1578 Jealousy (1)
After school in the evening, before Chi Shuyan could take a taxi, a familiar car drove into her line of sight and stopped beside her. The window rolled down to reveal the man’s familiar cold and hard face. Before Chi Shuyan could react, she heard the man’s deep voice. “Get in!”
Seeing that she didn’t get into the car even after a long while, Qi Zhenbai’s eyes darkened and his gentle face stiffened for a moment. He gently flicked the prayer beads on his left wrist, while the knuckles of his left hand on the steering wheel turned slightly white. He pursed his thin lips; his eyebrows were really sharp and abnormally cold.
Fortunately, it wasn’t long before Chi Shuyan moved. She opened the car door and sat in the passenger seat. Only then did the cold and ruthless face of the man in the driver’s seat improve significantly, and there was some warmth in his eyes. As he drove, he said, “Grandpa isn’t resting now. It’s the right time to go over!”
Chi Shuyan nodded. “Oh!”
In fact, it wasn’t that she had really forgotten. She felt that the old man was fine. Instead, she was thinking about how she didn’t have a good relationship with the man next to her, but he came looking for her every day.
Since he had already driven over, however, she simply nodded and went to see Grandpa.
She had promised Brother Feng she wouldn’t mess around, and planned to let nature take its course with the man next to her. If the two of them could really make up, she wouldn’t reject it.
Moreover, after the man lost control several times last time, she could tell that his feelings for her might not be as shallow as she thought, but were conversely much deeper. When she had sent him messages before, which he didn’t reply to, she had thought that he was deliberately avoiding her and didn’t want to have contact with her. Now that she thought about it, she had most likely misunderstood.
But thinking about letting nature take its course with the man again was one thing, while for it to actually happen was another. The two of them hadn’t seen each other for so long, and were now distant. For a moment, she really didn’t know what to say to him.
Seeing the man purse his thin lips and drive seriously, she didn’t disturb him. She rolled down the window and propped her elbow on it to look at the tall buildings and traffic outside.
The atmosphere in the car was very quiet.
Chi Shuyan didn’t notice that after she looked out the window, the man next to her kept looking at her with a dark gaze.
Not long after, the car stopped in front of a restaurant. Seeing the car suddenly stop, Chi Shuyan thought that they had arrived at the hospital. Who would have thought that the car would actually stop in front of a restaurant?
Chi Shuyan immediately tilted her head and heard the man say in a low voice, “You just got out of school. Have dinner first before you go see Grandpa!”
Qi Zhenbai had always been an overbearing person. After speaking, he got out of the car and opened the door for her, gesturing for her to get out.
If the man had brought this up in the car earlier, Chi Shuyan would have most likely refused and said that there was no need to trouble him. However, the car stopped in front of the restaurant and the man got out, so Chi Shuyan followed.
Entering the restaurant with the man, there was nothing unusual on Chi Shuyan’s face, but she felt a little strange in her heart.
She followed the man’s footsteps. At first, the two of them walked side by side, but in the end, she wasn’t as tall as he was, let alone as big. Not long after, she fell behind the man. She wasn’t in a hurry, and slowly followed behind him as she carefully examined the layout of the restaurant and its furnishings.
Not long after, the man suddenly stopped. When she caught up, his footsteps were still steady, but much slower, as if he was deliberately keeping pace with her.
Chi Shuyan couldn’t help but look at Qi Zhenbai next to her. When they entered the private room, the man and woman sat opposite each other in silence for a while. The atmosphere was a bit stiff and awkward.
If she had known earlier, she would have sat in the common area on the first floor to eat.
There were many people in the common area on the first floor. Even if the two of them didn’t speak, the atmosphere wouldn’t be too awkward. Chi Shuyan simply looked at the things on the table, found the menu, and handed it to him to order. “I’m not picky, just order! I’ll eat anything!”
“Mm!” The man hummed indifferently, took the menu, and flipped it open. Not long after, the waitress came in to order. Chi Shuyan relaxed when she saw that the man opposite her didn’t ask her any more questions. Almost all the dishes he ordered were her favorites.
In the end, before the waitress left, the man exhorted again, “Other than the soups, make the other dishes a little more spicy!”
The waitress immediately said that she would remember, and left the private room.
