It has been several months since Chu Qiao came to the public relations department. She works hard and is very serious about her work, so gradually, Huang Xiuling dared to hand over some planning projects to Chu Qiao. Now, she also works in Meng's public relations department.
Begin to be able to stand alone.
At this time, Chu Qiao was revising a business plan.
Suddenly, her phone vibrated back and forth on the table and emitted a faint blue light. Chu Qiao glanced at the number displayed on the screen, which belonged to Meng Yanxi. She picked up the phone and pressed the call button.
"Hello……"
"Chu Qiao, it's me, Meng Yanxi." His magnetic and gentle voice came from the other end of the phone. Even if she didn't see the smile on the corner of his lips, she could imagine how gentle his smile was.
"Chu Qiao, do you have an appointment for lunch?"
"No, no..." Chu Qiao thought for a while and replied. She had never had lunch with Meng Yanchen in the company.
"Then I want to have dinner with you at noon, okay? Let's go to the Ruyi restaurant where you took me to eat boiled fish last time!"
A trace of hesitation flashed in Chu Qiao's eyes, and her heart rippled: "Okay, I understand."
"Then let's meet at Ruyi Restaurant after get off work!"
"Um."
Chu Qiao hung up the phone with a sense of loss and put the phone back on the table. Meng Yanxi is Yanchen's twin brother, and she understands how he feels about her. Even though she is with him, she will feel very warm and comfortable.
.However, in her heart, she does not hope that the relationship between them will deteriorate? Friends are just good friends, nothing else...
?Inside Ruyi Bistro.
Because Meng Yanxi drove her Maybach directly, she arrived earlier than Chu Qiao.
As soon as the fat boss lady saw Meng Yanxi, her eyes suddenly lit up, a big smile appeared at the corner of her mouth, and she strode up to Meng Yanxi: "Handsome young man, if I remember correctly, you are Chu
You're the girl's boyfriend, right?"
Meng Yanxi shook her head and nodded again.
"Handsome young man, what do you mean by shaking your head and nodding? Are you right?" My parents looked confused and asked directly.
"Mrs. Boss, I am not Chu Qiao's boyfriend now. But, last time, it was me and she who came to eat boiled fish together." Meng Yanxi had a warm smile on her lips and praised: "Mrs. Boss's
The boiled fish is really delicious!”
It's lunch time now. But not many people come to Ruyi Restaurant to eat boiled fish at noon. Ruyi Restaurant is very small, with backward decoration, and the small space can make people feel a little depressing. But even so, Meng Yan
Xi felt that it was very humane here.
Listening to Meng Yanxi's words, the wife of the boss smiled and narrowed her eyes: "You are such a handsome young man, you have such a sweet mouth. Are you the only one here today? Isn't this girl Chu Qiao coming?"
"No. She'll be here later!"
There were several customers in the store, but the landlady winked at her husband and asked him to entertain these customers. Instead, she pulled up the bench and sat down. Her eyes looked at Meng Yanxi from top to bottom, mysteriously.
He said nervously: "Young man, let me ask you this! Do you like Chu Qiao or not?"
"Like." Two short and powerful words.
"I know, you definitely didn't pursue Chu Qiao with all your heart!" The landlady said earnestly, as if she understood you very well: "Young man! Chu Qiao is a good girl... When she was in college, she was very popular.
She likes to come to my place to eat boiled fish. Although I have limited contact with her, I really like this little girl from the bottom of my heart!"
"I still remember the first time she came to my store to eat boiled fish. She was crying while eating the fish I cooked. I was curious and asked her why she was crying, but she said she was not crying, and that her tears were caused by the spicy food.
I choked. How could I believe it? I have been running this Ruyi restaurant for more than ten years. I choked on the spicy food and cried when I was really crying. How could I not tell the difference?" The proprietress smiled slightly, and there was gradually a feeling in her eyes.
Nuanyi: "When it was time to pay the bill, she gave me a crumpled twenty yuan and kept saying thank you to me with a shy face..."
Meng Yanxi listened to the description of the landlady, and he gently closed his eyes. He began to imagine the scene at that time. She was crying? Why was she crying? Who bullied her? Could it be her stepmother again? Last time
, he saw with his own eyes that the so-called stepmother scolded and beat her. When he thought that she had been living in such an environment, his originally calm heart became irritable.
"So! Young man! If you really like Chu Qiao, take good care of her. Don't let her down! It's really hard to find a girl like her these days!"
"Um."
Chu Qiao trotted and pushed the door open. The wind chime at the door made a sweet sound, crisp and moving.
"Yan Xi, I'm sorry, I must be late! Have you been waiting for me for a long time?" Chu Qiao asked, panting, her cheeks pink.
"No. It's not that you are late, it's just that I arrived early." Yan Xi stood up and pulled out a chair for Chu Qiao like a gentleman so that she could sit down.
The landlady winked at Meng Yanxi and said with a smile: "Chu Qiao, you are here. Then I will prepare a large basin of boiled fish for you! Just wait!"
