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Chapter 400 The past is the past after all
When Wen Yunting saw Le Yao's appearance clearly, he had never seen her before, but there was an inexplicable sense of familiarity in his heart, and he looked at her with cold eyes.

Although her hair is loose and messy, she has a pair of beautiful almond eyes, and her reddish lips are small...

God, what is he looking at?
The corners of Wen Yunting's lips twitched unnaturally jerky, displeased at his distraction just now.

In her embarrassed eyes, there was an inexplicable sadness in her reddish eyes, and it was this sadness that made Wen Yunting suddenly feel her heart tighten slightly.

Time seemed to stop in embarrassment.

"Yunting." Song Siyu's elegant and gentle voice came from beside the stairs, "My parents are still waiting for you."

Her voice pulled Le Yao out of the boundless pain. Suddenly, her gaze touched Song Siyu's tall figure. Although she was just leaning there, the elegant and charming temperament exuding from her body gave Le Yao a sense of inferiority , and Song Siyu's pretty face and faint smile all revealed her noble temperament.

While Wen Yunting was turning around, he didn't look back again. At the top of the stairs, Song Siyu naturally took his arm and walked into the coffee shop together.

Their figures match well.There was bitterness on Le Yao's lips, but her heart was inexplicably aching again, her hands were trembling, tears overflowed from the corners of her eyes, and slid down her cheeks.

*
"Le Yao, why did you come back?" Ye Hui looked at her anxiously, and suppressed her voice because she was concerned about the office.

Le Yao stretched out her hand to comb her hair. Just now, she was in the bathroom and tied her hair again. At this time, her eyes were slightly lowered, not wanting Ye Hui to notice the redness in her eyes. She passed her and walked to her place Walking up: "What's wrong?" She sat lazily on the chair and put the folder on the table, her mind was in chaos.

"Uncle Le is in the hospital."

"What?" Le Yao stood up in shock, raised her eyes to look at her, her apricot eyes were originally black and white, but at this moment, there were slightly red bloodshot eyes: "What's wrong with my dad?"

"You should go to the hospital first!" Ye Hui pointed to the mobile phone on Le Yao's desk: "Not long after you left, the mobile phone rang..."

"Ask for leave!" In a hurry, Le Yao didn't care about anything, and ran straight to the door. In a panic, she just prayed for her father's safety...

Times Ginza outside.

The summer heat has not dissipated, but there is no empty taxi in the bustling traffic, Le Yao pursed her lips, anxious, as time went by, the panic in her heart became more and more serious.

In the traffic flow, Wen Yunting was sitting in that shiny black car. The comfortable temperature inside the car was in stark contrast to the heat outside.He sat indifferently, looking out of the car window with a trace of cold eyes.

After five years away from the city, he finally came back.

Suddenly, Wen Yunting's gaze was attracted by a black and slender figure on the side of the street. Isn't that the woman I met at the stairs before?Now she has her hair pulled back obediently, her delicate face is completely exposed, completely different from the embarrassed look before.

The traffic flow was too long, and the car slowly drove past her, but Wen Yunting withdrew his gaze arrogantly and coldly, yes, no woman can attract his attention...

Of course...except...

"Uncle Du, go to Taohuayuan." He told the driver, and then closed his eyes, his perfect facial features seemed to be carved...Handsome with indifference.

*
The room was filled with the bitter smell of traditional Chinese medicine.

"I should go to the hospital for a plaster cast." Le Yao's forehead and hair were covered with sweat, but she pointed the fan in Le Zhengming's direction.

An hour ago, Le Yao had just gotten into a taxi when he received a call from Minghao, saying that Le Zhengming was in an orthopedic clinic.

"I just sprained my foot." Le Zhengming's thin face was pale with a trace of sickness. In his mouth, there was bitter Chinese medicine. Although his left foot hurt, but in order not to worry Le Yao, he didn't snort, but instead Comfort her daughter: "It's nothing serious."

