Chapter 61
Yueqing feels like it's in an ice cellar at this moment.
Such simple words fell into her ears but were so difficult to understand. Her mind was turning slowly and she couldn't find a suitable response immediately.
The person in front of her also noticed her unusual behavior and asked with a smile, "Why are you reacting like that? It's as if I'm wrongly accusing you. Don't forget that I helped you raise the money for your plastic surgery. I haven't heard from you in the past few years. What do you think of me?"
Plastic surgery.
Yue Qing repeated the phrase silently in his mind, then steadied his voice and said, "After I got back, I changed my phone and my domestic phone card, and I can't find the contact information of many people I used to have."
"Really?" The man looked at her suspiciously. "I thought you wanted to kick me out now that you had money."
Yue Qing didn't say anything, but unlocked his phone and handed it over: "Please enter it, my hand is injured."
The man didn't notice anything unusual and quickly took the phone and quickly entered his phone number and name.
Her name is Nora.
Annie, who hadn't waited for Yueqing to come back, was worried about her wound. She asked the clerk for directions to the restroom and slowly walked over: "Yueqing."
Nora glanced over at the sound, her eyes lighting up when she saw the person. She lowered her voice, "It seems you've indeed connected to a very high-level circle. I've seen this person online. Her family is the only Chinese family on the UK rich list."
Yue Qing never tried to understand the power behind Annie and the others. She felt that whether she wanted to make friends or become sisters with them was a personal matter.
But now when I heard this person say this, I felt a vague sense of discomfort in my heart.
She put away her phone and looked at him quietly: "Let's make an appointment. I want to talk to you in detail."
"I'd love to, dear." Nora misunderstood and patted her shoulder. "Don't worry, I won't let her know about your past. I'm leaving now."
Nora quickly left through another door, while Yue Qing held onto the sink to steady himself, trying to keep his voice normal as he said to Annie, "I'm fine. I'll be back soon."
It took almost all her willpower to concentrate on making the gift for Annie.
"Don't tell me." Annie reached out to touch it first, her expression somewhat different from usual eagerness. "I want to feel what it feels like for myself."
All the paintings above were drawn by Yueqing herself. She has not studied any art, so the shapes of her paintings can only be barely recognized.
Annie was touching it, and suddenly curled her lips: "It's a cloud, why did you give me a cloud?"
"It's not clouds," Yue Qing said. "It's the sky."
She looked into his eyes and said gently, "I hope you can always be like this, with a heart that is not blocked by any difficulties and can fly higher and higher, farther and farther. This is the sky I send you."
Annie raised her eyebrows: "Say it to me in Chinese."
"Don't you know Chinese?"
"But I want to hear it."
Although he didn't understand, Yue Qing still repeated his words in Chinese. Compared with the concise expressions in English, sometimes Chinese sounds more gentle.
"I really like it." Annie picked up the kite. "So I will go back there, just like you."
Originally, Yueqing would be very happy to hear this, but now she is not happy at all, and even feels very anxious.
Because she didn't know if she could still live the same life as she does now and have the dreams she had never dreamed of before after learning the truth.
"Annie, can I ask you a question?" she asked softly.
"Don't ask for my opinion from now on. Just ask directly." Annie turned to face her. "I don't like you being so cautious with me."
She liked the pure and bold child in her fantasy.
"Lvy said that you only paid attention to me after hearing my name that day." Yue Qing tried to make his tone sound less abnormal. "Is it just because of this name?"
"No," Annie recalled, "it's a feeling."
"What does it feel like?"
"There are countless Annies in the UK, and there should be countless people named Yueqing in Chinese." Annie listened to the voice and identified her direction. She raised a hand from her shoulder and rubbed her head again. "But only you, Yueqing, make me feel this way. Obviously, meeting you has made me more convinced of this."
Yueqing's heart was pounding and his eyes were a little hot.
She was really worried that everything she had was stolen by relying on others, but she was not willing to let it go.
"Thank you," she said.
Annie could hear the slight choking in her voice: "What happened to you?"
"It's okay, I'm just a little touched."
"Yueqing." Annie put away her smile and put down the kite. Her face, which already had a hint of aggression, now took on a more serious tone. "I'm not an impulsive child, and no one can make me make the decision to leave the place where I grew up and return to my country. So you are very important to me, so important..."
