Lang Ruoxian looks behind Yan Hua immediately and feels relieved when he finds Yan Hua coming back without Fei Shan"s accompanying. But when he sees that Yan Hua smile faintly, he can"t feel relaxed any more.
That is an indifferent and not caring smile.
"Hi." Lang Ruoxian picks up Gungun.
Yan Hua nods. "Are you going out?"
"No... I just come out to pick you up." Lang Ruoxian releases one hand and takes the suitcase. "Let"s go and eat first."
Gungun doesn"t perceive the strange atmosphere between the two adults. He changes clothes and eats noodles with soybean paste at the dinner table. When he was abroad he required to eat this kind of noodle every day, and was only willing to eat what the house maids made at home.
"Eat first, then after the meal we shall talk." Yan Hua picks up the chopsticks and glances at Lang Ruoxian. "I"m hungry, too."
Lang Ruoxian looks at her. "Okay."
After finishing eating, there is a circle of soybean paste around Gungun"s mouth. Lang Ruoxian wipes Gungun"s mouth and then picks him up. "Take your time. I"ll take him to take a bath first."
"Thank you." Yan Hua hesitates for a second and nods.
When she finishes eating, she returns to her room. Gungun has already fallen asleep. Lang Ruoxian is helping her pack.
"Do you still know this?" Yan Hua smiles to take the clothes over and puts them into the cloakroom. "I"ll do it."
Lang Ruoxian watches at her side, and says until Yan Hua finishes her work, "Let"s have a talk?"
"Okay." Yan Hua pushes open the balcony door. At this moment the night wind is lukewarm and comfortable.
"You have seen the reports. Qiang Di and I are just friends. She has a very serious allergy history. If she eats a little pineapple, she will go to the hospital. This time the situation was comparatively dangerous, so I went to visit her."
Lang Ruoxian looks at her and says, "Sorry, I should have told you the truth from the beginning."
This is what he regrets most, but he can"t say too much about Qiang Di now. Lang Ruoxian can only be careful and asks Yan Hua with expectant eyes. "Do you believe me?"
"You asked me before, and I said I believed you." Yan Hua sits on the swing chair and swings with her tiptoes touching the floor, and the little mermaid earrings beside her ears shake with her movement.
Lang Ruoxian can"t help reaching out and touching the earrings. Yan Hua tilts her head slightly. "But what will be if I believe you?"
She exerts her strength on her tiptoes and the swing chair swings to dodge Lang Ruoxian"s hand.
"I believe you don"t like her and now you two are not lovers. But you protected her publicly and privately. You took care of her and served for her." Yan Hua tilts her head.
"If you are my boyfriend now, I"m sorry. I can understand that you are so-called bosom friends, or you two have a sibling relationship. But I can"t accept my boyfriend has such a so-called bosom friend, sister, or other..."
Yan Hua looks at the stars in the sky, which are untouchable in the distance. "I am selfish, sorry."
"Hua..." Deep pain emerges in Lang Ruoxian"s eyes. "No, the situation between Qiang Di and I is special, you..."
"So I don"t ask you to break up with her." Yan Hua smiles.
Lang Ruoxian"s heart grows colder and colder. He clenches his fist and asks, "But you won"t accept me like this, will you?"
"Yes." Yan Hua nods calmly, "In fact, we have never been together. It is not too late to withdraw this step before taking it."
When she turns to leave, Lang Ruoxian grabs her. "If I tell you about Qiang Di, will you allow me to keep contact with her?"
"It depends on what matter it is." Yan Hua thinks. "Or we may say, it depends on whether we can become friends. But... are you sure you want to tell me?"
She pushes Lang Ruoxian"s hand aside. "If you really wanted to say it, you would tell me immediately when the reports came out."
"I"m not saying I don"t want to say..." Lang Ruoxian"s temperament begins to change. Coldness is around him and he is in a towering rage from head to toe.
Yan Hua looks at him. "You just can"t say that."
She knows that Lang Ruoxian has a secret, which may be related to many people. Once exposed, it may bring about earth-shaking blows and changes.
"Then don"t say it." Yan Hua really doesn"t want to know.
She does not want to break the current peace. Maybe it is better to know nothing than knowing the truth...
"Calm down. Are you going to hit me?" Yan Hua doesn"t know why she has some impulse to laugh.
She remembers when she first came to Lang"s mansion, she was scared to death to see such Lang Ruoxian. Now she is not afraid at all probably because she knows that this man won"t hurt her.
"You see, I am such a selfish person, and I have no scruples because you like me." She laughs aloud. "It"s too late. I"m sleepy."
Lang Ruoxian suddenly hugs her. "It doesn"t matter. If you withdraw one step, I"ll take another step forward. I won"t force you. I won"t let you have no way out. I"ll stay where I am and guard you."
"Go to sleep..." Yan Hua pats his arm.
Lang Ruoxian leaves the room and Yan Hua sits on the bed, staring blankly. She doesn"t know how long has pa.s.sed, but she finds herself crying.
"Alas..." No matter how she says she doesn"t care. In fact, she still minds in her heart.
She washes and pats her face. "Forget it. Sleep!"
Lang Consortium"s employees are scared to go to work these days because their boss is full of negative energy. He doesn"t look different from what he is at ordinary time. But his eyes are so cold that anyone can freeze to death when being stared at.
"Do you think our boss is lovelorn?" Two female employees in the pantry are muttering.
