Chapter 767 Extra Silver Ring
——No, she had to do something.
Fu Zhi was enveloped by intense anger. The two people in front of her had lived with her for more than ten years. She tried to do something to change the trajectory of her fate in advance.
At this moment, Huo Ningxin raised her eyes and saw Fu Zhi's body gradually changing from transparent to solid.
Huo Ningxin: "...Ghost!"
She let out a heart-wrenching cry.
"No, mom, I'm not a ghost! Don't get excited!" Fu Zhi was quick to cover Huo Ningxin's mouth.
"Then what are you?"
At this time, Huo Ningxin was seventeen years younger, and she didn't have so many little wolfhounds around her who were willing to bow down to her.
She has a soft personality and always fantasizes about conveying her grievances and dissatisfaction to her parents through verbal descriptions.
Fu Zhi felt a little sorry for her and glanced at her fingers that had become rough from doing housework. They were very different from Huo Niannian's beautiful hands that obviously had never suffered.
Parents' unconscious partiality and the way they think they are fair are sharp blades that cut into their children's tender hearts. She whispered to Huo Ningxin, "I am not something in your mouth."
In order to make Huo Ningxin trust her, she whispered even more: "Your son likes me very much. Who knows, I might be your daughter-in-law in the future."
"How old are you?" Huo Ningxin was terrified. Fu Zhi looked very young and immature. "My son abducted a minor?!" she said, "I'll break his legs!"
“…”
But that's not what you said at the beginning. You gave Ye Jiu a huge sum of money and asked him to stay away from me.
In fact, Huo Ningxin believed that her son liked Fu Zhi. The girl was so beautiful that a person like her who was obsessed with looks would be happy when she saw her. What’s more, Li Nanli was the boy who crawled out of her belly?
The mother and son are cut from the same cloth. She fell in love with the handsome Li Sicheng at a young age, so naturally she couldn't be hypocritical and become a vicious mother-in-law who broke up the couple.
Especially since her son was so lucky, she saw that the little girl also liked her son.
He didn't have to go through the same pain as she did at the same age, because the other party's rejection was heartbreaking.
"That's great," she said, "but you have to put study first, okay?"
Her eyes were filled with lingering sorrow, and it was unknown what she was thinking about; the smile on her lips seemed forced.
Fu Zhi really wanted to tell her, don’t indulge in an unhappy marriage, you don’t know your future, there are so many puppies who are prettier than Li Sicheng surrounding you and calling you sister, you are so successful and unparalleled in the world, you have become the person that everyone in the circle of noble ladies in Beijing wants to be but is unable to be.
But the laws of the world imprisoned her, and she could only say in the end: "Auntie, don't be sad. Nan Li doesn't want to see you so sad. He must feel sorry for you."
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On the other side, in the hospital lounge.
The two elders of the Huo family used ointment to wipe Huo Niannian's wound, with deep heartache and regret in their eyes.
"That good-for-nothing! How could she do such a thing to her own family? She must learn a lesson this time."
Father Huo said, "Don't worry, Nian Nian, I will definitely ask her to come and apologize to you."
She also said to Mrs. Huo who was standing aside, "Niannian, Ningxin was wrong this time. She is really spoiled! She is so vicious! But she is your younger sister, you should be more tolerant of her. Your parents are old, so we will give you more shares. In the future, there will be only two of you in the world, so you should support each other."
More shares again!
Support each other again!
Never once did the two elders of the Huo family ask to send Huo Ningxin away after she had suffered humiliation!
As expected, if a child is not their biological daughter, they will be controlled in every way and stepped on by their biological daughter!
Huo Niannian thought angrily, if he didn't love her enough, why did he take her out of the orphanage?
He doted on her for ten years, and when Huo Ningxin was found back in the Huo family, he felt sorry for her suffering in the countryside, and planned to give all the shares to Huo Ningxin when she married Li Sicheng!
They were both beasts in hypocritical human skin and had never considered her. Old Master Li, who always disliked her, made things difficult for her in every way and even asked her and Li Sicheng to get a pre-marriage notarization, otherwise Li Sicheng would lose the inheritance rights of the Li family. In this case, if she no longer had any shares in the Huo family, wouldn't she be laughed at by her sisters-in-law and suffer after she got married?
