only feeling puzzled. She continued to chat with her friends in the department as she walked towards a kebab store off campus.
At this time of day, and with tomorrow being the weekend, the store is not very crowded.
Someone in the department had come early to take a seat, and Sanji walked over to sit down. After a while, she noticed that a table for two had been cleared, and afterward, there was only one customer who sat up.
It’s Jiang Ying.
Meeting eyes again.
Sang Chi looked at her hesitantly, and only at this moment did she get the feeling that Jiang Ying had come over specifically to find her.
But what was Jiang Ying doing here looking for her.
And how did she know she was here.
Sangji couldn’t figure it out and didn’t care about her anymore, looking down and sipping from his cup.
Jiang Ying seemed to just come over to eat, and didn’t take the initiative to come over to trouble her. However, her gaze did rest on her body from time to time, with a few measurements, making people feel less comfortable.
Sanji simply switched places with his friend across the table and gradually forgot about the man’s existence.
After dinner, San Zhi Zhi got up and went into the restroom. She just wanted to come in to wash her hands, touch up her makeup, and nothing else.
Without waiting for her to get to the sink, she followed the mirror to see Jiang Ying who followed her in. Sang Chi gave her a look, didn’t say anything, and squeezed some hand sanitizer onto her hand.
Jiang Ying took out her lipstick from her bag and really took the initiative to speak out, “Are you Duan Jia Xu’s new date?”
Sanji didn’t say anything.
“Also, college students can be really easy to cheat.” Jiang Ying laughed and said, “Just happened to bump into you here, I’ll remind you, he could have gone on hundreds of blind dates before, do you know why he couldn’t get on any of them?”
Sang-chi said expressionlessly, “Not just in time, you just came to me of your own accord to say these things.”
“Isn’t it because I don’t want to see a little girl like you go astray?” Jiang Ying’s tone was calm, “Do you know that he has a vegetative father who is still lying in the hospital?”
Sanji’s hand movements stopped.
“Looks like he didn’t mention it to you at all,” noticing her reaction, the corner of Jiang Ying’s lips hooked up, “I’ll tell you another secret, his father is still an animal who hit and killed people with a drunk driver.”
“……”
“You have to pay nearly one hundred thousand dollars a year in medical expenses to support a beast,” Jiang Ying said, “What girl is so rich to be able to stay up with him, not even a house.”
Only then did Sang-chi raise her head, completely unaffected by the comment, and said rightfully, “I have money.”
“…… “Obviously unable to believe that she would react this way, Jiang Ying’s expression instantly became not so good, “His father ran over someone, he’s a murderer, didn’t you hear me?”
Sang-chi spoke slowly, “So am I hardly going to marry his father?”
“……”
Not wanting to stay with her any longer, Sang-chi didn’t even feel like touching up her makeup, drew a piece of paper and headed out the door.
Jiang Ying was no longer able to maintain her surface calmness and violently slammed the lipstick in her hand onto her body: ”You don’t understand human language? Do you have a brain problem? Can’t you understand when I’m talking to you properly?”
Lipsticks are small and don’t hurt when they hit.
But it instantly ignited Sanji’s fire.
Sang Chi’s eyes dropped, staring at the lipstick rolling on the floor, and then raised her eyes to look at her again. She let out a cold laugh, ripped the bag off her body, and threw it forcefully into Jiang Ying’s face. She moved her neck, her tone extremely nonchalant, “Who spoiled you with all your stinky problems.”
“……”
Jiang Ying was smashed back a step, and after a few seconds of silence, she laughed instead, “Who do you think is spoiled?”
“……”
“Duan Jia Xu ah.”
Stalemate for a moment.
Sang Chi’s eyes were dark and stared straight at her, “Auntie, if you were really spoiled, why did you have to come over to me today?”
“……”
“Having this free time to do this kind of thing,” Sang Chi picked up the bag on the ground and said in a mean tone, “might as well spend some time on maintenance, or else you’re standing piece by piece with Duan Jiaxu, and I’d have thought that you’re his mom’s friend.”
With that she exited the restroom.
Jiang Ying came on fire and immediately followed her out. She grabbed Sang Zhi’s arm and raised her hand, shaking with anger.
It so happened that Liang Jun also came over to use the restroom. Seeing this situation, he froze and immediately yanked Sang Zhi’s hand, shielding it behind himself as he angrily shouted, “What are you doing?!”
“……”
Jiang Ying didn’t say anything, staring at Sang Zhi with a deadpan stare, and it didn’t take long for him to turn around and go back to his position.
Liang Jun asked a few questions, and Sang Zhi vaguely made up a few reasons. She returned to her position as well, absentmindedly glancing at her cell phone, the words Jiang Ying had just said constantly echoing in her mind.
After finishing this, the guys in the department decided to go to a nearby clearing bar to play games.
Sang Zhi did not have a problem with it and followed her there. But she couldn’t concentrate, inexplicably recalling the image of Duan Jia Xu smoking alone on the balcony on the night he stayed at her house.
Thinking of his line, “When Sonny Wizards earns money in the future, buy yourself nice dresses to wear.”
Thinking back to his college days when he had one part-time job after another.
Thinking about how he didn’t go to the hospital when he was sick and spent every holiday alone.
Thinking about his life lately, it seemed to go by brightly.
Thinking of his bent eyes, indulgent, grinning, he said to her, “What other little girls have, we just have to have, too.”
The hurdle that he had been unable to pass, at this moment seemed to have opened up. Sang Zhi instantly had a brain fever, suddenly got up and said goodbye to the others, “I have something to do, I’ll leave first.”
–
When he arrived at the downstairs of Duan Jia Xu’s house, someone happened to open the downstairs door.
Sang Chi followed her inside, her mind going blank as she got into the elevator and went up to the floor of Duan Jia Xu’s house, then stood still in front of his house. She exhaled and rang the doorbell.
The door was quickly opened.
Duan Jia Xu seemed to have just gotten out of the shower, with water still dripping from his hair and an extremely strong minty scent emanating from his body. His expression was a bit frozen, as if he hadn’t expected her to come over at this point in time.
Staring at her expression, Duanjia Xu bent down and asked hesitantly, “Why did you come over?”
Sang-chi stared at him as well, not answering his question, and as if on impulse, and as if the words he had been holding back for so long had finally come out, the unusually blunt phrase bubbled up, “Can you like me all the time?”
Anyway, I was supposed to like you first.
It would have been me who preferred you too.
That’s why I want to be with you all the time.
Even if you later, really don’t like me.
I don’t seem to be at a disadvantage either.
Duan Jia Xu was still a bit unresponsive, and even had the feeling that he had fallen asleep and had a dream. He lowered his eyes and subconsciously spoke his thoughts, “Yes.”
Sanji sniffled, “Then–“
“Wait a minute,” Duanjash laughed, “what are you doing.”
Without waiting for Sang Chi to speak again, Duan Jia Xu had already tugged on her wrist and pulled her into the house, “Come in first.”
“……”
“Tell me,” Duanjash said patiently, “what’s wrong?”
“It just felt like the right day.” Sanji whispered, “So I didn’t want to wait.”
Duan Jiaxu’s breathing stopped before he realized that she didn’t seem to be joking, “Drinking?”
Sanji: “No.”
Duanjia Xu: “Agree to be with me?”
“Uh-huh.”
A few seconds of silence.
Duan Jia Xu suddenly cupped her chin and lifted her face upwards. His eyes were deep, staring into her clear and nervous eyes, and the knot in his throat rolled up and down as he reconfirmed, “Thinking about it?”
Without looking away, Sanji stared at him as well and hmmmed again.
Finally a positive answer.
The close distance, the rising ambiguous atmosphere, was like a dream-like scene. Duan Jia Xu’s eyes darkened, staring at her lips, he suddenly opened his mouth and said in a mute voice, “Open your mouth.”
Sanji didn’t react and ah’d, his lips parting in obedience.
The next moment, his voice fell.
It was accompanied by an extremely warm, yet warm touch.
“Brother teaches you how to kiss.”
Chapter 55
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His words, and his gesture, came as a surprise.
When Sang Zhi came back to her senses, Duan Jia Xu’s lips had already covered, his tongue probing into her lips and teeth, with a minty, biting breath, yet inexplicably hot.
It’s like an electric current, constantly heating up.
Kuwabara’s eyes widened a bit, and she subconsciously took a step back, her back against the door, and was instantly tugged back by him. Her head was tilted up passively, and her wrists were grabbed by him, fixed in front of his chest.
At this moment, Sanji could not perceive anything else.
All of her senses, anything she could see around her, were occupied by the man in front of her.
Sanji is inexperienced and passive.
Even forgot to close his eyes, staring at his thick eyebrows, extremely clear eyelashes, as well as the straight bridge of his nose. That pair of peach blossom eyes, which were always sparse but also appeared to be sentimental, only at this moment did they seem to be truly colored with love.
Her consciousness became a little dazed, but her body still seemed stiff.
Perhaps noticing her lack of knowledge, Duanjia Xu seemed to laugh, with a thin and sensual sound of breath. His palm lifted upwards and covered her eyes.
Extremely strong, but with extreme tenderness.
The towel he had on his shoulders also fell to the ground with a muffled sound. Water was still falling from the ends of his hair, becoming cold as it stained the air and dripping down to Sanji’s neck.
Sanji couldn’t help but cringe.
Duan Jia Xu’s movements finally stopped and kissed her lips again. And then, with the side of his head, his lips pressed between her ears, his voice was low and muffled, with a loving tone, “Like you.”
Sanji felt like his ears were numb as well.
The next moment, he moved his hand downward, exposing her covered eyes. Fingers gently rubbed her cheek.
The two men’s eyes met.
Duan Jia Xu’s eyes were lowered and slightly curved, tinted with a shallow light. His lips were red and colorful with watery light, outlining a shallow arc. His eyes stared straight at her as if he couldn’t move away.
Sangji also stared at him in a daze, as if he was sucked in by the light in his eyes, his consciousness still a little cloudy.
“Seriously, let me tell you something.” Duan Jia Xu’s voice line seemed low, the words did not bring half a bit of embarrassment, vaguely containing a smile, “Actually, I wouldn’t.”
Sanji subconsciously asked, “What.”
“But always being told by you that you’re old, it feels so honest to say it.” Duan Jia Xu rubbed the corner of her eye and continued, “It’s a bit faceless.”
“……”
Duanjia Xu: “It’s my first time to fall in love too.”
After a few seconds, he lowered his voice and added, “It’s the first time I’ve ever, liked someone so much, too.”
“……”
Duan Jiaxu bent down to level with her and said seriously, “So don’t you dare try to dump me.”
Sangji looked nebulous.
Duan Jia Xu said with a low laugh, “Having already kissed, you have to be responsible for me for the rest of your life.”
“……”
His words, in turn, caused Sang Chi to instantly recall what had just happened. Her head boomed and immediately turned red, and her lips were still numb and extremely real to the touch.
Sang Chi put the back of her hand against her lips and stared at him before she acted like she was being taken advantage of and stumbled, “I, I just agreed, I just …… you, you ……”
“A little too happy.” Duan Jia Xu coughed softly, his tone was gentle but like a loser, “So I didn’t hold back. I’m sorry, I’ll be more careful next time.”
Sang Chi found it extremely unbelievable, “What kind of person first time, first time on ……”
Duan Jiaxu stifled a laugh, “I’ll pay attention to the flow in the future.”
“……”
“Gradually,” said Duan Jiaxu, “consider this time as an exercise, okay?”
Sang Chi really couldn’t hold back this time, and went up to him, pinched his face, which was always devoid of any proper form, and twisted it, and said in annoyance, “Do you want to be shameless!”
Duan Jia Xu let her pinch him, and also bent his waist in an unusually cooperative manner. Soon, he straightened up again and reminded, “You’d better not lean so close to me.”
Sang-chi was not happy, “I’m partial.”
Duan Jia Xu raised his eyebrows and said very bluntly, “I want to kiss you when you lean so close.”
“……”
Sang Chi’s expression lurched, which caused him to withdraw his hand somewhat unnaturally, look away from his eyes, and mutter, “I’m done talking, I’m going back to school.”
“Wait a minute,” as if remembering something, Duan Jia Xu suddenly leaned over and stared carefully at her lips, “Did I just knock my teeth into your mouth ……”
“……”
Sanji looked at him in disbelief.
He’s in the end! Yes! How did he do that! He can! With no expression on his face! Say such words! The–! Ah-!
Without waiting for him to finish, Sang Chi violently reached out and covered his mouth, almost breaking down, “No bump, no bump! Didn’t! Don’t you say it!”
Duan Jia Xu froze, stared at her reddened face, and burst out laughing. Warm breath sprayed on her palm, tickling her a little, “Okay, don’t say it.”
When he finished, he glanced a few more times toward Sanji’s lips and muttered, “It appears not.”
“……”
–
Taking advantage of the time when Duan Jia Xu went back to his room to change his clothes, San Zhi went to the refrigerator, rummaged for a bottle of orange juice, and took out a packet of shredded squid from the TV cabinet, and sat down on the sofa.
She tore open the package and drew one into her mouth.
Thinking back to the earlier chat in the dormitory, the conclusion drawn by my roommate, “A twenty-five year old male with no sexual experience would be perverted!”
Sanji corrected gravely.
It’s been twenty-six.
There’s really a bit of speechlessness.
Talking about serious things, he suddenly kissed up and said he’d teach her.
Your own pro’s obviously aren’t much better.
But remembering Duan Jia Xu’s words just now, the small depression in Sang Zhi’s heart instantly dispersed, the corners of his lips inexplicably curved up again, unscrewing the cap of the bottle and sipping the orange juice in small sips.
Duan Jia Xu came out of the room at this time. His hair was still half-wet, hanging casually in front of his forehead, and he looked more than a little juvenile.
He walked over and sat down next to Sanji.
Staring at her nibbling on her snacks like a hamster, Duan Jia Xu inexplicably wanted to laugh.
Sang Chi’s eyes didn’t move, as if he was feeling uncomfortable, and coldly ventured, “Can you stop looking at me all the time.”
“Okay.” Duan Jia Xu obediently retracted his gaze, picked up the water cup on the table and took a sip of water, asking the very first question, “Why do you suddenly feel that today is appropriate?”
Kuwabara thought about it for a moment, unsure if he should say anything.
Duanjia Xu laughed, “And you messed up my plans.”
Sanji looked at him, “You have a plan?”
“Well, ready to go to your dormitory downstairs the night after tomorrow to confess.” Duan Jiaxu calmly said, “Light a love candle, hold a flower, and prepare lines ……”
“Earth.”
“This is still old-fashioned?” Duan Jiaxu said, “Isn’t it popular to confess like this now?”
Sanji thought back, and it did seem like she saw a lot of them at school. She reluctantly agreed and asked in a small voice, “What were the lines you had prepared?”
Duan Jia Xu suddenly called out to her, his speech slow, “Sang Zhi.”
Sanji: “Huh?”
“I like you.”
“……”
“Please stay with me.”
“……,” Sanji blinked, hesitantly, “so serious?”
“This occasion definitely has to be decent.” Duan Jia Xu lazily paralyzed in his seat and said with a faint smile, “Will make it up to you, I won’t tell you when this time.”
“No need to make it up,” muttered Sanji, “Why confess once when you’re all together.”
He spat out three words, “Ritual.”
Sanji sidled up, “And you care about rituals.”
“I don’t care.” Duan Jia Xu recalled the bowl of noodles that Sang Zhi had specially made for him on his birthday last time, and said slowly, “But my family only only cares.”
Sang Chi didn’t deny it, the pear swirls on her lips deepened as she continued to sip her orange juice, “Brother Jia Xu, is this really the first time you’ve fallen in love?”
Duanjash: “Uh-huh.”
“Oh.”
“What?” Hearing her thoughtful tone, Duan Jia Xu bristled, “Looking down on people?”
“……”
Sangji didn’t know how he looked like this without ever being in a relationship, or maybe she was judging people by their appearance. She couldn’t help but laugh and didn’t hold it back this time, smiling to herself, “No.”
Duan Jiaxu watched her laugh and didn’t get annoyed, laughing along with her.
Noticing the time on the wall, Sang-chi drew a tissue to wipe her hands and pointed to the shredded squid on the table, “I can’t finish it, can I bring it back for dinner?”
“Well, take whatever you want to bring. Better yet,” Duanjash screwed the cap on the orange juice bottle for her, “take me back too.”
“……,” Sanji said with a straight face, “I’m only interested in food.”
“Uh-huh.” Duan Jia Xu smiled ambiguously, “I’m pretty tasty too, right?”
“……”
Sanji gathered his things and stood up, “I’m leaving.”
Looking at her appearance as she prepared to leave, Duan Jia Xu was still sitting in his original position, not moving. He suddenly sighed, his eyes dropping slightly, and said in a faint voice, “Suddenly remembering, it seems like I haven’t told you about my family’s situation either.”
Hearing this, Sang Chi stopped moving, remembering Jiang Ying’s words tonight.
Then she whispered, “It’s okay if you don’t want to talk about it.”
“Didn’t didn’t want to say.” Duan Jiaxu’s expression carried a few hints of indifference, his tone was calm, “Mother passed away, father plant man, drunk driving hit and killed someone. No house, car, a little bit of savings.”
Sanji stared at him for a moment, not knowing what to say.
“Don’t feel uncomfortable, just feel,” Duan Jiaxu said dangling, “we have this relationship, still have to explain to you.”
Sanji shook his head, “I don’t feel uncomfortable.”
Duan Jia Xu smiled again, “Well, let’s go. Take you back to school.”
“Duan Jia Xu,” Sang Zhi felt that there was something wrong with him and called him properly, coming up to him and staring at his face, “Are you unhappy about mentioning this.”
“Not unhappy.” The knot in Duanjia Xu’s throat rolled, his calm expression instantly disintegrating, “A little nervous.”
Sanji froze, “What’s the tension?”
Duan Jiaxu laughed in a self-deprecating manner, “I’m afraid you’ll mind.”
She stared at him in bewilderment.
In this moment, it suddenly feels a little ridiculous.
Such a man.
A man, who made it impossible for Sanji to fall in love with anyone else after meeting him.
Truly in because of the sins his father had committed.
Feeling inferior.
“…… “Sang Chi was quiet for a few seconds and confessed today’s events in a low voice, “I met Jiang Ying today and she told me about your father.”
Duan Jiaxu’s gaze lurched, “She came to see you?”
“I guess.” Sanji said, “Don’t let her words brainwash you, she doesn’t talk sense. If you see her again next time, you remember to suggest that she go to the hospital to have her brain looked at.”
Duanjia Xu wanted to say something else.
Sang Chi opened his round eyes and gently patted his head, coaxing him in a serious manner, “Actually, I don’t think a house is a necessity of life, but if you want it, you’ll wait for me for a few more years.”
“……”
“When I graduate and make money, I’ll buy it for you.”
–
Sent Sanji back to the dormitory.
Duan Jia Xu returned to the car and smiled to himself as he thought about her words. After thinking about it, he took out his cell phone and sent a message to Sang Yan, while later calling Qian Fei.
After a few rings, Qian Fei picked up, “I’m really curious.”
“Hmm?”
“Why do you always like to call me late at night.”
“It’s not very late.” Duan Jia Xu said good-naturedly, “Wanted to talk to you about something.”
“Chased?”
Duanjia Xu smiled, “Uh-huh.”
“Can ah brother.” Qian Fei excitedly said, “Right, it’s really thanks to me, if it wasn’t for me, could you have chased after it? If it wasn’t for me! You have to thank me properly!”
Duan Jiaxu obediently said, “Thank you brother.”
“You’re welcome, you better get married before Sang Yeon, I’m so sick of him ……”
“Dude, there’s something I haven’t been honest with you about.”
“Huh?”
Duan Jia Xu: “This girl, you actually know.”
Qian Fei had a bad feeling, “…… ah? You Yiho know people, how do I know them in Nanwu, are you crazy?”
Duanjia Xu: “Not met at Yiho.”
Qian Fei guessed, “Our college classmates? Who went to work at Yiho?”
Duanjash: “Not working, but coming over for college.”
Qian Fei: “……”
It was cold for a long time.
Qian Fei’s voice trembled, “Don’t you tell me it’s Sang Chi.”
Duan Jiaxu’s tone contained a smile, and he hmmm’d.
“……” Qian Fei was silent for a few seconds, “I’m hanging up.”
Duan Jiaxu repeated what he had just said and leisurely said, “It’s really thanks to you.”
“Thanks a lot, my ass!” Qian Fei roared, “I didn’t! I’ve never helped you! Fuck me, Duan Jiaxu, you’re really an animal, you’ve known that girl since she was in her teens, you fucking ……”
Duan Jiaxu raised his eyebrows, “Didn’t you say it’s fine when you’re an adult?”
“……” said Chance Fly, “I said such a thing?”
“Uh-huh.”
“Did you tell Sangyan about this?”
“Not yet.”
“What are you going to say?”
“Didn’t think so.”
“Will you be beaten to death by Sang Yan?” Qian Fei didn’t find this hard to accept, and quickly said playfully, “I’m sorry, I’m actually kind of looking forward to his reaction.”
“I just told him I’m seeing someone.”
“And then what?”
“And I told him,” Duanjash said wistfully, “that it was you who taught me how to chase.”
“……”
Chapter 56
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Qian Fei’s end fell silent. After a long time, he finally opened his mouth, as if he could not believe it, and as if he was holding down his anger, the gloating in his tone was also withdrawn: “Are you still not a human being?”
Duan Jiaxu’s tone was warm, “You’re a big contributor.”
“……”
“I can’t ignore your credit.” Duan Jia Xu spoke very slowly and seemed to be extremely upright, “Isn’t this a white-eyed wolf?”
“Fuck you!” His ability to turn black and white upside down made Qian Fei furious, “If you had told me it was Sang Chi, I would have helped you, my ass!”
“Uh-huh.” Duan Jia Xu laughed, “If it wasn’t for you, I wouldn’t have been able to catch up.”
“……”
“I’ll thank you more in front of my great-uncle later.”
“……”
–
On the other hand, Qian Fei hung up the phone.
At a glance, he saw Sang Yeon’s tweets to him.
Sang Yeon: [Is Duan Jia Xu okay? Looking for your help in chasing someone?
Sang Yeon: [Bullish.
Qian Fei: “……”
Chance Fly: [Get lost.]
Sang Yeon: [Why didn’t he ask for my help?
Sanyan: [Oh.
Sang Yeon: [I don’t know how to chase people either.]
Sang Yeon: [I’m sorry, I’m the one who’s being, like, madly pursued.]
Qian Fei: [Take your medicine if you’re sick.]
Sanjan: [Tell me, how did you help?
Qian Fei was struggling for his life, and excitedly typed a large series of words: [I didn’t help, I don’t know shit, don’t listen to his nonsense, how can I help? I’ve been chasing my wife for half a year, what else can I do to help him?
Sang Yeon: [What are you excited about?
Qian Fei: [I really don’t know.
Sang Yan: [Boss Qian, you’re a bit strange. This is enough for you to brag for three years, and you’re actually denying it?]
“……”
Qian Fei wanted to cry: [I really don’t know, really.]
Sang Yan directly sent a voice over, and said, “You two are good, ostracizing me, aren’t you? Okay.”
Qian Fei: “……”
He really wanted to rush to Yiho and kill Duan Jia Xu.
–
When he passed by the supermarket, Duan Jia Xu got off and went in to buy the shredded squid and orange juice that Sang Zhi had just unwrapped. He returned home and replenished the things back to their original positions, while later sitting in front of the sofa and cleaning up the debris on the coffee table.
The house changed back to the way it was.
But seemingly, there is still a remnant of the scent left behind by Sanji.
Duanjia Xu stayed in the living room for a while. He fished out from his pocket, the lighter that Sang Zhi had given him on his birthday. He then took a cigarette from the cigarette case and bit into his mouth.
There was a two-second pause, not lighting it, and it was quickly put down again with a low laugh.
Duan Jia Xu lazily leaned against the back of the chair and rubbed his lips with his fingertips, his smile more than a little springy and sassy. After a long time, he got up and returned to his room.
The bedside table is also placed on the two a few years ago photo. Next to it is a three-dimensional night light in the style of the moon, which is also a gift from Sangji.
He turned off the lights in his room, while turning on the nightlight.
The room was quiet and dimly lit.
The dim yellow light was a little less cold.
There was also a message on his cell phone from Sanjan.
Even Qian Fei had such a big reaction when he first heard it, so Duan Jia Xu could probably guess what Sang Yan’s reaction would be. He thought for a moment and replied, [I’ll make a trip to Nanwu after a while.]
Duan Jiaxu: [I’ll tell you face to face when the time comes.]
Afterwards, Duan Jia Xu sent a message to Sang Zhi: [Sleeping?
Maybe he was asleep, or maybe he didn’t see it, Sang Zhi didn’t reply immediately. At this point in time, Duan Jia Xu couldn’t sleep either, he got up and opened his computer, wanting to finish the rest of his work.
At that moment, the cell phone rang.
Duan Jia Xu’s gaze was pale, lightly scanning the unfamiliar number on the top, and when he wanted to hang up, he suddenly remembered Sang Zhi’s words today, and the corners of his lips, which had been raised all along, slowly converged a bit.
Jiang Ying has actually done something similar before.
For a while, Jiang Siyun often introduced Duan Jiaxu to people. He didn’t really have much of a heart for this aspect, especially when he had just graduated, and only wanted to focus all his energy on his work.
However, he was not in a position to brush off Jiang Siyun’s goodwill, and felt that he did not seem to have a reason to refuse.
There were a few blind dates that felt like a good match and would also ask him to meet again. Duan Jia Xu politely went to the appointment, but after that, they would all inexplicably break contact.
He had heard one of the blind dates mentioned vaguely through WeChat.
A woman approached her about something.
Duan Jia Xu quickly also guessed that it was Jiang Ying, and after that, he didn’t find it interesting. When Jiang Siyun introduced him again, he just politely declined with the excuse that he didn’t have time.
It’s actually a, pretty realistic thing.
After all, getting married is not a small thing, nor does it have to do with just two people.
Duanjia Xu was very understanding.
Because Jiang Ying didn’t act drastically and didn’t affect the other party too much, and only told the truth about his family, Duan Jia Xu didn’t take this matter too seriously.
After things had gone on for so long, he had also long forgotten about this behavior of Jiang Ying.
It also didn’t occur to her that she would take the initiative to go to Sanji.
Duan Jia Xu’s eyes were calm, unable to see what emotions were there, only a few hints of impatience.
And then picked up the phone.
Fruity.
Jiang Ying’s voice came from the other end of the phone.
And I don’t know how I got his new number.
As if she couldn’t believe that he would pick it up, Jiang Ying seemed to be frozen, her voice hesitant, “Duan Jia Xu?”
Duan Jiaxu asked directly, “You went to Yiho University today?”
“What?” Jiang Ying reacted and mocked, “That little girlfriend of yours told you off, huh? Seeing that you’ve been running over there all day during this time, it’s a lot of effort.”
Duan Jiaxu took the lighter out of his pocket and played with it in his hand without making a sound.
Jiang Ying: “If I had known that college students are so easy to cheat, I should have looked for college students before, right? Are you happy now? That college student is as brainwashed as you are, did you screw someone earlier?”
Duanjia Xu still didn’t say anything.
Ginger Ying’s volume rose, “Are you dumb?”
Duan Jiaxu: “Finished?”
“……”
“You say these words to me, honestly, I really feel no pain.” Duan Jia Xu’s tone was light, his smile had little warmth, “In comparison, your voice is more unbearable to me.”
Jiang Ying was silent for a few seconds and her voice became sharper, “Fine, then I have to disgust you.”
“If you’re happy with it, do it that way.” Duan Jia Xu didn’t care too much, “As for me, I originally felt that this was all a small matter and was too lazy to care. But now I feel a bit annoyed, it doesn’t look too good to deal with it myself, so I can only trouble the people’s police as well.”
“You call the police for what I do? Ah?!”
“I don’t know if it works or not,” Duan Jiaxu laughed softly, “but you have to try, don’t you?”
“Duan Jia Xu!” Jiang Ying’s breathing was heavy and her voice gradually took on a sobbing tone as she reminded hysterically, “Think for yourself! If it wasn’t for your dad! Would my dad be dead!”
Duanjash: “You’d say that too, it’s my dad.”
Jiang Ying: “You’re his son!”
“Listening to your reasoning, my father hit and killed someone with his car, so I, as his son, am also considered to have hit and killed someone?” Duan Jia Xu said mildly, “Then how come you, as his daughter, didn’t die with him in your father’s matter?”
The other end froze, like he hadn’t thought he’d say something like that, “What did you say?”
Duan Jia Xu realized that this was not a good thing to say, but he didn’t feel that there was anything wrong with it. He tugged at the corner of his lips, lowered his voice, and finally said, “What do you think, interesting?”
He then hung up.
Jiang Ying didn’t call again.
Duan Jiaxu blacklisted her number.
–
Sang Zhi finished her shower and came out of the toilet. Seeing Duan Jia Xu’s message, she smiled and replied, [Not yet, planning to go to sleep].
After thinking about it, he added, [But if you want to talk to me, I can barely stay awake.]
Suitor: [Won’t you fall asleep while chatting?]
Sanji was honest: [It should.
Looking at the note, Sang Chi poked open his business card and thought of a bunch of names, but finally changed it to “Duan Jia Xu” in a serious manner.
Duan Jia Xu: [I’m here to give you a sleep aid, huh?
Sang Chi frowned: [Then you can also go to bed earlier, why always stay up late. It’s not a good thing.
Sanji: [You’ll get old fast like that.]
Ning Wei sat in her seat applying body lotion and casually asked, “Sang Sang, what did you do tonight? You came back so late. I just met people from your department at a party and didn’t see you either.”
Sanji looked up, “I went to look for Duanjia Xu.”
Ning Wei: “Going on a date, huh?”
Sanji blinked, “I’m with him.”
Hearing this, Yu Xin turned her head, “So soon?”
“Not soon enough.” Sanji still felt like he was dragging his feet for quite a while, “He didn’t know before that I liked him too, but why would I let him chase after him if he knew, wouldn’t that be kinda weird.”
Yu Xin: “It seems so.”
San Zhi lowered his head and continued to chat with Duan Jia Xu.
Duan Jiaxu: [Let’s just be old, we have a girlfriend anyway.]
Sanji: [?
Sanji: [I! Medium! I mean!
Duanjia Xu: [OK.
Duanjia Xu: [Then I’ll go to bed early.]
Sang-chi looked at the time and said, [We can still talk for half an hour.]
After half an hour.
Perhaps because of today’s events, Sang Chi was not half sleepy and full of spirit until now. She hugged her cell phone and huddled under the quilt, without the slightest intention of going to sleep.
Instead, it was Duan Jiaxu who took the initiative to mention, [Half an hour, sleep?
Sanji rolled his eyes, reluctantly, [It felt like we could talk for another half hour.]
This time Duan Jiaxu returned after several dozen seconds, repeating what she had just said: [This will make me grow old very quickly.]
The corners of Sanji’s mouth curled up, repeating his words as well, [Let’s just be old, we have a girlfriend anyway].
“……”
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Before you know it, June is upon us.
The work within Sangji’s group was already finished, with only minor revisions to be made, and it would soon be submitted.
Exam week is also coming, Sang Chi put the competition aside, began to busy on the exams, but also take this time, like Ning Wei, made a resume form, to the appropriate company to submit a resume.
After considering it for a long time, Sang Chi called Lai Ping and nervously mentioned the matter of not going home for the summer vacation.
After hearing her idea, Li Ping also unexpectedly did not have much objection, just let her pay attention to her own safety, and then she must go home on the National Day.
Sanji agreed to come down.
The courses have stopped one after another, Sang Chi wants to get a scholarship, so pay extra attention to academic performance, most of the time are soaked in the library, and the number of times to meet with Duan Jiaxu is also correspondingly less.
Duan Jia Xu mentioned accompanying him a few times, but Sang Zhi still refused. She felt that she definitely couldn’t concentrate with Duan Jia Xu next to her. Moreover, he would probably be bored if he stayed in the library.
On this day, Sang Chi finished washing up and came out of the toilet. She climbed into bed and before she went to sleep, she heard Wang Ruolan saying, “I think it says that the whole school will be blacked out tomorrow eh.”
Ning Wei: “Huh?”
Wang Ruolan: “It says it’s repairing the power distribution room, and then only a few dormitory buildings have electricity, nothing else.”
Ning Wei: “Do we have one in our dormitory?”
Roland Wang: “No.”
Yu Xin: “How long is the stop?”
Roland Wang: “From 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., stopping for the day.”
Yu Xin: “And let’s not talk about anything else, just this day, without electricity I’ll get heat stroke.”
Sangji also felt a bit annoyed, after all, she had to use the computer for her revision as well. But after she thought it over, she felt as if it wasn’t a big deal. She could get up tomorrow and go straight to a quiet cafe off campus and stay all day.
But what caught Sang Chi off guard was that under the dual impact of exam week and the power outage, all the spots in those stores outside the school that usually didn’t have much business were basically filled up. She came early in the morning and couldn’t even get a spot.
She looked at the time and went into the subway station, intending to take the subway to the city library to review.
At this time, Duan Jiaxu happened to come to the phone, his voice came along the current, low and pleasant, with a familiar smile, “Girlfriend, do you have time to come out for dinner today?”
Sanji thought for a moment, “I’m going to the city library now.”
“The city library?”
“Uh-huh.” Sanji said, “We had a power outage at school, so I’m going over there to find a place to review.”
Duanjia Xu reminded, “There’s not much space in that library, and there shouldn’t be a place to go now.”
Sang Zhi looked for half a day’s location, originally thought that this time she would definitely be able to find a place to review. At this moment, when she heard his words, she paused, depressed to the point of wanting to lose her temper a little, “How come it’s so hard to find a place to review ……”
It happened to be the weekend, and Duan Jiaxu happened to be at home and had nothing else to do at the moment. He smiled lowly and slowly threw out a proposal, “Come to my house.”
“……” Sanjay was a little heartened, but hesitated, “Will you influence me.”
“No.”
Sang Chi didn’t want to waste any more time and didn’t dwell on it, “Then I’ll take the subway over there now.”
–
Get off the subway and out the gate.
Sang Zhi looked down at her cell phone, and only at this moment did she notice the WeChat from Duan Jia Xu, saying that he was waiting for her at the subway station. She raised her eyes and looked around, and all of a sudden she saw him standing not far away.
Duan Jiaxu was wearing black short sleeves and long sweatpants, one hand in his pocket, the other hand holding a cell phone, eyes lowered. Tall and thin, he looked handsome and cold, standing out in this crowd.
Sanji was about to walk over.
At that moment a woman came up to him, her cheeks flushed with a shy smile.
A quick glance would have shown that it was to get contact information from him.
Kuwabara’s expression instantly became unattractive.
She walked over in silence and just stood fixedly next to the two of them, not taking the initiative to speak either. She heard the woman open her mouth, her tone taking on a slightly embarrassed tone, “Hello, can, can you add a tweet?”
Hearing the voice, Duan Jia Xu raised his eyelids and happened to notice Sang Zhi, who had a stern face and didn’t say anything. His gaze paused, staring at her with interest for several seconds before he looked away and said to the woman, “Can’t.”
“……”
There was a pause of a few seconds.
Duan Jia Xu looked at Sang Zhi again and laughed softly, “If I let my girlfriend know-“
“……”
“I’ll be dead.”
Chapter 57
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As the words fell, the woman’s complexion gave a start, and she soon noticed Sang Zhi standing at the side. She instantly realized that this was a man with an owner, and coughed awkwardly, “Sorry, excuse me.”
She didn’t stay any longer either and quickly left.
Leaving two people standing in place.
Duan Jia Xu lowered his eyes, leaned down slightly to be at eye level with her, and reached out to take the computer bag in her hand. Staring at her extremely unhappy expression, the corners of his eyes curved down, his mood seems to be very good: “Angry?”
Sanji looked at him as well and said expressionlessly, “What am I angry about?”
Duan Jia Xu stifled a laugh, “Then why didn’t you say anything just now?”
Sang Zhi is still very upset, do not even want to care about him, crossing him to go forward, the tone hard: “Other people looking for you to ask for WeChat is not looking for me to ask for, I say what words.”
“Isn’t it true that I didn’t give it?” Duan Jiaxu followed easily, admitting his mistake immodestly, “Spare me.”
Sanji couldn’t help but turn around, “Did I say something?”
Duan Jia Xu thought carefully and teased, “Well, you said you were jealous.”
“……” Sang Chi pursed her lips hard and retorted facetiously, “You’re the one who’s jealous.”
Duan Jia Xu raised his eyebrows, “Really not jealous?”
Sanji didn’t say anything.
“Did I misunderstand you?” Duan Jiaxu said, “Why do I look quite similar.”
Sanji remained silent.
Duanjia Xu: “Really no?”
“…… “Seeing that he was not finished, Sang Chi also felt that he was acting very obviously, after holding his breath for a few seconds, he simply broke the pot and said, “So what if I’m jealous!”
Duan Jia Xu froze and instantly burst out laughing. He laughed to himself for a while before opening his mouth in the middle of the day, a thin chuckle still in his words, “Nothing much.”
Sang-chi said in annoyance, “Can’t you just ……”
Duanjia Xu: “Huh?”
She finished her sentence coldly, “You couldn’t just settle down and wait for me there.”
Duan Jiaxu laughed, “How am I restless?”
Sanji stared fixedly into his eyes.
Eyelashes are thin and long, pupil color is light, always seems to be dyed with light, and when looking at people, it seems to be sentimental and compulsion. Always with a careless smile on his face, it looks like he is teasing people.
She convicted him straight away, “I just saw you discharging that guy.”
Extremely quotable and definitive.
“……” Duanjia Xu almost choked, “What?”
“Originally.” Sang Chi’s face didn’t change, and he falsely accused him in a serious manner, “Otherwise, if you just stood there peacefully, how could someone come up and ask you for WeChat for no reason.”
“My little friend, is this the ‘victim’ guilt theory?”
Sanjay: “Where does this get mixed up.”
Duan Jia Xu: “How do I discharge, describe it to me?”
Sang Zhi paused, momentarily unable to think of how to describe it. She hung her head, pondered carefully, and only half a day later did she mumbled and stifled a charge, “You looked at her.”
“……”
Sanji instantly straightened up and accused seriously, “Yes, you looked at her.”
Duan Jiaxu was exasperated, “This is a discharge?”
Sang Chi muttered, “Not really, it has to be analyzed in the context of the scene.” She then scanned him up and down with an odd expression, “You even dressed up a bit before coming out.”
Duan Jia Xu lowered his eyes and looked at the short-sleeved sweatpants he was wearing, instantly realizing that whatever he was doing now was wrong. Listening to the crooked reasoning, he turned his head sideways, smiled lowly and pinched her face, “Careful.”
Sanji frowned, “You’re the one who’s being careful.”
Right out of the subway station, Sang-chi flipped her parasol out of her bag and very deliberately ventured, “It’s super sunny today.”
She gave him a look and added childishly, “I’m not covering you.”
Duan Jiaxu: “You really won’t cover me?”
Sangji was silent for two seconds and loosened up, “Then if you want to cover it up, I can still cover it up for you.”
“Give it to me.”
Sanji obediently gave him his umbrella.
Duan Jiaxu opened his umbrella, leaning most of the way toward her, and casually asked, “Have you eaten breakfast yet?”
“Ate,” said Sanjay, “had a cup of soymilk and a pancake.”
“Is there anything else you want to eat?”
Sanji couldn’t think of anything to eat for a moment and shook his head.
Duan Jiaxu thought for a moment, “I’ll go buy some fruit.”
Sanji blinked, “I want watermelon.”
“OK.”
The two went into a nearby fruit stand.
This stall is small, but there are still a lot of customers, bustling with people. At the boss’s recommendation, Duan Jiaxu picked a watermelon. Sang Zhi didn’t stay with him, and picked a few plums from a small shelf on the side.
Afterward, Duan Jia Xu went to check out and told Sang Zhi to wait outside.
There were still people who wanted to buy things, and Sanji stood in the shade outside the store taking up some space and getting in the way of others. She looked around and found a shade to stay in. She flipped out her cell phone and looked at the time.
The light in front of her suddenly dimmed, and the afterglow could make out that it was a man standing in front of her.
Sang Zhi’s first reaction was that Duan Jiaxu had returned from shopping and lifted his head, “How so ……”
In the next second, Sang Chi noticed that the person in front of her was not Duan Jia Xu, and she instantly put the rest of her words back.
It was a young man. The man had clear eyebrows and a big boyish sunny smile on his face, and very cheerfully pointed to her cell phone, “Sorry for the interruption. Can you give a wechat?”
Sanji froze and subconsciously said, “I’m sorry, I have a boyfriend.”
The man ahs regretfully and scratches his head, “Okay.”
Sang Zhi’s gaze involuntarily shifted and realized that Duan Jia Xu had already finished buying fruits and came out. At this moment, he was standing not far away, with an unfathomable expression, calmly looking at the two of them.
“……”
When the man left, the two walked side by side in the direction of Duan Jia Xu’s house.
There were no words along the way.
Sang Zhi looked at him a few times from time to time, looking jittery. Soon, she coughed lightly and said in a calm manner, “That man just came to ask for directions, so I gave him directions.”
Duanjash: “Uh-huh.”
Not waiting for Sang Chi to breathe a sigh of relief, Duan Jia Xu opened his mouth with a smile, “You discharged toward him?”
“……”
–
Sang Chi retracted his eyes and remained silent, not responding to this matter. He also felt extremely embarrassed because he had just said so many accusing words to Duan Jia Xu, and it didn’t take long for him to hit his face.
Duan Jia Xu’s voice was leisurely, pretending to be casual: “Brother just went to buy a fruit.”
Sanji: “……”
Duan Jiaxu: “It’s only been a few minutes, can’t you behave yourself?”
“……” said Sanji seriously, “I think we’re both kind of even.”
The implication is that you can shut up.
Duan Jiaxu’s eyes glanced downward, completely did not want to be appropriate until the meaning of the extremely slow, meaningful: “So look, today also specially dressed up ……”
Without waiting for him to finish, Sanji said spinelessly, “I take back what I just said.”
Duan Jia Xu lifted his eyelids and said diffidently, “How did you just talk to answer that person?”
Sanji said honestly, “I said I have a boyfriend.”
Duan Jiaxu looked like he hadn’t heard, “What’s there?”
Sanji looked at him, “Boyfriend.”
Duan Jiaxu curved the corners of his mouth and skimmed his head, meeting her eyes, “It’s on.”
“……”
–
There was only one room in Duan Jia Xu’s house and no study. Sang Zhi had originally planned to review at the dining table and had no intention of occupying his private territory. Instead, he took the initiative to bring her in.
He also generally works in his room at home, and there is a desk inside. Duan Jiaxu had already cleared the desk in advance, and at this time it was empty, except for a plug, nothing else.
Sang Chi sat down on the chair and put both the computer and the revision materials on the desk. Noticing Duan Jia Xu’s figure in her afterglow, she twisted her head and asked, “So what are you going to do now.”
Duanjia Xu patted the bed and naturally said, “I’ll just lie here.”
Sanji: “Are you going to sleep?”
“No,” said Duan Jiaxu, “it’s not good to see more of you after not seeing you for a few days.”
At that, Sangji brought his face to his face, paused for several seconds, and then said mercilessly, “Finish reading, you can go to the living room and watch TV for a while, or take a nap as well. I have to review.”
The two stared at each other for a few seconds.
Duan Jia Xu suddenly grabbed her wrist and tugged her whole body into his arms, extremely caught off guard, “Can’t I stay here?”
Sang Chi instantly sat on his lap, his gaze once again bumping into his eyes with compulsion. And then, he hooked up the corner of his lips and whispered, “It’s not okay to not say a single word?”
Sang Zhi was a little lost in thought, and almost answered. Soon she came back to her senses, and with a little bit of sanity still remaining inside, she reminded, “You said it wouldn’t affect me.”
“Okay.” Duan Jia Xu didn’t mess with her anymore, rubbing her cheek with his fingertips and dragging his voice, “Ruthless girlfriend.”
Sanji got up from him.
Duan Jia Xu: “By the way, have you booked your ticket home yet?”
Sanji sat back down at his desk and whispered, “I’m not going back this summer.”
“You’re really not going back?” Duan Jia Xu laughed, “Then where do you live?”
“Dormitory.”
“Told your family?”
“Uh-huh.”
Duanjia Xu stood up and opened the curtains, “Okay, study. Little friend.”
Sanjay: “Then why are you going?”
“Prepare to make a lunch,” Duan Jia Xu rubbed her head and said gently, “What do you want to eat at noon, I’ll make you something delicious. My family only only studies hard.”
Sanji blinked, “Anything.”
“Well, I’m going to head out in a few minutes to get some ingredients. If there’s anything you want to eat, go to the refrigerator or cupboard and get it yourself.” Duan Jia Xu thought for a moment and added, “If someone comes knocking on the door, don’t open the door rashly.”
Sanji muttered, “Why are you acting like you’re taking care of a child.”
Duan Jiaxu: “Well, I’m afraid you’ll be stolen.”
“……”
The two did their own thing until it was time for lunch.
Duan Jiaxu simple to get a few dishes, called Sang Zhi out to eat. After the meal, Sang Zhi helped him clean up the table, adhering to the principle of fairness that he cooks and she has to wash the dishes, she also took the initiative to wash the bowls.
Then accidentally smashed a bowl halfway through.
Because of her obstruction, Duan Jia Xu didn’t help and just leaned against the door to watch her. Seeing this, he didn’t have any displeased look, instead he smiled, “Stand there and don’t move, I’ll clean it up.”
Sang-chi didn’t dare to say anything for fear of being scolded and turned off the faucet.
Duan Jia Xu took a broom to sweep up the glass shards and raised his eyes to ask her, “Never washed the dishes?”
“……” said Sang-chi stiffly, “I’ll just wash it more often.”
“What would you come for,” Duan Jia Xu drew a paper towel to wipe her hands and laughed softly, “I didn’t ask you to wash it either.”
Sanji blurted out, “Then we can’t let you …… from now on.”
“……”
She immediately collected herself and coughed lightly, “I didn’t think about it that much.”
Duan Jiaxu hmmm’d in a pretense of calmness, his words containing a light smile, “I know.”
Sang-chi continued to finish the rest of the dishes, this time with a lot more care, muttering to herself under her breath, “I’ll buy you a new one back next time, a plastic one that won’t break if you drop it.”
Sanji then also wiped down the runners as well before going out into the living room.
Duan Jia Xu sat on the sofa, filled some water into the kettle, and slowly spoke, “It’s twelve thirty, lunch break time. Come over and have a chat with me? Or go take a nap?”
Sang Chi didn’t keep up with the plan for today’s revision and didn’t want to waste any more time, “Revision dogs don’t deserve a lunch break.”
“……” Duan Jiaxu’s eyebrows jumped, “You’re just going to keep reviewing?”
“Uh-huh.”
“Not sleepy?”
Sanji nodded firmly, “Not sleepy.”
Duan Jiaxu wondered, “Why is this girl of yours so obsessed with her studies?”
“I want a scholarship.”
“So powerful ah?” Duan Jia Xu raised his eyebrows, poured hot water into a cup and made a cup of oolong tea with her, “Go on then, if you’re sleepy, lie down on the bed and sleep for a while, there’s still enough time.”
Afraid that he would think he was saying this because he didn’t want to accompany him, Sang Chi added very seriously, “I’m really not sleepy, I’m not sleepy at all, I’m very refreshed, I’ll study well all afternoon.”
Duanjia Xu obediently said, “Well, you’re not sleepy.”
–
Despite the words, the biological clock came in extraordinarily accurate.
Sang Chi woke up at seven o’clock today, and also went to the stores outside the school to store around, and after that also took the subway to come over to the side of Duan Jiaxu’s house, and reviewed the morning’s study. At this time the energy is indeed insufficient, after eating and drinking, fatigue instantly surged up.
Her eyelids fought.
Kuwabara looked sideways at the clean and large bed next to her, which was like temptation at the moment. She thought again about what she had just said to Duan Jia Xu, and how there was still most of what she hadn’t reviewed.
She exhaled and stood up, intending to go to the restroom and wash her face.
As soon as he left the room, he could see Duan Jia Xu sitting on the sofa. Upon hearing the commotion, his eyelids lifted and he looked over, asking, “What’s wrong?”
“No,” said Sanji, “I’m going to the bathroom.”
Soon, Sang Chi came out of the restroom. She glanced in Duan Jia Xu’s direction again, hesitated, and said as if just in case, “I’m going to do some good reviewing, so try not to come in and disturb me.”
Duanjia Xu hmmm’d lazily.
Only then did Sanji drop his heart and go back to his room.
Sitting back at her desk, Sang Chi was still sleepy and couldn’t concentrate. Feeling that this was too inefficient, she decided to take a fifteen-minute nap and then come back to continue reviewing.
Thinking about what she had just emphasized to Duan Jia Xu, to let him know that she still took a nap, it felt a little bit not so good.
It’s like not wanting to talk to him and insisting you want to study.
But she really didn’t mean it.
She had really wanted to learn.
But now.
True! The! Sleepy!
Now it seems odd to suddenly go out and explain things to him and then come back to bed. And it’s all been told to him to review, so I don’t think he’s going to come in, right?
Just fifteen minutes, that’s how long it takes to close and open your eyes.
After Sang Zhi finished psychologically building herself up, she took a stack of review materials and plopped down on Duan Jia Xu’s bed, closing her eyes as she watched. As she was about to fall asleep, she suddenly heard three knocks on the door.
Her heart heaved and she immediately opened her eyes, looking in the direction of the door.
The doorknob swung around like it was going to open the next moment.
In this instant, Sang Chi really had the feeling of being a thief, her head went blank, rolled and got out of bed on her hands and knees, and unintentionally knocked the edge of the bed.
She didn’t have time to feel the pain, half lying on the carpet next to the bed, hiding behind it.
At the same time, Duan Jiaxu’s voice rang out, “Only only, do you want to–“
His voice stopped, the volume lowered, and his tone took on a bit of a quizzical edge, “Ran off somewhere.”
“……”
The door slapped against the wall with a muffled thud.
Then, the sound of Duan Jia Xu’s footsteps rang out, coming from over the door and approaching this way. Soon, Sang Zhi, who was half lying on the floor, locked eyes with the standing Duan Jia Xu.
“……”
The air froze for three seconds.
Duan Jia Xu raised his eyebrows slightly, “What are you doing here.”
Sangji opened his mouth dully, trying to think of a reason in his head. Eyes dropping, he noticed the review materials he was still holding, cleared his throat, and said with a straight face, “I’m reviewing here.”
Duan Jiaxu played with the flavor: “Then why didn’t you make a sound when I just called out to you?”
“……” said Sanjay, “I’ll review in secret.”
There are chairs that don’t sit and beds that don’t lie down.
Lay down on the floor and review in secret.
Duan Jiaxu followed her words and teased, “Why are you secretly reviewing?”
A few more seconds of silence.
Sang Chi’s face was grave, and he dryly spat out four words, “Because of the stabbing|excitement.”
“……”
Chapter 58
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Obviously not expecting her to come up with such a reason, Duan Jiaxu’s expression froze for a moment, and he soon burst out laughing, as if he found it extremely absurd: “What?”
As soon as the words came out of her mouth, Sang Chi realized that her words were stupid and silly, and felt that she was probably too sleepy to be awake. Her expression was a little embarrassed, and she fell silent, holding the bed with one hand, trying to stand up.
Noticing Sang Zhi’s movement, Duan Jia Xu bent down, grabbed her wrist, and pulled her up with a little force. After she stood firmly, he held her back with his other hand and pushed her in his direction.
Sangji’s head hit his arms, looked up, inexplicably a little nervous, hand subconsciously clenched fist, against his chest. Can also feel his chest still trembling, excellent mood, the laughter from his throat is not half restrained.
She uncomfortably tried to back away, “What are you doing ……”
Duan Jiaxu’s gaze deepened, and there were a few more hints of blatant seduction between his brows and eyes. He raised his eyebrows, and without warning, pressed her onto the bed and said in a muffled voice, “Do you like to be stimulated?”
“……”
As if the sky was spinning, Sang Chi instantly leaned her back against the bed, and when she raised her eyes, she saw Duan Jia Xu’s lips. The mattress was soft, and his hand was holding her back, so she didn’t feel any pain.
It was only because of this sudden move that her mind went blank and she didn’t understand the meaning of his words for a moment.
Duanjia Xu was still smiling, “Huh?”
Sang Chi’s eyes blinked slowly as she came back to her senses. She took a deep breath and took her foot to kick him, shouting in annoyance, “Duan Jia Xu!”
He was completely unaffected, his lips close to her ear, lowered his voice, ambiguous: “Let’s stab | excitement?”
“……”
Sang Chi’s breathing lurched, and in an instant, her neck to her cheeks, all reddened by a degree, as if she was on fire, extremely scorching. She felt her heartbeat crashing out of her body, forcing herself to calm down, staring straight at him.
He didn’t press against her, just propped up the bed with his hands.
Sang-chi pursed her lips, stretched out her legs, and pushed him hard to the side.
The strength between men and women was already disparate, Duan Jia Xu raised his eyebrows, didn’t resist, and lay down next to her with her strength.
Sang-chi sat up and said through clenched teeth, “What kind of rascal are you playing!”
Duan Jiaxu lay on his side, one hand supporting his face, looking cynical: “What does being together count as hooliganism?”
“……”
It does seem to not quite count.
And he didn’t actually do anything over the top.
Sanji didn’t bother with him anymore, reaching up to rub the corner of his forehead and rubbing the edge of the bed to try to get down.
Noticing her movement, Duan Jiaxu pulled her back, his eyelashes lifting to stare at her forehead, only then noticing the red patch, “Bumped?”
She pointed to the edge of the bed and whispered, “Accidentally bumped it.”
Duan Jiaxu: “Does it hurt?”
Sanji shook his head, “It doesn’t hurt much.”
“Tell me,” Duanjash said in amusement, “how did you get on the floor?”
Sanji said honestly, “I’m suddenly sleepy.”
Duanjia Xu: “Then why don’t you sleep on the bed?”
“I’ve just said that, I’m afraid you’ll think I don’t want to care about you,” Sang Chi’s tone was sullen, “but I really need to revise, the exam is tomorrow afternoon, and I want to do better.”
“How could I be that careful?” Duan Jia Xu said, “Go to sleep, I’ll wake you up later.”
Sanji muttered, “Won’t you be bored then?”
“It is a bit.”
“I’ll finish my review early then ……”
Duan Jia Xu laughed, “So afraid of my anger?”
Sanji looked at him, as if in acquiescence.
“There must be selfishness in asking you to come to my place to review.” Duan Jiaxu said in a warm voice, “But really didn’t intend to influence you. My family only has motivation, so how can I stop it?”
Sanji cautiously said, “I’ll sleep then?”
“Sleeping,” Duan Jiaxu kissed the back of her hand, his peach blossom eyes curving down, “is a bit boring. But the thought of you being here makes me happy.”
–
Sanji crawled under the covers.
It wasn’t long before Duan Jia Xu brought in a hot towel and covered the spot where she was hit, while saying, “Did you just hear me open the door before hiding?”
Sanji nodded hesitantly.
Duanjia Xu curled his lips, “Silly.”
Half of her face was buried in the covers, and her speech seemed a little muffled, “That wasn’t just a moment of nervousness on my part.”
“Be good and stay still if you’re nervous,” Duan Jiaxu stood up and pulled the curtains closed to cover the large expanse of sunlight outside, “or what if you fall?”
Sang-chi thought about it and suddenly called out to him, “Brother Ka-chan.”
Duanjia Xu: “Huh?”
“It’s just that, you know, I feel a little nervous when you get too close too.” Kuwabara licked the corner of her lips, explaining, “Like you just did, but I’m not mad, and I don’t mean to dislike it ……”
Duan Jiaxie took the towel off her forehead and hung back, “So you like it then?”
Sang Chi barely managed to hold back a sentence, “Then I’m not into stabbing|excitement ……”
Duan Jiaxu laughed out loud, “OK, don’t stab for now.”
“……”
“Stab later.”
“……”
–
Sang Zhi stayed at Duan Jia Xu’s house like this until ten o’clock at night. Most of the time was spent reviewing, and by the end of the day, she didn’t mind having Duan Jia Xu stay around.
One of the two reviewed while the other lay in bed reading.
Exceptional harmony.
It was only when she heard her roommate say that the dormitory had power that Sanjay started to pack up her things with the intention of leaving. She breezed over to the TV stand and took a strip of fudge out of it.
The two men changed their shoes and headed out the door.
Sanji tore at the candy wrapping and casually asked, “Brother Kash, do you want some candy?”
Duan Jia Xu had little interest in snacks and pinched the flesh on her face, “You eat.”
Sanji tore open the candy paper and dropped one into his mouth, “Oh.”
The two got into the elevator.
Suddenly, Duan Jiaxu opened his mouth again, his hand spread flat and resting in front of her, his tone idle: “Better give me one.”
Sanji dutifully handed one over and placed it on his palm.
Before she could pull her hand away, Duan Jia Xu’s palm had already closed and grabbed her fingertips, with no intention of letting go yet. The tip of his eyebrow lifted, and he said slowly, “Giving candy or holding hands?”
Sanji was confused, “Don’t you want candy?”
Duan Jiaxu added, “Holding hands or holding hands?”
She responded, “…… Oh.”
Duanjia Xu: “Holding hands?”
Sang Chi raised her eyes to look at him, inexplicably feeling a little amused that he was like this. She laughed, her speech still slurred because of the sugar in her mouth, “And you’re asking so squarely.”
Duan Jiaxu didn’t look half unnatural: “To hold or not to hold?”
Sanji drew the candy back with his other hand and said with a wink, “Hold.”
Duan Jia Xu laughed softly and held her hand. The elevator happened to be on the first floor, and he led her out, casually saying, “Are you planning to look for an internship over the summer?”
“Uh-huh.” Sanji peeled off the candy paper with one hand, “I’ve submitted to several companies and one called me in for an interview.”
“Why are you looking for an internship so early?”
“Find something to do,” said Sanji, “or I’ll have nothing to do when I get home, and I’ll just be home alone every day.”
Walked a bit.
Sang Chi suddenly said, “Do you still eat candy?”
Duan Jiaxu: “No food.”
“Brother Kash,” San Zhi kicked a small stone on the ground and mentioned to him, “Everyone else holds hands, while crossing the street, or walking and suddenly holding hands. You’re the only one who has to ask.”
“I kissed you without asking last time,” Duan Jia Xu said leisurely, “weren’t you upset?”
Sanji was silent for two seconds, “…… wasn’t upset either.”
Duanjia Xu: “Huh?”
Sanji added, “Just a little embarrassed.”
“Uh-huh.”
“Just, I don’t think I’ve told you,” Sanji bowed his head, thought carefully, and stumbled over the words, “that I like you a lot.”
Duan Jia Xu looked sideways at her slightly nervous side.
The two of them walked towards Duan Jia Xu’s parking space. The neighborhood was quiet at night, and there were few people moving around. The streetlights were dim, covered by large leaves that fell silhouetted on the ground.
The wind is also dry on a high summer night.
Hearing this, Duan Jia Xu suddenly stopped his steps and pulled her into his arms. He leaned down and rubbed the tip of her nose. His eyebrows were deep, staring into her bright eyes. His lips looked like they were going to press up even in the next moment.
After a long moment, his chin lifted upward and he gently kissed her forehead.
Like it’s extremely treasured.
“Well, I like you a lot too.”
–
After finishing the penultimate exam, Sang Zhi went out of the exam room. There were no more exams in the afternoon, but there was still an interview, so she planned to go back to the dormitory and change her clothes before going over.
Sanji took his cell phone out of his bag and opened it to look at it.
She happened to see Sanjan calling her.
Sanjay dialed back.
Sang Yan’s voice rang from the other end, his tone sounding as beat up as ever: “Kid, where’s brother, he’s been busy with his relationship these days, so he forgot about you as a not-so-important character ……”
“……”
Sanjayan: “Have you booked the airfare yet?”
Sanji: “I’m not going back.”
There was instant silence on the other end, and then, as if laughing in exasperation, the original hangdog tone was withdrawn and sank, “Say that again?”
“I told mom and dad.” With this tone of his voice, Sang Chi was also a little uneasy, but felt that he hadn’t done anything wrong, and his voice wasn’t half as heartfelt, “They both agreed.”
“Say that again.”
“……” Sang Chi got annoyed, “I’m just getting an internship over here, I’m not doing anything bad!”
“Fine, I’m too lazy to care about you.” Sang Yan coldly said, “If you want to be cheated again this time, don’t look for me to cry. I don’t have that much free time to care about you.”
Sanji argued with him, “How am I being lied to?”
“You’ve had a long period of rebellion, from middle school until now? You don’t even know what to do when you go to college, do you?” Sang Yeon said, “I already have no brain, and I have even less brain when I fall in love.”
Sang Chi was almost furious: “You are the one who has no brain, when you fall in love, you still need to take a loudspeaker to announce to the whole world, blowing around that it is someone else chasing after you, who would believe it!”
“……” said Sanjan, “You’re going to argue with me, aren’t you?”
“You started it.”
Stalemate for a moment.
“Sang Chi, think about it yourself, if you know something, why would I bother to control you like this?” Sang Yan calmed down and said word by word, “Do what you like, don’t look for me again if something happens.”
With that he hung up.
Sang Chi put her cell phone down and looked at the screen. Her mood also instantly deteriorated, a breath clogged in her chest, suffocating. She and Sang Yan seldom quarreled like this, it was usually a small quarrel, and he would give in to her when it went too far.
Though neither would have anything nice to say about the other, Sanji did rely on him as well.
At this point, although he still felt bad, he still didn’t want to just chill out with him.
It felt like, if she hadn’t gone to Yiho in her first year of high school, Sang Yeon probably wouldn’t have stopped her this time.
Probably because of that time, Sanji’s image in his mind became that of a brat in love with a larger than life person.
Brainless and extremely gullible, the man says what he wants.
Sang Chi scratched her head and opened the dialog window with Sang Yan. She pondered that if she confessed to him that the object was Duan Jia Xu, he shouldn’t be so angry ……
He couldn’t trust Duan Jiaxu.
Sang Chi deliberated for a moment, entered a string: [brother, you really do not have to worry. I’m just looking for an internship in the summer, looking for something to do, our celebration will go back. I also lied to you before, I found a boyfriend is not our school graduate students, you also know, is Jia Xu brother. He’s not a bad guy.
She looked at it as a whole and hesitated a bit.
In that case, will Duanjia Xu be beaten by Sang Yan.
Sanjay self-substituted a bit, if it was her friend with Sanjayan ……
It doesn’t seem to be particularly hard to take.
Sanji dropped his heart and tapped send.
A red exclamation point immediately precedes the bubble.
–[Message sent but rejected by the other party]
Sanji: “……”
All right.
Sanji’s fire rose again.
She looked down again and
Her! Just! Yes! The dog!
–
Sang Zhi interview is a small advertising company, the location is in the vicinity of the school, take the subway to the past is only two stops. According to the address, she entered the office building and went up to the floor.
The company was small, with three rows of desks placed horizontally and vertically, a small area with couches, and a small conference room. There weren’t many people who came to the interview, except for her there was only another guy who looked similar to her.
The boys went in first to be interviewed in the conference room.
Sang Chi waited outside and a woman poured her a glass of water. She politely said thank you and subconsciously looked around. This company was probably just starting out and didn’t have many employees.
Most of the seats are empty.
Sanji’s gaze shifted and stopped on a certain woman for two seconds.
The woman was talking to a man, looking in a good mood and smiling. Sang Chi was not good at staring at others for so long and was afraid of being noticed, so he quickly withdrew his eyes.
Always looked a bit familiar ……
It didn’t take long for the boys inside to come out, signaling that Sanji could get ready to go in.
She nodded, withdrawing her mind, and got up to walk in.
–
It was only a little after eleven when the interview was over.
Sang Zhi counted the time, took the subway to Duan Jiaxu’s company downstairs, and found a cafe to stay. I’ve heard Duan Jiaxu say before that he usually orders takeout for lunch with his coworkers and doesn’t go out to eat.
She tapped her cell phone and sent him a tweet, [Look out the window.].
Duanjia Xu: [You came over?
Sanji took a sip of his coffee and smirked, [No.]
Sanji: [Showing you the view.]
Duan Jiaxu: [Row.
Duanjash: [Look if you let me.]
Sanji: [Come out for lunch together?
Duanjia Xu: [What do you want to eat?
Sanji: [Have a roast.]
Duan Jiaxu: [Row.
Sang Chi didn’t bother him with his work anymore and lost another sentence, [I’ll take the subway over there now, I should be almost there by the time you get off work].
She was a little bored and simply downloaded a deciphering game to pass the time. When Sang Zhi passed a level, she didn’t know how long it had been, and it just so happened that Duan Jiaxu also came with a message.
Sang-chi clicked on it and realized that it was a quarter past twelve at this point.
Duanjia Xu: [Back to the head.]
Sang Chi froze, and at the same time, noticed with her afterglow that there was someone standing next to her. She instantly guessed what was going on and subconsciously turned her head back.
The man next to her also bent down at the moment, lowering his head, his face close beside hers.
Sang Zhi’s head tilted, and as if by accident, her lips touched his cheek inadvertently. Her body froze, and she suddenly leaned back, instantly bumping into Duan Jia Xu’s slightly upturned eyes.
He stood up straight, the corners of his lips curving into a small arc, his tone ambiguous and flirty.
“Just tell you to go back to your head, why are you still a relative?”
Chapter 59
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“Obviously it is your own ……” Sangji was a bit speechless, also stood up, “I am sitting properly, why do you put your face over.”
Duan Jiaxu lowered his eyes, took her hand and laughed, “On purpose.”
His palm was hot, his grip on her was not too light or too heavy, and sometimes he unconsciously pinched her fingertips.
Sanji looked over at him.
Duan Jia Xu pulled her out of the cafe, “Wanted to take the opportunity to let you kiss me.”
Kuwabara pursed her lips and gave a low oh.
“How long have you been waiting?” Duan Jiaxu lowered his head, looked in her direction, and casually asked, “And finished that big cup of coffee.”
“It wasn’t long, I didn’t even notice the time when I was playing the game.” Sanjay says, “How did you know I was there?”
Duan Jiaxu pointed to the glass window of the café: “See. Next time, if you come over again, go straight up to the company and look for me. Or ask me to come down to pick you up.”
Sanji nodded.
The two of them went into the grill next door and found a seat.
Duan Jiaxu wiped his hands with a hot towel, then poured water into her cup, “There’s one exam left, when is it?”
Sanjay: “Thursday.”
“Three more days?”
“Well,” Sang Chi raised her hand and rubbed her eyes, “so I’m going to go back to the dormitory to take a nap in the afternoon, I’ve stayed up all night for the past few days, I’m so sleepy.”
Duanjia Xu laughed, “So you just drank coffee?”
Sanji said in a serious manner, “It’s because I want to sleep that I drink coffee, I get sleepy when I drink coffee.”
“What kind of physique do you have,” Duan Jiaxu said in amusement, “and you’re going to stay up all night next?”
“No.” Sang-chi said, “I have three days to study for this exam, that’s enough.”
“How did the interview just go?”
“It’s okay, I feel like I should be able to pass. That company looks quite short of people.” Sang Chi scratched his head and suddenly asked, “Brother Jia Xu, did my brother look for you?”
