It's clear that Duan Jia Xu doesn't expect that she would make that kind of excuses. Duan Jia Xu is startled but in a short moment he just laughs like this thing is too absurd: "What?"
Sang Zhi just realizes that her words are too naive and stupid, supposedly she is too sleepy that she couldn't think too clearly. She is embarrassed. She turns silent, she tries to stand up.
Noticing Sang Zhi's action, Duan Jia Xu bends his waist and holds her wrist. He helps her to stand up. The time she stands up, he holds her waist and hugs her.
Sang Zhi raises up her head and feels so nervous. She fists her hand and places it on his chest. She could feel his sturdy chest.
She feels so unnatural and tries to take steps back. "What are you doing?"
Duan Jia Xu seduces her openly. "You like to feel excited?"
"......."
The sky spins and the earth goes round. In an instant Sang Zhi just leans on the bed. She lifts her head and faces Duan Jia Xu's lips. The bed is soft, one of his hand is on her back so she doesn't feel any pain.
Because of this sudden action, her mind is blank. For a moment, she couldn't understand him.
Duan Jia Xu is still smiling: "Em?"
Sang Zhi blinks slowly and just regains herself. She takes a deep breath and kicks him. She is furious "Duan Jia Xu!"
He doesn't be affected by her, his lips stick close to her ear. He says lowly: "Let us excite each other for a while?"
"........"
Sang Zhi's breath is rushed. In a moment, her neck till her face turn blushing red. She feels so hot. She feels that her heart is beating so fast that it would come out of her body. She tries hard to control herself and looks at him.
He doesn't press her down, he just uses his hand to support his body.
Sang Zhi straightens her lips and extends her leg. She kicks him.
There is a large difference of strength between man and woman, Duan Jia Xu raises his eyebrows but he doesn't struggle. He just lets her kick her till he falls on her side.
Sang Zhi sits up and bites her lips. "Why are you act like a rogue!"
Duan Jia Xu leans on his side and says: "If we are together, how could you say that I act like a rogue?"
"....."
Indeed it's not really true.
Moreover he basically doesn't do anything too over.
Sang Zhi doesn't bicker with him anymore, she just rubs her forehead and gets off the bed.
Noticing her action, Duan Jia Xu pulls her back. He looks at the red bruise on her forehead: "You bumped something?"
She points to the edge of the bed and says lowly: "I accidentally bumped that."
Duan Jia Xu: "Is it hurt"
Sang Zhi shakes her head. "Not really."
"Tell me, why were you laying on the floor?" Duan Jia Xu says.
Sang Zhi answers honestly: "I suddenly felt so sleepy."
Duan Jia Xu: "The why didn't you sleep on the bed?"
"I said those words to you. I am afraid that you would think that I just want to ignore you." Sang Zhi says worriedly. 'But I really want to revise. Tomorrow afternoon I'll have an exam, I want to get a good mark."
"Do I look like a petty-minded person," Duan Jia Xu says, "Sleep, I'll wake you up in a while."
Sang Zhi mumbles: "Then would you feel bored?"
"Just a bit."
"Then I'll revise quickly...."
Duan Jia Xu smiles: "You are afraid that I'll be angry?"
Sang Zhi glances at him like she agree tacitly.
"I asked you over to revise here, I also have my selfishness." Duan Jia Xu says gently: "But I really don't mean to disturb you. Our Zhi Zhi is vey motivated, how could I stop you?"
Sang Zhi says cautiously: "Then I'll sleep?"
"Em, just sleep." Duan Jia Xu kisses the palm of her hand and says: "I just feel a bit bored. But the time I think that you are here, I'm very happy."
—–
Sang Zhi tucks herself in the blanket.
After a while, Duan Jia Xu takes a hot towel back to the room. He places it on her red bruise and says: "Before you tried to hide because I opened the door?"
Sang Zhi nods hesitantly.
Duan Jia Xu smiles: "Dim-witted."
Sang Zhi covers half of her face inside the blanket, she looks a bit depressed. "I'm just worried."
"If you are worried, then don't move." Duan Jia Xu stands up and goes to close the curtain. "What if you fall down to the ground again?"
Sang Zhi thinks about it and suddenly calls after him. "Jia Xu Ge."
Duan Jia Xu; "Em?"
"It's. you should know. That if you are too close to me, I'll be very nervous." Sang Zhi licks her lips and explains. "Just like you did before. But I'm not angry, I also don't mean that I don't like it....."
Duan Jia Xu takes the wet towel back and says: "Then do you like it?"
