"Brother, why don't you go to the hospital to get it checked out? What if there are still shards of glass in the wound?" Gu Feiyang earnestly advised, but Murong Xiao remained unmoved.
"Don't you understand the principle that forced love is never sweet, and that nothing should be forced? I'm not going, and that's it. This is my hand; what does it matter to you if it's ruined? Why are you being so naive and sentimental?" Murong Xiao mocked.
Gu Feiyang shut up.
He lay on the sofa pretending to be dead, but out of the corner of his eye he noticed that Xiang Jin's face had turned even paler.
He rubbed his temples. Now, things had gotten even more complicated because of him. Why couldn't everyone just be simple? If only everyone were like Gu Feiyang. Sigh.
When Bai Ningshuang came out of her house, a black Rolls-Royce and a silver Maybach were parked on the side of the road.
"Sister-in-law, please take my car. I need to go to Haitang Bay for some business. I'll give you a ride." Gu Feiyang considerately opened the car door and made a warm welcome gesture.
Just as Xiang Jin was about to refuse, the silver Maybach in front suddenly opened its door, and Su Ming got out of the car: "Madam, aren't you getting in the car? Did you leave something behind? Do you need me to get it?"
"I have something to do, so I won't be going back yet." Someone probably didn't want him in the car. Su Ming was usually the best at guessing his boss's thoughts, but he made such a mistake today.
"Yes, madam. Please feel free to contact me if you need a car, and I will come to pick you up." Su Ming said goodbye, but the person in the car remained silent until the silver Maybach disappeared into the distance.
After saying goodbye, Gu Feiyang drove away, and Xiang Jin followed Bai Ningshuang upstairs.
The two cleaned up the kitchen and dishes, and tidied up the place. It was already four o'clock in the afternoon.
Bai Ningshuang was so tired that her back ached, and she said she was too exhausted and needed to be retrained, so she went back to her room to rest. Xiang Jin chuckled; she had done most of the work herself, yet Bai Ningshuang was the one who was most tired.
Xiang Jin made some dumplings for Bai Ningshuang and put them in the refrigerator so that she could eat them regularly. After finishing her work, she returned to the villa.
…………
Murong Xiao returned to the company.
During the meeting, his face was gloomy, which frightened the group of veterans so much that they couldn't even speak.
He then flew to Australia overnight, where there was an urgent project to discuss that required his presence.
Before leaving, Su Ming tentatively asked him if he had informed the people at the villa about his business trip. Murong Xiao simply replied in a gloomy tone that he was being nosy and said nothing more.
Su Ming looked at the blood seeping from the wound on his hand and sighed softly.
After arriving in Australia, Murong Xiao worked like a workaholic, spending almost all his time on the project, throwing himself into it wholeheartedly. This intimidated the team members, who were so careful that they didn't even dare to breathe too loudly while sleeping. After all, their boss valued the project so much, so they had to be on high alert to ensure they didn't make any mistakes.
However, this project was important, but not as important as Murong Xiao made it out to be. Su Ming felt that he seemed to be running away from something.
A week after the project was completed, they returned to China, where Gu Feiyang picked them up at the airport.
"My bro's treating tonight, order whatever you want!"
"With your meager purse, aren't you afraid of going bankrupt?" Murong Xiao sneered, sounding much better than a couple of days ago.
This was a quiet and unique private restaurant, where the food was spicy and savory, just to Murong Xiao's liking. He hadn't eaten properly for the past few days, and suddenly finding such delicious food, he couldn't help but eat a few more bites.
"How about it? Did I find a good place?"
"good."
"Not bad? Can you stop pretending?" Gu Feiyang scoffed, but Murong Xiao gave him a look and he immediately fell silent.
The two chatted casually while drinking, when Gu Feiyang went out to answer a phone call. Murong Xiao casually looked around, his gaze suddenly stopping.
In a corner not far away were Xiang Jin and Xu Jianshen.
The two talked about something, then suddenly smiled at each other. Xiang Jin's calm face was filled with a gentle smile, and her eyes were filled with a soft light.
His chest suddenly tightened, as if he were suffocating, causing him to clench his fists.
This woman... hasn't laughed like that in a long time.
The last time he laughed like that seemed to be when he was in Jia Nian. But today, he was actually laughing so happily at that kid Xu Jianshen, which was really... too much of an eyesore.
"Brother, your wife seems happier having dinner with her boss than with you. What's going on?" Gu Feiyang, returning from a phone call, couldn't resist rubbing salt into the wound.
Murong Xiao remained silent, simply drinking the wine in his cup.
"I'm telling you, you just don't understand women. Women are like cotton; if you're warm to them, they're warm; if you're cold to them, they're cold. You have to give first if you want a response." He gestured in one direction, where a couple was not far away. The man was helping the woman pick up food and gently wiping her mouth.
"Or perhaps, by giving a little more first, you might receive more in return." He pointed in another direction, where there was also a couple. The man was bending down to tie the woman's shoelaces, and the woman was holding an umbrella, looking at him tenderly.
“I still need these,” Murong Xiao sneered.
“You don’t need it, but your sister-in-law is just an ordinary person.”
"She's not ordinary." How could the woman he likes be ordinary?
"Yes, yes, she's not ordinary, but what if she just likes this ordinary life? Brother, listen to me on this. There's a saying, what's it again? Couples quarrel at the head of the bed and make up at the foot of the bed, right?"
Murong Xiao remained silent for a long time before finally saying, "She doesn't have me in her heart."
"What?"
Gu Feiyang was shocked.
After being shocked for several seconds, he shook his head vigorously: "Bro, you really don't understand women at all. Doesn't your wife have you in her heart? If she doesn't have you in her heart, I'll eat shit on live stream!"
"You don't understand." Murong Xiao downed the wine in his hand in one gulp.
"Bullshit, I saw it perfectly clearly!" Gu Feiyang was a little excited. "How about we make a bet? If you lose, you give me thirty million. If you win, I'll observe three years of mourning for you after you die!"
"What nonsense are you spouting!"
Gu Feiyang: "...Brother, when did you become so insecure?"
As they were chatting, Xiang Jin and Murong Xiao, who had just finished their meal, walked toward the door and happened to see Murong Xiao at the corner.
"The earth is so small, how come we can meet here?" Xu Jianshen went straight over to greet him. Xiang Jin had no choice but to follow, stiff and with her head down.
To my utter surprise, I encountered Murong Xiao here.
She hadn't seen him for several days.
Su Ming messaged her saying he was on a business trip, but didn't say where he was going. Several times she tried to ask him through their chat, but ultimately she couldn't bring herself to ask.
Unexpectedly, I saw it here.
Sun Yanqing recommended an expert from an auction house to her. When she added him on WeChat, she discovered that he was Xu Jianshen. But since they had already started chatting, she couldn't be too shy to keep quiet. So she took the initiative to invite him to dinner and asked him all the questions she wanted to know.
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