When Collin passed the hall, he saw the male editor on the sofa making a phone call, crying, aggrieved and sad, "You bastard."
When these three words came out, Collin trembled a little.
The next second, the male editor threw his phone on the ground. Then, he glared at Collin angrily. After a while, he cried and asked, "Are you hungry? I'll cook for you, okay?"
Collin was dumbfounded.
After Roxy came out, she took a tissue to wipe the male editor's tears, and then led him into the kitchen. A moment later, there was a knock on the kitchen.
Collin looked at her suspiciously for a while before turning his head to Roxy, "Was he the one who used to cook here?"
"Well, how did you find it out?" Roxy asked.
Collin did not speak. He originally thought that she was cooking for another man, but he did not see that coming.
Roxy thought that he was curious and explained to him in a few words, "He and his boyfriend prepared to go back to his house together during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Later, his boyfriend escaped before the battle..."
"You asshole! Dickhead!" The male editor in the kitchen waved his kitchen knife and hacked at the chopping board crazily, "I will chop you to pieces!"
Collin was dumbfounded again.
It seemed that somehow Collin's anger was released.
"Have you bought snacks?" Roxy brought the bag from the dining table over and sat down on the sofa. There was still coffee on the coffee table, and a few filters left in the ashtray.
Collin glanced at Roxy but did not say anything. Roxy put all the snacks on the coffee table and then took a sip of the coffee that had long been cold. Then she turned her head and asked, "Why did you come back here again?"
Why did he come back?
Staying at his parents and spending a night there had always been the case of Mid-Autumn Day. He would only leave on the next morning.
But this year, as he sat there eating, he could not help but wonder what Collin was eating alone at noon today? Instant noodles with coffee? Or take-out?
Roxy was not a woman who would act coquettishly. She did not even send a text message during festivals. She was young, but she always wore a loose, fat black dress. She used Nokia and she bought a new Nokia after her old one was "drowned".
She was no slave to fashion. She was far from Collin's bars for a spouse. She looked ordinary and had a lot of bad habits. She ate instant noodles, drank coffee, smoked, and stayed up late. She had almost all the bad habits that Collin had never developed.
But ... he liked her.
Just by watching her eat snacks like this, he would feel a sense of satisfaction and joy.
Roxy stuffed a piece of potato chip into his mouth. Collin opened his mouth and took it. He casually glanced at the tea table and focused on her computer. He saw his name.
Roxy did not notice what Collin was looking at and was still searching for other snacks on the coffee table. She was looking for some tomato-flavored potato chips.
Collin continued to scan the computer and saw a line, [Collin was forced to call him husband... ]
He continued to look at it in disbelief and saw another line below: [The man touched his head and said, "Be good, don't worry. You'll have it later."
Collin froze.
Roxy finally realized that her laptop had been targeted by Collin. She quickly piled all the snacks on the keyboard and then went to the study with the laptop.
"Are you writing about me?" Collin asked.
"No." For some reason, Roxy denied it. She looked a bit guilty as well.
"You used my name." Collin reminded her.
Roxy closed the laptop, trying to convert the topic. "There are many people with the same name in the world."
Collin was speechless again.
He took a deep breath and asked, "You wrote me as a uke?"
"There are also many people out there who share the same name with you and are ukes," Roxy said.
"Roxanne!"
" ... Yes, I used your name," Roxy admitted.
"Great." Collin sneered.
Roxy knew a "punishment" would fall on her.
At night, Roxy stayed up all night in the study to play with her laptop. Collin walked over and carried her into the room. When he passed by the living room, he saw the male editor standing in the kitchen drinking water.
When the male editor saw them, he blushed and immediately covered his eyes. "I didn't see anything."
The walls could barely do any soundproofing. The male editor went back to his room and hid his head in the quilt. He covered his ears and woke up in the middle of the night. After waking up, he prepared to go to the bathroom. Just as he opened the door, he heard a sound coming from the bedroom from the other side of the door. He picked up his phone and looked at it. It was two o'clock in the morning.
Having bitten his fingers, he then sent a post on his WeChat Moments, saying "I'm jealous!"
After taking a shower, Collin took out his phone and searched for Roxy's pen name. He found her recently updated novel and clicked on it. The novel was called White Diary
The story was about a doctor telling the story of him and a patient. The doctor was based on Collin. Or maybe he should say the doctor "was" Collin. He wore the same perfume and the same watch as Collin. He even talked the way Collin talked to Roxy. However, they changed their identities. Roxy became a man, a domineering seme, while Collin ... became a uke.
It took Collin more than an hour to finish reading, then he picked up the sleeping Roxy and went to the sofa outside.
The male editor waited for a long time and prepared to go to the bathroom. As soon as he opened the door, he heard some noise on the sofa. He looked at his phone. It was four o'clock in the morning.
He returned to his room and silently posted another moment, "My boyfriend said that I would never meet anyone better than him again. Well, I just did.. Really, much better than him."