Manhattanhenge

In the morning, Ning Yixiao worked on a laptop in the back seat of the car, and devoted some energy to listening to Carl's report on work.

Most of the content is not worthy of too much attention, just leave it to the subordinates, until Carl mentioned Su Hui.

"I found his relevant information, including his current work address and his itinerary in the past few days, do I need to report it?"

Ning Yixiao paused when typing on the keyboard, and nodded.

According to Carl's investigation, he knew that Su Hui's current job was in Manhattan, and he had even been working in the United States for more than a year and a half.Ning Yixiao spent most of his time in the Bay Area, and they were obviously in the same place, but they had never met each other.The time he was looking for in the past was like a joke, meaningless.

"In the past few days, his itinerary is basically going to and from the hospital and school."

"Psychiatry?" Ning Yixiao asked.

"No." Carl reported a hospital in Brooklyn, and said, "It's hepatobiliary surgery, and the attending physician specializes in liver cancer-related treatments."

Ning Yixiao frowned.

"Is the news confirmed?"

"Well." Carl gave his reliable source, "The director of the psychiatric department of this hospital cooperates with us, and there will be an online meeting tomorrow. I still asked this professor to find out the information."

Ning Yixiao checked the time, "There is no other agenda during the day, is there?"

Carl checked it out and looked puzzled, "Well... the second round of Orcha's acquisition negotiations, are you still not going to attend?"

"Let Jingming go." Ning Yixiao's plan remained unchanged.

Carl was a little apprehensive about Ning Yixiao's cold treatment. After all, Orcha is one of the largest technology companies in the Bay Area. They throw yacht parties..."

"Then have a party." Ning Yixiao had already discussed the division of labor with Jingming, and their goal was the same, which was to keep Aocha's people dry.

"They're going to have a third or even a fourth round. Make it clear to them that it's not us who are in a hurry."

After finishing speaking, Ning Yixiao temporarily inserted a new arrangement in the afternoon's schedule - requesting to cancel tomorrow's online meeting, and now go directly to the hospital for the meeting.

"Will this be too inefficient?" Karl has been infected by Ning since he stayed with Ning for a night, and he cares most about efficiency in everything.The reason for arranging the meeting online is that the professor may have unexpected problems in the hospital, and the online meeting is more flexible.

But Ning Yixiao was uncharacteristic this time, "It's okay, let's take a look at the analysis system they are currently using clinically."

"Ah...Okay." Carl had to call to make an appointment temporarily. Fortunately, the professor was at the hospital, and the meeting could be arranged smoothly.

The driver drove them to the hospital. On the way, Ning Yixiao, who was working quietly, said again, "Carl."

"Huh?" Carl, the co-pilot, turned his head.

"The liver cancer patient you are talking about is not Su Hui himself." He asked Karl almost in a positive tone.

Seeing Ning Yixiao's eyes, Karl felt strange, it seemed to be a look almost worried.This has never happened before. In the past, in Ning Yixiao's black eyes, he only saw calmness and ambition.

"No, Shaw." Carl told the truth about what he had learned, "It is a 78-year-old elderly woman whose surname seems to be Yang, and the registrant is Su Hui."

It's his grandmother.

Ning Yixiao's hanging heart did not completely let go, he knew very well how important Su Hui's grandmother was to him.

"Shaw, there's one thing I'm wondering whether to tell you, it's also related to the other party's privacy." Carl hesitated.He didn't want to say it at first, but he felt that Ning Yixiao cared about that person.

"You said."

"According to the investigation, this Mr. Su's current life is relatively tight, and I also asked Miss Jones's staff for a while. Mr. Su refused many of their invitations before, presumably because of this. He will agree to take on Miss Jones' commission only if there is a crisis."

Although Karl didn't know what the relationship between Ning Yixiao and Su Hui was, he could see his concern from Ning Yixiao's awkward attitude.

His boss is a workaholic who works like a robot. He only cares about work and doesn't even care about his own body. Since Su Hui's appearance, he seems to have awakened another side.

"Also, regarding him and Liang Wen, the psychiatrist you mentioned before, the information of each patient is not disclosed to the public, so I didn't find anything at first. But then I asked Elvis, Tom He helped to find out, Su Hui is indeed in the private clinic where Dr. Liang works..."

Ning Yixiao suddenly spoke, interrupting Karl as if he found some logical fallacy during a meeting.

"Psychiatrists are not allowed to socialize with patients outside the consultation room."

