Manhattanhenge

Ever since he agreed to let Ning Yixiao move back to the apartment, a strange atmosphere surrounded Su Hui, making him regret his decision from time to time.

He was very curious about what had happened in the past six years that made Ning Yixiao change so much.

In the past, he was like a spring breeze to almost everyone, and only in front of himself would he show his true face of coldness and indifference, but now, he doesn't even pretend to be, and he has a cold face during working hours, and most of the time he Both are working, so I haven't smiled almost all day.

And Su Hui was a little afraid of him laughing, his smile was even weirder than the atmosphere between them.

He regretted making the decision to live under the same roof, because in this way, Su Hui knew better that he couldn't get rid of his past emotions at all, like a vortex, the closer he got, he secretly wanted to jump away. The lower the feeling becomes stronger.

He hopes that he is a sane person, that he will stop living based on his feelings like in the past, and not be so willful. After all, their breakup was too tragic. Now that they bumped into each other again, Su Hui couldn't tell whether it was an accident or good luck.

Ning Yixiao is a very good person. Having had him for a while, Su Hui was already very satisfied, but losing him is as unforgettable as possessing him. If it happens again, he will definitely fall apart.

Back in the room, he called Coffey again, this was the third time in four days, and he wanted to know when Coffey would be back.

But Kofi's answer made Su Hui feel helpless.

"I can't make it through for the time being, the family really can't leave, Eddy, take good care of yourself."

Su Hui felt that she had fallen into some kind of trap, but she wasn't quite sure.

He stayed in the room most of the time, but as long as it took more than two hours, the ice cream or the robot vacuum would try to open the door, forcing Su Hui to go out.

For example at this moment.

As soon as Su Hui opened the door of the room, he saw Ning Yixiao sitting at the dining table dealing with work. He didn't understand why he had to work on the first floor when there was such a big study room upstairs that was big enough for ice cream and Frisbee.

Ning Yixiao seemed to be in a conference call, listening most of the time, making some suggestions and requests in English from time to time. Su Hui stood at the door, watched him quietly for a while, and then lost his mind before he knew it.

Suddenly, Ning Yixiao seemed to sense something, turned his head, met his gaze, and raised his eyebrows, as if to say "what's the matter".

Su Hui woke up, shook her head, walked lightly to the kitchen, took out her own cup, and put it under the drinking spout.While waiting to catch the water, he felt some pain in his elbow, so he pushed his sleeve up and found that there was indeed a bruise on the elbow, and the area was not small.

But he was too prone to bruises, so he didn't pay much attention to it. He just pulled down his sleeves and rubbed them lightly, as if he didn't see them.

After receiving the water, Su Hui turned around and saw Ning Yixiao typing the code with his head down, and glanced at his water glass, the tea in it was finished.

"Do you want to add water?" He asked across Nakajima.

Ning Yixiao raised his head and said directly: "Well, thank you."

Su Hui picked up his cup, turned around and pressed the hot water button, and put it away to wait for the water to be filled.He suddenly remembered that the hand cream he bought hadn't been given to Ning overnight, so he pressed the stop button and went back to the room by himself.

When he came out again, Ning Yixiao stared at him with a faint smile on his face. He waited until Su Hui walked into the kitchen, brought out his cup again, and put it in the exact position before saying: "I thought you forgot."

Su Hui reacted, blinked, and took out a tube of hand cream from the pocket of her pajamas, "I want to give this to you."

He explained, "Students at the school recommended it, saying that it won't hurt to wipe your hands this winter, and there are no irritating ingredients."

Ning Yixiao picked it up to have a look, then took off one headset, "What student?"

"Just..." Su Hui didn't know how to describe it, "The students I lead."

Ning Yixiao nodded and said calmly, "Then thank you Teacher Su."

Su Hui's heart skipped a beat suddenly, but he still pretended to be calm, took a sip of water quietly, and hurried back to the room.

What he didn't know was that these conversations were clearly heard by the subordinates in the meeting. Although they couldn't understand the content, everyone could hear the change in the tone of the high-cold boss. He had just reprimanded the employees who didn't do their duty because of business .

In the group without a boss, some people have already started to gossip.

