in love

Chapter 13 The Infernal Affairs of Love

"Why have you been here for so long? Are you uncomfortable?"

"No." Yan Qing dug a mouthful of the cake and put it in his mouth, "I just met a senior from college, and we talked for a while."

"If you don't come back, I'm going to organize an emergency rescue."

"Fuck you!" Yan Qing gave him a sharp look, then suddenly lowered her voice, "Gu Zeyu..."

"Ok?"

"Well, you said..." She reached out and touched her face, "Do I really look so sick? Just now my classmate said that I look like I just recovered from a serious illness."

"Listen to his nonsense!" Gu Zeyu frowned, and then laughed softly, "It's not that evil. But it looks a bit haggard, and I'm sure I'm not energetic."

"Is it that serious?"

"It's true that the state is not good." Gu Zeyu nodded, "Qing'er, to be honest. Or... let's quit this job and take a good rest. When the state is better, then find another job. .”

Yan Qing snorted: "You always speak so lightly!"

She has been doing this job for four or five years, which is somewhat basic.Regardless of the generous salary and benefits, this company has almost free and open management of designers in terms of working hours. At least in T City, it is difficult to find a second one.I really can't bear to ask her to give up.

"Qing'er, in fact, I personally don't want you to continue working in that company."

"Because of Mr. Wang? Then I won't meet men when I go to other places? Why didn't I realize that you are so narrow-minded."

"Okay, I admit that I just had a convulsion because I was jealous, but Mr. Wang is not the key. I want to say that it has nothing to do with him. You won't believe me, but I am no better than him in terms of appearance and wealth. As for putting him at ease up?"

"Yeah, what about it?" Yan Qing cast a look of contempt at him, "Since you know you're having a convulsion, you should change it quickly."

"Qing'er..." Gu Zeyu sighed helplessly, and drank two glasses of red wine before returning his thoughts to the normal track, "Qing'er, can I help you find a job then? I promise to find you satisfied, or you Come to my company, 'Hengxing Group' also has an advertising department!"

"No." She refused without raising her head.

Gu Zeyu gritted his teeth and threw a bombshell: "Then what about being your own boss? Are you interested?" Seeing that Yan Qing stopped digging the cake, he hurriedly continued to lobby, "Take a break, if you can't find it later If you have a suitable job, I support you to open your own studio. You don’t have to worry about having me as a source of clients, and your professional knowledge and work experience are not bad, so why bother to work for others!”

"Open a studio..." This proposal moved her heart, but... Although she has earned a lot these years, except for her daily expenses, the rest is used for Zuo Sha's treatment expenses. The start-up capital is a problem .

Gu Zeyu also knew what she was thinking: "Qing'er, money is not a problem. If you insist on breaking it up so clearly, then it's okay if I borrow it from you, or buy shares. If you earn points for us, if you lose, we will get married when the time comes. I won't give the dowry."

"Why are you talking nonsense again!" Yan Qing rolled his eyes and was completely speechless to him, "It's not just about money, I think at my current level, it's okay to be alone. But if I'm alone If I really take the lead, I really don't have that ability."

"Abilities are acquired through practice." Gu Zeyu snorted, "I was still a young master who didn't distinguish between grains and grains. After going to England, wouldn't I be able to support myself, besides, wouldn't I be there to support you?" As he spoke, his expression softened, and he wanted to persuade him again, but was interrupted by Yan Qing.

"Okay, let me think about it. Even if you have a lot of money, you can't play at a loss. Eat first."

Gu Zeyu's proposal of "being your own boss", Yan Qing really put his heart into it for two days.But before he could come up with a clue, another poacher came.

Tao Zheru called to inform Yan Qing of the specific time and place of the meeting, but the two chatted and chatted about their current work.

Speaking of being his own boss, Tao Zheru's studio has encountered some problems recently.

