destiny
"Is this what you call a perfect date?" Xia Zhitang pointed in disbelief at the pile of photographic equipment in Lin Jingming's trunk. "Big Director, you're taking me out on a field trip on your vacation?"
Lin Jingming took out a bag of clothes from the back seat and said, "Come on, change your shoes and your coat into a windproof one."
"Lin Jingming, you didn't take me out to play!" Xia Zhitang complained as he took off his small leather boots, "I'm so lucky I dressed up so nicely."
Lin Jingming smiled and kissed her: "I am very happy, but I think photography is something we all like."
He knelt on one knee on the ground, placed Xia Zhitang's feet on his thigh, and helped her put on her sneakers.
"Are you trying to make up for my regret of not becoming a travel photographer?"
Xia Zhitang looked at the top of Lin Jingming's head. There were two glaring white hairs mixed in his carefully combed back hair.
Before they knew it, they had truly become middle-aged people.
"That's part of the reason." His fingertips deftly adjusted the complicated laces for her. "So, do you like it?"
"Okay, it's nice to explore the world with you."
Xia Zhitang touched Lin Jingming's earlobe with his fingertips and helped him tuck his loose hair behind his ear.
The two of them held hands and slowly climbed up the mountain. After being accustomed to the hustle and bustle of the city, they suddenly felt particularly comfortable when they came to the wilderness, as if all the negative energy accumulated in their hearts had been purified.
The two walked and stopped, and time suddenly slowed down.
Xia Zhitang looked at Lin Jingming who was squatting by the stream picking up stones. The sunlight leaked through the gaps in the trees and fell on his body, making him unnaturally warm.
She raised her camera and took a picture, feeling a bitter feeling spreading in her heart.
"Lin Jingming, I may not want to get married or have children in the future."
After returning from the filming, Qingwu's nanny was on vacation, and she was exhausted when she took Qingwu back to Uncle Chen and Aunt Chen alone.
A few days of parent-child parenting life slowly calmed her down. How far can she and Lin Jingming go in such a complicated reality?
Xia Zhitang began to hesitate. She was a little scared. After experiencing two marriages and parenting, it was difficult for her to expect anything.
Compared with marriage and love, she was more worried that if she and Lin Jing had a falling out one day, the project they were working on would not be able to move forward.
Lin Jingming paused, slowly picked up the red heart-shaped pebble he had just found and stood up.
He stuffed the stone into Xia Zhitang's palm and touched Xia Zhitang's face comfortingly: "Okay, I understand. Let's sit over there and talk."
He hugged the person who was about to cry and found a relatively flat piece of grass. He took out a piece of cloth and spread it on the grass before pulling Xia Zhitang to sit down.
Xia Zhitang lowered his head, stroking the pebbles in his palm, and said with difficulty: "Do you think my request is too much?"
"Don't be sad, this is your legitimate need." Lin Jingming took out a water bottle and handed it to Xia Zhitang. "I just haven't thought about it before, so I need to think carefully before giving you an answer."
He reached out and tucked Xia Zhitang's hair behind her ears. "My first reaction was that this was fine, but I could tell you were asking me this question seriously, so I felt I had to take it seriously too."
Xia Zhitang felt his eyes welling up again: "I'm sorry, getting married and having children is the ideal outcome of a relationship for many people, but after thinking about it for a long time, I realized that I don't want these."
She knew how important the promise of marriage was to many people, but Xia Zhitang found that she could not give these to Lin Jingming now. She was even more worried that Lin Jingming would not be able to accept this fact after falling deeper and deeper into the trap.
"Well, it's indeed very important to many people." Lin Jingming smiled and rubbed Xia Zhitang's head, "but not to me."
Xia Zhitang looked up at Lin Jingming in some surprise, and met his serious and expressive eyes.
"Xia Zhitang, I accept everything you just said." He took Xia Zhitang's hand and gently kissed the back of her hand. "What I want most now is to be with you."
"But I'm afraid you will regret it later..." Xia Zhitang still hopes that the two of them can be happy together until the end.
"I can't guarantee what I will think in the future, but now..." Lin Jingming carefully held Xia Zhitang's face and kissed her lips.
"Now I love you and can accept any of your ideas about not getting married or having children."
He pulled up the crying Xia Zhitang, picked her up and spun her around in her arms while she looked stunned.
"Xia Zhitang, you are my muse. What attracts me most about you is yourself."
As the two walked back, it began to darken.
No matter how hard we hurried, raindrops as big as beans still fell some distance away from the car.
"Protect the cameras!" Xia Zhitang wrapped several devices with the raincoat handed to him by Lin Jingming.
Lin Jingming put his raincoat on her, held the person with one hand and the other, and rushed towards the parking lot in the dense rain.
The two of them had been hanging around in the mountains for so long that they didn't notice the change in the weather. When they rushed into the car, Lin Jingming was as wet as a rooster that fell into the water, and his carefully groomed hair was stuck to his face.
Xia Zhitang inexplicably recalled the time when they were filming the rain scene in "Blue Luan Jie". Lin Jingming screamed uncontrollably like a rooster with its feathers blown off, and he couldn't help laughing.
