At around eight o'clock, the four of them finished their meal and left the restaurant.
It was rare to see each other, so Lu Chen naturally wanted to stay a little longer. After Cheng Xiao asked for a meal, he estimated the time and ordered four movie tickets.
The movie started at 8:30, and there was still more than 20 minutes left in the middle. After going up to the sixth floor together, Cheng Xiao was attracted by the two rows of massage chairs in the ticket hall, smiled and said to Ruan Yue: "It seems that it will take a while, otherwise Shall we try that?"
Ruan Yue looked over, "There are only two vacancies left."
"You two go, I'll leave with Brother Shen."
Li Shiyu said quickly.
Ruan Yue was dragged by Cheng Xiao to get a massage.
The remaining two boys have nothing to do.
Li Shiyu walked to one side and sat on a high stool to pass the time. Lu Chen looked around for a week, went to the snack area, scanned the QR code and bought popcorn and coke.
Looking up, he saw that Ruan Yue and Cheng Xiao couldn't sit next to each other. He put two popcorns in front of Li Shiyu, took a glass of Coke, and went to Ruan Yue's side.
Ruan Yue chose for 20 minutes, and was just starting to press when suddenly there was another person beside her.
Lu Chen handed the Coke to her mouth, "Take a sip?"
The heating in the shopping mall is too high, and the more you stay, the more bored you are. Ruan Yue didn't take off her hat when she was eating, and she didn't drink much. Until now, her face is pale and red, and her lips are also red because of eating spicy food.
The straw came to her mouth, she lowered her head and took a sip.
After she finished drinking, Lu Chen held the Coke and leaned on the massage chair where she was half lying down. With one hand hanging down, he naturally held her hand and played with it.
Ruan Yue's figure was ups and downs due to the force of the massage, she didn't feel anything before, but when Lu Chen came, she felt inexplicably ashamed, pulled off her down jacket to cover her body tightly.
The sudden action made Lu Chen chuckle, "What should be seen and what should not be seen, have already finished watching, okay?"
"Why don't you leave Li Shiyu there alone?"
I don't want to pay attention to his dirty words, Ruan Yue reminded.
Lu Chen said "oh", "playing games," he turned sideways, and asked Ruan Yue, "Is it comfortable?"
"fine."
"After that we got married and bought one for our family."
Ruan Yue was taken aback by this casual sentence.
After being together, she never thought about marrying Lu Chen. Previously, he was used as a life-saving straw, and the days were counted from day to day. Hearing what he said so suddenly at this moment, she couldn't help thinking along with his words, and felt sincerely: if they want to get married, there is quite a lot of resistance.
She was thinking wildly, until she entered the cinema, she was a little absent-minded.
Lu Chen didn't buy a joint ticket for the four of them. Cheng Xiao and Li Shiyu sat in the middle of the front row, and he and Ruan Yue sat in the middle of the last row.
A few minutes after the opening, he stretched out a hand from Ruan Yue's back, clasped her shoulders, and pulled her into his arms.
When her cheek rubbed against his chin, Ruan Yue felt a slight, needle-like itching.
Most of her attention was on the movie, she didn't raise her head, raised a hand to touch it, and said in a low voice: "You should shave your beard."
Lu Chen gave a "hmm", and deliberately rubbed his chin against her cheek again. He didn't take what was happening on the screen, he didn't take it to heart at all, he hugged her for a while, then turned her face again, wanting to kiss her.
Ruan Yue pushed him, "Can you be more serious?"
"honestly… "
Lu Chen's voice almost fell into the dust, "I won't go back at night, huh?"
At this point on Christmas Eve, the movie theater was almost full.
Although the two of them were behind, there were people sitting around them.
The light was dim, and no one could see clearly, but Lu Chen's voice touched her ears, and Ruan Yue felt guilty. She buckled the seat with one hand, struggling, and wanted to leave his embrace.
But Lu Chen seems to be fighting her...
Neither of them remembered what happened after the movie.
For two hours, Ruan Yue was focused on fighting wits and courage with Lu Chen—he held her shoulders, and she pressed his arm under her elbow; At the end of the show, Ruan Yue was almost full of anger.
She really doesn't like being intimate on such occasions for others to see.
As soon as she left the shopping mall, she and Cheng Xiao went to take the subway.
