Preface
I have lived in Beijing for 16 years since I came to college, and I have met all kinds of people, but what touches me most is the variety of women. Perhaps because I am a woman, I have more empathy and understanding, more sympathy for people of the same sex. When I see or hear their stories, I always feel their feelings, as if they are my mirrors, and I long to write them down. I can say that writing about them is also a process of self-discovery. In our time, women still have to face many traps, explicit or implicit, and the pains that come with gender. The city stirs up their ambition and changes their relationship with themselves. They pay the price with their desires, torn between reality and fantasy, and repeatedly suffer failure and embarrassment. Yet I believe that this life-affirming beauty is more worth recording than the traditional definition of a beautiful woman. None of these stories have outlandish plots that could happen to every woman around us. However, as my brush strokes open the folds of life and delve into the hearts of those fantastical, vain, ambitious, blind and eccentric women, I cannot help but feel that each of them is so wonderful and so different.
1
In 2017, Lin Xiao was working in the project department of a large central enterprise in a country in Africa.
One day, the department director said with a smile, “These days, the group leaders are leading a delegation to inspect the project here, and the manager is inviting them to dinner tonight, so you should go too.”
Lin Xiao looked embarrassed: “Can you not go?”
When she was working in the domestic headquarters, she had attended several such dinners, gatherings of middle-aged successful men, and she knew what the scene was. There were few girls in the project department, so the manager asked her to go, probably to help the scene, let her toast, laugh, liven up the atmosphere and so on. “I’m not very good at talking, and I’m afraid I’ll spoil everyone’s fun.”
The director put on an expression of hatred: “The manager is for your own good, Mr. He is not your old leader, he has been promoted to the leadership of the group, you still do not go to pay your respects?”
Lin Xiao heart “thump” a moment.
The “Mr. He” in the director’s mouth, whose name was He Minghui, was the manager of her domestic department. This person is medium-sized, with a face, thick eyebrows and big eyes, said to be a typical official look. He has outstanding ability, dare to work, Lin Xiao is still in the country, is the colleagues talk about the career star, “sooner or later to enter the group leadership as vice president”. Sure enough, as expected, smoothly rose up.
“Okay.” Lin Xiao could only agree.
The director said half-jokingly and half-sarcastically, “You girl, your stinky frame is too big, now only the group leaders can invite you, right?”
Lin Xiao lowered her head resentfully and found a familiar name in her WeChat contacts – half a year ago, Yao Yuanyuan applied to go to the group’s branch and left Beijing, and her circle of friends was set to “visible for three days only”.
“I might see him at night”, Lin Xiao typed this line in the input box, hesitated and deleted it.
Compared to two years ago, Mr. He walked with a more imposing posture, his eyes were more radiant, and his smile had an old spice – about the kind of intimidation that men who have a smooth career carry with them.
Halfway through the meal, the business side of things have almost been said, the atmosphere has relaxed down. The manager called Lin Xiao with his eyes: “Xiao Lin, the old leader is here, why don’t you hurry over to toast?”
Lin Xiao had to hold his head up, pick up his glass and walk to Mr. He with an awkward smile. Mr. He put on a kind of temperament characteristic of a big leader and opened his mouth first: “When Xiao Lin was in our department before, he worked very seriously, I was very impressed.”
A leader next to him, who was slightly lower in rank than Mr. He, but older, probably drank two glasses of wine, and his brain was a bit hot, so he spoke impudently, showing an unkind smile: “So Xiao Lin is an old subordinate of Mr. He, so he also knows Yao Yuanyuan, right?”
Lin Xiao knew that there were words in his words, so he had to make a sloppy reply, “Not too familiar.”
The man laughed: “The little girl is embarrassed to say – Mr. He, tell us, is it true or not?”
Mr. He sat upright, without the slightest hint of panic in his eyes, his face expressionless, as if he was reading a group resolution to everyone: “There is absolutely no such thing, it’s all a rumor, there are always these boring rumors.”
