Is It Too Late To Regret Chapter 7

Aiden Jiang couldn't remember when Elliot Duan's cold and mean mouth became so humorous.

He lowered his eyebrows and stared at Elliot Duan's face aggressively, trying to find some flaws.

But in those deep eyes, there was only the calmness as always, as if he was staying away from the incident.

He is indeed an old enemy who has been in tit-for-tat with him for so many years. Even for such an outrageous matter as getting a registered permanent residence with him, he refuses to unite with him!

Before Felicity He said those words, he had naively hoped that Elliot Duan could reach a consensus with him and work together to find a way to reject the marriage.

Aiden Jiang liked to touch the cigarette case when he was irritable. He reached into his pocket and dug around, but he couldn't find it for a long time.

He lowered his head and patted his trouser pocket and said, "What a bad luck." Suddenly, the sound of knocking on a cardboard box rang in his ears.

The next second, a cigarette was pressed against his lips.

It turned out to be a customized model that he often smoked. It was not pungent and smelly like ordinary cigarettes, and it was difficult to buy in China.

The subtle smell of tobacco tickled his heart, but in the end he didn't mind it. He opened his lips slightly and put the cigarette into his mouth.

Elliot Duan raised his hand to protect Aiden Jiang's lips from the wind. With his other hand, he pushed open the lighter cover and turned the grinding wheel with his thumb. With a click, a faint blue spark popped out.

For a few minutes after the cigarette was lit, Elliot Duan did not leave, but stood by silently, as if waiting for a reply.

There is an indescribable calmness about "everything is under control".

Aiden Jiang was unhappy, but he was too lazy to chase people away. He smoked deeply and lightly, the orange light spots between his fingers flickering on and off without rhythm.

When he walked to the trash can to knock out the ashes, through the gap in the bamboo curtain not far away, Aiden Jiang vaguely saw his father serving tea to Maxwell Duan, and Maxwell Duan patted his father on the shoulder. The two looked like they were brothers. ...

He agreed to this marriage by himself. Not only did his parents not force him, but they also advised him to think twice.

It's not that he can't regret the blind date, but if he wants to leave now, he will be happy, but it is the Duan family that will be offended. For Jiang Li, it is just adding insult to injury. Besides, he can find another person who is enough in a short time. It is difficult to stabilize the backing of other shareholders.

He should be more mature. He is twenty-six years old, not sixteen, at least he cannot be compared to someone like Duan.

On the distant horizon, the melting sunset gradually cools and sinks.

Aiden Jiang slowly exhaled a cloud of smoke, and suddenly felt a strange tranquility after the storm in his heart. Although it left a mess that could not be cleaned up, he could no longer arouse the desire to fight.

"Have you calmed down?" Elliot Duan asked him.

Aiden Jiang stubbed out his cigarette and said in an awkward tone: "Let's talk about it first. We're just going to cooperate in this area. As for other more important things, don't even think about it."

"What's more than that?" Elliot Duan's tone was slightly slower, as if he was playing with these five words, "What's more than that between us?"

Aiden Jiang was referring to erasing their previous grudges.

He knew that Elliot Duan understood what he meant and was deliberately using his words to sway him.

He rolled his eyes and didn't want to talk to Elliot Duan.

"Since we are going to cooperate in the future, we can't even have the WeChat account of our partner, right?"

Elliot Duan took out his mobile phone and waved it in front of Aiden Jiang.

Aiden Jiang paused for a moment, said "Oh", took out his mobile phone, and went straight to the blacklist.

Elliot Duan lowered his head slightly, his eyes following Aiden Jiang's cold white slender fingertips and landing on the screen.

He was the only one on Aiden Jiang's blacklist.

Elliot Duan raised his eyebrows slightly: "You've only blocked me?"

Aiden Jiang lowered his head and stared at the phone, humming and saying: "Yes, I arranged a luxurious single-person cell for Mr. Duan. You don't need to thank me. You deserve it."

A laugh hit my eardrums without warning, with a magnetic quality.

Aiden Jiang paused with his thumb controlling the screen: "Why are you laughing?"

Elliot Duan said: "I didn't expect that I am so special to you."

Aiden Jiang raised his eyelids and said fiercely: "If you beep one more word, I won't let you out."

Elliot Duan raised his chin, signaling Aiden Jiang to continue, and his expression returned to inscrutable.

Aiden Jiang angrily opened the section and turned on the snowy crystal ball avatar that had not changed for many years, and turned off the "Add to Blacklist" button.

Elliot Duan’s WeChat account was finally released after serving his sentence.

The sentence was seven years and nine months.

*

In fact, on that terrible snowy night in the senior year of high school, after they parted ways in front of the small grocery store outside the school, Aiden Jiang did not immediately block Elliot Duan on WeChat.

