Only you are so different

Chapter 16 All Feelings Need Sublimation

Lin Mei felt that there was something wrong with Su Xiuran in the past few days, and it seemed a little serious to say that something was wrong, because he was still the same, except for a few hours of vicious tongue at work, he wore a gentle smile every day, as if he was a giant Move the light.

But Lin Mei always felt that there seemed to be something more in his eyes. Although he tried his best to restrain him, there were still some scorching lights occasionally showing out, which made her heartbeat a little faster instinctively.

In the calm and busy day after day, Su Xiuran's body repeatedly failed to fully recover, and he seemed to keep himself busy on purpose.

The new book, the files that Zhang Yan threw over, and even some company affairs that Su Xiuyan threw over in a blatant manner after the relationship eased.

Lin Mei often saw him calling Zhang Yan or Su Xiuyan while half lying on the bed in the middle of the night, let alone making contact during the day.

Originally, it was nothing, Su Xiuran was originally a super computer with high precision (at least Lin Mei thought so), it was nothing to him to think about it, but the key was that he was just discharged from the hospital and was still recovering , such continuous rotation will definitely delay recovery.

Seeing him pressing his stomach and leaning against the head of the bed to call Su Xiuyan again, he pursed his thin lips to endure the pain while talking.

Seeing that, Lin Mei's liver ached and her heart ached, she hurried over to hug his waist, and covered his stomach with his hand: "The incision hurts again? Is it better?"

Su Xiuran showed a slightly pale smile, his eyes flickered again, pushed her hand away, and then said softly: "It's nothing, maybe I still have a little food accumulation." After finishing speaking, he continued to talk to Su Xiuyan Yes, with slightly lowered eyes and extremely focused.

After thinking about it, Lin Mei still felt that Su Xiuyan was the most hateful, so she turned her head and came out, and when Su Xiuran hung up the phone, she called Su Xiuyan's mobile phone, and said viciously: "Don't bother your brother, okay? He is now be mine!"

Su Xiuyan was a little confused: "I didn't say he was mine either."

Lin Mei knew that her anger was inexplicable, so she could only grit her teeth and say, "You don't pay your brother a salary, why bother him with those things?"

Su Xiuyan thought for a moment, and then said: "In fact, my brother has always owned 9% of Shenyue's shares. He transferred the part he inherited from his father to me, but this is what he already owned."

This Lin Mei really doesn't know, but how much is the annual dividend of Shenyue Group's 9% shares? Even if she doesn't know the exact figure, she still knows that it may exceed Su Xiuran's income from manuscript fees, even though his manuscript fee is already very high. Amazing.

Thinking of this, she felt a little weak: "So what!"

As soon as Su Xiuyan became complacent, he forgot the fear brought about by Lin Mei's slap, and resumed the cold tone with a bit of mockery: "So, as one of the major shareholders, he has been absent from the meeting for many years. Don't you need compensation?" After finishing his righteous words, he said again with confidence, "Besides, he is my brother. Isn't it natural to help me work?"

Without giving Lin Mei any time to react, President Su decisively cut off the call, maintaining his dignity as a domineering president.

Lin Mei feels that life is a bit difficult to live on, not only the work pressure is high, but also the love life is not going well.

Fortunately, someone was finally willing to save her from the fire and water. This weekend, she received invitations from a few buddies to come out for dinner.

Before Lin Mei lived in Su Xiuran's house, she had a spare time on weekends.She has a few best friends, who will take turns going out to watch movies, play board games, etc. if they have nothing to do.

Ever since she lived in Su Xiuran's house and had to take care of the delicate male god on weekends, she had less participation in those activities.

It happened that her friends asked her if she wanted to go out for coffee and chat on Saturday afternoon. Lin Mei was having a breakdown at home, so she quickly agreed, and then went to ask Su Xiuran for leave.

Su Xiuran never cared too much about her private life, and said with a smile: "This is your spare time, how you arrange it is up to you."

Lin Mei happily went over to hug him, and kissed him resoundingly on the cheek: "Okay, be good at home, remember to call me if you need something."

Chun Shenjun, who is currently "supervising" Su Xiuran's recovery every day, gave her a big butt and wagged his tail disdainfully: "Anyway, since the relationship between the two servants is close, I haven't paid much attention to it. Okay." He is too magnanimous in his master to be as sensible as an ungrateful servant.

