My Perfect Enemy is Finally Broke Novel - Chap 88
Chapter 88
Ji Ran held the steering wheel and listened to the ringtone of the cell phone beside him.
At seven o’clock in the evening, there was a traffic jam in the city. He waited at the red light twice and failed to pass.
When his cell phone rang, he glanced at it and picked it up.
”Why are you leaving?” Qin Man asked.
”I am busy.”
Sensing something wrong in his tone, Qin Man said, “Where are you? I’ll go find you.”
Ji Ran took a deep breath without leaving any trace.
He hasn’t seen the document, and he hasn’t asked about the matter clearly yet. He can’t draw any conclusions now.
”No need.” The indicator light turned green and Ji Ran said, “Drive, hang up.”
Ji Ran drove very slowly this time, moving slowly along the street at a pace of forty miles.
In order to avoid Chen An, Cheng Peng recently lived in a house near the company. Ji Ran parked the car in the parking lot and went straight upstairs.
”Here we come.” Cheng Peng opened the door and looked him up and down, “Where did you come from? It’s been so long.”
”Traffic jam.” Ji Ran said concisely.
There are two documents placed on the glass table in the living room.
”These are what I can confirm so far.” Cheng Peng said, “There must be others that have not been found. Take a look.”
Ji Ran sat on the sofa and flipped through two pages.
Cheng Peng was looking at him from the opposite side. Seeing that his face was calm, Cheng Peng was a little surprised.
Ten minutes later, Ji Ran closed the file.
Then he asked the person in front of him: “Is there any water? I’m thirsty.”
Cheng Peng said: “Yes, what would you like to drink?”
”It’s free.” Ji Ran paused and then asked, “Do you have any wine?”
”Yes, but only beer.” Cheng Peng said understandingly, “If you want to drink red wine, I will have it delivered from the wine cellar.”
”Just beer.”
A few minutes later, the sound of beer being opened could be heard in the living room.
Ji Ran held the can of beer, leaned back, crossed his legs, and looked casual, as if he had returned to the way he had been a few months ago.
”Do you have any cigarettes?” He took two sips and asked again.
”Didn’t you say you should quit smoking?” Cheng Peng said.
”Don’t mention it.”
He felt like an idiot for mentioning it.
Cheng Peng handed him a cigarette. Ji Ran bent down, took it in his mouth, lit it, and took a long sip.
It was a long-lost taste, and he even felt a little choked because he hadn’t touched it for so long.
Cheng Peng looked at him silently, and after a while he asked, “What are you going to do?”
Ji Ran exhaled a puff of smoke: “I don’t know.”
He really doesn’t know.
”You look very calm.” Cheng Peng praised, “You are right, you are indeed better than me in this aspect.”
Ji Ran was silent, there was nothing to be proud of in such nonsense.
To be honest, after learning about this, he was not too surprised, but felt inexplicably relieved.
After all, he never thought that Qin Man would fall in love with him in the first place.
”Why do you think he pretended to be bankrupt?” Cheng Peng then lit one and asked.
Why else. Ji Ran thought coldly.
I want to see him act like an idiot and give him money, and like an idiot like him.
Keep him in the dark the whole time and wait until the end to give him the fatal blow.
”But I don’t think it’s necessary for him to go to such trouble.” Cheng Peng saw his thoughts, “Do you think it could be…”
”Ninety-nine percent or one percent, which side do you want me to choose?” Ji Ran interrupted him and laughed to himself.
His love affair with Qin Man was just a game.
I bet Qin Man didn’t lie to him, bet he would have great luck, and he really made such a proud man bow his head to him.
He knew from the beginning that his chances of winning were too slim. In the past, Ji Ran would never have gambled.
But after getting along with him for several months, he realized that his chips had been thrown on the gambling table long ago, and there was no trace left. The bet would not be refunded, so he had no choice but to gamble.
In fact, if you think about it carefully, there is something about him that makes people like him.
He picks fights with Qin Man every day, and when they meet he is either sarcastic or sarcastic. They have been incompatible with each other for so many years…unless Qin Man is a masochist.