"The feet are swollen like this." Le Yao's nose turned sour. His father just turned 50 last year, but his aging face looks like a [-]-year-old man, with a lot of white silk in his hair.

"Silly girl!" Seeing his daughter's sad appearance, Le Zhengming felt a little sad in his heart. He even lifted his left foot wrapped in Chinese herbal medicine and twisted it deliberately. The severe pain hit his whole body, but he seemed extremely relaxed: "Look. Look, it's okay!" As soon as he spoke, he saw his daughter's eyes wet, and he looked behind her: "If you don't believe me, ask Minghao."

Ming Hao cut the watermelon and took it out: "The doctor said, for Uncle Le's foot, change the medicine four or five times, and rest for half a month and it will be fine."

Le Yao looked at them suspiciously, but his eyes were red.What happened today... In the end, it made her heart flustered...

The sweetness of watermelon dispersed the bitter taste of traditional Chinese medicine in his mouth. When Minghao entered the kitchen, Le Zhengming whispered to his daughter: "Young man Minghao is not bad. I have never seen such a persistent person. It has been five years. You If you haven't given them a single letter, they will be around you all day long." Seeing that his daughter was silent, Le Zhengming continued.

Le Yao, who was upset, looked coldly at the watermelon, "Some things cannot be forced." After finishing speaking, the handsome figure in the corridor appeared in his mind... Some people, some things, don't care How long has passed, always...always existed.

"You also know that there are some things that cannot be forced?" Le Zhengming raised his voice unknowingly. Le Yao is so big, he has never been reluctant to scold her, but this time he was annoyed: "Then what are you thinking?" My daughter graduated He is working, but he has been single all the time. Although he is only 23 years old, he knows his body. He is just afraid that one day he will be gone and she will be alone... But how has Minghao treated her these past few years? A father knows best.

"I'm not suitable for him..." Le Yao said with difficulty: "Dad, I really don't want to force myself."

Looking at his daughter's slightly red and swollen eyes, Dai Datong felt distressed for no reason...he just sighed softly.

There is only a kitchen separated by a wall, Ming Hao pursed his lips tightly, there was a touch of bitterness between his lips, he looked sideways out of the window, under the blue sky, surrounded by low-rise residential buildings, and his heart, just like the surrounding environment, was extremely poor .Is it time to give up?His five years of persistence...five years of waiting, but in exchange for her saying "inappropriate"...was it worth it?
*
The lounge on the [-]th floor of Times Ginza.

"How is your father?" Ye Hui was holding a cup of coffee, leaning against the window, looking at Le Yao who was bending over to fetch the boiling water.

"I sprained my foot." A gust of warm water slipped into Le Yao's throat, and she was annoyed that the document Zuo Youqing, the administrative director, arranged for her to take for Lou Mo to sign yesterday was missing... She remembered that she left yesterday It was clearly placed on the table.

"is it serious?"

"It's okay." Le Yao turned around, but she just happened to see Luo Zhen walking into the office area. In her mind, the scene of seeing that decadent scene on the [-]th floor yesterday suddenly appeared in her mind... After that, her cheeks became slightly hot, She turned around quickly, with her back to the door of the lounge...

"What kind of wind brought Luo Mi here?" Ye Hui joked cheerfully while holding a coffee cup. She, Le Yao, and Luo Zhen were former classmates of Z City Normal University.

Luo Zhen stood gracefully at the door of the lounge. Although she was wearing the same black work suit and high heels as they were, for some reason, she seemed to have a different feeling...

"Here." Luo Zhen handed the blue folder to Le Yao.

Le Yao's brain exploded with a buzzing sound...Could it be...Could it be...the folder fell on the seventeenth floor yesterday?Gosh!
"Boss Lou signed it." Luo Zhen raised her eyebrows slightly, with a faint and unpredictable smile in her eyes: "Le Yao, what's wrong with you today?"

