Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Xiao Luye was expressionless. âI canât save you. Take care of your own life.â
Xiao Da was about to cry. âDonât. I just wanted to help you. Youâve been strategizing for many years. What do you want that you canât get? But Shi Niange, who youâve been holding in your palm since you were young, can it really kill you to snatch her back? Whereâs your domineering aura? Is it gone? We grew up together. I know all your thoughts and feelings for her. Iâm also trying to help my own people.â
âHow can you help me like this? Youâre f*cking harming me.â Xiao Luye slammed the glass of wine in his hand onto the table. âIf your surname werenât Xiao, I wouldâve smashed this glass of wine on your head.â
Seeing that Xiao Luye was angry, Xiao Da directly withered. â...I believe you.â
âBut what should I do now...â Xiao Da grabbed his hair with force. âMy head is about to die from the pain. Itâs about to explode, but I canât sleep. The moment I close my eyes, Shi Niange will appear as a malicious ghost coming to take my life. I think if this matter isnât resolved soon, I might become mentally incapacitated. â
âYou deserve it.â
â...â
Xiao Da drank two more glasses of wine, then took two deep breaths. He picked up the phone and said, âWhy donât I call Nian Nian right now and tell her the cause and effect of things? Anyway, she and Qin Siting have been separated for so many years. Even if she knows what happened, sheâll probably be relieved and wonât do anything. It can also untie the knot in her heart. Then, you can take the opportunity when sheâs sad to go to Hai City to comfort her?â
Xiao Luye said coldly, âDonât bring me along. I wonât get involved in this.â
âNo, I canât not bring you along. If it were just me, I would really lose my life. Besides, I want to help you...â
âHelp me with what? Did I gain anything in the past four years? Do I look like a beneficiary? She pushed me so far away that she couldnât wait for me never to come back, and youâre telling me youâre helping me?â
â...Then what do I do?â
âGo to hell and beg for forgiveness. If necessary, Iâll kick you from behind and give you a quick death.â
â...â
Xiao Da held his phone and hesitated for a long time but still did not dare to call Shi Niange. His phone had been turned off for a day. He was afraid that Shi Niange would call him again.
In the end, he pulled out his phone card and threw it into the bottle. âForget it, forget it. Iâll f*cking go overseas to hide for a while. Donât look for me for the time being. Iâll leave the bar chain to my subordinates. Iâll hide first. If not, I wonât be coming back for the rest of my life. I may even go to Africa to find a wife to marry and have children!â
Xiao Luye kicked his leg. âIf you want to get lost, get lost.â
âAll right, then Iâll get lost! Nian Nian, do you have any thoughts about this... Ah, damn, can you stop kicking me?â Xiao Da screamed sharply and quickly covered his thigh and jumped up.
Xiao Luye lowered his eyes and rubbed between his eyebrows.
...
Zhao Xiaoqing finally took advantage of the weekend afternoon when Shi Niange could leave the company early to have a meal with her.
âYou were only in university for two years and were about to enter your third year of university when you suddenly left. In the past few years, everyone has been doing their internships. Also, many people in the class came and went, so there are not many familiar faces around. You werenât around during the past class reunions.â Zhao Xiaoqing drank sweet milk and said, âBut you should go to the high school reunion, right?â
Shi Niange glanced at Zhao Xiaoqingâs flat abdomen. It seemed that it had been more than a month since she had found out that she was pregnant. Her stomach had yet to show.
âYouâre pregnant. You should pay more attention to what you eat and drink. The milk in this milk tea shop has a lot of sugar in it. Itâs not good for the child,â Shi Niange said.
âAiya, you speak as if you had been through pregnancy.â Zhao Xiaoqing chuckled. âI feel that Iâve gained weight recently. That damn Hao Xiushe makes all sorts of food every day. Now that he has lost a lot of weight, he wants to feed me until Iâm fat while Iâm pregnant. I try my best to control my diet every day. Ai, but I still want to eat. After eating, I throw up. Itâs too uncomfortable.â
Shi Niange smiled without saying anything.
When Zhao Xiaoqing and Hao Xiushe got married, she was abroad and did not come to the wedding. She only asked someone to send gifts.
When the two of them sat at the back table, Zhao Xiaoqing was a shy girl and Hao Xiushe a little fatty. Now everyone had changed. The fatty was no longer fat, and the shy Zhao Xiaoqing was more lively and cheerful. Her face was filled with happiness.
How nice.
âI didnât spend much time with everyone in high school. When you were in your third year of high school, I suddenly jumped from the second year of high school. When thinking back to the days when I went to the teacherâs office every day to supplement my high school curriculum, I wonder how I managed to persevere.â Shi Niange smiled.
âHow else can you hold on? Itâs all thanks to Almighty Qin. Without Almighty Qin in the class, how can a young lady like you work hard? You even sat obediently in the classroom and studied hard every day!â Zhao Xiaoqing said while laughing at her, âThe power of love.â
Shi Niange smiled calmly. As she smiled, she turned to look out of the milk tea shopâs window and sighed softly. âIt was so good when I was young.â
âYou speak as if youâre already old. Youâre only twenty-six years old. Arenât you still very young?â
âAt the very least, I wonât be as courageous as I was back then.â Shi Niange gently rubbed the cup of milk tea in her hand. âA person is brave only once in their lifetime. Iâve been brave, and now Iâve passed that period.â
Zhao Xiaoqing listened and stayed quiet. She then looked at her and said, âClass reunion, do you want to go or not? Although you only were part of the call for a year, everyoneâs relationship is not bad. In the past few years, Iâve often heard people talking about you in the group chat. They even said that they were young back then and didnât know how to cozy up to you. If they had known earlier, they would have hugged your thigh. If they follow CEO Shi, they think they can work less for a few years.â
Shi Niange smiled. âWho said so?â
âThose boys in the group. You donât have to care about the girls. When we were in school, they were very jealous. They were jealous of your family background and of you sitting with Almighty Qin. Anyway, some people who are worth meeting again will go.â Speaking up to this point, Zhao Xiaoqing said in a low voice, âThey also said theyâll try to convince Almighty Qin to come to the gathering. Previously, someone met Almighty Qin at the hospital and told him about the class reunion. Almighty Qin said he didnât have time, but if he has time, he will consider it.â
Shi Niange asked, âDoes he know that youâve also invited me?â
âI think so.â
âThen he probably wonât go.â