I Am Rich

14

"Xiao Wu, Xiao Wu?"

"Um?"

"Why are you in a daze?" Guan Yuanbai said, "Grandpa asked you something."

Guan Zhiyi came back to her senses, when she raised her eyes, the confusion under her eyes was barely suppressed: "Ah, grandpa, what's the matter?"

"It's okay, just ask what have you been up to since you haven't been back for so long?"

"Well, I recorded a variety show some time ago…"

Guan Zhiyi began to talk to Qi Mingsheng about some interesting things in her drama and variety shows, but no matter how excited she said it, her heart is as uncomfortable as being pressed with a stone.

Later, Qi Mingsheng returned to the room to rest, Guan Zhiyi and Guan Yuanbai also went back home.

Qi Chengyan sent the two out, after coming out from the door of Qi's house, Guan Zhiyi suddenly turned her head.

Qi Chengyan was still standing in the doorway to send them off: "What? Did you leave something behind?"

Guan Zhiyi shook her head and squeezed out a smile: "What Grandpa said just now, is the person that brother likes called Yang Mengjia."

"Like?" Qi Chengyan laughed a little, "You still want to gossip about this thing?"

"Of course, I remember I met Miss Yang by chance a few years ago. She is really pretty. Her name is Yang Mengjia, right?"

Qi Chengyan thought for a while: "Yes."

Guan Zhiyi said, "So do you really like her?"

Qi Chengyan knocked her head: "Ask so many, what do you want to do?"

"Just ...... curious about it." Guan Zhiyi clenched her hand, "And, shouldn't you bring your girlfriend to meet everyone."

Girlfriend. She has a hard time saying these words.

Qi Chengyan laughed: "Girlfriend? You helped me to draw conclusions so soon, this child is quite worried about me."

Guan Yuanbai:"Who doesn't care about young master Qi's marriage? How many eyes are staring at you."

Qi Chengyan glanced at him: "You have the nerve to talk about me?"

"My family hasn't gone so far as to force me to go on a blind date."

"Oh, that's remarkable." 

"It's quite remarkable." Guan Yuanbai was a little proud, "Okay Xiao Wu, let's go back."

Guan Zhiyi was pulled back by Guan Yuanbai.

Guan Yuanbai didn't find anything wrong with Guan Zhiyi, but he suddenly remembered something as he was walking and took out his phone to send a message to Qi Chengyan.

Qi Chengyan had just turned back to go inside when he received a message on his phone.

Guan Yuanbai: [The female artist that you covered up the last time I ran into you at the hotel is not your girlfriend?]

Qi Chengyan's footsteps stopped and he looked back. At the end of the road, the two figures were already slowly moving away. Qi Chengyan stared at the small figure beside Guan Yuanbai, and the corners of his lips were slightly hooked.

[No.]

It will be a problem if she is.

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Everyone in Guan's family always eats New Year's Eve dinner together. The location of the New Year's Eve dinner is mobile. This year, it will be at Guan Zhiyi's house.

At noon, grandparents, uncle and uncle's family arrived one after another.

When Guan Zhiyi came down from upstairs, the living room was already full of people, but apart from the eldest uncle's son, Guan Ziqian, no other brothers and sisters were seen.

Guan Zhiyi walked to the living room and greeted everyone one by one. After that, she found an excuse to leave.

She thought the other people who are not here now are thinking the same things as her, not wanting to be a target for the elders. Sure enough, when Guan Zhiyi walked to the activity room downstairs, she saw her two brothers playing billiards inside.

"I knew you guys would be here." Guan Zhiyi walked over, "Where is sister? Why isn't she here."

"Axi hasn't come yet." It's the uncle's second son, Guan Ziyu, who is three years older than her brother Guan Yuanbai. However he has an outgoing nature and felt more like a cheerful younger brother.

"Xiao Wu is getting more and more beautiful." Guan Ziyu put down the cue stick and squeezed her face.

Guan Zhiyi took his hand away and said unhappily, "Second brother, can you stop squeezing my face whenever we meet."

Guan Ziyu laughed: "Your little round face is good to be pinched."

Guan Zhiyi stood behind Guan Yuanbai, farther away from him: "When will my sister come?"

"The eldest lady is busy."

"Busy with what?"

Guan Ziyu: "Of course she's busy eating, drinking and having fun."

"……Oh."

With that said, there was a roar coming from a sports car outside the garage.

Guan Ziyu raised his eyebrows slightly: "Nevermind, she's coming."

Guan Zhiyi: "I'll go take a look."

The activity room was on the same level as the underground garage, not far away. After Guan Zhiyi walked to the garage, she saw an eye-catching blue sports car parked among a group of cars.

When the car door opened upward, a pair of slender legs stepped out of it. But she did not immediately get up, instead she bent down to change the flat shoes she was wearing into a pair of stiletto heels, quietly got up and closed the car door.

"Sister." Guan Zhiyi beckoned.

The woman not far away took off her sunglasses, revealing a beautiful face. She looked over and raised her eyebrows slightly, "Xiao Wu."

She is a woman whose whole body is delicate even down to the strands of her hair.

"You just came." Guan Zhiyi ran over with her furry slippers, "Why didn't you go with Second Uncle and the others?"

"Just finished the afternoon tea with my friends." Guan Xi glanced at her up and down, "Xiao Wu, you've lost a lot of weight, right?"

"It's okay."

"Pretty." Guan Xi raised her brows slightly, "I've told you to lose weight earlier."

Guan Zhiyi: "...Right."

"Everyone is here?"

"Um."

"Then let's go in."

Guan Xi is the only daughter of her grandfather Guan Hong's second son, he married and had children relatively late, so Guan Xi is only one year older than Guan Zhiyi. Although they are almost the same age, Guan Xi and Guan Zhiyi have very different temperaments and behavior.

