WT Chapter 44

Chapter 44: Chocolate Bread – Can Effectively Avoid Addiction

Wen Shixi impatiently hardened his scalp and said, “Got it.”

Seeing that he was in a better mood.

Because the meeting downstairs was halfway through, the two quickly went downstairs.

After a brief greeting, Wen Shixi walked towards the door under the gaze of everyone.

At this moment, Jiang Quanyu called out to Wen Shixi.

After approaching, he handed Wen Shixi a kraft paper bag.

“Eat this on the way.”

Before dawn when the cruise ship docked, Chen Jiale specifically ordered people to disembark and go to a popular bakery near the port, said to be a world-famous baking shop.

Wen Shixi glanced into the bag, smelling the wheat fragrance slowly emanating from the paper bag.

Then, in front of many people, he played the part of a good brother, obediently nodding his head: “Thank you, Brother.”

Jiang Quanyu slightly raised his eyebrows, said nothing, watching Wen Shixi walk out of the room step by step.

When the sun rose halfway into the sky, the cruise ship finally stopped at a foreign coast.

Wen Shixi supported Jiang Yan as he disembarked, and then took the car arranged by Jiang Quanyu, all the way to the airport.

In the car, Wen Shixi sat on one side of the back row, took out a bread box from the paper bag, opened it, and saw a cherry jam bread covered in white chocolate.

Wen Shixi hesitated for a moment, then raised the bread to his mouth and took a bite.

The tooth marks were imprinted on the soft skin of the bread, looking a little cute.

Chocolate, frosting, and jam mixed together, the taste was rich and varied, and the mouth was full of sweetness.

Jiang Quanyu used to say that Wen Shixi’s tastes were always like a child’s, liking to eat things that were tooth-achingly sweet.

Thinking of Jiang Quanyu, Wen Shixi took out his phone from his coat pocket.

He opened the search application, recalling the medicine bottle he saw on Jiang Quanyu’s bedside just now, and entered the name of the medicine into the search box.

The foreign internet speed was a bit slow to load, he waited for a moment, and the search results were displayed one by one.

Then, Wen Shixi’s chewing gradually stopped.

The vehicle drove over a bumpy road, shaking for a moment.

Wen Shixi frowned, looking at the words on the screen.

…Anti-anxiety medication?

“A mental drug suitable for long-term use, because it can effectively avoid addiction, it is widely praised abroad.”

Why does Jiang Quanyu need to take this?

At this time, the vehicle was driving in a downtown area, with a lot of noise and confusion outside the window.

Wen Shixi blinked, feeling extremely confused.

This confusion persisted until he boarded the plane for the return trip and still did not alleviate.

The flight was a total of three hours, landing in the afternoon.

Due to the influence of the flight, Jiang Yan’s hands began to tremble involuntarily after landing.

Wen Shixi escorted Jiang Yan all the way to the parking garage at the airport, and after explaining a few words to Jiang Yan’s personal driver, he watched the vehicle leave the parking lot.

The “escort car” that Jiang Quanyu arranged for him was next to the parking space where Jiang Yan’s driver had parked.

Soon, the driver respectfully welcomed Wen Shixi into the car.

In the stuffy parking garage, Wen Shixi sat in the car, and as if possessed, took out his phone and looked at it.

More than twenty minutes after landing, there was still no phone call.

Wen Shixi put away his phone, looking at the dark color outside the window, his face extremely cold.

The airport was built not far from the city, and after returning to the apartment, Wen Shixi simply threw his phone aside.

He rested on the sofa for a while, and then, without even unpacking his luggage, he took a hasty shower and went straight to the piano.

His fingertip pinched the tassel cover cloth on the piano, slowly lifting it.

Yesterday at the banquet, before Jiang Quanyu arrived, he had been talking to Jiang Yan and other pianists.

Most of the topics of conversation among top pianists were about the piano, and several people kept mentioning many scores and interesting stories, which made Wen Shixi want to go home and play the piano.

For Wen Shixi, there was nothing more comfortable than playing the piano.

In the quiet afternoon, notes flowed slowly from his fingertips, drifting towards the golden warm sun.

Because he was focused enough, time passed quickly without him noticing.

Not knowing how long had passed, Wen Shixi found that he could no longer see the notes on the music score, and gradually came back to his senses, realizing that the sky outside the window was dark.

Because of constant pressing, his fingertips were numb, and his skin was lightly burning as it filled with blood.

When playing in the past, Wen Shixi would sometimes think.

Why does he have to keep playing the piano, and what is he playing for?

He doesn’t need anyone to feel joy, happiness, and satisfaction because of his music, and he is not lonely enough to need to please himself.

Thinking about it in the end, he slowly realized that playing the piano is an exceptionally lonely thing.

