“No.”
The waiter only saw the second dog, not Huo Zhanxing.
Lu Xiaoting breathed a sigh of relief.
Thank goodness, it wasn’t Huo Zhanxing!
Then who was Wen Qiansu meeting at the hotel?
Meeting at such a hotel, what kind of classy person could it be? Making such a big fuss with him, even self-destructing and messing around with shady people?
Does she still remember she’s his fiancée?
Wen Qiansu’s phone was unreachable. After some thought, Lu Xiaoting asked his assistant to find Dou Keke’s number.
Dou Keke was currently digging at an archaeological site.
The signal was poor.
After being scolded by her supervisor yesterday, she almost lost her phone too.
It was only after begging and pleading, sincerely apologizing for half an hour, that her supervisor returned her phone.
When Lu Xiaoting called, Dou Keke was in a foul mood:
“Who is this? What do you want from your grandma?”
Lu Xiaoting frowned: “It’s me, Lu Xiaoting. Tell Wen Qiansu to come see me at the Lu family home tonight.”
Dou Keke: …
“Who do you think you are? So full of yourself. Don’t you know Su Bao broke off the engagement with you?”
Lu Xiaoting was furious.
Did she think she could just break off the engagement whenever she wanted?
Even Dou Keke knew about it.
She really loved stirring up trouble. Why not just grab a megaphone and let the whole world know?
Lu Xiaoting: “Fine. She has something here with me. Tell her to come get it.”
Dou Keke: “If she doesn’t go get it, it must not be important.”
Who are you shamelessly clinging to?
Does Su Bao even care about you?
Su Bao is going to get engaged to her Mr. High and Mighty! Are you still dreaming, you scumbag?
Lu Xiaoting was so angry he laughed.
“Alright then. If she doesn’t come get the love letters she wrote me over all these years, I’ll post them online. Does she, the esteemed Miss Wen, still want her dignity or not?”
Dou Keke: “Lu Xiaoting, you’re shameless!”
“Even a thousand-year-old turtle in a tomb doesn’t have skin as thick as yours!”
Hmph, Lu Xiaoting sneered coldly and hung up.
Dou Keke was fuming.
After thinking it over, she decided to call Su Bao.
Wen Qiansu was currently in a super, super—enormous castle.
The magnificent and luxurious castle exuded the scent of money from every corner.
Mr. Huo was truly extravagant.
So incredibly generous.
However, she frowned slightly: “Why do I feel like I’ve been here before?”
Memories slowly surfaced in Wen Qiansu’s mind.
Back when she had just returned from the countryside sanatorium.
It was also around the time her mother passed away.
After her father married the mistress stepmother, he favored the stepdaughter who had no blood relation to him, and Lu Xiaoting became her only support.
Because when she was little, it was Lu’s mother and her own mother who said—
When our Su Su grows up, she’ll marry our Lu brother, okay?
In her memory, Lu’s mother was so gentle, and Lu Xiaoting was so kind, like a warm big brother.
Wen Qiansu held onto those words for many years.
But she didn’t know when everything began to change silently.
Xiong Daiyun brought Wen Sisi into the Wen family.
Her father, Wen Biesheng, disliked her even more, and Lu Xiaoting slowly changed too.
Once, she and Wen Sisi went to wait for Lu Xiaoting outside his school.
Wen Sisi pushed her, and she fell, getting a deep cut on her leg. The pain was so unbearable she couldn’t help but cry.
She tugged on Lu Xiaoting’s sleeve, begging Brother Lu to hold her, she really couldn’t walk.
But Lu Xiaoting shook off her hand:
“Don’t think that just because you’re not in good health, you can always frame Sisi for pushing you. The more you act like this, the more I’ll only despise you.”
Wen Qiansu felt tears blur her vision.
Her heart ached so much she could barely breathe.
She didn’t know how she made it home that day.
She only remembered sleeping for a very, very long time.
When she woke up, the wound on her leg had been stitched up. An unfamiliar doctor told her that it was his friend who found her and brought her in.
The doctor also said, “This castle belongs to my friend.”
“It’s okay, don’t be afraid. My friend developed a special ointment that can remove even the deepest scars, leaving no trace at all.”
But the scar on her leg was gone.
What about the one in her heart?
The one in her heart remained etched in her bones, aching sharply whenever she remembered it.
Along with this pain, she also remembered that scar-removing ointment and the castle that had suddenly appeared.
At the time, she left two small seals she had carved herself for the doctor and his unseen friend as a token of gratitude.
She never expected that, after so many years apart, she would find herself in this castle again. Wen Qiansu looked at Huo Zhanxing in disbelief:
“Mr. Huo, this castle…”
Huo Zhanxing gazed at her with a deep, dark look in his eyes: “Do you like it?”
