Butterflies Fly Over Winter Chapter 18
byChapter 18: Revenge is inevitable
Chu Yiqi didn’t answer immediately. Xi Ai waited for a few seconds and said, “Okay, it will premiere on September 23rd.”
Chu Yiqi looked at the road and closed his eyes for a while.
“By the way, Xixi and the others asked me to bring milk tea back.”
Xi Ai stopped and asked, “Then what are you drinking?”
“Go and have a look.”
It was quiet all the way back, so Chu Yiqi fell asleep naturally, and Xi Ai turned up the temperature of the air conditioner slightly.
When she arrived at the garage, Xi Ai did not immediately ask Chu Yiqi to get up. Instead, she slowly took out her mobile phone, adjusted the brightness of the light and took a few photos, and then she shouted softly: “Chu Yiqi.”
Chu Yiqi actually had a nerve loosen the moment Xi Ai parked the car, but what really pulled him out of a dream was when Xi Ai leaned over and unbuckled her seat belt, leaving a hand in the middle to avoid rubbing his neck.
The instant proximity felt like it had been a long time coming, so Chu Yiqi was stunned for a long time, and then he pinched himself after realizing it.
Xi Ai laughed for a moment, opened the door, and said, “I promise, Teacher Chu, we have just arrived, and this is real, not a dream or an illusion.”
Chu Yiqi ignored the last half of his sentence.
I don’t know if it’s a blessing or a tragedy, but when her condition was at its most serious, she never had any hallucinations.So if I want to see Xi Ai, I can only get a glimpse of it in dreams that I don’t know whether it’s good or bad.
“I know.” Chu Yiqi paused for a moment and said, “You let someone who just woke up and was knocked unconscious by the car you drove.”
It’s really bad that I have to blame the person who drove the car so smoothly even though I was confused.
Xi Ai smiled and got out of the car and went to the back seat to get something. While taking it, she said, “Okay, Teacher Chu.”
Chu Yiqi took the bag of milk tea and went back to distribute it to the children who were waiting to be fed and stared at them step by step… er, the adults.
The big friends just took out two cards.
Xi Ai’s eyebrows jumped, and sure enough, the next second Yu Nianxi took the deck of cards and ran away from Shi Yunshan and the others, saying, “Let’s play, the three of us.”
Chu Yiqi looked at Xi Ai, who didn’t clearly refuse or not, so she said, “Teacher Xi, let’s play together.”
“I’ve always been very gregarious, okay.”
“Of course, okay, okay.”
Yu Nianxi came to Xi Ai specifically because Xi Ai shuffled the cards better.
Xi Ai was still wearing the casual sweatshirt at the moment, with her hair spread behind her and cards flying on her fingertips.Chu Yiqi had always known that Xi Ai could count cards – those who always had to be active in fame and fortune would always be good at counting cards, but Xi Ai’s card counting was much more casual than others.
What Xi Ai cares about is only whether the deck of cards is fun after being shuffled. She rarely shuffles which number for which party.
The only exception is when Chu is brought to play with at family gatherings.
To sum it up, Chu Yiqi learned to play cards for the first time because of Xi Ai’s deception – or half-coaxing and half-persuasion.
*
The second promotion round had just ended. Although only Xi Ai and Chu Yiqi went to Group A in this dormitory, luckily they both stayed, so the atmosphere was quite relaxed.
Xi Ai played with Chu Chu for a while, hoping to give up her seat when she came back from washing.
“Oh Chu Yi–”
Chu Yiqi was a little embarrassed: “But I don’t know how.”
“It’s okay. I just tried the water with you, and they are just average.”
“Really or not?”
Zhou Qingxi and Zhou Yangxi nodded hurriedly: “We have only just learned.”
“Then…let me try.”
Xi Ai watched from the sidelines until she lost five or six times in a row.
Xi Ai seemed to laugh, and Chu Yiqi was about to turn around and glare at her, but Xi Ai suddenly sat over and took advantage of the armrest of Chu Yiqi’s chair to sit halfway.
Chu Yiqi suddenly became stiff and nervous.
It’s strange, but uncontrollable.
Xi Ai looked at it and leaned forward a little. Her hair brushed against Chu Yiqi’s neck and there was a faint fragrance, like the smell of mugwort in shampoo, but not quite.
