The phone was silent for a while, then Nian Junting lowered his voice and said angrily, “Nian Xi, do you know what time it is here? It’s midnight.”
“I’m sorry, it’s still night here,” Nian Xi chuckled and said, “I thought you’d be happy to hear that I’m back.”
“What’s there to be happy about? I knew that an evil child like you would be an eyesore even to God,” Nian Junting said, “Where’s Jiang Yuning? Is he dead?”
“Bro, what are you talking about?” Nian Xi sounded unhappy, “I’m telling you, I found him.”
After saying that, she turned to Jiang Yuning and said, “Do you want to talk to my bro?”
Jiang Yuning hesitated for a moment, then lowered his head and said into the microphone, “Bro, Hello. Can I come back and marry Nian Xi now?”
His question was too sudden. Nian Xi nudged him with her elbow, feeling embarrassed.
The speaker was on, and Nian Junting’s voice drifted over, “Hurry up and marry this old woman. I think no one else can take her except for you.”
Nian Xi hurriedly turned off the speaker and said fiercely to Nian Junting, “What are you talking about?”
“Hehe,” Nian Junting said, “Are you afraid that he’ll know that you’re so tough that no man dares to chase after you anymore?”
“Get lost,” Nian Xi hung up the phone, then brushed her hair and said to Jiang Yuning, “It’s getting late. Go to bed early.”
“Oh.” Jiang Yuning nodded honestly. “Xixi, can you move to the side a little more?”
Nian Xi looked at her narrow bed for a while. “You can sleep on the empty bed next to it.”
“… I don’t want to.”Jiang Yuning blinked his big black eyes and shook his head. If he wanted to sleep on a bed alone, he would have gone to bed early.
Nian Xi could not help but stare at him. Finally, she opened the blanket and the two of them squeezed into a small bed that was only one meter wide.
Jiang Yuning buried his head in her neck and muttered, “Xixi, why do I feel like everything isn’t real?”
Perhaps it was because these years had been too hard to endure. Every day was like counting the days. When she finally arrived, it felt too surreal and unsettling.
“I feel like it’s quite real,” Nian Xi chuckled. “Yuning, it’s all in the past. Let’s live a good life from now on.”
Jiang Yuning raised half of his face. Under the dim yellow light, he looked at her for a while before gently pressing his lips on hers.
“Yuning, tomorrow…Shave. It’s too prickly.”
“Yes, yes, Xixi… Don’t talk.”
The next day, Jiang Yuning woke up first. However, because the bed was too narrow, he did not move much the whole night. His back was sore.
After washing his face, Lei Yichen came to visit the two of them with breakfast. However, when he saw that Nian Xi’s bed was very messy, and the bed beside it was neat and tidy, he was a little speechless, “It can’t be. The two of you squeezed into such a narrow bed yesterday. Is it necessary?”
“It’s necessary.” Nian Xi lazily leaned against the pillow. “We’ve been separated for a few years, and I really want to stick together at all times. Don’t you have this feeling when you go back to see your wife?”
Lei Yichen shook his head. “After being married for a long time, love will become kinship. It won’t be as inseparable as before. You won’t understand even if I tell you. You’ll understand after you’ve been married for ten years.”
“Xixi, I’ll still be the same ten years from now.” Jiang Yuning wrung a towel and handed it to Nian XI. Nian Xi wiped her face.
At ten o’clock, Feng Jichuan, Shen Bing, and the others rushed to the hospital to visit her.