Ban Sheng still stopped. First of all, Lin Weixia was sick with a fever. Most importantly, he knew that the two of them had not yet completely opened up to each other, so he endured it and couldn't be so rude.
Finally, Ban Sheng took a cold shower. When he came out, his black hair was a little wet, so he wiped it with a towel. Then he went to bed, opened the quilt, and subconsciously wanted to hug the sleeping Lin Weixia. But when he thought of his cold body, he stopped and hugged her after his body was completely warm.
In the end, the two of them did nothing and fell into a deep sleep.
The next day, Lin Weixia woke up in the boy's strong and powerful chest, his chin resting on the top of her head and his slender arms clasped around her waist.
Lin Weixia was burned last night and her consciousness was a little fuzzy. Recalling certain fragments, she just felt that she was confused and crazy due to the burn.
Lin Weixia carefully lifted her hands from her waist, got up, and walked to the sofa. Her clothes were pressed under a black windbreaker. She slowly pulled it out, held it in her arms, bent down, and tiptoed out.
A low and slightly hoarse voice came from behind, slowly asking:
"Where are you going?"
Lin Weixia straightened up, turned around and looked at him, her eyes guilty: "Are you awake?"
"I didn't sleep much at all," a dark blue light fell under the boy's eyelids, and his voice was hoarse, as if he meant something, "You kept stripping me last night."
Lin Weixia's fair cheeks suddenly turned light red. She was about to refute, but seeing the look in Bangsheng's eyes, she couldn't help but doubt herself. She was indeed not very honest when she slept. When she slept with Men Zi before, she loved to roll up the quilt. When she woke up the next day, she was still hugging Men Zi's waist.
Men Zi would always complain: "Baby, you look cool and sober during the day, but how come you turn into a koala at night, hugging me tightly and not letting go? The point is that you always like to hug my waist, it's so itchy."
"I'm sorry, I had a hard time sleeping. I'll go back to my room first." Lin Weixia apologized sincerely and waited to go out.
She really should go back to her room first, otherwise it would not be good if everyone saw her coming out of his room. They haven't confirmed their relationship yet.
Lin Weixia was about to leave, but Ban Sheng stopped her.
Lin Weixia stood there somewhat puzzled. She looked up and saw Ban Sheng rubbing his face with his hands roughly. His broad shoulders slowly rose along the head of the bed, and he lifted the quilt and got out of bed.
Ban Sheng was wearing only a pair of trousers. The sunlight came in through the gap in the curtains, reflecting on the distinct and solid muscles on his upper body. His skin was a light honey color, adding a sense of ruffian desire to this man.
He had an unlit cigarette in his mouth. When he bent down to pick up the clothes on the ground, the spine on his back stretched, and a beautiful ridgeline extended down to the loose waistband of his trousers.
It made her face red, and when Ban Sheng turned around, Lin Weixia quickly looked away.
Ban Sheng snorted and laughed, but did not expose her. He had already put on his clothes, with his jacket pulled up to his sharp jaw, his head and neck straight, making him look tall and strong, and he was well-dressed again.
When the man came to her, the boy leaned down slightly, picked up the clothes on Lin Weixia's arm, leaned over, and began to help her put on her coat, and buttoned it up carefully. Lin Weixia was enveloped by the faint smell of shower gel on his body, and her heart couldn't help beating.
The two of them went out together. Lin Weixia looked around and saw that there was no one in the corridor, so she breathed a sigh of relief. The next second after she relaxed, it seemed as if God was against her. The doors of the opposite rooms opened and the other companions came out one after another.
Her heart couldn't help but feel nervous. Lin Weixia took two steps forward, trying to keep some distance from Ban Sheng. Her fingertips moved unconsciously, and suddenly, a slender hand wrapped around her, palms touching hers. Her heart beat rapidly, and a finger with obvious knuckles inserted along the gap between her white fingertips and then held her tightly.
Fingers interlocked.
Several people came out with sleepy eyes, and when they saw the two holding hands, they perked up, started to make noises, blew a whistle, and asked, "What's going on?"
"Mr. Ban, do I have to change my way of addressing you to sister-in-law?" Qiu Minghua exclaimed.
Bansheng took the cigarette from his mouth, looked directly at the question, and answered: "Ask her if she is willing."
Lin Weixia felt a little embarrassed. She struggled unsuccessfully and asked in a low voice, "What are you doing?"
"You have already come out of my room, so you have to be responsible for me." Ban Sheng leaned over to look at her, his tone righteous.
