Obviously not.
Bie Yunzong sighed sadly, shook his head and lamented, "It's over, I'm destined to never like anyone."
"I'm sorry, Mom, I might be destined to be a bachelor for the rest of my life!"
The words had barely left his mouth when the heavy glass door of the office was pushed open. A gust of autumn wind blew in, snapping Bie Yunzong back to reality, only to find himself caught in the crossfire of a boy walking out.
...It truly is overflowing with emotion.
The boy staggered half a step to his feet, then smiled apologetically at Bie Yunzong and said, "I'm sorry."
Bie Yunzong's eyes widened in an instant. His mind, which had been filled with all sorts of chaotic thoughts, suddenly went blank. In his daze, only three words remained: So beautiful.
He's so handsome, so good-looking.
The boy was so handsome that Bie Yunzong couldn't take her eyes off him and could only let her gaze linger on him.
The autumn wind blew in gusts, but Bie Yunzong didn't feel cold. She only kept thinking how handsome the boy was. He was so bright, it was as if he was the only one shining in the whole world. He was so bright, it was as if the invisible wind blowing over him would be tinged with a unique and beautiful color.
He is so handsome.
Unable to hear what Bie Yunzong was thinking, the boy politely bowed and walked forward. Unbeknownst to him, Bie Yunzong's gaze followed him the entire time, watching him nervously rub his arms and shiver, his neck hunched.
That figure was slender and fragile, giving the impression of being weak and vulnerable, yet also conveying an absolute sense of resilience and unwavering strength. Bie Yunzong, who had always been willful and self-centered, suddenly felt an urge to drape his jacket over the boy's shoulders.
He hated that he was wearing a hoodie today!
By the time he realized what was happening, the boy had already turned into the stairwell. He snapped out of his daze and quickly started walking—
"Xiao Zong, why are you standing outside instead of coming in?" Cheng Xiaohui grabbed her son, who was standing dumbfounded outside the door. "Aren't you cold? Mom was worried you weren't dressed warmly enough when you went out to play, so I specially brought you a jacket. Do you want to put it on?"
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"coat?"
Bie Yunzong's eyes lit up as he scanned the room and quickly found the coat rack.
He grabbed his coat, and without offering an explanation, he ran downstairs, shouting, "Mom, I'm not eating tonight! You're on your own!"
Why, why?
Cheng Xiaohui tried to catch him again, but his youngest son was even more agile than a well-trained police dog, and in the blink of an eye he had disappeared.
"Xiao Zong, where are you going?"
"I'm going to pursue love!" Bie Yunzong excitedly shouted to his mother as he came downstairs, "Mom, please stop arranging blind dates for me, I've already—I've already met my dream lover!"
“That’s how it is.” Cheng Xiaohui finished recounting the whole story.
The events of seven years ago, when brought up again now, seem so coincidental and interesting that they don't feel like they were actually there. The people in the living room remained silent for a long time. Surprisingly, the first to react wasn't Zong Xizhi, who was directly involved, but Cai Yuyan.
"What a wonderful twist of fate!" Cai Yuyan clapped her hands in admiration and gave her sister-in-law a thumbs up. "Yanxi, you and Yunzong are truly destined for each other! The red thread between you two probably wasn't tied by the God of Marriage, but rather you were connected from birth!"
Bie Yunzong scratched the back of his head and sighed, "Sister-in-law, you flatter me. I just fell in love with my wife at first sight!"
Bie Congrui chuckled and dismissed the idea: "Was it lust at first sight?"
The one who remained stunned for a long time was Su Yanxi. He stared blankly for a long time before finally realizing what was happening and exclaiming in realization.
"So this is what Qi Xiang'an was talking about."
Author's Note:
Fate is such that the mother-in-law and son both fell in love with the same person at first sight!
Dog: I'm awesome, I fell in love with my wife at first sight!
Su Su: Brother is right, it's just lust at first sight.
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Thank you Youyou for the 13 bottles of peach whiskey!
On the last day of 2021, I wish everyone could clap their hands and let bad luck go! 2022 is a new year, may everyone have double the luck!
Happy New Year! Happy 2022!
