The man remained leaning against the wall and stared quietly at the girl standing on the doorstep.
When he learned from Qizhou that Xia Li was engaged, he had to admit that he felt a little unhappy.
Otherwise, he would not have come out of the private room and stood at the door of the bathroom, trying to block people and ask if it was true.
But when he actually appeared here, Xie Yin suddenly realized that he seemed to be too impulsive.
At the same time, the usually calm man was also surprised by this impulse.
He lived for 28 years. During these 28 years, such impulses were very rare. If you think about it, it was almost zero.
In the first half of his life, he lived a submissive life, but later he finally secured his position. No matter what happened, no matter what decision he made, he would think twice and consider everything.
Calm and cold-blooded, it seemed to have penetrated his entire being.
But now, he actually feels unhappy because of the simple word "engagement".
So he lit a cigarette, frowned and leaned against the wall, looking up at the warm yellow light on the ceiling of the corridor.
"Mr. Xie?"
Seeing that the man was lost in thought, Xia Li spoke cautiously.
Xie Yin took back his thoughts.
A few seconds later, he suddenly straightened up and walked towards Xia Li.
"Mr. Xie, I..."
Xia Li saw Xie Yin looking at him without saying a word, and subconsciously raised his slightly cool hand to touch his cheek.
She blinked: "Is there something on my face?"
Xie Yin stopped when he was still one step away from her:
"No. Let's go back to the private room."
When the two returned to the private room, Qizhou, who was already drunk and confused, was already lying on the sofa and fell asleep.
Xie Yin glanced helplessly at the snoring Qizhou on the sofa, and finally had no choice but to call the driver to "move" him back to the car.
"Mr. Xie, I can just take a taxi back."
Qizhou has been "moved" into the car by the driver.
Xia Li and Xie Yin stood in front of the black Rolls-Royce.
The evening breeze of the summer night, mixed with the coolness, ruffled the girl's disheveled hair.
Xie Yin took out the car keys from his suit pocket and said in a calm voice:
"I send you."
"Then Qizhou..."
As he spoke, Xie Yin opened the passenger door like a gentleman and glanced at the Maybach that was slowly driving out not far away:
"He's not in the same car as us."
Xia Li said "oh" and then got into the car.
Along the way, Xia Li always felt that the atmosphere in the car was a bit strange. She could clearly feel that the man driving next to her was not in a good mood.
It seemed that since she came out of the bathroom, she felt that the aura on Xie Yin's body was lower than before.
Xia Li wondered in her heart whether she should care.
After all, everyone is...
Friends...
In order to show his concern for his friends, Xia Li whispered:
"Mr. Xie, are you in a bad mood?"
The traffic light at the intersection ahead turned red. Xie Yin stopped the car and looked sideways at the girl sitting in the passenger seat.
The warm yellow light coming from the window vaguely illuminates the girl's face stuck in the car seat.
Even though it was dark inside the car, Xie Yin could still clearly see the girl's gently blinking eyelashes.
Xia Li raised her eyes and looked into the man's bottomless eyes. After a while, she heard a voice escape from the man's throat:
"Um?"
Xia Li turned his head and looked forward, coughing slightly:
"I-I'll just ask."
She reminded aloud with some confidence: "The light is green..."
Xie Yin looked back and started the car, and the atmosphere in the car once again returned to its previous quiet state.
When he arrived downstairs, Xia Li thanked Xie Yin.
Just as he turned around to open the door, he heard a slight "click" sound inside the car.
The car door is locked.
Xia Li turned to look at Xie Yin with one hand on the steering wheel and looking at her intently.
"Mr. Xie?"
Meeting his gaze, Xia Li was a little confused.
The girl's confused voice sounded in the quiet carriage:
"Is there anything else you can do, Mr. Xie?"
The soft voice reached the man's ears, and Xie Yin's eyes darkened a bit.
The man's Adam's apple rolled up and down slightly in the darkness, and the words he wanted to ask came to his lips but he couldn't.
The man didn't make a sound for a long time. She couldn't see clearly the man's expression half-hidden in the darkness, and she didn't notice the man's hesitant movements.
Xia Li tilted his head in confusion:
"Mr. Xie?"
Xie Yin came to his senses, put his hand on the steering wheel to his lips uncomfortably and coughed lightly:
"It's okay, I just want to remind you not to forget the banquet tomorrow night."
Xia Li raised his lips and smiled: "I won't forget it."
"Okay," Xie Yin unlocked the car door, with a faint smile in his deep eyes, "Then--"
"Good night."
Xia Li opened the door:
"Good night."
When Xia Li returned home, the living room was as quiet as ever.
Xia Youming and Su Jing were still on a business trip and had not returned.
Xia Li took off her shoes and went back to the room in the dark without even turning on the lights in the living room.
When she came out of the bathroom after taking a shower, she received a call from Su Jing.
"Li Li, your parents are not at home recently, you must take care of yourself."
"I know, Mom." Xia Li held the phone in one hand and wiped her wet hair with a towel in the other.
