overnight
Yang Zheng patted her back gently as he asked, "...Should I let you cry it out...or should I stop you from crying?"
After a long while, Shen Anxia stopped sobbing and gently pushed Yang Zheng, but couldn't move him. She pushed him again, and Yang Zheng finally let go of her.
After crying, Shen Anxia felt much better, and the effects of the alcohol had mostly worn off. She thought that she would tell Yang Zheng about staying with the group the day after tomorrow, on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, the day he left. These next two days, she should make sure Yang Zheng is free of any pressure.
Seeing that she was in a better state after crying, Yang Zheng asked again, "What exactly happened?"
With red eyes, Shen Anxia lied, "I passed the TEM-8 (Test for English Majors-Band 8), I'm so happy."
"Didn't you find out a few days ago? You were so happy you cried?" Yang Zheng clearly didn't believe it.
"The aftereffects are just starting to kick in," Shen Anxia continued, spouting nonsense.
Yang Zheng chuckled: "Are you talking about the wine or the exam?"
"That's it, everything. I didn't feel anything at the time, but the effects were huge afterward." Shen Anxia continued to lie, but that was indeed her personality.
"Then why say sorry?" Yang Zheng asked again when she didn't want to talk about it.
"I'm sorry to have made you come all this way to sleep on the sofa, you're so tall." Shen Anxia made up an excuse.
Yang Zheng had no idea what Shen Anxia was thinking. He smiled and ruffled her hair, saying helplessly, "Is it really necessary to cry like this? I'm a man. Even if you lend me a sofa, or even just give me a rope, I'll still sleep here. You have no idea how happy I am to be able to enter your home today."
Yang Zheng knew they weren't at the point where they could joke about things like "borrowing me half a bed," so he didn't say anything.
Seeing that he always carried the baggage of a real man, Shen Anxia laughed at his "entering the inner chambers" comment: "A good man who can sleep on ropes, do you have a change of clothes with you?"
"Yes, I'll take it."
Shen Anxia nodded: "That's good. We don't have any items belonging to the opposite sex here. You can go wash up first."
"You go first! Don't girls usually take a long time to wash up?"
Shen Anxia didn't insist any further. She took a shower, dried her hair, and once the dizziness subsided, she told Yang Zheng to wash up: "The things on the left shelf are mine, and the ones on the right are Shanshan's. If you don't have any shower gel or shampoo with you, you can use mine."
Yang Zheng looked at her with her long hair down, wearing a pure white, ankle-length nightgown that covered her completely, and smiled, "Okay." He took the change of clothes and went into the bathroom.
The bathroom was separated into wet and dry areas, and the shower room was filled with the scent of strawberries. Yang Zheng felt a little uncomfortable, after all, this was a girl's bathroom, and the bathroom was full of Shen Anxia's scent. Yang Zheng shook his head, trying to shake the thoughts out of his mind.
After quickly washing up, Yang Zheng changed into a short-sleeved shirt and shorts. Shen Anxia saw his wet hair, got up and went to the bedroom to get him a hairdryer.
Yang Zheng's hair dried quickly with a few blow-dryers. Shen Anxia glanced at the time and said, "Get some rest! The small blanket is on the sofa."
Okay, good night.
"good evening."
Yang Zheng lay on the sofa, using the sofa cushions as a pillow and covering himself with Shen Anxia's small blanket. He tossed and turned, and every time he closed his eyes, he could think of Shen Anxia's tear-streaked face and the way she cried in his arms. Yang Zheng frowned, repeatedly lying down and sitting up, but he just couldn't fall asleep until after four o'clock when the sky was about to brighten.
Shen Anxia fell asleep as soon as she lay down on the bed, but she had a dream.
In her dream, it was a moonlit night with few stars. Under the dark blue sky, the silvery moon seemed to be covered with a thin layer of frost. Where the moonlight flowed, there were vast pear orchards. Shen Anxia was overjoyed to see the pear blossoms as white as frost and snow. She lifted her dancing skirt and ran and jumped through the pear orchard. A gentle breeze blew, and the pear blossoms fluttered down. Shen Anxia danced in this rain of fragrant pear blossoms. When she was dancing happily, the moon suddenly disappeared, and only large clumps of bluish-black light remained between heaven and earth. All the pear blossoms seemed to be smiling eerily. Shen Anxia was a little scared and quickly lifted her skirt, trying to run out of the pear orchard. She had only taken two steps when someone called her from behind: "Anxia, I'm here."
Shen Anxia turned around and saw Yang Zheng. She immediately relaxed and asked, "What are you doing here?"
Yang Zheng said, "I'm here for a blind date."
After saying this, the world suddenly spun around. The pear blossoms that had been fluttering everywhere turned into snowflakes. In the middle of the white world, a group of people were watching something. Shen Anxia went closer to take a look and saw that Yang Zheng was standing in the middle. Shen Anxia was about to call out to him when she saw him being kicked by someone behind him and placed in front of a girl. He said to the girl, "Hello, my name is Yang Zheng."
Shen Anxia tried to call Yang Zheng, but couldn't make a sound. She could only reach out and take a step towards Yang Zheng. Unexpectedly, she fell into a snow pit. The moment she fell in, Shen Anxia woke up with a jolt.
I checked the time on my phone; it was eight minutes to six.
