After Shen Lingge carried Wen Xian onto the airplane, he left. He was afraid that if he waited any longer, he wouldn’t be able to resist following her to Licheng together.
At the moment the private plane took off, Shen Lingge’s car also gradually drove out of the airport.
Shen Lingge turned his head and silently glanced once at that plane slowly gliding across the long sky.
Wen Xian had left.
This kind of feeling was different from back then when he sent his parents abroad for convalescence.
Shen Lingge understood that if in the future Wen Xian wanted to leave, he simply wouldn’t be able to stop her, and he also wouldn’t be able to harden his heart to just confine her like this at his side.
The night color concealed Shen Lingge’s outline in the darkness, he lightly closed his eyes, both hands folded together.
Inside the car was a stretch of silence, until Shen Lingge’s phone ringtone rang.
Shen Lingge lifted his eyelids and faintly swept a glance—it was Chi Yanyu calling, his fingertip sliding across the cold screen.
Chi Yanyu: “Ge, you went to the amusement park today? Now the entire circle’s friend groups have exploded, probably quite a few people are digging into that girl’s background, you pay attention a bit.”
Shen Lingge paused: “Someone captured a photo?”
Chi Yanyu: “A wanghong [internet celebrity] took it, probably saw you somewhere before. But she didn’t dare post it on Weibo, she posted it in her WeChat Moments, in less than ten minutes it spread all over, now it’s already deleted.”
Shen Lingge knitted his brows: “Send me the photo to have a look.”
After hanging up the phone, Shen Lingge received the photo Chi Yanyu sent.
In the photo, he was tilted to the side feeding Wen Xian milk tea, the little girl lowered her head looking at a map, only revealing a small half of her face. And the person who took the photo was far away, the photo clarity wasn’t very high.
But people who knew Shen Lingge could still recognize him at a glance.
Every group that Chi Yanyu was in had gone crazy, some people even suspected that the one in the photo wasn’t Shen Lingge at all—how could Shen Lingge possibly lower himself to feed a girl milk tea to drink? Even though the photo was blurry, Shen Lingge’s gentleness and pampering practically overflowed from the screen.
Although they didn’t dare go ask Shen Lingge, they dared ask Chi Yanyu. For a time, Chi Yanyu’s phone was continuously stuck from the nonstop jumping out of messages, if you didn’t know, you’d think it was his relationship being exposed.
Chi Yanyu simply shut off his phone and went to the Shen house to block Shen Lingge.
The moment before Shen Lingge had just gotten home, the next moment Chi Yanyu arrived. He entered the door and shouted: “Ge, even our family’s Jiaojiao already knows, she even asked me if the jiejie in the photo is the one she met in Licheng.”
Saying that, Chi Yanyu suddenly remembered something.
He suspiciously glanced at Shen Lingge: “Last time in Licheng, you said there was a place to stay, could it be you were staying together with that girl?”
Shen Lingge was handling matters related to Wen Xian’s identity. Wen Tianlin and Chang Shuang’s departure was a big blow to her, he didn’t want people in the circle to bring up this matter in front of her in the future.
He glanced at Chi Yanyu: “Speaking of which, back then she found Chi Jiaojiao, you still haven’t properly thanked her. As repayment, this time’s photo matter is handed over to you to handle. I don’t want to see others posting this photo in other places later on.”
Chi Yanyu: “……”
There’s my business again?
Chi Yanyu lightly coughed, probingly asked: “What’s your relationship with this girl? If she’s my sister-in-law, I’ll definitely not shirk responsibility, as long as you say one sentence I’ll immediately go do it. If she’s someone else, then I’ll just…”
Shen Lingge’s expression was indifferent as he interrupted his words: “Future.”
Hearing this, Chi Yanyu slapped his thigh, he said excitedly: “Ge, not bad, that girl is from Licheng? I heard Jiaojiao say that girl is both pretty and rich, can she even take a fancy to your ice-block face?”
Shen Lingge: “……”
Before realizing that he liked Wen Xian, Shen Lingge had worried about what her life would be like in the future, whether she would be deceived by others, whether she would be bullied, or what kind of boyfriend she would find in the future, and so on.
But at this moment, Shen Lingge’s worries were only left with two matters.
The first matter was whether Wen Xian liked him. As long as she liked him, all other things he could solve.
The second matter was his identity, at what time he should choose to confess his identity to Wen Xian.
And these two matters seemed to be contradictory again, because he couldn’t predict Wen Xian’s reaction after knowing the truth.
Chi Yanyu saw Shen Lingge’s slightly darkened expression, and said in surprise: “That little girl really wouldn’t look down on you, right? But looking at the photo, saying you two aren’t boyfriend and girlfriend, who would believe it?”
Shen Lingge rubbed his brow: “This matter is not like you think, it can’t be explained clearly for the time being.”
Chi Yanyu patted Shen Lingge’s shoulder: “Alright, leave this matter to me. But that little girl, you really have to protect her well yourself. Aren’t you going to start overseas projects next month?”
Shen Lingge answered in a low voice: “Mm, won’t be able to come back for less than two months.”
Chi Yanyu frowned and thought for a while, his fingertip unconsciously rubbing his chin lightly. Then he sincerely suggested: “According to my experience in romance, women are creatures very good at filling in the blanks with their imagination. I suggest that no matter how busy you are in those two months, you still have to spare a bit of time to coax that girl.”
Shen Lingge let out a light sigh, before he left he must make things clear to Wen Xian. The relationship between the two of them couldn’t just keep going on ambiguously like this.
It was that he had become greedy, he wanted more.
