SM Chapter 41

The41chapter Be determined “Zhu Shihao, you’ve always been different from us…

Of course there’s a problem!

But when Qiu Ying met his indifferent gaze, she didn’t dare to say more.

The atmosphere was too subtle.

Glancing at him, Zhu Shihao looked at Qiu Ying, smiling, “They’re all from the same brand, just different styles.”

These words seemed to smooth things over, but also seemed to point out that what you’re using is indeed different from what I’m using.

Wei Wang looked at the cup: “It’s that ‘Kiriko’ again, Xu Yan, you really like it.”

They can afford it, but never bring themselves to buy crystal glassware.

“So-so.” Tan Zhi Xu put down the blue cup in his hand, making a crisp clinking sound, and leaned back, “She likes it more.”

Being named again, Zhu Shihao turned to look at him: “Isn’t it good-looking?”

Tan Zhi Xu looked at her, tugged at his collar, and scoffed: “Good-looking.”

Obviously, he was mainly trying to please her and echo her.

Edo Kiriko crystal cups aren’t cheap, and they also have requirements for water temperature. For Tan Zhi Xu, they’re no different from the most ordinary glass cups, and even more troublesome.

But the price is only a drop in the bucket for him. Since Zhu Shihao likes them, that’s valuable enough. Buying those ordinary styles was just incidental, also to distinguish the “special” ones, like his and Zhu Shihao’s.

After Tan Zhi Xu spoke back, Su Yuewei put down the delicate crystal cup in her hand. A second ago, she still thought it was beautiful, but now, looking at the pair of colors as if they were flowing and about to overflow from the cups, all praise vanished.

The meal, of course, was delivered.

After a hearty meal, Ran Cai rubbed her stomach and said she needed to take a walk to digest.

Zhu Shihao smiled and also reached out to touch her stomach. The curve under her hand proved that she was probably really full.

“Do you want to take a few laps in the yard? You can sit and bask in the sun.”

Ran Cai supported herself on the table to stand up, holding her waist: “Let’s go.”

Tan Zhi Xu sat next to her. After hearing this, he just raised his eyelids and reminded her in a low voice, “Put on a coat.”

“Okay, I know.” Zhu Shihao stood up and, in response, couldn’t help but reach out and ruffle his hair. “We’re leaving.”

The man whose hair was ruffled wasn’t upset at all. He drawled a lazy “okay,” his gaze following her until he saw her put on her coat before he withdrew it.

There were only four women in total, as if divided into three camps, and none of them were very harmonious. The remaining Su Yuewei and Qiu Ying glanced at Tan Zhi Xu from time to time, with no intention of going out.

The onlookers Wei Wang and the others clicked their tongues secretly, suddenly feeling that boundless charm might not be entirely a good thing.

But the center of attention seemed unaware, not taking it to heart at all, and turning a blind eye.

In the courtyard, the two walked slowly hand in hand.

“It is indeed Huating. If it weren’t for Xu Yan, I’m afraid I would never have entered here in my life.” Looking at the villa in front of her, Ran Cai couldn’t help but sigh, “There should be many rooms, right? Are there many functional areas?”

Zhu Shihao subconsciously tilted her head and glanced at it: “A few rooms were torn down to enlarge the rooms, but there are still gyms, billiard rooms, movie rooms, and wet bars.”

“Then are we going to watch a movie later?” Ran Cai asked.

Zhu Shihao shook her head almost without hesitation: “I’m afraid not. The screening room is on the third floor, next to Zhi Xu’s bedroom.”

Ran Cai was speechless for a moment: “Got it, got it, so from the beginning, you didn’t intend for anyone else to go, right?”

After a pause of two seconds, Zhu Shihao suddenly had the idea of testing something and answered honestly: “Not really. During the New Year, when our two families spent the New Year here, I went up to see it.”

Hearing the first three words, she thought she could say something special.

Ran Cai sighed and waved her hand casually: “That’s normal. The ‘others’ we’re talking about don’t include you, okay?”

She remembered that Tan Zhi Xu had also asked her “Are you an outsider?” that New Year’s Eve.

Her wandering heart suddenly settled down, and she felt complicated for a moment.

After a moment of silence, Zhu Shihao raised this question for the first time.

