Chapter 108: Disaster is Coming
After Xu Xin had eaten her fill, Xu Shu ordered her to wash up and go to bed, and then took me into the study. I watched her sit deep in the sofa, pinching her eyes with her fingers, seeming a little tired. Her beautiful face had a hint of laziness, and was so delicate that it was heartbreaking.
This is the woman I truly love! Facing Xu Shu, the tenderness in my heart surged, and I was very relieved. With her, I finally found a normal feeling, and felt that my love for the little witch was just like a sister, and it was not worth making a fuss.
Xu Shu is always the only one in my heart! I am not a pervert, nor am I possessed by a demon. Xu Shu and I sat quietly facing each other, neither of us speaking. I stared at that perfect body, and I felt that if time stopped, and I could look at her forever, how happy it would be!
After a long while, Xu Shu finally spoke first. She looked up at me and said, "I heard from Jingjing that you are looking after a small bookstore now?"
I smiled and said, "Yes! Hua Jingjing finally confessed to you?"
Xu Shu smiled, put both feet on the sofa, leaned on the armrest, and said, "Can you not be honest? Didn't you see how embarrassed she was, her face was red, she was really trying to save face but ended up suffering."
I said, "You can't blame her for this. She didn't really want to deceive you. She just wanted to save face."
"I know! But we are also deceiving her! And it's not just for the sake of face!"
I was silent for a long time before I sighed, "Yes! This is really a headache. I will find an appropriate time to explain it to her."
Xu Shu seemed to see through my thoughts and smiled, "Will you?"
I was speechless, I really didn't know how to tell her. I saw the playful smile on Xu Shu's face, and couldn't help but say, "What I was going to say was that you stopped me!"
Xu Shu quickly looked away, coughed lightly, and said, "Isn't it all for you?"
I said, “Really?”
Suddenly, she and I both realized that this sentence was too ambiguous. My eyes lit up and I kept looking at her face. Xu Shu avoided my gaze uneasily, and a blush crept up her cheeks.
But she just flirted for a moment, and then quickly returned to normal. She looked at me again and said, "To be honest, Jingjing really likes you. What are you going to do with her? If you dare to hurt her, I won't agree. And my sister, God! How come she likes you? You look honest, don't you look like a playboy?"
I smiled bitterly and said, "I don't understand it myself. How did I, a poor guy with no money, no power, and no looks, end up attracting them?"
Xu Shu smiled again and said, "Maybe, being poor has its advantages. Oh, by the way, I don't understand why you gave up a good job and resigned to run a small shop for someone else? Didn't I apologize to you? Are you still holding a grudge and have to pretend to be so?"
I sighed, "No, actually I resigned later, it's none of your business. At that time I just realized that Hua Jingjing liked me, and I promised my girlfriend to leave Hua Jingjing's sight. I couldn't change it, so I had to resign!"
Xu Shu said "Oh" and stopped asking. After a while, she asked in a low voice: "What kind of person is your girlfriend?"
I was delighted and thought, "Do you care about this, too?" I asked, "Are you interested in her?"
Xu Shu pretended to be nonchalant and said, "I'm just asking casually. It's not a question of whether I'm interested or not. If you don't want to say it, then don't say it!"
I looked at Xu Shu's eyes carefully, and I couldn't tell what she meant for a moment. After all, she is a big star! Her acting skills have reached perfection, and she is very scheming. When you are with her, you will never be able to see her true heart. What is she thinking?
I thought about it for a moment and said, "My girlfriend's name is Qiu Jieqin. She was my classmate in high school. She now works at the city gymnasium. She is a very ordinary woman."
Xu Shu frowned when he heard it and said, "Working in the gym? That night..."
I knew what she wanted to say, so I smiled and said, “I did go to pick up my sister that night, and I hadn’t even talked to my girlfriend at that time !”
"You didn't talk about it? Didn't you say she was your high school classmate?"
"We were high school classmates, but we haven't been in touch since graduation. I met her again because I went to get tickets for your concert because my sister wanted to see it!"
"Oh! So you have to thank me for your love with your girlfriend?"
I sighed in my heart. How could I tell her that since that night, the only person I fell in love with was her? Suddenly Xu Shu remembered something and said, "No! The scarf you lent me that night was given to you by your girlfriend, right? That means you were already in love at that time. Look at how precious you treated her scarf. Humph! I caught you lying again, didn't I?"
I could only smile bitterly and said, "But I didn't talk to her about it at that time. If you don't believe me, I can't help it."
Xu Shu snorted again and said, "It doesn't matter! It's none of my business when you two got together. It's up to you."
I found her look a little funny. She said it didn't matter, but she asked so clearly, not even letting go of some details that didn't match. Could it be that she really cared?
But Xu Shu was always unpredictable. She immediately changed the subject and said, "You are now looking after a bookstore for someone. Don't you think it's a waste of your talent? How much do they pay you per month?"
