Chapter 9: Honesty 2
"Wow, that's so good." Xi Shanshan's mind was completely on the snacks, and she didn't think that this was Kim Ji-eun's plan.
Kim Ji-eun sat up straight, took out her phone, and said, "Yeah, I took a picture of the two of them. They look like students from University A."
Xi Shanshan subconsciously leaned over and exclaimed, "Isn't this Mr. Shao and..." When the words came to her lips, Xi Shanshan looked up at Xi Feng and weakly said the last name, "Tang Ai..."
Only then did Xi Shanshan realize that Kim Ji-eun did it on purpose.
When Xi Feng heard the names of Shao Yu and Tang Ai, although he still maintained the posture and expression of reading, his vision on the book became blurred, and his thoughts were drawn to Jin Zhien's words.
"Do you know them?" Kim Ji-eun asked knowingly.
Xi Shanshan held a snack in her mouth and said uncomfortably, "They... are my brother's friends."
"Really?" Jin Zhien's eyes lit up after hearing this. She quickly walked over to Xi Feng and sat down, showing him her phone. "Xi Feng, do you know these two people?"
Xi Feng glanced at the photo on the phone screen with the corner of his eye. In the photo, Tang Ai stood up slightly, leaned over the dining table towards Shao Yu, and talked to him quietly. Shao Yu had a nice and gentle smile on his face, and they looked like a couple.
Xi Feng did not answer Jin Zhien's question, but closed the book, stood up and walked back to his room.
His silence made Jin Zhien feel that he had won the first step. If Xi Feng really liked Tang Ai so much, this incident would definitely affect his mood. This kid was so hateful, he must make him fall into pain and unable to extricate himself!
Sure enough, Xi Feng was not rational at all when it came to Tang Ai.
After he returned to the room, he quickly called Shen Ruoyun to confirm the matter. Unexpectedly, Shen Ruoyun scolded Xi Feng on the phone: "You stinky boy, are you crazy? Shao Yu and Tang Ai, how is it possible?"
But thinking about the circle of friends that Tang Ai posted during the summer vacation, Xi Feng always felt uneasy.
"If you feel uneasy, just be thick-skinned and take the initiative. No matter how Tang Xiaoai drives you away, ignores you, or scolds you, you must not leave! Can you? You can't. You are the chairman of HE now, and it is impossible for you to lower yourself for Tang Ai." Shen Ruoyun pointed out the problem directly and sighed, "If the cold war between you two continues, maybe she will really be poached soon. Xi Feng, if you can't protect Tang Ai and regard her as more important than your brother's company, then you should give up on her."
Xi Feng was silent, because he knew that comparing his brother with Tang Ai, he was in a dilemma.
"Xi Feng, the dead are gone, cherish the living." Shen Ruoyun said, and hung up the phone. Xi Feng sat at the end of the bed, holding the black screen phone in his hand. After a while, he slowly turned his head and looked at the jasmine on the balcony outside the window, thinking: Do I like Tang Ai because of my brother, or do I like her because of myself...
Jasmine, oh jasmine, you understand my thoughts, but does your original owner understand?
The next day, Xi Feng made an appointment with Shao Yu.
In the riverside coffee shop, they sat face to face with two cups of coffee in front of them, and no one said a word.
After waiting for a long time, Shao Yu broke the silence and asked, "Xi Feng, you asked me to come here, what do you want to say?"
"Teacher Shao, do you like Tang Ai?" Xi Feng asked, but did not raise his eyes because he was not confident in himself.
Shao Yu is a psychology teacher, so he naturally saw through Xi Feng's thoughts, so he said frankly: "I like it."
Xi Feng raised his head and looked at Shao Yu. There was no sharpness in his eyes regarding his career, but rather a retreat that he could not control.
"But I know Xiao Ai's feelings very well, so I like her, but I won't say it, and I won't take any actions to pursue a girl." Shao Yu said earnestly, "Xi Feng, if a girl still keeps your contact information at this time, and is willing to spend several months angry with you, and has several distractions, then she must love you deeply without knowing it. You have to believe her, believe in yourself, and believe in the past between you two, understand?"
