23 days before Christmas

On a certain afternoon when there was no class, on the rocking chair in the milk tea shop, the double row lost points, killing time.

"I changed the couple's name." Liu Yiming handed over the phone, "Look."

The expected happiness did not bloom on Lin Zhixi's face, but she frowned, and her voice sank: "Don't you think it's too obvious?"

Liu Yiming was full of question marks, paused, and grinned: "What...what?"

"You're too obvious." Lin Zhixi's eyes dimmed, "I asked you to think of a couple ID before, and you thought of such a thing?"

"I......"

Lin Zhixi's tone was light: "The one before you was pretty good."

"I changed everything..."

"It's too obvious, no." Lin Zhixi shook her head, "I still have a name change card, what about you?"

Liu Yiming forced a smile from the corner of his mouth: "How much is the name change card?"

Lin Zhixi rolled his eyes at him: "Anyway, you have to think of a normal couple ID for me."

"Is this abnormal?"

"When I first took this ID, I thought it was abnormal, and you actually changed it to a more stupid one. I am really convinced."

Liu Yiming lowered his head: "Okay."

"My parents are coming to see me this weekend." Liu Yiming said suddenly.

Lin Zhixi looked up at him, and only uttered one word: "Oh."

"Oh?" Liu Yiming frowned, "Don't you have anything to say?"

"It means you can't be with me for the whole weekend?" Lin Zhixi didn't even raise her eyebrows, her voice was flat, "What's wrong? What do you want me to say?"

Liu Yiming panicked inexplicably, and bit his lip slightly: "It's not a whole weekend either. Come on Saturday morning and leave at night."

"Will you stay with me for a while?" Lin Zhixi asked back.

"What? What you said..." Liu Yiming paused, and couldn't help but sneer, "My parents arranged, they have other things, they just stopped by to see me."

"I don't mean anything else, don't think too much about it." Lin Zhixi quickly explained, "I mean, your parents come all the way, just spend a few hours together?"

Liu Yiming sighed: "I also want them to stay a little longer, but I also want to be with you."

"Saturday..." Lin Zhixi took out her mobile phone and looked at it, "My high school classmates asked me to go out on Saturday. That's a coincidence, you accompany my parents, and I accompany my classmates."

Liu Yiming nodded thoughtfully: "Alright. I'm afraid that if I go out with my parents, you will be bored by yourself."

"Isn't it rare for me to be bored by myself?" Lin Zhixi stared straight at him, "When you go to host the regular meeting of the recitation team, when you are busy with your piles of things, you use your WeChat When Bo is watching the news, when you want independent space and time... I am used to it."

Suddenly, Liu Yiming's heart tightened. The words just now exploded like bombs in his mind. There was nothing but chaos. He didn't know what to say.

What is he saying?

He wants to fight?

"You are usually so busy, and you want me to be alone. I can't hold myself alone and feel uncomfortable. I have to find something to do for myself. Now, I'm used to it." Lin Zhixi raised her eyebrows, "I found that the problems between the two of us have never been resolved. Why is it like this when we are in love? You have no me, and there are so many things waiting for you to do; I am very uncomfortable without you, what is it? I can't do it either. The love between us is still not equal, you still..."

"You still feel that I don't love you enough?" Liu Yiming took a deep breath, his nose filled with an uncontrollable sour taste, "Do you think you've been giving in and wronging yourself? I also feel that I'm giving in and wronging myself. I really put off a lot of things, I've been squeezing time. Why do you always, or..."

Lin Zhixi snorted coldly: "That's right, our love affair has made both of us unhappy..."

"That was not what I meant."

"Then what do you mean?" Lin Zhixi's voice became lower and lower, "I'm just very greedy and want to occupy all your time. Why don't you understand?"

Liu Yiming's lower lip was almost bitten: "You said you would wait for me, I've been trying my best to drive in your direction..."

Lin Zhixi closed her eyes and said with a wry smile: "But I'm so tired. Sometimes I want to give up. I'm so tired. I'm always lost and feel uncomfortable, but I don't dare to disturb you for fear that you will be unhappy. …”

Liu Yiming's eyes couldn't help getting wet.

"A person's feeling is like being abandoned."

Liu Yiming felt that the softest part of his heart was hit hard, and thousands of words were suppressed by the uncomfortable feeling, and the last thing he said was only three words: "It will be fine."

"Will it really be okay?" Lin Zhixi opened her eyes, "Sometimes I even feel that there may be some communication problems between the two of us."

Liu Yiming frowned, and denied again and again: "No, it's not...how could there be communication problems between us, no...we're still running in, we still have to go on together ..."

"really?"

"Yeah." Liu Yiming felt guilty, but still nodded heavily, "It will get better. Wait for me, you must wait for me."