Le Yao, who is usually not slow to respond, hoarse...heart, thumping...beating non-stop...holding a cup in his hand, but at this moment, his throat is so thirsty: "Thank you." The blue folder looks like Like a hot potato, she felt a little guilty in her heart.

"I'll go up first. At ten o'clock, I'm going to inspect the store with Mr. Lou," Luo Zhen raised her eyebrows slightly, her sense of superiority could not be concealed in her words, before she left, she looked at Le Yao meaningfully glance.

"Hey." Ye Hui's coffee gradually cooled down, but she murmured to herself in confusion: "Luo Zhen, this girl has changed..." She looked at Le Yao, and then at herself, "They are also the uniforms of the company, why, So eye-catching on Luo Zhen?"

"She cut her skirt short." Le Yao leaned over, took another cup of boiling water, and gulped it down. The water in his throat temporarily quenched his thirst.As soon as the words were spoken, Luo Zhen's slender and charming legs on the desk appeared in her mind again... Thinking of this, she felt a pang in her chest, and a nausea hit her. She walked quickly to the edge of the water chisel, I retched.

"Ah?" Ye Hui raised her eyebrows and hurried out of the lounge, just in time to see Luo Zhen's leaving back... Turning around, she heard Le Yao retching. "What’s wrong with you?"

Le Yao closed her eyes, the nausea in her throat hadn't completely disappeared...she didn't spit out anything, only the water she just drank.And when she was retching, a sense of distressed and sad familiarity plunged her heart into boundless darkness again.

"Could it be... I have it!" Ye Hui kindly handed over the tissue, her brows slightly tightened, she looked at her worriedly, and asked in a low voice: "Le Yao, it belongs to the senior..." She stroked Le Yao's back with her hand: "You have been together for five years...it is normal..."

Le Yao, who was in a state of confusion, didn't even hear Ye Hui's words clearly, but just wanted to get rid of the nausea.

"Are you guys free to do?" The administrative director Zuo Youqing appeared in the lounge with a stern voice.

"Director Zuo, Le Yao has..." Ye Hui said kindly, but she said such a sentence without thinking, and when she looked at Zuo Youqing, she also saw Standing beside Zuo Youqing, the handsome and stalwart Wen Yunting.

There was a hint of ridicule in Zuo Youqing's eyes... The lower jaw was raised slightly, with a bit of contempt and a bit of sneer.

"Director Zuo, the company's personnel management system needs to be strengthened." Wen Yunting said coldly on his thin lips, today is his first day officially joining Times Ginza, and his former classmate and current administrative supervisor Zuo Youqing brought He was familiar with it, but he didn't expect to meet an employee chatting in the lounge.

Wen Yunting's voice hit Le Yao like a thunderbolt, her thoughts cleared up in an instant, her chest was suffocated and unbearably miserable, she tidied herself with a tissue, and then turned around.

When he saw Le Yao clearly, Wen Yunting was slightly shocked, but he concealed his emotions very well. In his eyes, he looked at the embarrassed Le Yao with indifference and aloofness, then turned around and took a big step to rest Walking outside, the figure of Angzang, firm and straight, with indifference, pushed everyone to the cold.

Zuo Youqing immediately followed, and said in an almost obsequious voice: "Go and sit in my office—"

But inexplicably, Wen Yunting was extremely unhappy, and instead of answering Zuo Youqing's words, he strode away.

"Wow!" Ye Hui's gaze did not leave Wen Yunting's far away back: "You are so handsome!" She shook Le Yao's arm, "Le Yao, this is clearly my thing!"

But Le Yao's heart was in boundless pain...

Lips...bitter....
From then on, Xiao Lang was a passerby.

From now on?

passerby?

There was a sneer on her lips... In fact, they were just passers-by.

Passersby...just...passersby.

"Even if he doesn't smile, he's extremely handsome." Ye Hui's lips lightly lifted, with a narcissistic expression.

