Ruan Yu was in a state of trance the whole time, mechanically obeying all Xu Huaisong's arrangements.
When she arrived at the hotel with her bag in hand, the door was swiped open with a "beep" sound, and she finally recovered from the chaos tonight, and said in shock, "Why don't I stay at Mingying's place?"
Xu Huaisong had an expression of "you ask me, who should I ask?".
Say Cao Cao, Cao Cao arrives. Shen Mingying's call came in.
Ruan Yu picked up the phone and heard the other end ask: "How is the person?"
"never mind."
"Are you home?"
"It might not be safe at home, I didn't go back."
"Then where are you? Come here, I'll kick my boyfriend out."
"Uh..." Ruan Yu pondered for a moment, watching the bag in his hand being taken away by Xu Huaisong and carried it through the door, so he had no choice but to follow him in first.
The door was closed with a "click", and Shen Mingying heard it, and said sharply: "Have you opened the room?"
"Hmm." To be precise, she didn't drive it.
Ruan Yu struggled, took the phone away, and looked at Xu Huaisong who turned his head to pick up the water bottle: "How about I go to Ming Ying's place?"
He glanced at her: "I've been driving all night."
The implication is that I am too tired to drive anymore.
After he finished speaking, he went to boil the water, and at the same time, Shen Mingying's voice blew out the receiver of the mobile phone: "Oh my god, man, Ruan Yu, you are promising!"
"..."
Ruan Yu quickly covered the phone's sound hole, and whispered, "It's not what you think."
"No, I hope it's what I think. Is it the blind date? Didn't you go to dinner with him?"
She was afraid that if she said "Xu Huaisong" at this time, Shen Mingying would blow her up, so she could only say: "I will explain to you tomorrow." After finishing speaking, she hung up the phone.
There was silence all around, Ruan Yu stood where he was, and looked around carefully.
This is a senior suite. The living room and bedroom are divided into two rooms. A balcony and kitchen cabinets are set up on the east side of the living room. There is even a piano on the balcony. It can be regarded as a simple apartment.
Probably the place where Xu Huaisong lived for a long time a while ago.
Ruan Yu walked to the kitchen counter and said, "I'd better go downstairs and open a standard room..."
Xu Huaisong knelt down and opened the refrigerator door, and replied, "I will go."
She rubbed her nose and said "Oh" embarrassedly: "I'll pay for the room."
Xu Huaisong glanced at her, but didn't answer, and asked instead, "What do you want to eat? Only fast food."
It was only then that Ruan Yu realized that he hadn't had dinner yet, but he might be too hungry and had no appetite, so he said, "Anything is fine."
Xu Huaisong took out a box of instant rice and instant curry, warmed it up for her, and then took away the laptop and a cat basket.
Ruan Yu's eyes fell on the cat basket, he looked inside and found a little orange cat sleeping. She lowered her voice and said angrily, "You brought the cat."
Xu Huaisong nodded, walked to the door and turned around to explain: "The sheets and toiletries are all new. I don't sleep at night, call me if I need anything."
Oh, Ruan Yu remembered, he just returned to China yesterday and was jet-lagged.
She said "um", and after he left, she took a few mouthfuls of food and was so tired that she took a shower and went to bed, but when she really wanted to sleep, she fell into a state where she was so exhausted that she couldn't fall asleep.
In fact, she is a bit of a bedfellow.
She took out her phone, avoided the Weibo icon, clicked on WeChat, swiped around, and unknowingly switched to Xu Huaisong's dialog box.
The cursor flickered, and she typed: [Lawyer Xu, I forgot to say thank you, thanks to you today.]
Xu Huaisong: [It's okay.]
Nephrite: [Then I'm asleep, if you need something at night, you can wake me up.]
Xu Huaisong: [Good night.]
Ruan Yu was stunned, Xu Huaisong actually said goodnight to humanity
In the spirit of returning the gift, she replied: [Good night.]
In the next second, Xu Huaisong: [Sleep.]
Hey, why is this so like the three good male protagonists in her previous novels who never let the woman end the conversation
What is wrong with this high mountain flower today
After thinking for a while, her head gradually became heavy, and she finally fell asleep. When she woke up again, she felt as if she had been crushed by a ghost and was so uncomfortable that she couldn't breathe and couldn't move.
The bedroom was still dark. She picked up her phone and looked at it, only to find that it was two o'clock in the morning.
The temperature difference between her palm and the phone soon made her realize that she had a fever.
All the pressure of the past month finally exploded under the stimulation of the farce this night.
She barely had the energy to speak, only feeling thirsty and flustered.
Ruan Yu threw off the quilt and got out of bed, and walked to the living room to look for water. When he saw the mineral water, he was afraid that drinking cold would make his condition worse, so he turned to look for the kettle again.
But she didn't know where the kettle was put. She was dizzy and couldn't find it for a long time.
Remembering that Xu Huaisong said he couldn't sleep, she took out her phone and typed hard: [Lawyer Xu, where did you put the kettle?]
Xu Huaisong: [It should be on the second floor of the kitchen cabinet, no?]
She squatted down and turned over the kettle, just got it, filled it with water and plugged in the electricity, there was a "ding dong" sound outside the door, and at the same time, she received another message: [It's me, open the door.]
