Waiting for You in a City

“Song Yan, I will love you.”

Her words seemed to be still echoing in her ears, but the world was already quiet.

Song Yan stared at her for a while and said, “I know.”

He walked towards her, took his hand out of his pocket, held her hand tightly, pulled her to his side, led her to Fu Wenying, nodded slightly, and said: “Hello, Auntie.”

Fu Wenying was standing gracefully with her bag in her hand, her eyes were already filled with cold light, but she still squeezed out a smile without a smile towards Song Yan.

She looked calm and magnanimous.

Even if there was great anger, she had to endure it first. She valued face and temperament the most. She was on the street at the moment, with Han Ting present,  she would not expose her family scandal.

What’s more, in her whole life, she had never quarreled with anyone, let alone losing face. Whether it was disciplining and admonishing children, or dealing with subordinates who had done something wrong at work, she always smiled and suppressed coldly and violently with a pleasant face. She was a woman whose smile was more terrifying than her anger.

Looking at Fu Wenying’s face, Song Yan finally realized that Xu Qin’s repressed and forced indifference and meanness must have been a victim of it since childhood.

Unconsciously, he squeezed her hand even tighter.

But in front of him was Xu Qin’s mother, so he couldn’t make things difficult for Xu Qin, let alone make the situation worse without knowing the circumstances.

He nodded again, and said politely: “Auntie, I’m in a hurry today, I will visit your home another day.”

“No need.” Fu Wenying clearly expressed her refusal and non-acknowledgment in one sentence, her eyes didn’t even bother to stay on Song Yan’s face for half a second, then she looked at Xu Qin with a hint of sharpness in her eyes, “Qin Qin. “

Xu Qin took a breath and said, “Mom, I have to go to work tomorrow and it’s already the afternoon, so I won’t be going back to the west side.”

Fu Wenying stared at her closely, and after a while, she smiled slightly: “Okay.”

She got in the car.

As for Han Ting, he stood aside and felt the undercurrent in the calm tone of these people, yet he was not too embarrassed. He smiled politely at the two of them as if nothing had happened, nodded again as farewell, and left.

Zhai Miao sighed: “This is really a person who does big things.”

Looking back at Xu Qin again: “Cool, I’m impressed with you.”

Her voice faded—

Song Yan had already pulled Xu Qin into his arms, hugging her tightly, stroking the back of her head with his big palms, and whispered: “You’ve been wronged.”

“You’ve been wronged.” He said it twice, his brows were deeply frowned, and his chin was pressed against her temples, as if he was holding a lost and recovered treasure.

He knew that she must have been wronged, otherwise she wouldn’t have been forced to rebound and say what she just said in front of everyone.

Xu Qin put her arms around his waist and shook her head.

Needless to say, he knew everything.

And everything she did was worth it.

“Next time I will accompany you.” He said, “I will accompany you every time in the future.”

“Okay.” She nodded. A day apart seemed like a year, there were countless things to say, and finally she settled on a sentence, “Did you miss me?”

“I missed you, I’ve been missing you the whole time.” Song Yan whispered in her ear, “I thought I wouldn’t be able to see you before returning to the team.”

“I also thought I wouldn’t be able to see you before you returned to the team, I’d have to wait until next week.” She said, “Fortunately.”

He also said: “Fortunately.”

Zhai Miao was carrying donuts and lipstick that didn’t belong to her, and couldn’t bear it any longer: “Hey, there’s still a light bulb here.”

As if Song Yan didn’t hear her, he lifted Xu Qin’s chin, lowered his head and kissed her lips forcefully.

Zhai Miao: “……”

She rolled her eyes and turned around to look at the sky, stretched out two fingers and poked in front of her eyes, blinding herself.

……

Xu Qin wanted to go back to Zong Lu Gardens to pack her things, and Zhai Miao also went along to help.

Before entering the community, the security guard met them and asked Song Yan, “Your key—”

Song Yan: “You can give it to me now.”

The security guard took out a bunch of keys and gave them to Song Yan, who handed them to Xu Qin.

Xu Qin wondered: “What is this?”

“The key to my house.” Song Yan said, “I was worried that I would have already returned to the team when you came back, so I left the key with the security guard and asked him to give it to you when he sees you.”

Two, one for the courtyard gate, and one for his room.

Xu Qin had just separated herself from her family, and faced with such a meticulous and determined calculation, she felt a little mixed, and asked: “You were sure I’d be kicked out?”

“No. It was just in case,” he smiled wryly. “You’re pretty stubborn when you’re stubborn. I was afraid you wouldn’t have a place to go. You’re still trying to be brave.”

He said,

“I have to leave for a week. I was afraid that there would be some changes in the middle, and I wouldn’t be able to take care of you. Leaving a key, at least you would have a place to stay and a family to rely on.” At the end, he sighed slightly, “I didn’t think it would be so soon.”

Xu Qin was slightly stunned, her heart felt warm, and she apologized for her petty care just now, she couldn’t help but tighten her grip on the key and him.

Zhai Miao also said: “That’s right, sister-in-law, in the future my ge won’t be able to leave if he’s in the barracks. If anything happens, you can call me, and there’s also my parents. Remember!”

