Ye Mi arrived at the airport very early in the morning. The early morning flight has this characteristic. If it takes off at 7 o'clock, you must arrive at 5 o'clock. What is the job of a pilot? It means getting up earlier than the chickens. At night, when the mice have all left their holes, they have not landed yet.
Seeing Ye Mi's arrival, Lin Pei was not surprised. No matter how reluctant he was, he had to acknowledge that Qiao Yan had brought out a very outstanding group of students, each of whom had strong skills, which made him and all the captains he had worked with praise him endlessly.
"Are you all ready?" He put away the mission sheet and looked at everyone seriously. "No problem, let's go."
After more than nine hours of flight, it was morning when they arrived in Manchester. After these months of tossing and turning, Ye Mi is now very familiar with the time difference. She took a nap on the airport bus. After an unknown amount of time, Ye Mi was pushed up. She squinted and saw that it was Lin Pei.
"We're at the hotel."
"Oh! Sorry, I fell asleep." Ye Mi softened her eyes, stood up and took her luggage, "Thank you!"
"Have a meal first, then go back to the room and have a good rest. This time the flight schedule is quite tight, and we have to fly back tomorrow." After saying that, he took the bag from Ye Mi and turned around and got out of the car.
Ye Mi felt a little awkward, but she was just helping a lady carry her bag, so she didn't seem to be too nervous, so she followed him out of the car. After returning to the room and putting her things away, Ye Mi really felt very hungry. She never liked airplane meals, especially international flights, which rarely had noodles and rice. She changed out of her uniform, washed her face, and went to the restaurant.
After wandering around among a bunch of things she didn't like, she still didn't find anything that suits her taste. "I know there's a good Chinese restaurant nearby. If you don't want to eat, we can go together." Lin Pei stood beside her without her knowing when. He didn't have such a bright smile as usual. He had an indifferent expression and a slightly tired state, which made her feel that he seemed more real at this moment.
"Okay!" She put down the plate in her hand and followed Lin Pei out of the hotel.
This restaurant is really good. Lin Pei seems to be a regular customer. He knows all the waiters here. Looking at Ye Mi eating the spicy and sour potato shreds without any pretense, Lin Pei lowered his head and smiled bitterly, but was seen by Ye Mi.
"You, what are you laughing at?" Her mouth was full, and she also picked up a piece of stir-fried pork with bamboo shoots. Her chopsticks stopped there and looked at Lin Pei.
Lin Pei took a sip of soup and said, "It's ironic that we are eating in Manchester. I don't know what Qiao Yan and He Xiaoning are doing in Miami." He picked at the food on the plate. Everything he ate tasted like chewing wax. He knew that his relationship had reached a dead end. All he could do now was to take a step back.
Ye Mi paused for a moment, but immediately returned to normal, "We are just having a meal together, and I believe Qiao Yan will not do anything excessive."
"But He Xiaoning may not be incapable of doing it."
"But the key lies in Qiao Yan. She wouldn't force herself on Qiao Yan, would she?" She tried hard to calm her anxiety. She was also worried, but she always told herself to believe in Qiao Yan, because He Xiaoning, this woman, really couldn't give her peace of mind.
Lin Pei hesitated, his hands on the table kept opening and closing. Ye Mi saw it, "Do you have something to say to me?" She stopped her chopsticks at her mouth and stared at the person in front of her.
"They broke up before because He Xiaoning was raped, and Qiao Yan didn't know about it." Lin Pei's tone was gloomy, with some resentment and sadness.
Ye Mi was so shocked that she froze there. The chopsticks in her hand fell onto the table and rolled to the ground. "How could this happen?" Tears welled up uncontrollably. "Isn't it because she likes you that she dumped Qiao Yan?" Her voice became thinner and thinner, and her breathing became more rapid and uneasy.