At those words, Duan Jia Xu looked at his cell phone, “No, what’s wrong?”
“……”
It does seem a bit serious this time.
But thinking that he was still ruthless enough to pull the plug on her, Sang Chi didn’t want to make up with him at all. She sipped her water and said expressionlessly, “There was a fight.”
“What’s wrong?”
“He didn’t agree with me not coming home for the summer, and then he also said ……” Sang Chi didn’t finish his sentence and hesitated, “By the way, have you told my brother about our relationship?”
“No.” Duan Jia Xu faintly said, “Originally, I was planning that if you returned to Nanwu during the summer vacation, I’d take a vacation and go over to look for you, and by the way, I’d talk to your brother about this matter face to face.”
“Now what?”
“Then we’ll have to wait until you’re on vacation on the Fourth of July, and we’ll go there together. Sincere enough?” Duan Jia Xu laughed, “Personally go to his door and let him beat him up.”
“……,” said Sanjay with little substance, “I don’t think so.”
“It’s fine,” Duan Jia Xu didn’t care too much, his peach blossom eyes slightly converged, his mood looked extremely good, “I’m quite happy to take this beating.”
–
After lunch, the two of them wandered around the neighborhood to kill some food. After that, Sang Zhi took the subway and went back to school. When they arrived at the dormitory, it was just after two o’clock.
Ning Wei was the only one left in the dormitory.
Sang Zhi looked at Wang Ruolan and Yu Xin’s neatly tidied up position and asked, “Did they leave?”
“Uh-huh.” Ning Wei is also packing up her things, “They don’t have exams anymore ah, they just came back to pack up their things and left. Yu Xin went home, Ruolan and her boyfriend seem to be going to play for a few days.”
Everyone else in the dormitory has no more exams, leaving only Sanji with one elective exam left.
Sanji: “Where are you going with this?”
“My boyfriend rented a house outside.” Ning Wei said, “I’m going to go over and live with him, so I won’t be living in the dormitory this summer.”
Sangji ahs, a little reluctant, “I thought we could be companions.”
“You can go find your Duan brother.” Ning Wei looked up at her and smiled, “Say, how does it feel to be in love? No, how does it feel to be with someone you’ve been crushing on for so many years?”
“It’s okay.” Sanji pondered and said hesitantly, “I don’t feel like there’s much of a difference.”
“Hmm?”
“Just like before we got together, it doesn’t seem to make any difference …… except on the day we got together,” Sanji suddenly raised his left hand, put the tips of his five fingers together, and touched his lips, “like this for a little while, other than that, there’s really There’s no difference.”
“Holy shit.” Ning Wei was shocked and extremely surprised, “You two already kissed, huh?”
“……”
“Kissed on the day we got together?” Ning Wei got excited, “It must have been your brother Duan who took the initiative, right? It’s okay, being older is different.”
“But I don’t think I’m giving the right reaction,” Sang-chi whispered, “Let me ask you, do you get nervous when you’re with your boyfriend, that is, when you’re acting more intimate?”
“A little bit at first.” Ning Wei said, “But I think he’s much more nervous than I am, my boyfriend is a shy thief, he didn’t dare to hold my hand even after a month of being together, I’m dying of anxiety.”
“……”
“Oh, come to think of it, I think I’m nervous solely because I’m infected by him.” Ning Wei rolled her eyes, “But he’s so much more spirited now that he has to falsely accuse me of farting in front of me.”
Sanji laughed out loud, “What the.”
Ning Wei brought the topic back, “So you do get nervous, huh?”
“Well.” Sang Chi is a little depressed, “And then it looks like it’s not happy …… I’m afraid that he misunderstands, and I also, just specifically told him that I like him a lot.”
“Huh? There shouldn’t be any misunderstandings either.”
“But I haven’t told him,” said Sanji, “I felt I had to, and if I didn’t, he shouldn’t know.”
“Like this?” Ning Wei blinked, “Just get along normally, you don’t have to be too careful and explain everything you do, it’s tiring after a long time.”
“……”
“Are you habitually nervous, because you used to be afraid he’d find out you liked him? But now that we’re not all together, it’s a matter of course for you to act like you like him anymore.” Ning Wei said, “I can say that, mainly I don’t think you’re like a thin-skinned person either.”
Sang Chi couldn’t help but say, “Are you praising me or damaging me?”
“It’s just for you to have fun in this relationship, or with someone you like so much. If I were you, I’d be pestering him every day, kissing and hugging him and lifting him up.” Ning Wei pulled on the suitcase and wiped the sweat from her forehead, “It’s useless to say that you like this kind of thing. You can’t, he kissed you, you acted unhappy, and then said that I actually like you, isn’t that giving a slap and then giving a candy?”
Sanji was silent for a few seconds and nodded.
“Besides, wasn’t it said that he originally thought of you as a sister or something? And then you two are so many years apart. You can substitute yourself into his thoughts, and I guess he accommodated you with everything. If you feel fast and don’t feel like it, he probably won’t force it or anything.” Ning Wei said, “I’m being completely truthful here, my boyfriend was really too easily shy at first, making me want to tease him and feel like an animal.”
“……”
“Don’t think too much, there’s always a teething period.” Ning Wei walked over and touched her head, “Or, you can think of it this way, this person is probably the one who is going to accompany you for the rest of your life.”
Sanji froze, “And then what?”
“Then?” Ning Wei laughed, “Just think what you want ah, if he can tolerate it, then tolerate it, if he can’t, then get lost. Otherwise, you can’t be so careful for the rest of your life, right?”
–
After Ning Wei left, Sang Zhi changed his clothes and returned to his bed afterward. Inside the small dormitory room, the sound of the air conditioner operating was loud, appearing especially clear in this silence.
She hugged her pillow and thought hard about what Ning Wei had said.
That seems about right.
Under Sang Yan’s teachings, it seemed like her skin had never been very thin, right? How come once she got in front of Duan Jia Xu, this skin became as if it would rot as soon as it was torn.
This stuff really needs to be compared.
She thought she could have thicker skin than Sang Yan, but not as thick as Duan Jia Xu.
Sang Yan’s chutzpah seemed to be similarly no match for Duan Jia Xu.
Thinking about it, a row of cheek thickness comparisons inexplicably floated up in Sang Chi’s mind – Duan Jia Xu >> Sang Chi > Sang Yan.
“……”
It doesn’t even compare.
And it does seem like, well, there’s nothing to be uncomfortable about, right?
I also felt a little overwhelmed the time I accidentally kissed him in the face today. But now that she thought about it that way, it felt like she could have just said, “I just kissed you, what?”
That makes it sound oxymoronic.
Good.
That’s the way it’s going to be from now on.
Just falling in love.
No, it’s not! Have a conversation! A relationship!
There’s nothing to be nervous about.
She grew up fighting with boys, teeth knocked out a not shed tears, not afraid of the sky and the earth, even Sang Yan have to respect her three times, known as the bully little Sang Zhi.
It’s not just a relationship and a kiss.
What does she have to be afraid of.
The more Sang Zhi thought about it, the more energized she became, and her sleepiness completely dissipated. She sat up, opened the chat interface with Duan Jia Xu, and typed in a sentence: [Duan Jia Xu.]
It took a few minutes before he returned, [What’s wrong?
Sanji: [Do you want to play Escape Room?
Duanjash: [Thinking about it.
Duanjash: [Do you have a theme you want to play?
Sang-chi: [A new one has opened up on our school’s side, and there’s a theme of class reunions that’s not psychic, and there’s quite a lot of positive feedback.]
Duanjia Xu: [Row.
Duan Jia Xu: [Don’t you need to catch up on your sleep? Get some sleep first, I’ll call you when I get to your dormitory floor].
–
After the decision was made, Sang Chi planned some more to himself, gradually relaxing a bit and falling asleep without realizing it.
This sleep was a sleepy one.
Sang Zhi was woken up by Duan Jia Xu’s phone call, she was given a headache by the noise, she picked it up in a daze and heard Duan Jia Xu on the other end saying, “Still sleeping?”
She didn’t respond for a moment and said sluggishly, “You called over and woke me up just to ask if I was still asleep?”
“……” Duan Jiaxu burst out laughing, “Say what.”
Three seconds of silence.
Sanji gradually came back to his senses, “Oh.”
“Come to think of it?”
“Are you downstairs in my dorm yet?”
“Uh-huh.”
A few more seconds of silence.
Sanji sat up and couldn’t help but accuse, “Why didn’t you tell me to get up earlier.”
“There’s no rush.” Duan Jia Xu lazily said, “You get out of bed now and wash up, then change your clothes and put on your shoes, then you can go out.”
“…… “Sang Chi lifted the mosquito net and climbed out of bed, “Then you wait a while, I’m hanging up.”
She darted to the bathroom and brushed her teeth, rinsing her face with water while she went back to her location to change into a set of clothes.
San Zhi simply put on some makeup and tied her hair all the way up. She casually grabbed a bag, hooked it on her arm, grabbed her cell phone and keys and headed out the door.
It also took almost twenty minutes to grind so much.
Afraid that Duan Jia Xu would get impatient waiting, Sang Zhi Ji jogged downstairs. As soon as she left the dormitory building, she could see him standing outside under the tree. She quickened her pace again and hopped up to him.
Hearing the commotion, Duan Jia Xu also raised his eyes.
As if he couldn’t stop himself, Sanji crashed into his arms.
He subconsciously took a step back, afraid that she would fall, and immediately reached out to support her back. Duan Jia Xu’s expression froze a little, and he couldn’t help but smile, “So happy today?”
Sanji tilted his head and stared at him, and didn’t back away, his eyes curving up, “Uh-huh.”
Duan Jiaxu’s eyebrows rose.
Sanji looked at him for several seconds before taking two steps back, fumbling for his cell phone from his bag and blinking, “I thought you were going to say me and dawdle for so long.”
“It didn’t take long,” Duanjash reminded, “Next time don’t run down, it’s easy to fall.”
Sanji nodded, “I booked the tickets before I went to bed, made a reservation with the boss for eight o’clock, about an hour, until nine, okay? Just in time to go over there after dinner.”
Duan Jiaxu took her empty hand and slightly sidled his head, “Okay.”
After a while.
Sanji suddenly called out to him, “Duan Jiaxu.”
“What?”
“No.” Sanji snaps, “Is that how I’m going to call you from now on?”
“Well, shout whatever you want,” Duan Jia Xu habitually pinched her fingertips as if he was playing with mud, his voice containing a smile, “I was wondering when you’d change your mind.”
“It feels like I have to change my mouth,” Sanji thought about it, “or else I’ll always add the word brother, and it’ll feel like I’m kind of, like, in a relationship with my parents.”
“……”
“And you’re always in charge, too,” said Sanjay, “which makes it feel even more obvious.”
Duan Jiaxu raised an eyebrow, “I’m always in charge of you?”
Sanji: “Don’t you think so? I used to keep trying to tell you how you like bringing up kids, why don’t you just go have one of your own to bring up.”
Duan Jiaxu smiled back, “Okay, wait until you graduate from college.”
“……” his words came out before Sang Chi reacted to the fact that it was somewhat related to her, “After I graduate from college, you’ll be thirty.”
Expecting her to be annoyed again, Duan Jia Xu was still a bit surprised to hear such a calm tone from her.
“Hmm?”
Sang-chi seriously added four words, “The old man has a son.”
“Who told you that?” Duan Jiaxu was angry and amused, “It only counts when you’re fifty.”
–
The two of them casually ate a set meal in the neighborhood.
Then, Sanji took him to that escape room store.
The two of them went to the front desk, approached the owner, handed over their cell phones, and listened to the owner talk about the background of the theme. The boss then gave them both a school card to wear around their necks.
Sanji looked at the name on the school card and flipped Duanjia Xu’s to see it.
Sanji laughed out loud, “Your name is Red, a student in the second grade class. Elementary school student.”
Duanjia Xu followed with a smile and a hmmm.
Sanji shouted, “Red.”
Duan Jia Xu responded good-naturedly, “In.”
Boss: “……”
Relationships are really sour and smelly.
The owner took them into one of the rooms and said, “Limit is one hour, next to this is the time, for tips or if you want to extend the time, you can use this pager to talk to me.”
Sanji nodded.
After that the room closed and was locked from the outside by the owner.
Sanji hadn’t played with this much and was a bit clueless at this point, just rummaging around for something. Inside was a small classroom with a few strings of numbers written on the blackboard and something on the podium.
A table next to it held materials with graduation photos of students from previous years.
Sang-chi rummaged through the drawer of one of the desks and pulled out a box with a three-digit combination lock on it. She looked at the blackboard, which also had three calculations, and guessed, “Is solving the calculations on the blackboard the code for this box?”
Duanjia Xu swept his eyes and took the box, fiddling with the coded strip.
Soon the box opened.
There are two flashlights inside.
Sanji couldn’t figure it out, “What’s this for?”
Duan Jiaxu played with her and gently prompted, “You should turn off the light, you might have painted something and use this light to shine it out.”
“Oh.” Feeling as clueless as he did, Sanji did as he said and went aside to turn off the light, “Where?”
Duan Jiaxu handed her one of the flashlights, “Try shining them all.”
This room was airtight, and with the lights off there was hardly any light at all. Kuwabara turned on the flashlight, which had a purpleish light, and she casually shone it on the floor, walls and ceiling.
Half the time I can’t find any clues.
Sang Chi simply crouched down on the floor, and under the light, she happened to notice a number appear next to one of the tables against the wall. Still somewhat skeptical of her eyes, she stared for several seconds before saying happily, “There’s a number here.”
Duan Jiaxu was originally over at the podium. Hearing this, he came over to look and squatted down as well, “I just saw a piece of paper that should take four numbers.”
Both men were crouched on the ground, extremely close together.
The darkness, as well as the small space, made the atmosphere even more ambiguous. His normal words somehow seemed to be close to her ears.
Sang Chi subconsciously looked towards him, and the torch was raised to shine onto the lower half of his face. In this faint light, the bridge of his nose could be clearly seen, as well as his slightly curved lips.
She thought of Ning Wei’s words, “Do whatever you want,” and suddenly put the torch down and stood up.
Duan Jiaxu stood up after him, “Looking for something else?”
Sang Chi was silent for a few seconds and replied, “In case you feel nervous, let me remind you of something.”
Duan Jiaxu said carelessly, “Huh?”
The scene seemed frozen.
Soon after, Sang Wiz popped up coldly, “I’m going to kiss you today.”
Duan Jia Xu’s expression paused and he immediately looked in her direction.
“You get ready first.”
“……”
Chapter 60
….
After saying this, Sang Chi again acted as if nothing had happened, holding the flashlight and wandering in the direction of the podium. Half a day without hearing Duan Jia Xu’s movement, she couldn’t help but look back.
Realizing he was still standing, she lowered her eyes, turned off the flashlight, and said, “Kissing?”
The room, already dark, was even darker.
His whole body was hidden in the darkness, shadowed, unable to see his expression.
Sang Zhi felt that this matter should be discussed in advance, otherwise she would just kiss her directly, which felt disrespectful. In order to be fair, she decided not to let Duan Jia Xu see her expression, and squatted behind the podium: “Uh-huh.”
Duan Jiaxu laughed lowly, “This is to inform me, huh?”
Sanjay brought the flashlight down and noticed a number below the podium as well. She writes the number down, thinks about it, and replies, “If you don’t think it’s a good day, it’s okay if you don’t want to.”
“I think it’s quite suitable,” Duan Jiaxu was a gentleman, “do you take the initiative or I do?”
Sanji stood up and said seriously, “Of course I am.”
“Okay.” Duan Jiaxu thought for a moment, and asked bluntly and politely, “Can you stick out your tongue?”
“……” Sang Chi’s flashlight in her hand was not steady and fell to the ground with a click, she picked it up again, and answered calmly, “I can’t.”
Duan Jiaxu didn’t raise an objection, “Come here.”
“No kissing now,” Sanjay emphasized, “gotta play the game first, it’s fifty bucks a pop. And there’s a camera, it’s just as good as being in a movie theater, all right.”
“Then why did you tell me so early,” Duan Jiaxu reopened the flashlight and trailed off, “to make me anxious?”
“……”
Sanji pretended not to hear, “I found two numbers.”
Duan Jiaxu walked over and handed her a piece of paper, saying in a faint voice, “There’s a location marked on the top, so you press to find it. Corresponding to one, two, three, four, connecting them together should be the code for that lock under the podium.”
“……,” Sanji felt like he was turned on, “How did you know?”
Duan Jiaxu’s voice was laced with laughter, “This is not too difficult.”
Sang Chi followed the locations drawn on the paper, one by one, “Then why didn’t you just tell me.”
“Seeing that you quite like to play,” Duan Jia Xu said leisurely, “I wanted to take my time with you and give you some participation in the game, but my brother wants to go out early now.”
After finding the four numbers, Sanji turned the light on, a little confused, “You know how to get out?”
Duan Jiaxu hmmmed idly.
“It’s been less than twenty minutes since I got in here,” Sang-chi felt uninspired and jerked him down into one of the chairs, “Forget it, you don’t play, you just sit here. I’ll play by myself, and you don’t prompt me.”
“……” Duan Jiaxu laughed, “Why are you so authoritarian as a little girl?”
Sang Chi didn’t say anything and walked over to the podium and unlocked it. She took out the contents and muttered, “You say you know how to get out when you clearly haven’t even finished looking for clues.”
Duan Jiaxu: “You bring it over and I’ll take a look.”
Sanji hesitantly handed him the folder in his hand.
Duan Jiaxu swept his eyes, “In that drawer over there, there’s another box, and after this is unlocked, it’s-“
“……” Sanjay took the folder back, “You stay quiet.”
There was only one piece of paper in the folder with four sentences on it.
It should be a riddle.
Sanji thought as he sat down in the chair next to him.
Duan Jia Xu supported his chin and looked at her sideways, “Why don’t you take me to play yet?”
“You’ll make me think,” said Sanjay, “that I’ve spent my fifty dollars for nothing.”
“……”
“And if you will, why wouldn’t I.” Sang Chi felt a little offended by this behavior of his, like he was blatantly trampling on her intelligence, “I just play less.”
Duan Jiaxu waited patiently, “OK.”
His leg stretched out and hooked under her chair, lazily reminding, “Just don’t forget.”
The riddle wasn’t too difficult and it took Sanji a few minutes to solve it. She stood up and started to go through the newspaper that was sitting on the back table, saying to herself, “Is this useful ……”
Duan Jiaxu: “Yes.”
“……” Sanji turned back, “I didn’t ask you.”
Even though he answered that, but he said that, Sanji subconsciously checked it carefully. She looked up again, looking for a while at a few graduation photos with corresponding names of people underneath.
She thought hard and dawdled over this part for over ten minutes.
Duan Jiaxu scanned the time, “It’s almost time.”
“It could be extra time.” Sang Zhi looked back at him, watching him sit there like a grandpa, like he was in control of the whole situation. She pursed her lips, her tone taking on a bit of a target, “Can I talk to the boss and just add one person’s hour.”
“……”
–
In the end, Sanji managed to find the key and get out of the room by his own efforts.
The two walked out and handed their school cards back to the owner, getting their cell phones in the process. They left the store after listening to the owner very responsibly tell the story.
Sangji was still a little bit upset, “It’s kinda scary when you think about it like that.”
Duanjia Xu: “Huh?”
Sanji: “The plot of this one is that a student was subjected to school violence and then couldn’t take it anymore and committed suicide. Then we are and were the abusers, and we were invited to the class reunion.”
“Uh-huh.”
“Thinking about it like that, don’t you think that classroom was kinda creepy?” Sang Chi said, “We just turned off the lights, if I knew ahead of time that the background of the story was like this, I definitely wouldn’t dare to turn it off.”
Duanjia Xu looked at her, his gaze straight, and hmmmed softly again.
“So why the bullying,” Sang-chi thought, “Can’t we all just get on with our lives?”
The two went from off-campus, back on-campus, towards Sanji’s dormitory building.
Along the way, Sangji was talking about the escape room he had just been in, like a child entering a game hall for the first time, “Should we play again some other time and pick a harder theme.”
Duanjia Xu obediently said, “Good.”
Happening to arrive downstairs, Sang Chi released his hand, “I’ll go back then, it’s so late, you have to pay attention to safety when driving.”
Duan Jia Xu’s long eyelashes lifted, and the corners of his mouth hooked up smoothly, his tone gentle and sly.
“Aren’t you forgetting something?”
“Huh?” Kuwabara blinked, the pearly swirls on her lips momentarily fading, as if in thought. Soon, she smiled again, responding, “Oh, right. You didn’t drive here today.”
“……”
“Get on the subway then,” Sanji waved a hand at him, “or it’ll stop running later.”
Duan Jiaxu’s gaze settled on her smiling eyes, and his brows relaxed and stretched.
Suddenly he didn’t want to remind her either.
It always felt like it would make her uncomfortable and nervous again.
It didn’t matter if it was a little girl forgetting or teasing him.
She was able to laugh and talk gleefully without thinking about anything in front of herself. It seemed to be more moody than all that longing for something like that.
Duan Jia Xu stood still and watched her walk into the dormitory building before retracting his line of sight. He was about to turn back and walk out of the school gates when the sound of footsteps rang out again from that end.
He subconsciously looked over to find Sanji suddenly trotting out and bouncing in front of him.
Duan Jiaxu froze slightly, and before the sentence “What’s wrong?” came out of his mouth, she had already reached out and hooked her hand around his neck, tilted her head up, and kissed him heavily on the lips.
In just an instant, Sanji took two steps back.
With a gasp still escaping her lips, she stared into his eyes, which looked a little sunken in this night, and stumbled, “I… I could have told you ahead of time to get ready ……”
Just now was jogging over, Sang Chi did not control the force, the force of the collision was not light. Her lips were still a little numb, and her speech seemed slurred and muffled, not knowing if it was because of her emotions or something else.
Without waiting for her to finish, Duan Jia Xu suddenly bent down and came to her eyes, reaching out to caress her cheek.
Sang Chi inexplicably swallowed back all the unfinished words in his mouth.
The two men stared at each other for a moment.
After a long time, Duan Jiaxu opened his mouth, his tone was like a compulsion, “One more kiss.”
Sang Chi’s grip on his shirt tightened a bit. After a two-second pause, her chin lifted slightly and gently touched his lips.
This time the force was much lighter than the first time.
Not so reckless and a few moments of force control.
A touch of separation.
Intimate and sinking distance.
All of his scent, the grounding touch, kept tugging at her, sinking her down.
Duan Jia Xu rubbed the tip of her nose, a thin chuckle escaping his throat, “Can’t you kiss harder?”
Sanji whispered, “You don’t feel any pain?”
“Hmm? It is a bit.”
The color of Duan Jia Xu’s lips seemed to be a little more colorful, and the end of his eyes were raised with a few hints of seduction. He came close to her ear and settled for a few seconds, not continuing with his next words.
A soft spray of breath tickled a little between her ears.
Sanji could still see the knot of his throat sliding in front of his eyes, the line was extremely nice.
After a long time, Duan Jia Xu laughed, his voice low and muffled, “But I like being ravaged by you.”
–
Back in the dormitory, Sang Chi sat down and took off her shoes. She muttered under her breath, “Why is this man so shameless?” and “It’s not wrong to say that he’s a vixen.” When she looked up, she suddenly realized that the corners of her mouth were rising in the mirror.
She slammed the mirror shut and hummed her way to the shower.
Sang Zhi took a particularly dilly-dallying bath and came out already close to eleven o’clock. She poured a cup of hot water, scanned her cell phone, and saw Ning Wei looking for her on WeChat: [I live on this side of Twin Cities Plaza, you can come over and play with me if you’re not doing anything].
Sanji: [Yeah.
Ning Wei: [Eh, did you find an internship?
Sanji: [I went to the interview this morning and I feel like I should be able to pass.]
Ning Wei: [I’m going to find it over here, it’s usually easy to commute to work].
Sanji: [Uh-huh.
After thinking about it, she decided to talk to this love maven about today’s matter: [I told Duan Jia Xu today to get ready, I’m going to kiss him today].
Ning Wei: [……]
Ning Wei: [ah ？？？？]
Seeing this reaction from her, Sang Chi was also a bit out of breath: [Isn’t this the first time I’ve taken the initiative to kiss him? I feel like I have to ask, to show respect, I will not ask later. After all, when holding hands, he also asked …… me to learn him well ……]
Sanji: [Isn’t falling in love a process of learning from each other.]
After a while.
Ning Wei returned: [Also, it’s quite good.]
Seeing that, Sanji breathed a sigh of relief.
The next moment, Ning Wei added, [But it’s best not to ask in the future.]
“……”
–
After the last exam was over, Sang Zhi also received a call from the interviewing company, informing her that she could go to work the next day. After hanging up the phone, she opened WeChat and spoke to Duan Jia Xu.
Then, hesitantly, he opened the dialog window with Sang Yeon and sent out, [Brother, I found an internship].
Click Send.
The red exclamation point in front of the bubble appears as usual.
“……”
It’s been a couple days and the anger hasn’t gone away.
Sang Zhi stared at the screen, holding it in to the extreme. With nowhere to vent, she suddenly sneered and clicked on his avatar, pulling him into the blacklist as well.
The next day, Sanji arrived at the office early.
This company seems to be really short of people, and the salary is also given very low. Sang Zhi mainly wants to come here to learn something, after all, think freshman year is not good to find an internship, and do not care too much about the money.
Wanzhe, the boy she interviewed with last time, was also hired.
The two were taken through the company by another intern, He Pengxing, who assigned them positions. Sang Zhi’s position was as a designer’s assistant, and she was seated across from the woman she had found familiar earlier.
It’s the master who took her, named Shi Xiaoyu.
Sang Zhi learns from Shi Xiaoyu and gives her a hand. She thought that she would be a bit overwhelmed when she first came to work, but there was more than enough to go around, and everything was piled on top of her.
This company also has a first day of work without the principle of overtime, six o’clock in the afternoon, Sang Zhi looked at Wan Zhe punctually off the shift.
But Shi Xiaoyu didn’t let her go.
I don’t know if it was Sang Zhi’s illusion, but she always felt that Shi Xiaoyu wasn’t too friendly with her.
But on the whole, every time Shi Xiaoyu’s tone was bad, she was also saying that she was not good at drawing, and that she was not good at doing other miscellaneous things. It was Sang Zhi’s first time working, and she was inexperienced in most things, so she just listened to her lecture and obediently did it all over again.
Overtime is the norm at advertising agencies.
Shi Xiaoyu didn’t let her go, and Sang Zhi didn’t dare to take the initiative to leave. She stayed in her position, carefully drawing the manuscript.
I don’t know how long it took, but Shi Xiaoyu stood up and scanned her up and down, “I’ll get off work first, so go back after you’ve finished drawing.”
“……” nodded Sanji.
When she left, He Pengxing came over, “Sister Xiaoyu’s temper is so explosive today.”
Sanji continued to draw and said very officially, “It’s true that I didn’t do a good job.”
He Pengxing did not come a few days earlier than her, by his master also scolded miserably, at this time like the same disease: “But Sister Xiaoyu usually do not like this ah, are you messing with her?”
What’s the problem?
Sang Chi was meeting Shi Xiaoyu for the first time and didn’t know her, and had been extremely humble and good mannered all day today.
What’s the problem?
Sang Chi continued to answer officially, “Xiaoyu-san is more strict, I guess, and also wants me to do better.”
Though the mouth says that.
But actually.
Sanji was extremely upset.
–
It was past eight o’clock when I left the office.
Sanji didn’t eat much for dinner, just a packet of cookies. She went to a nearby store and bought a meat bun, found a chair on the curb and sat down, nibbling slowly.
Duanjia Xu came to the phone at this time.
Sanji picked it up.
Duan Jiaxu: “Still working overtime?”
Sanji was in a wan mood, “Nope, off duty.”
“So busy?” Duan Jiaxu said, “Working overtime on your first day?”
“When I interviewed, my boss said that I didn’t need to work overtime, and then the intern who worked on the same day as me, also left work on time.” Sang Zhi complained, a little aggravated, “And was scolded for a day.”
Duan Jia Xu was silent for a few seconds, “Where is it? I’ll go over to find you.”
–
When Duan Jia Xu arrived, the meat bun in Sang Zhi’s hand hadn’t finished chewing. She couldn’t eat any more and drank fruit tea in small sips. When she saw his figure, she didn’t get up and was still sitting in her original position.
He came over and half squatted in front of her, “Sit here and eat the bun.”
Sanji didn’t say anything.
Duan Jia Xu laughed, “Why so pathetic?”
Sanji continued to bite the bun.
Duan Jia Xu held her wrist, his tone carrying a few coaxing words, “Don’t eat this, brother will take you to eat something delicious.”
“I’m not hungry.” Sanji shook his head, “I’m going back to get cleaned up.”
Duan Jiaxu: “That’s all you had for dinner?”
Sanjay honestly said, “And ate a cookie.”
“Go have a bowl of congee.” Duan Jia Xu frowned, “You have to eat even if you’re working overtime.”
“Oh.”
Duanjia Xu stood up and tugged her up as well, casually asking, “Not happy at work?”
“The number of times I’ve been yelled at since I was a kid, combined,” Sanji spat and muttered, “isn’t even as many as today.”
“Don’t go if you’re not happy, it’s only freshman year and there’s no rush.”
Feeling that her negative energy was a bit heavy, Sang’nui reigned it in slightly, “Nah, I’m just complaining. It’s only been a day since I’ve been there, and it’s actually okay, I didn’t curse particularly excessively.”
Duan Jiaxu: “Or failing that, come work in my company.”
Sang Chi was led forward by him, “Your company doesn’t seem to recruit interns.”
Duan Jiaxu laughed softly, “Letting you take a back door.”
Sang-chi, thinking he was coaxing himself, complied, “Then you’ll save me the position of trainee boss.”
“OK.”
After saying so, Sang Chi’s mood improved quite a bit, and she started talking to herself again, “Forget it, I’m on to her, I don’t believe I can’t make her happy.”
Duan Jiaxu: “What’s not to like about you?”
Sanji thought for a moment and said sincerely, “There is no point in being satisfied.”
“……”
“I always felt like she was hostile to me,” Sanji looked at him hesitantly, “You really never had a girlfriend?”
“Hmm?”
“I suspect she’s your ex-girlfriend.”
“……” Duan Jiaxu gasped, “What are you talking about.”
“Oh.” Sanji looked at him, “Come to think of it, I don’t think you’ve ever posted a picture of me in your friend circle either.”
Duan Jiaxie raised an eyebrow and gave her her cell phone, “Why didn’t I send it?”
Sanji took it, “I really haven’t seen it.”
She opened his friend circle and found that he had never posted a friend circle before. But it had been posted several times during this time, and the content was basically pictures of her, and he had blocked several people: “Who have you blocked?”
Duan Jiaxu: “College classmate.”
Sangji ohs again and takes out his own cell phone and looks at it, “I’ve really never seen you post a friend circle ……”
She clicked on Duan Jia Xu’s profile, and suddenly noticed a “don’t look at his circle of friends” sign in the upper right corner. His gaze swept over and he instantly noticed it.
“……”
Sang Chi suddenly remembered that the time she came back from Yiho, afraid that she would be unhappy to see his messages, she blocked his friend circle. Didn’t really remember much about it after that.
Changed the note a couple times without noticing.
Duan Jiaxu moved his gaze to her and said faintly, “Explain?”
Chapter 61
。。。。。
“……”
How is this going to be better explained.
If he posted a lot, Sanjay could still use the excuse of “screen-scraping”.
But he hasn’t posted a single one at all before.
The scene is frozen for a few seconds.
Sangji racked his brain to think of a reason, silently retracted his eyes, also showed a look of bewilderment, clicked on the profile settings and looked at it, “Oh, I clicked on the wrong one.”
Duan Jiaxu was still looking at her, his expression carrying a bit of meaning.
“I originally intended to click, not let you see my friend circle.” Sang Zhi explained, “I didn’t look carefully, so I clicked to block your friend circle.”
Duanjash: “……”
What’s this about?
“Just, you know.” Sanji said, “Some of the content of the circle of friends, not good for parents to see …… I’m too lazy to always group block, simply just ……”
“I won’t say anything else,” Duanjia Xu interrupted her, seizing on two of the words, “Parent?”
“……”
Sangji was trying very hard to pull out a reason: “If you saw it, it’s the same as if my brother saw it, and if my brother saw it, he told my parents, so I have to cut it off at the source. And I’ve blocked it a long time ago ……”
“You’re not blocked here, and I haven’t seen you post anything that’s not good for parents to see-” Duan Jiaxu’s fingertip tapped on her cell phone screen, “something?”
“……,” Sanjay reached over and canceled the block, “I deleted it all.”
“Speaking of which,” Duan Jiaxu said drolly, “young lady, how come there’s nothing in your circle of friends?”
“Huh?”
“And no boyfriend.”
“……”
It’s full of innuendo.
Sang Zhi really didn’t have the habit of sending out friend circles, occasionally sending out one and deleting it not long after, so clicking in was a blank slate. She didn’t realize this and just mentioned it casually.
When you think about it that way, it does seem like there’s a sense of hiding.
Sanji said carefully, “So I’ll send one now?”
Hearing Sang Zhi’s tone, Duan Jia Xu also knew that she was in a bad mood today. She really didn’t care too much about these things and said carelessly, “No need, just messing with you.”
Sanji’s move to flip through the album stopped and he nodded in silence.
After a long time.
Sanji didn’t hold back from asking, “You don’t mind?”
“Hmm?”
“I didn’t mention you in my circle of friends.”
“On purpose?”
“…… is not.”
“It doesn’t matter if it’s intentional,” Duan Jia Xu led her into a store, his tone loose, “even if you don’t say anything and think that I’m extremely unseemly, so you want to hide it from everyone-“
Sanji retorted, “Where did I say you couldn’t see.”
Like he hadn’t heard her.
Duan Jia Xu looked at her sideways, his eyes radiant, and finished his sentence with a smile.
“You’re still in my family, too.”
–
After only one day of work, Sang Zhi felt a backache. Returning to the dormitory, she washed up and brought a basin to soak her feet, after which she didn’t want to do anything else and directly lay down on the bed.
It wasn’t yet time for Sanji to go to bed, but she was already overcome with sleep.
Sang Zhi barely managed to keep her eyes open as she replied to Duan Jiaxu’s WeChat. She backed away, noticing that there were new messages from her home group, from Sang Rong and Liping respectively, both sending out a red envelope to celebrate her finding an internship.
Seeing this, Sang Chi’s mood is quite good again. She first sent a “hold on” emoticon, and then clicked on them one by one, realizing that they had all been claimed by Sang Yeon.
Sangji’s drooping eyelids instantly lifted as if he had mistakenly claimed it, losing a question mark reminder: [?
Sanjan didn’t reply.
Sanji waited for a while and fell asleep without realizing it.
When he woke up the next day, he realized that Sanjan still hadn’t replied.
On the contrary, Sang Rong had sent out two more red envelopes last night in order to coax her. After a few minutes, he also sent out, [Brat, what else can you do all day except bully your sister?
Sang Yeon still didn’t say a word.
Sang Chi’s sleepy eyes inexplicably had a bad feeling. She reached out and clicked on it, realizing that the two red envelopes were still claimed by Sang Yan.
It adds up to a whole eight hundred dollars of ocean.
“……”
Row.
Row ！！！！！
Don’t say cold turkey.
Sanji is still trying to cut ties with him and die of old age.
–
In the next few days, Shi Xiaoyu still had the same attitude towards Sang Chi.
Sanjay will be scolded no matter what he does.
For example, Shi Xiaoyu asked Sanji to fill a glass of water.
The first time Sangji put in room temperature, he was scolded, the second time he asked “do you want hot or cold”, she returned “do you still need to ask”. Then Sang-chi poured a cup of lukewarm water as she had asked last time, and was still scolded.
And then, for example, according to Shi Xiaoyu’s request, the material she found and the manuscript she drew, she could always find something to nitpick.
Sang Chi revised it several times, and was scolded by her several times in succession, and only in the end did she use an extremely grudging tone and said, “Forget it, just let it be.
Still a gesture of dissatisfaction.
Occasionally, when I talked to Ning Wei, I heard her mention that the internship she had found was a bit uninspiring, but she still held on to her job.
Sanji didn’t want to just stop halfway.
Her life became more regular than when she was in class.
Every day, I don’t want to do anything other than go to work or work overtime, and then go back to my dorm and sleep.
Sometimes when the temper comes up, Sang Chi thinks that the contract has not yet been signed, or else he will just quit. But he also felt that after being mistreated for so many days, if he left his job now, he would not get a penny, which was a great disadvantage.
The clock is ticking and it’s Friday.
Sang Zhi ordered takeout with her coworkers at noon, and after eating, she cleaned up a bit and took the box out to throw it away. When she walked to the stairwell, she happened to see Shi Xiaoyu leaning against the window on the phone.
Her voice line is on the soft side, and her speech is slow, completely different from in front of Sang Zhi: “How do I feel that this little girl is not quite the same as what you said? Also quite obedient, by me so difficult also did not complain, I also did not see her with the company’s male colleagues said what words …… eh, I am embarrassed to bully her so.”
Sanjay paused and threw the trash away in silence.
Shi Xiaoyu didn’t notice her, still chatting with the person on the other end of the phone, “That’s true, but according to you, this guy is also scummy, so change it.”
She didn’t continue listening and turned her head back to the office.
Sang Chi went to the restroom and washed his hands, thinking about Shi Xiaoyu’s words.
It seems that all the targeting and name-calling these days has been done with personal emotions.
But she really didn’t know Shi Xiaoyu.
Could it be that she messed with some classmate and then Shi Xiaoyu was that classmate’s sister?
In any case, if it was a work-related issue, Sang Zhi felt that she could still endure it. But now that it was clear that the other party was deliberately targeting her, she didn’t want to tolerate it for a single moment longer.
Sanjay returned to his seat, intending to take a lunch break.
Shi Xiaoyu had also returned, and at this time, she took the blanket on the location, intending to go over to the sofa to sleep for a while. There was only one couch in the company, and it was always her who used it as well.
Seeing Sanji slumped onto the table, she paused in her steps, “Who let you sleep?”
Sanji sidled up, “It’s not time to go to work yet.”
Shi Xiaoyu: “Did you find the material I asked you to find?”
“No,” Sanji stared at her, calmly, “but it’s not work time.”
For the first time, Shi Xiaoyu was still a bit uncomfortable when she heard Sang Zhi firing back, she frowned and slapped her palm heavily on the desktop, annoyed, “Finish looking for it first, I’m in a hurry to use it.”
Sanji: “Oh.”
Shi Xiaoyu’s expression eased a bit, “Hurry up.”
Sanji added, “Not looking.”
“……” said Shi Xiaoyu, “What did you say?”
“If you are really in a hurry, you can not nap yourself and go find it now.” Sang Chi’s temper has always been bad, at this time or press the fire to say words, “Otherwise, this overtime fee, you give me out?”
–
Because of Sang Chi’s attitude, Shi Xiaoyu’s behavior was significantly worse after that.
If she felt that it was reasonable, Sang Chi would still endure it. If she felt that Shi Xiaoyu was looking for trouble, she would also respond with a few expressionless and polite words. When Shi Xiaoyu went to the restroom in the middle of the day, Wan Zhe and He Pengxing couldn’t help but come over to talk to her.
Wanzhe: “Did you eat dynamite today?”
He Pengxing: “Bullshit, aren’t you afraid she’ll target you even more afterward?”
Sang Zhi flipped through the documents and said without waves, “Enduring being scolded as usual, I might as well give her some pain.”
He Pengxing: “Good.”
Wanzhe: “Well done.”
He Pengxing: “But I don’t dare.”
Wanzhe: “I wouldn’t dare.”
“……”
For the sake of the three new colleagues, the boss Zhang Hui decided to organize a potluck dinner as a welcome party, so today’s off duty time is extraordinarily punctual, Shi Xiaoyu wanted to deliberately find something for Sang Zhi to do, but did not find a reason to do so.
The gathering was at a nearby cafeteria.
In front of Zhang Hui, and it was still off-duty time, Shi Xiaoyu didn’t let loose too much and didn’t make things difficult for Sang Zhi.
This one ended and the group decided to relax at a nearby KTV.
Sang-Chi didn’t really want to go, but seeing as everyone else was going, she was too embarrassed to offer to leave. She thought she’d go over and stay for an hour, then she’d find a dormitory door or some other reason to leave first.
On the way, Sang Chi heard Shi Xiaoyu saying to Zhang Hui, “Brother Hui, my friend is planning to come to me, let her come along, okay?”
Zhang Hui grinned, “It’s okay, it’s crowded.”
Sang Chi didn’t take this too seriously and walked behind, silently talking to Duan Jia Xu on WeChat about where he was going next.
It didn’t take long for Sang Chi to meet the friend Shi Xiaoyu spoke of.
It’s Kang Ying, who I haven’t seen in a long time.
At this moment, Sang Zhi also suddenly remembered why he felt Shi Xiaoyu looked familiar at first. Her face gradually overlapped with the woman who had stopped Jiang Ying’s frantic moves back at the hotpot restaurant.
Sang Chi sat in the corner of the KTV, his emotions light, staring at Jiang Ying who was smiling and greeting everyone.
Jiang Ying’s expression didn’t change when their gazes collided.
Sanji faked a smile as well.
The others sang and played dice and drank, and Sang Chi only followed for a while before returning to sit in the corner. Without realizing it, Jiang Ying sat next to her.
She looked normal, with an intimate smile on her face, and said gently, “I hear you’re only a freshman?”
Sanji pretended not to hear and said nothing.
Jiang Ying: “Out of work at such a young age, huh?”
“……”
“Happy with a man who has nothing?”
“Auntie,” Sang Chi nibbled on the peanuts in front of her, “If I really need money, I’ll go find a tutor, or go out to get a summer job, all of which will make me more money than interning at this company.”
“……”
“Nothing else, if that’s all you want to say, I’ll remind you first.” Sang Chi looked up, smiling eyes curved up, “Otherwise you’ll get tired of talking and I’ll get tired of listening.”
The smile on Jiang Ying’s face converged and she looked at her fixedly, suddenly pouring several mouthfuls of wine into her mouth. Perhaps because of the number of people present around her, she didn’t make much of a drastic move.
Sanji looked down at the time.
Ginger: “Can your parents approve of you being with him?”
Sanji didn’t respond.
“You think he really likes you? Little girl, seriously tell you one thing, this man, especially lacks love.” Jiang Ying said softly, “Are you quite nice to him?”
“……”
“Anyone who is nice to him, he can mistake that feeling for love.” Jiang Ying said, “I see that you do love him to death, but if you mention breaking up with him, do you know how he will react?”
Sanji looked down and played with his cell phone, not saying a word.
Ginger Ying poked her arm gently with her fingertips, “He’ll think, it’s okay, it’s good that you’ve found something better.”
Her heart felt like a thorn in her side, and her lips pursed down hard.
“And then,” Ginger Ying spoke slowly, “he could find out a thousand people like you.”
Only then did Sang Chi open his mouth and said softly, “Is it interesting for you to come to me and say these things?”
“I poked a sore spot, huh? Sorry ha.” The smell of alcohol in Jiang Ying’s mouth was extraordinarily strong and somewhat unpleasant, “I just can’t stand him, and I’m kind enough to remind you. You say I have nothing to target him for, because his dad drove, and ran my dad, over.”
“I know.”
Jiang Ying froze and suddenly burst out laughing, her whole body shaking: ”This matter, he told you ah? He still has the nerve to say it? — can be really cheeky.”
“It’s 5012 years old now,” Sanjay’s tone was emotionless, “the system of guilt by association was abolished a thousand years ago, Auntie.”
There was a long silence.
Jiang Ying stiffly pulled up the corners of her mouth and coolly said, “Then who do I look to to complain? If something like this had happened to your family, do you think you wouldn’t have become like me?”
“Duan Jia Xu’s father committed a crime,” San Zhi said, “so the court sentenced him, and he will be punished for the crime he committed-“
Jiang Ying interrupted her violently and sneered, “Getting punished?”
“……”
“My father could have lived. That bastard Duan Zhicheng, who ran away after hitting someone,” Jiang Ying said through clenched teeth, word by word, “was afraid of going to jail, afraid of being judged by others, and jumped to his death.”
“……”
“What did he get punished for, you say?”
“……”
This was the first time Sang Wiz had heard of this matter as well.
Earlier, when she heard Duan Jia Xu say that his father became a vegetable, she also thought that it was because of that car accident, the impact of both sides.
Ryoko.
Sang Chi lifted his eyelashes to meet her eyes, his tone soft, “That Duan Jia Xu, isn’t he also a victim?”
–
Sang Zhi found a reason to leave, and Jiang Ying didn’t follow her out. Her heart was suffocating, and she didn’t want to go back to school for a while, so she went to the neighborhood and bought a takoyaki to eat.
It wasn’t long before she received Duan Jiaxu’s WeChat: [Where is it, I’ll come and pick you up].
Sanjay sent him a locator.
It’s a small square here, and it’s quite lively.
There was a group of people playing roller skating and skateboarding not far away, and Sanji sat down on the small stone steps next to her to finish her octopus croquettes. She set the box aside and stifled a burp.
She was inexplicably a little lost in thought about Jiang Ying’s words.
Starting to think back on this time with Duan Jia Xu.
He was being nice to her.
Accommodate her in everything.
Accompany her in whatever she wants to do.
He wouldn’t force anything she didn’t want.
He was good to her.
Isn’t that a lot to like?
But it was clear to Sanjay from the first day they were together.
Their liking should not be reciprocated.
Whether he did it on a whim or over time.
Just the fact that he liked her a little bit seemed to be enough.
Sanji suddenly stood up and stared at the others playfully skateboarding.
Noticing a boy holding a girl’s hand in the distance, carefully holding her up as if he was afraid she’d fall, and then violently being kissed by her, his expression froze and he let go with a blush.
They ended up falling together, but both were laughing.
Kuwabara inexplicably laughed along with him.
She watched for a while longer before Duan Jia Xu sent her a weibo message, telling her that he had arrived. Sang Zhi replied to his message, asking for his exact | location, and it didn’t take long to see his figure.
Sanji dropped the box in his hand and stood in front of him.
Duan Jia Xu observed her up and down, “Have you been drinking?”
Sanji shook his head, raised his eyes to him, and suddenly asked, “Can I ask you a question?”
Duan Jiaxu raised an eyebrow, “Ask.”
Sanji: “Why do you like me?”
At those words, Duan Jiaxu froze and said in amusement, “What other reason is there for this?”
Sanji paused, and softly oh’d, “That too.”
“What’s wrong?”
“Nothing.” Sanji lowered his eyes and suddenly let go of his hand, rummaging through his bag and pulling out a bank card from his wallet, “This is for you.”
“Hmm?”
“The card I had before had over a thousand dollars in it.” Sang Chi slowly said, “I participated in that competition last semester, our group took the prize, then sold the prize and split the money. I also did a few tutoring jobs, but they were a bit small and didn’t add up to much.”
“……”
“I don’t know if I’ll get the scholarship, but if I do, I’ll transfer it in. This job should also have two thousand dollars if I can stick with it,” said Sanjeev, “and I’ll transfer it in then, too.”
Duan Jia Xu was a bit reactive, the knot in his throat sliding up and down, “Why did you give me this?”
“Just wanted to tell you,” Sanji said softly with a sore nose, “that I’ll be good to you for the rest of my life.”
So you don’t have to find someone else to be nice to you.
I can be good to you forever, without reservation.
Duan Jia Xu tilted his head and lowered his eyes to look at her, “Is this meant to harbor me?”
“……”
“But what’s with the condescension?”
Duan Jia Xu took his wallet out of his pocket and put it in her hand, “Take this money and buy yourself pretty dresses to wear.”
And then, Duan Jia Xu took the card in her hand, “This, it’ll be used to wrap up your brother.”
Sanji looked up at him.
“That’s not a bad amount of money to pay, so,” Duan Jia Xu seemed to be in a good mood, reaching out to pinch her earlobe and blowing a breath into her ear, “Boss, you can do whatever you want.”
Chapter 62
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His breath was warm, sprayed between her ears, itchy and numb. The tone of his voice was a bit teasing, deliberately teasing her, extraordinarily unorthodox, but also make people can not get angry.
Sangji’s emotions instantly dissipated for the most part, lifting his eyes, staring at him in silence.
“Why don’t you say anything?” Duan Jia Xu straightened up, laughed softly, and admitted voluntarily, “Okay, I know I’m talking dirt.”
“……”
Hearing this, the corners of Sanji’s mouth converged straight, maintained for a few seconds, and this time he didn’t hold back his laughter, “Aren’t you not admitting it?”
Duan Jiaxu’s eyebrows lifted slightly, “Still really earthy, huh?”
Sanji sniffled and didn’t blow him off, “It was okay.”
She lowered her eyes, looked at the black wallet in her hand, and handed it back to him, “Here you go.”
Duan Jiaxu didn’t take it, instead he put the card in his pocket and said, “I’m not going to return this.”
Sanji whispered, “I didn’t ask you to return it.”
Only then did Duan Jiaxu take the card out again, staring at it for a long time with his eyelashes hanging down, suddenly smiled and murmured, “At my age, I can still have a soft meal.”
“……” said Sanji, “It’s not like I’m letting you spend this money frivolously.”
“Give it to me and you won’t let me spend it?”
Sanji looked at him, “That has to be saved.”
Duan Jiaxu leisurely said, “Save it for your dowry?”
Sang-chi was serious: “Save up to buy a house.”
“……”
“I looked online before, the city center, one hundred square meters, the down payment of about half a million.” Sang Zhi said, “…… According to this progress, I should be able to save for twenty years.”
Duan Jia Xu froze and laughed out loud. His chin slightly converged, his pleasure was not half restrained, and he laughed so hard that his shoulders trembled, “Okay, waiting for you to deposit.”
“……”
Twenty years sounds a bit humble.
Sang Chi thought for a moment and added, “It shouldn’t take that long.”
Duan Jiaxu: “Well, brother will wait for you to hide your daughter in a golden house.”
“……”
At his interruption, Sanji had somewhat forgotten the reason she was in a bad mood. She touched his arm with that purse and reminded, “Yours.”
Duan Jiaxu took it, drew two cards from the inside, and handed them to her, “Boss, your cards.”
Sanji didn’t take it, “What are you giving me the card for?”
“I can’t keep money on me.” Duan Jia Xu laughed, “How else can you eat soft food?”
Sanji couldn’t help but say, “I’m a big spender.”
“Then I’m quite lucky,” Duan Jiaxu trailed off, “to have found a gold master who is generous.”
“…… “Sang Chi only took one and carefully put it away in his bag, “I don’t need it, I’ll give it to you to put away nicely, I’ll give it back to you if you want it.”
Seeing that she was finally in a better mood, Duan Jiaxu opened his mouth and asked, “Didn’t you have a get-together with the company today? Why aren’t you happy?”
Counting on it, it was also the second time that Jiang Ying had come to her. Plus, Sang Zhi had been targeted in the past week, also because of Jiang Ying. She had no intention of quitting, and was still thinking of phasing Shi Xiaoyu for a month before taking her pay and leaving.
Afraid of also affecting Duan Jia Xu’s mood, Sang Zhi didn’t confess, “Just bring my master is a bit annoying.”
–
After sending Sang Zhi back to school, Duan Jia Xu drove back home. He drove the car into the neighborhood and slowed down, and before he could drive to the place where he was going to make a turn, a person suddenly crashed in front of him.
Duan Jia Xu’s gaze tightened and he subconsciously braked the car. His back broke out in a cold sweat in an instant, and his brain was dazed for a moment before he unbuckled his seatbelt and got out of the car.
The man who had just bumped into him was half leaning against the front of his car, obviously drunk enough not to be hit, and muttering inaudible words.
Duan Jia Xu took a deep breath and called out, “Sir?”
The man stood up straight and suddenly pointed at the wheel and cursed, “Your car crushed my dog!”
Upon hearing this, Duan Jia Xu swept his eyes and didn’t see the “dog” he mentioned. He closed his eyes, his emotions still not too slowed down, and said in a faint voice, “You’re drunk, go sit next to me for a while.”
“I’m not drunk!” The man, still a little unsteady on his feet, pointed a drunken finger at him, “I said! Your car! It hit my dog! You have to pay for it!”
Hearing the commotion over here, one after another, people gathered around to watch.
Not long after, the security guard also came over, after understanding the situation, patiently persuade the fight. But the man is completely irrational, heard the security guard said “then you pull the dog out”, but also angry back to the “dog’s life is not life ah”.
In the end there was no way out but to call the police.
Duan Jia Xu returned to the car and watched absently as the men messed around outside.
It was only after the police came that they got off.
It also took half an hour to do so.
Back home, Duan Jiaxu opened the refrigerator, took a bottle of ice water into his mouth, the root of his tongue was stimulated by the tingling a little numb. His brain seems to have a thread that is taut and is about to snap when he pulls on it.
Scanning the assortment of snacks in his eyes, Duan Jia Xu pursed his lips and casually drew a chocolate.
He sat down on the couch and tore open the package and took a bite.
Extremely sweet flavor.
Duan Jia Xu smoothly drew out the card in his pocket as well. He stared at it for a while, his eyebrows relaxed, and his peach blossom eyes curved downward with it. The taut mood seemed to be gradually dispersing as well.
Finishing the rest of the chocolate, Duan Jia Xu grabbed a change of clothes and went into the bathroom. By the time he came out, it was already close to eleven o’clock. At this point in time, Sang Chi would have already fallen asleep.
Duan Jia Xu didn’t have much sleep and took out his cell phone and played games for a while until 1:00 am before he laid down to sleep.
Then he had a dream.
The dream was that tonight, he had been drinking at a social function but didn’t think he was drunk, and had resolutely chosen to drive home, before crashing into the man he’d just met on the road.
He also heard his own voice, heard himself constantly stopping it.
Extremely desperate and hysterical voice, like it was going to pierce the eardrums.
And yet, in the dream world, he escaped.
Duanjash dreamed.
He became Duan Zhicheng.
–
……
That was probably, the most chaotic night that Duan Jia Xu had ever experienced.
He was in his room working on his homework, thinking that after this point, there would be time to read comic books for a while. Xu Ruoshu was watching TV in the living room, and he could faintly hear her intermittent laughter.
It was supposed to be an extremely peaceful evening.
Until Duan Zhicheng returns.
He was extremely reckless, and his body still reeked of a strong and unpleasant odor of alcohol, and his entire body was trembling. In response to Xu Ruoshu’s worried questioning and approaching to placate him, he also just pushed away in an extremely crumpled manner.
Panic to the core.
The sound of this great commotion disturbed Duan Jiaxu so much that he couldn’t write his homework anymore. He stopped the pen in his hand, got up and went out of the living room, and asked, “Mom, what’s going on?”
Xu Ruoshu gathered the shawl around her body and said soothingly, “It’s fine, go ahead and do your homework.”
“I’m finished.” However, Duan Zhicheng was not as “fine” as she said, his eyes were red, and he repeated these three words over and over again, “I’m finished …….”
Xu Ruoshu frowned, frightened by his appearance, “What’s going on? How did you come back drunk like this? Didn’t I ask Xiao Chen to give you a ride?”
“I myself ……” Duan Zhicheng’s throat made a sound that was close to a choke, “I…I hit someone …… “
“……”
The house immediately fell silent, leaving only the sound of Duan Zhicheng’s ragged breath.
After a long time, Xu Ruoshu came back to her senses and turned her head to look at Duan Jiaxu, “Ah Xu, go back to your room.” She hurriedly grabbed Duan Zhicheng’s arm and forced herself to calm down, “Tell me properly, what happened?”
Duan Zhicheng ripped his throat out and yelled, “I don’t know!”
“Where did you crash? Did you call an ambulance?” Xu Ruoshu’s eyes reddened and her voice involuntarily trembled, “Did you get out of the car and look?”
“On People’s Road, next to that store ……” Duan Zhicheng suddenly raised his head, tears falling straight from his eyes, “What am I going to do …… What am I going to do ……”
Duan Jiaxu opened his mouth at this time, “Dad, did you call an ambulance?”
Duan Zhicheng shook his head repeatedly, and could not listen to anything: “You can not call, no one saw that I hit, no one knows …… that you do not care! You guys don’t–“
Xu Ruoshu also yelled, “Duan Zhicheng! Are you out of your mind!”
“……”
The corners of Duan Jia Xu’s forehead throbbed and his palms went cold. He listened to his parents’ argument, walked to the sofa in silence, picked up the microphone, and started to call 120.
Noticing his movements, Duan Zhicheng looked over, “What are you doing?!”
The head connected, Duan Jiaxu eyes reddened, turned back to look straight at Duan Zhicheng: “Hospital? People’s Road this side of the store, next door someone had a car accident, there are injured, trouble ……”
Duan Zhicheng looked like he was crazy and tried to come over to grab his phone, but was stopped by Xu Ruoshu.
“–Please send someone over as soon as possible, thank you.” Finishing his sentence, Duan Jiaxu hung up the phone and said in a single word, “Got to save people.”
“……”
“That person isn’t necessarily dead yet, why didn’t you save him?” The image of a father collapsed in an instant, and the muscles on Duan Jia Xu’s face tightened as he gritted his teeth and asked, “Why did you run?”
Xu Ruoshu shielded Duan Jiaxu behind her and said seriously, “You go turn yourself in.”
“……”
“Admit your mistakes and atone for your sins.” The first time she encountered such a big thing, Xu Ruoshu’s voice carried a thick sobbing tone, “You did something wrong, you have to make amends, this is what you should do, you shouldn’t run away from it.”
“…… “Looking at the two men’s expressions, Duan Zhicheng was still shaking his head. His entire face was red, and sweat kept flowing from his forehead, “I don’t want to go to jail…I don’t want to ……”
Xu Ruoshu wanted to say something else.
Duan Zhicheng’s spirit was as if he wasn’t awake anymore as he muttered, “Is it okay for me to pay for my life? Is it okay if I die?”
Then, Duan Jia Xu saw an image he would never forget in his life.
His father, to escape this sin.
Suddenly sprinting in the direction of the balcony, then leaping, jumping from the sixth floor.
……
Duan Zhicheng didn’t die and lay in bed as a vegetable.
Huge medical bills, huge compensation, never-ending accusations, all the things that should make Duan Zhicheng bear the blame, have all switched directions, heavy toward the family pressed down.
Duan Jia Xu and Xu Ruoshu endure, the pestering of the Jiang Ying family, including all their relatives.
The young children, and the gentle, weak women, became the best targets for bullying. The endless blackmail, and the sharp, vicious curses, only subsided when they moved away.
But it became, a permanent shadow.
–“You deserve to die, too.”
— “I wonder what you’ll be when you grow up.”
I’m afraid it’s going to be like everyone says.
In the future, Duan Jiaxu would become a person like Duan Zhicheng.
That’s why he never drinks.
Do everything by the book.
Duan Jiaxu lives with low self-esteem, carefully, but hard. He does not believe in fate, and will never choose to give up on himself and fall into the mud at the words of others.
He believed that it would be like what Xu Ruoshu said.
And as he thought of himself.
He’ll live better than anyone.
……
……
–
Sang Chi’s cell phone had been muted for a long time, mainly because of classes, as well as the usual fear of disturbing her roommates. But recently, when she was alone in the dormitory, and also because she always didn’t see other people’s messages in time, she turned on the sound.
In the middle of the night, she was awakened by a microphone call.
Sang Chi was distracted by the noise. For a moment she thought it was the alarm clock going off, and she fumbled with her cell phone, hung up the call in a daze, covered her head and went back to sleep.
It didn’t take long for the phone to ring again.
Sanji sobered up a little, crinkling his eyes and fixing them on the screen.
Found out it was Duan Jiaxu calling.
Paying attention to the time in the center of her cell phone, Sang Chi instantly exploded. She calmed her breathing and held her temper as she picked up the phone and turned it straight on outgoing.
Inside the small dormitory room, Duan Jiaxu’s voice instantly resounded, “Sleeping?”
Sanji was going crazy, “It’s three o’clock now, big brother.”
Duanjia Xu paused and smothered a laugh on the other end, “Sorry, I’m a bit sleepy.”
Sanji just wanted to sleep and said perfunctorily, “What do you want.”
“Talking to you.”
“I want to sleep!” Resisting the urge to hang up the phone outright, Sang-chi said, “Go find my brother, I think he’s probably not sleeping right now either, he usually pulls an all-nighter on the weekends-“
Duan Jiaxu: “Just looking for you.”
“……”
Sang Chi’s eyelids lifted. Thinking that it didn’t seem right for him to harass her at this point in the middle of the night, she reached over and turned the camera on, “What are you doing.”
It was pitch black on her side and she couldn’t see anything with the camera on.
Seeing this, Duan Jia Xu’s end also opened up, revealing his face. The light on his end wasn’t too bright, appearing a bit low in pixels: “It’s fine, you sleep.”
“……” said Sanji, “Are you having a nightmare?”
Duan Jia Xu laughed, “How do you know?”
Because he had just woken up, Sang Chi spoke with a bit of a nasal voice, sounding soft and slow: “At this time of the day, what else could it be but a nightmare?”
“……”
“Are you dreaming of a ghost? A ghost pressing on your bed? Why are you so timid.” Sang Chi disliked, “You lie down now and I’ll sing you a lullaby.”
Duanjia Xu softly hmmmed.
Sanjay flopped down on the pillow and began to sing, “Sleep, sleep, my sweet baby ……”
“……”
Soon, Sanji stopped and sat up, “I feel like singing like this I need to fall asleep first.”
Duanjash began to laugh again, with the sound of clinging breath.
Sang-chi sat against the wall wrapped in a quilt, cradling her cell phone in her hand, saying whatever came to her mind, “Just a nightmare, it’s all fake. Look around you, look at me in the screen-“
“……”
“Oh.” Sanji’s mind was a little unclear, “There’s no light on my side, I’m too lazy to go down and drive.”
Duan Jiaxu smiled and responded, “Uh-huh.”
“It’s all a lie,” even sitting Sanji felt like he was going to fall asleep, jumbling his words, “I’m the real one, everything else is a lie.”
Duan Jia Xu’s voice was low and seemed loving, “I know.”
The two of them had a conversation, and Sang Chi unconsciously lay down on the bed again and gradually fell asleep.
The phone in his hand remained open.
The person on the other end laughed lowly at the sound of her calming breaths and drifted off to sleep as well.
Until dawn.
–
In the new week, San Zhi Zhi went to work as usual.
As usual, Shi Xiaoyu was targeted to nitpick, and then responded sharply. More times than not, looking at Shi Xiaoyu who was pissed off enough by her every time, Sang Zhi actually had a kind of very happy feeling in it.
At the end of the workday, Shi Xiaoyu left on time with her bag on her back. Before leaving, she coldly glanced at Sang Zhi and said expressionlessly, “Organize your statements before going back.”
Sanji nodded, “Oh.”
When she was gone, Sanji also started to pack up his things and get ready to leave work.
Noticing the situation on her side, He Pengxing’s eyes widened, “You’re leaving? Didn’t I tell you to organize the reports?”
Sanji: “Come tomorrow to organize.”
Wan Zhe envied, “Sang Zhi, why are you so bullish.”
He Pengxing: “You’ll be scolded to death by Sister Xiaoyu if you come over tomorrow.”
“I’ll be scolded whether I tidy up or not,” said Sang-chi, “then I might as well leave work early, get some rest, and recuperate for when she comes to scold me tomorrow.”
“……”
Wanzhe: “I want to be her age, I can be so cool.”
Ho Punkin: “I can be this cool if I don’t plan on turning.”
Sanji: “……”
–
It’s really more fun to go to work that way.
After leaving the company, Sang Chi didn’t feel tired. Taking the subway, she went downstairs to Duan Jia Xu’s company to wait for him to get off work. She found a sushi restaurant and ordered a set meal at random.
She flipped out a comic to read it.
It wasn’t long before Sang Chi received a call from Lai Ping.
She picked it up.
Li Ping: “Only only, where are you now? Still working overtime?”
Sanji bit into his sushi and said, “No, just got off work. I’m eating dinner now.”
“Hurry back to the dormitory when you’re done eating, okay?” Li Ping sighed, “You’re alone over there, making me too uneasy. In the future, internships will be found on this side of Nanwu, okay?”
“It’s okay,” Sanji looked at the clock, “I should be back by eight, I won’t be too late.”
“Okay, video with mom later.”
“Good.”
Sanji hung up the phone, not taking the incident too seriously, and continued to eat his sushi.
Soon, Duan Jiaxu also came.
Sanji ordered one for him as well and said, “I have to go back early today, my mom wants to video me.”
“Uh-huh.”
After dinner, Duan Jia Xu sent Sang Zhi back to school.
He didn’t drive, and after the two of them got off the subway, they held hands and walked in the direction of Yiho University, “Today, Shi Xiaoyu asked me to go and fill a cup of warm water for her, so I’ll go and fill it for her.”
“And then what.”
“After I filled it, she scolded me, saying that she obviously wanted cold water.” At the mention of this, Sang-chi came to her senses, “I’ll just say, that water dispenser can’t get cold water out of it.”
Duan Jiaxu found it funny, “And then?”
“She was so angry, saying how it couldn’t come out of the cold water. I said, well, go try it, and she did. And then told me that it clearly works. And I said, maybe it broke when I used it-“
Without waiting for Kuwabara to finish, her cell phone suddenly rang.
Sang Chi said as she fumbled for her cell phone and saw that the caller ID was actually Sang Yan. She blinked and picked it up very spinelessly, “What for.”
The caller paused, his tone cool, “You’re back in your dorm?”
“Why do you and mom have to ask all over again today,” Sanjay was baffled, “I’m almost at school now, what’s wrong?”
“So,” Sanjayan popped the words out of his mouth one sentence at a time, “it’s you who’s in front of the school right now, with a guy, holding hands, right?”
“……”
Extremely sudden words.
Sang Chi was still a bit confused, not reacting to the meaning of his words for a moment, subconsciously looking around, “Ah? Brother, did you come to Yiho?”
The other end had hung up.
Sanjay also discovered Sanjayan’s presence at the same time.
He was on the side of the road, staring expressionlessly at the two of them with their hands clasped. A cab started up next to them and disappeared into the traffic, as if taking all the sounds of the world with it.
Sang Yan said faintly, “Am I blind?”
“……”
“Why do I think this graduate student boyfriend of yours,” Sang Yeon sneered, “looks just like that dog Duan Jia Xu?”
Chapter 63
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“……”
Sang Chi mechanically turned her head, following his line of sight to Duan Jia Xu’s face. As if she was caught by her parents, she jerked her hand back, uncomfortably behind her back.
She gulped.
Originally, he didn’t think it was a big deal, but the combination of Sang Yeon’s unkind expression and the sudden breakup of the relationship made Sang Chil’s heart rise up in his throat when he wasn’t mentally prepared for it.
Duan Jiaxu lowered his eyes, looking at his instantly empty hand, and raised an eyebrow.
And then, Sang Chi held back a sentence, “…… is quite similar.”
“……”
“But if you take a closer look,” Sanji said dryly, “there’s still, there’s a little difference, it’s just a clash of faces…popular faces …… I know several people who look like this face ……”
Sang Yan interrupted her and laughed back in anger, “Do you really think I’m a fool?”
“……”
“Shall I help you think of a reason?” Sang Yeon’s pupils were dark, and he thought he was calm, and then he said nonchalantly, “Duan Jia Xu is blind, crippled, and drunk, so in order to hold him up, you must hold his hand.”
After three seconds of silence, Sanji forced himself to calm down and said, “How about getting drunk?”
