14 years time difference

Originally, everything was dull, cold, and meticulous.

At 8:45 in the morning, Lin Zhique walked through the crowded office lobby.

She had a glass of iced latte bought at a nearby convenience store in her hand. When she was checking out, the clerk asked her like yesterday, is there a membership?No.do one?no. 12 yuan, next person.

The corporate SNS on the mobile phone popped up a message from the boss Yao Xu: "Zhi Que, at 9:15, please go to the content center for the demand meeting for me."

The elevator in the morning rush hour was overcrowded, and she nimbly squeezed into the last gap in the narrow square space.The person standing next to the button poked the door close button a few times, but the elevator door did not respond.Lin Zhique turned her head and saw that the beer belly of the man next to her almost protruded from the boundary, she pondered for a few seconds, and then said, sir, please take it easy.When the elevator door closed, it rubbed against the buttons of her coat. Whenever this happened, she would have a strange imagination, like meat stuffed in a cooking machine, and the lid was turned on. After stirring all kinds of meat and eight vegetables, she was centrifuged to various floors.

At 8:48, on the 21st floor, the elevator door opened, and she was thrown out of the cooking machine. There was a dynamic logo with lights in the center of the front lobby, a whale swimming across a planet like a star ring, and five lights under the logo. Lighted characters: "Whale Star Music".

Below that, there is another line of small words: "Return to your frequency planet".

Here is the headquarters of the national music software "Whale Star Music".

The 21st floor is the product center where Lin Zhique works.

She has been employed for four and a half years and is currently a product manager in the product center planning department.

At 9 o'clock in the morning, she drank a whole glass of iced latte on an empty stomach.

Susu, a male colleague next door to her, said in an exaggerated tone: "Mae! Why don't you drink Americano? Ice latte soooooooofat! Just like me, a glass of iced Americano can refresh and reduce swelling. You need it very much."

Lin Zhique overheard his words, "What's the matter with the request meeting temporarily proposed?" She glanced at the calendar on the desktop, March 3th, "Didn't the monthly meeting just start on Monday?"

Susu shrugged exaggeratedly: "Idon't know! They always think that what comes out is what comes out, what's so strange?" He took a sip of coffee, "But I heard that the boss of the content center will attend the meeting in person today, and there may be a big fight Yo."

"The boss of the content center? Li Miaomiao?"

Susu nodded, "Yes, the content calls her President Sanshui. I heard that she has been here since the period of 'Loving Love'. She is a veteran."

"Love period?" Lin Zhique reacted, "Oh." When she joined the company to participate in corporate culture training, she hid her mobile phone behind her notebook and played for three hours.

The Whale Star music app was incubated by a well-known domestic entertainment company that loves culture.Until the early 10s when mobile phones became intelligent, the “Aiaimusic.com” under Aihuahua was the largest music download platform in China, covering digital music services such as mp3 and mobile ring tones. In 2011, the Whale Star team left and separated from Love Culture. In 2014, Iaimusic.com officially announced its closure, and Iaihuahua switched to specializing in artist brokerage.

In Lin Zhique's memory, probably from that year on, the era when people could download a large number of songs for free through Baidu search gradually came to an end.It was also in that year that Lin Zhique, who had just graduated from university, joined Whale Star. In four and a half years, she was promoted twice, and the colleagues next to her were replaced by six people. The Internet industry has frequent personnel changes. Either change jobs, there is no option to be content with the status quo.

Susu was eating a delicately packaged meringue croissant—using a fork, "By the way, why hasn't your promotion order been released yet? HR asked me to do an interview before the Spring Festival, but I— —”

"You gave me a perfect score. Thank you, Sue. I have thanked you at least eight times."

"Then congratulations in advance, seniorPM, Miss Bird."

"Thank you, Miss Su, I'm going to a meeting, your mouth is a bit oily, remember to wipe it off."

At 9:08, she finished her routine morning greetings with her colleagues, picked up her laptop, and took the elevator upstairs.

The 22nd floor, which is separated from the product center, is the two core content centers of Whale Star.

Most of the seats in the large conference room on the floor were filled with familiar faces. When Lin Zhique came in, he would look up and say hello.The main seat is Li Miaomiao, the executive director of the content center. I heard that she is nearly forty years old. Leaving aside her appearance and maintenance, her big eyes are shining, and she is not tired. The fine lines that cannot be concealed still look high-spirited.Seeing her coming in, Li Miaomiao looked at her with a smile. She introduced herself: "President Sanshui, I am Lin Zhique from the product planning department, in charge of the C-end."

"I remember you."

On the projection screen behind Li Miaomiao, a few large characters on the PPT homepage were played: "Love Star Idol".

At 9:15, the staff arrived and the meeting began.

