Butterflies Fly Over Winter Chapter 45

Chapter 45 Reluctantly

Xi Ai looked at Chu Yizhi with a smile.

Maybe it was because of the glass door, so Xi Ai felt that Chu Yiqi’s whole body seemed to be haloed, otherwise how could she feel that this moment was particularly peaceful.

Chu Yiqi was mixing a cup of lemon tea and was just about to throw in the ice cubes. He remembered that Xi Ai didn’t like sweet things very much, so he asked again: “Do you want to drink lemon tea?”

Xi Ai tilted her head and looked at the ice cubes and candies just delivered by the hotel, and asked deliberately: “Did you think of me before putting the candies?”

“What if?”

Chu Yiqi would not answer “yes” properly, so she spoke in a ferocious tone, more like a cat waving its claws, a little tempered but completely harmless if she has money.

Xi Ai looked at Chu Zhan’s actions with a smile, and felt that the contrast was particularly interesting.

It was a pleasure to listen to music and slowly make a cup of tea one moment, but suddenly it started to arrest people, which was very interesting.

“Okay, if my roommate prepared it, of course I want to drink it.”

Chu Yiqi closed his eyes. Since there was a camera on the side, he could only smile and continue: “That’s really good at timing. I can give you half of it.”

“It doesn’t matter.”

Of course, as for Chu Yiqi’s one-liter bottle, if she gave it all to herself, then Xi Ai would really suspect that Chu Yiqi was really embarrassed because she had been with her ex for so long, so she planned to poison her and put something that couldn’t be eaten together to harm her.

Chu Yiqi seemed to have read Xi Ai’s thoughts and snorted: “I’ll throw a bunch of jasmine flowers in for you right away.”

Although they won’t conflict with each other, it’s okay that Xi Ai doesn’t like drinking.

Xi Ai can tolerate it: “It’s not like I can’t just make do with it.”

“You are really lowering the bottom line again and again.”

“I did it reluctantly.”

Chu Yiqi had already stood up. He found the quilt that Xi Ai had washed long ago and gave half of it to Xi Ai.

The collision of ice cubes suddenly caused the temperature to drop a little. Xi Ai stopped her movements and leaned back to look at Chu in hope. She was so good.

When Chu Yiqi left, he moved the camera somewhere and carefully bent over to make sure it wouldn’t fall over.

“You are so serious, are you really afraid of being smashed?” Xi Ai happily typed Enter and replied to a work email.

Chu Yiqi shook his head solemnly: “You won’t understand. This is Sister Linna’s favorite thing.”

“Okay, Lina is determined to stand firmer than you. Don’t forget that there is a small step here.”

Chu Yiqi immediately went to glare at Xi Ai.

“Come on, this cup costs 800, pay first and then use it, dear.” Chu Yiqi regained his smiling appearance, and took a look at Xi Ai’s wheat – Xi Ai opened the wheat in her collar when she turned to Chu Yiqi to say the first sentence.

Xi Ai felt no burden: “Let’s put it together, one thousand.”

“That’s okay, it’s not popular in China to accept tips.”

“We all came back from studying abroad at Huangyi. I can pretend that we are all abroad.” Xi Ai then said, “Thank you, Teacher Chu, for the lemon tea. It’s very good.”

“Well, if I say you want to praise me, then I’ll write an eight hundred-word article, okay?”

“Don’t embarrass us who are studying arts and sports, okay?” Xi Ai glanced at the camera, and it was just right to take a picture here, so she didn’t care, just turned off the microphone and whispered, “And you have also seen something like this. Only the young lovers written in the exam can actually do this kind of thing.”

After saying that, Xi Ai adjusted the microphone again and left everything to the post-production teacher. It was really hard work.

Chu Yiqi sat aside and pretended to be stupid: “Who studied arts and sports? I don’t know. I only know that He Ban, the vice president of the student union back then, went to study in country F.”

“Oh my, which class is so powerful? Of course it’s Xi Ai.”