Ruan Yu was dizzy, dragged over and opened the door, and said in a hoarse voice, "I found it, please."
But Xu Huaisong saw that something was wrong with her face at a glance, and subconsciously reached out to poke her forehead, then frowned, closed the door and came in: "Why don't you tell me you have a fever?"
There was smoke in her throat, and she couldn't speak very well, so she squeezed out a sentence: "It's nothing serious."
Xu Huaisong told her to sit on the sofa, turned around to look through the suitcase, took out an ear thermometer and pressed it against her ear, saw the number displayed "38.5", and frowned even more: "I'll take you to the hospital."
Ruan Yu shook his head: "It's too much trouble to go to the emergency room..."
All she wants now is to drink water and fall asleep.
Xu Huaisong sighed, turned to make a phone call, probably to the front desk, asking someone to bring something.
Ruan Yu saw that he hadn't finished beating, so he got up to pour water by himself, but was stopped by his arm halfway: "Sit back."
She slumped back to the sofa again. At this time, she really didn't have the strength to be polite to him. Seeing him feeding the water with the adjusted temperature to her mouth, she lowered her head and drank it before she had time to worry about anything.
After drinking a glass, she heard Xu Huaisong ask, "Do you want more?"
She shook her head, curled up on the sofa.
Xu Huaisong went to the bedroom to get her a blanket, and then opened the door to get antipyretic medicine and antipyretic stickers, but after going back and forth like this, she was seen falling asleep on the sofa.
He helped her up, and originally wanted to tell her to take medicine, but he didn't expect her to fall into his arms out of inertia.
Her hot cheek pressed against his chest through the shirt, burning him up.
Xu Huaisong's heart was beating so loudly that he worried that she might be woken up.
He took a deep breath, held the measuring cup filled with the medicine in one hand, and hugged her with the other, calling her name directly for the first time in his life: "Ruan Yu."
She seemed to have heard it, and frowned, but she was still half asleep and half awake without opening her eyes.
He had no choice but to bring the measuring cup to her mouth and say, "Drink the medicine."
Sure enough, she had some vague consciousness, and told her to drink medicine, she pursed her lips and drank it.
Xu Huaisong put down the measuring cup and wanted to put her back on the sofa, but as if he was greedy for something, he didn't move for a long time. Finally, he lowered his head, put his chin on the top of her hair, and said, "I want to take you back to the room. May I?"
Ruan Yu fell asleep, so of course he didn't answer.
His Adam's apple rolled, and he held her calf with one hand, and hugged her horizontally.
It was a short walk from the living room to the bedroom, very slowly.
Reason told him that it is not a gentleman to take advantage of others' danger. But there was another voice in his mind, telling him to be a villain.
It wasn't until he found Ruan Yu huddled in his arms, as if feeling cold, that he quickened his pace, put her back on the bed, and covered her with the quilt.
Looking down again at his crumpled shirt - where her face had been pasted, he suddenly felt lost.
Xu Huaisong took the anti-fever stickers and stuck them on her forehead, then sat down beside the bed.
After suppressing his thoughts all night, he broke the dike without warning.
He thought, he could imagine how Li Shican liked Ruan Yu.
That person is like a shooter charging forward, without twists and turns, without twists and turns, shooting straight balls one after another, even if he doesn't score, he will never tire of it.
But he is different.
He always stood on the sidelines and watched from afar, designing that this link should be dribbled, and that link should be intensively defended, simulating how to break through to be more foolproof.
So the result is that after such a long time, he is still standing still.
He didn't dare to try to shoot easily, and he didn't dare to say that sentence easily, because he only gave himself one chance.
If turned away, he thought, he might not have the courage to try a second time.
In fact, he is not as strong as he appears to be on the surface, and he is steady at every step because of his inner cowardice.
Perhaps Ruan Yu's readers are all looking forward to the reason why the hero was absent from that trip, imagining what a sad misunderstanding or hardship there is behind it.
But really, there's no particular reason at all.
In the first half of the semester of high school, my parents got into a divorce and fought for the custody of a son and a daughter, and finally negotiated and decided to have one child.
Dad is going to live in America. The younger sister secretly cried and told him that she didn't want to go with her father.
Then he goes.
He knew that he was the one who was going to leave, so it was impossible for him to say to Ruan Yu, "Although I will settle in the United States after graduating from high school, can you stay with me?"
At that time, he had no ability to decide his own life at all. So he couldn't convince himself that a little liking would affect a girl's future.
He voluntarily gave up that graduation trip.
He doesn't like to say goodbye, doesn't like the last side full of ceremonies, doesn't like to taste a little sweetness, and then taste the endless bitterness in the infinite time without her.
"If you can't give it all to me, don't give it all to me."—As Zhang Huimei sings. Xu Huaisong is such a person.
Throughout the three years of high school, the only time he lost control was the New Year's Day fireworks on the day he turned eighteen.
Xu Huaisong quietly looked at the person curled up in a ball on the bed, and couldn't help reaching out to approach her cheek.
But his hands were too cold, Ruan Yu also felt resistance in his sleep, and turned his head to avoid it.
His hands froze there.
After an unknown amount of time, a sigh-like murmur sounded in the silent room: "Can you... like me again?"