Come on Darling - Chapter 8

? Even if I met Chu Xiu on the road, it did not affect Ai Xiaoye’s good mood this day.

After eating dumplings in the evening, she went with Dad Ai to set off firecrackers to celebrate the New Year.

The whole city is setting off firecrackers and fireworks. The red, green, blue and purple fireworks from far and near were in full bloom in the sky, and the sound of car sirens accompanied the shaking of the earth. It’s noisy, but it’s full of life.

The night is very cold in winter, and the snow that melts is frozen into ice during the day. Ai Xiaoye ran out wrapped tightly, and only his red nose and those dark and bright phoenix eyes were exposed, and he exhaled white breath.

Ai Xiaoye’s father picked up the firecrackers with a bamboo pole, and she ran over. The gloves are too thick, and I didn’t even poke them after lighting the incense stick twice. Ai Xiaoye’s father said, “Why are you so stupid, let me come.”

Ai Xiaoye had already set firecrackers on while she was speaking, and her previous heroic bravery burned out quickly like a fuse. She covered her ears and hugged her head. Papa Ai picked up the bamboo pole and laughed.

The sound of firecrackers shook people’s ears.

Julian finally caught Ai Xiaoye, and put her in his arms and helped her cover her ears. Ai Xiaoye tilted her head to see him, then curled her eyes and laughed, pressing the big glove on the back of his hand. Two people watched the firecrackers together, the light and dark fire reflected in the eyes, playful and warm.

Later, when the sound of firecrackers stopped, Julian asked: “Is it so afraid of the cold?”

Ai Xiaoye said: “It’s super cold, okay? You men are not normal. Standing on a snowdrift, your hands are hot.”

Julian thought for a while and said, “That’s why I can warm your bed.”

Dad Ai pulled the bamboo pole over with a snap, and Julian raised his hand quickly to block it.

Papa Ai said, “I’m sorry I slipped a bit…” and warned, “It’s best not to let me slip a second time.”

Of course it is impossible to warm the bed or something.

When she returned upstairs, Ai Xiaoye’s mother was clearing Julian’s room.

Said it is a guest room, but it is actually the study room of Ai Xiaoye’s father. Inside, there are bookcases on three sides, containing nearly 10,000 books. Although the computer in the room is an old antique 10 years ago, it is well maintained. It runs smoothly, and the internet speed is quite impressive. Although Ai Xiaoye’s father never went to university, he has always been self-study. He has just passed the senior engineering review before retiring. He has a high acceptance and understanding of new things. He specifically cataloged his collection of e-books and physical books, and also wrote a search program.

Ai Xiaoye’s father set a condition for a time. If Ai Xiaoye’s future boyfriend wants to marry her, he must read more than half of the books he has collected. He felt that in this way, he would not have to worry about her daughter marrying a stubborn student.

Ai Xiaoye was worried for a time. What if she was interested in a liberal arts student who was as stubborn as her in physics? Most of what her father received was physics, mechanics, and engineering.

Of course, after a few years, both of them will understand that they think too much… because Ai Xiaoye can’t find a boyfriend at all!

Bringing Julian in today, Dad Ai suddenly remembered his dream of turning his son-in-law into a “young” period.

Just say, “Come on, Xiao Zhu, let’s talk.”

Of course Ai Xiaoye immediately understood her father’s careful thinking, and silently thought: …Poor father, you are challenging the robot’s knowledge and memory!

10 minutes later, Ai Xiaoye’s father was defeated. Go back to your room, pull out the mobile hard disk, and go in again. After another 10 minutes, he was defeated again.

Ai Xiaoye thought that the logical thinking ability and memory that Dad Ai is most proud of finally encountered Waterloo for the second time.

The first time was of course on Ai Xiaoye. As soon as the physics class was offered in grade 7, Dad Ai patted Ai Xiaoye on the shoulder and promised: Dad has good genetics, don’t be afraid of Ye Ye, you must be good at it. As a result, after half a semester, Ai Xiaoye took a 9-point physics test paper and came to him to sign.

Ai Xiaoye’s father stopped believing in evil, so he decided to personally help her with tutoring: if you don’t believe in religion, you won’t be the one! Ai Xiaoye: Don’t underestimate my stupidity, our teacher has lost to me.

