unexpected rain

"Hi Senior Lin Ji, thank you for your 'Wings Facility' bursary, which lightens the burden on our family and allows me to continue my studies..."

"Qi Xinjia, Lin Ji's senior, I have received a new tutorial book, I will definitely make good use of these resources, and learn something in the future..."

"Dear Lin Ji, because of your help, I see new hope. In the future, I want to be like you and help more children in need..."

……

Every letter is full of sincere gratitude. Lin seems to be able to see each of his former selves through these words, but the difference is that they are thriving and do not have to roll in the mire.

Seeing his name written out with such respect and gratitude, Lin couldn't help but feel ironic and relieved. Although behind these funded projects was a predator's compensation, he had to admit that Xiang Shifang had done a good deed.

"Okay, then you can talk to him." Teacher Wu handed the phone to Lin Ji, "He's the person in charge. If something went wrong, talk to him."

Lin Ji took it over, "Hello."

"Hello, it's Mr. Lin Ji, right?" The person in charge said politely, "I'm sorry that these things were done in your name without your knowledge."

"Is it Xiang Shifang's idea?"

"Looks like you already know."

"I probably guessed something." Lin Ji said lightly, "It is good to do charity, but I have never participated in it, so there is no need to sign my name."

"This is what Mr. Xiang requested. He said that the students should really thank you."

Lin Ji laughed inexplicably.

If he forcibly refuses such a gift, he will have to deal with Xiang Shifang, at worst he will go to court, and the unfinished building will also be suspended. To start, I really have more than enough energy.

It is true that Xiang Shifang will not let the matter develop to the worst step, but Lin Ji really does not want to get too entangled.

"Let him go." Lin Ji said.

After hanging up the phone, Mr. Wu still wanted Lin Ji to meet the school leaders for tea, but Lin Ji was only the "front" of the funding project and couldn't make decisions, so he declined. Went to buy groceries to pick up my son.

He slowly walked down from the teaching building - this teaching building is the teaching building where he was when he transferred from the second year of high school. There are floor-to-ceiling windows in every stairwell, and the sunlight pours out, casting a radiance all over the place.

And he also met Shifang for the first time in this place.

Back then, Lin Ji would never have imagined that many years later, he would have such a deep entanglement with Xiang Shifang, and it would be so completely broken.

It seems to be on this floor...

Lin Ji's footsteps stopped, he stood at the corner, and stared blankly at the boy whose back was facing him in the stairwell below. The boy was wearing a school uniform and was reading a book with his head down. His slender figure like bamboo seemed unreal in the setting sun, like A waking old dream.

It seemed that the world was at a standstill, but Lin Ji heard a strong heartbeat in his chest, and it seemed to coincide with the initial throbbing.

With his lips parted slightly, he pronounced the name silently.

Shifang...

The boy suddenly turned around.

Everything became clear, the sun hurt Lin Ji's eyes, and he realized that the other party was just an ordinary student, not as tall as he had just seen.

"Hello, teacher." The student greeted quickly, and then ran downstairs with a bang.

Probably because Lin was not wearing a school uniform and had gentle eyes, so he thought he was a teacher.

Lin couldn't help but laugh, he walked down the stairs, arrived at the position where the student was standing just now, and stood facing the downward stairs.

Xiang Shifang was standing here, looking at him like this.

Lin was absent-minded, as if he had fallen into a nightmare.

The sharp ringing of the bell pulled Lin Ji away from some feelings.

He took a few deep breaths, clenched his teeth, and felt resentful towards himself: "Lin Ji, you... big idiot."

When I got home at night, Jia Jia saved up a lot of things to tell Lin Ji, why is Da Qiu still wet the bed, Xiao Fei got spanked for pranking a volunteer, Mr. Zhang recently got a boyfriend... This little guy has been around for a long time Before going back to the orphanage, I found out everything that happened during my absence in half a day.

"Oh my little mynah, isn't your mouth tired after talking for so long?" Lin was sitting and working, but Gaga was sitting next to him dancing and talking, which made him unable to concentrate.

"Not tired!" Gaga said happily, rolling his eyeballs around, raised a little finger and said, "If I can eat another box of ice cream, I will be tired."

"So greedy?" Lin Ji pinched Gaga's face, "But today I can only eat half a box."

"Yeah!" Gaga quickly ran to the refrigerator to get ice cream.

"Ding-dong-"

"Dad, open the door." Gaga squatted in front of the refrigerator to pick out ice cream, half of her body trying to get in.

Lin put down his computer and opened the door. The person who came was a strange man, wearing a suit, his hair fixed back with hairspray, quite elite.

"you are?"

"Excuse me, is this Mr. Lin Jilin?"

"Yes."

"Hi, my name is Fan Liu, and this is my business card." Fan Liu handed Lin Ji his own business card with both hands.

Lin Ji took a look, the secretary of Cheng's real estate company.

The words "Cheng's Real Estate" made Lin Ji instantly understand why this person came.

"If there are not many things, it's okay to talk about it here?" Lin was neither humble nor overbearing, but his attitude was obviously not very friendly.

