Love You Secretly [MTL]

Ch 5

5

After the thunder had sounded, large raindrops fell, falling on the ground drop by drop.

After a few days of boredom, the rain finally fell.

"Hi." Shang Huaiqing greeted simply.

His voice is low and restrained.

After a long time of not seeing each other, he didn't say it out loud, but he kept it in his heart.

While talking, Shang Huaiqing touched the side button of the phone with his long finger, blacking out the screen and the photo he had just put in the profile called Wu.

It was a photo he took at the iron gate of Taoxi Community just now, it was a blue Doraemon graffitied on the manhole cover.

Tao Xi nodded slightly, as a response to his Hi just now, and then she opened the iron gate of the community with the access control card, and greeted: "It's raining, you come in first, go inside to hide from the rain." Shang Huaiqing

nodded , didn't say anything, although he brought an umbrella when he went out, it couldn't withstand the ferocity of the rain.

Holding an umbrella together, Taoxi and Taoxi had just walked to the door of her unit. Before they stepped on the steps, the torrential rain had already poured in.

The two hurriedly opened the door and walked into the hall.

"It's raining heavily all of a sudden." Shang Huai put away his umbrella.

His denim jacket was mostly wet by the rain, and when he held up the umbrella just now, almost all the umbrella surface was on Taoxi's side.

Keep her safe.

Tao Xi could feel it naturally, and wanted to say thank you to him, but she was always a little embarrassed, afraid that he would know that she cared so much about his details.

So I started chatting about cats directly: "When the thunder struck just now, your cats hid themselves. I was afraid that I would have a stress reaction when I brought them down, so I wanted to go downstairs and tell you." "It's okay.

" His distinct long fingers were slightly curled, holding a wet umbrella with one hand, and rainwater fell from his fingertips.

After a pause for a few seconds, he added: "I can stay here in Qingbei for another week, and it's okay to watch it another day, but it's a little troublesome for you." "No, not troublesome."

Tao Xi bit her lower lip, After finishing the business, she suddenly didn't know what to say next.

But she was not in a hurry to leave, she just stood opposite the man, in this stormy weather, feeling the peace of mind she had never had before.

I don't know if it's because I've met him two or three times, and I'm a little familiar with him, so I feel this way.

Shang Huaiqing didn't say anything else, Taoxi always took the lead in the topic.

Just like when Taoxi transferred the money to him earlier, he was afraid that whatever he said would make her uncomfortable, so he waited there quietly, letting her control the rhythm of getting along between the two of them.

Or it was just like adding each other's WeChat friends yesterday, he didn't take the initiative to say hello until more than ten minutes later, when he received Taoxi's words, he guessed that she must have struggled with what to do during those ten minutes. He said hello, and even guessed that she was not good at communication, and probably also rejected social software communication, so he simply sent two good words.

After that, I didn't bother her again.

The torrential rain outside looked like it was going to rain for a long time.

Tao Xi and Shang Huaiqing were still standing there facing each other.

When neither of them spoke, it was somewhat awkward, but Shang Huaiqing took the initiative to break the silence: "I forgot to introduce just now, I am the owner of the cat, Shang Huaiqing, and we have actually met before." It turned out that his surname was Shang

.

Tao Xi nodded slightly, and when she looked into Shang Huaiqing's eyes, she could see that she still dodged a little, but she didn't escape, but responded in a low voice: "I remember, I saw it in the psychological consultation room." The time at the convenience store.

Shang Huaiqing raised a faint smile on his lips. At that moment, when he saw his blurred figure reflected in Taoxi's dark eyes, he felt a slight pause in his heart, but the words he wanted to say were suddenly stuck.

I had no choice but to turn to Taoxi and say, "Go up, I'll just wait for the rain to stop."

Taoxi stood there without moving.

She clutched the sleeve of the sweater tightly in her palm, as if mustering up a lot of courage, she tentatively asked Shang Huaiqing, "Would you like to go up to see the cat and take shelter from the rain?"

"What I mean is that the rain won't stop for a while, why not go upstairs and wait, after all, you are here to see the cat." Xu was afraid that Shang Huaiqing would misunderstand, and before he could speak, she added this sentence .

A hasty explanation made it clear that she was a little nervous now, but Shang Huaiqing also heard that she had relaxed a little bit of her guard against herself.

At least I won't avoid him in a panic anymore.

Shang Huai tilted his eyes slightly, his faint smile was warm and cool, and he said in an unusually gentle voice: "If it's convenient, then I'll go up and sit down." Taoxi lowered his eyes slowly

, It was only here that she finally realized that she felt embarrassed, but Shang Huaiqing had already agreed to the invitation, so she could only bite the bullet and respond: "It's convenient."

After speaking, she didn't say anything more, and turned to face Go to the elevator.

Shang Huaiqing followed behind her.

Walking into the elevator together, Taoxi pressed the number key for the floor. After the elevator door closed, she stood at the corner of the elevator, counting the floors that kept going up.

Looks a little stiff.

Like a child who is arranged by his parents to welcome guests, he is awkward and at a loss, but he looks cute and awkward.

Shang Huai tilted his eyes down and smiled calmly, laughing at how such an idea suddenly came to him.

With a sound of "Ding--", the elevator stopped at the designated floor.

