1
When Zhou Qiaoqiao was divorced, he still had a place in the newspapers.
It was a gossip tabloid that photographed her standing outside a luxury car, drenched in the rain. The accompanying text is also sensational: Missy's courtship fails, and she is lovable in the rain.
Zhou Qiaoqiao was still a little angry when he said it: "I wanted to return the things to him, but he didn't want it. He pushed the umbrella around and dropped it, and he got wet all over."
Chu Xiaomeng is her best friend, so she laughed when she heard the words: "Isn't Lian Wei usually very gentlemanly? Why don't you know how to send you a ride when you see you in the rain?"
Speaking of this, Zhou Qiaoqiao was even more embarrassed. She and Lian Wei are childhood sweethearts. Lian Wei was forced to marry by her family two years ago. After negotiating with her, the two should get engaged and deal with the family first. Last month, he found the love of his life and broke off his marriage with Zhou Qiaoqiao. Zhou Qiaoqiao did not take advantage of him, and wanted to return all the gifts he had sent before.
Where would William want to?
Zhou Qiaoqiao sighed, and someone outside called her: "Qiaoqiao, it's time to go."
She hurriedly wanted to hang up the video, and Chu Xiaomeng said to her again, "There is a class reunion tonight, don't forget it."
After she got in the car, her colleague asked her, "How are you getting ready?"
She sighed: "Well prepared, I just don't know how many answers he can answer."
The colleague laughed: "It's amazing to have an interview with the CEO of ASH. Don't forget, this is the first one in China."
ASH is the most popular Internet company in foreign countries recently, but the CEO has an eccentric personality. This time Zhou Qiaoqiao was able to invite him because of his father's blessing.
She doesn't really like going through the back door like this, but she can't help herself in the arena. I didn't know until I met the CEO that he was so young. After seeing her, he looked up and down: "It turned out to be you."
Zhou Qiaoqiao thought he knew his father and said with a smile, "I'm Zhou Qiaoqiao when we first met."
"I heard something." The young CEO said, "Miss Zhou, please take a seat."
This interview was much smoother than expected. At the end of the interview, Zhou Qiaoqiao got up and thanked: "Thank you for your cooperation."
But he asked again: "This is the end? Miss Zhou, you can ask a few more questions."
Zhou Qiaoqiao was a little surprised, but still said: "I wasn't prepared enough. If there is a chance, next time, I will definitely bring more questions."
Seeing that the CEO couldn't stop her, he stood up and said, "I will send Miss Zhou off."
Zhou Qiaoqiao was sent to the elevator in a confused manner, and the CEO said, "Actually, if you want, you can walk around the company. They are all newly renovated and very beautiful."
No matter how slow Zhou Qiaoqiao was, he realized that he wanted to leave himself behind. A colleague secretly sent her a WeChat message: "He won't like you, will he?"
Zhou Qiaoqiao was amused for a while, just as the elevator came up, she said, "Thank you very much for your hospitality today, but we still have something to do, see you next time..."
The elevator door opened, and she walked in while talking, bumping into someone else's arms before she finished speaking.
The man was hard-chested and tall. Zhou Qiaoqiao raised his head and saw Li Zhou standing in front of her——
She thought it would be difficult for her to recognize him, after all, the two hadn't seen each other for nearly ten years.
But it wasn't. He was a little taller than before, his skin was not so dark, it was a healthy wheat color, his eyebrows and eyes were still as sharp, looking at her, she thought for a moment that she would cry under such gaze.
Luckily not, because he didn't seem to recognize himself.
Zhou Qiaoqiao lowered his head and heard Li Zhou say to her, "I'm sorry."
"It's okay, I didn't see the way myself," she said.
He didn't speak any more, and passed her out of the elevator. The elevator door gradually closed, and he suddenly looked over. Looking at each other, Zhou Qiaoqiao's vision was blurred, and when the gap closed, he could no longer see it.
The colleague said in surprise: "Qiaoqiao, why are you crying?"
She quickly wiped away her tears and said embarrassedly, "I just hit my nose."
The colleague said: "I don't know who that person is, but he looks so handsome."
He is really handsome, Zhou Qiaoqiao thought in a trance, it turns out that people who are handsome since childhood are still so handsome when they grow up.
