Chapter 38 What Sasa is obsessed with is just the feeling of home.
The "lively" restaurant that Lin Bozhou mentioned is located on Huaihai Middle Road, occupying a very small space in a corner. When the press conference was about to end, he sent a message to the driver to pick him up downstairs.
The other party came to urge Lin Bozhou to sign the contract, but he sent them away with a few words. They walked out together. Sasa followed him and said sarcastically, "They are not as domineering as I imagined. I thought they would force you to sign and not let you leave."
Lin Bozhou said, "Dirty business can appear respectable. In business, no one wants to make things too ugly."
When Lin Bozhou heard her silence, he turned his head to look at her again and said gently, "Even if it gets ugly, if interests are involved, we will still work together again. Society puts interests first."
Sasa thought, what's going on? After sleeping with him, he becomes a life growth teacher and can even preach truths downstairs of a liar's house.
Of course, she didn't realize that she inexplicably possessed a kind of mild harshness - she subconsciously cast a layer of scrutiny on the other person's behavior.
But this time it wasn't that Sasa was thinking too much, but Lin Bozhou did look much more dignified today. He must have expected Sasa to come, so he wore a suit.
Sasa was too embarrassed to say that the way he was dressed today made him look like an ally of that group of scammers, and he could plan a beautiful blue sky for the old men and women present with just a wave of his hand.
She thought that perhaps because she hadn't been deeply involved in this game between men and women, she could see Lin Bozhou's "swordplay" so clearly.
After leaving the office building, the driver had already parked the car downstairs. It was an Audi A8, which was quite low-key for someone like Lin Bozhou who opened a hotel in Nanjing.
As soon as the car started, Lin Baizhou touched the storage bag on the back seat and took out a bottle of red wine. There was also a piece of white cloth in his palm. Lin Baizhou looked like a little brother who opened the wine. He asked: Would you like some drink?
Sasa wondered who would drink in the back seat of a car, how dramatic, Tiny Times? They even had a white cloth to separate the bottles, which was really weird...
So Sasa said, "I can't drink much."
After replying this sentence, both of them thought of "that night" at the same time.
Lin Bozhou put the wine under his feet gloomily and looked out. He said, "I know."
The two people fell into endless silence again. Only the navigation system was talking, and the driver also said nothing.
The traffic jam in Shanghai is not as bad as in Beijing, and the distance itself is not far. Twenty minutes later, they got off the bus at Huaihai Road. Lin Baizhou suggested that they walk the remaining short distance.
When a man and a woman walk down the street at a slow pace, there must be something ambiguous about them, especially at night or in the evening. Walking under street lights or green trees can secrete the most dopamine. Lin Bozhou walked beside Sasa. He maintained a decent figure, better than any middle-aged man Sasa had seen. Sasa remembered the mate selection criteria of a blogger friend of hers - the legs must be dangling in the suit pants, so that it would be very nice on a date, and it would be best if the waist felt uncomfortable when touched.
At that time, I thought that the blogger’s friends must like young people, after all, middle-aged people will definitely gain weight.
But now, the "middle-aged man" Lin Bozhou next to her is not there. He is now swaying in his suit pants, and is a head taller than Sasa. Sasa actually feels a little strange about this scene, a strange feeling that is hard to explain, but she understands that although it is rare to encounter such moments of excitement at the age of thirty, you must not seize it if it happens. After all, it is very confusing to be excited about a sex buddy at the age of thirty.
So the two of them started chatting again, Lin Bozhou asked her what singer she liked,
Sasa said, "Karen Mok, Jonathan Lee, Mayday, Jay Chou. I like Hong Kong and Taiwanese singers and their Mandarin pronunciation."
Lin Bozhou said, "Oh, I know all of this, but I prefer Lao Fan next door."
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Sun Ziyi sat in front of the computer with his phone next to him, chatting with Sasa on video.
Sun Ziyi clattered away on his mechanical keyboard and asked Sasa, "What's wrong with Lao Fan next door? Do you still discriminate against people who listen to music? Just because you like Karen Mok, you think you're noble? Weren't you the one who started the topic of discrimination between NetEase Cloud Music users and QQ Music? I think he's very down-to-earth and doesn't try to be pretentious. People like him are easy to get along with and chatting with."
Sun Ziyi added: "Besides, she didn't hide it, she just liked Lao Fan next door. It's better than telling you a bunch of foreign singers that you can't understand."
Sasa was about to speak when Sun Ziyi said, "Sorry, I forgot. You are the type of person who likes that kind of accent, but accent is not something you can eat."
Sasa rolled around on the bed and said, "Sun Ziyi, turn it off. I want to chat with Shen Qingqing. I don't accept being lectured by someone who has only been in love once."
Sun Ziyi leaned over, his face filling the entire screen, refusing to turn it off. He deliberately stared and asked, "So how was the meal with the egg yolk massage?"
Sasa sneered, "The diners were not allowed to speak the entire time. They were told to carefully feel the temperature of the ingredients. They were only given one spoonful for each dish. By the end of the meal, I was so sleepy that my stomach still didn't understand what the event was."
Sun Ziyi laughed heartily.
Sasa said: "But it's good this way, it avoids the awkwardness of our conversation."
Sun Ziyi asked, "So what is your relationship now? Is it still that awkward and ambiguous relationship?"
