Li Changsi didn’t pay much attention to the charity dinner in late spring, as the college entrance examination was about to begin.
She registered for both the art exam and the college entrance exam, taking a two-pronged approach.
It rained for three consecutive days during the college entrance examination. The weather in June was wet and unusually cool, and people's hearts became calm. Li Changsi handed in her paper early. The college entrance examination paper was much simpler than she had imagined. When she came out, she saw Lu Qi's Bentley parked under a tree on the side of the road.
Lu Qi was sitting in the car reading documents. The man was wearing a neatly-dressed white shirt and trousers. He had a high nose bridge, dark brown pupils hidden behind gold-rimmed glasses, and a clear and beautiful jawline. He looked very gentle and handsome.
Li Changsi looked at it for a long time, but still felt that it was not enough.
After being stared at by her for a long time, Lu Qi finally couldn't help himself and put down the documents, opened the car door, pulled her in, and asked with a smile: "Am I that good-looking?"
"It looks great." Li Changsi put the exam folder aside and said with a smile, holding his chin. "I was tired of taking exams, but seeing your face, I can take another 300."
Lu Qi laughed. Was she addicted to exams? Could the difficulty of the college entrance examination stump her?
"Is it just her face that's pretty?" Lu Qi's voice was slightly hoarse. He reached out and grabbed her slender waist, pulling her towards him.
In the two weeks before and after the exam, he had been very restrained, fearing that it would affect her. However, she had almost completed all the major events for the year, so it was time to consider marriage.
Of course, everything about him is beautiful. She couldn't have chosen a wrong man. Li Changsi leaned close to his ear, pursed her lips and smiled, "I'll tell you where it is beautiful when we get back."
"Okay." Lu Qi's voice was slightly hoarse, and a gentle smile appeared on his face. "Are you tired? Let me give you a massage."
"Yeah, okay." Li Changsi leaned closer to him and saw his slender and flexible fingers pressing on her sore shoulders and neck. She breathed a sigh of relief and then turned on her phone. Her friends in the circle tagged her and sent her congratulations.
She was too lazy to reply to everyone, so she posted a message on her Moments and then opened the WeChat group she hadn't entered for half a month.
Lin Lushen: My sister should be finishing her exams soon. I haven’t seen her for half a month.
Tian Ye sighed: "More than that, this group is becoming increasingly deserted. Little deer, there are only a few of us alive."
Since the late spring charity dinner, half the group had disappeared. Xuan Yiyi, who had always been active, had stopped showing off, Brother Zhuo had almost semi-retired, and even Song Xingyue and Meng Xun hadn't spoken much. Tian Ye couldn't find anyone to gossip with, and he missed Li Changsi constantly.
Tian Ye: Changsi won't have any new dramas for the next six months, and I haven't heard of any variety shows. Maybe she'll be planning a wedding and honeymoon with Brother Lu after the Gaokao. I bet Brother Lu won't wait until next year; we'll definitely have a wedding this year.
Li Changsi was drinking water and almost spit it out. He handed the cup to Lu Qi and typed: What are you betting on?
Rong Shu: You handed in the test paper so soon?
Lin Lushen: Sister, Brother Ye said that you got married in secret. Did Brother Lu propose to you?
Everyone else came to the surface out of curiosity. If Li Changsi married Mr. Lu, there would be another earthquake in the circle.
Li Changsi: I mentioned it several times, but I just brushed it off.
Perfunctory?
Xuan Yiyi was so angry that her heart ached, Bai Zhuo was silent, and Song Xingyue hesitated to speak. She heard that at the late spring charity dinner, a Mr. Lu donated a priceless Tang Palace painting, which was sold at a sky-high price of over 1 billion yuan, and he donated it all. That Mr. Lu must be Lu Qi, right?
Tian Ye: Brother Lu, did you propose in the wrong way? I think Brother Lu is quite aloof. I guess he's too stubborn to be embarrassed. I'll teach Brother Lu a lesson later.
Rong Shu: If you use your method on Changsi, you might get beaten.
Lin Lushen: Hahaha, I think so too. Sister doesn’t like the exaggerated style. Brother Lu probably can’t use your method either. They are both introverted.
Lin Lushen still remembers the snowy day when he and Li Changsi finished filming the MV. Lu Qi came to pick them up, and the two of them held an umbrella and walked away together in the snow. Some people like the hustle and bustle of flowers and diamond rings, while some people may only love the quietness of the world. They looked at each other and felt deeply at ease.
They should belong to the latter.
Li Changsi looked at the screen of her mobile phone and couldn't help but smile. Fortunately, Lu Qi was not such a boastful person. However, she had promised him in a daze the previous night that if he scored 700 points in this exam, they would get married.
Getting married doesn’t seem so bad. I can make up for the regrets of my previous life in this one.
The college entrance examination scores have not come out yet, and Lu Qi’s birthday is coming.
Lu Qi’s birthday is June 12th, his 30th birthday.
The mountaintop manor was on high alert. The housekeeper led people to clean the entire mountaintop manor spotlessly. Several osmanthus trees and pomegranate trees were transplanted in the courtyard, and a batch of flowers with good meanings were specially replaced. Song Mao did not dare to bother Lu Qi with the group's affairs, and would not report non-emergency matters.
