Chapter 133 His grand secret love "Part 2"

Looking at Ye Qingyue's back, Huo Qingchi's heart beat so violently for the first time since he was born.

Although the feeling was unfamiliar, Huo Qingchi almost instinctively understood that

he liked Ye Qingyue.

It was not love at first sight, nor was it lust for beauty.

He was simply attracted by the figure of this woman.

First love came too suddenly, and it took Huo Qingchi several days to accept it.

After confirming his love for Ye Qingyue, Huo Qingchi immediately went to find Sheng Zhiwu.

"Do you know Dr. Ye's next schedule?"

Huo Qingchi said, and then felt that what he said was not right, and added: "I don't have any other intentions, I just want to meet her."

"When you have the idea of ​​meeting her in your mind, you have other intentions."

Sheng Zhiwu looked at him as if he was a fool.

Huo Qingchi: "..."

Sheng Zhiwu did not continue teasing, and said: "I will find out about this for you, she has quite a lot of public schedules."

Huo Qingchi suddenly said: "Since you met that woman, you have really become a lot more serious."

Sheng Zhiwu heard this, but suddenly fell silent.

On his face, which was always cynical, there was a rare look of loneliness.

"What if I met her? There is only that one side."

Sheng Zhiwu said lightly, "So many years have passed, I even... don't remember her face."

Huo Qingchi said: "Some things may be possible?"

Sheng Zhiwu has not looked for anyone else for so many years because of that woman.

Huo Qingchi knew that he always had a glimmer of hope in his heart.

People live on that little hope, and he did not break it.

"Yeah, maybe?"

Sheng Zhiwu raised his eyebrows, "I am a man who will live to be 88 years old."

He changed the subject: "Come to think of it, I was also quite moved when I first met Ye Qingyue."

After saying that, he saw Huo Qingchi's somewhat tense face, and couldn't help laughing. He raised his hand and lightly punched Huo Qingchi on the shoulder.

"Don't worry, I'm a very loyal person, and..."

Sheng Zhiwu said in an ambiguous tone: "Ye Qingyue is not a simple woman. If you like her, you will suffer a lot in the future. If you are not determined, don't get close to her easily. You have finally recovered, and I don't want to see you fall again."

Huo Qingchi said seriously: "Do you think I will say goodbye to her without being sure of my feelings?"

"Again?"

Sheng Zhiwu smiled meaningfully: "It seems that our Mr. Huo has had some unknown story... Let's not work today, let's go drink together and talk while drinking."

Huo Qingchi accompanied Sheng Zhiwu for a drink and then went to the company.

Sheng Zhiwu drank until the evening, and when he was drunk, he lay on the lawn in the backyard, looking at the dark sky with a distant look.

"Today too... there are no stars."

Just like that summer night in 1985.

That day was the most painful day in Sheng Zhiwu's life.

As an illegitimate child of the Sheng family, although his mother was a mistress, he never hated his father, but always loved him deeply. It was not an exaggeration to describe him as "humble".

And that "father" who was philandering and proud had always looked down on his mother of humble origin. It was not

until Sheng Zhiwu grew up and took advantage of the opportunity of reform and opening up to do business and open a big company that Sheng's father was willing to pay more attention to Sheng's mother.

But this was just to take advantage of Sheng's mother's feelings and ask Sheng Zhiwu for money.

In 1985, the Sheng family went bankrupt. In order to make a comeback, Sheng's father asked Sheng's mother to find Sheng Zhiwu and transfer Sheng Zhiwu's company to him unconditionally.

Mother Sheng loved Father Sheng so much that even her own son was not as good as her man. She cried and made a fuss, and even threatened to commit suicide to transfer the company to Father Sheng.

For so many years, Sheng Zhiwu always knew that Mother Sheng only regarded him as a tool to maintain the relationship with Father Sheng, not as a son.

But when he saw how heartless Mother Sheng was to him, Sheng Zhiwu still felt heartbroken.

After all, this was his mother, the only relative he had in this world, and the only support he had when he was a child.

"I founded the company and I have given almost everything for it. It can be said that the company is my life."

Sheng Zhiwu said to his mother in a hoarse voice: "You want me to give the company to that man. Isn't that asking me to give up my life and die?"

"Then you can just die!"

In order to force Sheng Zhiwu to surrender, Sheng's mother cut her wrist. She deliberately waved her bloody arm and said: "I gave you your life, and now I want you to give it back! Stop talking nonsense here. Tomorrow morning when the agency goes to work, you will go to handle the formalities and give the company to your father!"

