I am the only one who practices magic: I practice magic in the city

Chapter 391: Funds Already in Place (6565)

"I've told you before that when you're in school, you're in school. Why go to a company? You just ignored my words, didn't you?"

"I've already told your Aunt Qiu that you can join our company's audit department after graduation, and she will personally guide you then. It's already been decided, so don't keep changing your mind."

The middle-aged woman was wiping the walls and switches that Shen Shuyao had touched when she came in with a pale rag soaked in disinfectant, while scolding impatiently with a stern face.

Shen Shuyao couldn't help but say, "Mom, I've already said that I won't go to your company after graduation. You've always been the one talking to yourself, why am I the one who keeps changing your mind?"

Shen Shuyao has never told her mother what she is doing at the moment.

Shen's mother, Shen Lijun, works as an internal auditor at PICC, and it was she who chose Shen Shuyao's major.

Many people’s understanding of insurance companies is limited to those insurance salesmen who are like pyramid schemes, and they think that insurance companies are low.

In fact, the functional positions within insurance companies are absolute iron rice bowls, lucrative positions with only power but no responsibilities.

After she divorced her husband fifteen years ago, she changed the surname of Shen Shuyao, who was only five years old at the time, to her own.

Shen Lijun's face changed. "Why don't you know what's good for you? Don't think that it's easy for students from national universities to find jobs. Look at how many people want to join our company but can't. How many people submit resumes at the job fair every year?"

"Do you know how many good things I said for you? I can see that you are just like him, both of you are ungrateful! A big ungrateful ungrateful ungrateful! A little ungrateful ungrateful ungrateful!"

Shen Shuyao endured it and said, "Mom, tomorrow is my birthday. I don't want to quarrel with you now. I'm going to take a shower."

"Haha, it's your birthday." The middle-aged woman began to cry as she spoke, "Do you know how much I suffered to give birth to you? It was raining heavily that day, and your ungrateful father was not at home, so I went to the hospital alone..."

After so many years, Shen Shuyao has almost memorized this set of words. Usually, Shen Shuyao will agree with what her mother says. It's not that she thinks her mother is right, but she feels there is no need for conflict. She says hers and I do mine. I just need to go along with her on the surface.

I'm not a pushover like my dad.

But today, Shen Shuyao was in a really bad mood.

Hearing Shen Lijun babble like Xianglin Sao and curse her divorced father's family, Shen Shuyao's annoyance suddenly surged up.

"Isn't it because you kicked him out? You kicked him out during a rainstorm, and he was hit by a tricycle on his way back to his grandmother's house in the rain, and he had to get more than 30 stitches in the hospital!"

"Why do you always think that others have wronged you? Why do you always want to control other people's lives? Have you ever thought that your misfortune is caused by yourself?"

As soon as these words came out of her mouth, Shen Shuyao felt a little regretful when she saw the expression on Shen Lijun's face.

Shen Lijun looked at Shen Shuyao in disbelief, her face full of anger and surprise of being betrayed. Her face, which originally looked a bit rigid but still intellectual, actually looked a little hideous.

"Who told you that!? Was it him!? Or that old woman!? You, you... you are all ungrateful! White-eyed wolves!!!"

"I gave birth to you in the gates of hell, and you treat me like this?"

Shen Lijun raised her hand and looked like she was going to hit Shen Shuyao, but she never did.

The raised wrist was covered with scars.

The joints of Shen Lijun's fingers, which were pinching the rag, had turned white, her lips were trembling, and her eyes were full of despair as she looked at Shen Shuyao.

Shen Shuyao avoided her mother's gaze and said, "I'm going to take a shower first."

As soon as she entered the bathroom, Shen Shuyao heard a heart-wrenching cry of "Ah~" coming from outside the door.

Leaning against the bathroom door, Shen Shuyao bit her lips, trembling all over, and tears also flowed uncontrollably.

