Chapter 55
Although they lived under the same roof, Lin Jiu and Chen Miao did not spend much time together, but they did not say that they were together every day.
After her birthday, Chen Miao spent two days with her. Afterwards, he resumed his usual routine and went to the company on time every week.
Before the summer vacation, Chen Miao informed her that he had to deal with work during the summer vacation and would not be able to reply to messages in a timely manner.
Lin Jiu understood very well and was used to it.
During his freshman year, Chen Miao basically spent two days a week going to the company, and the two of them didn't have much time to meet.
On the last day that Chen Miao stayed with her, Lin Jiu specifically asked him to drive her to the city library, where she borrowed several literary works she had never read before.
When Chen Miao was not at home, Lin Jiu would stay at home and read books.
She doesn't need to cook or clean, as there is an aunt who comes to her house every day.
Chen Miao told her that Aunt He was an elderly woman employed by his family for a long time. She was a very nice person, didn't talk much, and was very efficient in her work.
Five years ago, Aunt He returned to her hometown because her daughter-in-law gave birth to a child, and returned to Jinhai two years ago. When hiring someone, Zhou Mi gave him several options. He felt that Aunt He knew her well, so after observing her for a while, he hired her.
Aunt He always leaves after finishing her work.
Lin Jiu didn't spend much time with Aunt He. He would chat with her occasionally and could feel that she was a simple and honest person.
After living together for nearly a month, Lin Jiu lived a simple and sweet life.
As school was about to start, Chen Miao suddenly had more free time and spent more time at home.
One day after dinner, when Lin Jiu was collecting clothes on the balcony, he found the scenery very beautiful and suddenly wanted to see the moon.
So she called Chen Miao.
The two have a clear division of labor.
Chen Miao is responsible for the physical work, and she is responsible for the manual work.
Chen Miao’s main job was to put two folding chairs on the balcony and set up a small round table between the chairs.
She went to the kitchen, washed a few plates of fruit, and put them on plates. She also squeezed two cups of watermelon juice, added a lot of ice cubes, and made them into cold drinks.
Just after lying down and getting ready for a second, Lin Jiu seemed to have forgotten something and sat up suddenly, "Oh, I forgot."
Chen Miao grabbed a blueberry from the plate, put it in his mouth, chewed it a few times, and swallowed it. He asked leisurely, "What did you forget?"
"Mosquito coils." She looked at Chen Miao seriously, "If we don't light mosquito coils, we'll just be feeding mosquitoes if we sit on this balcony."
Chen Miao raised his eyebrows and joked, "We are lying here."
"Don't talk nonsense to me." Lin Jiu glared at him, immediately picked up the phone on the table, and opened an app. "I'll place an order for a box of mosquito coils and send it up right away."
"Wait." Chen Miao stopped her. "A long time ago, Secretary Zhou left some agarwood incense here. It shouldn't be difficult to repel mosquitoes."
Lin Jiu instructed him: "Then go find it and light it up."
"You lie down first, I'll come later." Chen Miao responded and got up to go.
After eating more than a dozen grapes, Lin Jiu took a sip of cool watermelon juice, and saw Chen Miao holding a lit agarwood incense stick and inserting it into a potted green plant.
After Chen Miao sat down, Lin Jiu asked, "Did you also use this in your senior year of high school? Your clothes all smelled like this."
Chen Miao turned his head to look at her: "Do you still remember the smell of my clothes in my senior year of high school? Why did you pay so much attention to me back then?"
"......" Lin Jiu kicked his calf with his toes, "Be serious."
Chen Miao grabbed a grape from the table and ate it, saying quietly, "I went to bed late and got up early in my senior year of high school. I'm a very light sleeper, and my sleep quality isn't good, so I asked Secretary Zhou to make some. The incense burned for a long time, and some of it got on my clothes, giving them a bit of a smell."
Lin Jiu looked at him sideways and said, "Why do you get up so early every day? You can come later. Meng Qinyang always comes for morning reading."
Upon hearing this, Chen Miao covered his chest with his hands and immediately acted hurt. Even though the balcony was dim, his exaggerated movements were visible. He said, "At that time, I just wanted to look at you more and talk to you, but you ignored me. You were really indifferent to me..."
Lin Jiu looked uncertain and doubtful: "Is this true?"
Seeing that she had been fooled, Chen Miao decided to restrain himself and stop teasing her to avoid getting her angry. He curled his lips and smiled, saying, "A little bit. My observation of you was genuine, but my conversation was fake. There were fewer people around back then, so I could have observed you openly."
