When we walked out of the terminal, a black Bentley was already waiting outside, and a driver wearing white gloves stood by the door to greet us.
Tao Zhiyue knew very early on that Huo Ran in the novel was very rich, and in the later part of the novel he lived an extremely high-profile and luxurious life.
But in reality, the Huo Ran I know is no different from ordinary people.
Today was the same. Huo Ran and all the people who came to pick him up at the airport crowded together at the exit to wait. There was no special passage arranged, and no big fuss, making the scene very grand.
Everything was normal and Tao Zhiyue didn't need to adjust his mentality to adapt.
The uneasiness about the life of a wealthy person gradually faded away, but Tao Zhiyue immediately realized that he was now facing a very serious problem.
You can’t ride in the same car with Huo Ran.
And he couldn’t tell Huo Ran the real reason.
He stopped stiffly.
Huo Ran was fully aware of his dilemma. The driver opened the car door respectfully, and Huo Ran looked back, waiting for him to get in first.
Tao Zhiyue's brain immediately started working rapidly.
For a long time in the foreseeable future, he could not travel in the same car with Huo Ran, and he had to find a reasonable excuse.
"Um... I'm carsick." He thought quickly, "Sorry, I forgot to tell you."
Huo Ran was obviously a little surprised, "Isn't it possible to take this kind of car?"
"No, I'll feel dizzy and uncomfortable."
The white-glove driver immediately proposed an alternative plan: "Master, you can take the subway from the airport to the city, but there will be more people."
Tao Zhiyue started to give up, "The subway doesn't work either... I get subway sick."
Huo Ran was so surprised that he couldn't help laughing.
"If the airport wasn't too far away, I would actually like to walk back with you. I haven't walked a long way with you yet."
Tao Zhiyue blushed again.
It sounds like a statement of fact, but why does it make people feel shy
Huo Ran was still daydreaming, "Or we can ride a bicycle? I've ridden one before, I wonder if you can adapt to it."
"But it's summer now and the weather is getting hot. Riding a bike will be very tiring and you'll get a sunburn."
“…Is riding a bicycle too much of an exaggeration?”
Tao Zhiyue tried very hard to come up with a compromise, "There is a bus at the airport, we can take the bus."
According to the logic deduced previously, if a vehicle with multiple passengers encounters a traffic accident, the damage to specific people will be uncontrollable, and a large number of innocent people will also be affected.
This would not be a simple love story, the whole story would become heavy.
Tao Zhiyue had a firm intuition that the plot would not allow such a development.
"Won't you feel dizzy on the bus?" Huo Ran was very curious.
"At least I don't feel sick on buses right now." Tao Zhiyue said, feeling extremely guilty. "Maybe it's because there are so many people, so I feel safer, so I don't feel uncomfortable."
"So that's how it is." Huo Ran thought thoughtfully.
Tao Zhiyue, who was feeling extremely ashamed for telling a series of lies, was about to apologize again when he saw Huo Ran's eyes suddenly light up.
Many couples returning home together were arm in arm, chatting away, as they walked towards the airport bus ticket office on the other side.
"It's a rare experience to ride on the bus together. Let's go buy tickets."
Huo Ran turned to the white-glove driver and said, "Uncle Zhang, go back. We've been taking the bus for the past two days."
Uncle Zhang nodded, gave Tao Zhiyue a kind smile, and turned to get in the car.
Then Huo Ran gently took Tao Zhiyue's arm and led him to follow the crowd to the ticket office.
Tao Zhiyue still remembered the temperature of his palms, which was still incredibly hot, just like that day.
It makes people want to reach out and hold it.
Half an hour later, we were sitting on a bus packed with passengers, being frequently stared at by others. There was even a little girl in the front row looking at us and whispering to us.
Generally, you can see a lot of beautiful girls when you go out, but there are very few men who are good-looking, let alone two people with outstanding looks sitting together.
Tao Zhiyue began to feel ashamed again.
I didn't think too much before the meeting and just came here on impulse. I didn't expect that the way to travel when I was with Huo Ran would become a huge problem.
I don't really have to rely on walking or cycling...
And now we are sitting very close to each other, with even our shoulders touching.
I could even smell the refreshing scent of Huo Ran’s shampoo.
Tao Zhiyue was as stiff as a puppet, his hands resting in the middle of nowhere and his mind surging with emotions.
Huo Ran glanced at him secretly and said, "Your forehead is sweating. Are you hot?"
…hateful straight man.
Before Tao Zhiyue could say anything, he saw reaching out to adjust the fan blades of the air-conditioning vent above his head and direct the air flow towards .
This time the unexpected person turned out to be Tao Zhiyue.
"You seem very skilled." I couldn't help but say.
Where is the cold-blooded president who was supposed to be indifferent to worldly matters
"What do you mean by skilled?" Huo Ran was stunned for a moment, then quickly realized what was happening and said with a smile, "Do you think I've never ridden a bus before?"
"It's written like this in novels and TV dramas." Tao Zhiyue argued in a low voice, "Rich people and... good friends will be very stupid when they take the bus for the first time. They don't know how to swipe the card, and they can't adapt to the crowded environment in the bus."
Huo Ran seemed to have opened the door to a new world. "So you like watching this kind of TV series. My sister also watches it often. She scolds while watching, and then continues watching after scolding. She even insists on dragging me to watch it with her."
Tao Zhiyue was amused, "It's great to have a younger sister. I also want to have a younger sister."
"I can lend you my sister." Huo Ran was very considerate to smooth out the slight melancholy in this sentence, "I'm sure your father will agree."
The feeling of tension gradually faded away, and Tao Zhiyue tried to put his hands on his legs as naturally as possible.
"My sister will be sad if she hears this."
"No, she wouldn't. She would love to follow you." Huo Ran accidentally let it slip.