Sheng Zhiwu was disheartened when he heard this.

After Sheng's mother went to the hospital, he bought two boxes of wine and squatted in an empty corner of the park, intending to drink until he was exhausted and then jump into the lake next to him.

He made a will in advance, leaving a fund project for Sheng's mother, with a fixed amount of money every month, enough for her to live the rest of her life like a normal person without worries about food and drink.

As for the company, he would donate it to society after his death.

He would rather benefit those he had never met than let the scumbag who had never fulfilled his responsibilities as a father and husband get away with it.

Sheng Zhiwu was drunk and felt that he still had the last bit of strength in his body, enough for him to crawl to the lake and roll down.

He was about to get up with his hands on the ground.

Suddenly, a heart-wrenching cry came from the greening next to him, mixed with the woman's words that were difficult to hear because of crying.

Sheng Zhiwu: "..."

In this situation, it seemed inappropriate for him to appear.

So Sheng Zhiwu lay back down.

The woman cried for a long time, gasping for breath.

Sheng Zhiwu felt that he was about to fall asleep.

"Why are you crying? You are not the one who suffered the most."

Sheng Zhiwu felt that if he let the woman continue crying, he would not be able to find the right opportunity to get up and jump into the lake.

Besides, he didn't even cry.

"I'm so miserable, but I didn't even cry..."

Sheng Zhiwu muttered.

Hearing the sound, the woman's crying stopped immediately.

Then, there were rustling footsteps.

Sheng Zhiwu felt someone stepped over the short trees in the greenery and came to his side.

He looked up -

it was pitch black and he couldn't see anything clearly.

At most, he could see that it was a person.

"It turned out to be not a ghost..."

Sheng Zhiwu heard the woman's hoarse crying.

"It's a ghost." Sheng Zhiwu pulled the corner of his mouth and wanted to laugh when he heard this, "Drunkard."

"Is that wine yours?" The woman's voice rang again.

Beside Sheng Zhiwu, there were two boxes of wine, one of which had been mostly drunk, and the bottles scattered on the ground were hard to ignore.

"Yeah." Sheng Zhiwu answered weakly.

He was talking to the woman not to get her to come over and chat with him, but just to get her to leave quickly so that he could jump into the lake.

"Sell me some."

Before Sheng Zhiwu drove her away, the woman took out her purse.

Sheng Zhiwu heard the sound of coins colliding.

He squinted and vaguely saw that the woman was holding some banknotes and coins of seemingly poor denominations.

"I still have to save money for the train ticket, and I only have two dollars left."

The woman asked, "How much wine can I buy with two dollars?"

Probably enough to buy a sip.

The wine that Sheng Zhiwu prepared for the last part of his life was extremely expensive.

But he just wanted to get rid of the people quickly, so he said, "Take it all."

"How can you buy so much with two yuan? Just give me one bottle."

The woman said, stuffing a handful of change into Sheng Zhiwu's hand, then took out a bottle of wine and gulped it down.

He spit it out after two sips.

"It's so bitter..."

The woman said with a little heartache: "Forget it, it's bought with two yuan..."

She continued to drink reluctantly.

Sheng Zhiwu wanted to laugh again, either because he laughed at the woman's ignorance or because he thought her stingy look was quite funny. She

was crying her heart out just now.

"Don't be sad."

Sheng Zhiwu thought about it and decided to do some good deeds and accumulate some virtues at the end of his life, so that he could be reborn into a good family in the next life.

"Although I don't know what you encountered, you are definitely not as miserable as me." Sheng Zhiwu wanted to comfort this strange woman.

He just raised his head and heard the woman say: "My mother is dead."

Sheng Zhiwu thought that some mothers are worse off dead than alive.

"Killed by my father." The woman added.

Sheng Zhiwu: "..." Although his rubbish father was a hateful person, he didn't have the courage to kill people.

"My sister found out the truth, sent my father to prison, and shot him." The woman continued.

Sheng Zhiwu: "..."

"Just like I farted in front of you."

Sheng Zhiwu sighed. He lost the competition. He

didn't expect that any passerby would be more miserable than him.

He just said something arrogant, as if he was the most miserable person in the world, and tried to comfort the woman.

"So, don't be sad."

At this time, he heard the woman's voice.

Sheng Zhiwu was startled: "Sad? Me? I'm not sad at all. I've been used to it for so many years."

"I'm so sad, but I still can't drink such bitter wine, but you've drunk half a box."

The woman sighed, "Wine is not as bitter as you feel. Don't pretend to be fine. Cry if you want to. There's no one else here anyway, and I don't know you. I'm leaving the capital tomorrow."

