Gold Medal Sweetheart

Chapter 78 He Returns to China

After finishing her meal in a hurry, Tang Xin took advantage of everyone's lunch break and quietly returned to the office.

"Your business is settled." This was the first thing Tang Xin said when she called Yu Shan.

"I knew President Jin would give you face."

"Don't say that," Tang Xin strongly disagreed with Guan Yushan's conclusion. It was all due to her sacrifice. "Jin Taize isn't a sentimental person. His condition is that I be his female companion at a charity dinner next week."

"If you don't want to be his female companion, I won't go to the concert," Guan Yushan said caringly, "Actually, I don't really want to go, but I'm tempted by the possibility of close contact with the star."

"It's not that I don't want to be his female companion," Tang Xin said quietly. In fact, when Jin Taize mentioned this, her refusal was truly simply due to her fear of participating in such a high-end and luxurious occasion.

Tang Xin bit her lip, her worry evident. "I've never been to that kind of place before. With so many people around, I'd be nervous."

Guan Yushan smiled and said, "You weren't nervous when you were participating in an open class competition in front of so many leaders and teachers from all over the city. How could eating a meal be more stressful than that?"

Tang Xin followed the thought. Indeed, last year, when participating in the city-wide teaching skills competition, the city's teaching and research staff and teachers from various schools filled the tiered classrooms of the participating schools. From the front, it looked like a sea of black.

It's impossible to say she wasn't nervous; her heart was pounding. But as she stood on the podium and called out "Class," as usual, her lecture gradually became more engaging. She was so absorbed in the lesson, she forgot all about the other eyes watching her. She ultimately won third place in the city.

This time, no matter how difficult or stressful it is, it won't test her more than that competition. After all, it's not a competition, and there is no leader. What is she afraid of?

She straightened her back and said in a clear and firm voice, "Yes, what am I afraid of? It's just a party. Go, why not!" Her eyes were full of confidence.

Guan Yushan's nose felt sore. If she hadn't called, she would have hugged Tang Xin right now, "Tang Tang, it's so good to have you."

Tang Xin smiled, but immediately changed to her usual contemptuous tone, "Stop it, don't say such disgusting things." This is what best friends are like.

There was silence on the other end of the phone for a few seconds. Tang Xin thought Yushan was so moved that she couldn't speak. She was about to ask her with a smile, but Guan Yushan hesitated as if she had something to say but just didn't want to say it clearly.

She had actually been hesitating that morning about whether or not to tell Tang Xin what Hao Ting had told her. She had been struggling with the issue for the entire morning, but unexpectedly Tang Xin called her. Perhaps this was fate.

"What do you want to say?" Tang Xin heard Guan Yushan's emotions and asked with concern.

"Haoting's company recently contacted a new cooperative company and met with their president the other day. Do you know who founded this company?" Guan Yushan's eyes were full of hesitation. She didn't know whether what she said was right or wrong.

Yu Shan's words clearly implied that she should know this person. Tang Xin asked casually, "Who is it?"

"Cheng Ran." Guan Yushan said it carefully, waiting for Tang Xin's reaction, so that Tang Xin didn't speak for a long time. She regretted it so much that she wanted to slap herself in the mouth.

When Yu Shan said these two words, the faint smile on Tang Xin's face froze, and her body became stiff and unconscious.

Once upon a time, she called out his name tenderly every day, and every time she called it, it felt like sugar in her mouth. But later on, she dared not mention it, dared not hear it. To her, these two words became forbidden ground that no one else could tread, and were only left for her to lick her wounds alone in her dreams at midnight.

Now, it was like a sealed sword, pulled out from her carefully sealed heart. Although it had been there for years, it was still connected to the flesh, so it was also soaked with blood.

"Tangtang," Guan Yushan's voice sounded at the right time, interrupting Tang Xin's thoughts.

She turned her eyes away and looked out the window, trying hard to suppress the emotions surging in her heart. She didn't want to cry in front of others, not even Yu Shan. "Oh, really? He went back to China." She said it deliberately nonchalantly, as if this person was just an ordinary classmate of hers.

"He returned to China within the last two months and now runs an investment and financial management company," Guan Yushan said. "It's not a big company."

"Really?" Tang Xin's mind was frozen, her blood circulation stagnant. She mechanically replied, "That's good."

How come someone who hasn't been heard from for several years appears again?

"Are you okay?" Yu Shan could feel that Tang Xin was not in a good mood, but was she a little too calm?

She still remembered that night, the heavy rain, and she couldn't contact Tang Xin no matter what she did. Her phone was turned off. She dragged Hao Ting to every place she could go to look for her. She searched everywhere, feeling incredibly anxious, afraid something might have happened to Tang Xin. Her hurried footsteps splashed through the rain, soaking her long skirt. She kept thinking, Tang Tang, where are you?

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