Chapter 7: Surprise turns into shock 4
Xu Zhe finally came back. No one mentioned that rainy night. What happened with Zheng Hao that night was selectively forgotten by both of them. After Xu Zhe came back, Zheng Hao seemed to have forgotten his confession and returned to being friends with her. Apart from the basketball team activities, they no longer had any interactions.
Su Han lived a lazy life like a red panda, just like a parasite kept by Xu Zhe, eating and drinking every day, and couldn't even remember the days.
On this day, she had just finished playing with the red panda and returned to her room when she received a call from Li Su.
"Hey, Miss, how come you have time to call me?"
"Oh my god, you even forgot your birthday? Don't you usually call me and invite me to your birthday party? I was wondering why you didn't do anything this year!"
"Ah?" Su Han was stunned. "Birthday?"
Yes, it’s October now, and her birthday is indeed coming soon!
However, she remembered that Xu Zhe seemed to have said some time ago that she would let him host her birthday party this year. She was busy eating raspberry strawberry cake at the time and did not listen carefully. She would ask him about it later.
After chatting with Li Su for a while, Su Han hung up the phone, and on a whim stood on the scale in his room. Suddenly, he let out a heart-wrenching scream.
"Oh! God!"
Xu Zhe, wearing her cute little bunny apron and holding a spatula in her hand, rushed to the door of her room: "What's going on? Is there a cockroach?"
"ah !"
But soon, he found that the problem was not here. Su Han lowered his head and screamed, pointing at the scale under his feet in disbelief.
"It's over a hundred! It's over a hundred! I haven't weighed over a hundred in twenty years! Ah!"
Shaking the spatula helplessly, Xu Zhe said that he really couldn't understand the girl's logic. She was 1.6 meters tall and weighed less than 100 pounds. Wasn't she too thin?
"My face has become round!" Su Han rushed to the mirror and pinched her face in despair. "And the fat around my waist, it's a disaster!"
Xu Zhe had a faint smile on his face as he leaned against the door of the room and looked at her. He had spent a lot of money to make Su Han look rounder. If she didn't gain weight, wouldn't that be slandering his cooking skills?
Weight gain is a serious matter.
Su Han was in a panic for three days because of her sudden weight gain. Until her birthday party, she was still worried about the tight waistline after putting on the dress. This was too much of a blow... At this moment, she sincerely hoped that there wouldn't be too many friends at the party and the scene wouldn't be too big...
Xu Zhe gave her a unique dress - a blue and white striped women's waist suit and straight trousers of the same color. Su Han put on the dress and tied up her hair, revealing her long neck. She looked heroic. Her favorite thing was the decoration on the back of the suit, a big blue bow that perfectly combined handsomeness and gentleness, which was eye-catching.
I have to say that Xu Zhe is indeed an art student with first-class aesthetics.
This party was also organized by him. It is said that he booked a restaurant called Seaman Garden, which is located on the rooftop of the escape room building where they had visited before. It is a high-end restaurant that can rotate 360 degrees to see the night view of the city!
Because of the traffic jam, Su Han arrived half an hour later than agreed. She originally thought she would be the last one, but at the door, she met Xu Zhe who was also late.
"Hey! Didn't you go out early? Why are you so late?"
Xu Zhe was wearing a dark grey dress suit, looking low-key and elegant. Today, he was particularly energetic, and even his eyes seemed to be gentle enough to drip water. He smiled mysteriously and helped her adjust the big bow around her waist: "Of course, I'm going to prepare a gift!"
The two took the elevator to the revolving restaurant on the top floor. After passing through the intricate and beautiful rose wall, a heavy European-style door with gilded patterns appeared in front of them. Xu Zhe pushed the door open with a smile. The moment the door opened, there was a "click" sound, and the lights in the auditorium went out instantly.
Su Han thought the power was tripped and was shocked.
"Xu Zhe?"
She called Xu Zhe's name tentatively, but no one answered for several seconds.
