Chapter 5 Chapter 5 I owe you one

Ruan Xiangyi was so frightened by the sudden sound behind her that she missed a step and fell down. Fortunately, the hand grabbed her arm and stopped her. After she stabilized her body, the hand quickly withdrew.

"Thank you." Ruan Xiangyi moved her lips.

Under the street light, the redness and swelling on the skin became more obvious. Zhao Qingshi looked away and grabbed her wrist and walked towards the car on the side of the road.

"I was the one who broke off the engagement, why did she hit you?" He opened the car door, leaned against it and looked down at her.

Ruan Xiangyi shook her head, obviously not wanting to answer.

Zhao Qingshi raised his head and looked away, making way for him: "Get in the car, I'll take you back to school."

When I got in the car, I realized how cold the wind outside was and I couldn't help shivering.

As her body warmed up and her mind came back to reality, Ruan Xiangyi looked at the man driving and said, "Does this count as taking a slap for you?"

Zhao Qingshi glanced at her and asked, "Do you think it counts?"

Ruan Xiangyi nodded: "Ruan Lingyu dare not vent her anger on you."

"So," Zhao Qingshi's gaze fell on her face again, "are you so easy to bully?"

Ruan Xiangyi lowered her eyes.

"I owe you this. You can always come to me if you need anything from now on." Zhao Qingshi stared at her head. "Are you satisfied?"

Ruan Xiangyi shook her head.

"?"

She raised her watery eyes and said, as if accusingly, "You said the same thing that time."

"Which time?" Zhao Qingshi couldn't remember.

Ruan Xiangyi didn't say anything, just looked at him, her eyes seemed to reveal that he was a bastard who didn't keep his word.

"That time?" He remembered.

That morning, she also raised her aggrieved eyes and said to him: Can you please not tell anyone?

Just tonight, he deliberately teased her, saying that he would regret it, no wonder she didn't believe it. For the first time, Zhao Qingshi felt that he was not a human being.

"I won't regret it this time."

Ruan Xiangyi held the phone in her hand and asked, "Can I record it?"

"Okay." Zhao Qingshi readily snatched her phone, turned on the recording, and said lazily, "It's 12:30 AM Beijing time now. I, Zhao Qingshi, promise Ruan Xiangyi that no matter what happens in the future, I will agree to any request she makes, no matter how unreasonable it is."

After recording and saving the audio, he threw the phone to Ruan Xiangyi and said in a dignified manner, "As for me, even if there is a recording, as long as I don't want to agree, you can't do anything to me."

Ruan Xiangyi examined it carefully, as if she had grasped something that could make her feel at ease: "I know, when the time comes, I'll put it on the news for you."

Zhao Qingshi was choked.

Ruan Xiangyi put away her phone, looked at the road ahead and hesitated for a moment, then reported her new address: "Is it on your way? If not, just find an intersection to drop me off."

Zhao Qingshi laughed when he heard it: "Why didn't you report this address just now?"

Ruan Xiangyi's eyes dodged: "I just wanted to go back to school."

She simply didn't want him to know her address, so Zhao Qingshi didn't expose her: "Because of your senior brother?"

After he reminded her, Ruan Xiangyi remembered Chen Huaimeng. She opened her phone and saw that there were indeed several missed calls. She quickly dialed them, but the line was always busy.

Ruan Xiangyi lowered her head to send him a message. Zhao Qingshi saw this and said casually, "It seems your senior brother doesn't answer the phone."

Ruan Xiangyi whispered, "He seems drunk."

Zhao Qingshi chuckled softly, and for the first time ever, he was a good person who followed through on his duties. "Do you still need to go pick him up? I can take you there."

Ruan Xiangyi put away her phone and quickly shook her head: "No, no."

She explained, "It's so late, they should have dispersed. I won't go. I have to go to work tomorrow."

"Not too stupid," Zhao Qingshi commented. "Do you know what it means to pick up a drunk man so late at night?"

Ruan Xiangyi seemed to understand what he was going to say, but still followed his words and asked, "What?"

"It's nothing more than having sex, a one-night stand. All men are the same."

"Senior brother is not that kind of person."

"I'm not talking about your senior brother," Zhao Qingshi scoffed. "I'm talking about all men. You work in a TV station, where there's a lot of good and bad people. In a situation like today, if Song Yuhuan has bad intentions and keeps you playing mahjong so late, his intentions must be obvious."

Ruan Xiangyi quickly understood what he meant and asked, "So what are we doing now? It's so late, and you offered to take me home."

Zhao Qingshi curled his lips: "I'm not a good person either."

Ruan Xiangyi was very convinced that Zhao Qingshi was the worst man she had ever met.

Ruan Xiangyi immediately pretended to be dead and said weakly, "I want to sleep for a while."

Zhao Qingshi chuckled.

The bar with the rocking dance floor.

Ruan Lingyu invited a few friends out for a drink. At midnight, He Wen asked, "Does your sister have a boyfriend?"

When Ruan Lingyu heard her friend asking about that bitch Ruan Xiangyi, she kicked him in displeasure: "Why are you mentioning that bitch? What? You're still obsessed with her. You want to seduce her."

He Wen grimaced in pain: "Fuck, you woman are so heavy-handed."

He recovered his strength and put on a sly smile, "Aren't you upset with your sister? I'll teach her a lesson for you."

"How to teach her a lesson? Fuck her?"

"You're such a rude person, damn it."

"Why are you pretending?" Ruan Lingyu kicked him again, but he dodged it. "You just f*cking think she's pretty."

"Think about it, your sister is so innocent, she must have never been in love before." He Wen patted his chest confidently, "Look at me, I'm handsome, it won't take me a minute to win her over. When the time comes, I can dump her after having enough fun. What do you think?"

