Forbidden

At noon in midsummer, the sun is scorching.

A wide-body aircraft landed smoothly, taxied slowly to the corridor bridge, and docked.

There was a commotion in the cabin, and the woman sitting at the rightmost window seat in the front row frowned, took off her blindfold unhurriedly, stuffed it into her pocket, and glanced out the window.

familiar scenery.

Cheng Suran has long been used to flying for a few hours across most of China.Take off and sleep with your eyes closed, and open your eyes when you land to make sure where you are, and then your brain is quickly filled with the next work.

Now it's Jiangcheng - her home.

After a while, the cabin door opened, and Cheng Suran stood up with his bag, and walked out of the cabin with the sound of the flight attendant seeing off the passengers with a smile.

Pass through the terminal building, pick up the luggage, and see the assistant Xiao Meng at the exit.

"President Cheng—"

The young girl approached.

Cheng Suran stepped on pointed high heels, and the loose wide-leg pants brought a gust of wind.She wears a suit jacket on her left arm, and pushes a suitcase in her right hand. Her slightly curly long black hair reaches her waist like a waterfall, and she has a tall and straight figure.

Meeting the girl's gaze, she slightly raised her mouth and nodded slightly.

Xiao Meng stepped forward to take the suitcase in her hand, and the two walked to the parking lot side by side.When they came to a white car, Cheng Suran got in first, and Xiao Meng skillfully packed his luggage and sat in the driver's seat.

The car slowly drove away from the airport area.

"How was the progress of the short-term interpreting project two days ago?" Cheng Suran closed his eyes and asked casually.

While driving, Xiao Meng said, "I'm stuck, and we haven't talked about it yet."

"Ok?"

"The client's requirements are very strict. In addition to the telephone interview, on-site interviews are required. Two people have been appointed for the Italian team and the English team, but the French team has been wiped out. The main reason is that most of the translators in the French team happened to have business during that time , the itinerary cannot be coordinated, and the customer is not satisfied with other things that can be coordinated, so it gets stuck."

Hearing that he was a major, Cheng Suran frowned slightly, thought for a moment and said, "Go to the company."

"it is good."

After 10 minutes, we arrived at the parking lot of the building, and the elevator went up to the [-]th floor.

Facing the open and bright lobby, four young and beautiful receptionists sit in charge. On the left is "Yingsheng Education", and on the right is "Yingsheng Technology", which belong to two different businesses of the same company, occupying the entire floor.

The simple and neat design style uses warm colors in a large area, which is visually comfortable and transparent.

"Mr. Cheng."

"Mr. Cheng."

Cheng Suran stepped out of the elevator, walked towards the office in the face of many greetings, and said to Xiaomeng: "Go to the sales department and give me the customer information."

She pushed open the door, walked to the sofa and sat down, closing her eyes and rubbing between her brows.

Within 2 minutes, Xiao Meng came back holding the tablet.

"President Cheng, information."

Cheng Suran took it and glanced at it twice, and then fixed his eyes on the meeting place.

The client is a niche luxury brand, "ETERNO", headquartered in Milan, Italy, and its head office in China is in Jiangcheng. Next Wednesday, the head office in China will hold a three-day business meeting at Yunjin Lihua Hotel. There will be two to three hundred participants. If there is a banquet, simultaneous interpreters in English, Italian, and French are required to accompany the interpreter.

Yunjin Lihua Hotel...

Cheng Suran stared at the name, repeating it silently over and over again, fragmentary images flashed in his mind one after another.

Elevators, suites, crystal lamps, dimly lit rooms... and snake-like women.

Her hands could not help shaking.

"Mr. Cheng, are you cold?" Xiaomeng asked with concern.

Cheng Suran regained consciousness in a trance, and regained her seriousness and said: "It's okay." She took out her mobile phone, searched for the brand name, and a large number of encyclopedia information came into her eyes.

The brand information is very detailed. Cheng Suran searched among the dizzying strings of letters. Afraid of finding the familiar pinyin, he searched it three times to confirm that all the names from the founder to the executives are foreign names. Only then can he feel relieved .

Coincidence, just coincidence.It's her nervousness.

"Let the business department contact the customer again and arrange another phone interview, and I will go in person." She put down her phone and said.

Even if she is the boss, she has to go through the process.

……

Clients are sincere, but if they cannot find the most suitable translator, they will have to find another one.As long as she can get the bill, it's okay for Cheng Suran to go to battle in person, the money she earns and the company's money will end up in her pocket.

The telephone interview was scheduled for two o'clock in the afternoon and was planned for half an hour, but in reality Cheng Suran only chatted with the other party for seven or eight minutes before finalizing the time for the on-site interview.

"Okay, see you at four."

After finishing the courtesies, Cheng Suran hung up the phone and walked to the window.

On both sides of the riverside, there are many high-rise buildings, large and small boats shuttle on the water surface, and there are many tourists on the shore. The scenery has not changed for many years.

Now things are different...