Lin Pei lowered his head, "That year, Qiao Yan won the first direct flight mission to Taiwan. He became very busy during that period. One day they agreed to go to the top of the mountain to watch the night view, but Qiao Yan did not go. Xiao Ning was so stupid that she waited from dusk until midnight. When she was going down the mountain, she was caught by a black taxi driver... "Lin Pei took a deep breath, "At that time, Qiao Yan's family was very opposed to them being together, and had been investigating He Xiaoning. She was a very cowardly person and she was scared. I don't deny that I instigated her at that time, said a lot of cowardly words, and slandered Qiao Yan. At that time, I felt that this was the opportunity God gave me to let He Xiaoning come to me. I made a promise to her when she was most confused and vulnerable, so she accepted the money from the Qiao family. This was also my idea to dispel their family's suspicion that they broke up with Qiao Yan just for money. I knew she just wanted to save her reputation, and she really did everything for this. "Lin Pei took a sip of tea, shook his head and smiled bitterly, "I thought I would be able to win her heart if I treated her well, but I tried everything, even deliberately flirted with my colleagues, and she didn't seem to care. Looking at the way she looked at Qiao Yan, I wanted to go crazy, so I began to hate Qiao Yan more and more, because I couldn't hate her. "He sighed deeply, his eyes full of hurt.
"You love her so much, why do you want to get a divorce, why do you want to get a divorce!" Ye Mi's tears kept falling, "Is it because you love her so much that you want to give her happiness at all costs? So you are telling me to quit as soon as possible?" Ye Mi stood up suddenly, "Lin Pei, why are you telling me, you are a scumbag, you have harmed He Xiaoning and Qiao Yan, and now you are harming me." She pulled out a chair and ran out.
Lin Pei didn't expect her to be so excited, he chased her out of the door and grabbed Ye Mi, "You thought wrong." He yelled, "I don't care about anything, I've endured everything, how can I give up on her like this? Only when she knows that Qiao Yan can no longer love her, will she give up and live with me peacefully. So Ye Mi, I tell you this just to make you prepared, catch Qiao Yan, okay? Don't give them a chance, okay?" His voice was low, like a request, no, almost a pleading.
Ye Mi was at a loss for a moment. She sobbed, "You and Qiao Yan are brothers, you should understand his character. If he knew the truth, I really don't know what he would do. Lin Pei, I have always been the one who paid for us, and Qiao Yan has her in his heart. We have been married for almost three years, but in fact we have only been husband and wife for less than three months. There is nothing I can do, nothing at all." Ye Mi shook her head like a rattle. She suddenly felt like a disaster was about to happen, and her world was filled with gloom.
Lin Pei stood in front of her blankly, watching her crying helplessly. He didn't know if what he did was right or not. They were all the same people, loving someone so much that they were down to the dirt, but no one dared to say whether a flower would bloom in the end, or it could only rot in the ground.
Back at the hotel, Ye Mi was no longer sleepy. She turned on the computer and found that her handsome husband was online. Her hands were shaking. After hesitating for a while, she asked, "What are you doing?"
Her heart was beating fast and she quickly raised her head, as if only this could stop the tears from falling.
Qiao Yan sat on the bed, biting his knuckles and laughing. He felt that her jealous look was so adorable. "Surfing the Internet." He chuckled.
Ye Mi was not in as good a mood as him. She was still struggling with whether or not to tell Qiao Yan about this matter. If she told him, she knew it would be a dead end, but if she didn't tell him, she would feel even more uncomfortable keeping it in her heart.
Qiao Yan supported his head with one hand, smiling foolishly, thinking about Ye Mi's frustrated look in front of the screen. Suddenly, the doorbell of the room rang. Qiao Yan turned around, said "wait a moment" and went to open the door.
He Xiaoning stood outside the door and saw Qiao Yan coming out, wearing the hotel's bathrobe. Her face turned slightly red and she lowered her head to stroke her hair. "I'm sorry to disturb your rest."
Qiao Yan cleared his throat and turned his face away, "It's okay, I'm chatting with Ye Zi."
He Xiaoning was a little embarrassed. "The zipper of my suitcase can't be opened. Can you help me check it?"
Qiao Yan hesitated for a moment, nodded gently, and followed He Xiaoning to his room. In fact, the zipper only caught the lining of the suitcase, which was not a big problem, and he muttered in his heart.