"Teacher Shao, I..." Xi Feng frowned slightly, his clear eyes filled with self-blame and helplessness.
"You are so stupid, Tang Ai is also stupid." Shao Yu shook his head and took a sip of coffee. "Xi Feng, some things can never be caught again if you miss them, so try to make up for them before they are gone."
Try to win it back while it’s still there.
Xi Feng picked up the coffee and his eyes became distant.
But that time, before Xi Feng had the chance to win back Tang Ai, Tang Ai had already revealed her feelings unknowingly.
That night, Tonglin took Tang Ai to a bar because she found an internship. Tang Ai was not used to the atmosphere of the bar, so she was dragged there by Tonglin. Tonglin said, "You must try the life of feasting and drinking once if you are not crazy when you are young."
Tang Ai corrected her: "Youth is not meant to be used this way."
"Who cares! As long as my sister is happy!"
Tang Ai was dragged to the bar by Tong Lin. Actually, the bar was not very big, and it did not have the feeling of a wine pond and meat forest that Tang Ai saw on TV. There were people dancing, but not many. Most of them were friends who gathered together, drinking and laughing.
Sitting on the bar stool, Tonglin called the bartender and said, "Brother, a glass of Blue Hawaii, and a glass of juice for this girl."
"I want to drink too." Tang Ai interrupted Tong Lin. Although her voice was soft, Tong Lin's eyes lit up and she said, "Okay, handsome brother, two glasses of Blue Hawaiian." Then, she smiled at Tang Ai and said, "Okay, little girl, you're drinking in the bar on your own initiative?"
"If a person doesn't go crazy when he is young, he will live his youth in vain." Tang Ai smiled faintly and said this.
"Tsk..." Tonglin rolled her eyes at her. She had just said that this sentence was used in the wrong place. How fickle! But Tonglin didn't care. Tang Ai's mood was always unstable, and drinking was not a bad thing for her.
So, when the cocktails were served, the two girls clinked their glasses, drank together, and then talked to each other about their innermost feelings.
Tong Lin said: "Sometimes I miss Tong Dan so much, but I have to forget him and start a new life."
Tang Ai's face flushed. She leaned on Tong Lin, pointed at her and said with a smile: "Are you asking me to forget Xi Chen?"
Tonglin pushed her away, feeling slightly tipsy, and said, "Don't take it personally. I'm talking about myself!"
"But I also want to forget Xichen..." Tang Ai lay on the bar, looking a little sad, "But I can't forget him... Every time I see Xifeng, I will think of Xichen, and I can never get over it in my heart."
"Because you're stupid and too stubborn, and you can't figure out a lot of things!" Tong Lin also imitated Tang Ai and lay on the bar, waving at the bartender, "Keep going, keep going, I want to stay drunk with my sister tonight!"
"Don't come anymore..." Tang Ai pushed Tong Lin, got up, covered her stomach and said, "I'm going to the toilet..."
After drinking two cocktails and several bottles of beer, Tang Ai felt hot all over, a little dizzy, and very uncomfortable.
"go Go."
Tonglin waved her hand and continued drinking the cocktail brought by the bartender.
Tang Ai staggered towards the restroom, and when she came out, she suddenly saw a familiar figure going into the men's restroom. Tang Ai subconsciously followed him in, and she was drunk and didn't consider that this was a men's restroom and it was inconvenient to enter.
Because that person was Chen Mei, whom Tang Ai hated very much.
After entering the men's restroom, Tang Ai saw Chen Mei discussing something with a man, and that man was none other than the Korean she and Shao Yu had met last time - Jin Zhien! When the two of them mentioned Xi Feng in their conversation, Tang Ai's drunkenness immediately dissipated by more than half.
Subconsciously, Tang Ai took out her phone and secretly recorded their conversation. It turned out that Jin Zhien and Chen Mei wanted to frame Xi Feng, first to separate him from herself, and second to pull Xi Feng down from the chairman position of HE.
These two people are so cruel!
Tang Ai couldn't help but curse them in her heart. When she was thinking about how to tell Xi Feng about this, Jin Zhien in the video suddenly raised her eyes and looked towards the camera. Tang Ai's heart skipped a beat and she secretly said, "Oh no!"
