Time passed by minute by minute.

The corners of Qiao Ximo's mouth went from raised to slowly lowered...

He looked back at the clock on the wall.

It was already half past eight, but Chi Yeche showed no sign of coming back.

Or did he go directly to the company after returning to China?

Or maybe he went to celebrate his birthday with someone else.

Maybe he's enjoying a romantic candlelight dinner with his fiancée right now...

Thinking of such a scene, Qiao Ximo's nose felt slightly sour for some reason.

The dinner was an ordinary dinner. For Chi Yeche, it was not a birthday, he was just filling his stomach.

"Che today is your birthday, let's have a drink." Jiang Yueqing said, picking up the red wine bottle and preparing to pour wine into the goblet in front of Chi Yeche.

However, Chi Yeche's cold voice made Jiang Yueqing's hands pause awkwardly in the air.

"I don't like celebrating birthdays." As for the reason why he doesn't want to celebrate birthdays... He promised a person that she would celebrate all his birthdays in the future. In a flash, he hasn't celebrated a birthday in eleven years.

Jiang Yueqing had an awkward smile on her lips: "That's it... I think this is the first time I've celebrated your birthday since we met. I didn't expect you didn't like birthdays..."

Today is his birthday. Only a few people in this world know about it, right? After all, even he himself has forgotten...

Will she know? Today is her birthday?

It shouldn't be possible for her to know, right? After all, he never mentioned it to her.

Unable to help himself, Chi Yeche reached out and picked up the mobile phone on the table, only to find that the screen was black.

Is there no power?

Thinking of Chi Yeche, he pressed the power button and the phone screen lit up again. He turned on the phone and saw that Fang Ye had called him at half past seven but was hung up.

When she found Chi Yeche going to get her cell phone, Jiang Yueqing couldn't help but feel guilty as she picked up the red wine in front of her and took a sip, her eyes not daring to fall on Chi Yeche.

With his brows furrowed, Chi Yeche seemed to have thought of something and looked up at Jiang Yueqing.

Even without looking at Chi Yeche, Jiang Yueqing could feel the cold warmth in Chi Yeche's eyes when he looked at her.

"You hung up on me?"

Although it was a question, Chi Yeche said it with certainty.

Apart from Jiang Yueqing, probably no one else here would dare to touch his mobile phone.

It's just that Chi Yeche didn't expect Jiang Yueqing to be so bold and dare to touch his phone and hang up on him!

Knowing that Chi Yeche was angry, Jiang Yueqing looked at Chi Yeche with a pair of big tearful eyes, her eyes filled with grievances: "Che, I didn't mean it, I just thought it was not easy to have dinner with you once, and today I have to eat with you again."

It's your birthday, and I'm afraid you'll leave after answering the phone, so..."

If it were Qiao Ximo with tearful eyes, Chi Yeche might have softened his heart, but seeing Jiang Yueqing like this, the anger in Chi Yeche's heart was not extinguished by the tears.

Chi Yeche stood up suddenly, picked up his coat that was placed on the bench, and walked towards the door of the restaurant.

"Che!" Jiang Yueqing called Chi Yeche, and when she wanted to get up and pull him, she was shocked by the cold air radiating from Chi Yeche's body.

Glancing coldly at Jiang Yueqing, Chi Yeche left the restaurant.

"Miss Qiao... you haven't eaten yet, are you hungry? Do you want me to get you something to eat?" Aunt Li walked over to Qiao Ximo, who was sitting in a daze in front of a pile of cold food.

asked softly.

Qiao Ximo shook his head slightly, looking at the originally steaming meal in front of him that was now completely cold, Qiao Ximo raised a bitter smile at the corner of his mouth.

"No need, Aunt Li, I don't have much appetite right now..."

It's already half past nine, but he hasn't come back yet...

Maybe he won't come back at all today?

But you can't blame him, right? She wanted to give him a surprise, and he didn't know. Even if he knew, it was his own decision whether to come back or who to celebrate his birthday with.

After getting in the car, Chi Ye Che made a phone call to Fang Ye.

"Why are you calling me?"

"I just wanted to ask when sir will be back."

Fang Ye's words made Chi Yeche frown: "What? Did something happen at home?"

Chi Yeche knew that Fang Ye was not the kind of person who would call him if nothing happened. He told him that if he got off the plane after 6 o'clock, if nothing happened, he would not call again to ask when he would be back.

"Miss Qiao knew that today was my husband's birthday, so she prepared a gift for him."

Although he knew that Qiao Ximo wanted to give Chi Yeche a surprise, he shouldn't have said it in advance, but now Miss Qiao...should have been sad, right? If the husband didn't come back earlier...

Fang Ye's words made Chi Yeche slightly startled.

Qiao Ximo knows that today is his birthday?

How did she know?

But this doesn't seem to be the point.

Did she prepare a gift for him?

"I understand, I'll be right back."

With that said, Chi Yeche hung up the phone and stepped on the accelerator to speed towards the villa.

After hanging up the phone and knowing that his husband would be back soon, Fang Ye came to the restaurant and found a disappointed Qiao Ximo getting up and preparing to go upstairs.

Knowing that Qiao Ximo didn't plan to wait any longer, Fang Ye stepped forward quickly: "Miss Qiao said he would be back soon."

He clearly knew that Chi Yeche would be back soon, but Qiao Ximo didn't want to wait any longer.

What's the point in waiting any longer? The food is already cold and so is my heart.

Even if Chi Yeche comes back now, Qiao Ximo is not in the mood to celebrate his birthday with him.

Even though today has not passed yet, the best time has passed.

"I don't want to wait any longer." Qiao Ximo said and turned around and went upstairs.

Fang Ye wanted to say something more, but seeing Qiao Ximo's expression, some words were stuck in his throat but he couldn't say them out.

Chi Yexi was a little thirsty and left the room to get some water, but happened to bump into Qiao Ximo, who had a gloomy face and seemed to have tears in her eyes, walking upstairs.

I went downstairs and saw a table of completely untouched dishes on the dining table. The only difference was that they were no longer steaming.

Seeing this scene combined with Qiao Ximo's expression just now, Chi Yexi seemed to understand something.

A pair of beautiful brows couldn't help but frown slightly. Chi Yexi looked at Fang Ye who was standing aside: "My brother hasn't come back yet?"

"Sir will be back soon."

Chi Yexi just snorted coldly, took another look at the food on the table, poured the water and went upstairs.

After returning to the room, Qiao Ximo held back her tears, went to the bathroom, took a shower, put on her pajamas and lay on the bed.

She was trying her best to fall asleep, but Qiao Ximo was tossing and turning on the bed and couldn't fall asleep.

Qiao Ximo just felt so stupid. He didn't even know why he had to work so hard to prepare a birthday gift for him?
Chapter completed!