cake
Chen Qian'an was stunned, knowing that this was a tip from Dong You. He gently moved his thumb and stroked the back of her hand.
No one else was surprised, except Li Han'e, who casually asked, "Why did you think of eating cake today?"
"This is for Xiao An." Dong You raised his chin and pointed in the direction of Chen Qian'an with a calm expression.
Okay, now everyone was stunned except Chen Qian'an.
“???”
Li Han'e felt a pang of pain in her teeth and slapped herself in her heart.
She asked this question unnecessarily!!
She endured it again and again, but when she saw Dong You pull out a chair and motion for Chen Qi'an to sit down, she couldn't help but twitch her lips and said sarcastically, "Why haven't I seen you be so considerate before?"
After arranging Chen Qi'an's seat, Dong You also sat firmly in the seat next to Chen Qi'an, even deliberately moving the chair closer to Chen Qi'an. She retorted: "Who do you think you are?"
Li Han'e felt hurt, pointing her finger at Dong You with a trembling voice. She turned back to look at Li Li and Cen Youxue, her face filled with grievance and anger: "Look! Look! Look at what she did to me!!"
Cen Youxue patted her shoulder, said nothing, pulled out a chair and sat down.
Li Li smiled and said, "Aren't you used to Xiao You talking to you like this? I'm used to it."
Then he sat down too.
While eating, Dong You let go of Chen Qian'an's hand. He secretly looked at his hand under the table and clenched it.
The empty hands can finally hug me tightly.
He can also hold his heart tightly and hear his heart say: She just treats you as a younger brother.
Dong You's kindness to him really made him addicted, but in his obsession there was still a trace of rationality.
He knew clearly that all these good things were not because of "love", but because of "habit", because of his long-standing identity - "Dongyou's younger brother".
He was in a daze and could not escape Dongyou's gaze, even though she was chatting with her roommates about some things during their business trip.
Dongyou looked at him: "What's wrong? Is it not tasty?"
She looks like a gentle older sister.
Chen Qian'an felt a little annoyed, but this annoyance was directed at himself.
Maybe he was too naive, so Dongyou treated him like a child.
He shook his head calmly and said, "No, it's delicious."
Dong You stared at him silently for a while, then poured him a glass of orange juice and said, "Eat more."
Chen Qi'an couldn't get a word in during their conversation, and Dong You intentionally brought up topics that Chen Qi'an could engage in. But Chen Qi'an wasn't a talkative person by nature, so he just ate quietly, listened silently, and only spoke a few words when someone called on him.
Dong You was worried that Chen Qian'an would be bored during the meal and that he was feeling aggrieved, so he had to pay attention to his mood while they were eating and chatting.
Unfortunately, Chen Qian'an's facial expressions were not very expressive, and even if Dong You was very careful, he couldn't tell what his mood was. He could only try his best to cover up the unhappiness that this meal might bring to him with his kindness.
In fact, it is more than that.
"I'll go get the car, you wait for me at the door." After dinner, Chen Qian'an took the initiative to say.
Without waiting for Dongyou's reaction, he took the key from her hand and walked towards the parking lot, leaving only his back to Dongyou and her other two friends.
Li Han'e watched Chen Qi'an's back disappear before her eyes, then looked at Dong You's face, which was frowning and staring at his back, and said teasingly, "Oh, you can't bear to be apart for such a while?"
"No." Dong You shook his head, "I was afraid he would be unhappy."
“…” Li Han’e choked and looked at her in surprise.
Even Cen Youxue next to her raised her eyebrows slightly.
The expression on Dong You's face really made Li Han'e's teeth ache. Combining Dong You's behavior at the banquet, she said, "You treat him like a baby, don't you? You worry about him getting burned or thirsty while he's eating, and you're still worried he'll be unhappy after he's finished eating. Don't you think you're too good to him?"
Dong You finally looked away. She smiled and remembered that her performance at the dinner was indeed too exaggerated. It was precisely because her reaction was too exaggerated that she was worried that he would be unhappy.
This doesn't make sense. This kind of thought doesn't even have the support of the brain, it seems to grow out of the heart alone.
It's an instinct.
"I can't help it..." Dong You laughed, "Maybe it's my instinct to be nice to him."
"Hiss..." Li Han'e didn't want to talk to her anymore.
I didn’t expect Dong You to have this style when it comes to love. Maybe love can change people.
Cen Youxue patted her shoulder and said with a smile, "Happy wedding."
They chatted a little more about company affairs, and finally saw Li Li's conspicuous red car in the darkness. It didn't take a close look to tell that the person following behind her was Chen Qian'an.
After saying goodbye, Dong You got into the passenger seat and said, "Why are you so slow?"
Chen Qi'an slowly started the car and replied, "There are too many people, it's blocked."
“That’s right…” Dong You nodded, “After all, it’s quite late now. They should have eaten their fill and gone home.”
Chen Qi'an skillfully operated the steering wheel and nodded in agreement.
Seeing Chen Qi'an driving for the first time, Dong You stared at him curiously, his gaze so intense that Chen Qi'an couldn't stand it. He wanted her to stop looking, but he was too embarrassed to say it, so he could only purse his lips more and more.
