Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Song Chuyi sighed in his heart. “Ruan Yang, I never wanted to get involved in your friendships. You’re in a difficult position but so am I. Don’t think of me too poorly. I respect your friendships very much. I don’t know what Xin Ziao told you, but I’m very satisfied with my current marital status. You’re a smart person—you should keep these words to yourself. However, I can tell you that if you want to be with Xin Ziao, he won’t necessarily be very agreeable with you continuing to be good friends with Changqing.”
He carried the luggage in and pressed the button for the elevator after coming out. He turned around and said, “I’m going down first. It wouldn’t be too good to stay up here for too long.”
Ruan Yang didn’t say anything more and merely watched him enter the elevator.
Just as Song Chuyi came downstairs, Changqing was about to get impatient from waiting. When she saw him coming, she asked, “What took you so long? Did Ruan Yang say anything to you?”
“She did.” Song Chuyi nodded as he answered while closing the car door.
“What did she say?” Changqing’s curiosity was beginning to stir.
“She asked some stuff about Xin Ziao.” Song Chuyi buckled his seatbelt.
Changqing tilted her head as she thought. It seemed like that was most likely the case.
She was curious about Song Chuyi in his high school years, so Ruan Yang would similarly be curious about Xin Ziao too.
“Then what did you say?” Changqing said, “It doesn’t seem like you get along well with Xin Ziao.”
“There were so many classmates in my classes; it would’ve been so tiring to have to get along well with everyone.” A faint smile surfaced on Song Chuyi’s face.
“But he’s doing well now. Don’t people like you always want to have more connections?”
Song Chuyi glanced at her mockingly. “What kind of connections do I need? What kinds of things would I not be able to handle that I have to rely on this connection? I’m not even a businessman and will most definitely not have any business interactions with him. The only possibility of interaction is if one day something went wrong with his brain and he was sent to my department for me to treat.”
Changqing blinked. She thought Song Chuchu would only say mean things to her. So it happened that he was very mean to others too and she suddenly felt better. “Since you were classmates with Xin Ziao, you should know him very well as a person. Do you think he’s compatible with Ruan Yang? Should Ruan Yang continue to be with him?”
“You should stay out of their relationship,” Song Chuyi said while driving seriously, looking out into the night. “Changes are inevitable in both looks and personality from when we were in school to the present day. I can’t dismiss Xin Ziao now just because I didn’t like him in the past because I’ve changed drastically from how I was in the past too.”
“Yeah, what a huge change.” Changqing became unhappy at the mention of that. She pressed her lips together. “I heard you were a playboy in the past and changed girlfriends frequently in a single semester.”
Song Chuyi drove on silently. Alright, he knew something would definitely come out of Xin Ziao’s cheap mouth. If he had known earlier, he would’ve bad-mouthed him more in front of Ruan Yang.
Changqing only wanted to test him at first, but seeing him staying silent made her angry and frustrated. “Why aren’t you talking? Guilty?”
“Why do I have to be guilty?” Song Chuyi’s handsome face didn’t show many changes in expression.
“You don’t even feel guilty.” Changqing stomped her feet angrily in the car. “I merely openly loved Fu Yu for a while and it amounted to nothing, yet you kept harping on about it. In the end, you’re the one who dated one girl after another while you were studying. You’re… you’re too dirty.”
While speaking, her throat and her eyes felt increasingly uncomfortable. She turned to look in the other direction.
“Just think about how ambiguous you and Fu Yu were.” Song Chuyi threw out a line.
“In any case, we’re innocent and we haven’t even dated.” Changqing felt sadder the more she talked and her eyes turned red. “I must’ve been blind. You’re simply an old gangster. A gangster since you were in middle school. No, probably since elementary. I’m such a fool. If I had known earlier, I would’ve started dating in university too.”
Song Chuyi’s face darkened. What nonsense. “You dare.”
“I dare,” Changqing said to spite him.
“I’ll talk to you when we return,” Song Chuyi said through gritted teeth, not wanting to break his concentration from driving
He drove for less than five minutes when Changqing took a chance to kick up a fuss again. “Where are you going? I want to go back to the Yan Household.”
“Robben is at Lakeview Residence.” Song Chuyi threw a line out.
Changqing hushed up immediately and thought of Robben’s dark, large eyes. She couldn’t bear to leave him at home the entire night too.
The car parked at Lakeview Residence’s carpark. Changqing walked towards the elevator lobby immediately without a word, even leaving her luggage behind.
Upstairs, although she didn’t have her keys, she still remembered the password.
When she entered, Robben, whom she hadn’t seen for days, greeted her passionately. Compared to the previous time she saw him, Robben seemed to have grown bigger once again. He reached up to above her waist the moment he leapt up.
