The restaurant is decorated in a simple European style, with light tones, elegant but not monotonous. Xiang Wan has cleaned the dining table and tableware extraordinarily clean. The home-cooked dishes on the table have an attractive color rendering, homely and warm .
Bai Muchuan went over with the soup bowl, startled.
There are not only sliced fruit platters on the table, but also a bunch of Chinese roses...
He looked back at night.
Xiang Wan was embarrassed by his look and stroked his hair.
"I just cut a few branches in the garden and decorated them."
Bai Muchuan smiled and said nothing, pulled a chair and sat down.
Xiang Wan cleared his throat, "Try it quickly, how does it taste?"
The look of eagerness to get affirmation made Bai Muchuan's mood soar for no reason, the corners of his lips curled slightly, and he picked up his chopsticks to taste his spoils.
The taste of food is often related to a person's mood. This seemingly simple home-cooked dish was made by her hand, fell into the mouth, and slid into the esophagus, which made him feel warm all over...
He eats very politely, with a calm face and deep eyes, he glances at her from time to time, but doesn't speak, which makes Xiang Wan feel a little uneasy.
"Isn't it delicious?" She couldn't help asking.
"Huh?" Bai Muchuan held back his laugh, and nodded seriously, "It's okay."
What is the definition of okay
Xiang Wan pursed her lips, "Is it not to your taste?"
Bai Muchuan: "Not bad."
Is this kind of review too meager? Although these dishes looked simple, Xiang Wan put all his heart into them. In order not to grasp it badly, she even secretly checked Baidu Encyclopedia. She secretly tasted it in the kitchen just now, and thought it tasted alright
But this young master...
Dare to be used to delicacies from mountains and seas, have you become a spoiled mouth
She was a little discouraged, "If it doesn't taste good, just order takeaway, don't force yourself."
Bai Muchuan had an interesting smile in his eyes, and raised his eyebrows slowly, "When did I say it's not delicious?"
Xiang Wan was taken aback.
He didn't say it wasn't delicious, it's just that his expression didn't achieve the effect she expected.
But isn't that how ordinary people eat
It's because she's looking forward to more, and it's because she cares too much about his perception...
This realization made Xiang Wan's ears a little hot, and he immediately turned his respect, "That's why I was wrong. The main thing is your expression, it doesn't look good, it's really hard to eat..."
The smile in Bai Muchuan's eyes remained undiminished, as if he had seen through her little thoughts, he cleared his throat, shook his head and sighed.
"It's not that the food is not available, but I'm a little sad."
"What's the point of melancholy after eating?"
"I'm afraid I'll eat the last meal, so I won't have the next meal."
Bai Muchuan stared straight at her, and the smile on his lips gradually widened.
"In the future, can I eat it often?"
"..."
Across the dining table, his scorching gaze was not covered up, and it just hit Xiang Wan's eyes straight into Xiang Wan's eyes. Just like on the sofa just now, the ambiguous signal released made the layer between the two people that had not been completely pierced. Window paper is in danger of burning at any time...
"Bai Muchuan."
Xiang Wan suddenly didn't know what to say.
"Huh?" He looked at her quietly, leaving her enough space to think, "You can say whatever you want."
Under the dim light, Xiang Wan's fair-skinned Fu Rong's face had a faint pink glow. She is a person with a lot of inner drama. On such an unusual night, she thinks about more things. But after thinking about it, some things are still difficult to express accurately.
Just like the relationship between her and Bai Muchuan.
Want to get close, but afraid of thorns.
"Are you serious?"
After a long time, she heard herself asking him nervously.
A question like Zhizhi is meaningless, and I can't help but confirm it.
Bai Muchuan smiled and leaned forward. The fresh smell from the shower seemed to float from his direction. Coupled with his low and soft voice, it inexplicably added a layer of warmth to the atmosphere, "I'm serious. That day I I said it."
That day... what did he say
Xiang Wan's mind was buzzing and he was a little distracted.
"You still mind Xie Wanwan?" Bai Muchuan's eyes fell on her face, raising his eyebrows, "Don't say yes, I will be nervous about your IQ."
"I know you don't have a relationship with her." Xiang Wan felt that talking about such things at the dinner table would easily affect his appetite, and suddenly he couldn't eat any more. "I don't mind anyone. I just feel that between us... Seems like something is missing?"
Bai Muchuan looked at her.
For a long time, neither of the two ate anything.
Xiang Wan suddenly felt a little regretful. He shouldn't have said these things, and it affected a good meal.
