Chapter 1: The Return
The afterglow of the autumn sunset illuminates the whole world. A girl with shoulder-length short hair stood at the door of a villa surrounded by greenery that was her home after a six-year absence. The scenes of the past are playing over and over again in front of my eyes like yesterday's movies.
"I'm back. Shu Xin stood outside the door and said to herself silently.
A Mercedes-Benz drove in the distance, and the people in the car stopped stepping on the accelerator the moment they saw Shu Xin, and only relied on the car's own inertia to slide forward, until it was less than a meter away from Shu Xin before the driver stepped on the brakes and stopped.
The people in the car held the steering wheel tightly with their hands, and the joints of their hands showed a miserable white color.
She's back, she's broken their agreement, and now she's daring to come back, how she's going to face herself, this treacherous woman.
Shu Xin looked at the huge car sign close at hand, and then looked at the man in the car who seemed to be glaring at the enemy, who is the enemy of whom.
Tang Zizhao was sitting in the car waiting for the woman to come over and ask him to get out of the car, but after so many years, the girl he had once domesticated returned to her unruly nature, only to see her stretch out her index finger and hook her through the windshield.
Tang Zizhao suddenly became angry, opened the car door and got out of the car unhappily, leaning on the car door, "Shu Xin, do you still have the face to come back?"
Shu Xin's left hand finally left her bag, slowly walked up and down in front of Tang Zizhao, looked him up and down, and then looked at the white car he was leaning on.
"It's really dignified to take off your school uniform, how did the ancients describe a beautiful man, well, a son is like a jade?"
Shu Xin stretched out his hand to pick Tang Zizhao's chin, but Tang Zizhao pulled it away with one hand, but instead propped his hand on the car cover on Shu Xin's side, and was almost zero distance from Shu Xin's face-to-face, "Do you still know what to come back for? Do you still know that there is this home?"
After speaking, Tang Zizhao straightened his body and bypassed her, picked up her suitcase and threw it into the trunk. Then open the door in the back seat and say, "Let's go, I'll take you somewhere." ”
Shu Xin glanced at him, turned around the car and sat in the co-driver, Tang Zizhao closed the car door unhappily and sat in the main driver.
"You won't even let me in, where are you going to take me?"
Shu Xin leaned on the armrest box with her elbows, dragging her chin and looking at Tang Zizhao for a long time, Tang Zizhao's face was cold, and he looked at the road in front of him seriously and turned the car around.
"Take you to dinner, you should be hungry just after getting off the plane. ”
Tang Zizhao took her to Lizidong, "This is a private chef owned by a friend of mine, and only some familiar friends come here on weekdays." ”
"You don't have to explain so much to me, Lizidong, very interesting name. ”
Tang Zizhao glanced at her, and as soon as he sat down in the position he often does, his friend came over, and when he saw him with Shu Xin, he couldn't help but be curious, "This is your girlfriend? It's really not easy, you can actually find a girlfriend." ”
"I said this brother, where do you think I look like her girlfriend?"
"Isn't it? Zizhao has never seen him bring a girl when he came to me alone, and you are really the first one he brought alone. ”
Shu Xin snorted and laughed, and Tang Zizhao hurriedly explained: "She's my sister, the same old way, oh, by the way, if you don't put spicy, she can't eat it." ”
"I've changed my taste, and I can eat some spicy food, but don't put spicy food on everything and lose the original taste of the food, which is not the level of a chef. ”
The man smiled awkwardly, "Good, good." ”
The waiter brought lemon juice, Shu Xin held it in her hand, since she got off the plane, she had been shivering from the bottom of her heart, no matter how casual she pretended to be in front of Tang Zizhao, but her cold hands couldn't deceive anyone, holding a warm lemonade glass at this time, she felt a little warm in this world.
Tang Zizhao unexpectedly stretched out his hand and grabbed one of her hands and held it, "It's still so cold, come, I'll cover your hands." How did you get through these six years?"
Tang Zizhao looked at Rouyi who was held by him, Shu Xin didn't know if he was asking his hand or asking her, "You can get by no matter what, you can cover your hand with just someone." ”
Tang Zizhao threw away her hand, "Anyone can cover it, right? When did you become so casual?"
Shu Xin shivered in response, "Brother, you're still so cold, you're freezing me to death." ”
"Shao Poor, say, why doesn't talking count, didn't we make an appointment, do you want to go to my school? Why do you suddenly want to go abroad, it's six years to leave, do you know ......?"
The more Tang Zizhao spoke, the more anxious he became, just like the iron plate squid that had just been served on the table, steaming hot on the hot iron plate, but it suddenly stopped abruptly.