What’s the use of a man’s love? Only a love-brained loser like Huo Ningxin would think of marrying Li Sicheng and working tirelessly to take care of the household for him.
What Huo Niannian wants is money! Money that can be held in your hand! The guilt of the two elders of the Huo family and the man! And...and the twins from the Fu family whom she knew in high school.
Compared to Li Sicheng who could be played around by her, she certainly loved the boy in her memory who she had tried her best to seduce in vain.
It was unknown when the two elders of the Huo family left, and Li Sicheng and Huo Niannian were the only ones left in the lounge.
"Take good care of yourself. When you get home, send me a message."
Huo Niannian saw Li Sicheng turning around to leave, and she panicked and hurriedly pulled his sleeve, "Brother Sicheng, where are you going? Don't you want me anymore?"
She looked so pitiful, but soon her face was covered with tears, like a pear blossom with tears, and I felt even more sorry for her.
But looking at this face, for some reason, Li Sicheng thought of someone he was not willing to mention - Huo Ningxin.
As far as I can remember, Huo Ningxin seldom cried. She cried only a few times when she was a child, let alone now. But if that's the case, what does he want her to do?
He felt a surge of irritation in his heart, so he took some time to think, suppressed the complicated feeling in his heart, and said, "Nian Nian, I'm married."
"Brother Sicheng?" Huo Niannian looked at him in disbelief, not believing that such words could come out of his mouth. "I am the one who was supposed to marry you! This marriage originally belonged to you and me! Huo Ningxin robbed me of my marriage, and she beat and scolded me, which is fine, but now you want to do the same, right?"
"She wouldn't hit anyone for no reason." Li Sicheng retorted subconsciously.
But as soon as he said this, he regretted it. As expected, he met Huo Niannian's red eyes that were stained from crying.
This was the white moonlight that he had kept in his heart when he was young. If Huo Ningxin had not returned to the Huo family and had not interfered with this marriage, they should have been together.
Huo Sicheng finally felt compassion.
There was a light rain outside the window. He pinched his brows and said, "I'll take you home."
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Huo Ningxin came out of the hospital. Li Nanli was seriously injured and the doctor said he needed to be hospitalized for observation for a period of time.
But he was about to take the high school entrance exam, and had to join the army under the arrangement of Mr. Li.
"Well, I gave him some strong medicine. Please pay attention to the patient's mood swings. I think there was a blunt object that injured his brain. Although I prescribed medicine, you know that the patient's mood is unstable and it is easy to cause traction on the brain injury. This is not a joke."
Huo Ningxin thanked the doctor again and again. After sending the patient away, she went home to get him some clean clothes.
Just as I walked outside the hospital, I heard a delicate voice.
Huo Ningxin's whole body froze. She looked up and saw Huo Niannian holding Huo Sicheng's arm. The red long skirt outlined her slender waist and long legs. She and Huo Sicheng were standing in the rain.
The man held a black umbrella, which was tilted to completely cover the woman's slender figure.
She sighed and said with a smile, "Brother Sicheng, my skirt got wet from standing."
Huo Ningxin followed her line of sight and looked at the man holding an umbrella with stern features. The rain blurred his expression. He seemed to glance in Huo Ningxin's direction, but he also seemed not to. He raised his hand and put it around Huo Niannian's waist, "Be careful."
Be careful.
Huo Ningxin savored these four words, thinking back to her senior year of high school. It was also a rainy night and drizzling rain continued in the capital city. She carefully hid her love for him and quietly slipped a black umbrella into his desk hole during the afternoon break.
When the bell rang for the end of get out of class in the evening, she went to see him with a joyful mood, but found that Li Sicheng opened the umbrella with gentle eyes, blocking the wind and rain, and not a single corner of Huo Niannian's clothes was touched.
She was sad and heartbroken at the time. She hid in the small path behind two people, crying in the rain for a long time.
Today, the memory of the past has become blurred, but the dull pain in her chest makes her clearly understand how much she cares.
