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Guan Xiangmu could only play the peacemaker, saying that it was already impressive how well Xiao Donghan spoke Chinese.
The three of them, reluctantly, drank a toast.
Guan Xiangmu knew that the confrontation between Yan Heyu and Xiao Donghan today was just the tip of the iceberg. Out of consideration for the bigger picture, they were restraining their emotions. Both of them, whether in terms of interests or emotions, wished they could kill each other, so he didn’t try to persuade them further.
It would be useless anyway.
“Please excuse me. I have something else to do.” Xiao Donghan put down his empty glass. He had another appointment at 10 PM. He greeted Jiang Chengyu and left by car.
Secretary Lu opened the navigation, setting the destination to a business club.
He turned to Xiao Donghan and said, “Mr. Xiao, tomorrow’s flight has been approved for 5 PM.”
Xiao Donghan was looking out the car window. “Understood.”
He was a little distracted, and Secretary Lu stopped speaking.
Upon reaching the reserved private room, Jiang Yunxing was waiting for him.
“I didn’t know what kind of coffee you drink,” Jiang Yunxing said, “so I didn’t order for you.”
Xiao Donghan: “I don’t mind.”
Secretary Lu ordered a coffee for him, specifically the black coffee that Wen Di loved.
After ordering the coffee, Secretary Lu took out the prepared contracts and neatly laid them out in front of Jiang Yunxing. “Ms. Jiang, please review the terms carefully.”
“Thank you.”
There were three contracts in total. Jiang Yunxing picked one up but didn’t open it. She looked at Xiao Donghan: “Mr. Xiao, I’ve brought my lawyer. Is it convenient for him to come in now?”
Contracts were no small matter. Although this was an additional benefit Xiao Donghan was giving her, she still needed to be careful about any hidden traps. Being cautious first wasn’t going too far.
Xiao Donghan responded with a look, giving her the go-ahead.
Jiang Yunxing called her lawyer and handed the three contracts to him.
The lawyer said nothing, quietly verifying all the terms beside them.
The lawyer was one of her own, so Jiang Yunxing spoke freely without avoiding him. “If I had chosen to compromise with Yan Heyu before, you probably wouldn’t have given our company a way out.” Even if it meant damaging himself a thousand, he wouldn’t let the Jiang family off easy.
Xiao Donghan took off his glasses, rubbed the bridge of his nose, and said, “It’s not ‘probably,’ it’s ‘definitely.’ I gave you a choice in Jiangcheng. Since you chose to continue cooperating with me, you must have a contract spirit. If you stab me in the back halfway through, do you think I’d give you a way out?”
He opened his glasses case and used a cloth to wipe his glasses.
There was no one he wanted to see here, so wearing them or not didn’t matter.
Jiang Yunxing was glad she stuck to her guns and didn’t listen to her uncle.
Otherwise, the person Xiao Donghan would be dealing with next would be her.
When he was ruthless, he didn’t care about anyone, not even his own family.
After reading, the lawyer whispered to Jiang Yunxing, “No problem.”
Jiang Yunxing signed. The contract was in duplicate. After she signed, she handed it to Xiao Donghan to sign.
Xiao Donghan took the pen from Secretary Lu’s hand. He held his glasses in his left hand, gently pressing down on a corner of the contract with his knuckles, and grasped the signing pen in his right hand, writing with flourish.
Jiang Yunxing occasionally looked up at him. “Mr. Xiao, are you free tomorrow night?”
“No.” Xiao Donghan finished signing the last contract and looked up. “If you have anything to say, say it now.”
“Nothing urgent.” Trying to beat around the bush with someone like him would only backfire. Jiang Yunxing said, “I’ve wanted to invite you to dinner for a long time. It just so happens that it’s my cousin’s birthday party tomorrow night, and it’ll be lively with many people. Oh, right, my cousin went to the same university as you.”
Xiao Donghan closed the pen with one hand, the pen cap tapping on the table, and said, “Thank you for your kindness, Ms. Jiang, but I’m not considering a marriage alliance. I believe I told you I’m waiting for someone to pursue me.”
Jiang Yunxing smiled. “I’m a bit curious, if I may ask, what kind of woman has Mr. Xiao so patient?”
Xiao Donghan: “The woman in a suit at tonight’s gala.”
