Chapter 2: Settlement Begins with Sadness 04
The mall was air-conditioned, and Jiang Sijin walked at a leisurely pace. No matter how I urged her to walk faster, she still walked at a turtle's pace, looking left and right with great interest, and it was clear that she didn't want to go out anymore. I was too lazy to wait for her, so I had to go first.
When people are anxious and walk fast, it is not easy for them to notice anything unusual in the surrounding environment, until they feel a bucket of cold water poured down mercilessly on their heads, soaking them through in an instant.
I stood there in a daze, even the worker who splashed water on me apologized to me. I just sighed in my heart that I was too unlucky today, and I actually won the prize. If I had known earlier, I might as well walk slowly like Jiang Sijin, and I wouldn't be like this now.
Jiang Sijin saw me like this and laughed unkindly: "Tong Shuchen, what kind of shit luck do you have? Hahaha..." She caught up with me and wiped my hair with a tissue, then said rudely to the worker who was apologizing next to me, "You guys just wash the signboard, but you dumped a bucket of water on me without even looking at me. Do you have eyes on the top of your head? What should we do now!"
When those people saw Jiang Sijin's angry look, they could only keep apologizing. The owner even bought a big towel to wrap me up to prevent me from catching a cold, but Jiang Sijin was still not giving up. She was about to ask for compensation for mental damages, and many people came out to watch the fun. I had no choice but to tighten the towel and drag Jiang Sijin away.
"You are such a loser! If you keep talking for a while, I will make him compensate us for our lost wages!" Jiang Sijin glared at me with a look of disappointment on her face.
"It would be bad if the situation got out of hand. Besides, it was my own fault for not paying attention." I admitted that I was in the wrong.
After leaving the mall and getting some sun, I felt less cold. But Xi Jiang was a little anxious when he saw my miserable state, and asked what happened. Jiang Sijin angrily told me what happened in the mall, and took the opportunity to scold the blind sign washer. Xi Jiang also joined in and cursed with some bad words to vent his dissatisfaction. After the scolding, he asked me to take a leave to go home, and even offered to take me home.
Of course I refused without even thinking about it, saying that I could go back by myself, and I didn't need him to send me back, and I didn't want to dirty his car. But Jiang Sijin said that Xijiang's family had a car and it would be faster to send me back, and then she pushed and pulled me into Xijiang's car.
My work place is not far from home, and it only takes about ten minutes to drive there. Xi Jiang wanted to take me upstairs, but I quickly shook my head and refused: "No, thank you." Ning Qiyuan was still at home, and he was so unhappy with Xi Jiang that he might be rude to him again if he saw him taking me back.
But Xi Jiang didn't appreciate my good intentions and insisted on sending you home: "I won't feel relieved until I send you home. Jiang Sijin also asked me to send you home."
Why is this person so stubborn?
I'm thinking about him!
"Aren't you afraid that Ning Qiyuan will embarrass you if he sees you?" I asked tentatively.
When Xi Jiang heard Ning Qiyuan's name, his expression changed. He raised his hand to adjust his glasses, and there was obviously a lack of confidence in his insistent tone: "I... I'm not afraid of him." After saying that, his face turned red again.
"No, thank you for sending me back." After saying that, I turned around and walked away quickly.
Xi Jiang was so stubborn that he didn't give up. He ran after me in three or two steps. No matter what I said, he just wouldn't leave. Finally, I had to let him go, thinking that I would let him go after we got to the door. But Xi Jiang was really persistent and insisted on watching me enter the house before he left. Finally, I had to take out my key to open the door, but before I could insert the key, the door opened by itself.
The person who opened the door was none other than Ning Qiyuan.
He first looked me up and down from head to toe, my body soaking wet and wrapped in a towel. He frowned and said coldly to Xi Jiang, "Why are you here?"
"I...I..." Seeing Ning Qiyuan, Xi Jiang stuttered a little, and raised his glasses with his hand, pretending to be not afraid of him at all, "What does it have to do with you if I send Shuchen back?"
Ning Qiyuan narrowed his eyes and moved his body.
Seeing that the situation was not good, I immediately stood in front of Xi Jiang, my hand unconsciously pressed against Ning Qiyuan's chest, and turned to Xi Jiang and said, "Xi Jiang, go ahead."
"Shuchen, why are you afraid of him? I won't leave!" Xi Jiang continued to stretch his neck and said.
"Tong Shuchen, get out of the way." Ning Qiyuan lowered his head and stared at me, with a warning in his eyes.
I didn't move, and explained to Ning Qiyuan: "Ning Qiyuan, can you not be so impulsive? I know you don't like him, but he helped me today and even sent me back."
"So you want to stand on his side, right?" Ning Qiyuan asked me, his tone was neither light nor heavy, but I felt as if his words struck my heart, making me inexplicably flustered. I wanted to answer "no", but before I could open my mouth, he pulled my arm hard. In the blink of an eye, I was pulled into the door by Ning Qiyuan. The door was then closed heavily. The towel I was wearing also fell to the ground.
"Ning Qiyuan, let me go!" I was hurt by his pulling and I resisted with a frown. Why did he always hit me so hard? Didn't he consider other people's feelings at all?
I was a little angry and tried to open the door with my other hand, but just as I opened it a little, Ning Qiyuan pressed the door with his hand and it closed again, which scared me so much that I pulled my hand back.
"Ning Qiyuan, what are you crazy about?" I turned around and glared at him.
