Chapter 191
Nan Yan seemed to be unaware of the other person's emotions at the moment. After hearing him say it again, she looked up and saw that his expression seemed to have calmed down a little. After hesitating for a moment, she nodded, whispered good night to him, and then turned and left.
Zhong Ling watched her leave, and watched that slender figure walking further and further away, before he turned around and got into the car.
The lights in the car were a little dim, and there seemed to be a faint and gentle scent of the other person lingering on the seat next to me.
Zhong Ling's eyes swept to that place, and he saw a black hair falling on the back of the chair. He reached out his hand unconsciously, wrapped his fingertips around the hair and curled it, then raised his hand and took out a box of men's cigarettes from the storage compartment.
He felt like smoking, so he quietly lit it, put the cigarette in his mouth, tilted his head back, leaned against the seat, placed the back of his hand lightly on the window, and flicked it twice with his long, distinct knuckles, and the smell of smoke quickly dissipated.
After the car window was opened, the night wind outside mixed with a hint of the scent of grass and trees blew his hair a little messy. Zhong Ling rubbed his eyebrows and turned to look in the direction Nan Yan left.
Until that figure could no longer be seen, those two beautiful long eyebrows wrinkled slightly, leaving a faint mark between the brows, vaguely revealing a kind of unconcealable feeling of depression.
Maybe I just can't figure out the troubles in my heart.
Some headaches are severe, but they are not specific physical pains. Instead, they are a vague feeling of depression that is hard to ignore and cannot be relieved. It is very strange.
After the cigarette in his hand burned out, Zhong Ling let out a light breath, then started the car and left.
On the other side, Nan Yan was particularly relaxed. She could vaguely feel that Zhong Ling cared about her.
At least in the original plot, Zhong Ling was not so kind as to warn her in advance about what she might encounter after going home with him, let alone taking her shopping for clothes.
I still remember the plot, in her previous life, Wen Nanyan really thought that her boyfriend was going to take her to meet his parents, and she was nervous and anxious. Not only did she bring the gifts she had carefully prepared, she also dressed very decently and generously. As a result, she never expected that the other party's parents and elders all disliked her.
That kind of dislike was not a specific accusation, but rather a deliberate neglect, allowing the servant to greet her casually. She had no choice but to ask her boyfriend for help, but her boyfriend was also absent-minded at the time and didn't care about her at all. She was left alone, feeling awkward for the entire day.
She guessed that even if she was reborn, the prejudice of Zhong Ling's parents and elders against her would not disappear for no reason. Moreover, they did not know her occupation yet. How could such a family let her, a hostess, in?
But she was too lazy to say anything. She could just put the blame on Zhong Ling. Her identity this time was just a tool he hired to pretend to be his girlfriend. She didn't need to care about anything else.
In the following days, she hardly saw Zhong Ling because the party had not yet started.
Except that the next day, Zhong Ling transferred another 50,000 yuan to her after returning home, saying that it was for her to buy clothes. After being rejected by Nan Yan once or twice, she silently accepted it. After all, it was considered labor compensation.
In fact, there is still 200,000 left from the money Zhong Ling gave her, and she hasn't spent much recently. After all, she is not the kind of person who spends lavishly. Apart from the necessities of life, she seldom buys luxury items. That doesn't match the character she has created and it would easily ruin her image.
However, she still had to dress decently when going to the Zhong family for dinner this time, so she felt at ease spending her fake boyfriend's money.
However, after that night, she clearly felt that his attitude became somewhat contradictory. Sometimes he wanted to distance himself from her, but he was not so cold. Perhaps this was related to his own personality.
Nan Yan didn't care about this at all, and looked ignorant. She seemed not to feel the change in the other party's attitude at all. She still treated the big boss who gave her money with respect and sincerity.
On the day of the family gathering, Zhong Ling naturally came to pick her up on time.
He was not dressed so formally today, a solid-colored, mature-style embroidered shirt with some delicate embroidery embellishments on the neckline. Although it was a very simple style, it made him look classy. It was probably because his skin was very fair, not a cold white, but the kind of white that was as white as warm jade.
With his head lowered, his eyebrows and eyes were calm, and he looked noble and elegant.
Every move he made revealed a rare calm and elegant temperament. The way he casually leaned against the car door was very eye-catching, and it was difficult for him not to be noticed.
