Chapter 37 Let’s Date
I pressed the answer button and said to the phone with a smile: "What's the matter? Did you miss me?"
There was silence on the phone for a while, and then Qiu Jieqin's familiar voice was heard: "Tang Qian! You are a liar! I hate you!" Her voice was tearful and she was extremely emotional.
I was stunned and puzzled, wondering how I could be a liar for no reason? Moreover, Qiu Jieqin's voice seemed to have two voices, one on the phone and another behind her.
I turned around subconsciously and saw Qiu Jieqin standing there alone about ten steps in front of me, with tears streaming down her face and a cell phone in her hand.
I called her in surprise: "Why are you here? What happened? Why are you crying?" As I said that, I walked towards her and reached out to wipe the tears from her face.
Qiu Jieqin took a step back, avoiding my hand, and said : "You don't have to pretend to care about me. I saw everything. You lied to me so much. Last night I thought I was the happiest woman in the world, but I didn't expect that after only one day, I found out that it was all a lie. Why? Why did you lie to me? You have a girlfriend, why did you tell me that you don't? Why did you say you would give me a chance? Tang Qian, I love you so much, but you keep hurting me, why?"
After she finished speaking in grief and anger, she covered her face with her hands, squatted down and burst into tears.
I understood the reason. She must have seen Hua Jingjing, but I didn't do anything with Hua Jingjing that could lead to misunderstanding when I got off the car. Why was Qiu Jieqin so excited and distressed? Could it be...
I squatted down as well and asked, "You saw us on the street? And then you took a taxi and followed us here?"
Qiu Jieqin wiped her tears and said, "You have nothing to say, right? I saw it with my own eyes, you... you liar! I have such a miserable life..." She continued to cry. I sighed secretly, thinking that this matter really cannot be explained clearly in a few words. My behavior with Hua Jingjing on the street just now, anyone who saw it would think that we were a couple. No wonder Qiu Jieqin was heartbroken and kept saying that I was a liar.
I looked at her sincerely and said in the most sincere tone: "Qiu Jieqin, I have never lied to you. In this world, not everything is true as seen with the eyes. Sometimes what you see with your eyes is not necessarily true. If you love me, you must believe me."
Qiu Jieqin said angrily: "According to you, what I saw on the street just now was all an illusion?"
I could only sigh and said, "Well, crying here won't solve any problems. Why don't you give me half an hour and find a suitable place for me to explain to you? I guarantee you will have a satisfactory answer, okay?"
In fact, Qiu Jieqin didn't want all this to be true. When she heard that I had more explanations, she immediately stood up and said, "As long as you can explain it clearly, let alone half an hour, even if it takes a hundred hours or a thousand hours, I'm willing to listen. Humph, I'm just afraid that you can't justify yourself, and your explanations are inconsistent and always reveal your true intentions, which would be funny."
I smiled and said, "No, my explanation may be a little unbelievable, but it's all true. Come, I'll take you to a place, you should wipe your tears first, and don't cry. If others don't know, they will think I'm bullying you!"
Qiu Jieqin wiped away her tears vigorously, stopped crying, and said resentfully: "You are bullying me! From high school to now, when have I not been bullied by you?"
I could only smile bitterly and reach out to hold her hand. Qiu Jieqin was angry and tried to dodge at first, but as I insisted on holding her, I still held her hand. She struggled for a while but failed to pull away, so she just let it go and simply stopped moving.
I held her hand and brought her to a small teahouse near the community. We found a quiet private room, ordered some melon seeds and peanuts, and ordered a pot of Tieguanyin tea. Then I dismissed the tea lady and told her not to come in unless she was called.
After the tea lady left, I rinsed the purple clay teacup with the first brew of tea and began to explain: "The woman you saw is Hua Jingjing. She is not my girlfriend. She is the deputy general manager of the company where I work, my boss and immediate superior ."
Just as she finished speaking, Qiu Jieqin said, "Humph ! I remember now. You refused to call me the past two days, and when you answered my call, you were in a hurry and didn't want to talk much. You said you were with your boss, so is that her?"
I had no choice but to nod and started to make the second cup of tea. At the same time, I said, "Yes, I was with her the other day, but the situation is not what you think. Don't worry, drink some tea first and listen to me carefully, because this matter is a bit long to explain."
I filled her cup with tea and brought it to her. Qiu Jieqin snorted, took the cup but didn't drink it first, instead she put it down and said, "Just make it up and see how true it is."
