Jian Cishu's hand was frozen on the car door handle. She looked up at Zhao Chengan standing on the other side of the car, and then looked down at Shen Jingbin sitting in the passenger seat. She was speechless for a moment.
"Don't stand here stupidly. Get in the car and take you to dinner." Zhao Chengning, who was sitting in the driver's seat, couldn't see Jian Cishu's expression and just said to Zhao Chengan who was standing outside the car window.
Zhao Chengan nodded and shouted to Jian Cishu, who then closed the door with a bad expression, then slowly moved to the back seat, opened the door and got in.
"Brother Chengning, where are we going to eat?" The car started to move, and the scenery outside the window slowly receded from the view. The car fell into a mysterious silence. No one spoke. After hesitating for a while, Jian Cishu tried his best to His voice sounded a little more innocent.
"I'll take you to whatever you and eldest brother want to eat. Xiaojing and I have already eaten."
Hearing this, Jian Cishu's specially raised smile immediately dissipated, the light in her eyes dimmed, and she repeated: "I've already eaten..."
Zhao Chengan glanced at Jian Cishu, who was in a depressed mood next to him, and said, "We are not familiar with City A. Do you have any recommendations?"
Shen Jingbin thought for a moment and realized that people in City A were addicted to spicy food, and most of the special dishes were very spicy, so she asked, "Do you eat spicy food?"
Zhao Chengan shook his head, "I'm okay."
Shen Jingbin sat up and turned around, looking at Jian Cishu, "What about you?"
"Ah?" Jian Cishu saw Zhao Chengning looking at herself through the rearview mirror and quickly hid her disappointment, "I... I, I'm not very good at spicy food."
Shen Jingbin thought for a while and gave the answer, "There is a hot pot restaurant over there in Fushun Square that tastes quite authentic. Their clear soup is made from bones. You can try it."
Zhao Chengning glanced at her and smiled lightly, "Don't look for something too delicious, otherwise it will be bad if I can't help but eat some more."
"What's wrong?"
"You'll gain weight."
Shen Jingping glanced at him up and down. Even if he was driving and sitting now, his body lines were still very good-looking, "It wouldn't be bad if you were a little fatter now."
Is this considered teasing him
Zhao Chengning was thinking secretly in his mind, but he glanced at her expression from the corner of his eye.
Very good, there is no fluctuation at all. It seems that he just said it casually and he was thinking too much.
Jian Cishu watched from behind as the two of them chatted casually. The harmonious atmosphere was blurred, and she suddenly felt uneasy.
Her brother Chengning... is it really about to become someone else's
no! She doesn't allow it!
She needs to take some action!
Under Shen Jingbing's guidance, Zhao Chengning found the hotpot restaurant that she said was pretty good. He asked for a small private room. After ordering, he sat at one end with Shen Jingbing and chatted with them.
Jian Cishu was silent from beginning to end, as if she had something on her mind, but Zhao Chengning didn't take it to heart. After eating, they sent Shen Jingping home together.
When night fell, Zhao Chengning was in his bedroom processing the documents sent to him by Ke Yuan. He originally came to City A for only two days, but unfortunately his mother insisted on taking her to play more in City A in order to bring him and Jian Cishu together. A few days later, Zhao Chengan was involved.
He didn't have any feelings for Jian Cishu. Strictly speaking, he felt that she wasn't even his friend, at most, she was a school girl he knew.
It just so happened that his mother, who couldn't understand clearly, still had to pull the red line.
"Knock, knock, knock." The door to the room was suddenly knocked. Zhao Chengning stopped typing and raised his head, "Who is it?"
"It's me, Brother Chengning."
Zhao Chengning's handsome eyebrows knitted together slightly, and he glanced at the time in the lower right corner with his peripheral vision, 9:30.
"Is there a problem?"
"Brother Chengning, I want to talk to you." The female voice outside the door was still hesitant.
"It's getting late tonight. Let's talk about anything tomorrow."
"But..." Jian Cishu's voice suddenly became nervous, "Brother Chengning, I won't take up too much of your time. I'll just have a brief chat with you, okay?"
Zhao Chengning heard her voice sound like crying, but he was not moved at all.
Being soft-hearted to her now is what really hurts her. Since he has no interest in her, it would be best for everyone to cut through the mess quickly.
He pretended not to hear and said nothing.
Jian Cishu, who was outside the door, suddenly panicked when she heard the sudden silence inside the door.
"Brother Chengning? Brother Chengning?...Brother Chengning!" After shouting a few times, she began to slam the door hard.
Zhao Chengning seemed not to have heard anything, but at this moment, his cell phone suddenly rang.
When I picked it up, I saw it was Zhao Chengan.
"Hello." He answered the phone.
"Open the door and talk to Jian Cishu."
"I have nothing to talk about with her." Zhao Chengning refused simply.
"Then you're going to let her keep knocking on your door?"
