The memory of what happened later was a little fuzzy. Sheng Yiqing only vaguely remembered a warning: in the future, before taking off clothes, you must take off your watch first - otherwise you will never know what dirty words that thing will say in the next second.
That night they did not go home, but found a nearby hotel, in Chen Zhuan's words, it was called revisiting the old place.
The two of them tossed until late at night, and they were awakened by a ringing sound before they fell asleep for a long time. Sheng Yiqing reached for her phone in a daze, took a sleepy look at the screen, and then jumped up with a roar - this was not an alarm clock, but an itinerary reminder from Air Travel, reminding her that she could check in online and choose seats for the flight in 3 hours.
"Fuck! I almost forgot." She got up in a hurry to pack up. When she came out of the bathroom after washing her face and brushing her teeth, Chen Zhuan was already awake. The pure white quilt of the hotel covered the chest of the dog man. He looked at Sheng Yiqing who was jumping around in the room to get dressed, and his expression was hard to read: "Another business trip, how long will this business trip be?"
Sheng Yiqing had no time to pay attention to him, muttering: "This client is more Buddhist in daily life, and he has been busy with Sun Ning's project recently. You made such a fuss yesterday. Damn, I set a travel reminder. I didn't even pack my luggage. Now I have to go home. It's still early now, you can sleep a little longer..."
Chen Zhuan raised his eyelids: "Understand You want to run away after you sleep? "
Sheng Yiqing was surprised: "What am I running?!"
"How do I know? I've given you everything now." Chen Zhu narrowed his eyes, "Now I completely understand the mentality of those resentful women in the deep palace."
Sheng Yiqing smiled and came to him, "Is he quite insecure? But, have you really transferred all your belongings to me? Do you want me to give you some pocket money?"
He glanced at her, lifted the quilt and got out of bed: "No, I will pay my salary soon. If it were placed in the past, you would have to let you go to the airport by yourself, but who told me that I have become a resentful husband now. Wait for me for two minutes and I will give you it."
Sheng Yiqing and Chen Zhu left not long after. At the same moment in the same building, Yu Youyang was also awakened by an alarm clock.
He had been sleeping for less than four hours and was determined to die. His first reaction was to turn the alarm clock, but it took ten minutes to react: Oh, his emba class will be open today.
The opening ceremony of the Institute of Economics and Management was in the auditorium at 10 a.m. Yu Youyang sat in the last row of the auditorium, yawning and flipping through emails on his phone.
He looked around and was disappointed to find that there were no beauties or acquaintances in the morning class - where was Yu Yue?
He sent a WeChat message. The other end replied lazily: I'm in a bad mood, so I'm done.
"Rubbish! Even more rubbish than me!" he cursed inwardly.
The dean was giving a speech on the stage, and soon the back door of the auditorium opened a crack, and a woman with a plain face, black-framed glasses and disheveled hair quietly slipped in.
Yu Youyang glanced casually and became interested: Wow! This girl is pretty!
The girl was holding a huge black tote bag under her elbow, lurking, jogging all the way, and came to Yu Youyang's row, flipped over the chair and sat down.
The more Yu Youyang looked at her, the more he felt that this woman seemed familiar, so he turned his head and squinted at her.
However, as soon as the woman sat down, she opened her bag, took out a small makeup mirror and foundation from it, and began to apply them on her face quickly.
The woman's hair was very long, with a very natural curvature, and her face was extremely white. Yu Youyang's attention was completely attracted to her, and he observed silently. Following her process after process, until the moment she put on lipstick, Yu Youyang suddenly realized, and then he laughed out loud.
The laughter startled the woman, and her sharp eyes swept over. The moment their eyes met, the woman was stunned, and then she recognized him——
I remembered, Chen Zhuan's friend, the greasy old man in the nightclub last night and before.
"Why are you here?" She frowned
"I'm a real student." Yu Youyang showed his campus card, "So now it's my turn to ask you, Qiu Ning'er?"
"Oh." Qiu Zining took off his black-framed glasses, scratched his hair with his fingers, and smiled at him: "I'm a student relative."
Qiu Zining came to accompany Chen Ziang.
Chen Ziang spent half of his summer vacation at Qiu Zining's home. In Qiu Zining's opinion, on the one hand, this is a bad symbol: it represents that the relationship between the two people is gradually becoming stable; on the other hand, it does make Qiu Zining's home gradually becoming fresh and clean.
Qiu Zining began to ask Chen Ziang about his zodiac sign, horoscope, hometown and even blood type. Chen Ziang was frightened by the question: "What? Are you using me to match your horoscope? Do you want to get married?"
Qiu Zining almost sprayed coffee on his face: "You think too much. I have to find my next sex partner according to your level of cleanliness."
