Chapter 106: The Overheard Conversation

  Looking at the closed door, Bai Xueya took a deep breath and calmed her fluctuating emotions before gently knocking on the door.

  "Knock knock knock"

  The crisp knocking sound seemed to strike her body as well, producing a thrilling resonance.

  After a long time, a voice finally came from the office saying "Please come in".

  Bai Xue gently patted her chest with her hand, adjusted her breathing, and then pushed open the door and entered.

  The room was still quiet, with everyone lowering their heads and busy among the thick stacks of paper, without time to look up to see who had come.

  Her gaze swept slowly and steadily over the busy figures, circling the room once, but still couldn't find the person she wanted to see.

  "Excuse me..." Walking up to a busy staff member, Bai Xueya asked softly, "Isn't Yan Feng in the office?"

  "He just left with Jin Zaihan." The employee replied without looking up, while recording the data.

  "Oh...... thank you." Bai Xueya nodded and quietly retreated. When the door of the financial room was closed, her heart seemed to have suddenly fallen into the vast deep sea.

  It turns out... Yan Feng and Jin Ronghan went out together...

  She thought silently, her teeth involuntarily biting her lips. The words she had prepared suddenly slipped away from her mind, and even the courage she had gathered with great difficulty was now nowhere to be found.

  Forget it...

  Bai Xue sighed softly, walking slowly along the corridor. The first chapter of "The Starry Sky" was still unfolding outside the window, where the rain continued to fall tirelessly, casting a gray veil over the world that blurred her vision. She leaned against the windowpane, breathing gently onto the clear glass, tracing out a heart shape with her index fingers, and then lightly writing the character "Feng" on top of it.

  Perhaps her feelings will forever be buried deep in her heart?

  The corner of the stairs was empty and deserted at this time. Everyone was busy with their work, and no one would come here.

  She found a clean step, sat down against the wall, and silently hugged her knees in a daze. Even if Peter came over now and yelled at her, she just wanted to sit quietly without being disturbed.

  "Cough...cough..."

  It seemed that someone was standing at the staircase on the upper floor, a crisp female voice coughed twice, then softly said: "Xiao Feng, there are some things I'd like to talk to you about."

  It's Jin Han's voice!

  Bai Xueya was taken aback, looked up through the gap and saw exactly the black formal wear sleeve of Jin Zaihan. She was leaning on the handrail of the stairs upstairs, her shoulder-length hair tied into a straight ponytail, hanging down neatly.

  And opposite her, although she couldn't see that person's figure, Bai Xueya already knew who it was.

  She stood up in a panic, hesitating whether to leave or not. At this time, the voice of Jin Zaihan upstairs made Bai Xiaoya startled.

  "It's about you and Xiaoya."

  Bai Xueya's footsteps suddenly stopped, she opened her eyes wide, her body stood straight and stiff, the steps under her feet could no longer move half a step.

  "Me and Xiaoya?" Yan Feng seemed just as shocked as Bai Xiaoya, not understanding why Jin Ronghan suddenly mentioned the two of them.

  "What's wrong with us two?"

  It seems like he caught a cold, Jin Han covered his mouth and coughed twice before continuing to say: "Xiao Feng, you're an intelligent person, you should be able to see that Xiaoya likes you."

  After a moment of silence, Yan Feng seemed to smile silently, neither affirming nor denying.

  "Xiao Ya is a good girl," Jin Zai Han's voice was as gentle as water, with a sisterly caring tone. "I think... you two are quite suitable for each other. Moreover... Xiao Ya has done so much for you, and I'm sure you can feel it too. I think... you shouldn't hurt Xiao Ya's heart, okay?"

  The person opposite fell silent for a moment.

  Her hand on the armrest tightened slightly, Bai Xueya suppressed her whole body's trembling and stood stubbornly.

  These few seconds were like an eternity for her.

  Yan Feng Xue Chang... what will he say?

  She took a deep breath and lowered her eyelashes. In the quiet and empty staircase, there was no disturbing footsteps, no noise or discussion, only the heart in the chest cavity, "thumping, thumping", beating strongly.

  "I never liked her."

  A crisp and decisive voice.

  It doesn't seem like something Yan Feng would say, he's usually so gentle.

  But ——

  The tone of that voice was so familiar, she had heard it thousands and tens of thousands of times in her dreams. Even if the whole world fell into darkness, she could still distinguish that person's voice from a sea of noise.

  "I never liked her."

  The voice said so.

  Bai Xueya's body was as if it had been heavily struck, stiffening in place. Her trembling hands grasped the handrail tightly, the icy metal sensation transmitting through her skin, a cold and hard feeling... At this moment, her heart was also at an icy temperature, almost to the point of death...

  She had always thought that she was the invincible and supreme killer queen: Feng Pojiu.

  When she wears earthy clothes and walks among fashionable crowds with a plain face, she doesn't care about other people's gossip.