"Wine is not as bitter as I feel?"

Sheng Zhiwu repeated the woman's words, his nose inexplicably sour, "You don't know me, but you know I feel bitter. Why can't my mother see it?"

For the first time, he complained about his mother.

The moment he said it, it seemed as if something in his chest surged out.

Very...

want to cry.

Sheng Zhiwu cried.

He couldn't remember what he said at that time.

It seemed like all complaints and curses.

"...I was planning to die today. If you hadn't suddenly come over and cried, I would have jumped into the lake."

Sheng Zhiwu was tired of crying and felt that he didn't have the strength to jump into the lake and couldn't delay any longer.

"Go ahead."

The woman's reaction surprised Sheng Zhiwu, "I won't hold you back."

"...Thank you."

Her cold and calm attitude made Sheng Zhiwu feel relaxed.

Sheng Zhiwu got up from the ground, stumbled to the lake, and with a "plop", he sank quickly like a stone.

The cool lake water rushed in from all directions, pressing on Sheng Zhiwu's body and pouring into his mouth and nose.

The pungent and stinging smell made Sheng Zhiwu cough subconsciously.

But when he opened his mouth, he felt the suffocating feeling of a large amount of lake water pouring in.

It was so uncomfortable, so uncomfortable...

Sheng Zhiwu finally realized that this was what drowning felt like. Wouldn't it be too painful to commit suicide by jumping into the water?

He felt a little regretful.

But the dark lake was quiet, and he was the only one there, sinking and sinking...

He seemed to be abandoned by the world and laughed at -

it was useless to regret.

Sheng Zhiwu's consciousness was a little fuzzy.

"Thump."

Perhaps it was an illusion, he heard the sound of something falling into the lake.

When he felt his chest was about to be filled with water and he was completely suffocated, his waist suddenly tightened.

Then, his cold lips were hot.

The life-saving air flowed into his mouth and Sheng Zhiwu came back to life instantly.

"Bang!"

Sheng Zhiwu felt himself being pulled out of the water.

The thin touch close to his body told him who saved him.

"Didn't you say that you wouldn't stop me?"

Sheng Zhiwu asked while coughing up water.

"I didn't hold you back."

The woman was also panting. She seemed to be in poor health. Going into the water to save people was a very difficult task for her.

"I just saved you."

The woman's tone was the same as before, very calm.

She put Sheng Zhiwu on the ground and patted his shoulder.

"Now, your life is mine."

The woman said, "So, live on. You are still young. Don't seek death."

"Young?"

Sheng Zhiwu smiled, "I'm almost thirty."

"Does your life only last thirty years?"

The woman coughed a few times and said, "My sister is a doctor. She said that the average life expectancy in the country has reached 68 years in 1980. Seeing that you still have so much money to buy wine, your living conditions are better than the average, right? Then you should at least live more than 68 years old?" Sheng Zhiwu

was silent for a while after hearing this, and suddenly said, "Then I... live to be eighty years old?"

"Live to 88 years old,"

the woman said, "It sounds auspicious."

Sheng Zhiwu laughed, "Indeed."

The woman patted his shoulder again, "Then try your best to live. It is better to live a miserable life than to die a good death. Even if you are not satisfied now, grit your teeth and get through it. There is still hope in your life. Only by surviving can you become a winner."

Only by surviving... can you become a winner?

"...I know."

Sheng Zhiwu listened to the woman's words, and felt that his cold and numb heart seemed to be filled with a warm current and came back to life. He whispered, "I will...try my best to survive."

His voice became smaller and smaller.

Alcoholism, jumping into the lake, blowing the cold

wind... Sheng Zhiwu has reached his limit now.

He felt the woman next to him get up and leave.

"Where...are you going?" Sheng Zhiwu asked in a daze.

"Police station, ask the police to take you back."

The woman's voice slowly faded away.

"Don't go..."

Sheng Zhiwu murmured, "Stay with me..."

However, his voice was blown away by the summer night wind and failed to reach the woman's ears.

When Sheng Zhiwu woke up, the woman had disappeared.

The police at the police station didn't know her identity.

Sheng Zhiwu wanted to find her, but in the end he found nothing.

He remembered that the woman said that she would leave the capital early the next morning.

"Don't you know that I'm rich..."

Sheng Zhiwu was a little disappointed, "My life is yours. Wouldn't it be better if you stayed with me?"

He didn't know the woman's identity, name, or even her appearance.

Even so, he knew very well in his heart that if the woman really stayed that night, he would be willing to give everything.

