Ruan Yuduo asked, "Did you just go back too?"
"Um."
"Have you had dinner then?"
"We'll talk when we get there." Xu Huaisong started the car, turned his head in silence and asked, "Or do you want to eat now?"
She shook her head: "I had afternoon tea at the mall and I'm not hungry." She took out her mobile phone and refunded the high-speed rail ticket.
It was completely dark. The street lights on both sides of the road were shining brightly yellow, and the red, green and green traffic lights were projected on the windshield, reflecting light and shadow in the car.
The heavy rain poured down, and the wipers repeated mechanical movements back and forth, making the atmosphere between the two of them even quieter, so quiet that sleepiness began to grow and spread.
After leaving the bustling city center, Ruan Yu, who was faintly dozing off, suddenly took a deep breath, breaking the peace.
Xu Huaisong turned his head to look at her: "What?"
"Are you driving without a license?"
Seeing her tightly gripping the seat belt in front of her, as if her personal safety was seriously threatened, Xu Huaisong seemed to smile: "I just thought about it now, it's too late."
It is indeed late. Ruan Yu also caught a glimpse of the "novice on the road" icon on the car in front of him, and then remembered that Xu Huaisong asked Liu Mao to take him to the hotel because he didn't have a driver's license.
She turned her head to look at him stiffly: "Long distance...is this bad?"
Xu Huaisong sighed: "I passed the test." Looking at her questioning eyes, he explained, "With an American driver's license, just pass Section 1. You don't need a road test."
Oh, no wonder it was so fast.
Ruan Yu was relieved, and only then realized that Xu Huaisong was joking with her just now? The joke about the flower of Gaoling
She glanced at him quietly from the corner of her eye, unable to discern the true emotion in his eyes behind those gold-rimmed glasses. But it seems to be in a good mood.
Instead, she told him: "Then don't get on the highway." She remembered that the domestic driver's license had to be held in her hands for a year before she could get on the highway.
Xu Huaisong let out a "hmm" and noticed that she yawned, but he still kept his eyelids open to stare at the road, and said, "I have been driving in the United States for eight years."
"Huh?" Ruan Yu turned his head inexplicably.
"So don't think that if you close your eyes now, you won't have a chance to open them."
"..."
She laughed dryly first, but felt that it was not enough to laugh away the embarrassment in the air, so she laughed dryly again.
It was too miserable to be scolded by Xu Huaisong. How did Liu Mao bear it every day
But Ruan Yu couldn't sleep anymore. She closed her eyelids as soon as her life safety was guaranteed, but didn't she confirm her previous suspicion of him
So she took out her mobile phone to relieve her sleepiness, thought for a while, and sent a flattering circle of friends to make up for her mistakes: "The heavy rain is ruthless, but there is love in the world. Salute to all the heroes who are willing to help others! [cup fist]"
The accompanying picture is a screenshot of a still from "Meteor Garden": after Shancai left, Daoming Temple stood pitifully in the heavy rain, drenched alive into a scene of "instant noodles".
There is a reply in seconds below. It's Li Shican. After the oolong incident last time, he added back to her WeChat, but he didn't take the initiative to contact her for a while.
Ruan Yu choked at the bottom of his throat when he saw the phrase "Who has been issued a good card by you again". Are big stars so free
She didn't know what to reply, so she sent an emoji, and after quitting Moments, she saw a new message in the message bar.
From a film and television editor: "Wen Xiang, are you really going to give up this book? Universal Vision has given a new price and is willing to buy the unfinished version. Please ask a professional screenwriter to continue writing. You don't need to worry about the later stage."
She glanced at Xu Huaisong beside her, and typed silently: "Sorry, I really don't want to sell this ip."
The other party replied quickly: "Are you not going to hear the new price?"
Nephrite: "How much?"
A string of numbers popped up on the screen.
A string of zeros and many numbers.
Ruan Yu's chin almost hit the phone.
Xu Huaisong glanced at her, but said nothing.
She turned around and sent the screenshot to Shen Mingying, and got this reply: "It's not for sale, you're out of your mind? Even if it's not for money, you still have to think about your future. Can the online literature circle let you hang around for a lifetime? You Sooner or later, you have to go out, face more groups, or transform into a screenwriter. Running around the studio, going deep into the entertainment industry, isn’t it more interesting than staying at home?”
Ruan Yude admitted that she was a little moved.
She is also a layman and cares about money. He had already lost a large amount of income when he gave up the serialization before, and he paid a lot of liquidated damages because he broke the contract with the publishing company.
Moreover, it is indeed impossible for her to be a web writer for a lifetime.
The opportunity to break out of the bottleneck is already in front of us.
Clutching her phone, she looked at Xu Huaisong: "Lawyer Xu, I would like to ask you something."
"Um."
