hope for redemption

Looking at the blurred and receding scenery outside the window, Jiang Xi's thoughts also kept emptying and erratic. For a while, his thoughts recalled the words Yang Jue said to him just now, and for a while, he recalled some fragments of the past .

A line from a movie I watched a long time ago suddenly popped up in the flashback memory, it seems to be from "Evil and West Poison".

Anyone can be vicious, as long as you have tried what is called jealousy.

Immediately following the appearance of this sentence, Jiang Xi recalled a passage like this when watching Keigo Higashino's "Maliciousness" before:

I just hate you, obviously you are my closest friend, obviously you are so kind;

Obviously you knew my wretched past and kept it secret for me, obviously you have been helping me realize my ideal.

But I just hate you.

Many times, you may have done nothing wrong and become the target of public criticism.

Some people say that the greatest evil of human nature is not seeing others good.

There are many more clips like this, and they flashed in front of Jiang Xi's eyes segment by segment, word by word like a 3D effect, as if he was eager to prove to him that what Yang Jue said was true and well-founded According to.

But Jiang Xi still had a hard time believing it, he didn't understand.Is it possible to completely destroy a person's pure heart and turn him into a different kind of person simply because of the emotion of jealousy?

If so, where does man's own intellect reside?

"ALS? Are you listening to me?"

"Huh?" Niko's cry brought back Jiang Xi's scattered thoughts, he brushed his hair back and said, "Yes, you continue to talk."

Niko glanced at him suspiciously: "It's nothing, I'll just remind you, it's almost here."

"Okay, I see." Jiang Xi immediately cheered up and adjusted his state.

"What were you thinking just now?" Niko decided to ask one more question, lest he get nervous.

"Nothing..." Jiang Xi just wanted to reply reflexively that it was nothing, but subconsciously wanted to talk to someone, listen to other people's suggestions, paused and asked from the side, "Do you think people will do it out of jealousy?" Some bad things? For example, to frame your very good friend?"

Regarding his question, Niko immediately became vigilant, and his brain was running fast to analyze the starting point of his question. After thinking for a while, he organized his words and replied: "Yes, this is normal."

Regarding this answer, Jiang Xi clearly showed disapproval and doubt, and asked with a frown, "Why?"

Niko really couldn't think of why Jiang Xi would ask such a question, but out of the basic point of their interests, she replied like a kindergarten teacher explaining to children: "Well...let's put it this way, you don't like watching " Keeping Up With the Kardashians? Do you remember an episode where Kendall auditioned for a modeling agency?"

Jiang Xi, who is a veteran fan of "Keeping Up with the Kardashians", must remember, that episode said that Kendall showed Kris her own photo album and expressed her wish to be a supermodel, and then Kris brought Then she went to interview with a model company and finally became a model successfully.

This happened several years ago, Jiang Xi didn't understand why Niko brought it up suddenly, but he knew that Niko must have his own reasons, so he nodded and let her continue talking.

"So do you remember Kylie's reaction when she found out that Kendall had a successful interview?" Niko's tone softened a little, not so hard.

Jiang Xi thought about it for a while, and half-understood and half-ignorantly answered her question: "She doesn't care at all, and even lost her temper..."

"Do you think she really doesn't care?" Niko smiled, "If she doesn't care, how can she imitate Kendall and give Kris a photo album of herself, if she doesn't care, how can she deliberately alienate Kendall when he is still recording the show Deliberately saying those slanderous words."

"What do you think is the tendency for her to do that?"

The answer to this question is already obvious, it is jealousy.

As the youngest daughter of the Kardashian family, not to mention the comparison with the well-known kim and koko sisters, but Kendall, who is obviously of the same father and mother, and whose age is not much different, is more beautiful and valued than herself How could such a difference not make her feel jealous.

Looking at Jiang Xi's pensive look, Niko took advantage of the victory and continued: "So, even my own sisters can do some bad things because of jealousy, let alone friends."

She paused, but chose a milder wording, because she always felt that Jiang Xi was still the child who needed to be taken care of a few years ago, even though she knew in her heart that he was an adult.

