love me don't hide

Chapter 11 If empathy is a sin, then what should happen to the subsequent love (2)
He put away his camera and took out his mobile phone from his pocket. When he saw the calling number clearly, he frowned suspiciously, but pressed the answer button without hesitation.

"What's the matter?" From the moment he picked up the phone, his attitude became extremely serious, completely different from his usual smiling face.

Jin Yasha told Li Hongye that although Shen Jiyang is still a student at school, he is also the general manager of a media subsidiary of the Shen family business. He usually has to take care of the company's affairs besides going to school.

"It seems that something must have happened to the company." Jin Yasha explained her guess about the content of the call with the appearance of "Shen Jiyang Encyclopedia".

"How could this be?" Shen Jiyang suddenly raised his voice, and his brows that were originally slightly frowned became even tighter, "You immediately withdraw all the problematic goods, and I will deal with the customer."

After hanging up the phone, he said apologetically to Li Hongye: "I have something to deal with and I have to go back immediately. Today's filming ends here. I'll call later and ask the driver to take you back."

"Senior Ji Yang, hurry up if you have something to do, don't worry about us, I still want to hang out with my idol for a while." Jin Yasha, who was usually a little nervous, became considerate at the critical moment.

Shen Jiyang still looked at Li Hongye worriedly, and felt a little relieved after getting her confirmation, so he hurried into the car after saying goodbye to them.

After watching him leave, Jin Yasha immediately returned to her normal state, and grabbed Li Hongye's arm: "Idol, let's go shopping!"

Although Li Hongye was not interested in shopping, she couldn't resist the energetic Jin Yasha, so they started shopping while chatting.

Jin Yasha seems to have endless things to say, and sometimes Li Hongye is really envious of her, at least her state will make people feel that she is not troubled.

They were tired from shopping, so they walked into a restaurant to rest and have a meal.

When taking the money, Li Hongye suddenly found the red bean bread in the backpack, which was bought on the road when she was rushing to work a few days ago, but she was too busy to eat it that day, and then she forgot it. overturned.But she obviously won't give up the special food in the west of the city just to eat a red bean bread.

"Idol, have you read the post on the campus network recently?" Jin Yasha seemed to suddenly think of something interesting, with a look of searching for resonance.

Li Hongye shook her head. In addition to her part-time job at night, she only had to study for homework, so she had no time to surf the Internet, let alone read posts on the campus network.

"Didn't you read it? That's a pity. Recently, a person named Ning Yuli has become super popular." She explained like a patient teacher, "She wrote a lot of stories, and the heroines are all based on you. The prototypes of the protagonists are all President Qu, and every story is super exciting. Recently, several female students in my class and I have been following her serial. The new story is called "Qing Yuan Cry", with ancient background, social The long character is the Young Master of the Demon Gate, and your character is a blind pharmacist... Since this author appeared after you transferred to another school, and you are the heroine of all the stories, many people guessed that you were Amuse yourself, but I believe it's not you!"

Li Hongye sighed helplessly, who is so boring to make up a story with her name.The most puzzling thing is why the author chose Qu Jingxuan as the leading actor?Is it purely because he is a celebrity in Tianxing, and using him as the leading actor can earn more hits?Li Hongye instinctively felt that what was behind this incident was not as simple as it appeared on the surface...

It was already evening when we left the old area and returned to Zhong's house. As soon as we entered the door, Li Hongye noticed a depressing atmosphere in the air. The three members of Zhong's family were sitting on the sofa in the living room, looking very unhappy. .

"Cousin, cousin, what happened?" Li Hongye walked into the living room and asked cautiously. Looking at their expressions, one could probably guess that something terrible must have happened.

Zhong's parents were silent at first, and after a long time, Zhong's father sighed: "I'm unemployed."

The printing factory where Zhong's father works belongs to a subsidiary of the Qu Group, and is responsible for printing and producing the group's internal circulation and external promotional materials.This time, a batch of posters were printed overnight on the weekend. Because of the wrong version, the entire batch of posters were invalidated. The department manager in charge of the final inspection shifted the responsibility to Father Zhong, who was printing the posters. As a result, Father Zhong was fired due to negligence.

Zhong Xiaoyu was extremely angry: "It is obvious that there was a problem during the final proofreading, but it was pushed to the typography department. It is really disgusting!"

"Can't you explain it to your superiors?" It's really unreasonable to be fired for being wronged like this, and Li Hongye also felt aggrieved by it.

"It's useless. The person in charge of the subsidiary is Qu Jingxuan. After he knew the relationship between Dad and you, he didn't listen to the explanation at all and upheld the original sentence. He clearly targeted our family on purpose!" Zhong Xiaoyu clenched his fists angrily. , There is no pain when the nails dig into the flesh.

