Original title: "Abstract Couple"
[Non-traditional marriage first, love later / Cliched tropes for days / Master of verbal sparring / Otaku couple / Comedic duo with mismatched logic ...
Chapter 50 50 Narrative Beginning
For those who don't often stay up late, doing so is like playing games on your phone while charging it, which is harmful to both your body and the battery. Tang Ke was forcing herself, and Fu Yu could see that she was doing it.
"Why don't you want to sleep?" he asked.
Tang Ke shook his head, hugged his arms and did not answer.
"If you're waiting for me to get sleepy, I can tell you clearly that I'm already sleepy." Fu Yu confessed.
She still didn't speak.
"Why don't you play with your phone for a while, so as not to overindulge."
"..." Tang Ke opened his mouth, "I didn't say I wanted to continue."
"Then, go to sleep." Fu Yu leaned over and covered her tightly with the quilt. "Go to sleep now, okay?"
"Yeah." Tang Ke held his chin tightly, as if he was the best friend in the world.
However, she couldn't fall asleep as smoothly as usual. She put her hand on his lower abdomen from under the quilt and asked quietly, "Fu Yu, are you asleep?"
"No." Fu Yu opened his eyes in the darkness and thought about life.
"Call me baby and let me hear it." Tang Ke said.
"I really can't come, sister." Fu Yu moved her hand away. He didn't understand why she was trying to be so strong even though she was so sleepy that she yawned once every minute.
Tang Ke stubbornly raised his legs and locked him in place. If he didn't shout, there were plenty of people who would.
"Baby." She whispered in his ear.
Fortunately, I don’t have to go to work tomorrow, Fu Yu thought.
He was about to get up when he heard her continue, "It's so nice that you're the one I'm marrying."
She would occasionally show this unpretentious look, without exaggerated expressions or unnecessary descriptions. In her words, it was like a bowl of mutton soup without coriander.
Fu Yu groped her left hand and raised it high. A pair of wedding rings gleamed faintly in the dark night.
"Do you want to get married again?" he said.
Tang Ke exclaimed, "Sometimes I think, virgins are really ruthless when it comes to love."
"It hasn't been that long, referee," Fu Yu corrected.
"You don't understand. Virginity is a feeling." She made a gun gesture, with the barrel of the gun poking directly into his palm. She said a word and poked it again.
"Simple, innocent, high attack, low defense, idealistic, sometimes tentative, sometimes straightforward, first snow, fairy tale, fragrant, cute, caring, silly."
"Isn't that a bit too targeted? Are you really talking about a group?" Fu Yu caught her fingertips.
Tang Ke smiled innocently, "I'm talking about you. Others are not like this, only you are like this. I like you like this. You are really good-looking. Well done, Yanfang."
"Isn't this your first time too? Why are you acting so pretentiously?" Fu Yu suppressed her restless fingers.
"No, I've been ravaged by life for a long time, and I'm no longer clean." Her words were very miserable, as if she had suffered some retribution and became a member of the "that person's background is very sad" team.
"The world kissed me with pain, but I responded with songs that inspired me. If it were the other way around, it would be very different. I sang to the world with anticipation and longing, but the world responded with pain. Although it doesn't hurt that much now, it's true that it wasn't as simple and beautiful as I thought it would be. So I stopped singing and played the erhu instead. Have you heard me play the erhu? I really can play it. I learned it for two months when I was a kid, but I only knew one tune, and it was terrible. I played it like someone else did."
"There's no need to embarrass yourself like this," Fu Yu said.
Without realizing it, they were having a blast playing with each other's fingers.
"I want to share with you both the good and the bad, is that not okay?" Tang Ke's voice ended with an upward sound, which was quite alluring.
"Okay, baby."
She turned her head abruptly and stared at him. "Say it again."
Fu Yu leaned over, their eyelashes almost knotted together. He moved his Adam's apple and repeated in a low voice, "Baby."
Tang Ke inexplicably felt that it was a little unreal. The person who could repay her with a song seemed to be right in front of her, and all her greedy wishes were fulfilled.
