It was the same coffee shop they had been to before. The decoration remained the same. It was not known whether it was a coincidence or something else. Fu Shi walked to the seat where they had sat before.
"Sit here, I'll get you a menu." Fu Shi pulled out a chair for her, took a small black book from the front desk and handed it to Yun Li.
She flipped through the selections, but there weren't many options: "I'd like cocoa milk."
Fu Shizhe: "Would you like Matcha Thousand Layer Dessert?"
Yunli nodded.
He calmly closed the menu and walked to the front desk to place his order. Yunli stared at his back and felt a little dazed seeing him so calm.
There is always a digestion period after a breakup.
During this period, you will repeatedly question whether the decision to break up was too hasty, repeatedly review various details in the hope of a different result, and repeatedly recall the sweetness of your relationship and suffer greatly.
You desire to regain what you have lost, but you are also afraid of losing it.
During this digestion period, Yunli recalled many details and realized that he really liked her. As the days passed, he did not come to see her, and she realized that he did not really need her.
Gradually, there was only one outcome left.
And she accepted the result.
After Fu Shi returned, he pulled out a chair and sat down, his hands resting on the chair handles and his upper shoulders leaning against the back of the chair.
At first, neither of them looked at each other.
After a long silence, they looked up at each other at the same time.
Yunli nervously played with her fingers under the table where he couldn't see her. She tried hard to make herself look as relaxed and carefree as he was: "You've changed a lot..."
She was too reserved the last time they met. She actually wanted to ask -
"How are you doing?"
Although she had not taken the initiative to inquire during the past year and a half, she had indeed thought about it countless times, hoping that it would be best if he could live a better life.
Even without her, she hoped that he could live a better life.
Fu Shi looked at Yunli. She had long hair that was curled and dyed, and was lightly pinned with a blue and white hairband, revealing her smooth and straight shoulders. She spoke slowly and in a gentle tone.
He smiled and said, "It's OK. Life is back on track."
Before the two of them could say a few words, a boy walked straight up to them and greeted Fu Shize.
The boy was very familiar with her and asked in a friendly manner, "Senior, is this your girlfriend? She's so pretty." He raised his head and introduced himself to Yunli, "I am participating in the drone competition with you, senior."
Yunli's heart tightened and he nodded at the other party.
Fu Shi looked at Yun Li and did not answer.
The boy looked at the empty seat at the table and said with a smile, "Can I sit here?"
Fu Shi laughed and gently pushed him: "Go away."
After the boys left, Fu Shi said to her, "Sorry, they like to joke around."
"It's okay." Yun Li tried to look like he didn't care: "People often joke with me like this."
“…”
Fu Shi paused holding the coffee cup.
It sounded like she often went out with boys. Yunli felt that this caused ambiguity and added, "When I was with Yunye."
Hearing this, Fu Shize's brows relaxed and he asked her, "What are your plans next?"
"Find a job in Xifu. This internship should be able to become a full-time job." Yun Li held the cup with both hands and looked up at him. "What about you?"
"Maybe I can go abroad as a postdoc."
"..." Yunli's grip tightened a little, "Are you going alone?"
Fu Shi raised his eyebrows slightly: "Who else?"
"I don't know either..." She said embarrassedly, "I just feel that it's not easy to go abroad alone."
"No. It's just me." He thought for a while and stared at her: "I haven't made a decision yet. I might just stay in the country. If I go abroad, I won't come back."
Yun Li didn't understand the hidden meaning in his words and was stunned for a moment, "You're not coming back?"
"Um."
"Oh... that's good." She lowered her head and forced a smile, feeling like there was a hole in her heart. Yunli tried to change the subject and divert attention, "I went to the UK for an exchange last year."
Fu Shi looked at her: "Are you okay?"
Yunli said softly, "It's fine..." She hesitated for a moment and continued, "It's just that I didn't quite adapt in the first half of the year."
"Tell me about it."
Many people had asked Yunli about her situation in the UK, and she usually just said a few words about it. But at this moment, she really wanted to tell him.
It seemed like telling him that it wasn't a big deal.
Yunli thought for a while and said, "The first house I rented when I first went there..."
