Bai Xiaoqing was looking at her paintings on the wall. Hearing this, she replied calmly, "Not really. I'm still a blind date."
Bai Xiaoling was suddenly stunned.
Bai Xiaoqing didn't have a girlfriend in college. After graduation, he went to work in a department. Now he is indeed at the age to get married and start a family.
But Bai Xiaoling was still shocked when she heard Bai Xiaoqing say this. She couldn't imagine what kind of girl Bai Xiaoqing would date or marry.
Bai Xiaoling put on some makeup specially and went to the appointment with Bai Xiaoqing at noon.
The other person was said to be the daughter of one of Bai Xiaoqing's superiors, about the same age as Bai Xiaoqing. She was dressed in a pearly white suit and had elegant manners. Sitting next to the equally well-mannered Bai Xiaoqing, the two looked like a perfect match.
Bai Xiaoling, with her seaweed-like curly hair, exaggerated sequins on her eyelids, and wearing layered suspender skirts and jeans, looked like she was from a completely different world from them.
Bai Xiaoqing introduced her to the woman: "This is my biological sister, Bai Xiaoling."
Bai Xiaoling snorted coldly: "Who is your sister?"
"Xiaoling." Seeing her so ignorant, Bai Xiaoqing frowned.
Bai Xiaoling sneered: "Am I wrong? When did you and your father regard me and my mother as family members? In your eyes, my mother is just a..."
Seeing that she was getting more and more outrageous, Bai Xiaoqing scolded her harshly, "Bai Xiaoling!"
"I don't want the last name Bai!" Bai Xiaoling yelled back, "Who cares about your last name?"
This meal was ruined.
Bai Xiaoqing’s blind date also failed.
People like them who work within the system attach great importance to reputation. The other party had originally had a good impression of Bai Xiaoqing, but after hearing about the chaotic situation in their family, he declined.
Bai Xiaoling suddenly lost her temper and said she was fed up with Bai Xiaoqing's pathological desire for control.
She hated this family, hated Bai Xiaoqing, and hated the whole world. She was so miserable that she felt she might as well die. She wanted to go abroad and be free.
She quarreled with Bai Xiaoqing at home every day, and sometimes even beat Bai Xiaoqing, scratching Bai Xiaoqing's face and neck, leaving bloody marks.
She didn't know that Bai Xiaoqing had lost an opportunity for promotion because of her.
In the end, Bai Xiaoqing compromised and angrily sent her abroad. He also cut off all her credit cards and only provided her tuition and living expenses, telling her to fend for herself abroad.
Bai Xiaoling packed her luggage and left, staying abroad for five years.
During these five years, Bai Xiaoling has never returned to China.
Bai Xiaoqing did come to see her, but because of the special nature of his job, he only came a few times, purely to see if she had picked up any bad habits abroad and whether she was in good health.
It was not until his father passed away suddenly that Bai Xiaoling returned to China to mourn.
At this time they became brother and sister again, wearing black mourning clothes, welcoming and seeing off mourners in front of the mourning hall.
At night, Bai Xiaoling knelt before her father's coffin, silently dropping paper money into the brazier one by one. As the flames flickered, she suddenly heard Bai Xiaoqing behind her say, "I'm quitting."
His father passed away suddenly, and Bai Xiaoling was a child who only knew how to paint and was immersed in his own world, not knowing how expensive food and daily necessities were. The family needed someone to support it.
In the end, Bai Xiaoqing quit his decent job, took over his father's legacy and started a business.
Doing business doesn’t have as many rules as his previous job and is relatively freer, but it’s very tiring.
Bai Xiaoqing, who has always been old-fashioned and has a regular schedule, also had to learn to drink and socialize, and sometimes even came home drunk late at night.
Bai Xiaoling has always had an irregular lifestyle and is used to staying up late.
One time, when she came out of the studio, she saw Bai Xiaoqing, who had returned at some point, half lying on the sofa in the living room. He was obviously drunk, with his body leaning against the sofa, his long legs drooping on the ground, and he fell asleep in such an awkward position.
Bai Xiaoling walked over, kicked his leather shoes, and told him to go back to his bedroom and sleep.
Bai Xiaoqing was kicked awake by her and slowly opened his eyes. There was indeed a hint of drunkenness in his amber eyes.
He obediently tried to get up, but his drunken body refused to obey him. He took a staggering step and almost fell on the coffee table.
Bai Xiaoling quickly supported him and half dragged and half carried the drunk back to the bedroom.
Bai Xiaoqing leaned against her and suddenly began to sigh: "Xiaoling has grown up."
"I grew up a long time ago." Bai Xiaoling retorted to him dissatisfiedly.
She is almost twenty-five now, and only Bai Xiaoqing still treats her like a child, worrying all the time that she will learn bad things outside.
"But before, whenever you encountered problems, you would just cry and hide behind me." Bai Xiaoqing said.
Bai Xiaoling was suddenly furious.
Bai Xiaoqing only remembered the embarrassing things that happened to her as a child, and selectively ignored the independent events that happened when she lived alone abroad for so many years.
She threw Bai Xiaoqing onto the bed.
Bai Xiaoqing lay quietly for a while, looking like he was asleep. When Bai Xiaoling leaned over to help him take off his coat, he suddenly grabbed her wrist.
Two pairs of amber eyes suddenly met.
Bai Xiaoling looked at Bai Xiaoqing's drunken eyes, stunned for a moment, and asked tentatively: "Brother, you are over 30 years old, why don't you find someone to marry?"
Bai Xiaoqing grabbed her hand and then let go. He didn't say anything in reply. He just looked at her drunkenly and smiled for a while before saying, "I won't get married."
Bai Xiaoling's heart suddenly felt loosened.
In a trance, she actually expected a sudden earthquake to occur, with the sky collapsing, the earth cracking, the houses collapsing, and the beams falling, crushing her and Bai Xiaoqing to death together.
Or maybe the end of the world will come, and she and Bai Xiaoqing will die in the moment of hugging each other, and their lives will be frozen into eternity.
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