The following afternoon.
Yu Nian, who had only slept for a few hours, was woken up by Chen Ruan's phone call.
She was the only one left in bed, while the contented Song Ci had already gotten up to prepare brunch for Yu Nian.
She tried to stretch out her aching arm and barely managed to reach her phone on the bedside table.
It was this action that caused the phone, which I had finally managed to get my hands on, to knock something off the cabinet.
Yu Nian didn't look closely, nor did she intend to pick it up immediately.
"Hello? What's up? You're disturbing my sleep so early in the morning."
Yu Nian answered the phone. She was still a bit grumpy from waking up, and the caller's voice was soft and distant. Her words were casual and revealed a clear sense of helplessness.
The soft voice on the phone immediately sensed something was wrong.
"Fish Head Nian, look at the time, it's already one o'clock in the afternoon, why did you leave it so early in the morning?"
"No, you went abroad? And why does your voice sound so weak?"
"Have you done something bad behind my back?"
The soft yet sharp questioning brought Yu Nian to her senses completely. She gritted her teeth, sat up, and cleared her throat.
"It's because I stayed up too late celebrating my birthday last night, so I didn't sleep well."
Meanwhile, Shen Ruan had the speakerphone on, and even Mi Ke, who was sitting next to her, could hear Yu Nian's voice.
"Ruanruan, she's lying. I just saw Grandpa Song cursing Song Ci under Song Ci's name last night, and then he went to see Yu Nian in the middle of the night."
"Fish Head Nian, huh? Is what Mi Ke said true or false? You were with Song Ci last night?"
The sudden shout from the other end startled Yu Nian so much that she almost jumped out of bed.
It was during this commotion that she saw the box that had accidentally fallen to the ground.
She seemed to recognize this box.
She coughed twice into the phone and stretched out her foot to kick the box under the bed.
"Ahem. What are you all thinking? He came to give me a birthday present last night."
"Okay, I have something to do, so I'll hang up now."
Without saying a word, she hung up the phone immediately, afraid that if she let something slip, Shen Ruan would gossip about it all the way to her house.
After hanging up the phone, she was still kicking the box with all her might, but she didn't expect it to go further and further away.
The object was kicked from the head of the bed all the way to the door, which was really an eyesore. After struggling for a long time, Yu Nian finally decided to get out of bed to pick it up.
She took a few deep breaths, got out of bed in one go, slowly moved to the door of the room, and finally picked up the box with some effort.
She took the box in her hand, and the events of last night flashed through her mind. Suddenly, she felt that the box was a little hot to the touch.
Yu Nian shook her head, clearing her mind of the inappropriate images.
Just as she was silently chanting the Heart-Cleansing Mantra, Song Ci brought in freshly cooked porridge.
And so, he saw Yu Nian holding a box and chanting a calming mantra.
"Niannian, what are you doing?"
The man's voice suddenly fell into the quiet bedroom, and Yu Nian immediately dropped what she was holding in embarrassment.
She didn't respond to Song Ci's words. Instead, she turned around in front of him as if nothing had happened, and then limped back to the bedside.
Song Ci couldn't help but chuckle; then she put the porridge aside, bent down to pick up the box, and put it back in the cupboard without batting an eye.
Yu Nian, who originally intended to throw things away, watched all of this unfold: ...
She no longer wanted to see that thing.
"Niannian, go wash up quickly, then have some porridge."
"oh."
Yu Nian obediently responded and then mustered all her strength to get up and wash up.
Wearing the pajamas Song Ci had just bought, Yu Nian walked with a limp. As the last person to go to the bathroom today, she was carried there.
On the other side...
The fiery enthusiasm for gossip that had been burning within Chen Ruan was extinguished by Yu Nian's ruthless and perfunctory act of hanging up the phone.
She looked at Miko, who was sitting to the side playing on her phone, her face full of displeasure.
"It's all your fault. If it weren't for what you said, Niannian wouldn't have hung up the phone so hastily."
Miko, who was playing a game, looked bewildered. After hearing the displeasure in his girlfriend's words, he didn't care whether he had let his teammates down or not, and simply threw his phone, which was still on the game screen, aside.
"Ruanruan, I'm sorry, it was my fault."
A man's best dowry is to take the initiative to admit his mistakes, whether he is right or wrong.
Having been with Shen Ruan for almost a year, Mi Ke had figured out her temperament. No matter who was in the wrong between them, as long as he admitted his mistake first, he would take the initiative to take responsibility for it.
Once his girlfriend calms down, he will definitely receive a generous reward.
This might be one reason why he became the longest-lasting boyfriend of Shen Ruan?
After Miko tactfully apologized, Shen Ruan, who hadn't intended to blame him, was also stunned.
During that year, she did indeed see the good qualities in Miko.
She beat him up so badly on their first meeting that he was bruised and battered. But the following week, as if he wasn't afraid of being beaten up again, he barged into her office and confessed his feelings to her.
She still remembers Miko's exact words when he confessed his love.
"Ruanruan, I've actually wanted to confess to you for a long time. But you made me look so ugly. When I look at myself in the mirror, I... I confess to myself but I don't even agree to it."
"So I waited until now. Do you think I'm as handsome as I was when you first met me?"
"So, since you kissed me, can you be with me?"
At first, Shen Ruan just thought this person was funny. He was dazzling and glamorous on stage; how come he became such a silly person after being beaten up by her?
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