The weekend has come in the blink of an eye, and there are less than ten days left until the Chinese New Year. I can make up one more day of work next weekend and then I can officially have a holiday.
The school was on holiday this week, and Du Xiran had already bought a plane ticket for Du Heruo so that she could go back home early to celebrate the New Year.
Originally, Du Xiran was going to send her home and then rush back to work, but Du Heruo insisted on going back alone. She said, "I'm already 18 years old. It's okay for me to go home alone. Don't worry. You're so tired running back and forth. You might as well take a good rest and then make a lot of money to bring back for the New Year."
Du Xiran smiled and said goodbye to her at the airport, then said to Ye Nanning beside him: "Why do I feel like she has really grown up?"
Ye Nanning nodded. She also came along to send Du Heruo off early in the morning. She also assigned tutoring homework to the little guy and gave him a new set of clothes.
"She is very sensible."
"You don't know that in the past, she asked me to send her home every time she had a holiday, and she threatened me to buy her this and that with various reasons. Now, I'm a little uncomfortable with this." Du Xiran sighed with a smile.
The two got in the car, and Ye Nanning suddenly asked, "What was President Du like before?"
"Me?" Du Xiran thought for a moment, "I won't tell you, but tell me about you. What were you like before?"
Ye Nanning said: "Not very good."
"How could that be?" Du Xiran recalled what Wu Yuhong said, that Ye Nanning had rented an apartment outside the school when she was in high school, and said with emotion, "You are the most independent girl I have ever met."
Ye Nanning: "Sometimes, independence is not a good thing."
Du Xiran keenly sensed the loneliness in her tone, and guessed it was related to her family. After thinking for a moment, she said seriously: "But, it's very charming."
Ye Nanning turned her head and looked at her: "Really?"
"Yes, Ye Nanning, you are a very charming woman."
Ye Nanning raised the corners of her mouth slightly, and said in a complaining and coquettish tone: "Even if I am charming, you don't like me. What's the point of having this charm?"
Du Xiran looked at her profile, his eyes lingering on her jade-like features for a while, and smiled knowingly: "Not necessarily."
A flame suddenly ignited in Ye Nanning's eyes, and just as she was about to speak, she was interrupted by a ringing sound.
Hu Jiaxu's name was displayed on the Bluetooth screen. After Ye Nanning clicked the connection button, he continued to drive on the road.
Hu Jiaxu's voice rang out in the car: "Xiao Ye, what are you doing!"
Ye Nanning replied: "What's the matter?"
"Yes, today is my birthday and I want to invite you and my friends to dinner. Would you like to come?" Hu Jiaxu said.
Ye Nanning immediately said: "But I didn't prepare a gift for you."
"I just don't want to accept your gifts, that's why I didn't inform you in advance. How about you come or not?" Hu Jiaxu asked with a smile.
"Come." Ye Nanning agreed.
"Okay, I'll send you the address."
"good."
Du Xiran was not surprised that she agreed so decisively. Even though she seemed cold and unwilling to deal with others, it did not mean that Ye Nanning did not want to make friends in her heart.
And Hu Jiaxu was obviously a friend she thought was worth making friends with, so of course she had to attend his birthday party.
Just before the call was hung up, Du Xiran heard Ming Shuang's voice on the other end of the line: "How is it, is she coming?"
Then there was a beep and the phone was hung up completely.
Du Xiran subconsciously looked at Ye Nanning: "Are you not the only one going?"
Ye Nanning also heard Ming Shuang's voice and said, "That's probably the case. She has a cheerful personality and knows a lot of friends. Who knows, she might also be Yan Zhenghao and the others."
"Do you want to go too?" Du Xiran asked.
"Go, if it was just a simple gathering or dinner I wouldn't go, but today is her birthday," said Ye Nanning.
Du Xiran's eyes changed again and again when he looked at her, and then he smiled and said, "You really keep refreshing my understanding of you."
"What?"
"Even if you are not good at something or even hate it, you will go for your friends. Ye Nanning, I really like... admire you more and more."
Ye Nanning said quickly: "Did you just want to say that you like me?"
"You heard wrong."
"...Okay."
Du Xiran looked straight ahead, not sure whether what he just said was a casual remark or a subconscious one.
