Lin Nianwei's mobile phone number is still on the phone.
This made Liu Weicheng, who had been in the car but had not yet gone upstairs to go home, wait for a long time. It was not clear whether the other party was at home talking on the phone with his friend Duan Yining again.
After trying several times, I finally decided that face-to-face communication would be more effective.
In addition, we had just received a few important clients and it was a bit late. Considering that Lin Nianwei might have gone to bed early today, tonight's call was temporarily put on hold.
Staying in the car that had turned off, Liu Weicheng stared at the steering wheel in front of him, recalling Zhao Xuanying's actions during the day...
Even though he had had sex with Lin Nianwei many times, he still felt a strange sense of excitement when the partner changed to Zhao Xuanying.
The feeling at that time was still fresh in his memory until now.
Human beings may be very good at deceiving themselves with lies, but essentially they know their innermost thoughts better than anyone else.
From the day he got along with Zhao Xuanying, he had already developed a crush on that girl who seemed clumsy but always thought of herself. However, due to various reasons, he had never really expressed it before.
Although the other party had taken the initiative to kiss during the day, he had done so before, but this time it was the one that impressed him the most.
It’s also...a time to re-examine your own heart.
After exhaling, Liu Weicheng rested his head on the car seat and closed his eyes tightly, but the figures of Zhao Xuanying and Lin Nianwei kept flashing in his mind.
Even if he doesn't want to admit it, the facts are revealing his truest thoughts to him all the time.
He fell in love with both of them at the same time.
In the past, Liu Weicheng would never have been able to admit that such a thing would happen to him. After all, in his previous life, he grew up in a harmonious family, and the education he received all along was that one person stays with you for life.
My colleagues, friends, and even my family members have never had any problems with cheating or emotional breakdown.
Although he never had a relationship in his previous life due to some reasons, his own views on love are surprisingly conservative.
In his opinion, loving only one person in your life is extremely normal and necessary.
However, now, the reality before him tells him that not only will he not love just one person, but he will also love two people.
Zhao Xuanying, the sensible person of the Gu family.
The caring and loving Lin Nianwei.
Obviously both of them are first-class good women. When ordinary people meet one of them, they will sigh and admire God for blessing them, but such people appear beside him.
No matter which one he gives up, it will be difficult for him to make a decision.
Liu Weicheng felt that he was getting closer and closer to the kind of person he once hated the most.
I am slowly becoming that kind of person.
Perhaps after confirming the relationship with Lin Nianwei, he has always wanted to break away from Zhao Xuanying, and he has just realized this.
But after trying, Liu Weicheng realized that he could not let Zhao Xuanying go from him.
Even just a greeting after an ordinary encounter will make him feel at ease instantly.
The same is true for Lin Nianwei.
Just thinking about the possibility of Lin Nianwei leaving him made Liu Weicheng unable to accept the reality after it happened.
Faced with his current self, which is like a combination of contradictions, even though he has always been quite calm when it comes to thinking about things, he can't help but start to become irritable.
In a depressed mood, he even started to reach out and touch the pocket of his coat, but he had been quitting smoking for a while, so he could not find something from his pocket that could help him relax a little at this moment.
He could only retract his hand angrily, just as he was about to open the door and get out of the car...
The sound of tapping on the car window next to his ear attracted Liu Weicheng's eyes.
Subconsciously, he raised his head and looked in the direction from which the sound came. He looked at the figure that appeared outside the driver's window, and at the girl's pleasing smile.
After a brief daze, he came to his senses and hurriedly opened the car door and got out of the car.
Before he could speak, Zhao Xuanying's words reached his ears.
"I've been seeing you upstairs for a while, but no one got out of the car. I thought something happened..."
The first sentence he spoke made clear the reason for his appearance downstairs, and then, as if to answer his guess, he leaned slightly towards Liu Weicheng, the sides of his nose trembled slightly, and sniffed the odor on him carefully.
The smell comes out.
After making sure that he didn't smell the so-called alcohol, he relaxed as if he was relieved.
