Female tenant: 26-year-old heartbeat and life ups and downs

At 7:30 in the evening, the doorbell rang on time. Su Ran ran to open the door in his slippers, and it was Xu Tianna who was invited to dinner standing outside.

Xu Tianna was holding a large-capacity convenient bag in her hand. Su Ran took it and saw that there were all kinds of vegetables, meat, a bottle of red wine and a bottle of juice in it.

Xu Tianna said: "Red wine for you, I drink juice."

"What's wrong with drinking some red wine with me? Are you afraid that we will drink too much and I will have improper thoughts about you?"

"I didn't say that, I just don't have the habit of drinking."

Su Ran smiled and complained: "You are so boring, I just want to tease you with words, why don't you cooperate at all?"

"Why should I cooperate with your frivolous words?"

"The word frivolous is used appropriately. Sometimes I also feel that I am not very noble."

Xu Tianna looked at him speechlessly, obviously not knowing how to respond.

Su Ran closed the door and said to Xu Tianna: "Sit down for a while, I'll cook, and you can wait to enjoy the food."

Xu Tianna shook her head: "I can help with what I can do."

"It's not a complicated dish, I don't need your help." Su Ran said, carrying the bag and walking towards the kitchen.

Xu Tianna looked at his back silently again.

Su Ran showed his skills in the kitchen, finishing a dish in an average of ten minutes. After about fifty minutes, all the stir-frying was done. At the same time, the bone soup simmered in the pot was just right. The time control was perfect.

At this time, Xu Tianna, who had been idle, finally had a place to use her skills. She walked into the kitchen and brought the prepared meals to the table one by one.

Su Ran turned on all the lights in the house, and the small restaurant was instantly bright. He took off his apron and sat opposite Xu Tianna. He drank red wine while Xu Tianna drank juice. This was not a romantic candlelight dinner.

Su Ran said to Xu Tianna who was eager to try: "Shall we clink glasses first, or should you try my cooking first?"

"Let me try your cooking first." Xu Tianna said, picking up a piece of sweet and sour fish and putting it in her mouth. After savoring it carefully, she nodded and praised: "Not bad, your cooking skills are quite good."

"Isn't it? They say that a good father will have a good son." Su Ran was a little proud.

"It's hard to imagine that you can cook, and you cook well. When did you learn it?" Xu Tianna asked curiously.

Su Ran answered while eating: "My father said that I have a wild and bad temper. When I was a child, he forced me to learn to cook, saying that it would improve my character and please my wife in the future."

Xu Tianna ignored his implication and asked: "Who is your father?"

"Yes, I call my father Father. Haven't you heard me call him that before?"

"I didn't pay much attention. Why do you call him Father?"

Su Ran patiently explained: "Because he is old-fashioned. Not only do I call him that, but his colleagues all call him Banke, but he always thought I called him my father, haha."

Xu Tianna was amused, and after a moment she said: "You are so naughty that you even tease your own father." After saying that, her expression suddenly dimmed. Su Ran instantly realized that she was thinking of her father Mi Zhongxin who died in a car accident, and finally understood why she was full of kindness to her father.

Su Ran raised his glass: "Don't just talk, clink glasses to celebrate our chance to turn hostility into friendship."

Xu Tianna nodded, picked up the juice and gently clinked glasses with Su Ran, took a sip, and smiled at him again, getting rid of the depression just now.

Dinner continued, Su Ran had drunk two glasses of red wine, and Xu Tianna only drank half a glass of juice.

Su Ran looked at Xu Tianna for a long time with a complicated expression, put down the glass and said: "I will go back to my hometown tomorrow."

"What's wrong? You want to take a vacation?" Xu Tianna asked indifferently.

"No, I'm going back to my hometown to live. I quit my job here."

Xu Tianna looked at him, put down her chopsticks, and asked in surprise: "Quit? Did something happen at home?"

No wonder Xu Tianna was surprised. She just accompanied Su Ran to rent the current single apartment a few days ago. At that time, she didn't know that Su Ran was struggling in his heart. Although there was a struggle, he had not yet thought of leaving. However, when he chose to inform her of Mi Zhongde's power conspiracy in an anonymous letter, the fate of leaving this city was doomed.

Su Ran smiled and said, "You know, my job is not a stable job. Besides, I am not young anymore. I don't have much time to continue to struggle in this rootless city. So, it's not bad to go back to my hometown and live a stable life. Adults must learn to make correct judgments about their own situations."

Xu Tianna nodded in agreement. After all, the two lived in different worlds and were destined to have difficulty understanding and penetrating each other.

Su Ran raised his glass again, and Xu Tianna raised the glass to indicate. Su Ran drank half a glass of red wine, and an indescribable emotion spread in his body with the wine.

The dinner ended with a few words from the two. When Xu Tianna was about to leave, Su Ran took out all the cash on him. Part of the cash was salary, and part was the income from subletting the single apartment, a total of 10,318 yuan. He had to pay Xu Tianna 10,016 yuan, and after paying it back, he only had 302 yuan left, which was the only thing he had left after more than two years of hard work in this city.

Su Ran put the money on the table, carefully counted out 10016 yuan and handed it to Xu Tianna: "Here, return your money."

Xu Tianna looked at him, took the stack of money of different denominations, but unexpectedly took out 16 yuan from it and handed it to him: "I like integers."

Su Ran looked at her in surprise, but did not reach out to take it. Xu Tianna had already put 16 yuan on the table and put the rest of the money into her handbag.

"It's getting late, I have to go back." Xu Tianna said.

"Oh, okay, be careful on the road."

Xu Tianna nodded and turned away. Su Ran suddenly realized that after tonight, they might not have the chance to meet again. Although he had been "enemies" with this woman who was about to leave for nearly two months, with his departure, those short pasts would eventually turn into dust and be slowly erased by time.

"Xu Tianna!" Su Ran shouted.

"What's wrong?" She turned her head, her long hair hanging down her shoulders, as if she was isolated from the world.

Su Ran was silent for a long time, and asked in a low voice: "Are we friends?"

Xu Tianna thought for a while and nodded: "Yes."

"Yeah." Su Ran nodded heavily.

Xu Tianna smiled at him, then turned and walked towards the elevator entrance not far away. After a moment, the elevator door closed, separating them in two different worlds again. Su Ran looked at the elevator door, feeling mixed emotions. He knew that after this separation, he didn't know when he would see each other again, and the special friendship between them would also be tested in the long river of time. Maybe it would fade away, or it would become an unforgettable memory in each other's hearts. In any case, he would embark on the road home with this doubt about friendship and confusion about the future, to open a new chapter in his life. Even if the road ahead was full of unknowns and uncertainties, he could only take this step firmly, because he had no choice to turn back, and could only continue to move forward on the track of fate.