But it is undeniable that she really likes Ye Nanning more and more, whether as a friend or... as a pursued person.
When passing by the mall, Ye Nanning stopped and asked Du Xiran for his opinion: "Boss Du, are you in a hurry to go back?"
"Are you going to buy gifts?" Du Xiran asked.
Ye Nanning nodded. Although Hu Jiaxu told her not to give her a gift, it was her birthday after all, so she still wanted to give her friend something.
"Then let's go take a look together. I have nothing to do when I get home anyway." Du Xiran accompanied her for a walk, and when they passed the jewelry counter, he suggested, "I don't think I've seen her wearing a necklace or bracelet. How about giving her something like this?"
"Okay." Ye Nanning always listens to advice, especially Du Xiran's.
Du Xiran walked around and was attracted by a necklace with a leaf pendant. She called out "Ye Nanning" but then thought that it would not be appropriate to give this necklace to Hu Jiaxu.
Ye Nanning came over: "What's wrong?"
"Nothing. Have you chosen?" Du Xiran reluctantly withdrew his gaze and made a note of this one in his mind, planning to give it to Ye Nanning on her birthday.
"Well, she's chosen." Ye Nanning pointed at the bracelet counter and said, "She likes flowers. There are a lot of flowers on that bracelet."
Du Xiran couldn't help laughing. She inexplicably felt that there was something indescribably cute about her when she spoke the reduplication of words in a serious manner.
After leaving the mall, Du Xiran said, "You go find them. I'll take a taxi back by myself."
"No, I'll take you home. It's still early for lunch." Ye Nanning insisted on taking her home. Du Xiran had no choice but to continue taking the car back.
After getting off the car, Ye Nanning called her and begged, "Boss Du, can I borrow your car? I'm afraid it would be too conspicuous if I drove over..."
"Okay, let's go." Du Xiran said generously.
"Thank you, President Du. To thank you, I decided to give you a small gift." Ye Nanning said, taking out a box from her bag and handing it to her through the window, "Don't throw it away."
Du Xiran took it with suspicion and found that the box was the logs of the store just now. He asked curiously, "Isn't this for Hu Jiaxu?"
"Her stuff is still here with me. This is for you." Ye Nanning smiled faintly, "You should have a gift too."
Du Xiran wanted to say something else, but the other party drove away immediately as if he was afraid that she would return the favor.
She opened the box and saw a necklace lying on one side, and the pendant was exactly that leaf.
After a moment, Du Xiran laughed softly.
Not long after returning home, she felt hungry. She ordered takeout alone, ate her meal alone, took a nap alone, and had dinner alone.
...It's obviously no different from the previous days, why do I suddenly feel particularly lonely today?
Just when she was bored, Zhang Mishuang called and asked her to go for a drink.
She found Zhang Mishuang at the bar she often went to. They hadn't seen each other for a while. Zhang Mishuang had been busy with the house, and now that he was finally free, he complained, "You guy, if I don't look for you, why don't you come to look for me?"
"I'm just afraid that you'll be busy." Du Xiran explained guiltily. In fact, it was because the weekend was too full. Ever since Ye Nanning moved in across the street, the weekends had become very lively with the addition of Du Heruo.
Zhang Mishuang reluctantly accepted her explanation and looked behind her: "Where's Xiaoye? Why didn't you call her over?"
"She went to a friend's birthday party."
"Oh, that's good. She is quite likable." Zhang Mishuang said.
Du Xiran nodded.
The two chatted casually. They used to go back to their hometown together to celebrate the New Year, but this year they couldn't leave together because Zhang Mishuang had to go to Qiu Ye's house to meet his parents.
"Oh, are you going to talk about marriage?" Du Xiran asked.
"We've been dating for so long, it's time to settle down." Zhang Mishuang shook the cup. "If nothing unexpected happens, the wedding may be held on National Day next year. How about it, do you, the bridesmaid-to-be, plan to bring a partner to attend?"
Du Xiran smiled helplessly: "It's not that easy to fall in love."
Zhang Mishuang said disdainfully: "What's so difficult about that? It only took Qiu Ye and I three days to get to know each other and start dating."
