Chapter 18 Chapter 18

As soon as the words fell, everyone's eyes turned to the bar owner and Song Lingxi.

Song Lingxi said calmly, "I'm sorry, you may have recognized the wrong person."

"Impossible," said the bar owner, a white man with a big beard. He looked a little dazed, probably because he had been drinking. When he heard Song Lingxi's denial, he mumbled with his tongue sticking out, "I won't forget it, I won't forget it..."

Qiao Ziqi looked at him meaningfully, and asked the bearded man curiously, "Oh? Do you know the name of this lady?"

The bearded man paused. "Wendy? Susan? Taylor?"

"Well, neither." The bearded man shrugged and turned to leave.

Qiao Ziqi was a little disappointed when he saw this. He was very curious about Zong Xuecheng's extremely beautiful lover. Zong Xuecheng never took her out before, and Qiao Ziqi thought Zong Xuecheng didn't take this lover seriously.

But judging from the situation today, it is not that they don’t take it seriously at all; in fact, they take it too seriously.

Whenever she goes out to play, she always brings her lover and her ex-husband's son with her. Her only heir and her lover's son are so close that they seem like one person.

Not to mention that from the time they entered the bar until now, Zong Xuecheng has been serving them food and drinks, and he does it so smoothly, it's obvious that he's done it all the time.

If anyone said that Zong Xuecheng didn't take his little lover seriously, Qiao Ziqi would be the first to disagree.

Unexpectedly, the bearded man suddenly turned around, with a look of sudden realization on his face, "It's the west!"

"I remember now, you are Xi," the bearded man said excitedly, "Girl, how is your boy?"

After asking this question, the atmosphere became extremely strange.

It was obvious that the bearded man knew Song Lingxi, and Zong Xuecheng was here, and the "boy" he was talking about was not Zong Xuecheng.

Song Lingxi smiled and lowered her eyes, playing with purple grapes in her hand. Her fair wrist was too thin to be held in her hand, and she looked so delicate and fragile, just like her whole person, fragile and beautiful, making people want to protect her tightly in their arms.

Until the slender fingertips pierced the grapes, and the rotten and ripe juice flowed onto the snow-white hands.

Someone took a deep breath. It was the female companion brought by Qiao Ziqi. The others came to their senses.

Qiao Ziqi withdrew his gaze in a complicated manner. Appearances can be deceiving. From the fact that Song Lingxi confronted him without hesitation just now, he knew that this woman was not weak and could not be bullied.

Zong Xuecheng, who had been silent all this time, held Song Lingxi's hand, took out a handkerchief and wiped the grape juice off her hand bit by bit, then raised his eyes and said calmly, "You've got the wrong person."

The eyes behind the gold-rimmed glasses were deep and profound. The bearded man was frightened by Zong Xuecheng's eyes. He shuddered and woke up from his drunken state. He looked down and saw the clasped hands of Zong Xuecheng and Song Lingxi, with an expression as if he had seen a ghost.

He swallowed and said, "Yes, I recognized the wrong person."

After saying that, he quickly ran away.

Zong Xuecheng tilted his head and asked Song Lingxi with a normal expression, "Are you tired? Do you want to go back to your room to rest or take a bath in the hot spring?"

Song Lingxi thought for a moment and said, "Okay, I want to take a hot spring bath."

So Zong Xuecheng nodded to the two of them and said, "I'm leaving now. You guys continue to play. I'll come over later."

Qiao Ziqi stared at the backs of Zong Xuecheng and Song Lingxi in amazement. He looked at Zheng Yuan beside him and asked.

Zheng Yuandao remained silent.

"Baby, go to the bar and get me a glass of whiskey." Qiao Ziqi instructed the female companion beside him.

The female companion was very good at reading the other's expressions and obediently got up and left.

Qiao Ziqi finally breathed a sigh of relief, "It's not easy to keep calm like this. Xue Cheng's girlfriend should not be underestimated."

Zheng Yuandao picked up the wine glass and turned it around. "I watched coldly. Old Bill's words didn't sound false, but there was no panic in her eyes. She was not afraid that Xuecheng would know. On the contrary, Xuecheng..."