"But...they are still young, not long after they grow up..." Jiang Xi was obviously still trying to find reasons and excuses, not wanting to admit this fact, his ostrich thinking started again.

"Grow up?" NIko felt a little funny, put the tablet in his hand aside, supported the seat with both hands, and said in a relaxed state, as if chatting with friends, "Then, let me ask you, why is Kourtney getting close to Koko Some, and the relationship between the two of them is a little distant from Kim? Is it really just because of Kim's character or his vicious tongue and strength?"

After watching more than a dozen seasons of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Jiang Xi has become more and more aware of the relationship as she grows older. Jiang Xi naturally knows what she is referring to when Niko asks such a sharp question.

But under the influence of his own ostrich thinking, Jiang Xi always wondered if he could find a point to refute, and opened his mouth tentatively but found that he had nothing to say.

"Comeon, in fact, everyone can see very clearly that there is another very important reason why the two of them alienate Kim together, because Kim is better and more famous than them." Niko directly pierced, "Since Kim and Kanye got married, the popularity It soared in a straight line and crushed them from all aspects. That is to say, from this time on, she hugged each other, and she clearly alienated Kim. What she called Kim in private...I won’t say it, you can see for yourself After so many episodes, I know it clearly.”

"If you say that Kylie and Kendall are still young and ignorant, then these three sisters are all in their thirties. They have seen so many storms, but they still do some bad things out of jealousy. All kinds of quarrels."

"So it's still the same sentence, it will be like this between family members, not to mention between friends and colleagues."

After finishing speaking, Niko took another look at Jiang Xi's expression, and added cruelly: "Whether you understand it or not, or don't want to understand, this is something you must admit and face. Otherwise..."

"I understand, I have already faced it," Jiang Xi suddenly turned her face to interrupt her, and said with a self-deprecating smile, "You have already cited such vivid examples, so how could I not understand."

Although Jiang Xi doesn't like the people around An Sheng, but one thing to say, their abilities are really strong, in all aspects.That's why when Jiang Xi was at a loss and confused, he was willing to let go of his grievances and ask Niko and listen to her opinions.

She uses the fact that you have the strongest sense of substitution to convince you. She doesn't force you but leaves you nowhere to retreat. She can only face the reality and admit it.

To admit that just because of the emotion of jealousy ruined Jiang Xi's most precious and beautiful childhood friendship; to admit that jealousy can crush reason and change people beyond recognition.

No one can escape, and neither can I escape.

After realizing this fact, Jiang Xi suddenly felt a wave of panic and worry. He was afraid that he would become like Yang Jue, who would become the person he hated and wanted to be the most.

It was also at this time that he realized that the reason why he didn't want to admit that jealousy had such a great ability was not only because it ruined the most cherished friendship in his memory, but also because he was afraid that he would also be unable to resist being reduced to Jealous servants.

Niko also sensed Jiang Xi's mood swings, and she secretly thought that something was wrong, and Jiang Xi was gradually losing control before she knew it.But the next thing required her to hold Jiang Xi in her hands and know his every move and every thought.

Fortunately, Jiang Xi was willing to chat with him. Thinking of this, Niko pretended not to notice anything, kept a relaxed state, and said in a cliché, "Why did you suddenly ask such a profound question? Did something happen?"

"Huh?" Jiang Xi snapped back to his senses. Just as he was about to speak, he immediately realized that something was wrong with Niko, and carefully went through her words in his head. Realizing that this person was talking to him, he replied vigilantly, "It's nothing." It's just that I recently revisited a novel I read before, and I have some understanding of the behavior of some supporting characters in it at this age."

"Really? What novel?" Niko asked.

Jiang Xi adjusted his state, separated himself from the state of cranky thoughts that hurt the spring and autumn, put on a cold and lonely shell, and replied: "Fights Break the Sky, I watched it in elementary school."

Niko hadn't read this book, so naturally he couldn't figure out why Jiang Xi came up with this question from it, but he still had an understanding expression on his face, and immediately looked up the novel in private.

