Xu Tingyu entered the door. Qi Ruixi, who was drinking soup in the dining room, rushed out at once.
"Sister-in-law, you're back. Come and have some soup quickly."
She carefully observed Xu Tingyu's complexion. Seeing that her expression was normal, she heaved a sigh of relief.
Xu Tingyu was really hungry, so she followed Qi Ruixi into the dining room.
When Aunt Zhang saw her coming back, she also served out a lot of food.
Xu Tingyu thanked her and sat down beside Qi Ruixi.
"Sister-in-law, did my brother make things difficult for you?"
She had been worried about this since Xu Tingyu came back. After hesitating for a long time, she sent an initiative apology message to Qi Shifeng, but received no reply.
So her heart had been hanging.
Who would have known that just as her voice fell, Qi Shifeng walked in.
She immediately fell silent and buried her head in drinking soup.
Xu Tingyu was also stunned for a moment when she saw Qi Shifeng coming in.
After sending her back, shouldn't this guy go to Xie Yu?
Perhaps her confused look was too direct. Qi Shifeng's face darkened even more.
But unexpectedly, he didn't leave. Instead, he sat directly across from Xu Tingyu and took away the bird's nest in front of her.
This smooth series of actions stunned Xu Tingyu and Qi Ruixi. Even Aunt Zhang was quite surprised.
The dining room fell into a strange silence for a moment.
Finally, Aunt Zhang was the first to react. She quickly said, "There's still some. I'll go get it."
She hurried towards the kitchen. Qi Ruixi carefully glanced at her second brother.
"Hey, second brother, why are you like this? You even snatch sister-in-law's bird's nest."
"You're so stingy. Big brother gave me a graduation gift, but you haven't shown any sign at all."
She stretched out her hand towards Qi Shifeng, showing him the necklace given by Qi Ye.
Qi Shifeng just glanced at her. On his originally expressionless face, his expression suddenly changed when he saw the necklace.
He had seen this necklace on the dressing table this morning.
He accidentally knocked it off. When he picked it up, he saw the necklace inside.
He hadn't thought much about it at that time, but now he couldn't help but think more.
He put down the bird's nest in his hand and looked at Xu Tingyu.
Her neck was clean, with nothing on it.
But that necklace was still very suspicious.
He withdrew his gaze from Xu Tingyu and looked at Qi Ruixi again.
"Buy whatever you want and come back to me for reimbursement."
Qi Ruixi sighed that he seemed to be particularly easy to talk to today. She breathed a big sigh of relief.
That meant he wasn't really angry because of Xie Shu.
So she started to speak carelessly.
"Thank you, second brother. I admit I was a bit loud just now. Second brother, what else do you want to eat? I'll go get it for you."
Her face was full of a flattering smile as she winked at Qi Shifeng.
Qi Shifeng was too lazy to pay attention to her at first, but then, not knowing what he was thinking, he suddenly asked, "Between me and big brother, who do you like more?"
This question was even more annoying than being asked whether you liked your father or mother more when you were a child.
It was also completely out of character for Qi Shifeng.
So Qi Ruixi exaggeratedly reached out her hand, touched his forehead, and then touched her own.
"Strange. You're not sick. Why are you talking nonsense?"
Qi Shifeng also felt a bit uncomfortable. He slapped her hand away, drank up the bird's nest in the bowl in one gulp, and then got up and went back to his bedroom.
After he left, Qi Ruixi couldn't help asking Xu Tingyu.
"What's wrong with my brother? He didn't even get angry and was quite easy to talk to."
Xu Tingyu also thought Qi Shifeng had been acting strange these two days, but she didn't know what had happened, so she shrugged.
"I don't know either. But don't you like him like this?"
Although he still looked cold, he seemed to have a bit more humanity.
He was no longer so aloof.
Qi Ruixi sat back in her seat with a big smile on her face. "Of course I like him."
"This second brother is so easy to talk to. It makes me feel that I'm one step closer to my plan of being a good-for-nothing parasite."
She laughed so loudly that Xu Tingyu couldn't help laughing too. She tapped the tip of her nose.
"You're really like a child."
Actually, she wasn't much older than Qi Ruixi, but her mentality seemed much older.
Qi Ruixi's frankness and courage were exactly what she lacked.
The two chatting and laughing didn't notice that Qi Shifeng was standing on the second floor, looking at the dining room for a long time.
It seemed that he hadn't seen Xu Tingyu smile so genuinely for a long time.
Before the Xu family's incident, except for sleeping together at night, they rarely saw each other during the rest of the time.
Now looking at her smile, he felt a bit dazed.
He remembered that when she first got married, she always smiled like this.
At that time, she had already quit her job and just stayed in this villa every day.
He never cared what she did every day, but when he came back, she would always run to the door, showing him a brightly smiling face.
Then she would chatter on about her arrangements for the day.
What books she had read, what food she had eaten, what new things she had learned...
She would share everything with him.
He was dissatisfied with this marriage and with her, so he naturally didn't show her a good face.
When did she stop greeting him and sharing her life with him?
He couldn't even remember for a moment.
However, the daze only lasted for a few minutes.
Qi Shifeng wouldn't allow himself to fall into such strange emotions. So soon, he returned to his room with a cold face.
Just after he left, Xu Tingyu looked up at the second floor.
It was empty. There was no one there.
She lowered her head and laughed at herself, thinking she was being too sensitive.
After they finished eating, Qi Ruixi pulled her to chat for a while.
She originally thought Qi Ruixi would still ask her to sleep with her, but unexpectedly, Qi Ruixi smiled very ambiguously.
"I won't compete with second brother for sister-in-law. I was being childish yesterday."
"If I still ask sister-in-law to accompany me today, second brother will probably kick me out of the house."
While winking at Xu Tingyu, she quickly ran back to her own room.
Xu Tingyu shook her head helplessly and then returned to the master bedroom.
But when she pushed the door open, Qi Shifeng wasn't there. She breathed a slight sigh of relief.
This guy had been acting strange these two days. She was too lazy to guess.
It would be better for them to just do their own things. Otherwise, she didn't know when she would anger him again.
When she was getting her pajamas to take a bath, she happened to see the jewelry box on the dressing table.
It was the necklace given by Qi Ye.
After thinking for a while, she put the necklace into the jewelry safe.
All the jewelry in it was given to her by the Qi family.
No, to be exact, it was jewelry that she had the right to use on important occasions.
This necklace from Qi Ye also belonged to the Qi family property, not to her.
After putting away the necklace, she took a bath and came out. Qi Shifeng still hadn't come back.
She looked at the time. It was almost twelve o'clock. Was he still busy in the study?
Was it because there was an urgent job tonight that he didn't go to find Xie Yu?
As soon as this thought popped up, she quickly stopped herself.
Since she had decided to let go, she shouldn't care about the things between him and Xie Yu anymore.
Qi Shifeng really had a temporary job to deal with. When it was over, it was already half past twelve.
He returned to the room. It was pitch black inside.
He even thought he had gone to the wrong place.
In the past, no matter how late he worked, Xu Tingyu would wait for him.
Even if she didn't wait, the bedside lamp would be on.
But now, there was nothing.
The light from outside the door shone in, revealing a bulging figure on the bed.
That meant this woman didn't care about him at all and just turned off the light and went to sleep first!