Lin Jingming shivered as he turned on the heater in the car and took out two towels from the car.
"What are you laughing at?" He threw a towel on Xia Zhitang's forehead. "Did you get soaked by the rain and become stupid?"
"I think you're cute." She said seriously.
"Xia Zhitang, when you praise a man, use words like handsome and brave. Don't use random words." Lin Jingming sighed as he took off his half-wet shirt.
"Lin Jingming, you are so narcissistic." Xia Zhitang felt something in his heart as he looked at the car windows that were turned into a curtain of water by the heavy rain.
"That's called stating the facts." Lin Jingming frantically took off his wet clothes in the narrow carriage, leaving only his half-wet shorts.
"Big wolfdog?" Xia Zhitang pointed at the cheesy husky pattern on Lin Jingming's pants in shock.
Lin Jingming complained unhappily, "I was planning to give you a surprise when I got back, but the rain ruined it."
He stood up and started to climb into the driver's seat: "Let's go back and drink some ginger tea. It's easy to catch a cold this day."
Xia Zhitang looked at Lin Jingming's slightly protruding spine and his butt in dark red shorts and suddenly grabbed his wrist: "Wait a minute, help me zip up."
She took off her slightly damp coat and lifted her long hair to reveal the zipper of her skirt: "It's too uncomfortable to stick to my body."
"Are your arms not long enough?" Lin Jingming was about to make fun of Xia Zhitang, but he was caught off guard by seeing Xia Zhitang's white and delicate back and the thin red cross straps inside.
He used his last bit of rationality to look away: "Use a towel to cushion my wound first. I'll see if there's a hotel nearby where I can go to change clothes first."
"Lin Jingming, what are you waiting for?" Xia Zhitang took off her wet skirt and hugged Lin Jingming from behind.
"Xia Xia, can we go to the hotel first? There's a bed somewhere..."
The crackling sound of the rain was like a surging symphony. Lin Jingming felt like the Princess and the Pea sleeping on soft bedding. The delicate touch greatly magnified the presence of the two peas.
"Listen to the beautiful sound of rain outside the window. It's the vast, pouring sound that isolates everything. Isn't it the most romantic thing?" Xia Zhitang's hand slowly moved down and pinched the big wolf dog's mouth. "The rain is our quilt, the car is our mat, and there are only you and me in this world."
Lin Jingming felt as if all the blood in his body was boiling and gathering at the place where Xia Zhitang's hand was holding. The last remaining string of the "perfect first time" broke with a "snap".
Bean-sized raindrops washed onto the black off-road vehicle and gathered into streams, and then fell to the ground due to the shaking body of the vehicle.
In the empty parking lot, only the birds hiding under the leaves occasionally looked curiously at the shaking car, and then closed their eyes due to the heavy rain.
On the blurry car window, a blurry palm print can occasionally be seen through the gaps in the water marks, and then another larger palm print appears and covers it. After a moment, the car body that has been shaking for a long time finally slowly returns to calm.
Inside the car, rain-soaked clothes were casually draped over the seats. Lin Jingming, wrapped in a towel, hugged the yawning Xia Zhitang and asked, "Who was it that was yelling 'it's not enough' just now? You're giving up so soon?"
"Lin Jingming, you are so bad!" Xia Zhitang thought of Gang'er. He suddenly stopped and asked her if it was enough. He had to force her to say the most reckless words before he could continue. She couldn't help but bite his neck again.
"Don't you love it very much?" Lin Jingming stood still, smiling and enjoying her biting.
"Don't you love me? Why do you still have the mind to tease me?" The experience was a little different from what Xia Zhitang had imagined. This person actually paid attention to the rhythm and pulling during the whole process.
"If I were just doing this for my own happiness, I wouldn't tease you." His fingertips brushed across Xia Zhitang's delicate waist.
"Lin Jingming." Xia Zhitang's fingertips brushed across Lin Jingming's chest. "If you don't like me anymore, you must tell me."
"Yes, I will." Lin Jingming held Xia Zhitang's hand and kissed her fingertips. "Don't tell me if you don't like me."
Because I will pretend not to notice and keep teasing you.
Caught off guard, Xia Zhitang's tears rolled down from her eyes and hit Lin Jingming's collarbone.
"Baby, I gave you a chance." Lin Jingming lifted Xia Zhitang's face and kissed her tear marks, "You can't run away now."
"Even if we don't get married and have children, and I have to spend a lot of time with my own children, will you accept that?" Xia Zhitang's tears surged like a reservoir opened.
"I'll be with you when you need me." Lin Jingming's eyes were like a bottomless whirlpool, pulling Xia Zhitang down with him. "When you don't need me, I'll go film and not bother you."
"Lin Jingming, I want to know why." Xia Zhitang felt that they were talking to each other's souls at this moment.
"Baby, do you believe in metaphysics?"
Lin Jingming's smile was a little crazy, but Xia Zhitang didn't feel scared.
"I used to think I could change my fate, but now I believe it." He tightened his arms and held Xia Zhitang tightly against his chest. "I believe it wholeheartedly."
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