24 hours after the post about Qiu Zining was published, the post that once revealed Qiu Zining abandoned her boyfriend was also "deleted at the request of the whistleblower".
In view of the company's request, Qiu Zining still issued a clarification statement. She said that she did not "two-timing". She was serious and responsible for every relationship, and she pointed out that the two photos that pointed out her "two-timing" were taken a year and a half apart. Not only was the camera quality different, but even her hairstyle was completely different. As for the man in the new photo, he is indeed her boyfriend.
"And he is indeed a bit coquettish and likes to wear Pinru's clothes."
After this Weibo post was published, Qiu Zining felt a little guilty. The simplest way for public relations to deal with the incident is to entertain the incident and divert the public's attention. This made her feel a little sorry for Chen Ziang, but she soon felt: It doesn't matter, the avatar in the photo was censored, and he couldn't see it, so it wouldn't cause any damage.
She was at home now, washing her hair and lying down with a hair dryer cap on. There was no time to redecorate the house, so she asked a cleaner to come and clean it on the day of handover, and then she was eager to move in from the hotel.
She still remembered the first day she came to the house.
The house was empty, without even a mattress. She ordered a large plastic tablecloth and a bottle of beer on Ele.me. She bit the bottle cap open with her teeth, put on a down quilt, and sat on the hard ground in her home clothes, drinking and staring at the moon outside the window. Next to the quilt were two huge suitcases and a worn canvas bag containing a laptop, a toiletries bag and a charger - this was all she had, and these things excited her more than love, and her heart was thumping.
She finally had her first house and her own room.
Her life used to be like a ruin, or a piece of duckweed, but now she finally found a soil for herself to take root and sprout.
Qiu Zining no longer needed to be a dodder.
This bedroom is not big. She originally planned to clean it up, but unfortunately she became busier and busier after living alone, and had no time to take care of the surroundings. In addition, she had a revengeful mind and had worked as a nanny in Huamao Apartment for a long time. After becoming an independent woman, she refused to do any housework.
Thinking of this, she realized the good of Chen Ziang. After all, every time he came, her home was completely renewed. However, he annoyed her last time. As she was thinking this, the phone rang——
Speak of the devil and he will appear.
She was stunned, "What is this guy doing again?"
The voice on the other end was still panting, as if he had just finished exercising. The surroundings were noisy, and his voice became louder, "What are you doing?"
She seemed not to be used to the straightforward and intimate opening remarks of young people. She made a sound in her mind and asked him, "What do you want to do?"
"I just finished the competition. I want to see you."
"Don't you have a place to stay overnight?"
"What a joke. I can sleep in any of the four beds in our dormitory. I um..." He greeted the people around him, and then said to the phone, "I have something to talk to you about."
"No."
"I threw away your ex-boyfriend's clothes. If you don't want me anymore, you have to see me."
This time his tone was firm. He sounded in a good mood.
Qiu Zining pouted, "What game were you playing just now?"
"Basketball."
"Then wear your jersey." Qiu Zining smiled, "Otherwise I'm not very interested in receiving you."
Chen Ziang's school is in Haidian, and the roads are not congested at night. It takes more than 40 minutes to drive to Qiu Zining's home. Unlike the last time when he was tied up, this time the man seemed to have something on him. When the doorbell rang, he was holding a basketball in his arms, spinning the ball while glancing at Qiu Zining.
Qiu Zining's eyes widened: "Why are you carrying a basketball?"
"I thought you wanted to see me play basketball? Is there a court downstairs in your house? I'll show you a slam dunk."
Qiu Zining looked at him with a look that said, "You're crazy, right?" and ordered, "Put the basketball outside. Come in."
Chen Ziang did as he was told, walked into the house, kicked off his shoes, and said to Qiu Zining, "By the way, since I'm here, I want to have a barbecue. You treat me."
Qiu Zining was stunned by this operation. He walked a few steps to him and touched his forehead: "Do you have a fever today? Are you here to cause trouble for me?"
"What?" He put his hands on Crossing his chest, he looked at her with a smile: "Is it so difficult to invite your boyfriend to barbecue?"
"Who the hell is my boyfriend..." Before she could finish the last word, she realized something was wrong and changed her face to alert: "What did you see?"
"Qiu Ning'er." The big boy called her online name directly, and came closer with curved eyes, "Do you really think I don't know what you do?"
Qiu Zining jumped up as if he stepped on a mouse: "When did you know?"
"You want to hear it?" This time he kept it a secret, "Order takeout, and want some wine, I'll tell you."
"The little boy is so annoying." She took out her cell phone.
