Chapter 63: The Withered Peach Blossom
York Charlie expected to see something on Blanche Capra’s face, but she just froze for a moment, her face puzzled as she asked, “What little piggy?”
York Charlie stared at her more and more intently, his deep eyes unmoving.
Blanche Capra took another bite of her noodles, sucked on her chopsticks, and frowned, “I don’t know what you heard, and I don’t understand it at all,” and stood up, “I’m full, don’t you have to work today?”
York Charlie jerked up and took one of her hands, “You want to play dumb and get this over with?” He laughed softly, “Blanche Capra, you should have a reason even if you’re talking in your sleep, right? Why would you talk in your sleep like that, hmm?”
Blanche Capra simply sat back down again and asked slowly, “You really want to hear it?”
York Charlie instantly gave a look like he did.
“You let me think about it, if I had to say anything piggy, it would have been when I was a kid, who’s that naive now.” Blanche Capra laughs.
York Charlie sits down, too, and assumes a posture of listening.
Blanche Capra as if really recalling something very distant, face with thought, “when I was a child, like to take pottery class …”
York Charlie leaned forward when he heard this, his gaze deepening.This content © 2024 NôvelDrama.Org.
He thought Blanche Capra was going to tell him the exact same story he had in his head, but how could that be? Blanche Capra had probably picked up on the fact that the more she thought the same thing as him, the harder it was for him to keep his cool, let alone see through her witty ploys.
Blanche Capra said with a bit of a grin, “When I was a kid I loved pottery classes, and the first thing I ever made was a ceramic piggy, ah I have to tell you, it was actually a piggy bank, only I messed it up and the piggy’s belly was solid, so naturally it wasn’t a piggy bank.”
Blanche Capra paused for a moment while York Charlie said nothing, so she continued, “It was the first thing I’d ever made, and of course I treasured it very much, but it was smashed by that villain Lorcan George, and it made me cry for a long time.” She trailed off again, a little helplessly, “You see, that’s why I didn’t tell you straight away. I reckon, I was asking Lorcan George to return the stuff, in case you got upset hearing it again.”
Blanche Capra finished with a deliberate wink and a snicker. She knew that whether York Charlie believed the story or not, as long as she could justify herself, as long as she didn’t admit that she was who he thought she was, then he couldn’t do anything about it.
If he still doubted it, on the other hand, it wasn’t a bad thing for her, and even … she could use this mentality of his to carry out her revenge plan.
Blanche Capra felt that although she didn’t know exactly what kind of thoughts York Charlie held about Brandi, but that didn’t matter, because she knew that Brandi was finally a thorn planted in his heart, and as long as Brandi was involved, he would be emotionally unstable, he would be indecisive, and he would lose half of his composure.
I have to say that Blanche Capra does win when it comes to psychological tactics, she captures the psychological gap in York Charlie, who at this point gradually cools down when he hears such a story with the same beginning, a different course and an even more radically different ending. His expectations were shattered, but if the one who shattered it was not Blanche Capra but another woman, he guessed that he would still be able to calmly think about whether or not she was lying or not, but it turned out that this person was Blanche Capra …
York Charlie had to admit that whether he still had love for Brandi or not, he did have two women in his heart today. One is buried in the distant past, like a dead branch covered in the snow in the depth of winter, seemingly lifeless but also stuck in his cold and painful; the other is placed at hand in front of the eyes, such as the peach blossoms blooming in the white mist in early spring, the colour of the touching but also suddenly far and near, suddenly thick and thin, and always let him give birth to a kind of déjà vu feeling.
But I do not know, is she really the peach blossom that has nothing to do with the dead branches, or is it a flower that blossoms after the dead wood has sprung to life? York Charlie was puzzled.
The two of them had their own thoughts, and the room was so quiet for a while that you could hear the birds chirping outside the window. The silence was broken when York Charlie’s mobile phone rang, and Blanche Capra was relieved to see him answering it as if nothing had happened, knowing that he wouldn’t be asking her any more questions for a while.
In truth, she wasn’t as calm and collected as she appeared to be.
“Hello?” York Charlie said one word, and then something was said on the other end, and York Charlie returned another expressionless, “I’ll be right there.”
Blanche Capra thought he was leaving, and was so willing that she couldn’t wait for him to hurry up, so she said, “It’s urgent? Then hurry up!” And brought him his coat.
York Charlie took it, and, seeing that a little colour of joy came into her brow, said faintly, “You’re coming along too.”
“Me?” Blanche Capra was surprised, then refused without thinking, “No!”
York Charlie frowned at her, and Blanche Capra immediately made excuses for herself, “I’m still a little sick, and I’d like to stay home and lie down.”
“Just because you’re sick is all the more reason not to stay home alone.” Said he, not allowing her to postpone any further, “Don’t say anything, I’m not letting you stay here. Pack up and come with me at once.”
Blanche Capra didn’t have the strength to struggle with him any longer, it would be better to try to avoid unnecessary conflict in the meantime, she thought.
When Blanche Capra followed York Charlie to his office, she realized how serious it was that he had skipped half of his shift, York Charlie was busy dealing with things, Blanche Capra knew she couldn’t do anything to help, and being left in the office was really boring, so she went out to use the toilet.
But she didn’t expect to run into someone cheating on her in the bathroom.
It was then when she walked in that she caught a glimpse of a man holding a woman against the wall in a passionate kiss, the woman half-submissive, half-pushing back her words.
“Don’t get too excited, honestly, I’m scared every day that your wife will find out.”
The man kissed her hard and squeezed her bum, “Don’t worry baby, I’ll be divorcing her soon …”
Blanche Capra stood frozen for a moment and immediately came back to her senses about to turn and walk away.
The man couldn’t see her with his back to her, but the woman looked at her at that moment, and her soft eyes immediately sharpened and she violently pushed the man away.
The man still didn’t know what was wrong with her all of a sudden, and looked at her very puzzled, the woman looked to see that the place where Blanche Capra had been standing was deserted, and she said, “Someone has seen us, you go back first, and I’ll go and see.”
There were toilets on both the east and west sides of the building, so Blanche Capra went back to the west toilet, not expecting to see the woman who had just cheated on her in the east toilet leaning against the wall with her arms wrapped around her, looking at her when she came out of the toilet.
A look of watchfulness.
Blanche Capra turned a blind eye, and wanted to leave, the woman suddenly pulled her clothes, “looks very strange, you are new here, right? I’m warning you, what you just saw must be treated as if you hadn’t seen anything, not to mention telling anyone, do you understand? If you want to stay in the Charlie Group properly, you have to keep your mouth shut!” Sure enough, it was full of warning tone.
Blanche Capra sneered back, “Who are you? Hardly in a position high enough to make me disappear here tomorrow?”
The woman certainly didn’t have that skill, but the ability to put on airs she still had, “What, you don’t believe me?” Said suddenly raised her hand and slapped Blanche Capra, Blanche Capra totally didn’t expect this woman to be so arrogant, and her hand speed was so fast that she was caught off guard, and she just took a solid slap from her.