Chasing Tides

Sui Yi arrived half an hour later, wearing a black T-shirt, black pants, black mask and black hat, like a walking heat absorber.

Ning Lan thought a lot during this half hour, and her confused head calmed down.Now facing Sui Yi, I don't know what to say, and I want to pretend to be relaxed and ask him why he took so long to come here, Sui Yi took the initiative to say before he opened his mouth: "The shooting location is not here, I just moved to a school in the east yesterday. School."

Ning Lan was even more embarrassed, touched her nose, and let out a "hmm".

After walking two steps, Sui Yi turned around, Ning Lan thought he was going to ask herself why she came here suddenly, so she paused nervously.In the end, Sui Yi just reached out to take the bag in his hand, then turned around and continued walking.

After taking a taxi, they came to the entrance of a certain university without a word. Ning Lan got out of the car and put on the hoodie. The two people who were tightly covered walked into the commercial street outside the school together.

"The hotel booked by the crew is over there." Sui Yi pointed to the end of the road, but led Ning Lan into another hotel, "You can stay here tonight."

The accommodation around the school was very cheap, and Ning Lan had no money in his pocket, so Sui Yi quickly took out his wallet and paid the deposit and the room fee.After opening the door and entering the room, Ning Lan thought belatedly, Sui Yi must have thought a lot in that half hour, look, he even thought about where he should live.

Although the room was small, it was clean. Sui Yi put down his bag and asked, "Have you had lunch yet?"

Ning Lan shook her head.

"The place we passed just now has a lot of food, you can go down and buy it. If you don't want to go out, you can also order takeaway."

Ning Lan shook her head again. Sui Yi didn't know if he didn't want to go down or eat, so he decided for him: "I'll go downstairs and order a meal for you." gone."

Ning Lan was afraid that he would not come back after leaving, so she hurriedly asked, "How long will the filming take?"

Sui Yi walked to the door, turned around and said, "At seven or eight in the evening."

Ning Lan nodded dully: "Oh, earlier...be careful."

Less than 10 minutes after Sui Yi left, someone knocked on the door to deliver food.Ning Lan, the food delivery person, had seen it before. When he walked across the commercial street, he saw this young man yawning at the fast food truck.

Ning Lan hadn't eaten anything since morning, but drank two cups of Coke on the plane. She was really hungry right now.He ate all the food, then threw the trash downstairs, stood at the door of the hotel, glanced at the gold-plated characters of "XX University" in the distance, and returned to the room alone.

After eating enough, she started to feel sleepy. Ning Lan sat on the bed and tuned a few channels with the remote control. There was nothing to watch, so she simply stopped on a channel that was broadcasting Animal World, and fell asleep with her pillow in her arms.

He had a dream.

Small and cramped rooms, musty-smelling beds, windows tightly covered by curtains, and endless quarrels. With a bang, an iron rod shattered the glass window and pierced in. He was terrified and ran outside without shoes on. The sound of his bare feet stepping on the ground was harsh and thin. Mom and Dad are gone, and the room is empty, only the ceiling fan above the head is spinning.

Immediately afterwards there was another loud noise, a large piece of glass smashed to the ground, and people from outside rushed in. He wanted to escape, and desperately broke the door lock, but the sound of chaotic footsteps was getting closer, but the door was locked , how can not open.

Nobody wants him, he's a liability to everyone.

When she woke up, her head was covered in sweat. Ning Lan lifted the quilt and sat up, gasping for breath. She didn't look out the window until her breathing became stable.The summer night is dark late, the sun has not yet set, and the sky is still bright outside.

Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf were playing on TV, he picked up his phone amidst the cheerful music, and sent a message to Sui Yi: 【Come tonight? 】

After more than 20 minutes, Sui Yi came back: [Is there something wrong? 】

Ning Lan thought it was a bit funny, he clearly knew the purpose of his coming here, yet he could ask such a question.

[Eat together] Ning Lan pressed a few words.

After more than half an hour, Sui Yi replied: 【Yes】

Ten minutes before eight o'clock in the evening, there was a knock on the door.Sui Yi came in with his things, and was taken aback when he saw several lunch boxes on the small table next to the TV.

"Why didn't you say something when you bought the rice? I bought it too." Ning Lan took the plastic bag in his hand and opened the top lunch box. I just bought some light ones."

The two sat down to eat, there was only one chair in the room, Sui Yi gave it to Ning Lan, and sat at the end of the bed by himself, the bed was a bit far from the table, it was not convenient to pick up vegetables.

Ning Lan wasn't very hungry, so she drank half a bowl of porridge, took out a new pair of chopsticks, and picked the roast duck for Sui Yi, choosing the one with more crispy skin.

Sui Yi was unwilling to pick it up at first, and said "I'll do it myself", but Ning Lan wanted to stuff it into his bowl, "this one is delicious" for a while, and "this one is tender" for a while, and she helped him pick it out. Let him go.