"Do you want more, baby?" Fu Yu bit her upper lip lightly. "Do you want more?"
"Hmm." She shrank her neck. "Wait...that's too corny."
"It doesn't matter. I'll marry you no matter how corny it is."
"I'm talking about you, okay..."
Fu Yu stopped kissing and placed her hands under her face, as if she was holding him, and said, "Tang Ke, I'm actually luckier because I can marry you. Being an adult is no longer boring. My narrative is very narrow and I don't consider things thoroughly. When it comes to marriage, I'm not as good as you in immediately thinking about the feelings of the elders, the eyes of people around you, and living in peace with your marriage partner. I can't think of it. I thought everything would be fine after getting married.
"You expanded my narrative and gave me the opportunity to tell others - this is the person I like, she is bright, cheerful, funny, and reliable. Can you imagine? It only takes a strand of her hair to make me faint. I like her so much.
"I understand why you say that reality is neither simple nor beautiful, because it is too ordinary, unworthy of your soul, and unable to meet your wishes, just like breaking Ma Liang's pen, making him unable to create again.
"Whether it's concerns, requests, or even corny jokes, I can handle it. Tell me everything. Don't try to process it all by yourself. I love you and am ready to be a part of you. The Ke Family Army will always follow you. Hmm? Is the baby crying?"
Tang Ke tried his best to pout, but still couldn't hold back the tears. The sound of sniffling cut through the air. "I feel like you're the kind of person who would propose to Miku in public and then do a house dance at the wedding."
Fu Yu chuckled: "I can't dance."
"You learn."
"Okay, I'll learn."
"You..." Tang Ke was speechless. After a while, he finally managed to say, "Insidious affirmative personality."
"It's just the basic qualities of a dream man."
"How do you know all the words..."
"After reading the fan fiction you wrote, my worldview has been updated."
“?!”
Tang Ke sat up in shock, his shoulder straps jarring off. He asked him in surprise, "You were peeking at my computer? When?"
Fu Yu adjusted her shoulder straps and replied calmly, "I didn't peek. Someone liked your post and sent it to my email, so I took the opportunity to read it."
"You, you, you, why are you using that email address? Didn't you say you didn't want it?" Tang Ke was panicked. What she wrote was not presentable!
"Work email, yes. You asked me, and I didn't know you used it for—"
"Alright, alright, alright!" Tang Ke didn't dare to listen and asked tentatively, "Have you finished reading it all?"
"I've finished reading it."
"...What do you think?"
"have."
Tang Ke's embarrassment was replaced by curiosity, and he asked, "Tell me about it?"
Fu Yu was silent for a moment, then said, "From chapter 17 onwards, you seem to have written according to my shape."
"...Haha." Tang Ke covered herself tightly with the quilt. She had a premonition of what was going to happen next.
Sure enough, Fu Yu's cold voice reached her ears: "If you ever let me be the second one in the future, report me to the central government for me."
"I'm sorry." Tang Ke apologized swiftly.
There are risks in using local materials, please do not imitate.
People who seemed not to hold grudges would bring up her crimes from time to time for a long time afterwards.
For example, she was sitting on the sofa cutting her toenails and unexpectedly found that her leg hair had grown longer. She complained casually: "Fu Yu, my leg hair has grown so long, I'm going to turn into a man."
He walked by, drank some water, sat down, and said expressionlessly: "Oh, okay, let's get gay."
"……sorry."
With the arrival of winter, Tang Ke inevitably entered hibernation mode. She wasn't getting enough sleep and had become much lazier. Her company had notified everyone to attend a three-day off-site training program. She was reluctant to go, but had no choice but to obey, leaving her to grumble at home, filled with resentment.
"What is there to learn? I have no room for improvement in my career, so what is there to learn?"
Coincidentally, Fu Yu was also going on a business trip. The project was about to be implemented, so he was sent to the headquarters for a meeting. His flight was scheduled to take off immediately in the evening.
He put on his jacket and comforted her, "Just think of it as a government-funded trip. Haven't you been to XX City before? Call me if you need anything after I leave. I've left the projector remote on the coffee table. I've also topped up my video membership and my game account is still logged in. You can play whenever you want. Call me if you need anything."
