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One month after Lin Nan returned to the set, Qi Yubai deliberately picked a day to have dinner with Fang Qiran.

At six o'clock in the afternoon, Zhang Hong sent him to the restaurant on time.After he was seated, he waited for a quarter of an hour and Fang Qiran arrived late.

She is wearing an off-the-shoulder sweater and jeans today. Her shoulders are flat and her waist is thin, her legs are long and straight. She has a good figure. She is carrying a white shell bag that matches the clothes very well. When she approaches the table, she brings a burst of ocean atmosphere. perfume scent.

It's a pity that Qi Yubai doesn't know how to appreciate it.

"You're late," he said.

Fang Qiran opened the chair and sat down, raised her wrist and looked at her watch, even the crystal armor was newly made.

"It's too late if it's less than 10 minutes? Don't be too harsh."

Qi Yubai replied mercilessly: "I'm not your boyfriend, so I have no obligation to wait for you."

The light in the restaurant was ambiguous, and the atmosphere was set off by the sound of the piano. There were mostly a man and a woman sitting opposite each other, just like the two of them.

Fang Qiran didn't take his words seriously at all, and leisurely picked up the menu and flipped through it slowly, without looking at him: "Don't be so absolute. Look around, we are boyfriend and girlfriend in the eyes of others."

She reached out to the waiter, and after ordering, she said, "Open another bottle of the best red wine in the store for us." After handing the menu to the waiter, she smiled at him, "This kind of atmosphere would be too much without some wine." I failed."

Qi Yubai frowned.When he asked Zhang Hong to make a reservation, he didn't expect such an atmosphere here, so he would have gone to an ordinary business restaurant if he had known about it.

"I didn't call you here for a drink," he said.

Fang Qiran nodded nonchalantly: "I know, I don't want to prevent us from drinking for the sake of discussing things."

Her personality is indeed a bit unpredictable, even though the two have been dating for a while, they still can't see clearly as if covered in a layer of mist.

"How did you think about what we discussed last time?" Qi Yubai asked.

Fang Qiran looked at him with a slight smile, her eyes were much calmer than Qi Yubai's: "This is the first time you took the initiative to ask me out, and you got to the point right away, are you in a hurry?"

"It's been almost two weeks, you should think about it."

"Yeah." Fang Qiran nodded, "I've almost thought about it." She changed the topic, "Do you think that the feeling that you are asking for me is very good now?"

Qi Yubai glanced at her: "Just say what you want to say, I just want to know whether our deal is established."

"Established—"

Fang Qiran immediately interfaced: "Of course it is true. You want your Benyun to continue to operate, I want your old relationship in City Y, and I want to see how you dare not offend me." She paused and teased him A haircut: "We're mutually beneficial."

"So you agreed?"

The waiter came to serve the food, and the two were separated by a pair of arms.

"I agree, as long as Mr. Qi keeps his promise after the matter is completed, it's fine not to kick me away."

The cork of the red wine bottle was completely pulled out by the corkscrew, and the waiter wrapped the body of the bottle with a white towel, and the dark red liquid flowed into the goblet along the wall.

"Cheers." Fang Qiran raised her glass, "Congratulations on our alliance."

With a serious expression on his face, Qi Yubai finally raised his wine glass to touch her, and there was a clear sound on the side of the glass.

Fang Qiran took a sip, lightly put down the wine glass and stared at him: "To be honest, I've never seen a father and son like you."

"We are like this? What kind."

"The father wants to bring down the son, and the son wants to bring down the father, but he shows mercy." She paused for a second, "It's not difficult for Director Qi to let you have nothing in Ben Yun's current situation, you know that?"

Qi Yubai didn't speak.

"The reason why he didn't do this is probably due to me?" She smiled, "He thought we were dating seriously, and when you agree to get engaged to me, Benyun will naturally have a new investor. The problem of the capital chain It's easy to solve."

Qi Yubai was silent for a while, and finally said: "So I hope you directly take a share in Benyun. Once Benyun is listed, you will be able to get out of it immediately, and the rewards will definitely be rich."

Fang Qiran nodded while "hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm": "Use me as a private placement. I know, you can't find a suitable PE for a while. In place, so you thought of looking for me. But have you ever thought about why I want to help you? Don’t say that it’s the winter of film and television, and it’s even more difficult for media companies to get listed on the main board, let alone buy a shell. If I can really go up, the process can be as short as one or two years and as long as three to five years, why should I wait?"

Qi Yubai looked at her: "You can refuse, I'll think of another way."

Fang Qiran shook her head with a smile, and the valuable diamond earrings swayed slightly with the movement: "We have even touched glasses, and I won't regret it. But you still don't understand what I mean."

Qi Yubai really didn't understand what she meant, because he didn't pay attention to her.

Fang Qiran suppressed her smile, and looked at Qi Yubai without moving her eyes: "I want to hear you say thank you to me. You know that I had a crush on you before, otherwise I wouldn't go to see your family. Not to mention helping you willingly. You and I know very well that you took advantage of this favor, shouldn't you say thank you to me?"

She was right.The first time they met, Fang Qiran almost revealed that she had a crush on Qi Yubai since she was in college, but her self-esteem was so high that she hit a wall within two hours, so she simply pretended not to care.What's more, Qi Yubai has already stated immediately that he is not interested in women, so Fang Qiran is naturally even less likely to think of him again.

If Qi Yubai didn't understand this, he wouldn't be the first to find Fang Qiran.He was sure that Fang Qiran would not refuse, and she had no reason to refuse a man she had a crush on and a proposal with a high probability of being profitable.

