Half-baked

25
Before spending the New Year's Eve with Duan Huaian, Huai Nian had thought that this would be the way to celebrate the New Year.
But after going to Duan Huai'an's laboratory and leaving at three in the morning, Huai Nian was exhausted and sleepy. She never expected that Duan Huai'an was still so energetic that he worked until five in the morning.

While driving, he looked very sleepy.
As a result, when I got home, I felt completely awake, as if I had taken stimulants.

When I woke up the next day, I was so dejected that I really wanted to scold him, but after a little thought, I was left speechless.

Duan Huaian is such a shameless, crazy and unrestrained man.

The New Year's Day holiday was three days, but I only stayed in Duan Huaian for one day.
Because the final exam week was right next to the New Year's Day holiday, she had seven final exams in total, and all seven exams were completed in two weeks. However, her review materials were all a finger thick, and there were twelve books in total.

During the final exam week, there is always a sentence in the class group, and then all the classmates +1.
——"If you persuade people to study medicine, God will strike you with lightning."

I would also silently follow the trend and send a “+1”, then turn off my phone and continue to review attentively.

The final exam that lasted for half a month is finally over.
I miss saying goodbye to my roommates.

Her roommates winked at her one by one.

"I hope that your Master Duan will take good care of you when we are not around."
"Hopefully he's 'close care'."

"Our Huai Nian is a conservative sweetheart," Xu Fu seemed to have finally found her conscience and defended Huai Nian, "Huai Nian, you have to take good care of yourself. I hope you have a safe winter vacation."
After saying that, Xu Fu stuffed a box of things into Huai Nian's arms: "Amulet for good luck."

Huai Nian actually thought it was a talisman and lowered his head happily.
Take a look at the results.
It's a box set.

"..."
If you miss her, you will know that Xu Fu had bad intentions.

The thing in her hand was like a time bomb, and without stopping, she stuffed it back to Xu Fu. When she wasn't paying attention, Xu Fu quietly stuffed the thing into the pocket of Huai Nian's down jacket hanging by the bed.

After chatting and laughing with roommates, everyone went home one after another.
Huai Nian was the last one to leave the dormitory because Duan Huaian's exam was late and he wanted her to go home with him.
They said they were going back together, but when they arrived at the bus stop near the community, Huainian got off and pretended that she had come back by bus.

It happened that it didn't snow today. The sky was slightly bright, and the sun was like the light in a refrigerator, and it didn't have any effect.

Huai Nian is a slow person, and walks slowly, with his head down, walking slowly towards home. When he was almost home, he found a large truck parked in the yard, and workers were moving things.

After Huai Nian entered the house, she found her mother and asked, "Mom, what did Aunt Cheng buy again?"

Although Cheng Songyue travels abroad all year round, he still has a strong desire for shopping.
I am abroad and the things I bought abroad have been shipped back home.

Huai Yanjun said: "It wasn't bought by the Madam, it was the young master who asked someone to send back the piano from the house where he lived before."
Nostalgia: "Piano?"
Huai Yanjun smiled: "Yeah."

Duan Huaian's piano is a Steinway grand piano, of which only eight are available worldwide.
It was previously placed in the living room of the villa where Huai Nian and Duan Huai'an lived together, facing the door of Huai Nian's bedroom. At first, Huai Nian only thought that this piano was very delicate and beautiful, but later when she entered English letters in the browser, she realized that the price was even more delicate.

I miss watching Duan Huai'an playing the piano.
I remember it was the second year of high school, a few days before school started.

Huai Nian remembered very clearly that she and Duan Huaian had only met three times throughout the entire summer.

The first time was when he just moved into the villa.
The second time was when Chi Jingting came to find him outside the villa.
The third time was when she went to watch the World Youth Robot Championship. It was a chance encounter, she happened to meet Duan Huai'an who was left behind by his friends, and the two took a car home together.

After arriving home, they had no interaction with each other and went back to their own rooms.

Duan Huaian rarely goes out and his presence at home is almost zero, so Huai Nian has no clear idea about living under the same roof with Duan Huaian.

It was evening.

I miss the time when I had nothing to do at noon and watched movies in the room with her mother.
Halfway through the movie, her mother remembered that the soup was still cooking in the kitchen, so she left without closing the door. Huai Nian didn't care and continued watching the movie. When the movie was over, her mother hadn't come back yet, so she went to the kitchen to look for her mother.

Miss: "Mom, what kind of soup are you making?"
Huai Yanjun poured her a bowl of mung bean and lily soup: "It clears away heat and detoxifies. I'm preparing the olive and abalone soup for dinner in the soup pot."

Huai Nian took the mung bean and lily soup and took a sip: "It's so hot. It's so hot today. I should drink it iced."
Huai Yanjun disagreed: "Why would a girl drink something cold?"
Nostalgia said, "It's summer, Mom, and it's forty-one degrees outside."
Huai Yanjun: "But you can't drink it cold."

