Boom. Boom.
Her heart had never felt such a strong sense of existence. At first, it was panic. Then, after the panic passed, something called memories came up.
His lips. His kiss. The sound of his voice. The casual tone. Beautiful hands with distinct joints. Long hair, prominent Adam's apple, and a face with a strong sense of bones. When he smiled, there were two curved brackets at the corners of his mouth and a row of neat teeth.
She had never said that this inexplicable man had a face that made her heart beat.
She ran while breathing heavily. The sun was slanting, and the shadow, marriage, Chi Wei and Lin Shan were all left behind. Her mind was in a mess, and there were only a few thoughts left--
He still remembered her! He was here, he was nearby! Two street corners away from her home.
But soon, Qu Fanyi reflected again, would she look too embarrassed when she ran away just now? Did she look good today? She ran away this time, what about next time? Would she pass by here again? …
The rain stopped, and Qu Fanyi, who was running, didn't realize that the corners of her mouth were curled up a little bit.
Sure enough, love is a band-aid, a good medicine to cure all the unhappiness in life. What Chi Wei couldn't give her, she could get from other places. The originally disappointing marriage and the frustrated heart, because of meeting him, gave her a reason to stick to it again.
Qu Fanyi's heart was warm.
She vaguely felt that this was the power of love.
A little further ahead was nugget. The sky became very clear after the rain. After September, the rain was colder and colder. At this moment, the weather was cool. She slowed down her pace. Because of running, she broke out a thin sweat. She wiped the sweat with the back of her hand and breathed a long sigh of relief.
A man in front of her attracted her attention.
Qu Fanyi frowned.
She had seen him around here more than once.
The man looked very gentle, wearing a polo shirt and trousers, about half a head taller than Qu Fanyi. He has a flat head and looks like an ordinary office worker.
Under normal circumstances, Qu Fanyi would not notice him. The first time she noticed him was two months ago, when he asked Qu Fanyi for directions to Guangde International Apartment, and Qu Fanyi showed him the way. However, when he arrived at the bottom of Guangde International Apartment, he did not go in, but stood at the gate. Qu Fanyi felt strange and paid attention to him.
Unexpectedly, she saw him again on the way to yoga class a week later. He was still walking on this road. When she passed by Guangde International Apartment after class, she saw this man standing downstairs again. Looking around, as if looking for someone.
Qu Fanyi is an idle person, and she always passes by these streets during the day. Unexpectedly, this office worker is also idle. For almost two months, she can see him every now and then.
But Qu Fanyi also noticed that he looked less and less like an office worker, and he was more and more careless about his appearance. His hair was longer than before, and the collar of his clothes was more wrinkled.
Once, Qu Fanyi even imagined, is it possible that this is a sad man?
However, this time, Qu Fanyi overturned all her sympathy for him. Because she found that this man seemed to be following a woman, a woman with thick long hair, wearing a dress, and carrying a canvas bag.
The woman walked straight, and the man also walked straight. The woman turned a corner, and the man also turned a corner.
Qu Fanyi suddenly became nervous.
Fortunately, there were other people on this road, a few passers-by. However, the woman who was followed seemed to be stupid, walking unsteadily, wearing a pair of slippers, as if she was still hungover.
She walked very slowly, and the man followed very slowly, as if deliberately keeping a distance.
Qu Fanyi secretly said that it was not good, worried about the woman, and simply followed the man. So this street was like a string of scattered beads, with three people strung together, and the three people walked at a constant speed. After a while, the woman with loose hair entered the nugget.
The man stopped walking, turned into a convenience store a few meters away, and bought a pack of cigarettes.
Qu Fanyi came up with a plan and quickly followed into nugget.
The seat under the old locust tree in nugget on weekday afternoons was Qiu Zining's special seat. As soon as she entered the door, the waiter came up to greet her, and as usual, she ordered a mojito with double the alcohol.
Qiu Zining glanced at the time, turned on the computer and mobile phone, put the phone on the shelf, put on headphones, and went to the live broadcast room: "Hello babies, I'm online, online. I was just in a restaurant in Sanlitun. The promised benefit for 2 million fans is to show my face and start live broadcasting. Yes, that's right, I look like this, hahaha, good-looking? Thank you, baby. Today I'm just chatting with you. Babies, if you have anything to say or ask, you can say it."
