(Ten)

  After work, her days were quite peaceful. She spent her days at the office and he went to Shen Qu in the evenings. They didn't have many opportunities to meet up. She gradually understood why his fridge and living room were so clean - it was because they basically never used them.

  He usually comes home very late, but she never knows when he comes back. She usually sleeps lightly, but strangely, after moving here, she always sleeps soundly. Maybe it's because he opens the door very quietly. In the morning when she goes to work, he is still sleeping soundly, and when she leaves, she closes the door very gently too.

  A week passed quickly, and everything was calm. I kept in touch with Liu Qing over the phone. She had changed to a new mobile phone and was still busy with the renovation of the travel agency. This weekend it was her turn to work overtime. On Saturday morning, she went to the company and sat down for a while before her mobile phone rang. Without looking at the number, she picked it up casually: "Hello, I'm Wei Ruxue, who is this?"

  It was quiet for a while before his voice came over, still sounding sleepy: "Where did you run off to so early on Saturday?"

  "It seems none of your business." This was how Xuefeng explained it. She had gotten used to his way of speaking after being with him for so long. Her reaction to his teasing was no longer as intense as before, and teasing each other had become an interesting part of their daily life.

  "Wang Ji said I'm your boyfriend, how can I not care about where you're going." Wang Ji? She carefully searched her brain and remembered that the small shop they had eaten river noodles at last time was called Wang Ji.

  "There's nothing much, I'm hanging up, I'm working overtime." She was about to hang up the phone when she heard a string of "wait, wait, wait" from the other end. She waited for him to ask: "How late are you working?"

  "Three o'clock in the afternoon."

  He kept asking: "Then how did you have lunch?"

  "I brought instant noodles. There is hot water in the company."

  "No, no, eating instant noodles is not nutritious. At 12 o'clock in the afternoon, you go downstairs to Mingdian and wait for me."

  She wanted to say that I didn't go, just said a word and then hung up the phone without saying anything else. She could only let out a sigh into the phone.

  At noon, he went down and handed her a lunch box at the entrance of Mingdian. Then he said: "Go to Shenqu this afternoon, I'll pick you up at three o'clock."

  "Isn't the performance supposed to be after 7 o'clock?"

  "It would be better if we could take a boat slowly. I spend my entire monthly income on taxis." She laughed when she heard him say that, but he suddenly became serious and said: "You look very beautiful when you smile." His unexpected words made her face turn red in an instant.

  He also said: "Your blushing face looks like a person." The atmosphere became ambiguous. She smelled the faint scent of loofah coming from the lunchbox, so she picked it up and casually said: "Ah, it smells so good! It's like the scent of loofah. I love eating loofah in the summer."

  He rarely said quietly: "I know." Then he looked at her deeply and said: "At 3 pm, I'll still be here waiting for you."

  Then he turned and left. She tried hard not to look at his back, saying in her heart: Yes, you also look like someone I've seen when wearing a blue shirt.