Xia Li was a little absent-minded all afternoon.
As a result, she didn't even have the heart to draw the manuscript.
During the four years at Peking University, Xia Li opened a painting account on Weibo in his spare time.
The original intention of opening this account at that time was because she wanted to record what she studied at Beijing University, and occasionally update some of the paintings she designed on the platform.
But she never thought that her account would suddenly become popular during her sophomore year, and some people would send her private messages to draw design drafts.
At first, Xia Li just took a few orders with the mentality of giving it a try.
Xia Li still remembers the design draft of the first order he received, which was a design draft for a men's suit.
What she didn't expect was that her design draft not only increased her fans significantly again, but also brought her more and more design orders.
This is also the only source of income that can alleviate the pressure of her life after the Xia family's decline.
Xia Li scratched his hair irritably, and finally put the capacitive pen back in frustration.
She reached out and took the charging cell phone aside. After talking to Su Jing on the phone, she clicked on the chat box with Chu Shishi.
A little Li: [Shishi, Xie Yin is back. 】
Chu Shishi: [? 】
Yiyi Xiaoli: [Do you still remember what I told you about the master bedroom that night? 】
After making a video call with Xie Yin that day, Xia Li tossed and turned in bed unable to sleep.
So she called Chu Shishi and told Chu Shishi all the contents of the conversation with Xie Yin at that time.
Chu Shishi: [I remember. What's wrong? Did he mention this matter to you again when he came back? 】
Xia Li, who was sitting cross-legged on a chair, looked at the message sent by Chu Shishi, holding the phone in both hands and typing letters on the input method to reply.
Xie Yin hasn't mentioned this matter yet, but...
When she thought about the content of the video call that day, she felt a little uneasy.
The phone in his hand vibrated twice.
It was a message from Chu Shishi.
Chu Shishi: [He didn’t mention it, so we’ll just pretend to be stupid. 】
A little Li: [Then what if he mentions it at night? 】
You have to be prepared.
Chu Shishi: [...Then just find a reason to deal with it. 】
Xia Li, who was sitting cross-legged on a chair, looked at the message from Chu Shishi on her phone and pursed her lips.
Find a reason to deal with it.
reason.
What reason is better?
Said she likes to kick the quilt when she sleeps?
Xia Li held her chin with one hand and clicked on the circle of friends while thinking about what good reason she should find if Xie Yin mentioned this matter.
Suddenly, her fingertips paused.
A piece of content posted by Xie Yin on Moments an hour ago was displayed on the screen of the mobile phone.
This is the first time Xia Li has seen Xie Yin's profile picture appear in his circle of friends in the past few days.
Xia Li clicked on the photo posted by Xie Yin.
In the photo, the man's hand with the beads and watch seemed to be casually resting on his black trousers. The camera was shot from bottom to top, and it happened to stop at the dark red tie that the man was wearing.
Xia Li's eyes inadvertently fell on the diamond ring on the man's fingertip.
The scene when she helped him put on the ring came to mind, as if she could still feel the residual warmth of his on her fingertips at this moment.
Xia Liergen warmed up a little, and his fingertips curled up slightly.
She wanted to click on the screen to exit the photo, but accidentally pressed the save button at the bottom of the screen.
Xia Li exited the photo, liked Xie Yin's circle of friends and put down her phone.
Xie Yin sat in the office, absentmindedly listening to the employees sitting opposite him reporting on their work progress, and from time to time he took the mobile phone at hand.
The employee standing opposite the man reported in fear and looked at the man's expression.
Xie Yin clicked on WeChat again, looked at the new red dots that appeared there, and tapped in with his long and beautiful fingertips.
After seeing Xia Li's profile picture, he slightly curled his lips with satisfaction.
The employee who was still sweating profusely saw the man slightly curling his lips, thinking that he was satisfied with his work progress report, and his nervous mood relaxed a little.
Xie Yin flipped to the Moments he had posted, raised his eyebrows slightly when he saw Xia Li's name appearing in the like box, and started replying to some of his friends' comments one by one with great interest.
The leader was Qizhou's unworthy comment.
Qizhou: [Huh? Are you feeling springy in the summer? 】
X replied to Qizhou: [(smile)(smile)(smile)]
Xie Yin suddenly remembered that he and Xia Li had not told Qizhou when they received the certificate.
He clicked on Qizhou's chat box, but after thinking about it he decided it would be better to tell him in person.
after all--
He really wanted to see Qizhou's expression on the spot when he found out about this.
The employee who was standing respectfully in front of his desk finally raised his hand to wipe away the sweat on his head.
"Thank you, Mr. Xie, I've finished my report."
Xie Yin slowly raised his eyelids, and his cold and deep eyes fell on him.
The employee only felt a coolness slowly rising from the soles of his feet, making his scalp numb.
Xie Yin took the documents spread out on the table and glanced around.
Immediately afterwards.
The man closed the document:
"Is this what you've been doing for half a month?"
The next second, the closed document was thrown heavily on the desk by the man.
"Take it back and redo it."
Xie Yin returned to Tingyuan in the evening.
When Xia Li got up from a nap, she saw a man who had just returned home and was sitting on the sofa drinking tea.
Xie Yin looked up at Xia Li who was coming down the stairs and placed the tea cup in his hand gently on the table.
He took a clean teacup from his hand, picked up the teapot and poured it into the teapot.
"Freshly brewed tea."
Xie Yin placed the tea cup filled with tea gently on the table, looked up at Xia Li who had already walked in front of him and slightly raised the corners of his lips.