Jiang Yunxing was putting away the contract, her hand movements paused. She had scrolled through Weibo’s trending topics; the woman who wore a suit on the red carpet tonight was Wen Di.
“You and Yan Heyu, you two...” She curved her lips, forced a smile, and said, “That’s really interesting.”
She put the contract in her bag, calm for a few seconds.
“Are you so interested in her because she’s Yan Heyu’s woman?”
“Aren’t you too?”
Jiang Yunxing’s expression changed. He didn’t give her any face.
He was telling her, “You’re also Yan Heyu’s ex-girlfriend, and I’m not interested in you.” So how he felt about Wen Di had nothing to do with Yan Heyu.
Xiao Donghan said, “I don’t have a perverse habit of sleeping with a competitor’s woman. It just happens that she dated Yan Heyu.”
Jiang Yunxing quickly composed her expression. “My apologies, my wording was improper just now.”
Xiao Donghan put his glasses into the glasses case and handed it to Secretary Lu to put away.
“I’m protective of my own. I think Wen Di is good, so no one else can say she’s not good.” He stood up. “From now on, happy cooperation.”
Jiang Yunxing gave him a reminder, “You have a slight advantage competing with him in the North China market, but not necessarily in other regions. When he gave our family a month to withdraw investments, he was also giving other families time.”
At that time, Yan Heyu was engaged to Tian Qinglu, and many people thought a certain project of the Tian family would make a huge profit, so her family also invested a lot.
No one expected them to break off the engagement so quickly.
Whether it was her family or the other investors, they knew when they invested that it came with high risk. Even if they lost money, they accepted their fate.
But after Yan Heyu learned about it, he gave them a month to recover their losses. Everyone said nothing, but in their hearts, they were grateful to Yan Heyu.
Because Yan Heyu had no obligation to give them time.
At this GR Financial Forum in Jiangcheng, those who had previously withdrawn their investments, who were not originally on the same side as Yan Heyu, all voluntarily came to show their support in Jiangcheng.
Having lost the powerful network of the Tian family at that time, he silently recouped his losses from other areas.
Xiao Donghan said, “Then we’ll compete slowly.”
Jiang Yunxing went downstairs with Xiao Donghan. He showed the utmost sincerity with the three contracts tonight. She had her project halted by Yan Heyu but didn’t compromise with him, and Xiao Donghan voluntarily compensated her.
These several overseas projects were unobtainable with their Jiang family’s strength overseas.
She gave him domestic resources, and he helped their family expand into overseas markets.
As long as she didn’t betray him, cooperating with such a person felt very secure.
He and Yan Heyu shared a common trait: as long as they weren’t stabbed in the back, even if they lost money, they would honor their original promises.
For the sake of these three overseas projects, she kindly offered him a few words of advice: “Wen Di is hard to pursue. Ordinary methods of pursuit won’t work on her. I hear that when Yan Heyu prepares gifts for her, he has to search all over the world. There’s probably nothing she likes to eat or no gift she likes that Yan Heyu hasn’t given her.”
They reached downstairs, and she said, “Then I wish Mr. Xiao good luck.”
Xiao Donghan nodded slightly. His bodyguard opened the car door for him, and the two cars drove away in succession.
Jiang Yunxing sat in the back seat. The driver asked her where she wanted to go.
She spaced out for a moment, unable to decide where to go. “Just drive around.”
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Xiao Donghan left the club and drove directly to Wen Di’s current apartment. Wen Di finally returned at 1:30 AM, driving herself.
Wen Di’s parking spot was occupied. The car wasn’t turned off. She rolled down her window, intending to ask the driver to move the car so she could park.
Before she could speak, the car’s back door opened.
“You changed cars?” She hadn’t seen that license plate number.
“Yeah, I bought a new one, specifically to pick you up and drop you off.” Xiao Donghan put on his glasses before getting out of the car. He walked to her car and gestured to her, “Come down, I’ll park for you.”
Wen Di unbuckled her seatbelt, and he opened the car door for her.
“How long have you been waiting?” she asked.
Xiao Donghan: “I don’t know, I didn’t pay attention to the time. I’ve been studying Chinese, so engrossed I forgot to eat and sleep.”
He said, “Did I use that idiom correctly?”
Wen Di smiled. “Are you just learning and using it immediately?”
