LIGHTNOVELWORLD Chapter 4: Conflict and helplessness during a chaotic weekend
It was almost two o'clock when Su Ran returned to his original residence. After paying the taxi fare, he walked towards his own building. He was not in a hurry. After all, it was the weekend, and it didn't seem to matter if he was late. It was just that the 4,016 yuan owed to Xu Tianna really gave him a headache. Even if he sold himself at this moment, he couldn't raise so much money in a short time.
When he came downstairs, Su Ran was stunned, and then his chest hurt with anger. He saw that his luggage was thrown into the corridor of the building. Many of the luggage that couldn't be put down were still soaked by the rain. Among them was a pair of black leather shoes that Jian Wei gave him a long time ago. The leather shoes carried the memories of the past, but now they looked particularly embarrassed in the rain.
Su Ran was furious. He threw away the umbrella, took out the key from his pocket, and ran upstairs with a "thump thump thump".
After unlocking the door with the key, he kicked the door open and stood in the living room and shouted angrily: "Stinky woman, get out of here!"
He shouted three times in a row, but no one responded. Su Ran kicked open the door of the room where Xu Tianna lived, but found that the room was empty and there was no one.
Looking at the clean room and his wet luggage in the rain outside, Su Ran's anger burned even more fiercely. He raised his hand and threw the quilt on the bed to the ground, but he still felt unsatisfied, so he overturned the Simmons mattress. For a while, pillows and blankets were scattered all over the floor, and the originally tidy room instantly became a mess.
After venting, Su Ran stood in Xu Tianna's room, lit a cigarette, and tried to calm his anger.
Just then, Xu Tianna appeared outside the door at some point, holding a mop in one hand and a convenient bag full of daily necessities in the other hand. It seemed that she had just gone to the supermarket.
She glared at Su Ran with a face full of anger. Seeing this, Su Ran stepped forward and grabbed her clothes on her chest and pulled her into the room with force. The force was so strong that the bag and mop in her hand fell to the ground, and the things inside were scattered all over the floor. The room, which was just a little messy, became completely messy.
Su Ran dragged her to the window, opened the window, pointed at the luggage soaked in the rain, and roared: "Are you sick? Why did you throw my luggage in the rain?"
Xu Tianna struggled to break free from him and said coldly: "You didn't come on time at all, so I asked someone to help you move out. What's the problem?"
"I was delayed by other things. What's wrong with coming a little later?"
"It's the time I promised, and that's the most basic thing." Xu Tianna did not give in, with determination in her eyes.
"You are simply unreasonable!" Su Ran became more and more angry, and raised his hand as if to slap her.
I thought she would subconsciously avoid or close her eyes, but I didn't expect Xu Tianna to still look at him coldly without blinking.
Su Ran slowly put down his hand, squinted his eyes and said to her: "Move the things up intact, and I will pretend that this never happened."
"I won't go." There were faint tears in Xu Tianna's beautiful eyes, but her tone was still firm.
"You're not going, right?" As soon as Su Ran finished speaking, he threw the quilts and blankets on the ground out of the window with the pleasure of venting and revenge.
In the wind and rain, those quilts and blankets fluttered, looking so helpless, as if they were old scars that were ruthlessly opened. Su Ran looked at them and couldn't help but lose his mind, and regret surged in his heart. He realized that he shouldn't be so impulsive and shouldn't treat this stubborn woman in front of him like this. Perhaps it was the pair of black leather shoes soaked in the rain that stimulated him, causing his heart to ache. In the scene of the black leather shoes wet by the rain, he seemed to see the love between himself and Jian Wei that had long disappeared, a past that could never be returned to.
The quilt and blanket finally fell to the ground, Su Ran felt a little weak in his heart, and said to Xu Tianna: "Now we are even."
As soon as he finished speaking, tears slid down Xu Tianna's fair cheeks. She bit her lips and looked at Su Ran without saying a word.
Looking at the mess in the room, Su Ran was instantly filled with guilt, but he still said to Xu Tianna with his neck stiff: "I know you look down on me and think I am poor and useless, but this is not a reason for you to disrespect me and my luggage. You are a woman, today I will show my gentlemanly manners and throw away only your quilt and blanket, but next time it may be different, you'd better not mess with me again."
After that, Su Ran took out the bank card that Xu Tianna gave him yesterday from his wallet, put it on the table, and said: "I withdrew a total of 4,016 yuan from the card. Now I have no money to pay you back, but don't worry, I will definitely find a way to pay you back as soon as possible."
