Seeing Shen Huainan's hand hanging in the air, the peripheral nerves in Jian Anran's fingertips subconsciously touched——
The brain nerves still maintain a trace of calmness. If the enemy cannot stand, I will not move.
With a smile still hanging on the corner of his mouth, Shen Huainan couldn't wait for the other party's hand to respond for a long time, and his self-confidence passed like an hourglass.
The girl in front of him remained motionless, and finally had to sigh silently in his heart. Shen Huainan was about to put down his hand and help her pull out the chair.
The moment he put down his arm, his palm suddenly felt warm. Shen Huainan raised his eyes and saw that it was Jian Anran who stretched out her right hand to hold it with him.
"It's a pleasure to work with you," she said generously.
After being stunned for a long time, Shen Huainan nodded.
"A pleasure to work with."
"The car is here, let's go quickly!" Chu Chen stretched his neck to look outside, turned around and picked up a huge satchel that he didn't know what was packed in.
……
"Jere, students are doing surveying and mapping in the afternoon, do you have any plans?" Xu Nianhe picked up a piece of after-dinner fruit with a fork and said leisurely.
The person in front of me stared out the window with blazing eyes, without answering.
Following his line of sight, Xu Nianhe only saw a golf cart full of students sitting at the door.
She then turned around and asked curiously: "What are you looking at? So fascinated?"
The strength of the knife and fork in his hand was tightened by three points. Wen Siheng seemed to be unable to hear the voice in his ears, and his thoughts followed the golf cart at the door.
Several boys and girls chatted and laughed, and left together in a golf cart. Their youthfulness seemed to shine even more in the sun.
It was a girl’s long-lost smile that he hadn’t seen in a long time.
Could it be that leaving him was actually the most correct decision she had ever made?
Thinking of the rare dates they had in the past, they had to choose a non-meal time on a working day, preferably when everyone in the courtyard had classes.
They also have to avoid the shopping mall where the girl and all her friends often go, and the two of them hide.
She had been hiding in the light for so long that Wen Siheng no longer remembered what she looked like in the sun.
After leaving her, Jian Anran seemed to have finally returned to the girl in her early twenties.
"Jere!" Xu Nianhe's voice finally penetrated his divergent thinking and pulled him back from some unknown place.
"What were you thinking just now? You couldn't even hear me calling you like this." Xu Nianhe muttered with some dissatisfaction.
"Sorry, I was thinking about the latest project. What did you just say?" Wen Siheng picked up the lemonade at hand and drank it in one gulp.
"I asked you what your plans are for the afternoon." Xu Nianhe said.
"Nothing." Wen Siheng replied casually.
Xu Nianhe was obviously very dissatisfied with this answer: "What do you mean it's nothing? You have to arrange something, otherwise you just sit here?"
Wen Siheng's eyes never fell in front of him, and he stared out the window blankly, "It's not impossible."
"What? Are you so afraid that your little wife will run away with someone else?" Xu Nianhe said angrily and sarcastically.
"Pa!" Apparently the force in Wen Siheng's hand increased, and the tableware in Wen Siheng's hand collided with the table, making a loud noise.
"Don't talk about her like that."
There were only a few classmates and teachers left in the restaurant who had not finished their meals, and the hall was eerily quiet.
The noise was so loud that it was difficult for the remaining people not to hear the sound of the clinking of knives and forks.
They tried their best to stretch their heads and poke their heads here. Everyone seemed very curious about whether there was any quarrel between the two popular CP candidates in the department.
Unfortunately, from a distance, their expressions were very calm. They said this word after sentence, and nothing happened in the drama that everyone wanted to see.
"You won't tell me yet?" Xu Nianhe's expression turned even worse.
"You eat and live in your own house. Her family doesn't even give her living expenses anymore. It's a good thing that you got the certificate, otherwise, what's the difference between being taken care of by you..."
"Please be careful what you say!"
Seeing Wen Siheng's serious expression for the first time, Xu Nianhe didn't dare to say any more ugly words even though he was holding back his breath.
"This is my family matter. I hope you understand that no matter what happened, everything has nothing to do with you."
After Wen Siheng finished speaking, he was about to turn around and leave. As if he suddenly remembered something, he sat back to his original position.
"How do you know about living expenses?"
Not only had Jian Anran's living allowance been cut off, she had never mentioned it to anyone else, but Wen Siheng only found out about it after Jian Anran's mother, Yang Yahui, called her and let it slip.
"It's not your Jiao..." Xu Nianhe was about to blurt out, but when he saw Wen Siheng's face darkening in front of him, he quickly stopped.
She promptly changed her words: "Her mother called Aunt Tang herself and heard that their family's financial situation is not very optimistic now."
Wen Siheng glanced out the window and said nothing.
Xu Nianhe in front of her looked triumphant and aggrieved. Xu Nianzhi probably hadn't mentioned the current crisis that Horizon Group was facing to her.
"Okay," Wen Siheng pursed his lips with a napkin, pushed away his chair and stood up, "I have something to do in the afternoon, please help yourself."
"You..." Xu Nianhe took a long time to finish his words, and hesitated for a long time on the second half of the sentence, but never said it.
He didn't have the patience to wait for her to continue talking, or in other words, Wen Siheng didn't want to listen to her at all and only gave her a cold look.
Just as he was about to turn around and leave, he heard Xu Nianhe crying: "Why are you being polite to me?"
"Didn't you say you wanted to marry me at that time?"
"I want to get married now."
The air between the two of them seemed to condense into frost. Wen Siheng originally left directly, but finally stood there and sneered.
What came into view when she turned around was Xu Nianhe, whose eyes were red and bloodshot.
"Miss Xu, you are really strange. If you stay in Luojiang just to say these things, please go back to England immediately."
"I..." Xu Nianhe hesitated and was speechless.
"I don't want to know your motives for staying in Luojiang, but I would venture to guess..."
Wen Siheng was interrupted by Xu Nianhe before he finished speaking: "I stayed here because I wanted to wait for you to change your mind."
"Whether it's a real marriage or a fake marriage, will you still marry me?"
"Aunt Tang also likes me very much. They will be very happy when I marry you. Can you give your family an explanation..." Xu Nianhe's voice became smaller and smaller as he spoke.
Afterwards, her confidence is really not very strong.
The people around them gradually emptied out, and they were left alone at a table in the hall.
In the distance, several workers were chatting and clearing away the tableware.
"Why do you think that my current marital situation cannot be explained to my family?" Wen Siheng sneered, "It wasn't you who had to do it from the beginning."
It doesn’t have to be you.
Xu Nianhe's heart was deeply touched, as if her past ten years had been summed up in these six short words.
It’s not that she had to do it. After ten years, she still couldn’t really get into Wen Siheng’s heart.
The memory seems to be dialed back to that time a year ago.