174: Chapter 174 Star Island Holiday: The Gentleman's Male Lead 3

In a flash, two days had passed.

This was the last day Xia Qingyuan and her colleagues stayed in Country Y.

The origin of this company group trip was actually a bit subtle.

The young and promising deputy general manager, Cheng Wang, finally got together with the boss's daughter, Su Lingxi.

Once the eldest miss was happy, she treated the interested employees to a luxury vacation.

As for Cheng Wang, he was precisely the next-door older brother Xia Qingyuan had secretly loved for many years.

Precisely because of this, feeling distressed in her heart, she proposed choosing a place so distant that it wasn't even in the country.

However, Xia Qingyuan was naturally an optimistic person, and after these few days, her mood had already improved by more than half.

At this moment, she was leisurely packing her luggage in the hotel room, humming an unknown tune.

Just then, a sudden knock—'Dong, dong, dong'—sounded at the door.

"Yes, who is it?"

Xia Qingyuan walked over in puzzlement.

"Sorry to disturb, front desk service."

Opening the door, a hotel waiter stood outside with a professional smile on his face.

She held a delicately packaged small gift box in both hands and handed it over respectfully.

"Are you Ms. Xia Qingyuan? Just now, a gentleman asked me to make sure I deliver this gift into your hands personally."

Gossip gleamed in the waiter's eyes.

"He also said, this is an 'unexpected joy'!"

Unexpected joy.

Hearing this word, Xia Qingyuan understood instantly; the person who sent the gift was Meng Zhu.

"Alright, thank you so much."

With a somewhat warm face, she took the gift box, expressed her thanks, and closed the door.

Returning to the room, she gently untied the ribbon of the gift box.

It turned out to be a piece of sea glass, lying quietly in the velvet lining, instantly capturing her gaze.

All its sharp edges had been polished away by the waves, presenting a soft arc, pure without a trace of impurity.

People who lived on the beach for over a decade might not even be able to pick up a single piece of sea glass.

Xia Qingyuan held it at her fingertips, involuntarily facing the window and the bright sunshine.

In an instant, brilliant radiance was refracted from the glass, filling the entire room with rainbows.

"Gosh, it's so pretty..."

She couldn't help letting out a soft sigh.

Only then did she notice that in the corner of the gift box, there was also a small card placed.

She picked up the card and saw a sentence written on it:

[ This is something I picked up on the beach when I was a child. I hope this luck can also bring you blessings. ]

In the lower right corner of the card, a small sun snail was also drawn.

Xia Qingyuan chuckled with a "puchi" sound.

She immediately took out her phone, her fingertips dancing swiftly across the screen.

[ Mr. Meng Zhu, I have received the gift. Thank you very much for the 'unexpected joy' you sent. It is very unexpected, and also very pleasant. ]

Having finished all this, she contentedly put the sea glass and the card together into her backpack.

...

Bidding farewell to Country Y, Xia Qingyuan and her colleagues embarked on their return journey.

On the other hand, Meng Zhu's life seemed to have returned to peace as well.

He handled corporate affairs step by step and steadily managed his own enterprise.

It was as if his two brief encounters with the female lead were truly just accidents.

The bullet comment viewers in the live broadcast room were practically going crazy with anxiety.

After all, long-distance relationships were already difficult enough; was Meng Zhu going to have a trans-national relationship?

Besides, after adding each other's contact info, the two didn't even send a few text messages.

Compared to love at first sight in the original work, rushing across ten thousand miles to Country H—

Nowadays, not a shred of hope could be seen.

Many bullet comments even chose to give up and went to watch the female lead instead.

Compared to Meng Zhu's boring corporate life here, the daily life at the female lead's resort could be somewhat more interesting.

Meng Zhu didn't care about this; he truly wasn't in a rush.

Anyway, in a short span of time, the female lead couldn't possibly run away.

However, unhurried though he was, he indeed had plans to head to Country H.

But before that, he had to ensure that all his assets and company could still operate without a single hitch during the time he was away.

In this movie, he was a rich person, but not that rich.

Covering the sky with one hand in a single city was even more impossible.

Nor was there any way to shout out arrogant phrases like letting the heaven chill and the Wang family fall.

