Names mentioned in this chapter :

-蘇芮 (sù ruì) – Su Rui, our female protagonist

-蘇小芮(sù xiǎo ruì)- Su Xiao Rui, which translates to Su little Rui.

-顧煜城 (gù yù chéng)- Gu Yu Cheng, the male lead

-顧夫人(gù tài tài)- Mrs Gu

-唐笑(táng xiào) – Tang Xiao, Su Rui’s friend and daughter of the chairman of Tang Jing Group

-白欣雨(bái xīn yù)- Bai Xin Yu, aka Siria

-欣雨姐(xīn yù jiě)- Xin Yu Jie/elder sister Xin Yu, Siria

-嚴筱(yán xiǎo)- Yan Xiao, Second Miss of the Yan Group

-景園(jǐng yuán)- Jing Yuan, where the Gu House is located.

After they left, Tang Xiao’s eyes widened and looked at Su Rui unbelievably.

“Su Rui, why are you so calm?”

Tang Xiao questioned and scrutinized the changes in Su Rui’s facial expression.

“How am I even calm?” Sui Rui furrowed her eyebrows and responded.

“You look calm everywhere.” Tang Xiao said firmly.

As Tang Xiao stared at Su Rui, she couldn’t control herself as asked, “But, aren’t you curious about what happened between Chairman Gu and Xin Yu Jie?”

Previously during the school opening ceremony, she thought Su Rui and Gu Yu Cheng’s blind date was just going through the motions and didn’t take it to heart.

A moment ago, Tang Xiao, who knew about the relationship progress of Gu Yu Cheng and Su Rui, had wanted to say something. However, before she could recover from the shock of their relationship progress, she was interrupted by Yan Xiao.

“I’m a little curious,” Su Rui whispered, not concealing her thoughts. After all, Gu Yu Cheng became the protagonist of the story and she was indeed a little curious.

“So, are you going to tell me?”

“Go shopping with me tomorrow.”

“I can’t. Ms Li Na and I agreed to have a class at home tomorrow evening.”

“Then, during the day.”

“I’m not free during the day.” Su Rui replied and looked at Tang Xiao’s aggrieved face. She controlled her laughter and added, “Next week?”

“Fine, don’t tell me you have something on by then.” Tang Xiao nodded her head with difficulty.

“Actually, I don’t know much about it.” Tang Xiao thought and said.

After all, when Gu Yu Cheng and Bai Xin Yu were buying soy sauce[1], she was still lying in the pram.

“The Gu family, Bai family and Yan Xiao’s family and a few others live in Jing Yuan. So, these people have roughly known each other for many years.”

“At that time, they all said that Gu Yu Cheng and Bai Xin Yu were a couple, and this rumour was quite well-known.” Otherwise, she wouldn’t have been able to hear this rumour since she lived in Cheng Dong.

“When did it happen?” Su Rui couldn’t help but question. “Well, when I was in primary school, it was when Gu Yu Cheng and the rest were in high school.” Tang Xiao thought and said.

“Childhood sweethearts?” Su Rui raised her eyebrows.

“You can call it that,” Tang Xiao nodded and continued, “After a while, the Bai Company went bankrupt because of poor management and Xin Yu jie went abroad.”

As for this matter, there were all kinds of opinions. Such as, Mrs Gu looked down on the Bai family and separated the couple, and the Gu family wanted to take over the Bai family but Bai Xin Yu wanted to preserve her dignity and was unwilling to accept it and finally just allowed her family to go bankrupt…

Tang Xiao thought the opinions were a bit unbelievable[2], so she didn’t tell Su Rui.

“However, they were neighbours after all. The Gu family and several others in Jing Yuan have given some help to the Bai family.” This was a fact.

“It’s just that Xin Yu didn’t want to accept this kind of aid, so she decided to go abroad. It’s said that she has been studying music abroad and won the prize as the first Chinese person.” Speaking of this matter, Tang Xiao couldn’t help but be impressed by it.

After all, Bai Xin Yu’s story at that time had become the fantasy of countless little girls of her age in the circle.

She refused to accept the alms from her boyfriend’s family and resolutely went abroad to study.

There was even a legend that Gu Yu Cheng had been single all this time just to wait for Bai Xin Yu to return.

