The next morning, Xu Man was woken up by Qin Shen.
He really called her, not through any communication methods like phone calls or text messages. He directly knocked on her bedroom door and asked her "Xiao Man?" several times, waking her up from her sleep.
When she woke up slowly, she didn't know what happened. She thought her cell phone had woken her up, so she reached out to the bedside table to turn off the alarm. But then, she heard two knocks on the door, which woke her up almost instantly. Her blood froze and her heart almost jumped out of her throat.
She rented this house and lived alone, so how could someone knock on her bedroom door?
Just as she was thinking about this question with a tingling back, Qin Shen's call came along with the knock on the door again, which made her heart fall back to its original place and she breathed a sigh of relief.
Oh my god, it's him.
"team leader?"
"It's me." A familiar voice responded calmly, "Xiao Man, are you up?"
Xu Man bent her waist, hugged the quilt, and let out a long sigh.
"I just woke up." She answered, raising her voice a little so that the people outside the door could hear clearly, and at the same time she couldn't help but vent a little complaint, "Captain, you... why did you come to knock on my door so early in the morning? I was almost scared to death by you just now, and I thought someone had entered the house."
She didn't give him the portkey for him to play with like this!
"So early in the morning?" The voice of the l*q outside the door was filled with helplessness. "Look carefully at the time and see what time it is now."
Xu Man was stunned. She took the mobile phone from the bedside table and turned on the screen. The huge number 07:53 suddenly jumped into her eyes.
Seven fifty-three, it’s almost eight o’clock? how so?
Looking at the number below, there was a missed call icon with the words Qin Shen (3), which meant that Qin Shen had called her three times before, but she missed them all and did not answer.
Looking at the lit screen of her mobile phone, Xu Man's thoughts froze for a moment.
Did she oversleep?
Qin Shen's words confirmed her guess: "Look at the time, isn't it almost eight o'clock? I came downstairs at seven o'clock, but you didn't come. I called you but you didn't answer. I was worried that something happened to you, so I came up to check on you. I didn't mean to scare you. Xiao Man, are you okay?"
Did she really oversleep?
"Xiao Man?"
"Oh," Xu Man came back to her senses and answered hurriedly as if she had just woken up from a dream, "I'm fine, nothing happened..."
"Then why didn't you answer the phone just now? Didn't you hear it?"
She really didn't hear...
After fiddling with her phone for a while, Xu Man finally figured out what was going on.
Because she had been on vacation a few days ago, she canceled the alarm that was originally scheduled for 6:30 and added a new one. As a result, when she reset the alarm last night, she only canceled the new alarm and did not activate the old one. In the process, she accidentally pressed the mute button, which led to a series of oolong events this morning.
The whole day of running around in the mountains yesterday made her sleep very deeply. The alarm clock didn't ring for a long time, and she couldn't hear the silent call. She slept like this until Qin Shen came and knocked on the door to call her.
It was his own carelessness that led to this early morning fright, it wasn't his fault.
After realizing this, Xu Man felt too embarrassed to complain about Qin Shen anymore. With apology and shame, she asked him to wait in the living room for a while, then she quickly threw off the quilt, got out of bed, and started to change her clothes.
Fortunately, she prepared the clothes she was going to wear today last night, otherwise she would have to spend time searching for them.
There aren't many clothes to wear in summer, so Xu Man changed quickly. However, she spent more time on her hair and appearance. Although she asked Qin Shen to sit in the living room and wait for her, she always felt that he would not go and would continue to stand at the door.
After making sure that she didn't look too bad, or at least didn't look completely different from usual, she took a deep breath and opened the bedroom door.
Sure enough, Qin Shen was standing outside, leaning against the door frame. When he heard her open the door, he turned around and looked at her.
"Are you up?" He smiled.
Even though she had prepared herself mentally, Xu Man couldn't help blushing. She felt embarrassed already for making him wait for half an hour longer, and now she appeared in front of him in such an image...especially compared with his neat and tidy outfit, she looked so disfigured.
"Don't look." She reached out and covered his eyes. She felt his eyelashes tremble slightly in her palm, which made her feel itchy. She almost trembled and failed to cover her eyes.
"I didn't see it." The other party said with a smile.
Nonsense, I clearly saw it and even smiled to myself. He really doesn't even think before he lies.
Xu Man complained in her heart, but she didn't know how to say anything because she was the one in the wrong.
"Close your eyes," she commanded.
Rather than an order, it was more like a small request that lovers would make when faced with an unwilling situation. It was willful and cute, and Qin Shen, as the other party, naturally chose to listen and tolerate it.
"Yeah, I closed it."
"Don't open your eyes." Xu Man added worriedly, and continued to cover his eyes, slowly moving her hands away, until she really couldn't do it anymore and had to let go. Then she withdrew her hands, walked quickly into the bathroom, and closed the door to isolate herself from Qin Shen.
