she's not at ease

As night fell, the entire capital ushered in more turbulent excitement than during the day.

People come and go on the spacious commercial street, and the advertising light boards of various colors are lit up against the background of the night. People's eyes linger among these shops, choosing the products that satisfy them.

This point is no different from those who are attending the dance on the 22nd floor next door at this time.

It's just that these business people don't choose simple "commodities", they choose people, who are potential future partners.

Everyone was exchanging business cards with their own unknown thoughts, even if they couldn't tell what kind of face was under the mask of the person who gave the business card in front of them.

Lu Yi was also one of these people.

"Strange." Under the mask, Lu Yi frowned with a pair of beautiful willow eyebrows, her eyes swept over the lively crowd behind her, but she didn't find anything unusual.

This is the third time she has felt this way tonight.

She felt that there seemed to be a pair of eyes watching her every move from behind, and the feeling of being watched was uncomfortable.

But when she turned her head, she found that there was nothing unusual. Everyone at the ball was actually doing their own thing.

Lu Yi only hoped that she was suspicious.

She put the empty wine glass in her hand on the tray in the hands of the passing waiter, changed direction, and walked towards the restroom in the venue.

Almost at the moment when Lu Yi turned to leave, the two eyes quickly followed her back, and it was not until she disappeared around the corner of the banquet hall that the owner of the eyes gave up and continued to follow.

"Her vigilance is too high." Losing the target of interest, Luo Yao simply scattered her eyes randomly around the banquet hall downstairs, and saw different masked faces.

——Everyone in this ball wears an exclusive mask on their faces, including Chu Ran who came with her.

Because there is another difference in tonight's somewhat commercial ball, which is a masquerade ball.

Luo Yao thinks this is very interesting. After wearing the mask, no one will know whether you are a small salesman or the president of a certain company... At least until you hand over your business card.

But that's not what attracted her here tonight.

Her goal was Lu Yi who had just left to go to the bathroom.

Although in a few days they will formally meet in a different way in another place.

But before that, Luo Yao wants to know what kind of person this is.

Lu Yi, the current sales director of Huayang Property Insurance Co., Ltd., is a well-known signing king in the industry. He has countless high-quality customer resources and an unusual interpersonal network.

Huayang Property Insurance was the first company that Luo Yao took over from his father after returning to China. Although it was only a subsidiary of the group, she had already investigated all the middle and senior leaders of the subsidiary before the official airborne over and over.

However, no matter what the investigation results were, it all showed that Lu Yi was a bargaining chip she had to win in the days to come.

So she asked her friend to do a favor today, and come with her to see what kind of person this "Director Lu" is.

For today's dance, the second floor is actually not open.

But who told Chu Ran, who was sitting next to her, to be the young owner of this hotel?

"Such vigilance is indeed beyond ordinary people. If it weren't for the special double-sided glass on the second floor, we should have been discovered long ago."

Chu Ran answered Luo Yao's words without interest, "Why didn't Luo Xin come? You should ask her to accompany you."

"She said she was a little unwell and didn't want to come." Luo Yao replied casually, her eyes always inadvertently looking towards the corner where the bathroom was, but she didn't see Lu Yi's figure coming out of it for a long time.

The Luo Xin that Chu Ran was talking about was Luo Yao's own sister.

The Luo family has a pair of twin sisters, which few people know.

Because my elder sister Luo Yao went abroad to study that year and lived abroad all year round, and she just returned to China not long ago.

But Chu Ran grew up with them, so he is not considered an outsider.

If Luo Yao hadn't forced him to come tonight, he should have gone to a more interesting game instead of sitting here.

"Those who didn't know thought that you came here specially to see your fiancé, but in the end you came to see your future subordinates. I really don't know what's so good about you." He complained, then lit a cigarette with Erlang's legs crossed, "Speaking of it That old man in your family is really good enough. He has protected an illegitimate younger brother who has a bad name for so many years, and in the end he left such a subsidiary company that he has almost ruined to take care of you... Really think you are a pickpocket It's broken."

Chu Ran spoke in an angry tone, and at the end, he spat lightly to show his disdain.

Luo Yao didn't have much reaction after listening to it, obviously he was used to such unfair things.

Time passed by minute by minute.

"It's been too long." The woman took a sip of the sparkling water in front of her.

This is the fourth time she has looked around.

The time has also passed 15 minutes, which is beyond the time range for normal people to go to the toilet.

"Are you on the phone inside?" Chu Ran, who hadn't said much all the time, also felt strange. He sat up from the chair with a crooked body, and also looked towards the corner downstairs.

Almost at the same time, Luo Yao had already stood up from the seat next to him: "I'll go and have a look, it just so happens that tonight's special event will start soon."

