Chapter 6
She took out the key and opened the door. Just when she was about to close the door, Xiao Qi's tall figure suddenly appeared. He held the door frame and looked at her.
"Can you let me in?" Xiao Qi asked her.
She didn't expect him to follow her all the way.
It was better to not let him in. She had already been hurt once, and she finally decided to leave him, she couldn’t let herself get hurt again. Xiao Qi was too lethal to her, she couldn’t let him come close.
"Xiao Qi, you need to leave."
However, Xiao Qi opened the door directly and walked in. He looked at the snacks she had left on the sofa and the food residue that had fallen on the floor that she hadn’t had time to clean up. He didn't say anything. He simply started to clean them up.
After chucking the packaging bag into the trash can, he found a broom to clean the floor. Looking at him, who was busy cleaning, Meng Yu said, "You don't need to do this."
He cleaned up the sofa, and then asked her, "are you hungry?" Obviously he didn't listen to her at all. He went to the refrigerator and opened it. Looking at her leftover takeaway inside the refrigerator door, he frowned, "why don't you take good care of yourself when you live alone? Wait here, I will go out and buy some food and come back."
"Xiao Qi!"
He didn't want to listen to her. Before closing the door, he suddenly stopped, turned back, and grabbed the key that Meng Yu had placed on the coffee table.
Meng Yu "..."
Meng Yu was about to speak but he had already left the house with the key.
Meng Yu sat on the sofa blankly, the floor had been cleaned by him, and he took the dirty sofa cushions to the laundry room and threw them into the washing machine.
He was a person who knew how to live very well. Although he didn't love her, he could take good care of her when he was with her.
Meng Yu shook her head hurriedly, ‘no, no, you shouldn’t think like this! Don't be confused by him, you finally escaped from his cage, do you have to be locked up again?’
Meng Yu took out the washed sofa cushions to dry them. After a while, she heard the sound of opening the door. It was Xiao Qi who came back with the purchased ingredients.
He carried the ingredients into the kitchen and started washing. Meng Yu walked over to him and said, "You don't need to do this, Xiao Qi, I said it is impossible for us to get back together again."
"You know I don't like people talking to me when I’m cooking."
Meng Yu felt very irritable, and she angrily said, "Xiao Qi! You need to get out of my house!"
He stopped and turned his head to look at her . His eyes were dull for a few seconds. She had never spoken to him so sternly. Xiao Qi's eyes dimmed, he said, "What if I don't go out? You want to call the police?"
"..."
"Wait outside, I will call you when the meal is ready."
Meng Yu really didn't expect Xiao Qi would be so shameless. What should she do, she couldn’t drive him away. Was she really going to call the police?
Meng Yu thought it was probably useless to argue with him. So she decided to talk to Xiao Qi first.
She adjusted her mind, and said to him in a calm tone as much as possible, "Xiao Qi, have you forgotten that we have broken up."
Xiao Qi lowered her head and chopped vegetables, but didn't even look at her, "can’t we start over after we break up?"
Start over? Meng Yu laughed bitterly inside. She was silent for a while and simply said to him, "I'm getting married."
He finally stopped and looked at her, "With whom?"
"No matter who it is, I'm getting married."
He turned back to continue cutting vegetables, "after a year, you are still that childish."
He obviously didn't believe her, he thought that she was still angry at him and she was joking.
Meng Yu was really annoyed, she raised her voice, "What is the use of you doing this?"
"I don’t know, I just think that this is what I should do."
It was really useless to talk to him. Meng Yu suddenly felt weak.’ Forget it, he can do whatever he likes.’ She simply gave up and walked to the sofa to watch TV.
After a while, he told her that the food was ready. She walked over and saw that he cooked all her favorite dishes. He handed her the prepared rice and arranged chopsticks for her.
"Try it."
Meng Yu tasted it. His cooking never disappointed her.
