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Wu Xia stayed in "Night" longer than he expected.

He drank that glass of special tune very slowly, he didn't hold much alcohol, he was really in a hurry, maybe he was going to lie down there.

During this period, a very gentle-looking man came to strike up a conversation with him.

Wu Xia didn't hear what he was saying at first, and frowned slightly, with a blank expression on his face.

The man moved closer and said in a low voice, "Do you like strong drinks? I invite you."

Wu Xia looked at him with a daze on his face, as if the other party's words made him feel puzzled and confused.

The man smiled slightly, and moved forward again.At this time, laughter came from the direction of the boxes on the second floor. Wu Xia turned his head and took a look when he heard the sound, and saw that the guests in one of the boxes seemed to be drinking high, and men and women were laughing and playing.

Wu Xia turned her head and lowered her gaze to the bottomed wine glass in front of her.

The man approached: "how is it?"

Wu Xia grabbed the cigarette on the bar, jumped off the high stool while pushing the man away, and said coldly, "Go away."

When his expression cooled down, he no longer looked like an easy target. When the man was pushed away, his expression was a little ugly, but he looked at Wu Xia, and didn't follow him again.

Wu Xia walked out of the bar with a cigarette in her pocket.

When he came outside the door of "Night Color", Wu Xia stopped, touched another cigarette and lit it.

While smoking a cigarette, he looked at the other side of the long street, as if he was quietly waiting for a bus.

Just now, when he looked back at the box on the second floor, he remembered that he saw Qiao Ruige there a few months ago. Qiao Ruige was surrounded by a group of men and women, and he just broke in, in front of those people. Kissed Qiao Ruige.

At that time, he was really fearless, unrestrained, and extremely chic.

Looking back now, it seems like a dream.

When a cigarette was almost finished, a taxi came in at the corner of the street, the red light of "empty car" on the front of the car was on, and Wu Xia beckoned.

When we got into the car, the driver asked, "Where are you going?"

Wu Xia tightened her coat and said, "Green Bay Garden."

He still lived in Qiao Ruige's apartment. After Qiao Ruige didn't come back, he thought about whether he would continue to live there.

In the beginning, I lived in that apartment because there was a problem with the plumbing in the old rented house. Qiao Ruige let him borrow the house. Later, the reason for continuing to live was to take care of the injured Qiao Ruige, and then the landlord who rented the apartment Sold the house, and later...

Occasionally, a thought flashed through Wu Xia's mind these days. He was wondering, could Qiao Ruige be waiting for him to move away?

It's not impossible.

Just like some people, who are tired of their old lovers but refuse to speak out clearly, or don’t want to make the breakup scene too ugly, so they deal with it coldly, quietly distance themselves, and avoid seeing them, in order to let the old lovers understand themselves disappear.

Wu Xia saved some money, although it is far from enough to pay off the debt owed to Qiao Ruige, but it is not impossible to find another house to move out.

But he was not reconciled, he didn't want to go so carelessly.

If you want to kill or cut, you must die to understand.

And he didn't believe that Qiao Ruige would be someone who would hide from him because he was afraid of breaking up.

The only thing that made him feel guilty and uneasy was whether or not it was a "breakup" between them.

After all, I never even said "like".

Recently, Wu Xia has been paying close attention to the local news, buying three newspapers a day, watching TV news every night, checking hot topics online when he has free time, gossip about financial life, and no news of any kind is missed.

However, there is no news about Qiao Ruige or the Qiao Group.

Wu Xia later slowly recalled what made him feel wrong when he saw the news of Qiao Ruige beating someone on TV.

In the video uploaded by netizens that he saw on Weibo at that time, when Qiao Ruige was taken out of the headquarters building of the Qiao Group by the police, there were so many reporters guarding outside. In the news that was released, none of the shots taken from the reporter's point of view appeared.

Wu Xia realized that the content of the reporter's filming was probably suppressed by Qiao's family, and he guessed that it might be Qiao Xinda who did it.

This puzzled him.

Based on his analysis, it was probably Qiao Xinda's intention to call the police and report the news to the media. He even accepted TV interviews, so why did he suppress the footage captured by the reporters?

What made him choose to leave a little room after making the shot?

Or maybe there is no room for it, it's just that those shots are no longer important to Qiao Xinda's goal. He arranged for reporters, so he can naturally choose whether to fully use those materials.

It's more like selling someone's face.

Wu Xia didn't know anything about the grievances between Qiao's cousins, just like he still didn't know the reason why Qiao Ruige was angry and irritable that day.

