Chapter 97 -97: The Little Green Plum in the Photo is You
Huo Shiyan opened his phone and looked at the abrupt message. The last time he and Shi Lei exchanged messages was almost ten years ago.
Back then, after Shi Lei entered high school, his replies became fewer and farther between.
The last message was from Huo Shiyan asking Shi Lei why Yuan Xi had deleted him from her friends list, and Shi Lei never replied to his message.
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The long-silent QQ account finally chimed with a notification.
Huo Shiyan typed a reply, âWhatâs up?â
Shi Shishitou: Brother, you actually replied to me instantly. Do you still remember me?
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Zhuangzhuang: I remember.
Shi Shishitou: What about Yuan Xi? Do you still remember Little Xi sister?
Zhuangzhuang: I remember.
Shi Shishitou: Little Xi sister is awesome. Her company is going to ring the bell on NASDAQ, and sheâs heading to New York on the sixth. Do you want to meet up then?
As Huo Shiyan glanced at Yuan Xi, their child was nearly three months old. If she found out she was Zhuangzhuang, she probably wouldnât regret marrying him and want a divorce, right?
Yuan Xi was looking at a screenshot sent by Shi Lei in the group chat.
Shi Shishitou: Zhuangzhuang replied to me. He remembers us!
Yuan Xi listened to the continuous QQ message notifications coming from Huo Shiyanâs side and turned her head to meet his eyes.
Huo Shiyan typed a reply: âOkay, have Little Xi add my QQ. Iâll get in touch with her.â
Yuan Xi received the message sent by Shi Lei and added Zhuangzhuangâs brother with her new QQ account. His profile picture was still of their group of five during their second-grade trip to Jiangcheng Zoo.
Seeing Zhuangzhuangâs profile picture, Yuan Xi saw her friend request was immediately accepted.
Yuan Xi wasnât sure what to say for a moment. It was tough to start the first sentence when childhood friends, formerly inseparable, had grown up.
Zhuangzhuang, however, was the first to send a message: âWhy did you delete me?â
Yuan Xi: Ah? My QQ account was hacked back then; I didnât delete you.
Zhuangzhuang: I thought you hated me and thatâs why you deleted me.
Yuan Xi: I didnât hate you. I also rarely used QQ back then, so I didnât re-add my old friends right away after it got hacked.
Zhuangzhuang: Are you sure you didnât hate me for being fat? Or for being ugly?
Yuan Xi: How could I hate you? It was just a hacked account. Letâs meet in New York and talk then. You pick a place.
Zhuangzhuang: Sure, contact me when you arrive.
Yuan Xi: Okay.
After sending her message, Yuan Xi said to Huo Shiyan beside her, âI need to go to Jiangjing No.1 to pick up my passport.â
Huo Shiyan said, âLet me take you there.â
Yuan Xi nodded, âOkay.â
As soon as the two of them got in the car, a little figure entered the backseat, âSister, where are you going? I want to come too!â
âGet out of the car,â Huo Shiyan said, annoyed.
Xiao Shihuo shook his head, âI havenât been out since I got sick. I want to go with you.â
Yuan Xi got out from the passenger side and seated Xiao Shihuo in the child safety seat in the back, âLetâs just take him with us.â
Xiao Shihuo kissed Yuan Xiâs cheek, âSister is the best.â
Huo Shiyan snorted and sent a message to Qin Lang, âEnroll Shiyan in enough training classes to ensure he doesnât have a moment of free time this entire summer vacation.â
Qin Lang quickly replied, âOkay.â
The apartment Yuan Xi lived in at Jiangjing No.1 was the worst in the whole complex. Despite being in a luxury neighborhood, it was sunless on the second floor and was the smallest unit.
But Yuan Xi had bought the apartment through Gu Hanchenâs connections.
Huo Shiyan followed Yuan Xi inside, and they were greeted by warm decor.
Xiao Shihuo entered the house with Yuan Xi and saw a little brown bear wearing a tiny crown on the shelf.
Xiao Shihuo picked up the bear and said, âWhat a cute little bear.â
Yuan Xi looked at the bear and said, âThis bear can be considered my Ah Bei. I couldnât sleep well without this little bear as a child. If you like it, Iâll give it to you.â
Xiao Shihuo hugged the bear and said, âThank you, Sister. This little bear smells so nice, like Sisterâs scent.â
Huo Shiyan pulled the little bear out of Xiao Shihuoâs hands, âYou canât just take other peopleâs things.â
âBig sister is not âother people,â big sister is my big sister,â Xiao Shihuo tiptoed trying to reach for the little bear that Huo Shiyan was holding out of reach, âBig sister gave it to me.â
Yuan Xi lightly smiled, âLet Huohuo play with it, I donât need this little bear anymore.â
âYuan Xi, how can you give away the gift thatâŚâ
Huo Shiyan paused, then said, âHow can you give away the gift that Brother Zhuangzhuang gave you so casually?â
Yuan Xi asked, âHow do you know it was Brother Zhuangzhuang who gave it to me?â
Huo Shiyan replied, âYou said before that Brother Zhuangzhuang gave you a crown.â
Yuan Xi took off the small crown from the little bear. As she did so, she carefully observed the diamond in front of her and felt slightly shocked.
