When he said that, Xieyi remembered that the last time he saw him, there was a large empty room in his apartment with a snooker table in it. It was obvious that he really loved it.
"You like that thing too? It's so boring." Every time she saw that kind of program on TV, she would immediately change the channel. At that time, she would think in her heart, how could anyone watch this kind of thing
"People like you should practice the most."
"Why?"
"Practice your spirit. Billiards is actually very simple. The key is what kind of situation you leave for your opponent after you make a move. Once you aim at the target, hold your breath and hit it. It's just like doing business. First, aim accurately, second, use the right amount of force, and third, have momentum."
"What does this have to do with me?"
"You just lack the aura, how can you be a lawyer? You met me, if you met someone else, whoever hired you would spend a lot of money." He hugged her and smiled faintly, "Many people pick on the weak, and Manager Peng saw that you were young and new, so she wanted to make things difficult for you. You are not an employee of Li's, what are you afraid of her doing? Don't you act like a lawyer? You are very arrogant when you are awkward with me, but you become weak when you go out."
"Why didn't you say a word for me at that time?" She got angry when she talked about this.
"You still need me to back you up? Have you been living in vain for half your life?"
"Oh." She answered awkwardly.
"I'll teach you sometime."
"No, I'm not interested."
"Then next time there is a big competition, I'll take you to watch it first." He still didn't give up the desire to cultivate her hobby.
"If I don't watch it, I will definitely fall asleep on the spot."
He didn't get angry when he heard it. He smiled faintly and buried his head in the hairline of her neck again.
"Xie Yi." He called her after they had been sitting like that for an unknown amount of time.
"What?" She responded without looking up, continuing to bury her face in studying his fingers.
"We might as well find something to do."
"What's up?"
He didn't answer her, and she didn't bother to ask.
"Freehand." He called again slowly.
Does this man like to ask her to play whenever he has nothing to do
She raised her head suspiciously, but as soon as she raised her face, she was kissed by him. He first kissed her cheek, and then slowly moved to her lips.
There was a bitter taste of tobacco between the lips and tongue.
She couldn't help leaning back, somewhat avoiding him, but he used one hand to support the back of her head, forcing her face to press towards him, and then tightened the hand around her waist.
After a while, he stopped and left her lips, gently outlining her lip line with his fingertips, moving back and forth.
"Why did you agree to that contract?" His eyes were a little blurry.
"It was you who threatened me." She slightly opened her starry eyes, her face flushed.
"The more pain I feel, the more satisfied you will be?" He asked softly, lifting the hair from her lips.
"What?"
He spoke so quietly, as if he was just mumbling to himself, not speaking to her. She didn't hear it clearly, but before she could ask, the lingering kiss had already fallen again, and the rising and falling breath sprayed on Xieyi's skin. The hot and scorching breath, rising and falling, made her face itchy.
She put her hands in his hair and opened her red lips to gently respond to him. But he tensed up for her like this, and responded honestly with his burning desire.
"Freehand." He murmured these two words again in a low voice.
"Hmm?" Xieyi's face turned red.
"Get up and turn off the lights." He reluctantly left her skin and said slowly.
As expected, she did as she was told and shrank back into his arms, feeling his further desire. She did not retreat. Love is love, so why not let herself accept the joy of this world calmly? He supported her and let her lie on her back on the sofa.
"Do you... want me to help you?" She asked in the dark with a red face, worried that his legs might be inconvenient.
"I just need you to relax and cooperate with me."
"Isn't it too fast? Should we change the place or time?" She suddenly felt hesitant at the last minute.
"Don't even think about it." He said in a hoarse voice, continuing to unbutton her clothes.
"There are some things we haven't clarified yet." She tried to divert his attention.
"What's up?"
"About... why don't I tell you the story of Alibaba and the Forty Thieves." Xie Yi said, wondering if the method Scheherazade used to deal with King Shahryar would be applicable to him.
"I'm not interested, and you must not have been serious when you were reading this famous book. They were telling stories while they were making out."
"No." She had also read "One Thousand and One Nights", so how come she didn't see that
He suddenly lowered his head and bit her gently, biting his lips and frowning, and hummed softly.
She stretched out her hand, trying to press against his chest, but it was empty, and she touched his strong chest directly, which was covered with a fine layer of sweat.
He groaned slightly at her touch and said, "Same as we are now."
He increased his force.
Not only his lips, but also every time his fingers landed, her breathing would become disordered.
"I regret it, okay?" she asked tremblingly.
"Too late..." His kisses continued to wander over her body until they reached the forbidden area.
At some point, Xieyi woke up and found that she was still lying on the sofa, but covered with clothes. The rain outside had finally stopped. The man was still beside her. Fortunately, the sofa was spacious, and she didn't feel uncomfortable at all after sleeping all night. She moved her head, trying to find a more comfortable place in his arms.
She looked up and met his starry eyes.
"Are you awake?" he asked first, and then he moved his body when he saw that she woke up. It was obvious that he felt a little uncomfortable just now.
