Allure, Marriage and Love, Inseparable in This Life 41: Smoke on the Lips, Eight Years of Time
Chapter 463: Alluring Marriage and Love, Inseparable for Life 41: Smoke on Lips, Eight Years
(Long Ziqi did not speak, but looked up at him with red eyes...)
"Qiqi, we will get married after Christmas." He spoke suddenly, and Long Ziqi's eyes flickered, and she was stunned for a long time, unable to react.
He knew that, but he still wanted to marry her?
"Cunxu -" As soon as she opened her mouth, his index finger landed on her soft lips, as if touching her heart. Her heart tightened and hurt with surprise!
"You have three months to think about it, you don't have to answer me now." The voice was warm and affectionate.
Long Ziqi nodded hesitantly, and the announcement reminded her to board the plane again. She looked up and saw that only the flight attendant was left at the boarding gate, and reluctantly took her fingers out of his warm palm.
"Take care and take good care of yourself."
The reluctance in her eyes accidentally leaked out. No matter how reluctant she was, she would still leave and return to her family and her country.
The fingertips separated from the palm and touched the cold air. He turned around slowly and walked towards the boarding gate step by step with his lonely back.
"——Qiqi."
Just when she was about to hand the boarding pass to the flight attendant, his charming voice came from behind her. Just as she turned to look at him, Xin's long figure had already pressed towards her, lowered his head to kiss her lips, and pried open her teeth.
Frantically attacking the city, exchanging saliva and breath, rubbing their lips together, his low and hoarse voice clearly reached her ears.
He said: "After this Christmas, I have been waiting for you for eight years. I am already 27 years old and not young anymore. Don't make me wait too long, okay? Huh?"
The last syllable is full of temptation.
The passionate kiss had already made her dizzy, and his words made her even more dizzy. She never thought that there would be such a person, who had been waiting for her for eight years without knowing it.
How many eight years can a person have in his life?
"For Christmas, if you can get my family to agree..." She compromised. If he didn't mind, and if her family was willing to bless them, there would be no reason to resist this beautiful marriage.
Jin Cunxu smiled seductively and gently stroked her cheek with his thumb, "Wait for me in the capital." Wait until I marry you!
Long Ziqi lowered his head and smiled, then nodded and agreed.
A compassionate kiss fell on her forehead, and her last words were: Remember to miss me.
Jin Cunxu's tall figure stood in front of the large floor-to-ceiling window. Through the bright glass, he watched her get on the plane. The plane carrying her from taxiing to taking off, shuttled above the white clouds, became increasingly blurry, and finally became blurry to the naked eye.
Can't see.
Lu Xiangbei came from a distance and said respectfully beside him: "Your Highness, it's time for us to go out to Fayi City."
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The plane landed smoothly at Guodu Airport. It was almost dusk. Jiang Chongjian came to pick her up in person. It had been several months since they met in Africa. When he learned that she was with Jin Cunxu, Jiang Chongjian was not without pain in his heart, but he was more willing to wish her good luck.
Happiness, no matter how much loss and pain of not getting it, he can still rely on time, the clouds are calm and the wind is gentle.
Instead of returning directly to Mingzhengju, he went to the hospital.
In the car, Long Ziqi asked about the situation, and Jiang Chongjian gave a reserved answer, telling her not to worry too much and that the situation was not that serious.
Since Lan Mufei and Louis Yingqi left and Long Ziqi resigned as vice president, Long Lifei has become more silent and indifferent than before. He can't say anything on the surface, but in fact he is miserable and tortured on the inside.
But he cannot fall down, nor can he be decadent, put all his energy on political affairs, numb his feelings, and suppress his emotions.
After Lan Mufei had a miscarriage and disappeared, and his whereabouts were unknown, his fingertips never left the cigarette. Because there was no way to drink away his sorrows or indulge himself, the cigarette on his lips seemed to be his only way to relieve and vent his emotions.
