half thorns, half joy

"I was just going to go in and call you." Tang Xuan saw Xiao Zihan and Cai Jinyu coming out of the bedroom one after another, and put the plate on the table with a smile, "Go wash your hands and prepare to eat, you will be fine soon."

"Ah, it's so rich." Cai Jinyu rushed to the table excitedly, feeling sincerely. After feeling deeply, she turned her head and saw Xiao Zihan's face, and immediately walked to the bathroom in small steps, shouting like a child, " Wash your hands! Wash your hands!"

Tang Xuan brought out the last dish, pork ribs and lotus root soup, and placed it in the center of the dining table, then took off her apron and sat down.

Cai Jinyu was in an extremely bad mood, but when she saw Tang Xuan's table full of food, her mood improved a lot, and she immediately started to eat with a big mouthful.

"Zihan, this house is pretty good. It's a bit small, but it's well-equipped. It's not as bad as you told me before." Cai Jinyu said casually while picking up vegetables.

Tang Xuan picked up the chopsticks and turned her head to look at Xiao Zihan. The meaning of questioning was self-evident.

Xiao Zihan gave Cai Jinyu a hard look, "I can't stop you from eating!" After staring, he smiled at Tang Xuan embarrassedly, and explained, "That...that was when I didn't live here. By the way, didn't the two of us have a quarrel at that time, I was talking nonsense..."

"But I remember it was after you went to work..." Cai Jinyu was about to make up for the knife, Xiao Zihan stepped on Cai Jinyu's foot quickly, "Eat your meal!"

Cai Jinyu held back a muffled cry, her face flushed from the pain.

Xiao Zihan knew that it would be impossible without a good explanation, sighed, put down the rice bowl in his hand, and said helplessly and sincerely: "It's not what he said. , relatively simple."

"Oh." Tang Xuan replied lightly, without any emotion.

Xiao Zihan tried to reach out, put his hand on Tang Xuan's wrist, and asked softly, "You...are you not angry?"

"Why are you angry?" Tang Xuan shrugged, she didn't seem to care at all, "You're telling the truth, this place is indeed relatively small and simple."

"It's good that you can understand." Xiao Zihan heaved a sigh of relief.When he complained to Cai Jinyu that time, it was when the two of them were playing games together, saying that the house here is too small to move his high-end game equipment.

"There's nothing incomprehensible about this." Tang Xuan put a piece of meat into Xiao Zihan's bowl, and said intentionally, "It's a fact that it's simple, you just need to go back and live more in the future."

Xiao Zihan lifted it up again with a sigh of relief, he let out an ah, and looked at Tang Xuan with some embarrassment.

Tang Xuan chuckled before returning to her normal expression, "Just kidding, I'm not such a petty person, so I won't care about this."

Xiao Zihan: "Huh..." I was startled.

Cai Jinyu ate a bowl of rice, and Tang Xuan got up to help him fill another bowl, kindly persuading him, "Eat slowly, eating too fast is not easy to digest."

"Hey, good." Having already finished a bowl, Cai Jinyu wasn't that hungry anymore, so she really listened to Tang Xuan's words and started to eat slowly.

As a person who can't stay idle, Cai Jinyu returned to her normal state after eating.

"Hey, I'm so happy. When I calm down, I must find a girlfriend who can cook and cook for me every day."

Xiao Zihan complained mercilessly, "Then you better not harm others, just find an aunt to cook for you."

Cai Jinyu shook her finger, "nonono, it must be made by my girlfriend to taste delicious, what is it called, love bento? love dinner?"

Tang Xuan smiled faintly, but continued to eat silently without interjecting.

Seeing that Xiao Zihan didn't want to talk to her, Cai Jinyu decided to chat with Tang Xuan, "Xiao Xuan, do you know any outstanding girls like you? Introduce one to me."

Tang Xuan: "Huh?"

Xiao Zihan gave Cai Jinyu a blank look, "You called Xiaoxuan too?"

