Extra episode 2
Xie Zhinian has very fair skin, so the purple scar is particularly obvious.
Yu Jingchen pretended to ask casually, and Xie Zhinian replied that he accidentally bumped into something.
Xie Zhinian looked nonchalant, and he rolled up his sleeves to show Yu Jingchen, "Here, this is it. I bumped into it when I was moving things at home yesterday. It hurt so much."
Yu Jingchen believed it.
After a while, Yu Jingchen discovered that Xie Zhinian had a wound on his arm again. This time, Xie Zhinian said that he accidentally bumped into the cabinet, but Yu Jingchen directly held his wrist and said, "Tell the truth."
Xie Zhinian was stunned for two seconds, then reacted strongly and shook off Yu Jingchen's hand. "I'm telling the truth. Why would I lie to you?"
After saying that, Xie Zhinian turned around and ignored Yu Jingchen.
When school was over, Yu Jingchen just moved his lips, and Xie Zhinian leaned over with his hands on the table, staring at Yu Jingchen with his lacquered eyes, "I know what you want to ask, but aren't you meddling too much? I said no, and I said no."
This was the last sentence the two said to each other, because Xie Zhinian did not come to school the next day.
Yu Jingchen reflected on himself for a long time that night and felt that he had indeed offended Xie Zhinian. The next day, he brought Xie Zhinian his favorite milk tea to apologize to him.
But Xie Zhinian didn't come.
Xie Zhinian never came again.
Yu Jingchen brought milk tea for a week in a row, but he just left it on Xie Zhinian's desk for the whole day, then took it away after school and drank it himself.
Xie Zhinian's things were still there. His books were neatly stacked in the desk, and his school uniform jacket was hung on the back of his chair, as if it was still warm. Everything was exactly the same as usual, as if the familiar figure would come in from the back door in the next second, sit down on the chair and stretch.
Yu Jingchen sent WeChat messages to Xie Zhinian and also called him, but no one responded.
The person who had been chattering in his ear suddenly disappeared, and Yu Jingchen became uncomfortable.
Yu Jingchen also went to ask the class teacher, but the class teacher was vague and said that Xie Zhinian had something to do at home and asked Yu Jingchen to concentrate on preparing for the competition.
Yu Jingchen didn't say anything at the time, but went to Xie Zhinian's house after school.
No. 31, Yaju South Garden.
Xie Zhinian said that he lives here and the houses here are pretty good, and the people who can live here must be from good families.
But when Yu Jingchen got there, he found that there was no No. 31 in Yaju South Garden, and the house numbers ended at No. 30.
The home that Xie Zhinian mentioned does not exist at all.
It was also from that moment that Yu Jingchen realized that he didn't understand Xie Zhinian at all.
Everything was like a web woven by Xie Zhinian. He fell into it without any preparation, and finally found out that these were all illusions. He felt deceived, but didn't understand why.
Forget it, Xie Zhinian probably doesn’t want people to know his real address.
Yu Jingchen continued to attend classes and do exercises as usual. He thought it was no big deal. Xie Zhinian's stuff was still there. Maybe after a month or two, Xie Zhinian would show up.
But no one around him could contact Xie Zhinian. Countless unanswered calls and countless messages sent without a response silently announced that Xie Zhinian had disappeared.
In his memory, Xie Zhinian's appearance when he spoke to him on the last day was extremely clear. Whenever Yu Jingchen thought of the injury on Xie Zhinian's arm that day, he felt vaguely uneasy.
later--
"Sorry, the number you dialed is out of service."
Xie Zhinian’s phone bill was in arrears and he didn’t even want to top up his account.
Yu Jingchen logged into Xie Zhinian’s online business hall and recharged his phone bill.
Yu Jingchen had no idea where Xie Zhinian had gone or what had happened to him. It was as if he had disappeared from the face of the earth, leaving no trace at all.
On the day of high school graduation, all the classmates took graduation photos with their good friends.
They say that recording their youth with their best friends will make their youth regret-free.
Yu Jingchen subconsciously looked at Xie Zhinian's desk.
A whole year has passed, and Yu Jingchen suddenly realized at this moment that his feelings for Xie Zhinian seemed to be more than just being deskmates.
But all Xie Zhinian left him were used draft papers, unfinished test papers, and previous memories.
When do people realize they like someone?
Some people become conscious very early and fall in love at first sight, which is called love at first sight. Some people are slow to warm up and only discover the other person after spending some time together, which is called ambiguity.
There are also people, like Yu Jingchen, who only slowly realize the other person's position in their hearts until the other person is gone. The process of the feelings gradually becoming clear is not sweet, but full of pain and hardship, like a cruel torture of oneself.
More than ten years have passed, and Yu Jingchen has recharged the phone bill for that number for more than ten years, hoping that one day when he calls, the voice that awaits him will not be the cold mechanical female voice, but the full of energy.
He called that number every day. Even when he was studying abroad, he would call according to the time in China.
He also often recalled the last time Xie Zhinian looked at him, and memorized Xie Zhinian's appearance over and over again, so that if he passed by him one day, he would be able to recognize him at a glance.
But one morning not long ago, when Yu Jingchen got up and dressed in front of the mirror, looking at himself in his early thirties in the mirror, he suddenly couldn't remember what Xie Zhinian looked like when he was eighteen.
This was the first time Yu Jingchen felt so flustered.
Why... He clearly recalled the scene of that day every day, just like training. He even remembered clearly what Xie Zhinian said to him at that time, but why did Xie Zhinian's face become less and less clear each time?
He tried so hard to remember, but still couldn't resist the erosion of time on his memory.
This is undoubtedly the most painful punishment in the world.
Now Yu Jingchen has witnessed his brother's love. Obviously, it is Yu Chucheng and Duan Huaijin who are getting married, but he seems to be stuck in a vicious circle and can't get out.
So when Xie Zhinian appeared in front of him without any warning, Yu Jingchen's first reaction was that he was drunk and had hallucinations.
The atmosphere inside the car was a bit strange.
After a long time, Xie Zhinian spoke first.
He looked away from his phone and tilted his head to look at Yu Jingchen, "You're lucky tonight. I just landed in Kyoto and you called me."
"But I came to Kyoto to do some business, and my time is very precious. I took the time out of my busy schedule to pick you up. How about you reimburse me for the car fare and give me some hard work pay?"
Xie Zhinian stretched out his hand, rubbed his three fingers together twice, and shamelessly gestured for money.
Xie Zhinian's impression of Yu Jingchen was that of an icy-faced guy whose academic performance was so good that it made people jealous, and whose family conditions and his own conditions were so good that they were infuriating.
But he knew that this icy-faced guy was actually quite easy to talk to, at least all his previous requests had not been rejected.
Xie Zhinian thought that this time Yu Jingchen would do the same as before, either just glancing at him and ignoring him, or directly transferring the money.
Unexpectedly, Yu Jingchen directly grabbed his wrist, his eyes were red and filled with a thick fog that he could not quite understand.
Yu Jingchen asked the question he wanted to ask most in all these years in a hoarse voice, "Where have you been?"
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