Under meals

Although the doctor originally said to rest for ten days, after resting for a weekend, Jing Ci realized that her work efficiency at home was really not high.

Although Tao Mingzhuo was full of disapproval at the time, Jing Ci still went to the company on Monday.

But he didn't know if it was Jing Ci's illusion, he always felt that Tao Mingzhuo's state in the past two days always seemed to be a little absent-minded.

Whenever Jing Ci raises her eyes to look at Tao Mingzhuo by chance, she always finds that he is also secretly looking at her.

Tao Mingzhuo's expression was a little hesitant to speak, and he would look away pretending nothing happened at the moment when his eyes met, and he seemed to be in a state of embarrassment.

Sometimes, Jing Ci would find him sitting blankly in the living room alone, with his head down, unable to see clearly the expression on his face.

This state made Jing Ci feel a little puzzled, but she didn't know how to ask.

When eating on Monday night, Tao Mingzhuo was still in a state of wandering, and Jing Ci found that he only moved the small vegetable in front of him the whole time.

After eating all the green vegetables, Jing Ci watched Tao Mingzhuo continue to pick up the seasoning from the bottom of the plate, and slowly put it into his mouth.

After chewing two mouthfuls, Tao Mingzhuo's expression gradually became distorted.

Jing Ci quickly poured him a glass of water: "Is it because other dishes are not delicious? Do you want to order takeaway?"

Tao Mingzhuo raised his head to look at him, and hurriedly staggered his gaze: "No, it's not."

He paused for a moment, then quickly put other dishes into his bowl, and said vaguely to Jing Ci: "It's okay, I, I'm not full yet, I'll continue eating."

Jing Ci looked at him and nodded hesitantly.

The phone screen lit up, Jing Ci lowered her head, and found that it was the secretary Liang Jingjing who sent a message, stating that the restaurant for the evening has been reserved.

Jing Ci looked up at the young man who was trying to put food in his mouth, lowered his head, and replied "Yes".

Tomorrow is actually Jing Ci's birthday.

In fact, Jingci has not celebrated her birthday for many years.

Li Yupo is the kind of person who likes excitement and grand occasions. In the past few years, he always wanted to fly to country U, trying to hold parties and receptions for him, but Jing Ci reluctantly refused every time.

One is that there is no need for extravagance and waste. There are many foreign students who hold parties every day. However, it is lively and lively on the surface, but in fact, few of them may really come to wish you a happy birthday.

The second is that Jing Ci's father passed away in May. Although it has been a long time, but at this time of the year, Jing Ci really has no mood to celebrate for herself.

During the years abroad, Li Lan would call him for a long time on every birthday, and Li Yupo would send some flowers and gifts to Jing Ci.

That day in the living room, when Tao Mingzhuo was sleeping on Jingci's lap, Li Yupo sent him a few messages.

Li Yupo: "Xiao Ci, since you're back in China this year, why don't I give you a little treat for your birthday?"

After a while, he added: "Your sister-in-law and I have had enough fun, so I can fly back and bring you some good wine."

Jing Ci replied quickly, saying, "No need."

Li Yupo seemed to have expected him to answer this way: "You really are, how can there be a reason to spend birthdays by yourself every year?"

Before Jing Ci could reply, the young man who was pillowed on her lap suddenly moved slightly, and said something vaguely.

After listening for a long time, Jing Ci didn't understand what he said, only heard him smack his lips at the end, and then fell silent again.

Jing Ci: "..."

For some reason, looking at Tao Mingzhuo's profile, Jing Ci suddenly felt that if Tao Mingzhuo could be by her side, then she actually wanted to celebrate this birthday a little bit.

As long as you have a meal, you don’t need to be too grand. If you can, order a small cake and have a little sense of ceremony.

Jing Ci paused for a moment, picked up the phone again, and replied to Li Yupo: "No, someone will accompany you this year."

After a long time, Li Yupo slowly understood the meaning of his words: "Oh, oh, what's new? When did this happen?"

