Aiya asked, "What about the bridesmaid dresses? What do you want to choose, Dior or Chanel?"
“I prefer something ethereal and fairy-like,” Chen Chen said carefully. “How about we choose a Zuhair Murad?”
“I like this one too,” Yan Han said mischievously.
After listening to them decide on their bridesmaid dresses and then discuss what shoes to wear, Ni Jingxi finally sighed and said, "You three, that's fine."
After hanging up the phone, Ni Jingxi didn't leave immediately. Instead, she gazed at the distant blue sky.
Today, Shanghai's sky was unusually clear with not a cloud in sight, and even in the afternoon, Shanghai exuded a sense of languor and complacency.
wedding……
Thinking of this, she lowered her head and shook it slightly, but finally smiled.
*
Huo Shenyan's work was not affected at all, because no one dared to go to the CEO's office to inquire about his marital status. At most, there would be a few vibrations on WeChat from time to time, which should be congratulatory messages from others.
When there was a knock on his office door, Huo Shenyan said, "Come in."
"What is it?" Huo Shenyan assumed it was Tang Mian coming in to ask about work matters.
Unexpectedly, when he looked up, he saw Xiao Yichen standing in front of him. Although Xiao Yichen had been to his office countless times, he was still looking around the entire office with great interest.
Huo Shenyan seemed to have let his guard down, leaning back lazily in his chair: "Why are you here?"
"Come and see the groom." Xiao Yichen walked closer to his desk, leaned against the edge, and picked up a document from the desk. It was entirely in German.
Xiao Yichen shook his head: "You're just too abnormal."
I've only been learning German for two years, but I can already communicate without any problems.
Xiao Yichen felt that he was not as hardworking as Huo Shenyan at work, but that was also because he didn't need to shoulder the burden of the Xiao family. He was more relaxed and carefree than Huo Shenyan.
"I really didn't expect paparazzi to be following us in Tongli." Xiao Yichen felt embarrassed that his trip to Tongli was his own idea, and that this whole thing had turned out like this.
He said, "I've spoken with the person in charge of that paparazzi studio. They've been following Su Yiheng for a long time, just wanting to get some kind of scandalous story about her. They happened to catch you two out together, so they decided to create a scandal."
Huo Shenyan looked up at him with a half-smile: "Are you trying to tell me that this has nothing to do with Su Yiheng?"
"No, I just want to say that she didn't instigate this paparazzi shoot, but she knew she was being followed and photographed, yet she deliberately led the paparazzi to Tongli, and her target was still you." Xiao Yichen may be playful, but he's actually quite clever and understands these intricacies of the business as soon as he thinks about it.
However, he still sighed when he said this, after all, Su Yiheng had indeed been playing with them since childhood.
Seeing her stray from the right path, Xiao Yichen felt helpless and heartbroken, but he wouldn't plead for her in front of Huo Shenyan. Everyone has their own choices, and once a choice is made, one must take responsibility.
This statement is a universal truth.
So he asked, "What are your plans for the future?"
Huo Shenyan: "I will try to avoid occasions where she is present."
Even in private, it's not allowed.
Xiao Yichen sighed again. It had come to this point after all. He felt helpless, but he also supported Huo Shenyan's choice. Because compared to Su Yiheng, a friend he'd known since childhood, Huo Shenyan had someone he wanted to protect even more.
Xiao Yichen played there for a while and then invited him, "Let's have dinner together tonight."
"I'm not going," Huo Shenyan refused without even thinking.
Xiao Yichen asked in surprise, "You have plans for tonight?"
"No."
Xiao Yichen: "Then why don't you go?"
"I'm going to pick up my wife from get off work." Huo Shenyan glanced at him indifferently.
Xiao Yichen: "..." He shouldn't have asked that question.
Author's Note:
Mr. Huo, please stop spreading your romance.
Tong Ge has always thought that the tradition of publishing wedding notices in the newspaper is too romantic, he just can't stand it...
Chapter 43
Her colleagues had already left work one after another. Ni Jingxi took one last look at the manuscript, finalized the photos to be used, and finally prepared to shut down her computer.
Her phone rang again. Ni Jingxi frowned, but then she saw the contact name floating on the screen.
His initially displeased expression was immediately replaced by a smile.
She picked up her phone, sat down in the chair, and answered the call: "Hello."
"Are you off work?" Huo Shenyan's voice came through the phone, mellow and deep, like a fine wine that had been aged for many years, and it was already intoxicating as soon as it sounded in my ears.
Sometimes I really feel that God is unfair; some people really have everything.
Ni Jingxi nodded: "You're off work. Do you have any social engagements tonight?"
"Come down now." Huo Shenyan chuckled softly.
