Chapter 6

◎Who are you looking at◎

The summer wind was a little damp, and because it was already past evening, it was a little chilly.

Luo had already taken off his suit jacket and casually threw it to Liang Beihai, asking her to hold it.

Luo Di drove Liang Beihai through the alleys. The hem of his shirt was blown up by the wind, mixed with the smell of Luo Di's perfume.

Did he find the perfume he had been longing for?

Because it was inconvenient to sit astride in a skirt, Liang Beihai sat sideways in the back seat with one hand awkwardly holding the seat. It was nothing, but she didn't want to hold Luo's shirt or support his shoulders and waist.

Liang Beihai is good at self-deception, but he still stubbornly maintains a sense of propriety.

Luo suddenly braked, and Liang Beihai bumped into him due to inertia.

He put Liang Beihai's hand on his waist and spoke slowly: "Are you uncomfortable? What if you fall down? It's okay if you fall down, but what if I fall down?"

"Oh, I see."

When they were almost there, the fireworks had already started. With the help of the light from the fireworks, they passed through an alley without street lights. Luo unconsciously sped up. When he reached a place with street lights, he seemed to remember something and asked Liang Beihai.

"You trust me so much? You don't worry about me."

"Ayu has met you, and I gave him your business card. If anything happens to me, they will definitely investigate you. It will be a high price for you, and I also know a little bit of fighting, so you might not be able to beat me." The sound of fireworks could be vaguely heard, and Liang Beihai became cheerful and answered him in a light tone.

"What's your relationship with Ayu? Why are you so close?"

Before Liang Beihai could answer, they had already come out of the alley and onto the main road by the river bank. Fireworks exploded in the air. It was not known whether Liang Beihai answered or not, but Luo heard nothing.

Liang Beihai jumped out of the car excitedly, ran towards the grass, turned back and waved to Luo to move faster.

Luo thought, is that answer important? Not really. After all, it was him, not someone else, standing here watching the fireworks with Liang Beihai.

Liang Beihai thought that the restaurant owner was indeed reliable. The location he recommended was very suitable for viewing and there were only a few people sparsely gathered. He could see that most people were gathered on the other side of the river. Although it was farther away, the atmosphere seemed more comfortable.

The two stood in front of the fence on the river bank, and Luo also brought over takoyaki and beer.

Liang Beihai was still in an excited state. He took the beer and was about to open it. Before Luo could say anything to stop him, he saw the beer gushing out. Liang Beihai quickly raised the beer in his hand forward.

Luo was so frightened by the beer that he stepped back, and his clothes still got wet.

"You did it on purpose, Beibei."

Liang Beihai felt guilty and avoided the question. He told Luo that he had wet wipes in his bag and asked him to take them out and wipe himself.

He continued to flatter Luo, "You're a nice person. If you use my bag to block me, I'll beat you."

"You still want to hit me?" Luo, who had a slight obsession with mysophobia, took out a wet wipe and started wiping it vigorously. While wiping, he lectured Liang Beihai: "Beibei, why are you so confused every day?"

After wiping, he asked Liang Beihai to give him the beer he had just opened, handed Liang Beihai a new wipe, wiped his hands, and handed it back to Liang Beihai after wiping the can, collecting Liang Beihai's used wipe. He then took out the takoyaki and the remaining beer, wiped his hands again, and put the trash in the takeout bag. His movements were so smooth that Liang Beihai was stunned.

Liang Beihai observed that Luo Di's face seemed not to be really angry, so he opened another beer and handed it to him in a servile manner.

"Yeah, cheers."

Luo looked towards Liang Beihai. On his left were fireworks blooming in the sky, and in front of him was his long-awaited lover. It had been a long time since he had felt happiness so deeply.

"Take advantage of me."

"Ah?" Liang Beihai reacted for a moment, "Oh, didn't you call me Beibei? You didn't call me sister either."

Luo looked at her and smiled without saying anything. He spread out his suit, and the two of them sat quietly on the grass by the river, watching the fireworks in the distance, like any ordinary couple on a date under this fireworks display.

Liang Beihai had a low alcohol tolerance and drank frequently due to a little nervousness, so she finished the remaining half can of beer in no time.

By the time I reacted, I was already dizzy.

As the fireworks flickered, she looked towards Luo.

Even A Yu realized after one meeting that Luo and she were not in a relationship of just meeting for the first time to buy and sell second-hand tickets. She always avoided this issue.

When Luo called her Beibei in the afternoon, her trance began.

"Beibei, why are you so confused every day?"

Only one person had ever told Liang Beihai this, and he'd been saying it repeatedly throughout their nearly three years together. That person always complained about Liang Beihai being lazy in life and studies, and Liang Beihai always felt he'd never be able to satisfy that person, so he'd left in the end.

She never got the love she wanted from that person.

Although she didn't know what kind of love she wanted.

In the past two years, before she had time to recover from the breakup, her family's financial situation changed drastically.

The reason why her father easily accepted her decision to change the school district was not because he began to trust the adult Liang Beihai, but because of his financial difficulties.

