Chen Ya took Liu Ruyan to find a 24-hour convenience store.

Pointing to the freezer holding instant hot lunches, Chen Ya said, "Take whichever one you like?"

Liu Ruyan's eyes wandered around, scanning the plastic-wrapped meals, and turned back to him and asked: "Are these edible?"

"What kind of problem is this? I think it's cheap and I won't treat you to it."

"no……"

Liu Ruyan picked up a piece of rattan pepper beef rice bowl in her left hand and a two-color curry omelette rice in her right hand, and said, "I want to eat them both."

"are you a pig?"

Liu Ruyan struggled for a long time, and finally, at the urging of her stomach, she reluctantly put down the two-color curry omelette rice.

"This one actually tastes better." Chen Ya pointed at the two-color curry and said.

After saying that, he went to pick his own midnight snack.

Behind him, Liu Ruyan quickly changed the rice in his hand to two-color curry.

Finally, the two went to the cashier to pay. Chen Ya's midnight snack was a bowl of bucket noodles.

"Want to heat it up?" The male cashier on the night shift was cool and didn't talk much.

"Heat it up and soak the noodles for me."

"We don't help put the seasoning here."

"fine."

The cashier put Liu Ruyan's rice into the microwave. She sat on an empty table without food waste, holding her chin in her hands and waiting.

After a while, Chen Ya came over with a bowl of instant noodles.

The bowl was already full of hot water. He first took out the powder packet and tore it open. The brown seasoning powder fell on the golden noodles and turned black after being soaked by the soup.

Then came the sauce packets. As soon as he tore open the plastic packaging, Liu Ruyan smelled a strange aroma.

Finally, there is the vegetable bag. After dehydration, the dried vegetables look small and cute, scattered in the noodle soup, laughing and jumping like a naughty child.

Chen Ya stirred for a while with a plastic fork, then inserted it into the instant noodle bowl, fixed the plastic lid on it, and then waited.

During this period, Liu Ruyan kept staring at him.

The whole process of her first encounter with instant noodles.

Chen Ya's movements are smooth and flowing. Watching him make noodles is like watching a teppanyaki.

However, Teppanyaki is all for performance, and it seems to be deliberately showing off, but he is not.

Every step he takes is full of practical qualities.

Especially the final touch of using a fork to secure the dough cover to the noodle bowl is truly whimsical.

If he hadn't performed it in front of her, she would never have imagined that the fork could be used like this.

After a long time, she said: "This is my first time seeing this."

Chen Ya said calmly: "Miss, your world is too far away from us mortals. I feel like I live on a different planet than you."

"I don't want to do that either."

"I know, and I don't care. Don't expect me to feel inferior when I face you," Chen Ya said. "What I mean is, you live in a different world from others. How do others understand you?

"

Returning to this topic, Liu Ruyan felt painful again.

"Whether you have strict parents, a good nanny, or even a cat that eats salmon until it is full of food, these are experiences that ordinary people cannot have in their lifetime. How can you let others understand your pain?"

Liu Ruyan didn't speak, but her expression was very sad.

Chen Ya didn't speak either. He was a cool guy. If others didn't answer, he wouldn't say more than three sentences.

After a while, Liu Ruyan stared at the braised beef painted on the instant noodle bowl and said, "How can I make others...understand?"

"You must first learn to understand everything, at least understand things that are different from yourself."

Liu Ruyan tried very hard to swallow his words and break down what she could understand from them.

Chen Ya opened the lid of the instant noodles, and a strange aroma came out along with the hot air, rising to the ceiling, then fainting and spreading throughout the space.

Liu Ruyan had never smelled this kind of fragrance before.

Whether it was kaiseki cuisine or teppanyaki, they were not as fragrant as the smell she smelled now.

Chen Ya checked the texture of the noodles and closed the lid again.

“The two-color curry is ready.”

said the waiter at the cashier.

Liu Ruyan was stunned in place. Chen Ya reminded her to get it, so she went over to get her rice back.

Putting it on the table, she stared at the intact plastic seal and began to think about it.

"..."

Chen Ya took her rice, helped her tear open the package, and pushed it in front of her.

"It's ready to eat."

The girl noticed: there was no instant noodles fragrance.

So, for the second time in her life, she mustered up the courage to take a tentative step into her unknown world:

"I want to eat yours."

Chen Ya stared at her: "Yours is more expensive than mine!"

"But, I just want to eat yours."

Chen Ya pushed the instant noodles to her and watched Liu Ruyan nonchalantly pick up a few noodles with his scratched fork.

"You might as well choose more. You don't need your aristocratic etiquette to eat instant noodles."

Liu Ruyan's face turned red.

After a while, she raised her head.

It was as if a long drought was followed by good rain, and she felt her whole body swell, like a balloon that was gradually being filled.

too delicious.

Soon, the sound of "sucking, sucking, sucking" noodles leaked out uncontrollably, like panting, and filled the entire convenience store.

"This is so delicious."

While sucking the noodles, she raised her head and took a moment to say something, then immediately buried her head again.

Chen Ya picked up the spoon and moved her rice in front of him: "Fortunately, you ordered the two-color curry. I don't like rattan pepper beef."

Halfway through the two-color curry, Liu Ruyan had already finished cooking the noodles before finishing the diced chicken, and looked at him with an unfinished expression.

"Does this taste good to you?"

Chen Ya looked at her helplessly: "Are you not full?"

Liu Ruyan thought for a while and said, "A little bit."

"Then...you want to try it?"

"Try a little bit." Liu Ruyan's face was filled with greed that could not be concealed.

Chen Ya pushed the half-eaten omelette rice to her with a shocked look on his face. He was about to get a new pair of disposable chopsticks, but Liu Ruyan picked up the diced chicken in the bowl with a fork.

"Yeah, it's delicious, but not as delicious as instant noodles."

Chen Ya pressed his forehead and leaned on the chair.

He had nothing to say.

After eating, the two piled the garbage against the wall, and Liu Ruyan lay down on the table.

"What are you going to do next?" Chen Ya asked while picking up his phone, "When are you going to jump into the lake again?"

Liu Ruyan's mind was lazy and she didn't want to think, so she said, "I think I'll wait a few days before going."

"Don't want to jump into the lake?"

"No, I want to think about it carefully." She felt her eyelids getting heavier and heavier.

"Planning to go home?"

"If you don't go back," Liu Ruyan felt that her voice came from far away, "If you go back, you will be beaten to death."

"It's good, that way you don't have to write a suicide note."

Liu Ruyan no longer had the energy to accept the joke, her lips wriggled, but no words came out.

She fell asleep lying on the table.

She slept deeply and had a dream of soaring clouds and mist.
Chapter completed!