This is Zhou Shaoting's favorite dish. His life seems to be surrounded by fine clothes and fine food, but what he really likes and loves are still the simplest things. Moreover, he is a very long-term person, and all his preferences remain unchanged over the years. Perhaps, because of this, he also has an almost paranoid certainty about feelings.
The dishes were served on the table one by one, all home-cooked dishes, Zhou Shaoting's favorite, but he hadn't come back yet.
Xiao Shi kept glancing at the wall clock, feeling more and more uneasy each time. Seeing that it was getting late, Tao Yuru advised her to eat something first, but she just said, "I'm not hungry, wait a little longer, you can eat first."
Finally, Zhou Shaoting's call came. As soon as Xiaoshi answered it, he heard that familiar voice, which was deep and pleasant, but there was only a short sentence: "I'll go back after dinner, you can eat first."
After finishing speaking, he hung up, as if it was inconvenient to talk more.
Xiao Shi looked at the plate of bright tomato scrambled eggs, but her heart was gray, and her bad premonition became more and more certain.
When Zhou Shaoting made this call, he didn't intend for Sun Xiaonan to hear it, but he didn't deliberately avoid it either. He doesn't have the habit of sending text messages, and he can solve everything directly with a phone call, which is simple and clear.
Since he wanted to stay for dinner, he went to the porch to change his shoes. Aunt Liu had long placed his slippers neatly by the entrance carpet.
Zhou Shaoting supported the shoe cabinet with one hand, and made the call with the other.
Sun Xiaonan was sitting in the dining room, her eyes never leaving Zhou Shaoting's figure. She seemed to be used to following this man's every move secretly. When did it start? She couldn't tell herself. It seems that she has been like this since she was in high school, when she competed with Zhou Shaoting everywhere.
She clearly saw him make a phone call, and vaguely heard what he said. Although it was short, it was kind and gentle that she had never had before.
As soon as Zhou Shaoting turned around and walked over, she casually lowered her eyes again, as if she didn't see anything.
A table of sumptuous dishes. The cooking aunts here are professional, and their cooking skills are much better than Tao Yuru's. The dishes are also more delicate, with excellent color, fragrance and taste.
Sun Xiaonan's eyes gradually diverged from those dishes, and he suddenly felt that this situation seemed familiar¡ªlooking forward to sitting and eating with him in front of the delicious dishes cooked carefully.
And it's not late autumn outside, but it's midwinter, and large flakes of snow are falling from the sky, decorating the exotic Christmas Eve.
She will never forget that that night, the splendor and warmth she once had was like fireworks blooming in the night sky, which was extremely magnificent for a moment, but fell into dust in an instant.
Zhou Shaoting took off his windbreaker, put it on the back of the chair next to him, and sat down opposite Sun Xiaonan.
Sun Xiaonan raised his eyes slowly, and looked at the man across from him. He only added a cashmere vest over the white shirt, with a crisp neckline, elegant and neat, as always, low-key and restrained, yet sharp.
It really hasn't changed at all.
A gleam of coldness flashed across Sun Xiaonan's eyes, but it was replaced by a surprisingly calm. She rubbed her slender hands that were so pale and bloodless, and made a slightly innocent smile that didn't match her age, "There are so many delicious foods, shouldn't we drink something to cheer us up?"
Zhou Shaoting felt vaguely strange in his heart, feeling that her behavior was too abnormal, and there seemed to be a storm brewing in those harmless and cheerful eyes.
He held the thin stem of the goblet and twirled it, pushed the goblet to the side of the table, motioned for the aunt to take it, "I'll drive."
However, Sun Xiaonan's smile was wider and weirder, and he said with some persuasion: "I didn't say I want to drink, how about we drink tea?"
Zhou Shaoting's eyes suddenly turned cold.
However, Sun Xiaonan's smile deepened, his lips covered in crimson lipstick moved, and with an ambiguous breath, he uttered a word: "blueberry?"
Dark Night Blueberry Tea, a seemingly plain fruit tea, has actually been added with ashwagandha and Damiana, and has been blended with a special process. It has become a warm tea that can make people confused, especially After adding some proprietary medicines
Zhou Shaoting's forehead throbbed a little, his clenched teeth made the line of his jaw stiff and cold, and his eyes were sharp, shooting undisguised anger.
Since he entered this villa, he has been in good mood, stable and rational. Compared with Sun Xiaonan's resentment and impermanence, he seems detached and calm. But now, he has lost his composure.
Behind this woman's deliberate suggestion is the past that he can't bear to look back on. For him, it is nothing less than a great shame, and it can even be said to be a stain on life.
His pride and steadfastness, forbearance and self-control all the time were all captured by that?The dark purple, sweet and sour fruity tea melted into nothingness. For the first time in his life, he was at the mercy of others - a woman he didn't love, he felt out of control like never before, fell into the trap of that woman's love-hate entanglement, and was swallowed by her messy emotions.
"Sun Xiaonan, what do you want to do?" Zhou Shaoting's tone was gloomy, and his voice was a little hoarse.