Jing Ci didn't want to explain too much to him, so she replied to him with an all-purpose "Little Frog Smile" emoticon package.

In the end, Jing Ci didn't tell Tao Mingzhuo what day it was.

Because he knew that for someone like Tao Mingzhuo who had to find ways to return a meal to him, if he told him that it was his birthday that day, then he would definitely spend a lot of thought and energy preparing a gift for himself.

But Jingci only wanted to spend one night with Tao Mingzhuo easily and without any burden.

Jing Ci raised her eyes, and finally reminded the young man sitting opposite: "We are going out to eat tomorrow night, remember?"

Then he saw that Tao Mingzhuo seemed to be stiff, his Adam's apple moved up and down, and he nodded after a while.

Jing Ci gave a "hmm" and added: "I have an appointment with someone tomorrow afternoon, so he won't be in the company, but I will send you the address of the restaurant in advance, and we will meet at the restaurant when the time comes, is that okay? "

After a while, he heard Tao Mingzhuo whisper, "Okay."

Tao Mingzhuo spent the past two days in extreme chaos.

On the night of the phone call with Tao Xue, it can be said that Tao Mingzhuo took a lot of effort to help Tao Xue calm down from the semi-crazy state.

At first, Tao Mingzhuo thought that Tao Xue was really indifferent, but later found out that it was because his own sister didn't listen to what he just said.

Tao Xue usually likes to read some comics and novels with subtle themes in addition to dog blood ethics dramas.So even though she never expected that her own brother would be pursued by a boy one day, after she calmed down, she reluctantly accepted the fact and began to question how the two of them met.

So Tao Mingzhuo obscured the identity of Jing Ci's boss, and told Tao Xue most of the things that happened between the two.

Tao Xue: "Then why did he choose 520 instead of 519?"

Tao Mingzhuo said sadly: "He should be afraid that 520 will look too obvious on this day, and I might directly refuse to go to dinner with him."

Tao Xue always felt that something was wrong, but for a while she felt that it was quite reasonable, and there was no way to refute his theory.

Tao Xue said: "Then since you know that he likes you for a long time, why have you dragged on until now, instead of refusing earlier, and are still living with him..."

Tao Mingzhuo remained silent.

Tao Xue stared at Tao Mingzhuo's face and suddenly understood something.

With Tao Mingzhuo's personality, if he doesn't like a person, he will resolutely refuse and will not leave the other person with a single thought.

But being able to drag it on until now has not stopped, and even moved to live in someone else's house, wearing pure cotton pajamas and never seeing him read a single page of a book in this life, it means...

Tao Xue quickly turned her face away and took a few breaths, then patted her chest.

After a while, she calmed down, turned her head, observed Tao Mingzhuo's expression, and asked tentatively: "Then do you think, if he confesses...do you want to accept it?"

Tao Mingzhuo looked at her and said blankly: "I, I don't know..."

Tao Xue understood Tao Mingzhuo's hard-talking problem very well, and immediately asked keenly: "How do you feel when you are with him?"

"You kid, don't rush to speak hard." Tao Xue said patiently, "I'm helping you think clearly. You must think carefully before answering me, and you must understand what you think in your heart."

Tao Mingzhuo lowered his head.

After a while, he whispered: "I can't say it, I just feel... I feel very comfortable with him, and there are some words of rejection, I can't always say it to him."

"He is very gentle. No matter how bad I do, or deliberately make him hate me, he will never get angry and always treat me very tolerant." Tao Mingzhuo murmured, "He...he is really nice to me. Very good."

Tao Xue was speechless.

After a while, Tao Xue suddenly realized something, she stared fixedly at Tao Mingzhuo's face: "Wait, isn't that portrait you drew in my studio just..."

Tao Mingzhuo's face turned red instantly.

Tao Xue closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and sighed after a while: "...Isn't it you, Tao Mingzhuo."

"I'll hang up first." Tao Xue murmured, "I have to think about how to talk to my parents for a while, this drama has never been broadcast in TV series..."