She suddenly felt powerless. The marriage she had worked so hard to build, the joy she had felt when she married Li Sicheng, collapsed the moment Huo Niannian returned to China.
She was obviously his wife, but at this moment, she was even worse than an outsider.
At this time, Li Sicheng opened the car door for Huo Niannian and said, "I'll take you to Zhongnan Waterside Pavilion first."
Zhongnan Waterside Pavilion is Li Sicheng's private residence. He lives there for eight or nine months a year.
Huo Niannian touched her wrist, turned around and said something to Li Sicheng.
Immediately afterwards, Huo Ningxin saw Li Sicheng lower his eyes patiently and lean over to fasten her seat belt.
Huo Niannian grabbed the man's wrist, and the man lowered his eyes, the air was ambiguous.
At that moment, time seemed to slow down, and their movements were slowed down like in an idol drama. Huo Ningxin suddenly felt a sweetness in her throat. She subconsciously ran to the side, spitting out scarlet blood from her mouth.
On the ambiguous and lingering rainy night, she thought countless times in her mind that perhaps he would use the hand that touched her waist to lift another woman's waist, and use the lips that kissed her to kiss another person.
Especially since this person is Huo Niannian, she is the one he can't forget. She looks so much like Huo Niannian, perhaps in bed, all he thinks of is Huo Niannian's face.
"Ugh..." A huge nausea enveloped Huo Ningxin. She vomited uncontrollably. Passersby looked at her frequently and kept their distance from her.
Yes, someone like her, someone whose parents even want to abandon her, how could people not stay away from her?
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The capital city is hot and stuffy on summer nights, and mosquitoes breed.
Fu Zhi now has a new title, from the school belle of Changhong School to the girlfriend of Li Nanli, the school hunk of Changhong School.
Of course, these are all names given by outsiders.
It was obvious that she and Li Nanli were not in a relationship yet, but it was said that after Li Nanli pulled Fu Zhi away from the milk tea shop that night, everyone made up all kinds of love-hate stories about the two of them.
"But I think Li Changgu is also very good. Why did Fu Zhi choose Li Nanli?" Several followers following Fu Zhi discussed: "Look, Li Changgu goes out to work every day to earn money for Fu Zhi, buys pancakes and cold noodles for Fu Zhi during class breaks, and even makes hot water for Fu Zhi to wash her hair. It's not an exaggeration to say that he is one of the twenty-four filial piety masters!"
Yes, although Changhong is an aristocratic school, there are four people in a dormitory and nearly a thousand students in one building. Although each dormitory has a shower area, most of the time, when the first person takes a shower, the second person uses the shower, and the water is freezing cold.
"Especially Li Changgu is not bad looking! I wonder what Sister Zhi thinks!"
Such remarks seemed to have spread to every corner of the campus as if they had wings.
When Li Changgu came in from outside the classroom again with milk tea, he had become darker from moving bricks. Fortunately, Fu Zhi and Li Nanli had good genes, so he was still a handsome boy, but he looked like he had changed from a puppy to a wild dog, and he had become more masculine.
He handed the milk tea to Fu Zhi, "What you like, strawberry Bobo milk tea, less ice, three-tenths sweet, with coffee pearls."
"Yeah." Fu Zhileng drank milk, "You've been working hard recently. Work hard and try to buy a house this semester so we can move out."
There were four people living in the school dormitory, and the more people there were, the more trouble there would be. Fu Zhi was actually not used to living there and wanted to move out with her son.
But the students who heard her words started to think too much.
"Ahhh, what did I hear? Fu Zhi wants to live with Li Changgu! Li Nanli is being cheated on!"
"Oh my god! The couple I'm a fan of has come true!"
"Sister Zhi, you are so yyds! Even if the king came, these two would still be the best match! I envy their love that goes from school uniforms to wedding dresses!"
When Li Nanli walked into the classroom, all he heard was others crying madly for the beautiful love between Fu Zhi and Li Changgu.
Fu Zhi immediately saw the young man standing outside the door, pursing his lips.