Joking people’s faces some sarcastic, the manager see seams to play a roundabout: “This when the leader, is the tree wants to be quiet but the wind is not only, really can not help, but our President He, that is the body is not afraid of the shadow crooked!”
2
The job at this central enterprise is Lin Xiao’s first rice bowl after graduating from college.
Before joining, her family advised her: “This job is decent and stable, but in such a large unit, three parts of work and seven parts of being a person, the most important thing is to be stable, especially girls, do not do anything out of the ordinary, leaving a good reputation for everyone.”
The unit building is a tall and imposing building, exuding a sense of authority, the first time you walk in, let Lin Xiao awe. She was assigned to a department that was mainly responsible for writing articles. On the first day of work, the department leaders and new young people sitting around the round table in the conference room, the director put on a serious stance to give a welcome speech: “Today, the manager in charge of our department He manager is away on business, I will say a few words on his behalf ……”
At this time, the hidden door of the conference room opened, and a woman stepped in with fine high heels. Thump, thump. Some arrogant rhythm.
Everyone’s eyes looked at her – Lin Xiao at once as if struck by a beam of light: this woman in her early 30s, wearing a black dress, flaxen large waves lazily hanging over her shoulders, through the earrings glittering gold; her face is well-defined, although not the delicate face of a young girl, but reveals a polished, more meaningful look, the pair of serious and even some harsh eyes did not go to meet everyone’s curious eyes, but a sweep – then, sat down on the empty chair next to the director.
She is so beautiful. Lin Xiao said softly in his heart, but a little daunting.
After the director spoke, he introduced the other leaders in turn to everyone: “Yao Yuanyuan, deputy director.”
The woman stood up and owed a little, the smile on her face was not warm.
In the first week, the other deputy director of the department, Lao Zhang, gave the newcomers an induction training. Old Zhang is good-tempered, smiling all day long, and does not play official, once the class is over, chatting with everyone: salary and benefits, vacation days, promotion methods …… One day when he was in the mood, old Zhang joked: “I am more than 50 years old, not to hide from you, a few years after retirement, I guess it is also a deputy director, right? The end! So you do not take me as a leader, our department, you will be careful of Yao director, she ah, but a powerful person, even He manager are not afraid of.”
Look at the old Zhang want to say, we are waiting for him to continue to reveal something, but he shook his head and sighed: “Later, ah, you guys take your time to experience.”
Soon, Lin Xiao experienced the “power” of Yao Yuanyuan.
In the past, every time a manuscript was submitted with errors or inaccuracies, the deputy director in charge of the unified manuscript usually corrected it himself, and then smiled broadly: “Newcomers, a little mistake is inevitable, next time pay more attention.”
From the feedback of the previous submissions, the quality of Lin Xiao’s manuscript was generally good, so when it was Yao Yuanyuan’s turn to coordinate the manuscript, Lin Xiao didn’t care much, and turned it in after a cursory look.
After a while, Yao Yuan Yuan came into the office and threw the manuscript onto her desk without a single change: “Find how many mistakes there are in total.” Lin Xiao stood up like a frog in a conditioned reflex experiment, and Yao Yuanyuan was standing beside her, staring straight at her. The more nervous she was, the harder it was to focus, and it felt like every second was as long as an hour. After looking at it for a while, she mumbled, “In total, there are two ……”
“Tell me about it.”
Lin Xiao’s face had turned red, and said it again like an elementary school student doing a review, ashamed to be ashamed of himself. Yao Yuanyuan then nodded: “Look, you can do better if you are more careful. Change it, and give me a new one.”
Heels “thump” out, next to the old Zhang probably to comfort Lin Xiao, rushed to the door and muttered: “Bullying a new girl, fox pretending to be a tiger.”
3
One Friday night, Lin Xiao and Zhang ate in the cafeteria after work.
The weekend is coming, the old Zhang extra relaxed, the heart of the secret not to spit up stupidly. He looked at Lin Xiao with a half-mysterious, half-expectant look again and asked leisurely, “You all know about Director Yao, right?”
