Outside the window, a deserted glow fell, reflecting coldly on the floor in front of them.
Perhaps this ending was already doomed from the beginning.
She said she didn't like him, not at all. She only had hatred but no love for him...
If she doesn't want him, his world will collapse...
What they couldn't defeat in the end was the unfamiliar concealment between them from the beginning.
He wanted to protect her, so he couldn't confess to her. She gave him a chance, but what she wanted was a confession that he couldn't tell.
Among the two kinds of hurt, he chose to be her shadow. She didn't love him. Maybe the hurt of such deception would make her forget about him after she fell asleep and woke up?
fair enough……
It's enough that he continues to be her shadow.
***……
When Xia Baoer opened his eyes, he smelled a familiar scent on his nose, the feeling of home.
"Are you awake?" My mother was still so angry that she wanted to strangle her to death.
Before she even opened her eyes, she knew that her mother would lift her quilt the next second and yell.
"If you wake up, why don't you get up quickly, brush your teeth, wash your face, and have breakfast!"
Sure enough, the quilt on my body was light and my mother's roar was still as loud as ever.
I felt a little sad in my heart. I don't know why, but my eyes began to turn red endlessly.
"What's wrong, girl?"
Turning her face, she rubbed the circles around her eyes and muttered "It's okay", then she yelled at her mother to turn around, quickly wiped away the tears that she didn't know why they had fallen, put on her clothes, and jumped to the bathroom.
.
After a long time, the bathroom door was not opened.
"Old man, are you going to take a look?" Xia's mother asked her husband with some worry.
Xia's father leisurely read the newspaper without frowning, "What are you reading?"
"You...are so angry with me!" Xia Mu pinched her husband and angrily said to him, "Can't you see that something is wrong with the girl? And where did you go to bring the girl back?"
Father Xia was so nagged that he simply turned around and ignored it, concentrating on reading his newspaper.
After a long time, Xia Baoer came out of the bathroom, went back to the room, picked up her bag, and headed out.
"Hey, girl, where are you going?"
She raised her face and rolled her eyes at her mother, "Nonsense, of course I'm going to work, where else can I go!"
"How about...you resign? Then go abroad for a tour? How about Mommy giving you funds?"
Narrowing his eyes, Xia Baoer stared at his mother without blinking, making Xia's mother feel a little guilty. She pushed her daughter angrily, "Go, go, go to work. If you don't hurry up, you will be late."
Looking away, Xia Baoer responded casually. When she walked to the door, she looked back at her father and suddenly said inexplicably, "Sir, how about we change a house? How about selling this place?"
"What!" Xia's mother exclaimed.
"Where do you want to move to?" Xia's father asked.
"Well..." After thinking about it, she didn't answer directly, "We'll talk about it after I get back from get off work. I'm sorry."
***……
"Qiqi, do you have time?...Oh, I have to do an experiment, so you are busy..."
"Qianqian, do you still have work today?...Oh, you are going to be a stand-in for a big star, so be careful..."
"Xiao Mi, do you have any interviews today?...Oh, you have to follow up with a big reporter for interviews, so go ahead and be careful..."
After hanging up the phone, Xia Baoer suddenly felt a little empty and bored.
She came back from Nan Muli's villa and had been to both villas. In one night, the buildings were all empty.
Brother Sheng is currently abroad and has to attend a professional lecture at a beauty institution. There is no one to accompany her, and she feels very irritable.
She originally wanted to go to work, but unfortunately, when she arrived at the company, she realized it was the weekend, and she didn't know if Lan Yu had fired her.
Standing up, amid the surging crowd, I suddenly didn't know where I was going.
At this moment, the cell phone in her pocket suddenly rang. She picked it up and answered the call after hesitating, "Brother Gu, are you okay?"
"Where are you now?"
"I...I'm shopping with Qian Qian and the others."
"I want to meet you."
Xia Baoer fell silent, not knowing how to answer him.
"Don't have time? Forget it." Gu Xiangdong said softly on the phone.
"Yeah." Afraid of what he was talking about, she quickly said: "Brother Gu, don't talk so much anymore. We have time to chat." Xia Baoer hung up the phone in a hurry and walked into the crowd without noticing that Gu Xiangdong was right where she was standing just now.
Behind the place, watching her disappear into the crowd, he frowned slightly.
Many things are like this sometimes, and they are already lost before they have a chance to grasp them properly.
