The warm yellow light from outside poured in, and it dyed Duan Jia Xu's face with different shades of light. The eyelashes cast light shadows under his eyes, and the color of the pupils is light, naturally gentle.
He coughed lightly, as if holding back a laugh, and hummed deeply.
Sang Zhi added stiffly: "You should hang up."
"Wait a minute." Sang Yan's voice became softer, sounding unpredictable, "Duan Jiaxu, are you older than me?"
Duan Jiaxu said calmly, "What?"
Sang Yan: "My sister's boyfriend is also older than me."
"Yeah." Duan Jiaxu turned the steering wheel without moving his eyelids. "It's as big as me."
A moment of silence.
Sang Yan seemed to laugh angrily: "Don't tell me—"
As if guessing what he said next, Sang Zhi's scalp went numb, and she didn't have the courage to confess for a while. She hurriedly interrupted: "No, absolutely not. Brother, what are you thinking!"
Sang Yan said coldly, "If I say something, you can say no."
Sang Zhi reluctantly calmed down and said angrily, "If you say that, who can't guess what you are going to say?"
Sang Yan: "You two go out to eat together?"
Sang Zhi said confidently, "Yeah, I'm going to invite Brother Xu for dinner on his birthday. I can't be like you, with no feelings at all. I'm ashamed to say that the gift I bought was from you."
Duan Jiaxu quietly listened to the quarrel between the two siblings.
Sang Yan mocked: "What's the birthday of the lords, hypocritical."
"… "
She also seemed to think that her guess was outrageous, so Sang Yan didn't mention what happened just now: "Then you two can eat. Also, kid, remember to go back to school early. I'm dead."
The car fell silent for a moment.
I don't know if it was Sang Zhi's psychological effect. Without Sang Yan's voice, for a while, she felt that the awkward atmosphere had risen to the top.
Sang Zhi pretended to be dead in her seat, playing with her cell phone.
According to what the two of them just said, it should be what she said to Sang Yan every time, and then he turned his head and told Duan Jia Xu. The old man pretended not to know anything in front of her.
It is estimated that she jokes in her heart every day for her pretentiousness.
bother! people! Refined!
really.
Soon.
Duan Jiaxu had doubts in his words and said slowly, "What boyfriend?"
Sang Zhi didn't want to lose her momentum, so she sat up straight and explained seriously: "What I told my brother was that we might be about to fall in love, but I didn't say that we already talked."
He chuckled lightly: "Graduate student?"
"… "
Duan Jiaxu: "Is it too late for me to take the exam now?"
Sang Zhi felt ashamed and continued to play dead.
"If you don't take the test, what will you say to your brother in the future?" Duan Jiaxu raised his tone slightly, his tone was not serious, "Say you didn't succeed with that graduate student boyfriend, but did with me, okay?"
Sang Zhi held back for a long time before saying, "Where did I become with you?"
Duan Jia smiled, "It's a showdown with your brother, and you still don't admit that you mean that to me?"
Sang Zhi: "Can't I really like a graduate student?"
Hearing this, Duan Jiaxu raised his eyebrows and said leisurely, "I really only have a bachelor's degree."
"… "
Every word implies.
The person you like, even if the appearance, age, background, and background you describe do not match me.
That person is still me.
So you can only describe it wrong.
Sang Zhi stared straight at him, suddenly a little dejected, and said in a low voice, "Did you know this long ago?"
Duan Jiaxu glanced at her, "What do you know?"
Sang Zhi didn't say a word.
While waiting for the red light, Duan Jia Xu glanced in her direction again.
She lowered her head, the corners of her lips pulled down slightly, her eyelids drooped, she couldn't tell what she was thinking, but she could clearly feel that she was a little unhappy.
It's so obvious.
He had to act like he didn't notice.
Duan Jiaxu thought it was funny: "I'm asking you something serious."
Sang Zhi whispered, "What?"
Duan Jiaxu: "It really doesn't mean anything to me?"
Sang Zhi turned to look at him, her brows slightly relaxed. After being silent for a few seconds, she looked out the window, and this time she finally relaxed and said vaguely, "A little bit."
"Row."
Sang Zhi's tone was weird: "That's how you react."
Duan Jiaxu: "Huh?"
"Why don't you tell me," Sang Zhi also felt a little hypocritical, and muttered, "I am interested in you, but I don't agree, I wait for you to chase me every day."
"Didn't you say there's only one point?" Duan Jia Xu didn't care much, thinking of reasons for her, "That's probably not the point where we can be together."
Sang Zhi didn't speak.
The car unknowingly arrived at a supermarket near Duan Jiaxu's house. He found a spot to park and joked, "We're only dating for the first time, and we have a lot of concerns, my brother understands."