“……”
Hearing these words, Sang Yan’s brows jumped, and that leathery smile gradually withdrew. He didn’t move to calm his breathing, stared at Sang Zhi, and said in a single word, “Come over here.”
Sang Chi was afraid of being scolded by him and looked at Duan Jia Xu for help.
Seeing this, Duan Jia Xu also looked sideways at Sang Zhi with a thoughtful expression. Soon, he opened his mouth, and the words that came out were in response to what she had just said, “My looks aren’t popular either.”
“……”
Double pinch.
Two, faulty, men.
Sang Chi didn’t know why she had to be the most flustered one. She took a deep breath, her eyes darting over the two before she suddenly pushed Duan Jia Xu in Sang Yan’s direction.
She put all the blame on Duan Jiaxu and told the truth: “He chased me.”
Meeting Sang Yan’s line of sight, Duan Jia Xu finally began to feel a hint of guilt. The curves at the corners of his mouth slowly converged, and he coughed lightly, admitting, “I chased after it.”
“……”
–
Sanji suddenly had some regrets.
If she didn’t go to Duan Jia Xu today and obediently went back to the dormitory after work, at this point, Sang Yan probably wouldn’t have bumped into this scene. Knowing that Sang Yan had come, they could still think long and hard about how to confess before he found it too hard to accept.
Condition at this time.
The three of them, like strangers, silent and awkward, walked in the direction of Sanji’s dormitory building.
Sang Zhi walked in the center and didn’t dare to lean too close to Duan Jia Xu, the distance was more in favor of Sang Yan. Her gaze was always looking towards Sang Yan’s face, her heart was still beating a drum, and a bit of guilt inexplicably surfaced in her heart.
She dropped her head, secretly substituting what Sangyan should be thinking at this point.
After a cold war with his sister for close to two weeks, he finally frees up time to come over to Yiho to break her legs. After a thousand years of hard work, he arrived at his sister’s school, only to see, unexpectedly, the scene of her holding hands with her own brother.
The sister is with the brother.
Being together even though, both of them hid it from him at the same time, and he was oblivious to it, and always looking for this brother to take care of his sister, like a fool being toyed with.
Seems a bit ……
Sang Chi licked the corner of his lips and couldn’t help but say, “Brother, I wanted to follow up and tell you before, I even sent a message out, but you blacked me out. So you didn’t see it.”
Sang Yeon didn’t say a word as if he hadn’t heard.
“I can show you,” fearing that he wouldn’t believe her, Sanji flipped out his cell phone and pulled him out of the blacklist, “I still have the record here.”
Sang Yeon rehashed the old story, “Graduate school?”
Sang Chi’s eyes blinked slowly and said stiffly, “Didn’t I want to give you a mental preparation first? First, I’ll tell you that I’ve found a boyfriend about your age, and then I’ll slowly tell you ……”
Sang Yan was too lazy to listen to her nonsense, “How much longer do you have to walk to your dormitory building.”
“Almost there, just a few more minutes of walking.” Sanji scratched his head and hesitated, “What are you doing.”
Sang Yeon didn’t answer.
San Zhi could only look at Duan Jia Xu.
Duan Jia Xu met her gaze and smiled, soothingly saying, “It’s fine, I’ll talk to your brother later.”
“……”
It always felt like the atmosphere was a bit scary and out of Sang Chi’s expectation. She had thought that Sang Yan would feel surprised at most, and not angry.
Sang Chi looked at Sang Yan again, forcibly trying to salvage the situation, “Brother, where are you staying tonight?”
Sang Yeon snorted, “What’s it to you?”
Sanji felt his head explode, “You’re not going to hit anyone, are you ……”
Sanjayan: “Huh.”
“What’s the matter with that, if you have your eye on my friend,” Sang-chi laboriously pulled at the words, “I can introduce you too, and I don’t mind at all.”
Sang Yan was extremely cold: “It’s not necessary to make a mistake, I have a date.”
“……”
“No, male unmarried female unmarried, how do you react like I found a married one!” Sang Zhi said, “This age is not much different ah, and not seventeen years old.”
It happens to be under Sanji’s dormitory building.
“This building?” Ignoring anything she said, Sanjan’s chin lifted, “I don’t need to show you how to get in, do I?”
“……”
Duan Jiaxu also opened his mouth, gently reminding, “Go back, don’t you still have to video with your mom?”
It was an extremely odd vibe, like they were waiting for her to leave before they did something.
Sang Chi felt extraordinarily uneasy, not daring to take a step away, and continued, “And since you’ve known Brother Jia Xu for so many years, you also know that he has a pretty good character, right ……”
Sangyan’s voice was emotionless, “What do I know?”
“……”
Half the time talking about oil and salt.
Sang Zhi tried her best to speak, but it didn’t help half the time. She felt annoyed, but also felt that she was in the wrong, so she could only patiently say, “I told you everything, I was going to tell you, but you pulled me out of the black. And it’s not a big deal ah, just a relationship.”
“Well, not a big deal.” Sang Yeon perfunctorily, “Go back to your dormitory.”
Sang Chi was going crazy and could only throw out a proposal, “Is it okay if I don’t go back to the dormitory to sleep today?”
Sanjayan: “Huh.”
“……”
–
Think I’ve said all I need to say.
It also felt that these two people, anyhow, were people who had received nine years of compulsory education and should be reasonable as well.
Besides, the number of times Sang Zhi had pissed off Sang Yan since she was a child was a hundred times if not a thousand, and he hadn’t tried to make a move with her. At most, he had taught her a few lessons, and there was no worse behavior.
Holding this thought, Sang Zhi Zhi said a few more words on behalf of Duan Jia Xu, but still gave in and obediently went back to the dormitory. She jogged up the stairs, and after entering the dormitory, she immediately went into the balcony and held onto the railing to look down.
The two men were seen already heading in the direction of the school entrance, separated by a meter or so.
Looking at it that way, I don’t know if there’s a conversation going on.
But it looks as if it’s quite harmonious.
It does seem to be, harmoniously, reasoning.
Sanji breathed a sigh of relief and didn’t retract his gaze until he couldn’t see them.
–
At this very moment.
Duan Jia Xu and Sang Yan, who were walking downstairs, didn’t have a moment for their eyes to meet.
And no communication at all.
The campus is excessively quiet at night during summer vacation.
Barely saw another person along the way.
The two kept it that way and walked a little further out of the school gates. From here it was a short walk to the subway station, through a small lane. It was usually quite busy, but in the summer vacation, it was much less crowded.
The empty streets, with their brightly colored streetlights, were harsh and cold.
Like to an extremely appropriate location.
Sang Yeon suddenly stopped, the tip of his tongue pressing hard against the corner of his lips. He then turned sideways and, without warning, punched him in the face with all his might.
It’s unceremonious and not half-assed.
Following this force, Duan Jia Xu took a few steps back, feeling half of his face was unconscious, like it was being burned by fire, with numbness. He moved the muscles on his face, rubbed the corner of his slightly cracked lips with his fingertips, and laughed: “So ruthless, huh?”
“I have fucking goosebumps.” Sang Yeon didn’t half joke, his eyes closed and opened again, “Who can’t you pick up?”
Duan Jiaxu corrected, “Not bubbly, seriously.”
Sang Yan laughed mockingly, his fire half-discharged. He rolled his neck, reached out and yanked Duan Jiaxu’s collar, yanked it heavily downward, lifted his knee, and pushed it into his abdomen, “I think you’re fucking crazy.”
His force was extremely heavy, and Duan Jia Xu felt pain all over his body, but he didn’t resist. Fine sweat broke out on his forehead, and the corners of his lips kept curving upwards, and with great difficulty, he ventured out, “You watch the ground and beat it.”
“……” Sang Yeon was so angry his stomach hurt and punched him in the face again, “You still fucking want me to keep it for you?”
Duanjia Xu stepped back, this time hitting his back against the wall and stifling a grunt.
Sanjayan rips him over, and this time gets on his feet.
In all the time they’ve known each other, they’ve never fought.
This first time, Sang Yan was like he wanted Duan Jia Xu’s life. At the end of the fight, he himself ran out of energy and leaned against the wall panting, “Damn, take a break.”
Duan Jia Xu sat straight down on the ground. His mouth was full of blood and he spat it out to the side. When he heard this, the tops of his eyebrows raised and he hissed, not saying much, “Okay.”
The fight calmed Sangyan down for the most part.
The two were silent for a while, the smell of gunpowder dissipating.
Sang Yeon asked in a faint voice, “How long has the conversation been going on?”
“A month and a half,” Duan Jia Xu stood up and said with a low smile, “Last time I said that I was planning to go to Nanwu to look for you, just for this matter. This is something I did wrong, so I wanted to apologize to you in person.”
Sangyan: “You’re an animal?”
Duanjash: “Right.”
“If you want to find one as old as her, or, even if you find one younger than her, I’ll raise my hands and feet in favor of it.” Sang Yan said, “But my sister, Sang Zhi, you’ve known her since middle school, right? Treating you like her own brother, you can also lay your hands on her?”
“Brother–“
“Fuck off, who the fuck is your brother.”
“……” Duan Jia Xu couldn’t help but laugh out loud, pulling the wound at the corner of his lips, hurting so much that his voice was muffled for a few moments, “Okay, brother. Knowing that it’s hard for you to accept, it’s fine if you want to beat me a few times.”
Sang Yeon gasped and laughed, “Who your brother?”
Duanjia Xu: “Sooner or later, you have to shout, get used to it.”
“……”
The two men stopped a cab directly.
Getting into the car, Sang Yeon still felt ridiculous, the thought was unbelievable, “What do you think?”
“Not to mention,” coincidentally receiving Sang Zhi’s WeChat, Duan Jia Xu lowered his eyes and replied while dangling, “The little girl is quite pretty when she grows up.”
“……” Sang Yeon resisted the urge to hit someone in the car, “You’ve never seen a pretty one?”
“Indeed,” Duan Jiaxu’s gaze didn’t move as he typed “It’s fine, don’t worry” into the dialog box, smiling gently, “I’ve never really seen my family’s only beautiful one.”
Sang Yeon lowered the window of the car, blowing the night breeze and lowering the fire that had gone up, “Your house, only?”
Duan Jiaxu raised his eyebrows, “Okay, it’s still your house for now.”
“……”
“But sooner or later it’s my family’s.”
“……”
Silence for half a day.
Sang Yeon asked again, “Really serious?”
Duan Jia Xu extinguished the cell phone screen, when he heard this, the smile at the corner of his lips converged, and his tone was rarely serious for a few minutes, “I’m really a fucking animal if I’m not serious.”
“Okay.” Sang Yeon was like checking his family, “How far along are we?”
“……” Duanjash looked at him sideways, not answering this time, “No, bro. That’s a suspected privacy issue, isn’t it?”
Sangyan: “?”
The air freezes for a few seconds, Sang Yan can’t believe it and stares straight at Duan Jia Xu, “It’s embarrassing for me to ask about this, but I still have to ask clearly, what do you do to be suspected of privacy?”
Seeing that he misunderstood, Duan Jia Xu almost choked, “Don’t. Brother, what are you thinking?”
“……”
Duan Jiaxu: “Is this the image of me in your heart?”
Without shifting his gaze, Sang Yan calmly said, “Seriously, yes.”
“……”
“Also, this thing about you, an old dog close to thirty, picking up my sister, a young girl who just started college – it made me realize,” Sang Yeon sneered, “that your shamelessness turns out to have no upper limit. “
Duan Jia Xu leisurely said, “It’s only a difference of six years and zero, eleven months.”
“…… “Things are also like this, Sang Yan always can’t let the two of them break up, he retracted his eyes and loosened his mouth, “You two love to talk, but, you have to pay attention to some proportion. This brat is being provided for at home.”
Duanjia Xu smiled, “I know.”
Quickly, he added, “Thank you brother.”
The scene is frozen.
It didn’t take long for the window to go back up.
Sang Yeon reached out violently and clasped Duan Jia Xu’s neck with force, his forehead jutting.
The sound of the commotion was so loud that the driver in the driver’s seat subconsciously said, “What’s going on?”
Afraid that the driver would panic, Sang Yan raised his eyes, pressed down his fire, and added very considerately, “Master you don’t worry.”
“……”
“I’ll try not to kill anyone in your car.”
Chapter 64
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The car didn’t reach the entrance to the neighborhood, it stopped on the side of the road.
The two got out of the car.
Duan Jia Xu stretched his body, gently turned his neck, and reached out to rub the spot on his shoulder. He entered a nearby pharmacy, casually picking up some medicine on the shelf to treat his bruises.
Sang Yan slowly followed behind, leaning against the door and waiting. His face is usually expressionless, and at this moment, because of his mood, his eyes are even colder, and with his black clothes, he looks a bit scary.
The clerk at the front desk couldn’t help but look a couple more times in his direction.
Soon, Duan Jia Xu took the medicine and went to the front desk to pay.
The clerk scanned the barcode and looked up at Duan Jiaxu’s busted lip, as well as the blue and purple marks on his face. She frowned, and lowered her voice to ask, “Should I call the police for you?”
Sang Yan obviously heard it, and his eyes immediately glanced over with a few eerie touches.
Hearing this, Duan Jia Xu froze and wanted to laugh, but was afraid of pulling the wound. He took his cell phone and paid the bill, saying gently, “No, thank you.”
Sang Yan took the first step out of the store. Sweeping back to his face, he said in a low mockery, “This injury, before reaching the police station, I guess it will be healed.”
“…… “Duan Jiaxu didn’t bother with him and pointed to the neighborhood not far away, “Over there.”
The two returned to Duan Jia Xu’s residence.
He lived alone, and basically no one else in the house had ever come in besides Sanji. The shoe rack was homogenous, with only a few pairs of his shoes and a pair of indoor slippers.
The colors were mostly dark, so Sanji’s pair of pink slippers stood out among them.
Sang Yeon glanced at it and sneered.
“……”
Duan Jiaxu had no intention of taking care of him and lazily said, “Just go barefoot.”
Treating this place as if it was his own home, Sang Yeon headed in the direction of the refrigerator as soon as he entered and grabbed a coke from inside. His eyes flicked over the snacks in the fridge a few times and quickly closed.
Sanjayan returned to the living room.
Duan Jia Xu had already come out of his room, holding a change of clothes in his hands. Noticing what he had in his hand, the tip of his eyebrow lifted slightly and he reminded in a faint voice, “It’s like this.”
Sangyan: “?”
“The snacks and drinks in the fridge, and the stuff in this cabinet,” Duan Jia Xu said slowly in a scholarly and polite tone, “I hope, you try not to touch any of it.”
Sang Yeon didn’t even raise his eyelids and said idly, “Did you mix gold in this cola?”
“Not really,” Duanjash laughed, “but it’s my girlfriend’s.”
“……”
This shift in identity made Sang Yan feel extraordinarily uncomfortable and awkward.
He gave Duan Jia Xu a cool, lazy look.
Duan Jia Xu went into the bathroom. He took off his clothes and headed to the mirror to take a look at his appearance at this moment. The corner of his lip was broken, the corner of his left eye was a little swollen, and the bruise on his cheek still had a few threads of blood.
It was also purple in a few places and hurt all over.
And I don’t know if it will fade a bit tomorrow.
Thinking about the cup of water that Jiang Ying had thrown earlier, Sang Chi could have cried in anger. This time, she looked much more wretched than last time, and there was no telling how she would react tomorrow.
Duan Jia Xu sighed and turned on the shower, turning up the temperature of the water a bit to slightly soothe the soreness on his body. He was always quick in the shower, but this time, because of the injuries on his body, the rinse took a little longer.
By the time he got out of the bathroom, Sang Yeon had already finished a game and was currently holding the remote control, changing the channel of the TV.
A couple of unwrapped packages of snacks sat on the coffee table.
Sangyan leaned over and took a bag, dropping a chip into his mouth.
Duan Jia Xu swept his gaze lightly and didn’t say much. He took the medicine out of the bag and applied it to the wound, casually saying, “When will you return to Nanwu?”
Sanjayan: “Not so fast.”
Noticing Duan Jiaxu’s movement, he added, “Is this injury necessary?”
“……,” Duan Jia Xu said in amusement, “It really hurts.”
“Apart from the first blow,” Sang Yan leaned on the back of the sofa, his tone was very beaten, “which blow did I press harder after that? Just like scratching an itch, when I gave you a loose sinew and bone.”
Duanjia Xu didn’t talk, lifted his shirt and sprayed medicine at his abdomen.
“When that brat sees it tomorrow, he’ll probably say that I bullied you.” Sang Yan yawned, his tone sleepy, “Come on, I’m a fair guy, I’ll give you a punch.”
Duan Jia Xu raised his eyebrows and said in a faint voice, “Forget it, I’ve never hit anyone, I won’t.”
Sang Yeon: “If you’re told to fight, fight, what’s the point of dawdling?”
After three seconds of silence, Duan Jia Xu put down the medicine in his hand, tilted his head sideways, and said cooperatively, “Then stand up, it’s not good to fight sitting down.”
“……”
There had been a truce.
But the incident was inexplicably stirred up again, and this time it was Sang Yan who took the initiative to beg for a beating. But he didn’t seem to take this in his eyes, his voice was extremely contemptuous: “A quick fight.”
Duan Jiaxu laughed, “I really don’t.”
Just now, his temper rose, and he really didn’t hit lightly. Thinking about it, Sang Yan impatiently pointed to his face, “Make a fist and hit here–“
Without waiting for him to finish, Duan Jia Xu had already gotten on board and punched him where he said he would.
“……”
Sang Yeon’s head snapped up and he took a step back, bumping into the shoe cabinet. He felt half his face go numb, and his teeth knocked against his lips, stinging. He pulled at the corner of his mouth and laughed in exasperation, not saying a word but only giving him a thumbs up.
–
Things inexplicably evolved.
The two sat together on the couch applying the medicine.
“And a little bit of regret,” Duanjia Xu sprayed the back of his hand with medicine as well, and said slowly, “My hand also hurts after the beating.”
Sang Yan took a hot towel to his face and said expressionlessly, “You’re strong enough.”
Duan Jiaxu let out a low laugh, “I really wouldn’t.”
“Roll.”
Duanjia Xu’s cell phone kept ringing.
Being able to guess that it was Sang Chi who was sending him a message, Duan Jia Xu sped up to finish the medicine, while drawing a tissue to wipe his hands and picking up his cell phone to reply.
Sang Yeon sounded annoyed, “Can you turn the sound off?”
Duan Jiaxu raised his eyes and leisurely said, “I can’t.”
“……”
“At this glance,” Duan Jiaxu said thoughtfully with a slight bend in the tail of his eyes, “your cell phone is quite quiet.”
“……”
“Alright,” noting the time, Duan Jia Xu didn’t mess with him anymore and stood up, “I have to go to work tomorrow, so look after yourself, I’m getting ready for bed.”
“Wait a minute,” said Sanjan, “borrow a pair of panties to wear.”
“……”
“What’s wrong? Wear it for a few days and I’ll give it back to you. And,” Sang Yeon’s feet were resting on the sofa without any sitting position to speak of, “where am I going to sleep tonight? You can’t let me, a guest, sleep on the sofa, can you?”
A moment of silence.
It wasn’t long before Duan Jia Xu bent down and tapped his chest with his fingertips. His peach blossom eyes were amorous with a smile, and his trailing voice trailed off, sounding ambiguous to the point of excess: “Sorry, I don’t sleep with men.”
“……” said Sanjayan, “Can you stop grossing me out?”
Duan Jia Xu opened the cabinet and took a new set of toiletries out, and by the way, he took a set of clothes back to his room and threw them in front of Sang Yan: “I’m sleeping, the living room is yours.”
“……”
He took two steps toward the room and then backed up, “And no disrespect, man, I’ve had a hell of a day, I need a break.”
Sanjayan: “Get lost.”
After thinking about it, Duan Jiaxu added carelessly, “I’ll lock the door.”
“……”
–
After videoing with Li Ping, Sang Zhi took a shower and went back to bed, and kept sending messages to Duan Jia Xu. She tried to send one to Sang Yan and realized that he hadn’t pulled himself off the blacklist yet, and quickly dismissed it.
Duan Jiaxu was slow to return messages.
Thinking that the two of them should have something to talk about, Sanji didn’t keep bugging him.
Sang Chi played with her cell phone for a while longer, and after thinking about it, she sent a video call to Duan Jia Xu as well.
He didn’t answer.
A message soon followed: [No clothes.]
Sanji: “……”
Duan Jiaxu: [Is it okay?
Without waiting for Sanji to reply, the other end had already returned a video call to her.
Sang Chi’s breath hitched, and she subconsciously hung up and returned a voice call back. After connecting, she frowned and said, “Can’t you wear clothes? Aren’t you afraid of catching a cold?”
Duan Jia Xu’s voice, always with a smile, came over, “Too lazy to wear it.”
“……”
“Really don’t want to see it?” Duan Jia Xu lowered his voice, as if whispering to her, and as if compelling, “It’s kinda sexy.”
“……” Sanjay was speechless, “You’ve been drinking with my brother?”
“Didn’t drink.”
Sang-chi talked about business and didn’t mess around with him, “Is everything okay then?”
Duan Jiaxu laughed, “Just got scolded a few times, it’s fine.”
Sang Chi put his heart down and muttered, “Just let him curse for now, I’ll find a chance to help you curse back.”
Duanjia Xu hmmm’d softly.
“What’s my brother doing here all of a sudden?”
“By the looks of him, it looks like he wants to come over and check it out,” Duanjash said, “Are you staying in the dorms now, or are you staying with that grad student boyfriend of yours.”
“I’m not that casual.” Sanji rubbed his eyes and muttered, “Then it’s fine, I’m going to bed.”
“Well, good night.”
“So what’s my brother doing tomorrow,” Sanji remembered something, “did he say when he’s going back?”
“Says he’s going to stay awhile. Go to sleep, don’t mind him.”
–
The next morning, Sang-chi arrived at the office on time.
Because of the matter of not organizing the statements, Sang Zhi was lectured by Shi Xiaoyu. Probably because of the lack of sleep, she was even more grumpy than usual today, “Do you not want to do it? Which of the things you were told to do can you do well?”
Sanji thought for a moment, “I feel like I’m doing all right.”
“Sang Chi!” Shi Xiaoyu’s face reddened with anger as she scolded loudly, “You think this is your home? Do you think the company pays money to recruit you to play? If you don’t have the ability, get the hell out of here!”
Sang Chi didn’t understand why her mood could fluctuate so much and said seriously, “When am I playing? And I’m just incapable, so I came over here for an internship to learn something.”
Shi Xiaoyu sneered, “If you don’t have the ability, then listen to me properly, do whatever I tell you to do, don’t go against me all day long.”
“Oh.” Sanji said, “I’ll listen if it’s reasonable.”
“Didn’t you listen at first? What’s the matter? Can’t stand it anymore?” Shi Xiaoyu said, “Seriously, I think you’re quite good-looking, and your education isn’t low, why do you have to steal other people’s boyfriends? Isn’t it disgusting?”
“……”
With the two of them making such a mess, the coworkers next to them all moved their attention over.
Sang Chi raised her eyes, “Whose boyfriend am I stealing? Jiang Ying, huh?”
“You know it in your own heart.”
“I’m sorry, my boyfriend has never even touched another woman’s hand before me.” Sang Chi stared at her, and her tone gradually became cold and hard, “Also, you remember to let that friend of yours go see a doctor, you haven’t seen her go crazy before? What are you fantasizing about every day, brain problem?”
Shi Xiaoyu froze, “But she told me-“
The sound of the two arguing was indeed not small, drawing out Zhang Hui in the conference room as well, and said in a cold voice, “What are you two doing! Come in here!”
–
Both of them were lectured by Zhang Hui.
During this period of time, Shi Xiaoyu’s practices against Sang Zhi had also spread some into his ears. Zhang Hui, being a simple person, was not too used to seeing this kind of behavior and warned her a few times as a result.
Shi Xiaoyu has also tightened up a lot.
The argument brought their relationship down to freezing point, but made Sanjay feel more at home.
Peace and quiet until quitting time.
Sang Zhi finished the work at hand and didn’t even bother to do any more superficial work. She directly treated Shi Xiaoyu as air and only said goodbye to her nearby colleagues before leaving.
Sang Zhi and Duan Jia Xu both have to work today, all also no one has time to take care of Sang Yan. The two had arranged to go to a seafood restaurant near her for dinner in the evening, and now they had piggybacked on Sang Yan.
As soon as she left the company, Sang Chi saw Duan Jia Xu’s figure in a familiar location. She jogged over and was about to ask Sang Yan where he was when she suddenly noticed the injury on his face.
“……,” Sanji instantly swallowed back the words that came out of his mouth.
Duan Jiaxu took her hand and said, “Your brother went to take the seat first, so we’ll go over there now.”
Sang Zhi pursed her lips, instantly guessing what was going on. She held back her fire, but still asked, “What’s wrong with your face?”
The corner of Duan Jia Xu’s lip had already scabbed over, and the bruises on his face had slightly dissipated, looking much better than yesterday. He scratched the skin under his eyes and said, “I accidentally bumped into it.”
Sang Chil ohs, “Knocked on Sang Yeon’s fist.”
“……”
She stared fixedly at his face and quickly turned around, heading in the direction of the seafood restaurant. It didn’t take long to look back at him again, “Don’t tell me you just stood there and gave him a beating yesterday.”
Duan Jiaxie coughed lightly, “Not really.”
Sanji asked, “Where else did it hit?”
“No,” Duanjash said without moving, “just this on the face.”
As if pondering the truthfulness of his words, Sang Zhi stopped where she was, not moving much. After a long time, she violently raised her hand and touched the location of his stomach without warning.
The soreness caused by this sudden touch caused Duan Jia Xu to take a step back by reflex, and his expression changed slightly.
Extraordinarily obvious reactions.
Sanji was completely enraged, “I’m going to kill him.”
“……”
–
The restaurant was doing well, most of the seats were filled, and Sang Yeon was sitting in a window seat in the restaurant. He was boredly flipping through the menu when he noticed someone coming up next to him.
When he was about to raise his eyes, his neck was strangled from behind, and he almost didn’t catch his breath. Sang Yan coughed hard and subconsciously cursed, “Fuck.”
It was accompanied by Sanji’s voice, which was pressed with fire, “You’re finished.”
Noticing Duan Jiaxu standing next to him, Sang Yan instantly understood what was going on and said in a single word, “Get loose before I get angry.”
“I’ll go home this time – no, I’ll start from now on,” Sang-chi pretended she didn’t hear him, pinched his face hard and reached out to yank his hair, “I’ll voice to my mom every day, I’ll say bad things about your girlfriend every day, don’t even think about letting her in the door You can’t let her in, you’re dreaming! What did I tell you yesterday–“
Sang Yeon ripped her hand off, “Don’t you dare.”
“You’re not being reasonable yourself! Who told you to hit? Hitting is even! You also–!” The more Sang Chi said, the more angry she got, her eyes were red, her hand wrapped around it again, and her force increased with her tone, “Hit so hard–! If I was here yesterday, I would have called the police to arrest you! I tell you! I’m going to fight with you from today onwards!”
Sang Yeon took a deep breath, “Speak properly.”
After saying the last sentence, Sang Chi also let go of her hand, her voice gradually taking on a sobbing tone, “Sang Yan! You bullied my boyfriend! I want to disown you!”
“……”
Finishing venting his anger, San Zhi stared at him dead in the face for a while longer and turned his head to go to the restroom.
Duan Jia Xu cleared his throat and reached out to pat Sang Yan’s shoulder while he followed. It wasn’t long after that, and soon, he was alone and back in his seat.
Noticing Sang Yan’s line of sight, Duan Jia Xu explained, “She went to the restroom.”
Sang extended his hand to rub his face and laughed in anger, “Damn, don’t stop me later, I’m really going to beat this brat to death.”
Duanjia Xu: “Then I definitely have to stop it.”
“……”
“What’s the point of bothering with a little girl,” Duan Jiaxu said on behalf of Sang Zhi, “That little bit of strength won’t hurt you.”
Sang Yan had a bellyful of fire, “Hurry up and get out.”
“Bro, take a look.” Seeming to enjoy this flavor quite a bit, Duan Jia Xu laughed lightly and said, “When are you free to beat me up again?”
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The women’s restroom was crowded, and the line was out the door.
Sang-Chi didn’t intend to go to the restroom, she just wanted to wash her face. She went straight through the gap between the people and the door, walked to the sink, and turned on the faucet.
Suddenly, I noticed that my eyes were still red in the mirror, and the corners of my lips were pulled flat, so I didn’t look like I had just cursed someone, but rather like I had been cursed.
As an afterthought, Sangchild was a little embarrassed that she had cried in anger while talking. She exhaled and drew a tissue to wipe her face.
Thinking about what she said yesterday after racking her brain until her mouth was dry, Duan Jiaxu’s nonchalant attitude, and her own retarded thought that Sang Yeon was quite reasonable at the end of the day.
The fire that had just gone down a little bit, rose again.
Sanji threw the paper towel into the trash can and exited the restroom, returning to his position with a stern face.
This was a table for four. At this moment, Duan Jia Xu and Sang Yan were sitting on two sides, one sitting against the outside, the other sitting against the window.
Sang Zhi looked at the distribution of seats, did not want to sit with Sang Yan, but could only push Duan Jiaxu and said stiffly: “You sit inside.”
“Cowardly,” opened Sanjan at this juncture, “how old is he to say such words as cut off.”
After Duan Jia Xu moved inside, Sang Zhi sat down, pretending not to hear his words. But think about it and feel suffocated, quickly opened his mouth, “Then cut off relations.”
“Where is the relationship?” Sang Yan snorted, “Just to remind you, the Sang family has a single lineage of eighteen generations.”
“……” Sanji looked at him, “I’ll tell my aunt later.”
“Oh.” Sang Yeon rephrased, “A generation, a single pass.”
Used to seeing the two arguing, Duan Jia Xu didn’t think it was a big deal and watched from the side with interest. Soon, he put the menu in front of Sang Zhi, interrupting their bickering, “Order first.”
Sang-chi pursed her lips, held her fire and started flipping through the menu.
Sang Yeon, however, did not stop, continued to add fuel to the fire: “This is only together for how long, the elbow to turn outward again have to break it.”
“Can you be reasonable?” Sang-chi was on fire at the slightest point and closed the menu with force, “What do you think about me going home next time and storming over to your place and beating the crap out of your girlfriend?”
“Can these two be the same?” Sangyan said, “White, eyes, wolf.”
“How is this white-knuckling on my part? And what’s the difference?” Sang Chi argued with him, “Anyway, hitting someone is wrong, can’t you be reasonable? It’s not a serious matter.”
“Reasoning?” Sang Yeon stared at her for several seconds and smiled back, “Sorry, I, for one, don’t like such a girly solution.”
“……”
“And, this student.” Sang Yeon’s knuckles tapped on the desktop as he slowly said, “I’m fighting with my brother, what’s your business?”
“……” Sang Chi immediately looked at Duan Jia Xu.
Duan Jia Xu sat crookedly in a chair, supporting the side of his face with one hand as he locked eyes with Sang Zhi. He reached out and rubbed her head, saying in amusement, “Don’t argue with your brother.”
Sanji said stiffly, “He’s the one who wants to argue with me.”
Duanjash: “I hit him too, and got even.”
At those words, Sang Chi glanced in Sang Yan’s direction and didn’t see any wounds from his face. Comparing the two, Duan Jia Xu was a bit more tragic in any case.
But it could also be that Duanjia Xu hit people more to their face, not to the face, but only to the body.
Sang Yeon didn’t say anything either and was looking down at his cell phone.
It looked inexplicably pathetic.
Sang Zhi’s fire instantly dissipated for the most part. Thinking of the main reason he came over, she was silent for a few seconds before looking at Duan Jia Xu again and venturing, “Why did you hit my brother?”
“……”
–
Thinking about it, if her target wasn’t Duan Jia Xu, but a man as old as him, Sang Yan definitely wouldn’t have come up to him for a fight right off the bat.
So the biggest reason why Sang Yeon hit Duan Jia Xu was, probably, the relationship between the two of them.
Think of it this way.
Sanji felt as if he had no presence at all.
Seeing that both of them didn’t think it was a big deal and had no hard feelings, Sang Zhi’s emotions quickly passed. After ordering, she casually mentioned, “Did you guys go to the hospital?”
Duanjash: “Uh-huh.”
Sang Yeon glanced at him and didn’t say anything.
“Oh.” Sang Chi looked at Sang Yan and volunteered, “Brother, where did you get hit.”
Sang Yan’s tone was light, “What’s the matter with you?”
This cold war continued for almost two weeks, and Sanji frowned, saying irritably, “Did I just say something that didn’t make sense? It’s not like I had nothing to do with it, and also, did you have to be angry for so long?”
Sang Yan lifted his eyes and looked lazy, “Duan Jia Xu, is your subject sick?”
“……”
“Tell her, I have a girlfriend.” Sang Yeon clearly had no intention of resting on his laurels, biting his words and saying seriously, “So, nothing, less, talk to me, talk to me.”
“……” Sang-chi was annoyed again, “Then give me back my eight hundred dollars.”
Sang Yeon didn’t bother with her.
Duan Jia Xu laughed out loud, “You two are going to argue all night?”
“Who wants to argue with him,” Sang Chi lowered his head and sipped his water, holding his breath, “Ignore people even if, who cares.”
A few dishes happened to be served.
After arguing with Sang Yan for half a day, Sang Zhi had long been hungry. The only bit of fire left dissipated in an instant, she chucked a scallop into her bowl, and as if she had forgotten what she had just said, she began to bullshit again, “Brother, who’s your girlfriend?”
Sanjan didn’t answer.
Sanji looked at Duan Jiaxu, “You know what?”
Duanjash put on his gloves and smiled, shaking his head.
Sang Zhi was suspicious: “This girlfriend of yours, how come you haven’t seen anyone after months of talking about her. I haven’t even seen a picture. Yesterday I videoed with my mom and didn’t hear her mention it either.”
Sang Yan didn’t want to get his hands dirty and only held the food that didn’t need to be shelled, “Just say what you want to say.”
Sanjay: “Did you not want to go on a blind date, so you made up this guy?”
“…… “Sang Yeon raised his eyes, his tone light, “Do I have to make it up?”
This is a topic he obviously doesn’t want to talk about, Sang Zhi looked at him and said instead, “Then when do you plan to go back to Nanwu? I still have to work in the next two days, but I can accompany you on weekends.”
Sang Yeon: “I came to see my brother, what are you doing hanging out with me?”
“……”
Duan Jia Xu peeled a bowl of shrimp and put it in front of Sang Chi. Upon hearing this, his eyebrows raised and he said to Sang Yan, “I’ll accompany you? Can I bring a family member then?”
Sang Chi didn’t want to bother with Sang Yan anymore, and lowered his head to nibble on the shrimp.
Sang extended his hand and without warning took the bowl full of shrimp in front of Sangji, “Whatever.”
Sanji’s head snapped up.
I saw him pour all the shrimp into his own bowl, while placing the empty bowl back in front of Duan Jiaxu, and leisurely ventured out two words, “Hard work.”
“……”
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Sanji really doesn’t know.
Why can Sanjayan be, so, annoying.
In order to make it easier to grab food from him, Sang Zhi simply switched her position to the side of Sang Yan. When he clamped something, she immediately moved her chopsticks and took the first step to clamp what he wanted to eat into the bowl.
Later, Sanyan began to feed himself, peeling peeler shrimp with gloves on.
He had just finished peeling one and tossed it into his bowl, and the next second, Sanji took the shrimp meat out of his bowl and swallowed it in one gulp.
Sangyan stared at her expressionlessly, “You’re a bandit?”
Sang Chi bit into something, her cheeks bulging as if in demonstration. Soon, she swallowed what was in her mouth and said sincerely, “To help you try a flavor.”
“……”
“But I didn’t try the flavor,” said Sanjay, “You peel me twenty more and I’ll try again.”
Sanjayan: “Get lost where you came from.”
Duan Jia Xu had already eaten his fill and sat in his seat. Seeing this, he hooked his finger towards Sang Zhi and said with a curved lip, “Sit back down.”
Sanji: “What for.”
Duan Jiaxu laughed softly, “I’ll serve you.”
Sanji blinked, and with a dutiful oh, got up and returned to his position.
“…… “Hearing the word “serve”, the corners of Sang Yan’s mouth twitched and he pulled his gloves off, “You two being in love can be really disgusting. “
–
When dinner was over, Duanjia Xu went to pay the bill.
The three of them went out of the restaurant, Sang Yan took out Duan Jia Xu’s car keys from his pocket and yawned, “I’m going back, you two do what you need to do.”
There was always a feeling that Sang Yeon had come all the way to a strange city and was expected to feel very lonely and pitiful and helpless, so Sang Chi didn’t want to leave him alone, “Brother, why don’t we go watch a movie?”
“Me, with you two?” Sang Yeon said sleepily, “What’s wrong with my brain?”
Sang Zhi looked down, flipping through his phone, “Why did you come without saying anything in advance, you came last night, I booked the movie tickets yesterday afternoon, and I can’t return them now.”
She looked at the venue, “But there’s not much booking eh, I’m going to have to book next door as well.”
Sanjan: “I’m not going.”
“Then I booked it.” Sang Chi said to herself, “This is a couple’s seat, you can only book two tickets in one booking, but there aren’t many seats in a hall.”
Sanjan: “Are you deaf?”
Sanji paid, “It’s booked.”
“……”
The movie theater was some distance away, and the three of them got into the car.
Since it was like this, Sang Yan didn’t bother to drive and threw the car keys to Duan Jia Xu, after which he got into the backseat. He had no intention of letting Sang Zhi come up, and closed the car door when he got in.
Sanjay had the good sense to sit in the passenger seat.
Counting, she hadn’t seen Sangyan in months, and spoke back to him again, “Brother, so what day are you coming home?”
Sang Yeon lazily said, “Next week.”
Sanji counted the time, “It’s August then.”
Sanjayan: “Pretty much.”
“August?” Duan Jia Xu fastened his seatbelt, and when he heard this, he also glanced at Sang Yan before starting the car, “Fine. I’m moving house at the end of the month, so why don’t you stop by and do me a favor.”
Sangyan: “?”
It was also the first time that Sanji heard about it, “Huh? Are you moving?”
“Well, the time for renting is up,” Duanjia Xu said, “not going to renew it. The agent recommended a few near your school, plan to check them out over the weekend.”
“I’ll help you move?” Sang Yeon’s tone took on a bit of coolness, “You’re okay with that, right?”
“There’s nothing wrong with that,” Duan Jiaxu said mildly, “just help if you want to.”
“……”
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To the movie theater.
Sanji picked up her ticket and bought a bucket of popcorn. She stared at the tickets in her hand, debating what would be a good allocation of places.
If she sat with Duan Jia Xu, then it wouldn’t make any sense at all for her to ask Sang Yan to come to the movie together, instead it would seem like she was isolating him.
But it seemed kind of weird if she was the one sitting with Sang Yeon, the couple’s seat.
Finally Sanji settled on a program.
She handed one of the tickets to Sang Yan, and the words Couple’s Seat on the movie ticket were bolded in black, making it especially obvious: “You two can sit together later.”
Duanjia Xu: “?”
Sangyan: “?”
Sanji thought of an appropriate reason, “I want to lie down.”
It didn’t take long for the trio to enter the field.
Sanji took one of the chairs and lifted his chin, signaling the two to go over to the one next to him.
Sang Yan was extremely speechless, “You have a pit in your brain?”
“What am I doing.” Sang Chi was confused by the scolding, “You two sit together, what’s wrong with that. Then the three of us came to watch a movie, we can’t let you sit alone.”
There were very few people at this venue, and besides the three of them, there was only one other couple, sitting right in front of them. Hearing the commotion, the woman looked back.
Sang Yeon ignored her and lifted his feet to the next location.
This attitude of his is as good as acquiescence.
Sang Zhi’s gaze met Duan Jia Xu’s, signaling him to hurry and follow him.
Duanjia Xu raised his eyebrows and did as she said.
Sang Chi put on her 3D glasses, threw her cell phone aside, and started munching on popcorn. And then she heard the couple in the front seat chatting.
“Hubby, look at our diagonal corner-” the woman suppressed her voice, but she wasn’t too loud, and Sang-chi could hear a thing or two, “those two guys, they seem to be faggots.”
Sanji’s movements lurched, “……”
“And brought a girl with him,” the woman giggled playfully, “I guess he didn’t want to be found out.”
The next moment, Duan Jia Xu also returned and sat next to Sang Zhi.
Sanji looked over at him.
Duanjash: “Your brother told me to get lost.”
“…… “Sang Zhi actually didn’t care too much about the couple seat thing, because she and her roommate often bought couple tickets as well. She was silent for three seconds, “Forget it, whatever.”
The seats in this movie room were soft, sort of like a double couch, with no gap between them and another chair directly attached, but with a block covering the center.
That’s why Sang Chi could only see Sang Yan’s legs and couldn’t see what he looked like at the moment.
Sanji handed him a popcorn to his lips, “Are you going to eat it or not.”
Duan Jia Xu opened his mouth and probed his tongue, rolling the popcorn into his mouth. Just as the movie started, he stared at her for a moment, also putting on his 3D glasses and gazing forward.
Feeling bored after eating too much, Sanjay set the popcorn aside, hugged her coke and started drinking it. She stared at the big screen and gradually just focused on it.
I don’t know how long it took for the stunning visual effects on the screen to end, but the hero and heroine embraced each other in the middle of a desperate situation and kissed passionately.
Still feeling a little touched, Sang Chi started hugging and nibbling on the popcorn again. In the next second, she suddenly noticed that the couple in the front seat, who were hugging each other intimately, seemed to be kissing as well.
“……”
She froze and subconsciously glanced at Duan Jia Xu.
Only then did she realize that he was leaning extremely close, his eyes not looking towards the movie, but staring at her. Because of his black glasses, Sanji couldn’t see his eyes very well.
All that could be seen was the small curve of his lips as he edged closer in her direction.
Sanji’s breath hitched, instantly realizing his intentions, and in an airy tone, he said, “There are cameras.”
As if he didn’t hear it, the next moment, Duan Jia Xu’s lips pressed up. His force was light, biting her lower lip, licking it, and quickly backing away.
Wet, and warm to the touch.
Sang Zhi’s expression froze, and then he pointed to the side, extremely shocked and not daring to make a loud noise, and reminded, “My brother, my brother is next to him.”
Duan Jiaxie gave a low chuckle.
Afraid of spilling the popcorn in her hand, he reached out and tugged it away, setting it aside. His lips were close to the side of her ear, and he lowered his voice as well, his words laced with light breath.
“Isn’t that exciting?”
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His lips seemed to be pressed to her earlobe, bringing a sense of touch. His breath was slightly hot and sprayed between her ears, one after another, making Sang Chi subconsciously lean back.
But there was no more distance to fall back.
There’s always a feeling that he’s doing something bad, Sang Chi nervously notices the movement on Sang Yeon’s side, and tries to push him away a little bit.
The next moment, Duan Jia Xu grabbed her wrist and pulled her towards his arms. At the same time, his head turned slightly to the side and gently kissed her lips. His other hand was not gentle, and he pinched her chin and snapped it downward.
In response to the force, Sanji’s lips opened.
The tip of his tongue probed in, hooking around her retreating tongue, inching inward, devouring all of her.
Lust is rampant, with a pervasive and invasive nature.
Like he was going to eat her up.
Inside the movie hall, the soundtrack is deafening.
Covering all the sound of their voices.
Sanji’s heart slammed hard against his body, and there was no other mind to think about anything else.
The distance between the two was so close that Sangji seemed to be able to feel his heartbeat, which had a very similar frequency to hers.
After a long time, Duan Jiaxu let go of her and lightly rubbed the corner of her lips with his fingertips. Staring at her stunned appearance, he laughed, once again close to her ear, and said in a mute voice: “Don’t be afraid.”
Sanji remained frozen in place, as if he had lost his soul.
Duan Jia Xu kissed her chin again, his voice a little more loving.
“Let’s keep it down.”
–
This little episode added up to just a few minutes.
But what the movie said next, Sang Chi didn’t watch it at all, concentrating on her own burning lips, as well as Duan Jiaxu, who was feeding her popcorn into her mouth from time to time next door.
I don’t know how much time has passed.
The credits of the movie appeared on the screen and the lights in the hall came on with it. The couple in the front seat hadn’t moved, and seemed to be waiting to see the egg.
Not quite interested, Sanji stood up, “Let’s go.”
Duanjia Xu hmmmed.
Noticing Sang Yan who hadn’t moved, Sang Zhi went over to look. His 3D glasses were thrown directly onto the chair next door, as if he hadn’t been wearing them, and at this moment he was leaning against the back of the chair and sleeping, and he didn’t know how long he had been asleep.
Wondering if he had noticed what had just happened, Kuwabara scratched his head, pretended to be calm, and woke him up by kicking his shoes with the tip of his shoe, “Brother, let’s go.”
Sang Yan opened his eyes. He seemed to be unaware of anything, his eyes glancing towards the cell phone next to him, looking a little tired. Soon after, he slowly stretched his back and responded carelessly, “Uh-huh.”
The three of them exited the movie theater and went to the parking lot to get into their car.
It wasn’t too early, Duan Jia Xu drove the car to Sang Zhi’s school and found a spot to park in front of the entrance. Sang Chi unbuckled his seatbelt and was about to get out of the car when Sang Yan in the backseat suddenly murmured, “I’d better go back.”
Sanji turned around, “What?”
Without saying much, Sang Yeon got out of the car.
Sang Chi’s eyes were odd, glancing in his direction, while then looking back at Duan Jia Xu, saying awkwardly, “Did he find out.”
Duanjia Xu laughed, “I don’t think so.”
Sang Zhi exhaled and got out of the car stiffly. She walked next to Sang Yan, her heart trembling with anxiety, muttering, “Why are you going back now, can’t you wait a while to go back with Brother Jia Xu?”
“You two go on your date,” Sang Yan looked down at his phone, “I’m going back to Nan Wu.”
“……”
Kuwabara froze, somewhat unresponsive, “Huh? Now? It’s nine o’clock.”
Sang Yeon said without much concern, “I’ll go to the airport and ask if there are any tickets left.”
Duan Jia Xu also got down from the car, and when he heard this, his eyebrows raised, “Going back this way?”
“Uh-huh.” Sang Yan looks at Duan Jia Xu as if he wants to instruct something, but feels pretentious when he says it. He raises his hand and pinches Sang Zhi’s face hard, saying, “Pay attention to yourself at school, brother is leaving.”
“……” whispered Sanji, “Didn’t you just say you wouldn’t go back until August?”
Sang Yeon: “Something came up.”
“Then why don’t you say it earlier,” Sang Chi pursed her lips, her tone sultry, “Then I’ll take a vacation today, I’ve thought about where to take you to play on the weekend, and then I suddenly say go.”
Sang Yeon was happy, “I’m guilty of letting a brat like you take me for a ride?”
Sang Zhi inexplicably wanted to cry a little. She sniffled, a layer of moisture floating in her eyes, and began to lose her temper, “You don’t have a job, why are you in such a hurry to go back? If you’re only planning to come over for two days, then why did you come over.”
“Say something human.” Sanjayan said, “What do you mean, no job?”
It had been nearly half a year since Sanji had been home.
So when Sang Yan came over this time, even if he didn’t give her any good looks and disliked her in nine out of ten sentences, Sang Zhi still had a feeling of being grounded and happy.
Sang Chi’s words were choked and his voice lowered considerably, “You couldn’t stay here for a few more days.”
“No,” Sang Yeon laughed out, puzzled, “why are you crying on?”
“……”
“What am I going to stay here for, idling around in Duan Jia Xu’s house every day, serving as a watchdog for him?” Saying this, Sang Yan pointed at Duan Jia Xu, “This dog is not good for you?”
Sanji wiped his eyes, “No.”
Sanjan asked again, “Not happy with the internship?”
“Uh-huh.” Like he was bullied as a child, Sanji huffed and told him off, “Someone’s bullying me ……”
“Then don’t do it,” said Sang Yeon, “Are we still short of this much money?”
“Then I’ll be bullied by her for nothing ……” Sang Chi complained as she cried, “You also pulled me black, and snatched my red envelope, and came over and kept scolding me …… “
“How much is that? I flew over more than eight hundred dollars, how long do you have to remember?” Sang Yan said, “Okay, I’m just messing with you, I’ll give it back to you later.”
“……”
“And, say a few words and then I’m cursing you, huh? As if I had said anything nice to you. I’m happy to stay here on my own, and it’s not like I’m not going back, so it’s not too embarrassing to cry over this?” Sang Yan was crying her headache, looked in the direction of Duan Jia Xu, signaling to let him take care of himself, “Find your old object to go.”
Duan Jiaxu opened his mouth, “Wait a little longer, I’ll drive you there later.”
“You don’t mind the trouble, I’m still afraid I won’t make the last flight,” Sang Yeon’s tone was still beat up, “I’m rolling, you take care of this brat. Bullshit, nineteen years old and still acting like he’s nine.”
“……”
–
There were quite a few cabs near Yiho University, and Sang Yeon quickly stopped one and got in and left.
“Little girl, do you take me for granted that I don’t exist?” Duan Jia Xu walked up to Sang Zhi, half joking, “In front of me, crying like this because of another man.”
Sanji silently tugged at the hem of his shirt and began to wipe his tears.
“Eh–” Duan Jiaxu didn’t get annoyed and said playfully, “Don’t lift so up, brother is showing his flesh.”
Sanji’s voice was heavily nasal as he cooed, “It’s not like anyone saw it.”
“Unhappy interning in this company?” Duan Jia Xu’s speech was slow, coaxing gently, “Didn’t you tell me that that master of yours didn’t bully you anymore?”
“Don’t want to tell you that every day,” whispered Sanji, “Besides, it’s kind of embarrassing to cry because you’re being scolded.”
“Hmm?” Duan Jia Xu laughed, “How many times have you cried in front of me, and what’s there to be ashamed of?”
“That was all when I was a child, where is it now.” Sang Chi didn’t cry anymore, but her eyes were still red, and she said in a serious manner, “I don’t like to cry at all. Children only cry when things go wrong, at my age, I should be thinking about how to solve problems.”
Duan Jia Xu stared at her for a while, the corners of his eyes curving downward, “Obviously a little crybaby.”
“……”
“If you think crying, it’s a child’s right.” Duan Jia Xu’s tone was rare and serious, rubbing her head, “Then you’ll be a child for the rest of your life, okay?”
Sanji raised his eyes.
His pupils were light in color and naturally carried a gentleness as if they were going to melt into water, “I’ll keep it.”
The word, when she was young, seemed like a difficult curse.
So many times she suggested that she didn’t want him to call him that anymore, that she hoped she could get rid of it soon, and again, as the days went by, it became impossible to do.
But in this moment, the word reappears.
What brought her there was a completely different feeling.
Amazingly, these feelings, all of them, were brought to her by the same person.
Sanji was quiet for a few seconds and rubbed himself into his arms without saying a word.
Duan Jiaxu stroked her hair, thought for a moment, and asked, “Is it because you want to go home?”
Sanji said honestly, “Uh-huh.”
“Go back if you want, I’ll take time off work to accompany you back together. Also, if you really don’t like this job, don’t do it.” Duan Jia Xu sighed, “What’s going on with this company, causing my child to cry like this.”
“……”
“Can I go and have a word with your boss?”
It sounds like a parent watching their child being bullied at school and saying they are going to the principal.
Kuwabara inexplicably smiled, and her bad mood dispersed for the most part with his comforting words.
Duan Jia Xu’s eyelashes dropped and he smiled along with her. He lowered his head, kissed her forehead, and whispered, “I don’t want to just be your boyfriend.”
At those words, Sanji’s heart stopped and froze a little.
In the next second, Duan Jia Xu finished his sentence seriously.
“I want to be someone you depend on, too.”
–
Sang Zhi went back to the dormitory and took out her cell phone to take a look at WeChat. Noticing that Sang Yan, who had blacked her out for two weeks, had finally come with a message, transferring 5,000 dollars to her.
It also comes with a quote.
Sanyan: [Plus living expenses.]
Sang Zhi collected the money, asked a few questions about his current situation, and quickly turned off the screen. Thinking about what Duan Jia Xu had just said, she inexplicably lost her concentration, feeling that the somewhat empty spot in her heart seemed to have been filled with something.
It didn’t take long.
Sanji looked back and blinked, giggling to himself.
–
The next day, Sanji went to work as usual.
Yesterday, because of Zhang Hui’s lecture, Shi Xiaoyu didn’t target her much more. But Sang Zhi wasn’t too sure if it would be after one day that she would return to her original stance.
Sang Zhi didn’t want to fight with her anymore. She secretly thought that if Shi Xiaoyu was still like she was before, it didn’t seem like she had to stay here all the time. Even though she said she was here to learn something, she hadn’t learned anything.
The thing that he spent the most time thinking about every day was how to go against Shi Xiaoyu.
It also seems like a waste of time.
But thankfully, Shi Xiaoyu is still in pretty much the same shape as yesterday.
The next few days have been spent together in the same way.
Shi Xiaoyu no longer deliberately make things difficult for Sang Zhi, and only instructed her to do what needed to be done, and occasionally felt that she had not done some things well, but also only faintly mentioned a few sentences.
Only gradually did Sanji let out a sigh of relief.
Before you know it, it’s the weekend.
Sang Zhi accompanied Duan Jia Xu to the neighborhood next to Yiho University to look at houses. I thought he would look for one with similar conditions as before, but this time the house he was looking for was obviously a lot bigger than the previous one, with two rooms, two halls and two bathrooms, and the master bedroom also had a toilet.
It adds up to about seventy square meters and the rent is considerably higher than the previous one.
While the agent went to make a phone call, Sanji pulled him aside, “What are you doing renting such a big place when you live alone?”
Duan Jiaxu didn’t answer and asked, “Is this one okay?”
Sanji subconsciously said, “It’s quite good.”
“This one, then.”
“……” Sanji froze, “No, you need two toilets to live alone?”
Duan Jia Xu raised his eyebrows and said thoughtfully, “It’s not exactly living alone.”
Sang-chi instantly understood something, and after a few seconds of silence, she emphasized, “I’m not staying with you.”
“Uh-huh.” Duanjia Xu said leisurely, “But it doesn’t stop me from wanting to reserve a room for you.”
Sanji whispered, “Aren’t you wasting it?”
“Not bad.” Duan Jia Xu hung back and said, “I’ve earned it if you can come and stay for a night.”
“……”
Sanji didn’t take his comment too seriously.
After settling, it didn’t take long for Duan Jiaxu to move over. He didn’t have much luggage, and packed out just a few boxes of stuff, so he didn’t even need to find a moving company.
This neighborhood is right next door to the University of Iowa, just a five-minute walk away.
It’s also a lot easier for the two to meet.
Every morning, Duan Jia Xu could also drop Sang Zhi off at the company on the way. After work, the two of them returned to this side and settled for dinner at the nearby snack street, and the day passed.
Before I knew it, August was half over.
It happened to be a Friday, and recently the company had fewer things to do, so Sang Zhi got off work on time. She sent a WeChat to Duan Jiaxu and learned about him having to work overtime, so she packed a meal for herself and returned to school.
Sanji turned on his computer, bit the spoon in his mouth, grabbed the air conditioner remote and turned it on.
A familiar sound of functioning came to his ears.
The air conditioner then inexplicably clicked, exceptionally loudly.
Sang Zhi paused and looked up, and didn’t feel any wind coming out. She felt a little strange and depressedly turned it off and on again, but it still had the same effect.
This dormitory building is old and has an older style of air conditioner.
Sang Zhi did not know how to get, can only go downstairs to find the hostel aunt. Auntie did not go up with her to see, just let her apply for repair, but during the holidays, the school maintenance staff is also on vacation, reported repair will have to wait until the beginning of the school year before someone to repair.
Either that or she’ll have to call an off-campus repairman.
Not knowing where to look, Sanji reentered the dormitory and tossed around on his own for a while longer.
Thinking about putting up with it or not.
But then again, I find the weather completely unbearable.
Sang Zhi turned the fan on and finished her meal first. Afterward, she told Duan Jia Xu about it on WeChat, pondering whether she should go outside and find a hotel to stay in today, and then see if she could find someone to fix it tomorrow.
Didn’t wait for her to think about it.
Duan Jiaxu has then replied.
[Goes to my house.]
[Didn’t I give you a key?
–
Sang Zhi thought about it, and indeed felt as if there was no need for her to be pretentious. She took a change of clothes, brought along her skin care products, and carried her computer as well, before setting off to Duan Jia Xu’s house.
She hadn’t been here quite a few times and didn’t feel uncomfortable at this point, so she went in, turned on the air conditioning, and laid down on the couch to play with her cell phone.
Sangji often stayed at home by himself, and at this time he didn’t feel bored, and the time wore away quickly.
It was close to nine o’clock in the evening when Duan Jia Xu returned.
Holding a bag of potato chips and nibbling on them while watching a TV show, Sanji casually asked, “Have you eaten yet?”
Duanjia Xu answered, “Uh-huh.”
Sanji didn’t continue to ask.
Duan Jia Xu took off his shoes and came over to sit next to her, which is when he started to ask, “What happened to the air conditioner in your dormitory?”
“It just rang loud,” said Sanjay, “and there was no wind.”
Duan Jiaxu: “Well, I’ll get someone to fix it for you tomorrow.”
Sanji nodded and gave him the chips, “Are you going to eat them or not.”
“Don’t eat,” Duan Jia Xu rubbed her head and instructed, “I’m going to take a bath first. You sleep in the master bedroom, I’ll go over and flop the bed for you later, and take a bath in that room.”
“Oh.”
Although it wasn’t the first time she had come back, it was the first time Sang Chi had stayed here, and she gradually felt uncomfortable with the late hour. When Duan Jia Xu went into the bathroom, she finished the rest of the chips and also went into the master bedroom’s bathroom, ready to take a shower.
This bathroom is a little bigger than the one outside and has a bathtub.
The washstand held body wash and shampoo, and a range of toiletries, all suitable for girls.
Sanji hadn’t been in here before, and was still a little frozen at the sight. She blinked and picked them up one by one and looked them over, quickly getting into the shower.
She has always taken a long time in the shower and can take up to an hour when she dawdles.
By the time Sanji came out, it was close to ten o’clock. After blow drying her hair and applying body lotion, she hesitated and planned to go to the kitchen to get a jelly to eat.
Sanjay opened the door to his room.
He saw that Duan Jia Xu had already come out of the shower and was currently lying on the sofa. He was wearing pajamas, a dark blue plaid shirt and matching shorts. There was a towel on his shoulders, and his hair was still wet, hanging between his ears and in front of his forehead.
Duan Jia Xu lowered his eyes and held his cell phone as if he was watching a video, his demeanor careless.
Sanji didn’t bother him and went straight to the kitchen.
When she returned to the living room, pondering whether she should go straight back to her room or say hello to him before going back, Duan Jia Xu had already voiced out and called out to her, “Only only, do me a favor.”
Sanji dutifully went over, “What’s wrong?”
She sat down next to Duanjia Xu, tearing the package of jelly as she said, “You want some too?”
Duan Jiaxu put his cell phone down and shook his head. The corners of his mouth curved up, and the fingertips of one of his hands slid upward, stopping at a certain button on his shirt before he opened his mouth in a trailing tone, “It’s a bit hot.”
“……”
“Unbutton your brother.”
Chapter 67
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“……”
The words were like a clap of thunder, suddenly exploding in Sanji’s ears.
As a result, her hand slipped, the force was not controlled properly, and the jelly in her hand flew out and fell to the ground.
Sangji slowly picked it up, drew a tissue, and wiped the package. Her eyes moved to his fingers on the clasp, pausing for several seconds before subtly asking, “Don’t you have any hands of your own?”
Duan Jiaxu laughed lowly and said, “Little friend, do you know what it means to have fun?”
“……” Sang-chi pretends not to hear, picks up the remote control, turns down the air conditioner a few degrees, “I’ll set it to twenty-three?”
“You’ll catch a cold.”
Sang Chi was silent for a few seconds, noticing that his hair was still wet, she could only turn the temperature back up again. She continued to tear the wrapping paper, but it was like it was stuck with strong glue, and she couldn’t tear it apart.
In the end, she tore the opening.
Duan Jiaxu reached out and took it, tearing it open for her from the other side and handing it back to her.
Sanji silently took it back, digging into it with a plastic spoon. She always felt that this direction was becoming a bit strange, and pondered whether it would seem out of place for her to suddenly mention that she wanted to go back to her room now.
A man and a woman in a room together.
The TV wasn’t on, neither of them spoke, and there was no other sound in the room. She could feel Duan Jiaxu’s eyes seemed to be looking at her blatantly and unabashedly with her afterglow.
The light in the living room is slightly dim, the big lamp did not open, only opened the standing lamp next to the sofa. The color of the partial sunlight, haloed a warm and charming atmosphere, with a few hints of ambiguity.
The lamp seemed to carry a temperature, and Sang Zhi inexplicably felt a little hot as well.
But Duan Jia Xu never spoke again, and Sang Zhi’s spirit slowly relaxed a bit. She finished the jelly, stood up, and threw the shell into the trash can, “Then I’ll go back to–“
Without waiting for her to finish her sentence, Duan Jia Xu suddenly moved. He straightened up, reached out and took hold of her arm, tugging it towards his arms.
The force wasn’t too great, but Sang Chi didn’t expect it, and as a result, she didn’t stand too still. Her breathing stopped, and she subconsciously followed the force and fell towards his body.
Summer clothes were thin, and both were wearing only short sleeves and shorts.
Sanji could feel his hard skin very clearly, a few degrees hotter than the temperature rolling off of her, as well as his scent that was suddenly close at hand, familiar and biting.
Her body stiffened a bit, not daring to move, and she whispered, “What are you doing ……”
Duan Jia Xu’s fingertips rubbed against her wrist, leading her hand to move to his clothes. His eyes were slightly converged, tinted with a few drops of water vapor, and his voice was low and hoarse: “Finished eating?”
“……”
“Then it’s time to help.”
Meeting his eyes that looked like they were carrying a compulsion, Sang Chi’s brain went a little blank, as if she was hypnotized. Fixed for only a few seconds, her fingers moved, inexplicably listening to his words, and slowly undid his topmost button.
The dress opens with it.
Showing off a deep and well-defined collarbone, it was sexy as hell.
Her gaze moved upward, noting that the knot in his throat rolled a bit, an extremely nice line.
At this moment, Sang Chi snapped back to her senses. Because of her actions, her entire cheeks burned and she stumbled, “Okay, okay, I’m going back to my room.”
Duan Jiaxu held down her hand, “So perfunctory?”
Sang Chi was too nervous to say anything, feeling that it was too fast and not knowing how to refuse. Only knew to look at him with more than a little overwhelmed in his eyes.
Sensing her uneasiness, Duan Jia Xu tilted his head and kissed her chin, “Don’t be afraid.”
“……”
“Not touching you won’t make my family only suffer.” Duan Jia Xu’s speech was slow, undoing the buttons with one hand by himself, “But you, do you want to inspect the goods first?”
Sanji felt his heart jump out of his throat.
After a long time, Duan Jiaxu’s movement stopped, only half of the buttons were undone. His fingertips slid upwards again, stopping at the position of the collarbone, moving with a bit of color, peach blossom eyes slightly curved, like a vixen who comes to take in people’s hearts and souls.
The world quieted down.
I don’t know how long it took, but Sanji heard him make a sound.
“Want a kiss?”
–
Sang Chi went back into the bathroom to brush her teeth. She squeezed the toothpaste, in which she could vaguely hear the sound of Duan Jia Xu making the bed. She dawdled for half a day and didn’t open the door to go out even after brushing her teeth.
It wasn’t long before Duan Jiaxu’s voice sounded outside, “Go to bed early.”
Sanji responded vaguely.
Duan Jiaxu: “Let me know what’s missing.”
Sanji should again.
And then came the sound of the door to the room opening and closing.
Sang Chi breathed a sigh of relief, which led her out of the bathroom. She padded over to the door of her room and struggled for half a day, but still hesitated and carefully pressed the lock.
The spring made a dinging sound, extra loud.
Her movements froze.
In the next second, Duan Jiaxu’s lazy voice sounded outside: “So defensive of me?”
“……” Across the room, Sanji simply pretended he didn’t hear it, turned off the lights in the room, and returned to the bed.
There was a small table lamp on the nightstand, which had been turned on by now and glowed dimly.
One meter five single bed, the bed sheet is light pink, next to put a half-meter high bear muppet. Inside the furniture is the house comes with, there is a small desk, the top put are all the small objects that Sang Wiz landed here.
Sanji glanced over and noticed a picture frame still sitting on the nightstand.
It’s a recent photo of her with Duan Jia Xu.
Sanji flopped onto the bed, rolled up the quilt and rolled around, then buried her whole face in it. She could clearly smell the new quilt’s own odor, with a hint of sunshine.
Thinking about what had just happened, Sanji felt a little breathless and popped her head back up, half asleep. She stared at the white ceiling, taking the muppet next to her and ravaging it in her arms, venting her emotions.
I wanted to howl, but I was afraid the old man next door would hear me.
The soundproofing of this house was average, and Sang Chi could still hear Duan Jia Xu walking around outside. Barely able to calm down, she picked up her cell phone and flipped a comic out to read it.
The mind is not on it at all.
Isn’t it a bit humiliating to say.
Sanji had never had this experience before, nor had he ever heard anyone around him say that it had happened.
She was actually seduced by a man.
The point is.
She is! Surprisingly! No! Hold it!
It’s so humiliating.
True! The! Too! Shame on you! Shame on you! Shame on you!
Kuwabara closed her eyes, tossed her cell phone aside, and dove back under the covers. She touched her lips, the sound of her breathing and heartbeat amplified in the small space.
Instead, what popped into her head was the kiss that she had just landed on the knot of Duanjash’s throat;
His hand that had rested on his haunches and rubbed them, and then let go;
As well, he gasped slightly and flirted, “I can’t manage this hand, why don’t you tie it up?”
–
For tossing and turning half the time.
The next day, Sang Chi woke up late. When she tapped her phone in a daze, she realized that the time was already ten o’clock. She stayed in bed for a while, climbed up and washed up, and then went out of the living room.
But there was no sign of Duan Jia Xu.
Puzzled, Kuwabara opened WeChat and looked at it.
At around seven in the morning, Duan Jia Xu sent her a couple of WeChat messages, [I have something to go out for a while.]
Duanjia Xu: [There is porridge in the microwave, heat it up and eat it.]
Duanjia Xu: [Get up and talk to me.]
Sang-chi replied back, [Up, what are you going to do?
Afterward, Sang Zhi went into the kitchen and brought out the porridge after heating it up. She took a small bowl, filled some out, and sat down at the dining table.
When I looked at my cell phone again, Duan Jiaxu had already replied: [Back].
Duan Jia Xu: [Is there anything you want to eat, I’ll bring it for you.]
Sanji thought for a moment: [Chicken Fillet.]
Duanjia Xu: [Row.
Before Sang Zhi’s porridge was finished, Duan Jia Xu came back. He changed his shoes, put the plastic bag in his hand in front of her, and casually asked, “Why did you get up so late today?”
“Weekend, just sleep a little longer.” Sang Chi casually pulled an excuse, swallowed the porridge in his mouth, and asked, “What did you do? Going out so early.”
Duan Jiaxu sat across from her and answered honestly, “The anniversary of my mom’s death, went to visit her grave.”
“……” Sanji’s movements faltered, and he looked up at him with a mumbled ah.
