My Dominant Contract Husband Won't Let Me Go

Chapter 783: If Life Were Just Like When First Met (9)

Qin Qian looked at the gentle man sitting across from her, stunned, and incredulously widened her eyes, "Zhou... President Zhou?"

Zhou Yi lifted his gaze, curved his lips into a smile, "Xiaoqian."

He stood up and pulled out the chair for Qin Qian.

Qin Qian thanked him, sat down, still unable to react, "President Zhou, how did you...?"

"This isn’t the company, you can just call me by my name." Zhou Yi said softly, gently clasping his hands and placing them in front of him, his gaze tender and smiling, "It’s time for me to find a girlfriend too."

Pausing for a moment, his voice lowered slightly, he said openly, "And Xiaoqian, I like you."

Zhou Yi once stayed abroad with Qin Qian for a year; at her most painful time, he was the one beside her, taking good care of her. She sensed he had a special feeling towards her, but he never expressed anything. Later, he was transferred back domestically, and although they kept in touch, it was mostly work-related. She didn’t expect that he liked her.

"If possible, could you give me a chance?"

Qin Qian went home, lay in bed, tossing and turning all night, and the next day she called Zhou Yi and agreed to give it a try with him.

Three months after Qin Qian and Zhou Yi started dating, they amicably broke up.

Because she never fully invested in the relationship, and never let go of the previous one.

After that, she returned to L City.

She didn’t intentionally look for Yuan Shen, but L City was so small, they inevitably bumped into each other again.

That day, she went to a hotel to interview a successful entrepreneur. After leaving the private room to go to the restroom, she saw him at the restroom entrance.

He seemed to have drunk a little too much, his tall frame leaning against the wall, his female companion standing in front of him, arms wrapped around him, tiptoeing with pouting red lips, trying to kiss him.

His expression was lazy, his dark eyes dreamy, neither accepting nor rejecting.

Qin Qian had thought about how she and Yuan Shen might meet again, imagined such a scene; she thought she was mentally prepared, yet her heart felt a stabbing pain as if pierced by a knife, suffocating with hurt.

The more it hurt, the calmer she appeared, even curling her lips into a smile.

She held her head high, walked straight ahead without a sideways glance.

In the moment she passed by, from the corner of her eye, she saw Yuan Shen reach out, wrap his arm around his female companion, spin around, and take charge by lifting her chin.

Ever since that day, she kept running into Yuan Shen at various occasions. He was high-spirited, his female companions beside him dazzlingly beautiful. She didn’t want to see it, yet it kept flaunting in front of her.

Qin Qian didn’t expect that after two years, Yuan Shen seemed to have matured, but deep down was still this childish.

But... he still counted on the fact that she cared, so he acted fearlessly.

That day, Qin Qian had been drinking, watched Yuan Shen flaunting affection all night; she downed three large glasses of wine, then got up and staggered over.

She yanked the woman sitting in Yuan Shen’s arms to her feet and threw her to the side, looking down at Yuan Shen from above, squinting her eyes, pointing a slender finger at the woman and then at herself, and said to him, "Her or me."

She knew she was pathetic; even knowing he was deliberately provoking her, she still willingly fell for his provocation. Even while knowing the outcome might just be another round of heartbreak.

Yuan Shen laughed, the same smile as before, splitting his mouth, "I don’t want them, I only want you."

Qin Qian also smiled, but there was a trace of moisture hidden in her eyes.