Port city.
The door of the special reception room in front of Wanjia's head office was pushed open, and a man in a suit and leather shoes slowly stepped in with his head slightly tilted and his hands raised to straighten his cuffs.
His deep and cold eyes slowly fell on the man who was sitting on the leather sofa in the living room with his legs crossed.
"I'm sorry to see you."
(haven't seen you for a long time.)
Xie Beixiao, who was sitting on the sofa, had a slightly ironic smile on his lips.
He picked up the teacup in front of him and put it to his lips, taking a slow sip. Then he put down the teacup in his hand and stood up from the sofa with his knees on his knees.
Xie Beixiao raised his eyes slightly, walked up to Xie Yin, and stretched out his hand:
"My brother."
Xie Yin looked at the man in front of him with a smile indifferently, and lowered his eyes slightly to fall on Xie Beixiao's outstretched hand.
The hand stretched out in the air had a large burn mark on the back of it.
Even after so many years, the wound showed no intention of healing.
Xie Beixiao followed Xie Yin's gaze to his injured hand and snorted mockingly:
"What? Several years have passed and this wound is unrecognizable?"
Xie Yin reached out and held his hand hanging in the air:
"How could you forget?"
He raised his eyes and looked into Xie Beixiao's smiling eyes, and the strength in his hands could not help but tighten a bit.
"This is the souvenir of my success in taking away the Xie family that year. Naturally, I dare not forget it."
The man's eyes flashed with evil and cold ridicule, and his low words seemed to be mixed with the gesture of a winner.
"You think so?" The coldness in Xie Yin's eyes almost solidified, "My -"
"Good brother."
The corners of Xie Beixiao's raised mouth froze, as if a man had poked a painful spot, and the smile in his eyes disappeared little by little.
In the large living room, two tall men stood facing each other.
But there was a strong flame surrounding them, as if the flames would burn throughout the entire living room in the next second, turning the living room into ruins.
Xie Beixiao withdrew his hand, turned around, walked to the sofa and sat down.
Xie Yin rolled up his shirt sleeves slowly and slightly, revealing the Buddhist beads and watch on his wrist, and then casually leaned on the sofa on the other side.
Just after returning to Hong Kong City last night, I learned that Xie Beixiao said he wanted to come to see him.
This actually surprised Xie Yin.
Since the fire that year, when Xie Yin succeeded in taking the position of the head of the Xie family, the relationship between the two, which was not good at all, immediately dropped to a freezing point.
Xie Yin naturally knew where Xie Beixiao's hatred for him came from.
It was nothing more than ruthlessly snatching away all the hard work his father had done over the years that he should have inherited with his own hands, and never thought of leaving a way for them to survive.
But Xie Yin has no regrets.
In this world of the jungle, whoever can be ruthless is the king.
As for leaving a way to survive, Xie Yin always felt that as long as he left a way for someone to survive, that person would definitely pose a threat to him in the future.
People are selfish, and so is Xie Yin.
Xie Yin, who was already filled with hatred, was even more so.
It's just that Xie Beixiao was able to escape from the fire alive because of his mistake.
Xie Beixiao noticed the watch on Xie Yin's left wrist and let out a light "tsk".
"I really didn't expect that after so many years of seeing you, your taste is getting worse and worse."
Xie Yin looked at him without knowing why, and noticed that his eyes fell on the watch on his wrist.
Xie Beixiao's lukewarm voice came to my ears:
"Even if you wear such a low-quality watch on your hand, it seems that you haven't been very happy as the head of the Xie family in the past few years."
Xie Yin's eyes were filled with cold light, and his long and narrow eyes seemed as if there were no waves in an ancient well.
He raised his right hand slightly, and his fingertips inadvertently rubbed the watch strap on his wrist, and Xia Li's figure inadvertently appeared in his mind.
It was that scene on the snowy night five years ago.
It was also the moment when I saw her again at the Yajian Cafe not long ago.
The two figures overlapped in his mind.
A little smile appeared in Xie Yin's originally dark and calm eyes.
He recovered his thoughts in time, raised his wrist and glanced at the time on his watch.
"I think this watch is good."
Xie Yin said: "After all, whether a watch is good or not should not be measured by its value, but by the meaning it has."
The man leaned forward slightly and raised his hand to lift the teapot on the table in front of him, making himself a cup of tea.
Picking up the teacup, his slender fingertips slightly rubbed the side of the cup, then brought it to his thin lips and took a sip.
"No matter how good the tea is, if you meet someone who doesn't know how to taste it, isn't it a waste of itself?"
Xie Yin drank all the tea in the cup and put it back on the table without hesitation.
The half-smiling eyes carry some undisguised sarcasm:
"Instead of looking at its price, it's better to look at whether you deserve it."
-
Xie Yin was not at home, and Xia Li felt a lot more relaxed all over.
Today she made an appointment to have lunch with Chu Shishi. As soon as they met, Chu Shishi threw herself into Xia Li's arms.
Immediately afterwards, there was a cry from her:
"Li Li! I'm so sad——"
Xia Li had no choice but to support her, letting Chu Shishi lean on his shoulder and complain about the blind date Chu Wang wanted to introduce to her.
"I want to fall in love, but I didn't say I wanted to fall in love with my brother's brother."
"Besides, I don't know many of his brothers. If my brother deliberately introduces me to a man who is not in my taste, then for the rest of my life..."
The more he spoke, the louder Chu Shishi's wails became.
"How do you know that the other person is not in your aesthetic point of view?" Xia Li looked at Chu Shishi and said with a smile.