Faced with this suffocating intimate relationship, no matter how high her emotional intelligence is, she cannot completely avoid the mental harm it brings, let alone avoid hurting the other person.

Just then, the sound outside the bathroom door gradually died down. Shen Shuyao suddenly felt a little uneasy. Then, she heard a "bang!" coming from the living room.

Not good! Shen Shuyao's face changed, she opened the bathroom door, and rushed to the living room in two steps. She saw a kicked-over plastic stool lying in the middle of the living room, and a brown belt tied to the old-fashioned ceiling fan at home, and hanging on it was her mother Shen Lijun.

Shen Lijun's legs were twitching, and she wanted to raise her hands but seemed unable to do so. Her eyes were bulging and her face was flushed red, and it was obvious that she had just been hung up not long ago.

Again.

Shen Shuyao held back her tears, hurriedly hugged Shen Lijun's thighs and lifted her up, rescuing Shen Lijun from the ceiling fan.

"Ah~ cough cough cough cough!!!" Shen Lijun collapsed on the ground, coughing and gasping. Shen Shuyao patted her on the back, feeling a little scared.

Although this was not the first time, if she had really been taking a shower just now and had not heard the noise from the living room over the sound of the water, Shen Lijun might have really died.

"Mom, mom, what are you doing? I was wrong, isn't that okay?" Shen Shuyao cried, "If something really happened to you, what should I do?"

"Why did you save me? It would be better if I died~" Shen Lijun burst into tears, "I have devoted my whole life to you, and in the end, this is the result, ah ah ah, who can understand me~~~"

Hearing Shen Lijun's cries, Shen Shuyao felt a great sense of powerlessness.

What can I do?
I finally managed to comfort my mother, but after all this trouble, it was almost twelve o'clock.

Shen Shuyao took another shower before returning to her room and wrapping herself tightly in an air-conditioned blanket.

Although the temperature today was not too high, it was still 26 or 27 degrees at night. Shen Shuyao did not turn on the air conditioner, but still felt shivering.

She was very scared, afraid that her life, which had been on the right track, would be derailed again because of such a mother.

She was even more afraid that one day she would become like her mother.
I have tried very hard to become a different person!

I tried so hard to be confident, so hard to be strong, and so hard to obtain happiness even if it meant doing something humble, but it seems so fragile!
But these were not the most frightening things. What frightened her the most was that at a certain moment just now, she actually had a thought that if her mother died just like that, would she be relieved?

Although it was only a fleeting thought, which was quickly eliminated by her huge sense of guilt, just this tiny thought made her extremely panicked.

This is my dearest mother!
How could I possibly have such an idea?

A crow repays its parents by kneeling to feed its lamb, and even a tiger will not eat its own cubs. Am I really a bad person?
Shen Shuyao fell into deep self-doubt and guilt.

She was also panicking. Under such circumstances, could she and Fang Yu be together? What would the future be like?
She has been trying to hypnotize herself so that she can be confident in facing everything, but every time she returns home and encounters this situation, she will instantly return to her original state.

It turns out that I am still the little girl who was five years old and hid aside, trembling and crying while watching my mother chasing my father with a kitchen knife like crazy.

It seems that nothing is different.

Boom!
In a daze, Shen Shuyao heard her WeChat ringing.

"Hmm..." Shen Shuyao reached out and picked up the phone on the bedside table and took a look.

Fang Yu sent just three words.

"Look out the window."

Look out the window? Shen Shuyao's heart moved, she opened the curtains and looked out.

Shen Shuyao lives on the fifth floor. Looking down, there seems to be nothing except the street lights.

Just as I was wondering, the phone rang again.

"Count down ten times."

A smile appeared on Shen Shuyao's lips involuntarily, and she counted silently in her heart.

Ten, nine, eight...

Shen Shuyao had just counted to 1 when she saw a ball of light quickly leap into the air from the direction of Guangfu Bridge not far away, and then exploded brilliantly in the sky!