Li Miaomiao made a few opening remarks briefly, and then went straight to the topic: "I believe everyone has watched "Love Female Voices" and "Love Male Voices" on TV before, right? From 2005 to 2011, there were a total of 6 competitions. Hundreds of outstanding newcomers, some of these people are still the backbone of the Chinese music scene."

The PPT played a few pictures of the game that year, and then a single-player poster that looked a bit old in quality.

The young woman on the poster has a pair of soft phoenix eyes and a delicate and handsome face.

Li Miaomiao smiled and looked back at the screen.She introduced: "The 2005 overall champion, Chen Jia, is a legend in the music world."

In 2005, 13-year-old Lin Zhique was Chen Jia's "fan".The competition was on summer vacation, and SMS voting was adopted at that time. She called her classmates one by one at home and asked them to vote for Chen Jia with their parents' mobile phones. Give someone a sticker with "Yi Ren Wei Jia" printed on it. "Yiren" is the name of Chen Jia's fans.

Her aunt Du Siren was No.5 in that class.

"Yu Zhou, Chen Yiran, Dialect...are all young singers who have been familiar to the public these years," Li Miaomiao nodded, "The copyright department should deal with them often."

Flipping through a few PPT pages, familiar faces flashed one by one. The most popular TV show ten years ago, from the current point of view, has become tacky and old-fashioned, and only the young faces are still shining.

"We will cooperate with love culture and video platforms to restart the love series audition, but it will be a more popular and innovative reality show model for cultivating idols-love star idol." Several keywords appeared on the projection screen, such as " Fully enclosed training", "24-hour webcast", "Ultra-high voltage idol development"...

In the following 40-minute meeting, the project manager from the content center introduced all the details and requirements of the entire plan in detail. They plan to launch a new section dedicated to the program on the Whale Star Music app, covering the contestants' personal radio stations and fan interaction benefits. , Ranking voting channel and so on.

Li Miaomiao only made a brief opening statement, and her presence was more like a morale booster. In the follow-up meeting, Lin Zhique caught a glimpse of her playing with her chair in the shadow of the projected beam, as if there was something For the beat, turn 3 times to the left hand side, 2 times to the right hand side, and then 3 times to the left hand side...

Only when the speaker occasionally looked at her asking for instructions, did she straighten up and put on a dignified look.

At 10:00, the meeting ends.Lin Zhique was stopped by a colleague from the marketing department at the door of the conference room, who asked her "is it possible to launch a new function for the event that the partner wants to do within 8 hours".

She smiled and replied, sorry, this is beyond my control, you can ask my leader, Yao Xu.

While speaking, she caught a glimpse from the corner of her eye in the conference room where the crowd had dispersed. Li Miaomiao was flipping through the PPT alone, and the projection screen showed Chen Jia's page again.

At 10:08, she poured a glass of water, returned to her seat, turned on the computer, and a new approval reply popped up in the enterprise management system.

It was her application for a promotion.

The main idea of ​​the reply is: the immediate supervisor vetoed it with one vote, and it was not approved.

She stood up with a bang.No one paid attention to her, and Susu next to her was arguing with her colleagues in the operation department.

She walked into Yao Xu's office quickly.

Yao Xu had just arrived at the company and was arranging the coat he had taken off.He was meticulous in his attire and haircut, in great shape, apparently exercising, and clean-shaven.Last week, he just celebrated his 30th birthday.

Lin Zhique took a deep breath and looked directly at Yao Xu's gaze. "I saw the approval reply."

"Yeah." Yao Xu nodded, "Is this morning's meeting over? Thanks for your hard work. I made an appointment with the car dealer this morning, so I don't have time to attend."

Lin Zhique raised his chin.Yao Xu sat calmly.

"Excuse me, why didn't you approve my promotion application?"

"Ah..." He turned a pen on the table, "I think you still have room to learn. Besides, you know, we are short of people, and the vacancy you applied for is at the B side..."

"Really? Just because of this?" Lin Zhique took a deep breath again, "If what happened last week, did I offend you..."

"No." Yao Xu quickly interrupted her, "I drank too much. I should apologize to you. You don't have to take what I said to heart, I drank too much, it's nonsense."

Lin Zhique stared at Yao Xu with a nonchalant expression.

"Why do you think I won't approve your promotion because of that incident? Do you think I'm a public avenger?"

"Aren't you? I don't know." She loosened the back molars she was biting, "I'm going to take annual leave."

Yao Xu nodded, "Well, if the project allows, I support you to relax for a day or two."

"I still have 20 days of annual leave. I'm going to take it all at once. It starts tomorrow."

"20 days? You also listened to the meeting this morning..."

