Lu Mingfei, who had read Dragon Clan before slaying the dragon

"Does Xia Mi agree?" Su Xiaoyan asked, getting close to Xia Mi's face.

"I think it's possible." Xia Mi's voice was as small as a mosquito's buzz, "If Chu Zihang agrees."

"Did you hear that?" Su Xiaoyan's eyes fell on Chu Zihang, "My future daughter-in-law asked you, do you agree to discuss this matter now?"

"I agree." Chu Zihang nodded helplessly. The two women closest to him agreed. Could he still say no?

"Is it okay, husband?" Su Xiaoyan looked at Lu Tianming again.

Lu Tianming pushed his glasses and nodded to indicate that it was okay.

"You all have time later, right?" Su Xiaoyan turned her head and looked at Lu Mingfei and the others, showing a kind smile, "I brought this up while everyone is together. I'm very happy that everyone is here as a guest today. Now that we're here, we should have a meal together later, right?"

"No problem, no problem. We are all free today." Lu Mingfei made an "OK" gesture to Su Xiaoyan, then looked at Chu Zihang with a teasing look.

Not only Lu Mingfei, but all the young men present, Ye Sheng, Finkel, and even Caesar and Nono were looking at Chu Zihang with a half-smile in their eyes, as if they were watching a show.

"Aunt Tong, can you help prepare a family dinner?" Lu Tianming instructed Aunt Tong.

"Okay, Mr. Lu." Aunt Tong also nodded with a smile, wiping her hands on her apron a few times. "The dishes have been prepared a long time ago and will be served in half an hour."

With that said, Aunt Tong hurried away... not to the kitchen, but to open the door of the Chu residence. She didn't know when, but there were actually four chefs wearing tall hats standing at the door, and she didn't know how long they had been waiting there.

Aunt Tong said a few words to the two of them, and then the five of them rushed towards the kitchen.

"Mom, you have planned this a long time ago, right?" Chu Zihang looked at Su Xiaoyan. The expression on his face was not even one of seeking confirmation, but more like a question.

"Ah? What did you mean it was planned long ago?" Su Xiaoyan pretended to be stupid. As a former dance performer, her ability to control her facial expressions was quite impressive.

"Didn't we invite those people a long time ago?" Chu Zihang looked at the backs of the chefs who followed Aunt Tong to the kitchen. His eyes seemed to be saying "Why don't you explain yourself even though this is the case?"

"Oh, those chefs." Su Xiaoyan showed an expression of "So that's what you were talking about." "Yes, your father and I invited them. Didn't you send a message saying that many of your classmates were coming? I'm not very good at cooking, and Aunt Tong definitely can't take care of it alone, so I thought of inviting more professionals to entertain your classmates. Is there any problem with that?"

"Is that all?" Chu Zihang looked at Su Xiaoyan and asked seriously.

Looking at Chu Zihang's expression, Su Xiaoyan couldn't help but laugh.

"Yes, yes. Before you came, your father and I planned to take this opportunity to discuss the matter between you and Xia Mi." Su Xiaoyan said, "You are a boy, your family has everything you need, and you are not that old either. Getting married or engaged may not be a very necessary thing for you, but girls may not think so."

"Xia Mi is a girl, and such a beautiful girl. There must be a lot of people chasing after her." Su Xiaoyan suddenly sighed, "But don't underestimate her popularity. In fact, beautiful girls are the most likely to feel insecure. Who hasn't been young? Seeing Xia Mi reminds me of myself back then. At least our Chu Zihang is a reliable man, right?"

"Yeah." Xia Mi nodded softly.

Someone huddled in a corner without saying a word, his face looking increasingly ashamed.

"I understand." Chu Zihang was silent for a while and then nodded.

At this moment, Chu Zihang finally understood Su Xiaoyan's intention. She was not using this form to force Chu Zihang and Xia Mi to discuss marriage, nor was she trying to tie him and Xia Mi up in front of everyone just to watch the fun... It turned out that her original intention was for Xia Mi's consideration.

At her boyfriend's house, her boyfriend's mother and stepfather, all her boyfriend's friends, and her boyfriend's biological father whom she hasn't seen for a long time, everyone gathered together. If she proposed their marriage at this time, as a girl, Xia Mi should feel at ease, right?

For a girl who has lacked family affection since childhood, this behavior undoubtedly tells her that this is her home, giving her the missing sense of security. Putting yourself in the other's shoes, this is the greatest understanding a woman can have for another woman, at least Su Xiaoyan must think so.

