Because of the delay of the plane, it was already more than 3 o'clock in the morning when Ye Qingyun arrived at the hotel booked. In order to attend his cousin Nie Shuangshuang's wedding, he stayed up late and worked overtime for more than half a month before he barely took 4 days off. The lack of energy and sleep was too late to meet the plane, which made him wait for no temper at all.

On the plane, on the hotel bus, he dozed off all the way, so that the back of his white shirt had wrinkles of different shades because of leaning on the back of the chair for a long time. I didn't feel it when I was wearing a suit outside, but when I entered the hotel lobby at this moment, I took off my coat casually, revealing a shirt that was no longer neat after a long journey, which made this tall man who dragged his suitcase to check in look lonely.

But even the heavy dark circles under his eyes and the faint scum on his chin could not hide the handsome temperament naturally exuded between his eyebrows and eyes. With a clear and capable outline, healthy wheat-colored skin, just the right proportions above the bridge of the nose, and sword eyebrows, the front desk waiter lady who is used to seeing all kinds of handsome guys in a five-star hotel still can't help but look at him a few more times.

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Room 3202.

Floor-to-ceiling windows, condescending, can see the MC's brilliant night view. Ye Qingyun put his hands in his trouser pockets, and stood quietly in front of the glass window with his back straight for two minutes, as if to confirm where he was. Then he raised his hand and pulled the curtain tightly.

When I sleep, it's dark.

When I woke up, the room was still dark, except for a dim nightlight on the dresser. Ye Qingyun touched his mobile phone on the bedside table, and at 1:27 p.m., there were 3 missed calls and a bunch of WeChat messages.

I slept for nearly 10 hours.

He tugged at the corners of his mouth slightly, revealing a helpless smile.

When he got up and opened the heavy curtains, the afternoon sun broke through the window, stinging him uncomfortably and squinting slightly. The MC's day is not as bustling as it looks at night, and the buildings are gray, which may also be due to the fact that he stands tall, which makes him feel deserted for no reason.

The calls were from cousin Nie Shuangshuang and assistant Xiao Zhou, the former 2 and the latter 1. Ye Qingyun called Nie Shuangshuang back first, reported his safety, and agreed to meet later. Then he opened WeChat and listened to the voice sent by Xiao Zhou, and Rory chattered dozens of work reports, and he only replied with 3 words "I know".

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There is a hotel floor sign at the elevator door, Ye Qingyun glanced twice from top to bottom and from bottom to top, from the guest room swimming pool banquet hall to the casino, and then from the casino banquet hall swimming pool to the guest room, and finally decided to go to the café on the seventeenth floor to sit.

The greeteress in a blue uniform pulled open the glass door and politely bent down and said, "Good afternoon." ”

Ye Qingyun was stunned as if he had been electrocuted when he caught a glimpse of the pale pink soft figure on the swing chair leaning against the door not far away.

The thin pink sweater with one side of the shoulders was loosely draped over a girl with a snow-white skin and slender skeleton, and the soft hem revealed a light gray pleated skirt, and a short piece of fabric hung casually on the wooden board of the swing chair, only vaguely covering a little thighs, so that the legs stretched against the ground looked particularly long and straight.

The pillars of the swing chair are next to the wall, but the coffee table in front of it is surrounded by floor-to-ceiling glass, and the sunlight shines through the window on the small piece of ground in front of the coffee table and the swing chair. So with the force of the girl's legs, the swing swayed, allowing her to fall into the bright sunlight for a while, and then return to the hazy shadows. The long chestnut curls that hung down lazily on the shoulders also reflected the sunlight and became golden for a while, and then disappeared into a deep ink color.

The girl lowered her head and flipped through a thick book, and the movement of the swing was fast and slow, which looked particularly comfortable.

The corners of Ye Qingyun's lips couldn't help but evoke a shallow smile. Although there was a big difference in appearance from the impression of the petite short-haired girl many years ago, he still recognized her from her silhouette at first sight.

13 years.

I have fantasized about countless reunions: class reunions, going to the supermarket, going to the doctor when I am sick, going to the cinema...... For these countless possibilities, he returned to his hometown Hecheng to work as soon as he graduated from university, looking forward to an unexpected encounter in this most familiar homeland, in a small city of less than 4,000 square kilometers, on a casual street corner.

13 years.

I am also ready to never see each other again in this life.

But I never thought that I would see this girl buried deep in my heart in this completely unfamiliar MC, the café on the seventeenth floor of the hotel.

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"Sir, please come in." The welcome waiter saw that Ye Qingyun had been standing at the door for a long time without moving, so he urged softly.

So he finally came to his senses, bowed slightly in the direction of the waiter, and walked in with his long legs. I never took my eyes off the swing chair by the window.

