beginning

After sitting down in the car, Chen Li remembered the question he asked Lin Xiangwan just now, "Why didn't you find me?"

Seeing the other party's expressionless look, he smiled and continued: "We're not that familiar yet."

Seeing Chen Li's unwillingness to let go, Lin Xiangwan helped his forehead, "I'm afraid you're busy."

Chen Li nodded, looking at the front thoughtfully.

After a while, he hesitated for a while and said, "I'm a junior and I'm going to go abroad."

Lin Xiangwan glanced at Chen Li in surprise. After all, she still had to go farther and farther.

While waiting for the red light, Chen Li turned to look at Lin Xiangwan, and asked, "You, do you want me to go?" This time, no one asked you, would you still want to drive me away?

Lin Xiangwan didn't expect Chen Li to ask such a question, so he paused for a few seconds, looked into Chen Li's eyes, "If I say no, will you not go?"

Chen Li's life in the United States is not difficult. He goes to and from class quietly, and sometimes sits on the street with no one in a daze, trying to figure out what time it is on the other side of the world.

Looking at the blond teachers and classmates around me, I will miss those times when I was in China.

During lunch break, Chen Li would often sit in an open-air coffee shop, staring at Lin Xiangwan's profile picture on WeChat. Does Lin Xiangwan still miss her now?

From time to time, a good-looking foreign girl would come to strike up a conversation, and Chen Li would always smile and say "I'm sorry, I have a choice", but the other party would walk away wisely.

Lin Xiangwan seems to have always been her excuse for rejecting others, a habit she liked when she was young and became an adult.

Chen Li has always felt that making one thing or a person a habit is never a good thing, because once you have a habit, it will be more difficult to let go when you lose it.

In China, Lin Xiangwan counted the time and made video calls to Chen Li when she was not in class. Most of the time, she was quietly preparing lessons, and Chen Li was on the other side seriously calculating the content of his subordinates, not talking much.When Chen Li was free when he didn't have homework, the person on the phone would look at her motionlessly with his head propped up, just like how he looked in class many years ago.

"Chen, is this your girlfriend?" The American roommate who shared the rent with Chen Li asked when he saw the person in the video.

Chen Li was wearing earphones. Lin Xiangwan couldn't hear what the pretty girl said, so she saw Chen Li take off the earphones and replied in English: "She has always been mine."

Lin Xiangwan put down the homework he was correcting, frowned, raised his head and asked, "Are you living with someone else now?"

The person on the other side didn't answer, but just looked at her with a smile on his face.

Lin Xiangwan cleared his throat, "Outside alone, you have to pay attention to safety issues."

Chen Li smiled before slowly opening his mouth, "I know you're jealous, there's nothing wrong with admitting it."

Seeing Lin Xiangwan's face turning red and then white, Chen Li felt very satisfied.

"Don't worry, he has a boyfriend. They're just friends, and they'll share the rent." Chen Li paused, "And, I'll clean myself up, Mr. Lin."

"Well...what did your friend ask you just now? You said it was yours. What's wrong?" Lin Xiangwan deliberately changed the subject, but saw the person on the computer smile and roll his eyes.

After a while, she propped her head and leaned closer to the computer screen, "She asked me if you are my girlfriend. I said, you have always been mine."

Lin Xiangwan felt that her face must be terribly red now.If Chen Li's confession and seemingly heartless words when he was young would only make her feel sweet and helpless, but now the person on the computer screen has a feeling of declaring sovereignty in one sentence.

"I'm going to class!" Lin Xiangwan was about to turn off the computer when he heard the man's lazy voice.

"Want to run?" Chen Li was not in a hurry, he still looked at Lin Xiangwan in the same posture, "I'm almost 21, do you think I can still run now?"

Lin Xiangwan was a little helpless, how could someone really say that the confession was like seeking revenge, "Why? You still want to beat me up if you seek revenge on me?"

Chen Li was at a loss for words for a while. He hadn't dealt with the little girl for so many years, and he seemed unable to retreat more than a little bit. "How many years will you have to wait for the answer before you give it to me?"

"Do you still remember...?" Lin Xiangwan felt a little emotional for a moment.

"You promised me, why should I forget?" Chen Li shrugged, "Forget it, I'll talk about it when I come back. This kind of topic seems not suitable for such a hasty decision in the video."

"Lin Xiangwan, it was you who said you would wait for me to come back. If you change your mind again, I will..." Chen Li looked at the face on the computer screen that he had thought about day and night for so many years but was still unwilling to compromise, " I'll tie it up for you.