Chapter 18 When the Snow Falls "So am I your friend now?
"2018.01.06 Light Snow"
I wish you happiness, even if it comes at the cost of my unfulfilled wishes.
——Excerpt from Tao Shuran’s Diary
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Follow Liang Yuanjing and walk back slowly.
I watched him roll up his sleeves, pull down the rolling door, insert the old key, turn it a circle, glance around, and then skillfully insert it into the gap behind the air conditioner rack.
How to write the word crazy?
Tao Shuran no longer knew the answer.
Half jokingly, Liang Yuanjing turned around and asked her, "Are you scared?"
The streets were extremely quiet in the early morning, and the shops on both sides of the road had long been closed.
Tao Shuran crossed his arms, looked at him and shook his head.
The girl's eyes were clean and gentle, and the look she gave him was clear and defenseless.
Liang Yuanjing smiled to himself and said helplessly, "Luckily, I'm also at Qing University."
"What?"
"nothing."
He just felt that it was a good thing that he was also in Qingda, otherwise this girl would be so easy to deceive, and would like to run out in the middle of the night to relax when she encountered something.
He and she are both in Qing University, so he can take care of things.
Zhongshan Mansion is not far from Xikang Road, just across the street.
Liang Yuanjing greeted the security guard at the door, glanced at her, and pulled her in.
It was Tao Shuran's first time to enter such a private villa area. There were several lush Podocarpus trees planted on both sides of the road, which looked particularly green.
She hesitated at the door.
He whispered, "Is anyone home?"
Liang Yuanjing chuckled: "Do you want someone or no one?"
"Or I'd better go home." The courage she had gathered was exhausted at this point, and she wanted to run away.
Liang Yuanjing folded his arms, stood in front of her in a lazy and untuned manner, and deliberately teased her with a hook in his voice.
"You're kidding me, classmate Tao Shuran."
Tao Shuran immediately shook his head again.
Liang Yuanjing asked her: "Is there anyone at home?"
She shook her head honestly.
Liang Yuanjing looked down at the time. It was already early morning. If he sent the girl back so late, it would be a big hassle in the middle of the night. He was seen going back and forth twice by some neighbors.
It's not good for a girl to stir up some rumors.
He raised his chin and took a few steps, motioning her to follow.
"A few friends are watching a movie inside. I want to find a girl to accompany you? Fang Qingyi?"
Tao Shuran didn't expect that there would be guests here so late. She took a deep breath. Not being the only guest, the awkward feeling in her heart finally dissipated a lot.
So she said, "Don't bother."
"I'll do my homework and go home soon."
Liang Yuanjing was lying on the sofa, supporting himself with his arms, very far away from her. The dazzling light from the ceiling was melting in his eyes, like broken gold scattered down, but without any warmth.
Instead, he said lightly, "I guess Fang Qingyi doesn't find it troublesome."
Did he see it too?
Tao Shuran was shocked. She didn't expect that his mind was so sharp that he could see through the secret love wrapped in various emotions at a glance.
She couldn't help but ask, "What about me?"
"What?"
Liang Yuanjing didn't react at first, but then he understood what she wanted to ask. He raised his eyebrows slightly and spoke with a hint of surprise.
"I can't guess. You hid it very well."
Tao Shuran couldn't laugh at all.
She wondered if she had hidden it too well or if he simply didn't care about her.
She felt uncomfortable in her heart, and combined with her parents' quarrel tonight, the surging emotions made her feel a little breathless.
After a while, a hurried car horn sounded outside Zhongshan Mansion.
Before the people arrived, Zhao Zhengnian's rough voice arrived first. As he walked to the door, he glanced down and saw a pair of pink and white canvas shoes at the entrance, and his voice stopped immediately.
"Hey, girls' shoes, Ajing, what are you doing?" Zhao Zhengnian walked in with a smile, "Let me guess who it is, Fang Shiyue?"
After seeing the person sitting on the sofa clearly, Zhao Zhengnian screamed.
"Tao Shuran?"
His face was full of disbelief: "Liang Yuanjing, even rabbits don't eat grass near their burrows."
Tao Shuran was startled by the sudden loud noise and subconsciously leaned to one side.
Liang Yuanjing had already prepared himself. He raised his hands to cover his ears and looked over with a slightly speechless look. After he finished speaking, he also helped Tao Shuran who was about to fall down.
He casually turned on the TV, raised his eyelids, and looked over with a hint of warning.
"Zhao Zhengnian, if you keep talking nonsense, I'll make you go back."
"I was wrong, okay."
Zhao Zhengnian immediately shut up and trotted over. "Ajing, I've been coveting your latest version of the game console for a long time. I have to play it to my heart's content tonight."
After saying this, he slapped his head and said, "I'm dead. I forgot there was someone in the car."
As soon as these words fell, Fang Qingyi climbed out of the car angrily.
She was wearing a set of plush pajamas, her hair was half wet and hanging down, and there was still a moisturizing mask on her face. She looked like she had just been pulled out of bed.
Just as the eldest lady was about to lose her temper, Zhao Zhengnian quickly threw away this hot bomb.
He said, "It was Liang Yuanjing who asked me to bring you here."
Fang Qingyi glared at him.
