Young Master Shen was taking a bath with his new bed partner when he received Ying Qingcang"s call.
When he drove to Ying family, he was still confused. What did Ying Qingcang meat that Xin Qing had run away?
And then, Young Master Shen found Xin Qing stood in the middle of the road halfway up the hill, which almost scared him to death.
"Oh my goodness! Do you know how dangerous it was?" Young Master Shen wiped his sweat as driving. As a matter of fact, he had thought that he might run into a ghost, but realized it was a human at the sight of the long shadow in the moonlight, and then he found it was Xin Qing.
Xin Qing sat there in a daze without saying a word and stared at the gla.s.s in front.
"What"s wrong? Ying Qingcang called and said that you ran. What did you do on the road at midnight? Did you quarrel with each other?" Young Master Shen thought there was little possibility for them to quarrel. Ying Qingcang cherished Xin Qing so much, afraid she would be melted in his mouth. So how could Ying Qingcang bear to make her sad?
Soon, they arrived at Ying family. Ying Qingcang was waiting and looking at the gate in the distance. Seeing them arrive, Ying Qingcang ran to open the car door, eager to pull Xin Qing out of the car.
"Don"t touch me." Xin Qing spoke coldly after a long silence. She did not look at Ying Qingcang and went straight to her room after getting off the car.
Young Master Shen latched on to Ying Qingcang"s arms who was about to catch up with Xin Qing and whispered to him, "What"s wrong? You were caught up with another woman on the bed by Xiao Qingqing, weren"t you?" Young Master Shen joked. Out of his expectation, Ying Qingcang"s face was as black as ink, his bloodshot eyes crammed with fury.
"Oh my G.o.d! Did you sleep with another girl?" Young Master Shen covered his mouth. Ying Qingcang shook off his hands and said, "I was set up by someone else." He hastened to find Xin Qing in the room.
Young Master Shen chased up with him in a few steps. "Set up? Where? This is your home... Ah, Jasmine?"
"She doesn"t have this courage." A glint of acridity crossed Ying Qingcang"s eyes. "I will go and explain to Qingqing first."
The moment both of them entered the house, they saw Jasmine crying to Ying Hao.
"What happened?" Ying Hao was still wearing pajamas, and it seems that he was woken up.
Ying Qingcang stared at him coldly and said, "You"d better not let me know that it has something to do with you. Otherwise, you will wait to see the Ying family without offspring!"
"What are you talking about?" Ying Hao trembled with rage. "Jasmine said that she came out to have a bottle of water and met you. But you hugged her into the house to go to bed with her. Are you crazy? What do you want Xin Qing to think?"
Jasmine cried more fiercely at the words and said, "Sobs... But for Xin Qing who had rushed in suddenly, I... I would have... have been... been... sobs..."
"Didn"t make it?" Young Master Shen laughed and said, "Well, why are you crying? You"re not a virgin."
Jasmine was so angry that she wanted to bite him to death. Ying Hao knitted his eyebrows and reprimanded, "Well, how can you speak in that way?"
"You should go up and see Xin Qing. Let me see how you explain!" With a second thought, Ying Hao added, "And then you should also explain to Jasmine."
Ying Qingcang took a deep look at him, turned around and went upstairs for Xin Qing.
"What are you doing?" Ying Qingcang pushed the door open and saw Xin Qing packing her things. He hurriedly covered the suitcase and said. "Listen to me, and I don"t know what happened. I thought it was you."
Xin Qing sneered and answered, "Well, you should have a pair of gla.s.ses."
"No, believe me. I thought she was you at that time." Ying Qingcang wanted to cuddle her, but Xin Qing took a step back and said in disgust, "Don"t touch me with your dirty hands."
Ying Qingcang went blank with an injured look in his eyes, and said, "Believe me. I was drugged by someone else. Besides, I suspect that all the coincidences happening recently are contrived by someone, that is, the one who kidnapped you. And his goal is me."
A fl.u.s.tered look flashed on Xin Qing"s face, but quickly she pushed Ying Qingcang away with coldness. She said, "I only believe what I saw." And then, she took up her luggage, ready to leave.
"Don"t I deserve you trust?" Ying Qingcang felt hurt, since he had been irritated because of being calculated, and Xin Qing did not believe him at all.
Xin Qing left a sentence without looking back. "What do you have to deserve my trust?"
When she got downstairs, she looked at Young Master Shen and said, "Could you give me a ride?"
"Is it worthwhile?" Young Master Shen did not joke and said seriously, "He was framed. Don"t you know him?"
Xin Qing compresses her lips and said, "Fine, I will go myself."
"Wait!" Young Master Shen stopped her, and gave a questioning look at Ying Qingcang when seeing him going down. Then, Ying Qingcang nodded.
Shen Gongzi took Xin Qing"s suitcase and said, "I will send you out."
Ying Enterprises Headquarters.
Ying Qingcang looked at the materials submitted by Young Master Shen and said, "They are all right."
"Yes, all the accidents that have happened recently,and all the people involved in them, we have checked them all. But we can"t find anything suspicious."
Ying Qingcang rubbed the middle of his eyebrow, leaned against the chair and said, "Did I think wrong?"
"I think the problem now is how to bring Xiao Qingqing back." Young Master Shen took a glance at Ying Qingcang and continued to say, "Besides, you"d better not stay up any longer. Take a good rest. You know you look like a ghost now."
