[Zhongyingmei] dishonest love

She didn't bring her wallet, so she had to call Happy for help after thinking about it again and again: "Happy, can you do me a favor..."

"No problem." Happy agreed without saying a word, and more than half an hour later, he drove to pick up Jane in person.

"Where is Mr. Stark?"

"In the office, no one dares to bother him. He has locked himself in the office all afternoon..."

"Why?" Jenny thought that after the signing ceremony, he wouldn't have to be so tense.

Happy glanced at her through the rearview mirror: "Didn't you read the news?" Seeing her questioning eyes, Happy handed over a newspaper, "King Tichaka of Wakanda was assassinated and the signing ceremony was not completed. Now the whole world is looking for the Winter Soldier."

"It's not difficult to explain why Mr. Stark sounds drunk." After roughly scanning the newspaper headlines, Jane leaned over and handed the newspaper back, "Take me to see Miss Pep."

"I thought you were going to meet the boss, and what about seeing Miss Potts?" It's not like Happy hasn't thought about this kind of thing, but...he thought about saying, "They broke up." complicated.

"I'd love to see how he's doing, but I'm not the person he wants to see."

The phone call more than half an hour ago was very strange, not only because Mr. Stark sounded drunk, but also because he didn't seem to know who he called, but Jane could tell who he didn't dare to call——

"You..." Jane was interrupted just as she was about to speak.

"Shh, don't talk... I know what a weird thing I've done, but listen to me." The person on the other end of the phone sounded like he was going to spit out, took a few breaths, and he continued, "You know I'm Who right? Of course, every partygirl knows who I am."

Partygirl... Jenny frowned, thinking about the charity dinner not long ago, because she was taken to a banquet, so she was classified as a "partygirl"?It should be embarrassing to point it out now, she lowered her voice and tried to sound mature: "Yeah."

"That's right, do me a favor. Ugh..."

She was now [-]% sure that Mr. Stark was drunk, because the sound of retching made her want to throw up too, and Jenny waited dumbfoundedly for him to continue.

"First of all, can you call me Tony? To put it mildly, imagine me leaving a dozen grumpy old men on the board of directors and leaving you to pick up girls by yourself... Hahahaha, that was a good time..." The drunk man smiled to himself, "I actually kind of miss it..." Because of the big tongue, Jenny couldn't hear the last word he said.

Did he mean Miss Pep?Jane listened to it and slowly recalled it, but she didn't make a sound. She was not afraid of being heard in a monosyllabic dialogue, and it would be bad to talk too much.

After the continuous silence, the voice on the other end of the phone became depressed: "This attitude will not benefit you. You are more indifferent than her, no, she is not indifferent, she is just more... rational." After thinking for a long time , he found such a rhetoric.

"If you don't want to talk, just listen to me." She didn't know that Mr. Stark had such a cautious and humble tone, "Just listen, please."

A series of chaotic and upside-down narratives, more like whining than narrative, one side is drunkenly telling the drama, and the other side is just listening silently.

……

"They're all dead, I can see them all dead, ugh... I know I'm an idiot... But I never thought of doing anything wrong, it's all my fault in the end, why? How? I should ask Who? I don't understand..."

"I'm useless...I don't even know what I'm doing wrong."

"idoallthesetoprotectyou. (Everything I do is to protect you)"

"iha//venothingtolose."

"Enough." Jenny finally couldn't help interrupting him, "You're drunk."

"...No." There was the sound of a pile of things being overturned.

"Wait for me." Wait for me to bring your lover to you.

……

"We're here," Happy called her.

"Hmm." Jenny took a deep breath, no matter what method she used, she wanted Miss Pep to see Mr. Stark.

With Habel's road, the two walked to the Stark Industries CEO's office without hindrance.

"Do you want to see me?" This was the first sentence Pep said when he saw Jane. She looked very busy, but when she saw Jane, she politely put down her work and looked into her eyes.

"Yes, Miss Pep."

"Found a little thing, you keep calling me Miss Pep?"

"When we first met, you could just have me call you Pep, but I don't think that's polite."

"Good boy." Pep accepted the words, "So what do you need my help with?"

"It's not what I need, it's Mr. Stark who needs it." Pep's friendly attitude made Jane no longer nervous.

"Tony?" Pep became serious. "Recently, things are troublesome. I asked him if he needed help..."

"He needs it," Jenny added.

Pep lowered his eyes and frowned helplessly: "Just like he handles everything else, he doesn't need it. At least, he told me that's the case." Thinking of Tony's usual tricks to change the subject, Pep was furious It's impossible for Pep not to know about the major events that have been going on for a while, and it's impossible not to worry. She didn't wait for Tony to call. Instead, it was the first time after the breakup that she took the initiative to call because of something other than business. To him, the response was summed up as "I'm fine, thank you for your concern, but I don't need it."

From the outside world, the former playboy Tony and later the Iron Man Stark will always have an open-minded image to meet all beauties and challenges, but only Pep, who has been with him for many years and has been in contact for several years, knows that inside, There is a lonely castle in Tony's heart that will never be open to the outside world—anxiety or regret, pain or fear, those negative emotions that he never reveals to the outside world will always be locked in his chest with the gate of the castle closed.

Pep needs to summarize a few reasons for the breakup. This point should be marked in bold and red underlined on the first page. She didn’t know her boyfriend until not long ago, and now she’s an ex-boyfriend-he’s got PTSD!Is this plausible?Pep is not a person who will deliberately cover up her mistakes. She does not deny that taking over the Stark Group CEO position has made her busy like a spinning top, and she has not even discovered that the abnormality of the person next to her pillow is due to mental illness.After learning the truth, she blamed herself because she didn't realize it earlier, but the deep self-blame was followed by pain. Isn't the distrust and rejection behind this hurt her?