"Tang Ai?" Kim Ji-eun called out Tang Ai's name, and Tang Ai hurriedly ran out of the bathroom, but when she just reached the door, her wrist was suddenly pulled by someone, and then she was tightly held in a person's arms, and another person covered her mouth with his hand and dragged her into the bathroom.
Jin Zhien and Chen Mei locked Tang Ai in a cubicle. One of them covered her mouth and held down her limbs, while the other rushed to grab her cell phone. Tang Ai held the cell phone tightly and hid it under her body. Jin Zhien and Chen Mei saw that they couldn't get the cell phone, so they kicked Tang Ai on the back several times in desperation, grabbed her hair and lifted her up. Tang Ai, whose mouth was free, screamed in fear: "Help!"
Chen Mei slapped Tang Ai in the face and threatened in a low voice, "If you scream again, I'll kill you!" Then she reached out to cover her mouth and shouted, "Kim Ji-eun, hurry up! Grab the phone!"
Before Jin Zhien could do anything, Chen Mei felt Tang Ai biting his right hand hard at the base of his thumb. The sharp teeth pierced into his flesh, causing him to scream in pain. He kept grabbing Tang Ai's face with his other hand.
"Stop shouting! Let's go first!" Seeing Chen Mei making such a loud noise, Kim Ji-eun was afraid that someone would suddenly come to the bathroom, so she opened the cubicle door and ran out without caring about anything else. Chen Mei had no choice but to run out as well.
Just as they were escaping from the cubicle, a man came in from outside the bathroom.
The man was puzzled by their behavior, but did not think much about it until he entered the restroom and saw a stall open with a disheveled girl lying on the toilet. He was so scared that he screamed and ran out, shouting, "Oh no! There's a dead person in the toilet!"
His shouting caused panic in the bar. Tong Lin, who was flirting with the bartender at the bar, shook her head and looked over. Seeing the man yelling with fangs bared, "Someone's dead, someone's dead!" and seeing that Tang Ai hadn't come back yet, Tong Lin's heart tightened and she rushed into the bathroom.
Tang Ai in the cubicle felt unbearable pain all over, but she still took out her mobile phone and clicked save.
She wanted to get up, but the pain on her back where she was kicked made her unable to move.
“Xiao Ai!” Tong Lin, who ran in, was sobered up by the sight of this. She ran over to support Tang Ai, “What’s going on?”
"It hurts..." Tang Ai couldn't move and could only utter this word softly.
Tong Lin hurriedly took out her cell phone and dialed 120. Then she shouted at the person standing at the front of the crowd, "Who did it! Who did it!"
"No... I don't know. I just came in and saw two men running out..." the man said tremblingly.
"It's Chen Mei and Kim Ji-eun... Tonglin, I'm fine..." Tang Ai said with difficulty.
"You're still okay after such a bad condition? It's all my fault! Why would I bring you to the bar if I had nothing to do?" Tong Lin blamed herself, wiped her tears with her hand, gently held Tang Ai's hand, and said, "Hold on for a while, the ambulance will be here soon..."
Tang Ai didn't say anything else. She would insist on showing this video to Xi Feng, so that Xi Feng would be careful of these two people. She wouldn't blame Tong Lin either. On the contrary, she was very grateful to Tong Lin. If Tong Lin hadn't brought her here, she wouldn't have discovered Chen Mei and Jin Zhien's conspiracy and wouldn't have been able to save Xi Feng.
It turns out that only at a critical moment can she see clearly in her heart whether she really cares about that person.
She was thinking about Xi Feng all the time and didn't want him to get hurt. She must still care about him...
It's just that I have never dared to admit it in my heart.
Tang Ai was hospitalized, injuring her back and slightly disfiguring her face.
Xi Feng, Shen Ruoyun, Shao Yu, everyone who should have come has come. Tang Ai lay on the bed, unable to turn over or get up, and could only stare at the ceiling, then look away and look at the faces around the bed who were concerned about her.
"I'm fine." Tang Ai said, not wanting everyone to worry about her.
