The story takes place after Li Zeliang proposed and before the two held their wedding ceremony.
On the way, Xie Yi suddenly asked Li Zeliang: "When did you start to fall in love with me?"
He was speechless.
"You used to annoy me, but then you suddenly fell head over heels in love with me."
"Watch the front." He reminded her from the passenger seat, ignoring her words.
They encountered a traffic jam, so they stopped and started along the way, just talking to kill time. However, he didn't respond to her, and Xieyi couldn't help but mutter a few words.
The car in front moved a few meters, and she continued to follow behind.
After a while, Li Zeliang asked, "What about you?"
Although there was a long time between these two sentences, Xieyi still understood what he meant, so he smiled and said, "Love grows over time, but it doesn't count."
"Love grows over time?" Li Zeliang turned to look at her.
Xie Yi smiled with her lips pursed.
She lied to him.
In fact, the answer she wanted to give was much more superficial than the four words "love grows over time". Why? Because she first fell in love with his appearance, and then fell in love with everything about him.
It all started when he stood up and offered his seat to her mother in the indifferent crowd on the subway. At that time, Xieyi saw him wearing the same uniform and started to ask about him.
At that time, Li Zeliang probably never noticed how dazzling he was. He was a transfer student, had good grades, didn't like to talk to people, played basketball very well, and was the undisputed school idol in the school opinion poll.
Xiao Xieyi is not very popular among boys. When they see her, they avoid her and it is said that they all have an attitude of "if you can't afford to offend, you can afford to avoid her"... In this regard, she said to Zhan Dongzhen indignantly: "What's so great about them? I don't even look down on them!"
Zhan Dongzhen said nothing.
She added: "I want to make the most dazzling boy in our school fall in love with me."
Seeing her solemn promise, Zhan Dongzhen couldn't help laughing.
"What boy?"
"A senior, he's so handsome, good at studying, and he even gave up his seat for my mother." Xiao Xieyi's eyes lit up when he talked about him.
“Is this person’s image so glorious?”
"Yeah, I like him."
What does it mean that where there is a will there is a way? This is an example.
As the buildings outside the car window kept changing, Li Zeliang began to look at them and fell into deep thought.
When did you start to fall in love with her
It’s not that he hadn’t thought about it, but there was a time when he didn’t dare to touch this issue. It was as if once he fell into memories, his soul would leave his body in pain and he couldn’t find a reason to return to reality.
When was the first day she touched his heart
She shouted "Li Nanyan, come on" and rushed out from the runway
She pestered him like a scoundrel and said, "Can I call you A Yan?"
No, neither.
But when she ran away from home, she regarded him as her only support in the world and waited at the door of his house for two whole days.
At that time, this girl became a soft spot in his heart.
He was rebellious and had very little patience since he was young. Although he was smart, he never studied seriously for a day. All relatives and friends had a headache when they mentioned the second child of the Li family. His father was strict with him, but his mother was very protective of him. Over time, the adults just let him be. When the couple was young, they wanted to have more children, but they didn't expect that the second child was born when the eldest son was fourteen years old. Originally, they didn't want to have a child, but later his mother couldn't bear it, so she gave birth to the child despite her advanced age. The eldest brother is much older than him. It is said that the eldest brother is like a father, so sometimes it is almost the eldest brother who disciplines him.
The worst time they got into trouble was when my father was accompanying my mother abroad to recuperate, and a group of them crippled one of the eyes of a young man from a certain family. Li Zeliang was less than sixteen years old at the time.
The eldest brother pulled him out of the police station, tied him to the banyan tree in the yard at night and beat him severely. The eldest brother was so angry that he threw away the belt in his hand and continued to yell at him: "Aren't you very arrogant? Why didn't you say anything? I have no grudge against you, but you really did it! I have spoiled you since you were a child and you are lawless! You should be crippled and sentenced to a few years in prison!"
That being said, the eldest brother still had to go through a lot of trouble to settle the matter. He was beaten almost to death but he didn't explain that it was not him who did it. There was a classmate in the class named Ji Yingsong who was very good to him. Ji Yingsong's sister set up a noodle stall on the street to sell breakfast. The sister was pretty. What happened later made Ji Yingsong desperately want to stab the other person.