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His lungs were not good to begin with, and how could he withstand the torture he did to himself? Even when he was sick, he did not let anyone know. Chong Jian also blamed his carelessness for not noticing until he passed out in the conference room...
Long Ziqi listened with mixed feelings in her heart. The life she lived with Jin Cunxu in Jincheng was so peaceful and comfortable that she almost forgot that there was another person in this world who, because of her own thoughts, lived in such a unfree and depressed way.
!
Self-blame and heartache go hand in hand.
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The hospital was filled with the smell of disinfectant, the cold floating air, and the incandescent light made his cold contours look even paler and haggard.
Even so, he still could not put down his work and sat on the hospital bed with a pile of documents in front of him, waiting for him to read and give instructions.
Long Ziqi stood at the door, looking at his thinning appearance with bright eyes, feeling like needles in his heart.
Long Lifei felt someone staring at him for a long time. He raised his eyes and was stunned for a second. Then he pursed his lips and smiled slightly: "When did you come back?"
Long Ziqi walked into the ward and sat down beside the patient, "I just got off the plane!"
Long Lifei's eyes signaled Chongjian to take away all the documents in front of him. His voice was low and hoarse, filled with unconcealable fatigue, "I have nothing to do, it's Mingxi who made a fuss out of a molehill."
No need to ask, everyone knows that it was Ming Xi who brought Yan'er back to the country. In fact, it was not necessary, and it was not a serious illness. He was just detained in the hospital by Xu Chengdong and had to rest for two more days.
Yan'er and Jin Cunxu are together, and their relationship has just stabilized. Now that they have returned to China, what will happen to their relationship?
"She's always nervous about you, more than she is about me." Long Ziqi's half-truthful tone was mostly meant to be a joke.
Long Lifei said nothing, his eagle eyes stared at her for a long time, with a vague and profound meaning, and a faint smile appeared on his thin lips. His original worries disappeared at the moment he saw her.
"What's wrong?" Long Ziqi didn't know why he kept looking at her like that.
"Now you can even joke." Jin Cunxu had a really great influence on her.
After taking the documents, Chong Jian poured a glass of water for each of Long Ziqi and Long Lifei and placed them on the front desk. He silently stepped away, leaving space for the brother and sister. When he walked to the door and heard their conversation, his footsteps paused for a second.
, the thin lips raised a smile, which was both bitter and blessing, and then calmly closed the door of the ward.
Long Ziqi pursed her lips and smiled.
Long Lifei stretched out his hand and placed his cold palm on her head, saying in a gentle voice, "Is he good to you?"
If Jin Cunxu dares to treat Yan'er badly, he will not let Jin Cunxu go.
"He treats me very well." Apart from you, there is no one who treats me better than him.
When Long Lifei heard this, he looked pleased and said, "As long as I'm nice to you!"
Yan'er's happiness is more important than anything else.
The hand slipped from the top of her head...
Long Ziqi reached out and held the big palm he was about to withdraw. Long Lifei's body temperature was very similar to Long Pei's. It was always light and cool all year round. Holding his hand, the faint smell of tobacco-flavored disinfectant and pen and ink lingered in the air.
The smell of tobacco is even worse on my fingertips.
For countless nights, was he only accompanied by smoke rings on his fingertips?
"Brother -" she spoke softly, in a begging tone, "quit smoking, okay?"
Long Lifei's handsome and cold facial features were startled, and his thin lips were tightly pursed in an emotionless arc. He looked at her for a long time, and finally softly uttered one word: "Okay!"
He took his hand away from hers, opened the front drawer, and threw a pack of cigarettes and a lighter into the trash can.
"I won't touch cigarettes anymore, don't be sad." Long Lifei reached out and pinched her sagging cheeks, not liking her worried look for him.
His Yan'er should be happy and carefree!
When Long Ziqi heard what he said, the corners of her lips curved upward. She knew that whatever Long Lifei promised her personally, he would definitely try his best to do it.
