The place that Ji Cheng decided to stay at was called a farmhouse, but it was actually more like a private garden-style restaurant, and it was not very easy to find. Su Yunbai followed the car navigation and accidentally missed a turn, and suddenly went around.

When she turned back, she saw Ji Cheng's car at the intersection. He was standing next to the car, looking in her direction, and it was obvious that he was waiting for her.

Su Yunbai lowered the window and said embarrassedly: "I forgot to turn at this intersection just now..."

Ji Cheng said: "I guessed it. The environment here is quiet, and it only welcomes regular customers. The intersection is specially designed to be hidden..." He sighed, "I should have waited for you to go together."

Su Yunbai pursed his lips and said nothing.

Ji Cheng had been suggesting to pick her up, but when she thought about how long the road to the outskirts of the city was, she subconsciously refused.

This was actually more or less a preparation. Senior is so smart, he should be able to guess it, right?

Su Yunbai thought so and asked, "Shall we go?"

Ji Cheng said, "The next road is up the mountain. If you don't want to drive, there is a small path you can take. Do you want to go out for a walk?"

He looked at Su Yunbai.

Su Yunbai looked at him dressed in sportswear and sighed slightly in his heart.

He actually already had an inclination in his heart, right?

Su Yunbai couldn't bear to refuse such a small matter, so he said, "What about the car? We can't park here, right?"

It sounded like he agreed.

Ji Cheng's eyes lit up, and a comfortable smile suddenly appeared on his face. "Don't worry, I'll ask the waiter to drive the car back to the hotel parking lot."

Su Yunbai handed the car key to the parking boy, followed Ji Cheng, and walked up the mountain.

Although it is called a mountain here, the slope is not steep, and it is not difficult to climb. Going up along the path, there are green plants all along the way. It is deep and quiet, and has a bit of wildness.

Su Yunbai was worried about something and was absent-minded. When she came to her senses, she saw Ji Cheng's hand stretched out in front of her - in front of her was a high step made of stones, which looked a little dangerous. Ji Cheng was right on this step, stretching out his hand, waiting to help her.

Seeing Su Yunbai's hesitation, he urged her gently: "Come on. This stone is a little loose, and it's not easy to walk. I'll give you a hand."

Ji Cheng's right hand almost reached Su Yunbai's left hand. Su Yunbai just raised her left hand slightly, and he took the initiative to reach up, and with a clever pull, he brought her up.

After passing the steps, Su Yunbai struggled lightly, trying to withdraw her hand, but found that she seemed unable to move.

Ji Cheng seemed to have completely forgotten about this matter. He held Su Yunbai's left hand and walked side by side with her.

He asked her naturally: "Are you busy with work recently? I see you work overtime every day."

The temperature where the palms touched was incredibly hot. Su Yunbai felt that her left arm was completely stiff.

She sighed in her heart and stood still.

This is an uphill road, interspersed with large or small stones that form steps, and it is not flat. The green plants around are just ordinary trees that can be seen everywhere in City A - no matter from which angle you look at it, this does not seem to be a good place to refuse people.

But she can't wait any longer.

Su Yunbai did not break away from Ji Cheng's hand and let him hold it.

Obviously the distance was very close, but her words made people feel that she was very far away: "Senior, I'm leaving."

Ji Cheng didn't quite understand for a while.

Leave? Don't want to climb the mountain anymore?

Su Yunbai continued: "I have decided to go abroad, to the United States, R University."

Ji Cheng's face slowly changed.

He held Su Yunbai's hand and even tightened it unconsciously. He just stared at her steadily. After a long while, he finally found his voice: "Is it because of me and Qinian?"

His voice was dry, "Did you hear some bad rumors and feel stressed... If so, Yunbai, we can go to another city together..."

"No." Su Yunbai said, "I did hear some rumors, but that's not the reason. The real reason..." She thought for a while, "Let me make an inappropriate analogy. Senior, are you determined to enter the field of smart medicine just to compete with Huo Qinian?"

