leave you

With Yang Zixi's help, Xue Jin's work pressure has been greatly relieved.The little junior sister is smart and capable, and she has shared a lot of troubles for him, allowing him to take a breath during the overtime work and think about things other than work by the way.

Mrs. Li's divorce case finally fell on him. In addition to various property statistics, Mr. Li had put up too many colorful flags outside for many years, which added a lot of difficulty to his work of collecting evidence.Because he was too busy with work, he hadn't been to the hotel once in the past week, and he rejected all the invitations from Gu Zhilin.

In fact, Gu Zhilin didn't ask him out often, most of their dates were initiated by Xue Jin, it was rare for Lawyer Gu to ask him out, but he still refused.

He knew why Yang Zixi was reluctant to leave that night. Of course, he also saw the woman who was with Gu Zhilin, and even recognized her identity at a glance. It was because of that that he pretended not to see anything , pulled Yang Zixi away.

That was the legitimate daughter of Mrs. Li and Mr. Li, Li Yuanyuan, the eldest lady of Yuanwen Real Estate.Ms. Li seems to be very interested in Gu Zhilin, after all, she is the daughter of his big client, of course he shouldn't ruin the other party's chance——

Sounds like an unassailable reason.he thought so.

So what's his headache?He doesn't even know if Gu Zhilin is a couple, why should he unilaterally worry about the other party here?

Xue Jin felt like a psychopath, so he rubbed his temples irritably, asked the intern to pour him a cup of hot coffee in the tea room, loosened his tie, and sent a text message to Gu Zhilin.

"tonight?"

The reply came very quickly, with only one word: "OK."

Unspoken.

He stayed in the office until six o'clock in the afternoon, and found that everyone got off work very early today. At this point, only he and the two girls were left, so he picked up his coat and greeted him: "We are the only ones left, and I will treat the two beauties to dinner." ?”

Yang Zixi sat in front of the computer and quickly tapped on the keyboard, dismissing him without raising his head: "I'm rushing to catch up with the paperwork, please treat Xiao Qiao to a meal, and then send her back. There is a traffic jam at this point, so I will leave later."

Knowing her habits, Xue Jin was not surprised. He turned to look at the intern who was sorting out the documents: "How does Xiao Qiao feel?"

The little intern girl has a nice name, Qiao Mengwei, and she is as gentle and elegant as her name.She was helping Yang Zixi recently, when she heard this, she smiled and waved her hands: "Thank you, Lawyer Xue, I still have work to do, so I won't bother you."

After being rejected by the two girls, Xue Jin shrugged his shoulders, estimated their remaining workload, thoughtfully ordered takeaway for them, and went out to find food by himself.

If there is no accident, he and Gu Zhilin usually meet at the hotel around eight o'clock, and there are very few cases like last time.Even so, Xue Jin still found a place to eat by himself, and then drove to the hotel when he saw that it was almost time.

He didn't know what Gu Zhilin was thinking, anyway, he felt a little embarrassed.He has always been very careful about the boundaries of his relationship with Gu Zhilin, he only sleeps in bed, and does not talk about business or personal affairs, so when he bumped into the other party meeting Li Yuanyuan, he immediately chose to avoid it.But avoidance is avoidance, some things still need to be clarified - if Gu Zhilin and Miss Li are together, then this relationship should also end on time.

Today he also wanted to talk about this with Gu Zhilin, but when he went to the hotel on time, he found that Gu Zhilin, who was always on time, hadn't arrived yet.

He waited from eight o'clock to 08:30, but he didn't wait for Gu Zhilin himself, nor did he wait for Gu Zhilin's message, so he called the other party.

busy tone.

Xue Jin frowned and hung up, staring at the call log to confirm that he did not dial the wrong number, only then did he dare to believe that Gu Zhilin did not answer his call.

He didn't like to keep calling and urging people, and he didn't call again until 45:[-], this time it was directly transferred to voicemail.

Gu Zhilin is the kind of character who will explain in advance when he is one minute late. Xue Jin has never been rejected by him before, and he did not expect to be so bold for the first time, and it took nearly an hour directly.He felt that his stupid behavior of waiting in the hotel room was very mentally handicapped, so he patiently waited until nine o'clock to confirm that Gu Zhilin would not come, so he took out his mobile phone and called Yang Zixi: "Are you off work?"

"It's just over, what's the matter?"

