The Queen of Romance: A Summer of Sweet Classics

Chapter 6
The slanted sunlight outside the window sprinkled in scatteredly, and the dim sunlight made people lazy.Nie Ranqing tilted his head to look out the window, took a deep breath, and called him softly again: "Xi Jinnan."

He gently rubbed her cheek with his thumb, kissed her again, and said with a slight smile, "Huh?"

Nie Ranqing said softly, "Did I tell you about my childhood?" Before he could answer, she continued, "I remember reading a novel when I was in junior high school, in which the hero and heroine were entangled in the past and present. It was a tangle, and I shed a lot of tears. It was the first romance book I read. I read it no less than ten times. One day when I was having dinner, I bit my chopsticks and asked my mother, if there was a next life, would she still Will I marry my dad? I thought my mother would give me a chance or not, but my mother stood up to serve the meal and said, "This life is not over yet, Think about your next life.'”

Feeling the vibration in Xi Jinnan's chest, Nie Ranqing immediately patted him: "Don't laugh!"

He barely suppressed his laughter and nodded: "Well, you continue."

Nie Ranqing went on to say: "I was hit hard at that time. My mother and I have a big generation gap, so I am very lucky to have Yao Mi, and our interests and hobbies are more compatible. When she was in college, she watched it one day. After a cartoon, he asked me with an erratic expression, if a fairy could grant my three wishes, what wish would I wish for?"

Xi Jinnan gave a long "hmm": "How do you answer?"

Nie Ranqing continued with a smile: "I answered her, I don't need three, as long as she can help me realize one is enough."

"What is it?"

Nie Ranqing still smiled and said: "I want her to stay by my side for a long time, and when I have any wishes in the future, she can help me realize them."

Xi Jinnan laughed loudly: "It's really greedy."

She nodded, agreeing with his words: "I'm just greedy."

Two days later, Xi Jinnan went on a business trip, which lasted about three weeks.Before leaving, his behavior made Nie Ranqing feel as if he was a teenager all of a sudden.

In fact, there is only one action.

Xi Jinnan rubbed Nie Ranqing's hair at the airport and said, "Take good care of yourself when I'm not around."

Nie Ranqing really wanted to tell him that I have never treated myself badly.But she looked at Xi Jinnan's faint smile, the words slipped to her lips and lingered for a long time, but she still didn't say it.

The family was too big, so Nie Ranqing dragged Yao Mi to stay with her for a few nights.Yao Mi satirized her: "Coward. You haven't done anything wrong, why are you afraid of knocking on the door?"

Nie Ranqing said: "I didn't do anything, I was afraid that the ghost would do something wrong to me."

Yao Mi leaned on the sofa in her house, and sighed contentedly: "Who chose this sofa? It's so comfortable and has vision."

"This house was arranged by Xi Jinnan, and I didn't participate."

Yao Mi clicked her tongue: "I want to complain for Xi Jinnan. From what I know about you two, you really haven't contributed a single bit of effort to your family."

The two of them were tired of watching movies together. Yao Mi insisted on watching ghost movies and claimed that she would leave if she didn’t watch them. Looking at her: "I didn't come to you to make me more scared at night."

Yao Mi ignored it and turned off the lights directly.

Nie Ranqing closed her eyes and covered her ears, expressing her weak protest against Yao Mi's bad behavior.In the movie, a ghost floated out of the phone tube, black shadows, only the screen faintly glowing, just at that moment Nie Ranqing's cell phone rang, she screamed, hugging Yao Mi's arm and did not let go.Yao Mi turned on the light, and when she handed the phone to her, she glanced at it, her expression of contempt suddenly turned into ambiguity: "Hurry up and answer the phone."

Nie Ranqing glanced at her bitterly, then picked up without looking at her: "Hello?"

The nice voice helped Nie Ranqing's soul return to its place: "What are you doing?"

Yao Mi's body came close, Nie Ranqing stepped aside, stood up leisurely and went to the window, Yao Mi's head hit the corner of the sofa just like that, except that there was no bleeding, it was the same action as the death of the heroine in the movie.