Su Xiuran put his arms around Lin Mei's waist, his eyes were turbulent, and there was an unchanging gentle smile on his lips.

Lin Mei lightly rubbed his perfectly shaped jaw twice, and added in a good mood: "It's all girls, no male friends."

Then she was disappointed to find that Su Xiuran's expression hadn't changed much, and she didn't seem to mind the gender of the friends she went out to meet.

But as long as she thinks a little more, she will gain insight into Su Xiuran's psychology: it's not that he doesn't have possessive desires, but that he thinks that it is impossible for Lin Mei's friends of the opposite sex to threaten his status.

No matter how you say it, you are just right with confidence.

The weather was fine on Saturday afternoon, so Lin Mei tidied up carefully before going out. Of course, before leaving, she did not forget to give Su Xiuran a thousand words of advice, and she did not forget to kiss Su Xiuran lightly on the cheek to say goodbye.

The date was at a cat cafe in the West District. Lin Mei opened the door and went in, and immediately saw two college classmates and best friends whom she hadn't seen for a long time.

Speaking of which, this was Lin Mei's first meeting with her best friend after confirming her relationship with Su Xiuran. The two men with first-class ability to perceive words and emotions almost immediately noticed that her eyes were full of happiness, and began to press her to ask if she had a peach blossom.

Lin Mei didn't hide anything, she touched the cat who came up beside her, and said with a smile: "The first love has been confirmed."

Su Xiuran was indeed Lin Mei's first love. She was the kind of girl with good looks. She had no shortage of suitors since she was a child, but the only one who was really tempted was Su Xiuran.

As expected, the two friends had surprised expressions on their faces, and they said one after another: "He Fangshen actually took care of our sixth sister, please hand in the photos so that she won't be killed."

With the holding of the press conference, Su Xiuran's face became more or less famous. Of course, she didn't dare to show the frontal photos, so she could only show the photos she secretly took at home.

It was Su Xiuran sitting on the recliner in the study, reading a book, with his slender legs lightly crossed together, the broken hair on the sideburns slightly covering his forehead, and the curve of his side face could be cut out to make a silhouette.

The second sister, who was the most nympho in the dormitory back then, couldn't help it anymore, patted the table and said, "I said that the sixth sister must be more thorough in color control than me. At that time, she even watched the little prince dunking on the basketball team." No, this must be a beautiful man to subdue her!"

Fifth Sister, who was always calm, came over to take a look, nodded solemnly and said, "That's right, it's still in the abstinence department."

Lin Mei didn't dare to tell her parents about the love affair between Su Xiuran and kept it a secret. This was the first time she showed his appearance to her relatives and friends. Seeing him being praised, she felt a little bit of vanity being satisfied.

She didn't pretend either, and smiled as she bent her lips: "It's indeed abstinence, sometimes I can't figure him out."

Fifth Sister's eyes were bright, and she said calmly, "You haven't... got rid of him, have you?"

It is said that everyone is already an adult and they are close girlfriends, but when it comes to this, Lin Mei is still inexperienced and a little innocent: "I haven't told my parents, but...is it not good?"

Fifth Sister looked at her disapprovingly: "Even if you are more cautious about sex, you still need to get used to it. Otherwise, how would you know if you are compatible? Or is there a problem with his function? You are simply too naive."

So Lin Mei, who had been reprimanded for a while, finally got the hang of it, and quickly started to ask the two senior counselors about her boyfriend's strange behavior recently.

After a thorough analysis by the three women, they finally came to a rigorous inference: such self-torture may be... holding back?
The next time can be imagined, Lin Mei was picked up by two senior officers and criticized from head to toe: no matter how abstinent a man is, he is also a man with normal functions!Aren't you the one who suffers when you hold him back?Omg, so stupid!I can't look directly at us having such a useless girlfriend.

Before dinner at night, Lin Mei hurried home with the admonitions of the senior counselors, and when she saw Su Xiuran who was leisurely cooking soup in the kitchen, she approached him quietly and tentatively hugged him. Waist, whispered: "Xiu Ran?"

Su Xiuran's body was indeed the same as before, imperceptibly stiff for a moment, and then he half turned around and looked at her with a smile: "Did you have fun today?"

At the moment when the sun was setting, the yellowish sunlight shone on his deep pupils, so Lin Mei could clearly see the unbearably scorching heat in his eyes.

