Chapter 52: Dragon Seven vs. Boss Xu Caught in Adultery, His True Colors Revealed...
Shen Siqing is now a regular at the small supermarket. He comes here almost every two or three days. When the neighbors see him, they all praise Boss Xu for being so lucky, having such a loving boyfriend and living such a happy life.
That's how it seems on the surface, but only Ah Yu herself knows the truth—
She's been acting strangely lately. Not only has she lost the initial passion she felt for Aqing, but she also often spaces out and seems uncomfortable with her life.
When asked to specify where she felt unwell, she couldn't say.
Is it the sudden awakening in the middle of the night? Or the melancholy that comes when staring blankly at the wind chimes?
Wind chimes... wind chimes?
Mr. Xu went to the door and took down the hanging flower wind chime. He turned it upside down and found it was covered in dust. He had said that something was missing, and realized that the wind chime had stopped ringing due to the dust buildup sometime during the day.
She took out a wet wipe and carefully cleaned the wind chime inside and out.
Tomorrow we're going to Yunnan. I hope that through this trip for the two of us, she and Aqing can reconcile and return to how things were at the beginning.
As she wiped it, Ah Yu muttered, "This wind chime has been silent for a long time; it should have been taken down and wiped a long time ago."
Her mutterings reached Chen Siqing's ears.
On the second floor, Chen Siqing raised his head in confusion: "It was making a sound, how come it wasn't? I heard it making a sound when I came in just now."
"Really?" she asked softly. As she wiped, the wet tissue seemed to dry a little, and suddenly, a hot tear fell into the flower's heart.
Xu Zhiyu turned her back to the second floor and said, "Aqing, you watch the shop for me this afternoon. I'm going to my mom's."
Chen Siqing gave a cryptic smile: "Did Auntie forget to take something again?"
Xu Zhiyu: "Yes, she's getting a bit forgetful as she gets older. I'll take her the work shirt she wants to change into."
Chen Siqing: "Okay, are you taking a taxi or the bus? I drove here, or should I take you?"
She said, "No need, I'll take the bus. It's pretty boring guarding the shop every day, I'll just go out for a walk."
Chen Siqing: "Okay, I'll wait for you at the store."
Ms. Xu placed the cleaned wind chime on the cashier's counter without hanging it back up. She left in a hurry, grabbing her phone and also taking a brand-new pack of tissues from in front of the counter, as if she had something urgent to attend to.
In fact, if Shen Siqing had cared about Boss Xu even a little bit, he would have realized that Xu Zhiyu never found running the shop boring.
There were large packs of opened tissues at the cashier; as a businessperson, she wouldn't be willing to take unopened new tissues from the store to use.
She was afraid that if she left the house any later, Aqing would see her gushing tears.
Mom didn't forget anything today. Ayu just wanted to go out and be alone for a while. She was in a terrible mood, and it had been like this lately. Ever since her big fight with Aqing, their relationship seemed to have changed.
She gradually became very humble in the relationship. After all, after such a long time, she had become accustomed to Aqing's role as her partner. His indifference after the last argument made her feel uneasy. He acted as if he was not afraid of losing her at all. If Ayu did not compromise, would he break up with her?
She, who had always been carefree, began to feel uneasy and anxious.
I started to regret it.
Yes, Xu Zhiyu regretted it.
Because this relationship was making her increasingly miserable, she often asked herself why she had started it in the first place.
Not only could she no longer help Xingmian, but she also drifted further and further away from many of her friends.
Ah Qing went through her phone and set a rule for her that she could not chat with any men in private.
But she already has a lot of friends, both male and female, and her chat history with her friends is transparent and there are no problems. Why is he still so domineering?
Because she cared, because she didn't want to lose, she compromised again.
She thought this would bring her peace and happiness, and indeed she did find peace, but Ah Yu could no longer feel happiness.
She walked amidst the swaying fallen leaves, sobbing uncontrollably.
She dared not say it, but she longed, longed, longed for early summer, early summer, early summer.
I miss the crisp sound of a wind chime, the silhouette of someone washing dishes, and a pair of eyes as bright as the moon.
She walked from the east side of Huainan Alley to the west side, and then from the east side of Xingbei Alley to the west side.
Amidst suffocating sobs, she reflected on whether she had done something wrong, but no matter how much she thought about it, she couldn't think of a better ending than this.
Xingmian will be admitted to his desired university with ease, and he will date a girl who is just as outstanding as him. The two will date from campus to wedding and grow old together happily.
She and Aqing will walk down the aisle together, becoming each other's closest people in the world, taking care of each other's parents, and living a simple and peaceful life together.
Simple and ordinary, like a gentle stream flowing on.
Isn't this the love she's most satisfied with?
Yes.
So Ah Yu stopped crying.
Her out-of-control emotions calmed down during the walk. She wiped away her tears, composed herself, and thought, "Tomorrow I'm going on a trip! What a happy thing! From today onwards, I should gradually let go of the past and live a good life with my boyfriend, right?"
Life is for yourself; if problems arise, you need to take good care of yourself!
Having figured things out, Ah Yu, with a renewed sense of peace, walked with a lighter step.
Passing by a roasted nuts shop, she planned to buy a bag of roasted chestnuts for Aqing, but after paying, she suddenly remembered that he didn't like sweets, especially nuts, so she returned them.
