Chapter 1363: Chapter 780: Master Five: Force-Fed Dog Food and Still Has to Make Space (Part 2)

"Don’t think I don’t know you secretly like to ’bully’ Chengsi, no matter what, he’s your brother."

...

At the family meeting, aside from arranging funeral matters, nothing was resolved about Jiang Chengsi, and instead, Jiang Jinsang became the target, getting a "scolding" from the old lady.

However, sending Si Qingxiao to accompany him needed an explanation, but this matter was probably the deepest scar of the Jiang Family, and they didn’t know how to tell her.

The Jiang Family hadn’t sought out Si Qingxiao yet, but unexpectedly, she contacted Tang Wan herself.

**

Tang Wan was in the studio that day, having just designed a few pieces of jewelry, and went to fetch some materials.

"What do you want, I’ll send it to you, why go yourself?" Chen Zhi smiled.

"It’s tiring to coax the child every day, so it’s good to get some air, plus the gift is for Xixi, and I want to be involved in every step." Ruan Mengxi was getting married, and Tang Wan wanted to gift her a set of Cyan Feather headpiece jewelry to pair with Xiuhe attire, but she declined.

A set of Cyan Feather jewelry takes a lot of time; she only wanted Tang Wan to give her earrings and necklaces, which she could wear daily.

As she said, the Cyan Feather headpiece is only worn once for the wedding, which feels like waste.

After picking out things, Tang Wan ran into Si Qingxiao downstairs, who was clearly waiting for her, having known she was coming.

Since the birthday party, it was the first time they met; they found a café, sat down, and Si Qingxiao got straight to the point without much formality.

"Miss Tang, I came to you today to inquire about Fourth Brother’s situation."

"Fourth Brother?" Tang Wan looked at her without showing much expression.

"He’s been acting odd lately, like when he’s on the phone or video calls, it feels weird. I asked him, and he said work is exhausting, which is unusual for him." Si Qingxiao rubbed the coffee cup in front of her.

"I don’t think he would do anything to betray my trust, but I’m just worried about him."

"Since Fifth Master is always working with him, I thought maybe you could help find out if something happened to him recently?"

Tang Wan pressed her lips; since Si Qingxiao already sensed it, she would find out sooner or later. If she wanted to investigate, it wasn’t impossible to find out, so Tang Wan directly told her.

"Memorial day?" Si Qingxiao knew his eldest brother had committed suicide, but it happened a long time ago, so she hadn’t thought in that direction and naturally didn’t realize it was nearing his memorial day.

"He’s like this every year around these days, if you have time, you could accompany him more."

"I understand."

After bidding farewell to Tang Wan, Si Qingxiao got home and was still somewhat contemplative, distracted and zoning out.

Si Yushan asked if anything happened, Si Qingxiao just smiled and shook her head, but was continually lost in thought, occasionally sighing; how could Si Yushan not overthink?

He asked whom she met with today, and hearing it was Tang Wan, he instinctively thought of Jiang Chengsi.

"That kid hasn’t been coming around lately." When Si Yushan had back pain, Jiang Chengsi often came by after work, then went back to study, but he hadn’t been here for the past few days. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

"Did you scare him off?" You Yunzhi frowned.

"When have I ever scared him?"

"Your little tricks fool Xiaoxiao, and you think you can keep them from me? The way you act differently in front of him compared to when behind the scenes, don’t think I don’t notice."

"...

"The boy is quite naive; you’re bound to scare him off sooner or later with your antics. If he and Xiaoxiao have any issues, our daughter will be the one heartbroken, and Xiaoxiao can see your attitude clearly. To spare your feelings, she hasn’t gone out for dates much with him."

"But I just..."

Si Yushan couldn’t encourage his daughter to seek out Jiang Chengsi, and besides, he didn’t know what specifically happened between them.

Still, he wasn’t thrilled about his daughter dating some rascal, though he hadn’t shown it, but he constantly complained about back pain, so Si Qingxiao understood it and hadn’t gone out with Jiang Chengsi to keep him company.

Si Yushan couldn’t bear to see his daughter sad, so during dinner, he voluntarily asked:

"Has that kid not asked you out lately?"

"Huh?" Si Qingxiao was stunned for a moment because her father never asked such questions.

"Now that you have a boyfriend, don’t stay home all the time, it’s not so cold outside now, it’s good to go out and relax occasionally."

"Dad, he’s busy with work too, maybe later."

Though Si Qingxiao said this, the next morning she cooked and prepared meals, and Si Yushan thought he would be treated to a delicious meal today, only to find her packing the food, saying she was going to see Jiang Chengsi.

"Dad, there’s also some soup; would you like to try it?"

"I’m not hungry, don’t need it." Si Yushan felt a bit sulky.

What’s going on?

Had he become so destitute to eat leftover food from that kid?

**

Si Qingxiao arrived at Jiang Group just in time, typically Jiang Jinsang doesn’t return at noon, so the secretary orders food for him and Jiang Chengsi, but today was different, someone specially delivered a meal.

Si Qingxiao didn’t know they shared an office, her meal only enough for herself and Jiang Chengsi.

She still politely asked Jiang Jinsang if he wanted some.

"Fifth Master, this..." Si Qingxiao felt quite awkward.

How could Jiang Jinsang be so tactless? He simply said he already had ordered food.

"Yes, he ordered food; if it’s not enough, you can have the portion the secretary ordered for me, eat two servings." Jiang Chengsi said with a smile.

Jiang Jinsang chuckled; after all, this was his place, and Si Qingxiao was a guest, "Miss Si, would you like something to drink?"

"I don’t..." Si Qingxiao was about to refuse when Jiang Chengsi said directly: "Give her a cup of juice, I’ll have coffee."

Jiang Jinsang: "..."

It was lunch break time; employees were off eating and resting, leaving Jiang Jinsang no choice but to get drinks for the two himself.

Finally...

Jiang Jinsang sat by the side, eating his boxed lunch alone.

Jiang Chengsi was always flamboyant, eager to announce to the world how great his wife’s cooking was. Watching these two being lovey-dovey filled Jiang Jinsang with enough PDA to lose his appetite, so he gave them some space and went to Jiang Yanting’s office.

"Why are you here? Didn’t have lunch?" Jiang Yanting hadn’t eaten yet, busy with work.

"I had lunch; the office air wasn’t good."

It’s the stench of romance.

"Is Chengsi bothering you again?"

"Miss Si came by, so I gave them some room."

"..."

Jiang Chengsi didn’t know Si Qingxiao would visit, much less that she’d made lunch for him, so he was both surprised and delighted, and soon the entire company heard about it.

Recently, Jiang Chengsi had been sticking around the company all the time, never seen going out on dates, coupled with his recent odd demeanor, everyone thought they had relationship issues.

"Miss Si personally made a heartfelt lunch for Fourth Master."

"But those two have been in Fifth Master’s office for over two hours now, haven’t come out, wonder what they’re doing?"

"I saw her in person; she’s truly beautiful. Fourth Master personally went downstairs to greet her, held her hand, and never let go; there are photos on the company forum."

...

Si Qingxiao’s arrival sparked the gossip interest of all the employees at Jiang Group, except Jiang Jinsang.

Having been thoroughly fed dog food, he had to vacate space for the two, initially wanted to call Tang Wan for comfort, but she said she was feeding Jiang Xiaowai, and would contact him later.

And he waited...

Over an hour passed.