After hearing what Su Yan said, Cheng Kou felt relieved temporarily. After all, she only went home on weekends, and she would meet and date Su Yan as usual at other times.
Cheng Kou was determined to fight her parents to the end, but she was afraid of adding to Su Yan's burden, so she said nothing to him. She smiled all day long and hid all her worries deep in her heart.
Ye Qiduan flew back to Paris on Tuesday, and Lu Hanting and Cheng Kou went to see her off. Su Yan, who was closest to her, did not go because he had something to do at the company.
"It's not like we won't meet again." After hearing Cheng Kou's apology, Ye Qiduan waved her hand nonchalantly and said enthusiastically, "Cheng Kou, can you come to Paris when you have time? I can take you around. Don't look at me like this, I have a tour guide certificate."
Cheng Kou smiled with the corners of her mouth curved, her face slightly red. "Su Yan also said this. We are going to travel in pairs, so we don't need a lightbulb tour guide."
"This stuffy guy..." Ye Qiduan sneered and held the plane ticket tightly in his hand, "Okay, then Cheng Kou and Mr. Lu, goodbye."
"Goodbye, Miss Ye." Lu Hanting said sincerely with a smile.
"Brother." Cheng Kou stood there, looking at the gradually disappearing red, and asked Lu Hanting, "I think she is a good girl, what do you think?"
Lu Hanting nodded in agreement and patted Cheng Kou on the shoulder: "Let's go, we still have to get back to work."
On the way back, Lu Hanting turned on soothing music and asked casually, "Is Su Yan good to you?"
"Hmm?" Cheng Kou didn't react for a moment, "Okay."
"I mean..." Lu Hanting hesitated, "He has that kind of dull personality. Isn't it tiring to be with him?"
Lu Hanting also understood Su Yan. He knew that this junior kept everything he liked to himself. If he hadn't accidentally heard Shen Yinran mention it, he really wouldn't have realized that he had liked Cheng Kou for so long.
"Oh, about that." Cheng Kou tilted his head to think about it, then laughed, "Actually, I fell in love with him at first sight. I fell headfirst into it without knowing anything about him. I liked him because he was excellent. That reason is superficial, right?"
It is always so easy to like someone when you are young. He just passed by her, her heart skipped a beat, and then she could not take her eyes off him.
Lu Hanting held the steering wheel with his hands and looked straight ahead. Hearing this, he glanced at Cheng Kou and shook his head.
"I think this is a normal psychology for little girls."
Cheng Kou laughed twice and continued, "So he and I are now in a process of gradually exploring each other. He has his own personality, and I have my own temper, so we're even."
"I thought you were very well-behaved." Lu Hanting lowered his eyes slightly and said with a smile.
As soon as Cheng Kou and Lu Hanting entered the office, they were surrounded by people, and everyone looked at them with curiosity and confusion.
Cheng Kou was wondering when Shen Yinran appeared from somewhere and patted her shoulder quickly, scaring her.
"Koubao, tell the truth, why did Ye Qiduan send you a package, and it was so big?"
Cheng Kou walked to her seat and found a large box leaning against the desk. The recipient was her, and the sender's name was signed in a flamboyant manner by Ye Qiduan.
Shen Yinran also followed and whispered to her that her colleagues had just run over to take pictures of these three words as a souvenir.
Cheng Kou raised his hand and touched the edge of the box. From the shape, he could tell it was a painting. The content was self-evident. It must be the portrait of him that Su Yan had mentioned, painted by Ye Qiduan himself.
Cheng Kou did not open it on the spot, but said thank you in his heart.
Ye Qiduan gave Cheng Kou a surprise and gave her all the portraits of Su Yan, as if putting him in front of her eyes in the old days and letting her piece them together.
At the same time, at Cheng's home in the east of the city, the TV was on and a news story was being broadcast - a couple jumped into the lake and died because of their family's opposition.
The young but cold body in the picture was shocking. Father Cheng looked at his wife hesitantly, and Song Qingwu had a cold face and said nothing.
