Half-baked

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Eyes facing each other.

I miss looking up at him. From this angle, I can see his sharp jawline. My gaze slowly moves from bottom to top, and finally stops between his eyes. His eyes are dark, like the dark night sky, and there are star-like lights in his pupils, which are cunning and mixed with a bit of bad teasing.

No one spoke.
An especially quiet summer evening.

In the moment of trance and silence, the nostalgia seemed to be just as what he said, and I was bewitched by him.

half an hour.
Huai Nian moved her lips, slowly retracted her eyes, and commented on Duan Huai'an's impromptu script: "That's even weirder. You're flirting with a girl right under the nose of your father's assistant."

Duan Huai'an smiled: "What's so strange about this? Young people, this is normal."

"Your dad knows that you have a girlfriend." Huai Nian recalled what Duan Huai'an said when he answered Duan Yixing's call. She said in a submissive tone, "What if your dad's assistant tells your dad about this? Then your dad will think that you--"
Nostalgia organized the words, "a fickle man who has no male ethics, falls in love with every woman he meets, and is very casual."
"..."

Huai Nian looked at him, and after a long pause, she reminded him, "Boys should love themselves and avoid flirting with other girls."
"..."
Duan Huaian's expression was slightly stiff. He didn't answer. His hand hanging by his side naturally found the hand of Huami, and he interlocked his fingers between hers and pulled her forward.

Huai Nian followed beside him, glanced down at the two people's clasped hands, and smiled.
"Where are we going?" she whispered.
Duan Huai'an said, "Let's go have dinner."

There was a car parked outside the community. As Duan Huaian approached, the headlights flashed twice and the retracted rearview mirror slowly extended back to its original position.

Duan Huaian opened the passenger door and Huai Nian got in.
"It's so rare for your parents to come back, and you even have dinner with me." She said while fastening her seat belt.
Duan Huai'an liked to imitate her speech, "It's so rare for me to have a meal with you."
"No way." Huai Nian retorted subconsciously.

"Think carefully, when was the last time we had dinner together?"

I miss you in silence.
It seemed that since the exam review week, the two of them had very little time to see each other. At the student union election meeting, they were supposed to have a midnight snack together, but neither of them was hungry, so they didn't eat in the end.

Huai Nian changed the subject without much confidence: "You didn't eat with your mother, she seemed very unhappy."
Duan Huai'an said lightly: "Her husband will coax her."

"how about you?"
"Ah?" Huai Nian was at a loss.

Duan Huai'an glanced at her, curled his lips, and said in a very light tone: "If I am unhappy, will you comfort me?"
Huai Nian sat in the passenger seat, twisting his hands into a ball, rubbing his fingertips, looking absent-minded. It seemed that he didn't hear what Duan Huai'an just said, or that he heard it but pretended not to hear it and avoided answering.

Duan Huaian didn't ask any further questions.
Arrived at the dining area soon.

There were few cars and even fewer people in the outdoor parking lot.
Duan Huaian got off the car first, walked a few steps outside, and when he heard no sound, he turned around.
I miss you still sitting in the car.

He raised an eyebrow, walked around the front of the car to the passenger seat, opened the door, leaned over and looked at her. He had something to say, but Miss Nian didn't give him a chance to speak.
She suddenly reached out and hugged Duan Huaian.

The summer night breeze is hot and the air around seems to be stagnant.

Duan Huai'an's Adam's apple rolled, and he lowered his head and asked her, "What's wrong? Baby."

"Didn't you say that?" Huai Nian buried her head in his chest, feeling a little embarrassed, but she still said, "If you're tired, I'll hug you. If I want to comfort you, I should also..."
She stammered, "...I want to hug you too."
"Or is there another way?"

Duan Huaian didn't move at all.
He stood outside the car with his back hunched, and she sat upright inside.
This position was quite uncomfortable for both of them.

After a long while, seeing that he didn't respond at all, Huai Nian didn't know whether she had succeeded in coaxing him or not. For a moment, she felt awkward and helpless, and wanted to push him away.
His voice came from above.
"Another way, what is it?"

He loosened his arms and slowly lowered his head. His downcast eyes revealed a restrained desire.
Huai Nian raised her face, and her eyes that were meeting his also lowered, her sight wandering, yet seemingly with a strong purpose.

