Chapter Sixty-Seven
[Feeling sleepy? Drink Jia Duo Bao: @Daiy @I am a fish, are you two really not coming to this week's group activity?]
[Dai Y: Something's up]
[I am a fish: Hmm]
[Rat Poison Cookies: Bullshit! @IamAFish, what could the most idle person in the world possibly have to do on a weekend??]
【I am a fish: This is rather tricky】
[Daiy: ...Wow!]
[Feeling sleepy? Drink Jia Duo Bao: Going on a date with @DaiY]
[Dai Y: Haha, don't talk nonsense]
【。 ：......】
I am a fish: ......
【。：Traitor】
[Rat Poison Cookies: Traitor]
[He drinks Jia Duo Bao when he's sleepy: Why don't you ask him who he's dating?]
[Rat Poison Cookies: Need I even ask? It's obvious at a glance.]
【. :Um】
[Dai Y: Hey, don't go too far!]
[Rat Poison Cookies: Is it any of your business? Hehehe]
The two exchanged emojis for eight hundred rounds, when Qu Qi joined in halfway through, and Yin Zixuan stirred things up.
Five minutes later.
I am a fish: Date me.
......
After You Congxi posted the message, the group was quiet for two seconds.
She stared at the frozen screen of her phone, her fingers tracing the edge of the device, her thoughts drifting away.
That day on the rooftop, before she could even utter the words, He Qizheng and the others interrupted her. The words "I like you" circled around her lips, but she ultimately swallowed them back down.
Throughout the day, Shen Yue's face was shrouded in a faint darkness. Already known for his fierce reputation, this further solidified his somewhat wavering reputation as a district tyrant.
Those in the group who said he had reformed were proven wrong, exclaiming that the tyrant's heart was as unfathomable as the ocean, proving that old habits die hard.
You Congxi tried to say something to him several times, but each time he opened his mouth, his mind went blank and he didn't know what to say.
Should I say "I like you"? Or should I say "I'm serious about dating you, it's not just a passing fancy"?
The rooftop itself had a special feel to it; it was a place where only the two of them were, a safe place where no one would be able to come out for a while. Some words naturally welled up in their throats, as if they would choke to death if they didn't say them.
But the urge to say something was interrupted, the emotions dissipated, and the momentum was completely exhausted, making it difficult to say anything more.
Besides, back in the classroom, a completely different public space from the rooftop, under the watchful eyes and ears of everyone around, it would be rather pointless to suddenly call out to Shen Yue and say some heartfelt words that can only be uttered when emotions are running high...
You Congxi shook his head under Shen Yue's questioning gaze, and sighed slowly as he watched Shen Yue's dejected back.
If it weren't for today's commotion, she wouldn't have known that Shen Yue was so insecure in this relationship. Thinking about it carefully, she did say "Let's be together" instead of "I like you, let's be together." Although she didn't know what the difference was, would she be with him if she didn't like him?
She glanced down at the dating guide on her phone's search page, where one of the tips read, "No matter how busy you are, don't forget to tell your partner how much you love them."
She stared at the sentence for a few seconds, then her fingers twitched slightly, and she sent a message to Shen Yue.
Although she didn't know the difference... this must be what love is, right? She'd never been in a relationship, but that didn't mean she couldn't learn about it.
......
You Congxi snapped out of her reverie and realized that she had unconsciously tapped the pinned chat window. She usually spoke her mind at school and rarely chatted on WeChat, so the top message just happened to be the one she had sent.
Let's go on a date this weekend, boyfriend.
She looked away as if she'd been electrocuted.
Just now in the group chat, I saw Shen Yue's message that he was clearly looking forward to but was also trying to hide, and that impulse I had on the rooftop suddenly resurfaced.
That urge to say something.
Several group chat messages popped up at the top of the screen, and she clicked on them instinctively.
[Rat Poison Cookies: Oh.]
[Drink Jia Duo Bao when you're sleepy: Please don't reveal well-known secrets.]
[Dai Y: ? ? When did you guys find out? ? ]
【。：A long, long time ago】
[Rat Poison Cookies: Anyone with eyes can see it, but those idiots in the group just won't believe it]
[Drink Jia Duo Bao when you're sleepy: They firmly believe that the regional tycoon is a narcissist]
【. :Ha ha】
[Dai Y: I'm begging you, just shut up]
Before You Congxi could figure out what to say in the group chat to make herself seem cool and respectable, Qu Qi's barrage of messages began.
The entire piece revolves around a comprehensive and thorough moral critique of You Congxi, with the line, "You little Yu, you didn't tell me about such a big thing as dating. Even if I had guessed it long ago, so what?"
You Congxi felt rather guilty, so he let her vent her anger for a while before replying when she said that Shen Yue, that brat, was not good enough for her.
Don't say that, he's actually a pretty good person.
Then Qu Qi stopped replying to her.
She sent a question mark and received a bright red exclamation mark in return.
Oh, I've been blocked.
*
I got up very early to visit Congxi.
She had been standing in front of the wardrobe for ten minutes.
I've been standing here since I finished washing up.
I stood there, staring blankly at the few clothes I owned.
Down jackets, hoodies, jeans—a whole row of black, white, and gray.
...I feel like none of them are presentable.
After a long pause, she sighed.
Dating is such a hassle.
Depend on.
After dawdling for ages, I finally managed to put together a set that was barely acceptable, and it was almost time for the agreed-upon time.
She dashed out like a rocket, only to realize at the elevator that she hadn't taken her phone, so she rushed back in a flurry.
After a long and tiring morning, I took a ride-hailing car to Congxi. My head was resting against the car window, and I was gently bounced up and down with the car's movement. I felt like I had become a dried-out mummy.
