SM Chapter 62

Chapter 62: Moon Book Red Thread “Zhi Xu, you must love me very much.”……

Chapter 62 Moon Book Red Thread “Zhi Xu, you must love me very much.”……

As soon as these words came out, the silence that had just been broken solidified again for a moment.

This time, Tan Zhi Xu broke the silence. The young master seemed to be completely unaware of the impact of this matter, and his tone was as plain as if asking, “Have you eaten yet?”

“Aren’t you going to congratulate us?”

In the end, Hao Hao and Li Chennan were the only ones at the table who didn’t know.

Hao Hao retracted his chin, but the dumbfounded expression couldn’t be retracted. Like a triggered command, he said, “Oh, oh, congratulations, congratulations! Wishing you a long and happy marriage, and may you have a blessed son soon.”

Zhu Shihao: “…”

Li Chennan, who owns two bars and has seen many outrageous scenes, was much calmer: “Congratulations, when did you two get together?”

Tan Zhi Xu glanced at the person beside him: “We haven’t been officially together for long, probably after the National Day holiday.”

Naturally, they wouldn’t mention their previous taboo relationship of being friends in name only.

Hao Hao regained his senses and said dissatisfiedly, “No way, Brother Xu, you only told us after a month or two!”

“We didn’t hide it on purpose. If your eyes aren’t good, get them checked; if your brain isn’t working, get it fixed.” Tan Zhi Xu glanced at Wei Wang, who was still depressed about missing the opportunity, and a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth. “Wei Wang ran into us a couple of days ago. Turns out he not only told us not to say anything, but he didn’t say anything himself either.”

As he said that, he revealed a very hypocritical look of surprise and sympathy.

It was obviously fake, but it had to be admitted that his rhetoric was much better than Zhu Shihao’s. Ran Cai gave them both a thumbs up.

Having known each other for so many years, how could they not know that it was intentional? But did it matter? It didn’t!

The key was that Wei Wang really hadn’t said anything!

After some banter, they raised their glasses and clinked them together.

Zhu Shihao smiled gently: “Thank you, everyone. You guys should hurry up too.”

Hao Hao gasped: “No way, I hear that at home already, how can I hear it here too!”

After chatting for a while, Wei Wang finally asked the key question: “Brother Xu, how did you and Good Sister take that heroic step?”

Everyone was very interested in this question.

As everyone knew, turning a friend into a lover wasn’t that simple. Once the bow was drawn, there was no turning back. Once the relationship changed, it was difficult to go back to the way things were before. The more one cared, the more one worried.

Announcing it to the public could be considered half the battle. Tan Zhi Xu was in a much better mood than he appeared to be, leaning back without a care and not letting go of the hand around her waist.

“Well, I pursued her and begged her. As for ‘heroic’…”

He paused, turned to look at Zhu Shihao, and a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth: “Because we can only have each other.”

How was this any different from sweet nothings? How was this any different from a public confession!

Wei Wang and Ran Cai howled exaggeratedly, saying they couldn’t take it.

Zhu Shihao tilted her head to look at him. Whether it was the word “pursued” or the word “begged,” Tan Zhi Xu was actually trying to hold her up high.

He was always like this, wanting everyone to know how important Zhu Shihao was to him.

But he was important to her too.

“Well, I think so too.” Zhu Shihao replied with a smile.

Accepting his feelings and returning her own.

The smile on Tan Zhi Xu’s lips widened, and the apathy in his eyes was replaced by tenderness whenever he looked at her. From beginning to end, the person he never let out of his sight was Zhu Shihao.

After some teasing, Wei Wang remembered to ask, “How did you find out?”

He wasn’t really stupid. Now he naturally understood that it wasn’t the parties involved who had revealed it.

At the mention of this, Ran Cai sneered, took out her phone, opened a social app, and started scrolling through her favorites without even looking up.

“Friends, high school students are gossip groups with super-fast internet speeds, okay!”

She opened the extremely beautiful bouquet of flowers and shoved it in front of Zhu Shihao’s eyes.

“Baby Shihao, do you know what ‘same city’ means?”

Along with the two words she emphasized was the familiar bouquet of Freudian roses. She had been looking at them for two days, and she could even distinguish the angles of the photos.

“Does this place look familiar? Doesn’t that brick next to it look like the ones in your store? Doesn’t the clothing that’s showing a mirror look like the one I bought? If you really can’t tell, take a look at the address in the caption, Jinxi Commercial Street?”

