Chapter 324 I Don’t Want to Be a Brother
His tone was calm. There was no threat, no suggestion of an exchange. He was simply discussing this with Zhou Shuang.
Qi Huaijing's words were reasonable, although Zhou Shuang scoffed at what he said, that there had never been a couple in the Qi family who had separated.
To put it bluntly, isn't it just a pretense for outsiders? But for the sake of my great-grandfather, I had no choice but to compromise.
"Okay, I promise."
Zhou Shuang felt that they were just living under the same roof. Qi Huaijing's villa had many rooms.
She could pick any one she wanted, but as long as she didn't want to meet him, there was no chance that the two of them would meet.
No wonder in the past, if a concubine in a wealthy family fell out of favor, she would never see her master again in her entire life.
Qi Huaijing's Chinese-style courtyard villa was ridiculously large. Zhou Shuang was not unacceptable to living under the same roof without any contact.
Seeing her nod, Qi Huaijing finally breathed a sigh of relief, stepped on the accelerator again, and took Zhou Shuang directly home.
It had been nearly half a month since he came back here. The housekeeper was surprised to see that Zhou Shuang's old face showed an expression.
When she saw him before, the butler's expression was almost the same as that of an English butler, cold and distant. Zhou Shuang even wondered if he had received training in facial expression management.
"Madam, you are back"
Zhou Shuang watched as an elderly man, nearly in his twilight years, warmly welcomed her. She couldn't ignore him, so she nodded gently and called out, "Uncle Liu."
Uncle Liu's expression was no less than that of seeing his own granddaughter-in-law. He was a little excited as he walked, and Zhou Shuang was slightly moved.
After calming down, Liu Bo walked inside.
"The sheets have been changed for you, and the maids take them out to air every day. The room has been tidied up, too. It's really good to see you back."
Butler Liu, who is usually a man of few words, has been talking about the cleaning work done by the servants during this period.
Qi Huaijing walked beside Zhou Shuang, dragging his suitcase behind him.
At this time, a servant came to take the suitcase, and Liu Bo realized that he had forgotten even his own responsibilities.
"Uncle Liu, thank you for doing this for me."
She could be indifferent to Qi Huaijing, but she couldn't bear to turn a blind eye to an old man.
"Madam, what would you like to eat today? I'll ask the kitchen to make it. It will be ready when you come back. My husband hasn't been able to eat or sleep lately. I can see that he is very worried about you.
It is common for young couples to quarrel, but don’t take it to heart.
I watched my husband grow up. He doesn't know how to say sweet words, nor does he know how to make a girl happy. Don't take anything he says seriously, and don't argue with him."
Uncle Liu tried his best to speak well of Qi Huaijing, and Zhou Shuang almost couldn't stand it. Qi Huaijing looked at Uncle Liu indifferently.
"Uncle Liu, just go and prepare some of the things my wife likes to eat."
Uncle Liu actually reached out to wipe away his tears.
Zhou Shuang felt helpless.
"Which room do you want your luggage to go to?"
Seeing Uncle Liu’s attitude just now, Zhou Shuang swallowed back the words that he had prepared before.
Uncle Liu had tidied up the master bedroom very neatly. If he saw that she had chosen another room when he came back this time, I'm afraid he would have to cry to the moon.
"Take it to the master bedroom."
Qi Huaijing nodded and told the servants behind him to do as he was told.
"Don't worry, I won't sleep at your place at night. I'll sleep in the study."
If Qi Huaijing insisted on staying in the same room with her, Zhou Shuang would feel uncomfortable.
But since he had said so much, Zhou Shuang had nothing more to say.
Coming back here, Zhou Shuang felt like she was in another world. She never thought she would be able to come back again.
The flowers, plants and trees in the yard look thriving and full of vitality.
"Do you still want to go to the company?"
In fact, Qi Huaijing was already prepared. Zhou Shuang frowned when she thought of the message her colleague sent her, saying that Qi Huaijing asked Du Yuqian to go to the company.
"No, I don't think I'll go again."
He didn't want to meet his little lover again, and Zhou Shuang agreed to go back to hold the wedding during the Mid-Autumn Festival just for his great grandfather.
