20 years of restarting life

Chapter 3809 The Emotional Misalignment of Modern Urban Youth

Jin Feiyue booked a room for Zhao Chang'an on a different floor than the other twelve rooms, which is why Tian Xue and Yang Yixin didn't bother him after taking a shower, but only sent a text message.

Of course, this was also because they knew he had been traveling and working hard these past few days, and they wanted him to get a good night's sleep.

However, Ai Qiuqiu was both excited and upset, which is why she didn't even take a shower. She just quickly brushed her teeth and came upstairs to find Zhao Chang'an. If she didn't come over tonight and have a good talk with Zhao Chang'an, she would feel so depressed and suffocated that she would go crazy.

Although it was Ai Qiuqiu who took the initiative to pursue Liu Yihui two years ago, her purpose in pursuing him was not because she loved him, but because she thought he was a promising prospect and worth investing in.

But Liu Yihui is actually a very good person. After they started dating, she felt pity for him and genuinely wanted to live a good life with him, after seeing his kindness, care and concern and learning about his unhappy childhood.

Especially after she coaxed Jiao Fengyue to Mingzhu for treatment, Jiao Fengyue treated her very well. Liu Yihui followed Zhao Chang'an and worked hard to improve himself. He rose higher and higher in the company and earned more and more money. Gradually, he lost interest in other things.

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However, after Liu Yihui was transferred to Lin'an, Ai Qiuqiu suddenly found that Liu Yihui seemed to be getting colder and colder towards her. Before, the two of them would call each other almost every day, talking about work and family matters without getting tired of each other.

At this point, however, the phone calls became less and less frequent. Even when they did call, Liu Yihui would only say a few words in a hurry before hanging up, saying he was busy.

Especially after Liu Yihui traveled two thousand miles overnight to Zhengzhou to pick up Sui Xuemeng and bring her to Lin'an, Ai Qiuqiu could feel Liu Yihui's coldness and avoidance even over the phone.

I finally managed to find some time to visit him, but every night he was working until the wee hours of the morning, looking exhausted, or he would come home drunk from social engagements and fall asleep as soon as he got into bed.

On the night Ai Qiuqiu returned to Zhengzhou, she went to bed early and woke up in the early morning to find that Liu Yihui had not yet returned to the bedroom. Through the crack in the half-open bedroom door, she saw a faint light still shining in the living room.

Ai Qiuqiu thought he was still working. She knew and could understand that Liu Yihui had been under a lot of pressure since he was transferred to Lin'an.

So she quietly got out of bed, wanting to remind Liu Yihui that while work was important, he also needed to take care of his health.

When she reached the door, she was shocked to see through the crack that Liu Yihui's computer screen was indeed lit, but he wasn't working; instead, he was looking at a photo on the screen.

Photos of Sui Xuemeng!

This photo is Sui Xuemeng's most satisfying artistic portrait. Her eyes are brightly looking up at the sky at a 45-degree angle, and she has a sweet smile on her lips, as if she has infinitely beautiful wishes and aspirations for the future.

Liu Yihui doesn't have this photo, but Ai Qiuqiu does. I don't know when he took it with a digital camera and saved it to his computer.

Ai Qiuqiu knew that Liu Yihui missed Sui Xuemeng, even though he never mentioned it to others.

Tomorrow, Zhao Chang'an will have to find a way to get this woman, or more accurately, this young girl, out of trouble.

So, given Ai Qiuqiu's understanding of Sui Xuemeng at that time, she would inevitably appear pitifully before Lao Liu in some way she couldn't even guess. Some people aren't ignorant or bad; it's just that their living conditions are good, and they simply disdain doing such things. Just like Sui Xuemeng always knew that Liu Yihui liked her, but she never gave him a kind look and always intentionally or unintentionally avoided him.

Because the boyfriend Sui Xuemeng wanted was a tall, sunny, and cheerful young man from a family of equal social standing, not Liu Yihui, who was less than 1.6 meters tall, dark-skinned, and had a personality that always smelled like old furniture sitting in a dark, damp room, filled with a musty smell that could never be washed away.

However, when something happened to Sui Xuemeng's family, the first person she called was him.

And the facts have proven that Sui Xuemeng's judgment is very sharp and accurate!
Ai Qiuqiu didn't actually mind, and had even wanted to break up with Liu Yihui for a long time. However, she really liked Jiao Fengyue, an elder, and knew about her suffering over the years, the heartlessness and irresponsibility of Liu Yihui's father, and also knew about her unyielding and strong-willed nature.

So now she feels troubled and confused, not knowing what to do in the future.
Zhao Chang'an was aware of Ai Qiuqiu's thoughts and inner conflicts, just as he was aware of Liu Yihui's inner conflicts. Zhao Chang'an hadn't realized it before, but now he felt how powerful that one yuan Sui Xuemeng handed to Old Liu at the entrance of Bishagang had been.

Even after more than three years, this bullet, across time and space, still nearly shattered Liu Yihui, Ai Qiuqiu, and Jiao Fengyue.

Old Liu had never experienced much warmth growing up, so he magnified the weight of the one yuan gift from Sui Xuemeng, who was a stranger at the time, to the level of a mountain.

When Zhao Chang'an and Tian Xue were evaluating Lin Xiaojie, they said that character determines destiny. In fact, this statement also applies to Liu Yihui. In his previous life, this guy didn't like Yue Lu but married her because of his and Li Shiya's persuasion. In this life, he doesn't dare to break up with Ai Qiuqiu because of his mother Jiao Fengyue.

Moreover, even if they did break up after going through countless hardships, it would be impossible for Sui Xuemeng to enter Jiao Fengyue's home.

Because of Sui Xuemeng's parents' situation, Ai Qiuqiu had already told Jiao Fengyue. As a kind, stubborn, and righteous person who believed that starving to death was a small matter but losing one's chastity was a big deal, Jiao Fengyue would be so ashamed that she would die if a girl from such a family were to enter her home and become her daughter-in-law.

Zhao Chang'an had been avoiding the issue of Sui Xuemeng for some time, until Chu Guangying's phone call, which stood up for her, forced him to start taking it seriously.

If even he doesn't face it, then it's even less likely that Lao Liu will.

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Mountain city, Zhou's mutton soup shop.

In the serene moonlight, the temperature in the mountain city was still very cold in the early morning, but Ma Er and Gunzi were both drunk and felt excited, humiliated and hot-blooded.

That evening, the two found a newly opened food stall by the river, ordered lamb chops, kebabs, and a bottle of Erguotou (a type of Chinese liquor), and ate and drank to their hearts' content. After they were full, they tried to sneak away, but the owner discovered them and chased them for several hundred meters with his belongings.

Then the two of them wandered over to the billiards room. Gun was very good at billiards, while Ma Er was quick-witted and eloquent. He often tricked billiards novices into playing with Gun and made some money for cigarettes.

However, it seems that their good luck has run out tonight. They sat and waited for an hour or so without any rich guys taking the bait. Instead, someone they couldn't afford to offend came looking for them.

He stated frankly that the food stall was owned by his relative, and that either the two of them should go there tomorrow with cigarettes and alcohol to apologize and pay double the amount for skipping out on the bill, or they could decide for themselves.

So, with nowhere else to turn, Ma Er, along with a stick who looked completely bewildered and didn't know why he had come here, appeared at the entrance of Zhou's Lamb Soup.