Chen Ziang smiled: "I haven't said that the beautiful sister is cunning." After saying this, he directly spread out on her lazy sofa: "But have you read the comments below? A lot of people said that the shirt is too tight and shows my figure. They also praised you for being lucky."
Qiu Zining threw the phone to him: "You can take care of it yourself."
"Wow-do you have a budget?" Chen Ziang put his arms around, took the flying phone, and took a look at the takeout interface.
Qiu Zining sneered, "Do you think Qiu Ning'er is short of money?"
Half an hour later, the delivery boy brought two large bags of barbecue and beer wrapped in tin foil to the door. The two simply sat down with a futon each, spread the tablecloth, and piled the barbecue in the middle. Chen Ziang was in high spirits, eating meat while talking about his proud discovery: "You posted the avatar on that social app on Weibo a long time ago. At that time, you had very few fans, and you occasionally posted a selfie or something. Later, you became famous, and you deleted those Weibo. Right?"
Qiu Zining narrowed his eyes: "You can!"
The boy grinned, "Of course, believe it or not, I have been following you for two years!"
"Huh?" Qiu Zining almost choked: "Has a crush on me?"
"No, no, no." He waved his hand quickly: "It's my girlfriend, no, ex-girlfriend, she likes you. You just set up a public account at that time, and she followed it. Every day she told me that there was a blogger who was particularly interesting."
"I wrote about some feelings at that time. Teach little girls how to flirt with boys."
"Really?! Really?!" He slapped his thigh: "You also have a category, do you know? How to deal with the twelve constellations How to deal with students, office workers, finance men and sports students... "
Qiu Zining coughed. Those things were all made up by her based on the horoscope, TV dramas, and her bestie's stories: "So, she used that trick to deal with you?"
"She did it! She fucking did it!" Chen Ziang was heartbroken: "I didn't understand at the time, how could a 17-year-old girl be so good? She just let me look up and then pounced on me and kissed my Adam's apple. Damn it! You know, it's unbearable, dogs will die if they hear it . So after we got together, she told me the truth one time. She said all these nonsense, she learned it from a public account, she is a pure girl. "
"Oh? Then what?"
"I followed your public account the same night I sent her back to the dormitory, and I saw it! It opened my eyes, this blogger is something."
Qiu Zining was tearing chicken wings politely, and after hearing this, he just took a sip of wine and said: "No, no, I made it up, I am also a pure girl."
The two clinked their glasses. "Then what?" Qiu Zining asked.
"I've been following you since then. Later, you stopped publishing tutorials on how to flirt with men and started writing some feminist articles instead. You talked about how independent women should be. You know, you're so annoying. My ex-girlfriend would forward your public account to me whenever she had nothing to do, asking me to give her opinion." He shook his head and gulped down a large glass of wine: "What can I think? Your public accounts are all about scolding men, and I'm a fucking man. I'm scolded by you, but I still have to say good things to my girlfriend. You're right! It's sharp! It makes sense!" "Are you living a life of mediocrity purely for love?" "I can't help it. It's my first love. Of course, the ending wasn't that good." "Oh, what's wrong?" She looked up at him. "She likes someone else." Chen Ziang said sullenly: "It's a senior in their department, from the same hometown." "Handsome guys can also be cheated on?" Qiu Zining didn't believe it. "He's rich." At this point, Chen Ziang glared at Qiu Zining again: "What the hell, I later saw a fan submission in your public account. A girl asked, she has a good boyfriend who is stable and handsome, but now she is pursued by a rich senior from the same hometown. Who should she choose? Do you remember how you answered her?"
"What did you say?" Qiu Zining felt guilty. She had completely forgotten about this matter, but she could probably guess the answer - even if Qiu Zining gave her advice now, she would definitely choose the rich senior without hesitation.
"You said to choose the senior."
"Oh - not surprising."
"And then she told the girl to sleep with her handsome boyfriend." Chen Ziang smiled at her.
Qiu Zining was choked by the wine and coughed several times. Chen Ziang helplessly reached out and patted her back. When Qiu Zining recovered, the first thing she said was a red nose and eyes looking at him: "So, have you been slept with?"
He took back his hand and glanced at her unhappily.
"Let me tell you, when I saw that reply, I was not sure if it was my girlfriend, but I really wanted to find your address and beat you up, you know? What kind of dog blogger does she follow?"
"Then are you going to beat me up first?" Qiu Zining narrowed her eyes provocatively.
Chen Ziang coughed lightly, picked up a kebab, and continued, "Anyway, after she broke up with me, I was depressed for a while. I felt bad every day. When I felt bad, I would read your Weibo and your public account. It seemed that you were in love for a while, and the frequency of updates became less. The whole person seemed lazy, but occasionally you would repost some slogans of independent women on the Internet. But then there was a period of time, you suddenly deleted all those things. I thought you were going to get married and stop being an independent woman."