As a result, Dad Ai, who had no suspense, also lost to her.

Ai Xiaoye’s physical talent is terrifying. At one time, Ai Xiaoye’s father suspected that if he had not held the wrong child in the hospital, he must have accidentally fed her the wrong medicine.

Fortunately, Ai Xiaoye was lucky. He took the physics exam twice in his life, one for the high school entrance examination and the other for the college entrance examination.

Half an hour later, Ai Xiaoye’s father finally ended the test with a defeat. Although she was defeated, she was beaming in her heart, and secretly pulled Ai Xiaoye’s mother and said, “This IQ is definitely over 200. Except for Ye Yeban, the boy named Shen Yu, I have never seen such a smart one. I think it works.”

Ai Xiaoye helped her mother draw embroidery patterns, pretending not to hear.

Mother Ai said, “Go and ask Julian to watch TV together. It’s the New Year’s Eve, no one shut the guest in the study.”

Julian was in the study alone, not in a hurry to go out.

Most of the books in the study belong to Dad Ai Xiaoye. But there is a small window in the southeast corner, and the stacked things in it are Ai Xiaoye’s own. There are trophies, certificates, photo albums that she has won since childhood, her diary, reading notes, and her collection of romance novels, girl comics, and comic booklets and picture albums that she has created.

Julian stared at Ai Xiaoye’s diary and was silent for a moment.

So caring…

However, it is undoubtedly a very bad option to take advantage of the fact that the master is no longer peeking at the diary. If you are caught, you will definitely lose your impression instantly.

Of course, Julian can guarantee that he will not be caught, but he still feels that Ai Xiaoye is reluctant to tell him, peeking is just asking for trouble.

He finally raised his hand to draw the photo album on the top.

When Ai Xiaoye entered the room and saw Julian looking at her photo album, she smiled and walked over and asked, “Is it cute when I was a kid?”

Julian said, “Well, it’s so cute.”

Ai Xiaoye is actually not a big beauty, but she has a good temperament. Guazi face, white skin, black eyes, looks classic and quiet. It belongs to the type that is durable and comfortable to look at.

But her appearance seemed somewhat boring to young people—because she didn’t know how to play at first glance. And what’s especially unlucky is that she is not stunning enough, but she has a special physique that attracts beautiful women, and she has always had no shortage of glamorous girlfriends since she was a child.

Therefore, even if you are a little familiar with her, you will know that she is not the kind of personality that she looks like, but at that time, the boys have already fallen in love with the girl next to her.

In addition, Ai Xiaoye was taught by his dad, the more she was in front of a handsome guy, the more she would get colder unconsciously… It was a matter of course that she could never make a boyfriend.

Recalling the first puberty of the tragic love, Ai Xiaoye must hold a handful of bitter tears for herself.

She didn’t have a lot of photos, and when she went up and looked at it, she found that Julian was almost at the end.

She pointed to the photo under the weeping willow tree and said to Julian, “This was taken when she graduated from high school. The back is our classroom.”

It was an obvious grabbing photo. In the photo, she turned her head back with her lips pursed, her face cramped and ignorant, and her cheeks were still red.

Julian asked: “Who took this picture?”

Ai Xiaoye’s eyes were black and dark, and after a while, she said, “The classmates in the next class. I forgot whether it was Shen Yu or Zhao Mengmeng.” She flipped a sheet back and said, “It’s all my high school classmates. At the seaside of City A.”

As soon as he was about to turn over, Julian pointed to a person inside and asked, “Who is this?” Ai Xiaoye said, “This is Shen Yu.” He pointed to the other two, “This is Zhao Mengmeng, this is Liu Yuanhang. In the first year of high school, the four of us sat at the front and back tables and were very good friends. So after graduating from high school, we went to travel together.”

Julian flipped back silently, and all the pictures of these four people appeared in front of him. Each of the typical graduation travel photos reveals the pride of “the serf turns over and sings”, tacitly squinting the shapes against each other, smiling heartlessly.

Julian stopped on a certain photo.

