Strangers Ten Years Later

During the year-end performance appraisal, Lin Jin pocketed a large amount of bonuses and deposited them into the card used to repay the mortgage. Lin Jin felt relaxed. Anyway, he didn't have to worry about the mortgage this year.

Lin Jin is completely different from Ye Ziyuan. He has no contacts, family, or property in Beijing. He has nothing to rely on. Even buying a house is a down payment with the money he saved bit by bit. He was overwhelmed, but definitely uncomfortable.

I bought that house and never lived in it. Instead, Lin Jin rented a small apartment not too far from the company.

At first I wanted to buy it, just because I hoped for a place where Ye Ziyuan could not find it.

In the afternoon, Lin Jin was going to meet the last client of the year. Although his subordinates would not work overtime during the Spring Festival holiday, he was alone and had nothing to do at ordinary times. Helping the company create some value would be beneficial without any harm.

The location was at a coffee shop near the company. The company wanted a complete set of design drawings. Although Lin Jin rarely designed after becoming a department manager, he did not forget his skills and felt that he could handle it.

Lin Jin looked for the address sent by the other party, and when he got close to the seat number, he realized that the person in sight was actually an acquaintance.

Su Hua sat there upright, looking down at her watch from time to time, seeing Lin Jin approaching but not coming over, instead frowned slightly: "Don't waste my time."

It was only then that Lin Jin came to his senses that he treated the other party as a client—not anything else.

"Basically our requirements are all in the document." Su Hua pushed the document forward, "You can take a look now, if there is anything unclear, ask now, I will start my vacation after tomorrow, and I won't deal with these matters .”

"Accompany your boyfriend?" Lin Jin asked subconsciously, only to realize that she was talking too much.

Su Hua looked at him meaningfully and raised her eyebrows: "Take care of your business."

The explanation in the document was already very clear. A veteran like Lin Jin couldn't find any faults at all, and he probably had an idea in his mind. He closed the folder and shook his head: "No problem."

"Sign the contract." Su Hua took out the contract again.

Lin Jin signed his name on the document and handed it back to Su Hua. Su Hua asked while signing, "Aren't you burnt?"

This is where daily communication begins.

Su Hua always kept a clear line between public and private, but Lin Jin could keep up with him.

Shaking his head: "Thank you that day."

"It's easy to do," Su Hua pulled a faint smile on the corner of her mouth, and her tone was less businesslike, "I thought it was time for you to grow your brain after going through it so many times, but I didn't expect it to be so. He told you to go." , how stupid? You don’t even care about your illness.”

Lin Jin frowned: "I don't have anything else to say, so I'll leave first."

"—Wait," Su Hua pressed the back of his hand, "I heard that Ji Cheng is back?"

No matter how well Lin Jin's expression was concealed, Su Hua still clearly felt that the back of the opponent's hand being pressed by her froze for a moment.

He raised his eyebrows, with a bit of sarcasm in his tone: "What doesn't belong to you, it doesn't belong to you anyway. When are you going to give up?"

"None of your business?" Lin Jin felt a little irritated, his tone subconsciously revealed his true nature, and turned his head to stare at Su Hua viciously.

"Why is it none of my business?" Su Hua let go of her hands, put her hands lightly on the table, and looked at him deeply, meaning something.

Lin Jin shuddered and withdrew his hand quickly.

"I heard that you are now in the same company as Ji Cheng...you don't need to be like this." Su Hua sighed and wanted to say more, but Lin Jin had already walked away without looking back.

Lin Jin was obviously not in the mood to talk to Su Hua more, although he knew in his heart that although the other party's words were not pleasant, they were always doing it for his own good.

It can be regarded as the only character in Lin Jin's life who is lonely and has no friends who can speak a few words.

But definitely not friends.

Lin Jin reported the signed contract and officially announced the holiday. His colleagues jumped up excitedly, discussing noisyly where to have dinner at night. Lin Jin sat quietly in the office to study the documents. Suddenly there was a knock on the door.

The little girl assistant popped her head and asked awkwardly, "Manager Lin, do you want to have dinner together tonight? We'll sing K after the dinner."

"No need," Lin Jin shook his head, "Go ahead, I'll treat you."

Although the invitation failed, but the result was a waiver, the colleagues still exclaimed with joy, Lin Jin faintly heard a little girl say: "Look, I said that Manager Lin would not agree."

"Hey, such a golden bachelor, why can't he see us beautiful couples like flowers?"

"You are the only one who is still as beautiful as a flower? I am..."

Lin Jin lowered his head, with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth. He listened for a while, until the voices of the girls and boys gradually disappeared, and then he focused on reading the document again.

At eight o'clock in the evening, Lin Jin got off work on time, went to the supermarket to buy enough food for half a month, and then went home with his things. When he arrived at the door, his mobile phone rang suddenly.

Putting the things on the ground, a string of unfamiliar numbers was displayed on the incoming call, but Lin Jin still remembered the last four digits, which was Ke Zhun's mobile phone number.

He thought the man had disappeared from his life.

Lin Jin's eyes flashed, and Ke Zhun's first words were to say Happy New Year to him.

"Happy New Year," Lin Jin also replied, "What's the matter?"