In the hot air, their breaths were getting closer and closer, the temperature they felt on their faces was getting hotter and hotter, but their breathing was getting lighter and lighter.

They all seemed to anticipate what was going to happen next.

Duan Huaian's Adam's apple rolled unbearably, and his eyes looked dark and corrupt.

Then, the next moment was the moment he had been expecting.
Miss kissed his lips.

Her breath surged around his lips and spread throughout his body through the air.
Without noticing his response, Nostalgia slowly reached out, hugged his neck, tilted his head back, and got closer to him. She imitated the way he used to kiss her, licking the corner of his lips with the tip of her tongue, and she trembled, her mind went blank.
"...I won't kiss you anymore." She blushed deeply, bit her lip, and slowly backed away. She buried her head in the crook of his neck because she felt embarrassed.

It was at this time that she caught a glimpse of his ears, which were red and bleeding.

The person who had never taken the initiative before failed in his first attempt with his clumsy kissing skills. Huai Nian felt that she couldn't embarrass herself alone, so she didn't give him face and said, "Your ears are red."
"Did it turn red?" Duan Huai'an responded calmly, "This is the first time you kissed me, isn't it normal for my ears to turn red?"

"..."
"I'm still hard, baby."

You missed inhaling and reached out to cover his mouth, but after thinking it over, you pushed his arms away instead.
"I'm hungry, let's go eat."
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Whenever I see Duan Huai'an, I can't help but think of the kiss I initiated in the parking lot.

At once.
Hey.
She actually.
initiative.
Kissed him.

That’s not all, the point is, her kissing skills are really bad.

Huai Nian couldn't understand why her kissing skills were so bad. The key point was that when she kissed him, she had an idea in her mind, what to do first, what to do next, and what to do next. But when their lips touched, all the steps were forgotten, and she only had one thought in her mind.

——Will he be happy if I kiss him like this?

While waiting for the restaurant to deliver the food, Huai Nian tried hard to calm herself down and convince herself that it was normal that she didn't know how to kiss. After all, Duan Huaian was the one who took the initiative in every kiss, and she just needed to enjoy it.

Suddenly, a sentence Jing Yue said popped up in my mind.
——"Why did the male god confess to her after kissing her? Is she showing off her kissing skills? Making men unable to leave her after a kiss?" She closed her eyes weakly, feeling ashamed and guilty.
So annoying.
Her kissing skills are nothing.

Duan Huai'an sat opposite her, watching her close her eyes helplessly, and raised the corners of his lips slightly, "It's okay, baby, it's not the first day I know you're not a good kisser."
For a moment, I didn't know whether he came to comfort me or to mock me for taking advantage of me.

"Whether you're a good kisser or not, it doesn't affect my liking for you." He chuckled, the ending of the tone was sticky, and the look he gave her when he missed her was also sticky.

Just then the waiter came to deliver the food, and Huai Nian stood up as well.
Duan Huaian thought she got up to go to the bathroom, so he lowered his cold eyes and reached out for the mobile phone on the table.
As soon as I unlocked my phone, I caught a glimpse of someone next to me.

He looked at her.

Huai Nian pretended to be calm and said, "It's quite far away from here. It's so rare for us to have a meal together. Let's sit closer to eat."
Duan Huai'an curled his lips and gave her a way out: "I was inconsiderate, baby, I should have taken the initiative to sit next to you."
Huai Nian understood what he meant instantly and acted very considerately, saying along with him, "It's okay, I'll sit over here, it's the same."

……

After dinner, Duan Huaian and Huai Nian went home together.
The house was still brightly lit and laughter from the living room could be heard from afar.

Whenever Cheng Songyue and her sisters got together, they had endless topics to talk about and endless gossip. And if Duan Huai'an was seen by them, he would be dragged and asked a lot of questions. In order to avoid them, Duan Huai'an also entered the house from the back door not long after Huai Nian entered.

He had just arrived at his room and hadn't even sat down when the phone in his pocket rang.
He thought it was a call from someone missing him, and the smile on his face instantly fell when he saw the caller's name.

It’s Chi Jingting.
Duan Huaian pressed the answer button and threw the phone casually onto the bed.
The speakerphone was on, and Chi Jingting's voice filled the room.

