three feet away

After three days of factory visits and cooperation negotiations, Yan Ruyi successfully signed the contract.

In the huge meeting room of the hotel, Xu Nuo sat beside Yan Ruyi, looking dignifiedly at the time when Yan Ruyi calmly dropped her name on the Chinese-French bilingual contract that she had read before, she was always a little nervous. Her dull heart finally had a sense of relief. As soon as the contract was signed, her work was completed. The state of having to follow Yan Ruyi in the past three days due to work has made her emotionally close to collapse. Only she knows , under that calm, confident and detached face facing everyone, her heart has long been broken.

Ever since she lost control of her emotions to Yan Ruyi at the door of the room that day, she never said a word to Yan Ruyi under unnecessary circumstances.It is undeniable that Yan Ruyi still makes her deeply in love and cannot extricate herself, but Yan Ruyi admits that she has a significant other and that the other half is still very good, which makes it difficult for her to accept anyway. Although, such a development seems to be the most natural .She began to be afraid of communicating with Yan Ruyi, fearing that if she spoke, she would lose control of her emotions and push the two of them into an extremely sad situation again.

hate it?During these sleepless nights in the hotel, she asked herself countless times if she really hated Yan Ruyi and needed her to pay for her painful memories of the past six years with pain and tears.But every time the gloomy look in her eyes came to her mind, she couldn't control her heartache. After all, she still loved her badly. She couldn't completely get rid of Yan Ruyi, who had cruelly abandoned her for so many years and hadn't contacted her for so many years. It seemed that she was connected with her who was full of grievances.This ambivalence between love and hate made her unable to face Yan Ruyi even for a moment. She felt that she had become a schizophrenic patient. She longed to see her, but was afraid of seeing her, afraid that after seeing her, she would Then, for a moment, he hurt her without restraint.

After the contract was signed, Yan Ruyi stood up confidently, smiled calmly and shook hands with the French representatives respectively.

Xu Nuo stood up with her, shook hands with the three foreigners in an appropriate manner, and told the other party in detail the time and place of the dinner that Ji Jie had notified her earlier, but the other party politely rejected the invitation because they wanted to go for a walk in China. To a banquet, he promised to invite again and again to no avail, turned around and told Yan Ruyi the result, Yan Ruyi smiled and nodded to indicate that he understood, and didn't say anything more, just let her accompany the few people to send away.

After the Frenchman left, Xu Nuo returned to the conference room, lowered his eyebrows and tidied up his file bag. Ji Jie came back with Yan Ruyi, humming a little song and walked up to Xu Nuo with a happy expression on his face, asking her, "Miss Xu, can you dance?"

Xu Nuo tidied his briefcase seriously, and replied softly without raising his head: "I will."

"I can do a little too," Ji Jie raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and asked excitedly, "Then can I invite you to be my dance partner? I just came to the company not long ago, and I don't have any colleagues I know well, and Ms. Xu You don't have a dance partner yet, do you?"

Put the last document flatly into the briefcase, zip it up, Xu Nuo looked up at Ji Jie, and smiled politely at him: "Sorry, I have something to do, so I probably won't be able to attend your banquet."

"Ah?" Ji Jie's expression darkened in an instant. He walked around from Xu Nuo's right hand to her left, trying to seduce Xu Nuo with possible prizes and bonuses at the banquet: "This is a year-end reception, and it's also a celebration of signing the French contract. Banquet, I heard that the boss is very generous, and the finance side has prepared a lot of prizes and bonuses, doesn't Miss Xu want to draw a prize together?"

Xu Nuo smiled after hearing this: "Then I can't participate anymore, one more person, one more competitor, isn't it? After all, I am not a member of your company."

"This..." Xu Nuo said the last sentence, and Ji Jie felt that he had said something wrong. He touched the back of his head in embarrassment, not knowing what to say.

Yan Ruyi stood behind the conference table from beginning to end, leaning her body slightly to face Xu Nuo's side face. When Xu Nuo rejected Ji Jie's invitation for the second time, she pursed her lips, took a breath, and hesitated. Open your mouth at once, and say no to Xu Nuo in a gentle, almost professional tone:

"For the company we signed this time, we negotiated many times this year before we got the opportunity to cooperate. The main reason for the banquet today is to celebrate the business agreement. Ms. Xu's translation of the product description and the factory-scale environment, Signing this contract played a role that cannot be underestimated, Miss Xu is supposed to be the protagonist tonight, and it seems inappropriate not to participate."

