"Do you have ingredients at ho?"
Hearing Zhong Li ask this, a slight smile appeared on Gu Nanxi’s lips: "No, otherwise I’d go to the supermarket now."
"No need, co to my place, I have them."
"Okay."
The two of them entered the elevator together. In the cramped space, Zhong Li stood side by side with Gu Nanxi. Through the mirrored elevator wall, she could clearly see his sharply defined features.
Walking out of the elevator, Zhong Li lowered his head and took out his keys from his bag to open the door, and they walked in together.
After changing shoes, Zhong Li went straight to the kitchen: "Let see what’s in the fridge and throw sothing together."
"Mm, do you need help?"
Gu Nanxi placed the shopping bag on the coffee table in the living room and casually took off his coat.
"No need, I can do it myself." Zhong Li said as he opened the fridge and took out the vegetables inside.
Gu Nanxi sat quietly on the living room sofa and watched the slender figure bustling in the kitchen. The warm orange light enveloped Zhong Li, making one feel a warmth in their heart.
After twenty minutes or so, Zhong Li was done cooking—the al was four dishes and one soup. She reached out to remove the apron from her body, but apparently had tied a knot too tight and couldn’t loosen it.
A pair of large hands grasped her slightly cool hands from behind, and Gu Nanxi’s clear voice echoed beside her: "Let help you."
Zhong Li’s body slightly froze, and before she realized it, Gu Nanxi had already untied the apron straps for her.
"Thanks, let’s eat quickly."
Zhong Li took the apron from Gu Nanxi’s hands and, feeling slightly awkward, pointed at the dining table.
Gu Nanxi nodded, pulled out a chair, and sat down: "Sit with and have so."
"I just ate too much before, a bit too full now."
"Then can you just sit with ?"
Zhong Li felt that today’s Gu Nanxi was different from usual, lacking the usual authoritative deanor, with a hint of hidden lancholy in his eyes.
Zhong Li nodded and sat down in the chair opposite him: "Hurry and eat, I don’t know if it suits your taste."
"As long as you make it, I like it."
Zhong Li lowered her eyes, masking the slight awkwardness in her gaze, and took out her phone from her pants pocket, casually flipping through it.
The two of them sat quietly facing each other, one head down eating from his bowl, the other head down looking at her phone, neither speaking again.
After dinner, Gu Nanxi washed the bowls and chopsticks and sat on the living room sofa: "Please co back to work at the company, I promise I won’t treat you like that again."
"...I think I better not, the company I’m at now is pretty good, I won’t co back."
That night at the company, Zhang Ming from the sales departnt saw everything, and Zhong Li really didn’t want to go back, to avoid everyone’s gossip behind her back.
Gu Nanxi looked at Zhong Li, staring at her for a long ti before speaking: "Alright, I won’t force you."
"It’s getting late, I want to rest, you..."
"Goodnight."
Gu Nanxi naturally understood Zhong Li’s intention, got up from the sofa and left.
Back in his own place, Gu Nanxi didn’t turn on the lights. He changed into slippers at the entrance, walked to the floor-to-ceiling window, took a cigarette out from his pants pocket, lit it, and the fla from the lighter cast a glow in the dim living room.
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