#42 I'm so scared now, we really were going in both directions!
On the way back after dinner, Su Yanxi seemed absent-minded.
The dazzling street scene outside the car window was indeed beautiful, but after observing his wife for a while, Bie Yunzong realized that she had no interest in appreciating the scenery and was just staring blankly into space. So Bie Yunzong tried to call her gently.
"Wife?" He held their cat son and poked his wife's neck with the cat's soft head. "What are you spacing out about?"
Su Yanxi snapped out of her daze and took the cat from her: "It's nothing."
Didn't you eat well at dinner?
"No, I ate a good dinner." Su Yanxi still looked thoughtful. "I had a good dinner, and I told my parents what I needed to tell them and asked my brother to take care of the things I needed to ask him to do."
Tonight was quite enjoyable. I had a good dinner, lots of drinks, and a pleasant chat with my brother and sister-in-law. My in-laws even asked him about the film crew's situation, how they were revising the script after the casting change, and whether the crew was managing. If they were too busy, they said they had a bunch of reliable and talented screenwriters they could recommend for help.
Bie Yunzong patted his chest proudly and replied: I thought of this for my wife a long time ago, and I've already found someone!
As for Qi Xiang'an's matter, the eldest brother has already agreed to help investigate. If, as Zong hope and the other two suspect, Qi Xiang'an is indeed the "son" who has severed ties with the fallen big tiger, then this matter is indeed very complicated and difficult to investigate; even Bie Congrui, who is usually omnipotent and has informants all over the world, said that it might take him a week.
A week was indeed too long for the decisive Bie Congrui. But Su Yanxi felt it was alright; as long as he could find out Qi Xiang'an's background, he was willing to wait half a year.
"Since everything is fine, why are you still staring blankly?" Bie Yunzong took the opportunity to touch his wife's pretty face. "Cheer up, this is making me quite worried."
"I'm not unhappy, I'm just..."
Su Yanxi pressed her temples.
"Never mind, I'll tell you when we get home."
Upon arriving home, Su Yanxi didn't even take her bag; she simply picked up the cat and got out of the car, heading upstairs. Bie Yunzong carried his wife's bag, following behind her like a dog accompanying its owner on a shopping trip, and together they entered the bedroom's walk-in closet.
Su Yanxi put down Nubi and rummaged through several wardrobes storing old clothes for a while before finally taking out a black and white baseball-style jacket.
“It’s this dress.” Su Yanxi said with deep emotion, “The day we first met, you draped it over my shoulders.”
At first glance, the jacket looks no different from an ordinary school baseball uniform, except that the fabric is better and the tailoring is more refined. But upon closer inspection, you will find that the LOUIS VUITTON logo is printed on the left chest of the jacket.
Because of this trademark, the night Su Yanxi wore the clothes back to her dormitory, it attracted great attention and curiosity from her roommates.
"You suddenly appeared behind me and insisted on giving me your clothes. I panicked, afraid that others would misunderstand me further if they saw the brand label on the clothes, so I politely told you no, I'm not cold."
Recalling the scene of their first meeting, a smile appeared in Su Yanxi's eyes.
"Who knew that after hearing what I said, you got even more excited. You said that you saw me shivering and that I was dressed too thinly. In short, you insisted that I accept your clothes."
"I was afraid that making too much noise would attract attention, so I could only thank you in return and accept the clothes after exchanging contact information with you."
Bie Yunzong listened with smug satisfaction, proudly raising his head: "Am I amazing? I was thinking that I had to give you the clothes—only by giving them to me could I get your contact information and potentially develop a relationship with you."
"Yes, you're really something. You made me get questioned all night by my gossipy roommates after I got back to the dorm."
Su Yanxi poked her husband on the head in annoyance.
"I was planning to return it to you the next day, but I couldn't find the opportunity. My mother probably discovered your feelings for me around that time and was secretly encouraging it. Until we moved in together, this dress was always with me."
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After so many years, Bie Yunzong no longer liked wearing them, so the clothes were naturally treated as collectibles by Zongxi and the other two and put away in the wardrobe in the dressing room.
