Chapter 25 Regret
A gust of wind blew, rustling the trees above my head.
The sound cut through the silent air. Jiang Jibai paused writing and looked towards the flower fields in the distance. Her voice was as calm as the stream flowing before her: "Mr. Gu, you should go back."
Gu Moyang ignored him, sat down on the grass, and reached out to take the barbecue plate next to Jiang Jibai's chair.
"You baked it? I'm kind of hungry."
Before Jiang Jibai could stop him, he saw Gu Moyang take a skewer of grilled pork belly and put it into his mouth.
It's completely cold and tastes terrible.
Jiang Jibai didn't say anything. He pursed his lips and watched him finish the whole string of food. His sharp Adam's apple moved up and down with his movements.
"It tastes quite strange." Gu Moyang put one hand on his knee, looking relaxed and contented.
After saying that, he took another string of grilled mushrooms and finished it in a few bites.
Jiang Jibai was slightly surprised. She hadn't even finished the whole skewer.
After his heart was in turmoil, Jiang Jibai's gaze returned to the flower fields on the other side of the river: "Mr. Gu, you can take the plate away if you want to eat. You don't have to return it."
"Are you in such a hurry to get rid of me?" Gu Moyang tilted his head to look at her. The warmth in his eyes faded away, and his face, half exposed to the sun, turned cold.
Jiang Jibai's eyes were calm and he drew a clear line between them: "I like to be alone when I paint, and I don't like to be disturbed by others."
Gu Moyang paused as he was about to take the skewers. He dejectedly put down the metal plate in his hand. Even the river flowing gently in front of him could not extinguish the inexplicable anger that emerged from his heart.
She once said that he was her muse, but now she felt he was a nuisance just by his side.
How many of her words before were true and how many were false?
Gu Moyang suddenly stood up and looked down at her, his eyes drooping coldly, "Jiang Jibai, since you looked down on me in the first place, why did you come to provoke me?"
Jiang Jibai clenched the pen in his hand. What did he mean by this? He said this as if everything was her fault.
Was her mistake in not provoking him in the first place?
But it turned out to be a mistake from the beginning.
After getting that answer from his mouth, she regretted all her previous actions towards him all the time.
Those active, eager, and desperate pursuits of him.
No one can be blamed for this, the only thing to blame is her blindness at the time.
Jiang Jibai let go of the pen in his hand and sighed deeply, trying to relieve the sudden chest tightness.
Then let it go. She was so tired and wanted to end it all quickly.
"It's my fault. I was wrong from the beginning." Jiang Jibai's voice was emotionless. It was blown away by the river breeze and finally drifted into Gu Moyang's ears.
The river wind blew away Gu Moyang's last bit of sanity, and his last bit of luck disappeared completely with the words "it was wrong from the beginning".
A flock of birds flew across the azure sky, and Gu Moyang's mind went blank for a moment. His hands hanging by his side trembled from exerting too much force.
Jiang Jibai never looked back at him from beginning to end. His back sitting by the river looked cold and thin.
Gu Moyang sneered and said with a strong emphasis, "Jiang Jibai, I will make you regret it."
I regret provoking him and I regret pushing him away.
"Mo Yang, why are you here? Mr. Zhai and others want to invite you to dinner." Xu Jiaman walked along the river.
Gu Moyang snorted coldly: "You're asking for trouble."
She glanced at Jiang Jibai and said, "Miss Jiang is here too."
Jiang Jibai ignored her. There was no need to be polite to someone he didn't like.
Xu Jiaman was holding a plate of grilled fish in her hand. She saw another grilling tray on the ground with a few empty skewers in it.
She scolded Gu Moyang, "How can you eat something that's so disgusting and unhygienic? You must be hungry. Fill your stomach first."
As she spoke, she picked up a skewer of grilled fish and handed it to Gu Moyang.
Gu Moyang didn't answer, his eyes sliding across the grill pan on the grass: "It's really unpalatable."
Jiang Jibai's hand holding the pen paused, and her heart felt a dull pain as if it was hit by a blunt object. The pain spread from her heart to every part of her body.
