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"If you're here, at least...you can get closer to her."

Hearing Xiao Jin's answer, Qi Yin didn't show surprise. She had known Xiao Jin for so long, and knew that she had a deep affection for that person. It's not surprising that she would make any decision for her.

Qi Yin put out the cigarette butt in the ashtray, the smoke in the air dissipated like a gauze, Xiao Jin swallowed, and felt her throat feel better.

Qi Yin then took out a beautifully packaged small box from his bag, pressed it with his index finger, pushed it from one end of the coffee table to the other, and said, "It's a few days late for my birthday present, happy birthday."

"Thank you." Xiao Jin opened the box, it was a pair of earrings, and smiled.

"Wait a minute." Qi Yin then dragged his suitcase over, opened it, spread it on the ground, and began to dig out from the inside.One after another, the boxes were placed on the ground, and there were more than a dozen or twenty of them. Fortunately, they were not large in size and did not take up much space in the suitcase.

Xiao Jin was surprised: "This is..."

Qi Yin brushed back the hair that was covering his eyes, put it behind his ear, and complained: "What else can you do? You're not here for your birthday this year. They heard that I'm on a business trip to China, so they insisted that I bring you a gift. I asked them to send a courier, saying that they didn’t know your address. If you don’t know, you don’t know. You don’t lack this gift. If you can’t, I’ll make it up next time you return to the United States. Hey, I shouldn’t have told them that I was going on a business trip. Find guilt for yourself."

Qi Yin speaks Chinese very well, but she speaks too much and too fast at once, and she can still hear a slight difference from Chinese people, with a flat tone and too much articulation.

Xiao Jin couldn't help laughing, she picked up the gift with one hand, squatted on the ground and began to unwrap it: "Thank you, human flesh delivery machine."

Seeing her happy, Qi Yin put away his pretended complaint and grinned.

Qi Yin helped her take it apart, looked up at her, and asked, "Have you had a headache recently?"

Xiao Jin replied in an ordinary tone: "It hurts, but not very often, it's nothing serious."

Qi Yin hummed, as usual.

Big and small presents were scattered all over the place, jewelry, perfume, small ornaments, etc. Most of Xiao Jin's friends have good eyesight, and the birthday presents they give every year are not only unique, but also varied.

Xiao Jin put the things away in the study, the cloakroom, and the bedroom respectively, and checked the guest room that Qi Yin had packed up by the way.

Qi Yin folded her arms and was on the phone on the balcony. The company here heard that her flight arrived today and wanted to pick her up. Qi Yin refused on the grounds that she had a personal matter and changed the time to tomorrow.

At five o'clock in the evening, Qi Yin took a shower and changed his clothes. He wore a white shirt and slim-fit trousers. He specially styled it with a hair dryer, revealing a smooth and full forehead and deeper eyebrows than ordinary people.

She held a black wallet in one hand, walked around in front of Xiao Jin, raised her eyebrows at her, her facial features were glamorous.

Xiao Jin nodded and commented: "Yes, it's radiant."

Qi Yin smiled confidently.

When the two went out, they first went to a restaurant to have dinner, chatted while eating until eight o'clock, and then went to the bar.

Xiao Jin is very familiar with the bar street in Lincheng. Qi Yin has only been here a few times, and she has been to too many places, so she follows her honestly and looks around from time to time. small talk.

"There are quite a lot of trees here."

"You said this a few years ago."

"Really?" Qi Yin smiled.

"Yes, yes." Xiao Jin looked back at her.

Finally stopped in front of a bar called Zero, Qi Yin looked at the sign outside the door, frowned and said, "Are you gay?"

"..." Xiao Jin pulled her wrist, "Les, go in."

Qi Yin, like her sexual orientation, is curvy.

"It doesn't seem to be the name that came back last time."

"The tree can't remember, but the bar will." Xiao Jin yelled at her.

Qi Yin laughed happily: "Hahahaha."

The two went in side by side, Xiao Jin kept his gaze straight, Qi Yin's eyes drifted around, and the corners of his lips curved upwards obviously. After walking a few steps, she approached Xiao Jin and whispered in satisfaction: "I like this bar, the quality is very high. "

Xiao Jin said lightly, "I know you like it."

