Chapter 104
In the Late Night Food and Sound Restaurant, Gu Cunxi sat at the bar, drinking silently, one glass after another. The phone call and the medical records that came over were like a huge rock pressing on his chest.
"Another drink!" Gu Cunxi raised his hand to signal
This is her ninth whiskey of the night.
"You've already drunk a lot," the man at the table said helplessly.
“I will pay”
“…”
The man shook his head and took out a glass from the bar and handed it to him.
Gu Cunxi looked at the photos displayed on the wine cabinet behind the man with a dazed look in her eyes. Although her vision was a little blurry, she felt a little familiar with the back of the photo in the upper left corner.
The man followed Gu Cunxi's gaze and smiled: "These photos are from the opening of the business."
Gu Cunxi raised his hand and pointed and said: That...back
The man turned around and looked at it: "Are you talking about this one?" He took down the photo, placed it in front of Gu Cunxi and said: "I took this photo. Doesn't it have a hazy beauty?"
Gu Cunxi recognized the figure at a glance.
The drowsy feeling disappeared in an instant
Seeing that she didn't respond, the man just stared at the photo in his hand, paused, and continued: "This woman is very beautiful, with a mature and intellectual beauty. This photo was taken when she left a message."
"Leave a message?" Gu Cunxi raised his eyebrows.
"Well, this woman wrote something on my wall," the man said, pointing to the distance.
"Do you remember what you said?" Gu Cunxi raised his voice and looked at the man and asked
"Remember," the man nodded.
"Can you tell me what it is?"
"Do you know this person?" The man frowned slightly.
"yes"
"Tell me what she left behind!" Gu Cunxi was very anxious, holding the wine glass, and stepped down from the high stool at the bar with his long legs.
"Okay, I'll show you."
After that, the man walked to the white wall covered with words, pointed and said, "This is it."
My heart seemed to have been hit hard, and it sank instantly...
The most impressive message she saw here was on the night of her first day back in Jianghuai City.
2016.8.7.X
X is the first letter of Xiao
"I remember this woman very clearly." The man's eyes were deep, as if he was recalling something. He paused and said, "This message left a deep impression on me, as well as the white gauze on her left wrist..."
"Left wrist?" Gu Cunxi looked at the man in shock.
"Hmm... there's blood on the gauze on my left wrist."
"I think she really died once, so she left behind these words."
The pain in his heart was splitting apart. Gu Cunxi's eyes went dark for a moment. He stretched out his hand to support the wall of words in front of him. His index finger stopped on the line of words and rubbed it gently.
"Beauty...are you okay?" the man asked worriedly.
Gu Cunxi clutched his chest tightly and whimpered.
"Beauty? What's wrong with you?" the man asked again
There was a buzzing roar in her ears, and she couldn't hear the surrounding sounds. Gu Cunxi didn't respond, and her hands holding the wall were shaking. She wanted to know why four years ago...
The questions in her heart urgently needed an answer, and she couldn't wait a moment. She stumbled over to pick up her windbreaker, took out dozens of red banknotes from her wallet, put them on the bar, and ran out.
Late at night, the streets were deserted, with only a taxi passing by with its red light on. Gu Cunxi hurriedly stopped a taxi and drove towards Cheng Sheng's coffee shop.
[I decided... to live a good life with Chen Feng]
[This person is currently divorced]
[She is seeing a psychiatrist...]
[Exogenous moderate depression]
Memories of the past and present overlap in my mind, and everything is extremely confusing!
…
Inside the CYcoffee shop, Cheng Sheng cleaned the workbench and placed the washed coffee cups neatly in the cabinet. She looked at the time and saw it was already midnight. She picked up the key from the bar and was about to turn off the lights when the sound of wind chimes rang out behind her and the door was pushed open.
Gu Cunxi stood at the door, his slender figure swaying
"You..." Cheng Sheng frowned, looking at the person at the door with his head lowered, his eyes red, leaning against the door as if he was about to fall down at any time.
"Why are you here?" Cheng Sheng said in a cold tone, but he still walked over to help her.
"Cheng Sheng... do you know?" Gu Cunxi's tears fell as she opened her mouth. She asked with a trembling throat.
"Know what?"
"Four years ago...did she...did she...tell you why?"
"Sister Cunxi..." Cheng Sheng was stunned.
"Answer me!!" Gu Cunxi roared, grabbing Cheng Sheng's shoulders: "Tell me, how much do you know? Please! Cheng Sheng"
Since knowing Gu Cunxi, Cheng Sheng had never seen her begging anyone so humbly. Seeing her embarrassed and sad appearance, Cheng Sheng softened his heart.
"When I beg you, tell me...what happened to her...four years ago?"
"Why the divorce? Why did she slit her wrists? Why did she take those pills? Tell me...why did she push me away and not be able to live her own life?!"
"Why did you lie to me, why did you leave, why did you choose Chen Feng, why... don't you want me?"
"I beg you, Cheng Sheng," her eyes were red and her tone was full of pleading.
