It was a picture taken by her father on Nanxi’s fifteenth birthday!
She was dressed in a checked round-necked dress, her hair in a ponytail, looking innocently naïve!
She was standing under a kapok tree, the surrounding scenery was gentle and indifferent, and her smile, warm and sunny!
Looking at herself in the picture, Nanxi couldn’t help but think back to herself seven years ago. Thinking about it now, it all seemed so unbelievable!
It’s been seven years, and it is said that the cells in the body go through a cycle every seven years. Everyone undergoes a kind of rebirth every seven years. In that case, is she still the same as she was seven years ago?
She wasn’t sure, she had no way of knowing. Time had given her much, but also taken much away. The things she could grasp were now far and few between!
So, if something had managed to stay, she would try her best to hold onto it, hold onto it tightly!
A woman accompanied her through every room. The master bedroom was where the male and female owners slept, her father’s study remained the same, with a piano still standing. The woman said, she was a piano teacher.
What used to be her bedroom is now the baby’s room, filled with all the things prepared for the unborn child in the woman’s belly. Toys, lovely little decorations...
Nanxi laughed after looking at everything, and suddenly realized that this house, lacking the presence of her family and the little bits and pieces they had once decorated together, was just an ordinary house!
There were no exceptions!
Nanxi bid farewell to the hostess, who was surprised to find her living next door and invited her over for dinner when she had time. Nanxi just smiled and did not mention to the hostess that she was already planning to leave tomorrow!
A simple goodbye sufficed for such a fleeting encounter, as aloofness seemed to be in her nature!
Around 12:10 at noon, Lu Yinchu returned. Nanxi still hadn’t eaten. As she descended from upstairs, she noticed Lu Yinchu walking in rather hurriedly, panting heavily.
Lu Yinchu’s eyes flickered. "I’m just in time to have lunch with you!"
Nanxi’s eyes flickered. She remembered Sister Zhang telling her at breakfast, "Mr. Lu said he would come back and have lunch with you!"
At the time, she hadn’t paid it much attention. It was unexpected that he had actually rushed back for this!
They ate in silence. He was still taking good care of her. Nanxi felt a little uncomfortable seeing that he hadn’t touched his own food. She knitted her brow, "Why aren’t you eating?"
"Watching you eat is probably enough to fill me up!"
Nanxi frowned. What kind of logic was that? She wasn’t edible!
Lu Yinchu chuckled and asked her, "Why do you think we eat?"
Why? Nanxi pursed her lips, "That’s ridiculous. How would you survive if you didn’t eat? Eating gives you the energy and strength to grow!"
Lu Yinchu pursed his lips, his eyes curving, the deep, dark hue in his eyes was already richer than most. Noticing this, Nanxi felt a little embarrassed and lowered her head as if in avoidance.
And then Lu Yinchu’s calm voice came, "That’s right, people need to eat because they need to maintain their nutritional needs for a normal life... but for me, Nanxi, as long as I can have you within my sight, I can live a normal life, it’s as simple as that!"
With that sentence, Nanxi was left speechless.
Suddenly she felt a pang of inexplicable sorrow.
In the afternoon, Lu Yinchu said he wanted to take Nanxi for a walk by the sea. She had come to Hong Kong, after all, it was natural that she visit the sea. Nanxi raised no objections!
At 3 p.m., they went to Longsha Beach, which was one of the best swimming beaches in Hong Kong. Nanxi was puzzled. Was Lu Yinchu planning on going swimming?
And in fact, Lu Yinchu was planning to do just that. He had already prepared swimwear for the both of them!
When Nanxi saw the black one-piece swimsuit handed over by Lu Yinchu, she gasped in shock, blurting out, "I can’t swim!"
At the age of fourteen, she had almost drowned. Having had that experience, how could she dare swim again?
She vowed, she would remain a landlubber for life!
Lu Yinchu looked at her thoughtfully. He sighed inwardly, remembering that she used to swim!
Lu Yinchu, holding his own swimming trunks, reached out to take off his jacket. Nanxi blinked at him, and the next second, he placed the jacket into her hands, "Hold this for me..."
Nanxi: "..." He couldn’t be planning to change clothes right here, could he?
Ahem! Nanxi could hardly keep it together. She hastily said, "Lu Yinchu, you need to find a place to change your clothes!"
Lu Yinchu frowned, "Doesn’t everyone do it this way?"
Nanxi glanced around and discovered that Lu Yinchu was right. Many of the men were changing right there. After all, a man’s body wasn’t really much to look at!
The memory of the feeling of his hot chest pressed against her own suddenly surfaced in Nanxi’s mind. She couldn’t help the blush that crept up her cheeks, and the hand holding his jacket trembled slightly!
She took a deep breath and said, "Lu Yinchu, don’t change here!"
"Don’t worry, I’ve got a great figure. I’m not going to embarrass you!"
Before he had even finished speaking, he had already unbuttoned two buttons of his white shirt, revealing a small part of his bare chest!
She bit her lip and averted her gaze!
Wherever he wanted to change was his business. It had nothing to do with her!
"Nanxi, are you not afraid that the other women will take a look while you’re not looking? Are you sure you won’t be jealous?"
Lu Yinchu’s voice held a hint of provocation, a sense of flirtation that made Nanxi’s hair stand on end!
"I’m not the type to get jealous over such things. Let them look however they want, it has nothing to do with me!"
Nanxi was oblivious to the implications hidden in her response, and what it insinuated!
Lu Yinchu’s lips curved up at corners, watching as Nanxi hurried a few steps to sit under the parasol, picking up the fruit juice beside her and taking a sip, her gaze never once straying to him!
While Lu Yinchu was undressing, he made his way towards Nanxi. Seeing his approach, Nanxi instinctively shrank back, looking just like a scared bunny!
"Lu Yinchu, what are you..." Nanxi blinked at him!