My Ex-Wife Disappeared for Years and Had My Babies

F{h*F5/- V hapter 40: Is This Jealousy?

Su Nian sat in the restaurant, nearly finished with her meal, yet Shen Hanxiu had not shown up. She thought perhaps he was finally showing some mercy by being considerate of her predicament.

Before it was time to start work, Su Nian dared not return to her department, fearing an awkward encounter with Song Yang, so she made the excuse of needing to buy something and bid farewell to Wei Lan.

The sun was warm and soothing, making people feel lazy. Su Nian didn’t want to go anywhere and just went to the coffee shop across from the company. She ordered a cup of coffee and sat napping in a booth, setting her alarm to wake her up when it was time to go to work.

This ostrich-like approach wasn’t really her style, but she hadn’t yet figured out how to talk to Song Yang. Being too blunt might hurt him, but being too subtle might not be effective.

Leaning on the table with her eyes closed, she tried hard to block out all sensations, thinking only of sleep. However, as soon as she started to feel drowsy, her phone vibrated twice beside her, the sound loud through the table, and Su Nian woke up with a start.

Taking out her phone, the sender was a string of unnamed Arabic numerals, but she knew who it was.

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The text message contained only this sentence: Do you like the flowers?

Su Nian was puzzled. Flowers? What flowers? The flowers he sent her?

Su Nian absolutely didn’t believe it. Even in those two years when their fake marriage turned into real affection, he had never given her a single flower, not even a wildflower picked from a park!

While Su Nian was puzzled, she suddenly thought of the flowers Song Yang had sent. Could he be referring to those flowers?

Did he know? Was he jealous?

Su Nian’s first reaction was actually to find it amusing. He had always been very possessive, and if this had happened in the past, she would have been happy – him caring so much about her. But now, she wondered if this was part of some performance planned by him, to make her think he was jealous over her, and then she would flatter herself and fall into his trap again.

Su Nian turned off her phone screen without replying. To avoid having her precious lunch break disturbed again, she switched her phone to silent mode.

On the second floor of the same coffee shop, Shen Hanxiu fiddled with his phone, waiting for it to react, but the screen remained dark and unresponsive.

It was only after being called for the third time that he shifted his gaze back from the window.

“President Shen, what do you think of this proposal?”

Shen Hanxiu hadn’t been listening to the content and turned to ask Yang Zichen beside him, “What do you think?”

Yang Zichen adjusted his glasses and said, “The price can be pushed a bit higher, and the event planning section needs more specific methods.”

Shen Hanxiu remained silent, just looking at the people opposite.

They agreed to make the changes immediately. Shen Hanxiu was getting impatient. He had clearly seen the woman enter and knew she couldn’t have missed his message. Didn’t she want to deal with him? Could she really feel so at ease after accepting another man’s flowers?

Shen Hanxiu stood up and picked up his suit jacket from the backseat, saying, “Discuss the rest of the content with Special Assistant Yang.”

“Of course, take care, President Shen.”

Shen Hanxiu draped the jacket over his arm and walked downstairs. The booths on the first floor were separated by dark curtains, and of course, Shen Hanxiu couldn’t just lift each of them to look.

“Excuse me, where is the… the woman that came in alone sitting?” Su Nian was young, and Shen Hanxiu intended to refer to her as a girl, but considering she was already a mother and wearing professional attire, he chose to use ‘woman’ instead, though he couldn’t help but feel a sense of wistfulness. The rebellious little girl of those days had grown up.

But to him, despite the ten year age gap, in his heart, she was still a little girl, somewhat stubborn, quirky, and spirited, yet strong and unyielding.@@novelbin@@