[So you're not planning to talk anymore, huh.]
[I saved half the noodles for you.]
[After we break up, let's never meet again.]
[I'm leaving.]
As Jiang Qiuyi nervously waited for Chen Wen's response with her eyes tightly shut, the female lead's lines from the movie sounded beside her ears.
Wasn't this supposed to be a romance film?
Why was it so unlucky?!
Jiang Qiuyi's heart trembled, and she suddenly had a bad feeling.
She had no idea how much time had passed. When Chen Wen still did not respond, she opened her eyes with hurried breaths.
Only to find Chen Wen looking around.
"W-What are you doing?" Jiang Qiuyi's mind was hazy, and the blush on her face looked especially charming in the dim light.
"Uh..." Chen Wen said blankly, "You're filming a video, right? I was looking for your camera."
Jiang Qiuyi: "???"
"Could it be a pinhole camera?" Chen Wen asked in confusion. "Or did you just lose a game of Truth or Dare?"
"..." Jiang Qiuyi covered her face helplessly. "Why can't it be real?"
"...Who confesses while watching a breakup movie like this?" Chen Wen scratched his head, completely baffled.
"How was I supposed to know the plot would be like this?!" Jiang Qiuyi said irritably, clenching her hands into fists against her knees, her face full of regret.
Seeing his childhood friend's adorable expression, Chen Wen fell silent for a moment before asking,
"So... you meant it?"
Her earlier confession had drained every bit of Jiang Qiuyi's courage. When Chen Wen asked her so directly, she became so embarrassed that she turned her head away.
But unwilling to waste this chance, she squeezed out the last trace of courage in her heart and whispered, "I meant it..."
The movie ended, and the lights in the theater came on brightly.
Chen Wen and Jiang Qiuyi rose in silence and followed the crowd out of the cinema without saying a word.
Jiang Qiuyi walked half a step behind Chen Wen, cautiously watching his expression the entire time as her mood sank lower and lower.
The thought that their relationship might hit rock bottom after her failed confession filled Jiang Qiuyi with regret.
Her spirits kept falling. A mist gradually formed in her eyes, but she pursed her lips and forced the tears back.
By then, they had already left Wanda Plaza and arrived at the intersection to wait for the green light.
As Chen Wen watched the red light turn green, he glanced sideways and silently reached out with his right hand, taking the soft little hand of the girl beside him.
The moment her hand was held, Jiang Qiuyi's heart jolted. When she saw that it was Chen Wen's hand, she felt as though a huge wave of joy had struck her, leaving her completely dazed.
"When a couple walks together, they're supposed to hold hands, right?" Chen Wen asked with a straight face.
Jiang Qiuyi turned her head and giggled behind her hand. She tightly clasped Chen Wen's broad, callused palm, her heart overflowing with joy. "Of course!"
After confirming that her confession had succeeded, Jiang Qiuyi happily leaned closer to Chen Wen's arm.
At 168 centimeters, she already stood out among girls, but leaning against Chen Wen's 185-centimeter frame, she still looked petite and lovely.
"Do you know what day it is today?"
"Huh?"
"It's May twentieth!"
"...520?"
"So you did know? I thought you were really a blockhead."
"I didn't think much about it."
"I picked the couple seats on purpose too~ It was so we wouldn't disturb anyone when I confessed."
"So you picked the movie on purpose too?"
"...This was the only romance movie showing at this time! How was I supposed to know there'd be a breakup scene?!"
After saying that, Jiang Qiuyi hurriedly spat toward the ground a few times. "We only just got together. Don't talk about something so unlucky."
The apartment they rented was very close to Wanda Plaza, and within minutes, they had reached the entrance to their residential complex.
They entered the building, took the elevator, and arrived at the ninth floor.
That's right, both of their rented apartments were here. They were not living together or sharing an apartment, though—they lived across the hall from each other.
Chen Wen was in 901, while Jiang Qiuyi was in 902.
