The man’s palm was warm, a strange sensation.

Gu Qingwei froze in place, dazedly letting him hold her hand.

“Qingwei…” Jiang Xiuhou looked around for her.

The shadows of the trees obscured their actions, Gu Qingwei gritted her teeth and pulled her hand back, “You… are being excessive.”

She clenched her fist, lowered her head and ran towards the car.

Yu Mingda curled his lips and smiled, “Excessive? Hahahaha… Interesting.”

He suddenly thought of a good idea, enough to offset his unhappiness of losing the bet to Yu Shi.

Jiang Xiuhou looked at Gu Qingwei’s flushed face as she ran over, “Where were you? Are you feeling unwell?”

She said, reaching out to touch her cheek.

Gu Qingwei lowered her head and avoided it, “Mom, I’m fine. Let’s go!”

The Gu family of four got into their own car.

In the car, Gu Desheng was still reminiscing about the VIP card, “Xia, when did you become so close to the second Miss Yu?”

“I said, we’re not close.”

Sheng Weixia was a little tired.

This kind of socializing was really very energy-consuming, she had overdrawn her energy for several days today.

“Then why did she want to pay for you, and then she even gave you a card, do you know how much that card is worth?” Gu Desheng said sourly.

“Just think of it as her apologizing for offending me, now she’s making amends.” Sheng Weixia closed her eyes.

“Alright alright.” Jiang Xiuhou realized that this wasn’t a good topic, “Qingwei is going to leave in a few days, how about our whole family goes to Beijing to see her off?”

Gu Desheng, “Of course.”

“Sister, you’ll come to see me off, right?” Gu Qingwei looked at Sheng Weixia with big eyes like black grapes.

But Sheng Weixia closed her eyes, as if she was asleep.

“You sister will of course go!” Gu Desheng looked at his daughter in the back row, he was confident.

That night, the couple, for the first time in ages, lay down together, they reviewed everything that had happened today.

Sheng Weixia surprised them, of course, it was also unexpected.

Jiang Xiuhou was more thoughtful, she felt that Sheng Weixia wasn’t really sleeping in the car, “Xia seems like she doesn’t want to go to see her off, shouldn’t we change our approach?”

“Change what approach?”

“How about we say we’re taking her to look at houses, didn’t we promise to buy her a house?”

“But we didn’t say we’re buying it now!”

But the next day, when Gu Desheng talked about the arrangements to see her off, Sheng Weixia half-closed her eyes and shook her head, “I won’t go, I want to take a nap.”

She didn’t have a Beijing permit, to go to Beijing from Jinzhong, she had to take a train, then she had to go to the airport, the whole day would be gone.

More importantly, she and Gu Qingwei knew that they didn’t have that kind of affection for each other.

Why bother pretending?

“You child, how can you not go see your sister off just because you want to take a nap?” Gu Desheng said with a frown, but then he remembered what Jiang Xiuhou had said the night before, he changed his mind, “Of course, it’s not just about seeing her off, didn’t Dad promise to buy you a house? We’ll go look at houses together.”

Look at houses?

Sheng Weixia opened her eyes and looked at him, there wasn’t much sincerity on Gu Desheng’s face, he was obviously just trying to coax her.

But—as long as he brought it up, she could pretend it was real.

“Then I’ll listen to you.” Sheng Weixia stretched, “Buy the sleeper car for noon, I can sleep on the train.”

Gu Desheng, “… Okay.”

Sheng Weixia didn’t delay at all, she immediately contacted Jiang Mingzhi, “Uncle, can you help me find some housing? My dad said, we’ll go look at houses when we go to see Gu Qingwei off in a few days.”

Jiang Mingzhi was surprised.

From his understanding of this brother-in-law, even if he wanted to compensate his biological daughter with a house, he would drag it out, he would only pay for it when he couldn’t drag it out any longer.

Just like when Gu Qingwei wanted to study abroad, he would repeatedly coax her, repeatedly beg her, and when other coal bosses were rushing to send their children to study abroad, he finally agreed.

He didn’t know what method his niece used to get this iron rooster to pluck out a few iron shavings.

“Tell me what kind of house you want?” He was a little curious.

Instinctively, he believed that whatever she said would be unexpected.

Sheng Weixia hadn’t researched the current housing policy, but the standards of a good house were actually universal, “Clear title, transferable, location doesn’t have to be near my school, but the closer to the city center the better, new or old doesn’t matter, two bedrooms or more.”

Wow, not a single condition was wasted.

Jiang Mingzhi was even more curious, how did his niece raise herself like this in a family environment like the Sheng family.

He couldn’t help but laugh, “Okay! Then I’ll find one according to these requirements and standards, you can rest assured, by the time you come to Beijing, I’ll have it ready for you!”

The office workers outside the door looked at each other:

—Whose call did the leader take, why is he so happy?

