Chapter 69: Drunk (revised) He also once occupied all of her youth...
I don’t know if the water temperature is too high or what, but the bathrobe is still hot after washing.
When she was about to blow-dry her hair, Jin Yunyan came in wearing a bathrobe and helped blow-dry her hair naturally. A shadow appeared in front of her eyes, and she inexplicably thought of the time when she couldn't find a hair dryer and asked her parents. They thought she was too delicate and thought it was okay not to blow-dry her hair.
She had a low-grade fever all night that night.
But now some people are afraid that she might catch a cold.
So, this is what love is like.
The sound of the hair dryer stopped, and she felt it necessary to tell him the source of her emotions today, so she told him that what happened today was actually not a big deal, but she would occasionally doubt whether she was really not suitable for that position.
"There's nothing wrong with being kind, but you have to emphasize your bottom line and principles. You can be friendly and compromise in small matters, offering small favors, but be firm in big matters. Let them know your methods, and over time, you'll establish your authority," Jin Yunyan told her. "No one is born cut out for a position. Who says you're not cut out for leadership? The last time I went to your office, I felt like you were leading me."
Bo Xia knew that he was teasing her and said that Meng Xubai said so.
Jin Yunyan still remembered to put eye drops on people. He lowered his eyelids and said in a light tone: "He doesn't have the good taste that I do."
I don’t know how Meng Xubai felt when he heard these words.
The two exchanged details for a while. Jin Yunyan asked her if the troublemaker under her was a veteran employee. She said yes. He suggested that she use this opportunity to clarify her bottom line.
There was silence in the air for a while. Jin Yunyan noticed her eyes on him and asked her what she was looking at. She said she was learning the leadership qualities from him.
He found it funny: "Do you think I'm still acting like a boss in front of you at home?"
"No? Sometimes I'm also afraid that you'll be angry."
Jin Yunyan was slightly startled: "When?"
"When you were standing outside the bar window, although you were smiling at me, I felt it." Bo Xia's emotional perception ability is stronger than that of ordinary people. Precisely because her sense of pain is more acute, she always experiences more pain than ordinary people.
Jin Yunyan acquiesced and laughed, "But someone keeps saying they're afraid of me getting angry. When has he ever listened to me?"
Bo Xia was a little curious: "Do you like the obedient Bo Xia or the disobedient Bo Xia?"
He didn't need her to be obedient, he just wanted her to be herself in front of him. Jin Yunyan had the answer in his heart. He realized that what she meant was that she didn't want to change, and he didn't want her to change either. So, with a hint of surrender in his tone, the ending tone was rising, tinged with frivolity: "Okay, that's how you hook me."
"..." She really didn't know how these two casual words of hers could have been used to hook him.
Perhaps because the overhead light was a bit dazzling, Bo Xia stared at him for so long that her neck felt sore. Suddenly, she couldn't help but ask, "Why are you so tall?"
"Um?"
She remembered that he told her that drinking milk would make her grow taller, so she always suspected that she was not tall enough and wanted to catch up with him. However, Jin Yunyan was one of the tallest in the class.
Bo Xia continued his words, "It makes me always look up to you."
In fact, her height is not short now, she is 168cm, and she is about 1.7 meters tall when wearing high heels, but she always looks a little short in front of him.
It’s funny to think about it now. Why did I always want to compete with him back then? It was as if he wasn’t her secret crush, but some kind of competitor.
But because of this, it seemed as if she had indirectly grown in some way.
As soon as she finished speaking, her body felt lighter and he carried her to the marble table behind him. Now she was a little taller than him.
From this angle, she could see Jin Yunyan looking up at her and his rolling Adam's apple. He held her slender waist in a gesture of complete submission: "What now?"
The light fell on his head, and his deep eyes looked at her quietly, with fondness and even admiration. That was what she had wanted most and what she had never gotten.
But everything before her eyes clearly told her——
The person you looked up to before is now looking up to you.
Her body was burning and she felt dizzy. Fearing she had a fever, Jin Yunyan carried her around the waist and carried her to the sofa in the living room. He went to the bottom cabinet and found an oral thermometer to disinfect it.
"Open your mouth."
When the time came, he came over to check the temperature and was relieved to make sure that she didn't have a fever.
The next day at work, Bo Xia called the employee who had made the mistake into his office for another conversation. After reviewing the revised construction drawings and deeming them correct, he placed them on the table. "Having been in this industry for so long, you understand better than I do that we are a team. As the lead architect on this project, I don't want your personal mistakes to affect the achievement of our goals."
