Chapter 49 Lonely Yet Brilliant. "Understanding me too well isn't a good thing..."
Summer has ended, and Jiang Chuyu has successfully entered her junior year of college.
Beijing has four distinct seasons, and the plane trees in the school already show signs of autumn.
Jiang Chuyu is afraid of the cold, so she needs to wear a light jacket before going out in the morning.
Gu Zeming drove to pick her up and take her to school.
Jiang Chuyu only had one suitcase and one bag.
Gu Zeming helped her move her things into the trunk, frowning.
"Why is your luggage as light as you are?"
It's too light and doesn't feel realistic.
Jiang Chuyu said, "Light is better. If it's too heavy, it won't be able to escape if something happens."
Gu Zeming glanced at her, his gaze icy cold: "Where do you think you're going?"
Jiang Chuyu smiled sweetly at her: "In your heart..."
Gu Zeming closed the trunk, seemingly speechless.
He shoved the unruly man into the car, rubbed his brow bone, and said, "Sit still, or I'll kiss you."
His tone was anything but joking.
Jiang Chuyu immediately straightened up like a primary school student being punished by the teacher.
Once the car started, she glanced at Gu Zeming out of the corner of her eye. Seeing that he was focused on driving and hadn't noticed her at all, she finally relaxed.
They remained almost completely silent the entire way.
When they were almost at school, Jiang Chuyu preemptively filed a complaint.
Why aren't you saying anything?
"It takes more than an hour to get from the apartment to the school, and you actually kept your composure and didn't say a word to me."
"Do we really have nothing to talk about?"
"Gu Zeming, you're giving me the silent treatment."
"I want to break up with you."
She was muttering curses under her breath, acting out her own drama, and speaking in a local dialect.
It's really hard for her to come up with such an outrageous reason just to break up with him.
Gu Zeming found it amusing.
However, Jiang Chuyu's antics actually put him at ease.
People who truly want to leave won't cause trouble.
Gu Zeming parked the car by the roadside near the girls' dormitory building and, in the gentlest of voices, slowly uttered the coldest words, "Rejected. Next time, think of a more reasonable reason and we'll discuss it again."
Jiang Chuyu wrinkled her nose and scolded him, "You're not a judge, so why do you get to decide everything?"
Gu Zeming deliberately tried to scare her: "If I were a judge, I would sentence you to life imprisonment, lock you up in jail forever, and you could only see me for the rest of your life, and you could only like me and be loved by me. What do you say?"
It sounds like something he would do.
Jiang Chuyu froze for a moment, then retorted defiantly, "Then I will rid the people of this scourge right now!"
She pretended to grab Gu Zeming's neck, but forgot that the car window was open.
At the start of the school year, the roadsides near the dormitory buildings are bustling with students coming and going.
Unfortunately, this scene was witnessed by several roommates.
Caiyan immediately recognized the girl in the car as Jiang Chuyu. She thought Li Sen had changed to a new car again, so she pulled Lin Yun and Shi Qing over to say hello.
Upon closer inspection, they discovered that Jiang Chuyu was pinching Gu Zeming, leaving the three of them speechless.
After a moment, Shi Qing blushed and exclaimed in shock, "How...how can you do this to Senior Brother Li Sen?!"
Jiang Chuyu paused for a moment, then quickly jumped away from Gu Zeming.
She hadn't had a chance to tell her roommate about her relationship with Gu Zeming.
Shi Qing is the most moral person in their dorm, so if she witnessed something like this, she would definitely assume that Shi Qing was cheating on her!
Jiang Chuyu glared at Gu Zeming and silently said: It's all your fault.
Compared to her embarrassment, Gu Zeming seemed completely at ease, even having the leisure to introduce himself to her roommates: "Hello, I'm Chu Yu's boyfriend. I'm entrusting my Chu Yu to you from now on."
Me, Home, First, Taro.
