CHAPTER 1078: CHAPTER 1078: ROSES AND TEARS (PART 4)

It was through this effort that Qiao Liang managed to finish all the courses at Landai Academy in just one year. On his first time participating in a culinary competition, he won first place, becoming the youngest contestant to achieve this result.

Since then, he has been busy.

His father no longer opposed his learning of culinary arts, and he began to have access to various fresh ingredients from all over the world, so she no longer needed to shop for him.

On her birthday, he would give her all sorts of gifts, roses that required a car to carry, a giant rose cake... but he never again carved a blossoming rose for her.

Ever since their families proposed the arranged marriage, he had been avoiding her, and the birthday gifts were sent by courier.

This time, he quietly slipped away before her birthday. Chu Xinqing originally thought he had forgotten her birthday, but unexpectedly, he still remembered.

"What’s wrong?" Qiao Liang looked at Chu Xinqing’s eyes like broken beads on her face, and his eyebrows immediately furrowed, "Are you feeling uncomfortable somewhere?"

The doctor and nurses took her for an examination, and he was also pulled by the nurse to have his body checked and his wounds treated. When he returned, he saw the clock in the hallway and realized that it had unknowingly passed midnight.

Having grown up with her since childhood, he certainly remembered her birthday by heart.

Just in the rush, there was no place to prepare a gift. Seeing the fruit at someone else’s bedside in a ward, he remembered something from the past, and shamelessly asked for an apple, used a nurse’s fruit knife to carefully cut it and bring it to her, intending to make her happy and relieve her tension. Who knew it would make the little girl cry instead.

Chu Xinqing looked at the apple rose, thinking about the future, he might use this trick to make other girls happy, and she would no longer have the right to have him carve an apple rose for her anywhere, just cried even more sadly.

Only assuming she was still scared by the previous kidnapping incident, Qiao Liang hurriedly put the apple aside and stood up to hug her shoulders.

"Be good, don’t cry, everything is over, it’s fine... be good..."

Knowing she was frightened, he was especially gentle and considerate, yet Chu Xinqing cried even more uncontrollably.

Her heart was filled with regret, she shouldn’t have written that letter, shouldn’t have let go of him...

If she hadn’t written that letter, at least she could shamelessly cling to him, not allow him to have a girlfriend, and chase him around the world...

But now, it’s all over!

In the future, she would no longer have a reason, and naturally, no more opportunity like this.

Thinking about the future when he would like another girl, he would marry another girl, and she could only smile at him from afar and also have to smile and call the girl beside him "sister-in-law," made her heart ache unbearably.

The girl in his arms not only didn’t calm down but cried more and more sadly, Qiao Liang could even clearly feel her tears soaking through his shirt.

"Xiaoqing!" Nervous, Qiao Liang stretched out his hand to gently support her shoulders, "Stop crying, you... what’s wrong, is it a stomach ache, or are you feeling uncomfortable somewhere, I’ll get the doctor!"

"No!" Chu Xinqing threw herself over again, tightly hugging his waist with both arms, "Don’t leave me."

If tonight is the last chance to cling to him, let her be overly clingy just this once...

This girl must have been really frightened!

Qiao Liang frowned and sighed, extending his arms to embrace her once again, one arm around her, and the other gently patting her back to comfort her softly.