When Yu Han transferred to high school in Singapore, she became close with someone on a social media app. His account name was Qiny, and he explained that his Chinese name was "Qin Yi."
...Chapter 2: I bet he felt bad.
Yu Han couldn't describe her mood at the moment. She only felt that her heart seemed to stop for several seconds, she completely forgot to blink, and her fingertips were burning.
After several seconds of pause, she was able to type calmly. She sent a message: "Is that you?"
After sending it, I felt so nervous that my whole body was filled with layers of coldness, as if I was weightless falling from a high altitude.
The next second, a new message popped up on the other side.
Qiny: "Yeah."
Um…
Six months of disconnection was ended with this simple word... The surprise and sadness were like a mountain torrent, pouring down all over the place, making people dizzy and having difficulty breathing.
Yu Han fell headfirst onto the coffee table.
With a plop.
"Wow, what's wrong with you?" Bao Tong asked in surprise, holding a big mouthful of cake. "Are you okay, Hanhan?"
"It's okay, I just want to take a rest." Her voice was hoarse.
"Oh, maybe you're tired after playing all day. After all, your health isn't as good as an average person's. Why don't you go to your room and sleep?"
"I'll come and accompany you later. I'm going to take a shower to wake myself up." Yu Han stood up with her phone in her arms, walked around the coffee table in the living room and returned to her room.
After entering her room and closing the door, Yu Han leaned back against the door panel, picked up her phone and stared at the message in the chat box.
He stared at that "hmm" with burning eyes, not knowing how to respond for several seconds.
The surprise of regaining what was lost really makes people feel like their limbs are not their own and are out of control.
But she rubbed her face gently, took two deep breaths, and cheered herself up to type quickly.
"Then why didn't you reply to me? Are you mad at me? Because I broke my promise and left."
Qiny: "No."
Just these two words, no other words.
Yu Han felt that these two words meant he was angry. His tone of voice was not like this before. He would answer every question and every sentence was very gentle. He would not just answer questions in a few words and remain cold and silent.
"Why is that?" she asked, pretending to be stupid.
Qiny: “That’s not necessary.”
Yu Han frowned, confused and bewildered: "What do you mean, there's no need."
Qiny: "So what if I return?"
Yu Han was stunned. She slowly squatted down behind the door, hugged her knees to relax, and then typed with stiff fingers: "What do you mean? I've been waiting for you to tell me your new contact information. Did you see the letter later? My classmate told me that the letter was found later. Did you see it?"
Qiny: "Yeah, I saw it."
Yuerhan: "I wrote so much. Did you really read it? You read it and you didn't contact me."
Qiny: "I contacted you, what happened next?"
Yu Han frowned: "I don't understand. Contacting us is just like before..."
Qiny: "Why is it like before?"
Yu Han was stunned for a few seconds before reacting. She almost burst into tears. She sniffed a few times before she could hold back her tears. She wiped her eyes and continued typing, "You're angry because I broke my promise. Even when I go back on vacation, I have very little time. It's different from studying together."
Qiny: "No."
Yuerhan: "That's right, that's why you don't want to contact me anymore."
Qiny: "You can take it as it is."
Yu Han bit her lip, squatted on the carpet behind the door, bent her knees, held the phone tightly in one hand, pressed the other hand against her lips, and lightly bit her curled index finger with her teeth.
The fine sour taste spreads from the teeth to the heart.
After a long time, she sniffed, picked up her phone, typed a few words and sent them, then got up and dragged her tired body to wash up.
"sorry."
Read 00:30.
At 00:30 on January 1, 2016, the New Year’s Eve fireworks in Kuala Lumpur had just ended, and the whole world was still immersed in the New Year’s celebration.
The city's roads were severely congested, and taxis were stuck on Jalan Sultan Ismail near the Petronas Twin Towers, completely unable to move.
The driver asked the boy in the passenger seat with a bit of annoyance: "Why don't you just eat at the hotel so late? It's too troublesome to go out to eat."
The young man was dressed in black, his right hand leaning against the car window, his left hand holding a cell phone, staring at the phone with a slightly frown, ignoring what he said.
The driver awkwardly turned his head to look at the two boys behind him. "Really? Or maybe it's closer to go to P. Ramlee Road. All the restaurants are concentrated there."
