Chapter 6 Getting a marriage certificate: A woman who is both good at housework and beautiful as a flower...
Blue Star Cafe.
Ling Siyan picked up the coffee, took a sip, and her eyes were a little empty.
Until the light in front of my eyes dimmed.
Ling Siyan raised her eyes and looked at the man in casual clothes.
The man was tall and strong but not rough. He had sharp and heroic eyebrows and eyes, eyes like lacquer, a high nose bridge, and thin lips. He gave off an aura that he was not to be messed with and was extremely oppressive.
While Ling Siyan was looking at Lu Xiao, Lu Xiao was also looking at Ling Siyan.
"Miss!"
"sit!"
They both spoke at the same time.
Ling Siyan was startled by Lu Xiao's address, but Lu Xiao had already sat down at the booth opposite her.
People who didn't know the situation would think the two were old friends meeting.
But who would have thought that the last time they met was 14 years ago.
At the time, she was in the midst of a divorce.
Less than two years after marrying her husband, she unexpectedly discovered that he already had an illegitimate daughter who was one year older than her son.
Her two years of persistence became a joke.
She insisted on getting a divorce, but Han Jisheng refused.
The two of them had been entangled for several months, and it became extremely embarrassing.
When she was drunk one time, someone took advantage of her and drugged her, which led to that night with Lu Xiao.
It was a night she never wanted to think about.
Because of Han Chengyu's precedent, she bought the birth control pills and took them early the next morning.
But even so, she still became pregnant with Ling Yi.
She has a special physical condition and cannot have an abortion, otherwise the mother will be in danger.
If not for this, not only Ling Yi but also Han Chengyu would not have been born.
After all, Han Chengyu was the child she had given birth to with joy and expectation.
She didn't hate Han Jisheng much, but rather blamed herself for not judging people well and for not listening to his advice.
So even if she was betrayed later, she was able to not vent her anger on Han Chengyu.
But Ling Yi is different.
She hated the person who shamelessly and despicably drugged others.
Hence, she ignored the child for more than ten years, which was the result of her trying hard to forget the other half's blood flowing in the child.
The truth was not revealed until after the death of the previous life.
The person who drugged her was not the same person she had a one-night stand with.
The person she had a one-night stand with was the person who saved her.
That was the last time she and Lu Xiao saw each other, but she was unconscious at the time and had no memory of what happened that night.
Going further back was the day she left the Ling family.
Before that day, Lu Xiao was her bodyguard, and after that day, they went their separate ways.
Ling Siyan came back to her senses from her memories, looked at the cold and hard brows of the man opposite her, and sighed in her heart.
Lu Xiao is such a cruel person!
He was so cruel to the mother and son that even though he clearly cared about them, he never showed up for more than ten years and watched his own son being treated coldly and being looked down upon and bullied by the world.
He was also cruel to himself, so cruel that he was willing to bear all the infamy to avenge her, and use his flesh and blood to block the gunfire and bullets, just to die with his son who was imprisoned.
But she is not far behind.
She was so cruel that she ignored the child she carried for more than ten months for more than ten years.
Ling Siyan asked her if she didn't say anything and followed the man who had been silent all the time: "What do you want to drink?"
He remembered the huge words "Blue Star Coffee" on the sign above his head when he entered the door, but Lu Xiao had never drunk coffee.
Thinking back to the first time he went to a bar and was asked what he wanted to drink, he answered that he wanted to drink and the other people looked at him like an idiot. Lu Xiao swallowed the word "coffee" that was about to come out of his mouth and replaced it with: "Whatever."
Then Lu Xiao watched Ling Siyan call the waiter and said to him, "Give this gentleman a glass of 'whatever you want'."
The waitress's face, which was still smiling, froze, but she had a high EQ and was quick to react. She smiled and said to Lu Xiao, "Please forgive me, sir, we don't have the brand of coffee called 'Sui Yi' in our store. Would you like to try the 'Blue Mountain Coffee' that sells well in our store? This coffee..."
