Yunli looked at him: "Why didn't you come to me directly?"
Until he left Nanwu, Yunli still held unrealistic expectations in the deepest part of his heart.
As long as he can come to see her, just based on this extra bit of love, both of them can put aside the past and continue on their journey.
When she was in England, she would tell herself that Fu Shi really liked her when she recalled the details of their time together. However, after they broke up, he no longer needed her, nor did he need her.
I missed a year and a half like this.
She would rather everything happened as she wished, and she would rather Fu Shi quickly got over this relationship and returned to a normal life.
At least this way, Fu Shize would be better off than if the reality had actually happened.
"I told you before." Fu Shize sat up a little straighter, "I want to return to my old self and find you again."
He hadn't done it yet, and wasn't sure he could.
Fu Shi leaned forward, put his hand on her hair, and touched her forehead: "It's just that I don't want to rule out another possibility - you came back to find me."
After a long silence, Yunli said softly, "I wish I had gone back to find you."
Yunli felt guilty about this matter. When she thought of Fu Shizhe's condition at that time, she felt suffocated.
She also leaned forward and held his fingers: "Won't it be sad for you to think about that time?"
Fu Shi said directly: "I won't think about those things." He put his arms around her waist and buried his face in the back of her neck. There was a sweet smell of shower gel.
Yunli felt his soft lips against his neck, and he whispered softly, "I spend all my free time thinking about you."
Yunli found that she and Fu Shize were often on different emotional channels. When she mentioned their breakup, she was always sad and blamed herself. And Fu Shize——
He didn't seem to think about it at all.
If you think about it, it may just flash through your mind for a moment, and then you continue to think about other things.
So, even if she discovered something that seemed very sad to her - one-way messaging for a year and a half, it didn't seem like a big deal to Fu Shizhe.
He seems to not care about his gains or losses at all.
Because of this, in addition to guilt, Yunli also felt heartache.
She said seriously: "Are you really clear now? When I first saw you in Nanwu, I liked you and never thought about your past."
Yunli wanted him to know that the only person she liked from the beginning to the end was the person in front of her.
"I don't need you to become anything."
"Yeah." Fu Shi seemed to have heard it and continued to open his notebook. After a long pause, he continued, "But I want to give you a better life."
After returning home, Yunli found several empty express boxes at the door, and she knocked on Yunye's door. The door opened a crack, revealing an eye that looked 90% like hers.
Before Yunye had time to recognize the person, Yunli pushed the door open.
Yunli: "What are you doing sneakily?"
This rough action made Yunye not even need to identify who was coming. His scalp tightened and he stepped back to let Yunli in.
The room was filled with sweetness, and dried flowers were scattered on the floor, half-arranged in shapes. Yunye's phone was playing a confession tutorial on E-station.
Yunli: “…”
Yunye was also a little embarrassed, but he still bit the bullet and asked her in a bad tone, "Why did you come in?"
Yunli sat down on his bed and lay down at 90 degrees to the bed. She used her arms to block the light.
Yunye kicked her calf: "If you're fine, just get out."
Yunli: "I'll stay for a while and won't disturb you."
Yunye glanced at her, and seeing that she didn't move, he reluctantly said, "Okay."
Yunye sat back on the floor, muted his phone, and continued playing the confession tutorial. The phone screen was small, so he played it at double the speed, and had to concentrate to recognize the subtitles.
A minute later, Yunli turned over.
She sighed, "Yunye, I feel so guilty."
Yunye: “…”
Yunye: "Can you wait until I finish..." Before he could finish his words, he saw Yunli staring at him quietly, so he fell silent, covered his phone, and sat cross-legged in front of Yunli.
"Go ahead."
Yunli described the breakup and reconciliation to Yunye from Fu Shizhe's perspective.
After saying that, she sat aside and waited for Yunye to speak.
Yunye: “Are you done?”
Yunli: “Yeah.”
Yunye: "Then you can go out."
Yunli: “?”
