After Divorce, Hidden Marriage Husband Became Addicted to Me
Chapter 303 - 220: Did You Ever Like Me Before? _5

Chapter 303: Chapter 220: Did You Ever Like Me Before? _5

Gu Zhiyi drove Tang Xi to a clothing store.

This is a store that Gu Zhiyi often likes to visit, offering private customizations, and the female owner has excellent craftsmanship with a starting lead time of one month for custom orders.

Letting the kids play in the car, Gu Zhiyi slightly opened a window.

She arrived at the store with Tang Xi.

From the outside, the storefront was small, marked only by a wooden sign that read ’Qingli Customization’, but stepping inside, the space was much larger.

There were three floors.

The first floor’s walls were adorned with many ladies’ cheongsams.

Each one was exquisitely unparalleled.

Tang Xi was dazzled by the clothes, she looked at Gu Zhiyi, "These clothes are so beautiful, the embroidery on them is gorgeous."

"I have to attend a cheongsam dinner next week, you should come with me."

Tang Xi waved her hand, "I’d rather not go... and I don’t have any clothes for it."

"Come on, I have, I ordered two sets, our sizes are pretty similar, I’ll give you one." Gu Zhiyi held Tang Xi’s hand, "The owner should be upstairs, let’s go take a look."

Saying this, she pulled Tang Xi up to the second floor.

The second floor was spacious, the curtains drawn back allowing swathes of sunlight to pour in.

There was a long table with fabrics laid out on it.

A woman in a white cotton-linen dress was standing by the table, cutting fabric. Her figure was slender, and just by her quiet, graceful back view, her hair casually tied up, she had a certain lazy comfort.

Gu Zhiyi said, "Qingli, are my clothes ready?"

The woman turned around. Looking at Gu Zhiyi and then taking a glance at Tang Xi next to her, she smiled slightly, then lifted her hand drawing signs with it, "They’re ready, I was just about to ask Mengmeng to inform you to come and pick them up."

What surprised Tang Xi was not that the woman before her was mute, but her face.

It was a very beautiful face, too reductive to merely describe as beautiful – no single word could fully describe her ethereal beauty, able to captivate both men and women alike.

However, strands of hair on the woman’s left cheek concealed a scar on that side.

Such a beautiful face, marred like that.

Half a city in beauty, half in scars.

Shen Qingli dialed a phone on the side, and a few minutes later, someone came down from upstairs, carrying a wooden tray with two sets of cheongsams, one in mercury and one in champagne.

Mengmeng, Shen Qingli’s fashion assistant, said, "Miss Gu, these are the clothes you ordered."

Gu Zhiyi took them, "Thank you."

She pulled Tang Xi, "Come on, let’s try them on."

Tang Xi was led by Gu Zhiyi to the fitting room.

"Out of these two clothes, I think the champagne one suits you better; try that on. They were tailored to my measurements, but if anything doesn’t fit quite right, Qingli can alter them here. Come with me next week."

Tang Xi changed clothes; the bust fit well, but the waist was a bit loose.

She rarely wore fitted clothes normally, opting instead for loose, casual wear.

At this moment, looking at herself in the mirror, Tang Xi paused.

Gu Zhiyi lifted the hairband from her hair, letting her long, black hair fall over her shoulders.

"Tang Xi, you look great, normally you seem quite slim, didn’t expect such a curvy waist, your waist is even slimmer than mine."

Tang Xi’s cheeks reddened, "I don’t think I suit this outfit."

"You suit it very well, Tang Xi, don’t you know you are very beautiful? If I were one of the male doctors in our department, I would definitely be madly pursuing you."

Tang Xi just got a headache mentioning this, "Please don’t."

Gu Zhiyi’s gossipy side emerged again, "Is there a male doctor pursuing you? Since you’re single, finding someone suitable who would be good to Tangtang wouldn’t be so bad for you to live together."

Tang Xi’s gaze fell gently, "But... I probably won’t passionately fall for someone else again. Once you’ve given your heart to someone, you can’t just give it to another."

She was doing fine living alone.

She didn’t want to give anyone meaningless hope.

She had loved Fu Tingzhou deeply, intensely.

Now, her heart felt empty, making it hard to fall in love with anyone else again.

Gu Zhiyi was silent for a few seconds, her lips pursed, her fingers slightly tense. She knew what it felt like to love someone – she once thought, if Lu Shili could just remain healthy, she would be content.

But she was also greedy.

Greedy in the sense that one should not yearn for the love of a man who does not love them back.