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At this time, Xu Chuwei was still in Mingcheng. She sat expressionlessly on the sofa listening to her father’s blame from the other end of the phone: “Chuwei, how did you guarantee it with me at that time? Now how did things turn into like this? What on earth did you do?”
Xu Chuwei frowned: “Dad, I’ll find a way to make up for this matter, I won’t let my personal reasons affect the entire Xu Group.”
The voice in the receiver suddenly rose sharply: “Make up? How can you make up for it? Do you think it’s just this one project’s matter? Do you know this afternoon Shen Group sent people to talk about terminating the project? It’s all the projects with Shen Group that have all gone down the drain!”
“Now the entire company is working overtime because of this matter, how can you make up for it? Ah?”
Xu Chuwei dazedly listened to the call disconnection sound from the other end of the phone.
Shen Group stopped all cooperation projects with Xu Group?
Xu Chuwei suddenly tightened her hand holding the phone, her lips slightly moved, veins faintly popped out on her forehead. In the end, as if she couldn’t endure it, she fiercely smashed the phone onto the ground.
The screen instantly cracked.
She bit her lower lip, gritted her teeth as she spat out two words from her mouth: “Wen Xian!”
The fear in Xu Chuwei’s heart grew deeper and deeper, the thing she feared seemed to be coming true step by step. One day, Wen Xian would once again trample her underfoot.
The first time Xu Chuwei met Wen Xian was when she was six years old.
That year, her eldest uncle passed away in a car accident. Under the situation where her grandfather was seriously ill, her father took over Xu Group, and their family was able to receive an invitation to Wen Family’s little princess’s birthday party.
Xu Chuwei ever since young was someone who grew up receiving endless pampering, but when she saw Wen Xian she was still stunned, she wore a luxurious and romantic princess dress sitting on the chair, when she saw Wen Tianlin she opened her arms wanting a hug.
Snow-white, tender pink little face with a pair of lively eyes like the world’s most expensive gemstones.
She didn’t know, everyone present was all there for her.
Being able to win the little princess’s favor was being able to win Wen Tianlin’s favor.
And her father at this time crouched down seriously saying to her: “Chuwei, that is Wen shushu’s [Uncle Wen’s] daughter Wen Xian, Daddy hopes you can become friends with her.”
At that time little Xu Chuwei stared at Wen Xian for a while, she was hugging Wen Tianlin’s neck leaning on his shoulder, as if noticing her gaze, Wen Xian lifted her eyes and glanced at her once.
But with just one glance she then lazily lowered her eyelashes again.
From that time on, Xu Chuwei disliked Wen Xian, she disliked Wen Xian’s gaze.
Also from that time her father did everything possible to put her and Wen Xian together, whatever elementary school Wen Xian attended she had to attend too, whatever interest class Wen Xian learned she also had to learn.
Xu Chuwei felt like her life seemed to revolve around Wen Xian, yet she still couldn’t get close to Wen Xian, her inner pride wouldn’t allow her to bow her head to Wen Xian, Wen Xian also seemed to never remember who she was.
Until Wen Tianlin and Chang Shuang passed away.
Xu Chuwei walked to Wen Xian’s side like a savior, she finally didn’t need to look up to Wen Xian anymore, her father also wouldn’t force her to get close to Wen Xian anymore, she was free.
But the only thing Xu Chuwei didn’t expect was that Wen Xian was different from what she thought, she once thought Wen Xian was proud, overbearing, defiant of everyone, but Wen Xian was soft, pure, even innocent to a kind of laughable degree.
Xu Chuwei hazily broke free from her memories, she messily closed her eyes. Now everything Wen Xian possessed she would one by one snatch away from her side, whether it was Wen Family’s villa or Shen Lingge. [TN: She’s really about to destroy herself and for what?]
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When Wen Xian woke up she was still on the airplane, the moment she opened her eyes she subconsciously called out: “Gege.”
Duoduo saw Wen Xian wake up and first went to instruct the chef to prepare dinner, then softly responded: “Miss, we are now on the way back to Licheng, Mister is in Mingcheng.”
Wen Xian blankly looked around once, discovering she was on the airplane, her eyes drooped dispiritedly: “He secretly left me behind again, it was the same last time.”
Duoduo probed: “Miss, why are you unwilling to go to Mingcheng to work, that way you could see Mister every day.”
Wen Xian shook her head, she said in a low voice: “My home is in Licheng, my papa and mama are also in Licheng.”
Hearing this, Duoduo first paused, then she touched Wen Xian’s hair with heartache: “Miss, I said the wrong thing. As long as Miss is happy, wherever Miss wants to be is okay.”
Afterwards Wen Xian absent-mindedly finished eating dinner, she looked at the dark blue clouds outside the window lost in thought.
She remembered on the way back to the airport that day, she asked Shen Lingge whether they would get married, at that time Shen Lingge asked her back, did she like him?
Back then Wen Xian didn’t know what liking someone was, but now she understood.
Seeing him she would be happy, not seeing him she would feel down, that was liking.
Wen Xian’s silence continued all the way until after getting off the airplane.
After getting in the car Wen Xian took a deep breath, she tensed her little face to cheer herself up, after three seconds she took out her phone and edited a text message to Shen Lingge.
At this time Shen Lingge was soaking in the bathtub, in the luxurious bathroom Bach’s cello music was playing, in his hand he was also holding a tablet, on the screen were the projects Shen Group was going to launch in Licheng in the second half of this year and the first half of next year.
The text message ringtone overlapped with the music, he didn’t see immediately that text message from Wen Xian——
[21:57 Wen Xian: I want to get married.]