"I'm still nearby, let me take you back." Xue Jin said to her while wearing a windbreaker, "It's not easy to order a taxi. If Xiao Qiao is still there, let her wait. I will be downstairs in 10 minutes."

Yang Zixi's voice paused, and he was keenly aware of the problem: "Why are you still near this point? Aren't you with..."

Xue Jin hung up the phone.

Ten minutes later, he picked up Yang Zixi and Qiao Mengwei downstairs at the law firm. It was a bit windy at night, and the two girls came out of the door wrapped in coats. cold.

Qiao Mengwei was originally embarrassed to let him give it away, but Yang Zixi dragged her to stay. After telling Xue Jin's address, she stopped making a sound, pretending that she is a transparent person who does not take up space and is not intrusive, huddled in the back seat and played with her phone with her head down , Only the two of them chatted without saying a word.With her around, Yang Zixi didn't have much to say, but only looked at Xue Jin meaningfully, seeing that there was nothing unusual about him, and felt even more strange in his heart.

She could tell during the day that Xue Jin had a date tonight, and she also guessed who the date was.This person was fine before leaving in the afternoon, and it was only less than three hours, why did he come back to send them home?

After Qiao Mengwei was sent back to school, and there were only the two of them in the car, she cautiously said, "...Have you had a fight?"

Xue Jin didn't say yes or no, and after asking her opinion, he parked the car on the side of the road, got out of the car and went to the convenience store across the road.Yang Zixi sat in the co-driver, watching him go in for a while and then come out with a paper bag, a cigarette in his finger, but he didn't light it, and finally threw it into the trash can beside him before opening the car door.

As far as she knew, Xue Jin basically didn't smoke very much, and the occasional cigarettes on his body were for others, which is really abnormal today.But the other party didn't want to talk about it, and of course she wouldn't ask too much. After Xue Jin got in the car, she quickly pretended that nothing happened, and diverted the topic to other directions: "There is still something wrong with the appeal today. I changed it. I have sent you an email address, you can check it tomorrow when you are free."

Xue Jin nodded, took a bottle of hot milk from the paper bag and handed it to her, and said, "I'll settle things tomorrow, go back and rest early."

Yang Zixi took it and saw that there were sandwiches and drinks in the paper bag, and couldn't help frowning: "Did you have dinner?"

"Eat, a supper for overtime work." Xue Jin said casually.

In fact, he didn't even bring a computer with him, so it was impossible to work overtime tonight. He bought a sandwich because he only ate something for dinner and stopped stuffing his stomach. He would definitely have a stomachache in the middle of the night.

He sent Yang Zixi back to the hotel, stayed outside for a while, and when he returned to the car, he found that the cell phone that had been thrown in his jacket pocket showed two missed calls and three unread messages, all from Gu Zhilin.

The earliest message was sent at [-]:[-]. Xue Jin thought about it. At that time, he seemed to be sending Qiao Mengwei back to school. The phone was in his pocket, the windbreaker was originally on the passenger seat, and Yang Zixi got in the car. Then put it in the storage box in the back seat.

No wonder he didn't hear the beep.Thinking of this, Xue Jin clicked on the text message and took a look, and sure enough it was the familiar Gu Zhilin apology: "Sorry, I'm late."

Just from this line of writing, I can't see a sincere apology at all.

The next one is 2 minutes later: "Did you go back?"

if not?Xue Jin raised his eyebrows, if he doesn't leave, he's still waiting for you at the hotel like a fool?

The last one was received 5 minutes ago: "I didn't intend to be late, it happened suddenly, please call me back at your convenience."

He looked through the missed calls again. Both calls were made after the second message, with an interval of about 10 minutes. At that time, he went to the convenience store and naturally heard nothing.

Xue Jin was of course a little angry. He didn't like others being late. The two of them had cultivated a tacit understanding over such a long time. Even if there was a slight time difference in arriving at the hotel, they would not let the other party wait too long.Gu Zhilin has always been a punctual person, but after being late for an hour, he only gave such a few words without pain, which made him feel that he cared too much, like a vexatious high school student.

He was in a bad mood and didn't want to reply. He was about to pretend that he didn't see anything and delete the record directly, but at this moment the phone rang again.

It's still Gu Zhilin.

It was almost eleven o'clock at this time, and apart from the white-collar workers who had finished working overtime in the nearby office building, there was no one else on the road.Xue Jin started the car and drove to his home. He put his mobile phone aside and did not answer it.