Hearing the name of Xin Qing, Ying Qingcang felt his heart gave a fierce drop. Since she left Ying family that night, she went to Shi Qianqian"s home. Ying Qingcang went to see her almost every night, but she didn"t see him at all.
"What"s wrong with Xiao Qingqing?" Young Master Shen felt strange. "She doesn"t look like an irrational person. It was clear that you were framed. Why doesn"t she forgive you?"
Ying Qingcang closed his eyes for a while and then opened to look at Young Master Shen. He said, "I think, she wants to leave me."
"How come? There is an agreement between you. Well, why doesn"t Uncle Ying urge you now? You haven"t been with Xiao Qingqing for 3 months."
"I feel many things go wrong, but cannot tell where it is wrong." There was a rare expression on Ying Qingcang"s face. He had never been so pa.s.sive as now.
Young Master Shen stood up and said, "I will check it again. The New Year is coming. You must manage to bring Xiao Qingqing back."
"I go to see the old fellow now."
Ying Hao looked at Ying Qingcang peevishly and said, "You are going to stare at me like this?" Ying Qingcang came to his room at night without saying a word.
"Why don"t you worry at all?" Ying Qingcang surveyed his father obscurely. "Qingqing has gone. And there is no full moon night any more. Don"t you worry about the Ancestral Behest?"
Ying Hao heaved out a sigh and said, "Does it work if I worry about it?" He added after thinking for a moment, "I think, since you don"t believe the Ancestral Behest, how about taking this chance to give it a try."
"It would be better if Xin Qing came back. If not, and you"re fine, it will show that the Ancestral Behest is deceptive. But... If there is something wrong in Ying family, whether she is willing or not, she has to come back to implement the agreement."
"What else is in your heart besides Ying family?" Ying Qingcang said with a look of sarcasm.
Ying Hao shrugged his shoulder with indifference. "I have no other choice! Since you are unwilling to a.s.sume the responsibility, I have to take now!"
"Huh... The Ying family will be ruined in your hands sooner or later." Ying Qingcang groaned, stood up and left.
At the end of the year, snow came later than previous years in S City. Xin Qing sat on the window and looked at the white snow outside. Shi Qianqian walked up to her and sighed. "You haven"t eaten anything yet, and your health will break down."
With a pale face and dark rims of eyes, Xin Qing looked rather haggard. She looked back at Shi Qianqian emptily and spoke after a long time, "I miss Ah Sha..."
"I think you"re not only missing Ah Sha!" Shi Qianqian gave a warm milk tea into her hands and said, "Why are you bothering to do it? Will I ask him to come here?"
Xin Qing grabbed her arm and shouted emotionally, "Don"t! Don"t."
"Well, then you promise me to eat well, and don"t live such a half dead life." Shi Qianqian said with a solemn face, "You should go to talk to him clearly. If you decide to break up with him, you should live well from now on. What"s your dream? How about your designer"s dream?"
Xin Qing"s slackened eyes began focussing. Since she had made up her mind, she had to cheer up. She took a deep breath and said, "I know. I will contact the French side and go to study there after the New Year."
"Decided?" Shi Qianqian looked at her and said, "How about Ying Qingcang? You just leave here, but he is bound to find you every day. Where can you hide?"
Xin Qing bowed her head and looked at the round circle on the top of the milk tea, which seemed to be a messy relationship between her and Ying Qingcang...
On the early morning of the Spring Festival"s Eve, Ying Qingcang decided to go to Ding family to find Xin Qing. He even brought his luggage. If Xin Qing was reluctant to come back, he would stay there as well.
However, he was about to leave when Ying Hao ran out of his room hastily. "Hurry up! Pack up your things and return to the UK. There is something wrong with your grandfather."
Ying Qingcang"s grandfather had a stroke suddenly for no reason, but fortunately, he was sent to hospital in time. When Ying Qingcang came to see him, he had become conscious.
Ying Qingcang had been waiting for three days before his grandfather"s condition stabilized. And then, he hastened to return to S City. To his delight, Xin Qing asked for a talk with him face to face.
Intentionally or not, Ying Qingcang asked Xin Qing to meet on the beach where he proposed marriage to her. The sea in the winter was deep and dark. Without the sunlight, the sea lost its elegance and beauty and was connected with the grey sky in the horizon, which exactly reflected how they felt at that moment.
"I am going to study in France." This was the first sentence that Xin Qing said to him.
Ying Qingcang had not seen her for a long time, so he stared at her face with greed. Hearing her words, he replied subconsciously, "Okay, I will go with you."
"I am going alone." Xin Qing shook her head.
Ying Qingcang frowned and said, "Do you still not believe me? By when will you stop being difficult with me?"
"I am not difficult with you. I have thought about it. Does the Ying family"s Ancestral Behest say we love each other because of the Totems on us? Did we suspect it before?"
Ying Qingcang interrupted her and said, "I didn"t... "
"Let me finish." Xin Qing shook her hand as she said, "Well, let"s prove it. I will leave for two years. And then, let"s see whether we will still love each other."
Ying Qingcang stared at her. "If I still love you two years later?"
"Then I will marry you." Xin Qing opened her palm, and the ring that Ying Qingcang used to propose on it. "This, you take it back first."
Ying Qingcang did not move and just stared at her deeply, as if to see through her mind, the deepest thought in her heart.
"Have you really thought it clearly? And decided to do so?" At last, Ying Qingcang opened his mouth and said. It had been such a long time that Xin Qing herself was going to surrender in his gaze.