How a Queen Was Made Chapter Ten.

Chapter 10 : Extra: Xiahou Xue Cheng.

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It was that day again, the secretary looked at the time, then got up and walked to the office door, knocked, and only after hearing the “Come in” from inside, turned the door handle to enter.

“Chairman, it’s one o’clock.” After the secretary dutifully reminded the time, she went out.

Xiahou Xue Cheng’s pen, which had been busy approving documents, stopped abruptly, and he did not look back until the secretary had gone out.

The secretary returned to her seat and appeared to continue her work in earnest, but out of the corner of her vision, she kept an eye on the situation in the office.

As expected, the chairman came out a few minutes later with his coat on, “Let Manager Liu handle that negotiation today, as for anyone looking for me, just tell them that I’m absent.”

“Yes.” The secretary who had been with Xiahou Xue Cheng for five years did not raise doubts or emphasise to him how important today’s negotiations were, and perhaps that was why she had not been fired and had remained in this position as secretary. Although she was also curious as to what kind of person or thing made the chairman of her company, who treated his work with more zest than he would’ve treated his wife, leave all his work behind, and did so year after year.

The secretary, after ten minutes, silently counted down in her mind, “3,2,1 ……”

“Ding Ding Ding ……” The phone rang on time.

“Hello, this is the chairman’s office ……,” She answered the phone in a very professional manner.

On the other end of the line was also a familiar and pretending to be gentle voice, “Your chairman is out again?”

“Yes, Madam.” The secretary secretly rolled her eyes inwardly, she obviously knew, yet still called every time to ask.

“And did he say he’d be back for dinner this evening?” The person on the other end didn’t respond either, but continued to press the issue.

“The chairman didn’t say anything about it before he went out.”

“All right.” The phone sharply hung up.

The secretary made a face at the hung-up phone, only to be caught by the man who came up.

“What’s the lovely Mi doing, and who offended you.” Feng Hua, who hadn’t changed much, sat on his butt at the desk and dished at the secretary.

“You!” The secretary didn’t take it easy on him either, “What are you doing here again, the President is not here.”

“I know, Xiahou goes there every year on this day.” Feng Hua wondered what had occurred to him and sighed a little. Before the secretary could comfort him, he began to speak in a slick voice again, “So I’m here to see you, ah, may I ask this young lady if I could have the pleasure of treating you to a meal?”

“Nope! There!” She didn’t know why Feng Hua had been pestering her lately, even though she kept on refusing him as she didn’t want to play around with this Playboy.

Let’s not talk about the joyful pair in the office building, at this moment, Xiahou Xue Cheng was driving his car towards the countryside.

An hour later, the car stopped outside a cemetery, and Xiahou Xue Cheng walked up the steps, allowing himself to be immersed in his memories.

He remembered the man who said, “A man’s life does not go on without anyone, everyone is just passing through. If one dies for the sake of one person, what I see is not his deep love, but his cowardice. So learn not to be like those cowards, oh, and especially like the fate we carry on our shoulders, not just our own, but our family’s.”

So, after the departure of that person, apart from the first year in which he did some crazy things, he calmly accepted the marriage arranged by his father and calmly started to take over the business Empire, doing everything that he was supposed to do as “Xiahou Xue Cheng”.

Only allowing himself to indulge in missing that person on this one day of the year, for one day only ……

He was unconsciously walking in front of the man’s grave, and Xiahou Xue Cheng squatted down, caressing the words he had carved on the monument, “Chu Sicheng”, and gazing at the man’s polite and detached smile in the photo.

“But you didn’t say what to do if you can’t forget the passing people in your life, and indeed I am a coward too ……”

He didn’t know when it started to rain, and small to large drops began to fall on Xiahou Xue Cheng’s face, mixing with the tears that seeped out of the corners of his eyes, and sliding down his cheeks together.

By the time Xiahou Xue Cheng left the cemetery, his clothes were completely soaked through, yet he was numb and as a wooden man. With a blank face, he got straight into his car and sped away, except for the slight redness at the corners of his eyes, it was impossible to see the raging emotions in his heart.

Xiahou Xue Cheng did not drive back to that so-called home, but went to the Essence Academy.

After the fire, the building was no longer in use and Xiahou Xue Cheng got it rebuilt and had the man’s office decorated exactly as it had been before it burned down.

When he entered the office, Xiahou Xue Cheng sat down in the same spot where the man used to sit, and just *stayed* there until Baima Qian arrived.

“He has already left.” Baima Qian leaned against the door. 

Xiahou Xue Cheng did not respond, the room was silent, with only the sound of breathing remaining. It seemed that Baima Qian could not stand that atmosphere and left with the words, “He didn’t like you like that”.

It was only after a long time that a raspy voice came to life, “I know, so after today, I will still be the same thundering Xiahou Xue Cheng, still the President of the Xiahou Group, huh ……”

Looking around, the room still resembled what it was when the man was there, except there wasn’t a single trace of the man’s scent, and he didn’t know exactly what he was remembering ……

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Okay, although it seems to me a bit abprut how XXC fell in love, it stills pains me a bit to see him like this, poor thing!

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