My first love overturned

Cities always look busier and more crowded on Monday mornings.

The rain still didn't stop, and the temperature didn't pick up.The traffic jam in the morning rush hour, the Q3, which was difficult to drive no matter what, the 15-minute drive from the apartment to Mo’s was stretched to an hour and fifteen minutes, stop and go, one foot of the accelerator and three feet of the brake tortured Lin Juguang The nerves repeatedly rubbed to the critical point of going berserk at any time.

And the electronic crossbar at the entrance of Mo's Industrial Parking lot repeated the camera flashing, scanning the license plate, and then played the operation of "invalid car, no entry, please exit", directly pushing Lin Zhuoguang into the center of the rampage.

The irritability soared to the level of max, Lin Zhuoguang sneered instead.

He turned off the engine, ignoring the repeated prompts from the electronic gate post asking to exit, and ignoring that the entrance he occupied was blocked behind Q3 and there was already a long line of cars waiting to enter the parking lot. Lin Zhuoguang parked the Q3 at the entrance of the parking lot , lifted his legs, got out of the car neatly, and went to the street-facing shop on the first floor of Mo's Industrial.

After ordering coffee, he was thinking about what to have for breakfast when Lin Jiyi called Lin Zhuoguang's cell phone.

The efficiency is quite high.

Lin Zhuoguang slandered, and answered the phone in a casual manner: "The action is very fast."

"The car security department dragged it away and put it on B1." Lin Jiyi was cold and businesslike, "Your license plate and face scan data, the administration department has reopened, you can come to my office directly."

"Have you found him?" Lin Zhuoguang took the American dish prepared by the clerk.

"What do you think?" Lin Jiyi said angrily.

Looking at the information on the pad that Lin Jiyi handed over, Lin Zhuoguang didn't realize it for a long time—not only Gu Chenjing's family went bankrupt, but Gu Chenjing was also listed as a dishonest executor?

Lin Jiyi took the coffee made by the secretary and put it on the desk.After the secretary left and closed the door, he stretched out his hand without emotion, and pressed Lin Zhuoguang's left shoulder: "Sadly."

Lin Zhuoguang raised his head and looked at him: "Lin Jiyi, how to cancel the consumption restriction order?"

"Pay back the money." Lin Jiyi let go of his hand, hating iron for being weak, "Your IQ fell off the bed, didn't you bring it?"

According to the data, Gu Chenjing acted as a joint guarantor for the two companies and was listed as a dishonest executor.The amount is not much, just 200 million.Lin Zhuoguang quickly recalled the balance of his bank account, 200 million is still there.

He asked Lin Jiyi: "Do you have channels to get in touch with these two companies?"

"The Supreme Emperor will not agree to this expenditure." Lin Jiyi saw the key point of Lin Zhuoguang's problem at a glance, and reminded him.

Lin Zhuoguang said: "There is no need to go through the Supreme Emperor, I will go by myself."

Mo Zhenchuan paid him a lot of living expenses on a monthly basis. Lin Zhuoguang usually doesn't spend much money. He uses Mo Zhenchuan's card for big items such as cars, and he has accumulated some savings over time. If one day Mo Zhenchuan Zhendengbao has terminated his relationship with his grandfather and grandson, and he can live frugally for several years.

Lin Jiyi thought for a while and said, "I suggest that you communicate with the person concerned first. If you don't want others to know about a good deed, it depends on whether the other party is willing to accept it. Don't be self-defeating."

"Forget it." Lin Zhuoguang put down the pad in his hand, "He won't accept it."

Lin Jiyi shrugged his shoulders, expressing that there was nothing he could do to help.

Lin Zhuoguang said dejectedly: "Tell me, how can I help him? An enthusiastic citizen Xiao Lin likes to win the first prize in the lottery, and draw a lucky phone number plate Ling AXXXXX, donate online?"

"Come on, don't act in TV dramas." Lin Jiyi shook his head, "If this Mr. Gu is so easy to accept other people's charity, you wouldn't be so powerless."