"That's good." A tear fell from the corner of Lin Zhixi's eyes, "Fine."

Lin Zhixi stretched out her hand and interlocked his fingers, and said, "Am I being too hypocritical? Damn, why am I like you?"

"No." Liu Yiming clenched that hand, "It's all my fault."

"Yes, it's all your fault." Lin Zhixi pinched his waist with the other hand, "I gained weight again."

"No way!"

"There is! If you don't believe me, touch it yourself!"

"No..."

"Tch, deceiving yourself."

On Saturday morning, the two had breakfast together, and then—"I'm going to pick up my parents at the subway station."

"Let's go there together."

"I promised you quite quickly." Lin Zhixi reached into his sweater and squeezed his back, "I'll take you to the subway station, and then I'll be back."

"You and your high school classmates made an appointment in the afternoon?" Liu Yiming couldn't help twisting because of his pinching.

"When are you coming back?"

Lin Zhixi thought for a while and said, "It's evening, it should be around seven or eight o'clock."

"So late?" Liu Yiming frowned, "Damn, then..."

"You should also experience the feeling of being alone in an empty room." Lin Zhixi had a smirk on her face, and suddenly her smile froze, "No, you bastard, how can you be lonely? Sigh, it's worse for me .”

"What..." Liu Yiming turned his head away - in fact, he was right, Liu Yiming would find something for himself if he didn't know anything.

It is not far from the school to the subway station, and it takes about ten minutes to walk there.Today Liu Yiming slowed down on purpose, and Lin Zhixi complained, "Is there something wrong with your feet today? I know you have short legs, but I've never seen you walk so slowly before. What's going on?"

Liu Yiming's hand on his shoulder suddenly exerted force and pinched heavily—"Are you really stupid or just pretending to be stupid? I just want to stay with you for a while longer!"

"Oh?" Lin Zhixi didn't take it seriously, "Now that I think about it, have you stayed with me for a while longer? When you were doing your own things..."

"What the hell are you going through old debts and old debts again and again! Don't turn over old debts!" ​​Liu Yiming clenched his fists and lightly thumped him on the back twice.

Lin Zhixi rolled her eyes and said in a flat voice, "Cut, dare to do it or not."

"I......"

"Okay, okay, I'm joking." Lin Zhixi glanced at the subway station a few meters away, and couldn't help but sigh, "I should go back."

Liu Yiming paused for more than ten seconds, not knowing what to say, shrugged: "Okay..."

Just as Lin Zhixi was about to turn around, her hand was pulled suddenly, and she met those watery eyes, and the non-magnetic voice blew past her ears: "Be careful on the way back, walk carefully, don't look at your phone. It’s just that I can’t see you for a few hours, don’t keep thinking about me making yourself uncomfortable, and have fun with your classmates in the afternoon. Then remember to send me a message and see you at night.”

"You think I'm you! You still walk and play with your mobile phone..." Lin Zhixi wanted to give him a hug, but because of the traffic around her, she forcibly held back, "You are with your parents, you are not allowed to play Mobile phone, we haven't seen each other for so long, let's talk more. See you at night."

Lin Zhixi turned around, Liu Yiming paused in place - he saw him turn around and smile, and smiled at him.

The weather is fine today, the sunshine in early winter, the rare warmth.

It is clear that Lin Zhixi's smile just now is even more heart-warming.

Liu Yiming smiled back at him and waved his hand.

"See you tonight."

He saw his mouth.

Lin Zhixi gradually disappeared into the crowd before Liu Yiming turned and walked into the subway station.

After picking up my parents, they came up with big bags and small bags in their hands, all of which were brought for him—"Let's go back to the dormitory and put the things away."

On the way back to the dormitory, Liu Yiming was talking to his parents about his college life in the past few months, when he glanced inadvertently, a familiar figure fell into his eyes.

Across the road, he is on this side, he is on the other side.

Liu Yiming glanced there from time to time and could see clearly.

Height [-], handsome face, gray sweater, ripped jeans, today both of them are wearing couple shoes by coincidence.

How can he walk so slowly?

Should not be ah.

Liu Yiming saw that Lin Zhixi was wearing earphones, walking very slowly, keeping his head down.

Suddenly his heart sank, and two words appeared in his mind, no matter whether it was suitable to describe it or not, it just lingered in his mind.

At this moment, he seemed to see many Lin Zhixis from before. While Liu Yiming was busy doing his own things, he felt uncomfortable holding himself alone, and couldn't do anything well.

"It's like being abandoned."

What his parents said floated past his ears, but Liu Yiming couldn't hear a word.Across the road, he just wanted to rush over to hug him and tell him how much he loves him.

How could it be abandoned?

I can not let it go.

I still want to go on with you, hold you all the time, go on.