Sang Zhi forces to say: "But I don't like to be excited......"
Duan Jia Xu smiles: "okay, for temporarily moment I'll not......"
"........."
"Later on."
"......."
——
Sang Zhi stays at Duan Jia Xu's house till 10:00 p.m. Till at last, she doesn't mind Duan Jia Xu to stay by her side.
One is revising, and the other one is laying down on the bed and reading book.
It's abnormally harmonious.
After Sang Zhi answers her roommate calls, Sang Zhi starts to tidy up her things and plans to leave. She goes to the shelf and takes out a soft candy.
Both of them change their shoes and goes out.
Sang Zhi tears open the candy and asks: "Jia xu Ge, do you want candy?"
Duan Jia Xu isn't fond of candy, he pinches her cheek lightly: "You could eat it."
Sang Zhi just tears the candy open and stuffs it inside her mouth. "Oh."
They both get into the elevator.
Suddenly Duan Jia Xu speaks up: "It's better to give me one."
Sang Zhi passes one to him and places it on his palm.
She hasn't retreated her hand, Duan Jia Xu just holds her hand. He intertwined their fingers together and doesn't let it go. He says: "Give me candy or holding hands?"
Sang Zhi is stupefied: "Don't you want to eat candy?"
Duan Jia Xu says: "Holding hands or holding hands?"
She starts to respond: "...... Oh."
Duan Jia Xu: "Holding hands?"
Sang Zhi lifts her eyes and looks at him. She feels that he is so funny. She smiles, but because she has candy inside her mouth., her words aren't clear. "Why are you asking me so seriously?"
Duan Jia Xu keeps on asking naturally: "Hold hands or not?"
Sang Zhi takes the candy with another hand and blinks: "Hold."
Duan Jia Xu laughs and holds her hand. The elevator arrives at the first floor. He holds her hand out and says: "You plan to do your internship this summer holiday?"
"Em. I have applied to several companies. One of them calls me to have an interview?"
"Why do you want to start your internship early."
"I just want to find something to do." Sang Zhi says: "if not when I go home, I'll also do nothing. I'll be alone at home."
Sang Zhi suddenly asks again; "Do you want to eat candy?"
Duan Jia Xu: "No."
"Jia Xu Ge." Sang Zhi kicks a small stone and mentions to him. "Most of couples when they hold hand, they would seize the opportunity of crossing the road or walking and walking then holding hands. It's only you who ask this kind of questions."
"Last time I just kissed you without asking, didn't you feel unhappy?" Duan Jia Xu says.
Sang Zhi is silent for two seconds: "........ I'm not really unhappy."
Duan Jia Xu: "Em?"
Sang Zhi says: "I just feel a bit embarrassed."
"em."
"It's just I seem to never tell you." Sang Zhi lowers her head and thinks about it. She stammers and says: "I really like you."
Duan Jia Xu turns his head to look at her nervous face.
They are walking toward Duan Jia Xu's car. Hearing her sudden confession, Duan Jia Xu stops walking and just pulls her into his embrace. He bends down his body and rubs his nose with her nose. He is watching her intensely.
After a long time.
He kisses her forehead.
It feels like he is cherishing her.
"Em, I also like you very much."
—–
After finishing the examination, Sang Zhi exits the exam room. She has no exam in the afternoon, yet she has an interview to attend. She plans to go back to her dorm to change her clothes before going to the interview venue.
Sang Zhi takes out her phone out from her handbag and looks at it.
Just in time she notices Sang Yan's missed call.
Sang Zhi calls him back.
Sang Yan speaks up as he always does: "Xiao Gui, Ge Ge recently is busy dating. So I forget that you, the insignificant person....."
"......."
Sang Yan: "Have you booked your ticket?"
Sang Zhi: "I am not going home."
It's a silence. Then Sang Yan laughs and says deeply: "Repeat once more."
"I already talked to Pa Ma." Sang Zhi feels somehow worried but she doesn't feel that she does anything wrong. She doesn't show any guilty feeling. "They agree to me."
"Repeat once more."
"......." Sang Zhi gets annoyed: "I'm looking for an internship here, I'm not doing anything bad."
"Okay, I'm too lazy to mind you." Sang Yan says coldly, "If this time you are being deceived, don't look for me and cry. I have no free time to mind you."
Sang Zhi attacks him back: "How could I be deceived?"
"Indeed you have a longer rebellious period. From the junior high school till now? You are a college student now, how could you not be more sensible?" Sang Yan says: "At first you were stupid, now after dating, you are getting even stupid."