Zhou Shuang thought that the fate between her and Qi Huaijing would not last long.
When her great-grandfather and the whole family can accept it, she will naturally divorce Qi Huaijing officially.
Qi Huaijing had expected the result. Now Du Yuqian was also in the company. If he wanted to play the long game and catch the big fish Wang Linwei, he had to burn his boats.
Zhou Shuang's refusal to leave was exactly what he wanted.
"Okay, if you need anything, just tell me. Or if you don't want to tell me, you can talk to Uncle Liu."
Qi Huaijing is still very self-aware.
Zhou Shuang nodded lightly, walked into the room, and closed the door in front of Qi Huaijing.
Qi Huaijing really wanted to go in, but ended up hitting a snag.
No matter what, at least Zhou Shuang is back. We can plan the future later.
Zhou Shuang put her belongings back in their original places. A while later, she received a call from Fu Yu.
"I went to the village and heard from the landlady that you'd moved out. You weren't leaving just to avoid me, were you? Zhou Shuang, you should keep your word. You promised me to take you racing, are you going to stand me up?"
As soon as Fu Yu got through to Zhao Zhoushuang, he started complaining.
Zhou Shuang couldn't help but laugh. Brother Xiaoyu was really different from when he was little.
When he was a child, he was more calm, not as impatient as he is now, and had a good temper. But after growing up, Fu Yu became a completely different person, with less patience.
"Of course not. Send me the address tomorrow and I'll go there myself."
Fu Yu was slightly taken aback, perhaps guessing what he had done. Uncontrollable sarcasm lingered at the corner of his lips.
"You've gone back to Qi's place, haven't you?"
Zhou Shuang did not hide it from him and said "hmm" lightly.
Fu Yu gently spat out the toothpick in his mouth and said something that Zhou Shuang didn't want to hear but was the truth.
"cheap……"
…
Zhou Shuang was about to say something when the other end of the phone ruthlessly hung up.
She should have been angry, but for some reason she just couldn't be angry with Brother Xiaoyu.
She is quite mean. If she really has any backbone, she should accept Brother Xiaoyu now, and then go home and tell her great-grandfather that she is getting married, but with a new groom.
When Xiaoyu came to see her that day, he told her clearly that as long as she was willing to be with him, the two of them could get married right away.
At the time, Zhou Shuang just thought it was funny. Now thinking about it, it was a good idea, but after calming down, Zhou Shuang felt that she couldn't harm Brother Xiaoyu.
Now that she gets a divorce certificate, it will be equivalent to her second marriage. Brother Xiaoyu still has a bright future and he can have any kind of girl he wants.
Zhou Shuang was also unsure whether she could really let go of Qi Huaijing.
Liu Bo prepared dinner in the evening, but Qi Huaijing did not show up, so he and Zhou Shuang ate separately.
Uncle Liu saw it all and took it to heart. Clearly, the wife was willing to come back with her husband, which meant they were reconciled. Why were they still like this?
After dinner, Zhou Shuang returned to her room, picked up the seal, and began to carve it without distraction.
When she went downstairs to get some water, she passed by Qi Huaijing's study and found that the light in his study was also on.
The couple lived under the same roof, each doing their own thing. Zhou Shuang didn't go to bed until very late at night.
She pretended to pass by Qi Huaijing's study. The light was still on and his car was parked in the yard downstairs, indicating that he had not gone out.
Zhou Shuang felt a little puzzled. Since he and that woman surnamed Du were so deeply in love, why did he stay at home?
It can't be that she has to maintain a superficial relationship with him because she is back, right?
There was no interest in their relationship. The Qi and Zhou families had even had a feud before. Qi Huaijing had no need to maintain a superficial relationship with her.
Zhou Shuang didn't bother to think about the things she couldn't figure out. She and Xiaoyu had an appointment to go racing tomorrow.
After coming to Rongcheng, except for occasionally driving the Ferrari that Qi Huaijing gave her, she almost never went to the racetrack.
Putting aside all these worries, the thought of Che Zhoushuang made him eager to try, as if the racing driver's blood in his body had awakened again.
