After He Lili went to Fen City, she came back once a week or two. The intercity train can be reached in 45 minutes, and the traffic is convenient.
She knew that Xia Rou heard what she and her mother said in the room that day, and with her shallow city, she couldn't pretend to be friendly with Xia Rou anymore.
When the two met, they just nodded lightly.
But there are not many such opportunities, because Xia Rou has moved to the main building.
She occasionally went out with Cao An, and He Lili bumped into her intimate activities, and the envy and hatred in her eyes could be clearly seen.
She also saw He Lili take the initiative to talk to Cao An. But Cao An is the most self-willed guy in the Cao family, and he is impatient with her.
When he was young, he was really close to Aunt Fang. But when they got older, Cao Xiong intentionally separated them. The so-called affection naturally faded away.
In this family, he would give Aunt Fang some thin noodles, but he didn't care if He Lili was embarrassed or not.
Xia Rou felt that it was unreasonable for He Lili to look at her with such angry eyes.
It wasn't her who was embarrassing her. Even, if she didn't take the initiative to lean forward, and didn't deliberately show an affectionate gesture, Cao An's temper would not be so bad that he would embarrass others at every turn.
Many times, the treatment a person receives is not due to others, but to herself.
Wasn't it the same in her previous life
She didn't care how He Lili looked at her with hatred. Because she knew that when Cao Yang came back in May, He Lili and her mother would leave Cao's house soon.
In the spring of April, she turned sixteen.
He grew taller, his chest was more bulging, his waist was slender, and his legs were slender. The appearance of a fifteen-year-old innocent girl gradually became different.
Cao An and He Chengzhe celebrated her birthday without alarming Cao Xiong. But after she returned home, Lao Zhou brought her a gift from Cao Xiong.
A fine watch.
The pink dial with pearl luster is inlaid with a circle of broken diamonds. Sophisticated and feminine.
Cao Xiong likes to gift jewelry and jewelry to women. It was perhaps a way for a man of his power and wealth to present himself.
There are many expensive jewels in Cheng Wan's makeup box. Later, Xia Rou collected all those things and stored them in the bank's safe deposit box.
After she moved to the main building, she also had a safe in her bedroom, but she couldn't be bothered to bother with it, so she kept it in the bank.
However, in the previous life, Xia Rou did not receive anything from Cao Xiong on her sixteenth birthday.
Xia Rou puts that watch on her wrist. The pink strap and dial, as well as the sparkling diamonds, fit perfectly on her slender white wrist.
Everything is getting better, she thought. Even Cao Xiong treated her better than in his previous life.
Even if she lives again, she still doesn't have the ability to be a winner in life. Like now, everyone is doing well, and she didn't let them down. She is very satisfied.
Her mood got better and better with the anticipation of Cao Yang's return home, and then gradually decreased with the passing of days.
As the dates on the desk calendar drew closer and closer to the end of May, she began to feel uneasy.
She believed that her memory was correct. Cao Yang had indeed returned home after finishing his mission in May. There was an extra scar on his jaw, only a few knuckles away from the fatal carotid artery, which was impressive.
And after that, the sudden resignation of Aunt Fang, whom she had always hated, deepened her impression of this matter even more.
When the last day of May also turned over, the time finally entered June, and the courtyard began to look like early summer.
The weather is getting hotter every day, but Xia Rou's heart is getting colder every day.
In June, Aunt Fang did not leave her job either. It is easy to deduce that her strange and sudden resignation back then must be inseparable from the returning Cao Yang.
But Xia Rou no longer cares about this matter at all. It doesn't matter whether Aunt Fang resigns or not, and whether He Lili leaves or not.
The important thing is that Cao Yang has not come back yet!
Xia Rou began to show obvious anxiety. She became tense, insomnia, and worried.
She had lost several kilograms just after entering the early summer. The eye sockets are deep, making the eyes appear larger, but always with worry.
Her appearance was naturally noticed by the Cao family, but neither Cao Xing nor Cao An asked anything from her.
In mid-June, she couldn't bear it any longer, and knocked on the door of Cao Xiong's study, asking him when Cao Yang would come back
Her small face was tense, her expression was serious, and her twitching fingers revealed her nervousness—her habit was exactly the same as that of Cheng Wan. This made Cao Xiong slightly surprised.
"That's why you've been so nervous all this time?" He stared at her.
"Yeah." Xia Rou lowered her head, "Brother told me that he will be back in April and May. It's already June..."
Cao Xiong knew that she got along well with the third and fourth sons, but he didn't expect her to miss the boss so much. It always pleases a father to have someone who cares about his children, from the heart and without evil thoughts.
"He's fine. He's injured a little bit. It's hard to move now. He's recuperating locally." He told her, "He should be back in a while."
He was satisfied to see Xia Rou's tense shoulders relaxed.
But Xia Rou pressed again: "His injury..."