Seeing this, Duan Jia Xu raised his eyebrows, “Why this reaction?”
Sang Chi loosened the spoon and whispered, “Why didn’t you tell me, I’ll go with you.”
Duan Jiaxu didn’t seem to take this matter too seriously and said with a light smile, “Going to that place weirdly affects your mood, and I’m afraid you’ll be unhappy when you come back. And it’s a rare weekend, so you can sleep a little more.”
“……” Sanji was silent for a few seconds, “Uh-huh.”
Duan Jia Xu opened the bag, flipped out the paper bag inside, and inserted the stick. The corners of his lips curved upwards as he reminded, “Don’t eat too much, lunch is in a while.”
Sanji continued to sip his porridge and hmmmed again.
Duan Jia Xu glanced a few times toward her face and asked, “Did you stay up late yesterday? The dark circles under your eyes are coming out.”
Sanji nodded and lied, “Watching the show.”
Duan Jiaxu: “Then go back to sleep later?”
“No need.” Sang Chi finished the rest of the porridge and suddenly raised her eyes to look at him, “Duan Jia Xu.”
“Hmm?”
“It’s just that,” Sanji pursed her lips and paused for a long moment. She was inexplicably a little frustrated, and it was only half a day later that she whispered, “I can be upset with you.”
“……”
The two stared at each other for a few seconds.
Sanji withdrew his eyes and stood up, saying to himself as if to himself, “I’m going to go wash this bowl.”
At the same time, Duan Jiaxu opened his mouth, “Come here.”
At that, Sanji raised her eyes. Without asking what the reason was, she dutifully walked around the table and over to him.
She met his eyes again.
In the next moment, he saw the curves of Duan Jia Xu’s mouth retract inward and become flat, negative energy exploding out in a moment. And then, he leaned his head in front of the small of her back and lifted his hands up to hug her, not saying any words, not uttering a single word.
Sang Chi paused, raised her hand, and touched his head. After thinking about it, she slowed down her voice and coaxed handily but earnestly, “It’s okay if you want to cry.”
“……”
“I can treat you like a child, too,” Sanji emphasized, “and not call you a little crybaby.”
Duan Jiaxie laughed out loud.
Sanji didn’t comfort much and scratched his head depressingly, “I mean it.”
“Uh-huh.” Duan Jiaxu’s mood seemed to improve a bit, and he whispered, “Then you hug your kids more.”
–
Because of this matter, Sang Chi accompanied Duan Jia Xu all afternoon. She didn’t take the initiative to advance the things in his family, also afraid to say more and more wrong, only know to stay next to him.
Wherever he went, she followed, like a little tail that had suddenly grown on him.
Duan Jia Xu’s even worse mood was dissipated by her appearance. In a short while, he was teasing her again as he usually did, without any sense of propriety.
Sanji made a silent note of the date.
She thought to herself that she would definitely not sleep in when it came to this day in the future.
The two of them stayed in the house for the whole day and forgot about getting the air conditioner in Sangzhi’s dormitory. She went back to the dormitory to get a set of clothes and stayed at Duan Jia Xu’s house for another night.
Staying for two nights in a row, Sang Chi actually felt quite happy.
It’s also convenient to go to work from here, unlike at school where it’s a long walk from the dormitory building to the school gates. Besides, staying alone in the dormitory can be quite lonely sometimes.
The next day at noon, Duan Jiaxu helped Sang Zhi contact an air conditioning repair electrician. After registering, the three went into the dormitory together, and the electrician took the escalator and climbed up to repair it.
Duan Jia Xu stood next to Sang Zhi’s position and glanced at the other three empty beds.
“How about staying at my place?”
Sanji cleared the table. At that, she looked up at him.
Duan Jiaxu: “Come back here to live after school starts.”
She didn’t say anything, continuing to pack her things.
Duanjia Xu didn’t force the issue and leaned over the table, playing with a trinket on her desk.
After a long time, the electrician fixed the air conditioner and let Sang Zhi turn it on to try it out. After the electrician left, Duan Jia Xu looked at the time and suggested, “Let’s go out for dinner first, then send you back?”
Sanji was silent for a moment, then hesitantly said, “Can you go stand on the balcony for a while?”
“Hmm?”
“I’m going to take some clothes ……,” muttered Sang Chi, “half a month, just two sets of clothes, not enough to wear.”
–
Sang-chi is living with Duan Jiaxu in a “cohabitation”.
More than that word, though, she felt that co-habitation would be a better description. Because most of the time, she stayed in her room and only came out when she had to eat.
But this was something she didn’t dare tell her family either.
When Li Ping made video calls to her, Sang Zhi still had to run out outside, act as if she had just gotten off work, and call back again. Occasionally, when she was too lazy to run out, she pulled a strong excuse of being at a classmate’s house.
Vacation time just comes to a head without even realizing it.
This internship with Sanji lasted a month and a half.
On the day she left her job, Sang Chi bought a small gift for a few coworkers who had taken care of her. Thinking of Shi Xiaoyu, whose attitude towards her had improved recently, Sang Zhi didn’t care about what happened before and gave her one as well.
Getting the small gift, Shi Xiaoyu glanced at her and said unnaturally, “Thank you.”
Sang Zhi nodded her head. Without waiting for her to return to her seat, Shi Xiaoyu opened her mouth again, her tone a bit hesitant, “Sang Zhi, can I ask you about your relationship with Jiang Ying?”
Sang-chi was confused, “I have nothing to do with her.”
Shi Xiaoyu exhaled and her voice took on an apologetic tone, “I did listen to her before and was a bit prejudiced against you, I’m sorry. But recently I’ve been meeting with her, and I also felt that there was something wrong with her, and she wouldn’t tell me the truth, so I thought I’d come and ask you.”
Sang Chi weighed her words and said slowly, “For some reason, she’s been pestering my boyfriend and still thinks that my boyfriend has to keep compensating her and doing her a favor, as you should have seen before.”
“…… hmmm.”
“This kind of thing, if it happens again, I’ll definitely call the police. So, if you’re doing it for her own good,” Sang-chi didn’t take it personally and said truthfully, “you could have her see a psychiatrist.”
–
Sang Chi packed her things and moved back to the dormitory from Duan Jia Xu’s a day early.
The next day, the other two in the dormitory also came over from home, and Ning Wei also rushed to come back on the last day of registration. Sang Zhi began to live the life of running to the classroom, dining hall and dormitory every day.
Because of the previous competition, Sang Chi’s relationship with her instructor at the time became good. At her teacher’s suggestion, she signed up for a game competition organized by the city.
This competition is more prestigious than the on-campus one, and there will be a lot of people from big corporations at the awards ceremony. It’s not quite the same as the last competition either, this time it’s an individual who completes the work independently, no longer a team.
At the beginning of his sophomore year, Sanjay dropped out of the student government department he had previously been a part of.
She was enrolled in Game Art Design, and besides classes, she just stayed in the dormitory and drew pictures. Occasionally, when there were fewer classes, or on the weekends, Sang Zhi would grab her computer and go to Duan Jia Xu’s place to stay for a night.
Before I knew it, it was the 11th holiday.
Duan Jiaxu helped her book a flight for the evening of the 30th in advance. This vacation adds up to a week, and he has nothing to do, so he simply went back to Nanwu with her as well.
It was well past midnight when the two arrived at Nanwu Airport.
As soon as he got off the plane, Sang Zhi Zhi took out his cell phone and helped him look for a hotel: ”Just look for one near my house? I was going to let you stay directly at my brother’s place, but I suddenly remembered that he was sharing a room with someone else, a sister, although I don’t know why he was sharing a room …… and then Qianfei brother got married, so you’ll have to stay in a hotel.”
Duanjia Xu hmmmed.
Neither of them had any luggage with them, so they didn’t check it in and followed the signs out.
Out of Sang Chi’s expectation, the one who came to pick them up was not Sang Yan, but Qian Fei.
Sang Chi blinked, not having the heart to hold hands with Duan Jia Xu in front of him. She jerked her hand back and dutifully greeted him, “Brother Qian Fei.”
Obviously having already seen that scene, Qian Fei was silent for a few seconds and greeted her as well before looking at Duan Jia Xu and wordlessly giving him a thumbs up.
Duan Jiaxu re-holds Sang Zhi’s hand and raises his eyebrows, “If you have something to say, say it.”
Qian Fei didn’t hold back any longer and angrily cursed, “Beast!”
Sanji: “……”
Duan Jia Xu turned his head to look at Sang Zhi, his tone like a complaint, “He called me an animal.”
“……” said Sanji hesitantly, “It’s not that serious.”
Qian Fei was obviously still annoyed by the fact that he had been shaded by Duan Jia Xu earlier, he pointed at Sang Zhi and spat out two words, “Flowers.”
And then pointed to Duan Jiaxu, deliberately biting the weight of one of the words: “inserted | into the old, cow dung.”
“……”
Chapter 68
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Sang Chi didn’t know what happened between them, nor did she know where Qian Fei got so angry, she could only tear away the topic in a confused manner, “Qian Fei, why are you here? Where is my brother?”
To Sang Zhi, Qian Fei’s anger has been mostly reduced: “Your brother said there’s something wrong.”
Sanji nodded and didn’t ask any more questions.
The three of them left the airport and got into Qian Fei’s car parked outside.
Sang Zhi consciously sat in the back seat, Duan Jiaxu on the passenger seat. She flipped out her cell phone and continued to look for hotels for Duan Jiaxu, and when she saw a suitable one, she sent it to him on WeChat.
It was already close to one in the morning, but Sang Chil had just slept on the airplane and was not too sleepy.
Inside the car was playing light music, Duan Jia Xu and Qian Fei had a conversation with each other. Maybe it is afraid that Sang Chi will feel embarrassed, Qian Fei also did not flirt with the two of them together.
Forty minutes later, the car drove up to the floor of Sanji’s house.
Duan Jiaxu followed her out of the car and gave her a few customary instructions, watching her enter the building before returning to the car. As he re-fastened his seatbelt, he heard Qian Fei ask, “Eh, where do you live?”
Upon hearing this, Duan Jia Xu looked at his cell phone and reported the name of a hotel.
Qian Fei: “Don’t book a hotel, stay at my place.”
“Forget it.” Duanjia Xu laughed, “It’s not appropriate.”
“How is it inappropriate? But yeah,” Qian Fei hemmed and hawed, “a week, it wouldn’t be good for you to hear anything. By the way, I heard from Sang Yeon that you moved again?”
Duanjash: “Uh-huh.”
Qian Fei frowned, like an old mother to chatter a few more sentences: “No, how many times have you moved in the past few years? Buy a house and settle down, or else the money you earn will be brought into the coffin?”
“Don’t want to stay in one place for a long time, and I don’t plan to stay in Yiho all the time.” Speaking of this, Duan Jia Xu pondered for a moment and added, “Bringing this up, you incidentally help me see if there are any newly opened houses in Nanwu, just this lot.”
Qian Fei froze, “Nanwu’s?”
“Uh-huh.”
“You’re planning to come back this way, huh?” Qian Fei realized, “Because of Sanji?”
Duan Jiaxu laughed and hmmmed again, “The little girl is quite a homebody.”
“I’ll ask for you later,” Qian Fei said, “But are you sure? Then what about your work, this company you are not technology into the shares? And the development is quite good, right, how was the agreement?”
Duan Jiaxu didn’t answer his long list of questions and suddenly popped up, “I’ve been thinking about a matter recently.”
Chance Fly: “What?”
When he happened to arrive downstairs at the hotel, Duan Jiaxu didn’t say any more. He unbuckled his seatbelt and opened the car door while saying carelessly, “It’s fine, I’ll think about it.”
–
Afraid of disturbing Sang Rong and Li Ping, all of Sang Zhi’s movements were careful. After taking off her shoes, she didn’t even dare to put on her slippers, and without turning on the lights, she returned to her room by the light of her cell phone.
Sang Zhi felt that she hadn’t made any noise at all, but she still woke up Li Ping. She had just closed the door to her room, and before she could breathe a sigh of relief, the next moment, the door was pushed open once again.
Li Ping’s face still had the tiredness of just waking up. Seeing Sang Zhi, her sleepiness instantly dispersed most of it, “Scared me, you girl, didn’t you say you’d be back early?”
“……” Sanjay scratched his head, “The flight was too late, I was afraid you guys would be waiting for me.”
“Did you eat? Did your brother bring you home?”
“I ate it, it wasn’t brother who sent me.” Sang Chi didn’t lie and honestly said, “He seemed to have something to do and asked Brother Qian Fei to send me back. I’ll take a shower and go to bed, you go to bed soon too.”
It’s been a while since I’ve seen her, Li Ping stared at her, reached out and touched her face and sighed, “Why do I feel like you’ve lost weight again? It’s been half a year since you’ve been home ……”
Sang Chi shook his head, “Not thin, gained two pounds.”
“All day long, I’m afraid that you’re not doing well over there, and I’m also afraid that you won’t tell mom,” Li Ping couldn’t help but say a few more words, “You’re still in front of me, so I’m a bit more down to earth. If you want to find an internship in the future, you’d better find one at home, okay?”
Afraid to wake up Sang Rong as well, Sang Zhi obediently should, press the voice to coax Li Ping, waste half a day’s effort before she coaxed her to go to sleep.
Sanji took a quick shower and returned to his room.
She asked about Duan Jiaxu on WeChat and after talking to him for a while, she tossed her phone aside.
After closing his eyes and brewing sleep, it didn’t take long for Sanji to open them again.
Sang Chi inexplicably remembered something and suddenly climbed out of bed, pulling out the previous cardboard box from under the bed again.
The top was wrapped with another round of tape by her.
Sanjay took the hobby knife and cut it open again.
In the dim light, Sanji slowly took everything out of the inside. The ones that took up the most space inside were the dolls, which added up to several, and she put them on the desk with the intention of throwing them in the washing machine tomorrow.
Sanji took out the milk bottle with the star in it and put it back in its place on the windowsill.
Further down.
Sang Zhi saw the photo of Duan Jia Xu that she had secretly taken with her cell phone. The edges of the photo were already yellowed, and the pixels weren’t high, but you could still see the man’s appearance.
At that time, Duan Jia Xu was still full of teenage feeling, wearing a white sweater. His eyes were lowered, and he was holding a black gamepad in his hand, lining his complexion with a whiter color, and the smile on his face wasn’t much different from now.
In fact, Kuwabara kind of didn’t even remember what she was feeling when she took this picture.
And yet it still has an amazing feeling.
The man you fell in love with at first sight.
The one I’ve loved since I was young.
From finding reasons to get closer, sneaking around and hiding his heart, trying to make a mark on his life, to distancing himself and forgetting with all his might.
And then again, because of meeting again, all of it all ignites again.
That said, it seems to be quite wonderful.
She’s with her first love, someone she’s had a crush on for a lot of time.
But Sang Chi felt that she would probably never tell Duan Jia Xu about this in her life.
Won’t let him know.
One has tried hard, tried to fearlessly try to give a heart away, but because of cowardice and powerlessness, one ends up hiding it in the deepest recesses.
Hidden to the end, it’s like it’s disappeared.
Even she couldn’t find it again.
And won’t let him know.
All he had to do was crook his finger and her whole heart crashed about, bubbling up in an instant.
Those so-called hidden favorites.
In front of him, it became something you couldn’t hide even if you wanted to.
–
The next day, Sanji returned to his room after breakfast. It was only when she noticed the dolls on the table that she suddenly remembered. She picked them all up and retraced her steps out of the room, calling out, “Mom, I want to wash these.”
Li Ping and Sang Rongzheng were sitting in front of the sofa watching TV.
Hearing Sang Zhi’s voice, Li Ping raised her head and swept her eyes toward her arms, “Ah? Didn’t you put this away? Why did you suddenly take it out again?”
“Suddenly rummaged through,” Sang-chi didn’t know how to explain, and said vaguely, “It feels like it doesn’t take up much space to put it away.”
“You put it in the bucket, I’ll throw it in the washing machine for you later.” Li Ping didn’t ask too many questions and patted the spot next to her, “Come here, accompany mom and dad to watch TV for a while.”
Sanji nodded and walked over to sit down.
They said they were watching TV, but it was more like they were asking her about her vacation and what had happened to her recently. Sanji basically told them honestly, except for a few that she felt she couldn’t answer, and then glossed over them.
Taking advantage of the gap between Sang Rong and Liping’s chat, Sang Zhi fished his cell phone out of his pocket. He happened to see a message from Duan Jiaxu: [Awake?
Sanji: [Waking up.
Duanjia Xu: [1532.]
Sanji: [?
Duanjash: [Room number.]
Sanji: “……”
Duan Jiaxu: [You can come and pamper me when you’re free.]
Sang Chi felt a bit speechless and couldn’t help but smile again, returning, [In a couple of days].
She was about to reply something else when she suddenly heard Li Ping call out to her. Sang Zhi subconsciously extinguished her cell phone screen, looked up, and dully ah’d, “What’s wrong?”
Lai Ping smiled and asked, “Who are you talking to? So happy.”
Sanji casually replied, “Classmate.”
Li Ping half-joked, “In love?”
At that, Sang Rong also looked over, “Only only in love, huh?”
“……” Sanjay licked the corner of his lips, his expression not quite comfortable, “Hmm.”
Thinking that her age had also arrived, so Li Ping wasn’t too surprised and just said, “When did you talk about it? Called you so many times how come I didn’t see you mention it.”
Sang Rong frowned, “Really talk?”
Sanji whispered, “Not for long.”
Seeing that she didn’t feel too good about it, Li Ping soothed, “It’s okay to fall in love, but pay attention to yourself and protect yourself.”
Sanji nodded.
Li Ping also asked: “What is the name of the person you are talking to? Where is he from? He’s from your school, right? What’s his major? Personality–“
Sang Rong beckoned towards Sang Zhi, his expression not quite agreeable: “Only only, wait for graduation before looking. You’re in love at this moment, when the time comes, don’t you have to settle down over there, this object of yours is willing to go back to Nanwu with you?”
Sang Chi was a bit overwhelmed and stood up violently and ran towards the room, “No more, I’m going to catch up on my sleep!”
Behind her, Sang-wing could still be heard saying, “Talked to who?”
“How would I know.” Lai Ping said in amusement, “It must be a classmate he knows over there.”
–
This is something that Sang Chi still wants to mention to them slowly and gradually.
She was still reeling from Sangyan’s reaction.
But when Sang Zhi thought about it, she still felt that Sang Rong and Liping’s side shouldn’t be like him, and would definitely be a bit nicer to talk to than him. And in her opinion, Duan Jia Xu was really nothing to pick on.
Sang Zhi accompanied his parents at home for a few days. Either he was pulled out by Li Ping to go shopping, or he went to sit with them at a relative’s house, and he didn’t take the time to go to Duan Jiaxu.
But he also seems to have been asked out to catch up with a few of his former college buddies over the past few days, which isn’t a clean break.
During this long vacation, Sang Chih didn’t see Sang Yeon go home.
From time to time, I heard Li Ping in the chatter about him, saying that the boy was not like this, and now even have no conscience, gave birth to a white-eyed wolf. When she met with her friends, they all thought she only had a daughter, and were shocked to hear that she had a son, and asked if she had recently adopted him.
Sang Chil listened to one sentence and very sweetly relayed it to Sang Yeon on WeChat.
Forcing him to always find a night to come back.
As a result, Sang Chi was finally no longer the center of attention at this night’s dinner table, nor did he have to rack his brain to deal with the questions thrown out by Li Ping and Sang Rong.
Sang Zhi bit his rice in silence, listening with interest to Sang Yan being lectured by Sang Rong and Li Ping in turn.
This went on like this for more than ten minutes, Sang Yan finally couldn’t help himself and said emotionlessly, “Still letting people eat?”
Li Ping followed his words and started cursing again, “Now I can’t even say a few words to you, can I?”
“……”
Sang Yan took a deep breath and elbowed Sang Zhi next to him, signaling for her to help say something.
Sang Chi gave him a sideways glance and sighed, “Brother, you can’t do this, it’ll break mom’s heart.”
“……”
Sang Rong: “So grown up and still not as understanding as your sister.”
Sang Yan lifted his eyelids and said coolly, “She understands things, so I guess she’ll come back to accompany you guys on both long and short vacations.” Saying this, he paused and looked at Sang Chi, “Right.”
Sanji choked.
Mentioning this, Sang Rong and Li Ping looked at Sang Zhi at the same time. The attention of the entire table converged on her once again.
“……,” Sang Wizi somewhat regretted the fire he had just thrown on the fire, and said stiffly, “Let’s eat.”
–
After the meal, Sangayan didn’t sit for long and took a call to go out again.
Li Ping was sitting on the sofa, and when she saw him in this position, she started to say again, “Not staying at home for a few days? Have a meal and then leave?”
“Mom.” Sang Yan was scolded to the point where he lost his temper as well, “I’m already a grown up, what would it look like if I still stayed home all day?”
Li Ping was not pleased, “Didn’t you just come back? Why do you stay home all day?”
“……”
Li Ping continued, “What for?”
Sang Yan walked to the entrance hall and said as he changed his shoes, “Qian Fei is looking for, go out for a snack.”
“Drinking again?”
“No drink.”
Sang Chi sat on the sofa eating fruit. Hearing this, she raised her eyes and said in a seemingly casual manner, “A barbecue? I want to eat too.”
Seeing her intentions, the corner of Sang Yeon’s mouth quirked as he affectionately reminded, “You can order takeout.”
Sang Chi took it as if she didn’t hear and jumped up and ran towards her room, “Wait for me, I’ll change.”
As she expected, Sang Yan really didn’t wait for her, and by the time Sang Zhi came out of his room, there was no one left at the foyer.
Sang-chi busied herself by running to the entrance hall and said as she put on her shoes, “Mom and Dad, I’m going out.”
Li Ping froze and looked at her in wonder, “Only only, you really want to go?”
“Yeah.”
“You can just order a takeout, or else I’ll accompany you with your dad to eat,” Liping thought it was strange, “You didn’t used to love going out with your brother? Saying that you don’t even feel like you recognize him.”
Sang Chi didn’t know how to explain, he could only pretend to be in a hurry and said anxiously, “I’ll be back soon, you guys go to bed early, don’t wait for me!”
After saying that, Sang Chi didn’t wait for Li Ping to say anything else and immediately opened the door and walked out.
Sang Yan was still waiting for the elevator in the elevator room. Seeing her come out, he sneered, “Having a barbecue?”
“……”
“Why does this look so familiar to me?”
Sang Chi didn’t feel weak, and said with a straight face, “It’s not the first time I’ve gone out for a barbecue with you.”
“I just remembered something that I thought was a little strange.”
“What.”
“When I was a junior in college, you said you would help me move dorms,” Sang Yeon asked with a sideways glance, meaningfully, “That time, it was for ‘barbecue’ too?”
Chapter 69
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Sangyan Daisan.
How many years has he graduated.
Such a long time ago, listening to him mention, Sang Chi did not think too much for a moment. It happened that the elevator arrived, she walked in, inexplicably said: “What to move dormitory.”
As soon as these words came out of his mouth, without waiting for Sang Yeon to speak again, memories of Sang Jaek came flooding back in a moment.
When Sang Yeon was a junior in college, the school district moved to her neighborhood, and in order to meet with Duan Jia Xu again, she was still young and thought of creating an opportunity to meet with him.
Sangji remembered the doll he brought back from Duan Jiaxu’s dormitory, and also the homework he had missed because of the doll.
And thus came another meeting.
Sang Yeon followed, without a word.
Sang Zhi’s expression became a little stiff, and she pressed the door close button in silence. She couldn’t help but look in Sang Yan’s direction and muttered in a small voice, “How old was I when you were a junior? I don’t remember.”
It also seemed to be just a casual mention, and Sang Yeon ohmed without much care.
Seeing this, Sang Chi’s spirit slackened. She lowered her head and sent a message to Duan Jia Xu: [My brother and Qian Fei brother are going to have a midnight snack, are you going?
Duanjash: [Not going.]
“……”
Sanji instantly had the urge to go back.
Duanjia Xu: [You go?
Sang Zhi felt that she had really wasted her efforts, and seemed to have made Sang Yan notice things that he shouldn’t have. She was depressed to the core, and heavily knocked back, [Then I’ll go back now.]
After saying that, when Sang Chi was about to mention it to Sang Yan, Duan Jia Xu had already made a phone call.
Sanji glanced down and picked it up.
Duan Jiaxu’s voice came along the phone with the usual smirk, “Going back for what?”
After leaving the elevator, Sang Chil followed Sang Yeon and whispered, “Why should I go if you’re not going.”
There was a little rustling on the other end, like he was changing clothes. Duan Jia Xu’s tone rose slightly and said good-naturedly, “I didn’t think you couldn’t get out?”
Sanji: “So what were you going to do?”
“Stay at the hotel.” Duanjash said, “Talk to you for a while, then go to bed.”
“That sounds pretty pathetic.” Sanji blinked and smiled, “You better come out then.”
Get in Sanjayan’s car.
Sang-chi sat in the backseat and said as she fastened her seatbelt, “Where are we going to have a barbecue?”
Sanjan started the car, “Nearby.”
After two seconds of silence, Sang Chi coughed softly and politely mentioned, “Then let’s go pick up Brother Kaoshi first.”
Sangayan didn’t say much and looked the car in the direction of the hotel.
Afraid that he wouldn’t be clear, San Zhi still mentioned the name of the hotel where Duan Jia Xu was staying again.
When he was almost at the hotel, Sang Yeon suddenly spoke, “I’ll drop you off directly in front of the hotel?”
Sang Chi was playing with his cell phone and froze a little when he heard this, “Didn’t we say we were going to a barbecue?”
Saying that, as she weighed it in her mind, she suddenly felt that this suggestion that Sang Yan had made seemed to be better than what she had originally thought. Sang Zhi pursed her lips and said in a calm manner, “That’s fine.”
“Also?” Sang Yeon sneered, “Beautiful you.”
“……”
Sang Yan felt ashamed, “Can you be more reserved?”
Realizing that she was being played by him, Sanji spat and said irritably, “I’m not reserved if I meet my boyfriend?”
Sang Yeon inexplicably changed the subject, “Did the real Duan Jia Xu chase you?”
Sanji’s eyes widened, “What do you mean?”
“I’ll just ask,” Sang Yeon drove the car near the hotel just in time to see Duan Jia Xu’s silhouette, he stopped the car, lowered the window and said, “Tell Duan Jia Xu to come up.”
“No, first you say what you mean.” Sang Chi blew up, very concerned about face, “You think I’m lying to you? He’s the one who chased me, and how I’m not reserved! These days it’s me who doesn’t have time okay! He’s asked me out hundreds of times, it’s not like he hasn’t asked me out!”
Duanjash noticed them and opened the backseat door.
When he heard Sanji’s words, he laughed softly, “What’s all the bickering about?”
“……” Sanjay closed his mouth momentarily.
Sang Yeon didn’t bother with the two of them and drove again.
Sang Chi did not move to look at Duan Jia Xu.
He had probably just taken a shower, with the smell of hotel shower gel on his body, and his hair was still a little puffy. The clothes he wore were also casual, as if he had casually put them on and come out, looking handsome and gentle.
Duan Jia Xu moved a position and sat close to Sang Zhi, while later turning his head sideways and staring at her as well.
The car was dimly lit with no lights on.
Originally, Sangji was still somewhat unable to see his features, but with the distance drawn in so much, everything became clear. His eyelashes were very long and his pupils became dark in this dark light, looking deeply emotional and unaware.
Simply looking at her, no extra movement.
Sanji was about to say something.
Sangyan in the front had opened his mouth, “Please don’t do something you shouldn’t do in my car.”
“……”
These words broke the ambiguous atmosphere between the two, and Duan Jia Xu’s eyelids twitched as he glanced in Sang Yan’s direction. He didn’t say anything and stretched his hand out, placing it in front of Sang Chi.
Sanjay paused and self-consciously put his hand up.
The corner of Duan Jia Xu’s mouth pulled up as he took her hand and squeezed her fingertips out of habit. He glanced out the window, eyebrows raised, before he opened his mouth, “Brother.”
“……”
“Find a place up front to drop us both off, will you?”
Sang Yeon pretended not to hear.
It wasn’t until he drove to the neighborhood of the barbecue restaurant that Sang Yan stopped the car on the side of the road and turned off the engine. He twisted his head to look at Duan Jiaxu and said with a smirk, “I’m the driver for the two of you?”
Duan Jia Xu laughed, “Didn’t I call out to your brother?”
Sanji tickled his palm with his fingers, “Better have a barbecue.”
Duanjia Xu looked in her direction, “Okay.”
No other reason really.
It was so late and there wasn’t much of a place to go. Plus, Sang Zhi felt that if she really went to a barbecue with Sang Yan, it would seem like what she said in front of Lai Ping was true and that she wasn’t lying.
When she got back, she wouldn’t have to be vain if they asked.
This store is near Qian Fei’s house, a big stall.
The three of them got out of the car and headed for the store.
Sanji was actually not too keen on doing overly intimate behavior with his best friend, including holding hands, in front of his own brother. But after not seeing him for days, she didn’t really want to break away and simply pretend that Sang Yeon didn’t exist.
Sang Yeon didn’t pay much attention to the two of them, looking down at his cell phone.
It wasn’t long before Sang Yan looked up and noticed the two’s movements. His eyebrows lifted, and he remembered what he had just talked about, lazily venturing out, “Duan Jia Xu, let me ask you something.”
Duanjia Xu: “Huh?”
Sang Yeon continued, “Do you remember when we moved dorms junior year, my sister-“
“……”
The words were clearly meant to bring up what had just happened again.
Sang Zhi’s breath hitched, immediately breaking away from Duan Jia Xu’s hand. Obviously anxious, she reached out to slap Sang Yan’s arm, her voice carrying a few hints of annoyance, “Brother! Will you shut up!”
Sang Yan took his words back, seeming a bit puzzled, “What are you so excited about?”
Sanji was really annoyed, “Just say it, don’t mention me.”
Duan Jia Xu didn’t have any siblings, didn’t quite understand the emotions between the two of them, and wasn’t quite sure what they were talking about, she just found it funny, “Why are you two arguing again?”
Sang Yan glanced at Sang Zhi and didn’t mention it again.
“It’s fine.”
–
Qian Fei came early to take his place. Besides him, there were already a few men sitting on the seats. Sang Zhi had previously seen them at Qian Fei’s wedding, but couldn’t name any of them, only knowing that they were all college classmates of Duan Jia Xu and Sang Yan.
She was the only woman present.
Sang Chi sat in the middle of Sang Yan and Duan Jia Xu, tearing the wrapper of his rice bowl to himself.
Noticing Sanji, a man casually asked, “Sanjayan, is this your sister?”
Sanjayan: “Uh-huh.”
“Oh, last time when Qian Fei’s wedding, I saw it, I still have some impression.” Sang Zhi Zhi looked small, the man waved his hand at her and casually greeted her, “Hello little sister.”
Sanji nodded, “Hello.”
A few of the rest of the group greeted her as well.
Sang Chi nodded again. Afraid that Duan Jia Xu would feel embarrassed, she hesitated and drew back the hand that was still interlocked with his under the table, and then he caught it back in the next second.
She then heard Duan Jia Xu leisurely add, “Shout what little sister? Shout sister-in-law.”
“……”
Sanji almost choked and looked at him sideways.
Qian Fei silently explained the situation, “Sang Yan’s sister, is also Duan Jia Xu’s, well …… that, object.”
The others didn’t think it was a big deal. The table was quiet for a few seconds, and then there was a loud uproar, a few of the men just surprised and gossiping and asking questions.
It was another man who was a bit surprised: “Duan Jiaxu, you’re awesome, I have an impression of this girl, I remember when we took the graduation photo, was she here too? The three of us also took a picture, didn’t you say that this is your sister?”
Duan Jiaxu laughed lowly and said cheekily, “I don’t remember.”
Sanji stayed out of their conversation and looked down to drink his water.
Duan Jia Xu looked at her sideways, his peach blossom eyes lowered, staring at her slightly pursed lips, before saying slowly, “I just remember this moment, this girl is my object.”
–
The addition of a few more people at the dinner table that he didn’t recognize still made Sang Chi feel less comfortable. Besides, it wasn’t the same age group, a bunch of big old men who had all been working for years and had different topics of conversation.
Sanji silently nibbled on a chicken fillet and never said much.
She acted like she wasn’t in the same world as them, watching them toast with messy reasons, forcing each other to drink, and also moving to pour down a glass of wine, even Sang Yeon, who drove over, couldn’t be spared.
Rather, it was only Duan Jiaxu, the others didn’t fill him up much, and if they did, he refused.
Amazingly, not a single drink.
Sanji also took a can of wine and amused himself.
Perhaps noticing Sang Chi’s boredom, it wasn’t long before Duan Jia Xu came over and asked her, “Have you eaten enough?”
Sanji nodded.
Afterward, Duan Jia Xu stood up and casually pulled an excuse. With a girl here, the others couldn’t quite let go, so they didn’t keep them, only saying goodbye to Sang Zhi.
Sang Chi sighed in relief, grabbed his backpack, and reminded Sang Yan, “Brother, don’t drink too much.”
Sang Yeon hmmm’d absently.
The two went to the neighborhood to wait for the bus.
Sang Zhi didn’t drink much, but it still got on her face. She freed her other hand to cover her face, suddenly remembering just now that Duan Jia Xu hadn’t been drinking, and also remembering that after all these years, it seemed like she really hadn’t seen him drink either.
When asked before, he said it was an alcohol allergy.
Sang Chi inexplicably thought back to what he had said, that his father had killed someone in a drunk driving accident. Thinking of this, she tilted her head to look at him and hesitantly asked, “Are you really allergic to alcohol?”
“Hmm?” Duan Jiaxu laughed, “I’m not sure.”
“……”
Kuwabara understood instantly, and softly oh’d.
Duan Jiaxu added, “Shall we try?”
“Huh?” Sanji said, “Do you want a drink?”
“Well, drink it later.”
“……”
Sanji couldn’t guess at all what the man was thinking.
Instantly there was the feeling that he had guessed wrong again.
This is not far from Sangji’s home, two stops by car. After getting off the bus, the two of them talked one by one, and entered the neighborhood where Sang Chi lived.
When he was almost at the downstairs of Sang Chi’s house, Duan Jia Xu stopped in his tracks.
Sanji stopped with it.
Duan Jia Xu then tugged Sang Zhi and brought him towards his arms.
It’s dimly lit here, with a few cars parked next to each other and not many people in the roadway. The leaves rustle in the breeze, and their silhouettes sway on the ground.
He bent down and cupped her chin and lifted it upward, his voice low and husky, “Tried being allergic.”
Without waiting for San Zhi to react to what his words meant, Duan Jia Xu’s kiss had already landed.
Her mouth still tasted faintly of wine, but it was like a very high proof wine, giving both of them a bit of an alcoholic buzz. It was more passionate than any of the previous times, his tongue against her teeth, curling around her tongue and sucking, licking every nook and cranny.
The movements were delicate and long, but the force was brutal.
Sanji felt his mouth ache a little and lightly bit the tip of his tongue.
Duan Jiaxu’s movements paused and bit her lips as well, quickly releasing her. Under the illumination of the streetlight, his eyes looked like they carried light, and he trailed off, “It doesn’t seem to be allergic.”
When he finished, he laughed and added, “I think there’s room for a few more kisses.”
Sanji cooed, “How would that be.”
A moment of silence.
“It doesn’t feel very good.” Duan Jia Xu stared at her and rubbed the corner of her lips with his fingertips, the force was not too light and not too heavy, as if he wanted to hurt her but was afraid of hurting her, “It feels like I have to see you every day.”
“……”
“After not seeing her for a day,” rubbed red by her lips, Duan Jia Xu kissed again, “it’s just weird to miss.”
–
Doing this kind of thing near her home, San Zhi still had a feeling of weakness that she was afraid of being discovered. Walking another ten meters or so to the bottom of her house, she always had a feeling of trepidation.
Although she felt that at this point in time, there was a high probability that Li Ping and Sang Rong wouldn’t come out, she still didn’t let Duan Jia Xu continue to send her off and wanted to say goodbye at this point.
This look of hers made Duan Jia Xu feel funny, but she cooperated and stopped in place.
Sang Chi jogged to the bottom of her house and turned her head, noticing that Duan Jia Xu was still standing where he was, she waved her hand at him again, signaling him to hurry back.
Duan Jia Xu also waved his hand at her, seemingly smiling, and quickly turned to leave.
Sanji unlocked the door with his key and stepped inside.
She stepped into the elevator bay and pressed the up button, looking down at her phone.
Then, Sang Zhi heard the door being opened again, and there was a sound of footsteps. She subconsciously followed the sound and bumped into Li Ping’s eyes. She froze, “Mom, why are you out so late?”
Li Ping looked at her, smiled, and said faintly, “Come down and throw out a piece of trash.”
I don’t know if she has seen Duan Jia Xu, Sang Zhi’s heart at this time also has no bottom, didn’t ask more questions, nodded sheepishly.
Sure enough.
The next moment, Li Ping opened her mouth again, “I just saw that your brother’s friend sent you back?”
Sanji scratched his head, “…… Well.”
“Duan Jiaxu?” Li Ping said, “Isn’t he in Yiho? Did he come back with you on the National Day?”
Chapter 70
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“It’s not like he came back with me.” Sang Zhi’s palms were sweating, and he explained dryly, “Brother Jia Xu just happened to be coming to Nanwu, so he came along. Then my brother drank, he didn’t drink, so he helped send me back.”
Li Ping casually said, “You drank it too?”
Sanji gestured with his fingers, “A little bit.”
“Don’t drink in the future.” Li Ping frowned and said, “Let’s forget about it this time, your brother is there, but when you’re out on your own, if you can’t drink, don’t drink, you have to pay attention to yourself.”
Sanji nodded meekly.
The two got into the elevator.
After the elevator door closed, Li Ping mentioned again, “Only only, mom called you once before, didn’t I hear you say at that time that Duan Jia Xu was sick and had an operation?”
Sangji made a dumbfounded ah, and quickly remembered, “Yes, why? That was last year.”
“No.” Li Ping’s voice was soft, “Mom just asked.”
Li Ping’s reaction made Sang Zhi a little uneasy. She didn’t know what to say, so she could only nod her head again, pretending to be calm: “Oh.”
The atmosphere in the small elevator room seemed a bit subdued.
Li Ping chatted with her in a very normal manner, and there was nothing emotionally wrong with her, “You two meet often in Yiho?”
“Just occasionally.” Sanji’s tone was also normal, “Will go out for a meal or something.”
“Why haven’t we seen him come to Nanwu before?” Li Ping said, “Why did he suddenly come here this time?”
Sanji wasn’t very good at lying and just tried to muddle through, “I don’t know, didn’t ask.”
“You are also, your brother can’t send you after drinking, why don’t you give mom and dad a call.” Li Ping’s speech was warm and slow, softly admonished, “also have to trouble others to send you back to a trip, it’s rare to get together for a meeting.”
Just in time for the elevator to arrive.
Sang Zhi followed Li Ping out, while saying, “His hotel is nearby, by the way.”
Lippincott: “Uh-huh.”
For some reason, Kuwabara always felt that there was something strange about her. This strange atmosphere inexplicably seemed like it was exerting pressure, making Sang Chi even feel the urge to confess. Her heart beat a drum straight away, and she carefully said, “Mom, what’s wrong with you?”
“It’s fine.” Li Ping smiled, took the key and opened the door, “Go take a shower, it smells like alcohol.”
–
After entering the house, Liping went into the kitchen and continued to pack up her things.
Sang Yong was taking a shower in the master bedroom bathroom.
Sang Zhi wanted to go to a Liping to help, but as soon as she entered the kitchen, she was kicked out and told to hurry up and take a shower and then take a nap. She didn’t think she could do much to help, so she went back to her room, grabbed her clothes, and went into the bathroom.
Thinking about the conversation with Li Ping, Sang Zhi was a bit distracted. It always felt like she had discovered something, but it seemed like it wasn’t, and this reaction of hers was a little bit not quite the same as what Sang Zhi had imagined.
Is it because she’s hiding it?
Sang Zhi exhaled, as if a stone had been pressed against her chest, she was a bit suffocated. She hesitated to take advantage of these two days to politely mention this matter to Li Ping.
It doesn’t feel like much of a hard thing to mention.
Because of her heavy heart, Sang Chi didn’t know how long she took the shower. By the time she finished her shower and came out, the lights in the living room had already been turned off, and only the lights outside the bathroom were still on.
With this light, Sang Zhi went to the living room to fill a glass of water. As she passed by the master bedroom, she heard that Liping and Sang Rong seemed to be saying something, but she couldn’t hear much through a door.
Sanji returned to his room.
She sat on the carpet next to the bed and picked up the cell phone on the table. Seeing a message from Duan Jia Xu, Sang Zhi opened it and looked at it, replying, [I’ve arrived home, I just took a shower].
After thinking about it, Sang Chi hesitantly typed, [My mom seems to have found out that we’re in love].
No sooner had she sent it than there was a knock on the door of her room.
Sang-chi pressed the power button to turn off the screen, and then looked up, standing up and sitting on the bed in the process, “What’s wrong? Just come in.”
The next moment the door was opened from the outside.
It’s Lai Ping.
She walked in and sat down on the edge of the bed, seeming to consider it with a somewhat serious expression, “Only only, mommy asked you something.”
Sanji put his cell phone down, “Hmm?”
Li Ping asked, “Tell mom the truth, you’re in love with Duan Jia Xu?”
Sanji licked the corners of his mouth and looked numb.
The two stared at each other, frozen for a moment, before Sanji responded with a dying, “Huh?”
“Ah what ah.” Li Ping said, “Mom can still not know what you are thinking? Suddenly taking out all that stuff that’s been put away for a few years, smiling at your cell phone all day, and inexplicably going out for a barbecue with your brother.”
“……”
Lai Ping asked, “How long has this been going on?”
Without realizing it, Sanji sat upright and whispered, “Not for long.”
“Is that why you didn’t come home for the summer?”
“No,” Sang Chi said stiffly, “I just wanted to find an internship after hearing my roommate say it, so I could find something to do for myself. I’m sure I’ll just stay home every day and do nothing.”
The smile on Li Ping’s face withdrew, and she asked, “When you were on summer vacation, did you stay at his place, or did you live in the dormitory.”
“…… “Sang Chi felt nervous and stumbled, “Dormitory! Brother also knows …… that I didn’t stay at his place. The last time brother came to Yiho, also saw the.”
“Mom is not trying to interfere with you.” Li Ping sighed, “I just hope you can protect yourself. After all, in this matter, it’s true that girls are more vulnerable, and you’re so much younger than him.”
Sanji’s voice was thin, “I know.”
“How far along are you two?”
“No.” Sanji was a little embarrassed and couldn’t quite say, “Just nothing like that ……”
Li Ping raised her eyes to stare at her, wanting to speak.
“Mom, haven’t you also seen Brother Jia Xu many times?” Sang Chi helped Duan Jia Xu with a kind word, “You know it too, he’s not a bad person, he’s very good to me, don’t worry.”
“Only only.” Li Ping reached out and touched her hair, saying seriously, “I just mentioned this matter to your father. To be honest, both of us, we are not quite in favor of you being together.”
These words were extremely unexpected from Sanji, and she looked up, a bit at a loss for words, “Why?”
Lai Ping: “Did he tell you about it, about his family?”
Sanji nodded, “What’s wrong?”
“As I mentioned to you earlier, when your brother was a freshman, he asked your brother to borrow thirty thousand dollars. Where did your brother get that kind of money, he had to go to your dad. But the money wasn’t exactly chump change, and we still asked why.”
“……”
“So it is also probably clear that his family’s situation.” Li Ping said, “Mom didn’t mean to focus too much on the family’s situation, I’ve seen that kid and know that he’s a good kid. Because of that thirty thousand dollar thing, he has always been good to our family as well. The time he came to tutor you, the money I gave him, when he came on the last day, he put it on the coffee table.”
Sanji froze, not knowing what to say for a moment.
“He took care of you when you were little too, I know all about that. I don’t have any problem with your brother playing well with him, or you treating him as your brother.” Li Ping sighed again and spoke slowly, “But if it’s to be your other half, mom really ……”
Sanji got a little anxious and interrupted her, “Mom, you can’t think like that.”
“I’m not really sure what’s going on with him right now. But I heard before that his dad is now a vegetable is he?” Lai Ping said, “Also, the victim’s relatives are always looking for trouble?”
Sanjay honestly said, “No always.”
“You’ve met?”
Sanji was silent for a few seconds, “No.”
With this reaction of hers, Li Ping instantly understood. She took a deep breath and calmly said, “Only only, mom knows that what happened in his family has nothing to do with him, and he is really pitiful. Maybe it’s a bit selfish of me to say this, but I really don’t want that it’s my daughter who accompanies him through such a life.”
“……” said Sang Chi with a lump in his throat, very seriously, “I didn’t find it hard, and he’s always been good to me, I’m very happy with him.”
“You’re still young now, and you haven’t been together for long.” Li Ping said, “And you’re still in college now, and he’s been out working for several years. You are exposed to different people and things, and you usually don’t have much in common, so it’s easy for you to have disagreements.”
“But ……”
“Only only only, mommy doesn’t want to upset you by saying those things either.”
“……”
Li Ping stood up and added, “Mom just doesn’t agree, but she won’t stop it. You have to think about it yourself, maybe it’s longer for you to talk about this now, after all, it’s just a relationship now.”
Sanji whispered, “I have considered it.”
“I’m also not asking you to find someone who is more rich.” Liping said, “I just hope that you can find someone who is good to you, who you like, and who is, well, suitable.”
–
Sang Zhi really didn’t think that Sang Rong and Li Ping would disagree.
They had always spoiled her, and no matter what she requested, as long as it wasn’t too much, they basically didn’t have a problem with it. This included going to Yiho for college and not coming home for the summer vacation.
Besides, they knew Duan Jiaxu.
know about his family and what kind of person he is.
Sang Zhi didn’t quite understand Liping’s concerns. Was it just because of what was going on in his family and his current financial condition?
But she really didn’t think it was a big deal.
It’s not like you can’t get by without a house.
Feeling a little irritated, Sang Zhi climbed up and turned off the lights. She burrowed back under the covers and picked up her cell phone, which she had left out in the cold for half a day, to find that Duan Jia Xu had already returned several messages to her.
Duan Jiaxu: [Free to come out tomorrow?]
After a few minutes, another one: [Sleeping, huh?
A few more minutes: [Kids just sleep. [ SAD ]
Seeing that earthy emoji he sent, Sanji’s bad mood inexplicably dissipated a bit. She deleted the line from the input box, thought about it, put her head under the covers as well, and put on her headphones to call him.
Duan Jiaxu immediately picked up, “Still awake?”
Sanji hmmmed, torn between telling him what had just happened.
Duanjia Xu said with a low chuckle, “What were you doing just now, still ignoring people.”
“Talked to my mom for a while.” Sanjay’s voice was small, like she was whispering to him, “Didn’t look at my cell phone.”
“Then are you getting ready for bed?” Duan Jia Xu said, “I feel that young people nowadays are quite capable of staying up all night, right, so how come you’re living like a little old man.”
Sang Chi frowned, “Early to bed and early to rise, it’s good for your health.”
Duanjia Xu obediently responded, “Uh, got it.”
Thinking back to what Li Ping had just said, Sang Zhi was a bit distracted. She didn’t really listen to what he said afterward, and absentmindedly echoed it.
Noticing that she was out of sorts, Duan Jia Xu quickly said, “Are you sleepy?”
Sanji snapped back, “Huh?”
“Hang up if you’re sleepy.” Duan Jia Xu said gently, “Brother will look for you tomorrow.”
Sang Chi’s biological clock had arrived and he was indeed a bit sleepy, so he subconsciously shouted along with his words, “Brother, let me ask you something.”
Duan continued to freeze and burst out laughing, “Huh?”
“When I was a kid,” said Sanji, a little breathless from being under the covers for so long, popping his head out, “you were pretty nice to me just when we first met, why was that?”
Duan Jiaxu seemed to think less of it, “Was I good to you at that time?”
“Quite good ah.” Sang Chi thought very seriously and muttered, “Just Qian Fei brother and Jun Wen brother combined, oh, plus my brother I guess, aren’t as good as you are to me.”
“So I guess it’s because you were pretty nice to me as a kid too?” Coming along with the current, his voice took on a bit more magnetism, half joking, “Or maybe I was just pretty nice in the first place.”
Thinking about the fact that he didn’t get paid for his part-time tutoring, Sanji was silent for a few seconds and hmmmed.
“And if there’s more,” Duan Jiaxu paused to finish his sentence, “I don’t think I’ve ever told you about this, before my mom got sick, your family lent me thirty thousand dollars.”
“……”
“Think, your parents are good people.” Duan Jia Xu didn’t seem to find it hard to say, his words were laced with laughter, “So they have to be nice to you too.”
–
As it turned out, Sanji still couldn’t say anything.
Failed to tell Duan Jia Xu that her parents didn’t quite approve of the two of them being together.
But after thinking about it for a night, Sang Chi actually felt that it wasn’t a big problem, as long as she said more good things about Duan Jia Xu in front of Li Ping, and pampered herself a few more times in front of Sang Rong, this thing was probably just going to pass.
The next morning, Sang Rong said some more words to Sang Zhi and didn’t mention it again after that. Li Ping really didn’t stop it too much, Sang Zhi proposed to go out, although she didn’t explicitly say that she was going to look for Duan Jia Xu, Li Ping didn’t stop her either, she just instructed her to go home earlier as she usually did.
Sang Chi also never mentioned this matter in front of Duan Jia Xu.
Duan Jia Xu mentioned once whether he should come to the door to say hello to Sang Rong and Li Ping. But Li Ping had just said something like that, and Sang Zhi felt that it wasn’t the best time to do so, fearing that he would be unhappy if he found out, so he still refused.
So much for this vacation.
Thinking that it’s quite troublesome to come and go, plus Sang Zhi doesn’t have much luggage, so she didn’t let Sang Yan send her. At noon on the seventh, the two of them went to the neighborhood to take the airport bus and went straight to the airport.
Go through security and wait in the terminal.
Sang Zhi did not take a nap, at this time some sleepy, boredom to open the previously downloaded escape room game to play. She is not very good at playing games, sometimes a point can be stuck for half a day.
Duan Jia Xu watched her play from the side and said a few words to remind her every now and then.
One level, he had to remind him several times before Sang Zhi passed the level. After playing a few levels, she suddenly put down her cell phone and inexplicably launched a tantrum: “No more playing.”
Duan Jiaxu found it funny, “What’s wrong?”
“Have you been playing?” Sang Chi threw his phone into his lap and said unhappily, “This is so weird of you, you know where the clues are before I even tap the next scene.”
Duan Jia Xu picked up her cell phone and hung back, “This game was developed by my company.”
“……”
Sang Chi didn’t know anything about this, but she was also a little weak for not even knowing what kind of games he had made. She looked at him and silently took her phone back, “Then don’t talk.”
Duan Jiaxu raised his eyebrows and didn’t say anything more.
After a few minutes, Duan Jiaxu opened his mouth, but this time it wasn’t about the game, rambling, “By the way, your brother called me yesterday.”
Sanji raised his eyes, “What’s he doing again.”
“Just eight words.” Duan Jia Xu’s hand rested on the back of Sang Zhi’s seat, and he said in a single word, “‘I ruined my sister’s life.’”
“……”
“And then he hung up.”
Sanji was puzzled, “You leave him alone.”
Duan Jia Xu laughed softly and lowered his head, continuing to watch her game progress, “Did you play games before?”
“Not much fun.” Sanji said honestly, “Not much interest.”
“Then that online friend of yours before,” Duan Jiaxu said thoughtfully, “how did you meet?”
“……”
“At your age, you’re probably all,” said Duan Jiaxu, twisting his head to look at her, smiling and laughing, “Married in the game?”
Kuwabara couldn’t think of any way to recognize people, so she could only respond vaguely, “Uh-huh.”
Duanjash: “Which game?”
“……”
When will he change this persistent, probing questioning of everything?
Sanji barely managed to name a game he’d played, “Adventure Island.”
Duanjash said diffidently, “Oh.”
Silence.
Sanji continued to play the game in his hand, and it wasn’t long before he heard the announcement of boarding.
At the same time, two more words emerged from Duan Jiaxu next to him, “Which day–“
Sanji stood up and looked over at him, “Huh?”
Duan Jia Xu’s long eyelashes lifted and his peach blossom eyes met hers. The corners of his lips tugged upwards, changing his usual immodest demeanor as he finished his sentence, “Go up and get your marriage divorced.”
“……”
Chapter 71
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Sanji was quiet for three seconds, “I don’t even remember the account number.”
Duan Jia Xu also stood up, picking up the luggage that was placed beside him. When he heard this, the end of his eyebrows lifted slightly, and after a moment of contemplation, he gently and slowly uttered, “Then think about it.”
“……”
After saying that, Duan Jia Xu led her to the back of the line.
In fact, Sang Chi has not played this game much. When he was in middle school, he was encouraged by Yin Zhenru to register an account, and after playing a few times, he felt that he really wasn’t too interested in the game, so he uninstalled it.
Didn’t even get much of a feel for the gameplay or rules.
Sang Chi looked up at him and quickly lowered his head again, pretending not to hear.
Duan Jiaxu took their boarding passes out of his pocket and reminded, “Do you hear me?”
Sanji’s tone took on a bit of a cop-out, “Oh.”
Duan Jiaxu handed her the boarding pass, and like an extremely difficult dogpile, continued, “Take a screenshot of your boyfriend after you’ve left, to prove it.”
“……” Sang Chi’s scalp tingled, instantly changed his mouth, “I really can’t remember the account number.”
At those words, Duan Jiaxu’s eyelashes lifted, staring at her for a while, and hmmmed nonchalantly.
“What are you doing.” Sangji couldn’t tell if he was upset or not, and whispered, “The fact that I don’t even remember my account number means that I don’t care about this person at all.”
“……”
“I couldn’t remember if you hadn’t mentioned it.”
“My little friend,” Duan Jiaxu called out to her, his tone unruffled, “bigamy is against the law.”
The two entered the boarding bridge.
Sang Zhi blinked, feeling that this comment of his was a bit silly, and inexplicably feeling that he was cute in this way. She raised her hand and lightly poked the corners of his flat lips, smiling and saying, “Where is there bigamy?”
Duan Jiaxu glanced at her, “How old were you then?”
“What?”
“The time of internet dating.”
“……” muttered Sanji, “don’t remember.”
Duan Jiaxu instead started running through the timeline himself, like he was thinking about something extremely significant, “The first time I heard about it was when I was helping you tutor, and I heard your brother mention it. That is, the winter break of your junior year, which is also the end of the first semester of your junior year ……”
Sang Chil-chi pinched his face instead, interrupting him, “Don’t mention it.”
“I flew to Yiho in the first semester of senior high school,” Duan Jiaxu was unaffected and said slowly, “That counts as two more years of this online romance.”
“……”
“Two years.” Grasping the two words in it, Duan Jia Xu repeated it again, the corners of his mouth unsaltedly hooked up, smiling gently and calmly, “Quite good.”
“……”
–
The two men find a position.
Sang Zhi sat on the side by the window, fastening her seatbelt while watching Duan Jia Xu put his bag on the luggage rack. She lowered her eyes, thinking about what Duan Jia Xu had just said in the waiting hall, and sent a WeChat to Sang Yan: [Brother, why did you call Brother Jia Xu yesterday?
After sending it successfully, San Zhi didn’t wait for him to reply and directly turned off the phone.
Meanwhile, Duan Jia Xu put his luggage away and sat down next to her. His eyes lowered without initiating a word, and he came over to check her seatbelt before withdrawing his gaze and settling into his seat.
Not like the usual, moving around to tease her a bit and mess with her.
Sanji thought the feeling was kinda magical.
All the unpleasantness that was welling up in his mind at the moment was because of someone who didn’t even exist; or, in fact, it could be argued that it was himself, but he had no knowledge of it.
Sangji hadn’t seen him jealous much, so this reaction from him was still new and pleasant to her. Her eyes curved into crescent moons and she reached out to hook his fingers as if to coax him.
Duan Jia Xu leaned back in his chair, his eyelids slowly lifting. It didn’t take long for his palm to close and pinch two of her fingers, playing with them carelessly.
“It’s been two years, though,” Sanji blinked, starting to make it up as she went along, “but I haven’t even talked to him much, just the occasional computer game when I’m playing on the game.”
Duanjia Xu didn’t say anything.
Sanji emphasized, “So I didn’t put much emotion into it either.”
“It’s fine,” Duan Jiaxu clearly didn’t believe it and smiled faintly, “There’s nothing wrong with a young girl falling in love a few more times.”
“……”
Sang-chi instantly remembered how she had cried at the airport the first time she came to Yiho.
It sure doesn’t look like you’re not emotionally invested.
She fell silent, scouring her mind for a reason, and quickly opened her mouth again, “It’s just that, the reason I was crying before wasn’t really because that online date disliked me or anything.”
Duanjia Xu: “Huh?”
“Seeing the light,” said Sanjay, looking at him, “have you ever heard that word?”
“Uh, what’s wrong?”
“The reason I’m crying is actually,” Sang-chi looked serious and sincere, “this online love interest of mine is really too ugly.”
“……”
In front of this uninformed party, Sanji continued to mend fences.
“Old and ugly.”
–
Duan Jia Xu wasn’t actually angry, and although he was truly a bit jealous, most of his behavior was just fooling around with her.
Seeing that she could, in order to coax him, disparage someone she had liked in her youth without any boundaries, and without batting an eyelid. Although this was not a good mentality, Duan Jia Xu’s mood, as a result, instantly became very pleasant.
Duan Jiaxu smiled with his eyebrows and came to her ear to ask, “Is it really that ugly?”
Sanji nodded.
“Still ugly enough for us to only just cry?”
“…… hmmm.”
“Then look at your brother more,” Duan Jiaxu rubbed her head and trailed off, “surely you will only laugh and not cry.”
At this moment, for the first time, Sang Chi had the feeling of crushing his intelligence. She pursed her lips, converging the arc of her mouth, pretending not to understand what he meant, and asked in a serious manner, “Why?”
Duanjash said it again, “Look at me.”
Sanji dutifully raised his eyes and stared into his face.
In the next second, Duanjia Xu smiled and pinched her pear swirls.
“Look, it’s not just a laugh.”
–
A few hours later, the plane arrived at Yiho Airport.
Sang Zhi opened her cell phone and looked at it, realizing that Sang Yan hadn’t replied to her yet. She didn’t take it too much to heart, and got on the airport bus with Duan Jia Xu, then transferred to the subway a second time and rode to the subway station near Yiho University.
After settling dinner outside with Duan Jia Xu, Sang Zhi didn’t hang around any longer and went straight back to the dormitory.
During this vacation, three people in the dormitory went back home, only Yu Xin didn’t go back. Sang Zhi came back early, at this time in the dormitory only Yu Xin alone, the other two people are not yet back.
Sanji greeted her, then opened his book bag and took out everything in it.
Yu Xin was watching the drama while chatting with her, “I should have known I’d go back too, it’s really too boring to be alone in the dormitory this week. How did you get through the summer vacation?”
“Just tired.” Sang Chi wiped the sweat between her forehead with the back of her hand and casually said, “Every day when I come back from work, I don’t want to do anything but lie in bed, and I don’t even have time to feel bored.”
Yushin: “You’re making me fearful of internships with this internship.”
Sang Chi sat down on the seat, took out his cell phone and looked at it, “Actually it’s okay, just not too used to it at first, after that it’s much better.”
Duan Jia Xu didn’t look for her, but Sang Yan replied with a message.
As usual, voice bars.
Sanji casually clicked on it.
Sang Yeon: “Didn’t say, too lazy to say, don’t have that kind of free time.”
Sanji was a bit confused: [Nothing was said?
After a while, Sang Yeon sent another voice, “I know, it was Duan Jia Xu who chased you.”
“……”
Is she not on the same channel as him?
–
Since Sang Yan didn’t explicitly say what it was about, it certainly wouldn’t be too serious.
Sanji didn’t bother with him anymore, and just put the matter behind him.
After a long vacation, Duan Jiaxu returned to the company, began to deal with the backlog of work for a period of time, and worked for a period of time in a row.
In addition to classes, Sanji also continued to prepare for the tournament.
Because they each had their own things to do, they saw each other a little less often, occasionally going out to dinner together, but only on weekends to stay together for long periods of time.
When Duan Jia Xu was free, he would come to accompany her to her classes, and he would also accompany her to some parties. He would pretend he was a college student from another school and greet her classmates.
When there were fewer classes, San Zhi would go to the cafe downstairs of Duan Jia Xu’s company to wait for him to get off work.
I don’t know if it was by chance, or if the other party did it deliberately, but Sang Chi had met Jiang Ying a few more times in the neighborhood. However, she seemed to be just passing by and didn’t come over to talk to Sang Chi, and the number of times she met her after that was also less.
After a long time, coming to this cafe to wait for Duan Jia Xu more and more often, Sang Zhi counted the time accurately, and was able to finish the coffee at the same time, a lift of the eyes to see him appear in the doorway.
They usually go back over to Iho University and settle for dinner at a random store.
Occasionally, she would buy some food from the roadside stalls, and Duan Jiaxu would take advantage of her inattention and suddenly bite into the food that she had pinned up, and then laugh and coax her to be happy again.
There were a few moments when Duan Jia Xu would feel like he was back a few years ago, when he was still on campus.
But it is no longer like the beginning, life is only to make money and study, and the overwhelming pressure. No longer every day think about how to solve their own tuition and living expenses, think about two thousand kilometers away, lying in the hospital father’s monthly convalescence fee.
No more living like that, living breathless.
After graduating for such a long time, Duan Jiaxu had already forgotten what it was like to be a student. Inexplicably, he felt that this time, as if it was the normal, expected college life.
Time passes day by day.
The seasons have also shifted from summer, to fall, and into winter.
At the end of December, at the suggestion of the instructor, Sang Zhi sent the final version of the manuscript to the teacher’s e-mail. She stretched and breathed a sigh of relief, and then went off-campus to eat with her three roommates.
Duan Jia Xu had to work overtime today, and Sang Zhi didn’t bother him, only sending him his location.
A few of the other guys didn’t bring their boyfriends, it was sort of an in-dorm get-together. The topic of conversation was either boyfriends, class or departmental gossip, or the latest hot male celebrity.
Sangji found what they were saying quite interesting and listened with interest.
After a while, Sang Zhi was almost done eating when the screen of her cell phone on the table lit up. She looked at it, and it was a weibo message from Li Ping, asking her when she was going home for winter vacation.
Sanji picked it up and said a rough time.
The other end came back with a good one.
Sanji thought for a moment, casually mentioning a few things to her about the day’s events as he usually did.
Yu Xin, who was next to her, noticed her movements and came over with a smile, “Chatting with your family’s brother Duan again?”
Sanji shook his head, “With my mom.”
Wang Ruolan also asked, “It’s still because your parents don’t agree with you and Duan Jia Xu being together, huh?”
It was because Sang Chi would call Lai Ping every night and would often talk to her about how things were going over here and some of the things she had done with Duan Jia Xu.
So when the roommate asked, Sang Chi mentioned this once in the dormitory, but didn’t say why exactly, just casually pulled a, too much age difference, parents don’t quite agree with the reason.
“No,” said Sanjay, “she asked me when I was coming home.”
“I don’t think you need to care too much about that.” Wang Ruolan continued to talk about the previous topic, “After all, you’re only a sophomore now, there’s no point in talking about it so much now, it’s not like you’re getting married. And you’re on Yiho’s side, if they really don’t like it and are so far away, you can just hide it ah.”
Sang Zhi ah’d and said seriously, “I have to tell them that I’m over here even when I’m that far away, otherwise they’ll feel uneasy. Moreover, it’s useless to hide it, right ……”
She paused and licked her lips, “I’m definitely going to marry him later yeah.”
Yu Xin laughed, “It’s still a long way off.”
Wang Ruolan supported her chin and sighed, “Yeah, I think there’s still ages to go, there’s too many uncertainties.”
“……” Sanji froze and muttered, “So when you fall in love, isn’t it just popping off to get married?”
“Or it could just be, like, a relationship.” Yu Xin said, “I don’t think I’m sure I’ll stay with this boyfriend of mine all the time. I was bored before, and mentioned to my boyfriend that I wanted to go home over there after graduation, and asked him if he’d like to go over there with me, and he just didn’t say anything.”
Ning Wei: “It’s good to discuss this ah.”
“It’s just that I feel that there are too many uncertainties, so I don’t need to think about it so much, just live a good life now.” Wang Ruolan drew a tissue to wipe her mouth, while saying, “Otherwise it’s not quite tiring.”
–
The four men spoke for a while longer.
When she was about to leave and go back to the dormitory together, Duan Jia Xu had already arrived along with the location and was currently standing in front of the store waiting for her. Sang Chi blinked, said goodbye to her roommate, and walked up to him.
Smelling her, Duan Jia Xu raised his eyebrows, “Drinking again?”
Sanji honestly said, “Just a little bit.”
“Little drunkard.” Duan Jia Xu helped her put the scarf around her neck and spoke softly, “Why do you keep drinking?”
“Because I ordered a big bunch and I can’t finish it if I don’t drink it.” Sang Chi grabbed his coat and said carefully, “That would be a waste. And since all my roommates drink it, it’s not good for me not to drink it, so I just drank a little bit.”
Guessing what she was thinking, Duan Jia Xu said in amusement, “Didn’t mean to teach you a lesson.”
Sanji was led forward by him.
There was silence for a while. Mulling over the topic of the dinner table just now in her mind, she suddenly popped up, “Duan Jia Xu, there are still three months to go, I’ll be twenty years old.”
Duanjia Xu skimmed his head at her, “Huh?”
Sanji didn’t continue, “Nothing.”
Duan Jia Xu’s footsteps stopped and he bent down to meet her eyes. Staring at her face, which had become flushed from the wine she drank, the corners of his eyes curved down and he laughed softly, “Why it’s nothing, finish your sentence.”
Sanji: “Really no.”
“Finish.”
“I don’t.”
Duan Jia Xu was quiet for a long while, putting on an appearance that he was listening, and then he lowered his head and kissed the tip of her nose: “Okay, I agree.”
“……” said Sanjay, “You agree with whatever I say.”
“Hmm? I misunderstood?”
Sanji nodded and counted on his fingers, “I just wanted to tell you that I still have three months to go, I’m only just twenty, and I’m the youngest of the twenty.”
Looking at her silly look, Duan Jia Xu couldn’t help but laugh, “And then what.”
“And then, you’ll be twenty-seven in four months-“
“……”
Sanji hiccuped with a superiority complex, “You’re so old.”
Chapter 72
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“It’s true that I’m not too young,” Duan Jiaxu didn’t mind her words and said calmly, “Then you have pity on me?”
Sang-jae looked up at him with a serious expression and answered meekly, “I’ll think about it.”
It was just a joke, and Duan Jia Xu didn’t take it too seriously. He pinched Sangji’s face, looked at the time and asked, “Where else do you want to go? Do you want to see a movie?”
After a few seconds of thought, Sanji shook his head.
Duan Jia Xu patiently said, “Then send you back to your dormitory?”
Sang Chi was still standing still, her lips were covered by the scarf, her eyes looked round and big, staring straight at him. She sniffled and suddenly made a request, “I want you to carry me.”
“Can’t walk?” Duan Jia Xu said as he turned his back and squatted down, “Come up.”
