Manhattanhenge

"Are you really not drunk?" Su Hui tried to wake him up, "Ning Yixiao, wake up."

But he was so drunk that he closed his eyes again, lowered his head, rubbed the bridge of his nose against Su Hui's side neck, and his hot breath lingered in his ears.

Su Hui's legs were a little weak, and he couldn't push it away, so he could only move his face away.

Fortunately, Kofi heard the noise and went downstairs. Seeing that Ning Yixiao was so drunk, he hurried up to help, and Su Hui finally got Ning Yixiao away.

"Let's hang him up."

The two supported Ning Yixiao, and after a lot of effort, they finally got him back to the ridiculously big master bedroom and put him on the bed.

After agreeing not to meet him, Su Hui felt that she shouldn't be here, and wanted to go back to her room immediately and lock it up.But he was afraid that Ning Yixiao would feel uncomfortable like this, so he wanted to take care of him.

After some debating, Su Hui still chose to tell Kofi: "Otherwise, you can change his clothes for him, it smells like alcohol, and he will go crazy when he wakes up tomorrow morning."

Coffey felt embarrassed, "I...Shaw doesn't like us touching him very much, he has a clean freak."

This is a fact, Su Hui is very clear.

She thought for a while, "I'd better get some water first, in case Shaw wakes up and wants to drink." After saying that, Coffey left.

There were only the two of them left in the room.

Thinking of the secrets that were broken during the day today, Su Hui felt complicated. He felt that Ning Yixiao was a bit pitiful at this moment. He might know nothing or vaguely know something, and that's why he was so drunk.

In Su Hui's memory, he seldom drank his sorrows away.

But he had no choice but to stand by the bed and look at Ning Yixiao who was almost unconscious.

It was as if he was seeing him this way for the first time in six years.They didn't look at each other, but it was safe.

In the past Ning Yixiao didn't like to drink, he didn't like the taste of wine, he was also very frugal, he hardly touched it.Before leaving home, Su Hui would secretly bring red wine out of the house, but she would always be the one who got drunk.

The most frightening thing was that after he was drunk, he would agree to whatever Ning Yixiao did, so he couldn't even get out of bed the next day, and always dug holes and jumped by himself.

Ning Yixiao was always the sober one, and this was the first time Su Hui saw him pass out.It was only now that I realized that he was so quiet after being drunk, he would not be crazy about drinking, he would not make trouble, as if he was asleep.

Su Hui watched quietly, and found that the glasses on the bridge of his nose hadn't even been taken off, probably because he was still dealing with work.

He didn't wear glasses before.

He didn't know when Ning Yixiao became short-sighted, but after thinking about it, there were indeed too many things he didn't know.

Afraid that he would have trouble sleeping, Su Hui bent down, gently took off Ning Yixiao's silver-rimmed glasses, put them on the bedside table, and planned to leave just like that.

But the second he got up, his hand was suddenly grabbed, and the leather glove felt strange to the touch, which made his heart tighten.

Su Hui seemed to be electrified, and heard Ning Yixiao's vague words.

"Don't go..."

This sentence is very vague, whether it is the sound or the content, but in any case, the object will not be himself.

Su Hui was very awake, so she still took out her hand, raised the pillow for Ning Yixiao, covered her with a quilt, and left the room without looking back.

Ice Cream followed him down and accompanied him back to his room.Su Hui didn't speak for a long time, until the ice cream fell into his arms.

"Why don't you go with your master?" Su Hui teased him.

Ice Cream whined twice and rubbed against Su Hui's neck, as if saying "I want to accompany you".

"I'm not your master." Su Hui stroked his neck, "I'm just staying here for a while, and I'll leave when I get better."

Xue Gao seemed to understand, and was very stubborn and unwilling to leave his embrace.

Su Hui hugged him, and rubbed ice cream's raised ears, "I'm leaving, will you miss me?"

The ice cream called several times.

"I want to. I will miss you very much too." Su Hui looked at his wet eyes and thought of many things in the past, so she hugged him and said to him what she always wanted to say.

