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When the midday sun came in through the gap between the curtains and the edge of the bookshelf, Xu Nuo had been sitting on the ladder in front of the bookshelf for nearly three hours.

Before the new year, she needs to translate all the travel magazine texts she just received to be published, and then she can take a good rest.

The faint light fell on the edge of the ladder, shining on her left body, from the long hair pouring like water to the soft and warm fabric slippers, every place surrounded by the sun was covered with a layer of light golden light.She was wrapped in a thick nightgown, but she still had a slender figure when viewed from behind. Yan Ruyi lay on the bed, quietly looking at the back that was less than three meters in front of her, even her breathing changed. I have to be careful, lest I disturb Xu promise's work.

Xu Nuo was sitting on the ladder, looking through the materials carefully with lowered eyebrows. An old-fashioned British-style pen in her hand would write something on the draft paper placed on her bent knee from time to time. The rustling sound sounds very warm and comfortable.

Yan Ruyi sat up slightly, reached out to pick up the cell phone beside the pillow, and wanted to take a photo from this angle, the screen just swiped open, the battery was low and the screen went black after beeping a few times.

Hearing the sound, Xu Nuo turned around, lowered his eyebrows and looked at Yan Ruyi, who was slightly leaning on the head of the bed with his body leaning on his back, his eyes stayed on her embarrassed face for two seconds, and then followed her embarrassing way to hide the phone. Seeing the clue in the action, she was silent for a second, then smiled lightly, closed the book in her hand and put it on the shelf, and jumped down from the ladder with a pen and draft paper to Yan Ruyi:

"You're awake," she said, with an unusually gentle expression.

Wanting to secretly take pictures and being caught, Yan Ruyi tilted her head in embarrassment and coughed lightly, and responded in a low voice: "Well, did I bother you?"

Xu Nuo came to the bed, sat on the edge of the bed, smiled and looked at Yan Ruyi's reddish ears, the corners of her lips curled up into a wider arc, and she looked at Yan Ruyi's eyes, which were full of brilliance .

Xu Nuo didn't speak, just staring at her for a moment made Yan Ruyi a little impatient. She looked at Xu Nuo's clear eyes and her obvious lack of aura, and her expression became more unnatural. Even breathing became a little short.She tilted her head slightly, and only dared to look at Xu Nuo and her eyes with a smile from the corner of her eye. The atmosphere between the two became warm and ambiguous in a situation where no one spoke much.

Yan Ru turned her head to one side, and the bruise on the left side of her face, which was not very conspicuous in the dimly lit room, became obvious where she was injured by the tea cup last night. Xu Nuo stared at the bruise on the edge of her cheekbones, eyelashes Trembling.

Putting his left hand on the edge of the bed beside him, Xu Nuo leaned over, raised his right hand, and tentatively touched Yan Ruyi's face with his fingertips. Yan Ruyi immediately stiffened when he noticed her movement, and hid his head away from Xu Nuo. hide.

The outstretched fingers stopped in the air, Xu Nuo glanced sideways at his hand, then leaned over to probe, and pressed his soft lips to Yan Ruyi's face, Yan Ruyi instinctively wanted to hide, but she raised her hand and hooked her right cheek to get closer: "Does it hurt?"

Yan Ruyi shook her head: "It doesn't hurt anymore."

Xu Nuo lowered his eyebrows, looked at Yan Ruyi's gentle eyebrows and straight nose bridge, sighed softly, closed his eyes and let the kiss as soft as a goose feather slide down, sticking to her lips, when Yan Ru turned his head to respond, she My heart is sour, and I want to cry.

On the day of Xiaonian, Yan Ruyi had a company tour and promised to drive her to the hotel. After randomly finding a noodle restaurant for dinner, she planned to find a nearby coffee shop and wait for Yan Ruyi to finish and pick her up.

The end of the year is approaching, and the city is already mostly empty, and there are only two or three people sitting sparsely in the coffee shop.

Promising to order a cup of hot cocoa, he found a booth near the bookshelf in the corner of the coffee shop and sat down, casually took a book of stories from the bookshelf next to him and started to read.

The warm sound of music hovered in her ears, Xu Nuo folded her legs, and leaned on the sofa slowly reading the wonderful or ordinary stories in the book page by page. Time passed slowly in such a slow and comfortable rhythm, but she She didn't notice it until she closed the book after finishing the short story in the book in her hand and went back to the bookshelf to browse other books on the shelf. She didn't notice a card that was directly opposite her seat from not far away. The eyes cast from the seat.

She instinctively turned her head back, and through several rows of jumbled bonsai flower stands, she found the person who was startled by another row of bookshelves and was lowering her head and arranging her long hair in a panic.

