Chapter 36

When we were dating, he had me wrapped around his finger with lies. Now that he was sitting in jail, he deserved it. Better if he stayed there for the rest of his life!"

Wang Min said with lingering fear, "Good thing you were okay this time. Otherwise, I definitely wouldn't have let him off."

Tang Mingxi scooped up a bite of cake with a spoon.

Wang Min had been trying to lose weight lately, so whenever she ordered cake, she usually only used it as a photo prop. After taking the pictures, she would refrain from eating it.

Tang Mingxi ate some occasionally, but he was only moderately fond of sweets.

As they ate, Wang Min suddenly lowered her voice. "Little Xi, that man you mentioned last time—how are things between your friend and him?"

Tang Mingxi guiltily looked away and gave a dry cough. "Nothing's going on. Why are you so curious?"

Wang Min choked on her words.

Ever since Tang Mingxi's birthday, that knot had remained in his heart, so he tried his best to avoid Ye Heng in everyday life.

Of course, more importantly, judging by what happened when he fell into the water that night, Tang Mingxi had clearly not yet fully mastered the art of saving himself in the water!

So the day after he returned, Tang Mingxi went to a private swimming pool and asked Coach to intensify his training.

Swimming laps alone was no longer enough. He also had to practice high-platform diving and how to save himself in a pool.

He worked several times harder than before.

Coach was so affected that he could not help glancing at the calendar every time, and his usual remark became, "The Olympics are coming up, huh..."

After over a month of training, the results were remarkable.

Tang Mingxi had developed beautiful abdominal lines, and he could now overcome his instinctive fear of heights. He could jump from ten meters up without even blinking.

It was just that even the shortest cliff at Azure Luo Bay was thirty meters high. Tang Mingxi's ten-meter dive was utterly inadequate, qvq.

"Ugh." Tang Mingxi sighed from the bottom of his heart.

It was already August. Once the end of this year passed, Ye Heng would return to Cloud Capital.

He did not have much time left.

"Ding ding ding ding..."

Wang Min's phone began to ring.

She glanced at it and declined the call.

The ringtone stubbornly rang several more times.

Tang Mingxi slightly raised his chin. "Answer it."

Wang Min said quietly, "Sorry..."

Fifteen minutes later, Wang Min returned with a helpless expression.

When Tang Mingxi asked what was going on, Wang Min finally said, "Isn't it Qixi Festival today? The blind date my dad arranged for me last time called and asked me to dinner tonight."

Was it already the Qixi Festival?

Tang Mingxi froze for a moment. He really had not noticed that today was any kind of special occasion.

But even if he had known, it would have been useless. It was not like he had anyone to celebrate the Qixi Festival with.

Was he supposed to celebrate it with Ye Heng?

It would already be merciful if the male lead did not hold a seventh-day funeral for him instead :)

Wang Min had a date that evening, so Tang Mingxi parted ways with her early.

Since he had nothing to do that afternoon, he went back to the swimming pool to mess around in the water.

It was not until he walked outside at dusk that Tang Mingxi realized the atmosphere of the Qixi Festival had become incredibly strong.

Every street and alley was filled with couples in pairs, intimate and inseparable.

There were flower stalls everywhere along the roadside, as well as vendors selling light-up balloons.

Tang Mingxi had never been in love, but he had consumed plenty of public displays of affection.

Quite a few men and women who noticed that he was handsome and alone worked up the courage to approach him.

Those who wanted his WeChat backed down before they even got close, intimidated by his keep-out aura, his cool and noble demeanor, and the air around him that seemed to proclaim, "I'm expensive."

The only person who stopped Tang Mingxi was a little girl standing in the middle of the street, carrying a basket and handing out contraceptives.

Her basket was filled with them. She said she was a college student working part-time, promoting wholesome relationship values on this beautiful day.

She was quite bold, daring to stuff a condom into Tang Mingxi's hand.

Tang Mingxi casually took one just to deal with her. Old Yang, the driver who picked him up and dropped him off, had already been waiting by the roadside for ages.

