Chapter 48 Chapter 48 Do you still remember the time we kissed...
Xin Tong was struck by lightning.
After a while, she murmured in disbelief.
“…It’s you?”
"Did you loosen the fastener?"
"Yeah, that's me."
Xin Tong took a step closer and stared at her, "How did you know I was going skiing?"
Wu Sifeng snorted and turned his head away.
"It's none of your business."
Xin Tong was still suspicious, "Did you do that with the guide?"
"...Guide?" Wu Sifeng repeated, then immediately straightened his back. "Yes, yes! It's me! It's all me!"
"Are you scared? I just want to teach you a lesson. Stay away from Aiden from now on!"
Xin Tong stared at her face.
He gritted his teeth and trembled uncontrollably.
She took a few steps forward and knocked Wu Sifeng's shoulders with both hands. The force was so strong that Wu Sifeng immediately frowned. "What are you doing!" Xin Tong did not let go, and pulled her in front of her even harder.
"You know, I fell down that day and was almost buried in the snow and died!"
The word "death" seemed to scare Wu Sifeng all of a sudden.
She was only seventeen years old, a high school student in the prime of her life. Death was too far away and too unfamiliar to her.
"You, who are you kidding?"
Wu Sifeng stammered, forcing himself to remain calm. "Don't people often fall while skiing? Did they all die from the first fall? You weren't going swimming. You were surrounded by snow, not water. How could snow choke someone to death?"
She was frightened, but pretended to be calm, her eyes staring blankly.
Xin Tong stared into her eyes and looked at her, saying word by word:
"My bindings loosened, causing my skis to fall off completely. I fell into a snowdrift over a meter thick and was nearly buried and suffocated. Then I was caught in a blizzard, and was trapped in the deserted snowy mountains for a day and a night!"
"After I got out, I had a high fever for two whole days. The local medical care was poor, and I couldn't speak the language in a foreign country. I was lucky to survive. If someone hadn't saved me, I would have died by now!"
The deserted corner of the stairwell was silent and empty, with only Xin Tong's angry roar echoing.
Wu Sifeng was stunned by the yelling.
She was stunned for a long time, her breathing disordered, "You, why are you so fierce!"
"I, I just wanted to make you fall a few times to teach you a lesson. How could I have thought of what would happen next? How could I have known that you would be so unlucky..."
She looked terrified and swallowed.
"Okay, okay, I, I apologize to you, okay."
"Are you okay now?"
"I, I'm telling you, as long as you stay away from Aiden, I won't embarrass you anymore."
…
Xin Tong was completely speechless.
She let go of her hands in panic, as if all her strength had been drained away.
She thought of her week of fear, the nightmares that plagued her night after night, the deep nightmares and the quiet bottom of the lake from which she could never surface, and the fear of living under the same roof with a murderer.
Unexpectedly, after being cautious and wary of He Tianqi for so long, he finally discovered that the culprit of everything was Wu Sifeng, the childish man in front of him.
Such serious consequences, such a subtle killing move, but unexpectedly, during the confession stage, the reason behind it was so casual and careless. It's not that I regard you as a rival for inheritance and a mortal enemy, and I want to kill you, but simply, I don't like you, I just want to make you fall a few times.
I don't mean to poison you or kill you, I just want to stretch out my leg and trip you to give you a few scrapes.
——But I didn’t expect that the ground was actually a high-rise building, and I fell directly to the eighteenth floor.
That’s roughly how it feels.
Seeing Xin Tong lowered her head and said nothing for a long time, Wu Sifeng slowly tried to see her expression.
"You, are you okay?"
Not getting an answer, Wu Sifeng closed his mouth and struggled to think for a long time before he spoke again tentatively, this time in an even quieter voice than the previous one:
"Is this attempted murder?"
"How many years will I be in prison?"
“…”
Xin Tong was completely drained of all his energy by this sentence.
In fact, she herself is also responsible.
Xin Tong thought.
She is often decisive but also impulsive, doesn't think things through completely, and is prone to making mistakes.
Without waiting for a guide, she went up the mountain alone.
The first time she fell, her bindings had already come loose, but she didn't realize it was a problem with her equipment and didn't stop to check.
If we had not gone up the mountain, or waited a few days to find another guide, or checked our equipment immediately after falling... none of the final result would have occurred.
This whole thing seemed like a trap tailor-made for her.
She loves skiing, she wants to go to Asahidake, and she is impulsive and doesn't consider the consequences. All of this seems to have led to the inevitable outcome.
The only and biggest coincidence in the whole thing was meeting Jiang Chongyan in that mountain.
It was this one and only coincidence that allowed her to escape from an inevitable dead end.
…
Xin Tong leaned against the wall, looking tired.
After a while, he slowly lowered his head and uttered a few words.
"I won't call the police."
"rest assured."
"From now on, no matter who you are, don't do this again."
"You go."
*
Backstage, the dancers sat in groups of two or three, playing cards on their phones and eating. The table was piled high with freshly delivered takeout, hot and fresh.
Jiang Chongyan stood in front of the mirror, blowing his hair with a hair dryer.
