Tenant's Secret Love

Chapter 136: Abner makes a confession

I lit a cigarette and weighed the matter in my heart. In fact, I hoped that Mark and Harlan could work for Jumei, because they were both very capable and could become Renee's helpers in the future. After all, Renee was still not well-established at Jumei and needed to cultivate her own influence.

I finally said to Harlan, "I'll talk to her later."

"What are the chances?"

I shook my head and said, "It's hard to say..."

"Do your best. As you know, there are only two large department stores in Suzhou: Jumei and Poly Department Store. If I can't work at Jumei, I might have to leave Suzhou. I really don't want to leave unless it's absolutely necessary, because it wouldn't be fair to Natalie... Alas! I don't have any other options, or I wouldn't have to ask you this and put you in such a difficult position!"

I patted Harlan on the shoulder to comfort him and said, "We're all brothers, so don't worry about being difficult. Don't worry! I will definitely talk things over with Renee and fight for you to have better development after you join Jumei. After all, you and Mark have seniority here, and I believe that's a good thing for Renee as well."

Harlan nodded and said, "Well, I won't say thank you to you."

I smiled, then thought of a key issue, and said to Harlan, "By the way, if I go to Renee through me, it will be impossible to hide the last incident from Mark. Some other day, you can help me explain to him. I don't have the face to face him."

"There's no rush to explain. If we can get the job at Jumei, then we can explain to him then, and he'll be able to accept it. If we can't get the job, then there's no need to explain, and we'll just keep this to ourselves."

I have to admit that Harlan is very thorough in his thinking. For example, in this matter, if I go and explain to Mark before I get it done, he will most likely find it hard to let go. If I get it done, it will be a kind of psychological compensation for him after I have made up for my past mistakes.

...

I left the restaurant with mixed emotions. After I got home, I was going to give Renee a call to talk to her about this matter initially, but I didn't expect to see her shoes on the shoe rack, and then I heard the sound of water flowing from the bathroom. Tonight, she actually returned from Shanghai!

I sat on the sofa waiting. A moment later, she finished washing up and came out of the bathroom. She came to me again and asked, "Where were you just now?"

"I was asked out by a friend to talk about something... Why did you come back from Shanghai? Didn't you say you were going to keep Abner company?"

Renee's expression suddenly became a little complicated. After a while, she asked me, 'Lucas, are we good friends?"

I was a little surprised why Renee suddenly asked this, but I nodded and said, 'Of course we are!"

"Then I might as well tell you..."

I was even more surprised, and after a long while I asked, "What do you want to tell me?"

Renee was silent again, as if she was having a hard time saying it, which made me feel nervous and anxious. So I urged, 'Just say it..."

Renee finally gathered her courage and said to me, 'Abner confessed his love to me today..."

My emotions suddenly surged, as if I saw Robert confess his love to Brittany at Natalie and Harlan's wedding. An uncontrollable pain suddenly arose in my heart.

After a long while, I forced a smile and said to Renee in the throes of unbearable pain, "I think you have quite a good impression of him, so this should be a good thing!"

"Do you really think so?" Renee asked, gazing at me.

I suddenly felt like smoking, but I couldn't light up in front of Renee, because it would reveal my true emotions, and if Renee really accepted Abner's confession, I would be sad for a long time!

Seeing that I was silent, Renee sighed as if talking to herself and said, "Alas! Why do long-term opposite-sex friends always end up going bad?"

In fact, Renee's lament is a bit sweeping, at least my friendship with CC has never gone bad over the years.

Renee sat down next to me and suddenly asked me, with a jump in her thinking, "Lucas, will you also learn to be like Abner after we've been friends for a long time?"

"Er...you don't like Abner doing that?" I finally didn't panic and changed the subject.

"I don't know..."

Renee's somewhat confused answer finally gave me a break, and I hurriedly acted as an emotional expert and asked, "Have you never liked a man in all these years?"

Her expression turned gloomy again, and after a long time she said, "I don't think so. Ever since Dad died, I don't seem to have any interest in anything."

At that moment, I finally understood why her personality was so cold. Perhaps before Clark died, she was like a normal girl, laughing and playing around...

After a long silence, I asked in a roundabout way, "Is it that Abner's confession wasn't creative enough to impress you?"

Renee shook her head and said, "He recorded a lot of the scenes we experienced together on his DV. Today, he rented out a theater, filled it with flowers and balloons, and then played those scenes in the theater's projection room, where only the two of us were. I was very moved..."

"What a show-off!" I muttered.

"What did you say?"

"Very touching!" I quickly corrected myself.

Renee nodded, as if she was still recalling the scene of Abner confessing his love to her.

"So, did you accept?" I asked nervously.

Renee looked at me again, and after a long pause, she said softly, "Then... I ran back to Suzhou."

The image of Renee running away from the theater suddenly flashed through my mind, but that didn't mean she didn't like Abner. At least she didn't reject him. It was just that her attention had never been on love, so Abner's reckless confession didn't give her enough psychological preparation.

After another period of silence, I still asked doubtfully, "You're going back to Suzhou, why don't you go live there, but instead you've come over to my place?"

"I'm a bit confused, can I talk to someone?"

"Why don't you go talk to CC?"

Renee's expression suddenly became displeased, and she immediately picked up her handbag from the coffee table and said to me, "Since you're so reluctant to talk to me, I'll go find CC, and I don't care to say anything to you anymore!"

In fact, I didn't really want to communicate with Renee, I just felt that Renee would be more reasonable if she talked to CC about this kind of thing, after all, they are both women.

I grabbed Renee, who was about to leave, and frowned, saying, "What bad habits! You have to run outside whenever you say the wrong thing. Do you know you have princess disease?"

Renee broke free of me and angrily said, "Why are you always so mean to me? And so nice to me? ...What emotion do you want me to use to face you?"

I suddenly froze. I had never known what kind of person I was in Renee's eyes. It turned out that I had made her so indecisive... But this was not something I did on purpose. Being mean or nice to her seemed to be just a primitive instinct, just like my falling in love with her. There was no need for a lot of reasons, it was just instinct.

Speechless, I skipped the part about Abner and Renee confessing their love for each other, and with a serious expression, I said, "Don't be mad at me just yet, I have something serious to tell you."

Renee looked at me, waiting for the serious matter I was about to say.

I finally collected my emotions and pondered how to tell Renee about Harlan and Mark's intention to jump ship to Jumei.