After finishing the filming, Sheng Tang returned home.
She didn’t continue to contact William.
William couldn’t find any trace of Zhao Beibei on her, and he didn’t want to keep in touch with her much either.
As for how he dealt with his own emotions, Sheng Tang didn’t interfere much. After all, she wasn’t William’s manager or his therapist.
When Sheng Tang got home, Gu Jiahui specially rushed back to see her.
They hadn’t seen each other for three months.
Before Sheng Tang joined the crew, Gu Jiahui went to Australia for a business trip, and then he went to visit Yang Mingming; in the meantime, he came back, and there was a bunch of stuff at the company; by the time he was free and wanted to visit Sheng Tang on set, her crew had gone abroad for filming.
Due to various mishaps, they hadn’t seen each other for three months.
When they met again suddenly, there was no sense of unfamiliarity, maybe because they were never particularly close to begin with.
"... Back?" Sheng Tang was tidying up the room. She saw him standing at the door and naturally said, "Make me a packet of instant noodles, today is my carb day, I can’t wait for dinner."
To maintain her figure, Sheng Tang ate unpalatable salads every day and indulged herself with carbs one day a week.
Instant noodles were something she thought she’d said goodbye to forever. But somehow, after smelling it on set last time, she had been craving it ever since.
Today being carb day, Sheng Tang didn’t plan to eat anything else, just to satisfy her craving with instant noodles.
Gu Jiahui: "Don’t eat instant noodles, let’s go out to eat."
"I just want to eat instant noodles," Sheng Tang said, "You cook a bowl for me, I’ll just have a taste."
"Craving instant noodles, huh?"
"Yes."
Gu Jiahui: "Craving noodles shows no ambition."
Sheng Tang: "..."
Since she said so, Gu Jiahui went to the kitchen.
He wasn’t very familiar with the kitchen and took a long time to find a small pot to cook instant noodles; then another long time to find the instant noodles.
There were quite a few instant noodles at home, definitely prepared by Cheng Lichuan.
Gu Jiahui randomly picked a pack and started cooking slowly.
Sheng Tang shouted from the room again, "Don’t add anything else, no eggs or vegetables, don’t ruin the taste of instant noodles."
Gu Jiahui: "Got it."
Once she finished tidying up, Gu Jiahui had also finished cooking the instant noodles for her.
He placed it on the table. The aroma was quite tempting, and Gu Jiahui inexplicably wanted to eat some too.
Sheng Tang first took a deep breath, enjoying the smell, then scooped a spoonful of soup and drank it; after that, she picked up a chopstick of noodles.
A spoonful of soup and a chopstick of noodles, just enough to satisfy her craving.
"Okay, this week’s carbs are done," Sheng Tang said.
Gu Jiahui: "..."
He admired her strict self-discipline since the more professional she was, the more money she could make for him.
However, it made him feel uncomfortable inside.
"Alright, let’s go out and get something good to eat. If you’re not having carbs, you can eat something else. How about steak?" he asked, "I know a pretty good restaurant."
"Sure, want to call Brother Lin Chuan along?"
"He probably won’t be back tonight," Gu Jiahui said, "Just the two of us."
Sheng Tang went back to her room and changed her clothes.
Gu Jiahui also wanted to take a bite of the instant noodles, but he thought pure carbs were not good for the body, and they would only make him fat.
No matter how much he wanted, if it wasn’t in his plan, he could restrain himself from touching it.
That was his principle.
He dumped the instant noodles into the trash.
Sheng Tang changed into a dress and went with Gu Jiahui to the restaurant for dinner.
During the meal, Gu Jiahui suddenly remembered something.
"... Oh right, you’re going out with me tomorrow," Gu Jiahui said.
"Where to?"