“I used to know that idiom, but I didn’t use it often, so I forgot it over time.” He got into Wen Di’s car, adjusted the memory seat. He still remembered that seat setting number two fit him.
The driver drove his car away, and he backed Wen Di’s car into the parking space.
Xiao Donghan parked the car steadily. Wen Di opened the passenger door and got in. She thought he was just joking about studying Chinese, so she asked him what part of the historical drama script he had read.
Xiao Donghan leaned back in the chair, relaxed. He told the truth: “I didn’t read it. Some parts I don’t understand. And lately, I’ve been studying Chinese, so I have even less time to read.”
“You’re really studying? Your Mandarin is pretty good; commercial negotiations are no problem at all.”
“My cultural background isn’t profound.”
Wen Di chuckled, “Did the script stimulate you?”
“It was Yan Heyu; he made fun of me.”
“...”
Wen Di was speechless. She turned to get water from the car fridge, taking two bottles and opening one for him.
Xiao Donghan, however, picked up the other unopened bottle. He opened it, then swapped water with her, drinking the one she had opened. He asked her, “When are you returning to Jiangcheng?”
“The day after tomorrow, or the day after that.”
Xiao Donghan hummed. He looked at his watch. “You should go home and rest early. I came to tell you that my schedule has changed. I’m flying to Costa Rica tomorrow evening.”
Wen Di asked, “Business trip?”
“No.” He said, “You’ll know in a few days.”
Wen Di wasn’t curious about what he was going to do. Xiao Donghan escorted her upstairs, wished her goodnight, and then left.
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After staying in Beijing for two days, Wen Di returned to Jiangcheng on Friday evening.
Her second aunt picked her up at the airport, and they went out for skewers that night.
Normally, her second aunt was too busy. Wen Di had been back in Jiangcheng for over a month and hadn’t had a meal out alone with her second aunt, only joining her for meals at the company a few times.
Today, her second aunt rarely didn’t work overtime.
Wen Qizhen said they weren’t going to the food street today. There was a new barbecue restaurant in the alley opposite the high school that her son had treated her to a few times, and it was pretty good.
After parking, Wen Di linked arms with her second aunt and walked into the alley.
The crisscrossing power lines, the barbecue stalls emitting wisps of smoke, the small alley filled with the scent of daily life—she thought of Haitang Village.
It was past dinner time, so there weren’t many customers in the restaurant. Wen Di and Wen Qizhen casually chose a table.
Wen Qizhen ordered a lot and told the proprietress to grill one-third first, and the rest at ten o’clock.
The proprietress recognized Wen Qizhen and had a very deep impression of her and her handsome twin sons. “Are you here to pick up your sons again?”
Wen Qizhen smiled. “Yes.”
Actually, she was just incidentally treating the two little rascals to barbecue.
The proprietress glanced at Wen Di. “You look like her.” She didn’t dare to guess wildly, because Wen Qizhen looked too young, so young that it was hard to believe she was the mother of those twins.
Wen Qizhen smiled and said, “My eldest daughter.”
The proprietress took it as truth. “How do you maintain your youth?”
Wen Qizhen: “The children are well-behaved and don’t make me angry.”
The proprietress chatted for a few more minutes and then went back to work.
Wen Di rested her chin on her hand, looking at her second aunt, and joked, “I finally know why you always like to drag me shopping and tell everyone I’m your daughter.”
Wen Qizhen smiled even more deeply. “Who wouldn’t be happy to be praised as young? I’m telling you, this is my secret to staying young. When you’re not in Jiangcheng, I take those two rascals out whenever I have nothing to do.”
After the joking, Wen Qizhen expressed concern for her niece, asking if anything unpleasant happened during the ceremony.
Wen Di said it was fine, and she knew what her aunt wanted to ask. “Yan Heyu wasn’t there, so I didn’t run into him.” She sipped the free sour plum juice provided by the barbecue shop. “It doesn’t matter even if I do now; it’s not like when we first broke up.”
Wen Qizhen said, “Your grandma is worried, saying with Yan Heyu pursuing you like this, she’s afraid you’ll soften.”
“No way.” Wen Di said definitively, “If I were going to soften, I would have done it long ago, not waited until today.”
She knew that not just Grandma, but her second aunt was also worried about her. “The hurt was given by him. I can’t let him heal me again, otherwise I’ll never be able to leave him completely. If he hurts me again in the future, I’ll be even more unable to leave him. You and Grandma can rest assured, I won’t be that foolish.”
