Chapter 12
It was eleven fifteen, fifteen minutes had passed since the dormitory was curfewed.
Yin Xue was about to call Yue Qianling when she heard a slight sound from the door lock.
A few seconds later, Yue Qianling came in with the cold air from outside.
"You're actually back?" Yin Xue sat on the bed and sighed, "I thought you weren't coming back tonight. You're such a loser."
Yue Qianling had just been begging for mercy from the dormitory manager downstairs for a long time, and she had wasted so much time talking that she didn't have much energy to argue with Yin Xue.
She took off her coat, grumbled weakly, and took her change of clothes to take a shower.
"So how was today?" Yin Xue poked her head out and asked curiously, "How do you say Christmas?"
The reason why Yue Qianling asked Gu Xun that question when getting off the car was because Yin Xue gave her this idea.
It would have been fine if he hadn't mentioned it. Once he mentioned it, Yue Qianling immediately forgot that she was going to take a shower.
"Guess what he said? He said Christmas is Jesus' birthday, not his birthday! I've never been so speechless in my life!"
Yue Qianling took a breath and continued, "Nezha has been studying in college for four years and can even do the Zhou-Zhua, why is he still so unromantic?!"
Yin Xue: "..."
She had never felt so complicated in her life.
I don’t know whether I should tell Yue Qianling that it’s not that I don’t understand how to be romantic, it’s that I just don’t want to be romantic with you.
"It's okay..." Yin Xue slowly lay back, looking at the ceiling, and said expressionlessly, "That's how nasty men are. Don't bother with them."
Yue Qianling sat at the desk for a while in a depressed mood. After adjusting her mood, she remembered that she had hung up Lin Xun's voice call not long ago.
She typed a few words slowly.
【Glutinous Rice Dough Sticks】: What did you want from me just now?
Several minutes passed.
[School Prince]: I can only come to you when I have something to ask?
【Glutinous rice fried dough twist】: Alas
[Glutinous Rice Dough Sticks]: I just had something to do.
[School Prince]: Well, I can guess what you have been doing with my toes.
[School Prince]: It doesn’t matter, I’m fine alone.
[Glutinous Rice Dough Sticks]: Don’t think too much. I was just in a hurry and was a little anxious.
[Glutinous Rice Mahua]: I didn’t mean to hang up on you.
After a moment.
【School Prince】: OK.
Seeing his reply, Yue Qianling subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief.
Suddenly I came to my senses, and a subtle feeling emerged in my heart.
Why should I explain to him?
Why coax him?
But because she was too tired, Yue Qianling didn't dwell on this issue any more. She quickly took a shower and fell asleep.
Christmas Day happened to be a weekend, so the school was particularly lively.
Several boys in the class asked Yue Qianling to go out and play, but she was not in the mood and just wanted to stay in the dormitory to work on her graduation project.
Yin Xue went out to play with her high school classmates, and Yue Qianling stayed alone. Occasionally, she heard girls from other dormitories passing by happily, but that excitement could not infect her.
Sometimes she even felt that Gu Xun was right. What did Jesus' birthday have to do with mortals? She didn't understand why those people were so happy.
Christmas passed without any special events.
Because of Gu Xun's attitude, Yue Qianling never thought that she could make an appointment with him on New Year's Day. Besides, the winter vacation was approaching, and her studies and work were squeezed together, so she had no time to think about anything else.
After all, on New Year's Eve, the whole company was still working overtime.
Even the usual regular meetings were moved to six or seven o'clock. Everyone was looking forward to the holiday, and they were all absent-minded, fiddling around here and there, their souls were no longer there.
The leaders were not in the mood to talk in detail. After briefly summarizing their work, they mentioned the results of this Christmas event.
The operations department has already held a meeting to discuss the specific results, and the chief planner only mentioned it in passing.
But when he said this, Yin Qin's shoulders suddenly stiffened and she stared at the table with flickering eyes.
Fortunately, the chief planner didn't say anything and the topic turned to other places.
Yin Qin breathed a sigh of relief, but was afraid that Yue Qianling would take the opportunity to take credit, so she glanced at her secretly and saw that she was staring at the computer desktop quietly, not knowing what she was thinking about.
