Chapter 08
There were only a few people sitting in the coffee shop. Lin Shengwen spoke softly, but Yu Qian could hear clearly what he was saying.
She looked surprised and was stunned for almost twenty seconds before she covered her lips, which had opened without her knowing when.
"You didn't tell my dad about this, did you?" Yu Qian muttered subconsciously, her words becoming somewhat incoherent. "Oh my God... I'm sorry, I didn't expect this, seriously."
"Not yet." Lin Shengwen put down the spoon and shook his head.
——Of course he couldn’t tell Yu Minjun, as he hadn’t even started dating this boyfriend yet.
Yu Qian blinked, as if wanting to learn from Lin Shengwen. She asked cautiously, "Maybe Teacher Lin's parents have already...?"
"They don't know," Lin Shengwen picked up the cup and took a sip of the orange juice inside, "This is my own business."
Yu Qian widened her eyes, looked at Lin Shengwen, and then thought of her own situation, and said with emotion: "As expected of Teacher Lin."
Lin Shengwen took another mouthful of risotto, chewed it, and swallowed it before saying, "Everything will be fine. Talk to Teacher Yu about it, he'll understand."
Yu Qian bit her lip, her face livid: "It would be great if he could understand."
Yu Qian originally came to the First Hospital of Tingda University to visit Yu Minjun, and had to go back to the Second Hospital to work in the afternoon.
Lin Shengwen saw Yu Qian off at the door of the coffee shop and took out his cell phone from his pocket.
Liang Xun's message was displayed on the screen.
"Mr. Lin, Dajiang Yuehua now has a high-rise apartment with three bedrooms. If you are interested, can we arrange a time to view it?"
Lin Shengwen made a call. Liang Xun's phone ringtone was not set, and the default ringtone rang twice before it was picked up. Liang Xun's voice was slightly distorted as it passed through the radio waves.
"Good afternoon, Mr. Lin."
"Liang Xun, it's better to do it today than to wait for a day. Is tonight okay?"
Liang Xun was silent for a moment on the other end of the phone, then responded, "Okay."
"So... eight o'clock in the evening?"
"Okay, Mr. Lin. I'll send you the address. I'll wait for you at Dajiang Yuehua."
"Okay, see you tonight."
Lin Shengwen hung up the phone and was a little bit unbelievable for a moment.
He didn't expect that he would impulsively call Liang Xun just to make an appointment to view the house.
What he could not have imagined was that at first he just wanted to tell a harmless little lie to reject Yu Minjun's offer to introduce him to a girl, but he did not expect that in front of Yu Qian, the lie would be escalated.
Lin Shengwen himself couldn't understand why he told Yu Qian that Liang Xun was his fiancé.
Although he did like homosexuals, he had no aversion to Liang Xun.
But if Yu Qian repeated his problematic speech today to Yu Minjun in detail, and Yu Minjun insisted on meeting Liang Xun to see it in person, that would be a big trouble.
——Misfortune comes from the mouth.
Lin Shengwen thought about it over and over again, but had no idea about his abnormal behavior. He attributed it to the decline in thinking ability caused by severe lack of sleep. The most important thing he should do now is to drive back and have a sleep first.
Lin Shengwen's understanding of Liang Xun actually came mostly from Pei Ning. When he was in high school, Pei Ning transferred to Kang Mansion. When he came back, he would occasionally talk to several people about his life in Kang Mansion at drinking parties. At that time, he mentioned that a friend of his high school classmate was very interesting.
Pei Ning went to study abroad in Country B. The university system was different, so he could graduate in three years. When Pei Ning returned to Ting City that year, he met this friend many times. However, Lin Shengwen was very busy with classes, experiments, and internships at that time, so he hardly saw Pei Ning. It was not until Xu Yiming got married and they became familiar with each other again that he heard the name Liang Xun from Pei Ning again.
Therefore, although Lin Shengwen had only met Liang Xun once, he was not completely unfamiliar with Liang Xun, and therefore he had an inexplicable trust in Liang Xun.
In fact, after actually having contact with Liang Xun, I found that he is indeed a trustworthy person.
He was asked to help with everything he did, and his sense of propriety and distance in speaking were impeccable. Anyone treated like this would feel warm and at ease - even someone as difficult to influence as Lin Shengwen.
