When it was almost nine o’clock, Lu Yao was awakened by the ringing of her cell phone. Confused, she “Hello”.

“Sleeping?”

“Uh ……”

“Then I’ll call back tomorrow.”

“Uh …… Chu Zhi Han?”

“Uh-huh.”

Lu Yao winced and sat up from the bed, “What’s wrong? Is there something wrong?”

“Ah, I wanted to ask you about the exact meaning of those articles on page three, and there’s also a couple of small questions on page twenty-seven ……”

“Why don’t I just go over there tomorrow.” Lu Yao rubbed her eyes, “It’s hard to tell over the phone.”

“It couldn’t be better in that case.” Chu Zhi Han paused for a moment, “I’ll go over to pick you up tomorrow morning.”

“Uh, that’s fine.”

“Eight o’clock in the morning then. Good night.”

“Good night.”

After hanging up the phone Lu Yao remembered that tomorrow, it seems to be New Year’s Eve.

Lu Yao, who was dragged out of bed by his mom at 7:00 a.m., mechanically brushed his teeth, his total sleep in the past few days not exceeding 10 hours. It was like stepping on cotton without any strength.

While handing Lu Yao a twisted towel, his mom kept urging him, “When you meet people, mom and dad have to call out to them, I’ve brought you some fruits to send, so come back early and have a reunion dinner together tonight.”

“I know mom, I’m not a kid anymore.” Lu Yao looked at her pale face and felt like she had just run out of the tomb of the living dead, a freshly baked road sign zombie.

At 7:55 Chu Zhi Han came. With flat black-rimmed glasses. Line hat. White sweater. Black down jacket. And baggy jeans. A pair of jogging shoes. The whole outfit was as if he had just returned from a university after participating in a sorority.

Lu Yao was wrapped in a dark blue jacket with a confused face, standing next to Chu Zhi Han as if he was not a generation at all. Chu Zhihan was a young and energetic student. And he is a laid-off worker with no way out.

Road mother can not help but read a pass Chu Zhi Han how how excellent, but also side-tracked for a while Chu Zhi Han’s personal situation, looks like it is really intended to introduce people 16-year-old girl to him.

Lu Yao had to push Chu Zhi Han out the door, “Mom, we’re in a hurry, we have to go.”

Lu’s mom gave another round of instructions, “Be safe on the road”, “Call home when you get there”, before reluctantly sending Lu Yao and Chu Zhi Han downstairs.

Lu Yao got into the car and sighed, “My mom is like this, she always treats me like a child.”

“In her eyes even if you’re eighty years old you’re still a child.” Chu Zhi Han smiled and picked up the cell phone, “Hello? Uh, uh, yeah, I’ll courier it to you tomorrow, no problem, okay, okay, uh, bye.”

Lu Yao looks at him and smiles as he finishes picking up the phone, the next moment he wrinkles his eyebrows and throws the phone into the backseat.

Chu Zhi Han could also be angry. This new and strange perception for Lu Yao was like when he was 17 years old and realized for the first time that his favorite actresses also had to go to the bathroom.

Chu Zhi Han sulked for a while and indignantly, “I’m not some machine, how can I get drawings out in such a short time.”

Lu Yao carefully asked, “Boss?”

Chu Zhihan looked at him and looked a little sorry, “If I have to work until very late today …… will it be inconvenient for you? Oh, in terms of remuneration, you can talk about it again. It doesn’t matter if you don’t want to.”

Lu Yao of course valued the reunion dinner, but his cheek wasn’t thick enough to do something like immediately open the car door and get out. So he had to be even more brisk than he should have been, “It’s fine~”

Chu Zhi Han smiled and stretched out his hand as if he wanted to touch Lu Yao’s face. Lu Yao hastily dodged it. Chu Zhi Han’s hand was held up awkwardly in mid-air for a moment, and then slowly lowered.

Chu Zhi Han pointed to her face, “There’s something. ”

Lu Yao touched his face and found that there really was a grain of rice. It could only smile awkwardly.

“Heh …… heh …… then work hard today.” Lu Yao felt her face lines stiffen up, and didn’t know if Chu Zhi Han could see it.

“Good.”

Only then did Lu Yao realize that the smile on Chu Zhi Han’s face was much more stiff than he was.

And somehow, there was so …… sad.