love me don't hide

Chapter 15 For him, love has only a shelf life of three months (2)
After she left, someone in the class applauded first, and then the whole class followed suit.Everyone looked at Li Hongye and Zhong Xiaoyu with admiration. So far, they have never seen Pei Xin swallow his anger like today.Pei Xin, who has the protection of the imperial city, always makes trouble unreasonably against those girls who have had contact with Qu Jingxuan, causing all the girls in the school to dare not speak out. Li Hongye's slap seemed to avenge the girls in the school. In an instant, she was almost a hero.

Until the class bell rang, everyone returned to their respective positions.

Jin Yasha rushed to look for Li Hongye immediately after class.

"Idol! Idol!" She flew up to Li Hongye, saw that her left cheek was a little red, and her finger marks were clear, and said in surprise, "Pei Xin hit him? Does it hurt?" She pouted and blew Blowing on her reddened area, "My mother said, it won't hurt after blowing on it."

Li Hongye felt a burst of warmth in her heart. Although Jin Yasha was usually like a noisy little sparrow, she was very sweet when she was gentle. Li Hongye didn't want to have any interaction with these strangers, but Jin Yasha still made a mistake. Bumped into her circle.In this school, apart from Zhong Xiaoyu, Jin Yasha is the best person to her.

"never mind."

"How can it be all right! Pei Xin's unruly willfulness is recognized by the whole school." Jin Yasha looked worried, "You let her lose face so much today, she will definitely look for opportunities to retaliate, you have to be careful."

"She is just relying on the background of the imperial city to run amok, and she is basically the same type of person as Chen Wenzheng." Zhong Xiaoyu said disdainfully.

The two people next to him raised their heads and looked at him suspiciously. Zhong Xiaoyu seemed to be a different person in the past few days.

"Don't worry Hongye, with me here, I will never let anyone bully you." Zhong Xiaoyu looked at Li Hongye as if asking for credit.

"What do you call me?" Li Hongye raised an eyebrow.

Zhong Xiaoyu was taken aback for a moment, pursed his lips with an awkward expression, and murmured: "Cousin."

Li Hongye gave him a warning look, signaling him not to forget this title next time.

Jin Yasha, whose eyes wandered between the two, looked meaningfully at Zhong Xiaoyu, who looked gloomy, and suddenly thought of something, so she leaned into Li Hongye's ear and said softly: "Idol, I think your cousin seems to be like you."

Li Hongye was stunned, and looked at Zhong Xiaoyu with an incredulous look, and then looked away: "Nonsense."

Zhong Xiaoyu was obviously displeased when he saw them whispering: "What are you talking about?"

"It's nothing." Li Hongye didn't continue this topic anymore.

Not long after, the class bell rang, and Jin Yasha left in a hurry after saying goodbye.

After school in the afternoon, Li Hongye met Shen Jiyang at the school gate.

His long body was leaning lazily on the side door of the car, as if he was waiting for someone.When he saw Li Hongye and Zhong Xiaoyu approaching, a smile immediately appeared on his face, and he gently reached out to greet them.

Seeing this, Zhong Xiaoyu curled his lips instinctively, and pulled Li Hongye to the other side.

But Shen Jiyang chased after him.

"Hongye, do you want to work at night? I'll take you there." Shen Jiyang smiled and said with sincerity.

"Thank you for your kindness. My parents have prepared dinner for us to go home to eat." Zhong Xiaoyu declined Shen Jiyang's invitation for Li Hongye. When he was speaking, he specially pulled her behind him and looked at Shen Jiyang with guarded eyes .

"Then I'll take you home." Even though Zhong Xiaoyu declined, he still didn't seem to give up.

When he said this, Zhong Xiaoyu didn't seem to know what excuse to use to refuse.It is obviously faster to go home by car than walking, and he has already taken a step back and said to send "you" instead of just sending Li Hongye alone.While hesitating, Li Hongye seemed to have made a decision.

"Then trouble you." After finishing speaking, she got into Shen Jiyang's car.

Due to the presence of Zhong Xiaoyu, the atmosphere in the entire carriage became a little weird.

For more than ten minutes, they didn't say a word.After getting off the car, Zhong Xiaoyu didn't even let Li Hongye say thank you, so he dragged her into the apartment building.

Sitting in the car, Shen Jiyang licked the corners of his lips with a half-smile.Although Li Hongye didn't say anything, he instinctively felt that Zhong Xiaoyu was hostile to him. He couldn't understand this kind of hostility very well. Every time he dated a girl, the person who liked that girl would look at him with this kind of eyes.It's just that he didn't expect that the "flower protector" beside Li Hongye would be Zhong Xiaoyu's cousin.

After finishing the drip in the hospital, Qu Jingxuan didn't go home immediately, but drove to the street outside Zhong's apartment.

