The distance from the dormitory building to the school gate was not far, and Lin Leyao took every step with difficulty.
"Lin Leyao, are you stupid? It's snowing so heavily outside and you don't even know to go upstairs and put on more clothes!" Mingliang ran downstairs with a thick down jacket and put it on her, his eyes full of blame, "Isn't it just Jian Yan confessing his love to you? Are you so happy that you don't even want to put on clothes?"
"Mingliang, my mother is here to see me." Lin Leyao suddenly hugged her tightly and said with sobs in her shoulder.
If it were someone else, it would be a happy thing for their mother to come to see them, but for Lin Leyao... Mingliang patted her on the back and asked softly: "Do you want to see her? If not, I can..."
"I always thought I hated her, but when I heard her voice, I found that I wanted to see her so much, but I was afraid to see her. I was afraid that she would smile at me coldly like before, and I was afraid that she would point at my nose and scold me for hurting her." Those unbearable memories surfaced, and she trembled with fear.
Her parents got married when they were very young. They loved each other very much and looked forward to the arrival of the child together. But she didn't know when everything changed. They began to resent each other but were unwilling to let go.
She couldn't remember how many times her mother pointed at her and said with tears in her eyes that it was because of her that she couldn't leave. It was because of her that her father left.
But even so, she still wanted to see her mother.
"Yaoyao, you already have an idea in your mind, right? Go for it boldly. No matter what happens, you will have me and Jian Yan behind you." Mingliang pushed her away from his arms, "Go ahead, I'll wait for you to come back here."
Yes, there are people waiting for her behind her, she is not left with nothing, and she is fearless.
My steps towards the door became firmer and my mood calmed down.
She was wearing a bright red windbreaker and high heels and standing in the snow. She looked much more radiant than she had two years ago.
When Lin Leyao saw her, he began to search his memory for her appearance, but he could not match the two people.
"Yaoyao." She called her name carefully.
"Mom, long time no see." Lin Leyao walked up to her, and the familiar scent of perfume finally made the person in front of her overlap with the figure in her memory.
"Yes, it's been a long time. Have you had breakfast? Mom will take you to have breakfast, okay?" Mother Lin's tone was very cautious, as if there was a precious piece of porcelain in front of her, and she was afraid that it would crack if she spoke too loudly.
"Yeah." Lin Leyao nodded and smiled bitterly in her heart. How could this be the meeting scene that a mother and daughter should have?
In the breakfast shop, Lin Leyao was quietly drinking a bowl of century egg and lean meat porridge. When the spoon was stirring the porridge, she would sweep the century egg aside before drinking it.
My mother ordered the porridge, and she forgot that she hated century eggs.
"Yaoyao, I'm sorry." Mother Lin said with her head down and choked.
"Mom, are you doing well now?" She felt that she had asked a nonsense question and added, "You are in much better spirits than before."
"The company has done well in the past two years. In fact, I have always wanted to come and see you, but the company is too busy and I can't spare the time. Yaoyao, mom is sorry for you. Are you willing to forgive mom?" Mother Lin grabbed Lin Leyao's hand and tears flowed down her face, which was heartbreaking.
"Mom, we are mother and daughter, there is no question of forgiveness or not." Lin Leyao pulled her hand away and continued to drink the unpalatable porridge with her head down.
Mother Lin's tears flowed even more violently, attracting the attention of people around her.
Seeing her like this, Lin Leyao felt distressed. She wondered if she was too cold. No matter what, the person in front of her was her mother.
Her heart softened, she stuffed a tissue into her mother's hand, and comforted her, "Mom, don't cry, everyone is watching us."
Mother Lin: "Yaoyao...Mom knows that your father and I have been very cruel to you over the years. We have ignored your feelings. In fact, I have been very busy in the past two years, but I am not so busy that I don't have time to see you. I came a few times, but I didn't dare to call you when I stood at the door. I was afraid to see you, afraid to see that you didn't want to see me."
"You've been here?" Lin Leyao looked up at her in disbelief. There was no trace of falsehood on her face.
Mother Lin: "I came here on the day you entered school, on your birthday, on Christmas, and on Mother's Day... I came here many times, and I stood at the door every time. One time I saw you, you walked in with a girl, talking and laughing, and I hid quietly. I was afraid that your smile would disappear after you saw me."
She remembered that time, she saw a familiar figure, but when she tried to see it more clearly, she couldn't find it. She thought it was an illusion, but it turned out not to be.
She really came to see me, she really missed me...