Tao Xi glanced back, but without meeting Shang Huaiqing's gaze, she casually pointed to the outside of the elevator: "Here." "Okay."

Shang Huaiqing lifted his foot and walked off the elevator.

After getting off the elevator, he didn't go forward, but stood at the door and waited for Taoxi.

After all, he is a guest, and he doesn't know where Taoxi lives. It is inconvenient to walk in front. As for the fact that he got off the elevator just now, it was because he could feel Taoxi's words arrived, but he was at a loss and unconscious Responding, he went straight down the elevator.

He always seems to be able to see through Taoxi right away, and understands her very well.

It's like reading a book countless times, so familiar that with a single sentence, he knows which page it comes from, so familiar.

But after all, the number of times he met Taoxi was only three times.

The fate between people, and only when a certain person appears, will you be amazed at the wonders in it.

Looking out from the window in the corridor, the torrential rain was already so heavy that it fell down impenetrably like a dense rain curtain.

The rain is getting heavier and heavier, but the frequency of lightning and thunder is getting less and less, almost no longer appearing.

Only the sound of pouring rain remained in my ears.

Walking through the corridor, Taoxi stopped at the door of her house, took out the key, and opened the door.

"Come in."

"Do I need to change my shoes?"

"No." Taoxi replied in a low voice, "I don't have men's slippers here." "

Oh, then I'll just rub it on the floor mat." Shang Huaiqing On the floor mat at the door, I wiped off the almost dry water stains on the shoes.

After rubbing, he followed Taoxi into the room.

The door slammed shut behind him.

Taoxi didn't even have time to change her shoes, so after turning on the light in the room, she walked over and opened the curtains in the room.

"You sit first, I'll go find the cats, they should still be hiding in the bedroom." "

It's okay, I think they will come out by themselves later." Shang Huaiqing put the umbrella in his hand on the corner of the door.

After the words fell, the room suddenly fell silent, no one spoke, only the sound of rain outside the floor-to-ceiling windows.

Tao Xi took out a bottle of drink from the refrigerator, and silently put it on the small square table in front of Shang Huaiqing.

Shang Huaiqing nodded slightly: "Thank you."

Tao Xi hummed without saying anything else, then slowly took a step or two back, pulled away the chair in front of the writing desk, and sat down.

She sat there stiffly, looking more and more like a child whose parents hadn't come back yet, so she could only bite the bullet and greet guests.

Sitting there obediently, waiting for the cat to come out with Shang Huaiqing.

The room suddenly fell silent again.

Shang Huai sat on the sofa, he didn't take the initiative to find a topic, but he still regretted that he said that he would wait for the cat to come out by himself, and now he didn't know how long he would have to wait.

And belatedly, he realized that he was a little nervous when he was alone in the same room as Tao Xi.

It's just that the whole person suddenly became incomprehensible. Before that, he was always able to catch Taoxi's various emotional reactions quickly, but now he couldn't perceive anything, and he didn't know what Taoxi was doing over there.

He was also embarrassed to turn his head to look at Taoxi over there, so he could only sit on the sofa, grab the drink bottle casually, and pretended to look at the packaging on it.

Tao Xi, who was a few steps away from him, was still sitting obediently on the chair. She was sitting sideways, with one hand resting on the armrest of the chair's back, her head was depressed, and she hooked her fingers repeatedly in a bored manner. Sweater cuffs.

The heavy rain outside the floor-to-ceiling windows was still majestic. The weather that originally made her emotionally irritable was unexpectedly calm. Although it was accompanied by some embarrassment of not knowing how to get along with Shang Huaiqing, it finally overwhelmed those bad emotions.

She was sitting there, her fingers hooking the cuffs of the sweater boredly, but her attention was focused on Shang Huaiqing on the other side of the sofa. Listening to the movement, he seemed to have picked up the drink bottle on the table.

Tao Xi raised his head and pretended to glance at the heavy rain outside the window, but from the corner of his eye, he glanced at Shang Huaiqing over there, seeing that he was indeed holding a drink bottle there, as if he was looking at the packaging on the bottle.

The cat has never come out of the bedroom, so it's not an option to wait like this. She is the owner after all, and it's a bit rude to sit like this without any communication with the guests.

After thinking about it, let's go into the bedroom and take the cat out.

Tao Xi turned her head and looked towards the sofa.

Shang Huai tilted his body slightly, bent his elbows, and drank his drink slowly.

The light was turned on in the room on a cloudy day, and the cool white light fell on him, giving off a lingering coolness. He slightly raised his head and drank his drink, and there was no emotion in his half-closed eyes. But his eyes just fell on Taoxi.

The eyes of the two people accidentally intersected in mid-air.

It's too late to avoid it.

"..."

The moment Tao Xi met his eyes, Tao Xi felt as if his whole body was hit by something, and his head was in chaos for a while.

Originally, she turned her head to tell Shang Huaiqing about the idea of ​​picking up the cat, but she got stuck before she could say it.

The time gapped for two or three seconds.

At that moment of blankness, Taoxi couldn't turn her head around. In order to avoid embarrassment, she almost blurted out a question before she had time to think.

It has nothing to do with cats.

Another topic.

"Drink, is it good?"