One hour, sixty minutes, and three thousand six hundred seconds passed in a flash.
Lu Yinbing took out the car keys from his hanging coat, drove to take Xia Yitong to the place agreed upon with Fang Hui. It was half an hour away from the airport, and it took exactly half an hour to drive there from the villa.
The car coming to pick up Xia Yitong appeared in the distance. Lu Yinbing drove over and stopped by the side of the road. There was no one around, not even passing cars.
Xia Yitong exclaimed, "Huh?"
With a light "click" sound, Lu Yinbing unbuckled his seat belt, leaned over, held Xia Yitong's cheek with one hand, put the other hand on her hand on her thigh, and kissed her deeply.
Maybe it was because the emotion of parting was too strong, Xia Yitong kissed back so hard that Lu Yinbing felt like his neck was about to be broken by her.
When they separated, both of their lips were a little red and swollen, caused by excessive squeezing and sucking. They looked at each other and breathed heavily.
"I'm leaving." Xia Yitong said, but his eyes were still on her and he didn't push the car door.
"Um."
"I'm really leaving."
Lu Yinbing nodded.
Xia Yitong hugged her, turned around with determination, opened the car door with her hand, lowered her body, and stepped out. Lu Yinbing's hand drew an arc in the air and fell back to its original position.
Then she watched Xia Yitong lower her head and hurriedly get into the car in front.
The phone rang and the screen lit up. Lu Yinbing picked up the phone and unlocked the screen.
Xia Yitong—I’m seated now, you go back, Teacher Lu.
Lu Yinbing—Okay.
Fang Hui: "Brother Xiaodong, please drive."
The driver stepped on the accelerator. Xia Yitong turned her neck and looked back. Lu Yinbing's car never moved. The black Land Rover stood there like a silent guard, gradually backing out of sight.
Xia Yitong's nose felt sore, and she felt even more uncomfortable than when she watched Lu Yinbing leave - You should go back soon.
Lu Yinbing—Okay, send me a message when you get to the airport
She put the phone down, started the car, and drove in the opposite direction. The car's Bluetooth rang, and Lu Yinbing glanced at the caller ID, answered it, and replied calmly: "Twenty minutes, I'll be there soon."
The black Land Rover accelerated again and sped away on the asphalt road.
She threw the car keys to the waiter who came to greet her, went to her room to change into the haute couture dress sent from abroad, passed by beautiful people in elegant attire, took a glass of wine, and gathered in twos and threes with friends to chat in a low voice.
She usually talks a lot in front of people close to her, but today she was unusually taciturn. When asked by friends several times if she was worried, she shook her head, clinked glasses, nodded, drank, and joined in the conversation. However, she would check her phone in her bag from time to time. She knew that the other party had boarded the plane and there would be no new messages, but she still wanted to check and scroll up and down the chat records that she had read countless times.
This feeling of being out of control made Lu Yinbing panic. She had never thought that it would be like this when she fell in love. She felt... confused.
Are you confused
Her mind was not on the party, so she found an excuse to walk to the balcony, using the building's cover to let her emotions show. Her fingers were still swiping aimlessly on her phone. She forgot what she was going to do, and when she came to her senses, she had already clicked on the green icon again.
This almost made her feel terrified. In order to cool down her burning blood, she pressed her back against the cold wall. The biting chill ran from her spine to the top of her head.
Lu Yinbing closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and returned to the crowd.
…
"What did you say?!" Laiying shouted, "Say it again!"
"Speak a little more quietly, you're going to deafen my ears." Lu Yinbing pulled the collar of her pajamas in front of the mirror and curled herself up tightly in the quilt. She missed the time when Xia Yitong slept with her.
"Since you fucking said something like that, can I keep my voice down a bit?" After coming to experience the filming life, he will stay in his house in Beijing until next spring to start filming.
"What did I say?"
"You said you didn't want to be in a relationship with Xia Yitong anymore, and you wanted to break up."
Lu Yinbing almost laughed out loud: "Hey, I said, can you do your reading comprehension seriously? When did I say I wanted to break up?"
"Just now." Laiying imitated her tone and said in annoyance, "Dating is so terrible. If I had known this, I would not have taken this step in the first place."
Lu Yinbing: "I..."
Before she could even say "I", Laiying came over and said, "Look, you don't want to be in a relationship anymore. Why are you such a person? What's the difference between you and those scumbags?"
Lu Yinbing didn't refute or respond.