“Why?”

Why did everyone seem to take it for granted, and seemed not to care?

Ran Cai stopped when she heard this, took her hand away, turned around and held her face with both hands, looking at her strangely. She was watching her so that her heartbeat gradually accelerated, almost thinking she was suspected.

“My God, Shihao, my baby, did you really have so little self-awareness?”

“Huh? What?” She asked puzzled, but her heart settled down again.

It seemed Ran Cai didn’t think there was anything wrong.

The feel was too good, Ran Cai couldn’t help but pinch it, and after pinching it, she carefully peeked at the door, and only after not seeing a certain person’s figure did she feel relieved.

She patted her again before hooking Zhu Shihao’s arm again and strolling leisurely to digest food.

“Do you know why Wei Wang and the others call you ‘Good Sis’?”

Since high school, they seemed to have called her that, and she had never thought about this question. But thinking about it now, the answer seemed very clear.

“Because of Zhi Xu.”

“Bingo!” Ran Cai snapped her fingers, “Because Xu Yan isn’t easy to mess with, so they call him ‘Xu Yan’.”

That’s right. She didn’t know when Wei Wang and the others started calling Tan Zhi Xu “Xu Yan,” and then “Zhu Shihao” turned into “Good Sis.”

Not wanting to walk anymore, Ran Cai looked around and pulled her straight to the swing: “Baby, you’re not easy to mess with either, so they call you ‘Good Sis,’ but your being not easy to mess with is ultimately because Xu Yan isn’t easy to mess with.”

“We have a consensus that Xu Yan seems to always control you, but in fact, it seems that he doesn’t control you much. You seem not to control Xu Yan much, but look, it seems that as long as you say it, he listens to it.”

Tan Zhi Xu’s bottom line for control was very low, almost no requirements. He was like a caring parent, and he would never deny her unless there was a fundamental problem. He just supported her unconditionally.

Zhu Shihao’s control was like some nagging, don’t skip class, don’t fight, don’t smoke… trivial things that had no deterrent power, but restrained the most rebellious young master.

In high school, Zhu Shihao said, “Zhi Xu, you have to make friends.”

So he had Wei Wang and Hao Hao.

When he was a graduate student, Zhu Shihao said, “Zhi Xu, it just so happens that you like this major and you don’t like being arranged. You’re so good, why don’t you just be your own boss?”

So Tan Zhi Xu, who was still considering whether to go to the family company, started his own company with others.

At this moment, Zhu Shihao suddenly thought of many things…

Ran Cai’s face was ordinary, without too much reaction, but she said words that struck her heart.

“Xu Yan protects you the most. He himself doesn’t think you’re one of the ‘others.'”

“He himself said, ‘How can you compare to her?’ Shihao, you’ve always been different from us.”

Her thoughts were dazed. For some reason, she recalled Xu Ting’s teasing.

They said that you could see how a person would be at three years old. At that time, Tan Zhi Xu seemed very aloof and unapproachable, but even the most indifferent expression on his tender and delicate face with baby fat looked very cute.

As a result, Tan Zhi Xu, who combined cuteness and coldness, was very popular with little girls from a young age.

Xu Ting, who was carrying two little kids, had to witness the “crime scene” from time to time, which she jokingly called “an accident caused by attractiveness and favoritism.”

At a family dinner the year before last, she was still joking about the two of them, saying that when they were five or six years old, a little girl followed Zhu Shihao and called him “Zhi Xu.”

Tan Zhi Xu kept a straight face, without much expression: “I’m not familiar with you, please call me by my full name.”

The human cubs didn’t understand what childhood sweethearts were, but they already knew how to compare.

The little girl was wronged when she was rejected: “Why can Zhu Shihao call you that?”

He couldn’t explain it either, so after thinking for two seconds, he gave an invincible answer: “Because Zhu Shihao is Zhu Shihao, and everyone else isn’t.”

Wow, Xu Ting was stunned when she heard it, thinking that her son was gifted. She had originally worried that he would grow into a sweet-talking scumbag.

As a result, the more she grew up, the more she realized that she was overthinking it. Don’t even mention sweet talk, there weren’t even a few pleasant words.

