In order to facilitate work, the apartment that Shinji rents alone is near the hospital, which can be reached in 10 minutes by car.There is also a large chain supermarket nearby, which can meet daily shopping needs. It is a convenient and safe apartment.

The car stopped slowly in front of the apartment building, Tezuka turned off the engine, and turned to look at the person sitting beside him.

This glance was so short that Maki couldn't even discern the meaning of his gaze.

Whether it was asking, urging, or something else, she didn't have time to catch it, and didn't have the time to think about it. She just followed the other person's gaze and unbuckled her seat belt, opened the door and got out of the car.

Tezuka mentioned the food he bought at a nearby chain supermarket and swiped his card to enter the door together with her, and got on the elevator. The two of them didn't say a word, but they seemed to have discussed it.

It wasn't until she took out the key to open the door and stood at the entrance to change her shoes that Maki realized belatedly—when did she invite Tezuka upstairs?

But when she saw the other party's calm and unhurried face, the natural expression on it made her unable to ask this sentence.

She watched the back of the other party walking into the living room, and after a while, she lowered her head and smiled self-consciously.

What a messy day.

What a strange encounter.

It's not that she didn't feel Maki's doubts, but in the end she didn't say anything, and Tezuka quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

At first, he didn't actually intend to enter Maki's house the first time.

Although I haven't been to the other party's house before.

But in any case, they haven't seen each other for several years, and their current relationship may not be suitable for getting too close all at once.

So originally, he just planned to chat with Maki without any purpose.

But she worked overtime very late, and she looked exhausted and uninspired. Of course, Tezuka couldn't take up Maki's rare rest time under such circumstances.But how many years have passed, and she still makes a mess of her life as soon as she gets busy. Although there are also objective and compelling factors, but if things go on like this, it is conceivable that her body will never be able to bear it.

They didn't continue dating because they wanted to make progress together, and they didn't break up because they didn't like her anymore, so of course he didn't care about her.Seeing Maki's overuse of his brain and almost pausing even basic thinking, how can it make people look down?

"Take a break, I'll call you when dinner is ready." Maki stared at Tezuka who looked very natural, as if he didn't realize what he had said, with his eyes wide open. After a while, he seemed to remember something Curved the corners of his mouth.

"Okay." She agreed lightly, and followed the tall, handsome man into the kitchen with her eyes. "Then please?"

In the past, Tezuka also entered the kitchen at Maki's house. At that time, Maki felt that there was a strange fit between the tall and stern boy and the smoky cooking table. The distant delusion that people who can form a family will be very happy".

In the past few years, I have studied abroad. As the home of the world-famous "dark cuisine", if you don't cook by yourself, eating out and fast food in the supermarket will definitely torture your taste buds.But she has a tight schedule and a lot of work, so she doesn't have much energy to devote to cooking. For her, eating has almost become a minimalist process to maintain basic life energy.If it wasn't for her best friend Xia Fan who fed her from time to time, Zhen Ji could only endure the unpalatable taste and associate with fast food takeaways.

There are too many things that require her to spend energy to do well, and this does not include cooking exquisite dishes that suit her appetite.

At that time, she didn't actually feel very difficult.

The classmates around him, even the tutors, are often like this when they are doing experiments and undergoing surgery. Even though he has a girlfriend who takes care of the logistics, as a medical dog, no matter how easy he is, he spends time in the library and the laboratory. There is also significantly more time than leisurely dating.

No matter how picky people are, under the extreme time compression, it seems that they have no spare time or energy to consider whether the basic necessities of life are comfortable.

Maki has not felt the breath of a second person in a place where a person lives for a long time.This person was still silent but gentle, and her heart, which had been strong alone for many years, suddenly couldn't bear this kind of concern.

She sat silently on the sofa in the living room, leaning on the armrest with her right hand, gently propped her forehead, and tilted her head to look at the back of Tezuka standing in the kitchen.

Eleven years have passed, and he has grown a lot taller. In the past, she could see his chin when she looked up, but now she can only see his clean collar.When he was a boy, Tezuka was tall and thin, and his height was not short among his peers, but he never gained weight. Among a group of strange power players who would make holes in the wall at every turn, his style of play was always technical. There is no sense of power that is so exaggerated that it is almost sci-fi.

At that time, his arm injuries were mostly caused by this-the body in his youth was not fully grown, and the strength of bones and muscles was not enough to bear him using his body so intensively.

