Manhattanhenge

On the second day after returning to New York, Ning Yixiao took Su Hui to Manhattan City Hall to register.

The process of getting married was a bit more complicated than the two imagined, but the waiting process was full of anticipation. A few days after getting the permit, the two as prospective couples came to the city hall again to receive a marriage certificate.

It's just that Su Hui didn't expect that every couple who received a marriage certificate would hold a small ceremony in the small room of the city hall, so most of the newlyweds waiting in line wore little white dresses.

He looked down at his clothes. It was the simplest short-sleeved and jeans, and he looked more like a student who was going to the city library for self-study.

Su Hui began to regret her lack of formal attire.

"Am I dressed...too simple?" He whispered to Ning Yixiao, "They said there was a small ceremony..."

Ning Yixiao looked down at himself and comforted him, "I also dress similarly to you, it doesn't matter, anyway, we will have our own wedding, and it won't be too late when it's official."

Su Hui nodded, feeling a little comforted in his heart, but the next second, Ning Yixiao approached his ear.

"Don't you think we are... like two college students who are anxious to get married?"

These words brought Su Hui back to the past, when he thought about exchanging rings and getting married with Ning Yixiao in Iceland, he just pressed the accelerator button.

He lowered his head, stared at the canvas shoes on his feet and Ning Yixiao's sneakers, and nodded, "A little bit."

"Student Xiao Su, relax." Ning Yixiao held his hand and interlocked his fingers.

Su Hui replied obediently, "Good senior."

Unexpectedly, this word seemed to please Ning Yixiao. He tilted his head and stared at Su Hui without any expression.

Su Hui was embarrassed, and turned her eyes away, "...I yelled indiscriminately."

"You can shout more in the future." Ning Yixiao added, "When necessary."

Before Su Hui could figure out what was necessary, the staff called their names, and Ning Yixiao immediately led him up, and followed the staff to the small room.

Both of them were inexperienced, and it was only when they came in that they realized that they needed a witness. It was difficult to find someone temporarily, so Ning Yixiao directly called Karl who was waiting in the car.

In this way, Carl became the boss's witness in surprise and honor. Standing beside the two, he felt that his status had made a qualitative leap.

Given the low-key level of the boss, he is likely to be the first and only person who knows that he registered his marriage today.

This is something that can last a lifetime.

The ceremony was very simple. The staff confirmed the wedding rings of the two and handed the rings to the master of ceremonies.

The master of ceremonies has seen many wedding rings, but when he saw this pair, he couldn't help but praise, "The rings are so beautiful."

Carl thought to himself, can the blue diamond not be beautiful?

Su Hui was a little nervous, afraid that he would read the oath wrongly, so he was extra slow, but fortunately, the master of ceremonies was also very patient, smiling and waiting for him to finish repeating.

"Well, congratulations on becoming each other's lifelong partners, and wish you happiness and sweetness!"

"Thank you."

Ning Yixiao took Su Hui's hand, turned around and saw that Carl had tears in his eyes, and was very confused.

"Contract finished?"

Carl withdrew his tears instantly.

"No, right now."

After receiving the signed marriage certificate, Su Hui's mood fluctuated. All this was like a beautiful dream. He was afraid that if he blinked, he would wake up from the dream.

But Ning Yixiao hugged him sincerely and kissed his forehead at the gate of the city hall.

"Su Hui, this is not an illusion."

He seemed to be completely seen through by Ning Yixiao.

"understood……"

Su Hui took his hand, "I just can't believe it."

"It's unbelievable, it's true, you can't run away anymore."

"When will we hold the wedding?" Ning Yixiao asked.

Su Hui thought about it for a while, "I don't know, will it be too cold in winter? But summer is already here, so I'm in a hurry. How about autumn?"

"Don't worry, let's take our time."

After returning from Iceland, Su Hui is still not fully used to the fast-paced life in New York, and Ning Yixiao piled up a lot of work because of his vacation, and originally wanted to stay at home with him, but under Su Hui's persuasion, he still reluctantly returned to work Fortunately, Su Hui also went to the Bay Area with him and brought ice cream.

The climate in the Bay Area is not as hot and dry as Southern California. The air is humid and windy. Su Hui likes this kind of weather very much. From time to time, he would lie on the lawn in the courtyard, read a book, be dazed, or play with ice cream. In short, he didn’t want to work.

But work matters really came to me one by one.First, Keisha made a phone call, saying that the feedback from all walks of life for the first solo exhibition was very good.

"In particular, the two works "Reset1224" and "mama" have become meccas for check-in. If you search on social networks, you won't be able to find them all."

Su Hui is not surprised by the popularity of "Reset1224". After all, it is indeed the work with the most magnificent visual effects in the entire exhibition, but "mama" is the complete opposite. It is very personal. He never thought that so many people would like it .

