"I might be in love with Xia Yitong."
I thought everyone would be shocked by what I said, but even though Lai Ying was the only one there, she did not seem shocked at all, and she even showed a hint of understanding in her smile.
Lu Yinbing thought about the gesture she made to him and understood. Lai Ying must have noticed her tendency a long time ago? How did she know
Laiying pulled her to sit on the bed, poured her a glass of water, and handed it to her to calm her nerves. As an assistant, she was particularly conscious of getting to the bottom of things.
Laiying keenly grasped the key point, "Why do you say it's possible?"
Lu Yinbing sighed, looking a little sad: "Because I'm not sure either."
"Can you tell me more specifically?"
Lu Yinbing gave the following three reasons: First, she always thought she was heterosexual, and the evidence was that she had never liked any woman in all these years, not even any one she had a crush on; second, if she wanted to like Xia Yitong, why did she not like her earlier or later, but at this moment? Was it because she was addicted to the feeling of kissing and not really liked her, because she had never kissed anyone outside the play before; third, and the most important one, she always had the problem of getting too immersed in the play, could it be that as a character in the play, she fell in love with Xia Yitong, who played Chen Qing.
With good reason and evidence, each of them puts a question mark on the statement "Lu Yinbing likes Xia Yitong", turning it into "Does she really like Xia Yitong?"
Lu Yinbing gave himself a day to think, but unfortunately he didn't figure out anything. Instead, he fell into deeper entanglement.
"So I came to you, please help me analyze it." Lu Yinbing asked for help from an off-site photographer, "After all, you have been in a long-term relationship for ten years, and you are already a married young woman."
"Will you die if you don't say the last sentence?"
“No, but I’ll be happy if you tell me.”
"I don't want to argue with you," Laiying said, "I'm hungry. Let's talk about it after dinner."
"I'll ask Xiaoxi to buy it."
"Don't bother your assistant. He must be tired after following you all day. Why don't you just ask him to go to the hotel? Do you want to ask Xia Tong to come over for dinner?"
Lu Yinbing hurriedly said, "Goodbye, I've been hiding from her for a whole day because of this."
Laiying said angrily, "No, why are you hiding from her? Don't you know that she is -" Laiying stopped talking in time, "-she is sensitive. You will think too much if you see something different about her."
"I know, but I'm in a state of confusion right now. I'm afraid to say anything to her, so I might as well hide. I just asked my assistant to tell her that I'm here to see you, and let her go eat by herself."
Laiying was speechless: "You..."
"What?"
"Nothing." Laiying hesitated and didn't say what she wanted to say. She wanted to say, "You are too selfish." Lu Yinbing, who grew up being self-centered, often doesn't care about the emotions of other people except her parents. She is nice to her fans because she is kind-hearted and grateful, and she is considerate and gentle to her seniors because of respect and education. Stripping these away, she usually has an extremely arrogant and proud face.
She didn't have low emotional intelligence, but she didn't use it in her dealings with people. A rich girl who had been spoiled since childhood didn't need this. Even the good friends she had taken into her protection only received a little more emotional attention than others, just a little bit. However, since Lu Yinbing had a good personality, was generous and loyal, and Lai Ying had an even bigger heart, the two of them got along well. Compared with her strengths, small flaws were nothing, so there were basically no conflicts when they were together.
Once the good friend is replaced by a good friend who likes her, it will be different. Lu Yinbing's little flaw becomes a fatal flaw. She doesn't know what feelings are, what it means to be moved, what it means to really like someone, and what it means to be considerate of someone. It's too hard to be with such a person.
In short, Lu Yinbing is suitable to be a friend but not a lover.
If possible, from a friend's perspective, she would persuade Xia Yitong to give up liking Lu Yinbing and choose someone else, so that life would be easier. But she couldn't do that, because these two people were her friends and they seemed to like each other. Xia Yitong's behavior was not like someone who would give up easily. She couldn't pour a basin of cold water on her friend when she just saw a glimmer of hope. This would not only cool down the other person's heart, but also the friendship between them.
What is a friend? It means that when she knows there is a tiger in the mountain but still wants to go there, you will go up to her and give the tiger medicine to knock it out. Even if the medicine doesn’t knock the tiger out, you will at least hit the tiger with a club to give your friend the best chance of taking down the tiger.
So Laiying planned to feed Lu Yinbing some "love potion" first.
As the saying goes, it is good to talk about things at the dinner table, because delicious food can make people feel better. Laiying called the hotel front desk and ordered more than half of the dishes on the menu. They were placed on the table, and they poured wine. They ate and talked.
As expected, Xia Yitong was inexplicably ignored by Lu Yinbing for the whole day. She was worried about what she had done wrong and was absent-minded when eating.
Fang Wei watched her put the empty chopsticks without any food in them into her mouth for the third time and made a chewing gesture. She sighed in her heart. Teacher Xia was now completely happy for Lu Yinbing and worried for Lu Yinbing.
Since she became Xia Yitong's assistant, she had to serve Xia Yitong wholeheartedly and became Xia Yitong's loyal fan. When Lu Yinbing treated Xia Yitong badly, her good impression of him plummeted. To be honest, after two months in the group, she didn't think Lu Yinbing was attractive. Except when he was acting, he exuded amazing charm and attracted her attention unconsciously. At other times, he was really just an ordinary person. At most, he looked better than ordinary people. His temper was much worse than Teacher Xia's. I don't know why Teacher Xia was obsessed with her.
This was the fifth time. Xia Yitong chewed the air in his mouth without touching the food in the bowl.
