Chapter 27 The Breakfast Club...
It was almost twelve o'clock when the takeaway arrived, and Liang Qi was afraid that Shen Xiyu had fallen asleep.
——L: Are you asleep?
Shen Xiyu was doing her weekend homework. After getting up and getting dressed, she had nothing to do, so she took out the test paper assigned by the physics teacher from her schoolbag. She had been writing for more than half an hour without realizing it. If Liang Qi hadn't sent her a message, she wouldn't have noticed that the agreed time had come.
She stretched and put on her cotton slippers.
——Magrim: Coming, coming.
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"You choose the movie." Liang Qi handed the remote control to her.
The weather was getting colder, and Shen Xiyu was wearing a one-piece pufferfish pajamas, looking 50/50. She came over and, without hesitation, pounced directly on the carpet at the corner of the sofa where she often sat.
She unpacked the rice and said, "Take your pick. It smells so good. I'm starting to eat."
Liang Qi ordered a crab meat pot, a bacon and radish, and blanched lettuce, all of which were Shen Xiyu's favorites.
The two of them sat on the carpet and ate a midnight snack. The only lights in the room were the warm yellow light from the projector in front of them and the floor lamp in the corner.
Chen Xiyu sipped the jasmine milk cap that Liang Qi ordered while watching him fiddle with the remote control.
Although he let Liang Qi choose, Shen Xiyu was not satisfied with every one he found.
"No, no, this is too bloody."
"Don't watch this, it's too tear-jerking."
"I don't want to watch a romance movie with you."
When Liang Qi heard this, she was about to hit Shen Xiyu on the head with the remote control, but fortunately she had anticipated it and dodged to the side.
"Just watch this." Liang Qi wanted to click on the movie.
"That, that." Shen Xiyu saw a movie called "The Breakfast Club" in the corner.
“The name looks interesting.”
Liang Qi didn't say anything, but obediently clicked on the movie.
Putting the remote control aside, Liang Qi picked up the rice that Shen Xiyu had unpacked for him and looked at the girl who was staring at the screen intently, "Is it delicious?"
Shen Xiyu nodded repeatedly and even raised one hand to give Liang Qi a thumbs-up.
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This is an American youth drama from the last century. This film, which she discovered by chance, is very much to Shen Xiyu's taste. She praised the texture of the old film and the seemingly random but fashionable outfits of the protagonists.
When she saw the protagonists kissing at the end, she frowned and couldn't help but look at Liang Qi. He was concentrating on watching and didn't notice Shen Xiyu's gaze.
"I don't like this ending." She muttered, hugging her knees.
Although the voice was low, Liang Qi still heard it, "Why?"
"It felt a bit strange. Everything was good at the beginning, but the ending had to be a pairing. It felt instantly clichéd, and I didn't see the athlete and the weirdo being interested in each other at all."
The two of them didn't pay attention to the ending credits, but let the ending song play naturally.
"That's because you are too slow." Liang Qi leaned his head against the edge of the sofa, with one leg half bent.
He went on to say, "I prefer this couple to the rich girl and bad boy couple."
Now it was Shen Xiyu's turn to be confused, "Why?"
"It feels rougher." He smiled and imitated Shen Xiyu's words, "More vulgar."
What he said was very abstract and vague, but Shen Xiyu miraculously understood what he meant.
"Do you think that every movie has to have a love story at the end to create a happy ending?" Shen Xiyu's voice was soft, and she was a little sleepy.
"It's because people trust the power of love."
“…”
After the movie's ending theme song finished playing, it automatically continued to "Before Sunrise"
Liang Qi recognized that this was the movie that Yu Xie and Wu Mengfei had shown in the pub that night.
"Still watching?" He turned his head to ask Shen Xiyu.
But she found that the girl had fallen asleep on her knees.
Liang Qi didn't pay attention to the movie and didn't take any other action.
He has been too busy recently, and it is quite interesting to get along with Shen Xiyu in this kind of dull and mediocre way.
The more Liang Qi got along with her, the more he felt that she was an interesting, thoughtful and charming person.
Their opinions often conflicted, but Liang Qi always got something very original, emotional, and extremely romantic from her. However, Shen Xiyu was a person who easily got stuck in a rut, often trapped in his own world and understanding, so he was also very perceptive in those moments to pull her out and let her ground herself.
Liang Qi finally understood what attracted the two people to each other. They were completely different people but had the same basic qualities.
Shen Xiyu is a sensitive, romantic and sharp person. He has been dealing with data for many years and is absolutely rational and pragmatic. So when he realized that he liked Shen Xiyu, he wanted to analyze why, but the more he struggled, the more he couldn't get out of it.
But these two contradictory qualities, innocent idealism and smooth and soberness, exist in them at the same time.
Liang Qi half-closed his eyes and looked at Shen Xiyu's sleeping face unhappily.
It turns out that emotions are a unity of opposites and are contradictory.
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Liang Qi finally chose not to wake up Shen Xiyu.
He gently picked up the girl and held her horizontally in his arms. Shen Xiyu's eyelashes trembled, and then his breathing became steady without opening his eyes.
After carrying Shen Xiyu to the bed in the upstairs bedroom, Liang Qi quietly closed the door.
