Chapter 263
Jiang Qiao was about to walk out of the elevator when he saw a man standing in the corridor.
In the few seconds of stunned silence, the elevator door slowly closed. Jiang Qiao reacted and reached out to press the door-opening button, but the man had already reached out his hand before her.
In his sight, the closing elevator door almost pinched the man's arm. Jiang Qiao's breathing stagnated, and he walked out quickly without being stunned.
As soon as she came out, she immediately asked, "What are you doing?"
Jiang Qiao was really angry, especially when she saw the man's confused look on his face, she was even more furious: "Do you know how dangerous your behavior is?! What if you get pinched?!"
The girl's face turned red with anger and her brows were tightly knitted, but Lu Xun could hear concern and worry in the girl's reproachful words.
His drooping eyelashes blocked the dark color that flashed in his eyes. Lu Xun said softly: "Sorry..."
The tall man lowered his head. His face was superior and good-looking, but his tone was inexplicably pitiful. Jiang Qiao felt as if his heart was pinched, and he suddenly lost all his temper.
After calming down, Jiang Qiao felt a little regretful for her loss of composure. Why did she lose her temper so quickly, especially towards a stranger whom she had only met once? This was totally unlike her.
Especially when she heard the man's apology, she felt mixed emotions and softened her voice: "Why are you apologizing to me? It's my bad attitude."
Seeing that the man didn't speak, Jiang Qiao awkwardly changed the subject and said, "By the way, what are you doing standing here? Why don't you go home?"
The man was wearing slippers and casual home clothes, and he didn't look like he had just arrived.
Sure enough, the next second, the man pursed his lips and said in a tense tone: "I forgot to bring my keys......"
He had just moved in and was still using Shengyuan's original door lock. The door couldn't be opened without a key. Jiang Qiao didn't know what to say.
Out of humanitarianism and the guilt she felt just now, she couldn't go home right now. After a long while, she managed to utter, "Have you contacted the property management?"
"I found it." Lu Xun lied calmly, "They said it will take another hour to get here."
"Oh, so that's it..." Jiang Qiao didn't know what to say. She didn't know how to pick a lock, so she couldn't help.
Jiang Qiao was thinking about how to say she wanted to go home first. The man seemed to see what she was thinking and slowly lowered his head: "You go home first. It's okay for me. I can wait for a while."
“Only an hour, it will be over in a moment…” Lu Xun added softly.
Jiang Qiao: “……………………………………”
Jiang Qiao hesitated for a while before speaking with difficulty: "Do you... want to come to my house and stay for a while?"
"Is it convenient?"
Facing the man's calm and gentle black eyes, Jiang Qiao's heart moved, and his mouth was faster than his brain: "Convenient."
He couldn't help regretting what he said, so Jiang Qiao gritted his teeth and opened the door: "Come in."
Turn on the light to illuminate the living room. The original wood style decoration does not have much of the atmosphere of daily life. It is more like a model room.
Lu Xun was stunned for a moment. This was very different from the impression he had of Jiang Qiao.
There was a cat's cry from the balcony, and Jiang Qiao explained, "I have a cat at home, do you mind?"
She regretted it after asking. This was her home and the man was just staying for a while, not living here, so why should she mind?
Lu Xun said: "I don't mind."
Seeing that the man didn't notice her discomfort, Jiang Qiao breathed a sigh of relief.
There was still cat food in the cat bowl that the assistant had poured out at noon, and it was scattered all over the floor. Jiang Qiao resigned himself to cleaning it up. As soon as he took out a tissue, the man took it over.
Jiang Qiao was stunned for a moment, then came to his senses. The man had already squatted down and started to clean up. His movements were very natural.
The bony fingers were very beautiful. Jiang Qiao quickly looked away: "Well, let me do it..."
She realized something and asked, "By the way, I still don't know your name?"
"Let me introduce myself. My name is Jiang Qiao."
Not knowing if the word she said was wrong, the man froze for a moment before speaking: "Lu Xun... My name is Lu Xun."
"Lu Xun..." Jiang Qiao silently repeated it several times, and a smile appeared on his face: "It's a nice name."
It is said that the way to judge a good name is whether it is catchy and memorable. Jiang Qiao only read it once, and it seemed like he had known it a thousand times.
"I remember, Lu Xun." Jiang Qiao said,
Remember it, and never forget it again...
Lu Xun stood up, his tall body covering the girl. Noticing the vigilance in the girl's eyes, he calmly put away his possessive desire, as if the momentary sense of oppression was Jiang Qiao's illusion.
"It's done." Lu Xun threw the tissue into the trash can.
Hearing this, Jiang Qiao felt relieved. She thought...
"Thank you. Then go wash your hands." Jiang Qiao said embarrassedly.
There was a faint sound of running water coming from the kitchen. Jiang Qiao took a deep breath and patted his heart which had returned to normal beating.
It was not her fault that she thought too much. It was mainly because the man's appearance just now was too oppressive, which was very different from the gentle and harmless appearance he had always shown, which made her feel a sense of crisis.
There were still more than forty minutes before the property management arrived as Lu Xun said. Jiang Qiao thought for a moment and asked, "Have you had dinner?"
She hadn't eaten yet and was still hungry. It wasn't good to eat alone, so she had to ask Lu Xun.
Hearing the girl's question, Lu Xun glanced at the man's coat on the sofa calmly and asked casually: "Didn't you have dinner outside?"
"No." Jiang Qiao thought his question was a little strange, but didn't think much about it: "Have you eaten?"
Lu Xun's voice slowed down and he shook his head: "No......"
The man had his back to him, so Jiang Qiao didn't see the slight curve at the corner of his lips.
I didn’t eat out, I didn’t eat with other men…
Jiang Qiao is an actress and actually has a lot of experience in getting along with people she is not familiar with. She can usually get along well with her colleagues quickly on the set. But when she faces Lu Xun, whom she has only met twice, she always doesn't know what to say.
The main reason was that Lu Xun gave her a very strange feeling. He always affected her emotions, making her angry and also...sad.
Jiang Qiao's eyes flickered for a moment, but he still asked, "Then... do you want to eat at my house?"
"I'm not very good at cooking." Jiang Qiao gave a warning.
The man did not answer directly. After a while, he seemed to organize his words. His tone was tense because of embarrassment: "…………I will."
“…………………………”
Everything that happened next was magical. Jiang Qiao had never thought that there would be a man cooking for her in her home. This was completely different from her monotonous and lonely life of the past twenty years, but she inexplicably didn't hate it.
Really good at pretending, on the surface he's a green tea puppy, but in his heart...tsk tsk tsk
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