“And look at the caption, it says that the person sending the flowers and the person receiving the flowers are childhood sweethearts and the owner is a super-temperamental beauty.”

Ran Cai raised her hand to her mouth and said in an exaggerated tone: “No way, no way, it can’t all be a coincidence, right?”

Zhu Shihao was silent.

Tan Zhi Xu, who had been looking at it all along, raised his eyelids and asked faintly: “Why are you so rude? Not only did you post it without the parties’ permission, but you didn’t even offer a blessing?”

Ran Cai, who had been full of accusations, stuttered: “…”

After a long while, she found her words again: “Then I’ll help you ask?”

She took back her phone and left a comment: [That childhood sweetheart hopes the author will send his blessings.]

Zhu Shihao, who had witnessed everything, was speechless: “…”

Could you guys be a little more promising? You don’t have to listen to him for everything.

Ran Cai blinked innocently. There was no way. Tan Zhi Xu had always seemed indifferent and unconcerned about everything, but over the years, his sense of oppression had become stronger.

Zhu Shihao remembered something very important and stared at her sharply: “My parents don’t know, do they?”

Ran Cai rolled her eyes and said angrily, “If I hadn’t just heard about this yesterday and made an appointment to meet today, I might have had to run to Teacher Liu’s office.”

Seeing that she breathed a sigh of relief, Ran Cai paused and said, “You didn’t tell your family?”

Zhu Shihao nodded: “My mom was still urging me to go on blind dates before, and I wasn’t happy about it. I’m afraid she’ll think Zhi Xu and I colluded to deal with her and Aunt Ting. I’ll tell them in a while, at the latest during the New Year.”

Ran Cai nodded: “Okay, I understand. Don’t worry, I’ll keep my mouth shut.”

At the end of the gathering, they all happily decided not to tell Yang Xu yet.

Standing at the entrance of the bar, no one reminded Tan Zhi Xu to take Zhu Shihao home this time. They just watched them leave with ambiguous eyes, wondering which house they would go back to.

Naturally, they went back to Shen Yi.

“I feel like I haven’t been back to Rui Li in ages.” Zhu Shihao changed into her fluffy slippers.

In this year, even her slippers had gone from fluffy to back to fluffy again, and even changed styles. The amount of her stuff in this house was visibly increasing. Before, it was just in the bedroom, but now it had spread outside.

She took off her coat and hung it up, and her eyes swept over the floral cushions and small blanket on the sofa, the preserved plums and shark clip on the table…

So, when there was enough love, it always overflowed.

With a curl of her lips, Zhu Shihao turned and stood still. Tan Zhi Xu, who was following behind her, stopped as well, raising his eyebrows as if to ask what she was doing, but she moved closer to him.

Zhu Shihao wrapped her arms around his neck, and the height difference forced her to raise her face.

“Zhi Xu, you must love me very much.”

She wondered how others would answer this kind of question.

Tan Zhi Xu raised his hand to support her lower back, a gesture that was intimate and very protective. A faint smile appeared on his face, and his light tone and lazy voice didn’t hide the slightest bit of fervent love.

“You’re only finding out now?”

She giggled, tiptoed, kissed him, and snuggled into his arms, her cheek pressed against his. “I want to know every day.”

Gently stroking her back, the smile in Tan Zhi Xu’s eyes grew stronger: “Well, I can say it every day.”

“Only once?”

“As many times as you want. I can even record it as your ringtone.”

Then you’d really be cheesy.

But Zhu Shihao was very happy and her eyebrows curved into crescents: “I don’t want that.”

However, she belatedly realized that Tan Zhi Xu loved to ask this kind of question even more than she did, and even when unbearable sweat dripped down, he stubbornly wanted to hear her answer.

“I love you.”

Then, after repeated questioning, she mastered the standard answer.

“I love Zhi Xu, I only love you.”

Snuggled in his arms, Zhu Shihao was soft and limp from exhaustion, but mentally she reached an unusually clear state, the opposite of exhausted, as her fingertips scratched his collarbone.

She was thinking about the past for the first time in a while.

Tan Zhi Xu always held Zhu Shihao up high. Even as a child, he seemed extremely difficult to provoke.

