Xia Xi stopped eating, held her face with her hands, tilted her head and looked at Lu Mingji, with an expression of "How could this be?" "Could it be that my memory is really messed up?"

After a few seconds of silence, Lu Mingji slowly said, "To be precise, that was the first time you saw me, but it wasn't the first time I saw you."

Lu Mingji turned his eyes away, admiring the night view outside the window, his voice still calm. "The first time I saw you was at the bus stop. I was in the bus, and when it stopped, I looked out the window and saw you sitting on the side of the road. Next to you was the bus stop sign, with a dark green pillar. It was cold and windy that day, and you were wearing one of those woolen hats that cover your head and neck, I think it's called a balaclava? It's walnut brown. You had a computer on your lap, your fingers were frozen red, and you were chewing bread while typing on the keyboard."

He described it in detail, but Xia Xi couldn't remember the specific day. She often filled her stomach while waiting for the bus and took care of some chores, whether it was work or school.

"What happened next?" she asked.

Lu Mingji withdrew his gaze from the window and fixed it on her face, as if he was looking through her present self to her past self. "Then, you looked up and realized the bus that stopped wasn't the one you wanted to take, so you looked back down at your computer."

There was a hint of smile in Xia Xi's eyes.

"I wanted to get off the bus and say something to you, but unfortunately I missed the time and the bus had already moved out. I could only look out the window helplessly. You became smaller and smaller in my eyes, and finally turned into a small black dot. When the bus turned the corner, I could no longer see you." Lu Mingji could still remember his mood at that time. A huge regret enveloped him. He thought, he would never see her again.

God was good to him. Later they met at a party. Xia Xi didn't know him, but he was impressed by her because she occupied his mind for a long time.

"Why do you want to get off the car and talk to me?" Xia Xi asked herself, "Because I look pitiful, like a beggar?"

"There is no beggar like you..."

"What?"

"Her eyes are clear and resolute, and she carries a spirit of not admitting defeat. She is indifferent to everything around her and only focuses on her own world, making it difficult for others to fit in." Lu Mingji slowly described his feelings when he first saw her.

In addition to making him feel amazed, she also made him want to explore, to get closer to her and explore her world.

Xia Xi gradually realized that his tone was off. Wasn't he going to talk about something important? Why did he bring up their first meeting?

She felt a little uneasy and took a sip of red wine to suppress the strange premonition.

Lu Mingji believed that Xia Xi had guessed what he was going to say: "When you attended the class reunion and asked me to pretend to be your boyfriend, your classmates asked how we got together, and my answer at the time was not entirely a lie."

Xia Xi suddenly couldn't sit still and wanted to escape from here.

If she had known that Lu Mingji was going to tell her this, she should have left when Xu Yanfeng called.

She looked around again and instantly felt something was amiss - it was a high-altitude restaurant on the 56th floor, in a prime window seat, with candlesticks and pink and purple hydrangeas on the dining tables, and the other tables of patrons were almost all a combination of one man and one woman, either lovers or married couples.

Why didn't she react when she first came?

Maybe it’s because I’ve been busy all day and overused my brain, so it becomes rusty and stops working when it’s time to get off work.

Seeing that she didn't respond, Lu Mingji tightened his fingers and asked, "Do you remember what I said at that time?"

Xia Xi's memory was fine, of course he remembered. He said that he fell in love with her at first sight and had been secretly in love with her. She was too outstanding, and he was a coward and didn't dare to confess his feelings to her...

Lu Mingji knew she remembered, so he continued, "At Xu's celebration party, you drank and looked at me with intoxicated eyes. Perhaps you saw something, and you asked me, could it be that I really like you?"

Lu Mingji picked up the goblet and drank the remaining wine in one gulp. "I felt at the time that this seemed like a suitable opportunity to confess my feelings, but unfortunately, things did not go as I wished. Just when I was about to admit it, someone came to interrupt and you left. I never found a chance to bring up this topic again. Today, I asked you out because I wanted to..."

"Lu Mingji." Xia Xi interrupted him forcefully, even raising one hand anxiously, "Wait a minute, you..."

"No, listen to me first." Lu Mingji's deep gaze lingered on her face, his tone couldn't be more earnest, "No matter what the result is, at least let me finish what I'm saying."

Xia Xi pursed her lips, unable to stop him.

Lu Mingji curled his lips calmly: "To be honest, if I hadn't been provoked by Xu Yanfeng's continuous actions, I might have kept my feelings hidden for a longer time. When I was still the only man by your side, I would tell you that I like you and want to have a future with you."

As he spoke, a faint smile remained in his eyes. "I've always felt that you were an invulnerable warrior, that you didn't seem to need anyone's protection or companionship, so I've liked you for a long time, but I didn't dare to say it out loud. From this point of view, it's not wrong to say that I'm a coward. Another thing is that I cherish the relationship between us. It's not easy for one person to build trust with another person, and I don't want to break it. However, when I wake up in the middle of the night, I also want to make changes. I want to take our relationship to the next level. I don't know when the best time is to confess my feelings. I'm just worried that if I don't say something now, I'll regret it for the rest of my life."

After the words were spoken, there was a long silence.

Lu Mingji was unsure and subconsciously picked up the glass, wanting to drink some more wine, but found that there was no wine left.

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