Chapter 66 Spending Valentine's Day with you. ...
"I promise, no one will ever fall for you."
After politely seeing off the blind date and her friends, Tao Siyun breathed a sigh of relief and assured Tao Qian, who had already paid the bill, "Really? I'm not lying to you. If you don't believe me, just go home and call Auntie and you'll find out."
It was hard to tell from the expression on Tao Qian's face whether he was happy or unhappy. He just said "hmm" in a very perfunctory manner and said nothing else.
"Brother, are you dissatisfied with this result?"
His reaction was different from what Tao Siyun had imagined. Shouldn't he be happy that the other person was not interested in him?
"Why do I feel like you're quite disappointed?"
Tao Qian shouldn't be so fragile, right?
After twenty-nine years of feeling good about himself, he was rejected on his first blind date. That's a setback, isn't it? He deserves it.
Let you talk nonsense...
Tao Siyun thought he was hurt and tried to comfort him, "Well, don't be discouraged. No one said it was a problem with your looks, it was just not suitable. Just like you, it was arranged, a formality. Otherwise, she wouldn't have asked her friends to accompany her today. She had originally made preparations for both scenarios, but who knew you would..."
Tao Qian didn't leave after paying the bill. He sat down again, crossed his legs, and put his hands on the back of her chair. His eyes were fixed on the screen of his mobile phone, motionless, looking like a thinker.
Absent-minded.
Tao Siyun sat there bored, peeling a grapefruit candy that the restaurant manager had just given her and eating it.
It's sweet and sour, and the taste is kind of addictive.
After a long while, Tao Qian's frown finally relaxed and he came back to his senses: "Okay, OK, I get it. I'll count it as a credit to you."
"?"
Tao Siyun stopped kneading the candy wrapper, raised his eyes and blinked: "Did you listen to me carefully just now?"
"I heard." Tao Qian's expression changed just like the weather. It was cloudy just now, but now it was sunny. He stroked her hair in a good mood and did not forget to fulfill his previous promise: "Brother is a man of his words. I will buy you a bag when we go downstairs later. It's Prada, right?"
"……right."
Before Tao Qian could react, Tao Siyun pulled him up and left: "Mom saw the latest Chanel model on the official website a few days ago, why don't you buy her one too."
…
When they returned home, Tao Daiming and Qin Shu asked about their meeting today. Tao Qian waved his hand, said nothing, and went straight back to his room.
The couple looked at their daughter at the door in confusion.
"What's going on with your brother?"
"She didn't like him and ended up not even adding him on WeChat." Tao Siyun told his parents the truth about today's blind date.
Tao Daiming and Qin Shu looked at each other and breathed a sigh of relief almost at the same time.
"Well, we didn't have high hopes originally, but now we finally have an explanation for your aunt. Because of your brother's affairs, she has to worry about it every day. Your father and I are really upset."
Tao Siyun changed into slippers, carrying a luxury bag in one hand, and walked in front of Qin Shu, saying very obediently: "Mom, this is Le boy for you."
"Did you go shopping this afternoon?"
"Well, my brother probably never suffered such a big blow before. In a rage, he bought us bags, one for you and one for me."
***
It was almost the end of the New Year when Tao Siyun finally found time to spend with Bian Chengzi, who had been neglected for a long time and was looking forward to her.
The two of them walked around outside for the whole morning, and at lunch time, Bian Chengzi excitedly took her to a Japanese restaurant that they had booked in advance to eat a high-end Japanese blind box.
"I came here once before with my stingy boss. We didn't have to order. It all depended on the chef's mood. We ate whatever he cooked. Don't worry, there will definitely be no food that you can't swallow."
"Well, it's your treat today, so you have the final say."
After asking the two about their allergies and whether they had any food taboos, the chef started preparing.
After sitting down, Tao Siyun recounted to her best friend the entire story of Tao Qian's blind date that day in detail and vividly.
"Wait, you're saying that when we were in Rome, we found your brother's blind date's lost passport and bag?"
Tao Siyun nodded, still a little embarrassed. "You didn't expect it, did you? I didn't expect it either."
"Oh my god, this is even possible?" Bian Chengzi exclaimed in amazement after hearing this. "How dramatic! So your brother's blind date not only remembered you, but also recognized you at first sight?"
Tao Siyun nodded again, "Yeah."
If this happened to someone else, Bian Chengzi's first reaction would probably be: "Holy shit, who is this person? He has such a good memory. He still remembers what you look like after three years."
But if the other party is Tao Siyun, then it makes perfect sense.
After all, she was born with a recognizable face, so it's normal that people still remember her now.
Bian Chengzi looked at her best friend's stunning face and couldn't help but sigh, "It's a small world. Oh, no, then I don't quite understand. Your family's genes are so amazing, but she didn't fall for your brother? Logically, that shouldn't be the case..."
