Chapter 71 - The One Xinyi Likes (2/2)
There was a moment of silence.
Liang and Ah Cy shared a glance. Liang smiled. ”Yup. We have a long history. We went to the same college.”
Her gaze sparkled. ”Oh! Just like Siying, Leina, and me!”
Leina grumbled. ”Don't include me…”
Ah Cy tugged Xinyi and whispered. ”How is Chyou here?”
Xinyi shortened the story and quickly said how it came to place.
Her eyes slightly widened in shock. ”So you will teach Chyou and Caihong will teach Siying?”
She felt it was too incredible. Here, their fathers acted as natural enemies, but the children were unaffected.
Xinyi said, ”Siying might go tomorrow at An residence.”
”I see…What can I say?”
”Exactly. What can I say too?” Han Huizhong majestically entered the dining area and sat on his chair.
He glanced at Chyou and squinted his gaze. He looked back at Ah Cy and Liang and smiled. ”Aren't my grandson and granddaughter-in-law have such big hearts? When I heard it for the first time, I was shocked to know about it. Xinyi never fails to amaze me. She is going to teach someone's daughter who was her husband's-”
Xinyi quickly cut him off. ”Grandpa!”
How can he carelessly reveal about Caihong and Zhiyuan in front of the children?
Han Huizhong sneered. ”What's wrong? I think you should tell them your wonderful story of youth.”
Zhiyuan looked at the children. ”Why don't you all play in the garden?”
They got down and ran away.
”Tsk,” he snorted.
Liang looked around. ”By the way, I don't see Uncle and Aunt Han and Zizi.”
Zizi was in a bad mood after her failed attempt to show Xinyi's truth to Zhiyuan while Han Guang and Han Mingli decided to eat upstairs in their room.
Han Huizhong raised his brow. ”Isn't it just fine? All the annoying people are absent. Wait, Zhiyuan is still here. It will be perfect if he leaves too.”
Zhiyuan stiffened.
I shouldn't have asked it, Liang thought.
Xinyi gave a helpless glare. ”Grandpa please…”
He snorted and looked away.
Ah Cy slowly asked, ”I am amazed to know that Grandpa actually agreed to this arrangement for the kids.”
He laughed. ”Oh about Siying going to meet that woman tomorrow? I wouldn't have allowed it, but then aren't we taking care of their daughter too?” His eyes twinkled. The rest of it was left unsaid.
Han Huizhong's sly smile made her shudder.
If anyone read in between the lines, they would understand that his statement was a blatant threat.
If something happened to Siying, don't forget that we have Chyou too. So, watch out.
Liang said, ”Well, we should leave. It's already gotten too late.”
Zhiyuan thought for a moment and said, ”Liang, I have to talk about something.”
”Cool. Let's head outside.”
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As the kids still played around in the garden with Xinyi and Ah Cy also joining them, Liang and Zhiyuan walked a little farther away.
Liang asked, ”What's it, buddy?”
Zhiyuan didn't know how to frame his question. He felt at a loss for words.
”Why are you thinking so much? Just ask right away.”
Zhiyuan glanced at Xinyi who was laughing with the kids.
”That um...D-Do you know if Xinyi...I mean if she,” he cleared his throat, ”liked anybody in college..?”
Liang rapidly blinked his eyes. This sudden question took him away.
Zhiyuan quickly said, ”I am just curious. Something brought into my mind about it and...I wondered if she might have had a crush on a guy…”
”In short, you want to know if she dated anybody?”
He coughed. ”I don't think she dated anybody, otherwise we would have known. Well…”
Liang gave a sly smile. ”Why do you want to know who she liked? It's all in the past anyway.”
Zhiyuan said, ”I mean it was always known that Caihong and I were together. But I never knew about her side. If Xinyi liked some guy too and she got married to me then... wouldn't it have affected her too? I never thought about it that way...I mean I know we cannot change anything now, but I just wanted to know what kind of a guy he was that she *ahem* liked…”
Zhiyuan felt clueless for the first time on how to explain himself clearly.
Liang narrowed his eyes, making Zhiyuan slightly nervous.
”Tell me the truth. What happened?”
Zhiyuan sighed and then told him about Xinyi's diary and his accidental discovery about her crush.
Needless to say, Liang was surprised. Not because of knowing about Xinyi's crush, but it was the first time that Zhiyuan was curious about something related to Xinyi. That he wanted to know more about her.
And not just anything. It was about a man she liked.
The husband was curious to know about her past crush.