On her way back to the hotel, Su Tang saw this friend request - "Recommended by Fang Tingting's business card."
Fang Ting, as Su Tang's good bestie, was once keen on matchmaking for Su Tang for a while.
As a "goddess who captures male gods", Fang Ting did have quite a few high - quality male friends.
But Su Tang really couldn't bear her enthusiasm.
"Tingting, the man you recommended for me, is he a close friend of one of your friends?"
Fang Ting had introduced to her her college classmates, high - school classmates, as well as the classmates of her college classmates. These countless outstanding young men all ended up having nothing to do with Su Tang in the end.
Su Tang summarized the reasons. The fundamental reason was that she had no intention of falling in love, and there were also some objective reasons, such as long - distance relationship, incompatible personalities, etc. Of course, it was also possible that a small number of young men actually had improper motives towards Fang Ting. They were just the wrong people in the crowd and could be ignored.
"It really is. Weren't you helping your idol solve problems today? One of the staff in his studio thought you were great. I thought it would help you get closer to your idol, so I just gave him your contact information." Although to a large extent, Fang Ting didn't hold much hope for Su Tang's love life, but on the principle of "give it a try and it might work", Fang Ting always encouraged herself to keep going and be more courageous in the face of setbacks. After all, Su Tang's happiness in the second half of her life might very well depend on her.
"Which staff member?" Except for Li Momo, she really didn't have any impression of other staff members for the moment. A male? In his twenties? Well, among the back - stage staff, besides Ren Qingzhou, she didn't remember any other males.
"I forgot to ask his name. You can ask him yourself." Fang Ting decided to throw herself back into work: "I still have to write code. Hurry back. I can't handle it alone."
After Fang Ting finished speaking, she went offline. Su Tang guessed that she wouldn't show up for a while, so she had no choice but to accept the friend request from this staff member and sent the first message.
"Hello? Who are you?"
It was a formulaic opening.
Ren Qingzhou thought he had to find a suitable person to play the role. After thinking about it for a long time, he set his sights on Song Yang from the newly - joined post - production team.
[Song Yang: Completely unaware and at a loss]
"Hello, my name is Song Yang. We met today."
Li Momo watched him tell lies seriously and couldn't help sighing that the boss was really relying on acting skills in life. He really shouldn't have given up his acting career. It was a pity. With his acting skills, maybe he would be the next movie king. There would be no place for Xiao Ding.
She suddenly remembered the few interactions she had with Ren Qingzhou on the Moments. She decided to kindly remind the boss: "Boss, remember to block your Moments, or you'll be exposed in no time."
"Blocking others seems insincere. Just set it to be visible for only the last three days."
Li Momo flipped through Ren Qingzhou's Moments and found that he hadn't posted anything for half a month.
Su Tang really had no impression of Song Yang. In fact, Song Yang had only left a dashing back view for Su Tang today, and the two had no interaction at all. Ren Qingzhou thought that such a blank - slate character was more conducive to his performance.
"Hello, I'm Su Tang. Nice to meet you."
Su Tang's reply was very official. It was so official that Ren Qingzhou didn't know how to respond.
"How should I chat with her?" Ren Qingzhou looked at Li Momo for help.
Li Momo, who had just admired the boss's acting skills, decided to take back what she had said before. Their boss might belong to the method - acting school.
"You've just been introduced by a friend. Next, you can just chat about your hobbies and so on. Then if you have common hobbies, you can keep chatting." Li Momo selflessly lent a helping hand. The boss's happy life was related to the employees' happiness index and the number of digits in their salary. She absolutely couldn't be careless.
"What if we don't have the same hobbies?" Ren Qingzhou held his phone and looked at his assistant innocently.
"Then you won't have anything in common. How can you be together if you don't have anything in common?" Li Momo wanted to roll her eyes at him again.
Shouldn't a person who likes someone like their interesting soul? Was the boss so shallow that he only looked at appearance?
Su Tang updated a post on her Moments: "Meeting you again." The picture was a sea of glow sticks. Ren Qingzhou silently liked it.
Although he was just a tiny dot in the photo, for some reason, he felt a strange sense of satisfaction in his heart; "Maybe the biggest thing we have in common is me..."
Although it sounded a bit narcissistic, it seemed to make sense.
After all, Su Tang was a real fan of Ren Qingzhou.
Su Tang was usually very busy at work. Penguin was one of the leading entertainment companies in China. She worked in the technology department, responsible for software development.
Penguin often launched some new apps or new functions for existing apps, all of which were developed and produced by their department. No matter how the apps were received later, the early - stage development process was very difficult.
Su Tang often worked overtime. Penguin's headquarters was in City S, so it was a luxury for her to take a flight to the capital to watch a Ren Qingzhou concert.