In the second half of the night, Zhou Shuang felt sleepy, so she put down the work in her hands and climbed into bed.
Back here, there was a familiar smell in the quilt that went straight into her heart.
It was just like when Qi Huaijing held her in his arms while she slept. Even though she knew she had to resist the memories he left her, Zhou Shuang still fell asleep unknowingly in the quilt that smelled of Qi Huaijing.
Qi Huaijing came out of the study in the early morning. He knew Zhou Shuang had been busy all night.
He felt sorry for her staying up late and wanted to tell her to go to bed early. Half a month ago, he slept with her in his arms every night.
After a passionate lovemaking, the two slept even more soundly, always sleeping through the night.
Now that they were separated, neither of them could sleep. Qi Huaijing suppressed his desire several times and did not go to find her.
Only after he discovered that the light in the master bedroom was off and was sure that Zhou Shuang had fallen asleep did Qi Huaijing push the door open and go in.
Under the moonlight, Zhou Shuang's face was still as white and flawless as jade. Qi Huaijing looked at the face he had been thinking about day and night and reached out to gently paint on her tender face.
"Shuangshuang, what do you want me to do to you?"
He has met countless women over the years, but except for Du Yuqian when he was just beginning to fall in love, no other woman has ever entered his heart.
When facing Zhou Shuang, he sometimes wondered if he was too cruel, like an old cow eating young grass, but he couldn't help being attracted to her.
This girl has a melancholy that other girls his age don't have. When she is immersed in silence and concentrating on her work, she is at her most attractive.
Qi Huaijing couldn't explain where the sense of fate that arose in his heart when he first saw Zhou Shuang came from?
But feelings are like that, they come like a surging wave, and before the tide recedes, they are suddenly cut off in the middle, feeling like a person falling from a height and being shattered into pieces.
Only those who have experienced the pain deep in the heart know it.
Not knowing whether Zhou Shuang heard his voice in her dream, she twisted her body uneasily. Qi Huaijing's hand stopped on her face and she dared not move.
He was afraid that any noise would wake Zhou Shuang up.
The relationship at this time was the most awkward because he had so much trouble to express.
Wang Jinwei's affairs could not be told to anyone, because anyone would object to him using Du Yuqian to attack Wang Jinwei.
This is not a very honorable tactic. Who knows that the business world is like the battlefield where deception is the norm?
He had used even more despicable means than this, otherwise how could he have seized the last glimmer of hope for the Qi family on such a bloody battlefield.
Qi Huaijing sat by the window and looked at Zhou Shuang's sleeping face until the sky in the east turned pale.
Zhou Shuang seemed to sleep particularly soundly that night. Whenever she tried to kick the quilt, Qi Huaijing would notice and push her outstretched arm back under the quilt.
He liked seeing her sweet smile. This was the youth that should be on the face of a child her age, not like him, who was in his twenties but lived like a fifty-year-old.
Because he had to work hard for the Qi family. The price he had to pay to make a comeback was definitely not something others could imagine.
If he had had any complaints at that time, there would not be the glorious Qi family today.
Everyone wants to share the fruits of success, but only the person involved knows the hardships of success.
Qi Huaijing finally stood up and left. And when he left and the door closed, Zhou Shuang opened her eyes.
"Qi Huaijing, what are you thinking about?"
She didn't know when Qi Huaijing entered the room. She only knew that when she tried to open her eyes, she saw a familiar figure standing beside her. At that time, she thought she was dreaming.
Until his hand touched her face, and the gentle touch made her feel that he was looking at her.
Zhou Shuang didn't dare to move, and even didn't dare to breathe too heavily, for fear that he would find out that she was awake.
Fortunately, Qi Huaijing was just sitting nearby. After his breath faded away, Zhou Shuang opened her eyes, and Qi Huaijing had already closed the door and left.
She breathed a sigh of relief and stared out the window in a daze.
The beauty of this world is just a mirage. Why should she force herself to want people and things that don't belong to her?
When Qi Huaijing woke up in the morning, she had already gone to the company. Uncle Liu prepared a hearty breakfast for her.