Let her see what the hell is going on with this "Director Lu" who will work with her under her command for some time in the future.

After coming down from the "observation area" on the second floor, the originally wide field of view suddenly became limited. Luo Yao automatically transformed the picture he saw on the second floor into a floor plan in his mind, and soon Find your own direction to go.

She walked through the lively crowd on high heels, and walked step by step to the corner where Lu Yi had just disappeared, poked her head from the corner, and sure enough, she saw someone standing in that aisle talking on the phone, so she retracted herself Sight, standing by the wall and quietly waiting for the other party to come out.

During such a waiting time, Luo Yao raised his hand to take off the necklace around his neck, and played with it in his palm.

It didn't take long for Luo Yao to hear the sound of high heels stepping on the floor. "Tap, tap" was getting closer and closer. She held her breath and held the necklace in her hand, counting the time in her heart.

The last countdown and the amplified "click" fell at the same time, and she also raised her feet and took a step to directly bump into the person who turned out.

With a "snap", the sound of the metal necklace falling to the ground was quickly overwhelmed by the noisy voices around.

Both of them looked at the floor at the same time.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't see you when I came out!" As the one who "hit someone", Lu Yi was the first to react and squatted down to help him pick up the things.

Under the half metal mask, her expression was quite annoyed.

"I'm really sorry, Miss, check to see if the necklace is broken, if it's broken..."

"Will you pay me?"

A cold voice came from above Lu Yi's head.

Lu Yi was startled, and then she slowly got up to see what kind of person she bumped into.

I saw that the owner of the voice was also looking at me. The other party was wearing a red dress that wrapped the curves of her body. The bright red did not make her look vulgar, but instead made her whole body more prominent.

Behind the bright golden mask, only half of the face with the tip of the nose down is exposed. Even so, it is not difficult to imagine how good-looking this person is. The perfect jawline is more obvious because of the angle, and the position of the collarbone under the opponent's neck is empty. , if nothing else happens, the necklace in my hand should appear in this position.

The eyes of the two met for a moment in the air.

"Yes, I'll pay you." Lu Yi withdrew her appraising eyes and smiled apologetically.

If it is really broken, losing money is the most basic.

"Just now I was thinking about other things and didn't look at the road. I can't blame you." Luo Yao took the "knocked off" necklace from Lu Yi's hand, pretending to look at it carefully: "It doesn't look like it fell off. Bad, but..."

"Since you knocked off my necklace, can I trouble you to put it back on for me?"

After finishing speaking, she pointed to her empty neck and smiled kindly at Lu Yi: "It looks weird, doesn't it?"

A light and slightly joking remark put a perfect end to this sudden incident.

"It's really strange, then I'll put it on for you." Lu Yi agreed with a light smile.

She then took the necklace back from the other party's hand and walked around to the position behind the man.

The light gold necklace pressed against Luo Yao's skin, bringing a cool feeling.

At this moment, the lights in the entire hall suddenly dimmed for some reason. Everyone in the banquet hall who was intoxicated with the conversation was suddenly interrupted by this change, and everyone looked up at the dimmed light above their heads.

Because of this, Lu Yi had to lean her upper body forward, getting closer to the owner of the necklace.

Anyone who has worn a necklace knows that the small holes on the necklace are not so easy to snap on.

But just when she was concentrating on fastening the necklace, Luo Yao turned her head unexpectedly and almost bumped into Lu Yi again.

Such a close distance has exceeded the safe distance between two people who meet for the first time.

"Have you fastened it?" Luo Yao asked naturally, flapping her long eyelashes.

In dim light, human facial features will have a blurred sense of softness.

From this angle, Lu Yi could clearly see every eyelash of the other party. It was very natural, not fake eyelashes, nor mascara.

Lu Yi was dazed for a moment, she almost confused the person in front of her with someone she knew before.

"Okay, it shouldn't fall anymore." In just two breaths, she completed the movements of her hands.

It was also at this time that the sound of music suddenly sounded from all directions, and the sound system in the entire banquet hall was fully operational and began to play elegant dance music.

Lu Yi looked around in surprise.

It turns out that this masquerade ball tonight also has a special event that has not been made public, the dance part.

It's a little bit of bad humor for the organizers. During the limited time, the men and women present need to find a dance partner nearby to spend the short few minutes.

After the rules were announced, nearby single men approached them soon.

"Two ladies, I don't know about you..."

Before he finished speaking, Luo Yao turned around and stretched out his hand to Lu Yi: "You don't have a fixed partner, right? The lady who accidentally bumped into me?"

The light above his head turned from dark to bright, and Lu Yi clearly saw a slight smile on the corner of Luo Yao's mouth, and the corners of Luo Yao's eyes were also slightly raised.

