The Deepest Color of the Night

The air seemed to be sucked dry at once, and the room fell into complete dead silence.

Gu Yuan slowly got up from the ground, sat across from Fang Jin, looked at him directly and asked, "Are you planning to leave me?"

Fang Jin didn't speak, just shook his head.

"Then why don't you accept the ring?"

Gu Yuan's voice was unusually calm, and if you listen carefully, there is actually something cold in it.However, Fang Jin only looked at him slightly panting, and after watching him for a long time, he asked hoarsely, "Is this state not good?"

"There is no promise and no future. You want to tell me that this state is good? I will go out tomorrow to find a mistress to raise a starlet. Anyway, you and I are not even spouses. We just live in a house and have sex occasionally. relationship, so you feel good too?!"

Fang Jin lowered his head and covered his eyes, Gu Yuan forcibly broke his hand away, grabbed his chin and forced him to raise his head: "Are you planning to leave me, right, or have you not really broken off with others?"

"No, I..."

"—Who is that man?"

Fang Jin froze for an instant, only listening to Gu Yuan look into his eyes, and asked word by word: "The voice I heard at your house that day, who was that man at that time?"

This was actually the first time they had discussed this matter on the table since that day—in such an embarrassing, complicated, and difficult situation.

Fang Jin's lips trembled slightly, and he could feel how obvious the trembling frequency was, but he couldn't control it at all, and even his voice was weak and pale: "It's really no one, and I haven't been in touch since then. But, Gu Yuan, don't do this—"

"I won't keep the status quo with you," Gu Yuan interrupted him, his eyes were calm, clear and cruel.

"I have only two ways for you here, either accept the ring, be honest with each other without any concealment, and become a stable, dedicated and long-term developing spouse relationship with me; Dumped."

Fang Jin's heart felt as if he had been hit hard, and his mind was completely blank.

Gu Yuan stood up and said, "I won't come back until you think it through." He turned and walked to the entrance, picked up the coat and car keys from the hanger, opened the door, and slammed the door hard under Fang Jin's pale eyes. up.

·

A whole week after that, Gu Yuan really didn't come back.

Not only did he not go home, he even disappeared from the company.At first, Fang Jin didn’t know where he went, but later he heard from the secretary that Mr. Gu’s investment in the telecommunications group had a big project, and he should be in the office of another company for the past few days. deal with.

He seemed to be refusing to see Fang Jin in every way, even refusing to answer the phone calls, and every time he went directly to the voicemail, as if he didn't even want to hear Fang Jin's voice.

One night, Fang Jin had a lot of nosebleeds. He covered his nasal cavity with a towel soaked in cold water, but the blood continued to flow out, and some even choked back into his mouth before he could swallow it. He coughed until the towel was covered with blood foam.Sitting in the dark bedroom, he was coughing violently, and at that moment, he suddenly wanted to see Gu Yuan, even if it was to hear his voice.However, when he called Gu Yuan over and over again, he was transferred to the voice mailbox over and over again. The mechanical and electronic voice echoed and distorted in the dark night, like an ironic joke.

In the end, he even had an irresistible urge to promise Gu Yuan that I accept the ring and that I am willing to grow old with you.I am willing to go on with you regardless of poverty, wealth, health or disease; I am willing to be loyal and wholehearted to you, be honest with each other, and have nothing to hide.

As long as you see me.

Come back and let me meet again.

However, he held the phone and only called Gu Yuan's name, but he couldn't continue talking.

The sound of electric current on the mobile phone was rustling, cold and clear in the silence of the night.

After a long time, he hung up the phone with trembling fingers.

·

At the same moment, Gu Yuan stood in front of the French windows of the hotel and opened the voicemail again.

He thought that this time there would be a short silence like the countless times in the past two days, and then hung up, but unexpectedly, the audio this time was more than 60 seconds long.

Gu Yuan didn't even delay for a moment, and immediately pressed the play button.After a few seconds of silence, Fang Jin's choked up voice sounded from the other side of the phone, saying, "Gu Yuan..."

For some reason, Gu Yuan felt that the voice was very hoarse and indistinct, like a cry for help from a distant underground, which made people's hearts clenched.

He suddenly reached out and grabbed the window sill, the back of his hand was bulging due to excessive force.

What will Fang Jin say?

Procrastinating and begging to avoid talking, or rejecting again, or simply breaking up?

...Or finally chose to compromise in the long seesaw, begging him to come back with tears?

No, he will definitely not be willing so easily.He will definitely talk about him again and again, trying to maintain this frivolous and fragile status quo, and resolutely unwilling to make any promise to him to spend his life together...

As the audio information passed by second by second, Gu Yuan continued to torture himself with the cruelest ideas, as if this could prevent those ideas from actually being realized.But at the same time, a secret and earnest desire inevitably arises deep in his heart: maybe there is a half chance that Fang Jin can figure it out?He must not be feeling well these days, he's obviously still liking me...

However, the progress bar was pulled to the end little by little, and there was no sound from the phone.

Gu Yuan couldn't believe it, his first reaction must be that the phone's speaker was broken, so he pulled it back and played it again.

— still silent.

Except for the choked "Gu Yuan" at the beginning, there was only the vague sound of breathing until the end.

With a loud bang, Gu Yuan turned around and slammed the phone onto the bed, and then slammed his fist on the window sill!

