Chapter 226
It was 6:30 a.m. on the first day of the Lunar New Year.
The sun hadn't fully risen yet, and the sky outside was still gray. Zhao Nuannuan suddenly sat up in bed.
Her hair was disheveled and she was covered in sweat, but she didn't bother to tidy herself up. She first grabbed her phone from the bedside table, opened her social media app, and saw her chat with Qin Su at the top of the page. Only then did she breathe a sigh of relief.
After calming her racing heart for a while, she recalled the nightmare that had just woken her up, and couldn't help but read through every single message she and Qin Su had exchanged so far.
Thank goodness, Zhao Nuannuan thought, thank goodness it was just a dream.
She was terrified. She didn't know what was going on during the New Year. She dreamed that there was no Qin Su in the world, and she didn't join any Qin Su's company. Instead, she was working as a waitress in a restaurant. She ran into her ex-boyfriend Ye Jingming, and after some entanglement with him, she was targeted by someone who had a crush on Ye Jingming. She ended up living a life where she was constantly bothered by others.
Thinking about how she was being pointed at and scolded for not being good enough for Ye Jingming in her dream, and how she was timid and could only shed tears, Zhao Nuannuan wished she could drag that version of herself out and beat her up.
Fortunately, I didn't end up like that, otherwise I would have been miserable even if I had married into a wealthy family.
After tidying up her room, Zhao Nuannuan ate breakfast with her parents, trying to put the strange dream behind her.
But perhaps because everything that happened in the dream was too real and too clear, she couldn't help but recall it and wonder if things would have turned out the way they did in the dream if she hadn't met Qin Su but instead experienced what happened in the dream.
The more she thought about it, the more panicked she became, and she even developed a sense of unreality about her current life.
Could it be that I'm dreaming right now? And everything that happens in my dream is real?
Zhao Nuannuan was restless. She glanced at the time and saw that it was already past ten in the morning.
Qin Su should be free now, right?
Zhao Nuannuan typed in front of Qin Su's profile picture, deleting and revising repeatedly, and finally sent it out.
A "ding" sounded.
A message notification sounded.
Qin Su lay lazily in Ye Yan's arms, playing with her little yellow duck doll. She didn't even look up when she heard the sound, but touched Ye Yan's chin with the little yellow duck doll: "Help me see who it is."
Ye Yan pushed the doll away, kissed her fingers, and then turned to look at her: "Zhao Nuannuan, she said she wishes you a Happy New Year."
Qin Su waited to hear what happened next: "And then?"
Ye Yan held his phone screen up to her and showed it to her: "There's no follow-up, just this one sentence."
"Why is she still so timid?" Qin Su said with dissatisfaction. "She doesn't even know how to flatter the boss."
She reached out and made a video call to Zhao Nuannuan.
Zhao Nuannuan answered immediately.
"Mr. Qin, Mr. Qin." Zhao Nuannuan hurriedly sat up in bed, stammering for a while until her face turned red, before finally managing to stammer, "...Have you eaten?"
After she finished speaking, she wished she could swallow the phone whole.
Oh my god, what's going on?! What nonsense is she asking?! Who hasn't eaten by this hour?!
Besides, Qin Su finally took the initiative to contact her, so why did she only say such meaningless things?!
Zhao Nuannuan quickly added, "No, I meant, where did President Qin eat? Ah, no, it's not that..."
The more mistakes she made, the more nervous she became, and for a moment she became incoherent.
Fortunately, Qin Su didn't seem to mind. She lifted her eyelashes to examine Zhao Nuannuan's expression and chuckled, "Alright, I know you well enough. Tell me, what happened?"
Zhao Nuannuan quieted down, lowered her head, and slowly slid her slipper-clad feet on the floor, saying awkwardly, "I had a nightmare."
It's really embarrassing to talk about.
She's such a grown woman, yet she acts like a child who hasn't been weaned, clinging to people for comfort because of a nightmare.
Moreover, nominally speaking, Qin Su is still her superior.
But Zhao Nuannuan, as a typical "Cinderella," has a tenacious and impulsive nature like wild grass. She believes that Qin Su is a good person who has helped her, so she dares to muster up the courage to get close to and rely on Qin Su.
She recounted her dream to Qin Su, without mentioning Ye Jingming's name, only saying that he was her ex-boyfriend.
As she talked, Zhao Nuannuan suddenly felt that the dream wasn't so scary after all.
Because many details in dreams are different from reality.
To take a recent example, the CYY generation chip that Qin Su Company has been working so hard on is nowhere to be seen in my dreams, but in reality, related news is everywhere, and its popularity has not waned since the press conference.
