Manhattanhenge

Why does it seem... not quite right, the touch is too real.

Su Hui was in a daze, and just when he became suspicious, the tip of his nose suddenly felt itchy, and he couldn't help but lowered his head and sneezed.

"Bless you."

Ning Yixiao's voice came from beside him, and the sense of reality doubled.

Su Hui was taken aback, and was about to raise his head when the second sneeze came out, "Ah-choo—"

"Bless you."

Ning Yixiao sat on the side for a long time, and repeated this American proverb again.

After staying abroad for so many years, Su Hui subconsciously wanted to say "thank you", but she was stunned for a while, and slowly went to find the paper, and suddenly remembered that not long ago, he stretched out his hand and touched Ning Yixiao...

His body's reaction was much faster than his brain's, and he stepped back directly to distance himself from Ning Yixiao. Because he was too embarrassed to think, he used the sofa pillow to cover his face.

Ning Yixiao is really curious about how old Su Hui has grown in these years, his face is still the same as before, and his personality seems to be more childish than before.

He didn't mention the matter just now, but pushed his glasses on the bridge of his nose, and said solemnly: "According to previous experience, if you sneeze again, you will catch a cold."

Su Hui's hand moved down a little unconsciously, and the pillow went down accordingly, his big and pure eyes were exposed, and he blinked.

"I shouldn't have..."

Just as I was about to deny it, I sneezed for the third time.

Totally guessed.

"Let me help you prepare a cold medicine to prevent it." Ning Yixiao stood up, went upstairs to the medical box to find medicine, went downstairs to the kitchen to get water, and saw many covered plates.

He was a little surprised. He knew that Su Hui was going to make cakes, but he didn't know that he made so much food.

Pretending to be ignorant, Ning Yixiao returned to the sofa and handed him the cup.

"...Thank you." Although Su Hui didn't want to drink at all, it seemed inappropriate to refuse now, so he had to obey obediently.

After drinking, Ning Yixiao stretched out his hand naturally, wanting to take the cup. Su Hui glanced at him, a little embarrassed, "I made a mistake just now..."

"What's wrong?" Ning Yixiao looked at him, the mirror reflected the light, and Su Hui couldn't see clearly in his eyes.

"I..." Su Hui couldn't say that he had a dream, and even took him in reality as Ning Yixiao in his dream.He cleared his throat, "I fell asleep and thought it was ice cream."

"Really?" Ning Yixiao smiled slightly, "I thought he recognized me as your student."

Su Hui changed his expression all of a sudden, and said in a low voice, "How is that possible."

"What?" Ning Yixiao didn't hear clearly, and raised his eyebrows subconsciously.

"It's nothing." Su Hui let go of the pillow, and changed the topic to a safe range, "Did you just get off the plane? It's getting dark..." He looked at the time, and it was almost 07:30, "It's so late."

He got up, his whole body was sore and numb, so he grabbed the refrigerator door, pressed his shoulders, and stretched a long way.

Just as he was stretching, Ning Yixiao looked over and saw a small part of his white and narrow waist, and he could vaguely see a little extra tattoo mark on the front.

It's still there.

He thought he would be washed away by Su Hui.

Ning Yixiao walked over, obviously having seen the whole process of Su Hui learning how to make cakes at home, but pretended not to know, and deliberately asked, "So where is my birthday present?"

Su Hui opened the refrigerator door, the warm yellow light filled his whole body, he looked back, this glance made Ning Yixiao go back to the past.

"It's not finished yet, I've worked hard."

Even the words are the same.

Ning Yixiao woke up, bowed her head and smiled wryly.

"When will it be finished?" He teased, "Mr. Su, you move so slowly, how can you teach students?"

Su Hui's heart was beating a little fast, he took the cake out of the refrigerator, put it on the counter without making a sound, and retorted softly, "It will take time."

Ning Yixiao turned on the light in the kitchen, "There are still cakes."

"It's your birthday." Su Hui lied very unskillfully, "I bought it from the cake shop downstairs. I don't know if it suits your taste."

Ning Yixiao didn't like the last sentence he said very much, but he didn't say it, and put his hand on the bow of the cake box. He knew that it must have been Su Hui's tie for a long time before it was tied.

"Thank you." As soon as he opened the box, before he could boast, the doorbell rang.

Su Hui froze for a moment, then looked at Ning Yixiao.

"I asked Karl to make an order. There must be a New Year's Eve dinner." Ning Yixiao finished speaking, and added, "I didn't know you did it, otherwise he wouldn't have made the order."

Su Hui immediately said it was okay, "My cooking is not delicious..."