They grew up together, but their views on love are completely different. Zhang Mishuang is open-minded and outgoing. She has been in love many times since she was a child. She almost always looks at the face first. If they are compatible, she will start dating and slowly get to know each other, but she is not so love-brained that she will not easily give anything before she is sure of the person's character.
Love comes quickly and goes quickly, but she always continues her next relationship with passion, believing that she will always meet the right one, and then she met Qiu Ye.
Before they knew it, they had been together for more than five years, and they had only just met their parents. This showed that Zhang Mishuang was still quite cautious before entering into marriage.
In comparison, Du Xiran was a very cautious conservative from the very beginning. She didn't want to waste time on trial and error because the cost was too high.
She is used to being independent, and her horizons will continue to broaden as she grows up, so love is just something that is dispensable to her. She hates wasting her time on quarrels and suspicions, and doesn't want to spend time guessing the details of another person's mind.
She never takes the initiative, and her attitude towards every pursuer is to first reject and then treat them coldly. Before long, these people will immediately choose new targets. She has long been accustomed to the indifference of human nature, and cannot blame this behavior. People tend to seek benefits and avoid harm, and there is a scale in their hearts called interests. There is no reason to spend so much time, energy and money on her.
"You are lucky. You have met a good man like Qiu Ye. There is nothing wrong with just knowing him for a few days." Du Xiran replied.
"You can do it, you're just too reserved." Zhang Mishuang said, "Sometimes thinking too much is not necessarily a good thing."
Du Xiran said with a smile: "I am afraid that if I make the wrong choice, I will regret it later."
Zhang Mi put one hand on her shoulder and clinked glasses with hers with the other hand: "You always think about the future, but what about the present? You have never enjoyed the happiness that love brings you in the present."
Du Xiran shook the cup, his eyes empty: "Happiness at this moment? What kind of happiness is happiness?"
Zhang Mishuang blinked, leaned close to her ear and said a few dirty words.
Du Xiran rolled his eyes and pushed her away: "Get away, you're so dirty."
"See, this is the happiness of adults that you don't understand!" Zhang Mishuang laughed.
Du Xiran was too lazy to pay attention to her. She replied to a few messages on WeChat, opened her Moments, swiped down, and noticed the update posted by Hu Jiaxu.
Come to think of it, she had forgotten when Hu Jiaxu added her. They had always been friends, but they had never chatted on WeChat.
Hu Jiaxu posted nine pictures, all of which were photos of his friends eating, drinking and having fun.
She spotted Ye Nanning in the photos almost immediately. Her white skin made her stand out from the crowd. Ye Nanning stood obediently at the back of the crowd, smiling at the camera, which was enough to amaze the whole photo.
Ye Nanning only appeared in three photos, one was a group photo, another was a photo of Hu Jiaxu and her, and another... was a selfie of Hu Jiaxu, but it was probably to secretly take a photo of the two people behind her. She stretched out one hand to support the two people sitting behind her with their backs to her.
The two people were Ye Nanning and Ming Shuang. They were sitting very close to each other, looking at a mobile phone together, with their heads almost touching each other.
Du Xiran's face was as gloomy as water. He turned off his phone and drank a sip of wine irritably.
She suddenly wondered how long Ye Nanning could last?
In her expectation, Ye Nanning should be similar to everyone else and would give up soon. But now that Mingshuang has appeared, she might give up earlier.
And will she remain indifferent like before?
"What's wrong with you? Why are you drinking so much all of a sudden?" Zhang Mishuang frowned as he saw her gushing down glass after glass. "You should know that this wine is very expensive, right? You pay for it tonight."
Du Xiran said nothing and even opened another bottle.
Zhang Mishuang held her hand and asked worriedly, "What happened to you? Did you run into another stupid client or weird colleague?"
Du Xiran shook his head, picked up the glass, drank the last of the wine in it, and then put it on the table with a "thump".
She raised her eyes and slowly gave a helpless smile: "What should I do?"
"What do you mean?" Zhang Mishuang had never seen her with such an expression. Every time she drank, she either complained about work or had a drink to relax. How could she really drink to drown her sorrows?
Du Xiran held his forehead with one hand, laughed suddenly, and murmured: "Shuang, what should I do? I want to catch her back."
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