She would heal herself. No matter how deep or difficult the wound was to heal, it would eventually heal.
Wen Qizhen breathed a complete sigh of relief, pouring herself half a glass of sour plum juice.
“My thoughts are the same as yours. That’s why with Guan Xiangmu, now only I can hurt him, and he can no longer hurt me.”
“Auntie.” Wen Di twirled the paper cup in her hand, thinking about how to start.
Wen Qizhen saw her niece’s cautious look and smiled. “Just say what you want to say directly. Don’t overthink it. You think I’m too fragile.”
Wen Di no longer held back. “Everyone in the family says both your marriages were unhappy. I was young when you got married, so I didn’t quite understand these things. Auntie, when you got married back then, did you really want to, or was it...?”
Wen Qizhen asked back, “What do you think? Among so many people in the family, you understand me best.”
Wen Di felt, “At least before the marriage, you and uncle were mutually attracted.”
Wen Qizhen toasted her niece with sour plum juice, not forgetting to boast, “The child I raised is just different.”
She sipped from the rim of the cup, sighing helplessly, “Living life, for me, is really harder than research and development. I tried earnestly, but I still couldn’t do it well.”
Her divorce, in the eyes of others, including her parents, meant extreme unhappiness.
In fact, both marriages started quite well.
Later, they didn’t adjust well to each other, and neither wanted to just settle.
After confirming that her second aunt was not in pain, Wen Di changed the subject to talk about other things.
The two talked about new energy batteries.
“Any breakthroughs in battery life?”
Wen Qizhen shook her head and said, “Let me have a bite of barbecue first.”
Wen Di smiled, “Even if you eat two bites, the bottleneck in battery life still won’t be broken.”
Wen Qizhen rolled her eyes, pretending. Not only was the breakthrough in battery life difficult, but research and development costs were also a bottomless pit; R&D funding urgently needed to be resolved.
She didn’t tell her niece much about her work worries.
Wen Di and her second aunt ate barbecue, chatting idly about various things.
At ten past ten, her elder and younger cousins finished evening self-study and came to find them.
The few of them laughed and joked, and it was almost eleven o’clock before they parted.
Wen Di received a message from Xiao Donghan, asking her to pick him up at the airport tomorrow evening and giving her the approximate landing time of his flight.
She had said before that she didn’t like seeing people off at the airport, but picking them up was fine.
The next afternoon, after her nap, Wen Di asked the driver to prepare the car.
Grandpa and Grandma loved it when she went out for a stroll, worried she’d stay cooped up at home overthinking.
Grandma asked, “Will you be back for dinner tonight?” Then added, “Or will you eat out with friends and come back later? Eating home-cooked meals every day gets tiresome.”
Wen Di wanted to laugh. She told Grandma that she wasn’t meeting a classmate; she was going to pick someone up at the airport.
Grandma casually asked, “Picking up Tangtang?”
“No.” Wen Di put on her trench coat. “Going to pick up Xiao Donghan.”
Grandpa, playing chess alone, looked up after making a move. “The Xiao family is a den of wolves and tigers.”
Wen Di assured Grandpa that she would only stay in her own territory.
Grandma patted Grandpa’s shoulder heavily. “Don’t scare the child. Their relationship isn’t even set in stone yet, and you’re already talking about marriage. It’s far off.”
Wen Di fastened her trench coat belt, picked up her bag, and walked out. At the door, she turned back, grabbed two small bags of lemon slices from the snack cart, and put them in her pocket.
When Grandma discovered her, she chuckled twice.
Grandma told Grandpa, “Didi finally looks a bit like her old self. I can eat an extra half bowl of rice tonight.”
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Wen Di waited for over forty minutes in the arrivals hall. Xiao Donghan finally emerged. Secretary Lu and others walked behind him, a distance away.
Xiao Donghan was pushing a silver sixteen-inch suitcase.
“What are you looking at?” Xiao Donghan asked as he approached.
Wen Di said, “The suitcase is a bit delicate, not quite suitable for you.”
Xiao Donghan said, “It’s for you.”
“Are there gifts inside?”
“Mm.”
It wasn’t convenient here, so Xiao Donghan said to open it in the car.
Besides Wen Di’s car, Xiao Donghan also had someone coming to pick him up.
