three feet away

You are Yan Ruyi's...girlfriend? "

The coffee in front of him was steaming slightly, and Xu Nuo sat in the booth, looking at the man sitting opposite him with a calm expression. The last time I saw him was when I had dinner with Zhang Qing and Xiao Huang at the hot pot restaurant when I just returned to China. At that time, I thought he was Yan Ruyi's husband, but now sitting face to face, I realized that he and Yan Ruyi's eyebrows and eyes are so similar, but Yan Ruyi is more gentle and he is more tough.

"I am." Xu Nuo tried his best to control his voice and expression so that his image would not appear too stingy.

The expression on the man's face was not very friendly. When he said the words of Yan Ruyi's girlfriend, his expression was as jerky as the words in his mouth, as if he was forced to eat an immature sour mouth. Jujube, he held the little girl sitting in the seat next to him playing with a small toy with one hand, and stirred the coffee with the other hand, as if he was thinking about how to start this topic.

Xu Nuo guessed that he must have got her number from Yan Ruyi and contacted her to meet her, but Yan Ruyi had never mentioned it to herself before, so this sudden invitation made her somewhat uncertain.Yan Ruyi was on the way here by car, all she could do now was to deal with the things in front of her well so as not to distract her.

"How long have you known each other?"

After a few seconds of silence, the man suddenly raised his eyebrows and asked her.

"Ten years soon." Xu Nuo didn't know what he meant by asking this question. Yan Ru came out to the family once or twice. As his own brother, he was absolutely aware of how he and Yan Ruyi got acquainted, but why did he ask such a question now?

"Has it been so long?" The man lowered his eyebrows. Out of the corner of his eye, he noticed that the child beside him was not moving properly. He tilted his head and gently took out the toy she had bitten into his mouth. He deliberately lowered his voice and said calmly, "Yi, No. How can toys be eaten?"

The child's toy was robbed, he raised his head and blinked his eyes pitifully at him, pouted, showing an expression about to cry, but he never cried.

Xu Nuo looked at the child, she really looked too similar to Yan Ruyi, the way she wrinkled her nose when she was wronged, was simply a replica of Yan Ruyi, it was unimaginable that her genes were so powerful.Seeing her crying, Xu Nuo felt a little distressed. She took out a few colorful candies from the backpack behind her and asked the man, "Can she eat candy now?"

The man glanced sideways at Xu Nuo, then at the candy in her hand, and turned to ask the little doll, "What color do you want, Yiyi?"

Yan Yiyi sniffed, and looked at the man with a scared expression, as if she was trying to distinguish whether what he said was testing her or if she was really willing to give it to her. She looked a little afraid of him.

Xu Nuo frowned, blinked at her, and said with a smile: "It's okay, Auntie will give you one first, and when you go to Auntie's house, Auntie will give you another one, changing the color each time, okay?"

The child obviously agreed with Xu Nuo's statement. She glanced at the man and saw that he didn't respond. She quickly kicked her calf halfway up the table, reached out to take a candy from Xu Nuo's hand, retracted the seat, and then rushed to the table. Smile with promise.

The man stretched out his hand to help her peel off the candy wrapper. Seeing her swallowing it, he told her to slow down before turning his head and continuing to talk to Xu Nuo: "My name is Yan Qingmo, Yan Ruyi's brother, and also her former fiancé's classmate and concurrently friend."

Xu Nuo listened, sat up straight, and thought, this is the point.When we met just now, I directly asked myself if I was Yan Ruyi's girlfriend with a stern expression. It was very obvious that she had a big opinion on me.But now, it seems that something has changed?She's not sure.

"I'm Xu Nuo. I used to be Yan Ruyi's student, but now I'm her girlfriend."

Yan Qingmo raised his eyebrows. He glanced at Xu Nuo, as if he thought her self-introduction was very interesting. He sat up straight, took a sip of coffee, and when he put down the cup, his eyes suddenly rolled, Chi Xiao: "It's rare, you still remember that you are her student."

"Student and teacher falling in love?"

As soon as Yan Qingmo said this, Xu Nuo understood that he was very dissatisfied with being with Yan Ruyi.Taking a breath, she straightened her back even more, and faced him directly: "I don't think that students and teachers can't fall in love. There is no law that stipulates that students and teachers can't fall in love."