Yao Yuanyuan entered the department seven or eight years ago, when Manager He was still only the department director. In that group of newcomers, Yao Yuanyuan could be considered the best: graduated from a famous school, good-looking, tall, and efficient, Director He was especially willing to take her with him when he went out for activities – after all, a man in his 40s, who wouldn’t feel himself shining with a beautiful young woman by his side?
In addition, Director He has a strict style of work and high requirements for his subordinates, so people are a little respectful and far away. Yao Yuanyuan but the newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, the wind, and can bear the hardships, but where the leadership needs what materials tomorrow, no matter how late the first night overtime, the next morning can be on time to put the materials on the leadership desk.
Over time, the two became acquainted, the director sometimes joked in the office: “Gao Yuanyuan – hey you see I always call the wrong, you two look especially like!”
With this special preference, Yao Yuanyuan walking waist are particularly straight.
At that time, Yao Yuanyuan was already married, and her husband was Wang Lin, a young talent in the group’s technical department, who worked under a buddy of Zhang. Wang Lin was tall and handsome, especially sunny, and very kind. Old Zhang’s buddy even joked with him that this good candidate had been short-changed, or he wanted to introduce his girl to him!
Yao Yuanyuan and Wang Lin from the university has been in love, the boy and the girl, so we all think Yao Yuanyuan is just like in front of the leadership, did not notice anything strange. Until one day, Wang Lin suddenly with the group to play a separation report, to jump ship to a competitor in the industry, this is the paper can not be wrapped in fire: it turns out that he and Yao Yuanyuan has been divorced! Yao Yuan Yuan has long been unable to look at the hairy boy, has been put into the arms of the mature and stable director He.
“No wonder ah ……” then everyone reacted: why two years in a row departmental evaluation of excellence, director He insisted on evaluating Yao Yuanyuan – general involving the honor, benefits of the matter, in order to not let people gossip, the unit is not rotating? Why does Director He take Yao Yuanyuan with him every time he goes on a business trip, even when looking at her with an unconscious smile, at this time in the eyes of everyone is also full of ambiguous meaning.
“This Yao Yuanyuan, really a vicious role, tsk. This divorce, but she killed two birds with one stone. It is clear that she is sorry Wang Lin, they bought a house together in Beijing, I do not know what she made a trick, and finally let Wang Lin net out of the household; then, also will be the army of Director He – Director He family, originally and beautiful, his wife is also in our group’s subsidiary, his son is about to take the junior high school, they are a couple so For many years, how will say break it off? So Director He felt sorry for her. She is very shrewd ah, just use the man’s guilt – a few years ago, Director He double happiness, his son was admitted to the key junior high school, she also successfully promoted from the director to the department manager. The company’s main goal is to provide the best possible service to its customers.
“She Yao Yuanyuan is a bit capable, but how many new people in our group every year, which one is not a famous university graduate? Which one is not a glamorous resume? If the hard skills alone, she is so easy to come up? Look at her, since she became the deputy director, the bravado, not to mention you newcomers, sometimes even the director is not in the eyes, just like the wife of manager He.
“I’ve been in the group for so many years, and finally the ranking of deputy director actually behind a junior!” Old Zhang said, more and more indignant up, a trace of red light of resentment in the eyes, “I want to see, she Yao Yuanyuan can have what good end later!”
4
Lin Xiao knew that Yao Yuanyuan was strict in her work, so in order not to let her catch her pigtail, every time she worked under her, she was extra careful: usually after the first draft was completed, she had to read through it three times from beginning to end to make sure there were no typos, language errors, logical errors before she dared to hand it in; where Yao Yuanyuan had made changes, she would also carefully think about why she had to change it that way.
Over time, Lin Xiao found that Yao Yuanyuan really had two brushes. In other deputy director sometimes can be sloppy past the manuscript, to her not, must be the perfect wording to pass. What is more rare is that the old man, like Zhang, who has been in the unit for decades, writes a draft with a cliché, which has become habitual thinking, but Yao Yuanyuan can always add something new and original outside the cliché, or her personal thinking, or with the emotional color of female affinity, which is refreshing.