Secretary Lu and the others took another car, while Xiao Donghan rode in Wen Di’s car.
Wen Di asked, “What treasure is in the suitcase?”
Xiao Donghan put away the armrest of the back seat and opened the suitcase.
It was a fruit Wen Di liked to eat, one that was always in her house. She could barely believe it. “You went to Costa Rica just to buy me pink pineapples?”
Xiao Donghan said, “I personally selected them for you from the farm.”
Wen Di knew how troublesome it was, from selecting them to bringing them back to the country.
“They sell them domestically too.”
“Not the same as the ones I picked.”
Xiao Donghan zipped up the suitcase. “I never thought I’d go this far out of my way, and even reach a new level.”
Wen Di laughed.
“Wen Di.”
“Hmm?”
She turned her face to look at him.
Xiao Donghan: “Once I have you in my heart, maybe you’ll have me in yours too. I never talk about love, but making an exception for you isn’t out of the question.”
He got out of the car and placed the suitcase in the trunk.
When he got back in the car, Wen Di noticed he was holding a copy of “The Book of Songs: Airs.”
She: “...”
All the way, Xiao Donghan was reading “The Book of Songs.” He said, “I just realized my second aunt’s name has a source in the Book of Songs, ‘Its leaves are luxuriant (其葉蓁蓁)’.”
Wen Di couldn’t bear to disturb his diligent studying.
Upon reaching the city, Xiao Donghan checked into the same hotel as last time.
Secretary Lu went to handle the check-in, while he carried the suitcase and went with Wen Di to the self-service restaurant on the third floor.
Wen Di asked him, “Aren’t you busy tonight?”
“Busy. I have a video conference in half an hour. Tomorrow morning I’ll go to the park, and in the afternoon, I’ll fly to Beijing.”
The restaurant wasn’t busy with diners yet. He borrowed the back kitchen to slice pink pineapple for Wen Di. The chef saw his clumsy movements and offered to help several times, but he politely declined.
After he finally managed to slice it, the chef contributed some raspberries and cranberries to make a vibrant fruit platter.
Xiao Donghan carried the platter to the restaurant and placed it in front of Wen Di.
He looked at his watch; there were still ten minutes.
“The meeting can’t be postponed.”
Wen Di tasted a piece of pineapple and said, “You go about your business. I might not finish this plate of pineapple even after your meeting is over.”
Xiao Donghan: “...”
He stood for another minute, then hurried upstairs.
Secretary Lu had already opened his laptop, and everything was ready.
“Jingyue has adjusted its competitive strategy.”
Xiao Donghan said, “Understood.”
Secretary Lu didn’t wait for further instructions. He understood that CEO Xiao was observing for now and wouldn’t make any adjustments.
At this moment, at Jingyue Building.
Yan Heyu had just turned off his computer; it was five minutes to nine.
Kang Bo knocked and entered, bringing him a contract.
“Mr. Yan, the Jiangcheng Industrial Park completed the contract procedures yesterday and mailed the contract today.”
Yan Heyu didn’t open it to read. He asked, “Signed for twenty years?”
“Twenty years first, and then we’ll see. If it’s still allowed to set off fireworks during the Spring Festival, we’ll continue to sponsor.”
Yan Heyu stood up, picked up his trench coat. “You should go home early too.”
Kang Bo still had one thing to report. “There’s no movement from Xiaoning Group for now.”
Yan Heyu said, “Xiao Donghan will definitely lay low before the New Year. He’s trying to hold onto the North China region.” It wasn’t that easy to hold, so Xiao Donghan wouldn’t distract himself by competing with him in other markets for now.
Leaving the company, the car headed for the Yan family’s old mansion.
Yan Heyu had been living at home. As for the villa, he hadn’t been there since he went to get clothes last time.
Tonight, Yan Heyan was home, sitting with his mother in front of the computer.
“Brother, you’re early today.”
It was already ten in the evening; this was one of his earlier returns home.
Yan Heyu asked, “What are you looking at?”
Ye Minqiong: “Heyan wants to go skiing with friends during the New Year, and he’s booking hotels. He asked me to help him look.” She hoped her son would also go out and relax. “How about you go with Heyan?”
“He’s going to Jiangcheng.”
“I’m going to Jiangcheng for the New Year.”
The siblings spoke in unison.