Fan Liu also noticed it naturally, and he said humbly: "Okay, then I will make a long story short. Our president Cheng Pingyi and Cheng Dong want to meet with you, so let me ask Mr. Lin when you are free. Determine the time and place."

Since Lin didn't like Cheng Pingyi, it wasn't because of his acquaintance with Shifang, but because of Cheng Pingyi's haughty attitude when he first met, which still displeased him even now.

Lin Ji had a smile on his lips, "I never thought that such a small person as me could get into Mr. Cheng's eyes."

"Mr. Lin is too modest." Fan Liu said.

"Go back and tell your Boss Cheng that you should lower your posture when inviting others, and only when you come to the door in person will you appear sincere." Lin Ji said warmly, as if he was guiding a child to do the right thing.

Fan Liu became embarrassed, "Mr. Lin, this..."

"If he really wants to see me, he will come in person. If he doesn't come, it means that there is no need to meet him, and I don't want to see him." Lin Ji said, "If there is nothing else, I will go back Otherwise, my son will have a stomachache if he eats too much ice cream."

Lin smiled modestly at him, impeccable.

The next morning, Cheng Pingyi actually paid a visit.

"Mr. Cheng's arrival really makes the humble house flourish." Lin Ji greeted the guests with a smile that was beyond his eyes.

Cheng Pingyi was so angry that he gritted his teeth, this kid was so angry when he came up, he didn't even want to prepare water!

Jiajia tilted her head to look at this uncle, and said to Lin Ji: "Father, he looks a bit like Uncle Xiang." At the end, he added: "Uncle Xiang is prettier than him."

Cheng Pingyi's face turned even greener.

"My dear son, let's go to grandma's house to play." Lin rubbed Jiajia's hair, watched him go out, and then turned to Cheng Pingyi, "Tell me, what's the matter."

Cheng Pingyi's eyes were on fire, and now he was reduced to being treated so rudely by a junior.

He took a slow breath for a moment before saying, "You and Xiang Shifang are still in touch, right?"

"Mr. Cheng, who has great powers, is there something he doesn't know?" Lin Ji said.

"You!" Cheng Pingyi felt a little congested, "Are you taking the resentment towards Xiang Shifang on me?"

"You put your face on too much." Lin Ji sneered, "I just don't want to see you, nothing else."

He spoke so bluntly, Cheng Pingyi really wanted to give him some flair, but he couldn't do it now, he came here today to ask for cooperation.

"Xiao Lin, I know that there may have been some things that made you unhappy in the past. Uncle will apologize to you today, is it okay?" Cheng Pingyi said with restraint.

"Let's get straight to the point." Lin Ji said flatly.

Cheng Pingyi gritted his teeth and said, "I know that Xiang Shifang still misses you now, Xiao Lin, I have an idea, as long as you are willing to cooperate with us and use Xiang Shifang's feelings for you to help us get something, of course, We won't treat you badly here, 3000% of Cheng's shares, or [-] million, it's up to you to choose."

Lin Ji raised his eyebrows, showing a somewhat interesting expression.

Cheng Pingyi took a look and felt that the matter was stable, so he continued to follow the advice carefully: "I know you must be unwilling to break up with Xiang Shifang. Back then, he had a marriage contract with Percy and was hanging on to you at the same time. How could such a man be so easy?" Let him go? When he cheated on your feelings, you can use this opportunity to repay him now, and you can also get a generous reward, which will be beneficial and harmless."

"Mr. Cheng talked about Tang so sweetly, why didn't he mention something for me to do?" Lin Ji said.

"Of course it won't be a risky thing." Cheng Pingyi showed a reassuring smile, "It's actually very simple, as long as you pretend to get back together with Xiang Shifang and gain his trust—he's all about you now, isn't it easy? ? Then you just need to give him some pillow breeze..."

"All in all, it's fine for me to sleep with Xiang Shifang, right?" Lin crossed his legs, half-smiling.

"You can refuse, and Xiang Shifang can't force it otherwise..." But Cheng Pingyi's voice became weaker and weaker.

Lin smiled and shook his head, "Mr. Cheng, when we first met, you thought I was out to sell you, but you still think so now, you really..."

"Cheng Pingyi went to look for him? I knew this day would come. How could the Cheng family be willing to be subordinate forever? But he found the wrong person." Sitting in the office, Xiang Shifang took the photo frame next to the computer. In the photo now, he is hugging his aunt, with a frozen tenderness between his brows and eyes.

"There's no need to investigate. I know Lin Ji's character. No matter how much he hates me, he won't use this method to retaliate against me." Xiang Shifang's fingers slowly slid across Lin Ji's face on the photo frame, "He, He is very soft-hearted, but also very smart, he knows that the one who can really hit me is not the conspiracy, but himself."

After hanging up the phone, Xiang Shifang pressed the photo frame to his chest, as if in this way he could feel the warmth of the old days.

He even hoped that his judgment was wrong, that Lin Ji would agree to Cheng Pingyi's conditions, so that at least they could meet again, instead of like now, when he took one step closer, Lin Ji would take two steps back.