She finally felt relieved, but the faint feeling of torment still enveloped her, making it impossible for her to be truly calm.
Ever since the Christmas event started, she didn't even dare to look at the official game blog.
Every comment from those players lashed her like a whip, making her unable to eat or sleep well.
She didn't have to go through this.
When she first joined this project, she was attracted by the fact that this game did not require much sentimentality, did not require much brainpower, and could make a lot of money if she was lucky.
Just slack off in daily life and do your work as perfunctorily as possible. Why waste so much energy? Wouldn't it be better to make your life easier?
Who knew that Yue Qianling would suddenly appear.
The intern who had not yet graduated did not understand the situation, but she was full of energy. She always completed the tasks assigned by the lead artist on time. She also had a bit of talent, so her output was almost always passed in one go.
It would be fine if she just wanted to show off, but the main beauty often compared her with Yin Qin in private, which made Yin Qin feel more and more stressed. How could she like her?
For example, at this moment, when the regular meeting was about to end and Yin Qin was leaving the meeting room, she heard the chief planner whispering to the chief designer, saying that he did not know how to use people and assigned tasks blindly, which almost caused trouble.
The lead artist also felt aggrieved, saying that Yin Qin had volunteered to do this and had worked on a project for so long, who knew that she would overdo it.
The two of them were whispering, but the sound was actually not very small.
Yin Qin glanced at Yue Qianling's back, wondering how much she had heard.
In fact, Yue Qianling didn't hear a word.
During the meeting just now, Yin Xue kept sending her messages, asking her when she would get off work, and the two of them made an appointment to go to the city center to celebrate New Year's Eve together.
As soon as the meeting ended, Yue Qianling had no time to listen to what the leaders were whispering about. She hurried back to pack her things, as she was eager to celebrate the New Year.
Not many people were working overtime today, so the elevator was crowded. Three or four people in Yue Qianling's group squeezed in, stepping on the edge of the overweight limit.
As soon as the door closed, a member of the operations team next to him suddenly said to Yue Qianling, "You're going to graduate in a few months, will you stay in the company?"
Yue Qianling hesitated for a moment and said, "I'm not sure."
As for internships, it's not like she can stay just because she wants to. Who knows what might go wrong?
The man thought Yue Qianling was wavering, so he said, "Why are you hesitating? The boss likes you, and you will definitely have a good career in the future. It's better than starting from scratch in another company."
Yin Qin had always disliked Yue Qianling. Now, when she heard others still persuading Yue Qianling to stay after graduation, she felt annoyed, but smiled and said, "You don't know the specific situation. Anyway, I think it's right for Qianling to hesitate. After all, if your boss has a grudge against you, your future will be difficult."
Yue Qianling just looked at her calmly and didn't say anything.
"Huh?" But the operator had taken a few days off sick a while ago and didn't know about the gossip in the company. "What's the grudge?"
Yue Qianling didn't want others to discuss her affairs in public. Just as she was about to say something, Huang Jie beside her suddenly tugged at her sleeve and coughed twice.
She looked back in confusion, caught a glimpse of a corner of the elevator, and then shut her mouth.
However, the people nearby did not notice Huang Jie's actions and continued the conversation on this topic.
"Qian Ling resigned before, but now she wants to come back, which makes the boss very angry." A boy in the project team couldn't remember the original words, so he turned around and asked Yin Qin, "What did the boss say at that time?"
What exactly did you say?
Yin Qin was slightly stuck.
Because that day she heard the boss say "No turning back", and then asked Chen Yin to reject Yue Qianling.
As for what she posted in the WeChat group, she just exaggerated it.
However, her memory was still good. She recalled it in a few seconds and repeated the words she had made up verbatim.
But she didn't notice that while she was saying these words, the atmosphere in the elevator was quietly changing, and the originally noisy environment became inexplicably quiet.
By the time she finished her last word, the entire elevator had fallen into an eerie silence.
The silence was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.
Yin Qin just realized something was wrong and turned around halfway when she heard a rather majestic voice coming from the crowd.
"When did I ever say that?"
