After Breaking Up With the Scheming Bad Woman 80

Chapter 80: She Unexpectedly Had a Dream She Shouldn’t Have Had.

The orange-red charcoal fire leaped under the grid, and also jumped into Huai Xing’s black pupils.

She sat on the second floor of the barbecue restaurant, near the glass railing, watching the fat and lean pork belly on the grill curl into an alluring arc, her mind wandering a little.

She shouldn’t have been here, but perhaps the plum rain season had made her feel irritable, so she had chosen to come out for some fresh air.

Even though in the past, in such weather, she would not go out if she could.

The phone screen on the side lit up, and her eyelids trembled. She did not unlock it immediately.

Her gaze shifted, and she could accurately see the woman on the first floor, whose figure was superior, holding her phone with one hand, the screen paused on the chat box.

Waiting for her reply.

The waiter came over and reminded, “Hello, this pork belly is ready to eat. Do you need me to help you put it on a plate?”

“No need, thanks,” Huai Xing refused politely.

She had come alone today and had not ordered many dishes. After putting the pork belly on a plate, she went to grill other things. The grill sizzled when it touched the moisture. She unhurriedly ate a piece of lettuce-wrapped pork belly, then wiped her hands and took out her phone.

Chu Wantang had sent today’s water photo. As before, her slender fingers were holding a translucent glass, her lips were thin but curled up, a faint dimple on her lips, and her affectionate eyes were filled with an endless smile.

But this time, it was different. She was in the corner of the photo.

Chu Wantang still had the same three words: [Please check.]

Huai Xing half-lowered her eyes, looked at this face, and still replied with a “1.”

There was nothing more to say, and she would not go downstairs to sit with them.

Downstairs, Chu Wantang received the number as she had wished.

She did not look at the second floor, a dimple on her lips, looking very happy.

Wan Yi pressed down the brim of her baseball cap, her vision a little restricted, but seeing her like this, she felt strange. “You can’t even see her. What are you smiling about?”

She realized. “Oh… did Xingxing send you a message?”

“No,” Chu Wantang said, shaking her head and putting her phone aside.

She picked up a piece of perfectly grilled beef and said in a cheerful voice, “I’m just happy because I’m eating delicious food.”

“0 people believe you.”

“…” Chu Wantang did not argue with her. Her friend’s appearance and personality were inversely proportional.

“But this restaurant’s food is indeed not bad. It’s not in vain that you used it as an excuse.”

Chu Wantang’s voice held a smile. “Just eat, okay?”

The twilight climbed up the barbecue restaurant’s sign. There was still a small queue under the awning outside the restaurant, and the sound of chatting and calling numbers was incessant.

The raindrops were on the verge of falling from the tips of the leaves, and the neon lights of the whole street lit up, stretching the shadows of the pedestrians very long.

Huai Xing had a small appetite and did not eat much. Her speed today was a little slower than usual.

Before she finished, her special phone ringtone sounded, and some of the diners around her heard it and cast a two-second glance at her.

Huai Xing was already used to it. She answered the phone with a calm expression, her gaze falling on the first floor again.

She reached out her free hand and placed it on the glass railing, feeling the somewhat dry and hot air wrapped around her fingertips.

“Xianyue, what’s wrong?” she asked nonchalantly, watching as Chu Wantang clipped up her hair because she was eating barbecue, revealing her slender, fair neck.

Lu Xianyue asked, “Are you not at home?”

“No,” Huai Xing said, watching as Chu Wantang once again held up her water glass and took a selfie, not dodging.

And she accurately stared at Chu Wantang’s camera.

No one noticed that in this noisy barbecue restaurant, two women were silently looking at each other.

“What’s wrong?” Huai Xing parted her lips and asked.

Lu Xianyue: “…”

She hesitated for a few seconds before saying, “She went to work overtime. I’m afraid I’m too clingy. I want to distract myself a little.” She was in a relationship for the first time and couldn’t grasp the right degree. She lamented, “It’s so hard.”

“Why don’t you talk to Sister Shiwei? I think the point is not what you think, but what she thinks…”

“Have you ever thought of that person like this before?”

Lu Xianyue did not mention Chu Wantang’s name, but she couldn’t help but ask, and then she said, “It’s only been half a day since I’ve seen Wen Shiwei.”

Huai Xing looked at Chu Wantang’s figure. She saw someone trying to hit on Chu Wantang, but was rejected by her.

It was an expected action. She answered seriously, “I used to, but not anymore.”

“Of course, it’s all in the past! Why are you still thinking of her! You can’t think of her!”

“…” Huai Xing nonchalantly looked back at the grill in front of her, not hesitating at all. “You’re right.”

She didn’t want to continue this topic with Lu Xianyue and quickly said, “I’ll be back in a while.”

“Okay, I’ll wait for you to come back. I still want to ask about that… technique…”

After the call ended, Huai Xing stood up without hesitation.

Lu Xianyue’s words had woken her up. No matter what the weather was like today, she shouldn’t have come here alone.

The sound of the wooden stairs was a bit muffled, drowned out by the crisp sound of glasses clinking in the barbecue restaurant.

She came to the front desk to pay the bill, no longer looking in Chu Wantang’s direction, nor would she greet Chu Wantang. She strode out of the barbecue restaurant.

Wan Yi had just looked up and had seen someone who looked like Huai Xing.

She stared at Huai Xing’s figure until it disappeared, and then looked at her friend opposite her with great uncertainty. “Just now, was that person Xingxing?”

In the past five years, she and Su Cheng had mistaken people several times, and she couldn’t be sure at all at this moment, especially since she hadn’t seen Huai Xing many times.

Chu Wantang neither admitted nor denied, just said, “Hurry up and eat. I still have to catch a flight.”

