What Comes Around Goes Around

On Monday morning, as soon as Jiang Ke entered the office and clicked on the mailbox, before he could sit still, an email notifying him that the contract would not be renewed for the time being jumped into his eyes.He has been in charge of contacting the order business in the company, and was frowning and wondering how to reply when Qin Ziyang came in.

"What's the matter? It's a forehead lawsuit."

"Another one who wants to lower the price," Jiang Ke pointed his chin towards the computer screen, "You really know how to do business, and don't even look at how the cost has risen now."

"How much pressure?" Qin Ziyang asked.

Jiang Ke turned the notebook around.Qin Ziyang took a closer look, "It's not too bad."

"The main reason is that the order is not that big and I want a discount," Jiang Ke said. "How did I find out that the richer people are, the less money they have?"

"Then I really want to be an iron rooster, the kind that can't pull a hair off."

"Nonsense, who doesn't want to?" Jiang Ke laughed, and turned back to the computer to start bargaining, "But let's figure out how to get all the hair of these rich people down before we talk about it."

"Yes, let them be rich!" Qin Ziyang nodded in agreement, and when he walked to the door of the house, he turned around and asked, "Hey, are you going out today?"

"I shouldn't go out, what's wrong?"

"I've made an appointment to see the house, you can go with me later."

As early as half a year ago, Qin Ziyang felt that the company's current house was not pleasing to the eye. Not to mention the area was not big enough, and it was far from where he lived. He had to go out before 06:30 every day, otherwise the road would be so congested that he would not be able to reach the company at noon.Jiang Ke didn't care about it, but Qin Ziyang was the boss, so he couldn't talk too much.He is much freer than when he just graduated from [-] to [-], but he is still a half-time worker after all.

The two went out at 10:30, and after seeing the three houses, it was past 01:30, so they simply found a nearby restaurant for lunch.

"What do you eat?" Qin Ziyang flipped through the menu and asked Jiang Ke.

Jiang Ke has always been impatient to order, he shook his head and said, "Anything is fine, just order."

The two of them sat by the window, while Qin Ziyang was ordering food with the waiter, Jiang Ke looked out of the window blankly.In the northern land, which has just entered February, the vegetation has not yet sprouted, and it coincides with the cloudy sky, and the eyes are full of desolation.Jiang Ke looked at it for a while and felt that it was not very eye-catching, and was about to look away, but a familiar figure slipped into his sight.

Across the road, Zong Kai walked side by side with a man towards the parking lot, talking while walking.Jiang Ke's neck twisted along with the two until Qin Ziyang called him.

"What are you doing?"

"...Huh? Oh, nothing."

Jiang Keren turned back, but his mind was still following Zong Kai's fading back.

"Did you hear what I just said to you?" Qin Ziyang asked him again while waiting for the food to be served.

"What did you say?"

"I noticed that you've been distracted these past two days." Qin Ziyang looked at him wonderingly.

"Is there?" Jiang Ke certainly didn't admit it, "Why didn't I feel that."

"If you feel it, then you won't be distracted." Qin Ziyang shook his head helplessly, "I just said that those places in the morning are not suitable for me, what do you think?"

"Well, the rent is too high."

"The location is not good either, forget it, let's see."

Jiang Ke didn't answer any more, and after a while, he suddenly asked without beginning or end: "Tell me, what excuse should I find to meet him?"

"Who are you seeing?" Qin Ziyang looked confused.

"That's the one," Jiang Ke reminded, "You're still looking at the photos."

"Oh," Qin Zi reacted, "Can't you just say you want to see?"

"If I can do it, I don't have to worry about it?" Jiang Ke looked at him, with "Why do you always talk nonsense" written all over his face.

Qin Ziyang thought for a while, and suggested: "You just continue to chat with him. If he is really interested in you, naturally he will find a chance to meet again."

"He blocked me." Jiang Ke's face became bitter again.

"What's the point of being blacklisted? Every time I quarrel with Song Henan, I will block him and let him out."

"Is this the same thing?" Jiang Ke said speechlessly, "Besides, I just can't find a reason for him to release me from the blacklist."

"Don't you know where he works, go directly to him." Qin Ziyang has always been a man who dares to think and act, and never finds it difficult to take the initiative in any relationship.

Jiang Ke thought it was so simple, and said anxiously: "...I'm afraid it won't work."

"I said, why are you so annoying?" Qin Ziyang looked at him inexplicably, "This kind of thing doesn't need so much psychological construction, just show your face."

Jiang Ke raised his hand to touch his own face, then stretched out to pinch Qin Ziyang's face, and finally concluded: "It's really not as thick as you."

"What do you know," Qin Ziyang said, "If you want to have no regrets, you have to have a thick skin."

"..." Jiang Ke couldn't find the words to continue, but he felt that there was some truth in the words.

So in order not to leave any regrets, on the maintenance day three days later, he mustered up the courage to go into battle again in person.

When Jiang Ke appeared at the company's front desk, Zong Kai had just come out of the boss's office, looked at him several times in surprise through the glass door, and saw him talking and laughing with the little girl at the front desk for a long time before coming in.If he didn't know that he likes men, Zong Kai would have thought he was flirting with girls.Really out of tune.Why didn't he find out during the half a year of chatting?Is it because Jiang Ke's online and offline faces are too good at pretending, or is he wishful thinking to beautify others because of his good feelings?Zong Kai returned to his office with a complicated mood.

