Chapter 49: This day is really full of events!
Sun Ziyi was awakened by the sound of someone pulling a brown paper bag. When she opened her eyes, she found Xu Zecheng, who looked like he had just woken up, with two tufts of hair sticking up in the air. He was sitting on the sofa beside her bed, tearing off McDonald's packaging.
Sun Ziyi sat up and looked down, noticing that her clothes had been changed. She lifted the covers and walked over to Xu Zecheng, who had just taken a hamburger out of the brown paper bag. When he saw her get up, he looked up at her and asked, "Are you awake?"
Sun Ziyi pointed at the clothes on his body and asked, "Who changed my clothes?"
"Waiter."
Sun Ziyi cried out, "Is this true? Then I'll be seen naked!"
Xu Zecheng subconsciously glanced at her chest, his eyes vague and awkward. "Of course it's true. You were vomiting and crying yesterday, and I served you all night. I was the male waiter."
Sun Ziyi stretched out his hand stiffly and covered the nipples on his chest that were visible because he was not wearing any underwear.
Xu Zecheng tilted his head while holding his hamburger and looked out the window. "You're just like the view outside this window, flat and boring."
Outside the window of Sun Ziyi's house is the entrance to a section of the highway.
Sun Ziyi muttered to himself, "Nothing should have happened. In TV dramas, nothing happens to childhood sweethearts like us."
Xu Zecheng unwrapped the burger and said as he ate, "Your friends said you were living in a TV show. I thought they were throwing mud at you."
Sun Ziyi frowned at him, and after a long while of anger, he said, "Is my figure really that unattractive?"
Xu Zecheng took another bite and resigned himself to the memory, "You vomited all over yourself. Who would be interested in vomit?"
Sun Zi was a little embarrassed by his cold attitude, but she couldn't save face, so she reached out and snatched Xu Zecheng's hamburger. "Okay, stop eating. Go away."
Xu Zecheng took out another potato cake from the cowhide bag and started eating it. Sun Ziyi grabbed it again, but didn't say why. The two of them pulled each other like children, which was extremely childish.
Xu Zecheng finally stood up, the hair sticking out of his head swaying. "Then I'm leaving."
He said he was leaving but didn't. He was tidying up this and that very slowly. After ten minutes, he still didn't reach the door.
Seeing that he didn't really want to leave, Sun Ziyi finally pulled him back and said, "Can we have a good talk?"
Xu Zecheng turned around and sat down.
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Shen Qingqing returned home and lay down on the sofa. Shen Qiwen came out of the kitchen with a glass of water, stood by the island and looked at her with a smile, "You are so grown up, and you don't even know that someone is coming to your house?"
When Shen Qingqing saw that it was her father, she didn't move. She put her face against the sofa and looked at her father. She asked lazily, "Dad, why are you here?"
Shen Qiwen handed the water in his hand to Shen Qingqing and said, "I heard from Xiaoshu that you are working?"
Shen Qingqing sat up, drank a sip of water, nodded, then stood up and began to take off the jewelry on her body. She took off the ornaments on her head and earrings while walking, throwing them away as she walked. She went to the bathroom to look in the mirror and threw the bracelet on the sink.
Her father followed behind her, collecting all the way, and followed Shen Qingqing to the cloakroom, watching her find pajamas from the wall of clothes. While Shen Qingqing went to the bathroom to change into pajamas, Shen Qiwen carefully placed the jewelry he picked up in her jewelry rack, without misplacing any of them. Shen Qiwen looked around and saw the empty space at Minikelly's and asked, "Are you short of money? Selling bags?"
Shen Qingqing said, “No, I lent that bag to a friend yesterday. No matter how poor I am, I won’t sell my bag.”
Shen Qiwen said "oh", sat down on the seat next to the jewelry table, and said, "Dad came to Beijing this time to see a doctor."
Shen Qingqing was shocked. When she ran out of the bathroom, she had already removed all her makeup. "Dad, what happened?" (Dalian dialect)
Shen Qiwen took advantage of the situation and held his waist, looking very fragile. "Dad has high blood pressure, and I'm worried that you won't have a good time in Beijing. Dad felt uncomfortable when he heard that you were going to work."
After saying this, Shen Qiwen sighed again.
Shen Qingqing stood up, walked to her father, and said sincerely, "Dad, I'm really fine. I just need to find something to do to relax myself. It's easy to think about things when I'm always at home."