“No…” Wan Yi was incredulous and wanted to ask what the meaning of what they were doing now was. In the end, she swallowed everything back.

Many times, there was no need to pursue the so-called meaning of doing things.

For the current Chu Wantang, shortening the range of breathing the same air as Huai Xing to the same barbecue restaurant was the greatest meaning.

But Chu Wantang’s heart still couldn’t help but sink.

She had heard the phone ringtone of Huai Xing and Lu Xianyue. It wasn’t loud, just enough for her to hear. In the short time she had looked at Huai Xing through her phone screen, Huai Xing had been on the phone with Lu Xianyue. It was unclear what they had talked about, but after she had hung up, Huai Xing had left.

She had left very decisively, without a trace of reluctance.

She turned her head to the side and only then looked directly at Huai Xing’s seat on the second floor.

As soon as the customer left, the waiter quickly came over to clear the table. Before long, two new customers came and sat down face to face, chatting and laughing.

Only the group photo she had taken on her phone proved that Huai Xing had been here tonight.

The liveliness of the restaurant became a blurry background sound. Chu Wantang picked up the room-temperature drink on the table. The temperature, which was not irritating to her throat, slid down her throat, but it could not suppress the churning sourness in her chest.

The steam from the grill seemed to have been sucked into her chest, scorching her and burning her.

She ate the food numbly, chewing repeatedly but tasting nothing. She had clearly thought that the food was delicious before Huai Xing had left.

Wan Yi swallowed a piece of grilled lotus root. She looked at Chu Wantang’s distraught appearance, and for a rare moment, she composed herself and called out softly, “Wantang.”

“Hmm?”

“What’s your relationship with little sister Xingxing now?”

“Friends,” Chu Wantang said, saying two words.

“But you’re not satisfied with this, right?”

“If it were you, would you be willing?”

“I wouldn’t be willing, but it’s not so bad either,” Wan Yi’s answer came quickly, and she said very cautiously, “I hurt her, and she can still be friends with me. This is already a gift to me.”

“It’s not that I don’t understand this.”

Chu Wantang took a deep breath. She was always prone to getting red-eyed over this matter and said, “But… I’m very greedy.”

“Your chip in the past was her love for you. Did you never think that one day she would not like you? How much of what you’re experiencing now compares to what she has endured?” Wan Yi had a lot of experience in relationships, and her words were also very cruel. “And, it’s been five years, Wantang.”

Chu Wantang’s hands were on her forehead, her head lowered, and her breathing was painful.

She didn’t want to hear anything, and she didn’t like to hear anything.

Wan Yi put a piece of lotus root on the plate in front of her, pondered for a while, and then said with a soft heart, “I’m not asking you to give up. You can do it.”

She then smiled. “Chengcheng and I are still waiting for you to treat us to that meal.”

Chu Wantang did not look up and ate the piece of lotus root that was cheering her on from this angle.

Just as she swallowed, the ringtone she had set for Huai Xing sounded. It was a violin piece that Huai Xing had once loved to play, graceful and melodious.

Afraid that Huai Xing would find the restaurant too noisy, she stood up and came to the tree outside, and swiped to answer.

The leaves could not bear the weight of the raindrops, and the accumulated raindrops fell on her face, looking like a teardrop at first glance.

She composed her nasal voice and asked, “What’s wrong?”

“When are you going back?” Huai Xing’s voice sounded without any fluctuation.

“I’m going to the airport after I finish eating.”

“Is Sister Wan Yi not going?”

“She’s still going to play in Haicheng for a few days,” Chu Wantang said. “The storm is over. She’s relaxing.”

A silence surrounded the two of them.

A dozen or so seconds later, Huai Xing spoke again. “It’s raining. It’s not easy to get a taxi.”

She then paused and stated the purpose of this call. “I’ve asked Uncle Tai to take you to the airport. I’ll send you his contact information on WeChat. President Chu can contact him anytime.”

The form of address “President Chu” meant their current identity and explained the reason for this call.

“Thanks,” Chu Wantang seemed to only be able to say these two words. She raised her hand and wiped the raindrops from her face.

Huai Xing: “You’re welcome.”

With that, the call was paused.

Chu Wantang stood in place, the cool evening breeze blowing on her. She gripped her phone tightly, as if she were frozen here.

…

At four in the morning, Huai Xing woke up with a scorching hot body.

She stared at the dark night, licked her dry lips, and just felt that the reaction her body was giving her was terrible. She would have to take another shower in a while.

Perhaps because she had chatted with Lu Xianyue about bed techniques at night, she had unexpectedly had a dream she shouldn’t have had—

In the dream, a soft light filled this bedroom of hers, and the fragrance of the scented candle from her memory was also floating.

She dreamed that she had brought Chu Wantang back from the barbecue restaurant, dreamed that Chu Wantang’s hands, which were holding a water glass, were touching her, dreamed that the smile on Chu Wantang’s lips had deepened a lot, and she had asked her if she had missed her in these years. She dreamed that Chu Wantang had tied up her hair to make it more convenient to sleep with her, just like before.

The light moan seemed to be echoing in her ear, making her ears hot.

Her throat rolled, and she blinked her moist long lashes, only feeling extremely thirsty.

She turned on the table lamp, turned over and got out of bed. She found it a little difficult to open the mineral water bottle. The most annoying thing was that it was useless to drink half a bottle of water. She still felt thirsty.

She casually took her phone. Huai Xing’s brows were faintly pressed down, and she irritably set Chu Wantang’s messages to do not disturb.

Before the old lady Lu’s birthday banquet, she would not reply or open them unless necessary.

She hoped that Chu Wantang could be a little more tactful and stay away from her spring dreams.