Chapter 393 Red Eye Flight
Just when Tom was looking forward to the vacation with great hope, a sudden little accident almost interrupted his plan.
"Yes, the laboratory is said to have developed a new model with a camera that I need, so I have to work a few more days..." Su Yun said apologetically on the phone, "If everything goes well, we should be able to go on the trip as planned, but if not, we may have to reschedule our vacation..."
"Can... we not reschedule? Maybe we can try our best?" Tom said aggrievedly.
Normally, he would follow Su Yun's schedule, but this time was different - he had booked everything in advance, waiting for the two of them to go to the beach together to formally express his feelings...
He didn't know when he started to have feelings for her, but he was always limited by the gap between them. Until now, when he finally became popular after years of hard work, he finally had the courage to express his feelings and fight for her.
Although he had endured it for so many years, it was also because of all these years of endurance that he almost reached his limit: he was obviously not a reserved person, but in order not to affect Su Yun, he suppressed his feelings in his heart for many years.
He had been keeping an eye on her all these years, and he was not without some discomfort in his heart for Su Yun and Zhuang Long to play a couple together, but he also insisted on suppressing his impulses, just waiting for the most appropriate opportunity...
Now, the opportunity is almost here, but if we lose at the last minute, it will be too cruel.
From his tone, it can be felt that he is really looking forward to this vacation, and it is also close to his birthday, so Su Yun carefully calculated and replied: "If we work hard, we should be able to finish the work on the evening of July 2. However, if we want to go to Hormais Beach on time, we can only take a night red-eye flight."
The so-called "red-eye flights" are flights that take off at night. When passengers on such night flights get off the plane, most of them are sleepy due to the night flight, and then they will have "red eyes" like rabbits, so they are called "red-eye flights".
Although red-eye flights are generally cheaper than daytime flights, they require passengers to board and disembark late at night, which is the normal rest time for the human body. Forcing yourself to stay up late will make you feel tired.
Moreover, if you do not book a hotel and a car in advance, you will have to spend a long time after getting off the plane. Your personal safety after getting off the plane and the safety of the plane during flight are also worrying issues. Therefore, even if the ticket price of a red-eye flight is relatively favorable, people usually do not like to choose such a night flight.
However, for actors like them who travel a lot, as long as they make preparations in advance, they basically don’t mind red-eye flights.
Thinking that Tom probably wanted to go out and play together on his birthday, Su Yun had no choice but to make this suggestion after careful consideration.
"I don't mind! But will it be very hard for you?" Tom responded and then asked back with concern.
Hearing his increasingly cautious tone over the phone, Su Yun seemed to be able to imagine his anxious expression on the other end of the phone, so she laughed softly: "Of course I don't mind. I just happen to be tired after finishing work. I can sleep on the plane and wake up in Los Angeles."
"Then it's settled. If anything unexpected happens, I will notify you again and discuss it with you again." After Su Yun hung up the phone with a smile, he hurried back to the laboratory to speed up the work, hoping to finish it earlier.
Once we get a new PDA prototype, we can give one to Tom as a reward for his successful film selection and entering a new stage.
This is much better than the reading pen I gave him before!
On his birthday ten years ago, she gave him a reading pen, leading him out of the darkness of dyslexia; and on his birthday ten years later, she gave him the latest PDA, guiding him into a new era of smart technology...
Technology really is changing human life - Su Yun looked at the workbench filled with all kinds of circuit boards and parts in front of her and couldn't help but sigh in her heart.
People like Su Yun, who came from the era of technological explosion and is therefore very "fond of novelty" about technological products, probably would not understand Tom's "nostalgic" mentality at this time.
After hearing the busy tone and confirming that Su Yun had hung up, Tom put down the receiver in a daze, and then couldn't help but take out the reading pen he always carried with him.
Although Su Yun later gave him several upgraded models, all of them used audio sources recorded by others. Only this model’s audio source came from Su Yun, who had just finished filming “Beating My Heart” that year…
This point reading pen has been around for nearly ten years, and the dark gold cursive English font engraved on the pen body has some signs of wear and tear, but the metal pen body that has been polished to a smooth and shiny finish clearly shows the owner's reliance on and love for it.
The significance of this reading pen, besides the excessive nostalgia for the time when it was given, is that it brings his name and her voice together, which makes him feel an inexplicable bitterness and sweetness in his heart every time he thinks of it.
He didn't know what birthday present Su Yun would give him ten years from now, but he had finally prepared this return gift that was ten years late...
Of course, this return gift should have been given to Su Yun on her 18th birthday, but unfortunately he was too ignorant at the time, and in order to show his sincerity, he actually wanted to make this return gift himself...