It was snowing outside, and it was getting late. Lu Chen was worried about the two girls, so he and Li Shiyu followed them to the subway.
In the carriage, Ruan Yue held the ring with one hand and stood facing Cheng Xiao.
Li Shiyu sized her up for a while, then lowered his voice and asked Lu Chen, "What's wrong? Are you having trouble?"
Lu Chen glanced at him, but didn't speak.
After leaving the shopping mall, he was blown by the cold wind, and his mind cleared up a lot. It feels like being in a movie theater is a bit too much.
Ruan Yue wasn't the kind of girl who could let go. He blamed him. He had kissed her twice before, so he thought the atmosphere of the movie theater was interesting.
The four of them walked out of the subway awkwardly without saying a few words along the way.
Li Shiyu and Cheng Xiao wisely walked to the front together, leaving the young couple behind.
Seeing that Ruan Yue was about to leave, Lu Chen quickly grabbed her arm, lowered his head and asked, "Are you still angry?"
"No, you go back early."
"Christmas gift."
Lu Chen took out a small square box from his trouser pocket and stuffed it into her pocket, coaxing, "It's my fault, don't be angry, huh? I just..."
He looked annoyed and depressed, pondered for a long time, hugged Ruan Yue into his arms, lowered his head and said, "I've been holding it in for a long time, I really want it. Baby, can you be considerate?"
Ruan Yue's face was ashamed and angry, "...don't say it."
Lu Chen shut his mouth suddenly, seeing that she didn't seem to be so angry, he breathed a sigh of relief, and then continued pitifully: "From now on, will it depend on your mood? Just a little, don't treat me like this again. You don't know , I am particularly afraid of seeing you like this..."
He hugged her arm tightly, and didn't know what to think, his body trembled a little, "This period of time is a bit like a dream. This dream is so good, I almost forget the feeling of getting along with you before, Ruan Yue , please, be nicer to me, as long as you keep smiling at me, you can ask me to do anything."
The sad emotions appeared almost instantly.
Ruan Yue hugged him tightly.
The two hugged for a while in the ice and snow, and Lu Chen heard her say: "Don't you want to take the public exam next year? Prepare well first, and when you finish the exam, we..."
She didn't continue what she said, but Lu Chen understood.
He lowered his head to see her face, and Ruan Yue just let him go. She lowered her head, took out a beautifully wrapped small gift box from the small bag she was carrying, stuffed it into his hand, and said, "This is for you." Christmas present. Happy Christmas Eve."
She raised her face and said solemnly: "No matter why we are together. Now I, I really hope to spend all the Christmas, Spring Festival, and Valentine's Day with you in the future... Lu Chen, don't worry too much about gain and loss, and I don't need How successful you have to be, as long as you are always the same as you have been recently, work hard, work hard, and have plans and arrangements for the future, so that I can see the hope of living together, I will... "
Ruan Yue paused, "I love you."
After saying those three words, her heart was suddenly empty.
What a relief.
When did you fall in love with Lu Chen
She couldn't really tell.
It's just that when she woke up from that long dream, when she recalled the pain and intimacy of the past over and over again, she finally realized——
She was not willing to lose him.
…
Near twelve o'clock, Ruan Yue and Cheng Xiao entered the community.
In order to wait for him, Cheng Xiao and Li Shiyu chatted awkwardly in the snow for more than half an hour. As soon as they entered the door, they asked her extremely curiously: "What do couples talk about when they are together?"
Ruan Yue was a little dazed, and heard her say "ah".
Cheng Xiao sighed, "It's hopeless."
Ruan Yue sighed.
She felt that the topic of love was quite unreasonable.
At the movie theater, she was embarrassed and angry because Lu Chen kept moving his hands and feet, but when Lu Chen leaned over to kiss her just after saying those three words, she couldn't refuse.
crazy.
Feeling that she was abnormal, Cheng Xiao stopped asking.
After a while, the two arrived home.
She took the key to open the door and turned on the porch light. When Ruan Yue lowered her head to change her shoes, she found Zhao Bingzhi's daytime shoes dumped by the shoe cabinet.
Faintly, she smelled a little alcohol.
"came back?"
Zhao Bingzhi's voice in the dark startled both her and Cheng Xiao.