Across the road, Qu Jingxuan silently looked at the apartment where Li Hongye lived.Before, he didn't know that she was staying at Zhong's house, and he was free in the hospital today, so he asked someone to inquire about her residence, and only then did he know that she was living under the fence now.I don't know what's wrong, but just after he came out of the hospital, he came here by a strange coincidence.

Looking at the apartment building where people occasionally come in and out, he was a little nervous, thinking that the next person to come out of the apartment might be her.

What should I do if I really meet her?

Did he say that he happened to be driving by, or did he just say that he came to find her?But if she asked why she was looking for her, how should she answer?

There seems to be nothing to talk about between them.

Thinking of this, he suddenly became a little tangled.

Every time they met, they seemed to quarrel, just like when she came to visit her in the hospital in the morning, she obviously wanted to have a good talk with her, but when she saw her, her words automatically became mean.

Will she be angry?What should he do if he is angry?Do you want to apologize?
Impossible, he is the president of the imperial city, how can he apologize to others for such a small matter?

Qu Jingxuan, who was sitting alone in the car, became more and more irritable as he thought about it.

Suddenly, he noticed that more and more people were entering and leaving the apartment, and they seemed to have noticed the black BMW parked by the side of the road.At first people just glanced casually, then started whispering.

Qu Jingxuan didn't like being treated as an object of discussion, so he simply started the car and left the apartment.

Li Hongye, who was having dinner in the living room, overheard a neighbor passing by the door mentioning a black BMW parked outside the apartment, and Qu Jingxuan's appearance immediately appeared in her mind. She remembered that his car was a black BMW.Then she put down her job, got up and went out.After running to the corridor, she subconsciously looked at the road outside the apartment, but where was the shadow of the black BMW?

Looking at the empty streets, she felt a little lost in her heart.

"What are you looking at?" Zhong Xiaoyu noticed her strange behavior and followed her.

"It's nothing."

She walked back to Zhong's house silently, feeling that her thoughts were a little ridiculous.

Even if there is a BMW outside the apartment, it doesn't necessarily belong to Qu Jingxuan. How could he come here to look for her?He should have finished his drip by now and went home.

She shook her head to get rid of the figure in her mind, and then picked up the dishes at a faster speed. After helping Mother Zhong wash the dishes, she still had to go to work.

Ten minutes later, she took a bus to Outer Ring Street.The lights on the side of the road were turned on one after another, illuminating the whole street very brightly.

Li Hongye walked into the "old place" as usual, when the wind chime rang when she pushed the door, she glanced at the wind chime unconsciously, and secretly lamented that the big boss of the "old place" was really ingenious, and the things he made were pretty good. Exquisite.

In the store, William was already busy, and the customers seemed to have arrived very early today.

Li Hongye changed her work clothes neatly. After being busy for a while, she walked into the bar to drink a glass of water when there were fewer people. She accidentally saw a photo of William and a girl on the shelf against the wall. The background was a beautiful building. cathedral.

"Is this girl your girlfriend?" She took the photo frame from the shelf and pointed to the girl next to William in the photo.

William also returned to the bar. Hearing her question, his eyes fell on the photo, and a happy smile appeared on his face: "Well, her name is Pei Jia."

Pei Jia...

Li Hongye's hand trembled, and the photo frame almost fell from his hand.

"What's wrong with you?" William noticed that her face suddenly became a little ugly.

"It's nothing, where is this church? It's so beautiful." She twitched the corners of her mouth stiffly.

"That's the Star Church in the southern outskirts of the city."

Li Hongye nodded silently, then quickly put the photo frame back to its original position.

It shouldn't be such a coincidence, right?William's girlfriend is called Pei Jia, isn't that the same name as Pei Xin's sister?Or, this Pei Jia is the Pei Jia that Qu Jingxuan has always been obsessed with?

Her thoughts suddenly became a little confused, so she repeatedly made mistakes at work, either delivering the wrong drink or reporting the wrong order, and she got off all night, causing complaints from customers.Thanks to William, the guests were appeased.

When work was over at night, William didn't blame her, but asked her what happened today with concern.Some time ago, he appreciated her work performance very much, and there was nothing wrong with her when she first came here today. Later, the problem seemed to start when she picked up the photo of him and Pei Jia.

"You are not in a good state today, can you tell me why?"

"Is the big boss you mentioned called Qu Jingxuan?" Li Hongye didn't know why she asked this question, but she just instinctively wanted to know the truth.

"You know him?" William paused before recovering, "Oh, I forgot, you are also from Tianxing College. But he never seems to mention the 'old place' to anyone, how do you know ?”

"It's really him..." She didn't expect that she would work in Qu Jingxuan's shop!A few days ago, she asked him to send her here. He should have known that she was working in the "old place", but he didn't mention a word. What does this mean?
Her mind was suddenly like a knotted hemp rope, and her thoughts were in a mess.

