Published at 26th of August 2019 8:35 pm

Chapter 8

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It was hard to decorate the Christmas tree and the sky was getting dark.

Looking at the bright and shining Christmas tree, Tao Xinya clasped her hands together, she liked it very much.

"Xinya!"

"Hmm?" She smiled and turned her head.

With a click sound, Yuan Yurang took a picture of her with his mobile phone —— when she decorated the Christmas tree, he would help her and also took pictures of her with the Christmas tree.

The smile on Tao Xinya’s face was slightly stiff.

Yuan Yurang looked at the picture on the phone and shook his head and said, "Your face is round." This words easily dispelled the consternation that rose in the heart of Tao Xinya.

She rushed forward and grabbed his mobile phone. "Delete it!" She just hated this fleshy face.

Yuan Yurang took his mobile phone high with his height and his arm held her, who voluntarily threw herself. "Come, let's take a picture."

"No! Give me the phone!" Tao Xinya jumped, but couldn't grab the phone. "Delete that picture!"

"No, I want to use it as my mobile phone wallpaper."

"No!"

"Cough cough...... Young Master, sorry to bother." Roy coughed lightly in a timely manner. "Young Master Haier and Miss Yi Lianna are here."

The two stopped their movements and looked at the door.

Haier looked at the two with surprised, and while Yi Lianna's look was slightly cold.

"Haier?" Seeing Haier, Chen Anmei was surprised and delighted. She saw Haier from childhood to big, as her own son, Haier unexpectedly came.

Since the death of Xinxin, he and the Yuan house had broken off.

"Hey, godmother, you’re still young and beautiful." Haier went to Chen Anmei and bent over to kiss her face.

"Stinky boy! For so long you hadn’t come to see the godmother, godmother thought you were out of the godmother." Chen Anmei beat Haier's chest and her eyes were filled with tears.

"No, don’t cry, godmother." Haier panicked and was alarmed. "I don't want to be beaten by godfather, godfather, it's not my fault that godmother cried." He looked up and complained to Yuan Chenghong.

Yuan Chenghong snorted and laughed with his always serious face. "Not come in yet!"

"Yes, dinner is ready. This dish is made by me. Haier, you have to eat more." Chen Anmei took her son's hand.

"Whoa! I haven't eaten the food that godmother made for a long time. I have to eat a few more bowls." Haier exclaimed exaggeratedly.

Chen Anmei was teased by him and she did not forget to pull Yi Lianna. "Welcome, Yi Lianna, don't be polite, just treat it as your own home."

"Thank you, Aunt Mei." Yi Lianna smiled.

The group walked to the dining room. Tao Xinya had been stalking Haier. When she sat down at the table, Haier was sitting opposite her.

And Yuan Yurang sat next to her, and opposite him was Yi Lianna.

Chen Anmei looked at her son uneasily, and Yuan Chenghong gently pulled his wife, secretly shook his head.

The atmosphere was a bit strange, and Haier took the lead in breaking the silence. "Wow! It's Chinese food! I haven't eaten Chinese food for a long time, and I miss the craftsmanship of the godmother."

Chen Anmei smiled and clipped a piece of sweet and sour pork ribs to Haier. "You like then eat more, the godmother is preparing a lot, Yi Lianna, you also eat." She also clipped a piece of beef to Yi Lianna.

"Tao Xinya, don't be a picky eater." Yuan Yurang looked unpleasantly at the green pepper which was picked by Tao Xinya to the small plate.

When she heard the name said by Yuan Yurang, the chopsticks in Yi Lianna’s hand fell, and she looked at Yuan Yurang with surprise. "Yu, what did you just call Bella?"

"Tao Xinya." Yuan Yurang said faintly. "Her Chinese name is Tao Xinya."

How could it…... Yi Lianna looked at Tao Xinya with astonishment.

"Oh, Yi Lianna, are you scared? I was scared when I heard it, too. I didn't expect someone to has the same name as Xinxin's, but Xinxin had passed away, she is not Xinxin." Haier smiled and looked at Yuan Yurang. " Ah-Rang, is that right?"

Yuan Yurang was not angry, he gently rubbed the head of Tao Xinya, smiling.

Tao Xinya looked at the two nervously. "Don't quarrel!" Wasn't it fine just a moment ago? How come suddenly got a conflict.