“Are you in the company today?”
"at home."
"I'm so bored, can you come out and have a few drinks with me?"
"Didn't Chen Jiangce return to his country? Let him accompany you."
"Please pay more attention to your brothers. He won't be back until the end of the month."

Duan Huai'an said coldly and without sincerity: "Sorry, I remembered it wrong."

Chi Jingting was very unhappy with his attitude and deliberately mocked him: "Can you stop focusing all your attention on Huai Nian? I don't think your Huai Nian likes you very much either."
Duan Huai'an clicked his tongue: "She doesn't like me very much?"

His tone became gloomy. Even through the phone, Chi Jingting was uneasy. He raised his voice to give himself courage: "I see that she is indifferent to you. Occasionally, you have to ask her opinion when holding hands. I'm not saying, buddy, you are such a coward in dating. You should know that every time I'm in a relationship, let alone holding hands, my girlfriend will take the initiative to kiss me."

"Kiss me with your tongue, so passionately." Chi Jingting boasted proudly.

"My girlfriend will also kiss me passionately." Duan Huai'an smiled, and his smile was very gentle, so gentle that Chi Jingting on the other end of the phone got goose bumps. "Now... you give me a feeling of being in heat."

"Get lost." Duan Huaian hung up the phone decisively.

After hanging up the phone, Duan Huaian took off his clothes and went into the bathroom to take a shower.
Passing by the mirror at the bathroom sink, he suddenly stopped, leaned close to the mirror and looked at his mouth.
"Where did you kiss?"
He was reminiscing and savoring the past.
"left."
He gently touched the left corner of his lip with his fingertips.

After a while, he smiled and whispered, "Your kissing skills are really bad. I still can't learn it after so many years of teaching."

Wait until he comes out of the shower.
I saw several messages from Chi Jingting on my phone.

Chi Jingting: [That’s enough! ]
Chi Jingting: [Do you want to compete with others in this kind of thing? ]
Chi Jingting: [If your Huai Nian takes the initiative to kiss you, I will eat shit! ]

Duan Huai'an had a blank expression on his face: [Don't come here to cheat for free food and drinks. ]

Chi Jingting: [? ]

Chi Jingting was furious and immediately said that he would come to Duan's house to find him.
Duan Huai'an got a headache when he thought of the women downstairs who loved to gossip. One of them was still single and was attracted to young and handsome men. Cheng Songyue asked Duan Huai'an more than once: "Does that handsome single-eyed guy who looks very handsome and dresses very fashionably have a girlfriend?"

Very trendy and handsome, referring to Chi Jingting.
But he doesn't have single eyelids, he has double eyelids, and you have to look closer to see that.

Duan Huai'an thought for a while, then put on clean clothes and went out: "I'll come to find you."

"When you come to my house, remember to bring a bottle of wine from your wine cellar. It's best to have the kind of wine your dad bought at the auction. Thank you." Chi Jingting opened his mouth loudly.
"I know." Duan Huaian said.

Chi Jingting has lived alone since graduating from high school. He lives very close to Duan Huaian's company, only a ten-minute drive away.
Duan Huaian stayed overnight at Chi Jingting's house that night.

Chi Jingting was curious: "I thought you would go home and sleep with your family."
Duan Huai'an pointed to the wine in the glass in front of him and said, "Drunk driving."
Chi Jingting knew him well: "If you go home to spend the night, even if I pinch your mouth and feed you wine, you will spit it out without leaving a drop."

Hearing this, Duan Huai'an curled the corners of his lips: "My parents are back home."

"I was wondering, nine out of ten times when I asked you to come out before, it was to accompany Huai Nian. You did come out the other time, but that time I cried and begged your little Huai Nian to come out, and you followed her out." Chi Jingting naggingly said, "Now that your parents are back, you can give Huai Nian a quiet time."

Duan Huaian was too lazy to pay attention to him.

But Chi Jingting was able to start a conversation by himself, and he bragged for a while. Seeing that Duan Huai'an was still aloof and indifferent, he suddenly remembered something and asked, "How do you say you miss studying abroad?"

"She doesn't want to go."

"What about you? Do you want to go?"

Duan Huai'an drooped his eyelashes, the alcohol made the corners of his eyes red. He said in a nonchalant and casual manner, "Wherever she is, I will be there."

(End of this chapter)