[Hasn't Shaw been in New York lately?You live in that house in Manhattan, why does it seem that there are other people in the house? ]

[He still speaks Chinese, Shaw seems to be a different person after switching languages. ]

[I feel so too!Speaking English is a bit fierce...]

Carl, who was fishing, also caught a glimpse of the chat in the group and stepped in.

[Is it possible that it is not a language problem, but a problem with the person speaking? ]

[Well, we don't deserve gentle bosses. ]

[So who is it talking to? ]

Karl just typed [his younger brother], but after thinking about it, if it spreads, he will be blamed in the end, and Ning Yixiao will definitely scold him again, so he still resists the desire to share.

[If there's anything good to gossip about, it can't be his girlfriend. ]

[Yeah, what I seem to hear is a boy's voice. ]

[Forget it, let's work, be careful for a while Shaw will lose his temper again. ]

Ning Yixiao carefully read the results reported by the laboratory researchers, "The recognition accuracy can be improved, but it is still not enough to support the landing of the product."

The researcher on the opposite side said yes, and then asked: "Shaw, we have expanded the database text again, do you want to continue recording?"

Ning Yixiao paused, and replied: "Well, you send it to me."

"Let's record it when you get back to San Francisco." The other party asked, "When you come back, maybe some parts need to be discussed in person."

Ning Yixiao glanced at the closed door, paused for a moment, "I will do it as soon as possible."

It was two hours after the meeting ended, and the sky quickly darkened. Ning Yixiao walked to the French window, opened the curtains, and found that there was snow again outside, a large flake of snow, like mycelium falling from a laboratory vessel , soft and long.

The method of waking up Su Hui with a robot has been used too many times, and it may be invalid if it is used again. After thinking about it, he decided to let the ice cream go.

Ice Cream understood Ning Yixiao's thoughts very well, and he only needed to raise his chin, and then quickly ran to the door of Su Hui's room, raised a paw and started scratching the doorknob.

Within 5 minutes, Su Hui opened the door according to Ning Yixiao's prediction, but this time he didn't touch the ice cream's head as usual, but quickly returned to the table, as if he was busy with something.

Ning Yixiao was still pretending to be busy, but seeing that Su Hui hadn't come out, she also walked to his open door.

Su Hui seems to be using the computer to play a multi-person video, the voice is external, he can hear several young voices, one of the boys' voices is particularly obvious, he sips one Eddy, his tone is like a baby, and he keeps asking :"When will you come back?"

Su Hui's voice was a little helpless, and she smiled, "Soon, when I get better."

"Have you entered the depression period again?" The boy continued to ask, "God, I hope you get better soon, we still want you to accompany us to participate in the competition."

Other students chimed in.

"I try not to be absent." Su Hui tilted her head, as if noticing something, "Ryan, did you wear earrings again?"

The boy who talked the most immediately answered, very excited, "Yes! Look, I hit the ear bone!"

Ning Yixiao's mood began to deteriorate a little bit.

He leaned against the door frame, raised his hand and knocked on the door with a loud voice.

Only then did Su Hui turn around, like a kitten who has done something wrong but is unconscious, with big eyes open innocently, "What's the matter?"

Ning Yixiao didn't think of an excuse in advance, so he randomly found one, like drawing lots.

"I can't find my phone, have you seen it?"

Su Hui was a little puzzled.

Why did you run to his room to look for your phone?It's impossible to be here, I never came in at all...

And why are you talking so loudly?He has no hearing problems.

Su Hui turned around first, and apologized to the students who were videoing, "I'll leave first."

The boy named Ryan immediately said, "Remember to come back, and, do you want to eat pizza with us today! We will wait for you."

"Let's talk later." Su Hui stood up and walked towards Ning Yixiao.

"Have you searched all over?"

Ning Yixiao blatantly said, she couldn't see any flaws just by looking at her expression, "Well, I didn't find it."

Su Hui scratched the end of her curled hair in distress, "Where did you use it last time?"

Ning Yixiao opened his mouth and said, "Forgot."

Su Hui frowned, walked slowly to the dining room, checked the tables and chairs, and then went to the kitchen.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Ning Yixiao took out the phone, stuffed it into the gap of the sofa, and covered it with a pillow.

