late at night
Zhong Yunxi tossed a car key to Lu Xin, "Call a designated driver yourself. The driver will take Xiaoyi and me home."
Lu Xin glanced at Bai Yi, who had just come out of the courtyard, and said with a smile, "See if she'd like to come with you."
Zhong Yunxi opened the car door, pressed down on his shoulder and pushed him inside: "If she can't see you, she'll come with me."
Lu Xin: ...
Zhong Yunxi walked up to Bai Yi and reached out to straighten her coat: "Lu Xin has something urgent to attend to, I'll take you home."
Bai Yi looked at him, standing motionless beside the car. Zhong Yunxi opened the car door and reached out to hug her, but she shook off his hand, not wanting him to touch her. Zhong Yunxi put his arm around her shoulder: "Be good, don't make a scene at the door, okay?"
Bai Yi pursed her lips, got into the car, and placed her bag on the back seat to reserve a seat.
Zhong Yunxi knew she meant for him to move to the passenger seat, but he was always thick-skinned and not so self-aware. He picked up her bag, put it on his lap, and sat down next to her.
Zhong Yunxi hasn't been sleeping well these past two days, and he hasn't had much of an appetite. He organized today's gathering, and besides Lu Xin's drinks, he drank quite a bit with the others. His stomach is already upset.
He asked the driver to find a pharmacy to buy the medicine.
The car was parked on the side of the road. Bai Yi was lying almost on the car door, her face turned towards the window, deliberately keeping her distance from him, but she was nervously rubbing the ears of the bunny rabbit.
In her memory, Zhong Yunxi had never been sick, but she still didn't want to take the initiative to talk to him.
Zhong Yunxi wrapped his arms around her waist, pulled her closer to him, and then held her hand, slowly spreading his fingers to place two hair clips in her hand.
She looked at the hair clip, then glanced up at him.
Zhong Yunxi laughed and said, "I traded a project worth 100 million for it. Don't give the things I gave you to other women."
She lowered her head, feeling awkward and conflicted. These past two days, she had been tormenting Zhong Yunxi, and she herself hadn't fared much better.
Zhong Yunxi pulled her into his arms, and surprisingly, she didn't push him away. He held her hand; it was slightly cool and soft, and he couldn't resist bringing it to his lips.
Feeling his tongue licking her wrist, Bai Yi abruptly pulled her hand back.
Zhong Yunxi pressed her hand down, still holding her waist, and didn't move again.
After the driver got in the car, he reached out to take the medicine and tossed it aside. The car started moving, and seeing that he hadn't moved, Bai Yi couldn't help but ask, "Aren't you going to take your medicine?"
Zhong Yunxi pulled his arms closer, a smile playing on his lips, and whispered, "Holding you for a while will make the pain go away."
Bai Yi: ...
She suspected that Zhong Yunxi's stomach pain was fake.
For some unknown reason, she seemed to have lost the strength to be angry.
Anger drains energy; it's like a bullet ready to fire, threatening to pierce something. She doesn't have that kind of energy.
The car stopped at the door, and she still managed to pull herself out of Zhong Yunxi's arms. She got out of the car and hurried back upstairs to the second floor.
Zhong Yunxi carried her bag, packed up the dolls and figurines she had bought with Lu Xin while shopping today, and took them all back with her.
After entering, Bai Yeliang and Chen Zhaoyang sat in the living room. He nodded to them and then went upstairs to the second floor.
Bai Yi's bedroom was unlocked. After he went in, she had just changed into her loungewear and came out of the dressing room.
"Your dolls." He hugged a bunch of plush toys.
Bai Yi took him from his arms and went into the walk-in closet to tidy up. One entire wall of her walk-in closet was divided into cubicles to store these things.
Zhong Yunxi glanced at the balcony, then quietly walked over and unlocked the hidden lock on the door leading to the sunroom.
When I got back, I leaned against the door of the walk-in closet and watched her put away her toys.