After Xu Nuo listened, she turned around and looked at Yan Ruyi. She stared at her face for a few seconds, trying to find a trace of tenderness on Yan Ruyi's face that did not belong to the workplace, but ended in failure. She felt funny in her heart. When Yan Ruyi talked to him in such an official tone and tone, he felt a little angry in his heart, which showed that in his subconscious, he still hoped that he was a different existence to Yan Ruyi.In just a few seconds when she and Yan Ruyi looked at each other, she suddenly came to a conclusion that made people feel depressed: maybe Yan Ruyi had three faces, one was gentle and sweet for her family, one was intellectual and charming for her colleagues, and the other Keep one for yourself, don't show it to others...

Perhaps for her, she is an ugly scar in her youth. While that scar records the unbearable past, it also accumulates the years that can never be turned back. The contradiction probably lies in that although it looks uncomfortable, after all, it is her. After all the years I have experienced, no matter how I meet myself again, I have to face the past that was blown away and exposed to the world of two people.Students and teachers, after all, is a deformed love that is cast aside by the world, and the relationship between a female student and a female teacher can be simply summed up by two words, deformity?

"Miss Xu?"

Faced with Xu Nuo's sudden fugue, Yan Ruyi didn't urge her to do anything. Ji Jie watched the scene where the two faced each other, and felt that oppressive feeling like the two sitting in the car on the day they went to the airport reappeared. He didn't know These two women were secretly competing for something, but under the current situation, he could only bite the bullet and follow Yan Ruyi's words in embarrassment and said to Xu Nuo: "Miss Xu, go, how can the protagonist be absent?"

Xu Nuo raised his eyebrows, turned his head and curled his lips into a polite smile: "Okay, I'll go back to my room first, and I'll come over at night."

After finishing speaking, she picked up the briefcase, turned to face Yan Ruyi, and said to Yan Ruyi in a calm tone with no expression on her face: "Thank you, Supervisor Yan. If there is anything else, I'll go first."

Yan Ruyi didn't speak, but frowned slightly and glanced at her, then turned sideways to express her agreement.

Returning to the room from the conference room, Xu Nuo rushed to the balcony before she even had time to put down the briefcase in her hand, and pulled the curtains. The room was plunged into darkness in an instant, and then she fell powerlessly on the thick chair. On the carpet, when her body fell, the corners of her eyes hit the tea table beside her. She heard a bang and felt that she might be injured, but she couldn't feel any pain from the place where she touched it. Numb as if she had lost consciousness, the corners of her eyes were injured, tears found a reasonable excuse, and flew up unscrupulously, she sat on the carpet, looked up motionlessly at the faint light of the chandelier above her head, grinned, revealing A smile that she didn't know how ugly and awkward she was.

The banquet started on time at six o'clock, Xu Nuo, as a partner, was arranged to sit next to Yan Ruyi, and at the same table, there were also the big leaders and managers of Yan Ruyi's company.

In the entire meeting place, she knew only Yan Ruyi and her assistant Ji Jie who was sitting at the distant wine table.

From time to time, some employees came forward to toast the leader, promising to sit next to Yan Ruyi, watching her drink red wine and white wine in one mouthful, feeling a little bit impatient, Yan Ruyi was different from her, she got During the itinerary, I never thought about participating in this banquet, so I didn't prepare clothes suitable for such an occasion. As the person in charge of this project, Yan Ruyi was regarded as one of the protagonists, so she naturally decorated it meticulously.

The person in Xu Nuo's memory was a young girl with a youthful spirit who was wearing a clean and fresh waist-pinch shirt, slim-fit jeans and comfortable casual shoes, and a big girl who got drunk after a can of beer, and the one sitting next to her now was a girl with high curly hair Wearing delicate evening makeup and wearing a long skirt and high heels, she is a big woman who is full of charm.This kind of Yan Ruyi made her feel strange, but at the same time, she couldn't help but be attracted by the aura emanating from her body. She was still the Yan Ruyi who could easily attract Xu Nuo's all eyes no matter how she dressed outside.

