SWG Chapter 30
by VolareThe morning sky, long overcast, finally allowed a few slivers of sunlight to break through. The sun, struggling in the corner, barely managed to squeeze out two beams of brightness, scattering them across the street, instantly illuminating it.
Xiao Wenyu woke up feeling somewhat disoriented. Seeing the light outside the window only added to her confusion. It wasn’t until she reached for her phone on the pillow that fragments of memories from the night gradually returned, dispelling the grogginess of waking.
Last night, her good neighbor seemed to have called her, wanting to let her listen to the night breeze of Yecheng and keep her company while she rested?
Xiao Wenyu turned on her phone, which was still on the call history page. Ruan Shengyi’s call remained silently at the top, showing an end time of 11:30 PM last night.
Had she called at eleven, and then just quietly stayed on the line with her for half an hour?
Xiao Wenyu gently stroked the phone screen, looking at the time displayed in the upper right corner, a subtle ripple forming in her heart.
It was already 8:30 AM, which meant that from eleven last night until now, she had finally, without any external assistance, slept peacefully for more than ten hours, right?
Xiao Wenyu sat on the bed in a daze, then silently pulled back her sleeve.
The scratches on her arm hadn’t completely healed, arranged neatly and looking even more gruesome.
She didn’t know when it started, but she always needed to feel some pain, or see something vulnerable, for her body to slowly generate some sleepiness, but even then, she couldn’t sleep soundly, waking up at the first hint of dawn.
Was she just too exhausted last night?
Xiao Wenyu scratched her hair and sighed softly.
Was her body getting better, or worse? Was she able to fall asleep peacefully now, or did she need extreme busyness on top of the pain to be able to sleep…
Xiao Wenyu leaned towards the former, because she did sleep very comfortably last night.
Was this also a change brought about by Ruan Shengyi?
Right, Ruan Shengyi seemed to have said last night that she should check Douyin when she woke up?
Xiao Wenyu swiped open her phone screen and entered the app.
As the person involved, she naturally couldn’t avoid being pushed her own videos. Familiar marketing accounts were issuing familiar praises, but this photo…
It looked like a photo taken on the day she took promotional photos at Tonight Intoxicated. In the photo, she was holding a camera, the lens tilted upwards, looking particularly focused while taking pictures.
Of course, the marketing account’s focus wasn’t on her posture while taking pictures, but on her faint smile.
Everyone in the comments section continued yesterday’s topic, the people at the very top shouting so loudly that it felt like they could be heard through the screen, clamoring for her information, wanting to be her wife.
However, today was already the second day of the hype. Comments that should or shouldn’t appear were beginning to spring up like mushrooms after rain. Xiao Wenyu didn’t want them to ruin her rare, relaxed and happy mood, so she closed the comments section after casually reading a couple, and looked at the screen again.
This photo was posted by Boss Ruan, right?
This was what Ruan Shengyi wanted her to see, right?
Boss Ruan’s photography skills were really good, able to take such good pictures even with a phone.
She propped up her chin, flipped through, and realized that the marketing account hadn’t marked the source. She clicked on the message section and burst out laughing.
Among a bunch of messages that made her phone lag for a moment, a blank profile picture was particularly conspicuous.
User 778625361: It’s me.
She didn’t reply immediately, but clicked on User 778625361’s homepage. Sure enough, there was only one video, posted very awkwardly, without even a tag.
Xiao Wenyu couldn’t describe how she felt at this moment. She gently touched the screen, her breath slightly wavering, her heart softened to the extreme.
Ruan Shengyi, how do you know how to love others so well?
If you’re like this, how should I repay you?
She returned to the message interface, went back to the first message between the two of them, and copied it.
The Fourth Kind of Primary Color: You are? If you have booked a package at our store, please send me the package name and phone number. If you want to pick up photos or inquire about photos, please contact us after 10 o’clock tomorrow.
Before she could put her phone away, a message immediately came back.
User 778625361: …
Xiao Wenyu laughed even harder, gently tapping the screen with her index finger.
Teasing Boss Ruan was so much fun, a simple trick that wouldn’t get boring even if used a hundred times.
Soon, a video call came directly.
Xiao Wenyu paused for a moment.
Crap, the person herself was here to collect the debt…
She answered the video call. The other side seemed to be walking, but soon sat down on a small platform by the window, with her back to the sun, her whole person outlined with a soft golden glow.
Ruan Shengyi fiddled with her hair, which was loose. Black wired headphones were faintly visible in her hair. After a while, she raised the microphone and said in a low voice, “Boss Xiao finally has time to look at her phone?”
A pair of eyes were hidden under light-transmitting glasses, a faint stirring within them.
Xiao Wenyu hummed softly and said, “Just woke up.”
Ruan Shengyi paused, and laughed, “Looks like you really were exhausted, you slept almost three hours longer than usual.”
More than that.
If she counted the time she went to bed early last night, she slept almost as long as she usually did in a day.
Ruan Shengyi looked at the slightly dazed person in the phone screen, not wanting to call her back, she simply sat half-sitting on the platform by the window, slightly lowered her head, blocking some of the light directly shining on the screen, more clearly looking at the person in the picture.
The woman’s hair did indeed have the messy feeling of just waking up, her eyes were filled with mist, seemingly having just yawned not long ago, her pajamas were loose, revealing a bit of her shoulder in the shot.
Too beautiful.
