Chapter 1: He once loved me tenderly and considerately

A contract was scattered in the air. Pei Weixue stood there with a confused and sad face, letting the paper slide from above his head, float across his cheek and fall at his feet like a feather. He took a trembling step forward but was stopped. He swallowed the pain, turned his eyes away from the face of the man who was standing at the corner of the stairs watching the show, and turned around.

"Pei Weixue. Do you really have to go against me? I don't love you! Do you hear me?"

"Then why did you marry me in the first place?"

After being questioned, Su Yin was distracted for a moment. He looked at the man in front of him with lost eyes and had an idea in his mind. He wanted to hug him and comfort him, but it was only a flash of his mind. "Do you think I want to!" In fact, he didn't know why, it seemed like he should do this.

After repeating the death sentence countless times, Pei Weixue found that he still couldn't help feeling sad, his eyes filled with crystal tears. He sniffed and wiped away the tears with both hands, then turned his face to the side. There were obvious water marks on his straight nose, which was a little red and swollen. He walked back to the bedroom in silence, ignoring the shouting of the people behind him.

As soon as he closed the door, he slid down to the floor, leaning against the doorframe. Almost six years had passed, and the sweetness they once shared hadn't faded. Initially, Su Yin had simply ignored him, but later, things got worse, openly chasing after other men and demanding a divorce.

He had nothing to hold onto Su Yin, except for the marriage certificate. In truth, he didn't know what he had done wrong. His mind was filled with memories of Su Yin surrounding him during college.

Su Yin used to be a well-known figure in the college. She was good-looking and had outstanding abilities. She had won first prizes in national fashion design competitions several times and was an outstanding student.

He was just an ordinary science student majoring in software. He always held his textbooks in his arms and not many people paid attention to him.

Once, while participating in a web design competition, he was immersed in the library, struggling with color matching and looking up color codes on his phone when a voice came from behind him: "The colors and block design can be improved a bit. Don't you think your boxed text design doesn't fit in with the whole page?"

Pei Weixue looked up at a face with unbridled eyebrows and eyes. The figure in the pupils smiled at him. He heard his own voice saying, "Out of place?"

The young man slid his long legs and sat down beside him. A light, refreshing scent of soap wafted through his lips. "Look, your entire page is mostly dark blue, but the text is yellow-brown. Don't you think it's strange?" He reached for the mouse and used the color palette to select a beautiful light color. "What do you think?"

"It looks good..." Pei Weixue hesitated for a few seconds and said, "I'm a little color blind." Unexpectedly, after he finished speaking, the young man slapped him on the shoulder and said very loyally, "Then I will be your color palette from now on. What's your name? I'm Su Yin, Caotou Su, Yin as in seduction." The bright white teeth made Pei Weixue smile unconsciously, "Pei Weixue. Fei Yi Pei, Wei of the future, Xue as in snowing."

Su Yin thought that was their first meeting, but in fact, they had met many times. It was just that Pei Weixue only watched from afar every time. She could always hear her roommates or classmates discussing whose confession Su Yin from Class 3 of the 15th grade of Fashion Design had rejected, what awards she had won, and what perfect performances she had hosted.

From then on, he often saw Su Yin appear in the library, holding a picture book and a drawing board, sitting quietly in the corner. He would also choose a table that was closer. Su Yin also often brought him kiwis and carrots to eat. He knew that these were daily aids to treat color blindness.

His color blindness wasn't congenital. After a family tragedy in high school, he developed a mental illness that left him restless and agitated. He took chlorpromazine and thioridazine as his medications. During his senior year, under intense academic pressure and extremely unstable, he disobeyed his doctor's advice and took more. This, in turn, damaged the cone cells in his retina.

However, his illness required him to continue taking medication, so he did not choose surgery.

Su Yin never said anything extra, but he always got things done, and he saw it all.

Once, after assigning an assignment, the teacher asked each student to present their work and explain their design concepts. Pei Weixue took the stage with a USB drive and immediately drew laughter when he displayed the webpage layout. The colors were a mess, devoid of any aesthetic appeal. He knew his classmates were just being amused and didn't mean any harm, but he had no idea what the color scheme was, so he just gritted his teeth and finished the PPT.

The teacher gave a good evaluation for the good design of the section.

That was a large class with students from several classes. After he sat down, some troublemakers from the next class made fun of him. His color blindness was actually no secret. Everyone in the class knew about it, and he was inevitably laughed at by some funny students from other classes.

"If you're color blind, why not just make everything one color? Why do you have to use other colors?"

In fact, Pei Weixue always uses color codes to select colors, but the results are always poor. He has been color blind for a long time and has lost his basic judgment of colors. He can only know the names of colors from books or introductions and then recall whether they match.

As soon as he left the teaching building, he heard these words. He was a little angry. Even if you are color blind, you have the right to use colors. But what those people said was right. Since you can't tell the difference, it's better to just use one color.

