While Tang Miao was licking the ice cream clean, the elevator reached the 16th floor. As soon as the elevator arrived, the elevator door opened, and Tang Miao and He Xiao got off the elevator one after the other.
After getting off the elevator, Tang Miao had already reached into her bag. In one hand she held the unfinished ice cream, and in the other she took out her keys. While doing so, she said something to He Xiao.
"Good night then."
After Tang Miao finished speaking, He Xiao responded and walked to the door of his house.
The door was a little crowded because of the two people standing at the door. Tang Miao rummaged in her bag with one hand, and the things in the bag made a slight sound because of her rummaging. While she was rummaging, He Xiao had already pressed the fingerprint password lock. A mechanical electronic female voice sounded, and He Xiao opened the door.
As soon as the door opened, He Xiao walked into the house.
Tang Miao stood at the door, holding the melted ice cream in one hand and taking out the key with the other. She had originally been rummaging around with one hand, but now she had opened the bag and was looking inside.
Tang Miao's bag was a crossbody bag. It was not big and there was not much in it, just a pack of tissues and some small things that girls needed. When Tang Miao looked down at the bag, the things inside were clear at a glance. After searching for a while, Tang Miao raised his head blankly.
She stood under the voice-activated lights in the corridor, as if she had slowed down her movements and was frozen there. Her eyes were looking forward, and a layer of haziness appeared in her usually bright and clear eyes.
After He Xiao opened the door, he did not close it immediately. He stood inside the door, saw Tang Miao's reaction, and lowered his eyes to glance at her hand in her bag.
"What's wrong?" He Xiao asked.
After He Xiao asked, Tang Miao seemed to come back to his senses and slowly turned towards him.
She stood outside He Xiao's house, and He Xiao stood inside. The two looked at each other briefly across the door frame. Tang Miao's eyes were still not so clear and bright. She looked at He Xiao standing inside the door and asked.
"Ah Xiao."
"Where are my keys?"
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He Xiao took Tang Miao back home.
Tang Miao couldn't find her key. It was too late to go out and look for it, so she just stayed at his place for one night.
After following He Xiao into his home, Tang Miao said something.
"Sorry for the trouble."
After Tang Miao finished speaking, He Xiao glanced at her. When he turned around, Tang Miao was standing there, looking at him with bright eyes. Her face was redder than before, as if she had a fever. Before, it was white with red, but now the white was completely red.
"Do you still want to eat?" He Xiao glanced at Tang Miao and then shifted his gaze to the ice cream cone in her hand.
She had nibbled a corner of the ice cream cone, and because she was looking for the key, she had no time to eat, so the creamy ice cream inside melted and flowed down the nibbled corner of the cone onto her hand.
"No more." After He Xiao said this, Tang Miao also looked at her hands. Apparently, she was also stained by the melted ice cream, and after seeing it, her brows furrowed.
When she frowned and looked at the ice cream in her hand, He Xiao took the ice cream from her hand and threw Tang Miao's ice cream and the rest of his ice cream into the trash can. He Xiao took out two tissues, held Tang Miao's wrist, and wiped the ice cream between her palm and fingers.
The alcohol wipes wiped across the skin, bringing a cool and refreshing feeling. The originally hot and sticky palms disappeared along with He Xiao's action.
After he helped her wipe it clean, Tang Miao curled her fingers, looked up at He Xiao and said.
"Not sticky anymore."
He Xiao looked down at her, and after she finished speaking, he loosened his grip on her wrist and threw the wet wipe he had used to wipe Tang Miao's hands into the trash can.
"You sleep in my room." After doing all this, He Xiao took another wet wipe to wipe the melted ice cream stains on his hands and said this to Tang Miao.
After He Xiao finished speaking, Tang Miao asked, "What about you?"
He Xiao raised his eyes and glanced at her.
When Tang Miao asked this question, there was some cautious nervousness in her eyes. Even now, in an unfamiliar environment, she still wanted to confirm his location to ease her anxiety.
"I'll sleep on the sofa. Right here." He Xiao said.
He Xiao's home is a two-bedroom apartment, with a bedroom and a study. Usually, only the bedroom has a bed to sleep in. Today, Tang Miao is here, so she can only sleep on the bed, and he sleeps on the sofa in the living room.
The sofa in the living room is diagonally facing the bedroom door. In fact, if the bedroom door is open, you can see the sofa from the end of the bed.
After getting He Xiao's answer, Tang Miao blinked, and with the blink, the tension and uneasiness in his eyes dissipated, and he nodded in response.
"OK."
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After assigning the two of them how to rest today, He Xiao returned to the bedroom and took out the things he needed. He also took out a new four-piece suit and placed it on the bed. Tang Miao obediently changed into the new four-piece suit.
The decoration style of He Xiao's house is obviously different from hers. Her house is more residential, while He Xiao's house is more modern and simple, just like the model house in a decoration magazine. Even with the lights on, the bedroom is gray and white, cold and gloomy, which is quite in line with He Xiao's temperament.