The tone of this instruction was exactly the same as that of Song Yan’s.

While talking, Zhai Miao’s phone rang, and she answered: “Mom?”

“.……Dad doesn’t need to come help, three people can move it. ……I know, I won’t be lazy. ……Yes yes yes, my hand doesn’t need to hold a scalpel, it’s okay if it breaks.”

Xu Qin: “……”

She didn’t know what the other end of the phone was saying. After a few seconds, Zhai Miao asked Xu Qin: “Sister-in-law, what kind of food do you like to eat?”

Xu Qin was taken aback for a moment, then realized that auntie was going to buy groceries for dinner, so she thought about it hastily and said: “Fish.”

Zhai Miao said to the phone: “She wants to eat fish.” After a few seconds, she asked Xu Qin again, “What else?”

“……” Xu Qin said, “Beef, broccoli.”

After Zhai Miao reported to the phone, what did the other end say? Zhai Miao asked Xu Qin again: “My mother said that in addition to these, she will make you a lotus root pork bone soup? She said you Liang City people like to eat this?”

Xu Qin nodded, her heart felt as if it had been soaking in a hot spring, about to melt open.

She raised her eyes to look at Song Yan, wanting to thank him with her eyes. But he didn’t care about this little episode, as if it was an extremely natural thing for him.

……

It was Zhai Miao’s first visit to Xu Qin’s house, and she opened her eyes after entering the door. The house was big and new, with exquisite decoration; and on the high-rise building, the view was excellent, which was not something ordinary people could live in.

The only shortcoming was probably that the huge home did not have the slightest breath of life, it was as clean as a place used for filming TV dramas.

Only the pots and pans, oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar in the kitchen were left with a scent of smoke and fire, but judging from the newness, it was likely that Song Yan bought them after he came over.

Zhai Miao whispered beside Song Yan: “She really won’t live here anymore? How much is this house worth?” After speaking, she encouraged him, “But don’t worry, your place is not worse than here. I’ll wait and see, when it’s done, it’ll be even better than here.”

Song Yan said: “I will try my best.”

Xu Qin’s house didn’t have many things, the only things she could tidy up were clothes, shoes and daily necessities.

Zhai Miao went into her room to help her, looked at the luxurious big bed, carpet, and rows of closets in the room, and asked, “Will you be reluctant to move away?”

“I haven’t thought about it before.” Xu Qin was asked by her, thought about it seriously, and said, “It’s okay. I’m usually busy with work, and I don’t spend much time at home. It’s just a place to live.”

Zhai Miao said “Oh”: “I was thinking that there would be memories wherever I live, and I would be reluctant to leave.”

Xu Qin thought about it for a while, the memories from this house was just that she went home from the hospital alone, drank a glass of cold mineral water, washed up and went to sleep, and went to the hospital again after waking up.

Sometimes she goes out in the morning and comes back at night; sometimes she goes out at night and comes back in the morning.

Day after day, alone.

Neighbors didn’t know each other, and her parents had never been here. It was Meng Yanchen and Xiao Yixiao who came to visit occasionally.

What could be called memories was the scene of her making tea at the counter and Song Yan mopping the floor in the living room on the day when the downstairs caught fire, in the golden autumn;

Only in the past ten days, in this silver winter, were there images of him standing downstairs waiting for her to come home, going upstairs with her hand in his, and going downstairs with his arm around her shoulder the next day, sending her off to work.

“If I was asked to leave my family courtyard home, I would be reluctant.” Zhai Miao said to herself.

Seeing a pile of brand-name bags in the closet, again, she asked: “You don’t want to take any of these away?”

“My mother bought them all.” Xu Qin glanced at them and finally picked out a few, “These are gifts from friends.”

Xu Qin put the bags away, and folded the clothes one by one, in an orderly manner, without any extra expressions or words.

Zhai Miao looked at such a big house, she didn’t have much to take away, so she felt a little sad for some reason. After a moment of silence, she walked to her side and whispered: “Don’t be sad, our whole family will treat you well.”

Xu Qin froze for a moment, her heart was tugged unexpectedly. She also looked at her with some surprise.

Zhai Miao thought she didn’t believe her, so she hurriedly said: “Really. I will never bully you. You see, I used to be the one who hated you the most in our family. I’ve said so, so that’s it. Just trust me.”

Xu Qin curved her lips and nodded.

“Also, don’t regret the bags you didn’t take away with you. I will buy it for you in the future when I earn money. My ge will too. In fact, although my brother doesn’t say many things, he really loves you, he’s willing to do anything for you. Really, you’ll see later.”

The arc of Xu Qin’s lips rose a little more.

She was not a fool, how much he liked her could be seen from the attitude of his family. They all treated her well and pampered her simply because she was Song Yan’s true love.

……

As the sun set, the sunset covered the courtyard, and Song Yan’s room was filled with orange-red warmth.

The closet here was not as spacious as the one in Xu Qin’s house, but she didn’t usually wear many clothes, so it was more than enough to put them in after tidying them up.