Thirst and bitterness came from her throat, and Le Yao gulped and rinsed her mouth with white water... But her face became paler and paler, and her heart was as gloomy as dead ashes.

"Le Yao, tell me... can he laugh?" Ye Hui said to herself, thinking about Wen Yunting's handsome appearance like a nympho in her mind.

*
Le Yao put the blue folder on Zuo Youqing's desk.

Zuo Youqing looked at Le Yao critically, she pursed her lips and said nothing, making it impossible to guess what she was going to say next.

"Director Zuo, I have nothing else to do and I'm going out first." Le Yao really couldn't stand her critical and shrewd scrutiny.

"Are you pregnant?" Zuo Youqing raised her eyebrows slightly, and asked irrefutably.

Le Yao shook her head, today, more than three people have asked her this question, and even the whole cubicle is spreading the news about her wedding, alas, it was all caused by Ye Hui's quick talk.

Zuo Youqing played with the pen in her hand, her big eyes never left Le Yao's pale face: "If you can't take it anymore, you can ask for maternity leave in advance... The company's personnel benefits are quite good." Subconsciously, she wanted to be happy Yao leaves.

"Director Zuo, I think everyone has misunderstood." Le Yao pursed her thirsty lips lightly: "I just have a bad stomach, and I'm not pregnant."

"Oh?" The corners of Zuo Youqing's beautiful lips rose slightly, with a trace of ridicule that made people unable to figure it out: "Really?"

"Yes." Le Yao said neither humble nor overbearing.

"Go out!" Zuo Youqing's tone was always cold and disgusted, and the pen in her hand was casually thrown on the desk. Unexpectedly, the hand was too hard, and the sleek pen rolled across the desk and landed on the ground Le Yao's feet.

Le Yao leaned over, picked up the pen that still had the owner's strong fragrance, put it in Zuo Youqing's pen holder, turned around, and was about to leave.

"Do you know why I hate you?" When Zuo Youqing watched her turn around calmly, a deep anger grew in her heart. Yao said.

Le Yao, who was about to reach out to open the office door, froze and froze for a few seconds. After a while, she opened the door and left. The moment she walked out, Zuo Youqing grabbed the pen just now, angrily Throw it at her.

In an instant, Le Yao had already walked out, the poor pen fell on the glass door, making a crisp sound, and then, its limbs were separated and scattered on the dark blue carpet.

But the door didn't shake at all because of the broken pen.

"Damn it!" Looking at the fragmented pen and thinking of Le Yao's indifferent gaze and quiet figure, Zuo Youqing was so angry that her pretty face was distorted, and angrily, she threw her body into the leather chair with her hands in her hands. She patted the armrest heavily, but unexpectedly, there was a pain in the little finger of her left hand. It turned out that she had used too much force and accidentally broke her nail on the armrest.

The nails that had been meticulously maintained yesterday were broken, and her chest was slightly heaving. She pushed her hand and broke the crystal photo frame she bought from France... The crystal fragments fell on the ground, touched the light, and reflected a wave of light. Cold, biting her lower lip, she silently said: Le Yao, I will kick you out of Mu's family and let you leave Yunting forever!

How can Le Yao not feel when a person hates himself?However, she couldn't understand why Zuo Youqing hated her?When it comes to work, she has always been serious and careful, and almost never made any mistakes. The former administrative manager was full of praise for her, and when it comes to politeness, she has always been respectful to Zuo Youqing... She really doesn't know what offended her It made her hate herself so much.

*
"Senior, your movements are really fast!" Ye Hui stood by the parking lot behind Times Ginza, eating ice cream and looking at Minghao with a smile: "Keep quiet, let's have a happy baby!" It's dark."

Taking advantage of the absence of class in the morning, Ming Hao came to Ye Hui quietly, wanting to know Le Yao's true thoughts from her, but unexpectedly, she said something that he couldn't figure out.

"It's really you!" Ye Hui grinned, like a boy, with her head slightly raised, her fair face with a sunny smile, "Before, Le Yao even hid it from me, if she didn't vomit all the time today, I would still I didn't know you had already..."