The huge gap from hope to disappointment caused the blood in his whole body to rush to the top of his head, because the flow was so fast that his eyes even turned black in bursts, and his ears were buzzing.This extremely crazy and abnormal state lasted for several minutes before it gradually receded. Gu Yuan panted heavily and pressed his back against the wall.

why? !

Is it interesting to play me over and over again? !

Gu Yuan suddenly had a violent impulse in his heart. He wanted to rush home. The other party Jin said that since you don't want to be with me, then let's break up, and then look at his unbelievable and painful face; Push it out and throw it on the street, then turn around and walk away, even though he shouted his name in a crying voice behind him, no matter how hard he chased him, he couldn't catch up.

Fang Jin's painful attitude of being abandoned, just thinking about it, makes him suddenly feel a distorted pleasure like revenge.

However, soon, another needle-like sting came along with the pleasure, and the fury was washed away in an instant.

He realized almost self-deprecatingly and sadly that he really loved Fang Jin—he loved that person, wanted the same love and response, wanted to walk on the street holding his hand, wanted to see Fang Jin treat him Show a happy, innocent smile.

He had already lost at the beginning of this cold war, and there was no suspense in losing cleanly.

Because he loves Fang Jin.

He is the one who is weak and begging in this relationship, and is the one who is mermaid.

·

In order to show their importance, the Gu family specially applied for a route and sent a small private cruise ship to pick up Ke Wenlong and his party to G City for talks.

According to Ke Wenlong's request, Gu Yuan will take someone to greet him at sea by boat, and after the two boats are connected, board the cruise ship and arrive at the shore together.

Ke Wenlong is old after all.The nearly ninety-year-old man was already showing signs of being powerless. He knew that he alone could not compete with the young and vigorous Gu Mingzong, so he had to bring along his only son, Ke Rong.

Although the conflict between Ke Rong and Gu Yuan has been rumored in almost half of Hong Kong, if Gu Yuan can successfully take over the Gu family, it will be good for Ke Rong. First of all, the property of the Ke family is preserved. If you are ashamed to use the family property to subsidize your grandson, other elders will reject the idea of ​​letting Gu Yuan change his surname and come back to inherit the incense; secondly, it is always a good thing to have a nephew of a top chaebol.

Although this nephew has many conflicts with him, there are no permanent enemies, only permanent interests.

Based on this idea, the Ke family and his party had no doubts about this trip. Ke Wenlong called Gu Yuan the day before the departure, and finally confirmed the time to meet at sea and a series of other details.

These matters should be reported to Gu Mingzong according to the usual practice: Although receiving the Ke family and presiding over the meeting were left to Gu Yuan to deal with, but when the crown prince ascended the throne, he had to ask for instructions on various matters, not to mention that the greatest authority had not yet been truly grasped. in his own hands.

After Ke Wenlong nodded to the final proposal, one afternoon before departure, Gu Yuan took someone to the group head office to meet his father and confirm the details of the meeting for the last time.

However, Gu Mingzong was not in the office at the appointed time. The secretary made a few phone calls and could not confirm where he was, so he could only apologize to Gu Yuan: "I'm sorry, sir, the president may be out on a temporary basis. Are you sure?" Wait a while or contact me another day?"

It would definitely be unrealistic to come back another day. Gu Mingzong could break the appointment temporarily, but he couldn't just leave.Gu Yuan thought for a while and said, "I'll go to the office and wait for a while. I'll talk about it if my father doesn't come back tonight."

Gu Mingzong's office is a typical complete set design, with a reception room and office space on the outside, and an inner room inside.The size of the entire suite can be described as huge. Standing on the floor-to-ceiling glass windows and looking out, there are rows of high-rise buildings, the inner ring of the city can be seen in sight, and the endless harbor under the gray sky is in the distance.

Gu Yuan looked out of the window for a while, then walked back to the sofa, planning to take advantage of this time to hurry up and look at the details of the meeting.

However, when he habitually wanted to find the pen, he couldn't find the Montblanc gold pen in his bag.Gu Yuan touched his pocket but couldn't find it. He thought that he might have left it somewhere, and he didn't bother to open the door to ask the subordinate who was left outside, so he got up and wanted to find one on his father's desk.

Gu Mingzong's desk is huge and spacious, beside the computer are documents, materials and a row of various signature pens.Gu Yuan took one and was about to turn around to leave when he caught a glimpse of something.

He turned his head and looked over in disbelief.

——In the corner between the computer monitor and the keyboard, there is a black stone with a warm and elegant shape. The center is subtly recessed and curved to form a natural ring setting, and an emerald ring ring is placed in the deepest part.

The emerald color of the fingers is average, but the carving is very fine, with patterns similar to the strokes of Chinese characters formed on the periphery.

Gu Yuan stared at it, and finally reached out and took it out after a while.

I saw that the strokes could not be connected into a complete character, but rather like the engraving formed after several seal characters were forcibly split in half.

Gu Yuan touched the surface of the ring slowly with his finger, and he could feel his heart beating rapidly in his chest cavity, because the tremor was so violent that he even had the illusion of being breathless for a moment.

Like a ghost, he took out another jade ring with a similar shape from the innermost corner of the briefcase - the one he found at Fang Jin's house some time ago, and then put the two rings together.

The engravings were slowly closed, and under Gu Yuan's unbelievable gaze, the pair of rings formed four characters in seal script: ——Two people are at peace.

The engravings fit together seamlessly without any gaps, as if they were one piece.