heavy evening light

The first holiday in December that is suitable for two people to spend together is Christmas Eve.

Taking advantage of the lunch break, Xi Nan went to the supermarket and bought a big, red apple. Then he went to the gift shop to pick out the packaging boxes and cards, and then went back to the office to prepare gifts by himself.

But after he got everything ready, there was an accident at work and he had to work overtime.

Tao Jiang went into Xi Nan's office with the computer in his arms, and was about to review the newly revised plan with him, but he saw Xi Nan sitting at the desk with a gloomy face, exuding an aura of not messing with him.

Tao Jiang knew that Xi Nan was preparing gifts in the office this afternoon, so seeing Xi Nan like this now, he also understood why.

"It's been added for more than an hour, so don't think so much." Tao Jiang said, "Isn't it Christmas tomorrow? Let's spend it together then."

Xi Nan raised his eyes to look at Tao Jiang, and motioned him to find a seat for himself, "Yeah."

It's just that Tao Jiang was wrong. Working overtime is really annoying, not to mention that it disrupted his original arrangements. But what made Xi Nan feel depressed was that Xiang Wanguang didn't take the initiative to send him a message, even when he was talking to him. After talking about working overtime, Xiang Wanguang didn't even say happy Christmas Eve.

This made Xi Nan very disappointed, as if the good things during this period were all his wishful thinking, but in Xiang Wanguang's place, the relationship between them was still the same as before.

Xi Nan sighed, and turned his phone to vibrate, so that Xiang Wanguang could notice it immediately when he sent him a message, and then he didn't think about it any more, and devoted himself to work seriously.

It's just that until Xi Nan finished his work and got off work, the phone he put beside him didn't vibrate.

Xi Nan looked down at his phone, seeing that the chat with Xiang Wanguang was still at the point where he said he was going to work overtime a few hours ago, he couldn't help but sighed.

It would be a lie to say that he is not lost, but Xi Nan thought about it carefully, and now he has no right to blame Xiang Wanguang for not being enthusiastic about him.

Xi Nan held the packaged apple, thinking that he would call Xiang Wanguang later, and then think of a way to send him an apple.Although Xiang Wanguang didn't tell him anything, Xi Nan still wanted to give Xiang Wanguang what he had prepared.

What others have, Xiang Wanguang must also have.

However, Xi Nan, who had planned well, walked out of the company's gate with a blank mind, looking at what he was supposed to do.

Xi Nan was stunned for a while, then ran up to Xiang Wanguang in surprise, and said with a smile, "Why are you here?"

Fearing that Xi Nan would fall, Xiang Wanguang stretched out his hand to help Xi Nan, and then let go when he saw that he was standing still. He smiled and asked, "You don't want me to come?"

Xi Nan shook his head fiercely, and his mood that was still down suddenly turned better, "I definitely want you to come."

Xiang Wanguang replied softly, and then walked forward side by side with Xi Nan.

The streets in the middle of the night were very cool, and there were gusts of cold wind blowing, which made Xi Nan's nose hurt.He shrunk his neck unbearably, annoyed that he wore the wrong clothes today, otherwise he wouldn't be so cold.

But this couldn't stop Xi Nan from wanting to spend more time with Xiang Wanguang.

"Why don't you wear more clothes when it's cold?" Xiang Wanguang's tone implied blame, "You'll have to suffer if you catch a cold."

Xiang Wanguang took off his scarf, turned around and put it on Xi Nan carefully, making sure that Xi Nan would not be cold again, then let go of his hand and turned around.

The scarf was still warm and smelled like Xiang Wanguang's body, which made Xi Nan blush uncontrollably.But Xi Nan didn't care about these things at this time, he looked anxiously at Xiang Wanguang and said, "You gave me the scarf, what about you?"

Said that Xi Nan was about to return the scarf to Xiang Wanguang, but Xiang Wanguang reached out to hold Xi Nan's hand, shook his head and said, "You wear it, I'm fine."