Yunli didn't continue talking. He paused for a while, as if he just realized something. He explained embarrassedly, "A lot of things happened. I was thinking about which one to talk about."
Fu Shi smiled and said patiently, "Tell me slowly."
"Wait a moment." He stood up, walked to the front desk and brought back three cakes.
Yunli: "I can't finish this..."
Fu Shize: "Eat slowly." He tilted his head, "You can also speak slowly."
"Oh..." Yunli took a bite of the cake and looked into his deep eyes, a little dazed.
She quickly lowered her head and told the story of her trip abroad from beginning to end in a very formal manner, except for the unhappy things that happened.
"It's pretty good." She curled her lips and said, "I originally thought I wouldn't be able to survive there alone, but I didn't expect that I have such a strong ability to survive."
Perhaps she felt that she was exaggerating, Yunli smiled shyly. Fu Shi stared at her for a long time and curved his lips like hers.
"Do you want to go take a look at my lab?" Fu Shi asked her, "It's in this building."
Yun Li had no reason to refuse the sudden invitation and nodded.
As soon as the two of them arrived at the door of the laboratory, a boy ran up to Fu Shizhe anxiously and said, "Brother, it's over, it's over, I crashed the system!"
“…”
The boy looked terrified and moved agitatedly, as if a huge disaster had happened.
Noticing the person next to Fu Shi Ze, he looked closely and suddenly reacted.
Female.
Still a beautiful girl.
And Fu Shi was very close.
Meeting Fu Shizhe's cold gaze, the boy immediately changed his words: "Oh, it's not a big problem."
“…”
Fu Shize paused for a moment, then turned to Yunli and said, "I'll take you there next time." He tilted his head and asked her softly, "Okay?"
Yunli felt a little disappointed, but still smiled: "Yeah. It's okay."
The boy in front of her was trying not to laugh, his eyes switching back and forth between her and Fu Shi Ze. Yun Li was a little embarrassed, and hurriedly said "I'm leaving first" and walked downstairs. Before she had taken two steps, the boy's voice echoed through the fifth floor.
"Brother! Is that your girlfriend? Brother! When did you get a girlfriend?"
"no."
"Is that the person you're chasing after, brother? Tell us about it, and we'll help you chase him!"
"You're so noisy."
Yunli stopped walking. The boy was still muttering, and Fu Shizhe's reply could no longer be heard clearly.
After staying there for a minute or two, Yunli continued to walk down, and once again felt that his idea was ridiculous.
A flat, gray road appeared before my eyes.
She forgot where she parked the car for a moment and stared at the road for a long time.
When the two met again, there was no accusation or resentment towards each other, no reluctance or objection to their relationship, and no remaining love or throbbing.
It was like we were old friends who hadn't seen each other for a long time but were very familiar with each other, sitting down and talking quietly for two or three hours.
This should be the best state for a reunion.
But why did she feel sad?
Yunli felt a sore nose.
…
This episode did not affect Yunli's life. After returning, she took Yunye and Yin Yunyi out to play around on the weekend, and then immediately returned to her life as a corporate slave.
Yunli's current internship was interviewed remotely in the UK. She only applied for positions that matched her major. In the end, she received four offers. She chose a nine-to-five job and did her internship step by step.
The regularization assessment will be in a month, and she herself is a little nervous.
At first, Yun Li wanted to be a full-time Up主, but this was strongly opposed by Yun Yongchang. He wanted her to go to work regularly like most people and have a stable social circle.
She felt that Yun Yongchang's words made sense, and her column gradually shifted from a life column to an entertainment science column. If she stayed at home for a long time to make videos, she would become out of tune with society.
Yunli did not feel any sense of accomplishment in her first two internships. As she was about to graduate, she, like other students, wanted to find a job with a nine-to-five schedule, friendly colleagues, and a good company atmosphere, which would give her more free time to do what she wanted.
Her life of going back and forth between home and work was already fulfilling enough. She would only think of Fu Shi Ze when she finished making videos on E Station at night and lay in bed in a daze.
Many of Yun Li’s classmates in elementary and junior high school have already married and had children, and their parents know each other. Ever since Yun Li came back from the UK, Yun Yongchang and Yang Fang have been busy arranging blind dates for her.