"...Tang Xuan, it's alright for Tang Xuan, I won't let you be called by any name, it's really..." Cai Jinyu became more energetic after eating, and had the strength to bicker with Xiao Zihan, "Eat your meal quietly, let me ask Tang Xuan What about Xuan's words?"

"you!"

Tang Xuan hurriedly held Xiao Zihan down and smoothed things over with a smile, "Okay, let's have a good meal, but Jinyu, my former classmates are busy with their own business now, I rarely contact them, and I didn't know a few people when I first joined the company. When I get to know a little better and see something suitable, I’ll introduce it to you.”

Cai Jinyu didn't really want Tang Xuan to introduce him, but he was very happy when Tang Xuan gave him a step down.

"Why, you were crying to death last night, and you plan to find a new girlfriend today?" Unfortunately, Xiao Zihan still exposed him mercilessly.

Cai Jinyu glanced at Tang Xuan secretly, and winked at Xiao Zihan, "It's all in the past, so what are you talking about? Now that we've broken up, we should move forward. Am I going to stay where I am?"

Speaking of this, Tang Xuan was quite curious. She was puzzled, so she asked. "Jinyu, are you sure this time, we really split up? Didn't we ask you to have a good talk when we had dinner that day? Is there no room for the two of you to redeem?"

"Uh..." When Cai Jinyu heard Tang Xuan's question, she immediately retracted her head, almost sinking into the bowl.

Seeing this, Xiao Zihan snorted coldly, with a sneering attitude.

This made Tang Xuan even more confused.

"What happened between you?"

After a while, Cai Jinyu pursed her lips and raised her head, "This... is actually my fault. Even if she still has feelings for me now, I don't have the face to ask for peace."

Tang Xuan: "So serious? What happened?"

Cai Jinyu faltered and scratched his head, looking very embarrassed to speak.

Xiao Zihan couldn't stand it, so he spoke for Cai Jinyu. "He went to the bar to get drunk, hooked up with a woman in the bar, and flirted with that woman when he went home and went upstairs, and was seen by his sweetheart."

"What?" Tang Xuan couldn't close her mouth in surprise.

This Cai Jinyu is too... too unreliable.The front foot is still in love with his girlfriend, and the back foot is just taking the women in the bar home?

I really want to say that I deserve it!
Cai Jinyu hurriedly explained, "No! It wasn't me who hooked up with her, but she who hooked up with me, and I really didn't want to do anything, I felt uncomfortable, just thinking that she sent me back, so I asked her to go back, the conscience of heaven and earth , I really never thought about cheating."

Tang Xuan didn't know what to say. Although Cai Jinyu didn't seem to be lying, this behavior still deserves a beating.

Any woman who puts this on will definitely be misunderstood.

"Then... what happened later? After you were caught, did you explain it?"

Cai Jinyu was silent.

Tang Xuan exclaimed in disbelief, "How dare you not explain such a big misunderstanding? If you don't explain, you are acquiescing!"

"No, it's not that I don't want to explain, it's that I didn't have time to explain." Cai Jinyu had a bitter look on her face, "She rushed up and slapped me twice, which stunned me. I drank some wine at first, and waited until I calmed down." , she has disappeared."

"If you don't see it, go after it, don't tell me, you didn't do anything later, just broke up."

Cai Jinyu was silent again.

This time, it is the default.

Xiao Zi interjected coldly: "So, don't sympathize with this guy, he is completely self-inflicted, and he is making mistakes for himself, so he is not worthy of sympathy."

Tang Xuan: "..." She felt that Xiao Zihan was right.

It took a long time before Cai Jinyu choked out a word.

"I think it's good to just divide it up like this, so as not to waste energy on dragging and pulling. Anyway, she must go, and if she wants to break it, she will break it clean. There is nothing to explain."

That being said, it seems a lot sad.

Tang Xuan and Xiao Zihan looked at each other and sighed together.