He Xiaoning was a little embarrassed to see him solve the problem so quickly, "I tried for a long time but couldn't fix it. Xiaowen and the others went out shopping."
"It's okay!" Qiao Yan stood up and said, "I'm going back." Then he turned around and walked out.
He Xiaoning stood there in a daze. She didn't expect that he was unwilling to stay with her for a moment. She didn't say anything, just looked at Qiao Yan's back, and watched him open the door and leave without looking back.
The crew members of this flight all lived on this floor, with a total of seven rooms. Qiao Yan and He Xiaoning's rooms were not far apart. As soon as he walked out of the door, he heard a group of people chattering next door. "You delayed us for 40 minutes by putting on makeup." A voice complained. Qiao Yan turned around and saw four or five stewardesses coming out of the room, all of them were dressed exquisitely and looked radiant.
He smiled and nodded, not really caring. However, the stewardesses seemed a little embarrassed, as if they had discovered their superior's affair.
"It turns out that it's true that they are having an affair!"
"Of course he is. You can't tell from the way he's dressed."
"What did you say they did?"
"Everything is done in forty minutes." After saying that, a group of people left chattering.
When Qiao Yan returned to the room, he saw that Chun Youhao's profile picture had turned gray. He only left him a message saying, "Just arrived at the hotel, now I'm resting."
Ye Mi couldn't sleep at all. She just didn't know what to say to him. Fear and guilt were entangled in her heart. She suddenly felt sorry for him.
In the days that followed, Ye Mi lived in a state of anxiety. Every time they met, she would look at Qiao Yan's face, fearing that one day he would hesitate to speak to her with a look of guilt, or simply get furious with her and angrily ask her why he had hidden things from her.
The rumors in the company were getting more and more intense, but Ye Mi no longer had the energy to analyze whether they were true or false. As long as he could come home every day, or she could call him and chat with him when he was outside, she would feel satisfied.
Qiao Yan didn't know what happened to that cheerful and cheerful crazy girl. He had heard some rumors about him and He Xiaoning. He had been waiting for her to confirm it, but she never said a word to him. It's not that he wasn't confused, but whenever they hugged each other, she was so devoted and affectionate but a little uneasy, which always made him unable to resist. He knew that it was not that she didn't care, but that she trusted him, completely unconditionally.
It was drizzling in Rome this morning. Ye Mi opened her eyes and looked at the curtains fluttering in the window. Behind her, she could hear the man's calm breathing. The air was humid and the wind blew on her face a little cold, just like her current mood. A tear rolled silently from the corner of her eye. She pulled the quilt to wrap herself up, but she didn't expect the man behind her to lean over and stick to her naked back, his hands wrapped around her waist, "Why don't you sleep a little longer? I will be embarrassed to get up so early."
Ye Mi turned around to look at him. He seemed to have not opened his eyes yet, but there was a warm smile on his face. Ye Mi's nose was sore and her eyes were hot. She quickly rushed into his arms and held him tightly with both hands. She always felt that she was about to lose such power. She kissed his Adam's apple again and again, making herself close to him, constantly teasing his nerves.
Qiao Yan held her hand and said, "Ye Zi, stop messing around. If you continue, things will get out of hand. I don't want to be weak-legged when I get on the plane tonight."
Ye Mi felt wronged but refused to let go. Qiao Yan opened his eyes and lifted her chin with one hand. Looking at her red eyes, his heart suddenly tightened. "Ye Zi, don't be like this." He wiped her tears with his fingertips, but the more he wiped, the more tears came. Qiao Yan felt so distressed that he held her tightly in his arms. "Ye Zi, don't cry. What's wrong with you?"
"Yan, will you not want me anymore? What should I do if you don't want me?" She tried hard to restrain herself from crying, but she still burst into tears.
"Ye Zi, stop imagining nonsense and torturing yourself like this, okay? Look how much weight you've lost recently. There's nothing between He Xiaoning and me. She's a thing of the past for me." Qiao Yan turned over and pressed her under him, kissing away her tears. "If you don't believe your ears and don't believe what I say, then you can't feel my love? Your body won't lie."
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