"Much better than before." Ning Yixiao finished speaking, walked to the entrance and opened the door.

Su Hui stood alone in front of Zhongdao, and what Ning Yixiao said echoed in his mind. He was very afraid that Ning Yixiao would say the word "before", and he would inevitably have some delusions because of this word, thinking that he had not been accepted by Ning Yixiao. Forgot overnight.

But at the same time, there was a trace of sourness in his heart for no reason.

Ning Yixiao's memory is already very good, but compared to the short period of time they dated, six years is longer, during this period he may have had "befores" with other people, these Ning Yixiao also Do you remember?

Su Hui always avoids thinking about this matter, thinking of other people who might have existed, but he has to admit that Ning Yixiao is a very attractive person, and there are always many suitors. Few people showed affection for him.

So when he knew that Ning Yixiao was going to get engaged, he was not surprised at all.

It is normal to have other feelings, after all, he is so good.

Once thinking of these, Su Hui felt very self-defeating.

When is it, why do you still care about this?

It's absurd enough to ruminate on these things, self-conscious enough, and to be troubled by it, as if delusional.

In the world of adults, everything is a decision based on the balance of pros and cons. Su Hui is not completely naive, and knows the rules very well. No matter how you look at it, he is not a suitable candidate, and he is not a good match. He needs to be more self-aware That's right.

Su Hui bent down, put his elbows on the table, buried his face in his palms, and repeated the word "friend" silently, trying to avoid these dangerous thoughts.

Suddenly, he heard Ning Yixiao standing in the entrance talking, but it seemed that he was not facing the delivery man.

"Who asked you to come?"

"Aren't I afraid that you will be lonely, it's Chinese New Year's Eve!"

Jingming?

Su Hui straightened up and walked towards the door, showing half of her face and watching quietly.

Unexpectedly, Jingming's gaze caught him immediately, he raised his hand high, and greeted Ning Yixiao in French over Ning Yixiao's shoulder.

Su Hui had no choice but to stand up and smiled, "Good evening."

"I'm here to accompany you for the New Year." Jing Ming knew how to entertain himself, put the wine he brought on the cabinet in the entrance, and went in to change his shoes.

Ning Yixiao had nothing to do with him.

"Can you say hello in advance?"

But Jing Ming didn't take it seriously, "Why, maybe it ruined your good deed."

Su Hui scratched the ends of her hair uncomfortably, feeling that she might not look energetic, so she went to the living room, took a scrunchie from the coffee table, grabbed half of her hair and tied it up.

"It's dark at home." Jing Ming clicked on all the lights.Coincidentally, just as Ning Yixiao was about to close the door, the food delivery person also came.

"Just right!" Jing Ming was very happy, "I didn't expect there to be so many delicious food, not bad, not bad, today is the right time."

He sat down on the sofa quite familiarly, and even asked Su Hui to sit down.

Ning Yixiao didn't know what he was planning, but looking at the half case of wine he brought, he knew that this guy had no good intentions.

Sure enough, as soon as Jing Ming sat down, his cell phone rang. After he connected, he directly reported the house number of Ning Yixiao's house.

"Who did you call again?" Ning Yixiao glanced at him.

Jing Ming hung up the phone, "Don't worry, I didn't bring a female companion over here, today we're playing tricks and calling friends who can just chat."

I don't know which nerve his words hit Su Hui, but he actually made him laugh, in such an embarrassing atmosphere.

Ning Yixiao turned his head and glanced at Su Hui. Su Hui quickly suppressed his smile and explained, "Jingming's Chinese is really idiomatic."

Jing Ming flirted with a wink, and soon got Ning Yixiao's murderous glance.

The doorbell rang, and Jing Ming turned over the sofa and ran to open the door. To their surprise, it was Bella and her girlfriend who came.

Seeing them, the scene of Su Hui bumping into a kiss appeared again, shaking the hand holding the cup, water spilled on her knees.

Just as he was about to draw paper, a piece of tissue paper was handed over.

"Who did you see so excited?" Ning Yixiao said carelessly.

"It was just an accident." Su Hui cleared his throat, wiped off the water, and put down the cup.

How the aggressiveness has become so strong, I don't understand.

Ice Cream seemed to be hungry and wanted to eat, so Su Hui put his plate in front of the dining table and joined everyone.

A good two-person party suddenly turned into a five-person dinner. Ning Yixiao was not happy in his heart, and he didn't even want to do superficial kung fu, so Su Hui reminded him in a low voice in Chinese, "Don't be ashamed."

Ning Yixiao turned to look at him and smiled, "Is that so?"

