Showbiz Scandal: The Official Announcement of My Ex and Myself-Chapter 426: Blessed with a Handsome Man
Xie Qingci glanced over.
Yu Xia herself didn’t even know there was such a paper note in there, and carelessly said, "Don’t look at me, I don’t know there’s a note inside, nor who wrote it."
What wound, what pain, she even didn’t know if it was written by a high school classmate or a junior high school classmate. She kept the box only because it came as a set with the mini stapler.
Xie Qingci didn’t say whether he believed her or not; he stuffed the note back in, returned the stapler box, and then went to look at another gift box.
This box had a lot more stuff.
Ceramic sunshine dolls, wind chimes, dream catchers, various bracelets, a watch, buttons, and a very small graduation message book.
Yu Xia immediately held his hand when she saw this.
"Maiden manifesto, can’t look."
"But I want to see."
When his eyes emitted a longing plea, it was truly hard to refuse.
Yu Xia closed her eyes and sighed, berating herself for her tendency to be swayed by good looks.
When Xie Qingci reached for the message book again, her hand was almost useless as a barrier.
A green velvet-covered notebook, roughly palm-sized, inside was a golden screen bookmark, a plated little dragonfly hung below it. The page where the bookmark was inserted was blank.
The previous page had a message written by a girl.
[Wish our beautiful Yu Xia, after graduation, make big money, eat big meals, play with big handsome men!]
Xie Qingci made an unclear nasal sound: "Big handsome man?"
Yu Xia was relatively calm: "Doesn’t that refer to you? Aren’t you a big handsome man?"
He reluctantly accepted the description and turned to the previous pages.
[If you lose interest in men, you can come back to me. My beautiful arms are always open for you]
[Eighteen-year-old Yu Xia always shines bright!]
[Wishing you a bright future, smooth sailing]
The next page was clearly written by a boy, one who had practiced calligraphy, as the writing flowed elegantly and looked very nice.
From boys’ understanding and vigilance towards other boys, Xie Qingci stared at that line the longest.
Such restrained, introverted words instead indicated extraordinary feelings.
Yet, after looking at it, he said nothing.
Imagine, the eighteen-year-old Yu Xia, no boy would dislike her; that’s quite normal.
Flipping through the entire message book, he found the most repeated wish was for her to "embrace on the left and right," "happily meet handsome men."
You could tell how much of a hopeless romantic she was back then.
"Do you have a pen?" he asked, turning his head.
Yu Xia was so embarrassed she was curling her toes, and upon hearing this, asked, "Why do you need a pen?"
He said casually, "I also want to write a message, summarize the blessings, inform them that you’ve already found the big handsome man."
"..." Speechless, really good at self-praise.
She found him a pen, watched as he leisurely wrote a sentence.
Written in her tone.
[2020.3.16, I met that big handsome man, his name is Xie Qingci.]
When he finished, he "snap" closed the message book and put it back in the box.
Yu Xia held back and held back, but couldn’t stop herself from laughing.
Xie Qingci leisurely closed the gift box and continued to look at other things.
The bookshelf was filled with lots of small items. He took each one out for an interested study before putting it back. Yu Xia thus followed in his footsteps, reviewing her collection from a third-person perspective.
Some things she couldn’t even remember herself, looking through them again now was quite interesting.
After viewing those little collectibles, he turned his attention to the books on the shelf.
The five-tiered bookshelf was packed with books, even a few elementary school workbooks were still there.
Besides serious textbooks and study notebooks, there was a section of brightly colored books.
Xie Qingci’s hand rested on the spines of those books, his fingertips sliding down, stroking a slightly embarrassing book title.
"Ice Mountain Prince and Charming Princess?"
Yu Xia: "..."
This time, she was determined not to let him look further, squeezing under his arm to block the shelf, serious-faced.
"You’ve looked enough already, right? Some things don’t need to be understood too deeply, leaving some blanks is necessary."
Xie Qingci deeply agreed.
"But there’s no need for deep understanding. Just from this title, it’s clear to see a lot of things. So you liked this kind of style."
"What style, it was my first tentative touch of love during junior high, I was imagining the beauty of the future through words. People get enlightened step by step like this, weren’t you?"
"Of course not," Xie Qingci edged closer, almost pressed against her, leaned down and said, profoundly, "I was enlightened all at once by you." 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎
"..." Such a normal thing, somehow became a bit improper when he said it.
She pushed with both hands on his shoulders, trying to push him away.
"I can say this too, I can even say this entire shelf’s collection was to awaken to love consciousness early and wait for you to come to my side."
Pull two random guys from the internet, they can describe wandering through flowers as a youth’s first stirrings of love, recount past experiences as "the trials heaven gave me before meeting you."
It’s just painting a big picture with words, who can’t do that?
Xie Qingci raised an eyebrow: "Don’t believe? Fair, words alone aren’t proof. How about this, during the Ice Breaker Festival, I take you to my house, reciprocate and let you see my room?"
Yu Xia gave him a sweet smile: "Not impossible, just afraid you’ll get caught on camera and my brother might rough you up."
"Not meeting the parents, just going for fun, I should still be relatively safe?" He thought for a moment, "If my parents suddenly return, it’ll just count as an emergency incident, I didn’t know beforehand, I’m quite innocent."
When he said "innocent," he really made an innocent face.
The usual disinterested gaze turned into a puppy’s watery look, unwaveringly staring at her, sincere and focused, without a hint of guilt, truly as innocent as possible.
Yu Xia directly slapped his face, covering his eyes, pushed him again.
Xie Qingci stood straight in response, yet playfully opened his mouth to bite her finger.
"Are you a dog?" She shuddered from the bite, immediately withdrew her hand, disdainfully repeating her commonly used line.
Then he also uttered the familiar response: "Yes, your dog. How many times do I need to say it?"
"...Alright, I can’t out-talk you, quickly go sit down, if my brother catches you, careful he might stand at the door and stare at you until you feel uncomfortable."
The power of Yu Heng was significant, and Xie Qingci obediently sat down.
Her room wasn’t particularly big, due to not often living there, there weren’t many things, yet it held her childhood and youth, times Xie Qingci never participated in.
To him, all the things here were precious, all deserving a look.
A book, a pen, an item of clothing, a bracelet, all had stories, he persistently asked about their origins, seriously listening to her recount the past.
An afternoon seemed to slip by in an instant, Yu Yue ran over to knock on the door to tell them to get ready for dinner.
Braggingly holding his skateboard to invite Xie Qingci to go out and play after dinner, thinking this older brother who could play with three-stage Rubik’s cube could also excel at other things.
But Xie Qingci had more to consider, going out at night then coming back, would he still leave?
