The lights in the corridor flickered on and off. Zhu Xingyao was held tightly by Jiang Tu for a long time until his cell phone rang. Jiang Tu held her with one hand and took out his cell phone to answer it. Old Yuan said helplessly, "My big brother, are you chasing Zhu Xingyao? We are leaving soon. If you don't come back to say hello, can we still sign this contract?"
It is not a good thing to abandon customers midway.
Jiang Tu looked down at Zhu Xingyao and said, "I'll go upstairs now."
He hung up the phone, and Zhu Xingyao looked up, her lips were very red. Jiang Tu pulled up her scarf, covering half of her face, and asked in a low voice: "Will you come upstairs with me? I'll take you home later."
Zhu Xingyao had cried a lot just now, and her eyes were still red. She was too embarrassed to see anyone, so she shook her head and whispered, "Then I'll wait for you in your car."
Jiang Tu held her hand and walked from area B to area E to find his car.
He opened the car door, handed her the car keys, lowered his head and said, "Wait for me." Zhu Xingyao nodded slightly, and Jiang Tu turned and went upstairs with quick steps.
Jiang Tu returned to the restaurant and saw Lao Yuan and his clients coming out of the private room. He hurried over to apologize: "I'm sorry, I had something important to do just now. I'll invite you to another restaurant next time. I sincerely apologize." He spoke in German.
The German man didn't mind it very much. Instead, he was a little curious: "Did Mr. Jiang go after Miss Zhu?"
Lao Yuan said this to the client in order to smooth things over.
Jiang Tu pursed his lips and smiled apologetically: "Yes, this time..."
"It's okay." The German man waved his hand cheerfully, "Mr. Yuan said you've never had a girlfriend. Miss Zhu must be very special to you, and she's really beautiful." He seemed to realize that his wife was still beside him, and added with a smile, "Of course, my wife is more beautiful."
Old Yuan suppressed a smile and secretly breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that the contract should be saved.
Jiang Tu and Lao Yuan sent the client away, and Lao Yuan immediately turned around and asked, "Hey, did you really chase Zhu Xingyao just now? Did you catch him?"
Jiang Tu was silent for a moment, then said, "I think he caught up with me."
Just now, he forgot to ask her if she could be his girlfriend.
"Ah? What do you mean by should? I thought you were a couple before, and after all this time... I still haven't caught up with you?" Old Yuan was puzzled. He looked up and saw Jiang Tu turned and walked away. "Hey, where are you going?"
"I'm leaving first. She's waiting for me in the car."
Jiang Tu left a few words and walked away quickly.
Old Yuan stood there in a daze. They were all waiting in the car, so that meant he had caught up, right
While music was playing in the car, Zhu Xingyao received a WeChat message from Jiang Yi. Jiang Yi had added Zhu Xingyao on WeChat for quite a long time, but they didn't interact much, mainly because Zhu Xingyao rarely replied to him. He also knew about the things on the Internet, so he couldn't help asking, "Is that man your first boyfriend?"
He was talking about Lu Ji.
Zhu Xingyao was silent for a moment, then replied: "No, it's my current boyfriend."
Zhu Xingyao sent him another apology message and ended the chat.
Jiang Tu opened the car door. Mayday's "Stubborn" was playing in the car. When many people liked Jay Chou in high school, Jiang Tu was one of the few who liked Mayday. When Ashin sang the line "The most beautiful wish must be the craziest", Zhu Xingyao turned to look at him, thinking that he was her deskmate back then, and it was too easy for him to put a love letter in her schoolbag.
It was already 9:20 in the evening. Jiang Tu held her hand on her knee and turned to ask her, "Do you want to go to the movies?"
Zhu Xingyao was stunned for a moment, then smiled, "Okay."
There weren't many people in the cinema, and there weren't any good movies recently. Plus, it was almost ten o'clock, so there weren't many choices. Zhu Xingyao chose a documentary called "Where Has Time Gone?" Jiang Tu paid. He saw other girls holding popcorn, so he bought another bucket of popcorn and juice.
Zhu Xingyao held the popcorn and looked up at him: "Brother Tu, is this your first time to watch a movie with a girl?"
"Well, I rarely come to the cinema." It was time to check in and enter, and Jiang Tu led her to the entrance. "Sometimes the company organizes it, or colleagues have dinner together, and I only come when I can't refuse."
Zhu Xingyao watched him hand the ticket to the ticket inspector and always felt that he had lived a very lonely life over the years.
The ticket inspector said, "Hall 8, go straight and turn left."
The two walked into Hall 8. There were only three minutes left before the movie started. The entire theater was empty. Zhu Xingyao muttered, "We're not going to book the theater, are we?"
Jiang Tu looked up and smiled, "This is good."
They sat in the back row and two couples walked in one after another, but no one else came in until the movie started.
Zhu Xingyao and Jiang Tu sat in the second to last row, with two couples sitting in front of them. Although she couldn't gain weight, she rarely ate fried food. After eating a few popcorns, she turned to Jiang Tu and asked, "Do you want some?"
