Chapter 115

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In the end, Jiang Wanhe didn’t go to the bar either.

Just kidding—he and Wang Di were no longer friends, so how could he leave his son to go help him?

The last person to go to the bar was Li Huairou.

When Li Huairou arrived, Wang Di was already a little drunk. He said while shaking his head, “What are you doing here?”

“What am I doing here? I’m here to watch the play. How good this play is!” Li Huairou said with a smile, “Tell me, why are you looking for my brother? He didn’t have time, so he asked me to come take a look. Hurry up, I only have half an hour. My older brother went to park the car and will come in a while.”

“What does a little girl like you know!” Wang Di said disdainfully.

“Talk if you want. If you don’t want to speak, then forget it. I’m leaving!” Li Huairou gave him a blank look and got up to leave.

Wang Di remembered that Li Huairou, like Jiang Wanhe, was also one of the people who’d watched him come all this way. Perhaps bystanders were always clear-minded, and she may really know something!

“Don’t go. Sit down!” Wang Di reached out and grabbed Li Huairou’s arm, but Li Huairou avoided him.

“If you want to talk, just talk, and don’t touch me. My older brother is sitting there. If you touch me again, he’ll come and beat you up!” Li Huairou said, glaring at him.

Wang Di hurriedly sat down and raised his hands. “I won’t touch you, I won’t touch you—is that okay?”

“Hurry up!” Li Huairou said impatiently.

“Jiang Xue is gone too!” Wang Di’s voice was a little choked up, and he poured another glass of wine and drank it in one gulp. “Like Qingqing, she left a letter and broke up with me.”

Li Huairou burst out laughing. Wang Di glared at her. I‘m like this, and you’re still laughing!

“What the hell did you do? Why did she break up with you?” Li Huairou wanted to continue watching this play, so she tried her best to hold back her laughter and continued asking.

Wang Di sniffed, and it was apparent that he was a little bit drunk. Otherwise, he wouldn’t cry in front of Li Huairou. “She said that she’d found out that she and I were in two different worlds. Didn’t I simply go back to my family company to work? Why are there two different worlds? Do you know how hard it was for me to run that shitty company? I went out to socialize every day, and I drank with those people every day until I got an intestinal perforation! My mother is right—I don’t eat the ready-made rice at home, so why do I have to eat half-cooked rice on a stove outside? Why can’t she understand? I’m still me! Why doesn’t she understand?”

After speaking, Wang Di raised his head and drank another glass of wine.

Wang Di didn’t know the reason. Li Huairou had some understanding. Jiang Xue was probably a bit idealistic! In the original plot, when Jiang Xue and Wang Di had met, Wang Di had had a successful career and a mature, stable personality. Most likely, this Wang Di was the perfect lover in Jiang Xue’s mind. But, even so, when Jiang Xue found that Wang Di was not as perfect as she thought, but rather paranoid, Jiang Xue left—even if she loved Wang Di. In the end, when the two of them still got together, Li Huairou believed that the bigger reason for it was because of the children.

Now, the two had gotten together in advance, and when their characters and other aspects were not very mature, these kinds of contradictions and disappointments were inevitable. Moreover, Wang Di, who had not blackened, was indeed somewhat indecisive, as could be seen from his relationship with Jiang Xue. He was just like Zhang Wuji; he liked all of them, and he couldn’t let go of any of them. In the end, it was the woman who’d helped him make the decision.

Thus, Jiang Xue’s departure was inevitable.

“As a former friend, I’m going to say something that might make you unhappy, but I still have to say it. Wang Di, Qingqing is gone, and Jiang Xue is gone; have you ever thought about why? It’s still like this. Don’t you think it’s your fault?” Li Huairou said, taking the wine in front of Wang Di.

“Me? What’s wrong with me?” Wang Di stared at Li Huairou.

Li Huairou shook her head, sighed, patted Wang Di’s shoulder, and pulled out his wallet. “If you don’t even understand this, you deserve to be broken up with!”

Then she passed Wang Di, found a waiter, and gave him a stack of money. “I’ll pay for this guest’s wine. As for the remaining money, help me open a room for him nearby to let him go in and sleep, and the rest of the money is a tip for you. Thank you!”

Then she put the empty wallet back into Wang Di’s pocket.

“The fun is over. Let’s go home, brother!”

Li Huairou was laying on her bed while watching a drama when Jiang Wanhe called to ask what had happened to Wang Di. Li Huairou told him about Jiang Xue’s departure.

Jiang Wanhe was silent for a while, and then he let out a sigh. “Finally, they’ve come to this point.”

Li Huairou sat up. “You knew they would break up? How did you know?” She thought only she could see it!