She tossed and turned between school and part-time jobs, renting an apartment next to her aunt's house. Her aunt lived alone with her cousin Ayu, and although she wasn't very well off, she did give Liang Beihai a break with her living expenses and food.

She hadn't thought about Luo for a long time. She couldn't remember him and didn't fantasize about meeting him in a foreign land.

But they met again.

When Liang Beihai was having a hard time, he thought about dying after watching the fireworks in the summer, but now he couldn't bear to do that. Amid the sound of fireworks exploding, he thought that death was worth it and wished he could live with him until he was a hundred years old.

"Who are you looking at?" Luo De looked at Liang Beihai staring at him in a daze, and his heart was filled with emotions that he could not understand. He knew who Liang Beihai was thinking about as he looked at him in a daze, but did Liang Beihai know who he was looking at?

When Luo saw Liang Beihai's eyes becoming erratic, he felt ridiculous for being stuck in a meaningless dead end.

He waved his hand in front of her eyes.

"Do you still know who you are? How dare you drink alcohol when you can get drunk with just a little bit of wine?"

Luo asked Zhang Xin to send Liang Beihai's registered address and called a car to take Liang Beihai home.

Zhang Xin called directly, "Can I trust your character? Luo, we may be friends, but if you do anything, I will not hesitate to call the police."

"What can I do if she's drunk? I'll just take her home."

When Liang Beihai heard him making a phone call, he tried hard to think about what he was saying, then he gave the address himself and spoke to Zhang Xin on the phone.

"My aunt and cousin live next door to my house. It's okay, sister. Thank you, sister."

Luo remembered that A Yu affectionately called Liang Beihai "sister", and he sneered in his heart, thinking that this person was slick and unreliable.

It turns out they are really siblings.

"Password." Luo put his arm around Liang Beihai's shoulders to support her and let her stand as steady as possible, but when he said the word "password", he felt Liang Beihai in his arms stiffen noticeably.

"I'm fine now, you can go back first. Thank you."

Liang Beihai refused to tell him the password. This was Liang Beihai's usual way of refusing, pretending to be stupid and changing the subject to clumsily reject the other party.

Because Liang Beihai rarely rejected him, he could clearly feel Liang Beihai's abnormality every time.

Luo sighed imperceptibly and entered his home password.

The door opened with a click, and a mechanical female voice announced welcome home.

Neither of them took any further action and stood at the door in a stalemate.

Liang Beihai was mostly sober and lowered her head to push him away. Luo Di saw her tears falling down and wanted to reach out to wipe them away but she held back and did not move.

"I hate you, you are so annoying." He heard Liang Beihai say in a crying voice.

Luo could no longer bear it and hugged her. Listening to her sobbing softly in his arms, his heart finally settled down and he finally felt reality again.

He had been waiting for this day for a long time, struggling between the expectation and disappointment of meeting. After the hopeless wait was finally over, he felt jealous, which he even found ridiculous. He thought they had finally met officially.

Liang Beihai gently pushed him away, went into the entrance hall and turned on the light. Under the warm yellow light, she whispered, "Thank you for taking me home. Go back. Goodbye."

Luo wanted to ask her why she was still pretending to be stupid at this point, but he felt that she looked really pitiful, so he just stuffed the hangover medicine he had just bought at the convenience store into her hands and told her to remember to drink it before going to bed.

Luo stood downstairs of Liang Beihai's apartment for a while. The lights in Liang Beihai's apartment were turned off before passers-by mistook him for a strange person and called the police.

He stared at the balcony of Liang Beihai's apartment, waiting for Liang Beihai to stick his head out to confirm his whereabouts. The two looked at each other from a distance in this dim night. Luo waved to her to indicate that he was leaving, and Liang Beihai quickly pulled the curtains.

On the way back to push Liang Beihai's bicycle, he remembered that Liang Beihai discussed the plot of a movie with him. He said that he envied the two protagonists who traveled by bicycle. Later, the bicycle was towed away for illegal parking, and the two people walked home.

He was angry with Liang Beihai at the time, so he didn't give a good answer. He remembered saying, "Well, after I knew you violated the traffic rules, I walked home by myself."

Today, he truly understands Liang Beihai's expectations and envy at that time, because he also begins to look forward to and envy going in and out with Liang Beihai and returning to the same home at night.

Luo could no longer remember why he was angry at the time, probably just some small quarrel.

From the past to now, the two of them always quarreled over trivial matters, and neither of them was willing to speak their mind directly. Sometimes Liang Beihai was angry, and sometimes Luo was angry, and in the end, they didn't have much time to spend together.

Maybe it is because of this twist that they clearly like each other, but are still entangled in pain until now.

Luo thought that they were not suitable for each other and thought about giving up this relationship, but during the time when he really lost contact with Liang Beihai, he was reviewing the mistakes they made in their relationship, sorting out the conflicts that caused the quarrel, and re-evolving the conflicts that they could avoid in his mind to weave their perfect ending.

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