Chapter 59
Su orange until back home heartbeat is chaotic, heart pumping, can not say whether it hurts or what, palpitations to death, breathing is also very unstable, like to suffocate.
Hidden, the side of the neck there came from the burning pain, gently touch, scalding their fingers trembling.
Zhou Yuchen’s sentence “you are torturing me” repeatedly in the mind, the heart twitching badly, she did not take off her clothes, stood under the shower rinse.
As if this would relieve it.
However, it didn’t.
She seemed to be entangled in a tangled mass of very messy threads that she couldn’t break free of, only to let them tighten and tighten again.
She dreamed of him.
His scarlet eyes, his trembling voice, the fateful phrase “orange orange orange orange orange”. Su Orange woke up from her dream and looked at the whitened sky, only to realize that it was already the next day.
The pajamas on her body were soaked with sweat, her hair was also wet, and her whole body looked like she had been washed in water.
Without giving time to calm down, she lifted the covers and got out of bed, grabbed a change of clothes and went to the bathroom to take a shower.
Zhao Xiao Xiao saw Su Orange walking out of the bathroom with wet hair and was surprised, “You took a shower?”
“Uh-huh.” Su Orange wiped her hair as she walked over, “Flushed.”
“Why did you take a shower so early in the morning?” Zhao Xiaoxiao stared at her, nuzzled her mouth, pointed at her collarbone there and asked, “What’s wrong with you here?”
“What?” Su Orange glanced sideways, but couldn’t see, “What’s wrong?”
“A patch of red.” Zhao Xiao Xiao said, “It seems to be broken.”
Su Orange raised her hand to touch it, the dream surfaced in her mind at this instant, a very absurd image, a continuation of last night’s scene, where Zhou Yuchen opened his mouth and bit on her collarbone after not waiting for a long time for her to reply.
He bit very hard, she even heard the sound of teeth grinding, and heard him say, “Don’t be so cruel.”
She’d subconsciously rubbed it a few more times when she’d just taken a shower, and that was probably how she’d broken it.
“Got it by accident.” Su Orange tugged at the pajama collar, “It’s fine.”
Zhao Xiaoxiao finished the porridge and beckoned, “Come, have breakfast.”
Su orange wrapped her long hair with a towel, pulled open the chair, and sat opposite Zhao Xiao Xiao, last night Zhao Xiao Xiao came back late, some words didn’t have time to ask Su orange, today there is just the right amount of time, she asked while eating, “How is it going in Gali?”
“Not bad.” Su orange back.
“Where’s Mr. Zhou?” Zhao Xiaoxiao blinked, “Was it difficult for you?”
“No.” Su Orange took a sip of congee with a spoon, “He’s not that kind of person.”
“Then it’s fine.” Zhao Xiao Xiao lowered her lifted heart, “I was afraid he would bully you.”
“He won’t.” Su Orange said in a faint voice.
Zhao Xiao Xiao paused in her eating and raised her head, Su Orange saw her staring at herself and asked, “What’s wrong?”
“You’ve been putting in a good word for him.” Zhao Xiao Xiao was gossiping, “What’s the situation?”
“Didn’t say nice things, was telling the truth.” Su Orange tore off a small piece of bread and put it in her mouth to chew slowly, “He was already good.”
“Since he’s so good, then why did you guys break up?” Zhao Xiao Xiao suddenly asked.
Su Orange stopped and froze for a few seconds, then continued to tear the bread, “What else could be the reason for breaking up, personality incompatibility.”
Zhao Xiao Xiao felt that things were not that simple, poked her head out and asked again, “Then… is there a possibility of getting back together?”
She blinked, staring straight at Su Orange, Su Orange’s eyelids drooped and lifted again, converging the dissimilarity in the bottom of her eyes, and said definitively, “No.”
“Why?”
“Because it’s not appropriate.”
Zhao Xiao Xiao still want to ask, the phone suddenly rang, she took the phone to the living room to answer the phone, Su Orange pursed her lips, suddenly no interest in eating breakfast, end of the leftover half a bowl of congee went to the kitchen, cleaned up, came out of the kitchen.
Zhao Xiaoxiao is still talking on the phone, Su Orange went back to the bedroom to change clothes, white sweater under the black pencil pants, two legs lined with thin and long.
The jacket is a beige coat, with a scarf around her neck to cover her collarbone.