"What's missing?" Bai Muchuan had a half-smile, "Say it out, and I'll make it up."
Xiang Wan was at a loss for words.
This is probably the biggest difference in thinking between straight men and straight women.
For the same thing, a woman's sensory intuition and a man's rational judgment are fundamentally two different things.
Xiang Wan asked, "Don't you understand what I mean?"
Bai Muchuan laughed, "You have to talk. Only then can I understand."
Xiang Wan pursed his lips tightly and rolled his eyes.
Bai Muchuan raised his eyebrows: "You look like this, why do I panic?! Tell me, what kind of plan are you planning to murder me?"
call! Xiang Wan rolled his eyes and put down his chopsticks.
Both of them have come to this point, and they can no longer hide it.
"Okay, then I'll just say it straight. Bai Muchuan, don't you think there is still a lack of understanding between us? To be precise, I don't understand you." She paused, pursed her lips, "Actually, you take good care of me Yes, it’s good for me, I shouldn’t have too many demands on you. But in my heart, it’s not a good feeling if I don’t know.”
"What do you want to know about me?" Bai Muchuan asked.
"I don't understand anything, and I have never seen through you. You seem to have a lot of secrets and a lot of past, which I didn't have time to participate in, and you didn't want to show me... This led to the relationship between us. In fact, there is a huge generation gap. To give a simple example, like the matter between you and Xie Wanwan, why did you become her nominal boyfriend when you had no relationship?"
Bai Muchuan frowned, looked at her, and didn't speak.
"And you to me..." At this point, Xiang Wan sighed suddenly, and looked him straight in the eyes, "Bai Muchuan, do you really love me?"
For love in the fast food era, saying a word of love is easier than eating a meal. The Internet is full of ambiguous words such as "I love you", "What?", "Dear", which represent feelings, but Xiang Wan knows that this is not what she wants. I believe even more that Bai Muchuan knows what she is talking about.
Bai Muchuan's eyes dimmed, "What do you understand by love?"
This rhetorical question stopped Xiang Wan from asking.
Love is too abstract, a thousand people have a thousand answers, and she can't give a specific definition.
"I think true love is tolerance, dedication, sacrifice, and recklessness. And, it must be the other party."
Bai Muchuan smiled, and lazily said, "It's okay to read less romance novels and less idol dramas."
Xiang Wan: "..."
Where does this go
She turned back, "Then what do you mean, you asked me to be your girlfriend, but you don't love me?"
Bai Muchuan's eyes were heavy, "Of course not."
Xiang Wan raised her chin, smiled, and her eyes were burning, "Then tell me, you say you love me, you must have me."
Bai Muchuan snorted, "If you want to listen, I can say it. But I believe that the kind of love you think is desperate for life or death is different from my understanding..."
Xiang Wan's heart suffocated.
The indescribable feeling made her suddenly feel a little uncomfortable, and she couldn't even breathe smoothly.
This guy, does he have to talk so hard? How to let her step down.
He asked her to be his girlfriend, and she asked him to say that he loved her with a sly smile. It only takes one sentence, and the two of them can complete the ceremony and establish a certain relationship, right
Did she get it wrong
"I don't want to lie to you." Bai Muchuan was very serious, "It's true that I want to be with you, and it's true that I like you. But the kind of love you want seems unrealistic. It's too great..."
"Shouldn't love be great?"
"It's not great at all." Bai Muchuan chuckled, "Love is actually a reality, and it's just the most basic human need."
"Heh!" Xiang Wan lowered his head and suddenly laughed, "How do I feel that all the dishes I cooked tonight were fed to the dogs?"
Bai Muchuan: "..."
"You ate too." With a smile in his eyes, he sighed, "Okay, let's stop talking about these abstract theories. You said that you are not a girl of seventeen or eighteen years old, why can't you think about the problem objectively? "
Xiang Wan looked at him and didn't speak.
Suddenly, she thought of what Cheng Zheng had said to her.
If you feel that you are suitable for each other, you can be together. Love and even marriage are just a kind of sale and exchange...
Although Bai Muchuan didn't say it like him, in essence, it seemed that there was no difference.
Do all men treat love like this? Even Second Young Master Mu seems to be the same
Xiang Wan's heart was a little sore, her throat was choked.