"If I'm missing, you can find me."

The ice cream whined, as if making a promise to him, very sincere.

Su Hui gained some satisfaction from it, and he felt that it was strange that he would want to gain a sense of security and warmth from a puppy.

In the past few years, he, who has been suffering for a long time, often regards Ning Yixiao's existence as a kind of sustenance, as long as he thinks that he will live well in a certain corner of the world and get the life he wants, all ghosts will be saved. The pain of hitting a wall is still bearable.

It's just that after such a long time, his wish has gradually changed from seeing each other again to only wishing that everything will be fine for Ning Yixiao.

Later, I really saw it, and there was no consummation of the end of fate. Instead, I fell into a new quagmire and was in a mess.

It was never Su Hui's feelings that were worn away by time, but himself.

He can't go back to his old self.

The next morning, Su Hui woke up from the floor in a daze, and the ice cream was lying beside him.He glanced at the time, it was already ten o'clock in the morning.

In the past, Mark would knock on the door at seven o'clock to wake him up for breakfast, but today there seemed to be no movement.

Su Hui got up, washed and opened the door to go out, only to find that the living room was empty, and Kofi was not there either.He called Mark, who was surprised.

"Eddy, have you forgotten? I asked you for leave yesterday. That's it. My father is sick and I have to go back to help."

"Oh, that's right." Su Hui completely forgot about it, and felt very sorry, "I'm sorry, but be careful on the way, and say hello to your family for me."

After hanging up the phone, Ice Cream came over wagging its tail and begging for food. Su Hui put the chicken on a plate, put it in front of him, and walked to the entrance by herself.

Ning Yixiao's shoes are still at the door, and he hasn't left yet.

After much deliberation, Su Hui planned to make something to eat by himself. People who are hungover will feel bad when they wake up in the morning, and the empty stomach will hurt the body even more.

If Ning didn't eat for a night, he would eat it himself.

So he tied his hair back casually, opened the refrigerator, and found that there happened to be some vegetables in it, and the unused beef marinated when Mark made beef tenderloin yesterday.

The knives were all locked up and could not be used. Su Hui directly used the chopped beef and diced onions in the bowl, took out the lettuce and canned tomatoes, washed the vegetables and turned on the fire, fried the onions and diced tomatoes until soft, then added water cook.

In the past, he couldn't cook at all, and every time he entered the kitchen was a devastating disaster, but after the separation, he had to learn this.

In fact, he can learn.A person can learn anything as long as he has no one to rely on.

When the soup boiled, Su Hui put the lettuce in, and then put the beef into the soup bit by bit, stirring it up, and he was very focused the whole time.After seasoning it, he took a spoonful to taste it.

"I can cook."

Ning Yixiao's voice suddenly appeared behind him, Su Hui choked in fright, leaned over the sink and coughed for a long time, and blushed when he got up.

But Ning Yixiao took the time to stand in front of him and checked the soup in the pot.

He had already taken a shower and changed into a white turtleneck sweater, and he was not at all embarrassed like a hangover.Ice Cream stood beside him with her head held high and her chest held high, her demeanor was in line with her master's.

"I didn't expect that." Ning Yixiao said softly.

Su Hui calmed down her breathing, avoiding his eyes, and poured out the vegetable and beef soup from the pot by herself, and put it in two bowls, one big and one small.

"This is yours." Su Hui only took his own, leaving the big one on the table.

He didn't even go to the dining table to avoid it, but sat alone on the kitchen island.

What he didn't expect was that Ning Yixiao didn't even go to the dining table, but pulled out a chair and sat across from him.

Faced with such a situation, Su Hui was a little at a loss, so he had to lower his head and eat his breakfast quietly without saying a word.

"You eat so little." Ning Yixiao said.

Su Hui didn't look up, "Yes."

Ning Yixiao took a sip, and the taste was much better than he had imagined. He was a little surprised and sad, as if he didn't want to see Su Hui's changes and growth.

He had some headaches, and his memory stayed before he was drunk by Jing Ming with the so-called "lost wine".Losing his body certainly does not exist, he can hardly even stand up.