She frowned and said, "Although it's a bit nonsensical and I don't have any clue, I feel that if you need me to pay something, I can give you everything I have, so you can try to trust me."
Yue Qing looked at her blankly.
Would anyone say that to someone they've only met for the second time?
Or maybe it was the education Annie received since childhood that allowed her to express herself so boldly and without any scruples.
"We have a tacit understanding." Annie touched the kite next to her. "This gift was unexpected, but also expected. I like it very much. I even think it is a promise between us."
She even spoke a little nonsense, but she couldn't explain it in detail.
"I know." Yue Qing could understand what she meant, because she had the same feeling in her heart. When she was thinking about the gift, she vaguely felt that this thing would definitely be liked by Annie.
"That's all." Annie was finally satisfied. "If there's anything, you must tell me, just like a younger sister trusts her older sister."
Yue Qing was silent for a few seconds: "Yeah."
She trusts her intuition.
At this point, Yueqing had no one he could trust except himself.
You can only find the direction you should go from those vague intuitions.
After coming out of the handicraft shop and finishing dinner at a nearby restaurant, Yue Qing declined Annie's invitation to go home with her, and instead said, "Annie, I need you to do me a favor."
"You finally spoke." Annie chuckled, "Go ahead."
"I'm going to meet someone, but I'm not sure whether his intentions are good or bad. I'd like to borrow some bodyguards from you."
Annie's family pays attention to her safety, and every time she goes out, there will be a car following her closely.
"Is this why you've suddenly become so strange today?" Annie raised her chin slightly. "Not only security, but I'm going with you too."
"You can't show up." Yue Qing said hurriedly, "If you show up, I might not be able to ask what I want to ask."
Annie is very flexible: "Then I won't show up, I'll just watch from behind."
"If you're not sure whether the other person is safe, how can I let you go alone? Besides, the security guards are with me, I'm much safer than you. I can choose a place for you to go."
Yueqing hesitated.
But Annie suddenly flicked her forehead and said, "Have you forgotten what I told you before? Even though I can't see, I know London better than you do."
That's true when you think about it.
Yueqing can choose a place that is beneficial to him to talk to that person, so that the initiative is in his hands.
So she told Annie the characteristics of the person she saw.
"That's even easier. You can just make an appointment at the address I gave you. What time is it?"
It was too late today and Annie should go back to rest early, so Yueqing decided to talk about it tomorrow.
Just like when they came, Yueqing held her hand and walked out of the street. The small street was very quiet after dark.
When we were approaching the intersection, we suddenly heard the roar of a motorcycle from behind, mixed with a few screams in the distance.
Yue Qing's sixth sense made her react quickly, and coupled with her usual agility, she immediately pulled Annie behind her to protect her. However, the kite that Annie had been holding in her other hand flew away because of this big movement.
At this time, several motorcycles passed by them. The bodyguard standing at the intersection saw this and ran over quickly. The motorcycles immediately turned around and headed towards the bag in Annie's hand.
It's a biker gang.
"Lend it to me." Yue Qing stretched out the blind stick that Annie had never used, and hit the first person's hand hard the moment the motorcycle flew over and stretched out his hand.
The man pulled his hand back in pain, and the knife in his hand fell to the ground, but the direction of the motorcycle suddenly lost control, and he fell off the car, and the car flew far away. Without thinking, Yue Qing squatted down and carried Annie on his back towards the bodyguard.
Seeing that these two men had other helpers, the biker gang immediately decided to give up.
Of course, the bodyguards had to protect their employer first. They immediately took Annie from Yueqing's back and surrounded her tightly. Annie frowned and said, "Give me my kite back."
The gift that had just been made had been cut into pieces by the robber's knife. The bodyguards who heard the order hurried to pick it up from the ground.
Annie reached out to the side again, but found nothing. Her face turned pale. "Yueqing?"
"I'm here." Yue Qing was about to get closer to her when he saw a piece of kite cloth quietly lying in the corner with clouds painted on it. It must have been torn and fell to the other side, but the bodyguards didn't notice it.
You can pick it up and replenish it.
She walked over and just picked up the kite cloth when a dazzling light appeared behind her and the familiar roar sounded again.
