Chapter 225: Difficult Companionship

After finishing a morning's work, Gu Tingzhou returned home at noon. At this time, Song Yihan was still busy in the kitchen.

Her hard work has paid off, with grilled chicken wings, steamed crucian carp, and tomato and egg soup on the table.

Gu Tingzhu thought that using an air fryer to bake chicken wings and using a steamer to steam fish, there was probably no chance of failure in doing these two things. It was also good to start with simple dishes. Wouldn't it be possible to fail in making tomato and egg soup? However, this bowl of soup looked a bit like scrambled eggs with tomato and too much water. Moreover, were the eggs scrambled?
"Gu Tingzhou, you're back. Are you hungry? Let's eat. The egg soup doesn't taste very good. I've tried it. It's barely drinkable, but you have to drink less."

This morning, Song Yihan cooked several pots of tomato and egg soup. The taste of the first few pots of soup was obviously problematic. It was too disrespectful to let Gu Tingzhou drink that kind of soup. She was not satisfied with the bowl of soup on the table, but she didn't have time to make a better pot of soup.

One morning, she bought groceries and cooked. She steamed a fish, but it was not cooked, so she threw it away. She steamed another fish, but it fell to the ground when it was out of the pot, so she threw it away. Even grilling chicken wings was not successful at the first try, because she bought unmarinated chicken wings at first. Later, she bought marinated chicken wings from others, and after three attempts, she finally succeeded.

Gu Tingzhou didn't care much about the taste of the food. This was made by Song Yihan, and she was a beginner, so it was understandable that the taste was a little worse.

However, there was one thing that he was very concerned about.

When they were having breakfast, they sat face to face, and he felt quite constrained. He thought it was the first time they had breakfast together alone, so he was not used to it. Then, he reminded himself that it was the first time they had lunch alone, so he was not used to it either, and it would be fine tomorrow.

In the afternoon, Gu Tingzhou came back early. He was responsible for providing materials, and as long as the materials were sufficient, he didn't need to go to the laboratory every day. He often stayed in the laboratory before because he wanted to accumulate working hours. However, for the ancients, working one minute more or one minute less had almost no effect, so he came back early.

The two went shopping together again that afternoon. Song Yihan bought a lot of daily necessities, such as towels and shower gel. She planned to live here for a long time, even though school was about to start.

Song Yihan guessed that Gu Tingzhou would not return to school after the semester started. He already had a very good job and there was no need for him to continue going to school.

She thought that the school she was admitted to was not very good, and it would be difficult for her to find a job in the future. In this era, people who were admitted to good universities still had a hard time and were walking on thin ice, so people like her should not expect these things. Only Gu Tingzhou was his only hope. Only by staying here could she grasp that glimmer of hope.

Gu Tingzhou saw Song Yihan buying daily necessities, but he did not stop her, nor did he tell her where he was going in the future. "Anyway, as long as we live together in the future, these things will be useful" and "Anyway, you will have to live here for a few more days, you can't live without your own towel", he comforted himself with these thoughts.

According to the plan, after the first phase of the six projects is completed, he will leave the Academy and return to the villa in Yuqing City. The salary, bonuses and gifts received in the past few months add up to about two million. If he borrows some money from Zhao Yuxi and Mu Zhengguang, it will be enough to buy the villa. From now on, it will be his real home, and Song Yihan can also live there.

But when he thought of the invisible barrier he felt during the meal, he felt a little reluctant to live with her.

It turns out that Song Yihan is not without flaws, or even if she is, being with her will not always be happy. In contrast, he is more relaxed when he knows a person who is full of flaws. Zhao Yuxi loves power, money, and all kinds of material conditions. There are many unreasonable things she does, and she will make me do things I don’t really want to do. However, during the dinner, she respected me and tolerated me again and again, and also tolerated Song Yihan.

She didn't treat me as a slave, she treated me as a family member, she managed me like a sister, that's all. What Song Yihan said was absolutely wrong. But this matter has passed, and there is no point in bringing up the past with Song Yihan. As long as Zhao Yuxi doesn't care, it's not too serious.

The next day, Gu Tingzhou had breakfast with Song Yihan again, and he still felt a little restrained.

When drinking porridge, how much should he drink in one mouthful, how loud should he make the sound, how to make his posture look generous and decent, how to make his movements look polite, how to respond to her expectant eyes, all of these troubled him a lot, and he realized that eating was also a very tiring thing. Maybe, after both sides got familiar with each other, it wouldn't be so tiring anymore, right?
That afternoon, the two did not go shopping, but went to see a movie. Compared with wandering aimlessly on the street, he preferred to sit down and immerse himself in a thrilling time.

There were only the two of them in the huge cinema. He had chosen the movie himself, which had little to do with the recent releases. When the story was coming to an end, he felt as if he was already in the story, and there was no one beside him.

The movie ended. For a moment, the cinema was silent. He seemed to own a silent world, a world empty of people.

It turns out that just accompanying someone is not easy to do.

"Gu Tingzhou, the movie is over. Where are we going next? How about we go swimming?"

Swimming can best show her charm, she wants to use it to attract Gu Tingzhou and make their relationship closer. If she can't go swimming with him in the summer, it will be even harder to find a chance to swim with him in the fall.

Gu Tingzhou quickly refused: "I don't know where the swimming pool is, so I won't swim today. Let's buy the food for tomorrow?"

"Okay. Do tomorrow's work today, so I can lie down a little longer tomorrow."

Late at night, Gu Tingzhou lay in bed, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep: Is this life really what I want? Every day, apart from work, I eat, go shopping, and watch movies with her. Doing these things should be happy, but why do I feel pressure when eating with her, shopping, and watching movies?
How is she different from Zhao Yuxi? How is she different from Xu Ying? Why do I not feel pressure when I am with them, but only feel uncomfortable when I am with Song Yihan?

Should I talk to her about this? I'd better not. It may be my fault. Even if I tell her, it won't solve the problem. Wait for a while, and hope everything will change. Wait a little longer. She and I just reunited, and it's normal to have a gap.

(End of this chapter)