Chapter 31 When love is a thing

of the past I was thinking wildly when suddenly a hand rested on the wine bottle that Mr. Li put in front of Xia Jinxian.

Xu Yanqing took the phone and was about to answer it, but looked at Mr. Li and smiled, approached him and asked, "Mr. Li, didn't you drink enough tonight? Do you want me to drink with you?"

The KTV was obviously so noisy, but his voice was like a wave. The cold spring flowed clearly into her ears.

Li Guohao was already drunk and fainted. He looked at Xu Yanqing and asked, "What does District Chief Xu mean?"

Xu Yanqing glanced at Xia Jinxian and said to Li Guohao, "You probably don't know who her first leader was. "

After that, he took the wine bottle from Li Guohao's hand and went out.

Li Guohao looked at Xia Jinxian with some confusion. Xia Jinxian smoothed his hair, forced a smile to Li Guohao and said, "District Chief Xu was my first section chief."

Li Guohao opened his mouth, but his slow brain stopped him to answer. No more words to say.

Xia Jinxian felt even more uncomfortable at the moment, and her heart was filled with congestion.

Xu Yanqing's help only made her feel more embarrassed.

Will he feel that he has let himself down?

After so many years, why haven’t I heard those rumors?

That she was sold to Lu Mingwei and was willing to be Lu Mingwei's bed partner?

There is a female secretary who follows a male leader, as if it was her own active choice.

She knew that these rumors would never stop. People in the world loved these tidbits. No matter how deeply they hurt the person involved, how true the rumors were?

When I fell in love with Xu Yanqing, it was described as such an unbearable past. When I heard such rumors later, it was just a deeper understanding of the ugliness of human nature.

Although those rumors were not true, he was not so worldly after all, relying on Lu Mingwei.

Xu Yanqing is already high and low, while she is low in the dust. This is the difference.

Xia Jinxian looked at the playlist on the screen and thought, what on earth was she hoping for?

Li Guohao was taken away from the wine bottle by Xu Yanqing, but Xia Jinxian didn't respond and found it boring, so she went to chat with another girl.

When Xu Yanqing came back, he saw that Li Guohao had left, so he went straight back to Lu Mingwei and chatted with others.

Xia Jinxian loosened her tight strings and casually ordered a song called "Heavenly Road" and a song called "Female Flower".

Anyway, it’s what these old men like to listen to, and there will be beauties who will sing it.

After Xu Yanqing sat back, he was surrounded by people who wanted to get close to him.

Lu Guozheng called her, "Xia Ke, help District Chief Xu order a song."

Xia Jinxian felt overwhelmed, but she walked up to Xu Yanqing and asked him, "What song does District Chief Xu want to sing?"

Xu Yanqing looked at her. She then said, "Please click on a

song called "When Love Is a Past." The farewell to their past love.

After understanding his intentions, Xia Jinxian felt extremely disappointed.

But in front of so many people, she naturally would not refuse, nor would she lose her composure.

She gritted her teeth, then forced out a stiff smile and said, "Okay."

Xiao Lu drank too much at night, and suddenly ran over and said, "Xia Ke, let me sing with you."

Xia Jinxian nodded and walked back Go to the song request screen.

Xu Yanqing watched her roll up the sleeves of her shirt, revealing her lotus-like jade arms, and tapped her fingers lightly.

That way, it seems that it is still the same as before, but it seems that it is not.

When Li Guohao held her back just now, he instinctively wanted to go over. When he got up, he realized that he actually had no excuse.

So he pretended to make a phone call, walked over, took away the bottle, and warned Li Guohao.

In fact, it is difficult to express my feelings for her in words.

At this time, in his eyes, she was still an unparalleled beauty.

Even though the years and wind and frost have stained her appearance, at this moment, under the dim light in the KTV, she has a few strands of bangs and her hair is tied up, but she has a different kind of mature charm.

This reminded him of a poem: The people beside you are like the moon, and the bright wrists are covered with frost and snow.

The last two sentences of this poem are both suitable for the occasion and destructive of the scenery. They are: Don’t return to your hometown before you are old. Returning to your hometown requires breaking your heart.

When he saw her, he knew what heartbreak meant.

Xia Jinxian inserted a song and handed the microphone to Xiao Lu. It was Leslie Cheung's solo version of "When Love Is a Thing of the Past", not the duet version by Li Zongsheng and Lin Yilian.

Xiao Lu drank too much and sang out of tune.

Xia Jinxian was leaning next to the karaoke table and listening, her face could not be seen clearly in the dim private room.

Xu Yanqing stood up and walked over, but Xia Jinxian deliberately avoided her and walked away a distance so that he could not even say a word to her.