Xi Nan didn't believe what Xiang Wanguang said, so Xiang Wanguang smiled helplessly, raised his hand to touch Xi Nan's face, and asked with a smile, "Is the temperature okay?"

At this point, Xi Nan didn't speak any more, but his whole body was on fire.

After walking for a certain distance, Xi Nan later realized that the direction Xiang Wanguang took him was not where his car was parked.But Xi Nan didn't have any doubts, just asked, "Where are we going?"

"I thought you didn't notice." Xiang Wanguang looked at Xi Nan with a smile, "I'll take you somewhere."

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"Isn't today Christmas Eve?" Xiang Wanguang took the bag in Xi Nan's hand, "You have to go to work, so I can only come to you."

Xiang Wanguang smiled softly and asked him, "Would you like to celebrate the festival together?"

When receiving Xi Nan's message, Xiang Wanguang was still at school, thinking about where to go with Xi Nan at night.But as soon as Xi Nan's news came, Xiang Wanguang canceled the original plan and planned to rethink it.

And when he went downstairs to Xi Nan's company, the lights in Xi Nan's office were still on, Xiang Wanguang didn't send him a message, and simply sat on a seat near the company and waited.After the lights in Xi Nan's office were turned off, Xiang Wanguang got up and went downstairs to the company.

As expected, Xi Nan was very happy to see him, but Xiang Wanguang originally wanted to hide it from Xi Nan, pretending that he didn't know that today was Christmas Eve, let alone that he was not planning to celebrate the holiday.

But after seeing the bag in Xi Nan's hand and the light in Xi Nan's eyes, Xiang Wanguang couldn't hold on any longer.So he was honest with Xi Nan, and took Xi Nan there without beating around the bush.

Xi Nan thought about several places where Xiang Wanguang wanted to take him, but Xi Nan never guessed that it was this place that Xiang Wanguang finally took him to.

The sightseeing belt by the river has changed from the quietness of the past. It is almost early morning, but there are still many people around. Some couples gather together sweetly and whisper.

Xi Nan followed Xiang Wanguang forward, not knowing exactly where Xiang Wanguang was taking him.However, although he was curious, he remained silent and completely trusted Xiang Wanguang.

"Don't you even ask where you're going?" Xiang Wanguang looked at him halfway and asked curiously.

Xi Nan shook his head, "You'll know when we arrive."

Xiang Wanguang smiled, then stopped, and motioned Xi Nan to look ahead.Xi Nan followed Xiang Wanguang's line of sight, but saw a lot of people gathered by the river bank, busy making Kongming lanterns.

"It's a tradition in the whole city to come to the riverside to light Kongming lanterns every Christmas Eve to pray for blessings." Xiang Wanguang explained, "Sometimes it's quite lively even in the early hours of the morning."

Looking at the laughing crowd on the river bank, Xi Nan knew that what they wanted were different, some were looking for friendship and family, and some were looking for love.

"Have you been here?" Xi Nan couldn't hold back his curiosity and asked.

Hearing this, Xiang Wanguang was taken aback for a moment, his eyes fell on a couple who were about to light a fire by the river, and suddenly he chuckled lightly, as if going back to the past.

At that time, there were couples next to him, and he was alone.

Xiang Wanguang looked away, didn't think about the past anymore, but stared at Xi Nan and asked, "Do you want to put one?"

"Is it possible?" Xi Nan wondered.

Xiang Wanguang nodded, "There are merchants by the river buying them, if you want, I'll buy them for you."

But when Xi Nan followed Xiang Wanguang to the booth, Xi Nan didn't want to buy Kongming lanterns, and was more interested in another product.

The seller was an elderly man. Seeing that Xi Nan's eyes were almost glued to the colorful lotus lanterns, she couldn't help laughing, and explained to him, "The lanterns are also selling well, and many young people buy them." let's go."

"And if you have any wish, you can write it on paper, put it under the colored lights, and let it float away with the river." The old man squinted his eyes and smiled, "It's also a kind of romance."

