After dinner was almost finished, the men started smoking and chatting again.
Xia Rou's mind does not belong.
Her hand was suddenly held, and she couldn't help but froze.
"What do you think, which one is better?" Cao Yang turned to ask her.
Xia Rou knew she couldn't break free, so she didn't bother to break free, and quietly let him hold her hand under the tablecloth. She didn't pay attention to what they were saying, and she didn't know what Cao Yang was talking about, so she said casually, "It's all pretty good, almost."
Cao Yang smiled.
Suddenly he pulled her hand up and placed it on the table. Brazenly, under the watchful eyes of everyone, he shook hands with her.
Xia Rou's breathing stagnates.
There was a sudden silence in the dining room.
Cao Xiong and Cao Bin glanced at the two intertwined hands, then continued to talk to Cao Yang calmly.
Cao An's spirit was there, with a look of "fuck it".
Only Cao Xing's eyes were straight, and he opened his mouth several times to speak, but every time his kindly elder brother looked at him with a smile, he felt a chill on the back of his neck and closed his mouth embarrassingly.
Xia Rou remained silent the whole time, quietly lowering her head slightly, without saying anything.
A girl's behavior like this is naturally interpreted as shyness by men, not to mention she is still young.
Afraid of embarrassing her, none of them asked her.
Cao Yang sent her back to school on Sunday, kissed her in the car for a long time before letting her go.
The night and the small space are easy to stimulate a man's passion/desire, his hand...
Xia Rou couldn't stop him, so she could only press his hand, bit her lips and said, "If you say what I don't want, you don't touch mine. You said it yourself."
Little bastard, use his words to kill him! Cao Yang gritted his teeth.
But he did promise her so, and he was really afraid of scaring her. His hand slipped out and let her go.
After kissing her lips until they were swollen, he sent her back to the dormitory.
After he left, Xia Rou's shoulders relaxed. He went upstairs with lowered eyes.
In the dormitory, the girls were talking, and Zhuang Xiao was obviously unhappy.
"What's wrong?" Xia Rou asked.
"It's so annoying, I have already received the application form, and my mother backed down again and refused to let me apply." Zhuang Xiao said depressedly, "She is worried that I will go abroad alone."
"Really, I agreed to it, but she backed out again! It made me happy for nothing." She said depressingly.
"Okay, the promise is just a promise to let you apply. Do you really think that you can be approved as long as you apply? Do you know how many people have applied?" Xie Yun threw cold water on her.
Of course Zhuang Xiao knew, she was just complaining.
"Xia Rou, did you apply?" She asked Xia Rou.
Xia Rou put down her bag: "What?"
"Exchange student program, why don't you care about it? I've studied it carefully, and it's really a good program." Zhuang Xiao casually handed the form in his hand to Xia Rou, "Look, let's apply for one. Anyway, it’s not guaranteed to be able to go. It’s very lucky to be selected.”
Xia Rou held the application form and was silent for a while.
"I'll think about it," she said.
Cao Yang originally thought that when Xia Rou stopped resisting and accepted him, everything would be better.
He was also very confident that it was much better for Xia Rou to be with him than to be with a young boy like Wei Qi. His meticulous care and love for her is not something that a little boy can take care of.
But he soon discovered that he had taken it for granted.
Xia Rou left Wei Qi to be with him, and did not become happier. Instead, she became more silent every day. The once bright smile at the corners of her eyes... all disappeared, and there was often a trace of bewilderment in her eyes. Under his gaze, she would bow her head silently and submissively.
Cao Yang was very helpless.
He had seen her and Wei Qi's sweet appearance. This was her young and sweet first love, and it was inevitable that she would feel a little hurt when it ended abruptly because of him.
He will slowly heal these small wounds.
He wants Xia Rou to go home and live so that he can see her every day. Xia Rou refused. He also personally agreed to live in school. What Cao Yang said to himself, the promises he made, have always been fulfilled.
Xia Rou took hold of him and held him several times to protect herself when he was impulsive.
Cao Yang was very annoyed, but there was nothing he could do.
Xia Rou did not gradually let go of the past as he thought, and became cheerful again.
Later, when Cao Yang recalled it, he regretted that he took her gloom during that period only as the pain of youth, and did not go into it.
At that time, he was also dazzled by the joy of having her, and became like a kid. Only those subtle signs will be missed.
For example, after he kissed her, when she opened her eyes and looked at him, she was confused and dazed.
For example, under his teasing, she was obviously emotional, but she would suddenly cry.
For another example, she made assumptions more than once, assuming that she was a girl with an awkward personality who could get into a corner, and asked how he would treat her under those hypothetical situations.
Cao Yang later recalled these details, smoking a cigarette, only hating his negligence.
But what he regretted most was that night.
If he hadn't been dazzled by desire, he should have noticed that her tension was more than just tension. In fact, she carried determination and sacrifice-like beliefs.
