The Queen of Romance: A Summer of Sweet Classics

Chapter 347

Chu Xing seemed not at all surprised by what she did. He sat there peacefully, without moving his eyebrows, and asked calmly, "Why did you burn the house down?"

Poppy wiped away the tears on her face, turned her head and said nothing.He walked up to her, looked down at her, and asked, "Is it because you hate me that you took revenge on me?"

When she didn't answer, he repeated the question again.Poppy suddenly raised her head, the hatred in her eyes was like an awl at that moment, piercing the opponent's heart: "Yes! I just hate you! I just hate you!"

Chu Xing still didn't move his eyebrows: "Why do you hate me?"

Poppy shouted at him hoarsely: "I hate you for everything! I hate you for suppressing me all these years and playing me like a thing in your palm. I hate you for allowing others to hurt me. I hate you Kill Li Youying! You have never taken responsibility at all, you have never thought about other people's feelings from the beginning to the end, you only care about yourself!"

After she spoke, tears fell again, Chu Xing reached out to wipe the tears on her cheeks, and she brushed them away.He looked at her and said in a low voice, "what about now? Have you been hating me for the past four months? "

Poppy snapped, "Of course I still hate you!"

"Are you happy with such revenge?"

"What's wrong with me? I'm so happy!"

"If you're really happy, you won't always confirm your sense of security with me, and you'll be so nervous that you can't sleep every night."

Poppy shook slightly, pushed him away, and denied it flatly: "You are talking nonsense."

Chu Xing didn't move, but took advantage of the situation and grabbed her hand.Poppy's hand was cold and trembling slightly, and he held it in the warm palm.Chu Xing said lightly: "If you really still hate me that much, you should have shot me a month ago when you just woke up, and killed me directly. You understand all the affairs of the Chu family. Once I die, you will give me a little more time." Provocation, the Chu family is a mess. There is no need to go to Jingjing and Yanyu, cover up and beat around the bush."

Poppy stopped her tears slightly, stared at him with wide eyes, Chu Xing supported the wall with both hands, held her in his arms, and said in a soft voice: "Look, Poppy, you are not as good as you imagined." Hate me. You did all this because of some unwillingness."

"Even if I can't kill you with a single shot, I still hate you." Poppy stared at him seriously like a schoolboy, "I won't kill you just because I don't kill people easily!"

Chu Xing followed her words, and continued in a deep voice: "Imagine your life after you succeed in revenge. You leave me, leave the Chu residence, and never see me again. From then on, it has nothing to do with the Chu family or me. You Alone, no one will understand what is going on in your head with just one look, no one will hold you on your lap to feed you, tell you stories to lull you to sleep when you can’t sleep, teach you to drink tea to accompany you When you paint, no one will help you clean up those things that you can’t clean up by yourself. You will never find someone in this world who understands you better than yourself like me, and you will not find someone who is more suitable for you than me. That way Your life will not be better than it is now, and you won't get used to it. Poppy, how much happier do you think it will be? You won't like it at all."

The more he talked, the faster Poppy's tears flowed.Before his words fell to the ground, she had exhausted all her strength to refute him loudly: "I don't have to follow you! I don't have to have you!"

"Okay. I know you hate me. Maybe you will live well if you leave me." Chu Xing looked at her and said calmly, "What about me? What should I do if you leave me?"

Poppy was slightly startled, and it took him a long time to realize what he meant, but she didn't seem to understand at all. She looked up at him, and after a while, she said in a low voice: "...What did you say?"

"I need you much more than you can imagine." Chu Xing was not used to such a straightforward way of speaking, so he spoke slowly, but at the same time the words were clear, "If I don't love you, these four What do you think I'm doing? One person doesn't care about another person. I don't take pleasure in taking care of her. I don't try my best to clean up every mess this person makes. I don't care about this person's presence or absence. Spend more than half of your thinking time on this person. Only I am suitable for you in this world, and only you are suitable for me. Poppy, you can hate me. But you can’t say that I don’t love you anymore.”

Poppy stared at him blankly, and only after a while did she answer in a low voice, "I don't believe it."

She looked a little dazed, and her voice weakened: "You are not omnipotent, you can't turn back time. You can't make me go back to the way I used to do things. I will always be willful and selfish, and you have always been I can't stand me like this, even if you accept it now, one day you will find me boring. At that time, it will be like two years ago when I couldn't become what you wanted as you wished, you Things you do when you're so disappointed. You'll do it all over again."

