When the lights in the screening room came on, Lu Yinbing saw Xia Yitong's face full of tears.
Lu Yinbing handed Xia Yitong a tissue, put on both his and Xia Yitong's hats, pushed down the brims, and put on masks.
The cleaning lady came in and waited at the door.
The young couple sitting in the best viewing area sat there without moving, waiting for the subtitles to finish before leaving. The boy was hugging the girl, and the girl was leaning on his chest, and it seemed that they were crying hard.
This was not surprising, as Lu Yinbing had also read some comments online. But what surprised her was that Fang Hui and Xiaoxi in the front row were hugging each other.
Xia Yitong's eyes were slightly red and swollen. Lu Yinbing pointed forward, and they both stood up at the same time and looked forward and downward.
Lu Yin said coldly, "Xi Xiaoxi."
Xiaoxi jumped out of Fang Wei's arms like a spring. Fang Wei's arms suddenly felt empty. Her eyebrows slightly raised, showing an unhappy expression. Lu Yinbing glanced at Fang Wei.
Is this what she thought? Isn't this too much of a coincidence
It turns out that the angle from which you look at the world is very important. When you are straight, everything looks straight. But now that you are bent, everything looks bent.
While the cleaning lady was collecting drink cups and popcorn buckets in the front row, the four of them left one by one. Lu Yinbing took Xia Yitong back to her own home, and Fang Hui drove Xiaoxi to Xiaoxi's home. Xia Yitong's house was now for Fang Hui to live in, but Xiaoxi had to be taken home after all.
After saying goodbye to each other in the parking lot, Xia Yitong sat in the passenger seat, her hands on her waist. After three hours of watching a movie, no matter how exciting it was, it was inevitable that her back and waist would ache. She looked at Lu Yinbing beside her. Lu Yinbing was wearing sunglasses, so she couldn't see the specific direction of his sight, but generally he was looking towards the car that had just driven away.
"What are you looking at?"
"Look at your assistant and my assistant." Lu Yinbing said with a smile.
"What's so good about them?"
Fang Hui drove steadily and quickly, and soon the car disappeared. Lu Yinbing started the car, skillfully backed out of the parking space, and drove out of the underground parking lot before asking with obvious meaning: "Why did Fang Hui send Xiao Xi back instead of Xiao Xi sending Fang Hui back?"
Xia Yitong said: "Because it's my car."
Lu Yinbing: “…”
It's well-reasoned and I have to admit it.
Xia Yitong asked: "Then why else do you think it could be?"
Lu Yinbing muttered, "Fang Hui is taller than Xiaoxi, and her body is stronger than hers. She looks like a bitch at first glance."
Xia Yitong put the back of her hand over her lips and smiled: "What?"
Lu Yinbing said: "Just attack."
"What does 'attack' mean?" Xia Yitong asked knowingly.
"It's the one who takes the initiative in a relationship." Lu Yinbing recalled the definition Xiaoxi had given her and repeated it, but she felt it wasn't vivid enough, so she added, "Well, someone like you is an attacker, a very attacker."
Xia Yitong: “…”
Why doesn't she, the person involved, know this fact
Lu Yinbing said again: "Didn't you say last time that you wanted to prepare something? Are you ready?"
Prepare... what? Xia Yitong recalled in confusion, and suddenly an idea came to her mind. She shuddered and said, "I have prepared it. It's in my bag." What else could she prepare to make her feel better
Lu Yinbing sighed and said, "You are such a person."
And then there was no further talk. She smiled. Tonight was destined to be a very long night.
The two of them started from the moment they entered the house. The sofa and carpet downstairs were as soft as an ordinary big bed. They threw their clothes in the living room and went straight into the bathroom to take a shower. It was too troublesome to fill the bathtub, so they took a shower. The warm water poured from head to toe, and their fingers moved flexibly, half dragging and half hugging, half asleep and half awake, and their bodies were surrounded by endless waves, one wave after another.
Lu Yinbing had never slept so soundly before. The midday sun shone completely through the curtains and onto the messy bed. Their necks were touching, and they hugged each other like conjoined twins, breathing steadily.
The shoulders around her moved slightly, and Lu Yinbing moaned and opened her swollen eyes. After just one glance, she closed them again and rested for a long time before opening them again.
There were three or five teeth marks crisscrossing the fair shoulders of the woman in front of him, and she looked very familiar.
Not only did Lu Yinbing not feel guilty, she was quite happy.
Xia Yitong's eyelashes trembled slightly in the air twice. Lu Yinbing quickly closed her eyes, feeling the other person's gaze falling on her face, and then the warm breath approached, leaving a light kiss on her lips.
Xia Yitong's arm twitched, but then stopped. Lu Yinbing was holding her too tightly, and if she insisted on coming out, she would definitely wake him up. Forget it, she continued to sleep. There was nothing to do today anyway.
It’s convenient to have your lover as your part-time boss. You can give yourself a month off whenever you want.
The two fell into a deep sleep again.
When he opened his eyes this time, Lu Yinbing felt that there was no one beside him. He shook his dizzy brain and saw that the time on his mobile phone showed four o'clock in the afternoon. He burst into laughter. He really slept like a pig.
