Defeated By Love

Chapter 20



Shunian looks at the sugar in his hand and the hand he still holds. Then, he looked up at him and asked, "what's the penalty for touching a hand?"

Xie Ruhe didn't answer.

Shunian didn't take the one in his hand, and he didn't continue to mention what he had just done. She took back her hand, tore open the candy paper and put it in her mouth: "that one is for you."

They went into the house.

Xie Ruhe lowered his head, looked at his hand and shook it. The temperature of her hands still seems to be on it.

All of a sudden, he was in a wonderful mood.

Enter the living room from the porch.

Fang Wencheng was sitting on the sofa with a heavy face, as if he had experienced something painful. Noticing that they were coming back, he immediately stood up with a slightly ashamed smile.

Shunian said hello to him.

Fang Wencheng, with a look of remorse for Xie Ruhe, reluctantly smiles at shunian: "Miss Shu is here."

Xie Ruhe suddenly opened his mouth: "Fang Wencheng."

Fang Wencheng immediately looked at him, very polite: "what's the matter with the teacher?"

Xie Ruhe pulled up the corner of his mouth, as if because there was another person present, his tone was not sharp, even a little gentle, with a smile: "the last time."

“……” Fang Wencheng inexplicably back a cool, clear probably because of Xu Zeyuan's things, "OK, I understand."

Aware of the atmosphere between them, shunian felt strange, but he didn't say much.

Soon, Fang Wencheng was told several things by Xie Ruhe, and then he went out. It's time for shunian to follow Xie Ruhe into the studio.

Once at work, shunian would call Xie Ruhe "teacher" solemnly. He didn't seem to want him to give her any preferential treatment. Occasionally, his tone was a little stiff, and she would only think about the bad things she had done.

When they are in the shed, they seldom talk about personal matters.

Just a few words occasionally.

Shunian enters the shed, goes to the microphone and puts on the earphone. She adjusted and cleared her throat. The next moment, the earphone suddenly came Xie Ruhe's voice: "shunian."

Shunian nodded: "teacher, I'm ready."

Xie Ruhe looked at her from the control room. After a few seconds of silence, he said, "listen to the accompaniment first."

"All right."

Ear sounded a light and clear melody, mixed with Xie Ruhe's voice, slightly calm, as if just chatting with her: "did you ask Fang Wencheng about me yesterday?"

“……” Shunian came out of the state in a moment, a little embarrassed, "assistant Fang told you?"

"They usually report to me."

Shunian didn't look at him. He lowered his voice: "um..."

Xie Ruhe said, "why don't you ask me directly?"

Shunian didn't know how to explain it. He apologized in a low voice: "sorry, I shouldn't have done this."

Xie Ruhe paused and asked, "why do you apologize?"

“……” Didn't he mean to question her just like that?

"You can ask me directly." Xie Ruhe looks serious, "there's no need to ask other people."

Reading subconsciously nodded: "OK."

It was quiet for a few seconds.

Xie Ruhe suddenly called her: "shunian."

"What's the matter?"

"I'll stick to it."

The book read Leng next, inexplicably think of yesterday she said with Fang Wencheng that sentence - "you have to let him insist."

Along the transparent glass, Xie Ruhe just sits under the light. Fine eyelashes, dark shadow under the eyes, peach eyes slightly astringent, black pupil heavy and bright.

He looked at her as if he were saying something important.

Shunian looked at him and bent his lips: "OK."

Fang Wencheng said that "it normally takes only one or two hours to record a song", which is totally inconsistent with reading here. It took her more than a week to finish recording the song.

On the last day, after recording the song, shunian had dinner at Xie Ruhe's house.

It was put forward by Fang Wencheng.

These days, shunian usually comes out of the shed at 7 p.m., and then Fang Wencheng drives her home according to Xie Ruhe's instructions. The book read with him also a little familiar, no just met the students.

Shunian wanted to refuse.

But when she glanced at Xie Ruhe with her head down and saw him sitting alone at the dining table, she answered.

The three had dinner together.

Shunian usually doesn't talk when he eats. Xie Ruhe himself talks less. He is even more silent when he eats. Fang Wencheng is the only one left on the dining table.

Originally, Xie Ruhe had a shady face because he had one more person, but this person didn't know it, and he had been brushing his sense of existence. He stopped his chopsticks and asked softly, "you used to talk so much?"Fang Wencheng immediately shut up.

Shunian sits on one side, watching Xie Ruhe routinely bully Fang Wencheng, a little want to laugh.

After dinner, I didn't stay any longer. Fang Wencheng opens the door first and goes out. She follows behind and says goodbye to Xie Ruhe. Before she closed the door, Xie Ruhe suddenly called her: "shunian."

