Chapter 21021 Concealment
The next afternoon, the sun was shining brightly and there was a gentle breeze blowing across my eyebrows.
Xu Tingwan went to the scene early with Wu Hao to prepare. She was very familiar with the venue, but Wu Hao was not, so she still had to tell him some things to pay attention to.
Looking at a tall figure standing there without moving, Xu Tingwan waved his cell phone at him through the glass of the small house.
[Listen to Wanwan's words: Just find a seat and sit down.]
After sending the message, Xu Tingwan looked at him. The person not far away fixed his gaze on her for a short while before walking towards his seat. Seeing him sitting down in the corner, Xu Tingwan's heart softened for no reason.
[Listen to Wanwan's words: The meeting may last a long time. If you get bored, you can leave, but be gentle.]
【Chi Du: Okay, go ahead and get busy.】
Originally, I wanted Chi Du to stay in the hotel, but I was afraid that he would be bored, so I brought him to the venue. It happened that this meeting was not particularly formal, and there were still some spectators. Xu Tingwan contacted the organizer and gave him a ticket.
Looking at him staying in the corner, Xu Tingwan wanted to say something to him, but at this time Wu Hao also compared the information with her, so Xu Tingwan had to put down her phone and turned to work.
After the opening, Chi Du crossed his arms and watched the person on the stage speak. This meeting was not very formal. It was more like a lecture than a meeting. Basically, one person was speaking about his glorious history.
A soft, familiar voice emanated from Chi Du's headphones. His eyes went blank for a moment, then he removed them. The emotional, swirling sounds from outside filled his ears uncontrollably. He turned his gaze towards the dark room a floor above them and could vaguely see a girl, her head lowered, talking into the microphone. Her hair was no longer loose as usual, but neatly tied into a bun.
This was the first time he participated in Xu Tingwan's entire work process, and he realized how meticulous this person, who was usually a bit casual in life, was in his job.
He saw a different her again.
*
It was already evening when it ended. Xu Tingwan did not see Chi Du, so she called him and he said he was at the entrance of the venue.
She stuffed a pile of documents into her bag and ran out. When Wu Hao called her from behind, she just said that she had something to do and called a taxi to let him go back first and call her back when he arrived.
There were not many people in the venue. There were only a few office workers rushing to the subway after get off work and some vendors hawking their wares at the door.
Xu Tingwan walked to the door and looked at his figure back and forth. When she wanted to call him again, her phone was turned off. She screamed and felt a little regretful that she had forgotten to charge it last night.
"elder sister."
The familiar breath and voice behind her made her stop, and then she turned around and saw Chi Du holding a bouquet of blue flowers in his hand, but Xu Tingwan did not pay too much attention to the flowers, but focused all her attention on Chi Du.
Xu Tingwan walked forward and met his eyes. "Where have you been? Didn't you say you were waiting for me at the door?"
Her tone was a little urgent, and her words didn't sound so nice.
Chi Du, however, handed the flowers to her and soothed her gently, "It's too stuffy in there, so I came out to get some fresh air. I happened to see a flower vendor here, so I wanted to give you a surprise."
Xu Tingwan looked at him for two seconds, then breathed a sigh of relief. He smiled and hit him, his eyebrows curved. "What kind of flower is this?"
The lights are dim, but this bouquet of flowers is still eye-catching in the darkness. When you look closely, the flowers look like a flock of birds flying together, but they don't compete with each other.
"Little Feiyan." Chi Du raised his eyes, "May you rise and fall like the sun and the moon, be free and unrestrained, and roam freely in the vast sky and sea."
Chi Du stepped forward and looked down at her. "But if one day you are trapped in a place where the wind has completely vanished, if you need me, I will be the wind to help you continue your journey. If you don't want me to, I will stay with you forever and accompany you to see the scenery of this low wall. In short, I will definitely be by your side."
