The wind had died down, and only the light beams flickered occasionally. Yunli held her breath and stared at Fu Shize in disbelief.
Not because of the words he said, but the tone of his voice.
A little willing to show weakness, but also a little coquettishly aggrieved.
Yunli froze and stared ahead, not daring to make eye contact with him at all, and unconsciously squeezed the hand warmer tightly.
“…”
Seeing that she didn't answer, Fu Shize whispered again as if urging: "Huh?"
Yunli's mind was completely blank.
The breath hitting his right ear was non-aggressive, as if all the warmth of the night was poured into these few breaths.
She unconsciously had the illusion that he looked like a lonely wolf dog, wagging its tail and begging for mercy.
All of Yunli's psychological defenses were instantly breached.
She answered uncontrollably: "No..."
As soon as he finished speaking, Yunli wanted to give himself a blow.
Ahhhhhh what did she answer! ! !
He has obviously given up! !
After hearing her answer, the people next to him fell silent and gently let go of Yunli's wrist.
The original distance between the face and the face suddenly widens, and the heat source of the human body is far away.
Yunli had not yet recovered from the shock and annoyance of not being able to express her true feelings. At this moment, she was wondering if her answer was inappropriate and she raised her eyes to look at him.
"What's wrong?"
Fu Shi looked away unnaturally, his expression dark and unclear: "Maybe he's a little nervous."
“…”
Yunli lost her sense of control, but also realized that she had no power to resist in front of Fu Shize. She lowered her head resignedly and asked in a low voice: "Why are you asking me this..."
Fu Shi didn't respond. His hand that didn't move away held her wrist in his palm, and his thumb pad rubbed her wrist. His eyelids drooped, blocking half of his eyes: "Don't you understand?"
His touch was natural, as close as their relationship should be.
The skin on her fingertips was delicate, and even though it was cold, it tickled her heart.
Fu Shize said nothing, waiting for the person in front of him to struggle with himself internally.
After her heart pounded like a deer, Yunli fell into a great confusion.
The possibility of rebirth made countless hopes well up in her heart, but at the same time, she could not forget the heartache of giving up and the hardship she hid behind the rejections. Behind the pursuit of dreams is her survival.
But this is the person she cares about.
She was afraid that her retreat would extinguish the last flickering light of the candle and bring him away permanently.
Yunli struggled to speak: "Then the person they said you planned to date..."
Without any hesitation, Fu Shize said, "It's you."
Yunli was stunned.
Fu Shize: "The person I want to date is you."
His tone was calm and determined.
It's always been you.
Never anyone else.
"Clang."
The crisp sound was from Fu Shize hitting the glass, and the glass hitting the bottle. Yunli was in a stage of high emotional fluctuations. At the reminder of this voice, she clutched at a life-saving straw and said in a hurry: "You are drunk."
Fu Shi glanced at her: "I didn't."
Yunli couldn't help but insist: "No, no, you are drunk."
“…”
"Okay." Fu Shize laughed and did not continue to refute. He leaned back and looked at her, "Then wait until I wake up."
Yunli looked at the corners of his raised lips and felt strange. This was the first time she had seen his smile.
She couldn't ignore the indescribable emotion between his eyebrows.
The man was leaning on the hammock, with the back of his head directly against the rope, not afraid of its shaking, and looking at her patiently and calmly.
Yunli couldn't bear the state of her heart that was about to explode at this moment. She stuffed the hand-warming ball directly into Fu Shize's arms and stood up hurriedly: "I'm going back, can you go back too?"
Fu Shize: "Yeah."
Just as he was about to get up, Yunli said again: "Can you be a minute or two late? Because I was alone when I came out."
“…”
Fu Shize lay back down again and hummed expressionlessly.
Yunli walked a few steps, then turned around and turned back.
When she left, Fu Shize's eyes stayed on her. Their eyes met. Yunli asked uncertainly: "When you wake up, will what you said tonight still count?"
There was a hint of unconfidence in his words.
Fu Shi is concise and to the point: "Count."
Yun Li pursed her lips: "Then don't drink the remaining half of the bottle."
You can wake up earlier.
Fu Shi snorted softly.
Yunli felt uneasy: "I'll take it away for you."
“…”
On the way back, the biting wind made Yunli regain some sense. The thoughts deep in her mind were confirmed tonight - the details she had suspected might not be an illusion.
The base sweater he wore today was pure black, which he had not seen yesterday.
It's not like he didn't have a change of clothes. He would try things he had never tried just because she thought they looked good.
He wore it for her to see.
In this relationship, Yunli is on the weaker side, too humble to speculate on the motives behind all his actions.
