0018 Night Rose-C.TLAY, Night.18 When he was in high school, Chen Shanye never thought that he would marry Wu Xuanli in the future.

Wu Xuanli, with her fair and pretty skin and long flowing hair, can be said to be the dream lover of all the boys in the county's No. 1 Middle School.

Because Chen Shanye was too tall and had poor grades, he always occupied the last row of the classroom. Wu Xuanli was also tall, so she sat in the row in front of Chen Shanye.

Chen Shanye decided early on that he would start working after graduating from high school and not continue his studies. So while most of his classmates were studying hard for the college entrance exam, he lay on his desk, watching Wu Xuanli's hair blown by the summer breeze and her white neck faintly exposed, and listening to Wu Xuanli's beautiful pronunciation when she read the English text.

Unlike other adolescent boys, Chen Shanye never confessed his love to Wu Xuanli. He knew that Wu Xuanli yearned for the big cities in the south and the Cantonese dialect that was always mixed with English words in Hong Kong dramas.

But he didn't have such big ambitions. He just wanted to buy an apartment with an elevator in the county town for his parents so they didn't have to climb stairs, and then buy another one for himself as a wedding house, marry a wife, have a big fat baby, and live a stable and ordinary life.

His world is different from the world Wu Xuanli longs for.

Wu Xuanli got her wish and went to Shenzhen to study at university. Her QQ photo album began to show towering skyscrapers, luxurious high-end shopping malls, and night scenes with bright lights but no stars.

Chen Shanye stood at the door of the auto repair shop, breathing out white air from his mouth. He took off his gloves stained with black oil, and among the overwhelming birthday wishes for Wu Xuanli in the class group, he also sent a "Happy Birthday".

He looked up and saw the Milky Way, a starry sky visible to the naked eye, which might be the most valuable treasure in their small county.

"Can you see the stars in the sky there?" Ruan Mei couldn't help but interrupt Chen Shanye's narration while tidying up the underwear samples that had been messed up by the customers in the afternoon and hanging them back on the clothes rack.

"Well, as long as the weather is clear, you can see the stars and the moon when you look up, and the light pollution is not that serious." Chen Shanye didn't have the chance to visit Ruan Mei's store the last time he came in. This time, he looked left and right, and everything was very new.

The glass display cabinet was filled with silicone gadgets of various colors, shapes and sizes. The spotlights on the wall illuminated the rows of sexy lingerie neatly hung on the clothes rails. Ruan Mei was holding a few pieces of clothing that looked like straps in her hand. Chen Shanye frowned, not understanding how to put these pieces of fabric on his body and what would be covered after putting them on.

Next to the dark green sofa was a row of log-colored containers, arranged in a combination of high and low styles. The shelves displayed perfumes and candles of varying scents, eye masks embroidered with peach-colored English words, and leather, plush, and metal handcuffs...

A transparent emerald green glass bowl contained several pink and white balls of hair. Chen Shanye picked one up. On the other end of the ball was a small silicone cone. He couldn't help but ask, "What is this ball used for?"

Ruan Mei glanced at him and said, "I won't tell you... Go on."

Chen Shanye said "Oh" and walked to the sofa and sat down.

After graduating from high school, he first worked in a car repair shop run by a relative. After three years of working there and having enough driving experience, he switched to being a taxi driver.

Because his father is also in this business.

After working hard from dawn to dusk for a year, Wu Xuanli, whom Chen Shanye originally thought would stay in the big city, came back.

Many of their classmates, like Chen Shanye, chose to work after graduating from high school. Some went south to Kunming, some went west to Lijiang, and some went north to Chengdu and Chongqing. It was not easy to organize a class reunion.

Perhaps it was because the school beauty Wu Xuanli had returned, so everyone who could find time came to the class reunion that year, and Chen Shanye naturally went as well.

The girl who has been immersed in the big city has transformed into a fashionable and confident girl. Both men and women surround her, and she is still the center of attention.

But no one understood why she chose to come back. Wu Xuanli said that she missed home and had been away for a long time and felt that her hometown was pretty good.

At that party, Chen Shanye's eyes met Wu Xuanli's in the air countless times, so many times that even Chen Shanye was surprised.

What surprised him even more was that Wu Xuanli took the initiative to call him on WeChat that night.

"Wait, wait, is the next part about you guys falling in love?" Ruan Mei interrupted him again.

She took a bottle of beer from the mini-fridge next to the sofa and asked Chen Shanye if he wanted one.

As soon as he entered the door, Chen Shanye told Ruan Mei about his marital status in one sentence. His wife left home when the child was one year old, and he hadn't seen her for four years.

He also said that he would go back to his hometown this month to file for divorce. He had wanted to do it last year, but he did not go home due to the epidemic.

