After dinner, she carefully checked her bag. Her books, keys, and cell phone were all there. Then she took a deep breath and set off. She walked downstairs and had to look up hard to see the window of his living room. The window was open and the light was particularly bright. She didn't know if he would still open his heart and wait for her after hurting each other for so long. Xieyi began to feel lucky that she didn't just return the book last time, otherwise she really had no excuse to get close to him again.
She rang the doorbell and he answered the door, wearing his prosthetic limb again.
"I'm here to return your book."
"Yeah," he said.
The two of them stood at the entrance like this. After a while, Li Zeliang remembered to let her in.
Xieyi changed his shoes and sat on the sofa.
"Here, your book," she said.
"Leave it there." He responded and went to pour water.
Xieyi suddenly discovered that when he was polite to others, he particularly liked to pour boiled water for them.
She took the book out of her handbag and put it on the coffee table, but she saw that the cover was wrinkled by the pile of mobile phones, keys, etc. She hurriedly stretched it with her hands, but it was in vain, and the thick cover just stood up unyieldingly.
Li Zeliang loved books like his life, and she was afraid that he would be angry about this, so she fiddled with it a few more times, but it still didn't work. He was completely against her on purpose. She blew a breath and had to turn the book over, put the cover down against the coffee table as the back cover, at least he couldn't find it on the spot, and then sat there, pretending nothing had happened and waiting for him to come back.
The water was placed in front of Xieyi, but what should she say next? After returning the book, she should leave. What excuse would she have to meet again after leaving? She said such decisive words to him, how could she take the initiative to speak now? After all, she was no longer the fearless Xieyi ten years ago.
Suddenly, an idea occurred to her, "Well, I have a sentence in German that I don't know how to translate."
He glanced at her, not knowing whether she was trying to find something to say, so he asked casually, "What is it?"
"Anyone who wants to build a tall tower should spend more time on the foundation. That's probably what it means. How do you translate it?" Xieyi glanced at him secretly.
This was a sentence that a reporter mentioned when she was reading the weekly magazine for the German couple. She didn't know how to translate it for a moment, and she didn't know if Li Zeliang thought it sounded familiar. He tilted his head and said, "It can be translated as Wer hohe Türme bauen will, muss lange beim Fundament verweilen."
"Um."
After he finished speaking, the atmosphere fell silent again.
"Ah, one more thing..."
So, Xieyi began to learn German knowledge from Teacher Li tirelessly. After a few childish questions, Li Zeliang finally figured out something. These childish questions were probably her intentional provocations.
He stopped answering her and asked, "Are you translating for others?"
"Well... help others sometimes."
"With your ability, you dare to help?" He glanced at her sideways.
"… "
It seems that this topic is not suitable to continue fooling around. Just when Xieyi was racking his brains to think of something else to say, Aunt Ren called.
After Xieyi hung up the phone, he said with a serious expression: "Xieqing is sick, I have to go see her." After that, he hurried to the entrance to put on his shoes.
While putting on her shoes, she glanced at Li Zeliang and the book on the coffee table.
After Xieyi closed the door, he started to light a cigarette again, then put the lighter on the coffee table. When he withdrew his hand, he paused on the book and picked it up.
As soon as he turned it over, he saw the wrinkled cover. All her little actions just now fell into his eyes. Just like when they were children, anything that fell into her hands had a bad end. She had probably seen the names he wrote. He almost forgot when he wrote them. Li Zeliang flipped through it casually, but suddenly saw the new content next to his handwriting.
Next to each "Xie Yi" was the word "A Yan". As many times as he had written her name before, she had rewritten his name next to it, with the two names closely next to each other in the dense and completely different handwriting.
Freehand Ayan.
A Yan freehand painting.
One winter, she wrote his two names on a piece of paper and said mysteriously, "Zeliang and Nanyan are both freehand, so why not make it 'Xieyi Liangyan', which is quite smooth. Ah Yan, don't you like to carve seals? Carve one for me, just these four characters."
After saying this, she began to think about putting the seal on everything that they both owned.
At that time, he didn't take it seriously, and later he gradually forgot about it.
Good freehand writing.
Li Zeliang clenched his fists, raised his face, closed his eyes and took a deep breath. After a moment of silence, he quickly put out his cigarette, opened the door and chased after him. He hurried downstairs, where cars and people were passing by, but he could not see Xieyi.
The next day, the sky was very gloomy and the clouds were very low.