Xu Nuo squinted his eyes slightly, trying to see the other person's face clearly, but that person seemed to have done something wrong, not only did not look up, he even grabbed the bag beside him and was about to get up and leave.

Xu Nuo looked at the shadow, and a familiar figure suddenly appeared in her mind. She quickly got up and walked forward.

The figure seemed to notice that she was trying to catch up with him, so he quickened his pace, walked to the door in two or three steps, opened the heavy glass door and walked out.

"Qingming...?"

Xu Nuo's dry voice was blocked by the soundproof glass of the cafe, and the shadow in front of him quickly turned and walked up the street, disappearing around the corner.

Xu Nuo paused, hesitated for two seconds, opened the door and chased him out.

It was already dark, street lights illuminated the empty corner of the street, Xu Nuo ran a few steps forward in the direction where the shadow disappeared, and found her at the corner of the coffee shop, and Zhou Qing who was standing in front of her facing her direction The other woman that Ming blocked, the woman's hand was still on the face of the man she was chasing.

Under the dim light of the street lamp, Xu Nuo vaguely felt that the woman's figure looked familiar.

Trying to go forward and take a few steps around some angles, Xu Nuo slightly tilted his head to look at the two people.Finally, she saw the side face clearly, and after making sure she saw the right person, she opened her mouth softly, and tentatively shouted the two words again: "Qingming?"

The back of the person who fled in a hurry just now trembled slightly, and turned her head slowly. When the front looked like Xu Nuo, she had a natural professional smile on her face, and responded to a few rhetorical questions in an incredible tone: "Xu…nuo ?It's you?!"

Xu Nuo looked at Zhou Qingming's face, and turned his gaze to the woman who was already facing him, only to realize that it was the woman who used her unique way to impress her the first time they met—— "Maggie Cheung"!

Before she had time to think too much, Xu Nuo turned her head, looked at Zhou Qingming, and showed a polite smile in line with her reaction. She turned sideways and pointed to the coffee shop behind her: "I just saw you in the coffee shop, and I thought you were looking at Zhou Qingming. wrong."

"Oh." Zhou Qingming glanced in the direction Xu Nuo pointed, and the polite smile on his face became more vivid: "Hehe, what a coincidence, but..." After a pause for a second, Zhou Qingming cleared his mind. Throat, looking at Xu Nuo seriously: "Long time no see."

"Long time no see." Xu Nuo looked into Zhou Qingming's eyes and replied following her words.

The two fell silent, no one spoke, the atmosphere suddenly became a little awkward, Xu Nuo rubbed his hands, and just about to ask her how she was doing, she saw "Maggie Cheung" next to her stepping forward and smiling coquettishly at herself:

"Hey, Weishou, what a coincidence."

Xu Nuo's nerves were stimulated by the word weak, she couldn't help the corners of her mouth twitching, the current scene was obviously not suitable for entanglement with this issue, she forced a smile, and greeted her: "What a coincidence, Sister Lan."

"Do you know?"

"You guys, know each other?"

The two voices came out at the same time, Xu Nuo looked at Zhou Qingming and then at Bao Lan, without saying a word, he just passed the question to Zhou Qingming with his eyes.

Seeing this, Zhou Qingming turned to Bao Lan and said, "We are high school alumni."

"Oh..." Bao Lan nodded, looked at Xu Nuo thoughtfully, turned her eyes slightly, and said to Zhou Qingming with a smile, "That's a coincidence, I like you, and she likes my friend."

Zhou Qingming listened to the words, lowered his eyebrows, grinned and jokingly promised: "Hey, you're enlightened?"

Xu Nuo looked at Zhou Qingming's face. Under the street lamp, her smile looked bright and moving, as if she was really happy, but the unusually clever light in her eyes made Xu Nuo unbearable to face it.She smiled slightly, nodded, and didn't say much about her and Yan Ruyi.

"Where's Yan Ruyi? Is it inside?"

Here Xu Nuo didn't say anything, but Bao Lan asked Yan Ruyi indifferently.

"Her annual meeting tonight, I'll wait here for her to finish and go home together." Xu Nuo replied, glanced at Zhou Qingming's face from the corner of her eye, seeing that the expression on her face hadn't changed, she felt a little looser in her heart, thinking maybe I think too much.

"I heard she moved out from home?"

Bao Lan didn't seem to intend to stop the conversation, and straightforwardly asked Xu Nuo again.

"Yeah." Xu Nuo nodded, "It may take some time for her family to accept it."

"how about you?"

"what?"

"Can your family accept you like this?" Bao Lan took a deep breath and asked the question more clearly.

