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America, snowy night.

"You're looking for Troy, he's taking a shower, who are you?"

The girl held the mobile phone on one shoulder, swiped the tablet with her fingers quickly, and said to the person on the phone in a brisk tone: "Wait for him to come out in a while, and I will ask him to call you back."

"You are?" The male voice on the other end of the phone hesitated slightly.

"Me." The girl smiled brightly, "I'm his girlfriend."

"Ashley." Jiang Chiyu came out of the bathroom with a tattered towel hanging around his neck.When he saw the girl holding his mobile phone, his expression immediately sank: "How many times have I told you, don't answer my phone casually."

"Stingy." Ashley stuck out her tongue and handed the phone to Jiang Chiyu.

When Jiang Chiyu answered the phone, there was already a busy tone on the receiver.

"Who is the other party?" Jiang Chiyu looked at the unfamiliar number and asked with a frown.

"I don't know." Ashley shrugged and said, "It's a young man who speaks Chinese."

Jiang Chiyu followed the call log and called back the call.This is a local fixed-line number, and there is nothing special about it. It is probably for insurance and real estate sales, but Jiang Chiyu is inexplicably concerned.

Seeing Jiang Chiyu's serious face, Ashley felt a little unhappy: "Don't worry about these things."

The girl's mood was as changeable as the weather, and in the next second, a smile appeared on her face again: "Tomorrow is my birthday, let's go to the beach and take the little train together?"

Jiang Chiyu called back twice in a row, but there was no one answering the other end. He put down the phone and said in a more emphatic tone: "Ashley."

"Okay, okay, I get it, you don't like me, we can't do it, the person you like is in China, I know it, don't say it."

After finishing speaking, she did not forget to give Jiang Chiyu an elbow, and then left angrily.

A couple lived in the master bedroom on the first floor. The girl opened the door and poked her head out when she heard the movement. Just in time to see the last scene, she sincerely cast a sympathetic look at Jiang Chiyu.

Sometimes it is too rare to attract people, and it may not be a good thing.

The three-story building where Jiang Chiyu lives is not far from the school. It takes more than half an hour to commute to work every day. The people who rent here are all international students from the same school.

In order to save money, after the end of the last semester, Jiang Chiyu moved out of the school dormitory and lived in the attic on the top floor which was originally used to store sundries for almost free. However, he has to help the landlord maintain the house and tidy up the garden on a daily basis.

He and Ashley met here, and the two of them, like other international students in this house, are pure roommates.

But Jiang Chiyu doesn't dislike Ashley. This little girl has a good heart, but her family background is good. She is used to being arrogant and indulgent since she was a child, and sometimes she can be more self-willed.

The next day, Jiang Chiyu naturally didn't take any train with Ashley, and went to the library early in the morning.

There is a large garden outside the library. It has snowed heavily for several days recently, and it finally cleared up today.The garden is full of snow, and the sun shines on a garden covered in silver, like a fairyland of ice and snow in fairy tales.

Jiang Chiyu suddenly remembered that it never snows in City H.

He really wanted to light a cigarette in such a season.

Fortunately, Jiang Chiyu was not addicted to cigarettes. This idea only appeared in his mind for a short moment before being interrupted by a colorful snow bunting on the snow.

He followed the jumping snow bunting to the treetops, and out of the corner of his eye, he happened to catch a glimpse of a group of Chinese aunts and uncles in the distance wearing the little red hats of the tour group, walking through the snow talking and laughing.

**

In the blink of an eye, it was another year of winter, the air was wet and cold, and it seemed that there was going to be a winter rain.

Jiang Chiyu stepped on a chair to open the top shelf of the closet, and finally found Yu Duo's down coat among a pile of quilts and blankets.

For people who have lived in H City for a long time, they hardly need clothes of this thickness. However, Jiang Chiyu and Yu Duo are going to soak in the hot springs in Hokkaido tomorrow to enjoy the snow. This down jacket that has been under the bottom of the box for many years is finally available. use.

Jiang Chiyu took the coat out of the storage bag and tidied it up briefly, but accidentally found an old boarding pass in the inner pocket of the coat.

Yu Duo was only wearing a gray sweater, and he was sitting in front of the suitcase in the living room packing his clothes. He had no idea of ​​the temperature over there, and he wasn't sure what clothes to bring.

Jiang Chiyu came out of the room, put the thick down jacket on his body, and hugged him with the clothes from behind.

"What's the matter?" Yu Duo turned his head and asked, "Now you're acting coquettish regardless of time?"

"Have you been to America before?" Jiang Chiyu leaned his head on Yu Duo's shoulder, raised the things in his hands to Yu Duo, and shook them quickly.

Yu Duo glanced at the boarding pass in Jiang Chiyu's hand, slightly taken aback, but quickly realized: "Well, in your second year of being admitted to graduate school."

"What are you going to do?" Jiang Chiyu asked.

"I went to find you." Yu Duo folded the pajamas of the two of them and put them in the suitcase together: "By the way, I went on a trip. By the way, I even visited your school."

"So you really went to find me." Jiang Chiyu's voice gradually became low, and the two arms holding Yu Duo tightened slightly.

Yu Duo laughed: "What are you doing to lie to you?" Then he continued: "I went to the United States with a tour group, and I called you in the hotel at night, and your girlfriend at the time answered the call, and she said that you In the shower, and later..."

Yu Duo didn't say anything about what happened later, but Jiang Chiyu knew how to deal with Yu Duo's personality.

Jiang Chiyu remembered the endless phone calls on a snowy night many years ago. He was not sure if the call was from Yu Duo, but as long as he thought of Yu Duo going to a foreign country alone, he called him in the hotel. This phone call, my heart seemed to be disturbed by a pair of big hands indiscriminately, and I started to feel sour and painful round and round.

He wanted to travel back to the past like in a science fiction novel, go back to that small room, hold the person who was sitting withered in the snowy night into his arms, and tell him that there is no one else, I only like you.

Of course this is impossible, Jiang Chiyu felt that if he said this idea, Yu Duo would definitely laugh at his naivety.

Jiang Chiyu calmed down for a while, and said in a relaxed tone: "Did you make a wrong call? Where did I have any girlfriend?"

"Stop fooling people." Yu Duo scolded with a smile: "It's no big deal to have a girlfriend, and I don't know how to drink this kind of old vinegar. It was all 800 years ago."

"Really." Jiang Chiyu said solemnly in Yu Duo's ear, "From the beginning to the end, I only liked you."

Since the day he met Yu Duo, he never put another person in his eyes.

Yu Duo's neck began to heat up slightly. He is not a person who reveals his emotions. Facing Jiang Chiyu's enthusiasm and frankness from time to time, he always doesn't know how to react.

"Really?"

But this time he didn't pretend to be stupid anymore, but turned his head, looked into Jiang Chiyu's eyes, quickly pecked the corner of his mouth, and said with a smile: "Coincidentally, I am too."