The plane landed in Chicago, and outside the window the orange-red sunrise painted the earth.
Tianyi has a total of five team leaders and thirty first-year high school students in this summer camp. Ye Kai and Yu Ranran are in the same class. They have been sitting next to each other since they got on the airport bus. Yu Ranran kept her mission in mind: observe carefully, record in detail, speculate boldly, and verify carefully - does Ye Kai really like someone? She didn't want to, but she was forced by her deskmate to bet 500. Since her deskmate bet on no, she bet on yes.
As a straight woman with strong scientific thinking and a messy emotional thinking, Yu Ranran asked Ye Kai as soon as the plane started taxiing: "Do you have someone you like?"
Ye Kai had already put on a neck pillow and an eye mask. When he heard her question, he took off the eye mask and raised his eyes, saying in a calm and normal tone, "Yes."
Yu Ranran: “…”
It's such easy money to make.
So this is the fun of entertainment betting, love it.
When they landed, Yu Ranran's message had already flown across the ocean via the 4G satellite and reached the crowd of students who were enjoying the evening breeze and eating watermelon at 7:30 in the evening: "Ye Kai has someone he likes, over."
A private group of 45 people, with only Ye Kai not in it, instantly went viral:
"Yu Ranran, you can't just talk nonsense just to win."
"How could Ye Kai possibly have someone he likes? He's just not smart at all!"
"May I ask which fairy this is?"
"He thinks you're stupid so he's trying to trick you." This was the insightful opinion of Yu Ranran's desk mate.
Hundreds of messages were quickly posted on the screen, and Yu Ranran was confused. She didn't know why they couldn't believe that Ye Kai had a lover. She turned her head and looked at Ye Kai. He didn't take off his neck pillow, which was stuck on his soft hair and neck. He had a black mask on his face. His right hand was pushing a silver-gray Rimowa suitcase, and his left hand was holding a mobile phone and lazily sending a voice message: "Just landed, so sleepy."
Yu Ranran thought to herself, you see, this is obviously him telling his girlfriend that he is safe.
Ye Kai: "——Brother Youhan, are you off work?"
Yu Ranran: “…”
Excuse me.
Chen Youhan received a voice message from Ye Kai at the bidding meeting. He clicked it with a flick of his finger. Ye Kai's sleepy and lazy voice suddenly echoed in the empty conference room. The chief architect of a certain architectural firm who was presenting a plan stopped the presentation and didn't know where to go. Chen Youhan raised half of his lips and made a "please" gesture to him, which was strong and neat and would not tolerate rejection.
The meeting started again, and no whispers dared to appear.
Chen Youhan lowered his head and typed a reply: "Not yet, I'm in a meeting."
When I looked up, the PPT stopped at the page where he lowered his head. I only flipped down when I saw him raise his eyes.
He locked his phone, pressed it under the drawing, and stopped being distracted.
During the last tea break of the meeting, everyone went to get water, pour coffee, and stretch, but he was the only one who picked up his phone and slammed the office door.
Gu Xiu: “…”
Oh, what a sin.
Ye Kai had already picked up his luggage and was now on a bus to the University of Chicago. Yu Ranran was sitting next to him and saw him receive a WeChat call, a very quiet one.
"Well... No, maybe half an hour. I couldn't sleep... I missed you? Did Fish Leong give you the courage?"
Yu Ranran was slightly excited. Look! It's his girlfriend!
"I know...what?" Her face turned red, and she clarified word by word as if she was bullied: "Chen Youhan, I won't fall in love too early in America!"
Yu Ranran: “…”
Why is it him again?
Open a group:
"Let's go. Ye Kai must be secretly in love with a fairy."
"Why?"
"He didn't even dare to chat with anyone on WeChat. He was chatting with a brother named Youhan the whole time."
The originally lively group suddenly fell silent.
Yu Ranran: "What's wrong? What did I miss?"
Yang Zhuoning: "Nothing, that's a domineering boss, let's explore again!"
Their first stop was the University of Chicago. Their partner high school TCPS was from New York and had already moved into the University of Chicago. They finally met during lunch. Because it was an elite school ranked among the top in the United States, most of the students were from the middle class, well-educated and imposing, and there were many handsome guys among them.
