Chapter 1 Long time no see
In December, the temperature in Lincheng dropped sharply. It was dark quickly in the evening, with gray patches, and the cold wind from the south whistling outdoors.
"Ding Dong--"
The doorbell in the hotel room rang a few times.
After a while, Xi Pan's head reluctantly poked out of the quilt. She closed her eyes and lifted the quilt, quickly took out the nightgown at the bedside, wrapped it up and walked towards the door.
After opening the door, she turned her head and walked back, and her whole body rushed to the bed again. Shen Shanyue, who was following behind, said helplessly, put the big and small bags of things on the table, and said angrily: "Be good, the jet lag has not yet reversed?"
The corridor lights were on, and Xi Pan opened his eyes slightly. Just as he was about to speak, the tip of his nose suddenly became sore and he sneezes twice in a row.
She retracted herself into the quilt and leaned half against the head of the bed and rubbed her red nose.
"Oh, you said you caught a cold when you returned home," Shen Shanyue walked to the bathroom with a kettle, and her voice didn't stop. "I bought you some food and medicine. Get up quickly and get up with me to go to the wedding show later. The dress is in the black bag on the table..."
Xi Pan slowly walked into the bathroom and looked at the face of her best friend in the mirror, "What wedding dress show?"
"The winter haute couture of 'Xuzhi', didn't you say that you resigned to a job and search like you extended an olive branch? I happened to find out at night, but I helped you get an invitation for public rights and private use." Shen Shanyue is the editor of a well-known fashion magazine, and her "Xuzhi" is a high-end fashion brand, and she only started to involve the wedding dress field this year.
Xi Pan said "Oh", tied up her curly hair, and began to wash. The orange and yellow light followed her fair swan neck, revealing the spring light on her chest slightly.
Shen Shanyue looked at her and suddenly remembered the cover of a fashion weekly issue of Xi Pan wearing the wedding dress he designed. It would be fine if she was charming, but she even gave birth to a girlish face, which was pure and desireful.
Xi Pan noticed her gaze, spit out her mouthwash, and said, "I know I'm beautiful, don't look at it."
"..." Shin Shanyue smiled, "I'm so beautiful."
"Go out, I'll take a shower."
Half an hour later, Xi Pan came out of the bathroom, and Shen Shanyue urged her to come and have noodles quickly. She sat on the sofa and asked, "Is it from the East Street house?"
"Miss, my company is half an hour away from there, so don't choose it. It's all creamy udon."
Xi Pan looked at her earnest eyes and had to take the chopsticks, ate a few bites before stopping, rubbing his nose, "It tastes bad."
Shen Shanyue remembered that Xi Pan was the same when she was Gao. As long as it was not suitable for her appetite, she would rather be hungry than eat. She played Xi Pan's forehead, "When will you change your spoiled problem?"
——"Xi Pan, can you stop being so spoiled?"
——"Oh, that's you who pampered me?"
The warmth of the ceramic cup stuffed into his hand suddenly brought Xi Pan back from the memories.
"Don't be stunned and take medicine quickly. I know you have rhinitis. I also bought loratadine, and only an hour left is my ancestor..."
The warm water in his throat entered his throat, Xi Pan suppressed the impetuousness in his heart, got up and took off makeup, changed his dress-
When it was time to be neat, Xi Pan didn't bother to go. After it was done quickly, the two went downstairs to the parking garage.
In the car, Shen Shanyue asked the co-pilot while driving: "I won't leave when I come back this time, right?"
She said lazy: "Of course I won't leave after finding a job."
My best friend smiled, "Stay here and don't leave. My friends are all here. I'm not alone in designing abroad."
Xi Pan looked at the familiar and unfamiliar streets outside the window, and was a little stunned.
"Of course I'm lonely." She smiled and turned to the topic: "But it's okay, I'm surrounded by handsome men every day."
"Tsk, you're still not a fan of you..." Shen Shanyue nagged her high-mindedness, and suddenly remembered Xunzhi's incident, and said: "Xunzhi Xinchen took office a few days ago. She took office. She was stepfather's business. I heard that the new president is young and handsome. Maybe we can see it tonight, are you interested?"
Xi Pan's red lips are charming.
"I'm more interested in the annual salary he offers me."-
The haute couture wedding show I found tonight has attracted much attention from the industry since its public announcement. As a century-old high-end fashion brand in China, this year, it suddenly announced that it would enter the wedding dress field and want to get a share. At the beginning, the outside world predicted whether it was good or bad. However, the release of new wedding dresses in spring and summer this year is amazing. Especially this fashion show after the new president took office tonight is even more exciting.
When Xi Pan and Shen Shanyue arrived, media reporters and fashion celebrities had already arrived. Xi Pan got out of the car, lifted up the hem of the skirt that was dragging the floor, and walked in.
She was wearing a long burgundy V-neck dress with thin glitters on it, which made her skin look whiter than snow. When she walked into the fashion show, she made her eyes linger with pedestrians. Fortunately, she was not a celebrity and had no sense of existence.
I found a position on the right side of the catwalk and sat down. Shen Shanyue, who had a job arrangement tonight, went to find her colleague first and came back when the fashion show was about to begin.
She leaned into Xi Pan's ear and said, "The exact news is that the new president will really attend tonight."
The latter raised his eyes from his cell phone and responded casually.
It happened that at this moment, a commotion came from the corridor at the entrance.
The waiter respectfully arranged aisle to give way out. A man was surrounded by everyone and walked in. The cameras of the reporters and media pressed the shutters one after another. Many guests smiled and greeted him. Time became the focus of the audience.
Xi Pan followed everyone's eyes and fell to the man's place, his heart suddenly fell.