Because Lin Weixia's fever had just subsided, Ban Sheng didn't want her to suffer any more, so he drove her back home early.
After returning home, Lin Weixia asked for a day off to rest at home. In addition, she had no classes for two days, so she went to school on Thursday. As soon as she arrived at school, her classmates in the Department of Psychology looked at her with smiles on their faces, with eyes that were either envious or curious.
Wherever she went, Lin Weixia received more or less attention.
After class, Lin Weixia walked out of the teaching building and happened to meet Men Zi. She told her about this strange thing. Men Zi put his hand on her shoulder and said with a smile:
"Don't you know? The school forum exploded. It seems that someone asked Bansheng to go to the bar or play racing in the middle of the night, but he refused."
"Do you know what he said?"
Lin Weixia asked: "What?"
"He said his girlfriend wouldn't let him, so he didn't go. Ban Sheng said his girlfriend's name was Lin Weixia," Men Zi sighed, "I heard that he now spends all day in the lab working on projects with his supervisor. Does this count as a prodigal son turning over a new leaf for love?"
Not only that, Men Zi also told Lin Weixia everything else that happened on the way to Yunchong, including Shi Li and others.
Lin Weixia suddenly felt relieved. Rather than the fog between the two slowly clearing up, she was more happy for Ban Sheng. He finally tried to move forward.
Is Bansheng coming back
After returning home, her cell phone rang. She opened it and saw in the WeChat group that there was a party on Sunday. The group was counting names, and someone asked Lin Weixia if she wanted to go. She typed "OK" in the dialog box, and a memo reminder popped up on the screen, which read: December 22, Winter Solstice, Ban Sheng's birthday.
The time is shown as three days later.
It just happened to hit it, so I used the Enter key to delete the good word and changed it to - "Sorry, I have something to do on Sunday."
Sunday, heavy snow.
Lin Weixia got up early and found that there was a layer of hazy cold air on the window, and the wind blew in. She hurriedly washed, changed her clothes, and went to the vegetable market to buy a bunch of ingredients, including dough and beef filling. She took two buses before she arrived at Ban Sheng's house.
Today is Ban Sheng’s birthday and also the winter solstice. She knows that he doesn’t celebrate his birthday, but Lin Weixia wants to cook dumplings for him.
Lin Weixia arrived at Ban Sheng's building and registered her name at the guard post. She happened to use the card of a resident inside and was able to reach the 33rd floor smoothly.
The person standing in front of the black door was a little nervous. Lin Weixia rang the doorbell holding a brown paper bag. While the doorbell was ringing, she tidied her hair, but no one answered.
It's early now, he should still be sleeping.
The wind blew in the corridor, and Lin Weixia couldn't help but shrink her neck. She freed one hand and pressed the doorbell again. After waiting for a while, there was a "beep" sound and the sound of the door handle turning was heard.
The door was opened, Lin Weixia raised a slight arc at the corner of her lips and said: "Ban—"
When she saw clearly who was standing opposite her, the smile on her lips disappeared. Li Shengran was wearing a loose white sweater and a long skirt, with a bright red mark on her neck.
Li Shengran was also stunned when he saw Lin Weixia.
The comfortable heating in the room kept blowing at her feet, but Lin Weixia felt unusually cold standing there. She stood there for a while and came to her senses, looking at her:
"Where's Bensheng?"
Li Shengran raised his eyebrows, put his hand on the door handle, and made a gesture to close the door without intending to answer her question.
Lin Weixia stood there with her calves aching. She thought about a lot of things. When she was in the bar, Shi Li said that she wanted to get a couple tattoo with him, but Ban Sheng refused and said that you are not suitable, probably because of Li Shengran.
Li Shengran told Lin Weixia that Ban Sheng got the swallowtail butterfly tattoo because of her.
Now it seems that this is possible.
The more she thought about it, the colder she felt. Lin Weixia clenched her hands around the brown paper bag. She stood there with no intention of leaving. She took out her cell phone and dialed the number, but the phone was turned off.
Li Shengran crossed her arms and did not react. With a "ding" sound, the elevator door opened. When she saw Lin Weixia behind her, her face suddenly froze.
Lin Weixia followed her gaze and looked back. Ban Sheng was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt inside and a blue denim jacket outside. The hood was buckled on his head, revealing a cold and cool face.
Ban Sheng's face turned blue, obviously he had been up all night. He raised his hand to rub his neck, his eyes glanced over inadvertently.
Saw this scene.
To prevent the person from running away, Ban Sheng strode forward, grabbed Lin Weixia's hand, and spoke slowly:
"Go in first."
