Chapter 16 To Dote On
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Xia Feng read Yu Dong’s reply and smiled. It looks like she was having a good ti back ho.
“Xia Feng, there’s a beautiful woman outside looking for you!” The hospital rented 2 apartnts for the doctors who ca to the United Stated for the exchange program, 1 for n and 1 for won.
Xia Feng and Li Qiguang along with another male colleague lived together. As they were here to work hard, they rarely get weekends off so it wasn’t unusual for Li Qiguang to be carrying takeout when he rushed to Xia Feng.
Beauty? Xia Feng was confused, but went out anyway.
“Xia Feng?” It was An An. She was wearing a black and red skirt, making her look sexy and charming as she sweetly smiled at him.
“An An?” Xia Feng was sowhat surprised, and asked, “Why are you here?”
“I haven’t seen you!” An An was unhappy as she petulantly said, “You ca all the way to New York without telling , I had to ask around for half a day before I found you.”
In fact, An An knew early on that Xia Feng was coming to New York, but she didn’t reach out to him, instead waited for Xia Feng to et with her voluntarily. But a week had passed since his arrival and Xia Feng seed to have no intention of talking to her at all.
So the anxious An An ca to him in person.
Xia Feng didn’t know what to say, after all, the 2 had long broken up.
“You’re so guilty!” An An pretended to be angry and said, “I’ll forgive you if you invite to dinner!”
Xia Feng knew that An An was trying to give him an out. After thinking for a while, he eventually nodded and said, “OK!”
An An smiled and settled down.
The 2 people went to a nearby shopping mall to eat steak, An An skillfully took the nu from Xia Feng’s hands and said, “Let order for you. The steak and dessert in this restaurant is pretty great!”
Xia Feng, who didn’t like to eat steak very much, silently nodded.
“Thank you Xia Feng!” An An said happily, “Your hands are truly ant for handling knives. You cut steak so well.”
Xia Feng smiled politely and didn’t say a word.
“Xia Feng, you know what? This is the first ti I’ve had steak since I ca to Arica!” An An suddenly said.
“Why?” Xia Feng knew that An An liked to eat steak, so this information was a but unexpected to him.
“Because there wasn’t anyone here to help cut the steak.”
Xia Feng focused on cutting his own steak, as if he never heard An An say these words.
“By the way, what happened to aunt after her operation? How’s her recovery going?” An An saw that Xia Feng stayed silent, so she quickly changed the subject.
“She’s with my father in Hainan, recovering well.” Xia Feng answered.
“I used to listen to you talk about your parents and I’ve always admired them. When I co back to China, I’d like to see them. Hey, didn’t aunt like Leonardo? I’ll ask my friends if they can get an autograph!” An An said.
“Don’t make such a joke.” An An tensed.
“You know I’m not kidding.” Xia Feng was trying to cleanly state the situation.
“But I never agreed! you can’t break up on your own, it’s not your call!” Because they were still in the restaurant, An An tried not to shout.
Xia Feng had never been good at arguing with won. They’ve been dating for years, but the only quarrel he ever had with An An was when he proposed to her. In the end, when she refused he told her that they had to break up.
“I’m married!” Xia Feng said resolutely.
“Impossible!” An An said with a complete look of disbelief.
“You know I don’t like to lie about such things.” Xia Feng calmly stated.
“But I also know you won’t get married to just anybody.” An An was very sure about this, “I know better that anyone just how much you envy aunt and uncle’s relationship. I don’t know how many tis you’ve told that marriage has to between 2 people that love each other, rather than a hopeless inevitability.”
“And you refused !” Xia Feng regretfully smiled, “Maybe you don’t love as much as you previously thought!”
“No!” An An anxiously explained, “I was only 22. I just graduated from college. I don’t want to get married so early, I just wanted to start my own business.”
“Let’s stop talking about this.” Xia Feng shook his head, after all, there was no longer a reason to talk about the past.
After dinner, Xia Feng walked An An to the bus stop. As they passed through the shopping mall, Xia Feng glanced at the bags shown in the windows and stopped.
Buy a nice bag, nothing too expensive, the most important thing is that it looks good!
It was the last item on Yu Dong’s list.
“What’s the matter?” An An noticed Xia Feng’s gaze and said, “Are you interested in that bag? A present for aunt? Do you want to help you pick? I have a good eye when it cos to these things.”
Xia Feng looked at her. Hearing An An’s words, he wondered why he suddenly rembered what Yu Dong said the day he first brought her to see his parents.
Xia Feng shook his head and refused.
An An later sat on the bus, thinking about the future. Xia Feng will be staying in New York for 3 months. In the past he never stayed angry at her for more than a month.
After seeing An An off, Xia Feng returned to the store and went up to a clerk asking, “Which bag’s currently popular with young won?”
Shanghai, in Xiaoyue Studio!
“How’s Xinxin doing?” Yu Dong asked Xiang Xiaoyue.
“Still sad!” Xiaoyue rembered Ren Xinxin, who was crying in her apartnt all day long. Suddenly, she beca uncertain. “Did we make a mistake?”