Su Yanxi touched the soft sleeves of the jacket and sighed bitterly, "It's a good thing I waited that day. If I hadn't, this jacket would probably have been draped over Qi Xiang'an's shoulders, right?"
All assumptions about "what if" in the world are actually quite unreasonable. Because facts are facts, facts have already happened and cannot be changed, so thinking about "what if" or "what if" seems extremely absurd.
Su Yanxi understood the reasoning, but he just couldn't shake off the lingering fear. Just imagining a world where "what if" existed made his scalp tingle and his heart pound.
"Hey, after all this, so this is what you were afraid of?" Bie Yunzong suddenly realized, stepped forward and put his arm around his wife's waist, "There aren't so many 'what ifs' in this world."
"I know." Su Yanxi hung the clothes back in the closet. "I'm just really scared..."
Surprisingly, Bie Yunzong didn't try to coax Su Yanxi with his smooth talk or various tricks. Instead, he circled Su Yanxi in silence for a while before starting a new topic.
"Yanxi, do you know why I was so angry and furious last time?"
"The last time was... the time we argued in Guangcheng, when you were so angry that you disappeared?" Su Yanxi didn't understand Bie Yunzong's intention in bringing it up again. "Wasn't it because you were angry that I lied to you, that I initially treated you like a meal ticket, and that you doubted whether I ever truly loved you?"
"What, are you going to use this opportunity to bring up old grievances today?"
“No.” Bie Yunzong looked at Su Yanxi with unusual seriousness and said, “What really makes me angry is your lack of self-respect.”
"Oh no... it's not that you lack self-respect, if you didn't, you wouldn't be so restrained. What I did was..."
Bie Yunzong's expressive ability is rather poor. He stammered for a long time but couldn't think of a suitable word, so he simply stopped describing it.
"Anyway, I'm just very angry—and very scared. I'm not angry that you treated me like a meal ticket, I'm angry that you had that mentality; I was happy that you found me, and we went with the flow and got together, but what if you hadn't found me?"
"What if you find a despicable scoundrel, even worse than that beast Cheng Zhuo?"
This is what makes Bie Yunzong most angry and puzzled.
It wasn't that he couldn't understand his wife's mindset at the time, nor that he couldn't accept being used as a meal ticket by a beautiful woman in his early days. He was just afraid—afraid that his wife might be accidentally ruined and dragged into a real abyss.
The thought that if his wife hadn't met him, she might have become some other bad person, or even a disgusting, pot-bellied middle-aged man, made Bie Yunzong feel terrible and so depressed that he couldn't eat.
Upon hearing this, Su Yanxi raised her hand and tapped the stinky dog on the head: "What kind of strange hypothetical scenario is this?"
His wife, not knowing her strength, was caught off guard and hit so hard she saw stars. She quickly covered her head and acted pitiful and coquettish.
"Honey! Aren't you afraid of knocking me silly?"
"It's better if you're stupid, so you won't have to do these pointless fantasies every day!" Su Yanxi lightly punched the stinky dog's chest again. "What kind of scumbag is this? Do you think my eyes are just for show? Don't I have any taste? Don't I know how to pick people?"
Bie Yunzong rubbed his head: "...What do you mean?"
"What I mean is, even if I initially treated you as a meal ticket and mistakenly thought that your kindness towards me was an attempt to keep me as your sugar daddy, I still accepted you after careful selection and consideration, and was willing to let you occupy a place by my side and become my 'long-term meal ticket'."
"If it were anyone else, do you think I would ignore them?"
Don't let him blink his dog-like eyes as if he doesn't quite understand.
Su Yanxi clicked her tongue in exasperation: "Do you really think I only have one rich young master pursuing me?"
"Who?" Bie Yunzong was on high alert. "Who dares to chase you? Tell me, and I'll twist their head off!"
Su Yanxi looked at him like he was a little fool, and gently patted the silly dog's head: "Still haven't figured out the logical relationship?"
Bie Yunzong then realized what was going on, and chuckled, "Oh, I get it, I get it! It means I was also chosen by my wife after all her hard work! Although she initially saw me as a meal ticket, it's really because she likes and values me!"