***……
Xia Baoer felt that everything was wrong with her whole body and she had no strength to do anything.
During the two-day weekend, she had been living in a haze. Even when Qiqi and the others took her out to have fun at night, she couldn't cheer up.
"Hey, little baby, what are you going to do? Everything is wrong." Zhang Xiaomi held her cheeks, her big eyes were always looking for gossip. Reporters are really not for nothing, and they are getting more and more.
More professional.
Before she could reply, Qiqi squinted her eyes and said, "What else can she do? She's either in love with her or in love with her. I think she must have been unbearably lonely recently."
Xia Baoer was speechless, picked up the wine glass and drank it.
You Aiqian snorted coldly: "No, no! What do you know! According to our director, this is the window period for little Bao'er to fall in love!"
Huh? Lovelorn?
Several best friends finally discovered the same thing.
"Are you heartbroken?" What's rare is that this is the first time that these best friends have such a tacit understanding.
Rolling her eyes, Xia Baoer simply ignored them. Looking at them all looking as hungry as wolves and tigers, she must have played into their hands when she spoke. "Don't you just want to find an excuse to go to 'Night Traveler' to find a man?"
Do you want to play? There’s no need to beat around the bush.”
"Wow! They are indeed good sisters. They understand us at all. Only Xiao Bao'er..." Zhang Xiaomi was kicked away by Xia Bao'er before Zhang Xiaomi could pounce on her. "Young master, come on. Since you are so hungry, why don't we go first?"
Why don’t you go to Brother Sheng’s shop and get a free SP?”
"Not going."
"Sister doesn't love women."
Xia Baoer didn't know what to say now. None of them were willing to go, so she couldn't say anything, "Then you go to 'Night Traveler', but I advise you not to look for that Yasi, be careful of someone giving you a few words in front of you."
hand."
"Oh, little Bao'er, have you been there?" Several people stared so hard that their eyes almost dropped.
They would never have thought that Xiao Baoer would hide their visit to that kind of place! How is this possible?
"I'll go back first, you guys just take it easy." She grabbed the bag and wanted to leave.
Several best friends looked at each other, as if they felt that something was really wrong with Little Baoer. Without thinking much, they chased after her.
"What's wrong? Didn't you say that we can't hide anything from each other?" He bumped the silent little Bao'er with his elbow, and several people asked worriedly.
They had never seen a confused and troubled expression on this girl's face, but when they thought about it, all her behavior in the past two days was too strange.
She really couldn't be hiding something from all of them, could she?
"get cancer?"
"Bah, it's your sister who has cancer." Xia Baoer rolled her eyes and glared at Zhang Xiaomi.
"Isn't your aunt here? She's pregnant with a wild man's bastard?"
"Go on, your TV series isn't so bloody, okay?" He stared at You Aiqian speechlessly. She must have been a stand-in for too long and wanted to stand up.
Zhao Qiqi, who was silent on the side, suddenly narrowed her eyes mysteriously, with a knowledgeable look, "I guessed it, little Bao'er is secretly in love with so and so, right? Tell me, and let the sisters help you figure it out!"
Xia Baoer sniffed and said nothing.
"Look, I guessed it right."
"Shit, I guessed it right."
"Don't make trouble, didn't I guess it right?
"You guys fight, whoever wins is right." He accidentally threw a bomb, which made the three women look at each other, and finally stopped talking. They walked to the door of the house for an unknown amount of time.
Xia Baoer looked back at the three women who were following him quietly, and smiled stupidly.
"Aren't you afraid of suffocating yourself to death? Why don't you go back quickly? You don't have to go to work tomorrow."
The three women looked at each other, and finally stared at her strangely for a long time.
"She smiled?"
"Seems to be."
"It's uglier than crying."
The three of them looked at it again and nodded in agreement.
Originally, she wanted to hug them together and cry, but seeing the hurtful looks of the three of them, Xia Baoer cried and laughed at the same time, which made her depressed.
"You three little bitches!"
The three of them let out a long "Oh", "Shouldn't it be four cheap guests?"
Sniffing, she really burst into laughter this time.
"Would you like a drink?"
"You really don't want to go to work?"
It is very generous of the three of them to risk their lives to accompany a gentleman.
"The old man in the laboratory won't be here tomorrow, it doesn't matter to me." The old man comes every day, rain or shine, but Zhao Qiqi didn't say anything.