Wen Qiansu: “N-no, Mr. Huo, is this castle yours? Has it been yours for a long time?”
Could it be that Mr. Huo was the unseen friend who had saved her and removed the scar on her leg?
Huo Zhanxing’s throat tightened.
He turned his face away.
“No, I bought it from an old man not long ago.”
Wen Qiansu: “…Oh, really?”
Wen Qiansu suddenly felt an emptiness in her heart. She had thought… but of course, how could it be such a coincidence?
“Which old man was it? Can you still contact him, Mr. Huo?” she quickly asked again.
Huo Zhanxing: “No, he immigrated abroad and lost contact with everyone from before.”
…I see.
Wen Qiansu couldn’t help but feel disappointed. She had thought she might be able to find that doctor and his friend.
Huo Zhanxing’s eyes darkened.
He couldn’t tell the girl that he was the unseen friend.
In this lifetime, he had lurked by her side like a ghost, watching over her, protecting her, like a creep.
If the girl knew his true nature,
would she want to escape from him just like in their previous life?
Huo Zhanxing smiled bitterly.
He took a deep breath and said lightly, “Do you like this castle, baby? How about putting it under your name?”
Wen Qiansu was startled and hurriedly waved her hands: “No, no, that’s too valuable.”
Huo Zhanxing: “You can have it.”
“Silly baby.” The man gently patted the girl’s head. “An engagement requires an engagement gift.”
“Everything here is yours. Don’t you love studying antiques? There are many precious antiques here, all transferred to you. I’ll also need your help to see if I’ve been tricked into buying any fakes.”
“Ah? Mr. Huo, are you that unlucky?”
“Yes, many people try to deceive me. You’ll have to keep an eye on me from now on, baby.”
If the butler were here, he would have scoffed at the master.
Who could possibly deceive the master?
The opponents who had been outsmarted by the master could fill countless graves. Who would dare to trick him?
It was at this moment that Dou Keke’s call came through.
Wen Qiansu listened: “A love letter?”
Dou Keke was furious.
“Babe, do you want that expert of yours to go with you? That bastard Lu Xiaoting is really despicable. If I weren’t excavating a tomb, I’d definitely go with you to beat him up!”
Wen Qiansu blinked her eyes: “No need, I won’t go get it.”
“If he wants to make it public, let him. It’s not like I wrote anything shameful anyway. He’ll be the one embarrassed.”
“After all, who would be so tasteless as to publicly share love letters written by their ex-fiancée? What, is he so hung up on me that he wants to beg me to come back?”
“Pfft!” Dou Keke laughed.
“Alright, alright, as long as you’re fine. I was just worried it might affect you badly, and we can’t have your expert fiancé getting jealous, right?”
Wen Qiansu’s face flushed red.
What jealousy?
Mr. Huo definitely isn’t.
Dou Keke seized the opportunity to ask: “Babe, do you have a photo of the expert? Is he handsome? I’m so curious.”
Wen Qiansu whispered: “You’ll see him in a few days.”
Fine, fine. Dou Keke was itching with curiosity.
Anyway, her supervisor had approved her leave for the day of Su Bao’s engagement, so she’d get to see him then!
“I’m hanging up now. My supervisor is nagging me again—nag, nag, nag, every day like he’s rushing to be reborn. If he keeps it up, I might as well lie down in the tomb and get a head start on reincarnation.”
Pfft. Wen Qiansu laughed and hung up.
She didn’t care that she had once written love letters to Lu Xiaoting.
But thinking about it, she needed to retrieve the token she had given him.
Beside her, Huo Zhanxing’s tone was faintly sour: “Baby wrote love letters to Lu Xiaoting?”
…Huh?
A certain Mr. Huo was indeed jealous, almost driven mad with it.
Wen Qiansu stared at him blankly: “Just when I was little…”
“When?”
The man’s tall frame leaned over her.
Wen Qiansu shrank her small body into the corner.
“How many letters did Baby write him, hmm?”
“Didn’t you say you’d try to like me? Write me a few letters too, okay?”
“No, double. I want double, okay, Baby?”
“…Okay, okay, I’ll write, I’ll write. I’ll write double for you.”
Mr. Huo’s presence was so overwhelming, suddenly cornering her like this. It felt like if she didn’t agree, he might kiss her fiercely.
Wen Qiansu’s heart pounded, her face flushed a delicate, vivid red.
Huo Zhanxing’s Adam’s apple bobbed.
He slowly released the girl.
Taking a slight step back, he tried to keep his tone even: “Arrange to meet him tomorrow at XX Hotel. Have Shu Fei go retrieve it. If even one word is missing, I’ll chop off one of his fingers.”
Wen Qiansu: !
Mr. Huo is so brutal!