Nie Ranqing was very relieved, and her voice became a little cheerful: "I'm watching a movie with Yao Mi."

She heard a "hmm" over there, and smiled slightly: "Are you at home?"

"Ah."

"Hmm..." Xi Jinnan's smile widened, "Are you afraid of being alone at home?"

Nie Ranqing immediately denied it: "How is it possible!"

Yao Mi mocked her with facial expressions, and Nie Ranqing responded by saying, "What birthday present do you want?"

"Huh? Oh," Nie Ranqing was stunned, and then realized, "No need, I'm so old, I don't want anything."

Xi Jinnan smiled: "That's not okay. You said the same thing last year and the year before, and you said it again and again. What do you want this year?"

"..." What kind of nonsense is this.

Xi Jinnan inspired her: "Or, what ideals did you have when you were young and have not been realized?"

Nie Ranqing thought for a while and said, "I've always wanted to have my own study room, and then have a whole row of bookcases filled with my favorite books."

He still smiled: "This ideal is very easy to realize. Why didn't you say it earlier? Why don't you spare a guest room for your study when I go back?"

Nie Ranqing shook his head: "Forget it, there is no rush."

Nie Ranqing forgot how she hung up the phone. Anyway, the movie had already finished playing when she hung up.Nie Ranqing took a deep breath, thankfully the call came at the right time.

As for Nie Ranqing's ideal, in fact, it has been changing.When she was ten years old, she hoped that she would grow up to be a zoologist. When she was 15 years old, she hoped that she could be a strong woman. Silently hope that those she loves will live a peaceful life.

After Yao Mi found out, she asked, "Does it include Xi Jinnan?"

Nie Ranqing was taken aback, then smiled: "Of course, I don't hate him."

Yao Mi then asked slowly: "Then do you love him?"

Nie Ranqing shivered energetically because of her third word, and immediately said: "What love is not love, how vulgar. I am a married woman, this word is too pure, don't ask me, I'm not fit to answer this kind of question."

Yao Mi still looked at her leisurely, and said, "If you're not suitable, you're not suitable. Why are you talking so much nonsense? You're trying to cover up."

Nie Ranqing waved his hand and said, "I'm sleepy and out of shape today, I can't beat you, let's stop fighting."

Yao Mi has recently been frantically cleaning up her summer clothes, and her energy and money are abnormally high. Nie Ranqing is almost throwing up when she drags her to go shopping.Three days before Nie Ranqing's birthday, Yao Mi held her chin in the hotpot restaurant and said with a sad face, "What should I do? I have finished shopping in all the big shopping malls in the city."

Nie Ranqing breathed a sigh of relief, she had been waiting for this sentence for a long time.

Yao Mi thought hard: "How about going to the neighboring city to see?"

Crack, the fish ball that Nie Ranqing picked up with great difficulty fell back again.

Waiting for Yao Mi to eat and drink enough, she wiped her mouth and brought up the old story again: "Are you really going to Lu Pei's speech?"

The time for Lu Pei to give a speech is getting closer and closer. Recently, Yao Mi counts down the days in her ear. Nie Ranqing has become numb to her neurotic behavior. When Yao Mi talked about this, she chose intermittent tinnitus.

Nie Ranqing closed her eyes, finally exhaled slowly, and answered patiently: "I don't know."

Yao Mi looked at her and said, "Lu Pei is really not kind."

This sentence successfully impresses Nie Ranqing's patience, and she threatens her friend sinisterly: "If you mention it again, I will pack you up and throw you out of the window here."

The day after meeting Lu Pei on campus, Nie Ranqing received an invitation card, which sincerely invited her to attend Lu Pei's speech.When Nie Ranqing saw half of it, he stuffed the invitation into a pile of old newspapers, and sent it to the garbage collection site along with a pile of waste products.But a few days after her ears became clean, Lu Pei called her again last week.Twice in total, the first time she didn't know it was his number, so she picked it up, but she hung up immediately when she heard the voice, and when Lu Pei called the second time after two days, Nie Ranqing directly press off.

However, there is also a text message service in the communication method, so Nie Ranqing then received a text message from Lu Pei, the content made her so angry that she almost wanted to throw the phone away.