In the evening, knocked on his door. Wearing a thin and short suspender skirt, her legs are thin and straight, white and attractive.
He endured it for so long, and finally waited for her to be willing.
He pressed her against the wall to kiss, and turned off the lights in the room smoothly.
Xia Rou was a little nervous, her shoulders were tight. He kissed her softly to make her relax.
When he left her lips, their noses were facing each other, Xia Rou slightly raised her head to look into his eyes. There was a flame of desire in his eyes.
Xia Rou looked at it for a while, her fingers trembling slightly, and she pulled off the thin strap on her shoulder...
The thin skirt fell to the ground.
Xia Rou hugged her arms to cover her. In the darkness, she could hear Cao Yang's breathing... It was messed up.
…
When the pain happened, Xia Rou cried out in pain.
"Rourou..." Cao Yang also breathed messily, kissed her, and comforted her, "Just for a moment, it won't hurt anymore..."
This pain was something she had to go through from a girl to a woman, and Cao Yang couldn't help it. He could only control it carefully and progress slowly. But no matter how careful he was, the first pain could not be avoided no matter what.
There was water in Xia Rou's eyes, and her nails dug into his strong muscles.
"Cao Yang... Cao Yang..." she murmured, her eyes blurred: "Are you my... big brother?"
Why do you still call him big brother? Cao Yang thought that she would be his wife in the future, the eldest sister-in-law of his younger brothers, and they should no longer be called siblings.
He said, "No, I'm just Cao Yang."
He did see Xia Rou's tears slipping from the corners of her eyes to the pillow, and it got wet. But for the first time, there is always some tactful sadness of loss. Girls will cry at this time, and he thinks it is normal.
Extraordinarily endearing...
When the day was about to dawn, Xia Rou lost all strength, curled up in his arms and fell into a deep sleep.
Cao Yang still caressed her satin-smooth skin and kissed her temples constantly. He brushed her long hair before hugging her to sleep.
Later, when Cao Yang recalled that night, he realized that he denied that he was her eldest brother, and at that time, he gave Xia Rou a heavy blow.
He still had work to do on the second day, even though he worked hard the first night, he still had to get up.
Holding her loving kisses, seeing her in a daze, whispering in her ear, telling her to wait for him to come home.
But when he came back in the afternoon, Xia Rou had disappeared from this home.
He searched all over the house and couldn't find her. The phone that called her was turned off. He suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart.
He went to her room, and the cloakroom was mostly empty. His heart sank suddenly.
He found Xiao Yang and asked him if he knew where Xia Rou had gone. Xiao Yang had a strange expression on his face, and said hesitantly, "She... has left."
"I drove her to the airport," he said.
Xiao Yang saw Cao Yang's eyebrows seemed to be shrouded in a cloud for a moment, and couldn't help but cringe. When he sent her to the airport today, he knew something was wrong. But these are beyond his control.
Cao Yang took a deep breath and asked, "Do you know where she went?"
Xia Rou looked at the phone, and finally typed "I'm sorry".
It was a long time before Wei Qi replied to her: "Take care of yourself."
Xia Rou's eyes were wet.
She thought, this time, she made a mess of her life again.
When Cao Yang found out that she was gone, he wondered if he would be very angry.
"Xia Rou! It's boarding!" The classmate called her.
She responded, wiped her eyes, turned off her phone, packed her bag, and boarded the plane with her classmates.
Seeing the familiar city sinking and shrinking, Xia Rou closed her eyes.
"Exchange student?" Cao Yang repeated.
He looked at Xiao Yang and asked him, "Is there anyone at home sending her mother?"
Xiao Yang shrunk his neck and said, "The commander went to the airport in person."
really! Cao Yang already knew that by herself, it was impossible to win the exchange student program quietly and handle everything quietly.
And in this family, the only one who dared to bypass him to help her was Cao Xiong.
He had to go out today because of Cao Xiong's deliberate arrangement.
"Where's my dad?" he asked.
"Is it in the study?" Xiao Yang said.
Cao Yang went to the study on the fourth floor.
"Yes, it's me." Cao Xiong said, "What's wrong?"
What's wrong!
Cao Yang almost made his own father choke out a mouthful of blood.
"You..." He was so angry that his liver hurt and his lung hurt!
Cao Xiong took a puff of his cigarette, looked at his eldest son with dissatisfaction, and said, "How old is Xiao Rou? You are too anxious and scared her."
A rare look of embarrassment flashed across Cao Yang's face.
"She came to ask me for help by herself. I was also quite surprised. But, that's okay..." Cao Xiong tapped the cigarette ash, "She is my daughter, as long as she is obedient. If she wants to be my daughter-in-law, she can't be like her. Mom is so obedient. If you don't have your own ideas, you can't do it."