Chapter 32

From then on, Sheng Huaizhou's place became Xia Weining's "base". She used to like watching idol dramas, and she still likes them now. She really can't change at all.

Through this incident, she also discovered that Sheng Huaizhou was a person with a hard mouth but a soft heart. He complained and grumbled while preparing fruit snacks for her, which made her very angry at one moment and very annoying at another.

This man definitely has something to say.

Xia Weining knocked on his door as usual. When Sheng Huaizhou opened the door, she would take the initiative to go into the house without saying anything and go straight to the living room to turn on the TV.

Apart from eating and sleeping, she spends almost all her weekends here. She is alone when Sheng Huaizhou is on duty.

Today, she even had her meal here.

Sheng Huaizhou came back from his shift and packed two meals downstairs. Xia Weining was so happy that she almost jumped up, "You also bought food for me?"

"I'm afraid you'll starve to death."

Xia Weining gave him a helpless roll of the eyes, "If you don't want me to thank you, just say so."

"You're right. You can't afford Xie."

Xia Weining curled her lips in dissatisfaction, pretending to be ferocious, "Yes, I will eat you."

Sheng Huaizhou remained indifferent when he heard this. His eyes quickly looked for a place to land, and finally landed on the TV series in front of him.

"Do you watch these dramas every day?"

Xia Weining sipped his noodles, his eyes fixed on the TV, and replied absentmindedly, "What else?"

"Not boring?"

“It’s even more boring if I don’t watch it.”

"Okay." Sheng Huaizhou sat aside with his meal. He couldn't stand watching these romantic dramas.

"These romance dramas treat us police officers as mere decorations."

Listening to his dissatisfied complaints, Xia Weining laughed on the spot, "Then you don't know that there will be a kind of domineering CEO short drama in the future, in which not only are the police just for show, but even the law is meaningless."

Sheng Huaizhou was puzzled, "What is this?"

Xia Weining realized that she had let the cat out of the bag and quickly tried to make amends, "Nothing, I just watched some dark romance movies."

"Do you still watch gray movies?"

"No, no, I accidentally watched a little bit before, but I definitely haven't watched it now."

How could Xia Weining forget that he was a policeman? Looking at his righteous look, he would probably arrest her.

"You can't watch this kind of thing."

"Yes, I will remember Officer Sheng's teachings."

Xia Weining quickly fled with the food in her arms, while Sheng Huaizhou looked at her meaningfully.

Since then, Xia Weining deliberately reduced her visits to Sheng Huaizhou's house and had no mood to watch TV series, mainly because of her busy work.

The end of the semester is approaching, and I am busy every day. I am either correcting test papers or on my way to explain test papers. From time to time, I also have to be responsible for invigilating exams.

Now she falls asleep as soon as she gets home every night and lies on the bed, as if all the energy has been drained out of her.

When I arrived at school that day, I found that there were many small stalls at the school gate and many exquisite gift boxes were displayed in the school canteen. I wondered what was going on.

When she arrived at the office, she found several packaged apples on her desk. She picked one up and asked, "Whose are these?"

"It must have been given to you by a student." said a teacher next to him.

“Why give apples?”

"Today is Christmas Eve, tomorrow is Christmas."

Xia Weining finally understood. She didn't know when it became popular to give apples on Christmas Eve. It was also said that apples should be eaten at 12 o'clock to ensure safety.

She remembered that she and her classmates would give them to each other in college, but she didn't expect that they were also popular in junior high school.

In her impression, Christmas will remain popular for a few more years, and businesses will also make some decorations in a dozen years, but the society will no longer have the current enthusiasm for it.

She picked up an apple, held it in her hand, and put it aside with a smile.

She has never liked celebrating this kind of festival, but she would not interfere with others. She just doesn't support junior high school students celebrating the festival in such a grand manner.

As a history teacher, she has the obligation and responsibility to let students know more information and warn them not to blindly follow the trend of eating apples at night, as it is too cold and they can easily get sick.

After the evening study session, as they walked out of the classroom, Zhou Renting stuffed an apple into her hand and said, "Merry Christmas!"

Xia Weining looked at the apple in her hand and was in a dilemma. She wanted to return it but the person had already gone far away, so she could only take it home.