The lights in the bar were dimmed, and soothing light music was played. In the middle of the dance floor, there were several couples of women who were gently swaying to the music.The bar counter and booths are full of strong female hormones.

What Qi Yin is talking about is not the high quality of the bar itself, but the high quality of the people here. There are little beauties everywhere, and there are some big beauties to choose from. One night, there is plenty of time for her to choose slowly.

She led Qi Yin to sit on the semi-circular sofa and ordered two glasses of Mojito.

The two women with outstanding appearance were stared at by many eyes from the moment they entered, now that they were seated, people who were ready to move came up.A mature-looking woman came over with a wine glass and said directly to the waiter, "The wine for these two will be charged to my account."

The waiter was not surprised, and seemed to know the person, so he went down with kindness.

Qi Yin's red lips curled into a smile, and his eyes slid towards the other party with great interest.

The woman was beautiful, mature and charming, her exquisite figure was wrapped under a tight black skirt, outlining almost perfect curves.

The woman turned her gaze between Xiao and Qi, as if she was asking something, Xiao Jin said: "I accompanied her."

The woman chuckled and sat beside Qi Yin.

The two chatted in a low voice, flirting with each other.

Xiao Jin was leaning on the sofa, holding the wine glass and sipping lightly, not looking at the two people in front of her, and the sound of kissing was already heard by her ears.

Xiao Jin glanced over from the corner of her eye, and the woman sat on Qi Yin's lap. Qi Yin was hugging her and kissing her passionately, so he couldn't help but slightly raised his eyebrows, isn't it too fast this time?I thought I would spend the night with Qi Yin.

The voice stopped, Qi Yin maintained this posture, and continued to chat with the other party with bowed head and ears. I don't know what they said, but the woman kept laughing, and her laughter was as clear as a silver bell.

After a while, the woman stood up, glanced at Xiao Jin, lowered her head and kissed Qi Yin's lips, pressing her forehead against hers, and said affectionately, "I'll come back later."

Qi Yin reluctantly deepened the kiss, and frivolously pinched the other's buttocks. The woman gave her a half-annoyed, half-annoyed look, and walked away.

Only then did Xiao Jin turn around.

Xiao Jin said, "An appointment?"

"En." Qi Yin took a sip of his wine, looking very satisfied.

Qi Yin is too busy with work to have time to fall in love, and she has no intention of falling in love herself, but she has to meet her basic physical needs, relieve the intense work pressure by the way, and often come out to foronenight to relax.

Speaking of getting acquainted with Xiao Jin, it was both inevitable and accidental.The two of them are from different colleges of the same university, and they are not far away. Xiao Jin is very popular in their college. Not only the professors like her very much, but also the classmates like her for her good personality, plus she is good-looking, her reputation has spread to the neighborhood In the college, there are many people who pursued her, although they all failed without exception.

Qi Yin had heard about it, but she liked surfing at that time, so naturally she didn't have any idea of ​​picking the flowers of Gaoling.Met by chance twice in the library, Qi Yin said with emotion that she looks really good-looking, but that's all, she really made friends because of being in the bar.Qi Yin went to Lieyan, Xiao Jin and a group of friends were drinking, obviously they were all drinking, but she drank very differently, I couldn't tell what was different, but Qi Yin just found it very attractive, so he sat there in a strange way, talking to people We chatted for days.

After chatting, she found that the other party was very talkative and very interesting. She thought a little bit and wanted to lure Xiao Jin into her bed, but the other party saw through early on and skillfully resolved the embarrassment between the two of them.

Qi Yin's grades are excellent except that his private life is messed up. Apart from professional aspects, he also likes to read miscellaneous books. Xiao Jin has a thesis to write at that time, which requires a lot of knowledge reserve, which happens to be well understood by Qi Yin. One direction saved her a lot of time and effort, and she became familiar with those who came and went. Coupled with similar interests, they became friends naturally.

Xiao Jin pouted in the direction the woman left, and said, "Then why don't you go? Don't wait for the beauty to run away."

Qi Yin snorted softly, "When did someone I fell in love with run away? Let's drink with you first, the night is still long, don't worry."