"I won't." Chu Xing touched her temples, his voice was low and soft, "I know where I was wrong before. I shouldn't spoil you like a rose and try to pull out all your thorns. Then That's how you should be. I won't do anything like that again."

Poppy looked at him in a daze, and after a while, suddenly covered her face and burst into tears.

She seemed to be even more sad than before, she couldn't stop crying, she lowered her body against the wall and sat down on the carpet.She hugged her knees and curled herself up, crying loudly, piercing her eardrums, as if she wanted to cry out all the grievances and resentments she had suffered over the years.Chu Xing squatted down, reached out to hug her, but was thrown away by her.

Poppy's eyes were blurred with tears, and her words were broken by choking: "You know how much I hate you for treating me like that! You know what those people in Lizhi have done to me behind their backs! You know how determined I was to leave You! You don't know anything! You sent me to Cui's house, you suppressed me with any trivial matter, you let Li Zhi ride on my head everywhere, and you killed Li Youying! Do you know that I was raped by you? Forced to think about suicide? You don't know anything at all!"

"It was my fault."

Poppy's cheeks were soaked white with tears, her chest heaved violently from sobbing, and there was dense pain: "You only know to do whatever you want, you never think about my situation, you only know that Nabi is more than I can bear. To sanction me in a more severe way, you never asked why, you speak so late, do you know that it is already too late? I have burned the Chu house, and I have destroyed all your important things in a mess , you haven’t seen what it looks like now, so you didn’t get angry. When you see it, you will be very angry, and you will take revenge on me, ten times more severe than the previous punishment!”

Chu Xing said quietly: "I won't."

Poppy shook her head slowly, she couldn't listen to his words at all, she just continued to follow her own train of thought, her eyes were dark and foggy with confusion: "You will never forgive me again, definitely not."

"I will never blame you for doing this." Chu Xing held her arm, with a little force, forced her out of the trance, and said in a deep voice, "Poppy, I only tell you today, no matter what I will not control you no matter what you do. At the same time, I will never let you go. Either you shoot me and you will be truly free from then on. Or you will come back to me and marry me. There is no third option."

Poppy looked at him, bit her lip and said nothing.Chu Xing touched her cheek, looked into her eyes tenderly, and said in a low voice: "Poppy, I will give you half a month to think about it. After half a month, either I die or you marry me .”

In the early morning of the next day, Poppy left M City alone.

Chu Xing asked someone to take her to the airport, but she ignored the driver and the car, and called the hotel front desk to call a taxi.Chu Xing glanced at her, showing disapproval, and finally said nothing, only watching her leave with her luggage.

Poppy stopped a moment before closing the door of the room. She remained motionless for a while, and Chu Xing saw her standing there struggling, without urging her.After a while she finally turned around and said in a low voice, "You know very well that I can't do anything."

When she said this, there was panic in her eyes, as well as struggle and a hint of prayer.Her eyes were originally very beautiful, black and white, tactful and flexible, but now it seems that two hands, one left and one right, are pulling her into a thin layer, and with a little more force, they will be torn apart.Chu Xing looked at her, and after a while, he still swallowed the sentence "then marry me" that slipped to his lips.

He leaned against the window sill, looking at her deeply.After a long time, he opened his mouth very slowly, as if it would take him a lot of effort to say just a few words.

"If you don't choose either after half a month, I will let you go." He said slowly, "If this is really your last wish."

Poppy bit her lip, tears welled up.Chu Xing turned around and stopped looking at her.He has a slender figure and excellent proportions. No matter what he wears on weekdays, his gestures and gestures make people feel that there is a sense of laziness and calmness accumulated over the years.Now a simple back view made Poppy inexplicably feel strange, as if his usual carelessness and composure had suddenly disappeared, and he would speculate on probing and wandering just like her.

She looked at him for a long time, but Chu Xing kept his back to her and didn't move.Poppy gritted her teeth and left without looking back.

She didn't go back to City A, but went directly to City C to find the scenery.When she came out after picking up her luggage, she could see someone in the pick-up hall holding up a sign high up to pick her up, with her name, Su Pu written in bold letters on it.

Seeing this, Poppy paused for a moment before walking over slowly.The visitor bowed slightly to her, and handed over the phone with a very humble expression: "Miss Su has worked hard all the way, Missy asked me to pick you up."

