When Yunli returned to the cafe, the few people were in a stalemate.
A minute ago, Qu Mingxin was eager to see Yunli again. She rarely had the experience of being criticized in person, and she couldn't accept that she was not liked by others here.
Fu Shize: "They are leaving."
Yunli felt it was sudden, but she could guess that something had happened while she was away: "Then I'll go see them off."
Arriving at the store entrance, Qu Mingxin reluctantly held Yunli's arm and said, "Yunli, I didn't want to talk about this, but your friends don't seem to welcome us."
Yunli asked alertly: "What do you mean?"
"I just talked to them for a few minutes, and your colleague has a very bad temper."
Fu Shizhe has a very bad temper?
This was the first time Yunli heard this evaluation.
"What did you talk about?"
"Nothing, just talking about you being punished to stand before, I was just..."
The words "standing in the corner" triggered Yunli's most sensitive memories of high school. She interrupted Qu Mingxin and asked, "Did you tell them that I can't hear with my left ear?"
Qu Mingxin opened her mouth, but seeing Yunli's straight face fall, she stopped being so confident: "I didn't expect they didn't know. Besides, we've been classmates for so many years. I just wanted them to be nicer to you."
Yunli just felt it was unreasonable.
When she was a child, she was not afraid to tell others about this. She didn't know she had this problem. From her perspective, she thought everyone was the same as her.
Everyone is deaf in their left ear.
It's just a decoration.
It was not until later, when the young child uttered words such as "deaf", "disabled" and "deformed", that she realized that she was indeed different from others.
She consciously stopped talking about the incident with anyone, but the news spread quickly during high school.
At the beginning, or even until now, she felt a little inferior because of this.
I was also emotional and couldn't help but ask why it was her.
But what is even more confusing is why something that was not her fault was used back and forth to attack her.
The grievances buried in her memory and the current anger intertwined into a ball. She thought that after so many years, she would not be the same as before. Why did it still affect her life until now?
"I don't think it's good for me to talk about the embarrassing things in the past in front of my friends." Yun Li looked at her, "I was too timid to refute you before. I thought I could get through it by just making do with it."
"It doesn't seem to be the case now." Yun Li pushed her hand away and said coldly: "Please don't contact me again in the future."
After he finished speaking, he closed the door without caring about Qu Mingxin's expression.
Behind the door, Yunli took a long time to calm down. Finally, she felt proud. Unexpectedly, taking this step was not as difficult as she had imagined.
…
In the coffee shop, Fu Zhengchu covered the book and said, "Uncle, were you angry just now?"
Fu Shize: “No.”
Just now, when Fu Zhengchu heard Qu Mingxin talking about Yunli's past, he just felt that she was very pitiful. It was not until Fu Shizhe said those words that he reacted.
It seems to be the case.
If it were him, he would not tell these things to others.
"In fact, I never realized that Sister Lili had one ear that was deaf..." Fu Zhengchu racked his brains to recall his daily interactions with Yunli, but he remembered something else: "Uncle, did you know it from the beginning? Every time we went out before, you were always on Sister Lili's right."
Fu Shize: "..."
Fu Zhengchu: "Including now, you are also on the right."
He wanted to further investigate Fu Shi Ze's motives, but he saw Yun Li walking towards him. Fu Zhengchu stopped the conversation. Not being able to hide his thoughts, he hurriedly picked up a book from the side and pretended to read it.
After a few seconds, she couldn't help but said, "Fu Zhengchu, you hold the book upside down."
"Ah, eh." Fu Zhengchu quickly sat up straight: "I must have fallen asleep!"
Yunli: “…”
Yunli knew the reason why Fu Zhengchu was acting abnormally, and felt that he should say something. However, after thinking about it, he couldn't organize the words, so he had to continue reading quietly.
After ordering some light meals in the cafe, they moved to the sofa seats. Fu Shi, with his eyes drooping, asked Fu Zhengchu for a baseball cap, put it on, and then curled up in the sofa to sleep.
Seeing this, the other two also flipped through the books quietly.
The exam was about to start, but Yun Li was absent-minded, thinking about what Qu Mingxin had just said - Fu Shi was irritable.