Just how pretty and delicious is Su Xiuran?Lin Mei felt that she could feel it very intuitively.

He was wearing a white shirt and light-colored trousers, and because he was cooking, he also wore a solid-colored linen apron. In order to facilitate the operation of the kitchen utensils, he rolled up the sleeves of both hands a little, revealing his slender arms—— The skin of the arm is warm and thin, so thin that the shape of the wrist bone can be seen, but it has a tight muscle texture.

Facing Lin Mei's unusual hesitation, he still smiled as usual, then turned his head slightly to stir the casserole: "I made pork rib soup, would you like a bowl?"

Lin Mei looked at his long half eyelashes, his sharp jaw, straight nose bridge and slightly pursed thin lips.For a moment, a thought popped into her mind: What kind of ribs should I eat?It's better to eat you.Then she was taken aback by herself, it was too much like a line from an idol drama.

No matter how powerful Su Xiuran was, he would never have guessed that this kind of thought was in her mind, and smiled at her again: "Wait a minute, I just turned off the fire, and I'll give it to you when it cools down."

As a person who cares about every detail, Su Xiuran cooks meticulously.

The ribs are neat small ribs, and the seasonings will be picked up after they have played their role. After the ribs are stewed, the soup is rich and fragrant. It is served with wax gourd and tofu cut into the same size as the meat. The finished product is full of color, fragrance and flavor. , but also with an approachable home style.

Lin Mei unknowingly ate a bowl, Su Xiuran watched her eating while looking at him eagerly, thought for a while, and suddenly said: "More?"

So Lin Mei ate another bowl without realizing it.

This state of trance lasted until they had finished eating and cleared up. Su Xiuran was called by Su Xiuyan to go to the study, and turned on the computer video, and the two talked for a long time.

Lin Mei walked back and forth at the door of the study several times, until Su Xiuran couldn't see it anymore, stopped the video call with Su Xiuyan, and raised her hand to let her in.

Lin Mei walked in and squeezed into the armchair he was sitting on, with her chin resting on his shoulder.

Su Xiuran waited for a long time, but when she didn't speak, she smiled and said, "Xiaomei, what's the matter?"

Lin Mei hesitated for a while, and she didn't know where to start, so she just said, did I suffocate you?Will it seem too reckless?
The three of them were so sure during the analysis in the afternoon, but now she is suddenly a little uncertain... What if Su Xiuran is so abnormal just because he is in the creative period?
She asked so rashly, isn't Su Xiuran trying to laugh at her for being too stupid?But according to Su Xiuran's character, even if he thought it was funny, he probably wouldn't make fun of her too much, maybe he would admit it to avoid her embarrassment.

Lin Mei was entangled in this way, and when her mind was in a mess, she even thought... Would Su Xiuran not like having a physical relationship with his girlfriend at all?
Would an ascetic and wise man like him want a platonic spiritual partner?
After all, she has never discussed this issue with Su Xiuran. People who write books generally have unique thinking. It is not particularly strange to have such thoughts, right?

She was thinking wildly, without even noticing that she had been lying in Su Xiuran's arms for a long time, and her arms naturally wrapped around his waist.

The muscles on Su Xiuran's waist tensed slightly, and he put his hands on her shoulders, as if he had used a lot of strength to endure, and said in the same gentle tone as usual: "Why, didn't you have fun going out today? "

Lin Mei replied subconsciously: "I'm not unhappy..." She was in a daze, and the ending sound unconsciously dragged on, with a bit of coquettish lingering aftertaste.

Su Xiuran recalled the brief conversation he had with Su Xiuyan just now, their voices were not loud, and Lin Mei was not outside the study door during the conversation, so she probably didn't hear it.

During the video call, Su Xiuyan said with a rather gloating expression: "Brother, I think you've been very angry recently, haven't you thought about relieving yourself?"

When Su Xiuyan called him "brother", there was a bit of sarcasm in his tone, and it was the same this time.

He smiled lightly after listening, and was not polite: "You don't need to ask about this."

Even Su Xiuyan can feel his unusualness, so Lin Mei who is close by his side must also feel it.

Hearing her whispering in his ear, the warm air from her nose still faintly brushing against his neck, Su Xiuran closed his eyes lightly, and opened them again after a while, his lips were almost To show a wry smile.

