Chapter 25 Xiang Yun's Room
The bedroom was very tidy. Xu Songning wandered around casually. There was a small balcony in the room, with a rattan chair and a round coffee table. Next to it was a wooden coat rack with only a black coat hanging on it.
A large wooden cabinet stands by the balcony, with books about flight displayed on the top two shelves.
The book is packed with books, including "Principles of Flight," "Fundamentals of Air Traffic Management," "An Introduction to Contemporary Civil Aviation Spirit and Culture," "Civil Aviation Safety Management," and "Theoretical Mechanics."
The next floor is filled with Air China merchandise, including panda plush toys, badges, keychains, and more...
Below that is a model airplane. There is only one on each floor. It is housed in an acrylic box with a background of white clouds and blue sky. A runway light is placed on the snow-white tail.
Xu Songning bent down curiously to take a closer look at the plane bearing the Air China logo. It was a 1:400 scale Queen Air B747, displayed on a transparent shelf with its nose facing upwards toward the blue sky outside the window, as if it were about to take off.
The afternoon sun shone on the fuselage, and Xu Songning could almost hear its roar.
She took out her phone, adjusted the angle, and took a picture of it in the excellent lighting.
"Ding." The microwave oven announced that the food was ready.
Xu Songning then left the room, took a plate out of the microwave, and found the food to be delicious and to her liking. Having slept for a long time, she had a good appetite and ate all the food.
After finishing her meal, she tidied up the dishes, hooked her key with her finger, and slowly returned home.
The afternoon sun was pleasant; it was a rare good day. She grabbed a cushion, placed it on the sofa armrest, and lay down on the sofa. She sent messages in a small group chat with two other people. Typing was too troublesome, so she simply used a few voice messages to recount what happened yesterday.
Lu Xiaomeng went up to the control tower and couldn't reply to messages for a while, but Zhou Qiao immediately called her.
"What happened?! What you said in your voice message sounds serious. Are you injured? Has that person been arrested? How many years will they get? Will they come back to harass you?" Zhou Qiao bombarded her with questions.
Xu Songning quickly said, "He wasn't injured. The police said that the man would have to serve more than ten years in prison. He has a criminal record and no accomplices. It was just a spur-of-the-moment robbery."
"More than ten years?! What kind of serious crime did you commit? Damn! Luckily you have plenty of strength and resources. Why didn't you contact us last night? You know I stay up late, I could have come over to keep you company." Zhou Qiao said with heartache.
"Last night was too chaotic. I didn't even have time to react. A series of things happened one after another. I also had to give a statement. My mind was a mess. It wasn't until I saw the knife in that person's pocket that I felt scared," Xu Songning sighed.
Zhou Qiao exclaimed exaggeratedly, "My God! There's a knife! I think this could be on TV. It's a miracle nothing happened. Why don't you come stay with me for a while and I'll keep you company?"
“Really, it’s not that scary now that last night is over.” Xu Songning twirled her hair. “Besides, I’m closer to the airport. If I go to your place, I might get stuck in traffic and be late for work.”
"Then I'll come and keep you company!"
"No need! I'll be fully recovered after another day of rest. You should focus on your own things."
"I've never seen you reject me like this before. Why are you making excuses today? Is someone with you?" Zhou Qiao said jealously.
Xu Songning choked, opened his mouth but didn't speak, and after a long while he finally responded with a "hmm".
"Huh?? Could it be... your fiancé?!"
Xu Songning jumped up from the sofa and sat cross-legged. "What marriage partner? Did Lu Xiaomeng tell you about it?"
"Hahahaha! How could I miss this kind of gossip? Who could it be? Could it be Captain Xiang?"
Xu Songning kneaded the doll without saying a word, thinking to herself: Is her circle of friends too narrow? How come Zhou Qiao and Lu Xiaomeng always manage to guess Xiang Yun? And they're always right.
"Holy crap! It really is Xiang Yun! You managed to snag such a handsome captain?" Zhou Qiao jumped up excitedly and bounced around a few times.
"I didn't succeed. He happened to be home last night and helped me out. He even accompanied me to deal with the matter. I slept at his house last night."
"Hey!! You two~ slept together?!"
"You're overthinking it. I'll sleep in the bedroom, and he'll sleep on the sofa." Xu Songning really wanted to throw the plush toy in her arms at Zhou Qiao's head on the other end of the phone.
Zhou Qiao chuckled mischievously, "Oh my, he came to your house once, and you went to his house once, what a coincidence! Seriously though, I think Xiang Yun is really good, very reliable. Once he came to a bar with his friends, and I observed him for a while. He doesn't mess around at all. He just sits there like a god, unmoved by men and women who try to chat him up, and he won't even give them his contact information. You've already walked into his house, which means you're special to him."
Xu Songning recalled the events of last night, touching his chest, "I think I was a little tempted, but I think it was the suspension bridge effect at work."
"Huh? What effect?"
"The suspension bridge effect, also known as the Capinola suspension bridge effect, refers to the phenomenon where two people in a tense, exciting, and dangerous environment experience reactions such as increased heart rate and physiological arousal. The brain mistakenly attributes these physiological reactions to the attractiveness of the people around them, resulting in an emotional illusion."
"In other words, your heart is racing for him," Zhou Qiao concluded definitively.
Xu Songning laughed, "Were you even listening to me?"
"Yes, the effect you're describing is when two people face danger, but in reality, you're facing danger alone. Besides, when facing danger, didn't your heart race? Was that the same kind of racing heart you felt when you saw Xiang Yun?"
Xu Songning found the answer almost instantly, "Hmm...it's different."
Having found the answer, Xu Songning felt completely relieved. After hanging up the phone, he tossed and turned on the sofa, wondering what Xiang Yun was thinking. According to him, he didn't have a girlfriend at least for now. But what about before? What kind of girlfriends had he dated? And why did they break up? For people their age, dating is often not something that can be decided immediately by hormones.
Xu Songning is about to turn 28, and she is unwilling to devote herself wholeheartedly to a relationship that has no reciprocation. In particular, the other party is also a pilot, just like her ex-boyfriend, a profession that keeps him constantly on the ground and has many practical problems to solve.
She remembered what Xiang Yun hadn't finished saying last time: "I'll tell you after I've resolved this."
Perhaps it was a woman's powerful sixth sense, but she subconsciously connected it to matters of the heart. Now that she asked again, would Xiang Yun answer?
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