Qu Jingxuan?Li Hongye frowned. When he sent her to work a few days ago, his attitude was obviously normal. Why did he attack the Zhong family in a blink of an eye?She can tolerate him targeting herself, but she cannot accept him hurting those around her.

Having lived in Zhong's house for so long, she knew that Father Zhong was a good and dedicated employee, but she never expected to be treated so unfairly!

"Give me the address of Qu Jingxuan's house, and I will go find him."

After getting the address, Li Hongye turned around and ran out...

After leaving the house, the first thing Li Hongye went to was the Qu family mansion.

Old Xu, the housekeeper of the Qu family, warmly entertained Li Hongye.But she was not in the mood to linger, and asked directly, "Is Qu Jingxuan at home?"

"Master left early, probably to the school library." Old Xu served Li Hongye a cup of high-quality English black tea, "Since I saw you at school last time, I came back and told the matter to Master and Ma'am, they all want to see you."

While speaking, Qu Haozhuo happened to be walking down the stairs. When his eyes touched Li Hongye, he was startled instinctively, but he quickly recovered his usual expression.

"You are Hongye?" From his voice, it could be heard that he was a little surprised at the moment. He walked up to her quickly, looked her up and down, and couldn't help laughing, "It's really similar, and Yu Ning is really too Like."

"What is so similar?" A female voice came to everyone's ears, and then a middle-aged lady with a graceful temperament walked down the stairs slowly. When she saw Li Hongye, she was also obviously stunned.

"Didn't I show you a picture of Yu Ning? Su Mei, this is Yu Ning's daughter, she is exactly the same as she was at that time." Qu Haozhuo said, gently reaching out to hold the young woman's hand, leading her to the own side.

Li Hongye stood silently in the hall, quietly watching the two people in front of her.Grandpa once said that Qu Haozhuo and Li Yuning were originally a couple, but after he broke the contract after getting engaged and married another woman, his mother sadly eloped with an unknown poor boy, and ended up with an unhappy death.

Before meeting Qu Haozhuo, Li Hongye didn't have a good impression of this person, and at the same time, she didn't feel disgusted, but seeing their loving appearance now, she couldn't help but feel sore in her heart.If Qu Haozhuo hadn't broken the contract and married the woman in front of him, his mother wouldn't have passed away so tragically, and she wouldn't have become an orphan without father or mother.

Qu Haozhuo seemed to see something in her gaze, so he dismissed his wife and Lao Xu, and met her alone in the study.

She stood in front of the desk, looking directly at him without hesitation.

"Your grandfather must have told you that when I broke the contract, your mother was heartbroken, so she just ran away with an unknown man." He said, his eyes were covered with a layer of mist, as if lost in memory, "But it's not."

"Then what is the truth?" Li Hongye asked coldly.

"Back then, your mother and I were engaged, but your grandfather insisted that I join Li's family. My parents were only my only child, so naturally they refused, so the marriage was put on hold. What I fought for was that your grandfather was too stubborn. Later, my parents arranged another marriage for me..." At this point, he stopped abruptly, glanced at Li Hongye inadvertently, and seeing that her expression was normal, he said sadly, "I know that falling in love with someone else is My fault, although your parents' death was not directly caused by me, but I am also partly responsible, so I want to make up for you. I thought about adopting you when I finished handling the funeral for your parents, but you rushed back to China after hearing the news Your grandfather resolutely refused and insisted on taking you to the United States to be raised..."

After saying these words, he narrowed his eyes and observed her quietly.

This so-called truth, in fact, Li Hongye has more or less guessed it.What she didn't expect was that Qu Haozhuo actually said that he would compensate her.If empathy is a sin, then what should happen to the subsequent love?In any case, her mother committed the same crime, and whether forced or voluntary, she ended up choosing someone else.

"So, you are the one who approved me to study in Tianxing without taking the exam?"

"Yes." Qu Haozhuo nodded.

When Li Hongye applied for the Tianxing exam, she was worried that filling in too much real information would attract her grandfather's attention, so she only handed in a nearly blank application form. She didn't have much hope at first, but she didn't expect to receive it the next day School admission notice.Later, when Qu Jingxuan revealed this matter, she was wondering who was helping her behind the scenes. Today, seeing Qu Haozhuo, this mystery was finally solved.

"Thank you." Even though Qu Jingxuan finally let her take the entrance exam again, she was still very grateful for Qu Haozhuo's secret help.

"Although I failed to become your adoptive father, in my heart, I have always regarded you as a relative. As long as you want, you can move to the Qu family at any time and let me take care of you."

