Chapter 17: You Are My Protagonist
Shen Yin woke up and found himself lying on an unfamiliar bed. She rubbed her head, and then remembered that she was at Wang Mengliang's house.
He walked in and saw that she was already up, "How's the rest?" Lunch is ready. β
Shen Yin covered her hair and asked embarrassedly, "How long have I been asleep?" β
He curled the corners of his mouth and glanced at his watch, "About an hour or so." He walked over to her and played with her bangs.
Shen Yin immediately covered his face with his hand, "Don't, I must be very unsightly now, right?" She hurried out of the bedroom and headed to the right.
"The mirror is on the right!" He corrected.
Shen Yin came back again, just knocked him down, he put his arms around her waist and hugged her, "You look so cute." β
"You let go first, I'm going to the bathroom." She smelled the smell of food on his body.
Wang Mengliang let go of her, "I'll wait for you in the living room." β
Shen Yin walked to the bathroom and saw himself in the mirror, and immediately blushed. Her hair was messy, her bangs were turned to the side, and the makeup on her face was a little spent. She simply washed her face, dipped her hair in water, and smoothed out her frizzy bangs.
She came to the living room and saw that the food had been set on the table, and Wang Mengliang was coming out of the kitchen with a plate of fried chicken in his hand, "Sit down and taste it?" β
He had pulled the chair apart from the chair next to him and motioned for her to sit beside him.
Shen Yin sat down and sandwiched a piece of fried chicken, which tasted very good, crispy and delicious, "Well, it's very delicious!" She looked satisfied.
"Why don't you come here every weekend and I'll make you something to eat?" He served her a bowl of fish soup and put it in front of her.
"Well, I'll call you before I come." She took a sip, "It's really a shame that you don't become a chef?" β
"Isn't it good for me to be your one-man chef?" He smiled dotingly at her.
He took out a box, and a pair of exquisite rings appeared on the table, he picked up a ring and held it up in front of her, "Shen Yin, can you be my girlfriend?" β
"Well, I promise you." Shen Yin stretched out his hand, and he gently put the ring on her middle finger. He also stretched out his hand to her, and Shen Yin immediately understood, took out another ring from the box and put it on his hand.
"Shen Yin, you have to believe that my love for you is unique, I want to spend the rest of my life with you, I want to share the joys and sorrows of your life with you, are you willing to always believe in me?" He took her hand, looked at her gently, and said softly.
"I believe in you." Shen Yin felt that happiness was about to overflow from his heart.
After lunch, she and Wang Mengliang finished cleaning up the tableware on the table together, and she saw that the time was already three o'clock in the afternoon.
Wang Mengliang glanced out the window and saw that there was still sunshine outside, so he asked Shen Yin if he would like to accompany him to a nearby park.
Shen Yin readily agreed, she took out the cosmetics in her bag and went to the bathroom to put on makeup. When she came out, she saw him sitting on the couch waiting for her.
Wang Mengliang held Shen Yin's hand and led her to the park. The park is full of uncles and aunts basking in the sun, and occasionally a few children are running around.
He kept holding her hand and walked to her left, "Didn't you say you wanted to bask in the sun?" Why carry the sun on your back? Shen Yin saw that they had been walking with the sun on their backs.
He smiled and looked at the pair of old men on the bench in front of him, they looked to be in their eighties, the man leaned on the back of the bench, one hand tightly supported his wife beside him, and the other hand held the hand of his wife, who was already asleep.
"Shen Yin, I hope that when we are old, we can be like them, and I will hold your hand firmly like this." He bowed his head and whispered in his ear.
"Hehe, when you're old, I don't know if you'll remember me." Shen Yin covered his mouth and smiled.
He touched her head, "When that time comes, I'll fill my house with your picture, and then write your name and our story, as soon as I open my eyes, I will see you and see our bits and pieces." β
"Uh, then I'm going to have my photos ready in advance." Shen Yin smiled and was about to take out her phone from her pocket, but she realized that it had just been placed on the sofa.
Wang Mengliang handed her her mobile phone, she opened the lock screen, and found that his mobile phone lock screen wallpaper was her photo, in the photo she was wearing a light blue dress, it was a smile from her eyes, "When did you secretly take pictures of me?" She remembered the end of the summer when she first met him.
"When I first met you." He replied calmly.
"Did you like me at that time?" Her heart was a little shocked.
He thought for a while, touched his chin and said, "It must have been a long time ago." β
"Why didn't you tell me sooner?" Her heart was a little moved, she didn't expect that she could be liked by the person she liked for a long time.
"Because I'm worried about you." He said lightly.
Shen Yin threw herself into his arms, her eyes shining with tears, and her nose was a little sour.
He touched her head and said softly, "Thank God, you are my girlfriend, no, my 'fiancΓ©e'." He said the words 'fiancΓ©e' at a long time, and Shen Yin's face flushed slightly, "I want to be engaged to you, when do you think it is appropriate?" β
Shen Yin raised his head and met his gaze, "I'm going to take you to meet my family first, and I'm going to discuss it with them." β
"Well, I'll wait for you."
They walked in the park for an hour, the sun was sinking in the west, the people in the park were decreasing, and there seemed to be a cold wind blowing in the air.
They returned to Wang Mengliang's house and sat down for a while, and he made two cups of coffee and put them on the coffee table. They sat side by side on the sofa, Shen Yin leaning on his shoulder.
Shen Yin took out the delicate box and put it in his hand, "This thing was given to me by my aunt, so I'll put it here for the time being." β
"Come, I'll put it on for you." He took out the necklace and prepared to put it around her neck.