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When Shen Xiyu woke up the next day, her head was confused. She subconsciously reached for her phone next to her pillow, but felt something was wrong. Usually when she woke up on weekend mornings, the bedroom was full of sunlight. Why was it so dim today? Did she wake up too early?
She struggled to squint her eyes, and when she saw her surroundings clearly, she suddenly opened her eyes wide. This was not her home.
Unlike the translucent white gauze curtains in Shen Xiyu's bedroom, the curtains here are made of blackout material, blocking out the light from outside very tightly.
She stood up and looked downstairs. Liang Qi was sitting on the sofa typing on the keyboard and didn't notice the girl.
Shen Xiyu sat down dejectedly on the recliner, but the wooden recliner made a sharp creaking sound, which scared her so much that she quickly jumped away.
Liang Qi, who was downstairs, heard the sound and guessed that she must have woken up and was too embarrassed to come down. He closed his notebook and shouted upstairs, "Come down, it's almost noon."
Shen Xiyu slapped his forehead twice in frustration. What happened? When he should have been suffering from insomnia, he slept deeper than anyone else and even took naps anywhere!
She moved downstairs step by step, without even looking at Liang Qi, and said, "I'm going back, I'm not going to eat anymore, so you don't need to order from me."
Before I even reached the entrance, Liang Qi reached out from the kitchen and grabbed my pajamas cap with his hand.
"Cellphone." He stretched out his hand and handed it to Shen Xiyu who wanted to escape quickly.
Shen Xiyu pulled his hand away and tried to snatch his phone.
Liang Qi stretched out his hand, deliberately making it impossible for her to reach it.
Shen Xiyu glared at him, "Give it to me quickly."
In fact, the tone was not intimidating at all, like a paper tiger.
"Are you really not coming over to eat?" Liang Qi looked down at the angry girl.
"Give it to me, give it to me." Shen Xiyu pulled his arm down, and Liang Qi himself was easily taken away by her without much effort.
"I really can't come. I have extra classes this afternoon. See you at school." Shen Xiyu rushed out the door without closing it, and stuck his head in again, "Bye."
Before Liang Qi could say anything, the door was slammed shut by her.
It slipped away pretty fast.
Liang Qi's phone rang. He looked at the note that said, "Level 5 Chatterbox"
Veins throbbing.
After the call was connected, Ms. Tian's face with exquisite makeup appeared in the camera, and her hair color had changed from the brown-pink when Liang Qi left to a dirty orange.
She took off her sunglasses and spoke in a soft Taiwanese accent, "I thought it was an illusion that I had a son."
"Now I tell you, it's not an illusion." Liang Qi said as he went upstairs to fold the quilt.
There seemed to be some lingering citrus scent from Chen Xiyu in the bedroom.
He was out of control and a little distracted.
"Did you hear what I said?" Tian Tianzhen said a lot but no one responded to her.
Liang Qi came back to his senses, "Hmm?"
"What the hell are you talking about? I'm asking you to ask for a leave and come back to take a look." Tian Tianzhen secretly observed Liang Qi on the other side of the camera.
The boys all laughed when they heard this, "Mom, I'm a high school student, I need to go to school."
"That's why I said I'd ask for leave, otherwise I would have asked you to come back directly."
"I'm studying. Why should I ask for leave every day?" He said as he opened a textbook in a serious manner.
"I used to spend so much money every day to build a laboratory for you and hire international teachers. Don't tell me now that you can't even cope with high school courses."
"Whether I can handle it or not, I have to go to school." Liang Qi was really shocked by his old mother's train of thought.
"Okay, I won't bullshit you." Tian Tianzhen walked into a hand-ground coffee shop. "It's like you were so well behaved in school in Los Angeles."
"Mom, have your drink. I'm hanging up." Liang Qi wanted to end this conversation quickly.
"Just try and hang up before me." Tian Tian really didn't give him this chance.
"Your mother, I'm serious. If you can't make a name for yourself with that thing, you should go abroad and study under Bradley. He's made a major breakthrough in diabetes recently and is very famous internationally. Your father worked hard to get him to come to our Los Angeles headquarters in two years. You can go and study with him in advance. This opportunity is hard to come by."
This is why Liang Qi doesn't want to answer the phone at home.
It wasn't that his family objected to him pursuing this, but the prospects were uncertain and his achievements minimal. Ultimately, the Liang family wanted him to be as close to the family's side as possible. While the Liang family could provide him with a solid foundation, if the situation truly changed, it would be best if Liang Qi could rise step by step as a doctor and truly win the trust of the public.
He was silent for a long time. Liang Qi knew very well that his knowledge and thinking, which far exceeded those of his peers, were actually bought with money from his family. He could not tell his parents with a clear conscience that he did not want to take any other path.
"Mom, let me try again. I'll give you the answer in two years."
Tian Tianzhen didn't push him any further. She loved her son dearly and couldn't see how hard he worked. They had their own difficulties.
"Oh, don't make such a fuss. Just do it if you want to." She took a sip of coffee. "I'll go to Jiangcheng later."
"What happened?" Liang Qi was worried that there was something wrong with Fu Shengrui that he didn't know about.
"Don't let me go if there's nothing wrong."
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