"Aren't you afraid my dad will chop you up?"

"Why does your dad chop me up? It's a normal relationship."

"Okay." Ruan Lingyu agreed. "Bring her over to meet you in the next few days."

On Friday noon, Ruan Lingyu called and said she was waiting for her at the school gate.

Ruan Xiangyi rushed over from the TV station, and Ruan Lingyu was getting impatient waiting. "Stop dawdling! Do you know how long I've been waiting for you?"

"Sorry, I just got out of class." Ruan Xiangyi didn't want to talk to her and replied in a good mood.

"Come on, stop pretending. It's just an internship at a TV station. Do you think I don't know?" Ruan Lingyu sneered.

Even the good-tempered Ruan Xiangyi didn't have that much patience: "I didn't use Uncle Ruan's connections, I found it myself."

"Listen, that's such a bold statement." Ruan Lingyu sneered, "Didn't your mother find my father herself? She's quite good at it."

"If you are not satisfied with my mother, you can go and talk to Uncle Ruan yourself."

This was the first time that Ruan Xiangyi didn't give in to her.

Ruan Lingyu thought she saw a ghost.

Ruan Xiangyi added, "What do you want to talk to me about? If not, I'll leave first."

Ruan Lingyu was so angry that she almost laughed.

"I have a friend who wants to meet you."

Ruan Lingyu's friends were definitely not good people. When they took the initiative to ask to get to know her, it was definitely not an ordinary acquaintance.

That slap wasn't enough, she wanted to find a group of people to beat her up.

Ruan Xiangyi refused without a second thought: "I've been working overtime recently and don't have much time."

"You think I'm discussing this with you? I'm just fucking informing you." Ruan Lingyu was on the verge of a rage.

"Then I won't go either." She found that after the slap she gave her, she was now more adept at dealing with her.

Ruan Lingyu was so angry that she ran back to the TV station.

It was sunny outside today, and she felt her chest getting stuffy again, like a sign of heatstroke. She felt weak and powerless. She didn't know if it was because she didn't eat and her blood sugar was low.

Speaking of eating, my appetite has been not as good as before recently, and I feel nauseous when I see greasy food.

After lying at the workstation for a few minutes, Zhou Zilang came over hurriedly and said: A natural gas explosion occurred in an upscale residential area, grab your things and go there immediately.

*

After the wedding date was set, the two families had a meal together. After the meal, Zhao Qingshi sent Li Wenyin home.

Li Wenyin was sitting in the car and noticed that the seat below had been adjusted. Zhao Qingshi didn't drive often, and usually the driver drove. There were not many people who could ride in his car, and Li Wenyin suddenly remembered what her sister had said to her.

Although this kind of thing was very common in their circle, she still felt a heart attack when she thought about it. She absolutely could not tolerate it, so she calmly asked, "Did you send anyone home a few days ago?"

Zhao Qingshi sneered, "Are you meddling in my affairs so soon?"

Li Wenyin's face flushed: "No."

Zhao Qingshi remained silent.

Li Wenyin was about to say something when Zhao Qingshi poured a bucket of cold water on her: "Wenyin, knowing everything about some things is meaningless and will not benefit you either. Are you sure you want to know everything?"

From the day she knew she was going to marry him until the wedding date was set, she had been full of anticipation. Until now, when she understood the meaning of his words, the anticipation in her eyes dimmed: "But we are getting married."

The car braked suddenly and stopped. Zhao Qingshi turned to look at her, his eyes devoid of the joy of getting married, as if he wasn't the one getting married.

"It's just a marriage." These four simple words dealt a heavy blow to Li Wenyin.

*

When he returned home, he saw the servants standing in a row in the courtyard. Seeing this, Zhao Qingshi guessed what the scene inside was like.

He walked in, and Zhao Yaozi came to open the door to greet him: "You're back."

Zhao Qingshi simply said, "They're arguing again."

Zhao Yaozi nodded: "It's all because of me. Dad asked me to come over to get some documents, and I accidentally bumped into Auntie, which made her unhappy."

Zhao Yaozi was an illegitimate child, taken home when Zhao Qingshi was ten. Zhou Xunying disagreed, so she was kept away from home, only allowed to visit during holidays. As time went on, Zhao Wen grew increasingly dissatisfied, and he and Zhou Xunying argued over her affairs for two or three years.

Zhao Qingshi was already used to it and nodded: "You go back first, I'll take care of it."

He said he was going to deal with it just to coax Zhao Yaozi. He didn't care at all and went straight to the third floor. In public, they were a loving and beautiful couple, but in private, they were a pair of resentful lovers, tied together by interests.

Zhao Qingshi didn't stay long, grabbing his laptop and preparing to leave. The noise downstairs gradually calmed down, and when they faced him, they all fell into the same camp. Zhao Wen demanded, "Your Uncle Li called me and said you made Wen Yin cry?"

Zhao Qingshi sat down and unbuttoned his sleeves: "She went to complain so soon."

"What do you mean by complaining? She's your fiancée, and you're letting her suffer before they even get married. What does your Uncle Li think of this?"

"What do you want me to do over there?"

"Your Uncle Li said that you should go and coax her back, otherwise the marriage will not happen."

"I have no objection." Zhao Qingshi didn't care.

"You rebellious son, what are you talking about!" Zhao Wen was furious. "Wen Yin is such a good girl, what on earth are you dissatisfied with?"

Zhao Qingshi couldn't think of what he was dissatisfied with. On the contrary, he was not dissatisfied at all. Anyway, if he didn't marry her, he would marry someone else. It was all the same.

Zhao Qingshi looked at his parents and said one last thing before he stood up and left: "My mother is not well, are you happy now?"