The woman he loves is acting like a baby defenselessly in his arms, but he has to suppress those eager thoughts. He feels that not only will he be able to endure all kinds of hardships, but he will also be promoted directly to become a god.

However, Lin Mei rubbed against his neck twice again, she finally mustered up her courage, and with the determination to sink a boat, she whispered: "Xiu Ran, may I use that bathtub with you tonight."

This is the rationale that she finally put together after holding back for a long time: use that bathtub together, since we are using it together, we must be honest with each other. After seeing the body, it will be logical to do other things next.

The implication is so obvious, saying this can not only make Su Xiuran understand, but also be subtle, just like the "the moonlight is so beautiful tonight", it is a unique way of expressing emotions belonging to Asians.

That's right...that's it, after Lin Mei finished speaking, she didn't blush or feel embarrassed, but raised her head, looking at Su Xiuran with piercing eyes, full of expectation.

Su Xiuran, who has a full-level language ability, just smiled as if he didn't understand, "Don't we use it together all the time?"

If they are used separately at different times, can they be used together?

Lin Mei's eyes widened, and the perfect words that she had been holding back for a long time were knocked back. The sense of disappointment in her expectations made her retort without thinking: "I'm talking about two people having a bath together!" After finishing speaking, she was afraid that she would not Express it clearly, and then put it another way, "It means two people are taking a bath together in the same bathtub at the same time!"

She was only interested in expressing her wishes, but she didn't realize that Su Xiuran's gaze had suddenly become much deeper. If it was said that a few days ago, there was only a faint hint of darkness in his gaze, but now the breathtaking light has covered it. covered his entire pupil.

He still smiled calmly: "And then?"

Lin Mei was taken aback for a moment, and then she had to say what she was going to do?But doing things halfway is never Lin Mei's style. Now that the words have been spoken, even though her mind is in chaos, she still expresses them forcefully and completely: "Do things that adults will do! Don't tell me you don't want to!"

She finished speaking in one breath, thinking that Su Xiuran would still look at her with the kind of eyes that made her irritable and confused, so that she could continue to hone her patience in spare time.But he never expected that, as a top-notch writer, he understood the essence of the silence that speaks better than anyone else, so he kissed her directly.

It was the kind of storm-like kiss, as if waiting for the whole spring torrential rain in early summer, waiting so carefully, as if it would never be on the verge of eruption, it was suddenly pushed by the calm and serene breeze, just in a Night came with wind and rain, more violent than all expectations.

His smell filled the world in an instant, and engulfed her whole body and mind in an instant.

Dazed was dragged by him to kiss until the brain was hypoxic, and her eyes were empty, she heard him laughing in her ear and said: "I thought... you would never speak in your life."

As he spoke, he pushed away the debris on the table neatly, hugged her with both hands, lifted her from his lap, and let her sit on his desk.

Lin Mei knew that there was a difference in height and body shape between the two of them, but in her eyes, she always felt that Su Xiuran was an existence that needed to be cared for, and she accepted it when he suddenly lifted him up and down effortlessly. No, I put my arms around his shoulders and said, "What are you doing? I don't want to hold you high."

Su Xiuran suddenly covered his eyes with his hands and burst out laughing. There were many emotions in his laughter, the most of which was relief. When he let go, those dark eyes were full of smiles and almost Be full of overflowing emotion: "I'm so stupid these days..."

Lin Mei didn't quite understand what he was talking about. She looked into his eyes and was about to lose her ability to speak, so she replied stutteringly: "Then I also..."

"Xiaomei," Su Xiuran interrupted her with a smile, and asked softly, "Do you love me?"

Lin Mei didn't even have to think about it, she answered by reflex: "Love."

Su Xiuran laughed, stopped talking, got up and hugged her, and then she kept hanging on him, and was carried into the bedroom by him all the way.

It was already the big bed where they had slept together many times, Su Xiuran put her on it, Lin Mei's only reason left was for her to tremble and say: "Don't you want to take a bath?"

He laughed again, Lin Mei had seen Su Xiuran's smile many times, he was always smiling, gentle but restrained, charming yet with a slight sense of distance, but rarely, when he completely stretched his eyebrows, Her smile was brighter than the stars, and brighter than the noon sun, which made her almost unable to open her eyes.