Sang Zhi couldn't help but say, "What if I always disagree?"
Duan Jiaxu unfastened her seat belt for her, raised her eyebrows and said, "Then you should wait for your brother to chase you every day."
"… "
Duan Jiaxu pondered for a while, then said with a light smile, "It is estimated that you will only have this love affair in your entire life."
Sang Zhi didn't deny it, her expression was a little uncomfortable.
Duan Jiaxu's eyes fell, and he looked at her, his eyes curved into beautiful crescent moons. Then, he opened his mouth, his voice was very soft, as if to coax her: "So, other little girls have-"
"… "
"We just have to."
The two entered the supermarket.
Duan Jiaxu's purpose was to buy some vegetables and meat, so he made dinner at home. He went in the direction of the fresh food area, but Sang Zhi didn't follow him and went to the snack area to grab a bunch of food on his own.
Then throw it into the shopping cart back to him.
Back and forth several times.
When Sang Zhi appeared in front of Duan Jia Xu for the fourth time, most of the items in the shopping cart were already filled, and she basically picked them all. He put the box of chicken wings he just took into the shopping cart, and said casually, "Are you going to stay at my house?"
Sang Zhi choked: "I bought it for you."
Duan Jiaxu took the jelly from her hand: "Bought it for me?"
"When you are greedy, you can eat it. If you don't eat it, you can leave it. I'll help you eat it when I have time." Sang Zhi said cheekily, "I also like to eat this, so I won't waste it. "
Duan Jiaxu laughed, "Also?"
"Why." Sang Zhi said arrogantly, "I haven't seen you eat snacks, and I don't know what you like to eat, so I can only use what I like to eat."
Duan Jiaxu lowered his eyes, glanced around, and commented, "What little girl eats."
Sang Zhi was quiet for two seconds, and said reluctantly, "Then I'll put it back."
Duan Jiaxu pushed the cart and walked towards the vegetable area: "What are you putting it back for?"
Sang Zhi followed him like a little tail and muttered, "Didn't you say this is what the little girl eats?"
Duan Jiaxu said calmly, "Well, my family just raised one."
Sang Zhi was stunned for a moment, her footsteps stopped instantly, her ears were inexplicably hot, and she quickly followed. She didn't go to the snack area anymore, and followed Duan Jiaxu to pick vegetables.
Duan Jiaxu raised his eyelids and asked her, "Aren't you picking up snacks?"
Sang Zhi: "I don't have anything to buy."
"Then go to checkout?"
"Um."
Sang Zhi looked at the contents in the shopping cart and asked, "Brother Jiaxu, can you cook?"
Duan Jia Xu: "A little bit."
Sang Zhi thought for a while: "I'll cook you a longevity noodle later."
"You still cook this?"
"..." Sang Zhi said innocently, "Boil the water and then throw the noodles down, won't it be over?"
Duan Jiaxu's brows twitched, "That's delicious?"
"It's not just a ritual, where is the taste." Sang Zhi thought it was reasonable, and turned around and walked in the other direction, "You go to the queue first, and I'll buy longevity noodles."
"… "
After leaving the supermarket, the two returned to Duan Jiaxu's residence.
Afraid that the cake would be broken, Sang Zhi put on the indoor slippers and put the cake box in the refrigerator. Duan Jiaxu sorted out the things he just bought, and then went into the kitchen to wash and cook rice.
Sang Zhi followed to help.
Duan Jia Xu: "Are you hungry?"
Sang Zhi shook his head: "It's okay."
Duan Jiaxu washed a box of cherry tomatoes, stuffed one into her mouth, and gave her the fruit bowl in his hand: "Hold this and go out and watch TV for a while."
Sang Zhi refused: "I'm here to make you longevity noodles."
She took out her mobile phone and looked up recipes online: "You make yours, leave me alone."
"… "
Staring at her serious appearance, Duan Jia Xu didn't stop him any more, the corners of his lips curled up, and he couldn't help laughing a few times.
The two of them did their own things, Sang Zhi only took up the induction cooker in the kitchen, and occasionally used a cutting board and a knife. Duan Jiaxu wanted to come over to help, and she would be very unhappy and chased away.
It doesn't take long to cook noodles.
But Sang Zhi has never been a cook, and since childhood, he has never even cooked instant noodles. She lingered for a long time, and she was careful when chopping vegetables, lest she see blood on this good day.
When the rice was cooked and Duan Jiaxu's three dishes and one soup were ready, Sang Zhi was extremely embarrassed to finish a bowl of longevity noodles that didn't seem to taste very good.
