Lu Mingfei, who had read Dragon Clan before Dragon Slaying

Chapter 1115 Changes over the years (two in one, please subscribe!!!)

The five-meter-long leather sofa imported from Italy stood in the middle of the large hall. Su Xiaoyan sat on one end of the sofa and Chu Tianjiao sat on the other end. Although they were only a few meters apart, they seemed as far apart as a galaxy.

The huge living room of nearly 100 square meters was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop. The only sound that could be heard was the ticking of the pure silver clock hands on the gray slate wall, like the sound of a broken spring. Every time it ticked, Chu Tianjiao's heart trembled violently.

There was not even the sound of cutting vegetables in the kitchen, and there was no sound of Lu Mingfei and others talking in the yard. It was not known whether this villa was too big, or those people deliberately slowed down to make room for Su Xiaoyan and Chu Tianjiao, as if they were the only two people left in the whole world.

"Well..." Chu Tianjiao said slowly, "The weather seems to be pretty good today, huh?"

Su Xiaoyan glanced at Chu Tianjiao and said calmly, "Do you really have to find something to say?"

“No… no.” Chu Tianjiao was choked. “Actually… there are still a lot of things I want to talk to you about, but I don’t know how to start… but you probably don’t want to listen, right?”

"If you don't tell me, how do I know if I want to hear it?" Su Xiaoyan rolled her eyes at Chu Tianjiao. "After all these years, do you still think you are the worm in my stomach? The tricks you used to deceive little girls back then are no longer effective."

"No... I didn't mean that." Chu Tianjiao felt a little guilty and lowered his head even lower. "I'm sorry, I'm really not trying to tease you... at least not now."

"Alright, alright, stop pretending to be pitiful in front of me." Su Xiaoyan waved her hands and curled her lips. "Just say whatever you want to say. No one is stopping you. If you don't say it now, my husband and son will be back later, and I won't bother to listen anymore."

"You...how have you been these years?" Chu Tianjiao almost blurted out.

It was an extremely clichéd sentence, so clichéd indeed that even the popular idol dramas nowadays don't use it... But Chu Tianjiao couldn't help but ask. He asked from the bottom of his heart. Even though he already knew from Chu Zihang and Lu Mingfei that Su Xiaoyan would not have had a bad life these years, he still couldn't help but ask.

"Is it good?" Su Xiaoyan looked at Chu Tianjiao strangely, "What can be wrong? Do I look like a bad person?"

According to the routine of cheesy idol dramas, at this time the heroine should stand up, point at the nose of the hero whom she meets again after a long absence, and say arrogantly: I don’t know how good my life is after leaving you. I married a considerate and lenient husband, I have endless living expenses and pocket money, and my son is handsome, sensible and caring. The only stain in my life is you. If you disappeared, let alone how good I would be, I would die without regrets.

But Su Xiaoyan didn't say so. Maybe when she was young, she had such a fierce character, but the erosion of time has washed away some of the dross of the once heartless woman... Today's Su Xiaoyan can't be said to be a virtuous housewife, but at least she is much more sensible than when she was young. Even when facing a man whom she once loved and hated, she can make a big fuss without having to say anything to vent her long-accumulated dissatisfaction.

"No... you look fine." Chu Tianjiao raised his head and looked around the huge living room and the expensive and stylish furniture arranged in an orderly manner. "Living in a big house, marrying a rich and generous husband. Although he is not handsome at all, he does not restrict your freedom at all. Your son is sensible and mature enough. There is a nanny at home to take care of you. From time to time, you can have a gathering with a group of sisters. This kind of carefree life is probably what every woman dreams of."

"Maybe." Su Xiaoyan said, resting her chin on her pretty elbow. "I don't know if I've ever thought about it this way, but at least when I was young, these were not what I wanted."

"What did you want at that time?" Chu Tianjiao asked curiously.