"You can wash it later." He leaned over and whispered in her ear, his voice was as mellow as wine.

Everyone is already an adult, and even if they have no practical experience, it would be hypocritical to insist that they know nothing about it.

After finally waiting for the two of them to calm down a little, with the aftertaste of floating in the clouds, Lin Mei was still nestling in his arms and hugging his neck.

They were all sweating, and the clothes on their bodies had been taken off for a long time, skin to skin, and each other's breaths were so entangled that they were inseparable.

Lin Mei sighed and said with a smile: "The great master is indeed a great master, you still have some skills..."

Su Xiuran responded with a low smile, and kissed her forehead again: "Fortunately, it's not difficult to learn."

Lin Mei knew that he had never been in a relationship before, but she still joked: "It's not like the first time, you must have practiced with someone before?"

Su Xiuran held her hand that was slid back and forth on his back dishonestly, and smiled lightly: "Should I thank you for your compliment?"

Lin Mei smiled and burrowed into his arms: "You don't have to be so polite..."

She said, raised her head and kissed him vigorously on the neck, leaving a mark, and then proudly said: "Stamp it, so that others will not continue to covet my person!"

Su Xiuran smiled and let her mess around, reminding softly: "I have no plans to meet anyone recently, who do you want to show?"

Lin Mei thought about it too. Wouldn't it be a waste of this strawberry poke to be at home every day?Just as she was thinking, she inadvertently lowered her head, and saw a group of furry objects squatting impressively at the end of the bed.

That was their master, Chunshen Jun, who had walked into the bedroom at some point, squatting beside the bed and staring at the two of them.

Lin Mei was really embarrassed for a moment, but her face thickness increased greatly after eating too much, and immediately she boldly mocked the Lord Master: "Look, you have no function anymore, don't hate us so much... Hate the ex-slave who sterilized you."

Chun Shenjun, who had no function, gave them a gloomy look, turned around and walked out with his big hairy buttocks.

Su Xiuran was very tolerant of her behavior of a villain who wanted to talk to the Lord even if she couldn't talk to others, and put her arms around her with a smile and said, "It's really scary for a woman to be cruel."

After tasting the forbidden fruit for the first time, they were sweating all over. After lying down for a while, they went to the bathroom to wash.

In the big semi-circular jacuzzi, it is more than enough for two people to squeeze in. Lin Mei lay down halfway to enjoy the massage of the water waves, and still remembered to sigh with Su Xiuran: "You said you bought such a big bathtub a long time ago, didn't you?" Have you already planned to wash with the two of you?"

Su Xiuran also leaned against the edge of the pool, half-supporting his head and smiling: "I just want to be more relaxed, I will never be so far-sighted."

His hair was all wet, and the slightly long forehead hair was loosely hanging on his face, giving him a strange sex appeal. Lin Mei just found something to say casually, but he answered every sentence seriously, like this He was surprisingly heart-warming.

Lin Mei thought about it, then leaned over again, put her arms around his neck and kissed him.

This hormonal change cannot be hidden from others. Zhang Yan who came to discuss the case with Su Xiuran the next day glanced at them and said, "Congratulations, the cultivation has achieved a positive result."

Since Lin Mei broke through the psychological defense line last night, she has rapidly grown into a domineering hooligan. With some difficulty, she put her arms around Su Xiuran's shoulder on tiptoe, and nodded to Zhang Yan with a smile: "Thank you."

There was undisguised pride in that smile, just like the king of the mountain who just married Mrs. Yazhai.

Zhang Yan was not at all surprised by her performance, and said with emotion: "Sure enough, once you succeed, you will be reborn."

Su Xiuran stood aside and kept smiling reservedly, watching how long the two of them talked about this cross talk.

Today Yu Qizhen was investigating other cases, Zhang Yan came here alone, brought some electronic materials, and handed them to Su Xiuran to copy them into the computer to check.

He would visit, naturally because of the suspect against Su Xiuran, but unfortunately, as Su Xiuran said, there are too few clues.After so many days, it's still like looking for a needle in a haystack without a clue.

When Su Xiuran was flipping through the materials, Zhang Yan couldn't help asking: "Do you have any inclinations in your heart?"

Su Xiuran said lightly: "This person must be my old friend. He has a certain degree of understanding of my past with Xiuyan, and even understands and grasps the character of Xiuyan's assistant. Since he first appeared Judging from the events he chose at the time, and his actions to expose my identity, he will not be someone I only came into contact with after I came to City B."