He just vaguely felt that Qiao Ruige's anger had something to do with Qiao Xinda, and the consequences of Qiao Ruige's anger might have started a battle between these cousins.

Just like all grievances between rich and powerful families, it is bloody, but it seems reasonable, and no one finds it strange.

Wu Xia was waiting, he wanted to wait and see what the outcome of this battle would be.

Could it be that Qiao Ruige will appear in front of him again after the result comes out.

Wu Xia didn't wait too long.

Almost a month later, when New Year's Day approached, the media released two big news about Qiao's family.

One is Qiao Mingshan, who is currently the chairman of the Qiao Group and has been in charge of the Qiao Group for more than 30 years, announced that he will retire next year.

The other one is that the second young master of the Qiao family, Qiao Ruige, is engaged, and his fiancée is Kang Yiting, the daughter of another wealthy Kang family in this province.

On the day when two big news hit the front pages of major media, the engagement dinner of Qiao Ruige and Kang Yiting was being held at Qiao Ruige's parents' villa.

Judging from the financial status of the two families, this engagement banquet can be described as extremely low-key.

It is said that according to the wishes of the two young people, only the relatives who were close to both sides were invited to the banquet. There were less than five tables, and no special ceremony was held, which was not much different from ordinary family banquets.

But after all, it is different from ordinary family banquets, there are inevitably some entertainment, congratulations, and toasts, which are unavoidable in the end.

Qiao Ruige brought a glass of red wine, and without pulling Kang Yiting along, he toasted around the table by himself, with a slight smile on his face.Not necessarily happy, but not unhappy either.

When the banquet came to an end, the relatives started to drink too much. First, the elders walked around each other instead of sitting honestly at their own tables, and then the younger generations also became active, chatting and laughing with each other.

The atmosphere became lively, but Qiao Ruige avoided it a bit. He leaned against the window of the dining room with a drink, and watched these relatives talking and laughing happily from a distance. The corners of his mouth seemed to be smiling all the time, but if you looked carefully, you would find the expression in his eyes Scattered and without focus.

Several young men of the same generation went to Qiao Ruige with a bottle of red wine, obviously wanting to drink the groom-to-be's wine.Qiao Ruige didn't push it, and drank a few glasses generously.

"Enough, you really want to force him, wait until the wedding ceremony." A voice came from behind the crowd.

Qiao Ruige lowered his head and was talking to a cousin of his uncle's family. When he heard the voice, his eyes froze. When he raised his head, the lazy look on his face had already disappeared. Said: "Brother, are you coming too?"

Everyone moved away, and Qiao Xinda glanced at them: "Do you want to get drunk and stay here today?"

Among the group of peers present, Qiao Xinda was the oldest. As the general manager of the Qiao Group, he also had the highest status. In addition, he was usually serious and serious. His peers were a little afraid of him. If he interrupted like this, no one dared to stop him With Qiao Ruige drinking.

Then she said wittily: "Brother is here to help Second Young Master hold back the wine, let's withdraw, haha, Second Young Master, when you hold a wedding banquet, you won't be able to avoid it."

Qiao Ruige shook his wine glass and said disdainfully, "Are you still afraid?"

The young people walked away laughing and joking, Qiao Xinda turned to look at their leaving backs, shook his head, and when he turned to look at Qiao Ruige again, the expression on his face had cooled down.

Qiao Ruige was still smiling, but what he said was particularly mocking: "You haven't gone far, the whole family is still there, and the old man is still sitting there, you can't hold back your expression, you can't continue acting ?”

Qiao Xinda looked at him for a long time before saying coldly, "You played a good game of chess."

Qiao Ruige smiled lazily, but did not answer.He leaned back, resting his elbows on the edge of the window sill, in a nonchalant gesture.

Qiao Xinda walked up to him, and leaned against the window sill, looking at the talking and laughing family members.

At the main table, Qiao Mingshan was laughing and chatting with the old man and the old lady of the Kang family. The old man's complexion looked particularly good today, probably in response to the saying that people are in good spirits on happy occasions.

Qiao Xinda said coldly, "I was also careless. I didn't expect you to be so cruel to yourself."

Qiao Ruige still smiled like that and didn't speak.

If you look at it from a distance, the two cousins ​​are standing side by side, both of them are majestic, and the picture is really pleasing to the eye.

It's just a conversation between two people, it's not so beautiful.

Qiao Xinda was also a little annoyed seeing Qiao Ruige's refusal to speak. He asked, "Tell me, what else do you want?"

Qiao Ruige raised his eyebrows, as if hearing a funny question, he really laughed and shook his head: "You really asked... Didn't I tell you? The show has just begun, why are you in a hurry .”