"Thank you, Mrs., for a taste."
Xia Li carefully picked up the teacup that the man placed in front of her, brought it to her lips and took a sip.
Xie Yin asked: "How is it?"
"not bad."
Xie Yin chuckled, picked up the tea cup at hand and took a sip:
"Not bad? Does Mrs. Xie think the tea is good or do I think my tea-making skills are good?"
Xia Li drank the tea in the cup in his hand and whispered:
"It's all good....."
She looked into the smiling eyes of the man sitting on the sofa and added:
"Mr. Xie's tea making skills are very good."
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At night, a thunderstorm suddenly began.
After dinner, Xia Li returned to the guest room as usual.
But when she opened the guest bedroom door, Xie Yin, who was standing behind her, spoke first:
"Does Mrs. Xie plan to continue sleeping in the guest bedroom?"
A low, magnetic male voice came from behind unhurriedly, brushing past Xia Li's ears, causing her hand to pause for a moment as she grasped the door handle.
Xia Li turned around and saw a man in a white shirt leaning on the corridor handrail with one hand in his pocket, his dark eyes falling on her.
Xia Li swallowed nervously: "Mr. Xie..."
She originally wanted to say that she was not honest when sleeping and liked to kick the quilt, but she got nervous and turned into——
"I snore while sleeping, fearing to disturb Mr. Xie."
As soon as the words came out of his mouth, Xia Li's face turned red completely, and he wanted to find a crack in the ground and crawl into it.
The expression on the man in front of him was obviously stunned.
The next second, Xia Li heard the laughter overflowing from the man's throat.
It was different from the fleeting chuckle of the past, but a real, deep and magnetic laugh.
Xia Li raised her eyes with a familiar face and looked at the man lazily leaning on the armrest. At this moment, the man still maintained the posture with one hand in his pocket, and made a fist with the other hand against his raised lips. .
The corners of Xie Yin's eyes curled up, and he couldn't help laughing.
This was the first time Xia Li saw such an obvious smile on Xie Yin's face. In the past, she would only occasionally catch the faint smile or fleeting chuckle in the man's eyes.
Xia Li looked at the man's slightly curved eyes, and his heart skipped a beat uncontrollably.
Xie Yin calmed down slightly and teased with interest: "Snoring?"
Xia Li blushed and lowered his head, curled up his fingers and pinched the hem of his clothes, and whispered to justify himself:
"I made a slip of the tongue, I meant to say..."
"I want to kick the quilt when I sleep. If I kick Mr. Xie..."
Xia Li didn't finish what he said.
Because she heard the slight footsteps of the man walking towards her, her heart, which was beating out of order, seemed to be lifted up by a pair of invisible hands.
Xia Li kept silent, lowering his head and not daring to raise his head.
"Thank you, Mrs."
Xie Yin stopped when he was still three steps away from Xia Li.
He lowered his eyes slightly and looked at the girl in front of him, and his heart was already so soft:
"It's okay if Mrs. Xie is not ready to sleep in the master bedroom together."
Xia Li raised his head in surprise: "Didn't you say..."
Don’t you plan to sleep in separate rooms?
"I have no intention of sleeping in a separate room with Mrs. Xie," Xie Yin said, "but this is a bit too sudden for Mrs. Xie."
Xie Yin took a step forward.
"There is no emotional foundation between us yet. It is normal for Mrs. Xie not to be mentally prepared. I can understand it."
Xia Li was caught off guard by the sudden receipt of the certificate.
Xie Yin clearly knew that Xia Li agreed to get the certificate with him not because of feelings but because of the Xia family.
He didn't know if Xia Li had any good feelings for him now, but even if he did, he couldn't do anything wrong with her little good feelings.
Been waiting for this for so many years.
It doesn't hurt to wait any longer.
At least he was willing to thank Yin for waiting.
The man's clear and low-pitched voice fell on Xia Li's ears, and Xia Li blinked twice.
Um?
Although this sounds right, I still feel like there's something weird about it?
Xia Li raised his hand and grabbed his hair.
My head feels so itchy...it feels like I'm about to grow a brain.
Before Xia Li had time to think about it, Xie Yin's voice interrupted her thoughts.
The low and hoarse male voice was like a hot current. When it passed into Xia Li's ears, it dyed her ears red with the hot temperature.
Until Xia Li returned to the room, she had not recovered from what the man had just said.
When Xia Li returned to the room, she didn't bother to turn on the light and fell directly on the soft big bed.
Closing her eyes, the man's low and hoarse voice still lingered in her ears for a long time.
He said--
"I hope Mrs. Xie won't keep me waiting too long."
Xia Li's head exploded with fireworks. Even though the man was no longer in front of her, her head was still blank.
In the middle of the night, the rain outside the window was extremely heavy, and the deafening thunder woke Xia Li from her sleep.
Xia Li has been afraid of thunder since she was a child, especially when she is alone in the room at night, all the cells in her body are tense.
At this moment, listening to the deafening thunder outside the window, the whole person was curled up in the bed like a cooked shrimp.
Xia Li's eyes fell on the dazzling thunder and lightning projected from the window. When it struck from the sky, it almost illuminated the entire dark room.
Xia Li, who was hiding under the quilt, swallowed nervously. He didn't know what was going on tonight. The lightning outside the window struck hard one after another.
It hit Xia Li's heart accurately.
Suddenly, the sound of the door handle turning slightly was heard in the silent room.
