Quick Wear: Cousin, Come to the Bowl Quickly

Chapter 119 The CEO’s Cousin in a Workplace Story (32)

"Xixi, is that you?"

A gentle female voice sounded, and Ye Huai suddenly felt Lin Xi's body stiffen beside him. Her smiling face quickly faded. He couldn't help but reach out and hold her hand, but found that her palm was also cold.

Ye Huai's face suddenly darkened and he turned to look at the source of the sound. He saw a woman in a white woolen coat, with long hair draped over her shoulders and a gentle temperament standing not far away. Her face, which was 70% similar to Lin Xi, was full of surprise.

"Ahuai? Why are you here too?" When the woman saw Ye Huai turning around, she first showed a surprised smile on her face, and then became a little confused.

"Aunt." The moment Ye Huai saw the woman's face clearly, he realized her identity. She was Lin Xi's biological mother, Lin Yurou, who traveled around the world with her husband and her young son, but ignored her daughter whom she had not seen for more than ten years.

Thinking of this, Ye Huai's eyes became even colder. He held Lin Xi's hand tightly and said coldly to Lin Yurou who was smiling gently, "I'm here to buy some things."

"So that's how it is." As if she didn't notice his cold attitude, Lin Yurou's smile didn't diminish, and even became more gentle. Her eyes seemed to casually sweep over their intertwined fingers, "Xixi, I'm your mother, why don't you turn around and look at your mother?"

Lin Xi knew that she couldn't escape, so she closed her eyes tightly, then slowly turned around. Her face, which was very similar to Lin Yurou's, showed no emotion at all, and she said lightly, "Mom."

"Hey, you've grown into a big girl." The same cold attitude of the two did not dampen Lin Yurou's enthusiasm at all. When she saw Lin Xi speaking, a very moved expression appeared on her face, with tears flashing in her eyes. She took two steps forward and wanted to hold Lin Xi's hand.

Seeing her rushing over, Lin Xi subconsciously turned sideways, and Ye Huai also very tactfully grabbed her waist and pulled her to the side. With the cooperation of the two, Lin Yurou's rush was empty. She lowered her head, a trace of barely perceptible anger flashed in her eyes, but her face showed a look of deep shock. Her body trembled slightly, like a water lotus that could not withstand the cool breeze, and she hesitated to say: "Xixi..."

"Arou, what's wrong?" Looking at her singing and songwriting skills, Lin Xi felt powerless and annoyed. Just as she was about to speak, she was interrupted by a male voice.

A tall and handsome man appeared behind Lin Yurou, pulled her into his arms, and gently supported her shoulders. Seeing her eyes full of tears, the man subconsciously frowned and asked, "Who bullied you? Why do you look like this?"

Lin Yurou raised her head from his arms, her eyes slightly red, looking pitiful. She bit her lip and shook her head gently, then turned to look in the direction of Lin Xi and the others.

The man looked in the direction she was going, and then he noticed the two people standing not far away with indifferent expressions. He was stunned for a moment, and his eyes swept across Lin Xi's face. Then he asked Lin Yurou uncertainly, "Who is that? Xixi?"

"Uncle, when did you come back?" Seeing Ye Zhenkai in a black woolen coat, Ye Huai's cold expression eased a little and he revealed a smile.

"Well, I just came back yesterday. What are you doing?" Ye Zhenkai nodded, looked at the intimate actions of the two, and asked with a frown.

Ye Huai glanced at Lin Yurou, whose face was also full of inquiry, and gently curled the corners of his lips. He raised his hand, which was interlocked with Lin Xi's fingers, and said, "I haven't introduced her to you yet. This is Xixi, my fiancée."

"What?" Lin Yurou exclaimed softly, then reached out and covered her mouth in disbelief.

Ye Zhenkai frowned upon hearing this and asked hesitantly, "When did you two get together? Does the old man know?"

"Hmm." Seeing that Ye Zhenkai's expression showed some disapproval, Ye Huai's expression, which had just eased a lot, became cold again. He hummed lightly and was unwilling to say more.

“But you are cousins, how can you…” Lin Yurou stared with her eyes slightly, looking as if she couldn’t accept it.

Seeing her singing and writing well, Lin Xi finally couldn't help herself and gently broke free from Ye Huai's embrace. She looked at the pale Lin Yurou with a sarcastic expression, "Are you enjoying your trip around the world?"

Lin Yurou's body trembled slightly, and she shrank back into Ye Zhenkai's arms somewhat weakly, and said with a guilty look on her face: "Xixi, I..."

"I texted you about this a few months ago, didn't you know?" Lin Xi asked coldly without giving her a chance to perform.

