Aftermath of breakup

Nine years later.

In Yancheng in May, the sky is a distant blue, and the wind blowing on the face carries the warmth of the end of spring. It seems to be a calm and unwavering season.

It was very different from the time in memory.

After landing and taxiing, the plane came to a steady stop. The flight of more than ten hours finally came to an end. The cabin door opened, and the passengers stepped out of the cabin one after another.

The flight attendants smiled politely and bid farewell to the passengers who met each other one by one until the last one stepped out of the cabin. This person had exquisite facial features, an unattainable beauty, but his temperament was cold, and his eyebrows were alienated , and the combination of the two collides with a very eye-catching aura.

The flight attendant's eyes brightened, and they ended the long-distance flight in a very happy mood.

Pei Yi walked down the gangway, looked up at the sky, his eyes were as clear as ever, but when he looked at the airport in front of him, there was something strange in his eyes.

As soon as the shuttle bus arrived, Pei Yi got on the bus and looked through the glass window at the sky that he hadn't seen for many years, as if looking for a trace of familiarity.

Then he took off his luggage and followed the crowd to go out. As soon as he arrived at the airport pick-up gate, he saw a girl with a high ponytail holding up a sign. As soon as she saw him, her eyes must have been looking around, and she immediately waved to him excitedly.

Pei Yi nodded politely and walked towards the other party.

The girl walked over with a smile, and as soon as she approached, she handed him the bouquet of lilies in her hand, and at the same time wanted to take the luggage from Pei Yi's hand.

Pei Yi quickly refused: "I'll do it myself."

"You're welcome." The girl said so, but she didn't force it, and then said, "Hi, I'm Xu Mingru, do you remember me?"

"Yeah." Pei Yi nodded, "Pei Yi."

"Hahaha, I know, I've known you for a long time." Xu Mingru glanced at him, then smiled and said, "You look even better than the photo ProfLv gave you."

As soon as you step out of the crowd, you can see it at a glance.

"Thank you." Pei Yi didn't respond. He just looked around and changed the subject, "The newly built airport is very big."

Xu Mingru looked around, and suddenly remembered the topic that her tutor and Professor Lu had talked about, and asked naturally, "I heard you are from Yancheng?"

Pei Yi was taken aback.

"No." Pei Yi's eyes drifted a little, as if caught in some kind of memory, "It's just that I stayed here for a while before."

"Oh, so." Xu Mingru nodded, "Then it seems that the airport wasn't open when you left, so you've been away for a long time?"

Pei Yi looked at the crowds of people in the airport hall, as if he was also remembering how long he had been walking: "Well... it's been a long time."

But this time before he could think more, Pei Yitong's eyes froze suddenly, and he suddenly looked at the tall figure flashing by the escalator in the distance, and his heartbeat seemed to stop for a short time.

Before he could react, Pei Yi had already thrown his luggage and ran over involuntarily.

But when he got closer, he couldn't see anything. Pei Yi searched around, his usual cold eyes were stained with eagerness. The high dome of the airport was the cover, and the people coming and going were the walls, like a natural maze. It makes people never see a familiar figure of an old friend again.

"Dr. Pei!" Xu Mingru and Pei Yi are not familiar with each other. They only have a little friendship through emails. The other party seems indifferent. She can't call him by his name. Now she is a little surprised when she sees this, dragging his luggage Box rushed over and asked, "What's the matter? What's the rush?"

Pei Yi suddenly came back to his senses, he stood there and blinked, suddenly feeling a little dazed and empty in his heart, after a while he lowered his eyelashes, covering his eyes to laugh at himself, as if he was laughing at his wishful thinking and unrealistic.

After so many years, everything must have been cleared, and it was time to start again.

Pei Yi restrained himself, he shook his head and didn't explain much: "No, I read it wrong."

He took his luggage and the flowers from the other party again: "Let's go."

-

Meanwhile, the airport's underground car park.

The back seat of a Bentley was opened, and before the people outside got into the car, a long sigh and complaint came from inside the car: "President Duan, you can keep me waiting, you are so domineering."

As soon as he finished speaking, a little curly hair appeared from the back seat and looked at the person with a smile.