Many young girls passing by wanted to go over to him and ask for his contact information, but none of them dared to approach him.
This might be because the other person has a face that looks very noble, and he drove a new silver-gray sports car today. The color is quite low-key, but the style is particularly eye-catching, which makes people really dare not approach him to chat with him.
Nan Yan was wearing a French-style waisted silk skirt of the same color as his. The dress was naturally what the hero took her to buy that day. She also accessorized it with jewelry and a bag. She looked very beautiful in it, and it made her temperament and features look even more gentle and peaceful.
Nan Yan saw the other person and trotted towards him with a smile, "Zhong Ling."
The hem of her skirt swayed in waves as she moved. Zhong Ling saw her running towards him from not far away. Especially when she smiled, he inexplicably felt like he was in first love.
Zhong Ling hummed, looking away slightly, his handsome face showing his usual calm and gentle expression. He turned around and opened the car door, "Let's go."
Nan Yan smiled at him and couldn't help but take a step forward. She put her hands behind her back and looked up at him. "Don't I look good today? Mr. Zhong didn't even praise me?"
Zhong Ling paused for a moment, and a hint of emotion flashed across his emotionless eyes. He then turned around and smiled at her, "Very beautiful."
Nan Yan smiled, bent down and sat in the car. Her silk skirt covered the entire seat cushion. Nan Yan handed over the exquisitely wrapped gift box in her hand. She still had a smile on her face and said in a gentle tone,
"Zhong Ling, this is a small token of my appreciation. After all, I am now your legitimate girlfriend, and it would be rude not to bring a gift."
Zhong Ling paused for a moment and turned to look at her.
I don't know what words just now touched his heart, but he looked quite happy and put the gift in the back seat.
On the way, Zhong Ling briefly introduced her to the members of his family. He was not an only child. He had an older sister, born to his father and his ex-wife. However, his sister was much older than him and had been married for a long time.
This time, my nephew is my cousin’s baby who just turned one month old. He has been living in their house for some time. Because it is not suitable for a newborn to move around, this time the dinner was simply held at home.
The Zhong family's house is in the famous lakeside villa area in Lingcheng. It is a veritable wealthy circle, and all the people living there are either rich or noble.
The house is located halfway up a mountain with the best and most open view. Most of the people who came this time are acquaintances, and the Zhong family's house is also exceptionally spacious. They are worthy of being one of the top people in Lingcheng. The environment here is indeed good, with mountains and lakes, and the air is fresher than at the foot of the mountain. Not everyone can afford to live here.
When the two entered the yard, there were actually quite a few people from the Zhong family, but they were probably all relatives.
So when Zhong Ling appeared in the Zhong family's living room holding her hand, the two of them still attracted the attention of many people present.
Especially when Zhong Ling introduced her to the elders in his family as his girlfriend, Nan Yan clearly felt a strange gaze coming from the crowd, and a woman's face changed slightly on the spot.
Nan Yan glanced over and found that the woman looked unfamiliar. She vaguely remembered that she might be someone who had some relationship with the heroine Ruan Xiaoxiao. This was normal. After all, who would have thought that the two young lovers who were originally talking about marriage would break up at this stage, and the breakup was silent, and the elders in the family were completely unaware of it.
Under such sudden circumstances, Zhong Ling did such a thing again and rashly brought another girl back to the Zhong family. How could the people who originally came from the girl's side not feel embarrassed?
Fortunately, everyone present had seen a lot of the world, and especially since the baby was turning one month old today, no matter how dissatisfied they were in their hearts, they had to hold it in for the time being.
Mrs. Zhong, in particular, sat on the sofa, glanced at Nan Yan, and saw her son holding the girl's hand tightly. She didn't say anything, but her expression was obviously not very happy.
Obviously, in her mind, Ruan Xiaoxiao, who came from a scholarly family, was much better than the girl in front of her whose background she didn't know, but they were all decent people, and no matter how dissatisfied they were, they would not argue among them, let alone slap his son in the face in public.
Nan Yan was the first to react and gave the beautiful woman opposite her a proper smile, "Hello, Auntie."
The other party did not embarrass her, but smiled faintly and responded, "Hello, please sit down."
Then she called a servant to make tea for her. The treatment was no different from that in the original plot, except that the attitude was a little softer. However, the difference was Zhong Ling.
