Unconsciously, the time hanging on the wall has reached 22:45.
After Liu Weicheng finished reading the last sentence of the story, he gently closed the picture book in his hand and quietly placed it on the coffee table in front of him.
She turned her head and looked at Li Shiyi, who was holding her chin with one hand and looking sideways at her, and opened her mouth.
Said in a very low voice.
"Fell asleep……"
"Well, I saw it."
Compared with Liu Weicheng's cautiousness, Li Shiyi spoke at a normal volume.
Hearing her very loud voice at this moment, Liu Weicheng immediately waved his hand towards the other party, indicating that she should keep her voice quieter.
Li Shiyi on the side smiled and nodded in agreement after seeing this. She, as a mother, is most familiar with what her daughter looks like when she falls asleep.
Not to mention the volume of talking, even if you sing loudly in the living room, the child may not be able to wake up.
Then the palm holding her face moved away, Li Shiyi slowly stood up from the sofa, bent down and wanted to hug Yunyun who was huddled in Liu Weicheng's arms.
I didn't notice at all that the collar of the clothes was under the influence of gravity...
Looking up, Liu Weicheng discovered this scene again.
The distance between the two was close enough that Liu Weicheng could clearly smell the subtle fragrance coming from the other person's body.
I don’t know what brand of shower gel it is, but the smell is not offensive, on the contrary, it’s a little alluring.
He quickly averted his eyes, but looked back at him honestly.
The time was very short. After just a few seconds, Li Shiyi took the child from Liu Weicheng's arms.
As her body stood upright, the scenery disappeared.
Liu Weicheng felt a little pity, but his face didn't reveal anything at all. After Yunyun left, he was finally able to relax a bit.
He leaned back and exhaled a long breath.
Looking at Li Shiyi walking towards the bedroom after hugging the child, it took more than a minute before she returned to the living room again.
Gently closing the bedroom door, Li Shiyi returned to Liu Weicheng's side.
Sat down.
Looking in the direction where he was, the eyes that were originally looking at a little boy had changed without knowing when.
Look at Liu Weicheng's obviously raised Adam's apple, and look at the other party's angular profile.
"Thank you."
The words of thanks came from her mouth. Li Shiyi thanked the other party from the bottom of her heart for her help tonight.
The twenty minutes after Wu Yong came to the door and refused to leave was when she was most desperate and helpless. She could only bear the panic that the other party brought to the mother and daughter when he knocked on the door.
Forced to the point where she had no choice but to call the police, she unexpectedly saw Liu Weicheng's mobile phone number in the recent call records.
When I asked the other party to come to my house to help repair the toilet, I told him my detailed address on the phone.
She dialed the phone with a rush of thought. After the other party said "Come right away", Li Shiyi's fearful mood improved slightly.
She didn't think too much about it when she was holding her baby in her arms, and she didn't react until she heard the curses stopped coming from outside the house.
There is some difference in body shape between Liu Weicheng and Wu Yong.
The last time he came to his home to repair the toilet, he forgot to close the door, which led to Wu Yong entering the home and what happened next.
Thinking that Liu Weicheng might suffer losses again, Li Shiyi, who called him, suddenly felt uneasy in her conscience.
At that moment, she didn't know where she got the courage. She rushed into the kitchen, picked up the kitchen knife, and planned to fight the man outside the house.
What she didn't expect was that when she opened the door, what she saw was not the scene of Liu Weicheng being wronged, but the scene of Wu Yong being pushed to the ground and being beaten...
When Liu Weicheng heard Li Shiyi's thanks, he didn't say much.
He raised his hand and picked up the cup on the coffee table in front of him. The tea that had cooled down was not as hot as it was at first. He sipped the tea and poured it into his mouth, which slightly relieved Yunyun's thirst after reading the picture book.
He drank it all in one gulp and put the cup back on the coffee table.
He looked at Li Shiyi beside him, and looked at the other person's eyes that seemed to be shining brightly.
"Forget it thanks and all, I'm a little curious now why you two haven't divorced yet?"
"..."
Hearing Liu Weicheng ask this, Li Shiyi's eyes that were bright just now seemed to dim a little.
After a while, he slowly narrated.
"He doesn't want to."
"Then...you can't leave if you don't want to?"
"I am also thinking of ways now so that I can leave when the time for separation is up."
"That's it."
Liu Weicheng, who had not yet been married, was not clear about this. After listening to Li Shiyi's response, he realized that the current situation of the other party was indeed very bad.
He is not very good at saying comforting words to others, especially in Li Shiyi's current dire situation.
After holding it in for a long while, he finally said something.
"Let's do it step by step."
After saying this, Li Shiyi did not respond.
