Shi Tinghan reached out to take the cigarette box from her hand, but Lan Xi stepped back and grabbed it, and Zhu Lingling stepped forward in time to block him.
"Your dog has lost the ability to distinguish right from wrong!" Shi Tinghan said coldly while staring at Lan Xi lighting a cigarette.
Zhu Lingling stepped back only after hearing the sound of Lan Xi puffing out cigarettes from behind her. There was no humiliation on her face at Shi Tinghan calling her a dog, and there was even a slight curl at the corners of her lips.
Lan Xi threw the cigarette back to Shi Tinghan. Holding the cigarette, she watched Zhu Lingling take the lighter from her hand and put it away. She reached out and rubbed her head.
"Don't say that about our Lingling, or I'll be angry!"
Zhu Lingling lowered her head and put away the lighter, her cheeks gradually turning red. She had given the lighter to Lan Xi when she just walked over, and she knew what she wanted to do!
"What are you thinking? If that's the case, why don't you accept the old man's marriage proposal?"
Shi Tinghan found that sometimes he couldn't understand Lan Xi!
She put the cigarette to her lips and took a puff. A thin column of smoke came out of her mouth. She put her hand in her pocket. She looked at the face that could make her inexplicably calm down and took two steps towards it.
"The Lan family and the Shi family will never marry, otherwise Hai City will only have the Shi family as the first family!"
Yes!
In Lan Xi's eyes, there is no such thing as a strong alliance. Only families that need to make themselves stronger will use marriage as a method.
Given the Lan family’s status in Hai City, marriages are usually arranged to alleviate poverty!
"Then why are you..."
"Why? Why do you support those men?" Lan Xi knew what Shi Tinghan wanted to ask. After all, she had done that a long time ago.
Those men either look alike or have similar temperaments. In any case, each of them has some similarities with Shi Tinghan.
After thinking carefully, Lan Xi said, "Let me put it this way! I like your face very much, but we can't be together!"
"Do you like me?" Shi Tinghan felt his throat was pinched and asked Lan Xi with difficulty.
To him, Lan Xi is at most a younger sister. She is too... how should I put it... too eccentric!
"Hahahahahahaha..." Lan Xi bent over with laughter, the hand holding the cigarette couldn't stop shaking, and she took the hand out of her pocket and kept shaking it.
Seeing her like this, Shi Tinghan's face darkened.
After laughing for a long time, Lan Xi finally managed to stop and took a puff of her cigarette. She put it out with her bare hands and placed it on the paper Zhu Lingling was holding.
"We grew up together, and I remember I clearly refused when I was ten years old!"
"Then why are you..."
Shi Tinghan was a little unable to continue, because he remembered how shocked he was when ten-year-old Lan Xi rejected the old man's marriage proposal.
Lan Xi looked at Shi Tinghan with amusement: "Brother Shi, I remember I just said that!"
She walked to Shi Tinghan and stopped. The woman raised her small face slightly and leaned close to the man's ear:
"Our family rivalry has begun. I'm looking forward to it! Brother Shi~"
After saying that, she walked towards the passenger seat. Behind her, Zhu Lingling took the car keys to unlock the car, and at the same time walked towards the main driver's seat to open the door.
"Congratulations on joining the board of directors!" Shi Tinghan spoke while looking at Lan Xi's back.
Lan Xi just opened the passenger door and heard Shi Tinghan's words, and replied with a smile: "Thank you!"
The ignition started and the headlights came on. Shi Tinghan stepped aside, watched Lan Xi wave at him, and watched the car drive out of the parking lot.
As Lan Xi left, a Land Rover stopped beside Shi Tinghan: "Sir, get in the car!"
"Um!"
…
In the passenger seat, Lan Xi was resting with her eyes closed, facing the window. Zhu Lingling drove cautiously, "Miss, the Madam asked you to go home!"
Turning her head, Lan Xi opened her eyes and asked, "What did you say?"
"I told you that you've been tired all day, and the house in the city center is close, so you can rest here today and go back tomorrow!"
Zhu Lingling glanced sideways at Lan Xi and told the truth.
Lan Xi nodded lightly and turned her head back.
The car fell silent again, and Zhu Lingling curled up her fingers that were gripping the steering wheel.
"Don't take Shi Tinghan's words to heart. In this world, no one can do anything to you except me! Just be obedient and don't worry about anything else!"
After a long time, when Zhu Lingling thought Lan Xi was asleep, Lan Xi's voice suddenly rang out.
Lan Xi opened her closed eyes and looked out the window. The street scene was receding. There were not many cars on the road in the early morning. Under the light of the street lights, Lan Xi looked at herself in the car window.
Zhu Lingling's lips curled up, and her eyes couldn't help but show joy: "I know! I don't take it to heart!"
Perhaps she herself didn't realize that her fingertips gripping the steering wheel were now relaxed, and her tense back was also much more relaxed.
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