Invade the World

  Chapter 294 Good night, I want to say I love you

   "Then... we won't bother you, let's go first."

  Xu Xiangyang and Lin Xingjie sat on the sofa for a while, watching the squad leader running around in front of them, only to see her back from the dining room to the stairs, and then back to the living room from the stairs, they were so busy.

  After waiting for a while, the two guests looked at each other and their thoughts were quickly unified.

   "Are you leaving now?"

  Zhu Qingyue hurriedly stopped, looking at them with surprise.

  "This is just here, don’t you stay to eat? There are ingredients in the refrigerator, we can make them together, just like when I went to your house..."

"No."

  Xu Xiangyang sighed, got up with the long-haired girl beside him, and decided to leave.

  "You still have to take care of the aunt, so we won't bother you."

  Sir squad leader blinked and replied with a smile.

   "I'll be busy right away, don't care too much. And Xingjie, haven't you always wanted to come into my house?"

   "I can't sit still." Lin Xingjie said, "Just take a look, I can't get used to this place."

   "We don't need to be so polite between us."

  Ms. Qingyue seems to hope that the two of them can stay, and the attitude is very enthusiastic.

"Then I'm not polite," Xu Xiangyang said, "What I think of now is that every Spring Festival, when I go back to my hometown, I am being taken to visit relatives who are not familiar with each other. Everyone will enthusiastically want to hold you back for dinner. Scenes……"

  The squad leader raised his eyes, the curvature of the corners of his mouth remained the same, but his eyes calmed down.

   "I have no relatives."

"Uh……"

  Xu Xiangyang's brains turned fairly fast, and he quickly found a second way to describe it.

   "That's the teacher's home visit, don't you understand? That kind of embarrassment when you see the teacher in charge and the parents communicate and talk about yourself..."

   "Home visit."

  The girl with short hair laughed for some reason, she nodded and said.

   "Okay, I understand what you two mean."

  ……

  The squad leader led them both to the door.

  When he was about to leave, Lin Xingjie suddenly said:

   "I have something to tell her."

  Xu Xiangyang just turned his head in amazement, and then the person has been pushed out.

"boom."

  He is separated from them by a security door.

  The room became dark again.

  Lin Xingjie lifted her slender calf and stepped one foot into the sneaker hooked with her little finger, while the corner of her eye couldn't help but glance at the girl behind her.

  "Do you have something to tell me?"

  Zhu Qingyue carried her hands on her back and looked at her with a smile.

  The long-haired girl's eyes moved away, and she said softly after a while.

"thank you."

"what?"

  "It may be a little weird to say'thank you', because I said that it was an expected action, and you were just doing useless work."

  The girl’s eyelashes trembled lightly.

   "...Ah, you mean I jumped down. It doesn't matter, you don't need to thank you, we are friends."

  "I can't refute it now."

   Lin Xingjie sighed.

   "Let yourself fall down to save the person who jumped off the building, I don't know if it is stupid or brave."

"In fact, although I untied the thread on my body, I didn’t intend to die to save you.” The squad leader explained with a smile, “That thread connects you and me, so just save you and I You can be saved by the way."

  "This is also a bet on life to save people."

  "Do you now doubt that I deliberately gained your favor?"

   "It was an action that happened in a flash. I believe you don't have the time to worry about other things."

"that is because……"

  Zhu Qingyue suddenly stretched out her hand and grabbed her arm. Under Lin Xingjie's startled gaze, the other party's whole person was posted up, and the eyes of the two people reflected each other's face to face.

   "——That's because my idea of ​​trying to please you has gone deep into my bones."

   Lin Xingjie blinked.

  The squad leader put his lips close to her face, exhaling like a blue, if he changed to Xu Xiangyang, he might be flustered again.

   But this trick is useless to her.

   "Please please me..."

   Lin Xingjie gently shook her arm, throwing away the opponent.

   "If you really want to please me, you won't annoy me in the first place."

  "It’s because I know that what I do will make you angry, so I have to try my best to please you."

  Zhu Qingyue still clutching her sleeve, said with a smile.

   "Because I neither want to let go of Xiangyang's hand, nor do I want to let go of you."

   "How much do you want to achieve?"

   "You can be a slave or a maid. As long as you want..."

  "It’s better for girls to have a little self-esteem."

   Lin Xingjie is about to sigh again.

   "In order to achieve my ideals, everything else can be discarded."

Zhu Qingyue's expression suddenly became serious.

  "Many great men in history have been like this. They can show their ambitions from a young age, and then realize them one step at a time.

   "What a ‘great job’ to find a boyfriend on two boats."

  Lin Xingjie couldn't listen, she interrupted the other party's speech, her hand was already on the doorknob.

   "Forget it, that's it for today."

  She opened the door, and the light from the corridor outside and the breeze poured into the room; therefore, Zhu Qingyue's home, which seemed to be stuck in time stagnant, dark and closed place, began to turn again.

  The gentle night wind blows, people can't help but think of the solitary stars in the sky and the woodland bathed in moonlight. Lin Xingjie squinted her eyes and glanced at her behind her from the perspective of the eye.

   "Even if you are a neuropathy, it is also a neuropathy that puts me in your heart. At least you don't put some words in your mouth...I came here to prove this. It seems that it is enough now."

"thanks?"

"You're welcome." She left the room and said without looking back, "I don't know what the future will be like, but the time with you is not wasted. I am very happy to know this. So- —"

  "The one who should say thank you is me."

