Xia Mian's mind was a little confused.

She tried hard to recall the content about Ning Shaobai in the original book, because he was just a big boss behind the scenes and rarely appeared in person. Most of the information about him came from other people.

Xia Mian shook her head. She was wrong. She shouldn't recall the contents of the book anymore.

This is a real and vivid world, and no one is made of paper. She should not bring in preconceived notions about paper information.

Aren't the words spoken by others in the book just rumors? How true can rumors be?

For example, Ning Shaobai is sharp-tongued and mean.

aestivation:……

Although what he said is true.

But he is actually a very gentle person in his heart, as can be seen from Xiaofeng's dependence on him.

Xiao Feng is very sensitive to people's emotions, but as early as when he was in Ming City, the person the little guy trusted most besides her was Ning Shaobai.

Rumor has it that Ning Shaobai will never let go of any slight.

aestivation:……

This seems to be correct.

But that was obviously directed at those hopeless and extremely disgusting outsiders. He was actually very tolerant towards his relatives and friends. It was precisely because of this that she gradually became more and more presumptuous towards him.

Otherwise, why didn't Ning Shaobai intend to blame her after saying such excessive words yesterday?

Rumor has it that Ning Shaobai is omnipotent.

aestivation:……

Well, it seems that the rumors are true. Although he doesn't say anything, when his relatives and friends encounter difficulties, he always silently prepares everything.

You can always rely on him when you need him.

For example, Ning Shaoyun was able to divorce smoothly, and their families were able to live a stable and peaceful life in this alley, all because he blocked the storms from the outside.

Otherwise, with the power of the Ning family and the Huo family, it would be easy for them to target ordinary people even if they went bankrupt.

And the rumor that he is gay...

Xia Mian thought about it carefully and realized that the rumor that he liked men spread because he was still single in his forties.

Without her reminder in his previous life, Ning Shaobai would not have been able to deal with the Huo and Fan families as decisively as he did in this life. The Huo family and Fan Xiuzhi had been fighting for a long time, so the rumors about him liking men spread widely. In addition, he had been single all his life, so such rumors arose.

If you analyze it carefully, being gay has nothing to do with being single. Gays can still fall in love. People like Ning Shaobai won't hide it even if they like men.

So there is only one possibility that he is single...

no?

Xia Mian slapped her forehead to get rid of this outrageous idea. She had already hurt him once, and she must not hurt him a second time!

Therefore, the reason why Ning Shaobai is single may be that he has never met someone he likes. He is obviously not a person who will compromise.

Such people are not uncommon in later generations.

Thinking about how I had misunderstood him several times before, especially yesterday...

Thinking of the terrible speculation yesterday, Xia Mian wiped her face and wanted to cry. Oh my God, she really didn't have the face to face Dr. Ning.

Xia Mian was struggling with her thoughts when the door in front of her suddenly opened. Ning Shaobai looked at her puzzledly and said, "I just heard someone outside."

"Why don't you come in now? What are you doing?"

Xia Mian took a deep breath and said tragically, "Doctor Ning, can you lend me a rope so I can hang myself here and put an end to it all?"

Ning Shaobai tapped her forehead and pulled her in. "Why are you going crazy when you're fine?"

Even if it's shameful, you have to face it. Xia Mian wanted to cry but had no tears. "I just heard you talking on the phone with Brother Rong."

Ning Shaobai remained calm, "What did you hear?"

Judging from his expression, he shouldn't care about love letters or anything like that, right?

"I heard everything," Xia Mian put the lunch box on the table, then clasped his hands together in front of his forehead and said loudly, "I'm sorry, I was wrong, I shouldn't have misunderstood you!"

"Hiss... I heard it," Ning Shaobai covered his ears and said speechlessly, "Why are you shouting so loudly?"

Xia Mian grabbed his arm and pushed him into the chair, then diligently helped him open the lunch box, laid out the food one by one, and handed him the chopsticks, "Doctor Ning, eat while it's hot."

Ning Shaobai couldn't help but laugh at her expression, "So guilty?"

Xia Mian picked up a piece of meat for him with his chopsticks and said sincerely, "I feel very guilty."