"What do you mean?" The more Ming Hao listened, the more he couldn't understand, and he was at a loss: "What is the swift action? What is the dark knot in the bead?"

"Hmph, you still want to hide it from me?" Ye Hui raised her eyebrows in disdain, as if she knew everything: "Senior, you can't deny that the child in Le Yao's stomach is not yours, right?"

Ming Hao was stunned, he just didn't come back to his senses for a while.

"Hmph!" Ye Hui hummed in puzzlement, "If you dare to be sorry to Le Yao...I'll be the first to get in a hurry with you!" Then he added: "It's been five years, except for you, Le Yao has never given up. Have any boyfriends?"

Minghao is extremely embarrassed, boyfriend?He has never been Le Yao's boyfriend, but he is just Le Yao's suitor and admirer.But now, Ye Hui's words plunged his heart into boundless jealousy.

Beside them, a shiny black car passed by quietly. Wen Yunting, who was sitting in the car, was inexplicably, stuffy, and extremely irritable. Moreover, his face was terribly cold, and his eyes were transparent. Passing through the car window, it landed on Ming Hao's face, but in his mind, Le Yao's retching, pale and thin appearance appeared in his mind, his heart tightened slightly, and inadvertently, there was a faint, invisible sourness.

*
"What? Are you uncomfortable?" After Ming Hao helped Le Zhengming into the bedroom and settled down, he walked into the kitchen and said to Le Yao who was immersed in washing dishes, "You ate very little tonight."

"It's okay, I'm fine." Le Yao washed the dishes without turning her head. Even though her heart was in a mess these days, her voice was as quiet as a calm lake.In the past five years, she has become accustomed to disguising and hiding her true emotions.

"I thought..." Ming Hao was a little at a loss, and he swallowed the words he wanted to ask, "The dishes I cook are not to your liking." But the words Ye Hui said made him feel uncomfortable all afternoon. Restless... He didn't dare to ask directly, he was afraid of hurting her, and he was even more afraid of scaring her away.

Le Yao raised her lips slightly, but her smile was very sad: "Thank you, senior, thank you for helping me take care of my father... and thank you for helping our father and daughter for so many years." His love for her, It was obvious, and she knew it, but she knew better that she was not worthy of him, let alone love, not to mention, her heart had already been as depressed as dead ashes five years ago.

Her thanks made Minghao anxious, afraid that she would say something. Although he clearly heard her tell Le Zhengming something that he didn't feel for him, he was still afraid that she would tell him in person, so he mustered up his courage : "I heard that Man Tingfang's house is nice, Le Yao, tomorrow is the weekend, let's go and see the house."

Le Yao wiped off the water on her hands. She understood the meaning of his words and felt a little nervous: "Senior, congratulations, you are going to buy a house." She frowned slightly; "Sorry, I have to work overtime tomorrow, so I can't accompany you Go, or let Ye Hui accompany you to see it."

Her refusal with words made Minghao's face slightly hot, and he attacked him sadly, and he wanted to impress her again: "My colleague said that Man Tingfang's house has a big balcony, which is very suitable for the elderly to bask in the sun. I think, Le Uncle should like it, I have also seen the floor plan, a two-bedroom house, [-] square meters, very practical..."

"We don't have the money to buy a house." Le Yao turned around, her pale face became thinner because of haggardness, and there was a hint of helplessness in her eyes like a new moon: "Although this house is old and the environment is not good, but , our father and daughter live very practically, not to mention that the rent is only [-] yuan a month, which we can afford.”

The conversations between them all carried another meaning... Her sideways refusal made Minghao feel uncomfortable with suffocation in his chest. As a university teacher, he always talked freely with his friends at school, but when he came to her , I feel speechless.

Le Yao took off the apron around her waist and hung it on the concrete nail on the kitchen door.

