Chapter 22 Sweet Dreams Tonight
◎Or you should not leave today.◎
Zhong Jiajing lay on the bed in a daze. She held the sleepy cat and pondered for a while, then she suddenly remembered that it was still the middle of the night and she was wearing inappropriate clothes. It was too impulsive to invite a man into the house like this.
She suddenly turned over and sat up, and the half-closed eyes of several little cuties suddenly opened. After glancing at her confusedly, they silently moved to the side for a distance and curled up again.
Fortunately, the nightgown she was wearing was a relatively conservative style, and except for her neck and ankles, nothing was exposed.
But it was empty, so she hurriedly took out a piece of underwear from the cupboard and put it on.
Before I even had time to tidy up my appearance in front of the mirror, there was a knock on the door.
Ji Nan was wearing a khaki windbreaker that reached his calf, which looked particularly good on tall and well-proportioned people.
Only the two bedside lamps were on in the room. Ji Nan could only vaguely see Zhong Jiajing's face reflected in the dim light with the help of the sensor light in the corridor.
"Aren't you coming back tomorrow?" Zhong Jiajing asked him softly while holding the door handle.
"Well, I suddenly thought that it's not impossible to rush back at night." His voice was hoarse, and seemed to be accompanied by the coolness of the autumn night.
Zhong Jiajing didn't ask him why he came in the middle of the night. The answer was simply that he missed his children.
But this did not do her any harm. To be honest, she was still uneasy and afraid in her heart. If there was someone who could talk to her, it would be a comfort.
She turned sideways to let him in. The moment the door closed, the warm atmosphere in the room suddenly enveloped Ji Nan's whole body.
Cats and dogs have the most sensitive sense of smell. The three little ones lost their sleep and rushed to Ji Nan's feet. Duoduo was the fastest, and she didn't look listless at all as she had recently.
Ji Nan squatted down and rubbed Duoduo's head. The puppy seemed to think that this was not enough. It kept rubbing its big head into Ji Nan's arms, crying "woo woo woo~", looking very aggrieved.
"Do you miss your daddy?" Ji Nan simply sat on the floor and hugged the puppy, his tone unspeakably gentle.
The other two little guys also quickly arrived and were so enthusiastic that they threw him to the ground.
"Why does it feel like I'm abusing them?" Zhong Jiajing said with some jealousy as she looked at the happy scene.
She sat on the edge of the bed, the bedside lamp shining on the side of her face, and both her face and lips were sickly pale.
"Really? Why do I feel like you look like you've been tortured?" Ji Nan was pressed to the ground by a total weight of nearly 100 kilograms, and his breathing seemed a little disordered.
Zhong Jiajing walked over and picked up the kitten that was resting on his neck. "I heard that when girls spend a long time together, their hormone levels are likely to reach a similar state. Although this statement doesn't make sense, it did happen with the girls in my dormitory when I was in school. I just didn't expect that this kind of interaction could also exist between humans and dogs."
Her skirt was very long, and it brushed against the back of Ji Nan's hand, making it itchy.
Ji Nan, who had finally breathed a sigh of relief, froze again. He was silent for a long time and only slightly raised his head to look at her.
Zhong Jiajing couldn't see his expression clearly, and naturally couldn't see his slightly red ears.
He didn't say anything, but just looked at her calmly with an effortless posture.
Even in the dark, Zhong Jiajing could feel the burning heat gathering on her body.
At night, when a man and a woman are alone, even if they are talking about ordinary topics such as eating, drinking and having fun, once they reach this point, they cannot escape the shackles of ambiguity, not to mention topics related to women's privacy.
Of course, with the development of society today, people with higher education can already face this kind of topic calmly, but it is difficult for men and women with unclear relationships to be indifferent to the moral constraints.
Zhong Jiajing stopped and suddenly realized that she had no reason and no position to talk to him about this.
"Are you feeling uncomfortable?" Ji Nan suddenly broke the silence and asked her.
Zhong Jiajing shook her head, "Not bad."
The room became quiet again.
The digital clock on the table jumped to zero on time, and the mobile phone that fell to the ground frequently lit up the dazzling
Yihua
There was a flash of light, followed by the initial ringtone of the cell phone.
Ji Nan moved the furry kids back to their nest one by one, then grabbed the phone and answered it.
Zhong Jiajing heard a lively voice coming from the other end of the phone, "Happy birthday! I wish our Ji family's cutest baby can find true love in the new year..."
It was still too embarrassing for a man who was almost 30 to be called "baby" in front of the opposite sex. Ji Nan turned down the volume with a dark face, "Thank you, Mom. You and Dad should go to bed early. I'll call you back during the day."
After hanging up the phone, he received a series of messages or phone calls. After expressing his gratitude one by one, he raised his head and looked at Zhong Jiajing with some apology.
But she folded her arms and snorted coldly, "Oh, this is what Boss Ji meant by having no friends."
Just now, even the 45-year-old security guard downstairs of the company building posted a public circle of friends, in which he used many cigarettes to arrange Ji Nan's name and wished him a happy birthday.
Ji Nan remained calm, "Oh, so sending birthday wishes can be considered friendship? Then it seems you really lied to me last time."
Zhong Jiajing didn't know how the topic got here. "When did I lie to you?"
"You don't remember my birthday, and of course you didn't send me birthday wishes. So can I understand that you are not actually my best friend?" He raised his thin eyelids to look at her.
So this is what it feels like to be blamed for something you've done wrong? Zhong Jiajing was speechless.