This sentence was like a heavy stone, smashing through the silence in the elevator with a clang.
Yin Qin's face suddenly changed. She turned her neck back a little with a stiff neck and saw the boss standing in the corner of the elevator.
Their boss is not tall and dresses simply and low-key. Standing in the crowd, he is indeed not very conspicuous.
So Yin Qin never dreamed that the boss was actually in this elevator.
But at this moment, everyone else in the elevator was like a deaf-mute, not making any sound, which magnified her embarrassment and helplessness dozens of times.
Her mouth was half open, her mind was a mess, and her cheeks were turning blue and red.
After a long while without uttering a single word, the elevator stopped.
When the door opened, the person standing in front did not leave, and the boss behind did not move either.
She just raised her arms and pointed at Yin Qin.
"You, come to my office and let's talk."
As soon as she left the office building, Huang Jie bent over with laughter.
I'm not exaggerating, she really was holding onto the handle of the barrier-free passage, holding her stomach, and laughing so hard that a few tears came out of the corners of her eyes and she couldn't straighten her back.
"What a dramatic scene! I'm impressed. I've never laughed so hard in my life." She wiped the corners of her eyes with her hands, and felt her face stiffen. She rubbed her apple cheeks twice, "Wait a moment, I'll smile again."
As the protagonist of this incident, Yue Qianling didn't really want to laugh, and was even a little speechless.
She glanced at her phone and saw Yin Xue was still urging her, so she said, "I have to go, my classmates are still waiting for me."
Huang Jie smiled and waved at her, and Yue Qianling turned and walked towards the subway station.
The wind is particularly strong today, and the leaves of the sycamore trees in the roadside green belts are falling. If it weren't for the lights and decorations everywhere, the bleak atmosphere of winter would be a bit overwhelming.
Yue Qianling forgot to wear a scarf today, and couldn't stand the cold wind blowing into her neck, so she put on the hood of her coat.
There was a thick circle of white fur on the hat that covered most of her face, making her eyes look extra large.
On the phone, Yin Xue kept sending messages urging her, so Yue Qianling trotted two steps and skipped down the stairs.
After she stood firm, she looked up and saw Gu Xun and a slightly plump man walking towards her not far away.
Yue Qianling immediately stood still, hesitating whether to go forward and say hello.
While she hesitated for a second or two, Gu Xun had already walked from in front of her to behind her, as if he didn't see her at all.
However, the slightly plump man next to him turned his head and glanced at Yue Qianling.
After walking a few steps back and forth, the slightly plump man spoke.
"Fuck, what a beauty." He pulled Gu Xun's sleeve and said with a smile, "No wonder they say Jiangcheng is home to many beauties. I just arrived and I bumped into one."
Gu Xun didn't even bother to look back at the "beauty" he was talking about.
"Guo Luo." He raised his arm, pulled the camel's head back, and said coldly, "Don't forget that you are married."
The camel felt very bored and made a "tsk" sound.
"It's just a glance. Your sister-in-law is looking at handsome guys on her phone every day and she even spends money to vote for them."
Gu Xun didn't respond. He took him back to the company to get his things and then went to the parking lot downstairs.
Luotuo had just landed in Jiangcheng more than an hour ago and took the subway to find Gu Xun. He has been busy with work lately and will not be free on New Year's Day, so we can only have dinner together tonight.
The two of them were not particular and had no intention of going to the crowded city center. They found a restaurant with good reviews online and made a reservation.
This restaurant not only has exquisite decoration and stylish atmosphere, but also serves food very quickly.
Not long after I placed the order, a few appetizers were served.
Luotuo took two bites of food and chatted, "The New Year comes early this year, when will you go home?"
"No." Gu Xun poured himself a glass of cold water and did not move his chopsticks. "If I go back, my mother will quarrel with me. It's better to let her have a comfortable New Year."
Originally, Luotuo wanted to say something to him, "Parents are the most loving people in the world. How can one live a happy life without seeing each other?"
But thinking about Gu Xun's family situation, he didn't want to say anything more.
Even though he is almost thirty years old this year, if he were in Gu Xun's position, he would probably make the same choice.