Sang Zhi went up on his back, and hooked his hands around his neck. The next moment, Duan Jiaxu stood up, his voice came from the front, close at hand, with a little skepticism: “Really did not drink much?”
“Not even half a cup.” Except for a bit of a facepalm, Sanjay didn’t feel anything. She rested her chin on the nape of his neck and said seriously, “It’s the same as drinking Coke.”
Duanjia Xu: “Then next time drink a Coke.”
Walked a bit.
At this angle, Sanji stared at the half side of his face and ventured, “Am I heavy?”
Duanjash: “No.”
Sanji was a little disgruntled, “Then why don’t you say a word, why are you so light.”
Duan Jiaxu paused and laughed out loud, “It’s me who didn’t think it through.”
Quickly, he obediently picked up, “Why are you so light?”
“I’m kinda heavy today.” Sanji said, “This down jacket I’m wearing is eighty pounds. If I take it off, I’m as good as air on your back.”
Duan Jiaxu stifled a laugh and said, “It’s about the same now.”
Walked a little further.
Sanji called out to him, “Duan Jiaxu.”
“Hmm?”
“I turned in that work of mine today.” Sang Chi told him about today’s events, muttering, “Just that competition I’ve been working on lately, I’ve been rewriting my drawings every day until I’m going to puke.”
Duanjia Xu asked, “Has it passed?”
“Uh-huh.” Sanji said, “But the results don’t come out that quickly, I think we have to wait until next semester.”
“Then take a break in the meantime.”
“I want to get an award. I heard them say that this competition has a high gold content, and there will be a lot of big companies coming over when the award is given, so maybe I’ll be looked at.” Sang Zhi shattered, “And then after I graduate, won’t my days be bright, working from nine to five and earning more than ten thousand dollars a month.”
Duan Jiaxu: “Not going to graduate school?”
“Don’t read it.” Sanji’s tone was a little depressed, “But I don’t think I’ll get an award for sure, there are too many awesome people. I feel like I draw like shit.”
At those words, Duan Jiaxu turned back to look at her, “Little girl speak civilized.”
Sanji raised her eyes and met his gaze. Her eyes blinked and she moved forward a bit, probing to kiss the side of his face. When she saw him flinch, the corners of her mouth curved up and she kissed him again.
“You still know how to use beauty tricks?” Duan Jia Xu’s eyebrows slightly converged, and he asked with a low smile, “Am I affecting your play by carrying you around like this?”
“A little.” Sang Chi then noticed that she had been letting him carry her for quite some time, “Are you tired? Why don’t I just come down, I don’t need you to carry me.”
“How long has this been going on?” Duan Jiaxu teased, “I’m not that old, am I, not so old that I don’t have the strength to carry you two steps.”
Hearing this, Sang Chi was silent and quickly explained, “I don’t think you’re old.”
Duanjia Xu: “Is that so?”
“Well, I’m all kidding you.” I don’t know what came to mind, but Sang-chi buried her face at his neck, her voice fading to a whisper, and repeated, “I don’t think you’re old.”
Hearing a change in her tone, Duan Jia Xu looked at her sideways again, “What?”
Sang Chi raised her eyes slightly and stared at the side of his face, her nose inexplicably sour.
She suddenly thought of this period of time, no matter how much she talked to Li Ping, that side maintained an unclear attitude. Thinking of the day they were together, Duan Jia Xu said to her in a self-deprecating manner, “I’m afraid you’ll mind.”
But it clearly had nothing to do with him.
Obviously not at all.
And yet he has to put himself in a lower position than even normal people because of this, and for this reason, he has to be treated unfairly. If he knew what Li Ping was thinking, he would definitely be very unhappy, right?
Sang Zhi’s eyes gradually reddened. She pursed her lips hard and lowered her head again, her voice choked, “I don t think you are old, I do think …… I am too small.”
Duanjia Xu didn’t respond, “What?”
Though she didn’t think so.
But everyone, everyone thinks she’s too young.
Feeling that she was with Duan Jiaxu on a whim, without thinking about the future at all; feeling that she had to be reminded of this, so that she could see that this path might not be the right one for her to take.
If she were a little older.
She graduated from college, had a stable job and income, started to be financially independent, and was able to do everything just on her own. At that time, when she brings up this matter with her parents again, will they be able to listen to some of it.
Whether or not that made it believable, she had actually considered it all.
She didn’t take it too seriously, simply because she thought that all those factors were just trivial things that couldn’t shake their relationship.
I’ve been looking forward to growing up since before, and I’m still looking forward to growing up now.
It’s seven years away, like a, like, never catching up thing.
“Why am I nineteen,” Sanji didn’t hold back the tears that fell and snapped down his face, “Can I be twenty-nine, I don’t want to be that young.”
Now she can’t do anything else but study hard and pave a better path for the future.
Feeling the wetness at his neck, Duan Jia Xu frowned, “What’s wrong?”
“I should be quite rich by the time I’m twenty-nine.” Sang Zhi huffed, “I’m not going to adopt you either, I’ll just give you, you spend all my money ……”
“……” Duan Jiaxu’s footsteps paused and quickly continued on, “Why do you always have to give me money to spend?”
“Then wouldn’t you have an easier time.”
Duan Jiaxu laughed, “I’m not tired of living now.”
“Where are you not tired.” Sangji’s eyes were wet, reaching out to touch his head, “You always have to work overtime and stay up all night, your dark circles are so big and you lose so much hair.”
Duan Jiaxu’s trailing voice rose slightly, “What dark circles under the eyes and hair loss, don’t make up rumors.”
Sang Chi continued to speak to himself, “If I were twenty-nine years old now, I would still be three years older than you. Then my brother definitely wouldn’t have beaten you up, and Brother Qian Fei would probably turn around and call me an animal.”
“That won’t work.” Duan Jiaxu said, “Brother just likes young ones.”
“……” said Sanji as he wiped his tears clean with the palm of his hand, “What about when I’m old?”
“You’re older and younger than me.”
Sanji sniffled and didn’t retort.
Duan Jia Xu thought it was funny and said in a dangling manner, “Still crying because you’re so young, you’re poking a knife into my heart?”
Looking at the smile on his lips, Sang Zhi’s force hooked around his neck tightened a bit. She put her head to his ear and whispered, “Duan Jia Xu.”
“Uh-huh.”
“Are you happy now?”
“Uh-huh.”
Sanji said seriously, “Then you have to be happy every day.”
The next moment, Duanjia Xu skimmed his head and rubbed the tip of his nose against her cheek.
“You just stay with me every day.”
–
Duan Jia Xu had wanted to send Sang Zhi back to her dormitory, but Sang Zhi had no intention of going back in the first place. With most of the emotions that had just bubbled up for a moment dissipated, she didn’t let him carry her anymore and jumped off his back.
The two had a conversation.
Duanjia Xu pondered for a moment, but still asked, “Did anyone say anything to you?”
Sangji wasn’t going to tell him, his voice still nasally, and shook his head, “Just today I heard my roommate say that she should break up with her boyfriend after graduation because she’s going to be in a different place or something.”
“……”
“Also, it says there’s a lot of uncertainty.” Sanji said, “I don’t know what it is that I’m not sure about, so I’ve been thinking about us for a while, and it seems like it’s just age.”
“Age where uncertain?”
“It’s just that,” Sang-chi edited slowly, “if you take me out to meet people, will you be embarrassed to say that this is your girlfriend. Because after you say it, people might have a, wow – I thought this was your daughter – reaction.”
Used to the fact that she always likes to exaggerate, Duan Jiaxu laughed out loud, “It’s okay, I think it sounds …… like this.”
Sanji: “Huh?”
“It’s kinda facetious.”
“……”
–
Having come to stay at Duan Jia Xu’s house quite a few times, Sang Zhi kept quite a few clothes over here, so she didn’t have to go back to the dormitory to pick them up. She didn’t have much going on lately, her classes were mostly over, with only the upcoming exam week left.
Entering the master bedroom, Sang Chi took a change of clothes from the closet. Noticing the time, she habitually called Li Ping, and after a few words, she quickly hung up.
Sanji sat on the bed and fumed for a while before exhaling. She got up, and while thinking about things, she went into the bathroom to take a shower. After coming out, she picked up her cell phone and hesitantly sent a weibo message to Sang Yan: [Brother, please do me a favor].
Sang Yeon didn’t reply right away.
She waited a moment, put her phone down, toweled her hair, and went back into the bathroom to dry it.
It wasn’t too late at this point, just after nine o’clock.
In her room, Sang Chi could still hear the movement of Duan Jia Xu watching TV in the living room. She went out of the living room, intending to stay with him for a while and go back to her room to sleep when it was time.
Duanjia Xu also just took a shower.
He wasn’t watching the TV, he just had the sound on and his cell phone in his hand, like he was playing a game.
Sang Chi climbed up on the couch and came over to look next to him. She couldn’t quite make out what he was playing with, and smelling the light minty scent of his body, she casually remarked, “I kinda like the smell of this new body wash of yours.”
Duanjia Xu hmmmed.
“What brand?” Sanji added, “I’d like to get a bottle too.”
“Why did you buy it?” Hearing this, Duan Jiaxu lifted his eyelids and trailed off, “Can’t smell it on me?”
“……”
In the next moment, Duan Jia Xu held her hand and tugged it towards his arms. With a laugh in his throat, he adjusted his position and held her as he continued to play the game, “Here, smell closer.”
Sanji instantly sat with his back turned in his arms.
She paused in her movements and didn’t say anything, staring dutifully at the cell phone in his hand, watching him play the game.
His hands were long and pretty, with long, well-defined, neatly trimmed fingers that looked clean. There were small crescents on the nails, glistening with luster. The movements of his hands were familiar and quick, and just looking at a pair of hands, playing the game was extraordinarily pleasing to the eye.
Sang-chi had never played it, and couldn’t understand some of the operations, so every now and then he would ask a few questions out of the blue.
Duan Jia Xu didn’t play seriously either, and when she asked, he patiently explained.
The small living room was quiet most of the time.
Gradually, Duanjia Xu’s movements slowed down.
After the new game was over, Sang Chi was about to get up and go back to her room to get her cell phone and download this game to play as well. Before she could make a move, Duan Jia Xu’s hand loosened, and the phone slid down, smashing into her thigh.
It fell back down onto the carpet next to the couch.
It was accompanied by warm, delicate kisses as he dropped to the back of her neck.
Duan Jia Xu’s breathing became ragged, and his palm slid down, probing in through her pajama top and kneading the soft flesh of her stomach. His breath sprayed on her skin, itchy and numb, and the kiss gradually slid down, taking on intensity.
Kuwabara’s head went blank and she subconsciously looked back.
As if as he expected, in the next second, Duan Jia Xu held her head and kissed her lips, the tip of his tongue probing inward, the force gradually increasing with a bit of tingling sensation.
After an indeterminate amount of time, his other hand withdrew, not moving to straighten the hem of her dress, slowly calming his breathing.
Duan Jia Xu stared at her for a long time, the color of his eyes deepened with lust, his voice was low and muffled: “If it wasn’t for the fear of scaring you-“
“……”
As if he had no outlet, his lips continued to slide down, biting down hard on her collarbone and licking it.
“How many times have you cried now.”
Chapter 73
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Perhaps it was because the room was too warm, the temperature of Duan Jia Xu’s body gradually rose. His fingertips slid down her back, and the places they traced felt like they had been set on fire by him, burning up.
Duan Jiaxu’s hand was against the back of her neck, the force was not light but inexplicably strong.
Unconsciously, Sang Ja went from sitting with her back to him, to sitting across his body. Her hands couldn’t help but go up and rest on his shoulders, squeezing his shirt.
The hot lips still rested at her collarbone, nibbling with increased force.
All of Sanji’s senses were invaded by him.
All she could see were his raven-feathered eyelashes, his cold white skin. All she could hear was the sound of his breath, so close that it sounded like it was pressed against her ear, sensual and seductive, pulling her downward, sinking her into it.
Duan Jiaxu’s kisses started from her collarbone upwards, kissing her bare skin one after another, sucking on her earlobe, and continuing upwards, biting her ear bone.
It was a strange and unbearable sensation, but Sang-chi did not resist it.
Just want to get closer, want more.
Her head had no other thought, she felt at a loss, she didn’t know how to react, all she knew was to cling to him, and the strength of her hold on him gradually increased.
All of it becomes real at this moment, and it’s impossible to ignore.
The distance is drawn in again.
Duan Jia Xu held her back and pressed it in his direction, wanting to tuck her into his body.
And then, Sang Chi suddenly felt something hard and hot against her body. She sniffled, her thoughts still a bit dazed, her gaze subconsciously looking down.
In the next moment, Duanjia Xu’s movements also stopped.
The two men’s eyes locked.
His eyebrows contained a rich sentiment, and his eyes were so deep that they looked like they were dyed with ink. The color of his lips was luscious, and also carried an extremely ambiguous watery color. The knot in his throat was clearly defined, sliding up and down with extremely nice lines.
The buttons of the pajamas had also, without realizing it, come undone a few times, revealing a large portion of his chest.
Like a blatant seduction.
The corner of Duan Jia Xu’s mouth pulled up, grabbed her wrist, and slowly brought it down. He laughed lowly, his voice deep and hoarse, gasping for air, and gave an extremely prodigal “hmm”.
“How come you’re touching your brother here?”
Sanji instantly realized where his hand had been placed and his head exploded.
Duan Jia Xu’s head rose slightly and kissed her chin again. His eyes were slightly converged, and when he smiled, his demonic appearance was rampant, living as a male demonic spirit that hooked people’s souls.
“Like it or not?”
–
After that, Duan Jia Xu didn’t make any other movements, his face was buried at the nape of her neck, and the breath he exhaled was extremely hot. In the middle of the morning, he suddenly stood up, and in this position, he picked up Sang Zhi and went back to her room.
Duan Jia Xu put her on the bed and leaned down to be at her level, while then his fingertips rubbed the corners of her lips hard, “Just to remind you.”
“……”
“Remember to lock the door and go to bed today.”
With that he left the room.
Sanji was still in a state of collapse, having just lost her soul by touching him somewhere. She raised her eyes and stared at the door that had been gently closed, not moving much for a moment.
Not a moment later, Sanji got up from the bed and gingerly went into the bathroom of his room.
She looked in the mirror and realized that the left side of her collarbone upwards was imprinted with thin red marks. Thinking about it, Sangji lifted up the hem of her pajama top, and her stomach, which he had pinched a few times, also had a red patch.
Sang Zhi stared at the mirror and froze in place for a while. She pursed her lips and came out of the bathroom, while then pressed herself against the door of her room to listen to the movement outside.
Only the sound of pattering water could be heard, and Sang Chi opened a crack in the door and looked out.
Discovering that Duan Jia Xu had gone into the bathroom again, listening to the movement, he should be taking a bath.
Because of the sweat?
Shutting the door behind him, Sanji returned to the bed and lay down.
Sang Chi habitually buried herself into the quilt, thinking back again to what had just happened, then didn’t hold back and rolled, instantly falling to the ground. But being wrapped in the quilt, it didn’t hurt too much.
She stood up, threw the covers back on the bed, and picked up her cell phone from the table.
Sanjay wanted to look something up on the web page.
Without waiting for her to click on the browser, she suddenly noticed that Sang Yeon had already replied to her:[?
Sang Zhi again remembered what was bothering him during this period of time, his emotions converged quite a bit, with a bit of help: [Mom and Dad know that I’m with Brother Jia Xu].
Sang Yeon was indifferent: [Oh.
Sanjay: [But they don’t quite agree.]
Sanjayan: [Because of the old?
Sanji: [Aren’t you the same age as him? You have the nerve to say he’s old.]
Sang Yeon was obviously too lazy to type and started sending voice again, “Your brother me, 90, please.”
Sangji was not in the mood to joke with him, [You help me talk to them.]
Sang Yeon said slowly, “Say what? You two are getting married?”
Sang Chi couldn’t help but lose the sentence “You’re so annoying”, but quickly deleted it again and changed it to: [No, you help me tell them about Brother Jia Xu’s matter. I feel that what you say should be more useful, they all think that I’m still a child, and what I say doesn’t have much effect].
Sang Yeon: “What’s your hurry.”
Sang Yan: “In another twenty years, if you can’t marry, won’t they naturally agree.”
“……”
Sangji resisted the urge to curse: [I want to bring him home during the New Year’s Eve.]
Sang Yan’s tone was lazy: “Half a day without talking about business, you always have to tell me a reason first, why you don’t agree. If it’s old, there’s not much I can do, after all, this object of yours, is a bit.”
Staring at the screen, Sanji muttered, “You’re the one who’s old.”
Thinking of Li Ping’s words, Sang Yan guessed that he was also well aware of what was going on in Duan Jia Xu’s family. Sang Zhi exhaled and hesitantly typed in, [Because of what happened in his family].
Sanjayan: “What is it.”
Sanji froze.
How’s that for a reaction like nothing.
Sang Yan was out of patience, “Can you speak quickly if you have something to say, do I have to ask one sentence at a time?”
Sang-chi said suspiciously, [You don’t know about his family’s affairs?
Sang Yeon: “What the heck, what am I doing asking him about his family for nothing.”
I can’t believe I didn’t know.
Sang Zhi thought that Sang Yan knew about it and then told Sang Rong and Li Ping. So it seems that before, when Duan Jia Xu borrowed that thirty thousand dollars, he contacted Sang Rong directly?
Sanji wasn’t too sure.
But if Sangayan didn’t know that.
Sanji thought for a moment, [Okay.]
Sanji: [If you don’t know, then forget it.]
Sanyan: [?
Sanji: [88.]
Sanyan: [?
–
Sang Zhi still decided to rely on herself and wait until after she returned home from vacation to talk to her parents face to face. She lay back on the bed, opened her cell phone webpage, and expressionlessly typed in the search bar – Is it a problem to be a virgin at thirty?
She was silent for a few seconds and changed the last four words to – Does it have an effect on the body?
After staring at it for quite some time, Sanji didn’t press search. Even though no one knew she had looked this up, she inexplicably still felt ashamed and silently closed the page.
Sanji really didn’t mind this too much either.
After all, we’ve been together for over six months.
And at his age!
It feels kinda pathetic ……
When the time came, Sanji would probably feel nervous and overwhelmed, but at the moment, she still wanted to laugh at the thought of the word “pathetic”. She rolled over, not thinking about it anymore, and found an anime to watch.
After a few minutes, Sanji suddenly noticed the time on the screen.
And then moved his attention to the bathroom outside the room.
And the sound of water.
It’s been almost half an hour of washing.
Doesn’t he usually, like, shower in less than ten minutes?
Dumbfounded for a good long while.
Sanji sat up suddenly, instantly realizing what was going on. Curious, she stood up and went to the door again, opening a small crack to look out. At that exact moment, the sound of water in the bathroom stopped.
Her breath hitched and she immediately closed the door behind her, turning off the light in the process, and lay back on the bed. Then, San Zhi heard the bathroom door open and the sound of slippers slapping the floor.
Sounds like it went to the kitchen.
Sanji turned on the night light next to her and didn’t continue watching the anime, most of her mind was on the man outside. She could hear Duan Jia Xu sitting on the couch, and it wasn’t long before the TV in the living room was turned off.
Getting quiet.
In this quiet atmosphere, Sanji gradually closed his eyes.
Without waiting for sleep to overtake her, the sound of Duan Jia Xu walking resounded outside again, this time continuing from the living room and stopping at the door of her room. She instantly opened her eyes and looked in the direction of the door.
The next second, the door handle was twisted open.
It was set for some time before the door was pushed open from the outside.
It was then that Sanji opened his mouth, “What for.”
Duan Jia Xu leaned against the door and lazily said, “Didn’t I tell you to lock the door?”
Sanji whispered, “I forgot.”
With his back to the light, his appearance looked shadowed, hidden and unknown. But the voice was still with a smile, as immodest as ever: “So tonight, can I sleep with you?”
Sanji froze.
The two stared at each other for several moments.
Scratching his head a little uncomfortably, Sanji ventured, “So are you going to take another shower later.”
“……”
Duan Jia Xu also froze, and then laughed out, not seeming to feel embarrassed, “You know what I’m doing ah?”
Rather, it was Sang Wiz who felt embarrassed and didn’t make another sound.
Soon, Duan Jia Xu stood up straight and walked over to the bed, standing still in front of Sang Zhi. She could smell a little more tobacco on him, mixed with the smell of mint, which smelled extraordinarily good.
Duan Jia Xu bent down and kissed her forehead, “Scared you?”
Sanji was silent for a few seconds and said honestly, “No.”
“That’s so.” Duan Jia Xu laughed lowly, a few hints of flirtation in his words, “Then I can get some inches next time.”
“……”
“Sleep.”
When he was out, Sanjay lay back down, thinking about what “getting an inch” meant. She reached down and touched her stomach, suddenly tugging her collar forward and sweeping it up.
Her expression was a little complicated.
LOL.
Seems a bit.
Too flat.
But Duanjia Xu has a pretty good body.
And abs.
Broad shoulders and narrow waist with long legs.
Doesn’t that make her look ……
LOL.
“……”
Kuwabara let go of her hand and sulked under the covers.
–
As soon as the weekend was over, Sanjay went back to school.
She was on the list for the scholarship that came out earlier, and the money came in at the end of the month. There was also the salary from her internship during the summer vacation, which had also been transferred to her card long ago. The bank sent a text message, and Sang Chi stared at the amount on it, inexplicably feeling bloated.
In the next period of time, Sang Chi again lived the life of soaking in the library every day until the end of the exam week. Because she had to study for her exams, the two of them met less often during this time, so she didn’t go back to Nanwu right away, and booked a plane ticket for two days later.
Spent two days at Duanjash’s house.
The night before we go back.
Sang Chi remembered something and took the initiative to ask, “How are you going to celebrate the New Year this year?”
“Watching the Spring Festival Gala at home?” Duan Jiaxu said, “Then wait for you to find me to chat.”
Sang Zhi nibbled on the potato chips and carefully asked, “Do you want to come to Nanwu, let’s celebrate New Year together. If you don’t want to go to my house, I’ll wait for a later time and sneak out.”
Duan Jiaxu raised his eyebrows and pinched her face, “I’ll take a look at it then.”
There’s still half a month to go before the New Year, and Sang Chi is afraid that there won’t be any tickets left, muttering, “Then you have to think fast. If you’re lazy and want to stay in Yiho that’s fine, I’ll find you every day anyway.”
“Okay.” Duan Jia Xu smiled, “Remember every day.”
–
Sanjay booked a flight for early the next morning.
At six o’clock in the morning, San Zhi was woken up by Duan Jia Xu.
She was moving slowly, and fortunately was not having to pack. The suitcase was taken from her dormitory and was not opened. After she washed up and had a breakfast, she was sent to the airport by Duan Jia Xu.
I’m not sure if Duan Jia Xu will come to Nanwu in the New Year, so counting it up, I’ll have to be separated from him for almost a month as well.
Sang Zhi is really feel reluctant to give up, after arriving at the airport, also did not immediately through the security check, pestered him for a long time to say words. Like a little adult, he instructed him a number of things.
Duan Jiaxu listened with interest.
Seeing that it was almost time, Sang Chi again acted like a clingy person and kept hugging him without moving. In the end, he could only sigh regretfully and stood on his tiptoes to give him a kiss before saying, “I’m leaving then.”
Duanjia Xu also lowered his head to kiss her, “Uh-huh.”
“You remember to think fast,” said Sanjay, “or the airfare will be gone.”
Duanjash: “I know.”
Sanji blinked and added, “I wanted you to come over.”
“Uh-huh.”
“But you shouldn’t stress over my words.” Sanji said, “I can video you even if you don’t come over.”
Duan Jiaxu laughed, “Are you still leaving?”
“It’s not gone.” Sang Chi was a bit displeased, “Just say a few words and you think I’m annoying.”
“If you don’t leave again,” Duan Jia Xu paused, staring into her round, bright eyes, suddenly wanting to eat her pearly swirls. He sighed softly and murmured, “I’ll really not let you go back.”
–
It was just after eleven when I got off the plane.
Sang Chi was not sure if Sang Yan would come to pick her up, and said in her home group, [I’m at the airport].
She then went to get her checked luggage.
When she looked at her phone again, Sang Yan had already replied in the group, reporting his location to her. Sang Chi dragged her suitcase out and looked around, soon seeing his figure.
Sanji walked over and called out, “Brother.”
Sangayan swept her off her feet and took the suitcase she was holding, hmmming in a less than favorable mood.
Sang Chi followed him and casually asked, “Didn’t you say yesterday that you weren’t coming to pick me up and let me take a taxi by myself?”
“Huh.”
“…… What for.”
“Ask Duan Jia Xu yourself, is there something wrong with him?” Sang Yan was all out of bed, pressing down the fire and saying, “He’s been calling me since eight o’clock, every ten minutes, and I’m on mute-“
“……”
“He just orders me takeout.”
Sangji kind of wanted to laugh and spoke for Duanjia Xu, “He might just simply, want to treat you to breakfast.”
“And the note,” Sang Yan sneered, memorizing the paragraph very smoothly, “My boyfriend has a fever and I can’t reach anyone for three days. I’m out of town and can’t make it back, so please make sure you wake him up for dinner, thanks.”
“……” asked Sanjay, “and then what?”
“Your sister-in-law,” Sangyan said coolly, looking over at her, “went and opened the door.”
Chapter 74
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“……”
It sounds like I’m a little bit sorry for him.
Sang Yeon’s look with a few trace of sleepiness and annoyance, pace is big and fast. Sang Chi can only trot along with him, hardheadedly said: “then he also does not know you live with your object together, and, this certainly will not misunderstand it ……”
Sang Yeon didn’t say anything.
Sang-chi said again, “You can just explain a few words, or I can explain for you.”
Sang Yeon walked, fished his cell phone out of his pocket, and looked down.
“And dad had asked you to pick me up.” Sang-chi didn’t feel like she was half-justified, “You didn’t come to pick me up, that’s why I didn’t bother with you, and you’re still throwing a tantrum with me.”
“…… “Sang Yeon glanced at her, “How old are you?”
Sanji replied, “Twenty.”
“When I was twenty,” Sang Yeon said, “not only did I have no one to pick me up when I went home for vacation, but I also had to pick up you, an extremely disliked brat, from school every day, remember?”
“Why do you keep comparing yourself to me?” Sang-chi was puzzled, “Are you in the same position as me at home?”
“……”
Sang Yeon was too lazy to care about her. He didn’t drive here, and after leaving the airport, he headed for a cab. He gave the driver an address, then turned his head and put the suitcase in the trunk.
Sang Chi got in the car before him and sent a message to Duan Jia Xu: [I’m here, my brother is coming too].
Soon, Sang Yeon also got into the car and sat next to her.
The driver started the car.
Sanjay casually asked, “How do I get to your place? I want to go straight home.”
Sang Yan didn’t respond. Seemingly genuinely sleepy, he closed his eyes as soon as he got into the car and leaned back in his seat to sleep.
“Mom and Dad aren’t home.” Sang Chi was also a little hungry and took the initiative to say, “Otherwise, why don’t you treat me to lunch.”
“……”
After playing with the cell phone for a while, Sang Chi was bored: “Why don’t you pay attention to me, sister-in-law is really angry ah? You explain a little bit on the line, just a little thing.”
Sang Yeon remained half-responsive.
Sanji remembered something else, “But then you started living with your sister-in-law?”
“……”
“What about Sister Efan?” Sang Chi was curious, “Didn’t you say you can’t bring a boyfriend or girlfriend back? It’s not good for you, isn’t it, won’t she be embarrassed?”
Hearing this, Sang Yeon’s eyelids twitched as he looked at her idly.
Sanji responded, “You don’t share a room with her anymore?”
Sang Yeon closed his eyes again, as if he were mute, and didn’t say a word.
Sangji felt bored and didn’t bother to pay attention to him anymore.
The car drove all the way to the neighborhood where Sang Yeon lived.
Sang Zhi didn’t intend to get off the bus with him piece by piece, intending to wait for him to leave and directly let the driver continue driving home. Instead, it was Sang Yan who grabbed her off, lifted his chin, and said, “Go up and call your sister-in-law down and go out for dinner.”
“……” Sang-chi was confused, “Why don’t you go yourself, I don’t know her.”
Sang Yan carried Sang Zhi’s suitcase down and impatiently urged, “Hurry up.”
Sanji held back, “Oh.”
Taking the key from Sang Yan’s hand, Sang Zhi entered the building. This neighborhood is not too far from home, and the number of times Sang Zhi has been here is not too many, mostly when she was in high school.
It hasn’t been around much in the last two years.
Taking the elevator to the upper floor, Sang Chi hesitated and still didn’t open the door directly with the key. She rang the doorbell and waited at the door for a while. Not long after, the door was opened from the inside.
The woman was plainly dressed in a simple set of pajamas. Sultry looking, long hair draped behind her back, looking with a few lazy meanings. The end of the eyes were slightly upturned, the pupils were bright and clear, and the lips were red without pointing, extremely beautiful.
Sang Chi paused and called out, “Sister Efan.”
Probably not expecting the person outside to be her, Wen Yifan visibly froze for a moment. With a pair of chopsticks still in her hand, she glanced behind Sang Zhi, “Only only, why did you come over?”
“My brother told me to come up.” Sanjay walked in and took his shoes off, “You still share a room with my brother, huh?”
Wen Yifan hmmmed and walked over to the coffee table to pour her a glass of water.
Sanji picked it up and took a sip, lowering his voice to ask, “Where’s my brother’s girlfriend? In the room?”
The TV was on, broadcasting a recent hit drama, Wen Yifan sat back on the sofa and watched the TV with interest, continuing to eat the boxed lunch on the table. Hearing this, she casually replied, “It’s me.”
“……”
As if he couldn’t believe what he was hearing, Sanji froze for a long time before saying, “Huh?”
Wen Yifan pulled his hair behind his ear, his tone gentle, “What’s wrong?”
Not wanting to react too dramatically, Sanji scratched his head, “It’s nothing.”
When she was about to say something else, she suddenly noticed a small ticket attached to the boxed lunch that Wen Yifan was eating, with a long list of words on the top memo, what Sang Yan had just relayed to her.
Sang Chi immediately pointed, “Sister Yi Fan, are you angry with my brother because of this?”
Following Sang Zhi’s words, Wen Yifan also looked at the small ticket. It didn’t take long for her to raise her head again, blankly and directly saying, “No ah, I’m eating it all here ……”
Sanji sighed in relief, “I thought you’d get the wrong idea that my brother cheated on me.”
Wen Yifan was quiet for a few seconds, seemingly thinking, and soon said, “Ah, is this the meaning of cleaving?”
“……”
“I thought he made the note on purpose because he was afraid he wouldn’t be able to get up to get the takeout.”
Sanji explained, “It’s not–“
Wen Yifan: “So it’s really cheating, huh?”
Sang Chi hastily shook his head, and when he wanted to say explain something, Wen Yifan opened his mouth again and said thoughtfully, “Even if you split up, you still dare to report the same address with two objects.”
“……”
Wen Yifan gave a thumbs up and said admiringly, “Bull.”
“……”
–
Perhaps having waited too long, Sanjan made a few phone calls to hurry up and it didn’t take long for him to return in person. Hearing the doorbell, Sanji jogged to open the door for him, while returning to the kitchen.
Sang Yeon glanced over, “What are you two doing.”
Sanjay: “Sister-in-law is cooking noodles for me.”
Wen Yifan tied up her hair and took a knife, cutting meat on a cutting board. Hearing this, she turned her head sideways and gently reminded, “Don’t call me that, your brother cheated on you.”
Sanjan: “……”
Sang-chi consciously went out of the kitchen, giving them space. She sat down on the couch and looked in through the glass door of the kitchen, and couldn’t hear what the two were saying.
After watching the play for a while, Sang Chi started chatting with Duan Jia Xu: [Do you know who my brother’s girlfriend is?
Duanjash: [I haven’t heard him say that, what’s wrong?
Sanji: [A super pretty sister.]
Sanji: [My brother’s high school classmate, she’s been sharing a room with my brother before, I didn’t even think they’d get together, I don’t think my brother is worthy at all].
Duan Jiaxu: [Is it that pretty?
Sanji: [?
Sanji: [Why are you so curious.]
Sang Chi suddenly regretted what she had just said. She stared for a while, and added awkwardly, [That’s definitely still, I’m going to be prettier.]
–
Sang Zhi felt a bit redundant here. She listened to Sang Yan and Wen Yifan while she slowly finished her noodles, and after that, she didn’t bother them anymore and offered to leave.
Wen Yifan happened to be going out and drove Sang Zhi back by the way.
Sang Chi sat in the passenger seat and continued to chat with Duan Jia Xu: [Why did you also order takeout for my brother?
Duan Jiaxu: [Thanks for the gift.
Duanjash: [Thanking him for picking you up.]
Sanji let out a laugh.
Hearing the sound of her movement, Wen Yifan asked, “Chatting with your boyfriend?”
Sanji blinked and nodded, “Uh-huh.”
“I heard from your brother that your date was his college roommate, huh?”
“Right.”
“It’s also quite good, a bit older than you, and will also take care of people.” Wen Yifan spoke slowly, chatting with her, “And knowing the roots, I see that your brother also quite trust this person.”
It was rare that someone’s first reaction after hearing it wasn’t to scold Duan Jia Xu. Sang Zhi was happy to hear it and smiled as she hmmm’d.
“But these aren’t really important. Earlier, your brother showed me a picture of that object of yours,” then Wen Yifan’s words changed and he sighed, “It’s so handsome looking, isn’t it?”
“……”
“In such a comparison, what does your brother look like-” Wen Yifan’s voice suddenly stopped, probably noticing that the person in question’s sister was right in front of him, swallowing back his original words, “It’s not bad. “
“……”
–
Sang Zhi was not sure if Sang Yan had told Li Ping about talking about his girlfriend. She didn’t take the initiative to mention it either, and went back to a life of doing nothing every day, either eating or sleeping.
It went on like this for a few days, and Sang Zhi was really bored and got a tutor in the neighborhood after being introduced by her high school classmates. She also didn’t forget about the possibility of Duan Jiaxu coming over, mentioning a few things in front of Li Ping from time to time.
Li Ping quickly understood her meaning, “Duan Jia Xu is coming to our house for New Year’s Eve?”
Sanji nodded nervously, “Okay?”
“It’s better not to.” Li Ping pondered, speaking slowly and in a warm and gentle tone, “With the New Year being spent in someone else’s house, mom is afraid he’ll feel uncomfortable. If it’s a home visit, it’s also a bit early.”
Sang-chi was quiet for a moment and decided to talk to her seriously, “Mom, are you not listening to everything I’ve been telling you all this time.”
Lippin: “There’s listening.”
“I know you guys are doing it for my own good, worrying that I’ll have a bad time in the future.” Sang Chi seriously said, “But you should also be clear about Duan Jia Xu’s character, if he’s not good, brother definitely won’t agree either.”
“……”
“He’s not in a bad financial situation now. He studied hard when he was in college and kept getting scholarships, and now he works hard too, he’s not some unmotivated person.” Sang Chi said, “I’ll study hard now too, and then I’ll find a good job in the future and earn my own money too. I think it will be good.”
Ri Ping listened quietly.
“And the thing about his family, there was a woman who came to me before, but he’s always defended me. Now there’s no such thing.” Sang Zhi pursed her lips and whispered, “He himself is unhappy because of this, but there’s not much he can do about this. I think there are a lot of things that he’s already doing well.”
“Uh-huh.”
“I’ve been telling you so many things before because I wanted you to stop worrying about me so that you could feel a little more at ease over here.” Sang Chi said, “I also want you to know that I’m serious, it’s not that I haven’t thought about it, and it’s not an impulse. I really feel good about it.”
“Mom knows.”
Sang Zhi also do not know this time, Li Ping has not listened to it. She felt a little depressed, always felt that what she said really did not have half the effect, but for fear of saying more Li Ping also feel annoyed, and did not mention it again.
In this situation, Sang Chi didn’t dare to bring Duan Jia Xu home.
Time goes by and the New Year is just around the corner.
A few weeks in advance, Duanjia Xu booked tickets for the fourth day of the Chinese New Year.
Duan Jiaxu told her that all the tickets that were a little earlier had already been booked. He also told her that he would go to Wen Siyun’s place and spend the New Year with their family, telling her not to be too concerned.
Still, it was clear to Sanji that these were just words he used to comfort her.
The first three days of the New Year, Sang Chi had a busy time, accompanying her parents to visit relatives every day, meeting some people she hadn’t seen for a long time. When she got home, after washing up, she went back to bed and hung out with Duan Jiaxu for a night of video.
It was not until the fourth day of the month that I gradually became idle.
Duan Jiaxu arrived at Nanwu on the afternoon of the fourth day.
Sangji didn’t hide it from his parents, and after telling them straight, he went out to look for him.
Duan Jia Xu didn’t let Sang Zhi go to the airport and took a cab over after getting off the plane.
The two met in front of Sanjay’s neighborhood.
Sangji accompanied him to the hotel to put his things away, after which, the two of them went to the nearby business circle that was still open to stroll around. She accompanied him to eat dinner outside, while she was later sent back downstairs by him.
Sang Zhi let go of Duan Jia Xu’s hand and was about to say goodbye to him when she happened to bump into Sang Rong and Li Ping who had just returned from outside.
Perhaps because he was caught off guard, Duan Jiaxu was clearly stunned, and also clearly a bit rushed. Soon, he stood upright, flashed a smile at them, and took the initiative to say hello.
It’s been a really long time since we’ve seen each other, too, by the count.
There was nothing wrong with Sang Rong’s expression, and he greeted him politely, asking a few questions about the situation, before saying, “Come, go up and sit for a while. I haven’t seen you come to Nanwu for such a long time, and I haven’t heard much about you from Ayan.”
Duan Jiaxu nodded and responded politely.
The way they reacted, it looked like they didn’t know about his relationship with Sanji.
Sang Chi followed them and couldn’t help but pull on Li Ping’s hand and shout in a small voice, “Mom.”
Li Ping found it funny, “What’s wrong? Your father and I can still eat him?”
“……”
Back at home, the four of them sat on the sofa. Sang Yeon wasn’t at home and seemed to be out looking for his friends as well. Sanjay felt nervous and didn’t know what they would say, and was on edge the whole time.
Sang Rong and Liping really didn’t say anything either.
He was treated exactly as he would have treated a friend of his son’s, no different than before.
After sitting for a while, Li Ping suddenly got up and said she was going to cut some fruit. She headed for the kitchen, and before she took a few steps, she called out to Sang Zhi and said, “Only only, help mommy along.”
Sang Chi froze, glanced in Duan Jia Xu’s direction, and got up in a muffled voice, “Good.”
It doesn’t take long to cut the fruits, Sang Zhi helped to take some fruits out of the refrigerator and turned on the faucet to wash them. Li Ping did not let her touch the knife, she stood by the side, there is nothing else to do.
Kuwabara said dryly, “Then I’ll go out first?”
Lai Ping: “You help mom bring a plate over.”
“……,” Sanji said in a small voice as his attention always moved outward, “Good.”
Spent about a couple minutes in the kitchen.
When Sang Zhi went out, Sang Rong and Duan Jia Xu were still chatting away, and the atmosphere hadn’t changed much from before. Both of them had normal expressions, not any different from before she entered the kitchen.
Sang Chi stared at Duan Jia Xu for half a day, and only sighed in relief after she really felt that there was nothing wrong.
After another half an hour, Duan Jia Xu took the initiative to say, “It’s getting a bit late, Uncle and Auntie, I’ll go back first today, and it won’t affect your rest. Some other day, will pay another home visit.”
Sang Rong and Liping both got up and sent him to the door.
It was also half past nine o’clock at this point.
Sanji put on a jacket and said, “I’ll give you a ride.”
Duan Jiaxu laughed, “No, it’s just a couple steps away.”
Li Ping didn’t stop her and said, “Wear more, it’s cold outside.”
Sanji answered yes and put his shoes on, “Let’s go.”
Duan Jiaxu didn’t say anything more and reminded her, “Zip it up.” He then glanced in the direction of Sang Rong and Liping and said gently, “Happy New Year, Uncle and Auntie.”
The two of them went out the door and waited in the elevator bay for the elevator.
Sanji finally found a chance to ask, “Did my dad say anything to you? Just when I just went to cut the fruit.”
“Didn’t say anything.” Duan Jia Xu said carelessly, “Just small talk.”
“Really?”
Duan Jia Xu looked at her and laughed softly, “What else can be said then?”
I don’t know what it was, but San Zhi always felt a little uneasy, but then again, his reaction didn’t seem to be anything out of the ordinary. Just as the elevator arrived, she stepped in and muttered, “It’s nothing.”
Duan Jiaxu didn’t let her send her far, and let her go back when she reached the entrance of the neighborhood.
Sang Chi stood still in the same place, while then laboriously took a red envelope out of his pocket and shoved it into his hand, “Happy New Year.”
Duan Jiaxu raised his eyebrows, “And you gave me a red envelope?”
“Well,” said Sanji, “this isn’t a red packet I received, it’s what my tutor earned.”
Duanjash rolled his eyes.
Sang Chi smiled and said, “I drew the red envelope myself too, does it look good?”
It’s painted with pigment.
With a red background, right in the center was a Q version of a man’s portrait, with ears and tail drawn on, which looked extra cute. Underneath it was written in small letters – “Duan Jia Xu’s Red Packet for 2016”.
Duan Jiaxu pointed, “This one is me, huh?”
“Right.”
Duan Jiaxu laughed lowly, “Why did you even draw a dog’s ear.”
Sanji was speechless, “It’s fox ears.”
“Is that an admission?” His eyes curved down at the corners of his eyes and he came over and kissed her forehead, “That the male vixen is me?”
Sanji looked at him and whispered, “Uh-huh.”
Duan Jiaxu lowered his eyelids and leveled with her, “Okay, the male vixen is me.”
“……”
“I don’t recognize central air conditioning.”
–
Duanjia Xu returned to the hotel.
He took off his jacket and threw it onto the bed, and the two red envelopes in his pockets instantly fell out, scattering on the white sheets. One was given by Sang Rong, and the other was just slipped to him by Sang Zhi.
Quiet and chilled out hotel.
The expression that Duan Jia Xu had been maintaining gradually withdrew, and the smile on his lips slowly converged for a few moments.
The knot in Duan Jia Xu’s throat slid, suddenly thinking of many years ago.
Because of Xu Ruoshu’s illness, for the first time, he called every relative he knew, one by one, to borrow money. What he got was either abuse or the mechanical sound of hanging up directly.
Everyone, to their family, shunned them.
At that time, Duanjia Xu didn’t have any way out.
At the last moment, can only think of that time, only know a year of Sang Yan, only because it is clear that his family’s conditions are good. Duan Jiaxu is actually extremely difficult to speak, but still pretended to be very calm, and he proposed to borrow money.
With Sang Yeon, who was still a college student, he borrowed thirty thousand dollars.
Sang Yan didn’t ask much, only knowing that it was his mother who was sick, he turned his head and helped him borrow from Sang Rong. It wasn’t long before Duan Jia Xu received a call from Sang Rong, asking about his general situation.
After asking clearly, Sang Rong immediately transferred money to his bank account, but also sent a text message to him, [child, no need to hurry to pay back the money, take good care of your mother, wait for you to work later, stabilized. If there is anything else you need, you can find uncle again.
Duan Jia Xu could never forget the feeling at that time.
It’s like a snowball in the sky.
No one was willing to help them, including relatives who were related by blood. But this family, who had no relationship with him, gave him a helping hand without asking for anything in return.
It was a favor that he could not, in this lifetime, forget.
Duan Jia Xu bent down and picked up the red envelope that Sang Rong had given him.
Another thought came to mind about what Sang Woong had told him just after Sang Woong had entered the kitchen.
His tone was no different than it had been on the phone back then, still calm and not causing any discomfort.
Sang Rong said a lot of things, Duan Jia Xu remembered every word, listened to every word properly, and answered every word properly, but now inexplicably he could only think of one sentence.
— “This situation in your family, me and only only only’s mom, do kind of …… mind.”
Other people saying such things to him, Duan Jiaxu would roughly not feel much.
But this is, Sanji’s family.
Also, the only person who was willing to help him in his most difficult time.
Duan Jia Xu lowered his eyes, sat down on the bed, and picked up the red envelope that Sang Zhi painted. His eyes darkened, the corners of his lips became flat, and all the strength he had been holding on to strongly disintegrated in an instant.
All that remains is, an extremely strong, and powerless, sense of inferiority.
Chapter 75
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When he got home, Sanji changed into his slippers and sat back in his original position.
Sang Rong and Li Ping were still in the living room, but they didn’t talk much. One of them was watching TV, and the other was reading a book. The only sound in the room was the cheerful sound of the TV, not too different from the atmosphere just now.
Li Ping raised her eyes to look at her, and casually asked, “Back so soon?”
Sang Chi took a cherry tomato from the fruit plate and stuffed it into her mouth. She reached over and took off her jacket, hmmm, “Delivered to the door of the neighborhood, Jia Xu brother let me come back.”
Li Ping nodded her head and didn’t ask any more questions.
Sang Zhi bit into the fruit, her eyeballs bobbing around, wandering over Sang Rong and Li Ping. She felt that Duan Jiaxu had behaved quite well, and cautiously mentioned, “Mom and Dad, what do you think?”
Liping’s eyes went back to the TV, “How about what?”
“It’s not that we haven’t seen each other for some years,” Sang Chi said in a small voice, “Now that we’ve seen each other, and then we’ve talked about so many things. Your attitudes, have not changed a bit.”
Sang Rong laughed, “The young man is quite nice.”
Sanji quickly agreed, “Right, people are nice.”
“It’s true that he’s very good, in every way. When he was in college, although he hadn’t seen him a few times, he thought that he would definitely have a future.” Sang Rong’s eyes were still on the book, his voice sounded very kind, “After so many years, it must not be easy for a person to come here like this.”
Sanji gave a start and pursed his lower lips lightly.
Sang Rong didn’t mention much and suddenly changed the topic and smiled, “Earlier I also heard your mom say that the first time you met Duan Jia Xu, you cried in front of people, and you weren’t ashamed.”
Li Ping also laughed: “Crying I thought what for, but it turned out to be a mess with Ayan.”
When they brought it up like that, Sang Chi also felt that her face was too much, “Then I’m not small.”
“Recently, I’ve always been thinking about the past, when you were small, your health wasn’t very good.” Sang Rong put down the book in his hand as if he was reminiscing, “At that time, for three days, you either had allergies or a fever. Your mom and I ran to the hospital every day to see you crying all the time, and later on, you didn’t even have the energy to cry.”
Liping also turned off the TV.
“It was hard for us to watch, but there was nothing else we could do. Your brother was young then, too, and didn’t really welcome your presence. Thought we didn’t care much for him after we had you.” Sang Rong said and laughed again, “Even wrote in his weekly diary that he’d rather have a dog at home than want this sister.”
Sanji was instantly offended.
Without waiting for her to make a sound, Sang Rong added, “But when you were hospitalized, he couldn’t see you and followed us every day looking for you again. Lied to him about losing you and made him cry on the spot.”
“……” Sanjay licked his lips, “Why are you talking about this all of a sudden.”
“It’s kinda funny to think that it feels like it just happened yesterday.” Sang Rong said, “As it turns out, now, you and your brother are almost married.”
Sanji was embarrassed, “I’m still early.”
Sang Rong sighed softly, “Only only, dad is not some authoritarian person, will not have the idea of being superior just because our family’s condition is still okay. It’s also not that, thinking that no one is worthy of my daughter, no matter who wants to be with you, I can definitely pick out the bad points.”
“……”
“It’s not that I think, we only only can’t suffer.” Sang Rong said, “It’s just that I don’t want to let you suffer at all, I’m afraid that you’ll have a bad time in the future, and I have this kind of worry all the time.”
Sanji’s throat choked.
“I’m just a normal guy, with all the dads in the world, having the same thoughts.” Sangrong said, “I hope that my children will have a smooth life and live peacefully and happily.”
Sanji whispered, “I know.”
“I wanted to hide it from you, but I was afraid that if you knew later, you would be unhappy and blame us.” Sang Rong took his glasses off and murmured, “Today, dad did say something to Jia Xu.”
“……” Sanji froze, his lips subconsciously parted.
“I mentioned to him all the things that I am now concerned about, that I feel I should say. It may be that these words, to some extent, will hurt him. But he should also think seriously about your future as a result.” Sang Rong said, “You may think that it’s just a relationship, and that you don’t need to think about it that much for now. But if it doesn’t work out, Dad thinks-“
“……”
“You’re better off breaking it off while you can.”
At these words, a silence fell over the room.
Sanji suddenly understood what they meant.
Probably because they were concerned about her emotions, they hadn’t said it explicitly, just saying that they didn’t approve of it, but they wouldn’t stand in the way either. But what they really hoped for was probably that she and Duan Jia Xu could end it there.
Half a day later.
Sanji uttered, “I just, can’t suffer at all.”
“……”
“I feel unhappy when I am scolded, I feel unhappy when I can’t eat what I want to eat, and only when I don’t have to, will I do something that I feel very uncomfortable with, but I must do.” Sang Chi’s voice was very soft, “So it’s because I’m happy with him and don’t feel hard at all that I keep saying these things in front of you guys.”
Li Ping touched her head and didn’t say anything.
“I’m still in college, it’s not like I’m in a relationship and immediately have to get married or something.” Sanji said, “There’s still so much time left, and I can always bring him back to show you guys what kind of person he is.”
Sang Yong looked at her and hmmm’d earnestly.
“I’m not asking you guys to take him in right away and like him a lot right away.” Sanji exhaled, “Just trying to get you guys, not to worry too much about what’s going on in his family, because that’s not something he can choose.”
“……”
“Otherwise, it doesn’t matter what you guys have to say.” Sanji said, “Just treat him, fairly.”
–
The conversation between the three was interrupted by Sang Yeon’s arrival.
Sang Zhi was in a somewhat blocked mood and returned to her room. She sat on the bed, fuming, thinking about Duan Jiaxu’s reaction just now, her thoughts were chaotic, and she also thought about a whole lot of things.
In the middle of the day, San Zhi Zhi sniffled and called Duan Jia Xu.
The other end picked up immediately, his tone no different than usual, “What’s up?”
Sang Chi took the pillow from the bed and stuffed it in her arms. She lowered her eyes, her gaze fixed on a dot in the void, and for a moment she didn’t know what to say, not uttering a half-whisper.
“Why don’t you say anything?” Duan Jiaxu’s voice was scattered, “Accidentally pressed it?”
It was then that Sanji spoke, “No.”
Duan Jiaxu didn’t continue to ask, and laughed softly, bringing up something else: “You’re making quite a bit of money as a tutor, this red envelope is like a brick.”
“It’s not that much of a stretch.”
“I’ll give you one next time too.” Duan Jia Xu hung back, “It’s because I wasn’t paying attention, forgetting that we’re only only this age and can still receive red envelopes.”
Sang Chi was not in much of a mood to joke with him. Listening to his tone, his mood was inexplicably even more blocked. Without further hesitation, she asked, “Did my father say something to you today.”
The phone was quiet on the other end for a few seconds.
Quickly, Duanjia Xu said, “It’s really nothing.”
“My father has told me everything.” Sang Chi specifically didn’t know what Sang Rong had said, and in half a day only stifled a sentence, “Don’t you be unhappy.”
“What are you thinking about, why are you unhappy.” Duan Jia Xu said, “Really didn’t say anything bad, your mom and dad are fine, just mentioned some concerns to me.”
Sanji whispered, “So what did they say?”
“Seems like, think I’m too old for you to take out in disgrace.”
“……” Sang Chi frowned, “Can you be serious, I’m asking you very seriously.”
“Then Uncle and Auntie said so many things to me all night,” Duan Jia Xu laughed up, “Isn’t it true that I wasn’t sure which sentence you were asking about?”
It was obvious that it wasn’t going to be said.
He didn’t want to talk about it, so Sangchih stopped asking.
Her mood is a little low, incoherent, said: “Anyway, you don’t want to be unhappy. My parents mainly, have been treating me like a child, afraid that I will meet a bad person, just like my brother …… to change a person they don’t know, I guess they will say more words. And what they say doesn’t mean what I think.”
Duanjash: “Uh-huh.”
“Also, your father’s matter, even if what others say, it really has nothing to do with you at all, don’t you care.” Sang Chi can’t comfort people, she can only say what she wants to say, “I’ll talk to them properly again ……”
“I know.” Duan Jia Xu said, “Don’t mention it to them, it’s a rare vacation, spend time with your parents, don’t let this affect your mood.”
“……”
“Don’t worry,” Duanjash’s voice became soft, as if he were murmuring a whisper, “I’ll think about it.”
Sang Chi froze and was about to ask him what he was considering when the door to the room was suddenly knocked on and Sang Yan’s voice came, “Mom cooked soup and told you to go out and drink it.”
She raised her eyes and subconsciously responded, “Good.”
Duan Jia Xu obviously heard it too, “Go drink, don’t keep them waiting.”
Sang Chi was silent and didn’t know how to open his mouth to ask what had just happened, he just made an oh sound and repeated, “Then don’t be unhappy.”
–
By the time Sang Chi finished her soup and came back from washing up, it had been quite a while. She re-flipped out her cell phone and opened WeChat. After hesitating for a long time, she typed a sentence in the chat window with Duan Jia Xu: [You just said to think about it, what are you thinking about?
Stopped at this interface for a while.
Sang-chi silently deleted all the words and replaced them with two words: [Good night.
She turned off the light and flopped down on her bed, the words echoing in her head.
I’ll think about it.
Consider this.
Consider.
Sang Rong and Duan Jia Xu both said, mentioning some concerns.
What’s that concern?
The age thing, or maybe it’s his father’s thing?
But these two, there is no way to change. That only leaves, then, Duanjia Xu’s financial condition.
But he’s not exactly poor.
It’s just that, he may not be able to afford a house for a while yet, but he’ll work on it for a few more years, and then with her coming out of the workforce afterward, this won’t be a big deal, will it?
So Duanjash is something to think about.
It can’t be ……
Sanji forcibly retracted the thoughts that were about to pop up in his mind.
Staring blankly at the ceiling, Sang Chi’s eyes glazed over and she suddenly felt a little breathless. She sat up, a layer of watery mist floating in front of her eyes, which she forcefully held back again.
At this moment, all the firmness and lack of concession became unclear.
In fact, Kuwabara thought that one day, her parents would definitely change their minds. For a short time, she would be agonizing because she didn’t know what to do, but it wasn’t something she was too worried about them not supporting.
But she was a little afraid of what Duanjia Xu thought.
It was clear to Sanji that he was very concerned about this.
That’s why would have mentioned it to her on the first day of being together, and would have cared if she minded. Even though he himself knew very well that this matter had nothing to do with him at all.
And yet it will still be for that reason, humbling.
Extremely ingrained in his mind, or a fact that he couldn’t change in any way.
Sang Chi would worry that because of Sang Rong and Lai Ping’s words tonight, he would not really feel like he was not good enough as well.
Could it be that she’s starting to get stressed out.
Will they make concessions because of their gratitude to Sang Wing, and their opposition.
Would it be true that he just wasn’t going to be with her anymore.
Will it just really give up.
Sang Zhi pursed her lips hard. She held back the lump in her throat and picked up her cell phone again, wanting to say something to him, wanting him not to be upset, not to care too much about this.
Don’t start thinking about, what he said, to think about things again.
In this instant, Sanji felt powerless and weak to the extreme.
Sanji felt that he could be good to him for the rest of his life, and hoped that he wouldn’t be unhappy or hurt by what happened in the past.
But he still seemed to be hurt again because of her.
She slowly put the phone down.
Sanji’s thoughts went blank, suddenly remembering.
In the downstairs of the neighborhood where Duan Jia Xu lived before, she carefully and extraordinarily properly expressed her feelings. His eyes colored with light, he reached out to hug her and kissed her forehead.
And then, extremely lovingly, “Well, I like you a lot too.”
–
The next day, Sang Zhi Zhi was again dragged by Li Ping early in the morning to visit her relatives. Noticing that her mind was not on this side, Li Ping didn’t force her and found a reason for her to go back.
After coming out of the relative’s house, San Zhi went to find Duan Jia Xu.
Because he was going to work on the seventh day of the new year, he didn’t plan to stay long, and he had previously booked a ticket to return to Yiho this evening.
Duan Jiaxu looked as usual and seemed to be truly unaffected.
Sang Chi emphasized with him a few more times, telling him not to be upset. He instead put on a funny face and said, “Why are you acting like you’re coaxing a child.”
Before getting on the plane, Duan Jia Xu thought about it and took the initiative to calm her down a few times before saying, “Have a good New Year’s Eve on this side by yourself, play for a little while longer, and then go back to school.”
Sanji nodded absentmindedly, “Uh-huh.”
“One trip can take months.” Duan Jia Xu said playfully, “Don’t cry because you’re homesick again.”
Kuwabara stared at him, her lips moving, wanting to ask something, but afraid of getting a bad answer. She fell silent and just nodded again.
Sanji didn’t know what she was worried about, she just didn’t dare to ask what kind of things he was considering. She was wary to the core, and felt that as long as she didn’t ask, it would stay that way.
She felt like she was becoming a pessimist.
You can only think of the bad side of everything.
But thinking about it too much, Sanji would feel, again, that he was scaring himself.
If Duan Jia Xu really thought that way, he certainly wouldn’t have such an attitude now.
Sometimes, many ideas, again because of some normal small things, and produce a transformation. After Duan Jia Xu returned to Yiho, he became very busy, and his contact with Sang Zhi gradually became less and less.
This is actually a normal thing to do in normal times.
Not only refers to after the year, before Duan Jia Xu also often have to work overtime, will always be busier. Sometimes she looked for him, he did not immediately reply, Sang Zhi will not care too much.
However, during this period of time, Sang Chi always thought of his words “I’ll reconsider”, all the emotions continue to build up, like a balloon that is constantly filled with air, the next moment will blow up.
Combine that with his behavior like this.
Sanji would wonder if he would be avoiding her.
Could it be that they are really thinking about it.
To separate or not to separate.
–
This night, Sang Chi slept extremely uneasily.
She dreamed all night.
She dreamed that Jiang Ying appeared in front of her again and told her, “You guys are really splitting up, huh? It’s okay, Duan Jia Xu won’t be too upset, he’ll think that it’s good that you can find a better one.”
She dreamed that she didn’t go into the kitchen to help Li Ping that day, and then saw Duan Jia Xu’s smile that instantly froze after hearing Sang Rong’s words.
I dreamed that Duan Jiaxu said in a self-deprecating manner, “I’m afraid you’ll mind.”
I dreamed that he smiled and said, “Think, your parents are good people. They helped me out like that, I can’t apologize to them.”
All the images intertwined and seemed real in this illusion. In the end, Sang Wiz dreamed of that night when he didn’t accept that red envelope she gave him and whispered, “Or forget it.”
In the next moment, Sanji opened his eyes and woke up.
Sang Chi covered the location of her heart, her head was still blank, in a confused feeling after the dream. She couldn’t recall what she had just dreamed for a moment, no matter how she thought about it.
Half a day later.
A great sense of emptiness took over her entire being. Sang Zhi grabbed the quilt and suddenly began to shed tears, and in her throat was a sob that she couldn’t restrain. Afraid that she would disturb Sang Rong and Li Ping next door, she could only hold it back with all her might.
San Zhi picked up his cell phone and wanted to call Duan Jia Xu.
Noticing the time, her movements stopped and with extremely blurry vision, she watched the screen fade out.
I don’t know how much time has passed.
Wiping away her tears with determination, Sanji once again lit up her cell phone and booked the nearest flight back to Yiho.
–
Sang Zhi could only book a flight for ten o’clock the next night. After waking up, she told her parents that there was a temporary matter at the school, and all intended to go back early.
After lunch, Sanji started to pack and when she saw the bottle of milk on the windowsill, her gaze stopped and she walked over to pick it up.
She poured out the stars inside.
To this day, Sangji still remembers that he used which brother star paper, wrote down the mood at the beginning, and then put it into the bottle.
Sanji reached up and took the two stars of the same color on the inside and put them in his pocket.
When it was about time, Sang Yong drove her to the airport.
Sang Zhi went through the security check by herself and waited in the waiting hall, hesitantly sending a tweet to Duan Jia Xu and waiting for a while without receiving a reply.
She pursed her lips and still didn’t tell him that she was going back to Yiho now.
Get on the plane and take a seat against the aisle.
Sang Chi put on her seatbelt, and in this moment, she suddenly remembered her freshman year of high school when she sneaked away to Yiho to look for him. It was also an impromptu airfare like now.
The better spots are basically picked over.
It wasn’t her first time on an airplane, but it was the first time she’d ever gone that far by herself.
Pretend that you’re not afraid of anything, pretend that you don’t feel uneasy, pretend that you’re so brave that you don’t feel sorry for the results you get.
Just go see him once.
Sanji put her hand in her pocket and felt the two stars she had just tucked in. Her palms closed and quickly unclenched as if she had decided something.
Three hours later, Sang Zhi Zhi got off the airplane. She took out her cell phone, turned it on, dragged her suitcase, and headed in the direction of the exit, just as Duan Jiaxu’s call came through.
Sanji picked it up.
“Only only, I just heard your brother say that you’re going back to school today?” Duan Jia Xu’s voice came through the receiver, “Isn’t it Saturday before I come back?”
Sanji whispered, “Uh-huh.”
“Arrived?” Duanjia Xu paused, “Why didn’t you tell me?”
“Wanted to talk to you.” Sanji’s voice was muffled, “But you ignored me.”
“There’s something going on this time, I didn’t check my cell phone much, it’s not that I’m ignoring you.” Duan Jia Xu said, “I’m at the airport, where are you?”
“The chair next to exit T3.”
“Uh-huh.” Duan Jia Xu coaxed gently, “Wait there obediently.”
Kuwabara sat in her seat and took the two stars out of her pocket. She rubbed her eyes, thinking with extreme determination that she would not cry this time.
After about five or six minutes, Sang Chi saw the figure of Duan Jia Xu rushing over.
Duan Jia Xu walked to Sang Zhi’s front, took off the coat on his body and wrapped it around her, “Having stayed in Nanwu for a long time, you don’t even know the temperature on this side of Yiho, ah?”
Sanji stared at him.
Duanjia Xu raised an eyebrow, “What’s wrong?”
Sanji hung his head and handed him the paper star in his hand.
Seeing this, Duan Jiaxu took it, “What’s this?”
Something she’d been trying to hide.
Something he never wanted to know in his life.
To her, she looked extremely wretched, like a defeated general.
In this relationship, Sang Chi has an extremely low self-esteem. She felt unequal, so she wanted everyone else to think that Duan Jia Xu was the one who invested more in the relationship.
She wanted him to think so.
She hoped that he would never be able to leave her.
“Do you remember the time I came to Yiho in my freshman year of high school.” Sang-chi raised her eyes again and said seriously, “The time I said I came over to look for an online dating partner.”
“Well, why bring that up all of a sudden?”
“I’m not, in fact, looking for any online dating.”
“……”
“I don’t have any online dating partner.” Sang Chi actually didn’t want to cry at all, she felt that crying was really too lousy, but she inexplicably choked up when she said, “I came to find you at that time.”
As if he didn’t understand her words, Duan Jia Xu half squatted in front of her, “What?”
“I heard my brother say that you talked about your girlfriend.” Sang Chi didn’t dare to look at him, and held back her sobs to finish her sentence, “So I stole my ID and bought a plane ticket to come over.”
“……”
“I didn’t, after I went to college, I only liked you after I came to Yiho.” Sang Zhi wiped her tears with the back of her hand, a little unable to speak, “I lied to you all the time, I’m afraid that you think I ……”
I’ll tell you all about it.
I’ll tell you all, all of it.
In that case, will you be able to know you’re fine.
Can you stay with me forever because I like you so much and don’t let anyone’s words sway you or make you feel bad about yourself.
I like you, a lot.
It lasted, close to seven years.
From youth, to the present, and even her entire future.
Kuwabara was extremely sure that she must not be able to like someone so much as this.
For the first time, Duan Jia Xu felt extremely overwhelmed.
Not at all sure how to react.
The knot in his throat slid up and down as he suddenly realized something. He lowered his eyes and slowly unwrapped the two stars in his hand, seeing the writing left on them.
Childish, and green.
— “It’s hard to admit it, but I seem to really like someone. 2009.11.05”
— “His name is Duan, 交, xǔ. 2009.11.05”
Do you believe that?
Before it’s clear which word your name corresponds to.
I just fell in love with you.
Chapter 76
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It’s like going back to that year.
In the chilly city of Yiho, at the brightly lit airport, there is a rush of people coming and going, and outside exit T3, there is a young girl holding back her tears, and a man with a gentle face who has come to pick her up.
What I wanted then, I can’t afford, and what I want now, I can’t afford.
In the same position, those words that I didn’t dare to say back then, all the thoughts that I hid, the shame I felt at that time, all of them were torn open and exposed.
Repeat again.
One by one, as many as possible, with both hands.
Only wish.
He was able to take her lycanthropy and turn it into energy, into armor.
After staring at the handwriting on the note for a long time, Duan Jia Xu raised his eyes and looked at Sang Zhi, his voice a little hoarse: “Afraid of what I think of you?”
Sang-chi huffed, “I’m afraid you think I’m, well, odd, odd ……”
At an age when you seem so young, when you shouldn’t know anything, to have such thoughts about you. After meeting again, deliberately distancing yourself, using one lie to cover up another.
It’s strange, isn’t it, and inexplicable.
The way I was close to you when I was little, all the behavior I did to you, the things I asked you to do to stop looking for a girlfriend, the reasons I drifted away from you.
The ones that, at the time, revealed a horse’s footsteps that you didn’t realize were there.
At this moment, isn’t it all finally possible to find, also, the explanation.
“Not strange.” Duan Jia Xu reached out, wiped her tears away, and coaxed in a low voice, “How do you fold this star? I won’t fold it after I take it apart.”
Sang-chi’s eyes were red, and she took one, folding it back for him as she had traced it before.
Duan Jiaxu followed and did as he was told.
Soon the long, starry paper, changed back to its original form.
Duan Jiaxu took the one in her hand as well, staring at it for a few more seconds before putting it in his pocket and murmuring, “I’ll have to keep it.”
Sang Chi lowered his head and looked at his toes without saying a word.
“Then counting like this,” Duan Jia Xu’s eyes lowered and darkened as he took her hand, squeezing her fingertips lightly, “how many times have I made you cry.”
At those words, Sanji sniffled, tears coming to his eyes again.
“Still saying it’s not a little crybaby.” Duan Jia Xu stood up and added, “Get up, I want to hug you. Sitting is not good for hugging.”
Once again, Sanji rubbed the tears away with the back of his hand and dutifully stood up.
The next moment, Duan Jia Xu bent down and took her into his arms. He reached out and placed his hand against the back of her head, gently rubbing it as if soothing, “Why are you suddenly telling me about this?”
Sanji’s words were nasal and seemed a bit muffled, “Just wanted to say that.”
“Coming over early,” Duanjia Xu’s voice paused, reacting only at this moment, “is that what you wanted to tell me?”
Sanji was silent for a few seconds and whispered, “Came over to see you about this by the way.”
Duan Jiaxu: “Then why are you still crying?”
“……”
“This time, I don’t have a girlfriend that your brother rumored about.” Duan Jia Xu loosened his hand and laughed lightly, “But now, there is a real one.”
Sanji raised his head and stared into his face.