Then he returned to the smiling look at the beginning.
"It looks like he didn't drink."
"How can you drive after drinking?"
"Not necessarily. Many of the accidents reported in the news were caused by drunk driving. Who knows if you might do something stupid like this when your head is hot."
After speaking, he clapped his hands together and added as if applauding Liu Weicheng again.
"But you did a good job on this, I applaud you~"
"Hey, are you complimenting me?"
"After all, obeying traffic rules is worth encouraging."
"..."
The other party seemed to talk more and more.
Since confirming the relationship with Lin Nianwei, there has never been such a relaxed and happy communication as now. Such smooth communication with Zhao Xuanying at this moment. When I think back to the last time, I don't know how long it has been.
Especially the way the girl is smiling and looking at her all the time.
This is a phenomenon that only occurred when I first started living in crowded residential buildings...
Staring at the girl in front of him, maybe the girl felt a little strange without responding for a long time. Facing those eyes, Liu Weicheng finally looked away and looked upstairs with the lights out.
Looking for topics to chat about.
"Has grandma gone to bed already?"
"Yeah, so I ran out quietly."
The temperature at night was still a bit cold. Even though it was almost April, the chilly wind still made Zhao Xuanying wrap up her coat tightly.
"Since I still have a day off tomorrow, it doesn't matter if I stay up a little bit tonight."
After the words fell, Zhao Xuanying looked carefully at the man in front of her.
After a little hesitation, he still asked.
"By the way...are you free tomorrow?"
"tomorrow?"
"Well, you've been quite busy recently, so I asked in advance in case you couldn't spare time."
The steady advancement in his career has indeed made Liu Weicheng busy. Even Zhao Xuanying, who lives opposite him, often doesn't see him after the Chinese New Year.
Although the relationship between the two people is not clearly stated now, it is still in a further state.
Looking at the other party expectantly, Zhao Xuanying pursed her lips and continued to tell her the purpose of her visit.
"Tomorrow... is my grandfather's death anniversary. Every year at this time, my grandma and I will go to pay homage."
"Really? I've never heard grandma mention it before."
"Well, because grandma said that grandpa was a very free and easy person during his lifetime, so he would go to worship at this time every year, but not during the Qingming Festival..."
"Why?"
"Grandma said that grandpa doesn't like too many people, so usually there are no people in the cemetery when we go at this time."
"..."
Although Zhang Cuilan had never mentioned this matter before, Liu Weicheng seemed to be able to imagine the relationship between this couple from these few sentences.
If you think about it carefully, Zhang Cuilan has never had any children in her life. In the society when she was young, some of the men she could carelessly accompany to old age... were not free and easy people.
Facing this man who had passed away long ago and had never even heard of his deeds, Liu Weicheng became a little curious for the first time.
He lowered his head and pondered, then looked at the other person again.
Asked.
"Tomorrow, right...what should I do? It happens to be this time."
"What's wrong? Are you busy with anything tomorrow?"
As soon as the words came out, Zhao Xuanying asked nervously. Judging from the clenched posture of her fists, deep down in her heart, she really wanted Liu Weicheng to go with her and her grandma.
After all, a family must be in order, and besides... she also wants her deceased grandfather to meet her sweetheart.
Her heart seemed to be in her throat, and she stared nervously at the man in front of her, fearing that words of rejection would come out of his mouth.
However... this time, Liu Weicheng, who always liked to tease her, seemed to have deceived her again.
"What should I do? I'm very busy tomorrow, so it looks like I can only go with you."
"Huh, I thought you didn't want to!"
First, she let out a long sigh of relief, and then Zhao Xuanying raised her hand and patted the other party's arm as if she was relieved. She didn't use much force, but she saw Liu Weicheng take a breath of cold air and look very painful.
If she recalled for a moment, Zhao Xuanying should have understood that Liu Weicheng had used such a trick on her not long after the two met.
