Get Rid Of The Male God And Marry The Rich [21]

Chapter 21 : For Xiao Qi, Everything Is Too Late

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Two days after returning from France, Meng Yu received a call from Sister Wen, who was her former boss. Sister Wen told her that the studio was currently producing an anime, and she couldn't find the right person to dub, so she found her to do the job and doubled her salary for a month.

Sister Wen took good care of Meng Yu when she was still in the studio, and It’s only one month anyway. After thinking about it, Meng Yu agreed. But after all, it was different from when she was single, she had to discuss with Mr. Chu before going.

So when Chu Xiujin came back in the afternoon, she told him about the job. After hearing that, Chu Xiujin was surprised, and said, "You can also dub?"

Meng Yu said, "I used to help when the studio was short of staff. Originally I just tried it, but I didn't expect to be quite talented. I dubbed several of the animations produced by the studio." 

"You are quite versatile."

Is that a compliment? Meng Yu smiled, and said modestly: "I'm just playing around, not that professional."

"I think you used to write in the study, didn't you write now? If the other party needs dubbing, I can help find a professional voice actor."

Meng Yu asked, "Mr. Chu doesn't really want me to go out?"

"No, I'm just afraid you are too tired."

Meng Yu smiled and said , "I'm not tired. In fact, I agreed to go not only because of favors but also because I like to do it. I like anime and dubbing. Mr. Chu may not know, When I was in Wang’s house as a child, I had to take care of Wang Shuyuan’s mood. I can't be better than her, So I have nothing to contribute in other ways, and I have been ordinary since I was a child. If I can't excel, I can only do what I want to do, so I have developed a lot of hobbies and dubbing is one of them."

After listening to the thought for a while, Chu Xiujin said, "If you like it, then go."

Meng Yu went to the studio the next day. After more than a year she did not come, The studio has changed a lot with new faces, but many old colleagues are still there. After Meng Yu greeted everyone, Sister Wen just came over to greet her after getting busy.

"Thank you so much for still helping."

Meng Yu said, "You're welcome."

Whether the studio is big or small, it should not be underestimated. Although the studio is small but it is perfectly formed, its various departments are also very complete. Not only can they introduce foreign animation, but they also make their own animation.

The anime produced this time is adapted from the Internet big ip.

Sister Wen took her to the recording studio after her greeting. There, Meng Yu put on the headphones and started working directly. Meng Yu's voice is very special. It can be matched with Royal sister or Lolita. This time, it's a woman with a lot of air. 

It was already afternoon when it was finished. The studio and the Jiang Ting Mansion where she and Chu Xiujin lived was quite far away. In addition to the traffic jam on the road, it was nine o'clock when Meng Yu returned.

At this point, it was reasonable to say that Chu Xiujin should be in his study, but as soon as Meng Yu walked in, she saw him sitting on the sofa while playing the tablet. After eating, he would indeed rest on the sofa for a while but not that long.

Hearing the sound, he looked up, "Welcome back." He greeted her.

"Aren't you busy today?"

"It's not very busy, why did you come back so late?"

"There is a traffic jam on the road."

He put the tablet down and walked over, "Then eat first."

Meng Yu asked in surprise: " You haven't eaten yet?"

"Yeah." He just replied lightly, without explaining too much.

After Meng Yu sat down with him in the dining room, She tentatively asked, "Are you waiting for me to come back?"

"I just finished my work, thinking you should be back soon, so I waited for you. ."

Meng Yu nodded, and then asked: "Have you changed the medicine?"

"It's changed."

"You changed it yourself?"

"Called a doctor to change it."

Meng Yu was relieved, "That's it. Ask a doctor to change the medicine for you. Don't change the medicine alone."

He raised his head and glanced at her, his mouth was gently squeezed, and a slight smile floated on his face, "Okay."

Meng Yu deliberately got up earlier because of the traffic jam the next day. She didn't expect to be late. She came back late at night because of the traffic jam. Mr. Chu was not at home because he had to fly outside to attend a meeting.

Meng Yu felt embarrassed after being late for a few days. She planned to discuss with Mr. Chu to move out temporarily. Before, her small house has yet to be dealt with, so she can live there, which is also close to the studio.

However, Mr. Chu had a long business trip this time and he didn't come back until the weekend.

Meng Yu shared her thoughts, and Chu Xiujin was silent for a while before asking: "When will you move out?"

"Before next week."

He didn't seem to have any reason to refuse, and they didn't s** now (他們又沒有真正的同房). Besides, she still wants to do what she likes.

So he thought after a while and said, "I'll let someone help you when the time comes."

"Okay."