In these years, with the growth of age, the strength and stability of the bones of adult males are not comparable to those of teenagers. Coupled with the professional guidance of professional coaches for many years, the amount of training is gradually increased exponentially, and with the With his rich experience in competitions, he is already familiar with how to make his body play its best role efficiently and with less effort. Even though it is almost a year-round high-intensity physical consumption, there will be no more problems with his body.

Standing in front of the cooking counter, the man with his head bowed and carefully handling the ingredients had broad shoulders and a narrow waist. His legs were slender, and his muscular forearms were exposed under slightly rolled up sleeves. His side face showed a focused and quiet expression.

The youthful innocence and a little bit of arrogance have faded away, and grown men, no matter whether they are serious and indifferent or calm and reticent, seem to have become a different kind of sexy.

Perhaps it is the joint influence of family education and living environment all the year round. In Tezuka, there is the passionate impulse of traditional Showa men who are full of responsibility and chasing ideals, and there is also the rational order of German men who are rigorous, alienated, self-denying and returning to courtesy.They are obviously two incompatible traits, but there is no sense of disobedience in the same person.

When they were studying, American girls in the academy were often attracted by the meticulousness, elegance and abstinence of British gentlemen, but in Maki's eyes, the overly polite and rigid British men sometimes made things simple and complicated.

Although in the eyes of unfamiliar outsiders, Tezuka may think that Tezuka pays special attention to rules and discipline, but in fact, Maki knows that he often just makes things look very orderly.

Just like many years ago, the coach at the base asked him to write a review. He was distracted while coping with it, and he wrote it in a serious and logical manner.

After recalling so much of the past and unconsciously starting to think a lot about Tezuka, Maki suddenly realized that, in fact, she has always liked him very much.

More than she thought.

It was, and it still is.

Although she has been acting calm and measured over the years, and she doesn't seem to feel that she is so eager and expectant when she occasionally contacts, but maybe that's just that she has learned to hide her love on the other end of the phone , hidden behind the thousands of miles of network cables behind the mail.

At this time, Maki secretly felt lucky again.

If she hadn't been separated back then, probably, when she was studying hard and working very busy, she would always have been more or less weak in her heart.Wanting to find him, wanting to meet him, wanting to give myself an excuse to stop—maybe it's going to his big Grand Slam final or something.

In short, you will definitely feel tired more easily than you do now.

Because, now, she looked at the serious and quiet man in the kitchen through the glass door, but she felt softer and more dependent than ever in her heart.

Tezuka put the plate on the small table in the restaurant, turned around and called Maki.

The aroma of omelet rice diffused in the small restaurant, making the already hungry stomach let out another cry of longing.

If you lose face a lot, you will get used to it.Maki walked to the table with a straight face and picked up the chopsticks.

Fried egg skin drizzled with thin tomato sauce, a side glass bowl served with a salad of fresh romaine lettuce, red cabbage and endive, drizzled with vinaigrette, steaming miso soup Served in a wooden bowl with a small wooden spoon on the side of the bowl.

A light meal with enough nutrition and energy.

Unexpectedly, this person used to complain that it is not so easy to learn to cook by watching videos, but now the food he makes is very acceptable!

Should the strong learning ability also be reflected in housekeeping?

"Well... delicious!" The omelet rice just out of the pan is still a little hot, the egg skin covered with tomato sauce is just right sweet and sour, and the crispy fried rice is wrapped with firm chicken thigh meat and fresh shiitake mushrooms , green peas and slightly sweet diced carrots.Maki let out an admiration inarticulately, and gave the man opposite him a thumbs up.

Although it is a day of reunion, I feel a bit complicated, but people who are about to be hungry have no dignity in front of food.

Maki frowned with satisfaction.

I have never seen Maki eat so seriously before.She always chews slowly and eats very little. He usually says she is full without seeing her move a few chopsticks.When they were outside, she rarely bought snacks that needed to be eaten with her hands. She had never eaten the croquettes, apple candy, and ice cream cones that girls liked very much.

Tezuka once thought that Maki didn't have much interest in food, and he didn't like to eat snacks, until he accidentally saw her and Mizuki Kaho getting together to cut a video.The computer table in front of the two of them was covered with a variety of open bags of snacks, such as potato chips, wafers, muffins, small cakes, toffee, jerky, and drinks. The two girls seemed to have a bottomless pit in their stomachs. It is also a joy to share, and the expression seems to be quite unfinished.

He didn't quite understand why Maki didn't mention a similar topic when he was in front of him. Of course, this question gradually settled over time, and Tezuka never asked it.Seeing Maki's eyes slightly narrowed at this moment, easily satisfied, he suddenly felt that Maki, who was like a little squirrel, was very cute.

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