Shen Qiwen said, "Giving birth to a child will also give you something to do. Wait for Shen Xue to come back and let her take care of it for you."
When Shen Qingqing saw her father mention Shen Xue, she asked directly, "Did Shen Xue say that we had a fight, so you came?"
Shen Qiwen didn't hold his waist this time. He stood up and said seriously, "Did you two have a fight?"
Shen Qingqing watched his father acting here and felt that it was tasteless. "Dad, stop pretending. It must be Shen Xue who said it, otherwise how could you come?"
Shen Qiwen said, "You are really wronging her. Last time she called me and said she was going home to rest for a week. Maybe she was not satisfied with what she did."
Shen Qiwen’s eyes were particularly sincere, not like he knew it in advance at all, which made Shen Qingqing confused.
Seeing that she didn't say anything, Shen Qiwen added, "If I really asked Shen Xue to watch you, I would have come at that time. How could I wait for a week?"
Shen Qingqing raised her voice and said, "I'm an adult now. Even if we had a fight, it's not necessary for you, Dad, to come to my house anytime and anywhere."
Shen Qiwen said, "But Dad can't bear to see you living a bad life."
Shen Qingqing looked at his father and said, "Dad, look up."
Shen Qiwen raised his head.
Shen Qingqing said, "Look around 360 degrees with your head and neck."
After turning around, Shen Qiwen said, "My cervical spine seems to be a little more comfortable now."
Chen Qingqing sneered, "I'm showing you my cloakroom. It's packed to the brim. Do I look like I'm having a bad time?"
Shen Qiwen said, "Material well-being doesn't guarantee spiritual well-being. Dad has nurtured and educated you over the years, teaching you to be non-envious and non-demanding. I hope you can be a lady of good family with a rich spirit!"
Shen Qingqing thought about how her father had devoted himself to her over the years and how he had never caused her any trouble, so she couldn't help but say, "Dad, I just regret getting married a little bit."
Shen Qiwen frowned, “Don’t say such things lightly.”
Shen Qingqing said, "I always feel that Wang Shu and I are at odds. I want children, but he doesn't. Even when his mother comes to Beijing, she won't invite me to have dinner with her."
Shen Qiwen must have something to say, his expression clearly showed it.
After a pause, Shen Qiwen said, "There is something Dad wants to say..."
Before Shen Qingqing could hear what he said, the phone rang suddenly. It was Wang Shu on the other end of the phone, asking her to have dinner together in the evening.
Shen Qingqing hung up the phone. "Dad, Wang Shu asked me to have dinner tonight. Are you going with him?"
Seeing this, Shen Qiwen said, "You two, communicate more. Dad will go home on the afternoon train. Dad just missed you and came to see you."
Shen Qiwen said, "Give Xiaoshu some time. You two need to communicate."
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Beijing was particularly congested at five in the afternoon. After sending Shen Qiwen off, Shen Qingqing drove to the hotel, urging Wang Shu to send her his location via WeChat.
The phone vibrated a few times, and Wang Shu sent her the location. She was turning on the navigation, but she didn't pay attention and rear-ended the car in front.
Shen Qingqing was stunned for a moment, and was about to call Wang Shu when another WeChat message from Wang Shu came over. It said, "Qingqing, my meeting isn't over yet. You can wait for me for a while. The meeting is on silent mode. Don't worry if you can't find me."
Shen Qingqing felt that she was really a waste. Whenever something happened, she would look for her husband first. So now that she knew that the other party was very busy, she felt like a puppy that was abandoned.
There was a burly man in the car opposite. He got out and knocked on Chen Qingqing's window, asking her how she drove.
Shen Qingqing said, "Please wait a minute, I'm sorry."
She sat in the car for a while, thinking about it. She forgot the insurance company's phone number. Because the road was too crowded, all the drivers passing by leaned out and asked, "How do you drive?" "Female drivers are not good."
Shen Qingqing finally called Sasa.
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Chen Qingqing stood on the road and watched Sasa call the insurance company. The first thing the insurance company people did when they arrived was to check Chen Qingqing's dashcam.
Shen Qingqing quickly said yes, yes, yes, and when the insurance company people arrived, she and Sasa sat in the back seat to watch the insurance company people coordinate.
Chen Qingqing said, "Thank you, Sasa. Without you, I would just be standing here crying."
Sasa said, "No big deal, where's your husband?"
