The third year of divergence

The meeting time with the blind date was set a day ago. In the coffee shop with soothing music, Ji Heyi received a text message from Ms. He before he finished his cup of coffee.The date he was meeting was sitting across from him. Although he saw the phone lighted up and the person who sent the letter, he couldn't do such a rude thing as replying to the phone on the date.

"Pfft—" The woman on the opposite side laughed, curling her long charming hair with her fingers, and pushed the phone in front of him, "Come back, it's almost lunch time, so that Teacher He can't eat until he waits for the news."

Ji Heyi picked up his phone from Shan Ruliu, took a picture of the two cups on the table, and sent it.

"Don't you tell her the result directly?" His blind date is the same as all the students taught by Mr. He, and he will have trouble facing Mr. He's deep power, "It's a bit difficult for me to speak—'Sorry, I'm sorry. Your proud son doesn't call', in retrospect, Mr. He should doubt my vision."

She blinked, "What's more, I don't like duplicity very much. One-sidedly, I think that, excluding gender, we are quite compatible."

Ji Heyi lowered his head to put away his mobile phone: "Miss Gu, you also said that it's lunch time, so I won't affect Teacher He's appetite for now."

Since he entered the door and sat down, he has tried his best to care about the feelings of this date during the conversation. He is sorry for wasting the other party's time all morning, "Of course I am responsible for this failed date. I will explain it to Teacher He later. I won't ask you about today."

"Needless to say, I enjoyed this hour." She changed her address, "Senior Ji—"

Ji Heyi looked at her in surprise.

"Surprised to hear me say that? As an alumnus who is two years younger than you and spent three years in high school, I am familiar with the stories of such an influential figure as you, senior."

She stirred the coffee and said teasingly, "Including your love affair before graduation, the day after I got the news, many girls in our class even organized a visit to your girlfriend from another school, so—hey." She sighed suddenly He sighed, and looked at the direction behind him, "If it weren't for the obvious eyes of the person sitting over there, I almost thought that sexual orientation was your excuse."

Ji Heyi paused when he put the cup down, and turned his head to look back following her line of sight.

The person sitting by the window met his eyes, loosened his lips into a straight line, and slowly smiled at the two of them, which was not obvious.

"Sure enough, it's really for you? It's been half an hour, and I haven't seen his eyes leave our side."

She joked: "I always feel like if we talk for another 10 minutes, he will come and knock on our table. Should I leave? By the way, ask the waiter to refill the cup for that handsome guy and bring it to my seat? "

Ji Heyi withdrew his gaze and looked at the person opposite. This situation is definitely not a pleasant experience for the date: "...Sorry."

"It doesn't matter, the time is just right, I still have time to go home and have lunch with my parents." She finally took a sip of coffee and stood up, and when Ji Heyi got up, she turned her head and waved with a smile, "Don't send— The muffins in this store are good, I recommend it to you.”

When Chi Yan pulled out his chair and sat down, the waiter happened to bring up the muffins that Ji Heyi had just ordered, one for each.

The two looked at each other, Ji Heyi pushed the plate over, Chi Yan touched the knife and fork, and took it back: "I'll order again..."

Ji Heyi interrupted him: "Your, I have had breakfast."

The silence makes the slight collision of cups and plates clearly audible, and no one disturbs this corner of the booth through the heavy green plants and window curtains.Ji Heyi faced out the window, drinking his own coffee and waiting for him to finish his stomach, but he didn't see the person opposite move a fork for a long time.

"You had a good chat with her just now." Chi Yan said softly, his eyes stopped on the lipstick mark on the edge of the cup in his hand, trying to bring a little smile into his words, "Is it... the company's business? How did you come to such a place? talk."

As soon as he finished speaking, he didn't seem to want to hear any answers, so he immediately changed his words, and looked around and said to him: "The environment of this store is really good-by the way, what did you want to talk about before you left, is there anything else at noon? Or let's change the place, Apart from drinks, there are desserts here, and what you order can’t be regarded as a meal.”

Ji Heyi put down his cup, turned to look at him, and waited until the person who had been avoiding his gaze finally raised his eyes, and asked, "How do you know I'm here?"

Chi Yan was silent for a while: "...I have the location of your car in my phone."

He opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but under the silent gaze of the audience, he lost all words to explain himself.

Ji Heyi looked at the person he had been with for three years day and night, his gaze traced from his eyes to his chin, just like when he stood at the door of his house last night, for a moment, he inexplicably saw a little strangeness from this familiar face, Even the three-year relationship that he thought was well-run has become blurred.

He answered Chi Yan's passing question: "The person sitting here just now is my blind date."

"... Ah." He lowered his head, tapped his fingers to the edge of the dinner plate, and picked up the fork on the plate.

"I had to apologize to her when she left."

Chi Yan raised his head.

"Because my ex interrupted the date."