She closed her eyes, raised one hand high to stretch her muscles, and called out loudly: "Xia Yitong."
There was a sound of hurried footsteps, and the door was opened. Xia Yitong, wearing home clothes and an apron, ran in, rushed to the bed, and asked as she ran, "What's wrong?"
Lu Yinbing was lying on the bed, glancing at her with a lazy look: "It's okay, I just called you."
Xia Yitong took off her apron, leaned over to hug her, and pecked her face gently, "Are you feeling uncomfortable somewhere?"
Lu Yinbing moved the two long legs hidden in the quilt and felt it carefully: "No."
"Would you like to get up?" Xia Yitong said, "I'll cook noodles for you."
Lu Yinbing didn't say anything, but stretched out her hands from the quilt. Her bare arms were white and shiny, and she was also naked underneath. Xia Yitong reached into the quilt to get some advantage and put clothes on her.
Underwear, home clothes, couple outfits.
After putting on the clothes, I hugged her from the back, with my chest against her back and my hands around her waist, and we squeezed into the bathroom one step at a time.
Lu Yinbing said, "Brush your teeth."
Xia Yitong picked out her electric toothbrush, squeezed toothpaste on it, dipped it in a little water, and patiently brushed Lu Yinbing's bared teeth, giving a few instructions from time to time.
"Open your mouth."
Lu Yinbing opened his mouth, and Xia Yitong also opened his mouth.
Lu Yinbing laughed at Xia Yitong, who was obviously not brushing her teeth but was unconsciously doing the same action as her. Xia Yitong was concentrating on observing her teeth and didn't notice anything.
Xia Yitong: "Spit it out."
As soon as Lu Yinbing lowered her head to spit out the foam in her mouth, a cup full of water was handed to her. She was asked to get dressed, brush her teeth, rinse her mouth and wash her face. It was a one-stop service.
Holding hands and going downstairs, Xia Yitong let her sit on the sofa and watch TV and play with her phone, while she tied an apron and went into the kitchen to get busy. Lu Yinbing didn't watch TV or play with her phone, so she followed him in.
Xia Yitong held an egg in one hand and a shrimp in the other. He looked at her and said, "I'm nervous. Wait for me outside for a while. It will be ready soon."
Why should I be so nervous about making noodles? Lu Yinbing was puzzled, so she did as she was told, kneeling on the sofa in the living room and looking into the kitchen. Xia Yitong's movements seemed awkward at first glance, but she was methodical and did everything one by one. She didn't even use her phone to check the recipe. It was obvious that she could cook, but it might be because she had been busy with work in recent years and her hands were not so good at cooking.
Twenty minutes later, the seafood and egg noodles were freshly cooked. Xia Yitong kept an eye on the outside while fiddling with the noodles many times with chopsticks. The shrimp meat was tender and plump like pearls, the egg was runny, and the noodles were white, like a small sun embedded in the sea, waiting for the moment of sunrise. The vegetables were bright green, dotted on top, creating the illusion of a green dragon crossing the sea.
Xia Yitong tasted the noodles before serving them and rated them 60 points. Adding the presentation of the dish, she thought anxiously that they should be 70 points.
She opened the kitchen door and said, "It's time to eat."
Lu Yinbing: "Rice?"
Xia Yitong: “…noodles.”
Lu Yinbing took a quick look and thought it looked good, with good color and aroma, comparable to what he made. He picked up a few hot noodles, blew on them, put them into his mouth, rolled his eyes, looked into Xia Yitong's eyes, and said, "It's delicious."
Xia Yitong's eyebrows twitched slightly, showing her happiness that she tried hard to hide but failed. She sat down and watched Lu Yinbing eat.
Lu Yinbing said, "Go get another bowl."
Xia Yitong went to the kitchen, and a minute later, brought in a bowl of Master Kang's fresh shrimp and fish noodles.
Lu Yinbing: “…”
Xia Yitong: "I'll just eat this. I haven't eaten it for a long time. They're all seafood, so it's about the same."
She was only thinking about making a bowl of noodles for Lu Yinbing. When the noodles were almost cooked, she remembered that she had no rice either. It was too late to cook another bowl, so she simply gave up and only served Lu Yinbing's bowl.
Lu Yinbing put down his chopsticks and looked at her.
Xia Yitong quickly advised: "Eat it, it will become clumpy soon."
"Then let it be." Lu Yinbing said with a cold look on his face. Xia Yitong didn't dare to speak.
Three minutes later, the paper cover of the fresh shrimp and fish noodles was torn off, and the rich aroma rushed straight to her nose. Xia Yitong pushed the bowl a little further away, picked up the fork, and Lu Yinbing held the chopsticks at the same time: "Eat it."
Xia Yitong took a bite of instant noodles, which seemed to be mixed with honey, so sweet that she couldn't taste the original flavor of the noodles at all. She ate while grinning foolishly. As she was eating, a hand moved the cup and bowl in front of her away and replaced it with another bowl. The egg was half eaten, and the bowl was full of plump, crystal white shrimps, and there was not much noodles left.
Lu Yinbing lowered his head and slurped a mouthful of instant noodles, then said vaguely, "Alright, half for each of us, that's fair."