From Pokfulam to Central

For more than half a month, Qu Zhi and other lawyers in the team have been working on an important case with Li Yan. They are so busy that they almost live in the office, and the secretary helps to order three meals a day. come up.At noon this day, perhaps because the office was too stuffy, Qu Zhi was a little dizzy and had no appetite, so he didn't ask anyone to order lunch. He only planned to go downstairs to buy a cup of coffee during his lunch break to refresh himself, and just happened to take a walk to get some fresh air.

This dark green and black cafe is located on the air corridor connecting the third and second phases of the office building. Customers from the two office buildings often crowd the shop at noon.Seeing the crowds in front of him, Qu Zhi felt more and more headaches, so he simply placed an order with his mobile phone, and took advantage of the waiting time to go to the bathroom next door to wash his face with cold water.

The water temperature is just right, enough to cool the overheated mainframe in the brain, but not so cold that it is numb.Qu Zhi raised his head with his eyes closed, and was about to reach out to wipe off the excess water droplets on his eyes, but was hit by a sudden hug, and the long-lost but familiar temperature and breath came from behind him.

Opening his eyes suddenly, Qu Zhi saw Zhou Mi in the mirror which he hadn't seen for nearly two months.His mental state didn't look very good either, but just like himself, when he saw each other, an indescribable light burst out from his dark eyes.

Qu Zhi turned around to face the dozens of people he had been thinking about all the time day and night, his nose sore in disbelief, and water dripped from his face along his long eyelashes.

Zhou Mi propped his hands on the side of the sink, involuntarily trapping him in the prison, and then his eyes swept over Qu Zhi's face inch by inch, not even willing to let go of any corner including the black cyan in front of him.

I can't count how long I haven't seen him, Zhou Mi thought to himself, I really don't know how I got through those days, at that time, it would be nice to have a photo with this appearance printed on it.

Fortunately, fortunately.

Bringing his face closer, Zhou Mi bowed his head and bit Qu Zhi's soft lips. At first, the latter struggled subconsciously for a few times because he was worried about being bumped into, but then he let his reason fail.In the end, he was careful, read this worry carefully, and stopped there after a little taste, but his arms hugged him tighter and tighter.

"I miss you," Zhou Mi said with a trace of grievance in his voice, "I miss you so much."

Qu Zhi didn't speak, just nodded vigorously in Zhou Mi's arms, and then heard his heartbeat.

"My dad cut off all my external contact methods. Usually, I can only communicate at home and at the company, and when I need to contact at work, I have to complete it under Xiao Yang's supervision."

"Oh, Xiao Yang is my driver, and now he is also my dad's eyeliner, staring at me every day, probably only when I go to the bathroom."

"Fortunately, there is only this coffee shop in the office building. I can only buy lunch here to try my luck during my lunch break. But why did you come here after so long? I almost thought there was no hope, and I thought—"

Qu Zhi raised his face and quickly pecked Zhou Mi's mouth, then interrupted his confession, "I understand, I understand everything."

Qu Zhi's understanding actually made Zhou Mi feel ashamed. He lowered his head lower and lower, and he became less and less afraid to look into the other person's eyes. Finally, he mustered up the courage and muttered, "Qu Zhi, I'm sorry."

Qu Zhi didn't understand, "Why do you say I'm sorry?"

"Qu Zhi, I told you not to be angry," Zhou Mi carefully glanced at Qu Zhi's expression, and seeing that he was normal, he said, "I suspect that my father planned the kidnapping and extortion."

Qu Zhi heaved a sigh of relief silently, thinking that there was something serious about it, he stretched out his hand to stroke Zhou Mi's hair to express his comfort, "I figured it out, it's okay, it's all over, the money was given to someone and let go, it's all right."

"But, but your father—no, well, forget it, you know who I'm talking about, his hand..."

Seeing Zhou Mi's earnest and worried expression, Qu Zhi couldn't help but sneered, "Idiot, I scared you. Don't worry, I went to see him secretly later, he was all bearded and tailed, maybe he was hooked up." , it is more likely that the so-called severed finger was a fake at all, so I later gave up my plan to call the police.”

Zhou Mi's tense nerves finally relaxed, but guilt and sadness began to flood from the bottom of his heart again, "Qu Zhi, I really didn't expect my dad to do such a thing, and I don't know how long this state will last... "

Indeed, this is the real gully between the two of you. Thinking of this, Qu Zhi couldn't help but look serious, "Zhou Mi, I have actually thought about it a lot these days when you were away. I think we did something wrong before. Escaping cannot solve the problem. After all, your parents are the ones who gave birth to you and raised you. Even if you are willing to leave them for me, I can’t bear you to do so. So no matter what, as long as we want to be truly together, we cannot do without their understanding and support. support."

Why don't you understand these principles, it's just the attitude of the family, which really makes me powerless.

"Actually, it might be a good thing for you to go home this time." Qu Zhi didn't notice the change in Zhou Mi's expression, but just wanted to talk about some things that he thought of recently, "Why don't we take this opportunity, maybe we can Want some changes?"