He was the fifth person today who felt that the skewers were unpalatable, but none of the others felt as uncomfortable as hearing him say it.
So he was just trying to fool himself?
Just now, when Xu Jiaman was not here, he said that the taste was very special. Now that Xu Jiaman is here, he says that the food is unpalatable in order to distance himself from her.
Jiang Jibai sneered in her heart. She had never known before that he had the ability to please everyone.
Seeing Jiang Jibai sitting here alone, Xu Jiaman said politely, "Miss Jiang, why don't you come with us to eat something?"
Jiang Jibai didn't eat anything at noon, so he was indeed a little hungry now.
But she couldn't sit at the same table with them to eat, even if she starved to death.
Before Jiang Jibai could speak, Gu Moyang answered for her first. He stood on a high place, and his voice was more indifferent and cold than ever before.
"What is she going to do? I'm afraid Miss Jiang will look down on our simple meals."
Jiang Jibai's nails dug into his flesh, and the dull pain in his heart continued to spread.
Xu Jiaman started to pretend at this time: "Mo Yang, what are you talking about? Miss Jiang is not that kind of person."
She had the urge to push the two of them into the river together.
Jiang Jibai didn't say anything, just looked at the calm river surface without saying a word. When she heard Xu Jiaman's conversation gradually fading away, she knew they had gone far away.
After they walked away, Jiang Jibai relaxed his whole body and took deep breaths to relieve the suffocating feeling as if a huge rock was pressing on his chest.
She quickly took out a few pills from her bag and swallowed them with water.
The painting was never finished after all, she was not in the mood to paint anymore.
The team building activity had not yet ended, and she did not want to go back. If she did, Zheng Qianqian would definitely scold her for not participating in group activities, and Ma Lin and Zhu Zihan would fan the flames.
The suffocating feeling that had just subsided came back when I thought about it.
She sat quietly by the river, watching the water flow slowly, the birds sing and the insects chirp, day and night, without stopping, endlessly.
The vitality here made her feel alive.
Zhang Wanwan saw that she did not go to the team building, but sat by the river instead, and ran over to find her.
She was amazed when she saw the painting on Jiang Jibai's tablet: "This is so beautiful! Sister Jiang, can you send it to me? I want to use this painting as my phone wallpaper."
Gu Moyang's words suddenly popped up in Jiang Jibai's mind.
Painting, I like it very much——
Seeing that Jiang Jibai didn't respond for a long time, Zhang Wanwan stretched out her hand and waved it in front of her eyes: "Sister, are you okay?"
"Nothing." Jiang Jibai came back to his senses, "This painting is not finished yet. I'll send it to you when I finish it."
Zhang Wanwan was shocked: "It looks so good even before it's finished!"
After sitting by the river with Zhang Wanwan for a while, the sky turned cloudy in the afternoon and it became a bit cold to sit by the river. Jiang Jibai had to leave. She and Zhang Wanwan agreed to take a bus back together after the meeting.
This time they have to hurry and grab the front seats.
Jiang Jibai returned to the tent, and before he could even sit down, he heard Ma Lin and Zhu Zihan, who were sitting together to rest, whispering to each other.
Ma Lin: "I wonder what it feels like to see my now handsome and wealthy ex-boyfriend and his current girlfriend showing affection?"
Zhu Zihan: "If it were me, I would jump into the river. Wasn't there a river in front of her just now?"
Ma Lin: "That makes sense. Let's jump in and see if the ex-boyfriend will go down to save her in front of his girlfriend."
Jiang Jibai was really fed up with these two people gossiping about him in front of him.
She doesn't want to spoil them anymore when Zheng Qianqian is not around.
"Do you know why you can't experience this feeling?"
Ma Lin and Zhu Zihan looked over at the same time:?
"Because you look like the gossips of the Black and White Impermanence, not only ugly but also can't control your mouth. If a man falls for you, it's really his karma. That's why you don't have an ex-boyfriend, so you can't experience this feeling!"
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