Isn't something this big far more important than her personal experiences?
Zhao Nuannuan was completely relieved. When she talked about marrying into a wealthy family in her dream, she even joked, "My ex-boyfriend's family seems to be quite rich, but I'm not really sure how rich they are. It's just that in the dream he had a younger uncle, and he was with your... uh..."
She had met Ye Yan before and knew that Ye Yan was Qin Su's lover. She was about to say that her ex-boyfriend's uncle in her dream looked just like Ye Yan, but before she could finish speaking, Qin Su moved her phone, making the camera flash across Ye Yan's face.
"Uncle? You mean Ye Yan?" Qin Su asked casually. "We do have a nephew named Ye Jingming."
Zhao Nuannuan: "..."
!!
Her first thought was, what? Qin Su had actually been lying in Ye Yan's arms the whole time?
No wonder she felt that Qin Su's background was strange; given Qin Su's face, it would be difficult for most people to notice her surroundings.
Doesn't that mean Ye Yan saw all of her embarrassing behavior just now?
The thought that Ye Yan disliked her for no reason made her feel dizzy and her vision went black.
My second thought is that Ye Jingming is actually Ye Yan's nephew, so Qin Su is Ye Jingming's aunt.
If she gets together with Ye Jingming, wouldn't her relationship with Qin Su take another step forward?
She could even be considered family with Qin Su.
Zhao Nuannuan ended her call with Qin Su in a daze and found the message that Ye Jingming had invited her out to dinner.
My initial resolve to firmly refuse, stemming from the nightmare, has slowly begun to waver.
Qin Su, eh.
We're family.
Zhao Nuannuan stared blankly at her phone for a while, unable to find a reason to resist this enormous temptation.
...
A few months later, Ye Yan, who was taking Qin Su on a revisit to Baoluo Temple, received a call from Ye Jingming, who said that he had started dating a girlfriend he wanted to spend his life with and wanted to invite her to have a meal with Ye Yan and his wife.
Ye Yan gave a perfunctory "uh-huh" in agreement.
After hanging up the phone, he caught up with Qin Su and casually mentioned the matter: "I didn't expect them to still be together. Ye Jingming has finally gotten what he wanted."
He was unaware that one of the major reasons Zhao Nuannuan accepted Ye Jingming back this time was her own wife.
Qin Su said, "The two of them are deeply bound together, and it's difficult to sever their bond. It's just a matter of time."
Ye Yan deliberately asked, "And what about us? Is it difficult to sever ties?"
Qin Su glanced at him with a smile: "That might have to wait until the universe is destroyed. How about that, are you scared?"
"I'm terrified," Ye Yan couldn't help but laugh, "—afraid you'll go back on your word."
The two walked halfway up the mountain, chatting and laughing, when suddenly a mournful love song drifted into their ears.
This melody...
Ye Yan's face darkened as he suddenly remembered hearing a similar song when he carried Qin Su down the mountain.
This caused him to have background music playing in his head every time he recalled something.
That's so unlucky.
Ye Yan took Qin Su's hand and walked over. He saw that the person playing music in the pavilion was an old acquaintance.
That middle-aged man who sold watermelons and ice cream in the summer and candied hawthorns in the winter.
Ye Yan couldn't understand: "Boss, why do you always play this kind of music?"
Judging from the boss's appearance, he doesn't seem like a sentimental, artsy young man.
Could it be that there is some untold pain?
The middle-aged man fanned himself with a large palm-leaf fan: "I collaborated with the temple upstairs to play some sad music. People who come to visit the temple will feel sentimental and be more willing to offer incense."
Ye Yan: "..."
It's a truth that leaves one speechless.
He transferred some money to the shop owner and said with a sense of weariness, "I'll buy a day's worth of sweet love songs. Please don't let me hear these anymore."
The boss readily accepted, immediately changed the song to "Sweet Honey" for him, and even gave him two complimentary servings of chilled watermelon slices.
Ye Yan and Qin Su continued walking up the mountain while eating watermelon.
A cool summer breeze blew through the woods, and he suddenly remembered that he had once come alone to buy two watermelons, but he hadn't eaten a single bite, only holding the breeze in his hand as he left.
And now...
He gently tugged at Qin Su.
Qin Su turned around: "What?"
Ye Yan lowered his head slightly and exchanged a watermelon-flavored kiss with her.
Um.
This time, when we go to see the marriage tree, we don't need to make a wish.
Because his God was with him and had granted his greatest wish.
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