Shuitang is a high-end restaurant near Beijing University.
Today, the boss learned that Xie Yin was coming and specially reserved the best private room upstairs.
When the boss, who was about to receive Xie Yin in person, saw Xia Li following Xie Yin, his eyes couldn't help but look at her a few more times.
But in the end, the boss didn't dare to gossip anymore, and just respectfully led the two of them upstairs.
Entering the private room, Xie Yin took off his suit jacket and hung it on a hanger nearby.
His slender and beautiful fingertips slightly rolled up the cuffs of his shirt, revealing the watch and the string of Buddhist beads on his wrist.
He walked to the seat, opened the seat in a gentlemanly manner and motioned for Xia Li to sit down.
Every move the man made fell into the eyes of the boss standing aside, and the boss looked at Xia Li with a hint of gossip.
Feeling the gossipy gaze of the boss next to him, Xia Li looked a little embarrassed.
She thanked Xie Yin in a low voice before slowly sitting down.
Xie Yin walked around the girl, sat down on the seat opposite Xia Li, and motioned to the boss to give her the menu:
"Look at the menu, what do you want to eat?"
Xia Li looked at the man sitting opposite and replied softly: "I can do it, Mr. Xie."
Xie Yin took the menu from the boss's hand: "What are the taboos?"
"No."
Hearing this, Xie Yin closed the menu in his hand and told the boss:
"In that case, just watch it."
"Okay, Mr. Thank you."
Xia Li ate this meal a little absent-mindedly, still thinking about the graduation exhibition in her mind.
Sensing her emotions, Xie Yin gently put down the chopsticks in his hand:
"Is the food not to your liking?"
A low voice sounded in the quiet private room, pulling Xia Li back from his thoughts.
She slowly raised her eyes to look into the man's deep eyes and shook her head.
"It's not unpalatable, I just can't eat it."
The graduation exhibition was imminent, and the position assigned to her by her instructor broke all her original plans. It would be false to say that she was not in a hurry.
No one knows better than Xia Li how important that bonus is to her.
Xie Yin slowly picked up the tea at hand:
"Are you having trouble?"
"That's right." Xia Li replied.
The man put the tea cup to his lips and took a sip. His deep eyes never moved away from Xia Li's body.
"What troubles have you encountered?" Xie Yin put the tea cup in his hand back to its original place, "If you are willing, you can share it with me."
The man's words were measured just right.
The deep and pleasant voice coupled with the right amount of respect made Xia Li feel comfortable and gave her no reason to choose not to be willing.
Xia Li pursed her lower lip lightly and told Xie Yin unreservedly about the injustice she suffered at the graduation exhibition.
As she spoke, her eyes were always on the man.
And Xie Yin was patient enough to listen to her talk.
"Anyway, that's what happened." Xia Li felt a little thirsty and picked up the tea cup in front of him and took a sip of water. "I just can't figure out why he did this."
Xie Yin sat calmly, his eyes lingering on the girl's red lips still stained with water for a few seconds.
Then, he looked away as if nothing had happened.
"The Neil you just mentioned, who is she?"
Xia Li obviously didn't expect Xie Yin to ask this question.
She frowned slightly and said thoughtfully:
"Neil? I'm not familiar with her, but I heard that she came from England to study for graduate school."
Turning around, Xia Li looked at the man doubtfully: "Mr. Xie, why are you asking?"
"It's okay," Xie Yin calmly changed the subject, "Are you going home or going back to Beijing University later?"
"When I return to Beijing University, I still need to set up the exhibition."
Xie Yin responded: "Then I'll give it to you."
Xia Li refused without any hesitation, and hurriedly shook his head and waved his hands:
"No, thank you, sir. I'll just go back by myself."
The man saw all her movements in his eyes, and the corners of his mouth slightly raised an arc that was not obvious.
Xie Yin asked: "I wonder if Miss Xia would like to invite me to your booth to take a look?"
Xia Li hesitated: "But my booth is not ready yet..."
"If Mr. Xie doesn't mind..."
Before she finished speaking, she heard the man sitting opposite say:
"I do not mind."
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Xia Li took Xie Yin to the exhibition hall and pointed at the two tattered tables not far away.
"Mr. Xie, that's my booth."
There were a lot of materials Xia Li brought over in the morning piled up in front of the booth. In the whole morning, she just roughly cleaned her booth and sorted out the materials.
Xie Yin noticed that so many booths were clean and there were no unnecessary things.
Only Xia Li, the booth at the end of the queue, was filled with all kinds of miscellaneous things, as well as the two extremely unsightly tables.
Most of the time, this seat is seen by others as a place for storing garbage and debris.
"strangeness."
When Xia Li got closer, he noticed that garbage appeared inexplicably on the booth that had been cleaned with great effort.
She knelt down and picked up the garbage at her feet, muttering to herself:
"I obviously cleaned it before I left."
Xia Li stood up and walked to the trash can with the garbage in his hands.
"Li Li."
A familiar female voice from not far away made Xia Li pause for a moment while throwing away the trash. She turned her head and saw Chu Shishi walking towards her with excitement on her face, carrying large and small bags.
"I searched all the way but couldn't find your booth."
Chu Shishi put the materials in her hands on her place, then trotted to Xia Li, "What's going on?"