"Yaoyao, your father has always wanted to come and see you, but something happened in his company and he has been so busy in the past two years that he has no time at all," Mother Lin said.
dad……
In her memory, her father never seemed to be in a good mood towards her, and he even rarely smiled in front of her. She didn't believe that her father missed her, but she just didn't want to expose her mother's lies and make her sad.
It turns out that she still holds a grudge.
Mother Lin recalled the past and felt even more annoyed: "If Jian Yan hadn't called me, if it weren't for him, maybe I would still be standing at the school gate and not daring to see you."
Lin Leyao: " Jian Yan..."
Mother Lin: "Yaoyao, I know that you have started to distrust any feelings because of what happened to your parents. In fact, it was your mother who lied to you."
Cheating? She was confused.
"Do you still remember the love story between your father and I that your mother told you when you were a child? I told you how much we loved each other that we had you and got married. Actually...it's true that I love your father very much, but he doesn't love me. He married me just because of family pressure." Mom smiled bitterly and said, "At that time, I used you to tie him to my side. I kept using you to tie him to my side and refused to let go. Now that I think about it, it was my mother's fault. Not only did I make mistakes, but I also hurt you."
"You... don't love each other?" In her memory, her mother had told her over and over again how much she and her father loved each other. In her memory, her mother had hysterically said many times that love was unreliable... Now she told herself that they had never loved each other...
Lin Leyao was shocked.
"Hello, Auntie." Jian Yan stood beside them without knowing when. He greeted Lin's mother politely and sat next to Lin Leyao. Looking at the century egg and lean meat porridge on the table, he frowned and said, "Yaoyao, I'm hungry. Let me drink this."
He always remembered all her preferences so clearly.
"Jian Yan, my daughter is now in your care. I hope you can take good care of her and make her happy forever." Mother Lin checked the time. "I have a meeting this afternoon and can't stay longer. Yaoyao, can you hug your mother?"
Lin Leyao stood up and looked stiffly at the person in front of her. She hugged her mother tightly, tightly, unwilling to let go.
"Auntie, I'll take you out." Jian Yan stood up and said politely.
Mother Lin waved her hand: "No need, you and Yaoyao should still have something to say. Yaoyao, I'm leaving first. During the New Year... call your father and we will have a good meal together as a family."
A family...
She finally couldn't help crying.
Jian Yan put his arm around her shoulders, supported her, and watched Mother Lin leave with her.
"You finally cried. I thought you wouldn't cry anymore." Jian Yan teased her.
"I'm not made of wood, so why wouldn't I cry?" she retorted.
Jian Yan: "You didn't eat much just now, the sweet porridge and spring rolls here are good, I'll get them for you."
Lin Leyao: "Jian Yan...thank you."
Jian Yan raised his eyebrows: "If you really want to thank me, then you can repay me with your body."
"roll."
After breakfast, Jian Yan took Lin Leyao to a large shopping mall. At first, she didn't understand why he did that, until she saw a pair of gray-haired elderly people, she suddenly realized that this was what he wanted to tell her.
After seeing the promotion, Lin Leyao realized that there was a golden wedding event in the square today, and they invited many golden wedding couples to share their marriage experiences.
She and Jian Yan stood in the crowd, listening to those plain yet touching stories. The fog in their hearts gradually dissipated, leaving only the emotion.
In the crowd, Lin Leyao quietly touched Jian Yan's fingertips, and he held her cold hand in his backhand and did not let go.
Some things don't need to be said, they are already known.
After the two people walked out of the mall, no one spoke, and only the "squeaking" sound of stepping on the snow could be heard.
Finally, Lin Leyao couldn't help it. She turned around and looked up at Jian Yan. After taking a deep breath, she said, "Jian Yan, I've thought it through."
"Oh?" Jian Yan narrowed his eyes, and the smile in his voice was revealed undisguisedly.
Lin Leyao: "I have good news and bad news to tell you, which one do you want to hear?"
Briefly: "Good news."
Lin Leyao: "The good news is that I believed your confession to me last night."
Jian Yan raised an eyebrow: "What about the bad news?"
Lin Leyao: "The bad news is, in order to prevent the girls in school from being abused by you again, I have decided to sacrifice my life to be your girlfriend. From today on, you are no longer a free person."
Jian Yan smiled, and he habitually put his hand on her shoulder, then lowered his head and whispered in her ear: "Lin Leyao, you finally got it."
The warm air blew on her earlobe, making her heart itchy and her face instantly red.
Jian Yan's heart was filled with joy. He held her in his arms and hugged her tightly, refusing to let go. He had waited for this moment for too long.
