No matter how sincerely Han Siqi apologizes, Fu Zhengzheng doesn’t forgive him and just walks ahead. Han Siqi follows her helplessly.
When they enter the yard, Chen Yuying takes out the garbage. Seeing them, she says smilingly, “Honey, Dongze comes to see you.”
Brother Dongze?
Hearing the name, Fu Zhengzheng’s heart jolts. You know Han Siqi misunderstood her this morning just because of Yang Tao. Now Sun Dongze comes as another cause for him to be jealous…
Feeling Han Siqi pause, she rolls her eyes and steps into the house without looking at him.
Sun Dongze is chatting with her father Zhen Mingzhi in the sitting room. Fu Zhengzheng pretends to be very glad and greets him, “Brother Dongze, long time no see. What’s up?”
Seeing her, Sun Dongze stands up quickly, looks up and down at her and then says with a smile, “Fine. What about you?”
“I’m very well.” Fu Zhengzheng tries to put on a big smile as if nothing happened.
Hearing that, Sun Dongze becomes relaxed. When he sees Han Siqi standing behind Fu Zhengzheng, he wants to greet him, but Fu Zhengzheng opens mouth first.
“Brother Dongze, why doesn’t Qiubo come to C City with you? She called me the other day and said she wanted to come to see me. She told me she would come with you next time.” Fu Zhengzheng knows Han Siqi hates her to call Sun Dongze ‘Brother Dongze’, but she calls him loudly on purpose.
Now that he likes to be jealous, he will be filled today.
A hint of doubt flashes across Sun Dongze’s eyes. He responds to Fu Zhengzheng with a smile, “Don’t you know about her? She is all mouth but lazy. She sleeps in the daytime and writes novels at night. When she is free, she will talk with him on the phone for romance. Even if she can spare the time, she will go to B City rather than C City. But she asked me to bring a gift for you.”
Then he picks up a box on the table and gives it to her.
Han Siqi wants to greet Sun Dongze to show his generosity, but Fu Zhengzheng keeps talking with Sun Dongze and calling him Brother Dongze, which makes him ill at ease. Of course, he knows Fu Zhengzheng is irritating him deliberately, but he can do nothing but sit down on the sofa embarrassedly, pick up a piece of newspaper randomly and begin to “read” it.
Fu Zhengzheng ignores Han Siqi, takes over the box from Sun Dongze and opens it. It’s a fashionable shoulder bag. She laughs happily, “Good girl.”
Sun Dongze laughs too.
Zhen Mingzhi sees them chatting happily, stands up slowly and says with a smile, “Dongze, enjoy your talking. Have dinner here this evening. I’ll go for a walk with Xingxing.”
Sun Dongze has found Han Siqi and Fu Zhengzheng are in the cold war. He plans to say goodbye after giving her the gift, but unexpectedly Zhen Mingzhi invites him to have dinner with them. He feels slightly embarrassed, so he waves and says smilingly, “Uncle, thank you, but I’m afraid I can’t accept your invitation. I come here just to bring Qiubo’s gift for Zhengzheng. Now it has been given here. My task is finished.”
Zhen Mingzhi responds in a deep voice, “Each time I invite you for dinner, you always decline. Why? Is it because our dishes are not delicious?”
“No. No. I have something to deal with this evening.” Sun Dongze waves at once.
“Now that it’s not because our dishes are not delicious, I’ll tell your aunt to prepare more dishes this evening and invite your uncle here for a drink. It’s a deal.”
“His uncle?” Fu Zhengzheng is confused.
Sun Dongze explains immediately, “When I paid a visit to my uncle the other day, Uncle Zhen was also there. They turn out to be in the same military area command before and be close friends.”
Zhen Mingzhi glowers, “I’m not that old man’s close friend. If not because of competing with him for chess skill, I wouldn’t go to his house! He is my deadly foe, but I didn’t expect he had such an excellent nephew.”
Fu Zhengzheng knows her father often plays chess with some veteran cadres of the military area command and guesses one of them is Sun Dongze’s uncle. What a coincidence. She feels excited too.
Sun Dongze once saw them bicker in his uncle’s house, so he doesn’t take it to his heart. He responds with a smile, “Uncle, I’m flattered.”
“Well, take your seat. I’ll go out with Xingxing. I’ll call that old man here. We can play chess before eating dinner.”
Then Zhen Mingzhi calls Xingxing towards the room and Fu Xing runs out quickly. They go out of the sitting room together.
After watching them go, Sun Dongze moves his eyes to Han Siqi, whose face darkens slightly. When he just speaks “You”, Fu Zhengzheng interrupts him.
“Brother Dongze, when did you arrive?”
Sun Dongze hesitates and then answers with a smile, “A moment ago.”
He looks at Han Siqi and speaks again “You…”
But he is interrupted by Fu Zhengzheng again, “Brother Dongze, how long are you going to stay in C City this time?”
“Three or four days. The branch wants to develop a small project, and I come here to have a look.”
Glimpsing Han Siqi’s face darken more, Sun Dongze rises at once and says goodbye with an excuse, “Zhengzheng, my aunt is not well, so my mother asked someone to dispense herbal medicine for her. I’m afraid I will be too busy to go there. Now it’s not dinner time yet. I want to go to my uncle’s and then come with him later.”
Knowing he is ill at ease, Fu Zhengzheng rises quickly too, “Brother Dongze, I have nothing to do at home. Can I go with you?”
