"You really don't like it?" Chen Jingru looked at the two of them, then looked at the apple, and was a little hesitant to eat it.

"I really don't like it." Su Qingyun laughed, "You can have it."

"Then I'll eat it." Chen Jingru didn't refuse, picked up the apple and took a bite.

Ji Yue's expression immediately turned from gloomy to cloudy, and he looked a little better.

Su Qingyun found it a little funny. She had never thought that this guy was so petty before. He would feel uncomfortable when someone gave him an apple. However, he looked like this...quite cute.

Chen Jing didn't notice the strange atmosphere between the young couple. After dinner, she left first.

Su Qingyun and Ji Yue also finished their meal quickly.

After leaving the cafeteria, the two walked back to the dormitory. Ji Yue lowered his head slightly and said nothing.

"What's wrong?" Su Qingyun nudged him lightly with her elbow. "Are you still thinking about that apple?"

"They meant well, and besides, I didn't have time to refuse, did I?" Su Qingyun held up two fingers and promised, "I promise I will never accept anything from anyone again. This is the first time, and the last time."

Ji Yue looked up at her, a little depressed, "Don't they know you are married?"

Hearing this, Su Qingyun was a little amused. "There are so many people in our launch center, and I don't know everyone. Do I have to notify everyone when I get married?"

Ji Yue pursed his lips. Although he knew this was the truth, he still felt a little uncomfortable.

The guy who just gave the apple was obviously interested in Qingyun. More importantly, he might be the only one who had such thoughts.

Ji Yue sighed softly.

"Okay, forget it. Next time, I'll definitely refuse outright, okay?" Su Qingyun coaxed him. "I'll just say it directly. Sorry, I don't like apples, or any other fruit. No, no, no, I don't want anything, okay?"

Hearing her coaxing tone like a child, Ji Yue couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth and smiled.

"Okay, as long as you smile, let's go back to the dormitory." Su Qingyun breathed a sigh of relief.

When I returned to the dormitory, it was already eight o'clock in the evening, but the scorching sun had just set.

This is a desert area. In summer, the sunrise is early and the sunset is late. The scenery is completely different from that of the capital, which attracted Ji Yue's attention.

In a desolate land, there is no vitality, no prosperity, only endless yellow sand and dry dunes. Looking up, the yellow desert stretches out. Under the fiery red sunset, you will marvel at its beauty and loneliness. In the distance, there is a mountain peak, as high as the sky. You can vaguely see its outline, which has a mysterious and spectacular beauty.

"What are you looking at?" Su Qingyun came back from taking a shower and asked Ji Yue when he saw him looking out the window.

"Watching the sunset." Ji Yue turned around and smiled, "I've never seen a sunset at eight o'clock in the evening. It's a bit novel."

"Then you won't be surprised for long. Here, it's like this every day." Su Qingyun smiled. "The frontier scenery described in poems, the lonely smoke rising from the desert, the setting sun over the long river, is real scenery here. You see it every day. After a while, it won't be strange anymore."

Deserts are like this, beautiful and vast, but also barren and harsh.

Ji Yue smiled. What he was looking at was not only the scenery, but also Qingyun's life day after day. It seemed that by looking at these scenery, he could also understand the days she had spent here in the past few years.

"Go wash up quickly." Su Qingyun urged him, "Come back and see."

"good."

Ji Yue went out with a towel and toothbrush.

When he came back and looked out the window, the sun had set and the moon had risen.

When night falls, you can see the other beautiful side of this desolate land. Looking up at the sky, you can see the endless eternal light in the starry sky. Every star is like a shining little gem, twinkling in the desert. Those huge sand dunes cannot block the sky, they become the background. In such a wonderful scene, the sand dunes also become gentle and small.

If you listen carefully, you can hear the sound of the wind passing by. It carries the sand and stretches across this distant land quietly. You don’t know where it will land in the next second. This is the special and vast beauty of nature.

Ji Yue stood by the window, fascinated by what was happening.

Su Qingyun looked at his back, said nothing, and turned a page of the book with a smile.

"Have you seen The Little Prince?" Ji Yue suddenly turned around and asked Su Qingyun.

"Of course." Su Qingyun nodded.

"The little prince said to the pilot, 'One day, I watched the sunset forty-four times.' He said that when people feel very depressed, they always like sunsets." Ji Yue smiled as he talked about the content of the book. "He is right. Sunset can really heal people's hearts and make them forget many troubles."

"If it were me, I could watch the sunset forty-four times in a row."

Su Qingyun laughed, "Alright, little prince, aren't you tired after watching the sunset for so long?"

"Tired." Ji Yue walked over to her with a smile, "So the little prince finally went back to find his rose."

Su Qingyun was stunned, then understood his double entendre.

Perhaps for Ji Yue, those days when he worked hard alone were his sunsets again and again, and today, after going through hardships, he finally found his rose.

Such romantic words made Su Qingyun blush slightly.

"What little prince? What rose? Go to bed and have some rest." Su Qingyun said unnaturally.

Ji Yue chuckled and went to bed without saying anything else.

"I turned off the lights."

"good."

Ji Yue turned off the lights, and the room suddenly became dark. His vision was restricted, but his other senses became clearer.

Although they had been husband and wife for a long time, Su Qingyun still felt inexplicably nervous at this moment. She could hear the clear breathing of the person next to her, steady and strong.

She swallowed.

Ji Yue opened his eyes and changed from lying flat to lying on his side, facing Su Qingyun.

"What's wrong?" Su Qingyun asked.

Ji Yue didn't say anything, but answered with practical actions. He slowly moved closer to Su Qingyun, and their bodies touched, which made them shiver in this already hot summer.

"You...what are you doing?" Su Qingyun stuttered for once.

"Nothing." Ji Yue stretched out his long arms, took Su Qingyun into his arms, and said in a muffled voice, "I just want to hold you to sleep."

Su Qingyun breathed a sigh of relief and lay obediently in his arms. After feeling his hot body temperature, she felt helpless and asked, "Aren't you hot?"

"It's not hot." Ji Yue said.

If you are not hot, then I am hot. Su Qingyun endured it again and again, and just as he was about to say it, an even more passionate kiss fell on him.