Zheng Yuandao frowned at this and said, "Xue Cheng has always been a very rational person. Although he looked normal just now, I always feel that he is not as uneasy as he appears to be."

Qiao Ziqi thought for a moment and said quietly, "That is to say, Miss Song doesn't care whether Xue Cheng is angry or not, so she is in a stable mood, right?"

Both of them were smart people, and as outsiders, they understood the reason almost instantly.

Whether it is a sponsorship relationship or a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship, seeking money or love, you should not care about being exposed in front of the other party about your past.

Unless she has no demands on Zong Xuecheng.

"It's a pity," Zheng Yuandao put down his glass and sighed, "A woman who doesn't seek money or care about love can follow Xuecheng for more than ten years without any status or position. Not to mention what conspiracy is there, what's more important is that Xuecheng treats her..."

Zheng Yuandao hesitated for a moment and said softly, "Xuecheng is very special to this woman. Does he know it himself?"

It's fine if you know, but it's bad if you don't know or think you know.

"Conspiracy? Don't be ridiculous. How can Zong Xuecheng, who is so decisive in killing, not be able to figure out the conspiracy of the people around him?"

Qiao Ziqi didn't think anyone could plot something under Zong Xuecheng's nose, and then said optimistically, "Maybe Miss Song had already told Xuecheng about her love history? That's why the two of them didn't take it seriously."

Zheng Yuan said: "I hope so."

Song Lingxi followed Zong Xuecheng out of the bar. A heavy snowfall began to fall from the sky. Large flakes of snow fell and soon covered people's hair.

Many years ago, there was also a man who walked this road with her in the snow.

The man once said a weird poem to her as a joke, if they could get wet in the snow together in the future, they would grow old together in this life.

The black umbrella must have been raised over his head, interrupting Song Lingxi's thoughts.

"Don't you have anything to say?" Zong Xuecheng asked in a calm voice.

Song Lingxi looked at him in surprise, but still explained, "I came here before with my ex-boyfriend."

His expression was calm and his words were concise.

Rather than an explanation, this is more like an acknowledgment that is taken for granted and justified.

Zong Xuecheng stared into Song Lingxi's eyes, but found that the expression in those eyes was the same as every time they looked into each other's eyes in the past, clean, clear... and indifferent.

In the past, Zong Xuecheng was satisfied with Song Lingxi's obedience and her non-competitiveness, but what if her obedience meant a kind of indifference?

Zong Xuecheng found that he did not understand the person next to him, or rather, he thought he knew her very well, but perhaps what he understood was just the tip of the iceberg.

Something in my heart gradually sank, and a feeling of being out of control became more and more obvious.

When Song Lingxi went to the hot spring, Zong Xuecheng summoned Secretary Qian, rubbed his brows and ordered, "Find someone to get close to the Song family and inquire about Song Lingxi's past. Remember, no matter how big or small the details are."

Secretary Qian's heart skipped a beat. He didn't dare to ask anything and went to do it immediately without caring that he was still abroad.

After Secretary Qian left, the room became quiet. Snowflakes were flying outside the window, and Zong Xuecheng fell into deep thought.

In fact, when I decided to keep Song Lingxi by my side, all of Song Lingxi's information was placed on the desk the next day, including her family, growth experience, emotional experience, etc.

Apart from the fact that she suffered from the "preference for sons over daughters" when she was a child and having an overly beautiful face, Song Lingxi's life can be said to be unremarkable. She studied, was admitted to an ordinary university, and had a child out of wedlock right after graduating from university. The child's biological father is unknown...

Recalling this, Zong Xuecheng's face suddenly changed. He had a good memory, and even though he had only read the document once, he could still remember the content.

The information says that Song Lingxi had very good grades when he was young, so good that he often skipped grades and went to high school at the age of thirteen or fourteen.

Logically speaking, such a person can be called a genius, but in the end she only got into an ordinary university.

Although Zong Xuecheng felt it was a pity at the time, he did not delve into it. After all, he had seen too many geniuses, and he himself was a genius who was promoted from a child to an adult. He just thought that Shang Zhongyong or Song Lingxi was too eager to break away from their original families, so they worked hard to study and skip grades.

