Chapter 15

She glanced at the person leaning against the wall like a pile of mud and sighed.

“Shen Yuqing, what’s the password?”

"Um?"

"What's the door code?"

"...What door?"

"Your door."

"My sister... I don't have a sister." Shen Yuqing looked at her, his eyes looking innocent and sincere.

“…”

Xia Ruirui pursed her lips and said nothing, without asking him any questions, she tried them one by one.

I tried his birthday and it was wrong.

The last digit of the mobile phone number is also wrong.

0000 is not correct either.

Seeing the password lock prompt that there was only one chance left, she looked at Shen Yuqing beside her and gnashed her teeth in hatred.

Otherwise, just put it at the door.

Can I still freeze to death?

Thinking of how Shen Yuqing ran around when she was hospitalized for hemorrhoids, she felt a little soft-hearted.

Even though I had told him to leave!! He was the one who insisted on staying.

but......

Xia Ruirui was already sleepy and the door couldn't be opened, so she couldn't help but feel a little irritable. Looking at the closed door, she simply entered a string of numbers and the door actually opened.

It actually opened.

It actually opened.

Looking at the open door, she was a little dazed, and it took her a long time to remember to drag him in.

When she pulled the man in, she accidentally bumped him into the door frame.

The sound of "bang" was unusually loud in the empty corridor.

Xia Ruirui guiltily covered the corner of her forehead that Shen Yuqing had bumped into, and rubbed it perfunctorily: “Baby, don’t cry, Mom didn’t mean it.”

As if she realized that she had gone a bit too far, she couldn't help laughing.

He was very tall and heavy, so she could only take off his shoes and drag him to the bed.

Before leaving, she did not forget to cover him with a quilt, although her technique was a bit rough and sloppy.

After closing the security door, she leaned against it weakly and glanced at the combination lock with mixed feelings.

She just lost 0218.

0218 is her birthday.

And for some unknown reason, Shen Yuqing actually used her birthday as the password to enter the house.

He is really...very sick.

Xia Ruirui shook her head, forcing herself not to be so self-indulgent, and took the elevator back to the hotel.

*

Inside the door, after Xia Ruirui closed the door, Shen Yuqing pulled the quilt covering his face away, stood up and walked towards the hall.

Until he saw her get into a taxi through the floor-to-ceiling window, he went to the kitchen and poured himself a glass of ice water.

I glanced at my vibrating phone and saw it was Gu Zijin.

Shen Yuqing pressed the answer button and put the phone on the island.

"I heard from Shen Qingli that you and Xia Ruirui went to the class 18 reunion together." Gu Zijin said with a smile.

Shen Yuqing laughed: "Xia Ruirui sent a message to your wife right after she left?"

Gu Zijin glanced at his fiancée, who was clutching her phone and beaming with delight. He stood up and walked to the balcony, sneering into the phone, "She also said that Xia Ruirui said you were drunk as mud after only one beer."

"Of course I'm not drunk."

"I knew you were pretending." Seeing no sound from the other side, Gu Zijin continued to taunt: "Tell me, how did you pretend to be drunk?"

“Beep—beep—beep—”

"..." Looking at the hung up phone, he sneered.

As soon as he came out of the balcony, Shen Qingli, who was hiding behind the door, jumped up and hugged him: "Tell me the truth, who were you talking to on the phone just now?"

Gu Zijin slowly supported her body and said gently, "A dog."

"......" Shen Qingli was dissatisfied, "Who are you kidding?"

"I'm lying to you."

“…”

*

As soon as Xia Ruirui entered the hotel room, she received a call from her mother.

"What's wrong?"

"Ruirui, the boy has agreed to meet. Mom wants to ask when you are free."

"What boy?" She didn't react for a moment.

"It's the boy you agreed to go on a blind date with last time. He goes to Beiyi University just like you." When Xia's mother saw her asking back, she thought she had changed her mind.

Xia Ruirui then realized that this was indeed the case. At that time, she just wanted to brush it off, but she didn't expect that she would actually ask.

She subconsciously felt a little disgusted at the thought of meeting a strange man.

"Forget it, I'm going back to Beiyi in a few days."

Mother Xia became anxious when she heard this: "Ruirui, I came all the way to Xijing just for you. It's a good opportunity for you to go back to Beiyi this time, so you can go with me and have some company."

"......" Xia Ruirui regretted it deeply when she heard that the other party came to Xijing specifically for a blind date.

I shouldn't have agreed to the blind date just to please Xia's mother.

But now that things have come to this, it would be too disrespectful not to go, so she had no choice but to agree.

"Then tomorrow, at 6pm, at the milk tea shop next to your high school."

"Um."

After hanging up the phone, Xia Ruirui was annoyed and sent a message to Shen Qingli to complain.

[A few days ago, I agreed to a blind date to please my mother.]

What? Blind date? With whom?

Xia Ruirui looked at Shen Qingli's questions that were as dense as bombardments, and was silent for a moment. Suddenly, she felt that complaining to her did not seem to be the right decision, but she still patiently replied.