I know this is exaggerated, but I can imagine that Fu Shizhe stood up for her.
After this thought came to her mind, Yunli's mind was filled with imagining how he would be angry for her, but after thinking of several possibilities, none of them seemed to fit his character.
I wish you were here just now.
I tried to write some formulas on a piece of scratch paper to concentrate, but after drawing for a long time, I ended up drawing a whole moon on the paper.
Looking to the side, Fu Shi was curled up in the corner of the sofa, his thin lips tightly pursed, his body trembling slightly, and his back tense, as if he was having a nightmare.
His brows were tightly furrowed and his breathing became irregular, as if he was struggling.
It didn't seem right to let him have nightmares.
Yunli reached out to shake his shoulders, but Fu Shi suddenly grabbed her wrist and pressed her hand against his leg.
“…”
Yunli tried to pull her hand back, but the hand that was holding her didn't move at all. His breathing suddenly became much calmer, his brows relaxed, but he held her wrist tightly.
For some reason I thought of a baby sucking on a pacifier.
She couldn't read the book during this action, so she took out her cell phone, opened the chat interface with Fu Shi Ze, typed a few sentences one by one, and deleted them one by one.
[Are you pretending to sleep? ]
[Our actions are somewhat ambiguous.]
You pulled my hand.
【You took the initiative.】
Can you be responsible?
…
[I've been pulling for five minutes.]
Fu Shize let go of her when she was about to wake up. When she pulled her hand back, Yunli realized that her wrist had been pinched purple by him.
Fu Zhengchu asked in a very strange tone: "Uncle, did you sleep well?"
Not knowing what was going on with his tone, Fu Shi just raised his sleepy eyes and ignored him.
The three of them finished their review before dinner. Yunli went home and collapsed on the sofa, looking at the light through his fingers, and then looking down, there were shallow marks on his wrists.
Because they held hands, she unilaterally felt that her relationship was progressing rapidly.
Why the hell is he taking advantage of her all day long?
And irresponsible.
Yunli opened WeChat depressedly and sent a message to Deng Chuqi.
Yunli: [Today is also a day that I have been longing for but cannot obtain. ]
Deng Chuqi replied immediately: [??? Have you confessed? ]
Yunli resisted the urge to tell him that he was being taken advantage of: [No. Wouldn't that scare him away?]
Deng Chuqi: [Then how did you ask for it? ]
Yunli: [I prayed silently in my heart.]
Yunli held her phone and waited for a while, but Deng Chuqi didn't reply. She checked back to E Station and saw that the candid video she had taken during the day had already received 200,000 likes. She simply replied and then switched to the chat window with Fu Shizhe.
The content is still stuck on last Halloween.
She asked: [I am going to the Science and Technology City now! ]
He responded: [Yes.]
Yunli: [Today I talked about promoting EAW. Are you free on Monday night? ]
Both exams were held on Monday during the day, and the winter semester courses happened to be adjusted, so the internship time was also changed.
Fu Shi replied, still with just a simple "hmm".
Looking back, she sent a few messages and he replied once, so the total number of messages was no more than 20. After flipping through them for a while, Yunli changed the note to "wife", and it felt much better.
She went back to the original message and deleted the two middle ones.
Yunli: [/Be my wife/]
Wife: [Yeah]
…
The night before the exam, Yunli stayed up all night. Not only did he finish several sets of papers, he also made a matcha towel roll overnight, carefully packed it in a box, and tied a bow with a blue ribbon.
After the exam, I went back to catch up on some sleep. Before leaving for the appointment, it started to drizzle. Yunli changed into a waterproof windbreaker, put the camera in a waterproof bag, and went to EAW with an umbrella.
The employees had already left work, and Yunli waited at the door for a while. After a few minutes, the drizzle turned into heavy rain.
He looked down at the time and saw that there were still ten minutes left before the time they had agreed on. He stood at the window, his shoes drawing circles on the spot for a long time. Yunli opened his umbrella again and walked towards the fire escape leading to the company.
Big drops of rain hit the umbrella. Yun Li saw Fu Shi Ze standing at the door of the fire escape through the rain curtain. Just as she expected, he did not bring an umbrella.