"Then are you going to see Uncle Lin?" As soon as he finished speaking, Luo Tuo scratched the back of his head again, lowered his eyes and stared at the dinner plate on the table, "Forget it, you'd better not go to see him. He's doing well recently, still the same as before."
Putting "pretty good" and "same as usual" in the same sentence seemed inexplicably ironic, and the atmosphere at the dinner table instantly became a little heavier than before.
Luotuo didn't like this kind of silence, so he changed the subject, "By the way, how are you and Xiao Mahua doing?"
Gu Xun suddenly looked up, and under the bright light, the emotion in his eyes suddenly changed, and his pupils became brighter than before.
"What can I do with her?"
As soon as Yue Qianling got off the subway, he regretted making an appointment with Yin Xue in the city center.
The pedestrian street is crowded with people and the shops are shoulder to shoulder. Just looking at them gives you a headache.
The two of them were silent for a while facing the crowds, and decided to find a restaurant to eat and then return to school early.
But at that time, there was a long queue in the restaurant. I had finished half of my milk tea before my number had moved up by only seven or eight.
Yin Xue started watching a TV series on the side. Yue Qianling was bored waiting and even wanted to play a few games.
Coincidentally, she had just taken out her cell phone when a new message came in to the four-person game group.
【Wheat】: @Camel@School Grass
[Xiaomi]: Have you two met? What did you eat?
Yue Qianling stared at these two sentences for two seconds before realizing that Luotuo and Lin Xun should be spending the New Year's Eve together.
Camel seemed to have mentioned it in the game a few days ago, but Yue Qianling didn’t pay attention to it until now.
In this case, it seems that there is no chance to eat chicken today.
She was about to put down her phone when Luotuo suddenly sent a photo to the group.
He should be answering Xiaomai's question, and he was taking pictures of several dishes on the table.
But in this casually composed photo, a hand appears.
Almost subconsciously, Yue Qianling determined that it was Lin Xun's hand.
The joints are distinct, and the hands are well-proportioned and slender. Any more would make them rough, and any less would make them delicate. They look like the hands modeled in 3D in a game.
It is said that hands are a person’s second face. With hands so beautiful, one can’t help but wonder what the owner of these hands looks like.
Yue Qianling is no exception.
In the noisy shopping mall, she stared at the photo and couldn't help but picture Lin Xun's appearance in her mind.
After a few seconds, she came to a conclusion.
Fuck.
Maybe he really is the school idol.
The other side.
The topic between Luotuo and Gu Xun did not end because of Xiaomai's interruption.
After he sent the photo to Xiaomai, he continued, "What do you mean by how you are with her? Of course it's this, this, that, that."
“…”
Gu Xun glanced at Luo Tuo with a speechless look, and pushed a plate of sweet and sour pork ribs in front of him, "Let's eat, okay?"
"Don't come on."
Luotuo didn't respond to Gu Xun's question. He even put down his chopsticks and stared at him with a smile. "By the way, do you know where she is from? She has a very good accent, so she should be from the south. Maybe she is quite close to him."
Gu Xun lowered his head and took two bites of food without answering Luotuo's words.
After chewing and swallowing, he raised his eyes, looked at the camel, and said slowly: "I am from Jiangcheng."
"Jiangcheng? The Jiangcheng where I am now?"
Luotuo was stunned for a while. After seeing Gu Xun's affirmative look, he suddenly slammed the table and said, "Why don't you ask her to meet?"
Gu Xun was a little annoyed, frowned impatiently, and began to speak aggressively: "Why should I ask her out?"
But the camel didn't care about his little emotion at all.
"Because you like her."
“…”
The chopsticks in Gu Xun's hand did not move. After a moment, he stared at Luotuo closely, but his tone was a little casual.
"Which eye of yours saw that I liked her?"
The camel stretched out two fingers and gestured in front of its eyes.
"I saw it with both eyes."
Gu Xun was too lazy to continue talking to him, so he picked up the cup and drank some water.
"Don't pretend with me. We grew up together, how can I not understand you? I've never seen you care so much about a girl. If it weren't for her, would you be playing the mobile game you hate the most all day long?" Luotuo smiled with narrowed eyes, "You like someone but you dare not admit it, are you a coward?"