Ning Qiyuan put one hand on the door and approached me, his voice chilling: "Do you really want to find Xi Jiang?"
I didn't want to answer his question and tried to open the door again, but the next second, I was suddenly lifted into the air. I screamed in shock: "Ning Qiyuan, what are you doing? Put me down!"
Ning Qiyuan carried me on his shoulders, completely ignoring my screams, and carried me directly into his room. He threw me onto the bed without any courtesy, and without giving me a chance to escape, he pressed on me.
"What are you doing?" I was a little panicked. "Go away!" I said and pushed him.
Ning Qiyuan grabbed my restless hands and clasped them tightly against his chest. His dark eyes looked straight into mine and his words were emotionless: "Do something that I think I should do." After saying that, he began to tear off my clothes.
If I didn't know what he wanted to do, I, Tong Shuchen, would be a fool.
His movements were rough and heavy, and I was restrained by him and couldn't move. I could only kick him and scream, "Ning Qiyuan, you can't do this to me! My dad will not let you go if he finds out."
"Who have I ever been afraid of?" Ning Qiyuan kept moving.
"I will hate you!" I said through gritted teeth.
"It doesn't matter." Ning Qiyuan's kiss fell.
"Ning Qiyuan, you bastard!" I screamed, tears falling from my eyes, and cursed him fiercely, "You are so shameless, you deserve your mother to abandon you!"
Ning Qiyuan froze for a moment, and a trace of pain appeared in his eyes. I took advantage of this opportunity to push him away and quickly ran back to my room. I slammed the door and quickly locked it. Finally, I fell to the ground and gasped for breath, and tears could not stop flowing.
If I hadn't said that just now, I wouldn't have been able to escape from him. Ning Qiyuan bullied me like that in a way I had never seen before. Just thinking about it, I was scared to the point of panic. I was really afraid that he would really do that. But I also didn't forget the look in his eyes after I finished speaking. It was very painful, like an abandoned child.
It was my words that touched his wound.
Ning Qiyuan and I are different. My mother died of illness and had to leave me, but his mother resolutely abandoned him because his father could not give her a safe and stable life.
I kept making excuses for Ning Qiyuan's behavior, thinking that he was probably in a bad mood and was confused. Although he was not nice to me, he was not so shameless. I shouldn't use the fact that his mother abandoned him to poke his pain. Thinking like this, I was not so scared. After calming down, I suddenly wanted to go out of the room to see him and see if he was okay. So I wiped the tears from my face, changed my clothes in a hurry, and then bravely opened the door and went out.
The room was neither bright nor dark. Ning Qiyuan sat on the bed with his head down, thinking about something. I didn't go in, but stood at the door and asked him carefully, "Ning Qiyuan, are you okay?"
Ning Qiyuan didn't even raise his head, and uttered one word: "Get lost."
I didn't move, and said hesitantly: "Just now... I'm sorry, I don't..."
Before I finished speaking, Ning Qiyuan, who was sitting, suddenly stood up and walked towards me at a fast pace. I was startled and turned to run away, but he was faster. He put his hand on the wall to block my way, and quickly grabbed my chin with his other hand, lowered his head to touch my lips, and kissed me very hard.
My mind went blank for a moment, until the slight pain on my lips brought back my sanity. I pushed him away with all my strength and slapped him in the face. Tears welled up in my eyes again, and I cursed him with all my strength: "Ning Qiyuan, you bastard!" I came back to see him out of kindness, but he treated me like this again, what a bastard!
"Yes, I'm a fucking bastard!" Ning Qiyuan cursed himself fiercely, his eyes a little red, then he left me and slammed the door and walked out.
The living room suddenly became quiet. I leaned against the wall weakly. It took me a long time to recover from the shock I had just experienced.
I ran back to Ning Qiyuan's room and found my phone. I sent a text message to Xi Jiang to apologize for what happened before. Xi Jiang quickly replied to my text message, saying it was okay and asked me how I was. Before I replied, Jiang Sijin called.
As soon as the phone call was connected, Jiang Sijin asked me about my situation. I felt aggrieved and told her exactly what had happened. Of course, I didn't tell her the specific details.
Unexpectedly, as soon as I finished speaking, Jiang Sijin shouted back, "What did I say, Tong Shuchen, he must like you, I am definitely not wrong."
According to Jiang Sijin, Ning Qiyuan was jealous because he saw Xi Jiang send me back and I was soaking wet. A jealous person has zero IQ and a unclear mind. He is prone to make mistakes when he is impulsive. This behavior is often because he has me in his heart.
My mind was in a mess. On the one hand, I believed it, but on the other hand, I couldn't believe it.
Seeing me like this, Jiang Sijin quoted a line from the movie "See You Tomorrow" directed by the national father-in-law that we had watched together before, and said it in a very literary way: "If you like someone, you will be unbridled, and if you are unbridled, you will possess him."
I clearly remember that the second half of the sentence was not like this. It was definitely Jiang Sijin who changed it on her own initiative. I always feel that if the way to express your love for someone is to be unbridled and possessive, then this is not the purest emotion. If you just ask for it regardless of the other person's wishes, it is hurtful in the name of love.
I didn't chat with Jiang Sijin anymore, I said I was not feeling well and wanted to hang up. Jiang Sijin on the other end immediately got angry, but I hung up the phone before I could finish the rest of the sentence.
After hanging up the phone, I recalled Jiang Sijin's words and touched my lips unconsciously.
Ning Qiyuan really... likes me?
