Chapter 50: Moreover, Mr. Si won’t rush to be someone’s mistr…

Xie Li returned to the room and quickly changed into a set of clothes. He came out holding the car keys and said to Tang Man standing at the door, “I’m done changing, let’s go.”

Tang Man hesitated for a moment before nodding. She picked up her phone and followed Xie Li to the door.

At this point, the entire building was very quiet. The lights downstairs were all off, only turning on briefly when they exited the elevator. Walking inside, the lights were much dimmer.

They quickly got in the car. Tang Man sat in the passenger seat and opened her phone, glancing at WeChat. It was calm, with no new messages.

She stared at Si Jiahe’s message page for a long time, but in the end, didn’t send any more messages.

Xie Li was very quiet the whole way, focusing on looking ahead at the windshield, paying attention to the road conditions.

It was around one or two in the morning, with very few vehicles on the road, just a handful, so it seemed exceptionally quiet.

They soon arrived at Si Jiahe’s place. The car stopped at the usual spot. Tang Man got out of the car. The street lights here were already very old. After telling Xie Li, she turned on her phone flashlight and was about to get out and walk in alone.

However, almost as soon as Tang Man got out of the car, Xie Li followed. The sound of the door closing was exceptionally clear and loud in the middle of the night, the resulting bang provoking a few barks of unknown origin in the night.

Tang Man turned her head to look at Xie Li walking towards her, frowning slightly, glancing at the distant building that had fallen silent. “I can go up alone.”

Xie Li stopped and looked at Tang Man for a moment before still asking that question, “Will you come back to rest tonight then?”

Tang Man hesitated for a moment, glanced upstairs, and nodded to Xie Li, “I’ll be back. I’ll come down in about half an hour. If I don’t come down later, I’ll give you a call. You can go back first. I’ll find a nearby hotel to make do for the night.”

Xie Li was quiet for a while, not speaking. But when Tang Man was about to leave, he suddenly grabbed her hand and said, “I’ll go up with you.”

Under Tang Man’s gaze, Xie Li said, “Tang Man, we are engaged. Don’t make me an outsider.”

Tang Man looked at Xie Li for a good while before shifting her gaze. “Then let’s go up together.”

She glanced at the time. It was almost two o’clock. There was no time to delay. Si Jiahe could be particularly stubborn at times, and now that he was ill, she was really afraid something might happen.

Xie Li agreed, holding her hand and not letting go, walking beside Tang Man.

The two went upstairs together. Tang Man glanced at Xie Li. She took a step forward and rang the doorbell.

Almost the instant she rang the doorbell, the door inside opened. A figure rushed out from inside, throwing himself into Tang Man’s arms, hugging her tightly, burying his face in the crook of her neck, still sobbing softly. She seemed to feel a damp breath.

Subconsciously, Tang Man’s tense heart relaxed.

It’s good that he’s okay.

The force of Si Jiahe’s pounce was not small, causing Tang Man, who had been on high alert and suddenly relaxed, to retreat a few steps. Fortunately, Xie Li was standing behind her and supported her, preventing her from falling to the ground.

However, this situation was a bit awkward, the awkwardness she had anticipated.

When Xie Li proposed to come up with her, he had also anticipated such a scene. Although he had a certain premonition in his heart, his expression was still not very good.

His hands supporting Tang Man’s arm and waist did not let go, but pulled her back another step, saying softly, “The stairs are right behind. Be careful.”

His voice was low, but in this narrow space, Si Jiahe still heard the man’s voice. His sobbing suddenly stopped. He looked up in the direction of the voice and saw Xie Li standing right in front of him. As soon as he looked up, their gazes met.

Xie Li’s face had a polite and distant smile. His eyes swept over Si Jiahe’s slightly reddened eyes and said, “Hello, Mr. Si.”

Si Jiahe’s action of hugging Tang Man paused for a moment, his back stiffening for an instant. Tang Man heard Xie Li’s words and also felt Si Jiahe’s stiffness. She patted his shoulder and withdrew from Si Jiahe’s embrace.

Si Jiahe’s gaze was still on Xie Li in front of him. Actually, before, she only knew that Tang Man was engaged, but didn’t know to whom.

He had always thought it was a man he didn’t know. Although the man’s voice in the previous phone call sounded somewhat familiar, it was also a bit distorted by the electric current. He hadn’t thought of Xie Li. But now, with Xie Li standing behind Tang Man in such a posture, intimately extending his hand to support Tang Man’s arm and waist, it really made him think too much.