A boy in the back seat replied nonchalantly, "Ah, you know P. Ramlee has closed the road for the fireworks. It's incredibly hard to get in right now. Plus, it's packed with people. If we go, we'll have to wait in line until we can even get a meal."
Another boy next to him said, "Just drive. We're not in a hurry. Just drive slowly."
“…”
The driver could only look back at the road. Fortunately, this road was not too far from the Twin Towers, and it was not closed, so it was still possible to stop and walk.
When parking the car in the business district, the teenager in the passenger seat got out of the car without any intention of paying.
Seeing this, someone in the back seat pulled out their phone and reached over to the front seat to scan the code. Finally, they got out of the car and glanced at the person still engrossed in their phone: "Are you out of your mind? What have you been busy with for so long?"
Qin Yi came back to his senses and glanced at him.
After saying thank you to the driver, we walked towards the mall gate together.
Han Zhou said with a grin, "He's been looking at his phone since we got in the elevator. He's been looking at it for quite some time. I guess he's chatting with some girl."
Shen Ze: "I guess so."
The two of them were talking back and forth, but the person involved remained silent, neither denying nor admitting.
But not denying it is a tacit agreement.
Shen Ze put his arm around Qin Yi's shoulder and asked curiously, "Is that the little fairy who left you a love letter?"
Han Zhou interrupted: "Do you even need to ask?"
"It's hard to say," Shen Ze turned his head to look at him and said, "I haven't seen him chatting before. Didn't he go abroad? How come we got in touch suddenly?"
"Who knows? Besides this person, I haven't seen him have any relationship with anyone else."
"That makes sense." Chen Ze nodded maturely, and then looked at the person he had his arm around. "Isn't that little princess coming to Malaysia to study? You suddenly said you wanted to travel to Malaysia. But didn't you two break up? Get back together."
Suddenly, someone lifted up his hand.
Shen Ze almost fell to the ground.
“…”
Han Zhou suppressed his laughter and looked at the person involved.
Chen Ze stood up and said embarrassedly, "You blame me for losing your love letter, right? Oh, I wasn't careful, brother. My school uniform was lost too. I guess it was taken away by the cleaners as garbage. Luckily, they didn't take away everything in my pockets. Don't be angry, don't be angry."
Han Zhou smiled and said to him, "Just stand at attention and take the beating. Do you believe it? You also lost his phone, and someone saw that his wallpaper was a picture of him and Jin Wei. You almost sold his identity. Not only that, you made all his accounts posted on the forum, forcing him to change them all. It's really troublesome. He's kind enough not to chop you up."
Shen Ze chuckled: "My fault, my fault."
Qin Yi kept silent and followed the signs in the mall to the restaurant where he wanted to eat.
…
After taking a shower, Yu Han went out for a midnight snack, but she no longer had much appetite.
Bao Tong kept chatting with her about everything, especially the trip.
"I don't know when we'll meet next time. It makes me sad just thinking about it," she asked wistfully. "You said your family wouldn't let you go because it's too far away and they're worried you might get hurt. But we can't come to Kuala Lumpur to meet next time."
Yu Han said absentmindedly, "Semporna is fine too."
"..." Bao Tong laughed, "Can you return to China? You can tell me when you return."
Yu Han was unsure: "Maybe, but I don't know when."
"What about the Spring Festival? It's next month."
"My school had already started at that time, and Singapore only had two days off for Chinese New Year."
“…”
At three o'clock in the morning, they ended their New Year's Eve chat in a very bad atmosphere and returned to their rooms.
Yu Han fell on the bed, tossing and turning, unable to sleep because of something on her mind.
After a while, I still held my phone to check the account.
After some hesitation, she clicked follow.
I don’t know if the other party is online or not, and they haven’t paid attention to me.
Yu Han tossed and turned in bed for another half an hour before finally sending him a message: "Aren't you going to reply to my messages?"
——Read.
Yu Han instantly jumped up from the two-meter-high bed.
My mood suddenly became bright and dazzling like the fireworks that had appeared for several hours.
Qiny: "No contact."
Yuerhan: “…”
The ups and downs she experienced almost caused her to have a heart attack in Kuala Lumpur.
After a while, she finally mustered up the courage to type.
"I know all this is my fault. I broke my promise and didn't study in Lanzhong. You must be disappointed.
Because of the incident in Italy, my family was worried about me studying alone in China, so they finally decided to let me leave for the new semester.