The haze that could not be dispelled by rain and air conditioning suddenly faded a little, and Ruan Mei even felt that she could breathe much more smoothly.

"Yeah." Chen Shanye answered her first question and held out his hand to her: "Give me a can."

He hasn't had a drink for a long time because he has to drive at night.

Chen Shanye has no plans to go to work tonight.

"I don't want to hear about the love story, just skip some of it... and just tell me what happens afterwards." Ruan Mei pursed her lips and handed the cold iron can to Chen Shanye.

With a snap, the alcohol fermented in the cold air. Chen Shanye returned the opened can to Ruan Mei and took the unopened can from her hand.

Ruan Mei blinked, raised her beer and took a sip.

The story gradually became bitter, with the taste of malt alcohol.

In fact, Chen Shanye could hardly remember the process of his relationship with Wu Xuanli. Everything happened too suddenly. It was Wu Xuanli who confessed her love. The girl said that she had liked him since high school. Chen Shanye was a little flattered, as if the distant and unreachable moon had suddenly fallen in front of him.

The county town is small, and the parents of the two knew each other. After dating for nearly half a year, they began to encourage them to consider getting married. It was also at that time that Wu Xuanli became pregnant.

The unexpected arrival of the child disrupted Chen Shanye's plan. He took out some of the money he had saved over the years as a betrothal gift to the Wu family, and with the rest plus the 150,000 yuan borrowed from his parents, he bought an 80-square-meter second-hand house and renovated it as a wedding house.

In addition to his name, Wu Xuanli's name was also written on the property certificate.

When giving the betrothal gift, Chen Shanye knelt down in front of Wu's parents, served them tea, and asked them to rest assured and hand Wu Xuanli over to him.

Wu Xuanli said that she wanted to keep a low profile and help Chen Shanye save some money, so the two families did not hold a big banquet. Chen Shanye insisted on taking a set of wedding photos, so the two of them took two sets of photos in a photo studio.

In the following months, Chen Shanye got up earlier and came home later, as he had to earn more money to support his wife and children.

He touched Wu Xuanli's watermelon-sized belly and said that he would hand the child over to her parents when the baby was about one year old, and then he would take Wu Xuanli abroad to travel, to France or Italy, where she had always wanted to go, as a way to make up for her honeymoon trip.

Wu Xuanli smiled and asked where the money came from.

Chen Shanye also laughed and said that you can earn money by working hard, but my English is not good, so I need you, a top student, to lead the way to those places.

Chen Siyang was born when the leaves turned yellow and began to fall.

Chen Shanye stopped most of his work and stayed at home to accompany Wu Xuanli during her confinement period, and continued to work hard after she was out of the confinement period.

When the leaves turned yellow again this year, Chen Shanye contacted a travel agency in Kunming online to ask about tour groups to France.

The customer service sent him the price and itinerary of the group tour, and kept praising how beautiful the plane trees were in this season. Chen Shanye smiled while biting his cigarette. Aren’t the ginkgo trees in Tengchong beautiful?

After returning home, Chen Shanye showed the tour group information to Wu Xuanli, and then went to play with his son who had already started learning to walk.

Later, Chen Shanye tried hard to recall that day, and he didn't think there was anything unusual about Wu Xuanli. She still took Chen Siyang for a walk after dinner and still read the original book that he couldn't understand before going to bed.

He was tired after a day of work and felt sleepy as soon as he touched the pillow. When he was about to fall asleep, Chen Shanye seemed to hear Wu Xuanli lying beside the crib and saying something to Chen Siyang.

The next day was Sunday, and Chen Shanye took his son back to his parents' home so that Wu Xuanli could have a day off.

But they couldn't wait for Wu Xuanli to show up for dinner.

The cell phone was turned off and there was no reply on WeChat. Chen Shanye left the child at his parents' house and rushed home to find the house dark. Wu Xuanli had taken away some clothes, and her ID, bank card and cash were also missing.

There was a letter on the dining table. Wu Xuanli said that this place was not suitable for her and she wanted to leave.

She also said sorry and told Chen Shanye not to look for her or wait for her.

Chen Shanye only told Ruan Mei a small part of the above process, and he did not continue to talk about the subsequent developments.

It wasn't because of any bullshit reason like feeling bad, it was simply because Ruan Mei climbed on top of him, half-knelt, and rubbed her butt against his thigh.

A soft tongue stained with bitter alcohol slid into his mouth, blocking his words.

————Author’s nonsense————

1. 40,000 words, the next chapter will start charging, 40 points/thousand words, some plots may be free (tentative

2. Take a day off tomorrow, Monday, and eat some meat on Tuesday. The boss lady with kidney deficiency needs pigs to nourish her kidneys!

3. Tomorrow, on Children's Day, there will be a lucky draw on Weibo. Come and play!