Bai Yi probably sensed someone behind him and turned around: "What are you doing?"
She still didn't want Zhong Yunxi to stay in her bedroom.
"See if you need any help."
"Need not."
He walked over slowly, hugged her from behind, and nuzzled her ear: "Xiaoyi, I don't have a bed to sleep in the sunroom."
Bai Yi: ...
She turned around and pushed him out: "Have the driver take you back to Boyuntan."
"Come back with me."
"I'm not going to your house."
Zhong Yunxi was locked out of the house again, and she specifically emphasized that it was his home.
He had no choice but to turn around and go downstairs, where he got a glass of warm water and took his stomach medicine.
As Chen Zhaoyang watched him come downstairs, he roughly recounted what he had just told Bai Yeliang, which was the lawyer's prediction of the case.
The minimum sentence could be one year imprisonment, suspended for two years. This involves restrictions on movement, but not detention.
Bai Yeliang patted him on the shoulder: "You should also calm down and focus these next few years."
Zhong Yunxi didn't say anything. Bai Yeliang had said that Bai Yi and Chen Zhaoyang were at odds, but he wasn't very clear about what had happened.
When Chen Zhaoyang went out, he saw Zhong Yunxi in the courtyard with a cigarette in his hand, so he went over and lit the lighter.
Zhong Yunxi glanced at him, lit the cigarette, took a puff, and let it burn in his fingertips.
"What did you do in the past that made Xiaoyi unhappy?"
Chen Zhaoyang's attitude towards Bai Yeliang was completely different from his attitude towards Bai Yeliang. Bai Yeliang was his uncle, so there was a bond between them.
Zhong Yunxi is different. In order to pursue Bai Yi, he could throw Chen Zhaoyang out as a stepping stone to test the waters, even when he knew nothing about him.
Chen Zhaoyang stammered, "That all happened ten years ago."
Zhong Yunxi frowned and glanced over: "What is it?"
Chen Zhaoyang tightened his trench coat, put his hands in his pockets, and looked even more timid. "When I was a freshman in college, I came to my uncle's house to deliver something and kissed his stepdaughter, Li Jing."
Zhong Yunxi threw away the cigarette in his hand.
Chen Zhaoyang spoke faster with nervousness: "Just once, by chance, Xiaoyi saw me coming downstairs. She picked up a vase and smashed it on my forehead, making me bleed."
“I know I was a jerk. For the next two years, she wanted to beat me to death every time she saw me. During family meals, she would suddenly throw a spoon at my face. Nobody in the family dared to say anything to her, they would just curse at me. I didn’t even dare to date. I was on the verge of a breakdown.”
Zhong Yunxi stood quietly for almost a minute before speaking, his voice as light and cold as the night mist: "A year is too short."
Chen Zhaoyang: ...
Zhong Yunxi asked again, "Is it because of this that Xiaoyi and Li Jing moved to the family compound of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital?"
"Hmm." Chen Zhaoyang didn't dare to say more.
When Bai Yi was in her first year of high school, her parents divorced and her father remarried, which left her heartbroken. Although her stepmother, Li Wan, and her daughter, Li Jing, lived in constant fear and dared not speak much in her own home, teenage girls are so sensitive and withdrawn that she did not have a happy high school year.
When Chen Zhaoyang did this to her house, she felt like venting all her emotions on him.
She called her grandfather in tears, saying she didn't want to stay at home anymore. The old man thought she had been wronged and was heartbroken. At his advanced age, he traveled from the southwest to Vietnam and Hong Kong to stay with her throughout her high school years.
She asked Li Jing if she wanted to move to the family compound to live with her grandparents. She knew Li Jing's situation and her fears.
Li Jing nodded through her tears. In this family, Bai Yi was more supportive of her than her mother, Li Wan.
Adolescence is a long process of self-healing from mental illness for everyone. And there is no single medicine or experience that can cure everyone. Everyone struggles, heals, and is reborn within their own illness.
