At 7:30 in the evening, the live broadcast of AOW member Ning Lan's birthday began.
There was nothing new in the live broadcast, and Ning Lan had to force a surprise and keep smiling, and her facial muscles were sore. After cutting the cake, he hid behind the camera and flipped through his phone, except for a text message from his aunt implicitly urging him to pay living expenses, there was no other news.
During the Mid-Autumn Festival at the beginning of last month, my uncle and aunt called him together and asked him why he didn't go home for the Mid-Autumn Festival. I couldn't get in, and I deeply doubted that they had prepared in advance and were reading the draft on the phone.
But I have to say that this trick is very effective. He is born to eat soft and not hard, especially when his uncle said that he was almost beaten to death by his father several times when he was a child. Lan's heart that was hardened a little was softened. In fact, they don't need to spend so much effort, he didn't plan to cut off the living expenses, and he plans to continue to pay for Ning Xuan's university.
Just hearing the word "home" many times makes me sad.
Ning Lan clicked on WeChat and circled the recent contacts interface a few times, but in the end, she still didn't click on the dialog of the person named SY on the top.
He's so busy, it's normal to forget, so don't bother him.
There was no surprise in Ning Lan's birthday party. If the company brought his mother over, it would not be a surprise, but a shock. The parents of other families are full of loving smiles - "Baby, happy birthday." His mother is - "Son, do you have any money?"
Pretty funny to think about.
After receiving gifts from everyone, either intentionally or perfunctory, Lu Xiaochuan and Wang Bingyang sang a song to him. I don't know who changed the words, they subtly added his name, and repeatedly sang "Lan Lan is the cutest and most adorable in the world." "Cute", Ning Lan couldn't stop laughing, she took out her mobile phone and asked them to sing it again, saying she wanted to record it as an alarm.
Since all AOW members were not present, the process was relatively simple, and the birthday party started to end in less than an hour. Just when Ning Lan said to the camera, "Thank you for your blessings, I will continue to work hard", the door of the conference room was pushed open.
Sui Yi stood in the doorway, with a suitcase with a check-in label beside him.
He threw the suitcase at the door and didn't drag it in, and walked quickly to Ning Lan: "Happy birthday, I'm late."
Ning Lan was stunned for a while, and then her heart began to beat wildly, like a green-skinned train that was accelerating after starting, bang bang bang bang, faster and faster.
Sui Yi rummaged through the pockets of his trench coat, and first took out a gift box from the left: "This is the birthday present that Fang Yu asked me to bring to you." Then he took out another from the right, "I gave it to you."
"Happy birthday," he repeated.
Fang Yu gave him a pen, and the note left inside said that he should take this pen and fight for the building of a harmonious society for the rest of his life, and the people around laughed.
When she opened Sui Yi's gift box, Ning Lan didn't know why she was a little nervous. He quietly wiped the sweat from his palms on his trousers before slowly opening it.
Inside lay an onyx bracelet.
Sui Yi looked at his thin and white wrist and said, "I saw it when I was shopping at the store, and I thought it was suitable for you, so I bought it."
Ning Lan stared at it for a long time, touched the warm and delicate surface of the red beads, and said in a low voice that only she could hear: "Thank you... I like it very much."
In the evening, Ning Lan took off the bracelet that had been worn for less than two hours, admired it under the light for a long time, and then put it back in the box like a treasure, and put a red string pressed under the box as a gift on her hand. superior.
Sui Yi asked him why he changed it. Ning Lan was embarrassed to say that he was afraid that it would be damaged, but he only said that he did not want to wear it, for fear of being skinned by fans.
Sui Yi smiled but said nothing.
Ning Lan squatted down and cleaned up with him, and asked him why he came back so early. Sui Yi said that the filming was just finished this afternoon, thinking that it was his birthday, so he didn't stay for one more night, so he changed his plane ticket and came back first.
Ning Lan's face was still flushed with excitement, almost redder than the string of fresh red agate. In his head, he kept thinking about why Sui Yi came back early. Now that he got the answer from his mouth, he still couldn't believe it.
Did he really... come back for my birthday
At this moment, Ning Lan had to admit that the string in her heart had already been plucked, and even if she just thought of Sui Yi's name, she would make a light and pleasant sound.