”Then what if he really likes you.” Cheng Peng thought for a while, “Or is he suffering from Stockholm syndrome?”
”Come on, you don’t know how to comfort people, so just keep your mouth shut and drink with me.” Ji Ran clinked glasses with him, “I’m really fine.”
”I’ve been prepared for a long time, don’t worry about me.”
After finishing a glass of wine, Ji Ran’s cell phone rang again.
He glanced at the caller ID, hung up and turned off the phone.
Then he raised his glass and touched Cheng Peng’s again: “Do you have many rooms here?”
”Yes, feel free to drink.”
Ji Ran’s drinking capacity is actually not that good, he can’t even drink as much as Yue Wenwen.
However, he was very good at shaking dice and punching, and he didn’t drink much alcohol during a game. If you think about it carefully, he really didn’t get drunk very often.
When he opened the sixth can of beer, Cheng Peng couldn’t help but stretched out his hand to stop him: “Stop drinking.”
”fine.”
Ji Ran took a sullen breath.
His cheeks were already stained pink, and his lips were shiny.
After drinking half a glass, he suddenly remembered something: “Is my phone turned off?”
He groped around but couldn’t find his phone. Cheng Peng hurriedly said: “It’s closed, it was closed just now.”
”you sure?”
”OK.” Cheng Peng was helpless.
Ji Ran said, relieved.
He didn’t turn off the phone because he was afraid that he would make a fool of himself and call Qin Man when he was drunk.
Then asked him what he wanted to do and if he was kidding him.
Like a hysterical clown.
To be honest, he wanted to ask now.
Not asking why he lied to himself.
I just want to ask him whether one or two of the beautiful words he said before are true.
Cheng Peng wanted to comfort him, but didn’t know where to start.
In fact, in his opinion, Ji Ran was very calm now, with almost no other abnormalities except for being a little drunk on his face.
Cheng Peng was fortunate that he didn’t have much wine in the refrigerator.
After Ji Ran drank the wine, he didn’t act crazy or ask him to buy more bottles. He just said that he was tired and wanted to go back to the room to rest.
”Can you stand firm?” Cheng Peng stood up.
Ji Ran gave it a try.
Then he laughed and said, “Maybe I need a little help.”
You can still laugh, it must be nothing happened. Cheng Peng helped him up, carried him into the guest room, adjusted the air conditioner temperature, and covered him with two layers of quilts before turning around and leaving the room.
Looking at the empty jars on the ground, Cheng Peng sighed.
He had no intention of packing his things, and wanted to wait until the cleaning lady came tomorrow. Just as he was about to go back to the room, he glanced out of the corner of his eye and saw a mobile phone on the sofa. It belonged to Ji Ran.
Afraid of falling into the cracks of the sofa, he picked it up and put it on the table when the ringtone of an incoming phone call rang through the living room.
Ji Ran had already turned off his phone, and what was ringing was his cell phone.
He glanced at the unfamiliar phone number, turned around and walked out of the balcony.
”Which one?”
”Excuse me, it’s me.” Qin Man sat on the sofa, staring at the black TV screen, “Do you know where Ji Ran is?”
”Do you have a problem with him?”
”Is he at your place?” Qin Man stood up, picked up the coat hanging on the sofa, and said decisively, “I’ll pick him up now.”
”No need to come over.” Cheng Peng looked at the night scene and said, “He probably doesn’t really want to see you right now.”
Qin Man paused, and the hand holding his clothes dropped to his side: “What do you mean?”
Cheng Peng answered the question: “Congratulations in advance. Those pieces of land in Wangxing should be able to be sold at a good price within the next two years.”
There was silence on the other end of the phone.
After a long while, Qin Man asked: “Where are you now?”
”Don’t keep asking questions that don’t have answers.” Cheng Peng lit a cigarette, “Qin Man. I know you and Ji Ran had conflicts when they were in school. If you don’t accept him, there are many ways. Ji Ran can do it alone. Bo, I can’t defeat you, you really don’t need to use such time-consuming and laborious means.”
”I didn’t.” Qin Man rubbed his eyebrows and forced himself to calm down, “You also said that I don’t need to… Is he with you now?”
