"Siming, I will remember you for the rest of my life. What about you? Will you?"
On the other hand, there is Maria, who fulfills Gao Siming's wicked fantasies.
A fiery and volatile woman with an arrogant and overbearing personality! She's easily provoked, and when excited, she can even break open a bottle of liquor with just her bare hands.
This side of Maria should be the dark side hidden deep within Peng Yuanyuan's heart—calm, wise, and clear-headed.
Maria did not like Gao Siming, and even analyzed the pros and cons with him more than once.
“Gao Siming, it’s not that I’m looking down on you, but we really are not a good match. You can’t give Qingyu happiness.”
"I know I'm just a secondary personality, and I could disappear at any time. But I know my purpose in existing is to find a reliable person for Qingyu. I'm sorry, Gao Siming, you're not!"
"Times have changed. You can have fun in college, I won't interfere. But after graduation, you should leave on your own!"
Fortunately, Maria only appeared occasionally, satisfying Gao Siming's wicked fantasies while also throwing buckets of cold water on his hopes.
Although Peng Yuanyuan never brought it up herself during their year-long relationship, Gao Siming had already learned from other sources that Peng Yuanyuan's family situation was unusual.
Her mother was a section chief in the Education Department, and her grandfather was a high-ranking leader in Tanhua City, holding the prestigious position of Party Secretary. Although they passed away a couple of years ago, they still left a considerable legacy for their descendants.
As the influence of officialdom waned, the relationship between officials and businessmen remained strong. Peng Yuanyuan's father, Zhang Zhenxing, held a near-monopoly in the seafood industry of Tanhua City.
As can be seen from her name, Peng Yuanyuan takes her mother's surname. The reasons behind this are self-evident to all Chinese people and need no further explanation.
Perhaps because of her father, Maria disapproved of Peng Yuanyuan and Gao Siming's relationship. After all, times had changed, and Peng Yuanyuan's grandfather had passed away.
However, it's hard to say whether it's also because of love that Maria doesn't want Gao Siming to become a live-in son-in-law like her father.
Through their long-term interaction, Gao Siming gained a basic understanding of Peng Yuanyuan's two sides: her coldness and her warmth.
However, Peng Yuanyuan didn't know much about Gao Siming, a personality that only appeared occasionally in her mind.
After all, Gao Siming himself didn't know much about it.
Love can change everything, but what do these things matter to young people who are deeply in love?
Time flies, and before we know it, it's the sad graduation season.
Jacaranda trees symbolize graduation and heartbreak; graduation means breaking up. The blue petals are already covering the branches.
Gao Siming graduated, but being the student council president didn't add much to his resume when he was job hunting.
What use can a small, unknown school group of a dozen or so people be?
Until this moment, Gao Siming was once again brutally beaten by society and learned what reality was.
The first time, of course, was when I knelt before my parents' bedsides where they had died from poisoning, listening to the gossip and rumors from the neighbors.
Gao Siming studied Pu'er tea, an extremely niche and unpopular major.
Time has passed like ink, and he can't remember why he chose this major in the first place. Was it a whim, a transfer, or simply because the tuition was low?
So much time has passed that these memories have become hazy and unclear.
Forced by circumstances and in order to make a living, Gao Siming eventually joined a private company and became a proud tea salesman.
After entering society, Gao Siming truly realized what it meant for bread to be far more important than love.
I rented a small house in a remote urban village. Apart from having a little more privacy than the campus, the environment was far inferior to that of the school.
Because he had Peng Yuanyuan as a girlfriend, he had to find a place with a private bathroom. Before long, this consumed almost half of Gao Siming's salary.
The love nest is not close to the company, and it is also far from the public servants' family compound where Peng Yuanyuan lives.
They were too busy with work and the journey was too far, so they had less and less time to meet and get together.
A more practical problem is that after graduation, Peng Yuanyuan could no longer hide the fact that she had found a poor guy.
In a completely unoriginal turn of events, Peng Yuanyuan's family did not directly break off relations, but instead arranged for her to go abroad to Austria-Hungary, where she would leave at the end of the year.
Due to various obstacles, the two met less and less frequently, while conflicts became more and more frequent.
Finally, in November of 4209, when the wind was biting cold.
On the evening of the 17th, in the plum grove of the Normal University in Tanhua City, the two arranged to meet for the last time before leaving the country.
This meeting may be our last.
Before the meeting, Gao Siming thought to himself as he arrived at the plum grove, which he hadn't visited for half a year.
In the plum grove, Peng Yuanyuan was wearing a brightly colored new coat.
Upon their first meeting, Gao Siming knew that this was Maria.
...
Watching Qingyu's panicked escape, Gao Siming held a wooden-handled dagger in his hand, the tip still dripping blood. His mind was filled with the warm and full touch of his hands just now.
The next day, Gao Siming did not go to work, but stayed at home quietly waiting for the arrival of the Anding Division.
In the end, all I received was a text message from a familiar number:
We loved, but we'll never see each other again!
Gao Siming rushed out of the rented room, frantically shouting and roaring...
There was no downpour, and no girl offering an umbrella...
Only the desolate figure lying drunk on the ground...
I woke up, stumbling along, and passed by a lottery shop, where I pulled out my last bit of stubbornness from my wallet...
Three days later, on Friday, a banner was posted at the entrance of a secluded lottery shop in Tanhua City:
"Warmest congratulations to our lottery player for winning 100 first-prize tickets in the Double Color Ball lottery, totaling 5.27 million yuan!"
"The boss said it was a young man?"
"Yes, he looks like a drunkard!"
"She looks like she's heartbroken..."
"Could drinking after a breakup increase your luck? Let's go find love!"
"Boss, ten randomly selected numbers, just to share in the good fortune!"
Boss: "I want to say, I misheard yesterday. One hundred randomly selected numbers were played as one randomly selected number with a 100x multiplier. Do you believe that? I certainly do. I was the only one in the room at the time, and when I saw a drunk man rush in, my pants were already wet..."
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