2
The two returned to the company, and it was time for get off work. Zhou Qiaoqiao sent a message to Chu Xiaomeng, saying, "I'm not going to the class reunion tonight, I'm too tired."
Then she immediately turned her phone to silent, lest Chu Xiaomeng keep asking.
The lights in the building went out one by one, and Zhou Qiaoqiao sat at the end before standing up. When she got downstairs, she stopped. A Volvo was parked outside, and someone was standing beside the car, looking down and lighting a cigarette.
The lights were dim, and his hand was holding a mass of orange-red fire, and the wind blew over and the lights flickered. This little light also seems to fall into the boundless water waves.
Zhou Qiaoqiao thought he had read it wrong, but he clearly didn't, it was Li Zhou.
He suddenly raised his head, saw it was her, paused for a moment, and folded the cigarette with his backhand and threw it aside. The first sentence of the meeting, Zhou Qiaoqiao asked him: "Is it not hot?"
"It's fine," he said.
Then she came back to her senses: "Why are you here?"
"Come to pick you up..."
Before he could finish speaking, a man emerged from the car. Chu Xiaomeng jumped down with a smile: "Why did you come down? Li Zhou and I have come to pick you up. Today's class reunion, Miss, please show me your face and go with us?"
Zhou Qiaoqiao didn't know what to say for a while, and when he got into the back seat in a daze, he saw Chu Xiaomeng sitting in the front passenger seat carelessly: "I know that you just broke up with Young Master Lian in a bad mood, but you can't do it every day. Work overtime. Have fun today and relax."
She was in a bad mood, not because of Lianwei, but just angry with the paparazzi. Now that Chu Xiaomeng said this, he tasted a different taste.
She wanted to explain, but shut her mouth again—
Li Zhou, who was in front of him, didn't look sideways, the car drove very steadily, as if he didn't listen to what they were saying at all.
Zhou Qiaoqiao was discouraged, and when he got out of the car, he asked Chu Xiaomeng, "Why is he here too?"
Chu Xiaomeng smiled sweetly: "I asked him to pick you up, of course he will come."
The tone was ambiguous, as if the two had a close relationship.
Zhou Qiaoqiao's chest seemed to be blocked and stuffy. When the three entered, the class reunion had already begun. Zhou Qiaoqiao sat in the corner and listened to them drinking and chatting. A man next to her approached her: "Zhou Qiaoqiao, do you remember me? It's me, Gao Chai!"
She finally remembered that this person said gossip about Li Zhou when he was in school, and she pushed him away. It was even more embarrassing to think about, Gao Zhui had already reached out to hug her: "She's still so beautiful, come on, I'll give you a toast."
Dashaeli stretched out a hand with clear knuckles, slender and powerful, grabbed Gao Chai's arm, and threw him out. There was silence for a while on the field, but Li Zhou came in and sat down beside Zhou Qiaoqiao calmly: "I'm sorry, she doesn't drink."
Gao Zhui scolded and got up: "You..."
He was pulled aside by everyone.
Zhou Qiaoqiao sighed, Li Zhou next to him still looked so calm, and asked her, "Are you scared?"
"Ah? No..." she said, "I just feel that everyone has changed, and I can't recognize it..."
Li Zhou asked, "What about me?"
"what?"
"Can you recognize me?"
He asked seriously, and Zhou Qiaoqiao looked over subconsciously. Looking at each other, she had no reason to think of the summer in high school, when he was writing exam papers in the back row, and she quietly took a small mirror to look at it. He suddenly raised his head, and his line of sight collided with her in the mirror.
At that time, his sight was the same as it is now, like the distant and cold moonlight.
She lowered her head: "You didn't recognize me... I recognized you at a glance at the elevator."
It's not that she doesn't hold a grudge in her heart, she recognized him at a glance, but he didn't.
"I know it's you." He rolled his eyes, and the moonlight seemed to warm, "Otherwise, why do you think I'm rushing to ASH?"
Zhou Qiaoqiao suddenly raised his head, and just as he was about to speak, Chu Xiaomeng over there said, "What are you two talking about hiding in the corner?"
Seeing that everyone looked over, she swallowed the rest of the words, but the big stone in her heart flew away briskly.