There was a bit of ruthlessness in his eyes as he stared at the gossiping classmate. But when he looked at Fu Zhi, Fu Zhi became very mean. He deliberately grabbed Li Changgu's collar and pulled him in front of him. The two of them were very close to each other for a while and could hear each other's breathing.
But from an outsider's perspective, it seemed as if Li Changgu had "accidentally" fallen on Fu Zhi, and it was "completely a coincidence."
"Ahhh! Is this something I can watch for free?"
"Brother Gu is awesome!"
There was a sudden burst of booing in the class.
Li Changgu, who looked confused, said: "???"
What's wrong?
What's so great about him?
Fu Zhi reminded him, "Look back."
Li Changgu turned around obediently and met Li Nanli's gloomy face.
Li Changgu: “…”
Ahhhhh!
Li Changgu went crazy, his mind was going crazy:
Mom, you hurt me!
Dad, let me explain!
My mother and I are not what you think! ! !
There is no such thing as stepmother literature, and there is nothing unspeakable below the neck! Dad, mom and I only have the sixteen-word mantra of prosperity, strength and civilization! ! !
Li Changgu almost knelt down in front of Li Nanli, but the students around him who were watching the fun were secretly shouting, "Fight, fight!"
They are so fed up with the scenes of two men fighting for one woman!
But Fu Zhi tilted his head and said to him, "Why did you suddenly pounce on me?"
Li Changgu: “???”
I'm not, I don't! You are talking nonsense!
I know you hate me for bringing you into this world, but you can't kill me!
"Li Changgu." As expected, Li Nanli, who was standing outside the door, suddenly became fierce and looked at him and said, "Come out for a moment."
This is no less than, don't leave after school, meet me at the door.
Li Changgu: “…”
Li Changgu's nervous heart and weak legs made the classmates around him who were originally eager to try dumbfounded, "What's wrong with Li Changgu? He is usually very handsome, but when he sees Li Nanli, he becomes as timid as a son seeing his father?"
nonsense!
This guy is my real dad!
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Li Changgu was taken by Li Nanli to an uninhabited grove.
Li Nanli had a grim expression and his back was straight.
The moment he looked at Li Changgu, his brain suddenly went blank. Without thinking, he knelt down and said, "Dad! Dad, don't hit me! There is no possibility between me and my mom! I treat her as my real mom, and I admire you as my real dad! Dad, believe me!"
The shadow left by his father for more than ten years made Li Changgu give in without a second thought.
The sudden change left Li Nanli dumbfounded.
Others thought that Li Changgu pounced on Fu Zhi, but he actually saw that Fu Zhi grabbed the young boy by the collar and dragged him in front of him.
At that moment, he was enveloped by great jealousy and panic.
He knew that they were childhood sweethearts and had known each other for a long time, but Fu Zhi provoked him. A man like him, even if he had no qualifications to love someone, still wanted to give her his true heart.
But Fu Zhi grabbed Li Changgu, and at that moment, Li Nanli was extremely hateful. Didn’t she say she liked him? Why did she trample on him so harshly when he gave his true heart to her, change her mind and get together with Li Changgu?
He was angry and powerless, and for a moment he even thought that it would be better to pretend that he didn't see it and act like a fool. Maybe he could still have a chance to be with her.
He called Li Changgu out on impulse and had no intention of doing anything else.
Even though he was so angry that he wanted to solve the problem with violence, he also understood clearly that if the boy in front of him was the boy Fu Zhi liked, how could he bear to beat him and make Fu Zhi sad.
But now, Li Changgu's various behaviors seemed to have no intention of being with Fu Zhi at all.
Li Nanli didn't understand, but he was greatly shocked.
"She is angry with me and wants you to teach me a lesson! Please don't misunderstand me, Li classmate. I admire you very much. You also know that I was raised by wolves and have no father or mother. I knew from the first moment I saw you that you are my destined father. And Fu Zhi, I feel the long-lost maternal love from her, but this is not love! Even if everyone in the world is extinct, I can't be with my mother!"
“…”
Li Nanli didn't know whether Li Changgu had a problem with his brain or what, but his attitude was sincere, as if he really didn't mean that.
"What about Fu Zhi?"
