Tang Hongxuan returned to Dongshan late at night as usual.
Facing the deserted room, he unconsciously fell into a trance for a moment.
"Master Hong." Aken knocked on the door and walked into the study, "The person in charge of the branch called me this morning..."
Tang Hongxuan waved his hand and interrupted him, "Is it still about the unit price of materials?" He glanced at him and went to the stage to pick up a bottle of Black Cube.
"Yes, Hongchang hopes to get a better deal and establish long-term cooperation with us."
Tang Hongxuan snorted, poured wine and ice into the glass, "Tell them that the current price is my bottom line. If they don't accept it, forget it. There are many people who want to do business with me, Tang's."
"Understood. By the way, Mr. Hong, the regular meeting will be tomorrow afternoon..."
"Just do whatever you tell them to do." At this point, Tang Hongxuan's brows wrinkled slightly, which was a sign of his impatience.
So, Aken wisely chose to hide away, "I understand, Mr. Hong. You should rest early."
The huge room became silent again.
Tang Hongxuan suddenly felt extremely irritable. He raised his head and drank all the liquid in the glass, tore off the tie around his neck and threw it aside. However, he accidentally glanced at the plastic cartoon keychain on the stage. It was Lin Ruoxi's that he left behind that night.
Tang Hongxuan reached out and touched it, shaking it in front of his eyes. The yellow SpongeBob grinned heartlessly.
The figure in his mind came alive, and Tang Hongxuan couldn't help but smile.
In the few memories he had about her, her smile was always bright, bright and warm. So, he fell in love with that smile that seemed to smell like the sun, and wanted to have a private life with its owner.
Hide.
It all started about a year ago.
In the afternoon of the first heavy rain, Lin Ruoxi was standing alone on the side of the road, lost in thought, when a black off-road sports car sped past her. Mud suddenly splashed everywhere, affecting the fish in the pond. Thousands of mud flowers bloomed on a pure white dress in an instant.
open.
Shocked and angry. But at this moment, the culprit turned back again.
"Miss, please ask me the way out." Before Lin Ruoxi raised her hand to slap, the black window glass slowly lowered.
He was a man with extremely handsome features. Handsome but cold and distant.
There is a reserved and cold smile on the thin lips, and the meticulous short hair stands straight. The eyes are bright, unusually deep and sharp, like an eagle. Wherever the gaze stays, people unconsciously feel like they are in this hot summer of 36 degrees above zero.
A silky chill.
Therefore, when Lin Ruoxi met his eyes, the words 'your mother' that were already on her lips got stuck in her throat, and then she swallowed them back with difficulty.
"Miss, may I ask how to get to Haoxiang Restaurant?" He said in a very polite tone, too polite to be refused.
Lin Ruoxi frowned, pursed her lips, and looked at him silently.
This kind of ambition only lasted for half a minute. In the end, she was the first to end the frightened look at each other and turned to look at the straight road in the distance. "Haoxiang Restaurant is in the West District of Renmin Road. You just walked the wrong way."
Then, she raised her hand and pointed in the distance, "Go along this road and turn left at the second intersection. About 5 minutes' drive away, there is a Wangji Big Bone Ramen, at the intersection on the right next to it.
Turn, then keep driving, and we’ll be there in another 10 minutes.”
The curvature of the man's right lip widened slightly, indicating that he had smiled. "Thank you." The black off-road vehicle sped out again and sped away.
The moment the car rushed out, he hurriedly caught a glimpse of her flowery smile in the rearview mirror, which was bright, pure, and pleasing to the eye. So he ignored the cunning in that smile.
In that encounter, Tang Hongxuan lost a useless case that was neither good nor bad. Because, under the "kind-hearted" guidance of Lin Ruoxi, his driver drove the car to a construction site that had been idle for many years.
During that encounter, Lin Ruoxi missed out on a well-paid part-time job because of her disheveled appearance, and had to eat ham pancakes for nearly a month.
Lin Ruoxi was awakened by a muffled sound of "dong" in her sleep. She had always been in a light sleep, but she immediately became energetic.
Squinting her eyes, she adapted to the darkness of the room after a moment, and saw a person leaning on the ladder next to her bed. She was startled, and hesitantly asked: "Huang Ying? What's wrong with you?" That was her roommate.
Girl, stay in her upper bunk.
"Hmm..." The person on the ground groaned.
"What's wrong with you?" Realizing that something was wrong, Lin Ruoxi quickly turned on the bedside table lamp, turned over and got off the ground, "Are you sick?" She reached out to help her and touched her forehead. She was covered in cold sweat, as if she had been washed with water, which frightened Lin Ruoxi.
Startled.
"I have a stomach ache……"
Looking down from her painfully twisted face, looking at the place where she was covering her hands tightly, three words popped into Lin Ruoxi's head without thinking - appendicitis.
That's McFarland's point, a place that the teacher repeatedly emphasized in the anatomy class when I was a freshman, used to determine the location of the appendix.
After being stunned for more than ten seconds, Lin Ruoxi finally realized that the top priority now was to go to the hospital, not to review the key points.
The house was a quadruple room, and one of the beds had been empty for half the semester. He hurriedly woke up another girl in the same dormitory. The two of them divided the work. Lin Ruoxi, who was small and weak, went to the aunt on the first floor to call the door, while the other person was in charge.
