Extra Chapter: Xie Qingtang: Are you calm now?
Zhang Qin wasn't planning on causing any trouble; she was more concerned about something else.
[Zhang Qin: ...His family saw it too?]
[SuiSui: I saw it. Even their grandparents saw it.]
Since the advent of Weibo and various short video apps, nothing can be kept secret from netizens across the country. If something is kept secret, it's either because it was kept too well hidden, or it wasn't sensational enough.
Zhang Qin tensed up instantly.
She wanted to ask the Xie family what they had to say, but she was afraid of hearing a bad answer.
Zhang Qin couldn't help but feel annoyed. She should have known better than to let Xie Qingtang "coax" her.
Now that everyone has seen it, who would believe her if she tried to explain that she and Xie Qingtang weren't in that kind of relationship?
Regardless of whether Zhang Qin asked or not, Huo Huai Sui, that big mouth, blurted it all out.
[Sui Sui: My aunt said that as long as you accept my older brother, she will prepare a wedding house and car for you, and a dowry... no, she will give a 6 billion yuan betrothal gift.]
Zhang Qin was stunned.
It's not because of 6 billion.
She heard another layer of meaning in Huo Huaisui's words.
Does this mean the Xie family has accepted her?
To be honest, Zhang Qin never thought the Xie family would accept her.
Although the Zhang family is wealthy, they are no match for the Xie family. Moreover, she is divorced, and rumors about her infertility have spread throughout the social circle.
The Xie family was actually willing to accept her, despite all this.
Zhang Qin couldn't quite explain how she felt.
Surprise, delight, joy, happiness, loneliness, sadness.
The Xie family, a distinguished family with a century-long history, accepting her is a form of recognition, and she is truly happy about it.
So happy that I couldn't wait to rush over and take Xie Qingtang home.
But... but Xie Qingtang doesn't like her.
His current indulgence towards her is only because his family is pressuring him to get married.
Thinking of this, Zhang Qin immediately lost her joy.
[Zhang Qin: What you said sounds tempting, but unfortunately I'm a rational love-struck person.]
In the past, Zhang Qin loved Xie Qingtang dearly, and she would have wanted to marry him regardless of whether he liked her or not.
But after experiencing one marriage, Zhang Qin no longer thinks that way.
If you can't even make do with someone you don't love, how much more so with someone you do? She was already in so much pain because she didn't like Sun Yi, but she loved Xie Qingtang yet couldn't have him completely, which would only make her more miserable.
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Zhang Qin's words were a bit convoluted, and Huo Huai Sui didn't want to think about it, so he simply took a screenshot of the chat history and sent it to Xie Qing Tang.
Xie Qingtang saw the message from Huo Huaisui, but did not reply. Instead, she opened her contacts and dialed the unfamiliar number.
Zhang Qin was engrossed in watching a drama on her tablet and answered the call without checking the caller ID, "Hello—"
A familiar male voice came through: "Are you calm now?"
Zhang Qin's heart suddenly tightened, and even her breathing faltered. It took her a while to find her voice, and she said in a muffled voice, "No."
Xie Qingtang smiled silently, "What do I need to do to calm you down?"
His voice was very low, as if he were whispering in her ear.
Zhang Qin tightened her grip on the phone, then said calmly, "Take a megaphone to the shopping mall plaza and shout, 'Zhang Qin, my little fairy, I love you forever.'"
"..."
The shopping center plaza is the largest and most bustling commercial district in City A. It was there that Gu Suixing proposed to Lu Fengqing.
Seeing that the person on the other end of the phone remained silent, Zhang Qin pouted and said, "If you don't agree, I'll hang up."
Xie Qingtang: "You come out first."
Zhang Qin was stunned for a moment. When she came to her senses, she was standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window with her phone in her hand.
As night falls, lights come on in every home, the noise is hidden inside each house, and the streets of the neighborhood are quiet.
A tall figure stood quietly at the gate of her house, the dim yellow streetlights casting his shadow long.
It hasn't snowed in City A for almost a month, but I don't know when it started snowing lightly outside.
Petals drifted down onto him.
It fell into her heart little by little.
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