Chapter Twenty-Three The Window

  The chairman is not the kind of chairman that can be viewed with ordinary eyesight, and the driver is obviously not an ordinary driver.

  At least an ordinary driver would not dare to address a superior directly by name, and there was no respect in his tone.

  But it seems that Chairman Chen is not very concerned about it.

  The driver stopped the car in front of a Chinese restaurant and said, "You're used to eating good food, are you interested in having some hometown dishes with this roughneck?"

  Chen Shuo took off his jacket and casually threw it on the car seat, got out of the car with ease, sat down and said: "Old thing, I've been here more times than you."

  A few bottles of beer, a few authentic Sichuan dishes, and Hui Chang and driver Peng would drink them all in one go.

  The driver put down his wine glass and said, "How was your trip to Japan this time?"

  "It's almost done."

  The driver said: "Well, it's up to you now."

  Chen Shuo nodded: "It's time to do something."

  The driver picked up a piece of beef with his chopsticks and put it in his mouth, saying, "I know you arranged for us to be handed over to that little brat for what reason, but are you really so desperate now that you can only hand things over to a young whippersnapper?"

  Chen Hui replied succinctly: "I've always sought to win when doing things, I don't care about stability."

  "He who often walks by the river will have wet shoes."

  The driver put down his chopsticks and looked at Chen Shuo, saying: "To be honest, after being idle for so long, I'm actually quite happy to have something to do. That kid really has some ability, and he's very reasonable when giving orders. I'm just worried about one thing."

  "What?" Chen Shuo asked.

  The driver smiled and said: "I'm worried, is he brave enough?"

  Chen Shuo took a sip of wine and said: "At that time, he was alone on the smuggling boat to Seoul when he was only seventeen years old."

  After listening to Chen Shuo's words, the driver fell silent for a moment, and his old face suddenly burst into a smile, revealing a mouthful of yellow teeth that had been smoked by years of smoking.

  "This is interesting, damn it's so interesting."

  It is unknown since when, after humans initiated the Renaissance and entered the Industrial Revolution, the development of science and technology has made life in the entire world faster and faster.

  It's good and bad, many people are taking big strides forward, can gain a lot, after paying the corresponding price, get what they want, but after getting what they want, they can't be happy.

  These words sound especially hypocritical when spoken by people who have achieved success and fame, but when spoken by someone who has nothing or is mediocre, they sound ignorant of the world.

  Many times, from another perspective, this world seems especially helpless. Or it can be said that for most people, from birth to university graduation, God has already written the script for them. Those without capital start worrying about their livelihood, while the favored ones receive better education and take over the privileged life brought by their families.

  Most people Chu Jingyan had met were like that; fortunately, or unfortunately, he himself was not.

  Withdrawing his gaze from the night view on the street, Chu Jingyan turned to Li Qi beside him and asked, "Is there any progress with Jin Shouzhang?"

  "Ordinary and unremarkable, he seems to have sensed something too, we don't have anywhere to start," Li Qi said, "However, with Jin Xinyu, there are quite a few interesting things that happened."

  "Oh?" Chu Jing asked, "What is it?"

  Li Qi said, "He seems to be pursuing a girl who is studying at a college. You also know that girl, the pearl in the palm of Gao Shichang's hand. I remember when we were on the cruise ship, you even danced with her?"

  Chu Jing asked: "How do you think I danced?"

  Li Qi fell silent for a moment before asking: "Do you want to hear the truth?"

  "Nonsense."

  "All I can say is you jumped very hard."

  "What about her?"

  "Jumping quite hard, harder than you."

  "Li Qi, your words are getting more and more reasonable."

  "Thanks for the compliment, big brother."

  "Is there anything out of the ordinary?"

  Li Qixin thought for a moment and said, "Well, that's not the case. It's just sending flowers and some gifts. To be honest, these young people nowadays really don't understand romance. They send something once and it gets thrown away once, they send something twice and it gets thrown away twice. The spirit of persistence is worth learning from, but it's really pitiful to watch."

  "Thrown away?" Chu Jingyan was somewhat surprised, this didn't seem like the elegant and refined Lara's style at all.

  "It's better to throw it away," Li Qi said with a smile. "Otherwise, how can you say that you're the daughter of a wealthy family?"

  Chu Jingxian thought to himself, could it be that the gentle and elegant High Ya was just pretending all along? Was she actually a violent and crazy woman at heart?

  Li Qizhao, with a sly look in his eyes, glanced around and said: "Big brother, I've taken a good look at that Miss Gao, she's not bad looking at all, and she's still young, should be a natural beauty who hasn't had any plastic surgery. Otherwise, I can stir up some trouble for you to get ahead?"

  Chu Jing spoke with a frown: "First come first served? Why does it sound so unpleasant?"

  Li Qiwu thought for a moment and hesitated: "Hero saving beauty?"

  Chu Jingyu looked at Li Qi and sighed, "Li Qi, people say that if the upper beam is not straight, the lower beam will be crooked. But I, this upright and straight upper beam, why don't you, this lower beam, learn from me at all?"