Father Cheng was actually softer-hearted than his wife, and was even more shaken after reading the news. He thought that the things they were worried about might not happen anyway, so he might as well give in to his daughter. Song Qingwu understood what he meant, but he remained unmoved. He sighed and went out to get some fresh air.
Song Qingwu stared at the TV for a while, then picked up his cell phone and made a call.
"Burp." Cheng Kou's eyes were unfocused and he burped. "Come on, Yinyin, cheers!"
"Koubao, cheers!" Shen Yinran was not quite sober either. She picked up the cup in her hand and clinked it with Cheng Kou's.
"My mother called me today..." Cheng Kou held the green beer bottle, her face resting on her hand, leaving a red mark, "Yin Yin, you know what? My mother has never been so mean to me..." She didn't need Shen Yinran to reply, she just poured out all the words she had been holding back for a long time, "She strongly asked me to break up with Su Yan on the other end of the phone."
Like a wounded little animal, she looked helplessly toward the dark room next door and murmured, "I had a quarrel with her."
Shen Yinran raised her head, swallowed a mouthful of wine, and looked at her sad friend, feeling unhappy.
Xia Linchen met Su Yan on the way back. The two took the elevator together. He felt that Su Yan was looking at him, but when he looked over, he looked away. This went on several times. When the elevator reached the seventh floor, Xia Linchen greeted him and took out his key to open the door.
Xia Linchen had a sensitive nose and could smell a faint smell of alcohol as soon as he entered the room. His hand that was about to close the door paused for a moment, and when he looked back, the door opposite had already been closed.
He walked into the living room and felt the smell was stronger. When he stood at the sliding door leading to the balcony and looked out, he was suddenly in a state of confusion.
The balcony at home is spacious, so most of the smell of alcohol was naturally blown away by the wind, but because the door was open, some of it still remained inside the room.
Shen Yinran was already lying on the table. Cheng Kou was a little better and could turn around to look at him. The table was full of empty beer bottles.
Xia Linchen smiled helplessly, walked over and picked up Cheng Kou, looking at her half-conscious and confused look, he made up his mind, opened the door and threw her to the door opposite, and kindly knocked on the door for her.
Soon someone came to open the door, and when he saw her for the first time, he slightly frowned his beautiful eyebrows.
Cheng Kou smiled foolishly and wanted to reach out to help him smooth it out, but unexpectedly tripped over the threshold and fell directly into Su Yan's arms.
Su Yan: “…”
Cheng Kou hugged Su Yan's waist tightly and leaned against him with peace of mind.
She and Su Yan had many misunderstandings in the past, but apart from that, this relationship was undoubtedly a natural outcome.
She liked him, and he liked her too, so they got together naturally. She thought this was the ending of the fairy tale, but she didn't expect to be opposed by her parents.
Less than a minute later, Cheng Kou started to act unruly. He broke free from Su Yan's arms, kicked off his shoes in a mess, walked barefoot on the floor, and stumbled towards the study.
Su Yan didn't stop her. He followed her wherever she went.
Cheng Kou stopped in front of Ye Qiduan's painting hanging in the study, curved his eyes and said to Su Yan who followed him: "I received the paintings today." Then he opened his arms and gestured, "There are so many."
After Cheng Kou finished speaking, she walked around to the back of the desk and sat cross-legged on the office chair in the study. Su Yan found it funny and walked over to stand between the desk and chair, half leaning on the desk, looking at her carefully.
Then he stretched out his finger and flicked her forehead, and asked in a low voice: "Running away from home, huh?"
Cheng Kou was in a daze for a moment, wondering where he was.
"Koubao?" Su Yan patted her hands, and seeing that she was slow to react and her eyes were still dull, he frowned silently.
The alcohol seemed to gradually fade away, yet seemed to become even stronger. She suddenly looked up at Su Yan.
Seeing that half of her small face was covered by her hair, Su Yan naturally reached out and tucked her hair behind her ears.
"Su Yan." She shrank in the large leather chair, without dodging, her eyes misty, "I had a fight with my mother."