Su Hui thought he was cute, and deliberately picked on him, "It's a bit fake."

Ning Yixiao hooked the corner of his mouth.

Su Hui pointed over, "This is better."

Ning Yixiao's heart beat a little faster, and she turned her head away from looking at him.Jing Ming and the others put all the dishes on the big table, and a few people poured wine, and the atmosphere suddenly became lively, which really felt like a New Year's Eve.

"This is my first Spring Festival." Bella was very curious, and grabbed Chloe's hand. "I thought about it before. She said it was strange that there were only two people, and we can't go to Chinatown."

Ning Yixiao was not polite, "It's enough to celebrate Valentine's Day, and come to join in the fun of the Chinese people."

Bella clicked her tongue twice, "Look at his mouth, no wonder he's single."

Jing Ming glanced at Su Hui, and found that he lowered his head subconsciously when he heard the word, thought it was funny, and deliberately teased him, "Hey, Eddy is also single."

Hearing that she was called by name, Su Hui raised her head, "Ah? It's..."

"This is not normal!" Bella rested her chin on her hand, and patted the dining table with the other hand, "Why are you single? There should be a lot of people chasing you."

Chloe held her hand, looked at Su Hui, and agreed, "Indeed."

Su Hui felt a little uncomfortable, and was about to deny it, but Ning Yixiao, who was beside her, spoke up.

"It's quite a lot." He raised his eyebrows, "I won't talk about it before, what's the name of the doctor before, and the student you're leading now, Wright? Ledo? Lett..."

Su Hui corrected, "Lian."

Ning Yixiao picked up the wine glass and shook his wrist, "You know it very well."

Jing Ming felt that there was a good show to watch, so he was quite excited, and deliberately booed, "Really? College students? Teacher-student relationship?!"

Su Hui quickly explained, "No, he was talking nonsense."

Ning Yixiao took a sip of the red wine and raised her eyebrows.

Chloe caught the point, "Before? Did Shaw know Eddy before?"

Bella is not very clear about the specific situation, "It seems to be a classmate."

Su Hui was a little embarrassed at first, but she turned her around and didn't say much.

Suddenly thought of something, Bella took Chloe's hand, and sincerely apologized to Su Hui, "I lied to you before, but actually I have nothing to do with Shaw, I have a girlfriend..."

Chloe corrected, "It was an ex-girlfriend at the time."

Bella glanced at her, "Well, anyway, I lied to Eddy, Eddy is too serious, I can't bear it."

Su Hui knew about it a long time ago, but he didn't expose it. He smiled and said, "It's okay, but you have already paid for it. What about the installation art?"

Bella took a bite of the food, covered her mouth in astonishment, and answered Su Hui slowly, "Oh, that, our current plan is to change the engagement ceremony from a public to a private small ceremony, and the venue will be from the hotel It was changed to my family’s estate in the outskirts of New York, so that the media would not be able to film it, anyway, there was already a lot of momentum in the early stage, so there is no need for them in the future.”

She went on to say: "It is estimated that only my parents will be present at that time, and I will find a pastor. I don't even want to invite friends. According to my father's agreement, I can get the trust fund within a week after the end. Go to him for a showdown, anyway, he promised me. The installation art you made is so beautiful, of course it can’t be wasted on this fake engagement ceremony.”

Bella glanced at Chloe, her eyes were full of love, "The venue remains the same, and it is still according to your design, but I will turn it into Chloe's first solo photography exhibition."

Su Hui understood now, a faint smile appeared on his face, and he was also infected by the sweet atmosphere of the two.

When talking to Bella before, he also found that all the requirements had nothing to do with Ning Yixiao's preferences, and now it seems that they are all based on Chloe's standards. From the beginning to the end, this custom product is also Made for Chloe.

"My pleasure." He looked at Bella. "But, aren't you worried that Mr. Jones will embarrass you for knowing the truth?"

Ning Yixiao glanced at Su Hui.

"Don't worry." Bella shrugged, "I did more than one or two deviant things. At best, he will be angry for a while, and he will forgive me later. Besides, even if he doesn't forgive this time, There is no less property that should be distributed to me, and I can still do whatever I want."

Su Hui is very envious of Bella's magnanimity and self-confidence. Behind this is the love and tolerance from childhood to adulthood. Whenever she has been hit once or twice, she will never turn back without fear of consequences.

I really envy.

Ning Yixiao suddenly said to him: "Do you need wine?"

He held the decanter, Su Hui nodded, and let Ning Yixiao pour a glass, "Thank you."

"You're welcome."

"Give me a drink too." Jingming stretched out his cups, but Ning Yixiao put the decanter back on the table.

