Chapter 16 chapter 2

In the midst of being busy, time flies by so quickly, and it feels like it's already noon in a few moments. I ordered a beef brisket rice for lunch. It tasted very good, and I was a little full. Seeing that it was still early, I decided to go to a nearby bookstore to see if there were any good books to eat. Walking casually among the rows of shelves, I saw Jimmy's old comic "Go Left, Go Right", picked it up and flipped through it.On the other side of the bookshelf, a woman flipped through the books and said, "This book is very good. I bought one when I was pregnant. It's very good to read."

"Really? Then I'll take one too." It turned out to be Linda's voice.I didn't want to meet Linda, so I crouched down, hid under the bookshelf, and waited for them to leave.Unexpectedly, they chatted while picking out books, from Linda's pregnancy, to which guy in the company had a new girlfriend, and finally to gossip about Elliott. "Linda, I heard that you have a new girl under your command, who is very important to Elliott, what does she look like?" "How small is it! It's not much different from my age." "Does Elliott really think highly of her?"

Linda giggled, and said in a low voice, "It's really important!" With a strange long voice. The woman also laughed, "They all said that they were out of line. They just came here for a few days and didn't know anything, so they became the project leader, but they couldn't even do the project demonstration under the title of project leader. I helped her. Girls nowadays are really getting better and better than our generation! Elliott is also in a daze. Letting someone as capable as you not use it, he should use such a vase girl. Could it be that you feel that you have no hope, thinking that you have the power to use it, and it will become invalid after the expiration date?"

I really didn't expect that I, Su Man, would be able to rely on hue for a living one day!I bit my lip, and pulled Jimmy's manga more and more vigorously with my hand. On the pages of the book, two men and women who were walking left and right, and gradually moved away, were gradually rubbed together by me. Someone walked over while browsing the books. Originally, I should have taken the initiative to give way to him, but I shrank under the bookshelf and didn't want to move. He didn't seem to intend to go over, and stopped beside me. The conversation next door still came from time to time, Linda sneered: "Who knows? It doesn't matter to me what they are messing with, but it's better not to affect my normal work, otherwise, barefoot people are not afraid of wearing shoes, Don't think about it, everyone!"

The woman smiled: "By the way, what does that woman look like? I'll find an excuse to go to your office in the afternoon, and you can tell me who it is." Linda said disdainfully: "What's so good-looking? At most, she can be considered handsome, and there are many people in our company who are more beautiful than her." "Ah? Elliott is notoriously indifferent, how did that woman subdue him? Couldn't it be because she is so good at bed..." The person next to me coughed twice through the bookshelf. Linda and the woman probably felt that it was not appropriate to talk about this in public, so they lowered their voices and went to checkout with their books.

The person next to him squatted down, "Don't take it too seriously, rumors stop at wise men." It turned out to be Song Yi's voice! I raised my head abruptly, met his gaze, but immediately lowered my head, feeling ashamed, ashamed and afraid. After a while, I was able to utter a complete sentence, "What they said...is not true." "I believe!" I squeezed the book and just wanted to cry.Humans are very strange animals. When alone, no matter how much wronged they suffer, they often grit their teeth and get over it, but when there is someone who cares about them, they can't help but cry out in pain and shed tears.

Song Yi glanced at his watch, and regardless of the famous brand he was wearing, he sat next to me and sat on the ground, "When I'm about to graduate from Berkeley, the position I should apply for is quant in an investment bank based on my knowledge background. I don't want to be a quant, I want to enter the IBD department, but they usually only recruit MBA graduates, it is very difficult to get in with my knowledge background. So I thought of a way to find the person in charge of the MG department Name and address, write him a letter, introduce myself, and hope he can give me an internship opportunity in his department, but he has never replied to me. At that time, I probably read too much "Shawn's Redemption", so I insisted. Mail him a handwritten letter every day."

I was attracted by his story, and my anger gradually faded away, "Did he write you back?" "A year later, when I graduated, I was planning to go to another investment bank to be a Quant. He wrote to me and told me, 'I don't plan to give you an internship, but I plan to give you a job directly. I hope your Ability is like your perseverance.' I entered the industry I wanted to enter as I wished, but because of my violation of the rules, it caused many people to speculate, and the rumors spread very quickly with the help of some caring people." I smiled wryly, "Is your boss a woman? They say you have an affair with your boss?"

Song Yi rubbed his nose with his thumb, and my heart was touched gently. His little gesture remained unchanged. He smiled bitterly and said, "I hope! The actual situation is even worse. My boss is a German man. According to rumors I'm gay, and I just happen to prefer dark-haired, dark-eyed, tall guys, but I had a girlfriend who also worked on Wall Street, and everyone in the office knew about it, so I unfortunately became bisexual, and at the time No matter where I go, I always feel that someone is watching me." He spread his hands towards me and said with a bitter face, "Look! Your current situation is not the worst!"

I really want to sympathize with him, but this is so unbelievably funny, such rumors can only be produced in the eccentric society of the United States, so I hugged my knees, suppressed my voice and laughed wildly. He apologized, "I'm sorry! I didn't mean to, I just felt... felt..." Song Yi smiled and said: "That's right, no matter how bad things are, we have to face them. It's better to face them with a smile than to cry." He stood up and held out his hand to me, "It's time to go to work." .” I hesitated, then held my breath, and gently put my hand in his hand, he pulled me up from the ground, I lowered my head and said softly: "Thank you", his hand was as warm and dry as I imagined powerful.

The book in my hand has been ravaged by me, so I can only buy it.When I went to pay the bill, the salesperson wanted to smooth out the crumpled pages of the book for me. Just after I said "yes", I glanced at the two men and women leaning back to back on the screen, and hurriedly said, "No more!" I understand, but I pay and I talk, so I can only do as I tell you. After leaving the store, Song Yi and I walked side by side. He looked down at the comic book in my hand and asked, "Why are the pages folded?" I was embarrassed to answer, so I just said, "Guess, I'll tell you if you guess right." He didn't care about my word games, smiled and said: "Because I can't bear to break them up?" I looked at him in surprise, but he was staring into the distance, with a smile on his lips, but his expression was vague and sad. The moment before, he was still beside me, but the moment after, I felt that he was very far away from me. I wanted to ask several times: "Where is your girlfriend? What made you stay away from each other?" However, until we walked to the elevator, I didn't have the courage to ask. When we were walking towards the elevator, Lu Licheng came in from another door with a cup of coffee. He saw Song Yi and me walking side by side. He only smiled at Song Yi and said hello. I always felt that a sharp sword was pointed at the top of my head, so I slowed down and opened the distance between Song Yi and me. Thinking of the rumors that Song Yi heard just now, I didn't even dare to lift my head, and stood in the corner as much as possible. Keep your distance from both of them. The two of them were chatting and laughing. When they reached the seventeenth floor, the elevator door opened and they walked out together.When the elevator door closed and shut their backs, I immediately let out a long breath, but in just a short while, I felt so tense that my muscles all ached.