After Breaking Up With the Scheming Bad Woman 73

Chapter 73: Did You Lie Down More in the Past or…?

The car sped along the road, its body leaving an afterimage in the air.

After hearing Huai Xing’s words, Lu Xianyue was afraid of hearing even more explosive content and really didn’t dare to ask any more. She calmed down, her only thought to quickly get back to the apartment. It wouldn’t be too late to ask then.

Finally, after more than half an hour, the car stopped steadily in the familiar garage.

Only then did Lu Xianyue, as if she had just broken the Guinness World Record for holding her breath, gasp for air. As she unbuckled her seatbelt, she turned her head and stared at her friend, complaining, “Do you know how terrifying your answer was, Huai Xing?”

Huai Xing opened the car door, her feet touching the ground. “Isn’t this what you wanted to hear?” Before closing the car door, she made everything clear. “You didn’t have to agree to this dinner tonight, but you wanted to see what else would happen between her and me.”

“…” Being exposed by Huai Xing like this, Lu Xianyue guiltily rubbed her nose.

She walked around the front of the car and stood with Huai Xing, admitting very frankly, “Alright, I admit it’s true. Because I felt that it wasn’t that simple between you and her. I asked Wen Shiwei before, but she didn’t tell me.” She widened her eyes. “But what you just said is still so shocking.”

“It’s okay. We’re all adults.”

“No, the shocking part is not this, but you and her.” They had already reached the elevator entrance. Lu Xianyue watched as Huai Xing pressed the up button. “How did it start? She was your superior. Did she pursue you?”

The elevator doors opened. Huai Xing shook her head with no strength and stepped into the car. “My mother and her father almost remarried before, but later both parents died in a car accident. So I went to Jingcheng to find her and lived with her.”

“In what capacity?” Lu Xianyue also followed in.

“Sisters, family.”

“…And you ended up sleeping together?”

“Mm.”

Lu Xianyue looked at her friend’s calm face and didn’t know what else to ask for a moment. She still felt very shocked. She had originally thought that there was indeed a past between Huai Xing and Chu Wantang, but who would have thought it was such an unexpected past?

Fifteen seconds later, the elevator arrived at their floor.

Lu Xianyue had no plans to go back to her room, and Huai Xing also knew that tonight would not end so quickly. Soon, the apartment door opened, and the two of them came to Huai Xing’s home.

“Do you want a drink?” After changing her shoes, Lu Xianyue blinked. “If it’s just me asking, you answering, and me listening, it’s a bit too dry, like an interview.”

“…I have to work tomorrow.”

“It’s okay. A little drink is not getting drunk. And it’s not late yet. Let’s have a drink.”

Huai Xing thought for two seconds. “Mm.”

She still got flushed when she drank, but her body had a certain metabolic capacity to handle a limited amount of alcohol and acetaldehyde, so a small amount was no problem.

So Lu Xianyue went back to her place to get a few bottles of low-alcohol fruit wine. Neither of them had a good alcohol tolerance, so hard liquor was beyond their capacity.

Only a warm table lamp was on in the living room. They sat face to face on the soft blanket, separated by a coffee table.

After a bottle of wine, Huai Xing’s cheeks looked like a ripe peach, with a faint layer of light red. She propped her chin on one hand, her long lashes lowered, her gaze scattered on the empty wine bottle, and her other hand caressed the glass wall with her fingertips.

Lu Xianyue did not ask her, and she did not take the initiative to speak. The two of them maintained this tacit understanding and each drank another bottle.

As the night grew deeper, the drunkenness spread.

Lu Xianyue locked her screen and put down her phone. Huai Xing looked at her action, the end of her words lifting. “Are you done chatting with Sister Shiwei?”

“She went to take a shower.”

“Then does she know you’re drinking?”

“I didn’t say.”

Mentioning Wen Shiwei again, Lu Xianyue also propped her chin on her hand. “I always thought you were straight, although you’re not like me, who always says ‘I’m a straight woman’.” She looked at Huai Xing’s eyes and said very directly, “Because you don’t like Wen Shiwei. I thought, who in this world wouldn’t like her, besides a straight woman?”

“Then you, this ‘straight woman,’ don’t necessarily not like her,” Huai Xing’s tone was a little drawn out.

Lu Xianyue no longer insisted on her own rhetoric and smiled sheepishly. “I haven’t been for a long time.”

Huai Xing chuckled softly, poured herself another glass of wine, and raised it. “Cheers to our young lady Lu for no longer being stubborn.”