Xu Tianna had tears in her eyes and said angrily: "Asshole, all of you are dishonest!"
Su Ran looked at her in surprise, with mixed feelings in his heart, and said after a while: "I will leave, and I will definitely pay you back the money I owe you. Although I did not fulfill my promise on time, I did not deliberately break my promise."
Xu Tianna did not respond to him, but still looked at him resentfully.
Su Ran turned and left. He didn't know if Xu Tianna was still crying, but he knew that it must be uncomfortable to stay in the messy house he had made.
But he also understood that, as Xu Tianna scolded him, his behavior at this moment was indeed like a scumbag, just like the "beast" Lin Yue said, unable to control his emotions, acting recklessly, and completely disregarding the consequences.
Su Ran stopped a taxi and moved his luggage to a roadside pavilion that could shelter from the rain. At this moment, he was a little confused and didn't know where to stay. The money left on him was not enough to rent a house, and staying in a hotel was only a stopgap measure, not a long-term solution. And Lu Chen, the only person he was willing to borrow money from on weekdays, was angry because he didn't listen to his advice yesterday, and he didn't want to contact him for the time being.
Over the years, Su Ran has always regarded Lu Chen as a close friend, and never hid anything embarrassing or destitute from him, but now, it seems that there is no way to ask him for help.
Su Ran felt as if he had been abandoned by the world all of a sudden. He sat on a stone bench in the pavilion, lit a cigarette, and looked at the vehicles coming and going, and couldn't help but feel a little absent-minded.
He felt that his life shouldn't be like this, but in the past two years in this city, he was like those lonely high-rise buildings, living helplessly and confusedly. The source of all this was the woman he couldn't let go of. He knew that there was no possibility with her anymore, but he was still stubbornly trapped in the tenderness of the past and couldn't get out of it.
The cold wind was blowing, and Su Ran felt a little cold, so he took out a scarf from the woven bag and tied it around himself, at least blocking some of the cold wind that was pouring into his chest.
For more than an hour, Su Ran sat in the pavilion, repeatedly daydreaming and smoking, as if he was trapped in a cycle that he couldn't get out of. It wasn't until the sky gradually darkened that he really felt a desire to be saved from the bottom of his heart.
At this moment, the phone suddenly rang, which scared Su Ran. He wiped his face, took out his phone from his pocket and saw that it was from Bandie.
Bandie is Su Ran's father. He is old-fashioned and dull. He has worked in the purchasing department of a small and medium-sized state-owned enterprise for fifteen years. When he first joined, he was the deputy section chief. As a result, after so many years, he has not removed the word "deputy". What's more amazing is that the purchasing department is a department that is easy to make money and take kickbacks, but he has never accepted a gift or a kickback in the past fifteen years. His uprightness makes his colleagues privately call him "Banke". When Su Ran was seventeen years old, he also changed his name to "Bandie" to keep up with the times, but Bandie always thought that Su Ran was calling "my father".
When Su Ran answered the phone, she heard the rigid and emotionless voice of her father: "Su Ran, I will be in Suzhou soon. I will attend an exhibition tomorrow morning and stay at your place tonight."
Su Ran immediately felt miserable. This weekend was really unlucky. What she feared came true. No matter what she said, she could not let her father know that she was now penniless and homeless. Although her father was old-fashioned, he was no joke once he got angry.
Su Ran's mind raced, and she said, "Dad, find a hotel near the station. I'm going out to dinner with my colleagues tonight, and I won't be back for a while."
"Eat your food, you've always left your key under the door frame, I can get in."
"There are so many thieves recently, I didn't leave it there."
Dad was adamant, "Then wait for you, don't play around after dinner, come back early."
"Dad, you've been on the bus for half a day, you must be exhausted, it's so convenient for you to find a hotel nearby, you're reluctant to take a taxi when you come to my place, and it's rush hour now, the bus is crowded, your arms and legs can't stand it."
Su Ran tried to persuade him, but Dad was unmoved, and finally said, "Your mother knitted a sweater for you, I'll send it to you."
After that, there was a "beep" hang-up sound from the phone.
Su Ran was stunned for a moment, but quickly reacted. He immediately picked up the luggage bag and dragged the suitcase to the roadside, looking around while running, anxiously waiting for a taxi. Tonight, whether Xu Tianna was willing or not, he had to move back to the house that now belonged to her. If his father knew his current situation, he would be furious.