Chapter 56: Unexpected Events
Yesterday’s sadness has nothing to do with today.
Lin Xi's eye makeup was heavier. She went to work in the morning and met Gu Qingheng in the afternoon.
Sitting in Xiaoshanhe, I haven’t eaten Japanese food for a long time.
The boss left two fresh king crabs for Gu Qingheng, so the two of them ate crabs today.
Lin Xi also got to try the crab roe noodles. The sweet crab roe was paired with rice and a little soy sauce. The mixture was so delicious that it was eyebrow-dropping.
"It's pretty good to be with Mr. Gu." Lin Xi said, looking at Gu Qingheng.
"Then you might as well follow me."
After hearing this, Lin Xi was stunned for a moment.
Suddenly remembering what Chen Ganggang said last night, she was a little at a loss for a moment.
I was about to pick up the glass of water on the table, but the next second, the glass fell to the tile floor and shattered.
"Mr. Gu, please don't joke with me, okay?" Lin Xi's face turned red, and the smile did not reach her eyes.
"I'm serious." Gu Qingheng met her eyes and smiled gently.
"No, I've only been divorced for a few months."
"No matter how many months, you're single now, and coincidentally, so am I."
"Chen Ganggang said you liked me, but I didn't believe it. Now I see, yes, it's true." Lin Xi gradually regained his composure, picked up the chopsticks and began to eat slowly.
Then, Gu Qingheng remained calm, put on disposable gloves, and peeled shrimp for Lin Xi.
Put it in Lin Xi's bowl. Lin Xi was already used to it, so he put it in his mouth and chewed it.
"I'm no worse than Chen Yan. Being able to marry into a wealthy family for the second time is something many women wouldn't even dare to dream of."
Lin Xi was stunned again.
I began to understand Gu Qingheng's words word by word. I am no worse than Chen Yan. Indeed, no matter in appearance or wealth, they both have their own merits.
Marrying into a wealthy family for the second time? Chen Yan was the first one, so Gu Qingheng was the second one?
Gu Qingheng means that he wants to marry her?
"You." Lin Xi hesitated, then continued, "I've been married and divorced before. We're in the same social class. It's hard to get into the old Qianfeng family in Beijing, isn't it? Besides being well-matched, the woman's appearance, character, and talent all have to be considered."
This is also one of the reasons why his father asked him to get married early.
Besides, both Chen Yan and Gu Qingheng are richer and more powerful than the Lin family.
"You don't understand. I will definitely do what I want to do, and I will definitely get the person I want. I don't care about your past." In Gu Qingheng's eyes, Lin Xi was pure.
Even if she is no longer, one can guess that Lin Xi and Shen Yan probably haven't had sex many times, not even as many as couples in passionate love.
At least, Gu Qingheng wasn't one of them. He didn't necessarily want to find a pure and flawless wife.
"No, this is ridiculous. I don't want to get married again. I am more or less disappointed with marriage." Lin Xi confessed.
"Gu Qingheng, you deserve better. Why would you choose a second marriage like me?"
"Deserve better? Do you mean single from birth?"
"Heh~ Mr. Gu, you really flatter me. You think too highly of me."
"I have always admired women like you, Director Lin."
Lin Xi hesitated to speak again, smiled and said nothing.
"I'll give you some time to think about it. Tell me when you've made up your mind. Eat more." As he said that, Gu Qingheng picked up a large piece of crab leg meat and gave it to Lin Xi.
Lin Xi concentrated on eating and didn't want to think about other messy things.
I made up my mind from the beginning that I don’t want to get married again.
…
Chen Ganggang knew that Gu Qingheng had made an appointment with Lin Xi to have dinner together again.
When a woman is jealous, it is more of a sense of crisis.
She had been to Gu Qingheng's house once, brought there by Mrs. Gu. This time, she went alone, but she found out that Director Lin was not at home. She went to look for Lin Xi again, but she heard that Director Lin was with Mr. Gu, so Chen Ganggang started calling non-stop.
The call didn't get through until eleven o'clock in the middle of the night.
Chen Ganggang wondered if the two of them had had physical contact and if they had gone to a hotel?
After all, Lin Xi is divorced and they are adult men and women, not children.
"Qingheng, why did you answer it just now? Where have you been?"
Gu Qingheng didn't hide it and said directly: "Going to dinner with Lin Xi."
"Lin Xi, Miss Lin?" Chen Ganggang pretended to be shocked.
"Yeah." Gu Qingheng replied indifferently.
"How come you two are together?" Chen Ganggang sat in the car, pinching his thigh with his long nails, which dug into the flesh and oozed out trickles of blood.
"What's the problem?" the man asked.
"Oh, no, no. It's just that Lin Xi got divorced not long ago and she made a dinner appointment with you, Qingheng. It's really..." Having said that, Chen Ganggang paused and stopped talking.
