Ban Sheng arrived not long after Lin Weixia left. He was the last one to arrive. They had just finished cutting the cake, and Qiu Minghua saw his brother and immediately went to meet him. Ban Sheng held a dark blue brocade box in his hand and stuffed it into his hand.
As soon as Ban Sheng entered the venue, he became the focus of everyone's attention. The group of young people sitting on the sofa automatically gave up their seats and took the initiative to greet him.
"Mr. Ban, sit there. Are you hungry? Or I can ask someone to bring you a piece of cake." Qiu Minghua said positively.
Ban Sheng curled up on the sofa, his elbows resting on his thighs. He raised his hands to rub his forehead, his eyes and brows showing laziness and fatigue. It was obvious that he had just come out of the laboratory and had been busy for a day and a night.
He waved his hand to indicate no.
Qiu Minghua opened the dark blue box and found a watch inside. He glanced at the brand and cursed. He was so moved that he said, "Master Ban, how can I accept such an expensive gift..."
Ban Sheng was blocked by others when he spoke, and he said:
"Don't be hypocritical."
Qiu Ming was immediately moved by his master Ban and happily accepted the gift and went to drink. There were many people coming, all of them were young college students dressed brightly and beautifully. There was a lot of noise around. Ban Sheng raised his eyelids and looked around, but he didn't see anyone.
He took out his phone, pressed his thumb on the screen, and sent a message to Lin Weixia:
[Where are you?]
Five minutes after the message was sent, Ban Sheng frowned due to a bad feeling. He dialed Lin Weixia's phone, and a cold beeping sound came from the other end.
No one answered.
Ban Sheng put away his phone and saw a cup of steaming water. He looked up and saw Li Shengran. She said:
"Brother, have a drink of water."
Ban Sheng did not take the glass of water. He sat there casually, with the collar of his black coat open, his face cold and his aura very low. He looked down at Li Shengran and spoke slowly:
"Where is she?"
The originally noisy environment suddenly became quiet because of Ban Sheng's question. Everyone looked at each other, not daring to say a word. Li Shengran did not respond. The cup of water she handed over froze in mid-air, and Ban Sheng did not reach out to take it, which made her look a little embarrassed. The cup in her hand shook and almost spilled the water.
Qiu Minghua swallowed nervously and explained:
"Here he comes, and then he leaves."
Ban Sheng knew what happened in the process without asking. He bit his back teeth, and the blue veins on the side of his neck throbbed, as if he was suppressing his anger. He smiled angrily, looked down at Li Shengran, and warned him with only three words:
"Don't mess with her."
After saying that, Ban Sheng stood up, left the group behind, picked up his coat, and left the scene. The GTR made a roar outside and disappeared quickly.
After they left, the atmosphere became somewhat awkward. Fortunately, Qiu Minghua was good at smoothing things over, and he quickly regained the situation.
Ning Chao put his hands in his pockets, watching the farce, and raised his chin towards the door: "My sister has left, why didn't you chase her out just now?"
"Why should I chase him out? It will only be useful if the real boss goes there." Men Zi said with his arms folded.
After she finished speaking, she discovered something and looked at him straight in the face and smiled, "You don't even understand this. You must have never been in love before, you stupid guy."
This sentence made Ning Chao's ears turn red. He raised his hand and touched his short hair, looking uncomfortable and saying:
"A good man doesn't fight with a woman."
Unfortunately, what Men Zi expected, the hero rushing out to chase the heroine, did not happen. Five minutes ago, Ban Sheng walked out of the gate of the villa while calling Lin Weixia, but no one answered.
I called again, but the phone was turned off.
Ban Sheng threw his phone into the car, opened the door, and stepped hard on the accelerator. The tires rolled over the puddles, creating sharp splashes of water that seemed to show the owner's anger. The car sped away like an arrow from a bow.
Lin Weixia took the bus back home. When she got downstairs, she found that she was a little hungry, so she went to a store near her home to eat a bowl of wontons. When she was paying, she found that her phone was out of battery and turned off. A look of embarrassment flashed across her face.
