Chapter 58: Hiding My Things
When Mi Cai and I walked on this Mochou Road together, the loneliness that had troubled me for a long time gradually peeled off from my body. I enjoyed every second she walked beside me, so I simply took off all the burden, held her hand tightly, and walked towards the Mochou Coffee Shop, which was not far from us.
Mi Cai stopped and looked at the shop signs wrapped around the lanterns in the coffee shop. This aroused my doubts even more, and then asked her: "Did you not notice this coffee shop when you were walking on this road before?"
"Go in and have a cup of coffee and haven't stayed for too long."
As I found the key to open the door, I said, "How do I think of this coffee shop?"
Mi Cai thought for a moment and replied: "It represents our feelings..."
"Is there a feeling of not worrying about everything?"
"Well...have you done this year?"
"I haven't done it completely... It's quite a failure! What about you, are you better than me?" I asked with the unlocked lock in my hand. At this moment, we are like two students communicating. The only difference is: what they communicate is the elementary knowledge in the textbook, but what we communicate is the major knowledge about life.
"...How do you ask me to express it?" Mi Cai was confused for a moment, and suddenly changed the subject and said to me: "Actually, I am more concerned about what delicious food can be found in the coffee shop now."
I always felt that Mi Cai was not willing to talk about her life in the United States, so I didn’t want to force her. I agreed with her humor and said humorously: “I finally know why you have made yourself fat. It must be that the food in the United States is better than that in our country, and you have become greedy!”
I didn't expect Mi Cai to respond to my joke. I opened the coffee shop door, but she didn't go in immediately. She grabbed my hand and stopped talking...
"What's wrong?"
"Zhaoyang...If one day you know that I've hidden something, would you hate me?"
My heart first stumbled, and then it hurt like a needle, but it was no longer as impulsive as before. I took a deep breath and said to her softly: "You must have something to hide from me now, right?... So, you don't want to see me when you come back. You are not really afraid of the pain of parting, but you don't know how to face me, a man who is kept in the dark but is still stupid!"
Micai made a default without saying a word...
I grabbed her shoulders, but I couldn't hate her, just looked at her...
"Zhaoyang..."
I finally interrupted her and said to her with the last courage: "You don't need to say anything. As long as you don't hide it from me that I fell in love with another man, or that I have been married, then I can forgive anything and care about anything! ... Mi Cai, I, Zhaoyang, is still the same as before. I don't seek wealth or fame... All I want is you to stay by my side..." Speaking of this, my voice was already choked: "But why do I do things for fame and fortune now? ... What do I really like to do this? ... I don't like it, I don't like it very much. I just want you to come back to me and take back everything you have lost...!"
My emotional loss made Mi Cai fall into panic. She held my hand tightly and said, "Zhaoyang, listen to me, it's not what you think... I never thought of being someone else's woman. The wedding ring you haven't put on for me yet, I have always been by my side. It has become my sustenance when I miss you..."
My nerves suddenly relaxed. The reason why I was so nervous was because I cared too much about this relationship. Otherwise, which man would wait for a woman without a deadline in this world with cheap emotions and fast pace. I "put out" and lowered my head for a long time. When I looked up, I hugged her tightly in my arms and said softly in her ear: "As long as you tell me, you will come back and spend your life with me, a not-so-good man. I don't want to care about anything else. If you think it is inconvenient to tell me about business strategies, I won't ask about it, because I know you are better at these than me..."
Mi Cai nodded, and then we agreed not to touch each other's emotions anymore, and we spent this short night peacefully together.
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When we entered the coffee shop, I remembered that all I had was the key to the door, but there was no key on the switch. Because it involved electricity safety, our switch was locked, and all the power supply in the store was cut off before the business ended every day. We could only use the light of our mobile phones to find the brightest position in the coffee shop and sat down.
I went to the cupboard where the pastry was selling, and brought some pastries that Mi Cai liked to eat, and brewed a glass of milk for her with hot water, and said, "Eat it, it's all stolen things. We may have experienced this once in our life."
"Why do you say steal?"
"I always pay when I come to this coffee shop to eat. If we eat like this, the cashier will definitely not be able to meet the account tomorrow. Before we explain clearly, it is just the nature of stealing!"
Mi Cai seemed to have no burden. She picked up the milk cup and took a sip, praised the taste, and said, "If you have the chance to have another overlord meal, I will be following you to clean up the bad things!"