"Pour yourself."

Jing Ming had nothing to say to his ungrateful friend, he clicked his tongue a few times, he ate almost the same meal, but he always felt almost mean, his eyes wandered around, and suddenly saw the cake box on the middle island, the French Suddenly, the dessert-loving gene kicks in.

"What is this? Cake?"

Ning Yixiao stood up directly, and put the cake box back into the refrigerator before it was touched, "This is mine."

Su Hui's ears felt a little hot, maybe it was the effect of alcohol, and her face was also hot.

"What? You're so petty." Jing Ming felt something was wrong. After thinking for a while, Su Hui probably gave it to him. He deliberately joked, "Is there something good you haven't eaten before? Could it be a gift from someone you like?"

Chloe was drinking soup, and was also curious when she heard this sentence, "Shaw has a date?"

Bella blinked, "I don't know, but he has a lot of people chasing him at S University, both boys and girls. Do you know who that is? The fashion director named Julian, his mother runs a magazine... "

Su Hui couldn't quite listen to the conversation between Bella and Chloe. His heart was beating extremely fast, hanging in his chest, as if he was afraid of something.

Ning Yixiao chose not to talk about it, without a word of excuse, more like tacit consent.

"I got it right!" Jing Ming bumped him deliberately with his shoulder, feeling quite refreshed watching Ning Yixiao suffer.

Ning Yixiao glanced at him, and only uttered a simple "whatever", with a casual attitude and a kind of casual sex appeal.

He took ice cubes from the refrigerator, added them to the wine glass, and leaned against the refrigerator to drink, but his eyes were fixed on Su Hui.

It's not that Su Hui didn't feel it, he was a little at a loss, so he avoided it, picked up his own cup, took a sip, raised his eyes, and looked at Ning Yixiao.

At the moment when their eyes were about to touch each other, Ning Yixiao also looked away and watched Jingming make jokes.

Jing Ming came up with a new idea, took the wine glass and decanter, and called everyone to sit down on the sofa, "Let's play some games."

"What do you play?" Bella also got up, "I can play bridge."

"Who plays bridge, miss, do you live in the eighteenth century?" He teased unceremoniously, and then put forward his own idea, "Let's play truth or dare."

Ning Yixiao sneered, "Your idea doesn't seem too novel either."

"Then I don't care, I just like to play with this." Jing Ming got up and took the emptied red wine bottle and put it on the coffee table. "Whoever you turn to, you will be answered with the truth, or take a big risk. It's very simple."

He sat on the one-seater sofa, Bella and Chloe sat on the loveseat sofa, Ning Yixiao said that the idea was stupid, but he helped Su Hui bring a chair for him to sit on, while he sat on the other There is a distance of [-] centimeters between him and him.

"Want a blanket?" he asked.

Su Hui shook his head, but Ning Yixiao still threw the blanket on him.

He had no choice but to put it on his body, and glanced at the time. It was already past nine o'clock, and he was still thinking about Ning Yixiao's birthday, so he took the initiative to lean close to his ear and whispered, "Don't you tell them about making up for your birthday?" ?"

Ning Yixiao backed away obviously, then turned around suddenly.

The two of them suddenly became face to face, and Su Hui's heart rate jumped sharply.

"I don't want to see so many people, it's strange." Ning Yixiao said in a low voice.

Su Hui retreated a little distance, belatedly, "Okay..."

He couldn't help but whispered a suggestion, "Everyone can share it together, otherwise the cake won't be finished. It's 2 pounds, and it's very big."

Ning Yixiao became uncharacteristically childish, "Noway."

Su Hui began to wonder what happened to him in the past six years, what kind of people he met, and how he became what he is now.

Unexpectedly, when they were whispering, Jingming had already started the first round of the game, the bottle started to rotate, the speed gradually slowed down from fast to slow, and finally - stopped in front of Ning Yixiao.

"Shaw!" Jing Ming almost beat the gongs and drums, with great momentum, "You are really the lucky one today, hurry up, choose one, the truth or the big risk?!"

As if ice cream could understand the interaction between them, she was so excited that she spun around in circles.

Bella and Chloe are also looking forward to it.

"I think Shaw will choose the truth." Bella concluded based on her own stereotype, "He is a person who dares to speak."

"Not necessarily." Chloe objected, "Shaw is an activist."

Ning Yixiao squinted his eyes, very uncooperative, "I don't even want to choose, it's you who suddenly want to play the game, I haven't agreed yet."

Su Hui couldn't bear it anymore, and glanced at him, "Why are you like this?"