Sang Zhi had never tasted it herself, so she put her face in front of Duan Jiaxu nervously.
Duan Jiaxu's eyes narrowed slightly, "The rice is ready for you, let's eat now."
Sang Zhi couldn't imagine the taste of this noodle, and hesitated: "Don't eat this noodle, just treat it as a ritual. Just, I heard from my classmates that you all seem to be cooking this on your birthday..."
Duan Jia said warmly, "I'll try it. If it doesn't taste good, I won't eat it, okay?"
Sang Zhi sat down on the chair and reluctantly agreed, "Okay."
The small living room, with cool white lighting, looks extremely warm.
Sang Zhi took a bite of the meal and kept her eyes fixed on Duan Jia Xu, wanting to see his expression after eating the noodles. She watched him pick up the noodles, put it in her mouth, and chew it gently.
His expression didn't change much.
After a while, Duan Jiaxu smiled and said, "It's still delicious."
Sang Zhi didn't believe it at all, and asked suspiciously, "Is it true or false?"
Duan Jiaxu hummed.
Sang Zhi: "Then I'll take a bite too."
Duan Jiaxu raised his eyebrows, "Indirect kissing?"
"..." Sang Zhi said without words, "I'll eat with a new pair of chopsticks."
"No," Duan Jia Xu gently refused, "Don't take advantage of your brother."
"… "
After the meal, Sang Zhi took the cake out of the refrigerator. She took off the packaging bag containing the candles and said with a smile, "Brother Jiaxu, take out the cake yourself, there are words on it."
Duan Jiaxu tore out the cake and recited, "I wish the twenty-six-year-old Duan Jiaxu a happy birthday."
Sang Zhi blinked: "I even asked the clerk for an extra pack of candles."
"Oh, that's right." Sang Zhi picked up another plastic bag, "This store also offers birthday hats, you can put them on."
Duan Jiaxu laughed, "What is it?"
Sang Zhi glanced at him and put it on his head: "This shape is like a crown, you will be a Duan Queen today."
"Huh?" Duan Jiaxu laughed and said, "Why not Princess Duan."
Sang Zhi hit him: "How can you be a princess at your age?"
The word "twenty-six" was already written on the cake, but Sang Zhi didn't insist on putting in twenty-six candles. She lit the candle, sang the birthday song to him according to the procedure, and then said seriously, "Make a wish."
Duan Jiaxu thought for a while, then said in a low voice, "It will be like this next year."
Then he blew out the candle.
Before Sang Zhi could react, his eyes were plunged into darkness: "What's the matter?"
Duan Jiaxu got up and turned on the light, and he said, "Next year, you will also come to pick me up for my birthday."
"What kind of wish is that? Then I can't pretend that I don't know your birthday." Sang Zhi felt that his wish was a little inexplicable, and handed him the prepared gift, "A gift for you."
Duan Jiaxu took it, peach blossom eyes raised, "Thank you."
After a few seconds of silence, Sang Zhi paused, and suddenly thought of a possibility. She raised her head and said dryly, "Brother Jiaxu, let me ask you something."
"Um?"
"If, I mean if, we are really together, and if it doesn't feel right, then we break up." Sang Zhi asked softly, "I shouldn't contact again after that."
Hearing this, Duan Jia Xu's eyelids moved.
Soon, Sang Zhi reacted and felt that it was inappropriate to say such a thing on this occasion, and quickly added: "I'll just ask casually."
Duan Jiaxu cut the cake and said in a clear and clear voice, "Can't you trust me?"
"..." Sang Zhi was quiet, "No."
Duan Jiaxu: "Is it because my usual appearance is too serious?"
Sang Zhi didn't say a word.
Duan Jiaxu laughed instead, "It seems so."
Sang Zhi said indifferently, "I didn't mean it that way."
"Sang Zhi, if you think we'll be separated in the future, it's really inappropriate. If you don't agree, I can't force you." Duan Jia Xu lowered his eyes and looked at her, "But if you agree, if And about the breakup—"
"… "
His voice stopped, his eyes were slightly hooked, and he smiled like a monster: "Have you ever seen my brother lose his temper?"
Sang Zhi grabbed the corner of her clothes with her palm and looked up at him.
Duan Jia Xu lowered his voice and pinched her face affectionately.
"It's scary."
This topic ends here.
After that, Duan Jiaxu didn't mention it again, and Sang Zhi pretended that he hadn't asked about it. It's like a small episode that doesn't make much splash, no one cares.
Seeing that it was almost time, Duan Jia Xu sent Sang Zhi back to school.
After Sang Zhi finished washing, she returned to her seat and continued to do her own thing. Her mind was a little empty, and she couldn't concentrate, thinking back to the idea that suddenly came to her.