Changqing hugged him and walked inside. She was in a bad mood and looking at Robben angered her as well.
When there were finally sounds of movement from the elevator area, Song Chuyi entered while pushing two large suitcases and carrying a pile of shopping bags with difficulty. Changqing snorted and poked Robben’s nose, saying, “Don’t look at me. Tell me honestly—did your owner always bring you out to pick up girls around in the past? You… are you always so passionate with every woman your owner dates?”
Robben didn’t understand and only licked her fingers continuously, wagging his tail happily.
“Stop licking. I’m serious! Do you think I’m joking with you?” Changqing continued to say to Robben sulkily, “You’re a dog without morals. You would most definitely run over to any woman who feeds you without reservations. To think I trusted you so much and thought you were an extraordinary dog. You’re actually no different from other dogs.”
Song Chuyi brought the luggage in speechlessly and said unhappily, “Do you want to keep your things?”
Changqing turned her back to him and pushed Robben away, but Robben quickly went up to her again. She said gloomily, “Go away; there’s no use in acting coquettishly. In any case, I’ve seen through you.”
Robben whimpered and put on a pitiful look. No matter how stupid he was, he could tell that his mistress didn’t like him anymore and he rubbed against her chest dejectedly.
What did I do wrong?
Song Chuyi sighed and rubbed his hair frustratedly with his brows knitted together. He walked to her side and said, “Everyone has a past. I can’t deny certain bad things about my past, but it wasn’t as bad as you imagined. I can only say that I was too young and ignorant then and there were many things that weren’t thought through. I cared about you and Fu Yu only because Fu Yu is currently involved in our lives. If I hadn’t stepped in, he might even be involved in our lives in the future.”
After saying that, Changqing didn’t move for a long time, only hanging her head low and touching Robben’s hair silently.
Song Chuyi watched her for a while and brought her things back into their room. She had too many things and with a slip of the hand, a shopping bag fell to the floor. He picked it up and took a look inside. There sat a European-style men’s striped collared shirt.
This design was for young people and it definitely wasn’t for Yan Lei.
He took a look at the size. It was about the same as his size.
He watched the shirt silently for a while, placed it down, walked up and picked up the woman and dog curled up on the couch.
Changqing was caught off-guard and her reddened and moist eyes were exposed.
She quickly turned her face away and evaded him, pushing his chest. “What are you doing? Put me down.”
“Alright, I will.”
When they were walking up earlier, she was still thinking she wouldn’t let him touch her at all tonight.
However, right now…
She covered her face shyly.
Her self-control was too weak.
No, it should be that Song Chuchu’s ways were too formidable.
She knew she wasn’t his match and could only cling onto his arm tightly, sobbing and whimpering as she said, “… In the future… you can only be like this with me…”
The woman in his embrace was so delicate and her amorous eyes shone with moving passion.
Song Chuyi’s body jolted and in her dizzy state, Changqing only heard him say “Okay” with his hoarse voice.
Perhaps Changqing was too exhausted, so she lost all consciousness after that.
The next day, she woke up with a start by the person beside her.
When she opened her eyes, she saw him sitting by the bed, putting on his pants. His honey-colored back arched beautifully.
Changqing suddenly noticed the scars on the left side of his waist.
It wasn’t that she hadn’t seen his body before in the past. It was just that she mostly saw the front and rarely saw his back.
Changqing reached out to touch the scars subconsciously.
He turned back suddenly and seeing that she was awake, his lips curled into slight surprise. “You’re up so early.”
Thinking back to last night’s war, Changqing’s face blushed as she hid under the covers, pouting and grumbling, “You woke me up.”
“Get a little more sleep.” Song Chuyi grazed her hair and bent down to kiss her on her lips.
Changqing covered her mouth subconsciously.
He raised his brows. Changqing stared over and said, “In case you say my mouth smells, I haven’t brushed my teeth.”
Song Chuyi was surprised and recalled that he had teased her about this in the past. To think she actually bore grudges for so long.
“It doesn’t matter; I’m used to it already.” Song Chuyi kissed the back of her hand and looked like he didn’t mind at all.
“I mind. You haven’t brushed your teeth.” Changqing snorted.
Song Chuyi squinted and smiled dangerously. After that, he pulled her hand away and forced a kiss on her, making Changqing’s face blush like the sun in June. This sight tickled his heart and he started caressing her waist.
Changqing also moved her hand to his waist towards the location of the scar. “What happened here?”
“Left a scar accidentally.” Song Chuyi released her and sat up. “I have to get to work. Go back to sleep first.”
“Why do you have to work every day?” Changqing pouted. “When do you get to go on leave?”