I know this decision was made suddenly, and I didn't tell you in advance. I don't know how to tell you. I'm so sorry, but... but I will go back during the holidays. I go back every time I have a holiday and stay there until school starts.
Finally, after cutting and refining the text into this paragraph, she pressed send.
Qiny: "Why did you go abroad?"
Yu Han choked, instantly understanding what he meant. She'd left the country because she'd nearly died in an accident in Italy. Her parents, worried about her living alone in China, had discussed taking her away from home after she finished her last semester of junior high and high school. So, how could she possibly keep returning home every few days during the holidays?
I can go back once, but not twice, and it is impossible to spend the entire holiday in the country.
He knew the most about the incident in Italy. He was the only one present that day. He knew how badly she was injured and that she had a serious congenital disease, which put her in much greater danger than ordinary people.
The reason she was able to come to Kuala Lumpur to celebrate the New Year was because her father was also here on a business trip for the next two days, and since it was very close to Singapore, she would only be here for a day or two, and her classmates would accompany her throughout the trip.
He must also be aware of the distance between them.
It was Yu Han's turn to remain silent for a long time in front of the chat box. She read the message but did not reply.
After a long time, she sent three more words dryly: "I'm sorry."
Qiny: "Don't post it."
Yu Han didn't know whether he meant "don't send these three words anymore" or "don't send them all anymore".
She wanted to decide privately that it was the latter, but looking at that name and thinking about the warm and beautiful promise in the past still made her heart beat fast and couldn't calm down. In the end, she had to be thick-skinned and pretended to be stupid and asked:
"Don't post what?"
Qiny: “Don’t post any of them.”
"..." Yu Han took a deep breath, and after a moment of hesitation, she finally said, "I'll be back home for the Spring Festival. You can come out and meet me at the place we originally agreed on."
Qiny: “No.”
Yuerhan: "Why? Just this side is fine."
Qiny: "What are you doing back home for just two days off?" he asked.
Yuerhan: “How did you know about two days off?”
Qiny: "This is not a state secret."
Yuerhan: “Have you checked?”
Read, no reply.
Yuerhan: "You checked Singapore's holiday schedule, you know my holiday schedule, and you also know that even if I have time, I can't risk returning home all the time. So you chose not to contact me."
Read, no reply.
Yu Han became stubborn and started typing on the keyboard.
"You told me that you didn't reply to me or contact me for the past six months because you were angry that I broke my promise and went abroad, and you felt that we couldn't meet and couldn't do what we agreed to do before.
Or are you actually afraid that I'll always risk my life to go back to see you during the holidays? I said I'd go back to see you during the holidays, and this sentence made you choose not to contact me even more. Not contacting me is for my own good? Is that right? "
I have read it, but there is no response.
Yuerhan: "Is it true? Tell me, am I being too sentimental? Qin Yi."
After sending the message, she placed her phone on the bed, bent her knees, hugged herself, and stared stubbornly at the word "read".
A minute later, he came back: "The answer doesn't make sense anymore."
Yu Han's eyes were bloodshot.
She pressed hard on the keyboard and typed: "Why?"
Qiny: "Because, we really can't risk coming back."
Yu Han took a deep breath and replied quickly and happily, "I'm going back with my parents for the New Year. There's no danger. Come out and meet me."
Qiny: "There's no point in meeting this."
Yuerhan: "I have a lot of vacation time coming up, so going back home wouldn't be that dangerous. I'll try to convince my parents to let me go."
Qiny: "Can you guarantee that you will be safe on countless international trips a year? Really? Or if something happens one day, I'll just happen to be by your side. Is that a good thing? If not, what will you do, and what will I do if something really happens one day?"
Yu Han was stunned for a long time.
Qiny: "Be obedient. It's getting late, go to bed. Good night."
Yu Han's heart skipped a beat, and she felt like something was being pulled out of her heart and moving away from her.
She quickly replied: "Then I won't reply. If you don't let me reply, then I won't reply. Isn't it okay for me to be obedient? But is this it for us? You won't even talk to me online?"
Read.
I don’t know if there will be a reply.
At exactly four o'clock in the morning, New Year's Eve in Kuala Lumpur returned to calm.
The stars in the sky are flickering, and the first day of the new year is passing by little by little.
Yu Han didn't turn off the screen or sleep, but waited stubbornly, betting that he wouldn't be willing to not reply to her.
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