The work of supporting the sick.
After a lot of fuss, they rushed to the affiliated hospital. After the examination, it was already dawn after they were settled in. "The situation is not serious, no surgery is needed, just water." The doctor's words made the two women breathe a sigh of relief.
After sitting in the rest area outside the ward, the two of them looked at me, and I looked at you, and finally burst out laughing at the same time.
"I said Dr. Lin, that's fine. I thought it was a bad stomach, but it turned out to be appendicitis." Han Shanshan patted Lin Ruoxi's shoulder and joked.
Lin Ruoxi nodded at her seriously, "Well, student Han, this incident teaches us that being a doctor is also an extremely physically demanding job."
The two looked at each other and smiled again.
The sick Huang Ying is a grassland girl with a bold personality and a bold figure. It is indeed not an easy task to take her to the hospital.
"Have you called the counselor?" Lin Ruoxi asked.
"Fuck, Mrs. Liu said she would come over as soon as she got to work." Han Shanshan swore, "Fuck... go to work, the cucumbers and vegetables will be cold by then. Usually they compete for the best in competitions and use us as favors. At critical moments
It’s useless!”
"Okay, the person was delivered in time. It's nothing serious." Lin Ruoxi smiled at her reassuringly, "What time is it now?" She came out in a hurry and didn't bring her mobile phone with her.
"It's almost half past seven."
Lin Ruoxi stretched herself and stood up, "I'll go out and pay the rest of the bill."
"Bring a bottle of water back by the way."
"good."
After paying the fee and giving Han Shanshan the water and bread she bought, Lin Ruoxi went back.
Just now I caught a glimpse of the time displayed on the electronic clock on the wall, which was 7:55, and I thought that the counselor, Mrs. Liu, was about to come over, so I went out to greet her.
Lin Ruoxi stood at the gate for a while, feeling her legs were sore, so she ran to the steps next to her and sat down.
Recently, she suddenly suffered from insomnia. The continuous lack of sleep, coupled with the hard work last night, made her feel weak all over, and even the bones in her bones were terribly tired.
She had just bent her legs, folded her arms around her knees, and was thinking of squinting for a while when she saw a black car parked in front of the hospital. The latest Land Rover at that time was very fashionable and trendy. Lin Ruoxi couldn't help but think too much.
I glanced at it a few times, because Huang Ying once held a magazine in the dormitory, pointed at the photos to show her, and screamed with longing: Goal, this is my goal!
However, she soon lost her admiration, because the person who got out of the car was someone she never wanted to see again. He was in well-tailored silver-gray handmade casual clothes with good taste. He had a tall and straight figure with a deep and spiritual figure.
His eyes and handsome facial features were a little less cold and softened under the reflection of the morning light. It was none other than Tang Hongxuan.
The moment she saw him, Lin Ruoxi felt dizzy. Then, the only thought in Lin Ruoxi's mind was: hide, don't let him see her!
That's a reaction caused by fear.
Yes, she is afraid of him.
Although he once came to her rescue, and even though she regarded him as just a stranger she had met in her heart, Lin Ruoxi was very clear that she was afraid of him. It was not because of the almost crazy request Tang Hongxuan made to her that day.
It scared her.
This fear is physiological. It is as natural as mice being afraid of cats.
Lin Ruoxi almost climbed up from the ground using her hands and feet, but unfortunately, before her legs could move out, the man had already discovered her presence.
His dark eyes were half-squinted, and he glanced at her lightly, and his legs suddenly became weak. He could only blankly think about it, and stayed in place stupidly like a pile.
Tang Hongxuan was somewhat surprised to see Lin Ruoxi in the hospital early in the morning. He was stunned for a moment, and then his usually cold eyes softened a lot.
"Alone? Why did you come to the hospital so early?" He strode towards her and frowned when he saw her tired and pale face. "Are you sick?" The person who spoke was already approaching.
With the shadow above her head, Lin Ruoxi stared blankly at the person in front of her, unable to react in time.
She remained silent, and Tang Hongxuan frowned even more. He directly held her shoulder with one hand and brought her to him, and touched his forehead with the other.
Lin Ruoxi finally came back to her senses, "No...I'm not feeling uncomfortable..."
Tang Hongxuan raised his eyebrows, pursed his lips and said nothing. He touched her forehead and felt that the temperature was normal. His face brightened slightly, but he still did not let go. "Come with me." He pulled her to the outpatient department.
The scene of tugging at Dongshan Villa that day and Aken's threatening words suddenly flashed through Lin Ruoxi's mind one by one.
"What are you going to do?!" He pulled back hard, his face full of vigilance and panic.
Tang Hongxuan stopped and looked at her funny, "Of course I'm going to see a doctor."
"No... no need, my roommate is sick, I sent her here."
"You don't look good." His slender fingers gently stroked her delicate cheeks and lingered behind her ears.
Lin Ruoxi was startled at first and her body trembled slightly. She blushed and turned her head, cursed "crazy" angrily, shook off the big hand on her arm, turned around and ran away.
This time, Tang Hongxuan went with her. He just looked at her panicked running back and laughed softly.
What an interesting little girl, she escaped so neatly. It was as if he could really swallow her.
It's just that...he, Tang Hongxuan, decided to flee to the ends of the earth, what's the use?!