Several people cooked a table full of delicious dishes. Lin Weixia just sat down and found that Men Zi was not there. She put down her chopsticks and stood up to call her to come down for dinner. When she turned around, she saw Men Zi coming downstairs in cotton slippers, with sleepy eyes.
Men Zi put on a coat and squinted her eyes as she sat down next to Lin Weixia. Lin Weixia handed her the chopsticks and asked softly, "Would you like a glass of juice?"
"Yes, thank you." Men Zi yawned.
Everyone raised their glasses before dinner, and one boy said loudly, "Come on, let's toast to Weixia and Dingding, you've worked hard, but cooking is a rotation system, so don't even think of escaping, you scumbags here."
The group laughed and said "thank you for your hard work" and "thank you for your hard work". Qiu Minghua pointed at the cucumbers on the table with chopsticks and said with a smile: "Everyone try it and see if it tastes good. This is the only dish I can cook."
The girl sitting next to him patted Qiu Minghua's hand and said, "Don't put the chopsticks so close, what if my saliva falls in!"
"I..." Qiu Minghua looked innocent and aggrieved.
During the meal, in addition to talking about tomorrow's schedule, some people also talked about the fact that everyone will graduate in a year. The hearty laughter revealed a bit of confusion about the future.
Jiang Heng was sitting next to her. Seeing that Lin Weixia was eating less, he suddenly noticed a plate of fried crabs from the Typhoon Shelter that was a little further away from her. He picked up a meaty crab and put it in her bowl. He said, "Try it. It tastes good."
Lin Weixia swallowed the last bite of rice in her mouth, looked at the crab in the bowl with some hesitation, picked it up with chopsticks, and heard the sound of a spoon hitting the bowl, and a slow voice came over:
"Don't you know she's allergic to seafood?"
The originally noisy atmosphere suddenly became quiet. Ban Sheng put down the spoon and slowly and leisurely met Jiang Heng's gaze.
There was an undercurrent in their eye contact.
Shi Li's expression suddenly turned ugly. Everyone at the table looked at each other, their eyes began to wander between the three people. Jiang Heng was embarrassed, and Lin Weixia turned her head and said to him softly, "I'm sorry, I didn't tell you in advance."
Only Ban Sheng had a relaxed expression and a calm face. Some of them were present when the two first met, and they looked like my brother was finally unhappy.
"That's exactly what I want to eat." Men Zi picked up the crab from Lin Weixia's bowl and came out to smooth things over.
Fortunately, this episode was quickly exposed and everyone finished their meal quickly. After clearing the dishes, they sat down on the sofa in the living room and started drinking and chatting.
Lin Weixia and Men Zi sat together, Jiang Heng was one seat away from her, and sitting diagonally opposite her was Ban Sheng, who was sitting casually on the sofa, spinning a Sanskrit ring on his finger. Qiu Minghua next to him was talking to him excitedly, and he was listening inattentively, as if he was distracted.
Halfway through drinking, Shi Li intercepted the hand of a boy who wanted to open the bottle, and her red lips opened and closed: "It's boring to just drink more? Truth or Dare?"
"Again?" Qiu Minghua was allergic to this game. Last time he lost, a group of people actually asked him to tell a girl in yellow clothes at the bar that he had body odor, which was a great shame in his life.
"Let's try something different," a boy suggested. "Everyone gets a chance to draw a card in turn. If it's truth or dare, then it's truth or dare. But this time, the answer to truth or dare is written on a piece of paper, and those who want to see the answer have to drink a glass of wine. How do you think?"
"Sure, let's play. I love it when I know secrets that others don't know." Men Zi picked up the spoon and quietly touched the glass, motioning for everyone to start.
Several lights in the hall were turned off, leaving only a small lamp emitting warm light, and the atmosphere instantly became ambiguous and hazy.
A miniature game roulette ball was placed in the middle of the table. The initiator pressed the switch, and a small white ball flashed with lights and began to rotate. After spinning a few times, the ball slowly stopped in front of Lin Weixia.
Lin Weixia drew a card, and Jiang Heng beside her helped to read it out. After reading it, he looked at Lin Weixia again, as if he was expecting her answer.
Lin Weixia poked her chin with a pen, lowered her eyes and wrote an answer on it. Men Zi's hand was on her shoulder throughout the whole process. When she saw the answer, she raised her eyebrows very quickly.
Finally, Lin Weixia folded the note and threw it into the glass jar.
Jiang Heng was the first to drink. He looked at Lin Weixia's note and smiled. Shi Li also drank a glass of wine. When he saw Lin Weixia's answer, he almost sneered, glanced at her, and threw the paper back.
Ban Sheng picked up the wine glass in front of him and drank it all, and chose to see Lin Weixia's answer.
