Chapter 203: Chapter 203: They Held a Wedding When They Were Young Chapter 203: Chapter 203: They Held a Wedding When They Were Young Huo Shiyuan looked at Yuan Xi and said, “If that were the case, I wouldn’t have let you get pregnant before marriage…”
Yuan Xi murmured softly, “Just say that to you, I was only a childhood obsession.”
Huo Shiyuan didn’t hear Yuan Xi’s quiet muttering, “What did you say?”
Yuan Xi said, “But all our speculations about Cheng Yue are just guesses, isn’t it too an to speculate about her like that behind her back?”
Huo Shiyuan said, “What is Chu Neng’s status in Jiang City? Besides Cheng Yue, who else would dare to take photos and buy marketing accounts to publicize so openly?”
Yuan Xi chuckled, “That’s true.”
Yuan Xi opened the link sent by Chen Yuan again, only to find the content was no longer available.
Yuan Xi typed in Chu Lin and Gao Yang, but there wasn’t much related content either.
Chu Lin wasn’t like Gu Hanchen, who was always active on the internet as a CEO; there was hardly any news about him online.
In a short amount of ti, the marketing accounts that had posted the videos had all deleted them, and Yuan Xi could basically be sure that it had been Cheng Yue’s scheming.
Back in the hotel.
After taking a shower, Yuan Xi lay on the bed, video chatting with the nanny, looking at An’an and Lele, and Yuan Xi reached out to touch the screen.
Huo Shiyuan snatched the phone from Yuan Xi’s hand, turned off the video chat, and said, “It’s late, ti to sleep.”
Yuan Xi glanced at the ti, “Ten o’clock. It’s not that late.”
Huo Shiyuan turned off the light, leaving the warm yellow bedside lamp on, and reached out to grasp Yuan Xi’s wrist…
Yuan Xi looked into Huo Shiyuan’s eyes and said, “No, we need to climb the mountain tomorrow.”
The Yuan Family’s parents’ graves were halfway up the mountain, about two hundred ters high, and for Yuan Xi, who rarely exercised, climbing a two-hundred-ter-high mountain was quite exhausting.
Huo Shiyuan said in a low voice, “That mountain isn’t very high.”
Yuan Xi said, “It’s pretty high for , let’s go to sleep.”
Yuan Xi took the phone back from Huo Shiyuan, closed her eyes, but as soon as she did, all she could hear was Huo Shiyuan’s words about not letting her get pregnant before marriage.
Yuan Xi lay motionless, trying to fall asleep, but for so reason, she just couldn’t.
Yuan Xi sat up and pressed the room’s service button, asking the hotel concierge to send up so red wine.
Huo Shiyuan got up and said, “Didn’t you say you were going to sleep?”
Yuan Xi said, “I can’t sleep. I want to have so wine.”
Yuan Xi’s tolerance for alcohol was actually not bad; it had been developed after graduation while accompanying Gu Hanchen.
A year ago was the most drunk she had been since she learned to drink.
Huo Shiyuan got up to the door and took the decanted red wine from the concierge. After pouring a glass for Yuan Xi, he handed it to her.
Yuan Xi took the wine glass, shook it a bit, and took a light sip.
Huo Shiyuan looked at Yuan Xi and asked, “Are you not happy?”
Yuan Xi said, “Yeah, I’m not happy.”
Huo Shiyuan asked, “Because Chu Lin is helping Gao Yang?”
Yuan Xi said, “I wouldn’t go that far. I’m not so petty as to be upset about Chu Lin.”
Huo Shiyuan also poured himself a glass of red wine, waiting for Yuan Xi to explain.
Yuan Xi opened the curtains, looking at the night view of the Michen Building not far away, the city overpasses bustling with traffic, and the banks of the river twinkling with neon lights.
Yuan Xi said, “Actually, if we hadn’t known each other since childhood, you and I would have been parallel lines that never crossed. I would never know the view from the top floor of Shiyi.
“You also wouldn’t care for investing in Michen, and perhaps we would et at so business forum, but as strangers.”
Huo Shiyuan was slightly startled, “Why are you suddenly saying all this?”
Yuan Xi said, “You’re right. If we hadn’t known each other since childhood, I would never have had the chance to get pregnant with Lele and An’an… Even after you saw , you wouldn’t co to know .
Huo Shiyuan took a sip of red wine and said, “You misunderstood. When I said that if we hadn’t known each other since childhood, I wouldn’t have let you get pregnant before marriage, I didn’t an we’d have no connection. I ant I would follow the normal process of dating first, then getting married, and then having children. I wouldn’t let you get pregnant before marriage.”
Yuan Xi was startled, “Then why is it that knowing you since childhood allows to get pregnant before marriage?”
Huo Shiyuan said, “Because we had a wedding when we were children, right beside Ruohu in the church…”
Yuan Xi said, “I don’t believe in Christianity; a church wedding doesn’t count.”
Huo Shiyuan, laughing lightly, pulled Yuan Xi into his embrace, “It counts as a wedding, at least in my mind. And if we hadn’t known each other since childhood, perhaps I wouldn’t feel so inferior in front of you that I’d be afraid to confess, so I could only take advantage of you when you were drunk.”
