Qin Shen thought about it and it seemed to be true. For every invitation he sent out, the other party had declined twice at the beginning, but never refused again afterwards. It seems that she has given me the green light, otherwise my pursuit would be more difficult.
Thinking of this, he felt a surge of joy in his heart, and couldn't help but kiss the person in his arms on the lips: "I see. It seems that you have liked me for a long time? When?"
Xu Man's face turned red again. She didn't understand why her captain liked to talk about her relatives so much. Was her previous seriousness all fake?
"How would I know? I fell in love with her when I came to my senses... Don't just blame me, what about you?"
Qin Shen: "Me? You asked me when I fell in love with you?"
Xu Man: “Yeah.”
"Let me think about it." Qin Shen deliberately put on a thoughtful expression and said with a smile, "Let's start."
"At the beginning?" Xu Man was stunned for a moment, then she smiled with a look of obvious disbelief on her face. Although this answer did not convince her, it still made her feel happy. It was a qualified girlfriend's answer. "I don't believe it. Don't try to trick me. Tell me the truth."
"I really didn't coax you, even at the beginning." Qin Shen said, "On the first night you came to the detachment, I called you out of the office. I originally just wanted to talk to you about the transfer of positions, but when I saw you standing in front of me with a well-behaved and quiet face, I don't know why I got excited and treated you to noodles. You should still remember this, right?"
Of course Xu Man remembered it. It had only been less than a month, so how could she forget it? She was just very surprised. She didn't expect that Qin Shen's invitation was really out of his own will, not the instructions of his elders.
Why do I always feel that the things that she previously regarded as delusions are becoming reality one by one?
"So...what did you like about me at that time? We hadn't even gotten to know each other in detail yet."
"Face." Qin Shen gave her a very concise and clear answer, "And figure? No, it should be just the face."
He said: "You are so beautiful, just what I like. I fell in love with you the first time I saw you."
Xu Man: “…”
Xu Man: "Is this what you like about me?"
She couldn't help but think of what Tian Si once said to her, "When a man likes a woman, he looks at her legs first, then her face, and finally her figure. It's all love at first sight." Could it be that her good friend really was right? Does Qin Shen really like her because of her appearance?
...If this is true, it is really discouraging.
Qin Shen was amused by her frustrated expression: "I was lying. I just had a crush on you at that time. Later, as we got to know each other better, I slowly fell in love with you."
Xu Man pursed her lips, still a little bit unable to let go: "That's something that happened later. You wanted to ask me out for dinner, wasn't it because you thought I was pretty?"
"This is the truth." Qin Shen smiled and pinched her face, "You are so beautiful and cute, who wouldn't want to be close to you?"
"If I wasn't good-looking, would you not ask me out?"
"Do you dare to say that if I wasn't handsome, you would have gotten into my car and asked me to take you home on your first day here? If I were big and strong and looked like a criminal, would you still get into my car and agree to go out for dinner with me?"
"Being handsome and not looking like a bad guy are not the same thing." Xu Man retorted dissatisfiedly, "If someone else took me home, such as Senior Brother Li, I would agree."
Qin Shen said indifferently, "Xiao Li? It seems I shouldn't pay for him tonight."
Xu Man couldn't help laughing at his reaction: "It's too late now. You've already paid the money. Can you ask him for it back tomorrow?"
"That's fine." Qin Shen raised his eyebrows. "The invoice is still in my wallet. I'll give it to him tomorrow and ask him to pay." At this point, he remembered something, loosened his arm around Xu Man's waist, reached into his pocket and fumbled around, then took out something and gave it to her. "Here. It was given as a gift when you paid the bill just now. I thought you might like it, so I took two bags."
Xu Man looked down and found that they were two small packages of fruit powder with orange juice flavor. It was a well-known brand and was obviously bought by the restaurant as gifts, so she took them. "Two packs of fruit powder for one purchase? That's too stingy."
"It's not a high-end western restaurant. You can expect them to give you anything good." Qin Shen chuckled. "There are quite a lot of drinks to choose from. I wanted to take two packs of coffee, but then I thought you might like juice or something like that, so I took this."
This was the second time Xu Man heard the word coffee from him tonight. She couldn't help but feel curious: "Do you like coffee very much?"
"So-so," he replied. "It's good to drink when you have a lot of work to do, it helps keep you alert. I don't usually drink."
Xu Man frowned: "Do you always drink coffee at night?"
"If you don't drink at night, do you drink during the day?"
"Of course not at night," she said. "Drinking coffee at night is not good for your health."
Qin Shen looked at her with a smile: "What if I feel sleepy? Drink tea? There is caffeine in tea, so I might as well drink coffee directly."
Xu Man was just about to answer him that if he was sleepy, he could just go to sleep. Why did such a question require a second answer? But then she remembered his identity as the captain of the criminal investigation detachment and swallowed the words back.