Ji Nan didn't intend to delve into the answer to this question with her. He lowered his eyes and looked at the furry children who had fallen asleep. He turned to ask Zhong Jiajing, "Don't you want to sleep?"
"A little bit," Zhong Jiajing nodded, "Maybe I'm just too angry."
"Then let's go out for a walk?" Ji Nan suggested.
Zhong Jiajing agreed, as she also had her own plans.
Ji Nan grasped the door handle, pressed it, and then pulled it back. He suddenly turned around and said to the girl who was following closely behind him, "Have you ever heard of the metaphor of being frozen like a sieve?"
"Yes," she nodded, "but I always feel that this description is a bit exaggerated."
"Really? I haven't seen it before." Ji Nan said, "But it doesn't matter. When we go downstairs later, we can just watch your live impromptu performance."
Haha, it turns out that reminding people to put on more clothes can avoid being described as enthusiastic or gentlemanly and become so unique.
It was already chilly in the middle of the night at the end of October. The streets, which were always clean, were now covered with a large number of withered yellow leaves, which were picked up by the howling wind and drifted towards the left.
Zhong Jiajing wrapped herself tightly in her lambskin coat and felt extremely lucky. Otherwise, not only would she be shaking like a sieve, she might even have evolved into a Harbin ice sculpture in the south.
There weren't many people on the streets in the early morning, only a few young men and women who were live streaming and laughing.
The 24-hour convenience store was still alone at night, with no one else inside except two store clerks.
"When I was little, I firmly believed that as long as I ate at McDonald's, I wouldn't feel any pain even if my mom chased me for two miles with a clothes hanger." Ji Nan looked at the brightly lit store, his eyes sparkling. "I guess this is the appeal of 'junk food'?"
He turned his head and looked at her with the same smiling eyes, "Do you want to eat something?"
Zhong Jiajing nodded, "I do."
After entering the store, the two of them ordered all the remaining skewers in the fried skewers cabinet one by one. When it was time to pay the bill, Zhong Jiajing ran to the refrigerator and got a hamburger.
"Anything else?" Ji Nan asked without asking the reason.
"No more," Zhong Jiajing shook her head, "but I have to pay the bill."
As she said that, she quickly put the QR code on the scanner and paid the bill.
Ji Nan didn't argue with her about who would pay, but just honestly put all the things on the table in the corner.
"You've truly taken the values of a university student to heart." Ji Nan smiled. "Even if the money was stuffed into your pocket and you were told it was yours, wouldn't you still be terrified and run to the police to claim it was returned?"
"Then you think too highly of me." Zhong Jiajing curled her lips.
"Oh? How do you mean?"
"I filled up your car with gas the day before yesterday, using the money from your card."
Ji Nan thought she was really silly and cute. Perhaps this was the most outrageous behavior in her mind.
She hummed a song while staring at the burger that was heating and expanding in the microwave. She seemed to be in a much better mood, and even her originally pale skin had regained some color.
“Ding~”
After the microwave oven sounded the reminder that heating was complete, Ji Nan opened the door to take it out, but was stopped by Zhong Jiajing.
"Comrade birthday boy, please allow me to serve you from now on." She said seriously, "Didn't you say I'm not worthy of being your best friend? Then give me a chance to show off."
She carefully brought out the burger and placed a candle on it that she had asked the waiter for. "Although it's a little shabby, I guess a kind-hearted person wouldn't mind it."
He also used a borrowed lighter to light the candles. "Alright, please make a wish, birthday girl."
She clapped her hands and started singing Happy Birthday.
"Happy birthday to you~Happy birthday to you~"
She sang two lines and suddenly stopped, dissatisfied and asked, "Why don't you close your eyes and make a wish?"
Ji Nan suppressed a laugh, "Oh, maybe it's because I haven't listened to music for a long time. I didn't realize that now I need to listen to commercials even when listening to music."
Zhong Jiajing really wanted to hit him, "Can you please respect your good friend's singing voice?"
"Okay, Lark, I apologize to you." He was still smiling, his eyes curved into crescent shapes.
As the song "A Hundred Turns and Thousands of Returns" played, Ji Nan cooperated, closed his eyes, and made a wish.
After the candles were blown out, Zhong Jiajing looked at him expectantly, "Happy birthday! What did you wish for?"
"Didn't you say it won't work if you just talk about it?" Ji Nan cut the burger in half and handed it to her while wearing gloves. "Here, half for each of you, we'll keep our relationship strong."
"But I always feel that wishes need to be expressed out loud in order to be fulfilled." Zhong Jiajing took a bite of the dry hamburger with satisfaction.
"Actually, there's nothing much to wish for. I just hope my family and friends are healthy."
"And," Ji Nan looked at her intently, "I hope you have a good dream tonight."
The rain fell, crackling against the glass windows like a child just learning to compose a piece of music.
Zhong Jiajing tried to recall what expression she had at that time, or what she had said to Ji Nan, but she couldn't remember at all.
In line with the concept of saving, the two of them only bought an umbrella in the store for 42 yuan.
The rain was not heavy, and the distance between them was not close, but their clothes were inevitably touched.
Zhong Jiajing wanted him to just send her downstairs, but Ji Nan refused.
"Aren't you scared? In the elevator." he asked, his eyes seemed to be filled with the mist of a rainy night.
Of course I'm scared.
When the elevator stopped at the floor next to the door, Zhong Jiajing suddenly turned around to look at him.
"Or you should not leave today."
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