Ceaseless

On Tuesday morning, a distinguished guest came to the coffee shop.

The distinguished guests are around fifty years old, wear soft and expensive coats, and travel in low-key but luxurious private cars.The drizzle outside the window has been falling for a long time, everyone can see clearly through the floor-to-ceiling windows, the private car is parked on the side of the road outside the shop, the co-pilot's door is opened first, and the young man dressed as an assistant is the first to carry the car. Get out of the car with a black umbrella, turn to the door on the side of the rear seat near the sidewalk, open the umbrella above your head, and then open the door for the person sitting in the back row.

In the coffee shop, neither the customers passing by to hide from the rain nor the clerks in the store have ever seen such an array of customers who came to drink coffee in the store, and they all stared at the distinguished guests outside the window with some strangeness.

The assistant holds the umbrella to send the guest outside the store, puts the umbrella away and respectfully opens the door of the coffee shop for the other party, the guest walks into the store, and the assistant walks in afterward with the umbrella.

At the same time as the two of them entered the store, the driver's door of the private car was pushed open, and the young driver, who was also wearing a black suit, stepped out of the car, turned around and took out several disposable transparent umbrellas from the car .

The distinguished guest sat down on the seat by the window, the assistant turned around to find the boss and asked for a private room, and paid the bills for other customers in the store himself, then turned around and signaled the driver to distribute umbrellas to those people, and politely invited others out of the store Leave.

The coffee shop was instantly emptied, only the boss and the clerk were left.The assistant asked others to leave the front hall one after another, but left him alone.Almost without thinking, Su Xi knew that the other party was looking for him.

Although we haven't seen each other for several years, Su Xi can still recognize Nie Mingrong.Back then when he was with Nie Jingze, the two families even had dinner.Su Xi is the Nie Mingrong I saw at the dinner table.

He walked towards the table where the other party was sitting, "Hi, do you want to order now?"

Nie Mingrong took the catalog in his hand and put it down, beckoning him to sit down.

Su Xi sat down opposite him.

The assistant and the driver had retreated outside the store, leaving only him and Nie Mingrong in the front hall.Nie Mingrong said slowly, "Your father helped me a lot back then, and now I don't beat around the bush anymore."

This was directly omitting the superficial reminiscences, and Su Xi vaguely knew what the other party was coming for, and now the only connection between him and the Nie family was Nie Jingze.

Su Xi didn't speak, waiting for Nie Mingrong to speak.

"You're still with Nie Jingze now." Nie Mingrong's tone was calm, with a gentle expression on his face, just like when they met at the dinner table and called him by his nickname back then, "I hope you can break up with him."

Su Xi's expression remained unchanged, "What's the reason?"

"What is the reason, I think you are very clear." Nie Mingrong smiled faintly, "The Su family used to be a wealthy family, but if it were you and your father, if Nie Jingze was just a poor boy with nothing, your father would still do whatever you wanted. Send people to you without principle?"

Su Xi suddenly raised his eyes, frowned and looked at him, "I'm sorry, although you don't love your child, but my father loves me very much. Maybe he didn't do well in other places, but in the role of father Actually, I don't want people like you to speculate about my father just based on your own situation." He paused every word, and stopped using honorifics for Nie Jingze's biological father in front of him, "My father is completely different from you. Same people."

Nie Mingrong wasn't angry at all, and asked in an unhurried manner, "Really?"

But Su Xi was no longer willing to say something to him about Su Songqing, he relaxed his brows, and brought the topic back to the right track, "I heard that when the elders come to persuade them to break up, they will give a lot of breakup fees." He looked surprised, "Is it a check or cash?"

Nie Mingrong shook his head, "The act of writing a check can only be used by those who are fickle and short of money. You are different from those people. I can tell that you have deep feelings for Nie Jingze."

"Emotions are two-way. If I love him but he doesn't love me, I don't need you to persuade me to break up, and I won't have any chance to be with him." He asked Nie Mingrong, "Don't you just see my love for Nie Jingze?" Feelings, can't you see Nie Jingze's feelings for me?"

"You are wrong." Nie Mingrong still smiled and shook his head, "He does like you now, but his liking for you is far less deep than your liking for him, nor is it as pure as your liking for him."

Su Xi withdrew his gaze, did not open his mouth to refute the other party's words, but also asked the other party's deep meaning in the second half of the sentence.

Seeing his silent reaction, the smile on Nie Mingrong's face gradually deepened. While the eye sockets were slightly sunken, the wrinkles at the corners of the eyes also deepened.Of course, when referring to Su Xi's feelings for Nie Jingze that have not changed over the years, Nie Mingrong still praised him without hesitation: "In this regard, you are a good boy."

Su Xi was in a calm mood, waiting for the turning point in the other party's words without saying a word.

Nie Mingrong said again: "How can a good boy bear to see the person he likes miss out on the inheritance of the Nie family's property?"

"He was born as the only son of the Nie family, and everything in the Nie family should belong to him. But now because of you, he may lose what he should have." Nie Mingrong folded his hands on the table, looking Gradually deep thoughts emerged in his heart, "Exchange your feelings for him to inherit the Nie family, and he will be grateful to you."

Su Xi shook his head, and said in a firm tone, "He won't be grateful to me, he will only hate me."

"How do you know that he is not between you and the Nie family?" Nie Mingrong slowly narrowed his eyes, like a hunter kneeling opposite a deep pit calmly luring him into the trap, his face full of gradually revealing emotions. The man who came out was scheming, "The rope tied around his waist, one end is in your hand, and the other end is in the hands of Nie's family. When both ends are tightened, he will be the one who suffers. The one in his name It is the surname of the Nie family, and it is inseparable from the entire Nie family from birth. Only when you let go of your hand can he take a breath."

"The person I'm in love with is him, not you," Su Xi lowered his eyes, his expression unchanged, "You can't convince me."

"I came here today, of course I brought something that can convince you." Nie Mingrong's eyes became more gentle, and Nie Mingrong reached into his coat pocket.

When he appeared in Su Xi's line of sight again, a slender pen appeared in that hand.

Nie Mingrong put the pen on the table and slowly pushed it under his eyelids.

Looking at the pen, Su Xi realized that it was a recording pen.He held the recording pen in his hand and took a look. He found the play button on the pen and reached out to press it, with an unreal expression on his face.

The content of the recording begins with Nie Mingrong's questioning in the office, and it's not difficult to hear the fact that he and Nie Jingze are not in harmony.

Nie Mingrong intended to persuade Nie Jingze to break up with him, but the latter's lukewarm tone seemed uncooperative.

Nie Mingrong smiled calmly, and then asked Nie Jingze, "I'm really a little curious now, when you're with him, is it true that you have no more affection for him, or are you just trying to antagonize me and annoy me? After all, I know all too well how much you hated that kid."

After the other party's questioning, for a long time, only the rustling sound of electricity remained in the recording.Nie Jingze seemed to fall silent and did not answer.

Nie Mingrong started talking again, "So, what about the Nie family?"

Su Xi heard that he made a promise to Nie Jingze that as long as Nie Jingze agreed to break up with him and get engaged to the younger generation of the family who had frequent contacts with the Nie family, Nie Mingrong would hand over the inheritance of the Nie family to him in front of all the guests at the engagement banquet.

After Nie Mingrong's voice disappeared, Nie Jingze still didn't speak for a long time in the recording.

After the rustling electric sound, the recording stopped abruptly.

"Listen," Nie Mingrong tapped the table with his fingertips, and sighed softly, with a hint of pity and regret in his eyes, "he was silent twice."