"The water got into my eyes when I was taking a shower just now." Xia Yitong said to her beloved on the other end of the video for the third time, "Really? When have I ever lied to you?"
Just as Xia Yitong was crying her heart out on the bed, Lu Yinbing, who had just come home from work, called her with a video call. She wiped her eyes hastily and looked at herself in the mirror. It was too late to apply ice now, so she opened the video call with a pair of red and swollen eyes. If she refused, Lu Yinbing would worry.
However, the trick of water blinding the eyes did not even convince Gui Gui, let alone Lu Yinbing who was much smarter than Gui. If water could blind the eyes and produce the effect that only takes an hour of crying, then this water might be close to becoming a spirit. Lu Yinbing had to consider Xia Yitong's safety and kidnap her in advance.
"I didn't cry for long, just ten minutes." Under Lu Yinbing's questioning, Xia Yitong had no choice but to confess just a little bit, hoping to get away with it.
Lu Yinbing said nothing, his eyes full of leniency for those who confess and severity for those who resist.
Xia Yitong: "Twenty minutes, no more. If more, I'll be lying to you."
Xia Yitong: "I can definitely cry to this effect in half an hour. You know I have tender skin."
Seeing more and more tricks, Lu Yinbing's face became darker and darker. He used his trump card and narrowed his eyes dangerously: "Are you going to tell the truth? If not, I will be angry."
Xia Yitong bit her lip and hesitated.
"It just so happens that I have an announcement that conflicts with the roadshow the day after tomorrow, and I haven't decided whether to ask Xue Yao to push it off for me. What do you think?" Lu Yinbing suddenly smiled, but the smile did not reach her eyes. This was a sign that she was about to get angry. If it were someone else, Lu Yinbing would have been too lazy to pay attention to the other person, but it was Xia Yitong who could make her warn again and again: I'm going to be angry, I'm going to be angry, I'll give you a hundred more chances.
There was no need to wait for the hundredth chance. Xia Yitong didn't know she had so many chances, so she said calmly, "Fifty-eight minutes, less than an hour. And she didn't cry all the time, but intermittently, watching for a while and crying for a while. The actual time added up must be less than half an hour."
Lu Yinbing: “…”
She didn't speak for a long while, and Xia Yitong asked anxiously: "Teacher Lu, are you angry?"
Lu Yinbing: "No, I have something to say to you, but it's hard to say it over video, so I thought about it and decided to tell you next time we meet."
Xia Yitong fixed the flat board and rolled over twice slowly on the bed.
Lu Yinbing: “???”
After Xia Yitong rolled away, she looked at her with a bright smile in front of the camera.
Lu Yinbing somehow found it particularly funny, and the corners of her mouth curled up, and her voice was softer than she even noticed: "Why are you rolling around for no reason?"
Xia Yitong: "Let me express my happiness."
"How do you know that what I say will make you happy?"
"Guessed it."
"Then why are you rolling so slowly? Like Lightning." Lu Yinbing asked. Lightning is a sloth with extremely slow movements in "Zootopia". He was once made into an emoticon package and became very popular.
“In order… to… let… you… be… able… to… see… that… I… am… very… happy… ah…” Xia Yitong said very “lightningly”.
When lovers talk about love, their IQ is only three years old, no more. They always enjoy playing childish games. Lu Yinbing said: "You... have... become... smarter... recently... ah..."
“Mr. Lu, if you continue like this, I will start to stutter.”
"Don't think I can't see that you're stuttering." Lu Yinbing frowned and said, "Do you think I'm done being jealous?"
"I was wrong!" Xia Yitong knelt on the bed without hesitation. Because of her quick movements, she almost looked like she was kneeling in 3D in Lu Yinbing's camera. Lu Yinbing shrank back in fear, and her expression changed immediately. She blurted out in displeasure, "Can you please say hello before you kneel? Who is to blame for scaring me?"
Xia Yitong: “…”
The girlfriend’s point is not that you should not kneel because it is bad for your knees, but that if you kneel, just don’t scare me
Normally, she could say "I was wrong" or "I'm sorry" easily, but now it has become difficult for her to say them. Lu Yinbing let out a breath and said, "I have an old habit of being outspoken. Don't take it to heart." When she is anxious, her true nature will be exposed subconsciously. The good-tempered persona she has built up in front of Xia Yitong with great difficulty is about to go down the drain along with her moral integrity and artistic talent. They have been in a relationship for less than a year with little time together. If they live together every day in the future, will Xia Yitong be able to tolerate her in the long run
Does she have to write some Buddhist scriptures to cultivate her character like Xia Yitong? But she doesn't like Buddhism. Will writing some Tao Te Ching help
Before they officially started living together, Lu Yinbing fell into a state of slight anxiety.