After calming down for a while, she turned on the faucet, feeling the cold water flowing through her fingertips. Her heart slowly calmed down, and she felt that her previous reaction was too great.
In fact, she could have explained the reason to Qin Shen and asked him to wait in the living room. There was no need to cover his eyes and give orders. She believed that given his character, he would definitely agree. This could be seen from the fact that her bedroom door was not locked, but he still knocked on the door and waited outside for so long.
But she didn't know what was wrong with her, she just wanted to do that, to be willful, pretentious, and have a little girl's temper. It seemed that all her shortcomings had been brought out by the other party, and she just wanted him to pamper her.
He was really going to spoil himself...
This was the only thought in Xu Man's mind as she poured the water onto her face.
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After quickly finishing washing up, it was already half past eight. Qin Shen sat on the sofa in the living room, watching the morning news on TV. When he saw Xu Man coming out, he looked up and smiled at her.
"alright?"
His tone was casual and natural, as if he was a husband waiting for his wife to get ready for a trip, which made Xu Man's heart flutter and her steps pause.
"Yeah." She pursed her lips and smiled slightly and nodded, while constantly reminding herself in her heart to pay attention to reality.
The reality is that it is already half past eight and she is already late for work on her first day after returning from vacation. And she is not just late by one or two minutes, but seriously late.
"I'm so sorry." She went to the bedroom to pick up her bag and came out, then walked into the living room to apologize to him. "I didn't expect that I forgot to set the alarm and muted my phone, so I didn't hear your call..."
"It's okay." Qin Shen stood up from the sofa. "I thought something happened to you and you couldn't answer my call, so I came up to see you. I just hope you're okay. Next time I come over, I'll notify you in advance and won't just walk into your house casually."
"That's not what I meant." Xu Man saw that he had misunderstood her, and quickly explained, "You can come over anytime you want, you don't have to tell me specifically. That's how I gave you the key. It's just that today is your first time here, and I just woke up, so I was a little scared..."
"It's a good thing to be vigilant." Qin Shen smiled, "Girls living alone should be more careful. There are too many bad people in this world now. You have to learn to protect yourself."
Xu Man nodded, hummed lightly, and said nothing, waiting for his next words, while making a decision in her heart.
If he proposed living together for the third time at this time and asked her to move in with him, she would agree.
There was no special reason, she just wanted to agree. The thought came to her at that moment, and it was the same feeling as falling in love with him. There was no reason, she just wanted to do this.
Qin Shen did have more to say, but unfortunately it wasn't what she hoped for: "I bought you breakfast, but it's been so long, the buns are cold. Do you want to heat them up in the microwave or buy a new one?"
Xu Man was a little disappointed. She didn't know if it was because of her two previous rejections that made the other party think that she didn't want to live with him, so she stopped asking to avoid friction between them. But this was only her fault, and had nothing to do with Qin Shen, so she suppressed her disappointment, smiled and shook her head: "No need to heat it up, eating cold food is also good, just right to cool down in such hot weather, and it's too late to go."
"It's okay. You don't need to punch in in the team. It's okay to be late. Just tell Lao Zhang when the time comes." Qin Shen went to the kitchen with the breakfast bag of buns. "Eating cold food is not good for the stomach. It's better to heat it up. Take your time. There's no rush."
Xu Man followed and said, "This isn't a good idea, is it? I've already taken several days off..."
"You applied for leave for a legitimate reason. What do you have to worry about?" Qin Shen replied nonchalantly, obviously thinking that her worry was unnecessary. "Relax, I've been in the detachment for much longer than you have, and I know the rules of the team. Besides, there was a case yesterday, maybe they worked all night to investigate the case, and now they are all asleep on the table, no one will know that you are late."
Little did she know that his words made her feel even more guilty. She felt that while others were working all night on the case, she had overslept and was so leisurely, which was really a bit inappropriate. But seeing that Qin Shen's look of "just listen to me, everything will be fine" made her stop saying anything. She was already late anyway, and no matter how much she blamed herself, she couldn't change the facts. She might as well do as he said, relax and not worry about it.
Qin Shen took a plate, shook out the buns and put them on it, then was about to take it to the microwave, but Xu Man took it over: "I'll do it." He came to pick her up and buy her breakfast. If she asked him to even heat up breakfast for her, it would be too much trouble for him. She still couldn't feel at ease with this.
Qin Shen didn't treat her like a fragile glass doll. He was the only one who could do anything and she was not allowed to touch him. He took the initiative to do many things just because he wanted to take care of her, but he would not stop Xu Man if she wanted to do it herself. Just like now, he let her take the plate and heat up the buns in the microwave, but he stepped forward to take it out to prevent her from accidentally scalding her hands.
The two returned to the living room. The news on TV was still going on. One piece of news caught Qin Shen's attention, and he motioned Xu Man to go and watch.
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