Qiao Hanmin suddenly asked Xieyi to deliver materials to Li's. Xieyi blinked her eyes while holding the materials. Was it too coincidental? Or maybe she didn't handle it well yesterday, and God gave her another chance today. When she arrived at the sales department of Li's, the sales manager actually asked her to deliver it to the president's office. When Xieyi heard this, her heart was in turmoil. She delivered the goods to Li's door yesterday, but Li Zeliang was just like a string bean, not interested in anything. But, isn't today's coincidence a little too abnormal
She passed by Xiaolin, who smiled and said, "Mr. Li is waiting for you inside." Then he went downstairs to do other things.
Xieyi opened his mouth, feeling as if he was being plotted against.
She knocked on the door, entered, and closed it.
His office was on the top floor of the Li Building, and there was a whole piece of glass behind his desk, giving him the feeling of overlooking the entire city. He stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling glass with his back to her, looking at the scenery, and only turned around when he heard the knock on the door.
"I brought the documents." Xie Yi said hesitantly while standing at the door, "They said they want to show it to you first."
He walked around the table and came to her to take the document and read it. He read it seriously and didn't say anything for a long time. Xie Yi was a little frustrated. She thought that she could appear here so naturally. It was not an opportunity given by God but created by him. Although it was much better than the previous times, he didn't ridicule her as soon as they met, but he still ignored her.
Xieyi was a little frustrated. This was an office, unlike yesterday at home, and it was even harder to find topics or excuses to keep her company. Now he was stupidly reading documents again, and she was standing here like a shameless extra. So she lowered her head and said, "I'm leaving."
Just as she turned around, he unexpectedly reached out and grabbed her wrist. She looked back in surprise. His movements were very gentle, so she didn't get scared, but it really surprised her. Seeing Xie Yi staring at him in surprise, Li Zeliang turned his head slightly, let go of his hand, and immediately squeezed out a word.
"I just happened to be going downstairs for something, let's go together."
Xieyi glanced at him again and followed behind obediently.
On the way, I met Manager Wei from the Planning Department. He nodded and said, "Hello, Mr. Li."
"Yeah." Li Zeliang didn't stop, so Manager Wei followed him and said, "I was looking for you."
"I have something." Li Zeliang said and entered the elevator, and Xie Yi followed him in.
Manager Wei was about to step inside when Li Zeliang glanced at him indifferently. He felt a chill in his heart and quickly corrected himself, "I'll take the next one."
The elevator door closed.
There were only the two of them inside, and he was still holding the document in his hand. He looked completely different in a suit than when he was in school. The first time she came to Li's, she also met him in the elevator. At that time, the two of them talked politely like strangers, and she also looked at his shadow on the elevator door with such fascination.
But Xieyi felt something was wrong, as if the elevator was not moving.
Li Zeliang seemed to suddenly realize this problem, and when he looked at the floor button, he realized that they both forgot to press the button. He was closer, so he reached out and pressed "1".
With this action, the folder in his hand accidentally slipped to the ground. He was about to bend down to pick it up, but Xie Yi bent down before him. She knew that bending down was a little uncomfortable for him, so she quickly picked it up for him. Just then, she returned the thing to him, and when she stood up, she felt her scalp tighten. It turned out that her hair was stuck on the button of his suit. She had kept her hair for a long time, and except for simple trimming, she had never cut it short, so it was already very long. Before she came to Li's today, she let her hair down and tidied it up beautifully before leaving.
"Don't move." He tucked the documents under his armpits and freed his hands to help her untie her hair.
Her posture was very uncomfortable, and she couldn't straighten her body. I don't know if he did it intentionally or unintentionally, but he took a half step closer, and her head naturally leaned on him. She buried her head and watched his fingers untie the tangled hair bit by bit. He was very careful and didn't hurt her at all. His gentle movements seemed to touch Xieyi's heart. At that moment, she felt a little attached.
"Okay," he said.
Xieyi smiled embarrassedly, then straightened his back.
Her hair was unbuttoned, but still wrapped around his fingertips, so they were still so close. She looked up and met his gaze, and he looked at her without saying a word, unable to hide the complex expressions in his eyes, with greed, timidity, and expectation... His Adam's apple moved, his eyes were a little blurred, and then he pulled her hair and kissed her slowly.
The light kiss was timid and tentative. The long-lost intimacy made Xieyi's heart tremble slightly. His lips were a little cold, but very gentle. He had never kissed her in such a cautious way before. It felt as if he was afraid that he would scare her away with just a little force.
