CH 1.2

As soon as these words fell, everyone waited for Shen Zhiqian’s answer, so his silence made the originally lively atmosphere become suddenly stagnant.

Precisely at this moment, the song that had been playing on the TV  ended, and while switching to the next song, there was a short gap of silence in the middle.

This gap instantly made the silent atmosphere awkward.

Outside the door, Ning Qingqing’s breathing halted, and her heartbeat almost stilled due to the unexpected silence.

Until finally the man’s calm and indifferent voice was heard from inside: “We’ll see.”

At this moment, Ning Qingqing felt that all the senses she had lost just now suddenly returned. After more than 20 seconds of stillness, her heart burst out, loudly thudding in her chest, even her blood soared due to this force.

But she only felt one thing—

cold.

It was as if all the blood in her whole body froze at the answer  ‘we’ll see’; every inch of her where her blood flowed formed ice ridges.

Her limbs stiffened and she stood motionless in the doorway.

The conversation inside continued: “Brother Qian, why be in a hurry to get married, aren’t you only 26 this year? A man who gets married before the age of 30 is putting himself in his grave!”

“Hahaha, that’s true. Anyways, sister-in-law and Brother Qian have already been together for so long, don’t tell me one would still run off?”

“Whoever runs, it couldn’t be my sister-in-law, after all, it’s been so many years!”

“Now that I think of it, it’s almost been nine years? I remember that Brother Qian got together with sister-in-law not long after the first year of high school, right?”

“Damn, it seems so… but didn’t Brother Qian just break up with Si Luoqing then?”

“We still remember, at that time Brother Qian heard that Si Luoqing went abroad and before school started he went to find her.”

“Really? Brother Qian, you—”

Shen Zhiqian interrupted these people: “It’s been a while, I don’t remember.”

After speaking, he seemed to look down to check the time and wondered why Ning Qingqing still had not arrived yet, so he took out his phone and prepared to send a text to Ning Qingqing.

At this moment, another waiter passed by and saw Ning Qingqing standing at the doorway of the private room, thus he tried to speak to her.

Ning Qingqing suddenly reacted and shook her head at the other party. She took a deep breath and walked to the private room.

The moment she stepped in, a relaxed and bright smile had already appeared on her face as if the person whose blood froze just now was someone else.

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The conversation in the private room stilled for a moment because of her sudden arrival.

But quickly, Shen Zhiqian stood up.

He walked towards Ning Qingqing, took her hand, and sat down. Noticing that her fingers were a little cold, he couldn’t help but frown: “Why don’t you dress warmer?”

After speaking, he took the remote control and turned on the heating.

Ning Qingqing handed the medicine over to Shen Zhiqian: “Have you eaten, it’s best to not take medicine on an empty stomach.”

Shen Zhiqian smiled, at this moment his pair of beautiful eyes were filled with tenderness: “Yeah, I just ate a little.”

That’s just like him, he can look fierce and unruly when he isn’t smiling, but when he does smile, he can look sophisticated and refined. Ning Qingqing thought to herself, in the beginning, it was this pair of eyes that attracted her.

At that time, she had just transferred to school from another region, and she spoke with a heavy accent. It was Shen Zhiqian who gave her warmth first…

Ning Qingqing was in a slight trance when she suddenly felt a flow of heat. She couldn’t help but feel a bit vexed, why did her “big aunt”1 come a week earlier this time?