"That's against morality!" Yan Qingmo seemed to be a little surprised by Xu Nuo's calm attitude. He leaned forward and said angrily, "My family has been teachers for generations. I heard that students admire teachers. , but I have never heard of a teacher who really walked with the students! There are a few celebrities who have done this kind of thing, but the result is that people poked their backs and scolded them. My parents have always been decent people. Yan Ruyi and you Being together is already a great shame, and besides, you are a woman! You are killing them!"

"About this..." Xu Nuo sighed. As a woman, she cannot change her gender, but even if she is not a woman, how easy is it for her to let go of Yan Ruyi?

"I'm sorry...but Yan Ruyi can be said to be the only pursuit in my life..." With another sigh, Xu Nuo raised his eyebrows and looked at Yan Qingmo with firm eyes: "Maybe I will be sorry to many people, maybe I will be rejected People think that being abnormal, more likely, will cause family ruin... But, my whole life is just a lifetime..."

"I have missed too much with her. We can't go back to the thousands of days we lost. We didn't see each other's growth. For me and her, it's like neither she nor I will have another 25-year-old Such a pity!"

"I will never allow this kind of regret to happen again. In this life, I love her, and I will only be loyal to her. As for the others..." After a long series of words, Xu Nuo suddenly felt a kind of relief. , she let out a sigh of relief and spread her hands:

"Whether morality or human relations, or family and friendship, if necessary, I can only say, I'm sorry. Although, I don't think it's a sin for me to be with her. But on the contrary, if it can be accepted, I also I am very willing to work with her to take good care of my parents."

After the promise was finished, Yan Qingmo folded his hands and leaned forward and stared at her for a long time, his eyes were deep. He seemed very angry as Yan Ruyi's elder brother for such firmness that could be said to be perverted in promises, but as a She is a human being, but she is moved and admired by her perseverance in pursuing what she wants without hesitation.

"So, you won't let go no matter what?"

Hearing such a question, Xu Nuo suddenly smiled, and if he wanted to let go, why wait so many years?

"As long as Yan Ruyi doesn't say no." Xu Nuo replied with the same eyes.

Let go of the fingers that were stacked together, Yan Qingmo suddenly nestled back into the booth, and said something relaxed behind Xu Nuo: "It seems that your persistence is not as vulnerable as I imagined."

Seeing this, Xu Nuo looked back suspiciously, but saw Yan Ruyi who was sitting less than one meter behind her, her eyes lit up unconsciously, and then she remembered what she had just said, her ears felt hot, and her voice became a little strange: "Hey, when did you come?"

Yan Ruyi walked up to Xu Nuo's side, reached out and touched her face, her eyes were full of soft light: "When you told him that your life is just a lifetime."

"Uh..." Xu Nuo shrugged in embarrassment and asked, "Then you heard everything?"

But I secretly slandered in my heart, it's very embarrassing to be heard by you like this, okay?

Yan Ruyi was amused by Xu Nuo's expression of shrinking her neck like a child and almost sticking out her tongue. She sat down beside her, took a sip of the coffee in front of her very casually, and asked, "Is there anything I can't listen to?" ?You tell me I pretend I didn't hear that part."

"Not really." Xu Nuo murmured, what the hell, tell you that you pretended not to hear?What kind of heresy is this!

Thinking this way in my heart, but my mouth is still honest and obedient: "It's a bit embarrassing..."

"Embarrassed?" Putting down the coffee cup, Yan Ruyi raised his eyebrows, leaned his elbows on the armrest of the seat, pointed at his head and looked at Xu Nuo with his lips curled up on the side of his face: "I don't usually hear your confession. Listening to you tell the truth, are you still embarrassed?"

"This...uh, it's not..." Rubbing his hands together, Xu Nuo suddenly felt like he was digging a hole and jumping by himself, his neck shrunk even lower, and he completely lost the attitude he had when facing Yan Qingmo just now.

Seeing this, the man sitting across from him finally couldn't take it anymore and tapped his fingers on the table, and said in a deep voice, "Yan Ruyi, you are enough, what are you pretending to do? I grew up with you, and the little ninety-nine in your heart Is there anything you can't see through? Your image of Yujie, to me, can only be funny. Also, don't show your affection in front of me, a cup of coffee, your brother can still afford it for you. "

Yan Ruyi heard the sound, turned her head and glared at Yan Qingmo: "Don't talk about me! Yan Qingmo, who allows you to ask my girlfriend behind my back?!"