""mama"? I thought that if it didn't combine with the background, this work wouldn't attract many people's attention..."

Just hearing Kesha's voice, he could almost imagine her beaming.

"That's because Chloe Chen posted a photo on her social media. Speaking of which, there are you and Shaw in it. This photo is amazing. I'll send it to you, you have a look."

Soon Su Hui received a screenshot, the account was indeed Chloe's own, with a lot of likes and comments.

In the photo, he and Ning Yixiao are standing in the space of each other's mother, touching each other's fingertips through the curtain.

"You don't know, as soon as this photo was posted, many fans of Chloe ran to check in, and everyone was curious about who was in the photo, and Chloe replied later."

Su Hui also saw her reply.

[@12berry: Wow, this photo is amazing, who are these two handsome guys? ?The atmosphere is too strong! ]

[@CholeChen replied to @12berry: The one on the left is the artist who created this work. ]

"A lot of people came here for this photo, and imitated you and Shaw's actions to take pictures. Our staff couldn't stop it. Fortunately, the material of the curtain can withstand touching, otherwise a hole would have been made. "

These are things that Su Hui did not expect.

He was very grateful to Chloe, and immediately edited a message and sent it to her.

[Eddy: Chloe, I heard from the curator that your photos have increased the exposure of the exhibition a lot. Thank you. I was in depression that day and I was unable to meet you. ]

Chloe responded quickly.

[Chloe: You are welcome, we are friends, Shaw has told Jing Ming about you, and we all know, we will get together when you are better. ]

"In short, you are very popular now. Everyone didn't know it at first, but later found out that you have a part-time job as a model. I was very surprised. Many students in the college you taught before posted photos of you in class, and students It was said online that you were bullied by students from another college and lost your job, and everyone was very angry."

Su Hui explained, "Actually not, I resigned voluntarily."

"It's also good, you need more time and space to create." Keisha said for a long time before returning to the topic, "Because the feedback of the solo exhibition was unexpectedly good, all the sponsors decided to continue sponsoring and support us to make a national tour exhibition , the next step may be a global tour!"

"Great." Su Hui's voice was very soft.

Rather than rejoicing at his success, he seemed more fortunate. He was afraid of ruining the entire exhibition because of his own reasons, but now it seems that the hard work of all the staff has not been let down.

"It seems that our cooperation will continue for a long time. We will meet after a while, and we will try our best to finalize the location of the tour exhibition as early as possible."

Kesha said with a smile in her voice, "Eddy, you will get better and better in the future."

Su Hui was very grateful for her efforts.

"Thank you."

After the phone call, he felt drenched in the sun, went back to his room, drank a large glass of water, and started cooking chicken breast for ice cream.

When he opened the refrigerator, he accidentally found pork ribs. He remembered that Ning Yixiao had mentioned that he wanted to drink pork rib soup when he was in Iceland, but they wandered around the area for a long time, and there was no soup shop.

"Why don't you try it..." Su Hui said to himself.

When she was working in a restaurant, Su Hui had to do all kinds of work, even if she couldn’t do it well, she had to bite the bullet. It was also at that time that she learned how to chop vegetables and how to blanch meat, even though the taste was not very good. But compared to himself who couldn't even fry eggs in the past, he has improved a lot.

After four hours of busy work in the kitchen, Su Hui boiled a small pot of corn mushroom pork ribs soup, the whole restaurant was full of aroma, the ice cream was inseparable, and the leftovers were all full.

"You can't eat it. If you eat it again, your father will be gone."

Su Hui warned, but still picked out a piece of corn and put it on his dinner plate, and immediately gnawed on the ice cream happily.

Su Hui put the soup in an insulated bucket, and cooked a small pot of Yuanxiao. He wrapped it while the soup was boiling. It wasn't very pretty, but it tasted good, so he took it away with him.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, Su Hui took a taxi to Ning Yixiao's company.

It was even more beautiful and grand than he had imagined.

This was also his first time here, and he didn't inform Ning Yixiao in advance, so he acted on his own initiative.

Su Hui was wearing a white shirt and jeans, and Ning Yixiao's black baseball cap and mask, covering himself tightly. When the front desk saw him coming in, he stood up to greet him, "Do you have an appointment?"

Su Hui shook her head, and stood there holding the thermos, "I'm here to find Shaw."

The front desk showed embarrassment, "Shaw is a bit busy here, we can only accept visitors with appointments, I'm really sorry."

Su Hui expressed her understanding, and asked, "Can I call Carl? It's his assistant, he knows me."

The front desk thought about it and agreed, so he called Carl's internal number.

Seeing that the phone was connected, Su Hui reminded in a low voice, "My name is Eddy, he knows it."

Sure enough, when the front desk heard Carl's voice as if he was approaching an enemy, he immediately became alert. He thought it was a low-key super big customer, and after hanging up the phone, he asked him very respectfully if he needed coffee.

