78: Chapter 77: Lin Qianru’s Past 78: Chapter 77: Lin Qianru’s Past “Drinking too much isn’t good for a woman’s health, or are you giving soone else a chance?”
After Sister Hua left, Lu Tianxing walked over to Lin Qianru and sat down next to her, looking at her as she drank one glass after another.
Lu Tianxing frowned and directly took the wine glass from her hand.
Feeling the wine glass being snatched from her hand, Lin Qianru gently lifted her head.
Perhaps she had been drinking for a while because her cheeks were flushed with the rosy glow of alcohol, and her eyes were like shimring pools, her beauty beyond words.
“You’re here, sorry for making you see this ss.”
Lin Qianru looked at Lu Tianxing, slowly exhaling a breath reeking of alcohol, a faint smile spreading across her face.
“Nonsense.
If I hadn’t co, this little mistress I reserved for myself would have ended up with soone else.
Don’t you know the saying, ‘If the woman isn’t drunk, the man won’t have a chance’?
You’re so beautiful, and a rich mistress like you is hard to find even with a lantern.
If I hadn’t co, wouldn’t you have ended up with another man?”
Lu Tianxing picked up sanitary chopsticks and ate a piece of twice-cooked pork, slowly saying, “President Lin, I might not know what you’ve been through, but is there anything that can’t be solved by talking about it?
Why drink alone here?
If you don’t mind, I’m willing to be a suitable listener.
Of course, if you don’t want to talk, that’s fine too.
I can just join you in getting thoroughly drunk.
However, I must preface that I don’t know what might happen after getting drunk, so, President Lin, you should be prepared.”
“What ‘President Lin’…we’re friends.
From now on, just call Qian Ru.
Besides, what need is there for any ntal preparation?
Didn’t you just say, ‘If the woman isn’t drunk, the man won’t have a chance’?
I’ve just given you a great opportunity.”
Lin Qianru smiled playfully, a complex expression appearing in her lovely eyes as she reached for the wine glass beside her and poured herself another drink, slowly sipping it.
Lu Tianxing said nothing, rely sitting quietly beside Lin Qianru.
For a while, neither of them spoke, and the atmosphere fell into silence.
After a few more drinks, Lin Qianru finally put down her glass, a self-mocking smile appearing on her face as she looked deeply at Lu Tianxing.
“Would you mind listening to a sowhat long story?”
Lu Tianxing shrugged indifferently, “If you wish to tell it, I don’t mind being a faithful listener.”
Qian Ru was silent for a long ti before she slowly began, “You might be curious why I, clearly from Hang City, would prefer Xiangnan cuisine, which is incredibly spicy.
In fact, although I was born in Hang City, I moved back to Xiangnan with my mother when I was very small.
I never knew who my father was until I was fifteen.
Whenever I asked my mother about him, she always evaded the question with various excuses.
After a while, I stopped asking.”
“It was not until I was fifteen that a stranger arrived at our ho and found my mother.
Hearing their conversation, I learned he was my father, whom I’d never t before.
After that, my mother and I followed him back to Hang City.
Once there, I learned he was powerful and influential there.
He was kind to , but I could not forgive him.
If not for him, my mother and I wouldn’t have had to endure over ten years of disdain and mockery.
However, I cannot deny that it was the happiest ti in my life.
At least, I had both a mom and a dad instead of being a fatherless child…”
“However, I never expected that when I turned eighteen, a young master from Hang City took a fancy to and wanted to marry him.
I didn’t like him at all, and I heard his reputation in Hang City was terrible, he had even caused the death of many won.
But his family was very powerful, even more so than the Lin family, and many in his family agreed to the marriage.
I couldn’t bear to have my future decided like this and pleaded desperately with my mother.
Eventually, with my mother’s help, I ran away secretly and ca to Modu all alone.”
“So, the reason you like spicy food is that you grew up in Xiangnan.” Lu Tianxing suddenly realized.
