Chapter Twenty-Seven: It felt close, yet also far.
"Uh, it's okay if you forgot!" An Songyu quickly stopped Jian Ziyu from blaming herself.
But as soon as she said it, she realized something was wrong and quickly added:
"I was wrong! You've never actually been to my house before."
"It's really not appropriate to hold my first meeting with my family in such an occasion."
Moreover, given their current relationship, it wouldn't be very appropriate for Chien Tzu-yu to attend her brother's wedding.
An Songyu never thought of these things.
So at her brother's wedding, she essentially showed off her boyfriend to all her relatives.
At that time, she believed that their relationship was stable and that she was determined to spend the rest of her life with him, so she did not feel that he was an outsider.
As a result, ever since her brother's wedding...
Her family and friends were particularly interested in their wedding date.
Even during holidays like Chinese New Year, people would half-jokingly, half-seriously ask her parents about the wedding date.
So not long after the New Year, the two families started discussing the wedding date.
At the time, I felt that everything should take its natural course.
Looking back now, An Songyu still doesn't understand whether she felt that their relationship had reached a certain point and they naturally got married.
It was because of these reasons that she entered into marriage less than a year after graduating.
The more An Songyu thought about it, the clearer her mind became.
After gently comforting Jian Ziyu once again and agreeing on a time for their next phone call, An Songyu hung up the phone.
While An Songyu felt completely relaxed, Jian Ziyu, who was in another city, felt something was off.
His classmates, who had come with him on this project, returned with their meals and saw Jian Ziyu staring blankly at his phone.
"What's wrong, Lao Jian? Did you have a fight with your girlfriend?"
Jian Ziyu was awakened by his classmate's voice. He looked up and saw the food in the other person's hand, and couldn't help but laugh.
"Thanks, classmate! You really are the best!"
"How do you know this is definitely yours?" His classmate was still curious about the question from earlier! He deliberately moved the food further away.
The two teased each other for a while before Jian Ziyu finally managed to serve herself her rice.
His classmate, sitting to the side, asked again:
"I came back and saw you spacing out. What's wrong? Did you really have a fight with your girlfriend?"
Chien Tzu-yu paused slightly while eating, feeling that the aroma of the food had diminished.
He was a little unsure how to begin, so he could only reply to his classmate, "There was absolutely no noise!"
"If you didn't argue, why are you spacing out? Wait, was that phone call from your girlfriend?"
Chien Tzu-yu rolled her eyes at her classmate who was spouting nonsense.
Aside from his girlfriend, who else could make him chat non-stop without eating?
"What happened then? You didn't argue. You've been talking for so long, and you weren't very happy?"
"What, you little rascal, you've got your eye on someone else?"
"No, in our project, we know exactly how many female mosquitoes there are. How could you possibly have any chance to have an affair!"
"Can't you say something more reliable?" Jian Ziyu said, displeased.
This person is simply someone who can't say anything nice.
Moreover, what does this have to do with whether there are female colleagues on the project?
Isn't it strange that someone can develop feelings for other female colleagues after having a boyfriend?
"Isn't this yourself?"
"You can't explain it clearly! I was worried you'd be working on an empty stomach while chatting on the phone with your girlfriend!" His classmate was even more displeased.
Isn't it even more intriguing that it's not clear enough?
"It's just... I feel like my girlfriend hasn't been as affectionate towards me as she used to be in the last two months?"
"No, that's not right either. It's not that we're not close, it's just that they don't need me as much anymore."
At this point, Chien Tzu-yu paused, struggling for a long time before finding a more suitable adjective:
"Well, in terms of our conversations, it feels like she's talking to me more naturally than before."
"That sense of entitlement and slightly domineering attitude made me feel that she didn't treat me like an outsider at all."
"But it seems like she doesn't need me as much anymore."
“Sometimes when I call her, she’s busy and doesn’t have time to chat with me.”
"But she won't even bother to call back afterwards!"
"When the topic comes up again, she either forgets about it, or she's busy, or she simply seems to know that I'm not busy and just want to chat, so she doesn't want to waste time."
"Also, from the way she sometimes talks, it seems like she's encountered some trouble."
"But she didn't seem to want my help. If we were on the phone, she would mention it in passing."
“If things have passed, and we haven’t spoken on the phone, she won’t even bring it up again.”
"She won't resent me for not being there for her or sharing her burdens."
"There's a sense of nonchalance, yet also a feeling that she's very independent and can handle everything herself."
"In short, I'm not entirely able to explain it clearly either."
"Anyway, it feels close, yet it also feels far away."
"What are you talking about?" Jian Ziyu looked at him with disbelief. "Did you even hear what you said?"
What does it mean to feel close yet also distant?
"You're almost graduating from university, don't you know that 'near' and 'far' are completely opposite terms?"
"How can someone make you feel close to them while simultaneously feeling far away?"
"You don't understand!" Jian Ziyu glanced at the old bachelor with disdain, shoveling rice into her mouth while pondering.
He always had a feeling, without realizing it.
A lot has probably changed about An Songyu.
This made Chien Tzu-yu somewhat uneasy.
But the thought of his packed schedule lately gave him a real headache.
Or, go ask your supervisor if you can take a day off.
After An Songlin's wedding, the An family seemed to remain largely unchanged.
Even the wedding room specially prepared for the couple was only used for one night before they returned to their original rented apartment.
An Songlin naturally lived closer to the textile factory's residential area.
However, the workplace of the company she was working at was quite a distance from the textile factory.
Since their engagement, the two have been looking for a suitable place to live.
After the house was rented, Xuan Ying didn't move in right away.
But the two of them treated that place almost like their own little home, tidying it up.
As soon as the wedding ended, the two naturally went there to live together.
They just occasionally go back to both sides to eat together.
In the blink of an eye, the mulberry fields in Jiangcun will soon welcome their first harvest.
On this day, An Songyu came to Jiangcun alone again.
Her rest time is quite different from that of the rest of her family.
The silkworms have recently reached their final instar.
Besides being busy picking mulberry leaves to feed the silkworms, the people in the silkworm house are also preparing cocoon houses for them to spin their cocoons.
However, this job was clearly not something that An Songyu, an amateur, could handle smoothly.
Seeing her coming over, Shi Youqin, who rarely had free time today, waved to her.
An Songyu first greeted her grandfather and the others who were still working, and then obediently followed her grandmother out of the silkworm house.
The two walked through the mulberry grove.
Until they came to a mulberry tree that didn't seem much different from the ones around it.
Shi Youqin pointed to the small reddish-black fruits hidden among the mulberry leaves and smiled, "Ayu, look!"
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