Chapter 7 Nacht The young couple had a quarrel.

There was a capital discussion dinner tonight, and it was already a quarter after it ended.

Assistant Zuo Qian drove the car over. Before getting in the car, Xie Xianshen raised his wrist to check the time, then he noticed something.

She said she would send him a message before 10 o'clock in the evening, but till now, there has been no movement.

Breaking one's promise.

This was another new impression he had of her.

"Mr. Xie, do you have anything urgent to do?"

Zuo Qian had a good eye. Since the end of the dinner, he had observed that the boss raised his wrist to check the time at least three times. "Just tell me the address and I'll take you there."

The atmosphere was quiet.

Zuo Qian paused, reflecting on whether he had said something wrong. While reflecting, he couldn't help but wonder, could it be that the boss had encountered something troublesome?

Xie Xian closed his eyes and said, "Go straight back to the company."

"Okay."

The black and silver car was driving steadily on the wide street and road. It turned into a side bend and drove forward about 500 meters. Zuo Qian, who had a vision of 5.0, noticed that a black thing in front of him jumped out from the grass in the green belt. It was not afraid of people or cars, and just blocked their way.

"What's going on?"

"It looks like a cat." Zuo Qian braked the car in time, unbuckled his seat belt and got off to check what was going on. "Mr. Xie, I'll go down and take a look."

He got out of the car and walked forward a few steps. When he stopped, he found that the black thing was pacing back and forth twice.

Hearing the noise from outside, the little guy curled up slightly and protected himself in a vigilant posture, his eyes sparkling like stars.

The man and the cat stared at each other without fear of each other. Zuo Qian tried to reason with the kitten, "Cat, the road is too dangerous, you can't run around. Listen to your uncle and go over there, okay? Over there."

He pointed in the direction of the grass where the cat jumped out, meaning to let it go find its owner.

However, the kitten didn't understand human language and still looked at him with its head tilted. Zuo Qian couldn't persuade it for a moment and sighed.

"Meow--"

the kitten called out with a trailing note and quickly ran to the front of the car. Before Zuo Qian could react, it had already jumped onto the hood in front of the car. Its four little cat paws stepped on the cold mechanical surface, taking one step forward, then another.

The sound of animals cries came faintly through the car window, the sound was muffled, Xie Xianshen listened and looked.

The kitten seemed to be "lying" on the cabin cover. Its fur was completely black, as if blending into the night. Its eyes were bright and it kept staring at him.

There is a thin collar wrapped around the cat's neck. The thin piece falls down gently, and the flat surface is refracted by the light, revealing a string of letters: Nacht.

Nacht, German - night.

It is a cat with only an owner.

The staring confrontation lasted for a while, and then with a "click", the car door was opened.

Nacht's eyes followed the man's steps from the moment he got out of the car to the moment he walked in front of it. When he was far away from it, it jumped down and continued to meow.

The little guy even took the initiative to shorten the distance between them, got close to his trouser leg and sniffed it, and as if to confirm something, he turned around and led the way for him, and kept looking back to see if he was following him.

"Mr. Xie..."

"Wait here for a moment."

Animals are psychic, and he didn't know if it was a coincidence that he met this cat. He wanted to see where it would take him.

On the other side of the green belt was a small stone path. Nacht walked in front along the way, but he kept looking back every few steps. He only continued to move forward when he saw that Nacht had caught up with him.

When they reached the end of the path, Xie Xianshen took a break.

At the end of the road is a square with a wide view. There is no other people around the square. Only a man and a woman are standing opposite each other. The man is holding the woman's face, and the two shadows overlap, like a kiss.

The night was getting darker and I couldn't make out clearly, but when I looked closely at the two figures -

they looked familiar, they were familiar faces.

"Que Zhan."

Someone called her name, and the voice was exactly the same as the one she had heard during the day.

It’s Xie Xianshen.

He stood under the thick green shade of the trees, with faint shadows cast by the dense leaves, sometimes bright and sometimes dark, falling beside him. People could see him too clearly, and his eyes were cold and gloomy.

My heart suddenly felt a shock.

The discomfort in her eyes disappeared and her vision was restored, but Quezhan's first reaction was, why was Xie Xianshen here? Was he following her intentionally?

Apparently, it shouldn't be.

