The moon was covered by dark clouds, and the air was getting colder. The air seemed to penetrate her skin, and Miao Danyi shuddered. She folded her arms, coughed, and walked away from Sun David.
David Sun stopped her. A very bold guess popped into his mind. He didn't want that guess to be true.
The lush shadows of the trees fell on Sun David's head, and the light and shadows around him became dimmer.
Sun David raised his head, looked at Wen Qi, and thought to himself: Damn, this guy is too handsome.
David Sun suddenly wanted to put himself in Jiang Yubai's life. If he were Jiang Yubai, his appearance and height would be better than the handsome young man of unknown origin in front of him. Unfortunately, he is David Sun. He is rich and well-educated, but he was suddenly overwhelmed by a sense of loss. He said uncomfortably: "My name is David Sun. I have lived with Miaomiao for a year. I am her boyfriend. Who are you?"
As soon as these words came out, Lin Zhixia grasped the corner of Jiang Yubai's clothes tightly.
She had never seen anything like it.
A few years ago, when Lin Zhixia was in middle school, as the class monitor, she successfully handled some disputes among classmates. The prerequisite for success was that her middle school classmates were willing to give her face and let her play the role of "peacemaker."
The scene before our eyes was not just a minor fight between classmates.
Lin Zhixia secretly glanced at Wen Qi, and saw that his face was as pale as paper. She asked him softly, "Are you okay?"
Wen Qi shook his head. He walked closer to Sun David and said something in a concise way: "Sorry, I don't know."
Sun Dawei's eyes were red: "What did you two do?"
Wen Qi said, "I didn't do anything. I'm going home. Don't come over. I want to be alone."
Sun David was confused: "Huh?"
Wen Qi walked straight ahead with his back straight, while Miao Danyi spoke frankly: "I just kissed him and told him that I like him."
Miao Danyi guessed that if she didn't tell the truth, Jiang Yubai would remind Sun David.
One day last year, Miao Danyi ran to Wen Qi's dormitory and ran into Jiang Yubai. She was thinking that if Jiang Yubai dared to frame her in front of Sun David, she would cry and make a scene in front of Sun David to prove her innocence and disrupt the friendship between Sun David and Jiang Yubai. Sun David obviously believed her more than Jiang Yubai. But she didn't expect that Jiang Yubai said nothing - his social skills were better than she thought.
This time, Miao Danyi couldn't hide. She might as well confess herself, and it would also make her look open-minded.
At this point, Miao Danyi had no way out, and her long-suppressed emotions suddenly burst out: "We are no longer in a relationship, let's break up. I am tired of pretending every day. You have to take me with you wherever you go, and discuss with your classmates. You always call me over to show off to others even if it's only half an hour's work. You are always showing off..."
Lin Zhixia asked Jiang Yubai in a low voice: "What do you mean, Yang Erzheng?"
Jiang Yubai explained to her: "Not doing your job properly."
Lin Zhixia nodded: "I understand."
Miao Danyi was still talking: "I will pay you back the money I owe you later, and we are done with each other."
When she finished her last sentence, she seemed to have used up all her strength.
In her first year of college, her father's company went bankrupt. Her younger brothers and sisters were all in school, so her father asked her to work part-time to earn tuition fees. She happened to meet David Sun at that time. However, there was a hurdle in her heart that she could never get over. She always felt that such a stable and comfortable life did not belong to her, like a little clown wearing a diamond crown, extravagant, wasteful and ridiculous.
She took off the diamond bracelet and put it into David Sun's pocket.
She ran away in the night.
David Sun called her by her full name: "Miao Danyi!"
Miao Danyi yelled, "Miao Danyi is the name you gave me! My parents didn't pronounce it that way!"
David Sun sat down on the ground.
It rained last night, and the soil was soaked with a layer of moisture that was difficult to evaporate. The mist soaked his pants. He held a diamond bracelet, and it seemed that someone had emptied all the thoughts in his mind. He temporarily lost the ability to think, and didn't know where he was.
After a while, his eyes became moist.
Tears flowed like a river, rolling down from the corners of his eyes.
It turns out that the Internet term "wide-faced tears" is real, and David Sun burst into tears at this moment. Because his good brother Jiang Yubai was still there, he held back and refused to make a sound until Jiang Yubai squatted in front of him and handed him a napkin.
He burst into tears: "Xiao Jiang, my heart is so miserable, so miserable! Wuwuwuwuwu..."
Jiang Yubai comforted him: "It's okay, calm down first and stop crying."