Love is love, life is life. No matter how much a couple loves each other, there is no guarantee that there will be no friction in their daily life. The closer you are, the more your shortcomings will be magnified. In your lover's eyes, can a love that comes from nowhere and even you find unfamiliar be worth the time it takes to survive
"Why not?" Lu Yinbing told Xia Yitong what she was thinking. Xia Yitong asked her in return. What she liked most about Lu Yinbing was that she never hid anything. She would tell everything clearly and clearly. "No one in the world is perfect. Flaws make people real. If you are really a saint, I can only look up to you. How can I dare to fall in love with you?"
"You had never seen me before, but you treated me like a god, and yet you still loved me for so many years?" Lu Yinbing analyzed the loopholes in her words with careful logic.
"..." Xia Yitong paused for a second, blinked and said, "Ah, yes, so I'm not in love with you."
Lu Yinbing: “…”
It made so much sense that she couldn't refute it.
Xia Yitong said, "A god must put dust on her hands before a mortal dares to shake hands with her. If you hadn't dropped my bottle last time, I would have always thought of you as a god, and now I don't have a girlfriend."
"Fall...fall?" Lu Yinbing repeated, touching his arm covered with goose bumps, and laughed.
"If it's dropped, it's dropped. If it's dropped, it's thrown away. If it's dropped, there's no way to pick it up because it's gone. Is it illegal to use reduplicated words? Can you northerners stop finding fault all the time?" Xia Yitong's eyes flashed with a slight displeasure. Although she has stayed in Beijing for a long time after work, some daily words are still deeply rooted in southern habits. Whenever she chats with northerners, there will always be a few people who are committed to "correcting" her mistakes. You didn't say it this way, you must say it that way. It's just that the meaning of the words is different, and she didn't say it wrong. Even the dictionary didn't say she was wrong. I don't know where the other party got the sense of superiority from. During the Republic of China, the parliament discussed the standard of Mandarin, and Cantonese lost to Beijing dialect by one vote and failed to become the national language. Otherwise, the current standard Mandarin would be Cantonese with nine scales and intonations. Southerners always have an advantage over northerners in learning Cantonese. At least most of the southerners' dialect systems have more than four scales.
Lu Yinbing was confused by her displeasure and sudden criticism, and scratched the back of his head and said, "I'm not finding fault with you, I just think it's cute, and I want you to say a few more words for me."
Xia Yitong said "Oh" and her ears felt hot: "I was overthinking, right... I was wrong." She had accumulated too much dissatisfaction before, and accidentally exploded in front of Lu Yinbing. No wonder the seniors often say that the closer you are to someone, the more you can't control your temper. When you are sensitive, you can't even easily get over the other person's slightest offense. You have to be kissed, hugged, and coaxed with some nice words. This is what is commonly known as being spoiled and arrogant.
The clearest memory in her mind was probably the last time she visited the set to take a shower. She cried so hard that it was not something she would do. The next morning, she wanted to go back in time and beat that self to death. If she didn't still have the memory, she might have suspected that she was possessed by a ghost.
Today was the first time that she clearly realized that she was being spoiled. She actually lost her temper with Lu Yinbing, and this was when Lu Yinbing had done nothing wrong. Half a year ago, this was something she would not have dared to think about.
She fell on the bed, thinking about life, and murmured, "Lu Yinbing."
"ah?"
"If we live together in the future, will you be annoyed with me? I seem to have a bad temper now." Xia Yitong pinched her forehead nervously and asked distressedly.
Lu Yinbing: “…”
Lu Yinbing asked: "Do you still want to live with me?"
Xia Yitong said without hesitation: "I think about it, I'm crazy about it." Although she was conflicted, she never thought of denying this answer.
"That's it. After hearing what you said, I suddenly feel confident about our cohabitation life! We both have bad tempers anyway, so we just go to bed when we are angry! There is nothing that sex can't solve. If it doesn't work, then do it again!" Lu Yinbing said.
"Me too!" Xia Yitong responded with the same enthusiasm, "Is my contract ready? I'm about to sign it!"
"Okay! Do you want to see it now?"
"I won't read it anymore, I'll just sign it when the time comes!"
"Aren't you afraid it's an unfair clause?!"
"Don't worry, I'll sign the indenture even if you ask me to!"
Every word they spoke was full of intonation, full of infinite expectations and longings for future life.
On the 29th day before their cohabitation, the couple fell into the same confusion again, but this did not hinder their determination to live together as soon as possible and work harder for the same goal.
The life of one person is unpredictable, let alone two people. Allowing one person to completely enter and influence and even change your life habits of more than 20 years, the collision, adjustment, conflict and reconciliation, can make you feel the sweetness of two people more than the bitterness of one person, just as only one knows the warmth or coldness of the water after drinking it.
As long as the determination and courage to run towards each other is greater than the confusion and hesitation, the future is worth looking forward to.