The drizzle of rain continued to hit the transparent glass window, and the crystal water droplets flowed down the smooth plate glass, forming a water curtain, blurring the sight of pedestrians on the street.
The decoration of the Starbucks store is simple, with dark brown walls and rows of brown wooden round tables. The old yellow ceiling lights emit soft light, creating a warm and comfortable atmosphere.
The boy and girl leaning against the window sat face to face on the red cloth sofa, each holding a cup of caramel latte in their hands, looking out at the busy street through the white mist from time to time.
On the way to send Su Xiaoqiang home after school, they visited shopping malls, entered Internet cafes, bought vanilla ice cream together, and pulled colorful cartoon balloons presented by merchants through high-end CBD office buildings.
From the school gate to the narrow alley to the bustling commercial street, they walked and stopped all the way. Finally, due to weather conditions, they were forced to enter this Starbucks coffee shop to take shelter from the rain.
"I'm really happy today, thank you for accompanying me home!"
The little goddess held up the celadon-glazed white porcelain cup, took a sweet sip of latte coffee with white milk foam drawn into a heart shape, and said happily.
The handsome boy sitting opposite looked at the rain outside the window and was obviously dazed. He didn't wake up until he heard the girl's words.
"I haven't been as happy as I am today for a long time. I walked aimlessly on the street, played freely and freely, and when I got tired, I sat in a coffee shop and listened to the sound of rain falling." The boy's sudden exclamation made the little goddess a little confused. At a loss, it was the first time she saw him like this.
The originally sunny and handsome boy next door now looked like a pitiful little beast with droopy ears, his eyes full of melancholy and sadness.
Perhaps at this moment, she was keenly aware that she seemed to have truly entered the boy's heart, and found that he seemed to have experienced a lot in his seventeen years of life.
"……,are you tired?"
Su Xiaoqiang didn't ask him the reason, but felt faintly sad for him. It turns out that behind everyone’s glamor, there are some unspeakable scars.
"Fortunately, after all, I have been here for so many years." The boy smiled, showing his neat white teeth.
He is not a hypocritical person. Even though he has had some painful memories, it does not prevent him from moving on.
He just didn't expect that he could not help but reveal his truest thoughts to the girl in front of him, as if a traveler who had been wandering alone for a long time finally met his companion.
In fact, the mixed blood sorrow has always been surrounding him. He has no friends of the same age, only subordinates who respect him like a god. Like Chu Zihang, he is a complete monster. The only difference may be that he is stronger, a hybrid monster, but he is also more lonely because of it.
Sometimes he even feels like an emotionless weapon, whose purpose of existence is to deter all hybrids that can pose a threat to orthodoxy, or the Dragon King.
Although there was always a faint smile on his face, he knew that it was just his disguise. What should your true self look like? He didn't want to admit it and couldn't believe it.
He seems to be affectionate, but is actually ruthless. This is the truest portrayal of him. How ridiculous.
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"Look here! One, two, three, smile!"
The moment the boy showed his white teeth, the girl quickly took out her iPhone from her black Dior bag, turned on the selfie function, turned her body to the boy, and pressed the camera button as fast as lightning.
In the photo, a beautiful girl wearing a purple lace dress straightened up and leaned slightly against the shoulders of the handsome boy next to her. Her black hair even fell in front of the boy.
Both of them raised their heads slightly and looked at the camera, with contagious smiles on their equally fair faces. The background is the dark brown closet and milky white counter behind you, making the picture warm and natural.
"No one can be happy all the time, but they in the photo can always be so happy for us, can't they?" Su Xiaoqiang looked at the photo with satisfaction and said in a brisk tone.
"Yeah." The boy nodded slightly.
The dark clouds outside the window were finally dispersed, and the crimson sunset shone through the clouds. The entire sky was painted with a fiery red color, which was really beautiful. The girl couldn't help but look a little crazy. It turned out that the sky after the rain was so beautiful, but she had never looked at it carefully.
This atmosphere did not last long.
The middle-aged man in a black windbreaker reached out and pushed open the glass door of Starbucks. The cold and stern temperament he carried was incompatible with the warm layout of the store. It was obvious that he was here to find someone.
"Master Long Yuan,..."
The man walked straight up to the boy, uttered a very awkward name, and then added the previous whisper to his slightly frowning expression.
"I know, wait for me."
After listening to the report of the visitor, the boy nodded slightly.
"The elders are here and need to say hello. I may have to go back early." Li Longyuan looked at the girl with a slight apology on his face. Last time he found Chu Zihang and left her halfway, but this time, he obviously had more complicated emotions in his heart.
This feeling is like seeing a poor homeless little girl standing on the roadside. The boy stepped forward and handed her a piece of hot food. While watching her gobble it up, he told her: "Stay here and wait for me." , I will be back to take you away in a while." Then the boy left, and the girl stood sensibly under the street lamp and waited and waited. From dark to dawn, the lights were on until they were out. After the food was finished, the weather became cold, but the girl There was no waiting for the boy to come back.