"Yes, you are mentally prepared to marry a chicken and a dog, so you don't seem to have any psychological burden!"
"Of course, I feel very safe if you hold me over the sky when it falls!"
Although this is a joke-like affirmation given to me by Mi Cai, it also makes me feel accomplished. I smiled and said to her: "You said that if we have children in the future, will we inherit my badness or your followers? Although he (she) is not a person who likes to do bad things by nature, he can't stop someone around him who loves to do bad things!"
"It must be inheriting your noisy personality..." Mi Cai said with emotion.
I laughed: "Has you been psychologically shady by me? That's why I said so sure!"
Mi Cai looked at me, and she stirred the hot milk in the cup with a spoon, then responded to me with a smile and asked, "What do you think?"
Looking at Mi Cai's appearance that talks about the topic very irrelevant, I didn't think about it further, because giving birth to a child is too far away for us now. It has no practical significance to explore who the child is like me and Mi Cai too early. What I most want is to wear the ring that I have let down for her as soon as possible.
After my attention shifted, I suddenly remembered: there were some scented candles under the counter cabinet that I had not used up when I was doing an activity last time. With romantic feelings, I took out the bag of candles from it, and then used all my romantic talents to put on a loving look in front of Mi Cai. When I lit the candles one by one, the light filled the entire coffee house with a faint fragrance. Even the cat named Xiaodao was awakened from my sleep, but after a symbolic "meow" sound, I fell asleep again.
After I told Mi Cai what the origin of this cat named Xiaodao, Mi Cai squatted next to the cat cage and looked at it. Suddenly, the coffee shop with only two of us became quiet... Only the candlelight filled with fragrance was left beside us... My heartbeat was a little increased! I wanted to kiss her.
As I got closer and closer to her, she suddenly said to me as if she remembered something: "Zhaoyang, before I returned to China, I had a meal with Brother Zishi and... Jian Wei."
When Jian Wei's name was mentioned again, and it was from Mi Cai's mouth, I felt mixed emotions and asked, "... Are they okay?...How is Jian Wei recovering?"
"Jian Wei is very good, and Brother Zishi is already ready to be his own private hospital...Jian Wei supports his decision very much and will become his assistant and help him take charge of the daily operation of the hospital...Do you know? The entire medical field has given Brother Zishi a high evaluation, thinking that what he is doing is a very meaningful career..."
I smiled, feeling sincerely happy for them, but I felt a sense of depression in my heart and couldn't say it... It took me a long time to ask: "Do they have any other plans besides opening a private hospital?"
"You actually want to ask them if they have plans to get married, right?"
After a moment of silence, I replied, "Yes."
"I haven't heard them talk about this... Maybe there is no plan yet."
After getting this answer that made me unable to explain what emotions it was, I clicked it and didn't ask anything more. We were actually very clear that as long as two people who had a good impression of each other would be together sooner or later, they would be together sooner or later, just like the former me and Mi Cai...
This topic was revealed. We sat back to the dining table and ate the midnight snacks that I compared to "stealing", but no one wanted to leave here and face the troubled world again. However, those troubled world still haunted us at this moment. Mi Cai reminded me again that after she returned to the United States, I went to find An Qi from Tianyang Group. She was interested in investing in projects that entered the e-commerce field. I needed to communicate with her initially with her with my own ideas. Only then did I know the true intention of Mi Cai to return to China. I believe she had reached a certain consensus with An Qi through this face-to-face exchange...
In fact, this is a perfect appointment for me, because I am preparing to establish an online mall, and I am also worried about the investors behind the scenes. I really had a contact with Angel before, but her attitude is not clear enough. I believe that if we meet again, her attitude will change, otherwise Mi Cai's return to China will have no meaning.
In fact, I can quite understand Anqi's previous attitude. After all, I don't have the channel resources that the former Zhuomei Group has. I rashly asked her to invest such a huge amount. Of course, she has to make careful considerations. In my heart, she and her husband Zhang Yixi are fundamentally different. Sometimes Zhang Yixi will do some favor business because of feelings, but she is a businessman who can think of things to the extreme. I believe Mi Cai gave her a reassurance this time with some kind of interest promise. Some of the negotiation details here are probably what Mi Cai said before that was concealed from me.
Yes, at least at this stage, I know nothing about her current business operations!
Chapter completed!