He is as obsessed with her as ever!
"Let Chongjian take you back. Mingxi should be waiting for you at home." It wasn't that Long Lifei wanted to drive her away, but that the hospital was not a good place and he didn't want her to stay here and get bad luck.
Long Ziqi did not force him to stay, but nodded obediently, "Then I'll see you again tomorrow!"
Long Lifei nodded.
"Have a good rest and don't look at the documents again."
Long Lifei nodded hesitantly.
Long Ziqi's slender brows furrowed, but without saying anything else, he just took all the documents on the table away.
"See you tomorrow."
Long Lifei raised his eyebrows, then smiled helplessly, and did not order her to keep the documents. She must have been sure that he would not be obedient, so she took all the documents away directly to prevent him from working hard without rest!
Meeting Yan'er this time was different from when I went to Africa to see her. She had a lot more bright air about her, her brows were lightly tinged with smiles, and she rarely revealed the sadness in her heart inadvertently.
Long Lifei subconsciously wanted to reach out and touch the cigarette case. Out of the corner of his eye, he spotted the cigarette case and lighter in the trash can, and pulled his lips with a helpless smile.
After looking at it for a long time, I finally didn’t touch it.
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When Long Ziqi walked out of the ward, she felt something flash past. It was so fast that she didn't see clearly what it was, or maybe she was just temporarily dazzled.
He stood at the door of the ward holding the document, his eyebrows slightly furrowed, and his expression was a bit inquisitive.
Chong Jian came from a distance, saw that she looked wrong, and asked with concern: "What's wrong?"
Long Ziqi came back to his senses, looked at him, and shook his head: "It's okay."
Chongjian's eyes fell on the documents in her arms. Before he could speak, Long Ziqi had already said, "He needs to rest. Don't let him read these documents."
Chong Jian nodded, paused and said, "I'll take you back."
Reaching out to take the documents in her arms, Long Ziqi walked to the elevator with him!
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Gu Mingxi and Long Pei were naturally happy for Long Ziqi's return. They hadn't seen each other for a year, and seeing Yan'er again felt very different from when she left home.
No wonder A Li came back last time and said, don't worry about Yan'er, she is fine.
Now that I have seen it with my own eyes, it is indeed very good.
Long Pei didn't say much, but happiness and joy could be seen in his eyes. He was pleased with his daughter's return home and happiness.
Gu Mingxi knew that she must be tired after just getting off the plane and going to the hospital to see A Li, so she asked Qingfeng to bring her dinner to her room so that she could rest early.
Qingfeng had not visited Miss Yan for a year, so he was naturally happy to see Miss Yan return home. He personally delivered dinner to the room.
Long Ziqi had just taken a shower and walked out of the bathroom. Qingfeng put the dinner on the table and said respectfully: "Miss Yan, if there is anything you particularly want to eat or anything else you need, Qingfeng will prepare it for you.
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Long Ziqi glanced at the dinner, which was all her favorites. A faint smile escaped from her thin lips: "No more, thank you Qingfeng."
After being away from home for a year, when I came back again, my mood was very different from before. Even looking at the breeze felt particularly cordial.
Qingfeng was startled when he saw her warm and simple smile, and his heartbeat was unsatisfactory. He lowered his head and said with a smile: "Miss Yan, you are so polite. This is Qingfeng's responsibility."
Long Ziqi sat down, reached for the cup and drank water, "Is everything going well this year?"
Qingfeng knew what she wanted to ask, looked up at her and answered, "Don't worry, Miss Yan, everything is fine with your husband and wife, but your Excellency——"
Mentioning Long Lifei, both Qingfeng and Qingfeng had helplessness and distress in their eyes.
Long Ziqi's expression changed slightly, he put down the cup and looked at him seriously: "What's wrong, Your Excellency?"
"Your Excellency has reached your age. It is inevitable that some people would try to find a match for you, but you were scolded by you... The gentleman mentioned it once to you, but you didn't say anything, but you didn't come back for two or three months.
