Trampled Pride

  As dinner was nearing its end, Qin Xiao received a phone call and apologized as he prepared to leave ahead of time.

  "I'll send you off." Bai Ze Hua left the chair, took his coat from Li Shu's hand, bid farewell to everyone, and went out with Qin Xiao.

  Bai Ze Hua took out the car from the garage. Qin Xiao stood outside the garage, with his arms crossed: "An Aston Martin Vanquish, you're being very low-key."

  He got off the car, and a gentleman opened the door for her, she sat in the front passenger seat.

  A series of actions done naturally, there is an idiom called "practice makes perfect".

  "Where are you going?"

  Jin Shi Hotel.

  After a brief conversation, the two people didn't say another word to each other for the rest of the way. The atmosphere was oppressively awkward, with both of them tacitly maintaining silence.

  It's not that there's nothing to say, but rather that there are too many words pent up in my chest, yet I don't know where to begin. It turns out that being speechless with each other is actually the best medicine for us.

  It's just fear after all. Afraid that the already battered heart will be stabbed again. But it doesn't matter anymore.

  When they arrived at their destination, Qin Xiao was reluctant to get off the bus.

  "Get off the bus, he's still waiting for you." Bai Ze Hua's heart ached.

  "Zhe Hua, let's start again." The faint voice made one wonder if it was just an auditory hallucination.

  "Xiao Xiao, it's been four years, you still owe me an explanation."

  "Zhe Hua, let's go back to how things were before, okay?... Please."

  "Xiao Xiao, have you forgotten what you said four years ago with your own mouth, 'It's impossible between us.' Where is your pride? Your ridiculous haughtiness? Qin Xiao, he doesn't want you anymore? Your sugar daddy doesn't want you anymore, so you're coming to find me again, right? Playing with my emotions, satisfying your self-esteem?" Bai Ze Hua was very agitated, his voice revealing suppressed anger as he glared at Qin Xiao.

  He knew Qin Xiao was always a proud and high-and-mighty queen. She would never ask for help, nor would she stoop to such levels.

  "Bai Ze Hua, you're overthinking. He's been good to me, can't be better. All along, you've just been a spare tire." She regained her haughty and cold tone, giving off an intense sense of detachment.

  Then Qin Xiao opened the car door and quickly left the scene that was about to ignite. 'Despicable retreat' - this was her own definition in her heart.

  "Damn it!" Bai Ze Hua punched the steering wheel. If the steering wheel could escape, it would never be used by him to vent his anger.

  He looked at her straight back in the snow, slightly thin but still elegant in high heels.

  He went to hold her tightly, but the anger burning in his heart suppressed this desire.

  That proud Qin Xiao, that strong-willed Qin Xiao, seems to have disappeared forever.

  "What have you been through these four years?" Bai Ze Hua looked at Qin Xiao's back, muttering to himself, "What did you do that night four years ago?"

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  Qin Xiao walked in the snowy ground, a tear slipped down her cheek, and then she couldn't stop anymore. Her low sobbing was just to suppress the big cry of sadness. She covered her mouth with one hand, the icy tears rolled on the scorching skin, extinguishing the burning heart.

  Suddenly she felt dizzy and fainted.

  Bai Ze Hua saw her fall and hastily opened the car door, wanting to rush out, but stopped in his tracks.

  He saw the man in a black woolen coat hastily running towards Qin Xiao and picking her up in his arms.

  A certain string in my heart had been tight all along, and it suddenly broke, and could never be connected again...

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  The digression of Fu Xiao Zhi

  Blah blah blah, the wine in the previous chapter was a dry white, that amber-colored one. Because there were mostly white meats at dinner and also seafood, I paired it with dry white. If you're interested, you can Baidu it (actually I don't really understand either). If there's anything wrong, please point it out!