Bai Muchuan said that he liked her and wanted to be with her, but he directly denied her definition of love. These two people haven't really established their relationship yet, and if such a disagreement occurs, how can they get on the same path in the future
"Sorry, Team Bai." She stroked her hair, "Maybe it's because of me writing romance novels? I'm a bit obsessed and can't accept reality. I'm also a little awkward emotionally. Well, I want to say, I'm not what you need What about that person?"
Bai Muchuan's complexion changed.
After pondering for a while, he also smiled.
"You say you are stupid, why don't you want to listen to the truth, but why do you want to listen to lies?"
Xiang Wan raised her eyebrows, looked directly at him, and said nothing.
Bai Muchuan said, "If a man tells you that he loves you not long after he met you, he loves you so much that he would rather die for you. Part of it... Listen, don’t you feel beautiful in your heart?”
Xiang Wan raised her chin and squinted at him.
"Don't stare at me. I'm just telling the truth. That's why you women are stupid and always deceived!" Police Officer Bai started the conversation mode of the confidant brother, "I tell you, it's fake. His purpose is only one. That is You said it last time, sexually driven!"
"..."
"Because a man knows very well that if he doesn't say that, a woman won't sleep with him, and he won't get it. Therefore, he must say these things that violate the laws of human nature in order to satisfy his desire. But he said that he is willing to die for you , he will die for you?" Bai Muchuan sneered, "You can only see a person's real choice when life and death are in front of you."
This guy has great powers of persuasion.
One by one, the analysis of the man's heart is cruel and realistic.
In fact, Xiang Wan knew in his heart that what he said was right.
But the little girl's hypocrisy in her heart made her unable to accept it...
He also couldn't face Bai Muchuan who said he wanted to have sex with her, but actually he didn't love her that much.
"Speaking of conscience, do you love me that much?" Bai Muchuan smiled suddenly, raising his lips like a cunning boy, "Without me, how would you live your life? Maybe you You will miss it for a while, but you won’t miss it for a lifetime. Three months, half a year, a year? There won’t be a good man by your side? You won’t be tempted? Nonsense!”
I won't! Xiang Wan really wanted to say that.
But if she really wanted to say it, she would have to bite off her tongue.
Where do you have the confidence to say such absolute words
Bai Muchuan is right, some concepts are too flimsy.
They haven't known each other for a long time, and the emotional foundation they can support is too weak.
"So, are you willing to accept an honest man?" Bai Muchuan looked at her seriously, stretched out his hand from the dining table and spread it out to her, "I'm serious, Xiang Wan. I like you, and I will treat you very well , of course, I will also try my best to be with you forever, and strive to be the hero in your novel, and accompany you through a love that never gives up."
Strive for…
Why are these words so awkward
Xiang Wan suddenly felt a little funny, and pressed his temples, "You said that those men's words are all lies, and they are lies that violate human nature that they had to tell in order to sleep with women. Then you are so honest, do you want to tell me, you Don't even think about sleeping with me?"
Bold and hot grab white!
Bai Muchuan was startled, then couldn't help laughing, "No, I want to sleep with you too. You should feel it too..."
Such a sensitive topic, and it is also a topic between two adults who have never experienced it but pretend to be old drivers.
Xiang Wan looked at him, sniffed, then suddenly lowered his head and giggled.
Bai Muchuan also laughed, "Why, are you not satisfied with this answer? Or do you not have confidence in your own charm?"
"No, no, no." Xiang Wan waved his hand, still laughing, "Honestly, Bai Muchuan, we are actually suitable for being friends, haven't you noticed? Being lovers is a little less, and being friends is just right..."
"Oh." Bai Muchuan looked serious, "Can we sleep as friends?"
Xiang Wan was startled, then laughed, "No."
"That's it." He said: "I need you more than just as a friend."
"..."
The light in the restaurant suddenly became weird.
No one drank, but both of them had a slightly drunken look on their faces. That bouquet of quiet Chinese roses, like the loneliness that permeates each other, breeds, releases, takes root in each other's hearts, and then blooms, full of longing, seduces the soul, and will always wither... This is modern people, Afraid of loneliness, longing for warmth, but afraid to approach, selfishly wanting to isolate and protect oneself.
"Xiang Wan, shall we try?"
After a while, Bai Muchuan said flatly.
His deep voice seems to have a natural aphrodisiac effect.
For a voice-controlled face control like Xiang Wan, this man is poison.
She laughed until her face became stiff, and it took her a long time to rub her face together, sighing and laughing as if she was dying.
"You're right, I don't love you that much, and you don't love me that much either... So, I refuse."