Six months down the line, although Lin Xiao is still trembling in front of Yao Yuanyuan, always worried about being criticized, but every time after reading Yao Yuanyuan’s rewrites, actually gradually developed a sense of sympathy. After some friction, Lin Xiao also earned the reputation of “fast progress in writing, rigorous style” in the unit.
At the end of the year, the department gets together for dinner. According to the rules, each newcomer had to toast the director one by one to express their gratitude for the leadership’s nurturing. Lin Xiao encountered this occasion is nervous, when it was her turn, she held a cup warily to the director, looking at the director’s slightly drunken look, just thought of a good speech immediately forgot clean, only rigidly squeezed out a: “leader hard work ……”
The director of the company has been working on the project for a long time.
The director also did not object, laughing: “This old Zhang, bad ideas most!”
Lin Xiao’s mind suddenly went blank, a hot blood rushed to her face, it was a hot and humiliating feeling. Following that, she immediately felt betrayed by old Zhang, she glanced around helplessly, like a person who can’t swim is about to sink.
“People’s young girls, not even married, drinking cross-cups of wine, huh?” Yao Yuanyuan pursed her lips and laughed, and suddenly said something. The director glanced at her, quickly nodded yes, and finished clinking glasses with Lin Xiao.
After finishing the meal, Lin Xiao quietly followed Yao Yuanyuan and waited until no one was around before she bowed her head and said, “Sister Yuanyuan, thank you for helping me just now.”
Yao Yuanyuan glanced at her: “You’re usually quite smart, why did you freeze up when you were bullied?”
Lin Xiao heart hard, voice a little trembling: “Newcomers will just be afraid, afraid of offending people, more afraid of offending the leadership, later be cleaned up ……”
Yao Yuanyuan’s eyes suddenly became gentle, as if touched by something: “It’s okay, don’t be afraid, they don’t dare to do anything to you.” After a while and said, “Do not want to drink, we must work hard, the business must be able to take, to stand firm stand, understand?”
Following the male leader, she lost her bet
After some time, manager He wanted to give a speech on behalf of the group in a large event, the job of writing the script naturally fell on Yao Yuanyuan’s head – all the scripts that manager He wanted to use, almost all of them were her responsibility, after all, she knew the most about manager He’s thinking and language style – we all unspoken.
Yao Yuanyuan picked Lin Xiao to write the first draft, gave her a large pile of materials, let her first carefully digest, read it and then outline. As soon as Lin Xiao returned to the office with the materials in her arms, everyone joked at her: “The talented girl is back.
Old Zhang also looked at her strangely: “Last time I drank too much, I said nonsense, don’t worry about it.”
Lin Xiao was talking to them, but she had a strange feeling in her heart, as if she and Yao Yuanyuan were in the same camp of flattery.
After a week of writing the manuscript, Yao Yuanyuan was not very satisfied. On Friday night, Lin Xiao was left behind by Yao Yuan Yuan to rewrite the draft, and was on the computer, polishing it word by word – only the end was left, Lin Xiao stole a glance at the bottom right corner of the computer, it was already past 9 o’clock, so she was a little angry.
A figure suddenly appeared at the door, “How’s the draft coming?” As if she was looking for words. It was manager He, who saw Lin Xiao in the room, and had to call Yao Yuanyuan somewhat hastily to “come over here”. Yao Yuanyuan’s face was expressionless, even a little angry, and walked out.
It was very late, and there were only three of them in this row of offices. Lin Xiao pointed up his ears, vaguely loud talking, and nothing could be heard. After more than 10 minutes, Yao Yuanyuan came back, her eyes red, she turned her head, but Lin Xiao saw her extremely tired expression, like a marathon runner, with the last 1 km left, decided not to run forward, but just want to lie on the lawn on the roadside to dwell.
