The evening breeze was blowing, Yu Xi was sitting in the car with the air conditioner on low, she didn't wear a coat but she didn't feel cold, Zhong Chen turned to look at her from time to time, but only saw her solemn face, and occasionally lowered her eyes, wondering what she was thinking .
Ever since she just called Boss Jiang, she has been very silent, not saying a word.
Seeing that he was about to arrive at the apartment, Zhong Chen finally couldn't hold back and asked, "Xixi, what's wrong with you?"
Yu Xi regained consciousness and said, "It's okay."
She leaned on the back of the chair: "when will it be?"
Zhong Chen looked ahead: "There are still a few minutes, if you are tired, take a rest first, and I will call you when you arrive."
Yu Xi nodded invisibly, Zhong Chen could barely see the outline of her facial features in the dark car, his eyes were closed just now, his head was tilted to one side, with long hair covering his side face, Zhong Chen didn't know her Are you sleeping
The car was very quiet for a while, only the occasional whistle could be heard outside the window.
Yu Xi didn't fall asleep, she was thinking about what she said to Teacher Cheng, and Jiang Jingbai's transformation during that time, before she could figure it out, she heard Zhong Chen's voice: "Xixi, we're here."
As she spoke, she turned on the lights in the car, Yu Xi sat up straight, opened the car door and got out.
Zhong Chen originally wanted to follow, but Yu Xi turned her head: "Go back early."
"Come and pick me up tomorrow morning."
Zhong Chen sat in the car: "Can you go up alone?"
Yu Xi smiled: "Don't worry, it's fine."
Zhong Chen had no choice but to nod: "Then I'm leaving, you should rest early."
Yu Xi still smiled lightly: "It's long-winded."
Zhong Chen sat back in the car numbly, and Yu Xi watched the car leave before carrying her bag into the hall. She stood by the elevator and watched the floors decrease, and suddenly thought of the scene where she took the elevator with Jiang Jingbai last time, and she protected herself with her hands , Yu Xi lowered his eyes, took a breath and stepped into the elevator.
The elevator stopped on the seventeenth floor, and Yu Xi walked out stepping on high heels. The sound of kicking echoed in the corridor. Instead of returning to her door, she stood in front of Jiang Jingbai's door, reaching out to knock on the door. Seconds later it hangs down again.
After repeating it several times, she took a deep breath. Before her fingers touched the door, she heard a sound at the door. She immediately took two steps to the side, making a gesture of going home.
When Jiang Jingbai opened the door, she met Shang Yuxi's gaze.
Eyes met, no one spoke, Yu Xi coughed lightly, and just as she was about to speak, she heard Jiang Jingbai's voice behind her.
"Jingbai, what are you doing standing here?"
Tao Yitong poked her head out from behind Jiang Jingbai. She was wearing casual clothes, her long hair was casually tied behind her head, no makeup, no makeup, and a gentle smile on her face: "Yu Xi?"
"Why are you here?"
"Come to find Jingbai?"
She said to Jiang Jingbai: "You guys talk, I'll go in first."
When Yu Xi saw her, she tightly clenched the bag in her hand, her fingernails dug into her palm, her body was tense, and she smiled a little forcedly: "There's nothing to talk about."
All the speculation downstairs just now disappeared the moment she saw Tao Yitong, and the eagerness to ask for proof also disappeared. She is so ridiculous, even if what she imagined is true, so what, so For her, it was just the late truth.
What can be proved
Jiang Jingbai had already made a choice at the beginning, and that choice was not to want her, so it is better for them to stand back to their respective positions.
Yu Xi's face calmed down a little, and when he spoke again, his voice was low: "Mr. Cheng asked me to tell you that I have time to go to his house for dinner on weekends."
She added: "Have a nice evening, both of you."
Yu Xi lowered her head, the small pain in her heart magnified infinitely after she turned around, and the pain went straight to her forehead. Her body was tense, her back was straight, her lips were pursed, and her expression was indifferent.
Jiang Jingbai saw that she took out the key to open the door, and her figure was about to disappear inside, so she took two quick steps and put her arm in the gap of the door to prevent Yu Xi from closing the door.
Yu Xi raised his head, his expression was indifferent, and his words were chilled: "Mr. Jiang, is there anything else?"
Jiang Jingbai froze for a few seconds when she met her cold eyes, and finally said: "Yitong is here to get something."
"As soon as she arrives, she'll—"
Yu Xi raised her eyes and interrupted her: "Does it have anything to do with me?"
The tone was not very aggressive, and the ordinary question stunned Jiang Jingbai. Yu Xi opened the door and stood in front of her with an arrogant demeanor. She squinted at Jiang Jing and said with a bland smile: "Mr. Jiang, what is your relationship with Miss Tao?"