After saying this, without waiting for Gu Xun to answer, his expression suddenly changed and he reached out and patted his chin.
"Oh yeah, I have a crush on someone."
Gu Xun put down the cup, drank the cold water, and his Adam's apple rolled twice. He glanced to the side, his eyes unfocused, his brows furrowed, and he looked obviously unhappy.
"Secret love is shit."
This tone...
The camel burst out laughing.
"I think you are having a crush on me."
Gu Xun pulled the corner of his mouth, his meaning unclear.
Whether Gu Xuncheng admits it or not, it will not change Luotuo's opinion.
When he was a child, the Lin family would always have a small quarrel every three days and a big quarrel every five days. Gu Xun had developed the ability to remain indifferent since he was young. No matter how loudly his parents quarreled and how many pots and pans were thrown, he could still play games calmly in his room.
Most of the time, the parents were not arguing, but their words were always full of insults, with one saying something after another, making sarcasm overtly and mocking others covertly. It was uncomfortable for outsiders to hear, let alone Gu Xun who was always caught in the middle.
So he spent more time at Camel and Xiaomai's home than at his own home. If there was nothing special, he would almost always spend the night at Xiaomai's home.
Relatively speaking, Luotuo thought that he knew Gu Xun very well.
He has never had much patience with people, and doesn't like to get along with people who speak in three different ways, whether they are men or women.
I don’t have many friends. From childhood to adulthood, there have always been girls who came to me, but they soon receded like the tide.
But the girl Xiao Mahua is a little special.
His mind seems to be very simple. When playing games, he is always the first to rush to the front to fight. If he wins, he is complacent. If he loses, he will curse and ask for another game. He doesn't want to go to bed unless he gets the MVP.
The point is, the sound is really nice.
At first, Luotuo just thought that this girl was a little interesting. He and Xiaomai both liked to play games with her. Gu Xun probably didn't care about this kind of thing.
But when he looked back on it these days, he realized that he had overlooked a lot of details.
If I really had to list them all, it would probably take hours to finish.
"These days, online romance is so normal." Luotuo thought for a moment and said with a smile, "Why don't we call Xiao Mahua out for dinner? We're in the same city now, what a great opportunity."
After he said this, he stared at Gu Xun.
Who knew that Gu Xun not only didn't refute, but nodded and took out his cell phone.
"Okay, but I have to tell my sister-in-law first that you are coming to Jiangcheng to meet a female netizen."
Camel: “…You are sick!”
At this moment, Luotuo's cell phone suddenly vibrated twice. He thought Gu Xunzhen had gone to complain, and hurriedly picked up the phone.
Oh, wheat again.
[Xiaomi]: How is your meal?
[Xiaomi]: Do you play games at night?
Luotuo and Gu Xun, two grown men, had no plan to do anything, so after dinner they returned to Gu Xun's house and of course played games.
[Camel]: We two can do it, why don’t you ask Xiao Mahua?
After typing this sentence, he glanced at Gu Xun in a mean way and typed again.
[Camel]: It’s such a nice day, what if she has a date?
[Xiaomi]: @NuomiXiaoMahua, what about you? Do you have time to play games?
The other party did not reply immediately.
A few minutes later.
【Glutinous Rice Dough Sticks】: What do you think?
【Glutinous rice fried dough twist】：[Picture]
Luotuo and Gu Xun opened the photo at the same time.
She took this photo while holding a cup of milk tea and facing the long queue at the restaurant.
The meaning is clear - I'm playing outside and have no time.
But Gu Xun's attention was on the hand holding the milk tea.
Her fingers are slender, white and flawless, and her nails are neatly manicured without any fancy manicures.
Even the small part of her wrist that was exposed looked like jade, gleaming softly under the lights of the mall.
It was just a beautiful hand, but it inexplicably touched a nerve in Gu Xun.
The person who was far away on the other side of the Internet seemed to have taken on a concrete form, a vivid, specific person who lived in the same city as him.
He stared at the photo, his face expressionless, but countless nerve endings were trembling wildly, stimulating a strong impulse.
The urge to see her.
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