The song reaches the line, "I still have love for you, but I can't do anything about myself."

Unfortunately, the elegance of it was defeated by Xiao Lu's cries of ghosts and wolf howls.

Xu Yanqing walked out, and two bosses immediately followed him. Next to Xia Jinxian was Lu Mingwei. Lu Mingwei pulled Xia Jinxian to sit down and said to her, "Go and talk to District Chief Xu and let him get to know you." "I'll offer you a beer later."

Xia Jinxian didn't know whether his words were sincere or to test her loyalty, and she didn't want to say anything more to Xu Yanqing.

In fact, it was just fear, fear of knowing that he and Han Yun had already had children, and developed a true relationship in the ups and downs of the world.

Xiao Lu sang the line, "If you forget me, there will be no pain, and let the past remain in the wind."

Xia Jinxian then raised the beer bottle, and would rather be eaten by Mr. Li than interact with Xu Yanqing, even if it was just a drink liquor.

The last few people played dice with the group of girls.

Xia Jinxian hid away and sat alone, scrolling through her phone.

Tan Xia sent a video to the group chat of her little one staying awake at night and causing havoc in heaven. Xia Jinxian watched it with gusto and a smile on her face.

When Xu Yanqing came back, he also saw Xia Jinxian scrolling through her phone, which contained videos of children.

He remembered this child, the child she was pushing that day.

His throat moved and he pinched the center of his nose.

Mr. Li went crazy with alcohol and ran over again. He had already walked around Xia Jinxian's back and hugged her.

Xia Jinxian was about to push away, but when she looked up and saw Xu Yanqing looking at him, she stopped her refusal, put away her phone and stood up.

Xu Yanqing thought, is she really that relaxed now?

If you are really so open-minded, do you still need to protect Lu Mingwei, who is lustful but not bold?

Xu Yanqing greeted Lu Mingwei, called Xiao Lu who had finished singing, and said that he was leaving.

It was 12 o'clock, and this difficult social gathering finally ended with the arrival of midnight.

Xu Yanqing was sent away in the car arranged by Xiao Lu, and the others dispersed. Xia Jinxian called for a driver to see Lu Mingwei off first, and then went home.

The cold wind of early autumn blew all the way, but the drunkenness made me feel even more drunk.

When she got home and fell asleep, she vaguely smelled the fragrance of ink.

It seemed like it was the first day they lived together. When they opened the study, there was this delicious smell of ink.

I can't tell if it's his bookish smell or the aroma of the study. In short, it smells good.

That day she spent a long time choosing underwear and spent a long time in the bathroom with a blushing face.

When he came out, he leaned on the sofa and half-closed his eyes.

It looked so beautiful that way, it made her want to get closer, but she was shy.

She walked over nervously and expectantly, and sat gently on the edge of the sofa.

But Xu Yanqing felt her approach, opened his eyes and saw her like this, rubbed his eyes and said, "I'm already asleep."

Xia Jinxian was shocked on the spot.

On the first day they lived together, he actually told her that he had already slept with her? !

She puffed up her face on the spot, and Xu Yanqing immediately laughed.

He picked her up and carried her into her bedroom.

He turned off the bedside lamp for her and covered her with the air-conditioned quilt, when she reached out to hold him.

But he broke away from her hand and closed the curtain for her.

With the light coming in from the window, he seemed to be enveloped in a hazy halo, elegant and handsome.

"Xiaoxian..."

He whispered her name, and she blushed and said "hmm", waiting for his further actions.

Xu Yanqing closed the curtains, kissed her forehead and said, "Go to sleep."

She grabbed the collar of his pajamas, brushed her fingers across his chest, and felt his throbbing.

But he pried off her fingers, covered her with a blanket, patted her and said, "Go to bed early, good night, honey."

Later, she asked him why he didn't take any further action, but Xu Yanqing said seriously, "Xiaoxian, I don't want to be with you all the time, I'm just afraid that you won't want to."

Even though she was showing up, he still had to maintain his modest and gentlemanly demeanor.

Who will cherish her and respect her like this for the rest of their lives?

How can a man who can reach out to him at any time after drinking compare with him?

His breath is so warm and his embrace is so broad.

When the leaves outside are blown by the spring breeze, the sound sounds like a movement of love.

At that time, she was writing her undergraduate thesis, and Xu Yanqing said, "When you finish writing your graduation thesis, and when I'm done, let's go out and play."

After hearing this, she immediately became energetic and asked him, "Where are we going to play?"

Xu Yanqing said, "You can go wherever you want."

She asked, "Is Hangzhou good?"

Xu Yanqing raised an eyebrow.