Duan Jiaxu lowered his eyelashes and patiently helped her button up her coat one by one, his voice slow and methodical: “Why are you like a little pitiful, and don’t | wear thicker.”
Sanji stood still and didn’t move, just looked at him.
Quickly, Duan Jia Xu buttoned up the bottom button. The dress looked wide and big on her, like a child stealing an adult’s clothes.
He curled his lips and wiped the teardrops still on her lashes away.
“Come on, go home.”
–
After getting into the car, Sang Chi took a piece of wet tissue from her bag and wiped her face. Her emotions eased up a bit, and the uneasiness in the bottom of her heart dispersed for the most part after seeing him.
Duan Jiaxu helped her put her seatbelt on and asked, “Why did you suddenly come over early?”
Sanji said honestly, “Because you ignored me.”
“Didn’t ignore you.” Duan Jia Xu explained good-naturedly, “Things have been a bit hectic lately, and it’s been late when I’m done. I don’t want to disturb you from sleeping either.”
“I thought you were avoiding me.”
“……” Duanjia Xu froze, “I’m avoiding you?”
“You said you wanted to reconsider, and I didn’t know what you wanted to consider.” Bringing it up, Sanji’s mood was a little bad again, “And then you didn’t pay much attention to me, so I just assumed you were avoiding me. It felt like it would be better for you to ask over the phone.”
“……”
“But if I came over and told you in person.” Sanji dryly put his thoughts into words, “You’d probably be too embarrassed to mention it.”
Duan Jia Xu realized what she meant and laughed in exasperation, “Mention what?”
Sanji didn’t say anything.
“What are you thinking about.” Duan Jia Xu started the car, his tone light, “If it wasn’t for the disagreement from your parents’ side, I would have wanted to directly arrest you to get a license.”
“……” muttered Sanji, “Why do you use the word ‘catch’.”
“It’s not that I’m afraid you’ll run away.”
Hearing this, the tendon that had been taut finally loosened up, and Sang Wiz looked at him, “Then what did you say you’d reconsider, what were you going to consider.”
“Considering, whether to stay here with you for two more years, and then return to Nanwu with you piece by piece after you graduate.” Duan Jiaxu said carelessly, “Or to go over now and stabilize everything first.”
“……” Sanji was stunned, “You’re not going to stay in Yiho?”
“Uh-huh.”
“It’s fine if you want to stay in Yiho, we can discuss it.” Sangji said seriously, “You don’t have to accommodate me in everything.”
“I really don’t want to stay here.” Duan Jia Xu said, “Besides, if I don’t accommodate you, who else can I accommodate?”
“……”
“All told you not to worry, why are you still crying because of this.” Duan Jiaxu hangs back and says, “Little girl study hard, and, every day more sticky boyfriend on the line, other things do not have to care.”
Sanji frowned, “Then I definitely have to manage.”
“I’ll visit your house again after a while.” Duan Jiaxu drove the car into the neighborhood with a bit more seriousness in his words, “I’ll make it clear to your parents, don’t worry.”
–
The flight over was late and it was close to two in the morning when the two arrived home.
Sang Zhi’s spirit loosened up, and sleepiness swept over her after arriving at her familiar surroundings. Feeling extremely at ease, she said goodnight to Duan Jia Xu and went back to her room.
Duan Jia Xu didn’t feel half asleep. Sitting on the sofa, he listened to Sang Zhi go into the bathroom in the master bedroom, and then came the sound of water if anything.
He withdrew his mind.
Thinking about what Sang Zhi had just said, Duan Jia Xu took the two stars out of his pocket. His eyelashes moved slightly as he got up and found a box to put them in.
And then, into the room, on the nightstand.
Duan Jia Xu went back to the living room, took a pack of cigarettes from under the coffee table, drew one out, bit it in his mouth, took out his lighter, and lit it. He leaned on the back of the chair, tilted his neck, and exhaled a smoke ring, his expression unknown.
Slowly think back to the old days.
……
She was drunk, snapping and dropping tears, crying extremely hard: “I have a, well, a favorite. But he just doesn’t like me.”
Consciousness doesn’t even seem to be very lucid, but how refuses to say, that person’s name.
For fear of him knowing.
Further back, the time she snuck into Yiho.
Duan Jia Xu actually doesn’t remember much of that memory, but still remembers her sitting on a chair, looking extremely thin, whimpering, “But I’ll grow up.”
He was oblivious, just placating.
As if embarrassed, the little girl kept holding back her sobs, but she couldn’t stop her tears at all: “Then he, he’ll like someone else.”
Duan Jia Xu remembered that time and probably said that when she grew up, she would definitely meet someone better.
Maybe it’s really feeling sad.
That’s why after returning to Nanwu, she gradually distanced herself from him and drew a line in the sand. He came to Yiho to go to college and never took the initiative to look for him.
It’s been years, still avoiding him.
Duanjia Xu remembered the time he was hospitalized again.
The next door moncler outlet online misunderstood the words of Sangji as his girlfriend. At that time, he did find it funny, so he echoed the joke as well.
Just think of it as a joke.
She wasn’t in the best of moods those days, sometimes even looking like she was about to cry, and in the end just told him, “Brother, don’t you ever joke around like that again.”
At the time he didn’t understand why she was so upset.
The heart felt like it had been stabbed with a needle, once and then again, and then honey was poured into it.
And heartbreaking, and pleasurable.
Lighting the cigarette burned to his fingertips, Duan Jia Xu returned to his senses and pressed the cigarette out. The ears were excessively quiet, and there was no movement in Sang Zhi’s room.
He exhaled and closed his eyes heavily.
Duan Jiaxu, you’re such an animal.
–
Because she was sleepy, Sang Chi took a quick shower this time. She yawned while blow-drying her hair, and then she laid back on the bed, covered herself with the quilt, and instantly fell asleep.
In a daze, she heard the door at the foyer open and close. It wasn’t long before it came again.
Sanji opened his eyes, froze for two seconds, and instantly fell back to sleep.
It didn’t seem that long ago when she woke up again, it was still light out. She rose sleepily and went to the bathroom. When she tried to lie back down and go to sleep, she felt her throat dry again and her thirst was a bit unbearable.
Sang Chi rubbed her eyes and opened the door to her room. As soon as she stepped outside, she smelled an extremely strong odor of alcohol that wafted through the air.
She gradually came to her senses and walked hesitantly to the living room.
The lights in the living room were not turned on, only the table lamp next to the sofa was turned on, and the light looked a little dark. Duan Jia Xu leaned back on the sofa, his face backlit, unable to see his complexion.
There were a couple of empty pop cans on the table, all of which were alcohol.
A few more fell off the floor.
Sanji’s mind was still a bit dazed, and in the confusion of the night, she began to wonder if she was still in a dream world. She walked over and picked up the can, hesitantly saying, “Why are you drinking?”
Duanjia Xu looked up slightly.
The light hit his face and it looked clearer.
Duan Jia Xu’s eyebrows were tinted with a bit of drunkenness, looking frivolous. Seeing Sang Zhi, he smiled and extended his hand towards her, “Kid.”
Molded like a bogeyman.
Sangji hadn’t heard him call himself that in a long time and didn’t react too well. But soon, guessing that he was probably too drunk to recognize anything, she took the initiative and said, “I’ll go get you a glass of water.”
Without waiting for her to head in the direction of the kitchen, Duan Jia Xu had already taken hold of her wrist and tugged it towards his arms.
Sanji was caught off guard and fell into his arms.
And then, met his, undrunk, extremely sober eyes.
Accompanying this was Duan Jia Xu’s lips pressed to her ear, bringing a warm and tingling touch. He nibbled on her ear bone, and the odor of alcohol on his body was not too strong, mixed with the scent of his body, which smelled inexplicably good.
Sang Chi subconsciously hooked his neck, and felt itchy, couldn’t help but shrink back.
Instantly he yanked it back and secured it.
His palm carried heat, sliding upward from Sangji’s tailbone and stopping at his hindquarters. It was like it carried an electric current, igniting the cold atmosphere around it as well.
A world of just the two of them.
Sanji had even forgotten the reason he had come out to the living room.
As if intoxicated by the smell of alcohol on him, she lifted her head and nipped the knot of his throat.
Sanji could feel that his body seemed to stiffen.
Duan Jia Xu lifted her chin and stared at her for two seconds before kissing her lips heavily. His force was great, his movements were extraordinarily rough, his tongue swept over her lips and teeth, gripping her and not letting go.
The intention is to be confused, to be in love.
Perception in the body, location in the mind.
All of them are fully occupied by the other side.
After a long time, Duan Jia Xu released her lips. Those eyes that contained lust were colored with a few points of compulsion, as well as blatant seduction. He opened his mouth, his voice low and hoarse: “Child.”
Sangji raised his eyes to look at him and subconsciously answered.
The cry for her was different from any other time before. It carried an extremely strong hint of flirtation.
“Make love to your brother?”
Chapter 77
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Sanji swallowed the water in his mouth and froze, “Where are you treating me badly.”
Soon after, Duan Jiaxu touched it and added, “Why is it swollen.”
She’s thirsty.
He never drank, but because of her, made an exception.
Duan Jia Xu laughed softly and put a piece of clothing on her while carrying her back to her room.
Light and shadow interlaced, the man’s features more three-dimensional outline. He lowered his eyes, staring straight at her, eyelashes thick like crow feathers, lining the eyes deep, emotions as thick as ink.
Duanjia Xu slightly related, “Think it’s not good for you.”
Sang Chi did a good job of psychologically adjusting herself and raised her eyes slightly, smelling the odor of alcohol on him again. She reached out and ripped his hand off, saying in all seriousness, “So you drink for courage?”
“Then and now, you’ve always been good to me.”
After being tossed around by him for a while, Sang Chi’s voice was muffled and she felt sweaty and sticky all over. She wanted to get up and take a shower, but her legs were weak and she didn’t have any energy at all.
Without waiting for her to finish, Duan Jia Xu tilted his head and kissed her lips.
I also wonder if you’ll regret your decision to stay with me in the future. Will you regret not listening to your parents’ advice and insisting on being with me?
It was only at the same time the lights went out that San Zhi noticed the picture frame sitting on the bedside table, a photo of the two of them together when Duan Jia Xu graduated.
“Then why are you saying this somehow.” Sanji set his water bottle aside and moved over to meet his eyes, “Is there another reason?”
It doesn’t sound very authentic.
The grip on his clothes tightened. This time, Sang Chi’s voice was genuinely tense but fearless, “I didn’t say no.”
“I won’t make you regret it.”
Became, the beast that wanted to swallow her whole and invade all of her.
The dark-haired, rumpled-eyed man, a change from his usual gentle and gentle demeanor, had a smile on his face that inexplicably appeared to be defeated. His eyebrows were all springy, deliberately, hooking people to ravage.
In this kind of atmosphere, he directly said “okay”, she can certainly understand what he means. Even if you think she doesn’t get it, saying that you’re going to bed doesn’t seem a bit euphemistic.
But because of you, I am not afraid of any external force, and I have lost all my inferiority complex. Because of you, I feel that I am the only one in this world who is worthy to be with you.
Half-asleep, half-awake, Sangji wasn’t quite sure if he was in a dream world or if he really heard him talking, “Be an animal for once.”
Why should she be nervous.
She will never.
Sanji looked at him and whispered, “Thirsty, get up and drink water.”
Would be so worried about it.
Sang Chi felt like she was suspended in mid-air, losing her weight, she felt uneasy and could only cling to the man in front of her with her whole body.
Duan Jia Xu softly hmmmed and picked her up like a child, heading in the direction of the kitchen. He put Sang Zhi on the running counter, while later taking out a bottle of mineral water from the box next to him, unscrewing it and handing it to her.
The little girl’s thin whimpers were like a catalyst.
He could say such things, why should she resign herself to it.
All the feelings magnified.
Sang Chi didn’t recognize the bed too well, and was too lazy to care why he carried himself here, and as soon as she touched the bed, she wanted to sleep. She flopped onto the bed and got under the covers, and before she could lie down, the next moment she was held in his arms through the covers.
Is she nervous?
–
She could feel that Duan Jia Xu still seemed to be staring at her, his line of sight extremely burning. But she really felt sleepy, and reached out only to hug him, as if she was coaxing him.
But Sanji, too, hadn’t thought about it, and he really had no lower limits.
Sanji buried his face in the crook of his neck.
“It’s all collecting dust.”
Sanji shook his head.
Duan Jia Xu stopped talking again and reached out to wipe the water stains off the corners of her lips.
Duanjia was about to free his hand and open the door to her room when he heard the person in his arms venture out again, “But I wasn’t startled.”
“Know what you’re talking about?”
His body temperature was hotter than usual, and Sang Zhi was held by him, but she could also feel the traces of his moving emotions. She stifled her red face, she really couldn’t say it, “Just that what ……”
He didn’t explain, leaning back to stand by the runner, watching her quietly.
Kuwabara looked mute, “Huh?”
Tearing all of his masks off and revealing his truest form.
In just a moment, Sanji came back to his senses.
If it wasn’t for me, wouldn’t you have met someone better. Does the fact that everyone is against it, not in favor of it, mean that I really don’t deserve you that well.
“Bad mood.”
“……”
–
Most of Sang Chi’s sleepiness was gone in an instant. She took a deep breath and kicked in his direction, a little annoyed, “Will you stop talking.”
“Hmm?”
Sanji’s mind slowed down a beat with it. Her gaze froze a little, and a faint tingling sensation still lingered on her lips, reminding her that this was all real.
A sentence that broke the charming atmosphere.
Duan Jiaxu kissed her ear and tenderly said, “Still drinking?”
Duan Jiaxu didn’t repeat himself, still staring at her, the emotion on his face was unknown, and the curve of his lips rose a little more. He raised his hand, slowly rubbing her lower lip with his fingertips, one after another, the force was not too light and not too heavy.
Sanji even got the feeling that the roles were reversed.
What?
It was only at this moment that it was realized.
His lips stopped at the back of her neck and kissed his way down. With his other hand, he pulled open the drawer under the nightstand and took the box from inside.
It was as if her heart was about to crash out of her body, and in this silence, the sound was amplified and extremely clear. She even felt that Duan Jia Xu could definitely hear it as well.
It brings up extremely strange, never-before-experienced feelings.
How can this old man be so blunt and unreserved.
“Oh.”
None.
Though, knowing that, he has always spoken without skin in the game.
Every force was unconsciously increased, and all the dark and brutal thoughts surfaced in his head, only to be reined in at the same time as he heard her voice.
The words in her mouth instantly swallowed back, Sang Chi’s eyes opened, her body a little stiff because she didn’t know what to do. Also because of his move, she subconsciously shrunk back and quickly leaned back in his direction.
Ambiguous, with a hint, a subtle hint.
Duan Jia Xu lowered his head and touched her.
Oh.
“Sanji.” Duan Jia Xu let go of her, and there was some kind of emotion welling up in his eyes. He stroked her face for a long time before saying in a muffled voice, “I love you.”
“……”
Skin is naturally white, but not sickly, in this light, as if glowing. Because of the long time kissing, the lips seem to be filled with blood, red and colorful.
Duan Jia Xu lowered his voice, seemingly, and whispered in her ear.
In this rambling night, cramped space, extremely close proximity.
Sanji took it and sipped it slowly, asking as he did so, “Why are you drinking?”
Next! Limit ！！！！
“Just don’t want to be human anymore.”
Not thinking that after she said it, it would affect his mood, Sang Chi hastily explained, “I didn’t say those to accuse you, I just wanted to tell you. It’s not like you know, and I was small for my age before.”
A few seconds of silence.
“Just gave you your flesh and you’re so cold to me,” Duan Jia Xu pinched her face, “Why are you so heartless?”
Absolute! No!!!
At those words, Sang Chi raised his head and pursed his lips, “Didn’t you just say ……”
“Why?”
Sanjay doesn’t care about him anymore.
It seemed to speak again, trailing off.
The corners of Duan Jiaxu’s eyes reddened and he said very softly, “You’re mine.”
Longing and possessiveness intertwined.
In this moment, all can’t be hidden.
Duan Jia Xu reacted and looked at her, his voice with a smile, “Scared you.”
At this moment, her heart crackled as if a giant bomb had been dropped on it. Her breath caught in her throat, and hot air rushed up her neck. She couldn’t quite believe her ears.
Kuwabara gasped involuntarily, her tail end trembling, “Go back, go back to your room.”
It’s not make-believe.
“No.”
Duan Jia Xu’s movements stopped as if he was smiling. Then, very obediently, he carried her back to his room.
Duan Jia Xu tugged lightly on her dress, and it didn’t take long for him to stop again. He smiled lowly, his voice a little deeper, and said honestly, “It’s been a long time since I bought it.”
Like a vampire with bad intentions, but good at seducing people.
Duan Jia Xu obediently grabbed her hand and also stopped saying anything.
“……,” Sanjay’s voice was still nasally and slurred, “Say tomorrow, I’m sleepy.”
Perhaps not expecting her to react like this, Duan Jia Xu froze slightly and quickly burst out laughing. His jaw was slightly converged, his chest vibrated, and his eyes carried light as he smiled radiantly and eye-catchingly.
Duanjia Xu laughed, “No.”
The curtains don’t block the light, and with the moonlight that fell in, Sang Chi noticed his movements and saw what was in his hand. With her last ounce of consciousness, she didn’t hold back and asked, “Why did you buy ……”
“……”
“But I didn’t feel ……” At this, Sanjay’s voice paused, and he asked hesitantly, “Is it because of what I told you today?”
It filled the entire chamber.
His movements stopped and he slowly withdrew his hand.
In the end, it was Duan Jiaxu who carried her to the toilet and simply cleaned her up. He lowered his eyes and said thoughtfully, “It seems like it’s not very restrained.”
She’s not nervous.
After speaking, Duan Jia Xu grabbed Sang Zhi’s hand. He stared at her, the emotions in his eyes half-concealed, and spoke with a soft gasp.
This appearance of his made Sang Zhi’s mouth inexplicably dry, and the thirst that had just risen was inexplicably a little more intense at this moment. At that moment, he also remembered the purpose of his coming out.
“You’re mine.”
Non! To! This! Them!
Duan Jia Xu’s movements were loving and long, extremely patient. He took care of her feelings, and his words were coaxing, “Don’t be afraid.”
“Go to sleep then.” Duan Jia Xu picked her up again and headed in the direction of the master bedroom, “Little friend.”
You are my one and only, and eternal.
Sang Chi was sleepy and tired, her whole body ached, she didn’t have the heart to listen to him, she just wanted to clean up quickly and go to bed quickly. She was at his mercy like a puppet on strings, and even the energy to feel uncomfortable was gone.
“Does it hurt?”
Follow Brother ……
The movement was careful and timid, extremely raw in response.
The ambiguous odor that lingered in the room had not yet dissipated.
In the next moment, Duan Jia Xu’s entire body leaned over, his body pressed against her back. In this darkness, grabbing that picture frame, he slowly and methodically covered it.
Hearing those three words, Sang Chi’s gaze lurched, and then she blinked slowly. She also couldn’t describe her mood at this moment, inexplicably feeling a sore nose, she subconsciously hooked her arms around his neck and buried her face in front of his chest.
Two distinct colors.
The words fell for half a second.
Was really thinking about it.
What little sleepiness Sang Wiz had left was also suddenly gone.
Sang Zhi felt that the place he touched seemed to burn as well. She forced the tremor in her voice and pretended to be calm and collected, “I’m not a child anymore ……”
There were no lights on in the room, only a small night light was on at the head of the bed. Sang Chi’s body fell onto the bed, and his first reaction was to go over and turn off the light.
Sanji: “Are you drunk?”
Sang Zhi subconsciously raised his neck to bear his kiss. This time the force was gentler than before, with a few hints of love, mixed with a faint smell of alcohol. Her eyes were unclosed, looking into his lowered eyes.
In a normal progression, she would have finished her water by now and gone back to bed to fall asleep again. Instead, she was sitting here kissing him and listening to his blunt and brazen words.
Duan Jiaxu smiled, “Let’s talk for a while.”
She was out for a drink.
Duan Jia Xu laughed for half a day before stopping. He withdrew his hand and asked as if what had just happened hadn’t happened, “Why did you suddenly wake up?”
Duan Jia Xu’s breathing grew heavier, and his breath sprayed on her neck, hot as if on fire. He closed his eyes, trying to pull himself back to his senses, but he turned away at her words.
Duan Jia Xu’s eyes darkened and he lowered his head again and started kissing her.
I don’t know how long it took, but Duan Jia Xu lowered his head, licked off her tears, and repeated.
“……”
Sanji was at a complete loss as to how to respond.
Dim and charming room.
Chapter 78
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Some time ago, the sleep state has not been very good, coupled with yesterday’s late sleep, Sang Zhi this sleep extraordinarily solid, wake up do not know what time it is. After sleeping for a long time, her head was a bit heavy, and her brain couldn’t turn around.
For a moment there was also the feeling of not knowing where you were.
Lying on the bed, Sang Chi was in a daze for a while. She gradually came back to her senses, turned over to look at the alarm clock on the nightstand, and noticed that the time was just past twelve noon.
When she glanced over, she saw a picture frame that had been covered up.
Sanji sniffled and subconsciously righted it.
At the same time, she saw the picture in the frame, and her young, tender self on it. She paused, reached out and rubbed her fingertips over the smiling Duan Jiaxu, suddenly remembering his behavior yesterday.
Momin covered the picture frame.
I didn’t pay much attention to his behavior at the time, but now that I think about it, it’s like he’s trying to hide it.
After looking at it for a few more seconds, Sanjay muttered in a low voice, “Can’t we just change the picture.”
Without thinking about it anymore, Sanji sat up straight. The covers slid off with the movement.
She looked down and noticed the wide t-shirt she was wearing, and the thin red marks on her skin. It was then that Sanji realized that she was wearing Duanjia Xu’s clothes. And that was all that was over it, nothing else.
Yesterday’s pain is also much less severe.
Sang Zhi got out of bed and didn’t feel uncomfortable, only a slight discomfort. She was a bit uncomfortable with these clothes, and wanted to go back to her room to change her clothes, and put on her personal clothes as well.
No sooner had she reached the door than the door to the room had been pushed open from the outside.
Duan Jia Xu’s hand was still holding on the door handle. Noticing Sang Zhi’s appearance at this moment, the tips of his eyebrows slightly raised, his eyes slowly skimming over every corner of her body from top to bottom. Finally, it rejoined her eyes.
Seeing him reminded Sanji of last night again.
Inexplicably, my face felt hot.
At this point, he didn’t even know what expression to use to face him.
Sanji averted his eyes and volunteered, “Don’t you have to work?”
Duanjash: “Took a vacation.”
Sanji rubbed his head and nodded, “I’ll go wash up.”
He hmmmed softly, his eyes still on hers. Standing in his place in the doorway with no intention of getting out of the way, he then lowered his head like he wanted to kiss her again.
Sang Chi immediately covered her mouth, “I didn’t brush my teeth.”
Duan Jia Xu smiled lowly and kissed the back of her hand in passing. Eyebrows slightly lowered, looking at the traces showing on her body, he reached out and gently stroked it, saying gently, “Why does it look so painful.”
Sanji didn’t respond, “Huh?”
His words were like a reassurance, but they didn’t carry any semblance of guilt.
“I’ll go lighter next time.”
–
Sang Zhi went back to her room to change her clothes, and incidentally went into the toilet to brush her teeth. Thinking about what Duan Jia Xu had just said, her movements lurched as she spat out the foam in her mouth and cupped some water to pour into her mouth.
I’ll be gentle next time.
Next time.
She can’t even recall now, yesterday she was in the mood to say “I didn’t say no”, these five words. The shame of hindsight surfaced in her heart in a moment.
A million images rose up in his head.
Sang Yeon asked her with an expressionless face, “Can you be more reserved?”
So, she acts that way in front of other people?
San Zhi pursed her lips and lowered her head to wash her face.
Forget it.
He knows all about it anyway.
Inexplicably, Sang Zhi recalled again, when she was blurred in consciousness, the extremely erotic gestures that Duan Jia Xu had made with that frank appearance. As well as the sentence that her roommate said, “A twenty-five year old male with no sexual experience will be perverted ah!”
“……”
It is a bit though.
But perverted isn’t so bad.
–
Sanji exited the room.
Duan Jia Xu was standing next to the dining table, idly filling his bowl with congee. He was still wearing his pajamas and didn’t look like he had been out. The neckline of the shirt was loose, and you could also see the marks she had left on it.
She withdrew her eyes silently.
“Come over and eat some.” Duan Jia Xu raised his eyes, “Don’t starve yourself sick.”
Sanji sat down in the chair and casually asked, “When did you wake up?”
Duan Jiaxu put one of the bowls in front of her, “A little earlier than you.”
Sanji: “Oh.”
Duan Jia Xu also sat down and asked, “Does it still hurt?”
“…… “Sang Chi lowered his head to drink porridge, his voice was low and inaudible, “It doesn’t hurt.”
“I’m kinda sore.”
Hearing this, Sanji instantly looked at him.
Duan Jia Xu pulled his collar to one side, revealing the red marks on it from her bite, as if trying to ask for comfort, “Look, you bit this hard.”
The tone was prodigal and frivolous.
It’s the same as the evil one.
Sanji didn’t hold back and tugged at the clothes he was wearing as well, frowning, “You didn’t bite me?”
“……”
“This, this, this.” Since he opened his mouth, Sang Chi didn’t give him face, pointing at one location after another, “Are you having cannibalism?”
Duan Jia Xu froze slightly before bursting out laughing. His eyes traveled down from her face and stopped somewhere, and the corners of his lips curved up as he said with interest, “And?”
“……”
“Didn’t I also bite–“
Sang Chi reacted and interrupted him violently, “Duan Jia Xu!”
Duan Jia Xu didn’t continue. He lightly licked the corner of his lips, his tone dangling, “My family is only small everywhere.”
“…… “Although what he said was true, Sang Chi still felt insulted. She was a little offended, and held her tongue before stifling a sentence, “You’re the one who’s small.”
Duan Jiaxu raised an eyebrow, “I’m still small here?”
Sanji said stiffly, “Small.”
The next moment, Duanjia Xu grabbed her hand and brought it somewhere, “Is it small?”
Sanji: “……”
He gasped softly, and then, in small increments, he moved up, and pushed down.
“Hmm?”
–
It was only at this moment that Sang Wiz began to feel a small bit of regret. She felt as if this old man, in some ways, had unsealed himself because of last night’s events.
No more restraint, no more hiding.
Straightforward and wild.
But it is undeniable that this man, in bed matters, is both patient and wild, but also extra …… sexy. Usually that demonic atmosphere, no longer half hide, all pour out.
Sanji couldn’t even count how many times he had been seduced by him.
She rubbed her sore hand and sat back down on the table to finish her porridge.
It wasn’t long before Duan Jia Xu came out of the toilet. He took another shower and changed his clothes. He sat down next to her, his complexion as warm as jade, his face extremely deceptive, “What do you want to do today?”
Sanji ignored him.
Duan Jia Xu was still about to say something when the cell phone on the table suddenly rang. He scanned the caller ID, his expression gave a start, and he quickly picked it up, “Hello.”
At the sound, Sanji looked up at him.
The person on the other end of the phone didn’t know what he said, and Duan Jia Xu’s expression didn’t change much, only responding to the occasional two voices, before finally saying, “Okay, I’ll go over now.”
When he hung up, Sanjay asked, “Who is it?”
Duanjash: “My dad’s doctor.”
“……” Sanji froze, “What’s wrong?”
Duan Jiaxu’s mood was obviously worse, and said in a faint voice, “He said that his lungs were infected, and the situation wasn’t too good, so he wanted to transfer him to the city hospital, and asked me to go over and do the formalities.”
Sang Chi swallowed the porridge in his mouth and carefully said, “I’ll accompany you?”
Duan Jia Xu raised his eyelashes and stared at Sang Zhi for a while, his emotions unknown. After a long time, he tugged his lips slightly and slowly answered.
“Good.”
–
Sang-chi had been to the hospital quite a few times, but the care center was the first time she had ever been there.
The atmosphere here is worse than that of a hospital, and it is excessively quiet. The people lying on the beds seemed to be in poor physical condition, and some of them were even motionless, with no breath of life in sight.
Sanji also, for the first time, met Duanjia Xu’s father.
The man’s age was over half a decade, and his features were a bit deformed, so he couldn’t see much of his original appearance. He was so thin that it looked like he had only bones left, and the muscles all over his body were atrophied, thin and weak.
In him, Sang Chi couldn’t find the slightest bit of Duan Jia Xu’s resemblance to him at all.
The doctor was beside himself with recent news.
Bedridden for close to twelve years now, Duan Zhicheng’s body resistance has become very poor, coupled with long-term lung infections, triggering a variety of complications, the situation is not good. The physical therapy equipment here is not working, and the doctor’s recommendation is to transfer to the city hospital for treatment.
Although euphemistic, the meaning between the lines is that Duan Zhicheng should not be able to live fast.
Duan Jia Xu just listened without saying much.
As a complete stranger to Duan Zhicheng, seeing him lying on the bed didn’t make Sang Zhi Zhi feel too good. She couldn’t help but glance at Duan Zhaoshi, wondering what he was feeling right now.
Noticing her gaze, Duan Jia Xu also looked at her.
Sanjay reached out and held him, as if in comfort.
Like he didn’t care too much, Duan Jia Xu squeezed her hand back and laughed, “Go buy a bottle of water for me, did you see when you just came here, there’s a convenience store next to it.”
Sanji nodded, “Uh-huh.”
“Come back when you’re done shopping and stay put.”
Sang Zhi Zhi could also guess that he probably wanted to detach her and say something to Duan Zhicheng. She moved over and hugged him, whispering, “Then wait for me here, I’ll be back soon.”
“Uh-huh.”
Only after seeing Sang Zhi Zhi leave did Duan Jia Xu sit on the seat next to Duan Zhicheng’s hospital bed. He converged the curve of his lips and opened his mouth softly, “From what the doctor said, you should be able to hear, right?”
“……”
“But all these years, I haven’t talked to you much.” Duan Jia Xu’s emotions were light and his tone was calm, “I’m afraid you won’t recognize my voice. I’ll still say it first, I’m Duan Jia Xu.”
“Your son.”
“Counting up, it’s been almost twelve years since this incident.” Duan Jia Xu said, “If you didn’t jump off the building at that time, at this moment, you should have already come out as well.”
“I don’t know if Mom ever told you about these things.”
Speak out and get no response.
The man in the hospital bed wouldn’t even move his eyelids.
It was like he was talking to himself.
“After the family’s house was sold and the compensation was given, the rest of the money, all the family’s savings, was basically spent on you.” Duan Jia Xu couldn’t help but laugh, “Because of the borrowed money, not a single relative came back to us.”
“And then, your wife, Xu Ruoshu, also passed away almost eight years ago. Because of illness, cancer.”
“I got into the university in Nanwu and only went home for winter and summer vacations. She actually noticed that there was something wrong with her body, but because she didn’t have any money, she kept putting it off and didn’t dare to tell me.” Duan Jia Xu said, “When she went to the hospital to check later, she said that it was no longer curable.”
“I didn’t quite believe it, and wanted to take her to a big hospital for another checkup, and borrowed thirty thousand dollars from a classmate. When she found out, her whole body collapsed straight away and she kept crying with me, begging me to return the money.”
“Because of your medical bills that can crush an entire family, because of my school fees, because of all the things needed to live.” Duanjia Xu’s voice trailed off, “Because there’s no money.”
“Because of you.”
“After mom passed away, originally I didn’t plan to come back.” Duan Jiaxu smiled lowly, “Wanted to work there, settle down, and stay there from now on. But then inexplicably, I hoped you would wake up.”
Think, even after all the wrong you’ve done.
And the only family I have left in the world.
“I wish you could see what’s going on right now.”
“Wanted to see that you were guilty and in excruciating pain.”
“I want you to understand that if you didn’t run away in the first place, but accepted the punishment,” Duan Jiaxu’s eyes reddened and his voice was low and hoarse, “how different our lives would be now.”
Xu Ruoshu must still be alive.
You’re out already, too.
All sins are atoned for.
Might still not be able to hold my head up because of it.
But yet, it will be living a life that may not be particularly good, but is certainly better than it is now.
And not as it is now.
I am the only one who suffers, this dark and indefinite prison.
Chapter 79
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After all those years.
Duan Jiaxu remembered Xu Ruoshu’s life, still felt self-blame, still remembered his own incompetence. This has become his life, can not make up for, the most regrettable thing.
He stared at the man in the hospital bed.
Inexplicably, he recalled the morning of the accident, before Duan Zhicheng left the house, he gently touched his head, and said to him with a smile, “Ah Xu this exam, if you continue to maintain the first place, dad will give you a reward.”
It’s been so many years.
He never dropped out of first place without being rewarded.
Duan Jiaxu sat up straight, pulling back his emotions. As if remembering something, he suddenly pulled up the corner of his lips, faintly said, “But never mind.”
“I have a good life now, and met someone I want to be with all the time.” Duan Jia Xu reached out and tucked him in, “It doesn’t seem like, especially needing you anymore.”
“……”
“I still hope you can wake up.” Duan Jia Xu laughed, “See for yourself how much the world has changed, and how much you’ve missed.”
And then realize that there were obviously a million options in the first place.
And you’ve embarked on the worst, a path of no return.
–
Sang Zhi had water in her bag. Because of the embarrassing experience of her first period, she has the habit of carrying a bag, always stuffed with a lot of things, and when she goes out with Duan Jiaxu, she will subconsciously bring an extra bottle of water.
Once out of the hospital room, she leaned out and waited.
It’s basically a big ward here. In one room, there were eight beds. But probably because of Duan Zhicheng’s physical condition, he was transferred to a single room.
The space is extremely cramped and the soundproofing is poor.
Sang Chi was outside and could still faintly hear Duan Jia Xu’s voice. Her toes moved, and she stopped the next second, listening to Duan Jia Xu’s words in silence.
Afraid that he would suddenly come out and see her outside, Sangji only stayed for a short while but got the general idea of what was going on. Her heart was a little clogged, and after a few seconds, her nose was sore.
In the end, San Zhi went out of the care center and bought a bottle of water at the convenience store next door.
By the time she went back, Duan Jia Xu had also come out, and was at the front desk, giving Duan Zhicheng the formalities for transferring to the hospital.
Sanji walked over and stood next to him, handing him the water.
Duan Jiaxu took it and asked, “Why did you go for so long?”
“Line up.” Sanjay obediently took his hand and lied, “There were so many people just now.”
“Uh-huh.” Duan Jia Xu returned the grip, his eyes slightly curved, his tone warm and slow, “I thought you couldn’t find your way. But it’s done, we’re going back now.”
Sanji nodded.
The two headed down the stairs.
Recalling the scene he had just seen outside, Sanji’s steps quickened, tugging him downward as if he were going to run the next moment.
Duan Jiaxu let her tug at him and said in amusement, “Why are you walking so fast?”
“You hurry up too.” He didn’t use any force at all, relying on Sang Zhi to tug him along. She couldn’t help but twist her head to look at him and said seriously, “You’re so heavy, it’s so hard for me to tug you.”
Duanjia Xu then slightly accelerated his pace, “What’s wrong?”
Soon the two were out of the care center.
It was still snowing outside, sporadically, like white feathers that melted away when they fell onto the hands. This lot is very remote, and there are few cars on the road, not many people around.
Instead, amazingly enough, the sun came out. A large portion of sunlight poured down on the ground, not too fierce, very mild. It was warm in this winter day, paired with the fine snow.
Sang Chi pointed to him, his eyes curving into crescent moons, “Look, the sun is still out when it’s snowing.”
Duan Jia Xu had lived over here since he was a child, and had seen this kind of scene a few times and didn’t find it new. But seeing her look, he didn’t spoil her fun and laughed along.
She just seemed to want to share it with him, chirping, “I’ve only seen sun rain, but not sun snow.”
“Uh-huh.”
“You see, after it rains and snows, the sun comes out.” Sang Chi was serious about filling him with chicken soup, “Sometimes, when it rains and snows, the sun also comes out.”
Sunshine, the least stingy thing in the world.
Duan Jia Xu listened to her words and hmmmed again.
Sang Chi raised her neck and stared at him with round eyes, her voice was clear and soft, and she moved over to hug him again. The little girl’s small size, want to touch his head to soothe, have to stand on tiptoe.
“So after the bad things pass, good things happen.”
Life will be all right.
And so will you.
–
It was just after 2pm.
Sang Chi only ate a bowl of congee at noon and was a little hungry at this point. The two of them went back to the school side, passing by a frequented store, she went in and bought an egg boy, incidentally bought a hot drink nearby.
Duan Jia Xu picked up the drink that Sang Zhi bought, the lid wasn’t too good to open, he took a sip straight away and made sure the clerk didn’t give it to the wrong person before handing it to her.
Sanji didn’t take it, tore a piece of egg boy and fed it to him.
Duan Jia Xu was never interested in snacks or munchies, but he obediently bit down.
As if he was addicted to feeding, as a result of such a piece of egg仔, Sang Zhi himself did not eat a few bites, tearing a piece of it to Duan Jia Xu’s side, and it all went into his stomach.
This thing is still a bit greasy after eating too much of it, Duan Jiaxu filled a few mouthfuls of water while asking, “Don’t like it?”
Sanji threw the paper bag into the trash can. Hearing this, she blinked, “Nope. I saw that you seemed to like it, so I gave it all to you.”
When she finished, she hung her head and fished a candy out of her bag, feeding it to his mouth again.
Duan Jia Xu’s eyelids drooped slightly as he bit into the candy. With a hook of his tongue, he licked her fingertips, taking the candy into his mouth in the process. And then, he held Sang Zhi’s head and pressed his lips together.
Against her teeth, with slow movements, he pushed the sugar in.
The whole thing was only three seconds.
But it’s on, like, a street with people coming and going.
Sang Chi’s gaze froze, and it took a moment before she reacted, and the fudge had been swallowed. She stared wide-eyed, not daring to look at the expressions of the people around her at all, and lowered her voice to say, “What are you doing!”
“Little friend, feeding things by hand is outdated.” Duan Jia Xu’s words were laced with a smile as he leisurely said, “That’s how they’re fed nowadays, you know?”
“……”
Sanji instantly had the urge to make him spit out all of the egg nog he’d just eaten.
The two went into a nearby hypermarket.
Sanji started running towards the snack section again.
There was still more time, so Duan Jia Xu didn’t rush to the fresh food area and followed her. He glanced at the snacks in the shopping cart, picked up one of the packets, and casually asked, “Why did you buy so many of these?”
Sanji looked back and honestly said, “Because the last time I ate this, you ate it with me. Thought you should like it too.”
Duan Jia Xu didn’t say anything and threw it back.
Sang-chi looked at one shelf after another, and when she walked further, she suddenly bumped into someone she hadn’t seen for a long time. The person also saw her, froze, and then took the initiative to greet her, “Hi.”
Sanji raised his hand as well and called out, “Xiaoyu-san.”
Shi Xiaoyu looked like she came alone, and the things in the shopping cart were all daily necessities, as well as some small snacks. Her eyes shifted and saw Duan Jia Xu behind Sang Zhi.
Before, when Sang Zhi was interning, Duan Jia Xu often went to pick her up from work. Shi Xiaoyu had bumped into him a few times, so she also recognized him. She didn’t say much, and after exchanging a few pleasantries, she carted off.
Seeing her, Sang Zhi remembered Jiang Ying again. After thinking about it, she turned around and asked, “Has Jiang Ying come to see you again recently?”
Duanjia Xu said diffidently, “No.”
Kuwabara oh-oh’d and didn’t ask any further questions.
The two of them headed in the direction of the fresh food section, intending to eat at home tonight. Duan Jiaxu slowly picked at the vegetables, saying in passing, “Only only, to discuss a matter with you.”
Sanji looked up, “Huh?”
Duanjash: “I’m going to resign.”
“Are you changing jobs?”
“Intend to change the place, go to Nanwu to open a game studio.” Duan Jia Xu smiled, “With the company side, also talked about, poor procedures and handover things.”
Sang Chi froze, “You really want to go back to Nanwu?”
“Isn’t this a discussion with you?” Duan Jia Xu said, “If you don’t want to, and want me to stay here with you for two more years, it’s not too late for me to tell the company.”
Sanji didn’t really care much about that.
After all, it was in Nanwu, and she had to go back for both summer and winter vacations, plus the holidays. The only effect on the relationship between the two seemed to be that they couldn’t see each other every day.
But after this semester, Sanji is also a junior in college. There were more things to be busy with. When she was a senior, she could also return to Nanwu for her internship.
It wasn’t much of a long separation.
Sangji said warmly, “Then when will you go to Nanwu?”
Duanjash: “Next week.”
“Where do you live?”
“Qian Fei helped me find a house to rent first.” Duan Jiaxu said, “He recommended a few new properties for me, so after I go over there, I’ll start looking at houses when I have time.”
“……”
“Or we can watch it together when you return to Southwold.”
Sanji didn’t quite get what he was saying and hesitantly said, “Are you going to buy a house?”
Duanjash skimmed his head at her, “Uh-huh.”
Sang Zhi ah sound, afraid that he will be too much pressure, stumbled: “Buy a house in Nanwu, on the, location a little bit better …… also did not compare to Yiho ……”
She didn’t continue, changing her tone, “There’s no rush on this one.”
Duan Jia Xu lowered his head, leveling his eyes with her. He inexplicably laughed out loud, his chest vibrating, “Really think I’m that poor, huh?”
“……”
“Didn’t I tell you, there’s a little bit of savings.” Duan Jia Xu touched her head and stood up straight, “It’s not much, but to make a down payment, it’s still enough.”
“…… Oh.” Sang Chi has no concept of this, just said, “Anyway, I really don’t care about this, if I come out to work on my own, I can’t afford to buy a house even if I work for five years I guess.”
“Hmm?”
“What I mean,” said Sanjay, “is that there is nothing that I have not myself, and nothing that I am entitled to, that you must have.”
“You did.” Duanjia Xu calmly said, “I bought it for you.”
Sanji froze again, “Huh?”
“When the time comes, just let me stay by the way.” Duan Jia Xu’s voice was gentle, trailing off, “I don’t need anything else either, just half of your bed, that’s fine.”
“……”
Sanji looked at him, tried to say something, and held it back. She turned her head in the direction of the drinks section and grabbed a couple of cokes and coconut milk. Noticing the beer next to it, she asked, “Want to get some wine?”
Duanjia Xu: “You want to drink?”
“No, just if you usually want to drink suddenly, you don’t have to run out in the middle of the night to buy it.” Saying this, Sang Chi paused, not wanting him to have a shadow because of this again, and emphasized in a small voice, “Moreover, the way you drink, you’re quite pretty.”
At those words, Duan Jia Xu’s eyebrows raised, “I look good when I drink?”
Sanji nodded his head like a chicken pecking, “Uh-huh.”
“You misunderstood, brother is not drinking to look good.” Duan Jia Xu smiled, his peach blossom eyes looked like they were discharging electricity, and his words had more than a little bit of gangliness, as well as a strong hint of meaning, “Brother is–“
“Huh?”
“Looks good in bed.”
“……”
–
Sang Zhi came over early, and none of her roommates have come back yet. She was not in a hurry to go back to the dormitory, and stayed in Duan Jiaxu for two more days, and only went back when it was time to report.
Duan Jiaxu was busy for a few more days, and only when he returned to Nanwu did he free himself. From time to time, he came over to find Sang Zhi and accompanied her to class.
He booked a flight back to Nanwu on Friday morning.
Sang Chi planned to send him off, and the night before, simply stayed at his place. She talked to Duan Jia Xu for a while, and her attention was gradually drawn to the TV, to the point where she lay on the couch and concentrated on watching it.
It didn’t take long for the craving to start again, wanting to take out the bit of dumplings that hadn’t been eaten at the Lantern Festival and cook them. Sangji got up by himself and went into the kitchen.
There was a sound of movement.
Sang Zhi had just put the soup pot on the induction cooker and hadn’t even flipped the switch when Duan Jiaxu walked in and asked, “What’s going on?”
She pointed and said honestly, “Cook the dumplings.”
Duan Jiaxu lowered his eyes, “Go out and watch TV, I’ll cook for you.”
“I can cook it.” It was simpler than noodles, wait for the water to boil, throw the dumplings in, and fish them out when they float. Sang Chi thought about his intentions and added, “I’ll cook more if you want.”
Duan Jiaxu slowly said, “Then we’ll cook it together.”
“……”
In order to clearly see that the boiled dumplings floated, sang chi deliberately found a large pot, also filled most of the water. At this time the water is very slow to heat, half a day did not boil.
The two of them were talking, and inexplicably, Sanji was picked up by him. Sitting on the runner, he was kissed by him one after another.
In his ears was the sound of an induction cooker operating, which seemed a little loud in the stillness.
Sang Chi didn’t close her eyes, staring at Duan Jia Xu’s face close at hand, and occasionally, she could still hear, the extremely ambiguous swallowing sound he made.
She actually liked his closeness.
Gradually, it also hooked around his neck and responded gently.
I don’t know how long it took, but the water made a boiling sound.
Duan Jia Xu’s movements then stopped. His gaze became deep, brushing her cheek with the tip of his nose, his voice low and seductive, “Do you want to–“
“……”
“Have a go in the kitchen?”
Chapter 80
….
At those words, Sang Chi slightly back to God, raised his eyes, eyes on his lips stained with water light. She was silent for two seconds, suddenly stretched out her leg to kick him, words with a few points of annoyance: “You day and night ……”
She paused, not bothering to finish the rest of her sentence.
Duan Jia Xu immediately grabbed her ankle, rubbing his fingertips on it with a force that wasn’t too light or too heavy. He lowered his chin, and suddenly laughed out loud, “What’s wrong?”
Sanji pushed him away and jumped down from the counter, “Go away, I’m going to cook dumplings.”
Then, she picked up the bag next to her.
Without waiting for Sang Zhi to make the next move, Duan Jia Xu had already taken the bag from her hand. He was still smiling, his shoulders trembled slightly, and he let out a small laugh, low and sexy.
Sanji looked at him and whispered, “What are you laughing at.”
Duan Jia Xu poured all the soup dumplings in the bag into the pot, and with a smile in his words, he said in a gentle manner, “If you don’t want to, I’ll bring it up next time. Don’t be angry.”
“……”
It shouldn’t be. If you don’t want to, forget it.
What do you mean I’ll just mention it another time.
And to say such things in such a svelte and refined tone.
Sang Chi was somewhat speechless. But she wasn’t angry, and pursed her tingling lips.
She took him a spoon and offered it to him while she pulled away from the conversation, “Are you going to eat it too? You’ve got an early flight tomorrow, so this won’t be easy to digest, and I didn’t plan on cooking your portion because I wanted you to go to bed early.”
“Sleep on the airplane.” Duan Jia Xu said leisurely, “It’s too much of a waste of time to sleep now.”
“……”
Sang Chi didn’t know if it was her problem or his. Now when he said a random word, she could think wrongly and subconsciously misinterpret it in some way.
She gave him another look and didn’t say anything.
The soup dumplings fell into the pot, and the water, which had originally boiled, stopped boiling again at this moment. Duan Jia Xu sprinkled some white sugar in and hung the soup spoon on the side.
He drew a paper towel to wipe his hands and stared straight at Sanji. And then suddenly bent down and braced his hands on her sides, enclosing her between himself and the runner.
“It will have to wait.” Duan Jia Xu kissed her chin again, “A little longer.”
–
After cooking, Sang Chi held the bowl that Duan Jia Xu handed her and went back to the sofa, watching TV while biting into the soup dumplings. It wasn’t long before Duan Jia Xu also walked out with a bowl.
Sanji casually asked, “Have you packed your bags?”
Duan Jiaxu: “No, I’ll collect it later.”
“You remember to bring more clothes, you don’t need to bring anything too thick, it’s not as cold over there as it is over here.” Sang Zhi said, “Then remember to stock up on food in the refrigerator, don’t eat takeout every day.”
Duanjia Xu hmmmed.
Sanji added, “I’ll go back to you when I’m free.”
Duan Jia Xu lifted his eyelids, the corners of his lips inexplicably curved up, and didn’t say anything.
“Then if you’re going to stay over there,” Sang Chi suddenly remembered something and took the initiative to say, “Should I return this house? Otherwise it’s a waste to pay the rent and have no one to live in it.”
“Don’t return first.” Duan Jia Xu lazily said, “I have to live even if I come back. And it’s been cold lately, isn’t the heating in your dormitory not working? If it’s hard to live here, come and stay here.”
“……”
“It’s okay to bring your friend over to stay with you if you’re scared alone.”
Sanji nodded as he bit into the dumpling.
“Talk to me when things happen, and usually don’t go back to the dorm too late, remember to be safe. Also, if you go out to play, drink less alcohol and don’t drink drinks that others have touched.” Duan Jia Xu thought about it and started to instruct, “After returning to the dormitory every day, you have to give me a video call.”
“Oh.”
“If someone asks you for your contact information.” Duan Jia Xu paused for a few seconds and gave a gentle suggestion, “You can give him mine.”
“……”
“I know, little girls nowadays, they all like young and energetic ones.” Duan Jia Xu said carelessly, “But you took my chastity, so it’s not quite right to dump me again.”
“……,” Sanji said without holding back, “can you stop talking nonsense.”
“It’s not about getting older and not having a heart.”
“Then if you go over to Nanwu, you have to report everything to me as well.” Sang Chi muttered, “You have to tell me when you speak to a girl or touch hands with a boy.”
“OK.”
“You’re less likely to tease someone else.” Sanji said, “Not even men.”
“……” Duan Jia Xu almost choked, “Which guy did I tease?”
“Qian Fei brother, and my brother too, in the past when Junwen brother was still in Nanwu, you also always ……” Sang Zhi’s gaze moved to him, swallowed back the words, “Forget it.”
No rehashing.
After thinking about it, Sang Chi still added, his tone a bit odd, “I told my roommates about these things, and they thought you were hitting on my brother.”
Duanjia Xu’s eyebrows jumped.
Just in time to finish the last of the dumplings, Sanjay stood up, taking his bowl in the process. She headed in the direction of the kitchen, reminding, “It’s ten o’clock, so go pack your things and go to bed.”
As if he didn’t hear her, Duan Jia Xu followed her into the kitchen again.
Sanjay turned on the faucet to wash the dishes.
The next moment, Duan Jia Xu came over, took the bowl in her hand, and circled her in his arms. As he washed the bowl, his movements were slow, and his arm would always inadvertently brush against her.
The body was so close to hers that washing a dish was like flirting.
Sanji licked his lips, “If you wash it, then I’ll go to my room ……”
There were only two bowls, and Duan Jia Xu had already washed them and put them aside. He turned off the water, his warm breath pressed against her ear, and again that familiar, scourge-like tone.
“Really don’t want to?”
“……”
Sanji didn’t know how things had turned out this way.
It was only when she came back to her senses a little that she reacted in a daze that she seemed to have been seduced by the old man again.
This dog man.
How.
So.
No lower limit.
The brightly lit kitchen was so quiet to the ears that the only sound left was the panting of the man in front of him. The marble counter with its coolness contrasted with his body.
Delicate and impossible to ignore touch.
He touched her.
At the last minute, pick her up and head for the room.
A charming room.
While his senses were occupied, San Zhi heard Duan Jia Xu’s voice close to a murmur.
“Don’t want to be separated from you.”
Her head went blank, but she subconsciously increased the force of her hold on him.
And then he was heard to add.
“Remember to think of me.”
–
Duane Jarx was on a 7:30 a.m. flight the next morning.
At exactly five in the morning, Duan Jia Xu woke up on time. He came over and kissed Sang Zhi’s forehead, and then gently got up to pack his things.
Seeing that it’s about time.
Duan Jia Xu returned to Sang Zhi’s room, sat on the edge of the bed, and lowered his head to stare at her. He reached out and touched her face and whispered, “Little friend, brother is leaving.”
Hearing this, Sang Chi instantly opened her eyes, her appearance still looking confused. She sat up and looked at him fully dressed, and mumbled, “What time is it.”
“It’s half past five,” Duan Jia Xu smiled, “Go back to sleep, just to let you know. Remember to go out and eat something yourself when you wake up, I won’t be able to get it for you in time.”
Sanji was a little confused, “Are you leaving?”
Duanjash: “Uh-huh.”
Sanji tried to get up, “I’ll walk you.”
“Send what ah.” Duan Jia Xu said, “It’s so far away, you’ll be back by yourself in a while, and I’ll have to worry about it on the plane. It’s cold outside, sleep a little more.”
“…… “Sang Chi stared at him and suddenly burrowed into his arms like a puppy, muffled, “I don’t want you to go.”
“I’ll definitely come over on your birthday.” Duan Jia Xu touched her head, “It’s not that long, just think of it as you coming home for a winter vacation.”
Sanji didn’t say anything.
“Really gone.” Duan Jia Xu began to instruct again, “Pay attention to yourself, don’t be abducted by some little male vixen while I’m gone.”
“……”
“But, brother is a bit older though.” His eyebrows lifted, glancing toward the hickey on her body, and he began to crack yellow again, “But energy, it’s not so bad, is it?”
“……”
–
After being so upset by him, it was obvious that a large portion of Sang Chi’s mood had dissipated. But she still climbed up and talked to him a bunch more, like a little adult.
Duan Jia Xu told her to go back to bed and went out the door afterward.
It had been more than four hours since he arrived at Nanwu Airport. He was still familiar with the city, and although he had been away for so many years, many things, had remained the same.
Duan Jiaxu went out of the airport, stopped a car, and reported to the driver the address Qian Fei had given him.
Getting out of the car, Duan Jia Xu walked into the neighborhood and looked for the doorman to get the key Qian Fei put there. He accurately found the location, entered the house, and looked around the environment, while later taking his cell phone to take a few pictures and send them to Sang Zhi.
Duanjia Xu packed up and quickly went out the door.
Decided to get a studio, Duan Jiaxu is not a whim. From last year, he began to plan this thing, found a few partners, also pulled an investor.
Some time ago, he transferred the technical shares in his hand and also got an extra sum of money.
As agreed, Duan Jia Xu went to meet two of his former college classmates and started talking about the studio.
Duan Jia Xu didn’t rush to meet Sang Rong and Li Ping.
Spent the next while running around to various places. Finding a suitable location and renting an office building. Submitted application forms to the business bureau, bought equipment, and recruited people.
He lived a busy life to the core, and the only bit of free time he had was given to Sanjay.
It was like going back to a few years ago, in Yiho, the time when he had just joined Jiang Siyun’s company. A few people also started their own business and then approached him, offering to let him take a share in the technology.
But again, it seems better than that time.
Couldn’t think of a better future then.
But anything he did now seemed to bring him closer, to the one he wanted.
After getting up early and working hard for more than half a month in a row, Duan Jiaxu’s taut spirit only relaxed a little. Under Qian Fei’s eight hundredth invitation, he rarely didn’t refuse and went out the door.
Besides Qian Fei, Sang Yan also came.
The three of them met at a clear bar.
Seeing Sang Yan, Duan Jia Xu suddenly remembered Sang Zhi’s words. The two of them sat side by side, staring at him for a while, before Duan Jia Xu got up thoughtfully and sat next to Qian Fei.
Sang Yeon was puzzled, “Are you sick?”
“I’m afraid my girlfriend will misunderstand.” Duan Jia Xu said mildly, “It’s more appropriate for the two of us to keep a bit of distance.”
“……”
After a while, Duan Jia Xu remembered something else and mentioned it to him, “Brother, send me Uncle’s cell phone number, I want to make an appointment with him and Auntie to pay a home visit.”
Sangyan: “?”
Duanjia Xu: “What?”
“You’re in too much of a hurry, aren’t you.” Sang Yeon picked up the wine in front of him and took a sip, “How old is my sister this year, and why do you want to meet the parents?”
Duan Jiaxu didn’t go into details and laughed, “Say something.”
“When people Lao Xu fall in love, they all run towards marriage.” Qian Fei playfully spat, “Which is like you, hanging on to other girls all day long, blowing with the whole world that it was someone else chasing you.”
Sang Yan was most offended by people talking about him blowing it with this. His eyelids lifted, scanning Qian Fei’s massive body up and down.
Estimating his weight in his mind, Sang Yan sneered and said word for word, “Put your one hundred and eighty-six pounds of bullshit.”
Qian Fei: “……”
Chapter 81
。。。。。
Qian Fei has always been fat, after marriage, in the love of nourishment, but also with the naked eye visible speed, lateral development. He took a deep breath, took a finger to him, and put it down.
Like it’s a matter of thinking to put up with it.
The sentiment lasted less than three seconds before Chancey raised his hand again, pointed at him a second time, and snarled, “HOW THE FUCK DO YOU KNOW MY ACCURATE WEIGHT?!”
“And really guessed?” Sang Yan coolly said, “I even deliberately guessed lower.”
Qian Fei, unable to accept this humiliation, looked at Duan Jiaxu: “Old Xu, do I look that fat?”
Duanjash: “No.”
Those words soothed Moneyflight just in time.
His fire tempered a bit, but his tone to Sang Yan is still angry: “You dog pussy, from today onwards, you don’t contact me again, or I’ll see you once and beat you once, get lost!”
Three seconds of silence.
Duan Jiaxu added with a low smile, “I thought you were already two hundred. If it’s only one hundred and eighty-six, it doesn’t seem too bad.”
Qian Fei: “……”
In an instant, Qian Fei’s anger had a few more hints of sadness in it, looking at Duan Jiaxu’s eyes like he was looking at a heartless man, “Why did you attack me with him, you used to love me the most.”
“Say what.” Duan Jia Xu said, “It’s not good for my girlfriend to misunderstand.”
“……”
“Also, this is my own brother.” Duan Jia Xu supported his chin, his gaze resting on Sang Yan’s body, smiling extremely gently, “How can I not help my own family?”
Meeting his eyes, Sang Yeon’s forehead jumped, “Why are you so disgusting in a relationship.”
Qian Fei shifted sides as well, “I can’t stand it either, really.”
Duan Jia Xu was good-natured and let them taunt him.
“When he didn’t have a date in the past, honestly, he could still tolerate it.” Qian Fei said, “Now that he has an object, like a male peacock, he is flirting every day. I really don’t know how your sister puts up with it.”
“……” Duan Jiaxu thought it was funny, “Is it that much of a stretch?”
“Take a look at yourself in the mirror more often when you have time.” According to his own experience, Qian Fei kindly reminded, “Nowadays, little girls don’t like such a sticky object. If you go on like this, in less than a year, the period of boredom will arrive.”
Hearing this, Sang Yan looked at Duan Jia Xu with a thoughtful expression.
Without waiting for Duan Jia Xu to say something, the cell phone sitting on the table rang. It was a video call from Sang Zhi. The corners of his lips tugged up as he picked up the phone and said slowly, “Don’t mind, do you?”
Chance Fly: “Mind.”
Duan Jia Xu thought for a moment, hung up, and returned a voice call back. He picked up a glass of water and held the phone to his ear as he spoke, “Seeing as you all don’t have a phone, I’m actually not too good at answering it.”
“……”
“But my girl is a bit grumpy.” Duan Jia Xu laughed, “I can’t if I don’t take it.”
The next moment, the call was answered.
Sanji’s voice came, “Are you still out there?”
“Well, come out with your brother, and Qian Fei for a chat.” Duan Jia Xu sipped his water and asked in a warm voice, “Back to the dormitory?”
“Back.” Sanji was self-conscious, “I won’t bother you then, you play with them, I’m going to take a shower.”
“I’ll call you when I get back.”
“Good.”
As if remembering something, Duan Jia Xu’s voice contained a smile as he explained, “Don’t worry, I have nothing with them.”
Qian Fei: “……”
Sanjan: “……”
“What do you mean sh-” before he could finish, Sanjay swallowed back the words, fell silent, and quickly opened his mouth again, the volume raised a bit, “are they next to you?”
Duanjia Xu hmmmed.
Sanji hung up the phone straight away.
Duan Jiaxu raised his eyebrows and put his cell phone down. He smiled to himself before asking, “Where were we?”
Qian Fei: “Why do I think you’re so annoying now.”
Sang Yeon sent him the number and pointed in the direction of the clear bar door, “Take it and roll.”
Sangji also messaged him on WeChat: [You! Dry! What!
Sanji: [Don’t say in front of them ！！！！！]
Duan Jia Xu endured a few laughs back and smoothed her fur. He put down his cell phone and leaned toward the back of his chair, dangling, “You two ostracized me, why do you still call me out all day?”
Qian Fei’s expression was subtle, his eyes flicked towards the two of them, “Why are you two a demeanor.”
Sangyan: “?”
“I remember before,” Qian Fei said, “you also told your sister that our entire dormitory lined up to pick you up? You say you’re evil or not, you can say such things.”
Duan Jia Xu lazily said, “Brother, that’s your problem.”
Sang Yan didn’t care, his tone was extremely beaten: “As for me, I, in all conditions, kill both men and women.”
With that, he scanned the two up and down, “Look at you, you’re staring at me like a wolf seeing meat, can I not panic?”
“……”
Sang Yan looked at Duan Jia Xu and changed the subject, “When are you going?”
Duanjia Xu: “Huh?”
“Meet my parents.”
“It should just be this time.” Duanjia Xu said, “What?”
“Nope.” Sang Yeon said with interest, “Watching the fun.”
–
After getting the number, Duan Jia Xu found a suitable time and dialed the phone.
After two rings, the other end picked up, and Sang Rong’s voice came out, “Hello, who is it?”
“Uncle, hello, I’m Duan Jia Xu.” Duan Jia Xu licked his lips lightly and said politely, “Recently, I went back to Nanwu to work, I haven’t contacted you, and I also want to stabilize and then pay a visit.”
Sang Rong’s tone was amiable as always, “Is it to settle in Nanwu?”
Duanjia Xu: “Yes, intend to develop over here.”
“Well, pretty good.”
Duan Jia Xu’s heart was still not very clear about this matter. He lowered his eyes and said solemnly, “Last time, I was in a hurry and didn’t have time to tell you about my situation in detail. So I want to ask you when you’re free, and I want to talk to you again about what happened last time.”
Silence fell on the other side of the phone.
Only ten seconds or so had passed, and it all seemed like a lingering death.
Sang Rong smiled, “I’m free on all weekends, why don’t you come over on Saturday night and have dinner at uncle’s place on the way. Recently a friend gave me a bottle of wine, and since that brat Ayan isn’t coming back, I can’t find anyone to have a few drinks with me.”
Duan Jiaxu let out a faintly imperceptible sigh of relief and smiled, “Okay, I’ll be there on time. Then I’ll bother you and Auntie.”
–
On Saturday day, Duan Jia Xu took the fruits and tea he bought and arrived at Sang Zhi’s house on time.
The one who came to open the door was Li Ping, she smiled at him and took the things in his hand while saying, “Next time you come over, don’t bring so many things ah, sit down first, wait a little longer. Dinner is almost ready.”
Duan Jiaxu took his shoes off and volunteered, “Let me help you.”
“No, it’s almost done.” Li Ping said, “Sit down for a while, you’re tired from the trip. Sang Yan, get someone a glass of water, why are you sitting there!”
Duan Jia Xu subconsciously glanced in the direction of the sofa.
He saw Sang Yan leaning back on the sofa as if he had no bones, chewing gum in his mouth. He lifted his chin in the direction of the coffee table and said idly, “Pour it yourself.”
Rather like he said the other day, watch the fun.
Duanjia Xu’s eyelids twitched.
Seeing that Liping seemed to be about to get angry, Duan Jiaxu was busy saying, “It’s fine, Auntie, I’ll just pour it myself.”
Li Ping stared at Sang Rong for a while, like she couldn’t look anywhere. She didn’t say anything else, nodded her head, and went back to the kitchen to help Sang Rong. Duan Jia Xu followed her in and said hello to Sang Rong before coming out.
Afterward, Duanjia Xu sat down on the sofa and asked, “Why did you come over?”
“From what my sister said, it seems like my parents don’t like you very much?” As if finding it interesting, Sang Yan asked, “Really? Tell me about it, let brother be happy.”
“Just watch the fun.” Duan Jia Xu didn’t joke like he usually did, “Try not to say anything in a while.”
Sang Yan swept him a glance, quickly feeling uninterested, “Who wants to get involved in your business. It was my sister who begged earlier and asked me to help, so I stopped by for dinner.”
Duan Jiaxu tugged at the corner of his lips, “No need to help.”
Noticing his perversity, Sang Yan raised his eyebrows, ”Brother, is it necessary for you? You’re scared like this over a trivial matter? It’s not like you don’t know what kind of people my parents are, can they really stop me?”
Duanjia Xu laughed and didn’t say anything.
Coincidentally, Li Ping also began to shout, “Get ready to eat.”
At the dinner table, the few people didn’t chat much. Occasionally, Sang Rong would ask a few questions, and Duan Jia Xu would answer a few sentences seriously, after which they fell into silence again. Most of the time was spent eating.
It was like observing the principle of eating without speaking, or like being in an awkward atmosphere because of an extra person.
After the meal, while Duan Jia Xu went to the restroom, Li Ping began to repeatedly expressly ask Sang Yan to leave after eating.
Sang Yan wondered, “Mom, what’s wrong with you? Didn’t you say you missed me the other day? I just came back for dinner and you’re kicking me out before my butt is even warm?”
“You can come back some other time.”
“I’m free just for today,” said Sanjan, “not even for another day.”
“I don’t care when you’re free, I don’t care if you’re not free for the rest of your life,” Li Ping said decisively, “Anyway, you hurry back to me now.”
The guys looked like they were about to say something shocking.
The more mysterious he was, the stronger Sang Yan’s rebelliousness became, and he didn’t even move a bit, “I’ll sit for a while longer.”
Seeing Li Ping’s expression become even more ugly, Sang Yan cleared his throat, “Mom, I haven’t seen you for a few weeks now, I want to spend more time with you, can’t I talk to you for a while?”
“How come I don’t see you saying that when you don’t come home for months?”
“……”
Sang Rong opened his mouth at this time, “Let him stay, it’s not much use anyway.”
Sangyan: “……”
Soon, Duan Jia Xu also came out of the toilet.
With the exception of Sang Yan, the other three began to have a conversation. After a while, Duan Jiaxu cut to the chase, “The concerns you told me last time, I considered them all when I went back.”
“……”
“I want to make the situation clear to you.” Duan Jiaxu’s speech was slow, and he said all the past, one by one, in a light tone, “The families of the victims caused by that accident of my father’s were, at first, relatives from their side of the family, who would come to trouble. But after my mother’s death, those cases have been few and far between. Only the victim’s daughter, Jiang Ying, remains.”
The living room was quiet, and none of the remaining three spoke.
“This matter is something I handled poorly.” Duan Jia Xu said, “When I graduated and went back to Yi He’s side, I’ve been busy with my work, and I didn’t have much energy or time for Jiang Ying’s pestering. Since I was on my own over there, I didn’t worry about her affecting other people, so I didn’t mind too much.”
“I heard Sang Chi say that Jiang Ying had gone to her. This is something I didn’t expect, and it’s also something I didn’t consider well.” Duan Jia Xu’s voice paused, the knot in his throat sliding up and down, “Because of the problems on my side, it affected Sang Zhi and made you all feel uneasy and worried. I feel very sorry for that.”
Sang Rong sighed, “No, it’s nothing to do with you.”
“After this incident happened, I clearly mentioned to Jiang Ying that I would resolve it through the means of calling the police.” Duan Jiaxu said, “She showed up a few times and I called the police. After that the times were fewer, and I haven’t seen her in a while.”