Because no one will ever be able to touch the same key with him at the same time.

So every note under his hands belongs entirely to him.

This kind of safe loneliness made Wen Shixi extremely love it, even to the point of breaking his skin and bleeding.

Night was gradually approaching, enveloping the neon-filled city sky.

The sky still had the last piece of pale orange afterglow, embedded with the distant high-rise buildings.

Borrowing the remaining faint light in the room, Wen Shixi stood up from the chair.

He stepped towards the other side of the room, stopping by the sofa as he passed it, and picked up his phone again to take a look.

The notification bar did not show any missed calls, only many WeChat messages squeezed together.

Wen Shixi put down his phone, his footsteps were long and soft, slowly coming to the kitchen door.

He opened the refrigerator and took out a bottle of ice water from the refrigerator.

The cold liquid woke up his body’s senses, Wen Shixi leaned against the wall, and looked at the phone on the sofa again.

After the piano sound disappeared, the room sank into darkness, as silent as the bottom of the sea.

Before long, Wen Shixi walked to the sofa and sat down, leaning back into the sofa, slowly exhaling a breath.

Then, he picked up the phone beside him again, quietly looking at it in front of his eyes.

Between a few unnatural movements, Wen Shixi belatedly, suddenly frowned slightly.

He finally realized that he seemed to have been tricked by Jiang Quanyu.

Just because Jiang Quanyu said he wasn’t allowed not to answer the phone, the hint was just right, so he subconsciously waited after finishing practicing the piano…

Wen Shixi was silent for a moment, raised his hand and threw the phone to the other side of the sofa.

The phone drew an elegant arc in the air, and then landed half a meter away.

Wen Shixi crossed his arms, feeling that Jiang Quanyu seemed to have learned a lot of new things in the United States these past few years.

Just then, the phone in the distance suddenly lit up.

The screen showed the incoming call interface, illuminating a small area of the room.

Wen Shixi was stunned, looking at the phone he had just thrown out.

Time passed bit by bit, the vibration notification sound droned on, with a hint of urging.

But Wen Shixi sat there, and never moved.

Before long, the call automatically ended, and the screen also went out, the sight was once again dim.

Wen Shixi tilted his head.

The next second, the phone rang again.

Wen Shixi got up from the sofa, and simply went back to the room to pack his luggage, leaving the phone alone in the corner of the sofa to vibrate.

He didn’t bring much luggage when he boarded the ship yesterday, and after packing it up in a short time, Wen Shixi stood in front of the luggage bag, revealing a puzzled expression.

His bank card seemed to be missing.

Wen Shixi was certain that the bank card had always been clipped in his card holder and would not be taken out casually.

In the dim room, Wen Shixi walked out of the bedroom in confusion.

In the corner of the sofa, the phone was still lit up, looking from a distance, the incoming call screen revealed a bit of stubbornness.

Wen Shixi frowned and walked towards the sofa, that bank card, if it wasn’t taken by someone else, then it could only be that he took it out himself… Then what exactly did he say to Jiang Quanyu yesterday?

Wen Shixi walked to the sofa and picked up the phone.

It’s just that the name of the person displayed on the incoming call was different from what he expected, he hesitated to answer the phone and said, “Hello?”

Cheng Xuan’s voice was a little anxious: “Shixi, where are you?”

Wen Shixi: “At home, is something the matter?”

Cheng Xuan said helplessly: “You’re at home, why didn’t you answer the phone all the time?”

“I was practicing the piano.” Wen Shixi never looks at his phone when he practices the piano: “Is something the matter?”

Cheng Xuan on the other end of the phone hesitated for a moment and said, “I’m on my way over, I’ll be there soon, let’s talk when we meet.”

Wen Shixi received Jiang Yan’s call temporarily last night and didn’t have time to explain Jiang Quanyu’s matter to Cheng Xuan. Hearing that Cheng Xuan was coming over, he agreed: “Okay, then how long will you be here?”

“Twenty minutes.” Cheng Xuan looked at the time while driving, he knew that as long as Wen Shixi practiced the piano, he wouldn’t care about anything: “You’ve been practicing the piano all the time? Have you had dinner yet?”

Wen Shixi: “No.”

Cheng Xuan was extremely helpless: “I’ll bring it to you, is there anything you want to eat?”

Wen Shixi sat back on the sofa and thought about it.

There really was.

Half an hour later, Wen Shixi was sitting on the carpet in front of the bookshelf flipping through music scores, with books and music clips spread all over the floor by his feet.

He heard the sound of the door opening coming from the entrance from afar, and looked up towards the door, only to see Cheng Xuan walking into the room a few seconds later.

Cheng Xuan was carrying a paper bag in his hand, looking around, and saw Wen Shixi sitting on the ground, surrounded by music scores.