Ning Yixiao looked at him, "What's wrong with me?"

"No, no, it's your turn. I can't play this game if everyone is like this." Jing Ming half persuaded and half coaxed, spending a lot of time persuading Ning Yixiao.

"Oh, can't you also watch other people's excitement for a while?"

Ning Yixiao paused for a moment, thinking that Jingming would definitely cheat with the truth, "Let's take a big risk."

"Are you sure? You can't change it." Jing Ming said, took out the mobile phone software, and asked Ning Yixiao to tap the screen randomly, and the request for a big adventure would automatically pop up.

Ning Yixiao clicked casually, "It's all right?"

"Wait a minute, this system has to roll."

"It's so slow, who wrote it." Ning Yixiao began to pick on the other party's code.

"Okay, okay." Jing Ming watched the big adventure request that popped up on the screen, couldn't hold back, burst out laughing.

Bella was very curious, and immediately changed her seat and looked over, "What is it? Show me."

She also laughed after reading it, which made Ning Yixiao inexplicably have a very bad premonition.

Jingming laughed so hard that he couldn't speak, so he had to ask Bella to read the above content, "Please call your ex and tell him, I hate you."

Chloe took a bite of the potato chips and couldn't help sighing, "Isn't this a little too hard?"

Bella's emphasis was very clear, "Which number is this ex going to call?"

"How many do you have, Miss Jones." Jing Ming couldn't help but make fun of her.

Chloe smiled and helped her out, "It should be the last one. If it's too early, I don't want it. It's not very suitable."

The person involved was exceptionally quiet, not saying a word.

Su Hui didn't dare to turn her head to look at him, and her mood was very complicated.

Not long ago, he was troubled by this. He didn't expect that it would be revealed so soon. It was like fate, which was predestined in the dark. But even though he had done ideological work, he still couldn't help but feel sad when the truth was about to come.

"It makes sense, let's take over." Bella urged Ning Yixiao, "Hurry up."

"Yes, I am willing to bet and admit defeat." Jing Ming sighed, "This is the decision of artificial intelligence."

Ning Yixiao was in a stalemate for a while, and finally took out his mobile phone and bargained, "I don't need to call in front of you."

"Of course not, then how do we know if you have accepted your punishment well?" Bella said.

Su Hui bit her lip subconsciously, she didn't feel it, he almost drank half of the glass of wine, and still didn't dare to look at Ning Yixiao's face.

Chloe intimately gave him a new plan, "You can go to the floor-to-ceiling window to fight, we won't go there."

The other two in the sofa group nodded in unison.

Bella also joked softly, "At this time, after saying 'I hate you', you will really be beaten."

"Hahahaha!"

Ning Yixiao had no choice but to agree, walked to the French window, bowed his head and unlocked the phone.

When the wine glass bottomed out, Su Hui's heart almost jumped out, pounding violently against his chest.

Probably due to the effect of alcohol, his face was hot, he was flustered, and his brain was working very hard, just looking at Ning Yixiao's back made him feel sore.

who can that be?

I'm really curious, I don't know what kind of person it is.

His thoughts began to gradually lose Su Hui's control, controlled and magnified by alcohol, and he began to want to escape.

Ning Yixiao put the phone to his ear, and the trio on the sofa began to gossip, Bella didn't dare to look at it, and hid behind Chloe in excitement, curling up into a ball.

Su Hui's palms were covered with a thin layer of sweat.

He was afraid of that moment, the moment when Ning Yixiao spoke.

But faster than that was a burst of bells.

Except for Jing Ming, everyone was taken aback.

"Huh?" Bella didn't turn around, "Who's cell phone is ringing."

Chloe realized something, excluded the two people beside her, and looked at Su Hui on the opposite side.

The bell rang like this.

Sure enough, the half-drunk Su Hui suddenly stood up on the chair, her face was covered with a thin layer of powder, and she walked towards the room with her head half down, which surprised everyone.

Every time he took a step, Su Hui's heart beat harder, but his mind was completely blank, and he didn't have time to think about any problems.

Until he actually came to the table, picked up his mobile phone, propped the other hand on the table, and clicked to answer, his whole body was like being charged.

The phone was connected, but Ning Yixiao didn't speak immediately, and neither did he. The silence between the two of them was like a glass full of red wine, the surface tension had reached its limit, and if there was one more drop, it would all flow out.

In the end, it was Ning Yixiao who broke the silence.

His voice was very low, a little hoarse, with a very faint smile, but he didn't play the cards as agreed, and changed the sentence without authorization under the watchful eyes of everyone.

"Su Hui, Happy New Year."