"Well, you weren't asleep?"
How could he sleep? First, the place was too narrow, and she was resting her head on his arm, which made her blood circulation uncomfortable; second, his leg pain would get worse when it rained, and he had come downstairs to take medicine, but now he hadn't taken the medicine, and it was disturbed. He only felt the pain worse after the lovemaking.
But he didn't dare to move, for fear of disturbing her sweet dream.
"What were you thinking about just now?" Xieyi asked again when he saw him staring blankly in the dark.
"Think about the past."
"In the past?" Xie Yi became interested. "The past? First love?"
"Go back to your bedroom first and I'll talk to you," he said. "And help pick up the cane over there."
When I looked carefully, I saw that indeed, the crutch had been thrown over there by him.
She understood what he meant. He still didn't like others, not even her, seeing him struggling to go upstairs alone with one leg missing.
It is not so easy to untie a person's heart knot.
He had already put aside his pride and retreated to the limit of his dignity for her. If she pushed further, all his efforts would be wasted.
Xieyi was silent for a moment, then did as he said.
She waited alone in her room, lying down, waiting for time to pass by second by second. It was so long that she even suspected that she had gone to the wrong place. Was he asking her to go back to her bedroom or his bedroom
She thought so, but still didn't dare to go out to see, for fear of angering him again. She turned over in bed again, and after a while she heard the door open behind her, and footsteps, one shallow and one deep.
He fell asleep and hugged her from behind.
Xieyi turned around and threw herself into his arms.
"Don't live in a house with stairs in the future," she said.
"fine."
He touched her head.
"How old were you when you first fell in love?"
"What?"
"You just told me that you were going back to the bedroom," Xieyi said.
"I only told you about the past, but I didn't agree to tell you about this."
This man actually played word games with him.
"Let's talk about the past." She admitted defeat and took a step back.
"I'm sleepy." He said, and then closed his eyes.
"Hey, you don't keep your word!"
He turned a deaf ear to her and closed his eyes to sleep. Xieyi looked at him for a long time without moving, his breathing was very steady, as if he was really about to fall asleep.
"Okay," she said through gritted teeth, "I will never be fooled again!"
He didn't respond either, he seemed sleepy. Maybe he really hadn't closed his eyes just now, Xie Yi thought.
He looked quite cute when he was asleep, his lips tightly pursed, his head slightly lowered, very quiet. She carefully studied his face from top to bottom, left to right.
Suddenly, he closed his eyes and said, "If you don't sleep now and you are late for work tomorrow morning, I will tell you how Manager Peng will deal with you."
Xie Yi was immediately angry when he heard this, "You are pretending to sleep!"
"Xie Yi..." He opened his eyes with a smile and stroked her face with his hand, "What about your past?" he asked.
"Me?" Her eyes flickered slightly, "I... don't remember."
Is he finally asking too
He didn't respond, waiting for her to continue.
"I was in a car accident and I can't remember some of the things that happened before." When she finally mustered up the strength to say this, her eyes were slightly red and the corners of her lips trembled a little, as if she had exhausted all her courage.
After a moment, she restrained her expression and tried to gently push him away and turn away.
"Everything in the past?" he asked deliberately.
"Actually not all, just some. I just can't remember some things from when I was in college." She said quietly after a moment's silence.
"Did you find it?"
"I... am sleepy." She suddenly raised her eyebrows, changed her tone to a relaxed one, closed her eyes, and teasingly repeated the words he had just said to him.
He frowned helplessly.
"I found it back. When I didn't know about it, I was very curious. I kept asking myself and others what it was like during those years when I lost my memory, and whether there was any earth-shattering love story." When she recalled this, she couldn't help but wipe away the uneasy expression on her face and smiled slightly. She laughed at how she was like a silly girl at that time.
Yes, when Zhan Dongzhen accompanied her to stay in Germany for recuperation, she thought, in this lost memory, who had she cried for, who had she been sad for, who had she laughed for, who had she made distressed? She didn't remember anything.
Could it be that there was a lover waiting for her somewhere as promised, but she just forgot about this date
As a result, Zhan Dongzhen said, "No. Where else in the world can you find someone as affectionate as me, Zhan Dongzhen?"
"Go to hell." She wanted to kick him right then and there.
He accompanied her to school, and people passed by her as usual. Some of those passers-by knew her, while others did not. Some of those classmates liked her, while others did not. There was no one who was particularly close to her.
She had no doubt about this. She had always been the same person, with many acquaintances and many bad friends, but few close friends with whom she could truly confide.
Of course, she did have a lover. Zhan Dongzhen also took her to look for that former lover, and the result was a handsome mixed-race boy with black hair and blue eyes. She exclaimed: "No way, I'm only interested in Chinese people."
"That's right. I didn't believe it at first. I didn't expect you to have such a strong taste." Zhan Dongzhen's teasing was met with a big eye roll from her.
When the man saw Xieyi, he immediately chased after her in surprise and called her, "Lisa!" Xieyi knew that this was her German name. The man then said, "Please forgive me. I will never be indecisive again." His tone sounded pleading.