"Hello."

Just then, a familiar voice sounded.

He looked over and saw Su Yin rubbing his eyes and walking out from the back door. He stood in front of the two classmates with his hands in his pockets and raised his chin slightly, "Apologize." What he hated most in his life was people who laughed at others' illnesses. No matter what the illness was, it was not a reason to laugh at it.

The two of them looked back and said, "Su Yin, why did you come to our class for no reason?" Fashion design and computer science are two different departments, and they don't have large classes together.

"I said, apologize to Pei Weixue." Su Yin grabbed their hands and turned around. "Here." He nodded towards Pei Weixue, "Apologize to him."

The two of them felt a little embarrassed to be heard by the protagonist. In addition, Su Yin's presence attracted many people to look over here, so they had no choice but to apologize to Pei Weixue and left in a hurry.

Pei Weixue smiled and nodded at Su Yin, "Thank you."

Su Yin walked over to him, hooked her arm around his neck, and said, "Since you want to thank me, why not do something practical?"

"I can treat you to a meal."

"Nonono, don't take this." Su Yin took out a bottle of freshly squeezed carrot juice from somewhere, "Drink this today."

Pei Weixue's face suddenly turned bad. He really didn't like carrots, but he also knew why Su Yin insisted on making him drink this juice. After taking it, he asked, "Why did you come here to attend class today?"

"Well, I don't have classes today." The two went downstairs together. Su Yin saw him drinking and put his hands in his pockets. "I came here specifically to see you."

"Looking for me?" Pei Weixue was surprised.

Su Yin nodded and said, "My uncle planted a lot of corn, and we couldn't eat it all, so he gave us a lot. So my mother made a corn feast today. She wants me to vomit. Can you help me?" He clasped his hands together, his eyes full of pleading.

Pei Weixue looked at the empty plastic bottle and nodded slightly, "Okay."

Su Yin's mother has a lively personality. At least, it was the first time he met such a lively elder. As soon as he entered the house, she took away his schoolbag, welcomed him to sit at the dining table, and proudly introduced him to the dishes on the corn banquet, such as sweet corn kernels, corn and pork ribs soup, corn pancakes, corn fried shrimp, milky corn soup, cream roasted corn, corn steamed cakes, etc.

The table was full and it looked like two people couldn’t finish it.

"Auntie, can I call you Xiao Pei?" Su Qingyue hospitably moved all the dishes in front of Pei Weixue. Pei Weixue was flattered. "Okay, Auntie."

Su Yin sat next to Pei Weixue, eating corn kernels with chopsticks, and looked at his mother happily. Good, the old lady is very fast.

"Xiao Pei, is our dog Yin causing any trouble at school?"

"Dog lead?"

"mom!"

Pei Weixue's doubtful voice and Su Yin's embarrassed voice rang out at the same time. Su Yin knocked on the bowl and said, "Don't call me Gou Yin!"

Su Qingyue ruthlessly exposed him, "You yourself insisted on changing your name when you were a child." She looked at Pei Weixue, "Little Pei, you don't know, his third grade teacher gave him homework to make a word with his name, and he made it up as 'seduction'. That wasn't enough, he insisted on changing his name. At that time, he was still teething and his speech was lisp, so he told everyone his name was Su Gouyin."

"Is that so?" Pei Weixue couldn't help laughing. He looked at Su Yin teasingly. Su Yin glared at him angrily. He tried to restrain his smile but couldn't help it overflowing from his eyes. It was obviously his first time to come to Su Yin's house, but he didn't feel unfamiliar at all, as if he had been here many, many times.

"Why are you glaring at Little Pei? Didn't you come up with that name yourself?" Su Qingyue had a neat, short hairstyle and was dressed to suit her figure and temperament, looking energetic and youthful. As she spoke, she scooped a bowl of corn soup for Pei Weixue, "Try this, it's delicious."

Su Yin snorted coldly and concentrated on eating.

Pei Weixue looked at the increasing amount of food in the bowl, his eyes feeling a little sore. He hadn't eaten such a meal for a long time.

After coming out, Su Yin went back to the dormitory with him. Although they were in different majors, they lived in the same building. When they passed the playground, they went in for a walk. Pei Weixue saw that Su Yin would meet acquaintances and talk to them from time to time, so he walked quietly.

"No snow."

Pei Weixue tilted his head, "Hmm?" The moonlight fell on Su Yin's profile, as noble and flawless as the gods in ancient mythology. He stared at her intently.

Su Yin said, "Come home with me for dinner every weekend." He spoke in a casual tone, as if he was talking about something insignificant, but his other hand was pressed tightly against his thigh, and he even walked with a slight limp.

"Yeah." Pei Weixue retracted his gaze before he looked over, turned around and pretended to watch other people playing basketball, "Thank you." He didn't want to expose Su Yin's thoughts, but he also understood what Su Yin meant. He felt that he was a little lonely, or felt sorry for him.

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