Bai Muchuan put down his chopsticks, his face darkened, and he looked at her without blinking.
The two looked at each other for a long time, neither of them spoke.
What woke them up was the ringing of the phone.
Xiang Wan woke up startled, glanced at him, "Your phone number."
Bai Muchuan looked away, took out his phone and glanced, "Hello."
The person who called was Xie Wanwan's female assistant. She told Bai Muchuan about Xie Wanwan's situation, and then asked: "Mr. Bai, do you have time to come over now? I see she is sitting there alone, no I couldn’t eat or talk, and I was a little scared.”
Bai Muchuan was silent for a moment, "No."
The female assistant was a little disappointed, and said oh, "Sorry to bother you."
After hanging up the phone, Bai Muchuan raised his head to see Xiang Wan's scrutinizing eyes, and picked up his chopsticks again.
"Eat! You can refuse me, but you shouldn't refuse such delicious food."
He is usually not an enthusiastic man. When Xiang Wan met him, he had a cold coffin face, and he had no warmth towards anyone. Later, the two got along a lot and became familiar with him, and he gradually became what he is today. Xiaobai, who knows how to joke and talk nonsense with her. But at this moment, after she rejected him again, she found that his attitude seemed to be that of the police officer she had just met again.
Men have pride too...
What's more, a proud man like Bai Muchuan.
It must be uncomfortable for him to take the initiative so many times and be rejected, right
Thinking about it, Xiang Wan swallowed her saliva and wanted to change the subject, "Well, you really don't want to go and see Xie Wanwan? She should need your attention right now..."
Bai Muchuan narrowed his eyes dangerously and examined her, "You want me to go?"
Xiang Wan was startled, and said seriously: "It's two different things. She is a key witness in this case, and she is also your friend. You can't let her have any more accidents due to emotion and reason. Especially at this juncture, although Cao Mengjia has already Dead, but you don't think she is the one behind the scenes, do you?"
Hearing her explanation, Bai Muchuan's cold expression relaxed a little.
"I don't have to. She'd rather be alone now..."
Xiang Wan raised her eyebrows and laughed softly, "How do you know?"
If it were her, when she was sad, she would need to talk to her friends and be comforted by her friends.
The corner of Bai Muchuan's mouth curled up, "Not everyone is willing to take out the wound to dry. Unless she figured it out by herself, otherwise, no one can help her."
Ok! Xiang Wan was silent and smiled awkwardly.
"Maybe your world is hard for me to understand."
Bai Muchuan's expression darkened, he pursed his lips, "Eat. The food is cold!"
"I'm not hungry. I don't want to eat." Xiang Wan felt that the atmosphere suddenly became a little weird. She crossed her arms and looked out the window, "It's getting late, I have to go back!"
Bai Muchuan was silent.
Slowly, he put down his chopsticks and stood up, "I'll see you off."
"… No need to."
"Don't be stubborn!"
…
A meal can change a lot.
Xiang Wan found that after this in-depth table exchange, the relationship between the two became more complicated and confusing.
But she was right about one thing, she didn't understand Bai Muchuan, and she couldn't get into his heart.
Then, no one can soothe the other's insecure heart...
In fact, Xiang Wan didn't know if it was right for her to refuse, or if she had some kind of psychological disease. She was too idealistic about the knowledge of dating and lacked a realistic basis. She liked Bai Muchuan very much, but just like what he said, her relationship didn't reach the point where he had to.
Don't laugh at a hundred steps when you take fifty steps.
If he is like this, why isn't she
This is the feeling of modern people.
Bai Muchuan sent her back, but Fang Yuanyuan saw her, caught her and interrogated her.
However, Wang Xiangwan was not in the mood to answer, and his expression was not very good, so Fang Yuanyuan shut up.
"Cousin, I'm just joking. Whoever you like to be with is your freedom. Whether it's Bai Muchuan or Cheng Zheng, I will support you with both hands and feet..."
Xiang Wan lazily lowered her eyelids and glanced at her, "Huang He will tell you, does he love you?"
Fang Yuanyuan was taken aback.
With a puff, he smiled shyly.
"Nonsense! How can a couple not talk about this now?"
Xiang Wan raised his eyebrows and asked in a low voice, "Do you have to talk? The necessary conditions for love?"
"En!" Fang Yuanyuan nodded heavily to show the correctness of this wave of operations, "My ex-boyfriend, ex-ex-boyfriend, all said..."
Oh, say it all.
Therefore, those who don’t talk are abnormal and those who don’t love.
