novelaction Chapter 313 The Hypocritical CEO Han
Chapter 313 The Hypocritical CEO Han
It is a food box from the Dan Palace.
Han Xi opened the lid and silently took out the lunch boxes one by one, placing them on the coffee table in front of him.
He then removed the insulated lids from the lunchboxes one by one before picking up the bowls and chopsticks and placing them in front of Fang Li.
"eat first."
Fang Li secretly glanced at the man beside her, wanting to say something, but when she saw his lowered eyes, she hesitated and was still a little intimidated, so she didn't dare to speak.
She silently picked up her chopsticks, took the nearest piece of rib, and nibbled on it in small bites.
Seeing that she had started eating, Han Xi also took out a pair of chopsticks, but instead of eating them himself, he reached out and picked up a crab roe bun that was a little further away and put it into Fang Li's bowl.
Seeing the small steamed buns that had suddenly appeared in her bowl, Fang Li paused in her munching on the ribs, and her eyes inexplicably welled up with tears.
She pursed her lips, suppressing the tears welling in her eyes, silently picked up a piece of pork rib and placed it in the man's bowl, saying in a hoarse voice, "You eat too."
"..." Han Xi paused in his chopsticks, his eyes narrowing slightly.
For the next while, the only sounds in the office were the clinking of bowls and chopsticks and the soft sounds of chewing.
The quiet atmosphere lasted for about twenty minutes. Fang Li had almost finished eating and saw that the man next to her had put down his chopsticks long ago, so she silently put down her bowl and chopsticks as well.
There were a few more seconds of absolute silence.
Then, Han Xi spoke.
"I'm not angry with you."
Fang Li: "......."
It turns out that saying one thing and meaning another isn't just a woman's prerogative; men like it too.
Even after all this, you still say you're not angry.
Fang Li's lips curled slightly, but she didn't dare to speak.
Han Xi: "I'm just a little angry with myself."
"..." Fang Li was even more confused.
"I actually know everything that Song Yu and Song Yuchen said."
Fang Li was shocked.
Turning to look at him, "You...know?"
Han Xi raised his eyes and looked at Fang Li. "Yes, I know everything."
How did you know that?!
"You want to ask me how I know?"
Fang Li remained silent.
Han Xi said, "You asked me before when I started liking you. Now I can tell you, it was a long time ago."
"Very early... what does that mean?" Fang Li didn't understand.
Han Xi looked at her with deep eyes and said quietly, "From the first moment I met you."
"......" Is that the beach?
"Not by the sea."
Fang Li was surprised and asked, "If it's not the seaside, where is it?!"
Han Xi remained silent.
Fang Li watched as his mind raced, and suddenly, a piece of information flashed through her mind, and a look of surprise gradually appeared in her eyes.
"You mean..."
"..." The color in Han Xi's eyes deepened.
Fang Li was surprised, her expression somewhat strange: "But weren't we only a few years old back then? How could you know what liking someone when you were so young?"
"You do not know?"
“I…” Fang Li was slightly taken aback.
At the time, she was two years younger than Han Xi and couldn't even remember the basics, so how could she know what liking or disliking someone meant?
Han Xi said, "When you were a child, did you never particularly like a toy or a cake?"
"But I'm a human being!"
"...I don't like toys, I don't like cakes, I only like you."
Fang Li was completely dumbfounded.
Han Xi: "There are very few things that can arouse my interest since I was a child, but the first time I saw you, I had an urge to take you home and hide you away."
"..."
"Unfortunately, I was only staying in Haicheng temporarily at the time, and soon I returned to the capital with my father. I wanted to go find you, but at that time I was not capable of going out on my own, so I could only wait."
Fang Li suddenly remembered what Han Xi's grandmother had said when she visited the villa on the hillside last time.
It is said that Han Xi had a high fever when he left Haicheng, which was quite serious.
Thinking of this, she suddenly pictured a cool little boy sitting alone by the window, gazing into the distance, lost in thought.
She couldn't help but feel a pang of sympathy.
But he was so young at the time, was that really realistic?
Han Xi said, "Later, my parents' relationship problems became more and more serious, and the whole family was shrouded in the shadow of divorce. If it weren't for Aunt Rong, whom my grandfather sent to take care of my life, I wouldn't even be able to guarantee my basic food and shelter."
"At the time, all I wanted was to grow up quickly, to have the ability to make my own decisions, and then come back to you."
Looking at the man's handsome face, Fang Li felt a pang of sadness.
She raised her hand and grasped his large hand resting on her knee, their hands tightly embracing each other.
"Then why didn't you come looking for me right away after you grew up?"
Fang Li had a feeling that if he had appeared in front of her sooner, she would never have been so blind as to fall for Song Yuchen!
Han Xi looked at her and said in a hoarse voice, "I came to see you when I was fifteen."
Fifteen years old?!
Fang Li was shocked; she must have been in junior high school at the time.
He said he came to see her, so why doesn't she remember him at all?
"That summer I was admitted to the C9 Junior Class without taking the entrance exam. I wanted to see you before I enrolled, but when I arrived in Haicheng, my former neighbor told me that you had already moved away."
Fang Li suddenly realized.
By the way, my parents bought that villa back then because our ancestral home needed renovations, so the family was temporarily living there.
When she was in junior high school, the ancestral home on the mountain was renovated. Because her parents were often away from home for work, her grandfather brought her and her brother to the mountain.
"I couldn't find you. I was delayed in Haicheng for two days. Then the school was urging me to enroll, and my family found out I wasn't in Beijing. I had no choice but to go back."
“At the time, I thought that once I went to university, I would have more free time, and I could continue to look for you. I was sure I would find you. But I never expected that my parents would completely break up the following year because of the Han’s Jewelry shares.”
Han Xi smiled self-deprecatingly and said, "My father wanted shares in Han's Jewelry, and my mother wanted custody of me. I've told you what happened after that. My father took 15 percent of Han's Jewelry's shares, and my mother took me abroad."
Fang Li looked at the darkness in the man's eyes and sighed inwardly.
For a 15-year-old child who has gone abroad, coming back is not an easy thing.
Han Xi paused for a moment, then suddenly grabbed Fang Li's hand and said, "During university, I made some friends and gradually built my own network. I asked someone to find you, and I finally found you, but..."
Fang Li's eyes flickered slightly. At that time, she should have been in her senior year of high school and had already met Song Yuchen.
"After I found out you liked Song Yuchen, I thought about taking you back and telling you everything, but I know what it feels like to like someone, and I don't want you to suffer the same pain of unrequited love as I did."
“I told myself that as long as Song Yuchen treats you well and doesn’t hurt you, I can never show up and never bother you.”
Han Xi suddenly looked up at Fang Li, the deep meaning in his eyes was all too clear.
"On the day of the wrap party, I landed in Hangzhou. I followed you after you came out of No. 1 Mansion. The moment I saw you faint on the beach, I regretted it."