Once they entered the school, the University of Chicago and the two schools jointly implemented a closed management system. All instant messaging devices were confiscated. The Chinese students were fine, but the TCPS boys and girls almost went crazy. The courses were also very full. Nobel Prize winners in economics gave them an introduction to the principles, and they visited Fermilab. Pulitzer Prize winners talked to them about the deconstruction and construction of modern politics and media relations. They often exchanged identities between China and the West. I took your class, and you took my test. Occasionally, we took a city walk, and a social dance was held the next day.
This matter had been included in the itinerary, so every student prepared a dinner dress in advance. Yu Ranran was shy and conservative, so she chose a Hepburn-style little black dress with a lapel, which would not go wrong, but she felt inferior when she saw Ye Kai - although, she was confused as to why a girl like her should feel inferior in front of Ye Kai.
He suits black so well.
The pure black high-end tuxedo from a luxury brand was gorgeous and neat, and the seamless tailoring wrapped around his young and upright body. The small fan-shaped black satin lapel and black tie complemented each other, and the layers were distinguished only by the sheen and texture of the fabric. The dark gold tie clip and the diamond earring on the right ear - Yu Ranran couldn't breathe, she seemed to see the first piece of ice from the extreme cold of Antarctica, blooming with a diamond-like coldness under the dark blue velvet curtain.
Ye Kai was the school representative of Tianyi, so he was destined to appear like this. He was sharp and yet humble and polite, communicating fluently in English with the senior executives from the University of Chicago and TCPS, and handling all the jokes with ease.
Yu Ranran was holding a cocktail, doing nothing, or rather, she was at a loss. She couldn't remember Ye Kai wearing his school uniform at school. He seemed to be born to be like a star in such occasions.
The band's music style changed, the lights dimmed, and the dance began.
A hand appeared in front of Yu Ranran in a gentlemanly manner. Ye Kai put on a perfect smile and said, "Dance with me, Yu Ranran."
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Yu Ranran felt her heartbeat more than ever before. She was not a person who would indulge in sentimentality. Although she was not good at socializing, she was unusually sensitive to dignity. She knew that Ye Kai was taking care of her.
Putting her hand on Ye Kai's palm, she said stiffly, "I can't."
Ye Kai said calmly: "I'll teach you."
He led her to the dance floor, and put his hand on her back in a gentlemanly manner. He taught her in a simple and easy-to-understand way, and Yu Ranran blushed under the lights: "You, you dance very well."
Ye Kai said casually: "You have to know how to dance."
The dance at the Marriott outdoor bar flashed through his mind. He danced so messily, on purpose. He stepped on Chen Youhan eleven times, he counted; his heart was beating so fast, he remembered; there was a faint scent of Juliet in the air, as if it had floated from that night to now, to Chicago, to the night when they were separated by an ocean.
Yu Ranran was so panicked that her mouth was dry when she came down from the dance floor. Fortunately, fortunately, she only had her studies in her mind, otherwise it would be too miserable. As for whether Ye Kai liked someone, what did it have to do with them? Someone like him...the one he liked must be the best in his heart.
The dormitory arranged by the school is a double dormitory. Ye Kai lives with an American guy named Max, who is a rather funny academic master. He is skinny and as tall as a bamboo pole. He has no interest in the busty girls on the cheerleading team or the biceps of football stars. He only wants to study quantum mechanics.
The good young man Max observed his talented roommate for many days and discovered a little secret of his.
He had a stack of postcards and wrote one every day. He did not recognize the ancient oriental characters, so he had no way of getting a glimpse of the secrets.
It was almost the end of the exchange period when they did the citywalk. They had already transferred to Columbia University in New York. Ye Kaixin was absent-minded and had no sense of wonder about this most prosperous city on the blue planet. Even Times Square could not shake his indifferent face.
Ye Kai felt like he was crazy, he actually thought he would see Chen Youhan in a coffee shop on the corner.
He might hold up a cup of coffee and say to him in Cantonese: "Hi, pretty boy."
Or they could appear in that city church where the champagne roses were blooming beautifully, pretending that they had just met there by chance.
Or, when he walked out of the dormitory, he saw Chen Youhan standing under the gray brick doorway covered with ivy, looking up at the lush green ivy. When he heard his footsteps, he turned around and smiled at him.