The young man was wearing a loose white soft shirt, the French windows not far behind him were stained with the night, setting off the figure wrapped in staff, exceptionally spotless.

Seeing that Wen Shixi looked normal, Cheng Xuan finally slowly breathed a sigh of relief.

Then, Cheng Xuan asked puzzledly, “What are you doing?”

Wen Shixi sifted through the music clips around him: “I’m looking for Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor.”

As he spoke, he looked at Cheng Xuan, blinking his eyes: “By the way, do you have that? I remember you conducted this piece during the reporting performance in my junior year.”

Cheng Xuan stepped forward, walking towards Wen Shixi, and said as he walked: “I only have the full score, not the separate scores for each part, it may be a bit difficult for you to read, what are you looking for this for?”

Hearing this, Wen Shixi continued to lower his head and rummage through the scores: “I talked about it with someone yesterday, and I wanted to try it out a bit, I remember the teacher gave it to me before.”

Cheng Xuan walked closer, not knowing whether to laugh or cry: “You should eat something first.”

He shook the paper bag in his hand: “Didn’t you say you wanted to eat chocolate bread?”

The two said a few more words, Wen Shixi got up from a pile of music scores, took the paper bag in Cheng Xuan’s hand, and walked towards the dining table together.

At the dining table, Wen Shixi sat down in the chair and started to open the paper bag.

He only ate a few bites on the plane at noon, and at this time, smelling the smell of bread, he suddenly felt a burst of hunger.

Wen Shixi took out the bread bag, opened it and brought it to his mouth to take a bite.

Cheng Xuan sat opposite him, seeing Wen Shixi take a big bite, and asked.

“Is it good?”

Wen Shixi chewed slowly, then hesitated for a moment.

“Yeah, it’s pretty good.”

It was indeed pretty good, no different from what Jiang Quanyu gave him.

Wen Shixi bit into the bread, took out his phone from his pocket, intending to take advantage of the fact that he was free now to look at the annoying messages that had been accumulating since the afternoon.

He opened the application while casually asking Cheng Xuan, “Why did you suddenly come to me? When are you planning to go back to Vienna?”

As Wen Shixi’s words fell, Cheng Xuan’s face changed slightly.

Seeing that Wen Shixi was looking at his phone, Cheng Xuan suddenly reached out and pressed down on the hand that Wen Shixi was holding the phone with, and asked, “You’ve been practicing the piano all afternoon?”

Wen Shixi’s phone was suddenly pressed down, revealing a bit of surprise, and looked up at Cheng Xuan: “Yes.”

Cheng Xuan hesitated a bit, finally stabilized his expression, and asked, “Jiang Lian, is that your father’s older brother?”

Hearing Cheng Xuan mention his uncle, Wen Shixi’s eyebrows moved lightly.

“Yes.” Wen Shixi asked, “What’s wrong?”

Cheng Xuan: “Have you not seen the information on various social media platforms today?”

Hearing this, Wen Shixi’s expression paused.

Then, Wen Shixi said bluntly: “If you want to say something, don’t be hesitant.”

Cheng Xuan frowned slightly, soon, his face became serious and he asked.

“Perhaps… Shixi, aren’t you your father’s biological child?”

Hearing this, Wen Shixi was slightly stunned.

He thought of the social media platforms that Cheng Xuan had just mentioned, and a trace of darkness floated in his eyes.

“How did you know?”

Cheng Xuan: “Not only do I know, but this morning someone exposed online that your father’s biological child died of illness, it seems to be a medical accident, so…”

Wen Shixi was stunned, then pursed his lips lightly.

“Yeah, I was indeed adopted into the Jiang family.” Wen Shixi said in a flat voice: “Actually, many people know about this, it’s just that there’s no need to make it public as news.”

Cheng Xuan placed his hand on the table and squeezed it slightly: “But this afternoon, Mr. Jiang Lian gave an interview and accidentally mentioned that the Jiang family had actually terminated the adoption relationship with you many years ago, now people at school are talking about it, Shixi, what exactly is going on between you and the Jiang family?”

As Cheng Xuan’s words fell, the sweet smell of chocolate slowly floated in the air, gradually fading into the original slight bitterness.

As the last sound disappeared, Wen Shixi didn’t speak.

The chewing movement also stopped, the sweetness in his mouth suddenly blank, leaving only a piece of inexplicable foreign object sensation.

At this moment, his phone screen suddenly changed and vibrated together.

Wen Shixi lowered his head and looked at the phone.

The incoming call reminder page was displayed on the phone screen, and the name of the caller was displayed at the top, peeking out from between Cheng Xuan’s fingers.

“Incoming Call – Jiang Quanyu”