Although Gu Xuehan already knew about the relationship between Qi Xi and Gu Yan, both Qi Xi and Gu Yan did not relax their status in the office because of this. It's true, but Qi Xi doesn't feel tired, he just feels satisfied, being able to fall in love with her boyfriend without wasting a single cent of time, and also gaining an improvement in her work ability, it's perfect.
Although Gu Xuehan invited Qi Xi to visit Gu Yan's parents together, Qi Xi was still somewhat cramped and shy, and always felt a little nervous, and was not mentally prepared. Fortunately, Gu Yan understood her and did not urge her.
It was the birthday of Qi Xi's mother, Xi Wen, although Gu Yan was not able to go with her and did not have a relationship with Qi Xi, but Qi Xi looked at the message that Gu Yan sent, and could still feel the disappointment that this man tried hard to cover up. He seemed to be strongly looking forward to meeting Qi Xi's parents as a genuine boyfriend, as if meeting his parents was like a contract being sealed.
Qi Xi did plan to take Gu Yan to meet her parents, but she couldn't see her father last time she went home, and the conflicts with her father about studying abroad and blind dates have not been completely resolved, and she really feels that her family , things have to come one by one.
But Qi Xi is still happy to celebrate her mother's birthday today. Dad Qi Ruiming booked a high-end western restaurant and made a private room. Cakes and champagne, very fashionable and romantic, are a bit out of Qi Ruiming's style.
After all, in the past, my father just found a restaurant for a family of three to eat, ordered a cake and gave a gift. Now that he is preparing with such a big fanfare, Qi Xi is also infected by this serious heart, and he naturally talks to himself Dad said hello, and the previous quarrel between father and daughter seemed to disappear on Xi Wen's birthday.
"Really, we are all very old, and we still do this kind of thing. How much time do you have to waste preparing these things?"
Faced with Qi Xi's mother's complaints, Qi Xi's father smiled brightly: "I asked my assistant to make it for me, young man, with a lot of ideas."
As the protagonist of this birthday party, Xi Wen's face was filled with joy. Although Qi Ruiming complained a lot after talking too much, Qi Xi could tell that the shyness and happiness on her mother's face were real, and those complaints It's just shy chatter.
In the end, amidst the booing between Qi Xi and Qi Ruiming, Xi Wen made a birthday wish and then blew out the candles.
During the whole birthday party, the three members of the family were very happy. When it came time to give gifts, Qi Xi finally chose a set of beautiful brooches, hair clips and necklaces for her mother. After she gave them to Xi Wen, Xi Wen was really happy, and soon It was Qixi's father's turn.
Sure enough, Qi Ruiming took out a gift box wrapped in gift box colored paper.
Xi Wen opened it shyly and apprehensively. Qi Xi took a mobile phone to record the video. She wanted to take a picture of her mother's surprise and astonishment when she saw Hermes as a souvenir.
There was indeed a bag in the box, and when Xi Wen took out the bag, she really showed surprise and astonishment, but it wasn't her who was most astonished, but Qi Xi.
What Xi Wen took out was not Hermes, but a Coach bag.
Compared with Qi Xi's dazed look, Qi Xi's mother seemed extremely happy. She immediately turned her back to look at it, and she couldn't put it down: "The color matches my clothes just right, and it can be worn. It's also very convenient to carry and buy vegetables."
Qi Ruiming also laughed: "My wife, it's fine if you like it. It's really not easy to buy you a gift to make you happy. After thinking about it, I think this bag is the most suitable for you. It's not too expensive, and it won't be spent by you talking about it." , it’s an economical and practical small brand, and when you go out on weekdays to buy vegetables and the like, you don’t have to worry about bumping into it when you carry this bag, and it can show my wife’s wealth. The vegetable bag is at least a few thousand yuan."
Qi Ruiming was born in law school and has been immersed in a law firm for many years. He is very eloquent with a mouth, and Xi Wen can't stop laughing with a few words. The two of them come and go, but they are very affectionate.
This was originally a happy married life and family atmosphere, but Qi Xi was sitting at the dining table today, but his heart was churning with turmoil.
If my father gave my mother a coach, what about the expensive Hermes
where is that bag
Qi Xi originally had some doubts, but at the time he thought that Qi Ruiming was going to surprise Xi Wen on her birthday, so based on this knowledge, she dispelled her doubts for now, but...
Now Qi Xi's inner restlessness and turbulent emotions flooded up like a rising tide again.
And at this moment, the details that she had deliberately ignored at the beginning resurfaced again—the color of the Hermes bag was indeed too youthful and beautiful, it was not a bag that my mother would carry at all, but it seemed more suitable for Qi Xi Girls of this age.