Lin Leyao lay on his chest with a sweet smile on her lips.
Is she in love?
When they were friends, they had put their arms around each other's shoulders and held hands (when they were young), but they never had the same excitement and joy as they have now.
She felt that the snow had turned pink, and the world was filled with pink bubbles, it was beautiful beyond words.
"Let's go, I'll take you somewhere." Jian Yan excitedly took Lin Leyao and hailed a taxi, but did not tell her where the destination was.
The taxi was driving on the road, and she looked at the buildings around her, from familiar to unfamiliar and then familiar again.
Walking out of the hustle and bustle of the city, the surrounding environment became quiet. She looked at Jian Yan in some confusion, not knowing what he was up to.
"Jian Yan, this is the direction to my house." After college, she usually didn't go home except during winter and summer vacations. It was too quiet there, and the silence was chilling. She was afraid of being alone in the house, so most of the time she would rather stay in school alone than go back home.
Jian Yan deliberately kept it a secret and said, "You'll know when you get there."
Did he prepare a surprise for her at home?
That's impossible. Today isn't a special day. Could it be that he had already guessed that she would agree to him today?
This is too much! Jian Yan is not a fortune teller!
However, when she thought about the possibility that her mother would suddenly appear at the school gate, it seemed that this was not impossible.
The car stopped in front of Jian Yan's house. Lin Leyao then noticed that there were many colorful lights hanging in Jian Yan's yard. Because it was daytime, the colors were not obvious.
Simply said: "Get off."
Lin Leyao followed Jian Yan out of the car without knowing why. She had been to Jian Yan's house before, but she had never been as nervous as today.
Meeting the parents! They just confirmed their relationship and they have to meet the parents! It's so stressful!
"Jian Yan, can you tell me your plan first? I'm afraid you'll scare me when I open the door of your house." Lin Leyao tugged at the corner of his clothes and said pitifully.
In the past, she could act recklessly in Jian Yan's family, but now that her status has changed, she always feels a little uneasy.
"Let's talk after we get in." Jian Yan said after opening the door, "Mom, I'm back."
Mother Jane, who was wearing an apron, came out of the kitchen. Seeing them, her face was full of smiles. She walked to Lin Leyao, looked her up and down and sighed: "Oh, I haven't seen Xiao Yaoyao for half a year. She is beautiful again. Oh, she is growing better and better."
"Auntie..." Lin Leyao blushed.
Mother Jane is a very open-minded woman. Although she is in her forties, she is still as playful and playful as a girl in her early twenties.
"Why are you blushing in front of me, girl? Come on, go sit on the sofa first. Your uncle is still cooking fish in the kitchen. I'll go help him." Mother Jane glared at Jian Yan and said, "Take good care of Yaoyao and don't bully her."
"Mom, am I your biological child? Whenever Yaoyao comes, I'm despised as if I were given away for free when I recharge my phone bill." Jian Yan pushed his mother into the kitchen with a playful smile, "Go help dad first, Yaoyao and I have something to talk about in private."
Lin Leyao happened to hear these words, and her face turned red again.
Lunch was quickly served on the table, and the aroma filled the air. Jane's father's cooking skills were comparable to those of a five-star hotel chef. She couldn't help but eat more before, and once she ate too much and ended up vomiting. This incident was ridiculed by Jian Yan for a long time.
Not long after the meal started, the matter was brought up again. But this time it was not Jian Yan who was talking about, but Jian's mother.
"Uncle, the food you cook is still so delicious. After eating your food, I don't want to eat in the school cafeteria for at least a week." Lin Leyao took a bite of sweet and sour fish and couldn't help but praise.
"You've always loved your uncle's cooking since you were little, and you could always eat two extra bowls of rice. I remember when you were ten years old, you ate too much, and after dinner you forced Jian Yan to go out with you on a cold day to help digest the food, but you ended up throwing up everything." Mother Jian said with a smile, "Since then, every time you eat, Jian Yan looks at you like a housekeeper, causing you to have a cold war with him for several days."
"Wife, please stop bullying Yaoyao. Look, her face is red." Father Jian picked a piece of braised pork and put it into Lin Leyao's bowl. "You two just gang up to bully Yaoyao. Come on, Yaoyao, eat more and ignore them."
"How could I bully Yaoyao? I love her so much that I can't wait." Mother Jane glared at Father Jane and said, "You are trying to please your future daughter-in-law before Yaoyao even gets married. Don't think I don't know what you are up to. After Yaoyao gets married, she will definitely be in league with me and Jian Yan. Don't expect her to support you at the family meeting."