"What text message? Arou, you didn't tell me?" Ye Zhenkai seemed to have finally noticed the discord between Lin Yurou and her daughter. He lowered his voice and asked Lin Yurou.

Lin Yurou gritted her teeth secretly. How could she receive any message? She had blocked Lin Xi's mobile number more than ten years ago. She even changed her number several times over the years. She just wanted to completely get rid of this burden that had made her poor and destitute for several years.

In July, she didn't know how Lin Xi got her email address, and suddenly sent her a message saying that she was going back to China. She didn't want to see her at all, so she hurriedly begged Ye Zhenkai and hid away under the pretext of a family of three traveling around the world, just to make sure Lin Xi didn't see her when she came back and would give up.

Who would have thought that this person would quietly hook up with Ye Huai? Ye Huai is now in charge of the financial power of the entire Ye family. If he were to be with Lin Xi, given how she has ignored this girl over the years, she would definitely bear a grudge against her. Then her life, which had been stable and prosperous for several years, would be changed again. She would never allow such a thing to happen!

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If Lin Xi knew what she was thinking at this moment, she would definitely spit at her. Although the original owner had always been hurt by this cruel mother, she never felt any resentment towards her. Instead, she always believed that she was the cause of her mother's misfortune. Therefore, in order not to destroy her mother's hard-earned happiness, in the original plot, she stayed abroad until the end of the story. Except for Ye Huai's funeral, she never appeared in front of Lin Yurou once, let alone came to destroy her life.

But Lin Yurou obviously didn't think so. Seeing Lin Xi's cold tone, she quickly turned to Ye Zhenkai and said, "I was thinking about telling you, but A Wei was sick at that time, and I forgot about it in a hurry." Lin Yurou naturally couldn't let Lin Xi destroy her image of a gentle and kind mother in Ye Zhenkai's mind. She rolled her eyes and lied.

However, before Ye Zhenkai could recall, Lin Xi suddenly laughed out loud, "Oh, I suddenly remembered that I sent the wrong number. I sent your number from more than ten years ago. Didn't you cancel it? Every time I called, it showed that the number was invalid. How could you receive the message?" Lin Xi's smile was particularly sincere, but the sarcasm in her eyes could not be hidden.

This damn girl! Lin Yurou was filled with hatred. She didn't expect that after not seeing her for more than ten years, Lin Xi was still the same as before, as smart as a demon!

No matter how many times I threw her away in the past, she would always come back home in the end and cling to me like a drowned ghost, making my life poor and restless. I finally sent her abroad, but I didn't expect her to come back again, and she gave me such a big show of power the first time they met!

"What nonsense is this kid talking about? Mom knows you are angry that I didn't come to see you after you returned to China, but I promised A Wei that I would go out with him and the itinerary has been arranged. It's not easy to cancel."

Lin Yurou was indeed a woman who could date multiple men and finally successfully deceive Ye Zhenkai into marrying into a wealthy family. She quickly came to her senses and spoke a lot of words with a mixture of anger and laughter. Not only did she successfully shift the blame of herself for ignoring her own daughter, she also portrayed Lin Xi as an unreasonable and ignorant child who competed for favor with her younger brother.

How could you take a child's words seriously? Sure enough, Ye Zhenkai, who had shown a hint of doubt on his face because of Lin Xi's phone call, softened a lot after hearing what Lin Yurou said. He looked at Lin Xi with a hint of displeasure between his brows.

"Xixi, how can you talk to your mother like that? You've been abroad for more than ten years, and your mother cries every time she thinks of you. It's not easy for her to meet you, so why are you acting like this? Ah Huai, why don't you do anything about it?"

Lin Xi did not have any much resentment towards the original owner's cheap stepfather. After all, when he was just together with Lin Yurou, he loved Lin Xi and her because of Lin Yurou. When Lin Yurou wanted to send the original owner abroad, he also opposed it, but in the end he could not persuade Lin Yurou and had to give up.

In the first few years when the original owner went abroad, he would occasionally call to show concern and give her some money from time to time, fearing that the original owner, a little girl, was not having a good time abroad.

However, later Lin Yurou and the original owner cried and complained that the original owner was closer to this stepfather than to herself. The original owner felt sorry for her mother and gradually reduced her contact with Ye Zhenkai. After Ye Wei was born, Ye Zhenkai and this stepdaughter who had no blood relationship even cut off contact.

However, although Ye Zhenkai was nice to her in the original owner's memory and Lin Xi had no ill feelings towards him, but now seeing him being unable to tell right from wrong because of Lin Yurou's words, she couldn't help but roll her eyes secretly.