He knew that his behavior was naive, but he just didn't want to answer it. Gu Zhilin seemed to know what he was thinking, but he wanted to confront him. He actually made three calls in a short 10-minute drive, and each time it rang until it automatically hung up .When Xue Jin parked the car in the underground garage, took his coat and mobile phone and was about to go upstairs, he persistently made the sixth call of the night.

Xue Jin stared at the phone screen for a while, but finally couldn't help but pick it up.While pressing the elevator button and watching the door slowly close, he put the phone to his ear, did not speak, and waited for the other person to speak first.

Gu Zhilin probably didn't expect to be able to get through this time, he was silent for two seconds, and then said: "Xue Jin?"

The elevator car wall is made of electroplated material that can reflect portraits. Xue Jin stared blankly at his own face reflected on it, and responded symbolically.

"Sorry, something happened temporarily, I'm late."

"I saw the message."

Gu Zhilin was silent for a while, and when he heard the "ding" sound from the elevator on his side, he asked, "Are you home?"

"Yeah." Xue Jin didn't want to talk to him, walked out of the elevator quickly, and said while entering the password to open the door, "I still have something to do, so I'll hang up first."

He could feel that Gu Zhilin had something to say, but he was not interested in listening to it right now.After hastily hanging up the phone, he closed the door, staring at the pitch-black hair in the room for a while, remembering what he saw in the elevator just now, he untied his tie and threw it on the sofa, then turned and went to the bathroom to take a shower.

This house is a hardcover room, and it was equipped with a full set of bathroom facilities when he bought it, but he didn't like it, so he asked someone to redecorate the bathroom.Anyway, he lives alone, except for the cleaning lady who comes to the house twice a week, no third person will come in the house, and he has the final say on how to plan the space.So now there is a large bathtub in the bathroom that can lie down for two people, and a shelf is made next to it, and there are small things such as scented candles. It is an independent space separate from the shower room.

Xue Jin would occasionally take a bath when he was not working overtime at night, and there was almost everything in the bathroom.He filled it with hot water and sprinkled bath salts. After thinking about it, he took his phone into the bathroom so as not to miss any work calls.

The bathtub is so big that he can stretch his limbs freely in the water, and the just right water temperature makes people unable to help but relax.The light was turned on very dimly, which was the most comfortable brightness for him. Xue Jin sat in the water for a while, reflecting on his performance today, feeling that he was too out of control.

Is returning to the law firm to pick up Yang Zixi from get off work just to pass the time?Of course not, he just wanted to find something to do for himself, and he didn't want to stay in the hotel any longer - it made him feel embarrassed to be sent pigeons by Gu Zhilin, who was never late, and this embarrassment continued to increase as time went by, Being able to wait until nine o'clock is already the limit.

Why was Gu Zhilin late?He didn't care about it, because being late already spoke for itself.

Mrs. Li sent him an electronic invitation letter three days ago, inviting him to attend her daughter's 20th birthday dinner. Xue Jin didn't want to have too much contact with that Miss Li, so she declined on the pretext of going to court today.But he remembered very clearly that the date on the invitation was today, and the banquet time was from 6 pm to 9 pm.

It's too ugly, Xue Jin.

I deliberately picked today to ask him out, didn't I just want to test him?Now that you have the answer you want, why are you throwing a tantrum like a little princess?

He stretched out his arm, picked up the phone from the shelf, and dialed Gu Zhilin's number.

The phone was connected quickly, there was only a slight sound of running water in the bathroom, and Gu Zhilin's voice was very clear: "Xue Jin?"

"Ah."

"Is something wrong?"

Xue Jin stared at a crumbling drop of water on the faucet: "Well, there is something wrong."

He hardly ever called Gu Zhilin at ordinary times, but at some point, the two of them had acquiesced in the habit of calling only when there was something urgent.

Gu Zhilin seemed to have noticed his abnormality, and he paused before opening his mouth.

"what's up?"

The drop of water worked hard for a long time, and finally broke free from the shackles of the faucet and fell into the bathtub, making a clear "tick".

Like some kind of timer, or like a string that has been overwhelmed and snapped.

The longer it drags on, the more boring it becomes. Anyway, there is nothing to tangle with. We are all adults, and we each get what we need for a year and a half. No one owes anyone else.

So Xue Jin finally got the words out of his mouth.

"Come on, I'm tired."

There was silence on the other end of the phone for a long time, until the water gradually cooled, and Gu Zhilin gave an unsurprising answer, just as they had agreed from the beginning.

"it is good."