She almost forgot that criminal investigation is a very busy job. Not to mention the distant past, just take the recent debt dispute between two families as an example. She was busy for several nights because of it. But when she got off work, Qin Shen was still in the detachment with no intention of leaving. He also came downstairs to pick her up in the morning to go to work together. She really didn't know how many hours he could rest.
Thinking of this, she asked with some concern: "Is being a detachment leader very tiring? Do you rarely have time to rest?"
Qin Shen smiled and said, "I am very tired when I am tired, but I also have free time. Am I not just chatting with you now?"
His words reminded Xu Man, and she quickly twisted her waist twice, trying to get off his legs.
Qin Shen tightened his arms around her waist, straightened his back, and his expression became a little tense. He restrained himself and uttered, "Don't move!"
Xu Man blushed. Although she had no experience in love, she still had some basic common sense. When she noticed the changes in the person under her, she felt ashamed and didn't dare to move anymore, but she didn't dare to continue sitting there.
"Put me down." She said softly, "It's too late. It's time to rest. We have to go to work tomorrow."
Her original intention was to say that it was getting late and asked Qin Shen to go back and rest early, but because of the tension caused by the previous episode, she accidentally omitted the subject. It sounded as if she was tired and wanted to rest, and was politely asking him to go back.
Qin Shen naturally misunderstood, but he didn't say anything, because when he looked at the time, he found that it was really late, almost eleven o'clock, so he put her down and said, "It's quite late, then you should go to bed early, I'm going back."
Xu Man nodded. Although there were some misunderstandings in the process, the result was the same. "You too, go to bed early and don't be too tired."
Qin Shen smiled and hummed: "Same time tomorrow? 7:10?"
"Seven thirty, maybe." Xu Man wanted to let him sleep a little longer, but she didn't dare to say it was too late. She was afraid that there would be traffic jams on the road and they would both be late, so she postponed it for twenty minutes. In the past, Qin Shen would come directly to her downstairs and never agreed on a time with her. However, after so many times, the two of them got used to it. One arrived at the community at around 7 o'clock, and the other went downstairs at around 7 o'clock. This was the first time they had set a clear time, and it could be regarded as a confirmation that they were in a relationship.
"Okay." Qin Shen stood up from the sofa, bent down and took the bottle of mineral water on the coffee table, "Then I'll leave, you go to bed early."
Xu Man smiled and nodded, then sent him to the entrance of the corridor. She watched him take the elevator down, then turned back to her room, closed the door, and prepared to take a shower and rest.
She had originally planned to wash her hair today, but she didn't expect Li Shijie to treat everyone to dinner, and Qin Shen would come to her house as a guest. It was so late, so she just took a simple shower, changed into pajamas and prepared to go to bed. But she didn't know if it was the steam or what, but she felt an itchy sensation on her arm. She wiped the water off and held it under the light, and found that there were tiny red rashes on it, and her heart skipped a beat.
Rash, itching. She was very familiar with this symptom; she saw it almost every day during her sophomore year.
allergy. She's allergic again.
Was it because of the pasta that I had baked with the steak?
The rash on Xu Man's arm was not large, only about the size of two fingernails, but she did not dare to take it lightly. She had suffered a similar mistake once when she was a freshman. She thought it was just a small rash and did not take it seriously, waiting for it to heal on its own. As a result, the rash area became larger and larger, and finally she had to go to the hospital for a major diagnosis. It took a long time for it to slowly go away. She couldn't let that happen again this time.
She went back to her room and searched for a while, but couldn't find any anti-allergic medicine. There was no topical or oral medicine. It seemed that she didn't bring it with her. But even if she brought it, it probably wouldn't work. Her last allergy was two years ago, and the medicine had long expired. She didn't dare use it here.
What should I do now? Should I go out and buy some medicine, or should I just endure it overnight and wait until tomorrow?
Xu Man bit her lip, feeling a little troubled.
It was already eleven o'clock in the evening. Regardless of whether there were any pharmacies open, it was not safe for her to go out alone so late. But if she were to wait all night, she was a little scared. It only took her one night to develop from a local allergy to a systemic allergy. She really didn't want to go through that again.
After hesitating for a while, she finally picked up her phone, opened the navigation app, and searched for the word "drugstore" on it. She decided that if she couldn't find a nearby pharmacy that was still open, she would wait until tomorrow, and if there was one, she would go there in the evening.
The APP search was very fast. She had just typed in the word "drug store" when a long list of candidates popped up. She chose to sort by distance and found a pharmacy very close to the community. It was open until midnight and only took twelve minutes to walk there. There was also a convenience store open opposite, and it looked like a commercial street.
Twelve minutes, less than half an hour round trip. If you drive faster, you can get home at half past eleven, which is not too late.
Looking at the walking route and time displayed on the phone screen, Xu Man calculated in her mind, changed back into her daytime clothes as quickly as possible, took her phone and keys, and went downstairs to buy medicine.
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