【With a stranger.】

[Fuck, what about Shen Yuqing? ]

【...What does it have to do with him?】

[Then will Shen Yuqing go with you? ]

[...Whose good person has to follow his ambiguous partner before a blind date? What, let Chen Yuqing, as a senior, give some advice to the junior?]

[hhhhhhh Does Chen Yuqing know that you want to go on a blind date? ]

【have no idea. 】

[Then when are you going on a blind date? ]

[Tomorrow evening at 6:00, at the milk tea shop next to Jincai Middle School.]

After a long time, Shen Qingli still hadn't replied. Xia Ruirui thought she was busy and stopped messaging her.

In fact, she was busy informing Shen Yuqing.

"Hello? Shen Yuqing."

"I heard that you and Gu Zijin's wedding is scheduled for four months from now, Lawyer Shen, congratulations."

She could tell from his voice that Shen Yuqing was in a good mood, and thinking of the critical hit he was about to suffer, she felt a little sorry for her friend.

After graduating from high school, Shen Yuqing broke up with Xia Ruirui. As bystanders, she and Gu Zijin witnessed his decadence.

Although he has indeed lived like a human being over the years, Shen Yuqing has never been in love once in these years.

He lives like an ascetic.

Although he insisted that it had nothing to do with Xia Ruirui, they all knew that he was just waiting for Xia Ruirui to come back.

"Don't congratulate me yet, I have bad news for you."

"Why, are you running away from your marriage?" Shen Yuqing rarely teased.

"......" Shen Qingli's face darkened when she heard this, and she said unhappily, "Xia Ruirui is going on a blind date."

There was a sudden silence on the other side, and then a voice, even more bleak than the weather outside, came: "Really? What does it have to do with me?"

“…”

Shen Qingli was startled by Shen Yuqing's voice, and hurriedly put on the thin blanket on the sofa and wrapped herself tightly.

She counted to three in her mind.

31......

"Where did she go on a blind date?"

really.

While Shen Qingli was marveling at her own brilliant foresight, she honestly told Shen Yuqing the time and place of Xia Ruirui's blind date.

Just when I was about to say a few words to comfort him, I found that the other party had hung up the phone.

“…”

She had a dark face and grabbed her phone to complain to Gu Zijin: "When will Chen Yuqing be able to change his bad habit of hanging up on others???"

When Gu Zijin saw her, his expressionless face, which had been staring at the computer, suddenly softened.

"What did he do to you?"

Shen Qingli was indignant and took the opportunity to tell tales: "He offended me badly."

As if talking to herself, she said angrily, "I'll see who else will spread gossip to him."

"Then don't tell him next time." His eyes were full of indulgence.

She paused, as if deflated: "No."

Hearing this, Gu Zijin was also a little curious: "Why?"

"..." Shen Qingli sat on his lap, put her arms around his neck, looked at him seriously and said, "Rui Rui still likes him... although she hasn't realized it herself."

This answer was somewhat unexpected to Gu Zijin. He was a little curious: "Xia Ruirui herself doesn't know, how did you know?"

“I know, because the way she looks at Shen Yuqing is different from others.”

"Eyes?"

"Just like the way I look at you."

When she said this, she was not embarrassed at all, as if it was as casual as saying what dish to eat today.

"......" Gu Zijin lowered his eyes and looked at Shen Qingli, who was so straightforward that it was a bit inhumane, and chuckled.

*

On the other hand, Xia Ruirui stayed up late last night to draw the pattern of the dragon claws in the painting of dragon and phoenix. After taking a nap, she found that it was already one o'clock in the afternoon.

She looked at her phone and found a missed call. She clicked it and saw it was from Xia's mother.

She called back in silence.

"Ruirui, how did you sleep last night?"

"I'm fine." She said briefly, "Is anything wrong?"

Mother Xia was silent for a moment after hearing this: "Mom wants to remind you, don't forget about the blind date, don't be late."

"Um."

Xia Ruirui hung up the phone, threw the phone lightly on the bed in the hotel, and drank the milk tea she had just ordered.

Chewing the soft and chewy taro balls, my mood finally eased a lot.

After lunch, she rode her bike around again and happened to come across the milk tea shop where she was going to have a blind date.

Thinking of something, she rode forward a little more until she saw the plaque of Jincai Middle School, then she stopped.

She parked her bike and walked straight into the school gate.

The guard thought she was Jincai's teacher and greeted her.

Although ten years have passed, Jincai doesn't seem to have changed much.

Looking at the newly renovated small yellow building in front of her, she touched its wall with her hand.

Although it was Saturday, I could still hear the teacher's voice teaching in the small yellow building.

"It seems this week is not a biweekly week." She muttered to herself.

The tradition of Jincai Middle School is to have a holiday every two weeks, and sometimes it is only once every three weeks during holidays.

Touching the wall of the Huang Building, memories of my school days suddenly emerged.

She still remembered that when she was in her first year of high school, a grasshopper jumped in from the window. She caught it and put it on Shen Yuqing's desk behind her during class...