Duan Xing paused when he got into the car, and stood up straight beside the back seat, with one hand in his suit trouser pocket. The slim suit made his figure more slender and taller, and he faded away from the frailty of a boy, and now he has the appearance of an adult. Skeletal, and his eyebrows are more profound and handsome.

Standing there and taking a look, there is a strong aura that makes people want to get close but dare not get close.

"You can go back by yourself first." Duan Xinglian looked at the other party, then at the tablet that was still playing the singing and dancing stage in his hand, and smiled casually, "And you don't look boring either."

Shao Yu moved in to make room for him, and said with a smile, "We live so close together, I'm not stupid if we don't have a car."

This time, Shao Yu came back from a concert in other provinces. He happened to know that Duan Xinglian was on his way back from a business trip, and the flight time was about the same, so he took Duan Xinglian's car. Who knew that Duan Xinglian's flight was half an hour late.

And what Shao Yu said was no longer near Luhu Lake. Duan Xinglian hadn't lived in Luhu Lake since he lived in the dormitory in high school.

The university and the first year of research also lived in the dormitory. After the second year of research, I became busy with the company, so I bought a house outside.

Shao Yu held a worried heart. Of course, he had never left home, and he was tired of staying at home, so he bought in the same community as Duan Xinglian.

At this moment, Duan Xinglian sat on it, and after the driver was seated firmly, he suddenly said, "You're smart, you can finish the final paper by yourself."

When Shao Yu heard this, he was immediately speechless, pursed his lips and did not speak, and only looked at him with some resentment.

At the beginning, his three volumes, Wang Faxiao, were either continuous undergraduate and master studies or direct graduate studies, and all of them graduated with a master's degree last year. He was the only one who had cast a huge shadow on him during his senior year of high school. After graduating from university, he really didn't want to If you continue to study, you will not go to higher education.

Unexpectedly, his major was not very easy to find a job. After being stubborn for a while, he went to his company for a while.

But it's still because of his professional problem. The major of Chinese pharmacy and company management are really nonsense, let's not mention other nonsense things.

In short, after going around and going around, Shao Yu finally realized a truth, work is not done by humans, and reading is the ladder of human progress.

So I picked up the books again, bought Xiaosi Xiaoba, worked hard for a full year, crossed majors and took the postgraduate entrance examination, and now I am about to rush from the reluctantly happy second year to the struggling third year.

Every thesis season, I have to ask this group of humanoid learning machine friends for advice.

Shao Yu stopped talking about this, thinking that this person was becoming more and more ruthless.

But he didn't care about him, so he changed the subject directly: "How is your business trip this time? Is Rongcheng fun?"

Duan Xinglian's eyes froze when he heard this, Shao Yu also reacted quickly, almond eyes secretly turned to look at his face.

After a while, I heard Duan Xinglian say: "Going to work, what's there to play."

The Duan Group has Senrong Chemical Co., Ltd. in Rongcheng, but it also has a similar subsidiary in Yancheng, which mainly produces polymer synthetic materials. It is difficult to manage the two sides. integration and reorganization.

Shao Yu didn't know much about them, and he didn't want to ask. He just remembered which hot pot was delicious from his classmates, so he asked, "Are you free tomorrow night? Let's go eat hot pot! You are all very busy now, We haven't been together for a long time."

Lin Siwei was admitted to a ministry after graduation, while Fang Ai entered a well-known law firm in Yancheng. The two have been busy for many years, but they have achieved their youthful goals. It's "I don't want to do it anymore, this is a bad job, I must have lost my mind when I did this."

But Duan Xinglian was not much better. He joined his own group directly after graduation. Although he was very capable, he was still young and had to do many things by himself.

At this moment, he squeezed the space between his eyebrows, thinking about tomorrow's schedule, shook his head and said, "No, there will be a cooperation meeting tomorrow."

"What's going on?" Shao Yu seemed to understand, seeing that Duan Xinglian looked tired, he said, "Can't people from the Commerce Department and the Project Department take the lead?"

"No, this cooperation is very important." Duan Xinglian didn't shy away from saying this to Shao Yu, "It's a joint cooperation with our school and the Chemical Research Institute, so it's not good to ask Qiao to be big."

