Clinging to Face

"What are you doing out here?"

Luo Xiyun turned her head and saw Chen Xu had come out, and said anxiously, "Hurry back and rest."

She really cares about me.

Chen Xu was absolutely certain from her instantaneous reaction.

After entering society and suffering a few losses, he realized a principle for dealing with people: don't listen to what others say, but watch what they do.

Just listen to what others say, don't take it seriously. Look at their actions, and you'll know their attitude towards you.

Moreover, as his experience increased, he vaguely understood that sometimes, what someone says is completely opposite to what they do, perhaps not intentionally to deceive others. Rather, they themselves don't know what they really want.

People are so contradictory. And women are even more a collection of contradictions.

He felt that he had grasped Luo Xiyun's psychology, and his mood was great. He smiled and said, "It's too stuffy in the room, I came out for some fresh air. Don't worry, I'm fine now, look, like this—ouch!"

As Chen Xu spoke, he jumped twice. Suddenly, his foot went soft, he staggered, and his calf bumped into a stool next to him, causing him to suck in a breath of cold air from the pain.

"Chen Xu—"

Seeing him fall, Luo Xiyun threw down the pot in her hand and rushed over, helping him up and asking with a worried face, "Are you okay? Are you hurt?"

"I'm fine."

Chen Xu forced a shake of his head, his left arm around her waist, and slowly stood up.

Luo Xiyun saw something in his expression and asked, "Did you hurt yourself somewhere?"

Chen Xu had recovered a bit by this time and said somewhat awkwardly, "My shinbone got bumped."

"Let me see."

She bent down and carefully pulled up his trouser leg, seeing only a small bruise, not a serious injury, and breathed a sigh of relief, saying, "Don't be so stubborn, let me help you back to the room."

Chen Xu didn't say anything, put his left hand back on her waist, and walked towards the room.

As he walked, he turned his head to look at her face, seeing no abnormality on her face, as if she hadn't noticed that their current posture was very intimate.

Once in the room, Luo Xiyun helped him to the bedside, let him sit down, took out a medicine box, took out some medicated oil to rub on his injury, and finally said, "You rest here."

After she left, Chen Xu thought back to her various contradictory attitudes towards him, and a thought gradually formed in his mind.

During dinner, Chen Xu kept staring at Luo Xiyun.

"Is there something on my face?" Luo Xiyun couldn't help but put down her chopsticks and touched her face.

Chen Xu shook his head and said in a low voice, "It's so good to be able to sit and eat with you again. I originally thought I would never see you again."

Luo Xiyun moved her lips twice before asking, "You, how did you faint there?"

"The car broke down, so I had to walk. When I got to that slope, I accidentally tripped and, unlucky for me, hit my head, so I passed out," Chen Xu said in a relaxed tone.

"Why didn't you stay in the car?"

Luo Xiyun took a deep breath, "It snowed so heavily yesterday, it's so dangerous to walk. If I hadn't happened to pass by there, maybe you would have... you would have..." By the end, her tone was a little agitated.

Chen Xu didn't feel impatient at all listening to her accusations, but felt a sense of joy in his heart. He explained softly, "The car was parked too far away."

Luo Xiyun frowned upon hearing this. The place where she found Chen Xu was already the farthest area. Further out was the endless Ice Surface Area.

Suddenly, she realized something, her eyes widened, and she exclaimed, "You went outside the Ice Surface Area?"

The so-called Ice Surface Area was a vast, low-lying area that had been flooded by rainwater, and after the temperature dropped, it had frozen into thick layers of ice.

She occasionally went out with Chen Xu and had some understanding of the surrounding environment.

The area around the Villa where they lived, within a few kilometers, was like an isolated island, surrounded by the Ice Surface Area. No matter which direction you looked, you couldn't see the end of the ice surface.

As far as she knew, Chen Xu had always been active in the 'isolated island area' and had never been to the Ice Surface Area, so she didn't think about it that way at first.

"Yes," Chen Xu nodded.

"You..." Luo Xiyun bit her lower lip and asked, "Is it because you didn't have enough gasoline?"

"The stock is enough for half a month. I wanted to scout the road first this time, but I didn't expect to have an accident on the way back."

"Why didn't you tell me sooner?"

Chen Xu said, "We agreed at the beginning that I would handle external affairs and you would handle internal affairs. This is my responsibility."

"You're just a chauvinist," Luo Xiyun said unhappily.

After a while, she poked at the rice grains with her chopsticks and asked, "You, how long did you walk in the snow?"

Chen Xu said, "Just a few hours, I guess."

A few hours?

Luo Xiyun thought of the heavy snow when she drove to find him yesterday. The visibility was less than ten meters. As the snow on the ground deepened, she had to slow down. Even so, the wheels still slipped from time to time. Sometimes, the wheels would get stuck in the soft snow and couldn't move forward, so she had to get out of the car to deal with it.

It was so difficult for her to drive, let alone walk?

She couldn't imagine what kind of perseverance it would take to persevere for a few hours in such harsh weather.

"You..."

"Actually, I had no choice," Chen Xu said. "I didn't have enough food in the car. I thought the snow would last for several days, and staying in the car would be a dead end."

Luo Xiyun's mouth opened slightly. She glanced at him but didn't expose him.

After she rescued Chen Xu, she opened his backpack. Half of it was filled with chocolate, compressed biscuits, and canned food. Enough for him to eat for a week.

Even at this time, this man was still so stubborn.

Stubborn. She thought in her heart.

After washing the dishes, Luo Xiyun pushed open the door to the room and saw Chen Xu just coming out of the bathroom, drying his hair with a towel, obviously having just taken a shower.

"It's your turn," he said.

She walked to the closet, found a set of clothes, and looked a little hesitant.

Chen Xu seemed to know her worries and said, "Don't worry, I won't peek."

She didn't speak, took the clothes, walked into the bathroom, and closed the door. After closing the door, she thought that Chen Xu had just taken a shower here, and she felt a little strange, but she didn't feel repulsed.

She remembered that when she and Chen Xu were still in the Cold War, she had to separate their clothes by a few meters even when drying them.

Now, sharing a bathroom didn't feel annoying at all.

There's no way, there's a shortage of gasoline now, so I have to save it. She thought, and began to take off her clothes.