After Breaking Up With the Scheming Bad Woman 57

Chapter 57: Intimate and Inseparable.

The next morning, Huai Xing and Lu Xianyue arrived at Nancheng Airport.

The tide of the clothing expo had receded, and the airport was bustling with people. After passing through security, they went to the business lounge to sit down.

The carpet in the lounge was soft, and people walked without making a sound.

A fruit platter was placed in front of Huai Xing. She was flipping through the data report compiled by her subordinate, looking at it very seriously, and occasionally popping a blueberry into her mouth.

Lu Xianyue was eating dessert opposite her and replying to WeChat messages. After a while, she locked her phone, looking puffed up.

Huai Xing saw this out of the corner of her eye and, without even looking up, said, “Did you make Sister Shiwei angry again?”

“It’s not that she doesn’t have a lunch break. I asked her to pick me up at the airport, but she refused.”

“Young Lady Lu,” Huai Xing said, startled by her willful tone, and looked over. “Sister Shiwei is also very busy with work. It’s Monday today, not the weekend.”

Lu Xianyue poked the small cake and said very awkwardly, “But two hours is enough.”

“What did you say to her?”

“See for yourself.”

Huai Xing took the phone and looked at the chat history between Lu Xianyue and Wen Shiwei. She pressed the bridge of her nose and said with a headache, “Don’t you think you sound like you’re giving an order? What do you mean by ‘come pick me up’?”

“What’s the problem?”

“You just want to see her as soon as possible. You can just tell her that.”

“Who wants to?!” Lu Xianyue’s eyes widened, and she almost couldn’t hold the fork in her hand. “Don’t you go spreading rumors, okay? I just thought that when I see her, I can apologize to her. You know, I always accidentally make her angry…”

“…Where is the accident?”

“…”

The two of them stared at each other, silent.

It wasn’t until the lounge door opened that Lu Xianyue looked away and looked over.

It was similar to the situation at the seaside restaurant that night. The person who came in now was Chu Wantang, but she was no longer holding Su Qiao in her arms. Three days had passed, and she was no longer using her underarm crutches, but her walking posture was still a bit clumsy, with her main center of gravity on her uninjured left foot.

Chu Wantang also saw Lu Xianyue, and her gaze fell on Huai Xing’s back in the next moment.

She thought for a moment, just nodded to Lu Xianyue, and then found a seat near the door and sat down, ordering a cup of coffee from the staff to wait.

Lu Xianyue maintained her superficial attitude and also returned a nod.

She then looked at Huai Xing, who still knew nothing, thought for a moment, and gave up the idea of telling Huai Xing that Chu Wantang was also waiting for her flight here. She still remembered that Chu Wantang had once seemingly bullied Huai Xing.

Huai Xing continued to flip through the documents, completely unaware.

Time passed minute by minute. When the boarding announcement for the flight sounded in the lounge, she put away the documents and said to Lu Xianyue with a smile, “Then I’ll be going.”

“Wait, Xiao Xing. Has my sister sent you a message?” Lu Xianyue said, noticing Chu Wantang getting up, and deliberately delaying.

Could it be such a coincidence? Huai Xing and Chu Wantang were on the same flight?

Huai Xing opened her phone and glanced at it, shaking her head. “No.” She curved her eyes. “Let me reiterate, it’s Monday today, not the weekend. We’re all busy, Xianyue.”

Seeing Chu Wantang leave the lounge, Lu Xianyue nodded as if it were a serious matter. “You’re right.”

She then smiled. “Then remember to message me when you get to Jingcheng. I’ll be waiting for you to come back in Haicheng.”

“Mm, I know.”

Huai Xing’s schedule was tight. After the Nancheng clothing expo, she had to go to Jingcheng to discuss cooperation with the Junling Hotel. “Silk Season” didn’t have many employees, and she and Lu Xianyue would handle some projects themselves. And Lu Xianyue’s flight back to Haicheng was half an hour later.

After they finished speaking, Huai Xing took her bag and left the lounge, preparing to go to the boarding gate.

But as soon as she went out, she saw a not-so-natural back not far away. Her brows furrowed, and she followed in this direction unhurriedly.

The airport announcements were incessant, and the roar of the airplane engines outside the glass curtain wall penetrated the clouds.

Most of the people waiting for their flights outside were looking down at their phones. A few were propping their heads on their hands to catch up on sleep, looking very tired.

Before long, Huai Xing passed through the dedicated channel for business class.

In the polite and friendly voice of the flight attendant, she came into the cabin and, not at all surprised, saw Chu Wantang sitting in the window seat.

There were not many flights from Nancheng to Jingcheng, and the time of this one was just right.