Wei Zhenxi came here every evening. All the night shifts in the hospital had been replaced, and coming to the mountaintop manor was like punching in for work, which even made Li Changsi a little nervous.
Lu Qi's old illness hadn't recurred, so logically she should have been able to celebrate her 30th birthday safely, but she wasn't sure.
Only Lu Qi himself was calm and composed. During the day, he took her riding, shooting, fishing, picking fruits in the vineyard, etc. At night, he was close to her in the ear, gentle and affectionate, and full of energy.
In the blink of an eye it was June 12th.
Li Changsi got up early in the morning and went to the kitchen to cook longevity noodles for him.
"Uncle Lu, do you have fish fillets and eggs?"
"Yes, yes, the kitchen is stocked with all kinds of fresh ingredients every day."
Li Changsi went to the braised eggs first and asked, "How did Lu Qi celebrate his birthday in previous years?"
The housekeeper's eyes were slightly red. "Mr. Wang never celebrated his birthday in previous years. I cooked a bowl of longevity noodles every year and served it to him. The manor was very quiet, but this year is the first time it has been so quiet."
This year, with the arrival of Miss Changsi, the manor is not only bustling with activity, but also has a touch of down-to-earth feel to it. For example, a few days ago, we went to the vineyard to pick grapes. In the past, we never had such leisure and elegance.
Li Changsi nodded. Lan Jingxing didn't celebrate his birthday either. He was an abandoned child and was picked up by a Taoist priest and taken back to a Taoist temple. So he didn't know his birthday. Even though he could calculate it using deduction techniques later, he didn't have the habit of celebrating his birthday.
Every year on her birthday, Lan Jingxing would go down the mountain to buy two pounds of pork ribs and a fish. He would come back and stew a pot of thick white soup with the pork ribs, then use the soup to cook noodles, add two tea eggs, and thin fish slices shaved as thin as cicada wings, and cook two large bowls of longevity noodles with plenty of ingredients, just as if they were celebrating their birthday together.
Every year on her birthday, she looked forward to that bowl of noodles. After eating the longevity noodles with braised eggs, fish fillets and bones, her husband would take her to the mountains to dig fresh wild vegetables, and make green vegetable cakes for her when he came back in the evening.
Thinking of the past, Li Changsi couldn't help but smile. She cooked the longevity noodles this year, hoping that he would live a long and happy life.
"Braised eggs with tea leaves are the most fragrant. Sir, you didn't give away any tea cakes from early spring this year. I'll go get them."
Seeing that he was holding a valuable tea cake, Li Changsi smiled and put some more in, saying that he should eat better for his birthday.
While braising the eggs, he also cooked the fish fillets. The fish fillets and broth were ready. After the eggs were braising, Li Changsi directly put the noodles into the pot. Under the guidance of the housekeeper, he cooked a large bowl of longevity noodles neatly.
When the noodles were cooked, she was about to go upstairs to call, when she saw Lu Qi coming back from a walk with Little Marshmallow. His eyes were deep, as if a prairie fire was burning, and full of anticipation.
When the longevity noodles were served, Li Changsi realized that eating this so early in the morning might be a bit greasy.
The butler brought the longevity noodles and then went away tactfully. The world of young people doesn't need old third wheelers.
Lu Qi looked at the two bowls of longevity noodles and chuckled softly, "You cooked them? Why are there two bowls?"
Li Changsi smiled and said, "I'll eat with you. When it's my birthday, you can celebrate it with me too. That way, we can celebrate two birthdays a year. By the fifteenth year, I can help you make up for the past thirty years."
Lu Qi: "Sounds good?"
Fifteen years? Lu Qi's eyes deepened slightly, and he reached out to hold her fingertips. Will there be another, two, or more fifteen years between them?
Li Changsi said with a smile: "This is my first time cooking longevity noodles, why don't you try it and see how it tastes."
"Yeah." Lu Qi responded softly, a warm feeling flowing through his heart, swelling and blooming like spring flowers. "From now on, I will celebrate your birthday with you every year."
Li Changsi smiled and said, "It has always been like this."
The man's eyes deepened slightly, knowing that she was talking about the distant past, and his fingertips clenched tighter. That was a memory he didn't have, so he felt a little jealous.
How did he and she get along in the distant past?
When Wei Zhenxi came over, she saw the two of them cuddling on the sofa. Little Mianhua was playing with a cloth ball on the carpet, Li Changsi was reading a book, and Lu Qi was looking at documents. He signed the document with one hand and held Li Changsi's hand with the other, force-feeding them dog food in broad daylight.
Wei Zhenxi got up and walked away.
"Why are you running? Come back." Li Changsi raised his eyes and smiled slowly.
Wei Zhenxi: “…”
"You look good. Let's do another check-up later." Wei Zhenxi looked at Lu Qi's complexion. His old illness hadn't recurred for more than half a year. Although no one knew what method he used, if he could get through today safely, the Lu family's curse would be broken, and he would be relieved of a worry in the future.
They all breathed a sigh of relief. The most crucial thing was that today, he had specially requested a day off, and Song Mao had also brought people to the mountainside to be on standby. Everyone in the manor was on high alert.
Lu Qi nodded indifferently. In the past, he had no desires and let life and death be determined by fate. But now, he wanted to live longer and stay with the one he loved a little longer.
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