and I sat in the group near the door. When get out of class was over, he still ran over and smiled at me foolishly.When we were in college, Du Xiaohang still smiled brightly and innocently when we were together.In all the years I have spent with him in my life, there is no moment when I thought that we would become what we are now after many years, like a game of broken chess, we can’t tell who wins and who loses, but we are both exhausted up.

The next day, Lily told me the whole truth. It turned out that the original owner of Midnight Flower was named Liu Qiming. Later, Director Ji learned that the value of this land might increase in five years, so he made a deal with Liu Qiming and bought it. In this place, the Boss Ji that Boss Chen was talking about that day was Ji Yuankang.

After knowing this, I actually felt a burst of relief. Fortunately, it wasn't Ji Liangchuan. After all, I don't want him to participate in this kind of fireworks place.

Now, every night when I go home, I feel panic. I am afraid that one day when I get home, Ji Liangchuan will come back early, and then he will lie on the window sill and smoke alone. He looked at me and said to me, Du Xiaohang told me everything for him.I really can't imagine how I can bear it if something like this happens, maybe I can't bear it at all.

Days are lived in fear like this, Du Xiaohang's words are like a time bomb, lurking between me and him, as long as he thinks, the relationship between me and Ji Liangchuan can collapse in an instant.

Ji Liangchuan's overtime work until one or two o'clock in the night has lasted like this for more than two months. I really didn't expect that except for weekends, I almost never see him now.

On the weekend night, we went out for a walk together after dinner, and when we got back downstairs, Du Xiaohang's figure was leaning there under the bright moon and starry night sky.My heart sank instantly, falling into the boundless darkness.The three of them were silent together under the dim street lamp, and there was only the sound of the cold wind whizzing by, brushing across their faces mournfully, leaving transparent wounds behind them.

"Ji Liangchuan, long time no see." Du Xiaohang walked over with an indifferent smile.

"What are you doing here?" Ji Liangchuan's expression was displeased, and his tone was cold.

"It's nothing, I just happened to pass by, why are you nervous?"

"Little belly...you..." I stared at him intently, and unconsciously grabbed the lapel of the collar with my hands.

"You too, why are you nervous?" He looked at me narrowly.

Both Ji Liangchuan and I became silent, each thinking about our own concerns.Finally, Du Xiaohang bypassed us and said in a calm tone, "Good night."

It wasn't until his back disappeared into the depths of the foggy street that my hanging heart relaxed, and my mind suddenly became chaotic.I really can't imagine how I would face Ji Liangchuan if Du Xiaohang said everything.

"What are you thinking?" Ji Liangchuan's cold tone woke me up.

"No...it's nothing!" I looked up at him with a smile, only to find that his eyes were also so indifferent, which made people feel a bone-chilling chill.He ignored me, turned and went upstairs.

Late at night in the cold winter, I quietly looked at the deep and long sky alone.At that moment, I suddenly felt that some people and some things could never be found again, no matter how hard I tried.

Since seeing Du Xiaohang's inexplicable appearance and my inexplicable panic and confusion, Ji Liangchuan's attitude towards me has become much colder, but whenever I want to cry, I find that those warm text messages are still sent every day as always. into my phone.Every night, I can only hold on to my phone and read those warm text messages, because only when I see the text messages from him can I be sure that he still loves me.

As we spent less and less time together, that day, I finally made a mistake that every little woman would make—complaining.

"Liangchuan, why do you have to work overtime so late every day?"

"To work."

"But...we spend so little time together every day..."

"There is no way."

"Don't go to work tomorrow, okay? Stay with me at home for one day, just one day?" I tried to please him by pulling his arm.

"No." He frowned slightly.

"Why are you like this! You can't do it for a day! Do you still have me in your heart!" I was furious and let go of his arm.

He finally turned unhappy, and said to me: "You are not a man, you don't understand the pressure of a man, stop saying such capricious words."

"I'm headstrong? I just want you to spend more time with me. We haven't had a good chat together for months!"

"Can you be more sensible?" He looked at me with some dissatisfaction and asked me.

I suddenly felt a little wronged: "I...forget it! I can always find someone else!"

"Du Xiaohang?" He raised his eyebrows, his cold eyes reappeared and shot straight at me.

"I have nothing to do with him anymore." I tried to calm down my excited tone and said.

"You think so, what about him?"

"Ji Liangchuan! Can you stop doubting me! We have experienced so much together, I gave up my dignity to be with you, and am willing to live a hard life with you, how can you..."

I immediately covered my mouth and looked at him in a panic.Sure enough, he sneered and said, "Very well, thank you for sacrificing so much for me, miss." He turned and left, walking towards the bedroom.The moment he closed the door, my heart was shattered with the sound of closing the door.How can I say something like that?How could it hurt him, hurt his self-esteem?Obviously, we are all such proud people, but I said the most sad thing to him.

From that day on, we started a cold war, he didn't want to talk to me, and I was afraid to face him.We are so close at the dinner table, but what is close is only the physical distance, and the heart is so far away that we don't know where to go.

After a few days, he still came back very late, and every time he came back he looked exhausted.Several times, I wanted to rush over and hug him tightly, but I still gave up. I was afraid that he would look at me with cold eyes, and I was afraid that he would reject my enthusiasm.It seems that overnight, he and I made a deep hole in each other's world, no matter who we are, we can't cross it and stay with each other.

Ji Liangchuan smokes more and more frequently, every night when he comes back, he has to lie on the window and smoke non-stop.When I saw the pain in my heart, when I saw him hiding in the corner and began to cry silently, when he tried to take out a cigarette from the cigarette case, I found that the cigarette case was empty.Later, when he went home every night, he had to buy a lot of cigarettes and alcohol, and he was sluggish and rotting like a flower in the dark living room.Apart from crying, I couldn't give him any comfort. Maybe I never walked into his inner world, and I just hovered on the edge looking at the happy or sad scenery in the city.

The work at Midnight Flower continued, but Du Xiaohang never came here again.I began to get used to all the hypocrisy. I went from selling singing to laughing, drinking with the bosses, and taking banknotes from them.At this time, I no longer have the sudden sense of shame like an electric shock, because my heart is numb.

(End of this chapter)