Chapter 43 West Lake Vinegar Fish
Xiaomai was still confused. She rubbed her sleepy eyes and looked at Yue Qianling in confusion.
"What happened?"
She was silent for a while, then suddenly raised her head and smiled, "Nothing, I made a mistake and thought he was back. Aren't you on a flight tomorrow morning? Go to sleep quickly."
Xiaomai nodded in confusion and said, "Ah...what about your phone? How about I call him now and ask him to send it back to you?"
“No, no.”
After Yue Qianling rejected the offer, she felt that her tone was a little agitated, and added in a low voice: "It's too much trouble for him... You should go to bed early, and I won't bother you."
Xiaomai had to get up early the next morning, so she had fallen asleep for a while when she was woken up by the doorbell. She was still numb and her brain was not working very well. She nodded in a daze.
When he went back to bed, he quickly fell asleep again. Everything that had just happened was probably just a sleepwalking for him.
Yue Qianling returned home, closed the door, stood against the door for a while, and then slowly walked towards the room.
She almost forgot that she was going to take a shower. She fell headfirst onto the bed and rolled around twice while hugging the pillow.
Then, he looked at the ceiling and let out a long breath.
So her feeling was not wrong.
As a lead developer, how could Gu Xun be the first to leave every day without other colleagues complaining?
It turned out that he sent her home every night, watched her close the door and then went back to the company.
Thinking of this, Yue Qianling suddenly felt numb all over and opened his mouth to bite a corner of the pillow.
What to do now.
She felt that she couldn't handle these emotions by herself and had a strong desire to talk.
I want to talk to Yin Xue, but my cell phone is not with me.
Oh yes, mobile phone.
Because mobile phones nowadays all have alarm functions, Yue Qianling has not bought an alarm clock separately since entering university.
What is more important than Gu Xun now is whether he can get up on time tomorrow morning.
Yue Qianling sat on the bed and worried for a long time. When she was almost in despair, she remembered that she had an old cell phone that she seemed to have not thrown away.
She immediately got up and rummaged through the drawers and finally found the old cell phone in the glove box in the corner.
I replaced it at that time only because the memory was insufficient, so now after charging it, it can still be used as an alarm clock, but I just can't log into the chat software.
After doing all this, Yue Qianling took a shower, lay back on the bed, and thought about going to bed early.
But as soon as I closed my eyes, Gu Xun's face began to appear in my mind again.
Every detail of this period of time kept replaying before her eyes like a movie, and could not be shaken off.
It was like going back to a few months ago when she was the same. Whenever she closed her eyes, she would think of him, and all kinds of emotions would surge in her heart.
Joy, tension, anticipation...
What made her feel that the situation was not good was that in addition to her emotions starting to return, she also had a feeling she had never had towards Gu Xun before.
——Heartbroken.
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The next morning, the alarm on the old phone worked fine.
Yue Qianling didn't know what time she fell asleep last night. When she woke up, she felt like her eyelids were filled with lead.
She looked at herself in the mirror for a while. She didn't know if it was because she was too tired recently, but she felt that she looked a little haggard, and there was a small pimple on her forehead.
It’s obvious that Gu Xun sleeps less than her, but how come he doesn’t have acne? His skin is even better than many girls’.
Yue Qianling muttered a few words in her heart, and her eyes moved slightly when she saw the things on the dressing table.
Then, she took out the foundation that she hadn't used for a long time, applied a light layer, and planned to apply some grapefruit-colored lipstick to make herself look more energetic.
Just as I put on my lipstick, the doorbell rang.
Yue Qianling's fingers trembled inexplicably, and after a moment's pause, she immediately hastily applied lipstick.
As soon as I opened the door, it was indeed Gu Xun standing outside.
He put one hand in his pocket and leaned his head against the wall. When he saw her open the door, he glanced at her lazily.
"Why is it so slow?"
As soon as he finished speaking, his eyes suddenly fixed on Yue Qianling's face.
Yue Qianling noticed that Gu Xun was looking at her, and she looked away awkwardly, taking a step forward, trying to walk straight past him.
But Gu Xun's gaze was always on her face, looking at her so blatantly.
"What day is today?"
The moment the door closed, Yue Qianling heard Gu Xun ask, "You're wearing makeup?"
Just a little bit of foundation and lipstick can be seen, is it too thick?
Yue Qianling couldn't help but reach out and touch her cheek.
"You can see this, are you still straight?"
"Am I a straight man?" Gu Xun chuckled, staring at her, and dragged out the ending tone, "Don't you know?"
His meaning was obvious, and Yue Qianling could not fail to sense it.
But in order to hide his panic at that moment, Yue Qianling just curled the corners of his mouth.
"Of course I do."
