Chapter 42
Xia Ruirui was so angry that her lips were shaking. It was not until she sat in the taxi that she realized that she had no right to be angry.
When she realized this, she felt extremely bad, but perhaps because of the law of extremes, she actually smiled.
She first called Xia's mother and told her that she had nothing to do with Shen Yuqing.
Then he told Mother Xia that if Shen Yuqing came to the house again in the future, she should stop him outside the door.
If he doesn't leave, tell her to call the police.
Mother Xia was shocked by her words and thought that she and Shen Yuqing had completely broken up. She didn't dare to mention her sad story and just agreed without asking any questions.
After hanging up the phone, Xia Ruirui realized that she had been a little too extreme.
After graduating for many years, she has been tempered by life and has become much more mature than when she was young.
But the strange thing is that every time Shen Yuqing is involved, she can't calm down.
She was still in a daze when she felt the phone next to her vibrating.
When I opened it, it was Wang Kelly, whom I hadn’t seen for a long time.
The last time Yunjin left, Wang Kelly needed surgery on her leg, and Xia Ruirui also went to see her once.
Wang Kelly and Mr. Li reconciled. She only stayed in the ward for a short while before being forced to eat a mouthful of dog food.
So he tactfully decided not to stay any longer and found an excuse to return to Beiyi.
This time, Xia Ruirui came to Xijing for work and also thought about getting together with Wang Kelly, but she didn't expect that she would get there first.
The slight depression in my heart caused by Shen Yuqing was completely soothed by a phone call from an old friend.
"Why, did our sister Li call to spread some dog food about you and Mr. Li?"
Wang Kaili was amused by her words and couldn't help but scold her in a coquettish tone: "Xia Ruirui, stop it."
“When you teased Shen Yuqing before, I saw it all.”
Hearing someone's name, Xia Ruirui couldn't help but sneer.
Wang Kelly on the other end of the phone noticed her abnormality and guessed that the two must have had a conflict. She did not try to persuade them, but instead added fuel to the fire, thinking that they had not seen enough excitement.
"Did you have a fight?"
"I have nothing to say to him." Xia Ruirui was obviously still angry.
She also guessed that what happened in the office just now could not be what she saw, but she was still angry.
It was rare to see Xia Ruirui acting so childishly, and Wang Kaili was obviously pleased to see it happen: "That's easy, I was just wondering whether to ask you to come."
"What's the meaning?"
"Let's have a small gathering. Ji Chuyao is here too."
Xia Ruirui blinked: "Why is Ji Chuyao in Xijing?"
"Of course I'm here to meet my beloved."
A certain beauty: "..."
Xia Ruirui did not refuse her friend's joke. After asking for the address, she directly changed the taxi's destination on her phone.
A hotel on the outskirts of Xijing.
When Xia Ruirui arrived, she discovered that they were not the only ones there, but Wang Kelly's husband, Mr. Li, was also there.
Mr. Li greeted them and went downstairs.
She, Wang Kelly and Ji Chuyao were the only ones left in the box. They looked at each other and laughed in tacit understanding.
They had experienced life and death together, and the strangeness and awkwardness of not seeing each other for many years completely disappeared with this smile.
"Xia Ruirui, I sent you a friend request, why don't you agree?"
Ji Chuyao drank some wine and looked a little drunk: "Are you afraid that Shen Yuqing will misunderstand?"
Wang Kelly was also a little tipsy. Before Xia Ruirui could answer, she subconsciously looked at her and asked, "Could it be that you and Shen Yuqing have rekindled your old relationship?"
Noticing Wang Kelly's choice of words, Ji Chuyao's eyes became clearer, and he looked at Xia Ruirui for confirmation:
"Old love rekindles, haven't you and Shen Yuqing been together all these years?"
"..." Xia Ruirui still didn't have time to answer.
"How could that be? They separated after graduation." After Wang Kelly answered, she collapsed on the sofa beside her and fell into a deep sleep.
Realizing that Xia Ruirui was still single, Ji Chuyao didn't say anything, but his eyes were filled with joy.
He always thought that Xia Ruirui was in love with Shen Yuqing. After all, Xia Ruirui had clearly rejected him at the teacher's farewell banquet.
Moreover, he has been paying more or less attention to Shen Yuqing over the years, so when he saw the hot search, he recognized it as Xia Ruirui at first sight.
But I didn't expect that the two of them had never been together.
He looked at Xia Ruirui who was still in a daze, his eyes filled with ecstasy that was about to overflow.
"Xia Ruirui..." He was about to say something, but was interrupted by the beauty he had been thinking about for years.
Xia Ruirui picked up the woolen coat draped on the sofa, looking a little tipsy: "Chu Yao, I'm going back first."
"..." Ji Chuyao was silent for a while, "Okay."
He followed her without saying a word until she got into the taxi and then gently closed the door for her.
Until the taxi completely disappeared from his sight, the words in his heart were still not spoken.
Ji Chuyao did not go upstairs immediately, but squatted on the street and took out a cigarette from his coat.
It was already dark, and under the half-lit streetlight, the faint flame at the end of the cigarette was faintly visible.
Ji Chuyao looked a little depressed until the cigarette butt burned his ring finger, and then he threw the cigarette butt away as if waking up from a dream.
He hated Xia Ruirui calling him Chu Yao. In comparison, he preferred Xia Ruirui calling him Ji Chu Yao.
Although Chu Yao sounds more intimate than the full name, it also seems more unfamiliar.
Xia Ruirui herself might not have realized that every time she called Shen Yuqing, she was calling his full name.
