After separation, longing for you is like a river (ending)

At the end of the year, Tao Xingye and his female companion Xu Meihan attended the Jinrong family banquet led by the Wei family. Several media outlets rushed to report on the event. On the front page of the next day's news, Tao Xingye and Xu Meihan stood side by side, looking like a pair of golden boy and jade girl.

Tao Xinghai flew to Germany quietly, and in a hospital, he and Zhang Songge waited outside the operating room together.

As the operating room door slowly opened, Mr. Mai walked up to the two of them. When he said that the operation was successful, the Spring Festival Gala was in its last fixed program -

Unforgettable Tonight

The song was so familiar that each of them could sing along to a few lines.

Zhang Songge looked at him and smiled, but then her lips unconsciously twitched downwards, "It's all because of this song."

"Yeah, it's all because of this song." Tao Xinghai rarely gets moved by others. He thinks that the discomfort he feels at this moment is caused by this song.

He came here on a mission, and now that his mission is completed, it's time for him to leave.

Zhang Songge watched him leave without a word of trying to keep him.

No one else will know about Tao Xinghai's arrival, and no one will know why Zhang Songge has always been with Lin Yu.

That person is silly and may be childish.

But the matter has reached a desperate situation and no one can intervene.

She was surprised when Tao Xingye came to see her. At that time, gray clouds were hanging low in Germany and cold rain was falling.

The street was filled with pedestrians wrapped like onion balls, and from time to time someone turned the corner and walked into the nearby beer house. Tao Xingye, wearing a suit that didn't fit in, came into her sight.

He reeked of alcohol, and he had indeed drunk a lot.

He walked up to her and before he could say anything, he was already holding onto the wall and vomiting. When he looked closely, he could see a few streaks of blood.

He became even more disheveled, and even threw away the neat appearance he had maintained since he was a child.

Zhang Songge even suspected that he had flown directly to Germany after leaving the table.

After he finished vomiting, a bit of embarrassment appeared on his face. Finally, he used an ugly smile to cut off the matter. "Let's go in and talk. Everyone says your beer house here is fun."

The two of them entered the nearby beer house one after the other. The place was bustling with people and the atmosphere was warm, making the cold rain outside seem even more merciless.

He ordered a glass of draft beer. Zhang Songge was a little scared when he saw him drink that big glass of beer. He hoped he wouldn't vomit here again.

"Sister Songge, I have a favor to ask of you."

He put down the cup and smiled foolishly.

That smile was very pure, and pure was not a good thing for Tao Xingye, especially when he applied this word to a smile.

It no longer seemed like a simple smile, but more like a bargaining chip when one was desperate, the only bargaining chip.

"Lin Yu is coming for surgery. Can you accompany her as a friend?" Tao Xingye's hair was messy, his eyes were red, and the two dimples on his cheeks made him look even more haggard.

It was strange, and it was even stranger that he said that.

Why did Tao Xingye entrust her to accompany Lin Yu, and why did he emphasize that it was as a "friend"?

If she wasn't a friend, then she would undoubtedly only have one other identity, that of an employee under Lin Yu's husband.

One is Lin Yu’s friend, and the other is Tao Xingye’s friend.

It was obvious that Tao Xingye didn't want her to appear in Lin Yu's world as "Tao Xingye's friend".

Then there is no doubt that something happened to him and Lin Yu.

"Do you want to divorce her?" Zhang Songge asked.

Tao Xingye was stunned. He held the wine glass but found it was empty. He seemed to complain, "I knew I had found the right person."

His attitude was even more intriguing, and Zhang Songge couldn't figure out what he meant for a moment.

He wanted to divorce Lin Yu, but he also wanted to protect Lin Yu himself, and he himself was even the person he carefully selected.

How could such a person allow Lin Yu to divorce him?

"I don't understand. Don't tell me you still want me not to mention you in front of her, or even tell her that I was asked by you to help her."

Tao Xingye was surprised, "Sister Songge, you guessed right."

He was so desperate that he even revealed a bit of childishness. "Sister Songge, after all, Lin Yu was once my wife. She came here alone to get treatment. As her ex-husband, I have to help her no matter what."

Zhang Songge glared at him and he blinked.

Zhang Songge wondered if there was an age difference between him and him, and whether his inability to understand him was due to this age difference.

He seemed to love Lin Yu very much, but also seemed like he could abandon Lin Yu at any time.

As an outsider at that time, she could not understand the depth of it.

However, today, Zhang Songge suddenly understood the strangeness of Tao Xingye that day.

From Wu You to Tao Xinghai, from Mr. Mai to her.

As an abandoned child of a wealthy family, Tao Xingye has already made his best efforts.

He left because of Lin Yu.

He left decisively, also for Lin Yu.

"How could there be such a fool?" Zhang Songge couldn't help crying. To her, love was simply a lie. She had never experienced the simple, straightforward laughter and joy of her student days, even when they were broke; nor had she experienced the stable, serious companionship of adulthood.

How could there be two people who have truly been blessed by love?

Looking back at Tao Xingye’s behavior that day, it was clear that he was pretending to be in pain.

She had an urge to tell Lin Yu after she woke up how much Tao Xingye loved her.

But what would happen if he told all this? Tao Xingye had no way back. Telling it would only make Lin Yu fall back into the quagmire and sink deeper and deeper.

Who of them has it easier? If it weren't for Zhang Songge, Lin Yu would be completely alone.

She couldn't be so cruel to Lin Yu.

