be late

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"I just bought it. I heard that small pet dogs like this kind, so I'll bring it to him to have a taste... Sorry, didn't bother you, did I?"

Xiao Yi stood on the first floor, carrying a heavy bag of dog food in his hand.

There is a small brown teddy on the package, which is exactly the same as the one upstairs.

While explaining, she raised her eyes slightly, and happened to meet a pair of clean eyes.

His eyes are complex and extremely cold, like ice balls.

Nan Xue stood upstairs, her dark eyes casually glanced at her, and then glanced away.Staying at home, people are loose and casual, so she only wears a white cotton pajamas, and the straight trousers make her legs look long and her waist is thin.One button was undone, and the neckline was slightly undone, revealing the dazzling whiteness of the collarbone and skin.

Black hair, snow skin, red lips.

It's true that this person looks good, and his beauty is earth-shattering, so it's no wonder Shu Yubai likes it.

Nan Xue didn't speak, she propped up half of her body, looked down at her from upstairs, her thin eyelids drooped, looking very indifferent.

Dark eyes stared at her.

Xiao Yi looked at the two and just smiled.

She put the dog food downstairs, ate a simple dinner, and left.

After a while, Shu Yubai's cell phone vibrated lightly.

——"She seems to have a little interest in you."

It was a message from Xiao Yi.

Nan Xue waited for her to leave for a long time, but she didn't talk to Shu Yubai again, she was very indifferent, like a child sitting there sulking.Seeing her angry, Shu Yubai didn't know what to do. Usually, she would take the initiative to show her kindness like indulgence, peel a fruit for her, put it on her lips, and feed her a mouthful.

It is already a matter of habit.

But this time Shu Yubai didn't act like that again.

He only smiled slightly and asked, "Aren't you happy?"

Nan Xue asked: "She asked you to go with her, to her place?"

What Nan Xue asked was about the studio.

Shu Yubai walked over, sighed softly, sat beside her, lay on the sofa slightly exhausted, stared at the chandelier on the ceiling for a while, and said: "Well. You know, I... only rely on selling paintings It's hard to survive. It's not the same now as before."

Nan Xue felt the weight and temperature around her, she turned slightly sideways, lowered her head, a strand of hair hung down, and asked Shu Yubai: "Why do you have to be with her?"

Shu Yubai looked into Nan Xue's eyes and said softly: "She opened a studio. She has channels. She will sell it for me."

Nan Xue looked into her eyes, which were black and soft, as soft as ever.

She couldn't help getting closer.

Shu Yubai was only wearing a beige cashmere skirt, which was soft and warm, and even if she was close to her, she could feel her temperature and shallow breathing ups and downs.Light and soft.

It should be comfortable to hug.

She took Shu Yubai's hand, her fingertips were slightly cool, and her white nails were trimmed into small oval shapes.Squeezing Shu Yubai's fingertips, she asked, "How does it feel to be in love with her?"

Nan Xue's breath gently brushed against her ears, warm and light.

Shu Yubai glanced at her: "Are you curious?"

Nanxue paused for a moment and didn't speak.

Shu Yubai's fingertips were white, and his palms were sweaty.She took a deep breath, and after a while, she pretended to be calm and asked, "If you're curious, do you want to try it with a girl? Maybe you also—"

She looked at Nan Xue quietly, and the other party noticed her gaze and raised her eyes.

Look at each other and leave at the touch of a button.

Nan Xue shook her head: "I'm not."

Pretty much the same answer as years ago.

she is not.

She doesn't like girls.

Shu Yubai's fingertips were icy cold, and he lowered his head hastily.

I'm being self-indulgent again.

"It's fine if you don't." Shu Yubai pinched her soft fingertips, and said with a smile: "This road is not easy, you have been alone for so long, why not listen to your father and settle down earlier."

Nan Xue glanced at her.

Shu Yubai thought for a while, and then added: "I will be very busy in the future. I will be preparing for exhibitions, apprenticeship, and continue to treat my right hand. It can be regarded as regaining my old career."

"..."

"Well, I have to go back to Hangzhou."

"What?" Nan Xue asked.

"My teacher is over there." Shu Yubai was half recalling and half feeling emotional: "When I was studying, I could follow her so easily, but now that I graduated, the tuition fee is only..." She paused and didn't continue.

Nan Xue asked softly, "How about learning from Ying Ran?"

Ying Ran is Nan Xue's uncle.

He is also a famous calligrapher, painter, poet, and scholar. He once served as the president of the National Academy of Painting, doctoral supervisor, and vice president of the Academy of Fine Arts.

Learning art is expensive. If you want to learn and improve your own level, it is even more so to find a famous teacher.The cost of one week of advanced courses is worth all of her monthly income.

Ying Ran is very famous, and the course fees are even more expensive.

With this blood relationship, Nan Xue's subtext is to help her save tuition fees.

Shu Yubai didn't look at her, he lowered his head, and after a long time, he said, "Thank you, but there's no need."

The tone was understated, but Nan Xue could tell that it was clearly with strong self-confidence.Shu Yubai is like a delicately drawn paper doll, it looks beautiful, but the brilliance and certainty are just a shell.

