Chapter 7 . Going to Dinner Together. Why don’t you act spoilt and I’ll think about it?

When she got home, Ye Songlan stared at Qi Huan’s face and was a bit puzzled: “Didn’t you say you were going out for some fresh air? Why is your face still ugly?”

Qi Hao raised his head from his phone and said with a smile, “What else could it be? She met Jianshen. Lao Qu just told me that Jianshen and Jianyi came back for dinner today.”

Ye Songlan’s eyes lit up, “I said I forgot something. It’s about time our two families had dinner together. I’ll find Heying to have a chat with.”

“Mum!” Qi Huan puffed up and spoke, “Didn’t you just say you wouldn’t rush me!”

“Yeah, I didn’t urge you. What’s wrong with having dinner with the two families? We eat together all the time, don’t we?” Ye Songlan justified, “It’s just to get in touch with each other, not just because of you guys. Don’t get carried away.”

Qi Huan:”…..”

After being defeated, Qi Huan sat down without saying a word.

Qi Hao came over and asked, “Are you staying home tonight?”

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Qu Shuyuan just happened to come downstairs and said with a smile, “I heard that Huanhuan came back. Did you meet?”

Qu Jianshen didn’t answer the question and said, with an unchanged expression, “I’ll be back later. Call me if there’s anything.”

Qu Jianyi also ran down the stairs and hurriedly said, “Brother, you can drop me off on your way back! I just need to go back to school!”

“It’s not on the way. You can ask Uncle Zhou to drop you off.” Qu Jianshen spoke in a faint voice.

When Qu Jianyi heard this, she became dissatisfied: “How come it’s not on the same road? It’s obviously the same road.”

Qu Jianshen’s face was unperturbed and his tone was light. “You’re so old, can’t you learn to be independent?”

Qu Jianyi: ????

Jian Heying glanced at Qu Jianshen and hastily pulled Qu Jianyi aside, “Don’t look for your brother; I’ll take you back myself later.”

“Why, my brother, he…” Qu Jianyi was still struggling.

Jian Heying whispered, “At a glance, I know he has to send HuanHuan. You don’t get involved in this.”

“Ah? Sister Huanhuan is back, huh?” Qu Jianyi looked surprised, then it dawned on her, “No wonder she didn’t want to send me.”

Jian Heying said with a smile, “It’s not easy for your brother to chase someone, understand?”

    ***

The night was thick. The bustling and bright streets were outside the car window, while inside the car was quiet.

Qi Huan could always feel a vague awkwardness, so she looked away unnaturally before explaining: “I just want to save some taxi fares and have a comfortable car to sit in.”

As she said this, she became more justified. “Besides, you begged me to accompany you to the dinner party, so you should have taken me home!”

“You’re right, I begged you.” Qu Jianshen went along with her words.

Qi Huan was satisfied and then went to look out the window at the scenery.

The night scenery in Xichuan had always been beautiful, and there were many people who would come to Xichuan to visit for such a night scenery. Part of the credit for this was due to the construction of the HeYuan Group and also to Qu Jianshen’s vision.

“My father has been praising you today, saying that you have good vision and are very good at making money. I remember when you were in primary school. Didn’t you dream of being a scientist? How come you’ve become a capitalist?” Qi Huan couldn’t help but mutter.

Qu Jianshen laughed lightly, “Then didn’t you write your dream to be an athlete when you were a child?”

Qi Huan pursed her lips, “I tried, but my teacher said I didn’t have any athletic cells.”

Qu Jianshen glanced at the side of Qi Huan’s face and then said, “Isn’t it good for me to make more money? You can spend it however you want in the future.”

“Stop it!” Qi Huan couldn’t help but tremble, “There’s no one here, so don’t give me an act.”

Qu Jianshen’s eyes moved slightly, the corners of his lips hooked slightly, “I thought you would be moved. Maybe you would agree to this marriage contract.”

“I’m not short of money.” Qi Huan hummed, “Don’t try to buy me off with this trick.”

The car arrived all the way downstairs in Qi Huan’s neighborhood.