At the end of the class reunion, Chu Xiaomeng drank a little too much and was about to pour on Li Zhou. Li Zhou avoided her and asked Zhou Qiaoqiao: "I will send you?"
Chu Xiaomeng almost fell, and Zhou Qiaoqiao quickly supported her: "Just send her off, I'm not on the way."
Li Zhou had no choice but to support Chu Xiaomeng, watched her take two steps forward, and then backed up: "I almost forgot to ask... Would you like to add a WeChat?"
He barely reacted for a moment, and seeing her smile about to fall, he quickly took out his mobile phone: "I'll scan you."
The corners of Zhou Qiaoqiao's mouth twitched again. She walked as before, as light as she was about to jump. Li Zhou looked at her, the corners of his mouth were also high, and Chu Xiaomeng in his arms suddenly said, "Everyone is gone, are you still watching?"
He pushed Chu Xiaomeng away coldly, and Chu Xiaomeng said, "She asked you to take me back!"
"Take a taxi yourself." He took out a note, "Is it enough?"
Chu Xiaomeng gritted her teeth and felt humiliated, but smiled at him again: "Let me bring you to find her, but now I'm crossing the river and demolishing the bridge. Li Zhou, you really belong."
3
Li Zhou didn't care what others thought of him.
Going to the company the next day, Qiao Zhi asked him, "How does it feel to be reunited with your first love?"
"She wasn't my first love."
"No?" Qiao Zhi became the CEO of ASH at a young age, but she winked when she talked about gossip, "I deliberately delayed the time, so that you would not miss it. When she saw you, her tears were about to fall. Li, She must like you very much."
Li Zhou glanced at him: "Don't talk about her like that."
Qiao Zhi closed the zipper on his mouth, but was curious: "You have developed well in the United States, and you are coming back suddenly, just for her?"
"no."
"Who is that for?"
"I mean, I'm not coming back all of a sudden," he said. "Everything I've done is to prepare for coming back."
On the other side, Zhou Qiaoqiao was flipping through Li Zhou's WeChat Moments. His circle of friends has only been visible for half a year, but there are only a few. The most recent one is the dark night at the New York airport two days before the class reunion. He wrote: I am back.
So when we met at ASH that day, did he rush over as soon as he got off the plane?
Zhou Qiaoqiao couldn't be sure. After high school, they never saw each other again. Summer is hot, roses are in full bloom, and the boy's initial love fades away in the farewell. She thought that she would never see Li Zhou again in her life, but fate is always joking, and it will unfold unexpectedly when people are caught off guard.
Is it a surprise? Or is it a tear that fell from a midnight dream?
When the phone vibrated, it was her long-disappeared "ex-fiancé" Lian Wei who cried to her: "Qiao Qiao, I'm lost in love."
When Zhou Qiaoqiao arrived at the bar, he saw Lian Wei sitting there with wine bottles all around him. Seeing her coming, he immediately threw himself into her arms and burst into tears: "I was dumped! For the first time in my life, I was dumped!"
Seeing him cry like this, Zhou Qiaoqiao was both angry and funny. She was just about to find someone to carry him away, but out of the corner of the eye, she saw someone walking over. Zhou Qiaoqiao turned around, just face to face with Li Zhou.
The bar is full of feasting and feasting, and it is full of indulgent men and women. It is the most lively place in the world. They looked at each other, his face was very bad, his lips were pressed tightly. Zhou Qiaoqiao was a little nervous for no reason, dared not look at him, and greeted embarrassingly, "What a coincidence."
Li Zhou asked, "Your fiancé?"
Zhou Qiaoqiao hurriedly said, "Ex... we have dissolved the engagement."
The drunk Lian Wei suddenly hugged her and said coquettishly, "Qiaoqiao, you can't leave me!"
Zhou Qiaoqiao was helpless and wanted to knock Lian Wei unconscious. However, Li Zhou grabbed Lian Wei with a cold face, and carried him to his shoulders effortlessly.
Zhou Qiaoqiao: "..."
Li Zhou carried the man into the car, and then threw the car key out of Lian Wei's arms to the driver: "Send him back."
He said to Zhou Qiaoqiao again: "I will send you."
Zhou Qiaoqiao said quickly, "I'll just go back by myself..."