Lu Xianyue also curved her eyes.

The wine glasses clinked, and the sound was crisp. Huai Xing closed her eyes, tilted her head back, and took a big gulp. She heard Lu Xianyue analyze, “When we were in Nancheng before, you didn’t tell me everything. Was it because you didn’t expect to see each other so many times again? Now that the cooperation between the two companies is almost settled, there will be no shortage of interactions between you and Chu Wantang in the future. In the long run, I will definitely find more clues.”

“Yes. You’re one of my most important friends. I was afraid that you would feel that you knew too late and would think that I didn’t consider you a friend,” Huai Xing said, lying on the coffee table and turning her head to look at the dark night outside the window, her voice light. “Sometimes… I don’t know how to tell you.”

“I wouldn’t think that, Xiao Xing.”

Lu Xianyue reached out and stroked her head, her tone very soft. “I don’t know what happened between you two in the past, but I believe it’s not your problem. I’m a very protective person. I’m unconditionally on your side.” She paused for a few seconds before slowly continuing, “Actually, sometimes I feel that there’s always a river between you and me. Or rather, there’s a river between you and everyone. It’s like this with Wen Shiwei, and it’s also like this with Auntie, and it’s also like this with my sister… It’s only now that I feel that I’m a little closer to you. Classmate Xiao Xing, please continue to maintain this.”

Perhaps it was the effect of the alcohol, but tears welled up in Huai Xing’s eyes. She said in a warm voice, “I’m sorry…”

She had indeed not lost the mood to sprout, but she had not expected that her past relationship with Chu Wantang would always block her sunlight.

Perhaps the snow that had fallen in her heart back then was too heavy. She seemed to have become a specimen frozen in a glacier, and no matter how much the scorching sun roasted her, it could not melt the ice shell in her heart.

In these five years, she had worked hard to grow upwards, and she had come into contact with more and more people, and there were many who liked her, not lacking in outstanding, interesting, and good-looking ones. But when those hinting or explicit gazes fell on her, her heartbeat was as steady as an ancient clock of unknown age.

She understood. She understood that her once passionately beating heart had long since quietly stopped on many unknown nights.

It had gradually rusted, become mottled, and covered with a thick layer of dust.

And now, Chu Wantang’s appearance had turned into a gentle breeze, blowing on these dusts, making them float in the air, revealing the already deep rust inside.

Huai Xing slowly closed her eyes, her chest heavy.

When she had heard the nurse say that Chu Wantang’s foot was inconvenient to land on in Nancheng, she had called Lu Xianyue to ask her friend to ask the hospital if they sold crutches. When she had subconsciously caught Chu Wantang’s tear that night in Jingcheng, she had been surprised that this tear was actually for her, and she had felt the real temperature on it. When she had watched Chu Wantang agree to her unreasonable request and masturbate in front of her at the hotel, she had not felt a trace of excitement, only feeling restless.

Also, a few nights ago, when she had heard Chu Wantang say on the phone not to be afraid of the thunder, she had been instantly pulled back to many nights in the past.

She had not explained that she was not afraid of thunder.

Also, on the night she had rushed to Ningxi Road and seen the shrinking Chu Wantang on the side of the road like a small mushroom, and had heard Chu Wantang ask her why she had rushed over.

She had not revealed her real worry.

Also, she had never heard the owner of the barbecue restaurant say that there was a pharmacy here. The point of her anger was also that Chu Wantang did not cherish her own body.

She had not told the pale patient.

And it was far from just these. But why, why was her attention still on Chu Wantang when she was facing her?

Recalling these things made her heart feel unbearable.

Her breathing was inevitably heavy, and she insisted on not letting her tears fall.

Lu Xianyue’s voice pulled her wandering thoughts back. “Don’t apologize to me. You’re not wrong. You should say ‘I’ll keep working hard’.”

“I’ll keep working hard.” To eliminate the weight of those six years of Chu Wantang in her life. The rest of her life was still so long. She had plenty of time.

“That’s more like it,” Lu Xianyue said, looking at the top of her head and clearing her throat. “But, I have a question, Xiao Xing.”

“Hmm?”

“It’s just… uh… that… are there any techniques?”

Huai Xing was stunned for a moment, looked at her, and pretended not to know, asking back, “‘That’ what?”

“…Haha, nothing,” Lu Xianyue said, quickly picking up her wine glass. Although she didn’t get flushed when she drank, her face was now red, and she didn’t dare to look at her friend’s eyes. She picked up the wine bottle on the table and looked at the ingredients on it under the light.

