Butterflies Fly Over Winter Chapter 29
byChapter 29 Green Jasmine
After a long time, Chu Yiqi closed his eyes and saw himself at that time.She stretched out her hand in the void, touched the cup, and then retorted silently: “You can see her now, wait a little longer, and you can walk over.”
Chu Yiqi exhaled, putting aside useless memories like he did every time before.
The taste of watermelon lingered in her mouth, so she simply opened a bottle of milk.
It was chocolate flavored, and Chu Yiqi even heated it up.
The warm sweetness enters the mouth, and some gaps seem to be temporarily filled.
Across the ocean, Nian Zhaoyi suddenly became worried about Miss Xi’s lifelong events: “Will I go to Nadia’s party?”
“Are you not picking up which pot you are boiling, and kicking which pot is boiling?” Xi Ai sent a message back, feeling a little distraught at her good friend’s words.
“So what’s the situation now?”
Xi Ai glanced at the things in front of her: “You don’t care anyway, don’t you have a partner? Don’t worry about other people and other people’s partners.”
“Tell me about it. Do you think I have no intention of reconciling with you now?”
“You have…”
Xi Ai suddenly stopped talking in the middle of her speech because she saw Chu and wanted to leave the room.Xi Ai wanted to connect to the Bluetooth, but it was too late. Chu Yiqi had already heard Nian Zhaoyi’s words: “Don’t curse. I’m going to tell grandpa that you cursed.”
“Nonsense, I’ve only scolded people twice in my life. By the way, Nancy will land tomorrow and remind Xi Yuchuan to remember to bring the souvenir I picked.”
“It’s so important that you don’t run away yourself?”
Xi Ai looked at Chu and hoped to go back, so she lowered her voice and replied: “We can’t leave the country, it’s been too long.”
“In fact, you just can’t bear to…”
Xi Ai suddenly regretted that she had just turned on the speakerphone for convenience, without connecting the earphones, so she turned it down and turned it down.
She hurriedly hung up Nian Zhaoyi’s call.
If there was something wrong with her, she could change it, instead of letting Nian Zhaoyi dig holes for herself, and not letting Chu Yiqi discover every hole.
Chu Yiqi paused subtly for a moment, and then entered the room without any chance to look at each other.
I can’t tell whether it’s because I don’t dare or I don’t know how to face it.
Xi Ai breathed a sigh of relief and slowly connected to the Bluetooth.
Xi Ai looked at the sinking moon outside, and suddenly felt the presence of some slight cicadas.
And it gradually overlaps with memory.
It was one of the only scenes where she failed to control the way she spoke.
*
Xi Ai was taken back and held a high-level meeting all afternoon. Except for the company’s evening rush hour, the traffic was over. It was the first time the lights came on and the moment the street lights came on, Xi Ai saw a series of red dots.
It’s a missed call.
From Nie Chuiying, from Su Luojian, and the last few are from Chu Yiqi, but the time was twenty minutes ago.
Xi Ai’s breath was stagnant, and her heart was grabbed and then thrown up at that moment.That moment was stretched into countless moments, slowed down and then looped, so the scattered chirping of cicadas became extra noisy and annoying.
Xi Ai grabbed the keys and ran to the garage while dialing them back for Chu Yizhu.
After waiting for a long time and no one answered, Xi Ai called Nie Chuiying again. She didn’t have any expectations. After all, Nie Chuiying was recording a variety show these two days.
Sure enough, Nie Chuiying didn’t answer, so Xi Ai ignored it and dialed Su Luojian while putting the car in gear.
Su Luojian answered quickly and said anxiously: “I’m taking Yike and Nianxi out for their activities. Go and see Xiao Chu.”
“Send me the address.”
I don’t know why, Chu Yiqi didn’t even have time to send a message, or he forgot, or he didn’t have the chance.
But no matter what it was, it was a very urgent matter. She couldn’t wait, so she drove the car out first.
Su Luojian only sent one voice message. When she asked Chu Yiqi in the morning, Chu Yiqi mentioned that she had something to do at the castle, so Su Luojian told Xi Ai the exact words.
Xi Ai became extremely nervous when she heard those two words, and almost cursed in French through gritted teeth.