She was puzzled by his appearance here, "Why are you here?"

Xie Xianshen walked towards the two of them, and at his feet, Nacht followed his steps and walked over step by step.

When he saw Nacht, Quezhan was more and more puzzled as to how this little guy came to his side. The man and the cat had one thing in common: they were both dressed in dark colors, which gave her the illusion that they were from the same camp.

"This is your cat, right? Take good care of it and don't try to scam people on the street."

The man did not ignore her question, but gave a irrelevant answer to the question: "Am I disturbing you?"

Am I disturbing your flirtation, or am I disturbing your kiss?

Quezhan caught the inner meaning of this sentence in an instant, and when she wanted to speak, Meng Xie explained for her: "The little ones want to come out and play, and Zhanzhan and I..."

Xie Xian stopped talking halfway and said in a deep and merciless voice: "I'm talking to her."

The air was stagnant, and the sound of the breeze blowing past her ears became clearer.

"Mr. Xie, Meng Xie is my friend, please respect him."

Quezhan met Xie Xianshen's cold and calm eyes. She had never been afraid of anyone, let alone him. "We have reached an agreement on the deal, clearly stating that we will not interfere with each other's lives. As for why my friend and I are here, there is no need to explain to you."

"Even if you explain, I'm not interested in listening." Xie Xianshen deliberately choked her and reminded her, "Quezhan, I asked you about the emotional requirement, don't forget what you said."

Emotionally, she said that she didn't yearn for it now or in the future.

She was single both before and after marriage, and he was only her lover in name only.

She had no expectations for love in the first place, she wanted freedom, wealth, power and influence, and love was the thing she despised the most.

In today's situation, he must have misunderstood something, but she didn't care. She and Meng Xie were friends, and everything was innocent. Nothing happened.

"Also, you are late for the appointment."

The man raised his wrist and tapped the dial on his wrist with his slender fingers. "I remember before we met, you said that you have always had a good sense of time. Now it seems that it is just so-so."

After saying that, his gaze moved to her.

When they looked at each other, his gaze lingered on the corners of her eyes. Her long eyelashes were wet, indicating that she had been crying.

Xie Xianshen's reminder seemed to be a conviction for her mistake.

"I'll send it to you before ten o'clock tonight."

It's already half past ten.

He said it himself, but the promise was not fulfilled on time, and he choked up, as if he had lost the right to defend himself.

But she is smart and knows how to turn the disadvantages against herself into something else.

"Oh, maybe I sent it to the wrong person. Mr. Xie's chat box is at the bottom, not very conspicuous, and it's easy to confuse it."

Xie Xian knew whether she sent the message or not.

It was just a little trick, and he was too lazy to expose it.

Before leaving, Nacht noticed that he was about to leave, so he squatted on the ground, looked at him eagerly, and meowed twice.

It was obvious that she didn't want him to leave.

Rebellious imp.

Quezhan scolded Nacht in her heart, saying that not only did he not stand on her side, but he was also on the same team with Xie Xianshen.

"Your cat is a little thin."

Xie Xianshen commented objectively, "It's better to leave the matter of raising a cat to professionals."

Nacht wanted to follow him away again, but Zhan reacted quickly and grabbed the little guy's body first. When he looked up again, he was getting farther and farther away from them.

He was saying that she was unprofessional in raising cats.

Because the chat box where she implied his intentions was not noticeable, right?

Forget it, I'm too lazy to argue with him.

What she needs to worry about now is this little kid. She let go of the rope and let it play happily, but it ended up running out onto the road. What if something happens?

"Nacht, you were very naughty today. Mommy will punish you by not allowing you to have an extra meal tonight."

Quedan tapped the little guy's forehead, pretending to be angry.

"Zhanzhan." Meng Xie was not sure what the two meant by the late appointment, so he asked Quezhan: "What does he mean?"

Quezhan roughly explained what happened, saying that she would send a message to Xie Xianshen before 10 o'clock tonight to tell him about her parents' preferences, but she forgot about it in her busy schedule. She said that she sent it to the wrong person, but in fact she didn't send it at all.

She can also choke people.

"Why do you always think about being with him, Nacht? He's obviously my cat." Quezhan snorted and continued to rub the little guy as a "punishment".