Shen Qingqing said, “He’s still in a meeting, and I didn’t dare to disturb him. I called Jiang Yong when I was on a business trip a few days ago, and Jiang Yong said that they have been a little bit unwell recently.”
Sasa said, "Work is very busy. I understand Mr. Wang."
Shen Qingqing looked at the congested road outside the window and said, "Well, I'm also learning now, to be considerate of him."
The insurance agent was adjusting the recorder there, then turned back to Shen Qingqing and said, "You are fully responsible, just use the insurance."
"Okay, just get it resolved quickly."
The insurance agent didn't help her put the dashcam back, so he put it on the passenger seat. Shen Qingqing wanted to drive the car to the 4S shop for repairs by herself.
After the insurance agent left, the two moved from the back seat to the front. Shen Qingqing learned for the first time that the dashcam could play sound. Sasa reminded her, "You should install the recorder before leaving to avoid any more accidents."
In the end, neither of them knew how to install it, so Sasa sat in the passenger seat, holding the dashcam solemnly, like a documentary director who was afraid of missing any scenery.
Shen Qingqing smiled and said, "Wait a while, wait until we get to the 4S store and let the 4S store fix it."
Sasa's finger accidentally touched it back, and the dashcam moved back at double speed. Shen Qingqing heard Shen Qiwen's voice at once, and quickly said, "Wait a minute, put it back and let me listen."
He heard Shen Qiwen say, "When we got married, I specifically asked Yanyan what dowry she wanted. She said she wanted a car, so I took her to buy this. Now that I think about it, within the scope of our ability, we really didn't give our daughter too much, which was unfair to her." Shen Qingqing heard Wang Chengjun's awkward smile again.
Then Shen Qiwen said, "Originally, I wanted to give Yanyan some cash. It would look good at the wedding, right? But Yanyan said that she believed in Wang Shu and that they would have everything in the future. But you said, we only have this one child, so everything we have in the future will be hers."
"That's right, that's right," said Wang Chengjun.
Shen Qiwen said, "My daughter was originally a director. She was very promising in college, and many teachers were eager to teach her. When we first got married, she had some small tasks to do so that she wouldn't be completely idle. Then one day she called me and said that she was away filming, and when she got home, Wang Shu had to eat takeout. She felt bad, so she gradually stopped going."
Shen Qingqing was listening in a tizzy, not understanding what her father meant.
In the driving recorder, Shen Qingqing's smiling car stopped in the parking lot, and Shen Qiwen said, "Xiao Manganese, I have a seat upstairs, you go and have a look, your parents and I will take a rest in the car."
Wang Meng said okay, and when the driver closed the door, the driving recorder also cut off the power.
Sasa, who was sitting in the passenger seat, turned her head and glanced at Shen Qingqing, who was holding the steering wheel with a serious expression. She asked Sasa, "I didn't expect his father to come too. Apart from the wedding, it seems that my father-in-law has come to Beijing for the first time in so many years. Tell me, why did his parents come to Beijing suddenly?"
Sasa said, "You miss your sons. Aren't the eldest and the youngest sons both in Beijing?"
Shen Qingqing shook her head and said, "His father is a male chauvinist. If he misses his son, he will call him back to Inner Mongolia. He will definitely not come unless it's something big."
"I don't know this either...why don't you call your dad and ask?" Sasa said awkwardly.
Shen Qingqing thought for a moment, "My dad's blood pressure is high, and he's been busy with my grandpa's affairs recently. How can I dare to tell him... He just got on the high-speed train..."
Arriving at the 4S shop, Chen Qingqing was in a state of confusion. Sasa had been the one to help with all the communication. Suddenly, Chen Qingqing remembered something, took out her cell phone and made a call.
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Sun Ziyi felt that she was a good escapist because she still hadn't figured out her own heart. She didn't understand her feelings for Xu Zecheng, and their biggest problem before was that they locked in a relationship too early without being clear about their feelings for each other, so that if one of them changed their mind, the relationship would become a little awkward.
So the two chatted from morning till night, talking about trivial matters, neither of them touching on the key topics, until it got dark, Xu Zecheng said, "I'm hungry, let's go downstairs and have a meal."
There were very few places to eat near Sun Ziyi's home, so the two of them walked around the gate of the community and finally saw an izakaya that was open.
"Just eat this. There's nothing else in this barren house of yours." Xu Zecheng looked up at the plaque.