Ning Shaobai used clean chopsticks to pick up a bowl of rice for her and placed it in front of her, "Let's eat together."

Seeing that Xia Mian looked like he couldn't feel at ease, he sighed and said, "Now that you know it's a misunderstanding, I'm also curious, why do you think I'm gay?"

Because I had a preconceived notion and believed what the book said.

But this obviously couldn't be said. Xia Mian scratched his head and said somewhat forcedly, "When we were in Ming City, I saw that you didn't like girls at all. And then it happened that Fan Xiuzhi framed you, so I suddenly thought of something."

After she finished speaking, she was afraid that Ning Shaobai would ask more questions, so she quickly stood up and served him some soup. "Drink more. I made some mung bean soup, which I chilled. It's very refreshing."

Ning Shaobai glanced at her and didn't ask any further questions. "Okay, you can eat too."

Xia Mian ate a few mouthfuls of food casually, then got up and walked around the dormitory to see if he could find something to do.

Seeing the shirts and vests thrown on the balcony, she said, "How about I wash them for you? They'll dry quickly, so you can change into them when you get off work tonight."

"No need." Ning Shaobai's tone was not harsh, perhaps because he was drinking soup.

Xia Mian has already soaked all the clothes in the basin.

Ning Shaobai suddenly felt his face getting hot. Seeing Xia Mian looking at him, he immediately acted helpless and said, "You don't have to be like this. It was just a misunderstanding. I don't blame you."

The more he said this, the more guilty Xia Mian felt.

Ning Shaobai saw this and continued, "It's also my fault. I didn't explain it to you properly at the beginning and let you make such a joke."

"How can I blame you?" Xia Mian wrinkled her nose and said depressedly, "We just met by chance at that time. We were just neighbors upstairs and downstairs. It's strange that you specifically clarified and explained it to me."

She sighed and said, "Anyway, it was indeed my fault. I should change this preconceived notion."

Watching her hang up the shirts and vests, Ning Shaobai felt his chest agitated and couldn't help but feel a little regretful. He should at least have stopped her from washing clothes.

He took a deep breath and changed the subject, "You're going back to your hometown the day after tomorrow. Have you bought your ticket? It's a soft sleeper, right?"

"Yes, my second aunt asked someone to buy the soft sleeper tickets for me and Xiaofeng because she was worried that it would be unsafe for us."

Ning Shaobai nodded. "That's good. Give me the ticket details later. I called yesterday. I'll have someone pick you up there and take you directly back to Mingxi County, saving you the trouble of transferring buses."

Xia Mian was immediately moved, and looked at Ning Shaobai with tears in her eyes, "Doctor Ning, you are so kind."

She made him so angry yesterday, but she didn't expect that he was still thinking about her.

Ning Shaobai pulled her aloof hair in disdain, "Alright, alright, stop it, I need to take a nap."

Xia Mian picked up the fan and asked, "Shall I fan you?"

Ning Shaobai glanced at the electric fan at the foot of the bed with regret, but when he turned back, his eyes were still full of disgust, "Let's go quickly."

He glanced at the clothes hanging on the balcony and decided that she should stop torturing herself like this before she turned nineteen.

Xia Mian was worried all afternoon. Today's events served as a wake-up call for her. She began to carefully recall every moment she had interacted with other people, to see if she had inadvertently offended anyone because of the information in the book.

In the end, I found out that the only person who might have been offended was Ning Shaobai.

Needless to say, she never offended those bad guys. Although Xiaofeng and Chenchen were treated as paper people at the beginning, she also loved and protected them. The same was true for Ning Shaoyun. She had no intersection with Huo Xuewen, so in the end, she only had a love-hate relationship with Ning Shaobai.

Xia Mian then carefully recalled the process of treating others as sisters, and the more she thought about it, the more she felt sorry for Ning Shaobai.

He seemed to dislike and annoy her in every way, but every time she had something to do, he always stood by her. When she was taken to the police station, and when Hao Jian's father and Tian Xueya's mother came to the school to make trouble, he rushed there as soon as possible.

And when she was in a bad mood, he would always comfort her in his own way, just like when he received Zhang Qiming's verdict...

