Stop flirting, I was offended

A tear dripped from the corner of Ruan Yi's eye.

The lower back, the back, and the neck were all numb.As if all the senses were cut off, the numbness even spread to his head, and his brain went blank.

"Hello, how are you?" The driver turned his head and looked at him suspiciously, "Hey, sir, you have arrived."

He said it several times before Ruan Yi suddenly realized, paid the money, picked up his luggage and got off the car.

In the cold wind, his hands and feet were all stiff.Ruan Yi closed his eyes, squeezed a few times, squeezed out a little heat from his muscles, stood in the hall for a while, and walked into the elevator when his face returned to normal.

No sooner had there been a knock than the door opened.

"Brother!" Li Ke rushed over, fell halfway, and then suddenly supported the door frame to stabilize his body, and carefully looked at him from head to toe, "You... Where did you hurt? Are you okay, does it still hurt now? It hurts, is there any sequelae, how should I take care of it later?"

"It's all good." Ruan Yi smiled, "I'm really fine."

The second aunt rushed to him in a few steps from the kitchen, pulled him back and forth in a circle, and her tightly pursed lips were only loosened.

But her eyes were still staring: "You child. It's fine if you say you—you lied to me, why didn't you tell the truth to your sister? You have such a big thing this time, and she actually waited for me to beat you!" I only found out on the phone!"

Ruan Yi glanced at Li Ke.

Li Ke looked left and right, moved his fingers, and made a gesture of kneeling to him with a guilty conscience.

He called Li Kezhi after the situation was not so serious, mainly to ask her to help hide the second aunt.Li Ke concealed it, but now that she had revealed her truth, she was too cowardly to push Lei back behind Ruan Yi.

"Cough." Ruan Yi lowered his eyes, "Second Aunt, I'm hungry."

"I'll go get you a bowl of soup first. The dishes are all ready, just stir-fry, and I'll get it right now. We'll have dinner after you finish the soup..."

Li Ke took the opportunity to push Ruan Yi's suitcase and slipped away quickly.

After eating, Ruan Yi went downstairs to take a look around.

He walked aimlessly along the streets and alleys, and as he walked, he found that he was walking back to the vicinity of No. [-] Middle School.

At seven o'clock, the lanterns come on.

When the street lights suddenly turned on, he didn't know which string was plucked, and a thought suddenly came to him: at this moment, it would be great if it snowed.There is no snow in the sea of ​​burning lights in an instant, and I always feel a little regretful, making people feel that something is missing.

For a few seconds he didn't really know what he was regretting.Until suddenly, he remembered.

In his previous life, his 15th birthday happened to coincide with the first snow in Yangcheng.He went out to buy some noodles. At seven o'clock in the evening, the street lights on the two streets of Changjie came on on time. For a moment, the continuous fine snow shone slightly in the light, like thousands of flickering fireflies.

It was in this glance that he saw Lu Bingchen.

That scene was so beautiful, so he couldn't help saying hello to Lu Bingchen.And Lu Bingchen didn't know if he saw something from the noodles in his hand. Not long after he returned home, he found his door with a birthday cake with a smile.

Before that, the two of them were just strangers who hadn't even spoken a few words.

It was not until a long time later that he found out that that day happened to be the anniversary of Lu Bingchen's mother's death.

He once thought, if it wasn't on that day, or if he hadn't seen Lu Bingchen, and didn't call to stop Lu Bingchen, would many things after that not have happened?

In a person's life, if some things are pushed back all the way, you will find that there are several important nodes.Like a thumbtack on a map, it determines the approximate shape of that trajectory.If a pushpin in the middle hadn't landed there, but somewhere else, maybe things would have played out and gone differently.Some of these nodes are my own choice, while others seem to be the choice of fate.

Ruan Yi raised his head, looked at the sky, and exhaled forcefully.

He suddenly realized that many memories about Lu Bingchen began to gradually fade in his mind.

If the scene just now was placed in his previous life, or even a few years ago, he should be able to immediately realize that it was a scene related to Lu Bingchen.But now, it took him several seconds to realize it.

This is actually quite easy to think about.

When a person has a knot in his heart, he pays the deepest attention to it.On the contrary, if you put it down, the memory will gradually become shallow over time.