In fact, Xiao Qi's life was also very miserable. His father died of a serious illness when he was still in junior high school, leaving his mother alone with him. When he graduated from high school, his mother also passed because of illness. His college tuition was paid by neighbors. His family was difficult, so he learned to do a lot of things at a very young age, even if he later became an AI expert with a net worth of over 100 million, he never stopped doing housework personally.
She used to think that she and Xiao Qi would become people who depended on each other, but later she found out that he didn’t need her at all.
The two did not speak during the meal. Xiao Qi was not a talkative person, but it was different from the previous indifference he showed. Although Xiao Qi did not talk to her, he kept getting vegetables for her, and deliberately got a bowl of rib soup for her.
It could be seen that he really wanted to make up.
When he put a piece of tofu in her bowl, his phone rang.
Xiao Qi took out the phone, Meng Yu saw the caller ID with the words "Elder Sister Ai Qing". She was unmoved, pretending not to see it, and concentrated on eating.
Xiao Qi hesitated for a while before picking it up.
She didn’t know what the person on the other end of the phone call said, but she saw Xiao Qi’s complexion getting more serious. He nodded and said, “Okay, I know, I’ll go back right away.”
Meng Yu moved the tofu he gave her to the side of the bowl, lowered his head, and sneered.
Xiao Qi hung up the phone, but was silent for a while before he said to her, "Elder Sister Ai Qing is sick, very sick. She is now alone in Shen City and has no relatives by her side. I have to go and see her."
Meng Yu didn't speak.
Xiao Qi walked to her, he squatted beside her and looked up at her, "I'll be back in two days. Elder Sister Ai Qing is sick, and I can't ignore it."
She didn’t know whether Ai Qing was really sick or not, but what she did know was that she could get him to come back to her side with just one phone call.
Meng Yu's face was cold. She didn't look at him, "Don't tell me what you need to do."
Xiao Qi got up, he held her head, and gave a kiss on her forehead, "I will definitely make up for it little by little. Wait for me"
This was the first time Xiao Qi kissed her actively, a comforting kiss, very tender.
After kissing, he let go of her and walked quickly to the door. For a moment, Meng Yu wanted to rush over and stop him. She finally managed to break up with him, but he came to her and made her waver. However, when she was moved slightly by him, other women could make him leave her with just a single call. She really wanted to ask him why he treated her this way.
But she restrained in the end, and then saw the door quietly closed in front of her.
Meng Yu suddenly felt ridiculous. She actually thought about getting back to him for a moment.
She thought, if Xiao Qi could get her back, she would not have to marry a man she had never met before.
She admitted that she was actually enjoying Xiao Qi's chase in her heart. He was considerate of her, he made up for her, his worries, his gentleness, these were things she had never experienced with him before. After all, she was still reluctant. She had chased him for so many years, and she also wanted to know how it felt to be chased by him.
But at this moment, she suddenly realized that the same as marrying into the Xia family, getting back to Xiao Qi wouldn’t necessarily make her happy. But at least by marrying Chu Xiujin, she could still become a mistress of a wealthy and powerful family. But with Xiao Qi, even if she really reconciled with him, there was still an Elder Sister Ai Qing. She would not be able to endure Xiao Qi leaving her again and again in order to repay the favor.
So even though the Xia family wasn’t a good choice, she would not suffer again and again like she was with Xiao Qi.
Xiao Qi asked her to wait for him to come back.
No, she had her life. She would not wait for him to come back.
Before she had promised to marry Chu Xiujin only because the Wang family threatened her by using the favor that they raised her, so she had no choice. Although she promised to marry Chu Xiujin, she still resisted it in her heart.
But now, she found that she didn't seem to resist marrying a strange man too much, and she even planned to take the initiative to meet that Mr. Chu.
After graduating from university, Meng Yu rented a house by herself. It was rare for her return to the Wang family’s house once. This time, she went back because she needed Wang Weiguo's help. She wanted to see that Mr. Chu, but she didn't have Chu Xiujin's contact information. Of course, people like her can't contact a big shot like Chu Xiujin. It was not suitable to go to Xia Han, so she could only go through Wang Weiguo.