Poppy glanced at him before answering the phone.Jing's voice on the other end of the phone was still concise and neat: "Are you there? I'm at the teahouse, and the driver will bring you here."

Poppy was silent for a while, but still asked, "How did you know I would come to City C today? I didn't tell you, did I?"

Jing Jing snorted: "If you were not strangled to death by Chu Xing last night, you will not be in the same room with him today. As for where you are going after you leave M City, Su Pu, don't forget that you are just like me. You are a person who has no friends, besides me, do you have any other place to go?"

"..."

More than a year ago, Poppy and Jingjing got in touch directly, and the reason was nothing more than two words of Jingjing's evaluation after looking at her.

The first sentence was: "Miss Poppy, you must have no friends."

The second sentence is: "Look at your emotional attitude, you're having a hard time recently, aren't you?"

These two sentences hit the point, and the scenery looked quite glamorous, which made Poppy lose her expression almost immediately.However, when Jing Jing followed behind, she suppressed all her frizzy hair: "It's not bad, it's rare to find someone who is in the same situation as me. It seems that I didn't come to this New Year's banquet in vain. Let's have a cup of coffee tomorrow How about it?"

At that time, before Poppy sat down in the coffee shop, her revenge against Chu Xing was only a vague outline in her mind.She only knows that she is extremely eager to do such a thing. If she doesn't do it now, she will definitely not be able to help it in the future, but she is not sure whether she failed due to various reasons, or even whether she can bear the consequences of failure or success.However, three hours later, Poppy came out of the coffee shop, and the plan had taken shape with the help of the scenery.

They reached an agreement that one would contribute the money and news, and the other would be responsible for the appearance.There are more ways to use scenery than poppies. She never considers the theory of inflow or non-flow, the gaps that can be used, and the people who can be used. As long as they are reliable enough, the scenery will always come.She helped Poppy handle all the inconvenient things.There are not many face-to-face discussions between them, and most of the time they go through a middleman, and each time they only have a few words.However, the cooperation is exceptionally tacit, and those things that are planned when they meet every three or four months can definitely be done before the next meeting.

Poppy once asked Jing why she would take the initiative to help her with these things.Jing Jing raised her very beautiful eyebrows, and answered leisurely: "What you want to do now is what I have always wanted to do to Shangyi but I can't do it. Then I am idle anyway, and I see you are very pleasing to the eye, so I can help you." Nothing."

Four or ten minutes later, Poppy arrived at the teahouse. Jing Jing was dressed in a light beige windbreaker and was sitting by the window waiting for her, waving to her.When Poppy sat down, Jing Jing's first words were: "Have you had a good day trip to M City?"

"..." Poppy said blankly, "Not good."

A smile curved Jing Jing's lips: "So, when you left Chu Xing, what did he say?"

"He didn't say anything."

"Miss Poppy," Jing Jing looked at her sideways with one hand on his chin, and said slowly, "Do you think I will believe what you say?"

Poppy paused for a while, then said in a low voice: "Either leave, or get married. Think about it for half a month."

Jing Jing slightly raised his eyebrows, looking extremely surprised: "Chu Xing is willing to let you go?"

Poppy caressed the teacup in front of her unconsciously, without saying a word.There was very little blood on her face, from M City all the way to C City, she still hadn't recovered from the events of the previous night.Jing Jing looked at her, and asked after a while: "Then are you going?"

"……I have no idea."

"Is there a temporary preference for which?"

Poppy slowly raised her head, her eyes were blank, revealing a trace of fragility, and she said in a low voice for a while, "I really don't know."

Jing Jing gave a slight sigh and did not press any further questions.He casually picked up a folder from the seat on one side and pushed it over.

"You told me to look for Jiang Mian some time ago. It's all in here. Are you looking for it yourself, or should I tell you the result directly?"

Poppy glanced over, but didn't take it, just looked at the scenery, her expression was self-evident.Jing Jing looked at her with a bit of pity in his eyes: "The thoughts Jiang Xin and Jiang Mian hold are the ones you least want."

After hearing this, Poppy lowered her eyes, and only said "um" in a low voice, but didn't say anything else.

Jing Jing looked at her probingly, hesitated to speak several times, but finally did not ask any more questions.

Poppy was silent for a while, then suddenly said: "If you were me, how would you choose?"

"what?"