After countless rounds of toasting sessions, Yan Ruyi's leader, who was at the same table, came on stage and was about to start the lucky draw. Sitting here, it seems a little out of place.She moved her position unnaturally, wanting to take advantage of this lively time to leave early.

The left hand that was placed on the lap under the tablecloth was suddenly gently covered by a gentle hand. Xu Nuo suddenly turned around and saw Yan Ruyi's gentle side face. Under the bright lights, it looks like ripe apples waiting to be picked, making people salivate.

The fingers on the legs tightened. Although he was greedy, he still recognized the fact and did not let himself indulge in such inexplicable warmth and ambiguity. Xu Nuo let out a breath, smiled and said to Yan Ruyi's side face: " Is Director Yan drunk?"

Yan Ruyi turned her head when she heard the sound. She was probably a little drunk. Her eyes were no longer as clear and capable as they were during the day. When she stared at Xu Nuo, there was a gentle and affectionate light in her eyes. There was an illusion of time returning to the beginning, Yan Ruyi's affectionate look reminded her of her charming look when she always raised her hand to touch the top of her head, that feeling was so pure and beautiful.

"You've changed a lot, Xu Nuo, you've grown up, you've become sensible and elegant, and the way you look at people is like a different person." Yan Ruyi's fingers curved with Xu Nuo's fingertips, she seemed He didn't intend to move his hand away, but just looked at Xu Nuo's face for a moment: "Since seeing you again, I have always felt very relieved, because you have become as good as I imagined."

Glad?

The blow of these two words made Xu Nuo wake up from the warmth on the back of his hand in an instant, and Yan Ruyi reminded her indiscriminately that she was her student, and the teacher was gratified by the student's success, what a touching picture!

Withdrawing his hand from Yan Ru's hand, Xu Nuo blinked, and took a second to put away the fascinated expression on his face a second ago because of the temperature of the palm, and smiled politely towards Yan Ru. polite:

"At the beginning, I asked you to bother you, Teacher Yan."

Facing Xu Nuo's stab at herself again suddenly, Yan Ru's eyes slipped a gloomy look, she withdrew her hand, turned her head to glance at the lively stage, was silent for two seconds, said nothing, reached out and picked up the cup in front of her. The wine glass was brought to her lips, she raised her head slightly, and swallowed all the wine in it, which was neither too much nor too little. The strong wine cut her throat, and she coughed a little. After coughing twice with the back of her hand against her lips, the corners of her eyes floated A blush.

Another person came forward to toast, Xu Nuo watched her get up and toast, his eyes lingered in the corners of her eyes for a moment, and finally couldn't sit any longer, got up and left.

The banquet ended at about eleven o'clock, because Xu Nuo heard the sound of people walking and talking outside the corridor.

When Yan Ruyi was drunk and murmured in a low voice like a baby, and a man's gentle and masculine voice coaxing her reached her ears together, Xu Nuo's body leaning against the door trembled slightly.

Two hours ago, she left the banquet early and returned to her room. After taking a shower, she was sitting in front of the floor-to-ceiling window watching the night scene outside the hotel, and accidentally saw Yan Ruyi's figure.

The banquet was not over yet, she was still wearing that long skirt and a long black down jacket, the street lights were blurry and the fog was heavy, even so, Xu Nuo easily recognized her.

She watched her stepping on her high heels in a trotting posture towards a small car whose headlights hadn't been completely extinguished, and then, after the man in the driver's seat came out, she ran towards him with faster steps, hugging full of.

The night is beautiful, but the couple in the distance are even more beautiful.

Seeing such a scene, Xu Nuo pursed her lips and couldn't help laughing. After the man hugged Yan Ruyi into the lobby for a long time, she still stood there silently staring at the car and laughing, but she didn't know what she was laughing at. I just feel that there should be an expression to prove that my heart is still beating.

Later, she held her breath with her ears pricked up and waited for nearly an hour and a half before she heard movement in the corridor outside the door. She quickly got out of bed and ran to the door barefoot, snuggling behind the door like a perverted voyeur. , heard Yan Ruyi's drunken humming sound while waiting for the man to swipe the card to open the door, and finally, heard the sound of his heart breaking completely.Later, like a puppet being manipulated, she had no heartbeat of her own and no mood. She returned to the bed trembling and expressionless, turned off all the lights, and put herself into the cold blanket without leaking a single gap.