"......" Lin Jiu's face turned slightly red. She straightened her body, avoided his sight, and looked at the moon in the distance.
The night sky was a deep, deep blue, shimmering with light. A crescent moon hung above, seemingly monotonous yet bright and unique.
The two of them lay there for a while, enjoying the warm night breeze, listening to the chirping of cicadas and frogs, and looking at the sky.
Although it is quiet, the atmosphere is wonderful.
Agarwood does have a hypnotic effect. Lin Jiuwen felt inexplicably sleepy. When he closed his eyes and was about to fall asleep, he heard Chen Miao say: "
Zheng Qingcheng is treating us to a dinner, let's go over there tomorrow."
Lin Jiu opened his eyes with difficulty, turned his head to look at Chen Miao, and was quite surprised: "I'm going too?"
He said that Tang Jili and Zheng Qingcheng were both cunning and he was afraid that she would be led astray.
So she was not allowed to meet the two of them formally.
"Yeah." Chen Miao said, "We'll have a simple dinner tomorrow. Their girlfriends will also come. Including us, there will be only six of us in total, which is not a big crowd."
"Is there anything I should be careful about?" Lin Jiu had never experienced such a large gathering. Furthermore, most of the people here were strangers. She was worried she might be doing something wrong, so she had to ask in advance.
Chen Miao understood her concerns and said directly, "No, you're just going to have a meal. There's no need to socialize. They know you. If you want to talk, talk. If you don't want to talk, don't talk. No one will say anything."
Chen Miao spoke so bluntly that Lin Jiu immediately felt relieved and breathed a sigh of relief.
Lin Jiu sat up, holding the plate in her hand and eating a few green grapes. She felt much less sleepy. Looking at Chen Miao who seemed to be asleep, she asked curiously, "Why do you suddenly want to eat?"
Chen Miao closed his eyes and replied, "Maybe he wants to make his presence felt in front of me."
"ah?"
Her tone was too surprised. Chen Miao was silent for a few seconds, then he propped himself up with his arms and sat up. He slowly picked up the cup next to him and took a sip of watermelon juice.
He looked into her eyes and said seriously, "They're jealous of me. Seeing that I found a girlfriend, they found one too. Tomorrow night, they'll probably show off their affection in front of us. If they want to, let them. I'm too lazy to refuse. I'll take you out for dinner tomorrow."
Lin Jiu: “…”
After a few seconds, she asked, "Why are they jealous of you?"
Chen Miao lay down again, resting his head on his hands, and said lightly, "I'm not short of money, and I'm not short of love."
Although I don't mean to show off, this sentence sounds very annoying.
Lin Jiu: “…”
That's true.
She had heard Chen Miao mention the family situation of Tang Jili and Zheng Qingcheng.
Tang Ji Li's family is in the film and television media business, and he has an older brother named Tang Jize.
Although they were born of the same mother, the two brothers had a very bad relationship. They were in a relationship that was superficial but not in harmony. Tang Jize was much older than Tang Jili and had joined the family company earlier. He intended for Tang Jili to be a rich but powerless young man.
However, Tang Jili is unwilling to give in and will most likely fight for the family property.
As for Zheng Qingcheng, he was an only child from a family that ran a jewelry business. His father was a playboy, keeping many women and fathering many illegitimate children.
Originally, with his mother by his side, his position was relatively secure. However, his mother passed away during his freshman year of high school, putting him in a precarious position. It was uncertain who would own his father's company in the future.
Although both of them are rich, they each have their own troubles.
In contrast, Chen Miao, the only son in the family, had loving parents and took over the family company smoothly.
It’s indeed enough to make people jealous.
......
The next afternoon.
Chen Miao, wearing a dark purple short-sleeved shirt, leaned against the door frame of the second bedroom with his arms folded across his chest. He faced the bedroom, staring quietly ahead, as if admiring something.
In front of the dressing table, Lin Jiu casually tied her hair into a bun, put on a green long skirt, leaned towards the mirror, and her hands were busy fiddling with her face.
The sunlight from the window shone on her straight back, revealing her beautiful curves in the light and shadow. Her wavy skirt was long and wide, folded directly over her thighs, revealing a section of her fair calf beneath the skirt.
Judging from her straight ankles and the toes stepping on slippers, she really takes her makeup seriously.
Lin Jiu chose a lipstick and put it on, then looked in the mirror and nodded with satisfaction. Then, she glanced at the person at the door and found that Chen Miao had not left yet.