The end of October in the north of Beijing has already had signs of early winter, the wind is cold, Su Orange car is still under repair, can only take the subway to go, but the good thing is that the distance is not too far, a few stops on the road to.
Swipe card into the company, most of the employees have not yet arrived, she sat on her workstation, to start the day’s work.
Liu Mei sent her a message, reminding her to push forward the cooperation between the two companies, and to give her timely feedback if she had any comments or requests from Gali’s side.
The only thing she said was that the cooperation must be facilitated.
Su Orange returned: [Good.]
After putting down the cell phone, the corner of the eye casually looked toward the front, the president’s office is no longer in the bunch of roses, the windows are clear and unobstructed.
Su Orange went to the pantry and heard someone talking, “I just went to the front desk to get an express, and I heard the front desk say that yesterday President Zhou had a big fire.”
“Why?”
“It’s rumored to be because of that bouquet of roses.”
“What happened to the flowers?”
“Not allowed to receive them.” The long-haired woman lowered her voice and said, “Assistant Qin warned the receptionist that if she receives any more in the future, she can just collect her paycheck and leave.”
“Does that mean it’s all hopeless?”
“It should be.” The long-haired woman said, “Our Mr. Zhou is not something that anyone can take.”
The two walked and talked, but stopped when they saw Su Orange.
Su Orange nodded politely at them, and when her eyes glanced at the white clouds outside the window, she inexplicably felt that today’s clouds were extraordinarily beautiful.
In a good mood, work efficiency was high, she finished the new business plan early and handed it over to Zhou Yuchen’s assistant Qin Yuan.
Qin Yuan looked askance at Su Orange and asked, “Still adapting? Do you need to adjust your workstation?”
“It’s okay, no need to adjust.” Su Orange politely said.
“There’s a gathering in the evening,” Qin Yuan reminded her, “Don’t forget to go.”
Seeing her hesitation, he added, “Everyone will go.”
If everyone goes, Su Orange can’t afford not to go, she purses her lips, “Okay.”
The social animals have always been keen on dinners, and when they heard that the boss was treating them, they all stretched their necks to ask where to eat.
Qin Yuan said, “Su Ji.”
I don’t know who called out, excitedly saying, “Su Ji? That private restaurant? It’s expensive.”
“Not only is it expensive, ordinary people can’t get a reservation,” someone chimed in, “It’s a membership program, and the number of guests is limited.”
Someone suddenly popped up, “In the past, we used to eat hot pot or something, why are we going to a restaurant like Su Ji today?”
Qin Yuan interrupted them, “If you have any doubts, you can ask Mr. Zhou.”
Silly, ask the boss.
One by one, they retracted their necks and contemplated what to wear to go tonight, should they go to the nearby mall after work to buy new ones.
Compared to their leaping, Su Orange appeared especially calm, her heart abruptly lifted up, inexplicably having a feeling of insubstantiality.
Hopefully, nothing will happen.
Expectations fall short, not yet arrived in Su Ji will happen a thing.
Colleagues have a car, three by three in a car straight to Su Ji, and finally only Su Orange is left standing downstairs, Qin Yuan said, “Mr. Zhou’s car is in front.”
Last night’s scene is still fresh in her mind, Su Orange didn’t dare, and excused herself, saying, “I’ll take a taxi.”
“It’s not good to take a taxi during rush hour.” Qin Yuan said.
It is indeed not good to fight, she opened the software and looked at it, there are dozens of people in the queue, and she still does not know when it will be her turn.
She pursed her lips, “Assistant Qin is it convenient for you to send me the location, I’ll take the subway there.”
“It’s too far, and you’ll have to transfer by subway,” Qin Yuan said in a faint voice, “By the time you arrive, everyone will be finished.”
Taking a taxi didn’t work, taking the subway didn’t work either, Su Orange had a sad face, and finally had no choice but to follow Qin Yuan into the car.
Only after entering the car did she realize that Zhou Yuchen was not in the car, she looked surprised, Qin Yuan could see what was going on and explained, “I just didn’t say that General Manager Zhou was there, it’s you who thought he was there.”
Su Orange pursed her lips awkwardly, didn’t answer, and mainly didn’t know what to answer.
Qin Yuan signaled the driver to drive, then added, “Mr. Zhou is in the other car.”
Su Orange’s heart slowly fell at the same time some other emotions emerged, rustling like a loss.