People who don’t know how to appreciate her should be dragged out and beaten to death.
Suddenly, Xiao Wenyu lowered her head and rubbed her stomach, and softly said, “I’m hungry.”
Ruan Shengyi smiled, “Are you going to buy a lot of steamed buns again? The people at the steamed bun shop said that Boss Xiao has been living on steamed buns again recently.”
The Xiao Wenyu in the screen shook her head.
The Ruan Shengyi outside the screen screamed silently.
Oh my god!
Xiao Wenyu was actually so cute when she just woke up!!
But Xiao Wenyu obviously didn’t notice the change in her expression.
In fact, she was surprised by her particularly strong appetite today. When she heard about steamed buns, she didn’t feel like she didn’t want to eat them, but rather she really wanted to eat them, but steamed buns weren’t enough, she wanted to eat other delicious things, preferably with a heavier taste, with more meat and vegetables.
Usually, she lived on steamed buns not because she was lazy, but because she really didn’t want to eat anything. It just so happened that the baby didn’t bother her by making her nauseous or uncomfortable, so she could get through the day by eating a little.
This peculiar feeling today…
Was pretty good!
Xiao Wenyu lowered her head and touched the curve of her lower abdomen, thinking to herself: Are you also very happy? I seem to be quite happy too, so let’s be happy together for a few days, okay?
Then, she raised her head and smiled warmly at the phone, and said, “I’ll order takeout later, do you have any recommendations? I want to eat meat.”
Ruan Shengyi didn’t say whether it was inappropriate to eat meat in the morning. She thought for a moment and said, “Aunt Liu’s mutton soup. Their mutton is imported from the neighboring province, not gamey. They also have savory beef buns in the morning, which are also very fragrant, you can try them.”
Xiao Wenyu’s eyes curved, and she said, “Thank you.”
“What are you doing right now?”
“Nothing to do, taking a walk in the lobby.”
“Oh… User 778625361, how many good photos do you have there? Send them to me quickly!”
Ruan Shengyi heard this and laughed, leaned against the glass behind her, and said softly, “Won’t give them to you.”
It wasn’t that she didn’t have them, but that she wasn’t giving them to her.
Xiao Wenyu’s heart trembled, and she suddenly remembered that when Ruan Shengyi was taking pictures of her outside the door, she might have also taken works with the same effect as that photo of her.
She leaned lightly on her knees and said, “If you don’t want to give them to me, then don’t.”
Ruan Shengyi: “I thought you would ask for them again.”
Xiao Wenyu: “It’s okay, what if they’re ugly photos?”
“Playing reverse psychology on me won’t work.”
“Oh…”
The cuteness level is a bit too high!
What’s wrong with Xiao Wenyu today!!
The two of them chatted randomly for a while, and Chen Yuexin came to call Ruan Shengyi out to work, so she had no choice but to reluctantly say goodbye to the other person.
Before the phone hung up, Xiao Wenyu looked at the increasingly blurred figure, and softly said, “Ruan Shengyi, will there be a phone call tonight?”
The woman paused as she was about to put away her phone. Her voice came through the slightly distant microphone, particularly hazy, sounding a bit unreal.
But she said, “There will be.”
After that, the phone screen went black for a moment, returning to the two of them’s WeChat chat interface.
It was exactly half an hour again, not half a second more.
It seemed that everything was just right.
Xiao Wenyu gently lowered her wrist and couldn’t help but sigh.
Was this, perhaps, not so good?
But she enjoyed it a bit, and liked it a bit.
Before Ruan Shengyi discovered everything and left, please allow her to secretly enjoy it a little longer.
Her stomach growled again, and with such a rare experience, Xiao Wenyu couldn’t bear to let the little one go hungry with her, so she quickly ordered a meal and got up to prepare to wash up.
But when she stood up, everything went black again, and she held onto the bedside to stand steadily.
Xiao Wenyu paused, lowered her head and patted her lower abdomen, “Naughty kid, you didn’t make Mom uncomfortable in the early stages of pregnancy, are you starting to mess with Mom now?”
“Be good, we’ll eat delicious food at noon, okay?”
This little episode didn’t disrupt her good mood in the morning, nor did it disrupt her good mood for the whole day. Even Li Wan noticed the reality that she was in a good mood.
When ordering lunch, it was even Xiao Wenyu who suggested ordering something spicier and with a heavier taste.
Li Wan looked at her in surprise, “Boss, won’t these be too spicy? Is it okay for the little one?”
Xiao Wenyu propped up her chin and gently tapped her fingertip, “She doesn’t know, let’s eat first.”
“Okay!”
Today’s work was still intense, but after yesterday’s chaos, today was much more organized. The subsequent phone calls were also neatly arranged, all scheduled for the teens.
Li Wan was surprised when she was sorting the orders, “Are these kids in a hurry or not?”
Xiao Wenyu smiled gently, “Because, this is youth.”
Youth is about seeing what you want to see, not rushing to see it, after all, seeing it is a gain, as for time, it can be sooner or later.
She urged Li Wan to get off work, and secretly raised her salary a bit, and then, after simply cleaning herself on the second floor, she gently carried her white nightgown and sat on the bed, waiting for today’s phone call.
It was just eleven o’clock when Ruan Shengyi finished her arrangements for the day, lay on her side on the hotel bed, and made a phone call.
Xiao Wenyu answered quickly, and said softly, “Good evening.”