He was the accomplice of the biker gang who was left behind to clean up the mess. He had been hiding at the entrance of the alley. When he saw that one of his companions was left behind, he knew it was his turn to step forward and rescue him.
The moment the car rushed over at high speed, Yue Qing's pupils shrank suddenly, and the knife in the man's hand reflected the light.
Her body had reacted subconsciously. She tightly grasped the kite cloth and the blind stick she had been holding in her hand and just took a step to the side, but her other hand was pulled by a strong force, and half of her body fell into the arms of the person behind her.
She was about to move her blind stick when she heard a familiar voice: "It's me."
Jiang Suizhi?!
Seeing that the man who rushed forward had swept away all the bodyguards, he was about to pull up the person on the ground.
The force on Yue Qing's body suddenly loosened. She didn't even have time to see Jiang Sui's face. She only saw him move suddenly, pick up the motorcycle that had fallen on the ground, stride over it with his long legs, and start the car again with the key and rush towards the two people who had just got on the car.
Seeing this, Yue Qing was so frightened that her heart stopped beating: "Jiang Suizhi!"
As soon as he finished speaking, accompanied by a loud crash, Jiang slammed the two men directly against the wall, forcing them to stop.
Even the bodyguards present didn't expect this man to be so aggressive.
Jiang Sui got out of the car without even turning his head and stepped on the hand of one of the men. The pain made the man let go of the knife in his hand and screamed.
He picked up the knife and asked, "What are you standing there for?"
The words were spoken to the bodyguards he brought with him, but Annie's bodyguard didn't understand and quickly stepped forward to subdue the two men. The others also hurried to check if there were any accomplices nearby.
Yue Qing walked over quickly, but was stopped by Jiang Suiwei: "Don't come over."
"you……"
Jiang Suizhi then turned around, threw the knife to the person he brought with him, and looked up at her: "I'll go over."
The light was dim where he was standing, and as he walked out step by step, his face was gradually reflected by the light.
Only Yueqing could see his whole body completely, fortunately he was not injured.
She breathed a sigh of relief: "It's such a dangerous thing, you don't want to die."
Jiang smiled but did not stop.
His men couldn't get close to the other woman because of the bodyguards around her, but at the critical moment, the first person they wanted to protect was not Yue Qing.
Ke Leqing can deal with everything calmly, but she can't do that when it comes to her friends. The first thing she wants to do is protect others, and she cares so much about the things given to her by others or herself.
Jiang Suizhi didn't know how he ran behind her. Even the moment he touched her, he felt like he was losing.
He didn't dare leave any possibility for her to be hurt. Even if the robber's goal was to save his companion, the car was in their hands, and there was no guarantee that they would not rush towards anyone for fear of not being able to escape.
The best way is to prevent the problem forever.
Jiang Suizhi never gave the enemy any chance to turn the tables.
Especially these people almost got Yue Qing injured in front of him.
He approached the woman standing in the light step by step. From the unexpected heartbeat that day to this moment, from the time he talked with the psychologist to now, during the time of self-escape when he couldn't sleep and couldn't calm down, he thought about many things.
I thought about Jiang Yan, the two children, Yue Qing's feelings, and her reaction...
But he never once thought that he couldn't get close to her.
He was just looking for an excuse, a way to go to her openly and honestly.
But he hadn't found an excuse yet. When he saw that she was in danger and few people were paying attention to her, he felt that everything he was thinking was bullshit. She always protected herself and found reasons and excuses for herself. She was even so cautious about making new friends. Why was that?
He always uses any means to achieve his goals, and is despicable and cruel. Even his own father has scolded him for being heartless and cold-hearted.
So what, so screw it all.
This person is his.
Even if she still likes Jiang Yan, she has been learning from Jiang Yan for so many years, so it is not impossible for her to continue learning.
Jiang Sui continued to smile until he stood in front of her. His dark eyes from behind his glasses scanned her inch by inch. He said softly, "There has to be someone standing by your side."
It was such a late hour and she still managed to laugh. Yue Qing asked, "Are you okay?"
He just hugged her. It was such an unexpected situation that Yue Qing was worried that he would have a seizure.
"Not very well." Jiang Suiyi moved his hands, lowered his eyes to hide his pupils, and said softly with curved lips, "I didn't take medicine when I came here, so I feel very uncomfortable."