"No." Su Hui was a little confused, and raised his hand to touch his forehead, "Could it be upstairs."

"There's no way to find it like this. The house is too big." Ning Yixiao took advantage of the situation and asked, "Call me, I've turned on the vibration."

Su Hui was very innocent most of the time, especially when facing Ning Yixiao, so he nodded without hesitation, found the number from the call log in front of him, and called back.

Originally Ning Yixiao just wanted him to hang up the video just now, but he didn't expect that Su Hui didn't save his number at all.

There was a vibrating sound, Su Hui searched for it, and soon found Ning Yixiao's cell phone on the sofa, he picked it up and raised his hand, "I found it, why did it fall here?"

Ning Yixiao didn't seem to be happy about it.

Su Hui didn't understand what happened, so she walked over and handed him the phone.

"I thought you really regarded me as a friend." Ning Yixiao took it over and said suddenly.

Hearing this, Su Hui's eyes widened, and he tried to explain, "I am..."

But Ning Yixiao asked the next question faster than him, "The way you treat others as friends is that you don't even save your mobile phone number, right?"

He tilted his head, "Su Hui, didn't you know how to leave your contact information before? Now you are not interested in these things?"

This series of attacks caught Su Hui by surprise. He stood there, a little dazed. He didn't understand how Ning Yixiao could be so aggressive all of a sudden. He just blinked.

"I forgot, sorry." He didn't know how to justify himself, and after thinking about it, there was really nothing to justify.

Because he really didn't save it on purpose. At that time, he thought that Ning Yixiao was going to marry someone else, and thought that their relationship was limited to business cooperation, so he was always very sad, even seeing him one more time.

As a result, things developed so fast that he didn't even have time to care about the number.

"It's okay." Ning Yixiao restrained his tone, trying his best to make himself look like he didn't mind.

"I'll save it now." Su Hui lowered his head, created a new contact, manually entered the six characters [Ning Yixiao's new number], and clicked Save.

Ning Yixiao had nothing to say.

He even wanted Su Hui to directly submit his resume, which was good enough anyway, so he didn't mind being more detailed.

But realizing that this would be a bit of anger, Ning Yixiao held back.

He didn't expect that Su Hui didn't care to this extent, so he said extra words and regretted it.

"Okay." Su Hui also took it out to show the contact page.

Ning Yixiao unlocked his phone, and the obsessive-compulsive disorder occurred again. He couldn't help but turn on the missed call just now, just to get rid of the little red dot.

He didn't expect to be caught by Su Hui.

"When did you save my number?" He was a little curious, and tiptoed again, "Can you show me the note you wrote?"

Ning Yixiao paused, but still showed him the phone screen.

Because he didn't write anything else, he wrote [Su Hui] very seriously, so there's nothing you can't read.

It's just that he automatically filtered out Su Hui's first question.

Su Hui's tiptoe gradually lowered and returned to its original shape, feeling a little disappointed in her heart.

He didn't know what he was expecting inexplicably.Just like what Ning Yixiao said, their current relationship is just that of ordinary friends. A person like Ning Yixiao who has regular habits will definitely not single out a name with a name that is full of business sense and alienation. Named by a nickname, which is very untidy.

Maybe it's because I had some special rights in the past, and I could be a troublemaker in Ning Yixiao's orderly life, so I have expectations.

Su Hui kept persuading himself that the present was different from the past, and he had to get used to being an ordinary friend.

"I'll go in and finish the work first." After saying this, he returned to the room again.

Ning Yixiao couldn't ignore Su Hui's indifference. He returned to the dining table, turned on his laptop again, wanted to work, but found it difficult to concentrate.

Su Hui said "forgot" with a normal expression, as if this is not such an important matter.

He won't insist on writing again when Ning Yixiao doesn't respond like before, and said with a smile: "Just contact me sooner."

Ning Yixiao's number is not important, and the matter of [contacting him] itself has become unimportant.

He didn't want to think about these anymore, he just wanted to work hard until he saw Su Hui's email.

