Chapter 240

Hua Xin, her face grave, pondered how to secretly remove the yellow Shanghai license plate from Xia Yan's motorcycle and sell it... cough, she returned the phone Li Xue had handed her. She was thinking about when to subtly probe Xia Yan's situation. Could he really be a hidden domineering CEO?... The car's layout had slightly changed during this roadside rest stop, from two couples sitting in the front and back to two boys in the front and girls in the back. Li Xue seemed much more relaxed now that she wasn't driving, constantly discussing clothes and cosmetics with Hua Xin on her phone. Due to financial constraints and a lack of knowledge, the girl hadn't distinguished between foundation and concealer. Weren't they both just applying a flesh-colored or white liquid and smoothing it out? At least that's how it looked on the video, and it seemed very simple. I could do that too. jpg But she did understand that lipsticks have shades. Meanwhile, the conversation between the two boys in the front seemed less enthusiastic. Counting the days, Shan Qing is already thirty years old, a full ten years older than Xia Yan, who is just twenty. But... he should still be in his youth, right? However, after talking with Xia Yan, he felt that this boy wasn't as young and impetuous as he had initially imagined. He'd talk to Li Xue about it when they parted, and that should reassure her about Xiao Hua's worries. Xia Yan was driving, so he didn't say anything more, just calmly looking at the scenery outside the car. After a while, as if he had seen something, he turned to Xia Yan somewhat embarrassed and said, "Xiao Yan, stop the car first." "Okay." Xia Yan hesitated slightly. They weren't on the highway, so stopping wouldn't be a problem. He sighed, then opened the car door and said to Hua Xin, "I'm going out for some fresh air too." "Be careful..." The girl looked away from the makeup miracle and earnestly reminded him. "Keep an eye on Shanqing for me, don't let him get lost." Li Xue blinked, then pointed helplessly out the window at Shanqing walking towards the grass. Following Li Xue's direction, Hua Xin saw that they seemed to have stopped in a park. There was a large fountain in the center of the park, and the surrounding flowers and greenery were also very beautiful. Xia Yan agreed and then slowly walked into the park. "Sigh..." Li Xue sighed softly and got out of the car and sat back in the driver's seat. "What's wrong with Brother Shan Qing?" Hua Xin shifted her body and sat in the seat Li Xue had been sitting in, looking curiously through the car window at the two men who seemed to be talking about something. Li Xue smiled and said, "Him? His old habit has relapsed. He always likes to take pictures when he goes out." "When we were young, we often went out to travel. In high school, we would go out during summer and winter vacations. In college, we would go on extreme time-compressed trips as special forces soldiers whenever we had free time. Later, after starting our own businesses, we traveled much less." She paused, her tone no longer nostalgic: "This is the first time in the past few years." "Starting a business must be busy... but everyone seemed to have a good time this time..." Hua Xin seemed to sense something and tried to liven up the atmosphere by changing the subject: "Sister Li Xue, did you and Brother Shan Qing know each other for a long time?" "We two..." "You could say we're childhood sweethearts." Li Xue smiled again, turning to look at the girl with an indescribable emotion in her eyes. "We were neighbors when we were little, and our parents knew each other too, but we separated when we moved in junior high. When we were in high school, he asked me about my college application, and then secretly changed the high school his mother had chosen for him to go to the same school as me." "So Brother Shan Qing pursued you first?" The gossip piqued Hua Xin's interest again, and she leaned curiously against the front seat, looking at Li Xue. You know, when it comes to questions about who pursued whom in a relationship, how they got together, and why they got together, no one can resist the urge to gossip and dig up their past. "No, I confessed to him first." Li Xue chuckled, seemingly a little embarrassed, and continued, "In our senior year of high school, we decided on the universities we wanted to attend, and we both passed the entrance exams. I confessed to him on the day the results came out." "However... I kept it a secret very well during that high school summer vacation; no one in my family knew about our relationship." "Was it a local university in Shanghai?" the girl asked curiously. "No, it was in Beijing. I remember him saying this back then..." Li Xue cleared her throat, mimicking the tone of his voice. "Beijing is the biggest city, and there will only be more opportunities in the future, so I want to succeed there and support you for the rest of your life!" She couldn't help but stifle a laugh, "He said he'd support me when I was eighteen... Pfft... He's so adorably silly." "But after we went to university, we both told our families the truth," "My mother said it was fine, but my father had some opinions about him, thinking he was unreliable and wouldn't amount to anything. He even threatened to sever our father-daughter relationship and hid our household registration book." "Because Shan Qing's personality was different back then; he had a lot of ideas about everything, which made him seem a bit unreliable in the eyes of the older generation." "But he agreed in the end, right? Love always leads to marriage." Hua Xin said softly with a touch of longing, a strange emotion in her eyes. Childhood sweethearts, the same high school, the same university, even working in the same city after graduation, finally married and their relationship is still going strong. It sounds like a scene from a fantasy novel. "How envious," the girl thought silently to herself. This was an unimaginable dream for her. Their youth had been intertwined, they had loved each other all the way to university where they could freely date. Whose youth is without regrets? The girl silently recalled herself a few years ago. Back then, she was still "him," without Tian Tian romance, without deep bonds, and without anyone to care about. Her biggest worry every day was not earning enough money for food, busy in her Little Black between the internet and reality. "Yes," "He still agreed." Hua Xin's eyelashes trembled slightly, interrupting her thoughts, and she looked back at Li Xue. Li Xue's smile faded, her eyelids lowered as she looked up at the green mountains outside the window. Her next words made Hua Xin's heart tremble. "Because..." "We were in a car accident." 182. Mutual Accommodation As winter approached, the weather grew colder. Li Xue tightened her coat as she walked out of the company gate, her eyes searching for that familiar figure. Even though it was a bit cold, she saw that silly guy waving at her, probably texting her from inside the car. This was the fourth time she'd seen him in two weeks. She'd told him before not to let Shan Qing pick her up anymore, to finish his project and go home early instead of staying at work. But every time she got off work, she'd subconsciously check to see if he was there. A slight smile curved her lips, and Li Xue quickened her pace. "What do you want to eat tonight?" Once she was in the warm car, she finally managed to calm herself down from the annoying chores at work and winked at the man beside her. "Hot pot, you..."