It felt like there was really wind in his ears, and his vision was becoming increasingly blurry. Xu Tingwan took Xiao Feiyan and hugged him, saying somewhat embarrassedly, "If you were by my side, the world is so big, let's go see it together."
Chi Du kissed her forehead, but did not stop. Instead, he continued to touch the corners of her eyes, the tip of her nose, and finally kissed her lips.
The movement was gentle, and Xu Tingwan responded by standing on tiptoe and hugging his neck.
Chi Du's eyelashes drooped, but then suddenly raised as if sensing something, meeting Wu Hao's gaze in front of him. Wu Hao seemed to be shocked, staring with surprise. He didn't dare to stop, trotting to the side of the road and getting into the car.
The two hugged each other for a long time. The moment they separated, Xu Tingwan asked him, "Why did you suddenly tell me all this today?"
Chi Du's eyes were originally terrifyingly deep and unusually cold, but the moment they met Xu Tingwan's smiling eyes, they turned tender. He smiled and took her hand, and the two of them walked forward. "I just feel that as long as you are here, all the difficulties in the future seem not worth mentioning. And just now, when I saw the way you work, I admired and envied you. I swore then that I would stand shoulder to shoulder with you in the future, and never look up at you like I do today."
Xu Tingwan stared at him blankly, his emotions swirling. Finally, he jumped up with a smile and touched his head, "Now look up at me, don't look down!"
Chi Du knew what Xu Tingwan meant, so he accompanied her to make trouble, deliberately lowering his head to look at her, "Sister, where are you? Why can't I see you?"
Xu Tingwan couldn't help but hit him, "Chi Du! You are so childish!"
Chi Du: "..."
*
After returning to the hotel, Chi Du began to pack his backpack. He didn't have much stuff, only a charger and medicine. Because of her cold shower last night, Chi Du laid out all his things, including the medicines on the table.
Xu Tingwan: "Why do you bring so many medicines?"
Chi Du responded while packing: "I was worried about the climate and the food being in trouble, so I brought a few things with me. I didn't expect that I wouldn't be able to use them myself."
Then he looked back at her meaningfully.
Xu Tingwan touched the tip of his nose guiltily, then stood up and hugged him from behind, "Are you really not going with me? I can finish this tomorrow afternoon..."
Chi Du turned around and looked at her, stroking her hair and saying softly, "I have classes on Monday, and I skipped a whole day. The instructor was so angry that he wanted to fly over to pick me up. Don't I have to go back and admit my mistake and accept the punishment?"
Xu Tingwan: "Ah? Did you explain it clearly to the instructor?"
Chi Du smiled: "I've explained it clearly, don't worry, nothing will happen."
Xu Tingwan pursed her lips and said reluctantly: "Okay then..."
Chi Du: "Aren't you tired after a busy day today? Go and have a rest. I'll be gentle in a moment."
Xu Tingwan hugged him tighter, as if he would disappear in the next second, "No, I want to watch you clean up, and then we can go to bed together."
Chi Du looked at her face and had no choice but to quickly pack up his things, then took her to the bed and covered her with the quilt. She was then pulled away and not allowed to leave. Chi Du gently stroked her cheek and said softly, "Shall I take a shower?"
Xu Tingwan was actually very tired, but she still forced herself to talk to him, "I'll take you to the airport tomorrow..."
Chi Du didn't respond. He raised the corner of his mouth and kissed her forehead, "Go to sleep, good night."
Xu Tingwan: “…”
*
The next morning, Xu Tingwan was woken up by the alarm clock. She was still drowsy, but something seemed to flash through her mind and she suddenly became alert. She sat up and got out of bed, searching every corner of the hotel but couldn't find Chi Du.
She bit her lip, sent him a message, and hesitated for a long time before going to wash up.
It wasn't until ten minutes before the meeting started that Xu Tingwan's phone, which he had been staring at, started to ring.
[Chi Du: I'm in Yucheng. It was too early today so I didn't wake you up. I'll be waiting for you in Yucheng.]