Zhang Songge stopped crying and woke Wu You up. "The operation is over. It was a success."

Wu You breathed a sigh of relief, then noticed the tear marks on her face and asked, "Why are you crying? Has anyone been here?"

"No, just a stranger passing by."

In March, Tao Xingye and Xu Meihan held their engagement party. Lin Yu happened to see the report and sat motionless by the window all day.

Zhang Songge didn't interfere, but simply sat beside him and worked non-stop. She spoke fluent German and typed rapidly, while several white-haired old scholars across the screen listened attentively to her words.

Finally, she closed the computer and went to make some mulled wine.

They lived in a winery in Dresden that was not open to the public. The winery was managed by an elegant and capable lady named Rose.

As winter fades and spring approaches, Rose, even though she's over seventy, insists on going out every day. When she returns, Zhang Songge's mulled wine is just finished.

"We should put more cinnamon in." Rose unceremoniously took some cinnamon and put it into the pot, and the aroma immediately spread. She looked at Lin Yu sitting by the window and poured a large cup of mulled wine into Lin Yu's hand.

When Wu You saw Rose coming back, he excitedly pulled Rose and asked her to continue introducing the bottle of wine that she had not finished last night.

Zhang Songge sat next to Lin Yu and covered her with a blanket.

I have to say something, but I don't know where to start.

Zhang Songge turned off the TV, and Lin Yu finally reacted.

"Try a sip?" She raised the mulled wine in Lin Yu's hand and clinked glasses with him.

Lin Yu was absent-minded and took a big sip. The next second, he choked and started coughing.

The reason she choked like that was because of the handful of dried cinnamon Rose put in there.

"In ancient Greek mythology, the phoenix will be reborn in the aroma of cinnamon. Lin Yu, why do you think Rose put such a large handful of cinnamon in it?"

Lin Yu frowned and wanted to leave, but Zhang Songge pushed her back to her original position.

"Tao Xingye is engaged, and he will marry that person soon! What happened between you and him is just an episode in your life. You are only 24 years old. Are you going to bury your whole life in silence day after day?" Zhang Songge turned on his computer and pointed the screen at her.

It was an introduction to a product, with many pictures of patients attached.

Lin Yu couldn't understand German, so she could only vaguely recognize the equipment in the pictures. It was none other than the bone conduction project she had helped plan.

It is often like this. No need to say much. Just a photo or a paragraph is enough to explain everything.

"Go study, and be a student again."

Starting from a person on the verge of disability, regain confidence and become a student.

Lin Yu collapsed and threw away the wooden cup in her hand.

The mellow red wine spilled all over the floor, and sweet orange slices were stuck to the ground.

She stared at Zhang Songge. In the dark yellow room, her eyes flickered like fireflies.

Lin Yu was discouraged. She hunched her back and shrank into the wheelchair.

It was Germany with chaotic weather. On the banks of the Elbe River, Lin Yu's crying was drowned in the sudden heavy snow.

She fell seriously ill and lay in bed all day, sometimes lucid and sometimes confused.

When her condition was serious, Mr. Mai would come to the winery in person to treat her.

Everyone was nervous and took turns staying by her side.

The spring in Germany disappears in the sound of footsteps coming and going in the winery.

By the time Lin Yu was able to get out of bed and walk, it was already summer.

She took the initiative to mention Tao Xingye, "Has his wedding taken place yet? I haven't sent him a gift yet."

No one answered, and Lin Yu stopped asking.

She smiled and exited the domestic website, instead visiting the official website of a well-known local university. "Sister Songge, it's really hard to be your junior. You have to help me."

The three of them were stunned. Zhang Songge was the first to react and said calmly, "I will."

It was an unusually ordinary day in June. If there was anything special about it, it was that Rose opened a bottle of wine that had been brewed six years ago.

The weather is clear, with no wind or rain.

Some of them only had a glass of red wine in their hands. Lin Yu drank the wine in one gulp and looked out the window.

Under this sky, there are people, tears, wind, and snow.

The person who has been unforgettable in her heart since childhood will gradually drift away from her, and she and he will always be under the same sky.

Thinking back to the last time they met, she no longer hated herself for leaving.

She only hated that Tao Xingye retreated without any warning.

This love without a correct answer comes and goes quickly.

She thought Tao Xingye must be incredibly bored. Tired of being a playboy, so he came to mess with her. But she was too boring, with nothing worth Tao Xingye's nostalgia for. She didn't even have a healthy body anymore.

So, he left so easily.

Lin Yu looked at the scenery outside the window and recalled a scene many years ago.

She bent over, facing the loess and her back to the sky, picking wheat barefoot.

Tao Xingye's loud voice came from a distance. If the boy at that time had grown up with her, she thought, she and Tao Xingye would never have ended up like today.

She and he never rekindled their past relationship, but just imposed cause and effect.

The thread that should have been cut six years ago was reconnected by him personally because of her unexpected appearance at his engagement party and his spur of the moment action.

She was wrong in every way. When he handed her the red string, she shouldn't have held the string in her hand, thinking that it would belong to her forever.

He was absent from her life for six years. He was always like this, only caring about his own wishes and being able to withdraw at any time without any worries.

We parted in the car that year and haven’t seen each other for six years; we parted in the hospital today and we won’t see each other again in this life.

She lives in Germany and he stays in Jincheng.

We don’t need to see each other again, we are not allowed to see each other again.

This is the verdict that Lin Yu gave to Tao Xingye. He doesn't need to review it or agree to it.

This judgment is established at this moment and is valid forever.