Li Qianmo didn't directly affirm Ding Ruola's proposal. Suppressing the cough was not a cure.
Ding Ruola understood this too, but post - traumatic stress disorder had driven her into madness. She felt like she was reliving that day every single day.
In her dreams, she could see Gu Tingjun's face and hear the man's voice. It was as if she had a sense of touch and could feel the man's warmth.
Even though she told herself again and again that it was all not real and that the incident was over, it didn't work at all.
The girl couldn't control her emotions. She covered her face and choked with sobs. Tears streamed out through her fingers.
Li Qianmo turned his head and looked in the direction of Fang Siyan. The door of the room where the man was had opened.
"The best way to face fear is to conquer it."
He didn't know what to do about the girl's tears, but what he could do now was psychological counseling to make Ding Ruola feel better.
Fang Siyan saw Ding Ruola's trembling shoulders. He couldn't sit still in the room any longer. He rushed out of the room directly.
"Ruoruo! I'll be with you. You don't have to feel pressured!"
The man sat beside Ding Ruola and put his arms around the girl's waist.
The girl wriggled her waist and escaped from Fang Siyan's embrace.
"We'll leave now! Sorry to bother you!"
Fang Siyan was about to take Ding Ruola away. He pulled the girl up, and Li Qianmo called out to Fang Siyan from behind.
"Leave me your contact information!"
The man paused for a moment. He opened WeChat and showed his QR code.
Their hands met for less than a second. Li Qianmo felt a slight vibration from his phone. Fang Siyan looked down and saw that the other man had put away his phone. Then he took Ding Ruola and left.
"Lao Fang! I..."
Ding Ruola hesitated. She had so many things to say to Fang Siyan, but she just couldn't say them out.
Fang Siyan held Ding Ruola's wrist and rubbed the tip of his pen against the girl's forehead.
"If you don't want to say it now, we'll have plenty of time in the future."
He was willing to wait. He had waited for nine years to be with Ding Ruola. Now, any waiting was insignificant to Fang Siyan.
The light in the room was still on. Ding Ruola didn't used to have the habit of sleeping with the light on, but now she would only feel comfortable in a well - lit place.
For Fang Siyan, such a small amount of electricity bill was nothing.
The two of them were lying in bed. Ding Ruola always turned her back to Fang Siyan.
Fang Siyan looked at the girl's slender back. Her messy hair fell on her neck. He wanted to reach out his hand to push the hair away from her neck.
Before his hand could touch the girl's body, the girl sat up from the bed.
"What's wrong, baby? Do you feel uncomfortable?"
Fang Siyan sat up with Ding Ruola.
The girl was holding her phone in her hand. She slowly shook her head.
"I'm going to find Bi Shuang tomorrow!"
"Do you want me to go with you?"
Fang Siyan knew that the two girls were quite close. Maybe Bi Shuang could help Ding Ruola get out of the dilemma in her heart.
"No, you just need to take me there!"
Ding Ruola's dependence on Fang Siyan was not as high as before. She could now stay alone in a relatively safe space.
There was a faint smile on the girl's face. Fang Siyan knew that this smile was just like a fake flower in winter - just for comfort.
Fang Siyan stroked the girl's cheek. He leaned over, propping one hand on the bed. The light from the ceiling spread. Under his pair of eyebrows were a pair of bright eyes, and under his nose was a tightly pursed thin lip.
"Is Bi Shuang in any trouble?"
He pulled Ding Ruola back to lie down and pulled the silk quilt on the girl tighter.
"She was fired by her original company!"
What the hell! Fang Siyan knew Bi Shuang's ability. When the girl was interning at Gusen Company, he often heard Gusen praise Bi Shuang.
Such an outstanding person was overqualified in a small company, but unexpectedly, she could still be fired.
Actually, it wasn't that the company fired Bi Shuang. It was Bi Shuang who quit on her own initiative. She had never met such a tasteless man in her life.
She and Qiao Lin had a peaceful breakup. She neither cried, nor made a fuss, nor grabbed the mistress's hair and beat her up.
Such a performance had surpassed so many women. Now she just wanted to work hard in the company, gain some experience, and then go back to her hometown for development.
But Qiao Lin didn't give her this chance.
Just the day before yesterday, Bi Shuang was working at her desk, organizing the manuscripts in her hand. Suddenly, a shadow covered her.
She didn't look up. She knew who the man standing beside her was.
Qiao Lin saw that Bi Shuang had no intention of paying attention to him, so he deliberately knocked on the table.
Bi Shuang looked up impatiently, threw the document in her hand on the table, got up, and gave Qiao Lin a disdainful look.
"What's up, Manager Qiao!"
"Come to my office with me!"
Bi Shuang had no choice but to follow the man. Along the way, she was baptized by the strange looks from her colleagues.
When she was dating Qiao Lin, the employees in the company only knew that Qiao Lin had a girlfriend, but they didn't know that this girlfriend was Bi Shuang.
Now that Qiao Lin was going to marry Qin Yue, the employees in the company thought that Qiao Lin and Qin Yue had been together at that time.
Bi Shuang was getting too close to Qiao Lin now, so in the eyes of her colleagues, she was a vixen.
However, Bi Shuang later found out that the real vixen was someone else.
She couldn't clear her name even if she jumped into the Yellow River. She was too lazy to explain to these gossips.
When she went in, she turned around and glared at the little girl who was gossiping behind her, and then slammed the office door shut.
The door made a loud bang against the door frame. Those who were eager to gossip were startled by Bi Shuang.
"Tell me what you want quickly."
They had had no problems when they were together. Now that they were no longer together, they were being so intimate in front of their colleagues.
Qiao Lin handed Bi Shuang a bottle of Baisui Mountain water and pulled a chair in front of him.
"You know, my future is more important!"
"Yes! I'm useless!"
Bi Shuang deliberately belittled herself in order to make this snobbish man stop pestering her.
"I'm in urgent need of money now. Can you return the things I gave you before..."
Bi Shuang suddenly stood up from the chair. She propped one hand on the table and leaned forward, getting close to the man's face.
"You'd better give up! Be more realistic!"
The girl left the office directly. She had never met such a brazen person.
They had already broken up, but he actually wanted to take back the gifts he had given Bi Shuang before.
Bi Shuang sneered. After she finished her work that day, she immediately left the company.
As soon as she got home, she heard someone knocking on the door.
She didn't have the habit of checking the peephole. She opened the door.
Qiao Lin was standing at the door. Immediately, she lost her appetite for dinner.
She wanted to close the door, but it was too late.
The man squeezed in through the crack of the door with his slender body.
"It was a willing - giver and willing - taker thing before. Since we've broken up, it doesn't count anymore."
"I'm here to get my things back."
Qiao Lin scanned the furnishings in the room. There was no longer anything of his.