But Li Zhou had already turned around and walked to the other car, and opened the door for her. Zhou Qiaoqiao hesitated for a moment, and finally got into the car.
There was a song on the radio, and a female voice sang softly: "How can I forget my old friends... But now they are separated from each other, separated by sea and ocean..."
With a "click", he turned the stage. Zhou Qiaoqiao asked him tentatively, "Have you been abroad for so many years?"
"Not all the time," he replied. "When I was a junior, I had a chance to go out."
"Your brother and sister..."
"My younger sister is about to go to college, and my younger brother was sent to a special school for the disabled... When I was in college, I was working and studying hard, and when I met well-meaning people, I earned a small amount of money, enough to take care of him."
He only said a few words, but he could hear the difficulty. How hard does it take for a person to start from nothing and get to where they are now?
Zhou Qiaoqiao felt a little distressed, but he didn't dare to show it, so he quickly lowered his head. But he has seen her eyes in the rearview mirror of the car, dark and bright, with eternal tenderness and concern, which has never changed over the years.
At night in a foreign country, he was alone. Thinking of her, he seemed to have infinite power - what a tacky sentence, but what he has been looking for is such simple and ordinary happiness.
"Are you going back this time?"
"Not necessarily." He said, "ASH moved its headquarters from New York back to China, and there were many doubts within the company. I came here to make sure everything went smoothly."
This is the inside story that she doesn't know. The news only says that ASH sees huge prospects in the domestic market, but he didn't expect that he is pushing forward. Zhou Qiaoqiao subconsciously sat up straight and asked, "As far as I know, there are two founders of ASH, one is Mr. Qiao Zhi..."
"The other is me."
Sure enough it was him!
Zhou Qiaoqiao asked: "Is there any other reason to move ASH back to China despite all difficulties?"
He glanced at her, and she looked attentive. If she had a recorder in her hand, she would look like a dedicated reporter. He smiled gently and said lightly, "Miss Zhou, if you want to interview me, please make an appointment with my assistant."
Only then did Zhou Qiaoqiao realize that he had an occupational disease, and turned back embarrassedly: "Sorry, I'm doing a special topic recently."
"You know, I never give interviews."
Zhou Qiaoqiao really knows this, ASH has been very mysterious since its inception, and there has always been only one Qiao Zhi in front of the stage. I didn't expect that the other one was hidden behind the scenes.
She had some regrets: "Understand..."
"However, if it's you, I'd like to give you an exclusive interview." He said, handing over a business card, "Take this, you have the right to see me at any time."
4
The business card is very simple, the contact information, company address, and his name, you can smell a little bit of acacia when you get close.
The colleague watched her in a daze with the famous film again, and asked her, "It's been so many days, why haven't you interviewed?"
"I'm not ready yet..."
"What's there to prepare for!" My colleague hated that iron was not steel. "Do you know how many people who want to interview have no way. If you don't go, give it to me..."
Zhou Qiaoqiao quickly put away the business card: "I didn't say anything."
She took the phone to hide in the toilet, picked up the phone and put it down. Colleagues outside suddenly came and slammed the door: "Zhou Qiaoqiao, come out for me!"
Zhou Qiaoqiao was at a loss: "What's wrong?"
The colleague was so excited that he dragged her out and saw a person sitting in the editor-in-chief's office from a distance, drinking tea with the editor-in-chief. Seeing her come in, the editor-in-chief first said, "Xiao Zhou, where have you gone? Mr. Li came over and almost couldn't find you."
Zhou Qiaoqiao looked at him stiffly, he sat there calmly, and gave her a polite smile: "Miss Zhou is busy with other affairs, last time you said you would interview me, I was excited to prepare for a long time, but I never waited for you. I had no choice but to come to the door in person. I wonder if you are free today, can you give me an exclusive interview?"
They have always been the only ones who have chased after his ass for an exclusive interview. How can there be any reason for him to take the initiative to come to the door?
Two people walked into the conference room, one on the other, her whole head stopped working, and she asked him mechanically, "Excuse me, Mr. Li, is there any internal driving force for you to move ASH back to China?"
"From a macro point of view, the country is a red ocean, and our company can bring more advanced ideas and make more profits in this promised land than in the United States. As for my personal internal driving force... …”
He smiled slightly, looked at her intently and said, "Because I promised someone, there will be an appointment later, so I must come back. Is this reason enough?"
