Chapter 71

On the other side, Jiang Zhinian was curled up on the sofa watching a movie when he suddenly heard a knock on the door.

Is Shi Ye back?

She looked up at the time and felt something was wrong. Maybe she came back too quickly.

Jiang Zhinian walked to the door and saw Yuan Miaomiao standing at the door with red and swollen eyes through the peephole.

She opened the door and asked curiously, "Why are you here?"

Yuan Miaomiao raised her head, her round face full of shame: "I came to find you."

Jiang Zhinian let her in for Wang Bo's sake.

"What do you want from me?"

Yuan Miaomiao sat on the sofa, her round face wrinkled, and she burst into tears: "I came here to apologize to you..."

Jiang Zhinian was frightened by her childlike crying and quickly found a tissue to hand to her.

"You, don't cry..."

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have done that last time. I was like I was possessed by a ghost. How could I be so bad? I'm a bad woman. I'm sorry."

Jiang Zhinian gently held her wrist: "Don't cry, I forgive you."

Yuan Miaomiao hiccuped and looked at Jiang Zhinian: "Really... I, I deliberately provoked you, will you forgive me?"

Jiang Zhinian looked at her eyes that were swollen like walnuts and nodded: "But you have to tell me what happened."

She guessed that Shi Ye was called out by Wang Bo for the same reason.

Yuan Miaomiao calmed down and said blankly: "Wang Bo and I...seem to be finished."

"Why?"

"He came to my house today and accidentally saw my collection...the love letters I wrote to Shi Ye when I was in high school."

Jiang Zhinian opened her mouth slightly, and she even began to feel a tingling sensation on her scalp for Yuan Miaomiao... This was too embarrassing.

"It's an overdue love letter. Wang Bo wouldn't..."

"As for that, it's because I... still can't seem to forget Shi Ye." Yuan Miaomiao lowered her head, not daring to look at Jiang Zhinian.

Jiang Zhinian's eyes widened instantly. Although she had felt that Miaomiao's provocation was strange before, perhaps because the look in her eyes when she looked at Shi Ye did not make her feel that there was something wrong, she did not think about it that way.

Now when I hear Yuan Miaomiao say it, I feel indescribable discomfort.

"You said you've been with Shi Ye's best friend for seven years, and you still can't forget Shi Ye?"

Yuan Miaomiao was also a little embarrassed and nodded.

She was ready to endure Jiang Zhinian's anger, but after waiting for a long time, Jiang Zhinian just scratched his chin and looked at her with an indescribable look.

"Why are you looking at me like that?"

"Ah, don't you find it strange..." Jiang Zhinian organized his words and continued, "Have you and Shi Ye had much interaction in the past seven years?"

Yuan Miaomiao shook her head. Over the years, she had only had dinner with Shi Ye a few times after graduating from college. Shi Ye was taciturn and rarely spoke, so she could not find an opportunity to talk to Shi Ye alone.

"That is to say, all these years, the one you liked was still the eighteen-year-old Shi Ye."

Yuan Miaomiao thought about it and it seemed to be true. Every time she thought of Shi Ye, she thought of him when he was eighteen years old, wearing a school uniform.

Jiang Zhinian pursed her lips and asked, "Then when you graduated from high school, did you agree to Wang Bo's confession? Was it because of Shi Ye?"

Yuan Miaomiao shook her head blankly. Ever since she sent Shi Ye a love letter and was rejected, she realized that Shi Ye would never like her and she had long given up the idea of ​​being with him.

"I agreed to Wang Bo because..."

Yes, that's why.

Yuan Miaomiao's eyes were fixed on the cactus by the window, as if she was lost in some distant memories.

At that time, she and Wang Bo were a pair of bickering lovers, and they would always joke with each other whenever they had nothing to do. At first, she thought Wang Bo was annoying and didn't want to pay attention to him. Later, gradually, she didn't know when it started, but if she didn't say a few words to Wang Bo today, she would feel uncomfortable.

So when Wang Bo confessed to her, she agreed on impulse.

"Because I like him..."

"Who do you like?"

"Wang Bo...I like Wang Bo..."

Jiang Zhinian breathed a sigh of relief: "Then why do you still feel that you can't forget Shi Ye?"

Yuan Miaomiao was stunned. She opened and closed her mouth again and again, but couldn't utter a word.

"Were you happy with Wang Bo during the seven years you were together?"

Yuan Miaomiao nodded: "Happy."

Wang Bo is a very interesting person and the two of them have similar interests.

One morning, they woke up and flew to a city just because they wanted to eat a bowl of authentic hot and sour noodles.

We once wanted to visit a village in the southwest, so we hiked for a whole day to reach our destination. But when we reached the top of the mountain, we both felt it was worth it.

She is a painter and sometimes she has to sit for the whole day. Wang Bo will remind her to stand up and walk around and drink more water during his busy work.

"During these seven years, have you ever thought that it would have been better if you had been with Shi Ye?"

Yuan Miaomiao thought about it seriously and slowly shook her head. No, she had never regretted being with Wang Bo.

Even in the past seven years, she had hardly thought about Shi Ye.

Jiang Zhinian smiled: "Miaomiao, let me ask you one last question. Does eighteen-year-old Yuan Miaomiao really like eighteen-year-old Shi Ye?"

Yuan Miaomiao tilted her head, lost in a moment of confusion: "Eighteen-year-old Shi Ye is handsome and has good grades. He is completely different from those childish guys who always make girls angry..."

It feels like a crane suddenly appears among a group of chickens, and it is hard for everyone not to pay attention to it.

"He's like the hero in a romance novel. There are a lot of girls who like him. If I could date him, I'd be like the heroine in the book, envied by everyone..."

The Shi Ye she liked seemed to be just a beautiful dream she had for herself when she was a girl.

It made her feel that she was no longer a Cinderella, as if as long as she was loved by the prince, she would become a princess that everyone envied.

But as time passed, Yuan Miaomiao grew up and found that she didn't need a prince to become a princess that everyone liked.

This feeling slowly fades, turns yellow, and no longer has any meaning.

Yuan Miaomiao suddenly covered her face and started crying again.

"Actually, every time I see Shi Ye, I think of the rejected love letter in the tin box in my drawer..."

Then she thought that this concern was because she still couldn't forget Shi Ye.

But now thinking about it, this regret actually has nothing to do with Shi Ye, but is related to that period of youth that was not cherished well.

Yuan Miaomiao sobbed and said, "I feel like I've been possessed by a ghost lately..."

Ever since she accidentally heard Zhou Hongyun mention the mysterious gray-eyed family she heard about when she was studying in the UK, she felt something was wrong.

She always paid attention to the color of Shi Ye's eyes, and even asked Wang Bo this question when he was drunk.

But now that I think about it, this kind of attention is just like hearing that a male celebrity that Girls' Generation liked suddenly became popular again, and you can't help but be curious about the gossip.