Su Jinru glanced at the door mirror again, then turned to Xia Xi and said, "He looks like someone from the neighborhood committee."
Not long after the family moved in, the neighborhood committee came to register them. Several people came, and the person outside seemed to be one of them. He had short hair, a slightly plump figure, and was about fifty years old. He was a very kind person. Su Jinru had some impression of him.
"Is anyone home?"
The door didn't open for a long time, and then someone outside shouted.
Su Jinru quickly opened the door.
The person outside was stunned for a moment before laughing: "I thought no one was inside, and was wondering why the lights were on."
"Come in and sit down." Su Jinru asked as she stepped aside, "What's going on?"
"I won't go in." The middle-aged woman with short hair waved her hand and stood still. "I came to this building to deliver something to someone. I was asked to go to room 1003 and ask for Xia Xi. Are you Xia Xi?"
Su Jinru shook her head in confusion and said, "Xia Xi is my daughter."
"Oh, I see. Could you please tell your daughter that someone is waiting for her downstairs?"
"Who is it?"
"I'm not sure about that," the short-haired woman said mysteriously. "He's a tall, handsome young man wearing a shirt and tie, and he drives a sports car. Is he your daughter's boyfriend? Are they having a fight?"
Xia Xi doesn't have a boyfriend. Su Jinru didn't know how to respond and just laughed dryly.
"Okay, I've delivered the message. I'm leaving now." The short-haired woman said and walked towards the elevator.
Out of courtesy, Su Jinru went out to see her off. The short-haired woman turned around and pointed her finger outwards: "You can go in. No need to see me off."
Su Jinru stopped and waited until the others entered the elevator. She turned back to the room and closed the door behind her.
Xia Xi heard every word of the conversation between the two at the door and didn't need Su Jinru to repeat it again.
Su Jinru came over and saw her put the last dumpling on the plate into her mouth. She stood up and slowly picked up the empty plate and dipping sauce dish and put them into the sink.
"Why don't you go down and take a look? Maybe it's your colleague."
Xia Xi squeezed two pumps of dishwashing liquid and turned on the faucet. The water rushed down, and the pool was filled with white foam. She reached in and scrubbed the dishes: "My colleague has my contact information, and I won't let anyone pass a message to me so late at night."
Su Jinru: "Do you know who it is?"
Xia Xi didn't say whether she knew or not: "You should go to bed early, it's almost ten o'clock."
Su Jinru's eyes moved around her face a few times, but didn't see anything. She nodded. Speaking of rest, she was really sleepy. She yawned and went back to her room to sleep.
Xia Xi placed the washed dishes upside down on the drain rack, wiped the water droplets on her hands with a towel, walked lightly to the floor-to-ceiling window, took a deep breath to prepare herself mentally, and gently lifted the curtains.
Through the narrow gap, Xia Xi could clearly see the scene downstairs.
A silver-gray sports car was parked under a street light. A man was leaning against the car body, his shadow was elongated. He was probably smoking, a little red spark flickered between his fingers, and he looked so lonely.
It’s Xu Yanfeng.
She was not wrong.
So, she didn't say it in front of her mother just now.
Xia Xi lowered her eyes, guessing that he came because of what happened at Penglai Hotel tonight. She just didn't know whether he was concerned about her or was pleading for his good brother.
Now, she really wasn't sure how much weight she still held in his heart.
After staring at the figure for a while, Xia Xi loosened her grip, and the curtain slipped from her fingertips, returning to its original position, blocking her view. She didn't go downstairs after all, but returned to her room. After taking a shower, she changed into a set of white silk long-sleeved pajamas and sat at the dressing table to take care of her skin.
While applying toner on her face, Xia Xi glanced out the window unconsciously.
Xu Yanfeng will probably leave if he can’t wait for her.
He had never been a very patient man.
After Xia Xi finished her skin care routine, she couldn't help but take a look at the window before going to bed.
That person is still there.
Xia Xi frowned. She knew very well what she should do. The right choice was not to meet him, to reduce their contact, to drift further and further away until they became complete strangers.
Six years ago, she left in a cool and decisive manner without looking back. There is no reason for her to become so hesitant six years later.
Xia Xi lay down on the bed numbly, turned off the lights, closed her eyes, and hypnotized herself by thinking about other things, thus ignoring the waiting figure downstairs.
*
Xu Yanfeng put out his cigarette and looked up. All the lights on the tenth floor were out.
He laughed at himself.
This woman is as cruel as ever.
It was she who had tried so hard to tease him in the beginning, and it was also she who had left him without a word.
Perhaps, he never really understood Xia Xi.
Xu Yanfeng opened the car door, bent down and got in the car, pressed the start button, and then turned off the engine again, not knowing what he was thinking about. He looked at the tightly closed unit door with a serious look.
As if he was competing with himself, he would wait here today to see when Xia Xi would come out.
The next morning?
Not necessarily. Tomorrow is Saturday and we don’t have to work.
Xu Yanfeng was sulking with her here, and Xia Xi was tossing and turning over there. She even tried to draw engineering drawings in her mind but couldn't successfully hypnotize herself. She would always think of Xu Yanfeng at some point, wondering if he was still waiting downstairs.
Xia Xi, Xia Xi, why are you not as good as you were six years ago?
She left when their relationship was at its strongest, and after hurting him badly, one can imagine how devastated Xu Yanfeng would be. He would wait downstairs of her house night after night, hoping that she would show up and give him an explanation.
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