Shu Nian didn't know what Ye Lan was thinking, so he just smiled and tapped her small and delicate nose. "You're here to help your brother get vaccinated? What, did your brother do something wrong?"
"… like, stab you in the head with a dart, that kind of thing."
Shu Nian smiled. In fact, she didn't take Ye Lan's words too seriously. She was just a little girl, and her words were very imaginative and easy to understand.
but…
"If your brother really did something wrong - it's a small matter like piercing my photo with a dart, then forget it. But if it's a matter of principle..." Shu Nian smiled and said, "Then I really have to think about it carefully."
Ye Lan could only pray silently for his brother in his heart. It would be best if his sister-in-law knew nothing about the whole thing.
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As the exam time was getting closer, Shu Nian sent Ye Lan away and started to study. However, he would occasionally lose his focus and couldn't help thinking of Ye Yan.
wry smile.
I feel like I'm becoming less and less successful.
I have never missed someone as much as I do now, even if I am only away for a few days.
When Shu Nian was reviewing seriously, her cell phone suddenly rang. She looked at the number on the screen and saw that it was a local unfamiliar number.
"Hello." Shu Nian answered the phone.
"Niannian, it's me." A familiar voice came from the other end of the phone. Although they hadn't been in touch for a long time, Shu Nian immediately recognized that the voice was Xiong Wanting.
That year, after she left, she never contacted anyone.
Later, after a long time, on the day when the college entrance examination results were released, she still called Xiong Wanting to ask about her exam results. However, because Xiong Wanting went to study in Country M and she was busy making a living, the two lost contact again. Shu Nian didn't expect that Xiong Wanting would call him at this moment.
"Hey, why don't you answer me?" Xiong Wanting was very excited. "Shu Nian, can you not recognize my voice anymore?"
Shu Nian came back to his senses, "Miss Xiong, I can forget anyone but you. But how come you have time to look for me today?"
She remembered something, and took the phone a little further away from her ear, put it in front of her and looked at it. Then, she was incredulous, "This is the number here, you... are you coming here?"
"That's right, I'm here! Shu Nian, come and welcome me!" Xiong Wanting was very excited.
Shu Nian was also very happy. For so many years, Xiong Wanting was the only friend she had. For so many years, they were separated in two countries, and she had never thought that they would meet again.
"How would you like to be greeted?"
"How about this, I'll settle down today, and you'll welcome me tomorrow. We haven't seen each other for so many years, I've missed you so much!"
"Okay, I'll give you the whole day tomorrow."
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night.
Shu Nian did not go home but slept in Ye Yan's apartment.
When Ye Yan called, she was cooking noodles alone.
"Did you have dinner on time?" Shu Nian asked him. She was more worried about his gastrointestinal problems.
Ye Yan said 'hmm', "You're just going to eat noodles tonight?"
"I just made some for myself. The noodles I made tasted pretty good."
Ye Yan was silent for a moment, looking at the night view outside the window with a far-reaching gaze. He felt that the dim lights outside the window could arouse people's longing.
"After we get married, do you want to cook for us or find someone to cook for us?"
Shu Nian held the phone, listening to Ye Yan's voice and his vision for the future. He felt that the lake of his heart was stirred up by waves of shallow ripples, like the boiling water in the pot.
She casually moved the noodles, her eyebrows smiling, "Let's cook it ourselves. It's easy to cook for two people."
"I don't like anyone disturbing our world either."
"But let's make it clear first. From now on, you have to help with the housework. How about this, from now on, I'll cook and you'll wash the dishes. Okay?"
The number of times Ye Yan has been in the kitchen over the past 20 years can be counted on one hand.
Washing dishes? It was a challenging job, and he had never tried it.
However, at this moment, his mind was filled with small fragments of his life with Shu Nian. Even something as trivial as washing dishes was what he longed for and expected.
"Okay. That's settled then. But you have to be patient and teach me first."
Shu Nian was worried, "Maybe you didn't wash the dishes, but broke all the plates in the house?"
"It's entirely possible."
Shu Nian: “…”
"By the way, I'm going to meet a friend tomorrow." Shu Nian picked the noodles into a bowl and brought it to the kitchen while talking to Ye Yan.
"What friend?" Ye Yan asked casually, sitting on the sofa and flipping through the documents. He liked the feeling of working while listening to her voice. At least, it could suppress the longing in his heart.
"Old friend, I was your fan back then. But I'm not sure you still remember her."
"who?"
"Tingting. Xiong Wanting, do you remember? She was my deskmate before and loved to peek at you."
"The one who was so stingy that she used her phone to call you and asked me to pay her back for the phone bill?"
Shu Nian laughed out loud, "Is this the only impression she left on you?"
"Well, if I wasn't sitting at the same table with you, I wouldn't even have this impression." Ye Yan really didn't pay much attention to the female classmates in the class, especially the female classmates who were obsessed with him.
Normally, he would just feel annoyed by that kind of female classmates. At the beginning, the only one in their class who was not crazy about him was Shu Nian.
In such a deep night, two people chatted and whispered. Neither of them wanted to hang up the phone. It seemed that once the other person's voice left their ears, this night would become endless and long.
only…
In the end, the phone always gets disconnected.
"... I have to go review." Shu Nian's voice was a little muffled, revealing nostalgia. She felt that it would be difficult for her to concentrate.
"Yeah." Ye Yan paused for a second and added, "I'll try to get back as soon as possible."
"Are you coming back tomorrow?" Shu Nian pressed. After asking, he realized that he seemed a little anxious, embarrassed, secretly scolded himself for being so useless, and explained: "I just saw that Tingting rarely came here, and I wanted her to meet you too."
She didn't know if every woman in love was like her, eager to bring the other person to meet her best friend, but she was.
"Are you so anxious for me to come back just because you want to take me to see her?" Ye Yan's tone sounded a little disappointed.
This person is asking questions even though he already knows the answer, right
Shu Nian rested his chin on the bookshelf, and his voice softened unconsciously, "Then...if there is another reason, will you come back tomorrow?"
The soft voice coming from the phone was like a soft feather, gently stirring in his heart. Ye Yan felt that his deep love was about to overflow from his chest. Facing such a girl, could he still refuse
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