With more than ten years of experience in watching idol dramas, Bian Chengzi felt that the plot should develop in the direction of "I met my blind date's sister in a foreign country three years ago, and we met again on a blind date three years later, so she became the god of assisting me and my blind date."
It turns out that the girl is not interested in Tao Qian?
From the perspective of current domestic entertainment screenwriters, isn't this a waste of their chance encounter abroad three years ago?
"My brother didn't even discuss it with me beforehand, and he just took it upon himself to create this perverted sister-con persona."
“…”
"You can have this shrimp." Tao Siyun had a typical Chinese stomach. Bian Chengzi sympathetically picked up a piece of sweet shrimp sushi for her while she devoured her tuna sashimi, complaining as she ate, "No, why didn't your brother just call him a mama's boy? I'm really impressed. How come he's acting like a drama queen now? He really loves to act."
It's really pretentious.
"It's a shame he botched the performance. He had been hoping to use this method to dissuade his blind date, but he didn't realize she wasn't interested in him at all. I'll probably laugh at him for the rest of his life about this."
***
That night, after dinner, the family was chatting in the living room. Xu Ji suddenly sent several WeChat messages to Tao Siyun. His phone, which was charging next to the TV cabinet, rang several times in succession.
Xu Ji: [Tao Siyun, it’s 8:28]
Xu Ji: [You said to call me at 8:30]
Xu Ji: [One and a half minutes left]
“…”
Tao Siyun replied: [right away]
Tao Qian looked up and saw her blocking the TV and looking at her phone. He asked casually, "What are you doing there? Who is it?"
"Bian Chengzi, she's going back to Huxi in two days. She asked me when she's leaving, and I said it's not decided yet."
"oh."
Tao Siyun unplugged the charging cable, turned around and walked upstairs.
"Hey, An An, Dad is cutting dragon fruit in the kitchen. Don't you want to eat it?"
Tao Siyun didn't stop walking: "I don't want to eat anymore."
Qin Shu looked at Tao Siyun's hurried back and felt strange. "This girl just said she wanted to eat dragon fruit, what is she doing in such a hurry now? Xiao Qian, please send the fruit to her room later."
Tao Qian took a bite of the unpeeled apple and said vaguely, "Didn't she say she didn't want to eat it?"
"You just give it to her and she'll eat it."
“…”
After returning to the room, Tao Siyun locked the door and secretly hid under the quilt to call Xu Ji.
It rang once before Xu Ji answered: "Tao Siyun, it's already 8:31, why are you so unpunctual?"
Tao Siyun covered his head with the quilt and whispered, "It's only one minute late..."
Xu Ji's tone sounded very unreasonable: "We agreed on 8:30, not even a second late."
"...I'll go back to my room early next time. I can't turn back time now."
Xu Ji smiled, and his voice came from the receiver of the phone: "Then I punish you by asking you to pick me up at the airport."
"???" Tao Siyun was stunned for a moment: "You came to Jingfu? When-"
“Knock! Knock! Knock!”
Tao Siyun was startled by the sudden knock on the door.
"Tsk, why do you lock the door in your own house? I brought the dragon fruit upstairs for you. Do you want to eat it? If not, I'll eat it."
Tao Siyun originally wanted to tell Xu Ji that he was hanging up and would call him back later, but Xu Ji suddenly said, "I've booked a flight tomorrow and will come over to spend Valentine's Day with you."
Tao Siyun stared at the locked bedroom door. He was stunned for a few seconds at his brother's urging, and suddenly he was not so anxious to open the door: "So... what time will you arrive tomorrow?"
"Ten o'clock in the morning."
"oh."
So early.
"Dorothy, are you coming to pick me up?" Xu Ji asked her.
Two seconds later, Tao Siyun murmured "hmm".
Spending Valentine's Day together...it sounds like an indescribable feeling.
Tao Siyun feels that the three words "Valentine's Day" have a kind of implicit boldness in the implicit and introverted Eastern culture.
It seems to mean that the upgrading of intimacy between lovers has been given a real right again...
Tao Siyun touched his hot face and felt a little embarrassed. He didn't know what to say to him, but he was reluctant to hang up the phone, so he said, "Don't say anything yet. I'll go open the door for my brother. He's been waiting outside for a long time and kept knocking."
Xu Ji laughed and really stopped talking, being very cooperative.
Tao Siyun hid his cell phone under his pillow. He got out of bed and took two steps before returning to the bed. Like a thief, he pulled the quilt higher and covered the pillow in an attempt to make himself more conspicuous.
Then he pretended to be calm and opened the door.
Tao Qian had almost eaten all the dragon fruit.
"There's just one piece left. I'll take the plate away after I eat it."
Tao Siyun stared at the almost empty plate and couldn't help but say, "...Is this what you left for me? Why didn't you eat it all?"
Tao Qian used a fork to feed the last piece of red dragon fruit into her mouth and snorted: "Next time if you make me wait this long again, I promise not to leave a single bite."
“…”
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