Above 9

  When Liu Xin came back, I had already fallen asleep. She called out to me in a somewhat uneasy tone, probably unsure if I was still upset.

  I sat up and looked at her: "Back? Go take a bath first."

  "Sister." She handed me the bag in her hand. "We passed by McDonald's on our way back, I know you like eating at McDonald's more than KFC. You haven't eaten dinner yet, have you?"

  I'm not one to easily lose my temper, thanks to Tao Hao who's always losing his around me, so mine has been well-trained. This outburst of mine is quite rare, no wonder Liu Xin was so scared.

  "Hey, look at you, I'm scolding and it's not even directed at you. What's your business here?"

  She smiled and said: "Hey, you think I don't understand what's going on? You're throwing a tantrum for my sake, aren't you? I've got it all figured out."

  I took out the hamburger and bit into it, sighing as I said: "This self-respect thing is really not easy to have... For my own self-respect, I went hungry all night with an empty stomach!"

  Liu Xin looked at me in surprise: "Don't you know that hotels have room service?"

  "The hotel said it was peak hour for dinner and didn't provide room service, so I had to go downstairs to eat. I thought it would be boring sitting there alone, so I came back."

  Liu Xian looked at me with a bit of despair: "I have reason to suspect that you are doing this on purpose to make the guilt in my heart even deeper, and that's why you're stimulating me like this."

  "Ah." I lifted up my face which was buried in the hamburger and looked at her with utmost sincerity "Is it that obvious?"

  "Absolutely."

  "Alright. I did it on purpose so obviously."

  I heard Liu Xin's grinding teeth: "You this woman."

  We laughed and didn't mention Gege's matter, Liu Xin took off her clothes to take a bath. The phone on the table rang non-stop, my heart was pounding, I didn't dare to answer it at all.

  The person on the other end of the phone was very persistent and kept calling.

  I took a deep breath and walked over to pick up my phone: "Hello?"

  "Willow Jia."

  He always calls my name like that, as if there are many things to say, but also seems to not know how to say them. Later I gradually came to understand that for Shen Duan, perhaps just a name can be an antidote, to unravel such deep longing poison.

  For a period of time, I missed him so much that it hurt to the bone, and I spent whole nights holding onto my quilt, calling out his name and crying.

  In the past, seeing such scenes on TV or in movies would only make me feel sentimental, but when I truly experienced that state of mind myself. I realized how real and painful it was, the helpless hurt, unable to find a solution, could only self-deceive like constant self-hypnosis. You must have had this feeling too? In leisure time, using pen to casually write and draw, until reacting and realizing everything is his name. Seeing similar names, seeing similar silhouettes, you would stand still for a long time at the bustling street corner.

  I remained silent for a long time, and he also remained silent for a long time. We quietly listened to each other's breathing sounds, at that moment I felt my mind was in chaos. All along, whenever facing Shen Zong, my entire IQ and EQ would go on strike.

  "Willow Jia."

  Liu Xin came out of the bathroom at this time, holding a towel to wipe her hair, saw me holding the phone and not making a sound, so she asked: "Sister, who are you calling?"

  Consciousness returned because of her sentence, I smiled and said: "No, Tao is easy to hit. She didn't catch it."

  Having said that, he hung up the phone.

  It was just a phone call, no more than five minutes. But I'm exhausted and don't want to do anything else. Lying heavily on the bed, I closed my eyes and said: "I'll sleep first, you should too."

  Xiao Xin ran over and pulled at my quilt to see my face: "Sis, are you okay?"

  I waved my hand impatiently: "What's there for me to do? Go to sleep!"

  "What's wrong with you calling Tao Hao? Is there something on your mind that you don't want to tell me, but only can tell Sister Tao Hao?"

  "......Liu Xin, your imagination is too great. I just wanted to tell Tao Hao that I drove a Mercedes today."

  It is well known that Tao loves cars as much as his life.

  She silently walked to her bed, turned off the light and lay down.

  I thought it wasn't easy for this kid to coax me for a whole night, so I asked: "Where are we going to play tomorrow?"

  Liu Xian heard me taking the initiative to talk to her, and her earlier disappointment was swept away, truly a child's temperament.

  "Oh dear sister!" She sat up "Just now when I came back, Shen Duan said he has nothing to do tomorrow and wants to take us out for a spin."

  The drowsiness that had just arrived was instantly dispelled by Liu Xin's words, and my heart suddenly became tense, fearing that Liu Xin would see through me. I could only say casually: "Ah, do we need him to take us around? Beijing has so many famous historical sites, we can also stroll around on our own."

  "Sister~~" Liu Xian coquettishly called out to me "But no matter how beautiful the scenery is, without him by my side, I just can't bear to look at it!"

  I can only be glad that Liu Xin just turned off the lights, otherwise I'm afraid she would have seen my nervousness and embarrassment at this moment: "It's okay."

  Soldiers come to resist, water comes to cover with earth.

  No big deal, I'll just pretend to be sick tomorrow.