The boyfriend beside her probably noticed that the atmosphere in the house was a little bad, so he took her to the second floor, where they met a few close relatives of the same age. Nan Yan then obediently followed him and greeted them a few times.
Then a young and handsome man came out, holding a crying child with eyes wide open in his arms.
這人應該就是鐘嶺的堂哥了，他跟鐘嶺關系應該還不錯，懷裏抱着小孩朝對方笑得得意又幸福。
“鐘嶺，來看，我兒子像不像我？”
大概是第一次當爹，鐘堂哥格外的愛炫娃，每來一個關系親近的人，就抱着自己黑眼睛的漂亮娃到處溜達。
小孩子已經滿月了，但還是很小，渾身上下軟綿綿的也确實是招人疼。
鐘嶺應該是沒怎麽近距離接觸這麽小的小孩子，眼裏閃過一絲驚訝，看着有些好奇，便主動伸手将孩子抱了過去。
大概是從來沒有接觸過這麽小的小孩子，鐘嶺抱過來的姿勢很是僵硬。
而懷裏的小家夥感受到身上的不舒服，當即就非常不給面子的哭了起來。
這一哭就讓一貫冷靜鎮定的鐘家公子表情僵住了，頭皮都開始發麻，尤其是那一聲聲極具穿透力的哭喊聲，讓這人瞬間變得有些手忙腳亂，一副如臨大敵的模樣，到最後，連額頭都不知何時沁出了一層薄汗。
“嫣嫣……”
他下意識地喊了聲身旁的女朋友，目光甚至帶了些求助的意味，他想松手可又怕摔着人，這麽小的孩子可經不起他折騰的。
而南嫣看着他那副手忙腳亂的模樣，也實在沒忍住笑了聲。
不過笑完之後，她又趕緊上前，伸手自然而然的從男朋友懷裏抱過哭泣不止的小家夥，她抱娃的姿勢明顯要比這個男朋友合格得多，小家夥大概是不難受了，哭了一會兒，聲音就停了。
然後睜着眼睛，伸着小手無意識地去扯垂到手邊的長發，嘴裏又開始發出咿咿呀呀的嬰兒呓語。
鐘嶺便伸手将小家夥不小心攥進手裏的那縷發絲拿出來，又忍不住伸手碰了碰小孩子的手，他跟南嫣站在一起，頭碰着頭，時不時地對視一笑，哄着小孩子的模樣，倒讓周圍不少人取笑這孩子跟兩人剛生的一樣。
就連鐘嶺自己也察覺到了一絲異樣。
尤其周圍人看過來的打趣眼光，他下意識地轉頭看向眼前抱着孩子的南嫣，看她目光溫柔含笑的模樣，只覺得自己心底好似有種柔軟的情緒波動着快要溢出來。
就連呼吸都變得遲緩了不少。
倒是一旁的堂哥十分不知趣擠了過來，又沖他瞪了一眼睛，“喜歡我孩子啊，喜歡你自己生去啊，惦記我的有什麽意思？”
鐘嶺轉頭掃了他一眼，又低頭看向南嫣懷裏的小家夥，指腹輕輕碰了碰他的臉，随口說了句，“生孩子哪有你說的那麽容易，這又不是一個人想要就能完成的事情。”
他說的這話也沒什麽意思，本來生孩子就不是一件容易的事情，不過堂哥明顯想歪了，目光落到身旁的南嫣身上，用手肘拐了一下要面子的堂弟，嘿笑一聲，朝他擠眉弄眼道，“這有什麽難的啊，女朋友同意不就可以了嗎？哎呀，你就是想太多了，早點跟人結婚，再多努力一把，等到孩子都有了，你還怕姑母姑父他們不同意嘛！”
“你瞧我兒子是不是特別可愛，你心底是不是特羨慕嫉妒，嘿嘿，哥哥我從小到大樣樣不如你，這回總有一樣你趕不上了吧。”
“哈哈，我有老婆孩子你沒有！”
鐘嶺聽了這話，呵呵了一聲，非常嫌棄的将人推開，他語氣倒沒什麽情緒波動，“我早晚會有的，這種事情有什麽好得意的嗎？”
他說着又想到了什麽，眉頭輕皺了下，目光卻是不自覺地看向不遠處的南嫣。
堂哥自然不肯放棄打擊人的場面，兩個人在一旁擠眉弄眼的，弄出得動靜還不小。
倒把一旁的南嫣看得疑惑了一瞬，她哄好了孩子，一擡頭看到的就是對面兩人神情怪異樣子，直到鐘嶺朝她使了個眼色。
南嫣這才反應過來，哦，對了，她現在還是大老板的正牌女朋友呢，男朋友現在有難，正被一群親戚朋友抓着催婚催育，她這個做女朋友的自然是要上前幫忙的了。