The little guy seemed to know that he was wrong. He rubbed her, stuck to her, and held her neck tightly without letting go.

The sound of the clamp is particularly thin.

"Animals have a very sensitive sense of smell, maybe..."

Meng Xie explained, but she didn't hear what he said next, as if he suddenly remembered something.

She thought about the night she met Xie Xianshen. When she got home, Nacht, who usually didn't stick to her, took the initiative to rub against her and ask for her affection.

Of the two little guys, Tag and Nacht, Tag usually sticks to her more. That day, Nacht stuck to her from the living room to the bedroom, almost wherever she went, it followed her.

She thought that it might be because she changed her perfume and Nacht liked the smell.

Now she concluded that she probably liked the sandalwood scent on him.

Meng Xie tilted his head to look at her and paused.

He didn't know what she was thinking.

But at that time, he especially remembered one sentence she said to him.

She said that in her opinion, Xie Xianshen was the most suitable candidate for this marriage.

-On

the weekend, around eight in the morning, Xunang called.

"You really don't need me to accompany you?"

Knowing that Quezhan was going to the hospital for a premarital check-up today, she called her before the check-up and asked her: "Isn't today the weekend? I just happen to have time."

At this point, Quezhan was still at home choosing clothes to wear for going out today. "It's okay, I can go by myself. Weren't you busy with the photography exhibition some time ago? I won't bother you since you don't have to work on the weekend. Just have a good rest at home."

"Why do you love me so much?"

Strictly speaking, Quezhan and Xunang were flirting with each other, but now, Xunang was secretly happy about being flirted with by her: "If you ask me, you should choose me as a marriage partner, otherwise Xie Xianshen will take advantage of the opportunity to snatch you away from me."

"You're so sweet-mouthed, as if you were covered in honey."

Xunang smiled and sighed: "If you don't bother me, there are plenty of people who will."

Because the breakup with Zou Qi had caused quite a stir, this person was so capable of making trouble that Xunang's parents were alarmed after all this.

The two elders have relatively conservative ideas. At first, they thought Zou Qi was a good person and a suitable candidate for their daughter's lifelong partner. However, the result was contrary to their expectations. Now that they have broken up, the pressure of urging marriage has shifted to Xun Ang. In addition, there is a particularly difficult client at work. Under the double pressure, Xun Ang feels physically and mentally exhausted.

"When I'm done with my busy schedule, let's go to the bar and have some fun. You must go with me."

Que Zan could understand Xun Ang's feelings.

She wondered if her parents were not so open-minded and would not restrict her freedom in the name of love, would she also face family pressure to get married at the age of 26?

His consciousness fell into deep concentration when the sound of a cell phone ringing suddenly interrupted his thoughts.

A subordinate of the department.

"Mr. Que, I just received a termination contract from the spokesperson for the Encre series of products. I'm not sure what the other party is thinking. The cooperation contract has obviously been signed on the premise that both parties have reached a consensus, but now the other party suddenly proposes to terminate the contract." "

Give me the contact information of the other party's agent." Quezhan always stays calm and composed when encountering problems, and looks for the root cause first when something goes wrong.

The Encre series is a new product series recently launched by Rokori, which includes fashion, leather goods, perfume, cosmetics and jewelry. Before the product was released, business collaborations including endorsements, magazine publications, joint ventures, etc. were all progressing steadily in advance. Now, even before the product promotion begins, problems have arisen with the spokesperson.

The spokesperson for the first batch of new products in the series is a well-known actress in the entertainment industry with a very high status. If the cooperation is interrupted, finding a public figure of the same status within the specified time will be more difficult to a certain extent.

Agent: "Mr. Que, let's talk in person. I'll send you an address."

The address the other party sent was a very private coffee shop. Que Zhan went to the appointment and noted the time before going upstairs.

There is about another hour left, so it shouldn't be too late to go to the hospital after we finish discussing things.

"Mr. Que, here." The agent raised his hand.

During the conversation between the two, Que Zhan was very observant. She could hear that the agent was also very sorry about the termination of the cooperation with Rokori. Although he only gave a few words to the spokesperson about the reason for terminating the contract, she understood the subtext.

The actress was pregnant, but because she was an elderly mother and had tried to conceive several times without success, the boy's parents attached great importance to the unborn baby and intervened with their power to forcibly cut off all the actress's business work.