"what will happen."
"It seems that there is no need to report to me."
Jiang Jingbai was blocked by her words, slowly withdrew her arms, and lowered her head: "I'm just afraid you misunderstood."
"Misunderstanding?" Yu Xi raised his lips, the smile not reaching his eyes: "Why should I misunderstand?"
"Do I know you well?"
Jiang Jingbai pursed her lips, did not speak, and looked at Yu Xi fixedly.
Yu Xi leaned against the door, folded her hands on her chest, and said in a domineering manner, "Are you all right?"
"No."
Yu Xi took a step back and said softly, "Good night."
As she said, she slammed the door shut, and Jiang Jingbai was silent for several minutes facing the closed door, until Tao Yitong asked behind her: "Xixi lives next door to you?"
Jiang Jingbai withdrew her gaze and nodded: "Yes."
"Have you taken anything?"
Tao Yitong smiled: "Take it."
"I'm leaving."
Jiang Jingbai turned around: "I'll see you off."
Tao Yitong still smiled gently: "Excuse me, look at how busy you are these days. Mom said that you are always at work when I call you. I really don't know why you are working so hard."
After she finished speaking, she looked at the apartment next door and suppressed her smile: "Jingbai, don't you give up yet?"
Jiang Jingbai stood there without saying a word.
Tao Yitong nodded, and said, "Don't say I didn't remind you."
"You are not suitable."
Jiang Jingbai's jaw tensed: "Okay."
"You go back."
Seeing her obsessed look, Tao Yitong wanted to talk, but when she met her eyes, she fell silent again. She couldn't understand how Jiang Jingbai came here in the past few years. She took a deep breath and said before leaving: "Forget it, anyway, we You can’t listen to what you say, and you have to bang your head to break your blood to be happy.”
"It's up to you."
After she finished speaking, she pressed the elevator button and walked in directly. Jiang Jingbai watched the elevator door slowly close, her lips still pursed.
It was a long time before she returned to her apartment.
The light in the living room next door was on, but there was no sound. Jiang Jingbai leaned on the balcony wondering if Yu Xi was lying on the sofa with a lazy posture, or complaining to Han Yisi about how scum she is.
Seemingly thinking of her vivid expression, Jiang Jingbai's tense expression loosened a little, but thinking of Yu Xi's expression and cold words just now made the corners of her lips straight again.
Yu Xi, who was separated by the wall, was taking a shower.
The warm water spread down her beautiful figure, she stood under the shower, her long hair was wet behind her, and the scene she just saw appeared in front of her eyes.
Tao Yitong stood behind Jiang Jingbai in casual clothes and smiled softly. The two had a natural and intimate posture. Although Jiang Jingbai had explained to her that Tao Yitong was just a younger sister, they were still on the same household registration book.
But so what.
After all, they are not related by blood. Tao Yitong obviously didn't regard her as her elder sister, instead she was ambiguous everywhere. She was interested in Jiang Jingbai, so it is not impossible that something happened between the two of them.
Yu Xi raised her head, and poured warm water on her face, permeating into her skin. It was so comfortable and could make her forget the tiredness of the day, but now it didn't work. She was still very troubled. Yu Xi turned off the shower and was just about to go out When the shower cubicle, the whole bathroom was dark!
The darkness in front of her eyes gave Yu Xi the illusion of blindness. She hurriedly walked to the place where the bathrobe was hanging, untied the bathrobe, and walked out of the bathroom with trembling hands. The belt of the bathrobe was not tied properly.
The living room was also pitch black, and the surroundings were quiet. Yu Xi groped along the edge of the wall to find the coffee table, and almost immediately prepared to call Zhong Chen after touching the phone.
Before the call was made, the phone rang, and Yu Xi was so excited that he almost threw the phone away.
Jiang Jingbai stood at Yuxi's door and wandered around. No one answered the phone yet. Just when she was about to knock on the door, she heard a voice from the phone: "Hello."
The voice is calm.
Jiang Jing breathed a sigh of relief: "Are you okay?"
Yu Xi sat on the sofa, curled up into a ball: "I'm fine."
After she finished speaking, she spoke again: "It's okay, I'll hang up."
"Yu Xi."
The phone didn't hang up, Jiang Jingbai was silent for a few seconds and said: "The power is cut off."
"If you're afraid, leave the door open."
"Don't worry, if I don't go in, I will accompany you at the door."
Yu Xi shivered and bit her lip, she couldn't hear the panic in her voice, she said softly, "Boss Jiang."
