death star

"Sister Sisi, let's go first."

"Okay, be careful all the way."

Chen Si put away the things on the table and put them aside, took his bag and went out, only to find that Liang Ruiting's assistant was still cleaning up the mess in the office, and there were a few tea leaves sticking to the glass door of the office.

Speaking of which, this was half an hour ago.Liang Ruiting contacted Zhang Siduan and discussed with him about compensating Mao Zijun. Zhang Siduan frowned when he heard about it, and muttered that he was about to go out, but was stopped by his assistant.

Zhang Siduan was not a good-tempered master, seeing that it was useless to say good or bad, he just threw things in the office. Chen Si was outside at the time, and he only heard about it when he came back.

The security guard drove Zhang Siduan out, but Liang Ruiting didn't seem very surprised, but kept rubbing the center of his brows, as if he was tireless.

"He agreed?"

"He had to agree. I told him that Mao Zijun's family was going abroad and needed money urgently. If they couldn't get it, they might go to his company to find him. I don't know what impact it will have."

"It's really not like you to scare others like that." Chen Si smiled helplessly, "Then this matter is over, right? After so long, I can finally pull you to work overtime."

Liang Ruiting stared at a broken teacup on the ground, and hummed softly: "Well, it's over."

Liang Ruiting was not in the office, and Chen Si was a little worried about him, so he asked his assistant, saying that he had returned home from get off work.Chen Si called him, but no one answered, and it was the same with Liang Zhiting.

Due to work reasons, Liang Ruiting's phone should always be turned on, but when Chen Si called the second one, a reminder that the other party had turned off the phone sounded.She frowned and sighed.

Liang Ruiting returned home, he returned to the Liang family, not his own residence.The last time he came back was during the Chinese New Year holidays. He stayed at home for two days and left on the third day of the Chinese New Year.According to Liang Zhiting, the old man was so angry that he had been talking bad about him for several days, like a child.

He decided to go back today, mainly because it was approaching the end of the year, and the office would soon become very busy, and he might not be able to come back during the Chinese New Year.A few days ago, he answered the phone call from Liang's mother. He heard the voice as if he was sick, but he didn't say anything when he asked. He just wanted to come back today and take some things to his residence.

Subjectively, he didn't want to meet Liang's father.After all, the two of them haven't had a good conversation since he came out more than ten years ago. Sometimes just sitting at the dinner table can quietly stage an arrogant and domineering drama. The turbulence often gives Liang Zhiting a headache.

Liang Ruiting parked the car, locked the door and entered the house, and changed his shoes at the entrance.Before I went in, I heard the sound of the TV in the living room. The sound didn't sound like some romantic drama. It shouldn't be Liang's mother watching it, but Liang's father probably.At this point, Liang Ruiting didn't go out to school for a stroll but was watching TV at home. Liang Ruiting couldn't tell if he was unlucky or something, but it happened by accident.

He sighed, and walked into the living room as if resigned to his fate.Father Liang saw him at a glance, and beckoned him to come over expressionlessly.

Liang Ruiting couldn't tell whether his father was in a good mood or a bad mood, so he walked over with his slippers on.

"Remember coming back?"

"Look at Mom...and you."

"Get rid of the last three words, I don't know you yet? Can you take the initiative to come back to see me? You didn't come here because of Zhiting's persuasion." Father Liang paused, picked up the remote control and turned off the TV. All of a sudden, the surroundings became quiet, except for the humming of the wind passing by the trees outside.

Father Liang looked at him, frowning on his face that hadn't looked young for a long time: "Are you still going to be stubborn with me?"

"It's been more than ten years, don't you know?"

"It's been three years, and you haven't fully understood the lessons you learned back then?"

Liang Ruiting was dumbfounded, knowing that Liang's father taught and educated people for most of his life, and he talked about things logically, but he must be theoretical, so he just shut up.

