three feet away

On the afternoon of December 23, Yan Ruyi's assistant drove to pick her up from the small living square near Xu Nuo's home.The representative of the French company will arrive at the airport at dusk and needs her to pick him up.

Yan Ruyi's new assistant is about 23 or [-] years old, a big boy who just graduated from college and calls himself Ji Jie. He is tall and thin, and looks very shy.When he took her small suitcase from Xu Nuo's hand, he secretly glanced at Xu Nuo several times, and blushed when Xu Nuo looked back at him inadvertently.

Xu Nuo quietly watched him put the suitcase into the trunk of the car, and asked again: "Do I have to stay in a hotel? I can promise to meet you at the hotel tomorrow before departure."

Because we have to visit the factory together the next day, and promised to be an indispensable important person in this business meeting, Jiachuang Company arranged to stay in a hotel with their employees for one night, and set off directly from the hotel to the factory the next day .

Due to work needs, Xu Nuo originally did not reject this form of arrangement, but because of Yan Ruyi, she was a little opposed to staying in a hotel, so even though she had received an accurate reply from the assistant in the previous phone call, she still couldn't help it. Asked once.

"This..."

After hearing what Ji Jie said, he helped Xu Nuo open the door with a tangled expression, and while gesturing for her to get in the car, he replied:

"Miss Xu, the company has had similar business meetings before, and the translation...is all with the team..."

"Yeah." Xu Nuo pursed his lips, got into the car and sat down, and didn't speak again.

Ji Jie got into the car, peeked at Xu Nuo from the rearview mirror, and asked tentatively with red ears: "Miss Xu, do you have any important matters? How about I ask the supervisor for you later?"

Xu Nuo looked up at the sincere eyes in the rearview mirror, smiled and shook his head: "It's okay, no need, thank you."

Along the way, I promised not to ask any more questions, but quietly looked at the documents prepared in my hand, and reviewed the performance and advantages of the product, in order to use the best state to face the representatives and consultants of the other company. In fact, such translation activities did not affect her. Even if it is not a side dish that can be easily won, I can’t say how difficult it is, but in the past few days she has been extremely dedicated and has reviewed the documents several times, and no mistakes should be allowed. This is her own work attitude, and the second is because, this time, she is helping Yan Ruyi.

No matter how much resentment she has towards her in her heart, facing her, even though it's just a cooperative relationship, she needs her, and she still can't help but pay attention to it. , hurts and bleeds when touched, collapses when it hurts, and wants to use the most painful way to let her accompany her to feel uncomfortable, but even so, she still can't deny that she cares about her, even if she says the most ugly words to her , but once she calmed down, she still only wanted her well, and never really thought about the price she would pay.

The phone of Ji Jie sitting in front rang, and Xu Nuo's thoughts immersed in the documents were pulled up. When he heard him pick up the phone, he answered the question of the person on the phone politely and sincerely, Xu Nuo listened to him, and couldn't help looking up. Looking at his neither humble nor overbearing expression, but the moment he looked up, he found that the eyes in the rearview mirror were looking straight at him. Seeing himself looking up and looking forward, he smiled embarrassedly and turned his head to look forward.

Xu Nuo frowned, and Ji Jie's eyes sounded the alarm in his heart. She is not a little girl who is ignorant of the world. Whether she has so many emotions, she can't even count them. She understands what that look means. Although the other party didn't express it in particular, from the time we first met in the small square to now, there is something written in those eyes. The overwhelming admiration was so overwhelming that she couldn't ignore it, and she didn't like the feeling of being paid attention to like this.She coughed lightly, lowered the car window, let the cold air outside the window blow into the car, said nothing, just pretended that she hadn't met those eyes at all, lowered her head again, and continued to read the documents.

Until she received a long-distance call from across the country, the beating name on the phone made her couldn't help but curl up her lips as soon as she saw the screen, she was so happy that even her voice became bright like a spring breeze.

"Hello? Ali?"

"Hello baby Nuonuo, don't you think I haven't?"