After a long time, he tugged the corner of his mouth, a smile appearing on his face. The tears in those eyes seemed to have evaporated in an instant. His whole being was stripped away, smiling as he asked, “Mr. Xie, it’s so late. Why did you come with Manman?”

Xie Li’s hands supporting Tang Man didn’t move. Hearing Si Jiahe’s words, his expression didn’t change. His gaze swept over the boy’s face, he smiled and said, “In the middle of the night, my fiancée suddenly received a call from Mr. Si. She was worried about you and said she wanted to come and check on you. I was also a bit concerned about my fiancée, so I came along to take a look.”

After saying this, Xie Li added, “Mr. Si, are you feeling alright? If there’s a problem, we can take you to the hospital now.”

Si Jiahe looked at Xie Li for a while. His gaze shifted to Tang Man beside him. “Manman, you’re engaged to him?”

“You’re engaged to this person?”

Tears appeared in Si Jiahe’s eyes again. He was wearing a loose white T-shirt, his whole body as thin as a bamboo pole, even thinner than the last time they met, but his face was even more delicate. When he cried, his whole body seemed to tremble.

He seemed unable to accept this news.

Si Jiahe couldn’t understand.

Why would Tang Man suddenly get engaged to this person?

Their relationship of about three years, Tang Man and Du Henian’s relationship of two years, none of it shook this person’s determination not to get married. He could feel that Tang Man liked him, at least liked him more than she liked others. But such fondness was not enough for Tang Man to marry him. Instead, she finally chose to be with someone he had never thought of and had the idea of getting married.

He couldn’t understand, nor could he accept it.

Tang Man was silent for a long time. She felt the force of Xie Li’s hands on her arm and waist. Looking at Si Jiahe, who seemed on the verge of a breakdown, she still couldn’t bear to say some harsh words. If Si Jiahe wasn’t ill now, with her temperament, she wouldn’t hesitate like this. But Si Jiahe was a patient now, an emotional patient who couldn’t take stimulation.

She managed a smile, ignoring the question, and asked instead, “Jiahe, why didn’t you meet with Dr. Bel today?”

Si Jiahe didn’t answer. He seemed to have sensed something from Tang Man’s change of topic. He looked at Tang Man, tears falling again, standing alone in place, crying silently. A pair of eyes as bright as a cat’s just stared at Tang Man like that, and then, like stars in the night sky, their light disappeared second by second.

No one could bear such a gaze, and of course, neither could Tang Man.

However, just as she was about to speak, her arm was pulled by Xie Li. She was brought to stand behind Xie Li. Looking up, she could only see Xie Li’s back and the nape of his neck.

In the dim yellow light, there was a conspicuous red mark on the man’s nape, clearly looking like a scratch from fingernails.

At once, Tang Man froze in place, not knowing how to say anything. Sometimes the existence of a relationship can always have a certain restraining effect.

Tang Man, looking at Xie Li’s back, suddenly had an abrupt thought. She seemed to be restrained in this relationship now.

She might have fallen into the trap of a five percent share. This trap was even more terrifying than the trap of cheese.

While Tang Man was still a bit dazed, Xie Li spoke up, addressing Si Jiahe, whose eyes were still slightly red, in a particular manner, “Mr. Si, in the future, if there’s anything, just ask me. Some questions may not be suitable for my fiancée to answer.”

“After all, what you did tonight, Mr. Si, is really not to my liking, and Manman is a softhearted person.”

“It’s fine to make such a threat once.” Xie Li smiled and said, “I believe Mr. Si also knows my fiancée’s personality. She won’t fall for it a second time. Again and again, it just becomes annoying.”

After saying this, Xie Li’s gaze swept over Si Jiahe once more, “And from the current look, although Mr. Si has become thinner, you seem quite healthy otherwise. There shouldn’t be any issue. It’s already late at night now, really not suitable for the two of us to stay any longer. So we’ll take our leave first. In the future, if there’s anything, Mr. Si can directly contact me. There’s no need to contact my fiancée in the middle of the night.”

“After all, the two of us are now engaged.” As he said this, Xie Li moved his other hand. Si Jiahe lowered his head and saw the rings on the index fingers of the man and woman.

His gaze shifted to the woman standing behind Xie Li, who had been silent all along. Only her long hair draped to one side was visible, quietly hidden in the darkness like that.

As if agreeing with this man’s words by default.

Xie Li noticed Si Jiahe’s gaze. He lowered his eyelids slightly. The moment he raised his eyes, the smile on his face was calm and lofty. A sharp and incisive sentence was thus spoken, “Moreover, Mr. Si wouldn’t rush to be someone’s mistress, right?”