"It's even more impossible for her to have that kind of intention towards me. Don't worry, I guarantee with my character that you are the only person she has loved since she was in her mother's womb."
As Li Changgu was talking, he saw that Li Nanli's expression had eased, so he immediately stood up, put his arm around his shoulder and said to him, "Hey, don't listen to the rumors in school, they are all groundless. In fact, I don't want to be exhausted every day for my mother... Bah, running around for Fu Zhi, but since you two are together, you can also take care of her!"
Li Nanli pinched the corner of his clothes and asked tentatively: "How can I take care of her so that she will be happy?"
"For example, I helped her top up her laundry card, bought her a pretty dress, got her some hot water, bought her a better phone than the one I bought her, and helped her take care of me, etc. She loved it all!"
So everyone discovered that the Shura field that was originally expected did not arrive, but at night, the person who sent Fu Zhi to the girls' dormitory, served Fu Zhi tea and water, and helped Fu Zhi to make hot water turned out to be Li Nanli.
It is worth mentioning that Li Changgu suddenly turned into a giant baby in this fake Shura field, waiting for Li Nanli to feed him every day.
Li Nanli was even more outrageous, he actually fed the baby who was over 200 months old.
Everyone: “…”
Oh my God, when can life be like in novels and have some hope?
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The days that others thought were hopeless, however, were full of color and warmth in Fu Zhi's eyes.
She had never experienced Li Nanli's life before. She only knew that outsiders said that he was decisive and ruthless, that he was Mr. Li's favorite grandson, and that he was the most outstanding heir to the Li family. All of his uncles and aunts were as good as him.
But the seventeen-year-old Li Nanli was different from the Li Nanli of the following years.
His life was hard and dark.
He has grandparents who don't like him, a mother who is trapped by love, a father who doesn't care about his life or death, a grandfather who watches coldly and tries to train and polish him, uncles who are eyeing him covetously, and his father's white moonlight who wants to erase his existence several times.
He was labeled as a illegitimate child by his classmates. The girls who were obsessed with his looks kept their distance from him and always belittled him with disdain.
His world was full of malice, and even people he had never met tried to push him deeper into the quagmire.
But the boy was as indomitable as a poplar tree, and he climbed out of the quagmire resolutely.
Fu Zhi knew that she felt sorry for the young man in this time and space.
She accompanied him and witnessed all the sadness and extreme malice in the world.
On September 27th, the school was on holiday and Fu Zhi was dragged by him to a jewelry store.
The jewelry store is called Evernight.
It's a place that sells earrings and rings.
The waitress smiled warmly when she saw the two of them. After all, they were wearing Changhong's school uniforms and looked like the young masters and young ladies of wealthy families.
The salesgirl asked Li Nanli, "Do you want to buy any jewelry for this lady?"
"Rings, I want a pair of rings." He held Fu Zhi's wrist tightly, his ears turned red, and he felt a little embarrassed because of saying such words.
The salesgirl smiled and introduced it to him, "Here is a diamond ring designed by the master Michel from country F. It's called True Love, which means loving only one person in your life. It just arrived. It's limited to 100 pieces and priced at one million! I'll show it to you now and let you try it out!"
The diamond ring placed in the crystal cabinet sparkled under the light, reflecting colorful colors, but the diamond on the ring was only about two carats. Fu Zhi knew that what she was selling was the designer's creativity and reputation.
He also knew that Li Nanli did not have such strong strength now.
It was the salesgirl who made a mistake in judgment, which led to the current situation.
She said, trying to maintain the self-esteem of a teenager, "Don't pay so much. If you want to be nice to me, you can transfer the money to me!"
The tone is a bit soft.
As soon as I said this, I was surprised myself.
I couldn't help but sigh: It's worthy of you, Fu Zhi! Others have loli voices, but you are the Thousand-Armed Guanyin!
The salesgirl glared at Fu Zhi, not wanting to lose the business just like that.
Just as he was about to speak, he heard the young man ask, "Do you have a wedding ring for less than ten thousand yuan?"
The boy changed into a pair of clean white sneakers, took the girl he liked, and said to the salesgirl frankly: "Sorry, I don't have that much money, so can you recommend me a pair of rings worth 10,000 yuan?"