In the days that followed, Sheng Zhiwu gritted his teeth and got through it, just as the woman had promised.

Even when his parents were at odds, he never compromised.

Because his life no longer belonged to his mother.

For that woman, he had to live well.

He hoped that next time they met, he would no longer appear in front of the woman as a drunkard.

Instead, he would be able to smile and ask the woman in the best manner: "Do you want to stay with me? I've given you my life."

If he could never meet that woman again in this life.

Then...

"In the next life, I will try my best to find you."

Sheng Zhiwu lay on the lawn, looking at the dark night sky, and murmured softly.

...

The second meeting with Ye Qingyue was earlier than Huo Qingchi expected.

Under Sheng Zhiwu's lead, he went to a private banquet with fewer people.

On this day, Ye Qingyue was not late, and even arrived earlier than Huo Qingchi.

Huo Qingchi was delayed by work, and arrived halfway through the banquet. He saw a man outside the villa trying to hold Ye Qingyue's hand, but Ye Qingyue avoided him.

"Miss Ye, have a drink with me." The man was probably a little drunk, and his tone was not very polite.

"Sorry, I don't drink."

Seeing him drunk, Ye Qingyue frowned, "If it's all right, I'll leave first, I have a meeting to attend."

"Ms. Ye, I'm the one who wants to invest in your project."

The man was annoyed to see that she was so disrespectful, "Five million is not five hundred yuan. Your project is for a small number of patients with rare diseases. Even you know that it's impossible to make money. I'm giving you face, so I invested so much money in the project. You don't even drink a glass of wine with me. Isn't it a bit too much?"

He said, and tried to pull Ye Qingyue's hand again.

"Please respect yourself."

Ye Qingyue dodged, and the bodyguard in the dark also came out.

"If you invest in me just to get me to drink with you, then please withdraw your investment."

Ye Qingyue is not short of money. She just didn't make a big offer for the sake of her peers.

But her solicitation of sponsorship does not mean that she has to be humble for other people's investment. It

's a matter of mutual consent.

"I can't wait to withdraw my investment!"

The man was angry and embarrassed, "I want to see who is willing to invest in your money-losing project after I withdraw my investment!"

"I am willing."

At this moment, a cold male voice sounded.

Ye Qingyue was startled and turned her head to see Huo Qingchi wearing a neat suit and walking up the stairs under the dim light.

He stood beside Ye Qingyue, looking down at the man, "I am willing to invest 10 million in Dr. Ye's project, you can get out."

"You..."

The man was about to curse, but when he saw Huo Qingchi, he suddenly sobered up, "Mr. Huo?!"

He dared to offend Ye Qingyue because Ye Qingyue had nothing to do with his business and would not affect him.

In addition, he had never heard that Ye Qingyue would retaliate, so he was bold and wanted to have something happen with Ye Qingyue.

But Huo Qingchi was different. They were in the same industry, and he had to ask Huo Qingchi for many things.

"Mr. Huo, that was all a misunderstanding..."

The man didn't expect that Ye Qingyue would have a relationship with Huo Qingchi.

This ruthless Prince Yan was famous for protecting his shortcomings.

"Get out."

Huo Qingchi was too lazy to listen to his nonsense and drove him away directly.

The man left dejectedly.

"Doctor Ye, you don't have to be nice to this kind of person." Huo Qingchi looked at Ye Qingyue.

Ye Qingyue looked calm, she said: "He is actually not wrong. He is willing to invest 5 million in a losing project, but he can't even get a glass of wine. It's normal to feel uncomfortable."

"Doctor Ye..." Huo Qingchi frowned, "That kind of unspoken rule is just dregs. You are a person with real ability. You don't need to bow to this worldly thing."

"I'm not bowing to the worldly thing."

Ye Qingyue said, "I'm just bowing to the patients."

After a pause, she softened her voice: "This year, I have sent away three patients with the same rare disease. It's not that their families don't have money to treat the disease, but with the current research, it can't be effectively cured."

That's why she wants to attract investment to establish a new project for research.

But there are not many people suffering from this disease.

This is a project that is destined to lose money, and few people are willing to invest.

Ye Qingyue thought about paying for it herself, but she was troubled by various social conventions and couldn't afford to pay too much.

"Besides, I didn't bow my head to the bottom."

Ye Qingyue shrugged, "Just now, didn't I drink that glass of wine?" If

she really wanted to bow her head, she should have listened and drank the wine and abided by these unspoken rules of social conventions.

At this time, the bodyguard next to her reminded Ye Qingyue that he had to go to a meeting.

"I'm leaving first."