Opening the note, Lin Weixia's fingers on her knees shrank unconsciously. The light on his side was dim, his face half in the shadow, his eyes lowered, chewing over her answer again and again, his expression unclear.
The second game began. The white ball began to flash and spin. After spinning twice, it stopped in front of Men Zi with a beep.
Men Zi picked up a card at random, opened it and saw - call a boy you recently chatted with and confess to him.
Qiu Minghua shouted when he saw this, and the others were like a good show, and they started to cheer excitedly: "Sister Men, show us your recent WeChat contacts."
A boy narcissistically replied, "It can't be me, no need to confess, Zi, I accept you."
"Heh." Men Zi just gave one word to express his speechlessness.
Men Zi picked up her phone and logged into WeChat, then clicked on the recent contacts. The first one happened to be Ning Chao. She shared a photo with him when she went out to play in the afternoon.
His profile picture was a polar bear in the snow. Men Zi only gave Ning Chao a note with one letter: N.
"Men Zi, who is this N?" asked the boy who had just made a joke.
Men Zi gave the boy a charming smile, but what she said was: "No comment."
As everyone expected, Men Zi dialed Ning Chao's number. The speaker made a beep-beep-beep sound. She didn't know why she felt a little nervous.
Men Zi has played this kind of game thousands of times. Because it is a game, she is very familiar with it.
But when the target is Ning Chao, Men Zi will be nervous, and she can't predict how things will develop. The phone finally connected after ringing for fifteen seconds. A very low voice came from the receiver, which seemed to be hoarse after exercise:
"Hello."
The background noise from Ning Chao was very mixed, and there was a faint sound of loud and powerful slogans. Men Zi asked, "It's so late, are you still training?"
"Well, there was an emergency training at night. I was still taking a shower. When I heard the instructor's slogan, I went out with a head full of foam—" Ning Chao puffed up his cheeks, exhaled, and asked, "What do you want from me?"
Men Zi was amused by his words just now, but now he asked about serious matters. Her throat began to dry up and she licked her lips: "I want to tell you something."
"Go ahead."
Her heart was about to explode, and it rushed all the way to her chest. Before Men Zi could finish her words, her ears began to turn red and hot. She pinched herself secretly and coughed:
"Well, I like you."
After saying this, Men Zi held her breath and waited for a response from the other end of the phone. There was a long silence on the other end of the receiver, and everyone followed suit, not daring to make a sound.
The atmosphere was very tense. Men Zi knew that this was just a game, but it was indeed mixed with an element of testing. She was even a little looking forward to it. Her throat felt uncomfortable, so she took two more sips of wine.
Ning Chao cleared his throat and said sincerely and seriously: "I think you are quite blind. I have a different attitude towards feelings than you do—"
The air was quiet. As he spoke, Men Zi was listening attentively when the boy next to him suddenly let out an uncontrollable sneer.
Ning Chao paused, then understood, gritted his teeth and laughed, "Are you playing games?"
Men Zi immediately picked up her phone and turned off the speaker. She yelled at the boy, "Are you sick?"
The boy stood there in a daze. Men Zi, with a cold and beautiful face, picked up her phone, left everyone behind, and went outside to explain to Ning Chao.
The game was still going on. In the third round, the green button started, and the white ball kept spinning with the light on. After spinning a few times, it stopped in front of Ban Sheng.
The screams and whistles sounded at almost the same time. Shi Li, who was sitting opposite, put his hand on the card and said to Ban Sheng, "Let me help you draw it."
"I'll do it, I'll do it!" Qiu Minghua said enthusiastically.
Qiu Minghua wanted to draw a card, but Shi Li held her hand still. She was a little unhappy and looked at Ban Sheng. He was sitting there with a tired look. He raised his eyes and looked at her:
"No need for you."
Qiu Minghua pulled out a card from the middle, spread it out on the table, and everyone leaned over to look at it, and after seeing the question, they laughed obscurely and ambiguously.
"Master Ben, you are really good. You can do it in a big way."
"To be honest, I am also curious about the answer to this question."
Everyone looked at Ban Sheng's question, except Lin Weixia. The card was lying on the table, blocked by a few beer cans, and could be seen by just leaning over.
But she didn't go to see it.
After Men Zi came back from the phone call, she looked a little better than before. She sat back next to Lin Weixia and joined everyone's game.
Shi Li held his chin up and looked at Ban Sheng, seeming to be looking forward to his answer. Ban Sheng leaned over, straightened his back, found a black water-based pen, bit open the pen cap with his thin lips, wrote a flamboyant answer on it, and then threw it into the glass jar.
