Cappuccino Rhapsody

After Ling Jiangyuan fell asleep, Qi Xu suffered from insomnia. He gently moved Ling Jiangyuan's hand on his waist, and tiptoed up to the living room.Qi Xu opened the glass door and stood outside the balcony. The weather in December was already very cold, and the cold wind made Qi Xu's body covered with goose bumps layer after layer.

He took out his mobile phone and swiped Weibo for a long time. Regarding the comments on cappuccino on it, he found it boring in the end.

At the current time, country M should be daytime.

In fact, Qi Xu got Bai Ying's phone number a long time ago, but never thought of calling it.

It was a very accidental opportunity, when he graduated from senior year a few years ago, he saw Bai Ying again.The two met in City B. Bai Ying, as a female entrepreneur who donated the library of his alma mater, was very sharp-eyed and caught Qi Xu standing on the stage. The crowd shouted his name, Qi Xu could only stop.

The two chatted briefly, without even mentioning Ling Jiangyuan's name.

Bai Ying's phone number was saved at that time, but Qi Xu never called it.

On the other end of the phone, several busy tones rang first, Qi Xu lowered his eyes, and involuntarily clenched the railing tightly.The moment Bai Ying's voice sounded, Qi Xu took a breath and turned his back to the railing.

"Sister Bai, it's me." Qi Xu fell silent after finishing speaking.

Bai Ying seemed to react for a while, and then tried to say: "It's a call from China, and the voice is very familiar..." She paused, then suddenly smiled, "Qi Xu?"

"En." Qi Xu responded, "Yes."

"What's the matter?" Bai Ying seemed to be busy, but still asked seriously, "I thought you would call me earlier, but I didn't expect that now—"

She sighed: "Some time ago, I said happy birthday to Jiang Yuan, and heard that you two were very noisy. I think... he has returned to his previous life, right?"

Qi Xu said "hmm": "If what you said about your past life means the same as what I think."

Bai Ying laughed twice: "It's much later than I thought, and it's been more than a year since I went back. What about you?" Bai Ying paused, "You didn't call me when you met me when you graduated from senior year. Instead, you came to call me after meeting Jiang Yuan again, what does that mean?"

Qi Xu finally said: "Are you not married?"

There was a rare moment of silence on the other end, as if Bai Ying had found a quieter place to calm down and answer his question: "Yes."

"Why?" Qi Xu asked, "You like him, he likes you, and decided to get married, why not?"

Bai Ying was stunned for a moment, then suddenly smiled: "He told you that he likes me?"

Qi Xu didn't speak.

"Okay." Bai Ying sighed helplessly, "I have to apologize for this matter. The situation is very complicated, but I can tell you with certainty that although Jiang Yuan and I are childhood sweethearts, if we can be together, We were together as early as the most impulsive age of seventeen or eighteen, so we can't wait until now—let alone..."

Bai Ying suddenly paused, which caused Qi Xu's heart to hang several feet high, but he didn't interrupt Bai Ying's words.

Then Bai Ying continued: "I like girls."

When Qi Xu entered the room, the cool wind also let in, and he quickly closed the door.

Sleeping drowsily, Ling Jiangyuan rubbed his eyes with both hands, and looked at him: "You haven't slept yet? I've had several dreams."

Qi Xu sat down beside him, gently rubbing the corner of his warm mouth with his fingertips.

Ling Jiangyuan frowned, and said, "Hands are so cold." After a pause, he said, "Come into bed quickly, and I'll warm you up."

Qi Xu thought that the other party disliked him, and suddenly laughed when he heard the second half of the sentence. He bent down and laid his head on Ling Jiangyuan's chest.Ling Jiangyuan was stunned for a moment, then gently moved Qi Xu's recently grown hair with his fingers, and asked, "What's wrong at night?"

Qi Xu rubbed his forehead against Ling Jiangyuan's chest, his voice muffled in his arms, and said, "Ling Jiangyuan, guess what I did just now."

"Huh?" Ling Jiangyuan smiled, "Go outside to blow the cold wind."

"It's afternoon in Country M." Qi Xu raised his head, his eyes were shining brightly in the darkness, with some unknown emotions flashing, "Bai Ying is working, she sounds very busy over there."

Ling Jiangyuan's body froze suddenly, so stiff that even Qi Xu could clearly notice it.

The two were silent for a long time in the dark before Ling Jiangyuan said, "Did you call Bai Ying?"

"En." Qi Xu nodded.

"You know everything?" Ling Jiangyuan asked again.

"En." Qi Xu nodded again.

Ling Jiangyuan pursed her lips, turned away her eyes and dared not look at Qi Xu again, sighed and said: "At that time, I just thought that it was hard to have such an opportunity for you to realize your dreams. So after she proposed that condition, I hesitated for a long time. In addition to other things... happen, I finally accepted it."

"Bai Ying wants to find a physical marriage partner, so she can find someone else, why is it you?" Qi Xu still had a slight anger on his face, "She knew that we were in love at that time."

"You also know the relationship between our two families, and I am more trustworthy. What's more, time was tight at that time, and she had no choice." Ling Jiangyuan said, "She... her girlfriend was making a fuss because of her family. Breaking up, they can only discuss this way in the end. It just needs my cooperation for a while, after that period of limelight, we will divorce."

"So you really treat yourself as an exchange in exchange for cappuccino's investment?" Qi Xu looked at him seriously, with a complicated expression.

Ling Jiangyuan avoided his gaze, lowered his eyes and remained silent.

Qi Xu sneered: "Then have you ever thought about it, if we really accepted the investment back then, we would all be popular, what about you?"

"..." Ling Jiangyuan still didn't dare to look at Qi Xu, and his voice was much lower, "I know I have more choices, so it doesn't matter."

