Chapter 1224: Chapter 601: When Are You and Tan Shuya Getting Married

Song Xi suddenly opened her eyes and followed the direction her little assistant was pointing. Sure enough, she saw Jiang Yingjie walking toward them in a knit sweater and black dress pants, and the man’s expression didn’t look too good—in fact, it was downright gloomy.

But there wasn’t any extra emotion on her face at all. Instead, she looked completely calm.

On the way over, she had already thought a lot and had finally found plenty of reasons to convince herself to give up on Jiang Yingjie, even a whole list of reasons why she and Jiang Yingjie were not suitable for each other.

And she had also thought about the future, and felt that if she and Jiang Yingjie ended up together, they wouldn’t be happy later on.

There were still so many people in this world who loved her. Song Xi also knew she couldn’t keep wasting her time and youth on Jiang Yingjie, and even more so, she couldn’t keep wasting her feelings.

So she had long since decided that this time she absolutely had to make things clear with Jiang Yingjie.

She turned her head to look at the little assistant beside her and said, "In a bit, you go back to the company and wait for me first. I’ll be up soon."

The little assistant was startled and blurted out, "Sister Xi, you’re going to be alone with Doctor Jiang?"

Song Xi nodded and gave a soft "mm." "There are still a lot of things between me and him that need to be made clear."

But the little assistant still wasn’t at ease. "But Doctor Jiang looks really upset, like he’s about to explode any second. Sister Xi, if you’re alone with him and something happens, what are we going to do? No way, I have to stay by your side to protect you."

Her gaze was very firm.

Looking at her little assistant, Song Xi couldn’t help but laugh and said, "If he really lays a hand on me, do you think you could stop him?"

"I can’t..." The little assistant shook her head and answered honestly.

She was only 1.6 meters tall, not even as tall as Sister Xi. How could she possibly stop the tall and strong Doctor Jiang?

Don’t kid yourself, okay?

But even if she couldn’t stop Doctor Jiang, she still couldn’t let Sister Xi be in danger.

Song Xi patted her head and said, "Relax, he’s not the kind of person who hits people casually, and he won’t do anything to me. You go up first."

The little assistant still wanted to say something, but when she saw Song Xi’s expression, she finally nodded obediently. "Okay. Then Sister Xi, if anything happens later, you call security right away, remember to call security."

Song Xi was helpless and nodded. "Okay."

When the man walked to the side of the nanny van, Song Xi directly pushed the door open and got out. With sunglasses on, it was impossible to see what she was feeling. She simply said, "Let’s go to the café next door. We need to talk."

The man’s thin lips were pressed tightly together and his expression was a bit ugly, but this time he didn’t refuse. He did indeed need to have a proper talk with Song Xi.

The café next to the company was a place the artists from the company liked to come to on normal days. The environment here was good, and the waiters were very professional; they wouldn’t easily leak anything about the artists who came here to the media or other people.

That was why Song Xi dared to choose this place.

She directly asked for a private room and walked in, with Jiang Yingjie following right behind her.

In the private room, the waiter brought in what they had ordered and then left.

Facing the man across from her, his face clouded as he stared at her, Song Xi’s expression didn’t change. She took off her sunglasses and set them to the side, then picked up the teacup in front of her and took a sip before speaking calmly. "How’s Tan Shuya?"

She had naturally seen the news about Tan Shuya’s suicide. In truth, she didn’t know how to start talking to the man in front of her, so she casually brought up this topic.

And coincidentally, she did also want to know how Tan Shuya was doing now.

Honestly, when she found out about Tan Shuya’s suicide, Song Xi had been a little shocked and surprised. After all, she had met that woman before and could tell that Tan Shuya was definitely not the type to commit suicide easily. But what she hadn’t expected was that, while some people couldn’t see her taking such a step, in reality she really did dare to do it.

When Jiang Yingjie heard what Song Xi said, his face grew even darker. His eyes fixed on her, and only after a long while did he say, "Song Xi, when did you become someone I don’t even recognize?"

When Song Xi heard this, she was stunned. For a moment she didn’t understand what he meant by that.

What did he mean, she’d become someone even he didn’t recognize?

She raised a hand and touched her own face, then tugged at the corner of her mouth in a faint smile, her eyes filled with cold detachment. "Have I changed? Maybe in your eyes I really have. But everyone changes; no one can stay the same forever."

As for whether she herself had changed or not, she honestly couldn’t tell.

But since Jiang Yingjie said she had changed, she might as well take it as that.

Seeing her admit it didn’t make Jiang Yingjie’s expression any better. On the contrary, it grew even darker.

On the ride over, she had already thought through how she would start, but once she was actually sitting here, Song Xi suddenly didn’t know what would be the best way to begin. Clearly there was so much she could say, and their relationship needed to be resolved, yet when she was faced with the man in front of her, it felt like a big hand squeezed her heart tight, making it ache terribly.

A kind of pain she had never felt before, one that made her completely lose the ability to string words together.

The two of them sat in silence in the private room. Song Xi poured herself a cup of tea, then picked it up and toyed with it without drinking, her gaze resting on the teacup instead of on the man opposite her.

She was waiting for him to speak.

However, Jiang Yingjie didn’t seem inclined to say anything. His eyes just stayed fixed on her. At first they were full of anger, but later on they slowly calmed, and even his expression wasn’t as dark as before.

No one knew how much time had passed. Unable to bear the silence anymore, Song Xi downed the tea in her cup, then lifted her eyes to look at the man in front of her. Finding that his expression was no longer as ugly as it had been, her heart tightened a little, but she still curved her lips in a faint smile and asked him, "Are you planning to marry Tan Shuya? When are you getting married?"

The man’s body suddenly went rigid. He looked at her, his thin lips moving a few times before he finally squeezed out a sentence. "Song Xi, do you ever wonder if you even have a heart?"

His voice was hoarse, with a hint of mockery in it.

—There’s one more Chapter. I’m too hungry, so I’m writing a bit slowly. You can check back again tomorrow morning.