She was about to start looking at the car but stopped, and immediately looked out the window to see that they had reached their destination.Putting the book away, he took out a document from his bag, and called out to Jiang Xi who was about to get up: "ALS, wait a minute."

Jiang Xi withdrew her weight, sat back on her seat, and gave Niko a puzzled hum.

"Before you go up, you still need to read this document." Niko put on a formulaic smile, and handed the document in his hand to Jiang Xi.

Jiang Xi took the document, and didn't respond at first, but his expression became worse the more he looked back, and after he finished reading the content of the document, his whole body was trembling with anger, and he gritted his teeth and growled. Asked: "What the fuck does that mean!"

Niko seemed to have expected this situation a long time ago, and replied without changing his heart: "What you see means what you mean."

"Are you crazy!" Jiang Xi threw the document at her fiercely, pointed at her face and cursed, "How dare you forge the mission! Do you know that if this is found out, it would be the easiest to die !"

Niko nimbly dodged the smashed document, picked it up and put it neatly on his lap, looked at Jiang Xi calmly and said, "It's not 'you', it's 'us'."

"You!" Jiang Xi choked on her words, and it took him a long time to react, sneering and narrowing his eyes, "Threat me?"

"It's not a threat, it's just stating the facts." Niko said, "The ranking day is coming soon. We need to strengthen our own power and stabilize the position of the four departments. Therefore, although this transaction is private, but We can also use it to make money come out on the bright side, and I think you should understand that you can kill two birds with one stone."

"Steady the position of the four major departments?" Jiang Xi found it funny after hearing this explanation, "Do you want to stabilize the position of the four major departments or compete with the precision department for the top position, don't I know yet!"

There is only one criterion for Noah's Ark's departmental ranking and ability ranking. Whichever department earns more money and wins more power for it will rank higher, and the corresponding ability of that department will be stronger.

The higher the ranking department, the better the resources it gets, the greater the right to speak, and the more it can manipulate other departments.

In Noah's Ark, there is a game of capital everywhere. Big fish eat small fish and small fish eat shrimp. If you don't want to die, you have to keep climbing.

The money and power paid for such an SSS-level task is definitely not a small amount. Once it is done successfully, there is a great hope that the Japanese sense department will be ranked in this year's ranking, and the precision department will be kicked down to the top position. position, gain half of the control of Noah's Ark.

But the prerequisite is that there must be this SSS-level task.

What Jiang Xi never imagined was that An Sheng was so courageous that he dared to forge the SSS task directly, forged his private transaction with other capital as an SSS-level task, and sent his own people to complete it with official business, and then took this opportunity to reveal the truth The accounts on the surface remitted huge amounts of private money to the performance of the Language Sense Department to make up the money!

This is fucking crazy, okay?If this was discovered, Jiang Xi couldn't imagine what Noah's Ark's partners would do to them!

Jiang Xi is anxious and flustered now, his hands and feet are cold and trembling constantly, he can only rely on roaring and questioning to make himself feel a little more at ease: "Are you sick, do you know how high the risk of doing this is, in case... .”

"Risks and benefits coexist, I think you have learned this before, the People's Education Edition high school requires political life one, economic life." Niko replied without changing his face, "And, as long as you succeed in this task, there will be no danger. one."

After finishing speaking, Niko leaned forward and clasped Jiang Xi's wildly waving wrist, stared into his eyes word by word, and said with great force, "Life and death are in your hands."

"You... lunatics!" Jiang Xi was angry and anxious. Fearing that he would be exposed, he sprang up from behind.

Jiang Xi shook her hand away vigorously, leaned against the back of the chair and kicked the opposite seat several times in a row, then slumped on the back of the chair to cover her tearful eyes with her hands, and cursed through gritted teeth: "I really am His mother wants to kill you!"

Now he finally understands why An Sheng insisted on forcing him to do this task, he is afraid that no one will accept the punishment!It was just to push myself into a situation where I had to do everything for her, and in the end, I had to hide it for her with her gang, so I couldn't grasp any reason to fight back.

