Recalcitrant

The night outside the window was getting darker, and just after six o'clock, the landscape lights were lit on several office buildings opposite.

The meeting room was brightly lit, and there were only An Ran and Lu Shaoheng left at the long table that was crowded with people not long ago.

After the meeting, others left one after another.Lu Shaoheng was on vacation recently, and he had a backlog of work that he hadn't dealt with, so he simply asked Ling Xiao to bring his computer in with the idea of ​​"everything is coming".

"Aunt An, why don't you go?" Lu Shaoheng quickly typed a line of words on the keyboard, and asked casually, "Don't you need to go to the hospital to see Dad today?"

"I'll go in a while." An Ran was still sitting opposite Lu Shaoheng, she took out a mirror lipstick from her bag, and asked, "What about you, haven't you visited your father in the hospital for a long time?"

"I've been busy recently." Lu Shaoheng raised his head and smiled at her, and said, "You know."

"No matter how busy you are, you must pay attention to your body." An Ran twisted out her lipstick, faced the mirror, and filled up the lip makeup that had fallen off along the edge of her lips: "When did you start investigating people like Wen Minhua?"

"Aunt An, my investigation is not over yet, and I don't plan to attack them so soon." Lu Shaoheng continued to look at his computer screen and said, "You are too impatient."

"Your father will be very pleased to see that you are so capable now." An Ran pursed her lips, tapped her bright red lips with her fingertips, and glanced at Lu Shaoheng: "You have been hiding your strengths for so many years, and now you finally have your wish I got paid, are you satisfied with the result?"

Who is the instigator behind this "union to force the palace"? There is no need to say any more. The two people present know it well.Although today's turmoil did not shake An Ran, the suspension of such a long series of executives can be regarded as cutting off her wings.

But An Ran was not anxious, because she knew that as long as she still held the shares of Juxing, it would not be easy for Lu Shaoheng to completely bring her down.

"Look at what you said." Lu Shaoheng smiled modestly, took off the anti-blue light glasses on his face, and closed the computer.

An Ran shook her head, and began to powder her face: "Shaoheng, it's already at this point, so stop pretending to be in front of me."

"No, no, that's not what I meant." Lu Shaoheng didn't call Ling Xiao in, but cleaned up the things on the table by himself: "Do you think this is the end?"

The powder puff in An Ran's hand stopped.

"No, it's not that simple." Lu Shaoheng slowly rolled up the computer's charging cable, and said, "If it's not your own, you shouldn't keep it for yourself. This is the most basic principle."

After putting away his things, Lu Shaoheng stood up, picked up the computer and was about to go out.

"It's not that you can solve the problem by coming back." Before leaving, he turned his head to An Ran and said slowly word by word: "If you touch it, you will have to pay the price."

"Shaoheng, have you ever thought that I deserve all of this?" An Ran suddenly stopped him.

"It was I who fell in love with Lu Heping first, and I was the first to accompany him to build a business from scratch. If it is about first come first, I will be the one who came first. The company's success today is also due to my contribution." An Ran's palm clenched tightly. Clutching the armrest of the swivel chair, blue veins popped up on the back of her fair hand: "The best time of my life was spent waiting, my family cut off contact with me because of this, and I couldn't have my own children. No one knew that. How have I survived for decades, shouldn’t all this be my compensation?”

There is no doubt that An Ran is a successful career woman and a great contributor to the company.But these words still made Lu Shaoheng feel ridiculous.

In her own logic, she played a perfect victim, thus forgetting that it was her and Lu Heping's selfish cowardice that caused all this.Since they are so affectionate, they can join hands to share joys and sorrows, instead of stepping on another woman's flesh and blood, just to achieve their goals faster.

Everyone only thinks about issues from their own standpoint, Lu Shaoheng didn't bother to argue with her, so he opened the door and walked out.

After coming out of the conference room, Lu Shaoheng took the elevator down to the underground parking lot alone.It was already past the off-duty time, and the elevator was empty and deserted.

When the elevator reached the twelfth floor, a girl waiting outside the door planned to come in.Looking up, he saw Lu Shaoheng standing inside, and as if he had seen a ghost, he quickly backed out.

The elevator door was closed again, and the cold light above the head made everything in the car pale. Lu Shaoheng leaned against the wall, looked at his sinister face in the mirror, and thought to himself, isn't this just a woman in a cloaked A ghost of human skin?

Before Lu Shaoheng could figure out the difference between humans and ghosts, the elevator took him to the second floor.The elevator doors opened to both sides, and he saw Chen Zhuo standing in the parking lot, signing autographs for the little girls around him.