With a "stab" sound, Zhou Qiaoqiao was too hard, and the pen in his hand ripped through the paper.
The green plants in the conference room are prosperous, capturing sunlight and giving birth to hope. There is only a table between them, as if the once thousands of rivers and mountains, day and night, all vanished at this moment.
Even if he knew that what he said might not be him, Zhou Qiaoqiao's heartbeat was still terribly fast.
She took a deep breath and barely kept her tone steady: "Just because of an agreement, you have to come back after all odds. Isn't this not very responsible for the company and will add some twists and turns to your own future development?"
"It is my wish to come back. In order to come back, I have also done countless reports and investigations, and persuaded countless people up and down the board. This is not a whim, I prefer to call it... a long process spanning several years. plan."
The smile on his face was full of absolute control and confidence, and he was no longer the lonely, indifferent teenager who sat in the corner by himself in high school.
Time changes everything, and the rough jade is polished into a long sword that shines in all directions. When the sword is unsheathed, everyone will be amazed by his brilliance.
She stared at him blankly, and for a moment, she could hardly remember what he looked like. But when he looked at her, the confidence in his eyes turned into something more tender... It was like when he looked at her, he was willing to give her the whole world.
"As for my future development," he said, "my biggest plan is to ask Miss Zhou, is the agreement between us still counted?"
5
Zhou Qiaoqiao smelled the aroma of roses again.
The roses in the moonlight, blooming into a sea of red, were airlifted from a distant exotic place for her eighteenth birthday.
And she and Li Zhou were surrounded by flowers, the young girl's youth was grand, surging with unspeakable sincerity, looking at him, her voice almost trembling: "I want to be friends with you, but I don't just want to be friends with you."
There was only one step between them, but he said, "Thank you for your love, Zhou Qiaoqiao, but now I can only be friends with you."
The dream was broken on the first day when he was eighteen, and he disappeared from her world. Even if she knew which school he was admitted to, she would no longer dare to disturb him.
A girl's favorite is a layer of gauze, blown into the sky by the wind. The flowers of spring are in full bloom, but they do not bear the fruits of autumn. She thought she didn't miss him anymore, but it turned out she was just deceiving herself.
Zhou Qiaoqiao opened his eyes and stared at the ceiling in a daze. The gift that Li Zhou gave her wrote "the future is bright, there will be a future", he had a bright future, but he ran back and asked her if there would be a future...
The phone lit up, and it was Chu Xiaomeng who sent a message asking her to go mountain climbing together on the weekend. Just as Zhou Qiaoqiao was about to refuse, Chu Xiaomeng sent another message: "Please, just accompany me."
She sighed and typed "yes" in the end. When they met on the weekend, Chu Xiaomeng brought a man with him, who turned out to be the high chaser that day.
The three of them drove a car, with Gao Chai as the driver, Chu Xiaomeng gave up the passenger seat: "I'll go to the back to lie down and sleep for a while."
Zhou Qiaoqiao was a little embarrassed, got in the car, and Gao Chai greeted her: "Did you scare you that day?"
"fine……"
"But Li Zhou is very strong." Gao Zhui glanced at her, "Are you two in love?"
"No."
"In high school, I thought the two of you were very tired and crooked, why didn't you get together?" He said "tsk", "Is it because you didn't post it upside down?"
Zhou Qiaoqiao finally couldn't bear it any longer: "Stop the car."
Chu Xiaomeng in the back seat finally said, "Old Gao, what did you say?"
She also persuaded Zhou Qiaoqiao: "He's a man who owes his mouth, he doesn't mean anything else, don't be angry."
But Zhou Qiaoqiao held up his mobile phone and said, "If you don't stop, I'll call the police."
The car stopped, and Gao Chai also scolded: "What are you pretending to be, stinky girls!"
Zhou Qiaoqiao just pretended not to hear it and walked down the mountain road. On weekend mornings, there were few cars, it rained again, and the road was wet. She walked for a long time, and finally sent a message out.
The light rain is misty, and the distant mountains are like looking at flowers in the fog. When Li Zhou arrived, he saw her squatting on the side of the road, barefoot, not knowing what she was doing.