She threw down her apron in a hurry, and ran out of the "old place" without even getting her salary.

As soon as she went out, she was almost hit by a car, but fortunately the driver stepped on the brakes in time.

"Are you crazy? Don't you know that this is very dangerous?" Qu Jingxuan couldn't help being angry when he noticed that the panic-stricken person standing in front of his car was Li Hongye.

And she had already seen him, walked towards him quickly, opened the door of the passenger seat and sat in it.

"Drive." Her complexion was very bad, her breathing had not yet calmed down, and her voice seemed a little cold.

Qu Jingxuan was at a loss for her behavior, but because the car behind was honking wildly, he stepped on the accelerator and started the car.

After driving for a while, he subconsciously looked sideways at Li Hongye, his heartbeat couldn't help but a little abnormal, so he hastily withdrew his gaze.

"Where do you want me to drive you?"

Li Hongye was silent and did not answer the words. After a long time, she opened her mouth slowly.

"Why didn't you mention to me that you are the boss of 'Old Place'?" She asked coldly.

Qu Jingxuan slammed on the brakes: "You know?"

"Why did you hide it from me?" She couldn't help but said loudly, she really didn't like the feeling of being kept in the dark, especially being deceived by Qu Jingxuan.

"Hide it from you?" Qu Jingxuan felt baffled, "You didn't ask, do I have to tell you that I'm the boss there for no reason? I'm not an idiot, so there's nothing to say about it."

Li Hongye was slightly taken aback, as if what he said was right, there was really no need for him to explain anything to her.Every time the two of them met, unpleasant things would happen. If he suddenly told her that he was the boss of the "old place", maybe she would think that he was threatening her with her job.

All of a sudden, the two of them stopped talking again.

The atmosphere in the car is very strange.

I don't know how long it took before Qu Jingxuan turned his head slightly and looked at Li Hongye: "I heard that Ji Yang is chasing you."

The topic changed too quickly, didn't it?Li Hongye blinked in a daze, seemingly unable to react.

"You...do you like him too?" Qu Jingxuan knew it was abrupt for him to ask, but he really wanted to know what she was thinking.He realized that every time he faced Li Hongye, he didn't look like himself at all. When was he so unconfident?
"I..." What does he mean by this?Li Hongye felt like his brain was tied up, and he didn't know how to react at all.

"Don't like him!" Seeing that she couldn't answer, Qu Jingxuan raised his voice and said.

Li Hongye was suddenly startled by his suddenly raised voice, and stared at him in astonishment.

He seemed to have noticed his gaffe, and hurriedly calmed down: "For him, love has only a three-month shelf life. I'm afraid of you..."

"Oh..." She nodded silently.

Why was he so nervous about her?Could it be...

Li Hongye turned to look at Qu Jingxuan, and suddenly reached out to hold his face, so that his gaze could meet her own.

Qu Jingxuan didn't understand her intention at all, and his eyes widened slightly in surprise.

She took a deep breath and asked as if she had made up her mind: "You care so much about whether I like Shen Jiyang, is it because...you like me?"

Qu Jingxuan's heart skipped a beat as if he had been told what was on his mind. At this time, he should boldly admit that he has a crush on her, so that the relationship between them will not be so stiff, but once the words are spoken, they will be completely broken. Not as expected: "You think too much!"

Why do you say such unintentional things?He originally wanted to tell her that he was already looking into the matter of her cousin.Qu Jingxuan was extremely troubled in his heart.

"Really..." Li Hongye originally wanted to tease him in a joking way, but now she put herself in a dilemma, so she quickly let go of his face, "Then I didn't say anything, I I'm going home, bye." After she finished speaking, she hurriedly opened the door of the passenger seat and got out of the car in a hurry.

After getting off the car, she ran straight away, and didn't stop until she could no longer see Qu Jingxuan's black BMW. At this moment, her face was almost burning.What happened to her just now, to ask such a question, is her brain flooded?She patted her head in distress, is this still her?Since she was a child, when did she do such a shameful thing!She clearly knew what kind of personality Qu Jingxuan was, but she still asked such a stupid question, it was really embarrassing!
When he got home, Qu Jingxuan felt his mind was in a mess.

At this moment, his mind is full of Li Hongye's appearance, and he can't get rid of it.

Are those words she just asked a confession?Although it looked like a joke, if his answer just now was yes, would the result be completely different?
Her own answer seemed to make her very ashamed. The relationship between them had finally eased, why did it seem to be returning to the original point?

No, I have to find a chance to make amends.

But... in what way?

He was very troubled, he had never been entangled in the affairs of the two companies, why did he become at a loss when his partner was changed to Li Hongye?

(End of this chapter)