She turned over, closed her eyes, and thought about the dream she had just had. The dream was so vivid! Pear, departure—was it telling her to leave? Shen Anxia felt a tightness in her chest. What did that girl in her dream look like? She actually dreamed about Yang Zheng? And on a blind date? No, how much of a feeling had she developed for Yang Zheng? No way, she had always been so careful in guarding her heart, knowing that Yang Zheng's future and her own might not go hand in hand, and she had never dared to let it go.
Shen Anxia sat up, pressed her temples, and tried to put the gloomy mood behind her. Then she remembered that she seemed to have danced in the pear blossom forest. What were the moves again?
Thinking of this, Shen Anxia recalled the movements in her dream and practiced them slightly on the bed, slowly producing dance movements similar to those in her dream. After trying it twice, Shen Anxia took out her notebook and wrote them down.
The bedroom was too small; she couldn't even do a simple backward leg movement.
She decided to sneak out to see if Yang Zheng had woken up.
So she gently opened the bedroom door, and as soon as she opened it, she saw Yang Zheng's hand, which was about to knock on the door.
"You're awake!" Shen Anxia opened the door and came out.
"Hmm, I heard some noise from your room, so I guessed you were awake. I wanted to ask what you'd like for breakfast?"
"Shall we go out for food later? There's a really clean little shop near the school gate that serves fried dough sticks and soy milk for breakfast. How did you sleep?" Shen Anxia asked.
"It's fine, how about you?"
“I’ve had so many dreams, but I’ve forgotten them all.” Shen Anxia didn’t mention that she dreamed about him.
"So what do you want to do now?"
Shen Anxia said, "You go wash up first, I'll change my clothes and get some exercise."
Yang Zheng readily agreed: "Okay."
Shen Anxia quickly changed into her training clothes. She had just done some simple stretching in the bedroom, and now she was doing high-difficulty moves in the living room.
After Yang Zheng finished washing up, he saw a girl doing difficult stretching exercises in front of the French windows. Each movement was extremely flexible and supple. Yang Zheng asked, "Do you stretch every morning?"
At this moment, Shen Anxia was doing a split with her hands on her hips, tilting her head back so that she could see Yang Zheng looking at her. She explained, her breath muffled, "Dance students all do morning exercises."
After Yang Zheng finished washing up, Shen Anxia ended her morning exercise, dried her face with a towel, changed into a dress, sprayed some perfume that Yang Zheng had given her before, and called to Yang Zheng, "Let's go!"
The two arrived at the breakfast shop that Shen Anxia had mentioned.
Yang Zheng asked Shen Anxia, "Do you add sugar to the soy milk?"
"No, I can't eat too many sweets."
Yang Zheng then said to the waiter, "Two cups of soy milk without sugar, and two of each of the following: fried dough sticks, shrimp dumplings, vegetarian buns, fried eggs, and corn on the cob."
Shen Anxia stopped him, saying, "We can't eat that much."
Yang Zheng teased her, "I ate everything I couldn't finish. I have a man's stomach."
Shen Anxia found it amusing that this person really had to express that he was a real man at all times, solemnly expressing respect: "A good real man."
After picking up their food, the two of them had a simple breakfast.
Yang Zheng asked her, "What do you want to do today?"
Shen Anxia countered with a question: "What do you want to do? My life is very simple, and I basically did everything I could think of yesterday. You can choose today."
When Yang Zheng heard these words, they meant, "As a couple, we must do everything that we both want to do."
Yang Zheng felt that he had gained a lot from his trip to Xinfeng. He also felt that An Xia seemed to have taken a liking to him.
This is more worthwhile than anything else.
Yang Zheng sorted things out and introduced them to Shen Anxia: "There's a fruit picking garden in the southern suburbs where you can pick fruit; there's a pet shop in the shopping district we went to yesterday where you can play with pets; oh right, there's also a library in the shopping district, the atmosphere is nice; we can also go to the cinema to watch a movie in the evening; or if you like billiards or bowling, we can go play some sports; or we can go to Pusu to stay up all night, last time we only saw the night view for a while; there's a guesthouse in the northern suburbs where you can watch the sunrise and sunset, and I heard there are fireflies there at night, but camping is probably not an option, we have too much to prepare; of course, if you don't want any of these, we can go to the supermarket together to buy groceries, I'll be in charge of cooking and washing dishes, and we can stay at your rented place all day."
Shen Zhe Xia tilted her head and looked at Yang Zheng with a strange look in her eyes. She asked in confusion, "This is Xin Feng, right? How come you seem to know him better than I do?"
Every time Shen Anxia tilted her head, Yang Zheng wanted to pat her head, but he ultimately refrained from doing so.
Yang Zheng smiled and said, "I looked up the guide before I came to Xinfeng to find you."
How long ago?
"Before the New Year."
"You planned what you were going to do in Xinfeng so early on?" Shen Anxia chuckled. "But I was so busy back then that I couldn't even afford to sleep. Even if you had made a plan, you wouldn't have needed it!"
“Save the guide after you read it. If you don’t have time, we can just stay together. When you want to go, we can go. And things will change every time. For example, I wanted to take you skiing before, but you were too busy with exams, so I couldn’t come. Later, the ski resort closed. But it’s okay, we can see fireflies now, but we didn’t see them last month.”
“We missed skiing,” Shen Anxia said regretfully; she really wanted to go skiing.
"How could that be? We can go at the end of this year or next year." Yang Zheng extended the planning process.
Shen Anxia felt incredibly warm: "So, since before the New Year, you've been prepared to come to Xinfeng often?"
"Yes! The happiest time this month was when I came to see you." Yang Zheng did not deny it.
Shen Anxia: "..."
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