…

As he thought about it, Xia Mian gradually realized that something was wrong.

She sat up suddenly.

Xiao Feng, who was taking a nap nearby, was startled and asked drowsily, "Auntie?"

"It's okay." Xia Mian lay down again and patted Xiao Feng's belly, and gradually figured out a clue along the way of thinking.

How could Ning Shaobai, such a meticulous and picky person, forget to close the door when changing clothes?

Xia Mian narrowed his eyes:

He seemed to care very much about her love letters. Xia Mian looked at the wooden box on the Duobao Pavilion. There were indeed more than two hundred love letters in it...

He said that he would repay the love letters he received double in the future...

He clearly didn't approve of her receiving love letters, but he still gave her a wooden box. So it wasn't a birthday gift at all, but a debt box for collecting debts, right?

Also, there is no reason that a 19th birthday is more important than an 18th birthday anywhere else, so why does he have such a strange rule?

She graduated from high school at the age of nineteen...

Yesterday, on her birthday, she was strangely concerned about Han Haoyan and the teddy bear. She thought he cared about her and was worried that she would fall in love too early.

Now that I think about it, was there any need to be so angry about worrying about her falling in love too early?

Especially when she said those words in the heat of the moment... When she suspected that he had someone he liked, he didn't deny it. He stared at her intently, waiting for her to speak out...

Is that “I like you” spoken through gritted teeth an irony expressed in anger?

Xia Mian sat up again and shook his head hard, "That shouldn't be possible, right?"

"Could it be that I'm being overly sentimental?"

"People like Ning Shaobai should prefer gentle and quiet girls, right?"

He had been single in his previous life.

No, no, no, I already said I would no longer use the information in the book as any reference.

Then see with your own eyes and feel with your heart.

Xia Mian reached out and touched the earring. Before leaving at noon today, she had specially wiped her earring with iodine again...

Xia Mian looked at the wooden box on the Duobao Pavilion and slowly narrowed his eyes.

The next day, Xia Mian still went to deliver breakfast to Ning Shaobai early.

Ning Shaobai was still sweating profusely in the gym.

When Xia Mian attentively handed over the towel, Ning Shaobai still had a disgusted tone, "Okay, stay away, you don't need to do this."

Xia Mian, who usually would rush over with a smile, stood obediently by the side after hearing this.

Ning Shaobai, who had already stood up and was waiting, was stunned for a moment, then walked over and slowly picked up a towel to wipe the sweat off his face.

I wiped the part of my back that I couldn't reach with difficulty and had to give up.

Xia Mian seemed to have seen nothing and was completely indifferent.

Ning Shaobai hesitated for a moment, then reached out and touched her forehead. "What's wrong today? Are you feeling unwell?"

Xia Mian pushed his hand away. "Nothing. I thought carefully about what happened yesterday and felt that I was too disrespectful to you. I was always disrespectful to you."

She said sincerely, "I will respect you as a brother from now on and never act naughty again."

Ning Shaobai:!!!!!!

It doesn’t have to be like this!!

When Xia Mian walked to the door, she couldn't help but look back and saw Ning Shaobai standing at the door of the gym with a confused look on his face, as if something had gone wrong.

She pursed her lips tightly to prevent herself from laughing.

Ning Shaobai went to work, and Xia Mian still prepared lunch for him.

In the morning, Rong Xin dropped by to send Mao Zhishan back from filming.

Xia Mian's eyes immediately fell on the shiny earring on Rong Xin's right ear.

If I'm not mistaken, although the style is an ordinary round bead, the pattern is exactly the same as the one on her ear.

Xia Mian tucked her hair behind her ears, and Rong Xin's attention was indeed attracted.

After all, it was the earring he fell in love with at first sight, so he naturally had a deep memory of it. "Why is this on your ear? Did Brother Bai pierce your ears too?"

"Does it not hurt at all?"

"Yes, Doctor Ning helped me put it on," Xia Mian said calmly, "It really doesn't hurt at all. Doctor Ning is really amazing."

"That's right," Rong Xin said proudly, "You don't know how much effort he put into it. Just look at our earrings. He had them custom-made. He put a lot of effort into it, just so they can be worn right away."

