Chapter 67 He shouldn’t have had such a life in his previous life…
When he went to the airport to pick someone up, Qi Yan almost didn't recognize Jiang Yuqing. He had dyed his hair back to black and was wearing a long dress with a gradient light green color. Unlike before, he looked a bit demure and ladylike.
His eyes subconsciously glanced at his stomach.
"As an alpha, it is very impolite to stare at an omega's belly," Jiang Yuqing said.
Qi Yan retracted his gaze and helped him take the suitcase: "Sorry, it was a bit unexpected. Did the operation go well?"
In public, Jiang Yuqing paid great attention to her image and said elegantly, "It's going well. The embryo in my belly is also normal, so I have the energy to return home. I'll go back for a checkup later and everything will be OK. Originally, the biggest problem was the stubborn old man at home who was too difficult to deal with, but now that I'm pregnant, he has nothing to say."
As a wealthy family, the Jiang family is quite conservative and extremely demanding in some aspects. It would probably not be easy for Jiang Yuqing to gain recognition.
After picking the person up in the car, Qi Yan didn't ask any more questions about this. He changed the subject and asked, "Why did you dye your hair back?" His original appearance was even more flamboyant and passionate.
"The old man didn't like my previous look and thought it was too flashy, so I just changed my look." Jiang Yuqing fixed her long black hair and smiled, "Does it look more elegant now?"
Qi Yan said: "Everything is fine."
"Tsk, your reaction is really bad. It's been such a short time since we last met, why are you so listless?" Jiang Yuqing was a little disgusted, but after thinking about it, he sighed, "Forget it, let's not talk about this. I have a more important thing to do this time. Come with me later, I have something to tell you."
Jiang Yuqing didn't know what happened after he went abroad, nor did he know that Qi Yan's mother had passed away. Too many things had happened during this period of time, which had exhausted his energy. When he arrived at the villa, he asked someone to bring a box that was wrapped very carefully and took out the music box inside.
"Do you still remember this thing?" Jiang Yuqing pointed at the exquisitely designed music box with a nostalgic expression.
Qi Yan was stunned for a moment, then sighed with a complicated look: "I didn't expect to see it again."
"Yes, I was a little surprised too. I got it from one of my elders. It is said that he also bought it in an antique shop. Seeing that I liked it, he gave it to me." Jiang Yuqing said, opening the music box and playing the familiar ethereal and pure music. "Listen to it."
It is a very unique and nostalgic music that often echoed in the greenhouse when she was a child. It was Xia Yunqie's favorite sound, but after her grandparents passed away, she rarely played it.
The melody surrounded them. They listened quietly without saying anything. After the song finished, without waiting for Qi Yan to speak, Jiang Yuqing clicked a few times on the computer: "Don't worry, listen to this first."
It was still the familiar music box. Qi Yan didn't know what he wanted to do and listened to another song in silence.
"Did you hear anything?" Jiang Yuqing looked up at him.
"No." Qi Yan shook his head, but the contrast of these actions was enough to make him realize that something was wrong. "What do you want me to know?" He had some vague guesses but didn't say it out loud.
"Very perceptive." Jiang Yuqing laughed, took out a small box from his pocket and opened it. Inside was a small memory card. "Want to see it? This is something hidden in the music box. It's well hidden."
"Honestly, if it hadn't been put away for so many years and there hadn't been a slight error when it was moved, plus I inherited my mother's absolute pitch, I would have almost missed it. I specially asked the master to take it out, and the music box was not damaged. This should be what Yi Hongli and you have been looking for, right?"
He knows.
Qi Yan took the memory card and didn't know what to say. The thing he had been looking for for many years suddenly appeared in front of him. He said he was happy, but for some reason he couldn't be happy at all. The faces of Gu Yanxing and his mother kept flashing in his mind. He felt very heavy and even wanted to smoke a cigarette to ease his tense nerves.
"The reason you returned to the country is not just to attend the banquet, right?" Qi Yan asked.
Unlike his repressed expression, Jiang Yuqing closed the computer and said with a smile, "Of course, that guy can't just let it go because Yi Hongli broke his promise to me. He's dead, so it's not convenient for me to settle with him. I have to settle with someone who's still alive, right?"
Qi Yan stared at him and slowly began to laugh: "You really are... admirable."
Jiang Yuqing snorted and chuckled, took out the candy from his pocket, peeled it, and said, "By the way, since the things have been taken out, you can give the music box to Aunt Xia. Just think of it as a gift from a junior like me to her."
"...I would like to thank you for your kindness on behalf of my mother, but it's not necessary." Qi Yan shook his head and said calmly, "She has passed away."
Jiang Yuqing's pupils shrank, and he said in astonishment: "It wasn't before..."
The last time he returned to China, he asked Qi Yan about Xia Yunqie's situation. He originally wanted to find an opportunity to visit his elder whom he had not seen for many years, but after knowing that he was not in S City, he gave up temporarily. He did not expect that when he came back this time, he had already passed away.
"My condolences." Jiang Yuqing seemed to know why Qi Yan was so listless.
Qi Yan: "Don't worry about it. This may be a relief for her."
He did not stay long. He used Jiang Yuqing's computer to look through the contents of the memory card without showing much emotion.
Considering that it was inconvenient to take this kind of thing away now, Qi Yan gave the memory card to Jiang Yuqing for safekeeping. There is no safer place for information related to the Gu family than here. I don’t know how much Jiang Yuqing knows now. Qi Yan plans to wait until the information on the other side is cracked before telling Jiang Yuqing to avoid affecting his health.
"Why don't you accompany me to the banquet tomorrow?" Jiang Yuqing invited him before he left. "I'm too lazy to look for other people, and I don't want them to know that I'm pregnant. If you go, you can help me block the wine. Some people are really troublesome."