"I don't want to see what the person who made my sister abandon everything to love looks like? What if your aesthetics is not one-third as good as mine, what should you do if you find someone crooked? Besides, what do these two girls talk about?" Love is no better than a marriage between a man and a woman with a marriage certificate. If one party makes a mistake, he can still go through legal channels to protect his own rights. When these two women are together, no matter how you look at it, there is no guarantee. Take a look and see if she has the courage to spend this life with you? Then my elder brother has been working for 30 years? Take a step back, if you really talk to her for a few years, you don’t think it’s okay. How can you tell my brother to find a wife when I am too old to get married? Even if I don’t want a wife, then my daughter is still so young, so why should I have a mother? Do you know the suffering of a divorced man? "

"..."

"...." Xu Nuo really didn't expect that the man who had just acted like a father in front of him and wanted to make decisions about Yan Ruyi's affairs turned into a madman who favors his sister when facing Yan Ruyi , although there was disgust in the inside and outside of the words, but anyway, she could understand that Yan Qingmo did not object to Yan Ruyi being with her.

Yan Ruyi changed his usual gentle and patient appearance and waved his hands repeatedly to signal him to stop: "Ah, it's okay, Yan Qingmo, I'm getting more and more suspicious of you being gay. How can you be a mother-in-law to this point? Yiyi Mom probably didn't get divorced with you, I guess it's because you are too good at thinking!!"

"Don't hold back your mouth!" Yan Qingmo straightened his body, his tone was strong, but his expression was very doting.

"Yiyi, go, go home with your aunt, and disturb her two-person world more. Let her be the same all day long."

Yan Yiyi originally looked at Yan Ruyi and wanted to go to her side, but just now she was overwhelmed and frightened. After being instigated like this, although she couldn't understand the whole meaning of what her father said, she understood it completely when she went home with her aunt Yes, he quickly shrunk his legs and jumped off the stool, ducking directly under the feet of several people to the opposite side.

The three beaters on the table were all startled, so they quickly retracted their legs.

"You child, I didn't tell you to walk on the ground!" Yan Qingmo helped his forehead helplessly.

"Yiyi?" Yan Ruyi bent down and lowered his head, just as he was about to reach out to pull her, but he saw the little carrot had come out from between Xu Nuo's legs.

"Kowtow carefully." Xu Nuo was flattered and stretched out her hands to support her. Seeing her grinning at her with her head up, she smiled softly unconsciously. She lovingly touched the little face in front of her: "You and your aunt, it really seems..."

Yan Qingmo sat opposite, looked at the scene in front of him, raised the corners of his eyes, patted his legs, stood up, and said to Yan Ruyi: "Parents are still awkward, I will continue to work, there is still time, recently The old man suffers from high blood pressure and always feels dizzy, and I’ve been too busy to go home recently, so the babysitter can’t help but take care of me for a few days?”

Yan Ruyi didn't answer, but looked sideways at Xu Nuo.

Xu Nuo stood up with the child in his arms, and said with a smile: "It happens that I am free to go to work, and I am at home most of the time, just ask my aunt to come home for an hour."

Yan Qingmo nodded, and walked out of the booth sideways: "Then I'll go first."

"Oh, that's right." After walking a few steps, Yan Qingmo looked back at Xu Nuo: "You have passed the preliminary exam. Although you have already shown it clearly, I still want to say that my sister grew up in the palm of my hand." Yes, it’s not that I don’t have the love of my parents and brothers, do you understand?”

Xu Nuo smiled helplessly, could the daughter-in-law she had waited for all these years not feel sorry for just bullying her?

"Don't worry, I understand, brother."

"Well..." Yan Qingmo nodded, rubbed his chin, and blinked at Yan Ruyi: "This big brother sounds better than your straightforward Yan Qingmo!"

After speaking, he turned and left.

"Can you really take Yiyi home?" On the way home, Yan Ruyi looked in the rearview mirror at the happy Zheng who was playing with Yiyi in his arms and promised.

"Of course!" Xu Nuo lowered her head, looked at Yan Yiyi and smiled, and then she raised her head to look at Yan Ru in the rearview mirror, and asked faintly, "Yan Ruyi, you said she looks so similar to you?" Like, watching her grow up, can it be roughly equivalent to, I also watched you grow up?"

Yan Ruyi gave Xu Nuo a helpless but useful look from the rearview mirror, and the corners of his lips fluttered: "...Heretics."