On the eve of graduating from university, Cheng Suran gave up the idea of ​​studying abroad at his own expense and took part in the translation selection examination of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Then it is to sign a contract, and the government will send it to a country where the professional language is spoken.

She went to the Paris Higher School of Translation and Interpretation, and took a taught master's degree a year later. After returning home, she officially started working in the Translation Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

When there are no international conferences or visits with leaders, the daily work of the Translation Department is to listen to foreign media news such as CNN and BBC. Everyone listens to and retells the news content, and then performs simultaneous and consecutive interpretation exercises in groups. From morning to evening, Gao Intensity, non-stop.

Although he is only a small translator, he represents the country's image in diplomatic occasions, and he can neither flaunt nor shrink back. Over time, Cheng Suran's whole person has been "polished" to be graceful, neither humble nor overbearing.

However, she soon tired of this life.

Like being in an airtight box, tired, dull, depressed, and highly stressed.

She felt that she should be a bird soaring in the sky, a horse galloping in the fields, and not sitting on a flat road to see the end of life at a glance.She also felt that her home was not in the capital, but in Jiangcheng.

So two years later, she resigned and threw away the "golden rice bowl" in the eyes of others.

Freedom comes at a price.Since he resigned before the contract expired, it was considered a breach of contract. Cheng Suran paid a liquidated damages and was restricted from leaving the country within three years.

Since then, she has started her career as a freelancer.

The resume from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is very beautiful, and she is strong enough herself, and she also knows a lot of people in the circle, so there is almost no need to worry about not getting a job.A simultaneous interpretation session is calculated on a daily basis, and within two months, her price rose from [-] to [-].

One meeting every month is enough to support myself and live a refined petty bourgeois life, but if life only stops here, there is no point in resigning.

She has an obsession in her heart.

To make more money.

Last year, Cheng Suran and a friend he knew in the circle started a joint venture and established "Yingsheng".At the beginning of the company's birth, there were only eight employees including them. In just one year, the business type expanded from translation training to high-level translation intermediary, and the scale gradually expanded to cover the entire Southeast China region.

While running the company diligently, she still has a lot of meetings and busy work every day, just like she did when she was a freelancer.

Now she has 200 million of her own.

Unknowingly five years...

A cell phone ringing suddenly interrupted his thoughts.

It's Wen Ruoxian.

Her friend and partner.

"Hey?"

"Of course, have you landed yet?" A woman's gentle voice came from the phone.

Cheng Suran smiled, as if the other party could see it, "Well, I'm already at the company, let's take care of something." Her smiling face was reflected on the glass, vivid and bright.

"You've been quite tired from your business trip these days. Don't worry about the company's affairs beforehand. Take a good rest and wait for me to cook something delicious for you when I go back tonight."

"As you order, Mr. Wen."

The two laughed across the phone.

……

Cheng Suran took a nap in the office for a while, and woke up at three o'clock. She ate some snacks, washed and tidied up briefly, put on light makeup, and set off for the client's company.

This month, there are twelve simultaneous interpretation conferences and four consecutive interpretation conferences. The translation and publication have to be finalized, and the work schedule is basically full.And next Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday were originally her planned rest days, but they were broken due to this accident.

God wants her to work hard to make money.

15 minutes later, the car stopped in front of the ETERNO China headquarters building.

Cheng Suran walked into the door without haste, made an appointment to the front desk, followed the young girl, and took the elevator upstairs.

She changed into a dark blue silk shirt, wearing a simple pearl pendant around her neck, her long hair was tied behind her ears, her eyebrows were exquisite and meticulous, and she exuded a calm and generous temperament from the inside out.

The employees who passed by along the way couldn't help but look sideways.

The interview took place in the conference room, and Cheng Suran arrived 10 minutes earlier. At the moment, the room was empty. She sat down under the guidance of the assistant, and put a glass of water in front of her.

"Miss Cheng, please wait a moment."

"Ah."

Cheng Suran nodded lightly, and his eyes fell on the resume in his hand.

There were faint footsteps outside.

Not like a person.

Then, the door of the conference room was pushed open, and a man in a suit and tie came in first.Cheng Suran raised his eyes, and his eyes collided with him.

A very familiar fragrance spread in the air.

As if in the depths of a distant memory...

Vetiver Iris.

Cheng Suran's heart beat violently.

This smell comes from behind the man——

The woman had a bony and stern face, her facial features were plain but sharp, her willow-like eyes were long but not thin, her single eyelids possessed the power to seduce people.

Long hair shawl, red lips, full of style.

For a moment, the four eyes met, and time went back to the night many years ago, the face that was deeply imprinted in my mind.

It was the same as in the memory, without any change, the cold black eyes were still there, but there seemed to be a little change, more vicissitudes and complexity than in the memory.

Cheng Suran's whole body was stiff, his hands and feet were cold, but he felt warm blood rushing to his head.

As if suddenly falling into a memory vortex, surrounded by overwhelming images, she struggled hard, her soul was torn apart bit by bit, and then lost her strength and sank completely.

Her lips moved, but she couldn't call out the name.

elder sister?

Oh, no.

It's Jiang Yu.