There were many day students on the street, all discussing whether to eat apples at 12 o'clock. Xia Weining couldn't help but clench the apple in her hand.

Children can't stand such cold at all. You don't have to look at them, many of them will cough after tomorrow.

When I returned to the community, I met Sheng Huaizhou who had just parked his car and called him, "Sheng Huaizhou."

"What?"

"for you."

Xia Weining threw the apple in his hand, and it drew a beautiful parabola in the air and finally landed steadily in his hand.

Sheng Huaizhou took the apple and looked at it carefully. "Why, are you celebrating the festival too?"

"But a friend gave it to you. I'll give it to you."

"Boyfriend, girlfriend?"

"None of your business, just eat it if you give it to me."

He had quietly come to her side, smiling maliciously, "What if this is someone's gift to you? It doesn't matter if I eat it."

Xia Weining was speechless, "Why didn't I notice you were so long-winded before?"

"But it doesn't matter. It's you who broke the heart, not me."

As he said this, he wiped the apple with his hand and started eating it.

Xia Weining: ...

"You're eating it without even washing it?"

"You didn't wash?"

Xia Weining sighed heavily, feeling too tired to explain. "I told you everything. A friend gave it to me. Why should I wash it?"

"Why didn't you say so earlier?"

He rushed up the stairs with an apple in his mouth, quickly opened the door, and vomited into the trash can, as if he would not stop until he had vomited out everything in his stomach.

"Even though it's not washed, it's not poisonous. You wouldn't be so bad, would you?"

"Do you know how disgusting it is?"

Xia Weining didn't refute this point, but it was indeed quite disgusting.

He rinsed his mouth several times before giving up and accusing her, "Xia Weining, you are unworthy of my trust in you."

"Is there trust between us?"

"There used to be a little bit, but now there is nothing at all."

Xia Weining picked her ears in disdain, "Sheng Huaizhou, you really impressed me."

"Anyway, you are the one who wronged me. You have to compensate me."

Xia Weining looked at him in disbelief, "Did I give you the wrong apple?"

"The original intention may be good, but you can see the result."

"Maybe." Xia Weining snorted coldly, "Goodbye, I'm going back."

As soon as Xia Weining returned home, she received a QQ message from Sheng Huaizhou: [Remember, you owe me a meal.]

Xia Weining was in a terrible mood at the moment. She felt like she owed Apple a meal because of the money she gave him. Who could she complain to?

She originally thought that this meal was just a casual mention, but she found that Sheng Huaizhou was serious and talked about this meal in front of her every day.

Xia Weining's ears were callused from listening to him. After thinking it over, she decided to treat him to a meal. After all, she had been to his house many times, so treating someone to a meal was only natural. So she sent him a QQ message to ask him if he had any dietary restrictions.

Sheng Huaizhou replied that he would accept anyone who came, so she knew what was going on.

Before leaving get off work, Xia Weining stopped Tan Ya and asked, "Are you busy tonight?"

"What's wrong?"

"I'll treat you to a meal."

Tanya was amused. "Treating me to dinner? The sun is rising from the west."

"Is it strange that I invite you to dinner?"

"Yeah, a little."

Xia Weining: "...In one word, are you going or not?"

"Go, we have to go, just the two of us?"

"Uh." Xia Weining suddenly found it difficult to speak. This didn't seem fair to Tanya. "Wouldn't you be angry if I told you otherwise?"

"Where do I get so much anger from every day? Tell me, with whom?"

"Sheng Huaizhou."

Now it was Tanya's turn to be dumbfounded. "Why invite him to dinner?"

Xia Weining simply stated the matter.

"Hey, I have a bad temper." Tanya rolled up her sleeves and pretended to be fierce, "Look how I teach this kid a lesson."

"No, I just think it's a little awkward for the two of us to have dinner together."

"Understood." Tanya extended an OK sign, "Leave this to me."

"Thanks. I'll treat you to dinner some other day, just the two of us."

"Then I'll remember that."

After this was done, Xia Weining sent the hotel location to Sheng Huaizhou.

She and Tanya rushed to the hotel together.

From a distance, I saw Sheng Huaizhou sitting by the window. He looked quite cheerful, staring at his phone with a silly smile on his face.

