"What happened again?" Yu Chengfei said lazily, as if I was a transparent person in front of him.

"Yeah." I said, "I broke up with Xia Xue. Her mother said that we can only stay together if we get into the same university."

"Then take the test." Yu Chengfei yawned: "It shouldn't be a problem for you."

"It's not that easy." I said with a wry smile, "You don't know how good Xia Xue's grades are. She ranks among the top in the key class of City High School and has the opportunity to be recommended to a prestigious university in advance. When I was in City High School, I couldn't catch up with her no matter how hard I tried. What's more, now that she has gone to Beiqi High School, where the learning atmosphere is even worse, she fights all the time every day. I'm afraid she has no chance..."

"Brother, don't worry so much." Yu Chengfei stopped playing games, hooked his arm around my shoulder and said, "It's too easy. Let Xia Xue deliberately do worse in the exam, so she can go to the same university as you, right?"

I smiled bitterly and said, "Brother Yu, you are so smart. But if this happens, her mother will only hate me more, right?"

"That's true." Yu Chengfei yawned again: "Are you particularly sad now?"

"What do you think?" I continued to smile bitterly: "You don't know how much I like Xia Xue. If she hadn't appeared, my life would be dark." Yu Chengfei cursed: "Fuck, you even wrote a poem? I tell you, Mouse, don't be sincere in your student days. We are still too young, and the future is unpredictable. No one knows what the future will be like."

"Don't you really care about Sister Nan Nan?"

"Of course." Yu Chengfei said confidently: "I'm just playing around. You said you and Xia Xue have no chance, and I and Nan Nan have even less chance. What are the conditions of her family, what are the conditions of my family? Wanting to marry her is like a toad wanting to eat swan meat! I didn't have much hope from the beginning. I'll just live one day at a time, and forget it if I can't. Even though Nan Nan is pestering me every day now, she will leave me when she understands one day. I'm very open-minded."

I looked at Yu Chengfei with envy, and I really admired his open-minded attitude towards life.

"Okay, stop worrying about trivial things." Yu Chengfei said: "We are all toads. If we can eat swan meat, we are lucky. If we can't eat it, it is also destined. Work hard. When we get better and better in this city, a lot of swans will throw themselves into our arms... Before we succeed, it is better to be able to take it and let it go."

Listening to Yu Chengfei's words of comfort to me, my heart was a little more open. I sighed: "Brother Yu, you said it so easily, what if Sister Nan Nan really..." Before I finished speaking, I found that Yu Chengfei had fallen asleep leaning on the back of the chair.

I shook my head and took off my coat to cover him. Looking at Yu Chengfei's peaceful face, I said softly, "Brother Yu, I hope you can really do what you said and be able to let go... Don't be as useless as me..."

After saying this, tears already covered my cheeks.

I turned on a computer, logged into the game that Yu Chengfei and the others played every day, created a level 0 account, and rushed out of the village full of monsters again and again. I was chopped down to the ground again and again, and resurrected again and again to rush out again...

After a long time, Lao Zhang stood up, walked to the door of the Internet cafe, looked around, and said, "The sleet is getting heavier. It seems that no one will stay here all night." He then pulled down the rolling shutter door with a hook and prepared to close the cafe.

My full attention was on the game, but I heard Lao Zhang exclaim, "Eh!" I looked up and saw a girl standing at the door, all wet. I couldn't tell whether it was rain or tears on her face.

"Xia Xue." I called softly, and then stood up. My feet were numb from sitting for too long. I staggered towards her, and Xia Xue rushed over and threw herself into my arms.

"Wang Hao..." Xia Xue's crying made me feel heartbroken.

Lao Zhang pulled the shutter down completely and muttered, "Looks like I can earn another five dollars..."

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