Sun Dawei burst into tears and said in an unsteady voice: "How could she do this to me? I'm so sincere to her..."
David Sun was filled with grief from the bottom of his heart. He finally understood that grief is a physical labor. He could no longer stand up straight, and he fell backwards. He leaned against the solid and rough tree trunk, and the lush leaves formed a protective umbrella over his head, blocking the dark and boundless night sky.
He sat under the tree in a daze.
As if he had seen through the world of mortals, he recited a passage from the Diamond Sutra: "All conditioned phenomena are like dreams, illusions, bubbles, and shadows; like dew and lightning, they should be viewed in this way."
Then, he expressed a life experience: "Love hurts me too much."
Jiang Yubai advised: "It's okay not to be in love. Family, study and career are more important."
Sun Dawei followed Jiang Yubai's thoughts and thought of their Sun family's French winery, the fishing grounds in the South China Sea, the horse farms in the northwest, and the pharmaceutical factories in the northeast. He felt a little calmer, wiped his nose, and asked again: "If Lin Zhixia dumped you and didn't care about you at all, what would you do?"
Before she finished speaking, Lin Zhixia squatted beside Jiang Yubai.
Lin Zhixia stared at Sun David intently. She asked, "Don't be sad, don't cry, do you like reading Buddhist scriptures?"
David Sun muttered to himself, "Ah, my grandma and grandpa always donated money to the temple, and every year there are monks visiting my house."
Lin Zhixia talked to him about the Avatamsaka Sutra: "Know that all phenomena are false and deceptive, and that they exist only for a moment to deceive ordinary people." She paused and said, "My understanding is very superficial... I think it's better for you to see through the illusion now than to discover it later."
For Sun David, this matter was very complicated and not as easy to figure out as Lin Zhixia said. He couldn't tell his relatives and friends the whole story - it was too embarrassing. Therefore, in this world, only Jiang Yubai and Lin Zhixia were most likely to understand him.
He was silent for a moment, then asked Lin Zhixia, "What would you do if Xiao Jiang changed his mind?"
Lin Zhixia thought seriously for a while before saying, "All relationships have a time limit, whether it's friendship or love. The environment will change a person, and sometimes you will miss someone. What you miss is not necessarily the person himself, but certain experiences related to that person in a specific environment."
David Sun took a deep breath.
Lin Zhixia continued: "If Xiao Jiang changes his mind..."
Jiang Yubai held her wrist.
Even to comfort Sun David, Jiang Yubai rejected this assumption.
Lin Zhixia said, "I will probably be very sad, cry a lot, and can't sleep at night. But, give me some time, I will be able to adjust. The past and the present are established facts, and the future can be changed. You have to cheer up, look up and look forward... You can maintain the current state, or you can determine the probability distribution of the next state. This is the Markov chain..."
David Sun said nothing.
Lin Zhixia reached into Jiang Yubai's shirt pocket and found a pack of napkins. She left the napkins for Sun David and staggered away. Jiang Yubai then remembered that Lin Zhixia had drunk too much tonight and was still half drunk and half awake. Although she spoke clearly and looked calm, she was not actually sober.
Jiang Yubai said to Sun David, "Take care."
David Sun also said: "Miao Miao just likes my money..."
Jiang Yubai didn't respond.
Jiang Yubai called David Sun's good friend and asked him to take David Sun home tonight. When the friend heard that David Sun was in a bad condition, he rushed over in a hurry. David Sun caught up with his friend and said that something happened at home and he was in a bad mood. The two of them went to a nearby bar and had a drink.
Jiang Yubai's birthday party also ended.
The guests left one after another, and Jiang Yubai received a variety of gifts - none of which were from Lin Zhixia.
Lin Zhixia pulled Jiang Yubai's sleeve and planned in detail: "I left your birthday present at home. I want to show it to you in the evening... I'll show it to you under the covers."
Under the quilt?
These four words triggered many associations in Jiang Yubai's mind.
He also remembered what Lin Zhixia said to Sun David tonight.
To some extent, Lin Zhixia is quite rational. If you give her a hypothetical condition, she can infer the corresponding result. Jiang Yubai compared himself to this - he couldn't do this, and couldn't assume that Lin Zhixia had lost interest in him. In his life, most of his deep memories were related to Lin Zhixia. She was in his dreams and outside of his dreams.
At around ten o'clock at night, Jiang Yubai brought Lin Zhixia home.
A light drizzle began to fall, and the cold wind made the curtains flutter. Jiang Yubai went back to his bedroom, took a shower, and changed into pajamas. He buttoned his pajamas tightly, with his collarbone hidden in his collar. He was more abstinent and chaste than ever before, clinging to his innocence.