Su Hui shook her head, "Can I go up?"

"Of course, I'll take you there."

The front desk still felt weird. After hearing about how big the customer was, Karl would come down to greet him directly.

So in the elevator, she couldn't help but look around a bit more.

This handsome guy looks a little familiar.

The elevator door opened, and the appreciation time at the front desk was over, so I had no choice but to reluctantly invite Su Hui to the office of the immediate boss.

She helped knock on the door, and Karl quickly opened the door from the inside, and greeted Su Hui with a smile when they met.

"Eddy, you're here."

Su Hui nodded, and said in a soft voice, "Fortunately, I found you."

He went in with the thermos, and went directly from the assistant's suite to Ning Yixiao's office, which was so big that he could play golf, with 270-degree viewing windows, the outside was full of the sea.

Ning Yixiao didn't notice it yet, and looked down at the documents carefully until Su Hui approached and put the thermos bucket on his desk.

"Good afternoon, Mr. Ning."

Hearing his voice, Ning Yixiao raised his head suddenly, his eyes under the glasses were obviously surprised, he quickly smiled, and stretched out his hand to hug Su Hui's waist naturally, "Why are you here suddenly?"

Su Hui liked the surprise on his face because of her appearance, so she couldn't help but raised her hand, touched his face, and said slowly: "Last time you said you wanted to drink soup, so I boiled it down a bit. I don’t know how it tastes, so try it.”

He unscrewed the thermos, and filled a small bowl for Ning Yixiao, "There are pork ribs, mushrooms and corn in it, and I also put some red dates in it, anyway, I like ice cream."

Ning Yixiao couldn't help laughing, "So in your heart, Ice Cream and I are the same kind."

"No." Su Hui immediately retorted, "He's just a reference."

"Well, I understand." Ning Yixiao took him by the hand and pulled him to sit on his lap, "Thank you for your hard work."

Su Hui could see the outside through the glass, feeling a little uneasy, "Someone else is..."

"It's okay." Ning Yixiao used the remote control on his mobile phone to close the venetian blinds, only the two sides near the sea were not covered.

"Is that all right?"

Su Hui still didn't sit on his lap, but squeezed, and sat on the same big office chair with him, then urged Ning Yixiao, "Try it."

Ning Yixiao picked up the bowl and took a sip, nodded and said, "It's delicious, it's the taste I like."

"really?"

Su Hui picked up a spoon and tasted a little, her eyes widened a little, "It seems to be okay."

"There are also Yuanxiao." Su Hui unscrewed the other thermos, "I cooked a lot of this, and I thought I could divide it up and give it to Karl and the others."

Ning Yixiao was not very happy, "They don't need it, the company has a cafeteria."

"But it's my first time here, so I can't be empty-handed." Su Hui showed it to him seriously, "It's a full bucket, a lot."

"Ok."

Although he didn't want to share it, Ning Yixiao knew Su Hui's temper, so he made a small portion for himself, and asked Carl to share the rest.

Su Hui stared at Ning Yixiao as he drank the soup, and was very keen to pick up the ribs for him, using chopsticks to break off the bone in the middle, and then put it in his bowl.

Ning Yixiao was very quiet when eating, and so was Su Huiyuqi, but suddenly in the quiet atmosphere, he heard Ning Yixiao say something.

"It's nice to be married."

Su Hui raised his head, reacted for a moment, then lowered his head quickly, his ears were a little red.

"It's going to be cold." He changed the subject in an indirect manner.

Ning Yixiao pulled the tissue, put down the bowl and chopsticks, and pulled Su Hui into his arms, "The first time you went to stay at my place, you also made me breakfast, remember?"

Of course Su Hui remembered.

He took too much medicine, his whole body was not right, and he tried his best to stay, which caused Ning Yixiao a lot of trouble.

I dream about him.

"Yeah." Su Hui said honestly, "It's terrible, the eggs are burnt."

"But you're very good now." Ning Yixiao held his face, "It's delicious, and it's the first time I've received love soup."

Su Hui nodded and leaned into his arms.

"I will do it again in the future."

"Thank you." Ning Yixiao kissed the top of his head with a gentle tone, "Su Hui, I feel very happy."

When Su Hui was depressed, his emotions were very restrained and his thoughts were slow, so he needed to express himself very straightforwardly. Whenever Ning Yixiao sincerely and directly affirmed his value and gave him good feedback, Su Hui felt satisfied.

"Me too."

They hugged quietly for a while, then got up to watch the sunset of the Golden Gate Bridge outside the window, holding hands, Su Hui still habitually pressed his forehead against the glass, looking very selfless.

The light gradually faded, and the sky gradually became purple-blue. Ning Yixiao pressed Su Hui against the glass, bowed his head and kissed him.