The general meaning of text messages is: I have something to tell you.If you don't come, the scholarship will not be established.

In fact, Lu Pei's words were still very polite in the text message, but the meaning was there, no matter how tactful the words were, Nie Ranqing still wanted to call him an asshole.

She dialed it back directly, and was about to scold her head and face, but she didn't expect that it was faster than her.Lu Pei said: "Ranqing, can you listen to me? There is a reason why I broke up with you three years ago. Can you listen to me?"

Lu Pei's sincere words could not stop Nie Ranqing's anger: "Of course there is a reason. You are neither crazy nor stupid. Of course there is a reason for breaking up with me. You have made it clear at the beginning that I am self-willed and naive. It is impossible to be worthy of you. Do you still want to change now? But Lu Pei, do you have to listen to me if you want to change? Lu Pei, do you think I can still treat you after you abandoned me and married my sister? Greet you with a smile? Or are you happy that I committed suicide for you? Even if you explain why, so what, do you want me to forgive you? Do you think such a wayward person like me might forgive you? You said so much Yes, I am self-willed, I am naive, you were right when you accused me, I admit it, but please shut up now, I have nothing to do with you. I don’t want to talk to you either, are you planning to step on two boats or plan to I'm not even interested in getting back together with me. Also, forgive me for being too lazy to support your speech. If I don't go to the scholarship, I won't set it up, right? It's my honor. If this is the case, don't set it up, who is forcing you gone?"

She spoke too fast, her voice became a little unstable, but she was still determined: "Lu Pei, you are my brother-in-law now, please don't let me put an incest hat on, please, please No, I can't bear it."

After she finished speaking that day, she planned to hang up immediately, but the fact was that she was waiting for the other side to speak.It was quiet on Lu Pei's side, and the surrounding area was also quiet. Nie Ranqing could hear her own breathing clearly.After a while, she heard him speak, with a barely audible sigh: "Ran Qing, if I knew this was the end, I would never have let you go."

Nie Ranqing opened her mouth slightly, feeling as if something was blocked in her throat. She unconsciously bit the tip of her tongue tightly, feeling a strong sense of emptiness in her heart.

Lu Pei once drew a circle in her heart. This circle once occupied more than half of her life. When it was gouged out, Nie Ranqing was so painful that she almost wanted to die.Three years later, she thought she had come over, but now that he came back, she saw his demeanor again, so dazzling in the crowd that he could not be ignored, she still felt distressed for a moment.

She was sarcastic and sarcastic to Lu Pei.However, although her every word hurts others, it also hurts herself.Those words always reminded him of the unbearable situation at that time, and Nie Ranqing felt uncomfortable every time he thought about it.Xi Jinnan said that the best revenge is not hatred, but indifference from the bottom of his heart. This sentence really makes sense, but it is not so easy.Life is always going around in circles, but no matter how hard you turn, you can't go back to the past.

Many people miss it, and miss it forever.

Nie Ranqing returned home at night and had a phone call with Xi Jinnan.He was the one who called, and there was no call for three days. This time, Xi Jinnan's voice was thickly nasal.

But even if Xi Jinnan spoke with a nasal voice, it still sounds good: "It's nothing, I went back to the hotel late two days ago, and I caught a cold."

Nie Ranqing was just surprised. After more than two years of marriage, this was the first time she encountered Xi Jinnan with a cold.In the past, Xi Jinnan was always in charge of going to the pharmacy, and then watched Nie Ranqing swallow the pills as a sacrifice, and then handed over the water glass, with a few sarcastic remarks by the way.

Nie Ranqing asked, "Have you taken your medicine?"

"I do not want to eat."

Nie Ranqing could imagine his frowning expression when hearing his awkward voice, and the corners of her mouth curled up: "You'd better eat, who made you sick."

"Still don't want to eat."

"Then what do you want to do?"

Xi Jinnan chuckled, his voice was low and deep: "You coax me?"

"……how old are you?"

"Stop making trouble." Xi Jinnan put back his smile and changed his tone. "There are a lot of things these two days. I don't think I can go back when it's your birthday."

