Watching in the dark night

Chapter 34 Missing
  Seeing his openness, Yan Shuang was not polite, took a string of crispy bones and put it into his mouth with an iron stick.

This habit of hers is actually very bad. If someone passes by at this moment and accidentally bumps into her, the skewer may pierce her throat.

She also knew it, but every time she would subconsciously finish it before thinking about correcting it next time.

So, when Fang Zheng across the way looked at her eating and hesitated to speak, Yan Shuang knew what the problem was.

"He said that if you want to stay in the company for a long time, you must look less, listen less, ask less, and do more." Perhaps due to obsessive-compulsive disorder, Fang Zheng stared at the skewers in Yan Shuang's hand and turned around obediently. He shook his head sideways before continuing.

"Look less, listen less, ask less, do more? Isn't this AI? Does it mean employees can't have their own ideas?" Forgive her for disagreeing.

"Don't you think this is what we are doing now?" Fang Zheng asked her.

After hearing what he said, Yan Shuang thought about it carefully, and it seemed that it was true!
  It seems that apart from doing her job well every day, she doesn't seem to know much about the big and small things that happen in the company, and she doesn't have much involvement in them.

Maybe it's because of this that the lounge has become a gossip concentration camp.

Everything in the company is left to the employees to guess. No matter how big the matter is, HR will never step in to appease employees.

"I was very brave and asked my doubts in front of Mr. Ju." He picked up another skewer of pork belly and ate it.

"What did Mr. Ju say?" Yan Shuang was quite curious. After all, she didn't dare to ask this in front of the leader.

"He didn't say anything, he just lowered his head and smiled silently."

"Laughing?" Yan Shuang frowned.

"Yes, I didn't understand why Mr. Ju smiled so meaningfully at the time. I understood later." He nodded and continued.

"The environment will silently and subtly erode our original ideas. Let us be assimilated and finally become one of them." Fang Zheng took a sip of tea and looked at Yan Shuang and said.

"What if I don't want to change?" Yan Shuang didn't understand, so she expressed her doubts.

It’s just a job. The boss pays you to do the work yourself. How can he really be that capable of destroying his own will?
  "Either leave, or be marginalized and remain a clerk forever, working silently like this for the rest of your life." Fang Zheng seemed to think her question was too naive, so he shook his head and answered her with a smile.

"Then I'd rather leave!" She didn't want to become a robot that only obeyed instructions.

Although Yan Shuang never thought about how ambitious she would be at work. She didn't originally have a strong character.

But it is absolutely impossible for her to be so ignorant and have no choice but to work indifferently.

Fang Zheng listened to her words and sat on the low stool opposite the small table and looked at her quietly.

His eyes were very complicated, mixed with many things that Yan Shuang couldn't understand.

Was her tone too extreme just now? Looking at the strange look from Fang Zheng on the other side, Yan Shuang silently reviewed what she had just said.

"Actually, you guys really seem like it." Fang Zheng suddenly spoke, but he did not continue the topic they had just discussed.

Has this big brother always spoken like this?

Yan Shuang was choked by Fang Zheng's sudden but unskilled way of changing the topic, and for a long time she didn't know how to answer his words.

She was already full of passion, and when she was about to say that she would not be afraid of power and insist on being herself, she was completely extinguished by his inexplicable words.

"You" was just when she was about to ask. Fang Zheng seemed to realize that his words were a little confusing, so he quickly interrupted her and started to explain.

"I'm sorry! Actually, I wanted to say it when you started eating skewers. I couldn't hold it back just now and it was a bit abrupt." In order to cover up his emotions, he picked up the tea cup on the table and was about to take a sip. I found that there was no tea in the cup.

He had to pick up the teapot in a panic and fill it up with tea for the two of them.

Yan Shuang had no choice but to ask: "Who is the person you are talking about?"

"A friend of mine, like you, likes to eat skewers with the sticks turned vertically. I don't know how many times I have reminded her, but she still won't change her mind next time." When talking about his friend, Fang Zheng's eyes were caught by the street lights. Shine out a little light.

Don't tell me, this stubborn little guy with a bad memory really looks a lot like me!
  "Then did she change it in the end?" Yan Shuang wanted to know.

"I don't know. Maybe I changed it? Maybe I won't be able to change it in this life." When he said this, his tone seemed to be a little... longing?

"Why do you say that?" If he spoke in such a tone, don't blame her for starting to ask questions.

"She is a very stubborn person. She will keep eating what she likes, and she will try her best to do what she believes in. I once doubted that no one in this world can change her mind."

When he said this, Fang Zheng began to lose his mind, looking confused like an abandoned child.

"Later, I discovered that no one could change her mind, but that person was not me." The last few words in a deep voice sounded like a sigh.

"Is this person your ex-girlfriend?" Hearing his tender tone, it was hard for her not to think that way.

"No, it's me. I've always liked her, and she originally had some interest in me."

"Then why are we not together?" Yan Shuang picked up the chopsticks and ate the garlic eggplant.

She was almost full, but after hearing this, her appetite came back for some reason.

"The last time I saw her, she told me that someone was chasing her. Then, I never saw her again." Fang Zheng's hand began to wipe the table again, as if he couldn't bear the oil stains appearing in front of his eyes.

What's the meaning? She began to doubt her own ability to understand.

"You mean," she tried to clarify the relationship, "she was originally interested in you, but then someone chased her, so she agreed to someone else and never paid attention to you again?"

Could it be that because he was afraid that Fang Zheng would be hurt again, he chose to ignore him?

Then we shouldn’t never see each other again for the rest of our lives, right?
  "No, you misunderstood" Fang Zheng replied.

"What does that mean?" No, he made it clear. He said half of it and left half of it.

"There was something wrong with my expression just now. It should be said that she is missing!"

"What? Missing?" The incident suddenly changed from being out of love to a missing person. We really can't blame Yan Shuang for having such a big reaction.

"Yes, but I don't think this is a simple disappearance." Fang Zheng stopped wiping the table, but still looked at the table without raising his eyes.

"What did you discover that made you say this?" Yan Shuang asked.

She really didn't like chatting with people who just asked and answered questions, but he seemed to be really in pain, so Yan Shuang had no choice but to continue asking patiently.

"Because one day."

(End of this chapter)