Tao Zhiyue was surprised, "Does she know?"
Huo Ran looked at him carefully, "Will you be angry?"
"Nothing to say, I was just so excited after eating hotpot that day that I couldn't help but want to show off to someone, and then..."
"Besides, she really likes your personality and looks, so it's very satisfying to show off to her..."
Tao Zhiyue's face turned almost red. After thinking for a long time, he solemnly sent off the winning move.
"I'm not angry, Master."
Huo Ran: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"I told Uncle Zhang not to call me that a long time ago. I will change it next time."
Huo Ran turned his face away silently, his ears turning red suspiciously.
Well, good friends should share shame together.
Today is Shame Day after all.
The bus drove steadily towards the city, carrying random whispers along the way.
The terminal of the airport bus is in the old town. The area is very busy. As soon as night falls, food stalls are set up everywhere.
As soon as I got off the car, the spicy and fragrant aroma of fried crabs wafted through the wind.
The luxurious dinner that Huo Ran had originally planned was instantly forgotten.
Tao Zhiyue didn't want to go to any restrictive high-end restaurant. The best food in a city is often hidden in the streets and alleys.
They moved slowly among the crowd.
"I just realized that this place is very similar to Nanshan Road. I seldom came here before."
Huo Ran stared at them, his eyes made very gentle by the night.
Tao Zhiyue felt even more regretful. That night he could only eat scrambled eggs with tomatoes at home, and after that he had to make up for the work he had not finished during the day.
"How many snacks did you buy that day? Only then did you pick out the best ones."
"Not a lot." Huo Ran scratched his head, "I bought everything that looked like you would like to eat without realizing it."
"So what do you like to eat?"
"He's not picky about food, he eats everything." Huo Ran thought for a moment and added, "But he won't eat smelly things, that's terrible."
"I went to Sweden a few years ago, but I didn't know about the canned herring that was already famous on the Internet. My local friends enthusiastically urged me to try it. It looked like a small tin can, but I never thought it would be so lethal after being opened."
"Later, I searched the internet overnight for smelly delicacies from other countries, fearing that I would accidentally smell something I shouldn't smell. After just one sniff, my nose was damaged for a long time before it returned to normal."
Tao Zhiyue was so delighted after hearing this that his eyes curved into beautiful arcs.
Huo Ran looked at him in a daze, "... Now that I think about it, it doesn't seem that bad."
Tao Zhiyue pushed him away very embarrassedly, not wanting him to look at him, "Let's go, let's go eat spicy crabs."
After a while, they sat on simple tables and chairs on the roadside like ordinary lovers or friends, and engaged in a childish crab-cracking competition in the noisy night and warm evening breeze.
Tao Zhiyue's hometown is on the coast. He has often eaten crabs since he was a child and is quite skilled at it.
Tao Zhiyue was very proud of the fact that half of the crab was eaten up quickly without any waste.
"I win, you are so slow."
Huo Ran was still struggling with the crab meat wrapped in white soft shells.
Tao Zhiyue watched for a while and felt that he was really stupid, so he couldn't help but give instructions himself.
"Don't eat it vertically, break it open horizontally so that the meat is in strips and very complete."
He reached out to correct Huo Ran's wrong posture, and his fingers accidentally brushed the side of his face.
So this is what it feels like when your fingers are on fire.
Tao Zhiyue immediately lowered his head, pretending to eat seriously, and no longer dared to look at the other person's expression.
After a while, Huo Ran's nonchalant voice came to my ears: "I've learned it."
Put a crab leg covered with white crab meat into Tao Zhiyue's bowl.
"I've removed the shell. This is the most intact piece in the middle. You must be a fast learner."
So Huo Ran's tone was also very proud.
Saying thank you seemed to be inadequate, Tao Zhiyue was stunned for a moment and simply poured Coke into Xi's cup.
Tiny bubbles surged in the disposable plastic cup, densely filling my heart.
After the dinner, as he and Huo Ran were walking towards the hotel, Tao Zhiyue vaguely thought that this should be his favorite day of his life.
You can never imagine what kind of surprise this person will bring to you in the next moment.
So today is not his favorite day yet, because he will love every day that comes after that.
Huo Ran had already booked the best hotel in the city for him, and Tao Zhiyue did not refuse.
I am slowly learning to accept other people's kindness calmly. Rejecting timidly is not the best way to deal with it. Responding with the same enthusiasm is the most equal and long-lasting way.
But when Huo Ran pretended to be calm and followed him into the elevator, Tao Zhiyue was still very surprised.
"I'm living next door to you today." Huo Ran explained first, "Because I didn't have a good schedule recently, and there were those things... I was afraid of affecting my family, so I moved out and lived alone."
"It's boring to live alone. It just so happens that you're here to play. You can call me anytime if you need anything. It's also more convenient for us to leave together tomorrow, so I'm staying here."
Tao Zhiyue's heart was beating fast when he walked into the room.
The gauze curtains in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows were open, and one could overlook the brilliant lights of the entire Yanping City. The magnificent scenery was dazzling, and the room was elegantly and simply decorated.
Tao Zhiyue had no time to pay attention to everything around him, as one thing kept playing over and over again in his mind.
Huo Ran lives next door to him.
This is the first time I live in a place separated by a wall from the person I love.
Even though nothing happened, my heart couldn't stop beating faster.
Tao Zhiyue sat on the spacious bed, staring at the colorful TV screen in a daze, not hearing a word.
A few minutes later, the guest in the next room, who was in tune with the situation, sent a message.
[hr: Have you slept yet?]
[Tao: No.]
[Tao: Wrap yourself tightly in a small quilt.jpg]
[hr: What a coincidence, that’s right.]
[hr: It must be because I ate too much! ]
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