CEFYMA: Chapter 81

Yan Tingxuan’s voice blew into You Mian’s ears along with the cold wind.

“He can, but I can’t, right?”

Yan Tingxuan didn’t understand why You Mian was willing to accept help from Pei Huaiji but not from himself.

Was it because Pei Huaiji didn’t have those entanglements with You Mian before?

You Mian didn’t stop or look back. He didn’t answer Yan Tingxuan’s question at all.

Yan Tingxuan held the USB disk in his hand tightly. Then he strode forward, took You Mian’s arm and turned him around.

“You’ve sent him all your heartbeat text messages, haven’t you? It is him every time, right?”

Yan Tingxuan’s eyes were red, and he seemed to be on the verge of an emotional collapse. “I can’t see that you guys are good at acting. Maybe you are, but he isn’t.”

You Mian stared at him while wrapped in a scarf. His amber eyes were like a frozen lake on this cold night, reflecting You Mian’s hysteria and helplessness at the moment.

The young man’s calm expression made Yan Tingxuan relax his grip.

Yan Tingxuan stared blankly at You Mian. He paused for a few seconds before he could smoothly make a sound.

“You like him?” Yan Tingxuan’s expression was complicated and a bit dazed. “You like him.”

His questioning tone softened and turned into a statement and confirmation.

You Mian squinted in the cold wind. “Yan Tingxuan, are you angry from shame?”

Yan Tingxuan was a very polite person. He was always delicate and appropriate in front of others. He was personable and well-dressed.

There was always a smile on his face, and he was known as Lawyer Yan wherever he went.

Except for the way he looked when he was clinging to the You family, everyone who saw him had to call him a free and easygoing playboy.

But at this moment, this man stood in front of You Mian, his face blank and at a loss. He was nervous and frightened, like a poor beggar who had lost everything.

“I no longer expect you to love me.” Yan Tingxuan’s voice was as broken as his expression. In the howling cold wind, You Mian heard his laughter that contained a bit of crying.

“I no longer expect you to love me.”

Yan Tingxuan repeated it again with a humble look.

The man’s hand holding You Mian was trembling. What he failed to say was, ‘Can you please not fall in love with someone else?’

Watching You Mian love someone else was simply the biggest torture of Yan Tingxuan’s life.

The person he couldn’t ask for, couldn’t love, and even hated now had someone he liked.

You Mian watched Yan Tingxuan collapse, and there were no fluctuations in his heart.

You Mian struggled to get Yan Tingxuan to release his hand, but the other person forced the USB drive into his hand without allowing any refusal.

“Take it.” Yan Tingxuan lowered his eyes. The corners of his eyes were red.

“Let go.” You Mian tore his hand away. This time, he easily broke free.

You Mian wanted to return the USB flash drive to Yan Tingxuan. Unexpectedly, Yan Tingxuan immediately took a few steps back as if he knew what You Mian’s next move would be.

Yan Tingxuan stood in front of You Mian, an arm’s length apart. The tip of his nose was red as if he had cried.

You Mian stretched out the USB drive in his hand, his eyes cold and unwavering. “Do you like forcibly giving things away?”

You Mian made a gesture of loosening his fingers. “If you don’t take it back, I will throw it away.”

Yan Tingxuan stood silently in the cold wind. He realized later that he hadn’t seen You Mian smile at him for a long time.

In his memory, You Mian gradually turned into a cold and distant person in front of him. Those gentle smiles from before seemed like a lifetime ago.

Yan Tingxuan instinctively wanted to push up his glasses but found that he had changed to contact lenses.

Yan Tingxuan rubbed his fingers and lowered his arms. The collapse just now was taken back by him little by little.

The gentle man stared directly into You Mian’s eyes and said, “If you don’t take it, I will continue to pester you.”

“In any case, I’ve already received the beating. It isn’t a waste of time if I continue to pester you.”

You Mian immediately wanted to throw it away, but before she could let go, Yan Tingxuan smiled and said, “Throw it away, and I will keep pestering you.”

You Mian didn’t understand why Yan Tingxuan did these things. He also didn’t want to know what the reason for Yan Tingxuan’s current collapsed expression was.

There were many bright stars tonight and the moonlight shone coldly on the snow. When the cold wind blew, people would unknowingly exhale a breath of fog.

Yan Tingxuan looked at You Mian with those red eyes and said softly, “If you don’t want me to pester you, just take it away.”

This was the information he collected after he pushed away several big cases of the law firm and worked late at night for half a month. He lost tens of millions in legal fees and was beaten up.

