I Became Super Rich After Resigning-Chapter 172 - : Thank You, Little Xi

Chapter 172: Chapter 172: Thank You, Little Xi

Yuan Xi hung up the phone and made a video call.

Huo Shiyuan, startled by the abrupt end of the call, was puzzled when he suddenly saw the incoming video call from Yuan Xi. He answered it in a second.

Yuan Xi saw that Huo Shiyuan was with Si Chen, Qin Yue, as well as some colleagues from the Ruohu project, and indeed, Qian Yiren was there.

Huo Shiyuan said into the phone, “I just got to Ruo Lake Whisper planning to have dinner.”

Yuan Xi asked, “Is there a problem with Ruohu?”

Huo Shiyuan replied, “There’s a small issue with the project. It’s not a big deal, and should be fixed by the afternoon. You don’t need to wait for me for dinner tonight, and you should go to bed early too.”

Yuan Xi responded, “Okay.”

After hanging up the phone, Yuan Xi went back to Yunsen Court and worked from home in the afternoon.

Around four in the afternoon, Liang Suisui texted her to invite her to celebrate after work, and Yuan Xi thought about it and agreed.

At six in the evening, after receiving a call from Liang Suisui, Yuan Xi went into the baby room.

Yuan Xi clasped the small hands of the two children and said, “Lele and An An, mommy and Aunt Suisui are stepping out for a bit, but we will be back very, very soon.”

Yuan Xi changed into an off-white dress and a black coat, let her hair down, applied some basic makeup, and then walked towards the entrance of the residential compound.

Yuan Xi said to the bodyguards who were following closely behind her, “You don’t need to follow me. I’m going out to celebrate with a friend.”

After saying that, Yuan Xi left the compound. Liang Suisui’s car was already waiting for her outside.

When Liang Suisui and Yuan Xi arrived at the mall, the road outside the parking lot was congested, and inside the mall, there were hardly any parking spaces left, even the Vic reserved spots were gone.

Liang Suisui had a brainwave and simply parked at a nearby car wash to get the car cleaned, and then walked to the mall holding Yuan Xi’s hand.

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Seeing that the mall was crowded with couples, Liang Suisui commented to Yuan Xi, “It’s really worthy of a BFF to accompany me out on Valentine’s Day! Not like Chen Yuan and Shi Lei, who only know how to feed me dog food.”

Yuan Xi chuckled lightly.

Today being Valentine’s Day, most of the people coming to the mall to watch movies after work were couples.

Yuan Xi hadn’t been to a movie theater to watch a movie in a very long time. The movie Liang Suisui chose was a romance.

Liang Suisui passed the popcorn to Yuan Xi, “This ‘I’m Still in Love with You’ movie is actually quite good.”

Yuan Xi asked, “How do you know?”

Liang Suisui said, “The male lead is Fang Ming; his movies can’t possibly be bad.”

Once the movie started, the two of them stopped talking and focused on the film.

The movie began with the female lead attending the male lead’s wedding.

At the male lead’s wedding, the female lead started to reminisce about their past together.

The male and female leads were high school classmates and were very much in love during high school. They had misunderstandings back then and neither opened up to explain.

That continued until the male lead held a wedding with a matchmade partner whom he didn’t love.

At the wedding, the female and male leads kept reminiscing about their past love.

In the end, the male lead left his bride at the wedding venue and ran away with the female lead, leaving the matchmade partner alone and clueless at the wedding.

The male lead proposed to the female lead by a lake with a ring he made from foxtail grass, and the movie ended abruptly there.

After the movie ended, until the credits rolled, no one in the theater stirred, until someone from a corner shouted for a refund.

Liang Suisui also looked incredulous, “I need to unfollow Fang Ming and backslap him. Was he crazy to take on such a movie! What’s up with the second female lead being dumped at the wedding? Seriously speechless. The leads don’t speak until the wedding? What a rubbish movie!”

Yuan Xi said with a light laugh, “The movie’s title ‘I’m Still in Love with You’ would be more fitting as ‘I Became the Mistress at my Ex-Boyfriend’s Wedding’.”

Liang Suisui frowned and said, “This film was shot in September and wrapped up in November. I should have known it wouldn’t be any good, a total waste of my hundred and twenty yuan for the ticket!”

Liang Suisui insisted, “Nope, I need to watch another movie to cleanse my eyes!”

Yuan Xi noticed Mi Yi’s name among the producers of ‘I’m Still in Love with You’, and she ended up watching another movie with Liang Suisui.

The next movie they chose was an arthouse film, which was so highbrow that both Yuan Xi and Liang Suisui fell asleep.

And then there was this big guy in the back row who started snoring loudly, waking up everyone in the theater.