Because of this bag, Qi Xi's emotions have been affected several times. She looked at her father who was cutting the cake with her mother's shoulders in front of her, and felt guilty again in her heart—they seemed so affectionate , Is it because I am dissatisfied with my father's preference for boys over girls, so I always interpret all his actions with prejudiced eyes
Maybe he picked up that bag for someone else, or maybe he bought it for a client's daughter to win a relationship. After all, Qi Xi thought about it, and it's not that her father didn't do this kind of thing. In order to earn a little more money, Qi Ruiming spent even more energy on winning over big clients than handling cases.
Qi Xi knew that Qi Ruiming had a few big clients with whom he maintained a very close relationship, and Qi Xi's father would spend millions of dollars every year just for regular legal consultation fees, not to mention the fact that the big clients also had many company disputes, so Holding a big customer can even be worth dozens of scattered small customers. It is quite cost-effective to buy a bag of more than one hundred and two hundred thousand yuan to win people's hearts, so it is not impossible, but...
It's just that Qi Xi didn't know what was going on, she was always a little uneasy and uneasy.
But although I have a lot of complaints about my father, I also think that he has paid too much attention to his career in recent years, and the time spent with his family has decreased a lot, but after all, marriage is a matter between two people. My mother seems to have no opinion on this, except for occasional complaints. In two sentences, it's more about Qixi's father's busy work and pressure. In all fairness, Qixi's parents seldom quarrel, at most occasionally, and his father is very obedient to his mother in most things.
Such a father should not cheat, right
I don't know if it was the impact of successive cases on Qi Xi, Qi Xi seemed to feel that he had become paranoid.
For such a great birthday party, she decided not to think about these unpredictable guesses, got rid of the messy thoughts in her mind, and started singing birthday songs to her mother with her father.
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This birthday party was also like an opportunity to break the ice. Although Qi Xi and Qi Ruiming didn't say it clearly, the two got along with each other instead of the tense relationship before, and became much more harmonious.
After spending the weekend at home, it was still Qi Ruiming who insisted on sending Qi Xi to a rented room.
"I heard from your mother that you shared a rent with a classmate. What is your name, Chen Yiran? Dad has an impression of you as a friend. He was your deskmate in high school, right? You two were really close at the time. I didn't expect you to still be in touch now. She What university did you go to and what are you doing now?"
Along the way, it could be seen that Qi Ruiming was in a good mood, and wanted to have a good time with Qi Xi, but it was a pity that because of the lack of participation in Qi Xi's growth, Qi Ruiming didn't know who Qi Xi's friends were. The embarrassing chat with his father, on the contrary, showed his indifference to Qixi's life.
Qi Xi never had a high school classmate named Chen Yiran.
Her high school deskmate wasn't even a girl at all.
But Qi Ruiming didn't know.
He was so obsessed with his work that he only occasionally jotted down the outline of a name from Xi Wen's few words, and now he is openly trying to use this crown Li Dai's name to narrow the distance with Qi Xi.
Qi Xi thought that she had become numb to such disappointment, but when Qi Ruiming was so clumsy and full of mistakes trying to approach Qi Xi to understand Qi Xi's life, Qi Xi still felt something different—she felt a little happy, It's also like a kind of void that has been sought after for years is finally slowly being filled.
People in my father's era didn't know how to express their feelings for their children, and they never paid much attention to the cultivation of parent-child relationship in that era. Although Qi Ruiming is embarrassed now, he still tries to talk to Qi Xi. Qi Xi at least thinks that To Dad's progress and change.
Her father still cared about her. Even though Qi Ruiming was not perfect, he was her own father. When Qi Ruiming was not so busy, Qi Xi had his shadow and company in all the time when he was young.
This cognition alone made Qi Xi calm down.
Rarely, Qi Xi calmly chatted with Qi Ruiming about his life, and talked about the funny things he encountered in the recent case. Qi Ruiming listened very intently. He couldn't help laughing, and shared the bad things he encountered when he first started practicing, which was only worse than Qi Xi's.
But what Qi Xi didn't let Qi Ruiming know was that just after he sent Qi Xi to the rented compound to leave, Gu Yan, who was waiting not far from the gate of the compound, came to pick up Qi Xi. He picked up the bag in her hand, including a bag of light clothes, as if Qi Xi couldn't bear to carry anything.
Gu Yan took the clothes, and said casually: "The one just now was your father?"
Qi Xi was in a good mood and nodded, "Yeah!"
"Oh, he is very concerned about you, and he has been arranging blind dates for you before."
Although Gu Yan's tone was very calm, Qi Xi could already hear the urgency in the man's words, she interrupted Gu Yan immediately with a strong desire to survive: "Arrange to introduce you to my parents immediately! "
She looked at Gu Yan amusedly and teasingly: "Don't worry, a man must be patient."
Gu Yan was a little annoyed: "My sister said that I was too patient to find a partner at this time."