The lady boss smiled and said, "It's okay. Give me the same one tomorrow."
"Thank you, boss." Lin Weixia said.
When she got home and opened the door, the puppy rushed over and kept scratching her. Lin Weixia changed her shoes. She had been outside for a whole day and was freezing cold in the wind and snow.
She put on her cotton slippers, found a white charging cable to charge her phone, then took her pajamas and went to the bathroom to take a shower. More than an hour later, when Lin Weixia came out of the shower, her head was not so dizzy anymore.
Lin Weixia curled up on the sofa and pulled over her phone which was charging. She found a red number 3 on the green icon. She clicked it and saw that Ban Sheng had called her three times.
The fingertips trembled.
After logging into WeChat, Ban Sheng sent her two messages, showing his usual strong and overbearing style.
Ban: [Where are the people? ]
Ban: [Xia Xia, reply to my message when you see this.]
Lin Weixia held the phone in her hand, quietly looking at the message on the screen. Her hair, which had not been completely dried, was dripping water onto her shoulders. She thought of what Li Shengran had said again.
It is very likely that all this is just her own wishful thinking.
Lin Weixia swiped the black avatar with her finger and chose not to show the chat, so Ban Sheng disappeared from her contact dialog box.
The phone was placed on the table and continued to charge.
After tonight, Ban Sheng contacted her one after another. Lin Weixia concentrated on her classes and being a tutor. She did not answer Ban Sheng's calls or reply to his messages.
After two or three times, Ban Sheng's arrogance came up and he no longer sent messages on his own initiative.
The two men froze there, as if there was a river of separation between them, and neither was willing to take the first step.
The day before the weekend, Lin Weixia looked at the notepad on her phone and found that Saturday was the time she would go to the special children's welfare home to volunteer every month.
On Saturday, as soon as the sky turned a little light, Lin Weixia got up early, cooked some pasta, ate it, stuffed her lesson plans and books into her bag, and went out with her cello on her back.
Lin Weixia took the bus all the way to the South City Special Children's Welfare Institute. After getting off the bus, she walked in with ease and arrived just in time for the children to rest.
One of the hearing-impaired children who was playing with building blocks noticed Lin Weixia and shouted with difficulty, stumbling over his words:
"Wei Xia... Teacher Wei Xia."
The other children heard the news and put down their toys when they saw Lin Weixia. They rushed over like birds out of a cage and shouted in unison: "Teacher Weixia, Teacher Weixia!"
"Teacher Wei Xia, I missed you so much, why did you take so long to come and see us!"
"Teacher Weixia, you... you... look at how good my Lego building looks."
A group of children surrounded Lin Weixia, asking questions one after another. Lin Weixia was confused and didn't know which question to answer.
The staff of the welfare home saw this scene and came to the rescue in time: "Okay, go and have fun by yourselves. If you knock Teacher Wei Xia unconscious, who will teach you?"
The group of little guys reluctantly let her go. The staff poured her a glass of boiled water and said in a caring tone: "You must be very busy, so you don't have to come every month."
"It's okay, I'm used to it." Lin Weixia smiled.
Lin Weixia has been working as a volunteer in this special children's welfare home for two years. The children here are special, including hearing-impaired children, children with albinism, children with autism, deaf-mute children... These children have psychological problems to some extent due to their own conditions and the environment they grew up in.
All she can do is give these children psychological counseling and music therapy classes.
After teaching the children two classes at three o'clock in the afternoon, Lin Weixia planned to leave after she finished building blocks with them. However, when they were almost finished, someone drove into the welfare home. He should be a regular donor, and he brought a large number of daily necessities and stationery. The children ran over immediately.
“Wow!”
Lin Weixia sat there and looked at them with a smile. She put the last building block together and then quietly left the welfare home with her cello on her back.
After leaving the welfare home, Lin Weixia took a car straight back home, but she didn't expect to meet Qiu Minghua downstairs. Qiu Minghua was holding a cup of hot milk tea, his cheeks were red from the cold, and it seemed that he had been waiting here for a long time.