I sighed and said, "You still don't believe me?"
She said, "No matter whether I believe it or not, just explain it to me. I will judge for myself whether it is true or not!"
I poured myself a cup, blew it to warm it, drank it all in one gulp, and then began to say, "Actually, I just met Manager Hua this week. That morning I went to work, no, I went to hand in my resignation. Speaking of this resignation, this is what happened..."
So I told her why I took the initiative to write a letter of resignation, how I had a fight with Hua Jingjing on the way to the company to submit my resignation, how I found out that she was the new vice president of the company, how I refused to give in and had a verbal fight with her, how Hua Jingjing tried to drug me, how I fought back, and so on, all the way to how she threatened to persecute Cheng Jia and forced me to temporarily pretend to be her boyfriend and go to a birthday party with her. Finally, I said, "She said she wanted me to cultivate the feeling of being a boyfriend and girlfriend with her, so she forcefully held my arm. I had the leverage in her hand, so I had no choice but to let her do whatever she wanted. It just so happened that you saw it, which caused your misunderstanding. This is what happened. I don't know whether you believe it or not, but everything I said is true."
I just gave a long speech, which lasted more than half an hour. Qiu Jieqin didn't say a word. After listening to me, she said, "Impossible! I saw that woman leaning against you. She looked completely happy and joyful. It was obvious that she was happy and joyful from the bottom of her heart. How could she need to cultivate it?"
I was also puzzled and said, "Yeah! I can't understand why she can be so natural. But my whole body is stiff and I feel very uncomfortable. I always feel weird in my heart and I can't walk naturally."
Qiu Jieqin looked me in the eyes seriously. After a while, she said, "If what you said is true, then let me tell you why. Because your boss, the woman who is rich enough to drive a Ferrari, likes you, so she wants you to be her fake boyfriend. That's why she smiled so happily when she held your arm. Hum! Congratulations! It seems that you have been very lucky recently. By the way, there is also Cheng Jia. Why did she help you? Isn't it because she likes you?"
I immediately sneered after hearing that and said, "Who? Hua Jingjing likes me? Ha! What a joke, I treated her so badly, she said she hated me to the core and wanted to skin me alive and eat me, you think she likes me? Unbelievable! I tell you, she hates me so much that she tried every way to torture me, you are not me, so you can't feel it."
Qiu Jieqin said, "I'm not you, so I can see things more clearly from the outside. When love is too strong, it will turn into hatred, and when hatred is too strong, it will turn into love. I think you, the female boss, must have turned hatred into love, so you treated me like that."
I didn't quite believe it. Hua Jingjing liked me? Isn't that a fantasy? But seeing Qiu Jieqin say this, she must have accepted my explanation, so I joked, "Do you hate me? Or do you love me?"
Qiu Jieqin wanted to keep a straight face, but she couldn't help herself and burst out laughing, saying angrily, "You're annoying! I'm talking to you seriously, who would be so playful with you?"
I continued to laugh and said, "Who is smiling? I am serious. Do you love me more now? Or do you hate me more?"
Qiu Jieqin's eyes moved, shy and happy, and she said, "You are asking even though you already know the answer. Don't interrupt me! I want to ask you, what do you think of your female boss? Do you like her? And that Cheng Jia, humph! You are willing to be coerced by others for her, you must like her, how come you are so popular all of a sudden? I remember you were not popular with women before? No, you have to explain it to me clearly!"
I looked at this woman who loved me so deeply, and my heart was filled with tenderness. I had let her down too much in the past and had never taken her to heart.
But if there is a woman who can love you madly for eight years, how can you not be moved!
I have been thinking about this question recently. I am almost 30 years old, and it is time for me to find a girlfriend. Qiu Jieqin is gradually occupying an important position in my heart. I am more and more moved by her and like her more and more. In my subconscious, I have already regarded her as my girlfriend. That's why I am intimate with her and kiss her. I would never do this in the past!
But in the deepest part of my heart, I once had a momentary fantasy about an unrealistic woman. Although I had pushed her to the deepest part of my soul, my desire to find Jie Wei in my heart was so strong that I could not control my reason and emotions, and I developed a desire to possess Qiu Jieqin.
I suddenly reached out my hand, gently stroked her cheek, and said slowly with a tenderness that was rare in my life: "Jie Qin, are you willing to be my girlfriend? Let's go out! Okay?"