“Coming to Nanwu is something I was thinking about last year. I’ve been working for all these years, and I have a bit of savings in my hands. After a while, when things stabilize a bit in the studio, I’ll also start looking at houses, and settle on the right one, and the house will be written in Sangzhi’s name.”
“There’s still more than two years until Sangji graduates, and I’ll keep you guys informed of my situation during these two years as well.” Duan Jia Xu tugged his lips, “On my father’s side, out of duty and obligation, I can’t just ignore it. But my current financial condition is enough to pay for his medical expenses.”
Unable to see if their thoughts had changed, Duanjash’s throat went dry, “There’s nothing I can do to change that, my family. There’s not much I own-“
“But I will use all I have to be good to Sanji for the rest of my life.”
Except for the unpleasant ones.
What he has now, including in the future.
All of it, all of it, you want to give it to her.
Chapter 82
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Everyone thinks it’s too early to think about it that much.
Sanjay is still young.
They’ve been together for a while, and it hasn’t been too long.
I feel that the future may change, and that in a few years’ time, I will no longer be in the same state as I am now. Maybe everything won’t go the way it’s supposed to, and in the middle of it, something will change.
Resulting in nothing more than that.
Separate.
But this is something that Duan Jia Xu has never considered since he got together with Sang Zhi. He had never been with her with the attitude that he might be separated in the future.
From the first day they were together, he was thinking about their future.
lasts into the eternal future.
Duan Jiaxu remembered, that day Sang Chi lying on his back, while dropping tears, said: “Why am I nineteen, can I be twenty-nine, I do not want to be so small.”
It should be at that time.
She knew her parents didn’t approve, she was with herself, right?
But I was worried that if he found out about it, it would affect his mood. So I can only be sad by myself, and try to change my parents’ mind by myself.
After realizing that Sang-woong had said something to him, he panicked and tried to comfort him, but felt so powerless that he could only say things to keep him from being upset.
And also because of this matter, he would be alone with his own rambling thoughts, worrying that he would give up because of this. Then return to Yiho early, and in the airport, huffing and puffing, tell him all the secrets he’s been hiding for so many years.
I hope he doesn’t feel inferior about it.
Hopefully he would, clearly, understand how good he was to deserve all those years of her being nostalgic.
So good Sanjay.
Do everything and be the first to think of his sannyasins.
Whether it was before or now, Sanji, who was obviously so many years younger than him, and who was obviously supposed to be the one to take care of her, had always wanted to be his armor and protect him behind him.
Duan Jia Xu didn’t want, again, for her to be in a dilemma between him and her parents.
This has to be resolved sometime.
Regardless of the time of day or night.
The small living room fell silent.
Duan Jia Xu lowered his head slightly and laughed silently to himself. He found the time difficult to the extreme and began to wonder what else he could do if they still didn’t agree.
That seemed to be all he had.
Sang Rong pondered for a moment and finally opened his mouth, “The house only writes only only the name?”
The silence was broken, and Duanjia Xu nodded with a sigh of relief in return.
“Yes.”
Sang Yan, who had been outside the situation and sidelined by the three, listened to Duan Jia Xu’s words with a confused expression. He cleared his thoughts and instantly opened his mouth because of this conversation between the two of them, “Wait a minute. Dad, aren’t you being a bully?”
“…… “Liping slammed his thigh, “What are you talking about!”
“Let’s be reasonable, okay?” Sang Yeon was speechless to the point of being happy, “No, why didn’t I see before that you guys still have the concept of the right family? Mom, when you introduced me to a blind date, didn’t you agree to it as long as it was a woman, no matter how poor she was?”
Li Ping was so angry with him that she had a headache, “Your condition, can you compare it to your sister?”
“……”
“I’d like to burn incense and worship Buddha if a girl would want you just like that.”
Sang Yan endured, and said, “I’ll ask you one thing, for that brat to find a rich second generation, nothing, just the kind with money at home, you two will be happy?”
Lippin: “It’s not about that.”
“So what else is wrong?” Sang Yan swept a glance at Duan Jia Xu and tsked, “Mom, look carefully. Duan Jia Xu, in all aspects, he’s a little bit worse than me, but he’s still not bad.”
Li Ping is most displeased with his behavior: “Worse than you that is still a person?”
Sang Yan was accustomed to being disliked, and simply took it as unheard, “Alright, he’s good to that brat, and he’s not poor, there’s nothing to pick on.”
Li Ping and Sang Rong exchanged glances, collected their fire, and sighed softly, “Hear your father out.”
Sang Rong looked at Duan Jia Xu and continued to ask, “When do you plan to buy a house?”
Duanjash: “It’s expected to be this year.”
“You and only only this is not settled yet either,” said Sang Rong, “and the house you are going to put her name on it?”
Duanjia Xu nodded, “Uh-huh.”
Sang Yong: “Not afraid of splitting up these two years?”
Sang Yeon frowned, “Dad, that wouldn’t be very nice of you, why are you cursing someone to break up.”
Li Ping couldn’t bear it anymore and grabbed his arm, dragging it towards the room.
“Get your ass in here!”
The living room was instantly missing two people, and the atmosphere was instantly chilled.
Duan Jia Xu was not affected. He smiled lightly and returned Sang Rong’s words, saying softly, “Then there’s no use for me to keep this house, it’s good to leave it to her.”
“Boy, no one is in a relationship to hitch so much money into it.” Sang Rong laughed, “If anyone else were to find out, their first reaction would probably be, think you’re being blackmailed by our family.”
Duan Jia Xu froze, and without waiting for him to speak, Sang Rong added, “The house is still written in your own name, it’s money you’ve worked hard to earn. I, along with Only Only’s mom, actually don’t care much about this.”
“……”
“In fact, the two of you, only only only with me and her mother have mentioned quite a few times,” Sang Rong look gentle, reached out and patted his shoulder, “mainly only listen to what she said, we have no bottom in our hearts. Last time to say those words to you, also want to see, you will have what reaction.”
Duanjia Xu hmmmed, “I understand.”
“When I told you before that I minded this situation in your family, I was also afraid that only you would be hurt because of it. But if you can protect her, that’s also enough.” Sang Rong said, “I also know that the attitude of only only mom and I, kinda affects the mood of you two. When youngsters fall in love, we all have to get involved.”
Duan Jia Xu’s nerves that had been taut all night had finally relaxed a bit, and at this moment he didn’t know what to say instead.
“I’ve been a little over the moon because of what I said to you. It’s something that I know you’re not having a good time with either, and I know that the fault isn’t yours, and it has nothing to do with you. You don’t have to put yourself in such a low position because of this.”
Duan Jia Xu looked at Sang Rong with a lump in his throat.
He had always known that Sang Rong and Li Ping, were both very kind people. Duan Jia Xu understood them well and knew that they were worried about Sang Zhi and for her own good.
So he can only make himself better.
Thinking that if this conversation still didn’t work, then he would try a little harder. Try to do as much as he could so that they could ignore his father and stop caring about those things.
But it didn’t occur to him that Sang Rong would, in turn, comfort him.
In turn, tell him not to care.
“Look at Ayan’s reaction, it all feels like we’re bullying you.” Sang Rong laughed, “I’m not some kind of meddling person, and with your words tonight, it’s enough. I also believe you can do what you said tonight.”
“……”
“Later, you can come over for dinner sometime.”
–
Sitting for a while longer.
Both Li Ping and Sang Yan came out of the room. Several people stopped mentioning what had just happened and changed the topic. It was getting late, almost nine o’clock when Sang Yan took the initiative to go back.
The two of them then went out of the Sang’s house together.
Sang Yeon walked ahead and casually asked, “What did my dad say to you afterward?”
The corners of Duan Jia Xu’s lips curved up in a good mood, “No more objections.”
“What did you say about you?” Sang Yan’s words carried a bit of mockery, “What are those words, can’t a big old man live a little harder?”
“What?”
“Men, always have to have some assets of their own.” Sang Yan lazily said, “Although, the matter of whose name is written on the house is not very important. But if you spoil it like this, your life in the future, as you can see from now, will definitely be miserable. That brat will definitely have to be spoiled to heaven by you in the future.”
Duan Jiaxu was still smiling, “It’s quite good.”
Sangyan glanced at him, “And.”
“Hmm?”
“Don’t take everything on yourself.” Sang Yan played with the car keys in his hand, his tone seemingly casual and mean as always, “Pretentious.”
–
Sang Yan drove over and sent Duan Jia Xu back by the way.
Back home, Duan Jia Xu made a video call to Sang Zhi. The other end quickly picked up, and Sang Zhi’s small face instantly appeared on the screen, his dark eyes looking at him along the screen.
Duanjia Xu laughed, “Not in the dormitory?”
Sang Chi found a cup, leaned his cell phone against it, and continued to hold the chips and nibble, “Well, come over here and stay with you. There’s no class tomorrow morning, so I can still sleep in.”
Duanjia Xu didn’t have anything else to do, so he lay on the couch and stared at her eating chips.
Noticing his look, Sanji blinked, “You seem happy today.”
Duan Jia Xu lowered his head and smiled softly, “It’s quite happy.”
“What’s wrong?” Sangji stared at him for a while longer, the corners of his lips pursed, then rose, and inexplicably he began to smile as well, “What are you doing today, smiling so stupidly.”
“I went to see your parents today.” Duan Jia Xu didn’t hide it anymore, “They don’t object anymore.”
Hearing his latter sentence, the chips in Sanji’s hand snapped off, “Huh? No more objections? What did you tell them?”
He continued to laugh and didn’t answer.
Sanji asked a few more times, “Really? No more objections?”
Even though Duan Jia Xu didn’t answer, as he spoke, Sang Zhi laughed foolishly. Obviously, his mood was infected by him, plus the troubles he had been having were finally solved.
She picked up her cell phone and put her face close to the screen, leaning in closer to look at him.
“Duan Kash.”
“Hmm?”
She grinned and said, “I’m so happy.”
It doesn’t just mean being happy because your parents don’t object anymore.
And because, you are recognized, it’s fun.
Duan Jia Xu looked at the small pear swirls on her lips and suddenly wanted to bite them off. He lightly rubbed the screen with his fingertips, his brows lovingly soft: “Well, I’m happy too.”
“Duan Jia Xu.” Sanji called out to him again.
“Uh-huh.”
“This matter, at this moment, is considered to be turned over.” Sang Chi sat upright and said in a serious manner, “In the future, no one will have the qualification to feel bad for you because of this matter.”
“……”
She whispered, “You’re the best.”
In one night, Duan Jia Xu was soothed by three different people, using different ways of speaking, to soothe the scars he had from his youth until now. The feeling of dull pain that had been going on all this time, at this moment, was like disappearing without a trace.
Perhaps, once upon a time, he was a little unfortunate.
But at the moment.
Duan Jia Xu felt as if he was extremely lucky again.
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After Duan Jia Xu went to Nanwu, Sang Zhi’s life didn’t change much.
Going to class every day, attending events and competitions, dipping into the library, and going to his house for a few days when I could. Less of a daily process of having to see him, but one more thing that I hadn’t done before.
When there was time, San Zhi Zhi would go to the city hospital and check on Duan Zhicheng’s condition.
She didn’t mention this to Duan Jia Xu either. It was just that she felt that since he wasn’t over here, she could only help him keep an eye on things over here. Then, if something really went wrong, only then could she tell him in time.
Day by day.
At the beginning of March, the list of winners came out for the game design competition that Sang Chi participated in last semester. To her surprise, her work even took a place. Although it was the third prize, it was also an extraordinarily pleasant surprise for her.
She was about to tell Duan Jia Xu about it when a message happened to come on WeChat from someone she had basically never contacted.
It was Shi Xiaoyu, whom I met by chance at the supermarket the other day.
She came to talk to Sang-chi about what happened to Jiang Ying.
Shi Xiaoyu: [I want to talk to you about something.]
Sanji: [What?
Shi Xiaoyu: [After you said those words to me before, I had subconsciously observed Jiang Ying’s state and had asked her some questions bluntly. She didn’t hide it from me either, and said it straight away.]
Shi Xiaoyu: [I feel that she is nothing wrong, just a little paranoid, others say nothing to listen. When you don’t meet your boyfriend, it’s still normal. Also do not know if this is considered a psychological problem.]
Sanji was a bit confused: [Why are you telling me this all of a sudden?
Shi Xiaoyu: [Just want to say a few words for her. She’s actually not a bad person, it’s just that she has a psychological shadow because of what happened to her dad, but she won’t take the initiative to hurt others either].
Shi Xiaoyu: [Something happened in her family recently, and she should have figured it out, so I don’t think she’ll go back to your boyfriend’s trouble in the future. You don’t have to worry about it, and then apologize to you for what happened before. I’m sorry.]
Sanjay didn’t know what to say.
She wasn’t a party to what Jiang Ying did and didn’t have much of a position to respond. When she saw these words, she was reminded of how Duan Jia Xu was treated, and her mood was a bit blocked, and her emotions weren’t exactly good.
Kuwabara stared at him for a long time, but in the end, she only replied “hmm”.
–
The award ceremony for the game competition was held in the auditorium of Yiho University. The date was the day before Sang Chi’s birthday, and there weren’t a lot of people who came to participate; there were students and teachers from hundreds of universities and colleges, as well as representatives from dozens of corporations.
Originally, Sanji was looking forward to this award. But when it actually came, it couldn’t raise any energy at all.
Because she was stood up by Duan Jia Xu.
From the time Duan Jia Xu returned to Nanwu, she tore up the calendar every day and started to look forward to her birthday. Seeing that the day was approaching, she even thought about going there with Duan Jia Xu to play.
In the end, it only came to Duan Jiaxu’s sentence, “Something came up and I couldn’t make it back, so I’ll make it up to you next time”.
Sang-chi was actually upset, but then again, she knew he was busy and didn’t want to get mad at him.
So all you can do is sulk to yourself.
Sitting in the auditorium at this time, seeing the WeChat sent by Duan Jia Xu, Sang Zhi didn’t really want to reply immediately. She looked at the time on the top of her cell phone, thinking that she would reply to him after ten minutes.
Let him feel it.
What it’s like to be left out in the cold.
The award ceremony wasn’t held right away, and the few professors on the stage, were chatting about academic issues. Sang Zhi listened for a while, but soon felt bored and didn’t continue listening.
She tapped her phone again and looked at the words on the screen, again thinking that ten minutes didn’t seem quite enough.
Sanji still hasn’t replied.
After a while.
Duan Jiaxu sent another one: [Why are you ignoring me?
As Sanji began to falter, pondering whether to reply or not, the classmate next to him suddenly bumped Sanji’s shoulder and said excitedly, “Sanji, look at the one o’clock direction, it’s also too handsome my day.”
“……” Sanji subconsciously looked up.
Instantly, she saw that the man who had been talking to her on WeChat moments before was also the same lying bastard who had told her the day before that he was unavailable for the entire month of March and couldn’t make it back to be with her for her birthday.
Duan Jiaxu was dressed formally today, in a suit with a dark red tie, looking civilized and gentle. He was born tall and thin, and his appearance was demonic and outstanding, and the clothes looked ascetic and sexy on him.
Sang Zhi rarely saw him dressed like this, and at this time, her eyes were like glued to him, and she couldn’t take her eyes off of him. She even forgot that she was sulking, and had the urge to run back and hug him immediately.
It’s only been a month or so since I’ve seen you.
The classmate was still talking, “Eh, which company’s representative is this one, it seems to be some kind of gaming company-“
Standing in place, Duan Jia Xu scanned in a circle around him and quickly found Sang Zhi’s location. His eyebrows raised, the corners of his lips unsaltedly hooked up as he walked in her direction.
Sanjay’s position happened to be at the edge of the aisle.
Classmate: “Eh, is he coming our way …… Holy shit, it seems really eh, he’s coming over ……”
When Duan Jia Xu stood and settled next to Sang Zhi, the students next to her were instantly silenced.
Duan Jia Xu bent down slightly, reached out and tapped twice on Sang Zhi’s cell phone, lighting up the screen. He lifted his eyelids, his peach blossom eyes slightly converging, and dragged his accent to say, “Classmate, take a look at the phone?”
“……”
“Your boyfriend seems to be looking for you.”
Chapter 83
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Following his movements, Sang Chi lowered her eyes and stared at the illuminated lock screen interface. She raised her head again, her lips moving, wanting to say something when Duan Jia Xu had already stood up straight.
The gaze on her was gentle and ambiguous.
This row was filled with students.
Noticing the commotion here, they all looked over involuntarily.
Most of them, Sang Chi did not know. The few students sitting next to her were all brought up by the same tutor, and after meeting them a few times, they were also considered to know each other.
But none of them were familiar with it, so they hadn’t seen Duan Jiaxu either.
As if he had come over to remind him of this, Duan Jia Xu didn’t say anything else. He gently nodded his head, took a step back, and turned his head back to his original position.
After he left, the classmate next to Sangji came over again: “What’s the situation? Did that handsome guy come over to flirt with you? This is too–“
“But yeah.” The classmate’s words changed, “This handsome guy’s temperament, he looks like a lover, the kind who spreads his nets everywhere.”
“……”
“And, that face, at a glance, I know it’s a scumbag.” The classmate tsked twice, with a bit of admiration in his words, “I’ve never seen such a standard scumbag face.”
Hearing this, Sang Chi turned his head to look at her with a complicated expression.
Classmate: “What’s wrong?”
“That,” Sanji couldn’t help but mention, “is my boyfriend.”
“……”
–
Silent for a few seconds, seemingly feeling a bit embarrassed, the classmate laughed dryly and explained forcefully and stiffly, “I mean, handsome.”
Sang Chi didn’t mind too much, after all, Duan Jia Xu did give off that impression. She smiled down, her voice warm, “It’s fine, I’m not angry.”
A classmate wondered, “How do you know each other?”
While replying to Duan Jia Xu on WeChat, Sang Zhi said, “My brother’s friend.”
“Ugh, I want a brother too.” The classmate said enviously, “Better have a, good looking friend too, to give me nearness.”
The two chatted some more.
San Zhi began to concentrate on talking to Duan Jia Xu on WeChat.
Sanji: [When did you come over?
Duanjash: [This morning’s flight.]
Sanji: [Then why are you here?
Duan Jia Xu: [Hearing you say you’re coming to this award ceremony, my previous company was also invited, so I stopped by for Sister Jiang].
Sang-chi wasn’t too pleased: [You told me yesterday that you weren’t available.]
It put her in a bad mood all day.
Duanjia Xu: [Surprise for you.]
Duanjia Xu: [Angry, huh?
Staring at that for a few moments, it quickly dissipated most of Sanji’s displeasure. She inexplicably licked her lips at the thought of him in a suit.
Okay.
It was quite a surprise.
Sangji thought about it and took the initiative to mention: [Do we want to sit in the back?
Sanjay: [There are empty seats.]
The auditorium is spacious and has more seats than people. The front rows are basically arranged, and most of the people seated are company representatives and professors from other universities; the rest of the seats are irregular.
Duanjia Xu: [Row.
Seeing this, Sang Chi packed up his things, spoke to the classmate next to him, got up and headed to the back, looking for two empty seats side by side to sit down.
It wasn’t long before Duan Jia Xu came over as well and sat next to her.
Sang-chi looked in his direction, looking at him a few times and feeling awestruck. She could notice that the girls next to her seemed to be heading towards him as well, and was a little offended, “Why are you still wearing a suit, did you go back and change after you got off the plane?”
Duan Jiaxu reached out to hold her and squeezed the flesh of her hand twice, “Uh-huh.”
Sang Chi didn’t hold back and cooed, “My classmates say you have a scumbag face.”
Duanjia Xu’s movements lurched and he looked up, “What?”
“Says you’re,” Sanji stared at him, a few hints of condemnation in his words, “a once-in-a-century, extremely standard, scumbag face.”
“What’s a scumbag face?”
“I don’t know.” Taking advantage of the fact that it was said by a classmate, Sanji was a bit reckless, “Say it’s just you.”
Duanjia Xu’s eyelids twitched.
Without waiting for him to say anything else, Sang-chi blew up a little, suddenly pinched his face, and said in a single word, “Can you stop discharging at other people all the time.”
“……” Duanjia Xu froze, felt absurd, speechless to straight music, “I always discharge at others?”
Sanji held his head and moved it down, trying to get him to block his face with his body from the gazes being thrown in every direction, “It was meant to be, you just sit like that.”
After thinking about it, she said tautly, “Can you wear a mask when you go out from now on?”
Staring at her look, Duan Jia Xu reacted, the corners of his lips curving up with it.
“Little bundle of vinegar.”
Sanji puffed out his cheeks and didn’t deny it. She glanced over and suddenly noticed the tie around his neck, the one she had given him. The stuffiness just barely dissipated a bit.
Sang Chi pulled away from the topic, “When will you return to Nanwu?”
“The morning after.”
“Oh.”
“I’ll also come over during the Ching Ming Festival.” Duan Jia Xu said, “Sweeping my mom’s grave, you’ll go with me then?”
Sanji nodded, “Good.”
Duan Jia Xu leaned back in his chair and skimmed his head, lazily looking at her. It didn’t take long for him to open his mouth again, saying carelessly, “Come here.”
Kuwabara suspiciously leaned over, “What for.”
“The tie is loose.” Duan Jiaxu said, “Help me re-tie it.”
Sanji was confused, “But I don’t know how.”
Duanjash: “Just push upwards.”
“……”
It’s not like you don’t have hands yourself.
Sang Chi didn’t say this out loud, dutifully reaching out and grabbing his tie, clumsily pushing it upward as he said. The next moment, Duan Jia Xu suddenly gripped her wrist and brought it forward to tug.
Like it was driven by the force.
His entire body leaned forward in response, kissing her lips with unerring accuracy.
A touch of separation.
“……”
For an extremely brief moment.
Before Sangji could react to what had happened, Duanjia Xu had already sat up straight, slowly and methodically tying his tie as he said, “Scared brother.”
Sanji: “?”
“Just kiss directly if you want to,” Duan Jiaxu rubbed the corner of her lips intimately, dangling, “No need to make such small movements.”
“……”
Sanji’s expression was all over the place.
This man was, truly, like nothing she had ever seen in her life.
The most shameless dog man.
Sang-chi held back, pulled his hand off with a grimace, and moved over to him again, adjusting his tie, saying stiffly, “You’re getting it crooked.”
Duan Jiaxu lowered his eyes, suddenly smiled, and called out to her, “Kid.”
“What for.”
“Missed you.”
Sanji looked up and whispered, “Oh.”
Duanjia Xu raised an eyebrow, “Just an ‘oh’ huh?”
“When I say ‘oh’,” Sanji explained in a serious manner as he helped him straighten out his suit as well, “it means ‘me too.’ “
Duan Jiaxu smiled, “OK.”
After half a day without a turn to present an award, Sang Zhi looked down at his cell phone and asked in boredom, “Are you going to go up and speak later? It seems like every company is given three minutes.”
Duanjash: “Uh-huh.”
Sanji came to his senses, “So you’ve figured out what to say?”
Duanjia Xu hmmm’d again.
The content said nothing more than the company’s situation, and Sang Chi didn’t ask too many questions, but because of the anticipation, it felt as if the time had passed a lot faster as well.
Soon it was the turn of the session.
Duan Jia Xu got up and gave her a sideways glance, “I’ll be back soon.”
Sanji was planning to take a picture, it was a bit far from the stage, she simply changed her position.
After waiting for a while, it was finally Duan Jiaxu’s turn to speak. Standing under the bright lights, he stood out amongst the crowd.
Sanjay turned on the video.
Duan Jiaxu took the microphone in the host’s hand, looking a bit more serious than usual. He opened his mouth and slowly spoke about the current state of the company, serious and focused, concise.
The person in front of her was a bit tall, blocking Sang Zhi’s line of sight. She was also afraid of blocking the people behind her, so she could only hold her cell phone a little higher, and her movements were a little laborious.
Two minutes passed.
Duan Jia Xu ended his segment and suddenly turned around, walking several meters to the side before stopping. Noticing the somewhat bewildered expression on the host’s face, he smiled faintly and gently explained, “Sorry, my girlfriend was filming me.”
“……”
“She didn’t shoot well in that position just now.”
Chapter 84
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“……”
The auditorium was quiet for a moment, and then Sangji heard people laughing around her. She didn’t know if anyone else was taking pictures, but she silently put her cell phone back and turned off the screen.
A sense of celebration inexplicably rose in Sang Chi at this moment.
Luckily, no one here knows about their relationship.
This little episode added up to less than five seconds. The next second, Duan Jia Xu finished his next sentence as if nothing had happened, calmly and seriously.
The smile on his face was light, seemingly cold and focused.
“……”
Sanji really thought he was bullish.
In all her life, she’d never seen such a powerful man.
After seeing him finish his speech and return the microphone to the host, Sangji suddenly remembered something, picked up his cell phone again, and sent him a weibo message: [You should sit in your seat first].
Sanji: [We’ll see you out of the school gate.]
She is! Doesn’t want to! Shame on him!
Sent successfully, Sang Chi looked around. Suddenly, she noticed that the student who had just sat with her was looking towards her.
When they locked eyes, her classmate smiled and gave her a thumbs up.
Sanji: “……”
–
Probably seeing Sang Zhi’s message, after stepping down from the stage, Duan Jia Xu didn’t go in her direction, but just glanced at her, raised his eyebrows, and obediently returned to his original position.
Sang-chi was sitting here and could only see half of the side of his face.
She peeked over to his end.
Noticing that, Duan Jia Xu seemed to recognize the man next to him, and was currently listening to the man with a sideways glance, and then converged his chin and smiled faintly without saying anything.
Sanji withdrew his eyes.
No matter what, she must, this time, scold him.
She is! Absolutely! No! Heart! Soft!
At this time, the cell phone in Sanji’s hand vibrated.
A message from Duan Jiaxu.
Duanjia Xu: [Angry?
Kuwabara typed in “kinda”, then deleted it after a moment’s thought and replaced it with “hmm”. She stared at it for a while, but in the end she didn’t send it, deciding to let him have a moment of anxiety and reflect on his behavior.
The session ended and it was time for the awards. Sang Zhi followed a few other people whose names were named to the stage and received the award certificates from the host.
The big screen in the back will show each person’s work for half a minute.
Sanji turned his head and looked away, inexplicably a little ashamed.
She hadn’t thought that Duan Jia Xu would come, and when she drew the original drawing of this character before, she never showed it to him. Occasionally, when he passed by her, he immediately switched interfaces vigilantly.
The screen shows the front, back, and side of the character.
The man stood in a lazy stance, revealing a white tail behind him, and holding a fan in his hand. His eyes curved up in a gentle smile. A red robe was worn, revealing a large portion of skin on his chest.
Sang Zhi subconsciously glanced in Duan Jia Xu’s direction and happened to collide with his line of sight. She pretended to calmly withdraw her eyes, took a picture with the organizer next to her, and quickly got off the stage.
That’s the last link.
After the organizers had spoken for a few more minutes, the ceremony was officially over. A group of people gathered around to take a picture, and afterward, Sang Chi went out of the auditorium first.
She found a place to wait for Duan Jiaxu.
The temperature outside was cold, and Sanji rummaged through his bag for a scarf and wrapped it around him.
Not a moment later, Duan Jiaxu also came out. Compared to just now, he has a long coat on the outside of his suit, his posture is straight and tall, he looks mature and stable, and has converged a few points of cynical temperament.
He walked over and stood in front of Sanji.
Sanji’s eyes were dark and stared straight at him.
“I was wrong.” Duan Jia Xu reached out towards her, recognizing her mistake very sensibly, and stifling a laugh, he said, “It’s not because I saw you move so laboriously, and switched to a different position for you to take a good shot.”
“Wouldn’t it be better if you changed your position then.” Sanji stiffened, “Why say it out loud.”
“Should this be called, a high-profile show of affection?” Duan Jiaxu thought about it and said thoughtfully, “I thought all little girls nowadays like this kind of thing.”
“……”
“I also came here once the year before last and saw a student even confessed directly on stage.” Duan Jiaxu said leisurely, “Now that he has a girlfriend, he must not try it.”
“……”
Sang Chi inexplicably recalled that Duan Jia Xu had previously said that he would confess to her in a heart-shaped candle under her dormitory floor.
Sure enough.
Or a deep-rooted, dirt-to-the-bone old man.
“It’s fine, didn’t even know it was you. Besides, I’ve been to this kind of award ceremony a few times before.” Duan Jia Xu pinched her face, “Brother has his measure.”
“……”
You have a ghost.
But so in contrast, it’s really a hundred times better than confessing on the spot.
Sang Chi’s anger faded, muttering, “If you do this again in the future, I’ll really pretend I don’t know you. When others ask, I’ll just say that this one just looks like my boyfriend.”
Duanjia Xu laughed, “Won’t you pretend you don’t recognize me today?”
“It’s not that we haven’t left the school gates yet.” Sang Chi justified, “I had originally planned to talk to you after leaving the school gate.”
Duan Jia Xu didn’t mind too much and took her hand, “Going home?”
Once that topic had passed, seeing as he hadn’t brought up the matter of her artwork, he didn’t know if he hadn’t noticed, or if he’d forgotten about it. With a small sigh of relief, Sanji returned his grip.
“Uh-huh.”
–
After arriving home, Sang Zhi Zhi went to her room to change into a set of clothes, before lying on the sofa and flipping through the video that she had just shot. The progress bar quickly reached the end, and came the two sentences that Duan Jia Xu had just said on stage.
She blinked and replayed it several times, the corners of her lips lifting with it.
Duan Jia Xu took a bottle of water from the kitchen and sat next to her. Noticing her expression, he smiled back and said playfully, “Obviously you like it.”
Sanji didn’t deny it and stretched his leg to kick him, “Anyway, you can’t do that in the future.”
Duan Jia Xu let her kick, and then grabbed her ankle, lifted it up, and bit the flesh of her calf.
His force was not heavy, his teeth lightly touched the skin, a little wet, with a little itch. Sang Zhi wanted to take her leg back, but he tugged on it, she was a little speechless, “Are you a dog? Why are you always biting.”
“Vixens,” Duan Jiaxu paused and said lazily, “just like to eat people.”
“……”
“Come here.” Duan Jia Xu loosened his tie and bent his body lower. Even though he said that, he pushed himself over and spoke unusually bluntly, “It’s been a long time since I’ve eaten you.”
As soon as the words were out of his mouth, his lips pressed up.
The formal attire was still on, the tie was loosely placed in front of the chest, and the eyebrows contained a springy look, like a moralistic clotheshorse.
His tongue probed in, tracing over her teeth and sucking lightly on her tongue. As if he was afraid of hurting her, the force was not too light, gentle and patient.
Sanji reached for his tie.
Soon, Duan Jiaxu let go of her and locked eyes with her, and there was no next move. He suddenly laughed and bit her lip again, “Painting me like that?”
“…… “Sang Chi had forgotten about it, and hearing him mention it, a sense of weakness instantly bubbled to the surface, arguing in a small voice, “Who said it was a drawing of you.”
After a pause, Sang Chi added unconvincingly, “And what’s the point of drawing like that, it’s not like it’s not pretty, and I won the third prize.”
“The painting is quite good, but having my brother show his flesh to be seen,” Duan Jia Xu began to undo the buttons with one hand, moving slowly, “isn’t quite appropriate, is it?”
“……”
Just the little piece on the chest.
For those who don’t know, they thought they had painted him naked.
Duan Jia Xu hooked his lips and pulled his shirt away, “Drawing against it?”
“……” Sanji beckoned, and like a gentleman sitting on his hands, he tugged his shirt back on for him and changed the subject, “Did you get me a birthday present?”
“Uh-huh.”
“Ready for what?”
Duan Jia Xu leaned against the back of the chair, his long, slender, well-defined hands lifted up and once again ripped his clothes away, revealing his collarbone, as well as his hard chest.
Then Sanji heard him lengthen the end of his voice and compulsively spit out four words.
“Visual Benefits.”
“……”
–
Duan Jia Xu wanted to go back to his room to change into a set of clothes, but Sang Zhi didn’t want him to change again, and was decent enough to button all his buttons back up and tie his tie.
Let him still dress like a big leader at home.
The clothes were not very comfortable to wear, but Duan Jia Xu didn’t say much and indulged her behavior. He braced his face and stared at her holding the cup as she was drinking, and suddenly said, “Little friend, you’re twenty tomorrow.”
Sanji looked at him, “I know.”
Duanjash: “What’s the birthday wish.”
“Let there be peace in the world.”
“Oh.” Duan Jia Xu looked diffident, her tone was like repeating, “I want to get a license with Brother Duan.”
“……” said Sanji, “How old am I.”
“Then let’s both get engaged first, and when you graduate, we’ll go and pull the license.” Duan Jia Xu is completely shameless, hooking her fingertips and playing with them, “It’s good to get engaged, so that my brother can be sure that he can get married before he turns thirty.”
Sanji blinked and smiled, “You’re pathetic.”
Duan Jiaxu: “How pathetic?”
“You don’t get married until you’re thirty, so when do you have to have kids?”
“There isn’t one now?” Duan Jia Xu kissed the back of her hand, his voice loving and gentle, “I don’t have the energy to love another one.”
“I’m still a kid ah?” Sang Chi couldn’t help but open her mouth, and her tone wasn’t too painful, “I went to do tutoring the other day, and I was even called auntie by that little kid.”
“Going to a part-time job again?” Duan Jia Xu faintly said, “Don’t go there in the future, just study hard at school and go out with your classmates when you have time.”
It wasn’t that the conditions were bad; Duan Jia Xu didn’t really want it, and she was having the same college experience as he was.
Kuwabara was momentarily silent.
“In the future, if you want to go to graduate school or not, it’s okay to come out and work directly.” Duan Jiaxu met her eyes, a few more points of seriousness in his words, “I’ll support you.”
Sanji didn’t know what to say and gave a small nod.
It didn’t take long for Duan Jia Xu to pull away, “Not happy with people calling you auntie?”
Looking at each other for two seconds, he suddenly burst out laughing, lowered his head, and kissed her again, saying vaguely, “Remember, little friend? You used to be so angry with me.”
–
Once Sang Zhi’s birthday was over, Duan Jia Xu returned to Nanwu. What he said on stage was actually captured on video and put on the school’s forum.
Fortunately, it’s not a very high pixel count and it’s far enough away to see what it looks like.
It was still something that Ning Wei had told her.
Tell her that thinks this guy looks a little like Duane Garcia.
While he had time, Sanji went up to look at it and read the comments in passing.
[High paste can’t even stop the face.]
Which company? I’m going to put in my resume.]
Upstairs, it’s useless to vote. Didn’t you hear them say, “My girlfriend’s filming me”?
[If you can look like this, I guess your girlfriend is a god.]
[Seriously, I used to think this kind of behavior was stupid, after seeing this video …… Does it really still depend on the face? I’m really sour, I’m holding my teenage heart and crying right now ……]
Halfway through seeing it, Ning Wei asked, “Is it your brother Duan?”
Sanji coughed softly and said ambiguously, “It’s kind of like that.”
Ning Wei didn’t dismantle her and sighed lightly, “Ugh, if it was my boyfriend up there, I guess he wouldn’t even be able to find where I was. The fact that he can still notice what you’re doing is also oxymoronic.”
“……,” Sanji suddenly remembered, “when you said that, I suddenly remembered that I also changed my seat.”
Ning Wei was silent for a few seconds, “Ugh.”
Sanji: “…… What for.”
“I want a new boyfriend.”
“……”
–
On the day of the Qingming Festival, Duan Jiaxu came from Nanwu and booked a round-trip ticket on the same day. During this time, the studio pulled a project, he has been busy, and did not have time to stay too long in Yiho.
The two drove, to a cemetery in the countryside.
Duan Jia Xu held Sang Zhi and brought her to one of the seats in silence.
Afterward, Duan Jia Xu squatted down and cleaned the tombstone, while placing the things he had brought to pay homage on it, and called out with a smile, “Mom.”
Sang-chi crouched down after him and obediently called out, “Auntie.”
The Xu Ruoshu in the photo was young, with outstanding looks, and looked like a very gentle person. She had a bright smile on her face, and when she passed away, she was only in her forties.
Duan Jia Xu introduced her, “This is Sang Chi.”
After a pause, he added, “My daughter-in-law, your daughter-in-law.”
It had been many years, and Duanjia Xu was in a calm mood, slowly telling her about his recent events like any other time he had come.
Sanji listened in silence.
Listening to Duan Jia Xu’s voice with a smile, he extraordinarily patiently told Xu Ruoshu everything that had happened this year. After an unknown amount of time, he stood up, “Then I’m leaving, I have to catch a plane in a while.”
“Right, I forgot to tell you, Dad’s condition isn’t too good, I don’t know if he can still wake up.” Duan Jia Xu paused and said in a faint voice, “I’ll be settling over in Nanwu from now on, I’ll come to see you when I have time.”
Duan Jia Xu looked at Sang Zhi, “Let’s go.”
Sang Zhi pursed her lips and whispered to Xu Ruoshu, “Auntie, don’t worry, I’ll take good care of Brother Jia Xu.” And then added very seriously, “I will treat him well.”
“……” Duan Jiaxu burst out laughing, “What are you doing.”
As if displeased with him for laughing, Sang Chi gave him a wordless look and continued, “Then, auntie, we’re leaving. I’ll come over to see you when I’m free as well.”
The two exited the cemetery.
Duan Jia Xu found it extraordinarily amusing, “Why do I feel like you’re treating me like your daughter-in-law.”
Sanji was stifled, “It’s not like I’m wrong.”
“Uh-huh.” Duan Jiaxu stroked her head and coaxed lowly, “You’ll be good to me.”
Sang Chi flipped his cell phone out of his pocket and looked at the time, “Let’s go, hurry up and have a meal, then go to the airport. Otherwise we won’t be able to make it in time in a while.”
Duanjash: “Uh-huh.”
The two got into the car and drove it back into the city, parking in a business district near the airport and finding a random restaurant in there to eat.
After dinner, it was just after half past five. Duan Jia Xu went to settle the bill, and the two of them went out of the store and down the handrail stairs.
Reaching the second floor, Sang Chi heard the sound of someone arguing. She subconsciously looked along and saw a middle-aged woman pulling a child and a young woman, arguing about something.
Her expression froze.
For noticing the young one, it was Jiang Ying.
In the next moment, the middle-aged woman suddenly pulled Jiang Ying’s hair, her voice sharp and terrible: “Your father is such an animal, and your family still wants to pay for him to get a lawyer to reduce his sentence, are you still not human?”
“What’s it to me?!” Ginger Ying’s voice was hysterical, pulling her hair back, “Fuck off! It’s none of my business! Are you sick!”
It didn’t take long for security guards who heard the commotion to come over and talk it out.
Sanji glanced in Duanjia Xu’s direction.
His demeanor didn’t change much, like he hadn’t heard the voices.
Just as she was about to continue on, Jiang Ying’s gaze was cast over, noticing Duan Jia Xu, who was a bit dumbfounded, her eyes red as if they were congested, and, still containing tears.
But this time, instead of coming over to him like any other time in the past, she lowered her head in an extremely wretched manner, her movements exaggerated and humble.
Sang Chi didn’t look further and tugged Duan Jia Xu down the road, while hesitantly asking, “Didn’t her father pass away?”
Duanjia Xu thought for a moment, “Maybe it’s a stepfather.”
“Oh.” Sang Chi said, “I heard Shi Xiaoyu say earlier that something seemed to have happened to Jiang Ying’s family, but I didn’t ask.”
Duanjia Xu hmmmed softly.
Seeing the way Jiang Ying had just been treated, Sang Zhi could also imagine what kind of situation the former Duan Jia Xu was probably in.
But he wouldn’t vent it out with his voice, and in any way, like Jiang Ying did. There wasn’t any way to get rid of this kind of unjustified relenting anger.
He also felt it had nothing to do with him.
But it feels powerless.
Sang Chi remembered the time when Duan Jia Xu had appendicitis, and the pain was so extreme that he didn’t even intend to go to the hospital. He didn’t care about his physical condition, was it because, also once, he didn’t want to live.
Her nose flared and she stopped abruptly, going to hug him soothingly.
Duanjia Xu froze, “What?”
“I really didn’t just talk nonsense in front of Auntie, I’m very serious,” Sang Chi buried her face in his chest and said sultrily, “I’ll treat you well.”
Duan Jia Xu thought her serious look was silly and cute, and couldn’t help but laugh.
“Well, I know.”
That paranoid to the point of sickness, Jiang Ying, who blames all her sins on Duan Jia Xu, who is also a victim, because of her own shadow, can only empathize after something similar happens.
The malice she sends out is met with the same response.
Everything, it’s like a reincarnation.
Therefore, your suffering is also over.
You who are so gentle with the world.
And will surely, doubly, be treated the same way.
Chapter 85
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Because of the convenience, Duan Jia Xu drove his car directly to the airport.
I wanted to send Sang Zhi back to school, but she wanted to send him, Duan Jiaxu did not stop. On the way, he contacted a reliable chauffeur, and after arriving at the airport, he accompanied her and waited for the driver to come.
He did things slowly, not at all in a hurry, but it was Sang Chi who felt panicked and dragged him towards the airport, “Don’t wait, we won’t be able to catch up later.”
Duan Jiaxu followed her force and said with a smile, “It’s still early.”
Sang-chi: “I’ll walk you through the security check, and then I’ll come back out, and the master should be there.”
Duan Jiaxu thought about it and didn’t object, “Okay.”
“I’ll be home for Labor Day, I don’t need you to come over.” Sang Chi walked beside him, speaking slowly, “Also, I just bought you a box of food online, it should be here tomorrow.”
“Good.”
“Don’t eat takeout all the time, don’t be too lazy to get it just because you’re alone. You can come to my house for dinner when you’re free, and if you’re too embarrassed to be alone, you can ask my brother to go with you.”
Duan Jia Xu thought it was funny, “You started learning how to raise a child when you’re old enough to marry?”
“What do you mean by bringing up a child?” Sanji looked at him, “I’m taking care of the old man in my house.”
Upon hearing this, Duan Jia Xu’s eyebrows raised, as if he didn’t care much about her words, “Hmm? Old or not, it doesn’t matter.”
“……”
“It’s fine if it’s your house.”
–
When Duan Jia Xu passed the security check and Sang Zhi couldn’t see his back, she left the airport. Master happened to also arrive, Sang Zhi said hello to him, and then got into the car.
She opened WeChat and spoke to Duan Jia Xu. Sang Zhi exited the chat window with him and scanned down the page in boredom, noticing that Shi Xiaoyu had sent a message over ten minutes ago.
Shi Xiaoyu: [Have you seen Jiang Ying today?
Sanji hesitantly replied with an “uh-huh”.
Shi Xiaoyu: [She just called and kept crying with me and didn’t say what happened ……]
Shi Xiaoyu: [She hasn’t been in the best of moods lately, so if she’s done anything bad, I’ll apologize to you guys for her.]
Sanji instantly understood.
Presumably because she couldn’t ask from Jiang Ying’s side, she came to ask her what had just happened.
Sang Chi said succinctly, [We just happened to pass by and saw her being scolded by a woman, nothing more. She didn’t do anything bad.]
There was silence on the other end for a good few moments.
Shi Xiaoyu: [Okay, I got it. Thank you for telling me.]
Shi Xiaoyu explained for Jiang Ying: [This has nothing to do with her, it’s something on her stepfather’s side, and her mom is ready to get divorced too].
Sanji didn’t care much for that, and returned another “uh-huh”.
Shi Xiaoyu: [Alas, I find it quite inexplicable. Although I can understand the family’s feelings, this is a bit much,…… and Jiang Ying has nothing to do with it. She’s not close to her stepfather either.]
This time Sanji didn’t reply.
Shi Xiaoyu: [In the past, it was Jiang Ying who didn’t think it through, because of this, she also had a bad time, and she’s had a bad time for more than ten years, and she doesn’t have many friends. Recently, because of this matter, she thought about it a little more open, in the future, should not go to your boyfriend again.
Shi Xiaoyu: [But it may still not be possible to do forgiveness.]
“……”
Sang Chi really didn’t understand why she came to talk to herself so much. She stared at the screen for a long time, and laughed in exasperation: [No need to forgive.]
Sanji: [No need.
He imposed on Duanjiaxu a crime committed by another person, and finally gave him a patronizing “no more harassment, but no forgiveness”.
Doesn’t it make you feel benevolent and generous.
Duanjia Xu didn’t miss anything, so he didn’t need that forgiveness that should have belonged to someone else either.
He never initiated trouble, he just wanted to stay away from these things, get an injustice, and never fought for something for himself.
Just trying to get my life on track.
Sang Chi: [You should not tell me these things in the future. I’m not familiar with Jiang Ying and I’m not curious about what has happened to her.
Sanji: [Also, I know she’s a victim.]
Sanji: [But she’s not the only one who’s been victimized.]
Sanji then put down his cell phone and looked out the window.
She remembered the wish she had blurted out on her birthday.
–Hope for world peace.
I hope that in the world, there will be no more criminals living in the dark corners of the world.
I hope that before they commit a crime, they will think twice about the consequences of this act and how many families they will hurt at the same time. I hope they will consider what kind of life their family, because of their behavior, will lead.
If that wish is too big.
Well, Sanjay hopes.
One day, all people will be able to distinguish the perpetrator, and the relatives of the perpetrator, from each other.
–
Sang Zhi bought a ticket to go back on May 1 in advance, but it didn’t come in handy. Because in April is about to pass one night, Duan Zhicheng died.
He could not open his eyes until just before he passed away.
All he has left in his life is the panic he felt after hitting someone, the sin he can’t atone for in this lifetime, and the debt and regret he has for his family.
Nothing more.
When he received the call, Duan Jia Xu was extremely calm.
Because it had been known for a long time that this day would come, it was just a matter of time. His mood didn’t even have many ups and downs, and he booked the nearest flight back to Yiho.
As soon as he got off the airplane, Duan Jia Xu called Sang Zhi.
The two met in front of the hospital.
Sang Chi went over to hold his hand, her lips moved, but she couldn’t say a single word. She had absolutely no idea what to say, and in the end, she only managed to hold back four words, “I’ll stay with you.”
Duanjia Xu softly hmmmed.
When he entered the morgue, Duan Jiaxu’s gaze was fixed on one of the people covered by a white cloth. He stared at the words “Duan Zhicheng” on the sign, walked over, and slowly pulled off the white cloth.
It revealed Duan Zhicheng’s face that had become stiff and bloodless.
Duan Jiaxu withdrew his hand, his emotions light, “Congratulations.”
Until you die, you won’t have to face the sins you’ve committed.
Duan Jia Xu thought for a moment and whispered, “If you see mom, just leave her alone. Stop victimizing her and let her have a good life.”
After saying that, Duan Jia Xu lowered his eyes and stared at Duan Zhicheng’s face. Feeling that there was nothing more to say to him, he quickly pulled the white cloth back.
Duan Jia Xu skimmed his head to look at Sang Zhi, “Let’s go, go do the formalities.”
Sanji looked up and nodded, carefully noting his expression, feeling sad for him and a little overwhelmed by his calmness. She moved over and offered to hold him again.
“Why this expression?” Duan Jia Xu said gently, “It’s fine, I’m not sad.”
After all, it’s past the age of dreaming.
Also knew that there weren’t that many miracles in this world. Hoping that Duan Zhicheng would wake up, but also realizing that the possibility was so low as to be negligible.
The two exited the morgue.
Sanji suddenly stopped walking and opened his arms toward him, “Cuddle.”
Duan Jia Xu froze and obediently bent down and hugged her. He could feel her hand patting his back, murmuring and whispering, “I can’t tell you it’s okay.”
Because, it’s impossible to feel okay about it.
“But I can be with you in your grief, all things considered,” said Sanjay, “and you don’t have to brace yourself.”
I hope you feel less overwhelmed because of it.
Listening to her words, the arc of Duan Jia Xu’s lips tightened. As if thinking about something, he lowered his eyelashes and suddenly called out to her, “Only only.”
“Uh-huh.”
“Am I really too old?”
I don’t know why he suddenly said this, but Sanji denied it seriously, “No.”
The knot in Duan Jia Xu’s throat slid up and down, as if he was suppressing some emotion, and only after a long time did a sentence seemingly emerge, “Then how come my mom and dad are gone.”
“……”
Sang Chi’s nose turned sour, and the force of her hold on him increased. Her eyes reddened at the end, and she held back the choking of her words, saying slowly, word for word, “I’ll stay with you.”
What I have, I’ll give you.
All the warmth I’ve gained, all of it to you, too.
“I’ll give you a promise, okay?” Sanji said, “We’ll have a family in the future, and I’ll be with you until much later. My family, too, will become your family.”
“Uh-huh.” Duan Jia Xu repeated in a faint voice, “We, will have a home.”
Sangji stroked his head, following his earlier tone, and said earnestly and solemnly, “What everyone else has, all of us in Jiaxu will have as well.”
Duan Jia Xu laughed out loud, his voice a little hoarse.
“Good.”
The past that you can’t get rid of and can’t let go of.
In this moment, like with the departure of Duan Zhicheng.
Finally, it passed completely.
–
In mid-July, Sanjay’s summer vacation arrived.
As soon as she finished the last exam, Sang Zhi took a car to the airport and returned to Nanwu. The next morning, she was called out by Duan Jiaxu to go downtown to see a house in a neighborhood that had just opened.
The two looked at the model home.
Three bedrooms, two baths, plus a small balcony. The space isn’t too big, a little over a hundred square feet, and the layout and neighborhood are quite nice.
All of it, it’s kinda perfect.
It’s the price that makes it a little hard to swallow.
Afraid that the intermediary would hear him, Sanji came close to his ear and reminded, “This is expensive.”
“My family only only intends to use the house to hide her,” Duan Jia Xu learned her to speak in an airy voice, sounding lazy, “buy it cheaply, she might be too embarrassed to take it out.”
“……”
“Brother is still waiting to be hidden.”
“……” Sang Chi frowned, “Just buy a two-bedroom one, seventy or eighty square feet.”
“Kids, this is the house for the wedding.” Duan Jia Xu said, “One for the two of us, and one to be reserved for my children’s children.”
Sanji was serious: “That’s not two rooms.”
“Get another study.” Duan Jiaxu raised his eyebrows, his voice languid and intentional, “Brother hasn’t tried it in the study–“
He didn’t finish the rest of his sentence, but the implication was extraordinarily clear.
Sanji gritted his teeth and reached out to pinch his face.
Duan Jia Xu couldn’t help but laugh out loud, his chest vibrating. His eyes curved into a beautiful crescent moon, and without further joking, he asked again, “So do you like this set?”
Sang-chi looked around again with just one word: “Expensive.”
“Well, then this set.” Duan Jiaxu had come to see it before and thought it was quite suitable, but he hadn’t decided on it because he wanted to ask Sangzhi what he thought, “I’ll talk to the agent, and then we’ll come over to buy it on another day when we have the documents.”
Sanji didn’t say anything else.
After leaving the sales department, Sang Chi couldn’t help but say, “How do you ……”
Duanjia Xu: “Huh?”
Sanji muttered, “Just, kinda good looking.”
Duanjia Xu laughed, “And then what?”
“Temperament’s okay, too.”
“Uh-huh.”
“The education and work ethic are pretty good.”
“What’s wrong?”
“And then now,” Sanji didn’t know how to describe his feelings, a little unbalanced and feeling like he was useless, “kinda rich.”
Duan Jiaxu reacted and added carelessly, “The figure is also quite good.”
“……” Sanji, not wanting him to get too cocky, couldn’t help but spit out, “The figure is obviously average.”
Hearing this, Duan Jia Xu moved his eyes to her, “General?”
Duan Jiaxu: “OK.”
“What for.”
“After all, I rely on my color to eat.” Duan Jiaxu reached out, scratched her chin, and said diffidently, “Looks like it’s going to take some effort.”
“……”
The two got into the car.
Sang Zhi looked at her cell phone and casually said, “You send me over to Shang’an, today’s high school reunion, I said I’d go over.”
Duan Jiaxu: “Dinner at your house tonight.”
“I know, my mom told me.” Sanji said, “I’ll go back this afternoon, have lunch with them and then talk for a while, and I won’t stay long.”
“Uh-huh.”
Duan Jia Xu dropped her off at Shang’an Plaza, while then went to the supermarket near Sang Zhi’s house to shop around and buy a few things, and then headed to Sang Zhi’s house.
Since it was the weekend, Sang Rong and Li Ping were both at home. He sat in the living room and chatted with them for a while, then followed Li Ping into the kitchen to give her a hand.
After a while, Li Ping glanced towards the cupboard, “Eh, Jia Xu, help me go to Only Only’s room and bring out a plate. She took it back to her room for a snack yesterday, and I forgot to put it away.”
Duanjia Xu nodded, “Good.”
He turned on the faucet, washed his hands, and turned into Sanji’s room.
This room, many years ago, Duan Jia Xu also came in once. At that time, the little girl nervously pulled him in and asked him in an anxious tone if he could pose as her brother to help her meet her teacher.
After all those years, the room hadn’t changed much.
Not much space, a bed, a table and a closet, and no other large pieces of furniture. The layout is small and cozy, the overall color tone is warm, most of the decorations are used light pink.
The comforter was strewn messily across the bed, and a few pieces of clothing had fallen sporadically beside it.
Duan Jia Xu subconsciously went over to help her pick up her things, folding the quilt along the way. His eyes lifted and caught a glimpse of a few muppets on the bed.
All from him.
The many knick-knacks sitting on the desk, and the makeup bag on the side, the book bag, are all traces of where he was in her life for so many years.
Duan Jia Xu walked over to the desk and was about to pick up the plate when he suddenly noticed the drawing book next to him. The corner of his lips tugged as he absently picked it up and flipped through a few pages.
The next second, a piece of paper fell out of it.
Duanjia Xu’s gaze lurched, and he looked downward in a smooth manner.
Noticing the above momentarily –
My dream:
- Admission to the University of Iho.
- Paragraph Commendation.
The handwriting on the top is childish to the point of being childish, and the paper is a little wrinkled, yellowed, and somewhat dated.
The second dream, was scrawled out with a black water pen, with such force that the paper was scratched a bit, but it was still clearly visible, which three words were written on it.
Duan Jia Xu froze in place for a long time before slowly picking up the piece of paper. He raised his head, and his eyes moved to settle on the milk bottle on the windowsill.
The inside was filled with paper stars.
He walked over and picked up the milk bottle as well, rubbing it gently with his fingertips.
–
It was just after five o’clock when Sanjay arrived home.
Only Li Ping was in the living room and was currently sitting on the sofa watching TV. Hearing the commotion, she looked over and casually said, “Back?”
Sanji nodded and also asked, “Did Brother Kash come over?”
“Well, he helped mom in the kitchen all afternoon and just went to your brother’s room to rest.” Li Ping said, “It’s almost time, go tell him to come out and get ready for dinner.”
Sang Zhi answered yes and trotted towards Sang Yan’s room. With Duan Jia Xu, she had no scruples and directly grabbed the door handle and pushed it open, instantly seeing the man sitting on the sofa.
He was lazily leaning back in his chair, a cigarette burning in his hand, and was currently looking down at his cell phone. Wearing a white shirt and suit pants, fine hair scattered in front of his forehead.
The room was dimly lit and his form appeared shadowed.
The next moment, Duanjia Xu raised his eyes.
The look is stunning and seductive.
An extraordinarily familiar scene.
It’s like going back, to that afternoon years ago.
The young Sang Chi, because of the full heart, recklessly and anxiously opened the door, and then, met the twenty year old Duan Jia Xu.
The big boy who stood out in all the right ways and was always cynical.
Treats everything with carelessness, like he doesn’t care about anything. All of her ridiculous demeanor is also dealt with without a blush.
Gentle yet cold, dazzling yet eye-catching.
It’s a treasure that can’t be hidden in this dull light any way.
Sanji crashed into his world.
And let this man, too, occupy his entire adolescence.
It was what she longed for in those days, but could not have it.
Sang-chi was in a bit of a trance, and stood in place numbly.
History seems to be repeating itself, as it did at that time, Duan Jiaxu lowered his eyes again and pressed the cigarette out, and then got up and opened the window. But it was a little different from that time, because the next second, he reached out his hand toward her.
“Come here.”
Sanji didn’t say anything and obediently walked over.
At the same time, Duan Jia Xu grabbed her wrist and pulled her into his arms. He leaned close to the side of her ear, his voice low and hoarse, “Are you-“
He paused and finished his sentence carefully and clearly.
“The only thing I’ve ever wanted in my life.”
Sang Chi raised her head and met his eyes. She pursed her lips, a lump in her throat.
In this moment, Sanji recalled his own youthful self.
At that time, all the thoughts that were trying their best to hide, the uncontrolled and careful approaching, the sweet and sour secret that they dared not tell to anyone.
I’ve cried hysterically, hidden all my memories in a box, and scratched out all the dreams I thought were impossible, as if they didn’t exist.
I’ve also hypnotized myself, choked up and repeated, “I won’t like you anymore”.
Word for word, word for word.
And yet, it still festered while meeting him again.
Those deep, unremitting crushes, the things of the heart that you want to secretly hide in your heart for the rest of your life, not letting anyone find out, in the end, it becomes something that you can’t hide even if you want to.
At this moment, it all seems unnecessary to hide.
Because, she’s always dreamed of it.
From a certain point on, she was also considered, as the only dream.
-End of text-
Extra I
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1.
Sang-Chi’s summer vacation was extremely free with nothing to do. Sometimes he was asked out by his friends to go out, but the rest of the time he stayed at home alone and drew pictures.
Occasionally, he meets with Duan Jiaxu a few times.
Unlike her, Duan Jiaxu’s work is busy, working overtime until eleven or twelve o’clock every day, and his rest time is squeezed out like toothpaste. Except for the occasional single day off, there is basically no time in the day.
Normally, Sangji could only go over to him during the meal times. But compared to when she was in Yiho, when they were in different places, it was much better.
Knowing that starting a business is tiring, and Duan Jia Xu is also trying his best to make time for her, Sang Zhi didn’t feel angry, and only felt that this day is too boring.
And so it went for a week.
Sanji began to find something to do for himself on top of what he was already doing.
Because of a video on the Internet, Sang Zhi inexplicably interested in cooking. She didn’t have to go out to buy the ingredients at home, and when the mood struck her, she just got up and ran to the kitchen.
Looking at the video, Sang Chi followed the steps on it, and completed it step by step carefully. She felt that every step of her operation was perfect, except when it came to the pan, ready to stir-fry.
Sang Chi has a great principle of doing things, doing things even if it is humiliating does not matter, as long as it does not hurt their own flesh and blood one minute and one millimeter on the line.
On weekdays, she is the only one in the house.
So no one knows how Sang-chi is doing.
She stood and thought for a moment, washing her hands and returning to her room. Sanji rummaged for an ankle-length long coat and pulled it over her body while wrapping a scarf around her neck.
After thinking about it, Sanji put on her gloves, mask, and a pair of glasses with no prescription, and she took her eye mask out of the drawer and covered her forehead before she left the room.
Just as he walked to where the dining room was, there was a commotion from the foyer.
Sang Zhi’s heart skipped a heavy beat, and when her eyes lifted, she met Sang Yan’s gaze as if he had seen a retard. She had a little bit of embarrassment and stood stiffly in place, “Brother, why did you come back?”
“Take something.” Sang Yeon scanned her up and down and said in a single word, “You’re planning to go out wearing that?”
Sanji said honestly, “I’m going to fry an egg.”
Sanjan: “……”
A few seconds of silence.
Sang Yeon suddenly took out his cell phone and took a picture of her.
Sanji froze, “What are you doing.”
Sang Yeon said naturally, “Send a friend circle.”
Sang Chi’s eyes widened as she walked over to him and tried to grab his cell phone, “Are you ever that bored!”
Sang Yeon raised his hand up and tilted his head, his fingers flying over the screen. The other hand held down Sanji’s head, pushing her away.
When the send was successful, Sang Yeon turned off the screen, “Alright, you fry your eggs.”
“…… “Sang Chi stared straight at him, resisting the urge to go up and beat him to death, she held down her temper, fished her cell phone out of her pocket, and looked at her friend circle.
No new content.
She looked up suspiciously, “Did you block me?”
Sang Yeon headed for his room, and when he heard this, his footsteps lurched and he lazily ah’d, “Wrong word.”
Sanji: “?”
“It was sent to Duan Kash.”
“……”
Sang Zhi pursed her lips and opened the chat window with Duan Jia Xu to look at it. Probably still busy, didn’t look at WeChat, and he didn’t look for her.
Anyway, it’s not like she hasn’t lost face in front of these two people, Sang Chi simply doesn’t care. But she felt no pain again, and after half a day of rummaging through her phone’s albums, she found an ugly picture of Sang Yan and sent it to Wen Yifan.
Sanji went back into the kitchen.
She turned on the heat, and when the oil was hot, she poured in the whisked egg mixture, and heard a crackling sound, but the oil didn’t fry up as she thought it would.
Sang Yan entered the kitchen at this time and took the spatula in her hand, “Get out of the way.”
“……” said Sanji, not too happy about it, “I want to get it myself.”
“I’m afraid the kitchen will explode.”
Sang Chi stood next to him, gazing into the pot, muttering, “You’re exaggerating too much, I think I got it pretty good.”
“You usually do it yourself?” Sang Yeon said casually, “You’re hurting yourself?”
“……” Sang Chi held her tongue, “I usually don’t make it myself, I order takeout. I just want to make a bento today, and if it’s good, I’ll take it to Brother Jia Xu for lunch.”
“Oh.” Sanjayan realized, “You want a new boyfriend.”
“……”
This time, Sanji couldn’t help himself, “It’s what I make that’s not that bad.”
Sang Yan just happened to have scrambled the eggs and served them in the bowl next to him. He lowered his eyes, his tone extraordinarily beaten: “People Duan Jia Xu is quite good to you, there is no need to be so harmful.”
Sanji didn’t bother with him anymore.
Seeing the vegetables and meat she had cut up and put aside, Sang extended his hand, lifted his chin, and simply helped her fry a piece, “Bring it over.”
Kuwabara moved her lips to say something, but finally compromised by handing him the plate.
Taking advantage of this time, Sang Chi went back to her room to change into a set of clothes. Afterwards, she returned to the kitchen, took out two lunchboxes, filled them with some rice, and carefully arranged the plates to make two bento lunches.
Sang Yeon washed his hands, “I’m leaving.”
Sanjay: “Brother, did you drive here?”
“Uh-huh.”
“Then why don’t you drop me off at my boyfriend’s by the way.”
“……”
Sanji put the lid on the lunchbox and put it in a bag with a slightly odd expression, “I was planning on taking my time and getting him a love bento, but it turns out half of it is from you, so what’s the point.”
Sang Yeon’s eyebrows jumped.
“It’s really kind of weird to tell.” Sanji cooed, “I was with my brother, making a love bento for my boyfriend.”
“……,” Sanjan said with a grimace, “Take your own cab.”
–
Sang Zhi told Duan Jia Xu on WeChat that she was coming over. She hadn’t been to his studio before, only passing by the area when she came to look for him.
Walking to the front of the office building, San Zhi happened to see Duan Jia Xu’s figure.
Duan Jiaxu walked over and helped her carry the bag, mentioning in passing, “Made it yourself?”
Sang Chi directly ignored Sang Yan’s credit and nodded, “Uh-huh.”
Duanjia Xu said with amusement, “Wear that to do that?”
Sanji frowned, “Are you trying to mock me too.”
“No.” Duan Jiaxu took her by the hand, the tip of his eyebrow raised, “It’s quite cute, wear it like this in the kitchen from now on. As long as you don’t get hurt.”
Sanji volunteered, “I should make it for you tomorrow as well.”
Duanjia Xu smiled again, “Uh-huh.”
After a while, he asked, “Why the sudden desire to cook?”
“Nothing to do.” Sanji said, “I feel like cooking is kinda fun.”
The two took the elevator up and went inside the studio.
The space wasn’t big, and it held about ten people inside, all of whom were eating takeout at the moment. Hearing the commotion, a bunch of people who were chatting turned their heads in unison and looked this way.
Duan Jia Xu faintly introduced, “My girlfriend, you guys can just call her sister-in-law.”
As soon as these words fell, there immediately came a neat and loud cry, “Hello, sister-in-law!”
Sanji: “……”
Feeling a little embarrassed, she forced herself to greet them and turned back to Duan Jiaxu before she was tugged to his desk, “You sit here.”
Afterward, Duan Jia Xu pulled the chair next to her and sat on it. He opened his bento and said with interest, “You can still cook?”
Sanji explained, “Read the online tips to do it.”
Duan Jiaxu seemed to be in a good mood, but still instructed, “Pay attention to yourself, don’t get it if you don’t think you’re sure, I’m fine with takeout.”
“No.” Sanji said, “It’s kind of fun.”
In the next few days, as usual, Sang Chi tossed a morning every day and made two bento lunches out. Although the flavor was a bit worse than the ones fried by Sang Yan, it was still acceptable.
Sang Zhi often comes to Duan Jia Xu’s studio, naturally also talked to his colleagues for a few words. He also knew that they all knew that there was such a person as her, but he had never seen her in person.
This excitement lasted less than a week, Sang Zhi began to find cooking extraordinarily uninteresting and could not bring up the energy. Waking up on this day, she stayed in bed for a while and told Duan Jiaxu in advance that she shouldn’t go over today.
Figured I’d go back tomorrow and just cuddle up in bed with my tablet for the rest of the day.
The next day as well.
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, Sanjay never entered the kitchen again.
–
After Sang Zhi didn’t come over to deliver meals at noon, Duan Jia Xu went back to living with his coworkers and eating takeout every day. He didn’t mind this too much and was worried that she would get hurt if she stayed in the kitchen all the time.
But somehow.
Those of his coworkers don’t think so.
Sometime in the middle of the day, Duanjash heard them chatting in the pantry.
“Actually, I always thought that the Boss having a girlfriend was bragging about not wanting to be in a relationship and making up random excuses.”
“Yeah, yeah, yeah, I thought so, because I never saw him bring it out.”
“No way, he spends his free time either on the phone or looking at his cell phone, he looks like he’s with someone.”
“A girlfriend at first glance! I heard him talking on the phone last time, can you believe it, the boss is so scary, he’s actually pouting.” The boy began to imitate his tone very greasily, “Why are you so mean, little friend?”
Duanjia Xu’s eyelids twitched.
“And don’t you guys think the boss has been a little scary lately?”
“Kind of.”
“Right? I also think, just since my sister-in-law didn’t come over, it feels like he’s smiling, but there’s just something about him.”
“Has Biggie been dumped, or else why did sister-in-law suddenly stop coming.”
“I think it’s possible, I did hear something about how my sister-in-law seems to kind of dislike the oldest and thinks he’s old. I didn’t know until I heard it on the sly, the Boss is actually 80 years old.”
“Fuck me.”
“Fuck me.”
“Thirty-six?”
“Boss condition is quite good, right, sister-in-law looks as if she is still in college, age is a little bit more difference. I see that he really likes his sister-in-law, besides working is looking for her, giving the impression that he is a bit sticky.”
“Forget about it.”
“Yeah, the boss probably doesn’t want anyone to know, and is holding out in front of us.”
“Okay let’s all pretend we don’t know.”
Duanjash: “……”
He tugged at the corner of his mouth and, without going into the pantry, turned his head back to his seat and called Sanji.
Sanji quickly picked up, “Hello.”
Duanjia Xu said diffidently, “What’s doing?”
Sanji: “Drawing pictures.”
“Free tomorrow?”
“Yeah.”