After that, several women came one after another, but Qi Yin refused them all. She has already found her goal for tonight, and she will not waver again.The visitor cast his eyes on Xiao Jin, Xiao Jin lightly clinked glasses with the other party, and said with a smile: "I'm a couple with her, I'm sorry." She raised her finger and pointed at Qi Yin.

Qi Yin immediately cooperated and said: "Yes."

The visitors all left regretfully.

At around ten o'clock in the evening, Shi Shiran, the woman who had just made an appointment with Qi Yin, came over. Qi Yin glanced at Xiao Jin, stood up and put his arms around the woman's shoulders. The two were still standing, and the fire in their eyes burned the air. It's about to burn.

Qi Yin said, "I'm leaving."

Xiao Jin waved his hands outward, and said with a smile, "Go."

Not long after Qi Yin left, Xiao Jin left the bar, called a substitute driver, drove the car back home, went upstairs to take a shower and went to bed.

All night long.

Qi Yin took a shower in the bathroom of the hotel room, and when he came out, the woman on the bed was already awake, with half of her snow-white shoulders exposed, with one hand lazily supporting her chin, looking at her with a charming smile .

"Are you leaving?" Her tone was provocative, clearly showing reluctance.

"That's right." Qi Yin's soft tone seemed to be hooked. She picked up the scattered clothes, and took off her bathrobe with her back to the woman, revealing her slender and perfect limbs.

Looking at the light red marks on her back, the woman swallowed.

"Would you mind telling me your name? Maybe there will be a chance next time?" I had so much fun last night that I actually wanted to maintain this relationship for a while longer.

After Qi Yin put on her clothes, she turned around, with a smile on her face, and answered her slowly: "Mind you."

woman:"……"

Qi Yin opened the door and went out.

She doesn't go on a second date with the same person, she needs novelty, and now this person is gone.

There was still residual alcohol smell on the clothes, Qi Yin lowered his head and sniffed, shook his hands in disgust, stopped a taxi by the side of the road, got in, and reported the address of the community where Xiao Jin lived.

She raised her hand and looked at her watch. At eight o'clock in the morning, Xiao Jin told her to go out at nine o'clock in the morning, and she still had time to go back.

Qi Yin didn't record the fingerprints of Xiao Jin's house for the time being, and she couldn't enter the house if she got back late, so she kept walking in a hurry after getting off the car, until a person suddenly appeared in her field of vision.

It was a woman about 27 or 175 years old. She was tall, at least [-]. She had long light chestnut hair that just reached her collarbone. The skin that was exposed outside became fairer.

She was holding a woven white handbag in one hand and a phone in the other. Her carefully drawn willow eyebrows were slightly raised, as if she was troubled by something.

Sleeper Creek.

Qi Yin read the other party's name in his heart.

Then a question arose, why is she here?Did you come to see Xiao Jin?

"I just went out, and I'll be at the company soon. I'll take a look in person later." Muzhenxi noticed a line of sight, and raised her eyes to look at the place where the line of sight came from. It was a strange woman, obviously of mixed race, who was staring intently. Stare at her.

Mu Zhenxi was accustomed to such gazes, and passed by the other party without squinting.

Qi Yin turned to look at her back until she disappeared.

Qi Yin blinked twice, and walked a few steps towards home thoughtfully, when the phone in her pocket rang, it was Xiao Jin, probably urging her to go back quickly.She connected, replied that I will be there soon, and quickened her pace.

"Breakfast is in the kitchen, I remember to eat it." Xiao Jin was waiting for her in the living room, planning to go out as soon as she came in.

"Wait a minute first." Qi Yin looked at the coffee table, there was no trace of entertaining guests, she asked, "Did Muzhenxi come to see you?"

Xiao Jin was stunned for a moment, and said, "No." Mu Zhenxi wished to never get in touch with her, so why would he come to her.

Seeing her bewildered expression, Qi Yin was also bewildered. She pointed to the bay window in the living room and said, "I just saw her at the gate of the community."

Xiao Jin's eyes widened: "What did you say?"

Qi Yin repeated: "I just met her at the gate of the community, and I heard her call and say that she just went out and will be at the company immediately."