He expanded the scale some time ago, and the manpower was not enough.As a result, in the past two days, another female designer was pregnant and went home to recuperate. She left a lot of work and put it there without anyone to support her, and she was even more busy.

Hearing that Yan Qing had the idea of ​​going it alone, she immediately offered all kinds of attractive conditions, hoping that she could come to his banner after her condition recovered.He even promised that as long as she was willing to go there, and in addition to the normal salary, he could give some shares as benefits, and he would treat her as a technical shareholder.

After dinner in the evening, when the two of them went out for a walk, Yan Qing told Gu Zeyu about this and asked him what he thought.

Gu Er Shao didn't have much reaction after hearing this, anyway, as long as Yan Qing is interested, everything is fine.As for the shareholding of technology, he suggested that Yan Qing ask Tao Zheru if he would accept capital as a shareholding.If he accepts it, he is willing to provide financial sponsorship to Yan Qing and let her invest some money in it.Since she felt that being a boss was not enough for her now, it would be nice to be a half-boss first.

Yan Qing thought about it, and felt that this proposal seemed feasible.And if it's just a shareholding, she has some savings on hand, and she can ask Ms. Xu Yahong to mortgage some, so she can completely do without Gu Zeyu's sponsorship.

Tao Zheru set the meeting time for the Saturday at the end of February.

In the morning, I went to the seafood restaurant near the university to drink and nostalgia. In the afternoon, I went to the KTV Ghost Crying Wolf to enhance my relationship.

Tao Zheru said the other day that it was mainly their majors, Yan Qing thought it was just a small gathering of classmates from the same department at the beginning, and only found out that there were quite a lot of people there when they got there.People from different colleges, different classes, and some who had gone abroad to drink foreign ink for several years and hadn't seen each other for several years also came this time.

Especially during the karaoke session in the afternoon, there were four or five people who didn't have time to go in the morning, but they all did it.The box I booked at the beginning was too small to fit, so I had to move another place.

It's just that what Yan Qing never imagined was that when the singing was in full swing, Mu Cheng would kill him halfway.

She was stunned, thinking that the light in the box was too dark and her eyes were dazzled, so she rubbed her eyes vigorously, and found that the person who was surrounded by a small group of people was indeed Mu Cheng, who was stroking his edges from the door Shake hands with people.

Then, Yan Qing's first reaction was to stare at Tao Zheru with great resentment, wishing he could immediately rush over and shoot the liar to Mars.Didn't he swear to tell her that Mu Cheng would not come? What's going on now?Class reunion, ex-boyfriend... enough to make a third-rate TV series.

At that time, Tao Zheru was nesting in a corner with a gay friend in the dormitory, recalling the glorious years of the past, and he had no time to pay attention to other movements when he talked about the emotion.

Probably because the resentment emanating from Yan Qing was too heavy, Tao Zheru quickly felt the strangeness, turned his head to look at her, and was startled by her ferocious gaze.Then I noticed the busiest pile in the room, and suddenly felt dizzy.

"Yan Qing, I swear to you...he is really not on the party list." He left his friend behind and slid onto the sofa next to Yan Qing.

Yan Qing didn't speak, just rolled his eyes.

"Okay..." Tao Zheru sighed, got up and went to Mu Cheng's side, and returned to sit next to her after about two or three minutes, "Well, it was really an accident this time... Mu Cheng is here to entertain Client, I just met that group of people in the corridor outside. I guess I will leave after saying hello, and I won’t stay for long!"

"It's okay, Senior Brother." Yan Qing frowned and rubbed his swollen temples, "Sorry, I don't blame you or anything. I'm just a little..."

"A little uncomfortable, right? OK, I understand, I understand, it's bullshit to be friends after a breakup." Tao Zheru nodded repeatedly, "To be honest, I was not as deep as you at that time. I saw my first love a few days ago. My girlfriend is still walking around."

"Tch..." Yan Qing was amused by his last sentence, stood up and gave him a grateful smile, "I'm going out to get some air."