After seeing this, Xu Tingwan took a deep breath and his mood began to slowly improve.
Wu Hao looked at her and couldn't help asking, "Sister, what's the matter that makes you so happy?"
Xu Tingwan glanced at him and smiled meaningfully, "My boyfriend."
Wu Hao: “…”
Seeing Xu Tingwan laughing happily, he was also happy. After all, after graduation, meeting a boss who was willing to help him and had a good temper was simply a blessing in disguise. But for some reason, he suddenly remembered Chi Du's eyes last night, as if he wanted to eat him up. He shuddered and waved his hand to look at the information. Xu Tingwan found it funny and asked him what he was doing, but Wu Hao only said earnestly: "The first step to success is to kill the one you love. Love is not for me."
Xu Tingwan watched the people coming and going in the audience, his eyes always shining. "It would be a happy thing if there was someone to accompany you on the road to success."
Wu Hao: “…”
*
After Xu Tingwan returned to Yucheng, Lin Leqi took her to live with her. When asked why, she just said that she had been staying up late recently and wanted someone to accompany her.
She definitely didn't believe this reason. Not to mention that Xu Tingyan, that lazy guy, always came to her place. No matter how much he wanted to accompany her, he shouldn't have dragged a layman like her to accompany him.
Xu Tingwan sat cross-legged and watched her typing code, the potato chips in his hand never stopping. The crunching sound made people think there was a mouse in the house. Finally, Lin Leqi raised her head and glared at her, and Xu Tingwan put them away awkwardly.
Xu Tingwan clapped his hands and said, "Are all you computer people so busy?"
Lin Leqi paused typing, finished briefly, closed the computer, and looked at her. "Don't tell me, I've been really free lately. I go to bed at 12 o'clock and never stay up late."
Xu Tingwan looked unconvinced, "Then why did you call me here?"
Lin Leqi approached her with a sneaky look on his face, "How are things going between you and your guy?"
Xu Tingwan: “…”
So she was called here to gossip.
Lin Leqi continued to ask: "Do you want to go further?"
Xu Tingwan curled his lips, glanced upwards, and repeated thoughtfully, "One step further? Which step?"
Lin Leqi suddenly widened his eyes and pointed at her in disbelief, "No way, Xu Tingwan, you're not surprised at all? You guys can't be..."
Xu Tingwan's face quickly turned red after she realized that she had let the cat out of the bag. "Oh, what?! I was talking about how far the relationship has progressed! Not... Oops...!"
The more you talk, the more confused it becomes.
Seeing her enthusiasm, Xu Tingwan threw a question to her in a fit of excitement, "So, do you have any plans to take things further with anyone? I know Xu Tingyan has been coming to you a lot lately."
Lin Leqi was puzzled. "I'm here to help him out. He's my own brother, so why not use him?"
Xu Tingwan looked like she was enjoying herself, and Lin Leqi patted her hands and said sternly, "I'm not going to climb over my own family's wall anyway, don't worry about that."
Xu Tingwan shrank his neck: "So serious?"
Lin Leqi was excited, "Of course! I'm not starving, so why would I have any evil thoughts about a child I watched grow up?"
Xu Tingwan nodded thoughtfully, then clicked his tongue, already having the answer in his mind.
Lin Leqi had never hidden anything from her. Since he had made it clear, it meant that he really had no interest in Xu Tingyan. It was obvious who should be crying and who should be laughing.
Lin Leqi brought the topic back to the topic, "You haven't said it yet. Have you thought about your future with the one from your family? Do your uncle and aunt know about your relationship?"
Xu Tingwan shook his head. "I haven't found the right time to tell you yet, but as for Chi Du's future, I actually want to be with him forever."
Lin Leqi: "Just being together? What else do you want?"
Xu Tingwan: "What else?"
Lin Leqi was excited again, gesturing excitedly, "For example, give him a formal status, meet his parents and get to know each other? Or maybe go a step further and get him married?"
