Chapter 40 Chapter 40 Qiao Xiaozhen kept shaking her head with tears in her eyes...

"What are your plans for the future?"

Xiaozhen instinctively avoided the question when she heard it. She didn't want to discuss such a serious topic at all.

He had asked this question before, and she was very angry and didn't speak for a week. She couldn't think of anything sensitive about this topic.

Xiaozhen sipped the juice in the cup and said in a very cold and uninterested tone: "What are you going to do?" She

immediately understood the purpose of this trip.

"You are all grown up. There are some things that I can tell you directly. Let's not talk about your future. Have you thought about your future plans with me?"

Her heart seemed to be beating half a beat. It can be seen that Qiao Yihua wanted to discuss this topic for a long time, but he was afraid that she would be unhappy and react too much, so he didn't say it. Qiao Xiaozhen didn't seem to want to know at all.

She looked up at him and said, "I don't really want to hear what you want to say."

Qiao Yihua never moved his chopsticks. They had to draw a conclusion about their relationship. They couldn't be muddleheaded every day.

"I think." He pondered the words, "I think we can never have the pure brother-sister relationship that you had in high school and junior high school, and you are the same, right?"

Xiaozhen lowered her head and stirred the juice without saying anything.

"My inner thoughts are to buy a house in your name, and then save some money, whether it is a popular fund abroad or a gift, anyway, it is enough to live a life of worry-free food and clothing. If you want to work, you can go out and follow your own interests and hobbies, and if you don't want to work, you can go traveling and have fun. You understand what I mean, right?"

Qiao Yihua saw that she still lowered her head and didn't react.

"I know what you have been thinking for so long since you came back. You don't want to end the relationship and want to have someone to rely on, but you don't have any plans to go further and... I don't know if my mind has changed. If everything is determined by law, it will also give you a guarantee, right?" "

What? What are you talking about?"

Qiao Yihua seemed to be talking about serious business. He knew that Qiao Xiaozhen was not used to many words, but it didn't matter, and he still had to explain it clearly.

"It's very simple. In the past, you didn't have the ability to be independent, and I was fulfilling my legal responsibility to let you go to school. When you turned 18, or when you went to college, your obligation to pay for living expenses and tuition fees ended. It's different now. We are in a relationship between a man and a woman, and the way to settle accounts is completely different. It's... well, it's the price."

He didn't know if he was thinking about the right word. In the past, Qiao Yihua rarely talked about such things herself, and even if she did, she would use very direct words, such as youth fee, compensation fee, or even the fee for having sex to make me happy and comfortable. This word is not very accurate when used on Qiao Xiaozhen.

She has been to college, and she understands what it means very clearly. She was very interested at the beginning, but now she is listless. She feels like

she is sitting on pins and needles.

"Can I not listen?" Xiaozhen's face, which had just been rosy and smiling, turned black like Bao Gong.

Qiao Yihua sighed lightly, smiled slightly and said: "I didn't raise a fool, did I? You don't understand these things the most, you have read so many Taiwanese novels and TV dramas. I don't mean anything else, you can't be stupid all the time, my sister, you have to plan for your future, now the society is market-oriented, so many students from prestigious universities are graduating in batches, the competition pressure is so great, your brother is not a very reliable man."

Qiao Xiaozhen looked out the window and said softly: "I know. Is this what you want to say today? Or have you always wanted to say this?"

When did you want to say this? He thought about it, it should have been a long time.

Professor Zhou's earnest persuasion and analysis of their relationship, or the various experiences last year, or the unspeakable feelings after having sex again, she was stupid and didn't care, he couldn't just close his eyes and ignore it.

Qiao Xiaozhen asked: "What about you, you are saving money to buy a house for me, are you going to get married again?"

Qiao Yihua was stunned, "It's not certain whether to get married or not, but having children is certain."

He told the truth.

"Oh."

She didn't ask any further questions.

Seeing that she didn't react as much as last time, Qiao Yihua simply finished speaking in one breath: "Xiaozhen, there is no legal restriction between us. Whether or not to terminate this relationship will not affect me at all, at least it won't affect me. You know I've been very busy with work, and it's unlikely that I will be able to fulfill more responsibilities in many cases or in the future. I want to place you in the most appropriate and comfortable position. Of course, this depends mainly on your wishes. I can agree to whatever you want. Even if," he said in a very affirmative tone, "even if it doesn't matter if it's the company's shares."

He was really sincere and promised everything at the first sign of excitement.

Qiao Xiaozhen's face didn't show too much emotion, "I don't want it."

"Why are you so stupid? It's okay to be like this when you're a teenager, but now the world is more important than feelings."

"What else?" Qiao Xiaozhen asked back, "You can still turn your face and disown me."

Qiao Yihua wouldn't go further with the topic, because that was also his sensitive area. He thought that if you were worried, you could also have a child to support yourself.

He couldn't bear it because he felt that she was young, had never been exposed to the world, and had experienced such things, so it was normal for her to be sensitive and suspicious.

"What I hope is that you will have a free life and a place to live in the future. We can meet at any time. No matter what happens to me in the future, it will not involve you. Since I am now able to give you a free life and conditions, you should live happily from beginning to end."