"The big stars don't need me to stand in tomorrow. If I don't go, I'll at most get deducted some money." You Aiqian's face hurt, but her words went smoothly. Although if she didn't go tomorrow, she would probably lose all her money as a stand-in this month.
Not enough compensation.
"Well, I'm a young reporter. It doesn't matter whether I go or not. Who makes us the poorest guests?" Although Zhang Xiaomi might be fired if she doesn't go tomorrow. After all, this is a big column. Is she okay?
It’s easy to earn such an opportunity.
Xia Baoer, who was smiling at first, burst into tears, crying like a child.
She knew it all, and she wanted to look happy, but there was no way she could hide it from them.
Tired of crying, they lay on the grass and chatted casually.
In the end, Xia Baoer was turned away.
The three of them almost kicked down the door and rushed in, but Xia's mother took out her specialty snacks and gave each of them a handful before coaxing the three of them back to rest.
Xia Baoer, who threw himself on the big bed, squinted his eyes and fell asleep... insomnia.
After her parents had fallen asleep for a long time, she squinted her eyes in a daze.
Not long after, she felt so warm around her, just like she felt at ease when Nan Muli fell asleep in his arms countless nights.
She thought that she didn't seem to have any feelings as she said. After the separation and the real end, she realized that she might like that person... again.
The feeling became more and more familiar. She opened her eyes a thin slit and touched her back with her little hands.
cold……
The palms of her hands felt cold, and she opened her eyes instantly. The breathing in her ears, and the big hands hugging her tightly, were all real.
"Little one, I miss you." No matter how he restrained himself, it was of no use. His heart was so empty.
The gentle words made Xia Baoer feel in a trance for a while.
She reached out her hand to search for his face in disbelief and stroked it carefully. She suddenly turned around and looked at him in the darkness.
"Really?"
"Yeah." His tone was extremely gentle, fearing to scare her.
"Who are you……"
"Nan Muli."
"Why isn't your last name He?"
"Because his son was killed by his own hands, he did not allow the people he trained to have the same surname as him."
"who are you?"
"Secretly, he is his number one seed killer, and clearly he is the president of Yanri."
"The night you went to save me...was it really the first time you saw me?"
"Well, because I'm still holding a press conference here during the day. If you don't believe me, you can check it out."
"Why... did you come back to me? Didn't you leave?"
"Although I can't say it out loud, I know you are very important to me and I don't want to lose you."
"Then what happens next..."
"Give me time, I will get rid of them and then stay with you."
Blinking, Xia Baoer stopped talking.
"Little thing, do you still hate me?"
She still didn't speak.
"If you want me to leave, I will leave now..." Nan Muli stood up slowly. Under the cold moonlight, his tall body felt indescribably lonely.
Xia Baoer's expression changed from aggrieved to confused, and then slowly turned to surprise. "Are all your answers true?"
"Um."
"Then lie down now."
Nan Muli was stunned for a moment, then quickly jumped onto the bed, and the warm and soft body lay softly in his arms. He suddenly felt at a loss. His heartbeat was beating normally for the first time, and it was still accelerating irregularly...
"Why weren't you willing to say it before?"
Nan Muli hesitated for a while, then smiled softly, "Because I want to protect you, I can't say it."
"Really? You're not lying to me?"
"It's absolutely true, I can use your life as a bet."
"Oh, that day, I clearly saw it clearly..."
"What?" He responded calmly. Nan Muli saw the expression of the little woman in his arms change from gloomy to clear, and knew that there must be some misunderstanding. "You can explain it to me more clearly."
"I was in that place and saw you doing, doing, doing that with other women."
"No, I swear I wasn't really there that day!"
"But...why?" After getting the answer, Xia Baoer was still confused.
"What problem are you talking about?"
"Your marriage to the eldest lady of the Lan family..."
"This is also to protect you. I don't want you to feel wronged or hurt."
Uh, is it that serious?
Why do they pretend to be together to protect her safety? What does this have to do with her?
"She is already your fiancée. You will get married soon, won't you?"
Rubbing the bangs on her forehead, Nan Muli said calmly: "I said I won't get married. If I really get married, I will only have you."
"This..." She froze and looked up at him. His gaze was so focused and affectionate that it made her face turn red and her heart flutter.
"In the future, you are not allowed to say anything like that again."