Qiao Xinda looked at him, the corners of his mouth curled into a straight line, and his eyes became colder and sharper.

He said, "Have you thought about the consequences?"

Qiao Ruige chuckled: "I thought you thought it through before me."

Qiao Xinda was about to say something more, when a group of young people gathered together shouted Qiao Ruige's name loudly, and waved to him eagerly, the movement was so loud that even the elders smiled and looked at them, as if someone Something hilarious is going to happen.

Qiao Ruige patted Qiao Xinda on the shoulder and walked over there.

Looking at Qiao Ruige's back, Qiao Xinda took half a step sideways and hid himself in the shadow of the curtain.

He didn't want others - especially Qiao Mingshan - to see his gloomy face.

He also wants to do a good job in expression management, but it doesn't seem to be very effective.

As the general manager of Qiao's Group, his life in Qiao's is not easy now.He thought he was taking Qiao Ruige lightly.

This younger brother who has a nickname and always gives people the impression that a dude is unlearned and incompetent, in less than two months, he used thunderous means to give everything he has painstakingly managed for so many years to a level that can be said to be destroyed. blow.

Very tragic.

Qiao Mingshan's physical condition has not been very good since he suffered a small stroke in the first half of the year and was admitted to the hospital. Since then, the old man has repeatedly stated that he wants Qiao Ruige to come back and take over Qiao's.Qiao Ruige has always been very negative, always saying that his own company has exhausted him enough, and he is unwilling to take on greater responsibilities. He just wants to be a carefree playboy.But the old man refused to let him go, and at the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet, he directly ordered him to return to Qiao's as the vice president, and handed over the acquisition case that made Qiao Xinda's top management deeply troubled at that time.

At that time, Qiao Xinda still had a hopeful mentality, thinking that waiting for Qiao Ruige to fail the acquisition case, so that the old man could see clearly his unbearable nature and give up on him early.

But he was wrong.Totally wrong.

Qiao Ruige is not a sick cat, but a lion with sharp claws.

Qiao Mingshan has announced his retirement. His preferred successor is not Qiao Xinda, who has been working hard for many years, but Qiao Ruige, who has always had a bad reputation.

Qiao Xinda couldn't figure it out.

He never could figure it out.

He also has no ambitions for his career. Why is Qiao Mingshan dissatisfied when his father married a wife from an ordinary family, while Qiao Ruige's father married a daughter from a well-matched family so he could just be himself?

He was single-minded in his feelings, he didn't play hard and promiscuous, his wife died in a car accident when she was five months pregnant, and he never had another woman.But the result of being clean is that the old man is dissatisfied with him for being too pure-hearted and ascetic, saying that he is cold-hearted, but instead saying that Qiao Ruige is the true character of a man.

With Qiao Mingshan's support, the old foxes on the board of directors have already sided with Qiao Ruige either explicitly or secretly. When the old man officially retires, he will push Qiao Ruige to the position of chairman. After getting married, she has the powerful help of the Kang family.

Qiao Xinda recalled that when he was younger, he had a heart-to-heart talk with Qiao Mingshan because he couldn't understand what Qiao Ruige did. The light, said meaningfully: "Look more, think more, do more. Don't underestimate your brother, you are not as good as him."

Qiao Xinda stared darkly at Qiao Ruige's back in the distance, his hands were clenched into fists in his trouser pockets, and his nails were embedded in his palms.

The young people called Qiao Ruige over, pushed Kang Yiting over, surrounded the two of them, and made Qiao Ruige kiss the bride-to-be.

Kang Yiting had studied abroad for several years, and she acted in a relatively open style. While pretending to be angry and scolding those who made a fuss, she also looked at Qiao Ruige shyly.

Qiao Ruige smiled indifferently, put the glass of red wine in his hand on the table, and said, "What's the matter?"

He took Kang Yiting's hand and pulled her closer. He put one arm on her back and the other on her waist, and slowly lowered his head to her.

Kang Yiting raised his face slightly, closed his eyes with a smile.

The booing young people applauded and cheered, and the noise became more and more vigorous.

Qiao Ruige's head gradually approached Kang Yiting, and their lips were getting closer and closer. At the moment when they were about to kiss, Qiao Ruige turned his head and touched her face as if they were touching water.

But he had a good grasp of the angle, coupled with the effect of the lighting, none of the onlookers could see his perfunctory, and they were still applauding vigorously.

Kang Yiting opened his eyes and looked at him, dissatisfaction flashed across his eyes.