It turns out that this woman is far from being as carefree and heartless as she seems, she also has a careful side... Maybe she is not like this usually, but she just feels that she met the wrong person when she was young, so she has learned to be considerate of other girls in this regard, just like she has been caught in the rain, so she learned to hold an umbrella for others.

"Thank you, Mom." Chu Zihang said to Su Xiaoyan in a voice that only he could hear.

"Then I'd like to thank my mother, too."

A small female voice came from beside Chu Zihang. He subconsciously turned his head and saw Xia Mi giving him a playful smile.

"I'm really sorry, both to my son and to you." Chu Tianjiao came to Su Xiaoyan and apologized in a very sincere tone, "Actually, I'm more sorry to you, because sometimes I would pick up my son from school and chat with him, but I never dared... I never looked for you, thinking it would disturb your life."

Chu Tianjiao almost told the truth, but actually he didn't lie completely. What he said was a mixture of truth and falsehood. He really felt that he would disturb Su Xiaoyan's life, and he really didn't dare to come to her. He longed for her to have a happy and stable life, but he was an extremely dangerous person, so he could only stay away from her.

"It does disturb me. My current husband and I live a pretty good life." Su Xiaoyan paused, "I don't have any complaints, but it's true that you never showed up in the years before I met my husband. I was the only one who attended Chu Zihang's parent-teacher conferences, and I was the only one who argued with others when he was bullied at school. I'm not saying this to complain to you. Anyway, I've already treated you as dead, and we're living a good life now, so you don't have to apologize to me specifically. If you feel guilty, it's your own business."

In fact, if you observe carefully, you can find that when Su Xiaoyan said these words, her eyes were not on Lu Tianming, but she glanced at Chu Tianjiao from time to time.

She said that she was not complaining, but the resentment in her tone was hard to conceal... But this is human nature. Su Xiaoyan is still considered to have a good temper. If it were a shrewish woman, and her ex-husband who abandoned her and her son came to her house and suddenly said some inexplicable words, leaving a check and apologizing, a normal person would have dropped the foot basin on his head long ago, right?

"Well, Aunt Su, let me take Eri and the seniors to visit your yard first." Lu Mingfei saw that something was wrong, and he quickly pulled Xia Mi away.

Caesar, Ye Sheng and the others followed closely behind Lu Mingfei and the others. Only Finkel was still stubborn and refused to leave, but he was also led away by Nuo Nuo by the ear.

"I want to buy something. Anyway, dinner is still half an hour away. Chu Zihang, do you want to accompany me to buy something first?" Xia Mi also stood up and pulled Chu Zihang up from the sofa.

"Okay." At this time, even if Chu Zihang was a blockhead, he should have realized what Xia Mi meant. He turned around and looked deeply at Su Xiaoyan and Chu Tianjiao, then followed Xia Mi out.

After a while, only Su Xiaoyan, Chu Tianjiao and Lu Tianming were left in the huge living room... a beautiful woman and her two husbands.

"Ahem." Lu Tianming coughed dryly, "Then I'll step aside?"

"There's nothing to avoid." Su Xiaoyan waved her hand and said, "It's impossible for him and I to be together. In fact, I don't want to talk to him. When I was young, I might have pointed at this guy's nose and scolded him, but now I'm no longer at the age of making trouble."

Chu Tianjiao touched his nose and thought to himself, is he really past the age of being so timid? Why did his son say that his mother often got drunk with a group of women and passed out on the sofa?

"I trust you, so you guys just chat, I'll go see Aunt Tong." Lu Tianming is still a decent man after all. Even though he feels a little uncomfortable, he knows that it's time to give some space to his wife and her ex-husband.

Lu Tianming came to Su Xiaoyan and didn't say anything to Chu Tianjiao. He just hugged his wife gently and walked upstairs.

At this moment, there were only two people left in the huge living room.

Chapter 1115 Changes over the years

The five-meter-long leather sofa imported from Italy stood in the middle of the large hall. Su Xiaoyan sat on one end of the sofa and Chu Tianjiao sat on the other end. Although they were only a few meters apart, they seemed as far apart as a galaxy.

The huge living room of nearly 100 square meters was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop. The only sound that could be heard was the ticking of the pure silver clock hands on the gray slate wall, like the sound of a broken spring. Every time it ticked, Chu Tianjiao's heart trembled violently.

There was not even the sound of cutting vegetables in the kitchen, and there was no sound of Lu Mingfei and others talking in the yard. It was not known whether this villa was too big, or those people deliberately slowed down to make room for Su Xiaoyan and Chu Tianjiao, as if they were the only two people left in the whole world.

"Well..." Chu Tianjiao said slowly, "The weather seems to be pretty good today, huh?"

