Chapter 69: Qin Yue's Background

  "If I had known this, why bother at the beginning!" Lin Zixian sighed and opened the trunk, stuffed the two people's luggage in. Then he helped Xia Qiu into the car again, that woman didn't say a word, got into the car herself with a sullen face.

  After driving out of the old town, Lin Zile looked at Xia Qiu who was speechless with her eyes closed and tears streaming down, and asked: "Where to?"

  After being asked repeatedly, Xia Qiu finally let out a breath and said weakly: "The train station!"

  "Train station?" Lin Zixian asked in surprise, "What's the point of going to the train station? Are you leaving Donghai?"

  "Let's go...let's go...go home......" Xia Qiu smiled wryly with a lack of energy: "Do I still have any reason to stay?"

  Lin Zi glanced at Tian Juan in the rearview mirror, finding her staring out the window expressionlessly. He raised an eyebrow and asked, "Miss Tian is also going home with Xia Qiu?"

  Tian Juan remained silent, Lin Zile only thought she had agreed and shrugged his shoulders continuing to drive.

  Outside the car window, cars and horses were galloping, the city was prosperous, and people of all shapes and sizes came and went. Xia Qiu suddenly spoke up and asked: "Lin Ge, do you know Qin Yue's background?"

  "Looking at her demeanor, she is extremely well-educated. This kind of upbringing that has become a habit in life is reflected in every detail, and it's not something that can be cultivated by just any nouveau riche family. That's why the saying goes that it takes three generations to cultivate a noble. I've always wondered how someone like her ended up here, but now it seems there's something unusual about her background." Lin Zixian glanced at him and said, "If you're willing to say more, I'm all ears."

  Xia Qiuli heard the sound and smiled miserably, saying slowly: "Lin brother has good eyesight, I don't know if Lin brother has ever heard of the Qin family in Beijing?... When I was studying in Beijing, I hadn't even heard of this Qin family. It wasn't until after I met Qin Yue that I knew there was a prominent family with the surname Qin in Beijing, and Qin Yue is the third generation of the Qin family's golden child."

  Lin Zixian responded with a lukewarm "oh", neither surprised nor delighted. To be honest, he had never heard of the Qin family from Beijing before, and since they had no dealings with each other, he naturally didn't have the leisure to pay attention to them. There were many wealthy and influential families in the world, who would bother to care about them?

  "So many years of hard studying, I finally got into the top university in Huaxia, that's where I met Qin Yue and we fell in love. Later on, I received some inexplicable pressure, and that's when I found out Qin Yue was the daughter of the Qin family from the capital, a so-called golden princess. At that time, I thought about giving up because the gap between our social status was too big, one in heaven and one underground, making me feel inferior because I couldn't provide a better life for Qin Yue. Especially during graduation, as a top student, I should have been sought after by many units, but on the contrary, my classmates who didn't do as well as me all got high-paying jobs, while no one came to recruit me. Later, Qin Yue's father found me and said that if I gave up on Qin Yue, there would be a generous offer waiting for me, that's when I realized it was the Qin family pulling strings behind my back."

  "After Qin Yue found out about this, she had a big fight with her family and eloped with me. I asked her how a woman could take such a step, what else can I say? Even under tremendous pressure, we must face it bravely. I once confidently vowed that as long as she didn't disappoint me, I would never disappoint her in this life. Later, we came to Donghai together and struggled to make a career, promising to prove to her family that they didn't misjudge me, and then I could marry her openly and honorably."

  "Ideals are beautiful, but reality is cruel. The Qin family was intimidated by Qin Yue's death threat, although they didn't openly intervene, the pressure on us has been lingering... You also heard Sun's phone call that night, it wasn't the first time, every time I tried to make some progress, an invisible giant hand would knock me back to the starting point, I've lost count of how many times this has happened. Just two days ago, it was the same again, I almost collapsed, not because I didn't try hard enough, but I really couldn't see a glimmer of hope... That night, I went out alone to drink and ran into Tian Juan, I lost control for a moment and ended up going to her place and having an affair with her. It wasn't about love or affection, maybe just a desire to vent."

  As he said this to Tian Juan's face, Lin Zixian couldn't help but glance at the rearview mirror again, only to find that Tian Juan was still staring out the window, unmoved.

  "Lin, don't laugh at me, but I've known Qin Yue for five whole years now. Between us, we've only kissed, held hands and hugged each other, never crossing the line once. You can probably tell from how we rent a house with separate rooms. Hehe! Before meeting Tian Juan, I was still a virgin. Of course, this isn't because I have strong willpower that can defy natural laws and suppress even male hormones, it's just that I also wanted to save face, so I respected Qin Yue's so-called 'propriety' for the sake of her family, but who knows the bitterness in my heart?... It's good this way too, at least it lets me have one less thing to feel guilty about."

  Lin Zi listened and shook his head, with a playful expression: "The ancients were perfect in returning to Zhao, but you are perfect in returning to Qin, completely reversing the situation. To be honest, if you had cooked the unripe rice into ripe rice with Qin Yue earlier, maybe this wouldn't have happened."