Seeing the worried of Tao Xinya's appearance, Haier was slightly dazed. When he thought he had a dispute with Yuan Yurang, Xinxin was watching them nervously and asked them not to quarrel.

"Xinxin, don't be afraid, your brother didn't quarrel with Ah-Rang." The words couldn’t help but blurt out, and Haier was immediately stunned. He was embarrassed to squeeze out a smile. "Sorry."

Chen Anmei hurriedly made a call, let the servant took a pair of clean chopsticks to Yi Lianna. "Alright, alright, eat quickly, the dishes are getting cold."

Everyone continued to dine, but around the table was silent.

Tao Xinya watched everyone, she couldn't stand the quiet atmosphere, was it not Christmas today?

She looked up at Roy and said: "Roy, can you please help me with my bag?"

"Alright, Miss." Roy bowed down his body and took her bag to her.

"Thank you." Tao Xinya smiled at Roy and took a small gift box from the bag to Roy. "Roy, this is for you, Merry Christmas."

Roy froze and reached for the gift. "Thank you, Miss...... Can I open it?"

"Of course, but it’s not very an expensive thing." Tao Xinya was very embarrassed, she was very poor now, couldn't afford to buy too good things.

Roy opened to have a look, it was a Dutch Doll wearing a black suit, at first glance, it looked like Roy. Roy smiled at Tao Xinya and saluted. "Miss, thank you, I like it very much."

Hearing Roy said that he liked it, Tao Xinya smiled and squinted, and then took a packaged gift box to Chen Anmei. "Aunt Mei, this is your and Uncle Hong."

Chen Anmei and her husband glanced at each other. Chen Anmei opened the gift and took out two identical beige scarves, below there were two hearts.

"This is a lover scarf!" Tao Xinya said. "Aunt Mei and Uncle Hong can wear and go out together when they walk!"

Chen Anmei blushed and stared at her. "Little girl, what age are your Uncle Hong and me!" But the smile on her face showed that she liked it very much.

"What? You think I’m old?" Yuan Chenghong was dissatisfied and looked at his wife affectionately. "In my eyes, you're as beautiful as when I knew you. Girl, your Aunt Mei, and Uncle Hong defeated a bunch of loved enemies very hard to get married." He showed off to Tao Xinya.

"What are you talking about in front of your children?"Chen Anmei shyly hit her husband. Although she was more than fifty years old, the appearance of shyness was still beautiful and moving so that Yuan Chenghong looked and laughing ha ha ha.

Suddenly, the dullness in the dining room was swept away. Haier deliberately teased Chen Anmei and held his chest to make a fascinating look.

"Oh…... godmother, your appearance of blushing is so beautiful that it makes my heart thumping. It's no wonder that godfather loves you for decades."

Then he provoked Chen Anmei to pinched him a dozen of time, and Haier cried out in pain.

In the laughter, Yuan Yurang reached out his hand toward Tao Xinya and was unceremoniously eager to ask. "Where is my gift?"

Tao Xinya shot him a white glance and took out a gift to him. "Here!"

Yuan Yurang opened it and saw a pair of black knit gloves. He touched the gloves and his handsome face smiled softly. "Thank you." Seeing her eyes hesitantly aiming at Haier, he raised his eyebrows and deliberately looked at her bag.

"Huh? There is still a gift in your bag, who is it for? You’re not going to give me two gifts, are you?"

So speaking, he was going to take the gift out from her bag.

"This is not for you!" Tao Xinya hurriedly guarded and blurted out in an emergency. "This is for Mr. Haier!"

Haier was surprised. "I have one, too?"

Tau Xinya bit her lip and stared angrily at Yuan Yurang for a moment. She looked at her brother and her hand trembled to gave him the gift.

Haier took the gift and opened it, it was a dark green glove. It happened to be the color he liked. He looked at the girl with the same name as his younger sister, he seemed to see his younger sister. "Thank you, Xinxin, I like it very much."

Tao Xinya lowered her head and tried to hold back the tears in her eyes. "You're welcome, I want to thank you for the milk candy you sent me last time. It was delicious."

He sent her milk sugar…... Haier looked at someone. The milk candy was obviously someone who broke into his house, and even didn’t asked the owner and just took it. It turned out to be given to this little girl.

Haier looked at his friend. Yuan Yurang looked at the little girl’s eyes and did not hide his love. He couldn’t help but look at Yi Lianna and was worried.