She thought he thought it was too far, but Xu Yanqing smiled sullenly for a long time and said, "I thought you were going to go to Europe, but it turns out it's just Hangzhou. No problem. I'll accompany you. I have classmates who are starting a business there. I can do it then." Let's meet together."

At that time, she was still a bit petty, and she felt inferior to herself for this little knowledge she had.

She always felt that she was out of reach for such a handsome and distinguished young man as Xu Yanqing.

Xia Jinxian had a lot of old dreams that night. She suddenly twitched and woke up in the middle of the night.

She turned over and her phone lit up.

Clicking on the message, it was a polite greeting from Mr. Li. She replied and then turned to Xu Yanqing's name.

In just a few lines, it's so affectionate compared to the time when the two of them used old-fashioned mobile phones to send messages and the memory card was not enough.

Xia Jinxian held the phone with her eyes red.

Xu Yanqing got out of the KTV and got into the car. Halfway through the car, Han Chu called and asked him, "Would you like to find another place to sit?" He was

feeling uneasy tonight, but he really wanted to talk to someone.

He asked the driver to change the destination, and the car was speeding on the road late at night.

Han Chu waited for him at a private house and brought wine from a high-end French winery.

The two of them haven't talked freely for a long time. There are so many people tonight, so it's hard to ask many questions.

Han Chu knew that Xu Yanqing had a lot of wine. To him, these drinks tonight were a piece of cake.

But the two of them mainly drank wine and had no intention of drinking.

Han Chu asked the sommelier to pour wine for him, then clinked glasses with him and asked, "I heard that the first trial was dismissed?"

Xu Yanqing raised his eyebrows and

said, "Isn't this a normal process?" Han Chu smiled and said, "Not in the Su family. It's a normal process, and it's an earth-shattering event."

Xu Yanqing took a sip of wine and nodded, "Right."

Han Chu said, "The old man of the Su family was very angry when he found out and said he would ask you to go back."

Xu Yanqing smiled and said. "I've been assigned here, how can I go back?"

Han Chu said, "The old man also just found out that you were assigned, so he called my uncle to scold you."

The two looked at each other and clinked glasses.

Han Chu is a smart man, he has his own persistence in his heart, and the two of them became friends after many years of social interactions.

Facing this friend, who could also be regarded as an insider, Xu Yanqing finally did not hide his inner emotions too much.

The two of them had been talking to each other for a long time. They both respected the old man of the Su family, but they had a lot of resentment towards Han Jianjun.

The two chatted until late at night, and Xu Yanqing was very drunk.

He covered the wine glass with one hand and rested his forehead on the back of his hand.

Seeing that he was silent, Han Chu patted him and stood up to arrange for someone to take him back.

When Xu Yanqing got drunk, he remembered the past again.

He and Xia Jinxian held hands because he drank some wine.

That day was a weekend. Xu Yanqing and his friends Chen Ming and Pan Yijun had dinner at Luyang Village, a state-owned hotel on Huaihai Road. The restaurant's local cuisine was very authentic. The general manager was familiar with Pan Yijun, and he found the place.

There were not many people at noon, so three people sat in a private room, which was quite empty.

Chen Ming also learned from Pan Yijun that Xu Yanqing, a bookworm for thousands of years, actually had a sweetheart, so he looked at Xu Yanqing with a smile and said, "I'll be honest, what is that little girl you have a crush on?"

Pan Yijun just flirted with her. After drying silk with chopsticks, he said, "I have seen, um, elegant beauties."

Xu Yanqing drank tea, but did not answer.

Chen Ming crossed his legs, took a piece of straw with chopsticks, and said after eating with a mouth full of oil, "I said, you two are not young anymore. Are you so entangled in falling in love?"

Pan Yijun said, "I Different from him, I also thought about it, but I haven’t met him. How is he like you? "

Chen Ming is older than them. He and his girlfriend have already bought a house and are living together. They are waiting for her to graduate from her master's degree. Two people get married.

Xu Yanqing was silent for a while and then said, "It's not like you don't know about my family's affairs."

Chen Ming looked at him and said, "You have to be financially independent first, and then you can make your own choices."

Xu Yanqing paused while drinking water . For a moment, ask him, "How do you say it?"

Chen Ming said, "My family didn't agree with it at first. They thought there was a big age difference between us and she was from a rural area. In short, there were various excuses. Later, I didn't care and just moved out. Now I have paid the down payment for the house, even though I am alone. Repaying the loan is a bit more stressful, but the money she earns from her monthly job is also used to subsidize our daily expenses. Although life is hard, we are mentally independent and are not restricted by our family. Anyway, we can go as they please. Say, so what? As long as we persist, won’t we see hope?”