After waiting for a long while, Qi Yubai seemed to be holding up the red wine bottle with his left hand with great effort, and lightly pressing the body of the bottle with the fingers of his right hand, he poured a glass for Fang Qiran.

"Qiran, thank you." With a sincere expression on his face, he paused for a moment, "I invite you for this meal."

Fang Qiran was startled, then smiled and cursed softly: "Scum..."

-

Not long after he came out of the restaurant, Qi Yubai vomited out everything he ate, which was a side effect of the western medicine Paroxetine.Zhang Hong was very nervous, but he himself didn't care.

He had just seen a psychiatrist during the day.In his opinion, psychotherapy is nothing more than talking. The previous treatment was interrupted, on the one hand because he was too busy, and on the other hand because there was little improvement.

This time he made up his mind to recover, and his cooperation was much higher than usual.Cognitive behavioral therapy and exposure therapy, these are the two solutions currently given to him by the attending doctor.The former kind of doctor is a bit harder, and needs to be enlightened repeatedly to help him understand that the events of the past were not his fault; the latter is more difficult, because he needs to keep recalling and talking about the events of the past, even if the partner is a psychiatrist, he finds it difficult. Bear.

But these are inevitable, unless he doesn't want to get better.

In addition, the psychiatrist also asked him to do one thing: to confide his thoughts to the trusted relatives around him, instead of forcing him to describe everything that happened that year in detail, the key point is to learn to express his true emotions.In any case, talking is a very necessary behavior.Keeping something in your heart and speaking it out may have a completely different impact on people.

Back in the car, Qi Yubai closed his eyes and rested in the back row. Zhang Hong occasionally glanced at him through the rearview mirror to make sure he was okay.

After a while, he slowly opened his eyes, took out his mobile phone and looked through the calendar, and said to Zhang Hong, "He's going to finish his business this Friday, so you can order a bouquet of flowers for me that day."

When Zhang Hong heard it, his heart hung high in an instant.

"you want to go?"

Qi Yubai smiled faintly: "Afraid of driving? Don't worry, I won't go to the set."

Zhang Hong just breathed a sigh of relief, only to hear him continue: "There are too many people there, it is not suitable for us to meet, I will go to his new apartment."

Suddenly no one spoke in the carriage, and this subordinate felt dissatisfied.

In his view, resuming a relationship after a breakup is like chewing gum that has been spit out and put back in the mouth again. It is tasteless to eat and indecent to watch.It's a pity that he has no position to dissuade.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Qi Yubai said, "I haven't seen him for a month. Is it too much for me to go and see him?"

"It's not too much, it's not the time."

Zhang Hong said slowly: "Benyun is in a difficult situation now, and your condition is not good. I am worried that you will quarrel when you meet."

"I won't ask him to get back together with me." Qi Yubai said casually, "It's just a meeting and a few words, why are you arguing?"

Zhang Hong had no choice but to say, "Well, I will work overtime on Friday."

Qi Yubai raised his eyebrows and teased: "Three times the salary, you will be satisfied now."

I thought that my secretary would retaliate, and the two exchanged a few words back and forth, but Zhang Hong's expression was uneasy, obviously he had something in his heart.Qi Yubai raised his eyelids and looked at him: "What's the matter recently, I remember that you used to be very good with Lin Nan, and you always treated him very friendly. Why do you react like this when I mention him now?"

Zhang Hong replied: "That's because I thought he would make your life happier."

Qi Yubai said, "How do you know he didn't do it?"

-

Back at the old house, Qi Yubai behaved as usual.

He used common sense to speculate that Qi Zhonghui should have placed an eyeliner by his side, or at least someone would follow up on his daily itinerary.Sure enough, as soon as he entered the living room, Qi Zhonghui on the sofa put down the book in his hand and asked, "Did you go out to dinner with Qi Ran today?"

Qi Yubai hummed casually, walked to the kitchen and took out a bottle of ice water from the refrigerator, holding it in his right hand, without opening it immediately.

"I've finally started to get the hang of it." Qi Zhonghui raised his eyes and looked at him, "I've also heard about Ben Yun. If you really can't hold on, you might as well go back to the group to help. Your position is still there."

Qi Yubai nodded indifferently: "I'll try first, maybe I can still be saved."

When he walked up the stairs, Qi Zhonghui kept looking at his back with deep eyes.

Back in the room, he locked the door smoothly.

Looking out from the window of his room, the scenery outside is good, the moonlight is like silver, illuminating the small courtyard very brightly, and the old trees that have plucked new leaves are rejuvenated.

Qi Yubai stood in front of the window for a minute, feeling much better.Such a night is very suitable for chatting about thoughts.He stretched out his hands to close the curtains, sat at the table and clamped the body of the bottle with the bend of his left arm, and unscrewed the cap with his right hand.After a while, I finally turned on my laptop, planning to finish the last thing today.

"Have you changed your private email address?" He sent a message to ask Ou Chan.

After a while, Ou Chan replied with a voice, and the background sound was noisy, "No, it's the same as before!"

Qi Yubai put down his phone, opened his private mailbox that he hadn't used for a while, and began to write this private email to Ou Chan.

"Xiao Can,

I recently tried to see a psychiatrist again, and the problem finally got a little better.The doctor advised me to communicate my inner thoughts with relatives around me more, which would be of great help to my condition.I thought about it, and only you, my cousin, would take the time to listen to me say a few more words.However, it is inevitable to be cautious in face-to-face analysis, and the written form is better..."