Chu Yiqi knew that neither Xi Ai nor himself liked the smell of perfume, so he didn’t think about it, so he sniffed it again in an extremely subtle way – still couldn’t tell the difference.
Forget it, Chu Yiqi decisively gave up on this track that did not belong to him. He watched Xi Ai’s fingertips sweep across the cards, and finally pinched a few cards. He tilted his head and asked Chu Yiqi: “Do you believe me?”
At that time, they had broken the ice for a long time, and their relationship could almost be said to be pretty good, so Chu Yiqi said naturally: “That’s it.”
“Okay, three and one.”
*
“What are you stunned for, Teacher Chu?”
Xi Ai’s last note was raised, and as soon as the voice fell in Chu Yiqi’s ear, she quickly came back to her senses. She coughed and said, “It’s okay. You don’t care if I’m in a daze?”
“Okay, don’t care.” Xi Ai sorted out the cards and said, “Do you want to be a landlord?”
Chu Yiqi glanced at the cards and said without hesitation, “No.”
“I want it.”
“Who asked you?” Xi Ai smiled at Yu Nianxi and pushed the three landlord cards to Yu Nianxi.
Yu Nianxi was not to be outdone: “Who talked to you?”
“Tch.”
“嘁——”
“Oh.”
“Hmph.”
Chu Yiqi couldn’t stand it any longer and gently said to break up the fight: “Okay, King Taro, let’s play your cards!”
Yu Nianxi: “…”
Seeing Xi Ai being particularly arrogant and mouthing “playing cards” repeatedly – she became even more angry.
It comes out as soon as it comes out, and a straight will scare you to death.
After playing the first game, Yu Nianxi ended up losing miserably, so Yu Nianxi decisively gave up on the Landlord track.
Then I chose to take the train.
Xi Ai: “…”
Chu Yiqi: “…”
Forget it, it’s all just fun anyway.
Chu Yiqi watched Xi Ai shuffling the cards.She still had to admit that her tolerance for the bad cards that Xi Ai had just shuffled was surprisingly high. It was definitely not just because she won in the end, but mainly because Xi Ai’s shuffling of the cards was really pretty.
It’s obviously just an ordinary hooded sweatshirt, but maybe the eldest lady’s indifferent temperament is too vivid at this moment, so she looks particularly beautiful when she lowers her eyes and cuts cards.
Xi Ai handed the cards to Chu Yiqi, took them back, and shuffled them again casually.
Feeling that Yu Nianxi could slap herself a few times if she played again, Xi Ai quickly put the cards on the table and said, “Can you lift it up, Teacher Chu?”
Yu Nianxi stared at Chu Yiqi and waited for Chu Yiqi to raise his cards and turned out a seven of clubs, pretending to be angry: “Why don’t you ask me?”
“Oh.” Xi Ai picked up the cards and dealt them, “Then ask me.”
Yu Nianxi is personally very satisfied with the young lovers – there are some small tricks between the young lovers who broke up briefly. It would be better if Xi Ai did not attack the innocent people who are conscientious and put up a red line.
Obviously Xi Ai doesn’t.
As long as there are others around, Xi Ai’s artillery fire will be aimed at everyone except Chu Yiqi.
Forming an envelope, only Chu Yi expected to be within the safe range.
“Let’s see, whoever loses chooses truth or dare.”
“Are you childish?”
Yu Nianxi looked at Xi Ai’s phone pointedly, as if she could press the screen to see the lock screen in the next second.
Xi Ai looked up at her indifferently, and then said, “Okay, then, does Teacher Chu agree?”
“I’m fine.”
Okay, outnumbered.
Chu Yiqi played for a while and sighed.
She knew that with this childish virtue, the cards that were shuffled would be “up and down.”Either you collect a long list at once or you can’t get one in two rounds.
“…”
Xi Ai pursed her lips and saw that Chu Yiqi was speechless.
At the end of the first game, Chu Yiqi chose to tell the truth, and Xi Ai collected the most cards.
Yu Nian waved his hand: “Come on, you two can go back and ask yourselves. I don’t have anything I want to hear.”
As promised, Chu Yiqi was the one shuffling the cards this time.As if to avoid the historical problems caused by Xi Ai’s bad hand, she shuffled it back and forth several times.She couldn’t count cards, but she learned how to cut them at that party.