Chen Ziang swung the pillow heavily and smashed it lightly on her back, "Fuck fucking partner!"
Qiu Zining laughed: "What else is it?"
Chen Ziang was very serious: "Girlfriend."
Qiu Zining laughed wildly.
However, Qiu Zining could not deny that after a period of getting along, she did give Chen Ziang some treatment beyond that of a sex partner, such as she actually agreed to come to his school on the first day of school, accompany him to attend the opening ceremony in the morning, and the subsequent college basketball game.
Chen Ziang's school is in Haidian, and it takes nearly 40 minutes to get there by taxi from home. What's more terrible is that the opening ceremony is at 10 am. In the past six months, Qiu Zining has not seen the sun before noon.
Before going to bed last night, she deliberately applied a cleansing mask for 20 minutes, an emergency mask for 15 minutes, and finally a half-hour of big lights. Finally, she took a shower, blew her hair, applied a hair mask, applied hair care essential oil, held 3 melatonin tablets, and drank a glass of red wine before 1:30, and fell into the bed sprayed with sleeping spray on time.
However, she tossed and turned all night.
She has indeed reached the age where she can be a "sister" at ease. After her birthday, she will be 30 years old. After the age of 25, I started to worry about getting fat, dark circles under my eyes, and sagging. After five years of hard work, I was lucky to find that medical beauty can save everything. But just when I accepted my early aging, I heard people say that 30 is the big hurdle: for example, metabolism begins to decline rapidly, even if I do aerobics for 10 hours a week, I still can't lose a pound of weight; for example, the effect of Thermage on mature skin begins to diminish marginally, and if the skin sags again, I have to go under the knife...
Fortunately, not everyone is selling anxiety. With the successive female-oriented variety shows and TV dramas in recent years, everyone has discovered that it is not scary for women to get old, but it is scary to be poor and ugly. As age goes up, so does charm. As long as you are beautiful, self-satisfied and rich, out-of-season girls can still stand at the top of the food chain.
However, no matter how confident she was when facing Chen Ziang, when the age difference of seven or eight years was there, when she came to university and met a batch of vigorous young people, she couldn't help but still feel the pressure brought by age.
After a night of tossing and turning, Qiu Zining finally got up from the bed before 10 o'clock, put her cosmetics in her bag, and took a nap in the car. Then she entered the auditorium at the end of the opening ceremony.
As the principal announced the end of the ceremony, everyone stood up one by one. Yu Youyang looked at Qiu Zining curiously: "Boyfriend?"
"...I guess so." She blinked and smiled slyly, "But not an old student like you, a serious male college student."
Yu Youyang said, smiling and came over: "Can I help you identify it? Don't find a dirty student."
She sneered, "Who can be dirtier than you?"
After the opening ceremony, there was a basketball game, and the basketball court was downstairs in the auditorium. It seemed that the new dean loved basketball. Since he took office, the annual college basketball game has become the highlight after the opening ceremony.
Chen Ziang called Qiu Zining and asked her if she had arrived. He said he was warming up on the court and that he had reserved a seat for her in the first row.
The arrogance and tenderness of a boy in his early 20s came through the other end of the phone, and Yu Youyang looked thoughtful.
After hanging up the phone, she looked at Mr. Yu, "Are you going?"
"Yes." The fox-like man smiled, "If I had known you would watch, I would have signed up."
"They don't play with old people."
"Well, you seem to be the same age as me?"
"..."
The summer gymnasium was filled with the breath of youth. Most of the students were dressed simply. Except for a few business people who looked like postgraduate students or MBAs, most of the college students looked like children in Qiu Zining's eyes.
The game was still half an hour away from starting. Chen Ziang was wearing a basketball uniform and was warming up. When he saw her, he grinned and threw the ball to his teammates. He then took a bottle of mineral water from the team member's chair and ran over: "Here. Drink some water."
Qiu Zining was happy, "Why are you bringing me water?"
With a serious look: "I'm afraid you're thirsty."
Chen Ziang looked at Yu Youyang on the side again, his expression turned cold, and he raised his eyebrows to look at her: "You brought a friend?"
"It happened to happen." Qiu Zining shrugged: "A friend of a friend of a friend. He seems to be your senior."
"I'm an MBA of the 21st grade." Yu Youyang smiled and extended his hand to Chen Ziang.
"Oh, I'm in the 19th grade, three years earlier." Chen Ziang shook Yu Youyang's hand gently:
"Hello, junior brother."
With the referee's whistle, the game began.
Qiu Zining looked at Yu Youyang with a funny face, "Bully?"
Mr. Yu touched his nose, "I can't argue with a kid." After a pause, he said, "I've seen him before."
