Chapter 157 Extra: Secret Love Addiction - Shang Yanci [1]
In late autumn in France, the leaves of the sycamore trees fall.
Shang Yanci looked at the girl in the photo and his heart started beating irregularly, for no apparent reason.
The elder came over, looked at the blood on his hands, and asked, "Yanci, are you okay?"
Shang Yanci came back to his senses: "I'm fine, I'll come to visit you next time."
Elder: “Okay.”
Shang Yanci went to the bathroom to wash the blood off his hands, and then carefully wiped off the small amount of blood on the photo with a wet towel.
When he was still a few steps away from the nurse's station, Shang Yanci turned around, walked to the balcony of the corridor, took out his mobile phone, and took a picture of the girl.
This behavior was very rude and went against the gentleman education he had received in the past.
He felt as if he was going off the rails, and the feeling was unfamiliar to him.
After self-reproach, he still did not delete the photo of the girl from the album.
He went to the nurse's station again and after asking, he learned that the Oriental woman who had just committed suicide was called "Jiang Minzhi" and her husband was on the way.
Shang Yanci asked them to return the photo to her and left the sanatorium.
Shang Yanci did not investigate the girl's background, nor did he know her name.
That night, the girl appeared in his dream and said she was the butterfly fairy.
Shang Yanci seldom looked at her photos in the album during the day.
At night, her figure is all in my dreams.
It seemed as if he no longer had control over his body. He didn't like the feeling of being on the verge of losing control. He wanted to get back on track, so he tried to restrain himself and quit.
Without exception, all failed.
People call the heart-pounding reaction at first sight "love at first sight", which is a beautiful word.
Shang Yanci put the girl's photo in the pocket watch his mother left him and wore it all the time.
Today is the beginning of the month. Shang Yanci opened WeChat on his mobile phone, clicked into his father's chat box, and asked about his recent health condition.
My father replied with a voice message.
Shang Yanci stretched out his hand to click, and because there were some water stains on his fingertips from washing, he slipped and clicked on his father's portrait, entering his personal page. There were four photos in the friend circle column, one of which was overly familiar.
The heartbeat went out of order again.
He involuntarily clicked into his father's circle of friends and enlarged the second photo.
The body reacts faster than the brain. When Shang Yanci came to his senses from the throbbing heartbeat, he saw in the chat box that he had sent the photo to his father and asked him who the girl on the right of the photo was.
Both messages have exceeded the withdrawal time and are lying quietly in the chat box.
The time he spent waiting for his father's reply seemed to last him a long time.
Three minutes later.
Father: [The youngest daughter of the Pei family’s grandson, Pei Yuning.]
Shang Yanci began to frequently visit his father's circle of friends.
He could hardly restrain himself from looking at her, and gradually, this feeling of being out of control became addictive. He no longer condemned his own rude behavior and chose to indulge and become addicted.
When he was lucky, he could see a new photo of Pei Yuning once a month.
When his luck was bad, he wouldn't see a single one for half a year.
In the photos, Pei Yuning seems to be eating various desserts and snacks.
She is very thin and doesn't look very healthy.
Shang Yanci began to learn cooking and baking from her grandfather.
I can’t count how many times this happened. Shang Yanci looked at the dark dish he made in silence.
Half a month later, his grandfather advised him not to learn anymore because the family could afford a chef.
Shang Yanci actually didn't expect to have a home with Pei Yuning. He just wanted to cook a delicious meal or a delicious dessert for her, that's all.
Half a year later, he gradually started to cook normal dishes. The taste was average and just edible and good looking, but that was not enough.
A year later, his cooking skills had improved a little, and he often cooked meals and desserts for his family.
Grandpa and grandma said it was delicious. I wonder if she will like it?
I hope I can have the chance to cook it for her in the future.
On the day when the group's annual meeting ended, Shang Yanci took a private flight from Shenhang and returned to northern Beijing.
It was almost evening when he arrived. Instead of returning to Tanjing Mansion, he asked the driver to drive to a dessert shop in the south of the city.
Pei Yuning liked to eat the desserts from that shop. He had seen the packaging bags of that shop's desserts in photos more than once, and he wanted to taste what her favorite desserts tasted like.
When Shang Yanci arrived at the door of the dessert shop and was about to get off the car, he looked up inadvertently and saw Pei Yuning sitting by the window.
Is it a dream?
He pinched his palms hard.
The pain was very clear, it was not a dream.
He asked the driver to drive the car to the parking space in front.
Shang Yanci got out of the back seat of the car and walked to a green pine tree diagonally opposite the dessert shop.
