Volume 1, Chapter 61: Mercury
After dinner, Xu Jingmo said he wanted to take a nap and went back to his room to sleep.
Du Ruo sat alone in the living room watching TV, her eyes fixed on the television, but her mind was elsewhere.
Xu Jingmo was just unhappy, she could feel it.
It's not anger, nor sadness, but a sense of bereavement that hangs over me like a dark haze.
He's fine, what happened to him?
Du Ruo was puzzled.
She didn't have any magical powers and couldn't be a worm in his stomach. She just felt that his emotions changed too quickly and were difficult to predict.
She originally thought...he would say it was because he liked her...
Xu Jingmo slept soundly that night and slept until dinner time, when he was woken up by Shirui's wake-up call.
When he is in a bad mood, he likes to sleep because everything he wants is in his dreams.
It’s not Du Ruo’s fault. It was he who chose to desert again.
Even if there is a 99% chance of a happy ending, he dare not bet on that 1%.
After sorting out his tangled mood, he walked out of the bedroom.
Du Ruo was sitting on the sofa watching TV, his brows furrowed so tightly that it looked like he could pinch a fly to death.
He walked closer and looked at the TV screen, but couldn't tell what movie it was.
Du Ruo's expression was too confusing to describe. He asked curiously, "What are you looking at?"
Du Ruo: "A romance film."
???
“Is this the expression you get when you’re watching a romance movie???”
Du Ruo said with a look of disdain, "I'm really not suited to watching romance films."
She wanted to find a romantic movie and learn some love skills, and the homepage recommended her a French movie "A Little Bit of Love". When she saw the title, she felt it was tailor-made for her situation, so she clicked on it to watch it. The more she watched, the more questions she had.
To sum up: a love story between two crazy people.
She doesn't want to be like this with Xu Jingmo.
Hurt each other and torture each other.
She falls in love to be happy, not to be hurt.
Du Ruo stared at Xu Jingmo for a long time, wondering why he didn't just say he liked her? Was it because he didn't dare? He was afraid that their relationship would deteriorate to an irreversible point.
She asked softly, "Are you feeling better?"
Xu Jingmo looked surprised and asked, "How did you know that?"
Du Ruo: “Feeling.”
After saying this, Du Ruo suddenly realized that this conversation seemed familiar. Not long ago, in front of the men's dormitory, Xu Jingmo had asked her the same question.
She didn't understand at the time how he could tell that she was unhappy.
However, at this moment, I seemed to empathize with him. When I pay special attention to someone, I can discover any of his subtle emotions, which is completely different from usual.
Xu Jingmo looked at her with serious eyes, and the 99% possibility seemed to increase a little bit.
He changed the subject and said, "Let's change our clothes first and go out for dinner. It would be bad if the host is late."
Du Ruo didn't bother to argue. She went back to her room to change clothes and went out with him.
*
Xu Jingmo treated everyone to a high-end seafood buffet, with lobsters and sea urchins piled up like mountains, and top-quality ingredients such as caviar. For the student party, it was undoubtedly a luxurious feast, and everyone enjoyed the meal to their heart's content.
Only Du Ruo was like an eggplant hit by frost, and she had no interest in it.
She is taking Chinese medicine and cannot eat seafood, only teppanyaki.
Obviously, she prefers meat to seafood.
But her not liking to eat and not letting her eat are completely different things.
Especially Shi Rui, who seemed to be very familiar with her after playing together for a whole morning. Knowing that she loved shrimp, he deliberately waved a lobster in front of her and jokingly said, "Sister, do you like it? It's delicious."
Du Ruo wanted to return to the arena with the look of a knife-wielding man.
Shi Rui smiled and said, "This is your spiritual compensation to me."
Du Ruo was not willing to be outdone and deliberately said, "Xu Jingmo, I'll tell you a few more ghost stories later."
"Okay." Xu Jingmo cooperated very well.
Shi Rui hurriedly asked: "Second brother, don't you love me anymore?"
Xu Jingmo raised his lips slightly, very calmly, "Didn't you say it all? I value women over friendship."
Du Ruo snorted proudly, "Are you regretting that you're not a woman?"
Xu Jingmo stared at her from the side, his eyes seemed to hide endless meaning, but Du Ruo was completely unaware.
Dinner passed in a flash, and it was rare to see such a lively atmosphere. Shi was still not satisfied and suggested going to sing K together.
The three girls and two boys in Jian Yu's group were all from a normal school. There was not even a curfew in the dormitory. Since there were boys in the team, they did not worry about safety issues of returning home late, so they all agreed happily.
This was Du Ruo's first time in a KTV. Seeing how familiar they were with the place, she felt like she had just returned from Ninggu Pagoda and had never seen the world before.
However, if you ask her which shelf and column the books in the MIT library are on, she can tell you as accurately as an autonomous search engine.
If the buffet only made Du Ruo slightly dissatisfied, then the KTV was simply a form of discrimination against her by name.
Fruit plate, cannot be eaten.
Beer, Xu Jingmo said: "Minors are not allowed to drink."
She could only watch them drinking and chatting happily while she enjoyed herself with a glass of juice in her hand.
Absolute discrimination!
Ten people took turns singing. Except for "Moonlight over the Lotus Pond" by Phoenix Legend sung by Shi Rui and Chu Cong, Du Ruo had never heard of the other songs. Her coverage of Chinese songs all depended on what songs her grandfather had heard. She seldom took the initiative to look for songs to listen to.
When it was her turn, she sang a Japanese song - "pl". This was a song that a Japanese classmate of hers had sung at a campus graduation ceremony. She thought it sounded nice, so she wrote it down.
Her singing level is average, but she has a nice voice. The clarity and sweetness unique to a young girl make the originally sad melody have a unique flavor.
After the song was over, everyone in the box started praising her and saying that her pronunciation was standard.
Du Ruo curled her lips calmly, not wanting to show off that she could speak eight languages... She handed the microphone to Xu Jingmo beside her, looking forward to what he would sing.
Xu Jingmo took the microphone, searched for a while in front of the jukebox, and then sat down casually on a chair beside him, staring at Du Ruo with deep and firm eyes, which seemed to have a deeper meaning.
Following the rhythm, a deep and pleasant voice slowly sounded.
In the dim private room, Xu Jingmo stared at her with gentle and affectionate eyes while she sang. Du Ruo felt that his gaze was as mysterious and charming as the Milky Way, which made her deeply immersed in it, unable to extricate herself, and her chest was shaking.
This is a song she has never heard before, but once she hears it, she will remember it forever.
She understood the emotions in Xu Jingmo's singing and the touching lyrics.
Mercury
…
How far do I have to go before I can get into your heart?
How long will it take to get close to you?
So near yet so far
The person who can't be approached
Waiting to meet you too
Orbiting Planets
How can
Own you
…
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