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There were no customers in the restaurant, so two people sat at the bar. The chef, wearing a kimono, was browsing Kuaishou at the bar. When he saw the customers coming, he put away his phone and walked to the cooking table, asking them what they wanted to eat. Sun Ziyi said, "We'll order later."
The two of them sat down and Xu Zecheng began to heat the cups.
"I've been reflecting on myself recently, wondering if I've been too mean to you." Sun Ziyi said first.
Xu Zecheng thought you were finally getting to the point, so he said like a little complainer, "What's wrong with that? I'm just material for your writing."
He pushed the hot water cup in front of her and poured her a cup of hot water.
Sun Ziyi's phone suddenly rang. After she picked up the phone, Shen Qingqing asked her, "Can you ask your boyfriend if Wang Shu went to the golf course after the New Year?"
Sun Ziyi asked Xu Zecheng across from him exactly as he had asked, and Xu Zecheng said, "I'll check your spending records for you tomorrow."
The atmosphere that was originally intended to chat between the two people was destroyed by this conversation, so they had to cultivate it again after hanging up the phone. Xu Zecheng still did not bring it up, but waited for Sun Ziyi to say it.
Sun Ziyi once again repeated in a pretentious tone, "I am really reflecting on myself."
Xu Zecheng sat opposite and nodded.
"My intentions were wrong. I used you. I'm a big bad guy!"
"You really know."
Sun Ziyi took a deep breath and began to speak, "At the beginning, I hoped to find my own feelings about writing in you, but ignored your feelings. I wanted to have a fake relationship with you. I relied on you too much, but didn't let you rely on me. It was because I was just an ordinary friend to you. I shouldn't have taken advantage of you and crossed the line between us."
Xu Zecheng turned his head and looked at Sun Ziyi who was sitting next to him. "We are not ordinary friends."
Seeing that the two of them were chatting very openly, the boss took the initiative to avoid them and said, "I'm going out to smoke a cigarette. Call me when you want to order."
"Thank you for your help," Xu Zecheng nodded to the boss.
After the boss left, Sun Ziyi continued to talk to himself, "When I was little, I liked you because many people liked you. You were sometimes naughty, you came from a good family, you looked like someone in an idol drama, and you always gave me all the delicious cakes. I liked you then because you were special and because you were good to me."
"In your second year of high school, you got into a fight. Everyone in the high school knew about it. I was so anxious that I skipped classes to look for you. Your classmates said you were a very loyal person and that you got into a fight because your classmates were being bullied. As your secret admirer at that time, I was so angry because I realized that you were nice to everyone and I wasn't the only one. Later, you told the uncle who sold mobile phones next door that you gave me cakes because they were too feminine and you would be laughed at if you gave them to me."
Xu Zecheng scratched his head, as he didn't know about these past events, but he wanted to talk. "Actually..."
Sun Ziyi interrupted him, "When we got to Beijing, you asked me why I hadn't contacted you for so many years. It's because liking you always makes me think too much. I'm 27 now, so I must have met many good boys and dated them."
"One time, before dinner with a programmer, I suddenly had a flash of inspiration. I left the house and went back home to write a script. I just wanted to wait until the plot in my mind was finished. He waited for me in the restaurant for half the night. When I finished writing and walked back to the restaurant, I knew I didn't have any feelings for him. Because when I liked you back then, even though we were not in the same school, you were able to influence me to write novels in class. I always felt that you were sitting next to me, secretly watching me write novels. Every pretentious word I said was like a love letter to you. At that time, in my heart, you were more important than my dreams."
"These years without you have been filled with dreams. My mental world has completely changed since I was a child. Now I don't understand the weight of love in my heart, so when it comes to you, I can only be passive. I'm really selfish. I want to fulfill my dream. Even if I finish writing a book or have a script broadcast, I won't be so ambiguous with you."
Seeing her suddenly excited, Xu Zecheng panicked and said, "Don't you want to contact me anymore?"
Sun Ziyi suddenly asked Xu Zecheng very seriously, "Tell me, if you often miss someone, think about what they do when you have free time, feel sad when you know they are leaving you, and when you think about this person, you have to stand up from the bed and walk around to calm your anxious heart, is this love?"
"Okay." Xu Zecheng said.
Sun Ziyi said, "If someone dreams of becoming a good screenwriter and a good creator, does that count as loving her profession?"
"Calculate."