Xieyi understood everything immediately, smiled, took Dongzhen's hand and said, "Sorry, this is my new boyfriend."
Zhan Dongzhen cooperated very well and shook her hand back.
Thinking of this, she smiled and sighed to Li Zeliang: "But after I figured it out, I found that I was such an ordinary person. I felt so lost." And after she recovered and transferred to another school, she studied hard for a long time and it took her a whole year to get enough scores to graduate.
Li Zeliang didn't say anything.
“However, they said my personality has changed a bit and I’m not as outgoing as before,” she added.
In fact, to use Dong Zhen’s own words: “I am a little bit more ladylike than before.” Now she doesn’t like conflicts with others. She will endure it if she can. It’s no big deal.
"As people grow up, their edges and corners will naturally be smoothed out." He defined it lightly, and no longer could be heard in his tone.
The next day, the curtains were drawn at some point, so no light from outside could come in.
When Xieyi woke up, he was no longer beside her, but his scent remained on the quilt and pillow. He seemed to never use perfume, and even washed himself thoroughly after smoking and drinking, so there was no strong smell on his body.
However, she was still sensitive to his smell.
She sat up and scratched her head, then went downstairs, but saw no one. The door of the study next to the stairs was open, and there was a noise inside. She thought he was in the study, so she walked in quietly.
There was no one around, just the evil cat tearing a small leather ball. There seemed to be a few bells inside the ball, which it turned over and over, making noises. It seemed to be puzzled as to why the ball made noises, so it used its claws to dig at it back and forth.
Xieyi couldn't help but look around the study. The furnishings were very simple, but she loved the desk so much. It was super big and looked antique like a book case.
It should be said that the style of the entire study is different from that of other rooms outside, and all the objects have an ancient style.
Some seal carving tools and seal materials are neatly stored on the storage shelf on the left.
Li Zeliang actually had such a leisurely and elegant hobby. She looked carefully and found that the stones had not been carved before. The finished products were probably put away somewhere.
A paperweight on the corner of the desk was holding a stack of small calligraphy. She moved the paperweight away, picked up the two-foot-long rice paper, and looked at it. She had only seen his fountain pen handwriting on documents, but she didn't expect that his calligraphy was just as beautiful.
Some were written in a sloppy manner, some were written wildly, and some were probably written calmly, so they looked quite standard. Unfortunately, she was born with a slight admiration for foreign things and could not appreciate such traditional things.
She was about to put the things back, when at that moment, a piece of paper fell from the bottom of the stack of rice papers. Perhaps they had been pressed together for a long time and got stuck together.
She picked it up and saw four sentences written faintly on it:
The sky is full of frost and the ten-mile Pinghu Lake is broken by frost, which makes me sad about my youth.
Walking alone under the moon, I hope for each other's protection. I only envy the mandarin ducks, not the immortals.
The paper seemed to have been folded up before, but was later flattened by external force. The handwriting was still the same as on the previous papers, it was Li Zeliang's handwriting. And the rice paper seemed to have been put away for many years, and the edges of the paper had turned yellow. But next to it, another person's hand added a line of blue ballpoint pen handwriting.
Ayan, Ayan.
These five short words, added next to two lines of beautiful poetry, have a bit of a mischievous flavor.
She vaguely knew this poem, but she memorized it just like she remembered people's names. She only remembered that the person was Wang Hua, Guo Wen, or something like that, just some fragments, and could not recite them word for word.
A Yan… Xie Yi silently repeated these two words in his mouth.
"What are you looking at?" Li Zeliang's voice came from the door behind him.
Xieyi immediately turned around and put the things in his hand behind his back.
"You can actually use a brush?" She blinked.
“Every Chinese person should be able to use it.”
"The furnishings are also classical." Xie Yi looked around again and gave a definition, "I heard from them that your name has a history, it's Liang something Ze Er Shi..." This was of course also heard from gossip, but she couldn't say the sentence smoothly after holding it in for a long time.
He glanced at her and said, "A wise bird chooses a tree to roost in, and a wise minister chooses a master to serve."
After turning around and leaving, he said, "Breakfast is on the table. If you don't eat it, Ji Yingsong will be here soon."
Before she left the study, she secretly folded the paper into the size of a piece of tofu and hid it in her sleeve.
In the living room, he was reading the morning paper as usual. He was dressed neatly and had prepared breakfast. It seemed that he was in a good mood.
As soon as Li Zeliang arrived at the company, he saw Xue Qigui waiting for him in the office.
"What's wrong?" he asked.
"It's a fax from Dongzheng." Xue Qigui said.
Li Zeliang glanced at them calmly and said, "You want us to advance the money first?"
"Yes, let us advance the money first, and then they will follow up later." Xue Qigui said with embarrassment.
Li Zeliang clasped his fingers together, propped his chin on the table, frowned and thought for a while: "You should first make an investment plan and budget, and consider the feasibility of advance payment. Don't reply to them for the time being."