[Eddy: I ​​got tickets for my students' participating exhibitions, and I can give them to you if you want to go. ]

Not long after, he sent another letter.

[Eddy: Although they are all students, they are actually very talented, because you said last time that you are very interested in these, so I asked for an extra one, but it doesn't matter if you have something to do. ]

Ning Yixiao was inexplicably annoyed, Su Hui seemed to treat a "stranger" with more care than him, at least remember what the other party said.

He deliberately waited for a while before replying.

[Sean: Thank you, I didn't expect you to remember this. Let me check my schedule. I'm too busy recently and I don't have enough time. ]

Soon he received an email from Su Hui.

[Eddy: Remember to eat no matter how busy you are. ]

You still know.

Ning Yixiao was a little helpless, he found that Su Hui was a typical case of easier said than done, so he deliberately asked him.

[Sean: You're right, so what are you having for dinner tonight? ]

After waiting a few minutes, the mail arrived on time.

[Eddy: My students want to invite me to eat pizza. They seem to be nearby, but I actually don’t want to go, because I’m not in good shape today, I look haggard, and I’m a little afraid to see them, but they invited me warmly. I think it's kind of rude to say no. ]

[Sean: Don't worry about those, in fact, you only need to think about what you want to eat tonight. ]

Su Hui seemed to be thinking, and it took a long time before he replied.

[Eddy: I ​​want to eat ice cream :)]

He even made a foolish smile, as if this could cover up his picky eating.

Ning Yixiao didn't notice that she was smiling, she sat there thinking for a while, then put on her coat, opened the door and went downstairs with the ice cream.

When he came back, as soon as he opened the door, he found that Su Hui had also just come out of the room, and had changed into the clothes he went out with. The off-white lambswool jacket and the blue woolen hat could be described as pure and lovely.

The moment Ning Yixiao saw him, she really doubted Su Hui's definition of the word "haggard".

Su Hui blinked, as if she was very puzzled by the fact that Ning Yixiao just came back from outside.

Ning Yixiao spoke first, and his tone was not friendly, "You want to go out?"

Su Hui stood up straighter, nodded, "Well, I'm about to go out."

Ning Yixiao couldn't ask "what are you going out for", so he just walked in, closed the door, put the bag in his hand on the ground, and changed into slippers.

"Are you in a hurry?" He casually put the shopping bag on the dining table without looking up, "I bought ice cream, do you want to eat it?"

Su Hui was stunned, like a kitten seeing canned cat food, she quietly approached, "You went downstairs to buy this."

"Go down and look around, and buy it when you see it." Ning Yixiao gave him a vanilla Oreo flavor and said deliberately, "Eat it quickly, don't make people wait."

Su Hui was pleasantly surprised to find that there were extra freeze-dried strawberries on top, so she didn't pay attention to Ning Yixiao's twisted tone, but after taking apart the spoon, she realized it after a while, and made a sound like a small animal in her nose.

"Ok?"

Ning Yixiao took the chocolate flavor and dug a spoonful, "Hmm what?"

"Who's waiting for me?" Su Hui was a little confused, "Did you say ice cream?"

Ning Yixiao was also a little confused, "What are you waiting for ice cream..."

Obviously it's the guy named Ryan, and his pizza.

Just after finishing speaking, Ice Cream did indeed come to the two of them, wagging her little tail.

Su Hui touched the head of the ice cream, but forgot what to say. He took a bite of the ice cream, his eyes lit up, "It's delicious."

After eating, he glanced at the box and felt very pleasantly surprised. He couldn't help smiling, "I wanted to go to this store to buy ice cream just now. Fortunately, you came back earlier, otherwise I would have to make another trip."

Buy ice cream?

Ning Yixiao's mood was like a balloon floating in the night, rising gradually.

As Su Hui said, she took off her hat and coat, sat down on the dining chair quite contentedly, and teased with ice cream with a spoon.

"Very well, you don't have to go out today."

"Are you hungry?" Ning Yixiao asked suddenly.

Su Hui raised his eyes, "Huh?"

"Stop cooking." Ning Yixiao raised his eyebrows, "Let's order pizza."

The author has something to say:

Stop ordering pizza, order a bottle of vinegar, Ning Yixiao