It was only when she returned to the apartment for dinner that Xu Qiao realized what wonderful content she had missed during the two hours of retreat in the studio.
As she expected, the second place began to exert force continuously two hours before the closing of the voting channel, and slowly dropped the votes in small increments, maintaining a speed of chasing a small section every few minutes, biting her tightly.
At first, she had been passively following the other party's rhythm. After half an hour, Cheng's mother lost her patience.
Such a petty person, do you know how to play
London time was eight hours behind Beijing, and it was just before lunch time. Mother Cheng asked her sisters out to have fun, and rushed to end the battle as soon as possible.
The other party panicked and was stupid for about 20 minutes. After spending a lot of effort secretly, they finally got a wave of new tickets.
Mother Cheng was angry again.
so rigid? No, it's not allowed, she feels just right, so she turns around and orders, give me all of them—it's another meal, and the wind sweeps the fallen leaves.
At this time, there was only half an hour left, and after the other party had been struggling for a while, he completely stopped.
Mother Cheng saw that people were quieting down so quickly, and worried that this was a tactic to slow down the army. Seeing that she was running out of stock, she was going to mobilize the sisters, and that's where the phone call came from.
But the fact is that the other party really lost his mind at the last moment.
Cheng Lang said, not everyone has such a wide social circle as you, so don't think too highly of them.
Xu Qiao was dumbfounded and felt very sorry for missing such a wonderful battle scene.
Regretful and flustered at the same time, he asked Cheng Lang at the dinner table: "How does your mother know me?"
"It doesn't count as 'knowing'." Cheng Lang picked up the decanter and poured her a glass of red wine.
Christmas and New Year's Day are equivalent to Chinese New Year in Europe. The eldest of the Cheng family has lived in London for many years, and their living habits have basically become Westernized, so Mother Cheng is very dissatisfied with the fact that her son has not come home recently.
At first, Cheng Lang comforted her with the excuse of being busy with work, but she couldn't help but have a keen sixth sense of women, so she dug three feet into the Berg Jewelry Studio and the existence of the character "Hatachi".
Cheng Lang's mental illness was hidden from his grandfather, but not from his parents.
Cheng's mother saw Cheng Lang's cousin hugging the two for three years, and she was so anxious that she almost sent her son to the hospital to store his sperm regularly. Now that she knew that her son was fighting for a lifelong event, she was not angry anymore, so she let him go and threatened I have to do my part for him.
However, a lot of other information has not been leaked.
Cheng Lang didn't want to reveal the details of Miss Yu. Of course, Mother Cheng couldn't force her to do so. After all, if she used crooked means to go too far and scared away the daughter-in-law she got, it would be a sin.
"She only knows 'Yu Li', not 'Xu Qiao'." Cheng Lang explained.
Xu Qiao was taken aback for a moment, surprised by Cheng Lang's strictness of tone.
In fact, at the beginning, she didn't have such high psychological expectations for him. When she found out that he kept his best brother in the dark, she was already a little surprised, not to mention that the other party was his mother now.
"Then did you ask her to help with this matter, or did she bring it up?" She took a sip of her wine and asked tentatively.
"Half and half." Cheng Lang handed her another cut steak, "'Royal Blue' is the color of the British royal family, and it is very popular in London. She likes the ring you designed, of course I am willing to contribute to it. And I think, compared to me, it is not easy for her to lose people's tongue. After all, her social circle in Europe does not belong to the business category, so I leave this matter to her."
Xu Qiao ate the steak bit by bit, and said "oh" softly: "I knew that Boss Cheng was so meticulous and careful, and I would have watched the battle in the last two hours."
She thought that she would be abused if she didn't have relatives and friends to help out.
"What do you think?" Cheng Lang said with a smile, "At this time, are you allowed to fight alone and resign yourself to fate? Of course, others have what they have, and of course they will give it to you."
Xu Qiao lowered her eyes, not knowing why her nose suddenly felt a little sour.
It's as if she thought that this New Year's Eve party would be lonely and deserted, but in the end she had a big dinner and someone she could talk to. This kind of time when she felt "it's normal if I don't get it" , but someone tells you that if others have family members, I will also give you family members, and if others have backing, I will also give you backing.
"What's wrong?" Cheng Lang turned his head to look at her.
The culprit seemed to have underestimated the lethality of a word he could easily say.
"Just..." She blinked her eyes quickly, as if she was blinking away something shiny, "My dad said something like that before."
For so long, Xu Qiao hardly mentioned her family in front of Cheng Lang.
Perhaps it was because the atmosphere of New Year's Eve was naturally suitable for talking about this topic, or maybe it was the impetus of alcohol, combined with the superimposed emotions of the game result, which made her suddenly want to talk.
Cheng Lang put down the knife and fork at the right time, assumed a posture of listening carefully, and looked at her silently.
Xu Qiao took a sip of wine, thought for a moment, and then said slowly: "My mother left early, and my father always felt that I was missing a lot of things. My mother picks up and picks up children after school, and they have parent-child activities with their mother at school. I don’t even have a story about my mother with the title “The person I love the most.” So he has been compensating me in other places. When I was young, I often heard him say that other children have friends, and my children can’t be less.”
"It's just that when I grew up, it's not good to be so nasty between father and daughter, and my brother also remembers things. He thinks that he is too partial to me and will make my brother uncomfortable, so he treats me fiercely on the surface, but in fact She still cares about me very much, and I can spend the money as I like, and the cloakroom at home has been expanded several times for me, and my stepmother doesn't have so many bags and jewelry." Xu Qiao bit her lip.