"How can there be charity?" Lin Zhuoguang pressed the center of his eyebrows, and retorted wearily, "How can a friend be a charity? Isn't there a friend who is in charge? Friends have the meaning of making money."

"I think." Lin Jiyi took back the pad, "Mr. Gu may not want you as a friend very much."

Unexpectedly, Lin Ji poked at the center of the matter, Lin Zhuoguang's face was ashen, and he fell into deep thought.

Lin Ji swipe his pad and enter the work mode, pretending that there is no cousin in his world with ups and downs.

Gu Chenjing parked his car in an open space one kilometer away from the community where no parking fee was charged.The moment the engine was turned off, the car clock showing 02:32 flickered and then went dark.

Gu Chenjing didn't open an umbrella, walked along the path beside the deserted residential area under the cool rain, walked through the side door of the residential area in the darkness with almost no lighting, and walked into Unit 18 of Building 1.

Along the damp stairs soaked in water vapor, he went up to the 6th floor.

The sensor lights on the 3rd and 5th floors have not been easy. The sensor light on the 6th floor was also broken last week.There is no real estate in this kind of old community. Although Gu Chenjing always remembers to fix the lights on his floor, but he leaves early and returns late, and he has never found the time to buy light bulbs.

Standing on the stairs for a few seconds, he took out the door key from his coat pocket.

His eyes got used to the darkness a little, and when his gaze swept across the door, his body froze instinctively: in the darkness, there was a moving shadow beside the door.

Gu Chenjing asked loudly alertly: "Who?"

The beam of light from the flashlight integrated in the mobile phone pierced through the darkness and landed on Gu Chenjing's face. The person in the dark still couldn't see his eyebrows clearly.

This kind of obscure pressure made Gu Chenjing more nervous, he subconsciously turned and ran downstairs.

Hasty footsteps approached quickly, and a hand grabbed Gu Chenjing's left wrist from behind.

The strength of the wrist does not seem to be malicious.Gu Chenjing stopped, took a deep breath, turned his head abruptly, and met the eyes of the person holding his wrist.

"Lin...drinking light?"

"It's me." A soothing voice sounded in the darkness, and the light from the mobile phone fell on Lin Zhuoguang's face, "Look, it's me."

Gu Chenjing's tense posture, instinctive reaction to escape, and actions to protect himself all made Lin Zhuoguang uncontrollably fermenting discomfort: This is by no means the first time Gu Chenjing encountered someone blocking the door in the dark state.

This time it was Lin Zhuoguang who appeared, and Gu Chenjing could relax after tense nerves.

Then, what if Gu Chenjing encountered other situations?What about other scenes?What about other people who don't have good intentions?

"You are like this..." Gu Chenjing's voice was a little hoarse, and he smiled as if covering up his panic, "The light from the flashlight shines on his face from bottom to top, like a ghost film."

"It seems... indeed." Lin Zhuoguang also laughed, trying to ease Gu Chenjing's embarrassment.

"How did you come?"

"Why don't you let me pay you back?"

After deliberately laughing, the voices of the two people sounded at the same time, and they were almost silent at the same time.

"The little lion has grown into a big one, so fierce." Lin Zhuoguang preemptively strikes.

"No offense to you..." Gu Chenjing couldn't laugh or cry, "Xie Yuran bought it alone."

"I don't care." Lin Zhuoguang stated his position confidently, "I don't want to owe him. I owe you."

"Be reasonable." Gu Chenjing was helpless.

"No." Lin Zhuoguang shook his head, "I have never been very reasonable, and you criticized me seriously at that time."

Gu Chenjing remembered that he had indeed said to Lin Zhuoguang so helplessly, "You are reasonable."

Specifically because of what has been blurred memory.Gu Chenjing only remembered that it was in the classroom after school at the end of spring, and the orange light of the setting sun fell on Lin Zhuoguang's side face, and Lin Zhuoguang also answered him so confidently: "Don't talk."

Gu Chenjing packed his books: "Lin Zhuoguang, sometimes I really envy you...I envy you so...how should I put it..."

"Arrogance?" Lin Zhuoguang sat across the chair in the front row of Gu Chenjing's seat, with his back to the podium, facing Gu Chenjing, leaning his elbows on the edge of Gu Chenjing's desk, holding his face in both hands, It looks very pure.