“No!” Yu Dong replied, resolute.
“You’re right, 3P is only done by scum n, we definitely don’t want that for our friend.” Xiaoyue gritted her teeth.
Yu Dong looked at Xiaoyue guiltily and said, “Uh… that’s not exactly!”
“What did you say?” Xiaoyue cried out.
“I didn’t actually see him doing the deed, I only saw him having an affair with multiple won.” Yu Dong said, “That already makes him pretty scummy in my opinion. And the way he treated Xinxin was unacceptable.”
Xiang Xiaoyue who was distracted by a different topic imdiately yelled: “Yeah, he definitely took advantage of poor Xinxin. He said that she was only interested in his family’s money, like that sohow makes him every girl’s dream.”
Yu Dong nodded in agreent.
“Yu Dong, if we keep doing well, maybe one day our studio will be bigger!” Xiang Xiaoyue puffed up her chest.
Yu Dong thought about it. Xiang Xiaoyue married 2 years later in her previous life. She went to Singapore to settle down and transferred the studio to another party.
“Hey, why aren’t you saying anything?” Xiaoyue saw Yu Dong blankly looking ahead and urged her.
“Give so shares!” Yu Dong suddenly said.
“Alright.” Xiaoyue thought about it, then nodded, “We got Steven’s contract because of you after all. How about we divide the work, I’ll look for jobs, you can talk to them and get the contracts, oh and Xinxin can also help, she can do so dubbing. After all, out of the 3 of us Xinxin was the best in dubbing during university.
Yu Dong didn’t mind this and nodded, but suddenly thought of sothing and asked: “What about Xinxin’s child?”
“What else can she do? She has to get rid of it. It’s only been 2 months anyway.” Xiaoyue said.
When she heard this, Yu Dong startled.
Yu Dong t the little child in her previous life, and she was a beautiful little girl. She rembered visiting Ren Xinxin and seeing a little girl wearing a pink princess dress, calling out aunt in a sweet voice.
Yu Dong suddenly felt the re idea of losing that girl unbearable and said, “Let’s wait until Xinxin’s mood stabilizes.”
“Sure,” Xiang Xiaoyue then shook her head and helplessly said, “Both aunt and uncle Ren are pretty explosive right now anyway, and Xinxin doesn’t dare go ho.”
“Xinxin’s a good girl.” Yu Dong decisively said, “It might be hard for them to accept right now, but they’ll co around.”
“No matter how hard it is to accept, you can’t push your daughter into the pit of fire!” Xiang Xiaoyue angrily said, “When I brought Xinxin back ho that day, aunt gave her one heck of a scolding. Xinxin didn’t dare say anything. I couldn’t help it and ended up telling aunt about Lu Xuan’s affairs and guess what she said? aunt Ren actually said: ‘What man doesn’t waver? as long as he doesn’t take it ho, then it’s fine. When he’s had enough, he’ll naturally co back to you.’ ”
“It was so horrible, if it was my mother saying this, I wouldn’t hesitate severing my mother-daughter relationship with her.” Xiang Xiaoyue grew angrier just thinking about it.
Listening to this, Yu Dong suddenly thought of her own mother. In her previous life, every ti she went back ho, her mother would end up crying. In the end, Yu Dong beca afraid of going back ho and making her mother cry.
“Dong Dong ah, you’ve grown so big, yet you still can’t find soone, how pitiful. Everyone needs a family. What’s the use of simply making more and more money? The important thing is getting married and having children, soone to depend on when you get older. You should get to know your brother’s children because when you get older, you’ll have no one to rely on except your own parents and we won’t be here forever.”
“Mom, I just haven’t found the right one yet.”
“I’m thinking of my own mother!” Yu Dong said with a smile.
“Then why is your face so scary?” Xiang Xiaoyue didn’t understand.
“Rember how I wanted to marry Fang Hua? My family disagreed, and I ended up running away from ho. But look at how things turned out…” Yu Dong smiled bitterly.
“That man’s a scum too!” Xiaoyue sighed, “Look at you, why did you girls end up loving such n? You should learn from and instead be the slag.”
“Yes, you’re the best.” Yu Dong perfunctorily said.
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Yu Dong returned ho at 3:00 a.m. and rembering Xia Feng’s instructions, opened her phone and ssaged him in QQ.
[ I’m ho! ]
[ Go to bed early, and look at your email tomorrow morning. I sent a few photos I need your opinion on. ]
[ Alright! ]
[ Goodnight. ]
Pictures? Yu Dong was too curious to wait and in the end took out her computer to log into her email. The email contained a photo of a black purse, small and delicate. The email also contained a brochure, giving the na of the bag (2007 Prada’s Classic Money), and the tagline: Every woman should be spoiled!
Suddenly a small smile appeared in Yu Dong’s face.
If I had t you in my previous life, would I have still been a golden leftover?
Or was I reborn just so that I could et you?
(T/N “leftover woman” is a successful career woman who has remained single)
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