Ye Qingyue smiled at Huo Qingchi, "Thank you for helping me out."

"What I just said was not to help me out."

Huo Qingchi said, "I am serious about the investment."

Ye Qingyue was stunned: "The 10 million will probably never come back."

"I think that you bowed your head for the patients and came out to solicit sponsorship..."

Huo Qingchi thought about it and suddenly smiled: "Very handsome."

Ye Qingyue's plain face rarely showed obvious expressions.

At this moment, she was full of question marks.

"... Handsome?"

Ye Qingyue heard people say that she was beautiful, charming, seductive, and not serious...

But it was the first time that she was called handsome.

"... Thank you?"

Ye Qingyue's thanks were mixed with some novelty.

Then, she left with the bodyguards.

Huo Qingchi watched Ye Qingyue walk away, and his heart suddenly felt...

sad.

He remembered what Ye Qingyue said to the reporter when he first saw her on TV -

"If anyone suspects that their relatives died of the black vine poison, they can send blood samples to my laboratory. I will not let the murder go unsolved."

Those words gave him great courage at the time, and...

moved him.

When he first met Ye Qingyue, Ye Qingyue was moving through the forest, sniping the enemy, looking cold and ruthless.

But her purpose was just to seize the time, get rid of the enemy spies, and save more of her own people.

And this time, Ye Qingyue also attended such a boring banquet for the sake of the patients.

"Every time I see you..."

Huo Qingchi murmured, "you are running around for others."

For the first time, she helped him.

The second time, he helped the accompanying bodyguards.

The third time, it was for the dead patient.

Huo Qingchi suddenly understood why Sheng Zhiwu said that if you are not determined, don't get close to Ye Qingyue.

Faced with such a woman who runs around for others and has firm beliefs, most men will only look miserable in front of her, right?

"Isn't it tiring to live like this?"

Huo Qingchi didn't understand Ye Qingyue and didn't know if she would be tired.

But he didn't want Ye Qingyue to be too tired.

...

The next day, Ye Qingyue received an investment from Huo Qingchi.

More than one.

Huo Qingchi directly invested in the four projects she was currently conducting and filled all the funding gaps.

"Xue'er."

Ye Qingyue contacted Lu Xue, "Do you know Huo Qingchi's phone number?"

After getting Huo Qingchi's contact information from Lu Xue, Ye Qingyue asked Huo Qingchi to meet.

"Doctor Ye, I respect you very much."

Before Ye Qingyue could speak, Huo Qingchi said first: "I invest in you because I trust you. I hope my money can help those in need."

He has no relatives in this world.

No matter how much money he has, it is meaningless to him.

Looking at Ye Qingyue running around for money, he felt that he might be able to use this meaningless money in some meaningful places.

He invested in Ye Qingyue not only for this first love, but also to touch Ye Qingyue's ideals and see what kind of scenery Ye Qingyue is pursuing.

"Is that so?"

Ye Qingyue looked at Huo Qingchi for a while and nodded: "I understand, I won't let your investment go to waste."

Huo Qingchi was a little surprised that she believed him so easily?

"Doctor Ye, I remember that you are not short of money, but it is inconvenient to use it directly on your own project, right?"

Huo Qingchi wanted to help Ye Qingyue.

If it was just an investment, the relationship between the two seemed to be only about interests.

Even if he wanted to go further, some things would become a natural barrier, standing between the two and hindering his steps.

Therefore, Huo Qingchi wanted to help Ye Qingyue in more areas and solve her troubles.

"Yes."

Ye Qingyue was also quite troubled when she mentioned this.

"Have you ever thought about finding an agent and opening a shell company?"

As one of the first people to seize the opportunity of reform and opening up, Huo Qingchi knew a lot about the tricks in the business world.

This is a completely unfamiliar field for Ye Qingyue, who is devoted to studying medicine, saving lives and doing research.

"What's the point of doing that?" Ye Qingyue wondered.

"You can hide yourself completely."

Huo Qingchi said, "Anyway, Dr. Ye doesn't care about fame, right?"

He explained to Ye Qingyue how to find an agent, avoid the public's attention, invest in her own projects with peace of mind, and not worry about putting her peers on a pedestal and embarrassing everyone.

Ye Qingyue listened carefully and asked her bodyguard to bring paper and pen to write down Huo Qingchi's words one by one.

"How can you do this..."

Ye Qingyue had no time to socialize and knew nothing about these business rules.

Huo Qingchi's words opened up a new world for her and solved her biggest headache at the moment.

"In this case, Doctor Ye, you don't need to bother to solicit sponsorship in the future." Huo Qingchi said.