Came back for me alone
why
Does he also...
In her heart, heaven and man were fighting, and she was very excited. It seemed like she was about to rush out of her throat when she said something. Ning Lan's fingers were shaking slightly.
A box similar to the gift box Sui Yi gave him fell at his feet, and the lid of the box opened.
Ning Lan got closer and picked it up first. Inside the box lay a pair of star-shaped earrings, one large and the other small, with a simple design. The black gemstones glistened brightly under the incandescent light.
Sui Yi didn't have pierced ears, so Ning Lan asked suspiciously, "This is..."
Sui Yi glanced at the pair of earrings, his eyes flickered, he put down his hand hanging in the air, and said in a low voice, "It's also for you."
Ning Lan blinked: "But I don't have pierced ears."
"Well, I didn't expect it when I bought it."
Ning Lan looked at Sui Yi with downcast eyes and an uncomfortable look, thinking he was embarrassed, and couldn't help but laugh, "Thank you, Captain, it's very beautiful."
Sui Yi pursed her lips and continued to pack her luggage.
Ning Lan hadn't slept well all night. He took advantage of Sui Yi's fall asleep in the middle of the night. He brought the two boxes and pressed them under the pillow. up.
Fang Yu and Gu Chenkai came back at noon. Taking advantage of Zhang Fan and An Lin's absence in the morning, he sneaked out of the company and took a taxi to the entrance of a hospital in Shinan.
This is the second time he has come here, and the man who received him was the same male doctor last time. He didn't recognize Ning Lan, who had only one relationship with him. Seeing that this guest was dressed nicely, his attitude was not as bad as last time. .
However, when he heard that he was just going to have his ears pierced, the doctor rolled his eyes to the sky and pointed to the door: "Turn left and then left when you go out, there are holes everywhere."
According to the doctor's instructions, Ning Lan found a small shop selling accessories in the alley, and spent twenty yuan to have two piercings in her left ear, one on the earlobe and one near the edge of the auricle.
"Please help me put on these two ear studs." Ning Lan said, taking out the box from her pocket after getting her ears pierced.
The owner of the jewelry store is a middle-aged woman in her thirties. She said in surprise, "How can anyone wear earrings just after getting their ears pierced, so they are not afraid of inflammation and pus?"
Ning Lan said he was not afraid, and begged the proprietress to help him wear it. The proprietress couldn't stand the little boy's milky coquettish coquettish coquettishness. Seeing that the star earrings were made of platinum, it was not easy to cause wound infection.
The silver nails that had just been inserted into the flesh were still oozing blood when they were pulled out. The proprietress couldn't bear to look directly at him, and asked, "Is it from my girlfriend? It's so precious."
Ning Lan's face behind the mask was smiling brightly, and before she could speak, she grinned and gasped because of the pain of piercing the flesh.
On the way back, Ning Lan was in the back seat of the taxi and turned on the front camera of her phone as a mirror to look at her left ear. He placed the larger star on the earlobe and the smaller one on the pinna. The obsidian reflected the sunlight outside the window, dazzlingly bright.
Pretty pleasing to the eye, except the ears are a little red and swollen.
Running out to get his ears pierced was not only his impulse, but also something he had thought about all night.
Ning Lan touched the position of her chest with her hand. Underneath was a heart that took root and sprouts under the sun and rain and was about to burst out of the ground.
Even if he repeatedly told himself not to have unrealistic delusions like a fool, his heart that had been silent for a long time could not resist, and was ready to move under the bombardment of sugar-coated cannonballs.
Not to mention more than just sugar-coated shells.
Ning Lan finally plucked up the courage and boldly guessed—
Maybe... he likes me too
Otherwise, why did you come back here to celebrate my birthday
Otherwise, why are you being so gentle and kind to me
Ning Lan seemed to have found the answer in these questions. He was dizzy by the answer, and he used his remaining rationality to suppress the overwhelming sense of happiness.
There has never been a moment so eager to go back and see him as soon as possible.
He looked out the window at the scene of the street receding backwards, raised the hand wearing the red rope and touched the left ear, the smile was imprinted in the bottom of his eyes, condensed on the brows, and it never faded all the way.