Xia Xi did not respond to Xu Yanfeng's sarcasm.
Xu Yanfeng: "Make way."
Xia Xi instinctively took a step back as he said. Xu Yanfeng pushed open the car door and got out, looking her up and down. Just as Fu Li said, she was fine and not injured anywhere.
"Are you here for Tang Yizhou?" Xia Xi tried hard to bring the topic back to business, so that they wouldn't have to face him again if they finished the conversation quickly.
"I've already taught him a lesson." Xu Yanfeng looked away, not at her, at the trees swaying in the wind not far away. "He went too far this time and hurt you. You can ask for anything, and I won't refuse anything I can satisfy."
Xia Xi smiled bitterly. He really came to apologize for his good brother.
"No need." She said calmly, "I beat him too."
She'd practiced abroad. A single woman raising two children couldn't do without some self-defense skills. She'd used all her strength in that furious slap. Tang Yizhou's face would probably be swollen by tomorrow, and Mr. Li hadn't gotten off lightly either.
She had already vented her anger, so she didn't need Xu Yanfeng to compensate her.
If possible, they should not have any more interactions.
"If there's nothing else, I'll go upstairs. You should go back early too." Xia Xi said.
Xu Yanfeng straightened his face and looked at her, his lips slightly pursed, as if he was about to smile.
Xia Xi felt a little uncomfortable being stared at by him, and her heartbeat began to fluctuate: "...anything else?"
"Since we met, you've always avoided me, Xia Xi. Don't you think you're ridiculous?" Xu Yanfeng took a step closer, the tip of his shoe almost touching hers. She wanted to step back, but he noticed her intention and grabbed her wrist. "Look, you're still hiding even now. Are you ashamed to see me? It's strange that you can be ashamed."
Xia Xi pursed her lips. Whenever he mentioned what happened back then, she had nothing to say.
Xu Yanfeng really wanted to pry open her mouth or open her mind to see what she was thinking.
"Xia Xi, you owe me an explanation. When do you plan to pay me back?"
"I..." Xia Xi's chest felt so tight, his voice was hoarse, "I don't have anything to explain."
"Really?" Xu Yanfeng laughed, but the fingers holding her wrist tightened as he spoke word by word, "As long as you explain, we'll be even. Isn't that what you want?"
Xia Xi felt a chill in his heart.
Xu Yanfeng continued to stab her heart: "You don't think I still have illusions about you, do you? I tell you, I don't love you, I just can't let go of what happened back then."
Xia Xi looked stunned. Xu Yanfeng grabbed her neck and pinched her face. "Do you remember what I said when I agreed to be with you?"
Xia Xi's memory went back to that day as he spoke, when he asked her, "Can you be loyal to me forever?"
She felt very strange at the time.
Generally, before a boy agrees to a girl’s confession, he may ask: Will you love me forever?
But Xu Yanfeng used the word "loyalty".
Xia Xi felt cold all over. She had not been able to be "forever loyal" to him after all. He saw her sleeping with another man with his own eyes. It was a naked betrayal.
Xia Xi herself didn't know how she got back upstairs. She lay on the bed in a daze. After a long time, her body was still cold. She curled up with her arms folded.
Somehow, I suddenly remembered what Fu Li said when he pleaded for Tang Yizhou.
He said that Tang Yizhou was so angry at Xu Er for being miserable and frustrated because of you that he came up with this idea to teach you a lesson.
Painful and frustrated.
It turns out that to this day, Xu Yanfeng is still suffering and frustrated.
But it wasn't because he still loved her. As he said, he just couldn't let it go.
*
The weekend passed so quickly that it didn't feel real, and Monday was already here in the blink of an eye.
The first thing Huang Shiyu did when he arrived at the company was to ask Xia Xi: "I sent you a message that day and you didn't reply. Did Mr. Li show up for the appointment later?"
Xia Xi opened WeChat on her computer and saw that Huang Shiyu had sent her several messages at nine o'clock last Friday night. However, she was upset at that time and did not check her phone. She did not have a very happy weekend.
"I'm sorry, I didn't see it."
"Haha, it's okay. I guessed you might not have seen it."
Xia Xi took a sip of coffee and thought about how to explain Mr. Li's situation to her. Finally, she simply told the truth: "Mr. Li's project probably won't go forward."
"Ah? How could this happen?"
When Huang Shiyu left home in the morning, she was full of energy and high-spirited. She imagined in her mind that she would have a big fight with Xia Xi, but unexpectedly reality gave her a blow.
Xia Xi said: "After communicating, we found that it was not feasible, so the project fell through."
It wouldn't work if Party A had bad character, not to mention that decorating the teahouse was just an excuse used by Mr. Li to lure her into the trap, and it was still unclear whether the project existed or not.
"Go and tell Jiang Tian so he knows what's going on." Xia Xi didn't want to say more and gave the order directly.
"Oh, okay."
Huang Shiyu left the office and went to explain the situation to Jiang Tian. Jiang Tian asked her why, but she couldn't answer. So she borrowed Xia Xi's words, slightly modified them, and told him: "After discussing, we found that this project is not feasible and there is no need to proceed. You have to know that Engineer Xia is experienced and has his own judgment."
Jiang Tian stopped asking.
After Huang Shiyu came out, he went to the front desk to pick up a package and met a strange man. He was over 1.8 meters tall, wearing an expensive suit, sunglasses and a black mask on his face. At first glance, he looked like a big star going out.
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