If You Are a Dodder Flower

Part 21

While they ate, Xia Rou could clearly see both handsome men had red marks on their necks.

In just that short time while she was getting a perm...

Looking at her gaze darting between them, Cao An and He Chengzhe looked at each other with raised eyebrows.

She actually understood. Translated by The Novelst

Both had returned from overseas, so they were more open compared to others. In other countries, it was very normal to see a 15-16 year old high school student have this kind of experience.

They didn't think anything of it but found it funny.

After they finished their meal, Cao An sent Xia Rou back home.

"Tell them not to expect me back today, I'm not returning," he said.

Xia Rou nodded her head and went back inside on her own.

"It seems like she doesn't really like me," said He Chengzhe.

"Hm?"

"Everytime she sees me she goes quiet. She doesn't seem like she's willing to talk to me."

"Nah," Cao An reassured him, "She doesn't really like to speak anyway, she's very quiet in general. But her character is good."

Although she would quarrel with him at times, she was actually a very tactful child. Cao An liked her a lot. He felt that Xia Rou's existence made the ice-cold house much more comfortable.

He didn't think that Xia Rou disliked He Chengzhe. Before this, she even lectured him about his secretive actions to cover up the relationship was unfair to He Chengzhe; that was obviously her standing up for him.

He Chengzhe was only 23 or 24 years old, quite young and handsome. He wasn't the first man Cao An had ever dated, but he was the person that tempted him the most. Within the colorful mess of people in the crowd, Cao An could spot He Chengzhe instantly without fail.

The words Xia Rou had said annoyed him.

Why did he have to think so hard about it? He was still young. He would probably get tired of He Chengzhe soon, just like he had gotten tired of others before.

It wasn't worth the price for him to challenge his father's bottom line just for a relationship.

Life was short. Carpe Diem was the only principle to live by.

It was the weekend, but only Xia Rou remained to eat dinner. She found it especially lonely.

She complained inside that the adults of the house all had their own adult activities to attend.

In actuality, she didn't want to return to being an adult. On the contrary, she was looking forward to the start of her new high school life the next Monday.

She could still clearly remember those few years she spent studying, especially during her high school years, when her mind was still simple. During that period was when her relationship with Cao Yang was actually the closest.

When she had really begun to change was after she entered society. She started to think, and desire, and became hungry for more.

Without the protection of her ivory tower, all sorts of problems, choices, greed, and abandonment found her.

Thus, she became uglier and more grotesque day after day, her relationship with Cao Yang suffering and stiffening.

After dinner, she went for a light job, her heart easing after she had worked up a sweat.