Gu Yuanche was shaking hands with a faint smile, whispering "Thank you", and his every move was full of nobleness.
Xi Pan's face turned pale and his eyes did not move away from him.
The man was wearing a suit and lace, slender and upright figure, and smiled, but he was as cold and alienated as before. The light fell on his sharp eyebrows, and downwards were his nose and lips, outlining a neat and distinct jawline, like a knife carving.
It's been six years, but it's still unchanged.
A female voice whispered in the middle of her: "Is that the new ceo I've been seeking?"
"yes……"
"Are you managing a company so young? My God."
Gu Yuanche graduated from a domestic prestigious school and studied abroad. In recent years, the former president was in poor health and the company's internal forces were in a turbulent situation. It is said that Gu Yuanche is still in short supply, but Gu Yuanche was directly promoted to CEO by his father.
The man sat in this seat that was highly anticipated by the storm. Today, his first public appearance was naturally attracted by everyone.
Xi Pan listened to the people behind him and his heart beat rapidly. He subconsciously wanted to run away, but there was a voice in his heart clamoring: What are you afraid of? She didn't feel sorry for him!
The man sat down in the front position opposite the runway, with his legs overlapping. The light fell on his head, rolled to the Adam's apple, and finally fell on his hands that were randomly placed on his legs. Many people were still surrounded, and even the special guest tonight, the popular actress Huan Ling, who was the last speaker, dragged her skirt and smiled sweetly forward.
But he suddenly turned his head and looked in her direction, as if he was a casual glance, and then quickly moved away.
Xi Pan lowered his head, took a deep breath, and his palms gradually loosened, replicating the reaction of Yun Danfeng Qing when he reunited countless times in his mind.
Shen Shanyue had not recovered from the shock, "My God, Gu, Gu Yuanche actually found it..." She looked at the woman beside her, her lips buzzing, "Panpan, you..."
"Why do you think of me like this?" Her tone returned to normal.
"You didn't know his identity only today, right?"
Xi Pan pulled the corner of his mouth bitterly.
How could she be interested in these things at that time? Without asking more questions, he certainly wouldn't tell her.
Otherwise she wouldn't come tonight-
The wedding dress show was successfully held. The theme of tonight was "Missing". The newly exhibited wedding dress once again made people shine. Xi Pan could have enjoyed this visual feast, but because of unexpected accidents, he became absent-minded. He wanted to leave early several times, but reason scolded her.
What's so embarrassing, maybe...
He forgot about her.
After the end, Shen Shanyue went to find her colleagues present and finished her work. Xi Pan stood by the corridor waiting for her. She saw Gu Yuanche in the distance being surrounded by reporters again for interviews, and remembered that he was so star-studded in the moon during his high age.
She turned her body away, stuffed her headphones into her listening to the song, and when she turned back, the crowd had dispersed and the focus of tonight was gone.
She sighed with a sigh of relief and was about to call her when she suddenly had a force to hold her arm and pulled it to the side.
A big brother carrying photography equipment passed by her quickly. In a daze, she looked up and bumped into Gu Yuanche's cold eyes, which were so cold that she was not warm.
He pulled his hand back and his eyebrows frowned slightly. Xi Pan was stunned and did not react to when he appeared behind her...
Before the two of them could speak, a male voice rang out next to them: "Hey, Mr. Gu——"
After a man came over and shook hands with Gu Yuanche, his eyes turned to Xi Pan, a little surprised: "Are you Xi Pan?"
"Um."
"I am the editor-in-chief of Cloud Magazine. We had dinner at Paris Fashion Week before. Do you remember?" the man smiled and his tone was warm.
"Remember it." She smiled and shook hands with him.
"I didn't expect you to return to China..." The man said several times, looked at them and finally asked, "Mr. Gu, Miss Xi, do you two know each other?"
Before the woman could answer, Gu Yuanche became more and more cold in his eyebrows, and his voice was very heavy:
“Don’t know.”
After saying that, he left directly.
Xi Pan was stunned for a moment, and the smile on his face remained unchanged.
The man was stunned and looked back: "Ms. Xi, how about we keep it? We can communicate with each other in wedding dress design in the future."
"Can."-
After the man left, Shen Shanyue's phone came in. She spoke in a hurry with apologies and said that something went wrong with the manuscript that the magazine was going to submit tomorrow and she needed to rush back.
Xi Pan comforted her and said it was okay, she took a taxi back by herself.
When she walked to the door, the cold wind suddenly rose, she hugged her arms tightly, and her nose began to itch again.
She stood by the roadside waiting for the taxi to take orders, looking down at her toes, and her appearance seemed to be a little lonely and desolate, and was seen by the men in the Maybach car in the distance.
Xi Panna brain looked back at the moment that happened tonight, and Gu Yuanche's words "I don't know".
Before I could think too much, a "bang" sound suddenly sounded in my ears-
She looked up and saw a motorcycle hit on the side of the road. The people in the car rolled out a few meters away and collapsed to the ground. The car that caused the accident stepped on the accelerator and ran away roared.
Xi Pan widened his eyes, was stunned for a few seconds and ran towards the person who fell to the ground.
She ran to him, half-squatted beside her, shaking him gently, "Hey, wake up..."
This person had no reaction and was already unconscious. Xi Pan saw blood flowing from behind his head, and her eyes were shocked and dizzy.
She had severe blood dizziness.
Xi Pan took out his cell phone and wanted to dial 120, but his hands were shaking violently. In an instant, someone pulled her up and she crashed into a warm embrace behind her.
The man half-closed her from behind and raised his hand to cover her gaze.
Xi Pan subconsciously resisted and heard Gu Yuanche's low and firm voice:
"It's me."
Chapter completed!