Chapter 48
The room was pitch black, with only a sliver of light shining by the bed.
Yao Yingmo stood up the pillow as a back cushion and sat comfortably to look at his phone.
Li Yicheng had already lain down. She was given a pillow and a quilt, but not Yao Yingmo's attention.
She lay on her side facing Yao Yingmo, watching her typing on her phone.
Li Yicheng felt like a long time had passed, so long that she yawned continuously and her eyelids almost couldn't close. Finally, Yao Yingmo turned off the screen of his mobile phone, lifted the quilt and lay down.
Li Yicheng propped up his upper body with his elbows and stared down at Yao Yingmo, "Turn off the lights and scroll through your phone, it's bad for your eyes."
Yao Yingmo: "I just replied to a message, it was less than five minutes ago."
She just found out that Shi Xuze sent her a message when he left, so she replied with "good night", that's all.
How long does it take to say good night?
"Really? Why does it feel like it's been a long time?"
Li Yicheng's eyes had gradually lost focus, but he still insisted on talking to Yao Yingmo. Of course, he felt that time was very slow.
Yao Yingmo concluded: "You are just too tired."
"Yeah, I'm tired." Li Yicheng's voice was already a little unclear. "Work is tiring, and my heart is tired too."
Yao Yingmo reached out and pushed gently, and Li Yicheng turned over and lay back down.
"Good night." Yao Yingmo said softly.
She thought Li Yicheng was so tired that he fell asleep immediately after closing his eyes, but then she heard Li Yicheng say softly, "You know, saying goodnight to each other is a very ambiguous thing."
Yao Yingmo was silent for a while, then turned to face Li Yicheng, "I know."
Li Yicheng turned over again, "When are you going to agree?"
Yao Yingmo looked at the ceiling and said, "I haven't thought about it yet."
"From your performance, I thought you had thought it through."
"I'm just used to it," Yao Yingmo explained. "I'd check to see if he was alive beforehand."
Li Yicheng frowned, completely confused by Yao Yingmo's logic. He thought she was being stubborn, but also felt that she was different from before. The difference was that she seemed to have been led astray by Shi Xuze and had become abstract.
She sighed, "Ever since you two met, I often can't understand what you say."
Li Yicheng had clearly misunderstood something, so Yao Yingmo reiterated earnestly, "I also check every day to see if Xiaoyu is alive and well, because they are both humans who can't take good care of themselves."
Lai Yi-cheng: "I don't think they can be compared. They probably don't want to be compared."
One is a younger brother and the other is a potential boyfriend. How can they be the same?
Yao Yingmo also felt that it couldn't be the same, but it became clear after Shi Xuze confessed his love to her.
"Well, we can't do this anymore," she said.
She had to adjust her attitude towards Shi Xuze, treat him more equally, and not always think that he was someone who needed unilateral care.
Maybe she could try to be more accepting of his kindness and take his care in stride.
Li Yicheng: "So, when do you expect it to end?"
Yao Yingmo seemed to have missed the premise in Li Yicheng's words. After some thought, she replied, "At least finish sweeping the graves first. I have to let Xiaoyu know, too."
Li Yicheng: "Do you think he doesn't know? He's such a sensitive person."
"You should say 'sharp'." Yao Yingmo frowned and corrected Li Yicheng's wording, then agreed, "Yes, he is very sensitive, so he needs to be informed and communicated with even more, otherwise he will have random thoughts."
Li Yicheng sighed, "You are indeed a good sister." But she didn't know what Zhou Yu and Shi Xuze would think.
She first shed a tear for Yao Yingmo, who would be caught in the middle in the future.
Yao Yingmo took Li Yicheng's words as a compliment and replied proudly, "Of course I am."
A short laugh escaped from the corner of Li Yicheng's mouth, so light that it seemed like a sneer.
Yao Yingmo thought he had misheard, so he turned his head and found that Li Yicheng's eyelids were drooping, with only half of his eyes exposed.
She smiled and said, "If you're tired, go to bed. You have to go to work tomorrow."
As if hearing a shutdown command, Li Yicheng closed his eyes, but continued to reply, "I'm on vacation this morning."
Yao Yingmo raised his eyebrows, "Did you guess that I would invite you home?" Otherwise, why would he have asked for leave in the morning in advance.
Li Yicheng: "The editor-in-chief specially approved it. He was worried that your problem would be troublesome, so he asked me to accompany you."
Li Yicheng's voice was fuzzy. Yao Yingmo listened attentively, struggling to understand what he was saying, then laughed, "He's too nervous."
"The money tree can't get into trouble." Li Yicheng turned over, "No, I really need to sleep."
Yao Yingmo pulled his quilt up over his shoulders and said, "Good night."
"good evening."
After Li Yicheng left, Yao Yingmo began to prepare for the trivial matters of taking Zhou Yu back to his hometown during Qingming Festival.
She booked the train ticket long ago.
It’s just that no one has lived in my hometown for a long time, so after arriving, not only does it need to be cleaned, but the missing daily necessities also need to be replenished.
She didn't want to make a special trip to buy them because by the time she returned next time, many of them would have expired. It would be better for her to bring them directly from home.
In addition, transportation from her hometown to the cemetery is not convenient, so she also has to find a car rental company in advance to rent a car.
The bouquet of flowers to be placed in front of the grave can be bought near your hometown and there is no need to bring them from afar.
During this period, I continued to interact with Shi Xuze.
This is mainly reflected in Shi Xuze's proactive greetings three times a day, the interesting things he shared with her from time to time when he went out to work, and the online conversations in which he asked her if she wanted him to bring some delicious food back.