Yun Ye was extremely confused. Yin Yunyi had quarreled with him before and said that he was too rational. She confided in him, but his reaction was to propose plan 1 to plan N instead of empathizing with her.
Yin Yunyi said that all he had to do was listen quietly and suppress his instinctive urge to analyze the problem.
At this moment, Yunye finished listening to Yunli's speech, and Yunli looked at him unhappily again.
Between two women with different personalities, Yunye had no way to survive: "What do you want me to say?"
Yunli was tangled up, "I don't think your brother-in-law should have liked me for so long. I don't seem to be any good. After knowing that he had been messaging me for a year and a half, I still feel guilty."
Seeing her attitude was so low that it was about to sink to the dust, Yunye frowned unhappily: "Who told you that?" He said without thinking: "Compare yourself. In terms of appearance, personality, and education, which one is worse?"
Yunye added: "Besides, you are more reasonable in front of your brother-in-law."
Seeing Yunli remained silent, Yunye continued, "Sister, have you ever thought about this? There are some people in this world who are like this. Once they fall in love with someone, they will not change easily."
Yun Ye and Fu Shi had few opportunities to interact with each other.
But maybe because they are all men, he can quite understand Fu Shizhe.
In his eyes, he is a very simple person, both towards things and people.
Yunye said with certainty: "I think my brother-in-law is such a person."
"And my brother-in-law is lucky, he met you instead of someone who forgot about him completely after breaking up." Yunye imitated her and lay down on the bed, holding his hands behind his head: "Sister, you have already lost once. Instead of guilt, shouldn't you be more cherishing now?"
Yunli didn't say anything, but stood up and went back to her room. She sat down on the bed and lit the paper ball lamp again.
The feeling of guilt still exists, but it has been replaced by a new emotion - cherishment.
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At eleven o'clock in the evening, Fu Shi had just finished helping Lin Jingran revise his article and unlocked his little turtle phone when his phone vibrated for a while.
He opened the message and Yunli sent him a message: [Aze. ]
Unlike Nanwu, the temperature in Xifu is moderate in autumn, with strong winds often blowing. Fu Shizhe's clothes were blown up, so he pressed them down.
Lin Jingran had already ridden to the side, and his voice was accompanied by the huge noise of the wind: "Brother, the wind is so strong, why don't you go?"
Fu Shi said briefly: "Let's go first. Send me a reply."
"Brother, you are so smart. Don't look at your phone while riding your bike." Lin Jingran teased him and left first.
His eyes returned to the phone screen, and it was still the same message. Fu Shi sat on the turtle with his legs on the ground, and he replied with a questioning expression.
Yunli: [I want to reply to the information from the past year and a half.]
Yunli: [Reply once a day. ]
Fu Shi thought for a while: [I owed it for a year and a half, is there any interest? ]
Yunli: [What interest rate do you want? ]
Fu Shi lowered his eyes: [Not much.]
He typed slowly: [Two more words every day.]
After sending the message, Yunli did not respond for a long time.
He slid his cell phone into his pocket, backed out the bike skillfully, rode down a slope, and then walked in a straight line to the downstairs of the dormitory. Fu Shi parked the bike and put the keys in his pocket.
The phone vibrated.
He took it out, and the screen showed her face, small and delicate, with eyes full of love, staring at the camera, and the corners of her lips raised slightly. After swiping it open, it was still the chat interface between the two when the screen was last turned off.
Yunlili: [Love you.]
…
Yunli chose a job as a game developer at a subsidiary of Yousheng Technology. After replying to the HR email, Yunli received a friend request the next morning.
[Hello, I'm Zhang Yanxin. Yesterday, HR said that you have confirmed that you will come to work here. The team leader plans to treat the new colleagues to a meal. If it's convenient for you, come along? ]
The other party added Yunli to the group and directly sent the time and address, which was scheduled for noon today in a shopping mall near West China University of Technology.