"I want a handsome, rich and interesting man to play with me." Su Xiaoyan looked at the gray wall and said calmly, "I was just a little girl at that time. What could a little girl want? A big villa? Endless money? A husband who is successful but not so controlling? Maybe, but a little girl will definitely be attracted by what is in front of her first. A humorous and handsome man pesters you every day. Which girl can refuse this?"

“I don’t deny that he’s handsome, interesting, and humorous, but rich?” Chu Tianjiao scratched the back of his head, “I don’t think I have anything to do with this word, right?”

Chu Tianjiao recalled that after being with Su Xiaoyan, they either lived in a cheap rental house or bought a small apartment of only a few dozen square meters. What he wore was merely clean and not even decent. Although Chu Tianjiao was a good driver, he had never owned a car of his own, at least not in front of Su Xiaoyan.

"Really? But I remember that when we first got together, you were quite willing to spend money on me." Su Xiaoyan said calmly, her beautiful eyes gleaming with memories. "I remember that when you came to see my performance for the second time, you gave me a pair of high heels inlaid with crystals and diamonds. Those shoes must have been quite expensive, right?"

"Is that true?" Chu Tianjiao obviously remembered it, but he pretended to be stupid and said, "It seems to be true, but how do you know it's expensive? Maybe it's just rhinestones? This kind of decoration can be found on many women's clothes."

"At first I thought they were just for decoration, until one of my colleagues saw the shoes. Her boyfriend is in the jewelry business in South Africa, and diamonds are nothing new to her." Su Xiaoyan said softly, "But she screamed when she saw the shoes for the first time. It was a reaction of shock. She held the shoes and observed them carefully for a long time, and finally told me that each diamond on them was more than one carat, and they were all top-notch in color, cut, and brightness. Each one alone is worth a lot of money, and adding them together is simply unimaginable."

Chu Tianjiao fell silent. It was not that he was recalling this incident. In fact, he remembered it when Su Xiaoyan just mentioned it.

He had indeed given Su Xiaoyan a pair of high heels. Not long after they met, Chu Tianjiao went to see a drama performed by Su Xiaoyan. He wrapped the colorful high heels in an exquisite gift box and placed it on Su Xiaoyan's dressing table backstage.

"You are the most beautiful person I have ever seen, with spotless feet, so you deserve the most beautiful shoes in the world."

This was the note Chu Tianjiao left in the gift box, without a signature.

But he had really put a lot of effort into that pair of shoes, and those diamonds were all his treasures, which was also one of Chu Tianjiao's hobbies. He was a casual gem collector, but ordinary gems were not to his liking. As for diamonds, he only collected those pure natural diamonds with perfect color and transparency, and then invited excellent craftsmen to cut and grind them into exactly the same shape... This was his collection for many years, but since he saw Su Xiaoyan for the first time, he found a fashion designer he was familiar with and inlaid almost all of his collections on a pair of crystal-like shoes. Although they were not necessarily the most expensive, they were definitely the most attentive and unique shoes in the world, more moving and more gorgeous than Cinderella's crystal shoes.

That was Chu Tianjiao's intention. For the girl he fell in love with at first sight, he never thought that Su Xiaoyan would be able to see how expensive the shoes were, because for him, the value of the shoes should not be measured by money, but by time. He gave his collection from the first half of his life to the girl he loved in the second half of his life.

"If you knew it then, why didn't you mention it?" After a long silence, Chu Tianjiao slowly spoke, "I have never been a rich man. Have you never wondered why I could give you such an expensive pair of shoes?"

When saying this, Chu Tianjiao couldn't help but look at Su Xiaoyan. He had the ability to see through people's minds, and he could easily tell whether a person was speaking the truth or not.

But this ability, surprisingly, failed to work on this woman.

"Why should I doubt this?" Su Xiaoyan said calmly, "Whether the shoes are expensive or cheap, they are given by you and I have no intention of selling them. Since I am not selling them, does it matter how much they are worth? No matter how you got them, they are mine once they are delivered to me, right? Why should I worry about the origin of my things?"

