In an instant, it seemed that there was only Xiao Yu left in Ye Yanxi's eyes. Her pupils reflected his figure. He looked as solemn as water, his straight and tall silhouette as steady as a mountain. Those deep, well - like eyes stared at her intently, making her both startled and overjoyed.
After a while, Ye Yanxi rubbed her eyes in disbelief.
Backlit, Xiao Yu still stood there. It was neither a dream nor a hallucination. Everything was real.
He stood not far away, the corners of his handsome mouth slightly upturned. He looked so beautiful that he seemed like a god stepping out of the golden sunlight.
Ye Yanxi still couldn't quite believe it. Wasn't he in Rome, Italy? How could he suddenly appear here?
Shen Mingshu and Jiang Ye arrived shortly after and stood beside Xiao Yu. Seeing him standing there motionless, they followed his line of sight and saw Ye Yanxi standing motionless like a statue inside the dilapidated house not far away.
Shen Mingshu let out a "tsk", but he was still happy to see Ye Yanxi. So he quickly waved his hand and signaled, "Miss Ye, I'm Shen Mingshu. Do you still remember me?"
It was not easy to see the goddess. Of course, he had to make his presence felt in front of her.
However, Shen Mingshu's enthusiasm didn't shake Ye Yanxi at all. She still stood there in a daze and didn't even give Shen Mingshu a single look.
He felt rather discouraged instantly.
After all, he had contributed a little to dealing with the members of the Black Hawk Gang. Why was she being so disrespectful?
Seeing Shen Mingshu deflated, Jiang Ye secretly gloated.
"Be quiet!" After Jiang Ye said that, he looked at Xiao Yu again. "Yu, most of the members of the Black Hawk Gang have been captured. What do you plan to do with them?"
Seeing Ye Yanxi in a daze, Xiao Yu stared at her silently. Without even turning his head, he asked, "Where are they now?"
"Over there!"
Jiang Ye pointed in a direction, and then Xiao Yu followed him in that direction.
Shen Mingshu stood there for a while. Seeing that there was nothing for him to do, he rushed towards Ye Yanxi.
In his excitement, his steps were a bit too big. Coupled with the uneven ground full of potholes, he caught his foot on a vine and stumbled instantly.
Then there was a loud "bang". Shen Mingshu stepped on an iron pipe. The iron pipe was originally half of a railing. Due to years of rust, it was broken by him. But that wasn't the end. After stepping on the iron pipe, his body slipped forward and he lost his balance. Finally, he fell head - first into a pile of sundries in a rather embarrassing position. There was a series of "clattering" noises, and the commotion was quite big.
His forehead hit a hard object all of a sudden. Shen Mingshu covered his forehead, gasping for breath in pain for a long time. Before long, a very red mark appeared on his forehead.
At this moment, many people looked over. Through his fingers, Shen Mingshu met the puzzled looks of many people. He felt extremely embarrassed. So many people must have seen his embarrassing fall. It was so humiliating, especially because Ye Yanxi was staring straight at him.
His goddess! It would have been better if anyone else had seen it, but his goddess had seen it so clearly. His heroic and mighty image had been completely ruined, and not even eight horses could bring it back.
Instantly, his mood of seeing the goddess wilted. He didn't really want to go towards Ye Yanxi anymore.
He Chuyan had been standing beside Ye Yanxi. She was a bit confused. Why didn't Ye Yanxi rush over and give Xiao Yu a loving hug after seeing him? Instead, she stood there like a wooden stake. She wondered what Ye Yanxi was thinking.
Even after Xiao Yu left, she still didn't chase after him.
As for the joke Shen Mingshu had made, she had no mood to care.
Seeing Ye Yanxi still standing there in a daze, He Chuyan was a bit worried and tugged at her clothes. "Xixi, what are you thinking? Why didn't you go over just now?"
Ye Yanxi, who had been immersed in her own world, was immediately awakened by He Chuyan's reminder. She seemed to be lost after a long dream and stared at her strangely. "Huh? What's wrong?"
He Chuyan was instantly speechless. "You're asking me? I want to ask you what's wrong with you!"
"I'm fine."
"Who would believe that? Xiao Yu was clearly standing right in front of you. Why did you just stand here and not go to greet him?" He Chuyan knew that as soon as Xiao Yu heard that Ye Yanxi was in trouble, he immediately ended his business there and rushed back from Rome without stopping. He took a plane to City S, spending more than ten hours on the way. As soon as he got off the plane, he came straight here.
Now Xiao Yu had not only rushed back but also turned the situation around and rescued her.
According to the script in TV dramas, shouldn't the heroine be so excited and burst into tears and throw herself into the hero's arms after being rescued?
However, Ye Yanxi didn't even seem excited. She just looked like she was still in a dream and hadn't woken up.
