"Nothing."

He poured himself a full bottle of wine again, "It's been so long. ”

He took a sip of wine and said, "My grandmother's house is in the clouds, and she grows flowers for a living. At that time, my mother used to help my grandfather sell flowers, and then she met Xu Jinheng. One is a flower girl, the other is a wealthy family, it is conceivable that because of me, Xu Jinheng had to take my mother home, and there was already that woman in his family at that time. My mother always thought that Heo Jin-hyung would give her happiness as he swore and said. How do you think that the red face is not old and the grace is broken first, and the whole family is even more happy to bully her a weak woman, and within a few years she will be sick and sick, and those people are even more careless, often abusing our mother and son in front of her sickbed. As soon as his mother died, Xu Jinheng's woman instigated in front of him, saying that I was of unknown origin and was a wild seed. After a long time, Xu Jinheng also believed it and sent me to the United States, no longer caring about my life or death. ”

"How old were you then?"

"Thirteen."

She stared at him, his tone flat as if he were telling a story that had nothing to do with him, but she understood the indelible wounds and hurts that he had hidden behind the calm.

She couldn't help but subconsciously bite the rim of the cup.

"Alright." He poured them wine again, "It's time for you to speak." ”

Fang Xiao was stunned for a moment and asked, "What are you talking about?" ”

"Tell your story, and of course it's okay if you don't want to."

He also sat on the carpet, "Yesterday is gone." ”

"You know my story."

She suddenly felt the urge to laugh, probably because she had drunk a little too much, "Look at it now, it's like a big dream, it doesn't mean anything." ”

He drank the wine in the cup, and there was a smile on his face: "The world is a big dream, and life is cool several times." ”

He poured another drink, "A toast to that." ”

She clinked glasses with him and drank them all in one gulp, but she choked and coughed, and her throat was bitter and spicy, making her want to cry.

Chewing on the phrase "the world is a big dream, and life is cool several times", it is like a portrayal of yourself.

Once upon a time, he was still entertaining at the wedding of Yiyi and Xu Shen, and that day the crown covered the city, the reporters were like clouds, and he looked at a pair of newlyweds with joy, how in the blink of an eye, it was already upside down.

All that he had believed in was torn apart, and he could never be found again.

Her heart was sour, and the wine was welling up. The sky and the earth were dangling in front of her eyes, shaking her dizzy. She shook her head and bit down on the rim again.

"Don't bite." He took the cup from her hand, "Otherwise I'll be jealous of it." ”

Fang Xiao looked at him dumbfounded, what did he say?

What is he jealous of that cup for?

Maybe it was the magic of the liqueur, maybe it was the interior lighting, maybe it was the sleeping Paris outside the window that bewitched her, anyway, she actually felt that his gaze seemed to be more and more gentle?

She wasn't sure, because he was so close to her, so close that her eyes couldn't get a proper focus.

"Xiaoxiao." He whispered her name.

It was the first time he had called her that. In the past, he called her "Miss Fang".

He was closer to her, so close that she closed her eyes, for his dilated eyes made her feel an inexplicable palpitation.

The warmth encompassed her, and she struggled only a moment, knocking over the ice bucket resting next to the carpet, and she heard the spilled ice on the floor and the gurgling of wine on the floor.

"The wine spilled." She said.

"Let it splash."

The next day, Fang Xiao went to the famous Peace Street, cut off his waist-length hair, and blew it into a simple and pretty hairstyle.

"Isn't it good to have long hair?" Chu Mingrui asked her puzzled.

"I want to try my hair short."

The corners of her mouth curled, revealing a soft smile, "What, you don't think it's good-looking?" ”

"No, it's beautiful." He paused and asked her, "Do you want to buy something?" Tiffany is not far from here. ”

She sighed and asked, "Is it embarrassing for you because of yesterday's incident?" Do you have to spend a lot of money or buy me some jewelry to feel at ease? ”

"I thought you'd like ......," he said.

What he thought!

Fang Xiao felt that if it weren't for the beauty salon, he would almost lose his temper.

She could hear the sound of the strings, who did he think she was? Senior call girl?

Walking out of the beauty salon with a calm face, she reached out and called a taxi and returned to the hotel alone.

He rushed to the room before her and waited for her.

"Xiaoxiao."

She put her bag down and sat down to turn on the TV.

"Xiaoxiao." He stood in front of her, blocking her view, "I don't understand why you're angry. OK, it's me wrong today, but I don't mean anything else, I'm just going back in a few days, I saw that you didn't buy anything before I asked. ”

She lowered her head and clasped her fingers together in silence, her plain hands slightly white from the exertion.