The thing that made Jiang Xi most irritable, angry but powerless was that he even guessed wrong about An Sheng's purpose for doing this. A pawn on the board.Forced to be tied to a rope with her, and tied more and more tightly, in such a situation, instead of being able to bring her down, I have to do my best to protect her and strengthen her power, otherwise the moment she loses power, It was when Jiang Xi had no way out.

An Sheng's play is really wonderful!

"When you are in power, you will thank us." Niko sat down next to Jiang Xi, pulled off his hand that covered his eyes, opened the document and put it on his lap, not caring about his near collapse , pressing step by step, "Now, think about how to do this task well."

"Be your mother!" Jiang Xi stopped pretending to be calm and mature, overturned the document in a fit of rage, and shouted angrily, "Let's die together!"

Compared to Jiang Xi's huge emotional ups and downs, Niko acted like an outsider throughout the game without the slightest ups and downs in his heart. He still calmly picked up the document and put it neatly on his lap: "You have a buffer time of 2 minutes .”

"Stop your mother, stop!" Jiang Xi cursed with red eyes.

He scolded, but still sat up straight and began to adjust his state.It was impossible to die with them, he had to live, and only by living could he have a chance.

The sentences that are usually poorly written in Chinese composition have become Jiang Xi's spiritual pillar at this time.

"It's time," Niko announced like an invigilator closing a paper, and then opened the file and put it on Jiang Xi's lap, "Now you have 10 minutes to think about countermeasures."

"10 minutes?" Jiang Xi turned the file to the last page, pointed to the words 'Minimum: 10% of shares' and shouted, "You guys really think highly of me!"

This document is the real relevant information for this mission. It contains the economic status of the two companies, the background information of those in power, and Jiang Xi's real mission this time.

"After studying negotiation courses for so long, Ann thinks it's time to test it. This negotiation will be recorded in your file in the form of actual combat tasks, and there will be corresponding scores and personal points. This is for you Said it was a profitable business." Niko comforted formulaically.

It's a pity that Jiang Xi didn't feel relieved at all, instead, he poured a layer of hot oil on his anger, scorching hot like magma rolling in his body.

"Stable profit? Which eye of yours sees stable profit?" Jiang Xi stared, waving his hands excitedly, flipping through the information, pointing to the names of the two companies above, and asked in a high-pitched voice, " Can't you see the names of these two companies? I'm a newcomer who has never had a fucking negotiation. You have asked me to negotiate with these capital predators who eat people and don't spit out their bones. What a fucking god They want me to get the most unlikely shares from them, at least [-]%! Is this what you call a steady profit? Are you all pretending to be shit?"

"It's precisely because you haven't talked about a single negotiation," Niko pressed Jiang Xi's waving hands to press him on the seat, approached him to release coercion to force him to calm down, and stared at him with deep eyes. God's eyes bit the words heavily, "A high base point is the first step to put your opponent under your feet."

When Niko approached, the heavy coercion like a Buddhist bell struck Jiang Xi from all directions, giving him a sense of oppression, and at the same time it seemed to inject him with a powerful tranquilizer. His body followed his heart violently. Shaking for a moment, I suddenly realized.

"Don't forget how many miracles you have created before." A gleam of appreciation flashed across Niko's eyes.

Miracle.

These two words awakened Jiang Xi's deliberately dusty memory, the points that no one can catch up with, the fastest timing of word formation, the undefeated master of dozens of days of wheel battles, etc. These memories that are regarded as miracles are all at this moment. Flying out of the box frame by frame, following the light, it turned into spiritual water of courage, pouring into Jiang Xi's flesh and blood one by one.

"It's not about remembering those miracles that have been created," Jiang Xi's breathing gradually calmed down, and he pushed Niko's hand away and sat up slowly, like a white swan slowly sliding into the center of a moonlit lotus pond, straightening his slender and fair neck to meet the light, Lifting Dai Guan's head, he said with burning eyes:

"But, don't forget, behind those miracles you have the arrogant confidence."

The author has something to say:

I'm stunned, really I thought I could finish the plot in one chapter, why did I write three chapters...I'm really... speechless to myself...