Ji Xuanyi stood against the light, with the afterglow of the setting sun spreading behind him.
From Su Jia's point of view, the collision of light and shadow, with strong contrast, sculpts his face which is already stiffer than ordinary Asians, and sculpts it deeper and deeper.
His light three words fell on Su Jia's heart, like a crow's feather touching still water.
It seems that there are no waves and no waves, but in fact, thousands of miles of ripples have already started.
As long as she can remember, she has been the one who needs to give in at home, let her younger brother eat delicious food, and let her parents feel comfortable. No one has ever promised her to "just mention it".
Even if the other party should just be polite out of the fact that she is a friend's roommate.
Su Jia couldn't help but startled.
Yao Linxia noticed her strangeness and thought she was frightened by Ji Xuanyi's handling.
She patted Su Jia on the shoulder twice, and said with a hearty smile, "You don't know, there are cleaning staff in the companies managed by Brother Yi, so it's very convenient to arrange a few people."
Su Jia still kept her head up and stared at Ji Xuanyi, and Ji Xuanyi also stared at her.
Those blue eyes are like a vortex suddenly born, tempting to fall into an endless place.
Su Jia knew that she had no ability to escape, so she quickly turned her head away and kept her distance.
Ji Xuanyi didn't care much if he didn't receive her answer, and his smiling eyes fell forward.
The downstairs of the row of dormitories is full of intricate tree-lined paths, and Cullinan parked on the road outside.
The few people were still a few meters away, and the driver had already opened the doors of the front and rear seats.
Ji Xuanyi went straight to the co-pilot, Zhou Yuan called Su Jia and Yao Lin to sit in the back row.
The four sat down, and the car drove slowly out of the school.
Zhou Yuan was concerned: "What to eat?"
Yao Linxia touched Su Jia's arm on the left: "Of course we will leave this decision to our youngest sister Jia."
Su Jia withdrew her gaze from the starry sky roof unique to Rolls-Royce, looked at her classmate, and didn't understand: "What if I'm older than you?"
Yao Linxia burst into laughter: "I repeated it for three years in order to be admitted to Beicheng University. You must not have it?"
This answer was beyond Su Jia's expectation, she nodded honestly.
Yao Linxia said again: "As for Zhou Yuan and Brother Yi, let alone, they are all old men who are about to run away."
Zhou Yuan immediately protested: "Hey, hey, who is running three years? I am three years younger than Brother Yi."
Yao Linxia let out a chuckle: "Oh, it's only three years old, don't count."
Su Jia didn't pay much attention to the quarrel between the two of them, and couldn't help turning her eyes to the rearview mirror.
The narrow lenses frame half of the luxurious man on the co-pilot.
He sits in a relaxed posture, with his head slightly tilted, looking out the window idly, drawing out extremely tense jaw and neck lines, and the protruding corners and Adam's apple are as sharp and flamboyant.
Su Jia stared at the beautiful picture in the mirror without blinking, thinking: How old is he
Ji Xuanyi seemed to feel her different scrutiny, and his eyes shifted from the window to the rearview mirror.
In an instant, the cold and hot gazes of the two collided in the mirror.
Su Jia thought that hiding was just trying to cover up. After a brief moment of astonishment, she returned to her original state and looked straight at him.
The earnest appearance of her wide and clear eyes seemed to be playing a childhood game, competing with him to see who would blink first.
After getting along several times hastily, Ji Xuanyi found that this little girl liked to stare at people.
Even if he watched secretly and was caught by him, he was calm and frank.
Ji Xuanyi couldn't help laughing, as expected of a seventeen or eighteen year old, wanton and fearless.
He didn't look away, and asked aloud, "What do you want to eat?"
The car was noisy because there were Yao Linxia and Zhou Yuan who couldn't live without bickering, but Ji Xuanyi's subwoofer had a strong penetrating power and penetrated Su Jia's eardrum clearly.
She finally had another reaction and flapped her eyelashes several times.
Yao Linxia interrupted the endless argument with Zhou Yuan, and asked her, "Yes, what do you want to eat?"