The waiter introduced the coffee bar in the store and continued to look at the customers with a smile.
Lu Xiao had a cold face and said woodenly: "Then let's have Blue Mountain Coffee."
"Okay, sir, please wait a moment!"
Lu Xiao pretended to raise his eyes casually, and saw the person opposite him looking at him with a smile in his eyes.
Lu Xiao paused tapping his thigh with his fingertips and shifted his gaze to the table as if nothing had happened.
Ling Siyan was a little angry when she saw that Lu Xiao was determined to be a mute.
When he was my bodyguard, he couldn't utter a word for ten days or half a month.
Thinking about how Ling Yi spoke word by word in front of him, they really were father and son.
"Don't you have anything to ask?"
Lu Xiao was straightforward. He did have something he wanted to ask: "How did you find that person? How do you know he's mine?"
Lu Xiao was really confused. The people sent to protect Ling Siyan were all international mercenaries, and they all had excellent concealment abilities.
He had been with Ling Siyan for more than ten years without being discovered, so how come he was suddenly exposed?
Ling Siyan took a sip of coffee and said slowly: "I won't tell you."
She said that she couldn’t tell it now and she didn’t want to lie to Lu Xiao.
Lu Xiao choked for a moment and was speechless.
Ling Siyan asked again: "Anything else you want to ask?"
Lu Xiao uttered two words in a sullen voice: "It's gone."
For some reason, Ling Siyan could hear a hint of grievance in Lu Xiao's stiff tone.
Ling Siyan felt a little guilty, but it was not her fault, because the questions he asked were exactly the ones she could not answer at the moment.
If he asked her why she had come to him, she would be able to answer.
Ling Siyan was not right but still confident, "Then I have a question for you."
Lu Xiao's heart skipped a beat. He knew what Ling Siyan wanted to ask, but he couldn't think of a reasonable explanation after thinking about it all the way.
He was panicking inside, but his face was as calm as an old dog. He said, "Ask."
"Did you bring the household registration booklet that I asked you to bring?"
"They are not monitoring..." Lu Xiao was halfway through explaining when he looked up at Ling Siyan with a confused look on his face: "What did you say?"
Ling Siyan repeated patiently, "Did you bring the household registration booklet that I asked you to bring?"
Lu Xiao was a little confused, "I brought it."
"That's good." Ling Siyan glanced at the time. "It's 10:35 now. It takes half an hour to drive to the Civil Affairs Bureau. By the time we get the certificate, it will be almost time for lunch. What do you like to eat? I'll book a restaurant in advance."
Lu Xiao felt that he understood every word Ling Siyan said, but when they were put together, he couldn't understand.
"What did you say? Go to the Civil Affairs Bureau and get a certificate for what?"
Ling Siyan sneered: "What kind of certificate can we get from the Civil Affairs Bureau? Either a marriage certificate or a divorce certificate. If you want a divorce certificate, we have to get a marriage certificate first."
After saying that, Ling Siyan blinked and said, "Or do you not want a wife like me who is good at housework, beautiful, and can earn money to support the family?"
After understanding the meaning of Ling Siyan's words, Lu Xiao's heart was beating like a drum. He suspected that he was hallucinating. It took him a long time to find his voice: "Don't joke..."
"You should know your son's situation at school," Ling Siyan said, her face straightening as she interrupted Lu Xiao, "Do you want him to always be labeled a bastard and be despised and bullied?"
She knows!
There was a buzzing sound in Lu Xiao's ears. He closed his eyes and asked in a hoarse voice, "When did you know?"
He didn't dare look at Ling Siyan, for fear of seeing contempt, disgust, nausea and hatred in her eyes.
"I just found out." Ling Siyan looked at Lu Xiao and said, "Lu Xiao, open your eyes and look at me."
