Lao Hu lit a cigarette and walked to a secluded place with Xieyi. "It shows that your father loves you two sisters too much. He took on all the problems for Xieqing by himself. Now that so many years have passed, Xieqing is the same again. There is nothing to hide."
He took two puffs of his cigarette and continued, "When your father was in poor health, he handed Hairun over to Xieqing to manage. She was instigated by others and wanted to transfer assets and control Hairun's shares under your father's nose. But it was not that easy. So she used some illegal means. Then Hairun got into trouble and Li's withdrew its investment." He paused, "What is commendable is that no matter what rumors are spread outside, your relationship with Xiao Li has not been affected."
"Does it have nothing to do with him?"
"I can't say it's completely irrelevant, but I can understand Xiao Li. After all, the huge Li family business was suddenly placed on him, so it was not without pressure. I guess he was waiting to withdraw the investment and let the Li family get out of it unscathed before helping your father, but he didn't succeed. So, if there was any mistake, it was because he overestimated himself and wanted to have the best of both worlds."
So Xie Qing went crazy? When she saw the family she had created, she was such a conceited person that she would definitely collapse. Xie Yi said goodbye to Lao Hu and looked at Li Zeliang standing out in the crowd from a distance. She looked at his face, his eyebrows, his eyes, and smiled lightly with relief. No matter what the truth was, it was no longer important to her.
Li Zeliang was chatting with people everywhere, and after a while he finally got away, so he came to look for her. After he had said a few words to her, someone else came to clink glasses with Li Zeliang.
"Mr. Li, why don't you introduce such a beautiful female companion to us?" the other party asked with a smile.
Li Zeliang smiled and said, "Shen Xieyi is my fiancée."
Xie Yi's face suddenly turned red, and she pinched him hard, but he held her hand in his. They were obviously quarreling, but to others, they looked very close.
As soon as the others walked away, she immediately whispered back, "I'm not your fiancée."
"Oh?" He glanced at her, "Whose fiancée are you?"
"Uh... I can just marry myself, right?"
"But, I have always had a question, why do you write my name everywhere?" He narrowed his narrow eyes.
Xieyi was suddenly embarrassed. It turned out that he had seen the secret code in the book a long time ago. That was the method she came up with at the time. It was better than confessing directly in person. But she was stubborn at this moment, blushing and saying, "I... I was practicing calligraphy, and I wrote a few words casually, and accidentally wrote them on your book."
"Oh." He nodded meaningfully.
"Then why did you write my name in the book?" Xie Yi asked back bravely, unconvinced.
"I practice calligraphy, too." He said calmly.
Coming out of the hotel, under the illumination of the street lights, you can see large flakes of snow falling from the sky.
In the car, Xie Yi said, "I was wondering, how did I become your fiancée?"
"Yeah, it's really a strange thing." He smiled mysteriously.
After a while, the car did not take the usual route home, and stopped on the side of the road halfway. Li Zeliang told her to put on her thick long coat, hat, and scarf, and wrapped her tightly, then he pulled her out of the car and turned into the subway station.
Xie Yi followed behind and asked hurriedly: "Why are you taking the subway?"
"car broke down."
"Shall we take a taxi?"
"I want to take the subway."
"But..." Xie Yi really didn't want to discourage this man who was out of touch with the world. It was already eleven o'clock, "The subway will close soon."
"Then what are you hesitating about? Hurry up and go." he ordered.
The two hurried down to the subway station. The staff at the entrance were still there. As expected, they had not collected the trains yet and urged them to hurry. There were few people inside, and a few people were waiting for the last train. As soon as they stood still, they heard a sound in the tunnel, and then a subway train slowly stopped in front of them and the door opened.
Li Zeliang took her hand and walked up.
There were few people. Besides the two of them, there were two young people sitting at the other end of the carriage chatting. They seemed to be a couple. Xieyi looked up and saw the route map on the carriage. She suddenly realized that this was the place where she and Li Zeliang broke up last time. However, the route was just the opposite. At that time, she returned the ring to him, but he refused to take it. In the stalemate, no one gave in, and finally the ring fell to the ground.
The subway moved slowly.
