Song Yunzheng stared intently at the man before him, the man he would recognize even if he were ashes, the man Song Yunxi had waited for for six years! And now he was standing before him with another woman! What did he take his sister for?
“Lu Wuqi?” Song Yunzheng forced himself to calm down, carefully savoring the name as he looked at the man in front of him whose eyes were like a stagnant pool.
He's clearly back, yet he refuses to acknowledge his true identity. Is there some unavoidable hardship he has? "Who will the young man confide in when he leaves home? The river has no bridges, and the road has no forks." Only then did Song Yunzheng's expression soften as he thought of this.
Song Yunzheng understood and greatly admired the work of the anti-drug police! Xu Muyao had his own mission and many unavoidable circumstances, so let's just pretend we never met.
Song Yunzheng gave Lu Wuqi a deep look, said nothing more, took Lin Yue's hand, turned around, and walked out of the noodle shop.
Lu Wuqi turned around and looked at their receding figures. He frowned, and a ripple finally appeared in the stagnant water in his eyes. But after only three seconds, he returned to normal.
"We've achieved our goal, let's go." The woman named Wanwan glanced at Lu Wuqi with a complicated expression, then stepped forward and took his arm, and the two walked out of the noodle shop together.
As dusk fell, the neon lights along the roadside lit up one by one, and pedestrians hurried along.
On the way home, Lin Yue sat in the passenger seat picking at her fingers, occasionally stealing glances at Song Yunzheng. She had a lot of questions she wanted to ask him!
"That man was Yunxi's ex-boyfriend..." Song Yunzheng seemed to know Lin Yue's mind perfectly, directly answering the question Lin Yue wanted to ask.
Lin Yue turned her head in surprise, "Really? He's not dead? Then why didn't he go to see Yun Xi?"
Song Yunzheng shook his head helplessly. "I don't know. Perhaps there are unavoidable reasons." He hoped he did have some, and that he hadn't simply forgotten...
"Should we tell Yunxi that Xu Muyao is still alive, so she knows that her persistence all these years was worthwhile?" Lin Yue said with a hint of excitement.
Back in Gubei Water Town, she cried when Song Yunxi told her story of Xu Muyao. She still feels heartbroken when she thinks about it now.
"don't want!"
"Why?"
"Yunxi is already slowly letting go, so let's not make her pick it up again because of these uncertainties."
He had witnessed firsthand how much suffering Song Yunxi had endured over the years. The reason he appointed her as the executive director of Chengye was twofold: firstly, because she possessed the necessary abilities, and he trusted her; secondly, he wanted to keep her busy, as a busy person wouldn't have as much time to grieve.
"But what if Yunxi finds out someday and you keep it from her, deliberately not telling her? She'll hate you."
Lin Yue's concerns were not unfounded; Song Yunxi was even more stubborn than Song Yunzheng.
"Then let's not deliberately hide it from her. Let's just pretend we don't know anything."
Lin Yue looked out the car window and sighed softly, "Well, that's the only way."
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"Achoo..." Song Yunxi rubbed her nose with one hand on the steering wheel and the other. "Who's talking about me behind my back? Or are they missing me?"
On a cold winter day in the capital, Song Yunxi parked her car at the entrance of an unnamed alley. She wrapped her coat tighter around herself and walked into the alley. There was a noodle shop inside, an old shop that she and Xu Muyao used to frequent when they were in school.
This noodle shop is small, but its decor is nostalgic, as if time has stood still here and has never changed.
The owners are a middle-aged couple who are very kind. Because Song Yunxi is a frequent customer, her relationship with them has long surpassed that of customer and shop owner; they are more like close friends who can talk about anything.
Whenever longing surges like a tide, she drives here alone to eat a bowl of food. The taste from her memories assaults her taste buds, as if he is by her side.
"Boss, a bowl of noodles, please." Before the words were finished, Song Yunxi pushed open the door and entered.
"Sorry..." We're already closed. The owner was about to refuse when he turned around and saw that it was Song Yunxi. He immediately greeted her with a smile, "Oh, it's you! Just got off work? Please, make yourself at home! I'll get you something right away! Wait here!"
Song Yunxi found a seat by the window, rested her chin on her hand, and gazed out the window through the glass. The alley was quiet, with only a few people occasionally passing by the window, and sometimes lost tourists would wander around like headless flies.
"The noodles are here, enjoy!" The boss's loud voice instantly cut off Song Yunxi's thoughts.
She nodded with a smile, "Thank you, boss."
Song Yunxi picked up her chopsticks and couldn't wait to start eating. As soon as she took a bite, she couldn't help but exclaim that the taste was as good as ever.
In no time, the bowl of noodles was empty. Satisfied, she wiped her mouth, left a red 100-yuan bill on the table, and got up to leave.
Song Yunxi strolled leisurely through the alley. Having eaten her fill, the cold wind made her feel less chilly. She walked and looked around, each place a memory…
The noodle shop was only a five-minute walk from the parking lot, but it took her a full fifteen minutes to get back to her car.
As the vehicle started, a roar filled the air, leaving only a silent street and a lonely figure at the alley entrance...
In the long night, some live in the gutter, some live a life of extravagance and debauchery, some look forward to the dawn, and some endure the cold and loneliness.
Xu Muyao, once a spirited and ambitious policeman, now sees himself as a rat in a gutter, lurking in the darkness, his eyes greedily fixed on the figure he longs for day and night. That figure is the entire meaning of his life. Every subtle movement, every change in expression, is captured by his gaze. It is that figure that has sustained him through countless days and nights of inhuman torture.
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