Trapped in the car, Chu Ning looked at Qin Xi helplessly: "What are you doing?"

It was getting closer. With the lights in the car, Chu Ning looked at his face up close for the first time.

He changed a lot, his facial features were tougher than before, his eyebrows and eyes were a little deeper, his eyelids pulled out deep folds, his slender eyes were slightly bent, and his eyes were red, as if he was unable to dissolve and tiredness inside, and he looked a little unwaking.

Yes, he had just returned to China and the jet lag had not come back. He went to No. 2 Middle School early in the morning and probably hadn't had a good rest.

"Is there anything to tell me?" His voice was low, a little hoarse, and his tiredness seemed even stronger.

Being stared quietly by him, Chu Ning calmed down, silent for a while, and said stiffly: "Long time no see."

“…”

Lasting, awkward silence.

A cold situation.

Qin Xi became addicted to cigarettes again. He took out a cigarette box from his pocket and shot it out, took out a lighter and lit it.

Chu Ning smelled the choking smell of smoke and couldn't help coughing twice.

Qin Xi glanced at her in the afterglow, shook her window, put her arm holding the cigarette outside, and her slender and beautiful knuckles flicked twice to dust off the ashes.

The wind blew in, and the strong smell of smoke gradually dissipated.

He took two more silences and looked out the car window as he exhaled.

Just now, the unknown bipolar depressed was suppressed. He twisted the cigarette butt at his fingertips and looked at her side: "What did you see me running today?"

"Is there any?" Chu Ning raised her eyes in surprise, as if she didn't believe that such a thing was happening. She guessed that there was a possibility and her face remained unchanged. "That might be that I didn't recognize it at that time."

She gave birth to a very pure and obedient face, and her pupils were clear in the water, as if she was born to not lie or hurt people.

But when she stabbed someone in the heart, she also had such a face.

At that time, he wanted to strangle her to death.

"What about just now?" he continued, "what to run?"

"It's too dark. I didn't recognize it as you. I thought it was a bad guy. Of course I had to run away."

"Is that true?" Qin Xi leaned on the back without bones, her petite figure reflected in her dark pupils, and the corners of her lips were pulled down, "I thought you were guilty."

Chu Ning's fingers on her knees were stiff for a second, and her fingertips scratched her skirt, looking at him calmly: "What's the guilty thing?"

"You were the one who said he had broken up." Qin Xi played with the lighter in his hand, stared at the flames that were coming out, raised them to shine on her face, and his eyes seemed to see through her. "Maybe you are the one who is unforgettable to me now."

Chu Ning looked at him through the flames and didn't speak.

Qin Xi raised his eyebrows: "Did you agree?"

A gust of wind blew, and the flames that surged out of the lighter were extinguished, making the surroundings dim.

Chu Ning spoke: "No."

Qin Xi put his hand on the back of the chair behind her, leaned forward with her upper body, and Chu Ning felt the oppression invisibly.

She shrank back and heard him ask, "What are you doing today? I didn't expect you to be quite nostalgic?"

“…”

Chu Ning finally knew why he suddenly came here tonight.

He thought that she was missing the past when she went to school. She saw him avoiding him during the day because she was afraid that he would find out what he was thinking, so she felt guilty.

"It's not what you think." Chu Ning explained hurriedly, "Chi Yuan is filming there, I'll give her something."

When I was together, Chu Ning mentioned the name Chi Yuan to him that he was the best friend who had been playing with since childhood.

Qin Xi's eyes dimmed a little, and she thought that Han Xun said that there was a crew filming at school and occupied the high school teaching building.

It's consistent with her words.

He thought...

Qin Xi laughed at herself, and her heart slowly sinks.

After a moment, he asked again without giving up: "That's it?"

Chu Ning nodded: "That's it."

The atmosphere fell silent again.

Qin Xi withdrew his gaze, took a slight sip of the cigarette butts and threw it into the trash can on the side of the road.

He leaned on the back of the chair, sat upright, looking at the dark night in the distance along the glass in front of the car, and his tone was scattered: "Just make it clear. If you don't think about me, I don't have to have any psychological burden."

He pursed his lips and sneered for a while, "After all, I'm not a long-lasting person. I'm under a lot of pressure when I see you at school during the day, do you know?"