Ye Qingyue nodded and said, "I will have more time to think about surgery and new drugs."

Huo Qingchi didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Doctor Ye, is there no word 'rest' in your dictionary?"

He helped Ye Qingyue solve the problem, not to make Ye Qingyue busier.

"I sleep well every day."

Ye Qingyue said this with little confidence.

Huo Qingchi didn't expose her, but just said: "You also know my contact information. If you encounter any trouble with the agent, feel free to consult me."

"Mr. Huo."

Ye Qingyue suddenly said, "Regarding the agent, I already have a candidate."

"Who?"

Huo Qingchi asked subconsciously, feeling a little uncomfortable in his heart.

When choosing an agent, one must be very careful. After all, if one wants to hand over money to the other party, one must find someone who is very reliable and trustworthy.

He had warned Ye Qingyue and asked her to think about it slowly.

But Ye Qingyue had made up her mind so quickly.

Which guy could gain Ye Qingyue's trust?

Huo Qingchi was a little jealous.

"His name is Huo Qingchi."

The next second, he heard Ye Qingyue's voice.

"What?" Huo Qingchi thought he was hallucinating. He was stunned and looked at Ye Qingyue, unable to speak.

"Mr. Huo, I would like to invite you to be my agent. You can propose the terms of remuneration."

Ye Qingyue said solemnly: "I know that being an agent is very troublesome. If you don't want to, it's okay for you to refuse me."

"I am willing."

Huo Qingchi said subconsciously.

The moment he finished speaking, he thought of the time when he attended a friend's wedding and both parties said "I do" under the oath of the priest, and gave their lives to each other.

At this moment, he seemed to want to hand his life over to Ye Qingyue.

"Then I'll trouble you, Mr. Huo."

Ye Qingyue was a little surprised, and asked, "What kind of salary do you want?"

"Every week... every month is fine."

Huo Qingchi was afraid of scaring Ye Qingyue, so he chose his words carefully and said, "Every month, let's take one day off and have a meal - I don't mean anything else, it's just that the agent's job requires regular reporting, so you and I can feel more at ease."

"Eat..."

Ye Qingyue's expression was a little strange. She hesitated for a moment and said helplessly, "Mr. Huo, I'm sorry, I don't like to eat with others. If it's just regular reporting, can we have tea?"

"Okay."

Huo Qingchi felt a little disappointed, but he didn't show it on his face.

He remembered the helpless and embarrassed look on Ye Qingyue's face when someone persuaded him to drink.

It hurts to just look at him.

He will not be someone he hates.

"Thank you for your understanding, Mr. Huo." Ye Qingyue felt a little relieved after hearing this.

To be honest, Huo Qingchi's kindness towards her made her think that he had other intentions.

But Huo Qingchi's eyes were too clear, which was different from the cloudy eyes of other men.

The demeanor and measured actions he displayed also confirmed this point.

Ye Qingyue rarely felt...

relaxed in front of the opposite sex.

The two chatted about agents for an entire afternoon before parting with reluctance.

Huo Qingchi thought that with the agent's connection, the two would be able to see each other more often.

But he didn't expect that Ye Qingyue's trust in him seemed a bit too much. She

simply transferred the money to him and then left it alone.

The only contact between the two was the monthly returns.

Huo Qingchi didn't know whether to laugh or cry about this.

He didn't know whether to be happy that Ye Qingyue trusted him, or whether he should be helpless that there was no progress between them.

Until -

"Are you close to Qingyue?"

At the class reunion, Lu Xue suddenly pulled him away and asked mysteriously.

Huo Qingchi's heart skipped a beat, "Why do you say that?"

The relationship between him and Ye Qingyue could not be described as "good" at all.

Of course, their relationship was not bad either.

If one had to describe it, it should be "ordinary".

There was not much contact or interaction between them, and they could not even be considered friends, but Ye Qingyue inexplicably trusted him.

"Qingyue had a rare day off yesterday."

Lu Xue said, "I just happened to be buying something for Shaoyan, so I asked her out and bought her some clothes."

Ye Qingyue switches back and forth between the hospital, the laboratory, and home all year round. Sometimes she does not go home for a long time and stays in the hospital and the laboratory.

Lu Xue came to the hospital some time ago and saw that Ye Qingyue worked all night and the clothes she wore could only be described as "shabby", so she had been thinking about buying her new clothes.

"When I was picking out a gift for Shaoyan, I saw her staring at the shelf in a daze. I was going to ask her to go to the side and have tea and wait for me, but she suddenly mentioned your name to me."

