Chapter 75 "Qiao Qiao!"
Qiao Xu was always absent-minded while eating, so Chen Fan used serving chopsticks to put food on her plate.
"Xiao Qiao, I'm listening..."
“Brother Chenfan, you can call me Qiao Xu, or you can call me Xiao Xu like my cousin does.”
Shen Fan's smile froze for a few seconds: "Okay."
"Xiaoxu, I heard from your brother that you're single now?"
Qiao Xu smiled politely and took a sip of the water in front of her: "He's talking nonsense, I have a boyfriend."
"But he isn't..."
"Brother Chen Fan, thank you for treating me to dinner, and thank you for taking care of me."
"My brother probably didn't tell you that I love him very much."
"He is my first love, it has always been him, only him, and it can only be him."
She could tell that Shen Fan liked her; the look in someone's eyes when they like someone is impossible to hide.
But she didn't like it.
Xu Si'an, that jealous person, wouldn't allow her to like anyone else.
"Brother Chenfan, thank you for your appreciation."
"Also, I'm sorry."
Shen Fan gave a bitter laugh: "So, I've been rejected before I even confessed my feelings?"
Qiao Xu smiled slightly: "I was ungrateful."
"Brother Chenfan, you are very good, but my heart belongs to someone else."
Shen Fan chuckled lightly: "Never mind, I've already spoken up, so I have no regrets."
"It's just that I'm not fortunate enough to have that."
"Shall I take you home?"
Qiao Xu shook her head: "It's not far from where I live. I'd like to take a walk and stroll around."
She walked alone on the streets of Los Angeles, stopping every few minutes to soak in the hustle and bustle of the city.
In her low spirits, Qiao Xu was unaware that a man wearing a black mask had been following her for several hundred meters.
It wasn't until she entered the men's clothing store in the mall that she understood.
I watched helplessly as she bought a men's tie before fleeing in a panic.
Wasn't he "dead"?
Why does Qiaoqiao still need to buy men's ties?
Should we give this to that dark-faced guy from earlier?
If Chang Yi heard this, he'd laugh his head off.
His skin was only a little darker than his, he was just a little dark-skinned?
The phone in his pocket rang for a long time, and Xu Si'an, hiding in the corner, raised his hand to wipe his face.
As soon as he pressed the call button, Chang Yi exploded: "Can't I call you Dad? Weren't you in the bathroom? Where the hell are you? Did you go back to China?"
"Speak up, where have you been?"
It's really numb.
He spent half an hour in the toilet, afraid he might suddenly cry himself to death there.
They hadn't found the person when they went to rescue them.
They quickly asked the restaurant staff to help them check the surveillance footage, only to find that he had left half an hour earlier.
They even followed someone else.
A tagalong.
Xu Si'an gave an address, and Chang Yi didn't dare hang up the phone.
When I arrived, I saw a tall man, over six feet tall, squatting in the corner.
He swallowed back the words of cursing his father.
never mind.
He was already riddled with arrows.
"Let's go to the hotel and get some sleep. I'll go with you to see her tonight."
Xu Si'an didn't say anything, but stood up and walked out.
Qiao Xu, who was going down the escalator, suddenly looked up at the building.
Two men of similar height walked side by side.
That profile view!!!
"Ah Si?"
Qiao Xu ran down the escalator and then ran back up.
By the time she ran up with the small gift bag, the person had already disappeared.
She stood there spinning around, looking around.
"Ah Si, it's you, isn't it?"
Her hair, draped over her shoulders, swayed gently, and a strand of hair clung to her lips.
She slowly squatted down, staring blankly ahead, her shoulders trembling slightly, tears streaming down her face like broken pearls.
In the bustling shopping mall, the girl squatting on the ground looked like a broken glass doll.
Qiao Xu didn't know how she got back to her place.
The small, royal blue handbag had fallen to the side of the sofa; she was too weak to pick it up.
She curled up on the 1.2-meter-wide sofa, trying to hug herself.
Cherry jumped onto the sofa and nuzzled her owner.
I didn't dare make too loud a whimpering sound, afraid of scaring her.
Qiao Xu reached out and hugged it to her chest: "Cherry, I saw him, didn't I? He's not dead, is he?"
If Xu Si'an had seen the girl running up the escalator when he entered the elevator, they might have met.
Back at the hotel, the man stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, looking at the tall buildings in the distance.
He lit a cigarette, but didn't smoke it; he just held it between his fingers, letting the smell of nicotine spread everywhere.
Chang Yi contacted Joy at Xuxing's overseas headquarters.
"Brother, Joy has something to tell you."
Xu Si'an took the phone and held it to his ear: "It's me."
"Mr. Xu, that's great, you're alright."
"Qiao Xu will be very happy to know." Joy told Xu Si'an about how Qiao Xu looked thin, depressed, and dull when she picked her up at the Los Angeles airport half a month ago.
"Mr. Xu, when Qiao Xu first arrived in Los Angeles, she was carrying that black bespoke suit, which should be yours."
Xu Si'an stood in front of the hotel's floor-to-ceiling windows until sunset, and waited until the entire Los Angeles was lit up with neon lights before picking up his car keys from the table and leaving the hotel.
This time, Chang Yi didn't keep up.
He also wants to play games with Ye Mengmeng.
Let whoever wants to be a dad be one; he's not going to eat dog food (a Chinese slang term for witnessing public displays of affection).
He doesn't compete with it for cherry's things.
The lights were off in the small apartment, and Qiao Xu sat there blankly, holding Cherry.
The only light inside the room came from the moonlight shining through the window.
Since Xu Si'an's accident, Yingtao has been forced to become more sensible, and she no longer makes a fuss about wanting to eat the 200 yuan worth of canned food and snacks.
It's as if they're worried their mothers can't afford it.
The knocking sounded, but Qiao Xu seemed not to hear it.
Cherry licked her wrist.
The two bracelets that once fit snugly on her fair wrists had become much looser.
Qiao Xu unconsciously patted Yingtao's head.
The knocking grew louder and louder. Cherry seemed to sense something and desperately tried to break free from Qiao Xu's embrace.
Qiao Xu got annoyed by it and let go of its grip.
The dog jumped off the sofa and pawed at the European-style moonlight white wooden door a few times.
She ran back to the sofa and started biting Qiao Xu's trouser leg.
They're really worrying themselves sick.
Qiao Xu looked down at it: "Cherry, what's wrong?"
At this moment, Qiao Xu finally heard a knock on the door.
She stood up, walked barefoot to the door, and opened the peephole as usual.
Qiao Xu stood there stunned for a few seconds, her panic and astonishment visibly palpable. The moment her red lips parted slightly, tears welled up in her eyes.
She raised her hand and rubbed her eyes vigorously.
She crushed her tears, but she couldn't stop them no matter what she did.
My vision was constantly blurry.
The knocking continued for a while, and Qiao Xu looked out the door through the peephole again.
There was no one there.
It felt as if her head had been struck hard; the little color left on her face vanished completely.
With trembling hands, she quickly pressed the doorknob, and the moment the door opened, she rushed out.
The entrance was large, and Qiao Xu walked straight toward the elevator.
"Qiaoqiao!"
The kids asked: Is it going to be more angsty later on?
No, it's more about the heartache of surviving a disaster, and then it gets all sweet!
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