The waiter brought the wine. There were not many people in Nugget at the moment, and Qiu Zining was the only one sitting in the yard.
Qiu Zining held up a wine glass: "Just to clarify, this is not wine! Administrator! Administrator, this is a non-alcoholic drink. Drinking is not good. Everyone, please don't drink. Okay, babies, what emotional problems do you have today... Oh, full-time housewives, ask me what I think of full-time housewives?"
The door of the restaurant opened, and Qu Fanyi followed in.
She glanced at the waiter, then at the long-haired woman who was talking to the phone screen, gritted her teeth, and pulled the chair opposite Qiu Zining and sat down.
"My dears, as long as you are my fan, you know that I have no opinion on full-time housewives, absolutely not, because I don't think they are a legitimate profession at all. What is a profession? A salary, health and life are guaranteed, and labor law guarantees. Before, some babies told me that a full-time housewife is equal to a housekeeper, a cleaner, a private nutritionist, a nanny, and a driver... No, these housekeepers, nannies, private nutritionists, and even cleaners! All have career promotions, and they are getting more and more expensive, but full-time housewives..."
Qiu Zining paused.
She stared at Qu Fanyi who suddenly sat in front of her, and looked around the whole yard. There were empty seats everywhere, why did she sit opposite me? ! I was shocked!
However, the woman did not dare to look at her. The next second after their eyes met, she immediately lowered her head, took out her mobile phone, and pressed a bunch of keys.
Is she sick?
Qiu Zining thought, cleared his throat and returned to the live broadcast room: "Sorry, something happened just now. Yes, anyway, it's not worth being a full-time wife! We women, dear children, should focus on our careers, and don't always think about devoting ourselves to the family or something, or we will suffer."
Qu Fanyi scratched her ears. The aura of the woman opposite was too strong, her eyes and voice were fierce, and the full-time wife seemed to be scolding her, which became more and more irritating the more she listened. She pursed her lips, mustered up her courage, and looked at Qiu Zining: "Um... are you free now..."
Qiu Zining muted the live broadcast room and looked at Qu Fanyi with a look of a fool: "? Good question, didn't you see that I was broadcasting live?"
Qu Fanyi said.
Qiu Zining returned to the live broadcast room and continued to curse: "Oh, it's common for full-time wives to be cheated. The more perfect the wife is, the more likely the husband will cheat-don't blame the man for being cheap, just like when you raise a child, if you finish the child's homework, then the child can only play outside, right? He should bear the responsibility. Instead, you carry the burden for him. Then when he is idle and bored, he will find someone else to live a peaceful life?"
Qu Fanyi was stunned.
The woman on the other side continued to output: "Yes, men don't need to be taught. If he wants to learn, he will learn it by himself. If he doesn't want to learn, you chew it up and feed it to his mouth, he won't learn it. So, some women deserve to be unlucky. Their husbands don't love them, but they still refuse to divorce. Such people are typical married women..."
Qu Fanyi couldn't listen any more.
Even if she had a good temper, she felt that this woman's words were really harsh. She had such a pretty face, but her words were more poisonous than anyone else.
It reminded her of Qiu Ning'er, who she had followed before. I don't know where these women and full-time wives got their hatred from, or are all emotional bloggers like this now? They like to gain traffic by trampling on marriage.
Such a bad person deserves to be followed!
Qu Fanyi stood up suddenly, making a lot of noise. Qiu Zining glanced at her sideways and didn't bother to pay attention.
He looked at the screen again: "Ah? You asked a girl what to do when she meets true love after marriage? Oh, baby, you asked the right person."
There was a slight noise from the other side——
Qu Fanyi sat down again, her face turned to Qiu Zining, her ears slightly erected.
"If you ask me, it is normal to meet true love after marriage. Because a reliable marriage has nothing to do with love. If you ask me, there are very few people in the world who are suitable for marriage, but there are many people who can make you feel moved and tempted. You have to distinguish whether this is true love or just greedy for someone's body!"
Qu Fanyi frowned.
Qiu Zining continued: "People only live this life, in the final analysis, it depends on what you want. When you encounter a choice, ask yourself, what you want is real or illusory."
Qu Fanyi suddenly raised her eyes and glanced at Qiu Zining. Qiu Zining received her gaze, with a puzzled look on his face, and continued to sway and output to the screen: "In my opinion, love has a shelf life. The true love you meet now may be nothing after two years. But marriage is more or less a weighing of personality, family and other factors. It is the most suitable person to live together. Unless you can guarantee that pursuing true love will definitely make you happier, otherwise, I still advise you to be cautious hahaha."