于是南嫣輕手輕腳的将懷裏的小孩子還回去，然後走過去順其自然地挽着男朋友的手臂，手指握住他的手掌，低着頭有些不好意思地回複道，“這倒也不用那麽着急，我、我們其實還年輕，生孩子的事情還太早了。”
不過涉及這種話題時，女孩子的反應大多都是要羞澀一點的，也不能這麽毫無反應的樣子。
她說完又扮作一個貼心女友的模樣，擡頭看向男朋友，眼裏都是笑意，語氣溫柔地詢問道，“你說是不是呀，男朋友？”
鐘嶺低頭看了一眼兩人交握的手指，也不知道他到底是什麽想法，淡淡嗯了一聲後，然後說了句自相矛盾的話。
“差不多吧，這種事情确實不用那麽着急。我還很年輕，才二十六七，過完年快二十八了，再過一年很快就滿三十了，倒是比你大了不少，不過這種事情急也急不來。”
南嫣：“……”
嗯……男主大人你數學是體育老師教的嗎？這算法都讓人懷疑你的智商了。
雖然這麽說也沒錯，但這語氣聽上去，怎麽都不像是不着急的樣子啊。
南嫣聽着這話就很怪，半天都沒轉過彎來，這人可真是個別扭的性子，她就裝聽不懂，反正她是個工具人。
南嫣抿唇笑了笑，依舊是一副親近依賴的樣子，“你很喜歡小孩子嗎？”
鐘嶺目光掃了一眼那邊又在炫娃的堂哥，心裏有點微妙，他心想着，怪不得有孩子的父母都很喜歡曬自家娃了。
他要真有一個估計比他還能炫。
于是就低頭嗯了一聲，“以前不怎麽喜歡，覺得哭起來會吵得人頭疼，不過剛剛抱起來的感覺也不錯，小孩子很招人喜歡。”
南嫣忍不住又笑了，身旁的幾個親戚朋友也跟着一起笑。然後又有人順着話題又問了句，“那你喜歡男孩還是女孩呢？”
鐘嶺掃了一眼身旁挨着他站着的人，看到那掩在發間的瑩潤耳垂，手指無意識收緊了一些，聲音平靜溫和的說了聲，“這都一樣，自己的孩子沒什麽區別。不過女孩子應該更可愛一些，安靜溫柔的小淑女也挺好。”
話音剛落，身旁圍着的衆人忍不住笑出聲來。
而南嫣的臉上也立馬浮現了兩朵恰到好處的紅暈，捏着鐘嶺的手指也緊了緊，一只手攀在他的肩膀上，像是在害羞，實則腦袋貼近他的耳旁小聲說了句，“夠了吧，再說下去，你家那群親戚朋友們，估計都要過來摸摸看我肚子裏面是不是真的揣個娃了。”
“鐘老板，你可別再胡亂發言了，我現在可算是認識到了，原來你們這樣的有錢人家也會被親戚朋友催婚啊。”
果然啊，你大姨還是你大姨！
鐘嶺似有些無奈，搖頭笑了笑，又跟幾人說了些客套的話，轉身便拉着她離開了。
之後是鐘家人的晚餐時間，客廳裏并沒有什麽上流豪門社會的那些亂七八糟的規矩，因為這也不是正式的場合，算是小型的家庭聚會，在場的也都是自家親戚。
飯桌上自然有人說話，也有人喝酒，南嫣就乖乖地坐在鐘嶺身旁，有人跟她說話她便也回一個溫柔又和善的笑容。
漸漸的跟她打聽消息的人也多了些，不過鐘嶺是知道她底細的，所以這些事情全被對方不動聲色地推了回去。
鐘家最開始那種微妙冷淡的氣氛也在鐘家堂哥抱着滿月的孩子到處溜達一圈後被徹底沖散了，氣氛又變得其樂融融起來。
後來飯桌上，甚至有人還取笑鐘嶺，說他跟堂哥只差一歲，如今對方孩子都有了，他的婚事還沒個影呢。
鐘嶺應付這些事情顯然也是游刃有餘的，淡淡的将話題岔開，倒讓南嫣輕松了不少，只是時不時地要應付周圍的幾句閑話。
但鐘嶺維護她的姿态顯露出來後，來找麻煩的人漸漸就少了。
他還時不時地給她夾菜，兩人這麽一副親近的模樣，落在旁人眼裏，還真像是一對新婚恩愛的小夫妻。
飯後，來的客人也慢慢散去，傭人有條不紊地開始收拾客廳的殘局。
鐘家夫人還在跟幾個相熟的夫人聊天說着話，鐘嶺便直接帶着南嫣去樓上參觀了。
鐘家的別墅樓面積很大，大到讓人難以想象的地步，二樓陽臺那邊還有個露天游泳池，有公共書房還有私人書房，樓上還有各種娛樂室，有吧臺，還有游戲廳之類的，總之有錢人的壕真不是一般人能想像得出來的。
這也讓南嫣忍不住感嘆，有錢真好。
如果這些錢全是她的就更好了！
鐘嶺直接帶着南嫣去了他從前住的房間，之所以說是從前，是因為工作後的鐘嶺已經搬出來了。