She actually knew exactly what her concerns were.
Sang Zhi was not worried at all, Duan Jiaxu would treat her badly.
She knew what kind of person he was.
But she would worry that he might not like her for a long time.
Even if he didn't like it, Duan Jia Xu would most likely not break up with her, and would only treat the relationship between the two of them as a kind of responsibility.
It will evolve into a result that is painful for both parties.
Is it really that she is too hypocritical.
Sang Zhi had clearly been looking forward to this incident with him for a long time, but when it really was about to happen, he felt that he was worrying about gains and losses, and was extremely uneasy.
Uneasy, I have no courage to connect.
Sang Zhi tried her best to put aside these thoughts, and still got along with Duan Jiaxu in the same way as before. Many times, she finally made up her mind and planned to be with him, but she took it back when she got to her lips.
Duan Jiaxu seemed to sense something was wrong with her, so he came to see her a lot more than before.
Sang Zhi didn't know how to tell him what she thought.
After all, she was unwilling to tell him that she had liked him since she was thirteen years old.
She also doesn't know how she can stop trying to get into this bullshit.
In a blink of an eye, May is coming to an end.
After Friday was over, at seven o'clock in the evening, Sang Zhi made an appointment with the people from the department to go out to dinner. She was talking with a girl in the department holding hands, and as soon as she left the school gate, she noticed Jiang Ying standing under the tree.
Sang Zhi was stunned, staring at her suspiciously.
Just in line with her eyes.
Soon, Sang Zhi withdrew her gaze, she didn't have the idea that she was here to find her, she just felt inexplicable. She continued chatting with friends in the department and walked to a barbecue restaurant outside the school.
At this time, and tomorrow is the weekend, there are not many people in the store.
Someone in the department came to take a seat in advance, and Sang Zhi walked over and sat down. After a while, she noticed that a table for two had been cleared, and then there was only one customer seated.
It's Jiang Ying.
Look up again.
Sang Zhi looked at her hesitantly, and only at this moment did she feel that Jiang Ying was here specifically to find her.
But what did Jiang Ying come to her for
And how did she know she was here.
Sang Zhi couldn't figure it out, and didn't care about her anymore, she lowered her head and drank the water from the cup.
Jiang Ying seemed to be just here for dinner, and didn't take the initiative to trouble her. But from time to time, his eyes were placed on her body, and he looked at her a little, which made people feel uncomfortable.
Sang Zhi simply changed positions with the friend on the opposite side, and gradually forgot the existence of this person.
After dinner, Sang Zhi got up and went to the bathroom. She just wanted to come in to wash her hands, put on makeup, and nothing else.
Before she could reach the sink, she followed the mirror and saw Jiang Ying who came in. Sang Zhi glanced at her, said nothing, and squeezed some hand sanitizer into her hands.
Jiang Ying took out the lipstick from her bag, and she said, "Are you Duan Jiaxu's new partner?"
Sang Zhi didn't say a word.
"Yes, college students are really easy to deceive." Jiang Ying said with a smile, "I just met you here, so let me remind you that he has been on blind dates hundreds of times before, do you know why they can't get along?"
Sang Zhi said blankly, "It's not just right, you just came to me to say these words."
"I don't want to see a little girl like you go astray?" Jiang Ying said calmly, "Did you know that he has a vegetative father who is still lying in the hospital?"
Sang Zhi's movements stopped.
"It seems that he never mentioned it to you at all." Noticing her reaction, Jiang Ying's lips curled up, "Let me tell you another secret, his father was still a beast who killed people while drinking and driving."
"… "
"You have to pay nearly 100,000 medical expenses a year to keep a beast," Jiang Ying said. "Which girl is so rich that she can live with him, and she doesn't even have a house."
Only then did Sang Zhi raise her head, completely unaffected by these words, she said, "I have money."
"..." Obviously she couldn't believe her reaction, Jiang Ying's expression instantly turned ugly, "His father killed someone, he was a murderer, didn't you hear?"
Sang Zhi spoke slowly: "Then I'm going to marry his father?"
"… "
Sang Zhi didn't want to stay with her anymore, not even in the mood to touch up her makeup, so she took out a piece of paper and went out.
Jiang Ying could no longer maintain her apparent calm, and slammed her lipstick on her body: "You don't understand human language? Is there something wrong with your brain? Can't you understand when you're talking to you?"
The lipstick is small in size and doesn't hurt to hit the body.
But instantly ignited Sang Zhi's anger.