Qi Huan unbuckled her seatbelt and tried to leave, but she was grabbed by Qu Jianshen’s wrist.

“I’ll pick you up on Thursday night. Don’t forget.” He reminded.

Qi Huan stared at him, “This dinner is so important. You look like you care.”

Qu Jianshen’s eyebrows twitched, and he said with a smile, “It’s not an important dinner party, just a gathering of some friends I know.”

Qi Huan pursed her lips, “I know, I’ll go.”

    ***

On Wednesday night, Qi Huan dragged Jiang Ruixia to a private dress shop she occasionally visited. It was set up on the top floor of Ze’an department stores’, where the designer was proud and talented. Each dress was only sold once, and it was always the only one of its kind in the world.

Qi Huan didn’t need to make an appointment because she was a VIP customer, and there was even a room set aside just for her.

The shop manager brought out all of the new season’s dresses with a decent smile on her face, “Amanda happened to be away on business yesterday, but when she heard that Miss Qi Huan was coming to choose a dress, she asked us to bring out her latest designs for Miss Qi Huan to choose from.”

Jiang Ruixia had followed Qi Huan to such a place for the first time and couldn’t help but sigh, “After staying with you for a long time, I occasionally forget that you are a rich person.”

Qi Huan arched her eyebrows and went to try on her dress first.

When she came out after putting on the dress, Jiang Ruixia was stunned again.

Qi Huan usually dressed casually, almost how she was comfortable, but when she walked out in her dress, even the shop assistants around her looked dumbfounded.

It was a starry blue gradient gown with a halter that just brought out her delicate collarbone, and the dress as a whole was embellished with sequins that glittered like a dazzling starry sky. Her skin was already fair, so she looked like she was glowing under the blue, sexy and playful, making it impossible to take your eyes off her.

“How about this one?” Qi Huan turned around for a moment and then asked.

Jiang Ruixia’s eyes smiled as she said, “Sister Huan, you should really be glad it’s me you brought today. If it had been another man, he would have been fascinated in all kinds of ways.”

Qi Huan let out a giggle, “Xia Xia, you’re exaggerating.”

“Is Qu Jianshen really going to take you along to the dinner party? He’s so big-hearted. ” Jiang Ruixia brushed her lips.

Qi Huan took a look in front of the mirror and found that this dress looked really good on her, so she said, “How about this one?”

Jiang Ruixia smiled and nodded, “This one looks great and it also matches your skin tone, but you’ll look great in anything.”

Qi Huan curled her lips to accept the compliment and turned to the shopkeeper, “Then let’s take this one.”

She went in to change out of her dress and put her own back on, then said, “I actually buy fewer dresses because I don’t go to dinner parties often, and places like that are just too much trouble.”

Jiang Ruixia knew the reason why Qi Huan agreed was because of her, so she immediately assured her, “I will definitely help you think of something as soon as possible.”

Qi Huan clenched her fist and said hatefully, “One day, sooner or later, I will threaten Qu Jianshen like this and then play him between my hands!”

    ***

On Thursday evening, Qu Jianshen called Qi Huan as soon as he got into his car.

“I’m going over to pick you up now.”

After hanging up the phone, he took out a velvet gift box from his trousers pocket. And upon opening it, it was a bracelet with blue and white diamonds clustered against each other, as if a faint light was flashing through it.

Xu Ling drove and also glanced towards the rear view mirror. “Miss Qi Huan would be very happy if she knew that the boss had gone to a lot of trouble to get this bracelet!”

Qu Jianshen closed the gift box and spoke with sober brows, “There’s no need to tell her that.”

Xu Ling immediately shut her mouth tightly.

When they arrived at the downstairs of Qi Huan’s neighborhood, Qu Jianshen had just gotten out of the car when there was movement at the entrance of the building.

The blue figure moved in, bright and beautiful, beautiful beyond compare.

His eyes wavered, but he quickly stabilised his mind.