“People with discerning eyes can see it at a glance, okay? When Wang Di swayed between Jiang Xue and Luo Qingqing, I could see that he was a person with an uncertain temperament and wasn’t a good match. It was just that, at that time, Jiang Xue’s heart was all on him. I thought she wouldn’t listen. Unless you want to understand these emotional matters, no matter how others persuade you, it’ll be useless. Look, doesn’t she understand now?” Jiang Wanhe said.

Li Huairou snorted. “A smart person can see it at a glance? So you’re calling me blind.” Then she hung up the phone.

When Jiang Wanhe called again, Li Huairou didn’t answer. In the end, Jiang Wanhe sent several big red envelopes, and Li Huairou accepted them. Then she replied through WeChat, saying she was no longer angry.

Jiang Wanhe put his phone down, turned around, and entered another room. Chen Qianqian hugged her son and coaxed him softly, watching Jiang Wanhe come in and winking to signal him that the child was asleep.

Jiang Wanhe couldn’t help laughing when he saw it. “The baby’s eyes are so wide open. He’s not asleep!”

Chen Qianqian turned her son over and looked at him, and it was true, the baby grinned when he saw his mother. Chen Qianqian was suddenly a little frustrated. She’d been coaxing her son for half an hour, and there was no sound. She’d thought that he was asleep, but it turned out…

Jiang Wanhe took his son from her arms. “I’ll play with my son. Don’t you want to study for the exam? Go read your books!”

Chen Qianqian nodded. “Okay. It must be hard for you.”

“You must be kidding. This is my son—isn’t that the way it should be? Go back to the room and read.” Jiang Wanhe picked up his son. “Let’s go, let’s go to great-grandpa to play chess!”

Jiang Wanhe carried the child away and thoughtfully closed the door.

Chen Qianqian lowered her head and smiled. After she gave birth, everything seemed to get better.

Who knew if Wang Di had finally figured it out. Anyway, since then, he never looked for Jiang Wanhe or Li Huairou again.

After Li Huairou graduated from university, her family had originally planned to have her go to work in the company and find something to do. But she was not happy; she said that she would go out to play first, and then come back to work honestly when she’d had enough fun.

Originally, it was nothing. Mainly, it was because everyone in the family had their own business and couldn’t leave, and they were worried about letting her go out alone. What if she got lost? So they refused.

Li Huairou was angry. She was just incompetent in learning—she still understood common sense. This was slander and discrimination against her.

After two weeks of trouble, the family gave in.

They planned her itinerary, prepared her luggage, gave her all kinds of warnings, and so on. Her older brother wanted to take leave to accompany her, but Li Huairou finally beat him back.

“Don’t worry. I made three phone calls, and I remember the location.” When they were making their farewells at the airport, a large group of people surrounded Li Huairou, exhorting her. There were ten thousand worries.

Chen Qianqian stood beside her with her son in her arms. Witnessing this scene, she tried hard not to laugh. But, looking at Jiang Wanhe’s sad face, she quickly lowered her head. Fortunately, she’d given birth to a son. If it were a daughter, it would probably be like this in twenty years! That was too scary.

“You said you were so disobedient, so didn’t I tell you to wait for a while? Wait for your mother to retire and go with you. If you’re alone, how can we rest assured!” Li Shenglan chattered endlessly.

“Okay, okay, I’m going to check in. Bye. I’ll send you a gift!” Li Huairou quickly waved, ready to leave.

“Remember to charge your power bank—your cellphone must have power, and you should call the first time if you need anything. Remember what your mother said…” Jiang Ying urged.

“I know, everything else is trivial, and my life is the most important thing!” Li Huairou waved her hand. In fact, Jiang Ying’s original words were that if you encountered danger, then money, and even innocence, were trivial matters, and life was the most important thing.

Although Li Huairou couldn’t study all her life, she still had basic common sense in life. In addition to the experience she’d accumulated before, there shouldn’t be any major problems for her when traveling abroad.

In fact, she also found out that because she was forced to become a slacker all her life, her family regarded her as a fragile item, and she usually had to be accompanied by someone when she went out. Otherwise, she wouldn’t be able to go out. Although this was out of love, and Li Huairou could understand, she couldn’t be treated like a child all her life!

So, this time, she insisted on going out alone just to prove to them that she was not fragile, she was not a child, and that she could do things alone.

Li Huairou’s trip went very smoothly. Although she would receive phone calls and WeChat messages from her family all the time, this did not affect her good mood at all.

Li Huairou went to many places, and she unexpectedly met Luo Qingqing, who was on vacation with her family.

When friends meet, after a brief period of embarrassment, only intimacy remains.

At night, the two slept together, talking about everything that had happened after the separation.

Li Huairou knew that Luo Qingqing was doing well now. She was working hard to repair her relationship with her family, and her relationships with her parents and her brother were getting closer and closer. She had also slowly integrated into life here, made new friends, and, currently, there was a romantic, blond, blue-eyed man chasing her.