Jiang Ke beat the snare drum in his heart, while working from the farthest position from Zong Kai, half an hour later, he moved carefully towards Zong Kai's direction.

"Sorry to bother you." Jiang Ke pointed nonchalantly at a tall green plant beside Zong Kai's desk, and felt that his hands seemed to be shaking involuntarily, so he quickly took them back.

"Ah."

Zong Kai didn't look at him at all, but moved a little to the side.Jiang Ke's heart felt cold for a while, it seemed that he really didn't want to talk to him at all.

The potted green plant next to the table is a fig, which does not need to be fertilized in winter.Jiang Ke touches and touches the soil, but he doesn't need to water it. He can only turn it around so that the sunlight can be absorbed more evenly.

He turned the flower pot intently, repeating the same movement back and forth for a long time.Now Zong Kai finally looked at him.

"Are you busy yet?"

The tone of the question was toneless, but Jiang Ke was startled, "That...I..." He hesitated for a long time and finally said, "...Sorry."

Zong Kai didn't answer, and suddenly got up and walked away.

Jiang Ke's eyes immediately stuck to his back, wishing that others would follow, but he didn't dare.After such a short time, Zong Kai's attitude towards him was enough for him to choke, he was really afraid that Zong Kai would say something like "don't bother me anymore".Then his heart couldn't bear it.Not only the heart, but also the face can't bear it.

Jiang Ke dazedly checked several pots of green plants around him, and began to shift positions.As a result, he bumped into Zong Kai again when he entered the staff rest area.Zong Kai sat there alone, without a teacup in his hand, and looked like he was in a daze.When Jiang Ke came in, he didn't respond.

"That... I'm sorry." This was the third time I said these four words.Jiang Ke couldn't be more embarrassed.

Zong Kai raised his eyes to see him, and asked calmly, "Are you busy there?"

"……All right."

Zong Kai nodded and got up to leave.

"Hey!" Jiang Ke blurted out this time.

Zong Kai turned his head, his face was as usual, but Jiang Ke still understood that he was asking: What's the matter?

"I..." Jiang Ke stammered, but couldn't say those three words.He didn't know why, maybe it was because of a guilty conscience.Zong Kai didn't scold him, and he didn't show his face on purpose, but he just didn't laugh or talk to him, which already made him feel a sense of depression, and he was so nervous that he even forgot the apology he originally planned.

Seeing that he hadn't said anything for a while, Zong Kai pushed his glasses and took a step first.

Jiang Ke stood in place, slapping his mouth in his heart: You are a waste of snacks!Why did you come here on purpose today?To embarrass yourself?Come to apologize!Then you say it!Not a single useful word was said!

The other day Qin Ziyang said that he wanted to pick up Zongkai, but he didn't admit it with his mouth, but he half-admitted it in his heart, but now he didn't even dare to think about it.He just wanted to say sorry to Zong Kai, but why couldn't he say it?

Zong Kai went to the gym after get off work that day, and spent more than three hours there.

Zong Kai belongs to the kind of child who develops late. When he was in junior high school, his seat was always dangling in the front rows of the classroom. He was thin and small, just like a bean sprout.After high school, he suddenly jumped up, but he was still thin.He didn't start exercising because of the influence of the environment until he went abroad for university, and he persisted in the past two years after studying in graduate school and returning to work in China.It became a habit for him, a part of life.No matter how busy he is at work, he has to go to the gym at least three days a week.

But today was different from usual, he wanted to vent because he was upset, but after sweating profusely, he still couldn't calm down.

After getting out of the shower and changing his clothes, Zong Kai just put on his glasses when he caught a sight that made him uncomfortable out of the corner of his eye. When he turned his head, he saw someone looking at him.The man didn't dodge at all, his eyes stared back and forth at him.Zong Kai didn't respond to him, and raised his hand to open the cabinet door to block the man's view from the other side.This action fully demonstrated his attitude, and the man walked away with regret on his face.

Zong Kai has encountered this kind of thing several times in the gym.At first, he was not used to it, and would always mutter whether there was something wrong with him, or his figure was too bad, which caused others to tease him with their eyes.It wasn't until he met a guy whistling at him once that he was finally sure that the look meant that the other person was interested in him.

In fact, as long as he nods, there will be many opportunities for romantic encounters, but he has no such intention.It's not that his vision is so high, it's just that the first time he realizes that someone is looking at him, what he feels is never excitement or satisfaction, but anxiety.This is also the reason why he refuses to undergo myopia correction surgery and refuses to wear contact lenses outside of sports: a layer of lenses can give him a sense of psychological security.

A well-rounded 25-year-old man would be nervous about being stared at by strangers.It's a bit unbelievable to think about it.And the reason why he is like this is probably all thanks to Jiang Ke's various pranks on him in the second year of junior high school.

How does this tell him to face Jiang Ke?

To be honest, the moment he recognized Jiang Ke on the sixth day, he almost didn't know how to react.He felt tricked, just like he did back then.These two times when he bumped into Jiang Ke again in the company, he also subconsciously wanted to avoid him.

In fact, intellectually, he knew that he didn't have to do this, they had grown up, and no one was the ignorant child they were back then, but he just couldn't control it.Especially when he thought that when he didn't know that the other party was Jiang Ke, he had such a good impression on this person, and even expressed his appreciation or ambiguity several times, he wished to lose his memory directly.

After all, compared to the so-called unforgiveness, this is the real reason why he blackmailed Jiang Ke and turned his face lightly: his self-esteem couldn't accept it, and he felt embarrassed.