Huai Xing was not very surprised. She sat down in another window seat, fastened her seatbelt, and looked down, looking at some related photos from this clothing expo.

They kept a distance of a few meters between them, separated by an aisle, not near, not far.

Chu Wantang’s hands were clasped in front of her, and the corners of her lips couldn’t be suppressed.

Fortunately, Su Cheng had persuaded her last night to wait until her injury was healed before going to Haicheng. Otherwise, at her current speed, Huai Xing would have had to come and accommodate her, which would not have been worth it.

Otherwise, she would have missed Huai Xing at the airport today.

She turned her head slightly, her gaze fixed on Huai Xing’s profile. Without Lu Xianyue at the side, she looked even more unrestrainedly.

Huai Xing’s profile had not changed much from before. It was still like a smooth sketch stroke, with slightly raised brow bones, a straight nose, and a soft lip line. The curve of her jawline was gentle.

Although five years had passed, there was still a girlish clarity, and a few more points of quiet and gentle tension.

“A new storm has appeared…”

The ringtone sounded, interrupting Chu Wantang’s wandering thoughts. She watched as Huai Xing put on her headphones to answer the phone, turned her head a little more, and replied to Lu Xianyue’s call.

Her lips were pressed together tightly, and she also looked out the window.

At this moment, the strange passenger next to her also took a seat, and someone also sat down in the seat next to Huai Xing, blocking her view.

Four people in a row, with an aisle in the middle.

Chu Wantang’s mood was gloomy. She should have known not to choose a window seat. And she couldn’t help but think of the day they had separated in Nancheng six years ago.

The weather that day was as good as today. At that time, she had already realized that Huai Xing’s mood was a little different from usual, but she had attributed it to Huai Xing having to be in a long-distance relationship with her for a week and didn’t think much of it.

The memories almost drowned her. When she turned her head again, she saw that Huai Xing had already put on an eye mask and was about to rest.

The corners of Chu Wantang’s lips curled up, and she also took out an eye mask from her bag and put it on.

Everything in the space was automatically blocked by her. It was as if there were only her and Huai Xing in her world. This was already a rare opportunity for her in these years.

Before long, the seat vibrated strongly, but it was no match for the violent beating of her heart.

…

Huai Xing fell asleep during the flight and only woke up when the broadcast announced that they were about to land in Jingcheng.

She took off her eye mask, first squinted her eyes to adjust to the light, and when she turned her head, she saw Chu Wantang in the window seat on the other side, looking at her.

Their gazes met in the air.

Huai Xing was stunned for a moment, then remembered that she was on the same flight as Chu Wantang.

She pretended not to see, called a flight attendant, asked for a bottle of mineral water, opened it to moisten her lips, and then looked at the time. It was estimated that they would land in Jingcheng in ten minutes.

In these ten minutes, she opened WeChat and, without an internet connection, scrolled through her chat history with her friends.

After landing, she would send a message to Tu Zhaoyu and Zhuo Xin. Less than seven months after she had settled in Haicheng, she had sent them a friend request with her current WeChat account, because she remembered Zhuo Xin’s due date.

Sure enough, just a few days after she had added them back as friends, Zhuo Xin had given birth to a daughter.

This circle of friends had also taken a group photo with the little baby at the confinement center and sent it to her. She had looked at the photo on her end of the phone, her eyes red.

In the past few years, she had also come to Jingcheng on business three or four times, and each time she would also meet with her friends.

Her friends had only mentioned Chu Wantang at the beginning, saying that Chu Wantang had contacted them once to ask about her whereabouts. After learning that her friends also had no contact information, she had never asked again.

Recalling these things, time seemed to pass much faster.

After turning off airplane mode, she first sent a message to Lu Xianyue, and then in her group chat with her friends, she said that she had come to Jingcheng on a business trip and asked when they had time to meet.

Her friends immediately exploded in the group chat, throwing out one question after another. She replied to them one by one and also basically set a meeting time.

The plane had already stopped steadily, and the cabin door had also opened.

The strange passenger beside her stood up, and she also unbuckled her seatbelt and picked up her bag.

“President Huai,” Chu Wantang’s voice sounded not far away.

Huai Xing did not pretend not to hear and moved her gaze over, nodding. “President Chu.” She asked in a business-like manner, “Is there anything?”

“Can you help me?” The passenger beside Chu Wantang had also left first. Her helpless appearance was very clear, and she said bitterly, “I thought I could walk without much impact in the morning, so I didn’t bring my underarm crutches. Now it seems to have gotten a little worse…”

Huai Xing’s tone was very calm. “Does helping you mean calling a staff member?”