It's a very simple sentence, yet it contains an overwhelming amount of information, giving off a strange sense of ease and composure befitting the position of the empress.
Jiang Chuyu's roommates froze on the spot, all turning to look at her.
Jiang Chuyu smiled sheepishly, "How about we talk again when we get back to the dorm?"
Given that Gu Zeming was present, they couldn't afford to lose their temper in public.
Caiyan laughed along, "Okay, the three of us will go back to the dorm first. You should hurry upstairs too, Shi Qing brought a lot of local specialties."
The three of them turned back every few steps, slowly disappearing from sight.
Jiang Chuyu finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"You're such a troublemaker, you've made me look down on by my roommates."
Gu Zeming ignored her accusations.
After unloading the suitcase from the car, I reminded her, "Don't forget your bag."
Jiang Chuyu slung her backpack over her shoulder, took the suitcase from him, and said, "Goodbye."
She left in a hurry, giving him no chance to speak or bully her.
Gu Zeming stood by the roadside, staring at her back, which attracted the attention of many students passing by, but he didn't try to hide it.
He didn't drive away until Jiang Chuyu went upstairs.
The roommates had a lot of questions on their minds, and as soon as they heard the door open, Caiyan blurted out, "Tell me honestly, what's going on with the three of you!"
As Jiang Chuyu packed her things, she briefly explained to them, concluding, "Anyway, it was arranged by my family, so it's hard for me to refuse."
"Tch, you make it sound like you're unhappy." Caiyan sighed, looking up at the sky. "That's the eldest young master of the Qin family, worth hundreds of millions of dollars, such an outstanding person! You should be grateful that he fell for you!"
Lin Yun added insult to injury: "This is the third one already, Jiang Chuyu. How many men do you want to mess with before you're satisfied? Surely you won't break up with them again this time?"
Jiang Chuyu didn't reply, she just smiled foolishly.
If many things are hard to explain, then she won't bother trying to explain them.
Her roommates couldn't understand her and tried to persuade her to cherish Gu Zeming, saying that dumping Gu Zeming was like losing hundreds of millions of dollars, and that it would be difficult to find someone with such good conditions again after graduation.
Jiang Chuyu chuckled: "He's not worth that much. If he were really worth a few small fortunes, I would have sold him long ago."
Her roommates rolled their eyes and scolded her for being obsessed with money and unable to distinguish between what's important and what's not.
However, since then, Jiang Chuyu has indeed become much more dutiful and less lazy than before.
She finally became the kind of student A University should be: focusing on her classes, studying hard, and using her spare time to improve her artistic skills.
Jiang Chuyu likes to draw pretty little dresses.
Jiang Shan thought those cheap, low-quality clothes were ugly, but Jiang Shan thought they were beautiful.
She created an external account and shared her manuscripts on social media platforms. With perseverance, she gradually gained likes and attention from a group of like-minded people.
Later, encouraged by several fans, Jiang Chuyu mustered up the courage to sign up for the Beijing College Student Fashion Design Competition, and was busy with it every day.
Seeing her transformation, her roommates privately commented, "The school heartthrob really knows his stuff. Even the most颓废 (颓废 is a difficult word to translate directly, but it implies a state of being listless, dispirited, or demoralized) person will instantly become a bouncy queen after dating him. He's amazing."
They had no idea of Gu Zeming's suffering.
Senior year internships were already busy, and after Gu Zeming moved off-campus, the two managed to maintain a frequency of twice a week for dates. But ever since Jiang Chuyu became engrossed in drawing, this frequency dropped to once a week, or even once every two weeks.
As autumn fades into winter, Beijing welcomed its first snowfall of the year on the eve of Christmas.
After Jiang Chuyu finished drawing the manuscript, she opened her phone and saw Gu Zeming's message, only to realize that she had almost missed her date.
I'm done with my work, I'm coming over now.
She gave a brief reply, grabbed her bag, and hurried out.