Lu Xiao's cheek muscles twitched, and he opened his eyes to meet Ling Siyan's eyes.
Seeing the anxiety and fragility in the eyes of this man who was so determined even when facing the gun, Ling Siyan sighed.
"Lu Xiao, I'm 36 and you're 37, we're not young anymore. We still have a few more 14 years to miss. Life is fleeting, so we should enjoy life while we can, do what we want, and leave no regrets."
Yes, it was missed!
She didn't know whether Lu Xiao regretted rejecting her confession. There was no point in looking for answers to things that had already passed.
There was no emotion in the woman's eyes as he imagined she would have after learning the truth, only peace.
Lu Xiao clenched his hands on his knees into fists, and a voice in his mind kept repeating: "Promise her, promise her..."
Ling Siyan tilted her head to look out the window. Outside, people were coming and going, and it was bustling and prosperous.
"I've been alone for the past fourteen years. I'm very tired and lonely. Occasionally, I want to have a shoulder to lean on." There was a hint of melancholy in Ling Siyan's voice.
Hearing this, Lu Xiao felt a pain in his heart and veins on his arms bulged.
Why not?
Why couldn't she belong to him?
She was the moon in the sky that he was willing to admire and love all his life, and he felt that she was destined to be paired with a man of destiny who was well-matched with him.
He can accompany her to various banquets with ease, and can wear a suit elegantly and appropriately. When standing side by side with her, people call him a golden boy and a jade girl.
Instead of associating with a poor boy like him who had no parents, was born in an orphanage, and barely finished high school with the help of the Ling family.
He wished that she would always be the bright moon hanging high in the sky, admired by everyone, rather than being pulled down into the dust by him.
He could follow her closely and be her shadow, but he was not worthy of standing beside her.
That's what he thinks.
So when she told him that she liked him, he said, "I already have someone I like."
No one could know how unwilling he was when he said those words.
But in the end, she didn't get what she wanted.
Obviously she was so bright and lively when she was young, but later she rarely smiled.
If that's the case, why can't I be the one to make her happy?
Lu Xiao loosened his clenched fist and his eyes fell on Ling Siyan's hand on the table. He encouraged himself in his heart and bravely shook it.
Under Ling Siyan's surprised gaze, his voice trembled slightly: "Okay, let's go get the certificate."
Ling Siyan looked at the wheat-colored palm covering her hand, then looked at Lu Xiao with a strange look in her eyes.
Lu Xiao was already feeling uncomfortable because of the smooth, delicate and slightly cool touch of his palms, and under Ling Siyan's gaze, he tried hard to suppress the urge to retract his hand.
He said calmly, "Aren't we getting married? I, I'll hold your hand in advance, what's wrong with that?"
Ling Siyan felt a little uncomfortable in her heart, but when she saw Lu Xiao like this, she almost laughed out loud.
An hour later, at the entrance of the Civil Affairs Bureau, Lu Xiao was still a little dazed as he looked at the two freshly printed red books in his hands.
He felt as if he were in a dream. Everything that had happened since Dill found him and told him that he had been discovered seemed too good to be true.
Ling Siyan stretched out her hand towards Lu Xiao and said with a smile: "Why don't you leave one with me? I may need it in the future!"
Lu Xiao tightened his grip on the red book and instinctively hid his hands behind his back. "Just keep it for me. I will keep it safe and won't let anyone steal it."
Ling Siyan finally couldn't help but burst out laughing.
Who would steal a marriage certificate? Haha! Why didn't she find this man so cute before?
Lu Xiao didn't understand why, but the woman smiling in the sun was so breathtakingly beautiful that Lu Xiao also grinned.
People in their thirties and forties are not as talkative about love as they were in their teens and twenties. Time teaches people to be calm, but it also deprives them of the ability to be easily happy.
It is a great fortune to have someone by your side on the journey of life when you are carrying heavy burdens and who makes you happy to see him or her.
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