He looked at her with frivolity in his eyes, and his whole body looked very relaxed, as if he had finally removed a thought, got rid of the burden, and could breathe a sigh of relief.

Chu Ning pursed her lower lip and lowered her eyelashes: "I'm sorry for causing trouble for you."

"Yes." He responded randomly, "It's going to rain, I'll give it to you."

Chu Ning was about to say no, but there was a strong wind outside.

Soon, rain beans fell from the clouds and scrambled to the body of the car.

The car window next to Qin Xi was still open, and the rain came in. He closed the car window and isolated the noise outside.

Chu Ning said thank you and reported the address: "Xinglan Bay."

She tied her seat belt and said, "It's very close to here, but if you just returned home and don't recognize the way, I'll tell you how to go."

Qin Xi didn't say anything.

——

The journey was very quiet, and Qin Xi didn't need Chu Ning to show him the way, he seemed to recognize him.

Chu Ning was quite strange. He stayed outside for seven years, and Changguan has changed a lot. Xinglan Bay is a newly built apartment complex, and he actually recognized the road.

Chu Ning made a sound to break the silence: "I think you are quite familiar, have you been here?"

He just returned to China, so it shouldn't be true.

Qin Xi held the steering wheel and ignored her.

The two of them fell into a cold situation again.

Feeling that he didn't want to speak, Chu Ning was tired for a day and didn't find a sense of existence, and his head was tilted aside and pretended to sleep.

When waiting for the red light, Qin Xi looked over there.

She seemed very sleepy, and just tilted her head and fell asleep. She had faint dark circles and pointed chin. She became haggard and thin.

His hand slowly stretched over, and with an unconscious trembling, he wanted to touch her face.

The sudden ringtone of the cell phone rang, and Qin Xi's hand suddenly retracted.

Just as the green light came on, he drove on.

Chu Ning was awakened, sat upright, looked out her cell phone and glanced at the notes. When she answered the phone, her voice was slightly hoarse when she spoke: "Brother Ji Ze."

Qin Xi glanced over there and the car slowed down.

Chi Jize is Chi Yuan's brother. He wants to go to Chu Ning's residence to get Chi Yuan's luggage and ask Chu Ning when he will get home.

"It's almost there, on the way." Chu Ning glanced at the time, "If I arrive first, I'll wait for you at the entrance of the community."

Chi Jize said over there and came to pick her up, and Chu Ning hurriedly said, "No need."

"I..." She looked at Qin Xi and said subconsciously, "My colleague sent me back and will arrive soon."

Qin Xi's eyelids twitched, and Yu Guang looked at her, his lips tightly stretched.

Seeing that the phone was received there, he looked at the road ahead and asked inexplicably: "I am you - a colleague?"

He took the last two words very seriously.

Chu Ning was stunned for a moment and was silent.

Neither Chi Jize nor Chi Yuan knew that she had been in love before. She just thought that meeting her ex-boyfriend might involve a lot of problems, so she just casually asked a colleague.

"I'm so anxious to clear my relationship with me. Is it your boyfriend who called?" Qin Xi tightened his strength while holding the steering wheel, and there was no expression on his face. "Why didn't he come to pick you up after get off work so late?"

"No, it's Chi Yuan's brother. I'm going to my house to get his sister's luggage." Chu Ning paused and said, "I don't have a boyfriend."

No boyfriend.

Qin Xi's depressed face stretched out in an instant, and the corners of his lips couldn't help but curl up, but his tone was arrogant: "Why didn't you talk about it? I've met someone who was too good to taste, and others couldn't catch it?"

“…”

This person is still the same as before, and he never forgets to be intoxicated at any time.

"I think it's good to be alone, and I don't plan to fall in love," Chu Ning said.

"Do you don't plan to talk now, or you don't have this plan in the future?"

He tsk twice, and his fingertips tapped randomly on the edge of the steering wheel, and he seemed in a good mood. "It seems that my sin is quite serious. It has greatly improved your standards for choosing a partner. It has made your appetite so tricky. If I die alone, will I feel guilty?"

I just fell silent all the way with a cold face, but now I chatted with her for no reason. Chu Ning was quite uncomfortable with his moodiness.
To be continued...