"I'm not afraid of the dark anymore."
The call stopped abruptly and was hung up.
Yu Xi turned on the searchlight on her mobile phone to illuminate the side, her whole body curled up, and the light cast her shadow on the wall, which was somewhat mottled. Looking at her shadow, she suddenly thought of the power outage in high school.
The searchlights in the class kept flickering, she got up because of the outage, and almost screamed nervously, but fortunately she saw Jiang Jingbai.
Her quiet side face was unmoved, not affected by the power outage at all, and she was still sitting upright, with a calm posture. She watched the disordered heartbeat slowly return to calm, and then Jiang Jingbai turned her head to look at her.
Just that one look.
She seemed to have found her backbone, and couldn't help laughing.
Jiang Jingbai looked at her smiling at herself and raised the corners of her lips politely.
The phone ringing interrupted her thoughts, Yu Xi looked down at the number on the phone and was silent for a few seconds, then connected: "Hello."
Jiang Jingbai was still standing outside the door, she said softly: "Yu Xi, can you open the door?"
Yu Xi frowned: "What's wrong?"
Jiang Jingbai thought for a long time before thinking of a reason.
She hesitated, "I'm afraid of the dark now."
Yuxi: ...
Ghosts believe you.
Yu Xi hangs up the phone thoughtfully.
After a few minutes, Yu Xi called again, and Yu Xi was furious: "What else is Mr. Jiang doing?"
Han Yisi immediately said, "Boss Jiang?"
"Jiang Jingbai? Has she harassed you again?"
Yu Xi curled her lips when she heard this and harassed three words: "No."
Han Yisi didn't believe it: "Then what did you mean just now?"
Yu Xi opened his mouth: "It's nothing, why do you call me when you have time?"
Han Yisi muttered: "I'm afraid you will be taken away by wolves."
Yuxi: ...
Because he was afraid of the dark, Yu Xi wanted to find someone to chat with, so he kept listening to Han Yisi's nagging until more than half an hour later, when the mobile phone heard a notification that the battery was about to run out, Yu Xi was afraid that there would be no searchlight before going to bed, and immediately said: "Okay, let's not talk anymore, I'm going to bed, and I have to film tomorrow."
Han Yisi didn't continue talking, but asked again: "Have you heard everything I said?"
Yu Xi rubbed her hot ears: "I listened."
Han Yisi was very satisfied: "Then I'll hang up."
After she finished speaking, she hung up the phone, and the room suddenly became quiet again. Yu Xi had already changed her posture during the chat, and now she slowly retracted, curled up again, and listened to the notification sound that the phone was dead. She was just about to run to the room when the sound rang again.
Halfway through the run, she suddenly thought of Jiang Jingbai's words before, she turned on her mobile phone, and saw that there were two missed calls and a message during the chat with Han Yisi.
It was sent to her by Jiang Jingbai.
——Yu Xi, I just called the power supply bureau. They said that the power will arrive in an hour. If you are afraid, open the door.
When Yu Xi saw the text message, she paused in place, then moved to the door, put her hand on the doorknob, pressed it down lightly, and with a click, the door opened, and there was a person leaning against it.
Jiang Jingbai squatted on the ground, leaning her head against the door, holding a mobile phone in her hand.
Her long hair was coiled and her head was slightly lowered. When Yu Xi looked over, she caught a glimpse of her slender neck and slender back, giving people an inexplicable sense of security in such darkness.
Yu Xi looked at it for a few seconds and then said, "Why are you still here?"
When Jiang Jingbai heard the sound of the door opening, she turned to look at Yu Xi, and was relieved to see her expression as usual. She leaned against the door, stood up slowly, and raised her head when she heard Yu Xi's words. Qinglie: "You are afraid of the dark."
Yu Xi chuckled lightly: "Mr. Jiang, as I said, I've long been afraid of the dark—"
Before he finished speaking, the remaining battery of the mobile phone was exhausted, and the surroundings were pitch black. Yu Xi stayed in place for a few seconds and immediately dodged beside Jiang Jingbai, coughing lightly, holding back the screaming in his throat, and when he spoke again The voice trembled a little: "I'm going to rest."
Jiang Jingbai lowered her head: "I'll take you in."
This time Yu Xi didn't refuse, she kept silent to show her agreement, she took two steps in, but Jiang Jingbai didn't move, she couldn't help but retract her feet, stood beside Jiang Jingbai, and asked: "Isn't it a gift?" I go in? What are you doing?"
A slightly embarrassed expression appeared on Jiang Jingbai's face. Fortunately, it was in the dark and no one saw it. She said with a slightly warm face: "My legs are numb."
Yuxi: ...