Xu Tingwan propped up his head with his wrist. "Both our parents know each other well. I haven't thought about the status you mentioned, but since you said so, I should take responsibility."
Lin Leqi leaned closer and asked, "What did you do to me?"
Xu Tingwan couldn't help laughing, "Lin Leqi!"
The two of them started to play around, and the previous topic gradually deviated.
"How's that girl you told me was chasing Chi Du doing now?" Lin Leqi asked while hugging her.
Xu Tingwan smiled and said, "She's really good now. She won the silver medal in the math competition and got a perfect score on the math in the college entrance exam, so she was specially admitted to Beicheng University."
Lin Leqi suddenly straightened up, "How come another one got full marks in math?"
Xu Tingwan tilted her head, "She is smart, how could love blind her?"
Lin Leqi hit her with a pillow, "That's not right. The Mathematics School of Yuda is obviously better. Why did you choose to stay in Beicheng?"
Xu Tingwan thought for a moment and said, "Maybe my family has connections in North City?"
Lin Leqi nodded, then suddenly sighed and collapsed on the bed, "I'm just a useless person."
Xu Tingwan held up his head and looked at her, "How can you be a waste? You came in at Yuda University, ranked thirteenth in the province, and you call yourself a waste?"
Lin Leqi sighed, his tone melancholy. "I don't have a brain as good as Xu Tingyan, who could write code smoothly and make an app by himself in his sophomore year. I also don't have your talent, who always takes first place and never second. So I can only work hard day after day, using quantitative changes to bring about qualitative changes. Although the results are good, I know the gap between you and me is something I will never catch up with."
Xu Tingwan blinked and said, "There were over ten million college entrance exam takers nationwide, but Yuda only admitted a little over a hundred. That year, the Computer Science Department in Beicheng only accepted two students. You got into the Computer Science Department at Yuda with the highest score, yet you got an offer from a big company before you even graduated. Now you're thriving at your job. If you call yourself a loser, what are others going to do?"
Lin Leqi looked at her with tears in her eyes, "Wanwan, thank you."
Xu Tingwan couldn't stand her sentimentality, so he covered her eyes and started to play with her. The quilt and pillows on the bed were in a mess, but the two of them were not affected at all.
Xu Tingwan rested his head on Lin Leqi's lap, imitating her tone and sighing, "Extraordinary talent is ultimately rare, and the dedication behind the halo is rarely known. The word 'genius' is simply too lofty. We, standing at the foot of the mountain, can barely reach our eyes. How can we have the confidence to apply the definition of genius? We simply work hard day after day, hoping for a sudden and explosive victory one day."
Lin Leqi looked down at her and asked, "Have you ever thought about living a different way?"
Xu Tingwan tilted his head, his eyes shining, "Yes, of course."
"With Chi Du?"
"Not only him, but also you, Xu Tingyan, my parents, your parents, and Aunt Nian Nian. I hope that everyone I love can be by my side, and we can be happy together."
Lin Leqi choked up, tears dripping onto Xu Tingwan's face, "My parents..."
Xu Tingwan stood up to wipe her tears and comforted her, "Parents' love for their children is always far-reaching. Although your uncle and aunt rarely come home, they are devoting themselves to their country. I believe they love you and they are with you on every important day. I can't advise you to be sensible, but things have come to this point and we have to be sensible. Fortunately, you have me by your side, and I am also glad that you have always been by my side. I know you set high standards for yourself, but there is always work to be done. If you are tired or just want to go out and play on a whim one day, call me and I will be the first to be by your side."
Lin Leqi pursed his lips and hugged her, but after a while he shook his head, "No, no, not now."
Xu Tingwan was surprised, "Not now?"
Lin Leqi took her hand and said, "You can stay at my place for the next few days. It's Xu Tingyan! He said that he and Chi Du want to discuss life these days, so we can't get in the way, right?"
Xu Tingwan laughed, "Is his girlfriend me or Xu Tingyan?