He shuddered and said, "Weixia, why don't you answer the call from your old classmate?"
"If you're here to talk about him, forget it." Lin Weixia looked distant and walked past him and tried to walk into the apartment building.
Unexpectedly, Qiu Minghua stopped her and began to ramble on, "I really have no choice. Mr. Ban has been drinking a lot recently and has gastric bleeding. He was sent to the hospital the night before yesterday, but he woke up and pulled out the needle and didn't want to stay in the hospital. He is now lying at home, half dead, and can't move at all."
Lin Weixia stopped walking and tensed up: "Is he in a serious condition now?"
"It's very serious, really, otherwise I wouldn't have come to see you. You know Ban Ye, he has a bad temper and won't listen to anyone. You should go see him and persuade him to go to the hospital." Qiu Minghua had a sad face.
Lin Weixia was stunned by the series of news. Before she could react, Qiu Minghua stuffed a door card into her hand and ran away, not forgetting to say:
"I'll send you his home address!"
Lin Weixia turned over the black door card, took a look at it, put it in her pocket, and went home.
After returning home, Lin Weixia prepared dog food and water for the dog, but she poured all the dog snacks into the blue bowl, thinking it was dog food. Shengxia ran over with a sticking out tongue.
Then it was time to change the water. Lin Weixia unscrewed the kettle, put it under the water dispenser, and pressed the red button without noticing until the hot water from the kettle splashed onto the back of her hand, causing her to scream in pain.
The kettle fell to the ground and steaming water spilled all over the floor.
Shengxia screamed fiercely when he heard the shouting. He thought something had happened. Lin Weixia spoke to him, "I'm fine."
Then it calmed down.
Lin Weixia walked to the bathroom, turned on the faucet, and put her hand under the water. The cold water relieved the pain a lot. She took out the home medicine box from the room and found a tube of burn ointment.
After treating the wound, his eyes inadvertently fell on the black door card on the table.
After thinking for two seconds, Lin Weixia picked up the door card, put on the coat draped over the back of the chair, and hurried out the door.
The address Qiu Minghua gave her was on Lijiangdong Road, the busiest road in northern Beijing, with a commanding view of the city's river views and tallest buildings.
She took a look at the address, which read: Fan Mansion.
On the way to find Ban Sheng, Lin Weixia kept telling herself that she just needed to send him to the hospital, that was all.
We took a taxi to Fanfu. These high-rise buildings are located on the central road, but they seem unusually quiet. Rich and noble people keep coming out of them.
Lin Weixia registered at the entrance and the guard let her in. She swiped her card and took the elevator to the 36th floor. Now she was standing in front of Room 3605, holding the door card and taking a deep breath.
She put the door card on the door lock, the magnetic card was sensed, and with a "beep" sound, the door opened.
Lin Weixia walked in, and all she could see was darkness. The air was extremely dark, and the curtains were drawn, not a single light could get through. The space was enclosed.
I don't know why, but this place gives people a feeling of oppression. Lin Weixia felt like she was in a cage. She tried to take two steps forward and took out her cell phone to turn on the flashlight.
She felt a warm sensation on her neck, and a hot body pressed against her from behind. A tall figure completely enveloped her, and the man hugged her tightly from behind.
A dangerous aura invaded, like an animal falling into the mouth of a tiger.
Lin Weixia screamed in fear, her heart beating fast, but she immediately smelled the familiar cool ebony scent and choking smell of cigarettes on him. Ban Sheng spoke in time, his deep voice was hoarse:
"Xia Xia, it's me."
Lin Weixia understood it instantly. What about gastric bleeding and lying in bed half dead? It was all a lie.
The grievance, sadness, and anger of being deceived that had been suppressed in her heart for the past few days all came flooding back. Lin Weixia pried open the hand on her waist, struggled non-stop, and said:
"Let me go."
One wanted to escape, the other was guarding against her. Ban Sheng hugged her from behind, no matter how hard Lin Weixia struggled, her nails scratched the back of his hand, she refused to let go even when she saw the bloody scars, and she didn't cry out even when she was scratched.