Live."
Qingfeng said and couldn't help but sigh softly: "You are busy with work and don't take care of your body. My husband and wife also want someone to take care of you."
This year A Li is 25 years old. His father was 25 years old back then and has become a father. He is not married, but at least he has a fiancée. Which man would be like A Li, who has not even had a woman by his side for so many years.
In the past, he had always been fettered by himself, but now his heart was only tied to Fei Fei, so how could other women fall in his eyes.
"Your Excellency is still young, so there is no need to rush into matters of marriage." Long Ziqi understood his thoughts and could understand, "Mingzheng's residence is like ice, so you should pay more attention to the Presidential Palace and don't run in both directions."
Qingfeng's eyes were startled and she said in surprise: "Ru Bing has died of illness, Miss Yan doesn't know?"
Long Ziqi's expression was startled, and a chill ran through his heart. It turned out... Ru Bing was no longer there either.
"I'm afraid it will be hard on you in the future, Qingfeng."
Ming Zhengju and the Presidential Palace are all managed by him alone. It must be said that Long Lifei has an excellent vision and Qingfeng has strong management ability and thoughtfulness. He is a very good professional housekeeper!
There was a trace of blush on Qingfeng Baixi's face. Being valued and recognized by Miss Yan in this way, she could not help but feel excited and secretly happy.
There was nothing else to do. After Qingfeng retreated, Long Ziqi had dinner, pressed the intercom and asked the domestic helper to pack things out, sat on the bed, and his eyes fell on the black screen of his mobile phone.
I took it in my hand and unlocked it. The screen was glowing with light. There was no phone call or text message. I was surrounded by unknown loss and inexplicable mood.
Are you too busy and don't have time?
Long Ziqi compiled a text message and sent it to Jin Cunxu's mobile phone. He put down the mobile phone, turned off the light, and lay down, but kept looking at the mobile phone in the darkness.
No response, no response ever.
I waited for too long in the dark room, my mind was filled with all sorts of emotions, and I couldn't even remember when I fell asleep.
The next day, Long Ziqi woke up early in the morning and subconsciously checked her cell phone. There were no text messages or calls.
Disappointment flashed across his eyes, and he threw his phone on the bed in frustration, curled his legs, and hugged himself with his slender arms. He was very confused in his heart, not knowing whether he should call directly.
Did he not see her text message, or——
My thoughts were very messy, and in the end I ignored my phone, got up, washed up, and went downstairs.
Long Pei had the habit of walking in the morning, and Gu Mingxi would accompany him every day. Long Ziqi stood in front of the clear French window and looked at the blurred backs of her parents, her thin lips raising a smile.
This smile is not because I envy my parents, but because I think of that person.
Qingfeng came over, said hello to Long Ziqi, and said, "Miss Yan, the Crown Prince of Country A called last night and asked you to call him back if it is convenient for you to get up in the morning."
Long Ziqi's eyes lit up when he heard Qingfeng's words. It turned out that he had already called in the middle of the night.
Instead of letting Qingfeng get the phone, she walked towards the stairs and even ran upstairs to her room impatiently.
Qingfeng stood there and looked at her back, with a hint of surprise in his eyes. He had been taking care of Miss Yan for several years. When had he ever seen Miss Yan lose her temper like this?
It seems that Ming Zhengju will have a happy event soon.
Qingfeng was happy for her from the bottom of her heart.
So the whole morning, the domestic helpers in Mingzhengju knew that Mr. Qingfeng was in a good mood.
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The room had been tidied up by the domestic helpers, leaving only the floor uncleaned. Long Ziqi asked them to go down first and picked up the phone to dial the number.
After one ring, the phone was connected, and she whispered in a low voice: "——Cunxu."
The person on the other end of the phone could hear the breathiness in her voice, which did not sound like a reproach: "Why are you running? What if you fall?"