"No..." Qiu Zining pulled the corner of his mouth, "But I did want to get married at one time."
"With your ex-boyfriend?" He suddenly became interested again: "You haven't told me yet, why did you break up? But I just found out today that you emotional bloggers are all making up stories. A series of traps. If I hadn't been bored and checked Weibo after the game, I wouldn't have known that I was your girlfriend. "
"You didn't lose out either. Look, you earned a barbecue meal."
"Chen Ziang chuckled twice, remembered something, and said, "I remember a Weibo post of yours a long time ago. In that Weibo post, you denounced a married woman who found out that her husband cheated on her but didn't divorce. You kept saying that she was too cowardly and had no courage. You also said that she was holding on to the memorial archway and refused to let go. She was a typical good wife and mother. I clicked on that Weibo post about dozens of times."
"Why?"
"Because a long time ago, my ex-girlfriend replied to a comment below, and it was liked by many people. After we broke up, we unfollowed each other. Later, every time I wanted to go to her homepage to spy on her, I would click on your Weibo post... "At this point, she glanced at Qiu Zining again, and said in a nagging tone: "But you are so good! It's only been two months, and you deleted that Weibo. Why did you delete it for no reason?"
Qiu Zining's smile faded, "I deleted that Weibo on the night of July 30th. So you and your partner broke up last May?"
"You remember all this?!" Chen Ziang's eyes widened.
"Well, that day was my ex-boyfriend's father's 60th birthday, and guess what my ex-boyfriend was doing that night——" Without waiting for Chen Ziang to answer, she continued: "At his father's birthday party, he had a blind date with another girl. Don't ask me how I know, anyway, I discovered his evil deeds in a very stupid way."
"So you broke up with him?"
"No." Qiu Zining shook his head: "I was really angry at the time. They had dinner in Miyun. I took a taxi back to Chaoyang. It was an hour and a half drive. My hands were shaking. I was crying at the time and told myself to go back immediately! Go back immediately, pack your luggage immediately! Move, scold him! Break up with him! Never see him again. I planned well on the way. I packed my luggage first, then looked at nearby hotels, and then the next day I contacted the agency to find a house."
"That's how it should be! This What a rubbish man, break up with him quickly!" Qiu Zining smiled and continued, "I packed my luggage quickly. I was so angry at that time that I didn't even know I had hurt myself. Then, I dragged two large suitcases and carried my canvas bag, and I started looking for hotels, and then-" She glanced at Chen Ziang, "Then I calmed down halfway." "Why?" Chen Ziang was curious, and then he said, "Is it because you found that you still love him? Can't bear to let him go?" "Is it because I am the kind of person who has feelings?" Qiu Zining smiled, then sighed, and said, "The reason why I calmed down is simple-the hotel is too expensive." "Expensive?" "Yeah." She leaned back, supporting her elbows on the ground, Looking at the ceiling: "That was... when I was the poorest. I only had a few thousand yuan income every month, but I lived in a high-end residential area in Beijing for a year. At that time, I took a look at the hotels in Beijing and was shocked by the prices, you know? I didn't expect that the hotels I liked were so expensive, starting at 500 yuan a night. Then I told myself, it doesn't matter, I will stay in a hotel for one night and rent a house tomorrow - then I took another look at the prices on the rental app... I haven't seen it for a long time..."
"Shocked again?"
"Yeah. The housing prices in Beijing have improved much faster than mine. Only a year has passed, and I am still earning a few thousand yuan, but the housing prices are no longer the same as before. But I still told myself that I want to be independent, I can bear it for a while, I'm big I couldn't stay in a cheaper hotel, and then find a way to transition... So I found a hotel on the South Third Ring Road, which only cost 300 yuan a night. I didn't even want to take a taxi, because it would cost dozens of yuan. "
"Yes, you will be independent in the future, and you have to rely on yourself for everything, so you have to save some money."
"I carried the two big suitcases little by little to the subway, changed trains, and then carried them little by little to the bus. I was so tired that I almost died. Finally, I arrived at the hotel-but in the end, I collapsed."
"What happened?" The two had finished the barbecue, and each of them had half a bottle of beer left in their hands. Chen Ziang also imitated Qiu Zining and supported himself with his elbows. He moved and leaned on her shoulder, and their arms occasionally rubbed against each other.
"That hotel was totally different from the pictures. It was a very small, shabby little hotel. There were hairs on the sheets in the room, and the toilet was full of stains. I was very angry and went to argue with the owner, but he told me that I could stay there if I wanted. It was a hotel of this level! How dare he charge 325 yuan a night? I booked 5 nights, which was more than 1,500 yuan!"