He unscrewed the cap of the hairspray bottle with his slender fingers and combed his hair strand by strand in front of the mirror. The man in the mirror had dark, bright eyes, a small mole at the corner of his eye, a serious expression, and a thin styling comb bitten in the corner of his mouth.
He has a lot of hair, so it already has a basic shape without the need for blow-drying or styling.
The movements were very skillful, and within a few minutes he had caught the fish very nicely.
Next to him, Mo Yu swallowed his food and saw Jiang Chongyan standing in front of the mirror, carefully dressing himself up. He said casually:
"Hey, Aiden, you have a date later tonight."
Dating.
A word he had never thought of before entered his ears, and he paused.
"What? What?"
"Aiden brother actually goes out on a date?"
The people around him immediately ran forward like an AI that heard a keyword, and several boys surrounded Jiang Chongyan.
"Who is it?"
A boy was about to put his arm around Aiden's shoulder, but then he remembered that Aiden didn't like physical contact, so he quickly retracted his arm, leaned on the table beside him, and asked:
"Who is it?"
"Please introduce them to us!"
"I guess not."
"I guess...it's the rich woman who came to the dance studio last time and said she was Aiden's friend and treated us to dinner."
"What's it called..."
"Xin Tong! I remember!"
"Ohhh! That makes sense!"
"Indeed, I can't think of anyone else besides her."
Three or four young men were talking to him in a startled manner. Normally, if Jiang Chongyan had been annoyed by the noise, he would have walked away with a cold face, but now he seemed to have no reaction and was still putting on his earrings in front of the mirror.
Cheng Qi came over and quickly stuffed a cup of milk tea into the hand of the person who was talking the most excitedly around them.
He glanced again at the man over there who was almost trying to make himself the most handsome man in the world.
He winked at the three or four people and drove them away, "Go away. Drink your milk tea."
"You can order whatever you want to eat. You can also go to a bar, nightclub, or KTV tonight. All the bills today will be paid by a wealthy woman who wishes to remain anonymous."
Everyone cheered.
…
Jiang Chongyan was about to leave when he heard Mo Yu say, "Hey, are you going out dressed like this?"
He didn't change his clothes and was still wearing the white sleeveless suit he wore during the performance.
"Is there anything wrong?"
Jiang Chongyan paused and looked at Mo Yu.
That woman just said a lot of strange things in the corridor.
Something like "You look so handsome tonight" and "I've only been looking at you." Jiang Chongyan was silent for a long time, thinking that this outfit might have had some effect.
...I'm too lazy to change it. Trouble.
"Of course not." Mo Yu said, "Aren't you cold? It's windy outside and very cold."
"Right, right, right." Several team members nodded. "It's really cold today! I was shivering in the cold wind as soon as I stepped outside."
Jiang Chongyan stood there for three seconds.
Finally, I picked up the coat on the sofa.
*
Jiang Chongyan walked to the previous corner.
But I saw that the corridor was empty, without a single person.
He turned on his phone.
When he clicked into the chat box with that person, he did see the last message, which was a photo that person sent him more than an hour before the performance started.
This is a photo of her sitting in seat 7 in the first row, facing the stage.
As he watched, he suddenly zoomed in with two fingers.
At the bottom of the photo are the photographer's skirt and shoes.
The white hem of her skirt was made of soft gauze, giving her a fairy-like air. She sat with her legs crossed, her shoes inlaid with tiny diamonds, her insteps fair and her protruding bones rounded.
He stared at the screen for a moment.
…
Jiang Chongyan knew she hadn't lied to him. She had come really early, and had taken a seat in the first row, seat 7, and even took a photo of him.
He suddenly turned around and called Cheng Qi out.
"The sponsor this time is Wu?"
Cheng Qi was also confused.
"No. It's a sports brand."
At this point, Cheng Qi was also a little confused. She knew that Aiden had asked for the middle ticket early in the morning. If she guessed correctly, it was definitely not for the girl sitting in seat 7 today.
She asked Jiang Chongyan, "Who is that person sitting in seat 7? Do you know him?"
"Yeah." After a while, the man responded.
"She's the daughter of Chairman Wu."
Cheng Qi was stunned. She had heard of Wu's name before, but BEGIN had never had any contact or cooperation with Wu. For such a large group, and for the daughter of a wealthy family to come and show her support in person, Cheng Qi could only think of one reason.
—After all, this has happened before.
"…She likes you?"
Cheng Qi frowned, "Blame me. Blame me. I really didn't know about this."
"She's not using the Wu name, so no one will know. I can't blame you."
Jiang Chongyan had a dull expression.
"I'll give you the money in a couple of days. You can return it to her."
Cheng Qi was anxious.
"Why is this happening again? Her sponsorship money is for the entire studio and the entire dance team. And she's not just doing this for you. The performance is in collaboration with a brand, and there's a promotional campaign going on. The person in charge told me that the publicity from this promotion was very good!"
"You're returning the money to her now. She didn't spend a penny on the promotion and got the studio performances. In the end, you're the only one who paid for it. Isn't this ridiculous?"