Zhong Yunxi didn't know how she gradually processed her parents' divorce, her family's restructuring, her cousin's harassment of her stepmother's younger sister, and Zhou Qi's pursuit of her during that period...
She seems fine now, except for her occasional bad temper.
When Zhong Yunxi went upstairs, the lights in her room were already off.
He played Moonlight Sonata twice, just like yesterday.
He went downstairs to the guest room to take a shower and then went back to the balcony. He gently pressed the doorknob, but it wasn't locked. However, he didn't go into her bedroom.
Early Monday morning, the housekeeper delivered the Kayla Roses here on time. Bai Yi didn't mention throwing them away again today, but she didn't even glance at them.
However, Bai Yeliang said to Zhong Yunxi at the dinner table, "I saw the stomach medicine on the island this morning. Did your stomach feel uncomfortable last night?"
Zhong Yunxi glanced at Bai Yi: "I had a dinner party tonight and drank a bit too much. It's nothing serious."
Whether intentionally or unintentionally, Bai Yeliang said, "You're a married man now, so smoke and drink less."
Zhong Yunxi chuckled softly: "Yes, I'll quit from now on."
Bai Yi put down her chopsticks and was about to leave when Zhong Yunxi quickly stopped her, saying, "Have another boiled egg. I've already peeled it."
"You eat it yourself."
When she went to work, she wanted to drive herself. Zhong Yunxi didn't stop her, but said, "Runhe has a meeting this morning. I'll go there around 10 o'clock and have lunch with you then."
Bai Yi only glanced at him, but still didn't pay much attention to him.
When Bai Yi arrived at the company, Meng Shuang and the assistant both came to ask her if she was feeling better.
She felt quite guilty. Although she had been in a particularly bad mood these past few days, it wasn't because of work; it was because she had neglected her duties for personal reasons.
"It's alright. I've already prepared the materials for Wednesday's meeting." She made a point of explaining to Meng Shuang, assuring her that it wouldn't interfere with the affiliated hospital's meeting this Wednesday.
Meng Shuang was naturally relieved and handed her a bottle of hot milk: "Don't overwork yourself, there aren't that many people at the meetings in the courtyard."
Bai Yi nodded. "By the way, President Meng, wait a moment."
She took out the card Wen Ying had given her at the mahjong table yesterday from her bag and gave it to Meng Shuang: "A friend gave it to me. I don't need it, so you can use it."
Meng Shuang glanced at the card and said with a smile, "I can't accept a reward without having done anything right. I feel so embarrassed."
Bai Yi smiled and said, "I haven't been to work for so many days. You and President Lu must have done a lot of work for me. Thank you."
Meng Shuang wasn't the type to be coy, so she readily accepted the gift: "Thank you so much, I'll treat you to dinner another day."
"Mm," Bai Yi replied with a smile.
At 10:30 a.m., all of the company’s more than 100 employees received a coffee and a dessert delivered to them. The secretary from the board office said in the group chat that it was a shareholder of the company who came to the company for the first time today and brought everyone a small treat.
They even shared Zhong Yunxi's profile in the group chat.
The chat group for slacking off was in an uproar, with everyone asking if this wasn't Bai Yi's boyfriend.
Bai Yi's coffee and desserts were personally delivered by Zhong Yunxi.
This directly confirms the gossip surrounding the "slacking off group."
—Hey Medical Affairs Department guys sitting next to the fairy, have you got any solid evidence yet?
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—It was like they were having a tiff. The domineering CEO brought coffee, but neither of them spoke or even exchanged glances.
—We had a disagreement +1. Today, Teacher Bai drove herself here.
—I saw it, driving a Porsche Panamera. I want one too.
—Watching the drama unfold in secret.
—Hilarious! Even the fairies aren't in our Runhe work group. What's the point of the CEO showing off like this?
—A man should do more and talk less [doge emoji]
—A domineering CEO who doesn't talk is the most charming.
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