When Li Shengran met Ban Sheng's eyes, her hands couldn't help but tremble. Ban Sheng couldn't pull her away. Lin Weixia stubbornly refused to go in, with a distant look on her face, which showed that she was keeping people at a distance.
"Xia Xia, I have to explain to you." Ban Sheng looked at her and his eyes became nervous.
Lin Weixia had never been able to guess what he was thinking. The matter with Shi Li was just a misunderstanding. Later, she found out that she had come uninvited and Ban Sheng had driven her away.
But what about Li Shengran? She seemed to have special privileges here at Bansheng. She knew everything that happened to him, accompanied him to do what he wanted to do, and had free access to his house.
Who can stand it when the boy you like tells others that he is your girlfriend, and then another girl can live in his house
The heroine's emotions are like this. She can remain calm and not show her emotions when facing Li Shengran alone, but when Ban Sheng is around, she suddenly becomes fragile, and the grievances and awkwardness hidden in her heart are revealed without reservation.
Lin Weixia's eyes suddenly turned red, and she couldn't control herself anymore, and finally broke down:
"What's there to explain? You already have Li Shengran, so who am I?"
"You are trying to kill me." Ban Sheng looked at her with a serious look and said slowly.
The boy was tall and slender, dressed in black. He stood in the corridor, habitually standing in front of Lin Weixia to block the wind for her, and slowly said this sentence in front of Li Shengran.
He never cared about what others thought.
"Li Shengran, why are you here? Tell your boyfriend to get off my house immediately." Ban Sheng's eyes were cold.
"Oh, okay."
Lin Weixia stood there in a daze, completely confused, and was pulled into the room by Ban Sheng, who made her sit on the sofa.
After a while, a boy came down from upstairs with his upper body exposed and yawning. His facial features and temperament were those of a sunny, big dog.
When Ban Sheng saw him like this, veins popped up on the side of his neck. Just as he was about to get angry, Li Shengran got jealous first and threw a pillow at him:
"Who the hell are you showing off to?"
The other person immediately went downstairs to change clothes, and Li Shengran went upstairs. The two of them stayed upstairs for a while, and then came downstairs together, pulling the suitcases.
When they came down, the boy had another red mark on his neck. The two of them could kiss anytime and anywhere.
The boy kept apologizing to Lin Weixia while pulling the suitcase, scratching his head: "I'm really sorry for causing trouble to you two. We almost broke up some time ago. It's a long-distance relationship, so she has had some hardship. Over the years, she has been flying over to see me again and again, and Brother Sheng was also there. He is a witness to our relationship. Then I finally figured it out. Xiaoran is more important, so I decided to return home. I just flew back from the United States at midnight yesterday, and I had nowhere to go for a while. Brother Sheng stayed in the laboratory last night, so I came to disturb him. I didn't expect Xiaoran to run to me from school at dawn. I opened the door for her at five o'clock."
It turns out that Li Shengran has always had a boyfriend. Lin Weixia was stunned by this series of news.
"And then there was never anything going on between Xiaoran and Brother Sheng. She saw that Brother Sheng couldn't let you go all these years and his life was too hard—" The boy sighed, remembering something.
Ban Sheng interrupted at the right time, his tone cold: "Li Heng, you should leave now."
If he hadn't owed Li Heng a favor when he was in the United States, if he had known this would happen, he would have made Li Heng sleep under the overpass no matter what.
"Oh, okay." Li Heng held Li Shengran's hand and patted his head, "Apologize to them."
Li Shengran was called out. She looked at Lin Weixia and sighed. She didn't feel reluctant like she did when Ban Sheng pressed her head to apologize in high school, nor was she arrogant like she is now. She listened to her boyfriend very much and immediately behaved very well. She apologized sincerely:
"I'm sorry, it doesn't matter how much you hate me, but I hope you can treat my brother well."
"Li Shengran, I haven't settled the score with you yet." Ban Sheng looked at her and spoke slowly.
Li Sheng then shrank her neck in fear, hid behind her boyfriend, and quickly pulled him away.
As the boy was leaving, he remembered something and turned to Ban Sheng and said embarrassedly, "Brother, well, we didn't do anything at your house."
After the two left, the first floor was empty and the sound of dead branches being broken by the snow could be heard from outside.
Lin Weixia stood there in a daze, with crystal tears still hanging in her eyes. It turned out that everything was a false alarm. She felt ashamed and at the same time felt like she had survived a calamity.
Lin Weixia was about to raise her hand to wipe her tears when Ban Sheng turned his face away, took out a tissue and wiped her face gently, with a hint of doting in his tone.