The other one rolls her eyes. "How can it be possible? Our boss is such an unattainable man that he won"t like any woman."
"Do you mean he likes men?"
"Nonsense! I mean, he shouldn"t like people. He should be a supernatural being who stays too high to reach and we should look at him with reverence. No matter who likes him any way, it"s not up to us."
Another one nods and changes the topic. "Have you seen micro blog this morning? Fei Shan"s post."
"I"ve seen it! I"ve seen it!" The female staff excitedly hops a little bit. "He posts on micro blog early this morning to explain what happened at the airport last night. But the last sentence is simply a confession..."
"Yes! He says that Yan Hua is a very good woman. If he really falls in love with her, he will certainly tell everyone. d.a.m.n! What does Fei Shan mean? What does he mean? Does he show love from a distance..."
The other one is about to continue to hop but her facial expression suddenly changes and she stammers and walks backward.
"Lang... Mr. Lang..."
Lang Ruoxian stands at the door and glances at the two women. "Is your work very idle?"
"No, no! Very busy, very busy." The two women say and slip out from the side.
Shu Sheng is sorting out doc.u.ments in the office when he sees Lang Ruoxian come in. He wants to say that they can go to the meeting. But he sees Lang Ruoxian sit on the sofa and take out his mobile phone.
Fei Shan"s post on micro blog also makes headlines this morning. He said that he came across Yan Hua last night at the airport when she came back from a vacation with his brother and sister-in-law. And then he says that...
"Yan Hua is a very good woman. If we fall in love, we will definitely tell everyone!"
It is just this sentence that makes his fans over-boiled. At first, some people go to the micro blog of Yan Hua"s foundation to scold her why a widow like her hooks up with Fei Shan, and also say a lot of words discriminating against women.
Now some feminists don"t agree with them. What"s wrong with widows? Widows are not human? Then, some female groups begin to support Yan Hua because they like the foundation. Finally, someone concludes that talented Fei Shan and beautiful Yan Hua are made for each other and people ship them.
"Haha..." Lang Ruoxian drops his mobile phone, turns to stare at Shu Sheng and asks, "Fei Shan and I, who is more handsome?"
Shu Sheng is embarra.s.sed.
"Of course, Young Master looks better than him."
Lang Ruoxian asks again, "Do he and Yan Hua really match well?"
"No, I think Miss Yan and Young Master match better."
Lang Ruoxian is satisfied. Then he picks up his mobile phone and looks on. As a result, his face becomes darker.
"Yan Hua is so beautiful that my brother is not worthy of her! Of course, it would be better if they are together. Muah!" Fei Ying forwards the micro blog post and leaves this sentence.
The netizens are even crazier now. If even their family agree, what are these two people waiting for? Be together quickly! So netizens go to Fei Shan and Yan Hua"s micro blogs to flood the screen.
A series of replies call for their being together.
Lang Ruoxian is almost going mad and uses his alt account to leave messages.
"They don"t match at all."
"Yan Hua doesn"t like him."
"Are you all blind?"
Unfortunately, his posts are soon flooded into the corner and ignored.
Pa! This time the mobile phone is sc.r.a.pped directly.
"Young Master..." Shu Sheng picks up his mobile phone. "I"ll get you a new one."
When Lang Ruoxian is going mad, Yan Hua is chatting with Fei Ying on WeChat.
"You see, netizens all think you two match each other especially well!"
Yan Hua asks, "Didn"t you say that Lang Ruoxian and I matched well?"
Fei Ying answers, "That was before. He dared to cheat you to date another woman. It was inexcusable!"
Yan Hua feels helpless, "You have changed so quickly…"
Fei Ying says, "No, do you want to consider my brother?"
Yan Hua replies, "The wind is too strong to hear what you said!"
Logging out from WeChat, she receives a phone call from Fei Shan.
"Hi! Are you free?"
Yan Hua says sourly, "Do you want to make headlines recently?"
"Haha! I am telling the truth." Fei Shan says hastily, "I accidentally left my hat with you. Have you seen it?"
"I know. I"ve helped you pack it and I shall send it to your brother"s tomorrow."
Fei Shan whoops, "No, look, in order to protect you to get through the close siege, my feet got swollen from being stepped on. You should treat me with a meal!"
"Those reporters came because of you." Yan Hua says coldly, "You were the culprit."
Fei Shan chuckles. "But they recognized you."
In the end, Yan Hua can"t resist his entanglement and promises to have dinner with him tomorrow. She takes Gungun with her. If only she and Fei Shan are photographed by reporters, they will really be unable to clarify their relationship. As soon as they arrive at the hotel, Fei Ying emerges and runs away with Gungun and Xiaojiu.
"We shall go to the opposite mall to play, and you"ll find us later!"
Yan Hua calls Gungun twice, but Gungun waves his small hand at her and says, "Mommy, pick me up later!"
Yes, Yan Hua has to go in by herself.
"My sister-in-law has gone?" Fei Shan puts on an act to say, "Really, I didn"t even know she followed me secretly."
Yan Hua glances at him. "Haha…"
Then she throws the hat over.
"Sit down, please. Sit down, please. Those foods should all be what you like to eat." Fei Shan pours her a gla.s.s of juice. "Look, I don"t want to do anything, or I"ll need red wine."
Yan Hua is amused by him. "Seriously, do you have something to say to me?"
"Yes." Fei Shan looks serious. "What I said on micro blog before is true. I like you and I want to pursue you!"