Pretending to be cute

After Ling Sheng dropped the bombshell, Li Mi didn't care about work, opened his social account, and also saw that extremely dazzling photo and that line of captions.

She pursed her lips, and her eyes stopped on Xiao Ling's shallow smile, although it wasn't bright, but it wasn't fake either.

Li Mi knew Song Lin.

She asked her friend to take care of Xiao Ling, but because of various inconveniences, the friend turned to Song Lin and briefly explained Song Lin's situation to her. She still trusted this reliable woman who had taken care of Xiao Ling for two years.

But it was different now, she felt very uncomfortable and upset, as if something that belonged to her was coveted by others.

Ling Sheng sat on the side, successfully observed Mr. Li's face change from white to black and then back to white, and took a sip of tea with great satisfaction: "Why are you so angry? I see you haven't heard from Lingling for a long time, kindly give you Look, why are you still angry?"

Li Mi knew that his friend did it on purpose, but he just had other things he cared about, so he didn't bother to argue with her: "This Song Lin is interesting to Lingling."

Ling Sheng pretended to be surprised: "What's interesting? Which meaning? The senior sister's care for the junior sister, or the friendship between friends? Oh, there are too many meanings. If you don't explain clearly, I don't know what it means. "

Li Mi said displeased: "Ling Sheng, can you... can you stop being so eccentric all the time? You haven't said a few words to me since this period of time."

Ling Sheng snorted, and retorted: "I'm talking normally, is it useful to you? I asked you to talk to Lingling well, but you just talk harshly when you are angry. I asked you to contact her again, but you said you didn't Like her, and then pretend to be a workaholic every day. Okay, then I don't care about your shit, and you drag me every day to drink away my worries. Li Mi, do you think you are interesting?"

Li Mi frowned: "I didn't pull you to drink away your worries, I'm just bored, watch you make drinks, let's have a few drinks by the way."

"It's strange. I've been mixing wine for so long before, and I haven't seen you come here a few times. This year, my charm has increased so much that you don't come back to your house. Come and see me mixing wine?"

Ling Sheng said unceremoniously: "Sometimes you are very frank, sometimes why are you so blunt? I think I can hardly stand your changing attitude, let alone Lingling. But it's fine now, Lingling Finally willing to give up on you, Song Lin is right, this might not be a good start."

Li Mi suppressed his emotions: "Are you my friend, or Song Lin's friend, and you help her every word?"

Ling Sheng was a little annoyed, but also a little funny: "It's enough for you to be jealous, Song Lin is with Lingling, not me, why are you angry at me?"

Li Mi said word by word: "I'm not jealous."

Just in case Ling Sheng didn't believe it, she emphasized again: "I don't like Ah Ling, I'm not jealous, so don't keep imagining these things."

Ling Sheng was amused, stood up, patted the non-existent ashes on the clothes, looked down at Li Mi condescendingly, and said provocatively, "Since this is the case, then you should be happy for the inspiration. Didn't you log in to your social account? Do you want to?" Comment, Song Lin, come on, sister likes you?"

"you……"

"If Lingling likes someone else, it's impossible to like you. You are still her good sister. Doesn't this fit your idea? You don't have to worry about it, and you don't have to owe you any more. After you find a suitable partner, you two Four together, just can play mahjong."

"..."

Seeing Li Mi's face getting more and more ugly, Ling Sheng couldn't bear it, but he still forced himself to continue to speak harsh words, forcing this iron bump to open up: "Li Mi, admit it, admit that you care about Xiao Ling, admit that you have never wanted anything Someone snatched her away, admit that you mind Song Lin, admit that you—maybe like Xiao Ling."

Deathly silence.

After a while, Li Mi raised his head, with a look in Ling Sheng's eyes that he couldn't understand: "Actually, I've always wanted to say, since you've already seen that Ah Ling likes me, why didn't you stop her? Why did you still help the evildoers?"

"You are my friend, you have been thinking about how I should accept her from Ah Ling's point of view, why don't you think from my point of view, that is my cherished child for nearly ten years, who called me for ten years My sister's child, how can I do it? Why should I do it?"

"If Ah Ling's parents were still alive, do you think they would stand by and watch? Guess, how would they scold me? Rabbits don't eat grass by the side of their nests. I'm a woman who is almost 30 years old, but I miss a girl who is less than 20 years old. You young girls are really shameless."