When Qi Huan saw that Qu Jianshen had arrived, she picked up the hem of her skirt and jogged over. However, she almost broke her foot because she was wearing high heels. Fortunately, she was held by Qu Jianshen in time.

The warm and soft figure had just entered her arms when Qu Jianshen held her waist, and then gently chided, “Why are you running so fast?”

Qi Huan smiled and tilted her head, “I shouldn’t be late, right?”

Qu Jianshen’s eyes flickered slightly as he said with a smile, “I thought you would resist this dinner party, but I didn’t expect you to be quite active.”

Qi Huan suddenly pursed her lips and hummed, “I am a man of my word, unlike some shameless people who know how to threaten others.”

Qu Jianshen naturally knew that Qi Huan was scolding him and didn’t mind. With a light smile in his eyes, he opened the car door for her, “Then in return, you can use me as you please today.”

Qi Huan’s eyes lit up and her smiling eyes curved as she said, “That’s more like it.”

When she got into the car, Qu Jianshen closed the door and got into the car from the other side, “Let’s go.”

Qi Huan looked inside the car and realised that Qu Jianshen had changed cars again. “Why did you change cars again? You’re showing off your wealth here?”

“I changed to a car with more space in the back seat, so that some people don’t get drunk and there isn’t enough room.” 

“……” Qi Huan, who had been connoted, stopped talking at once.

When Qu Jianshen saw Qi Huan’s head hanging down and she hooked her lips like a quail, he took out the prepared bracelet from his pockets and handed it to her.

Qi Huan was taken aback by this sudden action and asked, “What is this?”

Qu Jianshen spoke carelessly, “I bought it casually on the way, as a thank you gift for agreeing to accompany me to the dinner party today.”

After opening the gift box, Qi Huan realised that it was a blue diamond bracelet, which even happened to be a similar colour to her dress.

Not knowing if it was a coincidence or something else, her heart suddenly sped up.

“Is this really a random purchase from the road?” Qi Huan was a little skeptical.

Although she was not a jewellery appraiser, such a diamond was not synthetic at first glance. She knew that coloured diamonds were already precious, not to mention that this was a blue diamond.

Qu Jianshen narrowed his eyes slightly and said in a leisurely tone, “It seems that next time I can still ask you to help me, you won’t even accept the thank you gift. Won’t I earn a lot?”

Qi Huan was startled and immediately put the bracelet on her wrist, and then said angrily, “Don’t even think about it!”

The originally fair and slender wrist was embellished by the blue diamond bracelet, as if it had an extra shine. It was extraordinarily beautiful.

Qu Jianshen glanced at it, and the corners of his lips curled up in pleasure.

The dinner was held in the sky garden of the hotel. The two of them went there not too early nor too late, and a waiter took them all the way to the top floor.

Qi Huan was holding Qu Jianshen and had a business smile on her face.

“I really don’t know why you guys like this kind of occasion. Why don’t you go to the office to talk about work? It’s so boring.” She couldn’t help but spit out in a small voice.

Qu Jianshen laughed helplessly, “It’s part of the job; it can’t be avoided.”

Qi Huan gave a pitiful look and then skimmed her eyes, but when she swept the whole room for a week, her gaze stopped somewhere and she couldn’t move.

“Is that Qi Shihua the painter!” She took a breath, and again, in some disbelief. She asked again, uncertainly, “Is that her?”

Qi Huan stared intently at the figure over to the right. Despite the fact that the woman was over sixty years old, the beauty that had settled over the years was unaffected. She was calm and elegant.

Qu Jianshen smiled back, “Well, it’s Qi Shihua, the painter.”

“I love her paintings so much! I never thought I would meet her here!” Qi Huan said excitedly, “Did you know she would be here?”

Qu Jianshen’s eyes twitched slightly, “I didn’t know.”

Qi Huan grabbed the hem of his shirt and shook it twice, tilting her head and saying gleefully, “I want to talk to her for a few minutes, and it would be great if we could take a picture together!”

“I think I happen to know her nephew. Why don’t you act like a spoiled child and I’ll think about it,” Qu Jianshen said, lowering his eyes and smiling lightly.