After all, we have been together as enemies and friends for so long, and we have created countless memories together. After the mood calms down, it is inevitable that there will be a feeling of reluctance.

Such complicated emotions lasted until the first Christmas after the college entrance examination, when he went to Q University to find Preston Shen.

That day, he was sitting in the scheduled restaurant on campus, waiting for Preston Shen to finish class.

When the time came, the wind chimes on the glass door jingled, and he looked at the door expectantly.

The person who walked into the restaurant wearing a snowy wind was a tall young man with long legs.

The other party was wearing a dark gray coat, unbuttoned, and the snow particles on his shoulders looked like traces of a hurry.

The black turtleneck sweater underneath made the man look pale and gave him an air of loneliness, but it did not shake the cold look at all.

"How did you come?"

The moment their eyes met up and down, Aiden Jiang suddenly leaned forward and raised his voice unconsciously.

"It seems more reasonable for students from University Q to appear in this restaurant than students from University B."

The voice that had not been heard in half a year sounded more mature from far away to near.

Elliot Duan walked slowly towards the restaurant, with a face with good bones, and the skylight outside the door gradually disappeared into the darkness.

Aiden Jiang knew he was in the wrong, so he snorted disapprovingly. Just as he was about to lower his head to send a message to Preston Shen, he suddenly felt the light in front of him dim.

Looking up, Elliot Duan sat on the chair opposite him and asked the waiter for a cup of hot Americano.

Aiden Jiang looked around. There were only a few customers in the store, and there were no empty tables.

As soon as Elliot Duan sat down, he drank coffee by himself, and it didn't seem like he wanted to catch up with him.

What's more, Elliot Duan doesn't regard him as a friend, and has no old friendship with him. If he insists on building a relationship, they can be regarded as love rivals at best.

Aiden Jiang narrowed his eyes slightly, with clear doubts in his eyes. Just as he was about to ask, the glass door was pushed open from the outside again.

Preston Shen is here.

There was also a girl with long hair who came in together. They were wearing the same red scarf and holding hands.

Aiden Jiang's brain was a little short-circuited and he sat in a chair for a long time. It wasn't until they came over laughing and talking that he looked away from their intertwined hands.

"who is she?"

Aiden Jiang raised his eyes and asked.

The girl's face turned slightly red. She was sensitive and noticed the subtle ups and downs of Aiden Jiang's emotions.

"This is my girlfriend." Preston Shen put his palm on the back of the girl's hand and gently helped her out, "Elliot Duan heard that you were coming, so he suggested it on the spur of the moment. He asked me to take this opportunity to bring Xiaowei over and let you Meet her."

When Aiden Jiang heard this, his frozen thoughts suddenly exploded in his mind like a startled dove.

His first reaction was not to respond to Preston Shen's explanation, but to look at Elliot Duan who was standing aside.

At that time, Elliot Duan was stirring the steaming coffee, his movements unhurried and his expression calm, as if he was in a bright and elegant high-end restaurant.

The girl tentatively took a step forward and said softly to Aiden Jiang: "Hello, are you Aiden Jiang? My name is Xu Yuewei. I heard from Preston Shen that you used to take special care of him."

Xu Yuewei, Preston Shen’s later wife.

After the initial turmoil, Aiden Jiang regained his lazy smile, stood up, and personally invited Xu Yuewei to sit down.

"It should be, it should be, we are buddies. I didn't expect that a simple kid like Preston Shen would have S3x right after he went to college." After saying that, he punched Preston Shen on the shoulder, "You can do it, talk about it." Such a beautiful girlfriend wouldn’t make it public earlier.”

"We just established our relationship not long ago." Preston Shen glanced at his girlfriend, sat down next to her, raised his head and said to Aiden Jiang with a smile, "Among my former friends, you and Elliot Duan were the first to know."

During this meal, the atmosphere in the room between the three of them was as peaceful as ever.

Elliot Duan still cherished words like gold, and Aiden Jiang still used words to tease Preston Shen occasionally as before.

But Preston Shen no longer reacted to Aiden Jiang in a tepid and shy manner, but focused more on taking care of the girls around him, with a mature feeling in his every move.

Aiden Jiang saw it all, and felt a sense of miraculous and indescribable relief in his heart.

In his memory, the boy who always wore a shy smile changed his appearance bit by bit as the meal progressed, and he no longer looked like what he liked.

Of course Aiden Jiang knew that he was not that affectionate.

Being able to persist from high school to college is nothing more than unwillingness, let alone not wanting to lose to Elliot Duan easily.

But at this moment, he and Elliot Duan were defeated together, so there was no need to force it anymore.

But he was still very unhappy. After thinking about it, he found that it had little to do with Preston Shen and most of it came from someone else.

