When Xie Yin saw the girl standing at the door of the private room clearly, he paused slightly with his fingertips lighting up the cigarette ashes.
Xia Li, who was standing at the door, was wearing a black off-the-shoulder dress, with her chest and waist tied tightly.
Under the illumination of the hotel ceiling lights, the black dress outlined her graceful curves, and a large area of skin as delicate as snow jade was exposed on the collarbone of her chest.
The skirt on the left side of the dress is slit, revealing her long, slender, white legs.
The man's Adam's apple rolled slightly, and he retracted his gaze from the girl without leaving any trace.
Xia Li could clearly feel the man's gaze on her. She looked away from Xie Yin's body with a little embarrassment and slowly lowered her head.
"Hey, Mr. Qi changed his female companion today?"
I don’t know who was present who broke the silence, and the quiet atmosphere suddenly became lively.
Qi Du led Xia Li to the table, acted like a gentleman and helped Xia Li open the seat in front of her, gesturing for her to sit down.
Xia Li didn't react from his surprise until he sat down.
She had never thought about Xie Yin since she found out in the hall downstairs that he was a big boss from Hong Kong City.
But until she stood outside the private room and looked at the man's extremely beautiful and recognizable eyes, she felt that it was unreal.
When Xia Li recovered from his surprise, he realized that his position was squarely facing Xie Yin, who was sitting on the main seat.
She raised her eyes and quickly glanced at the man sitting opposite her, and then quickly lowered her eyes.
Out of the corner of her eye, she suddenly caught a glimpse of the watch the man was wearing on his wrist. Under the warm yellow light in the private room, it emitted a fine halo and fell directly into her eyes.
Xia Li's eyes paused slightly. If she read it correctly...
That watch seemed to be the one she bought in Hong Kong City at that time.
While she was dazed, the sound of conversations around her reached Xia Li's ears in an unhurried manner.
Someone beside him asked Qidu curiously:
"Why didn't Mr. Qi bring Su Cheng here today?"
Qi Du just glanced at Xia Li, who was sitting next to him, with a hint of indifference in his tone:
“After all, I am here to help Mr.
To him, Su Cheng was just a plaything on a whim, and she was not qualified to be his female companion in such an occasion.
Even if his parents had not asked him to take Xia Li with him, Qi Du's female companion would not have chosen Su Cheng.
"Then Mr. Qi isn't going to introduce us to the new female companion?"
Qi Du smiled: "What can I introduce to you? Xia Li, the daughter of the Xia family."
I don’t know if he did it on purpose or not. He deliberately emphasized the last two words very hard, as if he was emphasizing or mocking.
"The daughter of the Xia family? Is she the Xia family that is about to go bankrupt?"
Qi Du laughed: "Yeah."
Xia Li said nothing.
The sound of moderate conversation reached Xie Yin's ears impartially.
The man's eyes glanced at Qi Du, who was sitting next to Xia Li, and his eyes darkened a bit.
His fingertips gently touched the prayer beads on his wrist, and then he lowered his eyes and landed on the watch.
During the meal, several young men who were close to Qi Du kept catching Xia Li drinking, not knowing whether it was intentional or not.
Xia Li's drinking capacity was not good, but thinking that the Xia family still relied on Qi Du, she couldn't hold Qi Du off in front of so many people, so she could only drink one glass after another.
In the end, Xia Li couldn't hold it any longer and went to the balcony at the end of the corridor to enjoy the air on the pretext of going to the toilet.
She stood in front of the balcony railing, looking up at the crescent moon in the dark night sky.
Thinking of the scene where I was kept drinking wine just now, I felt melancholy.
Suddenly, the image of Xia Youming returning home drunk after socializing suddenly came to mind.
I remember when she was very young, when the Xia family's company was just starting out, Xia Youming would be drunk and unconscious almost every night when she came home.
Young Xia Li would always persuade Xia Youming to drink less because he was worried about Xia Youming's health.
But now, she suddenly understood why her father would be drunk and unconscious every time he came home from socializing.
Now that he was drunk, Xia Li felt dizzy.
The slightly cool breeze of the summer night blew slowly by, making Xia Li's still groggy head sober up a little.
She reached out and gently tucked her wind-blown hair behind her ears.
Suddenly, she felt her shoulders sink.
Immediately afterwards, the clear and pleasant smell of ebony agarwood entered her nose.
She subconsciously turned her head to look, but she ran into Xie Yin's deep, ink-like eyes.
Xia Li was stunned: "Mr. Xie?"
"Be careful of catching a cold."
Xie Yin curled his lower lip without leaving any trace, and handed the hot milk that the waiter had prepared in his hand to Xia Li.
"You seem to be feeling uncomfortable. Let's drink something hot first."
Xia Li lowered her eyes and took the cup of warm milk from the man's hand. Her eyes paused again on the watch on the man's wrist.
This watch is not expensive.
Even after she found out that the "port city boss" in Qi Dukou was Xie Yin, she realized that the watch she gave him might look particularly cheap in the eyes of men.
But I didn't expect that he would actually wear it.
As if he noticed her gaze lingering on the watch, Xie Yin raised his eyebrows slightly:
"The watch you gave me is very nice."
Xia Li subconsciously put the milk in his hand to his lips, took a sip, and whispered:
"As long as Mr. Xie likes it."
A chuckle escaped from the man's throat:
"When I went to the private room to get an umbrella, Miss Xia had already returned to Beijing, so Xie had not yet solemnly thanked Miss Xia."