Zhang Yan also thought so, and agreed: "At first, I was worried whether it was because of your work in the police station that you would provoke vengeful criminals. After careful consideration, I gave up this idea."

Lin Mei said beside him: "I don't have any particular opinion, but I tend to think that this person is a male."

Su Xiuran's thin lips bent slightly: "I sensed this from your previous conversation, why do you have such thoughts?"

It is said that hiding behind the scenes, using conspiracies and tricks, and drugging are the preferred methods for female criminals, because female criminals are usually more timid than male criminals, and they are more willing to hide their whereabouts.

But judging from Su Xiuran's attitude, he also seemed to think that the suspect was a man.

Lin Mei thought for a while, then frowned and said, "Maybe it's intuition, or from the standpoint of a woman, I feel that this person's malice towards Xiu Ran is targeted, it seems that it is not aimed at him himself, It's the life he's choosing now—incognito, out of the world.

"He seems to be blaming Xiu Ran for giving up his position of power and retaliation against him. The choice to expose Xiu Ran's identity as a writer is also malicious, as if in his opinion, the identity of 'writer' represents evasion and incompetence. It’s not that women are not attached to power and money, but women usually don’t use power and money as the basic foothold to measure a person’s success or failure, they tend to pay more attention to the soul, right?”

Lin Mei said, licked the corners of her lips, looked at Su Xiuran before continuing: "Actually, I think that if the other party is a woman, it's hard not to be attracted by Xiuran, then it will be love. And the way of revenge because of love and hatred must involve me, but he simply ignored me."

Zhang Yan couldn't help laughing: "You never forget to show your affection."

Her analysis angle is relatively correct, and Su Xiuran judged the other party's gender in a roughly similar way.He smiled and said: "I also have this inference, and I think I should have met him, and even had some contact."

"I think" is a word that is hard to see in Su Xiuran. He usually just doesn't say anything, and what he says is the fact that has been confirmed. Such uncertain words come from his mouth. Coming out is the first time.

Zhang Yan knew that there were too few clues and it was too difficult for Su Xiuran to come to a conclusion, but he still believed in Su Xiuran's intuition, so he looked at him and asked, "Don't you suspect that this person is your former subordinate?"

Su Xiuran nodded: "The situation that cannot be deduced from the evidence can only be assumed from the intention expressed by the other party. Judging from the deep meaning implied in his series of actions, I think it is very likely that he was once my... follower."

Having said that, he smiled and shook his head: "It's a pity that I can't remember all the people who followed me back then, and I can't select the most likely candidates from my memories."

What he said was the truth. When Su Xiuran was in charge of the Shenyue Group, he had contact with dozens of people every day, and the entire Shenyue had tens of thousands of employees. Even with an amazing memory, it is impossible to remember all these people. in the head.

There is no evidence to prove whether this person was an executive or an ordinary employee at the time, whether he had frequent working contacts with Su Xiuran, or whether he had only met him a few times.

For Zhang Yan, the most troublesome thing is that this person is probably still in City S, and the headquarters of Shenyue Group is also registered in City S, which is the jurisdiction of other police stations.

If he wants to check the information, he needs to cooperate across regions. What's more, they don't have the exact crime facts and suspects at all. What needs to be done is the most labor-intensive investigation. Even if the application is passed, there is no way to get the support of the local police station. Support, but still at a loss.

But if you want to start investigation from the inside of Shenyue Group, there are better choices at present, such as Su Xiuyan, the current president of Shenyue Group, and Su Xiuran, who is still the major shareholder in actual identity.

Seeing Zhang Yan's gaze, Su Xiuran smiled understandingly: "I have asked Xiuyan to investigate, this is my private matter, if Xiuyan can find someone who is suspicious, I will go back and confirm it myself."

When he said go back, he definitely meant going back to S City, which was the old house of the Su family. When Lin Mei heard this, she looked at him worriedly.

She is not particularly clear about the reason back then, and she doesn't have much opinion on Su Xiuyan now, but judging from their mother's indifferent attitude after he was injured, she still feels that he probably won't want to set foot on that land again.

Su Xiuran gave her a comforting smile: "It's okay, there are some things that need to be faced."