A third person looked over, Su Jia staggered his eyes and replied, "Let's have Chinese food, whatever else you want."
Half an hour later, Cullinan stopped in front of a high-end Chinese restaurant.
The four of them asked for a large box, with a round table that could be rotated in the center.
Yao Linxia and Zhou Yuan naturally sat together regardless of others, and Su Jia sat on the other side of Yao Linxia.
Ji Xuanyi was the last one to choose a seat, Su Jia thought he would sit on Zhou Yuan's right, but he directly pulled away the seat on her left.
Su Jia looked at him with a little doubt.
Ji Xuanyi casually gave the reason: "The two of them are too noisy."
After the waiter finished serving the dishes, he started to move his chopsticks, only then did Su Jia truly realize that Ji Xuanyi's "noisy" was not an exaggeration at all.
Yao Linxia and Zhou Yuan ate food and talked properly, and the two talked about it as if no one else was there, and the occasional loud voices challenged the ceiling's ability to withstand it.
Su Jia has lived in that always noisy and restless home for more than ten years, and has long cultivated the ability to automatically shield the outside world.
She had been on the road all day, and she was so hungry that her chest was pressed against her back, and she was focused on pleasing her stomach.
There were a dozen or so dishes on the table, but only one or two dishes had something to do with spicy food. Su Jia had a very strong taste, and he didn't like anything spicy, so he only ate those two dishes.
But it was a big round table, Zhou Yuan kept swiping the table top, and most of the time it was turned to Su Jia, either the health-preserving stew or light boiled water.
As a newcomer, Su Jia was too embarrassed to snatch the turntable, so she simply waited for the two favorite dishes to be served before eating, and spent the rest of the time drinking juice.
She waited for about half a minute, and stretched out a big hand with clear knuckles on the left side, with muscles and bones visible on the back of the hand, and vigorously pushed the disc, and various delicacies swirled like flowing water.
Ever since Su Jia came to the table, he had been watching Ji Xuanyi beside him intentionally or unintentionally.
He doesn't pick up vegetables very much, let alone touch the disc, and always holds the wine glass in his left hand, taking a sip from time to time.
She thought to herself that people with fighting ethnic blood were different, and they drank wine like water.
Therefore, Su Jia was a little surprised to see him actively turning the disk.
But soon, her surprise was washed away by joy, and the two spicy dishes approached her again.
Without thinking, Su Jia immediately put down the juice and picked up the chopsticks.
However, before she had time to reach out her chopsticks, the two dishes were picked up.
Su Jia temporarily stopped the chopsticks, and looked blankly at Ji Xuanyi who was serving the dishes.
Ji Xuanyi was expressionless, put the two dishes in front of her, and said softly, "Eat."
The round table is spacious, and there are plenty of seats in front of everyone. The two large plates of dishes are placed in front of Su Jia, so it is not too crowded.
She slowly understood Ji Xuanyi's intentions, he saw that she liked to eat these two foods, but it was inconvenient to turn the disc, so he simply let them off the disc and set them in front of her.
Su Jia's heart felt hot, but she also thought of Yao Linxia and Zhou Yuan who were at the same table.
Ji Xuanyi saw her concerns, and told: "We don't eat spicy food."
Su Jia got rid of the last scruples lingering in her heart, and focused on enjoying the delicious food.
As soon as she ate something delicious, she couldn't help laughing, and almost shook her head.
Ji Xuanyi looked sideways and saw the smile on her cheeks, which was bright and eye-catching, even Canyang couldn't match it.
The corners of his naturally upturned lips widened, thinking that this little girl is really easy to satisfy.
Not long after, Yao Linxia and Zhou Yuan didn't know what they were talking about, and suddenly stood up with chopsticks.
Su Jia was chewing spicy beef when he heard a movement and looked up at them in astonishment.
Yao Linxia said furiously: "He actually said that my motorcycle can't beat him, and I have to go to a showdown with him."
Zhou Yuan didn't lose the situation: "Compare, don't cry if you lose."
Yao Lin sneered back at him next time, lowered his head and asked Su Jia: "Jiajia, do you want to play together?"