"Snapped!"

The sound of fireworks exploding was heard immediately, and countless sparks slowly fell from the sky, like a star rain.

The electric vehicles parked in the community were also awakened by the sound of the fireworks explosions, and shrill sirens were sounded one after another.

Immediately afterwards, two more fireworks were shot into the sky, emitting completely different but equally brilliant sparks.

Shen Shuyao stared out the window in a daze. The view from the fifth floor was just right, enough to take in the entire fireworks show.

The fireworks exploded in the deep blue night sky, and the bright golden sparks scattered like shooting stars, dragging long tails, and suddenly drawing a perfect arc.

The two fireworks that followed bloomed alternately, one was a blazing red, the other a bright yellow, like an interwoven sea of ​​flowers, spreading out layer by layer in the sky.

Suddenly, several fireworks shot out from different directions, gathered at the same point, and instantly exploded into a huge halo. There was still a faint smoke in the center of the halo, like a veil shrouding the night.

The halo had not yet completely dissipated, and another silver "waterfall" fell from the sky, with fine and dense silver light pouring down like flowing water.
The rhythm of the fireworks gradually accelerated, and amidst a burst of rapid explosions like drumbeats, fireworks continued to rise into the sky. Dozens of fireworks exploded at the same time, like a sea of ​​stars, illuminating the entire sky.

It was also reflected in Shen Shuyao's eyes, which were clearly black and white and sparkling with a bright light.

Fireworks of different shapes appeared one after another. Some were like layered blooming petals, some were like fleeting twinkling stars, and some drew complex geometric patterns in the air.

If it were any other time, if it were someone else, this kind of flashy "romance" might not be able to touch Shen Shuyao's heart at all.

But today, when she was in the lowest mood, when her mood was so gloomy that she could not see any light, the brilliant fireworks outside the window not only lit up the night sky, but also lit up her heart.

Just as the last firework slowly went out, Shen Shuyao's eyes were filled with reluctance.

ended.

Fireworks fade away quickly, and no matter how exciting a fireworks show is, it will eventually come to an end.

Shen Shuyao sighed softly and was about to close the window again. At this moment, a figure slowly walked towards her under the street light downstairs.

Ah!
It's him!

Shen Shuyao couldn't help but cover her mouth. No, I don't want him to see me looking weak now.

Shen Shuyao was about to turn around, but saw Fang Yu downstairs seemed to be pointing to the sky.

Looking in the direction of Fang Yu's finger, a brilliant light illuminated the sky again.

The ball of light quickly rose into the sky and exploded in the night in the blink of an eye.

At first, she thought it was just an ordinary firework, but after the firework exploded, countless golden sparks gradually gathered into a straight line.

And immediately afterwards, another group of fireworks bloomed in the air, and quickly gathered into several lines, appearing next to the "one" that had just been extinguished.

"cut".

Without any waiting, six fireworks were fired in succession. Clusters of fireworks bloomed in the air, quickly connecting into several graceful arcs, outlining the remaining six words.

Although each word only appeared for a few seconds, Shen Shuyao could still clearly see the eight words formed by brilliant fireworks in the sky.

"I'm in charge of everything. Happy birthday."

A romantic gift tailor-made for her. The outline of each word is inlaid with dancing sparks, which keep flowing and changing with the blooming of fireworks, as if whispering softly in the night sky.

Shen Shuyao stared blankly, her throat seemed to be blocked by something, unable to make a sound. She bit her lips, tears slid down her cheeks, but the corners of her mouth couldn't help but rise.

I have everything.

It turns out that it is different from that time.

Because now, I have him.

Shen Shuyao's fingertips trembled slightly, and she clutched the curtains tightly in her hands, as if this was the only way to keep herself steady.

Fang Yu stood under the street light downstairs, looking up at her window with a faint smile on his face. He didn't say anything, nor did he make any extra movements, but just raised his hand and waved at her gently.

