Chapter 57: The End of My Life

Chapter 57

On the most popular Nordic-style street in Beicheng where tourists flock, Su Tao sat across from Liao Dan in a spotless cafe with bright windows and let out a helpless sigh. She apologetically said to Liao Dan, "Let me check WeChat again really quick."

Liao Dan was on a business trip in Beicheng and met up with Su Tao who was also in Beicheng. They had barely sat down for half an hour before Xie Jin had already called three times, sent a video, and over a dozen WeChat messages.

She thought that after finally agreeing to his marriage proposal last night, it would help alleviate some of his insecurities.

She didn't expect him to become even more clingy, to the point she didn't have a moment's peace.

Her fingers swiftly tapped on the screen as she typed.

[Su Tao: I'm having coffee with Liao Dan right now. Be a good boy and stop bombarding me with messages!]

[Xie Jin: ...Okay]

He had gotten better at acting coquettish lately, even using ellipses and "ba" to express his grievances.

[Xie Jin: I used to be like this too when we were together, and you didn't find me annoying back then.]

Su Tao: ...

She almost forgot that he used to be much worse, blowing up her phone every five minutes when he didn't see her.

[Su Tao: If you keep this up, I'll start missing the freedom I had when we weren't together.]

After sending it, Su Tao felt bad and immediately recalled the message.

Considering Xie Jin's current sensitive state where he cries at the drop of a hat, she couldn't provoke him like this.

[Xie Jin: I saw it already...]

[Xie Jin: Is that a threat? Trying to scare me?]

Su Tao quickly typed an explanation but upon seeing his next message, the corner of her eye twitched and she deleted her explanatory words.

[Xie Jin: Then you win.] Vissit novelbin(.)c.om for updates

[Xie Jin: How long until I can call you?]

[Xie Jin: I miss you.]

Seeing the last message, Su Tao pressed her lips into a smile and changed the five hours she had originally typed to two hours.

Finally putting her phone down, she glanced up at Liao Dan's disgusted expression and raised an eyebrow.

Liao Dan shuddered dramatically and joked, "Ugh, your smile is so sweet it's nauseating. I don't even need to add sugar to my coffee now. Is it trendy these days to lure out single dogs and torture them over coffee?"

Su Tao's cheeks flushed slightly as she toned down her smile.

This reaction made Liao Dan even more astonished as she clicked her tongue, "Taozi, you're usually very calm. This is the first time I've seen you get shy."

"...Really?" Su Tao said as she sipped her coffee to hide her expression.

Liao Dan shook her head and chuckled lightly, "Though, President Xie is really too clingy. Does he not feel secure?"

Su Tao looked up at her with clear eyes and asked, "You can tell?"

Liao Dan said, "Who can't? He posts couple photos with you on Weibo every day, afraid that people don't know about your relationship. It's like he's staking his claim."

Su Tao said helplessly, "I don't know what I should do to help him feel more secure."

Liao Dan said, "That's easy. You just have to publicly express your love for him like he does."

Publicly professing her love?

She'd rather take a knife to the heart.

Su Tao blinked her clear eyes and fell into deep thought.

Su Yang Xing rushed back after a schedule and contacted Su Tao to meet up.

Su Tao agreed and went to the film and TV studios in the afternoon to discuss her next drama with Zheng Bai before hurrying back.

Su Yang Xing had worked very hard ever since his debut. He changed his past playboy ways, didn't date, didn't splurge, and focused on practicing dance and singing.

When she saw him again, he had slimmed down compared to when he was on Produce Camp 2020.

"Sis!" From across the street, Su Yang Xing eagerly waved at Su Tao from the van and sweetly called out to her.

Su Tao walked up to his van and smiled lightly, "Tired lately?"

Su Yang Xing immediately pouted and nodded vigorously. "Exhausted. I had three schedules in four days, two were commercials. It was tiring to death."

Su Tao raised her brows slightly, a bit surprised that Su HaoYang would wring out even his own brother like this.

Her previous worries were indeed right. With Su HaoYang's management style, even the most promising newbie wouldn't get popular under him.

"Let's go in, sis. I already booked a private room," said Su Yang Xing. He was already wearing a hat and mask and got out of the car to go into the restaurant with Su Tao.

"Wait a moment," Su Tao said as she checked her phone again and looked around. "Xie Jin said he'll be here soon."

"Huh? You invited brother-in-law too?" Su Yang Xing's eyes widened in shock and anxiety crept onto his face.

Su Tao blinked blankly, somewhat confused. "Didn't you specifically ask if your brother-in-law was free today? He made time specially to come."