Cheng Sheng stood aside in the coffee shop. Gu Cunxi had lost his usual calmness and composure. His mad roar turned into calmness. He staggered against the wall and slowly slid down. His voice was hoarse and trembling.
"Sister Pei Yin..." Cheng Sheng opened his mouth, his eyes dark as he said, "She... loves you very much!!"
As soon as the words fell, Gu Cunxi leaned against the wall and couldn't stop laughing, echoing in the coffee shop, looking desolate.
"She loves me...she loves me..."
The silent night seemed strange. The second hand of the clock ticked against Gu Cunxi's heart, like a sharp needle piercing the darkness. His ears were deafening.
"Okay, I'll tell you!" Cheng Sheng took a deep breath and said, as if he had made up his mind: "Four years ago, Chen Feng discovered your affair with Sister Pei Yin..."
Her voice was low and hoarse, and every word she said was extremely difficult. She had to pause several times to ease the pain in her heart.
"He followed Sister Pei Yin back home... and said to Sister Pei Yin..."
“Violence!!”
Gu Cunxi leaned against the corner, saying nothing, with a blank look in his eyes, and clenched his hands.
"Later... he threatened Sister Pei Yin with your life, forcing her to leave you! You know what Chen Feng does, Sister Pei Yin can't stand up to him."
"That day...you were injured..."
"She truly loves you...that's why she just wants you to be safe!"
"Later... on the day you left Jiang Huai, Chen Feng discovered that she had hidden the crystal ball you gave her. He angrily said... a lot of things to Sister Pei Yin that she couldn't bear. That day, she... cut the artery in her left wrist..."
Gu Cunxi suddenly remembered the day she left Jiang Huai four years ago. At the intersection on the way to Fu'an Community, the ambulance passed by her...
The heart was hollowed out, leaving a bloody hole
"She was determined to die, but she managed to survive. Shortly after she was discharged from the hospital, Sister Pei Yin... threatened Chen Feng with death in exchange for a divorce. Because you were already gone by then, she wasn't afraid of anything!"
"You know, when a person is willing to risk his life, there is nothing to be afraid of! Sister Pei Yin is not willing to die, so Chen Feng is also afraid."
Cheng Sheng walked to the bar, poured a glass of ice water, drank it in big gulps, looked around and said, "This coffee shop... Actually, it's actually hers..."
"Four years ago, she found me and gave me some money. She knew that a coffee shop was my dream. She said her dream was no longer possible, so she wanted to use the money to make my dream come true!"
"The only two requirements were that the cafe use her design name and that she be the one to launch new products in the store."
"I agreed."
"CY is the combination of the letters of your names"
"The coffee you drink is actually made by Sister Pei Yin."
"Every cup is made by her thinking of you. Because missing you is so bitter, the coffee is bitter too."
Gu Cunxi thought of the words on the coffee, and it suddenly dawned on him
"Over the years, I've watched her... tortured by longing, gradually wasting away. She wanted to find you, but she didn't know where you were, or whether you still wanted to see her. The number you used four years ago is no longer in service, but she's been calling that same number for four years..."
"If you saw her phone and the records inside, you would understand how she endured those four years day and night! She kept waiting, hoping that one day you could come back..."
"Later... you came back. The cup of sweet heart-shaped coffee you drank while sitting here that day was made by her secretly. But in the end, she wanted to give it to you in my name. This... is really sad." Cheng Sheng choked up and rubbed his eyes.
"The reason I hit you that day was because I couldn't stand you hurting her like that. You weren't the only one hurt in those past events. Sister Pei Yin felt even more pain than you did. That was a nightmare she desperately wanted to forget, and you stabbed her so ruthlessly with a contemptuous and insulting tone!"
"I'm sorry... I'm sorry!" Gu Cunxi pulled his hair, buried his face in his knees, and scratched his skin with guilt. On his white arms, there were deep red fingerprints and scratches.
Cheng Sheng saw it and felt bad. He wanted to go forward to comfort her, but after thinking about it, he retracted his foot and stood there watching Gu Cunxi feel guilty and blame himself for hurting himself.
"She also bought this piano." Cheng Sheng pulled the corners of his mouth, tears falling, and said with a wry smile: "She obviously can't play the piano, but she spent a million to buy it. It has been here for almost two years and has never been played once. She often sits here and stares at the piano in a daze..."
"As for why she showed up in your company...it's because she wanted to see you again in her lifetime!!" Cheng Sheng wiped his eyes and choked up as he told everything.
Gu Cunxi curled up in the corner, buried her head between her knees, and cried bitterly. The rotten wound in her heart was gradually opened. Cheng Sheng's words were a good medicine, healing her while also healing with severe pain.
The past was revealed with Cheng Sheng's words. Every time Gu Cunxi thought of it, he couldn't stop crying and huddled in the corner.
When Gu Cunxi thought about Pei Yin silently accepting her insults, she felt so painful that she couldn't breathe.
burst into tears
Cheng Sheng's heart was broken when he heard this.
