Chapter 26#

Chapter 26 Extra €€ One

“Come over next week to have a meal with Uncle Zhou and meet his daughter,” Song Wanqin said cheerfully on the phone, “The girl is beautiful, gentle and virtuous, just graduated from the UK…”

“Mom, I don’t have time,” Pei Hao interrupted Song Wanqin abruptly, his tone carrying a hint of resistance, “Can you stop worrying about this in the future?”

It would have been fine if Pei Hao hadn’t said anything, but this sentence poked Song Wanqin’s sore spot.

Her son is outstanding in appearance, sunny in personality, motivated and hardworking, and his family background is also there, impeccable. But this person is in his twenties, and she has never heard of him dating or fancying any girl.

At first, Song Wanqin thought her son’s standards were too high, and ordinary girls were not worthy. But later, no matter how excellent the girls she and the old man introduced to him were, he still looked listless and said he was not interested in anyone.

The old man said it was right for boys to establish a career before starting a family, but she always felt inexplicably uneasy in her heart.

Since Pei Hao returned to City X from City Y to work, he seemed to have changed. The high-spirited energy from before was gone, and his eyes were always shrouded in an indescribable sorrow.

“If I don’t worry, who will? You are not young anymore, it’s time to date!” Song Wanqin changed to a persuasive tone, “With someone to accompany you, you won’t be lonely.”

Pei Hao knew that if he didn’t hang up, his mom could nag on the phone for an hour, so he cut the Gordian knot: “Alright, Mom, I still have things to do. Talk next time.”

“You…” Song Wanqin’s voice stopped abruptly on the phone.

Hanging up the phone, Pei Hao walked to the balcony and lit a cigarette.

When did he start smoking? It seems to be after Mo Xi left him.

Often waking up in the middle of the night with a cold sweat, touching the person who should be beside him, but only touching a pile of cold air, and then his heart sank to the ground.

Then another sleepless night, blowing the night wind on the balcony, lighting a cigarette, thinking of everything related to that person.

The smell of smoke slowly spread, just like the smell of that person, a bit sweet at first, and finally slowly turned into bitterness, seeping into the internal organs.

Inhaling and exhaling, as if those bitterness, boredom, and boundless longing could also be exhaled together.

Pei Hao often stood like this for a night, until the first light of dawn appeared, and twos and threes of pedestrians appeared on the street, he would come back to his senses as if waking from a dream.

That person really won’t come back.

It’s not that he hasn’t looked for him.

Pei Hao always uses all means when he wants to find someone. Even if Mo Xi deleted his WeChat, he could borrow someone else’s phone to see his recent status. He also climbed the wall (used VPN) to secretly follow Mo Xi’s Facebook to see his new circle of friends.

Without spending too much time, Pei Hao confirmed the city and school where Mo Xi was studying abroad.

It’s not that he hasn’t been there.

When there was a holiday, Pei Hao would take a plane to secretly look at him a few times. He didn’t want to act like a stalker, so he just watched him quietly not far from the school gate.

Sometimes with good luck, he could see him several times a day. That person was still silly, didn’t know to wear more in winter, and his nose was red from the cold. So Pei Hao found a way to get Mo Xi’s new home address from Dabai and sent clothes and scarves to Mo Xi as Dabai.

Sometimes with bad luck, he couldn’t see anyone for a few days. Didn’t know if he was sick and didn’t come to class or went out to play with classmates. Pei Hao could only resentfully take a dozen hours of flight back to China.

People who didn’t know really thought he had a partner in the US, the kind he liked very much.

But he never actively stepped forward to talk to Mo Xi. In midnight dreams, he always repeatedly heard Mo Xi’s decisive sentence when they last met: “Then I will leave again, until you give up.”

People have hidden from him, Pei Hao, all the way to the US. Where else can he force people to go? Maybe if he appears again, Mo Xi will hide in Africa next time.

Not disturbing is the only thing he can do for Mo Xi to this day.

When Pei Hao returned to City X, the old man made arrangements, preparing to let him learn for a few years and then take over the company. Pei Yixin hasn’t stopped to enjoy life much in his life. He wants to take Song Wanqin to play around while he can still walk.