Jiang Tu saw that she didn't want to eat anymore, so he took the popcorn over. The movie didn't seem very good, she wasn't paying attention, and kept turning her head to look at him. Jiang Tu held her hand, turned around and asked her, "Did Lin Jiayu tell you that?"
"I guess so." Zhu Xingyao didn't mention the book "Waiting for the Stars". She curled her lips and said, "You should have told me."
Jiang Tu used the light from the projection screen to see her pouting lips. He whispered, "It's all over."
It seemed that no one in Hall 8 was watching the movie seriously.
Zhu Xingyao saw one of the couples in front of her kissing. She felt a little embarrassed and didn’t dare to look at Jiang Tu.
Another couple saw most of them and left holding hands.
In the last 20 minutes, the kissing couple also left.
They are the only ones left.
This time, the theater was really reserved. When the movie was about to end, Jiang Tu leaned towards her and asked, "Your parents arranged a blind date for you, but you came with me to watch a movie." He paused, "How are you going to tell them when you get back?"
Zhu Xingyao thought about it, and whispered in his ear, "I told Dad last time that you were pursuing me. He may...may not like you very much, but it doesn't matter. If he asks me, I will say that you pursued me."
Jiang Tu's heart felt hot, and he felt that perhaps he didn't need to ask those questions anymore.
He began to like her when he was sixteen. The long-lasting secret love, the unspeakable bitterness, the oppression of life, the hardships he had endured, the beliefs he had given up, he picked them up again, and those things that almost suffocated him, have all become the past.
Twelve years.
He is twenty-eight now.
It would be more accurate to say that he waited for her rather than caught up with her.
It was almost one o'clock in the morning when Zhu Xingyao returned home.
She was not sleepy, so she stayed in bed and continued to read the unfinished part of Waiting for the Stars. As she read, she felt something was wrong. Lin Jiayu, a senior in high school... had a crush on Lu Ji
The author Lin Xing's famous work is "Embrace the Moon", which is a work about a girl's secret love. The film and television rights have been sold.
"Waiting for the Stars" is told from the perspective of a girl's secret love.
Lin Jiayu was pestered by the publishing editor to send her the temporarily revised first half.
After the editor stayed up all night to finish reading it, he started harassing her the next day: “I want to sign this book, I want it, I want it!!!”
Lin Jiayu replied awkwardly: "Maybe not. You should have guessed it. The prototype is Zhu Xingyao. The prototype of the male protagonist is my childhood sweetheart. You don't know how cold his personality is. If he knew that I wrote him as the protagonist, I would probably want to kill him..."
The editor refused to give up: "Just go and ask! Please! Wake up!"
Lin Jiayu: “…”
She really didn't dare tell Jiang Tu.
Zhu Xingyao stayed up late and didn't get up until ten o'clock the next day. She went to the practice room at noon.
On the way, Li Xixi called her and said on the phone: "Lin Jiayu sent me a document yesterday. I only had time to read it this morning. I just read half of it..." She sighed, "I think Jiang Tu has had a hard time too. How are you guys doing now?"
Zhu Xingyao looked out the window and smiled: "I'm with him."
Li Xixi was so surprised that she couldn't speak. After she came to her senses, she quickly asked, "Quick, quick, tell me, how did you let him succeed?"
Old Liu was driving and glanced silently at the rearview mirror.
Zhu Xingyao was talking halfway when Li Xixi was reminded by her assistant to go into the recording studio. She said unhappily, "There is still one song missing from the new album. I am so worried because I haven't found a good one yet. Xingxing, I will call you again tonight. Please wait for me..."
At three o'clock in the afternoon, Lin Jiayu came to the practice room to find Zhu Xingyao.
Lin Jiayu sat next to her and watched her practice with the musicians. At five o'clock, Zhu Xingyao put down the cello and walked towards her. The two girls sat on the sofa and had afternoon tea. Zhu Xingyao turned around and said to Lin Jiayu, "I'm with Jiang Tu."
She was very grateful for the story written by Lin Jiayu. If it weren't for her, it might not have been so easy for her and Jiang Tu to be together.
Lin Jiayu is very important to both her and Jiang Tu.
Lin Jiayu opened her mouth wide and soon laughed: "I, an old mother, am finally relieved."
Zhu Xingyao couldn't help but laugh. After thinking for a while, she turned around and asked, "Jia Yu, you... you like Lu Ji?"
"Well..." Lin Jiayu was a little embarrassed. No matter how many misunderstandings Zhu Xingyao had with Lu Ji during her senior year and freshman year, she was still Lu Ji's girlfriend. She didn't know what to say, so she suddenly cried out and waved her hands, "Jiang Tu had a crush on Xingxing, and I couldn't help but like the moon... It was all a long time ago."
Zhu Xingyao looked at her and asked softly, "What about now?"
The author has something to say: I just helped Tuge unpack a package. The 2-meter iron bed that everyone raised funds for did not collapse. In the last chapter, my friend said that my kissing scene was too simple, so I added a little bit. Xiaolujiang is very strict now, so I have to be restrained in kissing scenes...
Good night, thank you everyone~