What was Yuan Yurang thinking?

Taking advantage of the meal, Haier took Yuan Yurang to the balcony and asked directly: "Ah-Rang, what is going on with you and that little girl?"

Yuan Yurang took out the cigarette from his arm and gave one to Haier.

Haier reached out and took it and lit it with a lighter. He took a drag and threw the lighter to Yuan Yurang.

Yuan Yurang played with the lighter, didn't ignite the cigarette, just biting. "This lighter is sent to you by Yaya."

"Mm, don't think I will give it to you." After Xinxin's death, Yuan Yurang once wanted to snatch his lighter. How was Haier willing? Some of his younger sister's things, no one could take it, especially the man in front! In the beginning, he hated Yuan Yurang to the bone.

"He!" Yuan Yurang chuckled. "Haier, I and Yi Lianna are impossible."

Haier frowned. "Because of that girl? Ah-Rang, that's just a little girl, how can she compare to Yi Lianna? You don't love Yi Lianna? She waited for you for so long, you even desolated yourself because of her to leave Xinxin…..."

"I didn't leave Yaya cold because of Yi Lianna, but because of her betrayal." Yuan Yurang lit the cigarette in his mouth and blew out smoke. "Haier, you know my personality, you know that I hate being threatened by coercion, and Yaya had made my bottom line."

"I know, that was Xinxin's fault." Wasn't it because of this that he ripped his face off with his younger sister and stopped being in contact with her? "You don't need to feel guilty for Xinxin…..."

"Not guilty." Yuan Yurang interrupted him. "It’s never been."

Haier was surprised and looked at the expression on his friend's face. He instantly realized it. "Could it be you…...how is it possible? But at that time toward Xinxin, you......"

Yuan Yurang smiled bitterly. "Yaya died, I only realized I love her, but it's too late…... Haier, I and Yi Lianna ended early. It was over when we said broke up."

"But Yi Lianna, she still loves you! And Xinxin is dead…... that little girl is not Xinxin!" They only had the same name.

Yuan Yurang couldn't explain to Haier, he could only shoot Haier's shoulder. "Haier, Yaya was braver than you."

"What did you say?"

"At least she dared to pursue." Although the method was wrong.

Haier looked at Yuan Yurang with amazement. Yuan Yurang smiled and returned the lighter to him.

"You didn't say, I treated it as I didn't know, but after so many years, you still haven't acted."

He shook his head and patted Haier's shoulder again. "Haier, love cannot wait."

After saying this, he walked out of the balcony but saw Yi Lianna stood behind the curtains.

"Yi Lianna!" Haier also saw her, and her pale face made him worry. "You have been standing here?" Then he and Ah-Rang's conversation…...

Yi Lianna straightened her back and looked at Yuan Yurang. "Let's talk!"

Yi Lianna looked at the elegant and chic garden. She thought when she was brought to his home by Yuan Yurang, she stood in the garden, he took her hand and announced to his family that she was his girlfriend.

At that time, she stood confidently by him. The two looked at each other and smiled. How much sweet in them until a touch of the figure pushed her away, and hugged Yuan Yurang.

"Brother Yu? Why did you get a girlfriend? Then what about me? What about Yaya?" The girl said as she stared at her, and every act and every move was full of possessiveness.

She was surprised by the girl's rude behavior, but what was surprised her even more was Yuan Yurang, that loved and indulgent smile.

He touched the girl's head and spoiled, pampering tunnel: "Silly girl, of course, you are still Brother Yu’s Yaya. To have many more people love you, no good?"

"Don't, don't! I don't want." Tao Xinya willfully cried, "As long as I have Brother Yu, don’t want others!"

From then on, Yi Lianna was regarded as an enemy.

For the arrogant girl, Yi Lianna didn't have any good feelings. Yuan Yurang swearing that she was just a little girl and would grow up to be sensible.

But she knew that the girl looked at him with a woman's eyes, which made it difficult for her to treat the girl as a child who was not sensible.

When she was with Yuan Yurang, the girl always deliberately intervened, looking for various excused for Yuan Yurang to be by her side, and Yuan Yurang always tolerated. Sometimes angry at the girl's excessive willfulness, but always not angry for too long. As long as the girl gave a soft gesture and apologized to him, he would be soft.