Future daughter-in-law?
Lin Leyao stared at Jian Yan in amazement. When she saw him smiling at her, she was petrified... It turned out that everyone knew about it!
"Oh, Yaoyao, don't be shy. Your uncle and I had already predicted what would happen between you and Jian Yan when you were ten years old. You were childhood sweethearts, and it's a complete replica of your uncle and I." Mother Jian picked another piece of meat and put it in Lin Leyao's bowl, "Eat more. You're so skinny that only your breasts are left."
Is this a compliment? Lin Leyao took a mouthful of rice and told herself secretly, just take it as a compliment.
After dinner, Jane's mother refused to let Lin Leyao go into the kitchen to help. She said that in their family, men were the ones who went into the kitchen, and after they got married, Jane Yan would definitely cook.
Lin Leyao thought about it and remembered that Jane's mother seemed to have entered the kitchen only once. She almost burned the kitchen down. She made a plate of charcoal-grilled braised pork and finally threw it to Harry, but Harry didn't eat it.
Harry is Jian Yan's dog.
"My mom told you to stay at my house tonight. Let's go and take a look at your room." Jian Yan pointed to a room on the second floor and said, "Here, that's it. Go and see for yourself."
"My room?" She had lived in Jian Yan's house before, and she didn't understand why he specifically asked to see the room this time. She walked upstairs suspiciously and opened the door of the room.
The moment she opened the door, she burst into tears.
The overall style of Jianyan's home is just like the villa in the suburbs, modern and simple, with relatively simple colors. When she opened the door of this room, she saw a European retro world, where every piece of furniture and every decoration was made according to her favorite style.
She walked to the bedside. On the coffee table next to the white carved wooden bed was a photo of her and Jian Yan when they were ten years old. The boy and girl in the photo were holding pink cotton candies in their hands and smiling brightly.
Jian Yan leaned against the door, looking at her back, feeling extremely satisfied. As long as she could smile, everything he did was meaningful.
He couldn't remember when he fell in love with this girl. By the time he really realized it, he found that he was already deeply trapped and couldn't extricate himself.
However, he quickly acknowledged this reality. After all, everything he had done since childhood was just to make her happy. He just needed to continue doing so in the future. There would be no difference.
After the college entrance examination, he was forced by his father to go abroad. When choosing a school, he was careful and chose a school with exchange quotas. So a year later, he returned to China despite the opposition of all his relatives.
He didn't believe that his future would be ruined if he spent less time abroad. Even for Lin Leyao, he would not allow himself to have a confused future.
He had worked hard to make her happy in the past ten years, and that would be what he would work towards in the next few decades.
"Jian Yan, thank you." Lin Leyao said softly with her back to him.
"Then pledge yourself to me." He walked forward and hugged her from behind.
The sudden close contact made her feel uncomfortable for a moment, but soon her heart was filled with sweetness, and that little bit of discomfort didn't seem so important.
Lin Leyao: "Promise yourself to me? Aren't we moving a little too fast?"
Jian Yan: "Is it fast? I still think it's a bit slow."
Lin Leyao: "Jian Yan, if I remember correctly, we just confirmed our relationship today."
Jian Yan: "I know, what's the problem?"
Lin Leyao: "Of course there is a problem. It's the first day, we've just started dating, and you're asking me to pledge my love to you. Shouldn't we get to know each other for a while first?"
"Do we still need it?" Jian Yan disagreed. "Lin Leyao, I think we already know each other well enough. I know exactly how many moles you have on your body. What else do you want to know? Do you also want to know how many moles I have on my body? How about I take off my clothes now and let you count them?"
This scoundrel! This rogue!
Lin Leyao broke free from his embrace, and with a flushed face she looked at Jian Yan, who seemed to be really about to undress, and was so angry that she couldn't speak.
Jian Yan: "Why, are you angry?"
Lin Leyao: “Humph!”
"Okay, okay, I'll let you kiss me, and I won't be angry anymore." Jian Yan pulled her back to him, "Kiss me on the mouth, okay?"
Lin Leyao: "I don't want it! You filthy bastard!"
"Kiss me all you want, I won't think you're open-minded."
Lin Leyao felt that Jian Yan's face was thicker than the city wall.
How about a kiss?
This sentence suddenly popped up in Lin Leyao's mind, and her face turned red again!
She is not a lecher! Even if Jian Yan is really pretty, she can't be tempted! Today is the first day of their relationship, she has to be reserved! Reserved!