Yunli didn't really want to go, but she had already been pulled into the group, which added another obstacle to her refusal. She hesitated for a while, but finally gave a positive reply.
She carefully put on her daily makeup, brought some porridge to Fu Shizhe, and then drove to the mall.
Yunli arrived at the box early. There were already six or seven people sitting at the table, and there were only two girls including her. Several people greeted Yunli, and she sat next to the girls, listening to their conversation silently.
The agreed time has come.
After a while, a man came late, sat next to her and greeted her politely.
Yunli responded, and it was not until the table became lively that she realized from a few words that the man next to her was the team leader.
The man's name is Zhou Tiao. He looks young, has a square appearance, and a calm and steady temperament.
After he briefly introduced himself, he asked new and old members to introduce themselves in a clockwise direction.
Yunli was the first one. She said her name and graduation date, and said nothing more.
The rest of the people’s self-introductions were quite rich in content, covering their interests, hobbies and personalities. The atmosphere in the whole group was active and relaxed.
It happened to be another boy's turn to speak. He graduated from the Industrial Design Class of West China University of Technology.
As soon as the words fell, the old employee joked: "Then you are also the alumni of the team leader, and they are all academic geniuses."
Yunli looked at Zhou Tiao and smiled.
Halfway through the dinner, most of the new and old employees at the table had become familiar with each other.
Yunli doesn't speak actively, but he also doesn't choose to play with his phone at parties to avoid communicating with others like he did before.
She sat quietly in the corner, answering everyone's questions one by one.
From the simple conversation, I can feel that the employees in the same group are all pretty good people.
The topic at the table gradually shifted to why they did game development. Zhou Tiao, as the leader, was the first to speak: "Actually, I was working on hardware when I was in school. Later, by chance, I entered the game industry."
He leaned back in his chair, perhaps because the things in his pocket were getting uncomfortable, so he took out his key chain and put it on the table.
Right in front of Yunli, there was a miniature moon-shaped badge on the keychain. She stared at it and was almost certain that it was the badge of the Unique team.
Noticing her gaze, Zhou Tiao picked up the keychain and said, "It's actually related to this. I joined a team during my undergraduate studies."
As soon as the word "team" was uttered, there was a burst of excitement at the table, and everyone kept praising Zhou Tiao for his ability.
Zhou Tiao waved his hand nonchalantly: "What happened then is more memorable, but the ending was not very good."
When Yunli heard this, his body tensed up.
He shook his keychain and said, "At first we were doing drone racing, and then we participated in drone design competitions and won first place in the country. Later we went abroad to compete."
Zhou Tiao was lost in memories, his eyes full of nostalgia: "At that time, the wish of our entire team was to win all the trophies. Everyone who won a prize in the competition was guaranteed admission to graduate school."
Zhou Tiao paused. "Later, someone in the team got into trouble. The team leader even had to drop out of school because of it, and the whole team just disbanded." He was a little sad. "I was about to graduate at that time, and I was looking for a job at a drone giant during the fall recruitment. After this happened, I felt very bad, so I found a new job during the spring recruitment and changed my career."
After Zhou Tiao said these words, the air suddenly became still.
"The captain dropped out of school...was it because of something he did?" Yun Li suddenly asked.
Zhou Tiao shook his head: "The teammate who got into trouble and our captain grew up together. He probably can't stand this blow."
"You're getting more and more off-topic. We all came here to have a party today, and I set a bad example, so I'll drink a glass of wine as a punishment." Probably feeling that the situation was too solemn, Zhou Tiao tried to smooth things over by pouring himself a glass of red wine and drinking it in one gulp.
Then, he stared at Yunli, thought about her name, and said with a hearty smile: "Yunli, tell me why you came to this industry."
Yunli came back to his senses and mentioned the VR games he played in EAW in a few words. Based on his major, he applied for a position in this field.
After everyone else finished speaking, she got up and went to the bathroom.