Gu Chenjing shook his head: "It's not arrogant, it's natural."

"You can also say that I am enthusiastic and unrestrained."

Gu Chenjing picked up the book and tapped Lin Zhuoguang's head lightly. Lin Zhuoguang groaned in pain artificially. He leaned back, and the orange sunset moved to Gu Chenjing's profile.

The bright and warm light contrasted sharply with the dark corridors now, as if it was a past life and a present life.

"I'm still like this," Lin Zhuoguang took a step closer, leaned forward slightly, and narrowed the distance between the two, "passionate and arrogant. Right?"

Gu Chenjing turned his head slightly to avoid Lin Zhuoguang's clearly audible breath at such a close distance.

Sensing Gu Chenjing's movements, Lin Zhuoguang suddenly remembered the definition of social distance: 0-50 cm is an intimate distance, relatives and friends will not mind the other party intruding into this distance, if it exceeds this distance, it will prove that it is just general It's just an acquaintance.

Lost and wronged could not help but feel in his heart: Gu Chenjing in the third year of high school kept a distance from everyone, including Xie Yuran.Only Lin Zhuoguang can hook shoulders with him at any time and step into this intimate distance.But now, Lin Zhuoguang thought hypocritically, when time comes back, people are no longer there.

He was just a casual acquaintance.

Unanimously, both of them were silent.

After being silent for a while, Gu Chenjing finally said, "Let's go into the room and chat."

The rusty hinges of the door turned, making an old creaking sound, and there was a more ghostly atmosphere in the darkness.

Lin Zhuoguang subconsciously held Gu Chenjing's wrist.

Gu Chenjing froze for a moment, but did not break free. He took Lin Zhuoguang into the door and pressed the light switch.

This kind of old-fashioned community is basically a legacy of the old man's house, with outdated facilities and narrow bays.It was the first time for Lin Zhuoguang to really enter this kind of room, and he unconsciously and seriously looked at Gu Chenjing's "home".

In the corner of a room of about 9 square meters, there is a gas tank and a built-in stove, which looks like a "kitchen".

The bathroom is hung with a curtain that acts as a door.

A single hard board bed, an old wardrobe without a door, an old wooden double sofa, and a coffee table with cracked glass in front of the sofa as a table, with a bowl of cold white porridge on it.

Not a single extra chair.

This can't be a "home", it's just a nest.

Lin Zhuoguang retreated to the door, and after a rustling sound, he returned to the room with five or six bags, and carefully placed them on the coffee table with cracked glass.

"What?" Gu Chenjing looked at the bags and asked.

"It's the first time I've come to your...home." Lin Zhuoguang said cautiously, considering his words, "I can't come to the door empty-handed."

Gu Chenjing looked at the bags with huge logos and seriously refused: "What are you doing with these things? I don't need these."

"I can't just come with two apples in my hand? Is that something I can do?" Lin Zhuoguang peeked at the stern Gu Chenjing, and his tone showed a little weakness, "I'm not here... ...Apologize..."

After a pause, he hurriedly added another sentence before Gu Chenjing could speak, "I asked you to pay the bill, I'm sorry, really, I'm sorry."

"There is nothing to apologize for." Gu Chenjing turned around, picked up the bowl of porridge on the coffee table, and poured it into the "kitchen" sink, "I know you didn't mean it."

The tiles on the cement sink in the "kitchen" are full of cracks, and the black inside the cracks is wet and sticky.Lin Zhuoguang looked at the dirty and sticky place, and murmured, "Little Lion, when did you start living here?"

Gu Chenjing turned on the tap, rinsed the bowl carefully, but did not answer.

"I don't mean anything else, I just think this place...uh...it's very unique..." Sensing Gu Chenjing's avoidance, Lin Zhuoguang tried to make things right for himself.

Turning off the water, Gu Chenjing turned around, not paying attention to the splashed water stains on the edge of the pool, he leaned against the pool calmly: "I didn't get used to it at first. Sometimes when I wake up in the middle of the night, I will be very irritable. Thinking, why am I here? So small? So dirty?"