Sure enough, Chu Xiujin really called someone to help her move. Because she didn't have much to take away coupled with the extra hands, so she finished moving in one afternoon.

After living there, it was indeed much more convenient, but Meng Yu did not forget that she was married. She would call Jiang Ting Mansion every day. Basically, they were picked up by helpers. In fact, there is nothing to say, just ask about the situation at home. For example, what Mr. Chu is up to lately and wether Mr. Chu’s hand injury has gotten a little better.

That day, Meng Yu called as usual and the other end picked up quickly, but it was not the voice of the helper.

"Hello?"

His voice sounded very magnetic in the silent night.

She didn't know if it was because of the silent night, but Meng Yu felt inexplicably nervous, and asked after a long time: "Have you not slept yet?"

"Not yet."

"That...is the hand injury better?"

"Much better, the stitches have been removed."

"That's good." 

Then they both fell into silence again, Meng Yu didn't know what to say for a while.

"What are you doing?" He spoke first.

"I'm standing by the window looking at the stars."

"Well, are there stars tonight? " 

"Yes, there are."

After that, she heard a sound of footsteps, then the curtains being opened, and then his voice said, "There are indeed stars, quite a lot."

Meng Yu suddenly thought of a poem, "A thousand miles to share together." Aren't she and Mr. Chu just as they are written in the poem at this moment, Although they are not apart for a thousand miles.

It's just that there is a sentence before this poem, "I hope people will last long."

(T/N : this idiom is from "I hope that people will last forever, and we will be together for thousands of miles." The meaning is: I just hope that the people I miss are safe and long-lasting, regardless of the distance between thousands of mountains and rivers, we can see the bright and beautiful appearance of the bright moon together.)

It's a poem of longing. Meng Yu felt it inexplicable. She and Mr. Chu just made a normal phone call and how could they think of this.

"Are you okay over there?" he asked.

"I'm fine."

"Okay." 

After another moment of silence, Meng Yu saw that it was late, "You have to go to work tomorrow, rest early."

"Well, good night."

"Good night."

Meng Yu hung up the phone and took a deep breath while looking at the stars in the sky. There are stars today. Hopefully tomorrow the weather is good, and Mr. Chu’s hand injury will heal soon.

On Thursday night, Meng Yu went to work for a while, and it was already late when she came back. Not long after she came back, she heard someone knock on the door. Meng Yu now lives alone, her vigilance will be higher, she did not open the door immediately, but first asked, "Who is it?"

"It's me."

She heard that it was Chu Xiujin's voice and opened the door. Sure enough, outside the door stood Chu Xiujin.

Meng Yu was surprised when she saw him, "Why did you come here?"

Chu Xiujin walked in and put his jacket off on the sofa, then pulled his tie and unbuttoned two shirts. His movements were very casual and natural, but Meng Yu feels that this set of his movements is very sexual, especially the when he pulled the neckties and the two unbuttoned shirt. 

He sat down on the sofa and said, "There are activities nearby, I know you live here so i come and have a look."

Meng Yu smelled a scent of alcohol on him, and asked, "Did you drink?"

"Drank a little."

Meng Yu made a cup of tea for him, "You can drink a little first to sober up."

In fact, he didn't drink much, and that little bit of wine was nothing to him, but he still picked it up and took a sip.

"You should not have a drink when you have a hand injury." Meng Yu said, sitting down across from him.

"Ok"

Meng Yu realized that she was talking like an old mother. She was a little embarrassed, "I seem to be concerned about too much."

Chu Xiujin then said, "You are my wife, It doesn't matter if you are more concerned about me.”

Meng Yu: "..."

Chu Xiujin took another sip of tea, rubbed his eyebrows and said, "It's a bit late now. I'm staying here tonight. Is there any extra room here? "

It is indeed a bit late to return to Jiang Ting Mansion from here. He also looks really tired. Meng Yu couldn't bear to let him go back in the middle of the night, but...

"There is only one bedroom here." She said.

He stopped rubbing his eyebrows, and turned to look at her, "One bedroom?"

Meng Yu nodded.

At this moment, he should only have a simple expression of confusion, however Meng Yu felt that his eyes looked at her as if there was a deep meaning.

Meng Yu coughed lightly: "But this sofa can be put down as a bed. I will sleep on the sofa later and you can go to the bedroom to rest."

He was silent for a while, "No, it's better for me to sleep on the sofa and you sleep in the bedroom, which is more convenient."

Meng Yu also didn’t insist anymore, "Well, it’s okay."

Meng Yu went and took the extra quilt out, then asked him: "What about your pajamas and toiletries?"

"I asked Gao Zhi to bring it for me."