Shu Xin didn't want to guess what he said later, she didn't succumb to his obscenity before she agreed to go to the same university as him.
"Hehe, brother, you also know that you are one of the top universities in China, and my grades really can't get in. Shu Xin scratched her hair with a hippie smile.
Tang Zizhao squinted his eyes and stared at her, as if he was examining a thief who often committed adultery, "Shu Xin, I still don't know your grades? If it were my stupid sister Tang Ziyue, I would definitely not expect her to be admitted to the same school as me." But you are different, not to mention your grades to be admitted to my school, Tsinghua University and Peking University are more than enough for you, and you don't have to play pigs and eat tigers here with me. ”
"Ah, you can use this word, I always thought that you would be out of control on the road of Chinese studies, but I didn't expect that you would use such an Internet celebrity word. ”
"I run a network technology company. Tang Zizhao gritted his teeth and said, this girl is just like back then, and she spares no effort to squeeze him.
"No, the old scholar opened a technology company, when will it go out of business, I will introduce you to a reliable company to take over. ”
"Shu Xin, can you talk well, let me ask you why you went abroad and why did you miss the appointment?"
"Didn't I say it, oops, you really overestimate my ability, how can I be as powerful as you say......"
"In six years, he received a double master's degree in economics and law from the University of Birmingham. ”
Before Shu Xin finished speaking, Tang Zizhao uncovered her old bottom, and Shu Xin couldn't make it up anymore with dry eyes.
"Well, my mom she...... That, she, she wants me to go abroad, yes, she wants me to go abroad. ”
Yes, it was her mother who kicked her out of that house and exiled her to England.
Tang Zizhao took a sip of the lemon cup, but his eyes never left her little face that was red from lying at this time. This face is as delicate and small as when I was a child, and the facial features are carefully laid out on this face, the height is staggered, which point is not outstanding and beautiful, but it is put together and makes people look inexplicably comfortable, it can be said that Shu Xin cannot enter the ranks of beauties, but can be included in the ranks of exquisite. It was this face that made Tang Zizhao ignore her annoying mouth.
"Why did Aunt Chu say that you have to go abroad?"
Shu Xin opened her mouth but couldn't speak, her own mother really cheated her for 10,000 years, she drove herself to England, and let herself offend the god in front of her, and killed her.
"Besides, why did Aunt Chu send you abroad, what did you do, why did you rush back in a hurry when I knew the news, but you had already left, why did you leave in such a hurry?"
"Tang Zizhao, can you let me have a good meal, I haven't eaten for a day. ”
Shu Xin put a mouthful of spicy squid rings into her mouth, but she choked so much that tears were about to come out.
"You can't eat spicy food, but it's strong. Tang Zizhao scolded her, and handed her a cup of slightly cool boiled water.
After that, Tang Zizhao didn't ask her again, and after eating quietly, Tang Zizhao asked her where she went?
"Go home, or where else to go? I don't have anywhere to go right now." ”
"At home, your room has been changed back to Ziyue's soundproof room. ”
"Ziyue, is she okay?" Speaking of Tang Ziyue, it can always remind Shu Xin of the relaxed and happy days when the two of them were together, and there was still a bright excitement in her tone when she mentioned her at this time.
"Now she works as a counselor at the university, and on weekdays she takes a few children to learn violin, and she is preparing to study for a PhD, so that she can be a lecturer. She was depressed for a long time when you just left, and I didn't see her recover until I was admitted to college. ”
If you want to talk about this family, Shu Xin is most sorry for her stepsister and best friend, in fact, these titles are not suitable for her, it seems that she and Tang Ziyue are sisters, and Tang Zizhao is the brother who picked it up.
As an elder brother, Tang Zizhao seems to have been the boss of the two of them since he was a child, and if he doesn't listen to him, he will be cleaned up, and he will be cleaned up so that even the adults are unconditionally on Tang Zizhao's side, which shows how bad Shu Xin and Tang Ziyue lived when they were children.
"I can share a room with Ziyue, it's been a long time since I lived in the same bed, since ......"
"Ever since your mom married my dad and you moved into our house, you've had your own room. ”
"Actually, it's not necessary at all, I can live in the same room with Ziyue. ”
"That's because my dad is afraid that Ziyue will delay your study, after all, the two of you won't do anything about studying when you get together. ”
Shu Xin felt a little uncomfortable when she heard this, Tang Yinzhong hurt her father on the one hand, and on the other hand, she cared for her meticulously, she really didn't know whether to hate him or thank him.
"Don't worry about it now, and I haven't seen Ziyue for a long time. ”
"Alright then, I'll go back with you. ”
Shu Xin squinted at him, always feeling that this guy had a story.