Su Yang Xing shook his head exaggeratedly with a grave expression. "I asked if he was free because I wanted to meet you alone while he was busy!"

Su Tao: "...Well it's too late now. Why weren't you clear? He's already on his way."

Xie Jin's flashy Maybach pulled up arrogantly at the curb. Long legs emerged from the car and the striking good looks in a crisp suit frequently drew the attention of passersby. Even Su Yang Xing, a celebrity himself, didn't attract as many looks when he got out of the car.

Su Yang Xing felt sour on the inside but also anxious. He didn't know if there would be a bloody storm later.

Xie Jin walked over unhurriedly holding a small gift box. He stood in front of Su Tao and only gave Su Yang Xing a cold side glance.

"Brother-in-law," Su Yang Xing still respectfully greeted him despite feeling on the verge of breakdown.

Xie Jin was very satisfied that the brother who always called him brother-in-law and took his side, even tipping him off before, maintained this degree of deference.

He stretched out his arm and offered the gift box. He graciously gave Su Yang Xing his full attention, "For you."

Su Yang Xing accepted it cautiously and reverently. Seeing the logo on the bag, his eyes lit up. He quickly took out the box and opened it to find the exquisite watch inside that matched his imagination.

A watch worth eight figures!

Even his dad wouldn't be willing to buy it for him.

Su Yang Xing looked at Xie Jin as if looking at his father, full of filial piety.

He swore that no matter what happened tonight, he would stand by father...no, brother-in-law's side.

Su Yang Xing led Su Tao and Xie Jin all the way to the reserved private room. Pushing open the door, there were already three people inside who looked at Su Tao and Xie Jin in surprise and stood up together.

Su Sheng, Li Pei, and Su HaoYang stood by the table like an inspection lineup.

Su HaoYang was the first to break the silence. He fawned as he came up and said to Xie Jin and Su Tao, "President Xie and Taozi are here together. How wonderful, it's a family reunion today. Come in and sit."

Su Tao's expression froze. She ignored Su HaoYang and slowly looked towards Su Yang Xing, who lowered his head guiltily. She turned to leave.

"Taozi~"

Su Sheng's weathered voice made Su Tao's footsteps falter. Her taut expression grew even colder, and her entire body radiated resistance.

Su Sheng had already walked over. His tone no longer had its previous firmness and he spoke in the gentle fatherly voice Su Tao had always imagined. "Taozi, dad was wrong."

Li Pei also walked over and gently said, "Taozi, your dad misses you very much. Lately he's always looking through your childhood photos. He deeply regrets how he treated you back then. Can you give your dad a chance to make up for his mistakes?"

"That's right, little sister," Su HaoYang also chimed in to persuade her. "Dad's mental state has been very poor lately. He keeps dreaming about you and Aunt Yuan, and he can't eat."

When Su Tao was blocked at her bedroom door by a makeup team of six people early next morning, she realized she had let her guard down.

Su Tao was confused as she was dressed up, made up, and changed into new clothes. Thinking that this was just an engagement ceremony, she suddenly didn't want to accept his proposal.

Not for any other reason, she was just afraid the actual wedding day would be too complicated, and she was afraid she would want to run away.

In a daze, she was arranged to get into the car. Su Tao was relieved that he didn't arrange for a helicopter to come.

Facing the camera that was following and filming the whole time, she stiffly pulled at the corners of her mouth.

As it turned out, the car followed the familiar route to the bridge where they first met. Seeing Xie Jin dressed in matching outfits, she knew she was naive again.

There was no helicopter, but he had arranged a hang glider, and it looked like he was going to take her to experience standing on the railing of the bridge and flying out.

A hang glider was less safe than a helicopter. Su Tao turned to run away but was grabbed back by Xie Jin.

Xie Jin gently knocked her forehead and said with a smile: "Don't you think it's meaningful and romantic to ride a hang glider here?"

Su Tao resisted: "I don't think so, I just think it's dangerous."

"Little Taozi, back then you were brave enough to jump down with me. Now it's just a hang glider, how can you be afraid?"

Back then she had nothing and just wanted to die, but now she was a billionaire and had such a handsome and rich boyfriend. Why would she want to die?

She suddenly understood the pleasure Jiang Nian had in playing with prayer beads.

She now just wanted to live out the rest of her life and live healthily to ninety-nine.

Xie Jin held her hand and passed the warmth from his palm to her. His eyes as dark as the night sky gazed at her, "Dare to trust me with your life?"

This sentence seemed to have a magic power that instantly calmed Su Tao's resistance.

She put on all the equipment and was led by Xie Jin all the way to sit on the two-person hang glider.

At the moment of takeoff, she dared only close her eyes, feeling the warmth of his palm and the temperature of his lips when he leaned over to kiss her.

