CH 13

Shao Cixin suddenly didn’t quite understand the meaning of Wen Zhihan’s words.

It sounded like there was something hidden between the lines, like there was more to it than meets the eye, but Wen Zhihan’s tone was as calm as ever, making Shao Cixin feel like she was just imagining things.

“You’re…”

Shao Cixin tried to guess her thoughts.

“Talking about your job?”

That was the only explanation she could think of now.

Wen Zhihan looked at her furrowed brows and curious eyes, with an unchanging expression, still as composed and gentle as ever. Then she nodded slightly.

She didn’t deny this answer.

Shao Cixin understood completely.

She had set up the scene in her head like it was a TV drama, but in TV dramas, the main characters always end up falling in love.

She said she was the main character, but Wen Zhihan said she wasn’t. Isn’t that just her way of saying that they’re not going to be together?

Absolutely no relationship. Got it, got it.

“Don’t worry,” Shao Cixin said confidently. “I understand.

“Let’s go, it’s cold out and there’s a wind.”

As soon as the words left her mouth, a hand appeared in front of her, wearing the engagement ring they had chosen together.

Shao Cixin’s gaze followed the hand up to Wen Zhihan’s face.

She saw Wen Zhihan smiling gently at her: “Your heels are high, let me help you walk.”

Shao Cixin didn’t think too much about it, and put her hand in Wen Zhihan’s.

“Thank you, Wen Zhihan.”

Wen Zhihan smiled: “You’re welcome.”

Their hands were clasped together, but there was no warmth.

Wen Zhihan said softly: “Your hands are cold again, remember to keep them warm when you go home.”

Shao Cixin smiled: “It’s cold out, of course my hands are going to be cold. Your hands are cold too, remember to keep them warm when you go home.”

Wen Zhihan nodded slightly.

Shao Cixin nodded, and put her other hand in her coat pocket, walking side by side with Wen Zhihan.

The sound of their shoes on the pavement was rhythmic and soothing.

The light from the street lamps fell on them, as if invisibly erasing the distance between them and adding a sense of intimacy.

They looked like a couple who had just gone on a date, or newlyweds in the honeymoon phase.

“Do you feel like we’ve gotten closer?” Shao Cixin suddenly broke the silence.

Maybe it was the moment when Wen Zhihan handed her a cup of warm water, or maybe it was the moment when Wen Zhihan took her hand, but they suddenly didn’t seem as distant or formal as they did before.

It wasn’t quite friendship, but it was closer than being strangers.

“Mm.” Wen Zhihan nodded.

Shao Cixin looked at her, and then looked at their hands clasped together.

She saw that Wen Zhihan didn’t let go of her hand, and her desire to keep talking grew a little

The whole way there, she was bored out of her mind because she didn’t talk much. She didn’t like being bored, so she started to find things to talk about boldly.

Wen Zhihan had a good temper and patiently responded to her one sentence at a time.

“Wen Zhihan, we’re holding hands.”

“Yeah, so?”

“Why aren’t you shy this time?”

“… …”

“I think you’re a little bit cute when you’re shy.”

Wen Zhihan smiled lightly at her words, and the smile lingered on her lips for a long time.

Seeing this, Shao Cixin inexplicably smiled along with her.

The two of them got along very harmoniously the whole way, until they reached the entrance of Shao Cixin’s neighborhood, where they parted ways.

“See you next time.” Wen Zhihan said softly.

“Mhmm,” Shao Cixin stood at the entrance of the community, “next time we’ll see each other at the Civil Affairs Bureau.”

Wen Zhihan nodded: “Okay.”

Shao Cixin waved her hand: “Bye, be careful driving, goodnight.”

Wen Zhihan: “Goodnight.”

After Shao Cixin went home, she sent her wedding ring photos to Liang Xuefei and the family chat group, and she was so happy in front of them that she didn’t sleep for a long time.

This made Shao Heng and Lu Lan even more convinced that she liked Wen Zhihan.

The Wen parents will return to the country next Monday.

They were originally supposed to come back this weekend, but because of something that delayed them, their flight was changed to next Monday.

Wen Zhihan agreed that she would take Shao Cixin home to see them next Tuesday, and they planned to rest first after they came back.

Today is Thursday, and Wen Zhihan is preparing to go back to the Wen family early.

After finishing all the big and small meetings in the afternoon and dealing with the project matters, she went home by car, and the ring she had just bought with Shao Cixin yesterday was still on her left ring finger.

Guanyan has seen her wearing a ring to work every day these past two days.

Wearing a wedding ring is very convenient for blocking peach blossoms.

This ring was naturally seen by Wen Yu.

She was waiting for Wen Zhihan to come home and ask her about the marriage, but she didn’t expect that she would lose control of her emotions when she saw the engagement ring.

She was unhappy.

She knew what the engagement ring on Wen Zhihan’s hand meant.

Standing on the stairs, Wen Yu looked at her sister on the first floor with a sneer on her lips, and she was still unkind to her: “You bought an engagement ring?”

Wen Zhihan calmly responded, “Mm.”

