There is an elegant teahouse near the procuratorate. Xia Ning has been staying in this teahouse all morning. Ever since she met Zuo Ang unexpectedly at the Hunan restaurant yesterday, her mood has not completely calmed down.
After running around outside all morning, she hid in this teahouse in the afternoon and didn't even want to go back to the office. The thought of Zuo Ang working in the same office building as her made her feel uneasy.
There was her laptop on the tea table. The computer screen was bright and dark, dark and bright again. She could not concentrate, and she could not help but think of Zuo Ang. Sometimes Su Ye's face would suddenly appear,
Then he frightened himself, as if he had done something sorry for Su Ye.
Xia Ning shook her head, concentrated again, and put her hands on the keyboard to type. In the quiet corner of the teahouse, her tapping sounds were scattered and mixed with the classical music in the teahouse, forming a unique sound.
When a figure came over the opposite side, the first thing Xia Ning saw was not the other person's face, but a small cake box. The lid of the box was transparent. She could clearly see the Black Forest cake in the box.
The shape is small and exquisite, decorated with cream and plump cherries, which looks delicious and delicious.
Black forest cake.
This is Xia Ning's favorite dessert, and it has never changed since she was a child.
The hand that was typing on the keyboard stopped, her eyes moved up inch by inch, and she saw a face that she least wanted to see.
Xia Ning's fingers tightened slightly, trying to say something, but her upper and lower lips couldn't open or close as if they were coated with glue.
Zuo Ang came uninvited and even sat down opposite her. He opened the black forest cake he brought and pushed it in front of her: "I remember you like this cake, but I don't know if you still like it now."
Xia Ning seemed to be running away again, just like yesterday.
But Zuo Ang understood her move in advance and held her hand: "Xia Xia, can we talk?"
Xia Ning felt as if the back of her hand had been burned, and she immediately pulled it out from under his hand, hiding both hands under the table.
Sadness and loneliness appeared in Zuo Ang's eyes, but he quickly adjusted it and tried to make his tone sound calm: "Xia Xia, how have you been in the past few years?"
Xia Ning didn't speak, didn't shake his head or nod, and sat stiffly like a robot.
Zuo Ang continued talking to himself: "We have been separated for seven years, and you seem to have not changed at all. You are still the same as you were seven years ago. But I am already a little old. The look I saw of you yesterday seems to have returned to my early days.
When I met you, over the years, I fantasized about meeting you again all the time. I fantasized about buying you a piece of black forest cake and watching you eat it happily. It was like a dream. It took me seven years to finally realize it.
"
His words rang in her ears, but Xia Ning's thoughts had already drifted back to seven years ago.
At that time, she was an ordinary law student who concealed her identity, and he was a poor boy who came from the countryside to a big city. She liked to eat Black Forest cake, but this kind of cake was very expensive because the cherries on it were imported from Germany.
When I came here, the price was simply not something Zuo Ang could afford.
Zuo Ang knew that she liked to eat this kind of cake, but he couldn't afford it. He always felt that he owed her. He said countless times that he would work hard to make money and buy her Black Forest every day.
It's a pity that she didn't wait for him to fulfill his promise, but waited for him to give up first.
After seven years, he was finally able to buy a piece of black forest for her, but she no longer wanted to eat it and couldn't eat it.
"Don't you want to try it?" Zuo Ang looked at her hopefully.
Xia Ning finally responded. She shook her head slightly and said two words with difficulty: "No."
Sadness appeared in Zuo Ang's eyes again, and he seemed unwilling to say: "Don't you like it?"
Xia Ning didn't answer again.
It’s not that I don’t like it anymore, it’s that I can’t like it anymore.
The cell phone rang at an inappropriate time. The call was from Su Ye. Zuo Ang's eyes fell on the screen faster than Xia Ning.
Aye...
What a dazzling name, what a heart-wrenching title.
Xia Ning put away her phone in a panic, closed her computer in a panic, stuffed her notebook and other things into her briefcase, got up and left with a guilty conscience.
"Xia Xia." Zuo Ang turned around and called her.
Xia Ning's footsteps paused slightly, and Zuo Ang asked: "Do you... love him?"
Does she love Su Ye?
Xia Ning clenched her briefcase tightly. She couldn't answer this question because she didn't know it herself, but she knew that she and Su Ye were husband and wife. She was Mrs. Su, not Xia Ning.
"He is my husband." Xia Ning hurriedly threw away the specious answer, and ran away from Zuo Ang again.
After escaping far away from the teahouse, Xia Ning felt that her breathing was much easier. After she adjusted her mood, she took out her mobile phone and called Su Ye back.
Su Ye called her to tell her that he had arrived at the prosecutor's office and asked her if she was done.
Today is Grandma Su's birthday. Grandma Su doesn't want to make a big fuss, she just wants to have a meal together as a family, so she and Su Ye are going back to Su's house to celebrate Grandma's birthday tonight, and they have made an appointment with Su Ye to pick her up in the morning.
Xia Ning hung up the phone and ran all the way to the procuratorate. It was close and would be there in five minutes.
Su Ye still stood in the most conspicuous place waiting for her. When he saw her coming back from outside, he asked: "Going out?"
"Well, I went out to do some errands." Xia Ning looked at the time and said, "Let's go, go back early to accompany grandma."
Su Ye nodded, and the couple got in the car.
The car was always quiet, and the driver drove the car steadily back to Su's house.
It was Grandma Su's birthday. The servants decorated the house very festively. Su Ye and Xia Ning came in together. Grandma Su was even happier when she saw her grandson and granddaughter-in-law.
"Grandma, happy birthday, I wish you blessings like the East Sea and longevity as long as the Southern Mountains." Xia Ning stepped forward and hugged Grandma Su, said her blessings, and gave her a carefully prepared birthday gift.
Grandma Su laughed loudly with joy.
Su Ye also hugged grandma and kissed grandma on the cheek, which made grandma Su even happier.
"You haven't come back yet in the morning?" The couple had a conversation with Grandma Su. Seeing that Su Qingchen was missing, Su Ye asked her mother.
Mother Su replied: "I just called and said she was on the way. She just came back from filming a commercial out of town today."
Su Ye hummed, then turned to Grandma Su and said: "Grandma, gifts from Acheng Jingze and A Teng have been sent. If you don't want to make a fuss, they won't come to make trouble for you. We'll see you another day."
you."
"Okay, okay, they are all good children." Grandma Su was happy today, smiling from ear to ear all the time.
Xia Ning was quietly peeling some nuts for Grandma Su. She talked little and was quiet, even for filial people.
Su Qingchen said that she was on the way, but it was already dark when she returned to Su's house. She was afraid that Grandma Su would be angry, so she hugged Grandma Su and begged for forgiveness, and also gave her a lot of gifts, and she rushed alone.
It was given to me by my previous family, who is quite wealthy.
Grandma Su always doted on her granddaughter. She never got angry and was not happy.
"Okay, stop being nice and let's start eating when everyone is here." Su Ye also had nothing to do with this sister, and he couldn't scold her in front of grandma, otherwise grandma would have to scold him.
Su Qingchen made a face at her brother and helped Grandma Su to the restaurant.
Behind them were Su Ye and Xia Ning, followed by Su's father and mother, and the family sat down in the restaurant.