  Zhu Qingyue watched the back of Rapunzel disappear outside the door close at hand. The other party didn't look back, so she couldn't see this person's expression; she heard Xingjie's tone of voice is also faint, so her best method of interpreting the inner thoughts of others through external expressions is difficult to achieve.

  What is Xingjie thinking about?

  Those words just said, are they a sign of choosing to forgive, or are they going to let go of everything?

  For their relationship, is it a new beginning, an old end, or both?

  Zhu Qingyue felt uneasy about her ignorance, but couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.

  ...I was affirmed, she thought.

  Lin Xingjie affirmed the emotion in her heart, which is very important to Zhu Qingyue, because it is also her affirmation of herself.

  People who are friends or lovers will one day be confused. They will find that she can calculate even the closest person, use all means to achieve the goal, and always make no secrets.

  Zhu Qingyue found this kind of suspicion on the faces of both Xu Xiangyang and Lin Xingjie. This is taken for granted, because even she herself would doubt whether she really has the ability to fall in love with others.

  What she has done so far, is it really a form of love, or is she just using "love" as an excuse to expose her nature?

  Zhu Qingyue wants to hand over the decision of the answer to the other two.

The chaotic thoughts finally dissipated without a trace in an instant. The squad leader who did not get the answer subconsciously wanted to reach out and touch the figure that was fading away in the breeze and soft light, and wanted to hold the other person’s clothes. Corner, and only the cold door panel was touched by the fingertips.

  The door was closed.

   Then, when it was about to close, it was grabbed again.

  After opening the door, standing outside is her lover. The boy was looking at the other end of the corridor, and seemed to be watching his ex-girlfriend leave.

  After a while, he turned his face around again and stared at her silently.

  After waiting patiently for several minutes, Zhu Qingyue spoke and asked him exactly the same question:

   "Do you have something to tell me?"

  *

"nothing else."

  Xu Xiangyang's expression was a bit embarrassed, and he scratched his cheek with his fingers.

  "I want to say, if you encounter difficulties, you must tell Xingjie and me, don’t always keep the secret from others. The person I am most worried about right now is you..."

  "Still doubting about my house?"

  Zhu Qingyue shook her head and sighed.

   "I've said it several times and it's okay. And, haven't you got the answer now?"

   "The reason I always worry is because you are always lying and deceiving people."

  Xu Xiangyang unceremoniously accused.

   "...I admit that I have suffered a bit."

  Zhu Qingyue smiled bitterly.

   "Look, this is the story of'The Wolf is Coming', it's just self-inflicted."

"As long as you know."

  Xu Xiangyang rarely presented a condescending attitude in front of the squad leader.

"Ok."

  The girl lowered her head.

  "……"

  After waiting for a long time, the other party didn't mean to continue talking. Xu Xiangyang took a deep breath and had to bid farewell.

   "Goodbye, Qingyue."

"goodbye."

   Before he could walk a few steps away, he heard the squad leader shouting from behind.

   "I love you, Xu Xiangyang."

"what?"

  He turned his head and looked at the girl standing by the door a little confused.

  Xu Xiangyang didn't mean to blush and heartbeat this time, but felt strange.

  Why come such a sentence suddenly?

  "I heard Xingjie say that you would say goodnight to each other before going to bed every night. I think you both should be insisting on this matter before breaking up."

The squad leader leaned against the door holding his arms, half of his pretty face was hidden by the darkness in the room, and only the gentle smile on the other half of his cheek was clearly seen by him.

  "I think this is a good...a very enviable habit. So starting today, we will do the same."

  "……"

   "We are already lovers, right?"

"right."

  The smile on Zhu Qingyue's face became brighter, but she didn't mean to continue speaking.

  When he found that the girl’s big talking eyes were looking at him without blinking, Xu Xiangyang finally reacted and said quickly:

   "I love you, Qingyue."

"very good."

   Seeing the other party’s satisfaction, he suddenly thought of a question:

   "But I can't come to your door every day to say good night to you."

  He and Xingjie live under the same roof, so naturally they won't have this concern.

  "Call."

  The squad leader made a gesture with a smile.

   "Let me hear your voice every night. But a simple ‘good night’ can’t satisfy me, so let’s use a confession of love instead."

"I see."

  Xu Xiangyang nodded and agreed. He raised his hand to bid farewell to the other party.

   "Then...bye."

"goodbye."

  ……

"boom."

  The door was finally closed.

  Zhu Qingyue turned around, leaning against the door panel behind.

  The touch of cold bingbing is transmitted to the skin through the thin cloth.

  She raised her head, staring blankly at the ceiling hidden in the darkness.

  After friends and lovers left together, she heard the sound of someone walking down the stairs.

   "Boom, boom, boom."

  Not in a hurry, as if walking on her beating heart muscle.

  The lights in the room went out one after another.

  The thin woman in white pajamas stood in the center of the living room, behind it was the dim light from the TV screen. The woman who stood silently seemed to become transparent in the reflection of this white light, just like a ghost.

  The woman looked at her, her pale eyeballs protruding outward, turning from time to time to look like an insect.

  Clearly it is only a dozen steps away from the shoe cabinet to the living room, but Zhu Qingyue feels that she and her mother are as far away as the whole world.

  The pitch-black vision blurred the human senses, and the floor underneath seemed to extend endlessly.

  Desolate land, dark dense forest.

  She seemed to hear the gurgling water again. The secluded lake was overflowing, and the cold water from the deep well was about to flood her ankle.

  But Zhu Qingyue was no longer the lonely and helpless little girl at the time. She ignored all the hallucinations in her ears and asked with a smile.

   "Mom, are you now... are you able to go out to meet people?"

  (End of this chapter)