“…”
*
Xu Tingwan knew that they were hiding something from her, but she really didn't know what it was. When she called Chi Du, he just acted like nothing had happened. It was fine at first, but later she felt that he was worried, especially in the past two days. He always felt like something was pressing on him and making him breathless. Sometimes he was in a daze without even realizing it. When she asked him about it, he just said that he was a little tired from class and asked her not to worry.
Today she was determined to ask, and she rarely called him via video, but the call was hung up. Then Chi Du called back. Looking at the phone screen, Xu Tingwan smiled and just asked him to call her via video.
Chi Du rarely refused her and usually gave in to her in everything, but this was the only small thing Chi Du refused to do. Even if Xu Tingwan was slow-witted, she could still notice the clue.
She hung up the phone, put on her shoes, and went out. She was in such a hurry that she didn't even wait for the elevator and went straight up the stairs to the sixth floor.
I hailed a taxi on the side of the road and sent a message to Lin Leqi telling her that I had to go out for something and not to let her worry about me.
Today is Thursday. She looked through the class schedule she had saved in advance and found that Chi Du only had one class this afternoon, but he didn't call her at all.
Yulin City was bustling at night. When Xu Tingwan looked outside through the car window, he felt completely bored.
Yuda has a curfew, so Xu Tingwan had no intention of going in. She sent Chi Du a message asking him to come out, then turned off her phone. It was windy tonight, and she hadn't had time to tie her hair up before leaving, leaving it a mess. Luckily, she was wearing a coat, so she wasn't freezing to death in the cold.
Her heart was in a knot, so she waited very slowly, and gradually lost her patience. She wanted to turn around and leave, but she was really worried about him. From time to time, someone came to ask for her contact information, but Xu Tingwan refused them one by one. Unfortunately, Chi Du saw this scene when he came out to scan his face.
He was dressed in black, a windbreaker and black pants, and his hair was blown by the wind. The first time he saw her, he used the rubber band on his wrist to tie her hair. His technique was clumsy and the tie was loose. Xu Tingwan slapped his hand away and tied it casually herself, then turned her eyes to him.
The lights at the door were dim, and Chi Du's face turned to the side in the darkness, as if he was deliberately hiding something. Neither of them spoke. Xu Tingwan didn't like him being like this, but she was also sure that he was hiding something from her, so she had to speak first: "You cheated?"
Chi Du suddenly raised his head and looked at her in disbelief, "No!"
As he raised his head, a red mark on his cheek fell into Xu Tingwan's eyes. She frowned, then immediately held his face and leaned forward to look.
"What happened? Who hit you?"
There was a wound on the side of Chi Du's face, just below his cheek. The scar was neither long nor short. If you didn't look carefully at night when the light was dim, you wouldn't be able to notice it. The wound had already scabbed over, indicating that it had been there for several days.
Chi Du held her hand and comforted her, "It's okay, I accidentally hurt myself when I was playing with my classmates, it's almost healed now."
Xu Tingwan stopped moving, his eyes stayed on his face for a moment, then he shook him off and walked back.
She stretched out her hand to stop a car, but she didn't know if it was too late or just bad luck, but now she couldn't get a single car.
Suddenly being hugged from behind, Chi Du buried his face in the side of her neck and whispered, "I'm sorry."
Xu Tingwan pursed her lips, her body trembling slightly with anger. She turned around and said, "Chi Du, have you given your heart to me? Or do you think it's just a spur of the moment thing? You don't have to tell me anything, anyway, you have to—"
Her lips felt hot, and Chi Du's kiss interrupted her words. He lowered his head. This state was not really good, but Xu Tingwan was angry. She was angry at his distrust and his dishonesty. This feeling made Xu Tingwan feel like an outsider and she had never been able to enter his heart.
Chi Du gently stroked her cheek with silent comfort. His voice was very soft, but Xu Tingwan heard it very clearly, "My dad is here to see me."
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