Chapter 1: Chapter01

In August, the beginning of autumn, the temperature in City G is still high.
After nine o'clock in the evening, the night breeze dissipated a little bit of heat, and on the bar street, under the neon lights that were as bright as day, the skateboarders in the crowd whistled not far away.
In his sight was a young woman listening to the phone while walking. The woman walks a little faster, holding a small bunch of warmly blooming red roses in one half of her arms, chestnut hair is short and shoulder-length, wearing a smoky gray suit, trousers of the same color, thin and fine clothes.
The skin is extremely white, the red lips are delicate, the facial features are sharply contoured, and there is a kind of attraction that makes people unable to move their eyes.
A few more whistles.
Jiang Ci noticed it and turned his face to look over. There was a layer of coldness in his beautiful glazed eyes, and his gaze was instantly closed.
She continued walking for a few minutes, glanced up at the shop sign, and said to the other end of the phone: "Wait, I'm here."
In the bar private room named "SEVEN", Huo Zhenzhen dropped the microphone. As soon as Jiang Ci showed up, she rushed over and gave her a big hug: "You busy man, I finally caught you today!"
It seems that Huo Zhenzhen has already drunk a lot of the smell of wine. Jiang Ci took a step back and gave her roses: "Happy birthday, this is for you."
Huo Zhenzhen took it and hugged him. Seeing that there was a beautiful small envelope in the bouquet, he opened it and saw that they were two tickets for the first row of the concert.
Huo Zhenzhen screamed: "Fucking!!! This is so hard to buy! I didn't get a spot on the day of the sale!"
Jiang Ci: "There are also round-trip air tickets and accommodation. I have already booked them. Gu Xiaowei should be free to accompany you there?"
Huo Zhenzhen burped a drink, "...I didn't tell you, Gu Xiaowei dumped me."
Jiang Ci: "...Huh?"
Jiang Ci is a full-time tuning lawyer for a brand of pianos. He mainly serves pianists who have signed contracts with this brand. In the past few months, he has just accompanied an orchestra on the global tour and only returned to G City last night. Before that, Huo Zhenzhen was a little bit No information was disclosed to her.
Jiang Ci couldn't help asking: "When did it happen?"
Huo Zhenzhen: "It's been more than half a month. He has made his colleague's belly bigger. Now the girl is going to marry him."
Jiang Ci: "..."
"His parents don't look down on me anyway. I heard that the girl's father is a teacher, and her mother is a doctor. They are more worthy of him than me." Huo Zhenzhen waved his hand and said he didn't want to mention it again, and turned to the table to get it. Wine: "Today for my birthday, you have to have a drink with me, come and come--"
She wore a halter dress and had tattoos all over her back.
Smoking and drinking to open a tattoo shop, Huo Zhenzhen is at odds with Gu Xiaowei's Kochi family. Over the past two years, I don't know how much wronged he has suffered. The original stalemate was also a torture to both sides, Jiang Ci thought to himself, it would not be a bad thing to divide.
Seeing Huo Zhenzhen's appearance, he must be drunk tonight. Jiang Ci didn't dare to drink too much for fear that both of them would be drunk and unsafe. Huo Zhenzhen did not persuade her to drink, and after drinking for a while, he picked up the microphone and continued singing.
The screen of Jiang Ci's mobile phone turned on. Looking at the words "Jiang Lin" flashing on the screen, she and Huo Zhenzhen greeted each other and took the phone and walked outside.
The light here is not too bright, Jiang Ci walked for a while before pressing to switch on: "Mom."
Jiang Lin said on the other end: "Aci, I have afternoon tea with your Aunt Ning today, do you know what she said to me?-Wen Nian is pregnant!"
Is it pregnant again?
Jiang Ci froze for several seconds before reacting: "...oh."
Jiang Lin's conversation turned: "You and Lu Xingxue have been married for more than three years, right? Not mentioning pregnancy and giving birth, I will ask you, have you spent more than three weeks together? You run all day. I don’t see a person, it’s not that you have a problem with your attitude. At the beginning, no one forced you to marry Lu Xingxue, right? Aji, it’s not uncommon to have no relationship foundation. Feelings can be cultivated. Can't you learn from Wen Nian? "
Jiang Ci stuffed his hands into his pants pockets, and said casually, "Yes."
"You're ‘um’ what’s ‘um’" Jiang Lin heard her carelessness: "I think you are trying to me off! In this way, you will bring Lu Xingxue home tomorrow and we will have dinner together."