Xia Weining sighed, her expression full of sympathy, hoping that he could be so relaxed later.

With a bang, something hit the table. Sheng Huaizhou was startled and his eyes fell on the bag in front of him. Then he slowly moved his eyes upwards and saw the gloating Xia Weining and the angry Tan Ya.

He immediately understood in his heart, looked out the window with a sullen face, and spoke to Tanya in a bad mood, "Why are you here?"

"Come to dinner, are you not welcome?"

"Welcome, please take a seat."

The atmosphere seemed a little awkward, and Xia Weining felt a little regretful for a moment, but the matter was done, and he could only bite the bullet and continue.

In order to take care of Sheng Huaizhou's mood, she deliberately gave him the menu and coaxed him in various ways. She was really afraid that Sheng Huaizhou would slam the table and leave the next second.

Fortunately, he is a mature adult with restrained and rational thinking. Although he is angry, he still has to maintain his decency.

Throughout the meal, Sheng Huaizhou said no more than three sentences and just focused on eating. Xia Weining and Tan Ya tried to find topics to talk about at first, but later they realized that it had no effect, so they kept quiet.

The meal was so uncomfortable that Xia Weining felt like she was about to suffocate. How could there be such a tense and torturous dinner party, and it seemed like she was the one who arranged it herself?

Tan Ya also realized that although Sheng Huaizhou gave her face, sometimes he really couldn't go too far.

The meal ended in embarrassment for the three of them. Xia Weining ran to buy food. She was finally free.

Tan Ya was not going the same way as them, so she left first. Sheng Huaizhou left without saying a word, and Xia Weining followed behind at a trot.

"Sheng Huaizhou, wait for me."

"We're going the same way, let's go back together."

"I know what I did was wrong. Please apologize to me."

“I didn’t think too much about it at the time.”

"What are you angry about?"

"Tanya is not an outsider either."

…

No matter what she said, Sheng Huaizhou ignored her and did not respond, just kept walking forward.

Xia Weining was very tired, and he was indifferent, so she got angry. If you don't want to say it, then don't say it. What's the big deal?

The two of them walked to the residential complex like strangers, and Sheng Huaizhou finally spoke, "Xia Weining, do you think it's fun to play tricks on me?"

"I don't."

"If you don't want to treat me to a meal, you can just say so. It's just a joke. If you take it seriously, I'll understand."

"I really didn't." Xia Weining tried to defend herself, "I admit that I did have the idea of playing a prank, but I definitely didn't mean to play a trick on you."

"Do you believe this yourself?"

"What I said is true. I have realized what was inappropriate and I promise I will never do it again."

Sheng Huaizhou sneered, somewhat self-deprecatingly, "Xia Weining, you really impressed me."

"Yes, I just wanted to tease you, so I called Tanya over. Are you satisfied?"

She was so angry that she threw the jar into chaos because she saw that he didn't want to listen to her explanation. The situation got so out of control that she kept talking, but Sheng Huaizhou seemed to take it seriously.

He took two steps back and laughed at himself again, a thin layer of sadness covering him, as if to say, "See, I knew it."

At this moment he was like a wounded puppy, forbidding strangers to approach him.

Xia Weining grabbed her hair and muttered to herself, "I'm going to die. Why are things getting worse and worse?"

If things continue to develop in this uncontrollable direction, we won't even be able to be friends anymore.

This time, both of them are very clear about every word they said, remember every clear expression on the other's face, and will analyze the emotions expressed by body language and micro-expressions over and over again.

Then, the two of them tacitly chose to distance themselves from each other. Their lives were completely separated, and the two people who usually saw each other every day seemed to have disappeared into each other's world.

It turns out that being apart is just a matter of a moment, it turns out that meeting or not meeting can all be planned, it turns out that I am the chess piece being manipulated by others.

Xia Weining was shocked. No matter whether they were close or distant, talent was the force that determined the direction of everything. Objective probability could not withstand the design of someone with ulterior motives.

A sudden feeling of sadness arose in my heart.

She and Sheng Huaizhuo are from two different worlds. Their good relationship some time ago was an incredible dream, but now it is the real reality.

Xia Weining stood in front of the mirror and smiled. There would be life tomorrow. She came back here not for others, but for herself. She didn't want to add any new psychological burden to herself.