Tang Man nodded perfunctorily, “Yes, yes, yes, you are my exception. Sit down quickly. If there’s a sudden brake on the road, don’t even think about keeping that face of yours.”
Si Jiahe just smiled foolishly.
However, after walking for a while, Tang Man noticed something was off. “Huh, where are we going?”
This wasn’t the way back to her home.
After walking for a bit, Tang Man saw a familiar sign. Of course, Si Jiahe in the back seat also saw it, and his gaze immediately turned to the man in the driver’s seat.
They heard Xie Li say in the most nonchalant tone, “I’ll drop him off at his home first before taking you.”
Si Jiahe immediately objected. He glanced at Xie Li, his eyes flickering. From behind, he hugged Tang Man’s arm and said to her in a soft, coquettish voice, “Man Man, I don’t want to go home today.”
“Can I go home with you?”
Almost as soon as he finished speaking, before Tang Man could respond, a long screeching sound was heard. Xie Li slammed on the brakes, and the car came to an abrupt halt. Thanks to the seat belt, Tang Man didn’t crash into the windshield, but her whole body was still jerked, causing a painful constriction in her chest.
Si Jiahe suffered more. He directly hit the back of the chair, adding another bruise to his face and even breaking the skin. With his delicate skin, it would probably take some time to heal.
Blood flowed out.
Tang Man frowned and looked at Xie Li. Before she could get angry, she heard him turn his head to Si Jiahe in the back seat, his expression unchanged, and say, “If you don’t want to ride in my car, you can get out and take a taxi yourself.”
Tang Man swallowed her words and shrank back a little, pretending she hadn’t heard anything. She lowered her head and fiddled with her phone screen that had lit up, as if replying to a message.
Si Jiahe, sitting in the back seat, initially wanted to complain to Tang Man, but seeing this, he pursed his lips and couldn’t help but secretly tug at Tang Man’s sleeve with his fingers.
Xie Li didn’t see Si Jiahe’s action; otherwise, his expression would have been even more unpleasant.
Allowing Si Jiahe into the car was already his greatest tolerance. Just like Du Henian, he didn’t think highly of Si Jiahe either.
Too soft, not at all like a man, the way he naturally and reasonably acted coquettishly towards Tang Man.
Those who directly faced the scene often felt as if they had eaten something disgusting, feeling uncomfortably nauseated.
Moreover, in Xie Li’s view, Si Jiahe was not someone without any shrewdness. Otherwise, how could he have made Tang Man unable to forget him for several years, getting back together as soon as they met again, and breaking up with Du Henian so quickly?
In Xie Li’s speculation, the time it would take for Tang Man to break up with Du Henian might have been longer, after all, Du Henian was too difficult to deal with. Moreover, Tang Man had become increasingly comfortable in recent years and listened too much to Du Henian, which made Xie Li feel alarmed.
However, as soon as Si Jiahe appeared, he almost made Tang Man tear apart this not-so-obvious gap. As Tang Man said, she never ate leftovers.
Not even once.
So, as the only exception to leftovers, Si Jiahe was obviously so different from others.
However, this leftover clearly had flaws; otherwise, how much would Tang Man have liked this person?
Xie Li subconsciously rubbed the steering wheel and glanced at Tang Man, who was fiddling with her phone in the passenger seat. His peripheral vision accidentally met Si Jiahe’s gaze in the back seat. The latter smiled at him, revealing dimples on both sides, looking so detached from the world.
Xie Li slowly withdrew his gaze, but his hands gripping the steering wheel involuntarily tightened.
Sometimes, the existence of certain people is just so annoying, isn’t it?
Si Jiahe, of course, also saw it. The smile on his face remained unchanged as he sweetly said, “Brother Xie Li, just drive. It was my fault for not considering your position and saying the wrong thing just now. Don’t be angry with me and Man Man. Just drop me off at home later.”
Xie Li didn’t say anything. Tang Man turned to look at Si Jiahe and poked the corner of his mouth, secretly glaring at him. “Aren’t the wounds on your mouth serious enough? Otherwise, how come you’re talking so much?”
She turned to Xie Li, “Don’t pay attention to him. He’s childish. Just keep driving. It’s so late at night, and you’re tired too. After dropping him off at home, just drop me off at the university dormitory, and then you should hurry back and rest.”
She still had weekends to speak of, but Xie Li didn’t.
Three hundred and sixty-five days a year, basically spent in the office. Even during legal holidays at home, he might be working.
Xie Li was too lazy to say more and didn’t even want to look at Si Jiahe again. This was a man-eating flower, and Tang Man was protecting him like a little white flower, not knowing when she would be eaten.
Moreover, being with someone with depression was not that simple. He thought of his mother, and the eyelashes hidden under his glasses trembled a few times. In the end, he vaguely tugged at the corner of his mouth.
He felt that as long as he met Tang Man, his mood would inevitably be affected and fluctuate, making it difficult for him to regain his rationality. This was not good, but some things were just like that. He couldn’t control his heartbeat, so he couldn’t control his feelings either.
A person lives for a lifetime, a lifetime unable to control their own heartbeat.
It’s a bit sad, isn’t it?
In the silence and amidst Si Jiahe’s constant little movements, they quickly arrived near Fenghe Bridge. The car stopped outside, and this section of the road was a bit dark, with very dim street lights. Si Jiahe walked in alone, and Tang Man really couldn’t rest assured, so she got out of the car with him, saying that she would send him in and then come out to let Xie Li wait here for a while.
Xie Li sat in the car without saying a word, his entire figure hidden in the darkness.
Tang Man assumed he had heard and got out of the car, pulling Si Jiahe towards the inside.
There were already some flying insects, and some cars were parked on the roadside. This deep alley was a bit deep, with no one around. It would be quite scary to walk this section of the road alone late at night.
Si Jiahe held her hand tightly all the way, not looking scared, but only looking at the shadows of the two people under the street light, occasionally stepping on Tang Man’s shadow, with his toes falling right on her heart.
Seeing this, Tang Man couldn’t help but laugh, “How come you’re still like a child at such a big age?”
Then she teased him, “Jiahe, you don’t like me that much after all, always stepping on my shadow?”
Si Jiahe remained silent and stepped on Tang Man’s shadow again. The two walked past this beam of light, and their shadows merged into the darkness again.
Only then did she hear the boy’s voice beside her, soft, as if it would be blown away by a gust of wind in the next moment.
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In This Life, I Won’t Be Foolish To Lose You Again (Female-dominant)
When Shen Yuan encountered Su Jin again in his previous life, she had already become the Prime Minister of the current dynasty. As for him, the former top young master of the capital, he had long since fallen into the abyss, becoming a singer on a pleasure boat.
After a song ended, he was redeemed and sent to the Su Residence.
Su Jin respected and cherished him, gave him a roof over his head, and bestowed him with warmth. Shen Yuan fell deeper and deeper, but before he could express his feelings, Su Jin passed away.
Shen Yuan died to follow her in death, but instead, he returned to when he was fifteen years old.
At that time, he was not yet engaged, and Su Jin was just a poor scholar.
Shen Yuan gritted his teeth, casting aside all his pride, and thought of ways to coax and entice her every day.
The colder and more indifferent Su Jin was towards him, the more proactive Shen Yuan became.
He was not afraid of being mocked by the world, only wanting to marry his Wife-master early, to hold her hand and never let go for a lifetime.
[Note: This story will not specifically point out the male lead’s reincarnation time point; it’s all in the details. Whenever you feel that the male lead is acting strangely, he has most likely been reincarnated.]