Fang Ting was like a fortune - teller. Right after she left, Su Tang received a call from her mother, saying that she had arrived in City S.
Su Tang panicked. To be precise, she was extremely scared.
She had forgotten about this when she decided to move into Ren Qingzhou's house. What would she do if her mother came?
There was no other way but to face it bravely.
She had to inform Ren Qingzhou about this first. Looking at the time, Ren Qingzhou should not be too busy. So Su Tang decided to call him.
The phone rang for a while before Ren Qingzhou answered.
Su Tang knew he was busy, so she decided to get straight to the point.
"My mom is coming."
Ren Qingzhou almost spat out the water he had just drunk. For a moment, he thought Su Tang was going to take him to meet his future mother - in - law.
"She may stay here for a few days."
Since moving in, Su Tang had always felt a bit uncomfortable. Not paying rent made her feel like it wasn't her home, and she was used to discussing everything with Ren Qingzhou.
"Okay. I'll still be filming here recently and won't be able to go back for a while. Even when I do go back, I won't go to the place you're living in now. Just treat it as your own home. You don't have to discuss everything with me." Ren Qingzhou was thinking about whether he should transfer the ownership of this house to Su Tang.
She was being too much of an outsider.
The next day, before going out, Su Tang locked Ren Qingzhou's room first. She didn't dare to drive and took two subway lines to the high - speed railway station.
Su's mother was carrying big and small bags, and there was an old lady beside her.
Seeing Su Tang, Su's mother introduced her: "This is Grandma Li. She's here to visit her grandson."
Su Tang knew that Grandma Li was probably one of her mother's friends from Yuncheng. Since it was inconvenient for her family to accompany her, her mother had been asked to take care of her on the way. So she politely greeted Grandma Li, "Hello, Grandma."
Grandma Li was a kind - looking old lady. She squinted at Su Tang and the more she looked, the more she liked her: "What a pretty girl."
Su Tang was a bit embarrassed by the compliment, while Su's mother kept smiling: "Oh, no. She's such a handful. She's in her twenties and still doesn't have a boyfriend."
Grandma Li's grandson hadn't arrived yet. He said he was stuck in traffic. So they waited for him at the high - speed railway station.
After listening to her mother and Grandma Li chatting for a while, Su Tang saw a man running towards them from afar.
The world was really small. Familiar people always seemed to run in circles.
Grandma Li's grandson was Fang Haoran.
He wasn't wearing his white coat today, so Su Tang was a bit unaccustomed at first. It wasn't until he stopped near them that she came to her senses.
Grandma Li was already introducing her grandson to Su's mother: "This is my grandson, Fang Haoran. He works in a hospital."
Looking at Fang Haoran, Su's mother couldn't hide her admiration: "He looks like a mature and steady young man."
"Haoran, this is Aunt Tang, and this is Aunt Tang's daughter, Su Tang."
Fang Haoran greeted Su's mother first. He didn't say that he knew Su Tang. Instead, he shook hands with her as if it was their first meeting and greeted her politely.
After they left the high - speed railway station, Fang Haoran asked, "How did you get here?"
Su Tang answered honestly, "By subway."
Fang Haoran then said, "I'll take you back."
Su's mother waved her hand quickly: "That would be too much trouble. We can just take the subway back."
But Grandma Li grabbed Su's mother's hand and stopped them from leaving: "It's no trouble. It's just a little detour."
Su Tang thought that if it wasn't on the way, it would be a huge detour, but she didn't say it out loud.
Unable to decline his kindness, she and her mother got into Fang Haoran's car.
Fang Haoran asked for the address and drove all the way there.
It wasn't the peak - traffic time yet, so the road wasn't too congested and they could move smoothly.
Su Tang was extremely embarrassed listening to her mother trying to find out Fang Haoran's birth details.
Finally, they got out of the car. Su's mother invited Grandma Li to visit them some other day. After some polite exchanges, they said goodbye.
After Fang Haoran's car drove away, Su's mother just realized that her daughter had changed her residence: "You've moved. Why didn't you tell me?"
Su Tang was speechless: "You were so focused on Fang Haoran all the way. When did I have the chance to tell you?"
"You didn't move here just today. You should have told me before." Looking at the public facilities in the community, Su's mother was quite satisfied: "This community looks much better than the previous one. The previous one looked like a shared - rental house."
"Ours was an apartment - style residence with a housekeeper. It was very convenient."
"Come on, let's go home and talk."
The two carried their things into the house. Looking at the house that was twice as big as the previous one, Su's mother asked Su Tang, "Did you get a raise recently? How did you rent such a big house?"
