A heartbeat, a lifetime

Chapter 27 Who am I (3)
Before I picked it up, Mai Zhendong started scolding me: "Bai Xi, why did you do such a thing? I don't care what happened between Qin Mu and Shen Qinjuan, but why did you get involved?"

I was stunned and didn't speak for a while, but he only thought I was guilty, and said: "Yesterday at the engagement banquet, Qin Mou waited for two or three hours with all the guests, but he never showed up. Did he look for you? You have been together?"

I admit that I was stunned for a moment, things don't seem to be like this, after I got into a car accident, Shen Qinjun got the news from nowhere, and rushed over immediately... But he said, the engagement has been cancelled.

"Where are you now?" Seeing that I didn't respond, he asked, "Are you back?"

"Well, I'm going to the company to hold a topic selection meeting."

"Don't go back to the company!" He said sharply, "Several reporters already know your identity, is Shen Qinjun by your side?"

"Not here." I explained with some difficulty, "I didn't elope with him, and it has nothing to do with me that he and Qin Mou canceled their engagement, really."

"Anyway, don't go back to the company. I can't come out now because I have something to do. I'll find you in a while. Find a place to hide."

After hanging up the phone, I was still in a cloud of fog. I always felt that what he said was not true, but the reality couldn’t help me to speculate randomly. I clicked on the unread morning news text message, and the first article in the entertainment section was impressive: The fiancé suspected of running away with others, and Qin Mou's dream of marrying into a wealthy family was shattered.

I read it at a glance, and the whole report was full of sympathy and understanding for Qin Mou, pointing directly at Shen Qinjun's heartlessness, and in the end, someone who "knew the inside story" even broke the news that "the third party was when they took wedding photos for the two of them." Met the man", a staff member of a well-known magazine.

"Are you talking about me?" I stood at the door dumbfounded, not knowing where to go for a while, and then Shen Qinjuan called, "Bai Xi, don't go outside today, stay at home."

Oddly, I feel that our relationship has subtly changed again.As soon as he opened his mouth, I didn't know how to respond. After a long time, I heard his slightly anxious voice, "Are you okay?"

"Do you know that the whole world thinks I'm a third person between you?"

He and I were "together", I confessed to him, he gave up the engagement and ran to me...everything is true, but we are innocent, but only each other understands it.

The problem is, this fact looks like sophistry, but I have nothing to say and no explanation.

"You go home first, I'll come back after the meeting and explain to you. Don't answer calls from strangers." He said calmly, "Bai Xi, trust me, I won't hurt you."

Sure enough, text messages and calls kept coming in from unknown numbers. Without exception, they all called me "Miss Bai" and asked some questions related to the "elopement".

I sent a text message to the company to ask for leave, but I turned off the phone without waiting for a reply, and hurried back to the bachelor apartment by taxi.

Today's weather is not good, the whole city is foggy, not as bright and clear as before.I looked at the tall building not far away, and knew that he was there, only a few hundred meters away from me.But after last night, our identity relationship with each other seems to be more confusing.

The warm water in my hand had completely cooled down, and I finally heard the movement at the door.

Shen Qinjun opened the door and came in. Seeing that I was sitting upright, he was obviously relieved. He threw the suit jacket on the sofa, dragged a chair and sat down beside me, and tentatively asked, "Are you okay?"

"There are still many things I don't understand." I casually threw him the newspaper I bought at the newsstand downstairs, "How would the media know this?"

He took it in silence and flipped through it, rubbing between his brows wearily, "This is between me and her, I'm sorry to involve you in it. I will try my best to deal with it."

I think he really came here in a hurry. The continuous work and the sleepless night made the dark eye sockets appear darker. I sighed, and my expression softened a little. "You...can tell me?"

"It should be a press release from Qin Mou's PR team." He looked away and said slowly, "The cancellation of the engagement was too sudden, and she invited too many insiders, I didn't give them enough preparation for digestion The time...and it happened suddenly yesterday, I was in a hurry..." He looked at me unnaturally, and said lightly, "In short, there is indeed something wrong with me, they put pressure on me, I can understand .”

"As for your matter, I really didn't expect them to do this. Maybe they want to add some moral chips." Shen Qinjun pursed his lips, his eyes were very cold.

"She actually knows, um, there's nothing between us, right?" I stuttered a little. After last night, many things that confused me before have gradually become clear. The method of "hiring" a girlfriend to provoke Qin Mou and force her to return to him.

I saw his long eyelashes flutter slightly, and his voice was calm, "Yes. From the beginning to the end, my problems with her have nothing to do with others."

I looked at him fixedly, "So asking me to pretend to be my girlfriend is just an excuse."

"I just don't know how you're doing..." His pretty face suddenly felt a little embarrassed, "But it's too sudden to appear beside you, I'm afraid you will suspect..."

"My resume was once eliminated by personnel, and you let them hire me again?" I remembered the expression of the senior HR talking to me, and the twists and turns when I was admitted, and couldn't help smiling bitterly.

He didn't deny it, and said generously, "When you came for the interview, I happened to bump into you."

"Since I was a child, I have been supported by kind people...but they never revealed their identity. I thought that every child in Shenghai's orphanage was like this..."

His eyes were as tender as water dripping down, "I still keep the letters you sent."

Naturally, he obviously doesn't love me, but he is willing to meddle in my affairs, and he always says that he wants to "regulate" my life. These are all based on a brother's concern for his sister who has not been close to him for nearly 20 years.I appreciate his painstaking efforts.But deep down in my heart, after those fogs were stripped away, I felt a sense of loss.

That kind of loss is very complicated, so complicated that I dare not think deeply about it under the current relationship.I sat blankly, and heard him ask me in a calm voice: "Bai Xi, have you noticed? Some people are very strange. You have known him for a long time, but in the end, you find that you don't understand him at all."

But I didn't ask, I just said "um", "We've known each other for a long time, but we're still strangers... It's just because you don't want to bother to get to know that person..."

He raised his head suddenly, his eyes were unusually clear, perhaps mixed with a trace of scorching heat that I couldn't understand.After a long silence, he finally answered me: "It's also possible that that person is afraid to approach the person he wants to know."

"Then, why...why did you separate from Qin Mou?"

He grinned, stretched out his hand brightly, and stroked my hair, "Little girl, you don't understand."

I don't understand why, anyway, I have also had a crush, collapsed, and suffered.But if he doesn't want to say it, I can't help it.Besides, what I'm more worried about right now is another thing.

I glared at him, and said with a sad face: "I can't go to work now, the master told me not to go to the company recently."

I clearly saw that he suddenly restrained his smile, and asked in a deep voice, "Have you contacted Mai Zhendong today?"

"Yes." I suddenly remembered that Lao Mai said that he would look for me later, so I quickly turned on my phone, but before I pressed the power button, he snatched it away.

He laughed so hard that his flesh didn't move, but his eyes were gloomy, "Bai Xi, I told you not to contact him."

"Even if it's my brother, he still has no right to control who I contact with." I said calmly.

He was startled, probably wanting to get angry, but he held back and stood up while dragging my hand.

"What?"

He led me outside the door until the elevator landed in the underground parking lot. He finally said, "As your brother, I should give you a present."

(End of this chapter)