Yuan Xi looked up at Huo Shiyuan; he actually felt inferior in front of her?
Yuan Xi said, “Why do you feel inferior?”
Huo Shiyuan replied, “I always feel that I’m not worthy of such a wonderful Little Xi sister.”
Yuan Xi looked into Huo Shiyuan’s eyes as he picked up a wine glass nearby and drank the wine in it cleanly.
“In my tough tis abroad, all I thought about was you, wanting to present the best of to you. The existence of Shixi is also because of you.”
Yuan Xi blushed from what Huo Shiyuan said, “How am I so good? When I was little, I also had a temper, I would cry and make noise, and I would argue with you…”
Huo Shiyuan held Yuan Xi’s hand, “You are the best in my eyes.”
Yuan Xi frowned and reached to touch her own cheek, “Ouch.”
Huo Shiyuan asked, “What’s wrong?”
Yuan Xi chuckled lightly, “Your sweet words gave a toothache.”
Huo Shiyuan said, “I’ll make a dentist appointnt for you, you might have wisdom tooth inflammation.”
Yuan Xi laughed lightly, Huo Shiyuan at tis could be quite the romantic speaker, but at other tis he indeed lacked a sense of humor.
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On Tomb-Sweeping Day, it rained, and the weather suddenly turned very cold.
Fortunately, Yuan Xi had brought a cashre overcoat.
Dressed in a black overcoat, Yuan Xi and Huo Shiyuan drove to the cetery by Ruohu.
Today, being Tomb-Sweeping Day, traffic was jamd from afar, with cars parked on both sides of the mountain road, completely choking the highway.
Yuan Xi simply got out of the car and walked with Huo Shiyuan.
Returning to the cetery, Yuan Xi beca deeply emotional. Huo Shiyuan held a black umbrella, speaking in a low voice, “I’m sorry I wasn’t there for you at that ti.”
Huo Shiyuan couldn’t begin to imagine how Yuan Xi had endured that pain.
Yuan Xi reached out gently to wipe the tears from the corner of her eyes, “It’s all in the past. My parents in heaven would also be happy for now. My biggest regret is that I couldn’t properly repay their kindness in raising .”
Huo Shiyuan said, “Mr. and Mrs. Yuan often praised you; maybe just your presence is the best repaynt for them.”
Yuan Xi and Huo Shiyuan arrived at the grave.
Yuan Xi looked at the yellowed, aging photo, gently touched her parents’ picture, “Dad, Mom, Brother Zhuangzhuang and I are married now, and we already have two children. In a couple of years, I’ll bring the kids to see you.
Dad, Mom, I also found my biological parents. Even though they didn’t treat as well as you did, I have a family now.
You can rest assured, I will take good care of Grandpa and Grandma…”
“Yuan Xi, is that really you? I haven’t seen you in so long, I didn’t expect to run into you here.”
Yuan Xi heard a man’s voice, she turned back to see a man dressed in a suit. She searched her mory before recalling that he was their high school class president and the only one in their class who got into Imperial University.
Yuan Xi smiled lightly, “Class President, it’s been a while.”
Zhu Jie glanced at the man next to Yuan Xi, giving Huo Shiyuan’s electronic watch a once-over, smugly saying, “This is your husband? You’re married?”
Yuan Xi nodded, “Yeah, just did.”
“Why didn’t you invite your old classmates to your wedding?”
Yuan Xi responded, “We haven’t had ti to hold the ceremony yet.”
Zhu Jie said, “No matter if you’re rich or not, you still need to hold a wedding. By the way, I’m having my wedding the day after tomorrow at the Shiyi Hotel. You must co!”
Zhu Jie deliberately emphasized the na ‘Shiyi.’
Yuan Xi thought the class president seed unaware of her status, she chuckled lightly, “I’ll co if I’m free.”
Zhu Jie insisted, “You have to co. The als at Shiyi Hotel cost thirty thousand yuan a table. It’s not often you get to enjoy such an expensive al. Both you and your husband should attend.”
Zhu Jie glanced at Huo Shiyuan’s watch, his eyes full of disdain.
After Zhu Jie left, Yuan Xi looked at Huo Shiyuan and giggled, “Your watch has been misunderstood by so many people as a sign you have no money.”
Huo Shiyuan naturally didn’t need a watch to prove his wealth, but there were indeed so who were unaware of his status and instinctively judged a person by their watch.
Huo Shiyuan also laughed, “Did that Zhu Jie used to pursue you?”
“How did you know?” asked Yuan Xi.
Huo Shiyuan frowned, “Did he really pursue you?”
Yuan Xi replied, “Not exactly, Zhu Jie was even more narcissistic than Gu Hanchen. In the second year of high school, during the math competition, because I asked him a question, he thought I liked him. After the competition ended, he even said that I agreed to be his girlfriend, but I didn’t like him at all…
Plus, my high school grades were unpredictable. My goal at that ti was to get into Imperial University, so I wasn’t thinking about dating since it could affect my studies.”
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