Outside the cafe, Yunli easily recognized Yin Yunyi sitting at an outdoor table. She was wearing a light green floral dress, had almond eyes, red lips, and waist-length hair. She was writing something in a notebook with her head down.
A slender man stood beside him, with western-style features, light hair and eyes, and wearing a black casual jacket. He just pulled out a chair and sat down, smiling and saying something to Yin Yunyi, when he suddenly looked up and noticed Yunli's gaze.
The man stood up again and walked to Yunli.
Yin Yunyi noticed his actions and stood up to follow the man.
The man smiled and said, "Are you Yunye's sister?"
Yunli nodded.
"Hello, I'm Yun Yi's brother, my name is Yin Yu Cheng." Yin Yu Cheng pulled out a chair for Yun Li, and Yin Yun Yi followed him and shyly called out, "Hello, sister."
Yunli hadn't met a stranger for a while. She gave a shy smile, briefly introduced herself, and put Yunye's gift on the table.
Yunli: "Yunye asked me to bring this."
Yin Yucheng: "Thank you for making such a special trip."
"It's okay, it's next to my company."
Yin Yunyi stared at the box for a long time, smiling candidly: "Yunye said that a classmate took a long time to make this gift, and he was afraid it would be damaged, so he asked you to help bring it over. Thank you."
Yunli suspected that he had heard wrongly: "Oh... did the classmates do this together?"
Yin Yunyi nodded without thinking much.
"What's wrong?" Yin Yucheng asked sharply.
Yunli hid the embarrassment on his face and shook his head.
She really overestimated Yunye. He didn't even dare to admit that he prepared the gift.
Yin Yucheng did not force Yunli to stay for dinner, but insisted on sending her home.
It's just a few steps away.
Yunli was not good at refusing, so he nodded.
"Brother will bring it to you in the car?" Yin Yucheng picked up the gift box and touched Yin Yunyi's head. "Wait here with your sister."
After he finished speaking, he smiled gently at Yunli.
The car was parked in the parking lot of the shopping mall. Yin Yucheng drove to the side of where they were. After Yun Li got in the car, it took only a few minutes to drive downstairs.
Before getting off the bus, Yin Yucheng asked her, "I heard from Yun Yi that you are from Nanjing University of Science and Technology?"
Yunli nodded.
"I am also from NUST, I graduated the year before last."
Yunye had mentioned this before, so Yunli wasn't too surprised.
Yin Yucheng got out of the car, walked to the passenger side and opened the door for Yun Li.
"Thank you for bringing the gifts. Go to bed early." Yin Yucheng said in a gentle voice.
Yun Li stood there, the passenger window slowly rolled down, Yin Yucheng nodded at her, his eyes staying on her for several seconds before driving away from the community.
Finally solved the problem.
A big stone in his heart was put down. Since yesterday, Yunli was worried whether this meeting would ruin Yunye's first love. Fortunately, everything went well.
The smell of tobacco floated in the evening breeze. Yunli looked back vigilantly. The shadows of the trees were sparse, and a thin firelight was faintly visible in the shade. A tall and thin figure was leaning there.
The figure moved, Yunli heard the sound of shoes stepping on branches, and the street lights illuminated his facial features.
Yunli couldn't believe his eyes: "Why are you downstairs of my house?"
Fu Shi didn't answer directly, but said calmly: "I called you."
Yunli looked at her cell phone and found that Fu Shize had indeed called her twice more than half an hour ago, but she didn't answer.
The strange number displayed on the screen was an active call from him, which Yunli found strange.
She curved her eyebrows and said, "I was busy just now and didn't answer the call. Have you been waiting here?"
Fu Shize did not answer. Looking down, Yun Li saw that he had her cashmere scarf tied around his neck, covering part of his chin, and in his hand was a hollow patterned handbag containing a few small boxes of cakes.
Yun Li's heart moved, and he looked up at Fu Shi Ze: "That scarf..."
"Return it to you."
Unexpectedly, Fu Shi pulled off the scarf from his neck and threw it to Yun Li. She barely caught it, and the smell of tobacco hit her in the face.
Yunli sensed his displeasure.
She originally thought that he might have some ideas as well, and those little cakes were for her. But when she saw his indifferent face, Yunli's brief fantasy was shattered.
