Chapter 36 The Right Person
"Dad, I'm leaving." Yan Nian came out of the room to greet Yan Qilin and ran to the entrance to change his shoes.
Yan Qilin followed and said, "Your mother will be staying late tonight, go have fun and don't worry about home."
"Okay." Yan Nian didn't care about the injury on his heel. He put on his shoes and socks without stopping and closed the door in a hurry.
After she left, Yan Qilin went back to his room to change his clothes.
Aunt Zhang took off her apron and saw that he seemed to be going out. She asked, "Professor Yan, are you going out?"
Yan Qilin smiled and said, "I won't go out."
"Oh!" Aunt Zhang didn't ask too much about the host's family. She just made soup in the evening. There was nothing else to do. "Then I'll go. The soup is in the kitchen. If you're hungry, just heat it up."
Yan Qilin responded, "Okay, you've worked hard! Go back and rest early!"
Seeing that he was in a good mood, Aunt Zhang spoke a little bolder: "I've been here for so long, but I've never seen your daughter so happy. My daughter is already 27 or 28 years old, and she doesn't know how to do anything but live off her parents! I really envy you for having such an outstanding daughter."
Yan Qilin smiled politely, but after the people left, the smile on his face gradually faded. He stood at the entrance for a moment and gave up the idea of going out.
I took out my phone and texted the person I just contacted: [I can’t come, go home early.]
Yan Nian saw the car with its hazard lights on on the side of the road from a distance, slowed down her pace and walked over, trying to calm her breathing as quickly as possible, for fear that he would notice that she was quite anxious.
Open the passenger door and sit in.
Shutting out the hot air outside, Zhou Ran casually sat in the driver's seat, looking away from his phone screen and up at her.
At this moment, she had lost her sharpness and was replaced by a gentle one.
The square-neck white T-shirt is very soft and just reveals the clear-cut collarbone and the white and delicate swan neck.
Her makeup was specially retouched, so exquisite that it was inviolable. A pair of soul-stirring eyes, faintly tired, looked at him casually, lazy and seductive.
Zhou Ran's eyes couldn't help but linger on her for a while.
Yan Nian felt a little uncomfortable under his intense gaze. He fastened his seatbelt and asked, "Where is it?"
Zhou Ran withdrew his gaze, turned off his phone, and said casually, "West."
Yan Nian: “…”
People who rely on maps when going out really hate someone telling them east, south, west and north like a compass.
With the mindset that this was after get off work and they were no longer in a superior-subordinate relationship, Yan Nian pointed out, "You can just say the address or neighborhood."
There's no need to go out of your way to show off your amazing sense of direction.
Zhou Ran sneered, "You wouldn't understand even if I told you."
"..." Yan Nian glanced at him. Although she was a little dissatisfied with his arrogant attack on her, she still had self-awareness.
She is very bad at finding her way around and relies entirely on maps unless she has walked to a place three or five times.
The car drove onto the road and the cabin was very quiet.
Since the person she was meeting tonight was rather special, Yan Nian tried to strike up a conversation: "Is your childhood friend married already?"
After asking, she found that this topic seemed to have brought her back to a long time ago.
Zhou Ran told her that his childhood friend's girlfriend was his junior high school classmate and deskmate.
I met my parents after the college entrance examination, and she was quite envious at that time.
Zhou Ran stared ahead, not knowing what he was thinking, and replied nonchalantly, "No."
Seeing that he was a little hesitant and his answers were quite perfunctory, Yan Nian decided to let him drive seriously and didn't ask any other questions.
When she was feeling a little tired and her eyelids were drooping, Zhou Ran suddenly said, "It will be soon."
The man's voice instantly amplified in the narrow carriage. Yan Nian suddenly woke up and was a little confused: "Huh?"
There was a red light ahead. Zhou Ran lightly stepped on the brakes and stopped. He turned around and said, "They haven't gotten married yet, but they will be soon!"
His tone was calm, and he was answering her question seriously. Yan Nian's eyes flickered for a moment, and he casually asked, "What about you?"
After asking, I didn't dare to look into his eyes.
This purposeful probing made her mind start to get confused.
She made sure she asked this question when she was sober enough, and she would accept any reaction from the other party.
I just want to know if he has someone he likes.
At this point, Zhou Ran's lips twitched slightly, a faint smile emanating from his nose. His bony hands gripped the steering wheel, and he sat upright, staring ahead without showing any sign of discomfort. After a few seconds, he asked, "Which one? Dating? Or getting married?"
Yan Nian was slightly startled. She hadn't expected his reaction to be as calm and indifferent as if he was just chatting with an ordinary friend. He slowly uttered two words: "Marriage."
The light ahead turned from yellow to green. Zhou Ran released the brake and stepped on the gas, saying casually, "It depends. If there's a suitable option, I'll consider it."
Yan Nian couldn't help but clench his hands on his knees, and a myriad of thoughts suddenly surged into his mind: "Then..."
I wanted to ask him if he had met someone he liked or someone suitable over the years, but their story happened a long time ago, and perhaps it was no longer a big deal to Zhou Ran.
Asking this makes her seem quite important.
Yan Nian forced the turbidity in his heart out, calmed himself down, and asked in a different way, "Haven't you met the right person yet?"
Zhou Ran stared at the front for a moment, then quickly realized that there were still two lives in the car. He said lightly, "Yes."
Yan Nian's heart trembled, and her trembling eyes paused on his well-defined profile for two seconds before looking away.
Zhou Ran's throat felt dry, and his Adam's apple rolled twice the moment she looked away.
The scar that was originally cut open by a knife was opened again by the culprit many years later, and he calmly asked him if he had met the right person.
He laughed at himself in his heart, but his tone was leisurely and casual: "After breaking up, I focused on my career and didn't think about this issue."
Yan Nian tilted his head to look out the window, drowning his stiff expression in the darkness, and hummed muffledly.
It turned out that he had met the right person over the years.
He should have given her some comfort. After her, he met someone he liked, so why would he feel so depressed?
A long silence followed.
Because of the topic just now, the atmosphere in the car was a little dull.
The scene passing by quickly outside was very hypnotic. After Yan Nian finally recovered, he felt a little sleepy again.
Suddenly, there was no sound from the side. Zhou Ran saw that she looked tired and asked, "Are you tired?"
Yan Nian pulled himself together and replied, "I'm not sleepy."
Zhou Ran: "Yeah, we're almost there."
Not long after, Zhou Ran honked the horn.
She looked at him, a smile on her lips.
Yan Nian followed his gaze and saw a man and a woman standing under the street light in front.
The woman was holding the man's hand, saying something, looking up and smiling, and the man dotingly brushed her hair away from her forehead. They were both beautiful in their own way and very eye-catching.
Yan Nian knew who these two people were without having to think about it: Zhou Ran’s childhood friend and his childhood friend’s girlfriend.
Zhou Ran honked the horn again, and the two of them looked over with awareness.
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