Chapter 38 Coward
Qiu Jieqin's whole body trembled at first as if she had been electrocuted, and then she remained motionless like a clay sculpture. After a few seconds, tears quickly gathered in her eyes, quickly bursting out of her eye sockets and rolling down her cheeks like a dam breaking.
Although Qiu Jieqin was crying, her expression was happy. She wiped her tears and laughed while crying: "You are so annoying! I just stopped crying with great difficulty." She stood up from her seat, walked around the tea table, and rushed towards me with open arms.
I felt Qiu Jieqin's excitement and happiness, and I smiled and opened my arms to welcome her hug. But she jumped on me too hard, her arms wrapped around my neck, and her whole body crashed into my arms. I just caught her slender waist, and the momentum of her jumping on me made me fall backwards, and the front legs of the chair I was sitting on immediately lifted up and fell backwards.
I cried out, “Hey!”
Qiu Jieqin shouted: “Ah!”
Then we fell to the ground with a thump as the chair overturned. My legs were still hanging on the chair, and Qiu Jieqin was on top of me. Although she was not very heavy, she still weighed about 100 kilograms. It hurt so much that I gasped with my teeth agape.
At this moment, the door was pushed open, and the tea-making lady appeared at the door with a surprised face, looking at the weird posture of Qiu Jieqin and me in shock. Qiu Jieqin and I also blushed and were extremely embarrassed.
Fortunately, the tea lady reacted quickly, bowed slightly, said "Sorry!", then quickly closed the door and disappeared from our sight.
Qiu Jieqin and I looked at each other and couldn't help laughing. Qiu Jieqin said angrily: "It's all your fault! You are so embarrassed now." I was surprised: "Blame me? You pounced on me, I am also a victim! Ouch, it hurts, hurry up and get up, you are crushing me to death."
Qiu Jieqin quickly climbed off me and helped me up. After I stood up, I touched my aching waist and shook my head, saying, "I shouldn't have said that if I had known. Look how excited you were. I almost lost half my life!" Then I picked up the overturned chair from the ground and sat on it again.
Qiu Jieqin said angrily, "How dare you!" She immediately sat on my lap again, holding my neck tightly with both hands. I smiled bitterly, afraid of falling over again, so I had to reach out and hold her waist tightly.
Qiu Jieqin blew hot air into my ear and whispered in a sweet voice: "What did you say to me just now? I want you to say it again!"
I teased her with a smile, saying, "I just said that you almost cost me half my life!"
Qiu Jieqin twisted her body unwillingly and said in a delicate voice, "Well, that's not it. You said it to me before I stood up. I want to hear it again."
I smiled and felt Qiu Jieqin's coquettishness, feeling the incomparable pleasure. I touched her face again and said, "I say, let's go out! Will you be my girlfriend?"
Qiu Jieqin's face was full of happiness. She buried her head deeply in my chin and said in a gentle voice, "Tang Qian, you are so bad! You made me wait for eight years for this sentence. Eight years!" Then she started to cry again. I knew she had a lot of grievances in her heart. I was too cold to her before. So I hugged her tightly without saying a word, letting her vent in my arms...
After a long time, Qiu Jieqin finally stopped crying and wiped her tears on my collar. I stroked her hair gently, my heart overflowing with love. She raised her head, tears in her eyes, and said, "I have finally waited for this day, Tang Qian, you can't regret it, or I will die in front of you."
I smiled and said, "Don't talk nonsense about life or death. I promise you that I will treat you well in the future and make up for what I owe you in the past."
Qiu Jieqin smiled happily, but she still couldn't believe it, and said, "Tang Qian, I feel like I'm in a dream now, I can't feel that this is real. Hold me tight, kiss me, let me have you for real."
I smiled, lowered my head, aimed at her small, slightly open lips, and kissed her deeply...
Fifteen minutes later, we went out to pay the bill and left the teahouse in a panic under the strange gaze of the tea lady. Qiu Jieqin leaned against me happily, and I hugged her tightly and walked slowly on the street.
It was already late, and there were few taxis passing by the side roads outside the community. We had to walk to the main street to hail one. Qiu Jieqin suddenly remembered something and said to me, "You already have a girlfriend. I won't allow you to be the fake boyfriend of your female boss. I want you to reject her."
I sighed, " Do you think I'm willing? But that hateful woman threatened me that if I didn't agree to her, she would fire Cheng Jia from the company. I had no choice. Cheng Jia couldn't be hurt because of me!"