There was a scent of agarwood in He Xiao's house, but his bedroom was more of a cool fir scent. This scent came from the new four-piece suit that He Xiao had just taken out, and even when Tang Miao put on the four-piece suit, he was stained with this scent.
It was as if He Xiao was holding her invisibly.
Tang Miao stood in front of the bed, lowered her head and raised her arm to smell the scent. While smelling the fragrance of fir, she also smelled the sweet scent of fruit wine emanating from her skin.
The smell of alcohol was hot. Tang Miao put down his arms, took a look at the new four-piece suit he had just put on, and said.
"I want to take a shower."
The four-piece suit was new. As an alcoholic, she couldn't sleep on it while reeking of alcohol. That would be impolite.
After she said this, He Xiao glanced at her and said, "The bathroom is next to the kitchen."
He Xiao told her where the bathroom was and prepared to leave the bedroom. Before leaving the bedroom, Tang Miao said, "What should I wear?"
After Tang Miao finished speaking, He Xiao turned around and looked at her.
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He Xiao found a set of clothes for Tang Miao.
His clothes were a bit too big for Tang Miao. His top was fine, but his shorts would fall down even if the straps were tied as tight as possible. Moreover, the legs of his shorts were loose, and after he put them on, they went over Tang Miao's knees, revealing only half of his smooth and slender calves.
Even so, He Xiao still found her a set of clothes. After finding the clothes, He Xiao followed Tang Miao's request and brought her a bath towel, a towel, a hair dryer, toothpaste, a toothbrush, lotion... After getting all the things, Tang Miao carried a bunch of things into the bathroom and closed the bathroom door.
He Xiao was sitting on the sofa in the living room when he heard the sound of water from the bathroom shower hitting the floor.
This is quite a novel experience.
Usually He Xiao was alone at home and never let anyone stay overnight. He always took a shower in the bathroom. It was rare that he was sitting in the living room like now while someone else was taking a shower in the bathroom.
The shower water in the bathroom is very dense, and the sound of it hitting the bathroom floor is also dripping. The dense water flow falls on the ground, making a "swish" sound like drizzle. However, when it falls on the human body, flows along the human body, and hits the floor, it makes a clear "pop" sound that is slightly heavier than the sound of drizzle.
Sound can bring about imagination of pictures.
He Xiao sat on the sofa, leaning back against it, the sound of water flowing and the sound of skin rubbing against skin mixed in his ears. After listening for a while, He Xiao got up from the sofa, opened the balcony window, and lit a cigarette.
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Tang Miao took a hot bath.
After she finished her shower, she wiped herself clean, wrapped herself in a headscarf and put on the big T-shirt He Xiao gave her, and walked out of the bathroom. When she reached the living room, the steam in the bathroom was blocked inside, and Tang Miao was steaming, as if she had escaped from the steam and could finally breathe a breath of dry air.
When she came out, He Xiao had finished his cigarette. He was standing by the balcony window. When he heard the bathroom door open, he turned around and looked over. When he looked over, the man on the balcony, who was originally hidden in the shadows, had even darker eyes than before.
Tang Miao's hair was wrapped in a towel, a big white puffy ball. The hair was completely covered without a single piece of it being exposed, leaving only a white and pink face.
The hot air from the shower seemed to evaporate the alcohol in her body, making her originally rosy complexion lighter. She stood there, with a plain face with a little steam on it, and a pair of eyes that were really dark, clear and beautiful.
She was not ugly to begin with, with a delicate oval face, a full forehead, gentle almond eyes, a straight nose, and rosy lips.
She just looked a little dull. She was like the green peaks and mountains that were faintly visible behind the mist in the misty rain in the south of the Yangtze River. Because of the mist, they lost their sharp edges and corners, revealing only some hazy and graceful beauty.
Now, the mist had faded away, and she was like a mirror with the mist wiped off, appearing clean, bright and complete in front of He Xiao.
She had a very thin figure, with a well-proportioned and slender frame, but in fact she was not skinny, instead, she had a layer of soft flesh attached to her frame, and after taking a shower, her skin was so white that it seemed to reflect light under the light. Her legs, without the usual long skirt covering them, stood straight up under the hem of her T-shirt.
"Where are your pants?" When He Xiao saw this, he looked up at Tang Miao and asked.
After Tang Miao finished asking, she let her two slender arms hang down at her sides, clenched her clothes with her fingers, and said.
"Too big."
She originally wanted to wear them, but after putting them on, the pants kept falling down. She had to hold the towel on her head with one hand and hold up her pants with the other hand, which was really inconvenient.
He Xiao's T-shirt was also big enough. After she put it on, it fell directly below her thighs. Although it was shorter than her usual clothes, it covered her head.