Qu Fanyi curled her lips and sneered in her heart: "It's the same as saying nothing."
Qiu Zining's sharp eyes glanced at her again, like a knife cutting over.
Qu Fanyi shrank her neck in fear.
"Okay, okay, let's stop here today. In short, life is made up of various disappointments. Although I don't like good wives and good mothers, I still sincerely wish everyone with a family happiness. I hope that every woman's contribution to the family can be rewarded. Of course, if possible, I still hope that you will pay more for yourself."
Qu Fanyi pursed her lips and felt that this woman was not so annoying. Seeing the end of the live broadcast, she also stood up, but only saw the woman say the last words to the screen:
"Thank you all for this time! Goodbye! Welcome to Qiu Ning'er's live broadcast room next time!"
The smile on Qu Fanyi's face froze, and she stared at her blankly.
Qiu Zining turned off the computer. This time she finally had time to deal with this inexplicable woman: "What?"
Qu Fanyi raised her eyebrows, "Are you Qiu Ning'er?"
Qiu Zining looked amused: "Aren't you my fan?"
She moved her mouth and held back her ridicule, "Why do you have so many fans?"
"If you don't know me, why are you sitting opposite me with so many seats?"
Qu Fanyi seemed to be angry and ignored her, muttering to herself: "No wonder, sitting here for half an hour to live broadcast, and 15 minutes of it is spent scolding full-time housewives , that's right, you really do what you say, and you always backstab married women like us on Weibo. "
Qiu Zining was speechless, staring at her: "You said you are not my fan, but you even read my Weibo!"
Qu Fanyi looked at her, "I followed her before, but I blocked her after I went clubbing with Sister Qing." After saying that, she picked up her phone and stood up to leave, leaving a sentence, "It's hard for you, I ruined your fun of clubbing, and you even posted a Weibo to scold me."
"...What?" The person who was stunned in the same place became Qiu Zining.
Only then did he realize that the woman in front of him was Qu Fanyi, whom Sheng Yiqing had mentioned to him several times. She only cared about the word "happy" when she posted on Weibo, and she really didn't consider other people's feelings, let alone that others might have paid attention to her. Thinking of this, his head was rumbling, his face was blue and white, and he didn't know what to say for a while.
Seeing Qu Fanyi leave, he quickly opened his phone and found the Weibo.
Qu Fanyi was furious and stormed out of the restaurant, but she turned back after opening the door. She walked to Qiu Zining with a few steps and said unhappily, "Just a reminder--"
"Ah?" Qiu Zining looked up blankly.
"There's a man, not handsome nor shabby, standing at the door, looking at you all the time. I saw him wandering around here several times before. He followed you when I came here this afternoon, and he's still at the restaurant door now. We're all women, so I still want to remind you, as an independent woman, be careful. If you can't handle it yourself, call the police. Okay, I've finished telling you--"
After saying that, she turned around and left. Probably still angry, her footsteps were very heavy.
"Wait." Qiu Zining stopped her and held up his phone: "Well, I deleted the Weibo post that mocked you. I do have a prejudice against full-time housewives. But this is my personal reason."
Qu Fanyi didn't expect her to admit her mistake. After a moment of silence, she continued:
"You have always been independent. An advertisement costs tens of thousands. Of course you look down on us. But you have to know that not all women can support themselves independently like you, and not all women's wish is to grow into a tree like you. A large part of women in this world dream of becoming dodders. For example, I am a woman like me. I just hate going to work! I hate Work! I hate meeting different people every day! I hate working hard even more! What I want to do most in my life is to be a parasite, find a reliable and wealthy host to rely on, and live a carefree life. Everyone has their own aspirations. You have no right to think I am shameful-"
"Of course I know."
Qiu Zining smiled bitterly and looked at the door of the restaurant, "I know the person who has been following me. It doesn't matter. He won't hurt me."
Qu Fanyi was stunned and seemed to not understand what she meant: "You, you know that person?"
The man at the door was extremely ordinary. Qu Fanyi could never imagine that he could actually be related to Qiu Zining.
Qiu Zining said again, "Can you believe it? Marrying the man outside the door, working like a cow and a horse for him, and having children was once my biggest dream. "