“Xiao Lin, you’ve worked hard too, no more changes today, let’s talk about it next week, you go home first.”
He manager’s office came “bang” the sound of closing the door, the sound of men walking away.
“What about you?” Lin Xiao blurted out, thinking that she had gone back, or alone.
Yao Yuanyuan probably didn’t expect her to ask this question, and was speechless for a moment. Lin Xiao said as if nothing had happened: “I’m so hungry! You haven’t eaten dinner either, right? There is a home pub in a nearby alley, the decoration is very literary, do you want to go and have something to eat together?”
5
Yao Yuanyuan sat in the restaurant light, shed the harsh temperament in the office, as if a new person, like a pink lily, surrounded by a faint soft luster. The cork of the sparkling wine popped out with a bang, and the words she had suppressed came out with a gurgle.
“They’re all saying behind my back that I’d do anything to get a job and destroy someone’s family, right?”
Lin Xiao nodded: “But I think it’s definitely not that simple.”
Yao Yuanyuan smiled: “At that time, I was as scared as you were.” Yao Yuan Yuan said she had just graduated from college, and was often given a hard time at the dinner table, having to drink cross-cups, not only the “small cross-cup” of holding hands, but also the “big cross-cup” of two people close together, with their arms going around the back of their necks. Once after dinner, sitting in the car she cried, Director He saw.
Wang Lin is admittedly very good, but a young man facing the turbulent life, too timid and useless, helpless, he simply can not help her solve any problems. Director He, on the other hand, is in his early 40s, mature and stable, in his prime, constantly breaking new ground in his career, full of ardent desire for honor and power, and able to protect her at every turn. Such a man, if coupled with a little melancholy, a little sincere, for young girls just entering society is completely a poison.
Once on a business trip to the south, walking on the beach at night, Director He said to Yao Yuanyuan: “I have no feelings for the one at home anymore, until I met you, I felt a little bit of life again.”
This kind of third-rate romance drama will only appear in the bridge, Yao Yuan Yuan Yuan but this is convinced, she always remember director He said this, eyes pale and sure, looking at the sea, “this statement can not be true.
Director He also said he was willing to marry her, and at the end he sighed softly: “But you are so young, I am not good enough for you.”
Yao Yuanyuan took these words to heart and soon made up her mind and divorced Wang Lin. Although it was her fault, but she was not willing to betray and then deceive Wang Lin, simply to be frank and honest to be a villain, break the boat, everything does not care. She even thought that the future can not have children, director He is older than her, if the death in front, she also went to die, once and for all.
I didn’t expect the matter to come to a head, but Director He backed off: “No, not yet! The one at home does not agree, the son will soon be the primary school, this juncture emotions can not be affected.” These words are all rhetoric, she was not willing until he hung his head and said, “And, most importantly, you know, I have not been director for two years, how many people are staring at me this position, if this time a little bit of failure, the future will be gone.”
Director He smiled a bit bleak, “If I have no future, you will still be willing to follow me?”
In this way, director He became manager He, his son needs to adapt to the new environment after middle school, and then after the upcoming high school exams, like the endless process of further education, Yao Yuanyuan was so dragged down. But her heart is still high, she knows her image has been nailed, all colleagues have identified her as using men to climb up the heart of the woman, so she can only work overtime day and night, want to let everyone see her work achievements, in the fight with the crowd to regain a little dignity.
“You know what? Her wife also found my home address, came to my house to make a fuss, the neighbors saw it, made everyone know, and then I did not care.” Yao Yuanyuan said, a smile on the corner of his mouth.
“So did she do it? Which one of you won?”
“No hands, I told her that I had practiced taekwondo, she was stunned.”
Two people laughed, Yao Yuanyuan again startled: “In fact, she is also right, she is also innocent ah, the sins made by men, in the end, all become a war between women and women.”
A few days later, the event that Manager He attended, Yao Yuan Yuan took Lin Xiao with her. When Manager He walked up to the flower-covered podium in the spotlight, every word came out of his mouth so properly, naturally, into the feelings, as if the script was not written for him, but flowed naturally from his heart.