The Yuan Xi from the past couldnât tell the difference between a diamond and cubic zirconia at a glance, but having accompanied Gu Hanchen to various events over the past five years, she had acquired quite a few diamond pieces and could now tell at a glance that this seemed to be a real diamondâŚ
After moving into this house, Yuan Xi had casually placed the little bear on a shelf and hadnât inspected the small crown on the bearâs head closely.
âShiyan, take a look at the diamonds on this crown, could they be real? It looks like they might even have diamond girdle markings.â
âTheyâre real,â Huo Shiyan concluded after just one glance.
Yuan Xi was surprised, âTheyâre actually real diamonds?â
Previously, she had always thought of this crown as a fake diamond crown from an ordinary accessory storeâŚ
âSuch an expensive gift, I really shouldnât have accepted it,â said Yuan Xi. âIâll go to the United States this time and return the crown to Zhuangzhuang.â
Xiao Shihuo jumped up trying to get the little bear, âI donât want the crown, I want the little bear.â
But Huo Shiyan didnât give the little bear to Xiao Shihuo, âIâll buy you something else, you canât have this little bear.â
âWhy not?â Yuan Xi asked.
Huo Shiyan replied, âBecause I like this little bear too.â
Yuan Xi really hadnât expected Huo Shiyan, who was already twenty-seven years old, to like this plush little bear toy.
Xiao Shihuo pouted, âThen I wonât fight with you for the little bear, but remember to buy me a toy, okay!â
âOkay,â Huo Shiyan agreed.
When Yuan Xi returned to Ruohu Mansion and was putting the Diamond Crown into her suitcase, she still felt surprised; the diamonds on the crown, both big and small, added up to be worth over a million, especially the largest diamondâŚ
Just after returning to Ruohu Mansion, Yuan Xi received a phone call from Chen Yuan, âXiao Xi, my mom was cleaning out the storage today, and she found some of your old things stored at our place. Do you want them? Should we get rid of them or sell them? The junk dealers are right at our house.â
When Yuan Xi had been driven out of the Yuan Familyâs home, all the clothes she had grown up with, which had been kept by her parents, were thrown away by the Yuan Family.
Yuan Xi couldnât bear to see the clothes her parents had carefully kept for her thrown away, so she had picked them all up.
But at that time, she had nowhere to live, and the dormitory had no room for these thingsâŚ
Chen Yuanâs house had a large storage space that was always empty, so Chen Yuanâs parents had allowed Yuan Xi to store those things at Chen Yuanâs house.
Now, with Chen Yuanâs house being demolished, it was time for her to take those things back.
âIâll come over and take a look.â
When Yuan Xi arrived at Chen Yuanâs house, it was just getting dark. The junk dealers were weighing things on a scale next to them.
Chen Yuan handed Yuan Xi a mask, âThereâs dust, you should wear the mask. Your things are all here.â
Yuan Xi looked over and saw a bag containing clothes she had worn as a child. The eighteen-year-old Yuan Xi couldnât bear to throw them away, but the current Yuan Xi thought it would be best to sort them out, throwing away what needed to be thrown and donating what could be donated.
She and Chen Yuan sifted through each item, and Chen Yuan said, âYou really liked blue when you were young, all blue dresses.â
Yuan Xi replied, âIt seems so.â
As a child, she seemed to have had a phase where she really liked the color blue.
It appeared that not only did she and Xiao Shihuo favor similar looks, even their preferred colors were once the same.
Chen Yuan pulled out a blue chiffon dress that looked more and more familiar. When she saw the logo on the waistband, she said, âYuan Xi, isnât this dress the same one that the little girl in the photo on Huo Shiyanâs bedside dresser was wearing?â
Yuan Xi could no longer remember wearing the dress in Chen Yuanâs hands at any particular time, but it was indeed the same dress that Xiao Shihuo had worn.
Carefully looking at the Dior logo, Yuan Xi questioned, âBut how could I have afforded a Dior dress as a child?â
âThat dress was a gift from Grandma Zhuangzhuang.â
Chen Yuanâs mother came over and said, âThat was when you graduated from elementary school. Grandma Zhuangzhuang bought each of you a dress. You all wore them only once or twice, and then after starting middle school, you stopped wearing dresses altogether. I even kept Yuanyuanâs dress, such an expensive dress, I couldnât bear to throw it away.â
Chen Yuan hastily added, âXiao Xi, I can now confirm that you were the little childhood friend in the photo on Huo Shiyanâs dresser!â
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