Before, Yan Tingxuan would’ve pretended to casually tell You Mian about all this ‘hard work.’ Now he was afraid that if he revealed anything, You Mian would be provoked into not accepting it.

The information recorded in detail the capital absorption of Xiuming from the beginning of the garment factory to its current scale. It also included the names of Sheng Jiangang, Ba Quan, and You Jiyuan.

The deeper he investigated, the deeper the collapse in Yan Tingxuan’s heart.

The bruises and scars from You Mian’s kidnapping in those years almost became his nightmare.

Bai Lin, who was suddenly picked up, and the kidnapper, who never appeared again, were linked together. Yan Tingxuan could easily think of the term ‘preventing disaster.’

If his guess was correct, he was the knife swung at You Mian by the You family.

You Mian coldly put the USB drive into his coat pocket, proving with his actions that he didn’t want to be pestered by Yan Tingxuan, nor did he want to have any more entanglements with Yan Tingxuan.

“Is it okay?” You Mian asked coldly.

Yan Tingxuan suddenly relaxed his shoulders as if he had accomplished the most important thing in his life, revealing a gentle and affectionate smile.

“Yes.”

You Mian turned around and left. His cold back looked particularly chic in the moonlight.

Yan Tingxuan had been long prepared to never be loved by You Mian, but he didn’t expect that when things came to pass and he found out that You Mian liked Pei Huaiji, he was so jealous that he lost control and collapsed.

Yan Tingxuan walked back to the house in the cold wind. He slowly wiped away the complete collapse just now. Once he looked up again, he had his usual gentlemanly smile on his face.

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Pei Huaiji burned firewood behind the igloo. Once he stood up, he happened to bump into You Mian, who had frost on his curly hair.

Pei Huaiji saw You Mian running back to the house quickly, and his own pace inevitably became a bit faster.

The moment You Mian entered the house, he squinted due to the heat in the room. “It is still warm here.”

Yun Guanqing poked his head out of the bathroom when he heard the voice. He saw Pei Huaiji coming in from behind You Mian.

“What did you talk about for so long?” Yun Guanqing asked in a sour tone as he wiped his hair and walked out of the bathroom.

You Mian took off his scarf and glanced at the kang in the small room. He said casually, “It is nothing.”

Pei Huaiji handed the hot water he had poured to You Mian and said calmly, “Don’t catch a cold.”

You Mian held the cup of water and asked, “Have you decided where to sleep?”

Yun Guanqing’s long hair was dripping with water which made his eyes even more beautiful. The man stared straight at You Mian, and said with a smile, “You choose first.”

Yun Guanqing said this, but he had already guessed that You Mian might sleep on the outside of the kang, with Pei Huaiji in between. It would be best for Yun Guanqing to sleep against the wall.

Sure enough, You Mian walked to the corner of the kang and sat down. He reached out and patted it. “I’ll sleep here.”

Yun Guanqing walked to the position against the wall knowingly. “Then I’ll sleep here.”

Pei Huaiji skillfully picked up his coat to cover the camera placed by the staff in the house. “Go to bed early.”

The group of people had played flying chess until this time. In fact, they should’ve slept a long time ago.

The moment that You Mian entered the hot room, the sleepiness that had disappeared instantly came back.

Yan Tingxuan’s USB drive was put in his pocket, but the words that the other person said and his expression when speaking didn’t leave any traces or waves in You Mian’s heart.

The sleepiness completely crushed You Mian’s thoughts, so that the kang that made him feel embarrassed in the morning seemed to warm to him at this moment.

Yun Guanqing’s surprised voice sounded behind him. “You often do this?”

Yun Guanqing was talking about Pei Huaiji’s behavior of blocking the camera.

Pei Huaiji made the bed and nodded slightly. “Yes.”

Yun Guanqing covered his face and looked helpless. He had never blocked the camera since the first episode of the show since he thought the staff wouldn’t agree. He didn’t expect Pei Huaiji to be so skillful!

Pei Huaiji looked at You Mian, who had already got into bed, and whispered, “I will turn off the lights.”

The last words that You Mian heard while awake were Pei Huaiji’s words just now. Then he fell into a dark and sweet dream.

The side of the young man’s face was cold and white. He left cute sunken marks on the pillow. The tips of his ears were red as if he had been standing outside for a long time and hadn’t yet adapted to the warm temperature in the room.