Xiao Jin frowned: "Could you have mistaken someone?"

Qi Yin: "No, it's not that I haven't seen her before. Besides, with her height and appearance, how could she easily admit her mistake?"

Xiao Jin stopped talking and fell into deep thought.

Seeing that she didn't respond for a long time, Qi Yin went to have breakfast.

Xiao Jin only thought of one possibility, Muzhenxi moved to the same community as her.She knew the name of Muzhenxi's new company, so she immediately searched it with the navigation, and walked there from the gate of the community in less than 10 minutes.

Xiao Jin doesn't know what expression she should make now, are you happy?What if Muzhenxi found out that she was here, and the other party moved again?It's impossible to be unhappy.

Being in the same city has made her dare not ask for extravagance, not to mention being in the same neighborhood now, she bit her lower lip lightly, shouldn't she be in the same building?

Then he denied this idea, it shouldn't be such a coincidence.

Xiao Jin turned her head and asked Qi Yin who was sitting at the table: "Did you see which direction she walked to the door from?"

Qi Yin recalled: "The road to the left when entering the community."

Xiao Jinxin said: That's okay, she lives on the right side, so the possibility of encountering her by chance is even smaller.

Qi Yin came over with a plate, seeing her expression alternately troubled, sometimes happy, easily swayed by the morning episode, feeling hopeless, sighed and said: "Aren't you going to school? You're going to be late."

Xiao Jin woke up like a dream, and hurriedly changed her shoes and went out.

She was in a good mood all day, so good that the female colleagues who had dinner with her frequently looked at her strangely, and Xiao Jin restrained her smile a little.

She re-read her class schedule. There are classes on Tuesday and Friday afternoons, but they all end at 05:30. Get home before 05:30 and you won't meet her.

"How's the new house going?" Yin Xiaoli called Muzhenxi during the lunch break to express her concern.

"Very good." Mu Zhenxi held the mobile phone in one hand, and held the fork in the other hand, eating the fruit on the fork plate.

"How about working in a new company?"

"That's pretty good too. By the way, I've been working for so long, and you're only asking now?"

"Just a quick question." Yin Xiaoli said, lying on the table, bored.

"I think you're just bored."

"You heard it."

"You're bored, I have something to do, I'll go back to work overtime."

"What kind of overtime work at noon?"

"Life lies in working overtime." Muzhenxi ate the last bite of fruit and stood up.

Listening to the busy tone on the phone, Yin Xiaoli became dumb. Since she moved from Muzhenxi, she has completely changed from a workaholic to a workaholic. Whenever she talks to her, she will either say that she is working overtime, or that she will go to work within five sentences. work overtime.

During the lunch break, the colleagues in the office fell asleep, only the computer in front of Muzhenxi was still on, and it was as tireless as the engrossed person sitting in front of it.

In a blink of an eye, it is the rare long holiday of the year-National Day.

School is on holiday, and so are companies.

Xiao Jin was the host, and took Qi Yin to the next city to play for a few days before returning home.Muzhenxi worked in the company for five days, and was ordered to rest by the director on the sixth day and rushed home.

The day he came back was the last day of the long vacation. Qi Yin felt that Xiao Jin was depressed, so he went back to his room early.

She smoked two cigarettes on the balcony and went back to the guest room by herself.

Xiao Jin bent down, opened the safe in her bedroom, and took out all the contents like every night.

A photo album, and a wooden box filled with odds and ends.

She opened the photo album, and there were photos of Muzhenxi in it, most of them were taken by her mobile phone when she was in high school. The phone card was cancelled, and the photo album was also deleted. Fortunately, it can be restored, and later it was washed out. The pixels are a bit fuzzy, but Xiao Jin's memory and eyes can complete the details and context of each photo.Turning to the back of the photo, it gradually appeared clear, but most of them were side faces, which looked like candid shots. From the age of 24, intermittently to 26, 27, and 28, this album spanned more than ten years and witnessed the wooden pillow. From green to mature.

Xiao Jin put her hand on top of the wooden box, rubbed her palm twice, but finally did not open it, but put it back together with the photo album.She leaned her back against the bed, hugged her knees with her hands, and stared blankly for a long time with her eyes open.

dong dong.