Suddenly, the elevator stopped midway, and Xieyi panicked. She immediately pushed him away and moved away. When the elevator door opened, there was no one outside. However, when the two returned to the closed space, the atmosphere was different. Xieyi's action of pushing him away suddenly brought him back to the cruel reality.
Li Zeliang turned his face away and explained calmly: "That was just a goodbye kiss, you don't have to take it to heart." Suddenly, he became the indifferent Li Zeliang again.
The gentle touch from before was still on her lips, and now hearing these words, Xieyi's heart ached. She didn't believe it. She didn't believe that his kiss was a farewell. Xieyi wanted to ask more questions, but she opened her mouth and felt it was futile. Forcing him to answer something when he was stubborn was simply asking for trouble. He only used vicious methods to arm himself, and the words he said hurt her and himself.
"Ayan." Xieyi called him.
When Li Zeliang heard those two warm words, he turned around with a little surprise. Xie Yi took the opportunity to wrap his arms around his neck and quickly pressed his lips against his.
At that time, she was really afraid that he would just push him away and then say coldly, "Ms. Shen, please respect yourself." If he did that, she was not sure if she would have the courage to see him again. So, Xieyi pulled him closer with all her strength, leaving him no room for retreat or rejection, and kissed him hastily and awkwardly, anxiously sucking and licking on his lips, eagerly waiting for his response.
He shuddered slightly, and his thoughts and movements paused for a second before he began to kiss back.
I don't know if it was because he had been holding back for too long or because he was too impulsive, but he kissed her very passionately. He held her tightly in his arms, as if he wanted to rub her into his heart. He supported her head with his other hand, forcing her to get close to him. He was no longer timid like before, but like a tide, robbing her of her breath without leaving any room. His folder fell to the ground again, the contract spread out, and the white A4 paper was scattered all over the ground.
Xieyi had never understood why a man's lips were so soft and sweet to kiss, and once you get entangled with him, you can't stop, just like opium. You know you can't touch him, but once you get involved, you will sink into it willingly. Is it the same as him, once you have a relationship with him, you want to continue loving him even if the sky falls and the earth breaks? Xieyi was already confused and infatuated, and no longer cared how many times the elevator opened and closed, how many people looked at them in surprise, or how many people turned away in embarrassment. She only knew that she wanted A Yan to love her, and she didn't want to care what others said, how they looked at her, or what they thought. He was her joy, her happiness, her happiness, and even her whole world...
A Yan is freehand, forever and ever.
"Xie Yi," he kissed her, his emotions a little out of control as he whispered slowly, "Don't leave me, don't forget me, and don't pretend to be a stranger when you clearly remember me. Believe it or not, if you do that to me again, I will go crazy, I will definitely go crazy."
Xie Yi nodded vigorously with tears in her eyes, "I will never leave A Yan again, even if you chase me away, I won't leave."
That day, there was a chilly north wind in City A, mixed with drizzle, but Xieyi felt warm all over. She had never felt so relaxed in all these years. It turned out that living for herself was so free.
She sat in the taxi back to Tang Qiao, grinning all the way. Occasionally, she recalled that she and he kissed in front of so many people, and she was so ashamed that she couldn't help but cover her face with her hands. The driver was a young man, and seeing her strange behavior, he looked at her suspiciously from time to time. When he looked at her strangely again, Xie Yi simply turned around and said to him, "I'm in love again." Then she continued to grin.
The young man couldn't help but laugh with her.
"Congratulations! I'll give you a song." The young man said, then turned on the speaker and played the song "I Love You".
Seeing my happiest reflection in your eyes
The tacit understanding held in the palm of your hand is the guide for tomorrow
No matter near or far, no matter what century
Embrace in heaven, or wander in the wilderness
I love you, I dare to go, any unknown fate
I love you, I am willing to allow you to arbitrarily decide the borders of the world
Sometimes I really don't understand you, but who really understands themselves
Often, how close two people are is proved through hurting each other.
Like anxiety, I will be willful
You are afraid of leaking, so you are angry.
I love you, let me hear your tiredness and fear
I love you, I want to kiss your stubborn heart
I hold up all the love to form a forbidden place in the wind and rain
When the storm wants you to take a breath
Broken faith takes time to heal
Dreams lead to doubts, and the future is unclear
Just hug tightly to pass on energy and courage
I love you, I want to go, any unknown destiny
I love you, let me hear your tiredness and fear
I love you, I want to kiss your stubborn heart
Let's go anywhere together and look up at the stars together
Let's walk out of the forest together and savor the memories together
Misunderstandings and jealousies together, and the sun shines through the rain together
Let’s understand ourselves better and find meaning together
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