"No thank you, sir," Xia Li was a little flattered, "I should be the one to say thank you."
If it hadn't been for Xie Yin's umbrella that day, she probably wouldn't have known when she would be able to leave the temple.
Xie Yin curled his lower lip slightly, raised his hand and glanced at the time on his watch.
"I need to go in first. If you are really uncomfortable, do you need me to ask my driver to take you back first?"
Xia Li refused without even thinking: "No, Mr. Xie, I'm fine."
After all, she came with Qi Du. If she left first during the banquet, Qi Du would lose face in everyone's eyes.
In addition, now she still needs to find a way to get Qi Du to marry her, let alone just walk away.
The man standing next to her seemed to have read through her thoughts:
"Is it to wait for the one who came with you?"
The mellow and deep voice slowly reached Xia Li's ears along with the summer night breeze.
She lowered her eyes slightly and said "hmm" in a low voice.
Xie Yin looked at the girl in front of him. His long eyelashes were slightly drawn back, covering the emotions in his eyes.
"Okay." Xie Yin's flat tone made it impossible to detect any emotion, "Then I'll go back to the private room first."
When Xie Yin just turned around, he was stopped by Xia Li from behind.
He turned around: "What's wrong?"
Xia Li carefully took off the black suit jacket draped over his shoulders, handed it to the man and whispered:
"Thank you, Mr., for your coat..."
Xie Yin's eyes fell on the suit jacket Xia Li was holding: "Put it on so you don't catch a cold."
"No thank you sir."
Xia Li curled up slightly when her fingers touched the soft suit fabric.
She lowered her head, inexplicably afraid to look into the man's eyes:
"It will be misunderstood if others see it. It would be bad if it brings some unnecessary trouble to Mr. Xie."
The girl's voice reached Xie Yin's ears, and the man's brows frowned slightly.
Xie Yin narrowed his eyes and looked at her, not knowing whether she was really worried that he would be misunderstood, or whether she was worried that she would be misunderstood by the young master of the Qi family who was traveling with him.
But in the end, Xie Yin did not embarrass Xia Li, took the suit jacket from her hands and returned to the private room.
Xia Li looked at the man's straight back gradually walking away, and glanced down at the fingers that she had held the man's suit with just now.
She only felt that the faint scent of ebony from the man's black suit still lingered on her fingertips. Her fingers touched the glass with warm milk, and her fingertips curled up slightly against the wall of the cup.
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At the end of the banquet, thin wisps of rain suddenly appeared in the night sky.
The weather in the capital always likes to make surprises in the past two days. Although the weather forecast did not indicate rain, it rained unexpectedly at night for several days in a row.
A black Maybach parked in the middle of the hotel door, and Qidu's Porsche parked behind the Maybach.
When the driver of the Maybach saw Xie Yin coming out, he respectfully walked around the back of the car and opened the door for the man.
Xia Li and Qi Du stood on the side of the door, watching Xie Yin, who was wearing a white shirt, slowly walk out of the revolving door of the hotel and walked to the car in front of everyone's eyes.
The black suit was casually placed on the man's arm, and then carefully taken over by the driver.
She didn't know if it was Xia Li's illusion, but she always felt that Xie Yin's eyes seemed to stay on her for a few seconds before getting in the car.
When she raised her eyes to take a look, the man was already in the car.
It wasn't until the Maybach disappeared from everyone's sight that the other young men got into their cars.
As soon as the black Porsche left the hotel, Qizhou's cell phone rang while sitting next to Xia Li.
She looked sideways as the man frowned and pressed the answer button. Then, the female voice on the other end of the phone faintly reached her ears.
"A'Du, I have a fever..."
The sweet and charming voice reached Xia Li's ears, and she felt goosebumps all over her body.
Qi Du's voice was calm, as if he didn't have the slightest worry: "Where is it?"
"A'Du, I'm at home..."
Su Cheng on the other end of the phone pretended to be delicate while speaking, putting the thermometer on hand into the hot water cup in front of him, and crossed his legs in a casual manner.
"I know, wait for me."
After hanging up the phone, Qidu asked the driver to park the car on the side of the road.
He turned his head and met Xia Li's eyes:
"I have something else to do and I can't take you back, so just take a taxi and go by yourself."
"good......"
Xia Li got out of the car on the side of the road and watched the black Porsche drive away in front of her. After it completely disappeared, she took out her mobile phone from her bag and planned to open the taxi app.
Xia Li was a little anxious when she came out today. Before going out, Xia Li forgot to charge her mobile phone.
As a result, as soon as she clicked on the taxi app and selected the starting point, her phone shut down due to low battery.
Xia Li lowered his eyes and looked at the black screen of the mobile phone in his hand, sighing helplessly.
Seeing the raindrops falling on the ground getting heavier and heavier, Xia Li stood under the dim street light and looked at the taxi among the passing vehicles.
After waiting for a long time, I didn't see a taxi with the word "empty" on it.
The rain got heavier and heavier, and big raindrops fell on the ground.
Xia Li and other places were also a little anxious and at a loss.
Just when she was hesitating whether to walk back to the hotel in the rain and ask the waiter to pick up a charger, the Maybach stopped in front of her in the rain.
Immediately afterwards, the Maybach's rear seat window slowly lowered.
The half of the man's face hidden in the darkness gradually appeared in Xia Li's eyes.