Chi Shuyan had mixed feelings and felt diffident.
She didn’t expect that after so long, he would still remember what she liked to eat so clearly. He didn’t even forget her preference for spice. On the other hand, she almost hadn’t recognized him the first time she saw him in a while. In comparison, she was like a scumbag.
The more Chi Shuyan thought about it, the more diffident and uncertain she felt. She said awkwardly, “Just order your favorite dishes. Don’t worry about me! I’m not picky!”
As soon as she said that, Chi Shuyan felt the other party look at her a few more times. Thinking of how picky she had been in the past, she felt even more diffident. She simply took out her phone and prepared to play games or surf the web.
She took out her phone and scrolled through the Internet for a while. She was about to open a game, but because she hadn’t logged out of WeChat, she would immediately receive notifications if someone sent her a message.
She realized that many people had sent her WeChat messages, such as her teacher and Fan Yin. Even Jing Hengran was looking for her. Looking at her WeChat, it seemed that he had just found out that she had just come into contact with the Fan family today, and was anxious to talk to her about the spirit tea.
After skimming the messages, she started to reply to them. Of course, she chose to reply to her teacher’s message first. As for Fan Yin’s message, it wasn’t anything important and was just a greeting, so she just sent him a random emoji.
Her eyes darkened when she read Jing Hengran’s message. However, she couldn’t explain the matter of the spirit tea on WeChat for the time being, so she could only say that she would go to the Jing Auction House when she was free to talk about it.
Chi Shuyan replied seriously to her WeChat messages, unaware that the man was looking at her. His eyes swept over her phone screen and he suddenly paused.
After that, his face darkened at a visible speed, and his eyes churned with emotion. His cold face turned a little vicious, and the veins on his forehead bulged slightly. His face was expressionless and gloomy, and could make people tremble with fear.
Before Chi Shuyan could sense anything strange, the man said in a deep voice, “It’s best not to play with your phone while eating!”
The man’s tone was calm, but there was a hint of dominance and hidden anger in his words.
Chi Shuyan froze in disbelief. She immediately looked up at the man in front of her and met his dark eyes. Her hand moved first as she subconsciously put her phone aside. When she came back to her senses, she was stunned.
Wait, when she had been with this man in the past, he had never demanded so much. Besides, the food hadn’t arrived yet. It was fine to play with her phone while she waited!
But her phone was already on the side. Under the man’s burning gaze, she couldn’t go back on her word and continue playing on her phone. She could only look up and glare at the man in front of her in silence.
At her actions, the anger in Qi Zhenbai’s chest was swept away, and his murderous expression gradually softened. The man suddenly spoke again in a much gentler tone, “It’s not that I’m forbidding you from playing with your phone!”
Chi Shuyan looked up.
“You can look at it after dinner!”
Chi Shuyan: …
Fortunately, the food arrived quickly. Not long after, one dish after another was served. Chi Shuyan hadn’t been hungry earlier, but when she saw these Sichuan dishes, she immediately had an appetite.
She was about to pick up food, when a pair of chopsticks dropped food in her bowl. Chi Shuyan stared blankly at her favorite foods in her bowl, but she didn’t refuse, and buried her head in her food.
It was as if the two had returned to the past. Chi Shuyan ate while the man got food for her. For a moment, the atmosphere was very harmonious. Even Chi Shuyan’s attitude, which had been distant and awkward at first, became much more natural. She buried her head in the food and hurriedly waved her hand. “Eat yourself. Don’t worry about me. I’ll get food for myself!”
Although she said that, the other party’s movements didn’t change. He kept putting food into her bowl and didn’t even take a bite himself.
In the end, Chi Shuyan could only pick up a piece for him and put it in his bowl. “Eat! Don’t worry about me! I can get food myself!”
While she buried her head in her food, Qi Zhenbai stared fixedly at the food in his bowl without moving. After a while, a very gentle smile blossomed on his impassive face. The sharp eyes of the waitress who served the dishes were fixed on him.
Unfortunately, the smile was too short and disappeared in a flash. The waitress thought she was seeing things.
It wasn’t until there was a beep that Chi Shuyan subconsciously looked over and saw her phone light up. It was another WeChat message from Jing Hengran.
