Chapter 763: He’ll go back on his word

Book:The Selfish CEO Published:2024-6-2

“It’s okay, I’ll eat some fruit later, it won’t be a problem. Just stay up this month again.” Zhao Lanlan also patiently answered him, and then remembered that she was guided by him to ignore the main thing, “Right, I want to go back, do you … have time?”
“Why go back?”
“Hope is home alone, I …”
“I told you, Hope is an adult, you don’t have to worry so much.”
“But she can’t take care of herself alone. I’m just talking to you, and in a minute, I’ll be out on my own.” She stirred the phone cord in boredom, her mind calculating how to convince Mrs. Summer later.
“You don’t have to come out, I’m at your house now. Packed your bags and I’ll bring them back.”
“You’re at my place? Hope opened the door for you?”
“Uh-huh. I’ll take her out for dinner, so you don’t have to worry about it. Other things, wait until I come back. Don’t just go out at night, understand?” Xia Feiqing didn’t forget to admonish her.
“But …,” she said, still a little uneasy.
“Okay, that’s it. Hope is hungry and is calling me.”
Zhao Lanlan also heard Zhao Yuanyuan’s voice calling ‘brother-in-law’ over there, and her heart was more or less relieved. Over there, Xia Feiqing also followed and hung up the phone.
The other side.
“Brother-in-law, what are you doing here with me?” Zhao Yuanyuan shouted again, her body unsteady, playfully pouncing towards Xia Feiqing.
The smell of wine came to his nose. Xia Feiqing was a little disgusted and wanted to break away from her, but she opened her arms and suddenly embraced him tightly, “Brother-in-law, you hold me, I can t stand … steadily.”
Xia Feiqing stoically refrained from having an attack, his large palm clasped her face in one fell swoop, lifting her head up. His sunken eyes stared at her, meeting her lax eyes, he asked in a cold voice, “Are you high on drugs again?”
“You’re scratching me …” Zhao Yuanyuan slapped Xia Feiqing’s hand, a little annoyed.
“Answer me if it hurts! What did you take, ketamine or methamphetamine?” Xia Feiqing’s expression was even colder, and those eyes looked like they were going to split her whole body apart.
“It’s up to you! Who are you to me?” Zhao Yuanyuan was also annoyed, breaking her hand and pushing him away with one hand. “Get lost! You’re just an asshole! I hate you, my sister hates you, you better get out now!”
She finished cursing in a high pitched voice and fell straight onto the bed. The whole person was as powerless as if her soul had been drained.
Xia Feiqing’s eyes sank, and without pity, he picked her up from the bed with one hand. “You’re so depraved, can you stand up to your sister? Do you know that your sister worries about you all day long?!”
Zhao Yuanyuan snorted and looked at Xia Feiqing, ”You’re questioning me because of my sister? What right do you have? Don’t forget that you’re the one who keeps making my sister sad, not me!”
Xia Feiqing’s thin lips pursed into the word ‘one’.
She smiled smugly, “Now you want to chase my sister again? I tell you … it’s impossible! My sister will never fall in love with you again! She hates you!”
The grip on Zhao Yuanyuan’s hand got tighter and tighter. The breathing grew heavy.
After a long time, she threw Zhao Yuanyuan right out of the way, “I’ll come back for you tomorrow, and if you ever get high again, I’ll send you to rehab!”
The door, flung shut with a bang. Do Feiqing carried Zhao Lanlan’s luggage and got into the car. Sitting in the driver’s seat, he lit a cigarette and smoked it annoyingly.
He looked somber under the shroud of night.
Those words of Zhao Yuanyuan kept circling in his mind. He was even more restless.
There were only a few months left before she gave birth to the baby, and if he couldn’t get her to open up and accept him again in those months, would he really let her go in the future?
No! He can’t do it!
He’ll go back on his word!
Only when the cigarettes ran out did Xia Feiqing start the car and head back home.
When I arrived home, the lights were still on throughout the hall. The thought of having that person in the house made my heart feel much better all of a sudden. Carrying his luggage, he pushed the door in.
“Shhh! Keep your voice down!” Mrs. Xia made a gesture and was taking the blanket and draping it over Lan Lan. She had fallen asleep again, she was always a mess after pregnancy, and when she got a chance to sleep, she always fell asleep inevitably.
Xia Feiqing casually handed her luggage to the nanny and relaxed her footsteps and went in. She then quietly leaned back to sleep on the sofa, her sleeping face serene.
The gloom that had just built up in his heart dissipated at once upon seeing her. He sat down next to her, quietly moving her head to rest lightly on his shoulder.
Mrs. Xia looked at this scene with relief, and in her heart she was calculating that tomorrow she would have to go to the department store to buy maternity clothes for her daughter-in-law.
Sleeping like this, I don’t know how long I slept. When Zhao Lanlan opened her eyes, the entire sky was dark, and the curtains in the hall were drawn, only the TV in front of her had a dim light cast over.
The TV was broadcasting the news, and the sound was turned down so low that it was almost inaudible. Apparently, it was afraid of disturbing her in the hall.
She glanced sideways, the all-too-familiar handsome face at her side. Only then did she realize that she was resting on his shoulder. When did he come back?
“Awake?” Xia Feiqing’s low voice came out, lowering his eyes to look at her.
“… Uh-huh.” She gathered the thin blanket around her and sat up slightly straighter. There was something strange about this feeling. Never had it occurred to her that one day it would be possible to wake up in such peace on his shoulder, as if the years were still, and everything in the past felt like it was just a dream.
Now they’re back to being husband and wife …
But, she understands that the rift in her heart, is still there.
“Do you want to go back to your room to sleep?” Xia Feiqing asked her. Shoulders, a little sore. Just now she leaned in, and he hadn’t even moved the whole time for fear of disturbing her.
“I want to sit for a while.” Zhao Lanlan glanced at him, “Why don’t you turn up the TV, I’m not going to sleep.”
He silently turned the TV up to an ear-splitting sound. The two people just sat on the sofa, with only the light of the TV enveloping them. Xia Feiqing changed the station, tentatively picking a variety show station.
“Did you tell Hope that I’m not going back tonight?” Zhao Lanlan asked.
“It’s not tonight, it’s that I won’t be going back lately.” Xia Feiqing seriously corrected her words.
Zhao Lanlan opened her lips and didn’t say anything.
“Don’t worry, I’ve already found an apartment and will have her move there tomorrow. There’s also the job, which has also been settled.”
Zhao Lanlan was surprised at how efficient he was.
“In the future, let her live on her own, she’ll be fine. You can’t accompany her for the rest of her life!” Xia Feiqing emphasized again.
He intentionally kept them apart. Zhao Yuanyuan was getting more and more rampant, even during the day she could drink and get high, if they lived together, Lanlan would sooner or later realize something was wrong. When that time came, she might not be able to stand the blow.
“… good.”
Zhao Lanlan wanted to say ”Thank you”, but the words stopped at her lips.
“Right. Tonight …,” Zhao Lanlan thought for a moment, “I’ll sleep in the study, right?”