Lin Shengwen knew that there were not many people like him around.
Liang Xun is a completely rare species.
Therefore, it was difficult for Lin Shengwen to grasp the sense of distance between him and Liang Xun.
After Lin Shengwen finished his sleep, he got up, packed himself up, and drove to the address Liang Xun had sent him. He roughly estimated the distance from the hospital to Dajiang Yuehua, parked his car in a ground parking space near the apartment building, got out, and walked closer to the building.
He noticed that the entire apartment building was dark, with only one light on in one of the upper rooms.
Liang Xun was waiting for him outside. When he saw him coming towards him, he smiled at Lin Shengwen.
"Mr. Lin."
Lin Shengwen nodded to him: "Sorry to bother you with overtime."
"No, Mr. Lin is busy with work and it's not easy for him to spare time." Liang Xun said, then took Lin Shengwen upstairs.
The interior of Dajiang Yuehua has actually been completed, and Lin Shengwen speculated that the handover should have begun.
The elevator stopped at the 38th floor, one floor below the top floor.
"You said it was a senior executive, it turns out it's this senior executive." Lin Shengwen teased with a smile.
Lin Shengwen naturally had no way of knowing that in order to allow Lin Shengwen to view the house tonight, Liang Xun contacted the workers to check the electricity and water usage in the apartment again in the afternoon. He finally confirmed it an hour ago and sent the workers away. Liang Xun was still worried, so he tested it over and over again himself before he was willing to go downstairs to wait for Lin Shengwen.
"The view from the upper floors is great." Liang Xun smiled and opened the door of Room 3801.
He had already turned on the lights in the room. The apartment was quite large. As soon as he entered, Lin Shengwen felt that the room was quite airy. He could imagine the bright feeling when the sunlight shone into the room through the floor-to-ceiling windows during the day.
Liang Xun observed Lin Shengwen's gaze, as if he guessed what he was thinking: "Dajiang Yuehua has a floor height of 3.5 meters, which makes people feel extra spacious."
"Very good." Lin Shengwen gave a positive response.
Liang Xun took him to browse the interior layout, which consisted of three bedrooms, two bathrooms and a living room. The kitchen and the living room were separated by a glass sliding door, which was both beautiful and functional.
"There's a first-line view of the river and the city from this side of the floor-to-ceiling window." Liang Xun pointed to the scenery below in front of the floor-to-ceiling window.
"The scenery is indeed beautiful." Lin Shengwen agreed, "When can we sign the contract?"
Although Liang Xun expected that Lin Shengwen might be satisfied with Dajiang Yuehua's house, he did not expect Lin Shengwen to make a decision so urgently. Then he thought that Lin Shengwen was indeed in a hurry.
Furthermore, if you miss this opportunity, you will miss it forever. It is impossible to find a better house than Dajiang Yuehua in a short period of time.
"Maybe we have to wait until the sales staff come to work during the day before we can sign the contract."
Liang Xun's eyes narrowed with laughter, and the mole at the corner of his eye was stretched to become oval. He seemed in a good mood. He said to Lin Shengwen, "To be honest, this house was originally reserved for our boss."
Lin Shengwen curled the corners of his lips and said nothing more.
"I'm glad that Mr. Lin likes it." Liang Xun said again.
Lin Shengwen asked, "Liang Xun, are you... very good at socializing?"
"How could it be?" Liang Xun was shocked, trying his best to erase Lin Shengwen's misunderstanding. "I'm speaking the truth."
Lin Shengwen and he looked into each other's eyes. Outside the floor-to-ceiling window, the city lights were bright, and the vehicles on the cross-river bridge were like a stream, but Lin Shengwen's eyes were as beautiful as obsidian and sparkling like the river.
Liang Xun felt as if he was being dragged into the abyss by Lin Shengwen's gaze, and was bound to drown in it.
At this moment, Lin Shengwen suddenly said to him, "Liang Xun, if you don't mind, would you like to marry me?"
Liang Xun was almost thirty years old, and he would never have dreamed that he would be proposed to by the man he had secretly loved for twelve years in an apartment building that had not yet been moved in.
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