Liang Suisui decided not to watch any more movies and dragged Yuan Xi out of the cinema, “Couples’ money is really easy to make. No wonder there are so many bad movies scheduled for Valentine’s Day.”

Yuan Xi laughed softly and asked, “You haven’t had dinner yet, right? What do you want to eat?”

Liang Suisui said, “How about hotpot? I haven’t had hotpot in a long time.”

Liang Suisui took Yuan Xi to a very popular hotpot restaurant online. Perhaps because it was a trendy spot, there were still quite a few people queuing up even at ten o’clock at night.

Fortunately, a couple who had an urgent matter to attend to gave up their almost-ready number to Liang Suisui, so the two of them didn’t have to wait in line for too long before they got to eat.

Neither Yuan Xi nor Liang Suisui were good at eating spicy food, especially since Yuan Xi had just finished her postpartum confinement, so they ordered a mild mushroom broth and tomato hotpot.

While they were eating, they happened to run into two acquaintances.

Seeing Fu Yixian, who walked in with a frown and an oppressive presence, Yuan Xi stood up and said, “Brother Yixian.”

When Fu Yixian saw Yuan Xi, he asked, “Shiyan isn’t here?”

Yuan Xi nodded and replied, “He should still be in Jiang City. Are you guys here for hotpot too?”

Yuan Xi couldn’t imagine someone of Fu Yixian’s stature coming to such a commoner’s restaurant to eat hotpot.

Indeed, the sight of the restaurant’s greasy spicy hotpot made Fu Yixian frown with disgust.

“I’m here with her; she’s eating by herself.”

Yuan Xi invited Ren Tian, saying, “Our pot has just been served. If you don’t mind, why not join us?”

Ren Tian glanced at the dual-flavored pot in front of Yuan Xi, which combined mushroom broth and tomato, and shook her head, “No thank you. The whole point of a dual-flavored pot is to compromise for those who can’t eat spicy, but why doesn’t yours have even one spicy side?”

Yuan Xi smiled and said, “I had surgery and can’t eat spicy foods, and Suisui isn’t very good at eating spicy things either.”

Still, Ren Tian chose the table behind them. Yuan Xi saw Fu Yixian’s driver step forward, take out a disinfectant spray, and wipe down the table and chairs. Even then, Fu Yixian was still put off by the greasiness, wiping it down once again with a paper towel before sitting down.

In a low voice, Liang Suisui asked Yuan Xi, “Who is that guy? Does he really need to be so pretentious? This place isn’t that dirty, is it?”

Yuan Xi also whispered back, “He’s the crown prince of the Fu An Group, Fu Yixian, Fu Qin’s cousin.”

Liang Suisui remarked, “No wonder he looks down on this place. Wasn’t he in a vegetative state? How did he manage to recover enough to eat here?”

Yuan Xi chuckled at Liang Suisui’s phrasing, “He hasn’t been recovered for long.”

That Fu Yixian would accompany Ren Tian to such an internet-famous fly diner for hotpot was something Yuan Xi truly didn’t expect.

Yunsen Court.

Huo Shiyan arrived home at half-past eleven. He first visited the baby’s room and, seeing that the light was off, he didn’t go in to avoid disturbing the child’s sleep.

Back in the master bedroom, it was pitch-dark. Huo Shiyan turned on the night light to find the room utterly empty.

Descending the stairs, Huo Shiyan asked his bodyguard, “Where is Yuan Xi?”

The bodyguard replied, “The madam left in the evening to celebrate the festival with friends.”

Huo Shiyan asked, “Celebrate? What festival?”

Qin Lang interjected, “President Huo, today is February 14th, Valentine’s Day.”

Huo Shiyan unlocked his phone and called Yuan Xi, “Where are you?”

Yuan Xi replied, “I’m almost at the door. I’ll be home soon.”

As Huo Shiyan walked towards the entrance, he opened the door to find Yuan Xi, who was wrapped in a coat and scarf, carrying the scent of hotpot.

Huo Shiyan embraced Yuan Xi and said, “Sorry, I didn’t realize today was Valentine’s Day. If I had remembered, I wouldn’t have gone to Jiang City.”

Yuan Xi laughed gently, “It’s fine. I understand how busy your work is.”

“Shiyan, Happy Valentine’s Day.”

Yuan Xi took out a ring from her coat pocket and put it on Huo Shiyan’s finger.

Huo Shiyan took Yuan Xi’s hand, snapped a picture of their intertwined hands showing off the ring on his ring finger, and posted it to his social circle, “Thank you, Little Xi.”

Gu Hanchen was the first to comment, “Do I really need a dose of dog food in the last half-hour of Valentine’s Day?”