—He was just furious, criticizing us for being sloppy, what kind of deity appeased him?

After hanging up the phone, Jiang Mingzhi called again, he arranged for his son, Jiang Pengtao, to find a house.

Sheng Weixia hung up the phone and smiled at Gu Desheng, who was dumbfounded, “I think we don’t know much about the housing situation in Beijing, asking uncle to help us find one, wouldn’t that be more efficient?”

Gu Desheng, “… It’s more efficient.”

But it’s more expensive.

Three days later, Jinzhong City train station.

The Gu family of four, except for Sheng Weixia, who looked relaxed as if she was going on a picnic, the other three had expressions full of sadness.

Gu Qingwei only told her closest friends the time of her departure, now they were all here, hugging each other.

“Are we the only ones?” One of them asked.

Gu Qingwei looked ahead at the entrance of the waiting hall, hesitatingly nodded, “Yeah.”

She of course called others, but it seemed like they wouldn’t come.

Thinking about A Jiu who appeared in the private room that night, Gu Qingwei felt a pang of sadness.

“Gu Qingwei!”

Lowering her head, Gu Qingwei heard Yu Shulan’s voice, she thought she was hallucinating.

She raised her head and saw Yu Shulan, wearing a bright red dress, covering her nose as she walked over, her expression disdainful, “It smells so bad here!”

“You came, Shulan!” Gu Qingwei felt like a drowning person, she grabbed a life preserver.

She wasn’t abandoned by this circle!

The classmates next to her whispered to each other:

“I told you, Shulan is so close to Qingwei, she would definitely come!”

Yu Shulan handed Gu Qingwei a bag, “For you.”

Then she awkwardly took a step forward, turned her face away, and handed another, larger bag to Sheng Weixia, “Here, this is for you.”

Sheng Weixia’s brow twitched, she leaned back, her posture full of refusal: What is she trying to do?

At this time, A Jiu, who was behind Yu Shulan, stepped forward, “This is some snacks and books that Miss Shulan prepared for you, so you can pass the time on the way.”

Sheng Weixia’s expression went blank for a moment.

Yu Shulan leaned forward, approaching her, she whispered fiercely, threatening, “If you dare return it to me, I will…”

She remembered her brother’s domineering attitude and instructions, her eyes nervously dodged, “Anyway, you take it!”

They could all see that the arrogant second Miss Yu was showing weakness, and even, she wanted to show her goodwill in her own way.

Gu Qingwei looked at them, her fingernails dug into her palm, it hurt.

“Giving a gift for no reason.” Sheng Weixia refused to take it, she was wary.

Yu Shulan felt insulted, she waved her fist, “I don’t want it, I don’t even want to give it to you!”

She said, she reached out to grab the bag.

A Jiu coughed lightly, “Miss Shulan, the boss said you can’t do that.”

After finishing, he lowered his head and explained to Sheng Weixia, “Miss Sheng, please accept it, I’m responsible for preparing the things.”

Sheng Weixia smiled noncommittally.

Yu Shulan wouldn’t come here on her own initiative, could it be that Yu Shi specially arranged it?

She waved away this absurd thought, she looked at the clock on the wall of the waiting hall, “It’s about time to go queue.”

“No need to queue, I’ll send you directly to the platform.” A Jiu looked at Gu Desheng, who was stretching his neck, watching them, “Boss Gu, please come with me.”

He picked up one of the suitcases, and at the same time said to Yu Shulan, “Miss Shulan, you can wait for me in the car.”

“No need, we’ll take the suitcases!” Gu Desheng, out of control, pulled Jiang Xiuhou, he rushed forward and picked up the suitcase to follow.

While Gu Qingwei hugged her classmates again, she said goodbye to each of them.

A group of people followed A Jiu, they went straight through another passage.

There was already a van waiting there, the driver saw A Jiu and took the luggage from their hands, he stepped on the gas and went directly to the platform.

“So you can do that…” Jiang Xiuhou exclaimed.

Sheng Weixia had a new understanding of how rich the Yu family was.

A Jiu carried the luggage down and put it in the carriage, he shook hands with Gu Desheng, “Goodbye, Boss Gu.”

Then he looked at Sheng Weixia, “Miss Sheng, see you in Beijing.”

Because of this suggestive farewell, Gu Desheng felt like he was being scratched by a cat, he wanted to ask but he didn’t dare to ask in public.

After settling down, Jiang Xiuhou asked curiously, “Qingwei, see what Yu Shulan gave you.”

Gu Qingwei obediently opened the bag, she saw a velvet box inside, then she opened the box, there was a very delicate hair ornament.

“Wow, it’s so beautiful!” Jiang Xiuhou exclaimed.

Gu Qingwei twitched her lips, for Yu Shulan, beautiful and expensive was the minimum standard for sending gifts.