Ye Minqiong asked, “Which day are you going? Didn’t you say you’d take me to look around? I’m free after the second day of the New Year.”
Yan Heyu sat down beside his mother. “I’m spending the New Year there.”
“With whom? Guan Xiangmu?”
“...I’m alone. Guan Xiangmu has to accompany his parents.”
Ye Minqiong rested her forehead on her hand, deep in thought. Later, she changed the subject, asking her son if he had been to Jiangcheng recently.
“No. When Wen Di is writing a script, she hates being disturbed the most.” Even when they were together, he tried to avoid calling her when she was busy.
Yan Heyu turned on the TV to watch.
Yan Heyan kindly informed him, “There are no dramas by Wen Di recently. ‘Awakening from a Grand Dream’ hasn’t aired yet, and ‘Human World Is Not as Good as You’ finished airing a long time ago.”
Yan Heyu turned off the TV again.
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The few months before the New Year were very busy. Yan Heyu had many meetings and frequently traveled for business, sometimes not seeing his sister for ten days to half a month.
That day, he received a message from his sister, telling him that “Awakening from a Grand Dream” had set its premiere date, and she sent him the broadcast time.
[Brother, good luck.]
Yan Heyu: [No overtime tonight. I’ll treat you to dinner.]
Yan Heyan sent a selfie. [I’m at the airport, going skiing with friends.]
Yan Heyu looked at the calendar; there were eight days until Chinese New Year.
He asked Kang Bo to book him a flight to Jiangcheng five days later.
Kang Bo asked him, “When should I book the return flight?”
Yan Heyu thought for a moment. “We’ll see. Maybe after the Lantern Festival.”
This was his longest Spring Festival holiday.
On the day he went to Jiangcheng, Fan Zhisen personally picked him up at the airport.
Hearing that he would be spending the New Year there, Fan Zhisen had already arranged for New Year’s goods and even said he would send dishes on New Year’s Eve. “Homemade, all specialty Jiangcheng dishes.”
“No need to trouble yourself. I’ll have a restaurant deliver.”
“It’s no trouble. Restaurant food doesn’t have the same New Year’s flavor as homemade.”
He couldn’t eat much alone anyway, so he didn’t decline further.
The villa was renovated, and he bought another car, which now had a Jiangcheng license plate.
The new home was too quiet, and he wasn’t used to living there, waking up twice in the middle of the night.
The next day, Yan Heyu drove to a nearby bookstore to buy books. When he had free time, he needed to pass it somehow.
He chose two books in the new releases section, then browsed other sections, spending half an hour before finding one. He took the three books to the checkout.
Passing by the new releases section again, he paused slightly.
Wen Di also saw him. The new book she had picked up was the same as the one in his hand.
“Still busy with the script?” he greeted first.
Wen Di nodded. “On a business trip here?”
“Mm.”
She walked past him.
Yan Heyu looked back at her, then went to the cashier to pay.
The staff asked him if he had a membership card.
“Is it a phone number?”
“Yes.”
Wen Di should be a member of this bookstore. The number she was using was still her old Jiangcheng number, unchanged, but Yan Heyu wasn’t sure if it was hers.
The staff said, “Just give me the number, and I’ll check.”
Yan Heyu gave Wen Di’s phone number.
“It’s a platinum membership, 15% off.” “Please wait a moment.”
Yan Heyu quickly went to find Wen Di. “Wen Di.”
Wen Di was flipping through a book. She looked up. “Something wrong?”
“Just wanted to let you know, I borrowed your membership card. It saves a dozen yuan.”
“...”
“Thank you.” After saying that, Yan Heyu went to the cashier.
Wen Di continued to browse for books. After picking out a few suitable financial reference books, she went to checkout.
Leaving the bookstore, Wen Di went to the parking lot to get her car. She came to the bookstore today specifically to buy reference books and picked up two new novels on the side.
Just as she got into the car, someone tapped on the passenger window.
Wen Di looked over; it was Yan Heyu.
She rolled down the window. “Mr. Yan, what is it?”
Yan Heyu said, “Thank you for your membership card. Happy New Year in advance, and I wish you all the best.” He placed the flowers on her passenger seat.
He looked at her, then told her to close the window. “Close it. It’s cold outside.”
Wen Di looked at the passenger seat. There was a yellow rose and a white lisianthus.
He had already turned and left.