Nie Ranqing tilted his head and said, "It doesn't matter. Anyway, I have had enough birthdays since I was a child. It doesn't matter if I miss one."

Xi Jinnan thought about it for a while: "Why don't you go back and make up your lunar birthday?"

Nie Ranqing was speechless again. The man didn't hear what she said just now. It really was Xi Jinnan's style. She discouraged: "You can do whatever you want, anyway, I don't lose anything."

A lazy laugh came from over there: "Why don't you come here to see me and celebrate my birthday together by the way?"

Nie Ranqing imitated his laziness and said, "No."

Nie Ranqing didn't sleep well at night. She rolled around on the big bed by herself, closing her eyes and listening to the ticking of the newly changed clock.Nie Ranqing was extremely bored, took out his mobile phone and wanted to harass Yao Mi, looked at his watch and found that it was already one o'clock in the morning, and realized that Yao Mi couldn't sleep well recently, Nie Ranqing buried it in the pillow and thought about it, but he didn't think of anything , and finally had to go out the window to see the everlasting night scene.

She remembered that Xi Jinnan said two days ago that she was greedy.She also remembered that Lu Pei also said that she was greedy.Lu Pei said that at the time because she dragged him to the mall, hesitated in front of the two sweaters, and the waiter kept blowing the wind, Nie Ranqing's ears were soft, and in the end he had to pretend to be proud and bought both .At that time, Lu Pei looked helplessly at the bag in her hand, then took it, his eyes slightly bent, and said, "What a greedy guy."

In my memory, Lu Pei's palms were always warm, while her fingertips were always cold. Ever since she was a child, Lu Pei was used to holding her hand when crossing the road, and she was also used to being held by him.

But Xi Jinnan's fingers are long and slender, his nails are round, and his palms are very thin, and they seem to be cool all the year round.It's all year round because Nie Ranqing doesn't often have the opportunity to touch his hand.Occasionally they hold hands, his hands are always cool.

Lu Pei and Xi Jinnan have very different personalities and appearances.Although they are all the proud sons of heaven, Xi Jinnan is much colder than Lu Pei. Although he is very bright when he really smiles, he is really cold when he is not smiling.And even if Lu Pei didn't smile, the corners of his mouth would always curl up slightly.

Her mother once warned her not to always compare the present life with the past, there are only two consequences.First, it will make you immerse yourself in the past and become more dissatisfied with reality; second, it will make you stand still and lose sight of the future.

Mother's words have always been very reasonable, but it's a pity that she was not a well-behaved child since she was a child, and she will not be a completely well-behaved adult when she grows up.

The night was as cold as water, Nie Ranqing looked at the flickering night scene, and suddenly remembered that Xi Jinnan had just joked that she would fly to see him.

Nie Ranqing felt that it was really rare to see Xi Jinnan surprised.

She stood at the door of his hotel room, waved her hand in front of him, then coughed softly, glanced inside, pretending to be serious: "Is there no golden house to hide the beauty?"

Xi Jinnan regained his composure, and when he hugged her, Nie Ranqing felt dizzy. The next moment, she found that she was tightly wrapped in his arms like a princess, and she was hooking his neck.

Xi Jinnan's embrace was unbelievably warm, Nie Ranqing squinted and smiled, and said triumphantly, "I didn't expect that I would come, did you?"

Xi Jinnan's eyes were full of smiles, he lowered his head and kissed her lips, and sucked her lips more and more intensely, Nie Ranqing soon became dizzy, and she tightly held his pajamas with one hand.He carried her into the inner room, she was made limp by him and had no strength, and when she regained consciousness, the two of them had already lay down on the bed together.

Xi Jinnan was still holding her tightly, as if he wanted to embed her in his body, resting his chin on the top of her head, his voice sounded from above, still with an obvious smile: "Why are you here?"

The nasal sound was gone, and Nie Ranqing asked, "The cold will heal so soon?"

He replied casually: "Well, it's just a cold, and it will be fine after a night's sleep."

"It's so amazing, why does it take me a week to catch a cold!"

Xi Jinnan still asked stubbornly, "Why are you here?"