It’s not a nice place. It’s said to be a club, but in Xi Ai’s words, it’s a smoky place.
Young people from the upper class like to go there to hang out, but Xi Ai never gets involved – people who take power too early always have other meals and entertainments, which are relatively clean.
In terms of private comments in the circle, she is aloof.
She just doesn’t like these people and their ways.
Xi Ai didn’t pay attention to the string of people saying hello when she went out. She just nodded in response. She was not feeling well at all now.
Xi Ai called Xi Yuchuan. Xi Yuchuan happened to be here these two days. It might be faster to get to the castle from him.
“Pack up quickly and go to the castle.”
Xi Ai rarely spoke in such a serious tone, so Xi Yuchuan didn’t panic and asked why. He hurriedly said a word to the housekeeper and ran away, even shouting to Xi Ai: “You sound like that, are you driving a sports car?”
Xi Ai finally remembered that something was wrong, but she couldn’t close it anymore: “Let’s talk about it, are you okay over there?”
“Don’t worry, hang up. Grandpa will have to tell me later that I disturbed your driving.”
Xi Ai was anxious all the way, but fortunately the traffic lights on this day were particularly generous, so the originally expected twenty-minute drive was cut short.
Xi Yuchuan had a little investment in the castle privately, so Xi Ai’s entry and exit went very smoothly. She adjusted the surveillance system early in the morning for Xi Yuchuan to take a look, so when Xi Ai arrived, Xi Yuchuan led her to a private room, and then stood aside to look at Xi Ai’s shoes.
They were a pair of high-heeled shoes, which made them look extremely tall, and it was obvious that Xi Ai’s feet were wet because of them.There was no delay at all.
Xi Yuchuan had never heard Xi Ai mention anything about her and Chu Yiqi earlier, and half believed the rumors on the Internet, but now he had no doubts at all.
But Xi Ai had no time to pay attention to him. She obviously twisted her feet and opened the door without losing any momentum.
As soon as Xi Ai walked in, she saw several familiar faces.
“Where are the people?” Xi Ai couldn’t show a good face and stared coldly at the chaos in front of her.
“Miss Xi, who are you? Making false accusations is not a good thing.”
Xi Ai’s voice was very soft. She walked over and without giving others time to react, she grabbed a glass of ice wine and threw it on the speaker’s face.
“Evidence? The evidence is that when I come to talk about cooperation, you still have to see if I will give it to you. You have to choose someone for arm wrestling.”
Xi Ai glanced around and saw the hairpin on the sofa. It was the one Xi Ai picked for Chu Yiqi before going out this morning. It was a customized model. Xi Ai also had an exact same one.
It was dirty, so Xi Ai didn’t go to get it. She picked up a bottle of wine next to it.Xi Ai took a look at the red wine and thought it was tasteless. She said in French: “If you don’t want to lose your eyes, just donate them.”
After speaking, he let go of his hand——“哐——”
“I’m so sorry. My hand slipped. How about the loss be mine?”
Perhaps Xi Ai’s movement was not a small one. After all, she wanted to monitor important people aggressively from the beginning, and the people above received the news very quickly – and her brother, who had a tacit understanding of it, was indispensable.
So it was natural that when Xi Ai was about to go out, someone in the middle had already received a call from home.
In a circle, face is always taken into consideration and future relationships are also important, so no one wants to have a stalemate in these matters. The second generation ancestor faces the head of the family, and the superiority is immediately obvious.
Xi Ai quickly picked up Chu Yiqi. As if she had drunk too much, Xi Ai pulled her and returned to her smiling tiger look: “See you next time.”
“Let’s go slowly.” I felt bad for being ruined and denied my face, so I spoke every word.
Xi Ai’s tone of voice was still very cold: “Forget it if you are blind, don’t rush to slap people in the face as if your brain is still sick. If your brain is not good, play less. If you can’t play but you are not happy, it is useless to show off your stupidity everywhere.”
It’s like a curse that prevents you from swearing in your mother tongue. Whenever Xi Ai curses someone, she will switch to French, which sounds a little less powerful.