“…It’s not necessary to trouble the staff.”

“So you can trouble me?”

A very simple rhetorical question, but the aggressiveness was not simple.

Chu Wantang stared at Huai Xing’s face, her breath catching.

She realized that in their current relationship, this was indeed a “trouble.”

“Then can I trouble President Huai?” Chu Wantang adjusted her emotions and pressed.

Huai Xing looked at her right foot in slippers, pondered for a few seconds, and her lips parted. “I’ll go and talk to the staff.”

“President Huai can just support me out. Thank you for your trouble.”

“No,” Huai Xing frowned. “You can’t walk now.”

Two minutes later, a staff member in uniform pushed a wheelchair into the cabin, and Huai Xing’s figure had disappeared, not following in.

Chu Wantang’s heart sank, and she couldn’t help but feel sad and upset.

Huai Xing didn’t even say a word of greeting.

That’s right. She had finally gotten rid of this trouble.

Her heart was soaked in bitterness. Chu Wantang was pushed out of the cabin by the staff.

The weather in Jingcheng was second to Nancheng, but the sun was also lazily shining on her, but she couldn’t feel a trace of warmth.

She pulled up her chat with Su Cheng and explained what had happened today.

From the joy of being on the same flight as Huai Xing to now, as if she had been thrown to the North Pole, it had only been a short two hours.

Su Cheng: [That’s so cool.]

Chu Wantang: […?]

Was this a matter of being cool?

Su Cheng immediately sent a voice message. It was Su Qiao’s soft voice. “Tangtang Mommy, Qiaoqiao will blow on it for you, and the pain will fly away! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!”

Chu Wantang suppressed the displeasure of being teased by her friend and replied cooperatively: [Thank you, Qiaoqiao. Mommy really doesn’t hurt anymore.]

After replying to the message, the wheelchair also happened to stop.

She looked up, confirming if they were almost at the baggage claim area, but what she saw was Huai Xing coming over with a set of green underarm crutches.

Huai Xing was wearing casual clothes, walking briskly, the ends of her hair swaying with her gait.

She came to Chu Wantang and said coldly, “You should be glad that Jingcheng Airport has a medical supply store.” She then gave the staff a gentle smile. “I’m sorry to have troubled you.”

The staff member waved her hand and quickly said that it was no trouble.

Huai Xing had already adjusted the height of the underarm crutches in the store. She then lowered her head and looked at the obviously stunned Chu Wantang, her crescent-moon-like brows lifting slightly. “Aren’t you getting up?”

The dimples on Chu Wantang’s lips reappeared. “Thank you, President Huai.”

With that, she stood up on one foot and took the underarm crutches.

The staff member pushed the wheelchair away from them. Huai Xing showed her Alipay QR code. “This pair of underarm crutches uses a special design and special materials. They’re more expensive at the airport. A single one is 699, and a pair is 1398.”

“…” Chu Wantang fell into silence.

“President Chu, you were the one who said, ‘Do not fail to transfer, no matter how small the amount’.”

Chu Wantang no longer knew what words to use to describe her current state of mind. She unlocked her Alipay, scanned the QR code, transferred the money, and then said, “Thank you, President Huai.”

Huai Xing looked at the accurate number and nodded lightly. “You’re welcome.”

With those three words, Huai Xing turned around and walked forward.

Chu Wantang followed behind Huai Xing. At this moment, she really wanted to curse, “Damn legs, walk faster.” But her speed was fixed, and she could only watch as the distance between her and Huai Xing grew wider and wider.

She put on her headphones again and called Su Cheng, walking forward with her underarm crutches.

Su Cheng was playing in the sand at the seaside with her daughter. Originally, the mother and daughter were also going back to Jingcheng today, but then she thought that there were not many opportunities to come to Nancheng, so she decided to take her daughter to play here for two more days and enjoy some pleasant mother-daughter time.

When she received the call, she had thought that Chu Wantang was going to settle the score with her for the teasing just now. Before she could speak, she heard Chu Wantang say, “She didn’t leave. She went to buy me a new pair of crutches.”

“She gave them to you? You didn’t spend any money?”

“…” There was nothing to talk about with this person.

“But it’s okay. Even if you spent money, Xingxing still cares about you a little…”

As they chatted, Chu Wantang finally arrived at the baggage claim area.

She went to look for Huai Xing’s figure again.

Huai Xing was indeed at the arrival gate, and the distance between them was not far—

But Huai Xing’s suitcase was taken by another woman with a natural smile.

Then, Huai Xing was hugged by the other person.

Intimate and inseparable.

The woman seemed to sense Chu Wantang’s gaze and looked over.

And raised an eyebrow at her.