What he just said...is it an admission
Yunli couldn't help but curl up the corners of her lips, feeling as if a jar of honey had been overturned. She tightened her coat and looked back as she approached the house. Fu Shi, a hundred meters away from her, also stopped.
Yunli dilly-dallyed in her pocket for a while, then couldn't help but walk over: "How about... let's walk together. If asked, just say that we met on the road."
Fu Shi nodded and followed her.
At the door of the villa, shouting was heard inside. Yun Li opened the door and went in. Chen Renran's neck was all red, and he must have drunk a lot of wine. After seeing the two of them, several people invariably silenced their voices.
Yunli greeted them, and Fu Zhengchu stopped Fu Shize. After hesitating for a while, Yunli did not follow. After going upstairs, he placed the wine bottle at the door of Fu Shize's room. There is still music playing in the room.
After entering the room, Yunli leaned against the door. After waiting for a long time, she heard the sound of the door closing next door.
He also replied.
Hiding behind the door, she seemed to see his figure slowly approaching, and the imaginary scene was enough to make her heart beat faster. In just half an hour, Yunli's depression and anxiety in the past two weeks disappeared instantly.
Yunli never thought that this competition, which even she herself was not optimistic about, might finally get what she wanted.
The sailboat that had been drifting in the deep sea for several months finally saw the rocks on the shore.
She ran to the bed and fell straight down, still feeling unbelievable.
…
Fu Shi stared at Yunli's door and waited for a while before swiping the door card and returning to the room.
The light in the room is warm, and the wooden speakers on the desk play folk music from the last century. Xu Qingsong leaned against the bay window, flipping through an old original English book in his hand, and the paper was yellowed.
Fu Shi placed the wine bottle and glass on the shelf at the entrance. Xu Qingsong glanced at it. He had drunk less than half of the wine and was much more restrained than usual.
Without reading the two lines of text, he looked up again. He hadn't seen Fu Shize look so relaxed in more than a year.
Xu Qingsong turned his eyes back to the book and said with a smile: "What are you doing?"
Fu Shi then sat on the sofa and scrolled through his cell phone: "Confession."
Xu Qingsong thought he heard wrongly, paused in turning the page, tilted his head, and asked: "Confession?"
Xu Qingsong thought for a while: "Yunli?"
Fu Shize did not deny it.
"I just figured out why you insisted on wearing my clothes last night."
Xu Qingsong had discovered the clue earlier, but just denied the possibility with reasonable reasons. He smiled again and asked: "Did I delay you two?"
Fu Shize lowered his head and thought for a while, then said calmly: "This is good."
Xu Qingsong: "?"
She doesn't look for him. If he wanted to see her, he had to take the initiative.
Fu Shize has always felt that he is not a proactive person.
It turns out he does.
Fu Shize didn't say anything more. Xu Qingsong looked at the plush ball in his hand: "Is that a token of love in his hand?"
Fu Shize hummed.
After putting the book away, Xu Qingsong stood up and asked curiously: "Let's take a look?"
Fu Shi glanced at him, ignored him, and hid the hand-warmer ball toward his abdomen.
Seeing that he had no intention of sharing, Xu Qingsong didn't ask any questions and transferred him two tickets to the zoo: "Tomorrow is Christmas, and you can take her to the zoo to play."
Fu Shize did not refuse.
Xu Qingsong did not forget to remind: "Prepare a small gift."
Fu Shize hummed.
He opened the chat interface with Yunli. The last chat record was more than two weeks ago. He entered: [Are you going to the zoo tomorrow?] and sent it directly.
"I called the skyscraper restaurant I told you about last time. I'll pay the bill when the time comes."
Xu Qingsong was usually more casual in doing things. Last night, he heard that He Jiameng had leaked the news about Fu Shize's date. The free-spirited person felt guilty for the first time.
"Yeah, I got it." Fu Shize was absent-minded, looking down at Yunli's reply.
There was a red exclamation mark in front of the message box just sent, and Fu Shi looked down.
[Clouds has turned on friend verification, but you are not his (her) friend yet. Please send a friend verification request first, and you can only chat after the other party is verified.]
“…”
Fu Shize didn't react and was stunned for a while.
Has he been deleted
It was the first time in his life that someone had deleted him as a friend. He blinked twice and read the sentence from beginning to end to make sure he understood it correctly.
Seeing that Fu Shize's indifferent mask had cracks, Xu Qingsong froze on the sofa for a while like a puppet.
After a while, Xu Qingsong heard Fu Shize helplessly laugh, clicked a few times on his phone, and called Yunli.
Fu Shize: "It's me."
Yunli asked nervously: "What's wrong?"
Fu Shize had no doubts this time: "Go to the zoo tomorrow."