At this time, the sound of music has already echoed.

Borrowing the sound of music in the arena, Luo Yao stepped forward to get close to the ear of the other party, and said clearly: "Please do me a favor, I don't want to dance with a strange man."

It was a very simple request, and Lu Yi couldn't find a reason to refuse it.

She quickly reached out and took him back.

The dance didn't take long, and after the music ended, all the headlights in the arena were turned on and returned to the way they were before.

When leaving, Lu Yi took the initiative to give her business card.

Luo Yao looked down at the specially customized business card in his hand, and read out the information on the business card: "Lu Yi, Sales Director of Huayang Insurance."

"Yes." Lu Yi nodded, showing a very commercial smile, "If there is a chance, we can cooperate."

After the words fell, she raised her hand and touched her ears without a trace.

For some reason, when Luo Yao called her name in such a cold voice, she felt itchy in her ear sockets.

This was the first business card that Lu Yi offered tonight, and her intuition told her that the woman in front of her must not be a simple person.

So she was naturally reluctant to let go of such an opportunity to have an intersection.

However, Lu Yi did not expect that the other party had no intention of asking for a business card back after accepting his business card, but just pursed his lips and smiled, then turned and left.

After the dance, everyone will leave one after another through the main entrance of the hall.

Lu Yi deliberately left the venue early, and was going to guard the door to see who the person she was in contact with just now was.

Logically speaking, among the people who came to tonight's dance, there was such a special person, she should not have known him.

——Even if she really doesn't know each other, she should know her after tonight.

Of course, there are also some special personal reasons.

In Lu Yi's mind, the masked face of the other party, the perfect jawline with beautiful red lips will always appear in Lu Yi's mind.

She always felt inexplicably familiar, but she couldn't say how familiar.

But things don't always go as expected. When Lu Yi left early and went to the gate to return the mask, he found that there was already a bright golden mask in the recycling storage basket in front of the waiter. This mask was very familiar to Lu Yi. up.

She wanted to sit back and wait for the rabbit, but she didn't want the rabbit to have already run away by this time.

Lu Yi was not reconciled.

She stood still and hesitated for a while, then took out her mobile phone and made a call.

Fifteen minutes later, in the general monitoring room of the hotel.

"I'm really sorry, Brother Song, I have to trouble you to accompany me on this trip at such a late hour. It's really because the house key is in the bag. If I don't find it, I won't be able to enter the house tonight." Lu Yi's face was full of guilt, she While explaining his "difficulties" to the supervisor on duty, he paid attention to the monitoring screen on the display screen.

Say it like it really happened.

In order to prevent herself from being unable to sleep tonight, Lu Yi told a little lie and called someone to help her so that she could see the background surveillance of the hotel.

"Where is it, Ms. Lu, you are our special guest tonight. If you lost something in the hall, it is our duty to help you find it." Director Song quickly waved his hand and responded with a smile, "Don't worry, The manager has already told me to help if I can."

"By the way, Miss Lu lost a small pink handbag, right?"

he asked again.

"Well, that's right."

Lu Yi was perfunctory, and his attention was already on the monitor in front of him.

The staff in front of the computer was helping her to call back the monitoring. She originally only wanted to see the section of the gate, but the other party was obviously "dedicated" to help her find the lost property, so that some of the pictures in the banquet hall were also adjusted.

Coincidentally, Lu Yi happened to see the part before she came out of the bathroom corridor.

The series of "coincidences" from Luo Yao walking here, to the other party Hou waiting at the corner, to the "precise" encounter with her were all caught in Lu Yi's eyes.

Others may not find anything unusual about the monitoring screen in this section, but in Lu Yi's view, it is "elaborate planning".

But why go to so much trouble just to get close to yourself?

The doubts in Lu Yi's heart grew deeper and deeper, and her brows were tightly knit together.

At this moment, Director Song stood beside him and said, "Miss Lu, do you think someone knocked you to the ground while you were here?"

Surveillance is not omnipotent, and because of the light at the time, it is not particularly clear.

Lu Yi quickly turned her head: "Brother Song, can you check the surveillance camera at the exit of the hall, I think the lady who bumped into me picked up something, I want to see if she had something in her hand when she left A little pink bag."

Such a request couldn't be more reasonable.

The monitoring screen was brought up after a while, and Lu Yi got what she wanted to see.

On the screen, Luo Yao and Chu Ran walked out of the door together, and the moment the other party lowered his head and took off his mask, all doubts in Lu Yi's heart were resolved.

Although it was just a vague profile, it was enough for Lu Yi to recognize who this person was.

She snorted lightly.

——Isn't this her ex-girlfriend, Luo Xin, who has been dead for 800 years and has not been cremated?

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