Without a second thought, he shoved the condom into his pocket and forgot about it in the blink of an eye.

After Tang Mingxi got home, he lay on his bed bored out of his mind. He opened WeChat Moments and scrolled through it, only to become even more bored.

It was nothing but people showing off their love, and for some inexplicable reason, it made him

irritated.

So he decided to stand for justice and began leaving lofty, icy comments one by one under the Moments posts of these damned rich second-generation playboys, philandering radishes, and scumbags:

Young Master Lin xx: With you by my side, every day is May 20th.

Tang Mingxi: Anyone who can fall for you is an idiot :)

Young Master Zuo xx: Life has all five flavors. Thank you for bringing me sweetness.

Tang Mingxi: So you gave her the sour, bitter, and spicy parts? You get to pick up every bargain in the world, you shameless bastard :)

Young Master Yang xx: You are a gift from heaven, my belated salvation.

Tang Mingxi: Hello, I suggest not coming at all. That would be the greatest respect for the lady.

President Liu xx: I haven't seen much of the world. All my life, I'll only love one face.

Tang Mingxi: This is the one hundred and eighth face I've seen.

Why were scumbags pretending to be devoted?

Could they stop ruining perfectly innocent girls? You could switch between three women in a single day—morning and afternoon included. Anyone who met you lot was unlucky :)

After Tang Mingxi tore into the crowd of scumbags on Moments, he felt much better.

He opened his chat history with Ye Heng, which was still on the cheesy compliment Ye Heng had sent him last time.

Tang Mingxi sent over a one-thousand-yuan red packet, along with a message:

[Mood's good, so I'm giving you a little more allowance (.)]

Ye Heng's phone buzzed.

He looked up and saw that the WeChat notification was from Tang Mingxi.

A thousand yuan in allowance, along with a message.

It was a very ordinary opening line, yet Ye Heng inexplicably kept his gaze on it for a long time.

He picked up his phone and was just about to reply when someone knocked on the door to the CEO's office.

The person who entered was his translation assistant, Xiao Zhou, a young woman with a capable personality and meticulous work habits.

"Boss Ye, all of today's documents are here. If there's nothing else, I'll be leaving first?"

Ye Heng checked the time. It had only just reached quitting time, which was completely unlike Assistant Zhou, a notorious workaholic.

Assistant Zhou seemed to realize what Ye Heng's gaze meant and said embarrassedly, "President Ye, today is Qixi Festival. I want to get off work early and spend time with my boyfriend."

Ye Heng paused slightly. "Qixi Festival?"

"Yes." Assistant Zhou thought to herself, No way. Boss Ye is young, but surely he doesn't not know what Qixi Festival is, right?!

Fortunately, Ye Heng did not ask further. He merely blanked out for a second before saying, "Then leave early."

Assistant Zhou smiled. "Thank you, President Ye."

Just as she reached the door, Ye Heng suddenly called out to her again. "Wait."

Assistant Zhou immediately stopped, her heart pounding as she worried that there was some problem with her work.

Though Ye Heng was young, he rarely smiled and carried immense authority. The ruthless, decisive methods he had used to purge upper management several times had left all his subordinates on edge.

"Is there anything else you need?" Assistant Zhou asked cautiously.

Who would have thought that after pondering for a long while, Ye Heng would ask, "How do you usually celebrate Qixi Festival?"

If Assistant Zhou had not known that Ye Heng had long been engaged to the Tang Family's second young master, she might almost have thought that this young President Ye was interested in her!

After considering it for a moment, she gave a conventional answer. "Usually, we have dinner together, watch a movie, or send each other red packets?"

Ye Heng seemed to catch the key point and asked, "Send red packets?"

Assistant Zhou said, "Yes, we send red packets to each other."

So that was what Tang Mingxi had meant.

After sending the red packet, Tang Mingxi became drowsy. His secret special swimming training that afternoon had drained too much of his stamina.