"It doesn't matter." He comforted him in turn, "It's out of danger. Now it's time to rest."
He saw another worry in Xia Rou's eyes, he thought she was only worried about Cao Yang's injury.
But Xia Rou is not only worried about Cao Yang's injury.
She thought that everything would get better after her rebirth. Even though she and Cao An were a little tit-for-tat at first, they quickly became close according to the trajectory of the previous life. Now it turns out that it is not.
In his previous life, Cao Yang only suffered a scratch on his jaw during this mission. Although it was indeed thrilling and frightening, the wound itself was indeed only a minor injury.
But this time, Cao Xiong clearly said that Cao Yang's injury had been "dangerous", and even after he was out of danger, he needed to rest in the local area and was not suitable to move.
It made her sleepy when she thought about it.
She is afraid of the butterfly effect.
She obviously did nothing. The only thing she did differently to him was to ask for a peace talisman for him, but he was far more dangerous than in his previous life.
It made her frightened and anxious. That "everything is getting better" thinking evaporated. She was afraid that her change would bring bad things to the Cao family in the future.
She thought about it for a few days, but couldn't think of anything that would be affected by her.
Later, Cao Yang got married, divorced, and promoted in the military; Cao Bin had a smooth official career and a happy marriage; Cao Xing was still flirtatious until her death, and had no marriage partner;
These are not things that she can exert influence on.
After she was reborn, she only advised Cao An once or twice about He Chengzhe. And Cao An still had an attitude of playing in the world, and didn't want to listen to her words seriously.
She thought for a long time, feeling powerless, and couldn't help feeling gloomy and depressed.
Time soon entered July, and the school was on summer vacation. It has been a year since Xia Rou came to Cao's house.
Cao Yang asked her to grow long hair a year ago.
She has long hair up to her waist, but he hasn't returned yet.
The classmates asked her to go on a trip together, but she didn't know when Cao Yang would come back, so she politely declined. Stay at home quietly and wait quietly.
On the day Cao Yang came home, she was in the reading room.
He took out a few books from the bookshelf, flipped through them, but couldn't read them, so he stuffed them back again.
After closing the last book, she hugged the thick translation, looking at the rows of book spines in the sunlight, looking at the sunlight sprinkled on those spines, looking at the dust floating in the sunlight, in a daze.
Standing at the door, Cao Yang saw that in the bright sunlight, Xia Rou's long hair reached her waist, it was jet black, and sheen like silk and satin. The arms are white and slender.
He likes women's long hair, especially this undyed, natural jet black. He just stood there looking at it for a while.
He also saw her thin shoulders and straight legs.
Really from a young girl to a big girl, there are faint curves that attract men's daydreams.
pleasing to the eye.
It was only later that he discovered that she was not reading a book, but looked up at the bookshelf in a daze, and couldn't help laughing.
"Xia Rou." He leaned against the door frame and called her. "Why are you in a daze?"
Xia Rou turned her head back!
The man at the door was slender, strong and strong, his skin was much darker than before, but he looked more masculine.
He curled his lips and looked at her with a smile. Seeing her staring at him in a daze, it was even more funny, and said: "Why, you don't know me anymore?"
He walked over to her. But Xia Rou yelled, threw away the book in her hand and ran towards him, threw herself into his arms and hugged his waist tightly!
When she rushed over, Cao Yang raised his eyebrows, and quickly embraced her.
The soft chest and slender waist hugged in his arms once again made Cao Yang realize that Xia Rou has grown into a big girl. He couldn't help but think of the faint curve in the slanting sunlight just now.
Feeling slightly embarrassed, he let go of her waist and patted her back lightly. But when she found that her vest was shaking, she couldn't help but wondered: "What's wrong? Why are you crying?"
Xia Rou hugged Cao Yang impulsively, and after hitting his solid chest, she immediately realized that her behavior was inappropriate.
But for several months, she has been living under the pressure that the butterfly effect may bring terrible changes to the present world. Cao Yang's return finally makes her emotionally unbearable.
She let go of Cao Yang, but grabbed his lapel, regardless, and cried heartily first.
She didn't speak, just cried, which made Cao Yang very helpless.
If the brothers dared to cry like this, he could whip them with a belt until they laughed.
If a woman cries like this, he probably has no patience to continue with her. Of course, none of the women he had dated with was so capricious or winking.
Only for Xia Rou, he was very helpless.
He coaxed a few words patiently, and found that she was not listening, so he understood that she might have suffered some kind of grievance and wanted to cry.
He simply stopped asking, stretched out his arms to wrap her in his arms, and patted her vest lightly.
When the palm of his hand touched her cool long hair, his heart moved slightly, and he couldn't help inserting/inserting his fingers into her jet-black hair, from root to tip, all the way through.
Smooth as satin between fingers.
Just his favorite, undyed, jet-black, smooth, soft and cool.
He couldn't help but look down.
The nose smelled a faint fragrance.
Seems like nothing.