At this moment, the suffocating depression and uneasiness just now seemed to be dispelled little by little by this faint smile.

"I miss you."

Shen Shuyao picked up her phone and sent a few words to Fang Yu.

Originally, Shen Shuyao just couldn't help herself due to the excitement, but she saw Fang Yu outside the window picked up his mobile phone, looked at it, and walked towards her building.

Ah! Shen Shuyao waved to Fang Yu and sent another message: "My mother is at home, I can't go out."

Huh? Why is he still walking this way? What is he going to do?
But Fang Yu just glanced at his phone and walked downstairs to Shen Shuyao's house. In Shen Shuyao's surprised gaze, he jumped up and grabbed the edge of the balcony on the second floor. Then, using his fingers and waist, he climbed up to Shen Shuyao's window on the fifth floor like a monkey and came face to face with her.

"Ah!" Shen Shuyao couldn't help but let out a cry of surprise.

Can he also do rock climbing and parkour?
Shen Lijun in the bedroom next to her was clearly still awake. She knocked on Shen Shuyao's door and said, "Yaoyao? What's wrong? Are you scared? I just heard some fireworks. It's really evil to set off fireworks in the middle of the night."

Shen Shuyao was startled and said to the person outside the door: "It's okay, Mom, it's not firecrackers, it's fireworks, they're pretty."

"Setting off flowers in the middle of the night is really crazy." Shen Lijun muttered twice and returned to her bedroom. The sound of the door closing was heard.

"Pfft!" Shen Shuyao couldn't help but chuckle when she saw Fang Yu's sullen expression.

"If you don't let me in, I'll be caught by the camera if I'm hanging outside like this and I'll be treated as a thief."

Fang Yu leaned against the window and whispered.

Shen Shuyao's heart was pounding and her face was red. She was about to reach out to pull Fang Yu in, but she saw Fang Yu just push himself with his arms, then fly over the window and land lightly on the ground.

"My mother will fall asleep in a while, so you should go out quickly. Don't go out through the window, it's too dangerous." Shen Shuyao didn't dare to look at Fang Yu at all. She took two steps back, leaned on her desk, lowered her head, and felt her face was burning.

Fang Yu took Shen Shuyao's hand and pulled gently. Shen Shuyao moaned and pressed her hot cheek against Fang Yu's chest. Before Shen Shuyao turned her face around, she felt her lips being held in Fang Yu's mouth.

"Hmm..." Shen Shuyao felt as if her chest exploded, as if she was back to the feeling she had on the Ferris wheel that day.

In fact, this was not the second time the two had kissed in the past six months. They had been very affectionate with each other during this period, and except for the last step, they had done everything they should have done.

A person's physical reaction and psychology are closely related. Different mental states will naturally lead to different effects of intimate behaviors.

"No, not here..." Shen Shuyao said in a low voice, with a warm tone, "My mother is right next to us."

Fang Yu himself didn't want to go any further, he just rubbed it and exhaled in the same way: "Then I will accompany you until dawn?"

Shen Shuyao bit her lip, stared at Fang Yu with her bright eyes, and nodded.

"Is my bed too small?" Lying on her side on her bed, Shen Shuyao pressed tightly against Fang Yu's chest, feeling each other's heartbeats.

Unlike Lu Jiayan's two-meter bed, her bed was a one-meter-two single bed, on which both of them could only lie sideways. Fang Yu was so big that he almost filled the entire bed, squeezing Shen Shuyao tightly.

"My parents are divorced, so I can only accompany my mother tomorrow." Shen Shuyao whispered.

Fang Yu hugged Shen Shuyao a little tighter.

Shen Shuyao said to herself, "My mother hates my father very much. She thinks he must have had someone else outside, so she wants a divorce. But I know that's not the case. My father just couldn't stand her anymore."

"But I don't think my dad is right. He is too weak. He chooses to escape from everything. He is afraid of all conflicts. He even proposed divorce through my mom."