Then they quarreled, making the already tense relationship even more rigid, and then broke up. After the breakup, they were very gracious as each other's friends and relatives. Pep knew that he still loved Tony, and Tony must still treat her. There is affection, but after all this is over, Pep really doesn't feel like they're ever going to be together anymore.

"Please believe me, he needs it, he just doesn't say it, he only dares to pretend to dial the wrong number to call you when he is drunk, the sad thing is that he really made the wrong number..."

Pep sighed, played the recording of the phone call from a few days ago (she kept the recording to remind herself not to make fun of herself again)——

"Tony, are you okay?"

"What do you mean? Nightlife? Seven times a night." (When this out-of-time joke with a little color comes out, Happy raises his hand awkwardly to cover Jenny's ears, but Jenny shakes her head and avoids it "too late It's...")

"...Don't make me regret making this call. The Avengers agreement, I'm asking about it."

...The conversation continued for a few more minutes. Even Jenny could hear that Mr. Stark had been deliberately avoiding Miss Pep's concern in a devious way. At this moment, Pep relived this conversation, and the expression on his face gradually changed. Not so happy.

The conversation is still going on, and honestly, if it wasn't for the drunken phone call from Mr. Stark, Janie would really believe he's fine—"Thank you for your concern, but I'm fine. I can put It's all settled, don't worry about me, just worry about your new boyfriend, hi, really, your vision has dropped so much since you left me?" He didn't even let gossip gossip gossip...

"Don't interrupt me, besides, I'm not so flirtatious as you are with new people all year round, I'm just calling to tell you - if you need me, I'm here, we're friends, anytime you can Get my help."

"You have become much warmer than before. However, I'm fine. I still want to thank you for your concern... I have another call coming in, so hang up first."

At the end of the recording, Pep spread his hands: "Does this mean it is necessary? I don't think so."

In the face of the "ironclad evidence", Jane's defense was a bit weak, and her request became no different from a child's nonsense, the difference is that she was a little more obedient and less annoying: "...We all know that he is just a dead duck. .Maybe a face-to-face would be better than a phone call, come on Miss Pep, he's really... miserable, it would be a lot better if you could go see him."

After much deliberation, Janey gave the adjective "miserable" to Tony, because in Harpy's description, Mr. Stark, who has both internal and external troubles, not only has to consider dealing with the outside world but also resolves peer disputes, sounds so... ...Sure enough, it's still miserable.

"Okay." Pep was finally persuaded, "I'll go see Tony, as a friend."

"No, no, no, the interview I'm talking about refers more to returning to him. You still love him, right? So does he. Why can't two people who love each other be together?" Mr. Stark may Will open up to a Miss Pep who has recovered as a girlfriend, but never to "friend Pep".

"Come here." Pep beckoned to Jenny, who obediently walked behind her desk.

Pep picked up the group photo on the desktop: "Look, this is the photo I took with Tony when I first joined Stark Enterprises. At that time, he had just turned back to take over the company. I was just a rookie assistant. He gave me a lot. Tolerance and help, at that time, I didn't even dare to think that I would have the achievements I have now in the future, life is really amazing..."

The photo shows the young Mr. Stark and Miss Pep, and Janey is also very surprised, because Miss Pep in the photo is so reserved and completely lacks the strong female charm of today.

Miss Pep took a deep breath and continued: "In the past few years, I have dreamed of being with him countless times, and suddenly one day my dream came true. Wouldn't it be perfect if the story ended here? But life It's not a story..."

"The difference from the story is that life is written by yourself. Don't you want to be his future?"

"How should I tell you? Jenny, I'm a loser. I've been with him for so many years. Some years I was with him in a dream state. But I'm the only one immersed in the dream. I never understood To all of him, because he didn't give me the chance. You only live once, don't you? Tony Stark is a high jackpot lottery ticket. It took me a long time to get the chance to scratch it. Unfortunately, I am not the winner and there is no way I will try it a second time... the cost is too high."

"Try it, the second chance is close at hand, you scratch off the prize, and then the two of you will be together happily."

"You little devil with an angelic face, you describe these things too easily. If it weren't for the lessons learned from the past, I might really be tempted."

"Be brave and seize happiness!" Jenny would rather have the power of the devil, she said that she has not been able to persuade Miss Pep to return to Mr. Stark.

"There is another reason I never said - I look strong, but I'm not. I can't get back together with Iron Man. Tony Stark might consider it."

"Mr. Stark is Iron Man..." What kind of split method?Take off your armor?In Jenny's heart, even without armor, Mr. Stark is still Iron Man.

"Not everyone has the courage to stand beside a superhero. When he works hard for world peace, you can get very little of him, and you have to bear the risk of losing him at any time. How do you choose?"

"I will stand with him, I will do whatever I can to protect my hero, if he dies, I will change my name to Black Widow..."

Pep looked at Jenny's determined expression and her eyes were a little sour. When she first became Iron Man's girlfriend, she also had this kind of firmness. It's a pity that she couldn't persist: "I love your courage, I wish you good luck, But better not have a superhero boyfriend like I did."

"Will you come back to him?"

Pep shook his head slowly and solemnly: "When you see him, give him a message for me—I hope you are all well."

"but……"

"No more, I still have a lot of work. Happy, take her away." Pep watched Janey walk out of the room, and said softly to her, "Remember to bring him some donuts, he will be fine, I'm sending you the address of his favorite donut shop."