"I'm with you?"

"I'm fine, thanks!"

Yan Qing went to the bathroom first, and then stood outside the gate for a while.When I turned around to go back, my phone rang.

Unfamiliar number, hesitant to answer it turned out to be Gu Zeyu.

"Girl, how are you playing?"

"It's okay, why did you change your number?"

"Other people's mobile phones, my phone is out of battery, let me tell you."

"Oh!"

"I have something to do, so I can't pick you up. I may have to get home late at night."

"It's okay, you can do your work, I'll just take a taxi and go back."

"Well, don't play too late, go home early. Try not to drink!"

"I know, it's okay, I'll hang up first."

"Well, Bye."

Tao Zheru was right, Mu Guo really sat for a while and left.At least when Yan Qing went back, there was no one else in the box.

Mu Cheng's coming and going has filled up a lot of talk for everyone.

After Yan Qing came back, he sat there for quite a while, and still heard his name being mentioned occasionally.But fortunately, this group of people had a tacit understanding and didn't blow the wind to her. If someone talked to her directly about Mu Cheng at this moment, she would probably be too nervous to respond.

It was already dark when this group of people left the KTV.There were a few places that were too drunk to move, so Tao Zheru had to help arrange for them to be sent back on the way.There were still a few groups of people in small groups clamoring for displeasure, and went to find a place to continue drinking.

Yan Qing originally had Gu Zeyu as a free driver, but he couldn't come because he had something to do, so he helped Tao Zheru and a few people who were not drunk arrange the group of drunk and dancing people, and then prepared to take a taxi back by himself.

But a senior who was too drunk grabbed her and refused to let her go, saying that it was not safe to send her with him later when it was dark.

Yan Qing had the urge to roll her eyes, thinking that you were too drunk to stand up straight, and you're giving me a ride, just calm down a bit.

After sending what should be sent away, I am tired enough.

The remaining few people looked at me and I looked at you, and then burst out laughing at the same time.

It's still these few goods from their external relations department.I think it was like this in the past, going out to drink, and at the end of the drink, the few remaining sober people were appointed to be responsible for arranging people back.I don't think so many years have passed, but this pattern has not changed at all.

"Yan Qing, what's the matter, let's go to my house and sit down. I didn't have a good chat with you just now." The person who spoke was one of Yan Qing's seniors. I think the boss of the external relations department back then had a very strange name called Jia Junzi. .At that time, everyone called him a hypocrite, but he was very righteous and could be regarded as a gentleman.It is also a sea turtle that has been floating outside for many years, and has just returned to T City in the past six months.

Yan Qing looked at him, hesitant.To be honest, Gu Zeyu was not at home, so she didn't want to go back so early.Just... "Wouldn't it be too late!"

"What are you afraid of? You're not the only one. At that time, I will personally escort you all home one by one."

"That's right, beauty." Tao Zheru and two other men and two women also came over to chime in.

"If it doesn't work, we will collectively act as your flower protectors."

"That's right, it's rare that our external relations department is gathered again, so don't disappoint."

"Okay, that's fine." Yan Qing nodded, and as soon as he finished speaking, he was pushed into a car by two other female students arm in arm.

When Minister Jia returned to China, he had some savings in his hand, and he mortgaged some from his father, and bought a house near the third ring road with full payment.The upper and lower two-story duplex structure, the lighting layout is very good.

A few people have been talking about things from when they were in college to the current situation.

Later, a group of people moved to the storage room of Minister Jia's house.This guy likes to collect some messy things, and he also brought back a lot when he returned to China this time.The female classmate was not particularly interested in his things, and after looking around, she returned to the living room and chatted about homework after being curious.

Yan Qing went to school early, so she was relatively young.The other of the two female classmates is her senior sister, who is now the mother of the child.The other got married the year before last, and her husband is also from A University, and she is planning to have a child.