When the actress and her husband attended an event together a few years ago, the woman talked about how her journey from an unknown little actress to her current status was full of ups and downs. Her husband also vowed that he would not let his wife give up her career for the family.

Quezhan laughed lightly.

How ironic.

What does marriage bring to women?

The agent knew the ways of the world and knew that one should not do anything to the extreme, so she recommended a new actress to Quezhan, who was also under their company.

"Mr. Que, our company will pay the penalty for breach of contract. If the subsequent new work can be carried out smoothly, please contact me."

"Okay, take care."

The photo of another actress recommended by the agent was lying on the table, and Que looked at it intently.

She has long, smooth golden hair, fair skin, and a very familiar face.

Where have I seen her before...

After thinking for a moment, the fragmented memories were pieced together again. She seemed to have seen her in the group photo on Meng Xie's mobile phone.

Winni.

-Rush

to the hospital again, maybe because of bad luck, we encountered three red lights along the way.

Almost late.

Quezhan walked into the hospital gate in a hurry. She lowered her eyes to check the time on her phone and didn't pay attention to the front, accidentally bumping into someone walking in the opposite direction of her.

"Click——"

Something fell and rolled to her feet.

"Sorry." She ran over, her breathing was unsteady. She picked up the things on the ground and returned them to the other person. "Your things."

It was the car keys of Koenigsegg.

"Thank you."

These two cold words were spoken in a tone that didn't sound like a no-approach attitude, but rather a bit of arrogance.

The voice...she couldn't put her finger on it. She felt like she had heard it somewhere before, but it wasn't Xie Xianshen's voice.

But he raised his head.

The other person's voice was cold, as was his appearance.

His eyes are long and deep, his facial features are three-dimensional, and he wears a silver diamond earring on the bone spur in his left ear. He is handsome and unruly, with a kind of flamboyant but just the right amount of wildness.

After returning the things, time was running out, but he left without thinking much.

But she didn't know that when she left, her long hair was moved to the side and just brushed the man's fingertips.

The touch was subtle, and he seemed to sense something and looked in the direction she left.

...

Finally arrived at the designated department, but was breathing unsteadily and standing against the wall to cushion his breath.

Xie Xianshen had been waiting here for a long time.

"If you come five seconds later, you'll be late."

The unhurried tone sounded too much like a judge.

But he ignored him.

The cold air that sank into my chest mixed into a ball, and it took me half a minute to get over it. When she was able to speak, her eyelashes and voice were trembling slightly. She was so dehydrated: "Is there any water?" "

The examination includes a blood test, and you must be on an empty stomach."

He lowered his eyelashes, and the reminder seemed to be well-intentioned: "Quezhan, don't tell me you don't know this common sense."

Xie Xianshen, you fucking...

I didn't even have the energy to curse.

There weren't too many items in the marriage examination, and when it came to drawing blood, he sat on a chair with one hand rolling up his shirt sleeve.

It was somewhat inconvenient to roll up the sleeves with one hand. The doctor opposite the window couldn't stand it anymore, so he jokingly said to Xie Xianshen, "Help your girlfriend."

This sentence was like a shot to the heart.

My back is very stiff.

I couldn't move at all, and my breathing went from heavy to light.

Until the man's hand appeared in her field of vision getting closer and closer to her, she suddenly regained consciousness and tilted her arm to just avoid him: "No, I'll do it myself."

The doctor, who was standing by, didn't quite understand. They had made an appointment for a premarital check-up.

Then I realized: the young couple was having a quarrel.

After tidying up his clothes, Que Zhan placed his arm flat on the table. The doctor arranged the medical equipment needed for drawing blood. The next step was to disinfect and give the injection.

She was not afraid of the pain, but she saw the bright red blood gathering along the catheter and flowing into the transparent container little by little.

The red color is brighter and richer, and it awakens the fear buried deep in the heart.

A feeling of dizziness and weightlessness comes over me.

"No."

She spoke in a low voice, sweat breaking out on her neck. She was scared, and her instinct told her to grab hold of something to help her escape.

The temperature of her palms gradually returned to normal, and Quezhan tried to calm her fluctuating emotions, but she did not realize that she was holding Xie Xianshen's hand.