After standing up for someone for a long time, I saw that the person involved looked completely indifferent.
Looking away, with a nonchalant look.
Cheng Qi fell silent. He understood that money meant nothing to him. This person simply wanted to distance himself from the matter and didn't want to have any contact with anyone he wasn't interested in.
Same as before.
"...Okay. Leave it to me. I'll be there in a few days."
Cheng Qi was about to leave when he suddenly turned around to look at him.
"That seat is what you reserved for Sister Xin Tong, right?"
"I've never seen you care so much about a girl."
Cheng Qi thought for a few seconds.
"No, it's not just girls. Girls can remove it."
"I've never seen you care so much about anyone."
"Are you going to go on a date with her later?"
Jiang Chongyan's tall figure was silent.
After two seconds, he suddenly said, "Is this a date?"
Cheng Qi was an experienced person, so he understood what he was saying and gave a wicked laugh.
"Of course."
"First I came to see you perform, then after the show I sent you a flower basket and treated you to a meal, and then I came backstage to look for you again."
"There's no such thing as a more formal date."
"Let's go." She turned around gracefully and waved, "I hope your date went well."
…
Jiang Chongyan was silent.
Date, he pondered the word carefully.
After standing there for a while, he suddenly took a step forward, walked downstairs and out of the venue.
He came back a short while later, carrying a rather large black bag. It was packed so tightly that I couldn't see clearly what was inside.
Until now, there was still no sign of Xin Tong around the corridor.
Jiang Chongyan sent her a WeChat message, but she didn't reply.
I made another voice call, and after a few rings it was suddenly connected.
There was a faint distorted electric current flashing in the receiver of the mobile phone next to his ear, and footsteps suddenly appeared behind him.
A female voice sounded at the same time beside my ear and behind me, with a teasing tone.
"Call me, did you miss me?"
Jiang Chongyan was stunned and hung up.
Turning around, I saw Xin Tong standing there, but her face didn't look very good.
She said, "I just went out to get some fresh air."
"Huh?" Xin Tong quickly noticed the black bag in his hand, "What is this?"
What's in the bag is substance.
The bag is a cover.
It’s just that this man never usually carries a backpack and is used to being relaxed and free. Suddenly he was carrying a big black bag, which not only did not cover him up, but made him more conspicuous.
“…”
Jiang Chongyan suddenly felt that the thing in his hand weighed a thousand pounds.
After a long silence, he finally said calmly, "Nothing. Just the clothes I changed out of."
Xin Tong nodded. "That's rare. I've never seen you carry a bag. You put everything in your pockets."
"Men's pockets are still bigger," the clothing company president said, stroking his chin as he pondered his plans. "Kelly's new season, I want to make the pockets bigger too."
Jiang Chongyan stared at Xin Tong's face for a while. Her expression and way of speaking seemed normal, but he felt that she was worried.
The next second, Xin Tong whispered to him,
"I've already booked a restaurant, we can go there later."
"But I changed my mind."
*
The two walked downstairs together.
There was a Bentley parked on the side of the road. It was the car that brought Xin Tong here.
After opening the door and going in, Xin Tong's driver was steady and didn't say much. He took us to the destination in less than half an hour.
Arriving at the place, Jiang Chongyan walked in and found it was a bar. There were few people. Xin Tong seemed to be familiar with the owner. He opened his wallet, took out a wad of money and handed it over to reserve the place.
There was no one in the entire bar, not even the bartender.
The lighting is soft, the decoration is beautiful, and the Bluetooth speaker on the bar plays soft music, creating a slow and old-fashioned romance.
Xin Tong started drinking.
Jiang Chongyan sat next to her and ordered only a glass of lemon soda.
She drank one glass after another. Cocktails with a 20% alcohol content could be quite intoxicating if drunk quickly and in large quantities. There were already four empty glasses on the table. Xin Tong tilted her head back and drank another half. Jiang Chongyan frowned slightly.
"Unhappy?"
Xin Tong's face was flushed, and she was already a little drunk. She leaned in front of Jiang Chongyan, very close, with a hazy look in her eyes, as if she wanted to say something to his ear.
The moment he leaned over, Jiang Chongyan smelled the scent on her body. It was the usual floral fragrance, mixed with alcohol and lemon today. It was sweet, fragrant, sour, and icy cool.
Jiang Chongyan's face was expressionless. He habitually used his hands to block her from getting closer and put her back on the backrest of the sofa.
But after a few seconds she came over again.
"Jiang Chongyan, do you still remember that day and night at Asahidake?"
Jiang Chongyan suddenly held his breath.
"It was the time we kissed." She explained sweetly.
"..." He didn't have time to continue the action of stopping. His body was stiff and he couldn't make any other reaction for a while.
The next second, she leaned on his shoulder and spoke in his ear. Her voice was very soft, but what she said was like thunder.
"My ski bindings were loosened by someone."
"My guide didn't come. It was also an accident caused by someone."
"If I hadn't met you by chance that day and night in the snowy mountains, I would have been dead by now."
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