Yi Lianna had never seen Yuan Yurang treated any women like this, not even to her. Their love was rational, she had always been independent, to Yuan Yurang she had never been capricious, and spoiled.

Therefore, when Yuan Yurang broke up with her, she was angry, but she did not let go of her pleading; she loved him after all, and finally, she was reluctant to give up and insisted on being with him.

They are still friends…...just friends.

She looked up at the sky and gently opened her mouth. "I remember that we were originally engaged in this garden."

Yuan Yurang stood behind her and didn’t answer.

"At that time, when I heard your proposal, I was really happy. I thought that the happiness I was waiting for had finally arrived. I didn't expect…..." She smiled and for a long time she asked: "Have you ever loved me?"

"Loved." Otherwise, he would not ask to marry her.

She knew; she knew that he loved her, just…... "Just…... love her more, wasn’t it?" He didn't know, but she saw it clearly.

For the girl who was arrogant and wayward, he was indulging, endless pampering, holding her in the palm of his hand and spoiled.

The way he looked at the girl, his eyes were so gentle, as if the girl was a unique treasure, and he never looked at her with that kind of look.

However, she had not said anything.

She didn’t know anything, but in the end the happiness she hoped for still disappeared because of the girl. She was not reconciled, why did the girl have everything?

Therefore, she wanted to take back Yuan Yurang!

At last, the girl was gone, she would never take back Yuan Yurang, a dead person, how was she going to do it?

In the two years of Tao Xinya’s departure, Yuan Yurang was as if he had left with her. In the first few months, he was drunk every day and shouted the girl’s name.

Later on, he started to work hard to prevent himself from having any emptiness. His addiction to cigarettes increased, and his sleep became shorter, he ignored his body, like being chronically suicidal.

And she took all of them into her eyes.

"I'm sorry." Yuan Yurang's apology came from behind her.

"You don't need to apologize to me, you didn't owe me anything, just like you said, our love disappeared as early as the breakup." She just not willingly, only insisted on waiting, actually, in her heart, it was not unaware that they couldn’t go back to the past long ago?

The satisfaction was no longer as simple as it was in the past, and they have a flaw in their hearts.

"The Eastern girl is not Tao Xinya." However, he smiled so happily in front of the girl; she hadn’t seen him so happy for a long time. "Don't use people as substitutes."

"I know."

"I won’t resign."

This, Yuan Yurang was not surprised, she never let private affairs affect her business, this was her pride. "Without you in the business, I will be in troubles."

Yi Lianna lightly hummed, of course, she knew how important her ability was to him."I want to be alone." Then she heard the sound of footsteps leaving.

The tears that had been forbearing had finally fallen, her pride had not allowed her to be vulnerable in front of people, but at this moment she could no longer resist, covered her face, and cried.

She really loved him, but he didn’t belong to her. She had always been a supporting character in this love.

A handkerchief was handed over to her in front of her——

Haier stood in front of her and looked at her with heartache.

"He!" She chuckled, wiping the tears from her face. "You have seen my ugly face.” (tenderflower: this line got me LOL. If any of you’ve watched “The Wallflower” anime then you’ll know why it’s funny…. haha)

"It doesn't matter, you cry when you want to cry."

The gentle words forced out her tears, she threw herself into Haier’s arms, whimpered and cry bitterly.

Haier gently embraced her, embracing the woman he had loved for so long.

Yuan Yurang stood behind the tree because he was worried about Yi Lianna, he did not leave, but after seeing Haier appeared, he smiled and turned away, but he saw his mother standing behind him.

He did not speak, followed his mother to the study, and Yuan Chenghong was waiting for him in the study.

Yuan Yurang’s look was unchanged.

Chen Anmei looked at her son and said bluntly: "Ah-Rang, I won’t let you be with Xin girl."

Tao Xinya was left for the night. This time she was not sleeping in her room in the Yuan house, but the guest room.

She was sensitive enough to sense that the atmosphere wasn't right.

First of all, Yi Lianna's eyes were red, as if she had cried, and her godfather and godmother's faces were not good. Her brother looked at her eyes strangely, and Brother Yu was cold.

What happened? (tenderflower: you were left in the dark lol...)

Tao Xinya was puzzled but did not dare to ask. Godmother took her to the guest room, looked at her eyes and wanted to say something but then hesitated. Finally, didn't say anything, just asked her to go to bed early and left.

Could it be that everyone wasn't in good conditions had something to do with her?

