Jiang Chuyi was still a little stunned until Zong Ye reached out to help her open the car door.
Sit in the passenger seat and fasten your seat belt mechanically.
Recently, the matter between Zong Ye and Jiang Chuyi has been a hot topic on the Internet, so Jiang Chuyi naturally tried her best to avoid suspicion and basically did not consider the option of "he would come to have dinner with her alone".
She was not mentally prepared at all to be alone on the road, and for a moment she felt a little nervous.
From the corner of his eye, he saw Zong Ye with one hand on the steering wheel, leaning slightly forward, adjusting the navigation. Jiang Chuyi unconsciously straightened his back and put his hands on his knees.
When Souya looked up, he saw her sitting properly, with her hands folded on her legs, her eyes looking straight ahead, her face covered with a fluffy scarf, and her expression as serious as an elementary school student listening to her teacher's lecture.
He couldn't help but smile, "Is it cold? I'll turn on the heater for you."
Jiang Chuyi nodded and thanked him slowly.
Muneya: "You're welcome."
He moved the car with his eyes fixed on the rearview mirror, shifted gears skillfully, and stepped on the accelerator.
Snow mixed with rain was falling slowly. Jiang Chuyi stared at the car wipers turning from left to right. The car was so quiet that she didn't even dare to breathe too loudly.
"Chu Yi." Zong Ye suddenly called her.
"Um?"
Maybe it was because Zong Ye called her that too naturally, Jiang Chuyi didn't realize for a moment that his way of addressing her had become so familiar.
"Can you help me check the navigation?" He stared at the road ahead, the corners of his lips seemed to be naturally upturned, "I'm a little nearsighted."
"You don't have contact lenses?"
"After wearing it, I can see things blurry at night." Zong Ye said, "but it doesn't affect driving."
"Okay." Jiang Chuyi moved over obediently and told him, "There's a traffic light a hundred meters ahead, turn right."
Zongye took off his suit jacket, revealing a neat and tidy white shirt underneath.
His right hand was on the steering wheel, with two cufflinks tightly binding his wrist. The joints from the back of his hand to the fingertips were long and distinct, and were within Jiang Chuyi's sight.
She couldn't help but think of all the speculations about Souya on the Internet.
Jiang Chuyi was bored and searched for him. She read fans' Weibo for a while in bed, and her face turned yellow from reading so much.
In these daydream literature, the images of being played with by him with his hands were so vivid that they shocked her for a long time and she could remember them immediately.
A gentle and serious male star like Souya rarely acts out of line in public. He has a subtle and repressed temperament, which gives people a very lustful feeling. Every time I see Souya wearing a formal suit, I want to tear it up. Seeing him become bad and dirty, what will he become when he is deeply in love...
"Do you feel warm?"
Jiang Chuyi suddenly moved her peeping eyes away from his hand and pretended to be calm: "What's hot?"
"I said..." The car slowly stopped at the traffic light, and Zongye's eyes stayed on her blushing cheeks, "Are you hot?"
"Am I hot?" Jiang Chuyi responded randomly, "Yes, a little bit, it seems a little hot, the temperature is too high."
Zong Ye asked, "Shall I lower the temperature for you?"
"No, no." Jiang Chuyi didn't dare to meet his eyes. She hurriedly took off the scarf around her neck and reluctantly replied, "That's all."
Fortunately, the green light came on and Muneya didn't seem to notice the reason for her panic.
Jiang Chuyi lowered her head, feeling ashamed.
My God, what kind of weird things are in her mind? She can think of so many indescribable things while driving a car.
There is a knife hanging over your head when it comes to lust.
Jiang Chuyi really wanted to stab herself.
*
When the car drove near the destination, Jiang Chuyi lowered the window and looked around to find a parking space for him.
After turning a corner, they arrived at the destination. After the car stopped, Jiang Chuyi unbuckled his seat belt and stopped Zong Ye from opening the door, "Wait a minute."
He turned around: "What's wrong?"
“Why aren’t you wearing a mask?”
"Mask?" Zong Ye seemed stunned for a moment, "It's okay, it doesn't matter if you don't wear it."
"No." Jiang Chuyi said seriously, "If you are photographed having dinner with me, you will be in big trouble."
"What's the trouble?"
Jiang Chuyi lacked confidence and whispered, "It's just that... spreading rumors or something like that."
The carriage fell silent again.
Suddenly, for no apparent reason, she felt a little embarrassed.
It seems that the source of all these evils is me...