Calm, slow, with the pounding of his heart, he came to her side and stood still, his low, magnetic voice falling softly from above her: "Miss, may I sit here?" ”

Cheng Jiayi followed the voice and raised his head, his eyes met him in the air through the round frame, and his expression instantly turned from a slightly frowning dazed slight annoyance to a soft joy: "Why are you?" ”

"Didn't you say long time no see?" Ye Qingyun smiled and sat in another swing chair opposite the coffee table, but because her legs were too long, she couldn't stretch and shake like Cheng Jiayi, so she could only bend up and hold the chair steady.

"Hmm...... I really haven't seen you for a long time......" Cheng Jiayi tilted his head and thought for a moment, "It's been more than ten years, right?" ”

Ye Qingyun took the MENU handed by the waiter, lowered his head and flipped through a few pages, ordered a cup of white coffee and a sandwich, and said lightly: "Thirteen years." It was as if thirteen years had been as short and easy for him as a few weeks or months.

"Thirteen years~" Cheng Jiayi was born with a baby voice, and after prolonging the end of the sentence, it sounded like she was coquettish. When strangers hear her voice, their first reaction is either that she is still young or that she is probably very contrived. So she often has times when she is troubled by her voice.

But Ye Qingyun is very familiar with her voice, and she can hear the inner emotion hidden behind it from the coquettishness on the surface. He let out a faint "um" and looked back at her face. He has a round baby face, shallow eyebrows, and a pair of big eyes that are round and watery, dark and clear. When he was a child, he would think of her eyes whenever he saw an article that compared the eyes to the windows of the soul, or described the eyes that could speak.

Then, his smile widened: "You haven't changed at all~"

"But you're getting handsome!" Cheng Jiayi tilted his head mischievously, put the bookmark into the page, closed the book, and put it on the coffee table. On the yellow cover, the three big black characters of the title met Ye Qingyun's eyes, and he asked a little incredulously: "The Theory of Relativity"? ”

"Hmm......" Cheng Jiayi picked up the coffee cup on the coffee table, covered it in the palm of his hand, and his eyes fell straight into the cup, "I have a lot of things I don't understand, maybe reading some science can make me understand better." ”

The still pleasant baby voice was like an invisible little hand pinching Ye Qingyun's heart lightly, suffocating and congested.

He knew she wasn't doing well.

But in the next second, she became bright again, like a swing swinging forward into the sun: "Why are you here MC?" ”

Ye Qingyun: "My cousin is married, tomorrow, here." What about you? ”

"Broken love, come to heal." Cheng Jiayi had a smile on the corner of his mouth, as if he was telling a warm happy event.

So Ye Qingyun also continued Fang Cai's relaxed tone: "Shouldn't you go to an ancient literary city like Lijiang to heal your wounds?" How do you come to the MC with a lot of fields? ”

"The material and spirit are empty, and the spirit is difficult to fill, so I judged that the people who went in and out of the DU field were rich people, and they might be able to solve the material emptiness first." Cheng Jiayi used a force on his legs and swung himself into the shadows again.

Ye Qingyun couldn't help laughing: "Nesting in a five-star hotel to watch "Theory of Relativity", what do I think of you, the material and spirit are empty!" ”

After finishing speaking, he glanced at Cheng Jiayi's exposed snow-white thighs meaningfully, and smiled evilly and dragged a long voice: "Ah~ No wonder ......"

Cheng Jiayi pulled the corners of her skirt embarrassedly, tucked her legs awkwardly, stopped swinging, and propped up the chair steadily. It just so happened that the waiter brought coffee and sandwiches. Ye Qingyun took coffee and swallowed the sandwich in three or two bites.

Cheng Jiayi: "Hungry like this? ”

Ye Qingyun slurred: "Hmm...... I didn't eat two meals. ”

Cheng Jiayi: "When did you come?" ”

Ye Qingyun: "Early in the morning, what about you?" When did it come? How long? ”

Cheng Jiayi: "It's the third day, stay for a week, maybe fly to Thailand and come back for a week." ”

Ye Qingyun: "Really rely on being here?" Or is it ...... Got a goal? ”

Cheng Jiayi: "......"

"Are you free tomorrow? Accompany me to the wedding, my cousin is 6 years younger than me and is married, and the elders will definitely nag me, so I should do me a favor and pretend to be my girlfriend for a day. Ye Qingyun drank coffee in a half-joking tone.

The sudden change of topic made Cheng Jiayi stunned, and sorted out the literal meaning again in his mind, puffing out his cheeks and shaking his head again and again: "Don't!" Your parents know me, if you really misunderstand, how embarrassing it will be in the future. ”

Later...... Ye Qingyun bent the corners of her lips thoughtfully, and did not force it, and continued to drink coffee.