Jiang Ci: "Maybe not, I'm not here at the moment—"
Jiang Lin: "Don't think about lying to me, you think I don't know? The tour you followed ended a few days ago. You must be in City G right now! Even if you are not there, you will come back tomorrow! Hear No?"
At this time, the private room door next to the aisle opened, and the noise inside came out. Jiang Lin heard the sound wrong and asked Jiang Ci, "Where are you?"
Jiang Ci told the truth: "At the bar."
Jiang Lin immediately: "With whom?"
Jiang Ci said helplessly: "I haven't been with anyone, Huo Zhenzhen, she has her birthday today."
"Huo Zhenzhen, Huo Zhenzhen, why don't you spend more time with Lu Xingxue?" Jiang Lin grabbed her and babbled for several minutes, and Jiang Ci wandered the whole process.
Wen Nian.
When he was 5 years old, Jiang Lin took Jiang Ci and moved into Yushui Nanyuan. Aunt Ning and Wen Nian lived at the opposite door. At first there was no contact between the two houses until the mother and daughter were knocked on the door.
It was a thunderstorm, and everything that could be smashed at home was smashed. Jiang Lin was slapped on the sofa. Jiang Ci was so frightened that she cried and slapped her against the wall. Her face was fierce, and her forehead broke. It was Wen Nian who covered her mouth, murmured "Don't be afraid", and took her out.
It was only later that Wen Nian, like her, was an illegitimate daughter.
Later, Jiang Lin just married into the Tong's family, and Wen Nian was taken back to the Wen family to teach because Mrs. Wen's son was too stubborn. After moving, they walked away.
Actually, this is not the reason.
Wen Nian was the most important person in Jiang Ci's entire teenage years. Wen Nian was sent out to study by the Wen family, and Jiang Ci ran to see her more than once. Once she thought they were connected, but later she knew that it was just her own wishful thinking.
Wen Nian and the boy are living together.
That night, the wind and dust flew to see Wen Nian's Jiang Ci, on the sofa in the living room, with his eyes open until the sky turned white.
If it were not for this, Jiang Ci thought, she would not agree to marry Lu Xingxue.
Lu Xingxue's grandfather and Jiang Ci's grandfather had a fateful relationship earlier, so the two had a promise of marriage.
However, Lu Xingxue’s father did not follow the arrangements of his elders. Grandpa Lu felt that he had broken his promise first and was ashamed to face Jiang’s family; while Jiang Ci’s grandfather had a good face and thought that the Lu family’s great cause was a dislike of Jiang’s shabby family. . The two families reduced their contact with each other thoughtfully. In addition, Lu Xingxue's parents passed away early due to an accident. Grandpa Lu gave off a white-haired man to a black-haired man, and his personality became withdrawn. As he grew older, the two sides broke off.
Three years ago, Grandpa Deer underwent heart surgery and his physical condition was not as good as before. Looking back on his life on the sickbed, he still broods about the failure of his grandfather Jiang Ci.
Lu Xingxue was reluctant to let him get old and still had a heart knot, so he took the initiative to contact Jiang Ci and gave her a marriage contract.
Regarding this contract, Lu Xingxue only made two requirements: the marriage lasts for five years. If the grandfather is a hundred years before this, the divorce time can be advanced accordingly; she does not interfere with Jiang Ci’s behavior, only Jiang Ci is in the new year. Cooperate with her during the festival and do her filial piety in front of grandpa.
As for the compensation Jiang Ci can get, Lu Xingxue reserved enough space and sincerely left it to her to fill in.
At that time, Jiang Ci was emotionally frustrated and did not consider compensation at all, so he signed it directly.
Their marriage contract is unknown. Jiang Ci can't put his emotions in the management of this relationship that is destined to end in divorce, and the same is true if he wants to come to Lu Xingxue.
Silently hung up Jiang Lin's phone. On the way back to the private room, Jiang Ci saw two or three women approaching with a half-drunk man.
"I tell you, you guys—who makes me happy tonight, and my money—give her all!"
Jiang Ci stared at him for a few seconds, and still avoided it sideways. For the benefit of the family, the Wen family married Wen Nian to the famous player prodigal in the circle.
The man didn’t notice Jiang Ci, and he still had his tongue out and said, "My wife—you know, Mr. Wen from "Four Seasons" is a cold personality. She is like a dead fish in bed..."
Ginger Porcelain stopped when he heard the sound, and Yu Guang caught a glimpse of the simple champagne tower on the wine table.