Tao Xue hung up the phone directly.

Tao Mingzhuo originally wanted to ask Tao Xue to give him some advice, but after the phone call, he felt that his heart seemed to be even more chaotic.

On the morning of Tuesday, Yang Keying happily shared the finished film from this comic exhibition trip with her little sister in the office.

Yang Kening triumphantly showed her high P picture at 360 degrees without any dead ends: "Everyone, Yang Kening is the most beautiful and moving person in the world, if you agree, please breathe!"

Someone said they wanted to see the details of her red dress, so Yang Keying searched again on her phone.

In the meantime, I accidentally slipped into a photo taken from a candid perspective, and it was obvious that it was no longer Yang Keying himself in the red dress, but two men.

Yang Kening quickly turned over the photo: "Oh, I'm sorry, I slipped my hands on my family."

Tao Mingzhuo: "..."

Yang Keying's little sisters started screaming in high decibels, and kept turning their heads to look at Tao Mingzhuo while discussing. Tao Mingzhuo vaguely heard something like "Is this Mr. Jing?" "Send me a copy" speech.

But today's Tao Mingzhuo was not in the mood to take care of them, he just passed the day absent-mindedly.

After get off work, Tao Mingzhuo turned on his mobile phone and found the restaurant address that Jingci had sent him.

It was only then that Tao Mingzhuo remembered that Jingci had mentioned that day that the restaurant he was going to eat tonight was a French restaurant.

Although Tao Mingzhuo had never heard of the name of the restaurant, and he didn't even know how to pronounce this string of letters together, judging from Jingci's previous ordering of takeout, this should be a very expensive restaurant.

Tao Mingzhuo looked down at the baggy T-shirt he was wearing, hesitated for a moment, and decided to take a taxi back to Jing Ci's residence first, and change into a little more formal clothes.

For French food, the atmosphere should be very romantic, right?On the way, Tao Mingzhuo couldn't help but start to think about it.If Jing Ci really confessed to herself, should she refuse?

If you don't refuse, then...do you want to agree?

Tao Mingzhuo felt that the base of his ears became hot uncontrollably.

He took a deep breath and forced himself to look at the scenery outside the window, not daring to think about it anymore, only feeling that his heart was about to jump out of his chest.

Jing Ci's home is located in a quiet villa area, the law and order is very good, and there are very few people and vehicles coming and going.

However, after getting off the car, Tao Mingzhuo met a courier pacing back and forth at the door.

The courier seemed to be worried because no one answered the doorbell. Seeing Tao Mingzhuo approaching, it was like seeing a savior: "Are you Mr. Jingci?"

Tao Mingzhuo was taken aback: "What's wrong?"

"The item someone ordered for you has arrived, please sign for it here first." The courier stuffed the receipt into Tao Mingzhuo's hand and gave him a pen, "I'll go to the car to help you get the item , wait a moment."

Tao Mingzhuo hesitated for a moment, thinking that it would be okay to help sign a courier, so he directly signed Jing Ci's name on the form.

However, after turning around, Tao Mingzhuo was stunned.

Because the courier brought Tao Mingzhuo a large bouquet of flowers and a square cardboard box.

Tao Mingzhuo hugged the bouquet of flowers in a daze, and then took the box. Through the transparent area above the box, he found that it contained a cake.

A pink, heart-shaped cake.

Tao Mingzhuo's heart suddenly sank.

He pursed his lips, looked at the bouquet in the other hand, and found that there was a delicate card on it, but the content on it was blocked by the eucalyptus leaves in the bouquet.

Tao Mingzhuo hesitated for a moment, put the cake on the ground, and then pulled out the card.

There is no signature on the card.

"Xiaoci:

I've been giving you this for so many years, it seems like it's almost becoming a habit.

So this year is naturally indispensable. The main color is still your favorite red.

By the way, there is chocolate in the cake, remember not to let Doctor Wen eat it. "