"Huanshi intends to buy my ip, do you think I should agree?"
Xu Huaisong was silent for a while, and instead of answering, asked, "Is there any reason not to agree?"
Ruan Yu choked.
The only reason is not to scruple him. But thinking about it carefully, until now, he has not noticed it. Could it be that turning the book into a movie will allow him to "recover his memory"
What's more, when the movie is released, they have already become strangers who have no intersection, so it doesn't matter.
Ruan Yu nodded and made up his mind: "Oh, then sell it."
After replying to the message, it was rare for her to hear Xu Huaisong ask: "If it is adapted into a movie, what will be the ending?"
Ruan Yu thought to herself, how could she know, and said with a smile: "Nowadays, many adaptations don't respect the original, and I don't necessarily have the right to make the decision."
"According to the original book?"
Ruan Yu fell silent.
According to her original idea, at the end of the story, two liberal arts brother classes met on a graduation trip, and the heroine carefully planned a confession, intending to express her heart to the hero during the trip. But after she secretly confirmed to the organizer repeatedly that "the hero will come", he still missed the appointment.
Just like reality.
It's just that in the novel, the hero will be given some reason for breaking the appointment, but in reality, Ruan Yu thinks that Xu Huaisong's refusal to keep the appointment is because he has no nostalgia for Suzhou No. 1 Middle School, including her.
She told the ending and asked, "Isn't it a bit cruel?"
Xu Huaisong's hands on the steering wheel slowly tightened, he opened his mouth and then closed it, and finally said "um".
Ruan Yu laughed very relieved: "But it's actually a happy ending."
"How to say?"
"Because the heroine will put down the hero."
The most difficult thing to cure in this world is never "broken love", but "secret love". Because in the "secret love", you have never worked hard, you have never been hurt by that person, and all you see and hear is his beautiful appearance, so you will always be trapped in your own cocoon.
But once you muster up all your courage to try, but you are completely defeated, then this "secret love" that is difficult to get better will become a "broken love" that can be cured.
The world is big and the years are long. The heroine will put down the hero.
Xu Huaisong didn't breathe for more than ten seconds.
The speed of the car broke through a hundred yards.
He suddenly remembered what he had seen before, a writer's evaluation of Ruan Yu's writing: in a few words, digging decay from romance, and finally turning decay into splendor. This little girl's words are too transparent.
Yes, she lived too transparently.
He seemed timid, but knowing that he was going to study in the United States, he didn't think it was an insurmountable obstacle.
It seems nostalgic, but there is no real regret for everything in the past.
"You're speeding, Lawyer Xu!" Ruan Yu's loud reminder interrupted his train of thought.
He slowed down with an "oh", and said after a long time: "The producer will not accept this ending."
Ruan Yu didn't understand what he meant, and nodded in agreement: "I think so too."
When Ruan Yu opened his eyes again, the outside world was calm. It wasn't raining in Hangzhou, and the car was parked downstairs in her apartment.
She rubbed her eyes in a daze, realizing that she had fallen asleep, and Xu Huaisong sat quietly in the driver's seat and did not wake her up.
She asked in surprise: "How long have I been asleep? Why didn't you wake me up?"
"Just stepped on the brakes to call you."
She glanced at her phone suspiciously, and found that the time was obviously very late, far exceeding the time required for driving.
Xu Huaisong glanced at her and explained: "There is a traffic jam on the road."
Oh, I see.
She loosened her seat belt, opened the car door and said, "Thank you, Lawyer Xu, then I will go up first, and you should pay attention to safety on the way back."
Xu Huaisong didn't respond, he paused and said, "I'm hungry."
Ruan Yu stepped on the wrong foot and turned around with a surprised expression.
The phrase "I'm hungry", how could she suddenly hear a taste of "I'm hurt"
She reacted: "Oh, I fell asleep and forgot that you haven't eaten yet... Then, do you want to go up and eat something?"
Xu Huaisong nodded and got out of the car with her.
When he was about to enter the gate of the apartment, a group of aunts who had just returned from a square dance passed by on the side of the road. Xu Huaisong suddenly walked around from her right hand to her left hand, raised his hand, and pressed his temple.
Ruan Yu was confused, glanced at the group of aunts who were leaving by the wind, and said, "What's wrong?"
"fine."
He couldn't say that he was just covering his face, so as not to be recognized as the drunk that day.
As the saying goes, once you are acquainted, you are acquainted twice. This time, Ruan Yu was a little less cautious. After inviting him in, he even opened the shoe cabinet very smoothly and took out a pair of slippers for him.
Ever since Li Shican and Xu Huaisong came here one after another, she went to the supermarket once and bought men's slippers to be prepared.
A smile appeared in Xu Huaisong's eyes, and when she turned her head into the kitchen, she said, "Go and change first."