"Lin Xiao."
Lin Xiao heard the sound familiar, turned around 360 degrees in the same place, squinted his eyes and looked again, recognized Jiang Ci, and smiled: "Hey~!...It's not a coincidence, my sister-in-law! Niannian is pregnant You know—"
Jiang Ci directly poured the wine over.
"Ah!" Lin Xiao's female companion Jiao yelled and accused Jiang Ci: "What's wrong with you? If you don't say a word when you come up, you will throw alcohol on your face!?"
Lin Xiao didn't get angry, wiped his face, and said, "This wine is strong enough."
Jiang Ci threw away the glass, turned and left.
Lin Xiao looked at her back and deliberately said, "I said, where did I go? Oh, my wife, Mr. Wen, are on the bed... Haha, it's just a dead fish. How I did it, she didn't say anything. Son, you say, is she sexual, cold, and indifferent?"
Jiang Ci walked faster and faster, and almost ran away in the end.
In the private room, Huo Zhenzhen sang and burst into tears, and he had no time to care about Jiang Ci's emotions. Only after Jiang Ci sat back, he turned his head and said in a dumb voice: "Your mother just called me to check your post."
Jiang Ci nodded perfunctorily and picked up his wine glass.
The two drank intermittently until it was past zero, and Huo Zhenzhen drank more and more excited, shouting loudly to let Jiang Ci meet his newly recruited tattoo artist.
Big and tall, with an inch head and broad shoulders, but he's handsome, young, and scumbag Gu Xiao is only eighteen streets!
When he said that, he called to the tattoo artist to pick them up.
The tattoo artist Xiao A rushed over. As soon as he entered the private room, he saw Huo Zhenzhen who was barefoot on the edge of the table. For fear that she would step on the empty space, he was so scared that he rushed forward: "Boss! Are you so drunk you are not afraid of danger! ?"
Huo Zhenzhen casually pointed to Jiang Ci: "Is my girlfriend here? She and she know how to get drunk!"
Little A went to look at the boss's best friend, who was sitting quietly, her eyes were red, and her eyes were obviously out of focus.
"Come on, maybe she's drunk than you!"
Huo Zhenzhen laughed: "Isn't you here to pick it up?"
Little A rolled his eyes and somehow got the two drunk people out of the bar. Pushing Huo Zhenzhen into the car, Xiao A was going to pull Jiang Ci again. At this time, a man stepped forward: "Leave Miss Jiang to me."
Little A: "?"
Jiang Ci: "?"
Huo Zhenzhen pulled the car window and stuck his head out: "You, who?"
Jiang Ci was unsteady, staggering to identify: "...familiar."
The other party said helplessly: "Miss Jiang, I'm Wei Ning, President Lu is waiting for you in the car."
Huo Zhenzhen stretched out his hand to fish for Jiang Ci, and asked him: "...what's the boss?"
"Ah!" Jiang Ci looked left and right, swaying his body back and forth: "Lu, Lu Xingxue, is she here?"
Huo Zhenzhen stopped making noise when he heard Lu Xingxue's name. He patted the car door and said to Little A: "Okay, then, let's go."
Jiang Ci vigorously waved goodbye to Huo Zhenzhen, and then followed Wei Ning's guidance staggeringly forward. Wei Ning dared not touch her, but reminded her to pay attention to her feet from time to time. When we arrived at the parking place, the car door opened automatically, Jiang Ci tilted her head and looked in, and the people inside also looked at her.
With the lights on in the car, it really was Lu Xingxue.
Lu Xingxue wrapped her body in a dark cheongsam, and the emerald press on her chest was shaking slightly. The tone was always gentle and gentle. She asked Jiang Ci: "Drunk?"
Jiang Ci didn't speak, using both hands and feet to climb into the car.
Lu Xingxue: "I'm so drunk, aren't you afraid of danger?"
Jiang Ci was dizzy, she completely overlapped Lu Xingxue's question and Huo Zhenzhen's and Xiao A's answer. As the car drove a certain distance, she was only half a beat, vaguely, and learned from Huo Zhenzhen: "My girlfriend..."
Speaking of straightening up, she still has a vague consciousness, knowing that there is no Huo Zhenzhen here, only Lu Xingxue and the driver's bodyguard.
Jiang Ci spoke again. This time, her speech was clearer. To Lu Xingxue, who was in the shadow of her, she paused every word: "Isn't you here to pick it up?"