Actually, Ji Yingsong was going to kill the man, but he only poked his eye. When the scene was chaotic and everyone was terrified, Li Zeliang stood up and took the responsibility alone. He knew that if Ji Yingsong took the responsibility, he might not be able to save his life.
The two brothers of the Li family always go to the beach to swim and surf whenever they have time. He has no interest in the feeling of riding the wind and waves, but the eldest brother likes it very much.
The eldest brother said to him, "Xiao Yan, these waves are very similar to our lives, with ups and downs, stumbling, but in the end, they will be quiet."
It’s just that my brother’s life became quiet too suddenly.
When my mother cried until she fainted while holding her eldest brother's body, her relatives comforted her and said, "Sister-in-law, don't be like this. Just let him go. At least you still have Xiaoyan."
Therefore, he always thought that his heart was very hard. However, when he saw Xieyi standing at his door with tears in her eyes, he felt warm in his heart. He always thought of her as a child, who loved to act like a spoiled child, love to cling to others, and love to cry. Before meeting Xieyi, Li Zeliang had never found a person who could control his tears so freely and without any hesitation.
She can be crying one second and giggling the next. She can also be aggressive and confrontational one second, like a kitten with its fur erected in readiness, and the next second she can curl her lips and look pitiful with tears in her eyes.
Later, he secretly observed her and figured out when she was pretending and when she was real. Maybe it was her nature, or maybe she had to develop this ability in such a family, so he thought she was cute at one moment and felt sorry for her at another.
When getting off the car, Xie Yi suddenly leaned forward and asked with a frown, "A Yan, let me ask you again, when did you realize that you loved me so much that you couldn't help yourself?"
He collected his thoughts and calmly glanced at her face, which was magnified from a close distance. He scanned it with his eyes and then said lightly, "Your makeup is smudged."
"… "
That night, he took her severely.
At the last passionate moment, he called Xieyi's name tenderly again, then leaned against her neck, breathing heavily, and did not move for a long time.
Xieyi touched his sweaty back and said, "Ayan, you forgot to wear that."
He didn't say anything for a long time, and then asked, "If we have a child, who would it be better for him to look like?"
Now Xieyi became interested, "My child must be the most beautiful in the world and must inherit all the good qualities."
"You have a nice nose and lips. The child should look like you."
"My forehead and neck look good, this part looks like me."
"As for the eyes..." Xieyi thought for a moment, "Dongdong's eyes are pretty nice. It would be nice if I could grow up like him."
Li Zeliang, who had let her talk to herself, now spoke up and asked unhappily, "His nose and mouth look like mine, and his eyes look like Zhan Dongzhen?" The rest of the sentence he held back was: Is this my son, or his son
Zhan Dongzhen, who was a hundred miles away, suddenly sneezed violently.
"Oh, it seems that someone is still talking about you in the middle of the night. That's good." Zhao Lingfei teased him.
They were drinking together in a bar.
Zhan Dongzhen turned his head and glanced at the wall behind him, and felt as if a cold wind was blowing from somewhere.
"Remember the blind date tomorrow at 6pm."
"Who is it?" Zhan Dongzhen put out his cigarette and asked her.
"She's a friend's sister-in-law. Please don't offend her."
A few days later, while Xieyi was basking in the sun in the yard, she said to Li Zeliang: "Pingxin told me that children sometimes look a lot like their aunt."
"I don't have any sisters, I only have an older brother."
Xieyi seldom heard Li Nanyi mention him in person, but she felt that every time he said the word "big brother", his expression was particularly cautious. Once, the two of them passed by the community basketball court and saw a group of children playing basketball. Li Zeliang suddenly said to himself: "If big brother had a child, he would have to go to junior high school."
Xieyi couldn't help but ask, "What kind of person is your brother?" She didn't have a brother, and always felt that her eldest brother was either like Xie Minghao or like Zhan Dongzhen.
"He taught me how to play ball and swim since I was little, and he also whipped me. He was kind and calm to people, and more compassionate than I am."
"Does he look like A-Yan?"
"A lot of people say we look alike, but my mother says we don't look alike at all."
"Then if we have a son, he will be like my brother, which will be great." Xieyi said.
"What if it's a daughter?"
"Do you like your daughter?" Xie Yi asked.
He seemed to be imagining something in his mind. After thinking for a while, the corners of his mouth gradually raised a little, and then he murmured, "I like it."