"What is it really?"
Chen Ganggang: How shameless.
But such damaging words should not be said in front of Gu Qingheng.
"Oh, nothing. It's just that she divorced the richest man and then asked you, Qingheng, out for dinner. It's not very nice."
"I asked her out."
Chen Ganggang: “…”
"We often had dinner together before she got divorced. Do you understand now?"
Chen Ganggang: “…………”
"Well, nothing to do, hang up."
“Knock, knock, knock…”
Chen Ganggang smashed his phone in anger. This seemingly gentle female host, Miss Chen, was not well-behaved in private. Instead, she had a bad temper and was cunning.
The next morning, when Lin Xi stepped into the office, she smelled something fragrant.
Seeing the bouquet of jasmine white roses, Lin Xi called out, "Linda, Wang Xiao."
Wang Xiao was not there, so Linda walked in quickly, "What's wrong, Director?"
Lin Xi pointed at the flowers and asked, "Who sent this?"
"It's Mr. Gu." Linda was laughing while saying this.
"What's so funny?" Lin Xi said coldly.
Linda stopped smiling immediately.
"Okay, it's none of your business." Lin Xi said helplessly.
Looking at the bouquet of flowers, Lin Xi suddenly murmured to herself: "I give you jasmine, and hope you will never leave." This is the flower language of jasmine.
"Gu Qingheng, you are really wasting your time."
For the next month, Lin Xi received flowers from Gu Qingheng. Roses, lilies, jasmine, camellias, and she seemed to be drawn to flowers with a scent.
Lin Xi would not remarry, this was her firm belief. If she did remarry, it would definitely be to Shen Yan.
But in this month, Lin Xi only saw Chen Yan in her father's ward.
Lin Xi didn't speak actively, and Shen Yan ignored her.
The two people are like strangers.
Chen Yan would occasionally come to take care of his father. He was like a son-in-law and also like half a son.
As his father's condition worsened, Shen Yan found the best doctor to perform the surgery.
Lin Xi saw it and was moved.
Today, she finally mustered up the courage to talk to him. She wanted to ask him if he was doing well recently, if he was eating well, and why he had lost weight.
But when Lin Xi approached."
"Ring, ring, ring~~~"
The phone rang and Shen Yan picked up the phone.
It was Li Tian's voice on the other end, and then Chen Yan turned and left.
Lin Xi stood by and watched him being called away, and the disappointment that was burning in her heart was completely extinguished by a pour of cold water.
"So, you're still in contact with Li Tian. She can call you away with just one word, just like Su Wan back then. On our wedding night, she called me, and I was left alone in my empty room for three years."
Lin Xi was about to reach out to Chen Yan's hand, but instead wiped away her own tears.
Does Lin have no money?
Do you still need his help?
Not to mention millions, tens of millions, even hundreds of millions can be taken out.
Lin Xi took the money from her bank card and transferred it to Chen Yan.
It was the money he had taken to pay the doctor.
As a result, not long after, Shen Yan called.
"What do you mean?" He said with a slightly unhappy tone.
Lin Xi sat in the office and raised an eyebrow and said, "I don't like owing others."
"Why, are you so clear with me?"
"We're divorced, what do you think?" He always said one thing and meant another, and was always brooding over the heartless things Shen Yan had done in the past.
The next second, Shen Yan hung up the phone.
Lin Xi couldn't help but burst out laughing.
Shen Yan was angry, and Lin Xi felt very good.
I called Chen Yan back, but the result was: "The number you dialed is currently unavailable..."
He blocked her.
The smile on Lin Xi's face gradually disappeared, and was replaced by a sigh.
The sky outside the floor-to-ceiling window was gray, and it felt like a heavy rain was coming.
Lin Xi gets off work early these days because she wants to visit her father.
When the car drove to the downstairs of the First Hospital, heavy rain began to fall.
Lin Xi trotted into the hospital in the wind and rain. Her shoes had sheepskin soles and were probably going to be scrapped today.
Lin Xi took the elevator upstairs, pushed open the door of the ward, and saw her father's head covered with a white cloth.
Lin Xi thought she was seeing things, but the door was pushed open.
Xiuyun's eyes were red as she burst into tears. "Your father passed away just now."
Lin Xi's handbag fell down suddenly.
My legs felt weak, and I quickly clung to the wall, uttering two words in disbelief: "What?"
Then tears fell, not only because of disbelief, but also because of the heartache of complete loss of life and death.
"Xixi." Xiuyun hugged Lin Xi.
The mother and daughter hugged each other and cried bitterly.
My father was only in his sixties, almost seventy... How could he just be gone like that?
The father is the pillar of the Lin family and the sky is falling for Lin Xi's mother.
