Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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In the huge private room, Cui Junzhuo was sitting alone at the gorgeous but empty dining table, playing with his mobile phone. When he heard footsteps, he looked up and showed a gentle smile.
“Can we order food? I’m already hungry.”
“Okay, everyone is here.” Weng Yuxiang sat down next to Cui Junzhuo with a smile on her face.
Upon seeing this, the waiter on the side immediately stepped forward and handed the menu to Weng Yuxiang. Weng Yuxiang had no intention of reading it, she just closed the menu and handed it to Cui Junzhuo.
Cui Junzhuo thought that Weng Yuxiang was asking him to order food, so he naturally took the menu, lowered his head and opened it, and asked Xue Jue, who was sitting next to him: “What does my cousin want to eat?”
As a result, before he could finish his words, Cui Junzhuo was patted on the shoulder by Weng Yuxiang from the other side unexpectedly.
“Don’t worry about your cousin, he eats everything.” Weng Yuxiang took the menu out of Cui Junzhuo’s hand and threw it in front of Xue Jue, “You know what Xiao Qi’s taboos are, so you give the order.”
Cui Junzhuo: “…”
His empty hands froze in mid-air for a long time before slowly letting go.
Xue Jue didn’t notice Cui Junzhuo’s expression, he just picked up the menu and pen and started ordering.
Only Zu Qi, who was sitting at the very edge, saw Cui Junzhuo’s reaction clearly, and seemingly aware of his gaze, Cui Junzhuo, who had lowered his head to look at the table, suddenly raised his head, and met Zu Qi’s gaze the next second.
At this time, Cui Junzhuo completely lost his kindness towards the other party. He pursed his lips slightly and stared at Zu Qi with a cold gaze, which made Zu Qi’s scalp numb.
Zu Qi looked at his nose and mouth with concern, and calmly moved his eyes to Xue Jue who was ordering food.
Half a minute later, when Zu Qi looked at Cui Junzhuo again, he was already chatting with Weng Yuxiang with a smile on his face.
Although Zu Qi and Xue Jue had a dispute not long ago, Xue Jue still showed great love for Zu Qi in front of Weng Yuxiang.
After the meal, Xue Jue almost kept waiting for Zu Qi to eat. He piled the plates in front of Zu Qi like a mountain, but he didn’t use his own chopsticks more than a few times.
Weng Yuxiang also had no appetite. After putting down her chopsticks, she looked at Zu Qi eating with a smile. Then she didn’t know what she thought of, and asked Xue Jue tentatively: “Seeing that Xiao Qi is about to give birth, why don’t I move to your place to take care of Xiao Qi?”
Xue Jue, who was picking up vegetables with the serving chopsticks, was stunned for a moment, and then withdrew his hand. He looked at Weng Yuxiang, who looked a little guilty, with a calm expression. He did not rush to agree, but asked: “What happened?”
Weng Yuxiang had just asked with a sense of luck. She didn’t expect her son to see through her little thoughts so quickly. She suddenly panicked, subconsciously sat up and smiled reluctantly: “It’s nothing, it’s just that living at home is a bit boring. If I live with Xiao Qi, I can be considered a companion.”
Xue Jue sneered: “Did Sun Fei and Xue Hao give you trouble?”
Weng Yuxiang looked very ugly, shook her head slightly, and said nothing.
In the end, the topic was dropped. Although Xue Jue did not agree to Weng Yuxiang’s request, he did not reject it directly. Judging from his appearance, he probably had other plans.
After the meal, Xue Jue called Xiao Zhao to drive Cui Junzhuo and Weng Yuxiang home, while he drove Zu Qi back to the resort.
Xue Jue didn’t speak during the whole journey, looking expressionlessly at the road ahead. The low air pressure emanating from the surroundings almost filled the car.
Zu Qi knew that Xue Jue was not in a good mood at this time, so he sat quietly in his seat like a quail, not even using his cell phone, and he was more disciplined and calmer than ever before.