The two of them stood there, three steps apart, you looked at me, I looked at you. The subway left the platform and gradually entered the darkness, and the scene seemed to overlap again, in the same carriage with few passengers, they stood together like this again. He pulled her back here again, and she seemed to have a premonition of something.
He said: "The first time I saw you was on the subway. You were very cute and had two pigtails. The second time, you left me in this place and you didn't even look back when you left."
As Li Zeliang was speaking, the train was speeding through the city's underground passage. At that moment, it felt as if the train was not going to the next stop, but was taking her and him through time and space, back to a certain year and day in their youth.
"For the third time, we are back here. This is the same line we took last time. Similar carriages, similar places, but the directions are opposite. I want to go back along this road with you. Now..." He paused and took out a sparkling ring from his pocket, "Now let's start over again."
At this point, Li Zeliang calmed down, knelt on one knee very carefully, stared at her seriously, and said clearly word by word: "Xie Yi, will you marry me?"
Xieyi was truly surprised this time. After a few seconds, his brain began to recover. Events from the past ten years suddenly came to his mind, and those scenes flashed in his mind.
During the sports meet, she suddenly ran up to him and shouted: Li Nanyan, come on!
In the classroom, he handed her a note and said: Classmate, you are wearing your skirt backwards.
During the snowy winter vacation, in the library, she pestered him to go home with her.
He helped her review her homework, but she acted coquettishly towards him.
When she ran away from home in her senior year of high school to live with him, he scolded her with a stern face while taking care of her meticulously.
Before he went abroad to study, she ran back from the train and shamelessly confessed her love to him while crying.
In the snow in Heidelberg, she timidly asked him for warmth, and they held hands for the first time.
I don’t know where it started, which line of dialogue, but it was like a spell that tied a knot in her and his hearts, and eventually locked their lives together.
The figure in the white shirt in her memory has changed from a gloomy and reserved boy to a mature and silent man. Occasionally, he smiles gently, with the right corner of his lips slightly raised, causing his pale eyes to narrow slightly and a smile to appear. She likes to see his eyes smile, from childhood to adulthood. Among millions of people, he only smiles like this to her, and only has an expression of uncontrollable anger towards her. So many things are exclusive to her. Now the immaturity between his eyebrows has faded, but the heart that loves her is becoming more and more indestructible.
They almost missed such love.
Xieyi smiled, but tears welled up in the corners of her eyes, and she said slowly, "I do."
Seeing her tearful but happy face from his eyes, she couldn't help but repeat it again: "Ayan, I do."
Really, she wanted to be with him, and never be apart from him again.
If the proposal ceremony ended here, it would be perfect, waiting for the prince and princess to kiss each other passionately. But Li Zeliang was about to stand up when Xie Yi shouted, "By the way, A Yan, don't move." Then he frantically searched for his phone in his bag.
"What are you doing with your phone at this time?" he frowned.
She turned her handbag upside down, found her phone, turned on the camera and said, "Say what you just said again, starting from the first time you met me. Say it again. I want to take a picture of it as a souvenir."
His face was full of helplessness, his eyebrows twitched a few times, he stood up suddenly and snatched the phone, then lowered his head and kissed her. There was pampering and cruel punishment in the kiss.
"Remember, you were the one who proposed to me first. Don't blame it on me in the future and say that I was shameless enough to marry you." While kissing, she did not forget to make this issue clear first.
"Yeah." Li Zeliang was a little dissatisfied. He kissed her like this, but she was still distracted.
"But you won't let me take pictures of the evidence. What if you turn against me and deny it in the future?"
"When the time comes, you can just fight to the death and not marry me, isn't that enough?" Li Zeliang kindly gave her an idea.
However, after hearing this, Xie Yi hurriedly shook his head like a rattle and immediately said, "No, no, no, that would be a huge loss for me."
After returning home, Xieyi saw the diamond ring under the light and asked curiously, "Isn't this the same one as last time?" The style is different.
"Well, is that so?" He played her off.
"What about the previous one?"
"I threw it away."
Freehand and silent.
She didn't know that he had thrown it away, but she went back to look for it at night. A handsome man with expensive clothes mixed with a pile of garbage in the subway station was simply a place that attracted people to stop and admire. Later, the staff told him that the trash can was cleaned once at noon. So, such a small thing could never be found again.