In fact, ten years later, the ring Li Nanli gave her was much more expensive than this one. It was a large, dazzling and intact diamond ring.
When Fu Zhi saw this small ring worth one million, she just thought it was a beautiful decoration.
But the salesgirl's next words made Fu Zhi unhappy, because she rolled her eyes at Li Nanli and said in a particularly contemptuous tone: "I thought it was some rich young man in love! Yongye is the largest luxury jewelry store in Beijing! How can there be such cheap things! Speechless, you have no money but you imitate the rich people to come here to shop!"
As a salesgirl in a high-end luxury store, her temper is naturally much worse than that of the waiters in other stores.
He closed the cabinet that held his beloved, looked around and said, "Ten thousand dollars? What can you do with ten thousand dollars now? Go to the silver jewelry section and choose! Stay away from the diamond ring section. Can you afford to pay for it if it breaks?"
Fu Zhi opened his mouth and was about to confront her.
Li Nanli was quick to grab her and soothe her, "Don't be angry, Zhizhi."
"It's your birthday, I want you to be happy, Zhizhi."
The young man had gentle eyes and eyebrows. He took her to the silver jewelry area and bought her a silver ring with the money he earned from working hard.
Not a wedding ring.
Because the price of wedding rings is too high.
The ring was designed by a fashion designer named Li Luo.
The other party was not very famous, so the silver ring was sold for eight thousand yuan.
The salesgirl said arrogantly, "Do you want it packaged? The packaging fee is two hundred."
"Yes, please."
The boy swiped his card to pay.
Fu Zhi could actually guess that if nothing unexpected happened, he would have 100,000 yuan in his card.
This is the capital on which he and Huo Ningxin make their living.
He knew that Huo Ningxin would divorce Li Sicheng soon.
He likes Fu Zhi, but he will not do anything for love. He has his own way to go.
But this kind of thought already contains all the love that a boy can give.
He placed the gift in an exquisitely wrapped box in Fu Zhi's hand and said in a clear voice, "Happy birthday, Zhizhi."
When you were sixteen, you received an ordinary silver ring, but, "Zhizhi, when you are twenty, I will definitely give you a diamond designed by Michelle himself, a one-of-a-kind diamond."
Four years is enough time for him to grow up and become a man of integrity.
Don't rely on anyone to survive, and provide a safe haven for the girl you like and your mother.
Fu Zhi raised his hand and touched his eyebrows.
"Li Nanli, you will become a very good person."
But by that time, I was about to return to my own time and space.
She thought with some sadness that he must be very lonely in this time and space without Fu Zhi.
So, before she left, she had to give him a gift against the laws of the world.
"Li Nanli."
"Um?"
"Can you kiss?"
"W-what?" He looked at the little girl who asked this question in disbelief.
He has never liked any girl except her since he was a child.
As for kissing, naturally, I have no idea.
He clenched his hands nervously, wanting to tell her that she was only sixteen, and the most urgent thing was to study hard and make progress every day, not...
But the little girl suddenly raised her eyes, stood on tiptoe, brushed her lips against his, and then pressed against the corner of his lips, and said wickedly, "It's okay if you don't know how to do it, I will teach you!"
A wind swept through the woods in midsummer.
He heard the chirping of cicadas in the bushes, saw the bright moonlight, and his heartbeat sounded like a drum.
He didn't know whether he would be able to go from school uniforms to wedding dresses with Fu Zhi in the next ten years or so, but he was sure that in his life, he would never have such a violent heartbeat caused by a kiss again.
His heart said that he loved her more than he thought.
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In October, the weather is not so hot anymore.
For the first time, Fu Zhi felt the tense atmosphere that teachers could create before the high school entrance examination.
The school was very strict about punishing dating, but Fu Zhi and Li Nanli were the first and second in every exam and they brought honor to the school. After they started dating, their grades did not drop at all, so the school director could only turn a blind eye to the two of them.
At the same time, Huo Ningxin also found a very desirable job in a listed company.
She applied for the position of secretary to the sales department manager.