After finishing eating and clearing away the dishes, Ning Lan asked, "What do you want to eat tomorrow? I'll buy it in advance...By the way, do you have supper?"

Sui Yi felt that Ning Lan's current state was not the same as it was when noon arrived. She talked too much all of a sudden and became a little clingy.

When I went downstairs to throw out the garbage, Ning Lan followed behind me, chattering and saying: "When I was shopping for food, I saw pancakes and fruits, but I didn't expect them to be sold here too. How does it taste...have it for breakfast tomorrow?"

He didn’t get a response, so he pointed in the direction of the school gate and asked, “How is the condition of this university? The school will start soon, will the school let you take pictures? Is there anyone around to watch during the filming?”

Sui Yi chose one to answer: "Let's shoot, I rented a multi-purpose classroom."

"What does the multifunctional classroom look like? Will it deform?" Ning Lan continued to ask.

"will not."

Back in the room, Sui Yi picked up the bag on the back of the chair and carried it on one shoulder, said "Go to bed early", turned around and was about to leave.

Ning Lan barely thought, and blurted out: "Don't you see the wound on my hand?"

Sui Yi hesitated for a moment with the hand on the doorknob, but finally let it go.He turned to Ning Lan and said, "Let me see."

Ning Lan was wearing long sleeves today. He raised his arms and rolled up the cuffs, exposing a section of his wrist.

"Oh, wrong, it's the left hand."

Ning Lan switched hands on her own. The left wrist covered by the fabric was as clean and white as the right one. The wrist bones were high and bony, and the blood vessels buried under the skin could be faintly seen.It's a great wrist for a bracelet.

Sui Yi looked at it for a moment, then made a judgment: "Is it alright?"

Half a month has passed, and it's strange if it doesn't get better.

Sui Yi weighed the backpack on his shoulder, and said goodbye again: "Then I'll go first, call me if you need anything."

His hand was on the doorknob again.

As a result, it couldn't be unscrewed again.Ning Lan took two steps forward and suddenly hugged him from behind.

Sui Yi's back stiffened, and he looked down to see two thin arms with their cuffs rolled up around his waist.

Ning Lan pressed her face against Sui Yi's broad back, rubbed her face unconsciously, and said sullenly, "It's not good..." After a pause, she added, "It's really not good, it still hurts."

Sui Yi stayed. The standard room has two beds, one for each person, just like in a dormitory.

He had a change of clothes in his bag, which he had prepared for the big night show, and he didn't like the feeling of his clothes being soaked in sweat.After coming out of the shower, Ning Lan was lying on the bed near the door, reading his script, looking quite serious.

Turning another page, Ning Lan raised her head and asked him: "Is the heroine Huang Xiaoxi? How about it, is she really beautiful?"

Sui Yi didn't blow dry her hair, just covered her head with a bath towel and rubbed it casually a few times, saying, "It's pretty."

"Huh? Don't you teenagers like pure and innocent things? Or do you say that you don't refuse?"

"We are teenagers?" Sui Yi felt that the boundary line was drawn very strangely.

Ning Lan closed the script, climbed off the bed, and motioned for Sui Yi to sit down on the chair: "You teenagers don't like to blow your hair. Come, let me dry it for you."

Sui Yi wanted to refuse, but Ning Lan had already held the towel in his hand, he hesitated for a moment, and sat down anyway.

Ning Lan's movements were as gentle as when she applied medicine to his fingers, as if she often did these caring things.

With Sui Yi's back turned, he couldn't see his current expression, which made Ning Lan's image in his heart blur for a short time.

Ning Lan turned the towel over and asked, "When did you dye your hair?"

"Before filming started, the crew asked."

Ning Lan seemed a little regretful: "It still looks better with black hair."

Sui Yi climbed into bed and covered herself with a quilt before Ning Lan came out of the shower.

At this moment, he felt that it was himself who was strange. He didn't ask Ning Lan why he came here, and he didn't refuse his invitation to live with him, but now he was avoiding him.

The sound of water in the bathroom stopped, Ning Lan pushed the door out, and tiptoed to the bedside.

"Sleepin?"

While Ning Lan was speaking, Sui Yi smelled a refreshing mint smell mixed in the steaming heat.When he took a shower by himself just now, he didn't notice the smell of shower gel at all.

He heard Ning Lan's footsteps leaving, and then the overhead light went out.Then there was a rustling sound, and he crawled back to his bed.

Sui Yi closed her eyes and let out a slow breath.

The next day, the weather was not beautiful, the sun was still shining brightly in the morning, and there was loud thunder in the afternoon, and soon the heavy rain broke through the dark clouds and washed the ground unscrupulously.The crew only left part of the campus exterior without filming, and the bad weather made it impossible to continue filming, so they had to call it a day and take a rest.

