A slight vibration.
The man's flawless face appeared in the video.
Although he was fully prepared, when he saw Xie Yin appearing on the other side of the screen, Xia Li's breathing slowed down involuntarily.
In the video, a man in a suit and leather tie stands in front of the floor-to-ceiling window on the top floor of a towering building with backlight.
The blurred light from the sun outside the window outlines the smooth lines of his side face, outlining his profile and casting a slender reflection behind the floor-to-ceiling windows.
Slender and handsome, calm and dignified.
The man's deep eyes seemed to contain a faint smile at the moment, and he was looking at the slightly flustered Xia Li on the other end of the phone.
Feeling a numb and itchy feeling on her legs, Xia Li lowered her eyes and glanced at Ye Ye who was nestling beside her legs, raised her eyes to look at the eyes of the man on the other end of the video, and spoke cautiously:
"Thank you, sir."
The man at the other end of the video said calmly: "Well, where is Ye Ye?"
No other emotion could be heard in the low and calm voice. Xia Li quickly turned the camera to focus on Ye Ye, who was lying on the floor and biting the slippers on her feet.
"Yeye is here."
The girl's soft and flustered voice came from the other end of the video.
Xie Yin couldn't help but raise his eyebrows slightly.
Does he look scary? Why does Xia Li seem so nervous every time he sees her?
Xie Yin couldn't help but recall the interactions between himself and Xia Li in his mind.
There doesn't seem to be anything wrong.
Following the man's words, Xia Li's attention fell on Ye Ye who was having fun playing with her slippers, and did not catch the slight change in Xie Yin's facial expression.
When I turned the camera just now, for a moment it was directly illuminated on her thin white legs.
The temperature outside was very high today. Xia Li casually picked a knee-length skirt from the wardrobe and rushed to school.
After coming back, I was too anxious to answer Xie Yin's call that I didn't have time to change into home clothes.
When the camera was turned, those thin white legs appeared in the man's field of vision unprepared.
Even though this shot only lasted a few seconds, it was still keenly captured by the unpredictable man at the end of the video.
Xie Yin's Adam's apple rolled up and down twice, and his deep gaze seemed to be casually looking at the Samoyed holding the girl's slippers in the video.
"Coconut."
The man's low-pitched voice came from the mobile phone and when it rang in the quiet living room, even Xia Li's heart skipped a beat.
Fortunately, the camera is facing Coconut.
Xia Li, who was hiding behind the camera, secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Hearing his master's voice, Yeye couldn't wait to put down Xia Li's slippers and raised his head to look at the man in the video.
The next second, Yeye came to the screen wagging her tail and barked "woof" twice excitedly, as if she recognized her master.
Perhaps because she was too excited, Yeye kept rubbing the phone in Xia Li's hand. Xia Li couldn't hold it firmly and accidentally dropped the phone on the floor.
Xia Li quickly picked up the phone, took a picture of the screen and continued to point the lens at Ye Ye.
Xie Yin's voice came from the phone softly: "Did you drop your phone?"
Xia Li hummed, as if he was afraid that Xie Yin would blame Ye Ye, and explained:
"I wasn't sure about it just now."
The man on the phone responded in a low voice.
Xie Yin looked at the snow-white Samoyed on the screen, and was about to ask the girl to turn the camera to face him, but by chance, a clear doorbell sounded from the other end of the phone.
Xia Li turned to look at the entrance, then turned back and took the napkin box from the coffee table, put her mobile phone on the table, and then stood up from the sofa with confidence and walked to the door in her slippers.
Ye Ye's round little head suddenly appeared in the camera lens, looking curiously at the owner who appeared on the screen.
Maybe Yeye was also curious as to why his master suddenly appeared on the small screen.
Xie Yin, who was at the other end of the video, looked at the silly Ye Ye and said nothing.
Xia Li walked to the door in slippers. When she opened the door and saw Chu Wang standing in front of her house, she was stunned for a moment.
There was surprise and confusion in his tone:
"Brother Chu Wang?"
"How did you come?"
Chu Wang caught the surprise flashing in the girl's eyes and handed the earrings in his hand to Xia Li.
"When I just sent Shishi home, I found your earrings missing in the car."
He paused and continued to explain:
"My company happens to be nearby, so I asked Shishi for your home address."
Xia Li took the earring from Chu Wang's hand.
In fact, these earrings were not expensive items. She just bought them because they looked good when she went to the two-dollar store with her roommate.
It's not expensive and she doesn't wear it often.
I just happened to wear it out on a whim today.
"Thank you, Brother Chu Wang."
Out of politeness, Xia Li looked at Chu Wang standing at the door and said:
"Would you like to come in and sit for a while?"
With that said, Xia Li turned sideways to make way for the man to step into the door.
"No need," Chu Wang glanced at the time, with a gentle smile on his face, "The company still has urgent matters, I have to go back to the company first."
In the living room, Yeye was still curiously rubbing the screen of her phone with the tip of her nose, and accidentally pushed the phone that was placed on the napkin box.
The camera is pointed directly at the ceiling.
The phone could faintly hear the girl's exchange at the door. The sound was not loud but clear.
Xie Yin frowned slightly, walked to the desk with his mobile phone and sat down, slowly picked up the teacup on the table and took a sip.
Xia Li closed the door and returned to the living room, picking up the mobile phone that was already "lying" on the table.
"Sorry, Mr. Xie."