Chen Zi
Ang nodded, "It's a lot. Plus you'll have to rent a house later."
"Look, I just started looking for freedom, and I was severely pitted by fate." At this point, Qiu Zi'ning looked at Chen Zi'ang, "What do you think I should do?"
"You beg the boss? Ask him to help you? Maybe he can understand your difficulties." The young man was very simple.
"Ask him for help? Why should a man help you? Because you are good-looking? Do I have to escape from an ugly man and then escape to the arms of another ugly man?" She laughed at herself, "No! I had a fierce quarrel with him, like a shrew, yelling at his front desk, hysterical, looking for death, and almost rolling on the ground. After using all the embarrassing means, I finally got the hotel refund. But it was very late, the bus stopped, and I couldn't go anywhere. So I had to drag my suitcase and sit on the side of the road, like a beggar, silently dazed for a while. Then I stood up—— "Where are you going?" "I took a taxi." She put down the beer bottle and looked at Chen Ziang: "The destination is my boyfriend's house." "You... are going back? ! You don't want to break up? ! " "Is breaking up so important? Is love so important? Is his cheating so important? ! To put it bluntly - is dignity so important?" Qiu Zining smiled bitterly: "As long as he is still willing to be with me, then I can continue to live in that clean, luxurious, bright apartment for free, and he can continue to be my driver, picking me up wherever I want to go, and even, I am willing to spend money on taxis again. Do you know? When the taxi driver came, the driver stopped the car in front of me, and was very enthusiastic to help me put the two suitcases into the trunk, I really cried, I found that life can actually be very easy, as long as you take a step back, you can live very easily, right? " Chen Ziang didn't speak. He opened his mouth and digested Qiu Zining's words. "On the way back, I cried and felt like a waste. I used to scold those cuckolded women who were reluctant to divorce online, scolding them for being pitiful and not knowing what self-reliance and freedom were, but now, I have become one of them. But you know what? When the taxi stopped at the gate of the community, when I saw the familiar security guard again, when I returned to the marble lobby downstairs of our house, and saw the ugly green-lit words on the Huamao Apartment, I really, really felt--" She pulled the corner of her mouth sarcastically, "happy."
Chen Ziang patted her, and these words opened Qiu Zi's heart. Ning's chatterbox, she continued: "I used to read entertainment news, saying that a female star dragged her suitcases overnight and moved after she found her boyfriend. At that time, everyone praised her, saying that she was decisive and very cool. But that day I realized that moving on a whim is a luxury in Beijing. Haha, so, you say, how can it be so easy to be an independent woman? Try it yourself and you will know."
"A poor woman like me who longs to rely on a man to live and work in Beijing is not qualified to be willful."
"Everyone always says that love in the city is cheap, but I later found out that it is not love that is cheap, but myself."
"Chen Ziang, don't you think so?"
...
The two of them were side by side, getting closer and closer, the night was getting deeper and deeper, the evening breeze blew on the treetops outside the window, and Qiu Zining simply leaned his head on Chen Ziang's shoulder little by little.
He had been listening to her quietly. When he noticed that she was approaching, he stretched out his arms and held her in his arms. The fresh scent of mint shower gel, "Of course you are not cheap." He said.
"Did you take a shower?" Qiu Zining sniffed and looked up at him.
"Yeah." Chen Ziang turned his face to the side, like coaxing a child, bent his fingers, and wiped the tears on her face bit by bit, "Don't cry. You see, you made money later and immediately bought a house and moved out. Everything you have now is earned by yourself, Qiu Zining, you are so great!"
"Am I very vulgar? I don't love him at all. I just tolerated his cheating for the sake of that house and continued to live with him for a long time. In fact, I... I am a little grateful that he cheated on me, which made me wake up completely..."
"You are not vulgar, you are an inspirational heroine, and he is a person who walks with you in life. After triggering the task, you can leave." Chen Ziang looked at her very seriously.
Qiu Zining laughed and looked at him sideways, "What are you talking about?"
Chen Ziang did not avoid her gaze, "Maybe it's because I like you too much. No matter what you do, I think it's right."
"Why did you come here after taking a shower?" She changed the subject, closed her eyes, and breathed on his neck, mumbling: "What is the child thinking?"
But he just curled the corners of his mouth, leaned over, leaned down, and put his lips on her chin.
Qiu Zining opened her eyes and looked at his face, which was so close, but at this moment, his eyes were dark and his breathing was heavy. She twisted her body - itchy.
She was a sad sister, and at this moment, he would only use one way to comfort her.
The next second, he held her face and asked in a whisper:
"Qiu Zining, do it?"