Objection was futile, and I could only drink hot drinks in silence.
Seeing her drinking soup obediently, Huai Yanjun chatted with her: "Is the movie good?"
"good."
"What's that?"
Nostalgia thought about it and found that she couldn't remember anything. She only remembered: "The male lead is so handsome, mom, and the guy who plays the piano is so handsome."

"..."

At the same time, there was suddenly another person outside the kitchen.
It was Duan Huai'an. He seemed to have just taken a shower, with slightly damp hair hanging down in front of his forehead, and the coldness between his eyebrows and eyes was softened a lot. The cool feeling of youth came over him, and the atmosphere of "no strangers allowed" was still very strong.

Huai Yanjun immediately stood up and greeted Duan Huai'an awkwardly: "Master, would you like some mung bean and lily soup?"

"No." Duan Huaian opened the refrigerator door and took out a bottle of mineral water.

Then, turn around and leave.

Huai Nian blinked, lowered his head and finished the mung bean and lily soup in the bowl.
After drinking, she went back to her room to read.

In the evening, Huai Nian was tired of reading and stretched. Suddenly, she heard footsteps on the stairs. Her first reaction was that her mother had finished cleaning upstairs and came downstairs. So she walked to the door, opened it, and wanted to talk to her mother.
As the gap in the door gradually widened, Huai Nian could clearly see the person on the stairs.
It is Duan Huai'an.

She held the door handle and closed the door stiffly.
Because she was afraid that the door would be too loud and disturb him, Huai Nian did not close the door tightly, but left a small gap. To her surprise, Duan Huai'an appeared in this narrow gap, like a pervasive light, drilling into Huai Nian's field of vision.

He sat down at the piano.
The piano cover was opened and he placed his ten fingers on it. Soon, lively music filled the room.
The piano sounds pleasant and ethereal, with a high-end texture.

Huai Nian didn’t know how long she had been watching. She only knew that the next second, Chi Jingting’s carefree voice stopped the music.

Huai Nian was so scared that he quickly closed the door.

The rooms are well soundproofed.
She couldn't hear what the people outside were talking about.

All I heard was Chi Jingting saying before the door closed: "Damn, has the sun risen from the west? Duan Huai'an, you actually played the piano?"

As far as he can remember, Duan Huai'an had only touched a piano once.
He himself does not have much interest in the piano, not to mention being passionate about it, let alone liking it.
Therefore, Huai Nian didn't understand why he went to so much trouble to have the piano moved back.

As she thought about it, she turned around and went back to the house, but she didn't know that in the corridor on the second floor, Duan Huaian was staring at her back with an unclear expression as she walked away.

In the living room, the piano has been placed in its proper place and the nannies are cleaning up.

It was not Duan Huaian who wanted to move the piano back, but Duan Huaian's mother who wanted to move it back.
Duan Huai'an didn't know what was wrong with him. She was in Europe, but she ignored the time difference and called Duan Huai'an late last night. She asked Duan Huai'an if he had a piano at home. It was clear that she would not return to China for the next month, and she ordered Duan Huai'an to send someone to move the piano back tomorrow.

Since his growth, Duan Huaian has never indulged in pleasure, nor has he ever developed an obsessive emotion towards anything.
For him, many things must be learned, and once learned, they are put aside. His memory of this piano is very limited.

He remembered that the last time he played the piano was during the summer vacation before the start of his second year of high school.

The reason was simple and shameful, because I accidentally heard Huai Nian say, "Boys who play the piano are so handsome."

Duan Huaian admitted that he was a very cunning person. His brain was rejecting his own ideas, but his eyes were fixed on the music score in front of him, reading and reciting it over and over again.

He spent an entire afternoon memorizing the music score.
Then go downstairs and play the piano.

He knew that behind the crack in the door, it was Nostalgia who was watching him.

His breathing rose and fell, and his fingers moved on the keys.
When it was about to reach its climax, the door was suddenly pushed open.
The sound of the piano stopped, and was replaced by Chi Jingting's voice.

He glanced sideways at the guest room and saw that the narrow gap had been closed.

The friend in front of me said with a very low EQ: "Why don't you play it? Let your good buddy listen to the beautiful music."

Duan Huaian frowned, and all his hidden, restrained and suppressed emotions poured out when he caught a glimpse of the tightly closed door.

Duan Huai'an cursed for the first time in his life: "You are a fool who is always causing trouble instead of helping others."

Chi Jingting was stunned after being scolded.
-
I missed returning to my room, thinking about going back to my hometown in a few days, so I took out my suitcase and packed my things for going home.
After I had packed my things and was about to zip up the room, the door was pushed open.
Huai Nian half-knelt on the ground and looked up at the person who came: "Mom."

Huai Yanjun's eyes stayed on the suitcase lying flat on the ground, and then moved to Huai Nian's face. She said to Huai Nian in a rare, cautious and tentative tone: "Your father called me a few days ago."
Miss zipped up the suitcase and replied absentmindedly, "What did he say?"

"It's the same as always. He wants you to go to his place to celebrate the New Year." Huai Yanjun said, "You didn't go in the past few years, and he was very unhappy."

"He wasn't happy when I spent the New Year at his place."