"It's okay," the man's frown eased slightly, and he tried to say pretending not to care, "Did an acquaintance look for you just now?"
Xia Li hummed and placed the earrings in her palm on the coffee table:
"A brother who used to live next door, I accidentally dropped my earrings on his car just now, and he gave them to me."
It’s okay if this doesn’t explain it.
As soon as he explained, Xie Yin's eyebrows, which had calmed down a bit, frowned again.
My former neighbor's brother.
I accidentally dropped my earrings on his car just now.
These words were particularly harsh in Xie Yin's ears.
The man's low voice slowly reached Xia Li's ears through the phone receiver:
"Childhood sweetheart?"
"Huh? Why does Mr. Xie ask this?" Xia Li asked doubtfully.
Xie Yin was stunned for a moment and realized that he had indeed crossed the line.
He raised his hand to his thin lips and coughed lightly:
"nothing."
After hanging up the phone, Xie Yin quietly sat on the chair in front of his desk.
Lowering his deep eyes, his gaze fell on the chat interface between the two.
The man's fingertips placed casually on his legs tapped the trousers of excellent fabric twice.
After a long time, he closed the phone screen and his eyes accidentally fell on the watch that he had taken off and placed in front of the computer.
The watch lay quietly on the table, and the sunlight shining in from the floor-to-ceiling window shone on it, giving off a tiny glow.
The next second, he reached for the cigarette case that was placed on the table, and took out a slender cigarette from the cigarette case with his fingertips shining brightly under the light.
He held the cigarette butt with his fingertips, tapped it gently on the cigarette case twice, and then slowly handed it to his thin lips.
The metal cigarette lighter held in the other hand was carelessly turned by the man in a circle on his long and beautiful fingertips, before he held it to the end of his eye and lit the cigarette.
Soon, the man's expression became blurred in the swirling smoke.
-
Xia Li never thought that something would happen to her graduation exhibition that she had carefully prepared for so long, one day before the exhibition started.
The day before the graduation exhibition, Xia Li took Ye Ye for a walk in the community as usual, then washed up and went to school.
When I stepped into the exhibition hall, everything was normal.
But when she came to her booth, she saw that her work had been vandalized.
The carefully drawn pattern was splashed with black ink, and the rest of the materials were destroyed in a mess.
Xia Li even doubted her eyes for a while, but when she confirmed several times before confirming that her exhibits had been damaged, she felt anxious and angry.
It was less than twenty-four hours before the graduation exhibition started, and it was completely impossible for her to rearrange all the exhibits in these twenty-four hours.
Xia Li spent nearly half a month drawing just those few patterns splashed with black ink.
But now, all the efforts of the past few months were in vain overnight.
The tears in Xia Li's eyes were almost falling. She raised her hand to wipe away the tears from the corners of her eyes, trying to calm down the irritability and anxiety in her heart.
She took a long breath and calmly thought about how to find the person who deliberately destroyed her exhibits.
The first thing Xia Li thought of was surveillance.
She found the monitoring room and explained the situation simply and clearly to the teacher in the monitoring room.
The teacher in the monitoring room took her to the screen, and according to Xia Li's request, she retrieved the monitoring in the exhibition hall from yesterday to this morning.
But unexpectedly, we discovered that the surveillance system in the exhibition hall had been in a "no signal" state since yesterday afternoon.
The teacher in the monitoring room called other monitors in the temporary exhibition hall:
"Strange, why is this monitor the only one with no signal?"
Xia Li frowned. All the monitors in the exhibition hall could be used normally except the one facing him which was in "no signal" state.
This was obviously the work of the man who deliberately vandalized his own exhibit.
In order not to be discovered.
Now the only way to find evidence has been cut off.
Xia Li walked out of the monitoring room in a state of confusion. She stared down at her toes, her mind in chaos.
At this moment, she didn't know whether she should feel pity for the exhibits she had worked so hard for, or whether she should feel sad and desperate.
Xia Li squatted under the shade of a tree not far from the entrance of the exhibition hall, holding a mobile phone to send a message to Chu Shishi.
Chu Shishi: [Who is so wicked? That's too much. 】
A Xiaoli: [I don’t know either, the surveillance system is broken and I can’t find it. 】
Chu Shishi: [Li Li, think about it carefully, have you ever offended anyone? 】
Looking at the message that popped up on the screen, Xia Li frowned and briefly recalled it.
She is almost a transparent person in the class and rarely interacts with her classmates.
On weekdays, she only spends time with Chu Shi Shi Ni.
To offend people...
Suddenly, Xia Li seemed to have thought of something.
But the next second, she lowered her head in despair.
She didn't have any evidence in her hand, so it would definitely not work to confront others with empty talk.
But......
Where should she find evidence...
Xia Li sighed and stood up from the ground. Just as he was about to return to the exhibition hall, his eyes fell on Neil, who was walking towards the exhibition hall not far away.
She frowned and slowly shifted her gaze from Neil to the man in her arms.
The moment she recognized the man, Xia Li almost widened her eyes.
She never expected that her mentor would have an affair with Neil.
At this moment, the two people not far away walked into the exhibition hall intimately, but Xia Li had not yet recovered from the afterglow of surprise.
Memories from before came flooding back.
Everything seems to be reasonably explained.
Why would the tutor give the best position in the middle to Neil who has the lowest score?
It turns out the answer is this.
