"No." Shu Qiang replied simply.
"Isn't it? What a pity, she looks nice, and she is very gentle to you! She must be secretly liking you." Cheng Xiyin said with a smile.
She openly liked him. Shuqiang had known Yuluo's feelings for a long time, but he didn't appreciate it. There has always been only one woman who can enter Shuqiang's heart.
"What about you, how have you spent the past eight years? Have you been playing your frog-like violin?" Shu Qiang asked.
“I studied music in Vienna for a few years, then came back, and now I work in an orchestra, playing the violin that sounds like a frog all the time,” she said with a smile.
Shuqiang took another sip of wine and said, "I remember at that time, I really didn't want you to go to Vienna."
"Why? You never told me." Cheng Xiyin asked in surprise.
He glanced at her as if she had asked a stupid question.
"If you really go there, I won't be able to see you for a long time. Haven't you ever thought about it?" He said lightly.
"I don't know." Cheng Xiyin shook his head, not only surprised but also a little moved.
Suddenly, she burst into laughter and said, "You acted so arrogantly at that time. I thought you wanted me to stay far away from you so that you couldn't see me."
Shu Qiang watched the smile on her face and looked deeply into her eyes.
"Don't act stupid with me, Yinyin, you know I liked you back then, and you know it very well."
Xiyin was stunned, unable to escape his gaze.
She was stunned by his sudden confession.
In her impression, Aqiang had never been such a frank person. His frankness made her unable to resist, and she didn't know how to answer for a moment.
"I, I don't know, you acted as if you hated me." She forced a smile and escaped from his eyes.
"Lie, everyone can see that I like you, otherwise your mother wouldn't be in a hurry to drive me away." Shu Qiang refused to let her go easily, turned her chair around to face him, and continued to ask her : "What about you? Don't say you never liked me."
Xiyin was very unaccustomed to expressing herself face to face like this, and she felt flustered.
She felt torn between not wanting to lie or confess.
"Aqiang, please don't ask this kind of question, okay? It's been so many years. Does it matter whether I liked you or not?" She said softly.
"Of course it does matter!" Shu Qiang looked at her closely, his eyes burning with fire. "Because, Yinyin, I still like you." He called her nickname and announced to her word by word.
Xiyin's heart suddenly tightened, and she felt flustered by his confession.
His expression was focused and firm, and his eyes were like two deep pools, capturing her heart and soul. Her heart was beating wildly, her mind was blank, and her whole body was unable to move as if under a spell.
Ring ring ring…
The cell phone on the table suddenly rang, as if warning her to run away.
She took the phone and looked at it, Oh my God! It turned out to be Fang Ningxi's call. Was he reminding her not to do something wrong
She forgot to call Ningxi yesterday. He found out that she didn't go home. I'm afraid he was extremely anxious, right
"Hey, Ningxi." She took the phone and walked to the side of the garden.
Somehow, she didn't want Aqiang to hear the content of her phone call with Ningxi.
"Yinyin!" Fang Ningxi on the other end of the phone heard her voice and was immediately relieved and asked her repeatedly: "Where are you now? I called your home, and your mother said you are still in the south of the city."
"I have a friend in the south of the city. I stopped by to see him." Xiyin said.
"Well, you should have called me last night. I couldn't find you this morning. I was worried."
"I'm sorry, I forgot." Guilt grew in Xiyin's heart.
Really, she even forgot to call Ningxi to inform her of her whereabouts.
"It doesn't matter," Ningxi asked with a smile, "By the way, which friend are you going to see?"
"Remember? I told you before that I have a brother named Aqiang." Xiyin hesitated and decided to confess.
"Is he the one who has been missing for several years? Have you found him?" Ningxi asked.
"Brother found him. He opened a hot spring hotel in the south of the city. I'm in his hotel now. I may stay for a day and won't go back until tomorrow." Xiyin said.
"Okay, do you want me to pick you up?"
"No, you have a performance tomorrow night. Don't be too tired. I can just drive back by myself." Xiyin said.
"Okay, be careful." Ningxi hesitated and hung up the phone.
Xiyin held the phone and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Deep down in her heart, she doesn't want Ningxi to meet Aqiang. Although Ningxi is her boyfriend, Aqiang occupies a special position in her heart, an inexplicable position.
"Why are you standing there in a daze?" Seeing her standing blankly with her mobile phone, Shuqiang called her lazily.
Xiyin came to his senses and sat back in his original chair.
Shuqiang turned her chair towards him again, and said with a suppressed annoyance:
"Listen, I'm not your brother, never have been!"
(End of chapter)