The pale white glossy tiles vaguely reflected her figure. Yun Li stopped in front of the sink, looking at her own face, which gradually overlapped with Fu Shi Ze's face in her mind.
She had thought about the possible reasons why he dropped out of school, including the stress of studying for a doctorate, his dislike for studying, and his bad tutor. She even wondered if he had been bullied because he was so good-looking.
He eventually went back, and Yunli didn't ask any further questions.
Put yourself in her shoes. If she dropped out of school, she wouldn't want others to know about it.
Yunli never thought that the childhood friend he mentioned who had passed away was related to his dropping out of school.
After washing her hands, Yunli wiped them absentmindedly with a tissue. She quickened her pace and walked back to the box. The dinner was over and her colleagues left in groups.
Yunli looked towards Zhou Tiao's position, but he was no longer there.
She walked slowly back to the car and opened the dinner group.
It was inconvenient to talk at the dinner table, so Yunli tried to ask Zhou Tiao in private about what happened that year.
There was no note in the group that mentioned Zhou Tiao’s WeChat ID, so Yunli could only send a message to Zhang Yanxin who had contacted her yesterday.
[Hello, may I ask for the WeChat of Team Leader Zhou? ]
After waiting in the car for a while, the other party did not reply to her.
Yunli drove back.
After waiting for a long time at home, Zhang Yanxin did not reply to her. Yunli called her, but the other party did not answer.
She thought that she didn't seem to offend the other party today.
Yunli called Fu Zhengchu and said, "Fu Zhengchu, I want to ask you something."
Fu Zhengchu heard her serious tone and couldn't help but feel a little nervous: "Sister Lili, what's wrong?"
"A childhood friend of your uncle passed away. Do you know the reason?" Yunli said in a dull tone, "I don't want to ask your uncle directly."
She was afraid that he would be irritated or hurt by bringing up the subject.
Fu Zhengchu: "My parents told me before that it was an accidental death. They didn't tell me the details and asked me not to mention it in front of my uncle."
Yun Li was a little confused for a moment: "Then do you know that your uncle was..."
She didn't ask further because she was not sure whether Fu Zhengchu knew that Fu Shizhe had dropped out of school.
Seeing that she didn't say anything, Fu Zhengchu guessed her question and took the initiative to answer: "My uncle was not in a good state before. Sister Lili, you also saw that he didn't like to talk at that time, so he returned to Nanwu and stayed for a long time."
Fu Zhengchu paused for a moment and continued, "But my uncle is doing fine now. That incident happened a long time ago. Sister Lili, don't worry too much."
"Okay." After chatting with Fu Zhengchu for a few more sentences, Yun Li hung up the phone.
She wasn't sure if she was being too suspicious.
Fu Shi almost did not hold back in front of Yun Li, except when talking about his childhood friend, he was very evasive.
After all, memories can often be very hurtful.
At this moment, Yunli recalled his pretended relaxed tone and forced smile.
She felt hurt inside.
He was deeply hurt and didn't want to look back on the past.
She searched online for the awards won by the Unique team and found the names of all the team members in a news article.
Fu Shi Ze (Captain) Jiang Yuan Zhou Tiao...
After searching for Jiang Yuan and Xifu University of Science and Technology on the Internet, Yunli did not get any more information.
She was leaning over the computer. Although she had already agreed with Fu Shizhe not to meet today, she still picked up the key and went out.
I saw the tall figure walking towards me, with a relaxed look on his face.
After sitting in the passenger seat, Fu Shi noticed that she was worried and tilted his head: "What's wrong?"
"No." Yun Li did not mention what happened today. Fu Shi glanced at the steering wheel she was holding tightly, pondered for a while, and asked, "Did dinner go well today?"
He will know about this sooner or later. Yunli pretended to be calm and said, "No, the leader of the group I'm in seems to be your classmate. He has a small unique badge on his keychain."
Fu Shizhe fixed his gaze for a moment, then asked her, "What's your name?"
Yunli: "Zhou Tiao."
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