Su Han unconsciously took a step forward and asked in a low voice: "Xu Zhe, is this your surprise? Why is there no sound at all?"
In the dark environment, a breeze blew past, and the door behind her made a muffled sound and slammed shut. She shuddered all over, and suddenly, a warm big hand reached out and held Su Han's hand, and the warm feeling was transmitted through the palm of her hand.
Su Han's heart skipped a beat, as if a switch was turned on in his heart.
Xu Zhe's deep and magnetic voice slowly sounded, breaking the silence: "I'm sorry, Su Han, actually the birthday party wasn't arranged like this, but I had my own selfish motives. Since the Chinese Valentine's Day, I heard from others that you didn't agree to Zheng Hao's confession, and I wanted to do this."
Su Han was stunned. Although she didn't know what would happen, her face suddenly felt hot. It seemed that someone in the restaurant opposite also gasped, but no one spoke. No one dared to break the strange silence.
"Do you remember that day in July one year at the Starry Sky Welfare Home?"
The Starry Sky Welfare Home, isn’t that the welfare home where I volunteer every summer vacation to teach disabled children...but how did he know?
"I will never forget it in my life. That was the first time I was sitting on a tall stepladder to paint a mural. I accidentally fell down... I fell right in front of you. It was really embarrassing!"
Su Han couldn't help but exclaimed, "You are the painter who is dressed strangely!"
"Yes, I still remember that day..."
Xu Zhe's big hand held her hand tightly, and his voice was full of nostalgia...
It was a sunny summer. As a top student of the Academy of Fine Arts, he was invited to create murals for disabled children in the welfare home. Because the sun was too scorching and he was painting on the open street, he wore a fisherman's hat and a long-sleeved T-shirt that covered his arms. Probably because he was dizzy from the sun, he felt weak for a while. While drinking water, he leaned back and rolled down the ladder with his palette and brush. The colorful paints were scattered all over the floor, and his face was dyed like a big cat.
After falling from a height of more than one meter, Xu Zhe suddenly felt dizzy and couldn't even get up. Although passers-by would kindly ask him if he was okay, they turned around with funny expressions. Seeing that he had so much paint on his body, no one was really willing to help him.
Su Han appeared at this time. She was facing the light, with long hair draped over her shoulders, wearing a white dress, without any makeup. She was very naturally beautiful, like an angel descended from the sky, who came just for him.
"With so many people watching, can't you pass me a napkin? If this happened to you, would you expect everyone to just laugh at you?"
She squatted beside him, gently wiped his face with wet wipes, and righteously scolded the indifferent passers-by.
He felt that he must be hallucinating, otherwise, why did she seem to be radiating warm golden color all over?
Listening to Xu Zhe's emotional recollection of the past, Su Han was so surprised that he was speechless for a long time. He could only murmur: "So, you are the painter... I didn't recognize you at all..."
Suddenly, she felt a chill on her neck, and he put something thin and soft as water around her neck.
Xu Zhe pulled Su Han into his arms and whispered in her ear, "Do you know? From that day on, I began to ask the director of the welfare home about you. I know that you are not a person who trusts others easily, so in order to become your roommate, I have been preparing for a long time..."
"Ah!" Su Han opened her round almond eyes wide, and she suddenly remembered the problematic rental notice.
Was all this just his premeditated plan?
She calmed herself down and was about to speak when an unexpected scene suddenly appeared. With a "click", the lights that had been off as if due to a malfunction just now suddenly lit up, illuminating the entire magnificent hall as if it were daytime. At the same time, a room full of stunned people appeared. In addition to Su Han's classmates, there were many familiar faces - Zheng Hao sitting stiffly at the table, Du Xu leaning against the pillar, Gao Entai maintaining the posture of pulling the salute with his hands... Everyone was like a stuck movie video, motionless.
Only Li Su was there. She pressed the light switch with one hand, and the flowers in her other hand fell to the ground. She looked at them with a pale face. After an unknown amount of time, she said in a dreamlike voice, "You, you are cousins, aren't you?..."
