[Zhongyingmei] I don't want to save you today

Even thinking about it surprised him, but he really seldom thought of Iris these days.

It's like some organ in the brain shuts off everything related to that woman, and even the occasional sight of something related (like her clothes hanging out, lipstick for Katie, and the like) doesn't even When Professor X pretended to turn his head unintentionally to see if he was okay, he just calmly acted as if nothing had happened.

But he would dream of her.

To be precise, it was not dreaming of Iris, but a part of Iris in his memory fragments.Most of the time, he could only make out her back in the distorted picture, or her anxious profile when she was unconscious.

When it was more serious, he would dream that the night he saw her for the first time, he hid alone in the dressing room, but when he went out, he found Nathan alone, eerily quiet.Cheap bar lights glistened on spilled Long Island iced tea, but there was no one there.Sometimes when Iris, who was taking off her make-up, turned her head, the woman had no face—accompanied by the sound of his heartbeat falling, there was a heavy drumbeat, like some horror movies.

Often he would wake up from the dream, and then wonder why this woman still refuses to let him go in a daze.

After the matter of Sokovia was settled, he forced himself to stay in Stark Tower with Professor X, and deal with some remaining matters with the members of the Avengers.

But it got worse and worse, and the trance lasted from night to day.

Finally, after all the follow-ups were dealt with, (he couldn't remember how he returned to New York) when he woke up again in the night wind of New York mixed with bustling and extravagant, he was already standing on Forest Hill downstairs.

It seems to be a little bit cold, and Kuaiyin is not too sure about it. It may be because it is close to the end of autumn, or it may be that the wound he suffered in Sokovia opened—and the blood loss is too large. It will make people feel cold.

Thinking that he didn't have any clothes to add, he ran to the nearby restaurant to grab a bottle of wine. The label on the bottle was written in beautiful cursive characters, and there were stains of wine on it.

Quicksilver lowered his head and carefully identified the words he didn't recognize, and then guessed that it should be Spanish or French with his only shallow knowledge.

The dark red wine was like diluted blood, and Kuaiyin pulled his hair, but still felt very uncomfortable.Finally, he cast a hesitant glance at the dimly lit sidewalk before him, and went upstairs.

Kuaiyin walked all the way to the end of the corridor, leaning against the wall, wondering why Iris was still not at home.He turned his head to look out of the window, reached out to push the rusty window, and found that the connection might be stuck, so he simply pulled down the whole window with force.

The old windows let out a last "creak" moan/groan, shaking off layers of ash.

Taking another swig of wine down his throat, Kuaiyin carefully observed the small shops on both sides of the street, and then slowly realized that the shop that used to be owned by Chinese elderly people was gone, and it was replaced by a motel with flashing neon lights. The rainbow-colored signboard has the word "full" in bright green, flashing at a beat slower than his heart, surrounded by some never-ending moths of unknown species.

He turned around and thought, if the convenience store is gone, Iris must be very inconvenient at ordinary times—she is such a lazy person, she usually piles up all the trash and waits for him to come. Help take it away, do you just not even eat the food now?

And if it's like a motel, it's not safe for so many strangers to come in and out - Iris is not low-key, and she usually likes to put on makeup, although I don't know if she still does it now...

No, he doesn't care what that woman does.

Feeling that his consciousness had begun to slacken uncontrollably, he put more weight of his body on the wall and closed his eyes.

The noise from the stairwell woke up Quicksilver almost instantly.

Then he heard Iris's familiar voice, which seemed a little hoarse.He straightened up slowly, his eyes fixed on the shadowy stairwell.

"Oh, I told you that you don't need to help me, this one is not very heavy."

But Iris's voice seemed to be mixed with another strange, younger male voice.

"Ah, it's okay...just,"

"Ok?"

"Iris, haven't you noticed that you have changed? You used to be sure that you gave me this before I spoke."

Iris pursed the corner of her mouth, and retorted: "I wasn't so bad before, okay? Forget it, forget it, thank you anyway."

The little spider stomped his feet and turned on the voice-activated light.She casually took the package of things she bought in the supermarket, raised her head and gave him a polite smile, but the smile froze when she turned her head to look in front of her door.

Peter also turned his head to look. He looked back at Iris hesitantly, and asked in a low voice, "Iris, do you know him?"

The atmosphere suddenly became quiet, and Peter felt the dangerous ambiguity surging in the air belatedly. He estimated Iris' combat power in his heart, and he quickly made a judgment.

"Then I'll go back first, you can call me if you have any questions."

He turned his head and accidentally saw Kuaiyin's dangerous and gloomy face, and quickly changed his words: "It's just that I guess there should be no problem. See you tomorrow, Iris."

Iris nodded to him, and reluctantly took out the key, while spurning Peter's unreliable and fast betrayal, while thinking to herself, why did Quicksilver suddenly look so scary.

She fumbled in, raised her foot and stepped over the window that fell down for some reason, and opened the door.

Kuaiyin took the shopping bag thoughtfully, looked up at her and smiled at her in the gloomy room.

"Long time no see, Iris."

Iris froze for a moment, then nodded numbly, feeling a lot of goosebumps popping up on her arms.

When his hand spared her to close the door, there was only one voice in Iris's heart that played repeatedly——

New shitty life.

The author has something to say: *The lighting description is from Lolita

*quicksilver gets drunk so easily because he got hurt

*Transitional Chapter