Ruan Yi thought, if things go on like this, when he gets old, will he really forget everything, even Lu Bingchen?At that time, perhaps seeing the lights on the long street suddenly turned on, he would still regret it.But I don't know what I'm sorry for anymore.I just feel that the scene in front of me is really beautiful, really beautiful, but it is not so perfect.

But what does it mean to be complete?I just can't think of it.

In the cold wind, Ruan Yi suddenly stood still, looking forward.

He saw Jiang Jianyao.

At the corner of the street, Jiang Jianyao was wearing a crisp woolen coat, unbuttoned, revealing a black turtleneck sweater inside, his neat chin was half covered by a scarf, under the wind-blown forehead, a pair of dark eyes, faintly looking at him.

Ruan Yi hesitated for a moment, then stepped towards him.

Since Lu Bingchen disappeared, he has also lost contact with Jiang Jianyao.

I haven't seen him for many years, but I don't feel unfamiliar.Ruan Yi asked, "Why are you back?"

Jiang Jianyao didn't answer right away, and pointed across the street with his finger.That street was still the same as when they were in school, bustling and bustling, even the shops hadn't changed, and the barbecue stand was still there."Would you like something to eat?" he asked.

"I've eaten." Ruan Yi paused, "Okay, then I'll eat less."

They found a table by the grill and sat down.

The barbecue came up quickly, and the skewers were fragrant, filling the table.Halfway through eating, Jiang Jianyao suddenly raised his eyes and smiled slightly: "Did I tell you that you are actually not very good at finding food?"

"what?"

"Go along this alley, turn left at the first intersection, go straight, then turn right, there is a restaurant that serves barbecue and grilled fish. It is much more delicious than here. And across the road, there is It’s a No. [-] snack shop, and the barbecue inside is better than here.”

Ruan Yi: "..."

He has never eaten at any of the places Jiang Jianyao mentioned.

He could only ask, "How do you know?"

Jiang Jianyao smiled: "I guess."

Ruan Yi looked at him, and after a while, couldn't help but also smiled softly.He felt that he couldn't feel unfamiliar with Jiang Jianyao. It was really because this person's attitude towards him was exactly the same from his previous life to this life, without any change.

After eating, the two walked out along the alley.

The night wind blew, and Jiang Jianyao kept smiling, but he didn't speak for a long time, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

He suddenly raised his head and said slowly, "The leaves of the phoenix tree have fallen."

This road is planted with plane trees.The leaves begin to fall in autumn, and now they are almost gone.The bare branches of the trees split the white light of the street lamps.Many years ago, he sat under a tree and raised his chin at Ruan Yi: "You know what I said makes sense." At that time, the street lamps were surrounded by layers of sycamore leaves, and the snow-white lights were also dyed green.Ruan Yi glanced at him coldly, turned around and left.

Jiang Jianyao's eyes blurred for a moment.

He couldn't go on, so he stopped: "Ruan Yi, when you get old, one day you think of Lu Bingchen, will you regret it?"

Ruan Yi was silent for a while: "You came back just to ask me this?" From the first time he saw Jiang Jianyao, he knew that this was not a chance encounter.Where is such a coincidence?

"I came back after an eighteen-hour flight." Jiang Jianyao smiled slightly, "Yes. Just to ask you this."

Ruan Yi didn't speak.

Jiang Jianyao's eyes seemed to reflect the undulating waves on the sea, which were constantly changing, and seemed to be the same as ever.He looked at Ruan Yi, saw his eyes from his eyebrows.This, he thought, was the last time he would look at him so closely.

"Ruan Yi." He said softly, "If you never forgive him and stay with him, even if he loves you so much, even if he changed himself from beginning to end for you, even if you may never I will fall in love with anyone but him—on that day, when I close my eyes, I will remember that there is such a person in this life, but you have separated like this for the rest of your life...do you regret it?"

Ruan Yi wanted to say that it should be regret, not remorse.

However, those things that I regret until my death, the misses that I can't let go of until my death, and the people who never spent my whole life together——

Will you regret it, at the last moment in the world?

Jiang Jianyao took a step back, and gently put a key into Ruan Yi's palm.

His voice was gentle like Ruan Yi had never heard before: "Go and have a look in your previous room."

Ruan Yi returned to the room he rented when he was in high school.

The key was inserted into the lock, clicked and turned, and the door opened with a sound.