Poppy raised her eyes to look at Jing Jing: "The decline of the Jing family back then was all thanks to Shang Yi. Nowadays, Shang Yi insists on knowing where you go. Under such circumstances, why did you agree to marry Shang Yi? Why? Will you choose to live with him in the end?"

Jing Jing narrowed his eyes slightly, and asked back: "You mean to ask, why would I be willing to hold him firmly in my hand?"

"..."

"Because I know that apart from Shang Yi, no one will really love me." Jing Jing said lightly, "If I don't live with him, I will have only one myself in my life. That kind of life is not easy. I will be independent, If there is no one around me who loves me in this world, I can't live. It's better to be with Shang Yi."

Poppy pursed her lips slightly: "I know Jiang Sheng loves you."

The corners of Jingjing's lips curved: "Jiang Sheng? You are right. And he is not the only one who likes me as much as he does. Do you think I haven't thought about leaving Shangyi? I tried too. But in the end I I found that even without Shang Yi's disturbance, no matter how I get used to it, I can't accept someone like him as my boyfriend, or even my future husband."

"I need someone who can control me to be my other half. This kind of control does not have to be superior everywhere, but it must be better than me in the aspects that I value most. Of course, the best situation is that I still have a little admiration Even the meaning of worship. The advantage of choosing the other half in this way is that when I am most panicked, this man can not only hold my hand to comfort me, but more importantly, he can also give me advice. This is a sense of security The biggest source. And Jiang Sheng and other similar men, they can only be considerate and gentle to women, and they are very good at speaking softly, but when you don’t want to make up your mind or can’t make up your mind at all, they will compare you I don’t even have an idea. There are too many times like this, and you will only collapse. I don’t always want to play the role of the backbone, and sometimes I’m lazy. If I’m with Shang Yi, I can comfortably let go. But If you’re with Jiang Sheng, it won’t work at all.” Jing Jing spread his hands, “So you see, I can only pick Shang Yi. Although Shang Yi has a lot of shortcomings, at least he has one biggest weakness. advantage."

Poppy said blankly: "What advantages? Is it rich and status?"

Jing Jing is more expressionless than her: "It is he who is willing to accommodate all my good and bad things, and is willing to spend a lot of time on me. Whenever I ask him to go shopping with me, he will not say a word There are many things about me that he can even think ahead of me. Sometimes I think about it secretly, thinking that I have some shortcomings that I can't stand myself, but he can indeed tolerate them one by one, and according to the current situation, For a period of time to come, he will not complain about this. As far as this is concerned, it is enough for me to endure his past and current mistakes and continue to live with him."

Jing Jing finished speaking, thought for a while, and said: "What's more, I also tried to think about Shang Yi's appearance with other women, and I found that no matter what, I couldn't bear to look at the unpleasant feeling. If this is the case, then I have no choice but to wrong myself and be with him."

Poppy was silent, and said in a low voice for a long time: "You are implying to me that even if I leave, I will still regret it in the end. Why don't you just marry him like this?"

Jing Jing avoided answering: "I just remind you that you have the initiative this time. You can leave or stay. If you have confidence in Chu Xing's attitude towards you in the future, then you can analyze objectively and choose the right one. Your better side."

Poppy pursed her lips and held onto the teacup without moving.Jingjing sat with her for a while with his chin in one hand, and suddenly added a sentence half nostalgic and half emotional: "But having said that, the last time Chu Xing and Shang Yi were criticized at the Chu family, I have to say Very happy."

"..."

Three days later, Poppy went up the mountain to Li Youying's cemetery.

She went up with a bouquet of flowers and stayed there for a long time.The weather was gloomy when we came, and it started to rain 10 minutes later.Poppy didn't bring an umbrella, and when she got off the mountain, she saw that the rain was getting heavier and heavier, so she asked a bodyguard to bring an umbrella up.From a distance, I saw Poppy standing motionless in front of the tombstone, unaware that it was already raining.

The bodyguard called her "Miss Su Pu" several times before Poppy reacted and turned her eyes.She didn't seem to have recovered from her contemplation. She paused for a while before taking the umbrella, and went down the mountain without saying a word.

Jing Jing watched her step into the car drenched in the car, took his chin and directed someone to hand her a towel, and asked coldly: "Do you think Su Pu sounds better or Poppy?"

Poppy paused for a moment, then replied blankly: "The view is the best."