It was the first time that Lu Xue heard a name of the opposite sex that was not related to work from Ye Qingyue. "She asked me, what do you like?"

Huo Qingchi: "——!"

"Your expression..."

Lu Xue was surprised, "You two wouldn't..."

"No, Doctor Ye and I are innocent."

After knowing Ye Qingyue for a while, Huo Qingchi probably knew that there were a lot of rumors around Ye Qingyue because of her face.

So, he didn't want his existence to add any rumors to Ye Qingyue.

"Is that so?"

Lu Xue was half-believing and half-doubting, "So you two have a good relationship?"

"Probably... friends." Huo Qingchi actually didn't know what their relationship was.

The day after talking with Lu Xue, Huo Qingchi received a call from Ye Qingyue, asking for a scheduled report in the afternoon.

"Sorry, I'm late."

Ye Qingyue arrived at Huo Qingchi's office. Three hours had passed since the time they agreed. "There is an emergency patient..."

"I know."

Huo Qingchi made her a cup of tea. "Dr. Ye, didn't you call me in advance?"

Ye Qingyue was not the kind of person who was late on purpose. If she couldn't come on time, she would notify Huo Qingchi in advance.

"It's also thanks to you that you are late, Dr. Ye. I suddenly came to work here and just finished my work."

Huo Qingchi poured himself a cup of tea and sat opposite Ye Qingyue, motioning her to take her time and not to rush.

Ye Qingyue heard this and then breathed a sigh of relief and listened to Huo Qingchi's report.

"By the way."

After Huo Qingchi finished speaking, Ye Qingyue took out a box from her bag and handed it over, "Here."

Huo Qingchi had already known from Lu Xue that Ye Qingyue had bought him a gift.

But when he really saw the box, he was still a little surprised.

Who wouldn't be happy to receive a gift from their loved one?

"What is this?" Huo Qingchi asked knowingly.

"A gift."

Ye Qingyue said, "I bought it when I went shopping with Xue'er last time."

"Yeah."

Huo Qingchi opened the box, and it was a black mechanical watch with a simple and elegant design.

Thinking of Lu Xue asking him if he had a good relationship with Ye Qingyue, Huo Qingchi couldn't help asking, "Why did you suddenly give me a gift?"

He wanted to know if Ye Qingyue also

had a good impression of him.

"Huh?"

However, when Ye Qingyue heard his question, he showed a blank look.

As if he was being asked.

"Why...?"

Ye Qingyue said, "I haven't thought about this problem. It's just that when I saw this watch, I thought it would be suitable for you, so I bought it for you."

Huo Qingchi's emotions surged again when he heard this.

He took off the watch on his wrist, took out the watch bought by Ye Qingyue from the box, put it on himself, and stretched out his arm for Ye Qingyue to see, "How is it, does it fit?"

"It fits well." Ye Qingyue nodded with satisfaction, "Just as I imagined."

"Doctor Ye."

A hint of darkness flashed across Huo Qingchi's eyes, and he said, "We still have some time, do you want to have a drink together?"

He could feel that Ye Qingyue had a good impression of him.

However, Ye Qingyue himself did not seem to notice it.

Huo Qingchi felt that as a man, he should take the initiative at this time.

"Drink?"

Ye Qingyue was stunned.

Huo Qingchi saw the embarrassment on her face and could not help but soften his heart and said, "If you don't want to, we won't..."

"Mr. Huo, are you a good drinker?" Ye Qingyue suddenly asked.

"Huh?"

Huo Qingchi was stunned and nodded: "Even if I'm drunk, I'm very quiet, so that should be considered, right?"

"Will you not get drunk and go crazy?" Ye Qingyue asked again.

"Of course not." Hearing this, Huo Qingchi probably guessed the reason why Ye Qingyue didn't like to drink with others.

Perhaps, it was because she had encountered something bad before.

"Then... let's drink together." Ye

Qingyue nodded.

Huo Qingchi almost couldn't suppress his smile. He said: "Let's go to the rooftop of the company to drink. There is a garden there and you can enjoy the scenery."

The two of them took the wine and went to the rooftop garden. They sat at the table and could see the lights in the distance.

Maybe Ye Qingyue didn't drink much normally, and because she had many surgeries today and was too tired, she only drank a few glasses and fell on the table in a daze.

Huo Qingchi didn't disturb her rest, but drank silently.

When the night wind got a little cooler, he took off his coat and put it on her.

Just as he was about to take his hand back, his wrist was grabbed.

It happened to be the side where the watch was worn.

