Since the part-time job ended, Su Yiqi has no direct contact with her anymore.
Although from the past, Jian Anran had a vague feeling that the relationship between the other party and Xiangyi was unusual, but firstly, she was not interested in these at all, and secondly, she was not willing to dig into other people's privacy——
Especially with Xiangyi's cryptic look on her face, Jian Anran could clearly sense what she didn't want others to notice.
Su Yiqi turned to face her with a smile, shook his head, and then said after hesitating: "Later."
After a while, there were two cups of hot coffee on the bar. Su Yiqi pushed the coffee in front of Jian Anran, took off his apron, and sat down across from Jian Anran.
There was a feeling of total silence in the store for an instant. There was no sound like the operating sound of the coffee machine or the chatter of customers.
There was only the faint sound of cars outside the store and the buzzing in Jian Anran's ears.
"Deng-deng——" A ringtone rang in her pocket, and Jian Anran's mobile phone received a new WeChat message.
When she opened it, she saw that it was a PDF file sent by Su Yiqi. It was 35M in size. Jian Anran downloaded it for a long time and still couldn't open it.
"Thank you, store manager, we have indeed encountered a bottleneck in our recent project." Looking at her internet speed, Jian Anran smiled awkwardly.
"Then your last project..." Su Yiqi hesitated, "Did it go well?"
She didn't expect that the other party would suddenly ask this question. Even though she was surprised, Jian Anran still shook her head, "Not really."
"You may have seen the news. The Ludao project is indeed stuck. What will happen next is still unknown." Jian Anran said.
"I follow your studio's Weibo." Su Yiqi suddenly said.
Weibo...? Then Su Yiqi must have seen what Xiangyi has done, and why this matter has reached a bottleneck.
"It's definitely wrong for Xiangyi to be like this," Su Yiqi said, his face getting darker and darker, "I just hope you don't think she is a real bad person. She...she also has her own reasons."
"After all, she doesn't have many friends. You should be the only ones at school willing to talk to her."
What's going on? Are you planning to clear your name? Looking up at Su Yiqi's heavy eyelids, Jian Anran didn't know what to say.
"She is no longer in our office, did you know?" Jian Anran asked suddenly.
"What?" Su Yiqi's eyes widened instantly, looking very surprised.
However, he nodded immediately, "Yes, if he did such a thing, no one would be able to accept her."
"Although I heard that your teacher is a good person, this kind of violation of principles is still..."
"That's not the case," Jian Anran immediately denied Su Yiqi's conjecture, "it was not the teacher who drove her away. Before the plagiarism incident was exposed, senior Xiangyi proposed to transfer to another group."
"She...?" His fingertips trembled slightly, Su Yiqi's lips parted for a long time, but in the end he said nothing.
At the beginning, there was news that the takeout platform was accepting orders. Su Yiqi simply closed the platform and replaced it with a small wooden sign with the word "rest" printed on it at the entrance of the store.
Facing the wall quietly, the two of them sat in front of the bar and drank coffee silently. No matter how people came and went in front of the glass window, time seemed to stop passing on this side of the glass window.
Halfway through the coffee, Su Yiqi finally broke the silence again: "I think there are some things I still need to tell you."
Turning her head, Jian Anran immediately noticed his heavy eyelids, probably due to lack of rest. Su Yiqi's eyelids had three folds.
"Xiangyi is really sick this time."
"I know." Jian Anran's tone was very calm and without any waves, "After all, you told me when we were in the hospital last time."
"She has been under observation in the hospital for several days. This time is really..." Su Yiqi hesitated for a moment, "This time is really different."
"It's very different." He emphasized again.
"But she definitely didn't allow me to say it, but I know you and you are a nice person." Su Yiqi first confirmed what he thought of Jian Anran's character.
She originally thought he was joking, or simply complimenting her, but as soon as Jian Anran raised her head, she met Su Yiqi's very sincere eyes.
His words seemed to come from the heart.
"I hope that in the future, whatever I say to you about Xiangyi, you will not tell any third person, including Xiangyi."
After getting Jian Anran's promise, Su Yiqi took a deep breath and finally made up his mind to speak.
"Ring ring ring!"
"Ring ring ring!"
A rapid ringtone suddenly interrupted their conversation, and they were unable to react for a moment. Jian Anran was so frightened that her phone even slipped and fell to the ground.
"Sorry," Su Yiqi stood up immediately after bending down to pick up Jian Anran's mobile phone. "It's almost time. I have to go back and prepare dinner to send to the hospital. Let's talk when you are free."
That's it? Jian Anran raised her hand and glanced at the time, half past four.
I can't help but secretly sigh that Su Yiqi should write a script, no one can leave the suspense better than him.
After packing up her things and saying goodbye, Jian Anran had just walked out of the store when she heard the sound of Su Yiqi washing the cups behind her suddenly ending.
"But why didn't your boyfriend show up?"
"Boyfriend?" Jian Anran was a little surprised, but still pretended to be calm.
"Is it your boyfriend? Or your partner? I don't know what you young people call them nowadays." Su Yiqi smiled.
The words were stuck in her throat, and Jian Anran couldn't say a word for a long time.
How did Su Yiqi know? When he first met him in the hospital, did he begin to doubt their relationship?
"Xiangyi told me," Su Yiqi seemed to see his confusion, "Xiangyi knows everything."
"What?" Jian Anran asked.
"It's okay, see you next time." Su Yiqi smiled and shook his head.
……
After walking out of the coffee shop for a long time, the more Jian Anran thought about it, the more she felt that something was wrong.
It feels like Su Yiqi's sentence "Xiangyi knows everything" seems to have a meaning. Does it mean that Xiangyi already knows about her relationship with Wen Siheng?
Although she didn't know that Su Yiqi didn't specify what he really wanted to say, Jian Anran felt that what the other party hadn't had time to tell her today must be something complicated.
There is a feeling that if Jian Anran wants to make Xiangyi's secret public in the future, she will be ruined.
Until she got on the subway, Jian Anran couldn't figure out what kind of unknown secret Xiangyi still had, which was so important that the other party didn't have the courage to tell her directly, and even wanted to exchange chips.
[Jane: Can you bring your teacher to the store to have a look next time? If I just rely on the drawings, I’m afraid I’ll miss some details by myself [embarrassing]]