With the blessing of the dual identities of actor and director, Chen Zhuo has always been very popular among the younger generation.His attitude was not enthusiastic, but he was patient enough. Not only did he not refuse anyone who came, he even carefully wrote down the name of the other party.

Chen Zhuo is different from himself, Lu Shaoheng thought, there are many people in this world who like him.

I don't know who spread the news that Chen Zhuo was in the parking lot. After hearing the news, more and more fans came. Lu Shaoheng didn't step forward to disturb him, and just looked at him in the elevator hall by himself.

It wasn't until the last fan beside Chen Yao left contentedly that he came out from behind the glass door, walked up to Chen Yao, and asked, "Why are you here?"

"Wait for you." Chen Yan put away the gel pen in his hand, who knows which little girl dropped it just now, "Didn't we agree yesterday that we will go home and try the home theater together tonight?"

Chen Zhuo's words brought Lu Shaoheng back to the world from an ice field full of thorns. Last month, he ordered a set of home theater equipment from abroad. The commissioning and installation have just been completed in the past two days, and they are still waiting for Chen Zhuo to return. Try it at home.

"Look at me, I almost forgot." Lu Shaoheng put his hands in his pockets, and walked forward first: "I don't want to drive anymore, let's sit in your car. I've been arguing with them all afternoon, and my throat is smoking."

"Pretentious." Chen Zhuo commented, and walked forward side by side with Lu Shaoheng.

After getting in the car, Lu Shaoheng suddenly remembered what he was busy with before coming to the company today, and asked Chen Yao: "Did you see the photo I sent you today?"

"I see, it's very pretty." Knowing that Lu Shaoheng was referring to the sofa, Chen Yao asked, "Did you buy it later?"

"I bought it." Lu Shaoheng fastened his seat belt and complained half-truthfully, "I'm so expensive, it's like stealing money."

Chen Yao teased him: "It's hard to buy the boss's love."

There was a bitter sandalwood smell in Chen Zhuo's car. As soon as Lu Shaoheng got in the car, he felt a little drowsy.Before going home, Chen Zhuo asked Lu Shaoheng where he wanted to eat. Lu Shaoheng said casually in a sleepy state, so Chen Zhuo drove him to the place he used to go to.

After getting out of the car, Lu Shaoheng stepped on a puddle of puddles of water on the side of the road. He looked up at the thriving gears in front of him, and suddenly felt a little surprised.

"I didn't expect that you would come to such a place." Lu Shaoheng moved his feet out of the stagnant water. Fortunately, the water wasn't deep enough to wet his trousers.

"Otherwise?" Chen Zhuo asked back.

Lu Shaoheng ran the train with his mouth full of words: "International big directors like us, no matter what they go out, they have to be entertained by two Michelin stars."

"Nonsense." Chen Zhuo glanced at him and slammed the car door.

After crossing a road, Chen Zhuo led Lu Shaoheng to open a red curtain familiarly. As soon as Lu Shaoheng raised his legs and stepped in, the choking peppery smell hit his face.

On the yellowed wall are photos of the shop owner and many celebrities. Looking at it, it is even more star-studded than the red carpet of the film festival.

Lu Shaoheng saw Chen Zhuo inside at a glance. Chen Zhuo was very young in the photo, with a cool expression unique to young idols, with a hint of arrogance in his arrogance.

Probably when he was in film school.

"Students of the Film Academy have some feelings for this store." Chen Yao looked up at the menu on the glass enclosure for more than ten years, and introduced to Lu Shaoheng: "Actually, when I was studying, I often went out to film. The relationship with my classmates is also weak, so I don’t come here very often, but in the first few years when I started preparing for filming, I often invited film producers and screenwriters to come here to talk about things.”

This stall is near the Film Academy, surrounded by many colleges and universities, as well as various post-production studios and film and television companies. It is a gathering place for many people in the industry.

Lu Shaoheng listened in a daze, the smell of prickly ash in his nose made him want to sneeze, no matter it was the open fire in the chef's hand, or the cowhide blown off by the college student next door, everything he looked at, It made it impossible for him to connect with Chen Zhuo.

Lu Shaoheng was in this strange environment, and suddenly felt that Chen Zhuo's world opened up a small corner towards him.

The lady proprietress in the store was very pleasantly surprised when she saw that Chen Yan had come, and enthusiastically arranged a secluded table in the corner for the two of them.Outside the table is a river, and on the other side of the river is a night market, with people coming and going in front of various stalls, and street singers playing and singing with their guitars in their arms.