The two looked at each other silently for almost half a minute before Liang's father stood up and asked him with his hands: "This year's Chinese New Year, when will you come back?"

"There are still more than two months, and the firm's itinerary has not been fully determined, so I don't know."

Father Liang sighed: "You should come back early, your mother misses you very much."

Seeing that he had returned to the room, Liang Ruiting slipped back to his room.Everything was neatly arranged, and the house was spotless. It could be seen that Liang's mother had put in a lot of effort to clean it.

But he was out all year round, and he only came back to live there for a week, and the cleaning was so clean, but there was still dust in the end.

Liang Ruiting felt chest tightness, took some things and went out, bumped into Liang's mother who was coming back from grocery shopping at the entrance.Liang's mother yelled in surprise, and quickly grabbed his hand: "Rui Ting?"

"Mom, I'll come back to see you." Liang Ruiting smiled, "Are you okay?"

"It's good, everything is good." Liang's mother patted his arm, and frowned: "Didn't eat well, you see you have lost weight, come back more in the future, Mom will make up for you. Zhiting said that you have Busy, are you so busy that you don’t even eat your meal?”

"How can I, remember your entrustment, I have a good meal." Liang Ruiting hugged her, "Thank you. I still have something to do, and I will come to see you next time."

He returned to the car, because he had been away for too long, the heating inside had dissipated, and he didn't turn on the air conditioner again. He put his things aside, rubbed his fingers and exhaled the hot air.

He took out the phone, pressed the screen twice, and it didn't turn on. He thought it was out of battery, so he found a power bank to charge it.When he turned his head and blew air on the car window, a white patch was covered on the glass, making it difficult for him to see his expression and his eyes clearly.

A light about to shatter.This is how Zheng Yun described him the last time we met.

Liang Ruiting stretched out his hand and wrote his name on the car window.Rui Ting.I heard from Liang Zhiting that he was given such a name because he hoped that he would be like Feng Ting under Ruixue, who would always be as bright as the light.

He doesn't seem to be doing it.Liang Ruiting paused with his fingers, erased the two words, and changed it to "Rui Ting".He thought of Liang Ruiting whom he met not long ago. He has made great progress, and he seems to have more friends around him. If Liang Ruiting was a death star before, now there is life on the death star.

They should never meet again.

Liang Ruiting withdrew his hand and picked up the phone instead. After turning it on, the operator sent a message to remind him that Chen Si had called before. He sent a message to Chen Si to tell her that he was fine, and then checked the unread messages.

There are two messages in total, both sent by Liang Ruiting. The content is very short, and there is more than half an hour between the two messages.

- I got a call from my brother, thank you.

- Teacher Yan seems to be busy temporarily, and the substitute teacher has been replaced by someone else.What a pity.

Yan Wenlin didn't teach him.Liang Ruiting exhaled, thinking, does it mean that they will never meet again?

There is no reason to meet, even the contact has been cut off, it is indeed impossible to meet again.

Liang Ruiting thought for a long time, but in the end he didn't return a single word.

Chen Si said that he would drag Liang Ruiting to work overtime, but he would let him go back when the time came. On the contrary, Liang Ruiting stayed in the office every day, always waiting for everyone to go back before leaving.

He walked through the darkness alone, and the last light in the office area went out because of his departure.So he seemed to be thrown into an airtight and fine net, and he couldn't even see the jumping lights on the elevator, and even his breathing was shackled in this net, and the huge darkness eroded him.

Liang Ruiting stood in front of the elevator, supporting the cold wall with his hands.He was gasping for breath, feeling as if a hand was holding his throat firmly, causing him a suffocating pain.

He struggled like a fish on the bank of a dry river, and finally lost his breath completely in convulsions.

He felt as if he had done something wrong.He clearly promised that Liang Ruiting could contact him at any time, but when faced with the text messages from Liang Ruiting, he chose to let them sink into the sea without any exception and refused to respond.

