Chapter 123: I Want to Kiss My Girlfriend.
Chu Wantang no longer hid her comings and goings from the coffee shop. Some of the employees at “Silk Season” would greet her when they recognized her.
They were still used to calling her “Director Chu,” and she would also return a smile, and then enter the booth to start her “work.”
When the colorful clouds fell, she would come to the parking lot opposite and wait for Huai Xing to get off work.
Such an opportunity was very rare for her. Six years ago, it had always been Huai Xing who had waited for her to get off work. In the ten months they had been separated, she had been busy with work and had only come here when she was free. More importantly, during this period, she had only been waiting and had not seen Huai Xing.
And now, she looked at the person she had been missing who had appeared from this two-story small building, and the corners of her lips couldn’t help but curl up.
She did not stand by the car, but went up to meet her.
Some of the employees in the parking lot quietly cast their gazes on them, but they did not care.
“Little President Huai seems to be in a good mood,” Chu Wantang said, habitually taking Huai Xing’s bag and holding it, her tone melodious.
Huai Xing stared at Chu Wantang’s face and asked, “Is it that obvious?”
“Mm, you’ve been smiling all along.”
“Maybe it’s because of something happy,” she said. As they walked to the car, Huai Xing looked away, and the corners of her mouth couldn’t be suppressed.
Chu Wantang opened the car door for her, pretending not to understand, and pressed, “What is it? Can Little President Huai tell me?”
“I work for the secret service.”
“Okay.”
Joy climbed up the corners of Chu Wantang’s eyes. She carefully fastened Huai Xing’s seatbelt again, then closed the passenger door and walked around the front of the car.
It had been three days. For these three days, she had been waiting for Huai Xing to get off work at the coffee shop opposite, and then she had snatched the job from Uncle Tai and Auntie Xiang.
On the way back to Chengshan Mansion, there was music playing in the car, and Huai Xing was playing on her phone in the passenger seat.
She said she was playing on her phone, but in fact, she was chatting with Zhuo Xin and the others on WeChat. The sunset was getting more and more brilliant, and it shone into her pupils through the car window. You could see the smile in her bright eyes.
While waiting for the red light to pass, Chu Wantang turned her head to the side and glanced at the person beside her.
She didn’t know who Huai Xing was chatting with, nor did she know what they were talking about. Just looking at the smile on Huai Xing’s face, she was very satisfied.
Because she was absolutely sure that the person Huai Xing liked was her, and they were going to start a real relationship today.
After Huai Xing had replied to her friends’ messages, she turned her head to the side and happened to meet Chu Wantang’s gentle gaze. She asked, “Why are you always looking at me?”
“Racing against time,” Chu Wantang said, her fingertips tapping lightly, and she said nonchalantly yet extremely seriously, “I want to see back all the six years I haven’t seen.”
Huai Xing lifted her chin, very generously. “Go ahead.”
She then cleared her throat with some embarrassment. “This is the last time you’ll be looking at me as a single person.”
Hearing her say this, Chu Wantang couldn’t stop laughing. “Mm, okay.”
The red light ahead turned green, and Chu Wantang continued to follow the traffic forward.
This time it was Huai Xing’s turn to prop her head on her hand and look at the person in the driver’s seat. In five months, Chu Wantang would be 34, and the traces of time on Chu Wantang were not obvious. She was still so noble, elegant, and charming.
She slowly retracted her gaze and looked at the dusk in the sky.
She said slowly, “Chu Wantang.”
“Hmm?”
“Today’s sunset is very beautiful,” Huai Xing said. “It’s the most beautiful when I’m watching it with you.”
Chu Wantang: “We’ll watch it together in the future too.”
In the future.
They had a future.
“Okay.”
There was a bit of a traffic jam, and it took them more than twenty minutes to get back to Chengshan Mansion.
Huai Xing entered the password, pushed open the door, and saw the fresh bouquets of flowers inside, which filled the storage cabinet in the entryway. There were all kinds of beautiful fresh flowers.
She did not turn her head to look at Chu Wantang, because when she looked further in, she could still see a gift castle that was as tall as a person piled up in the living room, all from various well-known big brands.
The castle was also surrounded by fresh flowers, and the orange light from outside the floor-to-ceiling window shone on it, making it look a little dreamlike.
Even though she knew that this confession would be successful, Chu Wantang was still a little nervous.
She stood beside Huai Xing, a little afraid to look at Huai Xing’s eyes, and said to herself, “You’ve also said before that you want to be a part of every category of my gifts.”
She paused. “I also think so.”
Huai Xing looked at this gift castle that was taller than her, blinked, and then turned her head to look at the somewhat uneasy Chu Wantang.
She took Chu Wantang’s hand and squeezed it. “Then do you want my participation in your life too?”
Hearing this, Chu Wantang’s eyes suddenly reddened.
She nodded heavily. “I do.”
Huai Xing hugged her and asked curiously, “How did you secretly arrange these gifts without me knowing?”
She did not forget to give feedback. “I like them very much.”
“I asked Little President Lu for help…” Chu Wantang said, her arms around her waist. “I put all the things in her room first, and I came back this afternoon to arrange them.”
Huai Xing’s eyes curved into a smile. “You’re the ones who work for the secret service.”
“Aren’t you too?” Chu Wantang also smiled. “Otherwise, why would you have specially waited for three days?”
The two of them hugged and swayed, and came to the sofa to bask in the sunset.
Huai Xing lifted herself up slightly. She looked at Chu Wantang’s eyes. “Two more hours, Jiejie.”
“Okay,” Chu Wantang said. She could wait for these two hours.
“Then I’ll go and make dinner. After we eat and take a shower, the time will be just right.” She had also fallen in love with the feeling of cooking for Huai Xing.
Huai Xing: “Wait a minute.”
