Chapter 2 (1/2)
Even after five days on holiday, the aht just to catch up with the progress at work
One day, after ten o’clock in the evening, she came home from work physically exhausted
She entered the apartment on the first floor, opened the mailbox can letter, and then walked slowly to the elevator all while checking the letters in her handsShe didn’t pay attention to where she alking and almost hit the elevator door
“Be careful!” At this time, suddenly a male arm crossed in front of the elevator to cushi+on her head
Xiang Ti was startled back and looked upIf she had taken another step further then her head would have smashed into the door
“Thank you!”She breathed a sigh of relief and turned to thank the Good Samaritan, but it turns out she already knows him because she had mercilessly lambasted him
“Is that you?!”Thinking back to a few days ago she was e a hole to hide in
“Yes, I just got off work”Zheng Leng flashed the briefcase for her to see, heading into the elevator he pressed the button for eighteen, and then asks, “What floor?”
“I’ll do ithis eyes, she extended her ar of nuinal position
“Do I have an infectious disease?”Zheng Leng teases her
Xiang Ti suddenly blushes
At the moment she should come up with some sort of retort about his manner, but since the time of the incident where she sha ho hours, and did not expect to run into him today
Zheng Leng takes a step back, relaxing against the wall, and looks at Xiang Ti who is feeling embarrassed and uncomfortable
She is dressed in her nor off an air of competence, and her layered hair is coHe can’t help but remember her in Tokyo in her pretty dress
He was looking at her!
With her head down, Xiang Ti obviously feels his intense stare
What the hell, is she so good-looking?Compared to her, other women are more beautifully stylish, so what?!
A surge of anger rushed up, Xiang Ti forgot the previous enantly raised her head to look at him
The man stares at her blatantly, not shy to let her know he is looking at her
“Like what you see?You saw it in Tokyo and now can’t get enough of it?”She asks coldly
Surprisingly, Zheng Leng is not angry, he even laughs
“It is still not enough, don’t you know you look good?”
“You –” she reply
His flirting leaves Xiang Ti red faced, her heart beating a hundred miles fast
She has never met someone like him ould praise her beauty in a matter of fact way
She thought if she was cold enough she could keep hih however, because he kept staring at her without flinching
Seeing her unco couldn’t help but snicker
Do other men kno cute she is?!
“Humph!”A lot of curse words were stuck in the throat just waiting to be spit out but could notIn the end she turns back to hi her displeasure
Zheng Leng ignores her rudeness and continues with the conversation“Are you just now co home from work?”
In fact, he has never been one to back down froeneral defend hi, so he is not really angry with her
Perhaps because she is always so defensive, it !
He knows that underneath the façade, is a delicate wo and full of self-confidence
Maybe that’s what they have in coreat, in order for people not to look down on him, he puts in more effort than others, but keeps a polite but distant attitude towards others
In the eyes of others, he has no emotional ups and downs and his personality is near perfectBut they don’t know he is also lonely, sad, and angry, he’s just used to hiding itJust like her – in front of other people, he never shows his vulnerable side
Perhaps because of this si towards her
“Are you talking toTi proudly lifts her chin, she believes that this sentence will easily dissuade him
But Zheng Leng is not so easily deterredHe feigns surprise and asks, “Why?Are we strangers?I thought that ere already fa Ti”
“You knowsmiles in satisfaction
“We are neighbors, knowing each other’s naht?”Zheng Leng could not conceal the triumphant tone in his voice
“You –” rogue!
Well!The elevator arrives at the sixteenth floor, but Xiang Ti is too busy glaring at him, completely unaware that the door has opened
“We’ve arrived”Zheng Leng holds the Open button kindly re her
“Ah?Oh, thank you”Xiang Ti subconsciously thanks him and turns to walk out
However, once outside the elevators she wonders how he inquired about her name?So she immediately turns back to ask, “How do you –”
“This is my business card, now you know my name”
Zheng Leng handed her the business card and then quickly returned to the elevator
“Hey, wait!You –”
“See you next time”
The elevator door slowly closes in front of her, shi+elding Zheng Leng’s laughing face
That rotton man!
Xiang Ti’s first reaction was to crumple the card and throw it in the bin
However, at that hbor
She is not worried about the business card, but she had to knohat is her crazy neighbor’s name?
S out the crumpled card, she saw at the top succinctly printed few lines
Stars Technology, Science and Technology Division, Han Zheng Leng
His na!
Her anger subsiding, a strange feeling slowly rises from the bottom of her heart
She sneakily looks around toher, and then places the card inside her briefcase, then casually as if nothing happened makes her way home
Anyway, she doesn’t intend to use it
She tells herself!
It was a holiday weekend but Xiang Ti still woke up early at nine in the , but was not headed for work, instead she was going to see a person
Arriving at the nursing ho lady sees her, smiles and tells her, “Miss Liu, your mother is in the recreation room, today there is a concert!”
“Thank you”She replies and heads towards the recreation room
As she nears, she can hear the sound of karaoke coh the doors
Approaching the doors and quietly peeking inside, she sees her roup of other wo to the rhythh
She watches for a while before someone discovers her and ihter is here to see you!”
“Xiang Ti”Her lass doors
“Mo Ti immediately stepped forward to take over
She takes her arden trees, today the sun is hot and she is afraid et sunburned
“How co Shuji smiles, “didn’t I tell you not to coo on dates?How come you are here?”
“Mom, someone cares about you!Besides, I don’t have a boyfriend, so what?”
“No boyfriend, how come?If you don’t hurry up, you’ll be an old spinster soon!”Zheng Shuji says in a worried tone
“I don’t want to getTi pouts a little every tie
“Why don’t you want to get et married, how can a woman live without a husband?”
“What’s so good about uarantee happiness?Sole and happy, rather than married and unhappyIt is not like you –” she suddenly sees hersaid, “Mom, sorry!”
“Never ave her a sive you a happy familyI did this to youMom sorry to you”
“Moetically takes herback her tears, “what happened, you don’t need to feel sorry for”
Her father was a traditional male chauvinist who treated herher as a servant and did not value his daughter
Grow up in this fa Ti was a witness to how her mother was treatedBut herfather, even when he had an affairNo matter how much she tried to persuade her mother, it was useless
Finally one day, her father had enough of the fareement at her n the divorce
The two began arguing, at that ti for her university entrance exa headphones, music raised to the maximum, so could barely hear them quarrel
Once, her father ca, he pushed her down the stairs and caused her to be paralyzed from the waist down
Her father never once came to visit her mother and never said a word