Bai Xiao ran downstairs, and the Bentley Continental was parked quietly by the lawn.
As soon as she approached the car, the window slowly lowered, and in the driver's seat was Yu Shaoting, wearing a white shirt and a black woolen coat.
"Are you looking for me?"
Yu Shaoting turned his head and stared into her eyes. Just after taking a bath, Bai Xiao's watery eyes became cleaner and brighter.
Under the milky white down jacket that reached to her knees, she was wearing a set of lavender floral pajamas. Her long hair was a little damp. Standing under the street light, she looked quite energetic. Yu Shaoting leaned over and opened the passenger door, "
boarding."
Bai Xiao did not move, "What is going on?"
Yu Shaoting turned his head, looking at the ground illuminated by the car lights, with his hands and fingers casually resting on the steering wheel.
After being silent for a long time, he looked over again and frowned slightly: "Why are you talking so much nonsense? Just get in the car when I tell you to."
Bai Xiao looked at the man who suddenly spoke in a cold voice, thinking that this was his nature, right? That night downstairs, his gentleness was just a disguise.
"I'll go up if you don't say anything." Bai Xiao put his frozen hands into his pockets and exhaled white hot air as he spoke.
Yu Shaoting just stared at her without speaking.
Finally, Bai Xiao gave in, got into the car, and closed the door.
A light was turned on in the car, and she discovered that there was a wound on Yu Shaoting's forehead, and his hair was still wet.
"What happened to your head?"
Yu Shaoting didn't answer her, he just lowered his seat, closed his eyes and leaned on it.
Bai Xiaojing waited for a long time, but she didn't see him speaking. He seemed to be asleep, and his profound facial features merged into the faint halo.
Such a man doesn't relax even when he sleeps. His thin lips are tightly pursed and his brows are slightly wrinkled, like a cold machine.
She didn't know what happened to him, but Bai Xiao still noticed that he seemed to be in a bad mood.
She looked at the wound on his forehead. It was impossible for a man of his age to fall and hit the coffee table or something. The most likely reason was that someone threw something into his face. And anyone who dared to throw something into his face would never be in this world.
I'm afraid it's not much, the biggest possibility is his father.
The wound was not very big, but it was not shallow either. There was blood oozing out, but he did not take any measures.
Bai Xiao took out a few tissues and saw that he was breathing evenly, hesitantly and slowly leaned over, and gently pressed the hand holding the tissue towards his forehead.
But before they even touched her, an arm came across and hugged her waist.
Bai Xiao looked at him in astonishment, "Are you not asleep?" After asking, she felt that her question was very superficial.
Yu Shaoting didn't open his eyes. He tightened his long arms and pulled her into his arms, tightly, not allowing her to break away.
Bai Xiao lay on his chest, and the body temperature of the two of them could not be blocked by the fabric of his shirt and pajamas. She held her hand on his shoulder and thought about it, but he held her hand and wrapped it in his big palm.
The frown slowly relaxed, "Just stay here and don't move."
His voice was lazi and tired, and his blue chin was slightly exposed and pressed against Bai Xiao's forehead.
Even when she was in love with Pei Qiyou, Bai Xiao had never been squeezed into a car seat and hugged like this. All she could see was his raised Adam's apple, which occasionally slid, giving her a very sexy and steady feeling. Gradually,
, she didn’t resist and leaned against his chest obediently.
There was a faint smell of tobacco on his nose and mouth, and Bai Xiao followed his example and closed her eyes.
It's like finding a pure land without any noise, disputes, or worries, just a steady heartbeat.
At this moment, she forgot their awkward identities, she was just her, and he was just him.
I don't know how long I stayed like this, but his deep voice sounded above my head, "Speak."
"Huh?" Bai Xiao responded vaguely, feeling half asleep and half awake, forgetting where he was.
"What have you been doing these days?"
His firm chin rubbed her forehead. Bai Xiao felt a little uncomfortable being rubbed by his stubble, so she squinted her eyes and raised her hand to move his chin.
As a result, his little hand was pinched by him. Yu Shaoting smelled the fragrance of her hair and felt inexplicably at ease.
Bai Xiao's cheeks were lightly patted a few times, and she woke up, withdrew from his arms, straightened her hair, and her face turned red.
Yu Shaoting looked at her sideways and said, "Wipe your saliva."
"Ah?" Bai Xiao subconsciously touched the corner of his mouth, and it was indeed wet and sticky.
There was a small water stain on the shirt on his chest.
She took out a tissue and wiped the corners of her mouth angrily, her whole body still feeling dizzy from sleepiness.
"Go upstairs and sleep."
Bai Xiao pushed the door open, and as soon as he stood firm, the car behind him sped away.
She stood downstairs for a long time, looking at the direction in which the car disappeared, and a ridiculous idea came into her mind -
Does this count as an affair?
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When Bai Xiao woke up the next day, Ye Hehuan was sitting on the sofa opposite her with her legs crossed and a glass of red wine.
Facing Ye Hehuan's inquiring eyes, Bai Xiao sat up and said, "I've never seen you get up so early in the past three hundred and sixty-five days a year."
