After Breaking Up, I Shared an Apartment With My Best Friend and Her Boyfriend (H) - 59
Chapter 59: I Cheated
As soon as she finished speaking, Chen Qiao glanced at the time. It really was still fifteen minutes. Xu Jiaming’s bar had her singing one song every twenty minutes.
She looked at Xu Yanqi’s gaze that made it impossible to ignore his presence. Her eyelashes fluttered. “Okay.”
Xu Yanqi walked forward. Chen Qiao followed behind him. This scene had actually happened many times before. It was always Chen Qiao helping Wen Sui get things from his car. She held the phone on a call with Wen Sui in her hand and just quietly followed behind this man.
The two of them said nothing. Once they got the things, Xu Yanqi would politely say thank you to her and then drive away.
Xu Yanqi walked in front at that moment. The image of Chen Qiao silently following behind him also appeared in his mind. So from that time on, she had already appeared in his life. It was just that he hadn’t noticed.
At that time, his heart and eyes were full of his work and Wen Sui.
After getting in the car, Xu Yanqi sat in the driver’s seat. He glanced over at Chen Qiao, who was turned sideways closing the passenger door. Her coat draped over her shoulders. A light evening dress hid inside, fitting her figure perfectly. Under the glow of the overhead car light, she showed an elegant and alluring sensuality, along with an unmatched grace.
In that moment, Xu Yanqi’s eyes grew warm as he watched. When Chen Qiao closed the car door and turned around, their gazes met by chance in an instant of eye contact.
“Chen Qiao, before, I…”
Xu Yanqi’s Adam’s apple bobbed a few times. He still wanted to explain to her about the thing she had mentioned back in the bar, that she had liked him before.
“Before, I didn’t know you liked me. I didn’t notice.”
As soon as he finished, Xu Yanqi’s gaze shifted uncertainly toward her. Chen Qiao clearly saw the apology in his eyes.
Chen Qiao brushed the hair by her ear. “I know.”
She gently closed her eyes for a moment. “Xu Yanqi, actually, rather than calling it liking, it’s more like having a good feeling.”
Then, she lifted her eyes to look at him. That gaze made Xu Yanqi feel a pang in his heart for the first time, like a rope binding him, no matter how he struggled, he couldn’t break free.
“Your excellence, and your thoughtfulness and care toward Wen Sui, made me have strong feelings for you for a while. Many times, my gaze would unconsciously turn toward you.”
She said it very straightforwardly. Xu Yanqi swallowed in his throat again and again.
Then, just as he was about to speak, Chen Qiao continued.
“It doesn’t matter that you didn’t notice. I didn’t show any signs.”
As soon as she finished, because of that sentence, a thick wave of regret showed in Xu Yanqi’s eyes.
“It’s not your problem.”
He explained.
It wasn’t that no one had ever said they liked Xu Yanqi. From childhood to now, because of his looks and height, there were always many suitors around him. It often made him feel overwhelmed.
Until he got together with Wen Sui. Only then did the suitors around him decrease a lot. After all, Wen Sui had her charm and personality there. Many people didn’t dare to push forward anymore, because no one could compare to Wen Sui.
In the mouths of many people at Jiang University, they were a match made in heaven.
On top of that, to outsiders, their two-year relationship was stable. Xu Yanqi had also consciously kept girls away. He lived like an insulator. His life had only Wen Sui and work.
So no bold suitors dared to try anymore, until Chen Qiao appeared.
She was like someone who broke the pattern, leaving Xu Yanqi at a loss on how to accept her closeness.
“Chen Qiao, I cheated. Do you still think I’m the thoughtful person in your eyes?”
Xu Yanqi spoke and asked her that.
If he really was as thoughtful and caring toward his girlfriend as Chen Qiao said, then he wouldn’t have cheated.
He felt that Chen Qiao had a filter on him.