Qu Haozhuo spoke very earnestly, and Li Hongye couldn't help but feel warm in her heart, but she didn't agree immediately, and she didn't even ask Qu Haozhuo to directly restore Father Zhong's position, because doing so would only make Father Zhong be said to be wronged after his reinstatement. Relying on relationships to keep their jobs.She wanted to use the fairest way to get Father Zhong back to the company, so she could only find Qu Jingxuan.

"Thank you very much for your kindness, but I need to think about these things. Now I have other things to do."

"It's okay, after you think it over, call me anytime." With that said, Qu Haozhuo handed her his business card.

"Ah."

After she left, Qu Haozhuo sighed deeply: "The truth? The truth... who can say clearly what is the truth?"

After Li Hongye left the Qu family's mansion, she went straight to the school library.

No one was found on the first floor, but when I came to the second floor of the library, I found that there was only one girl there.When Li Hongye saw her, half of her head was poking into the attic, calling Qu Jingxuan's name in a slightly delicate voice.But unfortunately, she didn't get any response, the space on the attic was almost clear at a glance, she obviously didn't find any trace of Qu Jingxuan.

She walked down from the attic feeling a little lost, her eyes just met Li Hongye.

"You..." When the girl looked at her, she showed a look of hard thinking, and after a while, she shouted suddenly, "Li Hongye!"

Li Hongye didn't know this girl, so when the other girl rushed up to her and asked her why she appeared here in an arrogant tone, Li Hongye didn't really want to answer.

"Did you hide brother Jingxuan?" The girl was angry, and her eyes were not friendly. She gave Li Hongye a bad feeling.

"During the time I was not in Tianxing, what method did you use to seduce him, so that he has been avoiding me now?" The girl said to herself, regardless of Li Hongye's expression.

Li Hongye thought that Qu Jingxuan's hiding was none of his business. The most direct reason could only be that he didn't want to see this girl.

Seeing that Li Hongye remained silent, the girl became a little anxious.

"Tell you, my name is Pei Xin. The entire Tianxing Academy knows that he belongs to me, so no matter what you do, you won't be able to take him away. I advise you to give up as soon as possible." Pei Xin said, On the one hand, he gestured excitedly with his hands.

Psychologically speaking, making certain gestures while speaking is the speaker's subconscious desire to enhance his momentum.

Seeing her talking to herself, Li Hongye wanted to laugh but held back.

"Hmph, even if you hide him, I know how to find him." She took out her phone and walked aside.

Li Hongye looked up at the attic and saw Qu Jingxuan hiding in the gap between two bookshelves.He also seemed to have noticed Li Hongye's existence at the same time, but at this moment he didn't have time to think about anything else, he hurriedly took out the phone from his pocket, and then frantically pressed a few buttons.Li Hongye guessed that he should have pressed the power off or mute button.

Looking at Pei Xin again, she was pacing left and right with her mobile phone, while Qu Jingxuan skillfully took advantage of her blind spot and quickly moved to corners that she couldn't notice.

Pei Xin's originally complacent expression gradually turned into disappointment as the notification tone that no one answered came from the phone again and again.She looked around among the bookshelves in the library for a while, and finally grumbled and complained: "I'm not at home or in the library, where did I go..."

Li Hongye subconsciously glanced at Qu Jingxuan in the corner, hesitating whether to tell Pei Xin.

At this moment Qu Jingxuan seemed to see through her mind, so he frowned and stared at her coldly, as if warning her not to talk too much.

He obviously wanted something from others, but he still had a haughty look on his face.Normally, she would have confessed him, but today she has something to ask him for, and she is not going to hand him over to Pei Xin before Father Zhong's matter has a reasonable explanation.

"Maybe he's already gone back." Li Hongye said, "You've been around here several times, and you've called, so you should be sure that he's not here."

Pei Xin glanced at her suspiciously, then nodded silently, as if agreeing with her statement.

"Huh? What's that?" Pei Xin suddenly shouted in surprise.

When Li Hongye heard the sound, she thought she had spotted Qu Jingxuan in the corner, so she hurriedly looked in the direction of her finger, but at this moment Pei Xin was already flying towards the door.

Nothing, she was lying to Li Hongye.

Li Hongye turned around in confusion, only to see Pei Xin who had rushed to the door and quickly closed the door of the library, then said proudly with her chin up: "Li Hongye, today I will teach you a little lesson. If you are caught I found you pestering brother Jingxuan, I will definitely not let you go!"

"Hey, you can't be..." Before she could say the three words of wanting to lock the door, she heard a "click".

The door is locked!
(End of this chapter)