But she was still fooled. Seeing Liu Weicheng's face in pain, she mistakenly thought that she had not controlled her strength well, so she hurriedly reached out and grabbed the other person's arm, and after a few gentle strokes, she asked with worry in her words.
"Does it hurt? I obviously didn't use any force..."
"I lied to you, I don't feel anything at all."
"……What?!"
"Why are you still like this after so long? It's been almost a year... You haven't grown at all."
The grabbed arm was withdrawn, and Liu Weicheng raised his hand to slap the opponent on the head again.
Last time, his outstretched hand was avoided by the other party, but this time, Zhao Xuanying had no intention of avoiding it.
Instead, she allowed Liu Weicheng to stroke the top of her head. Even though to her, this behavior seemed like teasing a pet dog, but she didn't dislike this behavior at all.
On the contrary, it happened to prove that the other party really cared about her, and the reason why she chose to avoid him last time was just because Liu Weicheng's unclear attitude made her a little angry.
Now the barrier between the two is disappearing little by little, and she is beginning to accept each other little by little.
On the one hand, she endured Liu Weicheng's move of stroking her head, and on the other hand, she muttered.
"I'm not worried that I'll really hurt you. Next time, I will definitely not be fooled next time!"
"It's okay to deceive yourself. No matter how long it takes, you will still be deceived by me."
"Then... the night I made you sobering soup, those words you said were also lies to me?"
"..."
Liu Weicheng's question, which came from the heart of his soul, temporarily stopped stroking him. At the same time, he found that the other party was staring at his actions...
Slowly took back the hand on Zhao Xuanying's head.
With a more formal attitude, he faced the girl in front of him.
"no."
"..."
"Those words are all my sincere words."
A seemingly random question happened to be the point that Zhao Xuanying cared about the most.
The moment she received the necklace and saw the words Liu Weicheng had left, she had already thrown away the shackles that had been binding her.
In the past, Zhao Xuanying was always worried that her sincerity would hurt Lin Nianwei, who also treated Liu Weicheng sincerely, so she had always tried desperately to hide her truest thoughts.
However, everything she had experienced during this period, as well as the words she had chatted with Lin Nianwei during the day... made her face her sincerity again for the first time.
Instead of waiting to regret, it is better to take advantage of the present.
This time, she didn't want the other party to leave again.
Absolutely not.
It doesn't matter if such behavior will be shamed by others or cast aside by her.
All she wants to do is stay with the person she likes.
That's all.
"But you also know that Lin Nianwei and I got engaged not long ago. To stabilize this situation, we need more than just a little effort, so I think..."
"It doesn't matter if you don't tell me."
Before Liu Weicheng finished speaking, he was interrupted by Zhao Xuanying in front of him.
It's like I don't want these chores to ruin the atmosphere of the conversation at the moment, or I don't want to think about these seemingly troublesome issues.
Zhao Xuanying just stretched out her hand and gently touched Liu Weicheng's mouth with her index finger.
Press slightly hard.
Then release.
The eyes that looked at Liu Weicheng were full of trust, just like after recognizing each other, the man in front of him would always bring him a so-called sense of security.
Zhao Xuanying said with a smile.
"I believe you. No matter what the final result is, I just want to live a good life during this period without thinking about these things."
"With you by my side, I can return to the same relationship as when I first met you last summer. As long as I can relive this feeling, even if you don't choose me in the end, I won't have any regrets."
."
"So... don't mention this matter in front of me."
"Okay?"
"..."
When she said these words, Zhao Xuanying's tone was very calm, as if she was describing a very normal little thing. She wrapped her coat tightly and felt the slight coolness against her neck against her skin.
A necklace...
Looking at the man in front of him, he continued speaking clearly.
"I will call you tomorrow morning, so don't sleep too late tonight."
"..."
"good."
One answer has two meanings.
While Liu Weicheng responded to Zhao Xuanying, he stretched out his hand and put it on the other person's shoulder naturally.
Downstairs among the quiet residents at this night, I walked little by little towards the entrance of the corridor.
As the two figures disappeared from their original places, everything became calm again. This chapter has been completed!