Chapter 95 "You still know the current...

Shen Xiyu almost couldn't hold back his laughter.

Liang Qi was about to speak, but she shook her head to signal the man not to say anything.

He swallowed the words he had prepared, "What's wrong with not contacting you?"

"I knew it." Qin Yiyan's excitement suddenly subsided. "I haven't seen you do anything in all these years, and you haven't contacted anyone, but you're just secretly..."

"Cough cough cough..." Liang Qi suddenly started coughing and glanced at Shen Xiyu who was driving.

The girl didn't react much, but Qin Yiyan on the opposite side was frightened by his sudden voice.

"Oh my god, brother, are you sick?"

Liang Qi turned back to his seat and silently lowered the volume of his phone. He was afraid that Qin Yiyan might say more things he shouldn't.

"No."

"Then...should I come back and have dinner together?" Qin Yiyan tentatively suggested, "Let's meet in advance so that it won't be really awkward later."

Liang Qi raised his eyebrows and followed Shen Xiyu in teasing him, "Are you embarrassed in advance?"

"Oh no," the person opposite him said, looking a bit flustered. "That doesn't make sense. We'll all be sitting at the same table. I haven't been in touch with her in years. If you're all free, it would be nice to meet up beforehand."

Liang Qi didn't really intend to treat people as fools, so he decided to quit while he was ahead.

"Okay, we'll go back next week."

"You guys?" Qin Yiyan keenly caught the loophole in his words.

Shen Xiyu had just driven the car into the garage and turned off the engine when he gave Liang Qi a glare upon hearing this.

"I went back with my friend." Liang Qi lied without changing his expression or heartbeat.

But if you really think about it, it can't be considered a lie. How can a girlfriend not be considered a friend?

"Oh." Qin Yiyan truly believed what he said. "Then you should get some rest. I'm hanging up now. I'll pick you up when I land in Jiangcheng."

Liang Qi didn't comment on what he said. He just said a few more random words and then hung up.

*

There were only two people in the elevator at this time. Shen Xiyu was very tired after driving for such a long time. He half leaned on Liang Qi, hanging most of his weight on him.

"Chen Ningzhou is gone?" Liang Qi adjusted his posture so that she could lean more comfortably, and suddenly remembered that there was still this matter.

"Left early." Shen Xiyu said listlessly, "I drove him away tonight."

"I was wondering why you could bear to come out to pick me up." Liang Qi's words were full of resentment.

"Please don't make me sound like such a bad person, okay? I've been picking you up many times."

The elevator door opened and two people walked out.

"You left so quickly." Liang Qi thought he would stay for a few more days. "I haven't even said a few words to him yet."

"Come on." Shen Xiyu said happily as he bent down to change his shoes, "He must be scared to death."

"I was scared to death, okay?" Thinking back to when Liang Qi opened the door this morning, he almost didn't recognize the person. "Why didn't you tell me in advance?"

"He said he would come over soon, and I didn't have time to say hello to you." Shen Xiyu recalled that Chen Ningzhou seemed to have told him a few days ago that he would come over. "Who knew he would go on a business trip at the last minute and come early."

Liang Qi stopped talking and went to put food in the hot pot. Since he moved here, although the hot pot still ignored him and acted proudly, sometimes Chen Xiyu, the real owner, forgot to put cat food in the hot pot, and Liang Qi, the "fake father", had to come.

"But didn't he also tell Qin Yiyan that we are together?" Liang Qi turned his head to look for Shen Xiyu, and found that she had changed into pajamas and was lying on the sofa with snacks in one hand and a Coke in the other.

"No." Shen Xiyu said firmly, "He's a bad guy. He's been kept in the dark for so long, he must be biased towards others."

Liang Qi came over and deliberately blocked her view of the TV. "You do know him well."

Shen Xiyu swayed back and forth to avoid being blocked by his tall body, and casually replied, "There aren't many people who grew up with naked buttocks. How can I not understand his character?"

Hearing this, Liang Qi tried even harder to block her view.

Shen Xiyu was furious. She stood up and pounced on him. Her two white slender legs were tightly wrapped around his waist. One arm was around Liang Qi's neck, and the other hand was pinching his face.

Her movement came so suddenly that Liang Qi was pushed back two steps by the force. He quickly raised his hand to hold the girl's body steadily.

The two of them had a quarrel, and Shen Xiyu pulled Liang Qi to sit aside.

Liang Qi pulled out a strand of her hair and wrapped it around his knuckles, his dark eyes flashing with tiny sparks of light, "But why didn't you tell Qin Yiyan?"

"I don't know." Chen Xiyu crossed her legs and draped them over him, looking up at the chandelier on the ceiling. "Liang Qi, I think I'm a little homesick."

A handsome face with thick eyebrows and big eyes appeared in front of him, blocking the light in front of Shen Xiyu. Suddenly, there was nothing else in his sight except him.

"Crying?" Liang Qi saw a glimmer of tears in her eyes.

"How can I cry so easily?" The girl raised her lips. "The light is a bit bright. My eyes will get sore if I look at it for too long."

"Yeah." Liang Qi leaned over and kissed her eyes, "Don't be afraid, I'm here."

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Finally, a week later, Liang Qi finished dealing with all the important matters. After the company held its year-end summary meeting, they boarded the plane back to Jiangcheng.