Chu Qiao smiled like a flower and nodded: "Thank you, boss lady!"
"fine!"
Window seat.
Meng Yanxi's eyes tightly grasped Chu Qiao's little face, and she was still thinking about the boss's wife's words, with complicated emotions in her heart. She is a good girl. If you really like her, take good care of her. She is willing to let him take care of her.
?
Chu Qiao could feel his gaze fixed on her face. She subconsciously reached out and touched her face, and asked hesitantly: "Yan Xi, is there something dirty on my face?"
Meng Yanxi's eyes froze, and then she chuckled: "No."
Chu Qiao was a little tired from running, so she took a clean glass from the table, got some boiled water and took a few sips.
"Chu Qiao, you are my brother's woman, right?" Suddenly, Meng Yanxi spoke.
Chu Qiao's hand choked in her throat and she couldn't help coughing. She had always been Meng Yanchen's woman. Before, an agreement bound her relationship with him. But now she is indeed willing to stay
Meng Yanchen's side. However, Chu Qiao found it difficult to say this simple answer.
Meng Yanxi is a lawyer. He has good logical analysis skills and the ability to make plot assumptions. He flicked the dust on his sleeves and smiled lightly: "Back then, you asked me this question, would you like to buy you? You
Do you need money very much to solve some problems?"
Chu Qiao touched her heart but didn't say a word.
There were waves in Meng Yanxi's eyes, and the smile on her thin lips disappeared little by little, and she continued: "At that time, I rejected you! Did you mistake my brother for me and let him buy you?
"This is a guess, but he never thought that this sentence would be so difficult to say. Hearing Xu Anran's hint, it was not that he did not understand.
Xu Anran is not a kind person. She will not tell herself this for no reason. The reason why she tells herself is because she feels that Chu Qiao threatens her relationship with Meng Yanchen. With her intelligence, she must have realized that she likes Chu Qiao.
So I told him that I wanted him to snatch Chu Qiao away.
He guessed it easily. However, for the first time, he hoped that his guess was not true.
If it is true, then he made himself lose the opportunity to get Chu Qiao. If it is true, then he will hate that he and his brother have the same face.
Chu Qiao's heart sank, and her originally raised face lowered. She didn't know how to answer his question, because this question made her feel confused.
"Chu Qiao, tell me, is that true?" Meng Yanxi suppressed the smile on her lips and spoke so loudly to Chu Qiao for the first time.
"Yes." Chu Qiao replied.
Just two words, for Meng Yanxi, were like two cold glass beads hitting her hot heart, extinguishing all the heat and clamor at once. In the end, he guessed it right.
Chu Qiao twisted her fingers together and pressed her teeth tightly against her lips. I wonder where he knew this? However, Chu Qiao felt that there was no need to lie.
"My father had kidney failure and needed money for surgery. I was desperate and was hit by your car. I really had no choice, so I said those ridiculous words. Later, when I saw Meng Yanchen again,
I did think of him as you. It wasn’t until the day you came back that I realized that the person I met on the rainy night was actually you, not Meng Yanchen. However, I only regarded you as a good friend and the person I like.
It’s Yanchen.”
"You are indeed with my brother..." A smile appeared on Meng Yanxi's lips again, but the smile was no longer gentle: "Do you really like my brother? His face is exactly the same as mine, how can you tell
, it’s not me you like? Maybe, it’s me you like? Because you met me first. Obviously the first person who met you was me, not him..."
Chu Qiao shook her head and murmured: "I really like him. You are gentle and elegant, but he is unruly and domineering. Although you look the same, your personalities are completely opposite. I admit that I had a crush on you.
Because if I hadn’t met you on the night when I was most devastated, I don’t know what would have happened to me! Meng Yanchen was very cruel and domineering to me, but I could feel his care for me. When I was with her,
I can laugh, cry, be happy, feel pain... That feeling is the first time I have felt it since I was a child, and I think it is love!"
The light in Meng Yanxi's eyes slowly dimmed. One was the brother he respected, and the other was the woman he loved.
"Here it comes, come here, the boiled fish is ready!" The boss lady enthusiastically served the steaming boiled fish. The red bottom of the pot, just by smelling it, you can tell that this fish must be spicy enough.
"Eat!" Meng Yanxi handed the chopsticks to Chu Qiao with a smile on her lips: "It won't taste good when it's cold!"
"Thank you!" Chu Qiao was stunned and reached out to take the chopsticks.
"Thank you for what? You don't need to say thank you between friends!" Meng Yanxi's eyes were dim, she lowered her head slightly and added: "Good friends, just good friends."
"Yeah, yeah!" Chu Qiao nodded vigorously.
A warm smile appeared at the corner of Meng Yanxi's mouth.
Not being able to fall in love with you at the right time is my biggest regret. However, I will definitely be by your side. As long as you need me, I will protect you until I no longer love you...
...The deadline may be tomorrow, next year, or n years, but it is not now.