Sea Salt Mint and Freesia [BL]

Part 6

13

Since that day, Xu Qi didn't move away, but I also barely ever encountered him.

Hoerever, every day when I came home, I would find a neatly packed cake box at my door.

It was from a well-known dessert brand, a palm-sized cake costing several hundred yuan.

I opened the box, inside was a layered cake, topped with a sweet, plump strawberry, exuding a delicious aroma.

I couldn't help swallowing my saliva, then painfully returned the cake to the opposite door.

But the next day, I found the cake still exactly at Xu Qi's door, untouched.

Only after being left out all night, it was somewhat spoiled.

I felt it was a pity, called Secretary Tang, asked him to tell Xu Qi to stop sending them.

Secretary Tang replied okay, yet the next day, a cake still appeared at the door.

"I spoke to CEO Xu, but it was useless." Secretary Tang was very calm, "Maybe Mr. Zhuang, you should personally speak to CEO Xu? I think he will definitely listen to you."

I was furious, I had just told Xu Qi not to contact me!

Fine, I'll eat. After all, it's not my money that's being wasted!

After eating for two weeks, I couldn't keep up.

Although it wasn't my money, I still felt a bit of pain.

I texted Xu Qi: 【Stop sending them!】

Xu Qi quickly replied: 【Didn't like it? Want to change to another place?】

Me: 【No! I don't want any cakes from any brand!】

Xu Qi: 【You don't like strawberry cake anymore? How about another flavor?】

Communication failed, I gave up.

When I got home that evening, because I went out to dinner with colleagues, it was quite late when I got home.

Exiting the elevator, I saw someone sitting at my door.

The words "HELP" were about to shout out, the sensor light lit up, letting me see his face clearly.

Xu Qi smelled of alcohol, probably a bit drunk, he looked at me, silent for a while.

After a moment, he lifted the cake box in his hand and shook it: "Your favorite strawberry cake, just baked, want some?"

"No." I hardened my heart, "Xu Qi, I don't like strawberry cake anymore."

Xu Qi looked at me, his eyes filled with sadness, it took him a long time to just "oh".

He then said: "What about me? Don't like me either?"

I didn't respond. Xu Qi frowned, took a breath, covered his stomach with his hand.

I became anxious subconsciously: "What's wrong?"

"My stomach hurts a bit." Xu Qi's face was a bit pale, "I already had a bad stomach, and I had drank a few extra glasses tonight because of a social event."

I remembered the doctor saying, Xu Qi had been taking medicine these years, the side effects badly damaged his stomach.

"Xu Qi, don't take medicine anymore." I said to Xu Qi, "Lu He's pheromone treatment must be very effective, why are you still taking medicine?"

Xu Qi was somewhat helpless: "Zhuang Xu, are you misunderstanding something?"

"I don't like Lu He, I don't want his pheromones." He looked at me deeply.

"Except for you, I don't want anyone else."

14

Sometimes I feel like my doorway is a Doraemon's magic pocket.

I can pick up cakes of various flavors, occasionally even a handsome drunkard who's 1.8 meters tall.

Now Xu Qi, whenever he's drunk, sits at my door, pretends to be pitiful, trying to hold my hand, when I discover it, pretends nothing happened as he withdraws it.

I'm furious but powerless: "You think I'm easy to soften! Think I'm kind! You think I really dare not drive you away!"

Xu Qi cheekily: "Then can you soften your heart and be kind a little more, give me a chance to pursue you?"

I directly slammed the door, isolating him outside.

Thankfully, I almost didn't hold back.

Suddenly, I thought, if Xu Qi has been relying on drugs these years, his pheromone disorder should have worsened, recurrence more frequent.

But since Xu Qi got sick a few months ago, I helped him with pheromone therapy, he hadn't come to find me again.

I was conflicted for a long time, then got Xu Qi's private doctor's number from Secretary Tang, asked about his condition.

"Oh, oh, Xiao Zhuang! What's up?" The doctor was very enthusiastic, "Last time Xu Qi getting sick? It was just a week ago.

This month? Should be two or three times this month, and I've been prescribing him medication."

I tightened the hand holding the phone: " Has he been relying on medication for all these years?"

"Yes, it's really tough. You know Lu He, right? He once disregarded objections, forcibly released pheromones, that's a compatibility of 95! But what happened? Directly thrown out by Xu Qi, such a cute little omega, he doesn't understand how to cherish a beauty, tsk tsk tsk."

Perhaps seeing I was silent for a while, the doctor comforted me, "No worries, he deserved it! Xu Qi sometimes is just stubborn, deserves a beating! Let him suffer a bit, otherwise, he'll never change!"

"Xiao Zhuang, you can't forgive Xu Qi too easily, you have to knock down his pride! You don't know how miserably he suppressed me in college......" I was amused by him, felt a bit better.

When Xu Qi was sitting at my door again, I directly acted, pulled a small can of medicine from his jacket pocket.

I was stern, but Xu Qi just laughed softly. I felt my authority was challenged: "What are you laughing at!"

"Just remembered the first time you snatched my medicine." Xu Qi's smile grew "You were under the table then, even bumped your head......"

"Enough!" I hastily interrupted him "Don't talk anymore!"

Xu Qi agreed quickly: "Okay, as you wish, won't talk anymore."

He wasn't as harsh as before, I actually felt a bit awkward: "You talk so normally now, I'm not used to it."

Not sure what he thought of, Xu Qi's eyes lowered briefly, then opened again, seriously looking at me.

"I was wrong before, I'm sorry."

"Can you forgive me?"

"I asked you to wait for me to come back, you agreed, but when I came back, you disappeared."

"I looked for you everywhere like crazy, but my dad said, you didn't want to see me, asked me not to bother you."

"I didn't know what to do, for the first time I felt like half of my heart was scooped out."

"That's when I realized, I like you, Zhuang Xu."

"Now too, I really like you."