Huai Yanjun pursed her lips and said hesitantly: "He is your father after all."

"But he is also someone else's father." Huai Nian said, "He has two sons, and the eldest son is three years younger than me."
"..."
"To be honest, I don't want to go."
"..."

I miss picking up the suitcase from the ground and pushing it to the corner.
She also stood facing the corner, like a child who was punished for doing something wrong. She lowered her head, and her voice was as soft as a bubble floating in the air, which would burst if poked.
"But Mom, if you want me to come over, I will."

"On the phone, your father was very tough. He said that if you didn't go over, he would come to your house to find you."

"No." Huai Nian knew Xu Jinpeng's character too well. "If I go to his place to celebrate the New Year, his wife will definitely make a big fuss at home. Then he will blame me and say that I wanted to come and celebrate the New Year with my father."

Hearing this, Huai Yanjun frowned and said, "Then I won't go. I'll call him back later to let him know."

Miss: "Well, thank you, Mom."

After the chat, Huai Yanjun had something to do outside, so he picked up his phone and went out to work.
Huai Nian sat at the desk, played with her phone for a while, opened WeChat, and somehow found herself on the WeChat blacklist. There was only one person on it, and that was Huai Nian's father, Xu Jinpeng.

Huai Nian had no idea what Xu Jinpeng was thinking. He was the one who sent Huai Nian to Huai Yanjun personally. After sending her back, he often harassed her, saying things like he missed her very much.
She doesn't find nostalgia corny, she finds it disgusting.
Nausea and vomiting.

I miss sitting quietly at the desk, with a thin ray of light coming in from the window beside me, outlining a very faint shadow on the wall.

As time passed, the sun set, the shadows faded and became smaller, and finally were swallowed by the night.

The bad mood of nostalgia was also buried in the darkness.
Disappear.
-
I miss that their major is one of the majors that has the latest holidays.
When she went to the cafeteria to get lunch this afternoon, many of the food windows were closed and there were not many dishes. So she missed lunch and didn't eat much. In winter, the days are short and the nights are long. It was around six in the evening and it was completely dark.

Duan Huaian's family has always been deserted. His father Duan Yixing works abroad all year round, and his mother Cheng Songyue also travels abroad all year round. Duan Huaian, the only one left in the country, has to go to school.
It's a rare day when the host is at home, and the people in the kitchen are busy preparing dinner.

Huai Nian was very hungry, but she didn't go to the kitchen to make trouble. She sent a WeChat message to her mother, asking her when she could have dinner.

The phone rang.
Huai Nian thought it was a reply from her mother, so she opened it and took a look.
Duan Huai'an: [Come to my room.]

Not knowing what the young master wanted to call her for, Huai Nian said, "Come over after I have dinner."

Duan Huai'an: [Can't you come to my room to eat? ]
Miss: [My mother is here. ]
Duan Huai'an: [Which day is your mother not at home? ]
Miss: [……]
Duan Huai'an: [I'm going to New Zealand tomorrow, won't you accompany me tonight? ]

Duan Huaian seemed too lazy to argue with her over text and just made a voice call.
Just at this moment, the door of the room was pushed open from the outside. The sudden noise scared Huai Nian so much that he quickly hung up the call and hid the phone in his clothes pocket.

"How old are you? Your mother won't scold you for playing with your phone." Huai Yanjun didn't think much about it and said with a smile, "It's time for dinner."

Huai Nian quickly followed Huai Yanjun's steps and went to the kitchen to eat.
The kitchen is very large, with a large center island, where I usually eat.

After sitting down, she casually raised her head and her eyes fell on the person sitting in the main seat in the restaurant.

Duan Huai'an, who was facing her, supported his chin with one hand, his expression was calm, and there was an indelible pride between his eyebrows. Suddenly, he poked her cheek with the tip of his tongue, bent his neck and lowered his eyebrows, and tapped the screen with his fingertips while holding the phone.
After a few seconds, Huai Nian felt the phone in his pocket vibrate.
She knew Duan Huaian was sending her a message, but her mother was sitting next to her.

After Duan Huaian sent the message, he looked up and stared at her with his dark eyes. Seeing that she still didn't take out her phone, the corners of his eyes raised, and then he stood up casually.

"..."
Thinking of him coming over, I almost stopped breathing in longing.

She quickly took out her cell phone.
She held the phone high, trying to tell Duan Huai'an that she was already reading the message he sent and asked him not to come over.

In his peripheral vision, Duan Huai'an just stretched, then picked up the bowl and chopsticks and ate slowly.

Nostalgia relaxed, his back slackening as he leaned back against the chair.

I thought Duan Huaian was just this bad.
But when she opened the message, she found even more terrifying content waiting for her.

Duan Huai'an: [Will you come to my room tonight or should we go outside? ]
Duan Huai'an: [Choose one.]

Miss: [I don’t want to choose. ]

Duan Huai'an: [Then I don't mind kissing you in front of your mother. ]
Duan Huai'an: [You don't want to see me angry, right? Baby.]

(End of this chapter)