Li Longyuan shook his head to get rid of the messy thoughts in his mind. He glanced at Su Xiaoqiang, who was still scrolling through the photo with joy, and couldn't help but secretly sigh, silly girl.
"Uncle Liu, send my classmate home." Li Longyuan ordered the man beside him.
"Sir, Master Long Yuan, what should you do?" The man with a resolute face was obviously used to thinking about all problems with Li Long Yuan as the center.
"Do as I say!"
There was a rare sullenness in Li Longyuan's calm tone, as if he wanted to tell someone that this girl now held an extraordinary position in his heart.
"Yes." The man straightened his body subconsciously and respectfully accepted the order.
"Miss Su, please come with me." The man turned sideways, bent slightly, stretched out his right hand and pointed to the door, making the standard etiquette gesture of "please go forward" among waiters.
"Oh, okay, see you tomorrow!" Su Xiaoqiang nodded blankly, waved her white and tender hands to the boy, and then smiled, like an elf in a flower. At this moment, it seemed as if the heaven and earth had lost their color.
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Shengtang Group, Li's Heavy Industry
Since a large number of Chinese people responded to the policy and started doing business overseas in the 1980s, countless companies have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and Shengtang Group is one of the best.
The old principal of Shengtang Middle School started from scratch, single-handedly founded this enterprise group with huge wealth, and became a god-like figure in the industry.
At present, Shengtang has dozens of branches and subsidiaries, covering all fields of culture, commerce, finance, construction, manufacturing, and heavy industry, covering all aspects of the city's people's food, clothing, housing, and transportation.
However, it has always had a good reputation in the industry. It has never relied on its huge cash flow to suppress small and medium-sized enterprises, nor has it implemented an oligopoly in any industry field. It is even willing to invest and help companies with development prospects.
Among ordinary people, only some of the city's top celebrities vaguely know that the actual controller and chairman of this giant group is now the principal of the subordinate Shengtang Middle School.
They are trying every possible means to send their children to this school, and they may not have the idea of wanting their children to have some relationship with this business legend. Even just saying a name makes people look good, doesn't it?
As the headquarters of the Shengtang Group in this coastal city, Li's Heavy Industry was built in an extremely grand manner. This silver-white metal building has a total height of 617 meters and a total of 127 floors, 120 above ground and 7 underground.
Starting from the lobby on the first floor and going up to the 100th floor, you can see the headquarters established by the group's companies on almost every floor. They are all well-known businesses locally and even nationally.
Therefore, this building is also known as the "Dinghai Shenzhen" of this coastal city. As long as Shengtang Group does not collapse, the city's economic development will not fall into a financial stagnation crisis.
As for going further up, tourists are no longer allowed to enter, on the grounds that core business secrets are involved. Teams of security guards equipped with batons will patrol back and forth. The higher the level, the tighter the security. Even employees within the group with corresponding authority have to go through layers of checks.
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Countless pieces of tempered glass cover the entire surface of the building, like a steel behemoth covered with a crystal coat, reflecting a large area of dazzling light in the setting sun.
No one would notice the small black shadow hundreds of meters above the building. Even if they did, they would just think it was because they were dazzled or something fell from the sky.
Li Longyuan stepped directly on the glass curtain wall, and with a little help, his body shot up again like an arrow from a string.
He controlled every ounce of power exerted by the Eyes of the Word Spirit and Wind King just right, allowing him to do things beyond the cognitive scope of ordinary hybrids.
That is to climb to the top of the 617-meter-high vertical building without any protective measures. Even because of the need to maintain body balance, Li Yongyuan's hands were always behind his back, and the invisible updraft formed a storm to lift him up, like a scene rising during the day.
On the rooftop of Li's Heavy Industry, two old men with the same silver-white hair sat face to face on futons. In the middle was a set of Go and two chess pots. The chessboard was already filled with densely packed black and white chess pieces.
One of them, an old man with a clear face and a thin figure, is the contemporary head of the Li family, Li Chengqian.
He was now wearing a cloud-white robe with wide sleeves. His half-length white hair, which was originally loose, was tied into a bun with a black jade hairpin stuck in it, which made him look like a fairy.
He held Bai Zi at his fingertips, with a faint smile on his face, clearly knowing what he was doing.
The old white man opposite wore fashionable, narrow rimless glasses and a well-tailored black suit, just like an old British gentleman. It's just that his shoulders are slightly bulging, and he looks more like a hero who can move horses on his arms.
Li Longyuan's elegant figure jumped up from bottom to top, appeared on the rooftop, and landed quietly beside the two.
The moment he fell in the air, the old gentleman stood up excitedly and "accidentally" knocked over the chessboard in front of him. Black's disadvantage was instantly overturned. Li Chengqian, who was originally smiling, suddenly changed his expression when he saw this scene. He is a shameless person, especially shameless!
"This is the true king of the orthodox future, he is such a nice young man." The old man walked over quickly, greeted him in standard Chinese, and gave him a hearty hug before he could react.
"Meet Hilbert Jean Angers, President of the College of Cassel."
The old man looked at him and stretched out his hand, his blue eyes shining with wisdom, as if he wanted to see through his heart.
