A big hand hit Aqiang on the back, waking him up immediately. He turned back to look at the person.
Standing behind him was the most famous playboy in the Cheng family, Xiyin's cousin Cheng Yuan'an.
Cheng Yuanan ranks third in the third generation of the family, and everyone calls him Cheng Sangongzi. Young Master Cheng San was born with the appearance of a star, and he had as many scandals reported in the newspapers as any other star.
Young Master Cheng San took off his sunglasses, blinked and asked with a smile: "What are you looking at, so lost in thought? Are there any beautiful women in there?"
Shuqiang's face suddenly turned red. Fortunately, the sun had tanned his skin this summer, which hid his gaffe.
"Nothing." Shu Qiang turned around and ran upstairs without entering the hall.
"It's time for dinner..." Young Master Cheng San was still calling from behind.
"Eat outside." Shu Qiang replied without looking back.
The family is prosperous, and the family dinner every weekend is lively. However, Shuqiang can never find his place in this lively feast. He always feels like an outsider. This so-called family banquet does not Not his seder.
On a dull summer night, insects were chirping in the trees. Through the floor-to-ceiling glass windows, you could see a moon hanging in the blue sky.
The pale yellow crescent moon resembles her crooked eyes when she smiles.
Shuqiang lay on the bed, tossing and turning, unable to sleep, and finally gave up and walked to the terrace.
Surprisingly, there was also a slender figure standing there on the terrace a few feet away from him.
The man in snow-white pajamas was half leaning on the railing, looking down at the swimming pool downstairs. The blue pool water exuded a dreamlike feeling under the faint light, and the man looked dreamy.
Snapped! Shu Qiang snapped his fingers in the darkness, and was not surprised to see the person opposite him startled, turning his head in his direction and widening his eyes.
"You want to scare people, float out like a ghost!" The overly frightened person glared at the initiator and scolded in a low voice.
Shu Qiang pulled his lips and laughed: "I don't know who is more like a ghost. He is dressed in white and hangs half of his body on the railing. Do you want to jump off?"
"Of course not!" Cheng Xiyin glared at him again and said, "I'm looking at the swimming pool below."
"What's there to see?" Shu Qiang asked nonchalantly.
"Don't you think it's so beautiful, like a sapphire? I really want to lie on it." Xiyin said.
"If I remember correctly, miss, you are a landlubber." Shu Qiang pointed out sarcastically.
"So what? Who is like you, soaking in it every day..."
As soon as the words came out of her mouth, Xiyin immediately bit her lip, knowing that she had spilled the beans.
He immediately raised his eyebrows and sneered: "Do you admit it? You peek at me every morning!"
That annoying guy really didn't let her go!
"Who was peeking at you! You were too loud and disturbed me when I slept!" Xiyin refuted him loudly, and her fair face couldn't help but turn red with embarrassment.
"Idiot, your face is so red! You are not fit to lie at all." Shu Qiang snorted coldly.
In the darkness, he stared at her flushed cheeks. If there wasn't a few feet of space between them, he didn't know if he would be unable to hold back and rush forward to hug her and kiss her.
Since puberty, he has often had this inexplicable urge.
It was so uncomfortable to suppress it, because in his eyes, she may not be the most beautiful girl in the world, but she must be the most attractive girl in the world to him.
Xiyin didn't understand his hidden thoughts, but looking at his bright eyes looking at her in the darkness, she felt that this dull summer night suddenly became a little better.
Although his mouth was quite bad and the ridicule on his face was dazzling, she was reluctant to turn around and enter the house.
Separated by a few feet of space, I couldn't feel the usual faint sense of threat on his body. Under the faint moonlight,
Chatting with him all the time made me feel very peaceful and safe.
God knows how long it had been since she had such peace with him!
"What's wrong with your forehead?" She suddenly noticed the tape he put on her forehead and frowned slightly.
Shuqiang reached out and touched his forehead and shrugged, "I got scratched during the football match today."
"Mom saw it and must have said that you were fighting with someone and that you were rude."
"Whatever she says, she has never liked me anyway." Shu Qiang said lightly, already used to Xiyin's mother's rejection of him.
The two were silent for a while, and Shu Qiang finally couldn't bear it anymore and deliberately pretended to be nonchalant and asked: "How was your qualifying match today?"
Xiyin raised her face to look at the night sky and smiled sweetly. Her curved eyebrows resembled the crescent moon hanging in the sky.
"The master said I'm pretty good."
She smiled so happily, but Shuqiang felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.
He looked at the blue water: there was a bitter taste in his heart. He didn't want to admit it. This was because he couldn't bear to have her leave.
"Aqiang, I will go to Vienna next year, what about you? What are your plans for the future?" Xiyin asked suddenly, looking at his lonely profile.
"I don't know." His eyes were a little confused.
Although his grandfather was very kind to him, and although she held a very special place in his heart, he would have to leave and start a family one day.
Here he could never find his place.
But where should he go
(End of chapter)