"Director Bai, I'm calling to give you a heads up. The meeting was supposed to be at 2 pm, but it's been brought forward by an hour. There's more to the meeting in the afternoon, so I think you need to come over early."
Bai Lu was speechless.
After hanging up, Bai Lu still felt a little apologetic. She scratched her head and said embarrassedly, "… Erm, the company suddenly called and said that the meeting at 2 pm has been brought forward. I'm afraid I can't have dinner with you. Maybe next time?"
Chu Weiye raised his eyebrows and smiled without saying anything. He turned the steering wheel quickly. "Lati, is it? I'll send you over, but you're not eating. Aren't you hungry? "
"I'll just buy something to eat later."
Chu Weiye nodded. He knew very well that a certain man wouldn't be so petty.
It was just a meal …
When Bai Lu arrived in C City, she changed her phone number. Before she got out of the car, Chu Weiye had asked her to leave her phone number with him. Naturally, Bai Lu couldn't refuse.
After leaving her phone number, Bai Lu entered the company. When she reached her floor, she happened to see the company's cleaning lady walking towards her with a black suit in her hand.
Bai Lu found the suit familiar. She took a closer look and her face suddenly turned red. Wasn't that the jacket of the designer, Han Zhendong? Yesterday, he had draped it over her, but later, Liang Feifan had thrown it away at the entrance of the restroom. She had almost forgotten that no matter what, someone had draped the jacket over her because he didn't want her to feel awkward. Now, it actually …
Bai Lu hurriedly went forward and blocked the cleaning lady. "… Erm, auntie, did you pick up this jacket in the restroom?"
The cleaning lady knew Bai Lu. When she had just entered the company, the young ladies in the design department had been gossiping about her every day, saying that she was Manager Wen's lover. The cleaning lady was old, but she knew the ways of the world. She was very polite to Bai Lu. "Oh, Director Bai. Yes, I picked up this jacket in the restroom yesterday. I don't know who it belonged to. It's such a waste to throw away such good material, so I picked it up."
"Auntie, this jacket is mine."
"…"
"Auntie, it's like this. I wasn't feeling well yesterday, so my friend put his clothes on me. Later, I went to the toilet and felt very dizzy, so I forgot about the clothes."
"Oh, I see."
The cleaning lady didn't think too much about it. She felt that she couldn't afford to offend such a woman. She originally planned to give the clothes to her son, but now she reluctantly returned them to Bai Lu. "Since it belongs to Director Bai, I'll return it to its rightful owner."
Bai Lu took it and thanked him. Seeing that it was getting late, she hurried to the conference room.
The cleaning lady looked reluctant, but she didn't say anything. She just muttered a few words and walked to the warehouse …
Bai Lu really thought that the meeting had been brought forward and that it was very urgent, so she hurried into the conference room with the suit. However, when she saw that it was almost one o 'clock and there was no one in the conference room, she felt that something was wrong.
After waiting for a while, there was still no one in sight. Bai Lu finally couldn't help but take out her phone. Just as she was about to call Wen Zhaoren, the conference room door behind her was suddenly pushed open. She heard steady footsteps. Bai Lu paused and turned around. When she saw who it was, her expression suddenly changed.
She put her phone in her pocket and frowned as she looked at the slender man at the door. The genius special police officer was playing politics.
Liang Feifan had already changed his clothes. He was wearing a sky blue shirt and a pair of black trousers. The man's hands were casually stuffed in the pockets of his trousers. The simplest style and color, on him, exuded a different kind of mature charm.
Bai Lu's eyes flickered and she avoided his gaze. She didn't really want to be in the same room as him. She grabbed the suit hanging on the back of the chair and got ready to go to her office.
However, just as she moved, Liang Feifan had already rushed forward and blocked her way. "I'm leaving as soon as I arrive. Where are you going?"
"Mr. Liang, I'm not your employee. Why should I report my whereabouts to you?" Bai Lu retorted with a glib tongue. "Mr. Liang, please make way."
"Bai Lu, throw away the suit in your hand."