Zhou Mi's eyes darkened, and he said in a low voice: "Qu Zhi, what you said is not unreasonable, but you also know the situation of my family, especially my father, it is impossible to simply consider me from my point of view. Don't Say that I recognize you, even if I find a woman, if I can't exchange for some benefits, he will not nod."

"But we can't keep sneaking around like this."

Qu Zhi's tone was a bit aggressive, and he regretted the words, but his brain, which had been working continuously for more than ten hours without much rest, seemed unable to conceive any words to adjust the atmosphere in a short time.

The bathroom door was pushed open by a stranger, Zhou Mi was afraid that Qu Zhi would be scruples, so he let him go resentfully, stood aside and said: "Xiao Yang is still outside the door, I'm going back first, you can go out later. "

Seeing that Qu Zhi didn't say anything to persuade him to stay, Zhou Mi really walked towards the door, and only a second before opening the door, he asked cautiously, "Are you still coming to buy coffee at noon tomorrow?"

From this day on, the two would find time to meet each other whenever they had the chance, sometimes in the locker room of the gym, sometimes in the fitting room of the shopping mall next door, sometimes in the dark movie theater, as long as Xiao Yang didn't see them anyway.

Not only that, in order to facilitate contact, Zhou Mi also registered Qu Zhi with a nickname called "11th", which is female, and used a pink rose that all aunts love as his avatar.Qu Zhi sneered at this person, but there was nothing he could do.Zhou Mi claimed that this WeChat account belonged to a business partner. In addition, the usual chat content is mainly about the time and place of meeting, so it can be easily disguised as a conversation that would happen in daily work. Xiao Yang was not suspicious at all.

This afternoon, Zhou Xianli came to Zhou Mi's office to talk about some things, unknowingly they chatted until after get off work, when they were about to pack up their things and go home together, Shen Mingjue pushed the door open.

"Zhou Mi,—ah, you're here, Uncle Zhou." Shen Mingjue looked like he accidentally broke in, but he didn't see any intention of avoiding him at all, "I'm sorry, did I disturb you?"

Seeing that the young man didn't call himself Mr. Zhou like other employees, Zhou Xianli called him a more familiar title, and he looked a little familiar, so he asked, "You are?"

"—he is the company's new security engineer."

"—I'm Zhou Mi's high school classmate, uncle."

Shen Mingjue and Zhou Mi looked at each other, and there was something inconvenient to say in their eyes.

"Oh, I remembered," Zhou Xianli said with a smile on his face, but no one could understand how much of it was true or false, "Xiao Shen, right? The name sounds familiar."

Shen Mingjue saw that Zhou Xianli didn't seem to reject this relationship, which is actually far and close, so he took advantage of the opportunity to show a well-behaved look of a junior, "Yes, uncle, I used to go to your house all the time because my aunt's cooking is so delicious. gone."

"Hehe, your aunt doesn't cook very much now, but the aunt at home is also good at cooking." Zhou Xianli remembered that Xiao Shen's family also seems to be in business, "Why don't you come back with us for a light meal today?"

"Dad." Zhou Mi didn't want to let Shen Mingjue in.

"Ah? Uncle," Shen Mingjue said with a slightly surprised look, "Didn't Zhou Mi tell you that we have a classmate reunion tonight. I just came back from abroad, Zhou Mi said to call my old classmates to greet me coming."

Zhou Mi glared at Shen Mingjue, and secretly scolded this bastard for speaking nonsense.Shen Mingjue saw that he was being framed by him, and he felt complacent in his heart, but on his face, he still insisted on pretending to be stupid to the end.

Zhou Xianli didn't know which muscle was wrong in the delicate atmosphere between the two, thinking that Zhou Mi's performance was good recently and he was obedient, and he should relax the social restrictions on him when appropriate, and said mercifully: "Okay, let's go Zhou Mi, we are all classmates anyway, it’s okay to get together, don’t play too late, just go home early.”

This time Zhou Mi was even more dumbfounded, and he thought, why don't you take care of it when you should?

"Thank you uncle," Shen Mingjue became sweeter and flattering, "I promise to let him go home after dinner."

After Zhou Xianli left, Shen Mingjue looked at Zhou Mi with a smile, waiting for his reaction.

Zhou Mi turned cold, "Let's go back to our houses, I don't plan to have dinner with you."

"Ah?" Shen Mingjue put Zhou Mi's coat hanging behind the door on his hands, "Then what about those classmates? Everyone has already arrived at the restaurant downstairs, and I invited them in your name."

Zhou Mi frowned and stared at Shen Mingjue, and found that he really didn't seem to be joking.

"You don't dare to meet your old classmates with me because of what happened before, do you?" The smile on Shen Mingjue's face became more and more playful, "Don't worry, they don't have that much information, they don't even know us when we are together." knew."

Zhou Mi walked up to Shen Mingjue, and stretched out his hand to tug on his clothes, "You think too much, the previous story has already been changed, I just simply don't want to eat at the same table with you now."