Xiao Zihan picked a piece of meat and put it in Cai Jinyu's bowl, and said softly for the first time this night: "Okay, since the matter has already happened, let's face it calmly, and since you have decided to cut it clean, don't think about it anymore. "

Cai Jinyu ate the meat in silence without saying a word.

With his appearance like this, Xiao Zihan and Tang Xuan couldn't say anything more, and they all ate in silence.

It was getting late after dinner, Tang Xuan and Xiao Zihan washed the dishes together, preparing to tidy up, wash up and go to bed.

Cai Jinyu was still sitting at the dining table, staring at the nothingness in front of him in a daze.

"Doesn't your butt hurt from sitting here? Go, go and sit on the sofa." Xiao Zihan dragged Cai Jinyu to the sofa and sat down, then gave Cai Jinyu a glass of warm water, "Didn't you cheer up just now? Feeling sad."

Cai Jinyu held the water glass in both hands, did not drink, just stared at it for a long time, and then said quietly: "I was just thinking, I will be alone in my house again. Every night when I go back, I will be alone , no one will accompany me anymore."

Xiao Zihan: "..." Why do you say this, as if you are going to die alone.

But the good man is so depressed, as a friend, he had to comfort him, Xiao Zihan cleared his throat, and patted Cai Jinyu on the shoulder, "Don't worry about it, my brother is so popular, it's not easy to find a girlfriend. "

Cai Jinyu: "That will have to be later. When I go back tonight, I must face an empty room."

Xiao Zihan suddenly had a bad feeling.

Immediately afterwards, he saw Cai Jinyu pouting, begging himself with an aggrieved face: "Zihan, look, why don't you let me live here tonight, and lend me a sofa to sleep on, I will I really don’t want to go back to my ice cave.”

Xiao Zihan: "...Although it's the end of summer, it's not like a hole in the ice."

Cai Jinyu: "You know what I mean, woo woo woo."

It happened that Tang Xuan passed by, and when she heard Cai Jinyu's sombre request to Xiao Zihan, she agreed with a soft heart, "Of course, as long as you don't think the sofa is uncomfortable, I'll get you a quilt."

Tang Xuan agreed, but Xiao Zihan had no reason to disagree.

Cai Jinyu smiled immediately, got up and shouted to Tang Xuan, "Thank you, sister-in-law! You are such a good person, sister-in-law!"

Tang Xuan smiled and waved her hands, and went into the bedroom to get the quilt.

Xiao Zihan looked at Cai Jinyu who was smiling smugly, and said coldly, "You pretended to be unhappy for most of the night, and it was for this purpose."

"Don't wrong me!" Cai Jinyu returned to her mischievous nature, "I'm really sad, can I pretend to be so similar!"

Xiao Zihan: I want to hit someone.

In the end, Cai Jinyu fell asleep on the sofa. He was used to having a playful smile, and even Xiao Zihan couldn't tell whether he was busy or not.

But no matter what, Cai Jinyu must feel uncomfortable.

This point, even if he didn't show it, Xiao Zihan could guess it.If it weren't for knowing that Cai Jinyu was feeling uncomfortable, he would have kicked Cai Jinyu out a long time ago just because of Cai Jinyu's troubles.

"Okay, I've been tired all day, go to sleep." Tang Xuan squeezed Xiao Zihan's swollen cheeks, and chuckled like a kindergarten teacher coaxing a child, "Have a good sleep, I have to go to work tomorrow." .”

Xiao Zihan pursed his lips, "I'm just... hey... forget it."

Tang Xuan knew that Xiao Zihan was actually angry and worried, so she comforted her, "It's useless for others to worry about love, so don't worry about him. One day, everything will turn out well."

Xiao Zihan looked at Tang Xuan, "You're right, it's good to have you."

"Go to sleep."

"OK, good night."

"Good night."

As soon as the two of them lay down, Tang Xuan hadn't closed her eyes yet, when the cell phone placed by the bed suddenly rang a series of rapid ringtones, as if urging her to die.

Tang Xuan frowned, and reached out to touch the phone.

At first glance, it turned out to be Coco's number.