"At the beginning of the year, when I fought with my dad at your place, that was actually planned."
"What do you mean?" Chen Wen froze.
"Didn't I make a fuss about wanting to move out? But my dad worried that it would be too dangerous for a girl to live alone, so that way I could naturally bring you along too~"
Jiang Qiuyi hugged Chen Wen's arm, tilted up her little face, and blinked her big innocent eyes.
Chen Wen had no response. He silently took out his key and opened the door.
When he entered, Chen Wen noticed Jiang Qiuyi still had not let go, so he asked in confusion, "Aren't you going back to your apartment?"
"You still need to edit your video, right? As an uploader with a million followers, of course I have to help you check it over." Jiang Qiuyi ran into Chen Wen's room 901 as if it were only natural, then turned around and grinned at Chen Wen, who was still standing at the door. "Come in already~"
Chen Wen walked in.
Click.
The door closed.
A lone man and woman, alone together in a room late at night.
Looking at the pretty, youthful Jiang Qiuyi standing in the living room, Chen Wen felt strangely complicated.
Honestly, before being confessed to today, he had never considered dating at all.
Although Jiang Qiuyi often asked him out to hang around, he had always believed it was merely the pure friendship between childhood friends.
Who would have thought Jiang Qiuyi had been coveting his body all along?
If Chen Wen had previously viewed Jiang Qiuyi more as an older brother viewed a younger sister,
then at this moment, perhaps for the first time, he was looking at Jiang Qiuyi as someone of the opposite sex whom he could date.
So even though Jiang Qiuyi had entered Chen Wen's apartment at night before, the strange feeling he felt today was something entirely new.
Shaking his head, Chen Wen entered his bedroom, turned on the computer at his desk, and opened his video editing software.
Jiang Qiuyi was clearly very familiar with Chen Wen's apartment. After pouring two glasses of milk in the kitchen, she carried them into the bedroom, setting one on the desk while holding the other in her hands as she sat on the edge of the bed and watched Chen Wen edit.
Chen Wen recorded parts of the ring-making process every day, then did a rough edit that same night.
So today's workload was not too heavy. Two hours later, he had finished editing and, with Jiang Qiuyi's suggestions, added suitable background music to different sections.
Then Chen Wen needed to record the narration based on the script he had prepared beforehand.
"Could you... go sit outside for a while first?"
Just thinking about someone sitting beside him while he recorded made Chen Wen feel uncomfortable all over.
"Got it~" Jiang Qiuyi said considerately as she got up and left the bedroom.
But just as Chen Wen was about to start recording, Jiang Qiuyi poked her head back in, instantly making him fall silent.
"Are the clothes in the bathroom meant to be washed?" Jiang Qiuyi asked, tilting her head.
"...Yes."
"Then I'll wash them for you. Keep recording."
Chen Wen: "?"
If he remembered correctly, that pile included certain intimate garments...
But before he could say anything, the bedroom door had already closed.
In the bathroom, Jiang Qiuyi carried the pile of clothes to the balcony. Her little face was bright red, and her eyes kept secretly glancing at a pair of boxer briefs, filled with both curiosity and shyness.
It was normal for a girlfriend to wash her boyfriend's clothes, right?
And before washing them, it was only right to check whether there was anything in the clothes, right?
After finding a reasonable excuse for herself, Jiang Qiuyi cautiously extended her little paw...
Meanwhile, in the bedroom, although Jiang Qiuyi's actions had interrupted him briefly, Chen Wen quickly got back into work mode, finished the voice recording, and added subtitles.
By the time Jiang Qiuyi returned to the bedroom with a faint blush on her face after washing the clothes, Chen Wen's video was completely finished and only needed to be uploaded.
He logged into his Bilibili account, "Ill-informed Wen," entered the creator center, and selected Upload Video.
