Love at First Sight

Yan Xu lowered her eyes and smiled faintly, her eyes revealing a happiness she had never felt before: "Yes, I believe in him too."

Despite growing up in a failed marriage, she still wanted to start this marriage seriously.

Maybe......

Perhaps her ending and Shen Yi's ending will be different.

As always, Yan Xu cleaned the empty guest rooms first, and then cleaned the rooms of guests who had already checked in but needed daily cleaning. Aunt Chen was responsible for cleaning the backyard and the front hall.

To be honest, cleaning is more tiring than Yan Xu running for an hour.

Yan Xu, wearing a thin, light-colored long-sleeved shirt and trousers, was emptying the trash bag from the room.

Suddenly there was a knock on the door behind me.

She turned around; the guest had returned from outside.

This guest was very tall and thin, with a more striking appearance than Shen Yi. He looked very young, but exuded a serious aura of a mature man.

This guy is no pushover.

Yan Xu nodded slightly to greet him, "It's all cleaned up, I'll be right out."

She didn't want to take up too much of her guests' check-in time.

"It's okay, I'll wait for you outside." The male customer casually walked out with his hands in his pockets, leaning against the railing with a relaxed and handsome posture.

Yan Xu put on a new trash bag and walked out of the room, saying, "It's all cleaned up. Please make yourself at home."

After saying that, she pushed the cart away.

The male guest did not return to his room directly, but instead glanced at Yan Xu's thin figure as it gradually disappeared around the corner.

The male customer fiddled with the cigarette in his hand but didn't light it: "You've forgotten me so quickly? I've been looking for you for so long."

Yan Xu walked to the front hall, his mind still replaying the appearance of the male guest from earlier.

"Have I seen him before?" Yan Xu tried hard to search his memory but found nothing.

"Who is TA?" Shen Yi noticed her absent-minded look as soon as he reached the door. "Man or woman?"

Ever since he learned that Yan Xu had a childhood sweetheart, he had a feeling that something bad was going to happen.

"..."

Yan Xu warned him, "Don't overthink things, and don't go looking for trouble."

She didn't have much patience to coax him.

Shen Yi consciously shut his mouth and stopped venturing into her sensitive area.

Turning his head, he asked with a grin, "Want to have lunch together?"

Yan Xu emptied the trash, threw the dirty bed sheet into the laundry room, and after finishing, dusted himself off before looking up at him and saying, "Let's go to the restaurant next door and get some rice noodles."

She hadn't eaten this in a long time and suddenly felt a craving.

Shen Yi said with relief, "You've finally learned how to order food for yourself."

Yan Xu asked in surprise, "I used to be like this too."

"No," Shen Yi sighed. "You always put other people's preferences first, ordering all the takeout that other people liked, never once to satisfy your own appetite."

Upon closer reflection, it seems that this is indeed the case.

Before Xiao Tong and Yan Zheng returned to school, she ordered meals according to their dietary preferences and Aunt Chen's preferences. When eating with Shen Yi, she would order what he might like.

But what about myself...? It seems I've forgotten myself.

Yan Xu tilted her head back, a smile playing on her lips, her eyes brimming with joy: "Then I'll order a family set meal for lunch today to celebrate."

She is slowly getting better and is slowly learning to love herself.

And all of this was brought to her by Shen Yi.

"Shen Yi." Yan Xu leaned forward and looked at him intently.

Shen Yi felt embarrassed by her gaze, his ears turning red as he turned his head away to avoid her intense eyes: "If you don't want me to book a room now, don't seduce me."

What is that?

Yan Xu straightened up and looked away, but caught a glimpse of his increasingly prominent lower body.

"..." Yan Xu gasped and punched him in the chest. "I wanted to ask you when you started wanting to take care of me."

In some ways, Shen Yi is more like a father than her own father, Yan Shan.

However, in the six months since their marriage, Yan Xu has been unable to understand why he treats her so well.

Because of his physical reaction, Shen Yi suppressed his desire in his eyes and whispered in her ear, "Love at first sight, you're stupid."

After saying that, he ignored Yan Xu, who was still standing there in a daze, and strode away from Zhenyun Pavilion.

He was afraid that if he stayed any longer, he would lose control and immediately have to book a hotel room.

"He fell in love at first sight... with me?" Yan Xu recalled their first meeting.

She dressed extremely casually, with a hairpin casually stuck in her hair, slippers on her feet, and an extremely loose short-sleeved shirt and wide-leg pants, emphasizing comfort and ease.

She had absolutely no image to speak of at that time.

It turns out that Shen Yi likes the unkempt type.

In autumn, Yunzhao County is a golden expanse.

No matter how much they sweep, the fallen leaves on the roadside never seem to be swept away, and sanitation workers sigh and struggle against the wind.

But she couldn't understand why sanitation workers had to be required to clean up the leaves; fallen leaves are part of the scenery, aren't they?

She took a bottle of warm beverage from the incubator and handed it to the sanitation worker who was cleaning the street.

The other person was a woman. She looked at Yan Xu in surprise and quickly waved her hands, saying, "No, no, you mustn't."

Yan Xu forced the leaf into her hand: "You swept all the leaves away from the doorway for me, I should thank you, you deserve it."

The sanitation worker was surprised and delighted, smiling broadly: "Oh, thank you, young lady."

Yan Xu and the sanitation worker's every move was observed by the male customer from that morning.

He leaned against the bar, legs crossed, looking languid and casual yet undeniably charming. Yan Xu turned around and returned to the front hall, where he saw him like this.

She asked, "Is there something you need?"

Guests usually stay in the lobby to ask staff for help.

The male customer shook his head, paused for a few seconds, and stared intently at Yan Xu before asking, "Do you have a boyfriend? Would you consider dating one?"

"..." So it was a flirting attempt. Yan Xu walked behind the bar and said coldly, "Married."

A concise and clear answer, warning the other party not to bother you.

But the male customer didn't seem to care, casually remarking, "I was hoping to introduce you to my friend, but it looks like I won't have the chance."

Yan Xu ignored him.

The male customer then said something inexplicable: "Your husband is the owner of the hardware store across the street, right? He's not a good person, stay away from him."

Upon hearing this, Yan Xu looked up angrily and retorted sarcastically, "Whether he's a good person or not is another matter, but your character is definitely questionable. You're proud of speaking ill of someone's partner in front of them?"

Yan Xu is incredibly stubborn and fiercely protective of his own.

Once she considers someone as one of her own, she won't allow others to speak ill of them.

The male customer, embarrassed, straightened up and sincerely apologized: "I'm sorry, I'll be more careful next time."

"There will be no future." Yan Xu's cold and indifferent tone returned. "I didn't know you, and there's no need for me to know you."

The male guest tilted his head, seemingly surprised by her straightforward and direct manner.

He was somewhat at a loss for words and it took him a while to leave the front desk.

Aunt Chen stepped forward and asked with concern, "Did that man harass you? Why don't you have your husband come and keep you company?"

She's quite old, so no one bothers her much, but Yan Xu is good-looking, has a great figure, and is still very young. Running a bed and breakfast inevitably makes her a target of trouble.

Yan Xu understood Aunt Chen's good intentions: "It's alright, I can handle it."

noon.

A warm breeze was blowing outside, neither too hot nor too cold, and it felt very comfortable on my face.

Shen Yi came to ask her to have dinner together.

Shen Yi took the pen from her hand: "Stop writing, let's go, it's lunchtime."

Yan Xu checked the time on his phone; it was already midnight.