But Xie Qiao was not fully grown at that time. Xie Qiao grew up beside him, and he knew that Xie Qiao was an absolute genius. Even his always proud son Zong Fei had to avoid his edge.

According to the teacher who taught Xie Qiao in school, geniuses like Xie Qiao are destined to change the times, and the achievements such people will achieve in the future cannot be compared with those of ordinary people.

And Zong Fei is just an ordinary person in front of Xie Qiao.

Now think about it, for a child like this, would the life experiences of the parents really be “unremarkable”?

In addition, the data never showed that Song Lingxi had ever been abroad, and his experience in college was not very detailed...

There are loopholes everywhere.

Zong Xuecheng felt that a big hand had covered up Song Lingxi's past. Even he had fallen into trouble, but who would be so eager to do such a thing?

Moreover, many things here cannot be accomplished by one’s own strength.

The hot spring was filled with mist, and the beautiful woman's body in the pool was emitting a shimmering white light. The surroundings were extremely quiet.

Song Lingxi leaned on the stone platform, eating some fruit and looking out the window, but unfortunately he could see nothing but the snow and wind.

Zong Xuecheng's attitude just now was subtle, and Song Lingxi was not completely unaware of it, but she has always been heartless and too lazy to think about it carefully.

After soaking in the hot spring, Song Lingxi returned to the wooden house where her family of four lived. She wanted to call to order some food, but her two children happened to send her messages saying they were back. She thought about it and went downstairs to the living room.

There was a cozy fireplace in the living room. Three people, one big and two small, were carrying fish of different sizes into the kitchen. When they saw Song Lingxi coming downstairs, Zong Fei and Xie Qiao Xianbao also held up the big fish they had caught to show Song Lingxi.

"Mom, look at the big fish I caught!" Xie Qiao's little face was frozen red. He was always quiet and rarely showed such lively and childish moments. The last few times he was with Zong Fei.

Zong Fei smiled and said to Xie Qiao, "The big fish you caught? Uncle Lan and I caught it together."

Xie Qiao said confidently: "Just tell me whether I caught any fish or not?"

Zong Fei was speechless. It was the first time she realized how shameless Xie Qiao was.

Song Lingxi watched the two people quarreling. It must be said that the two of them went from competing with each other to becoming good friends who appreciated each other, and then to breaking up and hating each other. The entanglement that lasted for more than ten years was obviously purely beautiful at the beginning.

If the two of them recall the past in the future, will they remember this moment and this scene?

Song Lingxi felt a little disappointed, probably because "I want to buy some osmanthus flowers to carry with me the wine, but it doesn't feel like the journey I had as a young man".

Xie Qiao and Zong Fei were busy arguing and didn't notice that Song Lingxi was acting strange, but Lan Xi, who was watching her from the side, seemed to notice something.

Compared to Zong Xuecheng's cold rationality, Zheng Yuandao's tactfulness and Qiao Ziqi's cynicism, Lan Xi is the most silent and reliable of the four. Because he has always been silent and doesn't talk much, he is more meticulous in observing people's words and expressions and looking at people and things.

From his observation, Zong Xuecheng's girlfriend may seem gentle and gullible on the surface, but she must be quite proud inside.

Judging from the detail of her ordinary clothes, having followed Zong Xuecheng for so many years, it is natural for her to live a luxurious life. However, Song Lingxi does not have the fancy manners of those socialites and noble ladies. She is pure and simple, quite unconventional.

If Lan Xi didn't know Zong Xuecheng's character and knew that this woman followed Zong Xuecheng voluntarily, he would almost think that she was taken away by Zong Xuecheng.

This woman and Zong Xuecheng seem to be from two different worlds.

If Song Lingxi knew what Lan Xi was thinking, she would definitely be shocked by his vicious look. However, she was not so detached from the world. Zong Xuecheng would allocate a sum of money to her every year to buy jewelry, high-end brand clothes, bags and shoes of the season.

She dressed simply because she was an engineering girl in her past and present lives, and comfort was always her top priority when it came to clothes. It would be even better if they were both nice and comfortable, and she would never let her body suffer for the sake of looking good. She would dress up when she had some free time, but forget it if she didn't remember.