After they met again, Lin Weixia could not guess what he was thinking. Those ambiguous words, the things about him that she didn't know, the two years of absence, Li Shengran's protests, each of them made her feel powerless and sad.
Lin Weixia lowered her head and bit his strong arm hard. She bit hard and fiercely, like a trapped beast. A bright red tooth mark immediately appeared on his arm, with red blood. Ban Sheng frowned and loosened his hand. She turned around and was about to leave.
Ban Sheng quickly stopped her. Lin Weixia kept pushing him and hitting his chest, her voice filled with tears:
"Go away! You're a liar too."
But no matter how Lin Weixia pushed him or hit him, Ban Sheng was like a solid wall of steel. He endured it silently and did not move at all. No matter how many beatings he received, he still held her.
Ban Sheng reached out to open her face and wanted to talk to her properly, but when his hand touched Lin Weixia's face, his palm became wet.
She cried.
After receiving this information, Ban Sheng's heart felt like it was burned, and he couldn't stop feeling the pain.
Lin Weixia was still making a fuss in his arms, saying she wanted to leave. Ban Sheng pinched her chin and blocked it with his lips.
The girl kept patting his chest, making a whimpering sound. Ban Sheng's hand caressed her neck, moving down neither too hard nor too slowly, with lustful temptation and surging desire.
Lin Weixia tilted her head back and her whole body shook uncontrollably.
Ban Sheng had a cold face, but what he did was contrary to his character. He pried open her pearly teeth with the tip of his tongue and licked them very heavily.
He tasted tears, wet and salty. His Adam's apple slid slowly and he swallowed them without hesitation.
Lin Weixia was gradually calmed down by him, and they kissed for a long time. The ambiguous breathing and entanglement were amplified in the dark night.
Finally, Ban Sheng held Lin Weixia in his arms, tilted his head and kissed the soft flesh on her neck with his lips.
Lin Weixia was hugged so tightly by him that she could hardly breathe. She continued to complain:
"You're a liar too."
Ban Sheng buried his face in her neck, and the hot breath made her feel itchy. The boy chuckled, and his low voice was obviously hoarse now:
"How could I lie to you?"
After Ban Sheng said this, Lin Weixia had a feeling that something was wrong. From the moment he hugged her after entering the room, she felt that his body was very hot, like a stove, tightly wrapped around Lin Weixia.
Lin Weixia reached out and touched his forehead, and found that it was very hot, and exclaimed:
"You have a fever."
"I know." Ban Sheng said, but he didn't seem to care much.
"Then go lie down." Lin Weixia pushed him away mercilessly.
In the past, Lin Weixia learned to take care of herself when she was left alone at home by her drunken father. Later, she went to her aunt's house. As the eldest child, she began to learn to take care of others.
Lin Weixia wanted to take Ban Sheng's temperature, but found that he didn't even have a thermometer at home.
With a sigh, Lin Weixia opened the food delivery app, bought antipyretic medicine and spare cold medicine for home, and also bought a thermometer.
After placing the order, Lin Weixia asked Ban Sheng to lie down and rest. After closing the door, Lin Weixia looked around the house quietly.
Ban Sheng's house is very big, a duplex, with a total area of more than 200 square meters upstairs and downstairs. When he draws open the thick curtains, light from the CBD office building across the river can shine in.
The decoration color scheme of Ban Sheng's home is cold and hard, with uniform black, white and gray tones, without a trace of decoration or human touch.
Lin Weixia was planning to cook porridge for Ban Sheng, so she opened the refrigerator. It was empty except for rows and rows of wine.
There also lay a wrinkled green apple.
The green apple lost moisture, became wrinkled, its skin turned yellow, and black spots began to appear. It lay there as if it had been abandoned.
Lin Weixia placed another order for ingredients, and the medicine just arrived. Lin Weixia opened the door, took the yellow brown paper bag, and went upstairs to take Ban Sheng's temperature.
I measured it and it was 37.5, so I had a fever.