Shao Yu usually doesn't deal with these high-level talents, but the top units of the P University and the Chemical Research Institute are too famous, and now he only pats Duan Xinglian on the shoulder after hearing this: "Mr. Awesome, this level of cooperation can also be won, are you Party A and Party B?"

"Party A."

After Duan Xinglian finished answering, he didn't say any more, he just watched the white car in front merge into the ramp, and the car he was in was going straight forward. He closed his eyes and prepared to rest his mind. He always couldn't fall asleep in Rongcheng. This is the case all the time.

But after a while, Duan Xinglian's phone vibrated suddenly, and he received a message from his mother, Feng Li.

【Xiao Xing, are you back from a business trip today?Mom made soup and brought it to you. 】

In fact, the relationship between Feng Li and Duan Xinglian has eased a lot in recent years. It has almost returned to the way it was before the accident, and it has become more polite. In addition, Feng Li has probably accepted the fact that she can't control Duan Xinglian and no longer dares to control Duan Xinglian. Occasionally, I want to repair the relationship between mother and child.

It's just that Duan Xinglian no longer wants to accept it. The company he longed for when he was young, now he doesn't seem to need it anymore, and sometimes he even finds it annoying.

Especially when the mood fluctuates like this.

Duan Xinglian felt irritable for some reason today, probably because he caught a glimpse of a similar figure at the airport today.

He has often been like this in the past few years. He occasionally saw a person on the street and hurried forward, but found that his appearance was very different.

After being disappointed countless times, until now, he almost never stepped forward regardless, and seemed to accept the fact that the other party would not come back.

Duan Xinglian took a deep breath and replied with a frown.

【not coming back. 】

He didn't want to bump into him, so he said to the driver, "I'm not going home, I'm going to the hotel."

-

Here, Xu Mingru's car slowed down after entering the ramp. At the same time, she saw that the road was in good condition, so she said, "Do you want to have dinner together tonight? ProfLv and my boss seem to be going to eat roast duck together tonight."

Xu Mingru graduated with a Ph.D. this year, and her boss is her doctoral supervisor. Director Liu, a senior researcher at the Institute of Chemistry, is an industry leader in academics, and Xu Mingru has basically decided to go to the post-doctoral mobile station of the Institute of Chemistry, and continue to work with her doctoral supervisor. topic.

The ProfLv she mentioned is Pei Yi's doctoral supervisor. He is a British Chinese, surnamed Lu, and a well-known expert in chemical engineering. Later, he followed Professor Lu during his master's and doctoral periods, and he is about to graduate with a Ph.D. this year.

And this trip back to China was also arranged by Professor Lu. He wanted to come back and exchange ideas about conjugated molecular materials with the bigwigs in China. In addition, Professor Lu and Director Liu have a very close personal relationship, and they even exchanged emails with Pei Yi and Xu Mingru before. Passed several courses.

It just so happened that Pei Yi was Chinese, so Professor Lu named him and brought him along.

It's just that yesterday coincided with Pei Xueyuan's reexamination. After Pei Xueyuan and Pei Yi went abroad, Pei Xueyuan's company solved their housing and medical problems so that they would not be in a mess.

But Pei Yi was still very busy during that time, Pei Xueyuan's illness and his application for school kept haunting him, and besides being alone in a foreign country, many things were always inconvenient, even Pei Yi was a little bit burnt out during that time.

But later he was surprised to find that such busyness made him forget a lot of things. He didn't have so much time to think about happy, unhappy, sad and painful things.

So since then, he has kept himself busy intentionally or unintentionally, doing experiments, publishing papers, opening projects, etc. in his studies. Perhaps this is how he published a few top journals during his undergraduate period, and then let Professor Lu Noticed him early.

And he doesn't want to be idle in life, he will do his best to help Pei Xueyuan run back and forth, and sometimes Pei Xueyuan will say sadly "drag him" when he sees him.

Pei Xueyuan spread it again after the operation. Fortunately, Pei Yi was always nervous and took Pei Xueyuan for reexamination from time to time, so the discovery was very timely and did not cause irreversible effects. After about five or six years, Pei Xueyuan's condition finally recovered. It has completely stabilized, but Pei Yi still takes Pei Xueyuan for regular checkups every six months.