Su Xiaoyan glanced at Chu Tianjiao and said calmly, "Do you really have to find something to say?"

“No… no.” Chu Tianjiao was choked. “Actually… there are still a lot of things I want to talk to you about, but I don’t know how to start… but you probably don’t want to listen, right?”

"If you don't tell me, how do I know if I want to hear it?" Su Xiaoyan rolled her eyes at Chu Tianjiao. "After all these years, do you still think you are the worm in my stomach? The tricks you used to deceive little girls back then are no longer effective."

"No... I didn't mean that." Chu Tianjiao felt a little guilty and lowered his head even lower. "I'm sorry, I'm really not trying to tease you... at least not now."

"Alright, alright, stop pretending to be pitiful in front of me." Su Xiaoyan waved her hands and curled her lips. "Just say whatever you want to say. No one is stopping you. If you don't say it now, my husband and son will be back later, and I won't bother to listen anymore."

"You...how have you been these years?" Chu Tianjiao almost blurted out.

It was an extremely clichéd sentence, so clichéd indeed that even the popular idol dramas nowadays don't use it... But Chu Tianjiao couldn't help but ask. He asked from the bottom of his heart. Even though he already knew from Chu Zihang and Lu Mingfei that Su Xiaoyan would not have had a bad life these years, he still couldn't help but ask.

"Is it good?" Su Xiaoyan looked at Chu Tianjiao strangely, "What can be wrong? Do I look like a bad person?"

According to the routine of cheesy idol dramas, at this time the heroine should stand up, point at the nose of the hero whom she meets again after a long absence, and say arrogantly: I don’t know how good my life is after leaving you. I married a considerate and lenient husband, I have endless living expenses and pocket money, and my son is handsome, sensible and caring. The only stain in my life is you. If you disappeared, let alone how good I would be, I would die without regrets.

But Su Xiaoyan didn't say so. Maybe when she was young, she had such a fierce character, but the erosion of time has washed away some of the dross of the once heartless woman... Today's Su Xiaoyan can't be said to be a virtuous housewife, but at least she is much more sensible than when she was young. Even when facing a man whom she once loved and hated, she can make a big fuss without having to say anything to vent her long-accumulated dissatisfaction.

"No... you look fine." Chu Tianjiao raised his head and looked around the huge living room and the expensive and stylish furniture arranged in an orderly manner. "Living in a big house, marrying a rich and generous husband. Although he is not handsome at all, he does not restrict your freedom at all. Your son is sensible and mature enough. There is a nanny at home to take care of you. From time to time, you can have a gathering with a group of sisters. This kind of carefree life is probably what every woman dreams of."

"Maybe." Su Xiaoyan said, resting her chin on her pretty elbow. "I don't know if I've ever thought about it this way, but at least when I was young, these were not what I wanted."

"What did you want at that time?" Chu Tianjiao asked curiously.

"I want a handsome, rich and interesting man to play with me." Su Xiaoyan looked at the gray wall and said calmly, "I was just a little girl at that time. What could a little girl want? A big villa? Endless money? A husband who is successful but not so controlling? Maybe, but a little girl will definitely be attracted by what is in front of her first. A humorous and handsome man pesters you every day. Which girl can refuse this?"

“I don’t deny that he’s handsome, interesting, and humorous, but rich?” Chu Tianjiao scratched the back of his head, “I don’t think I have anything to do with this word, right?”

Chu Tianjiao recalled that after being with Su Xiaoyan, they either lived in a cheap rental house or bought a small apartment of only a few dozen square meters. What he wore was merely clean and not even decent. Although Chu Tianjiao was a good driver, he had never owned a car of his own, at least not in front of Su Xiaoyan.

"Really? But I remember that when we first got together, you were quite willing to spend money on me." Su Xiaoyan said calmly, her beautiful eyes gleaming with memories. "I remember that when you came to see my performance for the second time, you gave me a pair of high heels inlaid with crystals and diamonds. Those shoes must have been quite expensive, right?"

"Is that true?" Chu Tianjiao obviously remembered it, but he pretended to be stupid and said, "It seems to be true, but how do you know it's expensive? Maybe it's just rhinestones? This kind of decoration can be found on many women's clothes."

"At first I thought they were just for decoration, until one of my colleagues saw the shoes. Her boyfriend is in the jewelry business in South Africa, and diamonds are nothing new to her." Su Xiaoyan said softly, "But she screamed when she saw the shoes for the first time. It was a reaction of shock. She held the shoes and observed them carefully for a long time, and finally told me that each diamond on them was more than one carat, and they were all top-notch in color, cut, and brightness. Each one alone is worth a lot of money, and adding them together is simply unimaginable."