“Why did you just put it on the pole?” Chu Yiqi bit the straw, always feeling that the lemon tea tasted sour and sweet, so he quickly mixed it again with a grimace.

“Because I’m awesome.”

I’ve read it, feel free to reply without worrying about any baggage.

Xi Ai wouldn’t let any words fall to the ground anyway.

Chu Yiqi took the laptop over and quietly looked at the screen for a while and then at Xi Ai.

She was actually a little curious. When Chu Yiqi’s black posts were flying everywhere, Xi Ai was busy for several days. What was Xi Ai’s state at that time?

She only remembered that Xi Ai went to several meetings and even had a dispute with the company’s board of directors, but Xi Ai would not take the initiative to mention it to Chu Yiqi.But she can still tell that many of them are business suppression caused by the people behind the black posts.

Chu Yiqi glanced at the camera, hesitated for a long time before getting up, turned off the video first, and finally stepped forward to pick Xi Ai’s wheat.

The distance was too close, so Xi Ai’s breath brushed against the side of Chu Yiqi’s neck. With a little distance, the breath she breathed became cold.

Considering that the old man is not completely retired – in fact, he has returned with an increased workload more than a year ago – Xi Ai will not be as busy as before, but she hopes that she will be more busy and that the old man will be free.

Chu Yiqi put the wheat on the table, sat across from Xi Ai, and asked her, “Can we chat?”

Xi Ai looked at her as if she was a little surprised, then she adjusted herself and smiled: “What do you want to talk about, Chu Yiqi?”

“I’m curious, what on earth were you doing behind my back when those rumors came out?”

Xi Ai was stunned and transferred a few documents to the vice president. After a moment of confusion, she looked at Chu Yiqi again.

“Teacher Chu, it would be better to be more clear.” She said, “If you ask me now, it will be very ambiguous. Are you a little concerned about the situation, or you just want to know how they ended up adding fuel to the flames.”

“What’s the difference?”

In fact, what she knew was that one person seemed to be distressed because of an old love, and was worried about whether Xi Ai would be tired; the other person seemed to be hiding herself, and she was determined to know the outcome of the person she hated.

But how can you tell the difference?

What Xi Ai wants, Chu Yiqi can’t answer now.

But Xi Ai stopped worrying. She lowered her head, straightened her sleeves slowly, and said, “Want to know? You can check which entertainment company Xingyan bought at that time, or you can check who took the cross-sea bridge project.”

“It’s very troublesome.”

In fact, even after all this time, one of the things Chu Yiqi cared about most was still this.

With her own affairs to drag on, Xi Ai will be very tired, right?

Xi Ai stared at her and also looked at the lake far away, feeling a little dazzled.

She replied: “How could it be? Just like I am asking now, that time I fell down while filming, and you caught me and stayed with me for so many days. You must be very tired. How would you answer?”

Of course I won’t feel tired.

“But it’s different, Xi Ai.”

Xi Ai blinked and remembered a meeting that was actually not very important for no reason.

That day she went to meet Li Heng – the person who organized the castle on that first day.

At that time, Xi Ai didn’t know that Chu Yiqi was going because of her mother’s request, so she didn’t care about it and just used Li Heng to scare the monkeys as soon as they arrived.

“You can make a decision after reading it.” Xi Ai looked at the person opposite her calmly, her tone calm.

Li Heng looked at the documents in front of him and his face turned a little pale, but he still said, “How clean do you think your Xi Yun is?”

“Do you think I’m a good person, or do you think I’m just a fool who relied on my family to get ahead?” Xi Ai originally wanted to use her brain less and treat everyone equally, but she still felt that her words were too impolite, so she endured it and said, “Can I write it backwards if I can meet Xi Yun’s fundamental interests?”

“Xi Ai, do you think Bai Yu is so easy to suppress? If you say fight, will Mr. Xi agree?”