Song Yan squatted on the ground to unpack the cardboard boxes, accidentally took out two cans of fire extinguishers, then took out a safety hammer, and asked Xu Qin: “Why did you move all this here? I was wondering why this box was so heavy.”

“You gave it to me.” Xu Qin spoke righteously, sitting on the sofa and folding clothes.

“I didn’t see you go to the parking lot earlier.” Song Yan glanced at her with a gloomy look. She didn’t know if he was teasing or admonishing, “I put it in your car in case of emergencies. Meanwhile, you put it away as soon as I turned around.” He wiggled the safety hammer in his hand, “Doctor Xu, outwardly complying but inwardly opposing, you’ve done a great job.”

“I didn’t. I kept it there before. Then I thought I wouldn’t drive that car in the future, so I took it out.” Xu Qin said.

Song Yan was amused: “It’s a pity that you had to carry it up and down, you could have just asked me for another.”

“I wanted this one, problem?” Xu Qin said.

Hearing this, Song Yan inadvertently raised his eyes to look at her, but he didn’t reply.

She lowered her head and folded the clothes, smoothing out the wrinkles on the clothes as she folded, her thin fingers seemed to be brushing against his heart. The hair at her temples hung down over her cheeks, dyed a warm orange-red by the glow of the sunset.

At that moment, there was a feeling of eternity.

Tenderness, peace.

She felt his gaze, raised her head slightly to look at him, met his eyes, looked quietly for two seconds, and asked: “What are you looking at?”

He smiled and shook his head. But in the next second, his eyes became darker, he got up and went to close the door, walked back to hook an arm around her waist, and carried her to the bed.

“Song Yan, bear it for a while—” she whispered.

“One week, I can’t bear it anymore.” His voice became hoarse.

She didn’t have time to turn over, he had already pressed against her body and reached into her clothes.

She struggled and pushed his hand, but couldn’t push it away. He had become more and more proficient, he took off their clothes in two to three strokes, and turned her naked body over.

She was anxious and angry, and lowered her voice: “It’s going to be dinner time soon, what if auntie comes over to call on us.”

He smirked: “Are you stupid, closing the door in broad daylight, they don’t know what’s going on inside? Who is so ignorant to knock on the door, huh?”

She blushed suddenly, she didn’t know if it was from embarrassment, nervousness, or the glow of the sun.

“Is the room soundproof?” Her nose was covered with sweat, she was pushed by him, regardless of up and down, her mind was still highly nervous, she was wary of the outside, “What if they can hear us?”

“Then you bear it, keep your voice down.” He whispered in her ear with a bewitching voice.

Xu Qin kicked him angrily, gritted her teeth, and buried her whole face in the pillow.

……

……

With a thin quilt, Xu Qin lay in Song Yan’s arms, taking a short nap.

Outside the window, it was already dark.

Song Yan reached for his cellphone on the bedside table to check the time, and when he moved slightly, she woke up: “Are you leaving?”

“En.” He put down his phone, turned around and adjusted his posture, embracing her in his arms. She arched into his arms and found a comfortable position.

She tended to move down when she was sleeping. At this moment, she was huddled under the quilt, with her head against his chest, her exhaled breath brushed against his chest like a feather.

He felt a little itchy, and couldn’t help but bend the corners of his lips. Finally, holding her face in his hands, he lowered his head and kissed her forehead.

“Xu Qin.”

“En?” She looked up, “What’s wrong?”

His thick thumb stroked her eyebrows back and forth: “During your stay here, you don’t need to try to make uncle and aunt happy. You don’t like to talk, they have known since you were a child, and they won’t mind. Just get along with them like before.”

“En.” She curled into his arms and nodded. There was the sound of his powerful heartbeat beside her ear, and she felt sleepy again.

He lowered his head, longing for the tenderness when he was with her, and couldn’t help but rub his chin on her head, brushing her hair: “For the time being we’ll live under the same roof as the elders, make do with it for a while, after two months, we’ll go live somewhere else.”

Xu Qin woke up slightly and raised her head: “Live where?”

“Our own home.” Song Yan pinched her waist and hugged her upwards; she used his strength to crawl out and lay in his arms with a surprised look on her face, “Where?”

Song Yan smiled: “You will know when the time comes.”

There were light blue rooms, and there were pink ones; and many, many more things that you like.

Xu Qin’s eyes lit up, just when she was about to speak, Song Yan stopped her with a smile: “No questions, it’s a surprise.”

She pursed her lips tightly, but couldn’t hide the smile in her eyes.

He watched her, couldn’t help it again, leaned over and pecked and kissed her eyes several times, until an alarm sounded from his phone.

He loosened his grip, stared at her for a long time, and said: “I’m leaving.”

She nodded with some reluctance, lying on the pillow: “En, go.”

He touched her face with his fingertips before getting up, he couldn’t help but make a long sigh,

The feeling of leaving her alone at home was really terrible.

maem: AHHHH his cousin and family are so sweeeeet  ngl, my eyes were watery. I have it on good authority (tsuki) that the rest of the book will be sweet and filled with CP moments. At least I’m pretty sure that’s what tsuki said