"Alas -" Xiao Zhuo stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window of his bedroom and looked at the stars in the sky and sighed again.
After repeated insistence from her grandfather, uncle, and aunt, she could no longer find any reason to shirk, so she had no choice but to arrange a formal meeting between the Xiao family and the blank family today.
Although she informed Xiao Tianhao and Leng Yuxuan early in the morning, and they each promised to cooperate well and staged a family drama to comfort the old John and Henry couple who did not know the truth, although they did keep their promise and did not reveal any flaws in front of the Blank family.
, but when the dinner party ended and Qin Ru left with old John and Henry and his wife, Leng Yuxuan and Xiao Tianhao still had a fierce conflict.
"Beep...beep..."
"Hello?" Xiao Zhuo answered the ringing phone.
"Zhuozhuo, is Yuxuan seriously injured? Qiqi and I were both scolding your father. He went too far just now!" came Yu Xiuzhong's apologetic voice.
"It's okay, Mom. The water is not very hot, so the injury shouldn't be too serious. He is changing clothes in the bathroom. I will give him medicine when he comes out."
"Help me apologize to Yuxuan and ask him to forgive me."
"I will, mom, don't take it to heart. When he comes out, mom, I'll hang up first. You go to bed early." Seeing Leng Yuxuan walk out of the bathroom, Xiao Zhuo hung up the phone and went up to him with medicinal oil.
, "Come sit down and take off your clothes."
"Oh," Leng Yuxuan raised the corner of his mouth. He sat down by the bed and took off his shirt as instructed, letting Xiao Zhuo apply the cool medicated oil on the red burn on his chest. Fortunately, what Xiao Tianhao poured over it was hot.
Water instead of hot oil, otherwise he would really become a fried dumpling today. "This is the first time you have asked me to take off my clothes."
"It seems that your injury is not severe enough. I don't have to worry about you asking for disability compensation from the Xiao family." Xiao Zhuo rolled his eyes and continued with his hand movements. It is estimated that this scar will not disappear after a week.
"The Xiao family has already given me a huge amount of compensation. I'm not greedy and won't ask for it again." He looked at Xiao Zhuomei with a pointed smile.
"Really?" Xiao Zhuo raised his lips, dipped his fair fingers in medicated oil and poked the red swelling without politeness.
"Strange, why are you free to have lunch with me today? Didn't Leng Yuxuan come? Could it be that he was too seriously injured yesterday?" During the lunch break, Qin Ru looked at Xiao Zhuo who walked into her office carrying two lunch boxes and teased
.
"I don't know. But he probably won't die. If he is really seriously injured, he won't have time to order a bento and have it delivered." Xiao Zhuo shrugged, picked up a mutton chop bento and handed it to Qin Ru.
"What an infatuated man but a loveless woman!" Qin Ru shook her head, opened the lunch box and ate, "Wow - Leng Yuxuan is so interesting, this is my favorite flavor!"
"It's so easy to be deceived by appearances." Xiao Zhuo took a bite of the beef bento and said dullly, "On the surface, he doesn't fight back or scold him, just like a tailor-made good gentleman; but in fact, he
It's a war in another way! He no longer intervenes in my life rashly, but changes his strategy and slowly penetrates into my life, so that I can't leave him in the end!"
"Haha, they say the authorities are obsessed with it. It's really rare for an insider as sane as you! He is very smart, and he quickly realized that the most he can get from a head-on confrontation with you is a superficial victory." Leng Yuxuan is getting more and more serious.
Be smart, if you are soft against Xiao Zhuo, you may not win, but if you are tough, you will definitely lose miserably.
"Alas - now I know that losing a war is not the most terrible thing. The most terrible thing is that your opponent never gives you a chance to start a war! No matter how I try to find trouble, he will only give me an honest smile at most! I'm like
A tiger whose teeth have been pulled out is useless! God knows how pitiful I am, I am the real loser!" Thinking of her situation in recent months, she felt sad.
"Since there is no chance of winning, we can just surrender. He is not the Eight-Nation Alliance. Whatever you talk about, it is just a conflict among the people, isn't it?" Qin Ru said matter-of-factly.
"Please, can you have some integrity?" Xiao Zhuo looked disdainful.
"It's better to have no moral integrity than to be irrational and heartless. It's enough for Leng Yuxuan to do this with his temper! Why should you be so unreasonable? Do you belong to the clam shell? You can't bite it.
Let go?" Qin Ru said matter-of-factly while eating lamb chops.
"He has only been a punching bag for four months. You must know that I was a resentful wife in the Leng family for a whole year!" Xiao Zhuo shouted angrily.
"Can I ask you to have some conscience? Leng Yuxuan was away for six months of that year, and Liu Ma did her best to support you like a panda!" Qin Ru shook her head helplessly, "This child, really
I wonder if your conscience is covered by dark clouds!"
"You're a big traitor, a box of bento made you switch sides!" Xiao Zhuo slapped the table with dissatisfaction, but then fell silent again. She watched Qin Ru put away her joke and asked seriously, "Ruru, what do you mean?
Do I still have a chance to turn defeat into victory?"
"What do you think? You have always been as stubborn as Leng Yuxuan in doing things, but things are going this way now... Or should I ask, will you go all out to win this war?"
"I'm going all out, but I have scruples, you know!" Xiao Zhuo defended anxiously, as if he had a guilty conscience, "You know me, you should know that!"
"It's because we know each other so well that you can understand the meaning of my words, and I can also see that you are not going all out with Leng Yuxuan. If you have a chance to force him back, for example, with the help of your family's strength in the UK,
You even took advantage of that accident. But you didn't do that because you had already left a place for him in your heart." Qin Ru looked helplessly into Xiao Zhuo's stubborn black eyes, "I believe you can't say you love him now, but you can
Leng Yuxuan, who asked you to leave some space for him, has won this war. Because he is the only man in your life who is willing to look at you squarely."
"I...I think...I think maybe it's because he has a similar experience to me, so I..." Xiao Zhuo was a little upset. Qin Ru's words were so vivid that they penetrated into her heart, making her unable to help but
Become panicked.
"Don't rush to find out what the reason is, let alone explain it. Zhuozhuo, don't let yourself be restrained by anything, don't even be overly rational, follow your own heart to handle the entanglement between you and him, don't go against your will.
Do anything!”
"Don't do anything against your will..." She silently repeated Qin Ru's words, looking at the white clouds outside the window absentmindedly and falling into deep thought.