Chapter 1680: Xie Duo Extra (10)_2

If Xie Duo really minded this kind of thing, bringing it up would basically be rubbing salt into someone else’s wound.

"Since I told you myself, it means I’m not afraid you’ll laugh at me. If it can make you laugh a bit, that’s not so bad." Since Xie Duo brought it up first, he naturally didn’t care about her reaction.

Yuan Jianyue knew it was wrong to joke about other people’s "sad stories", so she took the initiative to lean closer and pecked him on the lips.

"You might’ve had it kind of rough before, but you’ve got me now, don’t you."

The girl in front of him looked up and smiled at him, soft and lingering.

Xie Duo just felt a sudden heat at the back of his throat, like his voice box had caught on fire.

The window in the room was open, a cool breeze drifting in, yet his face felt like it was burning.

**

Old Mr. Xie used to be really anxious, wishing Xie Duo could go on a blind date, meet a suitable girl and get married on the spot. But ever since he met Yuan Jianyue, he stopped rushing.

Deep down, he really hoped the two of them could settle the marriage matter before the New Year, but feelings are something the two themselves have to grasp. If they haven’t figured each other out and you force the issue, then if problems crop up after the wedding, that’s when it gets troublesome. So the old man stopped pushing.

Their relationship was progressing pretty smoothly, it’s just that once the cold wind blew in and winter set in, Xie Duo started getting busy.

Year-end at the company was always the busiest time of the year.

He didn’t see Yuan Jianyue much as it was, and the one day she personally brought him a loving homemade lunch, just when Xie Duo was feeling happy, he got a bolt-from-the-blue bad news: she was going to leave Beijing for a few days.

"Leave Beijing? Going where?" Xie Duo frowned.

"Jinling. My college roommate’s getting married. We made a pact ages ago, whoever gets married, the rest of us will go be her bridesmaids." Yuan Jianyue was in high spirits. "We even said we’d bring our boyfriends along, but you’ve been way too busy lately. Going to Jinling plus the wedding, the round trip’ll take three or four days. Do you even have the time?"

"What date?"

"The 8th of this month."

Xie Duo glanced at his schedule. Carving out three or four days was really tight for him. Right now he couldn’t give Yuan Jianyue a definite answer.

"It’s okay, I can go by myself."

Yuan Jianyue knew he was busy and hadn’t been expecting much to begin with, so she wasn’t really disappointed.

The day she arrived in Jinling, she went out and partied all night with her dorm girlfriends. When Xie Duo called her, she hung up in a rush.

Xie Duo felt a bit helpless. When she left Beijing she kept saying she couldn’t bear to leave him, and now...

She’d probably forgotten she even had a boyfriend.

...

Yuan Jianyue’s college roommates were originally from all over the country, and after graduation they scattered north and south. It was rare to get a chance to meet up, so they let themselves go a little.

The second day was the roommate’s wedding. They ran around busy all day. None of the bridesmaids had any experience, so they made a bunch of silly mistakes. When they finally got to the hotel and waited for the ceremony to start, Yuan Jianyue could finally catch her breath and texted Xie Duo to complain about how exhausting it was.

"I never thought getting married would be this complicated." Maybe customs are different everywhere, but as a bridesmaid she’d been running back and forth all day, her calves starting to ache and swell.

"Then what are you going to do when we get married?"

"..."

"I’ll handle everything. You just have to relax and be the bride."

Right then, in the dressing room, all the girlfriends saw Yuan Jianyue’s face blushing scarlet and immediately came up to tease her.

"You’ve been dating your boyfriend for a while now, haven’t you? What’s this, just texting him and you’re already blushing?"

"Yueyue, what does your boyfriend say to you, to flirt you into this state?"

"Look how red she is. I’m really dying to know what your boyfriend’s like. You hide him so tight—won’t even tell us his name, won’t even show us a photo. Do you really have to hide him this deep?"

Yuan Jianyue just smiled. "I just want to keep him all to myself."

That syrupy, lovey-dovey tone made the whole group of girlfriends groan with envy.

They even said that once the wedding was over, they were planning to storm Beijing together to see what kind of big shot he was.

"I really want to see what kind of man it takes to make you lose your mind like this. Back in college, you had tons of guys chasing after you, and I never saw you moved by any of them."

"Oh right, do you guys still remember that one guy from the sports institute? The one who confessed on the track?"

"Comrade Xiao Yuan, your boyfriend’s going to have to meet us sooner or later. When that day comes, don’t blame us if we don’t go easy on him."

...

They kept joking about how they were going to make things hard for Xie Duo, and soon the wedding started.

As the ceremony began, the few of them who’d sworn they wouldn’t cry at the wedding ended up sobbing harder than anyone. Yuan Jianyue had always been the type with a low tear threshold; the moment she saw the couple exchange rings, her eyes were already red.

At the hotel entrance

The two people in charge of registering guests’ names and their red envelopes looked at the ceremony already underway inside and figured no other guests were coming. They were just about to pack up and leave when they saw a man in a suit walking over.

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