I stopped at a braised food stall and bought a super spicy Yanbian beef to go – I'll celebrate tomorrow's trip with Aqing when I get back.
When they were almost back at Tian Tian's shop, they saw that Xiao Meng's cake shop wasn't doing much business, so Boss Xu went in and bought a delicate little blueberry cake and her boyfriend's favorite Guan Yi Ru (a type of herbal drink).
She had only been out for twenty minutes, but she looked like she had just returned from a hunting trip, carrying bags full of things she had bought according to her partner's tastes.
After walking around outside for a couple of hours, Xu Zhiyu felt much more relaxed. She walked back to the store entrance and was surprised to find that the supermarket's glass door was tightly closed and the lights inside were off. Although it wasn't dark yet in the afternoon, the supermarket lacked atmosphere and felt somewhat gloomy without the lights on.
The cute wooden sign that read "Open for Business" hanging inside the door has been flipped over to show "The shop is closed."
She was puzzled. What happened? Had A-Qing also gone out on business?
But why didn't he call her before leaving the house?
That shouldn't be the case...
She pushed open the door; the wind chimes had been taken down before she left, so there was no sound when she opened the door.
But as soon as the heavy glass door was pushed open, Xu Zhiyu stopped in her tracks, her legs feeling as heavy as if they weighed a ton.
What was that sound?
"You little bitch! You little bitch! Shout!! Shout louder for me!!"
"Haaaaaaahhhhhh~ Mmm! Husband, you're so amazing! Faster! Faster! Let's sprint together! Ah, brother, brother, please, please, love Jingjing fiercely!"
Silence—silence?
Based on her familiarity with the supermarket layout, Xu Zhiyu was able to determine from the decibel level and direction of the sound that it originated from the warehouse.
A tremendous chill rose from the ground beneath her feet, and her ears were filled with the obscene shouts of men and women and their rapid, shameful breathing.
Xu Zhiyu's mind instantly went blank, but her heart felt ice-cold. An unbelievable thought popped into her head.
With this thought in mind, she silently moved slowly towards the source of the sound...
The warehouse door wasn't closed properly. Xu Zhiyu's heart pounded, and she gasped—she turned her head slightly and, through a fist-sized gap, she was shocked to see two naked bodies intertwined inside!
The man picked up the woman and slammed her onto the table. Both of them blushed from their collarbones up due to excessive excitement. The sounds of their passionate collision turned into thunderclaps, which struck Xu Zhiyu directly through the small gap!
The air was filled with an unspeakable odor.
Ah Yu stared blankly at the two people inside, two people she knew.
Look at them shamelessly doing such a disgraceful thing in her supermarket.
They are Aqing and Jingjing!
They were actually Aqing and Jingjing?
It was her boyfriend, Aqing, who loved her, and Jingjing, whom she had once wholeheartedly wanted to help!
Yes—Quiet contemplation and quiet contemplation.
She tilted her head almost imperceptibly and called softly, "A-Qing?"
The call was so soft it was almost inaudible, yet it startled the two people in the room!
When Tian Jingjing saw Boss Xu at the door, she froze on the spot, her flushed face turning deathly pale, and she even forgot to put on her clothes.
Shen Siqing, on the other hand, seemed unusually calm. He frowned and asked, "Why are you back so soon?"
Xu Zhiyu smiled.
He said, "There's a hotel a hundred meters ahead. Go there and stay there. Don't stay at my shop."
The two people opposite clearly didn't expect that Mr. Xu's first words would be like this.
She gently pushed open the warehouse door, tossed the things she was holding to Chen Siqing's feet, turned to the side, pointed towards the door, and suddenly raised her voice to scream:
"roll!!!"
Tian Jingjing was terrified by Xu Zhiyu's reaction. She scrambled to pick up her clothes from the ground and put them on! Seeing Sister Yu's gloomy and terrifying face, Tian Jingjing's mind went blank, and tears streamed down her face!
She moved quickly, dressed herself, covered her mouth and sobbed, and ran outside first.
Before she could even run out of the supermarket, she turned back, knelt down with a thud, and kowtowed three times to Xu Zhiyu!
Xu Zhiyu stared straight ahead, seemingly oblivious.
After kowtowing, Tian Jingjing ran away crying, leaving behind A Yu, whose whole body was trembling violently, and Chen Siqing, who was slowly getting dressed.
"Idiot, useless thing." Shen Siqing cursed mockingly as Tian Jingjing ran away in a sorry state.
Upon hearing this, Xu Zhiyu looked at Shen Siqing with extremely complex emotions, because countless thoughts flashed through her mind in that instant.
Her strongest emotion was anger. There were two sharp fruit knives under the bar on the second floor. She was determined to grab the larger one and stab Chen Siqing in the abdomen! She would also smash his manhood to pieces!
But anger wasn't the only thing occupying her mind; she was also filled with grief, indignation, and heartbreak! She wanted to ask him again why, when it all started, whether he had ever truly loved her. She wanted to ask him, she wanted to ask him, she wanted to ask him, she wanted to ask him:
Did you ever consider how I felt when you did this?
But when the words reached his lips, they only turned into a pounding heart and a silent tremor.
Her fingertips trembled, and she spoke in a soft, pleading voice: "Please, please, get out of here, it's disgusting."
She spoke haltingly and weakly: "We...we should never...see each other again."
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Author's Note: Typos in this chapter have been corrected.
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