Many people present who had drunk alcohol chose to see Ban Sheng's answer. Shi Li was the first to drink. She opened the note nervously, and the moment she saw the answer, the corners of her lips barely formed an arc, with an unclear expression.
Men Zi also drank the wine in front of him, looked at the answer written by Ban Sheng, and then let out a clear "tsk".
Jiang Heng also watched it.
Lin Weixia sat on the sofa. She didn't move at all, but accidentally met a pair of dark eyes.
Ban Sheng quickly and forcefully captured her sight, trapping her from all sides.
The lights were dim, and Lin Weixia had seen too many obscure things in his eyes. She also remembered running into him and Shi Li coming down from upstairs just now, and the bright red mark next to his collarbone.
He looked away in embarrassment.
It was another round of games. Lin Weixia drank a few more glasses of craft beer and was a little drunk. He lowered his head and drew another round. His hand was shaking as he drew the card, and he put it on the table.
Everyone leaned over to look over, and all fell silent. The atmosphere was extremely weird.
Qiu Minghua took a deep breath and sighed, "Fuck, this one is even bigger than my boss's."
"Weixia, I'm worried about you."
She rubbed her eyelids tiredly, but didn't look at it. She guessed that it was some kind of scene where she asked the boy for his number or confessed her love, and asked:
"What?"
"Kiss the first boy in your WeChat list who is your most recent contact, with an ice cube in his mouth." Men Zi patted her shoulder and said.
"Where's the ice cubes! Go get some ice cubes from the refrigerator!" someone shouted excitedly.
"Can we take pictures of the kiss later? Why am I so nervous?"
"I'm patting you on the head, please respect other people's privacy."
"No, first show us who was the first boy you contacted on WeChat recently? What if he wasn't there?"
Lin Weixia's heart skipped a beat. She was confused and it took her a while to process what was going on. She wanted to ask if she could not play the game, but soon someone threw the ice tray onto the table with a loud "smack" in excitement, and everyone looked at her with piercing eyes.
Lin Weixia was hung there.
Lin Weixia had no choice but to hand over her phone and put it on the table. Everyone looked over and saw that her most recent male contact was Gao Hang, Lin Weixia's younger brother.
Among the chat users that Lin Weixia pinned, there was only one person, whose black avatar was very familiar to everyone—
It turned out to be Ban Sheng.
A group of people said "Oh" together. Lin Weixia did not show any embarrassment. Her dark eyelashes drooped, and no one knew what she was thinking.
While everyone else was making noises and playing, Ban Sheng curled up on the sofa. The sharpness on his face disappeared, and the dark emotions in his eyes surged like huge waves, which quickly disappeared when the lights turned on.
Shi Li was the only one who showed dissatisfaction. She asked suspiciously, "You didn't temporarily pin it to the top, did you?"
Lin Weixia rarely shows disdain to others. She is always aloof and indifferent in front of others. She leans over to take back her phone, a sneer appears on the corner of her mouth. When she is about to speak—
A voice interrupted everyone, and Ben Sheng leaned over and took a sip of wine:
“I pinned it.”
Ban Sheng had been pursuing Lin Weixia since high school. He was always patient with her, fighting a protracted war and willing to do anything for her. Every night when he sent her home, on the day they confirmed that they would take the college entrance examination together, the boy snatched her phone and domineeringly set himself as the top contact.
In the past three years, Lin Weixia has never moved the position of the top contact.
It was as if the two had never been apart.
Jiang Heng's eyes dimmed. He had already lost before he even took the initiative to attack. Shi Li's face turned pale and blue, his chest rose and fell violently, and he was very angry.
"Hurry up, kiss! Kiss!"
"Ahh, I want to see it."
Lin Weixia sat there without moving. Ban Sheng leaned back on the sofa, looking as if it had nothing to do with him. He was even watching the fire from the other side of the river, waiting to see what Lin Weixia would do.
It's like the hunter is waiting for the animal to come to him.
There were constant boos and expectant looks. Men Zi wanted to help her out, but her words were instantly drowned out by these crazy audiences.
"Can I drink? Three times as much." Lin Weixia spoke calmly amid the noise of the crowd.
The atmosphere suddenly became quiet. Lin Weixia didn't look at the man's eyes. She picked up the wine in front of her, one glass after another, tilted her head back, and even though her throat was burning, she still insisted on drinking every drop of the wine in the glass.
Everyone cheered and naturally let her go.
The next round of the game started. Lin Weixia stayed for about ten minutes, and then she felt sick in her throat. She quietly left the table in the dim light. Lin Weixia walked through the hall to the bathroom in the backyard. The wind was howling outside. She hugged the toilet and vomited for a while. She was so uncomfortable that tears came back.