Standing beside, watching Gu Cunxi crying, laughing
That's not like her at all...
Although it is painful, after this night, the hidden diseases deep in my heart will be cured.
"Cheng Sheng..." The extremely hoarse voice was ethereal and ghostly, echoing in the room. She raised her bloodshot eyes and looked at Cheng Sheng: "You...is there anything else you haven't told me?"
Regarding that photo, she gradually had the answer in her heart, but she didn't dare to ask because she was afraid that the truth would be too cruel.
"Sister Cunxi...I...I've already said it all." Cheng Sheng's tone was a little evasive.
Gu Cunxi looked at her, his eyes were dull, his cheeks were covered with tears, he no longer had the high spirits of the past, like a homeless child who couldn't find his way.
"Cheng Sheng, I've had the same nightmare over the past four years. Do you know what it is?" Gu Cunxi stared at the white wall in front of him, his vision gradually blurring and shrinking into a tiny dot.
"What is it?" Cheng Sheng asked softly.
"In the dream, the hand with the heart-shaped diamond ring brushed against a man's shoulder."
Cheng Sheng was stunned and knew what Gu Cunxi wanted to ask.
"Four years ago, Chen Feng stood in front of me holding a photo on her phone. That photo was the last straw that broke the camel's back. It was also that photo that made me lose all my sanity. I had forgotten her kindness for four years."
"During those years, I tossed and turned in bed. Occasionally, when I did fall asleep, I would dream of that hand. In my dream, the diamond was particularly dazzling..."
"Did she…tell you?"
"If there is, can you tell me?" Gu Cunxi looked at Cheng Sheng with empty eyes.
"I'm sorry..." Cheng Sheng avoided his sight, tugged at the corner of his clothes with both hands, looked away, and his eyes were filled with tears.
Gu Cunxi leaned against the wall and stood up. She felt dizzy and staggered. Cheng Sheng quickly stepped forward and supported her.
"I already know the answer, keep it in your heart," Gu Cunxi covered his eyes and whispered with the little strength he had left. Cheng Sheng frowned slightly, nodded, and couldn't help asking, "Will you go find her?"
Gu Cunxi shook his head, leaned against the wall, and hung his hands weakly.
"Why? You can't accept Sister Pei Yin four years ago..." Cheng Sheng was anxious.
Gu Cunxi shook his head again, with a faint smile on his face: "No, in my heart, she is who she is. She is love itself. I am willing to accept everything!"
"I need to prepare two things. I will go find her after I have done both."
Gu Cunxi dragged her drowsy body back and forth. In fact, she wanted to see her immediately, now, in the next second.
"Do you have paper and pen? Give it to me." She turned around suddenly as if she had thought of something.
Cheng Sheng was stunned for a moment, then took out a piece of white paper from the drawer and handed it to her. She saw Gu Cunxi drawing something on the paper, and curiously leaned over to take a look.
"Sister Cunxi... can you draw?" Cheng Sheng raised her eyebrows in surprise. She couldn't tell what the painting was.
Gu Cunxi focused all her attention on the paper. The aftereffects of the foreign liquor hit her, and she shook her head, trying to sober herself up. She continued to write and draw on the paper. Her heart had already flown away, and she couldn't stop. She had to race against time to finish two things and see her as soon as possible!
The room was quiet, with only the scratching sound of the pen tip on the paper. Cheng Sheng did not disturb him and sat aside. The outline of the manuscript gradually took shape.
It turned out to be a ring. Cheng Sheng pursed his lips and chuckled.
Unlike the rings she usually sees, the round ring in the sketch has two sides. From the front, the diamond setting is only half, in the shape of the letter C, but the opening of the letter is stretched a little, looking like a moon. In the hollow is a round diamond. Opposite the letter C is a very small letter Y, set with diamonds. The sketch alone looks very special.
"So beautiful!" Cheng Sheng leaned over, a smile on his face, and after taking a look, he said, "From the front, the letters look a bit like the moon, noble and cold. The small letters on the back are low-key and restrained, which is very similar to Sister Pei Yin."
Gu Cunxi looked at the sketch and carefully put it in his wallet.
"Sister Cunxi, are you proposing?" Cheng Sheng happily jumped beside her, with an undisguised smile on his face.
Gu Cunxi didn't answer, but pursed her lips with a hint of shame.
"It's too late today, Sister Cunxi, don't leave, stay here." Cheng Sheng pointed upstairs and said with a snicker, "That's Sister Pei Yin's room upstairs."
Gu Cunxi took a look and suddenly remembered the smell on the pillow when he stayed here last time...
After taking a shower, the smell of alcohol on her body faded, and the room seemed to be full of traces of her. Gu Cunxi lay on the bed, sniffed the fragrance on the pillow, and finally felt at ease. Thinking of the truth that Cheng Sheng revealed today, Gu Cunxi tried hard to suppress his hatred for Chen Feng.
Gotta get her back first.
Let's settle the accounts from four years ago
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