Qi Yan originally wanted to think about it, but after hearing the following words, he agreed: "That's no problem, as long as you don't mind, I don't care."
"What's there to mind? If anyone should mind, it should be the dead ghosts in the underworld." Jiang Yuqing curled his lips, "Damn it, his ancestors actually dared to die so simply. Sooner or later, his children will call someone else their father..."
Qi Yan: “…”
Suddenly I felt a chill on my back.
After being interrupted by Jiang Yuqing, Qi Yan suddenly felt less emotional. He smiled helplessly and said, "He deserves it."
If he doesn't take his own life seriously, why should others remember him all the time?
"That's right." Jiang Yuqing agreed very much, with a bright smile on his face, not intending to dwell on the past. "When the time comes, I will bring my family to his grave and show off!"
The dead will stay where they are forever, but the living must continue to move forward. Jiang Yuqing will not stagnate. Such enthusiasm and optimism have somewhat infected Qi Yan.
"We still have a long life ahead of us. We can't live in the past forever, right, Qi Yan?" he said with a smile.
"Yes." Qi Yan nodded. Jiang Yuqing was right. He couldn't continue to be immersed in messy emotions.
Tomorrow's party? Maybe it will be a good opportunity.
Qi Yan did not return to the house where he had waited for a few days. However, Chen Xiliu was obviously not going back and also said that he would call him if necessary and ask him to come over.
After thinking for a while, Qi Yan simply went back to the house he rented near the bar. Returning to the territory that belongs only to me, the pressure that had been surrounding my heart seemed to gradually dissipate, and even my body and mind felt a lot more relaxed.
He would occasionally come back to get things and clean up, so the place was very clean. But I don’t know if it was because I was relieved, but I suddenly started bleeding from the nose again, accompanied by dizziness, but fortunately it only lasted for a while.
After the bleeding stopped, he took out his phone and searched, wondering if he was just getting angry, but the result he got was basically that he was not far from death...
"Brother Qi, I'm sorry, I didn't bump into you, did I?" As soon as he arrived at the bar, Qi Yan, who was distracted, was almost knocked over by Ye Chengcheng, and he barely managed to keep his balance.
"It's okay, it's okay. Why are you running so fast?" Qi Yan let go of him, took a step back and kept some distance.
"Shhh!" Without waiting for Ye Chengcheng to answer, the people behind blew a few whistles, laughed and started to mock.
"Ah Yan, you are so lame. How come you were almost knocked over by such a petite omega? You have grown so tall for nothing!"
"Could it be that the nightlife has been too exciting recently, causing me to become weak?"
The voices of ridicule come from bad friends.
"Try to step on the stairs and get bumped. If you can keep your balance, you're amazing." Qi Yan replied directly. He glanced at Ye Chengcheng, who was a little flustered and shy, and told him to take care of his own business first and not to bother with these lunatics.
When he walked over and sat in the booth, Xu Langlang came over and put his arm around his shoulder: "Hey, are you really not moved at all? Such a cute omega has bumped into your arms, but you don't feel dokidoki?"
Qi Yan pushed away the person who was winking at him: "Don't talk so weirdly, I told you I have someone I like."
"What's wrong with having someone you like?" Xu Langlang said confidently, "You can like more than one person! As a human being, what's wrong with having a wide range of hobbies? I'm not hiding anything. Instead of liking only one person, it's better to benefit everyone. Anyway, everyone is happy and blessed."
Don't make the scumbag's words sound so righteous. Qi Yan held his forehead and said, "...if you say this to others, you will be beaten and scolded."
"Tsk, I'm even more curious about who the person you like is." Xu Langlang said, "I don't know who got you. Obviously, so many rich and handsome Os didn't seduce you away before..."
"Please stop your explosive remarks. I am a serious bartender. If I am misunderstood one day, you will definitely be responsible." Qi Yan said.
It's no wonder that Shen Xiliu had some strange misunderstandings about him before, there were indeed many such people around Qi Yan. He got up and practiced mixing cocktails, using all kinds of techniques that were exciting and dazzling.
"Why are you suddenly showing off your skills?" asked another bartender with a smile.
Qi Yan flipped the wine glass in his hand with smooth movements. His beautiful slender fingers swirled the glass and said with a smile, "Prove that I am really a serious bartender, unlike some people."
Some of the people who were pointed at retorted loudly: "Hey, that's too much, are you deliberately saying that we are not serious?"
“So you guys knew.”
"You are getting more and more like a jerk!"
"Be careful or we'll beat you up!"
There was a lot of noise downstairs. Brother Xu leaned against the glass railing, staring down and laughing. Ye Chengcheng, who was walking over with a bunch of things in his arms, heard the noise coming from downstairs and couldn't help laughing: "Everyone has such a good relationship, it's like we're all a family."
"That's not wrong. After all, we have been together for so many years." Brother Xu reached out to help him.
Upon hearing this, Ye Chengcheng asked curiously, "Brother Xu, I heard that Brother Qi has been working in a bar for a long time. Is that true?"
"I guess so." Brother Xu recalled, "I almost forgot I was a teenager. I came quite young."
At that time, I just wanted to help the deceased captain take care of my nephew, but I didn't expect that I would take care of him for so many years.
Because of being stared at, obstructed, and suppressed by disgusting people, Qi Yan couldn't even go to college. After he became an adult, he simply gave up studying and his dream of becoming a doctor, and became a bartender that some people looked down upon, a second-rate character, so that he would not be so annoying.
But he wasn't supposed to have a life like this.
Staring at the figures playing with everyone below, Brother Xu felt a little regretful and a little sighed.
If he hadn't encountered so many bad things, he would have had a better life, but the road has already been blocked.
There is nowhere to go, nowhere to escape, so I can only find a place and continue to live.
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