南嫣看着就光這一間卧室都比她跟周姐合租的一整間房子還大，立馬轉頭朝人露出一個羨慕又郁悶的眼神，她現在跟鐘嶺的關系也親近了不少，不像之前那樣恭敬了，卧室還有一間私人書房，另一邊是他的更衣間，外面還有陽臺，窗戶打開後，對面就是清澈見底的湖泊跟望不到邊的青山綠林。
鐘嶺看到她那眼神忍不住好笑，“你怎麽那樣用那樣眼神瞧我，怎麽了，我又做什麽惹你不高興的事情了嗎？”
南嫣揉了揉臉，屋內的擺設看的有些眼花缭亂，她擡頭瞧了對方一眼，語氣裏有股難掩的郁悶，“鐘老板，我可真是太虧了，早知道你是這麽有錢的鑽石王老五，我就應該再努力一把，早點把你抓在手裏的。”
“可惜現在晚了，咱倆都沒緣分了。”
南嫣嘆氣一聲，以一種玩笑的語氣陳述道，“都說一見鐘情是兩個人之間最好發展感情的招術了，鐘老板，您當初都瞧我那麽多眼了，就沒對我生出點什麽非分之想嗎？”
“我長得應該也不差的，腰是腰，腿是腿的，您看您那邊還缺不缺什麽做事麻溜又勤快的貼心小助手，您看我怎麽樣，去你家給你倒垃圾行嗎？”
鐘嶺聞言微怔，随後實在沒忍住笑了起來，他看着眼前故意笑得眉眼彎彎的女孩子，大概是沒想到她也會說這樣的話，眼神不自覺緩和了下來。
“為什麽說我們倆沒緣分了，你就這麽點追求嗎？就只想着給我倒垃圾嗎？”
南嫣轉過頭一邊打量着一邊笑着應了聲，她目光又落到那邊的櫃子上，壓根就沒把他的問題真正放在心上，方才的那些“戲言”也只是心中一時郁悶說着玩的。
“因為鐘先生有喜歡的人了啊。”
南嫣又笑了笑，這笑容裏帶着一絲絲的溫和，依舊沒什麽異樣的情緒。
“我跟在鐘先生身邊的時間也不算少了，多少也能看得出來，鐘先生分明是真心實意喜歡自己的前女友的，否則也不會為了對方，費盡心思做出這麽多的事情了。”
鐘嶺原本想要說的話，在聽到對方這句話後，不知為何就堵在了喉嚨裏。
他心中那股煩悶的情緒又湧出來了。
南嫣擡頭看到那櫃子上擺放的相冊，厚厚的一沓，便轉頭看了一眼鐘嶺，接收到對方同意的眼神後，便伸手将相冊拿了下來。
然後捧着坐到床邊，翻開相冊一頁一頁的瞧，裏面全都是鐘嶺從小到大被記錄下來的照片。
南嫣一邊瞧着，一邊緩緩開口，“很多人都說，在所有的感情中，只有愛情是最廉價的，可是在我看來，愛情跟親情友情其實是一樣的，都是同等的可貴。”
她聲音輕輕的，很溫柔，“廉價的應該不是愛情，而是不夠真摯的感情，一份刻骨真摯的感情才是最難得的。”
南嫣看到照片裏的鐘嶺換牙時故意板着臉卻不小心被人偷拍記錄下的往下，又忍不住露出笑容，“尤其是像您這樣真心實意喜歡自己前女友的人，是很值得別人羨慕和尊敬的，鐘先生是個很好的人，好到讓我覺得被你喜歡上的女孩子一定是跟你一樣好的人。”
鐘嶺沉默了一瞬，好一會兒，他才将心底那股難言的情緒壓抑下去，然後低頭看向身旁的女孩兒，然後問了一句，
“那你呢？你也會覺得羨慕嗎？”
“我嗎？”
南嫣聞言眼裏閃過一絲驚訝，搖了搖頭後，轉頭又朝他露出一個憂愁的表情來，“嗯……這倒沒有，我現在最缺的就是錢了，我得掙錢買大房子，以後過自己想要的生活，其他的事情，暫時都不想考慮。”
鐘嶺張了張嘴，剛想要再說些什麽，結果就聽到門口有人敲門的聲音。
門被打開後，是打掃衛生的傭人，目光掃過屋內的兩人，然後告訴他，太太跟先生正在書房等着，說是有事情要問清楚。
鐘嶺當然知道父母要問的是什麽事情，他朝南嫣看過去一眼，叮囑她現在屋裏休息一會兒，等他回來了再送她離開。
南嫣自然是應了。
她也能猜到鐘家父母會詢問什麽事情，大概是事後算賬了，不過他們倆之間的關系本來就是假的，只要鐘嶺老實說了，基本上不會有什麽太大影響。
她就安安靜靜地坐在沙發上等着。
等着大概有半個多小時，南嫣有些撐不住閉着眼睛小憩了一會兒，其實也沒怎麽睡着，就是迷迷糊糊的有些疲憊，等她察覺到周圍有什麽不對勁時，剛睜開眼睛，那雙眼睛正好就對上了面前的鐘嶺。
他就那麽站在她面前，半個身子隐在光影中，讓人看不清臉，只有那雙漆黑的眼眸在玻璃的反射下顯露出明顯的神色，在她睜開的那一瞬間閃過一絲迷茫與困惑，不過很快又恢複了平靜，就這麽靜靜地望着她。
南嫣眼裏也閃過一絲驚訝。
兩人就這麽正對着無聲相望着。