"Cut, your mouth is still quite hard." Shen Mingjue rolled his eyes, and said rascally: "If you really let go, go to dinner with me, it's just a class reunion, if you don't go, it means you still have me in your heart. "

Just as Zhou Mi was about to say something else, his cell phone rang, and the high school monitor's drunken voice came from inside.

"Hey, Zhou Mi, what's the matter with you, did you set up a game for Shen Meiren, why are the two protagonists still stage fright!"

"Oh, he's not stage fright, he's just showing off, isn't he, Mr. Zhou, hahaha..."

"Hurry up and get down for me, you are already a vice president and you still work overtime yourself? Telling it out makes people laugh!"

"That's right, we came all the way here for you, you can't let the pigeons go, hurry down and punish yourself with ten cups!"

The men and women in the receiver were yelling at each other, as if there was a burst of alcohol, which almost gave Zhou Mixun a fall, but he could no longer refuse, so he could only grit his teeth and follow Shen Mingjue's plan.

The whole meal was not interesting, it was nothing more than reminiscing about the past, who was always playing with who in the class and who was in the class before, but finally broke up, and who was not with who at the time and then settled down, and then everyone kept in the dark naturally , began to flatter and envy Zhou Mi and Shen Mingjue, who have always had such a good relationship.

Zhou Mi was indifferent and perfunctory, and didn't want to make unnecessary explanations on this occasion, but Shen Mingjue was happy to listen to the flattery as the truth, so he drank a lot of wine when he was happy, and blocked a lot for Zhou Mi, and then let him send him back At home, the classmates next to him followed suit without thinking, and they didn't give up until they were both stuffed into the car.

"Brother Mi, where are we going?" Xiao Yang asked sitting in the front row.

Zhou Mi looked at Shen Mingjue, only to see that his cheeks were flushed, he calmed down and said, "How can he call you Brother Mi?"

Xiao Yang was a little embarrassed, but Zhou Mi didn't seem to want to take this issue, so he said coldly, "Address."

Shen Mingjue saw that Zhou Mi's face was not looking good, so he didn't dare to continue to be presumptuous, and obediently reported the name of a high-end residential area.

"Brother Mi," Shen Mingjue murmured, his voice a little low, "You said that only I can call you that."

Zhou Mi didn't know how many times he had to repeat it before he could understand, "What happened so many years ago is long gone."

Shen Mingjue looked out of the window, and the street lamps swept across his face, and there were inexplicable tears in his eyes, "Why? Why did you treat me like this? Yes, it was my fault that I slept with Wu Haolong in my third year of high school, but I didn't Did you make a mistake just once? Isn't it because I thought you were having an affair with someone else, so I got angry and wanted to take revenge on you, as for punishing me like this? "

"I walk and sit upright," Zhou Mi raised his hand and squeezed the frowning brows, "It's you who are suspicious."

"It's not that you don't know that I'm suspicious." Shen Mingjue turned his head and looked at Zhou Mi again, his eyes were full of grievances, and he looked very pitiful under the blessing of drunkenness, "Can't you tolerate me for a while?"

"I tolerated it, so I just went to beat up the bastard who sneaked in. I didn't blame you. You ran to the United States without saying a word, breaking our agreement to be admitted to the same university."

"Then it's not because I don't know how to face you!"

It's still the same, always looking for reasons from others, but when it comes to myself, it's all kinds of excuses.Zhou Mi couldn't help laughing at himself for being too naive, thinking that one day he would be able to talk to him and settle the past properly.

The image of Zhou Mi keeping silent and not looking at himself was the scene Shen Mingjue was most afraid of seeing, afraid that he would no longer talk to him, afraid that he would no longer follow his figure with those fiery eyes that should have been.Stretching out his hand to caress the side of Zhou Mi's face, Shen Mingjue wanted him to look at him, and just leaned close to his lips to relive the natural lingering past without thinking about anything.

Zhou Mi pushed the person away, and Shen Mingjue was hit hard by the narrow space in the car, but he became more and more courageous in an untimely manner. Instead, he rolled over and sat on Zhou Mi's lap, wrapping his arms around his neck.

"Go down."

Zhou Mi tried hard to restrain the anger he had accumulated overnight, trying to leave each other with the last bit of decency.

Shen Mingjue's eyes were red, "Brother Mi, I still love you, but you have changed, haven't you?"

"You finally understand."

"why?"

"Get off me first."

Shen Mingjue didn't move, only tears fell down, "Is it because of that person you always go to see secretly?"

As soon as Shen Mingjue said the words, Zhou Mi, who was only a little bit drunk, woke up completely.The eyeliner arranged by his father is now driving in front, so it doesn't matter how blunt what he said to Shen Mingjue just now, because he has long since lost his place in his heart, but the secret meeting with Qu Zhi can't be heard by others.

"parking!"

Zhou Mi finally couldn't take it anymore.

Xiao Yang turned on the turn signal and changed lanes to the right. Before the car stopped, the drunk and talking nonsense was thrown out.