Every time she called Shen Yuqing, Ji Chuyao would become madly jealous.
Xia Ruirui had never had a quarrel with him, nor had she ever gotten angry. She was always polite but extremely distant.
Unlike him, Shen Yuqing possessed all of Xia Ruirui's emotions, and her joys, sorrows, anger, and happiness were all transparent in front of that man.
But Xia Ruirui always kept a boundary with Ji Chuyao, as if he had never entered her heart.
Whenever Xia Ruirui called him Chu Yao, he would feel a genuine sense of powerlessness.
But because her tone when she called him was too gentle, he really couldn't tell her about his powerlessness.
Should she stop calling him Chu Yao and instead call him by his full name?
Will she really understand his feelings, or will she take the opportunity to alienate him?
Ji Chuyao didn't dare to gamble, so he never told Xia Ruirui about his pain.
He could only stand at a safe distance and watch Xia Ruirui walk towards the man silently.
But this time, he didn't want to stand in the cage she had drawn for him anymore. He wanted to walk towards her.
*
Here, Ji Chuyao and Xia Ruirui were both immersed in their emotions, each with their own thoughts.
As for Wang Kelly upstairs, she had already been immersed in a sweet dream and was dating Zhou Gong.
She was even unaware that Mr. Li was taking off her shoes for her.
Mr. Li covered her with his coat and looked at her with satisfaction in his eyes.
He and his ex-wife were a young couple who had suffered a lot together. He originally thought that he would never be able to fall in love with anyone else.
But when Wang Kelly appeared, he fell in love.
He glanced at his beloved wife, then gently closed the door and signaled the other waiters not to go in and disturb her.
This restaurant is under his name. Only after he has given instructions to his waiters does he have time to smoke a cigarette.
Mr. Li looked at the taxi that had just left downstairs. He knew that the person sitting inside was Xia Ruirui.
He glanced at Ji Chuyao who was sitting on the ground smoking outside the hotel, and after thinking about it, he called Shen Yuqing.
But he didn't tell Shen Yuqing directly, but first spoke to him in a roundabout way with a few polite words.
He then invited him in a tactful tone to come to the restaurant at the villa, and then mentioned it casually.
He casually said that Xia Ruirui, Wang Kelly and Ji Chuyao were having a small gathering here.
Mr. Li has seen Xiao Shen go crazy for love. He has also seen Xiao Shen digging up a bloody index finger in Yunjin.
Because the person buried under the rubble might be Xia Ruirui, Shen Yuqing dug harder than anyone else.
He even broke the contract and took the huge risk of losing his foothold in the e-sports circle in the future, and drove to Yunjin, where aftershocks were still continuing.
Mr. Li is no longer the young man who rushed for love, but he saw in this young man the scene of his own youth when he and his ex-wife were in love to the point of despair.
He could also see that Miss Xia liked Xiao Shen, but for some reason, the two of them had always missed each other over the years.
Although he didn't understand, he always wanted to help them.
Mr. Li had anticipated Xiao Shen's reaction long before making the call.
Either he was angry, or he asked him for the address and then rushed over, just like he went straight to Yunjin after hearing about the Yunjin earthquake.
But I never thought his reaction would be so normal.
From Mr. Li's perspective, Shen Yuqing was silent for a while, then said "I see" as if nothing had happened, and then hung up the phone.
It seems like this is just a very rare and ordinary little thing.
Although Mr. Li was surprised, he did not intend to pry into other people's privacy. After all, he has been in business for many years and has always had a strong sense of propriety.
But what he didn't know was that Shen Yuqing on the other end of the phone had just hung up the phone, and he seemed to have completely lost his strength, and collapsed on the sofa behind him.
"Xia Ruirui, you have no heart..."
"After all these years, you're still as heartless as ever..."
Shen Yuqing went home after Xia Ruirui left the studio and has been drinking ever since.
He was still thinking about whether he should call Xia Ruirui and explain things to her.
Although he was deeply hurt by Xia Ruirui's words "You are not welcome in my home", he was also worried that she would never speak to him again.
He didn't expect Xia Ruirui to be jealous of him when she saw Li Yunting, he just hoped that she could care about him a little more.
After knowing that she had just eaten and drank with Ji Chuyao, he was completely disheartened.
Shen Yuqing didn't know if Xia Ruirui would call Ji Chuyao like she did last time when she and Wang Kelly called him after getting drunk.
Although he had never asked her, he knew that her relationship with Ji Chuyao must be unusual.
After all, Xia Ruirui went to Yunjin for Ji Chuyao, and he remembered that Ji Chuyao was from Yunjin.
Perhaps his thoughts all along were biased. The intruder among the three of them was not Ji Chuyao, but Shen Yuqing.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help feeling terrible.
Shen Yuqing let himself slumped on the black leather sofa, looking extremely decadent, and poured a lot of liquor into the glass.
I don’t know if it was the alcohol that made him recall the thank-you party for his teachers in his senior year of high school.
For him, it was a day when his self-esteem was trampled underfoot.
At that time, he finally no longer had to worry about Xia Ruirui's grades dropping because of her relationship.
Finally, I no longer have to worry about Xia Ruirui being young, and I can express my feelings to her openly.
Counting back three years of high school, Shen Yuqing had never said the four words "I like you" to Xia Ruirui.
He was about to confess his feelings, and he felt both excited and nervous.
But until he happily said "I like you" to Xia Ruirui, he was rejected flatly by her.
It's like throwing a rag, without any drag.
As far as he knew, he was not the only one who confessed to Xia Ruirui that night.
And there is Ji Chuyao.
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