I turned on the faucet, scooped up a handful of cold water, rinsed my mouth, and then closed it.
Lin Weixia opened the bathroom door and the voice-controlled light came on. Ban Sheng was leaning against the door. A dangerous atmosphere came over her. She subconsciously wanted to close the door, but her long arm reached across and easily blocked it, and she forcefully inserted herself in.
The tall and slender figure approached, and the sharpness of his body was obvious. Lin Weixia instinctively stepped back to avoid him. With a "click", the door was locked. The air was tight, and the faucet that was not closed tightly made a ticking sound.
"Do you really want to avoid me?" Ban Sheng locked his eyes with her.
"Yes." Lin Weixia admitted directly.
"Then who do you want to kiss?" Ban Sheng looked at her and spoke slowly.
"It's not with you—"
Before Lin Weixia could finish her words, cold fingertips pinched her chin, and the man leaned over and pressed his lips down. Her breath was robbed and she couldn't help but open her eyes wide, and the last syllable was swallowed down her throat.
Ban Sheng raised his hand and pulled the back of her head towards him. The tip of his tongue aggressively stirred in. His lips were not as cold as before, but became hot instead. Ban Sheng licked her lips, and then took cautious steps to take the initiative.
He smelled heavily of cigarette smoke, and she could clearly see the black mole on Ban Sheng's cheek near his nose. Her heart was pounding so hard that it almost jumped out of her throat.
Two hands were pressed against the boy's broad chest, and the black collar of Ban Sheng's sweatshirt was deformed by a slender white hand. Lin Weixia was a little angry, and she opened her mouth with a whimper, and as a result, the tips of their tongues touched, and Ban Sheng pushed a piece of ice that was about to melt into her mouth.
Then he gently held it in his mouth. Lin Weixia seemed to hear the sound of his Adam's apple rolling as he swallowed the ice water that had been entangled with his penis. Lin Weixia's whole body felt like being electrocuted. Her ears were burning and she tensed her toes. The ice water dripped from the corners of their lips that touched onto Ban Sheng's collarbone, right in the middle of the swallowtail butterfly tattoo, revealing a hint of forbidden color and charm.
The large palm rubbed her neck gently. Lin Weixia shuddered, and a strange feeling of trembling surged from the bottom of her heart. She wanted to reach out and push him away, but she was too weak. Her fair hand rested on the large fingers, and her nails scratched the ring on his knuckles.
Lin Weixia was so hot that she was sweating all over.
The water in the sink continued to drip. Ban Sheng panted against her neck, his voice hoarse:
"I'm going crazy with jealousy."
In the past two days, Jiang Heng looked at Lin Weixia from time to time. They talked in a low voice and their eyes met. He reached out to help her brush the snow off her collar. Every incident made Ban Sheng jealous and crazy, and he lost his mind.
The two shadows underground were still entangled.
The ice cubes continued to melt in their lips, dripping down their lips onto their chests, staining their clothes dark. Lin Weixia's breathing became heavier due to the kiss, and the feeling of lack of oxygen became more and more severe. Her brain was unable to think, and she was immersed in the illusion given by the man in front of her.
Lin Weixia suddenly recalled everything that had happened during this period of time. The things that stood between them had not been resolved yet. She pushed Ban Sheng away and ran away.
The moment she turned around, she could still hear Ban Sheng's low panting sound, and then he slowly chewed the little bit of ice left on the tip of his tongue and swallowed it.
His expression showed that he was still unsatisfied.
Lin Weixia hurried upstairs and returned to her room. She lay down on the bed, buried her face in the pillow, and calmed her still rapidly beating heart.
After the intimacy, I felt confused again. What were they doing
When they drew the cards and wrote the answers just now, everyone was actually guessing who Lin Weixia was thinking of in the previous second, and they thought it was either Jiang Heng or Ban Sheng.
Lin Weixia wrote about herself because she was thinking about how to find an excuse to turn down the game.
Lin Weixia stayed in the room alone for a long time. An hour later, the doorknob turned, the door was opened, and Men Zi walked in quietly.
"Are you done?" Lin Weixia asked in a muffled voice, her face still buried in her bed, her cheeks still burning.
"Yes."
Men Zi placed the suitcase horizontally on the floor, opened it, found a set of pajamas and was about to go wash up when she remembered something. She walked to the bedside, handed the things over and said:
"for you."
After a while, Men Zi went to take a shower. The sound of water splashing came from the bathroom. Lin Weixia lifted her face from the pillow and saw a truth card and a note that Men Zi had given her.
The card reads - How many girls have you kissed over the years
My heart skipped a beat uncontrollably.
Lin Weixia opened the note and saw a cold handwriting on it:
There is only Lin Weixia.