He had been calling Ji Ran just now but no one answered. He thought Gu Cheng or someone else had done something, and he was very worried.
”exist.”
”I’ll take him home.”
”No, for now, it seems that you don’t need to worry about his affairs anymore.” Cheng Peng said lightly, “You still have to think about how to explain to him, so that it won’t be too ugly when you break up.”
Qin Man’s tone became even cooler: “We will not break up.”
Cheng Peng laughed, but the meaning was unclear: “Is there anything else?”
”……What is he doing?”
”sleep.”
The wind outside the balcony was too strong. Cheng Peng felt a little cold and turned back to the living room. Unexpectedly, I bumped into a few empty cans on the road, making a clanging sound.
Qin Man heard this voice and asked, “Has he been drinking?”
”I was bored so I had two drinks.”
Judging from the sound, I’m afraid it wasn’t enough for two or three cups.
Qin Man was silent: “Are you drunk?”
Cheng Peng frowned and couldn’t help but ask: “How much he drank, does it matter to you whether he is drunk or not?”
Qin Man is so old that almost no one talks to him in this tone. If it had been other people doing other things, he would have hung up the phone long ago.
He looked at the empty living room, threw his coat back on the sofa, and sat back: “…He gets drunk easily, so warm up some milk for him and don’t let him touch the water. He didn’t eat much for dinner, so he almost drank on an empty stomach. , you put stomach medicine and water on his bedside, so that he can deal with it if he wakes up in the middle of the night.”
After saying that, he paused and said, “Thank you.”
”…He is my friend. I do things for him. I don’t need your thanks.” Cheng Peng was silent for a while and said.
”Trouble.” Qin Man repeated.
Cheng Peng was silent for a long time, so long that Qin Man thought the call had been hung up.
”Ji Ran was poisoned when he was a child, do you know?”
Qin Man was startled and held the phone a little harder.
”After his mother passed away, the nanny who was closest to him drugged him. He had to wash his stomach many times before it was clean.”
Cheng Peng said slowly, “His father, who has the deepest blood relationship with him, ignored him, and the teacher who had the most guiding role in his growth turned a blind eye to him. Even Cheng Peng and I finally reached the level with him after many years of contact with him. That relationship today.”
”But because of those things, his sense of security was almost zero.”
”So he has very few friends and has drawn clear boundaries with his relatives. But such a person is willing to fall in love with someone he has been enemies with since childhood…”
Speaking of this, Cheng Peng sighed inaudibly.
”…He is really trying hard to believe in you.”
After hanging up the phone, Qin Man sat on the sofa and didn’t move for a long time.
It wasn’t until he felt pain in his palm that he came back to his senses. When he looked down, he found a red mark on his palm pressed by his nails.
He couldn’t help it and called Ji Ran again.
The female voice was cold, like a basin of cold water pouring into his ears.
He called Liu Chen and asked him to check the house under Cheng Peng’s name. It didn’t take long for a reply to come.
The phone was almost out of battery and could not be taken out of the house. Qin Man got up and went to the study. He opened the drawer and looked for paper and pen to write down the address.
But I saw a piece of printing paper in the drawer, with the words “Budget” written on the top of the paper.
Twelve million for office space in three years.
Two million for decoration.
There are four company cars totaling 2 million.
Employee salary is 4 million (tentatively subject to change).
…
Although it wasn’t clearly written on it, Qin Man knew what it was. Many of the figures are inaccurate, and it can be seen that the person who compiled this table did not understand this aspect of the matter.
Ji Ran has no interest in starting a company, so this form… was made by him for someone else.
Who this other person is is self-evident.
Further down, there is a car sales contract. Qin Man hurriedly read a few lines, only to feel as if someone was holding his chest, throbbing and painful.
Cheng Peng was right, Ji Ran really tried hard to believe in him.
I also work very hard…I want to be nice to him.
This feeling is frank, warm, unreserved, and extremely pure.
Qin Man was holding this hot contract, his thoughts were disordered, and for the first time in his life, he was confused and at a loss.
