Chapter 338
Xiao Nanchen recalled his first meeting with Xia Qiqi.
That time Xia Qiqi did not have much hostility towards him yet, because she did not know that her father was going to marry his mother. She simply thought it was an ordinary friend meeting.
Little did she know.
The liveliness and loveliness that Xia Qiqi showed in front of him at that time left a deep seed in his heart. As time went by, it sprouted little by little.
And when he truly felt that he liked Xia Qiqi was when Xia Qiqi had spoken up for him before.
After his mother married her father, because he was not born in the upper class, he was ostracized.
Behind the adults' backs, many young masters from the upper class called him a country bumpkin, said his mother was a mistress, said he was the son of a mistress, and said he was a little bastard.
In fact, he was used to it. When he was alone with his mother without a father, he had also been scolded.
He had also been called an illegitimate child and a little hybrid.
He was not surprised at all and would not fight back.
His mother taught him to endure from an early age.
Because there was no need to care about inferior people.
And even more unnecessary to cause unnecessary trouble for himself.
His mother's education to him since childhood was to endure humiliation.
Indeed.
They endured tremendous humiliation and shouldered immense missions. They needed to forge ahead.
So from childhood to adulthood, he could really endure anything.
Enduring verbal abuse.
Enduring the one he loved not loving him back.
Once, he was ridiculed by some young masters from upper society again.
Xia Qiqi happened to overhear it.
She actually spoke up for him.
She said, "Xiao Nanchen is my brother. Whoever scolds Xiao Nanchen is scolding me. If anyone dares to scold me, I'll tell my dad about it and tell your dads about it too, so they beat you guys to death!"
After all, Xia Qiqi was still the little miss of one of the four great families.
She was quite ruthless and didn't follow the rules. But in the end her status was still there, and many people had to give her face.
So after that, there were much fewer people who scolded him behind his back.
It was only after then that his feelings for Xia Qiqi became clearer and clearer.
It was just that even though Xia Qiqi helped him out, she really did not like him and detested him very much.
When they were in high school, at the time when he thought Xia Qiqi's feelings for him had changed a little...
Xia Qiqi got together with Nie Ziming.
He would probably never forget the scene he saw after he spent an entire night writing Xia Qiqi a love letter, then after he worked up the courage for a month to give her that love letter. He saw Xia Qiqi walking past him hand in hand with Nie Ziming.
She walked right past him without even glancing at him.
If she had given him a glance, maybe she would have noticed the redness of his eyes.
"Ziming," Xia Qiqi mumbled a name softly from her mouth.
All of Xiao Nanchen's actions froze stiffly right there.
"Ziming, don't go..." Xia Qiqi's blurred voice somehow clearly reached his ears.
Xiao Nanchen moved back from Xia Qiqi's lips.
Moved away from Xia Qiqi.
Moved off her bed.
He thought,
Even if he had confessed early on,
The final result would still be the same.
Xia Qiqi would still fall in love with Nie Ziming in the end.
To him, it was really just innocent ignorance in their youth, just a yearning for beautiful things.
Not the feeling of being moved that he thought was there.
The only person who was ever actually emotionally moved was him alone.
He closed Xia Qiqi's room door.
Nuannuan said, you have to take the initiative more.
But taking initiative alone was really not easy.
...
The next day,
Xia Qiqi opened her eyes with a splitting headache.
She stared at the ceiling, her mind still rather muddled. It was as if she didn't even know where she was. It took her quite some time to get her bearings.
She forced herself to sit up.
Her mouth was dry and her tongue felt rough.
The after effects of drinking were all too obvious.
It's just she hadn't had it this bad before.
Last night,
She seemed to not have drank that much.
How on earth did she end up in such bad shape?
She couldn't even remember how she got back, how she ended up lying in bed, and how she...
She looked down at herself, seeing she had changed into sleepwear.
Damn.
Who changed her clothes?!
Was it Yueling or...Xiao Nanchen?
It wouldn't be Xiao Nanchen.
A man like Xiao Nanchen also wouldn't take initiative with her. She didn't need to worry at all.