"Don't do it yet, I want to wear it next time I see my uncle." Shen Yin blocked his hand and said, "I know that these things can't be figured out in a short time, I'll wait for you." β
"Well, don't worry, I'll take care of it as soon as possible." He smiled and stroked her head.
Shen Yin didn't tell him that she was now a signed cartoonist, she just saw a text message prompt on her mobile phone - it was a reminder text message from someone from the editorial department, and after she looked at her phone, she had been chatting with someone from the editorial department.
Wang Mengliang saw that she had been looking at her phone, and asked, "Is there anything wrong with you?" β
She hurriedly waved her hand and turned off her phone, "It's okay, it's just a boring reminder text message." β
"Is it true?" With a suspicious face, he took her mobile phone, put the phone in front of her, and motioned for her to unlock it, Shen Yin had to use his fingerprint to unlock it, he looked through the software installed on her mobile phone, "Why don't you even have a game software on your phone?" Suddenly, he leaned over to her, "Why don't I teach you how to play?" β
She pouted, "No, I should go back." β
"This 'Shadow Xiaoxiao' is your pen name?" He flipped through her phone's photo album.
"How can you mess around with my phone?" She wanted to take her phone, but she was too short to be his opponent at all.
"Why that strange name?" He laughed.
"It was just a casual start at the time, at that time, I had just graduated from college, and a comic I drew happened to be noticed by an editor, and he wanted to sign a contract with me, and I had a pen name called 'su'
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But my sister in the editorial department said that my pen name was too vulgar, so she asked me to change it, so I just gave one to me. β
"Alright, here you go!" He gave her the phone back and draped the slippery blanket over her body, "In the future, you have to go to bed early, don't carry a 'panda eye' all day long, hehe." He got up and went to the kitchen.
After a while, he came out of the kitchen, smiled at her, and said, "You pack your things first, and I'll send you home right away." β
Shen Yin turned off the TV, put the blankets and cushions on the sofa neatly, and he took a lunch box and put it on the table, "This is some fish soup, I warmed it up, you can eat it directly after you take it home." β
They walked downstairs, Shen Yin stood at the door with a lunch box and waited for him, while he went to the garage to drive.
The weather outside is getting dark, and the weather forecast says there will be light snow tonight. He sent Shen Yin to the door of the community she rented and waved goodbye.
Shen Yin came home, the quilt and clothes on the bed had not been sorted out, she boiled a pot of hot water first, turned on the power of the notebook, it seemed that she was going to stay up until about eight o'clock tonight.
At eight o'clock in the evening, Shen Yin finally delivered the manuscript on time, she sat up and stretched, and found that she had been sitting for three hours. She accidentally saw the lunch box on the table and hurriedly opened it, and a strong smell of fish soup stimulated her taste buds, and there were two vegetables in it. She took a bite and felt that the food was still warm, so she ate it.
She thought about it while eating, thinking about drawing the relationship between her and Wang Mengliang into a cartoon, and the general story framework had been formed in her mind, and she wanted to tell her editorial head about this idea. Her current head of editing is a girl of her age, and Shen Yin often calls her "Jiuhe".
As soon as she turned on her phone, she saw a friend application on Weibo, and she immediately agreed, thinking it was her comic fan. She clicked in and found that it was a man, and the name of Weibo was "Waiting for the Wind to Come", so she browsed the other party's Weibo by the way, and she was attracted by a Weibo. The content of this Weibo is:
I thought that if I persevered to the end, I would get the desired result
Even if it's just to see you again
Every time I think about it, this becomes an extravagant hope...
However, if I can meet you again, it will be a wilderness
I would too
Shen Yin saw that this Weibo was published in March 2015.
After that, she saw another Weibo post that read:
It's finally not my one-man show anymore
The moment I met you, I found that the door in my heart was open
Shine into the light
I don't know, would you like to be my main character?
This was published in August 2019.
Suddenly, she received a message on her phone saying "Wait for the wind to come" and posted a new Weibo, and she clicked on it and saw that the content was:
Today, you are my protagonist
It will also be my protagonist forever
And I'm willing to be a supporting role for your life
My stage is wonderful because of you
As soon as she finished reading it, a new message prompted on her phone, "Shen Yin, my protagonist." β
She had already guessed that this "waiting for the wind" was Wang Mengliang, and then another message came, "Do you know? It's all about you, and I miss you so much. β
Shen Yin slowly browsed his Weibo, feeling as if happiness was about to overflow. She looked at the time at eight forty, rubbed her sleepy eyes, cleaned up the lunch box on the table, put on her clothes and prepared to go to the supermarket, prepare more dry food, she will continue to work tomorrow, and there is no extra time to eat breakfast and dinner these days, because there is still a week to go before the New Year, and she has to go to three more days to rest, so she must prepare the sketches for this period of vacation in advance.
It was already snowing lightly outside, and there were few pedestrians on the road, except for the nearby supermarket that was still open. Shen Yin wore a down jacket, a hat and a mask, completely wrapping herself like a 'zongzi'. The light snow in the south couldn't accumulate, and it melted immediately when it fell to the ground, but the humidity in the air was very high, she opened the glass door of the supermarket, touched the cold doorknob, and a chill spread straight to the bottom of her heart.
There were two aunts chatting in the supermarket, and they saw Shen Yin coming in and stared at her for a long time. Shen Yin didn't take off his mask because he was troublesome, ignored the strange eyes of the aunts, walked straight to the snack area, picked up some potato chips and biscuits, and bought some fruits.