However, Qin Yiyan did not come to pick them up. He wanted to get married before the New Year and was busy during this period. Liang Qi did not say hello to him and only told him after they landed.

Finally, Chen Ningning and Pei Wei drove to the airport.

Shen Xiyu was surprised at first when he saw that it was the two of them in the car.

She thought the person who came was Chen Ningzhou.

Inside the car, Pei Wei sat in the driver's seat. He looked very different from before. He was already much older than Liang Qi and the others, and now he had grown a little beard, which made him look a few years older. He wasn't ugly, but he looked a little weathered.

The two women in the back seat were chatting.

"Ning Zhou is busy, so we just happened to have some free time so we came here." Chen Ningning explained to her, "He's been incredibly busy since his promotion this year, and he doesn't even have time to see me, his sister."

"We are adults now, so there is no need to bother you to come." Shen Xiyu didn't intend to let others know, but he mentioned it to Chen Ningzhou, and he insisted on coming.

"That's too polite." Chen Ningning pretended to be angry, and frowned her pretty eyebrows.

The happier they were, the more out of place the silence of the two men in the front seat seemed.

The car passed by Jiangcheng Experimental High School without stopping, but Chen Xiyu still found that many of the small shops nearby had changed their storefronts. The sign with "Jiangcheng Experimental High School" printed in regular script, which used to look a bit gray in his memory, now looks brand new.

She vaguely saw several young boys and girls walking out of the school gate in a hurry as the bell rang.

Full of energy and accompanied by the sunset.

It turned out to be them from that year.

It turns out that many springs and summers have passed by in a flash.

…

After putting the luggage away, as Shen Xiyu expected, Liang Qi and Pei Wei asked to go out and talk alone.

Chen Ningning also tacitly did not ask any more questions, and everyone had some idea in their minds.

"You guys go ahead, I'll help Xi Yu pack up here."

The door was locked, and Shen Xiyu looked around the house she hadn't been back to for a long time. Compared to the large flat in Luocheng, it was much smaller, but in her heart, this was the place that felt more like "home".

It's not that she hasn't thought about coming back to develop and live in Jiangcheng for a long time over the years. Zhang Weifang has also advised her against it, but Shen Xiyu herself always has some anxiety that she can't explain why.

Whenever she wanted to come back, there was always a voice in her head telling her that since people are destined to be alone wherever they go, why should she return to this place that has carried so much pain and tears for her.

"After Liang Qi left, their project completely collapsed." Chen Ningning said, looking at the door, "It's better to talk about it, otherwise it will always be a knot in the bag."

Her words brought Shen Xiyu back to his senses from his detached mood.

Shen Xiyu wasn't entirely clear on the subsequent developments of their previous incident. But thinking back, Liang Qi's sudden departure abroad, forced to lose contact, was a devastating loss and a fatal blow to their then-struggling team.

“…”

Liang Qi and Pei Wei didn't walk far. They walked to the stairwell on the next floor, one in front and one behind.

During the two steps, Pei Wei did not speak, but turned his dark back head towards Liang Qi.

Liang Qi remained silent, his eyes lowered, waiting for Pei Wei to speak.

After a long silence, the man who had been calm just now lost his patience and dignity.

Pei Wei stepped forward and grabbed Liang Qi by the collar of his clothes.

Liang Qi didn't use any force, letting him pull him and causing him to stagger two steps.

The heavy breathing full of masculinity was particularly clear in the empty corridor.

Pei Wei's eyes turned red.

"How dare you, how dare you come back!"

Liang Qi turned his head away and said, "I have the qualifications and freedom to come back here."

Pei Wei was irritated by his attitude.

"You do, you, Mr. Liang, no, I should call you Mr. Liang now." Pei Wei sneered, sparing no effort to irritate him. "You, Mr. Liang, are so cool. From the beginning to the end, we are the only ones who care about the competition and the event of that year, right?!"

"Xiaopang and Brother Li were both in their thirties at the time, you know?" Pei Wei's eyes were filled with anger and suppressed emotions. "Brother Li was using nearly ten years of savings to play house with you!"

Liang Qi did not refute him. Compared with Pei Wei's excitement, he even seemed a little too cold.

"I can't help it, Pei Wei. You should know the situation of our family at that time. With my ability at that time, I couldn't stay by myself."

"You can't do anything about it. You really can't do anything about it." Pei Wei was getting more and more angry. "So, we deserve it, right? Did you say the same thing to Chen Xiyu?"

"We deserve the bad luck of getting you into this gang, and Chen Xiyu deserves to be in a relationship with you, right?" He pushed Liang Qi hard against the wall, "We all deserve it, don't we?"

Liang Qi felt deeply powerless, and his movements were very stiff. He slowly stood up, took a deep breath, and brushed back the loose hair on his forehead, revealing his clear eyebrows and eyes.

Pei Wei looked at him and suddenly found himself ridiculous. "You're not like Liang Qi. He wouldn't be so indifferent." He took two steps back. "Do you still recognize yourself now?"

The man who was usually at ease in any situation suddenly lost his temper and could only apologize to Pei Wei stiffly.

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The author has something to say: Why did md unconsciously expand again...

Please let me finish it tomorrow.

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