Although Xue Jue was driving very seriously on the surface, he still glanced at Zu Qi uncontrollably from the corner of his eye, and then caught a glimpse of Zu Qi’s cautious look, as if he was afraid that he would vent his anger on him.
Xue Jue felt helpless and amused, thinking that Zu Qi, who was so arrogant and defying the sky and the earth before, actually gave in at this point.
But what he had to admit was that Zu Qi looked much more pleasing to the eye now than before.
“Let’s move back home.” Xue Jue told Zu Qi the result of all this thinking.
Zu Qi quickly replied: “Okay, I’m tired of living in the resort anyway.”
Moreover, he and Bai Guangjian lived not far away. As long as Bai Guangjian came to the door in person to block him, Zu Qi couldn’t hide even if he wanted to.
Some time ago, Bai Guangjian started a scolding war on the Internet. After posting on Weibo that he was planning to sue for divorce, he disappeared without a trace. No matter how netizens poured dirty water on Zu Qi and Xue Jue, he remained indifferent.
Until Zu Qi announced on Weibo that the Jingxin Yangshen Powder was temporarily off the shelves, Bai Guangjian, who had organized a group of employees in advance to rush to buy it, immediately panicked. He hurriedly looked around the thatched cottage and begged Zu Qi to sell the stock to him privately.
Zu Qi was speechless. His wife’s betrayal didn’t seem to cause any waves in Bai Guangjian’s heart, but the removal of Jingxin Yangshen powder made him feel as desperate as facing the end of the world.
He wanted to move back to avoid Bai Guangjian’s harassment.
“Not back to the home we lived in before, but back to the Xue family house.” Xue Jue knew that Zu Qi had misunderstood and explained, “My parents and those people all live in that home.”
Zu Qi: “…”
He had read the novel, he naturally knew who “those people” Xue Jue was talking about. If he guessed correctly, those people should be Sun Fei and Xue Hao, whom Xue Jue mentioned at the dinner table.
That was, Xue Jue’s father’s lover and illegitimate son.
Xue Jue glanced at Zu Qi’s stiff expression: “Aren’t you willing?”
Zu Qi was silent for a while. Just when Xue Jue thought he would refuse, he heard him say: “What about my customized clothes? Didn’t you ask the staff to send it to the home where we lived before?”
Hearing this, Xue Jue almost bit his tongue. Seeing that Zu Qi was really worried about clothes, he just felt that he who was just worried about Zu Qi was stupid as hell.
Someone like Zu Qi who wanted to rely on him to rise to power must already be happy in his heart.
After all, once he moved into the Xue family, it meant that Zu Qi was truly a member of the Xue family.
“Don’t worry, those clothes will be sent to you one by one.” Xue Jue said with a straight face.
“…”
Zu Qi glanced at Xue Jue with a gloomy look inexplicably. He had no idea what this stingy man was angry about. It seemed that he was either getting angry or preparing to get angry.
A man’s heart was really like a needle in the sea.
Zu Qi sighed in his heart.
After only being out for six or seven hours, Zu Qi felt exhausted when he returned to his residence. He asked Xiaoya to help fill the hot water, then he soaked in the bathtub for an hour, lay down on the bed, and fell asleep soon after.
In the middle of the night, Zu Qi was woken up by something burning on his chest.
He quickly got up and turned on the bedside lamp, and took a closer look under the dim light, only to realize that the hot object was actually the emerald hanging on his chest.
Zu Qi put the emerald on the pillow and took a closer look. Then he was surprised to find that the surface of the emerald was covered with dark stripes like a network, and it glowed faintly.
Zu Qi had never seen such a situation before. He was surprised and felt that something was wrong at the same time. After thinking for a moment, he entered the space.
As soon as he stepped in, he felt that the temperature in the space had dropped by a lot. Zu Qi couldn’t help but shiver as he rubbed his arms and walked forward. Soon he saw that the large dark yellow wild chrysanthemums that were blooming beside the river were all withered.
All that was left was an endless stretch of tangled grass along the river.
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