“You can take a look at this first, the cross-sea bridge that we have been fighting for for so long, and see who ends up in the end? If you have this brain, why not guess where this first-hand information has passed?” Xi Ai turned around her phone, and it happened to be a news video, which was very clear.

Xi Ai checked it several times before going out, until she was sure that her dark circles were not visible at all, and finally went out. Coupled with her attitude, it would not be an exaggeration to say that she was comfortable or “taking projects together”.

Xi Ai slowly took her phone back and replied to the message.

[I want to go home…there are about ten minutes left.]

“Are you so generous just for her?”

Xi Ai was noncommittal: “Then I won too.”

Xi Ai didn’t remember the insignificant conversations that followed clearly, so she only said to Chu Yiqi: “It’s not a big deal. It took about half a year to deal with it, so I was busy acquiring some companies that were not that big in scale and made some small moves that can’t be described.”

Xi Ai is like this. She is very willing to say good things to others. She doesn’t take it seriously when asked specifically. She avoids the important and takes the easy. Once she misses the opportunity to see it in person, she will never hear the opportunity to repeat the situation again.

Chu Yiqi suddenly couldn’t sympathize with himself a few minutes ago, so why couldn’t he think of asking.

If the timing were different, she might have heard Xi Ai humming and acting coquettishly, but… at that moment she was very concerned about what this person had done.

At that moment, Chu Yiqi suddenly realized that maybe Xi Ai really didn’t care, she didn’t care about staying up late day after day or the tit-for-tat at the negotiation table.

What matters most to Xi Ai is that in the end, Chu Yiqi still feels that he should leave, and he still feels that he cannot let her spend time with him any longer.

“Do you feel…that I don’t appreciate it?”

Xi Ai looked at Chu Yiqi, as if she thought this sentence was strange, so Xi Ai waited for a long time, and finally laughed and said, “Yes, I feel so wronged to death. I have been busy for a long time, but the person involved wants to cut off everything from me.”

In the end, he did everything he could. Amid the rumors about his financial backers and chaotic private life, Chu Yiqi didn’t even receive any news about liquidated damages.

“I’m sorry.”

“When I brought up this topic, I thought you wanted to talk to me about getting back together.” Xi Ai smiled a little, but Chu Yiqi could tell that the smile was not sincere at all.

Chu Yiqi couldn’t even tell whether this sentence was a joke or true.

After all, ever since I came back, the two people’s relationship with each other has been particularly strange. Sometimes they seem like good friends, and sometimes they are weirdly awkward and stiff.

“Xi Ai, you actually know the answer. It won’t be now.”

Xi Ai looked at her and suddenly said: “Actually, I have always wanted to know the answer to a question.”

“Yeah.”

“Since the relationship between us started from the beginning, why can’t we convince ourselves to continue to use it in the end?”

But stubbornly wanted to leave.

Xi Ai asked herself silently, did she really not know?

Of course not.

She just wanted to hear Chu Yiqi’s answer.

It’s boring, but she will feel aggrieved for no reason, and just wants to use this method to make herself feel better.

“Because…” Chu Yiqi rarely told the truth, “Because I like you, so I can’t accept it.”

Even if you ask for it, you can’t do it.

After being speechless for a while, Xi Ai curled up her fingertips and felt a stinging pain that made her unable to exert herself.

She lowered her eyes hastily to cover up her uncontrollable emotions.

“Stay away from the screen. I’ll leave it here for you while I go and take a rest.”

Chu Yiqi didn’t turn on the camera again and went upstairs.

Xi Ai watched her leave and felt that today’s conversation was really bad.

Fortunately, both of them have very strong adjustment abilities, and when they showed up together to go to the wetland in the afternoon, they looked completely innocent.

“Can you give me some sunscreen spray?”

“Say thank you to Chu Yiqi.” Chu Yiqi looked arrogant.

Xi Ai did not hesitate: “Thank you, Teacher Chu. Chu Yiqi is the best, and I like Chu Yiqi the most!”

Stop, stop, stop telling the truth in your jokes.

“No more boasting.”