He squatted down and reached out to hold her hand: "I begged you to marry me this morning, but you didn't agree, I don't know what is wrong with me that makes you refuse." But I mean it from the bottom of my heart, and I don't mean to look down on you in the slightest. ”

Fang Xiao smiled: "Look at you, I feel ashamed of what I said." We're all adults, so there's no need to get married for last night. I'm in a bad mood, please forgive me, we are partners in the same hatred. ”

Chu Mingrui had no choice but to smile.

In the end, they still went out shopping together, but Fang Xiao had a strange mind, buying whatever he saw, as if he was a little angry, and wanted to make a money worship.

I walked around until dusk before returning to the hotel, and the driver and the waiter in the lobby helped carry the shopping bags and delivered them to the room one by one.

Fang Xiao said to him: "You are satisfied, I don't spend it, and once I spend it, it is enough for you to feel distressed." ”

He just smiled: "It's not distressing, it's just that my feet hurt." ”

Fang Xiao ignored it, kicked off his high heels, and poured champagne barefoot. Those large bags and small bags were randomly piled on the carpet, and she didn't bother to open them.

He said, "Xiaoxiao, seriously, why don't you marry me?" We have the same goals, we have the same interests, and I'm not too bad as a person. ”

Fang Xiao said: "Because of this, I can't marry you, haven't you heard of it, good things are to be kept and watched slowly." The so-called viewing is to look at it from afar. ”

"I'm serious," he said. If you think about it, if the two of us get married, it will be a heavy blow to the Xu family. ”

Fang Xiao was stunned, she slowly turned around and looked at him a little confused: "Just because of this, you want to marry me?" ”

"Of course." He casually said, "I don't mind what my marriage is going to be like anyway, and you don't mind, do you?" The two of us are only alive for revenge, and as long as it's good for revenge, why don't we do it? ”

She clenched her glass, almost crushing the crystal clear walls, but she didn't feel any pain at all.

Revenge, yes, this is the reason why she survived, the most important reason.

She calmly and objectively asked, "Do you think it will work?" ”

"Of course it works." "First, the Hsu family will realize that our alliance is indestructible; Second, you can legitimately be on the board of directors of Hsu; Third, with Mrs. Chu's identity, in many ways, you can help me more conveniently. ”

Fang Xiao took a deep breath, her brain was already quickly calculating the gains and losses.

Indeed, if she marries him, then she will have a lot of benefits, as for "loss", she has nothing to lose, since there is nothing to lose, then what is there to hesitate?

It was because there was nothing to gain or lose that she hesitated.

In a utilitarian society, how can there be no profit in the plans of a shrewd businessman like him?

She asked, "What about you?" What's in it for you? ”

He shrugged his shoulders and said, "It seems that you do have first-class business acumen, and the conditions are so superior that you are afraid of pitfalls." Well, let's be honest, I appreciate you, you're sober enough and not covetous. I think that's what my wife should look like, and that's what my closest partner in business and life should be like. Do you understand? ”

She nodded slowly: "Oh, then I signed a contract for life." ”

"No, I'm more democratic, we can sign a more lenient contract," he said. As long as one of the parties asks for a suspension, it can be suspended, what do you think? ”

She only thought about it for a few seconds and said, "Deal!" ”

He frowned: "I don't like that word. ”

Fang Xiao smiled: "I like it, because it's clean and neat, and it will never drag mud and water." ”

They had their wedding almost in a hurry.

In a small church in downtown Paris, the witnesses were found improvised from the street, so much so that the priest wondered if they were Romeo and Juliet, who had eloped.

However, they are married in the end.

Originally, Chu Mingrui suggested that the wedding be held after returning to China, but Fang Xiao insisted on getting married in France.

"That's what surprises." Fang Xiao said, "As soon as we return to China, we can give them a blow to the head." ”

Chu Mingrui thought so, but in Fang Xiao's selfish heart, when she was lying on the bed at night tossing and turning, she understood that she was afraid of the scene of marriage.

She was afraid of the very solemn atmosphere, afraid that the majestic priest would ask if she really loved Chu Mingrui.

Her marriage to him was just a means of mutual exploitation. In the depths of everyone's heart, there is always a god she truly believes in, and she is afraid of that god's questioning.

More importantly, she doubted herself, she doubted that she would ever run away at the wedding, or, if she would say "unwilling".

Moreover, Yiyi's wedding still seems to be vivid, and she really doesn't have the courage to hold a wedding for herself in China.

In his usual style, and in their current situation, the wedding must have been so ostentatious that it would frighten her.

So, she sighed softly and wordlessly rubbed the ring on her ring finger, and he made a generous move, a twelve-carat all-American square diamond, shining brightly between her fingers, in Yishu's words, really like a mahjong tile.

He was a VIP member of the century-old store, and the manager of the jewelry store was respectful from the moment they entered, and at the end he complimented: "Madame is really good-eyed." ”

In fact, it is not to compliment her for picking a ring, but for complimenting her for picking her husband's vision.