Seeing that he didn't move, Jiang Chuyi asked, "Did you forget to bring it?"
He hummed.
I see.
Jiang Chuyi immediately opened her bag, lowered her head and took out a new spare mask from the interlayer, and handed it to him, "Then you can use mine, mine is new."
"Oh, right, right." Jiang Chuyi pulled out his own baseball cap and said considerately, "Why don't you wear another hat to be safer?"
Zong Ye looked at the thing in her hand and didn't seem to want to take it. His tone was as calm as usual, "I'm having a meal with a friend. It shouldn't be considered big news, right?"
Jiang Chuyi said nothing.
Zong Ye raised his hand and turned off the car's roof light. The interior of the car instantly became dark, with only the hazy moonlight shining in.
In the darkness, Zongye's eyes deepened and he asked calmly, "Chuyi, does being with me make you feel uncomfortable?"
Jiang Chuyi shook her head subconsciously.
of course not.
Souya regained his composure, "Then could you... relax a little?"
It took a few seconds to comprehend what he meant.
Jiang Chuyi was quite uncertain.
"Do you think I'm too petty?" She lowered her head and explained to him softly, "I'm just afraid of causing you any more trouble."
Zong Ye was stunned, "That's not what I meant."
She felt the atmosphere was a bit too serious, so she joked, "Because you are a big star, you have so many fans and so many people watching you, you can't make any mistakes, so you should definitely give it a little more thought."
He was silent for some time.
"Chu Yi, apart from the special aura of my profession, I am actually a very ordinary person." Zong Ye looked at her in the dark, "I am not superior to you. In my eyes, you are also a very good actor."
"She has a great personality." He looked into her eyes. "She's very beautiful too."
Jiang Chuyi: “…”
She felt uncomfortable with the sudden praise.
"Well, well." Jiang Chuyi stopped him from continuing and stammered, "If you keep praising me, my face will turn red."
Zongye confirmed it for two seconds and told her, "It's already red."
Jiang Chuyi: “…”
His occasional straight shots were really hard to handle... She wanted to run.
Fortunately, a phone call saved her.
Jiang Chuyi picked up the phone immediately: "Hello?"
"Jiang Chuyi, do you have any sense of time?" Xin He's voice was already tinged with anger. "I have been waiting for you at the place you agreed to meet for fifteen minutes. Do you know how cold it is today? Huh?"
"We're here! Please wait a moment."
"Don't be angry, don't be angry, it's not worth it to get yourself hurt." Jiang Chuyi glanced at Zong Ye, "We'll be there soon, five minutes at most."
The phone hung up.
Zong Ye was quiet for a full minute, then asked, "Did you also make an appointment with Xin He?"
"Of course!" Jiang Chuyi didn't think there was anything wrong and said to him excitedly, "Luckily I called her, otherwise Wang Tan and the others would be busy today and we would have dinner together. It would be troublesome if we were photographed. With Xin He, we can say it's a crew dinner, which is foolproof."
Zong Ye: “…”
Seeing that he didn't speak, Jiang Chuyi asked carefully: "What's wrong?"
After a long while, he sighed faintly, with a helpless smile on his face, "It's okay, let's go."
*
During the filming, Jiang Chuyi heard Xin He say that she and Zong Ye had known each other for five or six years, so it shouldn't be too awkward for the three of them to have dinner together.
While waiting for the appetizers, Xin He looked at her coldly and said in a tone that said, "Stop teasing me, damn," "You said you were going to bring your friend to dinner with me. Could it be Zong Ye?"
Jiang Chuyi: "Originally there were others, including Wang Tan, Fu Cheng, Ji Kai and others..."
"So where are they?"
Jiang Chuyi's eyes curved as she explained to her according to Zong Ye's original words: "They are all not free today, only Zong Ye is free."
Zongye paused while pouring the water.
"Heh." Xin He sneered, too lazy to expose him.
She propped her chin up with one hand, playing with the sequins on her nails, bored: "If you had told me earlier that they were busy, I wouldn't have come. How come I am so redundant when the great star Zong and his rumored girlfriend are having dinner together?"
"How can it be redundant?"
Jiang Chuyi was just about to say that everyone was a friend.
Xin He said "oh" and seemed to remember something, "No, I think I am also Zong Ye's rumored girlfriend?"
"It's a pity that it's a thing of the past." Xin He said with regret, "You are now his real rumored girlfriend."