After sending Zhang Yan away, new news came from Su Xiuyan a few days later.

Shenyue Group has a complete human resources system. Su Xiuyan called after completing the investigation according to the conditions Su Xiuran gave him.

Su Xiuran's conditions are very simple: first, he had working contact with him at that time; second, he was a newcomer to the workplace at that time; third, he had clearly expressed his dissatisfaction with the incumbent in power after he left office; fourth, he is now Already left Shenyue.

After screening these items, there are three people who are suspicious. One is one of Su Xiuran's assistants back then, but he was poached three years ago. Now he is working in a group company in H City, and his position is already quite high. , obviously will not have the time and energy to engage in such ghosts.

The other one was a copywriter for the new product line development team at that time. Because it was a new project, Su Xiuran asked some questions and had contact with those people for a while.Later, Su Xiuran "passed away", and after Su Xiuyan took over the group, the copywriter had repeatedly stated angrily in public that Su Xiuyan's ability was far inferior to Su Xiuran's, and all the decisions he made were stupid.

Openly criticizing the boss is a taboo. Although Su Xiuyan didn't care, the copywriter was rejected by his boss, and finally went to work as a reporter for a newspaper.

After becoming a professional reporter, he also stubbornly made a series of reports criticizing the Shenyue Group, which could be regarded as a knot in a sense.

However, this former copywriter and present reporter was sent overseas by the newspaper for interviews some time ago, and he has not returned yet. From the perspective of time, it is obviously not him.

The last and most inconspicuous one was an intern in Su Xiuran's office at that time, a student sent by Shenyue Group for social practice from a university with frequent donations and close contacts.

When he entered Shenyue as an intern, he was a junior in junior year. The year he graduated coincided with Su Xiuran's "death". After that, he joined Shenyue Group and was sent to a foreign branch company for further study and residency according to the usual practice.

Three years later, he returned to China, stayed in Shenyue Group until the five-year contract expired, and then left. Where does he work now, but can't find any information.

This person was noticed because he once posted an anonymous post in the company's intranet forum, which somewhat vaguely implied that Su Xiuran might have been "assassinated" to death by Su Xiuyan.

The company's intranet is all real-name. He was able to publish anonymously because he was the administrator of the intranet at the time, and his major in university was computer.

Su Xiuran silently read through the information Su Xiuyan handed over, and Lin Mei also read it beside him. In fact, he had to choose the most suspected person from these three people, and it was undoubtedly the third intern.

Lin Mei looked at the personnel file he left in Shenyue Group, and there was a frontal photo of him without a hat. It was a handsome young man named Du Lin.

This photo may have been taken when he first joined Shenyue Group. He still looks a little student-like. He is indeed young. As of this year, he is only 29 years old.

Lin Mei looked at the photo again and again, and really couldn't see that he was the one who caused these things, so she turned her head and asked Su Xiuran: "Is that him?"

Su Xiuran nodded lightly, without a smile on his lips: "The possibility... is about 80.00%."

In the case of only one suspect, this probability is already quite high, and it can almost be said to be certain.

It took him a while to continue: "I remember his face and his name."

In addition to secretaries and assistants, there are often many people in the president's office who are inconspicuous or even unnoticed. For example, there are two or three cleaning staff who are responsible for cleaning, special security guards, and a technical support staff. That is, maintainers of computer hardware and systems.

This position is not like the employees of the technical support department, who need to help deal with sudden computer failures in the entire headquarters like firefighters. They only need to be responsible for the few computers in the president's office, which is relatively easy and low-tech.

Most of the time, this inconspicuous position would be ignored like those cleaning staff and security guards, and this taciturn intern had little sense of existence at the time.

At that time, Su Xiuran often worked overtime until late at night. At first he didn't notice that there was always a light in the small room next to his big office, which could not even be called an office. leave.

Until one day he worked overtime alone, because it was too late, even his assistant secretary and so on had been sent off work by him.

On the way, he wanted to pour a glass of water, but found that the water dispenser in the office was out of water, so he walked out of the office to get water from the water dispenser in the public area outside.

At that moment, he saw a person holding a cup coming out of the small office.

When I bumped into him, the green-faced young man looked rather embarrassed, scratched his head and said, "Hello, Mr. Su."

Surprised, he asked him why he hadn't come home from get off work yet.The young man replied that when he came, he heard the company's rule that he could not leave work until everyone in the president's office had left.