She walked past Gu Xun and headed for the elevator. "After all, you and Xiaomai have been sleeping in the same bed together for so many days, and your matching index has reached 90 points."
“…”
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When getting in the car, Yue Qianling glanced at the passenger seat, but didn't find her cell phone, so she turned her head to look at the center console.
There was nothing inside except two bottles of mineral water.
"What are you looking for?"
Gu Xun asked suddenly.
It turns out he didn't know.
Yue Qianling coughed calmly, "Nothing."
After sitting down, she quietly reached out to touch the gap between the seat and the door, and sure enough, she touched her cell phone.
After taking it out calmly, Yue Qianling pressed the screen and found that it had run out of battery and turned off automatically.
So she put her phone into her bag and glanced at Gu Xun.
"Um... Xiaomai is gone?"
"Um."
Gu Xun nodded, "I left at six in the morning."
"Six o'clock?!" Yue Qianling's eyes widened suddenly, "Then you woke up at six o'clock?"
Perhaps because her tone was too surprised, Gu Xun raised his eyebrows and looked at her sideways.
"Is six o'clock early?"
Yue Qianling opened her mouth but ultimately said nothing.
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Before starting the car, Gu Xun looked at his cell phone and saw that Xiaomai had sent him a message twenty minutes ago.
[Xiaomai]: Oh, by the way, I left in a hurry this morning and forgot to tell you that Xiao Mahua looked for you last night and said that he forgot his cell phone in your car.
“…”
Gu Xun immediately turned his head to look at Yue Qianling.
She didn't know what she was thinking, she looked down at her fingers, slightly absent-minded.
After hesitating for a moment, Gu Xun drove the car out of the parking space without saying anything.
On the way to the company, Yue Qianling had one thing on her mind.
It has been so long since the tracking incident, and nothing unusual has happened in my life.
Moreover, the police who had filed a case against her also called her back for a follow-up visit, and sometimes the security guard would greet her and chat with her when she went out.
But Yue Qianling was still frightened and always felt uneasy at night.
On the other hand, she thought that she couldn't be afraid of the ropes for ten years after being bitten by a snake once. If she kept being cautious for a long time, could she still live a normal life?
The two thoughts battled in Yue Qianling's mind for a long time, but to no avail.
Until last night, she knew that Gu Xun would go back to the company after sending her home every night, and she had unknowingly made the decision in her heart.
"Gu Xun, let me tell you something."
"Um?"
"I know you've been working hard to catch up with the progress recently. I don't think there's any danger now, so you don't have to..."
As she spoke, her fingers kept tapping on her knee. "Wait for me. I can go home by myself."
Gu Xun didn't speak immediately.
It was not until he stopped at a traffic light that he slowly turned his head and looked at Yue Qianling solemnly.
"you--"
"Don't think too much."
Yue Qianling saw that his eyes were a little dim, and quickly said, "I just think it's hard for you to do this, with so many things to do every day."
Gu Xun stared at Yue Qianling's eyes, as if waiting for her next words.
After a moment, seeing that she had no intention of continuing, Gu Xun slowly withdrew his gaze, looked at the intersection ahead, and curled the corners of his lips.
"Okay, got it. Then tell me when you get home tonight."
"oh."
"besides."
"Um?"
Yue Qianling had originally breathed a sigh of relief, but after hearing him say that, her heart became a little tense again.
"how?"
Gu Xun didn't look at her, still looking straight at the road, as if to say that the weather was very good today, he said: "Your lipstick color looks very nice today."
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Sigrid's sketch design is finally coming to an end.
Even for her graduation project, Yue Qianling had never invested so much time and energy.
Despite this, the senior artists in the Ninth Division said that she was quite efficient. In the later stages of Sigrid's design, they could spend more time just visualizing the sketches.
Because of this, Yue Qianling did not dare to be careless. She completed the finishing work at three o'clock in the afternoon. She did not rush to submit it, but repeatedly checked the details.
She sat alone in the small conference room of the Ninth Division, with a pen between her fingers, examining the credibility and realism of Sigrid's six looks over and over again, and evolving her movement patterns countless times in her mind.
Three hours later, Yue Qianling was sure that the sketch was the best she could do, and then she submitted the finished product to the main program.
As soon as she sent it, she heard a few taps on the floor-to-ceiling glass window.
Yue Qianling turned around and saw Su Zheng standing outside, asking her with his mouth, "Are you ready?"
She nodded and motioned for him to come in.
"It was just submitted to the main program a second ago. I don't know when the main artist will have time to take a look. Do you want to take a look first?"
"Can."
Su Zheng walked to her side, but did not sit down. He supported her chair with one hand and the table with the other.
After carefully looking at it for a while, Su Zheng confirmed that there was no deviation in the design ideas discussed with them. He nodded repeatedly and said, "It's approved by me. Let's wait for the next meeting to see what Wei Han thinks. If there are no problems, we can proceed with the visualization."
