What's more important is that Ruan Jiang asked him for help in a critical moment, but he did nothing.

  "River bank, this matter."

  He hadn't even finished speaking when the other party had already hung up the phone.

  There was no cigarette at home, he had a strong craving and went downstairs to buy one.

  A decadent appearance, with a very heavy and oppressive aura, dressed in expensive attire, but with a temperament that somewhat resembles a hoodlum.

  "Still peppermint flavor?" asked the auntie in the supermarket.

  How can they come to buy a set at dawn every day? These young people are also not restrained in the slightest. If this continues, their bodies will probably be exhausted.

  Ruan Jiang stretched out his hand and knocked on the glass table top, "Hua Zi."

  The aunt was stunned for a moment, and then continued to say: "It turns out you're buying cigarettes, I thought it was normal, it's been a long time since I've seen you buy cigarettes, I thought you had quit."

  It was originally going to be quit, and it was clear that it was about to be quit, but all the previous efforts were abandoned overnight.

  Ruan Jianglin didn't say a word, paid for the cigarettes and left.

  He wore a pair of slippers and stood on the street. The sky had already begun to whiten, but he was dead silent, bored to death.

  He had a cigarette dangling from his lips, expertly lighting it up, taking extra-long drags with each puff reaching deep into his lungs before slowly exhaling.

  Smoke and fog swirled around him, making it hard to see clearly. He hadn't slept all night, his eyes were more tired than ever before. The familiar smell came from his nostrils, but the annoyance didn't decrease at all.

  He stood on the street corner blowing wind for a while, smoking two cigarettes before heading back, and the sky had already lit up.

  He had been busy for a whole night, and when he returned to the bedroom, there was still a faint scent of perfume left on the bed sheets and pillowcases by the woman, cold yet lingering, exceptionally clinging.

  There was still one of her hairs on the pillow, and Ruan Jianglin reached out to pick it up, as gentle as a fingertip.

  He suddenly laughed at himself again.

  He sat by the bed for a while and then went to wash up before going to the company.

  Ruan's actions were swift, just a set of photos, they handled it with ease, after all, this wasn't Ruan's first scandalous news, but having such bed photos was a first.

  In the afternoon of the same day, Gu Qing found Ruan Jianglin again.

  He sneered at that time, with a fierce aura between his eyebrows that was not concealed at all, which made people feel suffocated.

  "You want to be famous so badly, I'll make it happen for you."

  Ruan Jianglin's explosive photos are more intense than before. Before, they were just secretly taken by Gu Qing, and there was no big deal.

  However, the ones that Ruan Jianglin exposed were taken by others for her, and they are more revealing than her previous ones.

  This was his first and last time to be ruthless towards her, without leaving any room for sentiment.

  Ruan Jianglin just felt that maybe he had given her too much face before, so she forgot her own position.

  Gu Qing's hot search has been hanging online, she had the intention to find someone to spend money on it, but as soon as there was movement on her side, someone would immediately top it up again, very obviously, it was intentional torture.

  The next afternoon, Gu Qing issued a statement announcing his withdrawal from the circle.

  The image she had built up over the years collapsed overnight, her business suffered a crushing defeat, and when a tiger falls into a ditch, it will be bullied by dogs. What's more, she wasn't even a tiger to begin with. When scandals break out, everyone will come to trample on her.

  She has almost become a street rat, with everyone shouting and scolding her, saying she is shameless, messing around, exposing the truth of the entertainment industry.

  Some people threw mud at her, and for a while, public opinion was overwhelming. The people she accompanied, such as Ruan Jianglin, who were wealthy and influential, almost all disappeared, leaving only her solo photos.

  Gu Qing, on the other hand, looked like a broken jar that had been smashed to pieces. At this point, whether she wore clothes or not didn't make much of a difference anymore.

  She originally relied on sleeping her way to the top, people in the circle all know about this, what kind of eye-catching comments, she has never experienced.

  Anyway, she has made all the money she should have in these years, and it's time to announce her retirement. She thinks quite openly, if someone else were in her shoes, they would probably be driven to suicide.

  *

  After last time, for several days in a row, Ruan Jianglin had no contact with Jiang Yan.

  They didn't disturb each other's lives, and when Ruan Jianglin looked at her WeChat moments, she could still see that she seemed to be in a pretty good mood, having stayed in a homestay in the suburbs for two nights.

  It seems like it really fits the phrase "calm down".

  They were really calm, thinking, and Ruan Jianglin had thought a lot. In his mind, Jiang Yan's sentence "Ruan Jianglin, do you really love me?" kept echoing countless times, thinking over and over again.

  Until Jiang Yan's birthday, he sent a WeChat message.

  "Jiang Yan, happy birthday."

  The other party did not respond.

  This was his first unilateral response, and her birthday was known only to Ruan Jianglin and Tang Man.

  But now, it's just Ruan Jianglin who knows.

  That day she received a single birthday wish from Ruan Jianglin when she turned thirty.

  *

  After half a month, when Ruan Jiang had calmed down and I went to look for her again, she was nowhere to be found.

  However, her studio is still there, and Liang Na said she was on a business trip with an international organization.

  "What's the time?"

  "Uncertain, may be half a year, may be one year, maybe"

  Lianna looked at Ruan Jiang's increasingly displeased face and immediately fell silent.

  "Where is it?"

  "All I know is it's on the Mississippi River."

  Ruan Jiang's lips curled up slightly, and the smile that seeped out from the corners of his mouth was particularly chilling, making people feel a chill run down their spine.

  Lianna thought at that time, could it be that the boss didn't tell Mr. Ruan about this matter?

  He's too pitiful, didn't even get a notice.

  Even on the day she left, Ruan Jianglin didn't know which day it was?

  Is this what she meant by calm? Calm enough to go abroad? How long is a period of time?

  What is he waiting for? On what grounds?

  Ruan Jianglin got drunk again, he went alone to that hill of Juliet, and sat there for half the night.

  The fragrance of flowers is much weaker than when I came last time. Last time I went there, they were in full bloom, but now the spring charm has already gone.

  Ruan Jianglin burned his hand again, and he couldn't even focus on smoking, with ash falling onto his own clothes.

  He sent Jiang Yan a voice message with a harsh tone.

  "Jiang Yan, I won't wait for you anymore. What the hell makes you think I should wait for you time and time again?"

  "My old man is getting married tomorrow, he's going to find someone a hundred times more beautiful than you, someone even more charming than you. He'll be loving her dearly, bathing in the river of love, growing old together, and having a house full of children and grandchildren."

  He talked a lot of nonsense, probably because he had too much Erguotou.

  "Jiang Yan, I've calmed down, how about you?"

  "Jiang Yan, come back, okay?"

  "If you don't come back, I'll find a woman and have a child with her, one that's like Yinyin."

  "Jiang Yan, get out and never come back."

  "Jiang Yan, I love you."

  He went crazy for the first time, and all his first-time nervousness was given to Jiangyan.

  He got drunk and smoked, sleeping on a mountain for one night.

  He was a proud and arrogant young master, spoiled since childhood, how could he endure such hardships, but after lying down for a night, some strange rashes appeared on his back.

  Red is scary, one after another goosebumps, and can't scratch.

  Bosses, I've finished drawing more, where are your votes (thank you thank you)

  (End of chapter)