Tao Xinya frowned and thought about it, but she couldn't think of anything. As a result, she couldn't sleep well at night and finally wake up for thirst.

Going out of bed with a pair of slippers, she had to go to the kitchen to pour herself some water. When she passed the study, she saw the door was ajar and the light was flowing.

Who hadn't slept this late?

Tao Xinya probed a glimpse but saw Yuan Yurang sitting behind the desk, smoking a cigarette, a bottle of Whiskey and a wineglass on the table, and the Whiskey bottle was already half empty. (tenderflower: 😂 What's Visa card bottle? I wonder if it means whiskey….? The Chinese characters are not Whiskey…. Okay, I'll just change it to Whiskey :D)

She frowned, and Yuan Yurang also found her.

He put out his cigarette "So late, still not sleep?"

The dim light made Tao Xinya unable to see the expression on his face, but from the low voice, she could feel that his mood was not good.

She couldn't help but care. "What happened to you?"

Yuan Yurang didn't answer, just looking at her standing at the door. In the silent night, she was like an angel.

"Come here."

Tao Xinya hesitated, walked into the study and came to the desk, only to find that he only wore a bathrobe, she stopped.

Yuan Yurang reached out and pulled her into his arms. His arms wrapped around her waist, his face buried in her snow-white neck, and he sniffed her body fragrance.

Tao Xinya wanted to push him away, but his actions made her unbearable. For the first time, she saw this kind of Brother Yu. "What’s wrong?"

Yuan Yurang closed his eyes and embraced her more tightly, thinking about his conversation with his parents in the study.

"Ah-Rang, any women will do, but not Xin girl."

"Why?" Yuan Yurang looked at his mother.

"Xin girl is still little, and...... she is not Xinxin." The son had lived up to two women, she couldn’t let Xin girl became one of them.

She was! She was Yaya!

"I know you take Xin girl as Xinxin." Chen Anmei knew her son, from the eyes of her son, she knew what he was thinking. "But she is not, Xinxin is dead, Xin girl is not a substitute, don't take her as a phantom of Xinxin!"

Phantom? She was not! She was definitely not a phantom!

"Son, your mother is right, Xin girl is not for you......"

"Who is suitable then? Yi Lianna?" He looked at his parents and said coldly: "I wanted to marry Yi Lianna that year, and you stopped me. It was Mom who threatened me with health. You wanted me to marry Yaya, I did marry, and the result? Now, you said that Xinya is not suitable for me, saying that I had made her as a phantom of Yaya. How do you know that she is a phantom? And no......" (tenderflower: lol YYR's unleashing his resentment... 👏)

He clenched his teeth for the rest of the words. "In short, I’ll handle my affair myself." After saying this, regardless of the expression of his parents, he turned and left.

For the first time he spoke to his parents, he knew how sad they would be, but he couldn't control himself.

Phantom? How could she be a phantom? She was clearly in his arms.

Yuan Yurang locked the softness in his arms, he feared that she would disappear in his arms, and it would be like his mother said, he was fantasizing.

Tao Xinya looked at him with worry, and her little hand stroked his arm. "Broth...... Mr. Yuan, what happened to you? Are you not in a good mood?"

"Xinya...... you’re real, right?" he asked lowly, with hidden uneasiness in his voice.

Tao Xinya was slightly startled, "What?" She didn't understand what he meant.

"You’re real...... it’s not my dream, right?" He rubbed her snow neck, greedily kissed the fragrance of her body, the fragrance of Yaya.

Dream? Tao Xinya frowned, "Mr. Yuan, are you drunk?" Would say these strange words.

Drunk......Yuan Yurang looked up at her, the innocent face in front of him was not his Yaya, but her eyes were the same —— pure and full of trust.

If he was drunk, he didn’t want to wake up.

However, Yuan Yurang knew that he was not drunk, she was real in his arms —— he wanted her to be real!

"Xinya...... My Xinya......" His palm touched her little face, he slowly approached her, looking into her eyes, hidden the slightly petty and low longing, anxious to find a trace of comfort, and kissed her softly.

She was not a phantom, not......

1795 days.

Looking at the divorce agreement in my hand, my hand holding the pen shake, I closed my eyes, and put down the pen on my hand, I told myself.

There is still one month left......

Brother Yu, how to distinguish? It’s really hard to let go......

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