Ni Jingxi was taken aback before realizing what he meant, and asked in return, "Are you downstairs?"
"Get down."
Ni Jingxi hummed in agreement, and even her other hand, which had been idle, began to move. After closing all the documents on the computer, she clicked the shutdown button and turned off the computer.
"I'll be right down."
After hanging up the phone, Ni Jingxi heard Hua Zheng lean closer mysteriously. Hua Zheng had already packed her things and even had her bag on her shoulder: "Was that your man who called?"
You, home, that, person.
What an ambiguous and intimate four words! Ni Jingxi had never heard anyone use these four words to describe Huo Shenyan before, so much so that she paused for a moment, and even her cheeks felt a little hot.
She thought she was the kind of person who could remain calm in the face of adversity and that nothing could stump her.
As a result, just those four words, "Hua Zheng," made her ears burn and her cheeks turn red. Ni Jingxi felt that this was a bit too unlike her.
Ni Jingxi looked up at Hua Zheng and nodded, then asked, "Want to come along?"
Hua Zheng Petrochemical Residence.
Ni Jingxi looked at her with a half-smile: "Didn't I say before that I would introduce you two? Why don't we do it today instead?"
"I just remembered I have something to do today and I have to go back right away, so I won't wait for you."
Hua Zheng turned and left in one swift motion, her steps light and agile.
In the blink of an eye, she had disappeared from the office.
Ni Jingxi chuckled, but there was no smugness on her face. She just felt that she was finally acting more normally.
Three minutes later, Ni Jingxi stepped into the elevator carrying her bag.
The elevator quickly arrived downstairs. She was originally planning to go to the street where he usually parked, but when she got downstairs, she saw the Bentley parked in a temporary parking space outside the building.
At this moment, many people coming out of the building saw the conspicuous Bentley.
Ni Jingxi even heard a girl walking past her exclaim in surprise: "There's a Bentley parked downstairs in our company's dilapidated building."
"Get away from this car quickly, I'm terrified to walk next to it," another girl laughed.
Ni Jingxi stood there and smiled, but in the end she quickly walked over, opened the door and got into the car.
After Ni Jingxi got into the car, she turned her head and saw a clear smile on the face of the man sitting there.
She rarely saw him so clearly pleased, and couldn't help but ask, "What's making you so happy?"
"Want to know?" Huo Shenyan stared directly at her.
Ni Jingxi had a bad feeling. Sure enough, Huo Shenyan raised his hand and pinched her earlobe, lowering his voice to say, "For something this important, you have to do something."
Ni Jingxi: "..." What kind of secret is this?
Ni Jingxi coughed lightly and changed the subject: "Then let's forget about it. You should keep this important secret to yourself."
As a result, Huo Shenyan really stopped talking.
The car started moving slowly, and the carriage fell silent. Huo Shenyan was looking down at his phone; it was already pitch black outside during the early winter rush hour.
Only the neon lights and reddish-orange streetlights along the roadside cast a faint glow on the tinted car windows.
Ni Jingxi gently turned her head to look at the man beside her. He had a faint fragrance about him, just like the smell in the car. It wasn't strong; it was somewhat ethereal and elusive.
Finally, her fingers touched the leather of the back seat and rubbed against it little by little.
Finally, I managed to get close to his thigh.
Then, as if climbing a mountain, her fingers slowly moved up the side of his thigh, one by one, until they finally touched his palm. His palm was warm to the touch.
Ni Jingxi turned her head to look at him and whispered, "Why don't you tell me something this important?"
She thought he was unhappy, so she took the initiative to coax him.
Huo Shenyan looked up from his phone, first focusing his gaze on the hand she was holding beside his, then turning to look at her.
"Please," Ni Jingxi said, blinking before he could speak.
The moment she blinked, it fell right into Huo Shenyan's eyes. At such close range, he even saw the slightest tremor of her eyelashes.
Huo Shenyan silently curled the corners of his lips, lowered his eyes and moved closer, his voice carrying a hint of seduction: "What should I call you?"
Ni Jingxi was completely stunned.
She saw him slowly, so slowly, moving closer to her until they were so close they could barely touch each other's noses.
Ni Jingxi struggled to close her eyes, and when she opened them again, her snow-white teeth unconsciously bit her lip.
Finally, she spoke: "Husband."
When she uttered that cry, it was so soft and delicate that even Ni Jingxi was taken aback.
So her voice really can be this soft.
Ni Jingxi was genuinely embarrassed and a little exasperated; this was definitely not her voice.
She could never make such a soft voice!!!
But Huo Shenyan suddenly leaned back in his chair and chuckled, and his laughter didn't stop.