Gao Zhi is his other assistant. Gao Zhi was very quick, and soon brought Chu Xiujin's change of clothes and toiletries. However, Meng Yu found it strange. If he called Gao Zhi after he decided to stay here temporarily, Gao Zhi would not move so fast, Unless he decided to stay here before he came, and then notified Gao Zhi.

But it’s okay to stay here when it’s too late, after all, they are husband and wife, so Meng Yu didn’t think much.

In the middle of the night, Meng Yu woke up from thirst. The food she ate this afternoon was slightly salty.

Meng Yu walked out of the room lightly. She was afraid that Chu Xiujin would wake up but did not turn on the light. Meng Yu cautiously touched the water dispenser and poured a glass of water to drink. She inadvertently glanced at the sofa, and saw a figure sitting on the sofa. Without turning on the lights, the room was very dark, only a faint light came in from the window, and she could only see a vague outline.

Meng Yu tried to yell in a low voice, "Mr. Chu?"

"Yes?" he answered .

"Have I awakened you?"

"No, I'm going to go to the bathroom."

"Then why are you not talking?"

"I'm afraid talking will scare you."

"..."

He really is a gentle and decent man.

"Go ahead and rest early."

"Okay."

He really got up and walked over here. Without turning on the light, he walked to the bathroom by the light from the window. Meng Yu was about to go back to the room, just about to pass him, and then Meng Yu didn't know what was tripped under her feet, and she fell forward because of her weight loss.

Chu Xiujin happened to pass by her, subconsciously reaching out to support her.

Probably because he was afraid that she would fall, he subconsciously moved her toward him when he held her, and she was directly hooked into his arms in this area. He put his arms around her waist to help her stabilize the center of gravity, and his generous palms pressed against her. At the back waist, the heat penetrated the clothes directly into the pores.

At this moment, she completely threw herself into his arms, the end of her nose was full of his smell, and her hands were just touching his chest, but Meng Yu soon realized that something was wrong. A hot touch came from the palm of her hand, and Meng Yu suddenly gasped.

He seems to...have no clothes...

"Are you okay?" His voice suddenly sounded above his head, dyed in the night, very magnetic with a kind of bewitching.

Meng Yu immediately stood up straight, and he also let go of his arms around her waist. She felt hot on her cheeks, but he should not see it in the dark.

"Sorry, I don't know what tripped me, thank you."

"You're welcome."

Meng Yu said again, "Be careful when you come back in a while."

"Okay."

Meng Yu returned to the room with the touch of his body still remaining on her hands, which was a bit hot, strong and elastic skin. Gao Zhi bought him clothes, why didn't he wear them?

The temperature of the air conditioner is not high. Is it because of heat? Does he like sleeping naked?

She probably suspected that Mr. Chu was sleeping in the nude, so Meng Yu didn't dare to go out after waking up the next day. She didn't open the door until she saw that the time was about right, thinking that he should get up to go to the company.

Originally, the area of ​​this bachelor apartment was small, and you could look directly at the living room as soon as you opened the bedroom door, so as soon as Meng Yu opened the door, she saw Chu Xiujin lift up his pants. His upper body was naked before he could get dressed.

When Chu Xiujin heard the voice and looked at it subconsciously, Meng Yu turned her gaze and immediately avoided.

"Sorry, I thought you were already up."

Her evasive expression fell into his eyes, and he thought the girl's face was really thin.

At this moment, there was a knock on the door, breaking the awkward atmosphere between the two of them.

"You have an appointment?" Chu Xiujin asked her.

Meng Yu turned around and looked at him. He had already put on his pants, but he hadn't put on the clothes yet, and Meng Yu didn't dare to look at him. She said, "Maybe it is the aunt who cleans up the garbage."

Chu Xiujin walked over and opened the door, but he didn't expect that outside the door was not the aunt who cleaned up the garbage.

It's Xiao Qi.

During this time, Xiao Qi would come here from time to time whenever he could not sleep through the night. He would come to the apartment where she once lived and knock on her door, hoping that she would open the door for him, but he knew she would not show up.

This time he also knocked gently on her door as usual, which was just a psychological comfort for self-deception, and he knew that no one would open the door for him.

So after knocking twice, he planned to leave, only to turn around when he heard the doorknob twisting.

Xiao Qi's body froze instantly. At that moment he thought a lot. He remembered that her house was not sold or rented out, so she was the only one who could appear here.

But why does she appear here? Isn't she married? Why doesn't she live in the wedding room? Did she quarrel with her husband? Or, as he once guessed, she married someone else just to avenge him.