If he wasn't afraid of disturbing her rest, he should have called early in the morning.
Long Ziqi felt soft when she heard his voice, "I'm not a child."
He is not a child, but he is worried all the time. "Be obedient and don't run away from now on, especially up and down the stairs." If he falls down the stairs... No, it's too dangerous. Should he be taken away?
All the stairs in the Presidential Palace have been converted into elevators?!
"Didn't you see my text message?" Long Ziqi was silent for a while and asked.
"I saw it."
"Huh?" Long Ziqi held the mobile phone and frowned slightly, saying: I saw why you didn't reply to my text message, I was too embarrassed to ask in my throat!
Jin Cunxu was silent for a while. Thinking of her troubled expression on the other end of the phone, he couldn't help laughing. Long Ziqi was embarrassed and said, "Jin Cunxu."
"I miss you so much!" he said in a low voice*, which stirred up a pool of spring water through the radio waves.
The text message Long Ziqi sent him before going to bed last night, the original words were: After getting off the plane, I saw A Li and was getting ready to rest. I kind of... missed you!
In fact, it’s not just one point, but many, many points, but I’m not too embarrassed to express it so openly.
Long Ziqi pursed his lips, lowered his head and smiled, and his shallow breaths filled with joy were sent to his ears through radio waves.
The two of them were holding the phone stupidly, listening to each other's breathing, and their hearts were filled with joy. It was the sweetest love story in the world.
"You don't have to go to work?" After a long silence, Long Ziqi checked the time. At this time, he should be in the office, either having a meeting or reviewing documents.
It was very quiet on the other end of the phone, not like I was working.
Jin Cunxu did not answer directly, but asked: "What are your plans today?"
"I should spend time with my parents in the morning, then go to the hospital to see Ali, and in the evening... I might go to the Presidential Palace."
Ali needs to rest now. There are so many things in the Presidential Palace that Chongjian will definitely not be able to handle. He wants Ali to rest peacefully unless she helps to share the burden.
Qingfeng knocked on the door, saying that the husband and wife were back and invited her to come down and have breakfast together.
Long Ziqi responded and came to her senses. Jin Cunxu had thoughtfully asked her to have breakfast first and would call her when he had time.
I reluctantly cut off the phone. Although I felt much better when I heard his voice, I still felt a sense of loss that I couldn't see or touch.
Going downstairs to the restaurant, Gu Mingxi saw her apologetic expression, "Qingfeng said you were on the phone, sorry."
Long Ziqi smiled and shook his head gently, indicating that it was okay.
After breakfast, Gu Mingxi answered a call from a charity event and confirmed with her the procedures for tomorrow's charity event.
Long Pei looked at his daughter and said, "Play a game of chess with me."
Qingfeng laid out the chessboard for them and made tea for them.
After a round of fighting, Long Pei narrowly won. Taking advantage of the breeze to reorganize the chessboard, he drank tea and pointed out: "I haven't seen you for a year, and my chess skills have improved a lot."
Long Ziqi raised his eyes, with delicate eyebrows and a calm voice: "Father, you are still so domineering."
The seemingly coquettish words made Long Pei, who had been ruthless and cruel all his life, laugh out loud, "I'm looking forward to meeting him."
He didn't have much contact with Jin Cunxu, and his only feeling was the same as A Li's. That child was extremely sophisticated, decisive in killing, and extremely unsophisticated.
To be honest, Long Pei still felt uneasy about handing over his precious daughter to him!
"A-Li is still young, so there's no need to rush to find a sister-in-law for me." Long Ziqi changed the subject without leaving any trace.
Long Pei raised his eyebrows: "I haven't settled my own affairs yet, so I'm worried for others."
"——Father!" Long Ziqi said quietly, with helplessness in his eyes, "He said, come here on Christmas."
Is it necessary to be so impatient?
Long Pei knew that his daughter didn't want to interfere in their affairs, so he didn't say anything. He was silent for a long time and said, "You really won't regret it?"
