Just as Cheng Qicai got into bed, she received a message from Gu Rongqi asking: "[Are you back yet?]"
Cheng Qicai replied to him: [I'm back.]
The next second, Cheng Qicai received a video call from Gu Rongqi.
Cheng Qicai sat up, tidied her hair, and then answered the phone.
The style of Gu Rongqi's bedroom is completely different from this one. If his bedroom is minimalist, then hers is a mix of styles.
There were all sorts of strange things on the bed; there were dolls all over it, but his bed was clean and looked very tidy.
Cheng Qicai looked at Gu Rongqi across from her, who was leaning against the headboard just like her. She was wearing cartoon pajamas, which made her look a bit childish.
He was wearing gray silk pajamas, with two buttons undone at the neckline, allowing Cheng Qicai to see his fair and slender collarbone.
The warm yellow light from the bedside lamp shone on him, and his hair, hanging down, made his temperament appear even softer, giving him a contradictory sense of fragility and asceticism.
Of course, Cheng Qicai also knew that the word "weak" had nothing to do with Gu Rongqi, and the word "abstinence" had even less to do with him.
But she couldn't help but swallow hard; beauty can be deceiving.
"Why didn't you come to my place today?" Gu Rongqi's eyes were fixed on Cheng Qicai in the video.
"I got back too late, so I wasn't planning on coming over," Cheng Qicai explained. "But my mom brought you a bottle of wild mushroom sauce. You can pick it up when you get back."
"Okay." Gu Rongqi lowered his eyes and smiled. The light illuminated his deep face, making him look affectionate.
Cheng Qicai blushed and whispered, "I missed you so much today!"
Gu Rongqi was taken aback, his expression softening even more, his low voice carrying a magnetic quality in the empty room, "Me too!"
Cheng Qicai couldn't help but pull the blanket up, covering the lower half of her face and also concealing her radiant smile.
With only her bright eyes fixed on Gu Rongqi in the video, she said in a muffled voice, "I'm not talking to you anymore, I'm going to sleep, goodnight!"
She felt that she should talk less with Gu Rongqi at night, so as not to talk too much and then not be able to sleep.
Okay, goodnight!
After saying goodnight to each other, neither of them pressed the hang-up button for a moment.
Cheng Qicai glanced at Gu Rongqi, quickly poked her head out from under the covers, and kissed the screen. "This time I really said goodnight!"
"good……"
Gu Rongqi had barely finished speaking when the screen suddenly went black. But his expression showed no displeasure as he looked at the chat box with Cheng Qicai, a low chuckle echoing in the room.
The next day, Gu Rongqi came early to pick her up and they went to City E together.
The two went straight to the hotel that Gu Rongqi had booked after getting off the plane.
He had booked a two-bedroom suite. After putting their luggage back in their respective rooms, the two sat on the sofa in the living room to rest.
Because they arrived too late, the amusement park visit is scheduled for tomorrow morning. The hotel has a direct shuttle to the amusement park, so they don't need to get up early.
Cheng Qicai took out her phone and told Gu Rongqi about her arrangements. "I checked, and there's a fountain show at the lake nearby that starts at 7:30 pm. There's also a restaurant here with great reviews that we can watch the show from there, so it's a win-win situation."
She looked up with great interest and asked, "Gu Rongqi, what do you think?"
Gu Rong nodded. "Okay."
"Let's go out for a bit and come back early, we need to get up early tomorrow." Cheng Qicai was really looking forward to tomorrow's itinerary.
With more than an hour to go before the fountain show was scheduled to start, the two estimated the time and set off from the hotel.
It wasn't very dark outside, but the neon lights on the streets were already lighting up one by one, and the unfamiliar environment made Cheng Qicai very excited.
The two of them made their way to the restaurant at a leisurely pace.
It's hot now, and Cheng Qicai saw that there was ice cream for sale in a nearby shop, so she turned to Gu Rongqi and asked, "Do you want some ice cream?"
Gu Rongqi shook his head.
Seeing that he didn't want it, Cheng Qicai didn't insist and took an ice cream from the freezer to pay for it herself.
Cheng Qicai and Gu Rongqi held hands and ate their ice cream cones in small bites.
"Is it delicious?" Gu Rongqi suddenly turned to look at her.
"Of course! I've been eating this since I was a child. It's my favorite brand. Do you want to try it?" Cheng Qicai took a bite of the crispy crust on the ice cream cone before leaning towards him.
Cheng Qicai knew he wouldn't eat it; she was just asking casually. As soon as she finished asking, she pulled her hand back without a moment's hesitation.
But before she could pull her hand back far, Gu Rongqi bent down and took a bite out of her ice cream.
It was a big mouthful.
"It's quite delicious," Gu Rongqi commented, savoring the rich, cool milky flavor in his mouth.
Cheng Qicai was stunned, staring blankly at her ice cream with a large piece missing. "Didn't you say you didn't want it?"
Gu Rongqi didn't answer, but asked instead, "Didn't you tell me to eat?"
He pretended to be stupid, and Cheng Qicai followed suit, "Don't you have mysophobia?"
How come you've eaten things that other people have eaten?
"Yes, to some extent, but you're not in that category."
Although these words sound beautiful and touching, they are somewhat difficult to judge at first glance. They give the impression that the male protagonist in a novel is allergic to women but not to the female protagonist.
It was so satisfying! Cheng Qicai couldn't help but smile.
So even now, she still doesn't quite get used to the sweet nothings Gu Rongqi often says.
It was a little cheesy and a little sweet, but it made her feel loved by him at all times.
Gu Rongqi lowered his head and said softly, in a voice only the two of them could hear, "Besides, haven't we kissed so many times? So..."
Before he could finish speaking, Cheng Qicai immediately stuffed an ice cream into his mouth.
She didn't want to discuss such intimate topics in public.
Unfortunately, with one hand holding an ice cream and the other being held by him, she had no free hand to stop him from speaking.
It's obviously faster to stop someone with ice cream than to try to stop them by hand.
Well… she used a little too much force, and now Gu Rongqi’s nose and lips are covered in milky white ice cream.
She awkwardly withdrew her hand, saying, "Excuse me, let me wipe it for you."
Seeing her like this, Gu Rongqi chuckled softly and licked the ice cream off his lips with the tip of his tongue.
Although it was evening, Cheng Qicai felt that the temperature was no less than that of the midday sun.
It was both dazzling and hot.
Her face flushed, she pulled her hand away from Gu Rongqi's grasp and, trying to cover her embarrassment, took out a tissue from her bag. "Let me wipe it for you."
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