It is worth mentioning that the sales department should be the busiest department, but the department manager is like a mysterious existence, never showing up and has not been fired yet.
Other people in the department introduced her, "This is Mr. Fu's younger brother. He's a painter and very famous in the art circle. He just holds a position in the sales department. You don't see him often. If there are any documents, just take care of them and give them to the deputy manager for stamping."
Colleagues in the department said that this manager was extremely handsome and bookish, and especially since he was still unmarried, just looking at him made people want to pounce on him.
Huo Ningxin smiled when she heard that. Probably the most handsome man she had ever seen was Li Sicheng. She had been attracted to him when she was young and thought they would grow old together in love, but now... she had woken up from a dream and suddenly realized that instead of indulging in love, she might as well focus on making money.
Today, Fu’s head office is not as big as Li’s, but the company’s atmosphere is very good and it is a comfortable environment for her.
She doesn't have any conflicts with her colleagues.
Occasionally, when she meets colleagues from other departments in her spare time, Xiao Li from the Human Resources Department always likes to tease her, "Sister Huo, are you tired in the marketing department? Our department manager praised you for your efficiency yesterday. Would you consider coming to our department?"
Huo Ningxin smiled and shook her head.
Then the other party said, "But if you have any colleagues who want to change jobs in the same company, you must think of our HR department when the time comes!"
Huo Ningxin's smile faded.
She didn't have any colleagues in the same company. It was funny. She graduated from a prestigious university, but when she entered the society, she got pregnant and got married. After entering the Li family, she served her father-in-law, took care of the family, and dealt with her sisters-in-law.
Even though Li Sicheng only came home a few times a year, she was always willing to cook for him.
Now that she had joined the Fu family, she saw women of the same age focusing on their careers, not married, not in love, with a salary, no worries about food and drink, and living a very good life. Suddenly she realized what she had lost.
"Fu's is my first company." Huo Ningxin explained to Xiao Li.
After the incident with her son, she heard that Li Sicheng moved to Zhongnan Waterside. Sometimes she couldn't help but wonder if he would do everything with Huo Niannian that they had done as a couple.
But Huo Ningxin was unwilling to ask anymore. She remembered what Fu Zhi had said, that she still had a son and was not alone. She could not allow herself to be weak.
She numbed herself with a lot of work and no longer had time to indulge in the drama of love.
Such days are tiring and fulfilling, but they don't feel too bad. They are much better than sitting at home like a lunatic and thinking about all sorts of things.
Maybe one day, she thought, she would learn not to love him anymore.
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It was already seven o'clock in the evening when Li Sicheng returned to Li's residence from the company.
The old house, which used to be brightly lit and full of the smell of fireworks, was now silent, and the familiar figure did not immediately come forward from the living room to greet him.
Li Sicheng was a little uncomfortable with it, so he walked in and untied his suit tie. Wang Ma, the servant at home, heard the footsteps and hurried out. She was stunned for a few seconds and said, "Mr. Li, you are back..."
Li Sicheng had an indifferent expression and casually threw his unbuttoned sleeves on the coffee table. He wanted to ask something, but when the question came to his lips, he just hummed.
But his voice was quite cold and he seemed to be in a bad mood. He then went upstairs, paused in the master bedroom, then opened the door, subconsciously looking for that familiar figure.
Where is Huo Ningxin?
The beautiful figure that he would see every day when he returned home suddenly disappeared. Huo Sicheng suddenly became irritated. He turned on his phone and the messages between the two of them were still there. He sent her a message saying that he would return home tonight.
The other party did not reply.
He thought she saw it, but unexpectedly... He felt a lump in his heart, and his breathing was a little suppressed and difficult. When he opened the closet to find pajamas, he suddenly saw a black and white maid outfit.
The dress was slim and well-cut, the fabric felt soft to the touch, and had a faint peach scent, which was a perfume that Huo Ningxin often used.
It smelled reassuring to him.
After all, he and Huo Ningxin were very compatible in bed, but she was always shy.
She came to maintain the relationship between them, which relieved his irritability. Li Sicheng turned around, went downstairs, and went to find Mrs. Wang who was still working, "Huo Ningxin..."