Fang Yu knew that all Shen Shuyao needed was a listener, so he didn't say anything. He just moved his arm under Shen Shuyao's head to make her posture more comfortable.

Through Shen Shuyao's narration, Fang Yu also had a better understanding of Shen Shuyao's family situation.

From the perspective of outsiders, Shen Lijun is capable at work and has no problems dealing with people. Although she is a bit strict, she has a good reputation in the unit.

Moreover, everyone thought that Shen Lijun raised her alone and sacrificed a lot for her, which was not easy.

But what Shen Shuyao couldn't tell anyone else was that Shen Lijun was completely two different people towards outsiders and her family!
When it comes to relationships with classmates, colleagues, and general friends, Shen Lijun seems to be as warm and considerate as a spring breeze, and is always considerate of others. Although she cannot be considered good at networking, she can be considered to have made many good friends.

But when it comes to her family, Shen Lijun is like a demon with a strong desire for control.

Shen Shuyao had always suspected that her mother had mental problems. After the college entrance examination, she actually succeeded in persuading her mother to go to the hospital for a check-up.

The examination results showed that Shen Lijun did not have a mental illness. At most, she suffered from anxiety disorder caused by obsessive-compulsive disorder and paranoid personality disorder. She had full cognitive ability about her own behavior.

Shen Lijun once again blamed her obsessive-compulsive disorder and anxiety disorder on her divorced father Shu Jianfeng.

Shen Shuyao was formerly called Shuyao.

Later, Shen Lijun wanted to remove the word "Shu" from her name, but a fortune teller told her that if she changed it to Shen Yao, it would affect her fate and she would be easily given a nickname by her classmates. So Shen Lijun reluctantly added the word "Shen" in front of Shen Shuyao's name.

After hearing this story, Fang Yu didn't know what to do for a moment.

Unlike Tang Yufei's scumbag mother, Shen Lijun really loves her daughter, but her abnormal desire for control makes her love too heavy and suffocating.

If it was a scumbag like Tang Yufei's stepfather and biological mother, just send him directly to the Eighth Hospital and that would be it.

But people like Shen Lijun are really difficult to deal with.

You say she is bad, but she is not bad, she is just paranoid. However, this paranoia is not serious to the level of mental illness. It belongs to the category of paranoid personality disorder in psychology, and she also has the characteristics of obsessive-compulsive personality disorder and borderline personality disorder.

Especially those who threaten to commit suicide at any time, which is a very typical feature of borderline personality disorder. Such people do not commit suicide because they really want to die, but use the threat of suicide to express pain and try to control the emotions of others.

Moreover, this type of person is very fond of emotional blackmail. They will always emphasize their own contributions and exchange their own emotional security by awakening the other person's sense of guilt.

According to Shen Shuyao, things are somewhat better now. When she was a child and her parents were still married, her mother would cut her wrists all the time. She would often have new wounds before the old ones healed. Her mother's wrists were often wrapped in gauze.

As for Shen Shuyao's father, there are some issues as well.

Looking at Shu Jianfeng's current appearance, you can tell that Shu Jianfeng was very, very handsome when he was young, the kind of handsomeness that was earth-shattering among ordinary people.

At that time, there were many women chasing after Shen Shuyao's father, but for some reason, her father fell in love with Shen Lijun at first sight.

Later, Shu Jianfeng talked to Shen Shuyao a little bit, saying that at that time he felt that this girl was so jealous of him that she was crazy and even wanted to kill someone, which made him feel that she really loved him and made him feel truly loved, so he chose to be with Shen Lijun.

Moreover, Shu Jianfeng has a very weak character. He is so weak that he dares not resist no matter who bullies him. The only way for this person to solve problems is to escape.

When Shu Jianfeng and Shen Lijun divorced, Shu Jianfeng ran away and could not be found at all. Shen Lijun was furious and went to court to file for divorce. Until the trial, Shu Jianfeng did not show up even though he had clearly received the subpoena, so the court had to make a judgment in absentia.