Then, he passed by the door of Lin Zhixia's room, and Lin Zhixia really called him: "Jiang Jiang Jiang Jiang Yubai!"
Lin Zhixia ran out barefoot: "I have a gift for you."
Jiang Yubai asked her: "What gift?"
Lin Zhixia said: "You'll know once you take a look."
She extended a hand to Jiang Yubai.
Jiang Yubai held her wrist. Her wrist bones were slender and her skin was smooth, so he didn't even dare to use force. He always felt that if he pinched her a little, it would hurt her and leave a red mark.
Lin Zhixia used a lot of strength to pull him. She dragged Jiang Yubai onto the bed.
Lin Zhixia's nightgown was turned up, revealing her slender, snow-white legs, like a work of art carved from jade. Jiang Yubai covered her with a quilt, holding her tightly, and whispered to her, "Are you sober yet? Are you still dizzy?"
Lin Zhixia claimed: "I am not drunk at all. I am not dizzy."
Jiang Yubai turned off the bedroom light and said, "It's eleven o'clock, go to bed early."
Lin Zhixia frowned slightly. Then, she lifted the quilt and covered Jiang Yubai. The fluffy quilt surrounded a dark and sultry world. Lin Zhixia came to Jiang Yubai and asked him, "You seem to be worried?"
Jiang Yubai said, "No."
Lin Zhixia guessed, "Is it because of the incident with Sun David, Miao Danyi, and Wen Qi that made you have complicated feelings? Don't worry, I just sent a WeChat message to Wen Qi, and he said that it's okay for him and he can go to the lab as usual tomorrow... He has grown up, figured it out, and can face the ups and downs in life."
"Very good, they are all adults and can take care of themselves." Jiang Yubai commented briefly.
Lin Zhixia leaned on his shoulder, and he suddenly said, "It's impossible for me to change my mind."
"Hmm?" Lin Zhixia raised the last syllable of her voice.
Actually, Lin Zhixia was very sleepy. Alcohol had permeated her mind, and she was confused and lost in thought. But she still had a birthday present to give away. So she forced herself to sit up straight and said seriously, "Okay, I understand."
Jiang Yubai suspected that she didn't hear what he just said. So he said it again. Lin Zhixia's eyes lit up, and she hugged his neck and kissed him again and again. She opened the bedside table and took out a flashlight and a thick picture book.
She flicked the flashlight on and turned the pages of the picture book.
Jiang Yubai saw the legendary "hand-flip animation". There were only two characters in the animation - obviously Jiang Yubai and Lin Zhixia.
Lin Zhixia started painting from the year they met. The two little people were gradually growing up, and the distance between them was getting closer and closer. In the end, they successfully held hands, and the background of the picture changed from campus to bedroom.
"This is for you," Lin Zhixia handed over the picture album solemnly, "Happy 19th birthday."
Jiang Yubai accepted this valuable gift. He placed his finger on the cover and asked, "How long did it take you to draw this?"
Lin Zhixia said honestly, "For more than two years, I was too busy and painted very slowly." She yawned and patted the pillow with both hands: "You sleep with me tonight."
Jiang Yubai did not respond.
Lin Zhixia pestered him and said, "Sleep with me."
Jiang Yubai lay silently on her bed. He held her in his arms, and she twisted and turned in his arms, finding the most comfortable position. She pushed further and said, "From today on, you have to sleep with me every night."
Jiang Yubai knew she was talking drunkenly, but her voice sounded very sincere, so he reluctantly agreed to her request: "It's not impossible."
"Is it possible?" Lin Zhixia asked in a fierce tone.
"Okay." Jiang Yubai said briefly.
Lin Zhixia was finally satisfied.
She turned over, her back to him. She grabbed one of his hands and pressed it against her waist. The wind and rain outside the window were endless, and Jiang Yubai's voice floated into her ears: "Tomorrow morning, will you still remember what you said?"
"Of course," Lin Zhixia vowed, "I remember every word I said clearly."
Jiang Yubai lowered his voice: "Very good."
Lin Zhixia's back was pressed tightly against Jiang Yubai's chest. She was so sleepy that she couldn't open her eyes. Before falling asleep, she murmured, "You're so hot, like a stove..." She heard Jiang Yubai's response in a half-awake state. She thought to herself, I'm going to dream about him again tonight.
The next morning, after Lin Zhixia got up, she was confused for a moment.