As Qin Yuan said, it was a long way to travel, and she would be very late if she took the subway and then transferred.
When she entered the private room, everyone was there, Zhou Yuchen was there, and except for the empty seat beside him, the rest of the place was full.
Su Orange didn’t really want to go over there, planning to find a random place to add a chair, anyway, as long as it wasn’t next to Zhou Yuchen.
She was just about to speak to the waiter when Qin Yuan pointed to the empty seat, “You sit at Mr. Zhou’s.”
The private room was full of Gali’s employees, if she refused outright, not only would Zhou Yuchen’s face not be able to come down, she wouldn’t be able to work well in the company in the future.
Thinking twice, she walked over, and like everyone else, called out, “Mr. Zhou.”
The empty seat beside Zhou Yuchen is on the inside, Su Orange needs him to stand up if he sits, the others see the situation the sky is not chatting, all side eyes look over, wanting to know what the boss will do.
Some people boldly guessed that the boss might not even give a damn, after all, Su Orange is just an employee of party B.
Su Orange’s cheeks slowly turned red, glancing around from the corner of her eye, deciding that if Zhou Yuchen didn’t get up, she would go sit somewhere else or find an excuse to leave, she didn’t really want to attend this kind of party anyway.
After what seemed like two seconds, or maybe not, while everyone looked askance with interest, Zhou Yuchen stood up and supported her elbow, making it easier for her to enter.
This kind of elbow resting action looked like it was unintentional, but it fermented a different chemical reaction in different people’s eyes.
The female employees looked incredulous, their mouths hanging open.
The male employees looked at Su Orange one more time, they didn’t pay attention to it earlier, but now they took a closer look, yo, the employee sent by the partner is quite good looking.
Su Orange looked calm and relaxed, in fact, is the most touched, he rested on her elbow that moment, her heart seemed to stop beating, the left side of the cheek are his burning breath.
He still still uses lavender-scented laundry detergent, and his clothes are also full of lavender’s fresh fragrance, which mingles with the aroma of her clothes to give birth to a more intense scent.
When it entered the nose, it made the mind become more and more messy.
There was also her elbow there, obviously through her clothes, but it was like it was touching her directly, burning her heart palpitations.
Suddenly, Su Orange felt that she was quite a failure, no matter how long in the past, she could not turn a blind eye to him.
She sat down with little expression, and never looked at Zhou Yuchen again, so she didn’t know that the corners of his lips were lightly hooked, smiling inexplicably.
The original dark complexion was like a wash away, the bottom of the eyes with light, that light is decorated with a slender shadow, occupying his eyes and his heart.
When he sat down, his body was slightly inclined toward the inside, not so much that the others couldn’t see anything at all. It was as if he was subtly declaring his liking.
The latter was the meal, most of the dishes were not spicy, and when each dish was about to turn in front of him, he would press stop with his finger, and only when Su Orange clamped the dish, did he let go.
As for him, there was only one piece of ribs on the dinner plate.
The others saw it and casually asked, “Does Mr. Zhou like to eat ribs?”
Zhou Yuchen said in a faint voice, “Like it.”
He usually used to say “Uh-huh” when answering this kind of affirmative question, which was simple and clear. This kind of clear answer seemed to imply something.
The others didn’t notice, Su Orange’s fingers holding the cup shrunk, and she almost choked when she looked down to drink the water.
The carousel was spinning again, it was the paper towel that spun in front of her, Su Orange picked it up and said, “Thank you.”
Only after answering did she realize that it was given to her by Zhou Yuchen, it was not right to take it, it was not right not to take it, seeing that someone was looking at her, in the end, she could only take it.
This meal other people eat cheeky, which are happy, she is sitting on pins and needles, hate to find a crack in the ground, good in the end soon.
No one dares to mention the next dinner with the boss, and after eating, each goes his own way.
Su Orange did not want to take Zhou Yuchen’s car to go, deliberately dawdled in the restroom for ten minutes, thinking that they should have left before she slowly came out.
A head up, saw the man standing against the wall, hand clamped with a cigarette is slowly inhaling, may be the reason for drinking wine, the bottom of the eyes dense, flooded with a few drunkenness.
Su orange as not seen, low head to go was stopped by him, no outsiders, the two do not have to pretend not familiar with, she raised her head and stared at him, the tone of some angry, “What are you doing?”