Cheng Jiayi seemed to suddenly understand Ye Qingyun's voiceover, and asked in surprise: "Huh?" Are you still single? ”

"Well, single." Ye Qingyun didn't care, and asked indifferently, "Aren't you also single?" ”

Cheng Jiayi: "I...... I heard that many of my old classmates are married, and some of my children can make soy sauce, so I ......"

Ye Qingyun: "Well, the earliest seems to be ...... Zhu Yue, she got married as soon as she graduated from high school, and now her children are 9 years old......"

Cheng Jiayi: "I really didn't see it, you are also so gossipy?" ”

Ye Qingyun: "I knew it when I was in the class reunion...... It's open every year, why don't you come? ”

"I ......" Cheng Jiayi spit out a word, and was interrupted by the ringtone of the iPhone, Ye Qingyun took out the phone from his trouser pocket apologetically, Nie Shuangshuang's name, he picked it up, and replied, "I'll come down immediately." And he hung up.

"You go get busy first~" Cheng Jiayi smiled at him, but his relaxed lazy tone seemed to be sending off guests.

Ye Qingyun let out an uncomfortable "um", stood up from the swing chair, and put the phone back in his trouser pocket.

Cheng Jiayi picked up the book on the coffee table again, and set up Erlang's legs freely, spread the pages on his thighs, then raised his head and waved his right hand and said, "Bye-bye~"

Ye Qingyun took a few steps, couldn't help but turn around, frowned lightly and asked, "Are you okay alone?" ”

"Do you think I have a problem?" The smile on Cheng Jiayi's face became sweeter.

Ye Qingyun muttered the word "like" in her heart, but her expression disguised from the original worry to relaxation: "Hmm...... You've grown up, and I can't help but think of you as the little girl I used to be, afraid that you will be in danger alone......"

In Cheng Jiayi's slightly moved surprised gaze, Ye Qingyun pretended to walk out of the café calmly and turned into the elevator room on the right.

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When Nie Shuangshuang was seven or eight years old, her parents died in a car accident, and she has been living at her grandmother's house, that is, Ye Qingyun's grandmother's house. At that time, she studied in a school in the town, while Ye Qingyun studied in a school in the city because her parents went to work in the city very early. But every winter and summer vacation, he still goes back to his grandmother's house for a period of time because his parents are busy with work and no one takes care of him.

The few months of vacation every year get along with each other, so that the relationship between the brother and sister is very close.

So this time she invited him to come to the wedding to perform the father's ceremony. At the banquet, he had to give her hand to the groom and give a congratulatory speech on behalf of his mother's family.

As soon as Ye Qingyun got out of the elevator, he saw Nie Shuangshuang waiting in the hotel lobby in a bright red dress, although he was 6 years younger, he looked like he had already lost his childishness, and the delicate plate that he picked up added a charming and mature charm to her melon seed face. Naturally, he wrapped his arms around his arms and did not say hello, and while walking, he explained the precautions for tomorrow's wedding.

Looking at this little cousin in her early twenties, with a look of longing, Ye Qingyun couldn't help but curl the corners of her lips. Although he had communicated the process of the wedding countless times on the phone, he still responded seriously with a little bit as she spoke in detail at the moment.

Finally, he asked, "Where are we going now?" ”

"Ah, I just forgot to tell you, grandma, they arrived early, and we will go to the XX Hotel to have dinner with them now."

Nie Shuangshuang was admitted to the southern city in college, and she rarely returned to her hometown since then, so she didn't know many relatives, and the wedding was held in MC, and the only elders invited to attend were her grandmother, eldest uncle, eldest aunt (that is, Ye Qingyun's parents) and little uncle and aunt (that is, Ye Qingyun's uncle and aunt).

The opportunity was rare, so they took a few more days off, chartered a tour group of Hong Kong and Macao, and a few days ago in HK, agreed to arrive at MC at 8 o'clock tonight.

Ye Qingyun asked with some surprise: "Didn't you say that it would be at 8 o'clock in the evening?" It's only past 4 o'clock, and my mom hasn't called me. ”

"I don't know the specifics, the tour guide informed me before, my uncle and aunt thought the communication fee was too expensive, and said that they would see it in a while, so I wouldn't waste these few dollars."

Ye Qingyun shook his head helplessly: "The land in the province is not provincial, but the place that should not be saved is tight......"

It wasn't until he walked out of the door of the hotel that he suddenly remembered something and turned around, he didn't ask Cheng Jiayi for his mobile phone number just now, nor did he ask for the room number, so ...... He suddenly felt a little congested, looked up at the 38-story tall building again, and sat in the taxi at the door with Nie Shuangshuang without loneliness.