It was only then that Su Xiuran realized that this young man had silently accompanied him to work overtime for many days.

Although Su Xiuran was always serious and cold in public and at work, he was still a young man in his 20s in private, and he would never put on a serious face all the time.

He remembers smiling and telling him there was no need for that, he could leave when most of them left.

Then they chatted for a few more words, and he asked the other party's name, because he was not a regular employee, so he called him "Mr. Du" according to social habits.

He invited the other party to sit in his office for a while, made him refreshing coffee, and chatted with him about school life—for Su Xiuran at the time, it was just a daily chore, and he didn't deliberately write it down value, and never recalled it afterwards.

After that day... this intern named Du Lin still insisted on working overtime with him every day. He persuaded him once, but he let him go.

There was no one around in the middle of the night, the two of them broke away from the identities of the president and interns, and would chat a few words from time to time like ordinary people of the same age.

Du Lin even taught him some computer skills, such as shortcut keys, how to manually clean up garbage and remove Trojan viruses, etc., details that non-computer professionals rarely pay attention to.

He learns everything very quickly, and Du Lin is also willing to communicate with him. There are a few little habits that Du Lin taught him, which he has kept until now.

Scenes of past events left in the memory, now being revealed again, for a person like Su Xiuran with an amazing memory, it is still as clear as yesterday.

It was only when he thought of that strange but familiar face again under such a premise that he realized that perhaps Du Lin at that time had already regarded him as a friend rather than a "boss".

After all, Du Lin was not a real professional at that time. Compared with many veterans in the workplace, he was more likely to develop pure friendship in his heart with the people he met at work.

The sudden "death" of Su Xiuran back then should have been a heavy blow to him.Therefore, he, who is proficient in computer technology, even took advantage of his position to complain for him on the intranet.

Su Xiuran can imagine that Du Lin may have been investigating the truth of his "death" for many years, so when he found out that he was still alive, he was so shocked.

It's just that Du Lin, as an outsider, obviously understood the whole incident too radically. Judging from his plan to retaliate against Su Xiuran later, he obviously thought that Su Xiuran's escape by dying was a betrayal and escape from the past.

So he didn't choose to find Su Xiuran and continue this rare friendship, but stood on the opposite side of him and attacked his current "peaceful" life.

Lin Mei observed Su Xiuran's expression, and seeing a somewhat disappointed look in his eyes, she leaned over and held his hand, and said, "Are you familiar with him?"

Su Xiuran smiled at her, and then said softly, "He should be...my friend."

He raised his hand and pressed the center of his brows, and pulled Lin Mei over to sit on his knees. Then he organized his words and told her the past with Du Lin that year in a slow and concise manner.

He is a person with clear logic and strong language skills. After saying this, it is inevitable to mention the chaotic past.

How he neglected his younger brother and mother because of his father's illness, how he got lost in the endless busyness, and even how he mishandled his younger brother's love affair, causing an innocent girl to commit suicide.When he collapsed hastily and was on the verge of death, his mother and younger brother gave up on him prematurely, and he had no choice but to choose after "resurrecting from the dead".

He slowly told Lin Mei about all the secret and painful past.

I thought that I had experienced the absurdity of turning black and white for half my life, but once I started to speak, it only took a few sentences, and it didn't even take much time to finish it all.

Lin Mei nestled in his arms and listened quietly, she hugged him with both hands, after hearing it, she couldn't explain why, so she quietly moistened her eyes.

In order to cover it up, she leaned on his shoulder, wiped away her tears quietly, then raised her head and smiled at him and said, "Xiu Ran, it's a good thing I met you."

Su Xiuran looked at her and smiled: "Isn't it lucky that I met you?"

Lin Mei shook her head, looked at him with a smile, with incomparable pity and love: "No, it's a good thing I met such a wonderful you."

In an instant, she thought of many things, what she had experienced in these days, and the things brought about by those crimes, she had been thinking about it in her heart, but she was still puzzled, so she said, "Why can people have so much malice?" , for strangers, for the people you should cherish?"

She didn't say much, but Su Xiuran understood that what she was referring to was not just what she heard tonight.

He just smiled, and there was that faint compassion in his eyes: "Because evil only needs to be tolerated, but kindness needs to be cultivated."

(End of this chapter)