Sasa was silent for a while and then said, "It should be his generous sex partner. I was too sleepy after dinner, so he asked if he wanted to go to my place to rest. I said yes. He rented a flat in Shanghai and just put up some food. It's quite decorated..."
Sasa suddenly paused, and Sun Ziyi quickly asked Man what?
Sasa thought for a moment and said, "It's quite luxurious. All the furniture is mahogany. It doesn't look like Shanghai at all. When I walk in, I feel like I'm sleeping in a villa in Beijing's Fifth Ring Road... Even the table is mahogany. The whole room feels warm."
Sasa remembered again: "Then in the morning, when I got up, he made me a bowl of noodles, and also bought youtiao, steaming hot soy milk, and rice balls. He filled the table with them and told me to eat whatever I wanted. We stayed in the house for a day, and when I was going back to Beijing, he drove me to the airport."
Sun Ziyi glanced at the chatter on his phone, then started typing again. "Then how did you bring up the idea of having sex? Did you flirt with each other for so long? Did you even hold hands carelessly?"
Sasa added, "How is that possible? You've already come to his house, so why are you so shy? When you go in, he says there are two bathrooms in my house, and you can use the one with the bathtub."
Sun Ziyi's face froze on the screen: "You say I'm not good in this or that way, and you sleep with me..."
Sasa said as a matter of course, "Well, he's so handsome and has a great body. Isn't that what adult men and women are like? We're all so busy, so we shouldn't let arguments take up too much of our lives. We should make it quick and easy."
Sun Ziyi curled her lips and said, "Strong woman thinking, why don't you give up writing and go into business as soon as possible? Become my investor and I will write an adult love story for you two."
Sasa laughed at him, "What do you mean by strong woman mentality? Everyone's like that at this age, right? You're not eighteen or nineteen anymore, so what right do you have to play coy and ambiguous games? I was watching a TV show a few days ago, and the two mothers were married, but they hadn't moved in together yet. It's been a month, and they only slept together after they moved in together? Isn't that outrageous?"
Sun Ziyi turned his head away and said slowly, "It's not outrageous, it's just a very simple and romantic feeling, how wonderful!"
Sasa rolled her eyes: "This is just a TV show, this is outrageous in real life, I tell you."
Sasa added: "Watch less TV dramas. It's easy to mistake other people's clingy and ambiguous routines for love."
This time it was Sun Ziyi's turn to remain silent.
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Sasa kept some details to herself. They were lying in bed in the middle of the night, each playing with their phones. Lin Bozhou was smoking beside them. Sasa suddenly reached out and touched his waist, feeling a handful of abdominal muscles...
Lin Bozhou was startled and subconsciously grabbed her hand and looked at her. "What's wrong?"
Sasa said, "Do you want to try it and see if it hurts your hand?"
"It's definitely painful. I work out really hard."
Sasa smiled and pinched it again, saying there was a little bit.
When Sasa woke up the next day, she saw a table full of breakfast. In the end, she ate the noodles that Lin Baizhou made for her. For the rest of the day, Lin Baizhou cooked for her. Moreover, Lin Baizhou was very good at not wasting food. He cooked for her for two days at his house. He also ate the leftover breakfast from the first day as his staple food in several meals.
The two of them got along so well that they became familiar with each other. While he was cooking, she lay on the sofa in the living room, watching variety shows and laughing loudly. She didn't have her own pajamas, so she wore Lin Bozhou's short-sleeved shirt to cover her butt and walked around the house.
Lin Bozhou invited her to watch a movie, and her mind went numb, recalling the time many years ago when Chen Ang took her to a concert. Eighteen was romantic, but thirty was a bit pretentious. She turned her head and asked Lin Bozhou woodenly what he was watching. Lin Bozhou opened the Shen Teng Collection and said, "Watching Charlotte's Troubles? It's so funny. If you don't like it, we can always watch Deyun Club's crosstalk to kill time."
The next night, the two went downstairs to the flower shop and bought a bunch of daisies. Lin Bozhou didn't have a vase at home, so they went to the imported supermarket and bought a box of Perrier and Voss. The two sat on the floor and poured Perrier and Voss into the water tank, one by one, until they filled two rows. Sasa happily placed the flowers by the floor-to-ceiling window.
When Sasa woke up on the third day and was having breakfast, she found that the flowers had wilted in the sun. She turned her head and saw Lin Baizhou pouring water for her from the water tank.
The two of them watched dramas and variety shows together during the day and discussed the plots. They would only chat at night when they lay in bed. Sasa always felt that lying naked in bed would give them a sense of honesty and a solemn sense of fate. They were like two babies, without any defense, and they could say anything. Lin Bozhou kept telling him the story of how his father beat him with a rolling pin when he was a child while fishing in the river, and over the years, the rolling pin was broken.
He asked Sasa to recall her childhood, but Sasa was unwilling to recall it and just told some routine stories about getting red flowers in kindergarten.
On the third night, Lin Baizhou drove Sasa to the airport. Sasa didn't breathe a sigh of relief until she got off the plane, because in fact, she was quite nervous during the two days staying at Lin Baizhou's house. She was especially afraid that Lin Baizhou would ask her for an answer about the two of them, but it was obvious that she was overthinking it.
But Sasa suddenly realized a major flaw in herself. She was easily obsessed with the feeling of home. From Chen Ang's home ten years ago to her own rental houses in Beijing later, and now, on the plane back to Beijing, she was even reminiscing about her sex friend's home...
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