Chapter 99: Staying Out All Night? You Still...
Song Liwei's efficiency was indeed very high. Tao Siyun called him the night before and came to pick her up the next day.
After an unknown amount of time, the black Mercedes-Benz slowly drove into a villa complex.
The surrounding environment is nice and suitable for a short stay on vacation.
Song Liwei parked the car in front of a small detached house. "We're here, get out. If you young people have any questions, it's best to discuss them face to face."
Tao Siyun was in a daze the whole way, and was stunned after hearing these words.
At first she thought Song Liwei just wanted to talk to her, and after getting in the car she didn't ask him where he was taking her.
So he just packed her up and sent her over like that?
But I was not prepared to meet Xu Ji at all.
What's more, she didn't know whether Xu Ji was willing to see her...
Tao Siyun sat in the car, not moving, looking at Song Liwei pitifully, his eyes very conflicted.
After hesitating for a long time, he slowly said, "Uncle..."
"Hmm? What's wrong?"
Tao Siyun lowered his head and didn't want to get off the car.
Seeing her like this, Song Liwei curled his lips and smiled like an old fox. "Are you still afraid that he will ignore you? Do you want me to take you in?"
In fact, what Tao Siyun was thinking was: Instead of sending me in, why not send me home...
"I have to get busy first. You two can have a good chat." Song Liwei patted the steering wheel and winked at her. "If he ignores you, call me. Your uncle will help you beat him up."
Tao Siyun: "..."
Now that things have come to this, she has no choice but to get out of the car. It would not be good to delay others for too long for her own affairs.
Tao Siyun felt that it would be better for him not to complain to Song Liwei easily in the future.
His execution ability is really strong.
It was several minutes after the Mercedes-Benz drove away that Tao Siyun finally made up his mind to ring the doorbell.
It's not that she didn't struggle just now, but Song Liwei personally sent her to the door and told her to cheer up. If she backed down now, she would be greatly disappointing her elders.
In fact, she still wanted to see Xu Ji very much.
Although he didn't necessarily want to see her.
I don't know how he has recovered in the past half month or so, and whether he is doing well...
When the door opened and Xu Ji saw that it was Tao Siyun, he was obviously stunned for a moment, as if he didn't expect her to come to him on her own initiative. He was surprised for a moment, but it was only a moment, and he quickly returned to normal.
For a moment, neither of them spoke first.
The expression on his face was calm, just as I had imagined, with no major changes.
This kind of awkwardness didn't happen often between them. The last time seemed to be last year, in the hotel elevator.
Tao Siyun was a little overwhelmed. He only exchanged glances with Xu Ji and immediately lowered his head. However, he raised his head again the next second and pointed foolishly in the direction where Song Liwei had driven away a few minutes ago. He whispered, "My uncle brought me here. He just left..."
She cautiously brought out her backer, like a childish and timid little girl, as if she was afraid that he would not let her in. She used the adults' power to put pressure on him and support herself, while waiting for his reaction with expectant eyes.
Xu Ji saw this and felt a pang of pain in his heart. He dug his nails into his palms and clenched his hands into fists.
He felt very uncomfortable.
I wanted to hold her in my arms and rub her head.
Xu Ji said in a slightly hoarse voice, "Have you had lunch?"
Tao Siyun said no.
Actually, she had eaten it, but his question was a bit sudden, and somehow, she subconsciously shook her head...
Xu Ji didn't say anything else, let her in, and then went to the kitchen alone.
Tao Siyun sat quietly on the sofa, and before he knew it, his mood suddenly became depressed again.
Did he really have nothing to say to himself?
Just leave her in the living room.
She glanced at her phone from time to time, wanting to send a message to Song Liwei, but she was embarrassed and didn't know how to tell him.
Five minutes passed...
Ten minutes passed...
Fifteen minutes passed...
Tao Siyun couldn't sit still any longer and got up and went to the kitchen.
The water boiled, Xu Ji turned off the fire, and suddenly a pair of hands hugged him from behind.
Tao Siyun's face rubbed lightly against his shoulder through the T-shirt.
"You haven't paid any attention to me for half a month, don't you miss me?"
This is a tone that combines grievance, coquettishness, and active flattery.
Xu Ji's body stiffened for a moment.
Seeing that he still ignored her, Tao Siyun hugged her tighter.
Whispering softly, "I still... miss you a lot."
Xu Ji raised the corners of his mouth slightly, took out the cooked pasta, poured tomato meat sauce on it, then poured oil into the pan, turned to low heat, and started frying the asparagus.
Tao Siyun was silent for a while, then asked, "Is your car repaired?"
“…”
"How much is it?"
“…”
"I'll turn you now."
“…”
Not knowing what she was thinking about, her voice gradually weakened, and she stammered, "Or, you can just deduct it from the betrothal gift."
Xu Ji took a deep breath, turned off the fire, and turned around.
His hands were wet, and he didn't push her away, letting her hug him like this.
Facing her initiative, Xu Ji acted indifferent and distant from beginning to end.
Tao Siyun felt that she had tried every possible means to keep her boyfriend, but he was determined to break up with her.
It made her very lacking in confidence.
Just when she was getting nervous and thought Xu Ji was about to break up with her like in her dream, he finally spoke.
"Are you still going to eat?"
Tao Siyun pursed his lips and nodded hesitantly.
"let go."
Tao Siyun was somewhat hurt by these two words. His arms instantly lost strength and he gently let go of him.
"Wash the dishes after dinner."
After saying this to her, Xu Ji went out.