Laiying panicked. She had just said it casually. Could it be that what she said was true? It was over. She felt sorry for Xia Yitong.
"Hey, you're not really thinking about breaking up, are you?"
"… "
"Sister, grandma, please stop scaring me, okay?" Laiying almost knelt down in front of her, "Say something."
"Ah." Lu Yinbing responded.
What the hell is this? Laiying wanted to get out of the screen and shook her shoulders hard, asking her: What the hell is this? Explain it to me from beginning to end!
"Do you understand how I feel?" Lu Yinbing didn't know how to describe it accurately. "It's like a person walking on a night road all the time. She's alone, she's used to it. She walks back and forth on the same road every day. She doesn't need a light, her heart can see. Sometimes she walks farther, sometimes closer. One day, a man came and said he wanted to walk with her. The most important thing is that the man is very good-looking and has a good personality."
“And then you said yes.”
"Yes." Lu Yinbing said, "After agreeing, she found herself lost."
Laiying: “What the hell!”
Lu Yinbing: "I know you don't understand. Never mind. I'll figure it out myself."
This was the first time that Laiying failed to help Lu Yinbing solve her emotional problems. She was very unwilling to let it go, so she randomly guessed, "You don't feel safe?"
"No, I'm safe enough on my own."
"You're insecure about her."
"No, I know she likes me very much."
"You want the sweetness of love, but you don't want your life to be disturbed! That's why you will be lost if there is one more person!" Laiying had a flash of inspiration in his mind and almost shouted out the answer.
Lu Yinbing was startled. She finally knew where the uneasy feeling in her heart came from. When she was with Xia Yitong, she devoted herself to enjoying love. Once they separated, she didn't like the feeling of missing and caring about her. She felt like she was being restrained. She wanted to break free, to be free, to have air, to be free from scruples. But she had clearly arranged Xia Yitong into her life trajectory, so why was it still like this
"I guessed it right," Laiying said with a tut, "You are such a scumbag."
“I don’t like other people.”
"Hey, I called you sister, but who said that cheating is scumbag? Domestic violence men don't cheat on others. Before you do anything scumbag, you should get your mind right."
"How do you break it?"
"It's just..." Laiying was stuck. It took her a while to come up with a perfect plan, but she really couldn't do it. She frowned and said, "Don't do whatever you want just because she likes you."
Lu Yinbing smiled on the other end of the phone.
"why are you laughing?"
"Nothing." No one knows who is doing whatever he wants today just because he likes her.
"You must be hiding something from me!"
"Yes, but I won't tell you."
"You big scumbag!"
"Thank you for the compliment. I will keep working hard." Lu Yinbing said, "Now I need to sort out my thoughts. You can kneel down and greet me."
"I don't-"
Lu Yinbing hung up the phone, blocking out Laiying's yelling on the other end. Another call came in, it was Laiying. Lu Yinbing answered the call. Laiying's lioness roar almost deafened her ears, and then she got revenge for hanging up the phone and went to bed.
Lu Yinbing started swiping the screen again, scrolling through Xia Yitong's Weibo posts from the first to the last, without remembering anything. The notification bar showed a new WeChat message, and Lu Yinbing looked at his phone. It had been ten minutes since Xia Yitong got off the plane.
Xia Yitong—I arrived at Teacher Lu’s place and it was so cold outside.
Lu Yinbing—Take the bus back to the hotel early.
Xia Yitong - I was already in the car when I dared to take my hands out to type. My fingers were almost frozen into popsicles [shivering]
Lu Yinbing - [Heart]
Xia Yitong—Hug from Teacher Lu.
Lu Yinbing—Hug.
Xia Yitong - Much warmer [Hold Teacher Lu's small quilt tightly]
Lu Yinbing—Yeah.
Xia Yitong hesitated for a moment and replied—Are you in a bad mood
Lu Yinbing—How do you know
Xia Yitong - When you are in a good mood, you don't say "um" very often, but when you are at a loss for words, you will say [groundhog scream.gif]
Lu Yinbing—You have figured it out. It’s hard to explain it in words. When you get to the hotel, let’s video chat. I’ll wait for you.
Xia Yitong was so frightened by her words "I can't explain it clearly in typing" that he broke out in a cold sweat in the middle of winter. Fang Wei looked at her sharply with a questioning look. Xia Yitong shook her head. Her heart beat faster than usual because she was uneasy.
A minute later, Lu Yinbing sent another message—[groundhog screaming.gif]
Xia Yitong's eyebrows relaxed and replied—[groundhog screams.gif]