Yao Yuanyuan sat on the stage and looked at him with a smile, and his eyes were sparkling with the admiration of a young girl, while manager He also nodded frequently in the direction of Yao Yuanyuan’s seat.
6
Perhaps at some point, manager He really considered divorce and marry Yao Yuanyuan in a fair and square way. At first, he was afraid of what others might say, and he was very careful in front of people, not wanting to fall into disrepute. Later on, he simply did not care, in the office and Yao Yuan Yuan talk will also be extra intimate, openly acquiesced to their relationship.
Once after a large event, the department went to sing KTV together to celebrate, manager He was excited to show a singing voice, we are naturally enthusiastic applause cheers. He first sang “Love Song 1990”, the beginning of the “black eyes” when also smiling at Yao Yuan Yuan, oily; and then sang “the sky”, the horse-headed zither sounded, his voice also became thick and melodious, singing “I would like to walk with you on horseback, running in the depths of the grassland “, his voice choked up and his eyes glowed with crystal light.
Yao Yuanyuan sat stunned in the changing lights, everyone was silent, and then quietly applauded, Lin Xiao suddenly understood why Yao Yuanyuan was so obsessed with manager He.
The summer that his son was admitted to a major high school, Manager He’s face was full of joy. The weather was extraordinarily hot, and Yao Yuanyuan’s temper also followed the soaring temperature. One day, a deputy director of the department next door came to ask for materials, just as the phone was received by Yao Yuanyuan, she was like eating gunpowder, the opening was aggressive: “This material was not given to you last week?”
The other side patiently explained, but Yao Yuanyuan contrary to the usual work meticulous appearance, unreasonable tenacity three points, as if a chest of anger can no longer be held down, yelled at the phone: “What is the difference, it is still formalism? How hard we work do you know? ……”
It so happened that manager He came into the office, he pretended to be confused, playful: “Yo, who has upset our director Yao, so angry?”
Yao Yuanyuan hung up the phone, raised her head and gave him a fierce glare, turned around and rushed out of the office. The “thump” of high heels was like a dense protest, a string of bullets she threw at this man, but manager He only “hei hei” laughed twice, sighing “Director Yao’s temper is getting bigger and bigger now! “, unharmed look, the next person can only embarrassed and know how to laugh.
He manager in charge of Lin Xiao their department for a few years, the work is doing well, is already one of the most promising candidates to enter the leadership of the group, is recognized as the stars of tomorrow. For such a successful man, a little peach news seems to have only increased his male charm.
Yao Yuanyuan, on the other hand, was not so lucky. She was suffering from severe insomnia and was already taking anti-depressants. Even other department mates came to inquire with Lin Xiao: “I heard that there is a director Yao in your place, who got to the top by her relationship with Manager He?”
After some gossip, everyone seemed a bit sorry, but also a bit gloomy sigh: “She, after so many years, but only so, still a deputy director, and her age, many people, with their own ability, did not also become deputy director? After so many years, in fact, did not take advantage of what.”
What makes people whisper is that Yao Yuanyuan’s ex-husband, who was also a young talent, is also starting to report good news. Wang Lin was broken hearted, after jumping ship to put all the energy into the career. He had good business skills, and work hard. After getting a firm foothold in his career, he also came out of the shadows, married a young and beautiful college student, and soon had a child.
“Tsk, tsk, tsk, men are doing well. Only she, there is nothing!”
7
In 2015, Lin Xiao was sent abroad by her unit. Before the trip, she and her boyfriend received a marriage license.
She went to say goodbye to Yao Yuanyuan, chatted for a while, and finally she said with some emotion, “Sister Yuanyuan, thank you for these years, without you, I would not have progressed so fast.”
“You are the one who has good understanding, no matter which master you follow, you will improve.”
Lin Xiao was a little embarrassed: “Compared to you, I am still far from you, sometimes I can feel it myself, I am a little afraid to work lightly, I am not as determined as you are.”