The woman's slender white fingers rubbed the sensitive skin on the inside of his wrist, as if a feather was scratching his heart, itching.

"Doctor Ye..." Huo Qingchi's heart almost jumped out.

Ye Qingyue's fingers rubbed Huo Qingchi's wrist, and finally traced circles on the edge of his watch.

While tracing, she raised her head.

After Ye Qingyue got drunk, Huo Qingchi realized that her usual coldness was all pretending.

At this moment when she relaxed, her face looked particularly charming, like a fairy tempting men to destruction, breathtakingly beautiful, making people willing to die for her.

Ye Qingyue traced the edge of Huo Qingchi's watch with her fingers and chuckled: "I just lied to you. You look different with the watch on than I thought."

Huo Qingchi was startled. Could it be that he didn't look as good with the watch as Ye Qingyue imagined, so she said something to comfort him?

Now that he was drunk, he told the truth.

Huo Qingchi felt a little disappointed. It seemed that Ye Qingyue's affection for him was not as great as he had imagined...

"You look so good with a watch on."

Ye Qingyue's tone was lazy, probably because she had been drinking, and she had a seductive hoarseness. "Mr. Huo, your wrist is really beautiful. The watch looks better than I thought."

Huo Qingchi's heart skipped a beat, and he subconsciously asked, "Do you like it?"

"Like it?"

Ye Qingyue blinked, and suddenly let go of Huo Qingchi's hand. She shook her head, "No, I can't like it..."

"Why?" Huo Qingchi asked.

"Mr. Huo, why are you so nice to me?" Ye Qingyue asked another question.

"Because..."

Huo Qingchi wanted to say, because I like you.

However, using the word "like" alone to describe his feelings for Ye Qingyue seemed not enough.

"Because, I want to be your family." Huo Qingchi said softly.

But——

"Plop."

After he finished speaking, Ye Qingyue's eyes turned red, and tears slid down her cheeks and fell to the ground.

Huo Qingchi was stunned, "Doctor Ye..."

He did not expect Ye Qingyue to react like this.

"No."

Ye Qingyue shook her head lightly, buried her face in her arms, and kept repeating: "No... Mr. Huo, no..."

"Why... no?" Huo Qingchi saw Ye Qingyue so sad for the first time, and his heart tightened.

"Don't be my family, it will not end well..."

Ye Qingyue's muffled voice sounded from under her arm.

Then, she slowly turned her head, and a pair of tears in her messy hair made Huo Qingchi feel distressed.

"Mr. Huo, you are a very good person. I hope you can stay away from me. I hope you..."

Ye Qingyue said softly, "to live happily."

Her voice gradually became blurred and she fell asleep again.

However, Ye Qingyue did not stop crying in her sleep.

The word "family" seemed to bring up many sad things for her, and she could not find peace even in her dreams.

Huo Qingchi stared at her in a daze, then raised his hand and covered Ye Qingyue's eyes.

"Doctor Ye... Ye Qingyue... Qingyue, if it weren't for you, I would have died long ago. I live because of you and I am happy because of you. If I stay away from you, I will only be unhappy and I don't know how to live."

After losing all his relatives, Huo Qingchi also lost the motivation to live.

Like a puppet, empty inside.

At this time, he met Ye Qingyue.

At that moment, Huo Qingchi felt that the empty space in his body seemed to be filled.

It was as if the doll had a soul.

He came back to life again, and was unconsciously attracted to the woman who gave him a soul. He wanted to get close to this woman and stay with this woman.

Huo Qingchi wanted to be her family.

Because the role of lover was not enough to describe his greed.

However, Huo Qingchi never thought that he wanted to be someone who would make Ye Qingyue so painful that she couldn't stop crying even in her sleep.

"I'm sorry."

Huo Qingchi covered Ye Qingyue's tearful eyes, leaned over and kissed the back of her hand, "Doctor Ye, I hope there are only good things in your life."

So, forget it.

Forget what happened tonight.

Even if she forgets his first confession, it doesn't matter.

It's good that he still remembers it.

When Ye Qingyue woke up, she could not remember anything except a headache due to being drunk. She also called Huo Qingchi to ask if she had done anything rude.

Huo Qingchi said calmly: "Doctor Ye is like me, very quiet after being drunk."

"Is that so..."

Ye Qingyue was relieved.

Because of Ye Yong, she hated alcohol. Although she could not escape social events sometimes, out of vigilance against others, Ye Qingyue had never been drunk before. This was the first time. She didn't know why she dared to get drunk last night. "By the way, Mr. Huo." Ye Qingyue said, "