After Ruan Yue changed her shoes, she walked into the living room, only to find that Zhao Bingzhi had not turned on the lights, was wearing a sweater and trousers, and was sitting on the single sofa in the living room.
She was a little surprised, walked over and asked, "Mom, why haven't you slept yet?"
Zhao Bingzhi got up with one hand on the armrest, "Going to sleep."
Ruan Yue held her arm, the smell of alcohol at the end of her nose became stronger, she was startled, and asked hesitantly: "Why are you drinking?"
"Drink a little."
The two walked to the door of the master bedroom, Zhao Bingzhi twitched his arm, and said in a tired voice, "It's getting late, go to bed early."
After saying that, she stepped into the master bedroom.
Leaning against the head of the bed, the scene that happened upstairs more than an hour ago came to mind again.
Yan Shuning kissed her.
Thoughts were in a mess, Zhao Bingzhi simply closed her eyelids, as if closing her eyes, that face would disappear from her eyes, and her life would return to tranquility.
In the next room, Ruan Yue felt a little insomnia.
After lying on the bed, she took out her mobile phone and found that the text message from Lu Chen had filled the screen of the dialogue between the two of them.
[I love you too.]
[It's only been a few minutes since we separated, and I miss you again.]
[I was a little silly just now, and I didn't tell you immediately: Ruan Yue, that night, when I saw you standing at the intersection, I knew I loved you.]
[I used to think that if time went back to that day, I would never go to you anyway, because you made me not know myself after being together for more than a year. But thinking about it now, I feel that no matter how many times I go back in time, I cannot escape this fate.]
[Being together for so long, I have been living in the fear of losing you, every day with you seems to be stolen.]
…
Ruan Yue never thought that Lu Chen would have such an emotional side.
She read all the words he sent word by word, was silent for a long while, and replied: [From now on, I will always treat you well.]
That night, the two chatted on WeChat until four o'clock in the morning.
In a mess, a lot of words were said.
From the memories of kindergarten to the trivial things in life recently, I have said everything that can be said, just like a friend who just met and hit it off, wishing to compile a book of my life, line by line, and point it out to the other party See, let him see you inside out.
Ruan Yue even talked about Fu Zhixing, Lu Chen listened quietly for a long time, and asked her in a low voice: "Do you want me to be jealous of him?"
Ruan Yue smiled at this end.
All the unwillingness that I had before gradually disappeared in these smiles.
The snow in late December fell intermittently until the beginning of January. Because the weather was too cold, Ruan Yue didn't go out much afterwards.
In mid-January, she caught a cold, and she didn't take the medicine. She spent two days in the hospital on a bottle, and after she fully recovered, the Spring Festival was ushered in.
This is a very special Spring Festival for people all over the country.
During the first month, TV and the Internet were flooded with the latest news about the epidemic. Ruan Yue and Zhao Bingzhi were unable to visit their relatives, and stayed at home 24 hours a day. Like many people they knew, they lived a life almost isolated from the world. .
Fortunately, the mother and daughter are not too lively, they go out to buy food once a few days, usually eat and sleep at home, do not affect each other, and read books separately.
On the seventh day of the first lunar month, the hospital was closed, and Zhao Bingzhi started to go to work. Because the provincial women and children were set up as one of the isolation points for patients, she began to reduce the number of times she went home. Around the Lantern Festival, she accepted Yan Shuning's proposal and moved to the guest bedroom on the second floor.
Both of them are on the front line of the fight against the epidemic. They usually go out early and return late, busy, and tacitly did not mention the kiss on Christmas Eve.
Time passed day by day in this seemingly calm but turbulent state. During the two months of isolation at home, Ruan Yue's cooking skills were forced to advance by leaps and bounds, and her postgraduate entrance examination progress was also steadily advancing. Life seemed to be orderly and orderly. It seems that something has been missing.
She called Lu Chen every day, but felt that she had never missed him so much.
Maybe in response to that sentence, distance produces beauty.
City A's policy was gradually relaxed in mid-March.
It was a sunny afternoon, when Ruan Yue walked out of the house, she looked up and saw that the magnolias in the garden were in full bloom, standing on the branches energetically.
She walked through the cobblestone path of the community, walked briskly all the way to the side of the street, and saw Lu Chen saying in WeChat: [In five minutes, we will arrive at the main entrance of your community.]