Chapter 33. Barking like a dog
When they entered the room, Ruan Tang made a "hush" gesture to Feng Xue not to speak, and the two of them tiptoed towards her room.
Coco suddenly rubbed her sleepy eyes and came out to go to the bathroom. When she saw Feng Xue behind Ruan Tang, she was obviously stunned for a moment, then turned around and slipped back to her room at the speed of light.
Ruan Tang looked back at Feng Xue, pursed her lips and seemed to not know how to start.
Finally, Feng Xue calmly pointed to the door opposite Coco and asked: "Is it convenient to go in? Why don't you go in and tidy up first?"
She was silent for a few seconds, then went straight into the bedroom. Not long after, she took out a white bathrobe and handed it to him, saying: This is new, change your wet clothes first.
Feng Xue couldn't persuade her, so he had to lower the curtain rod and go into the bathroom.
Coco poked her head out of the bedroom and signed to her in a hurry to pee. Ruan Tang quickly put her hands together and silently begged her to hold it in for a while.
Feng Xue installed the curtain rods and sat on the small sofa in her bedroom wrapped in a white bathrobe, watching Ruan Tang come in with a pile of things in one hand and a steaming cup in the other.
When he stood up, the collar of his bath towel came loose slightly, so he quickly sat down again and tightened the belt of his bathrobe.
"Well... I don't have any ginger at home, so I made you some brown sugar water, which should have the same effect." Ruan Tang stuffed the mug into Feng Xue's hand, and watched him tilt his head back and drink it in big gulps. She bit her lower lip lightly, and suddenly said: Well... my roommate just now... Anyway, I basically never bring a man home, really!
Feng Xue was stunned and only said "hmm" faintly, which made her feel as uncomfortable as if she had punched cotton.
She pulled a face, wet a cotton swab with iodine, walked up to him, lifted his chin without giving him any chance to refuse, and treated the wound on his face. She also put a Rilakkuma Band-Aid on the obvious wound.
Feng Xue looked uncomfortable from head to toe, even down to his eyebrows. He said he wanted to call a taxi to go back. When he stood up and was about to leave, Ruan Tang, who was sitting in the makeup chair, stopped him and asked: You haven't told me what you want to tell me today?
"You..." He sat back down, his long legs curled up under his bathrobe. With the expression on his face, he looked like a snowman about to melt. "Is the person you're meeting today called Qin Jie?"
Ruan Tang leaned forward, one hand supporting her chin, squinting her eyes as she looked at him, and asked, "How do you know? So you got into this fight with him?"
"He's worse than me!" he emphasized.
Although Ruan Tang still had a lot of questions in her mind, she inadvertently felt an inexplicable joy surging in her chest.
"Actually, I am..." Before she could finish introducing herself to Xu Wei, she was interrupted by Feng Xue who was lost in her memories.
He said: What happened to me back then had a lot to do with him. He returned to Hong Kong after I got into trouble. That day I saw in the news that his previous company was being investigated. I guess he might have felt that the limelight had passed. The Central elite you described was very similar to him. I guessed he might have come back, so I went to find him.
Ruan Tang felt that the dampness had been completely dispelled by the hot bath she had just taken, but she felt that it had returned again, gradually extinguishing the sparks in her heart and causing her to feel irritated.
"Oh," she agreed in a cold tone, "so it's an old grudge? But I also think..."
"So don't be with him." Feng Xue added eagerly before she finished speaking. He pursed his lips and said: I am not used to talking about others behind their backs, but he really can't.
Ruan Tang laughed so hard that her shoulders shook. She looked at him and asked deliberately seriously: You asked me to stay away from Jia Yingjun and not to be with Qin Jie, so what kind of person do you think is more suitable for me?
Feng Xue hesitated for a while with "ah, oh, hmm", and suddenly her eyes locked on the acrylic lipstick stand on Ruan Tang's dressing table. She said: At least... he has to be a man who can buy you these lipsticks all over your body so that you can never finish applying them in your lifetime... Oh, and those bags displayed in the store.
Ruan Tang chuckled, but felt a little lost in her heart. Her reason did not allow her to say that those things were not important now.
She stood up, spread out the yoga mat, put a blanket on it, and said to Feng Xue: You just stay here tonight.
Feng Xue was stunned for a moment, and Ruan Tang asked with a smile: Do you think I will let you sleep on the bed?
He shook his head and said: Actually, I can sleep on the sofa.
Ruan Tang spread her hands and said, "We haven't used the sofa since we moved in. It's probably not as clean as here." She lifted the quilt and crawled in.
She rarely suffered from insomnia before, but tonight she tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep. She heard Feng Xue yawn under the bed, and soon there was the sound of even breathing. She stuck her head out and saw that he was indeed asleep.