Read back.

Xie Ruhe looked at her and said, "contact me when you have time."

Once the work is done, you don't have to go to Xie Ruhe's house every day. It's back to the way it used to be, running to every recording studio in the city every day.

The dubbing actor didn't have a fixed holiday. She planned to stay in the shed on New Year's day. But the cold, which had been completely cured before, came out again because of the deep winter.

Fortunately, I didn't work these days, so I just stayed at home.

On the evening of the 31st, shunian went out and planned to buy some daily necessities in the supermarket.

There is a supermarket near my home. It's very close. It takes about ten minutes to walk.

At this time, the sun is not completely down, half of the sky is dyed red, the color is like splashing ink, there is sunlight on the body, but it is not warm at all. Recently, the temperature has dropped below 10 degrees, and the cold seems to be able to penetrate the clothes and reach the bone marrow.

The book reads ah white gas, bows a head to count a pace wearily.

Before counting to 100, shunian heard her name called.

Is a woman, tone a little uncertain: "is the book read?"

Reading along the voice, there was more than one person. There were about five or six faces she knew. It was Ruan Xitong who called her just now.

Xu Zeyuan is also here, standing at the back with a boy.

Ruan Xitong seems to have forgotten shunian's attitude on the phone. She smiles at her: "is it really you? Long time no see. You haven't changed much

Shu Nian nodded to her and didn't know what to say.

Next to a girl asked: "what are you going to do?"

Shunian said honestly, "supermarket."

"Now we've bought something and are going to play hot pot at the monitor's house." Ruan Xitong made an invitation to her, "that's the classmate party I called you before. Come along, too."

"No Shunian directly refused, "you have a good time."

"Really not?" Ruan Xitong is still persuading, "not only do we go, others have already come to the monitor's house, we just come out to buy things..."

Before she said anything, Xu Zeyuan suddenly interrupted her: "if she doesn't want to go, she won't go. Ruan Xitong, what do you always advise?"

“……”

A moment of silence.

Shunian pursed his lips and repeated: "you have a good time."

Then continue to go in the direction of the supermarket.

Someone followed behind, and shunian could hear Ruan Xitong's angry voice: "he didn't break up himself at the beginning? Who are you mad at now! There is something wrong... "

Shunian took a few more steps and turned back: "what's the matter with you?"

Xu Zeyuan raised the brim of his hat and breathed out: "I'll take you there."

Shunian said, "no need."

"I'll send you there," Xu insisted

Shunian also insisted: "you go back."

Xu Zeyuan stood still, just looking at her.

Shunian didn't get stuck with him. He turned around and went on.

Xu Zeyuan followed her and said coldly, "are you with teacher ahe?"

The book read pause, did not answer.

Her reaction, in Xu Zeyuan's words, means acquiescence. After a long time, he said, "shunian, I went to see you later."

Xu Zeyuan really didn't think that his proposal of breaking up at that time would have such a great influence on his study.

She was taken home by her parents, asked for a long leave, and never came to school again. He also moved home, never answered her phone call, no one can contact her.

It's like the world has evaporated.

Shunian asked, "what do you want me to do?"

Xu Zeyuan lowered his eyes: "should I not break up with you at that time?"

Smell speech, book read to see him: "you because of this guilt?"

“……”

"It's not necessary." Shunian didn't care much. "It's normal to be together if you like and separate if you don't like. It's your right. You can mention it whenever you want. "

“…… I don't like it anymore. " Xu Zeyuan clenched his fist and held back his courage. "I regret reading."

As soon as the words came out, Xu Zeyuan was relieved. He felt that his courage filled his whole chest. He read the book and nervously repeated: "I regret it."

The light was dim and the bulb was flashing. The cold wind rolled the sand around the ground. You can hear the car whistle, the lovers in the distance are laughing, and the leaves on the tree are rustling.The next moment, shunian's mobile phone rang. She lowered her eyes and whispered, "I'll take a call." then she picked it up.

It's Xie Ruhe.

His tone is a little low, and his mood seems not very good: "shunian, are you free?"

Shunian answered: "yes, what's the matter?"

Xie Ruhe was silent and said, "I'm recovering well."

Shunian said, "well, that's good."

After another silence, Xie Ruhe suddenly said, "today is December 31."

Shunian wanted to say that he knew, but before he said anything, he suddenly stopped and thought of something.

December 31.

…… Xie Ruhe's birthday.

Later, Xie Ruhe asked her softly, "do you want to eat cake?"

Shunian pinched his sleeve with a guilty heart. For a moment, he didn't know how to respond. After a long time, he said, "do you want to eat?"

"Well."

There was no joy or anger in his voice.

Shunian licked his lips and hesitated: "I'll buy it for you?"