presumptuous

During the Chinese New Year period, it was rare for Feng Jiuwang to cooperate. He followed Feng Chen and Chen Fangmei to various relatives' homes to pay New Year's greetings. They went to all the banquets and dinners, and there was no obvious cold face.

On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, when Feng Chen went out, a not-too-familiar guest came to his house.

Chu Xiayi stood outside the door, her hair had grown a bit, and her newly permed curls were spread behind her.When Chen Fangmei opened the door and saw her, she hurriedly greeted the room: "Jiwang, Xia Yi is here!"

"Ah, no need, Auntie... I'm here today to celebrate the New Year. My parents asked me to come. Don't call him. I'll just give you something and go back right away."

"You and Qiu Wang are both from the same school. You two must have something to talk about. Don't leave. Auntie will make you some fruit tea. It's so cold outside that you should warm yourself up." Chen Fangmei pulled Chu Xiayi into the room as she spoke. .

Over there, Feng Juwang opened the door and came out, "Who is Aunt Xia?"

These days, he had seen too many elders who appeared out of nowhere, and he thought it was another relative he didn't know.

Chu Xiayi: "..."

Chen Fangmei could only pretend she didn't hear, and smiled awkwardly at Chu Xiayi, "Sit down, Auntie will make tea for you two."

"It's really not necessary, I will stay for a while, I have something to do later..."

Before Chu Xiayi finished speaking, Chen Fangmei had already walked out of the living room.

There were only the two of them left in the living room, and Feng Jiuwang knew he had misunderstood when he saw someone.

Seeing that everyone was leaving, Chu Xiayi pouted and sat on the sofa by herself, "It's really not that I want to stay this time."

"I know." Feng Juwang curled the corners of his mouth and put it down quickly, "It's pretty good."

"Stop mocking me, isn't it the same for you? You obviously don't like your stepmother, so you went back to your mother's house with her. I heard from my mother that you've been hanging out with relatives these days, and you've behaved so well."

Chu Xiayi also put on a smiling face, and her voice was fake as hell.

These remarks are naturally exaggerated. Feng Juwang's visit to relatives is at best a background board, and there is no other performance at all.

Feng Zhuwang's gaze shifted to her and stayed there for about two or three seconds, the same as before, uncomfortably sizing up.

His silence was far more terrifying than those barbed words.

Chu Xiayi suppressed her smile and turned her head to the side.

She couldn't figure out Feng Zhuwang's thoughts, and she was even more afraid of the indifference and sarcasm hidden under his smile.

She would shudder at it.

After a while, seeing that Chen Fangmei hadn't come yet, she knew that the woman was creating opportunities for them to talk.

This is a very redundant thing.

Chu Xiayi had no choice but to find something to say: "Are you and your dad reconciled?"

Feng Jiuwang: "No."

Chu Xiayi raised her eyebrows: "Then why are you so obedient all of a sudden? My mother told me that you went to that woman's house. Didn't you always want to go there before? What do you think?"

"I didn't think about anything." Feng Juwang blinked slowly, like Yu Huan often did, but he was more deliberate, "Because I promised the teacher to be quiet and not make trouble, and I don't want to cause trouble during the New Year." He didn't want to quarrel with Feng Chen , wasting unnecessary energy.

Chu Xiayi immediately realized who the "teacher" Feng Jiuwang was talking about, and her expression became more subtle, "You mean Teacher Yu?"

Feng Jiuwang didn't respond.

Chu Xiayi knew that he had a different attitude towards that teacher, but she didn't expect him to be so obedient.

"...Do you really think this is enough? She and her daughter will share your property in the future."

Feng Jiuwang still didn't speak.

The atmosphere froze, and Chu Xiayi realized that she had said something wrong.

She was too self-righteous, thinking that Feng Jiuwang was the same as before.

The girl bit a piece of flesh on her lower lip, forcing herself not to speak again, the pain could bring her a brief moment of calm.

They hadn't been in touch for a long time, and the encounter some time ago made her relax her vigilance, forgetting that she and Feng Jiuwang were never people who could be honest with each other.

The reason why they got together was because they lived in the same chaos, they wanted to numb themselves in the decadent flickering lights, and fell into countless days and nights of alternating cold and hot with the help of alcohol and heat.

But now Feng Jiuwang doesn't need it anymore.

He began to go to and from class regularly, doing what most students in the school would do, listening to lectures, taking notes, going to the library on a certain weekend morning, and even listening to others, and he also went to the counselor for English tutoring.

Chu Xiayi suddenly felt uncomfortable all over her body as if being pricked by a needle. Even though Feng Jiuwang's eyes were not on her at all, she still felt that his eyes would be filled with contempt and disdain.

She didn't want to stay any longer.