Lin Zhuoguang looked at Gu Chenjing's shadow and didn't speak.

"It is difficult to change from extravagance to frugality. This is the truest human nature. There is nothing to be ashamed of. Human nature is like this, but life... If you fall down, if you don't fall to your death, then you will get up and continue to live. When you fall down, your body will be dirty. There is no way to clean it, so what can I do?"

Gu Chenjing changed the center of gravity, and the shadow changed. Part of the shadow elongated by the light fell on Lin Zhuoguang's side face, covering a gloomy gray.

"I..." Lin Zhuoguang's voice trembled slightly, "You..."

He didn't know what to say to be more tactful.

From the beginning of avoiding meeting and being difficult to contact, he should have thought that Gu Chenjing had already made a difficult cut with his past life, past self, and past Lin Zhuoguang.

It was he who forcibly dragged Gu Chenjing to the front, forcing Gu Chenjing to re-experience the fragments of life that he once had but had lost.

Because he took it for granted that Gu Chenjing, like everyone else, has always been high-spirited, always standing against the wind, with light in his eyes.

He thought of Lin Jiyi.

The day Lin Jiyi decided to give up polymer chemistry and the research institute was the night before Lin Zhuoguang set off for the United States.

He went to his uncle's house for dinner and farewell.That day my uncle and Lin Jiyi talked for a long time in the study, until Lin Zhuoguang was about to go back to the apartment to check his luggage, and the conversation was not over yet.

When he went to the study to find his uncle and Lin Jiyi, he heard Lin Jiyi say, "Dad, if I never had it, I wouldn't regret it so much. If I have it and then lose it, it will be more painful than not having it in the first place."

It's the same with Gu Chenjing now.

Maybe Gu Chenjing hopes that Lin Zhuoguang will leave as soon as possible, and stop appearing in his life again, and stop being a symbol of the "past" to remind Gu Chenjing of what a stable life he once had.

But Lin Zhuoguang was not reconciled.The seventy-eight thousand made him feel that he was dead, and it also gave him a necessary desire to protect Gu Chenjing.

He couldn't see Gu Chenjing's speechless and burdened appearance now. In this way, Lin Zhuoguang's heart seemed to be tightly wrapped by piano wires that were tough enough to cut the skin. Cutting torture, sharp pain is unavoidable.

Gu Chenjing is a cold and arrogant little lion, and should not be trampled by fate into a stray cat struggling to survive.

The fishy smell fermented by the humidity poured into the nostrils coldly, making the dilapidated and narrow space more concrete and boring.

"You come to my company... You come to work at Mo's, and I will go to work too, and you will be my special assistant." Lin Zhuoguang said to Gu Chenjing in an almost begging tone.

Gu Chenjing raised his eyes, looked at Lin Zhuoguang, and said without hesitation, "No."

"What major did you study in university?" Lin Zhuoguang recalled the details of the information given by Lin Jiyi, and said to himself, "It seems to be electronic engineering? Electronic engineering in Sheffield..."

His words ended with a small sneer from Gu Chenjing.

There was no irony in this smile, but Lin Zhuoguang's heart was pierced with soreness and numbness.

Lin Zhuoguang's Adam's apple moved, and he swallowed to relieve his embarrassment and uneasiness: "You have lived in the UK for more than three years, and your English was very good in high school. I heard from Lin Jiyi that there is a problem with the production equipment recently. When it comes to negotiating with a supplier who has been cooperating with the UK for a long time, my grandfather originally planned to send me to do this job, and I need reliable and professional people to help me."

Gu Chenjing looked at Lin Zhuoguang quietly.

He subconsciously bit his slightly white lower lip, which made Lin Zhuoguang even more guilty, but he still insisted on lobbying Gu Chenjing: "Mr. Mo originally wanted to hire with a high salary..."

"Do not."

"Gu Chenjing..."

"No!" Gu Chenjing raised his voice, looked into Lin Zhuoguang's eyes seriously, and said word by word: "Lin Zhuoguang, enough is enough."