So Chu Yiqi also cut the cards smoothly and waved them in front of Xi Ai’s eyes.
Xi Ai wanted to laugh. She blinked and said, “Teacher Chu, how can you still retaliate for your anger?”
“It’s easy.”
Chu Yiqi divided the cards and asked Xi Ai: “So what do you want to ask?”
Xi Ai thought for a moment and said, “Forget it, just remember it. If you have anything you want to know later, I’ll tell you later.”
“Alright.”
Without the bonus of shuffling her own cards and adding the buff of “former enemy”, Xi Ai’s luck is not good at all.
So Xi Ai heard Yu Nianxi ask herself a question with an obvious answer: “Why do you wear a ring at every event and don’t accept jewelry endorsements?”
The three people on the other side who were in Landlord all slowed down their movements at this moment, moving very inconspicuously and slowly closer to Xi Ai, trying to overhear Xi Ai’s confession.
Xi Ai glanced at Chu Yiqi and answered ambiguously: “Then I still have a tattoo. Who can find me? How presumptuous.”
Yu Nianxi refused to accept the answer without an answer and said: “Last time, I heard it! During the film festival, people said it doesn’t matter if you have tattoos. It’s better for you to just refuse them. During the whole event, there should be no skin below the neck?”
Shi Yunshan still insisted on making up for it: “Yes Nian tide! That foggy blue fishtail skirt is the one with the asymmetrical sleeves and the super beautiful butterfly on the right shoulder! She wore a necklace and a ring.”
Xi Ai choked up and suddenly remembered that the day Shi Yunshan said was the beginning of March, Chu Yi’s birthday.
She actually thought this question would be quite interesting.So after waiting for a while, Xi Ai replied in a casual tone: “Who knows, I just like my ring and necklace better.”
Yu Nianxi was satisfied now. The rings and necklaces that Xi Ai had worn recently… were either given by Chu as a gift, or they were of the same style.
You can’t lift the table after eating, so Yu Nianxi happily put away the cards and asked Xi Ai to wash them.
Nie Chuiying kept slapping Shi Yunshan several times, and Shi Yunshan slightly arched his eyebrows and responded silently: “I know, I know.”
“You don’t know.” Nie Chuiying said this almost through gritted teeth, and then bumped Shi Yunshan’s elbow.
“Pah——”
When Yunshan dropped a few cards, she raised her eyes and looked at Nie Chuiying.Nie Chuiying smiled and felt that when he picked up Shi Yunshan’s cards, they were stuck in Shi Yunshan’s cards one by one. Then he pulled Shi Yunshan’s sleeves and finally expressed his feelings.
Shi Yunshan: “…”
She played her cards and said, “Besides, you’re going to give me the small one and I’ll be the small one?”
“Yours.” Nie Chuiying smiled and leaned on Shi Yunshan’s shoulder and said, “Has she been like this since she was a child?”
“No way.”
Shi Yunshan thought about it for a moment. Xi Ai actually settled in China when she was eight or nine years old, and she has always been very gregarious.But Xi Ai was the first person in that circle to hold real power, so she often seemed much more reliable.
If it was so lively… maybe it would be after Xi Ai and Chu Yiqi got acquainted.
Regardless of whether the initial popularity was due to acting or something else, at least later Shi Yunshan could see that Xi Ai and Chu Yiqi were always more lively and like ordinary people when they were in the same scene.
“Okay, Nie Chuiying, come out quickly. Stop thinking about this and that.” Meng Yike was actually listening to these words, but suddenly realized that the landlords in their circle were playing too quietly, so they still made some noise.
For everyone, a little sacrifice is necessary.
Nie Chuiying must understand.
After playing for just over half an hour, the six of us dispersed.
Sister Luo made a phone call just as they were preparing to clean up the situation.
Su Luojian was about to watch a movie with his family member when he suddenly heard the recording team say that a few kids were playing cards: “…”
“How about you guys be normal? Like…”
“Gathering people together to gamble.” Meng Yike helped Su Luojian finish his sentence very considerately.
Su Luojian didn’t feel heartwarming, and finally took a step back: “Go to bed early! I’ll let you go today, but I won’t do it next time.”
Xi Ai hurriedly responded.Originally, Chu Yiqi was so good, but she also made her want to assimilate him a little bit.
“Bye Sister Luo! I love you.”