This made Yan Qing feel like being hit.

The mother of the child, the mother of the prospective child...the time to leave school is not much earlier than her, how can she let others fall behind so much now.Even if she is not in a hurry, the gap is too big!

So I couldn't help but sighed, and said with emotion: "You two are too annoying!"

"What do you know?" Senior sister gave her a sideways glance, "You are single and don't know the hardships of being married. When you become a mother, you will have no freedom."

"Isn't it?" The other responded, and then poked her thigh, "Don't you have a boyfriend too? I heard from Lao Tao that I met you on a date on Valentine's Day. I asked him about your long Whether he is handsome or not, he will never tell me."

"Hey..." Yan Qing couldn't help but burst out laughing, "Actually, he met me, not the two of us. How can I tell you someone I have never met before?"

"Let's get together someday! No one has been able to contact you since graduation. It's been so many years." The senior sister sighed, as if a little sighed, "I haven't seen you a few times before... To be honest , I didn't expect Lao Tao to have the face to call you here this time."

Yan Qing smiled and said nothing.In the past, she hated Mu Cheng so much that she didn't even want to recall anything that had the slightest relationship with him, and even cut off contact with those classmates and schoolmates.

As for now, maybe she has changed.Even though she still cared about it, since she got together with Gu Zeyu, she seemed to take a lot of things lightly and became more open-minded.

"Call out your family one day, let's get together!" The senior sister shook her hand.

"Okay." Yan Qing shook her back with a smile, then pulled out her hand and stood up, "I'll be active, and I'll stop by to see what they're doing, and I won't come out for a long time."

The storage room of Minister Jia's house was partitioned according to his own requirements, so the space is not small.

When Yan Qing walked to the door, he almost didn't spit out.Those male students each had a remote control, and they were playing with remote control cars inside.

"Can you guys still do it?" She said contemptuously, but she walked in with great interest, snatched the remote control from someone's hand, and then joined in the fun.

It's a pity that the technique is not good, either bumped into or turned over, and was despised by several people.In the end, I had no choice but to return the remote control to the other person resentfully: "Go ahead and play, it's meaningless at all!" Then deliberately made a look of disdain, pulled out a photo album from the side and shook it at Minister Jia He shook his head, "Senior, can you watch it?"

"Yes." Minister Jia nodded, "You can look at the things in this room as you like." After speaking, he couldn't help laughing.

Yan Qing blushed, hurriedly lowered her head and pretended to turn the page.

In the electronic age, even photos have changed their storage form.

Yan Qing thought that there would be some nostalgic old photos, but she didn't expect that they were taken by Jia Junzi while studying abroad.This man has been to many places over the years, from the blue sky and blue sea in the Maldives, to the water city in Venice, to the rainy London.The time and place, characters and events or the mood at that time are marked on the bottom of each picture.Take a closer look one by one, as if you can be there.

However, what attracted Yan Qing the most was not the beautiful scenery around the world, but a certain photo of his graduation season in the United States...

"On the morning of May 2008, 5, taken at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology..." Yan Qing read the notes on the photo album softly, and then tremblingly stroked the two people behind him as the background... two hooked shoulders Back to back, two men who behave very intimately... One is Mu Cheng.And the other one is actually her immediate boss who has always taken good care of her...Vice President Wang!
On a night in late February, it was minus twelve degrees outside.A floor-to-ceiling window in the living room was open, but Yan Qing still felt hot all over while standing there.She was uncomfortable, indescribably uncomfortable, as if... as if ten thousand mud horses were galloping in her blood.

three hours ago.

"Brother Jia, is this photo taken the year you graduated?"

"Well, what happened?"

"Why is he in there?"

"Him? Oh, you said Mu Cheng! We are alumni of 'Ma Shenger'. We probably took a lot of photos that day, so we took them in!"

"Are you two alumni?"

"Yes, he returned to China first after graduation. We had occasional contacts when we were in the United States, but then we broke up. You two at that time...so I didn't mention it in front of you."

