Sure enough, after Qiu Bailu heard what he said, she immediately no longer wanted to leave. She turned around and faced him face to face, "What kind of jewelry is it? How can I trust you?"
"It's a very beautiful natural black pearl. I can't force you to believe it, but I promise that what I say is true."
He really didn't lie to her about this, because Qiu Bailu remembered that pearl. It was once her mother's favorite jewelry, because her mother wore it in many photos. Qiu Bailu also asked her father about the pearl.
What happened, my father said, was that the pearl was her mother's dowry, but later it was lost for no reason, and Qiu Bailu's mother was depressed for a long time.
"At that time, the Qiu family's career was on the rise, and your mother probably didn't have much liquid cash at her disposal, so she chose to use jewelry to atone for her sins. However, she probably never thought that her relics would eventually be used.
Come buy her company."
"Have you had enough? No matter how many wrong things my mother has done, she has already paid for it with her life. If you think hers is not enough, then there is still mine and my child's." Qiu Bailu suddenly couldn't continue.
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For some reason, Huo Dongheng also let go of her hand after hearing this.
After leaving the hospital, the cold wind became biting. Qiu Bailu stood in the cold wind, but she didn't feel cold at all.
Perhaps this temperature is nothing compared to her heart.
Although Huo Dongheng didn't know what shameful method he used to keep Qin Zhen from getting away, Qiu Bailu still believed that he would come to pick her up because Qin Zhen had never broken his promise. Sure enough, after waiting for more than half an hour, Qiu Bailu
I saw Qin Zhen pushing a car from a distance.
Qin Zhen got the bicycle from the flea market. He spent an afternoon polishing it, but now the bicycle, which had been carrying Qiu Bailu up and down with so much hard work, had become dilapidated.
It's so tattered that it can no longer be ridden.
Qin Zhen's face was stained, and there was a bright red gash on his lip. Qiu Bailu felt distressed when she saw it, and raised her hand to wipe away the blood, but she was afraid of hurting him.
But Qin Zhen himself shook his head nonchalantly, "It's okay. I accidentally hit a rock while riding my bike just now. I'm afraid the car will be scrapped."
For a person like Huo Dongheng who doesn't suffer, if he hates Qin Zhen so much, he will definitely find a way to retaliate against him. When the car hit the stone, Qiu Bailu knew that Qin Zhen must have lied in order not to worry herself. She did not expose him, but
He breathed in the air-conditioning and said distressedly, "Why are you so careless? You have been riding this road for so long, and you can't avoid any rocks. This car is already in such a broken state, why do you need it for anything?"
Qin Zhen chuckled, grabbed Qiu Bailu's hand and put it in his pocket, "My hands are so cold, have you been waiting for a long time? This car may be able to be brought back to life if you go back to repair it. After all, you have been riding it for four months, and it is so good."
Once you have feelings, you won’t want to throw them away easily.”
"You can express feelings while riding a bicycle. You are too affectionate." Qiu Bailu rolled her eyes at him angrily.
Qin Zhen rubbed her hand, "You just know? I said I had a crush on you for many years, but you never believed it. I really meant it."
Qin Zhen's eyes are so sincere that people can't look directly at him.
Qiu Bailu didn't believe it before, always feeling that he was kidding her, but after so much, when she had nothing, Qin Zhen still didn't leave her, so Qiu Bailu couldn't believe it anymore. But what could she do if she believed it?
She is not the same person she used to be. Huo Dongheng successfully destroyed everything about her, leaving only a shell.
The road down the mountain seemed particularly long because there was no transportation. Qiu Bailu followed Qin Zhen. His tall body blocked the wind blowing in her face, so that she would not feel too cold. Qiu Bailu followed him step by step
and walked down the mountain.
When they reached the halfway point of the mountain, Qin Zhen was afraid that she was working too hard, so he asked her to stop and have a rest. No one expected that Huo Dongheng's car followed after the two of them found a stone to sit on the roadside.
He pressed down the window, sat in the car, and looked at Qiu Bailu with his head held high, "It's too cold and you're not feeling well. Come up and I'll take you down the mountain."
Qiu Bailu looked back at him without moving.
Qin Zhen said with a smile, "Mr. Huo had better go down by himself. There is frost on the road. You must be careful when driving, otherwise you will fall into the mountain stream and no matter how much money you make, you may not have the chance to spend it."
Of course Qin Zhen knew why he met those thugs just now, but now that Qiu Bailu was with him, just thinking of this was enough for him to forget about the unpleasantness just now.
, concentrate on making Huo Dongheng angry to death as the most important task at present.
Huo Dongheng ignored his words and ignored Qin Zhi. He only stared at Qiu Bailu intently, "Get in the car and come with me."
Qiu Bailu shook her head and took a step towards Qin Zhen, "I came with him and left with him. Don't worry, Mr. Huo."