Ji Heyi's eyes flicked past his suddenly clenched finger joints, and when he spoke again, his voice slowed down, showing the intention to get to the point, "This doesn't seem to be the first time I've asked you." He said, " Chi Yan, do you know what it means to break up?"

No matter how sweet the words are, when he speaks, he always has such a quiet gaze. There is a motionless reflection of the person he is talking to in his pupils. Chi Yan just stares at his eyes that are close at hand. Those words pass through the thin air around him, My mind drifted away empty.

"It means that I can be moved again, fall in love again, go on a blind date, and make an appointment for marriage. No matter who we are, it is very presumptuous to deliberately appear on each other's date without saying hello." He stopped and turned And asked, "A month ago, the day you broke up with an unassailable reason—"

These words made the motionless person suddenly raise his head, and his dry and slightly red eye sockets became more obviously red because of the chaotic work and rest for a long time.

Ji Heyi met his eyes: "Your parents—or my father, what did they tell you?"

Chi Yan was stunned, unable to react to his question for a while, "...why..." He retracted his fingers, "Why did you ask this suddenly."

Ji Heyi looked at him silently.

"It wasn't that day, it was me who broke up..." His eyes twitched for a moment, "It was three days before I said we broke up... Your dad and I happened to meet in that project in Chiang Mai, and your dad stopped you in the hotel corridor. Me." He put his uncontrollably clenched hands on the bottom of the table, and slid his throat once, "He said he couldn't contact my parents, let me help you talk about a time this month, put you... put you and Chi Let’s settle the matter, and let me forget to go there together when the time comes, I—”

He quickly continued, "I haven't forgotten about it, but I can't get in touch with my parents here. They will be back in two days. You and Chi Cong—" At this point, his voice suddenly became hoarse , Pausing for a long while, those words seemed to have finally been sharpened, and it was so difficult to articulate, as if one more sentence would hurt the throat, "You and Chi Cong..."

"Chi Cong and I." Ji Heyi took his words, quietly waiting for his almost embarrassed eyes to look over involuntarily again, "Chi Cong and I—classmates from junior high school to high school, best friends with similar tastes, but here In the more than ten years of friendship, our friendship has never been more than a little bit of other things."

For his defense about Chi Cong, he couldn't help feeling a little absurd, but looking at the other party's still-suppressed eyes, he spoke slowly, making sure his words were steady and clear, "Five years ago, right? You are talking about this time. I can’t remember what I said, and I don’t know what you heard, so I don’t judge whether what you have believed in these years is understandable or absurd. You saw the movie yesterday, so It’s a dialogue in a script, starring Chi Cong——your brother took his good friend and asked him to help correct a line in a good atmosphere during the holiday.”

Ji Heyi took a sip of his coffee, and saw that the person across from him slowly froze in what he said, even blinking mechanically.But he hasn't finished his sentence yet. In the past three years, they have almost no experience of quarrels or misunderstandings. Ji Heyi has no way to refer to whether the rhythm of his statement can make the other party digest it smoothly.

"On the day you broke up, I sent you the location of the dinner restaurant. I planned to see how you were feeling. If you were in a good mood, I would tell you about going home to meet my parents—I took it for granted. One minute before I went to the bar to find you, I still felt that there was no reason for you to be in a bad mood on such an ordinary night."

"..." The person on the opposite side seemed to want to speak, and opened his mouth, but because he held his breath for too long, he could only let out a gasp. He coughed, and his blank expression was like sleepwalking.

"Chi Yan." Ji Heyi closed his eyes, he didn't sleep well last night, and now he barely restrained his hands that wanted to rub his temples, "Differences can be communicated, misunderstandings can be resolved, and injuries to a certain extent can also be resolved." Forgive me, in a relationship, I don't think there's any reason to separate other than not being happy anymore—what do you think?"

The cup of coffee was already empty, and all that should be said had been said. Ji Heyi checked the time on his phone, and stood up without waiting for the other party to reply.

Seeing this, the person on the opposite side stood up abruptly, and the outstretched hand recklessly swept across the table. Because the movement was too violent, the tableware fell to the ground with a clatter.

At any rate, the noise was loud enough to bring the sleepwalker back to his senses.

Ji Heyi looked down at the mess of the place, but didn't see a waiter coming - the coffee shop is very big, and the counter is some distance away from the corner.

He turned his head and asked Chi Yan: "Have you brought any cash?"

Chi Yan just stared at the face in front of him, and unconsciously shook his head.

"Where's the card?"

Shaking his head.

"Where's the phone?"

Following the words, he touched his empty pocket dully, "... got out of the car and got into the car."

Haosheng explained what it means to be penniless.

Ji Heyi pushed him onto the seat, looked at the still-scared daze on his face, stretched out his hand and flicked his forehead: "Let's see, you have to pay for this blind date."

Without waiting for the other party to react, he walked away first.