Even before she could regain her senses, she leaned over and rested her head on the back of his hand.

Xie Xian lowered her eyes, she seemed really scared.

Faint at blood?

Her fingers were clenched so tightly that the knuckles were white, and her hands were cold.

After drawing blood, the doctor neatly put a hemostatic patch on the needle hole and told Quezhan that the blood drawing was complete . He

then asked as if chatting, "Are you afraid of blood, little girl?" Quezhan was still in fear, and all sounds from the outside world were blocked out.

Hearing this, Xie Xianshen laughed.

She is not a little girl at all, she has a temper even more fierce than a cat and can choke people.

"How long will you hold his hand?"

A man's voice came from above his head. Quezhan looked up when he heard it. At first he didn't understand what Xie Xianshen meant, but later he realized that she... she was actually holding his hand!

It's crazy.

But as soon as the lamp was released, the temperature in his hands instantly returned to coolness.

She didn't give any explanation for her strange behavior. Any explanation would only make things worse.

"If you are prone to blood fainting, you can sit down and take a rest to calm down," said the doctor.

She wasn't afraid of blood, it was just...

it was useless, but she didn't want to explain any more.

In the marriage examination list, except for blood tests, all other examinations are single-person examinations. After all the examinations were completed, Que Zhan came out of the department and saw Xie Xianshen at the corner of the corridor.

She looked at his figure and walked towards him step by step.

At the same time, she didn't understand why she subconsciously grabbed his hand out of fear when having her blood drawn. She became upset after thinking about it because she had never had physical contact with a strange man before.

Quezhan walked to his side, and Xie Xianshen had just finished a phone call.

He said, "The test results will be out in three days."

Quezhan was a little absent-minded, not sure if he heard clearly what he said.

Xie Xianshen noticed that something was wrong with her condition when she was having her blood drawn.

It was the same when we met that time. His eyes were fixed on the fire, as if he had lost all ability to react and move.

"Quit the lamp."

"Huh?"

This time he didn't get angry or choke me.

"What is your purpose in arranging this premarital examination?"

Que Chan came to her senses and almost immediately thought of what Xun Ang said to her: "In the eyes of others, maybe the other person thinks you are determined to spend the rest of your life with him."

Xie Xian Shen wouldn't really think so.

impossible.

They all knew and were very clear about what the starting point of this marriage was.

I knew it clearly and still asked, and it turned out that he was indeed sick.

"Of course I have my own ideas." He said this and didn't say anything more.

"Oh, what a coincidence!"

The next second after he finished speaking, a woman in a gray tweed coat in front of them probably saw an acquaintance and greeted them in surprise.

Because she didn't say her name, Quezhan thought she was not talking to them, and she didn't recognize who the other person was.

But -

the woman came over, stretched out her hand to her with a generous gesture and a sweet smile: "Hello, Quechan, I'm Winni."

Winni was the person she had seen in the group photo.

Quezhan wasn't sure how the other party knew her. Maybe Meng Xie had mentioned her to her. But she and she had no intersection, and this greeting was like a knob, leveling and merging their two misaligned worlds.

"Sorry, we don't seem to be familiar with each other."

She didn't shake hands or not, but Winni didn't care. He withdrew his arm and kept smiling politely: "It doesn't matter, we know each other now."

"You and Meng Xie are friends. I often hear him mention you."

Winni spoke Chinese very fluently. He stared at Quezhan, his eyes looking straight and imprisoned her, and his tone became heavier frame by frame: "But you should know one thing, no matter how good friends you are, you have to keep a proper distance from other people's boyfriends."

"Is it glorious to be the third party?"

Winni seemed to be deliberately getting closer to her, but in fact he was looking for the right opportunity to provoke her.

Every word and sentence she said was directed at Quezhan. Although it was not the first time they met, it was the first time that she was confronted head-on. She chose to be open and there was no need to pretend.

The beginning and the end of what he said seemed to make sense, but I was completely confused.

Instead, she wanted to figure out when she became the third party.

The amount of information was too great, and her reaction was a little slow. When she tried to sort out the situation and wanted to open her mouth to refute, she heard a voice beside her.

It's his voice.

The words were deep and cold, each one saturated with oppression and chill, as if they were a judgment.

"Spreading rumors is a crime of defamation, so be careful with your words."