But Chu Yiqi seemed to think she was noisy and he couldn’t understand, so he spoke to Xi Ai in a low voice: “You are not allowed to scold me, and it is very noisy here. Let’s leave quickly.”
Xi Ai almost laughed in anger, but still coaxed Chu Yiqi: “I didn’t tell you, my dear, I’ll leave right away.”
Xi Ai didn’t want to stay here any longer, the air was smelly.
Xi Yuchuan had been playing with his collection of folding knives outside early in the morning. When he saw Xi Ai holding someone’s hand, he quickly took a few steps ahead and said, “There’s no one around. Go to the VIP channel and get in my car. I’ll have your car driven back.”
“Oh.” Xi Ai straightened Chu Yiqi’s hair and said, “Don’t tell the old man.”
“Then I can’t help it. If you make such a noise, it will eventually spread.” Xi Yuchuan drove the car and stopped at the red light.
Xi Ai glanced at him and then looked back at Chu: “I said that thing in French.”
“No, I heard you.”
Xi Ai didn’t want to pay attention to him.
The next morning, Xi Ai received the old man’s video, and the first thing she saw was: “It’s really amazing. A popular female artist is racing in the evening.”
“Thank you.” Xi Ai found out about the hot search and knew that it would soon be suppressed.
“Your scolding is not authentic at all – how is Xiao Chu?”
Xi Ai didn’t expect that the old man came up to say that she was not being polite in swearing, so she couldn’t help laughing and explained: “I drank a lot of alcohol yesterday and I didn’t wake up.”
“Okay,” Mr. Xi came back and began to think of the unified rules for children in his family – forget about swearing and don’t use swear words.
Xi Ai also said something else yesterday, some of which were in this range.
Xi Ai listened quietly, but had no intention of doing it again. When she looked up, she saw Chu Yiqi standing at the door of the room, looking at her.
Very quiet, like a little rabbit that was scratched by another ugly cat, with red eyes, very well-behaved.
Xi Ai didn’t want to ask Chu Yiqi why, she probably knew.
And this became especially evident in the following months.
For several months after that, Chu Yiqi suddenly faced a trough without knowing where to begin.
Xi Ai and the PR side can’t control the dirty posts, illegitimate students…
Chu Yiqi didn’t go out for a long time, and the various announcements he made were affected.
The farce lasted for half a year and has not yet ended.
Of course it couldn’t be over, Chu Yiqi broke up with Xi Ai on New Year’s Day.At that time, Xi Ai was catching up on various endorsement shoots, and by the way, someone suddenly appeared – someone she had met after the group’s semi-finals, and someone Chu Yiqi couldn’t face.
They ended hastily, but Chu Yiqi couldn’t wait any longer.
She ran abroad alone.
Not long after that, Xi Ai took the pressure of her disagreement with the old man and shorted the stock of one of the people present that day, which was a bit of revenge to scare the monkeys.
It’s more like venting his anger.
“You can cooperate with others, at least be decent.”
Xi Ai was chatting with the company’s legal department, and then replied calmly: “I know, but I haven’t liked him for a long time.”
“It’s been half a year.”
“Don’t you know this?”
“Bear the pressure yourself. Don’t go too far. Enough is enough.”
Xi Ai agreed, stood up and walked to the balcony to answer the work call.
…
*
Xi Ai spared the yogurt and chose to take a sip of wine.
It was getting late, and she had no intention of feeding the mosquitoes here, so she hugged the computer and prepared to go back to the bedroom.She thought for a moment and took the yogurt.
Only one wall lamp was turned on in the living room downstairs, so the light in a certain room was dimly visible.
Xi Ai paused for a moment and then went upstairs.
Chu Yiqi sat cross-legged on the carpet, which was furry and beige. Chu Yiqi put a butterfly pillow on his legs. The notes on the computer seemed to be beating, so Chu Yiqi closed his eyes and leaned back.
She had some strange dreams for no reason.
It’s very familiar, but it feels like it happened a lifetime ago, and it feels unreal.
The dream was bizarre, but it progressed in the same order as the starting points of all the memories during the day.
So Chu Yiqi saw that he looked sideways at Xi Ai four years ago and spoke very calmly, unlike his usual self.