Chapter 98: Run
This was the first time Yuan Dabao heard Wei Ran talk about him and Cheng Tianlan.
When these two were together, none of their friends knew about it. It was during a dinner one day that Wei Ran's words revealed his relationship with Cheng Tianlan. Wei Ran was a quiet man, and he was even less open about his love life. When everyone got together, they were the only two people you'd see sitting together. As for how far their relationship had progressed, Wei Ran rarely mentioned it.
When they talked about it again, they were actually about breaking up.
Yuan Dabao didn't believe it. "Bai Xue also mentioned breaking up with me, but we didn't break up. Cheng Tianlan must have thought the same thing. It was just a moment of anger, so don't take it seriously."
Wei Ran smiled and said, "She never says anything in anger."
Yuan Dabao looked at Wei Ran in surprise and asked tentatively, "Are you saying you two really broke up?"
"She mentioned it," Wei Ran said, "but I didn't agree."
Wei Ran stopped talking and looked into the distance, as if Cheng Tianlan was standing on the other side.
Wei Ran suddenly turned to look at Yuan Dabao, "If I don't agree, does that mean we're not breaking up?"
"You definitely can't agree to this," Yuan Dabao said. "Don't you like her very much? Even if she brings it up a hundred times, you won't agree. Just pretend you didn't hear it."
"I think so too," Wei Ran said. "I think as long as I don't agree and pretend I didn't hear, we won't break up. But..."
Wei Ran paused while speaking.
Yuan Dabao looked at Wei Ran anxiously, noticing that he paused at the crucial moment. He was like an ant on a hot pan, "But what is it? Tell me."
Wei Ran turned around and looked at Yuan Dabao and suddenly smiled.
"nothing."
"You must have something wrong." Yuan Dabao boldly guessed: "Don't tell me that you haven't seen each other since Cheng Tianlan broke up with you."
Wei Ran smiled.
Yuan Dabao, worthy of being the man he grew up with, guessed from just a few words that he hadn't visited Cheng Tianlan for a long time.
"Why?" Yuan Dabao asked immediately, "Didn't you say to just pretend you didn't hear anything? If you don't go looking for her or contact her, then we're really breaking up."
"I didn't really hear it, but I did hear it." Wei Ran held his head in his hands and sighed, "I don't know how to talk to her, let alone how to face her. Even if I call her, I don't know what to say. We weren't like this before. We always had endless things to talk about, but now, when I call her, I don't know what to talk about or what to say."
"Why?" Yuan Dabao was anxious. "Can't you just be the same as before?"
"I can't do it," Wei Ran said. "There's always a hurdle in my heart that I can't get over. Whenever I face Cheng Tianlan, I think about how I'm going to explain our family affairs to her. I find that as long as my mother doesn't agree, as long as our family doesn't agree that we're together, I can't face Cheng Tianlan. I always feel like I owe her."
Yuan Dabao stopped talking.
He could understand this feeling.
No matter how many times Bai Xue broke up, Yuan Dabao would always come back from afar to comfort her. But before approaching Bai Xue, he'd have to do a lot of self-praise and mental fortitude. He felt guilty about Wang Qinghua's disruptions at the salon, and also about himself for causing Bai Xue so much pain. He often wandered the street in front of the salon, sometimes lingering for ages before taking a single step.
He felt guilty and apologetic, so every time he faced Bai Xue, he would put on a smile to make her happier.
Yuan Dabao had never imagined that he would be so humble, but when facing Bai Xue, he lowered his bottom line again and again. He also didn't think that he could be so shameless, that he could pretend nothing happened and appear in front of Bai Xue again and again.
But he will never forget the time he spent wandering the streets.
"If you ask me, it's your pride that's at work here." Yuan Dabao said to Wei Ran, "Don't think too much. Just think about your family hurting the other person, so you should apologize and ask for forgiveness. As long as you still want to be with her. What face do you have at this time? Don't want anything. Just calm down first. And you said that you don't dare to face her until you have resolved your family's affairs. I don't think this is right. You should convince Tianlan to face it with you. Have you ever thought about it, if you spend a long time fighting with your family, persuading them, and then go to find Cheng Tianlan when you finally succeed, will she definitely be waiting for you? You should go to her now and ask her to face it with you, or ask her to wait for you and give you some time to deal with it. You can't just stop contacting her without an explanation, and solve it privately without telling her. Wei Ran, when you go back to find her, she may not be there."
Wei Ran looked at Yuan Dabao, unable to believe it and asked, "Really?"
"Comrade Cheng Tianlan is still very popular, okay? What are you thinking? Do you think he can only rely on you to survive? You think too much, Teacher Wei!"
"Then I will go find her tomorrow." Wei Ran said immediately.
"Why don't you go on this weekend? What are you thinking?" Yuan Dabao patted Wei Ran's shoulder and said, "Brother, don't wait until tomorrow, let's go right now!"
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