Carlton paused, thinking that Ning Yixiao was against Liang Wen and Su Hui's relationship as an elder brother. After thinking about it, he explained: "It is indeed the case. This is an industry regulation. However, Su Hui's attending doctor is not Liang Wen, but Another clinical psychologist in the same clinic. So to be precise, they are not a doctor-patient relationship.”

Hearing this, Ning Yixiao fell into silence, and did not respond until he got off the car.

This kind of silence is like a set of defense mechanism, Karl understood, so he didn't say anything, and followed Ning Yixiao.

The professor specially moved the ward rounds for them, and held an impromptu meeting in the office. Carl originally planned to take meeting minutes according to the previous practice, but was temporarily paid by Ning Yixiao and arranged other work.

Because the previous preparations were sufficient, there were not many things to discuss, and the meeting time was not too long, ending in two hours.

The professor invited Ning Yixiao to have lunch, and Ning Yixiao agreed. He ate fast, a habit he had developed since he was a child, and the professor joked that his living habits were not healthy enough.

Ning Yixiao smiled and checked the phone, only the message from Carl an hour ago.

[Karl Bruce: Mr. Su hasn't arrived yet, only his grandmother and a female nurse are in the ward. ]

[Shaw: How is the patient? ]

[Karl Bruce: I'll check with the attending physician. ]

"What's the matter?" The professor smiled, "If you have other things to do, you can go back to work first."

Ning Yixiao denied it, and said instead: "There is one place where we can discuss it again."

In this way, he came up with a lot of details that could be discussed. He stayed in the hospital until six o'clock in the afternoon, almost wanting to refine the content of the next stage of research, and was ridiculed by the professor for planning too far ahead.

During the period, Karl reported Su Hui's grandmother's condition to him, and the condition was worse than Ning Yixiao expected.

He could almost imagine Su Hui's collapse at this moment.

For a moment, as if there was some kind of fleeting telepathy, Ning Yixiao accidentally glanced sideways, and saw a black car that had just stopped at the entrance of the hospital through the floor-to-ceiling windows.

Through the glass, he saw Su Hui's pale face and the wound on his face.He got out of the car and walked side by side with Liang Wen to the entrance of the hospital.

"Shaw?" The professor noticed his absence again.

"I..." Ning Yixiao turned around, his thoughts lost for a moment, and he paused for a moment before regaining his composure, "I'm sorry, I suddenly remembered something else, I wanted to invite you to dinner, but it seems it's not a coincidence. "

The professor smiled and waved his hands, "It's okay, I have to have dinner with my daughter tonight, the snow has not melted outside, remember to tell the driver to be careful on the road."

Just like that, Ning Yixiao left the psychiatric director's office and entered the elevator alone.The ward is on the fifth floor, and he can press it by raising his hand, but the figures of the two just now seem to be frozen in his mind, and he can't get rid of it.

A phone call from Carl opened, telling him he was back in the car.

So Ning Yixiao finally gave up struggling and pressed down on the first floor.

When he left the hospital gate, it was snowing outside again, but it wasn't that big, and it stopped before he got in the car.He suddenly had a craving for a cigarette.

In order to restrain this desire, Ning Yixiao forced himself back to the car.The temperature in the car was moderate, and the driver asked with concern if he needed to adjust the temperature of the air conditioner, but he did not answer.

He just sat quietly in the back seat, staring at the computer screen without saying a word.

Carl and the driver exchanged glances, both of them were in tacit understanding, waiting for the boss to give instructions.

Ning Yixiao, who was always racing against time, seemed to be still. He did nothing for 15 minutes.

Fifteen minutes later, Karl saw Ning Yixiao look up in the rearview mirror, and noticed that he was frowning, so he followed his gaze.

It was Mr. Su and his doctor friend again.

Carl's mind turned quickly, he guessed that Ning Yixiao would definitely want to talk to Mr. Su for a while, racked his brains, and finally came up with a stupid idea.

"Shaw." Carl unbuckled his seat belt, "I seem to have forgotten to let the driver turn on the air circulation system, is it a little stuffy? Do you want to go down and take a breath?"

The driver was puzzled, thinking that Karl was out of his mind, "I obviously drove..."

Carl winked immediately, and continued, "I just want to go to the bathroom." He looked at the driver, "What about you?"

"I..." The driver seemed to understand half-understood, and scratched his head, only thinking that it was right to follow Karl, "Me too."

Karl was anxious, waiting for Ning Yixiao's reply.

"En." Ning Yixiao opened the door.

At this moment, Karl's self-awareness reached a new peak, and he felt that he was about to understand Ning Yixiao thoroughly.

Shaw's life would have been a mess if he hadn't had an assistant like him.

"Okay, I just went to buy some water." Carl was in a rather happy mood, and fled with the driver.