However, this does not affect the deep love between the two sisters, Guanxi is arrogant and unbeatable, it is rare that she can give so much love to Guan Zhiyi since childhood.

After the two of them had finished greeting their elders, they went to Guan Zhiyi's room.

"That recent variety show of yours was pretty funny." Guanxi sat on her bed, playing with her phone while saying.

"Is it?"

"I heard from the Internet that you and Xiao Ran are going to play that..."Dawn and the Wild"?"

"Yes, it's starting after the new year."

Guanxi nodded: "Finally, a character that I can watch."

"......"

"You are too stubborn, Your father and brother won't let us help you so we can't help you on the face of it. Yet you don't even let me secretly pull some strings for you... Fortunately, you have finally become a bit more popular recently."

"It's not too popular, right?"

"At least I've seen you a lot on the internet recently." Guan Xi said, "By the way, I heard my dad say last time that you have a boyfriend?"

Guan Zhiyi choked: "How come everyone knows about it."

"Of course I know about such an important matter. I've never heard of Hua Hongxi name, but he's apparently Qi Chengyan's cousin?"

"Hmm."

"That looks okay, take him out to see me if you have time."

Guan Zhiyi snorted and said perfunctorily: ".... I'll see"

Guan Xi thought about it and suddenly said, "But I think it's quite strange that your blind date is Qi Chengyan's cousin, why not go directly to Qi Chengyan himself?"

"Cough..." Guan Zhiyi's mouthful of water got stuck in her throat, "Cough, cough!"

Guan Xi hurriedly took a piece of tissue and gave it to her: "Did I say something wrong? Didn't Qi Chengyan just return to China, did he not?"

"Cough ...... him, me ...... how is it possible for me and him."

Guanxi was puzzled, "How is it impossible?"

Guan Zhiyi slowed down, she stared at Guan Xi who didn't understand anything, and her throat suddenly clogged up.

How can it be impossible?

It is very unlikely.

When she was a child, she thought that he was her brother, she thought he was an adult, she admired him, she liked him, she was used to being attached to him. When she saw him again, she was overjoyed and quickly put behind her resentment for "he left suddenly and didn't come back for a long time".

She was always like this with him, no matter what happened, she was never angry with him for long.

She didn't know how her feelings for him had changed. No, maybe it wasn't. Maybe it was already vaguely different when she was young, she just didn't notice it. And as for Qi Chengyan, she knew that he too regarded her as a younger sister, from childhood to adulthood, that emotion may be deeply ingrained in his heart. 

So she will not and dare not to ask, to confess. Because she's scared. Afraid he will look surprised and puzzled, afraid that he will only smile and say that he just treats her as his sister…

Moreover, he seemed to have someone he likes now, so what should she say or do?

When she thought about "he already has that person", her heart was depressed again.

She has been feeling this way since the day she came out of Qi's house, with nowhere to vent her feelings and nothing to do about it.

"Say, why is it impossible? Oh, is it because you think he is too old." Guan Xi frowned, "It's quite okay, he should be only six years older than you?"

"No……"

"So is he not handsome enough or rich enough? No, I remember he was very handsome and had quite a lot of money. Well ...... so it's his cousin who is much better than him-"

"Sister you don't guess blindly." Guan Zhiyi helplessly said, "Let's not talk about this anymore okay."

"I just want to tell you that your other half must be worthy of you."

Guan Zhiyi held her hand: "I know, I know, I have to be like you, the prospective brother-in-law and you are the most suitable and most compatible match."

"Jiang Suizhou ah." Guan Xi snorted softly then nodded.

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The New Year's Eve meal began shortly afterwards. The whole family was lively, eating and chatting at the same time.

Guan Zhiyi toasted the elders as usual, However because of her bad mood, she just drank silently. After getting dizzy, she can't help but feel a little irritable, and also ...... thinking about him. 

The more she told herself that it is impossible, the more she thought about him in her heart.

She really felt like she was trapped in her memory of being spoiled by Qi Chengyan when she was a child and can't get out of it. So she couldn't switch over immediately when she grew up, and she would also be endlessly jealous when she thought that he would be nice to another person in the future.

This is wrong, but she can't control it.

"Xiao Wu, what are you doing, don't drink too much." Guan Yuanbai was sitting next to her, and after noticing that she had drunk a lot by herself, he reminded her.

Guan Zhiyi didn't respond, lowered her head and suddenly said, "Brother, do you think Brother Cheng Yan's house is also very lively now…"

"Should be."

"Will there be a lot of good food at their house."

Guan Yuanbai smiled, suddenly remembering the past, and jokingly said: "Why, you still want to go to someone's house during the New Year's Eve dinner like what you did when you were a child."

Guan Zhiyi shook her head: "How do you know that I want to go?"

"Still want to fool around?"

Guan Zhiyi pushed back her chair: "I'm going."

Guan Yuanbai grabbed her hand, asked in disbelief, "Are you really going?"

"I'm just kidding." Guan Zhiyi pulled away her hand, "I'm going out to get some air, I was drinking a little too much."

Guan Yuanbai glanced at her and put his heart down: "Don't run around blindly."

"I know that."

The elders were chatting on their own, and no one noticed when Guan Zhiyi got off the table for a while.

Guan Zhiyi walked out of the small courtyard and left the house.

The winter night in the imperial capital is very cold, and there was even a little snow. After leaving the heater, the cold wind came on her face. She doesn't know if it's because of the wine, Guan Zhiyi's whole body felt hot, she walked straight ahead, seemingly aimlessly, but the direction was the location of that person.

She won't be as presumptuous as she was when she was a child, running away to other people's homes on New Year's Eve.

But, she still wanted to see him.