“The instructor put my booth last.”
Xia Li threw the garbage in his hands into the trash can.
Hearing this, Chu Shishi glanced at the last booth.
"Don't you have very high scores? Why did your instructor put you last?"
Xia Li and Chu Shishi had different graduate tutors, but they often communicated with each other about their graduation projects.
When Xia Li's Bishe scores came out, Chu Shishi was happy for her for a while.
Xia Li shrugged: "Who knows?"
Chu Shishi walked to Xia Li's booth in disbelief. Her eyes fell on the two dilapidated tables. Just as she was about to speak, she suddenly caught a glimpse of the man standing beside her out of the corner of her eye.
The man was dressed in a well-fitting black suit, which neatly outlined his broad shoulders and long legs.
At this moment, he was looking at the screen of his mobile phone with his head slightly lowered.
Just from the look of his outfit, he doesn't look like a student from Beijing University.
Although he was looking at his phone with his head down, judging from Chu Shishi's years of experience in looking at handsome men, the man in front of her should be good-looking.
At this time, Xie Yin was just replying to a message on his phone, and his fingertips slowly raised their heads after pressing the last send button.
The moment Chu Shishi saw the man's face clearly, she was stunned for a moment.
She had thought about being a handsome guy, but she never thought she would meet such a handsome man in reality.
For a moment, the words that came to his lips were swallowed hard.
Chu Shishi looked at Xie Yin and then at Xia Li, who was coming back from throwing away the garbage.
The next second, her voice sounded throughout the entire exhibition hall——
"Xia Li! You are falling in love behind my back!"
Chu Shishi's voice still echoed throughout the entire exhibition hall, and Xia Li's face turned red, spreading all the way to her neck.
She almost ran in front of Chu Shishi, stretched out her hand and covered Chu Shishi's mouth that wanted to speak.
Raising his eyes to meet Xie Yin's gaze who was also slightly shocked, Xia Li, who was blushing terribly, smiled awkwardly at the man:
"I'm sorry, Mr. Xie. I, my friend, she has a problem with her IQ!"
A certain Chu Shishi, whose mouth was covered and could only make whining sounds and was labeled as having "an IQ problem": "..."
The air in the entire temporary exhibition hall seemed to be frozen.
Just as Xia Li was racking his brains to think of how to alleviate the embarrassment, the cell phone in the man's hand just rang.
Xie Yin lowered his eyes and glanced at the mobile phone in his hand, then raised his eyes and looked at Xia Li, who was blushing.
A smile flashed across his eyes, the hand holding the phone shook slightly, and his thin lips opened slightly:
"It's okay. I'm going to take a call first."
When the man's tall figure completely disappeared from the exhibition hall, Xia Li, whose scalp was numb, released his hand covering Chu Shishi's mouth.
"Li Li, when did you secretly fall in love behind my back?"
Chu Shishi, who had just been released, immediately hugged Xia Li's arm and pressed against it with excitement:
"Quickly share with me, did you have an affair in Hong Kong City? Or... was it an affair in the capital?"
Xia Li, who was feeling hot all over, raised his hand to fan his cheek:
"I'm not in love."
"Not in love?" Chu Shishi pointed to the road Xie Yin left just now, "Then how do you explain the man standing in your booth?"
"he......"
Xia Li pursed her lower lip, and for a moment she didn't know how to introduce her relationship with Xie Yin to Chu Shishi.
From Xia Li's point of view, she and Xie Yin just met a few times by fate, and they were considered friends.
"What?" Chu Shishi looked at the hesitant Xia Li and urged anxiously, "Don't tell me that you and this handsome guy are strangers."
"No, it's not."
Xia Li thought for a long time before speaking hesitantly:
"Just friends...just."
"Oh~" Chu Shishi teased with a smile on her face, "Just friends~"
Xia Li embarrassedly patted Chu Shishi on the shoulder. Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of the man who finished the phone call and lowered his voice slightly:
"Hey, they're just friends really."
Seeing Xie Yin getting closer and closer, Xia Li looked at Chu Shishi wildly to signal her to stop talking nonsense.
It would be bad if Xie Yin really misunderstood him.
Xie Yin stopped in front of the two girls, and his cello-like voice slowly sounded in the exhibition hall:
"Sorry, I just took a call."
Because of Chu Shishi's sudden voice just now, even though Xia Li was mentally prepared, she was still a little embarrassed when she met Xie Yin.
She maintained an "awkward yet polite" smile on her face.
Chu Shishi beside her couldn't hold back the gossip in her heart and asked cautiously:
"Handsome guy, I'm so sorry just now. I was so excited that I misunderstood your relationship with Li Li. Li Li said that you were her friend. Isn't it convenient for me to reveal your name?"
Finally, thinking of the embarrassing thing she had just caused, Chu Shishi quickly added:
"It's okay if it's inconvenient. I'm just gossiping."
Xie Yin looked at Xia Li, who was standing next to Chu Shishi in embarrassment and wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl in, and raised his eyebrows slightly.
He raised the ends of his eyes, and there was a hint of smile in those beautiful eyes.
There was a slight smile in his low voice, and he casually said his name from his thin lips:
"Thank you Yin."