"What about this man? Do you know him? What's his relationship with Mu Cheng?" Yan Qing's slender fingers pointed at the man next to Mu Cheng, his eyes seemed desperately eager for a negative answer.

"Why, do you know him?" Jia Junzi was a little surprised, "Although this brother is our professional, he is still unfamiliar. It seems to be called Wang... But he seems to have a good relationship with Mu Cheng."

Vice President Wang and Mu Cheng have a very good relationship...Jia Junzi's words kept echoing in his ears.At the same time, many chaotic past events flashed in Yan Qing's mind one by one.

It turned out that Vice President Wang's seemingly impeccable but somewhat abnormal care for her was not without reason.It turned out that Gu Zeyu's intuition was accurate, and he was not jealous and making trouble for no reason.turn out to be……

It turned out that the one who disclosed her former address to Mu Cheng was Vice President Wang whom she had always respected and appreciated.

Because she clearly remembered that Vice President Wang's secretary asked her to fill out a personal information form that day, which included her detailed address in T City.That night, Mu Cheng appeared downstairs at her house.

And that night was the first time she and Gu Zeyu were together.She went back and forth after leaving Gu Zeyu's car, and went to the bar with Gu Zeyu to get drunk again... all because she bumped into Mu Cheng downstairs that night!

Afterwards, she also felt strange, she had lost contact with everyone, how could Mu Cheng find her address so easily if he didn't return to China for a long time?

At that time, Vice President Wang was in charge of the company's personnel affairs. She thought that filling out the form was just a routine statistics, so she didn't think much about it.Nor would he have thought that his most respected boss had a close relationship with his ex-boyfriend.

If we infer from this, is it true that Mu Cheng will always grasp everything Vice President Wang knows about her?She had been in the company for three years, and the two of them had played with her for three years in Infernal Affairs.

It is simply unbearable!

Gu Zeyu returned home after one o'clock in the morning.

The temperature in the living room has not risen since the window was open for too long, and there is a chilly feeling when entering the door.

Thinking that Yan Qing should be fast asleep by this time, she went to the bathroom outside to wash up before gently going back to the bedroom and climbing onto the bed.Just about to embrace the person next to her in her arms, Yan Qing suddenly turned over and rushed towards him before reaching out her hand.She wrapped her arms around his neck, holding on tightly and not letting go.

Gu Zeyu was taken aback, and then patted her hips twice with his big hand: "I thought you were asleep!"

"Not yet." Yan Qing's voice was muffled, and there was something wrong with it.

"What's wrong?" Gu Zeyu groped and pinched her chin, trying to lift her face up.

But Yan Qing was buried in his chest and refused to raise his head, like a small animal who has been wronged and urgently needs comfort from his master.

"Qing'er, is there something wrong with you?"

Yan Qing didn't speak, but hugged him even tighter.

"What's wrong with you?" Gu Zeyu couldn't help feeling a little worried, "Didn't you go out to a party? Who bullied you and made you suffer?"

She wasn't bullied, but she was ganged up and played for such a long time!

Gu Zeyu's embrace was warm and comfortable, and Yan Qingwo suddenly felt an urge to confide in it.But the words came to his lips, but he couldn't export them no matter what.

Nesting in the arms of her incumbent and complaining about all kinds of grievances and hatreds between herself and her ex-boyfriend, it was really hard for her to express.Moreover, according to her understanding of Gu Zeyu.If he knew that Vice President Wang and Mu Cheng teamed up to play 007 with her, he would not be far from chaos.

Therefore, even though she had thousands of words in her heart, it finally turned into a long sigh...

"Gu Zeyu..."

"Ok?"

"I'm fine. It's just that I've been playing for a long time today and I'm tired."

"You're still so energetic when you're tired! Why don't you go to bed early?"