Su Hui's lips trembled slightly, but he carefully grabbed Ning Yixiao's back with his hand and closed his eyes.

Ning Yixiao's glasses frame was very cold, and would touch Su Hui's bridge of nose from time to time, so he took off his glasses after a shallow kiss.

"you lost weight."

The waist became thinner again.

Su Hui seldom eats normally, always has no appetite, and has a physique that easily loses weight.

But he was afraid that Ning Yixiao would find it unattractive, so he subconsciously said stiffly, "No."

Ning Yixiao smiled, lowered her head and bit his lip, "I'll know it as soon as I hug him."

After being bitten by him, Su Hui let out a light gasp, as if she was in pain, but her lips pressed up unconsciously, almost like an invitation.

So Ning Yixiao kissed him again.

Su Hui's face became very hot, and she couldn't find a place to put her hands. Ning Yixiao pressed her against the glass, feeling his lips and tongue poking in, which was a bit tormenting.He didn't seem to be eager to go deep at all, but gently hooked, entangled and teased restrainedly, arousing Su Hui's desire under the heavy ice layer little by little.

Feeling that her legs began to go weak, Su Hui regained her sanity a little, withdrew a little, and said in a very low voice: "No, someone..."

When he spoke, there was even a transparent thread on his plump lips, like honey.

"They're off work." Ning Yixiao didn't give him more chance to breathe, and pressed the wrist he was trying to avoid against the glass window.

The wind was blowing outside, the tide was rising, and the waves swept away the subtle and ambiguous sounds.

Ning Yixiao asked "Is it possible" several times, but Su Hui didn't give a direct response, but her whole body almost melted into his arms.

The leather sofa was blown very cold by the air conditioner. The moment he was put on it, Su Hui almost shuddered all over, but soon Ning Yixiao's temperature rescued him, wrapping every inch of him.

The depression period lasted for too long, during which they rarely kissed each other. During the half month in Iceland, they accompanied each other every day, and they were very happy to hug each other quietly. Back here, Ning Yixiao was busy with work every day, and only after get off work to go home.

Su Hui needed him especially during Yu Qi, he was clingy and very quiet, if he didn't see each other for too long, he would feel insecure.

This desire for a sense of security almost resisted his lack of self-confidence and anxiety during the depressed period, because he needed Ning Yixiao's comfort too much.

But in such a place, Su Hui will always be afraid. He is very concerned about whether the door of the office is closed properly, and whether someone will suddenly break in and report something to Ning Yixiao.

He just fell into a state of anxiety.

Ning Yixiao held Su Hui's lips, and asked Su Hui to call him "husband" in the continuous kisses, but Su Hui couldn't say it out, and his shame almost overwhelmed him.

"Then let me call you, we all have certificates anyway."

He leaned close to Su Hui's ear, and while kissing, he imitated Su Hui's panting tone, and learned all the things he could and couldn't utter.

Su Hui had no choice.

He subconsciously bit his lip all the time, almost biting it.

"Don't bite." Ning Yixiao leaned over and kissed him, sweat dripped on Su Hui's cheek like tears.

But soon, he really cried, physiological tears, his mind was not clear, his mind seemed to be filled with hot mist, and he shed it unconsciously.

The illness will mess up his brain and nerves, making him confused, but Ning Yixiao can also do it, and it can even make him lose consciousness more easily, slurring his speech, and completely ignoring what he is talking about.

Leaning in Ning Yixiao's arms, he stared at his tattoo with drowsy eyes, even holding his hand to touch it.

"It's protruding."

Ning Yixiao kissed his cheek, smiled softly, and whispered something in his ear.

The temperature of the air conditioner was very low, Su Hui almost fell into a coma afterward, wrapped in a blanket by Ning Yixiao, and lay snuggled up on the sofa for a long time.

The sofa was as big as a small safe beach, and it was warm. It took Su Hui a long time to wake up, turned over, and lay face to face with Ning Yixiao.

He rubbed his eyes and stared at Ning Yixiao for a long time.

Ning Yixiao approached, kissed the bridge of his nose, and asked softly, "Have you taken the medicine?"

Su Hui was not fully awake, she was in a daze, thinking of some strange things, "What medicine?"

Ning Yixiao was also taken aback by his question.

What medicine?

"I don't know how to..." Su Hui didn't finish speaking, she paused, and her consciousness suddenly came back, "Ah, you are talking about lithium carbonate tablets, I ate, ate, and ate it when I came here."

He stuttered.

Ning Yixiao smiled, rubbed her head against his smooth neck, picked up a small piece of skin from his collarbone, kissed and gnawed, sticky kissed all the way up to the ear, making Su Wei shrink back itchy .

"Su Hui, do you want to try again?"

Su Hui felt that he was not awake, so he shoved him, "What..."

"What if?"