Fang Hui was about to speak: "Mr. Xia..."
Ding Dong—
The WeChat message alert sounded, suddenly bringing Xia Yitong back to her lost state. She dropped her chopsticks and picked up her phone like lightning. It was a WeChat message from Lu Yinbing: Eat well.
The corners of Xia Yitong's mouth curled up immediately. She typed in the input box, but before she sent it out, Lu Yinbing sent another picture. The room was set up like a buffet, with a wide variety of dishes on the table.
Maybe Teacher Lu and Laiying have something important to discuss? They have known each other for much longer than she has, so it is possible that it is inconvenient for her to be present. Thinking of this, Xia Yitong's previous depressed mood was swept away, and the corners of her mouth widened. She also took a picture of her dining table, added a filter, and sent it over.
Xia Yitong - I'll go back to my hotel room after dinner [shy]
Lu Yinbing—Okay.
After sending the message, Xia Yitong obediently lowered her head to eat. When she saw the word "da", she almost spit out a mouthful of rice. Imagining the tone of Lu Yinbing saying "da" with either a blank expression or a smile, Xia Yitong was so excited that she got goose bumps all over her body. If she said "mumu da", she might need a quick-acting heart-saving pill.
Fang Wei watched her artist's face change from slightly raised to a smile, to a mysterious shyness. She could guess who was sending the message with her toes. She felt that this was not good, but she had no position and knew that she could not persuade him.
If love can be controlled artificially, then it is not real love. Fang Hui, who is young but already a veteran in the love field, deeply understands this truth.
But she really felt uneasy in her heart. The more Xia Yitong seemed to care, the more worried she was that she would get hurt, because the person opposite her was Lu Yinbing.
Xia Yitong—Then I’ll eat, muah.
There was no reply from that end.
…
The hotel waiter put the dishes on the table and went out to close the door. Lu Yinbing sat down at one end and was about to start eating, but Lai Ying stopped him, "You, take out your phone and lend it to me."
"What for?" Lu Yinbing looked puzzled, but still handed it over.
"Do you have Xia Yitong's WeChat?"
"have."
"Can I send her a message?"
"What?"
Lu Yinbing watched Laiying type word by word: Eat well. She frowned and thought Laiying was boring: "That's it? She's so grown up, doesn't she know how to eat well?"
"That's it!" Lai Ying resisted the urge to flick Lu Yinbing's forehead and said unhappily, "Doesn't your mother know that you should eat well at your age? Wouldn't she still remind you to eat on time?"
"My mother knows that I'm busy and can't eat on time, so she usually doesn't talk about this."
"My mom, my mom is fine. I'm already married, but my mom still regularly asks me what I've eaten on WeChat morning and night."
Lu Yinbing laughed and said, "Aunt really cares about you. My mom would at most ask me when I'm coming home, and then ask me indirectly whether I have someone I like or whether I have plans to fall in love or something like that."
"..." He is so heartless even when talking to her about serious matters.
This approach was not feasible, so Lai Ying decided to go all out, poking his finger at Lu Yinbing's chest and complaining, "You ignored someone for a day today, what if that person is feeling down right now? You are enjoying your meal here, while others are having a hard time swallowing it. Miss Lu, don't you have a guilty conscience?!"
Lu Yinbing touched her heart and it was indeed a little painful, but she still said stubbornly, "Not really. I actually talked to her today, but we didn't interact as much as usual. I'll be back later and I'll apologize to her. Besides, normally if she ignores me for a day, I'll eat more because I'm angry."
Laiying stared at her, his eyes clearly asking, "How dare you say that? Xia Yitong is so weak and limp. If she dares to ignore you for a whole day, you'd better go up to the roof and tear off the tiles, and then come down and hit her on the head!"
Laiying asked, "Will you send it?"
Lu Yinbing lowered his head under her angry gaze and whispered guiltily, "Send it, send it now."
Before they finished sending the dishes, Laiying said, "It's not sincere enough. Send this dish over again."
Lu Yinbing was puzzled: "Wouldn't this be irritating? She eats very simply when she's alone, wouldn't she be so greedy when she sees me posting this?"
She is still thinking in the way of a friend. Laiying almost kneels down to her train of thought. She likes you and is so happy to see you sharing her meal. How can she be so greedy that she wants to die
She really wanted to grab Lu Yinbing's shoulders and shake her hard to see if she could wake her up and pour the water out of her head.
Laiying was angry and anxious, but suddenly she thought of a clever idea and said angrily, "Then you will make her greedy to death!"
These words hit the mark exactly what Lu Yinbing wanted, so he took a photo and sent it over without hesitation!
Laiying was as tired as someone who had been killing enemies for three days and three nights, and finally he let out a long breath.
So there was the WeChat conversation between Xia Yitong and Lu Yinbing. At this moment, Xia Yitong was immersed in the joy of the goddess taking the initiative to care about her. She ate up the food in the bowl in a few bites and set off on the journey back to the hotel.
While sitting in the car on the way, I wanted to stick my head out of the sunroof and sing a song several times, but I was afraid that it would make the entertainment headlines the next day, so I held back and just hummed a slow song in the back seat of the car.
For the first time, Fang Hui discovered that Xia Yitong’s singing was so beautiful.
"Teacher Xia, have you ever studied music?" Fang Hui asked in surprise after singing a song.
"I've learned it before." Xia Yitong smiled at her, revealing his neat white teeth. His face was sunny and bright, and he looked indescribably high-spirited.
Sometimes not knowing the truth is actually a blessing.