salt by salt

To restrain the furious Yang Chen, besides being preemptive, he also needs to be patient enough.

I called the hotel to order his favorite dishes, went downstairs to buy fresh ingredients, rolled up my sleeves and made soup for him.It was Song Cheng who taught me how to do it, but I didn't expect to make it easier for him first.While waiting for the soup to be ready, I carefully recalled every sentence I said, and felt that there was nothing wrong with it except for a few words full of hints from Xue Keming. picked up the magazine.

When Yang Chen pushed open the door, the soup had just been stewed, a faint fragrance filled the room, and the tail of sodium chloride was wagging happily.The dishes delivered by the hotel were also placed on the table one by one. I wore an apron and met his angry face. I said calmly, "I'm back, later than I thought. There's a traffic jam on the road?"

He froze for a moment, probably I blocked the question that he was going to blurt out, he didn't know what to say for a while, and he managed to organize his words after a while: "Xu Junyan, what are you doing?"

"Cooking." I said frankly, "It's just right, let's taste the saltiness of the soup."

I put the soup on the table, he frowned and sat down, just picked up the spoon and suddenly felt something wrong, he slapped the table: "Don't do these things, I want to ask you something!"

I sat down opposite him and said first: "Let me ask you first, did you ask Xue Keming to test me?"

"...It wasn't me. She called me suddenly and asked me to listen." His face was gloomy, but he still answered the question.I reckon that although he is in a bad mood now, he is not at the point of rage. I am relieved, the reasonable Yang Chen is not difficult to deal with, but what I am afraid of is that he will insist on affirming something involuntarily without giving me a chance to refute.

"You're not very busy, she just listened to you when she asked you to?" I continued to ask aggressively, "I didn't expect you to be such a person, is it fun to test me? Who said before that couples trust each other?"

"I told you I didn't ask her to do this!" Yang Chen raised his voice and stared at me fiercely, "I know she's playing tricks, but I'm curious how you will react, so I just listened. Just right, Xu Junyan, you Also explain to me what you mean? What is reason? Ah? You are so clear-headed, why explain it to me?"

I raised my eyebrows: "Let me ask you first, are you going to get married?"

"You answer my question!" He has beautiful eyes, shining brightly under the lamp, and he is unspeakably handsome even when he is ruthless. He sneered when he heard my words, and leaned back in the chair with his arms folded, "Aren't you Are you sane? Keep it like this, it's none of your business whether I get married or not? It's okay to separate when the time comes?"

"If you want to say that, then I don't need to answer you." I glanced at him, "Let's break up now."

"Xu Junyan!" He called me angrily, "You have to piss me off to be satisfied, right—"

I said coldly: "What did I say? What did I say that I don't love you anymore? Why are you so suspicious? I didn't hear what Xue Keming said later, and I didn't want to mess with that woman at all. I just want to send her away as soon as possible, who knows what she said? I am not a human? I have no dignity? Are you satisfied with me being an unknown mistress here after you get married?!"

Yang Chen's complexion improved slightly after hearing my series of rhetorical questions, but he still spoke sarcastically: "I don't know how to get married, and you don't have any confidence in me? Why the hell are you thinking of yourself as a mistress all day long? Do you think it's fun?"

"Yang Chen, can we have a good talk." I squeezed the space between my eyebrows, he loves to yell at people when he's upset, and he speaks with a thorn in his heart, my head hurts when I hear it, "Don't be like a Playing tantrums like a child, right?"

Yang Chen said angrily: "Who's playing temper? Xu Junyan, you'd be happy if you could move out when I get married, wouldn't you? Don't you want to live here at all? Do you have to go to your brother's place for sex?"

"Didn't you say that you don't want to mention this matter——!" I was interrupted by him. Although I knew how to calm Yang Chen, I always found it difficult to do it according to the soft-spoken requirements. In the end, Most of it turned into a situation where the two of us were arguing with each other, "Also say you don't look like a child, please, you are an adult, can you stop hurting people all the time?"