He entered the title, "[Meal Card Ring Transformation] 520: What Should You Give? An Uploader Teaches You the Right Way to Confess~"
Then he entered the description, "Besides turning a meal card into a ring, you can also embed it into a bracelet, necklace, or earrings. You only need to control the thickness properly."
After confirming it, Chen Wen loaded the video and was about to click upload when Jiang Qiuyi stopped him.
"No, your title and description aren't eye-catching enough." Jiang Qiuyi patted Chen Wen's shoulder. "Let me spruce them up."
Before Chen Wen could even stand up to give her his seat, Jiang Qiuyi swiftly sat down on his lap.
"Wait..."
"Wait for what? Sit still and don't move." Jiang Qiuyi pulled Chen Wen's hands around her waist before happily beginning to type on the keyboard.
Being this close to a girl for the first time made Chen Wen's mind go blank. He did not dare move at all.
The girl's taut legs beneath her jeans pressed down on his thighs.
Because she was sitting, the hem of her shirt that had been tucked into her waistband had slipped out.
When Jiang Qiuyi leaned forward to type, a glimpse of fair skin appeared and disappeared beneath her shirt hem, brimming with youthful softness.
And Chen Wen's hands rested on Jiang Qiuyi's waist.
The clattering of the keyboard echoed through the bedroom.
After finishing the new title and description, Jiang Qiuyi rose with a red face and returned to sit on the edge of the bed. She looked as though nothing had happened, though her heart was already racing wildly.
"Take a look. This title and description are definitely more attractive than your old ones~"
Only after hearing Jiang Qiuyi did Chen Wen shift his gaze back to the computer screen.
Title: [Meal Card Ring Transformation] What should you give on 520? This uploader teaches you the correct way to confess~
Description: I don't know whether you can do it, but I've already succeeded! (≧ω≦)/
After reading it, Chen Wen pondered for a moment before asking, "520 is almost over today. Isn't this a little after the fact?"
"That's the point." Jiang Qiuyi revealed an adorable wicked grin. "Even you think it's after the fact, so other viewers will definitely complain too. That'll trick lots of people into commenting."
"Uh..." Chen Wen would not have done that himself, but he was not particularly opposed to it either, so he asked another question. "What about the description? It seems like I wasn't the one confessing today."
"What are you talking about? I don't understand~" Jiang Qiuyi put on an innocent expression. "The description means that you don't know whether viewers can successfully make the ring, but you've already made one successfully~"
Chen Wen was momentarily speechless after hearing Jiang Qiuyi's explanation.
With that title and description together, it was far too easy to read something into it. Most people's first reaction would probably be that the uploader had successfully confessed, right?
But since Jiang Qiuyi had successfully argued her way out of it, Chen Wen did not press the matter.
He clicked Upload, and the video immediately entered review.
"It's almost eleven." Chen Wen checked the time, then turned toward the girl on the bed. "Go back, shower, and sleep."
"Mm." Jiang Qiuyi obediently stood up, tugged on Chen Wen's sleeve, and lowered her head. "Walk me over."
"...Okay."
Chen Wen took Jiang Qiuyi's soft, boneless hand and walked out of 901 to the door of 902.
Jiang Qiuyi tightly held Chen Wen's hand with one hand while using the other to fiddle with her keys and open the door.
They let go. Jiang Qiuyi stepped over the threshold, then turned around the next second and threw herself into Chen Wen's arms without saying a word.
The two of them hugged in the hallway for who knew how long. The motion-sensor light turned on and off, then off and on again.
At first, Chen Wen's arms had been stiff at his sides, but eventually he silently wrapped them around Jiang Qiuyi's slender waist as well.
After a long while, they finally parted reluctantly.
The door closed softly, leaving only the lingering echo of "Goodnight" in the hallway.
[Pu Jie Ri Ji]: This book is meant to be a sweet daily romance story. Releasing it on Qixi Festival is pretty meaningful~ Hehehe, if you like it, please support it with a recommendation vote and a bookmark~
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