Liang Yuanjing said calmly: "Grandpa Fu is in the hospital. Tomorrow is Sunday, and we plan to go see him."
"Oh." Miss Fang said immediately and obediently, "Then I'll go with you tomorrow morning."
"Hey? Ranran, why are you here too?"
Tao Shuran, who had been playing the invisible role in the corner, was once again pushed to the middle position. She smiled a little helplessly and explained what happened tonight as briefly as possible.
"My parents had a fight, so I went out to relax and forgot to take my keys."
"So that's the reason. Well, I thought..." Zhao Zhengnian stopped talking halfway. He was very friendly and treated Liang Yuanjing's house as his own.
"In that case, Sister Tao, you can just stay at Ajing's place for one night. It's nothing. When I was scolded by my father before, I often hid at Ajing's place."
"He loves a good time."
Liang Yuanjing loves lively atmosphere?
Tao Shuran looked at him gently. In the bright and brilliant scene, Liang Yuanjing's eyebrows and eyes were cold, forming a cold shadow of his own. He was like a mountain that had never moved. No worldly emotions could move him.
He is very lonely.
It is the loneliness hidden beneath the hustle and bustle, another hidden emotion beneath the casual debauchery, and also another secret about Liang Yuanjing that she discovered.
"Yeah?"
Fang Qingyi casually asked, "Do you usually live alone?"
"Ajing's parents are abroad all year round. I met Aunt Li, Ajing's mother, before, and she wanted me to persuade Ajing to study abroad."
"I'm so envious! It would be great if my parents were also abroad, then no one would bother me."
"I think if my parents were not home often, I would miss them a lot." Fang Qingyi muttered, and unconsciously asked, "Liang Yuanjing, do you miss your parents coming back?"
She asked this question out of pure curiosity and didn't think much about it when she asked it.
However, Tao Shuran immediately realized the sensitivity of the issue. Just as she was about to say something to help, Liang Yuanjing unexpectedly spoke.
His tone sounded quite calm, like he was stating a fact.
"I don't need it."
Maybe it’s because I have a day off tomorrow morning, or maybe studying non-stop for several months is too depressing.
The four of them all showed no intention of going to bed.
The living room of Liang Yuanjing's house is very large, and the central control system adjusts the room temperature to the most comfortable level.
They played a game where they had to recite a text to each other, and the loser had to drink a drink. As they played, Tao Shuran began to feel a little drowsy.
Later, someone shouted, "It's snowing!"
She jumped up with a start, turned her head, and the long hair hanging on her shoulders started moving. At this moment, Tao Shuran found herself sitting next to Liang Yuanjing without realizing it.
And because she dozed off, her head almost fell on his shoulder.
Her heart suddenly jumped up and she subconsciously followed his figure.
Liang Yuanjing had already stood up, holding a can of Coke in one hand. Because of the heat, he was only wearing a dark black base shirt with a V-neck design, revealing a deep and cold white collarbone.
Now he walked to the huge floor-to-ceiling window in the living room, turned slightly sideways, and just watched quietly.
It rarely snows heavily in Fuqing. If it does, it is towards the end of the year. Most of the time it is rain and snow. When you wake up from a nap, you will find that the eaves have melted with water.
As a native of Fuqing, Fang Qingyi was extremely excited and pulled Zhao Xizheng out to play snowballs.
"It's pitch dark, and the snow hasn't fallen much yet."
Although he complained like this, Zhao Xizheng still allowed herself to be pulled out by her. Her cold fingers were pressed against the back of his neck, but the breath he exhaled was hot.
He deliberately picked up a small snowball and stuffed it into Fang Qingyi's pocket, listening to her chasing after him in frustration.
Tao Shuran coughed slightly and stood up. Her slightly loose sweater hung down, and the cuffs almost extended to her fingertips.
I'm no longer sleepy now.
She stood not far away, looking up at Liang Yuanjing. He was always like this, standing alone in the corner, staring at the lively and joyful crowd.
In fact, we also desire happiness, don’t we?
“Not needing something doesn’t mean not wanting it.”
She stretched out her hand, as if holding a snowflake in her palm, her soft eyebrows and eyes, filled with soft light, looked at him with watery eyes.
"Liang Yuanjing, it's snowing. You will definitely be happy in the future."
Liang Yuanjing coughed slightly, as if he was a little uncomfortable with her sudden approach.
He took a step back, his voice a little hoarse and with a hint of metallic magnetism.
"Thanks."
Liang Yuanjing said: "I hope you can get what you want and be happy soon."
Tao Shuran smiled and said nothing more.
In fact, he doesn’t know that being able to watch the snow with the person you love is happiness.
"I have a friend—"
Liang Yuanjing paused and continued, "I said the same thing to you."
Did he see that email?
Tao Shuran's heart skipped a beat, and she was overwhelmed by a feeling of half guilt and half joy. She lowered her head and listened to the sound of wind and snow outside the window.
Her heart was in her throat.
After a while, he asked cautiously, "Am I your friend now?"
In the distance, thin clouds revealed traces of the moon. Liang Yuanjing put one hand in his pocket and stood under the magnificent scene of snow and moon meeting.
Suddenly he turned around and raised the corner of his lips towards her with a resounding voice.
"Calculate."
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