Chu Tianjiao opened his mouth but was speechless. This woman was like this when she was young. Although sometimes she was heartless and stubborn, most of the time her logic was so strong that it could leave people speechless.

"So you knew it at that time." Chu Tianjiao said in a low voice.

"When I was young, I was quite foolish in love, but I'm not really stupid. In fact, you gave me a lot of things. Although I don't know the specific price and I didn't ask anyone specifically, I know they should not be cheap." Su Xiaoyan said softly, "When I was young, I was pursued by many people and I received a lot of good things. I knew some of them were valuable at the time, and some of them I roughly knew their value when I looked back on them after I grew up. The cheapest thing you gave me should be the paper crane you folded by hand, and the most expensive necklace should be hard to estimate, right?"

Chu Tianjiao was stunned. It turned out that this woman was much smarter and more careful than he had imagined. She did not deliberately pay attention to or investigate these things, but she remembered them all... He thought he had hidden it perfectly, but when he looked back, he found so many loopholes.

He once naively thought that this woman was really stupid and knew nothing, but in fact, she already knew a lot of things, but just kept them in her heart and never mentioned them to him.

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"So have you ever thought that I might be a rich man, but I didn't leave anything for you and your son." Chu Tianjiao's voice became smaller and smaller, "No money, no car, no care, only a small house."

"I didn't think about whether you were rich or not, but I really hated you at that time." Su Xiaoyan paused, "Maybe I can't say I hated you, because I still liked you at that time, and I wondered why you disappeared so suddenly. I was itching to bite you every time I thought of you, especially when Chu Zihang was very stubborn as a child. I always wondered why this guy disappeared without saying a word, and why he left me such a mess. But then I figured it out. Maybe I forgot how I hated you at that time, because I met my current husband, and Chu Zihang became more and more sensible."

"That's when I realized that no one in this world can't live without another person." Su Xiaoyan whispered, "Time will dilute everything, including love. A person can have many necessities in his life, such as money, a house and friends, but you can't force someone to stay by your side forever."

If Chu Zihang and Lu Mingfei, even Lu Tianming were here, they would definitely be shocked. No one expected that Su Xiaoyan could express such emotion... This woman actually has such a profound understanding of life.

Probably no one in this world is completely ignorant. Even a woman who doesn't like to use her brain can learn profound philosophy from her past life.

Chu Tianjiao's lips trembled slightly, and he kept his head down. He wanted to speak many times, but he couldn't, because he knew that he no longer had the position to say those words.

He wanted to say, no, there really are people in this world who cannot live without another person, there really is eternal love in this world, there really are people in this world who are willing to be tied to death by another person... Su Xiaoyan's words sounded so ironic to him, every word of her denial was what he had always insisted on in his heart.

“Really…” Chu Tianjiao tried his best to keep his voice from shaking, “So you’ve grown up… So your thoughts have changed so much over the years…”

"What about you? What have you been doing these years?" Su Xiaoyan asked in a seemingly casual tone.

Chu Tianjiao's body trembled and he suddenly fell silent.

He hadn't thought that Su Xiaoyan would ask him this question, so he hadn't figured out how to answer it yet... Was he still telling lies like before? Would those lies still be enough to fool this woman? Chu Tianjiao didn't know, he just felt that telling those lies was very tiring.

"You don't have to say anything you don't want to say. I'm just asking casually." Su Xiaoyan's tone was light.

"These years... I went to a very far place." Chu Tianjiao spoke slowly.

"How far is it?" Su Xiaoyan asked, not sure if she was really interested in this topic or couldn't think of any other topics to talk about.

“It’s like… another world.” Chu Tianjiao took a deep breath. “Anyway, I’ve been living in a daze. I’ve forgotten a lot of things, but sometimes I see you, and sometimes I see my son.”

"See me?" Su Xiaoyan was stunned. She said with some doubt, "I haven't been away from home for many years. You mean you dreamed about it, right?"

"Maybe." Chu Tianjiao nodded gently, "Looking back, it really does seem like a dream."