When Qu Jianshen came over, Qi Huan and Cheng Yubai were chatting happily, as if the Victims’ Alliance had found a companion.
“Every time he sets up a trap to bet with me, he makes sure I lose. Every time he stimulates me with his words, I fall for it as soon as he does, and I am fooled. I am already numb.” Cheng Yubai spat.
Qi Huan nodded with deep empathy, “He’s been bad since he was a kid!”
“But you’re all attending the dinner together now. Are you already set? When will you get married?” Cheng Yubai looked curious.
Qi Huan had a headache. Why did everyone have to ask her this question? She threatened angrily, “Don’t ask this question, or I’ll tell Qu Jianshen everything you said.”
Cheng Yubai was shocked, “Then I can tell him what you said too!”
“I’m not afraid of him. Are you afraid of him?” Qi Huan scoffed.
Cheng Yubai: “……”
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“That’s right, it’s normal to have a good relationship!” Cheng Yubai echoed.
The corners of Qu Jianshen’s lips pursed as he gave Cheng Yubai a faint look, “You seem to have a lot of time on your hands?”
Cheng Yubai: ?
Why did he sound a bit off?
“It’s not the evening. I must have a lot of time.” Cheng Yubai replied sarcastically.
Qu Jianshen said in a cold voice: “But if you spent your time on work, you wouldn’t have lost millions.”
Cheng Yubai: ?
How did he get so personal?
He turned to Qi Huan and asked, “Are you tired? I’ll take you back.”
Qi Huan had wanted to leave for a long time, so she nodded her head: “Let’s go back; I’m sleepy.”
At this time, Cheng Yubai also opened his mouth at the side, “Let’s go together.”
Qu Jianshen replied coldly, “It’s not convenient.”
Cheng Yubai: “……”
***
In July, even at night, the weather was still stiflingly hot.
As soon as she exited the hotel and left the cold air behind, Qi Huan felt the heat squeezing towards her all around her, and it even seemed as if it had increased hundreds of times.
“Where’s your car?” Qi Huan squinted her eyes and looked around, but she still couldn’t see where Qu Jianshen’s car was parked.
Qu Jianshen slowly walked next to her, pointed to the left, and said helplessly, “Your night blindness is still so severe.”
Qi Huan didn’t care. “There are street lights everywhere anyway. It’s not like I can’t see anything.”
The two of them got into the car together, and the interior of the car was quiet.
Qi Huan had a lot to ask Qu Jianshen, especially about what Cheng Yubai had just said. She glanced at the side of Qu Jianshen’s face and asked, “Do you remember my car accident in my second year of high school?”
Qu Jianshen’s originally calm eyes instantly dropped, hiding the fluctuations in them as well. “Yes, I remember.”
“You didn’t even go to see me when I was in the hospital.” Qi Huan looked at him, as if looking for hints in his face.
She pursed the corners of her lips and asked, “Why didn’t you come?”
This was the question she wanted to ask at that time, but because she couldn’t see Qu Jianshen, she was so angry that she didn’t want to talk to him. However, because she was too slow to pull her face out, she didn’t ask.
Qu Jianshen’s eyelids were slightly narrowed, and he said in a low voice, “Were you willing to see me at that time?”
Qi Huan then froze. She did not expect Qu Jianshen to answer this way, and was also a bit confused: “Why did you say that?”
Qu Jianshen looked sideways, and his expression also had a hint of self-condemnation. “If I had waited for you to go to school with me that morning, maybe you wouldn’t have been in a car accident.”
Qi Huan’s heart skipped a beat, and she said with a curved eye, “Who can say for sure about such things? It was an accident. It was not your fault.”
He couldn’t describe how he felt when he received the message from Jian Heying. The feeling of panic that was like losing everything, he couldn’t experience it all over again.
At that time, his only thought was to quickly go to the hospital to check on Qi Huan and confirm her status.
But when he arrived at the hospital, looking at Qi Huan with her right leg in a cast and bandages on her face, he didn’t even dare to go in, because it was all because of him.
If he had been more patient, Qi Huan would not have had the accident at all.
For the next few days, he would only quietly look outside the ward every day and then go to school.
Qi Huan would not say a word to him after she was discharged from the hospital, and her attitude was even very cold, which made him blame himself even more.
He hadn’t felt that there was anything in this world that scared him, but after Qi Huan’s accident, he realised that he had it a long time ago.
Qu Jianshen raised his eyes slightly, “But if I had been by your side, I would have been able to stop all that from happening.”
It was only now that Qi Huan understood that Qu Jianshen was afraid to see her because he blamed himself, not because he deliberately didn’t see her.
When she thought of this, she arched her eyebrows and brightened her mood, “It was an accident. You don’t have to blame yourself. I’m still alive and kicking.”
Qu Jianshen gave a helpless laugh, “You’re really optimistic.”
Qi Huan raised her hand and shook the bracelet on her wrist, smiling, “I am looking at this bracelet for its own sake. I heard that it took a lot of effort to get it, and the price was definitely not cheap. Do you really want to give it to me?”
With that, she tried to unclasp the bracelet. “Since the dinner is over, I’d better return it to you.”
Qu Jianshen pressed her hand, his tone a little displeased, “Since when are you so out of touch with me?”
Qi Huan was slightly stunned, “But this isn’t a cheap gift. How can I accept it?”