Ling Sheng hesitated to speak: "It's not like that..."

Li Mi picked up the document, covered his face, and said in a weary voice, "Agreeing to Ah Ling's love agreement is already the most outrageous thing I have ever done. Just like this, I feel ashamed of Ah Ling's parents. I don't want to think about it, and I don't dare to think about it..."

Ling Sheng remained silent, feeling guilty and guilty for the first time.

She seemed to have never considered Li Mi's thoughts.And most of the time, she chose to stand by Xiao Ling's side, and ignored Li Mi's entanglements.

Li Mi may indeed be a hard-to-flower iron tree, but she is also a living person with her own position and the right to make her own choices. She has been ignoring her all the time.

"Sorry, I won't say any more of this."

Li Mi nodded, accepting the apology: "Okay, we agreed to try not to talk about personal matters during business hours, and we will go to LD later to discuss new cooperation matters, you can go with me."

"it is good."

……

The next period of time is still very difficult for Li Mi.

Song Lin will update the blog every three to five times, sometimes posting some interesting stories, such as a group of people going skiing, mountaineering or soaking in hot springs, sometimes posting pictures of beautiful scenery, and some about work.

But these blogs all have the shadow of Xiao Ling.

Li Mi is too familiar with Xiao Ling, even if there is only a back view or a backlit side in the photo, she can still recognize it, that is Xiao Ling.What's more, Song Lin did not hide Xiao Ling's existence, and called Xiao Ling's initials L in a teasing tone from time to time.

From the looks of it, Xiao Ling had a fulfilling life, even though she was not by Xiao Ling's side.

Li Mi followed Song Lin with a trumpet, and every time I read her blog, I would think: very good, the kid has his own life circle, the kid really wants to give up liking himself, maybe the kid will like it soon Go to Song Lin, or someone else.

Maybe...you won't be returning to China after graduation.

Apart from being gratified, it was also a deep loss.

As for life, not much has changed.Li Mi was originally on three points and one line, company, home, and business trips.Feng Yin suppressed the company's gossip, and Ling Sheng didn't mention Xiao Ling anymore, except for the blog, Li Mi hardly heard Xiao Ling's name.

Except home.

Li Mi gradually dreaded going home, not only because she had to face overwhelming loneliness after returning home, but also because she couldn't sleep well at home.I finally fell asleep, but when I woke up, I no longer had the warm embrace in my dream. The huge contrast almost drove me crazy.

She tried many methods, just like the three years when Xiao Ling went abroad, she also relied on these methods to survive successfully.

The first method is to drink milk to sleep.Out of habit, she subconsciously brewed two glasses of milk, but she didn't want to waste it, so she had to drink them all. Of course, she didn't sleep well, and woke up several times a night.

This method failed, so Li Mi thought of a second method - raising a pet.It is said that people who live alone are suitable for keeping some small pets, such as cats, dogs, hamsters, fish, and they are entitled to be multiple companions.

Fu Qiuyue gave her a Persian cat before, but Li Mi sent it back two days later. The reason was that she shed too much, she was obsessed with cleanliness and had good eyesight, so she couldn't stand it.The same goes for the dog, and it also bites the sofa and paper, which really challenged Li Mi's nerves.

This time Li Mi behaved well and went to buy a hamster.After only two days of raising it, she gave the hamster to Lin Ge with a dark face.Although hamsters are easy to raise, they can basically be left alone in a luxury villa with complete food, drink and shelter, but they can't stand the smell, and Li Mi's head hurts when he smells it.

The little goldfish is fine, it doesn't smell bad, doesn't shed hair, and doesn't bite the sofa or paper.But unfortunately, Li Mi had been raising it for less than a week. One morning, when he was about to feed, he found that the goldfish was floating on the water with its belly turned upside down, and it was already dead.

Li Mi was very sad. She shared these experiences with Fu Qiuyue and the others, but all she got was ridicule.Fu Qiugui told her not to harm small animals anymore, and said that it was just to accumulate virtue for the ancestors of the Li family.

Li Mi: ...

She felt that she might only be suitable for raising people.

In desperation, Li Mi chooses to secretly go to Xiao Ling's room to sleep.Surrounded by the familiar atmosphere, Li Mi finally fell asleep, the alarm clock didn't wake her up the next day, and she was late for an unprecedented time, which caused heated discussions in the whole company.