Ruan Tang fiercely picked up her phone and started searching for custom medals on Taobao, preparing to give him the "Sit Still in a Woman's Arms" award.
In the middle of the night, the rain stopped.
She gently got out of bed and squatted beside Feng Xue, examining him closely. Even in his sleep, he was wrapped tightly in his bathrobe, curled up on his side, looking surprisingly delicious, like a cooked black tiger prawn.
Ruan Tang supported herself on the ground with her hands and moved closer to him little by little until his breath warmed her cheek. She belatedly realized that her heartbeat had become extremely rapid.
Suddenly, a series of vibrations broke the tranquility. Ruan Tang felt her whole body stiffen. She turned her head and found that it was Feng Xue's sports bracelet that was frantically reminding her that her heart rate was suddenly too high.
Is he awake?
Ruan Tang turned around to look at him again. His sleeping posture was exactly the same as before, except that his lips were slightly pursed.
Obviously, he woke up.
At this moment, Ruan Tang even wanted to bang her head against the bed leg to end it all.
She paused for two seconds, then suddenly leaned close to Feng Xue's face, sniffed hard, and murmured like a dream: Mom... look at me imitating a dog... Woof woof woof... Then she used her hands and feet to climb over Feng Xue and onto the bed.
Will a man in his thirties still experience a faster heartbeat due to intimate contact?
After listening to Ruan Tang's account of what happened that night, Xu Wei couldn't help but immediately post an interactive Weibo post, which soon received hundreds of replies.
The latest reply said: Apart from exercise, the last time my boyfriend's heart rate increased was when he made a card error while playing Texas Hold'em (smile) (smile) (smile)
Xu Wei happily put the phone in front of Ruan Tang, nodded and said affirmatively: It is better to pursue such excitement than to go out and find a young girl to create excitement.
Ruan Tang pushed the phone away and said seriously: I might as well go back to my hometown overnight.
Xu Wei suppressed a laugh and said, "Not really." Ruan Tang wailed, her face drooping. "This is so embarrassing! I could have just pretended to be looking for my glasses. Why did I have to pretend to be sleepwalking and barking like a dog? Do you think I'm mentally ill?"
"Is it possible that you don't usually wear glasses, so how could you come up with such a lame excuse as looking for glasses?"
Seeing her bury her face in her hands, Xu Wei said seriously, "This is a good thing." She patted Ruan Tang's head like a patriarch and said, "People become fools when they fall in love, and judging by the current situation, you two are just one step away from success."
The next afternoon, Ruan Tang went to the alley entrance to pick up a courier, and when she came back she saw Feng Xue settling the bill behind the counter.
Hearing her footsteps, he subconsciously raised his head and their eyes met.
"Did you pick up the package?"
Ruan Tang excitedly opened the package and said mysteriously: This is my secret weapon for building an Internet celebrity brand store.
After she finished speaking, she took out several large packs of tissues from the box.
Feng Xue was surprised: This... is a secret weapon?
"This is no ordinary tissue..."
"Boss, two more cups of black tea yucca lattes, please." The two girls sitting in front of the window waved towards the counter.
"Okay, wait a moment." Ruan Tang quickly put down the tissue and went to work behind the counter.
Feng Xue pulled out the tissues and discovered that each one was printed with different images of bags, lipsticks, and jewelry to match the various copywriting:
"Whether I'm drinking coffee or dating, I insist on using half sugar. The former is to prevent weight gain, and the latter is to prevent myself from getting hurt."
“I’m not rich, but sitting by the floor-to-ceiling windows of a bistro with a cup of coffee made with care makes me feel like I am.”
…
He watched Ruan Tang deliver coffee and customized paper towels to the two girls' tables. The two girls took up their phones to take pictures of the paper towels with curiosity.
Ruan Tang turned her head and met Feng Xue's gaze. She winked at him. Feng Xue smiled, nodded, and gave her a thumbs up.
He asked: "How did you come up with so many ideas? I think you can go and write a public account with Xu Wei."
Ruan Tang waved her hands complacently and said, "Of course I can't do it on my own. These are just things I overheard from guests who come here every day. I found some of them very interesting, so I wrote them down." As she spoke, she leaned closer to Feng Xue and lowered her voice, "Don't young people nowadays like to take pictures of things that look a little bit special and post them on Weibo and WeChat Moments? This is a great promotion for us."
Feng Xue noticed that what she used was "we".
He quickly organized his thoughts and said: It is indeed a good word-of-mouth marketing point.
After receiving his affirmation, Ruan Tang subconsciously straightened her back as if she had a big red flower on her chest: That's right, although I know nothing about accounting, it's no problem for me to come up with new ideas, so if we work together, the effect will definitely be greater than the sum of our parts.
"Are those your new ideas too?" Feng Xue pointed outside and looked up to see Ruan Tang also confused.
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