Jiang Kaiwei thought about it for a long time and finally called Xia Xiaowan. The long beeping sound came to his ears. He waited with unprecedented patience until the call ended, “Sorry, the number you dialed is not answered for the moment…”

He held his phone in a daze and seemed to be considering whether he should continue to call. In fact, before he thought clearly, his fingers had already pressed the button. This time, Xia Xiaowan picked it, her tone was not good, as expected. “What are you trying to do?”

“I want to talk to you,” He said.

Xia Xiaowan flatly refused. “There is nothing to talk about between you and me!”

“Tomorrow at three o’clock in the afternoon, I will wait for you at Mingdian Coffee. Let’s talk when we meet.”

“I won’t go.”

“I will wait until you come.” After saying that, he quickly hung up the phone, not giving her a chance to speak or giving a chance to himself to go back on his words.

He remembered that night when Xia Xiaowan finally woke up. When she opened her eyes, she looked at him helplessly. He reached out to her, and she did not refuse. She obediently climbed up by his arm and got up. Perhaps she got up so hard, her body swayed and leaned into his arms. He felt a twang in his brain, and he involuntarily tightened his arms.

It was like a dream. This scene had appeared countless times in his dreams. Now, she was really in his arms, but it was still like a dream. Before he could tell, she had already pushed him away, glanced at him coldly, and turned to walk out.

His arms remained still in mid-air, as if holding an illusion, and he could not help but smile bitterly. He slowly followed. It was just that his legs were not nimble. As she was further and further away, he felt anxious and could not help but call out, “Don’t leave me behind!”

Xia Xiaowan stopped beside his car and said coldly, “Call your driver to pick you up. I have to go.”

“It’s already so late. The driver is already asleep,” He limped over and said, “Why don’t we throw the car here and take a taxi. I’ll send you back first before sending me off.”

She found it funny. “Since you want to take a taxi, why do we need to take the same one?” She ignored him and walked towards the door.

It was already very late. The two of them stood by the side of the road and waited for a long time, but they did not see a taxi. It was freezing in spring, and the night wind was bitterly cold. Xia Xiaowan hugged her arms and curled up into a ball. He took off his coat and gave it to her, but she did not take it. She pursed her lips with a straight face. There was a trace of stubbornness on her face, as if she was angry with him.

In fact, in the past, she had never been angry with him and had always met his needs. She was afraid that he would be unhappy. No matter how wronged she felt, she would put it in her heart. She was pitifully obedient. For a long time, he could not find fault with her. However, this made him angry. He called Lei Yajing to have dinner in front of her. When he saw the sadness on her face as he wished, he felt a little better. In fact, he didn’t know why he did this. He just wanted to torture her, to do everything possible to torture her!

In the end, the two of them still took the same taxi, because it was really too cold and they were not willing to wait any longer. She did not sit with him in the back row but directly opened the front door to sit in the passenger seat.

The two of them did not communicate at all throughout the journey. The only thing they spoke was to tell the driver their addresses, respectively.

He leaned back in his seat and closed his eyes to rest. He wanted to put her out of his thoughts, but there was always a faint fragrance coming. In fact, it was not close. It was just his imagination, like the countless fantasies and dreams he once had. It was the same tonight. He could only lie to himself like this.

He had lied to himself many times, the most memorable and most absurd one was when he sat in his office and fell asleep. Then he dreamed that she called him. Her clear voice came from the other end of the phone. It seemed to be a little resentful. She said, “Come and accompany me. It’s boring for me to stay here alone.”

He remained indifferent to her. “I’m busy. We can talk when I have time.”

She said something else, but he responded carelessly and did not pay attention to it. Then he hung up.

He did not feel much after waking up, but when his secretary, Zhu Li, came in, he suddenly said, “Book me a flight to California tonight.”

The air ticket was sent over in the afternoon and he casually threw it aside. Zhu Li came in and asked him for instructions, “Boss, is Manager Shen going to have dinner with the legal department tonight?”

He was stunned for a moment and said, “I will go!”

Zhu Li said, “Aren’t you going to the USA tonight? There’s a time conflict.”

He stared at the plane ticket for a long time and suddenly was in a rage. “Who said I would fly to the USA? Who asked you to book a plane ticket?” He angrily threw the plane ticket to Zhu Li. “Refund it immediately.”

Zhu Li was so scared that her face turned pale. She didn’t even dare to argue and hurriedly picked up the plane ticket and left.

He knew that his appearance at that time must have been quite scary, because the next day, when Zhu Li saw him, she still looked very frightened.

While Jiang Kaiwei was thinking about this, he was already sitting by the window in the Mingdian Coffee. The sunlight shone on his body through the large glass window, causing him to fall into a daze.

At three o’clock in the afternoon, he was sleepy. If he hadn’t drunk a cup of coffee, he would have fallen asleep.

An hour had passed and Xia Xiaowan had not come. He knew that she would not come. After they had such a scene, they hated each other, and she certainly did not want to see him.