"My dad made jewelry because of me. When I was a child, I liked to pick up shells at the beach and strung the messy shells into necklaces and bracelets. He said that he would give me the most expensive 'shells' in the future. And Jinlu jewelry was originally called Fulu Jewelry, it was my dad who heard that I was nicknamed 'Gourd Baby' by schoolmates, so he changed his name to Jinlu Jewelry when he got angry."
Xu Qiao's narration is not very logical and sounds messy, but such a real and undefended appearance is a bit cute in people's eyes.
Cheng Lang looked at her quietly, and asked after she stopped: "Don't you blame him? For example, he took a bet."
"Of course it would be strange. But he was addicted to gambling because my mother left, and he was very broken during that time. It is impossible to quit immediately after becoming addicted. He has also worked hard to change over the years, and most of the time he is still gambling. Serious business." Xu Qiao pouted.
"Then what about finding your stepmother?"
"It's okay." Xu Qiao looked at the ceiling, "In the letter my mother left me, she told me that if my father finds a stepmother for me, let me not blame him. Marry again, and when I was growing up, I always needed a "mother" to accompany me to do things my father couldn't do. My daughter and stepmother are like this. I regard her as a substitute for my mother, and she regards me as For additional tasks in daily life, no one talks to anyone, which is fair."
Cheng Lang frowned slightly: "You can tell the truth in front of me."
"This is the truth." Xu Qiao was stunned and heard something else from his words, "And what do you mean by being in front of you? Is there anything special about you?"
"The special thing is..." Cheng Lang thought for a while, "I can tell which of your sentences is true and which is false."
"..." means he is very smart
The atmosphere was broken, Xu Qiao came back to her senses, and realized that she had accidentally acted pretentiously, talked too much to this man, and began to bury her head in eating.
Cheng Lang didn't hesitate to ask, pretending nothing happened, and waited until the dinner was over before asking again: "What did you do at home on New Year's Eve?"
"Watching TV or something, at zero o'clock I grabbed my brother and played the fairy stick." After Xu Qiao finished answering, she looked at him vigilantly, "Why, you still don't leave after eating?"
"Where are you going?" He raised his eyebrows.
"Go back to your own home."
"There is no one in my house, what are you going to do when you go back?" Cheng Lang spread his hands, "It's also the first time for me to celebrate New Year's Eve alone."
Xu Qiao was speechless, and looked at the clock on the wall, it was only nine o'clock.
What's the matter, are the two degenerates going to stare at each other until twelve o'clock
After all, she didn't want to go out.
"Then what do you do now?" Xu Qiao looked at him in a daze.
Cheng Lang pointed to the TV over the sofa.
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Xu Qiao didn't know why he and Cheng Lang watched horror movies in the end.
In fact, she refused to watch the New Year's Eve party at first because she felt that this kind of show could not distract people too much energy, and she had to chatter while watching it. It seemed strange to live in harmony like an old couple like Cheng Lang, so she proposed to Let's watch a movie. Once the movie is released, get into the plot and don't care who is sitting next to you.
Then the two started to choose movies, and it turned out that among the old movies with high ratings, either Cheng Lang was not interested, or she was not satisfied, and finally met one with the same taste, and remembered it at the beginning of the release—oh, I watched it.
In the end she became impatient, and said to order soldiers, and whoever clicked would be the one, and she chose a horror movie called "Eye".
Cheng Lang told her that if she didn't dare to look at it, she would order the troops again.
She was not convinced, and said that there was nothing to be afraid of watching such a horror movie that deceived a three-year-old child, and directly clicked on the show.
However, she still folded two small pillows in the middle of the three-seater sofa to divide the 38th line, hinting to Cheng Lang not to do bad things while the lights are dark.
Cheng Lang said he had no opinion.
The movie is about the heroine who is a journalist and has a pair of psychic eyes after a cornea replacement operation. Since then, she can see many "people" that ordinary people can't see.
At the beginning, the heroine didn’t know that others couldn’t see those “people”. When a child in a mandarin jacket came to her house to borrow candles, she enthusiastically gave the candles at her house to the other party and asked the other party when they moved to this building. Why haven't I seen him in the apartment.
The child said that he has moved here for many, many years.
Then the camera turns to the perspective of the heroine's boyfriend.
The boyfriend was cooking in the kitchen. When he looked at the entrance, he found that the hostess was talking to the air.
Xu Qiao stared at the screen, and silently stretched her hand towards the pillow beside her...
Excellent horror films do not rely on impactful shots to scare people, but on the rendering of atmosphere, giving people enough brain space to scare themselves.
Xu Qiao felt that she was very lucky and picked a very good horror movie, so that 20 minutes after the movie opened, she had no memory at all that the movie was fake and Cheng Lang was real. Wrapped in his arms, the 38th line was automatically lifted.
Nearly 30 minutes into the film, the movie entered its first small climax: one day the heroine looked up past news materials in the newspaper office, and saw a report about a seven-year-old child being poisoned by her adoptive father, as well as some related non-public photos , I found that the child above looked familiar.
Then the camera zoomed in, and in the old photo, the appearance of the other party matched with the child who came to borrow candles that day...
Xu Qiao's heart trembled, and she swallowed nervously, then stretched out her hand to the next door to touch the pillow, and finally touched the air.
Cheng Lang turned his head, and was just about to remind her that the two pillows were already in her arms, but saw her hand reach out to his crotch, and suddenly grabbed it.
"..." With a muffled groan that can only be found in love action movies, he broke into the world of horror movies out of place.