During this period, Li Mi did not contact Xiao Ling again.

Xiao Ling had a tacit understanding and didn't take the initiative to look for her.The two of them seem to have forgotten each other's existence, they are busy with their own affairs, and even the short half-month relationship is buried in the dusty memory.

In a blink of an eye, from the beginning of autumn to the end of autumn, the maple trees downstairs in Hongjiang also took off their lush green and put on a red dress.The maple leaves were blown to the ground by the night wind, and before they could be cleaned, they were spread into layers of broken carpets, and there was a clicking sound when stepped on.

The sky began to drizzle, Li Mi opened his umbrella and stood quietly for a long time, remembering the diary that was only updated on Song Lin's blog yesterday.

[One mountain, two mountains.The mountains are far away, the sky is high, the water is cold, and the acacia maple leaf is red.

The chrysanthemum blooms and the chrysanthemum remains.Saiyan Gaofei has not yet returned, and the wind and the moon are idle. 】

When Xiao Ling went to school, she had to recite ancient poems in autumn. The Chinese teacher asked the students to study with their parents. So Li Mi waited until the weekend to take Xiao Ling and his friends up the mountain. While admiring the red leaves all over the mountains and plains, he held Xiao Ling and taught her a Read the poem word by word.

Among them is this little decree.

Xiao Ling was young, so he could only understand that the poems were describing Qiu Jing, but he didn't quite understand what it was expressing, so he asked Li Mi what it meant.Before she could answer, Fu Qiudou on the side smiled and said, "The central idea of ​​this poem is that a woman misses her sweetheart, but that sweetheart is always away, so the woman becomes a resentful woman, hurting the spring and autumn."

The kid was stunned when he heard it.

The corner of Li Mi's mouth twitched, and he punched the unruly one hard, and then heard the child calling her in a low voice: "Sister Li, sister Li."

The baby voice with a baby voice is so cute, Li Mi's heart almost melted when he was called out: "What's the matter, baby?"

The child's eyes were bright, and she grabbed the hem of her sweater: "If you are not by my side in the future, I will read this poem to you, okay?"

Li Mi squeezed Xiao Ling's face: "Then what about my sister's business trip?"

Xiao Ling wrinkled her small face: "That's right, Sister Li always has to go on that annoying business trip. How about it! I'm a sensible kid, I'll give you two months! After two months, you're still not by my side, I will read this poem to you!"

Thinking of this, a certain thought slipped through my mind.Li Mi remembered that Song Lin never had the habit of posting poems before, so is there someone else who recites poems?

Yesterday, it happened to be two months since they lost contact.

"Lin Ge." Li Mi called out.

The little assistant who was following her rubbed her hands coldly and let out a breath: "Li, Mr. Li, what's wrong? Are you going to go in?"

Li Mi said: "Yes. Today's schedule has been postponed. The morning meeting has been moved to Wednesday. Director Qi is in charge of the afternoon cooperation project. If there is something urgent, let them contact me directly, and help me book a plane ticket to country X by the way. .”

Lin Ge was stunned, and hurriedly wrote down what Li Mi ordered in the memo: "Okay, okay, I see, I'll order it for you right away."

Li Mi rolled up his collar, and said in a deep voice, "I'm very interested in LTM, and I happen to have a cooperation project that I want to discuss with them, so I'll go over there."

Although Lin Ge was surprised that Li Mi explained so much to her, he still nodded: "Okay."

Li Mi coughed dryly: "They have invited me many times."

Lin Ge: "Oh, that's it."

Li Mi covered himself with an umbrella, and walked a little faster: "I've been too busy with work recently, but I still have to go once for business."

"Ok."

Li Mi hummed and stopped talking.When she was about to arrive at the office, she turned to face Lin Ge and emphasized again seriously: "Really, I'm just here for business. I'll come back after talking with LTM. You understand, I'm called a business trip. Director Ling and the others asked , you have to tell them the same."

Lin Ge:? ? ?

Of course the business trip is for business, otherwise why else?It's not that she doesn't know the meaning of business trip.But Mr. Li kept repeating that it was for business. Could it be implying her something, or testing her judgment ability?

Lin Ge fell into deep thought.