"Don't tell me. If it weren't for what you did downstairs last night that disturbed my mind, would I have been tossing and turning all night long?"
Bai Xiao looked at Ye Hehuan, lifted the quilt and got out of the car, and casually said "not serious".
Ye Hehuan followed Bai Xiao wearing flip-flops that didn't match her expensive mink coat, "Are you really having an affair with your student's father?"
"I know nonsense all day long."
"Am I talking nonsense? If you look in the mirror, your eyes are springy and your face is rosy. What's not a sign of spring?"
Bai Xiao directly slapped a wet towel on Ye Hehuan's face.
Ye Hehuan grabbed the towel and said tirelessly: "If you really like him, I will support you two. Indeed, compared to Pei Qiyou, he has the charm of a mature man, and he comes downstairs to look for you in the middle of the night.
"
Bai Xiao said nothing.
Ye Hehuan thought for a while and said, "Xiaoxiao, have you ever thought about why you suddenly want a divorce so firmly?"
Bai Xiao raised his head and looked at her in the mirror.
"If another man hadn't appeared, would you have turned around like this without hesitation?"
Emotional matters are confusing to the authorities but clear to bystanders. Bai Xiao may not understand it, but Ye Hehuan still understands it to some extent.
"I..." Bai Xiao found that she was speechless.
Ye Hehuan patted her shoulder, turned around and went out without forcing her.
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Bai Xiao went to Pei's house to accompany her grandmother as usual.
"The old lady in law is in the house!" Aunt Rong handed Bai Xiao the slippers.
When Bai Xiao turned the door handle, he saw his grandma packing things. When he saw her coming in, he smiled and waved to her, "Since you are here, help me pack my things. I am getting older and my back hurts when I move a little bit."
of."
Bai Xiao looked at the clothes on the bed and a big cloth bag, "Grandma, what are you packing?"
"Go home!"
Bai Xiao immediately thought of Mrs. Pei, but her grandmother shook her head and denied her guess.
"It's me who wants to go back. I've been in Liyang for most of my life, and I just feel uncomfortable living here."
"Then why don't you discuss it with me?" Bai Xiao's voice couldn't help but become louder.
"Aren't we just discussing it now? It's not like I'll disappear in the future. If you miss me, go to Liyang to see me."
Bai Xiao: "But your body..."
"It's almost better," grandma took her hand, "and it's not convenient for me to live here. At that time, I agreed to live with my mother-in-law, partly because I wanted to reunite you and Qiyou, but then I thought about it,
If you really don’t want to, wouldn’t I be dragging you down by spending my time here?”
"Who said you are dragging me down? I am only a relative like you. If I don't take care of you, who will I take care of?"
Grandma touched her face and sighed: "Having lived alone in the Pei family for so many years, have you suffered a lot of grievances?"
Bai Xiao shook his head.
"Our Xiaoxiao is so beautiful. She was supposed to be the eldest lady. Why did she get together with an old woman like me?"
Grandma's eyes were red as she spoke.
Bai Xiao held the back of her hand, which was as thin as dry wood, "I don't think this is bad. Grandma and grandpa have loved me so much since I was a child, and I think it's enough."
"If it weren't for your mother..." Grandma suddenly silenced her voice and turned into a heavy sigh.
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Because her grandmother was going back to Liyang, Jiang Yingmei specially booked a farewell banquet at the East Palace for noon.
Mrs. Pei and Jiang Yingmei were the only ones who didn't see Pei Qiyou.
"Today, when grandma is leaving, where did Qiyou go? He was still there last night, maybe he went out to do errands."
After calling the company, Secretary Zhang said that the president was not here. Jiang Yingmei seemed to be afraid that Bai Xiao would think too much, so she called Pei Qiyou's cell phone again while explaining. In fact, Bai Xiao heard the voice from the receiver just now. Pei Qiyou had turned off his phone.
My mother's phone number cannot be reached.
But Bai Xiao did not say it on the spot to embarrass Jiang Yingmei. Instead, she supported her grandmother and waited quietly.
After making more than a dozen calls, Jiang Yingmei stopped calling and simply asked the driver to drive them to the "East Palace".
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The dishes ordered by Jiang Yingmei were very rich, but Bai Xiao had no appetite. On the one hand, her grandmother was leaving, and on the other hand, it was all due to the Pei family.
After she was kicked out of the Pei family by Mrs. Pei, she had never had such a happy meal with the Pei family again.
Now, although Mrs. Pei still maintains a high profile, she is no longer as hostile to her as before, but Bai Xiao is not used to such changes.
Halfway through the meal, Bai Xiao went to the bathroom. When she came out, she saw Pei Qiyou.
The private room, which had been filled with laughter and chatter, became quiet when Pei Qiyou's tall figure blocked her path.
His head was still wrapped with gauze, his short black hair was a little wet, and his face looked sickly pale, as if he had just experienced strenuous exercise. His chest was also rising and falling, and the fist he stretched out in front of Bai Xiao's eyes slowly
Slowly unfolding it, there is a ring in the palm of your hand.