Based on her understanding of Chu Shishi, Xia Li felt that Cui Mingyuan was a man who 100% stepped on Chu Shishi's aesthetic points.
"How can it be........"
Chu Shishi was about to say something when the phone in her hand vibrated twice.
She let go of Xia Li, opened her phone and saw a message from her brother Chu Wang.
Xia Li stood beside her, watching Chu Shishi change from the grief-stricken expression just now to a spring-filled smile.
"What's wrong?" Xia Li asked curiously.
Chu Shishi raised the phone in front of Xia Li with one hand, and covered the corner of her mouth that she couldn't help but want to raise with one hand:
"so hot--"
In the photo, it is a profile photo of Cui Mingyuan wearing a white coat standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window of the hospital and looking into the distance.
Even though it was just a simple profile photo, Chu Shishi's sixth sense told her that this man felt in line with her own aesthetic point.
"My brother actually has such a high-quality man beside him, an abstinence doctor. The novel has become reality!"
Xia Li saw that the corners of Chu Shishi's mouth were grinning almost to the back of her ears, and couldn't help but joked:
"You were resisting your brother's arrangement for a blind date just now. Why have you changed your mind now?"
"Then how did I know that my blind date would be a doctor~"
Chu Shishi closed her phone and held Xia Li's hand in a good mood:
"Let's go, sister, I'll treat you to something delicious!"
During the meal, Xia Li received a photo from Xie Yin.
X: [Today’s lunch. 】
The corner of Xia Li's mouth curled up uncontrollably, and he casually opened the camera on WeChat and took a photo of the dishes on the table.
The man opposite quickly responded to the message.
X: [With friends? 】
Xia Li held the phone in both hands and replied with a smile on the keyboard.
Yiyi Xiaoli: [Yes, together with Shishi. 】
The phone in his hand vibrated slightly. It was a WeChat transfer sent by Xie Yin.
When he saw the amount, Xia Li's hands holding the phone shook.
Five...fifty thousand?
Before she could recover from the shock, Xie Yin's message popped up again.
X: [WeChat has a limit, please give me your bank card number. 】
Xia Li:......
She knew that 50,000 was only WeChat's limit, but it was not Xie Yin's limit.
How dare Xia Li give him his bank card number?
She didn't even dare to accept the fifty thousand.
"Li Li, who are you chatting with, smiling so happily?" Chu Shishi sat next to her at some point, and glanced at the chat history between the two.
"Thank you Yin." Xia Li replied to the man while typing with trembling fingertips, while telling Chu Shishi.
"Good guy," Chu Shishi took a closer look and saw the man's transfer and the domineering message, "As expected of Mr. Xie, he is so generous."
"Hey, does my brother know that you and Xie Yin are married?"
Xia Li spent a long time thinking about it, but in the end he only sent an emoticon: "I don't know."
Speaking of this matter, Xia Li didn't know whether Cui Mingyuan told Chu Wang about the relationship between her and Xie Yin when he went back yesterday.
The man far away in Hong Kong City was eating the work meal in front of him while looking at the emoticon that the girl had just sent.
It's a frightened cat.
Xie Yin raised his eyebrows slightly and pressed the voice button on the phone screen with one hand.
The phone on hand was vibrating. Xia Li picked it up and looked at the message from the man.
It's a voice message.
"Come on, come on, listen to what he said!" Chu Shishi was like a melon-eating crazily in the melon field, she couldn't wait to shake Xia Li's arm.
Xia Li pursed her lips and pressed the red dotted voice line with her fingertips.
The man's deep voice came through the receiver as if it had been heavily ground with sandpaper, full of graininess.
"It's my honor to spend money on Mrs. Xie."
"my God!"
Chu Shishi was the first to cover the corners of her mouth in excitement, looking at Xia Li with a look in her eyes that said, "I've hit you."
Xia Li's ears felt uncontrollably hot.
Chu Shishi reminded with a gossipy look: "There's more, he posted it again!"
Xia Li endured the boredom in her heart and clicked on the man's new voice message.
"So - Mrs. Xie, can you give me a chance to show off?"
The low voice reached her ears, and Xia Li felt as if the blood in her body was on fire.
Chu Shishi on the side had already shown an aunty smile, gently poked Xia Li with her elbow, and teased:
"Mr. Xie is like this, why don't you give him a chance to show off quickly?"
"This is not good..."
Although she was married to Xie Yin, they were just a couple by agreement.
"What's wrong? You're stupid. Nowadays, when everyone falls in love, it's either for money or sex. You don't take advantage of his sex or some money, so haven't you suffered a loss this year?"
Xia Li pursed her lips, but in the end, after Chu Shishi's persuasion, she chose a rarely used bank card and sent it.
After Xia Li sent out the series of bank card numbers, he put the phone aside and ignored it.
She took the white peach sparkling water on hand and took a sip.
She secretly thought about saving all the money Xie Yin transferred to her, so that when the engagement is terminated in a year, she can return it to him intact.
...
That night.
Chu Wang added a few pieces of ice to the wine glass in front of him.
He picked up the red wine at hand, took out the cork, and poured it into the goblet.
The dark red wine slightly dyed the ice cubes red.
The man sat down on the wooden chair on the balcony with a glass of red wine. The mobile phone screen placed on the round table in front of him gave off a faint light in the night.
Chu Wang scanned the message sent by Cui Mingyuan lightly, put the red wine to his lips and took a sip.
He raised his head and looked at the moonlight blocked by black clouds in the night sky, his expression gloomy.
Xia Li got married.
How can it be.