Therefore, her marriage was just a pretense, so she got married to make him sad. After her goal was achieved, she moved out of the wedding room to live by herself.

He turned around almost immediately, with surprise and expectation, his eyes rolled with unconcealable excitement, but when he saw the person opening the door, all the high emotions faded in an instant.

The man was shirtless, holding his hand on the doorknob and looking at him, behind him in her pajamas, she also looked at him.

The faint flame in his heart extinguished in an instant and at that moment he could almost hear the sound of a broken heart.

He used to look forward to seeing her so much, but he never thought it would be in this form?

Meng Yu stepped forward and she looked at Xiao Qi standing at the door in awe.

"Xiao Qi? Why are you here?"

Xiao Qi looked at the man and woman in front of him, one shirtless and the other in pajamas, so ambiguous and dazzling. But it was also reasonable because they are originally a couple.

Xiao Qi thought it was ridiculous. She asked him why he was here. He didn't know why he came. Because he missed her too much, because he was too unwilling to let her go, but what's the use of him coming here? The facts before him reminded him again that she was already married to another man.

It was not what he expected, she was really married, she really became someone else's wife.

The girl he has never been into for so many years, she has become another man's woman.

There was a fire in his heart, but there was nowhere to vent it. This fire burned him into pain.

"Xiao Qi?" Chu Xiujin asked, "Is it the vice president of Pangda Linghang, Xiao Qi?”

Xiao Qi closed his eyes and pressed down the anger in his heart. He nodded, "Well, it's me.”

"Last time I saw you at Meng Yu's birthday party, but I didn't have time to say hello." Chu Xiujin reached out to him very generously, "I am Chu Xiujin, chairman of Beiyue, and Meng Yu's husband, Vice President Xiao. Lucky to meet you."

Xiao Qi looked at the man in front of him, his expression steady and calm, with just the right amount of politeness on his face, so thoughtful that he couldn't fault it.

But of course, only men know the minds of men best. He doesn't want him to know who he is and what he does when he greets him. He just wants him to know that he is Meng Yu's husband.

This alone was enough to defeat him, but he was still so polite on the surface, and even greeted him.

He didn't want to know him, not at all.

But they are adult rules in the adult world. No matter how unwilling he is in his heart, no matter how painful his anger is, he can only suppress all negative emotions at this moment. He stretched out his hand and shook his hand with a complex mood, "Hello."

Meng Yu looked back and forth between the two. Although it was fine to say hello to each other, she always felt that something was weird.

"Why did Vice President Xiao come here?" Chu Xiujin asked.

Xiao Qi glanced at Meng Yu subconsciously and said, "I was just passing by and remembered that Meng Yu lived here before, so I came to take a look."

Chu Xiujin glanced at Meng Yu and said, "Meng Yu is pretty good, I thank you for her. "

Xiao Qi frowned," thank me? "

"Thank you for thinking of her."

"..."

Xiao Qi clenched his hands beside him, he really didn't have the energy to stay here to appreciate the love of their husband and wife, and he really didn't have the energy to deal with this man's well-hidden attack. .

"Since everything is fine with her, I'm relieved, I'll leave first." Chu Xiujin didn't intend to keep him, and said politely: "Vice President Xiao, walks slowly." 

Xiao Qi turned to leave, and Chu Xiujin closed the door. He turned his head to look at Meng Yu, "How did he know that you live here?"

With his look, did he suspect that she had contacted Xiao Qi after she moved here?

Meng Yu immediately said, "I don't know why he is here. I never contacted him since I broke up with him."

He didn't ask any more, took his shirt and went to the bathroom. There was a sound of water flowing inside, Meng Yu Subconsciously glanced inside and saw that he was washing his hands. After he finished washing, he came out and said to her: "I still have a morning meeting today. I have to go first."

"Don't you have breakfast?"

"It's too late, I will go to the company to eat. "

Meng Yu originally planned to cook him breakfast.

"Okay, be careful on the way."

He walked to the door and opened it, not knowing what he thought of. He said again: "I will go to Germany this time. I will send someone to live next door to you. I am not at ease if you live outside by yourself."

Meng Yu thought about what happened in France last time. It was probably because of this kind of experience that he formed a cautious personality. She agreed to make him feel relieved, “Okay.”

Xiao Qi didn't walk away in a hurry after he got down from Meng Yu's apartment. He sat in the car, holding the steering wheel tightly with his hands, probably too hard, his fingers trembling slightly.

There was always a voice in his mind reminding him (Xiao Qi) that Meng Yu was already someone else's.

He wanted to drive away the annoying sound, but it still lingered. He gritted his teeth and slammed his head on the steering wheel, his forehead hit the horn, and a harsh whistle sounded in the silent garage.