終于還是南嫣有些按耐不住了。
她擡手揉了揉眼睛，問他，“鐘先生你什麽時候回來的，為什麽都沒有喊醒我？”
鐘嶺的聲音沙沙的，有些低啞，“剛回來，正想喊你的，結果你就自己醒了。”
南嫣很明顯地察覺到了他聲音裏有一絲不對勁，她有些奇怪，下意識地伸手握住他的衣袖，将人拉近了一點。
“你怎麽了，喉嚨不舒服嗎？”
她說着也從沙發上坐直了身體，這一下正好借着陽臺的燈光，清楚的看到他側臉上有一道鮮紅的巴掌印子。
南嫣愣住，大概是對方的指甲太過尖銳了，原本完好無損的臉龐上都被刮出了幾道血痕，硬生生的毀了這副清隽名貴的畫卷。
“鐘、鐘嶺，你的臉怎麽了？”
她下意識伸手過去，卻又擔心自己的手指不夠幹淨不敢随意觸碰，只能這樣略帶緊張地望着。
鐘嶺微皺了眉，似乎不太想說這個話題，他直接将自己的外套遞過去，然後牽起她的手，“走吧，我先帶你離開這裏。”
南嫣還想再問些什麽，可看他那副面色微沉的模樣，也知道現在不是說這些的時候，便反手握住對方的手掌，似乎這樣就能夠給對方一點安慰似的。
鐘嶺直接帶着她離開了，鐘家也沒什麽敢阻攔，畢竟現在的鐘嶺也不是小孩子了，他有自己的公司跟能力，完全不需要依附鐘家，這是他的底氣。
離開後的鐘嶺直接帶着她去了自己住的地方，汽車開了半小時，很快進入另一座別墅區，這一路上兩人都沒有說話。
南嫣明顯察覺到對方的心情不好。
鐘嶺到家後便将車鑰匙扔在了茶幾上，他也沒看站在門口的南嫣，轉個身從冰箱裏拿出了一瓶酒來，然後坐在沙發上飲了幾口。
等到一杯酒喝完，他的情緒終于平複下來了，這才轉頭看着門口的南嫣道，“我今晚喝了酒，有些頭疼，不太适合開車。”
“你今晚先在我這邊住吧，樓上的房子都可以，想要什麽都可以跟我說。”
南嫣聞言也沒有說什麽，似乎早就預料到了這個結果了，她直接朝着沙發走過去，低頭看着他道，“那有消毒水嗎？你臉上的傷口需要處理一下，要不然可能會發炎。”
鐘嶺看着她，說，“有，在浴室外面的那個櫃子裏。”
鐘嶺從茶幾底下又摸出了一盒香煙，他從裏面抽出一根，看到南嫣抿了抿唇，眼底似乎閃過一絲意外，他手上的動作微頓了下，還是悉悉索索點上了。
煙霧袅袅籠罩着那張俊美矜貴的臉。
那抽煙的樣子看上去很熟練，也很好看，兩根修長的手指攏着煙蒂，有股風流灑脫的意味，跟平日裏的他有些不一樣。
南嫣從浴室找來幹淨的毛巾跟涼水，還有一些清理傷口的工具，然後在他身旁的沙發上坐下了。
她臉上沒什麽異樣的情緒，只是聞到那股煙味時不小心嗆了下，鐘嶺手上夾着的煙蒂頓了下，然後按進煙灰缸裏熄滅了。
看他情緒終于穩定了不少，南嫣這才開始用毛巾在他臉上輕輕冷敷，然後問了聲，“你也會抽煙嗎？”
鐘嶺眉梢動了下，“會，很意外嗎？”
他說完又忍不住補充了一句，笑了聲，“我可能跟你想象中的有些不太一樣，高中時期的我可能是所有正常父母眼中的壞孩子，喝酒，抽煙，逃課打架我都幹過。”
南嫣眼睛微微睜大，這下她是真的沒想到了，不過也沒什麽意外的情緒，只是忍不住朝他笑了笑，
“那一定是家裏管得太嚴格了是不是，我記得好多那個年紀的男孩都是那樣的。”
鐘嶺看她笑了，臉上的表情也慢慢緩和了，“或許是吧，那是個封閉式的寄宿制學校，被家裏要求盡早獨立，學得都是一些枯燥乏味的東西，懂得太多也不是好事。”
"So I wanted to try out a life of a little more indulgence, but every time I indulged myself, I would come back and get a lesson."
Nan Yan soaked a towel in water and gently placed it on his cheek. The cool touch made Zhong Ling feel instantly relieved from the burning pain.
Hearing him say this, Nan Yan pursed her lips, then asked in a slow voice,