Fang Yu could more or less guess why Shu Jianfeng chose Shen Lijun at that time. Psychologically speaking, weak and passive people are often attracted to strong and controlling people.

Their marriage is a typical interactive pattern of control and avoidance.

Shen Lijun's desire for control intensified Shu Jianfeng's escape, and Shu Jianfeng's escape exacerbated Shen Lijun's insecurity, thereby intensifying his controlling behavior, entering a vicious cycle.

As to whether Shen Shuyao’s “admiration for the strong” and “female competitiveness” are related to her contempt for her father’s weakness and her resistance to her mother’s control, it is hard to say.

Maybe it's related, maybe it's not.

"Just now I even felt that if my mother was gone, I might be relieved."

Fang Yu felt Shen Shuyao in his arms trembling a little.

"Do you think I'm a bad person?" Shen Shuyao raised her head, her eyes full of guilt, "My mother loves me so much, but I..."

"Judging from the deeds rather than the heart, no one in the world is perfect." Fang Yu patted Shen Shuyao on the back, "There is no filial son for a long-term sick bed. The fact that you can feel pain about your own thoughts shows that you are not that bad."

Huh? There is no filial son for a long-term sick bed...

Fang Yu blinked thoughtfully.

Maybe this... and then this..., maybe it will really have some effect on Shen Shuyao's mother...

"Ah... I'm so sleepy." Shen Shuyao yawned, feeling a little drowsy.

Her emotions have been very up and down today, and she is prone to drowsiness.

"Go to sleep, go to sleep." Fang Yu patted Shen Shuyao gently.

Shen Shuyao half-closed her eyes and muttered in a half-asleep state: "You must leave early tomorrow, don't let my mother block you in the room... I have a phone conference with Ysou tomorrow morning... They have asked for too many people this month, the headcount budget..."

Before she finished speaking, Shen Shuyao let out a deep breath.

How many people does Y search for?

Where is this?

In the next few days, Qianxun will be able to complete a 3 billion dollar private placement to BlackRock. As soon as the money arrives, it will be Qianxun's death!
Fang Yu was just about to slowly pull his arm out from under Shen Shuyao's head when the screen of his cell phone flashed.

“The funds have been received.”

Sender: Angel of Desire.

The image of Shen Shuyao’s mother has a prototype, who is the wife of one of my classmates.

I have mentioned this in Lao Liu's chapter review section. This woman is actually even more excessive than Shen Shuyao's mother. She is even more suffocating. She has taken medicine, hanged herself, and had her hands cut open several times. Her wrists are covered with scars.

And this woman is actually a teacher at D School. She is very nice to outsiders and there is no sign of any problem with her.

My classmate has been very honest since he was young. He has only had this one relationship and has no ulterior motives. He is an honest man among honest people.

Around the early 2000s, this classmate and I went on a business trip to a nearby town. At that time, there was no hotel in the town, only a guesthouse. We had no plan to stay there and wanted to go back overnight, but the local party got us both drunk, so we had to stay and stay.

At that time, my friend had not married her yet, they were just boyfriend and girlfriend. His girlfriend kept calling him while we were having dinner. Later, we both drank too much, returned to the guesthouse, lay down and fell asleep. As a result, at two or three o'clock in the middle of the night, the door of the guesthouse room was banging non-stop. When we opened the door, we saw his girlfriend holding a fire axe and had already banged on the door several times. Her face looked like a ghost, and the waiters at the guesthouse did not dare to stop her.

I was stunned at the time. When his girlfriend saw us open the door, she came in with an axe and started looking for him like a lunatic, asking, "Where is the person? Where did you hide him?"
She thought that we must have done something bad because we didn’t answer the phone, and she refused to believe that we were drunk and didn’t hear it. She thought there must be a woman in the house, and that we didn’t open the door for such a long time, so the woman escaped through the window.

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