After saying that, he tapped the table again.
"Thank you for your hard work. You've been coming home very late these past few days. Go home early today and have a good rest."
"Okay!"
Yue Qianling was of course more than happy to do so. She immediately closed the computer, picked it up and prepared to go downstairs.
"Wait!"
When she pushed open the door of the conference room, Su Zheng suddenly called her, "Eat the cake before you leave."
Yue Qianling took a look outside and saw a large cake on an empty table in the hall. Several boys were unpacking paper plates there.
"No way?" Yue Qianling held the computer and looked at the huge cake in disbelief. "It's just a rough sketch. Is your department so ceremonial?"
Su Zheng thought for a moment before he realized what Yue Qianling meant, and immediately smiled with his eyes narrowed.
"No, what are you thinking about? Today is my birthday."
"...Oh, it's your birthday."
The self-indulgent Yue Qianling was speechless. He scratched his nose and followed Su Zheng out.
After everyone had arranged the cake, Su Zheng picked up a plastic knife, waved it in the air twice, and shouted, "Everyone who is okay, come and eat the cake!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the whole office area became lively, with more than ten or twenty people walking towards the table one after another.
As the birthday boy, Su Zheng began to cut the cake surrounded by everyone.
He stared at the pattern and thought for a while, then with two sharp strokes, he cut off the entire piece of the word "乐", put it on the plate, and turned around to hand it to Yue Qianling.
"Come on, you're the first one."
Yue Qianling was a little hungry to begin with, and when she saw the pretty cake, her appetite was aroused. She smiled and said "Happy Birthday", then took the cake and prepared to find a stool to sit down and eat it slowly.
However, as soon as she took a step back, she felt someone bump into her back.
A similar feeling inexplicably surged in her heart, and Yue Qianling immediately turned around and found that she had indeed bumped into Gu Xun.
And he was looking down at her.
"Slower."
Yue Qianling forgot what to do for a moment and just leaned on Gu Xun's chest.
In the noisy crowd, the two people's eyes met, and Yue Qianling felt her heart skip a beat.
Without waiting for two seconds, she immediately took a step and walked to the side with the cake.
After a while, the cake was divided, and Su Zheng walked towards Yue Qianling with his share.
"Tonight I—"
Yue Qianling was eating cake. When she looked up, Su Zheng's words suddenly stopped.
He looked at Yue Qianling and smiled suddenly, then turned around, glanced around, and saw Gu Xun who was closest to them, and said quickly: "Gu Xun, please bring the tissue behind you over.
Before Yue Qianling understood what was going on, she saw Gu Xun's gaze fall on her face. He walked towards her with a smile on his lips and a piece of paper in his hand.
"Wipe your face."
"……oh."
Needless to say, Yue Qianling also knew what had happened.
She took the tissue, wiped the corners of her mouth roughly, and then crumpled the tissue into a ball.
Gu Xun stared at her face and wanted to say something, but he saw Su Zheng at the side stretched out his hand and gently stroked Yue Qianling's chin with his thumb.
“There are more here.”
This sudden contact made Yue Qianling's eyes freeze for a moment.
Then she immediately thanked him and subconsciously glanced at Gu Xun.
As expected, I met his gaze.
Although there was no expression on Gu Xun's face, Yue Qianling inexplicably felt as if she was guilty.
She cleared her throat and was about to say something, but Su Zheng continued the previous topic and said, "I will send you some design instructions and annotations of the line drawings tonight. You can just take a look at the format and don't worry about anything else."
"Yeah." Yue Qianling nodded repeatedly, "I understand."
While the two were talking, Gu Xun turned around and left with the cake.
Yue Qianling looked at his back and licked the cream at the corner of her mouth.
Suddenly it doesn't feel so sweet anymore.
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Yue Qianling has never had a big appetite, and she wasn't very busy today, so a piece of cake was enough to make her give up the idea of having dinner.
It was around nine o'clock at night. After she cleaned the house and did some laundry, she felt hungry.
Thinking that it was not too late, Yue Qianling decided to order a midnight snack.
The moment she clicked on the food delivery app, she paused, suddenly thought of something, tapped her finger, switched to WeChat, and opened Gu Xun's chat box.
【Glutinous Rice Dough Sticks】: What did you eat tonight?
【School Prince】:?
【Glutinous Rice Dough Sticks】: I’ll take a look at this for reference.
It took several seconds for him to reply.
【School Prince】: West Lake Vinegar Fish.
【Glutinous rice twisted dough sticks】：?
[Glutinous Rice Dough Sticks]: Don’t you not eat fish?
【School Prince】: Yes.
[School Prince]: I’m not in West Lake now.
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