After a while, Yunli stammered: "Oh... oh, do you want to go together?"
Fu Shize: "Yeah."
Yunli: "Okay."
The two of them didn't talk about anything else. Yunli said softly: "Go to bed early and good night."
Fu Shi lowered his eyes: "Go to rest early."
When Fu Shize hung up the phone, Xu Qingsong was standing not far away, holding a transparent teapot in his hand, slowly pouring himself a cup of hot tea, with an inexplicable smile on his face.
Fu Shize didn't understand: "What?"
Xu Qingsong raised his eyebrows and said in a playful tone: "I'm so panicked. Let's drink some tea to relieve the tiredness."
“…”
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After answering Fu Shize's call, Yunli was still uneasy, and someone sent her several messages on WeChat.
Fu Zhengchu: [Sister Lili, the table was not very happy just now. Sister Qiqi’s colleague was a little unhappy. They all drank too much.]
Fu Zhengchu: [They are talking about you having breakfast]
Fu Zhengchu: [Say that you have nothing to do with my uncle. . .]
Fu Zhengchu: [My sister is also talking to Sister Qiqi, but I can’t get in the conversation qaq]
Yunli: […]
Yunli: [It’s okay.]
This was the first time Deng Chuqi held a red string for her, and he didn't seem to take her rejection to heart. Yunli felt a little uncomfortable. Moreover, Chen Renran spoke forcefully, and she didn't want to deal with it anymore.
Yunli turned around and sent a message to Deng Chuqi: [Qiqi, your colleague and I are not suitable. Can you talk to him in private?]
Click till then.
They should be celebrating Deng Chuqi's freedom from being a social beast these days, and Yunli doesn't want to spoil her fun.
Putting on her headphones, Yunli recalled Fu Shize's invitation just now, and her face turned red unconsciously. She buried her face into the pillow and suddenly remembered something -
She deleted him.
Yunli jumped up from her bed at lightning speed, hurriedly opened her mobile phone and searched everywhere, but could not find a way to add his WeChat account. It was in the chaos that she remembered the call from Fu Shize just now.
Copy this number to the friend adding field of WeChat.
It's still the familiar avatar, and the nickname is a capital F.
After adding, no verification is required and the two become friends again.
Stare at this interface.
Yunli felt lucky to have a narrow escape.
Just in case, Yunli sent a tentative message.
[What time will it be tomorrow^^]
Fu Shize: [You decide]
Yunli: [Shall we have breakfast together?]
Fu Chize: [Hmm]
Yunli felt relieved when she saw the other party's reply without any abnormality.
Someone knocked on the door, and Yunli, who was still lying on the bed in a daze, came to his senses and unconsciously guessed that it was Fu Chize. She stood up and straightened her clothes and hairstyle at the dressing table.
When he opened the door, it was Chen Renran. He was holding a fruit plate and his face was as red as after drinking too much wine.
"Today is Christmas Eve, let me give you some apples. We have been playing downstairs for a long time. Now that you have finished taking photos, do you want to come down and play too?" Chen Renran's attitude was gentle, completely different from when we parted in the morning.
"No." Yunli said slowly: "Thank you. It's very late and I want to go to bed early."
Chen Renran seemed to be prepared to be rejected, and did not have negative emotions because of it. He handed the fruit plate in her direction: "That's good. You have a very healthy schedule. I should learn from you. You take it back and eat it." a little?"
Yunli shook her head: "I brushed my teeth, thank you. Can you take it downstairs and share it with everyone?"
Yunli wanted to draw a clear line with him, but she was not good at explaining. After thinking for a while, she said: "I want to tell you something..."
Chen Renran interrupted her: "I just want to tell you something. It's better for boys to take the initiative with this kind of thing."
Yunli: "..."
He showed an embarrassed smile: "I want to apologize to you. My tone was not good this morning. Maybe it's because I have a good impression of you, so I am more sensitive. I would like to ask my uncle from Congsheng to take more care of you." More."
Yunli: "..."
That's not what Yunli wanted to say. At this time, she could only accept his words: "It's okay, what I want to say is..."
Chen Renran said in a determined tone: "So you are really not ambiguous, right?"
Yunli: "..."
Not familiar with this person, Yunli didn't want him to interfere in her life, and was also afraid that he would go downstairs to spread the word. After thinking about it for a while, she answered: "No."
Just as he finished speaking, the door to the next door suddenly opened.
Fu Shi was wearing the black sweater he saw just now, and Xu Qingsong was wearing a lake blue sweater, leaning against the shelf at the entrance with a smile.
The timing of opening the door made Yunli feel guilty.
Fu Shize and Chen Renran nodded and looked at Yunli: "Are you going to watch a movie?"