The room was dark and deserted, but there was none of the musty and dusty smell of long unoccupied people in the air.He touched the familiar spot on the wall and turned on the overhead light.

The lights come on.He suddenly froze.

The floor, the walls, the wooden table, everything is still the same as when he lived here, and even those insignificant ornaments have been restored one by one.There are two small pots of prickly pears on the window sill, a light gray towel on the shelf in the bathroom, as well as the slippers, the velvet blanket, and the two cushions piled on the sofa...

He didn't take these things with him when he moved. Some of them were thrown away, some were given to the landlord's aunt, and some were given to the young man who collected waste.

It seems that someone has turned back the time in this house and then frozen it.

Ruan Yi walked in slowly.

On the desk in the bedroom, there is an open book.

It is a villain drawn with simple strokes, one person is lying on the hospital bed, and the other is lying beside him.Next to it are some orthographic characters, and there is another one that is not finished.

Ruan Yi counted and estimated that this should be the number of days between when he was attacked in Boxong City and when he woke up after returning home.

He turned a page forward.

Still those two stick figures.One carried water into the medical center, and the other leaned against the door of the tavern, watching him from afar.

Further on.

Still the same villain.

On the page, the villain walked out of the dormitory, into the classroom, out of the laboratory, and into the outpatient building of the hospital.The leaves are golden and falling again.Snowflakes fall and melt again.He took part in relief projects organized by Doctors Without Borders and flew all over the world.

Another villain followed his footsteps, refused to leave, but did not approach, watching from a distance, silently accompanying him.

In a daze, he seemed to see Lu Bingchen standing behind him, in that distant and inconspicuous corner that he had never noticed before, watching his changes bit by bit, then turned and left, and returned to this place. A room where time seems to be no longer flowing, stroke by stroke, draws his present splendid and beautiful life, but he no longer participates in his life.

A tear fell on the back of Ruan Yi's hand.

With a trembling hand, he flipped a page.

There are no paintings on this page, only a line of black and white words: "I will be with you for the rest of my life, and I will lose you in my arms. Don't you feel sorry for you?"

Do you not mourn?

With a soft creak, the door was pushed open.

Ruan Yi turned around.

He and Lu Bingchen looked at each other.

At that moment, countless turbulent and unspeakable emotions seemed to grow claws out of thin air, strangling the two of them by the throats.Under the light, both eyes seemed to glisten like water.Lu Bingchen walked over step by step, as if every step exhausted his life's strength, and his breathing trembled.

He grabbed Ruan Yi and tears welled up.

Ruan Yi pushed him away violently.

His chest heaved heavily: "Why are you crying? Didn't you design the hit by a car? Didn't you say that you would pay me back what you owed me? You didn't even let me know whether you were dead or alive. , isn’t it you who disappeared completely?”

He still can't forget the horror and despair when he watched Lu Bingchen close his eyes in a pool of blood. After that, Lu Bingchen disappeared. For a long time, he didn't even know whether Lu Bingchen was dead or alive.Until his mind cleared up, he carefully sequenced the matter from beginning to end, and analyzed it word by word.I just remembered that when Lu Bingchen had just had an accident, Jiang Jianyao appeared and took him to the hotel.

At that time, in order to comfort him, Jiang Jianyao said: "Brother Chen will be fine."

But Lu Bingchen was still lying in the operating room at that time, and no one knew what would happen.Even if she wanted to comfort him, she would not use such a reassuring tone.

Unless all of this was planned by Lu Bingchen in advance.

Ruan Yi was so angry that his heart was twisted like a knife, he raised his hand and slapped Lu Bingchen hard: "You fucking bastard!"

Lu Bingchen said in a hoarse voice: "Ruan Yi, you said that you gambled with me in your previous life. Now you don't want to gamble, it doesn't matter, I will gamble, and I am willing to gamble with my life that there is still a chance between the two of us. "

He burst into tears, like a suffering child, clutching at the last straw, choked up and asked, "Did I win the bet?"

Ruan Yi clenched his fist tightly.Through tears, he stared at Lu Bingchen's blood-red eyes, finally let go of his hand, and pressed Lu Bingchen's head down hard.The moment Lu Bingchen leaned forward, his shoulders were soaked.

The drops of tears seemed to hit his heart.

Ruan Yi patted his back lightly, tears rolled down from the corners of his eyes.He said softly, "You..."