She cried until she was out of breath, and cried until her father was about to be taken away, but Lin Xi still wanted to see her father for the last time.
"I'm sorry, Dad. I disappointed you. Shen Yan and I are divorced. I haven't made any contribution to the Lin Group. I wasn't even with you in the end." Lin Xi sobbed, tears streaming down her face.
As the world spun, Lin Xi, who had been suffering from low blood sugar and insufficient blood, collapsed.
My mother's voice gradually became blurred, and everything around me became blurred.
At the last moment, Lin Xi seemed to see Gu Qingheng, who ran towards her and extended a helping hand to her.
The next day, Lin Xi woke up.
I missed the wake for my father, and the wake was a very boring night.
His father will be buried tomorrow. Lin Xi has a headache and a fever, and his face is pale, but he dares not show his sadness in front of his mother.
There are only mother and daughter left at home. From now on, Lin Xi must learn to be strong, learn to protect her mother, protect the Lin family, and hold up the whole sky.
She was wearing a black dress and a black flower on her head.
Lin Xi went to the mourning hall and burned paper money for her father.
There were many reporters outside the mourning hall, all of whom were there to interview.
Lin Xi refused and blocked them outside the door.
"Father, everyone will die one day. Life and death are inevitable. This is the law of the world. Haha." Lin Xi smiled, then couldn't help crying and choked up, "When did I start deceiving myself? Even with this self-consolation, I'm still very sad. I still can't accept this is true."
…
The next day, Lin's father was buried.
The people present were either rich or noble, and many wives and ladies who were on good terms with the Lin family came to comfort Xiuyun and Lin Xi.
Xuedan even hugged Lin Xi into her arms, "Xixi, you are the strongest."
"Yeah." But Lin Xi still shed tears when she felt the warm embrace of her best friend.
Every autumn rain brings a chill, and it has been bitterly cold these days.
Lin Xi's nose tip was red, and her eyes were red. Shen Yan felt pity and wanted to go forward and hug his wife.
But she saw someone had already stepped forward and said something in Lin Xi's ear, and then Lin Xi followed Gu Qingheng.
Xuedan is a sentimental and kind girl. Tears welled up in her eyes, and Chen Jialian wiped them away with his own hands.
Xuedan threw herself into Chen Jialian's arms and said to him, "I will be nicer to Xixi in the future."
"I respect your decision." Chen Jialian is a gentle and considerate husband.
"Uh-huh!"
There are many things to do at a funeral, and both mother and daughter need to be busy. Xiuyun was too busy to handle it alone, so she asked Gu Qingheng to call Lin Xi over.
Unexpectedly, this incident made Shen Yan completely misunderstand that Lin Xi and Gu Qingheng were together. This also laid the groundwork for Lin Xi and Shen Yan to part ways later.
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After Lin's father passed away, the huge Lin Mansion became deserted.
The breath of autumn is quietly approaching, adding a touch of desolation to the Lin family.
The ginkgo trees in the back garden have turned yellow, and the leaves and flowers have withered.
When Xiuyun is alone at home, she will flip through photos of Lin's father and can't help crying.
"Maybe in a few years, I will go to accompany you. We got married in our twenties, and more than forty years have passed. In the next life, we will be husband and wife again." Lin's mother is also old, she is sixty years old.
After the age of sixty, life begins to count down.
After crying, Xiuyun kept the photo of Lin's father when he was alive, put it in the safe, and never took it out again.
During this period, Lin Xi would return to the Lin Mansion after work. Tonight, she even brought Xiao Fu over so that she could stay home with her mother.
Lin Xi was afraid of being alone and having no one to talk to.
Lin's mother has had a poor appetite recently and is becoming thinner and thinner. Lin Xi will cook her favorite food herself.
Lin Xi saw that her mother had eaten everything. She thought it was delicious, so she tried the remaining food in the pot, but her brows suddenly furrowed.
He sighed sadly and murmured to himself, "There is only one good mother in the world."
There is also an ex-husband, Chen Yan, who is also very respectful and would eat his food.
He is obviously a picky person.
Before going to bed, Lin Xi warmed a cup of milk for her mother. After her mother lay down, she gently closed the door.
When she went downstairs, she saw Xiaofu walking towards her, meowing and circling at her feet.
Lin Xi went to the kitchen refrigerator and took out a box of cat food.
She looked at Xiaofu eating, her nose working hard, and laughed.
After laughing, she felt surprised. Since her father passed away, she has never smiled again, and the atmosphere in the entire Lin family is very solemn.
"Ring, ring, ring~~~"
The phone in Lin Xi's pocket rang.
She answered.
"Mr. Gu, what's the matter?" He spoke in a very depressed tone, lowering his eyes to watch Xiao Fu eating.
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