As soon as she sat up from the sofa, Chen Fangmei came out with two cups of fruit tea. The teacups were placed on delicate porcelain plates, exuding a sweet and cloying aroma.

Chu Xiayi remembered that Feng Jiuwang didn't like it, he didn't like fruit like a picky eater, and he didn't like the smell of perfume on her body.

She knows it.

Always knew but pretended not to know.

"Look at my clumsiness. Aunt Xing will come to work tomorrow. Auntie made the tea herself. If it's not good, you two will just make do with it..."

Feng Juwang said at the right time: "Aunt Chen, she said she still has something to go first."

The living room was silent for a second, and Chen Fangmei said, "Do you want to drink some hot water to warm yourself up before going out? That's fine, I hope you can send Xia Yi out, the corridor in our house is slippery..."

Chu Xiayi has always disliked this woman.

Chen Fangmei's face was full of flattering smiles, everyone knew what she was thinking.She was afraid of Feng Chen and his son, she could only do this for the rest of her life, she felt that she couldn't hold her head up after giving birth to a daughter for a man, there was no more cowardly and incompetent woman than her.

Chu Xiayi desperately told herself that she would never become such a person, absolutely not.

But her family may not be much better, or even worse - three daughters and one boy, everyone understands what it means, even if she is a girl, she is the one who is the least valued.

She understood, and Feng Jiuwang must also understand.

But he never said it.The more silent others were, the more she felt unable to hold her head up, so she had to be covered with thorns, and she wanted to be nice to everyone and not to anyone.

She will love herself well, only she loves herself the most.

Walking out from the porch, Chu Xiayi said, "You don't have to see me off."

"I'm going shopping, not with you."

Chu Xiayi lowered her head and took two quick steps, but Feng Jiuwang did not follow.

Then she slowed down again, her long hair fell on both sides of her cheeks, and her shadow cast a beautiful silhouette on the ground.

Chu Xiayi: "You have changed a lot."

Feng Jiuwang replied casually: "The hairstyle has changed."

Chu Xiayi: "..."

"No, I'm serious. I always thought you were just a child before, and I know you don't like to hear it, but it's true, Feng Jiuwang, I've never seen anyone worse or naive than you... No matter what, You don't even care."

Like a child, you can't remember the good and bad of others.

"But now I heard from Wei Yang that you don't miss classes very much, and you still go to the study room every day... This is very good, I think it should be the credit of Teacher Yu."

Chu Xiayi made herself uncomfortable. She has never been the type to speak well.

In the past, she could barely divide Feng Jiuwang into the same camp, but now she can't.

They are never the same.

It's just that the boy's silence gave her the illusion that he, like her, felt that life was terrible and the future was blurred.

But he once stood at the fork in the dusk, pulling a girl out of the approaching shadow with a strong attitude.

Despite the endless silence that ushered in.

Although no one saved him from silence.

Feng Juwang lowered his eyes and thought for a moment: "I don't know what you want to express, and I'm not very interested, but I want to ask if you have gone astray, and your family moved to the left?"

Of course Chu Xiayi knew that she followed Feng Jiuwang to another path, she just wanted to finish her sentence.

She used to be terrified of Feng Zhuwang's eyes, and recorded everything she saw indifferently and mechanically, and even the few smiling faces she showed were fake.

Now she is still afraid, and what she is afraid of is the reflection of herself in his eyes.

In Feng Zhuwang's eyes, she seems to have become some kind of ugly insect, with beautiful patterns and colors but always showing people with the most false imitation.

"I'm a bit envious of you and jealous of you." Chu Xiayi opened the corners of her mouth and smiled, tears streaming down her face, she hurriedly lowered her head, "I also want to meet someone who can make me so obedient, but I definitely can't. .”

She doesn't have Feng Juwang's courage, she doesn't have the guts to throw everything at her fingertips, let alone give up what she has in exchange for what she wants like Feng Juwang.

She is the cowardly and selfish majority.

"I think you shouldn't care, but I still want to remind you...it's too obvious." Chu Xiayi turned her head away and wiped her tears, "It's too obvious that you like Mr. Yu, and it will cause him trouble Yes, why don't you restrain yourself a little?"

Only then did Feng Jiuwang look at her.

"You may not realize it yourself, but your tone of voice changes when you mention him. Teacher Yu is really unlucky to be liked by such an unlucky bastard like you."

Feng Juwang frowned, and was about to speak but was interrupted by Chu Xiayi.

"I won't tell anyone."

On a cold winter day, the girl's watery eyes sparkled movingly, and then she laughed at herself.

"After all, I'm the best at silence."

She'll be silent and pretend she doesn't know anything.

This is the easiest choice she has made in her 21 years of life.