"Whose words hurt people? Xu Junyan, do you have a heart?" Yang Chen put his hands on the table and shouted at me condescendingly, "Why did you promise me to be together if you don't love me? You think I can't see it?! You Did you really think that way when you answered Xue Keming?!"

I was stunned, his eyes were mixed with sadness and anger, maybe he was more painful than me when the truth was directly exposed.When I looked at each other, I couldn't bear it, and murmured: "What are you thinking..."

"Xu Junyan." He took a few deep breaths to regain his composure, and his flirtatious and unruly eyes revealed a bit of despair, "Okay, let's talk. Do you love me or not?"

"I..." I was grabbed by his wrist across the table. He squeezed my wrist so hard that it hurt, and even the bones seemed to creak. "I... love you."

After I finished speaking, I was stunned, as if I didn't even know what the words I said represented.He stared at me closely: "Say it again, louder."

"Just say it once you hear it." I looked away, "Let go, let's have a serious talk."

"Xu Junyan, I really don't understand you..." Probably because of the specious love words, Yang Chen's anger quickly dissipated.He squatted down in front of me, held my face and returned to his usual cynical look, with a little helplessness in his voice, "You know that these words also mean commitment and responsibility, right?"

"No matter what pressure or gossip there is from the outside world, you believe me, I will not get married, and there will only be you alone, let's go on for a long time. And that peach juice, I like to drink it always Get ready, don't be fooled by that woman." He pinched my face, which hurt me a little, "Understood? I love you too."

His voice was very firm. I lowered my eyes and did not answer, but said, "Then can you stop yelling at people? If it weren't for the sound insulation, the downstairs would call the police now."

"I've got a bad temper, and you didn't know about it the first day." Yang Chen said indifferently, "Next time you can't get angry, just scold me, or hit me."

"...I can't beat you. If you weren't across the dining table today, I'm afraid you would have started it long ago. I was worried that you would overturn the table." I said, "We communicate on an equal footing. Let's sit down and talk about something, isn't it good? "

Yang Chen looked at me silently for a moment before nodding his head: "Okay, what are you talking about, remind me later. What else do you want?"

"I still want to... go back to live." I glanced at him and said quickly, "I'm not used to living here, and you are also very busy, our work and rest hours are different, I don't want to be woken up in the middle of the night, and neither do you." After a busy day, you have to go home lightly, right?"

"These can all be adjusted." He was expressionless, and tapped the armrest with his slender fingers, "Xu Junyan, these details are not a problem, I find it strange that you make a fuss about this, as if you don't want to get serious with me at all Same."

After he finished speaking, he paused for a moment, and then said: "I do have a lot to do during this time. You can go back and live for a while, but your brother can't live with you."

"Okay." I agreed to him, and kissed his lips again, "Drink the soup, it's cold."

Yang Chen turned over, and I lay face to face with him on the bed, he suddenly asked: "Do you really love me?"

"Why are you acting like a woman." I yawned, "Sleep, aren't you tired?"

"I always feel that you treat me differently than before." He held my hand, squeezed into my fingers domineeringly and interlocked with mine, "Is it my illusion?"

In the dim light, I touched his handsome face and casually comforted him: "Illusions are all illusions."

"Xu Junyan, don't lie to me." He closed his eyes and rubbed against the palm of my hand. This gesture was a little boyish, but he made it out of harmony, "You still love me, don't you?"

"Love love love, sleep well." I said perfunctorily, "Master Yang, you have to get up early tomorrow, Xiao Yanzi, please go to bed early."

He nodded in satisfaction, and it was true that he was really tired from running around all day, so he fell asleep quickly while keeping his fingers intertwined with mine.I didn't work as hard as him, and I'm actually still awake. I patiently waited for him to fall asleep, then pulled out my hands little by little, turned my back to him, turned on the phone and lowered the brightness, and returned a message to Song Cheng.

It is precisely because there is an answer that I don't want to believe in my heart that I will ask repeatedly, and even a casual affirmation is regarded as proof of being loved.

Now it's my turn to become the life-saving straw that is being held on tightly.