She sat in the living room on the white sofa, smiled and took the tea that the housekeeper Dongyang brought, and said without raising her head: “If you want to see it, you can come down and take a closer look.”

Wen Yu was originally going to go down, but when she heard this, she retracted her outstretched foot, dead in place.

“No need, what’s the point of looking at a broken ring?”

After listening, Wen Zhihan’s smile on her face did not increase or decrease, and she raised her hand to look at it.

“I think it looks good.

“Cixin has a good eye.”

Hard.

Wen Yu’s fist became hard.

-Are they showing affection to me now? But I have no affection for Cixin at all!!!

She didn’t know why, but when she thought of Shao Cixin and Wen Zhihan getting married, her heart was a million times more uncomfortable.

She can’t help but… can’t help but scold Wen Zhihan twice.

“Wen Zhihan.”

Wen Zhihan slowly looked up at her.

She said coldly: “I don’t believe that you and Shao Cixin got married because you liked it, let alone that you would help someone who had nothing to do with you.”

Wen Zhihan raised her eyebrows, supported her chin, and her expression remained unchanged: “Why not?”

She snorted coldly: “It’s ridiculous, you think that Wen Zhihan is some kind of  a philanthropist, a goddess?”

Goddess?

Wen Zhihan smiled and raised her cup to her ear, responding with an invincible gentle smile: “Yes, I am a goddess.”

This is a goddess who always gets a discount when buying vegetables, always brings an umbrella when it rains, and always has a seasoning packet when eating instant noodles.

Wen Yu: “…”

She also gave herself a golden sticker!2

“Wen Zhihan,” Wen Yu suddenly had a thought, “could it be that you are using this to blackmail Cixin to marry you?”

The Shao family is in a passive position in this matter, and Shao Cixin is such a filial child… maybe it’s Wen Zhihan who took advantage of it!

The more she thought about it, the more she felt that it made sense, and she was more and more convinced that this was the truth.

Wen Zhihan was not moved, and she drank tea calmly.

The decision she made did not need to be explained to Wen Yu in detail.

Wen Yu’s eyes gradually filled with contempt: “Wen Zhihan, using such means, you are really underhanded and despicable, you have no conscience at all!”

The sound of her voice fell to the ground, and the first response to her was the cold blue eyes that Wen Zhinan had looked over with.

Those beautiful blue eyes changed from the usual gentle eyes, with a cold light in them, angry and domineering, making people’s backs chill.

She was so scared that her fingers trembled and her five fingers clenched into a fist.

Wen Zhinan put down her teacup and spoke slowly without any emotion: “The person in the Wen family who is least qualified to talk about conscience is only you.”

“You’re talking nonsense!”

Wen Yu was extremely unhappy with this statement.

The two were facing each other from a distance, and the atmosphere was tense.

It was obvious who was stronger and who was weaker.

But this still made Aunt Winter worry, fearing that the two young ladies would start a conflict again.

Fortunately, Wen Zhinan quickly interrupted this boring confrontation.

She got up and gently instructed Aunt Winter for a few words, changing her tone quickly and without any stiffness, as if she was born to control her emotions so effortlessly.

“Aunt Winter, leave the housework to you, I’m going back to my room to rest, I have to go to work tomorrow.”

“Okay, President Wen– by the way, President Wen.”

Aunt Winter called her.

“What does Miss Shao like to eat? We can prepare earlier.”

Hearing Shao Cixin’s name, Wen Yu couldn’t help but look at Aunt Winter.

Prepare?

She’s coming to the Wen family?

Wen Zhinan smiled gently: “Don’t worry, you don’t need to be busy with this, my dad said he would cook himself.”

Aunt Winter understood.

The master was a good cook, and he won his wife’s heart with this skill back then.

Wen Zhinan turned to go upstairs.

When she passed by Wen Yu, she suddenly heard a sentence: “Cixin doesn’t like you.”

She stopped and looked at the person next to her with a poker face.

Wen Yu turned her head to meet her gaze, and then repeated it again: “Cixin doesn’t like you.”

It was as if she was saying it to her, and also as if she was saying it to herself.

The love that belonged to her, how could it become someone else’s in the blink of an eye?

Wen Zhinan remembered the character setting that Shao Cixin had said, and smiled lightly, throwing it out calmly: “But she said she loved me so much that she couldn’t breathe.”

“?!”

Wen Yu didn’t believe it: “That’s impossible, you’re lying, she obviously likes me so much.”

They only broke up not long ago, how could Shao Cixin love Wen Zhinan so much that she couldn’t breathe!

Even three-year-old children wouldn’t fall for that!

Wen Zhinan suddenly looked at her with a pitiful and funny look.

If you care so much, why didn’t you cherish her back then?

Wen Zhinan patted her shoulder and reminded her: “You have already broken up.”

After saying that, she walked away without looking back.

Wen Zhinan’s words were very calm, but they were like a needle piercing Wen Yu’s heart, making her gasp for breath.

At the same time, she realized something-

She started to care about Shao Cixin.

[1] Peach Blossom means like blossoming love, so in this context it means suitors.

[2] Basically giving herself a pat on the back, a gold star.