Yue Qing was unaware of his presence: "What should I do? What medicine do you want to take? Can I buy it now?"
"No need." Jiang Suizhi took another step forward, his pupils in his half-closed eyes reflecting tiny specks of light. "Hold me for a moment, okay?"
Yueqing paused.
But considering that Jiang Suizhi was doing this because he saved him, he didn't care about anything else at this moment and asked hesitantly: "How do I hold you?"
Like holding a baby?
As soon as she finished speaking, the man in front of her suddenly leaned over and hugged her in his arms.
One of his hands was on her shoulder, and the other was behind her back. The force was not strong, but his presence was clear.
Yueqing could even clearly hear his heavy breathing.
It’s so serious.
After a few seconds, Annie's anxious voice rang out: "Yueqing, where are you?"
Yue Qing, who was still in Jiang Sui's arms, had to turn her head slightly: "Here."
"Who's here?" Annie asked.
"My... friend." Yue Qing patted Jiang Sui's hand and lowered his voice, "Are you okay?"
"Who cares what she does." Jiang Suizhi sneered, "She is much safer than you."
Is this the problem?
Yue Qing then realized that they were surrounded by bodyguards inside and outside. Because of what had just happened, all the people Jiang brought with him had gathered around. Even though their expressions were righteous, their eyes were fixed on them.
And Secretary Chen had his mouth tightly shut. It was obvious that he had something to say but didn't dare to.
There is also an invisible Annie, which makes Yueqing feel like he is carrying someone on his back.
"Your friend?" Annie stepped closer and asked hesitantly, "Why don't you come over?"
She didn't have a cane, so Yue Qing had to pull his hand free with great difficulty and handed the cane to her: "He, something's up. I'll talk to him for a while and then come over."
Her ears turned red when she said this. This is so strange!
However, Jiang Suizhi also noticed her embarrassment and did not push her any further.
After suppressing the trembling he had felt during the moment of emotional ups and downs, he finally let go of the person in front of him. His tone had returned to its previous calmness, and even contained a hint of gentleness that even Yue Qing found strange: "I'll take you home."
Annie was frightened today, and Yue Qing wanted her to go back early to avoid being worried, so she didn't think it was a big deal. And out of some selfish reasons, she didn't want Annie to have contact with people around the original owner.
She walked over to Annie and said, "I'm going back with my friends. You should get some rest early. We'll see you tomorrow."
Let's go see Nora together tomorrow.
Annie looked in the other direction suspiciously.
Although she couldn't see it, she could tell it was a man's voice, and a very powerful man who brought a lot of people with him.
The bodyguard just said that he was the one who hit the robber with his bike.
She didn't know why, but she felt that this man was also dangerous.
"Is your friend trustworthy?" she asked.
"...Yeah." Yue Qing lowered his voice, "He is the uncle of the two children back home."
So that's how it is.
But Annie still felt unhappy. If she was in danger, it should be him who took her home. What was wrong with a man showing up halfway?
After thinking for a moment, Yue Qing said, "We must not let him know about meeting Nora tomorrow. Only we know about it."
Annie felt instantly balanced after hearing this.
It seems that Yueqing has an ordinary relationship with this friend.
"Okay." Annie nodded.
The two groups of people got into different cars and left.
The moment the car started, Annie's expression suddenly darkened. She tapped the blind stick lightly in her palm and called out to the bodyguard captain in the passenger seat.
"I'm here, miss."
Annie raised her eyes coldly, her voice heavy: "You guys really disappointed me today."
The bodyguard captain was stunned.
How can I be disappointed? I didn't let the lady get hurt at all!
"From today on, you have to protect not only me," Annie said calmly, "but also Yueqing."
"But……"
"No buts," Annie interrupted him. "In times of danger, protecting her is your top priority. Remember?"
"Miss, we'll be fired if we do that."
Annie smiled slightly: "If you don't do this, you will be fired now."
“…”
On the other side, Yue Qing and Jiang Sui were both sitting in the back row.
Jiang Suizhi had returned to normal, and Yueqing was working on the kite with her head down. She took the other half and planned to repair it before giving it to Annie.
Jiang Suizhi beside him suddenly asked, "Is this also important?"
"Huh?" Yueqing didn't hear clearly.