"I can't tell the difference between loving you and loving my job. What should I do?" Sun Ziyi's eyes suddenly turned red. "And I've become very hypocritical."
The spring rain in Beijing came all of a sudden, and it began to rain outside the window. The boss came back, but was too embarrassed to go to the counter, so he sat in the booth behind him. Xu Zecheng didn't say a word the whole time.
"When you left me here that day, I felt like I was sixteen years old again, wearing my school uniform, standing on the roadside waiting for you, waiting for you to bring me a cake, waiting for you to wait with me for the delivery truck from Tianjin to Beijing. But I waited for a long time that day, and you didn't come back."
Xu Zecheng rubbed the bridge of his nose.
Sun Ziyi asked, "What should I do? What do you think I should do? I live in the present and the past, wavering."
Xu Zecheng saw that she had finished speaking and said, "There is a continuing education class at the Beijing Film Academy. You can go and study there. We can rent a house near the Beijing Film Academy. I will pick you up from school every day. If you want to be a good screenwriter, I will accompany you."
Sun Ziyi turned her head and looked at him with red eyes, and asked, "Are you not breaking up with me?"
Xu Zecheng said, "No need to separate. I will try my best to be by your side every day so that you won't have time to miss me, because you can see me as soon as you turn your head."
Sun Ziyi said, "Really?"
Xu Zecheng said, "But this time, we are really in love, right?"
"yes."
Xu Zecheng suddenly stood up, turned around and said, "Boss, make her a sukiyaki."
Then he turned to Sun Ziyi and said, "I'm leaving. I'm going home to pack my luggage and take a look at the houses near the training class."
Sun Ziyi raised his head and looked at him, "Aren't you a little too anxious..."
Xu Zecheng said, "Time waits for no one. You are too fickle. I'm afraid you will regret it later. There is not even a token of trust between us."
Sun Ziyi said, "A token of love? Aren't we meeting tomorrow?"
Xu Zecheng said, "Don't we all have tokens of love when we reunite?"
Sun Ziyi said, "...You said I was living in a TV show, you have quite a show."
"Because Sun Ziyi, I care about you. When people care about something or someone, they will become dramatic." Xu Zecheng said.
Sun Ziyi wanted to cry even more. She had been chasing her dream for so long and had become very selfish. She only cared about herself and never thought that there were people who cared about her. Finally, Sun Ziyi took out a fifty-cent coin from the back of her phone case. "It's the fifty-cent coin I found in the candied haws on the day you rear-ended me. That scammer on WeChat said I had won a prize. I said I was unhappy, but I was actually very happy inside because I felt that you were the prize I won."
Xu Zecheng took the fifty cents and said, "I want to give you a token of my love, too." After thinking for a moment, he lowered his head, took off his belt, and handed it to Sun Ziyi. Sun Ziyi took a look and found that it was still made by Figara...
Sun Ziyi's red eyes were suppressed again, and he asked in amazement what this was. The boss making Sukiyaki at the counter was amused.
Seeing Sun Ziyi confiscate it, Xu Zecheng handed over the "token" again.
Sun Ziyi was embarrassed for a moment and still didn't take it. "I'm not blaming you for the debt, you can take it back."
Xu Zecheng reached out, pried open her fingers, and placed his hand in hers. "I'm leaving..."
Sun Ziyi looked out the window and said, "It's raining so hard outside..."
Xu Zecheng said indifferently, "I just want to calm down in the rain..."
After Xu Zecheng finished speaking, he rushed out into the rain and ran away. Halfway through his run, he turned back and raised a fifty-cent coin to Sun Ziyi, saying, "Wait for me, Sun Ziyi."
There was a crackling sound in the sky, with lightning and heavy rain. The boss behind me couldn't help but take a video and said, "Look, Kuaishou friends, it's the first rain in Beijing today, and a handsome guy went out without an umbrella!"
Sun Ziyi didn't even turn his head, just staring at the direction Xu Zecheng ran away. He stood at the door, watching the rain outside the window. He stood there, holding Xu Zecheng's belt and sobbing. As he cried, he thought, this is too much of a romantic comedy, and a little bit romantic...
Sun Ziyi lowered his head, took out his memo, clicked on the page of materials, and wrote with tears in his eyes, "Love is, you act like a drama queen, and I accompany you."
The boss sent out the video of Xu Zecheng running in the rain, with the text
"It's great to have the shop open. Customers are really spoiled for choice today!"
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