Lin Weixia took out two pills from the medicine board and handed them to him, and then made a packet of instant powder for Ban Sheng.
Lin Weixia left only after watching Ban Sheng finish drinking the medicine.
Lin Weixia went to the kitchen, washed the rice, turned on the gas stove, poured the rice into the millet pot, and put some diced meat and vegetables in.
The blue-green flame ignited, baking the porridge in the pot, which slowly began to make a gurgling sound.
The porridge was cooked for about 40 minutes. Lin Weixia served a bowl and went upstairs. When she opened the door, she saw Ban Sheng just woke up.
He was sitting on the bed, his jet-black hair hanging down in front of his forehead, a little red at the corners of his eyes, and his skin was pale.
Lin Weixia reached out and touched his forehead, then touched her own, as if retreating a little.
She handed him the porridge, and Ban Sheng raised his eyebrows and said in a rogue tone:
"You won't feed me?"
Lin Weixia shook her head, and her cherry red lips uttered two words: "No."
Ban Sheng chuckled and didn't bother with her. He took the drink and drank most of it.
The light was dim with a warm tone. Lin Weixia sat beside his bed and didn't say a word.
Ban Sheng handed her the bowl and asked, "What did Li Shengran say to you?"
She was usually calm, but now she was so angry.
Lin Weixia looked up at the beautiful butterfly on his collarbone and hesitated for two seconds:
"She said the butterfly on your collarbone was tattooed by her."
Ban Sheng was stunned for a moment before he understood. He looked at her straight in the eyes and asked:
"You think so?"
Lin Weixia's heart sank when he looked at her, and she didn't respond. Now, she no longer had the courage to ask about her position in Ban Sheng's heart.
"Stay away from her in the future." Ban Sheng said.
Ban Sheng sat by the bed, his dark eyes shining. He looked at Lin Weixia with a heavy look in his eyes and a hoarse voice:
"The ring is all yours."
He raised his hands to touch Lin Weixia's temples and hooked her messy hair to both sides. Suddenly, he noticed a very thin red rope on the girl's fair neck and hooked it lightly with his fingers.
Bring out a ring strung with a red string.
Ban Sheng's gaze fell on her face. His gaze was direct and filled with dark emotions. Lin Weixia's thin ears behind her head turned red, and she wanted to pull back her things.
"I heard that you want to return the ring to me?" Ban Sheng narrowed his eyes and looked at her with an unhappy tone.
Ban Sheng pretended to take off the ring, and Lin Weixia panicked and quickly grabbed the red string to stop him. Ban Sheng wanted to tease her, so he leaned over and started to untie the knot with both hands.
Lin Weixia held the silver ring in one hand and patted his hand with the other, her voice soft but anxious: "Give it back to me."
"Go away!"
The two of them were pulling and pushing each other, one took it seriously, the other was just teasing. But in the struggle, with a "rustle", the dark green sweater that Lin Weixia was wearing was pulled out by a large hand, exposing a large area of white shoulders to the air.
The beautifully curved neck and shoulders were clearly visible, and a hint of whiteness was faintly visible on the chest. A pair of dark eyes were shone with darkness, and the breathing became heavier.
The girl that Ban Sheng saw was like a freshly cut piece of cream cake, soft and fragrant, with her Adam's apple sliding up and down. The more he looked at her, the more he wanted to taste her.
Lin Weixia felt his burning gaze, and her pupils were frightened for a moment. She raised her hand to pull her clothes out, but Ban Sheng suddenly approached, pressed his lips down, and licked and bit her snow-white shoulders hard.
Lin Weixia groaned in pain and asked in a trembling voice: "Why... do you always like to bite me?"
Ban Sheng slightly withdrew, his cold and lustful face still resting on her shoulder, his panting getting heavier. His fever had not completely subsided, his face was sickly pale, his hair on his forehead was wet with a little sweat, his eyes were wet and wild, he looked at Lin Weixia, his voice was low:
"It'll be a lesson for you."
He actually returned the things he gave me as soon as he said he would.