Sang Zhi is so furious: "You are the stupid one. You just date and you use loudspeaker to declare it to the whole world. You also boast about how she chased after you, who would believe about you!"
"......" Sang Yan says: "You want to fight with me?"
"You are the one that starts all of this."
They both are refusing to budge.
"Sang Zhi, think about it by yourself. If you are sensible then why should I mind you?" Sang Yan calms himself down, he says: "Just do whatever you want. Don't look for me."
Then he just hangs up.
Sang Zhi puts down her phone and looks at the screen. Her mood turns bad. She rarely fights with San Yan, most of the time it's only a small fight.
Though she doesn't feel happy about it but she doesn't want to be in cold fight with him.
She feels that if she didn't make a mistake of going to Yi He when she was a junior high school, Sang Yan wouldn't try to stop her like this.
Because of that time, he thinks Sang Zhi is a wimpy brat that easily deceived by love.
Sang Zhi scratches her head and opens the chat with Sang Yan. She considers what should she say to him. If she confesses to him that her boyfriend is Duan Jia Xu, he might not be that angry......
He would believe Duan Jia Xu.
Sang Zhi starts to form her words, she types: [Ge Ge, you really don't need to worry. I am looking for internship this summer holiday. I just want to do something in my free time. I'll go home for the National Day. I just lied to you, my boyfriend is not the graduate student of our university. You know him. He is Jia Xu Ge, he is a good man.]
She rereads her words and be somewhat hesitant.
Would her words make Sang Yan comes over to Yi He and beats Duan Jia Xu?
Sang Zhi tries to think about it from Sang Yan's side. If her friend be with Sang Yan........
It seems not to be hard thing to bare.
Sang Zhi starts to calm down and clicks the 'send' button.
Afterwards she notices a red exclamation mark on her screen.
— [The message is sent but the receiver rejects to accept it.]
Sang Zhi: "........"
Okay.
Sang Zhi's anger just escalates.
She lowers her head.
—–
Sang Zhi goes to attend the interview for internship in a small advertisement company. The company is close to the school, yet she needs to take subway for two statins. She walks inside the building and goes to the floor the company is in.
The office is not really big, there three rows of tables and chairs. There are sofas in a small area. There're also a small meeting room. There are not many people coming over to be interviewed. Except her, there's only a man around age that join.
That man gets inside first.
Sang Zhi waits outside. A woman pours a glass of water for her. She thanks her politely and looks around. The company is just starting so they don't have a lot of employees.
Most of the tables and chairs are empty. Sang Zhi looks around and notices a woman.
That woman is talking with a man. She seems to be in a great mood that she smiles so brightly but quickly she shifts her gaze.
She feels that woman looks familiar......
After a while, the man comes out. He says that now Sang Zhi could get inside.
Sang Zhi nods and stands up to get inside the room.
—–
After the interview, it's only 11:00 a.m.
Sang Zhi counts the time and takes the subway to Duan Jia Xu's office building. She looks for a coffee shop to wait. In the past she heard from Duan Jia Xu, that for lunch he usually calls takeaway with his colleagues, he never goes out to eat.
She switches on her phone and sends him a WeChat: [Go and take a look at your window.]
Duan Jia Xu: [You are nearby?]
Sang Zhi drinks her coffee and smiles: [No.]
Sang Zhi: [I want to let you see the view.]
Duan Jia Xu: [OK.]
Duan Jia Xu: [You ask me to see, so I'll see.]
Sang Zhi: [This mid-afternoon, let's go out and have lunch?]
Duan Jia Xu: [ What do you want to eat?]
Sang Zhi: [ I want to eat barbecue.]
Duan Jia Xu: [Okay.]
Sang Zhi doesn't disturb him again, she just types; [Now I'll take the subway to come over. When it's lunch time, I'll be there.]
She feels a bit bored so she just opens up her games and plays to spend the time. After Sang Zhi passes a round, after quite some time, Duan Jia Xu sends her a message.
Sang Zhi opens it and notices that now it's 12:15 p.m.
Duan Jia Xu: [Turn your head.]
Sang Zhi is startled. She notices from her view that someone is standing beside her. In an instant she could guess who is he. She just turns her head.
That person, who is standing beside her, just bends his body and lowers his head. He moves his face closer to her.
Sang Zhi is shocked. Her lips touched his cheek. Her body turns stiff.
Duan Jia Xu raises his eyebrow and stands straight again. He smiles.
"I just ask you to turn your head, how could you just kiss me?"