"So, was Mr. Zhong also taught a lesson tonight?"
As she spoke, she took out a cotton swab and gently rubbed the wound on his face. Perhaps they were too close to each other, so close that her breath sprayed on his neck.
This made Zhong Ling's body stiffen slightly.
Nan Yan thought she had hurt him, and subconsciously moved more gently. Zhong Ling clearly felt the slightly cool cotton swab moving across his face, from his cheeks to his chin, and the original pain slowly turned into itching.
It was itchy, not uncomfortable, but there was a very strange feeling that slowly spread in his heart, and the hot breath she exhaled seemed to linger around his neck.
His breathing paused uncontrollably for a moment.
His eyes unconsciously fell on Nan Yan's face. She frowned slightly, as if she didn't notice that he was looking at her at all. Her mind was completely focused on the wound on the side of his face.
"Well, I got a lesson tonight."
Nan Yan was not surprised to hear this. She blew gently on the scratched wound twice, trying to blow away the scraped skin on his chin.
When she blew past again, Zhong Ling deliberately turned his head away.
His throat slid involuntarily, and this time, the breath blown by Nan Yan just hit his lips.
This also stunned Nan Yan.
She raised her head subconsciously, and her eyes met Zhong Ling's slightly deep gaze at the moment.
At that moment, when their eyes met, one's expression was moist and full of tenderness and a hint of surprise, while the other was a little nervous.
Zhong Ling's breathing seemed to have stopped.
For a moment, the atmosphere in the house became frozen. The surroundings were silent, almost too quiet.