The CEO’s Unkown Wife
Chapter 513: Discovering the Secret_1

Chapter 513: Chapter 513: Discovering the Secret_1

"If it really breaks, then I will compensate you with something else." Xia Qingtian shrugged nonchalantly.

Huo Qilin looked displeased, "How can it be the same?"

"What’s different?" Cheng Bingbing, who had been quietly resting, suddenly asked.

Huo Qilin opened his mouth intending to say that the gift was something special Xia Qingtian brought back for him from B country, a priceless treasure to him.

No matter how valuable anything else was, it couldn’t compare to it.

However, images of Xia Qingtian and Bo Jingyan together surfaced in his mind. He wondered if they were now reconciled.

So he swallowed those words down.

Not making any excuse, he stubbornly said, "It’s just different."

At this, Cheng Bingbing’s beautiful and radiant face seemed to lose a bit of its luster and she looked slightly dispirited.

Huo Qilin failed to notice Cheng Bingbing’s reaction and excitedly unwrapped the gift as if he’d received a rare treasure.

Xia Qingtian, however, was watching Cheng Bingbing.

She noticed Bingbing’s long face. Seeing a hint of disappointment, she thought Bingbing was upset about not receiving a gift for herself.

So, she quickly passed the remaining gift to her, "Here, don’t be unhappy. You also have a gift. I went to your dressing room earlier and your assistant told me you were here, so I brought it along for you. See if you like it."

Cheng Bingbing managed a smile and responded, "Thank you."

"If you don’t feel like smiling, you don’t have to." Seeing her forced smile, Xia Qingtian softly patted her hand and said with understanding.

Therefore, Bingbing stopped smiling.

She received Xia Qingtian’s gift, gratefully saying "Thank you, sister Qingtian."

In this world, the only person who cares for her, protects her, and even brings her gifts when she goes out is Xia Qingtian. That’s why she’s genuinely grateful because, really, she has no one else.

"Silly girl, no need to thank me." Xia Qingtian ruffled her seaweed-like hair.

She didn’t ask Bingbing why she seemed unhappy.

Cheng Bingbing was a complex person with sensitive emotions. If she wanted to share something, she would. And if she didn’t, Qingtian didn’t want to pressure her.

Cheng Bingbing was grateful for her understanding.

Cheng Bingbing and Huo Qilin both unwrapped their gifts - both had received a bottle of perfume.

Xia Qingtian didn’t play favorites.

Huo Qilin, however, seemed less than thrilled when he saw that both he and Bingbing received the same gift. He joked, "Qingtian, were you just going through the motions when you picked the gifts? Don’t tell me all the gifts you brought back from B country are perfumes."

"Of course not, I only brought back perfume for you and Bingbing." Xia Qingtian denied immediately.

Only then did Qilin’s expression lighten up.

Xia Qingtain laughed when she remembered his earlier accusation of her being insincere. "You actually think I was thoughtless in giving you perfume. You should know how much time and effort I put into picking the perfume for both of you."

"To choose the right scent for the two of you, I visited countless stores, sniffed countless bottles of perfume until I could barely smell anything. Can’t believe you thought it was done carelessly."

Hearing this, Qilin’s face finally turned sunny.

Even though his gift was identical to Bingbing’s, her explanation was proof that she had put a lot of thought into choosing it for him.

Bingbing opened the perfume bottle and smelled it, sincerely saying, "The perfume smells really nice, I like it a lot."

"Thanks." Huo Qilin muttered an embarrassed apology.

Xia Qingtian had no intention of making a big deal about their earlier complaints.

Having delivered the gifts, she fulfilled her purpose. She then stood up and said, "You two continue to rest. I need to get back to work."

Before Huo Qilin could call her back, she had already left.

Huo Qilin watched her leave, somewhat dazed.

Bingbing bit her lip, couldn’t help but ask, "Huo Qilin, do you..."

The words that followed were too difficult for her to utter.

Huo Qilin came back to his senses, looked at Bingbing, and asked, "Do I what?"

"Do you like sister Qingtian?" Finally, Cheng Bingbing dared to voice the question.

Though she asked this like a question, her tone was confident, as if just reciting a fact. She already knew the answer deep down.

A surprised Huo Qilin turned to her, clearly not expecting his deepest secret to be voiced so casually.

After a moment, he found his voice, "How do you know?"

Seeing him not denying it, Bingbing’s last glimmer of hope was dashed.

So she had not guessed wrongly.

Huo Qilin likes Xia Qingtian!!!

Then what was she to him?

"What’s wrong?" Seeing Bingbing not replying and seemingly about to cry, Huo Qilin felt perplexed.

He knitted his brows; a thought flickered through his mind.

Just as he was about to grasp that thought, Bingbing spoke up, "Nothing really. I just feel surprised. I never thought you would like sister Qingtian."

Huo Qilin’s fleeting thought got scattered, and he was left with nothing.

Hearing Bingbing’s words, he quickly replied, "Qingtian is indeed a good person. She’s responsible at work and a reliable and considerate friend. It’s hard not to like her."

Thinking of how good Qingtian had always been to her, Bingbing found it hard to disagree.

"Yes, sister Qingtian is indeed very nice." She nodded in agreement.

Xia Qingtian indeed was a good person, so much so, that even knowing the man she liked has feelings for Xia Qingtain, Bingbing couldn’t harbor any resentment towards her.

Huo Qilin asked the question he was curious about the most, "How did you know that I like Qingtian?"

Besides himself, the only other people who know about this were his clever, borderline psychopathic brother who could see through anything and Bo Jingyan, probably.

Then how did Bingbing know?

Does Xia Qingtian know?

At the thought of this possibility, Huo Qilin’s heartbeat quickened.

Bingbing quickly composed herself, gauging her feelings and suppressing her infatuation for him, "You are too obvious. You were in a good mood this morning until you saw Bo Jingyan bringing Qingtian to the company. You looked unhappy all of sudden."

"It was the same this afternoon. You were down in the dumps until you saw Qingtian. The whole you seemed to spring back to life. It’s as if ’I like Qingtian’ was written all over your face."