Yun Yongchang: [Your third aunt introduced a boy to me. He is from Xifu, graduated with a master's degree two years ago, and is a civil servant.]
Yun Yongchang: [You have to go meet her this time. You are already 24 years old. It takes two or three years to date.]
Yun Yongchang: [This is still going smoothly. Your cousin has dated 20 or 30 men, but none of them are right for her.]
Yun Li felt a headache when he looked at the message. He had rejected them countless times, but Yun Yongchang and Yang Fang still enjoyed doing it.
Yun Yongchang: [Don't be arrogant.]
They thought simply that Yunli must be unwilling to go because the boy introduced to her was not good enough.
Yunli had no choice but to complain to Yunye about the family matter: [This is too outrageous. Don’t tell my parents about Yin Yunyi.]
Yunli: [Otherwise they will say next time, look, your brother is only 18 and he has already found a girlfriend.]
Yunye: [……]
Yunye: [It doesn't matter if you go and meet someone, just in case you meet someone suitable. ]
Yunli stared at the message: [Whose side are you on? ]
Yunye: [Stand by you, stand by you. ]
Yunye sent her a picture. It was a small group called 'Encountering the Assistant Teacher', which had more than 20 people in it. From the chat records, one could tell it was a fan group.
The most recent message was just sent: [The teaching assistant seems to be sick, so pitiful, what should I do?]
The attached picture shows Fu Shi Ze’s back at the hospital registration office.
Yunye: [That brother seems to be feeling unwell, Yunli, do you want to go and comfort him? ]
Yunli: [gun]
Yunli was extremely speechless: [Is this a fan group? ]
Yunye: [yes]
Yunli: [Aren’t you a man? ]
Yunye: [Men can no longer have idols? Can no longer be fans? ]
Yunye: [Besides, I went in for you. ]
Yunli: [……]
A colleague tagged her in the group to help her process a file. Yunli switched to the chat interface. After finishing her work, her hand rested on the mouse.
After thinking for a while, Yunli and his supervisor asked for half a day off.
Even when he got in the car and drove to the West China University of Technology hospital, Yunli still felt that his behavior was unorthodox.
What does she want to do?
After parking the car, Yun Li went directly to the registration office. There were quite a few people queuing, but there was no sign of Fu Shi Ze.
The hospital was not big. She looked at the distribution of the ophthalmology department. The first and second floors were for internal medicine and surgery, the third floor was for ophthalmology and dentistry, and the fourth floor was for psychiatry and psychology.
Fu Shizhe's stomach was not feeling well, so she went to the internal medicine department first, but didn't see him.
There are none on the second floor or the third floor.
When Yunli walked to the fourth floor, at the corner of the stairs, he looked at the big blue words "Department of Psychiatry" a dozen steps away.
The footsteps stopped.
She thought of Fu Shizhe's carefree and casual smiles during the few times they met, and she hoped that everything was going well for him.
She didn't want to meet Fu Shi Ze here.
She shouldn't have come in the first place.
Yunli turned around, feeling uncomfortable. She walked down two steps, and heard his tired voice from above: "Lili."
“…”
Yunli looked up and saw Fu Shi standing in front of the department door, holding a medical record book in his hand. Behind him was a solemn and cold background. He lowered his eyes to look at her.
Yunli stood there, not knowing how to react.
Fu Shi walked down, gradually approaching Yun Li, until he stopped in front of her. He asked, "Are you feeling unwell?"
"I'm here to have dinner with Yunye, so I need to use the restroom." Yunli quickly made up an excuse. She didn't forget that she was on the stairs leading to the fourth floor, and added, "There are a lot of people downstairs."
After hesitating for a while, Yunli kept her lips tightly closed and did not ask him why he was here.
Fu Shi glanced at her embarrassed look and said, "I'll go up with you."
After saying that, he walked straight upstairs and stopped in front of the bathroom opposite the stairs.
Yunli followed him into the bathroom. There was no one inside and she had no intention of going to the bathroom.
Not wanting Fu Shizhe to realize that he was lying, Yunli entered the cubicle, waited for half a minute, and pressed the flush button.
When she came out, Fu Shi was standing at the window not far away. He handed Yun Li a tissue and said, "Wipe your hands."
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