Nie Ranqing thought for a while, rubbed against his arms, and said with a smile, "Would you believe me if I said that I came here because I missed you?"

His smile deepened: "Do you think I should believe it?"

I knew I couldn't expect him to answer well.Nie Ranqing pouted, Xi Jinnan stood up to look at her, Nie Ranqing suddenly felt very embarrassed, rolled up the quilt to cover her head, but he blocked it.He was very close to her, surrounded by a familiar aura, he didn't speak but smiled faintly.Nie Ranqing spent most of the night tonight. She took a taxi to the airport, and then took a taxi to his place. It was three o'clock in the morning.Nie Ranqing nestled in his arms like a cat, and suddenly felt inexplicably relieved. She covered up a yawn and said, "I'm so sleepy."

She was hugged by him, Xi Jinnan patted her on the back lightly, leaned over and kissed her cheek, his voice was incredibly gentle: "Go to sleep."

The next morning, Nie Ranqing's biological clock kicked in, and she opened her eyes dimly at seven o'clock.Xi Jinnan's arms were still firmly locked on her, his eyes were closed, and a small shadow was covered by thick eyelashes.Nie Ranqing felt a little stiff in her body, and just as she changed her posture, she heard the familiar ringtone of her mobile phone.

Nie Ranqing was still in a dazed state, touched the head of the bed with his hand, picked it up and pressed the call button, lazily answered: "Hello?"

The voice over there stopped, and he asked a little uncertainly: "Excuse me, is this Mrs. Xi? Hello, I'm Zhou Kerong, may I ask..."

Nie Ranqing was half awake all of a sudden, she turned her head just in time to see Xi Jinnan sniggering, and quickly threw the phone to Xi Jinnan, and lay down on the bed again, pretending to be asleep.

Xi Jinnan answered the phone with a chuckle: "Hello, it's me."

Nie Ranqing closed her eyes tightly, and heard Xi Jinnan continue to say: "I'll go over later... um, yes... Also, I have to be free the day after tomorrow, so you can help me arrange it."

Nie Ranqing felt him leaning down to look at her, she waved her hand: "I won't eat breakfast for now, I'm sleepy."

He leaned into her ear and said, "If you don't eat, your stomach will hurt."

Nie Ranqing rolled up the quilt and continued to sleep, pretending not to hear.

Xi Jinnan persevered: "The breakfast in this hotel is quite unique, I promise you won't regret it after eating it."

Nie Ranqing slandered, she is not a child, this method of teasing people's appetite will not work for her.The world is the biggest sleeper now, and Nie Ranqing refuses to cooperate no matter what: "I'm not interested."

He laughed, and teased her waist under the blanket. She couldn't sleep, so she sat up holding the blanket, pointed at him and said, "Hey, you..."

I didn't say anything later, because she was a little dazed.

She held all the blankets in her arms, Xi Jinnan's pajamas were not fastened, and his bare chest was completely in her eyes.

Not only entered her eyes, but also entered her brain.

Nie Ranqing was full of imagination, no wonder he likes to see pictures of baths, the half-naked appearance of a handsome man is so sexy.

Xi Jinnan looked at her with a smile: "Huh?"

Nie Ranqing held a sentence in his heart, and couldn't say it.

You can't say, fasten your clothes, you are too tempting in your current appearance?

Nie Ranqing lay down again, and said sullenly, "It's all right."

Xi Jinnan smiled as if he understood, then got into the blanket and lay down, and asked her to share some of the blanket with him. Nie Ranqing thought it was a little funny: "You really looked like a child this morning."

His eyes narrowed slightly, and something began to accumulate in the long and narrow eyes. Nie Ranqing was too aware of this look, so he quickly stopped him: "Well, it's time to get up."

She just sat up, but was pushed back by him, and the next moment, she was trapped in his arms on the bed.

Nie Ranqing sighed and said pitifully, "I'm hungry."

She blinked her dark eyes, and Xi Jinnan looked at her silently for a while, until she was a little embarrassed, she just wanted to say something, but he suddenly laughed, stroked the hair wrapped around her body and lay down again.

(End of this chapter)