The luxury was not only because of the money but also because of her limited vacations.
The day after the concert, Su Tang flew back to City S. There was still a pile of work waiting for her to do, so she didn't have time to stay in the imperial capital any longer.
She and Fang Ting shared a two - bedroom apartment in City S, which was very close to the company and convenient for commuting.
When she got back, Fang Ting was still sleeping.
Su Tang quietly packed up her things and then saw Ren Qingzhou's message: "Are you home?"
"Yeah." Su Tang was actually not very good at dealing with people and was a bit slow - warming. People who worked on software usually dealt with computers all year round and didn't interact much with people.
The two had exchanged some personal information yesterday and then stopped talking.
When Ren Qingzhou sent the message today, she happened to be about to board the plane. Out of courtesy, she replied: "I'm boarding. I'll reply to you later."
Unexpectedly, he timed it quite accurately. As soon as she entered the house, the message came.
"Just got home."
"You live quite close to the company. It's convenient for commuting."
"How do you know that?" Su Tang was surprised at his familiarity with City S.
"It takes an hour and a half to take the subway from the airport to near your company."
"Have you even been to our company?"
"I've been to your company's branch in the imperial capital, but I haven't been to the headquarters. But I've passed by that area before."
Su Tang then remembered that when they exchanged personal information yesterday, Song Yang had mentioned that he was from City S. After graduating from university in the imperial capital, he stayed in the imperial capital to work. He didn't come back very often now.
In this case, Song Yang was a very meticulous person.
"Have you eaten?" Seeing that she didn't reply to him, Ren Qingzhou sent another message.
Su Tang listened carefully. There was no sign that Fang Ting was about to wake up. She decided to wait for her to wake up and then eat together.
"Not yet. I'll tidy up first."
"Where do you live? I can recommend some good restaurants nearby."
This was a good idea. Su Tang was a hardcore foodie.
"I'm on Haining Road. There's an Anjia Apartment here."
"It's safer for girls to live in an apartment." Ren Qingzhou was resting today and replied quickly.
"There's a soup - dumpling restaurant on Haining Road. It's very delicious. Let me find the location on the map." Ren Qingzhou looked for the location on the map.
"I'll try it some other day. I'll go cook some porridge. My roommate should wake up soon."
As soon as Su Tang opened the bedroom door, she saw Fang Ting standing in the living room in a daze.
"You're back." Fang Ting poured herself a glass of water and gulped it down. Only then did she feel a bit more awake.
"Why are you sleeping at this time? Can you still sleep at night?" Su Tang was going to the kitchen to wash some rice and cook porridge.
"Don't even mention it. I stayed up all night yesterday and worked until 8 a.m. I was so sleepy that I just slept until now. You're finally back. If you hadn't come back, I felt like I was going to have a sudden cardiac death." Fang Ting rubbed her messy hair: "I really can't stay up late anymore. I'm not far from going bald."
"Boss Chen suddenly called me last night. He needed something urgently. In order not to disturb you chasing your man, I stayed up all night. Tell me how you're going to repay me."
"I'll grind some black beans, black rice, and black sesame for you to nourish your hair, so that you don't really go bald." Su Tang looked around for a long time and found that there was no rice in the kitchen: "We should go to the supermarket. There's no rice at home."
"I don't want to move. Let's do it tomorrow." Fang Ting felt that her arms and legs didn't support her to go out now. It was more practical to sleep for a while.
"Don't you want to have dinner?" Su Tang looked around the kitchen again and confirmed that they were out of food.
"No. I'll just lose weight."
Su Tang also didn't want to go out. She had taken two flights in two days and was really exhausted.
Even though she was very hungry, she was too tired to move.
Fang Ting had recovered by now and started to care about what had happened yesterday: "How was your chat with that little brother yesterday?"
"Just so - so." Su Tang didn't know how to describe it.
"What do you mean by'so - so'?"
"Just okay, pretty good." Su Tang summarized: "He can talk more than any of the previous ones."
"Being able to talk is good. You just don't like to talk. With your attitude of replying with two words instead of three when chatting, any quiet guy wouldn't be able to chat with you."
"Really?" Su Tang doubted Fang Ting's evaluation of her.
"Do you know your nickname in college?"
"Which one?"
"The 'ice - cold beauty'. There were so many guys in the whole college, but none of them could win you over."
"Over the years, I've only seen you talk a lot when you're crazy about Ren Qingzhou. You even used all the Chinese you've learned."
"Nonsense!" Su Tang was angry as if her secret had been exposed.
"Come on. Stop talking about him. Even if you praise him to the sky, it's useless. He won't marry you anyway, right?"
Far away in the imperial capital, Ren Qingzhou [I can. I will.]