She looked very busy.

Huai Xing downed the wine in her glass and continued this topic. “It’s better to explore the techniques through practice.”

Lu Xianyue glanced at her, still pretending. “I don’t understand what you’re talking about at all.”

“Tsk.”

“Did you lie down more in the past or…?”

Huai Xing propped herself up and did not answer. “Don’t ask.” She then lowered her eyes and looked at her friend. “By the way, you can pretend you don’t know about these things.”

“I will. You and she are already in the past. We are people who look forward.”

“Mm, I’m going to make some honey water.”

At around eleven at night, Huai Xing took a shower and lay down in bed.

She still had a hint of peach wine on her, and her head was still a little dizzy. She rested her head on the pillow and closed her eyes, but she was not sleepy at all.

After a long while, she turned off the table lamp and took out a wet wipe from the drawer.

Before long, a relatively rapid breathing sounded in the dark night, creating ripples in the air. The temperature under the covers suddenly rose, and the voice that was suppressed in her throat was extremely low, but a little still leaked out.

The woman on the bed’s throat was constantly swallowing, and her heartbeat could not return to a normal frequency. Her eyes were wet, and a thin layer of sweat broke out on her body.

And her fingertips were filled with a thick, moist heat.

—

Chu Wantang and the others’ flight back to Jingcheng was at eleven-thirty in the morning.

Haicheng Airport was not far from the hotel they were staying at, but the person who took the four “Lan Ling” people to the airport was not Team Lead Li, but Ding Rong.

Seeing Ding Rong, Chu Wantang was stunned for a moment, then smiled. “Assistant Ding.”

“President Chu, Team Lead Li had something to do at the last minute, so I’m here for the easy job of driving,” Ding Rong also smiled and said very politely.

Chu Wantang nodded. “Thank you for your trouble.”

After getting in the car, Ding Rong fastened her seatbelt and asked with concern, “Is President Chu’s cramps better?”

“It’s much better after taking the medicine.”

“That’s good.”

The car slowly got on the road, and the three team members in the back seat also joined the chat, talking about their gains from this trip to Haicheng.

Time slipped by unconsciously in the conversation, and the journey was gradually halfway.

Chu Wantang was looking at her phone in the passenger seat. She opened her chat with lucky, her fingertips hovering over the screen.

Last night, she shouldn’t have not looked at Huai Xing in the end. Because she didn’t know when they would meet again. Did she have any chips to be angry with Huai Xing now? If she could go back to last night, she would definitely have continued to pretend to be fine and chat with Huai Xing after she returned to the barbecue restaurant, instead of feeling wronged on her own.

Huai Xing’s attitude towards her was very good. She should be content.

She flipped through their few conversations over and over again, memorizing them.

When the car passed a street, she pressed her lips together tightly, her breathing light. She still couldn’t help but transfer the money for the medicine from last night to Huai Xing.

She added a note: [Do not fail to transfer, no matter how small the amount.]

[Please accept it, President Huai.]

A few seconds later, the two-digit transfer was really accepted.

This made Chu Wantang a little surprised. She had thought that Huai Xing was in a meeting now and didn’t have time to look at her phone.

But looking at the words “received,” Chu Wantang couldn’t help but laugh. Thinking of Huai Xing’s attitude last night, her smile froze again.

She hesitated for a short while and then sent another picture.

It was a glass of warm water that had been served with breakfast at the hotel in the morning. She blinked nervously and typed: [Warm.]

And she promised: [I won’t deliberately drink iced coffee in the future.]

She stared at the screen, but the person on the other end did not reply.

“President Chu,” Ding Rong in the driver’s seat called her at this moment, looking as if she were chatting. “Do you have any plans for the Dragon Boat Festival?”

Chu Wantang turned her head to the side, thought for a moment, and said, “I don’t have any plans.”

She asked back, “Does Assistant Ding have any arrangements?”

Ding Rong remembered her boss’s reminder and cleared her throat. “It’s good to have a holiday. I don’t have to be with my superior. I’m going to travel to a neighboring city. My superior is going back to Yuncheng.”

An employee sitting in the back deeply agreed. “It’s really great not to be with your superior!”

Ding Rong laughed. “Wait, President Chu is still in the passenger seat.”

The sun on her body was warm. Chu Wantang lowered her eyelids slightly, and the two words “Yuncheng” hit her heart.

Her phone screen also happened to light up.

Huai Xing: [You’re short on the money. You’re still short by two yuan.]