It was obvious that the other party was still a little dissatisfied, so Bo Xia immediately stopped some of his key tasks. "This has been recorded in writing. I'll see how you perform next time. It hasn't been easy for us to get to this point. I hope you don't joke with your future."
Now, no one dared to pay attention to Bo Xia's mistakes in front of her.
Not to mention that when Bo Xia talked about work with Meng Xubai later, the latter specifically said in front of those employees that they didn't need to explain these things to him and she could arrange it however she wanted.
After that, I started talking to her about the alumni association.
Jin Yunyan had just gone on a business trip those days, and before leaving, he left all the keys to his house with her. He was worried that she would not eat on time, so he was concerned about her all the time.
Bo Xia wasn't a clingy person, so she rarely called him. She seemed cold, but when she answered the phone, her tone was normal. She wouldn't let him hang up, and sometimes she would fall asleep while they were chatting, leaving him to continue working while listening to her breathing.
When it was dawn, Bo Xia was shocked to see the time of the call and asked him why he didn't hang up. She was a little worried that she made some strange noises while sleeping, but fortunately Jin Yunyan didn't mention it.
She tentatively asked herself if her sleeping posture was ugly. In fact, her phone fell on the bed and she couldn't see the other person. Jin Yunyan pondered for a moment and said, "I talked a little in my sleep."
Bo Xia was a little surprised: "What did you say?"
He looked serious: "You called my name."
"..." How could she not know that she had a habit of talking in her sleep? But after thinking about it carefully, it made some sense. "Have I reached the point where I miss you day and night?"
Jin Yunyan didn't expect that she actually believed it: "Mu Xiang is fake."
His deep eyes fell on her, and then asked: "But what about Zhao Si, is it true?"
Bo Xia reacted, with a look of anger on his face: "Why did you lie to me?"
She put her phone aside and went to the bathroom to wash up. With foam in her mouth, she scolded him, but she couldn't hear what she said clearly.
Jin Yunyan just smiled when he heard that. When her face reappeared on the camera, he said he would be back tomorrow. Bo Xia hummed, looking a little absent-minded. The man on the other end of the phone sat on the sofa, his bathrobe loosely draped. His tone seemed normal, but if you listened carefully, you could hear a hint of displeasure: "It doesn't sound like you really want to see me?"
Hearing him say this, Bo Xia immediately denied it: "It's because I have to attend the alumni meeting tomorrow and can't see you right away."
Jin Yunyan finally smiled, and the ice in his eyes slowly melted. He himself didn't realize how easy it was to coax him. Such a sentence softened his heart, but he still said, "Miss me?"
She was silent for a while, then admitted, "I thought about it."
Jin Yunyan sighed softly, and after a while, he spoke as if admitting defeat: "Why is it so difficult for you to say you miss me?"
She is really not a sentimental person. Perhaps love is too precious to her, so she needs to think carefully before expressing it.
Soon they arrived at the alumni gathering. Bo Xia sat in the audience, watching a number of accomplished figures, including Meng Xubai, speak. Next to her was an alumnus she'd known before, who asked her if she and her senior were still together.
She deliberately modestly said: "Senior brother is so outstanding, naturally there are better girls who are worthy of him."
"Just kidding, what's wrong with you?"
Bo Xia smiled and didn't continue the topic.
The venue was beautifully decorated with many snacks, but Bo Xia felt the snacks were too greasy and only ate two bites.
After watching the dinner program with a few alumni, Bo Xia came out to continue chatting with them. Perhaps because they were having so much fun, no one wanted to leave. Bo Xia watched them talking and heard her cell phone ring. She walked over to answer it.
The cool night breeze blew the silk scarf wrapped around her neck, and she held up her cell phone and said "Hello".
"Is the alumni reunion over?" Jin Yunyan's voice seemed a little hoarse, sounding different from usual. He then said softly, "I'm near you."
Just a few words gave her an inexplicable sense of security that he would always be by her side.
It was as if she was a snail that had lost its shell, and he always wrapped her gently like a leaf, not letting her face the world alone.
Bo Xia subconsciously looked around and saw his parked car not far away.
She immediately walked over to her friends and told them she was leaving. Meng Xubai, always a gentleman, said it was unsafe for her to be alone so late and offered to drive her. Bo Xia smiled and said, "No need, my boyfriend is here to pick me up."
After hearing this, Meng Xubai looked in the direction she pointed, and saw the driver open the back door through the night. His noble figure was hidden in the darkness in the back seat, and he didn't look at him.