After dinner, Preston Shen sent Xu Yuewei to the work-study program.

Neither Aiden Jiang nor Elliot Duan followed to act as light bulbs. They were still facing each other, sitting at the dinner table with messy cups and plates.

The moment Preston Shen disappeared outside the door, Aiden Jiang stretched his legs under the table and stepped hard on the seat bar between Elliot Duan's crotch with his right foot, which he had been holding back for a long time, with a gloomy smile on his face.

"Why, after seeing me falling out of love, you finally feel more balanced?"

Elliot Duan's eyes wavered slightly, without saying anything, he threw something into his arms.

Aiden Jiang lowered his head and saw that it was the Christmas gift he had prepared for Preston Shen. It was a watch, packed in a small box and placed in the pocket of his down jacket. He didn't know when it fell out and fell into Elliot Duan's hand. Maybe it was When I went to the bathroom just now, but it doesn't matter anymore.

Aiden Jiang stood up suddenly, hitting the chair with a harsh scraping sound, and strode out of the restaurant.

The watch worth more than 100,000 yuan was thrown into the trash can on the roadside without any hesitation. The black satin box was instantly covered with a thin layer of snow, as if frozen.

After a while, the sound of stepping on snow came from behind.

Aiden Jiang turned around and Elliot Duan followed him.

Although Elliot Duan did not answer his question just now, based on his understanding of Elliot Duan and Elliot Duan's actions of deliberately letting him see Xu Yuewei, he concluded that Elliot Duan was in a happy mood at this moment. of.

He was not surprised at all that Elliot Duan would do such a thing.

Elliot Duan has never been an upright person, and his heart of asking for things but not getting them has become twisted into something long ago.

The snow was falling heavily, and neither of them held an umbrella.

A few snowflakes hung under Aiden Jiang's furrowed brows. They were firmly caught by the temperature of his skin. As he blinked, they gradually turned into fine water droplets and dappled on his trembling eyelashes, making the whole pair of eyes seem to be covered with wetness. meaning.

When he passed by Elliot Duan, he heard Elliot Duan calling him.

"Aiden Jiang."

He raised his head, and a warm hand suddenly touched his eyes, and then gently brushed his cheekbones.

"Don't be too sad."

There were noisy people on the roadside and the north wind was howling. He couldn't hear Elliot Duan's tone clearly, but he could feel the temperature on his fingertips.

very hot.

Stealing his heartbeat without warning.

So gentle, as gentle as teasing.

He was stunned in place, his eyes suddenly looking at those black eyes, but he was blocked from the calmness and depth.

Just like in my memory, that merciless rejection.

Aiden Jiang suddenly felt a burst of anger in his heart.

"Which of your eyes has seen that I am sad? If you want to make fun of me with this kind of thing, please stop it."

He said angrily and left without looking back.

In fact, he couldn't remember whether he was sad or not that day. He only remembered that Elliot Duan came to see his jokes, and deliberately pretended to be caring, trying to mock him for how disgusting his face was.

He originally planned to spend the entire Christmas with Preston Shen, but he left that afternoon and refused Preston Shen's offer to send him off.

After leaving Q University, he blocked Elliot Duan.

*

"Yao Yao, only my family is here at the moment. Tell your mother the truth. Is there anything going on between you and Elliot Duan?"

On the way home from the restaurant, Yuan Li sat in the car and asked Aiden Jiang worriedly.

After all, she was a woman and naturally transparent. Even though the whole dinner was about investment, she still noticed something strange.

Being dragged out of his long-lasting memories, Aiden Jiang said calmly: "We were at the same school before, but we met each other, but we weren't familiar with each other."

Hearing this, Jiang Qingtian turned around from the passenger seat with a cheerful expression on his face: "Look at me, if there is a real conflict between the two children, Elliot Duan would not be able to take the initiative to take on this marriage."

Aiden Jiang also said: "Mom, don't worry about me. The company still has a lot of things waiting for you to deal with."

Yuan Li was coaxed by the father and son and nodded: "This will make mom feel relieved."

Aiden Jiang smiled to comfort his mother, but memories of the past still appeared in his mind involuntarily.

He was also puzzled about this marriage, even though Elliot Duan gave him a very official explanation.

He sat in the car seat, opened WeChat, and asked Elliot Duan: "You didn't want to deliberately disgust me, so you took the initiative to marry me, right?"

A few minutes later, I received a reply from Elliot Duan: "Whatever you think."

Aiden Jiang could imagine Elliot Duan's calm and indifferent look when he typed these words.

I kind of want to follow the network cable and fight over there.

He knitted his brows and said, "Is it too late to regret your marriage now?"

Elliot Duan: "It's too late, wife."

Grass!

Aiden Jiang blocked Elliot Duan again without even blinking.