Lin Leyao stepped back step by step, and unconsciously retreated to the bedside, where she fell down. She subconsciously grabbed Jian Yan's clothes, and then the two of them fell on the bed together.
This was a really ambiguous posture. Jian Yan was very happy, while Lin Leyao was so ashamed that she wanted to commit suicide.
"Bo." Jian Yan smiled and kissed her on the face loudly.
"You..." Are you the only one who can kiss? Lin Leyao grinned, raised her right hand, hooked his neck, pulled him close to her eyes, and kissed him on the lips with a "pop" sound.
If life were a Mary Sue drama, Jian Yan would definitely say right now: "Lin Leyao, you are playing with fire."
Unfortunately, life is not like that, and such lines never appear in her life.
Jian Yan asked: "Lin Leyao, do you know what you are doing?"
Lin Leyao smiled: "Of course I know."
Jian Yan looked at her smiling face and couldn't help laughing. This girl actually took the initiative to kiss him when they were so ambiguous. He wanted to throw her off the building!
Lin Leyao also knew that she had done something not very good. She tilted her head to avoid Jian Yan's gaze, thinking in her heart how to get away with it.
Oh my god, why don’t people suddenly come in and interrupt the lovemaking of the hero and heroine in real life ? She is so embarrassed!
Let her think about it. In the TV series she watched a few days ago, the hero and heroine wanted to kiss in every episode, but they were interrupted every time until the finale. In the first episode, they were interrupted by their father who came in. In the second episode, the phone rang suddenly. In the third episode... Yes, she could fart...
How could she do such an indecent thing, especially in front of Jian Yan.
Jian Yan was afraid of crushing her, so he turned to the side. He lay on his side, supporting his head with one hand, watching her frowning and shaking her head like a fool. Sometimes he really wanted to open her little head to see if her brain circuits were different from others, why she would be so absent-minded at such a time.
"Lin Leyao, I often wonder where the serious and mature you were when you were a kid?" Jian Yan asked.
When they first met, after hearing his invitation to play together, she sneered and said, "Kids nowadays are really scheming. Don't think that I will think you really want to be friends with me just because you said that. Isn't it because I'm rich?"
She looked like an old lady who had experienced a lot, not cute at all.
I don't remember when she started to love laughing and joking. She has a lot of strange ideas in her head, which are silly but extremely cute.
"Was I like that when I was a kid? I thought I was always so cute." Of course she hadn't forgotten. She also remembered that her heart was opened little by little by this smiling boy, who eventually turned her from a cold and arrogant loli into a funny girl.
"Lin Leyao, I love you this way." Jian Yan confessed once again, going straight to the point and catching her off guard.
"Oh, what's wrong with you? You always say 'I like you' and 'I love you' all the time. You should be reserved and restrained!" She didn't say that she was shy.
Jian Yan had expected her to say that, so he smiled and pretended to be melancholy and said, "So, do you love me as much as I love you?"
Love?
This word still made Lin Leyao feel a little uncomfortable, but they were already like this, lying on the same bed, and it would be hypocritical to say that she didn't care.
"Jian Yan, you know everything about my life, and you know my views on feelings better than anyone else. Before Cheng Anran confronted me, I never thought that I might like you. After she said that, I thought about it, but I couldn't figure it out, so I avoided it. I even deceived myself and told myself that I didn't like you, I just had no one to rely on, so I relied on you too much." She took a deep breath and said all her thoughts, "But when you said you liked me, I found that my feelings for you were more than just dependence. I was already moved, but I just didn't want to admit it."
Lin Leyao looked up into his eyes and said firmly: "Jian Yan, I know that my love for you now is not as much as you give me, but I will try my best. I will try very hard to give you more, much more."
Damn it, his eyes turned red when he heard these words. Jian Yan cursed himself in his heart, then rolled over and fell on Lin Leyao again. He smiled evilly: "Since you love me so much, let's celebrate with a French kiss."
"In short..."
"Oh, I seem to have come at a wrong time, son. I'm sorry to bother you. Please continue, continue." Mother Jane smiled awkwardly and left the room, closing the door for them.
She can explain it! They just accidentally fell on the same bed, they didn't mean to do anything naughty!
She can really explain...
Then Jian Yan told her: "With my mother's personality, the more you explain, the more she will think there is something wrong with you, so Lin Leyao, just admit it, you are mine."
You are mine now...
This sentence really sounds like that of a domineering president.
Lin Leyao put one hand around Jian Yan's neck with a wicked smile, raised her head and kissed his lips, which were soft and felt quite good.