"Okay, okay, we Gu Yan are not angry, let me kiss to comfort you." After Qi Xi finished speaking, he jumped up and kissed Gu Yan's side face like a surprise attack.
Zhao was still at home today, so Gu Yan didn't plan to go upstairs, he helped Qi Xi lift his things into the elevator, and planned to leave, but Qi Xi pulled him reluctantly: "Let's go now?"
Although Gu Yan's voice was very calm, facing Qi Xi's persuasion, he obviously had some internal struggles, but in the end, he still pursed his lips and rejected Qi Xi: "Zhao is still at home."
Qi Xi grabbed Gu Yan's hand and couldn't help shaking it coquettishly: "Zhao Yiran is fine at home, you are also her classmate, and it's not that you don't know her well."
"It's inconvenient if she's here, so forget it."
Qi Xi said angrily: "What's the inconvenience? Do you want to do something illegal? Then you..."
It's just that before Qi Xi could finish his sentence, Gu Yan pulled her in front of him, put one arm around her waist, sent her to his arms, and then kissed Qi Xi when Qi Xi was caught off guard. brook.
Since falling in love with Gu Yan, the kisses at the beginning were superficial or shallow, but recently Gu Yan's kisses have become deeper and deeper, with more and more aggressive and other meanings.
Although he didn't do anything but kiss, Gu Yan's breath when kissing, the smell of his body, his slightly sexy yet suppressed panting, and the voice that became deep and hoarse after kissing, seemed to be spells and some kind of hint, making him Qi Xi's head became hot, as if he couldn't think of anything else at all.
"Do you know why I can't go up?"
Gu Yan's voice was panting with effort, and he patted Qi Xi's head: "Because I saw you, I would want to do such a thing. It seems that it is not something convenient for Zhao Yiran to visit."
He leaned over and kissed Qi Xi again, then withdrew from Qi Xi's lips, and kissed the tip of her nose as if he couldn't help it: "Okay, let's go up."
Qi Xi became a little shy, and her voice became a little softer, but she also missed Gu Yan very much, she tugged on Gu Yan's sleeve and said, "Then why don't you drive over here just to meet me downstairs?" Ah? Isn’t the price/performance ratio too low?”
"I didn't want to come, but I missed you very much. I was bored at home, so I drove out and wanted to go shopping, but when I realized it, I was already at the gate of your community." Gu Yan's voice was a little self-defeating, "When I realized that I was When I arrived at the gate of your community, I also felt speechless, but I have come all the time, so I don’t see you, so it’s a bit cost-effective.”
Qi Xi also missed Gu Yan, she leaned on Gu Yan and didn't want to leave.
That…
Qi Xi stood on tiptoe, leaned against Gu Yan's ear, and said something in a very, very soft voice.
It's a pity that Gu Yan didn't hear it clearly, and he frowned inwardly with some confusion: "What did you say? It's too light, I didn't hear it."
Qi Xi had to hold back his blushing and said it again, but it was a pity that Gu Yan still didn't hear clearly.
In the end, Qi Xi was a little out of breath, and bit his lip and gave Gu Yan a vicious look: "I said, I don't have to come back here tonight, you can take me anywhere."
She said in a tone like a bully: "We can go to the room."
Gu Yan was stunned, looking very excited, but just when Qi Xi thought he would take Qi Xi's hand to go to the hotel, Gu Yan called to stop—
"no."
Qi Xi heard the man say no in a struggling voice.
Gu Yan, are you really bad
The doubts in Qi Xi's heart were about to break through the sky.
Probably the suspicion on her face was so obvious that Gu Yan quickly turned black: "Qi Xi, stop thinking about those things you are thinking now, no, it is absolutely not like this."
Qi Xi glanced at Gu Yan, still very suspicious.
"No, because I will have a friendly basketball match between our competitive law firm and Yilin law firm tomorrow night." Gu Yan pursed his lips and explained solemnly, "I will participate."
"So?" Qi Xi didn't understand the connection between the two.
Gu Yan probably didn't expect that Qi Xi didn't get what he meant, he was a little helpless, but he had to explain in detail, he tried his best to tactfully say: "You know that in order to maintain the best state and physical strength, athletes are advised to abstinence before competitions ?"
"..."
Speaking of this, Qi Xi understood even if he didn't understand.
When Gu Yan mentioned this topic, he also looked quite embarrassed. His eyes wandered wildly, and he didn't even dare to look directly at Qi Xi. It wasn't until a moment later, when his emotions calmed down, that the man turned his gaze back, and he gently pinched Qi Xi. With Qi Xi's finger in his heart: "Then you will be my cheerleader tomorrow night."
of course!
Not to mention that there are many young female lawyers in Yilin Lu, as long as it is playing, there will always be some young girls or students watching the game by the side of the court. Doesn't Qi Xi want to swear an oath of sovereignty