Yao Yuan Yuan smiled: “You have worked hard enough, two years abroad, so far apart, to maintain a good relationship with your husband, this is more important – without a beautiful family and relationship, a woman in the eyes of others is always a loser.” She paused, “Don’t be like me.”
Lin Xiao remembered that Yao Yuanyuan had once told her that the luck of men is that they always rightfully put their careers first, only the career is their own and can be relied on; while women always put their feelings first, feelings can’t be relied on. Yao Yuanyuan who said this is like a stubborn fighter, but now she has softened up and seems to be starting to get old.
Soon after Lin Xiao left the country, just in time for a change in the group’s leadership, Manager He’s promotion was on the agenda.
The position of group vice president was almost a sure thing for him. On the eve of the official announcement of the target of the inspection, the party committee specifically to talk to him – he and Yao Yuan Yuan’s affairs have become known to everyone in the unit, the impact is very bad, the group is, after all, state-owned enterprises, although the private affairs of employees is personal freedom, but moral style is also an important factor in the examination of young leaders.
The implication is that if he intends to marry Yao Yuanyuan, then his career will not go up, let him consider himself.
In the end, naturally, Manager He successfully became the group’s vice president. Yao Yuanyuan was discouraged and did not want his future, so he applied to leave this sad place in Beijing and returned to his hometown to serve in the group’s branch. The sky is the limit and the sea is the limit.
After hearing this news, Lin Xiao was somewhat surprised, she did not expect Yao Yuanyuan to be so determined. But on second thought, when the divorce was finalized, she was also so determined. But the decision that has been made, will not be changed.
After Yao Yuanyuan left, everyone felt a lot of emotions, especially a few big sisters in the department, they have regarded her as a typical negative teaching material: “When the mistress is not good in the end!”
“Look at it, think how great they are, others are still not said to leave it behind!”
“Men, of course, is to choose the future!”
For a long time, Yao Yuanyuan heard nothing. Lin Xiao would send her photos of cute animals or exotic scenery in Africa, but she didn’t reply. Lin Xiao thought that the process of letting go must be very difficult, and the photos might be a kind of disturbance to her, perhaps reminding her of the past, so gradually she stopped sending them.
Lin Xiao once saw Yao Yuanyuan in a lonely dream in a foreign country, the two of them lying next to the blue-black sea, drinking wine, Yao Yuanyuan seemed to be talking to herself: “Manager He said he was too lonely and asked me not to leave him.”
Lin Xiao said, “He is already Mr. He, don’t you know that?”
The light blue moon hung in the sky behind Yao Yuanyuan’s hair, like a glowing knife point.
8
After returning home from Africa, Lin Xiao left her job from her original unit. The news that Mr. He, as the leader of the group, was attending the event often appeared on the webpage, and the photos were always full of joy and ambition.
One day, a friend from the original unit suddenly told Lin Xiao: “You know what? Sister Yuan Yuan is so divine! In her hometown, she actually married a famous local rich man!”
Tsk, now those who used to poke their backs behind her back actually have an impressed respect for her: “This woman, who is almost 40 years old and still married to such a rich man, has a wrist, not simple!”
“Awesome awesome, this is the woman who really has the ability.”
Yao Yuan Yuan’s new avatar on WeChat is her wedding photo profile, she is wearing light makeup, has a short haircut, and can clearly see the large sapphire studs on her earlobes.
Lin Xiao suddenly remembered that once the two of them went shopping together at the mall near the unit, she asked, “Sister Yuan Yuan, luxury bags are moving several tens of thousands of a, I have several months salary is not enough, why many people with low income to buy it? This will not really happy ah.”
Yao Yuanyuan thought about it: “Maybe it’s to protect their self-esteem.”
Lin Xiao saw that in the wedding photo, on Yao Yuanyuan’s angular face, the earrings reflected a burning light, as if there was a cold and strong power in the light, supporting the corners of her mouth slightly up.
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