At that time, Zhu Shihao just maintained a smile when she heard it, kept her expression calm, and secretly glanced at the handsome man without any trace. The “thumping” heartbeat slowly calmed down in his calm face.

But at this time, Zhu Shihao’s thoughts were already a bit slow. She thought about the past and the present, and could only pretend to be normal and respond to Ran Cai: “Is that so.”

“Of course, speaking of which, Xu Yan is so unapproachable, I’ve never seen him upset or angry at you.”

Zhu Shihao silently said, I haven’t seen it either.

That’s not right, the love letter incident was the only time Tan Zhi Xu was really angry with her, and it was also the only time they had a cold war.

She was always sad that Tan Zhi Xu didn’t take the initiative to make up with her at that time, but now that she thought about it again, she also remembered him falling behind her half a step in silence and indifference, carrying either her bag or her water cup in his hand.

At this moment, Zhu Shihao seemed to understand why everyone didn’t think the distance between them as opposite genders was too shallow and ambiguous.

Because Zhu Shihao had always been in Tan Zhi Xu’s small circle, she had always been a free and protected person in his territory.

Even if this was fundamentally different from what she wanted, after realizing this, she still truly felt happy and satisfied with this differential treatment.

The two sat on the swing and gently swayed, discussing other topics.

After nearly an hour, not seeing or hearing anyone, Tan Zhi Xu threw the handle to Hao Hao, picked up the water cup, prepared to get a glass of water, and then go to the courtyard to take a look.

Seeing him get up, Su Yuewei quickly followed.

Seeing this, Hao Hao made an exaggerated expression, nudged Wei Wang with his elbow, winking at him.

“What are you doing?”

Wei Wang replied puzzled, and followed suit to raise his eyes, just in time to see the woman chasing after him, the figures of the two mostly hidden by the cover of the wall, but one thing was certain, that the two were standing together.

His facial features were all twisted a little, and he said in a low voice: “Don’t worry about it.”

Hao Hao shrugged, of course he wouldn’t care.

Looking at the man in front of her, Su Yuewei saw that the immature air from many years ago had completely faded away. Such Tan Zhi Xu was ten or a hundred times more attractive than in the past.

“Zhi Xu, I also regretted it a lot after the exchange back then, but I never dared to come and find you. I only made up my mind to come back and find you after hearing that you’re still single.”

Tan Zhi Xu didn’t even raise his head, looking at the water column, his whole body filled with a lazy air.

“You don’t need to make up your mind, and you don’t need to come back.”

Su Yuewei bit her lip, her eyes turning red the next second: “Zhi Xu, are you still blaming me? Don’t blame me, I already know I was wrong, let’s get back together, okay?”

Pressing the stop button, Tan Zhi Xu even felt a bit bizarre, and finally gave her a look.

“Su Yuewei, we were together, but if I remember correctly, that was six, seven, or eight years ago, right? What makes you think we can get back together?”

Su Yuewei looked at him with tears in her eyes: “You still love me, don’t you?”

Tan Zhi Xu: “??”

Discovering that she didn’t need him to answer at all, only caring about talking to herself.

“Otherwise, why haven’t you deleted me, but deleted me after I found you so many times? You know I won’t give up, and I’ve come back, so it doesn’t matter if you delete me.”

Tan Zhi Xu gave her a second look, frowning: “…”

Where’s the logic?

This woman is really sick, is she crazy?

Seeing that he didn’t speak, Su Yuewei thought he hadn’t refuted it, and cried and laughed: “I knew it, you haven’t forgotten me, otherwise why haven’t you been in a serious relationship all these years?”

“Zhi Xu, forgive me, I’m back, let’s get back together.”

Unable to listen anymore, this person should be impossible to communicate with, and he had no intention of communicating anyway. Tan Zhi Xu picked up the cup, wanting to get past her and go out to find Zhu Shihao.

But Su Yuewei didn’t want to just let it go, she had finally found an opportunity to catch him alone.

“Zhi Xu.”

Dodging her grabbing hand, Tan Zhi Xu raised his eyes, his gaze cold, his face having no other emotions except impatience.

“Have you ever thought that the reason I didn’t delete you before was because I didn’t care? There was no need to even click on your profile picture. Now I’m deleting you because you talk too much, and even ‘do not disturb’ can’t save me from the annoyance.”