When Luo Qingqing talked about all this, there was a small light in her eyes. “I haven’t decided whether to accept him. My mother said that I should think about it clearly; westerners are different from us, and maybe they just want to fall in love, but I’m thinking about getting married. I think so too, so I’m still hesitating.”

“Then you can ask him directly—does he want to spend his life with you?” Li Huairou encouraged, “In case he also wants to date you on the premise of marriage, if you’re always hesitant, won’t you miss it?”

Luo Qingqing thought about it and laughed.

The two talked a lot, but they didn’t mention the names of those two in tacit understanding.

Because of Luo Qingqing, Li Huairou simply changed her itinerary and went on vacation with the Luo family.

Maybe she’d been infected by Luo Qingqing’s current state, or maybe she was homesick. After separating from Luo Qingqing, Li Huairou did not continue to travel, instead returning to China. She’d been out long enough; she’d seen a lot of beautiful scenery, and she seemed to have missed a lot.

While transiting in Hong Kong, Li Huairou accidentally met Jiang Xue at the airport. Jiang Xue was wearing professional attire, her head bowed at the computer. She was typing, answering several calls from time to time, and looking a little busy.

Li Huairou didn’t bother her. Then the airport announcement sounded, and the two stood up at the same time and walked in opposite directions.

Jiang Xue seemed to have a feeling, and she looked back. Li Huairou didn’t know if Jiang Xue had seen her. It seemed that Jiang Xue might have seen her, but it also seemed that she hadn’t seen anything.

Li Huairou, who returned to China, was the same as when she left, and her group of relatives and friends were all there. It was just that, when she left, Jiang Wanhe’s son was still in her arms, and now he was running around like a duck. While she was away, their family gained two more people. In fact, they’d all hoped that Li Huairou would come back for the wedding. But, at that time, Li Huairou had been waiting in Norway to see the aurora, and she couldn’t come back no matter what, so she just sent a thick red envelope and a gift that she’d carefully selected back.

After a period of rest, Li Huairou did not go to work at the company. Instead, she planned to open a cafe by herself.

Now, as long as Li Huairou wasn’t running around, the family supported everything she did.

The coffee shop opened smoothly, and its income was not bad. But Li Huairou didn’t calm down, as the family wanted, and continued to go out to play every now and then. But she would be back in ten days to half a month.

This time, she got off the plane and did not go home, instead directly going to the cafe.

There turned out to be an acquaintance.

Wang Di, sitting opposite a young woman in business attire, seemed to be on a blind date.

The two of them talked for a while. The woman stood up and left first. Li Huairou saw that the woman’s expression didn’t look happy.

Wang Di sat for a while and answered the phone. He was also a little unhappy, and he hurriedly checked out and left.

The waiter came over to gossip: “Guess what the man said? As soon as the man saw the girl, he asked, ‘Did you have plastic surgery? Why do you look different from the picture?’ The girl’s face collapsed at that time. She also smiled and explained a few words, saying that it was a makeup issue. The man said that, after the adjustment, it wouldn’t look the same. Then he said sorry, they were not suitable, and the girl left.”

Li Huairou listened and widened her eyes. Shouldn’t it be what she thought? Did Wang Di want to find the shadows of Luo Qingqing and Jiang Xue in other girls? Was this about stamp collecting?

Such a man deserved to be single!

“Aunt! Going home for dinner!” Jiang Qiyou ran in, hugging Li Huairou’s thigh. “Mom, Dad, Uncle, and Aunt are all waiting for you.”

“You guys are amazing!” Li Huairou patted Jiang Qiyou’s head.

“Aunt, do you have a gift for me?” Jiang Qiyou asked.

“Yes. Youyou’s, as well as your brother’s gifts, all are in the suitcase. Let your father come in and get the suitcase,” Li Huairou said with a smile.

Jiang Qiyou looked at the suitcase that was about the same height as him and was sure he couldn’t carry it. He turned around and shouted outside, “Dad, come in and get the suitcase.”

Jiang Wanhe pushed open the door and came in. “I know.”

“Where’s my sister-in-law? Why are you alone?” Li Huairou asked, holding Jiang Qiyou’s hand.

“She’s in the car,” Jiang Wanhe said after pulling at the suitcase.

“My mother has a sister in her tummy, she needs more rest,” Jiang Qiyou said.

“Really, that’s great. Oops, I didn’t prepare a present for your sister. What should I do?”

“Well, it’s alright. Just give Youyou’s gift to little sister.”

“Youyou is so sensible. But don’t worry, your aunt just remembered—I’ve prepared an extra gift, just for your sister.”

“Really? Great!”

Jiang Wanhe carried the suitcase and walked behind them, listening to big and small laughter, and he smiled. If only Qianqian was having a daughter this time. Too bad it was another son.

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