Ji Cheng opened his mouth, but felt speechless.

Su Yunbai's analogy was really too sharp.

We are all adults, so we can't just do things based on our own feelings. If he were just himself, he could afford to play with any stakes, and the worst that could happen is that he would lose everything.

But he is more than just him, he is the president of a group, and he has to be responsible for the interests of everyone in the group.

Entering a field is like determining the sailing direction of a huge ship. How can you make a hasty decision because of personal grudges?

Ji Cheng said: "Yun Bai, this does not mean that I don't value you..."

"No, senior, you misunderstood, whether I value you or not... I have never measured it this way."

She is not so inappropriate that she must wait for Ji Cheng to "get angry" and "play tricks on the princes" before she admits his sincerity.

How much does she need love?

Su Yunbai said: "This is just an analogy. The reason why I went abroad is the same as the reason why Ji entered the field of smart medicine.

"We all know that those personal matters do have some influence, but what drives us to make decisions are actually more self-centered things."

Ji Cheng understood.

Seeing Su Yunbai so "clear and logical", he felt bitter in his heart, and couldn't help but laugh at himself: "Yes, the importance of Qinian and I...we overestimate ourselves."

"I absolutely don't mean that." Su Yunbai said this, and was silent for a moment, "I'm sorry, I may...be too ignorant..."

"No, it's not." Ji Cheng closed his eyes almost in pain, "I should be sorry. I don't want to blame you, I just can't accept it for a while...I don't blame you. "

Ji Cheng smiled bitterly, "If I really blame you for this, saying that you don't value us or something... then Qinian and I are ridiculous."

Ji Cheng was indeed caught off guard.

Su Yunbai had been obsessed with love for so many years that he had almost forgotten her personality and thought she was really a little woman who loved without hesitation.

But in fact, it wasn't. She just got lost temporarily. Now, she has walked out of the misty forest of emotions and has become the calm, self-sustaining, and sometimes even a little cold Su Yunbai.

She has a strong backbone and never needs to rely on others. Why do he and Huo Qinian dare to think that their favor for her is such a great thing?

How terrible are people's inherent impressions? She has been in a stalemate in her marriage for so many years that he almost forgot that Su Yunbai has never lacked the favor of the opposite sex along the way.

How can she think that something that she can easily have is a treasure?

But it is because of this that people can't take their eyes off her, isn't it?

There is only such a tough Su Yunbai in the world. She doesn't play with your feelings, she just... keeps you from getting close.

Ji Cheng felt bitter in his heart.

He stood there, his mind in a mess, and it took him a long time to pull a thread out of those troubled thoughts: "When will you leave?"

Su Yunbai said: "It's not certain yet, but I have to leave in August at the latest. The new semester is about to begin."

Ji Cheng was silent for a moment, and then asked: "Then will you... come back?"

His voice trembled when he asked this question.

Grandma Su has passed away, and her relationship with her biological parents is very distant. Now she is divorced... Looking around, she is like a kite with a broken string, and there is nothing to hold her back.

Ji Cheng couldn't even find a reason why she would come back.

Su Yunbai did not hide it from him: "I will come back. But I am not sure when. Maybe three to five years, maybe seven to eight years... I don't know."

"What about the Chinese New Year? Will you come back for the Chinese New Year?"

"...Probably not."

Ji Cheng realized that he had asked a stupid question.

The Chinese New Year in China often coincides with the semester abroad, so how could she come back?

"What about the holidays?"

Su Yunbai was silent for a while, "I don't know, but if nothing special happens, I probably won't come back." She looked at Ji Cheng and said in a low voice, "Senior, it's meaningless."

Time and space are the most mysterious topics in the world. She is going to a foreign country and she may not even return... Not to mention that they are not even a couple, even if they are, being in a foreign place is already full of difficulties, let alone a foreign country?