Yao Yingmo would sometimes agree and sometimes not, depending solely on whether he was interested in answering honestly.
The night before departure, Shi Xuze brought some braised food that he thought was delicious to Yao Yingmo's house, and the two enjoyed a midnight snack together.
"How are you going to get to the station tomorrow?" Shi Xuze asked, "I'll take you there."
Yao Yingmo swallowed the tofu in his mouth and said, "No, don't you have a recording schedule tomorrow morning?"
The calendar he sent two days ago clearly stated that he had an advertisement recording scheduled for tomorrow morning, and the location was not at the New Blade Studio, so it would definitely take some commuting time.
Yao Yingmo didn't want to delay his work, nor did she think he should delay his work for her.
"It's true that I have a work arrangement, but the recording studio is on the way to the station, and you bought your ticket very early, so there won't be any subways available at that time. I've already agreed with Luo Jiayou to borrow his car for a day tomorrow. We'll pick up Xiaoyu first, then take you to the station, and then I'll drive to the recording studio."
Yao Yingmo didn't know where the recording studio Shi Xuze was going to was. After all, the locations of most recording studios could not be found by name on the Internet.
She could only choose to believe Shi Xuze's words.
His arrangement sounded reasonable, and the car had already been borrowed. Yao Yingmo couldn't think of any reason to refuse him.
"Then I'll trouble you."
Shi Xuze's eyes lit up, "It's not a problem at all."
The bright smile flashed before Yao Yingmo's eyes, making him suddenly feel trance-like, as if he saw a puppy that had taken the initiative to help its owner pick up something and was eagerly seeking praise. No one could refuse such a look.
Yao Yingmo couldn't refuse either, and said sincerely: "Thank you, it's great to have you."
The non-existent tail behind Shi Xuze seemed to wag even faster.
Yao Yingmo shook his head, trying to clear his mind of the inappropriate scene.
Shi Xuze looked at her doubtfully, "Are you feeling unwell?"
Yao Yingmo quickly denied it, "It's okay."
Then he abruptly changed the subject and confirmed the time for the next day with Shi Xuze.
The next morning, when Yao Yingmo was still washing up, the doorbell rang.
It was rare for Shi Xuze to arrive earlier than her and even bought breakfast.
Yao Yingmo could feel his impatience through the door of her house.
She quickly rinsed the foam off her face and ran to open the door.
When Shi Xuze saw the crystal water droplets hanging on her face, he couldn't help but widen his eyes at first, then hurriedly moved away, and the embarrassed red color rushed up from her neck to the top of her head.
Yao Yingmo laughed dryly, "I'm almost done, come in and wait."
Shi Xuze sat stiffly on Yao Yingmo's sofa. He didn't breathe a sigh of relief until Yao Yingmo dressed neatly and walked out of the room with her suitcase.
"Let's go," he said.
Yao Yingmo informed Zhou Yu in advance and asked him to wait at the university gate so that their car would not drive in to save time.
Zhou Yu frowned fiercely when he saw a flashy car stop.
When the car door opened and he saw the person in the driver's seat, his expression became even worse. "Why are you here?"
He thought Yao Yingmo was going to take a taxi, but he didn't expect that this would give Shi Xuze another opportunity to show his affection.
Sure enough, Shi Xuze replied: "I will be your driver today and take you to the station."
After saying that, he turned around and got out of the car. He took Zhou Yu's luggage naturally and said, "Come, I'll help you put your luggage in the back of the car."
Zhou Yu curled his lips, and under Yao Yingmo's oppressive gaze, he reluctantly squeezed out a thank you from between his teeth, then took a deep breath, opened the back door and got in the car.
Yao Yingmo turned around and handed over a plastic bag from the empty space in the middle of the front row. "Breakfast."
Zhou Yu looked down and saw it was in a paper bag. He asked Shi Xuze, who had just put his luggage in the car, "Did you buy this?"
Shi Xuze: "Yes, I don't know what you like to eat, so I bought what your sister likes."
Shi Xuze really knows how to read people's minds. After just a few meetings, he knew exactly how to speak to soften Zhou Yu's attitude.
As long as he said that it was for Yao Yingmo and Yao Yingmo liked him, Zhou Yu's pent-up anger would be completely released and he would no longer be able to say anything to make things difficult.
Zhou Yu stared at Shi Xuze for a few seconds with an ambiguous expression, then retracted his gaze and tore a small corner of the paper bag. "Thank you."
Yao Yingmo observed the interaction between the two through the rearview mirror, and the corners of his mouth curled up higher and higher.
She was happy to see the two of them getting along harmoniously.
Zhou Yu was concentrating on eating and didn't notice Yao Yingmo's gaze, which was why he didn't get angry.
Shi Xuze noticed it and curled his lips, then started the engine and stepped on the accelerator, "Let's go to the station."
When Zhou Yu finished eating, they arrived at the station.
Shi Xuze parked the car at a bend for passengers to get off, got out first and walked around to the passenger seat, then gentlemanly opened the door for Yao Yingmo.
Shi Xuze turned around and wanted to open the back door, but found that Zhou Yu had already gotten out of the car and was standing beside him with his arms folded, watching. His eyes seemed to say that he did not need Shi Xuze's service.
Shi Xuze paused, walked around pretending to be natural, opened the trunk, unloaded Yao Yingmo and Zhou Yu's luggage, and handed it to Zhou Yu.
Before leaving, Shi Xuze opened the car window and said, "Be careful on the road."
Yao Yingmo smiled and waved to him.
"Let me know when you get there." Shi Xuze said, "Come back and see when the bus arrives. If it arrives at that time, tell me and I'll drive over to pick you up."
Yao Yingmo: "Okay."
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