Liang Feifan's sharp eyes fell on the man's suit in her hand. His face was heavy. The man's "pettiness" was not concealed at all. "I don't like you holding other men's clothes."
"…"
Bai Lu felt that he was crazy.
What could he do about it?
However, she insisted on taking it and even rubbed it against her chest. She looked at the man in front of her provocatively, whose face was getting darker and darker. She said unhappily, "CEO Liang, you can't control what I do even if you want to. Please move aside!"
"Are you sure?"
Liang Feifan reached out and grabbed her wrist. He rudely removed the suit from her hand and threw it on the big table behind him, forcing Bai Lu to the corner of the wall. The man's strong body immediately pressed against her. His slender fingers stroked her face very gently. There was a hazy light in his eyes, but there was also heartache. He suppressed the desire to sigh and spoke again. His voice was too obviously yielding. "Don't throw a tantrum with me. I didn't know Ye Lian would come. It was my negligence. Bai Lu, you can do whatever you want, but don't treat me like this …"
"Then how do you want me to treat you?"
"…"
"Do you want me to be your lover who can't see the light of day?" Bai Lu pursed her lips and no longer avoided this question. Her clear eyes were slightly red as she said seriously, "Liang Feifan, don't force me. You should know what I hate the most. I … I really don't want to live such a hard life. Do you know why I didn't return to City A after coming back from England and came to City C instead? Because I want to avoid you forever. Since you chose someone more important than me a year ago, then there's no need to pester you anymore. I don't want to know if you still have feelings for me in your heart. I also don't want to think about whether your Family Ye, Ye Lian, and your current wife is really just a business marriage. At least to me, we already let go of each other a year ago. Marriage is indeed not the most important thing in life, but marriage is still sacred. I won't be so generous as to bless you and Ye Lian to grow old together, but at the very least, I won't compromise and think of sneaking around with you at a time like this. Your request is letting me down, you know? "
…
Liang Feifan pursed his thin lips slightly. He could tell that every word Bai Lu said to him now was serious. This seriousness made him even more afraid. He was afraid that he would lose her again.
If he wasn't sure before whether she still had unwavering feelings for him, after hearing what Chu Weiye said, he was basically certain.
Because he was certain, he wanted to hold on to her even more.
"… There are some things that I think, as a man, I should solve by myself. That's why I lost you a year ago. Now, I don't want to have another chance to make you sad and cry. Bai Lu, I haven't fulfilled any of my promises to you, but I think I should at least let you know why I was so determined back then. Also, what was my second marriage like? I want to show you. Do you want to see it? "
His second marriage. Wasn't that the marriage she agreed to a year ago?
Did she still need to see it? No matter how bad a marriage was, it was still a marriage. For a man, especially a successful one like Liang Feifan, he might not think that marriage was the most important thing. But for a woman like Bai Lu, she always thought that marriage was very important.
She couldn't describe how she felt about it. It was like a person's belief.
"Mr. Liang, are you trying to tell me that your marriage wasn't a happy one?"
Bai Lu calmed down and took a deep breath. "Actually, you don't have to say it. I can understand. I saw Ye Lian today. If she was a wife that you doted on, then she wouldn't have rushed up to me, hit me, and scolded me to vent her anger. She couldn't get any attention from you, so she could only vent it on me. I understand everything, so what? She's still your wife. I won't be with you anymore because, just like you said, you already lost me a year ago. "
"On the day I came to C City, I took a plane and found a movie that I had downloaded previously to watch. I watched a movie and there was a line in it that I was deeply moved by. Even now, I still remember it clearly."
Bai Lu's slender fingers slowly slid down Liang Feifan's arm. Finally, she held his hand. This was the first time she took the initiative to hold his hand since they parted. Liang Feifan's heart suddenly skipped a beat. He stared at her with a burning gaze.
"The line goes like this: Time will teach us a lot of things. Some things we once thought didn't exist, we later realize they do exist. Some things we firmly believe in, we later realize they don't exist."
Liang Feifan's eyes darkened. His sharp brows furrowed, and he panicked. "You don't have to say that to me. It's nothing. It's just a movie."
"But good movies can move people's hearts because movies are like novels. They exist in real life."
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