...He's crazy. It's all because of that time he flew to Canada.
What he didn't know was that Chen Youhan was too busy, dealing with the power struggle within the family and the government's buck-passing every day. Gu Xiu thought that CEO Chen had broken up again. He drank coffee like crazy and smoked one cigarette after another. But when he saw the night view of Ning City, he suddenly said to Gu Xiu without any context: "There is a party hall in that apartment building."
Or, after an all-night meeting, he said indifferently in the tea room: "Do you know that the first ray of sunlight in my new house actually shines on the living room water bar?"
Trivial.
Gu Xiu didn't understand and could only continue to listen to President Chen's nonsense words in boredom: "Have you been to the Marriott on Xilin Road? You can feel the breeze from the West River from the bar on the top floor." At that time, the lights outside the glass curtain were bright, and the West River was dark, reflecting the lights on both sides of the river.
After nearly half a month, Gu Xiu was driven crazy by the nagging.
At the end of the training day, everyone took a group photo. They were all dressed in formal attire and went on stage to receive their certificates, just like a formal graduation. Everyone was so hot that they took off their shirts and took showers as soon as they entered the dormitory. Only Ye Kai endured the heat and went to the leader teacher: "Teacher Zhao, can I return my phone?"
"In my dorm, why are you so anxious?"
Ye Kai looked a little anxious, like a long-distance runner who wants to lose his temper the closer he gets to the finish line. He was sweating from the heat, his temples were wet, and he said firmly, "It's urgent."
Teacher Zhao made a slight change to the arrangement, allowing everyone to go to the leader teacher's dormitory to pick up their cell phones now.
He turned on the phone, and hundreds of messages popped up one after another. The phone kept buzzing, and the red-dotted avatars were lined up in a row. He scrolled down impatiently, but couldn't find Chen Youhan's avatar. It was so hot that he stood under the air conditioner to dry his hair, and scrolled up again - his thumb was fixed, and Chen Youhan's avatar was at the top.
He settled down like a traveler who found crystal grapes in the desert.
He took his time to undress, shower, and blow dry his hair, changing into a casual T-shirt and khaki cigarette pants. The sheets on the bed fluttered slightly, and he sat down and opened WeChat.
Day 1: I added a dozen bottles of Perrier. The picture shows an open double-door refrigerator at home, with dark green bottles of Perrier lined up in a row.
Day 2: Today's sunset is great. I haven't seen the sky at dusk for a long time. I was so busy. The picture below is a sunset in Ning City one day. It is orange-red with beautiful patterns like a phoenix's tail.
Day 3: If you don’t come to pick up your clothes, they will be lost. You just occupy my closet. The picture below is a white T-shirt. Ye Kai got drunk and stayed overnight that day and forgot to take it.
Day 4: The car passed Linjiang Avenue. I don't know why I always felt that the sea breeze was blue. The picture below is the sea in Ning City.
Chen Youhan sends content every day.
Ye Kai still remembers that he said at that time: "Leave a message if you have anything."
Everything he does is a big deal, yet everything he does is not a big deal.
I drink soda water before buying more. The sunset is fleeting, and I don’t need any more clothes. The changing light and shadows and the smell of the sea when driving along Linjiang Avenue are only particularly beautiful at that moment. Chen Youhan captures fleeting things and seals up what he has never failed to do.
Miss you.
Ye Kai looked at each picture carefully. He didn't rush to reply to Chen Youhan, but called Lan Man.
"grandmother."
Lanman's voice was full of surprise: "Oh, the baby was freed from the concentration camp?"
"Grandma, I'm going back to my country first." Ye Kai said calmly.
Lan Man's mood instantly plummeted. She cleaned the garden, bought new seedlings, and personally laid out the bed for him and put fresh flowers in it. Even the weather was the best, and everyone was welcoming Ye Kai back.
"Baby, what happened?" Lan Man was so uncomfortable that she could not stand. She sat on the single-arm sofa and ruthlessly pulled the leaves of the sunset coral.
Ye Kai covered his chest and said, "Well, I must go back."
"What's the matter?" Lan Man asked persistently.
"I...I want bacon and fried eggs, and elderflower soda with sea salt on the rim."
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