He gave it back to her eagerly.
It seems like he doesn't want to have anything to do with it.
She was a little nervous: "You can wear it..."
"No." Fu Shize: "Thank you for the scarf."
After saying this, he walked away.
Yunli stood there in a daze for a while, feeling heavy in his heart. When he opened the door, there was a bang, as if something was thrown into the iron trash can.
After returning to the apartment, Yunli took a long time to calm himself down.
A feeling of uneasiness spread in her heart. Yunli tried to distract herself. She washed a sweet potato and threw it into the oven. When the orange light came on, she stared at the dents on the purple-red surface of the sweet potato.
He took the initiative to look for her, but it was not because he liked her.
He handed the scarf to her, and perhaps it was her illusion, his movements contained a hint of impatience.
Thinking of his cold attitude just now, Yunli's mood fell to the bottom.
She had to think that he might have always thought she was a nuisance.
I came to her just now, probably because I wanted to reject her again.
The oven was not closed tightly, and the beeping alarm brought Yunli back to reality.
Yunli was eager to free herself from this negative mood. She turned on her computer and continued to edit the dynamic promotional video. She hadn't noticed before that the video recorded at EAW recorded the whole process of Fu Shi Ze rejecting her. She watched it several times.
The room was extremely quiet.
Yunli turned off the video. The depression in her heart made her not intend to use any of the footage in it.
Yunli worked until three in the morning to finally edit the short video for EAW's dynamic promotion. In the next few days, he only needed to tweak the minor details and it would be finalized after He Jiameng confirmed it.
It was past bedtime, and Yunli was not sleepy. Looking out the window, she saw a thin layer of frost on the tree trunks due to the cold wave. She sat back in her seat and dug out the materials for her previous handicraft.
Following the tutorial on the Internet, she put together a cardboard drone all night long, simply colored it with paint, and randomly cropped the video, leaving only text at the beginning and end.
——“…I plan to give this handmade drone to a very important person.”
So I uploaded this handicraft video to Station E.
The last meeting with Fu Shi Ze was almost the most unsuccessful one during this period. In the following days, Yun Li consciously did not look for him again.
The video made by the drone was released for a few days and received mediocre response. However, Chen Lirong forwarded the video to her. Yunli was not surprised by this. She is now a well-known UP host on E Station, and most people who know her know about this.
Ever since the two of them added each other as friends, Chen Lirong seemed to have disappeared. He has not spoken to Yunli or posted on WeChat Moments.
Yunli: [? ]
Chen Lirong: [Are you planning to give this thing to fsz? [Sly smile][Sly smile]]
Yunli thought this person's words were quite vulgar, so he didn't plan to reply. After an hour or two, Chen Lirong sent another message: [You can't give him this, fsz dropped out of school because of this. ]
Yunli: [What do you mean? ]
Chen Lirong: [Say it to his face [sly smile][sly smile]]
At the same time, Chen Lirong also sent her many photos of Fu Shizhe, almost all of which were secretly taken from behind, and without exception there was another boy in each of them.
Chen Lirong: [He is really gay, little sister, don’t be fooled [sly smile][sly smile]. I can tell you in person what happened to him. ]
Yunli: [Please don’t spread rumors.]
Yunli: [No need.]
Yunli felt that Chen Lirong's words gave her goosebumps. After she refuted him, the other party did not reply.
I haven't seen Fu Shi Ze for several days. After Yun Li stopped taking the initiative, the contact between the two of them really became zero.
Yunli was a little depressed.
Fu Zhengchu sent another invitation to play basketball in the small group he had created earlier. This time, without waiting for Yunli to reply, Fu Shi directly replied: [I won’t go.]
Didn't even give a reason.
Fu Zhengchu: [???]
Fu Zhengchu: [Uncle, if you are so unsociable, I will kick you out.]
An hour later, when Yunli looked again, she and Fu Zhengchu were the only ones left in the group.
Yunli didn't expect Fu Zhengchu to be so decisive.
After arriving at the company, Yunli went to the lounge to get water several times, but he didn't see the person he had been waiting for. After hesitating for a long time at his seat, Yunli went to the lounge to make a cup of coffee.
Fu Shi had said before that she didn't need to knock on the door.