Qiu Jieqin snorted, stamped her feet, and broke free from my arms. She said angrily, "You still say you don't like Cheng Jia? For her, you can endure the threats of others and be willing to be manipulated by others. When have you ever done this for me?"
I laughed and said, "I don't have a chance, and no one is using you to threaten me. I can't do anything even if I want to!" Qiu Jieqin was so angry that she kept stamping her feet.
I restrained my smile and said to Qiu Jieqin seriously, "Cheng Jia is a kind and good girl. I treat her like my own sister, but I have no other thoughts. After I was transferred to the Planning Department, she was the only colleague who was friendly to me and helped me a lot. If she hadn't secretly reminded me this time, I might have been thrown into the wilderness by Hua Jingjing, and I wouldn't know whether I was dead or alive. To put it more seriously, Cheng Jia saved my life. How could I be so selfish and ignore her being retaliated against and watch her lose her job for helping me? No! I can't do it!"
Qiu Jieqin was speechless and could only look at me with resentment. I stretched out my hand and gently stroked her delicate face, saying softly: "If you really love me, you should understand me. There are some things that I will never do even if you beat me to death, but there are also some things that I have to do even if it means I have to suffer a lot. Do you understand what I mean?"
Qiu Jieqin hummed and whispered, "I understand, but what if that woman keeps using this to threaten you and forces you to do a lot of things you don't want to do?"
I said, "Hua Jingjing has sworn to me, this is the only time, I will never cause trouble for Cheng Jia again!"
"You believe that woman's oath?"
"I have no choice but to believe it. What else can I do? I think that although Hua Jingjing is vicious, she is still a person of status. She won't be so despicable as to break her promise, right?"
Qiu Jieqin said, "Huh! I doubt it?" She leaned towards me again and warned, "Since you have made up your mind, there is nothing I can do, but I want you to stay away from her as much as possible and don't let her pretend to be in love with you. She really likes you and definitely has intentions towards you. You have to be careful and don't give her a chance."
I laughed, hugged her and continued walking forward, saying, "Here we go again. Stop being suspicious. It's so annoying. Come on, I'll take you home."
Qiu Jieqin said angrily, "I'm serious, don't take it lightly."
At this time, an empty taxi drove over. I stretched out my hand to stop it, and got in with Qiu Jieqin.
After sending her home, before getting off the car, Qiu Jieqin looked at me with seductive eyes and blushed, and hesitated to speak . I was moved and knew what she wanted to say.
I reached out my hand and stroked her face as usual, and said softly, "Go back and go to bed early. I'll call you tomorrow, okay?"
Qiu Jieqin pouted in disappointment, said "oh" listlessly, pushed the car door and got out, I waved my hand and said goodbye to her. Qiu Jieqin suddenly leaned over and kissed me deeply on the lips, then laughed and scolded me in a low voice: "Coward!"
She giggled, closed the door, and ran away.
I stroked my lips, with only a bitter smile in my heart. I was also very confused. Qiu Jieqin and I were already lovers, so why didn't I want to make love with her as soon as possible? Was it just because I was too old-fashioned and traditional?
I was puzzled, and the driver asked me where we were going. I said, "To the place where we got on the bus." The car started quickly, but I was still thinking about it.
My finger was still on my lips, and I suddenly remembered the strange question Hua Jingjing asked me before she left: "What do boyfriends and girlfriends usually do when they break up?"
I thought of the deep kiss Qiu Jieqin gave me before she left, and suddenly I knew the answer: it was a kiss goodbye!
Kiss goodbye?
I also remember Hua Jingjing saying to me in anger, "You are not only a bad guy, but also a fool!" The look in her eyes and the expression at that time, did she want to kiss me goodbye?
I was stunned for a long time, then burst out laughing, thinking: "How is this possible! She is just teasing me!"
When I got home, I washed up and went to bed. But all I could see was Qiu Jieqin's disappointed look and the words she said to me: coward!
I don't know when I fell asleep. When I woke up the next day, I remembered that it was Saturday and I didn't have to go to work. After breakfast , I planned to ask Qiu Jieqin to go out and have some fun. But I heard my phone on the table ringing non-stop. I picked up the phone and pressed the answer button: "Hello, who is this?"
Hua Jingjing's laughter came to my ears: "Lazy bug, are you up yet? I'm downstairs at your house, come down quickly, we still have a lot of things to do!"
I walked to the window in surprise and looked down, and saw the red Ferrari parked downstairs. Hua Jingjing leaned her head out of the car window, smiling and waving at me!