She felt a little sad and held back the tears that were about to burst out.
A man stood in the kitchen eating cold pasta for a long time.
…
Tao Siyun was ignored for the whole afternoon.
Seeing that it was almost six o'clock, she prepared to go upstairs to say goodbye to him and leave.
"I'm going home first, you have a good rest..."
Before he could finish his words, the tightly closed bedroom door suddenly opened.
Tao Siyun felt nervous and slowly completed the second half of the sentence, "Then, then I'll leave."
Xu Ji looked at her with complicated eyes and said lightly, "The car hasn't been repaired yet, so I can't take you there."
"It doesn't matter……"
Tao Siyun lowered her eyes in disappointment and was about to say, "I'll ask my brother to pick me up." However, before she could open her mouth, she was interrupted by Xu Ji's cold voice.
“It’s hard to get a taxi here.”
Then he took her to the next bedroom.
"There are toiletries in the bathroom. If you're hungry at night, go to the kitchen."
"……oh."
Tao Siyun was dizzy for a while before she realized that he wanted her to stay here for one night.
This is the first time I’ve spent the night outside since I was a child.
After hesitating for a while, she finally sent a message to Tao Qian: [I'm not going home today]
Tao Qian stared at the words she sent and pondered them over for a long time.
【What's the meaning? 】
【Stay out all night? What else do you want to do?】
Tao Siyun put his phone upside down on the bed and sighed silently.
She also wanted to...
Make peace with Xu Ji.
***
Tao Siyun didn't bring anything with him. After taking a shower at night, he didn't even have a change of clothes. He just found a T-shirt of Xu Ji in the cloakroom and put it on.
After playing Candy Crush for a while while lying on the bed, her phone prompted that the battery was low. She looked at the time and gave up the idea of going next door to borrow a charger.
Unable to resist the sleepiness, I fell asleep in a daze.
…
In the master bedroom separated by a wall, Xu Ji was talking on the phone on the balcony.
"What's wrong, Master? I just finished here." Song Liwei's voice was full of fatigue after the social event, and he said in a teasing tone, "Do you want me to go to your place now and take your girlfriend home?"
"She's asleep."
Xu Ji exhaled a puff of cigarette, looked at the dark night and let out a long sigh.
"Sleep? Where did you sleep?"
“…”
Song Liwei laughed. "That's enough, you've ignored her for half a month. Be nicer to your girlfriend. She called me last night, so I guess there's nothing I can do." Thinking of this, he said to him, "The girl is quite smart. She even went so far as to complain to her uncle."
Xu Ji curled his lips.
Suddenly I remembered how pitiful she looked standing at the door during the day.
It’s a feeling that I can’t describe.
It was a little after one in the morning, and Tao Siyun was lying on his side on the bed, already fast asleep.
Xu Ji tiptoed into the room, sat beside the bed, and looked at her quietly for a while.
The indifference that lasted for a day is long gone, replaced by heartache and helplessness.
I couldn't help but touch her face. "It's fine if you don't tell me, but why don't you tell your brother?"
He has been thinking a lot these days.
He wanted Tao Siyun to understand that trusting a boyfriend and personal courage were not in conflict and could exist at the same time.
I also want her to know that I am someone she can completely rely on at any time.
"Who said I don't miss you?" Xu Ji leaned over to her ear and responded slowly and gently, "I miss you every day, especially."
***
Tao Siyun has been used to his bed since he was a child, and he usually can't sleep when he arrives in an unfamiliar place. But last night he unexpectedly did not suffer from insomnia and actually slept until dawn.
No dream yet.
When she woke up, it was already past ten o'clock. She had a little hypoglycemia and lay in bed for a long time. She only got up slowly after the dizziness passed.
After washing up, I changed into the clothes I washed last night and went downstairs.
Xu Ji was not in the next room, nor downstairs.
Tao Siyun opened the refrigerator to get his breakfast, feeling empty inside.
After she finished her bowl of oatmeal and washed it, she finally had time to look around the house.
The villa is not big, only about 300 square meters. It is neither close nor far from the city center. It takes more than an hour to get there if there is no traffic jam.
It takes at least an hour and a half to get from here to Xu Ji's company. No wonder he has to rent a house.
The night before yesterday, she called Xu Ji's uncle with the hope of "saving" the relationship. As a result, Song Liwei didn't know whether it was a sudden impulse or intentional, but he brought her here directly yesterday at noon.
She didn't think too much when she went out. She was not prepared at all. She was not prepared to meet Xu Ji, nor was she prepared to stay out all night.
Everything happened so unexpectedly.
My phone ran out of battery long ago.
When he was about to fall asleep last night, Tao Siyun was still wondering in a daze why he had come alone and brought nothing else.
In my dreams I regretted not bringing a charger.
Fortunately, I am sober now.
But if she really brought everything, wouldn't that be the same as telling Xu Ji "I want to live with you"?
Moreover, when Song Liwei asked her out, he didn't even tell her that he was going to see Xu Ji...
After sitting for a while, Tao Siyun went upstairs to Xu Ji's room to get the charger.
It’s really boring not being able to play with my phone.
She originally went to the study to find a book to read to kill time, but she accidentally saw a high school English textbook in the bookcase.
This cover is so familiar to Tao Siyun.
She was the English class representative for two years in high school, and led the class in reading during morning self-study sessions every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
I didn’t expect that Xu Ji still kept his high school English book.
Tao Siyun flipped through it with some nostalgia, and something fell out. He thought it was a bookmark or something, but when he picked it up, he found it was a photo.
Her, one-inch photo.
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