After Chen Yao finished ordering, he quickly came back with two bottles of soda, and saw Lu Shaoheng propping his head on one hand, staring at the colorful reflections on the river in a daze.

"What's wrong?" Chen Zhuo asked.

"It's nothing." Lu Shaoheng came back to his senses: "Why did you think of coming here tonight?"

Before Chen Zhuo could answer, the proprietress brought over a pot of boiling water, and Lu Shaoheng reached out to remove the dishes from the table.

After Chen Yao came to the table and sat down, Lu Shaoheng had already consciously switched to another topic: "Why did you suddenly bring your old man here today?"

"Jiang Xiaobo saw the news on the Internet." Chen Yan opened the cutlery bag on the table, and bubbled the chopsticks, dishes, and glasses into the hot water in one gulp: "You cheap stepmother really knows when to choose."

Lu Shaoheng laughed, followed suit, and rinsed his bowl and chopsticks.

"Mr. Chen is not feeling well. You invited him all the way here. You are such a dutiful son." Lu Shaoheng tried to take out his own tableware from the hot water. Because the water temperature was too high, it was Chen Zhuo who finally fished it out. .

"My dad must be sick." Speaking of this, Chen Yao suddenly laughed.

Chen Guangyu's illness was originally a cover-up.In the early years, before Mr. Chen made a fortune, he owed a favor to a producer.Now people come to him, wanting to ask him to come out of the mountains and direct a movie for him.

If this matter had been put in the past few years, he would have agreed without hesitation, but Chen Guangyu had already given up the idea of ​​retiring, and would not make films in the near future.But because there is a personal relationship in the middle, there is no way to shirk it on the surface, so I have to call it sick.

Chen Yao didn't know whether the producer believed this statement, but An Ran obviously took it seriously, and specially rushed to do it at this time. Unexpectedly, stealing a chicken would not cost a lot of rice. wedding dress.

Hearing Chen Yao explain the whole story, Lu Shaoheng finally showed his first sincere smile today, and at this moment, a large plate of steaming fish heads with chopped peppers was served on the table.

"Now that you are in charge of Juxing smoothly, those who need to be cleaned up can slowly start to liquidate, and the company can also be reformed according to your ideas, and the wish has come true." Chen Zhuo stretched out his chopsticks, pushed aside the fiery red pepper on the fish, and raised his head Glancing at Lu Shaoheng, he said, "Next year I want to rest for a few months, find a place with good mountains and rivers, and live there for a while. Is the boss interested in joining us?"

"You are such a big director and big star. When you go out to buy groceries, all the aunts and girls in the street will recognize you." Faced with Chen Yao's sudden invitation, Lu Shaoheng only thought he was joking: "Where can I go to live in peace?"

"It's not good at home, but there are always conditions abroad." Chen Zhuo quickly proposed a solution: "I haven't become popular internationally yet."

"Sounds good." Lu Shaoheng didn't take it seriously at all, and asked casually, "Where should I go?"

"Southern France, London, New York?" Chen Yan put down his chopsticks and began to think seriously: "Why don't we go to Switzerland? I went there to shoot a film before, and the climate is good and the environment is comfortable. If we go, we can Find a small town at the foot of the snow mountain to live in."

Many years ago, Lu Shaoheng took a certain new favorite to live in Switzerland for a while.Recalling the mirror-like lake and the golden snow-capped mountains under the setting sun, Lu Shaoheng's heart skipped a beat.

"Is it just us?" Lu Shaoheng asked: "If you want to bring your harem beauties to move to another courtyard, I will not accompany you."

"Well, no one else." Chen Zhuo looked at Lu Shaoheng and said, "Only the two of us."

A hand under the table has unconsciously curled up, but the smile on Lu Shaoheng's face is still so indifferent.

Next year, in Lu Shaoheng's view, is as far away as two words that will never arrive.

He didn't say yes, it was still not good, but like perfunctory those little lovers who pestered him to make a future promise, he left a word to Chen Zhuo: "Let's talk about it when the time comes."

The home theater at home came across the ocean, and at the end of the night, it still didn't work.After returning home, Lu Shaoheng pestered Chen Zhuo and made a fuss on the carpet in the living room, acting more enthusiastic and proactive than ever before.

When he came out of the company at night, Chen Zhuo originally planned to go home directly, but the lonely aura on Lu Shaoheng's body seemed to be about to lose contact with the world soon.

So he couldn't help it, and wanted to pull him into this noisy world of mortals, and roll around lively.

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