As soon as the enchanting voice on the phone reached her ears, Xu Nuo couldn't help but get goosebumps all over her body. She coughed lightly, wanting to laugh, but because there were other people in the car, she had to take it easy. Putting down his expression, he slightly suppressed his voice and reminded him: "Speak well."

"Oh, you despise me." The other party muttered aggrievedly, although he was fluent but lacked a bit of Chinese language and cultural background, it sounded amused, "How long have you been back to China? Have you started to dislike friends who have shared weal and woe?"

"Where do I have it?" Xu Nuo finally couldn't help it, and was amused, and began to communicate with him in French, explaining that the relationship between snatching the same old pen in a second-hand store cannot be described as sharing weal and woe, and then confronted him solemnly. The phone said in a straight voice: "Hey, read it to me, if you don't call, you don't know each other."

"Ha ha ha ha."

The man on the phone couldn't stop laughing after hearing the promise, and finally changed his estrogen-filled state just now, and said seriously: "I'm going back to China, I'll go to Chengdu next week, and I'll send you the flight in a while, Ms. Xu, do you want to invite me?" I eat hot pot."

"Okay. Then I'll hang up and go to work now."

"Is it your boyfriend?"

When Xu Nuo answered the call, Ji Jie, who was driving in front, glanced at Xu Nuo several times in the rearview mirror. Seeing Xu Nuo's face full of smiles since he answered the call, he hesitated several times, and finally asked her.

Xu Nuo raised his eyebrows, but didn't understand what he meant for a while: "Huh?"

"I saw that Miss Xu was very happy when she answered the phone."

Xu Nuo raised his eyebrows and asked back: "Oh?" Then he thought of something, didn't make a rebuttal, just put away the smile on his face, and nodded: "Oh."

Faced with Xu Nuo's non-refutation, Ji Jie naturally thought that it was an admission that the phone call just now came from her boyfriend, and he was a little disappointed to see that Xu Nuo had lowered his face and stopped looking at his face, and continued driving without speaking.

A few minutes later, the car stopped in front of the entrance of the airport. Xu Nuo looked up and saw Ji Jie was taking off his seat belt, thinking he had arrived, and was about to push the door to get out of the car, but found that the place didn't seem right.

"Miss Xu, please sit inside. Director Yan's car broke down on the way, and she wants to go there with us."

After Xu Nuo heard this, she turned her head to look at the isolation zone outside the window, and saw Yan Ruyi walking calmly from behind the green belt on the roadside, the expression on her face became stiff the moment she saw Yan Ruyi He got up, a little uncontrollably, and the corners of his lips pressed down.

Yan Ruyi was wearing a mid-length brown woolen coat, and inside was a decent blue-gray plaid business suit. At the collar of the suit, a white shirt lined her slender neck. Every step she took in black pointed-toed high-heeled shoes Exuding a capable temperament, this is the second time Xu Nuo has seen Yan Ruyi wearing such business attire in a shopping mall. Compared with the last time in the coffee shop, she is obviously dressed more energetically today, but I don't know if it is because she once stood The reason why she has been on the podium is that while she has the smell of a strong woman all over her body, she also has an intellectual beauty that cannot be ignored.That is a temperament that cannot be concealed or played.

Xu Nuo stared blankly at her walking all the way, and couldn't control her eyes to always look at her. She didn't pick up her briefcase and leaned to the other side until a second before Ji Jiela drove the door. , to make room for Yan Ruyi.

As Yan Ruyi approached, Ji Jie reached out to help her take the suitcase in her hand, and said to her while putting away the handle, "Hey, sister Yan, your suitcase is the same style as Miss Xu's."

After Xu Nuo listened, she raised her eyes and glanced outside the car door, and her eyes collided with Yan Ruyi, who was bending over to get into the car, she pursed her lips, and after listening to Yan Ruyi's unhurried reply to Ji Jie, "Yes." , still nodded to her, and greeted her as a party B: "Director Yan."

Yan Ruyi sat down next to her, closed the car door, glanced at Xu Nuo naturally, then turned away, and replied calmly: "Hello, Miss Xu."