Xiang Wanguang only glanced at the colorful lotus lantern, and then his eyes fell on Xi Nan.Seeing that Xi Nan really liked lotus lanterns, he said, "If you like it, buy it."

The old man looked back and forth at Xiang Wanguang and Xi Nan several times, and smiled clearly, "I have a pen and paper here."

At this point, Xi Nan didn't hold it any longer, chose a lamp he liked, then took the pen and paper from the old man's hand, and moved it aside to write.

Xi Nan originally planned to write a short composition to express his love to Xiang Wanguang, but because of the atmosphere, Xi Nan was so full of emotions that he was so full of emotions that he wanted to say something, but now he couldn't choose one that satisfied him. sentence.

Xi Nan put down his pen, turned his head to look at Wan Guang, only to see that he was smiling and

The old people chat.The warm light by the river shone on Xiang Wanguang's body, softening his profile, and for a moment Xi Nan could only think of the word gentle.

Xi Nan couldn't help laughing, and when he picked up the pen again, he didn't think about it anymore, but wrote a line: It's easy to get a priceless treasure, but it's rare to have a lover.

The world pays attention to the evening light, not to the evening light.

After Xi Nan wrote the note, he pressed it on the lotus lantern, and then ran to the river to find a good place to put the lotus lantern, but suddenly found that there was no lighter.

Xi Nan frowned, and was about to turn around to buy one, when a lighter was handed over from behind, "Here it is."

The person who came was Xiang Wanguang.

Shaking his hand to Wanguang, trying to get Xi Nan's attention, he said with a smile, "Hurry up."

While taking the lighter from Xiang Wanguang, Xi Nan couldn't help but think, Christmas Eve without Apple, it would be nice to just spend it with Xiang Wanguang like this.

It doesn't matter how you spend the festival, what matters is the people you spend it with.

After figuring this out, Xi Nan relaxed physically and mentally, lit the wick of the lotus lantern, and then pushed it away when the candle light stabilized.

"Okay, we..."

Xi Nan's words stuck in his throat, he looked at the thing Xiang Wanguang handed to him in shock, then raised his eyes to look at Xiang Wanguang, suddenly his nose felt sore.

He was wrong.People are greedy, since they have lived with the person they like, they naturally want to get the gift prepared by the person they like.

As for saying it's not important, it's all self-consolation.

"Apple doesn't have it, but it has this, do you want it?" Xiang Wanguang said with a smile.

On Xiang Wanguang's slender hands, a red paper rabbit came to life.Xi Nan looked at Xiang Wanguang who was smiling slightly, and felt that time had flown for a moment, as if he had returned to the milk tea shop many years ago.

At that time, he wanted to show off his talents to Xiang Wanguang, but he didn't want to fail, so Xiang Wanguang took a piece of paper from him with a blank face, and skillfully folded a rabbit for him.

It seems that no matter how long it has passed, what they have experienced separately, but when they get together again, Xiang Wanguang will still be the one who will fold rabbits for him.

"...Yes." Xi Nan's voice trembled slightly, took the rabbit from Xiang Wanguang's hand, and repeated, "Of course."

The corner of Xiang Wanguang's mouth raised slightly, seeing Xi Nan like this, he couldn't help but rubbed his head, then said with a smile, "Happy Christmas Eve."

Someone in the crowd suddenly uttered a countdown loudly, counting down from ten, and then the people on the bank of the river started counting down together with a tacit understanding.

When the number became one, there was a burst of warm applause by the river. Everyone celebrated the arrival of the new day and said Merry Christmas loudly.

There are even couples kissing each other directly.

"Merry Christmas." Looking at Xi Nan whose eyes were reddish and teary, Xiang Wanguang's heart softened.He opened his arms, smiled softly, looked at Xi Nandao, "Hug me?"

Xi Nan didn't hesitate much, and as soon as Xiang Wanguang finished speaking, he hugged him, then buried his face in Xiang Wanguang's neck, and said in a muffled voice, "Merry Christmas."