Zhou Yuchen took a deep breath of smoke, then slowly exhaled smoke, his eyes hazy, “Send you back.”
“No need.” Su Orange refused, “I can walk by myself.”
The private dining hall had such an advantage, although things were expensive as hell, there were fewer guests, and no one was disturbed in the entire promenade.
So Zhou Yuchen’s emotions weren’t suppressed, and he looked askance at her with downcast eyes, first looking at her eyes, then her lips, and then saw her collarbone.
Without realizing it, he also saw the marks on her collarbone, his eyes narrowed down, his eyes were filled with danger, he couldn’t restrain himself from touching her collarbone and asked, “How did you get it?”
His questioning tone made people sound impatient, Su Orange was not obliged to answer, pushing his hand away, “You don’t need to know.”
Zhou Yuchen’s heart felt like it had been stabbed by something, the pain was mixed with anger, and sadness, “You really have a boyfriend?”
“None of your business.” Su Orange pushed his hand away, her body took a few steps back, pulling away, “This is my personal matter, there’s no need to tell you.”
Her tone was cold, colder than the winter night, Zhou Yuchen raised his hand and rubbed his face, his eyes were given red, the light inside was gone, only sorrow and remorse.
“It was my fault that I disappeared that year, I wanted to contact you, but-” he tried to explain about why he suddenly disappeared.
“Zhou Yuchen,” Su Orange interrupted him, “It’s been eight years, I no longer want to know.”
Suddenly, there were footsteps coming from the long corridor, Su Orange looked at it, it was a man who had drunk to the east, she gathered her collar and turned towards the door.
Before she could walk, she was embraced from behind, the man wrapped his arms around her shoulders and wrapped his arms around her neck, pressing her into his arms, his breath brushed against her ears, lightly touching her earlobes, his voice suppressed the pain, “Can’t you start over?”
Su Orange’s heart trembled and trembled, her breathing turned chaotic, “Can’t.”
The next day, Zhou Yuchen went on a business trip, Su Orange did not see him for a week, about what he said, “can not start over”, she pretended not to hear, what to do still do what, emotionally look as usual.
In fact, only she herself knows, that sentence of the killing power of how big, several nights she dreamed that she said, can not. The man sneered and turned to leave.
Than she also wantonly dashing.
Zhou Guiqin called again, mentioning Su Liangshu, and also mentioned the old lady, saying that the old lady was not blessed, if she was still alive, she would definitely be happy.
Thinking of the old lady, Su Orange lost all those flutters and murmured, “Yes, grandma would definitely be happy if she were alive.”
So what right did she have to enjoy happiness.
Does she deserve it.
Yu Lele called Su Orange several times to ask her to have dinner, all were pushed back by her, and the last time, Yu Lele found her way to the company, and when she saw Su Orange, she looked at her haggard face and asked, “What’s wrong with you?”
Su Orange can’t say it’s because of her feelings, said, “Too tired from work.”
“What time is it, still working overtime.” Yu Lele pinched her face, “You, don’t work so hard, okay.”
“Go, take you to make up.” She forcefully took Su Orange to the restaurant that she had booked.
Lin Mai Zhang Huan Zhang Yang Zhao Chuan they were all there, Su Orange sat next to Lin Mai, Zhao Chuan said, “Wait ah, there’s still one person who hasn’t arrived.”
Zhang Yang looked down at his cell phone, “It should be soon.”
The words just fell, the door of the private room was pushed open, and someone walked in, black coat, white shirt, the shoulders of the coat had moisture, it looked like they rushed in.
Zhang Yang asked, “Is the plane late?”
Zhou Yuchen hung his coat on the coat rack and sat down on Su Orange’s side, answering Zhang Yang’s question with a sideways glance, “Uh-huh.”
Zhang Yang: “Seeing that you’ve lost weight again, don’t work too hard.”
Zhou Yuchen leaned on the back of the chair and pinched his brow, a rare show of weakness, “Some are not used to eating foreign things.”
Looked like a casual remark.
Zhao Chuan answered, “If you’re not used to eating it, you’ve been there for eight years, you’re not looking for your own suffering.”
Zhou Yuchen glanced towards Su Orange’s side, then retracted and smiled to himself, “Well, I’d say I deserved it.”
Afterwards, he said in a voice that only Su Orange could hear, “I don’t dare to return.”