Yunli didn't have the courage to do so, so she knocked on the door anyway, but no one answered. She pushed the door open, and the room was dark, with a damp smell in the air, so it was estimated that no one had been there for a few days.
Taking the coffee back to the lounge, Yunli took a sip. It tasted bitter, so she added several packets of sugar.
It suddenly occurred to her that he might be avoiding her.
On WeChat, He Jiameng asked her to watch the finished promotional video. Yunli copied the video to a mobile hard drive in advance and played it at He Jiameng's seat.
This short film of more than one minute consists of seven scenes, all of which use VR equipment to try different behaviors. Yunli gives meaning to each scene, which constitutes the theme of the entire clip.
He Jiameng praised the show repeatedly while watching it, but Yun Li seemed a little absent-minded.
"This topic is too good. I will also try to attack the boss. Nothing is impossible in the world!" He Jiameng made a victory gesture, "Not to mention that even Fu Shi Ze has made a breakthrough."
Yun Li paused as he pressed the play button, then looked up at He Jiameng and asked, "Is the iron tree blooming?"
"Yesterday the boss showed me several shops and asked me what kind of places girls generally like. I thought he had someone in his heart and my heart was broken." He Jiameng laughed, "Later I asked the boss for a long time and he said it was Fu Shizhe who asked him where to date. Before that I always thought he was frigid. But even he got it, why didn't the boss get it..."
Yunli didn't listen to the second half of He Jiameng's words. She slid her thumb over her index finger, suppressed her trembling, and asked carefully, "He is so cold, what kind of girl would he like?"
"Eh, I don't know either. The boss just said it was a girl he had known for many years."
He Jiameng said a lot of things, but Yunli felt like he had suddenly become deaf, and even his right ear could not hear.
She stood there in a daze.
No... maybe?
"Teacher Xianyun, Teacher Xianyun?"
He Jiameng's facial features reappeared in the out-of-focus vision, and her voice seemed to come from another space: "Just post this version of the video."
"Oh, okay." Yun Li returned to his seat like a zombie. He felt like all the strength in his body had been drained. All that was left was the words that He Jiameng had just said, repeating over and over in his ears.
The tip of my nose felt sore and my vision gradually became blurry.
Reason told her that she should verify the matter first, and she couldn't be so discouraged for no reason.
Yunli opened the chat interface between the two of them, and the words "no" still caught her eye. She scrolled up until she reached the top, and almost all of them were one-way invitations from her, while his responses were so cold that they went off the screen.
Holding on to the last glimmer of hope, she typed word by word [I heard you have a date with a girl? ], but her fingers froze before clicking send.
What answer did she want?
Confirmed, then what?
Can you give yourself a little dignity?
Yes, it turns out it’s been such a long pursuit.
Her courage had long been exhausted.
Before today, she could still fantasize that one day Fu Shize would be moved. Even until just now, she still held out hope, thinking she saw the light.
The moment the fantasy collapsed, when facing reality, I found that -
From beginning to end, it was all her wishful thinking.
[You are a very good person, thank you for taking care of me all the time. ]
[Maybe I am not qualified to say these words, but I hope you can be nicer to yourself. You are the best person I have ever met and you deserve the best.]
【I heard that you met someone you like. 】
【Thank you for showing up. 】
【I won't bother you anymore. 】
Yunli typed these sentences with red eyes, and then deleted them one by one.
What’s the point of saying all this in the end?
Everything became ridiculous.
He probably didn't want to see it at all.
He didn't want her to disturb his life.
Yunli lay on the table, tears falling on the screen of her mobile phone. She could no longer see his profile picture, nor the name she had noted for him. She held back her sobs and clicked on the three dots in the upper right corner.
Then, click Delete.
This was the bravest attempt she had ever made.
She was a person who couldn't talk to strangers. She didn't dare to call strangers and didn't dare to talk to friends in the car just because of the driver. She did so many impossible things for him.
But no matter how much she does, she is just a passer-by.
There was no way she could continue to be friends with him.
She didn't want to shamelessly destroy other people's feelings when she knew he had someone else in his heart.
Goodbye then.
My favorite person.
After a long pause, Yunli raised his head.
While editing the text for the video he recorded with Fu Shi Ze, Yun Li realized that—
This video, themed "trying", carries her competition and unrealistic fantasies during this period. When it was released, her bravest attempt also ended.
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