"That broken bracelet, this broken kite." Jiang Sui spoke slowly, as if chatting, "Are they both important?"
Yue Qing didn't even think about it: "Yeah."
"What about mine?"
His attention was repeatedly diverted, and Yue Qing finally found the time to look up: "What's yours?"
"The bracelet I gave you." Jiang Sui's eyes fell on her wrist, and he raised his hand and nodded through her coat, "You never wear it. Isn't mine important?"
Yueqing was stunned by what he said. What was there to compare?
"It's important. I put it away."
Along with other gifts.
Jiang Suizhi smiled and said, "I thought you didn't like it."
"I like whatever you give me," Yue Qing said. "It doesn't matter whether I wear it or not."
Jiang Suizhi said: "If the bracelet breaks, will you be so sad?"
What a strange question.
Although he was puzzled, Yue Qing answered seriously: "Yes, because you are all my friends."
"friend…"
Jiang Sui was angry for a long time because of these two words before, but he is still angry because of these two words now.
Thinking of this, his brows slightly frowned.
Maybe at that time he was not angry because he was not treated as a friend, but because he was not that important in her heart.
All he wanted was a special place in her heart.
"Aren't you busy with company matters? How do you have time to come here?" Yue Qing suddenly thought of something important.
Jiang Suizhi calmly replied, "Secretary Chen said the midnight snacks here are delicious."
"?"
Heading to London for a late-night snack?
Do you still remember that you were the one who had to supervise your children and punch in every time they ate breakfast?
"Then why are you there?"
"I arranged some bodyguards around you before I left." Jiang Sui took the opportunity to flirt, "But because of the person next to you, my people can't get too close. But today, it seems that person's bodyguards are not reliable."
Yue Qing subconsciously mentioned Annie's defense: "That's her bodyguard, it's normal to protect her."
"Then who will protect you?" Jiang Suiyi said in a slightly cold tone, "You knew she had bodyguards protecting her, so why did you still want to protect her yourself? What would you do if I hadn't come? I..."
Jiang Sui's words died in his throat when he saw the stunned expression on the other side.
His eyes softened again: "I'm just worried about you."
Yue Qing was not an ungrateful person, but she felt that Jiang Suizhi was a little strange.
In the past, even when Jiang Suizhi was wearing glasses, she could see the arrogance in his eyes, but now his eyes were so gentle that it made her feel uncomfortable. She unconsciously said, "You... seem different. Is your work not going well?"
In her opinion, Jiang Suizhi would only become like this when work required it, but now was not working time.
At least in front of her, Jiang Suizhi had never been like this before. He was himself the first time they met.
Jiang Suizhi curled his lips: "Is this not good?"
"Not really, I just feel it's not suitable for you." Yue Qing answered seriously.
Not suitable for...
The smile on Jiang Sui's lips faded a little.
"Why not?" he asked slowly, "Because even if it's like this, I'm not like Jiang Yan?"
Jiang Yan?
Is he imitating his brother?
Why do you want to imitate your brother?
Thinking that he owed something to his brother or was obsessed with him, Yue Qing advised him, "It's good to be yourself. You are not the same person."
"Really?" Jiang Suizhi's tone was a little mocking, "But Jiang Suizhi can only be friends with you."
Yue Qing didn't understand, but the next moment something suddenly flashed through her mind and the words changed direction at the tip of her tongue.
"Jiang Suizhi." she shouted.
"Um."
"Do you remember when we were at the meadow, you lost a request of mine?"
"Remember."
Yue Qing nodded: "Just remember it."
"how?"
"Nothing." Yue Qing retracted his gaze and looked at his wrist. At this moment, he was suddenly glad that he really didn't have the bracelet that Dai Jiang gave him.
She was worried that she wouldn't be able to pay it back in the future.
Did Jiang Suizhi become friends with him because of Jiang Yan? Because that was his brother's child, and he was just taking advantage of that status.
"If I weren't Yueqing, I wouldn't have anything to do with the children..."
Jiang Suizhi frowned slightly: "What?"
"Without your brother, without children, without responsibilities, you..." Yue Qing said softly, "Will you still be friends with me?"
"No responsibility?" Jiang repeated in a low voice.
Then he was silent for a few seconds, then smiled meaningfully and said, "Is there such a good thing?"
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