Dong You noticed his subtle change. She turned her head, looked at the road, and said with a smile, "You can actually drive."
"Yeah." Chen Qian said.
"When did you get your driver's license?" Dong You still smiled and reached out to touch the knitted flower pot in front of the car.
She was actually a little sad in her heart because she missed Chen Qi'an's growth.
There's more to it than just a driver's license.
She missed his high school graduation, college graduation, and graduate school graduation.
Normally, he shouldn't have missed the winter tour when he graduated from high school, but unfortunately, she was in college at the time, busy with an internship. She had assumed her family would tell her when Chen Qi'an's graduation banquet would be held, so she waited. When summer vacation was almost over, she couldn't stand it anymore and asked, only to find out it had already been held.
She asked angrily, but was told, "Xiao An said he was afraid of disturbing your studies, so he specifically told me not to tell you."
This is no one else's fault.
She can only blame herself.
If she had made time to talk to her family more often, this wouldn't have happened.
This incident made her intentionally keep in frequent contact with her family for a while, and she would always secretly ask about Chen Qian'an's recent situation, but in the end, she put it on hold again due to her busy studies.
At the beginning, she and Chen Qian'an still had some contact on WeChat, but both of them were in a busy stage, one was busy participating in various activities in school, and the other was busy preparing for the college entrance examination. Over time, the contact became less and less.
Later, when I was free, I opened the dialog box and didn’t know what to say.
"Graduating from high school." Chen Qi'an calmly gripped the steering wheel and added, "My brother took me there."
"Really?" Dong You was already leaning back in his chair, resting his eyes. She asked, "Did you make any new friends in college?"
Chen Qi'an nodded and said, "Yes." He thought about having dinner with his friends from the winter tour today, so he said, "I'll introduce them to you next time."
But, he doesn’t have as many friends as Dongyou, he only has one friend.
That might sound a bit pathetic.
In fact, he did have some temporary friends in college, but he was not very familiar with them and could only talk to them when they met.
There is only one person I am still in contact with.
Dongyou opened her eyes and found that the car had already entered the villa area. She smiled and said, "Okay."
She was very happy to participate in Chen Qi'an's social circle, just as she was very happy for Chen Qi'an to participate in her social circle.
When she first came back to start her own business, she happened to meet a college student from the same university as Chen Qi'an. She didn't know why, but she asked him if he knew Chen Qi'an.
To her surprise, he said he knew Chen Qi'an, and that he was a well-known figure in the school. Perhaps because she was too happy, she did not notice the strange expression on the student's face.
She asked him about the people around Chen Qi'an, but fortunately, she got the answer: "There are not many people of the opposite sex around him. He has a friend and roommate who often eats with him, named Zheng Hongwen."
There weren't actually many things for winter travel, but they were piled up all over the garage, leaving no room for the car in a garage that could have room for two more.
It was already late, and the car was parked awkwardly in front of the garage door. The two people in the car were already a little tired, so Dong You simply said, "Let's leave the car here first and clean up here tomorrow. I'm too tired now and don't want to move."
Chen Qi'an also felt tired. He nodded, opened the car door, and stepped out with one foot. Instead, he stepped on the soft grass. He walked to the stone slab at the rear of the car and looked down to find a few green grass sticking to his shoes.
Dongyou stepped onto stone slabs when she got out of the car, but she didn't miss the lush green lawn. Her eyesight wasn't particularly bad, and she noticed the water dripping from several shrubs on the lawn. "Who watered them?"
Chen Qi'an looked down at the grass on his shoes, feeling a little uncomfortable. However, he had no tissue to wipe it off, so he could only endure it and said, "It must be the gardener."
"Have you hired someone yet?"
Chen Qi'an finally took his eyes off his shoes, deciding to implement the "out of sight, out of mind" policy. Regarding the winter tour, he nodded, then shook his head. "We've only hired a gardener and a housekeeper. We haven't found a cleaning lady or a cooking lady yet."
He started looking for people the moment the house was finished. He hired a gardener after just a few interviews, and a housekeeper who was trained at home and hired straight away. However, the cleaning lady and the cooking lady proved difficult. Chen Qi'an's cooking was rarely to his liking, and he interviewed over a dozen people, but none satisfied him. Cleaning ladies rarely had negative reviews, and Chen Qi'an didn't dare hire one with negative reviews, given that they were exposed to every aspect of his home.
The lights in the villa were on, and the housekeeper stood at the door, smiling and welcoming them: "Sir, Madam, welcome home."
Dong You followed the housekeeper's instructions and went to the master bedroom bathroom to shower, while Chen Qi'an went to the other bathroom. Dong You finished first and dried her hair in the room, but still didn't see Chen Qi'an. She asked the housekeeper where he was. Even though she was so sleepy that her eyes were about to close, she still went to the bathroom door and waited for him to come out.
She didn't have to wait long before someone came out.
Chen Qi'an held a beige towel in his hand, tilted his head and gently wiped his wet hair. His half-closed eyes did not notice Dong You at first.
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