Qiao Ruige pretended not to see it, and waved his hands proudly around.

The banquet was replaced with refreshments, and everyone went to the living room to sit and chat, digest food.

Upstairs in Mrs. Joe's bedroom, Mrs. Joe is sitting on the sofa. The dog bite wound on her leg has healed. The doctor said that she is trying her best to remove the scar, but Mrs. Joe is not too worried about it, just because Having been injured, she can't walk or stand for a long time now, and she has to sit down and rest whenever she has the chance.

She knew that Qiao Ruige kept the engagement banquet so low-key to take care of her.

Fortunately, it can be seen that the relatives of the two families are very happy today, and the Kang family did not complain about the low-key engagement banquet.

Perhaps it was also because of Kang Yiting's attitude, Miss Kang even felt that the engagement banquet was unnecessary, she only cared about whether the wedding banquet could be romantic and luxurious, and whether the wedding dress could be beautiful.

Mrs. Qiao couldn't tell whether such a rich lady and Qiao Ruige were compatible, she was just vaguely worried. In this marriage, everyone seemed to be satisfied and happy, only her precious son, Qiao Ruige, seemed to be not as she imagined. so happy.

When the young people made Qiao Ruige kiss Kang Yiting, she was also downstairs, she didn't see whether Qiao Ruige kissed Kang Yiting, she just could see that Qiao Ruige was careless and indifferent.

She understands her son's character, if he really likes someone, he won't have this attitude.

This made Mrs. Qiao very anxious, and she still felt a little regretful deep in her heart.

She remembered that after she was injured, she woke up from a coma one day and had a conversation with Jorig.

At that time, she had just experienced the most terrifying life-and-death moment in her life. Whether she was awake or asleep, she could still hear the howling, heavy breathing, and sharp canine teeth of the two bulldogs. The dull sound of flesh and blood...

She couldn't sleep at all, and woke up from nightmares countless times, drenched in sweat.

She took Qiao Ruige's hand and said: "Gege, mom is scared, terrified, they are breathing next to my neck, and the saliva is dripping on my body, I always feel that the next bite they will bite my neck and tear me apart. Carotid artery... I thought of too many things in those few minutes. I was afraid that I would die, that it would be too ugly for me to die like this, and I was afraid that your father would be so sad if I died. Ge Ge, I don't want to die yet, I haven't seen you get married, haven't seen you have a child, I haven't hugged my own grandson..."

At that time, she said these words over and over again, just wanting to express her inner fear and regret, and George had been holding her hand, listening patiently and comforting her gently.

"Don't be afraid, Mom, it's all right."

Then, as she recovered from her injury, Jorig told her that he was getting engaged.

When she first heard the news, she was very pleasantly surprised. Although she never cared about how romantic her son was outside, and never brought up the topic of persuading him to start a family, but knowing that he was finally willing to settle down with someone to form a family, she was still really happy for him .

But now she began to deeply doubt whether this was really true, and also began to worry about whether Qiao Ruige's sudden announcement of engagement was influenced by what she said during her illness.

She hoped that he would combine with the one he loved and live a happy life, but now she couldn't see happiness in his eyes.

There was a slight sound of footsteps outside the door, and soon came to the door, and there was a knock on the door.

"Come in," said Mrs. Joe.

The door opened, Qiao Ruige walked in with a smile, and said, "Mom, are you looking for me?"

Mrs. Qiao gave a "hmm" and waved.

Qiao Ruige came over, and Mrs. Qiao held his hand. He obediently sat down on the small stool opposite the sofa, looked at Mrs. Qiao, and asked with concern: "Are you tired? Does your leg hurt?"

Mrs. Qiao shook her head: "I'm much better now."

Qiao Ruige didn't say anything more, and lowered his head. Mrs. Qiao was wearing a long skirt today, and her injured leg was hidden under the skirt, so outsiders couldn't notice it at all.

Mrs. Qiao looked at his handsome profile and said, "Gege, Mom has been thinking, is the engagement... too hasty?"

Qiao Ruige was taken aback, then raised his head: "Why do you think so?"

Mrs. Qiao said: "You and her have known each other for such a short time..."

"Mom, now someone has known each other for only one day to get a marriage certificate." Qiao Ruige's tone was very indifferent.

"Do you really like her?" Mrs. Qiao looked into his eyes seriously.

Qiao Ruige noticed Madam Qiao's strangeness, and looked back at her seriously, then suddenly smiled.

Mrs. Qiao's heart trembled. For some reason, she felt that Qiao Ruige's smile seemed to be full of sarcasm.