What Su Tao thought was just filming actually turned out to be a live broadcast. The number of viewers in the live stream broke live viewer records again and again due to reposts from celebrities in the circle.

After finally getting off the hang glider, Su Tao slowly exhaled.

Xie Jin casually pointed to the empty valley ahead, his smile almost crazy, "My proposal is about to begin."

Su Tao: "?"

Wasn't it over already?

Following Xie Jin, she took a sightseeing car and arrived at a cliff edge. From this entire meticulous route, she understood that this crazy Xie Jin wanted to take her bungee jumping.

Su Tao looked through the glass flooring at the thousand-foot abyss below and swallowed, "Do you have to make it so grand?"

Xie Jin was already tying the bungee safety harness and seduced in her ear, "We couldn't do it on the bridge, so I specially arranged here. Don't you want to experience the excitement of jumping down with me?"

Su Tao's legs trembled: "I just want to live well now."

Although she said this, after the hang glider, Su Tao was already used to his death-defying actions. With the spirit of going down with him and being fearless of death, she went over.

Tied tightly together with Xie Jin, at the moment of dropping down, their intimate hearts beating together and the howling wind in their ears made them feel that they would live and die together, that in this world they only had each other.

Xie Jin's voice echoed in the valley, shouting over and over again: "Little Taozi! I love you! Will you marry me?"

Su Tao responded only with screams.

Le Xuan quietly accompanied Jiang Qi as they watched the livestream together. She took the initiative to hand him a can of beer and opened one for herself too. They clinked them together and she tilted her head to drink but the beer was snatched away by Jiang Qi.

"You took cold medicine, you can't drink." Jiang Qi put both cans of beer aside and didn't drink either.

Le Xuan noticed that he was quite calm this time, and was slightly relieved.

Jiang Qi seemed to be talking to her, but also like he was muttering to himself, staring at the video and murmuring softly: "So she doesn't dislike passionate love, it's just because it's him, she is willing to accept it."

Le Xuan stroked her slightly longer hair, staring at Jiang Qi with a gleam in her eye.

Jiang Qi, you can also have your own happiness.

#SuTaoMarriesXieJin#

This topic was pushed to the top of the hot search list, purely because netizens went crazy after being driven mad by Xie Jin.

It started after the proposal ended.

Including Su Tao, everyone thought Xie Jin would quietly prepare before the official wedding ceremony, then surprise everyone.

But that didn't happen.

Not only was Xie Jin not low-key, he became a show off husband fanatic.

On the day after he proposed, he posted 9 villa photos on Weibo, and they were photos of 9 different villas.

Located in North City, Jiang City, South City, Chongqing City and other cities that Su Tao often went on business trips to, he chose the best locations and prime golden land with magnificent scenery.

Everyone thought he was just showing off his wealth. For Xie Jin's capabilities, melon-eating netizens didn't feel it was anything special.

But after reading his accompanying words, they realized these were the nine wedding houses he had prepared.

Moreover, the photos were specially taken showing the names carved on the villa gates: Overflowing Peaches Resembling Xie Jin

That was fine, he was rich and could buy 90 villas and they couldn't control him.

Naming them with their names was romantic on his part, and people were still approving at first, leaving messages that it was so romantic, so blissful.

It was unknown whether Boss Xie was encouraged, but Epiphany Media subsequently released several original romantic variety shows in a row.

"Willows Green, Peaches Red"

"Peaches and Plums Fragrant"

"Peaches Filling the Garden"

Melon-eating netizens: ......

Aren't you afraid the wife's name will expire?

They endured this as well, after all it was his own company's shows, they couldn't control what he called them.

Spared no expense in inviting many top celebrities to join the lineup, the shows’ viewership kept rising. Boss Xie seemed to be encouraged again.

Following that, a road called Peach Xie Road was built.

An island called Peach Blossom Island was bought.

And he was always on Weibo asking everyone's opinion on changing Tian Xin Company to Peach Xie Company.

Everyone advised him to stop, until Su Tao finally stepped in personally to rein in his crazy ideas.

Having his desires to rename and shop deprived by his wife, Xie Jin could only alleviate his uncontainable happiness by posting intimate couple photos.

Netizens went from initial envy to disgust.

Many threatened that if he posted dog food again, they would unfollow him.

Xie Jin still arrogantly posted, completely disregarding anyone's thoughts other than Su Tao's.

This finally drove the netizens crazy. On the day Xie Jin posted their marriage certificate, they spontaneously brought the topic to hot search by reposting and liking!

They couldn't just let them be disgustingly sweet, they had to make the whole country disgusted!

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