A few seconds later——

F: [Downstairs.]

Half an hour had passed since Yunli went upstairs. She didn't reply to the message and just walked downstairs in her slippers.

Fu Shize was still in the original place. When he heard the footsteps, he looked up and their eyes met.

She slowly moved in front of him.

The two of them stood under the tree. She lowered her head and noticed that Fu Shi was holding two bottles of chocolate milk, the brand she drank most often.

He unwrapped the straw for her naturally: "I just went to the supermarket."

Yunli took it subconsciously, only to find that the milk was warm and the packaging was wet. He didn't know where he found the hot water to soak it.

"How do you heat it up?" Yunli held the milk. It was better to drink it hot, but every time, she was too lazy to heat it up herself.

Fu Shizhe, however, remembered it every time.

"I found a restaurant across the street and ordered some soup." Fu Shi looked towards the entrance of the community and asked them to give me some boiled water.

It was a familiar sweet taste that she hadn't had for a year.

"that……"

Yunli leaned next to him, clenched his palms, and mustered up the courage to ask him: "Were you waiting for me in the gym today?"

Fu Shize: “Yeah.”

He tilted his head and thought for a long time. When he sent Yunli downstairs, he had already planned to return to the dormitory. When he passed by the store, he saw chocolate milk at the door.

As if everything was related to her, he walked in unconsciously.

Fiddling with the two cartons of milk in his hands, he kept thinking about when to speak. Before tonight, he was still hesitant, but when the two of them spent so much time silently accompanying each other on the rooftop.

He just felt that he shouldn't hesitate for a moment, and he didn't want to wait any longer.

Yunli was about to continue speaking when Fu Shizhe's gaze returned to her face and he paused for several seconds, as if he had made up his mind: "Lili."

He said slowly, word by word: "Can we be together again?"

Yunli had been thinking about what to say for a long time but hadn't said it yet. She didn't expect Fu Shize to be so straightforward.

After staring at him blankly for a long while, Yunli was brought back to his senses by the chirping of cicadas above his head.

In the darkness, Yunli could hear each other's breathing. She squeezed her palms uncontrollably and asked him, "Can I ask you something?"

Before she started, she wanted to make one thing clear.

In her memory, all the details pointed to the fact that Fu Shi really liked her. During her days wandering alone in Cambridge, she confirmed this countless times in her memories.

This was the only thing she hadn't figured out.

Yunli mentioned what happened when they broke up: "When Yunye was sick, you didn't reply to my messages for two or three days."

"I didn't tell the truth last time." Fu Shize was silent for a while, his eyes dark. "I had just finished a gastric perforation surgery that day. I had a high fever before that, and I was in the hospital when I woke up."

"I don't want you to worry. I want to leave the hospital and come to Xifu again."

I never thought that this was the reason. Yunli even wanted to ask Fu Zhengchu if he got so sick because they broke up and he was sad.

Yunli still clearly remembers that she was in the hospital at that time. Under the dazzling white lights, she ignored the dozen or so calls he made. She broke down emotionally and blurted out the word "break up" because she couldn't bear it anymore.

She remembered that because Fu Shizhe did not come to Xifu, she felt that Fu Shizhe did not like her that much.

It hadn't occurred to her that he might be bad, too.

Yunli felt a dry throat: "Then why didn't you tell me when I asked for a breakup..."

"This is what you gave me." Fu Shi took out the origami moon from his wallet. He often took it out to look at it, and there were already some broken pieces on the edges and corners.

——Seeing you is like seeing the moon.

Under the light, his face looked thin and lonely, with a tired gray shadow around his eyes.

"But when you saw me, I was no longer the moon."

"At that time, I had no right to keep you."

So he went back to graduate school, hoping to become the person she liked before.

This is what he can and is willing to do for her.

For Fu Shi Ze, before those two years, he had no idea that his life would become so muddled and muddled.

Fu Shize himself didn't care about academic qualifications and degrees, but he had no right to ask Yunli to be with him when he was so depressed.

Yun Yongchang's opposition was not without reason. His daughter was actively pursuing her studies, and he hoped that she could find someone who was comparable to her, or at least someone who lived a serious life.

Fu Shi took out the moon-shaped badge of the Unique team from his pocket and handed it to her. In the darkness, Yun Li could sense his anxiety.

"I'm back to my original self."

Yunli stared at the badge in a daze, his eyes sore.

She had not forgotten that their relationship had intensified after Yun Yongchang arrived in Nanwu. She had not forgotten that his first reaction after arriving in Qilixiangdu was to hold her in his arms. Then the memories began to sting, and the two looked at each other stiffly, with a heavy atmosphere that was suffocating.