“This hotel is very soundproofed and will not disturb others.”
"Zhao Chengning, if you explain something clearly, there will be no trouble."
"I don't want to give her any hope."
"Then just reject him directly and clearly in front of her." Zhao Chengan said word by word.
Zhao Chengning's eyes condensed, "Brother, let me ask you a question."
"What?"
"Do you have any thoughts about Jian Cishu? I think you treat her very differently." The other end of the phone suddenly fell silent, and Zhao Chengning continued, "Anyway, the Jian family just wants to marry our Zhao family. As for the marriage partner, It doesn’t matter if it’s you or me.”
"Don't talk about these things. What you need to do now is to open the door and talk to her." Zhao Chengan brought the topic back to its original track.
"Okay, for your sake, I'll have a good talk with her."
After hanging up the phone, Zhao Chengning put the computer on his lap, then got up and opened the door.
The door was opened, and standing outside was Jian Cishu wearing pink pajamas.
Different from her during the day, Jian Cishu had her long hair down and draped it softly on her shoulders. Her pink pajamas made her skin extra tender. Under the reflection of the warm-colored wall lamp, she revealed a An aura of temptation.
"What's the matter with you?" Zhao Chengning said with a calm face.
"Can we go inside and talk?"
To Jian Cishu, the most familiar thing is Zhao Chengning's expressionless handsome face. He never gives her a good look... Oh no, in the beginning, when she was just his school girl, he was still very gentle. Since then, After knowing that his family wanted to marry him, all the gentleness turned into serious alienation. She was sad about this for a long time at first, but she got used to it over time, so she was not afraid of his serious look.
But thinking of his gentle look when facing Shen Jingbin, she still felt sour in her heart.
Zhao Chengning looked at her with some displeasure, "There's something you can't say here."
"If others see us like this, they might misunderstand us. Brother Chengning, you don't want others to misunderstand our relationship, right?"
Jian Cishu's words touched the point in Zhao Chengning's heart. He really didn't like others to misunderstand him and her, especially at this time.
Coincidentally, the door of the next room was suddenly opened, and a young man came out. When he saw the two of them groaning, he quickly covered his eyes, said sorry and stepped back.
Oh my god, when I went out to get some fresh air, I saw the exciting Corridor Play. People nowadays are really open-minded!
However, it seems that they haven't started yet, so I don't think I'm intruding, right
After the man retreated, Zhao Chengning's face became a little ugly. He took a step back and opened the door, "Come in."
Jian Cishu obediently followed her into the door, carefully closed the door, and then locked it.
The moment the door lock fell, the door of the room opposite Zhao Chengning was slowly opened. Zhao Chengan stood at the door, looking at their room with complicated eyes.
After entering the room, Zhao Chengning lazily sat on the sofa, while Jian Cishu sat on the edge of the bed opposite him.
After pinching the corner of her clothes, Jian Cishu asked, "Brother Chengning, do you... like Miss Shen?"
The temptation in her voice was so obvious that Zhao Chengning could hear it as soon as she opened her mouth. He crossed one leg and put it on the other. The legs that were crossed together looked particularly long and straight.
"Yes." He answered simply.
She didn't expect that he would answer so straightforwardly. Jian Cishu obviously felt that her breathing was stagnant, and it took her a while to find her voice, "But, you have only known each other for a short time, and you don't know each other well."
Zhao Chengning sneered, "Emotions are not necessarily related to the time of knowing each other. If you like it, you like it. It doesn't matter if the time is short. If you don't like it, you don't like it. No matter how long we have known each other, it will be the same, just like you and me."
Zhao Chengning went straight to the point as Zhao Chengan said, rejecting her simply and clearly, even before she expressed her feelings.
But it didn't make any difference whether he said it or not, he already knew it.
"But, Brother Chengning... I really like you. Why don't you want to look at me?" Jian Cishu's eyes were already red, her big eyes were watery and as cute as a rabbit.
Unfortunately, Zhao Chengning turned a blind eye to her cuteness, "Because I don't like you."
Zhao Chengning's rejection showed no mercy at all. Jian Cishu's inner wall of self-hypnosis collapsed over and over again, and tears instantly burst out of her eyes. "Brother Chengning, I have been following you since I was a child, wherever you go." on the road, see the scenery you have seen, and experience the life you have experienced. There is no one in the world who knows you better than me. I know all your likes and dislikes, and all your little actions and habits. , I thought you could see my sincerity this way, I thought..."
"That's just what you think. I never asked you to follow my footsteps, and I don't need you to understand me. Your understanding means nothing to me, but will become a burden. Also , I don’t even understand myself, how dare you say that you understand me? What I need is not that I am understood by others, but that I get to know the person I like, and then I will take the initiative to slowly reveal myself to her. , this is what I want.”
"What about my sincerity?" Jian Cishu cried with tears all over her face.
Zhao Chengning's eyes flashed, "I don't need your sincerity."
(End of chapter)