Chapter 35 Why Hit Me

After thinking about it for a while, Hatsushimo still felt that some things were better to talk about.

"Actually, I had a relationship before I got married..."

"Um."

The man's voice was neither clear nor faint. Hatsushimo played with the ring on her ring finger and said carefully, "He is my boss. When I first joined the company as an intern, I encountered some bad things... similar to what people call workplace sexual harassment. He helped me a lot at that time."

"With gratitude, I talked to him vaguely for a while. In fact, we didn't spend much time together most of the time. He was a busy man and our feelings were shallow. Later, we broke up because of various trivial matters. It was only two months in total."

"There's not much to say, actually. We have so little experience, and I don't even have the feeling of being in love. We broke up, and we didn't have much contact afterwards. But I think I should tell you about this."

The driver had a stern profile and his eyes were overly calm.

"knew."

The voice is bland, without any emotion.

Hatsushiro glanced at him secretly, unable to guess what he was thinking - maybe he was thinking nothing.

I originally thought that I would have to spend a lot of time explaining it, but now it seems that it is not necessary.

He probably doesn't care about her past as long as it doesn't affect his current peace.

The music in the car was still playing, but the atmosphere in the space became subtly quiet. I haven't felt this way for a long time.

About half a minute later, Sheng Ting noticed the silence of the person next to him and looked over.

She frowned, her nose was delicate, and the shadow of her lower eyelashes fell on the side. She was looking at the buttons on her sleeves without blinking for a long time.

Sheng Ting asked, "What's wrong?"

Chu Shuang paused and shook his head, "I feel a little sleepy."

After saying this, he leaned back and closed his eyes to rest.

Obviously he didn't ask too much about what happened before, so she should be relieved.

But this inexplicable feeling lingers in my mind...

She didn't know whether she hoped he cared or not.

Don’t think about it anymore, go to sleep.

She really fell asleep when the car arrived at Lingcui Pavilion. Sheng Ting stopped the car and just looked at her.

Zhengyuan saw Shengting's car drive into the garden a long time ago, but he was nowhere to be seen coming out.

"I heard that my uncle is here?"

Sheng Yao walked over and saw a car from a distance. He muttered, "Why hasn't it come over yet? I'll go take a look."

"Hey, what are you going to do?"

"Go call them."

Zhengyuan shook his head. What a careless girl, she even wanted to disturb the private world of a couple.

"Auntie."

Awakened by the voice outside the car, Chu Shuang opened her eyes and saw the man sitting beside her, "How long have you been here?"

"Ten minutes."

Hatsushimo was slightly surprised, "Why didn't you wake me up?"

Sheng Ting was not surprised, "You were sleeping soundly, I couldn't bear to disturb you."

"Sorry, you can just wake me up next time."

After fixing her hair, Chu Shuang opened the door and got out of the car. Sheng Yao came up to her and asked, "What are you two doing in there? Why don't you come out for such a long time?"

"I slept."

It turned out that they were having a dinner party at Lingcui Pavilion tonight. In addition to the Zhengjia brothers and Zhao Jinzhou, there was also Wei Yize who I hadn't seen last time.

They are all Sheng Ting's friends, and they are very polite to Chu Shuang, calling her sister-in-law respectfully.

After smiling and greeting everyone, Hatsushimo complained to the people around him in a low voice, "Why didn't you tell me in advance that you were coming to meet your friend? You should have dressed up..."

She came over like this right after get off work, not only without changing her clothes, she didn't even put on lipstick.

The man didn't think much of it. "We are all acquaintances, so why should we dress up like that?"

He looked her up and down and said, "Besides, she looks good even without any makeup."

Chu Shuang's eyes paused slightly.

This was the first time he had directly praised her beauty.

He actually knows how to exaggerate people's appearance.

I thought he had a monotonous aesthetic and everything looked the same to him.

However, even when exaggerating, he does it with a calm attitude, as if he is simply stating the facts.

"Do you want roast duck?"

Sheng Ting asked in a low voice.

"I want some."

Chu Shuang was too embarrassed to turn the turntable, so if she looked at a dish for a few more seconds, Sheng Ting would put it in her bowl.

This kind of thoughtfulness and consideration never goes out of style.

Over time, eating with him became a habit that I felt comfortable with.

Chu Shuang would occasionally listen carefully to the men's conversations at the table, but most of the time she would concentrate on eating or interacting with Sheng Yao.

The advantage of eating with people of your own age is that you don't have to spend too much time trying to figure out what to talk about at the table. There will always be someone to answer the conversation, and you won't seem awkward or rude if you say less.

Hatsushimo doesn't like to talk while eating. She is the type who is used to listening.

The most important thing is to eat, listen to them talk about interesting things while eating, it's relaxing and comfortable.

She likes this feeling very much.

Sheng Ting was talking slowly beside me, but his hands did not stop. He was using chopsticks to pick out the bones from a piece of fish one by one.

He always does things in an orderly manner. Chushuang can spend a long time just watching him pick out fish bones.

Finally, after picking everything out, he pushed the small plate over and whispered to her, "No more thorns."

It was for her.

"Eat it yourself."

It was not easy to pick it out.

Sheng Yao watched with a smile while biting his chopsticks.

Sheng Ting said in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "Eat quickly, you eat too slowly."

“Tsk.”

Wei Yize on the opposite side was quite shocked to see Sheng Ting like this.

"If you don't live longer, how can you see this kind of scene?"

"You are so considerate, I want to marry you."

When he said this, everyone laughed.

Masazawa: "Otherwise why do they have wives?"

Sheng Yao and Chu Shuang finished their meal first and went for a walk in the back garden. When they came back, they saw Zheng Yuan's back from a distance. Sheng Yao suddenly had a bad idea.

He quietly grabbed a handful of snow from the flower bed, rolled it into a ball and threw it at the people.

Zhengyuan turned around and saw the person who had done the bad thing, so he gave him a taste of his own medicine. The two of them started fighting in the snow.

Hatsushimo smiled and looked for a while, then continued walking forward.

Passing through the garden arch, the tall figure of a man standing under the evergreen pine tree came into view.

His voice was clear and noble, and he spoke slowly to the person on the other end of the phone, always in a serious and sober tone.

She stopped and looked at him quietly for a moment, Chu Shuang pursed her lips slightly. Even in this quiet garden, her mood was not at peace.

The gently caressing fingertips revealed her restlessness.

His hands grabbed the snow on the small tree beside him, feeling the coolness. His palms slightly bent and the snow condensed into small balls.

She glanced at the man's back and her heartbeat suddenly quickened.

He slowly raised his hand, tightened his throat, and just as he was about to throw it, a snowball hit the man's back accurately.

The snowball shattered into pieces after the impact and then slid down the man's high-quality suit jacket.

Sheng Ting, who was attacked unexpectedly, turned around, his dark pupils deep, his gaze fixed on Chu Shuang's slightly raised hand holding the snowball.

Their eyes met, staring at each other in an extremely awkward manner.

He said something to the person on the other end of the phone and hung up. He put away his phone, narrowed his eyes slightly, and uttered a few words carelessly through his thin lips: "Why did you hit me?"

The sudden change in the man's aura was inexplicably frightening. Seeing him walking towards her, Chu Shuang was so frightened that she turned around and ran away.

"It's not me, it's really not me!"

On the other side, Sheng Yao, who had successfully framed the person, had already found a place to hide and was gloating over the misfortune.