——"You want me to go back to school and be the way I was before?"

--"right."

--"I see."

So he agreed to break up and returned to school alone to fulfill his promise.

This was a reason Yunli had never thought of.

She didn't think that it would be fine if Fu Shize changed back. She also didn't think that the inferiority complex and sensitivity she had for herself would also appear in Fu Shize.

"Do you think that I broke up with you because of what my father said? Is that why you agreed to break up?" Yun Li murmured, she lowered her eyes and opened her mouth.

"I've never told you that I was quite self-conscious when I was with you. So I was always worried about gains and losses. If you didn't do or say anything, I would think you didn't like me that much."

For so long, Yunli always found it difficult to say these words.

"I couldn't contact you at that time, and I thought you didn't want to be with me because of my dad." Yun Li said softly: "Then Yun Ye had surgery at that time, and I wanted you to be by my side."

"Yin Yunyi came by plane and sat in the hospital corridor waiting for Yunye to finish the operation. When I saw it, I felt devastated."

"I didn't know you were sick. I just felt like... you didn't like me very much."

"After we broke up, you didn't contact me, so I thought maybe you always wanted to break up." Her thoughts went back to the countless days and nights before she went abroad. She kept looking at her phone, thinking that maybe Fu Shize would contact her.

"Later, I went to exchange ideas. Actually, it was not like what I told you last time. I did not have such a good life abroad. I was not good at socializing and my spoken English was not good. When I rented the first house, the landlord wanted to cheat me out of money."

"I called the police, but I couldn't speak English well, so I couldn't win the argument. I didn't have to pay much money in the end, but the landlord said some nasty things to me. I didn't know who to talk to at the time."

"It was only when I lived alone there that I remembered many details about our time together, and I remembered that you actually liked me very much."

"I wanted to find you, but I don't think I'm good enough."

Up to this point, Yunli had kept his tone calm.

After a year and a half, she was stubborn for so long, and finally said those words at this moment - "I don't want to break up."

"I was just saying that out of anger, but I really didn't think about breaking up with you." Yun Li choked in his throat.

“I regretted it for a long time.”

"But I'm also worried that with my personality, if I find you and we get back together, we'll separate because of my personality."

In her last sentence, she said in a weak voice: "This year, I have tried hard to change. I have tried hard to socialize, to integrate with others, to learn to communicate, and I have become a better person."

"I've tried my best, and I don't want to be apart again."

Fu Shi closed his eyes and pulled her into his arms.

"Lili."

Fu Shi thought that since she took the initiative to break up, it wouldn't hurt her that much. He thought that she wouldn't be that sad.

But she has been living alone outside for more than a year. He watches her live broadcast, but even if she is not happy, she still forces a smile and chats with fans.

He didn't dare to think about it. She was an introvert by nature and was forced to call the police in a foreign country. After calling the police, she could only endure the scolding from others.

He didn't dare to think about it. It was obviously not her problem, but she forced herself to do various things to alleviate her guilt.

If only he had asked one more question.

But at that time, he didn't even have the courage to ask another question.

“I’m sorry, if I had taken the initiative to tell you all these things at that time… instead of just letting my imagination run wild…” Yun Li hasn’t shed a tear in more than a year, forcing himself to be strong no matter what happens.

But at this moment, endless guilt engulfed her, her eyes were red and her voice trembled.

"We won't be separated."

They would not be apart for a year and a half, both of them healing on their own.

If she had not been so impulsive and said one thing and meant another, if she had listened to Xu Qingsong at the time, if she and others had asked more about Fu Shizhe's situation instead of stubbornly believing that he did not like her, neither of them would have been so hurt.

Fu Shize didn't have to spend that month of cold nights alone in the hospital, and didn't have to return to Western University of Science and Technology alone, just because she said she hoped he would return to his former self.

She never thought that her impulsive behavior would make life miserable for both of them for the past year and a half.

"Lili." Fu Shi wiped away the tears from her eyes, "I don't blame you."

During those countless nights of dark trembling, he never blamed her.

During the time they were together, his feelings for Yunli were simple and passionate, and Yunli's feelings for him were equally sincere and pure.

That kind of beauty would not make Fu Shizhe blame this relationship or her in the relationship.

Fu Shi kissed the corner of her lips lightly.

Like countless times before, Fu Shi leaned close to her right ear and told her every word solemnly and confidently.

"Lili."

"We will never be apart again."

Yunli could hear the cicadas chirping in the night, as well as his words. She could hear the promise in his words, like a gentle wave pushing her onto the beach, and when she looked up, she saw the familiar emotions in his eyes.

That depressing year and a half also disappeared.