He slowed down the car, afraid of scaring her, so he lowered the car window from a distance: "What are you looking at?"
"There are rhododendrons here." She said with a smile, "My grandmother's house used to have a pot, but it didn't bloom like this."
Under the green hills, is a clump of fire-like rhododendrons. Her hair was wet, with a few strands on her snow-white cheeks, her eyes were black, and when she smiled at him, the fire spread to her heart.
This is a face only in a dream, but now he is face to face with her, as if more than half of the dream has come true.
He stared at her, forgetting to speak for a moment. She noticed something, lowered her head, and said embarrassedly, "I can't get a taxi, and I don't want to tell my parents, so I have to..."
He had gotten out of the car, Zhou Qiaoqiao thought he wanted to see the flowers, but he hugged her horizontally.
She was startled and almost cried out. He put her gently on the seat again, squatted in front of her, and wiped the mud off her feet with a tissue.
There was a faint fragrance in the car, cold, just like him. As he got closer, he realized that his palm was also warm.
The blood rushed from the ankle he was holding all the way to his face, it was extremely hot. Zhou Qiaoqiao was a little worried that he would hear his heartbeat too loud, but when he raised his head, his sight caught her off guard.
Looking at each other, they both fell silent. She looked at him, hesitated for a long time before whispering: "Thank you."
"you are welcome."
"Li Zhou..." She asked hesitantly, "Are you angry?"
"I was speeding when I came, because I heard you say that you were waiting for me on the side of the road." He almost gritted his teeth, "It was raining and they left you on the side of the road alone, I really wish..."
I wish he didn't say anything, because she put her hand on the back of his hand gently and said to him, "Li Zhou, I'm really fine."
After a long time, she whispered again, "Don't be afraid."
How could he not be afraid?
After staying abroad for a long time, I don’t know how much I read the news, and the girl waiting for the bus by the road turned her head and disappeared. He drove the car fast, and the moment he saw her, he realized that his hands had been shaking.
He looked at her slowly, trying to see every single lash of hers. It was raining in the sky, with a touch of blue-purple, and it was wrapped around her face, like a bright and light gauze.
"Zhou Qiao Qiao," he thought he couldn't say it. Those words that had been rumbling in his heart countless times, chewing and reciting over and over again in the middle of the night, finally blurted out, "After so many years, do you still like me?"
"If you still like it... would you like to be with me?"
She thought she had heard it wrong, but she knew she didn't.
The sound of rain ticking outside the window hit the glass, and a large one slowly rolled down.
"I've been waiting for this sentence since I was eighteen years old. I waited for a long time and thought I couldn't wait." Her tears were like raindrops. , but I can't be with you like this."
The sadness at the age of eighteen and the grievances at the age of eighteen, even if I mention it now, it is still shocking.
The rain is still falling, soaking the tender youth, and the rainy season in my heart cannot end in a few simple words.
The light in his eyes went out: "I'm sorry."
The apology was drowned in the rain, and in the end, he could only look at her at a loss, and said softly, "It was my fault, Qiaoqiao...don't cry."
6
Zhou Qiaoqiao cried for a long time for his eighteen years old, and went to work the next day with swollen eyes.
The colleague was startled: "what's the matter with you?"
"I cried while reading the novel."
The colleague laughed: "How old are you, you can still cry while reading a novel?"
After get off work, Zhou Qiaoqiao saw the apology text message sent by Chu Xiaomeng, but she did not reply. Going downstairs, she saw Chu Xiaomeng standing there pitifully: "Qiaoqiao."
Chu Xiaomeng's work place is far from here, so she must have asked for leave to find her.
Zhou Qiaoqiao's heart softened again, Chu Xiaomeng saw her come out and handed her the bag in his hand: "The cake I bought for you. It's my fault, I didn't expect him to be that kind of person, don't give birth to me. gas."
The two have been friends for so many years, Zhou Qiaoqiao said in the end, "I don't like him, so don't bring him out next time."
"I'm not looking at your breakup, I want to introduce you to a boyfriend."
Zhou Qiaoqiao couldn't help but think of Li Zhou, and was a little distracted for a while. Chu Xiaomeng watched her words and asked her, "Do you...have someone you like?"