Yun Guanqing stood against the wall, staring at You Mian’s sleeping face. His eyes were gentle and he was smiling.

Pei Huaiji suddenly looked over coldly. Yun Guanqing frowned and clicked his tongue. He picked up the towel hanging around his neck, covered his face, and said, “I’m going to sleep.”

Once the room fell into darkness, Yun Guanqing faced the wall and angrily thought about why he didn’t argue just now. It would be nice to sleep next to You Mian.

Yun Guanqing remembered the sleeping face he had just seen and thought about it for a few seconds, his heart pounding.

You Mian himself might not know that his expression would be so cute when sleeping. He was now longer cold and distant. His eyes were gently closed and his ears and cheeks were red. It was just like when he chatted with Guan Tong and the others.

Yun Guanqing couldn’t help smiling in excitement whenever he thought about You Mian talking to him like this.

There was more than Yun Guanqing who couldn’t sleep tonight. Pei Huaiji lay next to You Mian and had tense lips.

Pei Huaiji and You Mian had lived alone in the tent and double room, but the distance between them wasn’t as close as it was on the kang now.

You Mian had already fallen asleep, but he suddenly turned over and faced Pei Huaiji.

Pei Huaiji instantly felt lightning flashing at the back of his head.

He could clearly feel You Mian’s breathing on his arm. It was so warm that it made his fingers numb.

A loving and warm emotion that made him feel novel appeared in Pei Huaiji’s heart.

You Mian’s eyes relaxed. He comfortably got closer to the source of warmth, unaware of all the emotions in the outside world.

The next moment, the moment You Mian opened his eyes, he found that he was the only one left on the kang.

He got up in a daze. His fluffy chestnut hair hung lazily on his head, messy and cute.

You Mian noticed that the camera in the house was still blocked. This meant that the staff hadn’t started work yet.

The young man calmed down, took out a thick blue sweatshirt from his suitcase, and put it on.

The moment he got dressed and walked into the bathroom, Pei Huaiji, wrapped in the cold from outside, opened the door and walked in.

“You Mian?”

You Mian brushed his teeth and looked over. He found that Pei Huaiji was holding a task card from the staff in his hand.

“The new date task is to go skiing after breakfast,” Pei Huaiji said.

You Mian’s eyes lit up when he heard this. Skiing!

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The sculpture exhibition in the ice sculpture town wasn’t large, but such a small tourist spot had a ski resort with many tourists due to the extremely low temperature.

Hong Sheng and the staff members had been waiting there for a long time. The cameras started filming frantically when they saw the eight guests walking in.

The guests had changed into their ski clothes and were holding their goggles in their hands or on their foreheads.

Even though their whole bodies were wrapped tightly, all of them looked handsome and superior. This caused the tourists in the venue to turn around and look at them.

Suddenly, a girl in a pink ski suit excitedly covered her mouth and said to her companion, “Hey, is that Mianmian?”

Her companion turned her head before screaming in a low voice, “Ahhhh! It is him!”

Hong Sheng stood behind the camera with a loudspeaker and said, “Today is a battle for dating rights.”

Before the guests on the lily of the valley side could come back to their senses, Hong Seng immediately smiled and said, “I forgot to mention, this is a battle that belongs exclusively to the iris side!”

“The winning iris guest can invite the lily of the valley guest they most want to date for a couple’s date!”

The moment the word date appeared, the atmosphere of the scene instantly became excited and urgent.

Yan Tingxuan looked at You Mian with a complicated expression. He was unable to keep the smile on his face.

“Can it only be an invitation from the iris side?” Yun Guanqing raised his hand and asked.

Hong Sheng nodded. “Yes.”

Guan Tong covered his mouth and smiled from ear to ear. “My skills can only book the last spots in advance.” He leaned toward You Mian, and asked, “Honey, have you ever skied before?”

You Mian stepped on the skis and walked step by step toward the starting point mentioned by the director. At the same time, he turned his head and casually looked at Pei Huaiji, who was waiting in the distance.

You Mian said, “I’ve played it a few times.”

Pei Huaiji watched him from a distance. The man’s figure was as outstanding as ever, but his cold eyes softened a bit when he looked at You Mian. He mouthed, ‘Come on.’

Guan Tong asked, “Do you have anyone you want to choose?

The four guests of the lily of the valley group were standing not far away. Their eyes looked in this direction with different expressions on their faces.

You Mian raised his hand to press down the helmet and covered his eyes with the goggles. The tips of his ears were slightly red as he said, “I’ll tell you after I get first place.”