Chapter 21 He Wants to See Her
Yan Nian returned home dejectedly, and Xu Yiqing and her aunt were cooking together.
She walked into the bedroom quietly, put down her bag, took out Zhou Ran's clothes from the closet, took her umbrella and gym card with her and left the bedroom.
Xu Yiqing was carrying out some cut fruit when he bumped into her and was a little surprised.
His eyes slid to the paper bag and umbrella in her hands and asked, "Are you back?"
Yan Nian clenched the umbrella handle in his hand and nodded: "Okay, I'll go out for a while."
Xu Yiqing observed her expression and asked, "What are you going to do?"
Yan Nian suddenly felt guilty and irritated, and said softly, "It was raining last night, and my boss lent me an umbrella. I forgot to bring it today, so I'm going to return it to him now."
Perhaps it was because the word "leader" was more intimidating, and perhaps because he was kind enough to lend her an umbrella. Xu Yiqing's expression softened considerably, but the scrutiny in his eyes remained undiminished.
Xu Yiqing: "They're already downstairs, right?"
Yan Nian knew what she meant. She still had Zhou Ran's clothes in her hand, and she wasn't sure how Xu Yiqing would react when she saw them.
"No, he just happened to be passing by here and brought it with him. He's rarely in the company."
Xu Yiqing smiled faintly: "Go ahead, if possible, invite him up for a simple meal and thank him properly."
"Let me ask!" Yan Nian walked to the entrance, quickly changed his shoes, and went out.
I took the elevator and sent a message to Zhou Ran: [I'm coming downstairs, waiting for you at the gate of the community.]
Zhou Ran did not reply.
It is easy to feel sleepy when you are sick, so Yan Nian dragged his tired body to the gate of the community.
Zhou Ran has arrived.
She changed into a white car and leaned on it like a car model, looking at her phone.
Noticing her presence, Zhou Ran raised his head and looked at her.
Yan Nian walked over and handed him the paper bag and umbrella: "Thank you!"
Zhou Ran took it, his eyes still fixed on her pale and charming face, his expression somewhat unhappy: "Are you catching a cold?"
Yan Nian nodded: "Well, I'll go back first."
After saying that, he turned around and was about to leave.
Zhou Ran: "Wait."
Yan Nian thought he hadn't seen the gym card, so she turned around and said, "I put the card back in my pocket."
Zhou Ran frowned and raised his chin: "Let's go, take you to the hospital."
Yan Nian's eyes were a little blurry, and he shook his head: "It's okay, I'll go up first, you drive carefully."
Zhou Ran narrowed his eyes and watched her back gradually disappearing into the distance.
There is not much change from the past, he still walks as slowly.
Those who have met Yan Nian around him all commented that she looks cool and glamorous, but is actually easy to get along with and is a lady of rich family without any airs.
There is always a layer of pampering in the eyes of outsiders when they look at her.
At that time, a group of people imitated her to use the orchid finger to make coquettish gestures, but she just smiled, as if nothing could affect her mood.
It happens to be just such an illusion. No one can enter her true inner world and knows what she is thinking.
She could even speak words that were as sharp as thorns and as sharp as knives in a gentle and calm manner.
Like a cold, emotionless person.
Yan Nian walked into the community and looked back, but the people and cars had already left.
I didn’t really want to go home, so I sat in the pavilion in the courtyard for a while.
Looking at the young couple in the community who had just returned home from get off work, they passed by her affectionately.
The woman asked, "What are we having for dinner tonight?"
The man said, "I don't know, you think."
The woman said coquettishly: "I don't want to, it's always me who wants to."
The man pinched her nose and said, "Okay, I'll do it then."
Sweet conversations kept floating into Yan Nian's ears.
Yan Nian's lips curled up slightly, and he felt a little envious.
Thinking back to the year when she first met Zhou Ran, he moved and invited her to live with him.
She has a poor sense of direction and can't tell east from west.
Zhou Ran always liked to tell her that his home was in the south and his factory was in the west, and he had to take a long bus ride to work every day.
Tuo Qi Jin found him a house, which happened to be in the community next to his grandmother's.