Jiang Chuyi: “…”
Xin He: "Jiang Chuyi, you better be careful. Don't blame me for not reminding you. It's best to stay away from Zong Ye. I've been scolded by his fans before."
Zongye finally spoke up and handed a glass of water in front of her, "I don't think I have offended you?"
Xin He snorted and glanced at him. "Well, it's nothing. After all, our Zong Ye is handsome, young, and popular. It's normal for him to have many rumored girlfriends. He'll have to change one every two days. That's it."
Zongye recalled, "Next week is your and Fushigi's anniversary. I remember he has an announcement."
"so what?"
Zongye paused for two or three seconds and said calmly, "I can help him with this notice."
Xin He: “…”
Satisfied, she clapped her hands and said, "Okay, I'm sorry for making me wait so long today."
Muneya: "Thank you."
It was already late at night when we finished our meal.
When they walked out, Zong Ye asked Xin He, "I'm driving. Do you want me to take you back?"
"No need." Xin He glanced at them, then realized what was happening and pointed at them. "Did you two make an appointment? Are you wearing couple outfits today?"
Hearing this, Jiang Chuyi looked down at himself, then at Zong Ye.
His coat is similar to mine in gray, and his inner layer is white.
It really looks a bit like...
Jiang Chuyi immediately denied: "No, no, it's just a coincidence."
Xin He smiled: "Then you two are quite destined to be together."
Because of Xin He's unintentional jokes, the atmosphere between them became inexplicably strange.
Zong Ye drove Jiang Chuyi back to the gate of the community.
When we got there, she turned back with a smile and thanked him, "I'm leaving now. Drive carefully on the road."
Jiang Chuyi has clean and delicate facial features, especially when she smiles, she looks very gentle and peaceful.
Zongye pointed at the steering wheel and nodded.
Jiang Chuyi took her things and got out of the car. When she passed the driver's seat, she waved at him again.
After crossing the road, Jiang Chuyi seemed to sense something, turned around, and found that Zong Ye's car was still parked there.
She took a few steps forward, hesitated, and looked back.
Jiang Chuyi walked to the corner and waited in the dark for a few minutes, but saw that his car did not move.
Thinking of the tiredness in his eyes when they just parted, Jiang Chuyi picked up her phone and sent a message to Zong Ye: "Are you okay? I just saw that your car has not left."
Souya: “You haven’t arrived home yet?”
Jiang Chuyi: "Almost there."
Souya: "I don't have anything to do. I'll just take a rest here. I have to catch a plane later."
Jiang Chuyi: "Just sleeping in the car?"
Muneya: “Yeah.”
Jiang Chuyi: "What time is the flight?"
Souya: "A little after six."
The wipers on the windshield had stopped working, and soon, it was covered with a thin layer of snow.
In the dim light, Zong Ye stared at his phone.
She didn't reply.
After a long time, he rolled down the car window, picked up the lighter with one hand, slightly opened his lips, bit a cigarette, and lit it.
The night was too quiet, and a Cantonese song was playing in the car. Zong Ye rested his elbows on the window sill, propped up his head, and stared calmly at the smoke that was blown away by the cold wind.
I don’t know how long it had been, but a figure suddenly appeared on the deserted road.
Jiang Chuyi hurried over with a bunch of things in her arms. She walked around to the passenger seat, held the things in one hand, opened the door with some effort, and got in.
He sat there motionless, staring at her in silence.
Jiang Chuyi felt a little embarrassed by his straightforward gaze, "Don't you want to rest here for a while?"
She handed over the bulging blanket and scarf in her hands, and said, "I got this for you from home. It's snowing today, don't catch a cold when you sleep."
Souya's slightly raised eyes darkened.
The interior of the car was completely dark, with only a sad and hoarse male voice coming from the speakers.
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[I wish I could be you, the pile of mud under your feet,]
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I didn’t care about the filth on my body
After holding the thing and waiting for a while, Jiang Chuyi couldn't help feeling a little uncertain when she saw that he didn't take it.
Am I going too far? -
Don't look down on me.
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[Even if it is this kind of mud]
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[I can be close to you,]
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[Even if I am stepped on by you, I am still precious]
Just as she was about to speak, Zongye thanked her. He raised his hand slightly and showed her the cigarette between his index and middle fingers: "There's still half a cigarette."
Jiang Chuyi didn't quite understand and asked softly, "What?"
"Can you hold it for me for a while?" Zongye looked at her, his tone calm under control, "Stay with me for half a cigarette."
(End of this chapter)