If you choose such a man, it is doomed to be impossible to live an ordinary and quiet life in the future. If you look at Gu Mingxi's life, you will know that even though their relationship has become deeper and deeper after marriage, life still puts a lot of pressure on them.
The pressure of public opinion and the public's attention will all focus on her. If she does well, she should do it. If she does not do well, she must accept the criticism of public opinion.
Especially since she was once the vice president of country C. If she were to marry in country A, the Jin family would not doubt her or make things difficult for her, but the old guys in the political arena would not believe her and treat her kindly.
"I don't know." Long Ziqi answered calmly. It was a bit awkward to talk about feelings to her father, but she still said, "I don't know how far I can go with him, but I told Aunt Fu
Yes, if he stays with me in this life, I will never abandon him."
Long Pei looked slightly startled, then showed a relieved smile, "Forget it, just mess around with your own life!"
"Thank you, father." Long Ziqi knew that her father truly agreed to her dating Jin Cunxu. As for the marriage, she had not mentioned it yet.
Jin Cunxu said that they would get married after Christmas and asked her to wait for him, so she could just wait with peace of mind.
Gu Mingxi came back after answering the phone, walked to her husband, looked at her daughter, "What did you father and daughter whisper?"
"You said it was a whisper, how could you let me know?!" Long Pei reached out to hold his wife's hand, raised his head and looked into her eyes, gentle and indulgent.
Gu Mingxi frowned slightly, smiled, and didn't say much. He sent Qingfeng away and made tea for them.
The father and daughter are in a new round of fighting on the chessboard.
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Long Ziqi arrived at the hospital in the afternoon, and it happened that Xu Chengdong gave Long Lifei an infusion and added a stabilizing drug to the infusion. Long Lifei fell asleep under the influence of the drug.
Opening the door, I felt a gust of wind passing by. There was no one else in the room except Long Lifei, who was sleeping on the bed. Only the gauze of the window was dancing in the air...
After standing at the door for a long time, Long Ziqi did not go in, fearing that it would affect Long Lifei's rest. He gently closed the door and went to the office to find Xu Chengdong to find out about his current physical condition.
Xu Chengdong still has the same old saying, he is too tired and doesn't take care of his body.
Ten minutes later, Long Ziqi returned to the ward. He opened the door and looked at the window with interest. The originally open window had been closed at some point, and the curtain hung quietly aside.
She looked at Long Lifei again. He was sleeping peacefully and was not disturbed. She slowed down and walked to the bathroom door, which was originally open but was now closed. She lowered her voice and said, "Come out."
The empty room was filled with cold silence. After a long time, the bathroom door slowly opened a crack, revealing a small face with a coy smile: "——Sister Ziqi."
The sound is also very low, for fear of disturbing the people on the bed.
Long Ziqi didn't speak, but looked at the door of the ward with a hint of eyes, and walked out of the ward first. The person hiding in the toilet understood what she meant, and followed her quietly out of the ward.
There is a gap left in the ward door, so you can see the people in the ward at any time.
Seeing her cautious look, Long Ziqi felt sad for some reason, "Why don't you just come and see her openly?" She was so sneaky and cautious, so afraid of being seen by him.
Her body stiffened, and she looked back at Long Ziqi, smiling heartlessly, "It just happened that he fell asleep."
"The dark figure I saw in the corridor yesterday was also you." Long Ziqi quickly exposed her lies.
The pink-cheeked look was a little unnatural, and she pursed her lips, "How did you know it was me?"
Long Ziqi didn't answer. In fact, she didn't even know. She just had an intuition that told her it was her. He sighed secretly and said softly: "Qingcheng, I don't blame you for what happened to Feifei, and Ali doesn't blame you in my heart either. You
It doesn’t have to be this way.”
Ye Qingcheng turned her head and looked at the person on the bed with clear eyes, her thin lips pursed slightly, and her smile was sour, "But he is not living happily!"
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