"By the way Li Li," Su Jing on the other end of the phone suddenly sighed, and her tone became a little lower, "The Qi family called me today."
Xia Li's hand that was wiping her hair suddenly stopped, and for some reason she had a bad premonition in her heart.
Su Jing's voice came from the mobile phone:
"The Qi family said that Qi Du insisted on canceling the engagement. Li Li, mom thinks you shouldn't force yourself on these things. Otherwise, both families will be embarrassed in the end."
"But mom...that company..."
"Your dad and I will figure out a way to deal with the company," Su Jing said softly, "Qidu wants to cancel the engagement. Even if he is forced to marry you, you will not be happy in your future life."
Xia Li sat quietly on the bed and said nothing.
The strings in his brain were torn because of the sentence "cancel the engagement", and all thoughts became blank at this moment.
"Mom and dad both feel that this is the end of the engagement."
Su Jing said:
"Mom and dad don't want to sell their daughter to maintain the development of the company. Compared to the company, your happiness and happiness are the most important."
Xia Li has always known that in the hearts of Su Jing and Xia Youming, she will always be the first one.
But just because of this, she wanted to do something to repay them.
"Li Li, listen to your parents and don't force yourself."
Don’t force yourself to cross the river together, and don’t force yourself to do it.
Su Jing was worried that Xia Li would be sad, so she comforted her softly:
"You know, maybe everything is for the best."
After finishing the call with Su Jing, Xia Li sat on the edge of the bed with his legs bent for a long time.
The brain is like a rusty part that cannot move.
Thinking of the conversation he overheard in the bathroom before, Xia Li vaguely wondered if the reason why Qidu canceled the engagement was because of that girl.
After a long time, Xia Li entered the bathroom with half-dried hair.
Standing in front of the bathroom mirror, Xia Li sighed.
Now that the engagement with the Qi family has been cancelled, it seems more difficult for the Xia family to turn over than they imagined.
She picked up the hair dryer hanging on the wall and pressed the hot air with her fingertips.
The noisy sound of a hair dryer rang in her ears, and hot air blew past her ears.
She looked at herself in the mirror, blow-drying her hair.
Will it happen? Will there really be the best arrangement...
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When Xie Yin returned to Tingyuan, Qizhou had been arranged by the housekeeper to sleep in the guest bedroom.
The bright moonlight shines through the window on the man sitting at the desk.
The lights were not turned on in the quiet study room.
In the darkness, the only light was the moonlight outside the window.
The man just sat at the desk.
He held the watch halfway up in the air, his fingertips gently stroking the slightly cool strap, and there was an incomprehensible emotion in his eyes.
This action was deadlocked for a long time.
It wasn't until someone knocked on the study door that Xie Yin casually put his watch on the desk with his eyes closed.
"boss."
Ji Cheng opened the study door and saw darkness inside.
The man's cold voice sounded in the quiet study: "Come in and turn on the light."
Ji Cheng responded, turned on the door switch and walked in.
"Boss," he walked to the desk and placed the document in his hand on the desk in front of the man, "Here is the information you asked me to investigate."
Although Ji Cheng didn't know why his boss suddenly wanted to investigate the Xia family and the Qi family, as a qualified laborer, he only had to listen to his boss and complete the work.
As for other things, it's not something that a working man like him should take care of.
Xie Yin picked up the document and said in a cold voice:
"Have you checked the marriage contract between the Xia family and the Qi family?"
At that time, Xie Yin sent a message to Jicheng when he came out of the private room to block people.
He asked Ji Cheng to thoroughly investigate everything about the Xia family and the Qi family over the years, including the so-called marriage contracts between the two families.
Ji Cheng, standing in front of the desk, nodded:
"After checking, it was found out that Mr. Qi made the decision for the daughter of the Xia family and the young master of the Qi family before he died. After hearing that the Xia family's capital chain was broken, he pinned his hopes on a marriage with the Qi family."
Ji Cheng looked at his boss's expression and continued:
"However, I heard from outside rumors that the young master of the Qi family seems to be very reluctant, and let the other party's pigeons go while he was still receiving the certificate."
"Recently I heard that the young master of the Qi family is in a relationship with an internet celebrity. The latest news I just found is that the young master of the Qi family insists on canceling the engagement."
Xie Yin, who had been silent all this time, raised his eyes from the document in his hand and looked at Ji Cheng, and asked quietly:
"Cancel the engagement?"
"Well, I just don't know what the Xia family said, but I guess it would be difficult for the Xia family to turn around without the help of the Qi family."
Xie Yin closed the document in his hand and placed it on the desk.
He picked up the cigarette box beside him and took out a long slender cigarette. He held the cigarette butt between his fingertips and tapped it twice on the cigarette box.
"No need to Qi Jia."
Ji Cheng, who had always been smart, suddenly couldn't understand the meaning of his boss's words.
After the man's deep voice fell, the man put the cigarette to his mouth and lit the end of the cigarette with the metal cigarette lighter in his hand.
The man's expression was blurred in the swirling smoke, and he narrowed his extremely cold black eyes:
"It's not just the Qi family that can turn the Xia family around."
So can he.