He seemed to have suddenly stepped back a few years, returning to the fragile and dazed self three years ago, wrapped in thick fog, and only the light that was about to shatter on his body.He is also like a defective product, the trauma of that time seems to be permanently engraved on his heart, every time he tries to open the shackles, the past will come one after another, like snowflakes in winter.

He walked towards Liang Ruiting, but backed away because of his own fear.Such an approach is more painful than Zhu Zhiyuan's.

He hurt himself, imprisoned himself, and also left marks on another "Liang Ruiting".

"You have come here frequently recently, and you said that you don't need my counseling, and you just want to find a place to sleep." Zheng Yun poured a glass of water for Liang Ruiting, and sat in front of him, with slightly curved eyebrows and faint eyes. smile. "Riting, what happened?"

Liang Ruiting: "It's just a little insomnia, it's okay, it will be fine in a few days."

"Say this kind of thing in front of a doctor, you will make me feel very frustrated." Zheng Yun smiled, picked up his water glass, and turned the edge of the glass around his lips, "You said before that you know what the crux is, I I thought it would be better this time, but I didn't expect it to be worse than last time."

"Last time, you didn't even know why you were like that. You said that you didn't really like Zhu Zhiyuan so much that you couldn't help yourself, but you were in great pain and depression, and the mental torture made you feel like you fell off a cliff. You want me to cure you, but until you gradually get better, you don't know why you are like that, what is the crux of the matter."

"I know this time." Liang Ruiting sighed and leaned back on the chair, "But I think it's better not to know."

"Tell me."

"I thought about it later, maybe I just couldn't turn the corner for a while, and I was stuck in that position, which was very awkward. I felt very bored and anxious, not only because of Zhu Zhiyuan, but also because my own state."

"I'm a little obsessive-compulsive, you know. Subconsciously, I don't want myself to be out of control. I urgently need someone or something to focus on. Obviously, I chose Zhu Zhi Yuan this person, and the matter of breaking up with him. Over time, this matter has become a knot in my heart. It may be a big thing for me, but it may not be for Zhu Zhiyuan. "

"But it's different this time. This time I know why I am like this. I don't need to find another excuse to deceive myself. At the same time, I also know the way to solve the problem, but..."

"You didn't do that." Zheng Yun looked at him, "Are you afraid, Rui Ting, are you afraid of repeating the same mistakes? Are you afraid that the same thing as Zhu Zhiyuan will happen again?"

"I don't know." Liang Ruiting closed his eyes, "But they are too similar. They are all seven years apart from me, and their personalities are very clean and pure. Even the way he looks at me is very similar to Zhu Zhiyuan three years ago. resemblance."

"Rui Ting, don't mislead yourself." Zheng Yun knocked on the table, "You are equivalent to entering a dead end. You keep circling in the same place, and you still can't get out in the end. You don't talk about anything else. Think about it, are they really that similar?"

Liang Ruiting opened his eyes and looked at the ceiling.

It seems that Liang Ruiting and Zhu Zhiyuan are not that similar.

Liang Ruiting has a lot of little tricks of his own, such as biting his fingers habitually when speaking, so that his nails are always pitted.

He was very quiet when he was eating, and the way he looked at the food was different from that of ordinary people. He would often show a smile inexplicably while eating.When Liang Ruiting asked him what was wrong, he would reply with a smile: "I just overcame a difficulty and ate a dish that I didn't like. It's great, the taste is actually not bad."

Liang Ruiting has a name similar to his, but he doesn't have the same sentimental past as him, and he can't forget the past.He didn't care about Zhang Siduan's actions, as if all his past grievances were wiped away after Zhang Siduan paid him compensation.

His eyes are on the future, the future where the stars shine and everything flourishes.He is full of hope for his future, and firmly believes that as long as he can survive, there is no difficulty that can stump him.

He is different from Zhu Zhiyuan.

Not at all similar.