As soon as she entered the tented area, she immediately put away her umbrella and patted the rain off her body. A large area of her body was wet and the ends of her hair were also covered with water.
His eyes darkened, and he lowered his head to glance at what she was holding: "Come to pick me up?"
Yunli was too embarrassed to admit it directly, so he hummed softly: "I waited there for a long time, but you didn't come."
"Give me the umbrella." Fu Shi took the umbrella and opened it without asking any questions.
The space under the single umbrella was so cramped that it could barely accommodate two people. Yunli carried the camera bag on his chest.
The sound of rain was amplified many times in her right ear. The rain curtain blocked her sight. Among all the touches, there was only the existence of another person.
Raindrops dripped down the ribs of the umbrella and hit the other half of Fu Shize's body. Yun Li felt a little guilty: "My umbrella is too small, why don't you hold it by yourself."
Fu Shi didn't take this unrealistic idea to heart, but he still lowered his head and asked her, "What about you?"
The girl, who was so small that she seemed to be curled up in his arms, put on her hat cheerfully: "My clothes are waterproof."
Fu Shize: "..."
Fortunately, the journey was not far. After arriving at the experience center, Fu Shi swiped his card to open the door and turned on the power switch, then went to the storage room to get a towel and handed it to Yun Li.
Feeling embarrassed to wipe it in front of him, Yunli turned around and gently wiped the wet part of her hair with a towel.
Yunli set up the camera and reflector, and then started shooting each project according to the process set at the beginning.
The last project was to play a horror game with VR glasses. For the sake of the show effect, Yunli decided to play it herself. Fu Shi helped her put on the glasses and then guided her to open the game "Seeing Ghosts When Waking Up".
As soon as she entered the game, she saw a bathroom under a blood-red light. Yun Li tensed her whole body and moved slowly inside. There were several rooms inside. After groping her way through each of them, she suddenly heard a miserable ghost cry in her ears.
Yunli cannot hear with his left ear, so he cannot locate the source of sound like ordinary people.
To her, all sounds came from the right.
She subconsciously felt that there was a ghost on the right, and she took a step back to the left in fear, but she ran directly into someone's arms. When she looked up, she saw a defeated face.
Before Yunli screamed, Fu Shi took off her VR glasses.
She was still in shock, her vision returned to the real world, the soft touch behind her reminded her of the scene just now, she turned back with lingering fear, only to find -
She was in Fu Shizhe's arms.
He held the VR glasses in one hand and gently supported her shoulder with the other hand to prevent her from falling.
“…”
"I didn't mean to do that."
She suddenly reacted, took two steps forward and broke away from the embrace from behind.
Yunli's face felt hot. She had taken advantage of Fu Shizhe again. She touched her cheeks with the back of her hands and made sure that the temperature had dropped before turning around.
Fu Shi lowered his eyes, turned off the VR glasses in his hand, adjusted the retractable rope to a normal size, and checked it up and down.
He repeated this action several times.
Then he looked up at Yunli.
"You like me?"
His eyes are clean.
Yunli stood there in a daze.
My first reaction was to deny it, but when the words reached my throat, I couldn't make a sound.
There were many nights when she opened her eyes due to poor sleep and could always vaguely see the figure of another person.
Yunli has never avoided this feeling, this experience with a hint of sweetness, bitterness and astringency, from the initial admiration to the final infatuation.
Wanting to be a part of his past.
Want to be part of his present.
Want to be part of his future.
Dense emotions grew in her heart, and the buds had already broken through the ground. She was timid and tried to suppress and forget them, but they seemed to counterattack and grew more and more in this world.
It turns out that in a person's eyes, there can really only be the figure of another person.
Yunli clenched her palms and looked at him: "Is it not okay for me to pursue you?"
Fu Shi was silent for a long time.
Or maybe just a few seconds.
Yunli felt that every second seemed like a year. Her palms were sweating and she couldn't help shaking.
He lowered his eyes.
It was the same tone as that night of rejection.
"Feel sorry."
With each clear word he uttered, Yunli's momentary tense emotions disappeared.
Yunli heard that the rain had stopped.
And hear clearly every word he says.
——"Maybe my behavior gave you a false impression."
——"I have no intention of falling in love."
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