Sang Zhi's eyes drooped, staring at the lipstick rolling on the ground, then looked up at her again. She sneered, tore off the bag from her body, and threw it hard on Jiang Ying's face. She moved her neck, and said in a very impolite tone: "Who is used to you being stinky."
"… "
Jiang Ying took a step back after being smashed. After being silent for a few seconds, she smiled instead: "Who do you think is used to it?"
"… "
"Duan Jiaxu."
Stalemate for a moment.
Sang Zhi's eyes were dark, and she stared straight at her: "Auntie, if you are really used to it, you still use it to find me today?"
"… "
"You have the spare time to do this kind of thing," Sang Zhi picked up the bag on the ground and said in a mean tone, "Why don't you spend some time on maintenance, otherwise you and Duan Jiaxu stand together, I thought you belonged to his mother. friends."
After that, she went out of the toilet.
Jiang Ying was on fire and immediately followed her out. She grabbed Sang Zhi's arm and raised her hand, shaking with anger.
It happened that Liang Jun also came to use the toilet. Seeing this situation, he was stunned for a moment, and immediately grabbed Sang Zhi's hand, protected him behind him, and shouted angrily, "What are you doing?!"
"… "
Jiang Ying didn't say a word, she stared at Sang Zhi, and turned back to her position after a while.
Liang Jun asked a few questions, and Sang Zhi vaguely made up a few reasons. She also returned to her seat, absently glanced at her phone, and what Jiang Ying had just said kept echoing in her mind.
After the game was over, the people in the department decided to go to a nearby Qing bar to play the game.
Sang Zhi had no objection, and followed a piece. But she couldn't concentrate, and inexplicably recalled the picture of Duan Jiaxu smoking alone on the balcony the night he stayed at her house.
I remembered his sentence: "Xiao Sangzhi will make money in the future to buy herself a nice dress to wear."
Reminds me of his part-time jobs one after another when he was in college.
I remembered that he didn't go to the hospital when he was sick, and that he spent the holidays alone.
Thinking of his recent life, his life seems to be brighter.
She remembered that he rolled his eyes, indulgently, and said to her with a smile, "What other little girls have, we just have to have them."
The level that has been difficult to pass, seems to be suddenly enlightened at this moment. Sang Zhi's brain suddenly became hot, she stood up suddenly, and said goodbye to the others: "I have something to do, I'll go first."
When they were downstairs at Duan Jiaxu's house, someone happened to open the door downstairs.
Sang Zhi followed him in, his mind went blank, got into the elevator, went up to the floor of Duan Jiaxu's house, and then stood at the door of his house. She exhaled and rang the doorbell.
The door was quickly opened.
Duan Jiaxu seemed to have just finished taking a shower, his hair was still dripping with water, and his body had a very strong mint aroma. His expression was a little stunned, as if he didn't expect her to come over at this point.
Staring at her expression, Duan Jia Xu bent down and asked hesitantly, "Why are you here?"
Sang Zhi also stared at him and didn't answer his question, as if he was impulsive, but also as if he had endured the words for a long time and finally said it, and came out with an unusually straightforward sentence: "Can you always like me?"
Anyway, I was the one who liked you first.
I used to like you more.
So I want to be with you all the time.
Even if you don't really like me anymore.
I don't seem to be at a loss either.
Duan Jiaxu still didn't react, and even had the feeling that he had fallen asleep and had a dream. He lowered his eyes and said his thoughts subconsciously: "Yes."
Sang Zhi sniffed: "Then—"
"Wait a minute," Duan Jia Xu smiled, "what are you doing?"
Before Sang Zhi could speak again, Duan Jia Xu grabbed her by the wrist and pulled her into the house: "Come in first."
"… "
"Tell me," Duan Jiaxu said patiently, "what's the matter?"
"I just think today is suitable." Sang Zhi whispered, "So I don't want to wait."
Duan Jia Xu's breathing stopped, and then he realized that she didn't seem to be joking: "Drinking?"
Sang Zhi: "No."
Duan Jiaxu: "Agree to stay with me?"
"Um."
Silence for a few seconds.
Duan Jiaxu suddenly squeezed her chin and lifted her face up. His eyes were deep, staring at her clear and tense eyes, his Adam's apple rolled up and down, and confirmed again: "Have you thought about it?"
Sang Zhi didn't look away, stared at him, and hummed again.
Finally got a positive answer.
The close distance, the ambiguous atmosphere that is constantly heating up, is like a scene like a dream. Duan Jia Xu's eyes darkened as he stared at her lips, and suddenly opened his mouth, "Open your mouth."
Sang Zhi didn't react, she snorted and opened her lips.
The next moment, his voice fell.
With an extremely warm and warm touch.
"Brother taught you how to kiss."