The Wang family lived in an old-fashioned villa area, but it had been renovated a few years ago and it didn't look old. She followed the servant into the door, and all the members of the Wang family were there. They were sitting on the sofa laughing and chatting. Wang Shuyuan was sitting next to Qi Mei. She didn't know what she showed her. Qi Mei's smiling face was full of praise.
Sometimes Meng Yu thought that Wang Shuyuan and Qi Mei were more like mother and daughter.
It seemed that Meng Yu's promise to marry Chu Xiujin for Wang Shuyuan did solve a big problem for the Wang family, otherwise, this family would definitely not be in the mood to chat and laugh like this.
"Miss Meng Yu is here."
The three heard the voice and looked over, Meng Yu stepped forward and greeted everyone briefly.
Wang Shuyuan said to her, "do you feel better now after traveling abroad for so long?"
As a famous jewelry designer, Wang Shuyuan's sense of fashion was naturally great. She had shoulder-length hair, one side of her hair was pinned behind her ears to reveal a beautiful earring. A close-fitting sweater and waist-high, loose-legged trousers, heightened her great leg-to-body ratio, plus accessories embellishment, she looked mature, capable, yet sexy.
Meng Yu said, "much better."
"Since you feel better now, you should get yourself together and start your new life. You are no longer young, so you need to stop messing around. You really need to start thinking about what you need to do in your life more carefully. Otherwise, if you don’t have any achievements after you leave the Wang family, you will only bring shame to the Wang family. Do you understand?" She was like a big sister teaching a little girl carefully.
Wang Shuyuan always liked to say such things. On the surface, it seemed to be for her good, but in reality it was destroying her self-confidence time and time again. What she really meant was that she had no achievements, she was lazy, and she was the disgrace of the Wang family.
Meng Yu was used to listening to it, so she was extremely calm. She even flicked her hair contentedly, showing her beautiful face to everyone, and then smiled sweetly at her, "Sister, don't you know that I rely on my face to live? By the way, I remember that I won the first prize in the college beauty contest and made Uncle Wang’s shop become very popular for a while. Although I did not have any achievement. I didn’t bring any shame to the family, did I?”
Wang Shuyuan said nothing. Meng Yu knew very well what Wang Shuyuan was thinking. She disliked people like Meng Yu who could easily get things that others couldn’t get through hard work just by relying on her appearance. That was why she wanted to mock her. She wanted to let her know that she was nothing, all she had was a good look.
Meng Yu was brought to the Wang family by Qi Mei at the age of ten. She and Wang Shuyuan grew up together. They have known each other for so many years, so they clearly knew what each other were thinking.
Wang Shuyuan knew what she was up to, and Meng Yu also knew what she was up to. Since she was a child, she had disliked her. And everything, she would deliberately say something that would upset her. It was slightly better after they grew up, they would only say things indirectly, but when they were young, they would even get physical.
That was why she would say things that made Wang Shuyuan the most.
But often this time her mother would come out.
"Your sister said this for your own good. You should thank her, so don’t talk so much nonsense."
Meng Yu got used to her mother favoring Wang Shuyuan. So she shut her mouth obediently and said nothing.
The atmosphere became a little stagnant, and Wang Weiguo said, "Meng Yu finally came back once, everyone should say something happy. What your elder sister said is also for your own good, so her tone was a little harsher, but don't take it to your heart."
Meng Yu naturally replied like a well-behaved daughter. "I know."
After a simple meal at the Wang family’s house, she heard Wang Shuyuan talk about her recent achievements in a casual tone at the dinner table. Her design won the grand prize, and her work would be exhibited later. Both Wang Weiguo and Qi Mei were proud of her. From time to time, they would talk about Meng Yu, but the content was nothing more than asking her to learn more from her elder sister, and don't be fooling around all day long and so on.