“Yes, it’s kind of a rembrance of my past!”
Lin Qianru nodded, saying, “As for what happened later, I think you already know.
After arriving here alone, I had no one I could rely on.
When I was almost at my wits’ end, I t Sister Hua, and since then, I have been living at her place.
If not for Sister Hua, there might not be a Lin Qianru today.
Later, after I graduated from university, I t Zhiqing and joined Bai’s Group.”
Lu Tianxing fell silent.
Although Lin Qianru spoke lightly, without much emotional fluctuation, it was clear that for a young woman who suddenly went from being a rich family’s daughter to almost a destitute Cinderella in a strange city, the mix of sweetness and bitterness she experienced, though unspoken, could be deeply felt.
The cold loneliness of having no one to turn to could drive a person mad.
“So, the phone call today, including the one you received a few days ago, were from your family?” Lu Tianxing asked curiously.
“Yes.”
Lin Qianru nodded, poured herself another drink, took a sip, and then shook her head, “Let it be.
I don’t want to think about such unhappy things anymore.
By the way, Lu Tianxing, what about your parents?
I’ve never heard you talk about them.”
“My parents?”
Lu Tianxing’s eyes flickered slightly, and he spoke calmly, “I’ve never t my parents.
From the mont I beca aware, I’ve always been in an orphanage.
Later, when I was about to graduate from high school, the orphanage closed down, and I was holess.
At that ti, there were military recruitnts, so I joined the army.
After several years of service, I was discharged and went to work for a company abroad.
It was only a year ago that I returned to China.”
Listening to Lu Tianxing’s calm and steady narrative, Lin Qianru was slightly stunned.
She had never imagined that the always jovial and carefree Lu Tianxing had such a past.
It was at this mont that Lin Qianru realized, it wasn’t that Lu Tianxing didn’t have sorrows; he had just hidden them all, keeping them from being seen by anyone else.
“Didn’t you ever look for them?”
“I did search!
But then I gave up.
Even if I found them, what then?
Should I go and ask why they abandoned all those years ago or hurl insults at them?
Or should I tell them ‘I’m your son, acknowledge ?’ Haha, for , it’s been so long, it makes no difference whether I find them or not.
I have gotten used to this kind of life, unbound and free, where if I’m full, it’s enough for the whole family.”
Lu Tianxing poured himself another drink and raised his glass, “Let it be.
Let’s not talk about these troubling matters.
Co on, cheers.”
“Cheers.”
The two clinked their glasses and drank up.
Lu Tianxing, bearing a hearty, expansive spirit, and Lin Qianru, not outdone by n, combined with dish after dish arriving, the atmosphere suddenly heated up.
A cool sumr breeze blew by.
Influenced by the alcohol, Lin Qianru couldn’t help but shiver and said, “It’s getting late.
Can you take ho?”
“Don’t you have your own car?” Lu Tianxing asked, puzzled.
“Isn’t it because of you?
Deliberately bringing up sad stories, making upset, and drinking so much.
How can I drive now?
Aren’t you afraid sothing might happen to on the way?” Lin Qianru gave Lu Tianxing a reproachful look, her voice filled with a soft complaint.
Lu Tianxing watched Lin Qianru at this mont, slightly spellbound.
After drinking, Lin Qianru exuded a mature allure, her eyes misty like water, as if ready to electrify at any mont, making one feel a tingle.
In that mont, Lin Qianru seed like a ripe apple, irresistibly tempting one to take a bite.
Lu Tianxing considered himself experienced with won, but still, when he saw Lin Qianru, he was sowhat spellbound.
What does it an for a woman to be most beautiful when drunk?
It’s not about being completely intoxicated, but rather this semi-intoxicated state that truly srizes.
Seeing Lu Tianxing gazing intensely at her, Lin Qianru felt not the slightest displeasure but rather a sneaky delight.
Far from being coy, she stretched languorously, freely flaunting her perfect figure.
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