Shortly after Zhou Shuang finished eating, her cell phone rang and Xiaoyu's name appeared on the screen.
She was about to answer the phone when a car horn blew loudly at the gate.
Uncle Liu and the servants heard it. Uncle Liu frowned, wondering who would come to the doorstep and honk the horn so early in the morning.
Zhou Shuang couldn't help but blink, and probably guessed it was Fu Yu.
She quickly changed her clothes and came down from upstairs. At the door, Uncle Liu just wanted to stick his head out to see who it was.
"Uncle Liu, my sheets are a little dirty. Can you ask someone to wash them for me?"
She made up an excuse to divert Uncle Liu's attention, not wanting him to see Brother Xiaoyu coming to pick her up.
Otherwise, his little heart would suffer another severe shock.
She didn't want to irritate the old man.
Thinking of her great-grandfather, Lin Shuyou called to report that he was safe, and she finally felt relieved.
There are only three days left until the Mid-Autumn Festival, and tomorrow she and Qi Huaijing will set off for Haicheng.
What Zhou Shuang found most difficult in the days ahead was having to act like a loving couple with Qi Huaijing in front of their family.
Uncle Liu was a sharp man after all, and he had noticed something. Although he changed the sheets according to Zhou Shuang's instructions, he still asked the other servants to keep a watchful eye.
Zhou Shuang got directly into Fu Yu's car. The servant saw this and hurried over to tell Uncle Liu that his wife had been picked up by a young man.
That man looked cool and handsome, and much more energetic than their husband.
Uncle Liu felt a sinking feeling in his heart. Could it be that the conflict between his wife and husband recently was because his wife was having an affair?
Looking back, my husband is already an uncle-level man. He refused to listen when I asked him to fall in love, get married and have children in the early years. Now he has found a young girl. I wonder if people think he is old.
But don’t they say on TV that girls like older men? Mature and attractive.
Could it be that the gentleman has already started to look old before he even turns 30?
"Hurry up and wash the sheets in the sir and madam's room. It's best to wash them several times. After washing, don't forget to spray them with some perfume and put them in the sun to dry."
Uncle Liu was so worried that the wrinkles on his face could kill mosquitoes.
Compared with young boys, they really don't stand a chance.
I heard that this lady comes from a family that is as wealthy as a country. In a sense, their husband is marrying up.
Young girls are playful. But you're already getting bored with your husband after just a short time together?
Zhou Shuang got into Fu Yu's car. When she heard the roar of the engine, her blood began to boil.
"Is this car modified?"
Zhou Shuang saw it immediately. Fu Yu's eyes were full of admiration.
"I heard that your mother was once an F1 rally champion and the boss of the team's mechanics?"
He didn't remember anything about the past. It would be great if he could still have memories of the past. That way, he and Zhou Shuang would have something to talk about, instead of having the goddess in his mind snatched away by that old man Qi Huaijing.
"Yeah, Mommy was really cool when she was young."
She clearly remembered that she and her dad went to watch the car race of that bad woman Wen Xin, and the woman's car ended up in an accident.
The woman was in the limelight at the time, but was overtaken by a blue car. At that time, she didn't know that it was her mother who took the championship from Wen Xin.
Later, through the paparazzi's in-depth investigation, Lin Shu's true identity was finally revealed.
She was so shocked at the time. It turned out that the person she admired the most was actually right beside her the whole time, she just didn't see it.
How many people in this world are blinded by what they see and ignore the truth?
"So Vivian the Car God is your mother?"
It is indeed a household name.
Zhou Shuang nodded.
"Then why do you want to marry Qi Huaijing? Do you really like that old man? In a few years, he'll smell like an old man. Why don't you just follow me?"
It was this sentence again. He would say this every time he saw Fu Yu.
Zhou Shuang was a little amused and helpless, but she didn't want to hurt his feelings.
"Brother Xiaoyu, I really like you. But that kind of liking is like seeing my own brother. Do you understand that feeling?"
When they met for the first time, she jumped into his arms without hesitation. Fu Yu was a real family to her.
She couldn't turn her family into a husband.
Fu Yu sneered.
"I don't want to be your brother."
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