  When she sports an unflattering hairstyle and looks at the girls who come and go with their flowery branches, she also ignores other people's strange glances.

  When she spoke coarsely and swung her fists with a menacing air, she wouldn't mind other people's aversion to avoiding her.

  That's her - the real Bai Xueya.

  As long as you live happily and laugh with joy, life is full of sunshine.

  But ——

  She met him at this time.

  The boy who likes smiling and being gentle and considerate.

  His name is Yan Feng.

  He is polite, excellent, and dignified in his demeanor, with a handsome appearance like the sun god, and an enviable noble family background.

  He is like the sun, dazzling and eye-catching, illuminating this ordinary world, warming every soul.

  The girls one after another confessed their love to him, and he smiled at each of them, neither accepting nor rejecting.

  Because he was afraid of seeing others sad and crying.

  Because he will always put others first forever.

  Gradually, Bai Xueya was attracted to this gentle boy. She began to quietly pay attention to his news and liked to sneak a peek at him in the corner after school. When she saw many girls presenting their gifts one after another, she studied hard for ten days according to the menu and finally made a decent gift, and bravely presented it to him.

  He accepted it.

  She laughed happily and jumped joyfully, making crystal-like fairy tale dreams like other girls.

  This beautiful dream was shattered mercilessly like a bubble when she saw that ugly self of hers through the mirror.

  He is such a perfect prince.

  But she was an ugly duckling.

  She is not good enough for him.

  But it doesn't matter ——

  She is the all-powerful Bai Xiaya!

  For her loved one, she buys clothes, learns makeup, and changes her hairstyle, transforming from an ugly duckling to a stunning beauty that catches everyone's attention!

  When she thought she was beautiful enough, she found that there was someone else in his eyes. She still had never appeared in his line of sight...

  Memories flashed through her mind like a movie, and Bai Xueya struggled to hold herself up, not letting herself fall. She pressed hard on the painful spot on her forehead, her hands grasping tightly onto the cold handrail, trying to calm herself down. However, her heart was still weakly beating, her body still trembling nonstop...

  The conversation by her ear was still going on, but she could no longer hear anything...

  She bitterly twitched her lips, walked in a trance, and the corners of her eyes were moistened by the cold **, blurring her entire vision.

  "Dong" "Dong"——

  The footsteps seemed to have startled the two people upstairs. Hearing the approaching sound from upstairs, she panicked for a moment and quickly ran down the stairs...

  In the chaos, something seemed to have fallen from his chest and shattered into pieces, the peerless doctor.

  But...

  What's the big deal?

  Anyway, even my heart is already shattered...

  The night is falling.

  From the other side of the corridor came a string of footsteps in a hurry.

  At last, in front of a window, the figure stopped, bent over the windowsill and panted heavily for several breaths before calming down again.

  Half an hour has passed...

  Lu Haocen clenched his fists and looked out at the pitch-black window.

  Worried that Bai Xueya would be upset upon hearing the news about the hair clip, he ran around the entire company. However, from the office to the cafeteria and then to the finance department, he searched for a full half hour, panting with exhaustion, but still couldn't find any sign of Bai Xueya.

  This silly girl!

  His fist heavily hit the hard windowsill, and Lu Haochen let out a deep sigh. At this time, he could only hope that the girl would open up and not do anything out of line.

  He turned around and looked out the window. The night was dense, outside the car was galloping, the neon lights were just lit up in the city, washing away the fatigue of the day in the heavy rain.

  This window faces the direction of the city center, from here, you can see the distant mountains faintly visible. Under the dark night sky, the trees are swaying wildly in the wind and rain.

  A streak of lightning flashed across.

  Immediately afterwards, thunder boomed.

  "Damn it!"

  Lu Haocen lowered his head and looked at the watch on his wrist, it was already 8 o'clock sharp, and the overtime was about to end. He couldn't help but mutter anxiously twice.

  But when he lifted his head again, he suddenly saw something ——

  On the transparent glass window, a faint light flickered. He slightly tilted his head, at a certain angle, and finally saw the marks on it.

  It was a small heart shape, carefully carved out with fingers, and in the center of the heart shape, an upright "枫" character was written.

  Lu Haochen's eyes lit up as he looked around and found that the door at the stairs seemed to be half open, so he rushed over.

  Bang!

  The heavy iron gate was pushed open with a loud crash against the wall.

  He stopped, panting, and walked slowly, his eyes scanning the surroundings like a sword, but there was no one in sight at the empty staircase entrance, where dust was flying around.

  Fists slammed against the wall in annoyance, Lu Haochen sat slumped on the steps, rubbing his temples with a slight headache.

  As his gaze carelessly swept over the ground beneath him, his eyes suddenly froze.

  It was a blue plastic fragment. The dim light in the corridor shone on it, reflecting a faint yellow glow.

  He held his breath and picked it up gently. When he saw the texture of the fragment clearly, his hands couldn't help but clench tighter.

  It's a fragment of blue hair clip!