Sun Dongze feels Han Siqi staring at him sulkily, so he declines, “Uncle said more dishes would be cooked. I think it’s better for you to help aunt prepare dinner.”
“Don’t worry. It’s not 2:00 yet. It’s not late to prepare dinner after we come back from your uncle’s.”
Then Fu Zhengzheng puts aside the gift from Sun Qiubo, places it on the table and walks out. After walking a few steps, she finds Sun Dongze doesn’t follow her and shouts, “Brother Dongze, why don’t you go now?”
“Er, OK. Mr. Han, see you.”
After seeing Han Siqi nod slightly, Sun Dongze turns around to catch up with Fu Zhengzheng.
Han Siqi sees them leave out of the corners of their eyes, flings the newspaper on the tea table and rises to go upstairs when he finds his parents standing at the landing and staring at him.
Han Siqi doesn’t talk with them and walks past them straight.
Ji Yashu can’t help asking, “Siqi, who is the man going out with Zhengzheng?”
Han Siqi replies coldly, “What’s the point of your question? Do your own business.”
“Hey, how do you talk? I care for you…”
A bang of the door interrupts Ji Yashu.
Ji Yashu stamps her feet angrily, “Hey, look, Tengyue, he is more and more unreasonable!”
Seeing it, Han Tengyue becomes happy instead.
Ji Yashu snaps, “What’s wrong with you? Unexpectedly you can laugh out!”
“Hush–” Han Tengyue drags Ji Yashu back to the room, closes the door and then explains, “Can’t you see Siqi is unhappy?”
“I can see of course. He is unhappy because Fu Zhengzheng went out with the strange man, isn’t he? Fu Zhengzheng dares to be so intimate with another man to Siqi’s face. She is not decent and shames our Han family.”
“This may be good news.”
“Good news? Han Tengyue, are you crazy?”
“You are really a stupid woman. Think about why we come to C City.”
“Take Xingxing back to B City.”
“Yes, but why can’t we take him away?”
“Because Xingxing can’t separate from his mom. His mom needs to take care of his grandfather and can’t go back.”
“You are wrong. Xingxing lived with us for a long time before the Spring Festival while his mother wasn’t by his side, right?”
Ji Yashu looks at him doubtfully and understands his meaning after quite a while. Her eyes light up, “You mean the key reason is…”
Han Tengyue nods at once.
They cast their eyes on the closed door and puts on tacit smiles.
*
Fu Zhengzheng gets into Sun Dongze’s car and they leave the Urban Pearl. After driving for a few minutes, Sun Dongze asks smilingly, “Are you in the cold war?”
Fu Zhengzheng knows she showed that obviously and even a fool can realize it, let alone Sun Dong who is so smart, so she doesn’t conceal him and nods.
Sun Dongze parks the car on the side of an avenue and twists his head to persuade her lightly, “Conflicts should be solved in time. You can’t be in a cold war like this.”
Fu Zhengzheng says angrily, “I must teach him a lesson, or he will think I am always sweet-tempered.”
Sun Dongze smiles, “It’s OK to teach him a lesson, but the way is not right. Han Siqi always misunderstands me. Now your conflicts might be intensified.”
“Brother Dongze, I know I will embarrass you. I…”
“I’m not afraid to be embarrassed. I’m afraid your misunderstanding will deepen.”
“I just want to irritate him. What he did today makes me too angry.”
Then she tells Sun Dongze what happened today. Of course, some information is concealed.
At last, she says, “He doesn’t believe me nor care about me as I imagined. How can I not be angry?”
Listening to Fu Zhengzheng’s childish complaint, Sun Dongze chuckles, “You are so angry and that means you care about him. He didn’t allow you to go downstairs due to jealousy and that means he cares about you too. As for what happened in the Cuizhu mountain, it’s a misunderstanding. He could apologize to you patiently once and again, and that also means he cares about you. Now that you love each other deeply, it’s more necessary for you to talk with each other patiently. The longer the conflicts remain, the deeper your misunderstanding will be. I’m sure it’s not what you wish.”
Enlightened by Sun Dongze, Fu Zhengzheng feels less angry and doesn’t say more. She just smiles at him and he smiles back at her. Then he starts the car, takes a turn and heads back for the Urban Pearl.
The car stops slowly in the yard. After Fu Zhengzheng gets out of the car, Sun Dongze smiles and says, “I won’t come for dinner and I’ll call uncle later.”
Then he looks at her deeply and drives off.
He went to the Parkson Mall to buy something at noon and was knocked into by Fu Zhengzheng. When he saw the person that knocked into him was Fu Zhengzheng who was in a panic, he wanted to run onto the lift after her but was stopped by a guard to remind him of the lift order. When he ran out of the mall, Fu Zhengzheng had disappeared.
He called her but the line was always busy. Later, he could connect her, but no one answered. He didn’t know what happened, so his heart was worn with anxiety. He went to her house directly, but she was not at home, and he asked her parents tentatively. Finding they knew nothing, he didn’t dare to ask more and had to wait for her with secret anxiety. When seeing her and Han Siqi come back safe and sound, his mind was eased.
Finding her and Han Siqi in the cold war, he tries to help her solve it. When he sees her not frown anymore when getting out of the car, he becomes glad too.
He just hopes she can live more happily.
Fu Zhengzheng gazes after Sun Dongze’s departing car but thinks that she can’t let Han Siqi off so easily, so she stares blankly at the distance.
After quite a while, she turns around slowly. Unexpectedly, she finds a person standing behind her…