In Qi Shifeng's impression, Xu Tingyu didn't have many friends.
Apart from her actress friend, Chen Chunyao, there didn't seem to be anyone else she was close to.
He didn't even know that Shen Yan was also her friend.
This youngest son of the Shen family was known for his playboy reputation. Rumor had it that he was quite good at charming young girls.
Suddenly, he looked at the remaining cake on the table, his tone a bit stiff. "Did Shen Yan buy this for you?"
Two people had come in the morning, but his intuition told him it was Shen Yan who bought the cake.
Xu Tingyu didn't try to hide it. She readily admitted it. "He came to visit me. It wouldn't be appropriate for him to come empty - handed, would it?"
At first glance, her words sounded rather blunt.
But there was no malice in her tone, which made it seem a bit intimate.
Qi Shifeng was already a bit unhappy, but he didn't want her to notice. So he just pretended to be calm and said, "This Young Master Shen has a rather bad reputation. You should have less contact with him."
Xu Tingyu almost burst out laughing.
Just because he was on the hot search with Xie Yu, he was a bad person?
There were so many people in the circle who changed girlfriends more frequently than they changed clothes. Why didn't he say anything about them?
But she didn't need to refute him at this moment. She just masked the sarcastic smile and pretended not to know anything. She asked him, "Are you very familiar with him?"
"Not really," he didn't mention what happened last night. His tone was still calm. "But I do know something about him."
Just something?
She didn't know when he had become interested in such gossips and scandals.
It must have been after he met Xie Yu last night. He must have asked someone to investigate overnight.
If he dug deeper, he would find out that they had known each other since childhood.
But even if he did find out, he wouldn't care.
He had never been interested in her friends or her social circle.
She didn't say a word. She continued to eat the apple in her hand, expressing her attitude.
Qi Shifeng suddenly looked at the cake again and asked, "Do you like it very much?"
He remembered that she didn't eat much dessert. Even if she ate it occasionally, she was very strict about the amount.
She wouldn't eat half of it at once like this.
Xu Tingyu was still thinking about the thing she had asked Shen Yan to do. She was a bit absent - minded and just hummed in response.
The next second, this man picked up the cake, used the fork she had eaten with, dug out a piece, and put it into his mouth.
She was so shocked by his action that she even forgot to eat the apple.
Using her fork to eat the cake she had left?
No, why did he eat this cake?
Wasn't he completely uninterested in desserts?
"It's not bad. Which shop is it from?"
After taking a bite, he put down the fork again and looked up at her.
She was still biting a piece of apple. When she saw his gaze, she finally came to her senses and started chewing again.
"I'm not sure. He didn't tell me."
She shook her head and didn't look at him. She lied.
Actually, Shen Yan had told her.
This shop had reopened after being closed for two years. It was located in the east of the city, in the opposite direction from its original location.
Shen Yan had sent her the address and said that if she wanted to eat, she could just ask him to buy it for her.
He would also buy it for Chen Chunyao.
But Xu Tingyu didn't want to tell Qi Shifeng.
He didn't ask this out of whim or just to make small talk with her.
He even took the initiative to take a bite. Obviously, he wanted to buy it for someone else.
Apart from Xie Yu, who else would the great President Qi want to buy desserts for?
It seemed that he felt really guilty for not being able to rush over immediately when she made a request last night.
So he wanted to use this method to coax her.
Just consider her petty.
She had already shared her husband. She couldn't share her favorite cake shop.
Qi Shifeng seemed a bit surprised, but he didn't say much. He even pushed the cake in front of her.
If it had been in the past, she might have been extremely happy.
The thing she liked being recognized by the person she liked, and him being willing to eat cakes with her. This was happiness.
But now, she just calmly shook her head. "I'm controlling my sugar intake. I won't eat it."
Qi Shifeng stared at her for a long time and finally asked, "Do you dislike me?"
Was it because he had eaten it that she didn't want to eat it anymore?
Xu Tingyu still looked calm. "If you think so, I can't help it."
She was sitting on the stool, looking so relaxed that she didn't even want to pretend.
It was really infuriating.
But Qi Shifeng didn't get angry. He even leaned a bit closer to her and asked, "Did you have a bad mood after seeing your friend?"
Today, her coldness and perfunctoriness were especially obvious, to the extent that he couldn't ignore them even if he tried.
Xu Tingyu didn't expect him to ask this. She was stunned. "No."
She also wanted to act as if nothing had happened, but the faint fragrance on his body made her feel restless.
She didn't understand why this man came here after spending the night with his first love.
He didn't get a good rest himself, and he also disgusted her.
Seeing her deny it, Qi Shifeng reached out his hand to her.
She reacted a bit too strongly. She suddenly threw away the apple core, stood up, and dodged his touch.
Qi Shifeng's face immediately darkened.
She also knew that her reaction was too big. So she hurriedly said, "I'll go wash my hands."
She quickly walked into the bathroom, closed the door, and even locked it from the inside.
She turned on the faucet and stood in front of the sink. She looked at the woman in the mirror.
There seemed to be an indelible melancholy between her eyebrows.
It turned out that she still couldn't let go.
No matter how calm she acted, no matter how many times she told herself that he was the murderer who had ruined her family.
She still couldn't let go.
She would be disappointed because he left her in the middle of the night to see Xie Yu.
She would also be angry because he was stained with the other woman's perfume.
Even during the few minutes when she was sitting next to him peeling the apple, she was thinking about what they had done after they met.
Did they hug? Did they kiss?
Would he also hold her hand and gently caress it in his palm?
She was almost driven crazy by these thoughts.
But he could still talk to her as if nothing had happened.
It was obvious that in this relationship, she not only lost but also had always been at a disadvantage.
That was why she was trapped here, unable to do as she wished.
Just as she was in a daze in front of the mirror, Qi Shifeng knocked on the door outside.
"Tingyu, what's wrong with you? Are you not feeling well?"
She finally came to her senses and shouted outside, "I'm fine."
Originally, she was a bit worried that this man would ask her if she was unhappy again.
But when she went out, she found that he had already put on his coat.
"I have something to deal with. You should have a good rest."
Although he was already walking out, he still turned his head to look at her.
He looked very worried about her.
Xu Tingyu tried her best to control her expression. She gave him a faint smile. "Okay. Be careful on the way."
She didn't ask him why he was going out so late or if something had happened, as she used to.
She wouldn't even enthusiastically and cautiously ask if she could go with him.
She just looked at him politely and distantly, with a smile on her face.
Qi Shifeng had already reached the door when he suddenly turned back. He hugged her tightly. "Wait for me to come back."