"It's just that I'm too tired, that's why I can't fall asleep." After speaking, there was a sudden silence for two seconds, "Okay, I admit that I actually miss you, and I'm waiting for you to come back!"

"You girl, I don't smell like alcohol, what happened today?"

"It's nothing!" Yan Qing said with willful impatience in his tone, "You don't care, I will forget you in the back of my head from now on!"

Gu Zeyu laughed softly, his deep voice rippling in the dark night, and said, "Rare, why not rare. It's rare!" He kissed her hair lightly, and closed his mouth. Eyes, "Sleep, if you don't sleep, tomorrow will be uncomfortable."

On Monday morning, Yan Qing put the resignation letter directly on the desk of the HR manager.

The personnel manager is a woman in her 30s, pretty and capable, obviously dissatisfied with her behavior.But looking at Yan Qing's menacing posture, he just frowned in the end, raised his hand and pushed back the resignation letter on the table: "Which department are you from?"

"Department of Design."

"Does your supervisor know?"

Yan Qing tried her best to suppress her emotions and shook her head.

"Long-term contract or temporary contract?"

"long."

"I'm sorry, according to the company's system, your resignation needs to be approved by the general manager. I don't have this right. And if you want to resign, please follow the normal procedures in accordance with the employee code."

Indeed, for someone like Yan Qing who has worked for three years and signed a long-term contract with the company, it is a bit troublesome to resign.It is necessary to apply to the HR department one month in advance to receive a form, and then the leader of the department will sign and agree, and then send it back to the HR department, and finally the HR department will report it to the boss for approval.

But ever since seeing that photo, the fire in Yan Qing's heart has been burning fiercely.Besides, she had been holding back all day yesterday and Sunday, and now the fire was getting bigger and stronger, and she felt that if she didn't make a fuss, she would be sorry for herself.

In fact, what she wants to do most now is to rush to Vice President Wang's office and shout, "I'm quitting."But it's a pity that Vice President Wang and the big boss are not here today.And she really didn't want to have anything to do with this company for a second.

Yan Qing swallowed, tapped his fingers on the desk of the other party: "I have handed over the letter of resignation, you can figure it out." After speaking, she turned and left without even looking at her.

Yan Qing has worked here for several years, and has saved a lot of personal belongings.

She bought a small luggage bag at the supermarket across from the company, and stuffed things into it without thinking about whether they would collide with each other.

A colleague in the office was surprised to see it.But looking at Yan Qing's cloudy face, he didn't dare to ask her what's the matter, but they all stopped their work tacitly and watched intently.

Until Vice President Wang, who hurried back from the outside after receiving the news, appeared at the door, the group of talents hurried back to their respective posts, pretending to work hard, while pricking up their ears to listen to the movement, for fear of missing any exciting content.

Vice President Wang stood at the door for two seconds.Then, frowning, he walked to Yan Qing's side, grabbed her arm, and asked in a low voice, "Yan Qing, what are you doing?"

"Pack up your things, didn't you see?" Yan Qing raised her eyelids, looking at his eager face, she suddenly felt extremely hypocritical and disgusting, "Let go!" After she finished speaking, she turned her wrist and pulled her arm back , continue to bow your head and work.

"Okay, why do you want to resign?" Vice President Wang glanced at the group of absent-minded people in the office from the corner of his eye, and discussed with her softly, "Is there anything that can't be resolved? Can we talk about it in another place?"

Yan Qing's hands stopped, "Mr. Wang, there is really no need for you to do this to me."

"What do you mean by that?"

"What do you mean?" She couldn't help but sneer again and again, "Infernal Affairs is over! Also, you tell Mu Cheng: I never, never thought he was so despicable!" and go.

Vice President Wang was left with a headache, and took out his mobile phone as he walked to the corridor.

"Hey... she knows."

"Well, I resigned!"

"Emotions are intense, just out of the office."

"Okay, I'll try my best, hurry up."

(End of this chapter)