But after waking up, he was somewhat disappointed. He was still wearing last night's clothes, and he didn't even take off his gloves.Thinking about it, I knew that Su Hui must have been indifferent, maybe he didn't even go to see if he was still alive.

It's true not to be reconciled, and it's true to be angry, but seeing Su Hui standing alone in the kitchen cooking soup, Ning Yixiao still feels distressed.

Even though he has been hurt and abandoned by him, Ning Yixiao still firmly believes that it is best for a person like Su Hui not to suffer at all.

"Is that why you don't want to see me?"

Ning Yixiao saw that he didn't even lift his head, but deliberately put down the spoon in his hand, "In this case, I'd better go."

Sure enough, Su Hui raised her head and pursed her lips.

"You... finish these first."

He quickly lowered his head again, "Although it's not delicious, it's better than an empty stomach at least, bear with it."

The cold sunlight shone through the white gauze curtain, covering the corners of Su Hui's eyes and brows, and a few strands of hair scattered on the side of his face, making him look very soft.His skin lingered a faint scent of woody shower gel mixed with the smell of fabric softener, the same as Ning Yixiao's.

It was as if they had never been apart, spending an ordinary morning that was no different from the past.

Ning Yixiao suspects that Su Hui doesn't know what patience is.

He smiled and lowered his head to eat the soup he cooked seriously.

Su Hui had something on his mind, and subconsciously slowed down his eating speed. After a long time, the soup in the bowl was not much less.Ning Yixiao saw that his knuckles were tapping on the countertop, "Why are you in a daze? You can't eat well."

Only then did Su Hui come back to his senses, he raised his eyes, thinking whether to tell him what he saw yesterday.

Unexpectedly, Ning Yixiao opened the mouth first, "I heard that you went to Bella Jones' studio yesterday."

Su Hui froze, a little surprised.

"Also being treated as a model for an audition." The corners of Ning Yixiao's mouth curled up, as if joking.

But that's not the point at all.

The point is, your fiancée kissed someone else.

Su Hui frowned and struggled for a long time before trying to speak, "I... Bella seems to..."

"What's wrong?" Ning Yixiao smiled, "Don't tell me, you really agreed to be her model."

Su Hui shook her head and looked into Ning Yixiao's eyes, "I have something to tell you, after you hear it, don't be angry or sad, just calm down."

Seeing him like this, Ning Yixiao really wanted to say that things that would make him angry and sad would never happen again.

It is impossible for Su Hui to break up with him again at this time.

"Tell me." Ning Yixiao looked into his eyes.

"I've been thinking about whether to tell you, maybe telling you would be bad for you, but I thought about it, you've helped me so much, and it's even worse if I keep it from you."

Su Hui took a deep breath and mustered up the courage to confess to Ning Yixiao, "Yesterday in the studio, I saw Bella and a woman...kissing."

He was worried, afraid that Ning Yixiao would be really angry, so he kept comforting him, "You, don't get excited, I don't know the specific situation, I just saw it and didn't ask her, so I came back by myself. Maybe There may be some misunderstanding in this..."

Before finishing speaking, Ning Yixiao suddenly laughed.

Feeling confused, Su Hui watched him stretch out a hand to hold her forehead, and kept laughing, as if she had made some joke.

"What's so funny?" Su Hui didn't understand, "Has the way you get angry become so strange now?"

Ning Yixiao never thought that this matter would be revealed in such a dramatic way.

He suppressed his smile and looked at Su Hui, "I'm not angry."

Su Hui frowned, his eyes full of confusion.

The smile on Ning Yixiao's face completely subsided, and he repeated, "I'm not angry. The woman you mentioned is Chloe, a photographer and Bella Jones' ex."

Su Hui was even more confused.

predecessor?

"Then you are not Bella's now..."

"We're not together." Ning Yixiao said calmly, "To be precise, my engagement with her is just an exchange of interests. I need the financial resources of the Jones family as a springboard for the C round and listing, which has basically been achieved. She needs to be with me. Get engaged to get what she deserves, including estates and trusts."