"Oh?"
"He submitted his resume to our company and will probably come to work in a while."
Qiu Zining was silent, "Intern or formal employee?"
"Intern. Didn't he tell you? This position requires business trips. I guess he won't be in Beijing during the internship."
Qiu Zining didn't say anything. The first reaction in his mind was: This guy is doing an internship, who will clean up for him? Only when he heard a cheer on the field did he know that Chen Ziang scored again. He ran and high-fived his teammates and looked at Qiu Zining. When he met Qiu Zining's eyes, he grinned happily.
Even his teammates noticed Chen Ziang's abnormality. Half an hour after the game started, half of his mind was on the game, and the other half was on the beautiful sister on the sidelines. Every time he got the ball, he couldn't help but glance at her.
Yu Youyang's eyes were sharp, and he curved his lips as he approached Qiu Zining: "This kid is not concentrating on playing."
Seeing Chen Ziang's eyes looking here again, Qiu Zining just shrugged: "I guess he feels possessive because he sees you here."
"Your way of thinking is different from other women. Don't you believe that this kid really loves you?"
Qiu Zining looked at Yu Youyang with a look as if she saw a ghost, and simply hugged her chest and crossed her legs: "You are a man yourself, don't you know? Men are all the same when they are emotionally infatuated, they want to give you their lives, and after a while, they will do this and that. How many women died because of one thing - overestimating the love men have for themselves. Do you men have love? No. You just treat us as prey."
Yu Youyang laughed. Looking at Qiu Zining: "You are so shrewd, have you been cheated by someone, or have you never been cheated by someone?"
While talking, he heard a ringing sound from Yu Youyang's pocket. He first took out a mobile phone from his left pocket. Seeing that it was not this one ringing, he took out another mobile phone from his right pocket, looked at the caller ID, and hung up the phone.
Qiu Zining tutted and teased: "Is this phone for women?"
Yu Youyang hummed and handed it to Qiu Zining directly: "Do you want to visit?"
"Can you just look at this?" She was shocked.
"As an emotional blogger, I'll give you some material." He handed the phone forward again.
Only when WeChat was opened, there were seven or eight unread messages, all of which were beautiful women's avatars. Qiu Zining clicked on the conversation and talked about nothing but weather, art, and movies.
There were even a few dialog boxes where people were jealous and quarreling.
As she was watching, several more messages popped up. Qiu Zining smacked his lips twice and handed the phone to Yu Youyang: "Just give me a heads-up, there are too many fish, they are going to overflow."
Yu Youyang hid a smile in his eyes: "Can you reply for me? Emotional bloggers should have a way to coax people."
"Really?" She didn't believe it: "Are you not afraid that I will blow up your fish pond?"
"Then try it?" He encouraged her.
Qiu Zining picked up the phone directly, randomly selected a dialog box, and sent a voice message to one of them with a pinched voice: "Sorry, he is a scumbag. Can you stop pestering him?"
Yu Youyang was stunned. He didn't expect that this woman was more cruel than he thought.
After sending the voice message, Qiu Zining blinked at him: "Are you scared?"
But he smiled: "Go on. I think you are having fun."
Qiu Zining shook his head, "I'm not playing at all. I'm afraid that this girl will be deceived by you again."
"Then why don't you just blow up the fish pond for me, okay?" He came closer again.
"Fish pond? You really flatter yourself. We are all here to have fun, maybe you are just a fish." She flipped through the chat history, shook her head and said, "She sent you such a beautiful selfie, and you are still pretending? Let me reply for you, so that you can learn what it means to provide emotional value to women!"
As they said this, they opened the dialog box one by one and replied seriously one by one. The game on the field continued, and the two people sitting in the first row lowered their heads and spoke in a low voice. Yu Youyang looked at her sideways and found that when she was serious, her mouth would be tightly pursed, but her eyes were cunning, like a fox demon.
"If you like playing so much, just take it home and return it to me next time we meet."
Qiu Zining sneered and shook his phone: "Who cares? And... since you are dating 100 people at the same time, can you be a little more skillful? At least turn off the WeChat message notification. All of them pop up nakedly, isn't that decent?" Yu Youyang was stunned and said righteously: "I am an upright person. If I have to hide everything, wouldn't I be a scumbag?"
The words were so powerful that Qiu Zining was stunned in place. After a while, he laughed out loud.
The next second, a basketball hit Yu Youyang fiercely.
"Be careful!" Qiu Zining widened his eyes, but fortunately Yu Youyang reacted quickly, dodged and hugged the ball. Looking towards the direction of the court, he saw Chen Ziang running over with an expressionless face, took the ball, and patted him on the shoulder:
"Sorry, Junior Brother."