The bitterness that Meng Xubai had suppressed in his heart for a long time suddenly surfaced again. It turned out that he no longer had the qualifications to send her off.
The others tried to persuade Bo Xia to bring her boyfriend along, hoping to satisfy their curiosity. However, Bo Xia refused, thinking he was tired from a business trip and that if she brought him along, he would likely spend his energy socializing with others. She also didn't want to waste their time alone on meaningless gatherings.
"It's a little late. Let's have dinner together next time."
She ran towards the car, the ribbon around her neck blew up in the wind, nearly falling off her fair neck. Meng Xubai rarely saw her like this, and only then did he realize that she was capable of love.
When he came to his senses, he heard the people around him jokingly saying that it was not late at all, and that there might be a curfew at her house.
After Bo Xia got in the car, she smelled a faint scent of alcohol on him, and his eyes did not look very sober.
He slowly opened his eyes, a layer of mist seemed to shroud his amber pupils, and asked in a hoarse voice, "How was your day?"
Bo Xia talked about the changes in her friends and then about Meng Xubai's speech. As they talked, they naturally brought up some things about college life. But from Jin Yunyan's perspective, those were more like the common memories between her and Meng Xubai, and he was not even a bystander.
Seeing that his brows were deeply furrowed, she was worried that he was sick, so she raised her hand to touch his forehead, but the next moment he held her hand.
"Are you feeling unwell?"
Jin Yunyan's eyes flushed slightly, and he looked at her for a long time: "I originally planned to go back and rest for a while, but a client of mine had to go abroad in a hurry today, so I made a last-minute appointment to have dinner with him, and I accidentally drank a little too much."
His eyes seemed a little out of focus, and he certainly didn't seem to be fully awake.
"Then let's go back and rest."
Once they got back to their apartment, Bo Xia helped him back to his room. She went to the kitchen and poured him a glass of honey water, even using a straw. He didn't drink it, but instead, half-consciously, hugged her. His voice was a little soft, with a hint of joking, "Tell me, did my return today delay your dinner with that Meng Xubai?"
She felt somewhat baffled, always feeling that a gifted child like Jin Yunyan should not be jealous of anyone. She didn't know that he was also experiencing the same bitterness that she had once tasted.
She said, "What are you always jealous of him doing?"
Jin Yunyan was naturally jealous.
He envied Meng Xubai for having witnessed her most vibrant and flamboyant youth, and for understanding her better than he did. But he himself had forgotten that he had also occupied her entire girlhood.
Bo Xia didn't get a response, so when he lost consciousness, she put down her cup and tried to coax him, "Who wants to be with the boss 24 hours a day? Mr. Jin, if you have to be with your subordinates all the time, even if you look so good, they will get annoyed."
He was clearly drunk, but he still understood what she was saying: "Are you complimenting me on my looks, or your boss's looks?"
"I'm praising you." She looked at his eyes seriously. Even now, it seemed unreal. The person who was once so far away from her would be so close to her now and would respond to her former love.
She kissed his eyebrows and eyes, and her sincerity was always so pure: "I have never seen anyone more beautiful than you."
Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.
This sentence is actually more like a confession than a compliment or flattery.
If she doesn't like him, she won't even look at him twice even if he really looks like a celebrity.
This wasn't the first time Jin Yunyan had heard someone say this about him, but it was the first time he'd been moved by such words. He chuckled and kissed her, but because of the angle, his nose bumped against hers. He heard her groan and complain softly, "Jin Yunyan, why do you have such a high nose?"
He chuckled.
Bo Xia closed her eyes unconsciously, tasting the alcohol in his mouth, and for a moment she felt that she was also drunk.
She didn't know when he held her close, and as he was kissing her, she felt a burning sensation at the base of her legs. She didn't know what was going on, but when she realized it, she froze. She lowered her eyes to look at Jin Yunyan again. The corners of his eyes were stained red, and he looked even less sober.
He was still talking drunkenly: "Don't go, I want you to sleep with me."
“…”
Bo Xia didn't say anything for a long time. Seeing that he looked very fragile, she finally agreed. Her cheeks were a little red. People who didn't know her would think she was the drunk one. "But... do you want to go and deal with it first..."
Jin Yunyan didn't expect her to agree, but in the end he couldn't bear it anymore. He laughed, "Haven't you noticed I'm pretending to be drunk?"
"Um?"
He said meaningfully: "If I was really drunk, how could I have such feelings for you?"
Bo Xia had never seen such a person before. Even his hooligan words sounded like love words.
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