The room was very quiet. Xiao Xingyu was just sipping his wine and didn't seem to have anything to say. But even so, Zhou Xia was already very satisfied that they could be alone together like this.
They lived in a large family, and every time they met, there were many people around them. Xiao Xingyu had been away from Ruzhou for a long time, and she couldn't remember the last time they were alone like this.
"Brother Xingyu!" Zhou Xia called out to the man who even drank beer like he was filming an MV.
Xiao Xingyu turned his head: "What?"
"What do you think of me?" Zhou Xia held the cup on his legs and straightened his body. Although it was just a small movement, it was enough to show the S-shaped curve that would make people's nose bleed.
Xiao Xingyu read everything he needed to read like a man and nodded: "You're not bad!"
"What's good about it?" Zhou Xia asked further.
Xiao Xingyu smiled: "Why, do you want to hear me praise you?"
Zhou Xia thought about it and admitted generously: "Yes, I want you to praise me!"
Xiao Xingyu held the cup in his hand and traced her from head to toe. "You're beautiful, have a great figure, a good personality, and are capable. I heard the product department has secured a lot of projects. In short, you're beautiful both inside and out!"
It was a polite compliment that didn't sound very sincere, but it didn't matter. Zhou Xia just wanted him to acknowledge her kindness so that she could pursue him. "Then can I pursue you?"
Xiao Xingyu smiled and shook his head.
Zhou Xia's beautiful eyes darkened, then straightened up again as if pondering Goldbach's conjecture: "If you think I have both inner and outer beauty, why aren't you attracted to me?"
Xiao Xingyu tapped the glass with his fingertips: "I've been thinking about this too."
"Brother Xingyu," Zhou Xia's relaxed expression suddenly disappeared. "You used to say that I was young and hadn't seen many men, so I was infatuated with you. Now, I'm 27 years old, and it's time to get married. I've seen many men, and I find that I still like you. So... can I pursue you?"
This was not the first time Xiao Xingyu had faced Zhou Xia's confession in his lifetime. To be honest, even if he ignored her abilities and qualities, just for her enchanting face and figure, if she was not a distant relative of his, he might have really tried it.
Although he was not moved, it did not affect their relationship. He had done this with other people before.
But, who can blame her for being a relative? No matter how distant the relative is, it is always difficult to deal with. Moreover, Zhou Xia is so outstanding that her presence in his uncle's eyes is almost the same as that of a direct relative.
We can't do this anywhere, with so many people watching, it's too troublesome.
So out of responsibility for himself and Zhou Xia, he had already made up his mind not to touch it.
Many people knew that Zhou Xia liked him, and there were also many people who said that he was ungrateful. But maybe it was because his standards were too high. There were many beautiful women who approached him since he was a child, so he didn't think it was a pity.
So Zhou Xia's confession had always been meaningless to him. Now, in addition to being meaningless, he also felt troubled.
"Don't hurt me!" Xiao Xingyu smiled frivolously. He drank the last sip of wine, put the cup down, picked up his phone and played with it while saying, "Have you forgotten that our horoscopes clash?"
Zhou Xia was stunned for a moment, rubbing the cup against his chest with both hands. He hesitated for a moment, and finally, as if mustering up the courage, said, "Well... the failure of the Eight Characters to Match Marriage means that the two people are not suitable. This is actually a misunderstanding."
Xiao Xingyu looked up from his phone and raised one eyebrow at her.
Zhou Xia paused slightly, adjusted his mood, and showed enough patience and sincerity as if he was trying to win over an extremely difficult client.
"Putting aside the scientific validity of Bazi marriage compatibility, the ancients' purpose was to help couples understand each other's priorities before marriage, prevent and resolve conflicts, and ultimately ensure a happier and smoother marriage... It wasn't a mechanism for eliminating couples."
Xiao Xingyu: "Oh."
Zhou Xia took a deep breath and boldly moved closer to Xiao Xingyu. His voice suddenly softened, "The choices made in destiny and in love are sometimes different. Can we give it a try? It's really unfair to me that I haven't even tried, but have killed my hope just because of some feudal ideas."
Xiao Xingyu watched the beauty approaching him. Her palm-sized oval face was flushed with shyness, but her eyes were full of hunting. Her soft body was also touched vaguely, which was very tempting and impulsive.
Zhou Xia had really grown up and had begun to use his advantages to attack men. However, this still didn't seem to work for him, and instead reminded him of that clueless woman.
Compared with the woman who had cheated him so badly, Zhou Xia was more confident, more seductive, more proactive, more able to judge the situation, and more likely to arouse a man's desire to conquer. But at this moment, whenever he thought of that woman sitting in the passenger seat of Xiao Huai's car, and being mistaken for a couple by the store clerks in the mall, he felt like his butt was on fire.
"You've drunk too much." Xiao Xingyu's voice was very calm, and seemed ruthless because of his calmness.
Zhou Xia leaned more of his body weight towards him: "I didn't, it was just a bottle of beer, I know what I'm talking about."
Xiao Xingyu simply used his gentlemanly hand to hold her apart from himself, and then immediately let go.
"Zhou Xia," he looked at her, his expression more formal than ever before, "I've met a woman I like, and I must marry her."
Zhou Xia was stunned, as if he had been hit by a heavy hammer. He was stunned for half a minute: "The woman you like? You...you are getting married?"
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