Not only was it big at the bottom, but the neckline was also big at the top. While Tang Miao was talking, she raised one arm to adjust the towel on her head. When she did this, her shoulder tilted to the right.
It tilted and the neckline dropped, revealing half of her delicate and beautiful collarbone, connected to her entire slender and smooth neck.
He Xiao looked away and didn't care anymore. He just said, "Go to sleep."
"Oh, okay." Tang Miao responded.
After answering, Tang Miao took the hair dryer and returned to He Xiao's bedroom. After she returned to the bedroom, He Xiao also walked from the balcony to the living room.
As he walked over, He Xiao subconsciously wanted to take off his clothes, but when he turned his head to look towards the bedroom, he saw Tang Miao sitting on the edge of the bed, plugging in the hair dryer.
Seeing Tang Miao, He Xiao stopped and went into the bathroom.
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He Xiao takes a shower relatively quickly.
After entering the bathroom, He Xiao turned the faucet to the cold water channel, stood under the shower, and took a cold shower. After the shower, He Xiao wiped his body and returned to the living room.
While he was taking a shower, Tang Miao seemed to have dried his hair. The bedroom door was half-closed and there was no sound of the hair dryer from inside.
Tang Miao was resting at someone else's house today. Even though she had been here once before and even though this was He Xiao's home, she was still a little uneasy about the unfamiliar environment. So when the two of them were sharing the room, Tang Miao asked He Xiao if they could leave the door open.
This is He Xiao's home. It doesn't matter to him whether the door is closed or not. After Tang Miao asked, He Xiao agreed.
The lights in the living room were still on. He Xiao glanced at the half-open door of the bedroom, and saw that the lights in the bedroom had been turned off. It was dark inside, and there was no movement. Tang Miao should have finished cleaning and gone to sleep.
He Xiao took a towel and wiped his hair half dry. Then, he got on the sofa and turned off the lights in the living room.
Once the lights are turned off, night really comes.
Pitch blackness instantly enveloped the house. Silently, He Xiao lay on the pillow of the sofa, looking at the dark ceiling above his head.
He stared at the ceiling in a daze, preparing for sleepiness at night.
Just as he closed his eyes, a woman's soft cry came from behind the half-open door of his bedroom.
"Ah Xiao."
He Xiao opened his eyes.
Her voice was not loud, but it was still very clear in the empty, deserted and quiet house. He Xiao opened his eyes, looked at the dark ceiling, and responded.
"Um."
After He Xiao responded, Tang Miao's voice came again.
"I want some water."
He Xiao: “…”
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He Xiao got up from the sofa and went to the refrigerator to get a bottle of water. After getting the bottle of water, He Xiao unscrewed the bottle cap and poured the water into the cup.
The lights in the living room were too bright, so He Xiao didn't turn on the lights, but only the lights in the kitchen. The light from the kitchen fell into the living room from the kitchen door. He Xiao took the water and knocked on the door before entering the bedroom.
The light was on in the bedroom too.
It was just the night light at the bedside that was on.
The dim light could only clearly illuminate the outline and figure of a person. He Xiao walked in the direction of the light. Tang Miao was lying on the pillow. When she heard him coming, she opened her eyes and looked at him.
"Drink some water." He Xiao handed the cup to Tang Miao.
"Thank you." When Tang Miao saw the glass that He Xiao handed over to her, she supported herself on the bed with her right arm and half sat up.
Supporting his body, Tang Miao took the water cup with his left hand and drank the whole cup of water in one breath.
After drinking, the alcohol burns in the body, making people particularly thirsty. After Tang Miao finished drinking the glass of water, he felt that his dry body seemed to be filled up again.
She handed the cup back to He Xiao, who took it and asked, "Do you want more?"
After He Xiao asked, Tang Miao looked up at him.
He Xiao was too tall. When he handed Tang Miao the cup of water, he supported himself on the edge of the bed with one hand and leaned down slightly. His height was just within the range of the night light. The soft and weak light of the night light fell on his face, carving the man's eyebrows.
He is really handsome.
Even though the night light is not bright enough, this dim light is like a layer of gauze falling on the sculpture shrouded by the sunset.
It exudes a gentle and meticulously crafted beauty.
Tang Miao looked up at him.
She doesn't have a sharp and delicate appearance, but is more suitable for the dim light of this hazy night light.
The light fell on her skin, giving her originally fair skin a layer of light gold. On the light gold skin, her eyes fell between her long eyelashes, like two clear springs in the vast desert.
The water of the spring is clear, but bottomless, and his entire figure is reflected on the calm and moist water surface.
Her waves traced him, as if trying to pull him into her bottomless water.
Just as he seemed to sense something and wanted to escape, the woman's arms pulled away from her side, and her body knelt on the edge of the bed, kneeling beside him. Her arms extended, and as she knelt, they hooked around the back of his neck.
Then, the woman's soft body approached.
As she moved closer, her lips crashed onto his.
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