The moment she was about to leave the kitchen, Minghao got the courage out of nowhere, stretched out his hand, wanting to hold her hand...he didn't want to wait any longer...

Time, maybe just passing by in an instant, just like his hand, when he was about to hold her hand, but unexpectedly, she raised her hand and stroked the hair on her forehead behind her ears, And his hand just fell away.

But at this moment, the landline at Le Yao's home rang. She strode over and picked up the old silver-gray handset. The other party's words were only a few words, but it disappointed her because she was being hit by her words. Yes, I really have to work overtime tomorrow.Originally, she wanted to spend more time with Le Zhengming on weekends...but she didn't expect...

However, Ming Hao, who was a few meters away, was very disappointed and annoyed... With his hands in his hair, he scratched helplessly...

*
"Daddy? Little Daidai..."

The voice as gentle as the spring breeze rang in Le Yao's ears, and the afterglow of dusk fell on her face, which seemed to be stained with a layer of blush, and there was a stubborn light in her eyes.

In the next second, his soft lips touched her cheek. Although it was just like a superficial touch, it made Le Yao's heart pound like a deer.She pulled her legs shyly and wanted to run, but she felt that her legs were trembling uncontrollably, so that she couldn't take a step at all.

Without any warning, he grabbed her hand accurately, lowered his head narrowly and gently and said close to her ear: "Little fool, don't think you can escape..."

This is the first time he kissed her.

She blushed and her heart beat, her eyes were full of shyness, just when his lips touched her, her eyelashes like butterfly wings flickered, but in this short second, she found that she couldn't see anything.

And on the arm, there is no warmth from his hand;
It was pitch black, and she couldn't even feel his presence...

The chest was suffocated, and fear and fear attacked her. She even felt that her breathing was starting to feel uncomfortable...

"Yunting!" She searched around, but found that she couldn't make a sound at all...

"Ah——" Le Yao woke up from her dream. In the silent summer night, she could only hear the whirring of a fan in the air, and the cultural shirt on her body was soaked through.

The heat of her body and the coldness and fear in her heart made her feel that her heart had been hollowed out.

Because, that scene is not a dream;
that kiss is true;

His once warm words seem to be still in my ears...
However, things have already changed.

In the past, he could always grab her arm easily, and always joked that she couldn't escape, but in the end, he let her go.

If the heart is said to be chaotic, but when you think about it carefully, it is a little dazed and dejected;

If her heart is agitated, but her usual face is so calm, so calm that no one will see her thoughts, no one will notice her abnormality.

Tears... Like any other night, they spread. In order not to let Le Zhengming hear, she tightly closed her lips to prevent herself from making a sound.

The night is long.

At night, she was so lonely that she was afraid.

In the past few years, she dared not and was unwilling to recall the events of that summer.

The past is the past;
The past can only exist in memories, and she deliberately wants to forget it.

But, just when her heart was indifferent, unexpectedly, he came back again, and, just like this, he appeared in front of her alive, that indifferent eyes, that perfect but expressionless face, made her feel like that Strange and distant.

In fact, such a scene may have been doomed as early as five years ago.

Some memories, some feelings, maybe only hers.

That thunderstorm night.

That brightly lit banquet hall.

That dark garden.

That night when the fire spread...

Everything is already over.

And her heart died five years ago, didn't she?
Changing out of the soaked t-shirt, Le Yao forced herself to fall asleep, but her hand accidentally touched her lower abdomen, which was slightly soft, but there was a flat, thin scar, which had faded over time It is close to the skin color, but when you touch it with your hands, you can faintly feel that under the scar, it is not as soft as other skins, and even feels a little hard.

Suddenly, something called "pain" was aroused in her memory. Back then, when the knife cut her lower abdomen, she even felt that she heard the sound of the skin being cut by the knife... and then the feeling of emptiness in her lower abdomen made her She clearly knows that all of this is nothing but what she has already noticed... She, in the end, has nothing.

Her heart suddenly ached.

(End of this chapter)