After Ling Jiangyuan finished speaking, he tentatively stretched out his hand to cover the back of Qi Xu's hand, rubbed it lightly, and shouted in a weak voice: "Xiao Xu..."

"Ling Jiangyuan, are you the Holy Mother?!" Qi Xu finally couldn't hold back the burning fire in his heart, he pulled his hand away and hit Ling Jiangyuan's hand with a "slap", "You only want to help Bai Ying, Help me with cappuccino, but why don't you want to help yourself, help..." Qi Xu paused suddenly, and then said with a suffocated voice, "Help me and you?"

"...Sorry." Ling Jiangyuan withdrew his hand, curled his fingers slightly, and even stepped back, leaning tightly against the head of the bed, "I'm sorry."

"Don't apologize to me." Qi Xu scolded in a low voice, but he hugged him into his arms with distress, pressed his head into his arms roughly with the palm of his hand, and said, "Why do you keep being that one?" kind person?"

Ling Jiangyuan's body was slightly stiff, his head rested on the other's neck, and he took a deep breath.

After a long time, Qi Xu heard Ling Jiangyuan's voice whispering in his ears: "Xiao Xu, I'm actually not as good as you imagined. At the beginning, I hesitated for a long time, and I didn't dare to make a decision, and even planned to refuse. Later it was because..."

"Because of what?" Qi Xu asked him.

Ling Jiangyuan smiled palely, and said, "Anyway, I can't avoid it, I'm a very selfish person."

"Don't talk nonsense anymore." Qi Xu hugged him tightly, hugging Ling Jiangyuan almost out of breath, "Don't do this kind of thing again in the future."

Ling Jiangyuan didn't answer, Qi Xu continued to force him: "Say 'yes'."

Ling Jiangyuan rubbed the back of his head helplessly, and replied: "Okay."

In mid-December, Ling Jiangyuan temporarily moved to live in Qi Xu's house—it's more appropriate to say that it's moving, but slowly infiltrating into Qi Xu's life.

In the beginning, he just came here to cook a meal every day, because when Qi Xu was busy, he couldn't take care of his stomach at all.Later, Ling Jiangyuan even bought Qi Xu's clothes, and occasionally stayed here, and his things almost ate away at this place bit by bit. When both of them realized it, one-third of the wardrobe was Ling Jiangyuan's clothes up.

Qi Xu directly said: "You can move here, anyway, this place is closer to your school and more convenient."

Ling Jiangyuan didn't pretend anymore: "Well, I'll go back in the afternoon and get some things back."

Ling Jiangyuan and Qi Xu began to live together so logically.

On the first day of living together, because Qi Xu's hair was so long that Ling Jiangyuan couldn't bear it, he took a hair clipper and planned to shave Qi Xu's head.Asked what hairstyle he likes, Qi Xu replied: "Just the one you gave me before will do."

Ling Jiangyuan held the clipper and laughed straight: "But that's a cropped cut, and there are a few bars. It's not good for you to wear a suit with this hairstyle."

"What's wrong." Qi Xu sat down directly, pointed to his head and said, "Come here as you please."

Ling Jiangyuan complied with his wish.

The itchy feeling spread over Qi Xu's head again, and after eight years, Qi Xu thought of the scene when Ling Jiangyuan helped him shave his head for the first time that year.

At that time, there were not so many high-rise buildings in S city. Sitting in the house and looking out the window, there were low-rise buildings everywhere, and there were still dripping dresses and clothes hanging on the balcony with the smell of fireworks. jeans.

But now it has been replaced with a dryer, who will enjoy the clean taste of being exposed to the sun.

Ling Jiangyuan really shaved Qi Xu's head, Qi Xu suddenly looked a few years younger, and the cold feeling suppressed by the hairstyle swept over again, sitting in front of the mirror, Qi Xu seemed to be rejuvenated in an instant, and his sense of maturity disappeared. .

Ling Jiangyuan patted his buttocks, feeling a little prickly: "Okay."

Qi Xu turned to look at him: "Handsome?"

"Handsome, handsome." Ling Jiangyuan touched his face while smiling, and leaned forward to kiss his lips, "It's a pity to disappoint the little girls, such a handsome person belongs to me."

Qi Xu couldn't help but twitched the corners of his mouth: "Teacher Ling is really good at talking now."

Ling Jiangyuan gently rubbed the hair fragments on his chin with his fingertips, and said, "Go take a bath, your body is full of fragments of hair."

Qi Xu stood up and warmly invited: "Does Teacher Ling want to come together?"

Ling Jiangyuan kicked his ass: "Hurry up! I'll clean up the things on the ground."

Qi Xu stopped joking and walked into the bathroom.Ling Jiangyuan tidied up all the broken hair on the ground, and Qi Xu came out. He didn't even blow dry his hair, he just rubbed it lightly with a dry towel a few times.Ling Jiangyuan was about to use a hair dryer for him, but Qi Xu pushed him away in disgust: "Enough, don't use this cannon-like thing to sweep my head."

Ling Jiangyuan was so amused by his words that he even burst into tears.

The sun was shining brightly on this day, and the coldness of the past was driven away. Looking out of the window, you can even see fine dust flying in the sunlight. Ling Jiangyuan lay in Qi Xu's arms, playing with his tall legs with his fingers Nose, from time to time hummed a cappuccino song for Qi Xu to listen to, and then Qi Xu followed it up tacitly.

Ling Jiangyuan had dreamed of this kind of scene countless times, and woke up countless times, even the pillow was wet with tears.

At this moment, Ling Jiangyuan also felt like he was dreaming.

But Qi Xu was so vivid in front of him, even the frowning was real.

He reached out and touched the corner of his mouth lightly.