"By the way, do you remember what day it is today?" Xieyi asked again.
"Proposal day?"
"anything else?"
"What else? Nothing more."
Xie Yi started to feel depressed, "A Yan, I'm angry."
Li Zeliang seemed not to hear her and ignored her.
Xieyi deliberately walked up to him and reiterated with a stronger tone: "I am really angry, very, very angry." He also stomped his feet to attract his attention.
Li Zeliang put down the newspaper in his hand, glanced at her face, and said coldly: "What's wrong? Want to rebel?" Once he showed his power, Xie Yi became a deflated ball. She could only glance at him sadly, then walked away silently, leaving him with a back full of grievance.
Seeing her like that, Li Zeliang couldn't help shaking his head anymore and burst out laughing.
"What are you laughing at?" she yelled.
He took out a small rectangular brocade box with dark green patterns from the drawer, placed it in front of her, and said with a smile, "Happy birthday."
"You haven't forgotten?"
"I don't dare."
Xie Yi glanced at him and said, "You are so modest. Is there anything you dare not do?"
This time, Li Zeliang was in a good mood. Instead of getting angry, he smiled and coaxed her: "Open it and take a look."
Xie Yi looked at his smiling face and felt that there was a gust of cold wind all around, which meant nothing good was going to happen: "There won't be cockroaches in there, will there?"
He suppressed his temper and said, "It's a very important birthday present. You've always wanted it."
"Is it gold?" she asked, unbuttoning the buckle and opening the small box. When she saw what was inside, she was stunned for a moment, followed by an indescribable joy.
It was a Tianhuang seal, the body of the seal was slender, bright and translucent, with no unnecessary decorations on the four sides, and it felt as delicate as a baby's skin. There was a trace of ink at the bottom of the seal, a light red color, as if it had been used once. Xieyi put the seal in front of his mouth and blew on it, and could not wait to find a piece of paper to cover it. Four seal characters were immediately printed on the white paper:
Liang Yan
Freehand
"Did you carve it?" Xieyi held it happily in his hand.
"Well, do you like it?"
Xie Yi nodded his head like pounding garlic and said, "I like it. I really like it."
She was so happy that she felt a little dizzy, but she still felt unsatisfied and wanted to cover something with it. She looked around and was worried about not finding a suitable place to start when she saw Li Zeliang's fair and tender face. Her eyes rolled and she came up with an idea.
"Ayan." She called Li Zeliang with ill intention, trying to make him turn around.
"If you dare to do it on my face, be careful or I'll cover you all over." He was too lazy to move, as he had already seen through her evil plan.
"Uh... How could I be that childish?"
Xieyi said this, but he was extremely unconvinced in his heart. He hid the seal behind his back with his hands behind his back and approached him secretly. When his attention was diverted, he pounced on him and wanted to cover his face with it.
Unexpectedly, Li Zeliang reacted very quickly. He not only dodged it, but also snatched the seal away.
"It seems that some people won't cry until they see the coffin." Li Zeliang restrained her wrists with his left hand, and used his right hand to dip into the ink next to him, and then he skillfully stamped Xieyi's face three times. This series of actions not only left her no room for resistance, but also made her completely at ease.
As a result, there was a mark on the left side of the face, the right side of the face, and the forehead, making it look like a harlequin cat.
"If you dare to come again, I will have no choice but to continue going down..." Li Zeliang said, and then moved his gaze meaningfully to the part below Xieyi's neck.
"I was wrong." She surrendered wisely.
Li Zeliang let her go with satisfaction.
Xieyi took a tissue and wiped his face while seizing the opportunity to viciously attack the snow-white wall of Li Zeliang's room, stamping it five or six times in a row to vent his anger.
This was the only way she could vent her anger.
Just as the seventh one was about to take action, she tilted her head to look at the red marks and suddenly discovered a problem.
"I remember that what I wanted was 'Xie Yi Liang Yan'. You carved it upside down. And aren't the characters on the seal read vertically? How come it's horizontal now?"
"No, it's just 'Liang Yan's Freehand Painting'." He replied.
Moreover, if it is carved horizontally like this, no matter which end you start reading from, it will be a good way of writing.
"Why is your name on it?" Xie Yi frowned.
"Men should be on top." Li Zeliang said calmly.