Gu Zeming: [I'll come pick you up.]
[It's too much trouble to go back and forth in this snowy weather. Don't move, I'll call a ride-sharing service.]
Jiang Chuyu opened the app, casually booked a ride, and waited patiently under the eaves.
A few minutes later, a silver Mercedes slowly drove out of the heavy snow.
Jiang Chuyu glanced at the license plate number, confirmed that it was the car she had booked, and immediately waved to the driver.
A silver Mercedes pulled up in front of her, and the window rolled down.
Jiang Chuyu looked at the driver's seat and immediately froze.
It's Li Sen.
He returned to China.
Jiang Chuyu was dumbfounded.
She actually managed to run into such a low-probability, melodramatic situation as hailing a ride with her ex-boyfriend; she should buy a lottery ticket today.
In winter, the plane trees lining the studio had long since shed their leaves, their gnarled branches laden with a thin layer of snow. Snowflakes drifted in the air, swirling gently in the wind, silently drowning out the city's hustle and bustle.
In the hazy silence, Li Sen opened the car door, held up a black umbrella, and walked towards her.
As night fell and the streetlights came on, their dim yellow light outlining his familiar silhouette.
His gaze pierced through the snow and settled on Jiang Chuyu's face, which was red from the cold.
Time seemed to slow down dramatically at that moment.
Jiang Chuyu heard him say, "Long time no see."
His deep voice, warm like a snowy day, was like a snowflake falling on her heart—cool, but fleeting.
Jiang Chuyu snapped out of her daze, nodded, and tried to say something, but found that all her words were like breaths of white air, futilely dissipating in the wind.
She glanced at the shoulder of Li Sen's black coat and blinked gently. "Sorry, I think I called the wrong car."
He got a new car, but she didn't recognize him.
She didn't seem to have bothered to remember his license plate number. She forgot it the moment she turned away.
Li Sen was silent for a moment, then said, "Where are you going? I'll take you."
Jiang Chuyu raised her eyes and looked into the distance.
A blue Bentley came into view.
She thought the Bentley would come straight at her, but to her surprise, it just stopped casually some distance away.
In fact, many people have said that blue is too eye-catching and not suitable for Gu Zeming.
He was aloof and reserved, always proud and cold. Black and white suited his temperament better.
But Jiang Chuyu felt that blue was his true nature.
Like a deep galaxy, lonely yet brilliant.
She pointed to the Bentley and said to Li Sen, "I need to go there. You can hold the umbrella and take me there."
Despite the impolite request, Li Sen laughed.
A few months ago, he also wondered where he had gone wrong in this relationship.
At this moment, he finally found the answer.
He told Jiang Chuyu, "Before, I thought I saw everything about you. Now I realize that there is someone who has always understood you better than I have."
Jiang Chuyu shrugged: "But knowing me too well isn't a good thing."
People who grow up surrounded by love and live well tend to be kinder and more composed, possessing confidence and support in everything they do. Conversely, those who don't live well are more suspicious and fickle, unsure of their next step, seemingly unaffected by death.
That feeling of bewilderment and helplessness, and the suffocating sense of being violated by society, can only be understood by experiencing it firsthand.
She is not a good person.
It's pathetic to know someone too well about her.
Gu Zeming took a candy out of his trench coat pocket, unwrapped it, and put it in his mouth.
He doesn't like sweets; he finds them too sweet.
Once, when the two were on a date, Jiang Chuyu secretly slipped a handful of gummy candies into his pocket, saying that he smelled too strongly of his class and that he should eat one when he was tired to get rid of the smell.
The sugar was very sweet, peach-flavored, and smelled just like her.
He treated it as if he had eaten her.
A thin layer of fog rose from the car windows.
Through his blurry vision, Gu Zeming stared at the two people who were slowly approaching.
Jiang Chuyu peeked out from under the umbrella, raised her hand and knocked on his car window, smiling as she said, "Hi."
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