"Otherwise, I think wearing a tea stalk is too ugly."

"Brother Rong, why did you think of piercing your ears?" Xia Mian asked, "When did you do it?"

"I saw a Hong Kong male star wearing earrings and thought they looked cool, so I decided to try them on," Rong Xin said. "Man, almost everyone was against it, but it was Brother Bai who was so righteous and let me wear them without any further ado."

"It's been over a week," Rong Xin sighed. "Brother Bai is good in every way, except for his patience. He only gave me one and then gave up. Do you think that's reasonable?"

Xia Mian couldn't help but laugh, "That's pretty cool."

Rong Xin saw the earrings on Xia Mian's ears and said depressedly, "Brother Bai is too partial. I wanted the snowflake one too, but he ignored me and just gave me the most ordinary one."

Xia Mian comforted him, "Maybe it's because you're a boy, and the simpler the style for boys, the better."

Rong Xin reluctantly accepted this explanation, but soon became dissatisfied again, "Besides, I'll give you two?! I only have one."

Xia Mian also pouted and said, "You don't know, I begged him for a long time. I begged him to wear it for me a week ago, but I didn't expect that he would wear it for you first."

Rong Xin regained his composure and asked, "Did you just put this on?"

"Yes," Xia Mian said, "I asked for it as a birthday present for my eighteenth birthday."

Rong Xin was surprised and asked, "The gift he gave you for your eighteenth birthday was a pair of pierced ears?"

Xia Mian curled her lips, "There's also a big bag of tutoring books."

Rong Xin looked sympathetic, "Bad, so bad!"

"Who said it wasn't?" Xia Mian said indignantly.

Rong Xin was eager to try again, "How about I get this gift for my birthday? I want four of them. It really doesn't hurt at all when he pierces my ears."

Xia Mian said, "He's almost run out of patience after piercing me twice. He wants to just poke me open with a needle."

Rong Xin thought about it and realized that it was indeed something Ning Shaobai could do. He shuddered and said, "Forget it, I've found someone with good craftsmanship. I'll wear it myself. Besides, my birthday is still a long way off."

After Rong Xin left, Xia Mian stood in front of the wooden box containing love letters in Duobao Pavilion in a daze.

Suddenly I remembered something. What did Rong Xin say on the phone yesterday? Ning Shaobai has received at least two love letters every day since he started junior high school.

By this calculation, Ning Shaobai probably has several times more love letters than her.

Wouldn't that mean we would hurt each other?

He hesitated for a moment between hurting the enemy by a thousand and losing eight hundred of his own, or avoiding harm altogether.

Xia Mian suddenly clapped his hands, made a "tsk" sound, and laughed, "I won't be in a relationship until I graduate from high school."

Otherwise you will never get married in your life, huh!

At noon, Xia Mian still gave Ning Shaobai a sumptuous meal of four dishes and a soup.

She quickly arranged the food and plugged in the electric fan, then stood far away and said, "Doctor Ning, please eat quickly."

Ning Shaobai slowly picked up the dishes and looked at Xia Mian and said, "You can eat too."

Xia Mian shook her head. "I came here to bring you food. What's the point of eating with you? I said I will respect you from today on. I won't be disrespectful anymore!"

Ning Shaobai was choked and started coughing violently.

A smile flashed in Xia Mian's eyes, and she hurried forward to help him calm down.

Ning Shaobai seemed to want to pull her wrist as usual, but he paused and seemed not to dare to act rashly, so he just pretended to put it back on his leg naturally.

After he calmed down, Xia Mian didn't stay long. "Doctor Ning, you eat first. I'll go get you some water. I'll come back just in time to clean up the dishes."

"Need not……"

Before Ning Shaobai could say anything to stop him, Xia Mian had already gone out with the thermos.

At noon, there were a lot of people fetching water in the water room, and the place was far away, so when she came back, he had already finished his meal...

Ning Shaobai looked at the closed door and rubbed his forehead with a headache.

This, this is different from the plan?

The author has something to say: Summer Sleep: Sorry, after losing my blind trust in the boss, my IQ has gone up.

When you no longer need to write love letters, then you can think about love again.