She covered Chu Wantang’s eyes. “Let’s kiss for a while before we go.”
The kiss at dusk was exceptionally gentle.
…
At nine o’clock at night, Huai Xing’s spirit was highly tense, and she was looking at the messages on her phone from time to time.
Finally, a call came through. It was the security guard at the entrance, asking if he should let someone in. She told the security guard to let the person in.
Chu Wantang was “locked” in the guest room by her and was not allowed to appear. The two of them communicated through the door.
After waiting for a while, Huai Xing simply came to the elevator entrance.
She looked at the ascending and descending numbers of the elevator anxiously. After an unknown number of breaths, the elevator stopped at the eighth floor and did not go up or down. The two doors opened to the sides.
What appeared were Lu Xianyue and Wen Shiwei.
They looked at her, and Wen Shiwei deliberately asked, “Xingxing, are you waiting for us here?”
“Coincidentally,” Huai Xing said, not hiding it. “I’m waiting for the confession gift for Chu Wantang.”
Hearing Huai Xing mention something about Chu Wantang again, Wen Shiwei’s heart was calm. She had long since let it go, and she had long since gotten used to it.
Lu Xianyue, on the other hand, was curious. “What is the gift?”
“I’ll tell you later.”
“Alright,” Lu Xianyue said, waving her hand. “Then we’ll go in first. See you tomorrow.”
“See you tomorrow.”
After the little couple had entered the room, Huai Xing waited for another two minutes.
This time, when the elevator doors opened again, it was a delivery man.
After signing her name on the form, she took the transparent display case and walked in.
The door was not locked. She pushed it open with her leg, and then hooked it shut. She came to the door of the guest room and was about to knock with one hand.
The person inside was one second faster than her and opened it. Seeing the gift she was holding, she was clearly a little dazed.
There was a warm light on the top of the display case, which was now shining on the gift in the center.
The gift was a porcelain-carved “Four Seasons Letter.” It could be seen that a lot of thought had been put into it. Every petal and leaf was lifelike, and every line was exquisite.
Chu Wantang was afraid of weighing Huai Xing down and reached out to support the bottom of the display case.
The scene was peaceful and quiet.
The two of them looked at each other deeply. A dozen or so seconds later.
Huai Xing finally spoke nervously, “This is the gift I prepared. The first time I went to the coffee shop last month, I didn’t see you, so I made an appointment with a porcelain intangible cultural heritage craftsman I knew before for this ‘Four Seasons Letter.’ Fresh flowers will wither, but this one won’t.”
“Huai Xing,” Chu Wantang said, her eyes sparkling with tears. “I like you.”
Huai Xing couldn’t help but laugh. “I haven’t finished yet. But let’s put it in the master bedroom on the second floor first.” She hummed. “You’re blocking me from hugging you.”
“Okay.”
The display case was not very heavy, but Chu Wantang still carried it over. The two of them walked up the marble stairs, their steps both heavy and light.
It was as if they had crossed the past twelve years.
When they reached the master bedroom, they placed the thing on the desk.
Chu Wantang’s arms were not empty, and they were filled by Huai Xing.
The two of them fell onto the bed together. Huai Xing went to kiss the tears from the corners of Chu Wantang’s eyes, and then looked at the lover in front of her. She said softly, “In the time I’ve been separated from you, I’ve watched ‘Robot Dreams’ countless times. It’s very obvious that this movie is teaching everyone to face loss and growth, and it’s a compulsory course on saying goodbye. But at the same time, it’s also saying that memories and love will never fade.”
“Before, I was thinking that I might never be able to forget you in this lifetime, and I also couldn’t not love you. As I was thinking, I was very sad, because I knew my own persistence, and this was also an insurmountable distance between us. I knew you were at the coffee shop, and I also specially changed to the car I used to drive with you. You’re like Auntie Chu, and I’m like my mom…”
“It wasn’t until my mom left me that letter that she completely woke me up. Yes, I’m a person who looks brave but is actually timid. I’m afraid of repeating the same mistakes, and I’m afraid that your sincerity will turn out to be a pretense in the end… Mom was right. I should believe in myself more, not just in my ability to handle everything, but also in my own judgment and feelings.”
“The story of the little dog and the robot is ultimately their own story. It has taught us a lesson, but it has nothing to do with us.”
Huai Xing looked at the increasing number of tears flowing from the corners of Chu Wantang’s eyes and reached out to wipe them away. “Our story is called Huai Xing and Chu Wantang. Our story will not have regrets. It will be a happy ending, a happy ending. It will be like this porcelain-carved ‘Four Seasons Letter,’ and it will never fade.”
But as she spoke, she also started to cry, but she still insisted on finishing. “Chu Wantang, the weather is treacherous. To me, without you, no matter how bright the sunny day is, it’s not a good day. But with you, a rainy day is also a good day.” She asked with a smile, “Do you also think so?”
“I do,” Chu Wantang said, raising her hand to wipe her tears, and she smiled through her tears.
Huai Xing: “I like you.”
She expressed her feelings very solemnly. “I liked you at sixteen, I liked you at twenty, I liked you at twenty-four, and now at twenty-eight, I also like you.” She kissed the corner of Chu Wantang’s lips. “It doesn’t matter if you don’t know how to love me at 28. I know how to love you at 28. Of course, I think the current Chu Wantang should know very well how to love me.”
The warm light covered them. Chu Wantang held her, smelled the fragrance on her, and said with great emotion, “Thank you for loving me, Xingxing.”
“I know very well how to love you. What we’ll encounter next will always be good weather.”
“Then what’s our relationship now?”
“Lovers, couples, partners, girlfriends.”
Chu Wantang had removed the word “pre-.” She turned her head to the side and said in a blurry vision, “I want to kiss my girlfriend.”
