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Xu Ye and Chen Hansong were both stunned at the same time.
Boyfriend?
Xu Ye’s heart pounded anxiously.
Chen Hansong’s face turned pale. Seeing his daughter holding hands with Xu Ye felt like a wild boar had suddenly charged into his backyard and, right in front of him, uprooted the precious cabbage he had nurtured for over a decade.
“What boyfriend? Does your Mother know?”
“Of course she doesn’t.”
Chen Qingqing pulled hard on Xu Ye’s hand, dragging him toward the exit while deliberately saying, “Let’s go.”
Xu Ye was forcibly pulled out of the bank like that.
Wang Ruxue, sitting in the car, was also dumbfounded.
How had they ended up together again? They had run into each other far too many times recently.
The real question was—
Why were they even holding hands?
“No, what boyfriend? Did you even get my permission?” Xu Ye grew anxious instead.
Chen Qingqing opened the car door and commanded, “Get in the car!”
“Where to?”
“Get in!”
“Fine, I’m getting in.”
Xu Ye finally gave in and obediently got into the car.
Chen Qingqing followed, and through the window, she saw Chen Hansong standing at the bank entrance, looking stunned and lost in thought. Chen Qingqing felt a small sense of satisfaction.
“Qingqing, what’s going on here?”
“Aunt Wang, we’re going to the mall.”
Wang Ruxue glanced at Chen Hansong with some concern but still pressed the accelerator and drove away from the bank.
Xu Ye took the initiative to ask, “Was that your Father just now?”
Chen Qingqing replied, “None of your business.”
“Heh, none of my business? Then why did you say I’m your boyfriend?”
“That was just—”
“Did you get my permission for that?”
Chen Qingqing took a deep breath and calmed her voice again. “So what do you want to do about it?”
Xu Ye thought for a moment and said, “Consider it a favor you owe me.”
“You’ve got some nerve.”
“Say whatever you want.” Xu Ye pulled out his phone, opened his WeChat QR code, and held it out to Chen Qingqing. “Add me on WeChat first.”
Chen Qingqing took out her latest iPhone 5S and added Xu Ye as a friend on WeChat.
“By the way, I still don’t know your name.”
“Chen Qingqing.”
…
“Branch manager, that girl just now was your daughter?” The bank client manager stepped over to Chen Hansong.
Chen Hansong, feeling rather upset, just responded with a grunt.
“And that young man?”
“I don’t know him. Maybe he’s my daughter’s classmate.” Of course, Chen Hansong would never admit that Xu Ye was his daughter’s boyfriend.
The client manager quickly said, “He just opened a card at our bank and also activated a securities account.”
“Securities account?”
Xu Ye looked only about seventeen or eighteen years old. Opening a bank card was normal enough, but why open a securities account? To trade stocks?
“Send his information to my office.”
“Understood.”
Chen Hansong returned to his office, and before long, the client manager delivered the information Xu Ye had provided when opening the account.
“Xu Ye, eighteen years old…”
Chen Hansong took out his phone and dialed Jiang Meilin’s number.
Jiang Meilin was in a meeting and didn’t want to answer, but thinking it might involve her daughter, she picked up.
“Jiang Meilin, is it true that your daughter is dating someone?”
“Dating? Chen Hansong, what are you talking about?”
“Just now, your daughter came to the bank looking for me. In front of me, she was holding hands with a boy and told me he was her boyfriend.”
Jiang Meilin’s brow tightened.
As a mother, she knew her daughter very well.
Not to mention dating, there were probably very few boys who met her standards.
“I don’t know anything about this.”
“That boy’s name is Xu Ye.”
Jiang Meilin asked, “What does he look like?”
Chen Hansong was stunned. “Jiang Meilin, what are you thinking? What he looks like has nothing to do with this.”
Jiang Meilin didn’t want to argue further. She said directly, “I’ll call Ruxue and ask.”
She hung up the phone.
Jiang Meilin found Wang Ruxue’s number in her contacts and dialed it.
Wang Ruxue happened to be waiting at a traffic light. She answered the call and switched on the speakerphone.
“Hello, Ruxue.”
“President Jiang.”
“I need to ask you something. Just now, Qingqing’s Father said she has a boyfriend. What’s going on?”
Wang Ruxue wasn’t sure how to respond to this either.
Chen Qingqing spoke up directly, “He’s right here beside me. Do you want to say hello to him?”
After saying this, Chen Qingqing gave Xu Ye a meaningful glance.
Hearing her daughter’s voice, Jiang Meilin fell silent.
The strange atmosphere in the car made Xu Ye’s scalp tingle. He swallowed hard and awkwardly said, “Hello, Auntie.”
“Beep beep beep~”
The call was abruptly cut off.
Xu Ye looked bewildered. “From the way your Father looked at me just now, I felt a murderous intent. Your Mother too… If I met them face to face, wouldn’t they ‘kill’ me?”
Chen Qingqing heard this and actually laughed.
Xu Ye gazed at her delicate, picturesque profile and the faint dimples at the corner of her mouth, momentarily captivated.
They had met three times in total, and this was the first time Xu Ye had seen Chen Qingqing smile.
For some reason,
Xu Ye suddenly felt a bit flushed inside the car, as if his blood was heating up.
…
“We’ve arrived at the mall.”
Chen Qingqing opened the car door and got out first. Seeing Xu Ye still sitting motionless in the car, she said with some disdain, “Get out.”
“For what?”
Chen Qingqing remained silent, her eyes fixed on Xu Ye. After a moment, Xu Ye finally got out of the car.
The two of them entered the mall together.
After watching them walk away, Wang Ruxue quickly called Jiang Meilin back…
Following closely behind Chen Qingqing, Xu Ye suddenly asked hesitantly, “Did your parents get divorced?”
Chen Qingqing stopped in her tracks, nearly causing Xu Ye to bump into her back.
“I don’t mean anything by it. It’s just what I guessed.”
“How did you guess that?”
Xu Ye explained, “The first time we met by the lake, every time I got close to you, you instinctively stepped back. It was the same just now. Even though you were holding my hand, your palms were sweaty. That shows you’re someone who’s very guarded and probably lacks care in your life. Plus, combining that with how you spoke to your parents just now, it’s easy to draw that conclusion.”
“You’d be wasting your talents if you didn’t become a detective.”
“You asked me to pretend to be your boyfriend to annoy your parents. Now that you’ve achieved your goal, what else do you want me to do?”
Chen Qingqing pressed her lips together and said softly, “Today is my birthday…”
“I understand. It’s your birthday, and your Father and Mother don’t have time to be with you. So you’re doing this kind of thing to get back at them. Do you want me to help you play the part all the way through?”
“I do.”
“Then let’s go. We’ll watch a movie first, then have dinner, and take a few photos to post on Moments. I guess once you get home tonight, your Father and Mother will start ‘intense questioning’.”
“Heh~”
“But I’m warning you in advance: the movie and dinner are on you.”
Chen Qingqing turned her head and asked curiously, “Have you always been this shameless?”
“Actually, no. I only developed this thick skin recently.”
“I don’t believe you.”
“Believe it or not.”
…