The person she likes has never changed. But she was ashamed to say it, and changed the subject and said, "Let's go to dinner."
Chu Xiaomeng asked, "Is it Li Zhou? He confessed to you?"
Zhou Qiaoqiao said in surprise: "How do you know?"
"Qiaoqiao," Chu Xiaomeng said, taking her hand seriously, "you must not be with him. Do you know why he came back from the United States?"
Zhou Qiaoqiao frowned, intuitively telling himself that he shouldn't listen, and asked curiously, "Why?"
"ASH's finances have a big problem!" Chu Xiaomeng said to her mysteriously with a smile on her face, "They came back to seek investment. Qiaoqiao, you don't need me to tell you how rich your father is? You have seen all kinds of people for many years, but don't get dizzy just because you liked him before."
Zhou Qiaoqiao looked at her in disbelief: "But...but how did you know?"
Her laughter turned into a kind of pity, she looked at her almost high and said, "On the day of the class reunion, I went with him to pick you up, and I heard him call on the way, in English. He probably thought I didn't hear it, but I'm an English major, and I can hear it clearly, ASH is in a financial crisis."
Seeing that Zhou Qiaoqiao didn't speak, she said again: "If you don't believe it, you can call and ask your father, and we'll see if he's going to ask for sponsorship?"
A phone call can be asked if he is real or fake?
She tried to say calmly: "I believe he is not such a person."
"Then why don't you dare to ask?"
Zhou Qiaoqiao turned around in a distraught, and hurriedly said, "I still have something to do, so I'll go first."
Chu Xiaomeng looked at her fleeing back and showed a contemptuous smile. If such a person is not rich, why is he liked by everyone? Even Li Zhou, after being gone for so long, still misses her.
But it doesn't matter, Chu Xiaomeng hummed a song and thought, this nail is planted in my heart, even if they are really together, they will surely take root and sprout one day. People from two worlds are destined to be impossible to be together.
7
When Li Zhou came out of the hotel, he smoked a cigarette.
The wind blew away the wine and wealth, revealing the bright moon. Qiao Zhi had just vomited and complained to him: "The culture of the wine table is really dross. I don't understand why it is necessary to drink so much wine when talking about business."
"Fortunately, it's over, and you won't have to suffer this crime every day in the future."
Li Zhou helped him out, and Qiao Zhi suddenly remembered: "How are you and Miss Zhou? We've been out to accompany clients every day these days. She won't be angry, will she?"
Looking at Li Zhou's face, Qiao Zhi said incredulously, "You haven't confessed to her yet?"
"I confessed, but she didn't believe my sincerity, so she refused." Li Zhou smiled, "I'll make her believe it."
His love is still a long way to go, and Qiao Zhi patted him on the shoulder sympathetically: "Don't be late tomorrow."
Tomorrow will be ASH's first appearance after returning to China. In addition to the two of them, several major shareholders will also attend. And as one of the founders, he also has something important to announce.
The elevator door opened, and a familiar figure sat at the door of the room, curled up in a place where the light could not shine, a small ball, looking extremely pitiful.
Li Zhou paused for a moment, then strode forward, knelt down in front of her on one knee, and called her gently, "Qiaoqiao, why are you here?"
She slowly raised her head, glanced at him in confusion, and suddenly called him: "Li Zhou?"
"It's me. Did you drink?"
She giggled twice: "Drink a little."
"Is there anything to celebrate?"
She shook her head and suddenly reached out to wrap her arms around his neck. Her arms were soft, like silk, lingering across her skin. The faint scent of alcohol on her body was mixed with an indescribable fragrance, and he was almost intoxicated by every touch he had with her.
But her head was buried on his shoulder, and there was warm liquid sliding down his neck.
she cried……
He immediately came back to his senses and asked her, "Are you in a bad mood?"
"Li Zhou." She called his name dully, "I really liked you when I was in high school."
"I know," he said.
She asked suspiciously, "Really?"
How can a person not be aware of other people's love? Because liking is such a fiery thing that cannot be ignored, dazzling and dazzling.
Who can ignore the sun? Who can keep their love deep in their hearts forever?
He said, "Because I like you as much as you like me."
She smiled softly, but said, "Liar."
"Why do you say I lied?"
