WSIDIILMBOCIR Chapter 4

Chapter 4: His Exception

The night was very dark, even with the headlights on, they couldn’t illuminate Li Chongge’s cold and deep-set features.

The man looked him up and down, his tone neither warm nor cold.

“Get in.”

Qin Yuanging was a pathetic admirer, not a terrible masochist. This was a deserted wilderness with not a soul in sight and a cold wind blowing. Even if he had more backbone, he wouldn’t want to stay any longer.

Turn off the engine, lock the car, get in the car.

Done in one go.

After buckling his seatbelt, Qin Yuanging sat obediently in Li Chongge’s passenger seat, not saying a word.

Li Chongge didn’t put on any music, so Qin Yuanging could only hear the sound of tires rubbing against the gravel.

“How long do you plan to stay?”

Li Chongge finally spoke to him, and Qin Yuanging felt relieved, while a secret joy rose in his heart.

But the first lesson of unrequited love is to learn to remain calm.

Qin Yuanging brewed for a moment in his heart before answering him in an extremely casual tone, “I’m not leaving.”

The person he had been thinking about day and night was right beside him, and Qin Yuanging felt as if he could hear his heart beating faster and faster. Feeling a little guilty, he moved himself towards the car window.

Li Chongge’s suit jacket had been thrown by him in the back seat, and he only had a black shirt on his body. The sleeves were pushed up to his elbows, and the top two buttons at the collar were undone, as if one could look down through the collar further and further… It looked a bit… seductive.

Qin Yuanging couldn’t help but steal a few glances out of the corner of his eye.

“What are you doing here at this hour?”

Li Chongge held the steering wheel with one hand and threw a bottle of water on Qin Yuanging’s lap with the other.

“I’m not thirsty.”

“Open it for me.”

The matter-of-course tone made Qin Yuanging feel as if the two years in Canada were just an illusion, and he and Li Chongge had never been separated.

Of course, what he meant by separation was only distance.

Qin Yuanging was silent, opened the water and handed it over, but Li Chongge didn’t take it, letting him hold it like that until the road conditions were stable before taking it, brushing past Qin Yuanging’s fingertips.

“I asked you a question.”

“I heard that Kewei is going to do a resort project, and I wanted to come and see the site to see if Huichuang has a chance to take on this business.”

Li Chongge raised his hand, and Qin Yuanging hurriedly took the opened bottle of water from his hand.

“You took over Huichuang?”

“Yeah.”

“You have quite the appetite.”

Li Chongge had some understanding of the Qin family’s industry and had some impression of this design company. With Huichuang’s strength, it would be difficult to win this project.

This time, Qin Yuanging didn’t sneak around, but looked at Li Chongge openly.

“Those with small appetites starve to death.”

Although Qin Yuanging was born a young master, he hadn’t reached the point of being ignorant of the hardships of the world. When it came to doing business, he wouldn’t give up a single step, and he wouldn’t want to miss a single opportunity.

Li Chongge had taught him many of these things by hand in the past.

“What about you, what are you doing here at this hour?”

The two of them were very tacit. Li Chongge didn’t ask Qin Yuanging why he had run away two years ago, and Qin Yuanging didn’t ask Li Chongge why he had been so cold last time.

“I had a business trip today, and taking this way after getting off the highway is a shortcut.”

“That’s quite a coincidence.”

If Li Chongge hadn’t happened to pass by, he would have had to wait in the car for another two hours for the driver to pick him up, and he would have been hungry.

Thinking of this, Qin Yuanging realized that he hadn’t had dinner yet.

“There’s a bag in the back seat, get it for me.”

Qin Yuanging unbuckled his seatbelt and took the paper bag next to Li Chongge’s jacket as he was told.

“If you’re hungry, eat something to tide you over.”

Qin Yuanging blankly took out two boxes of exquisite little cakes from the bag, pink and tender little bunnies, holding a bright red strawberry to their chests.

Qin Yuanging’s mood was a bit complicated for a moment.

In fact, since getting into the car, he had smelled a faint tobacco smell in Li Chongge’s car.

Li Chongge didn’t smoke, and he didn’t like the smell of smoke. None of the people around him had the guts to smoke in his car.

This could only mean that an exception had appeared in his life. This exception could smoke in his car, put fancy little cakes in his car, and get Li Chongge’s indulgence.

But this exception was not him, Qin Yuanging.

Because Qin Yuanging was not allowed to smoke in front of Li Chongge.

Qin Yuanging squeezed the edge of the paper bag, and the sweet strawberry cream smelled a bit bitter and sour to him.

He suddenly realized his hypocrisy.

He kept saying that as long as he saw Li Chongge happy, he would be happy. But when the person who could give Li Chongge happiness really came to his side, Qin Yuanging was uncontrollably filled with sorrow, and even an emotion called jealousy gradually enveloped his whole body.

“Don’t want to eat sweet things?”

Li Chongge took the time to glance at Qin Yuanging, who was holding the little cake with a bitter and hateful look, and felt that he was probably having another young master’s disease.

Li Chongge had always known that Qin Yuanging never forced himself. He had to eat whatever he wanted to eat, and he wouldn’t touch anything he didn’t want to eat.

“I’m not hungry.”

Qin Yuanging put the little cake back in the bag, and his heart suddenly felt empty.

Li Chongge paused.

“There are spoons in the bag, the cream won’t get on your clothes.”

“I don’t want to eat it.”

Li Chongge frowned. He hadn’t had time to investigate Qin Yuanging’s unannounced departure, but now he had to face his pickiness.

But Qin Yuanging had lost a lot of weight.

“I don’t have anything else to eat in my car, so just make do with it. Secretary Liu bought it. Didn’t you used to say that everything she bought was delicious?”

Qin Yuanging looked away, hiding his embarrassment.

“Since Secretary Liu bought it, then I’ll try it.”

It was really a bit unsightly for a big man to be holding a sweet and soft little bear strawberry cake. Qin Yuanging quickly finished one cake and leaned back in his seat, staring blankly at the roof of the car.

Li Chongge turned on the music.

The soft tone calmed Qin Yuanging’s restless heart.

“Your car, I’ll have someone come and take care of it tomorrow. Should I just have it driven to Huichuang for you?”

“No need to trouble you, I’ll take care of it myself.”

Qin Yuanging subconsciously rejected Li Chongge’s friendly help. Kewei had a lot of things to do, and there was no need to bother Li Chongge, who was so busy with everything, with such a trivial matter.

Moreover, Li Chongge’s help out of friendship would easily make Qin Yuanging’s heart churn with some different emotions.

The better Li Chongge was to him, the more guilty Qin Yuanging felt.

“Qin Yuanging.”

Li Chongge’s voice was very soft, and Qin Yuanging wasn’t even sure if he was calling him.

“Yeah?”

“What are you sulking about?”

Qin Yuanging was slightly startled, feeling a sense of embarrassment at being caught. He bit the tip of his tongue to calm himself down.

“I heard from Brother Yu that you’re very busy, and I can’t help you with anything. I won’t trouble you with such a trivial matter. But if you have time, just have someone drive the car to my house.”

Without investigating the truth of these words, Li Chongge responded lightly, “Okay.”

Two hours was a very long time, but sitting in Li Chongge’s passenger seat, being by his side, Qin Yuanging even hoped that the road could be longer.

He really, really missed Li Chongge.

After entering the city, Li Chongge lowered the car window a little, letting in some night wind from outside.

Qin Yuanging turned his head and watched the night wind caress him unbridled, feeling a little envious.

“What are you looking at me for?”

Li Chongge’s words pulled Qin Yuanging back to his senses, and he replied, “Your hair is messy.”