Chapter 354 Do you like him?
Qiao Xing didn't want to reply to him, but after putting her phone down, she picked it up again and replied: How did you know?
She'd only just arrived at the hotel, and he already knew? Could he be spying on her?
Qin Ce said, "Yang Han said it."
I just ran into Yang Han at the door. Those two are like brothers, they'll definitely tell Qin Ce about this.
Qiao Xing turned off her phone and tossed it aside, not wanting to talk to him anymore.
She came to Haishi because she didn't want to see Qin Ce. Being so far apart, they could both calm down.
In the evening, Bai Yi invited her out for dinner and suggested they take a stroll around Haishi.
Qiao Xing originally wanted to sleep, but she wasn't sleepy, so she went with her.
It's not cold in Haishi this time of year; even if you wear two layers of clothing out late at night, you won't feel cold at all.
The two grabbed a quick bite nearby, mainly heading to the city center to broaden their horizons.
There was a bit of traffic on the road. Qiao Xing realized that the traffic here was even worse than in Chongqing. As far as the eye could see, the road was a sea of red.
Bai Yi was chatting on his phone, ignoring Qiao Xing, who was sitting next to him, feeling very bored.
"Team Leader Bai, are you working?" Qiao Xing couldn't help but ask.
Bai Yi said without looking up, "He's with Wang Ye. He's arguing with Linlin."
"Ah..." Qiao Xing scratched his head, "Why were you arguing?"
“Because Linlin wanted to eat ice cream, Wang Ye wouldn’t buy it for him,” Bai Yi said, then added, “I’m the one who won’t let him eat it, he’s losing his baby teeth right now.”
"Then what should we do?"
"Isn't this an attempt to find a solution?"
Linlin and Wang Ye didn't get along to begin with. Linlin was unhappy that he suddenly had a father, and Wang Ye didn't want to take care of him either. It was no wonder that the two of them would cause trouble when they got together.
As Bai Yi was chatting, she suddenly received a video call from Linlin.
"Mom," Linlin said in the video, her eyes brimming with tears and accusation, "that guy bullied me."
"What, that guy? He's your Uncle Wang Ye."
"No, that's not true! I don't like him."
Bai Yi sighed and said softly, "Why don't you like him? You used to say that everyone else had a father who would pick them up, but you didn't. Now he picks you up every day. Aren't you happy?"
Linlin pouted, unable to utter a word for a long time.
The kids at school often called him a wild child without a father, took his things, wouldn't play with him, and always said they wouldn't play with people without fathers.
He was often isolated.
After Wang Ye came to pick him up, although he said he didn't like it, he stood up much straighter at school than before.
When his classmates asked who that person was, his strong vanity compelled him to tell everyone that it was his father.
It seems that having a father allows him to fit in with everyone and become a normal person, instead of being an outcast.
but!
The thought of this person competing with him for his mother made him dislike them again.
So during this time, he was always awkward and conflicted with Wang Ye, saying that he didn't like him, but when Wang Ye took him around, he didn't resist, so he kept arguing with him.
Bai Yi had already seen through his thoughts, so after coaxing him for a while, Linlin obediently hung up the phone.
Before hanging up, you could still hear Wang Ye complaining on the other end of the phone.
"I really owe you guys something. I borrowed money from you and now I have to take care of your child. I must have killed someone in my past life. Even my boss doesn't exploit you like this!"
Upon hearing this, Bai Yi chuckled and then hung up the video call.
Qiao Xing rarely saw Bai Yi smile like that. Most of the time, her smile was polite and distant, carrying a sense of distance.
Now she's laughing from the bottom of her heart.
Qiao Xing was very confused. Bai Yi and Wang Ye hadn't known each other for long, and they hadn't had much interaction before. What did Bai Yi see in him?
The more Qiao Xing thought about it, the more her heart ached. She asked, "Team Leader Bai, what exactly made you fall for my cousin?"
Bai Yi put her phone away, thought for a moment, then turned to look at Qiao Xing. Instead of answering her question, she asked in return, "What do you think of him as a person?"
"This..." Qiao Xing thought for a moment, but couldn't think of anything that was good about him.
After thinking it over carefully, he said, "He was quite mischievous when he was in school, but he was also very loyal. He would share his five yuan with his brothers, like a little rascal, but not quite like a little rascal."
“He is kind-hearted. Once after school, I saw him helping an old man who collects recyclables push his cart with his friends.”
Bai Yi listened attentively with a smile, clearly interested in Wang Ye's past.
After that, Wang Ye went out to work as a laborer, but he still maintained his sense of justice. When his brothers were in trouble and asked him for money, he would lend them his wages even if he had to eat instant noodles himself.
When we go out to eat, he always insists on paying the bill.
After he got a girlfriend, under Lily's guidance, he became much more restrained and stopped lending money. However, he spent all his money on Lily.
Bai Yi already knew most of the other things, so Qiao Xing didn't say much more.
Bai Yi asked, "Putting aside his education and money, what do you think of him?"
Qiao Xing nodded. "It's fine."
"That's fine. Perhaps many people will think that a man like him is just bad because he doesn't have money, and that he would turn bad once he has money."
Bai Yi smiled and said, "But I'm not going to make that decision. I know I didn't misjudge him because he was willing to lend me so much money."
For an ordinary person like him, two million is not a small amount, but he never thought of touching the money, nor did he become arrogant because of it.
So he's a very sentimental person, and money might not be that important to him.
"Besides, he's not the kind of person who idles away his time, so I believe he won't continue like this forever."
Qiao Xing was somewhat surprised, "Then do you like him?"
Bai Yi thought for a moment and said frankly, "I wouldn't say I like him that much, I just admire him, but I'll definitely like him over time."
"When you meet a good man, whether you like him or not, you have to seize the opportunity, right? Good men are rare."
Qiao Xing scratched his head, feeling that Bai Yi's words made sense, but also feeling that she had something else in mind.
However, she trusted Bai Yi's judgment of people; he was sure he wouldn't be wrong.
Wang Ye is now thirty years old and mentally mature, so the idea of accompanying him as he grows up is no longer valid.
It was precisely because he had matured that Bai Yi saw his responsibility and commitment as a man, as well as his childlike heart.
Qiao Xing finally understood: Bai Yi wasn't really in love with Wang Ye, but rather with him as a person.
Bai Yi said, "Actually, no matter how good the relationship is, after being married for a long time, it's just like that."
Qiao Xing sighed, "Maybe."
She thought of Qin Ce again, the person she could never reach.
As time went by, her feelings faded, and she could foresee her own fate.
She insisted on divorce precisely because she didn't want to wait until they both hated each other and were kicked out. At least now that they were divorced, they could still have some beautiful memories together.
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