"My little butterfly is crying more and more."
He remembered that Lin Weixia must have been jealous just now. As if to reconfirm, he raised his eyebrows:
"You care about me?"
Lin Weixia couldn't help but burst out the tears that had just stopped. She was irritated by Ban Sheng's nonchalant tone and said angrily:
"I don't care. If I don't like you, why did you rush over to the market early in the morning to buy dough and dumpling fillings? My hands are frozen red. You are really... getting more and more excessive."
Lin Weixia felt more and more wronged the more she spoke. Just as she was about to reach out to wipe her tears, Ban Sheng grabbed her hand, his Adam's apple rolled, and he stared at her:
"What did you say?"
As far as I can remember, this seems to be the first time since high school that Lin Weixia has seriously said that she likes him.
She never said that.
"I won't talk to you anymore. I'm going to cook dumplings." Lin Weixia wiped away her tears and slapped his hand away.
Lin Weixia got up and went to the kitchen with the ingredients. She washed the celery, soaked the blood from the beef with cold water, and began to prepare the filling for the dumplings.
Although they did nothing, Ban Sheng still called an aunt to come and clean the guest room. He also specifically told her to throw away the sheets and quilt covers inside and disinfect other places comprehensively.
After finishing the call, Ban Sheng came in to wash the fruit, and then he remembered to get the kitchen utensils from the sterilizer, but he came over, hugged her, and took up the things on Lin Weixia's head, which made her heart beat faster and she was not in the right state of mind.
"Don't disturb me." Lin Weixia couldn't help but say.
"Oh." Ban Sheng chuckled and walked out of the kitchen slowly after being expelled.
The dumplings were wrapped quickly. Lin Weixia took the lead in boiling a pot. The dumplings kept turning over in the boiling water. She was busy in the kitchen, taking out two transparent salad bowls and putting seasoning in them.
After the dumplings were cooked, steam was rising. The two of them sat face to face at the dining table, with the warm light from overhead shining down, giving a cozy feeling.
Ban Sheng ate his dumplings as usual and took a sip of the soup, which was hot but very refreshing. After eating several dumplings, he accidentally pulled his chopsticks down and a poached egg appeared at the bottom of the bowl.
It has been a long time since he had fried eggs on the Winter Solstice.
Ban Sheng paused, his emotions surging. He raised his head and met a pair of cold eyes, but she was smiling:
"Happy Winter Solstice, Ah Sheng."
Neither of them said anything, but they both knew that when Lin Weixia said Happy Winter Solstice she meant - Happy birthday, Ban Sheng.
“Okay.” Ban Sheng lowered his head, took a bite of the fried egg, and savored the flavor carefully. It was a different feeling.
After finishing her meal, she opened the window and saw snow falling. She took a look and sighed, "It's snowing on the winter solstice this year."
"Stupid." Ban Sheng gave one word.
The two of them huddled on the sofa in the living room watching TV. They planned to re-watch "Game of Thrones". They were not too close to each other, but had a certain distance between them. Lin Weixia went to the other side of the coffee table to get a drink of water, moved over there, and never sat back.
The two moved further apart.
Ban Sheng raised his eyelids and glanced at her with a cold expression. He leaned over and extended his arms. Lin Weixia was watching TV and hadn't reacted yet. He lifted her hips with his big palm and pushed her down, and then she sat firmly on his thighs.
"Tell me again what you said this morning." Ban Sheng held her with one hand, his voice low and cold.
"What are you talking about?" Lin Weixia rolled her eyes and pretended not to understand, "Are you getting more and more excessive?"
"My hands are all frozen red." Seeing that Ban Sheng looked unwell, Lin Weixia changed her words.
Whatever he wanted to hear, Lin Weixia refused to say it. Ban Sheng's face became darker and darker. Lin Weixia was not afraid of stepping on the lion's tail and continued to tease him, but she refused to say what he wanted to hear:
"Don't worry, I'm here to help."
Ban Sheng laughed angrily, his chest trembling, and started to take off her clothes. Lin Weixia didn't dare to joke anymore. She quickly put her arms around his neck, leaned forward and kissed his lips. His thin lips were immediately covered with water and a little Lin Weixia's lipstick mark.
Lin Weixia's heart sank. Although she felt embarrassed, she still looked into Ban Sheng's eyes and said seriously:
“I like Bansheng.”
Ban Sheng's Adam's apple itched, and the emotions suppressed in his eyes were like a huge wave, ready to burst out, and he spoke slowly:
"I only like Lin Weixia."