I said helplessly: "Eight hundred yuan a month!"
"Eight hundred yuan?" Xu Shu opened his mouth in surprise. I know that this amount of money is nothing to , so little that it can be almost ignored. But I can only earn that little money for that job.
Xu Shu frowned and said, "Tang Qian! What's the future of that job? No matter how many books you sell, the bookstore is not yours. I don't look down on your profession, but I think you will only waste yourself by doing that. You have studied for so many years, you wouldn't just want to be a book seller, right? If you don't mind, I have invested in several companies, and I'm short of manpower recently. Come and help me. I really don't trust others, but you are different, I trust you!"
Hearing Xu Shu say "I trust you", I was so moved. I felt that all my hard and painful secret love for her was worth it. If it was someone else, I would be loyal to her and die for her. But it was not her. She was the woman I loved, and I didn't want to rely on her to support myself. I was still a man after all, and my self-esteem prevented me from accepting her charity, even though she was well-intentioned and didn't mean to give charity.
I smiled and said, "Thank you! I appreciate your kindness. Don't worry, I won't do that job for too long. I have the confidence to support myself. As a man, I must build a career with my own hands instead of relying on others. No matter how hard or tiring it is, I will not give up. Please forgive me!"
Xu Shu looked at me for a long time without saying anything. I thought she was angry. Just as I was about to say something, I heard her sigh and say, "If you are determined, I have nothing to say. I hope I can be of help to you in the future."
I swallowed back what I was about to say, but I saw Xu Shu was silent, too. She lowered her eyes, staring at the ground, lost in thought. I didn't know for a moment whether she was unhappy or not, so I stopped talking.
The study fell into silence for a moment. She and I were both in a daze, but we didn't know what the other was thinking. In order to break the silence, I said something else: "You kept me here, aren't you going to settle accounts with me? I'm still waiting!"
Xu Shu raised his eyes, sneered and said, "I wanted you to work for me as a punishment, but you refused. What else can I do?"
I know she was being sarcastic, but she really wanted to help me. I couldn't express my gratitude, but I kept it in my heart and I won't let her down.
I stood up and said, "In that case, I'll take my leave first. Can you send a car to take me there?"
Xu Shu raised her wrist to check the time, then stood up and said, "Okay, wait for me." She pushed the door open and went out, then came back a moment later and said, "My sister has fallen asleep, I'll take you home. You don't want to go to that old leader's house tonight, do you?"
I smiled and said, "No. But you can just find someone to take me there. Why do you have to do it yourself? I see you look a little tired. Go and have some rest early!"
Xu Shu said: "You can't be my subordinate, but you are still my friend, right? As a friend, shouldn't I send you off?"
I no longer insisted, and I admired Xu Shu even more. As a high-ranking celebrity, Xu Shu was really nice to me as a friend. If I didn't have any mixed feelings about her, I really wanted to be her close friend.
But in my heart, I just want to own her and not be her friend!
After getting into Xu Shu's Lamborghini, Xu Shu fastened his seat belt and said, "Let's keep it a secret from Hua Jingjing for now, and then we can slowly solve it later. Didn't you see how panicked she was when I exposed her lie today? I even pretended to be angry. When she and I were in school, we were so close that we never hid anything from each other. Now, for you, we have deceived each other. Alas! I wonder how Jingjing will react after she knows the truth? "
I said, "I know. Hua Jingjing also told me about your past with her. You two are such good friends. It's really not worth it if you become unhappy because of me!"
Xu Shu started the car, a trace of panic flashed in her eyes, and then she pretended to be casual and said, "Really? She told you about my past with her? What did she say?"
I said, "It's just that you have the same hobbies and are as close as sisters. Anyway, it means that you two couldn't be better!"
The car quickly drove out of the iron gate and into the mountain road. Xu Shu hesitated for a long time, and finally couldn't help but ask again: "Then...did she say anything else?"
I said, "Anything else? Let me think..."
Xu Shu was very nervous and kept turning his head to look at me. I suddenly remembered something and couldn't help laughing. Xu Shu trembled and said, "You...what are you laughing at?"
I thought that was Hua Jingjing's deceptive words, just to trick me into hugging her, and I shouldn't take it seriously, so I said in a funny tone: "Hua Jingjing also said that your first kiss was given to her! Haha!"
I heard Xu Shu screaming in frustration and covering her face with her hands. I was startled and asked, "What's wrong with you?" Suddenly I saw a sharp curve in front of the car, and Xu Shu was so flustered that he didn't stop the car. I hurriedly shouted, "Watch out ahead!"
But it was too late. The Lamborghini rushed out of the curve at a speed of 60 yards per hour, and next to the curve was a cliff with an altitude of 1,400 meters.
At that moment, a thought flashed through my mind: "Are Xu Shu and I going to die here today?"