In Xu Ting’s words, he was like that even when he was two or three years old. When he was unhappy, he wouldn’t throw a tantrum, but he would stare at you expressionlessly with his dark eyes.

Later, when everyone realized that the taciturn Tan Zhi Xu was actually articulate and quick-witted, it was also because his words could always hit people where it hurt.

In short, he was really not someone to be trifled with. Randomly making a child cry was a regular occurrence, and he wasn’t afraid of fighting either, clenching his fists and aiming for places other than the head. When the two children were together, one was logical and well-reasoned, and the other was so proper that it was charmingly transgressive. The parents who came to the door would politely say goodbye and go home, only to beat their own children again.

But this Tan Zhi Xu, who was not to be trifled with, made all the children and classmates have one thing in common: Zhu Shihao was not to be provoked.

Or rather, provoking her had even more serious consequences. Simply making Tan Zhi Xu unhappy might just get you frightening glares and ridicule, but making Zhu Shihao unhappy meant that you would face Tan Zhi Xu’s furious storm.

After all, he would really take action.

Thinking about this, a long-delayed drowsiness came on fiercely. She mumbled, “Zhi Xu, you’re so good to me.”

The end of her sentence was already slurred and unclear, and she fell into a deep sleep as soon as she finished speaking.

Lowering his eyes to see that she had already fallen asleep, Tan Zhi Xu kissed the top of her head, lowering his voice to make it even more deep and melodious.

“Well, you are my treasure.”

A week later, Zhu Shihao received another invitation from Zhu Suiyi, this time to her house.

Zhu Suiyi thought she was being very thoughtful: “You don’t even have to move. Just wait for me and the tagalong. What do you want to eat, fried chicken, dry pot, or spicy skewers? It’s on your big sister.”

Zhu Shihao, who looked at the oversized bed beneath her, where she didn’t have to move: “…”

I thank you.

And so, Tan Zhi Xu sent her back to Rui Li with a calm expression, but a hint of coldness between his eyebrows.

“Are you angry?” She carefully looked at the man beside her.

“No.” He answered very formally.

Try to restrain that restlessness before you speak.

She picked at his sleeve, considering that he was driving and not moving much, picking at it drily with the same tone as his words.

“There’s no way around it. She’s coming tomorrow morning, and you know that I’d rather stay up late than get up early. Aiya, just bear with it, it’ll be over in a month or two at most.”

The last sentence was already coaxing him.

There were hardly any cars on the road. He glanced at her out of the corner of his eye, and a hint of helplessness appeared on his face.

“I’m really not angry. How could I get angry over something like this? It’s just that I just came out of the shower and heard that my girlfriend was running away, so I’m a little annoyed.”

Annoyed in every sense of the word, but not with her as a person, and definitely not angry.

“Actually, I could have called a car myself.” It was already past eleven o’clock, and she felt a little guilty.

On the empty road, he stopped steadily at the crosswalk, snorted, and turned to glance at her: “Don’t talk nonsense. Do you think I would let you call a car alone?”

Of course, she knew it was impossible.

“Are you going back to Hua Ting later? It’s so late.”

“I’m not going back. I’m going straight back to Shen Yi.” He was tall with long limbs, and with a stretch of his arm, he put his big hand on her head and ruffled it. “Don’t think about it. Have fun with Sister Yi. I’ll pick you up when you’re done.”

Zhu Shihao nodded obediently: “Jia Jia has dancing lessons, so it should be over in the afternoon.”

After sending her upstairs, he didn’t go in. Standing at the door, Tan Zhi Xu said, “Lock the door, and the bedroom too.”

Having not heard these words in a long time, she was first stunned, then chuckled.

Tan Zhi Xu looked at her.

Zhu Shihao’s voice was gentle: “I haven’t heard those words in a long time. It feels like a long time ago.”

Compared to when he had to say it three or four times, four or five times a week, he really didn’t have much chance to say those words now.

Tan Zhi Xu’s lips curved up, and he gave her head a firm rub: “I hope you never give me that chance again.”

It was already very late, and it wasn’t convenient for him to stay, so they didn’t say much more. Tan Zhi Xu closed the door and stood at the door without moving. He waited until he heard a knock on the door before knocking back in response, then turned and left after two or three seconds.

But before he even got out of the elevator, he received a video call from her.

“Zhi Xu, I’ll keep you company.”

Her Zhi Xu seemed so pitiful.