In old age, fame, wealth, and power no longer seem so important. Instead, he often thinks of things he didn’t have time to do when he was young, and the world he hasn’t seen.

So when Pei Hao just returned to his dad’s company, he had to follow big and small projects, and meet every important customer in person. For a long time, he was so busy that he couldn’t find his bearings.

He joked with the old man: Dad, my hourly wage is about the same as a migrant worker, and I can’t ask for leave.

Pei Yixin knocked on his head: When I first started the company, I didn’t even have the hourly wage of a migrant worker. Young people must be able to endure hardship, don’t think about reaching the sky in one step.

Not long after, Pei Hao was beaten into the hospital by Jin Yu’s people. As soon as he woke up in the hospital, he heard that the old man snatched a big customer from the Jin family.

Originally, the two companies were discussing whether to cooperate, but Jin Yu’s action was equivalent to slapping the Pei family in the face. Whatever mutual benefit and complementation seemed like a fart from the Jin family.

At that time, the old man on Jin Yu’s side was dying, and the shareholders in the company had their own ulterior motives.

According to Jin Yu’s calculating nature, he wouldn’t not know that cooperating with the Pei family at this time would do more good than harm. He suddenly did such an impulsive thing, which surprised everyone.

And at that time, Pei Hao spent a lot of effort to hide Mo Xi’s existence in this matter. Otherwise, once his relationship with Mo Xi was exposed, his dad would definitely try every means to prevent them from being together.

But now he doesn’t need to consider these, because Mo Xi doesn’t want to pay attention to him at all.

One thing Pei Hao does every day before going to bed is to climb the wall and browse Mo Xi’s Facebook.

Heaven knows how grateful he is that Facebook doesn’t have the function of visit records.

Otherwise, he would lose this only way to understand Mo Xi’s life in a foreign country, which is already one of the few joys left in his current life.

But recently, there was a man frequently leaving messages on Mo Xi’s Facebook, making Pei Hao restless.

That man’s homepage didn’t have much information. The only few photos and information showed that he was a white American working in the city where Mo Xi was.

In terms of appearance, Pei Hao felt he was completely unworthy of Mo Xi. Eyes, although big, had no luster. Xiaoxi said he liked bright eyes and white teeth; nose, although straight, was too straight, not soft enough; mouth, lips were too thin, thin lips mean heartless…

Pei Hao silently criticized this foreign man he had never met 360 degrees without dead angles in his heart. After confirming that Mo Xi wouldn’t like him, he turned off his phone and lay on the bed.

However, he tossed and turned on the bed, unable to fall asleep for a long time. His mind was full of thoughts: if one day, Mo Xi really has another half, what should he do.

At this time, Mo Xi on the other side of the ocean was also disturbed by this suddenly appearing foreign friend.

In the first semester of Mo Xi’s study abroad career, there was a course that required an internship in a company. The professor introduced Mo Xi’s group to a medium-sized company, and Shane was the vice manager of this company.

When they first met, Shane wore a straight suit and took their group to visit the company facilities.

As the only Asian in the group, Mo Xi received Shane’s “preferential treatment”. Shane often asked him for his opinion on the project during the internship.

No choice, having a face obviously different from everyone else is easy to be noticed.

On the day the internship ended, Shane actively asked for Mo Xi’s contact information. From that day on, he often actively communicated with Mo Xi on social software.

Mo Xi always thought this vice manager was relatively outgoing, so he didn’t think much about it. Until one day, a classmate in the same group said to Mo Xi, we all felt Shane was interested in you during the internship, often looking at you and smiling. Do you still have contact?

Mo Xi remembered to ask: Did he keep your contact information?

The classmates all shook their heads and said no.

Mo Xi suddenly realized and opened his Facebook homepage again. He rarely posted photos, but there were Shane’s messages under every one.

Thinking carefully again, Shane had asked him out for hiking, etc., but Mo Xi refused at that time because he was too busy.

Even knowing this, Mo Xi didn’t feel life was any different, because for him, Shane was purely a colleague.

Shane is a very charming person, but he has no feeling of heartbeat for this person.

More accurately, since Pei Hao, he hasn’t met anyone who made his heart beat.