Ning Yixiao paused for a moment, then said: "Of course, she also wants to pass this engagement to see if her ex-girlfriend has really let go. Obviously not, and you accidentally broke it. It seems that they have We're getting back together."

The amount of information is really too much, Su Hui thought for a long time, but still couldn't understand it.

"It's all fake?" He looked at Ning Yixiao.

Ning Yixiao nodded, feeling relieved, even though this confession was a bit bizarre.

"She asked me to keep it secret, but in the end she leaked it herself."

Su Hui lowered his eyes, he wanted to ask what would happen after their engagement was over.

Are you going to keep pretending like this?

But he couldn't ask.

"You really have a plan for her?"

Ning Yixiao suddenly asked.

Su Hui was a little dazed, nodded, "Yeah."

"Then what should I do?" Ning Yixiao curled his lips, "I want to cancel the engagement."

Su Hui frowned, "But..." He felt something was wrong, thinking of what Ning Yixiao said just now, "Didn't you say that you can only get Bella's property if you are engaged to her, isn't it just crossing the river and tearing down the bridge?"

"She got back with her ex-girlfriend first." Ning Yixiao didn't hide it, "I can't continue acting long ago."

Su Hui was inexplicably angry, he had been kept in the dark, foolishly made installation art for them, and was unilaterally anxious for him, thinking that Bella had betrayed him, and thinking over and over about his future, he almost fell asleep no.

Ning Yixiao stared at Su Hui's face and said expressionlessly, "You must be thinking now, why is this person like this?"

Su Hui didn't answer, nor did he admit it.

"When you wished me a happy wedding, I wanted to tell you that it was all fake, but you hung up too quickly, as if you didn't care at all." Ning Yixiao said.

His voice was full of warmth, and Su Hui felt the temperature climb up little by little, gradually rising, and there was no reason for restlessness and uneasiness in his chest.

Ning Yixiao asked again, "Do you care?"

Su Hui couldn't give him an answer, she lowered her eyes and felt tormented.

Ning Yixiao didn't seem to intend to let him go.

"After seeing them kissing, why did you want to tell me?"

A thin layer of sweat broke out on Su Hui's palm, he took it off, put it on his lap, and clenched it tightly.

"You helped me a lot, I am very grateful to you, and I don't want to see you being cheated." He gave an answer against his will, but felt that it was too forced, and couldn't help explaining, "Even if we are nothing now, at least we can be like friends." Same, take care of each other."

Hearing this sentence, Ning Yixiao suddenly smiled, "Friend?"

"Su Hui, we've never been friends."

Su Hui is very clear.

From the first day they met each other, they were surrounded by desires, and no one thought about being just friends.

"But friendship seems to last longer than anything else." Ning Yixiao looked very calm, and his tone was very gentle, "If you want, of course we can be friends."

Su Hui didn't answer whether she wanted to or not, and Ning Yixiao seemed to be a different person in front of her.He wanted to go back 5 minutes ago and take back what he said, because he hadn't changed, and he still didn't want to be friends with Ning Yixiao six years later.

But this identity is better than nothing.

So he nodded and said nothing.

Ning Yixiao didn't seem to care, and his tone was very light: "Now that we are friends, don't you still want to see me?"

Su Hui was completely led away by him, and could only look at him like this.

"It's okay, if you still don't want to see me, I can continue to stay in the hotel." Ning Yixiao smiled and said casually, "But I may have to take some disinfection supplies from home, if you don't mind."

"Don't go out and live..."

Su Hui finally spoke, but she also rolled her eyes, "This is your home, you can live here if you want, don't worry about me."

Ning Yixiao rested her chin on her hands, "Then you will see me every day."

Su Hui lowered her eyes and whispered, "It's okay."

"That's good. I just can't stand the hotel anymore. I don't want to take off my gloves every day. It's much better to go home."

"Su Hui, do you have hand cream?" Ning Yixiao deliberately pulled up the sleeves of the knitted sweater, stretched out her hands, and pretended that it was just a casual move.

"My hands hurt so much."

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