When he was halfway through his words, he saw Mrs. Wang carrying a red plastic bag and about to walk out the door.
She was startled when she heard Li Sicheng's voice, "Mr.
The man asked sullenly, "What's in the garbage bag?"
Mother Wang was stunned for a moment, then looked down at the contents of the trash bag, then looked up again, "A cake from a week ago, and chicken soup."
"What cake?"
"My wife went to the cake shop a week ago to learn how to make cakes."
Li Sicheng felt something was wrong, and his voice became deeper and deeper, "Why is she making cakes?"
"Don't you know? A week ago, the day when the young master had the accident, was Madam's birthday!"
Aunt Wang felt sorry for Huo Ningxin and whispered, "Madam was very happy that day. Didn't you promise her that you would go home after finishing your work? She was originally going to eat cake with you, but when she came back from the hospital, she suddenly asked me to throw the cake away."
Aunt Wang was also reluctant to do so. Li Sicheng was very picky about food and drink. It took Huo Ningxin a whole day to make that exquisite cake.
She always thought, maybe her husband would come home tomorrow?
When I get home I can eat cake with my wife.
But she waited for a week, and the exquisite cake became moldy without her noticing.
Small dark blue spots were all over the cake and could not be removed, like love that had gone bad.
Wang Ma noticed that Li Sicheng's expression suddenly became very ugly, and he asked her, "Where's the chicken soup? Did you make it on her birthday too?"
"No, the Madam prepared it for the young master tonight."
"Who allowed you to dump it?"
"These are extra. My wife asked me to drink some. She said the extra ones would go bad the next day if no one drank them, so she asked me to throw them away."
Li Sicheng suddenly stopped talking and remained silent for a long time. Finally, Wang Ma asked anxiously, "Where did she go?"
"Work, my wife said she went to work at Fu's and might have to work overtime at the company tonight."
Then Li Sicheng picked up the car keys and went to the garage.
Aunt Wang really wanted to ask, are you going back to the waterside? Or go see your wife?
But she also thought that Mr. Li, as a husband, didn’t even know what his wife was doing, so this relationship wouldn’t last long.
She saw that the lady used to make chicken soup for Mr. Li, but now she would throw it away without even thinking about Mr. Li.
Maybe Mr. Li hasn't noticed it yet, but she always feels that the lady seems... not so dependent on Mr. Li anymore.
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Li Sicheng really didn't expect that the day Li Nanli got into trouble would be Huo Ningxin's birthday.
Thinking of her collapse and sadness that day, Li Sicheng suddenly felt a little breathless and irritated.
But this also explains why Huo Ningxin didn't wait for him to come home at the old house, nor did she cook for him.
He knew that she was throwing tantrums at him.
She had had this kind of temper in the past, but Huo Ningxin's temper came and went quickly. Usually, in less than a week, she would be caring for him again.
The silver sports car stopped downstairs of the Fu Group.
Li Sicheng called Huo Ningxin.
But no one answered.
He frowned and was about to get off the car when he saw Huo Ningxin walking out of the office building with a group of men and women, chatting and laughing.
There was an unconcealable fatigue on her face, but there was a bright smile on her face that he hadn't seen for a long time.
In such an unfamiliar environment, in front of such a group of unfamiliar people.
Instead of being in Li's house, all I see is him.
She didn't answer her phone immediately and was no longer willing to be in familiar spaces.
This was incompatible with her past habits, and Li Sicheng began to feel uncertain. Would her deep love for him still exist?
This realization suddenly made Li Sicheng very uncomfortable. He opened the car door without hesitation, and acted before his mind could think, and he took Huo Ningxin's hand.
"Wife." He went to call her and saw that the smile on her face suddenly disappeared, and there was a hint of coldness between her eyebrows.
cold?
Is it towards him?
Thinking of this, he held Huo Ningxin's hand without hesitation, said hello to her colleague briefly, dragged her to the car, and closed the door. "I sent you a text message, but you didn't reply. I called you, but you didn't answer. Huo Ningxin, the Li family is not yet at the point where they can't afford to support a woman. You should quit your job."
(End of this chapter)
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