The phone she was holding rang. She sat up straight and unlocked it.
Tencent News morning push notification.
Speechless, she cleared the notification bar, hesitated for a few seconds, her fingertip already pressing the screen-off button, then moved it away and clicked into Chen Yue's chat box.
We're still stuck on last night's conversation.
You Congxi frowned in thought, sensing that something was amiss.
Last night, this person was like a bouncy husky, pestering her and chatting until 2 a.m., but today he hasn't sent her a single message to bother her... Could something have happened to him?
The more she thought about it, the more likely it seemed. Shen Lan had returned from her business trip yesterday, and Shen Yue had been reluctantly summoned back to entertain his parents. Given his personality, he would definitely be waiting at the date location early today. He couldn't possibly let his own mother take him to the date... Could something have happened on the way because he was in too much of a hurry?
squeak--
A sharp screech of brakes.
You Congxi's body lurched forward violently due to inertia.
"Damn it!" the driver cursed, rolling down his window and leaning out. "There's been a car accident!"
Suddenly, You Congxi heard a ringing in his ears, and all the blood in his body seemed to stop flowing.
She withdrew her hand from the backrest, straightened up, swallowed, opened her mouth to speak but found she couldn't make a sound.
The driver in the front seat turned around and said, "Miss, why don't you get out and walk a bit? We're almost there, only a hundred meters left. There's been a car accident up ahead, and I reckon this area will be completely blocked soon."
You Congxi didn't know what she answered, but when she came to her senses, she was already standing on the side of the road, holding her phone to call Shen Yue.
She felt very calm now, and could even think that this was the first time she had called him after adding his phone number.
A mechanical female voice sounded, and You Congxi calmly hung up, then dialed back.
beep--
beep--
beep--
She inexplicably recalled the liquid dripping into the IV tube during her IV infusion, and the beeping sound of the cardiac monitor next to her bed, which smelled of disinfectant.
A car sped past, bringing with it a gust of cool wind as sharp as a knife.
The worst thing about an electrocardiogram is when it turns into a horizontal line, and the "beep" sound becomes a piercing long beep.
beep--
"Sorry, the number you dialed is temporarily unavailable..."
"Make way, make way!"
The sirens of ambulances, the shouts of the crowd, the gasps of the onlookers...
The phone call to his ear ended automatically, and You Congxi held the phone without moving.
The boy lying in a pool of blood was lifted onto a stretcher and carried into an ambulance from ten meters away from her.
The familiar hairstyle, and the familiar ugly coat.
Red and green together, stinky fart.
I didn't want to wear this outfit either, but these are the only two thick clothes I have in my wardrobe.
-There's no time like the present, let's do it tomorrow. Tomorrow is Saturday, and we don't have exams during the long weekend, so you can come with me to the mall to look at clothes, how about it?
A pale hand dangled from the stretcher, swaying gently with the steps of the paramedics as they lifted it.
fraud.
You Congxi lifted his foot and walked towards the ambulance.
Shen Yue is a liar.
Saying "forever" would be lying to her, and saying "I like you" would also be lying to her.
We agreed to celebrate our ten-day anniversary together, to spend New Year's Eve together, and to go to the same university...
It was all a lie.
fraud.
"Hey, young lady, are you a family member? You can't just get on an ambulance, get off right now..."
Everything around me seemed shrouded in a fog.
"I am his girlfriend."
Unexpectedly, the first time he publicly used this identity would be in an ambulance, while he was lying inside the ambulance.
I hadn't even had a chance to say "I like you" yet.
"Huh? Oh... okay, then you go ahead..."
"Let's go hiking in Congxi!"
The world seems to have been put on pause.
If she used to scoff at car accident plots in romance novels and soap operas, now she would never doubt the protagonist's otherworldly emotions.
She had already stepped into the car with one foot when she heard the sound, stopped abruptly, her mind went blank, and her body turned around before her consciousness could react.
"Excuse me, this is my girlfriend. She's mistaken me for someone else." Shen Yue lifted the girl down with one hand and apologized to the staff next to him.
The staff member raised his hand to shoo the two troublemakers away, jumped into the car and slammed the door shut. The ambulance sped away with its siren blaring.
Shen Yue pulled the girl's shoulders and looked her over, his tone anxious: "How did you get into the ambulance? Are you injured anywhere? Were you bumped into just now?"
You Congxi let him do as he pleased, looking somewhat dazed, her eyes fixed on his face.
Seeing this, Shen Yue became even more anxious and, without saying a word, took out his phone to call 120: "You Xiaoyu, don't scare me..."
He dialed the number with one hand, while his other hand tightly gripped the girl's hand, which was icy cold.
"Hey..." Shen Yue stared blankly as You Congxi snatched his phone away, thinking she was avoiding medical help, and immediately panicked, "A brain hemorrhage can be fatal, don't..."
Before he could finish speaking, the girl had already buried her face in his chest.
“Chen Yue,” her face was buried in the man’s coat, which he had deliberately sprayed with perfume, so her tone was inaudible, “I hate you so much.”
The words "I like you" ultimately went unspoken.
"I hate you so much" was the first thing that came to mind.
The coat was too thick, so the few drops of warm water couldn't reach the boy's skin. You Congxi rubbed against his expensive, soft coat, then turned her head, her damp eyelashes brushing against the boy's delicate Adam's apple.
"I hate you so much..." she repeated, her voice hoarse, her knuckles white from gripping the front of his coat.
After a few breaths, she raised her head. The tears had disappeared, leaving only slightly red corners of her eyes and wet eyelashes to tell the story of what had just happened.
“I almost became a widow, you know?” You Congxi said.
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