Although Su Yun's expression froze for a moment after seeing the return gift, in order not to offend him, she still forced a smile and accepted it. She also wore it on her hand from time to time as a personal touch, not caring at all about what other people thought.
To be honest, Su Yun's "loyal" behavior really moved him.
However, every time he saw Su Yun's images from various channels or met her in person, he felt a little ashamed of being publicly executed when he saw the ugly ring on her hand that was said to "make people cry at a glance"...
He was too young at the time and only wanted to show his sincerity without considering other aspects. Later, after Meg's guidance and his own gradual understanding, he realized that his "impulsive" behavior at the time would bring a lot of unnecessary trouble to Su Yun.
After realizing this, he forced himself to suppress the desire to take her down, and kept a certain distance from Su Yun so as to control his behavior and avoid doing anything stupid again.
For example, when she was waiting to board a flight at Hong Kong Airport, her body suddenly acted before her brain and "attacked" Su Yun - looking back, it felt beautiful and chaotic, but Su Yun must have been very anxious and had to deal with public relations for a long time because of this accident.
It seems that he is disliked by many Hong Kong people because of this incident... But it doesn't matter, now he is qualified to stand by Su Yun's side and to work with her as a partner, and sooner or later he will be able to change the impression of Hong Kong people towards him and make them like him!
Tom lay on the bed, then took out a small card with some words written on it, and placed the tip of the reading pen in his hand over the printed English letters on the small card that he had spent a lot of time writing.
"Tom." When the metal pen touched the characters, a synthesized electronic sound immediately sounded, the sound vaguely carried some of Su Yun's timbre and the stiffness of electronic sound.
As the pen tip moved again, the next moment, a sentence that made him feel extremely excited and moved rang out softly in this silent room: "Yes, I do..."
I don't know if Tom was in the hotel room, constantly preparing himself mentally with a reading pen in order to control himself from being too happy and crazy at the important moment in the future; Su Yun used overtime pay to encourage a group of technicians to help work more overtime, and finally Su Yun saw the hope of being able to fulfill the agreement on time.
After the reality of dawn and dusk ended with the passage of time, Su Yun, who had changed out of her lab suit, finally opened the door of the laboratory in a hurry.
"I'll go first!" Su Yun picked up the latest PDA prototype and the suitcase that had been prepared long ago, and waved to Wozniak behind him, "I'll leave the rest to you!"
Wozniak is her technical partner who has worked with her for many years. From the founding of Apple to its current status as a world-shaking behemoth, the research route has been led by her and Wozniak. With Wozniak guarding the laboratory, there is no need to worry about any problems that may arise in the future.
Although Wozniak is a hardworking technical man who is not good at socializing, he still has the free and unrestrained nature of Americans. Seeing that Su Yun obviously had a "date", he showed a relieved expression of "I understand" and used a gentle look to bid farewell to Su Yun's quickly leaving back.
When Su Yun ran out of the institute gate, Tom had already taken a taxi and arrived nearby.
There were few people around here, so he simply didn't bother to pretend and just leaned against the taxi. In the afterglow of the sunset, he looked quite charming.
After throwing her luggage into the back compartment of the taxi which Tom helped her put, Su Yun quickly sat in the back seat and lay down like a salted fish. She then demonstrated her ability to fall asleep in a second and fell asleep on the spot.
After helping her move the luggage, Tom walked into the car from the other door. He turned around and found that the person next to him had fallen asleep in seconds. He was immediately at a loss whether to laugh or cry.
"Going to the airport now?" The taxi driver was a plump middle-aged man. He turned around and asked with a frown.
"Yes, I have planned everything." Tom pressed the small box in his trouser pocket and answered very seriously.
"Then I wish you good luck, kid." The driver stepped on the accelerator and the car started speeding on the wide road.
It was already late at night when they arrived at the airport. Su Yun, who was woken up and dressed in disguise, followed Tom half asleep and half awake. She quickly passed the waiting line and came to the terminal hall, then continued to sit in a chair to rest.
Anyway, she has Tom as her tool by her side, so she doesn't have to worry about missing time.
Compared to Su Yun's leisure, Tom, who was extremely excited and confused, looked around in a very "alert" manner.
Then, his eyes, which were looking around, couldn't help but fall on a man in the waiting queue who was holding a large bouquet of flowers.
Oh, by the way, why didn’t he think that you can bring bouquets on an airplane!
Seeing the man holding the flowers communicating with the staff, saying that he brought the flowers in order to propose to his girlfriend after getting off the plane...Looking at other people's preparations and then looking at his own understanding, Tom couldn't help but nervously squeeze the small box in his trouser pocket.
I can find a chance to buy flowers after I get off the plane...it should still be in time, right?