"Did you hear that? Xiaobai doesn't want to care about you at all. Stop stalking me and get out of here!" Qin Zhen laughed loudly and clapped his hands exaggeratedly while laughing.
Huo Dongheng's face looked uglier than ever before. He stared at Qiu Bailu for a while, then stepped on the accelerator, and the car rushed down the mountain like an arrow from the string.
*It was an unusually cold day. Qin Zhen turned up the heating at home and rushed Qiu Bailu to bed early to go to sleep.
After sleeping until midnight, Qin Zhen felt something was wrong. When he got up, he saw that there was no one in Qiu Bailu's room.
He climbed to the balcony in the dark and saw Qiu Bailu, wearing a down jacket and cotton slippers, curled up on the old sofa in the center of the balcony, staring blankly at the sea level in the distance.
"You..." Qin Zhen was about to get angry, but Qiu Bailu immediately shook her finger at him. She pointed in the distance, "Look, it's snowing."
This is the first snowfall after the New Year in Binhai City. The snowfall was not heavy at first, but it was fluttering like a gorgeous dream. Qin Zhen sat down, Qiu Bailu curled up even smaller, letting
Leaving an extra space for him, he stretched out his hand and put his arm around Qiu Bailu's shoulders. Qiu Bailu rested her head on his chest, listening to the heartbeat in Qin Zhen's chest, feeling extremely at ease.
When Qiu Chengjia was young, Qiu Chengjia was always away from home. Huo Dongheng was busy with studies and career, so he didn't have much time to spend with her. When she was lonely, Qin Zhen was always the first to rush to her side. They
They have witnessed each other's growth, and he has always been guarding her where she can't see her, until now.
When she lost her child, Qiu Bailu was so sad that she almost wanted to die. If Qin Zhen hadn't secretly taken him away from the hospital, she might not have been able to survive to this day.
Betrayed by her relatives and separated, she had nothing. She tasted all the misery in the world in one night. She could not cry, and the tears flowed back into her heart. Slowly, in that early winter, her fragile heart was drowned and frozen.
"Why don't you sleep?" Qin Zhen asked her. Her shoulders were so thin that no matter how many times he hugged her, he couldn't get used to it. She was so thin that it made people feel sad. "Are you having nightmares again?"
The two of them had such a tacit understanding that they didn't mention the encounter with Huo Dongheng during the day. He was afraid that the more he talked about it, the more sad Qiu Bailu would be. She had shown incredible strength in the past few months, but she
The more this happened, the more uneasy he felt.
He felt that she was like the sea before a storm. Under the calmness, there were turbulent waves that could destroy everything.
"I think of things in the past, do you still remember Xiang Baozhu?"
The Xiang family is in the jewelry business and was once a prominent family in Binhai City. However, due to investment failure, the Xiang family building collapsed. Like Qiu Bailu, Xiang Baozhu was the only daughter of the Xiang family and was once the apple of everyone's eye.
Qin Zhen originally didn't pay attention to these people in the shopping mall, but after the Xiang family collapsed, Xiang's father was forced to jump off the building by his creditors due to high debts. This incident became such a turmoil that he couldn't care less.
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Qin Zhen nodded, "The Xiang family's precious daughter, I heard that she went abroad."
"Well, I went to Canada and got married. When she left, I gave her a gift. I have some friendship with her. When her business was not doing well, she was looking for me to help her build a new villa.
Design, her father's assistant told her that her family's business could not continue, the company was going to close down, and she had no money to use anymore. Do you know what she said?" Qiu Bailu's eyes were a little dazed, she didn't need Qin
Zhen's answer continued, "She looked at the person for a while, and then asked with a cry, what should I do with my new fur this year? I have already planned to go snow skiing in Switzerland with my friends, who will pay for it?"
"It's ridiculous, isn't it? We rich girls, to outsiders, we look glamorous and seem to be capable of anything. But in fact... we know nothing and are nothing. I remember my etiquette teacher once told me that appearance
For ordinary people, it is just the icing on the cake, but for us, it is everything, because without the graceful and luxurious appearance, our inner being is so empty that it is pitiful."
She smiled and stretched out her hand, her fingers as delicate as peeled onions, "Look at these hands, do you think they can do the rough work of washing dishes and sweeping the floor? Can you imagine how rough they would look like and full of calluses? If not,
Married to Huo Dongheng and trying to please him, I'm afraid I will never step into the kitchen in my life. I was raised so well by the Qiu family that I can do nothing but draw. Women like me and Xiang Baozhu, we
The education we received from childhood is that we don’t need to work hard or struggle, we just need to enjoy it. When we were young, we were taken care of by our family. When we grow up, we are taken care of by our lovers. When we are old, we will naturally have children to take care of us.
Just like a piece of delicate and fragile porcelain, it is expensive but flashy. We need others to take care of us throughout our lives, but if we really encounter any wind and rain, we can’t even protect ourselves. We are so incompetent, but we still think that we are
omnipotent."
She had a beautiful smile, but underneath her smile was great sadness.