Chapter 193 Stars and Moon
"I should be able to earn more than you think now."
"You don't have to save money for me."
He is rich, and he will be richer in the future.
Xu Jiqing seems very persistent in emphasizing this point.
Yacht, horse farm, emerald diamonds, he had been showing off his wealth with a cold face since they met again in the previous life. At that time, Su Xia was confused and just thought that he was sleeping on straw and eating bitter food for ten years to sharpen his sword, to avenge the poor boy who bullied him.
Now the energy in his bones hadn't changed at all, but she just found it cute.
"Xu Jiqing," she called him, and seeing his unconsciously tensed lips, she wanted to laugh but felt a pang of pain in her heart, "Relax a little."
"I know you're amazing."
Su Xia tilted her face slightly, and before the red light turned green, she poked his hand hanging on the steering wheel, "But compared to money, I like you more."
She had said similar things to him many times.
But no matter how many times Xu Jiqing heard those last three words, he still couldn't get desensitized to them.
He hummed softly, his profile turned away with a stern look, and tried to hide the red tips of his ears by lowering his head to adjust the air-conditioning vents.
In preparation for her birthday dates today and tomorrow, Su Xia specially got sparkling manicures done in advance.
Gems big and small, moons, stars, squares, diamonds, olive green, sea blue, pink and purple like small summer flowers.
The autumn sun was shining brightly, and her fingers flashed when she moved them slightly, and Xu Jiqing's eyes followed them involuntarily.
"Is it true?" he asked.
Su Xia was stunned for a moment. After Xu Jiqing pressed his fingertips on her fingernails and rubbed them, she realized that he was asking about the diamonds stuck on her nails. "Of course not."
"This will fall off after a while, I just put it on for fun because it looks nice. There are crystal and colored glass ones, and it's cheap to put it on full."
Seeing Xu Jiqing's focused gaze, she became more convinced of his aesthetic taste for jewels and raised her hands high to show them off. "Isn't it beautiful?"
She has curved eyebrows and a pair of soft dimples at the corners of her mouth.
It is so delicate by nature that no crystal or glass can match it.
Xu Jiqing tightened his grip on the steering wheel, restarted the car as the light turned green, and said calmly, "It really looks better."
"I'll buy you the real thing in the future."
"Oh, then I'll definitely be on the news," Su Xia's lips curved even deeper, and she held her chin in her hand, pretending to be distressed. "And then every day, to avoid losing my precious colored diamond, I'll have to hold my hands up in front of me at all times, and I can't even take off my gloves when washing my face."
Xu Jiqing remained calm and said, "If you lose it, buy it again."
Su Xia covered her mouth and laughed, "Mr. Xu, you are so arrogant."
In the rearview mirror, he glanced at her out of the corner of his eye, his long, straight eyelashes drooping, "Don't call me that."
"What do you call it?"
She was full of curiosity and said, "Please teach me."
"You don't like that little one, then what about Mr. Xu?"
"How about I follow the high school class group and call you Xu Shen. Lin Lang doesn't care what you call you, the boss is still Brother Xu." Su Xia muttered to himself, counting on his fingers.
"But it's all so unfamiliar. How about I just drop that last name and go back to basics and learn Jiaojiao."
It wasn't the first time. She glanced at him with her dark eyes, acting shy and silly, and acting like a spoiled child at full speed, "What do you think, brother?"
Xu Jiqing's Adam's apple moved noticeably. Although she looked calm, her brows knitted slightly. "...We're still on the way."
Due to cultural heritage preservation efforts, the Summer Palace area is sparsely populated, with strict height restrictions. The available housing is either too old to be demolished or a newly constructed, large apartment complex known nationwide for its exorbitant prices.
Xu Jiqing's car sped along the road. Su Xia was holding her phone. Just as she unlocked the screen to check the geolocation, the incoming call indicator lit up.
In the profile picture frame was a close-up photo of her and Su Xiaojuan taken when she returned home last time. It was usually so warm, but now it was so scary, like the Queen Mother of the West with her third eye opened.
His hands were buzzing, and Su Xia didn't answer the phone for a long time.
Xu Jiqing glanced at her sideways, "Who's calling?"
"My mother." Her little face looked bitter.
Some time ago, she expressed her loyalty to Su Xiaojuan, saying that she was doing hard labor as an intern in the firm and would get involved in commercial law and civil litigation cases whenever she had the chance, hoping to help Ms. Su become one of the top 20 richest women on the Forbes list in the future.
Su Xiaojuan was very moved at that time and said that she would come to Beijing to see her if she had the chance before the New Year, have dinner with her filial daughter whom she had not seen for a long time, visit tourist attractions, and find a nice hotel to stay for a few days.
It turns out that the filial daughter is hanging out with her boyfriend whom she dislikes.
It is not certain that Su Xiaojuan will parachute into Beijing. Su Xia gets goose bumps on her arms just by thinking about the embarrassing scene.
The phone rang for the second time. Xu Jiqing was silent for a moment before saying, "Do you need me to answer it?"
Su Xia shrank back and waved her hands desperately, "Absolutely, absolutely not."
She had been probing him in a roundabout way for so long, but Su Xiaojuan neither nodded nor shook her head.
It seemed like she was willing to give in, but now if even her cell phone was in Xu Jiqing's hands, with Su Xiaojuan's temper, she would hang up as soon as she answered the phone and ignore her for several days out of anger.
Su Xia prepared herself mentally for several seconds, took a deep breath, and poked the connect button in the center of the screen like lighting a firecracker. She clenched her fingers and said, "Hello... Mom."
Su Xiaojuan seemed to be in a good mood. "What are you busy with? Why don't you answer the phone?"
"I was outside with my friends," Su Xia pursed her lips, "There were a lot of people on the street, so I didn't hear it just now."
If you stick your head out, you will get a knife; if you keep your head down, you will get a knife.
"Mom," she mustered up the courage to ask directly, "where are you now?"
"We just got to your school," Su Xiaojuan said leisurely, "There's a little traffic on the road."
Su Xia was confused, "Huh?"
"Ah what?"
Su Xiaojuan tutted, "I told you before that I would come to see you. I have a big order to discuss in the north recently. I arrived two days early. It's the change of seasons, so I brought you some thick clothes and winter shoes from home."
Su Xia's heart was pounding and she let out a helpless "oh".
She was still pondering what to do next, whether to get off the car, go into a random store to grab some clothes and check out, then rush back to the school gate and pretend to have just parted ways with her friends after shopping.
The woman had already casually changed the subject, "Who have you been hanging out with lately besides He Miao?"
"Dressing gets weirder every day."
"Before, she told me that an internship at a prestigious firm would cost her 50 yuan a day, and she wouldn't even bother putting on makeup to go to work. But lately, she's become so obsessed with being a coal boss's daughter that she even wears a diamond bracelet when she's in the library."
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