In fact, he always had a question in his heart. It was natural that he hated her, but why did she hate him so much? She hated him more than he had imagined. Wasn’t it because he had rejected her back then? Why every time she saw him, she was like seeing an enemy who killed her father? The deep hatred in her eyes made him shiver from time to time.

Jiang Kaiwei changed his posture and suddenly smiled bitterly. When the financial magazine talked about his wealth, it said that it would be a loss for him to bend down and pick up 100 yuan on the ground, because he could earn countless times more than 100 yuan in half a minute of bending down, but he had already wasted an hour sitting here.

Since she wouldn’t come, he wouldn’t wait either. It was better to earn his money.

Just as he was about to get up and leave, he caught sight of a person walking in through the door, and he sat back down.

When Xia Xiaowan saw him, a trace of surprise flashed through her eyes, but she instantly recovered her cold appearance. She slowly walked over and asked, “What do you want?”

“Sit down and talk.” Jiang Kaiwei pointed at the chair opposite him. “It will only take a few minutes.”

Xia Xiaowan sneered, “President Jiang, you show so much respect to me. You have been sitting here for more than an hour just for talking with me for a few minutes.”

“Not really,” Jiang Kaiwei said, “I just arrived too.”

“Didn’t you make an appointment at three o’clock?” Xia Xiaowan sneered, “President Jiang still has the same bad habit of being late!” She sat down and stretched her legs. “Speak, what do you want to talk about?”

“What do you want to drink?”

“No, I can only stay for a few minutes,” Xia Xiaowan took out her phone and looked at the time. “I have to go back soon.”

“Where are you going back to?” Jiang Kaiwei found it strange.

“Don’t you know?”

“What?”

Xia Xiaowan stared at him suspiciously. “Why have you stopped fighting for the past few days? Are you not going to fight with the Gu Group?”

“No, I just want to hold Gu Nianbin back,” Jiang Kaiwei smiled. “Why are you so concerned about this?”

Xia Xiaowan snorted. “I thought you didn’t want to take advantage of him.”

Jiang Kaiwei was even more confused. “What do you mean by taking advantage of him? What are you talking about?”

“Forget it if you don’t know. It has nothing to do with you anyway.” Xia Xiaowan became impatient. “Are you going to talk to me or not? If not, I’m leaving.”

“Um, are you…mentally sick?” Jiang Kaiwei hesitated.

Xia Xiaowan had a terrible expression. “You are mentally sick!”

“No, that night, the doctor said you had a man…” Before he finished speaking, Xia Xiaowan splashed a glass of water over. He could not dodge in time and was splashed right on his face. The water dripped down his face.

Jiang Kaiwei was an arrogant young master. How could he bear this? He was instantly enraged. But before he could flare up, Xia Xiaowan roared first, “Jiang Kaiwei, what are you trying to do? Do you still think you haven’t harmed me enough?”

Jiang Kaiwei was also angry. He angrily pulled a tissue to wipe his face. “Did I cause you to go to the sanatorium? It was you who were pregnant…”

“How dare you mention it?” Xia Xiaowan was furious. She took a glass on the table and threw it to Jiang Kaiwei. He dodged, and the glass smashed into the back of the chair at the table behind, and then fell to the ground. With a crisp sound, it broke into three pieces and lay there brightly.

There were not many customers in the café, but they all looked at them. The waiters also came over. One of them said, “Sir, Miss… Please calm down. You have to pay for smashing things.”

“Let him pay!” Xia Xiaowan’s face turned red as she panted and stared at Jiang Kaiwei with her red eyes.

Jiang Kaiwei sat still. Under Xia Xiaowan’s angry gaze, he calmed down. He was deep in thought. After a while, he said, “Alright, I’ll compensate. I’ll compensate whatever you smash, but today you have to explain to me what happened back then.”

Xia Xiaowan’s expression suddenly changed. She took out two hundred yuan from her bag and slammed them on the table. “No need.” Then she turned around and left.

Jiang Kaiwei watched her walk quickly to the door and suddenly got up to chase after her.

Xia Xiaowan took the key and opened the car door. Just as she was about to enter, she was suddenly picked up by someone. She screamed anxiously and struggled with all her might. However, the man was extremely strong. His arms were like iron pincers as he held her and strode forward. The people in the café heard the noise and all ran out to watch. However, Jiang Kaiwei quickly stuffed her into his car and left.

Someone in the crowd said, “Should we call the police?”

Someone replied, “Forget it. Look at the car they are driving. They are clearly a rich boy and a rich girl who are in a mood. When the police find them, maybe they are playing car sex!”

Everyone laughed and dispersed.

Xia Xiaowan was still struggling, but soon she could not move. Jiang Kaiwei wrapped her whole body in his arms and held her tightly. Xia Xiaowan kept struggling, but it was to no avail. On the contrary, she was exhausted and had no choice but to lean on him.

In fact, their posture was very flirting. Their necks intersected, and their bodies were tightly stuck together, as if they were glued together by superglue. Even when they were in love back then, they had never been so intimate with each other.