Just like that, Ning Yixiao stayed on the spot, standing not far away, looking at Su Hui beside Xueshan Road.He looked just as bad as he imagined.Even with Liang Wen by his side, it wasn't that easy.

Liang Wen's eyes made Ning Yixiao feel familiar. It is very common for people around Su Hui to feel admiration for him, and he has seen this kind of eyes too much.Even during the passionate love period six years ago, he had many rivals in love, and few of them could hide their liking for Su Hui.

Liang Wen left and headed towards the convenience store.Ning Yixiao remained in place.

Until he found that Su Hui was crying, with his head buried, his shoulders were shaking.

Unexpectedly, Ning Yixiao took a step forward, like a robot not controlled by his own will, slowly walked towards Su Hui, every step he took, he spurned his not strong enough heart in his heart.

His heart has never followed a rational decision.

Standing in front of the collapsed Su Hui, Ning Yixiao thought he would feel happy, but he didn't.Su Huiren walked resolutely and disappeared completely, but it seemed that a thread was left on him, and through this thread, all good and bad emotions were conveyed to him, whether he wanted it or not.

The moment he and Ning Yixiao looked at each other, Su Hui couldn't tell whether this was reality or not.

He stared at it for a long time, and finally subconsciously looked away.

The reunion between them became more embarrassing every time, Su Hui wondered if it would be more painful next time.

Maybe next time it will be an engagement, he thought.

Wiping away her tears, Su Hui didn't know how to face it, she got up and wanted to leave directly, but Ning Yixiao grabbed her wrist.The cold leather gloves cut off the body temperature of the two, and also tore the last decency.

"What's wrong with you?" Ning Yixiao did not hesitate to conceal the fact that he had investigated him.

Su Hui didn't intend to say, "It's nothing."

Ning Yixiao was not surprised by this, he had expected this attitude a long time ago, and knew that Su Hui would only close everything to him.

"Even if we are not friends, at least we are classmates."

As soon as he opened his mouth, Ning Yixiao heard Liang Wen's voice not far away.

Soon he came over, and seemed to feel that the atmosphere was not right. Liang Wen's eyes were slightly puzzled, but with a smile on his face, he walked to Su Hui naturally, "Who is this?"

Su Hui didn't know how to introduce their relationship, so she chose to skip the topic and asked Liang Wen softly, "What did you buy?"

Liang Wen immediately opened the shopping paper bag to show him, "I just bought something to eat. This cornbread with cheese looks good. Do you want to eat it now? By the way, there are fried eggs and bacon..."

Just as they were about to take it, the man in front of them interrupted their conversation.

"Hello." He stretched out a hand and switched to English, "Dr. Liang, nice to meet you."

Liang Wen was stunned, obviously sensing the other party's aggressiveness, but still smiled, and shook Ning Yixiao's hand back, "Hello, what's your name?"

"Shaw." Ning Yixiao handed over a business card, but looked at Su Hui.

Liang Wen wasn't sure who he wanted to pick up, but after thinking about it, he decided to pick it up himself.I glanced at it and found that he turned out to be the CEO of MsnF, the founder of the unicorn with the highest valuation in Silicon Valley.

"It's nice to meet you. I didn't expect Eddy to have such a good friend." Liang Wen put away his business card, put his arm around Su Hui's shoulder, and said with a smile, "But we have other things to deal with now, so we might have to excuse you." gone."

Ning Yixiao stared at Liang Wen's hand, looking calm.

He turned to look at Su Hui, and what he said was more direct than when they were alone.

"Su Hui, even if our romantic relationship is over, we still have a cooperative relationship now."

Liang Wen frowned, and also looked at Su Hui.

It turned out that this was his ex-boyfriend.

The word "cooperative relationship" obviously pierced Su Hui's heart.

He suddenly smiled, "Yes."

"Your fiancée is my client, and I work for you, but this does not mean that you can intervene in my private affairs."

Ning Yixiao was silent, as if confronted with something, and then spoke again after a while: "Since you are talking about business, then let's talk about business."

"Handling your private life well is also a professional attitude. I don't want to interfere with your private affairs, but I don't want you to be unable to concentrate on your work because of these."

With that said, he took out his mobile phone and called Carl, "I'll ask my assistant to stay. He's very professional and can help you with some things."

Su Hui wanted to refuse subconsciously, "I can do it myself."

"This is the job I gave him." Ning Yixiao had a tough attitude. After finishing speaking, he glanced at the paper bag in Liang Wen's hand and dropped the last sentence.

"He doesn't like corn and he hates fried eggs."