Jing Jing propped his chin, and sneered a few times when he heard the words, and when he finished laughing, he suddenly changed his mouth and said: "Shang Yi went to City A last night."

Poppy didn't move her eyebrows, she just said a calm "hmm".Her reaction was even calmer than Jingjing expected. Before Jingjing could speak, Poppy suddenly said flatly, "I just thought of a question."

"I want to know exactly when Chu Xing knew that I was going to take revenge on him."

Jing Jing raised his eyebrows slightly, Poppy lowered his eyes halfway, and said: "...Besides, Chu Xing knew my actions too quickly before, was it just because he sent someone to follow me? If it was the same follow, why did I He didn't know about going to the Southwest to drive Ah Liang crazy?"

Jing Jing looked at her, and after a while, a slight smile suddenly appeared on the corner of his mouth, and instead of answering, he asked, "You asked me that, which made me want to ask, too. Why is it so easy to accept the conversation at the banquet?"

There was obvious shock in Poppy's eyes, she turned her face away, and it took a while to make a sound, but there was still some unbelievable meaning: "It started from then?"

Jing Jing looked at her face for a long while before slowly opening his mouth: "Chu Xing found me at that time and said that you were always talking in your dreams during that time, and three out of five times you would mention revenge on him. He took you to the Shang At the Clan’s New Year Banquet, I asked me to help test your tone. As a result, the meaning I found out in the coffee shop the next day was far beyond his expectations. Chu Xing originally thought that you just didn’t want to get close, but I didn’t expect you to hate him.”

"At that time, he just wanted to know how much you hated him. The things I helped you at the beginning were just purely because I wanted to help you. So, in fact, he didn't even think that one day, he Will let you go and get revenge on him so smoothly. At least in your opinion, if you don’t know the inside story behind these things, you will be satisfied with the results of your revenge in the first two days. As for why he decided to change his mind last summer , to provide you with more convenient conditions such as allowing you to go to Chu’s Building to study with Lu Ming for you to continue, these are beyond the scope of my understanding. I am not interested in finding out.”

Poppy opened her eyes slightly, and Jingjing continued in a flat tone: "Chu Xing doesn't seem to be prepared to tell you these things. Even Lu Ming has kept the secret. If you can't think of it yourself, according to Chu Xing's thinking, he should be in the next few decades. I won't let you know either."

Despite her preparations, Poppy still couldn't recover.She looked at the scenery, as if someone was holding her throat tightly, and she was unable to make a sound for a long time.

Until the car drove into the underground parking lot of the hotel and stopped slowly, Poppy still sat still in the car, unable to move.Her whole body was so stiff that Jing called her name several times, but Poppy didn't hear her.

It wasn't until Jing Jing pinched her hand that Poppy woke up suddenly and turned her face away.Jing Jing looked at her with complicated eyes: "You can think that I am trying to persuade you to make peace. But Chu Xing knows your purpose, so he let you go on, except because of deep feelings, Poppy, you will never find a second reason."

That afternoon, when Poppy stood in front of the Chu's Building, she didn't even know how she came back from City C to City A.

She seemed to have sat in the car for a long time after returning from the cemetery, frowning as she waited for the scenery, she suddenly pushed the door open and walked away from the direction of the elevator.She walked fast and in a hurry, the scenery behind her couldn't call her, and after a few words, she suddenly stopped talking again. She chased after a few steps, grabbed her arm, and blocked Poppy's path. Seeing her slightly pale face, she sighed. He took a breath, raised his chin, and told the bodyguard behind him, "Send her back to City A now."

Poppy had very vague memories of these, and she didn't care at all, she just walked into the building in a daze.Everyone knew her and didn't dare to stop her. Poppy made her way up to the top floor smoothly. When the elevator door opened and saw Lu Ming, she grabbed his arm with his mouth wide open in disbelief: "Chu Xing Where?"

A deep and familiar voice sounded behind him: "You are looking for me."

Poppy turned her head very slowly, Chu Xing held the phone in his hand, his brows and eyes were still calm and indifferent, with a little tenderness, seeing her suddenly flushed eye sockets, he smiled at her.

He took a step forward and stretched out his hand to wrap her in his arms.

Poppy bit his hem, tears streaming down his face.

"You decided not to go, did you?"

Her tears soaked the pit of his shoulders, and she nodded.Chu Xing hugged her tightly, stroked the top of her hair with his palm, and said warmly: "I will always love you from now on."

(End of this chapter)