Fortunately, Professor Lu knew something about his family's situation and didn't care. He brought a doctoral student here first, and Pei Yi only came today.

Unexpectedly, Director Liu probably found out about this matter, and wanted to show his kindness as a landlord and let Xu Mingru come to pick him up.

"No need." Pei Yi said, "It's good for them to go. I've already told Professor Lu that I'm here."

After so many years, Pei Yi has changed a bit, but it doesn't seem to have changed. He still doesn't like excitement and is still a bit picky.

Fortunately, Xu Mingru was not reluctant, and after sending him to the hotel where Professor Lu was temporarily staying, he drove away.

Another doctoral student who came with Professor Lu had asked him about his arrival early on. As soon as Pei Yi entered the hotel gate, his partner immediately ran over with a bright smile.

Speaking Chinese with a British accent, he shouted enthusiastically in the lobby: "Pei! I miss you so much!"

The other party's English name is Pasha. In order to do as the Romans do, he deliberately chose a Chinese name of Xia Pa. He also asked Pei Yi what the name was like, and Pei Yi closed his eyes and said it sounded good.

It has been used so far for convenience.

Xiapa has blond hair and blue eyes. He is tall and pays attention to appearance. His appearance is in good condition, but he is a bit fickle. He can flirt with any cat in J Dali.

The rest are those who dare not flirt like Professor Lu, good-looking but indifferent Pei Yi is also among them, there is no way, he still counts on Pei Yi to lead him in many experiments.

But this person's nature is not bad, and he has no intention of commenting on other people's lifestyles, so Pei Yi doesn't think so.

At this moment, Pei Yi took a look at him, and tactfully withdrew the hand that wanted to hug him, and pulled the suitcase for Pei Yi instead.

The two walked towards the elevator together, Xia Pa was very excited for some reason today, and excitedly shared with Pei Yi: "I just saw an angel!"

"Cute, special!" Xiapa's Chinese is not very good, and he can't express it well when he is excited. "My heart is moving. It feels like love. It's so good China."

His heart beats [-] times a day, Pei Yi is not surprised, but this time Xia Pa looked very excited. After they stood still at the elevator entrance, Xia Pa kept describing how much the other party sniped his heart, and finally got excited, He even boldly put Pei Yi on the shoulder.

But when he thought of something, he sighed and said with some disappointment: "He seems to have a boyfriend, so fierce, it looks like."

Pei Yi didn't pay attention to whether it was fierce or not. He raised his hand, trying to move Xia Pa's hand away, but the moment he just made contact, the elevator door suddenly opened.

Without waiting for him to move, Xia Pa stood up straight, looked into the elevator door, and said in surprise, "Ah! Angel's boyfriend!"

Hearing this, Pei Yi turned her head, but at the next moment, she froze on the spot.

Pei Yi met the eyes of the people inside the elevator door, and at that moment he could hardly hear the sounds around him.

He had dreamed of the reunion countless times, and in the past many years, he also thought that he had already prepared for it, fierce, calm, meeting each other...or never seeing each other again, Pei Yi felt that he could probably accept it. After all, this was the cause he had planted, and he should bear any kind of fruit.

But he never thought that when he saw Duan Xinglian for the first time, he seemed to have returned to the day when they broke up many years ago. His heart was lifted high, and the words stuck in his throat. He opened his mouth and couldn't say anything. .

Because of the long period of silence, the elevator door slowly closed, Pei Yi watched helplessly, but his body seemed to be frozen in place, unable to move.

The next moment, the elevator door opened again, Duan Xinglian looked at him with a good look, and walked out from the door.

Every step I take is like walking through those fragmented fleeting years, stepping on sugar residue and glass shards, and walking closer to each other.

Pei Yi lowered his eyes almost in a panic, he saw Duan Xinglian's pace, as if he was going to pass him straight, Pei Yi clenched his fingertips, and his eyes were dry.

But the next moment, he saw the opponent's footsteps stop beside him.

"You don't know me anymore?" Duan Xinglian's voice became hoarse, and he dared not look past the other person, but recalling the scene he saw just now, he continued dryly, "How many years has it been?"

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