"But that's all there is to it, don't take it seriously. My ex-boyfriends, ex-ex-boyfriends, all said they loved me and wouldn't marry unless I was the one, saying that I was their little fairy, darling, little baby, but that doesn't mean anything. It hinders them from flirting with other girls, saying love to others, calling others little fairies, little darling, little baby... hahaha!"
"..."
Xiang Wan rolled his eyes.
Is it good to say it or not to say it
Fang Yuanyuan continued: "To be honest, my Huang Huang actually rarely talks about it..."
"He just does it?" Xiang Wan teased her.
"I hate it!" Fang Yuanyuan glared at her reproachfully, and continued to popularize science, "Anyway, you just listen to what men say, and don't take it too seriously..." When she said this, she suddenly turned her head, with a gossiping expression all over her face. Staring at her, "No, cousin, why did you suddenly ask me this? Be honest, did Officer Bai tell you?"
Just say it!
Xiang Wan was a little annoyed. He was such an old man, and he was still struggling with such unrealistic things.
"I'm just so curious, can't I?"
"All right..."
…
Xiang Wan didn't sleep well that night, his mind was full of Bai Muchuan sitting gracefully at the dining table, drawing conclusions about their relationship like a prince.
Bai Muchuan is serious about dating her, she can feel this too.
But why can't she pass the hurdle in her heart!
Is it asking too much
Too. Otherwise, why would she be single to this day
When he woke up to wash up in the morning, Xiang Wan looked at his big bags under the eyes in the mirror, and suddenly despised himself...
Why do you demand so much from men? For a man like Bai Muchuan, if he goes out, a bunch of girls will fight over him, okay? Hypocritical, deserve it!
She covered her face.
It's like schizophrenia, and the two villains in my mind start to fight.
In the living room, Cheng Zheng was also there.
He bought breakfast for them as a routine, sat on the sofa, staring at the bouquet of flowers...Bai Muchuan bought them, put them in a vase by Fang Yuanyuan, put them on the coffee table, exuding a faint fragrance.
Xiang Wan didn't know what he was thinking and coughed awkwardly.
"Cheng Dui, I'm sorry to trouble you again. Don't buy it tomorrow morning..."
"I'm on my way in the morning." On Cheng Zhengqing's cold face, there was a trace of exhaustion: "Today, I've changed to a new one. You can taste it."
"..."
Unexpectedly, he really listened to Bai Muchuan's words.
Xiang Wan was a little embarrassed.
It's not good to neglect Cheng Zheng, she chattered with him while eating.
"Look at you, you haven't had a good rest. Did you work overtime last night?"
"Yeah." Cheng Zheng said, "I work until the early hours of the morning."
The technical team is not easy either. Xiang Wan sighed, "How's the autopsy going?"
Cheng Zheng narrowed his eyes and looked at the food in front of her, "I suggest you finish your breakfast first before talking about work."
Uh!
Xiang Wan couldn't help laughing.
"thanks!"
I have to say that Cheng Zheng has made progress.
In the past, he didn't care about whether she could eat or not after hearing those bloody things, but now he also cares about what other people think...
Xiang Wan couldn't help but look at him more.
It just so happened that Cheng Zheng was also looking at her.
Their gazes collided abruptly in the air, and Xiang Wan was embarrassed.
Cheng Zheng gave her a smile, "Hurry up!"
Oh, the sun is out in the west. Cheng Zheng actually laughed
…
Sometimes life is really more bloody than fiction.
Xiang Wan went to work with Cheng Zheng with her computer bag on her back, and ran into Bai Muchuan at the gate of the brigade.
Meeting his staring eyes, she was inexplicably guilty.
Seriously speaking, she has nothing to do with these two men, but she is so close to Bai Muchuan after all...
Hugs on the couch, soft kisses.
That has gone beyond the scope of ordinary colleagues and friends.
"Morning." Cheng Zheng greeted Bai Muchuan first.
"Morning!" Bai Muchuan walked over, nodded to Cheng Zheng, and naturally reached out to take Xiang Wan's computer bag.
Xiang Wan stood there stiffly, smiling awkwardly but politely, "I can do it myself."
Bai Muchuan took a deep look at her and nodded.
Cheng Zheng snorted slightly, and said to Xiang Wan, "I'll go up first. See you later."
"See you… "
Burning oil!
Xiang Wan really wanted to find a crack in the ground and sneak in.
What's the matter
As if she became a victim carried by these two men
…