Ning Lan stayed in the room all day, feeling uncomfortable, and wanted to go out for a walk.Sui Yi was watching a movie on the tablet, and Ning Lan walked around behind him several times without attracting his attention. She couldn't help but glance at the screen, got a bad idea, and said mischievously: "This brother is played by Lin Weifan. Well, he killed his half-brother in the end, and then surrendered himself. He did so many bad things, in fact, he wanted to attract his father's attention."

Sui Yi, whose face was spoiled by the spoiler, was not angry, and stared intently at his younger brother who was wearing a school uniform and smiling innocently on the screen. He didn't close the tablet until he disappeared from the screen, stood up and said, "Let's go."

The two shared an umbrella and walked on the boulevard of the university campus.

School hadn't started yet, and it was raining again. There was no one on the road, and the end could be seen at a glance.

The ground was covered with leaves that were knocked down by the heavy rain. Ning Lan had to step on the leaves with every foot. This was what his younger brother did in the movie just now. He hummed the theme song of that movie and subconsciously did so .

Holding an umbrella, Sui Yi speeded up and slowed down following his steps.Ning Lan stepped on it intently for a while before remembering that there was another person behind, and turned to look for him. Sui Yi's face was covered in a shadow by the black spread, but his expression seemed to have been soaked by Xia Yu, soft as if all the edges and corners were smoothed out.

The two sat on the steps of the gymnasium and chatted for a while.

Ning Lan took a deep breath, and the fresh air filled his lungs. He sighed, "How good the school is...why don't you continue to study, why don't you come here to be a star?"

Sui Yi said, "Aren't you too?"

Ning Lan glanced at the playground in front of the rain curtain: "I'm different from you."

Sui Yi turned his head to look at him, the small mole under the corner of his eye pulled his gaze upwards, Ning Lan's eyelashes were very long, his pupils were dark, and there were almost no impurities in it, like a mirror, what the world was like was reflected in his eyes That's what it is.

No wonder the first time I saw him, I thought he should be a student, and used the word "simple" to him.

It's a pity that people are not the same after all, their looks can be similar in thousands of ways, but not everyone can have a clean heart.

After dinner in the evening, and free time for leisure, Ning Lan continued to read the script to relieve boredom, while Sui Yi opened the book he brought, and drew with a pen to make notes while reading.

Ning Lan looked at it for a while, her eyes were sour, and then she ran to the table to see what Sui Yi was doing.

The book is densely packed with words, and he can understand them when they are taken apart, but they cannot be read when they are put together.Ning Lan blinked and guessed, "You want to take the self-examination?"

There is no need to hide this matter, Sui Yi said: "Well, if you don't become popular, there is a way out."

Ning Lan opened her mouth wide: "Others regard college entrance examination as a way out, but you take it as a way out?"

Seeing his stupid look, Sui Yi continued to half-truth and half-truth: "Yeah, my grades are very poor. If I really can't get along, I will consider continuing to study."

Ning Lan pursed her lips to express her doubts. Seeing that Sui Yi didn't mean to be joking, she believed it a little bit, thinking that she had poked him in a sore spot, and said guiltily: "Don't worry too much, the college entrance examination is still easy now... don't force those 985 , 211 words."

Sui Yi nodded solemnly.

Maybe it's because they got along too well today, Sui Yi couldn't help but let go of his guard, took a shower after reading the book, and lay on the bed to brush Weibo for a while to get sleepy.

Only one bedside lamp was turned on in the room, and the sound of rain outside the window gradually stopped.Not long after putting down the phone, he felt the side of the bed collapse in a half-dream, and then an arm suddenly wrapped around his waist.

Sui Yi woke up immediately, turned her body, and suddenly met Ning Lan's dark eyes.

The eyes of the two collided, and they looked at each other quietly, silent tacitly.

After a while, a smile gradually appeared on Ning Lan's face, and the corners of her mouth curled up, revealing two playful dimples.

"Captain, are you going to do a kissing scene tomorrow?" He asked.

Sui Yi's heart trembled, and the warm breath sprayed on his skin, which smelled like mint just like his body.

This reminded him of that dark box, with a different smell but the same effect.

Ning Lan looked into his eyes, moved a few centimeters closer, and lowered her voice: "Captain, have you ever kissed?"

Sui Yi opened her mouth slightly, and just about to answer, Ning Lan's face suddenly enlarged in front of her eyes, and then her lips were covered with two pieces of softness.

Things happened too fast, and after a few seconds, the two hurriedly separated and opened the distance again.

Ning Lan turned her back to the door and blocked the light source of the desk lamp behind her, so Sui Yi couldn't see his flushed cheeks and ear tips, and they didn't embrace each other, so Sui Yi couldn't hear his heartbeat like a drum.

Ning Lan held Sui Yi's hand, put it on her waist, then gently pushed the thing in his crotch that had reacted with her knee, and said in a hoarse voice: "Then...captain, do you want it? ah?"