Pei Yuning sat in a cozy dessert shop, eating dessert while playing with her cell phone. The case of her cell phone was a furry lop-eared rabbit.
As it got dark, the street lights came on.
A drop of moisture spread from the side of his face. Shang Yanci raised his frozen hand and touched it. It was a snow seed.
Pei Yuning walked out of the dessert shop briskly and took pictures with her mobile phone.
Shang Yanci has been paying attention to the weather in northern Beijing and knows that today's snow is the first snow in northern Beijing.
This was the first snow he and she had ever seen, how lucky they were.
After taking the photos, Pei Yuning did not enter the dessert shop. She stretched out her hand and snow seeds fell on her fingertips.
Shang Yanci imitated her movements, stretched out his hand, and felt what she was feeling at the moment.
After the snow melted, the evening breeze blew, and the chill penetrated into the bones.
The snow seeds would not just fall on her fingertips, but would also fall on her hair, which would easily cause her to catch a cold.
After a while, the snow seeds gradually turned into snowflakes.
There are no umbrella shops around.
A young man and woman who were walking together and chatting passed by Shang Yanci, each holding an umbrella.
Shang Yanci: "Sorry to bother you."
The two stopped and looked at the dignified and polite man in front of them: "What's the matter?"
Shang Yanci: "It may be a little abrupt, but I still want to ask if you can give one of your umbrellas to the girl standing at the door of the dessert shop across the street. You guys decide the amount."
The woman glanced at Pei Yuning across from her and gossiped with a smile, "How dare you quarrel with such a beautiful girlfriend?"
Shang Yanci was silent for a while, then whispered, "Not yet."
It turned out to be a secret crush. The smile on the woman's face became even more intense: "It's just an umbrella, no need for money, I'll give it to her for you."
"Thank you." Shang Yanci handed her a sum of money, pointed to the umbrella the woman was holding, and said, "Please give her this beautiful umbrella."
Woman: "Okay, I wish you all the best."
Shang Yanci chuckled and said, "Thank you."
The two walked to the dessert shop across the street, and the woman handed the umbrella in her hand to Pei Yuning.
While studying at Shang Yanci University, he often went to welfare homes to look after deaf-mute elderly people, and his lip reading skills were pretty good.
He saw Pei Yuning and said, "Thank you, sister, please wait for me."
She trotted into the dessert shop, picked up two bags full of desserts, handed them to the two people respectively, then held up the beautiful umbrella, smiled with a smile on her face, turned the umbrella a few times, and thanked them again.
Shang Yanci's eyebrows and eyes were gentle, and the corners of her mouth curled up unconsciously. She was so cute.
Pei Yuning stood under the umbrella, with her hands outside the umbrella, continuing to hold up the falling snowflakes.
Shang Yanci looked at her fingertips that were red from the cold wind, his brows furrowed, and he forgot about mentioning the gloves.
Fortunately, not long after, a Cayenne stopped in front of Pei Yuning, and a young man got out of the back seat. He put the scarf in his hand around her neck and tied a beautiful knot.
Shang Yanci saw Pei Yuning calling a man "brother".
The two got into the back seat and the Cayenne drove away.
Shang Yanci stood under the green pine for a moment and then slowly walked into the dessert shop.
The wind chime at the door rang, and the clerk looked up at the customer—
A gentleman with an extremely handsome face, wearing a black coat and with long, straight legs, as if he had walked out of a comic book.
There were crystal drops of water on his hair, and a layer of white snow fell on both sides of his shoulders.
Shang Yanci walked to the counter and pointed to the seat where Pei Yuning was sitting by the window. "Hello, what kind of dessert did the girl eat just now?"
Because Pei Yuning was a regular customer, the clerk remembered it clearly: "Lychee rose cream cake."
Shang Yanci: "I want one, thank you."
He sat where Pei Yuning had just sat, eating lychee rose cream cake while looking at the first snow outside the window.
The taste is average, not as good as his.
The clerk brought a red sticky note and a gold pen and placed them on the table: "Sir, the New Year is coming soon. The wishing wall in our store is very effective. You can try it."
Shang Yanci nodded: "Thank you."
The clerk stopped bothering and returned to the counter.
Shang Yanci finished his lychee rose cream cake and drank a whole glass of water.
He glanced at the wishing wall behind him, picked up the sticky note and pen, and wrote the word "Pei" without hesitation.
After finishing writing, for some reason, he tore off the sticky note, put it in his coat pocket, and wrote a new one.
A new sticky note appeared at the top of the wishing wall, in the unique style of Slender Gold.
"PYN is in good health and safe."