Meng Yu naturally nodded on the surface, but inside, she thought to herself, who would want to learn from her.
Meng Yu certainly did not forget the purpose of this trip. Wang Weiguo frowned when he heard what she said, showing a little troubled look, "Do you want to see Mr. Chu?"
Meng Yu said, "I don't know if Uncle Wang can contact him. Before I get married, I want to meet him, otherwise I don’t even know what my own husband looks like."
Wang Weiguo said, "Actually, I have also never met Mr. Chu. He is very low profile. I usually contact the Nova sales department. As for the marriage between the Xia family and our family..." At this point, Wang Weiguo glanced at Meng Yu, seemingly feeling a little guilty, "It's all arranged by the middleman of the Xia family. That said, I can contact the middleman, but in terms of whether you can see him or not, it will depend on the middleman.”
Probably asking Meng Yu to marry into the Xia family instead of Wang Shuyuan made Wang Weiguo feel a little bit guilty, so although it was a little difficult to contact Mr. Chu, he still tried his best to contact him.
Then he got a reply after several phone calls.
"Mr. Chu agreed." Wang Weiguo said this with an unexpected expression, "He will send someone over to pick you up in a while."
It was really not easy to see this Mr. Chu. He actually sent someone to come to pick her up instead of telling her where to find him.
Since Chu Xiujin said that he would send someone over to pick her up, Meng Yu obediently waited at the Wang family's house. Soon, the person who picked her up soon came. In addition to the middleman, there was also a young man in a suit and leather shoes. The middleman introduced and said that the man was Mr. Chu's assistant.
An administrative assistant would usually only accompany people on business affairs, but Chu Xiujin actually sent him to pick up Meng Yu, which showed that he attached great importance to this meeting, which was really beyond everyone's expectations. However, Wang Weiguo breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that Mr. Chu did not hold any grudge against their family because they temporarily replaced the bride.
Since it was Mr. Chu’s assistant, Wang Weiguo naturally hurriedly stepped forward to greet him, but the assistant just responded flatly, and only said to Meng Yu, "Miss Meng, please follow me." Compared to Wang Weiguo, his attitude toward Meng Yu was much more respectful.
Meng Yu was taken to the Nova Group building by his assistant. Meng Yu had been to the place with Xia Han before, but after changing the chairman, the Nova building was obviously more solemn.
Chu Xiujin's office was on the top floor. The assistant led her to the door of the office. The door was not locked, and the assistant opened the door for her. "The chairman is resting. Miss Meng can go in directly."
He was resting, but he wanted her to go in right now? Was it really appropriate? And... Meng Yu looked around inside the office. All the curtains inside were pulled up. The sun was shining outside, but there was nothing but darkness inside, giving people a gloomy feeling.
Probably seeing that Meng Yu hadn't moved for a long time, the assistant reminded again, "Miss Meng, please go in."
Meng Yu took a deep breath before entering the office. The assistant helped her close the door from outside. The little bit of light from outside quickly disappeared, and she was completely swallowed up by the darkness. At this moment, Meng Yu only felt like she had been swallowed into the bottomless mouth of a giant beast.
She really couldn't see anything, and there was no movement in the room. But Meng Yu knew that there was another person here. He was hiding in the dark, standing in a place where she could not see, quietly watching her.
As if the prey was being peeped by the dormant beast, Meng Yu only felt the coldness from her back, and goose bumps all over her body appeared in an instant.
She was scared subconsciously.
"Chu...Mr. Chu..." She felt her voice trembling.
Suddenly, there was a sound of curtains being opened, a strong sunlight came in through the window on the right. Meng Yu turned her head to avoid the strong sunlight instinctively.
"Hello, Miss Meng."
She heard a deep voice talking to her.
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It reminded me of the novel The Tragedy of The Villainess where the MC also suffers for her stupid fiancé for paying attention to another woman and in the end also decides to break up with him. Of course, the guy also regrets but the MC knows that if she forgives him, the same will happen, he will always return to help the other woman.
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