His eyes were still on him, and Liu Weicheng felt very well about this.
He started to feel restless, and looked up at the hanging clock, looking at the time period that was almost eleven o'clock... His body was tired from running around all day.
Uncontrollably, he opened his mouth wide and let out a huge yawn.
"you are tired?"
"Well, it's been a busy day..."
The other party's question reached his ears before he closed his mouth. Liu Weicheng responded after closing his mouth.
Immediately, I organized the vocabulary in my mind, wanting to take the first step and leave.
The waist exerts force, and the body is already halfway up...
"How about... sleep here with me."
"..."
His buttocks were hovering in the air, and Liu Weicheng, who was still a little sleepy just now, blinked.
All sleepiness disappeared instantly.
His eyes slowly turned to the side and looked at Li Shiyi who said this...
Li Shiyi, who was probably a little confused by Liu Weicheng's gaze like this, immediately woke up, waved her hands anxiously and explained.
"There is also a guest room, I mean... that, it's not what you think, I..."
"Forehead……"
"Oh my god...how could I say such a thing..."
Feeling ashamed, Li Shiyi covered her face with her hands.
He lowered his head and tensed his calves.
I kept making conjectures in my mind.
After the child fell asleep, they were the only two people left in the living room. It could be considered a scene where a man and a woman were alone... but he said such shameless words.
She no longer knows how to face Liu Weicheng...
In the eyes of the other party, the current self must be...
"It seems that you are sleepy too, so let's do that. I won't disturb you any further."
The words interrupted Li Shiyi's confused guessing. When she looked through her fingers, Liu Weicheng had already stood up and came to the door.
After opening the door and walking out, he faced Li Shiyi in the living room and said.
"I'm leaving now. If anything happens, call me again."
"..."
"goodbye."
With the sound of the security door closing, the entire living room fell into silence.
Li Shiyi seemed to be able to clearly hear her own rapidly beating heart. When she thought of what she had just said to Liu Weicheng, her shameless mood rose again.
His body leaned to the side and slowly fell on the sofa.
He... must have misunderstood.
downstairs.
Liu Weicheng, who was already walking towards his home, was also thinking about it.
With a frown on his face, he walked silently on a sparsely populated road, recalling in his mind what Li Shiyi had just said.
Walking and walking...stopped.
He gritted his teeth and raised his right hand, pretending to slap himself.
But because he was afraid of pain, he finally suppressed the urge.
"Oh, you really don't live up to expectations, Liu Weicheng!"
When he thought about his sanctimonious rejection just now, all he felt was regret, and the damn positive energy made him refuse instinctively.
With a feeling of hatred that iron cannot become steel, Liu Weicheng accelerated his pace home.
When he got downstairs where he lived, he saw the locked stall in its old location... It seemed that Zhao Xuanying had pushed it back for him.
I don’t know how the little girl was pushed back.
Climbing the stairs, Liu Weicheng arrived at the corridor in the night. Just when he was trying to see clearly with the faint light of his mobile phone screen... the sound of the door opening rang in his ears.
The next second, a beam of light hit the door directly.
Raise your hands and cover your eyes.
Before Liu Weicheng could see clearly, Zhao Xuanying's voice came to his ears.
"Why are you coming back now?"
"It's hard to describe in words..."
The beam of light shone towards the ground, and Liu Weicheng's vision returned to normal.
Looking at Zhao Xuanying who appeared not far in front of her, before she could speak, she slowly walked towards him.
When the other party came to him, Liu Weicheng saw clearly that the other party had put on a sleeping outfit.
He lowered his gaze and looked at the other party's ugly pink slippers...
And little toes.
"I thought you had an accident."
The voice drew Liu Weicheng's eyes back to the ground. Looking at the girl in front of him, the other party continued.
"Here, the key to the lock."
"..."
Looking at the key handed over by the other party, Liu Weicheng seemed to be stunned on the spot and did not respond for a long time.
It wasn't until Zhao Xuanying said it again and shook the key in his hand that Liu Weicheng seemed to react and reached out to take it.
Spread your hands and look at the keys in your palm...
"You're still awake at this hour just to give me the key?"
"Yeah, but don't go out so late in the future...it's not safe at night."
"..."
"My grandma was already asleep, and I almost fell asleep while waiting."
It seemed that Liu Weicheng's late return made her wait too long. The sleepy Zhao Xuanying yawned and planned to turn around and leave.
However, just as he turned around and took two steps, Liu Weicheng behind him spoke.
"Thanks."
This was already the second time she heard thanks from the other party.
The steps just paused for a moment, and then started walking again.
until she returned to her own room.
As the door closed, Liu Weicheng was the only one left in the corridor.