Qiao Xiaozhen stared at him. It was obviously a promise. Most women should be moved, but she looked as if she was dead and her heart was in pain.

Everything they did was just a result. What was the difference from the past? The fake brother and sister who were hanging out together openly and the lover who was hiding in a safer place could not dictate his future.

"You really have a snake heart." Qiao Xiaozhen's tears fell. She endured for a long time, trying to prevent her eyes from getting wet, but she still couldn't control it.

Qiao Yihua took out a handkerchief from his pocket. Of course, he didn't understand if he still didn't appreciate his tactful and sincere words.

"Isn't this the best ending? What else do you want? What do you want to get? What are you not satisfied with?"

After a series of rhetorical questions, he felt that he had done a perfect job. After thinking for a few days and months, he was a top ten good man. He felt that she was too stupid and too young to understand anything, and would never know what was more important.

He never thought of turning their relationship into a purely money relationship. Everyone grows older, and their mentality changes. They may even have a different attitude and idea every two or three years. Ask yourself, are you the same as before? Never the same. Of

course, he would not understand why the woman opposite him was sad. Perhaps she had not lived in an ivory tower for too long, had not been exposed to the world, had not experienced too many setbacks, and did not know what she wanted at all.

In public, she did not show more. She ate a few bites with tears in her eyes, and asked cautiously, "I want to go home, let's go."

No one would have the heart to eat in this situation.

Sitting in the car, Qiao Xiaozhen kept crying silently, and Qiao Yihua was upset and stopped the car halfway.

The hot summer had not passed yet, and there was a breeze in the evening, and there was still a hint of heat.

After getting off the car, there was a small open park next to him. He walked a little distance and smoked a cigarette, and he began to feel irritated for some reason. He

quickly walked back and said in a slightly louder voice, "What do you want? You can say it, say your thoughts."

Qiao Xiaozhen turned her head away and did not look at him or speak.

"Why are you unhappy? Is it what Uncle Zhou said before, or is it what Xiao Wei Renqiu said that made you unhappy? You can't remember it now."

She still didn't speak.

Qiao Yihua spoke very seriously from the bottom of her heart: "In fact, I don't plan to do anything again. You can do whatever you want and be happy. If you are willing to play any role, you can do it. Since you are willing to start over, of course I have to consider future plans. You know very well that I need partners, like-minded people, and various contacts. They will tell me what they say in advance. I haven't considered your ideas and asked for your opinions. In the future, we can sit together and talk like we did a few days ago. I am not excluding you."

Qiao Xiaozhen's eyes were moist and especially bright under the light of the street lamp, "You know I don't care about these."

"What do you care about?" he asked. "I've never been good at guessing what women are thinking. This is the best outcome for our relationship. Do you understand? This is it."

Qiao Xiaozhen kept shaking her head with tears in her eyes, her voice a little torn: "I know, I know they don't like me, no one likes me. You are powerful and rich, they rely on you and cling to you, they think you are always right and I am always wrong. But what about you? You know better than anyone that I was forced. I said no so many times that I didn't want to, but you never listened. Why am I the only one who wrote an apology letter to you? What about you? Have you apologized to me in such a long time?"

Qiao Yihua was slightly stunned. The woman in front of him was extremely sad, tears streaming down his face. He wanted to explain but was interrupted.

"You must be very proud of me throwing myself into your arms these days. Actually, I always know in my heart that you look down on me and think I am not worthy of you. Sometimes I also look down on myself. I have never owned anything, so I am not afraid of losing anything." Qiao Xiaozhen touched her tears with her fingers, "Let's break up. I really can't stay here at all. I am so miserable. I really want to leave here and leave Shanghai, so that you don't have to worry and I can be free. I can't forget it. I can't forget it all the time. I have no choice, brother. Let's break up. I really can't stand it."

This is probably what it feels like when a person is extremely sad. Qiao Yihua didn't know why she cried so much. Her heart ached. She wanted to hold her back and hug her in her arms, but Qiao Xiaozhen kept struggling and refused to get close.

She was still obsessed with the embarrassing past, and she couldn't mend the most profound verbal attack and the hand he had brought.

"I'm sorry." The sound of the hustle and bustle of the traffic did not cover his voice. Qiao Yihua said it very seriously, holding her wrist tightly with one hand for fear that she would do something stupid.

Qiao Xiaozhen was still very emotional. After apologizing, she seemed to be waiting for the next words, but there was nothing.

"Don't tell me these things. I will carefully calculate the money you gave me. I will pay you back after I get a job, and I will give you some every month. Please, let me go, we can both be relieved."

Intense and strong feelings, whether family, friendship or love, Qiao Yihua has always found it difficult to like them. He doesn't like separations with a strong sense of formality, and he doesn't like excessive emotional investment. Everything is best done in moderation.

Therefore, discussing their fate with Qiao Xiaozhen has already given up a lot based on his own emotional preferences, because she is special, and the reason for her specialness is also based on a little bit of guilt. For a man like him, or most men, guilt is something very ethereal and can disappear at any time. It never has a lifelong binding force.

And the obsession with the body of the woman in front of him can be controlled to the point where he can touch and restrain himself. The special nature of their relationship will make him never forget it.