Su Tang prevaricated, "No. This is a friend's house. He went abroad recently and asked me to take care of it. My rent just expired, so I moved in first. I'll still have to look for a house later."
"Your friend's house? What kind of friend of yours can afford to buy such a big house here?" Su's mother looked incredulous.
Su Tang felt that she was about to be exposed, but she still had to hold on: "His family bought it for him. Mom, sit down. You must be tired after a whole day's journey. I'll cook for you."
"Wait a minute, Su Tang. Don't lie to me. Are you in a relationship?"
Was her mother like Sherlock Holmes? How could she be so sharp?
"No. I don't have time to fall in love."
"I'm telling you, at your age, it's really time to fall in love. But you mustn't find someone unreliable. They like to deceive little girls. When looking for a partner, you should find someone with a stable job and a happy family. Like that Fang... what's his name today? Mom thinks he's very good. Grandma Li said he doesn't have a girlfriend either..."
"Mom, you're going too far." Su Tang felt that if she didn't stop her, she would talk until tomorrow. Even though she couldn't remember Fang Haoran's name, it didn't stop her from praising him for being young, promising and handsome.
"What do you mean by going too far? It's time for you to get married now. You're getting more and more disobedient as you grow up..." Su's mother said as she walked towards the kitchen: "I'll cook for you. Put the things I brought in the fridge."
With her mother in City S, Su Tang naturally didn't dare to call Ren Qingzhou openly. It wasn't until her mother fell asleep at night that she dared to sneak onto the balcony to contact her boyfriend, who had been ignored by her for a whole day.
"Are you asleep?"
Ren Qingzhou was very sleepy, but he wasn't asleep yet. He had been waiting for Su Tang's call. Knowing that her mother was coming today, he didn't dare to contact her rashly. Now they were like high - school students having a secret relationship and had to be furtive.
"Not yet. How did you perform today?"
"Just barely passing. I almost got exposed."
"Is your mother like having x - ray eyes? She almost saw through your little tricks at a glance."
"Yes. I was so scared that I was sweating cold. I was really afraid she would find some clues."
"You should go to bed early. Accompany her to have a stroll around tomorrow."
After chatting for a few words, they both went to sleep.
The next morning, Su's mother woke up early. With her around, there was no way Su Tang could sleep in.
She didn't know if there was a vegetable market near Ren Qingzhou's house. It seemed to her that people around here didn't go to the vegetable market. So she had to take her mother to the supermarket they usually went to.
Su's mother was very dissatisfied. Extremely dissatisfied.
"The vegetables in the supermarket are not fresh. Don't you ever go to the vegetable market?"
"I don't have time. I still have to go to work. Mom, can you find your way back later? I have to go to work. I can't accompany you anymore."
Because of her mother's arrival, Su Tang had to take the subway to the company. The journey took more than two hours, so she had to hurry to the company now.
"Go ahead. I can manage by myself."
Su Tang was so sleepy that she fell asleep on the subway. She almost missed her stop. By the time she got to the company, it was almost nine o'clock, and there were still few people in the office.
Someone once summarized the company's corporate culture as "no clock - in in the morning and no going home at night".
The summary was quite accurate. It seemed that she had missed another overtime shift because she had gone to pick up her mother yesterday.
It wasn't until after nine o'clock that the people in the office gradually arrived. Everyone looked sleepy.
A colleague saw Su Tang and kept saying that she was lucky: "After you left yesterday, we went to support Group Three. We worked until twelve o'clock at night. We were so tired that we just fell asleep when we got back."
Su Tang just smiled and didn't say anything.
Their group was now like a mobile group, moving wherever needed. But except for some particularly important projects, for other projects, people usually signed up themselves or were directly selected by the project group. Of course, the salary was also related to this. Now that Su Tang was idle, she naturally didn't earn as much as before.
She was quite open - minded now. It wasn't just because she had a boyfriend who could earn a lot. It was mainly because of her illness some time ago. Young people didn't take their health seriously. They were making money at the cost of their lives. They got sick before they were old. Su Tang reflected on herself. Health was the capital of revolution. Without it, everything would be in vain.
Tencent always had a wolf - culture. Su Tang felt that her current thinking didn't quite match the corporate culture, and she was even on the verge of resigning.
She just didn't know what she could do for a while and couldn't find a more suitable job. According to her mother's idea, it would be best for her to go back and take the civil - servant exam and live a stable life. But now that there was Ren Qingzhou, she needed to discuss this with him.
Now that she wasn't alone anymore, she had to consult her partner before making any decision. Su Tang actually had Ren Qingzhou planned into her life. But this blueprint couldn't be realized just by her own planning. After Ren Qingzhou came back this time, they needed to have a good long - talk about their future.