Xiao Qi suddenly felt that he was a big joke. She had been with him for so many years, but he had never touched her before. It can be said that he personally gave her to others completely and let other men pick up such a Great bargain.

Who is to blame, himself. He was so stupid, he loved her but didn't know it, and didn't know her value until he lost it.

Regret and unwillingness, all kinds of emotions are intertwined in his heart, he only feels that his heart was extremely depressed, and he was almost out of breath.

Not reconciled! Really unwilling!

As expected, Chu Xiujin didn't lie to her. The next day he arranged for someone to live next door to her. 

It was his female assistant Nana, who had been with Meng Yu before getting married.

Meng Yu still went to the studio to record every day, but she stopped at the entrance of the studio that day.

Meng Yu almost didn't react when she saw him.

"Xiao Qi?" 

The person here was indeed Xiao Qi. In fact, he did not leave that day. After Chu Xiujin left, he quietly followed Meng Yu and he knew that she was working here. Today, he was here specially to wait for her.

He has a lot to say to her, the words he has always kept in his heart.

Xiao Qi slowly approached her. Last time Meng Yu didn’t take a closer look. Now when he approached her, she found that Xiao Qi seemed to have lost a lot of weight. She didn’t know if it was because of the weight loss that he looked very thin but he looked very depressed.

"What are you doing here?" Meng Yu asked again.

"I have something to say to you." He spoke in an unrelenting manner.

Meng Yu smiled and sneered, "Don't forget Xiao Qi, I'm already married, and we have nothing to say."

"It doesn't matter, whether you are married or not, I want to say these things to you. "

Meng Yu didn't know what else to say between them, but thinking about him knocking on the door of her apartment last time, Meng Yu knew that he would be unwilling to finish it, so she was willing to give him one. The final conclusion.

She nodded to him, "Okay, you say."

But when she really waited, he fell silent.

He stared at her face for a long time and finally said, "I admit that I liked Sister Ai Qing when I was young, and I liked her very much. Later, because she left to marry, I was in pain for a while. I thought I would never like anyone again in my life. Then I met you, and you were chasing me. I couldn't seem to let you go. In the end, I chose to compromise and I agreed to be with you. I also admit that at first I don’t feel much about you when I’m with you, you just have the identity of a girlfriend, nothing more."

"Do you think I am a jerk when I say these things, but this is my truth, I'm telling you now that every word is true."

Meng Yu calmly said: "I believe you are telling the truth, continue."

"We have been walking like this for so many years, and sometimes I can't really tell how I feel about you. It is impossible to say that I have no good feelings at all. After all, there are still so many years of feelings. Later you proposed breaking up, I thought I would breathe a sigh of relief. You said I never responded to your feelings, I admit, I did not respond to your feelings, because I want you to retreat from difficulties, or because of my low self-esteem .You were born well, you are so beautiful, but I am just a pauper who has nothing, I always feel that no matter where I reach I am not worthy of you, I think that one day reality will let us break up. It is better than that. If I don't give any feelings, then I won't endure the pain of my lover leaving again.

It was the first time she heard Xiao Qi say so much. He was not a talkative person, and he never liked to talk nonsense.

Of course, he never told her what he thought.

This is the first time she has heard Xiao Qi say what is in his heart.

What a strange feeling, even if she had been with him for so many years.

"I admit that after we broke up, I didn't feel much at the beginning, but then I gradually became uncomfortable with your departure. I often dreamed of you, and often thought of you. Only then did I realize that after all these years of getting along, your figure has already taken root In my life."

"Meng Yu, believe it or not, I fell in love with you, I don't know when." Meng Yu suddenly wanted to laugh when she heard Xiao Qi's confession to her.

He said ‘I like you’.

What she wanted to hear in her dreams, if they were still together, she would be so happy to hear that.

Her male god finally fell in love with her, they will be very happy in the future, and she will have a bunch of children with him.

But now that she heard these words, her heart was so peaceful, she even wanted to laugh a little, sarcastically.

"Meng Yu, would you give me a chance? You've loved me for so long, will you let me love you this time?"

His eyes were red, with a vibrato when he said this sentence.

Saying so sincerely, revealing a kind of cautiousness.

However, she shook her head slowly, "It's too late."

"It's not too late, it's not too late if you want. Meng Yu, can you come back to me? I need you, I can't leave you."

She stared at his face and said to him word by word, "Me and Chu Xiujin have obtained the certificate, and you have also seen that he and I are legal husband and wife. It is impossible for you and me in this life. Xiao Qi, it's too late for you to say anything."

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