Duan Jia Xu was silent for a few seconds and said as if he didn’t mean it, “Come over and bring me a meal.”
Extra two.
.
Sanji didn’t notice anything wrong.
After hanging up the phone, Sang Chi flipped out her cell phone calendar and looked at it. Counting the time, she realized that without realizing it, she hadn’t delivered food to Duan Jia Xu for almost a week.
Somehow, probably because of Duan Jiaxu’s tone just now, Sangji inexplicably also felt a little bit weak.
Afraid that she would forget about it, Sangji even set an alarm clock before she went to bed. When she woke up the next day, she found a food video she was interested in and watched it several times in bed before going into the kitchen.
Sanji tasted the flavors as he made them, thinking that the ones he made today were a bit better than any he had made before.
She licked the sauce from her lips.
I thought to myself, why don’t I tell Duan Jia Xu that she hasn’t been there for a while because she’s practicing her cooking skills?
Rambling for a while.
Sang Chi carefully arranged the plate for the bento, put it into a bag, and left the door. She counted the time correctly, took a subway there, and when she arrived at the downstairs of Duan Jiaxu’s company, it was just the right time for dinner.
After coming more often, Sang Chi didn’t let Duan Jia Xu come down to pick him up, and directly took the elevator up.
The door to the studio was left open, probably because it was meal time.
San Zhi walked in and didn’t see Duan Jia Xu in her seat. She blinked, took out her cell phone, and sent a message to Duan Jia Xu.
One of the men noticed her, froze, and slammed the shoulder of the person next to him before taking the initiative to say, “Sister-in-law, the boss is going to the restroom, so you can sit down for a while.”
Being called sister-in-law by this group of men older than herself, Sang Chi was still a bit unnatural. She nodded and walked over to Duan Jia Xu’s seat and sat down, taking out both bento items in the bag in the process.
Sang Chi had just opened the lid when someone asked, “Sister-in-law, why haven’t you come over this time?”
She turned back.
Just as she was about to reply, Sang Chi suddenly noticed Duan Jia Xu’s figure with her afterglow. She instantly withdrew the words from her mouth and turned her gaze to him.
Duan Jia Xu walked over and looked at her with downcast eyes, “How long have you been here?”
Sanji: “Just got here.”
He yanked the chair next to him and sat down, suddenly calling out to her, “Only only only.”
Sanji looked up, “Huh?”
Duan Jia Xu glanced backward and lazily said, “Why don’t you answer when others are asking you?”
“……”
The attention he had diverted came back at once.
Not knowing whether Duan Jia Xu was unhappy or not, Sang Zhi stared at him hesitantly for a few seconds before cautiously and slowly saying the excuse she had thought of today, “I don’t think my cooking is too good.”
Duanjia Xu: “Huh?”
“So this period of time is practicing cooking hard.” Sangji didn’t dare to lock eyes with him for fear that he would find out that he was lying, “You taste it, it’s better today than it was before.”
As the words fell out of his mouth, the man who had just asked Sangchih’s question made a dazed, oh-like sound, “So that’s how it is! We thought–“
Before he could finish, the man next to him covered his mouth.
Sangchil said inarticulately, “Why?”
As if he didn’t hear them, Duan Jia Xu picked up his chopsticks with a gentle expression, “If you don’t want to do it, don’t do it. If you’re bored, find a friend and go out.”
“……”
Normally normal words, at this moment, Sang Zhi inexplicably felt a little weird. Moreover, this man, no matter if he was angry or happy, he always had the same expression, and she couldn’t tell the difference.
Sanji gulped and said seriously, “Didn’t want to.”
Duanjia Xu looked at her sideways.
Sanjay added, “I can think about it too much.”
After a pause, she simply denounced him in return, “Do you just not want me to come over.”
Duan Jia Xu’s eyebrows slightly stretched out, looked at the group of great lords who were currently listening to the movements over here with their ears open, and laughed, “What are you talking about, eat quickly.”
–
Kuwabara always felt odd.
After the meal, while Duan Jia Xu went to take out the garbage, she approached one of the youngest and most foul-mouthed boys here to ask a few questions. It didn’t take long to ask why.
Boy: “Sister-in-law, you haven’t been around for a while, we all thought you’d split up with the boss.”
Sanji: “……”
Boy: “And the boss seemed to be in a bad mood for a while, so we thought, you dumped him.”
Sanji: “?”
“After all, I heard you say he was 80 years.” The boy said, “A man who is nearly forty years old and still unmarried must be a bit sensitive inside. Sister-in-law, be nice to the boss.”
Sanji was silent for a few seconds, “I’m talking about the 80s I think, he’s 89.”
“……”
Sanji didn’t think that she would be here for just a few days and it would spread like this.
–Duan Jiaxu, who has a promising future with a car and a house, is dumped by a female college student due to his old age.
She instantly understood the reason why Duan Jia Xu had called her over to deliver the food.
Must have, heard them.
Sanji returned to Duanjia Xu’s position to play with his cell phone.
Soon, Duan Jia Xu came back from outside and brought her a drink.
Poking the straw into the cup, San Zhi took a sip, glancing at him a few times every now and then. The corners of her lips lifted up as she suddenly felt a little funny thinking about what had just happened.
Duanjia Xu looked at her, “What are you laughing at?”
Sang Chi laughed to herself for a moment. Her eyes curved into crescent moons as she reached up to poke him in the face, revealing two small pear swirls on her lips, “Old man with age baggage.”
“……”
“That’s okay.” Sanji reassured him, “You’re just old, but your color isn’t failing yet.”
“……”
2.
A month into the school year and a long November vacation.
Sang-chi bought her ticket home in advance, and on the thirtieth, after her last class, she boarded the airport bus.
It was just after twelve noon when we arrived at Nanwu Airport.
Sang Zhi didn’t bring any luggage, so she didn’t check in and only carried a small school bag. She followed the exit and soon met Duan Jia Xu who was waiting outside.
Duan Jiaxu walked over and held her hand, “Let’s go, let’s go eat.”
Sang Chi glanced at the time and asked, “Do you have to go back to the office later?”
Duanjash: “Uh-huh.”
Sanjay: “Do you have the Fourth of July off?”
Duan Jiaxu: “Put in three days.”
Kuwabara oh-so-quietly.
The two exited the airport.
Sang Zhi was held by Duan Jia Xu and walked in the direction of the parking space. She wasn’t sure of the location and wasn’t looking at the road, just looking down at her cell phone. It wasn’t long before she suddenly heard someone behind her call out to her, “Sang Chi?”
At the sound of the voice, Sanji turned back.
What came into view was a tall, thin man.
It’s her classmate Fu Zhengchu.
It wasn’t too far from the last time we saw each other, which was at a summer reunion.
Compared to junior high school, Fu Zhengchu’s change is not big, only the appearance has grown, dressed also become mature a lot, but the temperament still seems to be sunny, with a little naive and silly.
Seeing that he didn’t recognize the wrong person, Fu Zhengchu smiled, “You’re going home on National Day?”
Sanji stopped walking and nodded, “Why are you here?”
Fu Zhengchu: “My grandmother is coming over, I’m here to pick her up.”
Duan Jia Xu also stopped, his gaze faintly sweeping Fu Zheng Chu with a thoughtful expression. In the next second, the tip of his eyebrows raised, as if he had thought of something, and the corners of his mouth pulled up in an unsavory manner.
Only then did Fu Zhengchu notice the man standing next to Sangji.
He looked at Duan Jiaxu and asked politely, “And this is?”
Sanji said honestly, “My boyfriend.”
Seemingly feeling that Duan Jia Xu looked somewhat familiar, Fu Zheng Chu stared at him for several seconds. Afraid that this would seem too abrupt, he coughed lightly and withdrew his sight: “Then I won’t bother you guys anymore, I’m going to pick up my grandmother.”
Sanji waved his hand at him and said politely, “Go on, get in touch sometime.”
Afterwards, she and Duan Jia Xu continued to walk forward.
Without taking a few steps, Fu Zhengchu behind her called out to her again, this time with a few more points of incredulity in his voice, as if his outlook had been turned upside down, “Sang, Sang Zhi!”
Sanji turned around again, “Huh?”
But Fu Zhengchu’s eyes didn’t rest on her, instead, he stared straight at Duan Jiaxu as if he had remembered something. He looked like he was struck by lightning, his lips moved, and in the end, he only managed to hold back three words, “It’s nothing.”
Sang Chi was also puzzled, “Then go pick up your grandmother quickly, don’t let the old man wait long.”
He was quiet for a moment and nodded.
This time Fu Zhengchu didn’t say anything else and turned around to go inside the airport.
When he left, Duan Jia Xu pinched her fingertips and said slowly, “If I remember correctly, this boy has been made to cry by you before?”
Sang Chi muttered, “How long ago was it, I almost don’t remember if you don’t mention it.”
Duan Jia Xu repeated what she had just said, “There is, air, connection, connection.”
Sang Chi didn’t feel like she was being unreasonable and couldn’t help but say, “polite words, can’t you hear it? Moreover, he has a girlfriend and has long since disliked me. The last time we met, he even told me that it was because he was young and unintelligent.”
Duan Jiaxu looked diffident and trailed off with an ah, “Last time we met.”
“……”
“Why are you still seeing other men behind your brother’s back.”
Sanji said expressionlessly, “Class reunion.”
She frowned, “Why are you picking on me every chance you get now.”
“What picking a fight.” Duan Jia Xu laughed out loud, “I’m not the one who has to be on guard, the old married couple.”
“……”
Seeing that he still wanted to continue to rummage through these old and irrelevant accounts, Sang Chi took the initiative to pull away from the topic and brought up Fu Zhengchu’s reaction just now, “When he just called me for the second time, his expression seemed to be very strange.”
Duanjash: “It is strange.”
Sangji couldn’t understand him, “Why did he react that way? That expression was like he suddenly realized that I had changed my personality or had a face-lift.”
Duan Jiaxu laughed, “It’s not that serious.”
Sanji froze, “You know?”
“Uh-huh.”
“How do you know?”
“And you know it.”
“I don’t know.”
“Think about it.”
For a moment, Sang Chi really couldn’t think of anything and said blankly, “What ah.”
“This classmate of yours, I remember, the first time I met me, I went to help you meet your teacher on behalf of your brother.” Duan Jia Xu patiently reminded, “So, he should think that I’m your brother.”
“……”
“He’s probably thinking that we’re having an affair right now. . incest.”
Extra three.
.
Sang Zhi remembers that Duan Jiaxu went to help her meet her parents, but she has long forgotten that Fu Zhengchu was also present at that time. It’s been seven or eight years since the incident, and her impression has faded a lot.
But after hearing Duan Jia Xu mention it, Sang Zhi’s memories surfaced in a moment.
She was silent for a few seconds, “You just remembered?”
Duan Jiaxu coughed lightly and didn’t say anything.
When he reacted this way, Sang Chi’s expression cracked, and she instantly understood. She stared at him for a long time, her tone with a bit of incredulity, dumbfounded, “Then why don’t you just explain?”
Duan Jia Xu laughed, “It’s not that I’m afraid I’m thinking too much.”
Extremely justified.
But it was clear that he had guessed Fu Zhengchu’s thoughts.
Sang Chi took a deep breath, and couldn’t help but reach out and pinch his waist: “Don’t pretend.”
Her force wasn’t heavy, it was like she was tickling him. Duan Jia Xu didn’t hide, like he really felt tickled, he laughed a little out of breath, and spoke with a shallow breath, “This classmate of yours is quite capable of brainstorming.”
Sanji also found it extraordinarily ridiculous, “What did he think?”
“But it’s an interesting guess.”
“……” Sang Chi’s breath was blocked in her chest, unable to go up or down. She didn’t want to care about him, and looked at her cell phone, trying to find the chat window with Fu Zhengchu, she found that there was already a series of words sent there.
Fu Zhengchu: [you ……]
Fu Zhengchu: [Just in front of you two, surrounded by so many people, I’m embarrassed to say].
Fu Zhengchu: [You’re not doing well, right? If your parents find out, they’ll go crazy! And this thing is not moral and ethical, as your friend, I will advise you to turn back to the shore.
Fu Zhengchu: [You just introduced this too openly, aren’t you afraid of being seen? Seriously, I’m starting to wonder if there’s something wrong with me.
A few minutes apart.
Fu Zhengchu: [the more I fucking think about it ……]
Fu Zhengchu: [Think about it yourself. And you don’t have to worry, I’m not that loud-mouthed, I won’t tell anyone].
Sang Chi’s forehead corner twitched and returned, [It’s not what you think, this isn’t my brother, it’s my brother’s friend. In the past, he was just helping my brother to help me meet my teacher].
After sending it successfully, San Zhi put away his phone and looked at Duan Jiaxu.
Perhaps fearing that she was annoyed, Duan Jia Xu’s smile tightened for a few moments, and he even looked her way.
But Sang Chi didn’t mention what just happened again. After seeing Duan Jiaxu’s car, he said warmly, “Let’s go, let’s go eat.”
–
Duanjia Xu drove his car near the company.
The two hadn’t seen each other for almost a month. After stopping the car, he didn’t rush to get out of the car, and came over to undo Sang Chi’s seatbelt. The distance shortened all of a sudden, his eyes straight, staring at her, leaning closer and closer.
Extraordinarily obvious hints.
Duan Jia Xu’s head was slightly sideways, and the tip of his nose brushed against the skin under her eyes. With a hot breath, and a familiar and good smelling tobacco flavor. The lips looked like they were about to close the next moment, but they were fixed at this moment.
If it’s a long way off.
Ambiguity festered in the air.
The knots in Duan Jia Xu’s throat rolled in small increments. His features were softly colored by the light from the window, and his pupils were light and glowing. He stroked her face lovingly and laughed lowly as his head continued to descend.
The gesture was inexplicably somewhat lustful.
All the emotions, as if to heat up and turn over with the move.
But none of it came in time.
Because Sanji suddenly raised his hand and covered his mouth.
Duan Jia Xu’s body visibly paused, and his eyes lifted to look at her without a word. It didn’t seem to carry any emotions, but inexplicably carried a hint of danger.
Sanji voiced, “You might want to stop kissing me for now.”
Duan Jiaxu didn’t pull away from her hand, and when he spoke, his hot breath sprayed onto her palm like it was carrying electricity, “What?”
“I remember what my classmate just said.” Sang Chi was vindictive and deliberately said, “I can’t remember who you are, anyway, seeing you is like seeing my brother, you’d better stay away from me.”
Duan Jiaxu said thoughtfully, “So serious?”
Sanji boarded his face and nodded.
His lashes fluttered, his eyes dropping down to rest on her lips, quickly moving back up to meet her gaze.
The silence didn’t last long.
Abruptly, Duan Jia Xu pulled her hand off and pressed it down at his chest, bringing her entire body over. Without waiting for Sang Zhi to react, his lips were already pressed down.
The tip of his tongue pressed against the seam of her lips, sweeping inward along her teeth, hooking her tongue, intertwining and licking it hard.
Sanji’s eyes were unclosed and his mouth was open to his demands.
When kissing, he always likes to pinch her earlobes, or caress is the skin at the back of the neck. The lips and tongue, delicate and patient to invade every corner of her, the force and a little heavy, and does not show tenderness.
Like he wanted to, bit by bit, tear her apart, savor her, and swallow her.
She tried to squeeze him out, and again he cupped her chin and swept in brutally.
There was nothing else in Sanji’s head, and his head couldn’t help but rise up to meet him.
I don’t know how long it took, but Duan Jiaxu bit her lower lip and lightly licked it, and then stepped back. The light hadn’t changed, his pupils inexplicably looked deeper, and his lips were red with charming water stains.
All of Kuwabara’s sulking melted away quite spinelessly in this instant.
Then Sanji heard him open his mouth, “Now–“
She raised her eyes.
Duan Jia Xu curved his lips, his peach blossom eyes then converged, smiling like a scourge.
“Remember who I am yet?”
3.
With a heavy rain, the season changed from summer to fall, and the dryness in the air dispersed a few moments with some humidity. Again, with the fading of the leaves, the temperature plummets, ushering in a new year.
A cold wave sweeps in and cold air hits on a massive scale.
Unlike the cold in the north, the winter in the south is so wet and cold that wearing even thicker clothes seems like it can penetrate into the bone marrow from any corner, drilling into the body along the pores.
In 17 years, it was the coldest winter that Duan Jia Xu had spent in the years he stayed in Nanwu.
It was also after so many years that he really felt it again.
New Year’s should be a lively and festive holiday.
This familiar and unfamiliar feeling.
Duanjia Xu spent New Year’s Eve at Sang’s house.
Probably because he was afraid that he would feel embarrassed, or because he was rushed because he wasn’t invited, when Duan Jiaxu went to Sang’s house for dinner a month before the Spring Festival, Sang Rong started to mention this to him.
Lai Ping also took the stance that if he didn’t come over, she would probably get angry.
Duan Jiaxu did have the idea that he didn’t want to disturb their family for New Year’s Eve at first. But hearing them say this, also feel frank, did not hide his mood, with a smile should be.
He mentioned this to Sanji.
Even though he knew his parents would definitely ask him to come along for New Year’s Eve, Sanji still felt happy to hear it.
After coming back from school, because of this matter, Sang Chi was like a follower, sticking to his parents for several days. Later, when he found Duan Jia Xu free, he grabbed him to go shopping.
New Year’s gift for his family, Sanji has long been ready.
This time when I went out, I just wanted to help Duan Jia Xu buy some new clothes.
After they got together, Duan Jia Xu’s clothes were basically bought for him by Sang Zhi.
Duan Jiaxu is not too attached to these things, in the past when he was alone, he lacked clothes, so he looked for a men’s clothing store to buy a few random pieces, and the whole process took less than ten minutes. When you are too busy to find a little time, you can simply buy directly on the Internet.
But because he’s good looking, he looks good in everything. So nothing major.
Feeling that he does not treat himself well, Sang Chi likes to worry about these things for him, buy clothes for himself are not so enthusiastic. Go out shopping with friends, but also always run to the men’s clothing store.
The two went into a men’s clothing store.
Sanji asked him for his opinion as he looked at the clothes.
Duan Jiaxu smiled back, “Whatever you think looks good.”
Sang Zhi took a dark red sweater and handed it to him, gesturing earnestly and mumbling, “New Year, wear something festive. Do you think it’s good?”
Duan Jiaxu stared at her and softly said, “Good.”
“Then you try.”
“Good.”
While he went to the fitting room, Sanji picked out a few more dresses and held them in her arms. She glanced to the side and with her free hand rummaged through the coat next to her, taking it down as well. Counting the time, while heading in the direction of the fitting room.
Duan Jiaxu just happened to come out.
The store was adequately lit, and Duan Jia Xu’s skin color was on the pale side, like he was glowing. Because he had stayed up late for a long time, there was a layer of greenish gray underneath his eyes, but because his lips were naturally red, he didn’t look haggard.
The neckline of the sweater was a little low, revealing a section of collarbone. Most of his clothes are dark, it’s rare that he wears such colorful clothes, setting off his appearance more and more outstanding and eye-catching, standing there quietly, all seem to be teasing people.
Duan Jia Xu walked up to her and asked, “Is it okay?”
Sang Chi’s eyes were as if he couldn’t move away, and he honestly said, “It looks good.”
Duan Jiaxu: “This one then.”
Sanji couldn’t help but say, “Why are you so good looking.”
“Hmm?” Duan Jiaxu leaned down to her level and hung back, “Then say one thing, Brother Jiaxu is the most handsome in the world.”
“…… “Sang-chi pretends not to hear and gives him the clothes in his hand, “Do you want to try these on?”
“Don’t try it.” Duanjash said, “Buy them all.”
“Oh.”
“I’ll go change my clothes back.”
Kuwabi ahs and awkwardly suggests, “Let’s go with this one on.”
Hearing this, Duan Jia Xu raised his eyebrows and said with a low smile, “Brother is that good looking, huh?”
Sanji didn’t reply to that, holding the dress in the direction of the cash register as he said, “Come on, go pay.”
Duanjia Xu didn’t tease her anymore and just laughed after her.
After checking out, the two exited the store.
Sanji pondered, “Should I go buy a formal suit?”
Duan Jiaxu: “Buy it when you get married.”
“……”
Sang Chi looked at him and added, “Then go buy shoes, you’ve been wearing these shoes for a long time.”
Duan Jia Xu pointed to the women’s clothing store next to him, “Go and buy you a few pieces.”
“I’ve been buying a lot of clothes lately.”
“Uh-huh.” Duan Jia Xu said, “Then I’ll buy it for you too.”
Picking out his own clothes, Sanjay became a bit disinterested.
Duan Jia Xu was interested in picking for her. But it wasn’t like when Sang Zhi picked out clothes for him, whatever she picked out, Duan Jia Xu would wear. Sang Zhi’s demands were so high that when he took one piece, he would spit out a sentence in dissatisfaction.
“This one will look dark on me.”
“This skirt is so long, I look like I’m five-foot-five in it.”
“This pattern is so earthy.”
“Don’t want this.”
At the end of the day, not a single piece was picked.
Sang Chi also gradually realized that the girls around her, their gazes seemed to be seemingly glancing towards Duan Jia Xu’s body. She paused and also looked at him, staring at his collarbone that was exposed to the air.
She was silent for a few seconds, her face turning a little harder.
Duan Jiaxu said good-naturedly, “Change the store.”
Sang-chi’s eyes lifted, staring into his, and oddly ventured, “Which man-“
Duanjia Xu: “Huh?”
“Dressed to hurt.”
“……”
–
On New Year’s Eve, Duan Jia Xu came to Sang’s house at noon.
The New Year’s Eve dinner over here was early, at four in the afternoon. He didn’t have much to do if he stayed at home by himself, so he planned to come over early to help.
It was Sanji who came to open the door for him.
As soon as he went in, Duan Jia Xu could hear, Li Ping scolding Sang Yan. He could also smell, the extremely fragrant smell of home cooked food. The girl in front of him smiled and curved her eyes, and cheerfully brought him a pair of slippers, in a good mood.
Duan Jia Xu rubbed her head, “Why are you so happy?”
“My brother was scolded.” The pearly swirls on Sanji’s lips were deep, and he smiled a silly smile, “I’m happy to hear it.”
“……”
Sang Yong is sitting in the living room reading a newspaper.
Hearing the commotion, he looked up and greeted Duan Jiaxu amiably.
Duan Jiaxu smiled and said, “Good New Year, Uncle.”
Liping and Sang Yeon both seem to be in the kitchen.
He chatted with Sang Rong for a few moments before being tugged into the kitchen by Sang Zhi. At this moment, Sang Yan was standing by the running counter, impatiently washing dishes, and Li Ping frowned, “What kind of expression is that? Mom asked you to do a favor and you still can’t do it?”
Sang Yeon stopped moving, “Mom, how many times do you think you’ve said that.”
Duan Jia Xu made a sound and politely called out, “Auntie.”
At the sound of the voice, Li Ping turned her head back. When she saw Duan Jiaxu, she instantly raised a smile, as if she saw her own son, “Jiaxu is here, huh? Go sit down for a while first, Auntie will cut some fruit for you.”
Since the last time he talked to them, Duan Jia Xu didn’t come to Sang’s house very often, and would go at least once a week. More than Sang Yan, his own son.
After getting along for a long time, Sang Rong and Li Ping’s impression of him got better and better.
Because of this comparison, they became more and more disenchanted with the Sang Yan who did not return home once in hundreds of years, and their attitudes towards the two gradually became worlds apart.
“No need.” Duan Jia Xu was busy saying, “Let me help you guys.”
“Let this brat do it himself.” Li Ping looked at Sang Yan again and continued to lecture him, “This virtue, learn more skills or I’m really afraid that girl Yi Fan won’t want to be with you in the future.”
Sang Yan pointed at Sang Zhi, “So she can marry like this?”
Sang Chi was very upset and hid behind Duan Jia Xu, revealing a head. When she didn’t wait for her to say something, Duan Jia Xu had already opened his mouth and said gently, “It’s okay, auntie, I can cook.”
She stared at Sang Yeon and echoed in a very beat up manner, “Sorry oh my boyfriend will.”
Lai Ping said in a hateful manner, “Look at the others.”
Sang Yan held back, “Mom, who is your own son?”
Lai Ping: “You’re asking me to choose?”
“……” Sang Yeon understood the meaning of her words.
He was very self-aware and didn’t pursue further. He just gave Duan Jiaxu an expressionless look and sneered, “Okay.”
–
After New Year’s Eve dinner, the family sat down on the couch to chat and watch the Spring Festival dinner.
The Sang family had the custom of keeping the New Year’s Eve. Although they felt sleepy, they all stayed up until twelve. Once the bell passed, Sang Rong gave each of the three of them a red envelope and said some nagging words.
Getting older and less able to stay up late.
Soon, Sang Rong and Liping went back to their rooms.
Duanjia Xu and Sang Yan cleaned up the mess on the coffee table.
Sang Zhi was also sleepy, but she still braced her eyelids and helped while yawning. Seeing this, Duan Jia Xu came over and kissed her forehead, smiling, “Go to sleep.”
“I’ll help you with a piece,” cooed Sanji, “It’s not much of a mess, it’s quick.”
Sang Yeon looked at them both coolly, “Am I changing my name to Sang Air?”
“……”
Duan Jiaxu laughed and said, “Go to sleep, I’ll just get it with your brother.”
“Oh, then you remember to ask my brother to get a new toothbrush and towel from you.” Sleepy to the point of being a little out of it, Sanji kissed his face as well, “Happy New Year.”
When she finished, she stood up and trotted back to her room.
Sang Yeon swept the peanut shells on the table into the trash can and coldly ventured, “Why do I think you’re getting more and more annoying?”
Duan Jia Xu raised his eyebrows, “Brother, what do you mean by that?”
Sang Yeon threw peanut shells directly at him.
“Bro.” Duan Jiaxu smothered a laugh, “Got it on the floor, why don’t you go get a broom.”
“……”
Duan Jia Xu stayed at Sang’s house today and slept with Sang Yan.
They had already showered one after another earlier and went back to their rooms to sleep at this point. Sang Yeon threw his pillow onto the couch and rightfully repeated his previous words, “Sorry, I don’t sleep with men.”
At this point, Duan Jia Xu couldn’t sleep much either. He sat on the sofa, rummaged through his pockets, and took out the red envelope that Sang Rong had just given him. He looked at it for a while, smiled, and didn’t look at how much money was contained inside.
Sang Yan looked weird: “What kind of expression are you making, not just receiving a red envelope?”
Duan Jiaxu put it on the table, picked up the cigarettes on the table in his hand, and casually said, “Didn’t receive much.”
“……”
It didn’t take long for a red herring to fly in from Sangyan’s side.
Duan Jia Xu subconsciously took it. He heard Sang Yan snort before saying, “That’s why you, the Post-80s, are just different from us Post-90s. It’s really not appropriate to take a red packet at your age.”
“……”
“Out of respect for the old man, I’ll give you my share.”
Duan Jiaxu threw it onto the table and said with a wry smile, “Then you’re really a young 90s.”
Sanjayan: “Do I need you to say it?”
Duan Jia Xu didn’t say anything else and felt for his phone in his pocket before he suddenly remembered that he had changed his pants, but he still felt something. He took it out and realized that it was also a red envelope.
Exactly the same as the two that were sitting on the table.
I wonder when Sanji put it in his pocket.
He froze and smiled inexplicably.
Put the three red envelopes side by side.
An extremely cold wind was blowing outside, like it was hissing, crying, and slapping against the windows.
Just the sound of the voice sent chills down one’s spine.
But in all these years, Duan Jia Xu felt, the warmest New Year.
4.
Having known each other for so many years, Sang Chi basically never saw Duan Jia Xu get angry. Occasionally, when he was really angry, it didn’t take long for him to dissipate, and he was too good-tempered to be a normal person.
Sang-chi never thought that one day she would see, what this Buddha’s mouth was saying.
— “Ever seen your brother lose his temper? It’s scary.”
Extra four.
.
This temper tantrum came unexpectedly suddenly.
Kuwabara didn’t even realize it at first, because when he was angry, he really wasn’t that different from his usual state.
But it’s also true that he’s a little bit intimidated by him.
In the second semester of the third year of college, students around her started to look for internships one after another. Before, Sang Zhi’s idea was to work directly after graduation, but after discussing with Duan Jiaxu, she decided to take the graduate school of Nanwu University.
So while the others were doing their internships, Sanji was preparing for his written exams for graduate school.
As her classes dwindled, Sang Chi spent most of her time in the dormitory, or in the library. Sometimes she would stay at Duan Jiaxu’s place for a few days for fear of disturbing her roommates if she stayed up late reading.
Half a semester just went by.
Sang Zhi had bought a couple’s watch on the internet, and planned to give it to Duan Jiaxu as a gift on her second anniversary. Because the price is not cheap, she found a part-time job near the school café.
Because of this, she meets Ren Guang, a schoolmate who is two grades younger than her.
Ren Guang was not working part-time there, but just accompanying his classmates over to buy drinks.
Sang Chi is good-looking, was arranged by the boss in the front desk. But she doesn’t like to laugh much, and out of dedication, also because the boss said a few times, she can only forcefully hold out a fake smile.
Her pear swirls were obvious, revealed by a small tug at the corners of her mouth. Smiling was extraordinarily cute.
Like love at first sight, on the spot Ren Guang asked Sang Zhi for a micro-signal.
Sang-chi refused on the spot, reasoning that she already had a boyfriend.
But perhaps it was because he didn’t believe Sanji’s words.
From that day on, Ren Guang came to the cafe almost every day.
As soon as there were fewer customers in the store, he would go to the front desk and talk to Sanji.
The hourly wage offered by this cafe wasn’t high, and Sang Zhi didn’t have much time to spend here every day, and didn’t intend to work part-time here for long. This Ren Guang’s ghostly appearance made her feel very annoyed, and she simply mentioned the matter of resignation to the boss in a straightforward manner.
But I don’t know where Renguang asked.
He knew her faculty and he knew her grade. In time, even the number of the dormitory she was in was known.
Every day, she asked someone to send her something, or blocked her under the dormitory building. They also know where she goes every day and pretend to meet her from time to time.
Sang Chi had quite a few suitors, but this was the first time she had encountered such a stalker. Usually other people would just give up when they realized she had a boyfriend.
But this Ren Guang, about because of his young age, the more frustrated he was, the more courageous he became.
It’s like a reckless attempt to be a male mistress.
Duan Jia Xu had been very busy lately, and even the two of them had called each other less often.
Sangji mentioned this matter to him on WeChat, and when he asked, he just said that he refused to drop it. After all, it was so far away, she was afraid that it would also affect his mood, and also felt that she could handle it.
This state of affairs went on for a few weeks before Sang Chi finally couldn’t take it anymore. She dragged Ren Guang’s number out of her blacklist and dialed it, “Just tell me what you think?”
The teenager’s voice was moist and smiling, “I can’t believe you called me.”
She was now annoyed when she heard this voice, and her tone was more than a little impatient, “I have a boyfriend. This behavior of yours right now, go back and ask your parents yourself so they can control you properly.”
Ren Guang’s tone was full of concern: “Sister, where did you get a boyfriend? I’ve seen you so many times this month, and I haven’t seen a single male creature around you besides me.”
“Never heard of a long-distance relationship?”
“The probability of splitting up in a long-distance relationship can be high.” Ren Guang said, “How about you look at me?”
Sanji was silent for a few seconds, “You want me to be honest?”
Ren Guang: “Say it, I’ll change it if you don’t like it.”
“Not to mention other aspects, single on the looks, compared to my boyfriend.” Sang Zhi language temperature lukewarm, with words, a knife to his chest, “You are not even worthy of serving him foot washing water.”
–
Maybe he was really shocked, and for a week after that, Sang Chi didn’t see Ren Guang again.
And for that reason, she was always relieved.
From Sanji’s opinion of Ren Guang during this time.
She thought the man was abnormal.
Obviously, a scumbag who thinks he has an okay face and goes around flirting with girls. So it doesn’t matter if the other guy has a boyfriend or not.
So Sang Chi did not half a sense of guilt, sometimes think about it, but also feel that he scolded does not seem to be hard enough. She also did not put this matter too much on her mind, gradually put it behind her.
Sanji bought the couple’s watch online that he had been looking at earlier.
But the two don’t seem to be seeing each other this Memorial Day.
Because this whole month they don’t have much time, one is busy with work and the other is busy with exams. Moreover, Yiho and Nanwu were far away from each other, and it was troublesome for them to come and go.
The two had met on May 1, so Sanji didn’t mind too much.
Talked to him about making it up when she gets home for the summer.
The day before the anniversary, it was the birthday of Zhang Ping, a classmate Sang Chi knew. She was invited to his birthday party, which took place at a large stall near the school.
After arriving there, Sanji unexpectedly realized that Ren Guang was there as well.
In the capacity of a friend of one of the girls, but it looks more like a fling.
Because of something earlier, Sang Zhi came a bit late, so there was only an empty seat left next to Ren Guang. She pursed her lips and walked over to sit down, passing the gift to Zhang Ping in the process.
There were several people present that Sang Chi knew. Either they were classmates from the same department, or she knew them from previous competitions, and they were all on good terms.
She lowered her head and washed the dishes in front of her with tea.
Next to her, Ren Guang sidled up and said to her, “Sister, this is washed.”
Sanji hmmmed, still continuing to rinse off. After a few seconds, the cell phone in her pocket vibrated, and she looked down at the caller ID, got up, and picked it up outside the store.
Duan Jiaxu’s voice came from the other end, “What’s going on?”
Sang Zhi looked back and didn’t know what time she could go back to the dormitory, and lied in a low voice, “In the dormitory. I’m going to take a shower, read for a while and go to bed.”
One time when she was chatting with Duan Jia Xu, Sang Zhi inadvertently realized that if she told Duan Jia Xu that she would be going back to the dormitory very late today, it would affect his concentration as well as his working condition.
Because he’d always be wondering if she made it back to the dorm safely.
It’s so far away, and if something happened, he wouldn’t be able to come over right away.
After that, if Sang Chi went back to the dormitory late, she basically wouldn’t tell Duan Jia Xu.
Duan Jia Xu smiled, his voice extraordinarily gentle, “Okay. Don’t go to bed too early today, I’ll go home first and give you a call later.”
Sanji: “Good.”
She put her cell phone back in her pocket and went back into the stall.
Most of the people at the table were not eating, but more drinking and playing games. This stall sold barbecue, and at this moment, there were several large plates on the table, stacked with various kinds of kebabs.
The table next to me was playing Truth or Dare.
A boy was drawn for a dare and came over to ask Sanji for his micro-signal, which was jokingly stopped by the people at their table.
Sanji politely declined as well, “Sorry.”
Their table is playing “Who’s Undercover” and the penalty for losing is a dare.
Sang Chi was extraordinarily unlucky to draw the undercover agent in the first round, and she wasn’t too good at hiding it, so she was voted out in the first round.
A group of people began to think about the punishment for the dare. Ren Guang sat next to her and took the initiative to propose, “Sister, give your boyfriend a call and mention breaking up?”
At those words, the smile on Sang Chi’s lips retracted and she looked at him quietly.
“No?” With a harmless look, Ren Guang poured wine into her glass, “Then let’s drink.”
The atmosphere became quiet and awkward.
Zhang Ping frowned and took the initiative to speak out to ease this atmosphere, ”Your dare is too poisonous, isn’t it? Persuading people to split, huh? Sang Zhi, you don’t need to drink, just yell ‘I’m a fool’ three times.”
Sang Zhi pulled the corner of her mouth, picked up the cup in front of her, and filled it with a gulp. Looking towards Zhang Ping, she faintly said, “Count me as unable to play, I’d better drink. You guys play first, I’ll eat something, it’s hard to have an empty stomach.”
She hadn’t eaten much, and at this point a cup felt bad.
Picking up the kebab in front of her, Sanji used her chopsticks to push the meat on top into a bowl. She was in a bad mood, wanting to leave after only staying for such a short time, and feeling that it would sour the atmosphere of this party.
After eating for a while, until the bowl was empty and when Sang Chi reached for the kebabs again, he realized with hindsight that what he had just eaten seemed to be beef kebabs.
Sang Zhi paused, thinking that it was fine to eat a small amount, and didn’t care too much. She switched directions and reached for the nearby Palm.
At this time, it happened to be the end of an inning.
Ren Guang lost and was coaxed to drink with the girl next to him. Although people did not explicitly say, but the gesture is extraordinarily obvious, is to let him drink with his ambiguous object.
But after Ren Guang took the two glasses of wine handed over by the others, he handed one of them to Sang Chi and said cheerfully, “Mind?”
Once again the scene fell silent.
Sang Chi saw that the expression of the girl sitting next to Ren Guang instantly went cold, and her eyes looked at her with a little more hostility.
Maybe it was because of drinking on an empty stomach, or maybe it was because of something else. In this instant, Sang Chi suddenly felt very sick to her stomach. Like she didn’t hear Ren Guang’s words, she stood up and calmly said, “I’m going to the restroom.”
There was no restroom in the stall, so Sanji had to go to one of the public bathrooms next to it.
When Sang Zhi was out of the stall, Zhang Ping couldn’t help himself, and this time his tone wasn’t even too polite: “Schoolmate, are you here to smash the scene today?”
“Nope.” Ren Guang innocently said, “I just saw that this schoolmate didn’t talk much all night and wanted to joke with her to make her blend in. Eh, don’t be angry, I’m joking.”
He coaxed the girl next to him, “Come on sis, drink a cup of wine.”
Just finished his drink, Ren Guang noticed that the cell phone, which was left on the table by Sang Zhi, the screen lit up, and the caller ID showed the words “Your boyfriend is looking for you”.
Your boyfriend is looking for you.
It’s kinda sweet.
It’s like ice to him, it can’t be warmed up.
He’d never really met one so difficult.
Ren Guang’s gaze stopped and he gave a dark mocking cry, before immobilizing and slipping her phone into his pocket and standing up, “Too much wine, I’m going to the bathroom.”
Out of the store, Ren Guang put the phone on, “Hello.”
The head gave a lurch and asked politely, “And you are?”
Ren Guang calmly replied, “I’m Sang Chi’s boyfriend, newly made.”
Hearing this, the other side of the phone went completely silent. Not long after, Ren Guang heard the man seem to laugh, a very light sound, the emotion is unknown, and it seems to bring a few points of absurdity.
“You said, you’re Sanji’s new boyfriend?”
“I heard my girlfriend say that you always call and pester her?” Ren Guang’s tone didn’t fluctuate half a bit, and said very seriously, “No matter which one you are, please don’t harass my girlfriend. Thanks.”
After saying that, Ren Guang hung up the phone, deleting the record in the process. After thinking about it, he put his cell phone on mute and also maliciously pulled the number into his blacklist.
–
This public health is not good and smells extremely bad.
Sang Zhi forced herself to endure the sourness rising in her throat and went inside to wash her face. She didn’t feel much when she was just sitting down, but now that she stood up, she felt a little dizzy in her head.
It’s also a little itchy.
She lowered her head and noticed a small, little rash starting to form on her arm.
Sanji took a deep breath.
What a shitload of luck today.
Sang Zhi really didn’t want to go back. She drew a piece of paper to wipe her face, and incidentally rummaged through her pockets, wanting to directly talk to Zhang Ping on WeChat.
But didn’t turn over the cell phone.
She paused in her movements and opened her bag to look around, not finding her cell phone either.
At this moment, Sang Chi also remembered that she seemed to have put her cell phone on the table. The annoyance in her heart grew thicker and thicker, she calmed down and turned around to go back to the stall.
Start playing a new game at the table.
Sang Chi saw her cell phone on the table and picked it up. She walked over to Zhang Ping’s side and said “Happy Birthday” to him, mentioning that she had to leave first.
Zhang Ping was also very sorry and lowered his voice, “I don’t know that person, my friend brought him here. I’m really sorry for today, I’ll treat you to dinner some other day.”
Sang Chi laughed, “It’s fine, it’s your birthday, don’t let it affect your mood.”
Noticing the movement over here, Ren Guang raised his voice and said, “Senior sister is leaving, huh? There’s no need for that, I was just joking around, nothing else.”
Sanji ignored it and said goodbye to the others.
Ren Guang didn’t stop as if he was finished, “Sister, how embarrassed are you making me?”
Zhang Ping tapped the table, “Hey, almost there.”
In the midst of all this noise, Sanji came out of the store.
She heard footsteps following behind her, followed by Ren Guang’s voice, “Sister, don’t be angry. Look everyone is blaming me.”
Sangji held back his temper, “You go back.”
“It’s so late, let me send you back.” Ren Guang said, “Sort of make amends to you.”
“No need.”
As soon as these words fell, Ren Guang suddenly grabbed her arm and said in a thoughtful manner, “Senior sister, did you drink too much, why can’t you stand up? Let me help you.”
Sanji shook off his hand violently.
The movement was tremendous, as if it had touched something dirty. Sang Chi took a step back, his fire burning to the top, and said in a single word, “What do you think you are?”
The curve of Ren Guang’s mouth remained unchanged.
“Do you know a word called ‘self-knowledge’? On your terms-” Sang Chi scanned him up and down, a few moments of mockery in his eyes, “Who gave you that face?”
“Don’t see my offer, huh? Then try something else.” Ren Guang’s gaze went cold as well, tugging her into his arms and saying in an airy tone, “It’s cool.”
–
Duan Jiaxu stayed up all night for a few days in a row to finish the project in hand. He was so tired that he went out of the company and couldn’t even return home, rushing directly to the airport and catching up on sleep on the plane.
Duan Jia Xu didn’t tell Sang Zhi in advance because he wasn’t sure if he could come over earlier. At this time, he also intended to give her a surprise, and only after getting off the airplane did he give her a call.
And then learning about her already being in the dorm.
As always, it’s pampering to get the little ones ready for bed at this point.
Thinking that he would be able to see her in a while, Duan Jia Xu’s mood became extraordinarily good. When he got to the bottom of her dormitory, he called her again.
Was about to make a sound and tell her to come down.
To his surprise, it was a man’s voice on the other end.
The tone of his voice was wild, and a little childish, like he was protecting his calf, saying such comical and not half credible words like Sang Chi was his girlfriend.
And then hung up.
Duan Jiaxu wasn’t angry either, he only found it funny and absurd.
But after Duan Jia Xu called Sang Zhi again, only to find that he couldn’t get through, he gradually began to have other emotions. This girl, who had just told him on the phone that she was in the dormitory getting ready to sleep.
Within an hour, a man answered the phone instead.
So at first, the words about being in a dormitory were probably false.
But the reason, Duan Jia Xu could actually guess.
It was nothing more than the fear of him worrying and the feeling that nothing would happen near the school, so he simply lied and deceived him, so that he could feel at ease about it even from far away in Nanwu.
Duan Jia Xu was extremely trusting of Sang Zhi.
But he doesn’t trust people.
The man on the other side of the phone made him feel uneasy and uncomfortable.
At the moment, Duan Jia Xu couldn’t contact Sang Zhi and didn’t know where she was now.
It’s like this emotion is stacked up exponentially.
Duan Jia Xu converged his lips, found Sang Zhi’s roommate Ning Wei from his address book, and dialed. The person on the other end answered quickly, seemingly not expecting to receive a call from him, and hesitantly said, “Hello.”
“Sorry to bother you so late.” Duan Jia Xu said, “I can’t contact Sang Zhi right now and I’m a bit anxious. Do you know where she went?”
“Huh? She said she had a friend’s birthday.” Ning Wei said, “But didn’t say where to go.”
“Okay, thanks.”
“Usually it’s a party near the school, it won’t go too far. Don’t worry, you’re all friends who know each other, nothing will happen. Let me ask for you.”
Duan Jia Xu said thank you again. Hanging up the phone, he ran in the direction of the school entrance. Thinking about Ning Wei’s words, he searched from store to store outside the school.
Blindness and lack of calm.
Compared to the man’s words, Duan Jia Xu was more worried about Sang Zhi’s state at the moment. After all, she wouldn’t give her cell phone to someone else, and she wouldn’t listen to someone else say those words to hurt him.
And it’s getting late.
The stores near Yiho University were not too many, but not too few. Duan Jia Xu searched for a while, but it was like looking for a needle in a haystack, with no sign of anything.
His right eyelid fluttered.
Duan Jiaxu was about to continue looking when his cell phone vibrated and he received a WeChat.
Ning Wei sent him a location.
It’s a big stall.
At the same time, Duan Jia Xu also discovered Sang Zhi not far away. She was grabbed by a man’s arm and then violently flung away, her mouth opening and closing as thorns sprang out all over her body.
As if annoyed, the man tugged at her arm again, bringing it up into his arms and speaking as well.
It’s obvious that it’s haunted.
Duan Jia Xu had just breathed a sigh of relief, and then because of Sang Zhi’s condition, his hostility instantly surged. His usual rationality was all gone in an instant, his gaze darkened as if he was forcing back his emotions as he took big steps that way.
That statement is no different than sexual harassment.
Sanji wrenched him away, raised his hand with all his might, and slapped him across the face.
Ren Guang’s head tilted and licked the corner of his lips. His lips were half-open, and he quickly looked at Sang Zhi again, with a few moments of incredulity in his eyes, and then, he raised his hand as well.
The next second, a man appeared next to Sang Chi. Tall and striking, with no expression on his face, he kicked him in the stomach as soon as he came up.
Ren Guang hadn’t even reacted yet. Without any defense, he stifled a grunt and took a few steps backward with the force, falling to the ground.
Afterward, Duan Jia Xu turned back to look at Sang Zhi. He observed her face, as well as every part of her that was naked|exposed to the air, and softly said, “Did he hit you?”
Not sure why he was suddenly here, but still, Sanji’s spirit instantly loosened and his tail voice trembled.
“No.”
Duan Jia Xu stared at her arm, “What happened to the hand?”
Sanji sniffled, “Allergies.”
“Go wait outside.” Duan Jiaxu stroked her head and soothed, “Don’t be afraid.”
After saying that, he walked over and crouched down next to Ren Guang.
The strength that Duan Jia Xu just made was not small, Ren Guang did not get up until now, covering his stomach and huffing backwards. He stared at Ren Guang, the curvature of his lips slowly rising as he carelessly said, “Classmate, who are you bullying.”
Ren Guang’s temper came up and he raised his leg to kick him, “Fuck, you’re fucking sick.”
Guessing his move, Duan Jia Xu directly stepped on his leg. He was still smiling, his eyes curved into moon hooks, looking extraordinarily gentle. But the behavior done was completely inconsistent with the expression.
Only after hearing his agonized screams did Duan Jia Xu slowly move his legs away, grabbing his hair instead and slamming his head into the ground, asking again.
“Who are you bullying?”
There were onlookers, mostly students. The owner of the store heard the commotion and was busy coming out to talk out the fight, fearing that it would affect his business.
Zhang Ping also came out. He recognized Duan Jiaxu and was afraid that he would make a scene at the police station, so he couldn’t help but say, “Brother, forget it.”
Duan Jia Xu, however, looked like he couldn’t listen to anything. His appearance was born extremely beautiful, gentle and approachable. But his force was unforgiving, and his eyebrows and eyes were all ruthless, without temperature.
Like a god who just climbed up from hell.
Sang Chi was also afraid that something would happen, and anxiously called out to him, “Duan Jia Xu!”
Only when he heard this did Duan Jia Xu’s movements stop. He lowered his eyelids, loosened his grip on Ren Guang’s hair, and laughed softly, “Forget it, I’m afraid of scaring my girl.”
“……”
“Also, let me tell you something. Even if my girl really wanted to cheat on me, she wouldn’t look for someone like you-” Duan Jia Xu rubbed the blood on his hand onto Ren Guang’s clothes, lowered his voice, and said in a gentle manner, “to humiliate me.”
–
Most of Ren Guang’s injuries were flesh wounds. He was obviously furious to the extreme, his chest heaving, his words coming out as if squeezed through his teeth, “I’m calling the police.”
Sang Chi pulled Duan Jia Xu behind himself, completely unafraid of things, “Fine, I’ll also call the police to say you sexually harassed me.”
Zhang Ping chimed in, “Senior, we all saw it just now, ah, you started it.”
Even Ren Guang’s ambiguous object, did not stand on his side anymore. After all, for one night, it was also evident that it was Ren Guang who had been holding onto Sang Zhi.
The others advised the fight.
A girl who knew Ren Guang said, “Sister, you go first. We’ll just communicate with him.”
Duan Jiaxu was really not afraid, but instead became interested. When everyone else was persuading, he instead took the initiative to hand his cell phone to Ren Guang: “You report it.”
These injuries won’t lead to a prison sentence. At most, they’ll lead to compensation.
But Ren Guang will be worried that Sang Zhi really go to sue him for sexual harassment. Even if he couldn’t make a case, it wouldn’t be good to hear it spread to the school. He stared at Duan Jiaxu and didn’t say a word, his expression somewhat unwilling.
Only cursed, “You’re sick.”
“Try picking on her again.” Duan Jia Xu laughed, “I’m not really afraid of going to jail.”
–
It was the first time that Sang Chi had seen Duan Jia Xu so angry. She used her strength and pulled him away, also obviously a little annoyed by his words, “What do you mean you’re not afraid of going to jail.”
Duanjia Xu looked at her, “How long has this man been pestering you.”
“……,” Sanji froze and thought back, “A month or so, but he didn’t show up much a while ago.”
Duan Jia Xu lowered his eyes, little emotion on his face, “Why didn’t you tell me?”
Sang Chi honestly said, “I’m afraid you’ll be unhappy.”
“Was there any bullying before?”
“Nope.” Sanji’s aggravation bubbled up again, muttering, “I’m not that easy to bully.”
“Drinking?”
“Had a drink,” said Sanjay, “but it was a little hard to drink on an empty stomach.”
“Uh-huh.”
Seeing that he wasn’t going in the right direction, Sanji asked, “Where to?”
Duanjash: “Hospital.”
The rash on her body was becoming more pronounced and looked alarming.
Sang Chi shook his head, “Just buy some medicine and take it, I don’t want to go to the hospital.”
Duanjia Xu hmmmed again and didn’t stop.
“Why did you come over, I thought you said you didn’t have time?”
“Make some time.”
“Oh.” Sang Chi thought for a moment and explained to him, “I didn’t mean to lie to you. I had a feeling I’d be going back late today, so I was afraid you’d be worried over there, and I’m right outside the school, so there’s nothing unsafe about it.”
Duan Jiaxu’s mood was light: “I know.”
Seeing him, Sang Chi did feel pleasantly surprised, and that little bit of aggravation quickly dissipated. She began to talk to him about recent events, her eyes curved in a smile, and her mood gradually improved.
Duanjia Xu answered a few sentences from time to time, but his words became noticeably fewer.
The two went to a nearby drugstore to buy medicine, while returning to their residence.
Sang Chi sat down on the sofa and started to look at the red rash on her body, a little depressed, “I just ate that kebab, and only reacted to the fact that it was beef after eating it. I didn’t eat much, just a few skewers, and I thought it was fine.”
Duan Jia Xu took two bottles of water out of the kitchen and poured them into the hot water kettle to boil.
He grabbed Sanji’s hand and warned, “Don’t scratch.”
Sanji responded obediently, “Oh.”
In the living room, the only sound was from the hot water kettle. Sangji stared at his face and casually asked, “When are you going back.”
Duan Jiaxu: “Didn’t think about it.”
“So we’re going out tomorrow?”
“Uh-huh.”
Sang Chi spoke to him for a while longer before realizing with hindsight that he seemed to be in a bad mood, speaking as if he were squeezing out toothpaste. It was as if he didn’t really want to talk to her.
Just in time for the water to boil.
Duan Jia Xu poured some hot water into a cup and mixed it with cold water, “Take the medicine.”
Sanji swallowed the medicine in and said hesitantly, “Are you angry?”
Duan Jiaxu laughed, “What am I angry about?”
“……” His tone of voice instantly affirmed Sanji’s suspicions.
She was confused, “Why are you angry.”
Duan Jia Xu stood up and walked towards the kitchen again, “Go take a shower, and apply the medicine later.”
Sang Chi subconsciously followed him, jittery, “Are you angry with me?”
“No.”
“I just thought, we are so far away from each other, then I am sure to tell you good things ah.” Sang Zhi can only guess that this is the reason, tugged on the corner of his coat, showing him softness, “And there’s really nothing …… going on.”
Duan Jiaxu: “That was nothing just now?”
Kuwabara said, “I didn’t think he’d be like this.”
“What things can be thought of in advance? In that case,” Duan Jiaxu withdrew his gaze and took out the materials from the refrigerator, no half-smile in his words, “you don’t have to tell me anything in the future.”
He still spoke in a calm tone, but it seemed to carry a sting.
Sangji looked at him fixedly, his voice low enough to be inaudible, “I won’t be like this in the future.”
Duan Jiaxu stopped mentioning this, “Go take a shower.”
Just a small point of aggression, and because of his accusation, hundreds of thousands of superimposed. Sang Zhi’s nose is sour, speak unconsciously with choking: “I’m sorry.”
At the sound, Duan Jia Xu looked over and said expressionlessly, “No crying.”
As soon as he said that, Sang Chi’s tears fell back as if they were against him, snapping and falling. She lowered her head, reached out and wiped them away, and held back her sobs as she said, “Then I’ll go take a shower.”
Duan Jia Xu cupped her chin and lifted her head up.
“Still crying?”
Now Sang Chi really couldn’t help it, sobbing and unable to speak.
Duan Jiaxu’s expression couldn’t be tensed and he sighed softly, “I’m too fierce?”
She was silent for a few seconds, shaking her head.
Duan Jiaxu: “Then what’s all the crying about?”
“Aren’t you very very busy?” Sanji spoke slowly, slurring his words because he was whimpering, “I don’t want you to keep having to think about my side of things after you’ve been working for so long every day ……”
“Work isn’t as important as you.”
“……”
“It’s just that being far away makes it even more important for you to be honest with me.” Duan Jia Xu wiped her tears away and said patiently, “It’s better for me to worry over there than not knowing anything.”
“……”
“Not trying to get mad at you, I was just-” Duanjia Xu said dumbly, “a little taken aback.”
Couldn’t reach anyone and didn’t know where she was. Received a phone call like that and was dragged into her blacklist afterward. After searching for her, when I saw her, I also saw her being pestered by a strange man.
Duanjia Xu felt powerless.
Eventually it was necessary to go through her friends to find out where she was.
When she cried, Duan Jia Xu was at his wits’ end, coaxing lowly, “Don’t cry, I shouldn’t have been mean to you.”
Sang Chi’s tears were like they couldn’t stop as she complained to him, “I’m so unlucky today and you’re still scolding me. I’m not feeling well and you don’t even care about me, you just know how to talk about me.”
Duan Jia Xu kissed her face, “Where are you uncomfortable?”
“Stomach upset, want to throw up.”
“Well, I’ll make you a sobering soup. If you’re still uncomfortable, take some medicine.”
“I have an itch on me too, it’s hard to ooohhhhh ……”
“Go ahead and take a shower, I’ll apply the medicine later.”
Sang-chi rubbed her tears onto his clothes, still not holding back and said, “You’re so scary when you’re angry.”
Duan Jiaxu laughed out loud, “Scared you?”
“And no.” Sanji sniffled, “But when you’re mean to me, I want to cry.”
“You’re threatening me, aren’t you?”
“I’m not.”
“From now on, tell me honestly about anything, good or bad.”
“……”
“Do you hear me?”
“…… hmmm.”
Duan Jiaxu’s brows stretched and he hung back, “Don’t give me the chance to be mean to you, okay?”
–
When Sang Chi went back to her room, Duan Jia Xu tossed around in the kitchen for a while before going out to the living room and picking up her cell phone on the coffee table. He opened his address book and dragged himself out of the blacklist.
The corner of his lips curved up as he looked at the note.
Sang Chi didn’t take a long shower and got out quickly. She sat down at the dining table and finished the sober soup that Duan Jia Xu had just cooked, and was called over to the sofa by him.
I just bought internal and external medication.
Duan Jiaxu pulled her wrist and started to help her wipe the medicine, frowning, “Next time you eat beef or lamb, I’m really going to beat you up.”
Sanji’s eyes were still red. She blinked, not at all shocked, “Then you punch.”
Duan Jiaxu raised an eyebrow, “You’re not next time here.”
“You just don’t want to get punched.”
“Uh-huh.”
Sang Chi smiled and stared straight into his face, “Duan Jia Xu.”
Duanjia Xu: “What?”
“I bought a couple’s watch, but I put it in the dorm.” Sang Chi said as if offering a treasure, “I’ll bring it to you tomorrow.”
“Good.”
“Did you get me a present?”
“Bought a necklace.” Duan Jia Xu said, “I’ll put it on you later.”
“Uh-huh.” After this hand finished applying, Sang Chi changed hands and said slowly, “I had felt so unlucky today. I overslept in the morning and was scolded by the teacher for being late to class. Then I lost my meal card, and when I passed by the playground, I was hit on the head by a basketball. Went to a friend’s birthday party and ran into nasty people and got allergies again.”
Duan Jia Xu carefully applied medicine to her and said smoothly, “So pitiful?”
“But I feel as if I’m thinking too soon.”
“Hmm?”
Sanji whispered, “Seeing you makes it a good day.”
Even seeing you only makes up such a small part of the day.
But it makes most of those, insignificant.
5.
Second semester of senior year.
Sometime during a conversation with Ning Wei, Sang Chi heard her say that her boyfriend proposed to her.
When she said it, Ning Wei couldn’t even restrain herself from laughing, “You said he was too funny too. He was really shy, and then at that bar, he even went on stage and sang me a love song, called me up on stage, and suddenly got down on his knees and proposed to me.”
Sanji listened with interest.
Ning Wei: “The point is, he even went down on both knees because he was so nervous.”
Sanji let out a laugh.
At the end of the conversation, Ning Wei was also curious about her, “What about your brother Duan? Did he ever mention it to you?”
Sangji thought for a moment, “He did talk about graduating and getting married before, but I don’t know if he’ll propose eh. And I think he’s such a high profile guy, I’m kinda worried.”
“Huh?”
“Just, kind of want to beg on my own.”
“……”
Actually, it wasn’t that Sang Zhi didn’t like it, it was that she would feel embarrassed. Like what Ning Wei said, she went on stage and accepted her boyfriend’s proposal in full view of everyone.
She felt surprised and happy.
But Sanji felt that if this kind of thing happened to her as well, she would definitely feel happy as well, but would probably be a bit uncomfortable.
But when the time came for things to actually arrive, it was not at all what she thought it would be.
Duan Jia Xu proposed to Sang Zhi on the day of her graduation ceremony.
This was considered one of the more significant parts of her life. On that day, Sang Rong, Li Ping and Sang Yan all came. The scene turned, it was like going back to years ago, when she accompanied her parents to attend Sang Yan’s graduation ceremony.
Only, this time, the protagonist changed from Sang Yeon to her.
Sanjan had brought his camera and lazily took her picture.
Sang Zhi felt that he did not shoot properly, shoot a picture and go over to talk to him a few words, to the back even to quarrel. Duan Jiaxu also brought, soothed her a few words, in the side for her to take dozens of photos.
After taking the graduation photos, Sang Chi suddenly receives red roses from a stranger. Further on, another group of people who came up gave her flowers, one each.
There were several other students who knew each other, and even Sang Rong and Lai Ping were involved.
Sanji suddenly realized something.
A lot of things, in fact, are foreboding.
From the moment she woke up today, Sang Chi had an extremely strong premonition. Because according to her understanding of Duan Jia Xu, he would definitely choose today to propose to her.
It will still be very high profile and old fashioned in a way.
High-profile dirt man.
Guided by the crowd, Sang Chi saw Duan Jia Xu in the center of the roadway. In this moment, she didn’t really have any energy to spare for the person next to her, nor did she care at all about the gazes of the others.
This image was one that Sanji had imagined a thousand times.
Maybe it overlapped with some image she was thinking of.
And yet, it still made Sanji feel that this must be a scene she would never forget for the rest of her life.
Duan Jia Xu was dressed properly today, white shirt and black suit pants with a tie. He was holding a very large bouquet of roses and slowly walked to her.
Sanji suddenly wanted to laugh a little.
Duan Jia Xu lowered his jaw and smiled as well. His figure was lean and tall, with dark hair and long eyes, and his outstandingly over-colored features stood in the light, appearing eye-catching and flamboyant.
After a few seconds.
“After you told me your secret before, I didn’t particularly seriously, talk to you about this matter.” Duan Jia Xu stared into her eyes, putting away his smile, his appearance more serious, “At that time, I saw you crying when you talked about it, and I always worried that it would be something that would make you feel very sad.”
“That’s why I’m not too brave to mention it.”
The little girl exposes all her heart.
It took all her courage, in her way, to tell him.
–I admit, between us, I like you better.
“Also never mentioned to you, I’m actually not the kind of person, who likes a person and immediately goes for it.” Duan Jia Xu licked the corner of his lips and said seriously, “Before showing my liking for you, I had also secretly, secretly loved you for a period of time.”
There have been struggles too, because of low self-esteem, because of feeling unworthy of you.
Will flinch at your reaction or feel ecstatic at a response.
“Maybe you’re wondering if this Duan Jia Xu is because, all of a sudden, there’s someone else beside her, and because this person is good to her, and then realizing that this person likes her too, she will just live with her for the rest of her life.”
Duan Jiaxu coughed lightly, “Maybe you didn’t think so either, but fearing that you might, I wanted to mention it anyway.”
Sanji whispered, “I have thought so.”
But it was only so much thought.
Long gone are the days of thinking that way.
“Still trying to get through, huh? Little heartless.” Duan Jia Xu laughed, “I have thought about it before, being alone for the rest of my life, it doesn’t really matter. But I didn’t really think it didn’t matter, I just didn’t meet such a person.”
There was no one he met that made him want to put aside the opinions of others and climb out of the abyss of low self-esteem.
There was no one that could give him a thought that he wanted to fight.
So it’s unlikely that it will be a good idea.
Because he simply doesn’t have that kind of courage.
Until I met her.
Duan Jiaxu pulled at the corner of his lips and knelt down on one knee, “But you make me, suddenly, want to try.”
Sang Chi’s heart was beating wildly. She was so nervous that she couldn’t breathe a bit, and her eyes reddened unconsciously as she listened to his flat words, “Try something.”
“To love someone.” Duan Jia Xu said word for word, “In spite of everything.”
He tilted his head, a very light “child” passed his lips, and then, solemnly, finished the rest of the sentence, “So, will you marry me?”
How could you not?
is something that has been on my mind for years.
Sanji took the flowers from his hand, “Oh.”
Duan Jia Xu was really feeling nervous, and when he received such a response, his expression instantly cracked. He dropped his head like he was losing his smile and quickly added, “That’s the only response, huh? Do you want to see me cry?”
“No. When I say ‘oh’, I mean,” Sanjay sniffled, seriously, “‘I’d like that very much’.”
Seven years later, such a day as she had imagined had really come.
Wearing her bachelor’s degree, Sang Chi accepted Duan Jia Xu’s proposal under the sunlight and with everyone’s blessing.
Seven years ago, there was a day like this.
She wore a clean dress and stood next to Duan Jia Xu, who was wearing a bachelor’s degree. Feeling happy because of seeing him again, and feeling sad to the core because of the upcoming parting.
Hiding her thoughts clumsily, afraid to let anyone find out, no matter how close she was. Imagining that one day in the future, it must be to his side.
At that time, Sanji must not have thought about it.
Seven years later, such a day as she had imagined had really come.
As she wished.
Sanji really became the one beside Duanjia Xu.
-End of Extra-
Extra Five
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“Sangji when he didn’t have any killing power yet,” “One of the Straight Sangyan’s Scrappy Pickup Methods,” “The Sang Siblings with Yen-Dog Genetics.
-Secretly Can’t Hide, Difficult to Coax mini-theater
On the weekend, Sang Yeon was forced by his parents to take Sang Chi out to play.
This thing in normal times, he must be like walking a dog, take Sang Chi to the neighborhood to skate around, then buy her a candy to cope with it and go home. But this time, Sang Yan unexpectedly met someone.
The young girl had her hair all tied up, exposing her bare forehead, her features were beautiful and her face was fair and clean. She was wearing a simple t-shirt and jeans, standing outside the bookstore, looking down and flipping through the exercise books spread outside.
Very quiet, yet extraordinarily conspicuous.
After staring for three seconds, Sang Yan thoughtfully looked at Sang Zhi, who was tugging the doll aside to play with it. He bent down slightly and forcefully pretended to be gentle as he shouted, “Only only.”
“?” The address was the equivalent of a dry siren sound to Sanji, and she immediately raised her eyes, wary, “Brother, I don’t have any money.”
“……”
Sang Yeon gasped and laughed, “Who wants your money.”
Sanji didn’t respond to that and took a step back in silence.
“Do brother a favor.” Sang Yan coughed lightly and patiently pointed in Wen Yifan’s direction, “See that sister over there, the one reading outside.”
Sanjay looked over at him and said, “Uh-huh” dutifully.
Sang Yeon continued, “Go over and tell her that you can’t find your brother ……”
Without waiting for him to finish his sentence, he noticed Sang Zhi’s face slowly reddening, his expression more than a little evasive. Sang Yan paused and frowned, “What are you blushing about?”
She fiercely covered her face, but still looked at Wen Yifan along her fingers, her round eyes shining brightly as she squirmed, “That sister is so pretty, I, I’m embarrassed to go.”
“……” said Sanjan, “and you’re embarrassed?”
Sang Chi took it as unheard and said with a red face, “Brother, I want to find one that good looking in the future too.”
“What to do at a young age ……” Thinking that he still needs this little kid to help, Sang Yeon swallowed back the rest of the word “dream” and coaxed perfunctorily, “Okay, okay, okay. The first thing I want to do is to find a good looking one when you grow up.”
Sang Zhixin Sui was good, Sang Yan then said, “You go ask her, ask if you can borrow her cell phone, give your brother a call. After the matter is accomplished brother to buy you an ice cream.”
“Oh.” Sanji said honestly, “But I can’t remember your phone number.”
“…… You even memorized the phone number of the owner of the snack store downstairs and you can’t remember mine?”
Sanji continued to play with the doll, “And that sister doesn’t always have a cell phone.”
“If not,” Sang Yeon took a deep breath, almost out of patience, “just tell her that you’re scared and ask her to accompany you to look for your brother piece by piece, do you hear me?”
Sanji was unmoved.
Sang Yeon began to raise the stakes, “Go back and buy you the Hyakki Sakura DVD, plus a month’s worth of ice cream.”
Only then did Sanji stir and say hesitantly, “You didn’t lie to me?”
“You’re not allowed to sue for lying to you?”
“Also.” Sang Chi thought about it and pointed to the side, “I’ll go then, brother, you stand behind this tree and don’t be seen. I’ll bring you this sister right away, you have to remember to buy it for me.”
“OK.”
Afterward, Sang Chi bounced in the direction of Wen Yifan. In her mind, she silently recalled what Sang Yan had just said, while wrathfully chattering in her mouth, “Sister, I can’t find my brother ……”
It was repeated three times over and over again until he walked up to Wen Yifan.
Sanji called out, “Sister.”
Wen Yifan raised his head and bent down to ask, “What’s wrong?”
“I can’t find …… “Looking at her face up close, Sang Chi instantly forgot all about what she had just said, she scratched her head and called out again, “Sister.”
“Hmm?”
“Would you like some ice cream?”
Wen Yifan didn’t quite catch her words, “What?”
Said Sanji, feeling his huge ten dollars from his pocket, very voluntarily:
“Let me buy you some ice cream.”
Sanyan, who was watching from behind a tree, “……”