"Brother Lin, I met Ziyuan more than half a month ago..." He spoke vaguely, but Lin Jin could understand what he meant, and the two of them had rolled on the bed again.

Lin Jin was curious, didn't Ji Cheng come back more than half a month ago?During that time, the two had a fierce fight, commuting to and from get off work every day, are they still not together, or Ye Ziyuan doesn't take Ji Cheng as seriously as before?

But he chose to remain silent and did not ask.

After Ke Zhun spoke vaguely for a long time, Lin Jin finally interrupted him impatiently: "What exactly do you want to say?"

"I couldn't get in touch with him again, so I went to the company to find him..." Ke Zhun paused, and finally got to the point, "Brother Lin, I want to get to know you—"

"—Ji Cheng."

Ji Cheng is definitely the biggest thorn in Lin Jin's heart, because of Ye Ziyuan, and not only because of Ye Ziyuan.

Speaking of which, when he was just a freshman, Lin Jin wanted to blend in with everyone and participate in social interaction, and tried to control his social phobia, but was cut off by Ji Cheng.

At first, he always thought it was his problem, until he discovered bit by bit that those who rejected him, without exception, had a good relationship with Ji Cheng.

He naturally didn't know if this was the result of Ji Cheng's hard work, but when the cold violence continued to appear on him, and when those harsh rumors continued to appear in his ears, Lin Jin gave up the idea of ​​trying to control his social phobia just a little bit. , let him play freely.

It's not that he can't hold on, it's that the stone is too high and heavy for him to lift, especially when those people spread the rumor that he has a crush on Ye Ziyuan again.

Although it was true, on the surface, Lin Jin's self-esteem was still unbearable - unlike now, he was already used to numbness.

The most important thing is that as far back as the third year of high school, he was surrounded by a group of men who accused him of insulting and even...

From that time on, Lin Jin hated the word "deep cabinet".

When Ke Zhun called his voice back to reality, Lin Jin came to his senses and let his thoughts return. He cleared his throat and apologized: "Sorry, I just thought of going elsewhere."

"It's okay," Ke Zhun said with a smile, "Brother Lin, thank you."

"Thank me for what?" Lin Jin took out the tomatoes on the ground, opened the refrigerator, and put them in, "I didn't do anything, and even cheated you that day."

"Thank you anyway." Ke Zhun sighed, "Then I'll hang up, and I have a chance to treat you to dinner, Brother Lin."

"No need." Lin Jin said lightly, "It's a little effort."

The empty refrigerator was filled to the brim, enough food for him to feed for fifteen days suddenly made Lin Jin feel empty. He sighed, slid down against the door of the refrigerator, turned on his phone, but there was still no text message from Ye Ziyuan.

Before Ji Cheng came back, Ye Ziyuan would share some interesting things in life with him every few days. Since Ji Cheng came back, Ye Ziyuan no longer took the initiative to contact him.

Gee.

Seeing color and forgetting righteousness.

Lin Jin thought so, so he just sent these four words to Ye Ziyuan. He didn't think that Ye Ziyuan would reply to him, but he never expected that at midnight, Ye Ziyuan called.

Lin Jin lifted the quilt and stepped on the ground with her bare feet. Even though the floor heating was turned on, it was still a bit cold.

Ye Ziyuan's voice was very low: "A Jin, miss me?"

yes.Lin Jin thought so in his heart, but replied, "I think too much."

Ye Ziyuan said: "Don't worry, brother will definitely spend the New Year with you, Tie Lu will not leave you alone."

"Yeah." Lin Jin nodded, "The voice is so low, is there someone around?"

"Ke Zhun." Ye Ziyuan finally remembered Ke Zhun's name and said it.

Lin Jin was stunned: "Where's Ji Cheng?"

"He took Joe with me," Ye Ziyuan's tone became a little irritable, "What the hell does he think he is an innocent little boy in his early twenties? I feel so pretentious even if I hold hands, if I don't like it, I won't." If you are willing, who would be willing to touch him? I wouldn’t be able to fuck anyone else without him?”

Lin Jin choked for a moment, not knowing whether to be happy or sad.

After being silent for a while, he could only utter two words: "All right."

"It's not a good feeling in my heart," Ye Ziyuan sighed, "If you want to be together, you can be together, if you don't, then don't have any ambiguity, don't you think so?"

"Yes."

"Actually, I quite like him," Ye Ziyuan complained to Lin Jin, "It's just too pretentious."

Lin Jin listened to Ye Ziyuan confessing to another person in his ear, while watching the heavy snow that suddenly floated up outside the window, he paused for a while, and suddenly said: "It's snowing, Ye Ziyuan."

"..." Ye Ziyuan was silent for a while, "Did you listen to me?"

"I'm going out to see the snow."

After Lin Jin finished speaking, he hung up the phone with a "snap", and rushed downstairs with a coat casually. He was so anxious that he wore two different slippers, and a thin layer of sweat dripped from the tip of his nose.

Not because this is the first snow, but because this day is too special.

Ten years ago in December, on the same day, there was also a sudden heavy snow that covered the whole world in a silver-white color.

On that day, he and Ye Ziyuan finally reconciled after a few days of cold war, and they lay together in the icy snow for an entire song.

Lin Jin still remembers that song is Eason Chan's "Christmas Knot".