Su Jia didn't understand those things and shook her head.
Yao Linxia didn't force it, and replied: "That's fine, I'll let Brother Yi take you back later, we'll go first."
The two of them said that the wind is the rain, and rushed away in a hurry, only Su Jia and Ji Xuanyi were left in the bright box.
The turning point came so suddenly that Su Jia was a little out of rhythm.
Ji Xuanyi took it for granted, without raising his eyelids, he sipped the wine leisurely.
The box where there were only two people who didn't talk very much was unusually quiet, and the sudden drop in atmosphere became weird.
Su Jiasheng felt uncomfortable, and felt that it would be embarrassing not to say anything.
She was about to speak when the phone on the table vibrated twice.
She swiped open the screensaver with a large bouquet of creamy sunflowers as the background, and a WeChat message came in.
The other party: [Student Su, I'm really sorry, the teacher we wanted to resign before will continue to work, you don't have to come for the interview tomorrow.]
Su Jia's crescent-shaped eyebrows were knotted.
This was an interview with a tutoring institution. Since the treatment was excellent, she was confident enough to be selected, so she pushed for interviews with other institutions.
Unwilling to give up, Su Jia put down her chopsticks and typed a reply: [Is there really no chance?]
The other party's attitude is firm: [I don't need anyone for now, next time I need it, I will contact you as soon as possible.]
It's not easy to find a good part-time job in an unfamiliar land, Su Jia was depressed, put away her mobile phone, didn't feel like eating, and planned to escape.
The moment she stood up, she remembered that she was not the only one here.
Her behavior alarmed Ji Xuanyi, he lazily held up his wine glass, raised his eyes, and looked at her eyes full of unknown reasons.
Su Jia sat back and explained: "I'm full, I'm going back to school."
"Oh." Ji Xuanyi put down his wine glass, took out his mobile phone and typed.
Seeing that he didn't want to talk to her anymore, Su Jia was about to add a "goodbye" and leave.
But he asked, "What's the rush?"
Su Jia was slightly startled, her big black and white eyes flickered in confusion.
Ji Xuanyi put the phone upside down on the table, looked at her and replied: "I just asked, your bedroom is still doing deep cleaning, it's inconvenient to go back now, there's water everywhere."
Su Jia reacted for a moment, he arranged the cleaning.
Although she knew about it when she was still in school, she didn't expect him to be so quick.
Su Jia sat still, not knowing what to do.
Seeing that she was at a loss, Ji Xuanyi became interested and asked, "Let's talk?"
Su Jia thought that there was nothing to do anyway, so it would be good to chat.
She asked back, "What are you talking about?"
Ji Xuanyi picked up his wine glass again, and asked bluntly, "Have you turned eighteen yet?"
Su Jia didn't expect him to ask this, and nodded in a dull voice: "The first two months are full."
Ji Xuanyi rested his elbows on the table, lifted his chin lightly, and put a sip of wine into his mouth.
His throat was infiltrated by the spicy wine, and his voice was even more deep and blurred: "That's okay."
Su Jia was confused: "What's the matter?"
Ji Xuanyi shook the wine glass again and again, his dark blue pupils reflected the ups and downs of the wine, as if the waves were rolling.
Su Jia waited for a few seconds, and before he got his next sentence, she knew that he would not answer.
She pursed her lips, reciprocated, and asked the same question: "What about you? Have you turned twenty-eight?"
Ji Xuanyi rolled his eyes and glanced at her: "It's still one year away."
Su Jia said "Oh", "That's okay."
Ji Xuanyi asked with interest: "What's the matter?"
Su Jia turned a deaf ear to it, picked up the juice, and shook it gracefully.
Ji Xuanyi saw through her at a glance: "Like me?"
Su Jia frankly admitted: "Well, I will learn from you."
Ji Xuanyi chuckled, turned sideways, and extended his right hand towards her.
Su Jia scanned the lines on his palm, they were clear and clear, and the three main curves hardly forked.
She couldn't figure it out: "what do you mean?"
Ji Xuanyi: "Tuition fees."