【New Red Mansion】Perfect World

There are too many secrets in people's hearts, so the plot is hidden in the dark night;

Curious people should never ask questions to the bottom of things...

There are some secrets that he knows but pretends not to know!

There are some secrets that she thinks he knows, and he really knows them!

There are some secrets that I hope she will never know in her lifetime!

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Xue Wenke likes to drink tea at the first table near the bar in the teahouse. He usually carries a laptop and headphones around his neck, listening to music while writing music software programs, his own cup of fragrant cinnamon tea at hand.

This position is perfect. I can see Xing Xiuyan busy at the bar as soon as I look up. She seems to have lost some weight recently, probably because of her pregnancy. The child is competing with her for nutrition.

On the first day Xue Wenke learned that Xing Xiuyan was pregnant, he discussed with her that it would be better for her to rest at home and not go to work.

But Xing Xiuyan was reluctant to stay home, saying that pregnant women needed to exercise regularly to ease the strain of childbirth. Besides, they lived in the garden, only a hundred meters from the teahouse. It was like relaxing at home, and Su Miaoyu had hired two apprentices for her, so she didn't need to do any heavy work.

So, Xue Wenke moved his work to the store so that he could take care of his wife. The environment here was elegant and also suitable for his software research work.

Xue Wenke took off his rimless glasses from his nose, pinched the place where the glasses had pressed, and fell into memories.

Three years ago, he was brought to the capital by his aunt, Madam Xue. The first thing she did when he arrived was to arrange a blind date with the young lady of the Su family.

Mrs. Xue said it clearly: Xue Wenke's father and Su Miaoyu's father were childhood friends. They had talked about becoming in-laws before, but Su Miaoyu was still young at that time, and she was later taken to the capital. With the death of Su Miaoyu's parents, this matter was never mentioned again.

Mrs. Xue brought up the past because she was attracted by the Su family's influence. Old Master Su still held some power in Tianjin. So she pushed Xue Wenke into the marriage, even under the pretext of bringing him to the capital and offering to support his university education.

Xue Wenke was forced to visit Su Miaoyu's teahouse. Su Miaoyu was not there that day, and Xing Xiuyan received Xue Wenke throughout the whole process.

I still remember that day when it was drizzling, she was standing at the door with an oil-paper umbrella to welcome guests. She was tall and stood side by side with Xue Wenke, who was 1.8 meters tall, and she could hold the umbrella normally.

The two of them walked on the gravel road in the teahouse courtyard, as if they had entered a tunnel of time and space, and for a moment they didn't know what year it was...

Xue Wenke admitted that he fell in love with Xing Xiuyan at first sight. After seeing her, he fell in love with her and no one else could enter his heart.

So he didn't mention any blind dates, nor did he look for Su Miaoyu again. He just came to the teahouse often to find Xing Xiuyan. From then on, the teahouse had an old customer who loved to drink cinnamon tea. Until the teahouse moved into Guanyuan, Xue Wenke came here to rent it out. It was not until he moved into Guanyuan and often held activities in the garden that Xue Wenke confessed his love to Xing Xiuyan.

In Xue Wenke's eyes, Xing Xiuyan was like a sunflower, always facing the sun. She came to the capital alone, and although she had an aunt, Madam Xing, she only arranged a place for Xing Xiuyan to live, and she still had to share a room with Jia Yingchun.

In fact, Xing Xiuyan had already established herself in the capital with her own abilities. She had learned superb tea art and also learned how to treat people. Especially in terms of dealing with people, what Xue Wenke admired was that Xing Xiuyan also liked making friends. She made friends with sincerity and treated people with kindness.

This is different from the Xue family I have been exposed to since childhood. Most of the Xue family members are blood-sucking leeches. They do not create value themselves. They only follow the smell of interests and try to find shortcuts. They will do anything that is beneficial to them, even destroying the happiness of others. The whole family is sophisticated egoism.

Xing Xiuyan was different. She treated everyone equally, even entertaining members of the upper class with dignity and ease. That was why Su Miaoyu felt comfortable leaving the teahouse to her. Xing Xiuyan's demeanor revealed her well-educated family background, and no one dared to underestimate her.

Xue Wenke admired this point about her. The more he interacted with her, the more he saw her shining points, and the more he was influenced by her values. Gradually, Xue Wenke left the Xue family, worked part-time and rented a house to go to school. The two souls who struggled alone in a foreign land soon found resonance.

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From Xing Xiuyan's perspective, Xue Wenke was truly charming while working. Some people, just sitting there, could steal her attention, and he looked even more handsome when he sat so well, and when he worked so diligently.

Xing Xiuyan likes to sneak glances at him. Even though they're already legally married, her heart still races for him. Lately, probably because of her pregnancy and the effects of hormones, she often feels her face flush, her heart race, and she can't breathe. If this continues, she'll have to get oxygen...

Xing Xiuyan not only likes Xue Wenke's looks, but also his talent and even more so his whole person. However, Xing Xiuyan often feels inferior because she is an imperfect person.

She has been in a bad mood since she became deaf in her right ear and didn't dare tell anyone. She just wanted to work hard and buy a high-end hearing aid when she had enough money.

Who knew that God had played a big joke on her? Her boyfriend was actually a musician. Almost three-quarters of his world was music, but as his partner, how could she lose the hearing in one ear?

Xing Xiuyan would learn about music for him, helping him experiment with music apps and giving him feedback. She would also practice listening to his music with one ear, because he was the one who healed her imperfections and helped her overcome the difficult days after losing her hearing in her right ear.

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In fact, Xue Wenke knew about Xing Xiuyan's ear problem, because sometimes when he sat on her right while watching a movie, she could not hear what he said.

And every time she used headphones to listen to music, she only wore the left earbud. But Xue Wenke noticed that Xing Xiuyan was very concerned about this, even to the point of resisting talking about her ears. So Xue Wenke pretended not to know and was willing to accommodate her and cooperate with her.

He would turn all the audio to the left channel. He would sit on her left whenever they sat side by side. He would share every song he sang with her. He wouldn't tell her that his first visit to the teahouse was to inquire about his blind date. He also wouldn't tell her that in order to be with her, he disobeyed his aunt and almost broke up with the Xue family...

All of this will become a secret. He just wants to protect her for a lifetime, or even several lifetimes...