  Li Qiyuan awkwardly rubbed his hands together and smiled: "Ashamed, ashamed."

  Chu Jing said with a wave of his hand: "You can get off work now."

  "Big brother, don't you really want me to help you get something done?"

  "Get out!"

  Li Qi walked out of the office, Chu Jingyan returned to the desk, picked up the file and began to review it. As he got more and more into the swing of things, he became quite efficient, finishing off the work that had been piling up all day. Chu Jingyan leaned back in his chair, nodding his head in satisfaction.

  "They say that genius comes from ninety-nine percent of sweat, but someone like me who finishes work so smoothly without even breaking a sweat will surely be envied by others if they find out. What a troublesome thing."

  The phone on the table buzzed, and Chu Jingyan picked it up to answer it.

  "What's wrong?"

  "Qi Qingrong's voice came from the other end of the phone: 'The address I gave you, have you been there?'"

  "Address?" Chu Jingyu subconsciously patted his pocket, and after feeling the touch of paper, his slightly restless heart calmed down, replying, "Not yet."

  "The owner of that house has returned from America, I think he should be home by now, are you interested in going to take a look?"

  Chu Jingyu looked out of the window and thought for a moment before saying, "Isn't it getting a bit late?"

  Qī Qīng Róng said indifferently: "Whatever, you're hosting a meeting tomorrow, just don't forget to show up."

  Put the phone back in his pocket, took out that crumpled piece of paper, Chu Jingyan smacked his lips, just take a look, it wouldn't cost him any flesh.

  Thinking of this, Chu Jingyan stood up, picked up his coat and walked out of the office.

  The car drove slowly and arrived in half an hour. After parking the car, Chu Jingyan got out and looked at the building, pointing with his fingers one by one to count the households, but there was no light in the window of that household, it seemed like nobody was home.

  He looked up for a long time, until he felt his neck ache, before Chu Jingyan finally pulled out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket. The smoke under the streetlight was particularly swirling, and the cold air mixed with the smell of tobacco. After taking a deep breath, Chu Jingyan tightened his clothes.

  There are many times when Cho Jeong-yeon knows that many things in the past were his own fault, and what he likes to do when there is no one around is to complain. If Kim Tae-hyun finds out that Cho Jeong-yeon, who he thought never complained but only worked hard with his head down, actually has this side of him, I wonder if he will have a feeling of disillusionment with his idol.

  Five years have passed, and sometimes it's also a good choice to let some things go unresolved.

  Chu Jingyan sat in the driver's seat, when suddenly a burst of laughter came from the alleyway. He glanced over and saw a family walking towards the entrance of the residential area, chatting and laughing. Chu Jingyan continued to smoke with his head down, while the family seemed to have not noticed him, dragging their luggage as they walked into the residential area.

  "Alright, Xiujing, you've eaten enough today. If you eat any more, aren't you afraid that your dance teacher will make you have a week's worth of diet meals tomorrow?"

  A somewhat cold female voice came over, Chu Jingyan's action of lighting a cigarette paused, took the cigarette out of his mouth and looked at the speaker.

  The figure is clear and distinct, but it no longer has the familiarity of before.

  "Sister, I'm not like you who's about to debut soon. Now I don't even dare eat fried chicken. I'm at the age where I should be growing my body, if I don't eat more to supplement my nutrition, will I end up like you in the future? Your body is so thin and weak, and you're not even tall."

  "Jung Soo-jung, do you want to die?"

  A middle-aged woman nearby pulled away her daughter who was playing, scolding: "Look at you two, where do you look like sisters? I even doubt if the hospital made a mistake with your birth certificates back then. Don't you two have incompatible astrological signs?"

  "It's highly likely, mom, maybe Zheng Xiuyan isn't our family's child at all." This voice came from Zheng Xiujing.

  "Jung Soo-jung, today I'll let you know why peaches are so red!" This voice came from Jung Soo-yeon.

  They were too far away, and Chu Jingyan couldn't hear what the sisters were saying, but that didn't stop him from staring at the family in a daze, just walking so ordinarily, gradually moving further and further away.

  Chu Jingyan just watched like this, the more he looked, the happier he became, the more he listened, the smile on his face became more and more intense. The family had already walked far away, under the lamp light, their shadows were stretched very long, close to Chu Jingyan, so close that if he lowered his head, they were within reach.

  Chu Jingyu put his palm on his waist, laughing even more adorably: "I remember when I was just this tall, really only that big, now I'm taller than Zheng Xiuyan, is this girl born to follow her uncle?"

  "Jung Soo-yeon is still the same as ever, nothing has changed."

  "Uncle and aunt haven't changed at all, really not a single bit."

  Chu Jingyan looked at the family that had already disappeared into the depths of the residential area and smiled, "So nothing has changed after all, it's just me who's changing, this is really something that can't be accepted, it's truly a bit embarrassing."

  Chu Jingyan started to take puffs of smoke at an increasingly rapid frequency.

  Lifting her head again, the originally dark window belonging to that family lit up with a soft light.

  That light is softer than moonlight and brighter than sunlight.