Chapter 1782 - 732: Encounter_2

Chapter 1782: Chapter 732: Encounter_2

"Suisui, perhaps you should drink less. You can’t get drunk on your first day in Qin Island, right?"

"But I really kind of want to get drunk. Do you know how long it’s been since I’ve properly relaxed, especially..."

Hua Suisui hesitated, holding back her words.

"Do you have something on your mind?"

Ji Xiaoxi asked with concern, "You’ve stopped streaming for a while, haven’t you? I haven’t really come across your posts recently."

"I... Xixi, do you think people like us can truly find so-called happiness?"

A trace of bitterness crossed Hua Suisui’s usually radiant face for the first time. "I feel like I’ve been brave enough and careful enough, but things still aren’t going as planned."

"Suisui, what’s wrong with you?"

Ji Xiaoxi immediately held Hua Suisui’s hand with concern, "You can tell me anything, even though we haven’t talked for a while, we’re still good sisters, right?"

"Yes, you’re right. I... I just don’t know where to start."

Hua Suisui nodded and sighed, "I once thought I got a response from him. I also felt that those sacrifices and the waiting were worth it. For that, I even changed my account name, even though I knew it would decrease my popularity..."

"Oh, are you talking about that time when you changed your Douyin account to a ’Romance Edition’?"

Ji Xiaoxi suddenly remembered something and couldn’t help but laugh, "I didn’t expect it to be so sudden. I happened to be a bit caught up in my own matters at the time, so I didn’t get a chance to ask you. How did you start a romantic relationship so quietly? Is your partner from Mountain City? Is that why you chose to return to Mountain City?"

"My return to Mountain City is indeed related to him, but he’s not from Mountain City."

Hua Suisui hesitated before she spoke, "Actually... you also know him. I’m not sure if ’partner’ is the right word, but it is related to my purpose in coming to Qin Island this time. I, I still want to try to fight for it."

"I know him? You came to Qin Island for him too?"

Ji Xiaoxi was momentarily bewildered, "Is there someone we both know in Qin Island? Why don’t I know?"

"Of course you know. He used to be our boss, you know. Of course... that might have been his position before he went bankrupt. I just feel like I didn’t perform well that day. Even though I was determined, how could I hesitate just because he went bankrupt? I was thinking maybe this is also an opportunity, if I could..."

"Suisui, wait a moment!"

Ji Xiaoxi’s heart suddenly skipped a beat, urgently interrupting Hua Suisui, looking at her dazedly, "Our boss, you couldn’t possibly mean..."

"Yeah, it’s Zhou Wang!"

Hua Suisui said with a playful smile, "Who else could it be? I remember telling you and Xiaoxi that I had a good impression of him back then, though the development later on deviated from my expectations a bit..."

"Zhou... Zhou Wang?"

Ji Xiaoxi was still in a daze, barely hearing what Hua Suisui was saying. Suddenly, everything around her began to distort, and the repressed memories in her mind abruptly shattered, engulfing her like a surging tide.

The longing and struggle in the guest room of the mansion, the unprecedented wondrous experience, the pure white pants with butterfly prints scattered on the stall...

The baby room in the western restaurant, learning to speak from struggle to numbness, like a swan dirtied by mud, she completely didn’t know how to groom her feathers...

The entertainment room of a luxury suite in Paris, shyly fiddling with her toes, finally admitting to the miraculous pleasure of falling, on that night plunging into hell, yet floating to the clouds...

And in Beidou, the night she finally accepted her fate, the night her beliefs collapsed. Behind the reckless joy was the life she tried hard to mend, yet ultimately became fragmented...

Curiously, amid the flashing memories, Ji Xiaoxi noticed a detail she had always ignored, or perhaps had intentionally forgotten, one she didn’t want to recall.

At this moment, the detail suddenly became clear, as if it was reminding her of something.

And that was—the first time at Hang City Manor, although Zhou Wang flirted with her, when Zhou Wang suddenly wanted to stop with surprise, she tightly held Zhou Wang’s hand, then in a nearly imperceptible, mosquito-like whisper, she uttered two words:

"...continue."

This detail, suddenly magnified, sent Ji Xiaoxi’s mind into chaos once again.

So, everything was actually initiated by her.

This was the source of her overflowing guilt within.

She didn’t understand why she had never recalled this until now, when suddenly her memory became vivid...

Perhaps because it was the first time in the past three months she heard Zhou Wang’s name, the sudden impact awakening all the memories she intentionally forgot, also making the details increasingly clear.

But why here, why from Hua Suisui’s mouth?

"...Xixi, Xixi, are you okay?"

Hua Suisui’s effort to shake her hand finally jolted Ji Xiaoxi out of her daze.

"What happened, why did you suddenly start zoning out, did you hear me speaking?"

"I, I’m fine... It’s just maybe a bit of a surprise, yeah. I didn’t expect you to be with Zhou Wang. I mean, I knew you had a good impression of him before, I just..."

Ji Xiaoxi felt a bit flustered, with an inexplicable sour and jealous feeling, she could only strive to hide her emotions.

Fortunately, Hua Suisui was still immersed in her own emotions, not noticing her abnormality, simply pursing her lips and saying, "Strictly speaking, we’re not really together. There might have been a chance at first, but when he told me he was bankrupt..."

"Wait, you said Zhou Wang went bankrupt?"

Ji Xiaoxi suddenly grasped Hua Suisui’s hand.

"Yes, I just mentioned it earlier, didn’t you hear..."

Hua Suisui replied with a bit of confusion.

...

"How did Hua Suisui and Ji Xiaoxi end up together? Oh, right, they seemed to have a good relationship before."

From several tables away, Zhou Wang mused to himself, somewhat caught off guard.

After Ji Xiaoxi finished her church trip, the "helpers" Zhou Wang placed around her completed their tasks, Zhou Wang only knew she returned to her hometown, and hadn’t kept up with her situation.

...Mainly because he didn’t have money anymore and couldn’t afford any costs, coupled with Ji Xiaoxi’s situation seemingly stable, she had no dark thoughts, so Zhou Wang temporarily didn’t continue paying attention to her.

At this moment, Zhou Wang suddenly remembered, Ji Xiaoxi indeed was from Min Province.

Could this be some kind of weird fate?

Although unexpectedly running into them here, Zhou Wang wasn’t planning to make any moves.

It’s not like he had a sudden epiphany to distance himself from women... Ji Xiaoxi still held enough allure for him, but Zhou Wang felt it wasn’t the right time.

Better wait until his new venture is on track.

The current Zhou Wang didn’t want to be distracted.

Plus, not knowing how Hua Suisui ended up in Qin Island made things even more complicated.

"Haozi, probably enough drinks, we..."

Zhou Wang was about to signal Yang Hao to leave, but his peripheral vision caught a glimpse, stopping him abruptly.

Because Ji Xiaoxi and Hua Suisui seemed to have encountered trouble.

A few young men appeared from nowhere, blocking their table. With the music covering the sound, Zhou Wang couldn’t hear what they were saying, but he clearly saw one of the young men making some unfriendly gestures.

Zhou Wang furrowed his brow, indicating Yang Hao to hold on using gestures, feeling quite helpless inside.

This life that never seems to calm down!

But to help them, he didn’t necessarily have to involve himself directly...