However, financial freedom was certain.

Having money might not necessarily win true love, but without money, your choices would be far fewer.

Doing things would also be bound hand and foot.

Right in such a peaceful daily routine, time actually skipped forward.

The heavenly dao couldn't bear to watch his inaction either.

The next moment, the movie screen suddenly darkened, and then lit up once again.

In the blink of an eye, it was actually a month later.

...

Inside Meng Zhu's company office.

He had just finished processing the last document.

Rubbing the space between his eyebrows, he rarely prepared to rest for a moment.

Looking at the gloomy window outside, on an inexplicable impulse, he pulled open the desk drawer.

Inside the drawer, the sundial shell given to him by Xia Qingyuan was lying quietly.

He held it in his hand, his fingertips gently feeling the texture on the shell, and his gaze turned soft.

During the two times he met Xia Qingyuan, he genuinely felt his emotional changes.

The influence of the protagonist's memories was huge, so much that it took Meng Zhu a long time to adapt to and change the original owner's reticence.

As for other emotional personalities, that took even longer.

In the settings, the original owner's childhood was slightly tragic, considered an orphan starting point.

Why was it considered so?

Because both parents were still alive, they just didn't want him anymore.

Both his parents were people of Country H, belonging to a family alliance, except they had no feelings and both sides had lovers.

Later, his mother Meng Qinghe became pregnant, leading to their divorce, but Meng Qinghe never expected that her lover was a scumbag.

He disappeared, not playing mysterious, but simply running away.

Meng Qinghe's self-assumed true love turned out to be blind, and she consequently hated her own child as well.

Thus, shortly after birth, Meng Zhu was sent by her to his grandfather's home in Country Y.

The relationship between the grandfather and the mother was very rigid, and as his mother's illegitimate child, Meng Zhu was likewise disliked by his grandfather.

One could only say he didn't starve to death and grew up free-range.

Fortunately, as the protagonist, the original owner not only grew up smoothly but also studied very hard.

Later in his teens, his grandfather passed away from illness. Having never been close to Meng Zhu his entire life, he still gave his family property to Meng Zhu on his deathbed.

It was considered as looking at the blood ties of his mother Meng Qinghe.

Therefore, the original owner's personality was originally rather gloomy and reticent.

However, it was completely normal for the actor's subconscious personality to differ from the original owner's.

Therefore, Meng Zhu began changing his personality at the very first moment.

That iron law remained: a man who doesn't open his mouth does not deserve to pursue the person he loves.

After snapping back to reality,

Meng Zhu thought about future plans and felt the timing was about right.

So he picked up his phone and sent a text message to that number far away in Country H:

[ Ms. Qingyuan, if I come to Country H, will you entertain me? ]

The message was sent successfully.

Not long after, the phone screen lit up.

Xia Qingyuan's reply popped out:

[ My hometown is right at star island holiday, a very famous vacation resort, you know! So, entertaining a distinguished guest who has traveled afar is my specialty! ]

She was still the same, her text messages full of vitality.

Meng Zhu once again involuntarily curled the corners of his lips.

He pressed the internal phone line and called Assistant Qin over.

"Get ready,"

Meng Zhu leaned against the back of his chair, his tone relaxed.

"We are going to Country H for a vacation together."

Assistant Qin wore a look of shock.

"Boss, why can you be like a general the previous moment, and the next moment turn around to go fishing?"

"Appropriate rest, I feel there is no problem."

Meng Zhu spread his hands; Assistant Qin was special.

He was twelve years older than Meng Zhu and had followed Meng Zhu for more than ten years, so his speech was also relatively casual.

They were more like friends.

But this friend understood Meng Zhu very well, and Meng Zhu meant what he said.

Therefore, he only sighed and had no intention of refuting.

"Then Boss, how long are we going for vacation?"

Meng Zhu looked out the window again, his gaze distant.

"For now, let's make it three months."

"Th... Three months?!"

Assistant Qin threw a fit of anger.

He was losing his mind—Meng Zhu was clearly someone he had watched grow up.

But lately, for some reason, he was truly getting more and more incomprehensible.

Not only did he talk more, but he could actually even smile now.

Furthermore, he was going on vacation now; wasn't he a workaholic?