The driver looked at me and smiled: "Boy, have we met again? Do you think we are destined?"

It turned out to be the taxi driver who I saw three movies in one day last time.

"Ah, yes, we met again." Today, I was not in the mood to talk to him, so I muttered.

He was still wearing the khaki peaked cap and glanced at me in the rearview mirror: "Last time I pulled you, he was a very energetic young man! Lively and energetic... Hey, I haven't seen you for more than a month.

Why are you so depressed now..."

I didn't say anything: "Drive, stop talking nonsense."

"You haven't said yet, where are you going?" The driver looked back at me.

"Whatever, anywhere, train station, bus station, in front of the airport..." I sat on the back seat bored, looking at the faces that came and went.

"Okay!"

The driver was not angry and just drove me away for a whole day.

The meter showed it was six hundred and thirty-eight yuan, and the driver said, "That's five hundred yuan, even if you rent a car. It's cheaper for you."

"Thank you..."

I didn't see Mi Lan, and I felt like my soul had been sucked out of me. I transferred the money to him while I was dying. Then I remembered and asked him: "What about that? If you have time tomorrow, continue to pull me."

"I won't come. I'll have a rest tomorrow."

The driver in the peaked cap looked back at me, and now I could see his face clearly. He looked like an ordinary middle-aged man.

While parking the car downstairs of my house, he said: "I can tell, you seem to be looking for someone today, right?"

"Well, find someone."

He sighed: "A woman?"

"Yes, woman."

The driver smiled: "I didn't expect that you are still a lover, not the woman from the movie last time? Is that the one at home?"

I nodded, took my crutches and prepared to get out of the car.

The driver sighed with emotion: "Fate has arranged it. No one can see the future. Cherish the present, young man."

I nodded, it was true, and I understood it, but I just couldn't let it go.

I just want to find Mi Lan and ask her personally why she left me?

Watching him leave in a hurry, I went upstairs on crutches. I haven't seen Aunt Xiaolin in the past two days. When I went out today, I heard that Aunt Xiaolin and her senior singing and dancing troupe were traveling abroad.

I took out the key and opened the door. The curtains at home were opened, and the spring sunshine was very warm, shining on the old wooden floor.

The sofa is very tidy and has been re-covered.

The wine bottles on the coffee table were all gone and were placed in garbage bags on the floor.

This clean and familiar feeling...

I was overjoyed, threw down my crutches, and jumped inside: "Mi Lan! Mi Lan! You are back!..."

But the sound stopped suddenly, and I saw a woman's figure overlapped with Mi Lan's. She was washing cups in the kitchen.

When the tears in my eyes overlapped, I returned to reality.

It's Jiang Yan.

"Come back?" Jiang Yan looked at me and smiled.

"Why is it you?" At this moment, I seemed to be distracted again, lying on the sofa motionless.

"I'm exhausted, you're like a pig's nest." Jiang Yan took off her gloves, wiped the sweat from her neck, sat on the coffee table, peeled another apple for me, and glared at me: "I knew it.

You haven't eaten well these days, so eat some fruit."

"You can eat." My mouth felt a little dry, so I opened a bottle of beer and drank: "How do you have the key to my house?"

"Oh." Jiang Yan took a bite of the apple herself: "Drink less. Last time I opened the door with your key, Mi Lan left the key behind. It was on the coffee table. I took it myself."

"Don't come and clean for me. I can do it myself." I don't want Jiang Yan to come and clean for me again.

I don't want anyone to come into my life.

Damn, this is not the People’s Square. Anyone can come if they want and leave if they want!

"I'm happy. Just leave me alone." Jiang Yan ate half of the apple and clapped her hands: "I have decided! I will not go abroad. I will stay in Linhai to develop."

"Oh." I agreed, and Jiang Yan peeled another orange by herself: "Why didn't you ask me why I stayed in Linhai?"

"Why?" My mind was full of Mi Lan, so I responded casually.

"I am divorced."

Jiang Yan looked at me: "I don't want to go abroad anymore. I just want to stay here. There are people I know here, as well as my parents. I plan to provide for them in their old age."

"That's pretty good." I nodded, and the phone rang. It belonged to the person involved, and I didn't want to move it at all.

Jiang Yan glanced at me: "The case has to be done, right?"

I thought about it, and this is also a problem. Lao Liu’s law firm should exist in name only. Where are Wang Ke and Xiao Liang?

What about the other lawyers? They should all be looking for their own solutions, right?

I simply pushed the entire case to Jiao Lili and called her.

Jiao Lili felt that it was a bit surprising that I would quit now. I explained the situation of Lao Liu Law Firm, and Jiao Lili also understood.

She asked me with concern: "Do you want to come to work at the Asian Institute? I'll tell Director Cao."

"No, I don't want to go anywhere for the moment." He entrusted the rest of the case to Jiao Lili.

Originally, Liao Yiyang was the best person to wipe my butt, but he is still in the period of detoxification.

I called several parties involved in the current case and introduced Jiao Lili to continue following up on the case. They were all a little regretful.

"Change your clothes, you already stink." Jiang Yan said kindly.

"You don't have to worry about it."

I lay on the sofa with my body stretched out, looking at the ceiling, not wanting to do anything, not even moving.

Jiang Yan couldn't stand it anymore: "Lu Yao, are you still a man? Can you cheer up?"

"I told you, you don't have to worry about it! I'll sleep for a while and then I'll find Mi Lan in the evening." I turned sideways and faced the back of the sofa, not wanting Jiang Yan to see my face.

Because my face is full of tears.

"Mi Lan left." Jiang Yan sighed: "But your life has to go on. Just like when I went abroad, don't you still have to live on?"

Jiang Yan left with her bag, and I lay on the sofa and bed for who knows how many days. I called the police officer Sun Min to see if he could help me find Mi Lan.

"This is not a missing person. She left a message for you, and the text messages on the mobile phone and the note at home are the same. There is no condition for abducting women or human beings."

Sun Min didn't know the situation on my side, so he comforted me a few words.

I lay there until dusk and fell into a deep sleep. My dreams were full of Mi Lan.

When I suddenly woke up in the middle of the night, I opened my wallet, took out the photo of Mi Lan and me, and said to myself with a lump in my throat: "Where have you been?"

I took out the small box in my pants pocket again, opened it and looked at it.

Inside is the diamond ring I bought for Mi Lan, originally intended to be used for marriage proposal.

It’s no longer useful now…

I dragged my injured leg and searched almost all over Linhai, searching all over the city like a stray dog, but still couldn't find her.

The wind was blowing very hard, so I stood by the window alone, drinking and singing, shouting into the distance: "Milan, where are you?"

"Fuck! It's so late at night, you must be crazy!" Someone in the community scolded me.

I slowly leaned against the wall, took a sip of cold beer, and fell to the ground muttering: "Where on earth have you been..."
Chapter completed!