Lin Zhique interrupted him, "You can either approve my annual leave or approve my resignation. You will receive my annual leave application first in 3 minutes."

She turned around and left Yao Xu's office. For the next 10 hours, she completed a full day's work as usual.

At 8:[-] p.m., the system popped up a message that her leave application process had been approved. She packed her things, left the handover documents, and left the office.

She drove a car, which she had saved to buy in the past few years.She's local and has no housing stress,

On the way home, she will pass 12 red lights. There is a section of the road that is always blocked, and another section of the road has been repaired from the year before last to this year. She circled the parking lot of the community 3 times, and a Toyota drove away. a parking space.

8:45 pm.

"I'm back," she said weakly, taking off her high heels.

The house was brightly lit, and she sighed silently.

"Mr. Du, you're here."

Her father, Du Shen, was sitting on the sofa.

The living room is not too big, but there is an exaggerated palace-style chandelier and a set of ugly fake European-style sofas.

It's all thanks to the man in front of her who pretends to be tasteful.

Du Shen wanted to hold her hand, but she dodged it, so he simply skipped the scene of fatherly love and daughterly filial piety.

"Two things. Mr. Wang of Hongfa Real Estate, had dinner with me a few days ago, and said that his son just came back from Europe, and he introduced you to be friends."

"What about the second one?"

"Let's talk about the first thing first. I have an appointment with Mr. Wang. A few developers have dinner together the day after tomorrow. You happen to be together. In Xichun Tower, you liked their desserts very much when you were young."

"...I don't like it, because I haven't eaten it at that time."

Lin Zhique didn't eat dinner, he was overly hungry, and suddenly his stomach convulsed.She remembered the dessert that Du Shen mentioned. It was a Cantonese restaurant. At the end of the meal, several beets were served. One of them was a small round cake made of glutinous rice, covered with thick crushed peanut candies and sesame candies. broken.It was the first time for her to go to that restaurant, and with Du Shen's family, there were some adults she didn't know at the dinner.She didn't eat a few mouthfuls of food the whole time, she ate a piece, thought it was delicious, and kept picking it up several times, her mouth was covered with black sesame seeds, Du Zhian sat next to her, and laughed at her contemptuously.

Du Shen lowered his head, looking at the news on his phone while talking to her. "Anyway, you should spare time the day after tomorrow. It's best not to go to work. At 6 o'clock in the evening, I will ask Lao Zhang to pick you up by car."

"...What about the second thing?"

"Second thing, I plan to sell your grandfather's old house in Jincheng. But I don't have time, so you go there for me."

"Why didn't Du Zhian go?"

"She...your sister is preparing the wedding banquet. I also persuaded her not to do it herself, but she didn't listen. "

"I don't have time either. I have to go to work."

"It doesn't matter if you don't go to that class, you might as well quit your job. You won't even have time to fall in love when you come home so late every day."

"You mean, marriage is important, but work is not?"

Du Shen raised his eyes and stared at her sharply, "Yes."

His cell phone rang.

"Hello? Well, I'm coming down now." He got up. "I'm leaving. I still have something to do in the evening. You can contact my secretary Xiaoan to book the air ticket for you, or you can book it yourself and I will reimburse you."

After speaking, when he turned around, he hesitated again, as if remembering that there was still some drama to be performed, "Dad is gone, give me a hug." He stretched out his arm.Lin Zhique leaned over expressionlessly, touched his shoulder with his head, then immediately let go and backed away.

he's gone.

Her mother Lin Lan came out of the bedroom.

Lin Zhique looked at her mother, and then at the huge palace chandelier on the ceiling of the living room, the light was dazzling.

Lin Lan said apologetically, "I thought, there's nothing wrong with getting to know more people of the same age..."

Lin Zhique interrupted: "Mom, I'm hungry, what do you eat at home? What did you have for dinner?"

Her mother hurriedly agreed: "I haven't eaten yet, the rice is ready, I'll go and fry the vegetables."

She turned off the few lights in the living room, leaving only one light enough, and lay down on the sofa.

Starting tomorrow, counting the weekend, she can take a whole month off.She didn't know where her confidence came from, whether it came from her hard work and excellence, or from the huge palace-style ceiling lamp in her living room.

She opened the Whale Star music app, and the animation on the screen showed that the whale was cruising across the surface of the planet, and the tip of its tail drew a line of small words between the water-like stars:

Return to your frequency planet.

The frequency of whale vocalization is 15 to 25 Hz, which is beyond the frequency range that humans can hear, so humans cannot hear whales.In the 52th century, people discovered a whale Alice with a frequency as high as [-] Hz. Even her companions could not hear her. She could only wander in the ocean alone, swimming from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean.

Lin Zhique closed his eyes, imagining Alice moving forward day after day in the ocean current.