Jiang Yubai was lying beside her, seemingly still asleep. His face was still as handsome as ever, with some suspicious red marks on his neck, which seemed to be left by Lin Zhixia's kiss.
Lin Zhixia nervously recalled her memories.
She recounted the experience of last night exactly as it happened. Fortunately, nothing serious happened between her and Jiang Yubai. However, Jiang Yubai had promised her that he would sleep with her every night.
Lin Zhixia felt a surge of shame in her heart.
She burrowed back into the quilt.
Jiang Yubai reached out and put his hand on her waist. She said, "Don't pretend. I know you woke up a long time ago."
"Did you just wake up?" Jiang Yubai responded.
Lin Zhixia avoided his question and just said, "Let's get up."
Jiang Yubai looked at her red ears and said without hesitation: "Let's sleep together tonight."
Lin Zhixia escaped from the bed and ran barefoot into the bathroom. She quickly adjusted her mindset, and that morning, she went to the laboratory with her schoolbag on her back as if nothing had happened.
Everything is normal in the laboratory.
Wen Qi arrived earlier than Lin Zhixia.
In the following days, Wen Qi was just like before, showing up at 8 am and returning home at 5 pm, and nothing seemed wrong.
But just one week later, Lin Zhixia discovered Wen Qi's abnormality.
Lin Zhixia and Wen Qi are working together on a paper. Wen Qi is always very fast in doing experiments, and is very professional and skilled in collecting and processing data. However, in the past week, Wen Qi has not produced any results, and has not sent the experimental results to Lin Zhixia on time.
At the Monday morning meeting, as usual, each student had to introduce his or her research progress of the week. When it was Wen Qi's turn, he only mentioned a few papers - these were all papers he had read before. Other students might not be clear about this, but Lin Zhixia knew the ins and outs of it very well.
Not only did Wen Qi temporarily put aside his studies, he also stopped participating in the construction of their "PTSIC" quantum programming language.
So far, "PTSIC" has only realized the simplest prototype, and there is still a lot of content to be filled in. It's like everyone is working together to sew a piece of clothing. Just as the pattern was made, Wen Qi, one of the important designers, left the team.
Lin Zhixia wrote a long email to Wen Qi, appealing to his emotions and reasoning with him. She comforted him with patience, but he read it and did not reply. She knocked on his office door, but he sat inside and never answered.
Lin Zhixia thought that Wen Qi needed private space.
So she waited for him for another two full weeks.
There is zero progress on the paper they collaborated on.
Lin Zhixia can be an independent author, but she doesn't want to delete Wen Qi's work.
Time passed day by day, and the message Lin Zhixia sent to Wen Qi fell into the sea without any response.
She stopped communicating with him electronically.
One day in September, Wen Qi opened the door of his office and had just stepped in when Lin Zhixia followed behind him.
It was a sunny morning, Wen Qi was holding a copy of Story Club magazine in his hand, which he bought from a flea market. He hid Story Club behind his back, and Lin Zhixia threw a stack of papers on his desk.
"Wen Qi," Lin Zhixia called him very formally, "You shouldn't be like this now."
Wen Qi asked: "What is it like?"
Lin Zhixia began to praise him: "You are very smart, have a good memory, strong comprehension, and super solid basic skills."
Wen Qi sat down on the chair: "I'm going to... take a month off."
"You promised me," Lin Zhixia tried to encourage him, "You have to finish this paper on quantum recursion model before October. Also, in the PTSIC quantum programming language project, you have studied quantum program semantic models and used quantum Markov chains. My undergraduate classmate Feng Yuan specializes in Markov chains. I have discussed with her that we can take some time to discuss the new graph theory problem in Hilbert space. If we succeed, it will be a very meaningful thing! Cheer up, your time is precious."
Wen Qi didn't quite understand why Lin Zhixia always looked so energetic.
Wen Qi said: "I want..."
What to do?
Lin Zhixia waited for a long time, but Wen Qi didn't respond.
Wen Qi sat on a swivel ergonomic chair, his toes on the floor, facing the other direction.
Lin Zhixia ran to him and asked him again: "Are you feeling very uncomfortable? I will help you contact a psychologist. We have a professional psychologist in our school."
Wen Qi said truthfully: "I have seen a doctor."
"How is it?" Lin Zhixia cared about him very much.
Wen Qi said, "I need to rest."
Lin Zhixia sat on another bench.
She sighed and said softly, "I understand. You should have a good rest. You can ask your tutor for leave and stay at home for a few more days to adjust your mentality."