"The ring has been found, can we talk now?"
Bai Xiao looked at the ring and recognized it as the one he had dropped into the sea. There was still water on his palm that had not been dried.
Jiang Yingmei had already asked the waiter to bring a dry towel and put it on Pei Qiyou: "Don't you know your own body? Even if you want to salvage the ring, you can hire someone. Your head is still broken, don't you?
Aren’t you going to give up even if you torture yourself to death?”
Grandma also stood up in surprise, "What happened? What happened to the ring?"
Pei Qiyou knelt down on one knee in front of Bai Xiao, "I really didn't mean to lose the ring. Xiaoxiao, please forgive me once, okay?"
"You kid..." Mother Pei's eyes were red and she looked at Bai Xiao pleadingly, "Xiao Xiao, he already knows he was wrong."
Aunt Rong also helped Mrs. Pei over, "If you want to blame, blame me. Forgive Qiyou this time."
If you forgive me, can you just pretend that the past never happened?
Bai Xiao stared at the ring blankly. Even if they were forced to be together, would they still be happy?
"But I can't pretend that nothing happened."
Without looking at anyone's expression, Bai Xiao turned around, pushed open the door of the box and walked out quickly, followed by her grandmother's worried cry.
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Bai Xiao bumped into a waiter carrying a dinner plate at the corner.
A plate of couple's lung slices was all spilled on the carpet, Bai Xiao's coat was also stained, and the waiter apologized quickly.
"It's okay." Bai Xiao took out a tissue and wiped it.
A woman dressed as a supervisor ran over with the intercom. Seeing the mess in this place, she started to scold the waiter with a headache: "Why are you so careless? People from the private room came to remind me why this dish is not yet available. There is a
The little guest is waiting impatiently, but it’s a good thing you can knock it over even when it’s already at the door!”
Bai Xiao knew that he was being reckless and couldn't bear the waiter being scolded: "I was careless just now, I can compensate."
From the management staff down to the doormen in the East Palace, they have all gone through strict screening and training. Even if it is really the guest's fault, they will not blame them. So when Bai Xiao said this, the supervisor asked with concern: "Miss,
Did I hurt you just now?"
"No." Bai Xiao looked at the waiter who was still cleaning up on the ground: "It's none of her business."
After hearing what Bai Xiao said, the supervisor stopped scolding the waiter and just urged: "There should be customers in the kitchen ordering this dish. Go over and tell the chef and ask him to give the cooked couple's lung slices to box 3021 first.
, we can’t afford to offend a big customer like Mr. Yu.”
The words "Mr. Yu" floated into Bai Xiao's ears. She subconsciously looked at the supervisor, "Which Mr. Yu?"
"That's Yu Zhan, the third son of Chief of Staff Mingyu." The supervisor answered all questions and pointed to the box behind Bai Xiao, "In that box, it seems that two families are discussing marriage, and Chief Yu and his wife are also here.
Yes! Mr. Yu’s son ordered this couple’s beef slices.”
At the same time, the door of the box was pushed open, and a waiter wearing a cheongsam came out with an anxious look on his face.
"I said, why are you still chatting here? Where are the dishes? Why haven't they been served yet? The guests have almost finished eating."
"Right now, right now!" The supervisor pulled the waiter who was serving the food while lecturing and hurried away.
The waiter in cheongsam turned back, and Bai Xiao turned around with her. When the box door opened, she really saw Yu Shaoting.
He was sitting there in a suit and tie, holding a glass of wine in his hand, as if clinking glasses with someone, with a slight smile on his lips. Bai Xiao had seen that kind of smile on his face, that time he answered the phone.
What comes out sometimes is a little loose, but more relaxed.
A girl stood up from the dining table. She was wearing a pink dress. It was Qian Yue. She was holding a glass of champagne and walked around to a man in military uniform with white hair. She didn't know what she said. There was laughter in the box. Qian Yuebai
Xi's face was red and her brows were shy.
Bai Xiao also heard Yu Jingxi's milky voice: "Aunt Yueyue, why haven't the couple's lung slices I ordered come yet? Are you sure you ordered them for me?"
"Haha, why is this little ancient spirit called auntie..." The box door closed, blocking the second half of the sentence.
Bai Xiao stood at the door of the box, stunned as if someone had slapped her hard.
The scene where he was lying on the driver's seat with his arms around her last night became extremely ironic. Didn't the expression on her face when she was leaning in his arms look ridiculous to him?
I don’t have a woman outside. If I have to count, you are the only one...
The overwhelming humiliation made her want to find a place to hide immediately. Bai Xiao took a few steps back, turned around a little hastily, and bumped into the old lady who was walking towards her with her head down, adjusting her clothes. The old lady fell down with an "ouch"
On the ground.
Bai Xiaoru woke up from her dream and quickly went to help the elegantly dressed old lady: "Are you okay?"
"It's okay, it's okay..." The old lady waved her hands and stood up with Bai Xiao's hand. She was shocked when she looked up and saw Bai Xiao's face.
