279 Because... I Miss You! (17)

This was the first time she had heard him praise a girl.

Chu Nanxi chuckled softly.

"Do you like her?"

"I do."

"What happened to her later? Where did she go?"

There was no hint of jealousy or anything like that in her tone.

It was just a childhood playmate, and emotions weren't that complex back then.

"Later..." Hannian tightened his grip on her arm, "she moved away."

Chu Nanxi tilted her head, "Didn't you go look for her?"

"I moved too, sent abroad by my father."

"What a pity!" Chu Nanxi grinned mischievously at him, "Otherwise, you two might have been childhood sweethearts!"

Hannian chuckled and changed the subject.

"Father took me to the West. At his friend's place, I saw my horse, less than a year old, its coat like silk, indescribably beautiful. The farmer said it was the best thoroughbred in the region. My father saw that I liked it and wanted to buy it for me, but the farmer wouldn't agree, saying the horse was too fierce for me to tame."

"What then?"