He had been standing there since she sat down to put on makeup. She asked him to sit on the sofa, but he refused to listen and stood there for nearly twenty minutes.
Lin Jiu simply tidied up the cosmetics on the table and slowly wiped his hands with a wet tissue.
She stood up with the help of the table and stool. She didn't look at him, but lowered her head and shook the hem of her skirt. When she found that there were no wrinkles, she walked towards Chen Miao.
She muttered as she walked, "What's so good about putting on makeup? Why do you have to stand here?"
Hearing Lin Jiu's little complaints, Chen Miao thought she was cute. He pursed his lips and smiled, saying, "This is the first time I've seen you put on makeup. It's strange."
It’s indeed the first time.
When I met him before, Lin Jiu dressed very beautifully but rarely wore makeup.
However, he liked her look without makeup, she was fair and pretty.
Hearing this, Lin Jiu snorted lightly and said nothing.
When she got to Chen Miao, she looked up and asked him, "How is it? Do I look good in my makeup?"
Chen Miao stared at her face for a few seconds and uttered two words: "Beautiful."
Lin Jiu suddenly felt a little proud, and smiled with her eyes curved, "It seems that I have learned the essence from my roommate." She learned all the makeup techniques from Tang Yazhi, but they were rarely used.
After laughing for less than three seconds, Chen Miao looked down at the bulge on her chest and said thoughtfully, "This kind of collar is good, it's sometimes visible and sometimes not."
Lin Jiu's expression froze, and he looked down. The V-neck was not deep, but it made his chest look a little bigger, and he could vaguely see the raised cleavage below his collarbone.
Suddenly, she punched him in shame and anger: "Where are you looking?"
Chen Miao stood there with a smile, letting her hit him. When she calmed down, he took her hand and walked towards the sofa. "I told you, this party can be casual. No need to dress up so much."
Lin Jiu retorted: "It's not that exaggerated, I was just a little more formal."
Chen Miao glanced at her silently and mentioned it nonchalantly: "You never put on makeup like this when you saw me before."
Lin Jiu: “…”
There is a reason why Lin Jiu doesn't put on makeup in front of Chen Miao.
When she mastered the makeup skills, she and Chen Miao had a very good relationship.
Every time they met, he always had to kiss her.
With the way he kisses, I don’t know how many times his lipstick must have been smudged.
She didn't like putting on makeup in the first place, and she hated touching it up even more.
This type of touch-up is tricky to do.
So, I just don’t wear makeup.
There aren't that many troubles after the kiss.
After a few seconds of silence, Lin Jiu turned his head and replied, "You are you, and others are others. Besides, who doesn't want to look pretty when going out to meet people?"
Chen Miao was very satisfied with the first half of her sentence.
He hummed casually, pulled her to sit on the sofa, put his right arm around her waist and said, "It's up to you, do whatever makes you happy."
After sitting down, Lin Jiu glanced at her own dress, then at Chen Miao's clothes, and said with a smile, "The colors on our bodies are quite saturated, one green, the other purple. We don't look like a couple."
Hearing this, Chen Miao seemed to feel that there was something wrong and immediately said, "I'll go change my clothes."
Lin Jiu pulled him and said, "You look handsome in this outfit, don't change it." Few boys look good in purple, but Chen Miao has the figure and temperament to pull it off.
After being pulled by her, Chen Miao said nothing, but he also did not move to stand up. He held her hand back, and the bracelet on his wrist swayed a few times due to imbalance, and finally stopped hanging on his wrist.
He leaned on the sofa, staring at the person beside him, and suddenly called her, "Ajiu."
The tone sounded affectionate.
Lin Jiu turned his head slightly to look at him, and saw his own reflection in his dark eyes.
Her eyes slowly widened, and when she realized what he was about to do, she quickly put her hand in front of her lips.
Chen Miao kissed her palms a few times, then pulled away a little, looked at her straight in the eyes, and asked, "Why are you stopping me?"
Lin Jiu rejected his kiss for the first time.
She moved her upper body back, maintaining a safe distance, before lowering her hand and answering him, "I just finished putting on my makeup, and after a kiss, I have to do it all over again."
"So I can't kiss you?" Chen Miao frowned slightly.
Lin Jiu nodded heavily and told him unilaterally: "Don't kiss me until the party is over."
Chen Miao looked at her plump red lips and suddenly smiled, "Is this something I can control?"
Lin Jiucai ignored him, raised his chin slightly and looked at him and said: "I don't care, you must control yourself, I believe in you."
Chen Miao: “…”
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