LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 45: Chapter 45: New Journey and Farewell Thoughts
After parting with Le Yao, Su Ran returned to the attic. Pushing open the door, he saw Robben sitting on the rooftop, holding a guitar in his arms, but not playing it. Beer cans were scattered around him, and he exuded a decadent atmosphere.
Su Ran handed him a cigarette, then jumped onto the guardrail, lit the cigarette, and listened to the dripping sound of rain on the awning, like a sad hum, spreading in the dark night, as if waiting for the dawn.
"Why are you so depressed again?" Su Ran asked with a smile.
Robben tore open a can of beer and handed it to Su Ran, as if their nights were only accompanied by cigarettes and alcohol. He replied: "It's like this every day."
"Then you continue to be depressed, I have to work hard to be a positive person." Su Ran said.
"Really? Don't just talk about it and give up halfway." Robben teased.
Su Ran didn't care and smiled and retorted: "You can take action and persist." After a pause, he said solemnly: "It's been more than three years since graduation, but I still haven't achieved anything. Seeing my former classmates and friends busy starting a family, I can't help feeling a little empty."
Robben nodded, without saying a word, just threw away the empty beer can in his hand and took a deep puff of cigarette.
Su Ran stood up from the guardrail and shouted loudly to the huge city shrouded in the night under his feet: "I don't want to be so muddleheaded anymore! I want to work hard, buy a house, marry a beautiful girl, go home every day with someone to accompany me, and no longer be lonely!"
Robben suddenly strummed the guitar, and a song "Don't Be Silly" came out of his mouth. Su Ran realized that Robben was really mean.
The next day, Su Ran came to the company early. At the same time, Le Yao also arrived at the company and met with a manager in charge of the market of GI. When the manager first met Le Yao, he was impressed by her image and temperament, saying that she was very compatible with CUCCI's product positioning. Su Ran had no doubt about this. Although Le Yao was careless in front of her friends, she was elegant and fashionable when she was working, and she also had a unique beauty of mixed blood. GI chose Le Yao to shoot the promotional posters, of course, considering the sincerity of the department store cooperation, but mainly because of her own image and the high degree of compatibility with the brand, which also demonstrated the rigor and prudence of international first-line brands in marketing and publicity.
During the period when Le Yao was shooting the promotional posters for GI, the vice president of GI in China signed a contract with the department store to set up counters on site as agreed. The signing ceremony was grand and many media came. The company took this opportunity to officially announce to the outside world: Baoli Department Store has strongly joined the ranks of top department stores.
The fanfare of the signing ceremony was actually to warm up the whole marketing activities that Su Ran was responsible for. The first real challenge in Su Ran's life was officially kicked off with GI's entry into the department store.
That night, the company hosted a banquet for GI's vice president and entourage in China. Su Ran, as one of the heroes, was invited, which surprised him. After all, he had worked at the grassroots level of the company for two years and had little communication with the senior management, let alone dinner.
At the banquet, Chen Jingming praised Su Ran in front of the company's senior management. At the end of the banquet, Li Junren, the executive vice president of Baoli Department Store, came to Su Ran in person, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Young man, I will remember you."
Su Ran knew that this was just the beginning. If he wanted to get the real attention of the company's senior management, he must seize this rare opportunity and go all out to do a good job in marketing activities to create value for the company.
After leaving the celebration banquet, Su Ran went to find Le Yao. After completing the GI shooting task, she will leave Suzhou tomorrow and return to Hengdian to continue to fight for her acting career.
They sat beside a section of railroad tracks, which extended along the wind in the dark night. It seemed free and unrestrained, but Su Ran understood that perhaps the next city would be its end.
A green train, which is now rarely seen, carrying a group of lonely people, sped past them, leaving only some light and traces.
Le Yao was wearing thick clothes and sitting next to Su Ran. The two kept a certain distance between them, which made their relationship closer to friends.
Su Ran wrapped his clothes, lit a cigarette, and said to Le Yao: "Go back to the crew, don't let anyone bully you again."
Le Yao hugged his knees with his hands, looked at another passing train with a dazed look, and nodded for a long time before responding: "Well, you have to work hard too."
"Well, actually I am full of guilt in my heart, because of me, you have suffered so much injustice. When I tossed and turned in the past few nights, I always thought about teaching that actress a lesson." Su Ran said.
Le Yao smiled: "Don't be childish, I don't want to mention this matter anymore."
"What are you thinking about?" Su Ran asked.
"I don't think about anything. Thinking too much will only increase troubles." Le Yao replied.
Although Su Ran agreed with her words, he didn't know if she could really do it. At least he was often troubled by his thoughts, and the more he thought about it, the more painful it became.
The two were silent for a long time, and Su Ran took out an envelope from the bag beside him and handed it to Le Yao: "This is your remuneration this time, a total of 10,000, please click it."
"Why so much?" Le Yao asked in surprise.
"The manager said that as long as you can take time to participate in the filming, he is willing to pay three times the remuneration. Take it, this is what you deserve." Su Ran said, pushing the envelope into Le Yao's hand.
Le Yao took the envelope and put it in her handbag. After that, they remained silent until they left, and witnessed many trains whizzing by.
On the way back, it was just past ten o'clock. Although he stayed by the railway for a short time, Su Ran's heart seemed to drift far away with the train and it was difficult to retrieve it.
When he returned to his residence, he found that Robben did not go to the bar tonight. Just as Su Ran was about to open the door, a woman's panting sound came from the house. It might be Lily from last time, or another woman.
Su Ran felt that it was inconvenient to disturb her, but he had nowhere to go. He sat downstairs for a while and suddenly remembered that he had promised Xu Tianna to clean up the dead cockroaches a few days ago. Now he might as well go and deal with it.
He called Xu Tianna, who told him that she was still living in Liu'an Jingyuan because she had been waiting for him to solve the cockroach problem in the old house.
Su Ran said that he had time to deal with it at the moment, and Xu Tianna immediately responded that she was also free, so the two of them rushed to the old house from different directions of the city at the same time. Su Ran was somewhat resistant to dealing with the cockroaches, but he also had a little expectation of meeting Xu Tianna again. He didn't know what kind of story would happen when they met this time, and his balance and choice between work and emotions would continue to test him in subsequent experiences.