The time difference alone can make people suffer. When I am in the daytime, you are in the night; when I am asleep, you are awake... What kind of relationship can withstand this day after day, year after year?

But so what?

Ji Cheng looked at Su Yunbai steadily, "I can wait, wait for you to come back."

"No, don't wait. I don't even know when I will come back... Don't wait." Su Yunbai looked at him, unable to hide his regret in his heart, "Senior, you are a very, very, very good person, and I am very lucky to know you.

"It's just... I'm sorry..."

Ji Cheng smiled miserably.

If she had given him a little hope, just a little, he would have risked everything for her. Even if she had been away for many years, separated from him by oceans... As long as she was willing to give him even a little promise - he would accept keeping him hanging, he would continue to wait.

But she didn't want to.

Yes, she has never been a person who is willing to owe others emotional debts.

Ji Cheng seemed to hear the sound of the flame in his heart being extinguished by cold water.

He stood in the sunshine of the April afternoon, feeling cold all over.

But even at this time, he still couldn't blame her.

There were only countless resentment and regrets in his heart: "When you were a freshman and I was a junior, the teacher asked me to take care of you... In my heart, I actually just regarded this as a one-time task. You are indeed very independent and won't even come to me on your own initiative when you have free time...

"I became addicted to 'taking care of you' myself. I went to your place every day, and several people in our dormitory knew what I was thinking. Later, even your roommates guessed it..." After

such a long time... Su Yunbai felt extremely guilty.

Whose youth is not precious? Every sincere heart should not be trampled on.

She was too careless. If she had known earlier, she could have dealt with it earlier and not let him wait in vain.

She hesitantly said, "I'm sorry..."

Ji Cheng shook his head, "You were still young at that time, and I... I was not sure whether I had a temporary liking for you, or if I had really made up my mind to be with you - for me at that time, marriage and family... these things were too far away from me!

"But I still have to consider it. I looked back and forth, afraid that I would not be able to explain to the teacher...

"So I asked the people around you not to say too much. I think time will slowly tell me the answer, and I still have a lot of time to slowly impress you...

"Now it seems that I have always been too cowardly and too conceited. I waited and waited, waiting foolishly, but never told you...

"If I had told you at the beginning, if I could be braver, would today..."

"Senior," Su Yunbai interrupted him subconsciously.

She said bitterly: "Don't think about what if, it's meaningless."

It would only increase his unwillingness.

But she didn't want him to be unwilling.

Ji Cheng closed his eyes.

She was always like this, both tender and heartless.

Su Yunbai clenched his hands, and this time, he clenched them smoothly.

It took Ji Cheng a long while to sort himself out.

He took a deep breath, "I'll take you down the mountain."

Su Yunbai lowered her eyes, "Sorry... I disturbed your interest."

Ji Cheng looked at her seriously, "Yunbai, do you want to never recognize me as your senior from now on?"

"No, no. I just..."

"Give me some time." Ji Cheng took a deep breath, but still couldn't laugh, "I'm... a little confused now..."

On the way back, there was an unbearable silence.

Fortunately, they didn't walk far and soon returned to the foot of the mountain.

At the foot of the mountain, at the intersection where Ji Cheng had parked his car to wait for Su Yunbai, another car came.

Huo Qinian got down from the driver's seat openly, glanced around, and ignored Ji Cheng, only looking at Su Yunbai.

He was immersed in his own role, and said to Su Yunbai: "If you want to climb a mountain, why don't you wear a pair of sports shoes?"

Ji Cheng looked at the "lively" Huo Qinian, and his mood was complicated for a moment.

He must not know Su Yunbai's decision yet, otherwise how could he look so annoying.

How would Huo Qinian feel if he had to do something that he was so hesitant about?

Ji Cheng knew that the two of them were purely the eldest brothers, let alone the second brother. But people's psychology is so strange, when he thought that Huo Qinian would know about this sooner or later...

he actually had some expectations.