Chu Tianjiao fell silent. It was not that he was recalling this incident. In fact, he remembered it when Su Xiaoyan just mentioned it.

He had indeed given Su Xiaoyan a pair of high heels. Not long after they met, Chu Tianjiao went to see a drama performed by Su Xiaoyan. He wrapped the colorful high heels in an exquisite gift box and placed it on Su Xiaoyan's dressing table backstage.

"You are the most beautiful person I have ever seen, with spotless feet, so you deserve the most beautiful shoes in the world."

This was the note Chu Tianjiao left in the gift box, without a signature.

But he had really put a lot of effort into that pair of shoes, and those diamonds were all his treasures, which was also one of Chu Tianjiao's hobbies. He was a casual gem collector, but ordinary gems were not to his liking. As for diamonds, he only collected those pure natural diamonds with perfect color and transparency, and then invited excellent craftsmen to cut and grind them into exactly the same shape... This was his collection for many years, but since he saw Su Xiaoyan for the first time, he found a fashion designer he was familiar with and inlaid almost all of his collections on a pair of crystal-like shoes. Although they were not necessarily the most expensive, they were definitely the most attentive and unique shoes in the world, more moving and more gorgeous than Cinderella's crystal shoes.

That was Chu Tianjiao's intention. He never thought that Su Xiaoyan would be able to see how expensive the shoes were for the girl he loved at first sight. Because to him, the value of the shoes should not be measured by money, but by time.

He gave all his collections from the first half of his life to the girl he loved most in the second half of his life.

"If you knew it then, why didn't you mention it?" After a long silence, Chu Tianjiao slowly spoke, "I have never been a rich man. Have you never wondered why I could give you such an expensive pair of shoes?"

When saying this, Chu Tianjiao couldn't help but look at Su Xiaoyan. He had the ability to see through people's minds, and he could easily tell whether a person was speaking the truth or not.

But this ability, surprisingly, failed to work on this woman.

"Why should I doubt this?" Su Xiaoyan said calmly, "Whether the shoes are expensive or cheap, they are given by you and I have no intention of selling them. Since I am not selling them, does it matter how much they are worth? No matter how you got them, they are mine once they are delivered to me, right? Why should I worry about the origin of my things?"

Chu Tianjiao opened his mouth but was speechless. This woman was like this when she was young. Although sometimes she was heartless and stubborn, most of the time her logic was so strong that it could leave people speechless.

"So you knew it at that time." Chu Tianjiao said in a low voice.

"When I was young, I was quite foolish in love, but I'm not really stupid. In fact, you gave me a lot of things. Although I don't know the specific price and I didn't ask anyone specifically, I know they should not be cheap." Su Xiaoyan said softly, "When I was young, I was pursued by many people and I received a lot of good things. I knew some of them were valuable at the time, and some of them I roughly knew their value when I looked back on them after I grew up. The cheapest thing you gave me should be the paper crane you folded by hand, and the most expensive necklace should be hard to estimate, right?"

Chu Tianjiao was stunned. It turned out that this woman was much smarter and more careful than he had imagined. She did not deliberately pay attention to or investigate these things, but she remembered them all... He thought he had hidden it perfectly, but when he looked back, he found so many loopholes.

He once naively thought that this woman was really stupid and knew nothing, but in fact, she already knew a lot of things, but just kept them in her heart and never mentioned them to him.

"So have you ever thought that I might be a rich man, but I didn't leave anything for you and your son." Chu Tianjiao's voice became smaller and smaller, "No money, no car, no care, only a small house."

"I didn't think about whether you were rich or not, but I really hated you at that time." Su Xiaoyan paused, "Maybe I can't say I hated you, because I still liked you at that time, and I wondered why you disappeared so suddenly. I was itching to bite you every time I thought of you, especially when Chu Zihang was very stubborn as a child. I always wondered why this guy disappeared without saying a word, and why he left me such a mess. But then I figured it out. Maybe I forgot how I hated you at that time, because I met my current husband, and Chu Zihang became more and more sensible."

"That's when I realized that no one in this world can't live without another person." Su Xiaoyan whispered, "Time will dilute everything, including love. A person can have many necessities in his life, such as money, a house and friends, but you can't force someone to stay by your side forever."

If Chu Zihang and Lu Mingfei, even Lu Tianming were here, they would definitely be shocked. No one expected that Su Xiaoyan could express such emotion... This woman actually has such a profound understanding of life.

Probably no one in this world is completely ignorant. Even a woman who doesn't like to use her brain can learn profound philosophy from her past life.