No wonder Master Ye Huai would skip him and hand the company over to Ye Huai. Look at how lustful he is, and how he is in love with Lin Yurou. I'm afraid that if Lin Yurou persuades him too much, the entire Ye family will have to change its name to Lin family.

"The attitude of the future head lady of the Ye family is my attitude. Uncle, it's cold today, so Xixi and I will go back first. If you and your wife have any dissatisfaction with my fiancée, please wait until the New Year's Eve family dinner to tell Grandpa."

Seeing Ye Zhenkai's cold look towards Lin Xi, Ye Huai's expression also turned cold. He glanced at Lin Yurou who looked gloating, then he took a step forward with his long legs, walked to Lin Xi, took her hand again, said this coldly, picked up the things he had just put on the ground, and turned around and left without hesitation.

"This brat is really getting cocky." Seeing his nephew's rude conversation, Ye Zhenkai couldn't help but curse him, but then he found that many people around were looking at him because of the confrontation between them just now. He suddenly felt a little embarrassed, so he shut up silently.

Lin Yurou, who was standing in front of him, looked at the backs of Ye Huai and Lin Xi as they left together, her body trembling slightly, and she looked fragile and deeply shocked. But where Ye Zhenkai couldn't see, a dark light flashed in her tearful eyes.

Compared to the joy and warmth when they came, the two seemed particularly silent on the way back.

Ye Huai looked at Lin Xi, who was unusually silent beside him, from time to time. Finally, he couldn't help it and parked the car aside with a frown.

Lin Xi was immersed in her thoughts when she suddenly felt someone holding her hand. The warm touch brought her back to her senses instantly and she looked at Ye Huai who was beside her with eyes full of concern.

"What's wrong?" Lin Xi looked at the two people's intertwined hands and couldn't help but look up and ask.

Ye Huai looked at the person in front of him with red eyes and empty eyes, but he didn't know it at all. His heart ached for a moment, and he sighed softly. He reached out to tidy up her hair that had just been blown a little messy by the wind, and said in a gentle tone: "Can you tell me about your childhood?"

Lin Xi was stunned, as if she didn't expect him to ask this. She tilted her head to avoid it, lowered her eyes, and said in a mosquito-like voice: "Why do you suddenly want to ask this? I can't remember anything about my childhood."

"Then tell me about you and your mother, Xixi." As if he didn't see Lin Xi's evasion, Ye Huai lifted her head up again, and gently stroked Lin Xi's cheek with his thumb, which was full of soothing, gentle but firm.

Lin Xi had to look up at Ye Huai, only to see the man in front of her with a pair of deep eyes staring at her quietly, with love and care in his eyes. She couldn't help but feel a lump in her throat, and the tears that she had just been holding back suddenly burst out. She stretched out her hands, threw herself into Ye Huai's arms, and burst into tears.

Ye Huai held the person in his arms, his heart was sour and soft. He reached out and gently patted Lin Xi's back. After a long time, he felt that the sobbing body of the person in his arms had finally calmed down. Then he took out a tissue from the side, lifted Lin Xi's face, and gently wiped away her tears.

"In fact, I have known since I was a child that my mother doesn't like me..." Lin Xi, who had calmed down, sniffed and talked about her experience...

I don't know when a light snow started falling outside the car window. As soon as it fell on the roof, it was melted by the heater inside the car, and turned into drops of water, which fell silently along the car body to the ground.

"I know she wished she had never given birth to me, but I've been living alone abroad for so many years and I really couldn't bear it anymore..." In the car, Lin Xi recalled intermittently the difficult days she had spent alone abroad over the years, those painful memories of walking alone and thinking that she was abandoned by the whole world. Even though so much time has passed, every time she thinks of it, it's like reopening a newly scabbed scar, and she can't forget the bloody memories.

Perhaps because she had been suppressed for too long, today she finally had someone to talk to. Lin Xi kept chattering on for a long time, until the snow outside gradually got heavier, forming a thin layer of frost on the treetops and grass. But Ye Huai just listened quietly, wiping her tears from time to time, without the slightest impatience.

Lin Xi said to herself that she had nothing more to say. She came to her senses and looked at the pile of tissues that she had wet. She stepped out of Ye Huai's arms awkwardly. With her eyes swollen like walnuts, she looked at Ye Huai embarrassedly and said, "Cousin, I'm sorry, I..."

Before she could finish her words, Ye Huai stretched out his finger and gently pressed it on her lips, "You said that between us, there is no need to say sorry."

Ye Huai hugged her again, looking at the world gradually covered by snow in his sight, he was lost in thought for a moment, and then as if he had finally made up his mind, his voice was as gentle as the snowflakes falling silently outside, "Xixi, accompany me to a place tomorrow."

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