That was the only photo of Shen Yu and Ai Xiaoye. It should be the photo of that trip, but the whole atmosphere is very uncoordinated. They probably wanted to be warm and natural, but both of them had stiff expressions and kept a very delicate distance between their bodies. The most important thing is to blush.

Julian was silent for a moment and asked: “Do you like him?”

Ai Xiaoye was taken aback, and quickly denied, “Nothing…” She was inexplicably guilty when seeing Julian’s icy sculptural face, and finally added in a low voice, “It’s a crush at best.”

“Have you always had a crush?”

Ai Xiaoye thought for a while, and said: “I confessed it in my sophomore year, but he pretended not to hear it. It’s a crush until he died.”

Julie exhaled quietly, got up and pushed the door to the balcony. Then lock the door. Ai Xiaoye found through the glass that he had opened the window outside, and the cold wind mixed in with ice and snow. He stood quietly in the wind.

Ai Xiaoye thinks he wants to be calm and calm. She feels a little guilty—but this is really nothing. You see, she is 28, so it’s fine if she has never been in a relationship. If she hasn’t even had a crush, it’s worth worrying about, okay… she knocked on the window. Julian’s back stiffened, but he still didn’t look back.

Ai Xiaoye said: “Uh…I am a human, I can’t live without the past? But it’s really a long time ago. I have graduated for 10 years. If it weren’t for the photo, I wouldn’t even look like Shen Yu. remembered.”

Ai Xiaoye: …how could there be such a jealous robot! And it actually made her feel awkward! Isn’t it a privilege for girls to be awkward? !

Ai Xiaoye hesitated, whether to let him stay calm and calm here alone, or open the window and climb to the balcony to enlighten her personally.

—She is quite good at enlightening people. This is mainly due to her years of experience in self-enlightenment.

But at this time, the room was suddenly dark. The air-conditioning sound humming in the sound of firecrackers also slowly stopped like being pinched. Ai Xiaoye’s eyes gradually turned off the lights of the entire city. Darkness and silence fell suddenly. The sound of firecrackers soon stopped.

Someone downstairs asked: “What’s the matter, the power went out?”

Obviously there was a power outage. Ai Xiaoye hurried out to help her mother find a backup power supply, but she just got up and heard a long external alarm, and a peaceful female voice sounded on the radio, “Due to the overload of the circuit, a temporary circuit failure occurred in this area. The staff is working Please don’t panic if you are rushing to repair it. It is estimated that the power supply will be restored within half an hour. We apologize for the inconvenience caused to the residents.”

Ai Xiaoye: …Meow, what kind of alarm are you calling for such a thing! Hey!

However, Ai Xiaoye thought about it carefully. This seems to be the first time she has encountered a sudden large-scale blackout in more than 20 years.

After thinking about it, she knocked on the window again, “I’m very afraid of the dark…you don’t want to be awkward, okay?”

She originally just took the opportunity to act like a baby, who knew that Julian really closed the window and came back quietly.

There are almost no lights outside, only the distant fireworks extinguished in the air. Ai Xiaoye can vaguely see his figure, but it is still difficult to determine the location.

She reached for it, “Julian?”

Julian held her wrist, he was like a nocturnal creature, and darkness was completely his home court. Ai Xiaoye didn’t even notice when he bullied himself forward. It was just suddenly pushed down on the bed. His body pressed down, and his lips blocked her. It feels very strange, his clothes are so cold, but his body is hot. Lips are the same, uncomfortably hot and soft in the cold. There is a faint fruity smell in the mouth.

It hurts a little… he tried too hard. But it hasn’t reached the point of being intolerable. Ai Xiaoye thought: Jealous robots or something… It’s not so easy to deal with.

The kiss didn’t last long, and he seemed to realize quickly that he was pushing too hard.

When he let go of her, Ai Xiaoye quickly pressed against his chest and warned with a lack of confidence, “Hey, don’t take advantage of the darkness. I hold my grudges.”

Julian just breathed slowly in her ears.

Later he said, “I will restrain myself, don’t worry.”

Ai Xiaoye always felt that there was something wrong with this sentence, but couldn’t find it out, so she had to say dullly, “Oh. Can you let me go now?”