Sun Xiaonan smiled nonchalantly, "Why are you looking at me like that?" She poked her forehead with her finger, as if she was thinking, and said suddenly, "Oh, look, I forgot, I also conceived a child for you. But later, there was no more. "
She spoke lightly, as if casually mentioning some innocuous experience.
Zhou Shaoting put his hand on the table slightly, clenched it into a fist, and was silent for a moment. When he raised his eyes again, there was no more emotion, "This is your own decision, and it is also your right."
It was not the first time Sun Xiaonan heard him say this sentence, but every time he heard it, it was like falling into an ice cave, the sharp pain in his heart turned into numbness, and then he felt suffocated.
She took a deep breath, her chest rose and fell exaggeratedly, and the hand under the table involuntarily covered her lower abdomen, which was flat and desolate, without any pulsation of life.
"I've seen it, the doctor said it might be a boy," she said with a smile, as if the child was still alive, "It's a naughty little thing, it made me dizzy, and I vomited when I ate it. It's been a month, and it's already formed"
"Is it interesting for you to say this?" Zhou Shaoting interrupted her with a frown.
Sun Xiaonan was still laughing, "Why, you can't listen anymore?"
Zhou Shaoting looked at her seriously, his facial muscles tensed, "You know best how this child came about and why it didn't exist."
Sun Xiaonan held back his smile, and refused to even blink his eyes, and his eye sockets gradually became moist, "Yes, I knocked him out. I don't want him to be born in an incomplete family. If he You know, when his mother was pregnant with him, his father's attitude, it should be very difficult to come to this world."
She tensed her chin, lowered her voice, and imitated Zhou Shaoting's way of speaking, "You can give birth, I don't mind." She glanced at the man opposite, with a mocking smile, "Right? You used this Words? Refer, meaning."
She continued to lower her voice, learning to be serious, "I don't mind raising him, and will keep his share of the inheritance, but my marriage with you will not continue."
Sun Xiaonan nodded appreciatively, "Well, the words should be correct. I have silently recited your words countless times in my heart."
At this point, her broken smile was finally torn, revealing the base of resentment, "Zhou Shaoting, you are more cold-blooded than I imagined, it was your indifference that killed him!"
She was very excited, but she didn't shed tears after all. Maybe it was because the deep-set eye sockets could bear insignificant tears, or maybe it was because the hardness of her heart was far greater than the fragility.
Zhou Shaoting was silent and indifferent, making one suspect that he was not listening at all. After a long time, he finally had a reaction, raised his eyebrows, and asked lightly: "Do you regret it?"
Sun Xiaonan didn't expect him to respond like this, so he easily turned the finger on himself. He was troubled for a while, but he couldn't hold back his aggressive aura anymore.
Because she did regret it.
The hand on the lower abdomen was clenched, and it was twisted into the palm of the hand together with the material of the clothes. She said the following words with some difficulty, "At that time, I thought it was just a newly formed embryo, but later, I found out that it was not. I'm blood, it's part of me. I take him away, it's like killing a part of me, I'm not whole anymore."
After such a long time, she was finally able to say these words frankly. This kind of thought has been buried in her heart for a long time. When she is in a trance on weekdays and when there is no one in the night, she will get out and eat her flesh and blood. Minor pain is everywhere, but no one can share it.
Now, it is a kind of relief for her to say it to the man she is the most distant from on the surface but wants to be close to the most in her heart.
Zhou Shaoting was also a little moved. He had never tried to understand the feelings of the woman in front of him, had no energy, no interest. But now, he seems to have suddenly glimpsed the weakest part of her heart. There is no armor and armor, no disguise, naked, with unhealed scars, which is shocking.
Perhaps, this is the common weakness of all women, even if they are as strong and powerful as Sun Xiaonan.
The young and immature lives are tied to the most secret and sacred parts of their bodies, connected to their innate instinctive emotions, and blended with their flesh and blood. Once they are stripped, they will inevitably be severely injured physically and mentally, and it will be difficult to recover for a long time.
Zhou Shaoting felt a little sad in his heart, for some reason, he thought of Xiao Shi. In this life, she can't be allowed to suffer like this, definitely not!
Sun Xiaonan saw the man's usually indifferent eyes showing a trace of pity almost, and thought he was doing it for her own sake, and a warm hope suddenly arose in his heart. She leaned forward, put her hands on the side of the table, looked at Zhou Shaoting fixedly and asked: "If I didn't take this child away, I would use him to save our marriage now, will youwill you give in?" (Note Website website: www.hlnovel.com)Reply.
Zhou Shaoting felt a little sad in his heart, for some reason, he thought of Xiao Shi. In this life, she can't be allowed to suffer like this, definitely not!
Sun Xiaonan saw the man's usually indifferent eyes showing a trace of pity almost, and thought he was doing it for her own sake, and a warm hope suddenly arose in his heart. She leaned forward, put her hands on the side of the table, looked at Zhou Shaoting fixedly and asked: "If I didn't take this child away, I would use him to save our marriage now, will youwill you give in?" (Note Website website: www.hlnovel.com