Chu Tianjiao's lips trembled slightly, and he kept his head down. He wanted to speak many times, but he couldn't, because he knew that he no longer had the position to say those words.

He wanted to say, no, there really are people in this world who cannot live without another person, there really is eternal love in this world, there really are people in this world who are willing to be tied to death by another person... Su Xiaoyan's words sounded so ironic to him, every word of her denial was what he had always insisted on in his heart.

“Really…” Chu Tianjiao tried his best to keep his voice from shaking, “So you’ve grown up… So your thoughts have changed so much over the years…”

"What about you? What have you been doing these years?" Su Xiaoyan asked in a seemingly casual tone.

Chu Tianjiao's body trembled and he suddenly fell silent.

He hadn't thought that Su Xiaoyan would ask him this question, so he hadn't figured out how to answer it yet... Was he still telling lies like before? Would those lies still be enough to fool this woman? Chu Tianjiao didn't know, he just felt that telling those lies was very tiring.

"You don't have to say anything you don't want to say. I'm just asking casually." Su Xiaoyan's tone was light.

"These years... I went to a very far place." Chu Tianjiao spoke slowly.

"How far is it?" Su Xiaoyan asked, not sure if she was really interested in this topic or couldn't think of any other topics to talk about.

“It’s like… another world.” Chu Tianjiao took a deep breath. “Anyway, I’ve been living in a daze. I’ve forgotten a lot of things, but sometimes I see you, and sometimes I see my son.”

"See me?" Su Xiaoyan was stunned. She said with some doubt, "I haven't been away from home for many years. You mean you dreamed about it, right?"

"Maybe." Chu Tianjiao nodded gently, "Looking back, it really does seem like a dream."

Chapter 1116 Love

"In this respect, you are no different from before. You always speak in a mysterious way." Su Xiaoyan said softly to Chu Tianjiao, "I remember that in the past, you always made up some irrelevant words. Sometimes you said that you were a bandit wanted internationally, sometimes you said that you were a killer living in this city under an assumed name, and sometimes you said that you were an agent whose mission was to maintain world peace and explore the true meaning of the universe..."

"You believe it all?" Chu Tianjiao also remembered the past and smiled for the first time.

"I'd be crazy if I believed you!" Su Xiaoyan rolled her eyes coquettishly. "No matter how ignorant a girl is, she wouldn't believe these nonsense, right? At that time, I just thought you were interesting, humorous, and good at telling stories. I just listened to these things as stories, and they were quite humorous as stories."

Chu Tianjiao tilted his head slightly, a slightly bitter smile on his lips, because only he knew that what he said was true. Thief, killer, agent... These seemingly fantastic stories were all his real identities and experiences, but he couldn't tell Su Xiaoyan. He could only use this joking, story-like way to tell the woman he loved most the words that he had hidden in his heart and kept secret for so many years.

How ironic.

"Yeah, those lies, are they interesting... Only interesting men can attract ignorant little girls." Chu Tianjiao looked at the ceiling and murmured softly, "But the little girl will grow up, and one day she will understand that handsome men are not a necessity in life, and men who can coax people are not a necessity in life. In a woman's life, the most important thing is always stability."

"Do you really think that all women think so?" Su Xiaoyan asked softly.

"I... don't know." Chu Tianjiao paused and shrugged his shoulders. "Maybe I don't understand a woman as well as I thought."

When she said this, Su Xiaoyan actually suddenly glanced at Chu Tianjiao, but Chu Tianjiao had been deliberately avoiding looking at Su Xiaoyan, so he ignored the possible eye contact this time.

"Do you think all women in this world are the same? Do you still think that women will never change?" Su Xiaoyan said softly, "Women, when they love you, they are very simple animals. When they don't love you, they are probably more complicated than the most difficult math problem in the world."

At this time, Chu Tianjiao couldn't help but glance at Su Xiaoyan. At this moment, he really realized that this woman had really changed... No, maybe this woman has always been like this. Under her heartless appearance, maybe she has always hidden a soft and delicate side. Is there really a heartless person in this world? She treats all the awesome stories you tell as interesting stories, never questioning or exposing them, because she loves you, but after you leave her, do you still expect her to stay there forever waiting for you and always keep the way you remember?

Maybe it is really like what Su Xiaoyan just said, there is no one in this world who cannot survive without another person. She, Su Xiaoyan, can survive without Chu Tianjiao. Didn’t Chu Tianjiao live a rich and wonderful life before he met Su Xiaoyan?

“I never thought that I would hear such words from you one day.” Chu Tianjiao said with emotion, “If you were the you now and met me at that time, you would not be fooled by me again, right?”