  Xia Qiuren heard this and fell silent, while Lin Zixian glanced at the rearview mirror with a sidelong glance: "Miss Tian, what is your relationship with the Qin family? You're actually willing to use your body to lure Xia Qiuren into an affair."

  She looked out of the car window and shook her head slightly: "I don't know what Qin family is, but indeed someone paid me to do this."

  The former asked straightforwardly, and the latter answered concisely, without any concealment.

  Lin Zi Xian glanced at Xia Qiu with a tilted head and found that he seemed to be not surprised at all, couldn't help but ask in surprise: "You knew it all along?"

  "It's not the first time I've been tempted, that night I had already guessed it, to be honest, I couldn't bear the pressure, and under the influence of alcohol, I gave in." Xia Qiu smiled wryly, her smile was heart-wrenchingly bitter.

  Lin Zixian hesitated and said, "Since you can't let go, why don't we go back and explain to Qin Yue again? Maybe we can still salvage the situation. Qin Yue isn't someone who gives up easily." He slowed down the car and started looking for a place to turn back.

  Xia Autumn shook her head, sadly saying: "Can I still go back? Even if Qin Yue can forgive me, I have no face to confront the feelings that the two of us had guarded for five years. Let's go home! Let's start anew at home! Hopefully when I see her again, I can stand in front of her with my head held high, and face everyone in the Qin family without worry or fear! Prove that she didn't misjudge me, this is my only wish, and also a way to give her an explanation. As for the future... Zhuangzi once said, 'It's better to forget each other in the mortal world than to be together but not really together...' Hopefully in the next life we'll have fate again, and I can repay her by being a cow or a horse!"

  Lin Zi saw him with a line of hot tears streaming down his face, continuing to speed up and move forward, with a faint sigh in his heart. A man has tears but doesn't easily shed them, it's just that he hasn't reached the point of heartbreak yet!

  The passenger in the co-pilot seat, Xia Qiu, suddenly thought of something and reached into his pocket to search for something. He pulled out a white jade hairpin and handed it to Lin Zixian, saying: "Lin Ge, help me with something! In two days, it's Xia Qiu's birthday, this is the birthday gift I got her. I originally wanted to wait until after her birthday to break up with her, but... Lin Ge, please pass it on to her for me! Whether she accepts it or not is up to her!"

  Lin Zilei stretched out his hand to catch it, "crack" a sound, directly pinched it into pieces and threw it out of the car window. Xia Qiu and Tian Juan were stunned, "Brother Lin, what are you doing..."

  "Helping you with this, I'm going crazy. Lin Zixian sneered: 'You've already broken up with her, why are you still sending birthday gifts? Are you trying to leave a memory for her, so she'll always remember you? Or are you afraid she's not sad enough? Either go back and explain yourself, see if she forgives you or not. Otherwise, just get lost! What's with all these stupid tricks? If you keep nagging me, I'll kick you off the bus, it's disgusting, giving me goosebumps."

  The car drove through the bustling metropolis, and inside, Lin Zi suddenly started tapping on the steering wheel with his fingers, shaking his head and humming a old song: "...... Walking on the long road of life, every moment is happy, bravely paying out for love, failure doesn't matter, even if I'm alone my whole life. Looking back at the road I've traveled, right or wrong, I'm satisfied, as long as this life isn't in vain..."

  A classic old song came to an end, and the car stopped in front of the train station. Xia Qiu looked at him solemnly and said, "Thank you, Brother Lin, for your encouragement."

  "It's nothing, I'm just singing my own attitude towards life, don't mind that I sing badly." Lin Zixian said with a smile as he opened the car door and got out to fetch their luggage from the trunk.

  Tian Juan suddenly pulled out her phone and dialed, saying "I've already taken care of things, they're already broken up, the Qin family has finally gotten what they wanted." Then she hung up.

  Lin Zi handed the gift to her, smiling: "Miss Tian, it's not easy to get a boyfriend, are you walking with Xia Qiu or should I send you home?"

  Tian Juan looked at Xia Qiu with a complex gaze and said: "If he doesn't mind buying an extra train ticket, I'll go with him."

  "Haha! I'm not doing this." Lin Zixian slammed shut the trunk.

  Xia Qiu didn't respond to Tian Juan, but instead said to Lin Zi in a casual tone, "Take care, Brother Lin!" Then he resolutely walked towards the train station's ticket hall. Tian Juan bit her lip and followed him with her luggage.

  Lin Zi lit a cigarette and leaned against the car, silently watching the two people's backs. After finishing one cigarette, he still didn't see the two people coming out of the ticket hall. He patted his growling stomach, realizing it was already past mealtime. Thinking about the atmosphere at Sakura Snow apartment, even if he went back, he would definitely have an awkward meal. So, he simply ate a casual meal at a small restaurant next to the train station.

  Waiting for him to finish and come out, he happened to see Xia Qiu and Tian Juan walking shoulder to shoulder towards the waiting room, and couldn't help but mutter to himself: "Could it be that they really did fake it till they made it?" He slipped into the car and sped away...