Lin Zhixia had done very little research on psychology. She could not give any professional advice. She sincerely hoped that Wen Qi would recover soon. As for the paper they had collaborated on, Wen Qi asked Lin Zhixia to delete his name. He also said that he would only be an independent author when doing research in the future.
This situation caught Lin Zhixia off guard.
In the WeChat group "New System Team" created by Lin Zhixia, Feng Yuan was still urging Lin Zhixia to find help as soon as possible so that they could plan the graph theory problems of Hilbert space together.
Feng Yuan is Lin Zhixia's undergraduate roommate. Feng Yuan has participated in various competitions since she was young. Her father is a mathematics professor at a 985 key university. She is very intelligent and well-read, and she and Lin Zhixia have a lot in common.
Feng Yuan originally thought that Wen Qi would be happy to join their research, but unfortunately Lin Zhixia brought her bad news.
Lin Zhixia said that Wen Qi needed a rest and they had to change a partner.
Who should I change?
Feng Yuan brought in two of her doctoral classmates.
Lin Zhixia opened Google Scholar, entered a few key words, and quickly browsed the authors of related papers line by line. Soon, she found a familiar name: Sergei Alexandrov.
Lin Zhixia participated in the 2007 Romanian Mathematics Masters Competition.
In this competition, Lin Zhixia met the Russian genius Alexandrov. She remembered that Alexandrov was best at solving graph theory problems and he had published several graph theory mathematics books in Russian when he was young.
Lin Zhixia hasn't paid attention to him for a long time.
She opened the web page and searched for his resume.
His academic career went smoothly. He completed his undergraduate and doctoral studies in Germany. Several of his supervisors were well-known in the field, and he himself was also a striking emerging scholar. Shortly after graduating with his doctorate, he returned to Moscow State University to teach.
After some consideration, Lin Zhixia sent him an email in Russian.
Lin Zhixia wrote in the letter: "Hello, Mr. Sergei Alexandrov, before writing to you, I guessed that you might have some impression of me. I am the individual gold medalist of the 2007 Romanian Mathematics Masters Competition, tied with you for first place that year. I am currently a second-year doctoral student. In order to improve a quantum programming language platform, my friends and I are studying quantum program semantic models based on Markov chains and the new graph theory of Hilbert space derived from them. We were deeply impressed by your 45-minute report at the International Congress of Mathematicians. The attachment is my exploration of the extended part of your paper and our recent research results..."
After writing these things, Lin Zhixia pressed the "Send" button.
Sergei Alexandrov had a busy job.
Lin Zhixia guessed that the possibility of him replying was not high.
She never expected that after she sent the email in the morning, she would receive a reply in the afternoon.
Alexandrov's wording in the letter was also very polite and courteous.
He said that he remembered Lin Zhixia and had followed her academic progress. He thought she was now focusing on physics and computer science. Finally, he asked, did Lin Zhixia ask someone to translate her Russian or did she write it herself? She made two grammatical errors.
Lin Zhixia blushed.
She has only studied Russian for seven months.
During those seven months, she was busy studying programming and learned Russian in her spare time.
It is normal if the basic skills are not solid.
It is impossible for Lin Zhixia to be perfect in everything.
Lin Zhixia humbly accepted his advice. After a few exchanges, the two of them became email pals. She extended an olive branch to him, inviting him to join the team, and he quickly agreed without any hesitation.
Feng Yuan was delighted by Alexandrov's arrival.
When Feng Yuan privately chatted with Lin Zhixia, he couldn't help but say, "A blessing in disguise. This Russian is much more powerful than Wen Qi. He is not even 25 years old. In the field we want to study, he is the person standing at the top of the pyramid."
Lin Zhixia tried to smooth things over by saying, "Everyone has their own strengths."
Feng Yuan opened the web page on his mobile phone and searched for Sergei Alexandrov's photo. He was more and more surprised and said, "Huh? He has blond hair and blue eyes. What a handsome guy. Deng Shasha must like him."
Deng Shasha was also Lin Zhixia's undergraduate roommate. One of Deng Shasha's lifelong wishes is to pick up a handsome guy in person.
Lin Zhixia explained to Deng Shasha: "Deng Shasha admires all good-looking people."
At this moment, they are having a WeChat video chat.
Feng Yuan stopped talking about Deng Shasha. She turned the topic back to academics. She and Lin Zhixia jointly set phased goals and shared their respective thinking results. Lin Zhixia sighed: "It's great to have a friend like you."
Feng Yuan felt sweet inside and immediately replied, "I think so too."
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