Ruan Yu was taken aback, and looked down at his muddy skirt.
That's right, it's not very hygienic.
She said "oh", told him to sit in the living room for a while, then turned around and went into the bedroom. The moment the door was closed, I suddenly realized that my heart was a little big.
Such a big man is just a door away, and she is here to change clothes carefree
Thinking of this, she intentionally made a continuous coughing sound, then used the noise as a cover, and quietly locked the door behind her.
But Xu Huaisong outside the door still heard a slight "click". He froze for a moment, laughed angrily, got up and left the sofa.
When Ruan Yu came out, he saw that the living room was empty, and Xu Huaisong was washing dishes in front of the kitchen sink.
It was the dishes that she didn't have time to wash after breakfast today.
A strong sense of guilt arises spontaneously. Look, he is obviously such a gentleman who can learn from the sun and the moon!
She hurried forward: "What kind of dishes are you washing?"
Xu Huaisong put down a few clean dishes, dried his hands, and said, "Meal expenses."
For his attitude of not eating free food, Ruan Yu carefully ordered a bowl of noodle soup, green vegetables, shredded meat, shrimp and egg skin. This color combination is more sincere than traffic lights.
Xu Huaisong wanted to wash the dishes after eating, but she stopped her: "Your hands are too delicate, so I'll do it."
"Exquisite?" He asked back.
"Isn't it often said in idol dramas that the hands playing the piano cannot be injured?"
"..."
Xu Huaisong didn't ask her how she knew he could play the piano. I know without asking, there must be another report on the Internet.
Ruan Yu took the bowls and chopsticks and went to the kitchen. He sat in the living room thinking, and sent a message to Chen Hui on his mobile phone: "Help me prepare a piano."
Chen Hui: "Brother Wow Song, you can also play the piano? You are really versatile."
Xu Huaisong didn't answer, but leaned back in his chair and sighed.
I can’t play anymore, I haven’t touched it for eight years, and I can’t even recognize the staff. After the driver's license test, it's time to practice back to the old line of "Huaze Lei", and then study and brush up questions to prepare for the domestic judicial examination in September.
Which hero in her novel lived as down-to-earth as him
Looking at the time, he got up and went to the kitchen, knocked on the door: "I'm going back."
Ruan Yu was washing the dishes, turned to look at him, washed his hands, and said, "Oh, okay, I'll take you downstairs."
"..."
She really didn't list him on the "boyfriend" reserve at all, so she was so polite.
He refused the VIP treatment: "No need." After finishing speaking, he was silent and asked, "The court will be held the day after tomorrow."
"Well, yes."
"I also had a trial that day in San Francisco."
Ruan Yu felt that he talked a little too much today, and after thinking about it, he understood the meaning of the twists and turns.
He was saying that he would not be able to attend her trial.
But what's the point? Even now, he does not have a domestic lawyer qualification certificate, so it is impossible to stand on the lawyer's seat.
She said, "It's okay, there is Lawyer Liu."
Xu Huaisong said "Yes", turned around, changed his shoes and went out, and went downstairs.
Ruan Yu stood in front of the sink and continued to wash the dishes, heard the sound of the car starting, looked down, and saw the Cayenne slowly driving out of the street of the community, condensed into a small dot in the night, and finally disappeared completely.
In her mind, a poem by Zheng Chouyu suddenly appeared-"I walked across the south of the Yangtze River, and the face waiting in the seasons bloomed and fell like a lotus... My Dada's horseshoe is a beautiful mistake. I am not a returnee, but a passerby." .”
Ruan Yu lowered his head and glanced at the bowl in his hand, realizing later that Xu Huaisong was going back to the United States, so, is this the last time they see each other
She put away the clean bowls and chopsticks, turned her head and nestled into the sofa to lie down, smelled a faint masculine scent, quickly got up and waved her hands, trying to drive it away.
After finally disappearing, Xu Huaisong slid the phone away, but seeing the lingering Xu Huaisong praised her today's Moments again, which kind of meant "I accepted your flattery", and the time was a minute ago.
a minute ago
She was taken aback, then returned to the message box, and sent a message: "Lawyer Xu, don't play with your mobile phone while driving. It is very strict in China now."
Xu Huaisong: "Understood."
Nephrite: "Then why are you still playing?"
Xu Huaisong: "You sent the message first."
Nephrite: "You don't have to go back."
Xu Huaisong really didn't reply.
Ruan Yu scratched his hair.
The feeling of not getting a reply to the message seems to be really bad...
She turned her head and went to the bathroom to take a shower. After washing, she looked at her phone again.
There is a red "1" on the WeChat icon.
After clicking on it, Xu Huaisong said, "We're at the hotel."
She put the cursor on the typing box, thought for a long time, and finally said only one word: "OK."