“The ‘Xin Yu Jie’ you spoke about was the person mentioned at the school opening ceremony?” Su Rui asked.

After all, there would be all sorts of versions after a story has been spread around numerous times. Therefore, Su Rui didn’t care about the ‘bug’ in Tang Xiao’s story. As long as she got the gist of it.

But this ‘Xin Yu j’ name rang a bell.

“Yes, it’s Siria! It’s said that she will return to China next month.”

“En,” Su Rui nodded her head. She saw that while she was scrolling through the entertainment news.

“Aren’t you nervous?” Tang Xiao asked curiously, staring at Su Rui while fluttering her eyelashes.

“Why should I be nervous?” Su Rui smiled and added, “Regarding what is going on between Gu Yu Cheng and Siria?” “That’s right.” After all, it is said that Gu Yu Cheng has been waiting for Bai Xin Yu for ten years. This time, Bai Xin Yu returned home with the grand prize in music. Isn’t it so that she could get back together with Gu Yu Cheng?

When Su Rui heard this, she couldn’t help but chuckle.

“I don’t have to be nervous about this. Moreover, I think I get along quite well with Gu Yu Cheng,” Su Rui said candidly.

He

Su Rui doesn’t feel that Gu Yu Cheng would be able to do such brainless things that even she won’t do.

“But after all, Gu Yu Cheng and Xin Yu used to be…”

“Childhood sweethearts?”

“Yup.”

“Who doesn’t have a childhood sweetheart? Yet, how many make it to the marriage hall?”

“Then you aren’t sad? You don’t feel disturbed by it?” Tang Xiao looked at Su Rui and asked curiously.

“Why should I be disturbed?”

“Gu Yu Cheng and Xin Yu Jie’s romantic relationship.”

If Su Rui knew of Tang Xiao’s thoughts, she would definitely say,

“Gu Yu Cheng is already 27 years old.”

“Yes, so what about it?”

“Isn’t it normal for a 27-year-old man to have a few exes?” Su Rui fluttered her eyelashes as she spoke.

Even though she was single until she died, she also liked someone when she was in school, let alone Gu Yu Cheng.

When Tang Xiao heard what Su Rui said, her expression began to twitch continuously.

“Fine, Miss Su is right. I won’t say anything further.” Tang Xiao waved her hand and said.magic

Tang Xiao looked at Su Rui very seriously and murmured in her heart.

Excluding various factors, if she were to support a CP[3], she would definitely support Su Rui and Gu Yu Cheng.

“Why are you looking at me like that?”

“(Cough) It’s nothing. I’m afraid you’ll be too upset after you knew about this,” Tang Xiao rolled her eyes and explained, “But, I am relieved since you look so cold, heartless and apathetic.”

Although Su Rui and Gu Yu Cheng aren’t boyfriend or girlfriends yet and haven’t reached the point of being (deeply) in love with each other, they did have some affection for each other, after all. When she heard such a story of “deep love”, Su Rui was still a little uncomfortable.

She should find time to understand Gu Yu Cheng’s past relationship.

Su Rui knitted her eyebrows and inwardly made plans.

[1] 打醬油[dǎjiàngyóu]- Buy soya sauce. The literal meaning was to buy soya sauce from a shop. Firstly, a traditional meaning would be, “X’s child could also buy soya sauce” refers to that the child has grown up that they could help out with house work and their parents aren’t young anymore. Secondly, it would mean that one isn’t interested in general affairs and ‘none of my business’ or ‘I can’t comment much on this matter since my superior is in charge of it.’. This means that it is a ‘bystander’. Lastly, those actors in an entertainment film that is an extra/background actor could also be said to be ‘buying soya sauce’. In this case, it would refer to the first meaning.

[2] 狗血[gǒuxiě]- dog blood/Melodramatic. Firstly, it could be describing trite and highly predictable movie or Tv drama scenes. Secondly, it could be relating to ludicrously unrealistic movie or TV drama scenes. Thirdly, it could relate to or characterised by schmaltz, dramatised sentimentalism, as in TV shows and movies. Lastly, it may be relating to life events that are ridiculous or infuriating.

[3] CP- Couple. The internet slang is often used to describe couples in movies or TV series. Sometimes it is also used to describe real life couples.

[4] 心裡一堵(xīn li yī dǔ) – to feel sad and frustrated as if there is a blockage in her heart.