He Chuyan didn't know how Xiao Yu felt, but as a bystander, she just couldn't stand it. She looked at Ye Yanxi with a look of pity. She was really so oblivious to the amorous feelings.
Soon, Du Guo rushed in from outside the encirclement. As soon as he saw Ye Yanxi and He Chuyan standing in front of him unharmed, he immediately let out a sigh of relief. "Are you guys okay?"
"Something's wrong!" He Chuyan said with a straight face.
Du Guo was immediately nervous upon hearing this. He reached out and pinched He Chuyan's arm, looking up and down to see where she was injured. "What's wrong? Where are you hurt? Let me see. Maybe we should go to the hospital for a check - up right away."
"Let go, let go. Where could I be hurt?" He Chuyan slapped Du Guo's hand away and impatiently ruffled her hair.
Du Guo was completely confused. "Didn't you say something was wrong?"
"I didn't say it was about me!"
Du Guo then glanced at Ye Yanxi. "She also seems fine."
He Chuyan gave him a look that said "you don't understand". "She seems normal on the surface, but there's something on her mind."
After saying that, He Chuyan pulled Ye Yanxi again. "Xixi, what on earth is wrong with you? Why did you come to the orphanage in the middle of the night? And why did you turn off your phone last night? Did you not want to be found? Or do you not consider me a friend and don't even want to tell me what happened?"
Only then did Du Guo react. "Yeah, Xiaoxi, what's going on? If there's something, you can tell us. We'll solve it together."
"Could it be..." He Chuyan, associating all that had happened before and after, boldly guessed, "Xiao Yu has someone else outside, so you're very sad and even want to hide so that no one can find you?"
Since Xiao Yu called her last night, He Chuyan had always suspected that Xiao Yu had done something wrong to Ye Yanxi, which made her run away in a fit of anger and be sad alone.
Du Guo looked stunned. "Does the president really have someone else?"
"It has nothing to do with him. It's not what you think." Ye Yanxi finally spoke, her eyebrows tightly knitted.
Although Xiao Yu had deceived her, she didn't want her friends to misunderstand that there was something wrong with his character. She also believed that Xiao Yu wouldn't do such a thing.
"Since that's the case, then what on earth happened?" He Chuyan's tone was a bit urgent. "What was it that made you not go home, come to such a desolate place in the middle of the night, and still hide it from everyone?"
At this moment, Shen Mingshu, who had been taking a break on one side and listening to the three of them talking silently, finally couldn't hold it in anymore. He was also an insider, so he walked up to the three of them.
"If it weren't for the fact that Yu is with Miss Ye, I would even suspect that his sexual orientation is not normal. At that time, I was even worried that he would make a move on me." Shen Mingshu indignantly defended his friend. "Apart from Miss Ye, there really are no other women."
"Who are you?" He Chuyan shouted loudly.
"I'm Yu's friend. My surname is Shen. You can call me Brother Shen." Shen Mingshu introduced himself with a big smile, his eyes almost squinting into slits.
He Chuyan was quite disrespectful and sneered, "Uncle Shen?"
"Un... Uncle?" Shen Mingshu immediately got excited and stammered, "Wh... Why am I an uncle? I'm not even thirty yet. I'm in the prime of my youth. How can I be an uncle?"
"Really?" He Chuyan said casually. "Sorry, I thought you were already forty."
Shen Mingshu immediately shut his mouth. His self - esteem was severely hit. He touched his still rather smooth face and murmured somewhat unconvinced, "My face is clearly smooth and elastic. How could I look forty?"
"You're smiling so lewdly. I misjudged for a moment."
"......" He was the well - known Young Master Ming that everyone respected. All of a sudden, he had become a lewd uncle. This little girl was really sharp - tongued.
Shen Mingshu was a bit overwhelmed. He immediately looked at Ye Yanxi. The goddess was still nice, gentle and soft - spoken. "I said, Xiaoxi. Jiang Ye, Yu and I have been good brothers since childhood. Now... You've become Jiang Ye's niece. You tell me, in the future..."
As he said that, his eyes rolled. "Do you think I should follow Jiang Ye and call you niece, or... call you sister - in - law?"
Shen Mingshu's words instantly pulled Ye Yanxi back into the abyss she wanted to escape from, making her remember the pain of being deceived by her relatives.
"You'd better just call me Miss Ye." Ye Yanxi replied coldly.
He Chuyan, who was listening on the side, found it very strange. Then she reacted and exclaimed, "Xixi, according to what he said, could it be... that Mrs. He is really your mother?"
Ye Yanxi should call Jiang Ye uncle. Jiang Ye had an elder sister named Jiang Pinzhen, and her husband was He Zhenhua. Wasn't that Mrs. He?