He lives alone in a two-bedroom apartment.
At that time, he invited a few close classmates and friends to come over for dinner, but he actually spent a huge amount of money to order takeout.
Besides her, there was another girl, Zhao Shutong, his childhood friend's younger sister. They grew up together. She was close to him. She pointed out his ordering of takeout on the spot, and was ridiculed by everyone in the room for a long time.
Qi Jin was there too, and he said that Zhou Ran invited them to dinner to hide his true identity, but he actually wanted to see her.
Zhou Ran neither admitted nor refuted.
Maybe she doesn't talk much and is the only opposite-sex friend Zhou Ran invited to his home.
Everyone thought that she and Zhou Ran had already confirmed their relationship.
After dinner, everyone sits on the sofa watching TV and playing with their phones.
Zhou Ran walked over, and someone stretched out his leg to stop him. He was tripped and rushed towards her. He didn't have time to react and was caught in her arms.
Zhou Ran's chin hit the side of her face with quite a lot of force and it hurt.
Zhou Ran immediately got angry and asked them to apologize to her one by one.
She showed no emotion throughout.
Zhou Ran sent her downstairs and asked her if she was angry, and she replied that she was not.
Zhou Ran explained to her in a babble, telling her not to think too much and not to be angry.
Yan Nian thought his reaction was quite cute. She didn't think much about it, let alone get angry.
Since he moved, I have been meeting him more often.
Occasionally, she and her grandmother would go out for a walk in the evening and meet him at the gate of the community when he came back from get off work.
Zhou Ran would always cross the street to the supermarket at the entrance of their community to buy some yogurt or snacks to take back.
They would have a meal together on weekends, and Zhou Ran would usually cook noodles for her. The noodles would vary in saltiness and taste very unique.
Later, I ended up ordering takeout.
Whenever grandma made something delicious, Yan Nian would bring some to him.
After get off work, Zhou Ran would often send her messages asking if she wanted to have a midnight snack. The dish they ate most often was crayfish from the food alley next to the community.
Yan Nian still remembers the taste.
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When Yan Nian fainted, he didn't know what happened next.
It seemed like I had just gotten off the elevator, and was walking drowsily, holding on to the wall. I had just entered the password and opened the door, and I didn't remember what happened after that.
When she woke up in the middle of the night, Xu Yiqing was lying beside the bed, guarding her.
"Mother."
Xu Yiqing heard the noise and straightened up sleepily. Seeing that her eyes were open, he asked anxiously, "Awake? How are you? Are you still feeling unwell?"
Aside from feeling a little dizzy, Yan Nian didn't feel any other discomfort. "No more."
Seeing Xu Yiqing's haggard face, Yan Nian turned away.
Over the years, she has lived like a wooden man with no desires or demands, just wanting to escape from this suffocating life.
Every time such an idea came up, Xu Yiqing would always crush the idea she had just put forward, and then it would turn into endless compromise.
Xu Yiqing: "That's good."
I fainted several times due to fever when I was a child, but this is the first time since I grew up.
Yan Nian asked Gu Pingping for half a day off early in the morning and went to the company as usual in the afternoon.
She had been away all morning and when she arrived at the translation team, she found that everyone looked at her with a strange look in their eyes.
You Jia looked at her as if she were an enemy, and kept looking up at her.
Yan Nian didn't care much about this matter. Only Xu Mi and Xu Xinrui were willing to pay attention to her in the translation team.
Qi Hui and You Jia were basically at loggerheads with her.
Qi Hui and You Jia went to the restroom together, and Xu Xinrui slid his chair next to her and asked, "What's going on between you and Mr. Zhou?"
Yan Nian was puzzled: "What?"
Xu Mi also turned around and said: "The photos are blurry."
It seemed like the situation was quite serious, but she knew nothing about it.
Yan Nian asked confusedly, "What photos?"
Xu Xinrui took the phone and clicked it twice to show her, and Yan Nian moved closer.
It was a blurry photo, as if it was taken secretly.
It was a photo of me accidentally putting my hand on Zhou Ran’s chest in the elevator yesterday.
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