Qi Yin knocked on the door.

Xiao Jin moved her numb joints, stood up and opened the door: "What's wrong?"

Qi Yin held a glass of milk in his hand and raised his eyebrows at her.

Xiao Jin took it over: "Thank you."

It's about to close the door.

Qi Yin raised his hand and pressed against the door: "Need to chat for a while?"

Xiao Jin shook her head.

Qi Yin lets go.

The door closed in front of her.

Qi Yin didn't leave, but stood at the door for a while.

The door opened again, Xiao Jin came out with an undrinked milk cup, staring at her, Qi Yin curled his lips.

Five minutes later, the bay window was filled with wine.

Xiao Jin skillfully opened a can, raised her head and drank it all. She leaned her head against the wall, looked at the neon lights outside the window, and looked far away. After a while, she said, "I'm going to find her tomorrow."

Qi Yin smoked slowly, smiled resolutely: "I guessed it. You look like this every time because of her." She lowered her head and glanced at the empty soda can, "Drink less."

"You smoke less." Xiao Jin said.

Qi Yin smiled and made a gesture of invitation: "Okay, then continue drinking."

Neither of the two can convince the other.

Xiao Jin restrained herself and only drank three cans. She didn't want to get a hangover at night and wake up with a headache. She had to see Muzhenxi tomorrow.

She has been procrastinating on this matter for a long time.Muzhenxi is escaping, so she is not escaping, but the episode of amnesia is added, which makes her see the truth of the cloudy mountains and fogs more clearly.

She changed classes with a teacher at the school ahead of time, freeing up a whole day.

October [-]th, the first working day after the long holiday.

Xiao Jin got up early, put on delicate light makeup, picked out the most beautiful long dress in the closet and put it on, and looked at herself in the mirror for a long time, not sure if she was looking at herself in the mirror or through the mirror. Looking at an uncertain future.

Eat breakfast in peace, go out in peace, drive in peace, and go downstairs to the company in Muzhenxi.She prepared a new mobile phone, and her hands gradually trembled uncontrollably when she pressed the familiar number.

Muzhenxi was having a meeting with the team members, and the phone on the table buzzed, it was an unfamiliar number.She pressed the mute button and went out to connect. She didn't speak, waiting for the first sentence to be spoken over there.

Xiao Jin said, "It's me."

Muzhenxi's expression changed suddenly, and when he was about to hang up the phone, he had already said in advance: "Don't hang up first."

Muzhenxi hesitated for a second, then said coldly: "What's the matter?"

Xiao Jin said: "About what happened back then, I have something to tell you."

Muzhenxi said resolutely, "I don't want to hear it."

She pressed the hang up button hard, her chest heaving violently.

Then the phone vibrated, and a text message came in, and it was still the strange number: [I remembered everything, including the truth about why I went abroad back then, I just want to sit down with you and have a good talk]

In order to avoid being blocked from being received, Xiao Jin was out of breath, and quickly pasted the pre-edited text message and sent it.

When she was with Muzhenxi, Muzhenxi knew that she liked to hear nice words, and once wrote her love poems clumsily. The first poem only had three lines. She solemnly wrote: "There are two suns in my life, One is you and the other is grandma."

At that time, Xiao Jin deliberately teased her with a straight face: "Which sun is brighter, your grandma or me?"

Muzhenxi said: "You are different from grandma."

Xiao Jin insisted on asking: "Then do you prefer grandma or me?"

Mu Zhenxi couldn't answer, so Xiao Jin hugged her and kissed her ear until the other party had nowhere to hide, and the roots of his ears were red when he said the answer she wanted.

Xiao Jin laughed.

But these two suns fell from her sky one after another.

Xiao Jin raised her hand to press her warm eyelids.

Ten years ago, she was the one who brought up the breakup impulsively, she was the one who let the wooden pillow creek roll, and it was she who left without saying goodbye, which became an indelible shadow in her life.

She has the responsibility and obligation to give Muzhenxi an explanation.

Even if he can't become her sun again, he still has to wipe away the haze in her heart with his own hands.