The words "Hello Miss Xu" made Xu Nuo feel irreparably awkward. She indifferently withdrew her gaze, turned her head to look out the window, and kept silent as if angry.It seemed that she was naive, she knew it, but she really couldn't do anything, facing Yan Ruyi, she really couldn't keep calm.

When the car drove on the airport expressway, the air pressure in the car became a little strange, and Ji Jie was a little puzzled by the unusual quietness. He looked at Xu Nuo and Yan Ruyi in the rearview mirror, and always felt that something was wrong, but I don't know what's wrong.The two good-looking beauties sitting in the back seat seemed to be inexplicably suppressed from the moment they met, but he remembered that they were just a cooperative relationship.After carefully looking over the faces of the two, he came to a conclusion: Maybe women are born with a mentality of comparison. When two beauties who are not the same in appearance and temperament meet, there will naturally be a kind of competition. The state of being formed in them.

But even though he came to a conclusion, the invisible sense of depression in the car still made Ji Jie feel that saving his life was the most important thing, and he needed to find something to talk to break the deadlock, and Yan Ruyi had been in a bad mood since a few days ago, and he was by his side It is naturally clear, so I can only talk to Xu Nuo.It happened that the chat with Xu Nuo just now hadn't finished yet, so he smiled and asked Xu Nuo:

"Miss Xu, if you are so good, your boyfriend must also be a very good character, right?"

When Xu Nuowu was asked about her boyfriend, she was taken aback for a moment, her first reaction when she recovered was to turn her head to look at Yan Ruyi, seeing that she lowered her head and didn't care about Ji Jie's question at all, her heart suddenly felt a little sour, She smiled, and for some unknown reason, she answered two words straightforwardly: "No."

"No?" Ji Jie raised his eyebrows unexpectedly and glanced at the promise in the rearview mirror.

Xu Nuo smiled and shook her head: "I mean, she's not a boy."

"what?!"

When Ji Jie was amazed, Xu Nuo saw Yan Ruyi raised her lowered head from the corner of her eye. She kept looking forward and sat down with a generous smile, but all of her peripheral vision was her turning her head to look at him.

"I'm gay."

"...This..." Ji Jie was stimulated by this sentence, and immediately became bored.

This sudden coming out of the closet put the atmosphere in the car into an even more awkward situation than before. Xu Nuo waited for a few seconds, turned his head with a smile, and looked out the window. She couldn't describe when she faced this silence. Although in essence, such a reaction did not have any impact on her, she still felt a little sad psychologically, not for anything else but for homosexuality.

"The other half of Miss Xu is so happy."

Yan Ruyi spoke suddenly, which Xu Nuo didn't expect. She turned her head in astonishment, looked at the gentle expression on Yan Ruyi's face, and suddenly wanted to cry, but she still wanted to show an indifferent joke on her face and asked her, "What is Director Yan?" Say that?"

Yan Ruyi looked into Xu Nuo's eyes, she pursed her lips slightly, and then said very seriously: "In this society, it is very rare for Ms. Xu to be able to frankly express her feelings that are not understood by everyone. It is conceivable that your The other half should be very happy."

After hearing what Xu Nuo said, he stared into Yan Ruyi's eyes for a long time, then smiled self-deprecatingly: "Maybe, she should be very happy."

As soon as the words fell, Xu Nuo suddenly wanted to ask Yan Ruyi some questions directly. She sat up straight and turned sideways to face her: "Director Yan, are you happy?"

After hearing her words, Yan Ruyi bent over and smiled silently. Before Xu Nuo could see the sadness in her eyes clearly, she turned her head to look at the aviation building outside the window, tightened her coat, and quietly said two words. Word: "It's here..."

The car stopped outside the exit, Yan Ruyi pushed the door and went down, Xu Nuo followed her out of the car, the convective wind in the driveway blew her thin body, Xu Nuo stared at her back, watching her being blown up by the wind She suddenly felt that the clothes were too thin, the wind was leaking from her chest, and the cold pain stimulated the nerves of her whole body. She didn't know what Yan Ruyi's eyes meant just now, but it was an undeniable fact that her heart ached for her.Although she made a nonchalant look, she couldn't deceive herself, she loved her with pain and hatred.