Tang Ke dialed the number on the spot and his phone vibrated.
"Hello? I'm already missing you."
Fu Yu was struck by a heart-wrenching blow. He knelt down and kowtowed solemnly, "From now on, the emperor will not hold court early in the morning."
After she gradually stopped doing abstraction, Fu Yu secretly learned her tricks. Moreover, due to his sincere actions and overly calm demeanor, he added a touch of contrast to the abstraction, making it seem like the new wave is pushing the old wave forward.
Tang Ke bowed in admiration and said, "Go quickly and come back soon. Have a safe trip."
Although they are separated by distance, they make video calls every night. They don't talk about trivial things, but just laugh at the bird droppings on the roof of their leader's car.
Her colleague Jingyi lives in the same room with her. She thinks that if a couple can do what they have done, they must have done good deeds in their previous life.
After the training, she rushed home like the wind. Fu Yu came back a day earlier and prepared a table of food for her.
"Ahhhhhhhhh!" she screamed and ran into the house.
Fu Yu opened his arms and asked, "Will you leave your name?"
"It's Zhao Zilong of Changshan!" Tang Ke jumped and hung on him. "I miss you."
Fu Yu placed her on the island and said, "I have good news for you."
"What is it?" Tang Ke's eyes lit up.
"My salary got a raise," said Fu Yu.
"Wow! How much has it increased?" Tang Ke applauded enthusiastically.
Fu Yu made a "6" gesture.
Tang Ke double-clicked.
"No." Fu Yu shook his head.
"Isn't it double-click 666? How much will it increase? 60,000?"
Fu Yu still shook his head.
"It can't be 600,000, right? Is your annual salary so high?" Tang Ke vaguely remembered that he seemed to have only a few hundred thousand in savings, and they had never had a detailed discussion about finances.
"That's six hundred thousand." Fu Yu smoothly introduced the next sentence, "I bought you a gift, do you want to see it?"
Tang Ke stopped him and said, "Wait, tell me how much your annual salary is first."
"Two million."
"...Brother, you are from a wealthy family, why didn't you tell me earlier?" The gap between their wealth and the poor is so huge.
"There's no 996 in wealthy families, sis."
Tang Ke covered his mouth in frustration, "That's abominable."
"Your half is in it, so it's considered joint property of the couple," said Fu Yu.
Tang Ke's mood turned from gloomy to bright, "So I am a wealthy family? I am a wealthy family? Come, show me the gift."
Fu Yu took out a red handbag from the chair, which contained hardware.
"Damn, how do you know I like yellow the best?" Tang Ke's face was reflected by the golden light.
"Because I want to marry you." Fu Yu said, "Is it possible?"
"Uh, haven't we already got the marriage certificate..." Tang Ke's earlobe twitched shyly.
Fu Yu: "If not, open the game and take a look. I've topped up 100 draws for you."
Tang Ke's eyes widened. "Did you learn to rob and plunder while on a business trip?"
"After all, you are the one who typed the most tags." Fu Yu told the truth.
Tang Ke quickly cut his losses: "Marry! I will marry you! You have too much leverage over me."
"What else?" Fu Yu kissed the corner of her mouth.
"And..." Tang Ke whispered, "I love you too. I'm willing."
On New Year's Eve, Tang Ke had the New Year's Eve dinner at someone else's house for the first time. Unexpectedly, Fu Yu invited her parents as well. In the end, the in-laws drank and chatted happily, while the younger generation poured out the wine.
The two of them secretly left and went to the top floor, where they got tickets for the best imperial seats and watched other people's fireworks.
The day was not particular, and the people were not particular either. With their hands in their pockets and a breath of hot air from their mouths, they said to each other: "Happy New Year."
Hey man, how do you start your narrative?
Five words floated in the sky.
That's not a big deal. Let's not talk about outdated cold jokes in winter, okay?
Okay, try again.
Fu Yu, how do you begin your narrative?
"She started loving me."
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