It's the paper surface that can be broken with a single poke, revealing the weak inside.

Nan Xue regretted secretly.

Shu Yubai has a strong self-esteem, and when they are together, Shu Yubai never asks for gifts from her, even if it is just a necklace or a bracelet.Saying that she wanted to buy her paintings touched her bottom line.

More like humiliation than relief.

How could she forget?

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The night is cold as water.

In my memory, there are a group of children with blurred faces.

It's in an old residential building.Dilapidated alleys, brown mud walls, fragile tiles from the last century, cheap vendors yelling everywhere, the red sign reads "Geely Store", and a few middle-aged people played cards and drank barefoot at the intersection.A black dog puts one leg up against a utility pole.

The sun is very strong.

So many details are clear, only the faces of people are blurred.

Many children whose faces were not clear stood in front of her with dirty clothes and handfuls of small stones in their hands.

Pain in the face.

I don't know which child started it, and said in a contemptuous tone: "You still use lipstick, so you can seduce people, just like your mother."

The child's viciousness is never concealed, pure and direct.

Then more and more gravel fell over.

His forehead hurt and he bled.

Nan Xue paused, wiped the blood dripping from her forehead, picked up a bigger stone from the ground without saying a word, and smashed it hard.She didn't say a word, she pursed her lips tightly.

"What are you doing?"

It has a pleasant voice, with a soft tone, the soft language of Wu Nong in the south of the Yangtze River.

The tone was sullen.

A car stopped at the entrance of the dilapidated alley, with a smooth black body, and then the door was opened from the inside, and a girl not much older than herself got out of the car, her tone was very soft, but her aura outweighed such a group of aggressive children out of thin air. superior.Like a judge.

"She hit someone!"

A group of wicked children complained first, pointing to the big rock: "Hit us with such a big rock!"

The cab door opened and a tall man got out of the car.The girl is also accompanied by an adult.

"what happened?"

The grown-up looked at the blood on Nan Xue's forehead, raised his eyebrows, "I think you guys hit people, you're so bad at such a young age, you want to go to jail, don't you?"

Those kids were timid.

The one in the lead took a step back, and the tall adult asked loudly again: "Where are your parents? Call them over and pay for the medical expenses."

Bear children are most afraid of calling their parents.As soon as they heard that they were going to lose money, they all knew that things would not end well, and they would be scolded when they went back, and immediately ran back in fright, holding their heads in their hands.

"Little brat, I remember you!"

Shu Yubai's driver yelled at the child who took the lead in throwing stones.

At that time, Nan Xue's father went bankrupt, and after her mother signed the divorce agreement, she threw Nan Xue's little oil bottle to her father, and went to find a new love.Nan Xue's father took her to live in a small house with a monthly rent of less than one thousand.The house is in a slum, there are unruly people in the backcountry, the children here are a bit wild, and Nan Xue has always been unflattering, with a cold and lonely temperament, which does not fit the customs of this small place, and she is bullied by the children there The lead is isolated.

Throwing stones is just an understatement.

The adult world is complicated.

After going bankrupt, Nan Xue's father's once rich and powerful friends had long avoided him.

There was no change between Shu Yubai and Nan Xuejian.

The driver looked at Shu Yubai and sighed: she lived far away, and she still insisted on going to see her former "good friend".

The relationship between children is really pure and inexplicable.

"what happened to you?"

Shu Yubai frowned slightly, worried.

The girl developed earlier, although she was only one year older than Nan Xue at that time, she was half a head taller than her.Nan Xue raised her eyes slightly, and saw her slender eyelashes, black pupils as soft as a lake, and gentle eyes.

Shu Yubai came over, bent down, and looked at her.There is still tenderness and worry in the clear eyes that have never changed, and her voice is very soft: "Does it hurt?"

"Do you want some medicine?"

Nan Xue didn't speak, but shook her head.Thick eyelashes tightly covered the pupils, and the lips trembled.

"Then, shall I blow it up for you?"

Shu Yubai's eyes were curved, his voice was soft and thin, and he spoke softly.

Just now Nan Xue could hold on, but she didn't hold back for a moment, the tip of her nose was sore, and tears fell heavily.

Not even her mother cared so much about her.

Shu Yubai gently hugged her.Nan Xue smelled her scent with the tip of her nose, and there was a faint fragrance in her hair and shoulders, which was warm and familiar.

She rubbed against her shoulder, buried her head deeper, and called her softly: "Sister."

Shu Yubai bowed his head: "Hey."

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Very light footsteps.

Nan Xue stepped on the wooden floor with bare feet.

Outside the small window, there are snowflakes one by one.

Shu Yubai lay on his back on the bed, his soft black hair spread across the pillow, and the fragrance of grass seeds radiated from the pillow.I don't know if it's the moonlight or the lamplight, but it's white and transparent, illuminating the tip of her nose and icy jade-like chin.The lips are soft, smooth and tender, and the red color seems to be filled with warm blood.

Nan Xue stretched out her fingertips and touched it lightly.

The eyelashes of the person below him trembled inconspicuously.

Like waking up.

Nan Xue looked at her, and for a moment she heard her own heartbeat.

Unordered and chaotic.