Xu Nuo frowned. She didn't know why. From the beginning, she always felt that Bao Lan seemed to be deliberately mentioning the relationship between herself and Yan Ruyi. Although it is not forbidden for friends to ask about their relationship, she and Yan Ruyi She wasn't actually that familiar with each other.She looked sideways at Zhou Qingming, saw her expression was natural, and felt that she might be too sensitive because she suddenly saw her, so she loosened her brows and answered seriously:

"I thought this question was like asking me if I need a blessing from a stranger. It doesn't matter to me. What matters is that she is willing to be with me."

Bao Lan raised her eyebrows, slightly raised her voice and asked in an unbelievable tone: "In your eyes, the support of family members is only equivalent to the blessings of strangers?"

Xu Nuo sighed, not wanting to respond too much, she opened her mouth, and just about to end this topic briefly, she heard Zhou Qingming say:

"Different experiences may cause everyone to value the components of life differently. Attorney Bao, you are off work now."

After Bao Lan listened, she glanced sideways at Zhou Qingming, and asked Zhou Qingming in a half-joking and seven-part serious tone with a half-smile, "Oh? Little Qingming, you seem to know her very well?"

Zhou Qingming glanced at Xu Nuo, then turned his head and replied nonchalantly: "Are you curious?"

"... "

The sentence "You are very curious" seemed to make Bao Lan feel a little anxious suddenly. Xu Nuo watched her pinch her fingers tightly, took a deep breath, and locked her eyes on Zhou Qingming's face for five seconds. She smiled, turned her head to look at herself, and said quietly: "Sorry, you know that I am a lawyer, and occasionally I have some occupational diseases. Are you not angry?"

"Of course, I know sister Lan, you just care about Ruyi." Xu Nuo answered Bao Lan's words with a light smile, then turned his head to look at Zhou Qingming and said, "It's getting late, I'll go first, bye .”

Zhou Qingming glanced at Xu Nuo, but said nothing.

"Then I'll go first, Sister Lan?"

Bao Lan glanced at Zhou Qingming and nodded, "Well, bye."

After turning around, Xu Nuo finally let out a breath, feeling her nerves relaxed a bit. In just a few minutes, several back and forth conversations really caused some indescribable complex emotions in her heart.She could see the relationship between Bao Lan and Zhou Qingming, and she only hoped that she chased him out today without causing any trouble to Zhou Qingming.

"Promise!"

Just as he walked back to the coffee shop, Zhou Qingming's voice calling himself suddenly came from behind.Hearing the sound, Xu Nuo turned around and saw Zhou Qingming trotting towards her in a hurry. Behind her, Bao Lan stood motionless at the position where he stood at the beginning and looked at this side. The distance was a little far away, and the light was very dim. Clearing her expression, he had an invisible feeling that he was being stalked by her eyes.

"What is Qingming?"

Zhou Qingming stood still in front of Xu Nuo, while controlling her breathing that became a little disordered due to the trot, she took out her mobile phone from her handbag, slid open the screen and handed it to Xu Nuo, looking at her with persistent eyes and saying: "Leave a call."

Xu Nuo looked at the phone in front of him, then at Bao Lan who was standing in the distance, took the phone without saying anything, and entered his phone number.

"So, did you leave her your phone number?" The car window was slightly lowered an inch, and the cold wind blew in through the gap, and Yan Ruyi's eyes became clearer.

"Yeah." Xu Nuo nodded, and reached out to touch Yan Ruyi's face. She drank too much and her face was very hot: "Do you feel uncomfortable? Do you want to vomit?"

"It's okay." Yan Ruyi supported the back of the chair and moved her body up. A second later, she was exhausted and half collapsed on the co-pilot. She stretched out her hand to grab Xu Nuo's hand that was sticking to her face, and greedily occupied her. The warmth of the palm: "Lan is pursuing a woman who plays the piano. I have always known this, but I never thought that the fate is so ingenious that the one she likes is actually your ex."

The word "predecessor" came out of Yan Ruyi's drunken, slurred and deliberately accentuated mouth, which sounded a bit awkward and arrogant.

Xu Nuo listened, and unconsciously curled the corners of her lips. She glanced at Yan Ruyi sideways, and said with a smile, "What are you thinking?"

"It's nothing." Yan Ruyi pursed her lips and muttered, holding Xu Nuo's fingers with both hands, breaking them apart one by one, curling them up and breaking them apart, and then suddenly got angry with her again, and grabbed Xu Nuo's fingers. A second ago, he threw the playful hand back onto Xu Nuo's lap, and shouted, "Who doesn't have an ex yet, what's there to worry about?"

Xu Nuo looked at his hand that was thrown back amusedly, raised his hand to gently stroke Yan Ruyi's hair, and comforted him softly: "Hey, sleep for a while, you'll be home soon."