Strike Back, Proud Goddess! Novels
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As expected, the journalists were chasing their cars, but they had left the school road section. The car sped away as Qiao Liang stomped on the accelerator hard. Tang Xi looked at Qiao Liang with a sweet smile on her face and asked, "Why are you here?"

It felt like they were back in time when they had just fallen in love. Despite taking the same major, they choose different elective courses. Every time they were in a different class, he would leave his class first and wait for him outside of his class. When he saw her, he would sneak out of the classroom and run into the dining room while holding her hand.

Qiao Liang grabbed Tang Xi's hand and spoke in a low voice. "I've finished my work." He did not want to tell her that he woke up this morning and thought everything up until now was a dream, which was why he had come to ascertain whether he was really dreaming or not.

Tang Xi looked at Qiao Liang's profile. He really had a perfect face, almost flawless. Only, he was too thin, with a pointy chin and a slender body. Recalling how she looked in the past, Tang Xi felt her heart ache. He asked, "You haven't eaten well in years, have you?"

She used to eat a lot when she was with him, almost all the things she didn't eat, but now she didn't want to eat at all. Does he have stomach problems?

Hearing him talk about food, Qiao Liang stopped, and then smiled while holding his hand as he asked, “What do you want to eat? Let's eat.”

Tang Xi felt a little sad, but she still lifted her face and smiled at Qiao Liang. “Of course Australian lobster and hairy crab! Yes, and shrimp that should be eaten with chives sauce.”

Qiao Liang looked at Tang Xi only to find she looked sad. Although she tried to look happy in front of him, she knew he was actually not happy at all, but she did not want to tell him what he had gone through — he could not. She can't make the girl she loves feel guilty, and she can't bear to make her worry about her health, even though her concern for her will make her happy.

Knowing that Tang Xi was going home this afternoon, Qiao Liang took Tang Xi to a seafood buffet a few streets away from her school. Qiao Liang wore a mask and a hat, as did Tang Xi. However, Tang Xi was wearing a school uniform, while Qiao Liang was wearing a suit, so it seemed that it was a bit strange for them to be together. After all, it was 5 or 6pm, and there were a lot of people at the buffet, so they attracted a lot of attention…

Someone recognized that Tang Xi's school uniform was City A's First High School uniform and pointed their finger at her, commenting, “Today's high school students really aren't behaving well. Look, she's dating a guy at such a young age and dating in school uniform.”.

Some people even record videos with their phones and will post them online. Tang Xi frowned and said to Qiao Liang, "Let's find somewhere else."

He couldn't activate 008 now, so he couldn't delete the videos uploaded on the internet by those people in such a short period of time. He decided not to appear in such a place with Qiao Liang. Even though she was an adult, if those people were to upload videos online, it would definitely have a negative impact on her school.

Qiao Liang frowned and his face turned cold. He raised his eyes to look at those people. Even though he was wearing a hat and mask, his cold gaze frightened them. Many of these people delete videos on their phones and some even make way for them.

Seeing Qiao Liang get angry. Tang Xi hurriedly withdrew her hand and with a familiar and loud voice, said, "Brother, have you and Dad not come yet? Didn't they say they'd be here at 5:30?”

As soon as Qiao Liang heard his soft voice, his aggressive aura instantly disappeared. She looked at Tang Xi, who winked at her, then pursed her lips, took out her phone and said, "I'll call them."

Hearing their conversation, others realized they had misunderstood; it turned out that they were brothers. No wonder they look so friendly. They shouldn't be so rude to them. Someone even came to apologize to them. Tang Xi responded with a smile and said it didn't matter. “Because my sister is handsome and I am beautiful, when I go with my sister without school uniform, people often mistake us for a couple.”

Qiao Liang turned his gaze to Tang Xi with a frown as he spoke to his phone. “You didn't come? Then we'll be back... Okay, explain it to Sister herself. Okay, I get it. Good bye."

She hung up the phone, put it in her pocket and looked at Tang Xi, saying, "Mom and Dad are going on a business trip, so they can't celebrate your birthday with you."

Tang Xi blinked, looked at Qiao Liang and soon after realized what she meant, so she replied disappointedly, "Mother and Father promised they would celebrate my birthday with me."

Someone came to cheer her up and then proposed to celebrate her birthday for her. Tang Xi smiled and thanked him. Qiao Liang looked at the crowd before leading Tang Xi to the private room he had asked his secretary to order.

On the other hand, in the office of vice president of the Qiao International Group, Xiao Jing stared at her phone in astonishment. Can anyone tell him what happened?

What was Qiao Liang talking about?

Didn't come? Come to where?

And he said they'd come back? With who? Back to the company?

Explain to Sister herself? Did anyone tell him when Qiao Liang had a sister?!

Little sister…

Nah!

Geez!

Xiao Jing suddenly stood up, pulled out her phone and dialed the number. Shit, Qiao Liang had slipped out of the company to hit his sister while he was not paying attention! Unforgivable! This is truly unforgivable!

In the private room, Qiao Liang looked at his phone caller screen, turned him mute and then asked Tang Xi, "Still a classic mix?"

"Rawed gout ..." Tang Xi looked at Qiao Liang with shining eyes.

Qiao Liang smiled while his phone continued to vibrate. He picked it up and Tang Xi happened to see the caller ID. She couldn't help but ask, "Did you just call Jing?"

Qiao Liang winked at him before answering the phone. "Hmm?"

"Qiao Liang, are you with Rourou now?" Xiao Jing's angry voice came from the phone.

Qiao Liang sat down and poured water from the kettle to clean Tang Xi's cutlery. "No" he answered calmly.

Xiao Jing's voice sounded somewhat hesitant as she asked, "Who are you?"

Qiao Liang gave Tang Xi cleaned chopsticks, knives, and forks, then replied, "I'm with Xixi."