If she hadn’t listened to Cheng Yubai talk about the origin of this bracelet and the price of the blue diamonds on it, she might have really just taken it as a bracelet that cost tens of thousands of dollars, but this price was more than a hundred times higher.
“If you give it back to me, I should throw it away.” Qu Jianshen spoke with a light expression, “After all, I can’t use it.”
Qi Huan’s eyes widened in surprise, “Is it such a waste to have money?”
“Will you take it?” Qu Jianshen asked directly.
Qi Huan half-heartedly said, with some hesitation, “Then I’ll take it? Don’t think that just because you gave me the bracelet, I’ll agree to the engagement. I’m still against it.”
Qu Jianshen laughed lightly, seemingly unfazed in the slightest: “I’m also curious as to how long you can hold out.”
Qi Huan pursed her lips and muttered, “Look down on who? Surely I can break off the engagement with you!”
***
The next day.
The next day, Qi Huan woke up and opened her phone as usual to check various messages, from Jiang Ruixia, from her editor and assistant, and from the staff of the film company looking for her.
She opened the message from the head of her project at Hong Sheng Film and Television and was surprised.
The reason was that they wanted her to be involved in the script, saying that it would be richer and more exciting with the participation of the original author.
The person in charge of the project was painstakingly honest and even asked Qi Huan to participate in the casting, which could be described as full of sincerity.
Qi Huan was moved but hesitant at the same time.
She was a manhwa artist, but scriptwriting was a different field, so how could she, a layman, be qualified?
So she replied to the person in charge that she would think about it.
After making an appointment with Jiang Ruixia for lunch, Qi Huan got up and washed up, then set off to find her.
When she arrived at the restaurant, Jiang Ruixia had already arrived early and was sitting by the window, waving at her.
“You’re having a great time, sleeping in until twelve every day.” Jiang Ruixia spoke enviously.
Qi Huan said as she sat down, “I’m dying of anxiety, and I’m still living a good life.”
Knowing it was because of the engagement, Jiang Yuxia laughed again, then raised an eyebrow at the bracelet on Qi Huan’s wrist and asked, “Yo, when did you buy that new bracelet? It doesn’t look cheap.”
“This one.” Qi Huan touched it and then handed it to Jiang Ruixia, “Qu Jianshen gave it to me last night as a thank you gift for accompanying him to the dinner party.”
“Isn’t it particularly nice!”
Jiang Ruixia touched the blue diamonds on it and seemed to see the dazzling brilliance on it, so she sighed, “It shouldn’t be cheap, right?”
Qi Huan stretched out his finger and gestured, “The kind that has a price but no market. At least this much.”
Jiang Ruixia suddenly felt hot and immediately let go of her hand, then couldn’t help but sigh again, “He loves you so much, I got it.”
Qi Huan: ????
What the hell?
“Such an expensive bracelet, said to give it away. What is this if not love?” Jiang Ruoxia perked up, “Sister Huan, why didn’t you refuse it.”
Qi Huan:”…..”
Watching Qi Huan’s face change, Jiang Ruixia couldn’t help but laugh. “Okay, okay, I won’t tease you anymore. I have good news for you: Xu Muqing has returned to China.”
“Senior has returned to China?” Qi Huan raised her eyebrows in surprise.
Jiang Ruixia nodded: “Yes, I saw what my classmates said in the group. The films he made abroad all won international awards, so I thought he would stay abroad to develop. I never thought he would return to China.”
“Maybe there are good development opportunities at home too.” Qi Huan curled her eyes, “Speaking of which, I still learned photography from my senior.”
“I wonder how many girls at school joined the photography club on the pretext of learning photography, but none of them ended up taking the senior down. Jiang Ruixia laughed.
Qi Huan was helpless: “I don’t know who spread the rumors, causing me to be scared during that time.”
Jiang Ruixia couldn’t help but tease: “What a great opportunity. You should have sat on the rumors.”
Qi Huan: “……”
***
On Saturday night, the Qi and Qu families had dinner together at the Qu family’s place.
Qu Jianshen arrived before Qi Huan, and in the middle of the living room, Qi Hao and Qu Shu Yuan were playing chess, while Jian He Ying was chatting with Ye Song Lan while watching TV.
He lifted his foot over and asked, “Where’s Huanhuan?”
“She said she’s still on her way. There’s a heavy traffic jam at night, so she might be late.” Jian Heying replied out loud, “Be patient and wait for her.”
At that moment, Ye Songlan’s mobile phone vibrated, “Huanhuan said she’s arrived.”
As soon as she heard this, Jian Heying also turned off the TV and said to Qi Hao and Qu Shu Yuan, “Stop playing chess, let’s eat.”
At that, Qu Jianshen immediately turned around and headed outside, “I’ll go get her.”
“She can just come in by herself. What’s the point of going to pick her up? She’s too spoiled.” Ye Songlan had wanted to stop Qu Jianshen, but after she finished speaking, the figure had already disappeared.
Seeing this, Jian He-Ying also smiled: “Huanhuan is a girl; it’s good to spoil her a little.”
At this time, Uncle Zhou entered and said, “Madam, there is a street light outside that is broken. I will ask someone to come tomorrow to fix it.”
Qi Huan opened the door and went in, but she didn’t expect the street light to be broken, so she had to take out her mobile phone to light it up.
Just as she stepped onto the last flight of stairs, Qu Jianshen’s laughing voice rang out not far away.
“Even a turtle isn’t as slow as you are.”
She always opposing but not really refusing….. This kind of pull and push…..