"I like you... just because you are you, whether you are poor or rich, I like you..." Tears fell down her cheeks into the bottomless night, she choked and said slowly, "But if I Without a rich father, Li Zhou, would you like me?"
He finally realized that something was wrong: "Did you hear something?"
"I know all about it," she said, "I know you came to me for my dad's investment. But you've got the wrong person. I'll never dictate my dad's business, even if I like you again. , won't help you either..."
When she said this, she was suddenly stunned and looked at him blankly: "But I like you so much, if you speak, I will definitely help you to beg Dad."
"Li Zhou," she cried with a "wow", "Why do I like you so much!"
Like is such an inexplicable thing, it is hard to get rid of it when it falls in the heart. Eighteen-year-old likes, stretched through the rainy season, intertwined into clouds that cannot be dispersed. She liked him so much that she chased after him foolishly. As soon as he turned around, she would throw away her armor and be defeated.
She was crying and trembling in his arms, he hugged her gently, his heart was like crumpled paper, but he jumped hard for her.
"I know," he said. "I know how much you like me."
She liked her, he thought it was a burden when he was young, so he ran away without looking back. The young man's heart has been toughened in hardships, but he also understands how precious a love that does not ask for anything in return is.
Time has never died. I like it, and a sincerity is always worth offering to the altar.
He kissed her forehead reverently, like kissing the only god in his life.
"This is the last time I'll make you cry," he said. "I promise."
8
Zhou Qiaoqiao opened his eyes with difficulty, only to feel a terrible headache.
She couldn't drink enough, so she called her father's secretary yesterday, knowing that her father had really invested in Li Zhou, she hung up the phone before she finished listening, drank two bottles of beer impulsively, and then ran to Li Zhou to cry... …
Zhou Qiaoqiao froze abruptly, looking around, this must be Li Zhou's house, full of the lonely atmosphere of a bachelor. The TV was on, and a familiar person was speaking on it: "Transferring ASH back to China was originally just my own idea..."
It's Li Zhou.
Watching him on TV is a different experience than in reality. He is so tall, tall and thin, and the sharpness of his eyebrows has never been lost even through the signal broadcast. At this time, he said to the camera with a positive smile: "Here, I would like to thank my partner Qiao Zhi, who was the first to agree with my point of view. At the same time, I would also like to thank my partner Qiao Zhi. Mr. Zhou Jianyuan, as my angel investor, he has been encouraging me since the initial investment. Now, he has made an additional investment to help us tide over the difficulties."
Zhou Jianyuan is her father.
It turned out that his father had already invested in him, so he was not close to him, as Chu Xiaomeng said, just for the money!
On the TV, Li Zhou was still saying: "And the person I should thank the most, she was not there. When I was in high school, I was just a poor student, with a poor family, and my younger brothers and sisters to raise. At that time, I thought about dropping out of school to work. , It is she who has always encouraged me and helped me silently. Here, I want to say to her, thank you, without you, I would not be where I am now. "
"You ask me, if you didn't have a rich father, would I still like you? I want to tell you that I left because I understood the distance between us. I thought we were not from the same world, I can't give you happiness, so I can't drag you down selfishly. For so many years, every bit of my efforts are just to be closer to you..."
Having said that, he stopped and looked through the camera as if he was silently looking at Zhou Qiaoqiao.
"In order to show my sincerity, I decided to donate all my shares in ASH to Miss Zhou Qiaoqiao, which will be donated voluntarily and will not be recovered no matter what happens."
This is a vow as sacred as a marriage declaration - for a self-made man, it is like entrusting his whole life.
Zhou Qiaoqiao covered his mouth and saw that he suddenly took a deep breath. This is the first time this person who is calm in the face of everything is so nervous: "No matter whether I am poor or rich, my love will never change. So, I would like to ask Miss Zhou Qiaoqiao. …”
The phone rang, Zhou Qiaoqiao answered it, and heard him ask, "Will you marry me?"
There were boundless exclamations and applause at the scene, and the white pigeons flew into the sky together with the fireworks, and decades of time passed by.
They have a bright future, and they will have a future.
The universe witnesses the rose, and after the Milky Way comes to an end, every star will engrave love.
Tears fell one by one, and Zhou Qiaoqiao said loudly, "I do!"
Last updated: October 6, 2022