Chapter 18
I lost my grip on the fork and it fell into the takeaway box.
Xia Ruirui put the fried yogurt away somewhat awkwardly and explained to him, "I was planning to take it back home as a midnight snack."
Shen Yuqing looked at her with a look of 'stop pretending'.
Seeing that the other party didn't believe her, she repeated it firmly: "Really."
“…”
After getting in the car, Xia Ruirui fastened her seat belt consciously and repeated again: "Really."
Shen Yuqing was so annoyed by her that he nodded in agreement: "I understand."
She then leaned back in her chair with satisfaction. This place was actually not far from her hotel, only about ten minutes' drive away, but he drove extremely slowly.
Xia Ruirui was so focused on eating the fried yogurt that she didn't notice his little thoughts.
Shen Yuqing pretended to check the road conditions, glanced at her casually, and was silent for a long time before speaking: "Xia Ruirui."
She didn't even look up: "What?"
"..." After thinking for a long time, Shen Yuqing spoke with difficulty, "The reason I came here today is actually..."
Xia Ruirui, sitting in the passenger seat, felt her back stiffen when she heard him. She guessed what he was going to do next and interrupted him directly: "I'm flying back to Beiyi the day after tomorrow."
Someone's hand holding the steering wheel paused for a moment, not looking at her, but waiting for her next words.
After a while, she continued, "Maybe I won't come back again."
“…”
Shen Yuqing felt as if he had been sentenced to life imprisonment and was filled with despair. He gripped the steering wheel tightly and did not look at the cruel woman beside him.
He didn't look at her, but she looked at him: "Chen Yuqing, you will come to see me off the day after tomorrow."
Although he didn't look at her, he could imagine how heartless Xia Ruirui was when she said this.
Just like when she wanted to break up with me in high school.
She'll even say it with a laugh.
Thinking of this, his eyes became colder and colder.
During the second half of the journey, neither of them spoke, and the car was unusually silent.
Chen Yuqing drove very fast and arrived at the hotel in less than five minutes. Xia Ruirui got out of the car, closed the door, and looked at his cold profile through the lowered window with a complicated look in her eyes: "Goodbye."
He ignored her and responded directly with the raised car window.
She didn't turn around and go back to the hotel immediately, but stood there and looked at the back of the car.
Only when the car disappeared did Xia Ruirui seem to breathe a sigh of relief. She sat down on the side of the road without caring about the dusty concrete floor.
The reason why she didn't ask Shen Yuqing why he came to ruin her blind date was that she didn't want to break the balance between the two of them.
Unexpectedly, he spoke, and she had no choice but to interrupt him.
After Xia's mother and father divorced, she realized that love is the thing that is most easily deteriorated.
They were very affectionate when they were young, but ended up hating each other.
In high school, the two would have a big fight every night. Xia Ruirui, as a bystander, was in great pain, let alone the two parties involved.
She doesn't believe in love, but Shen Yuqing is an exception.
She didn't expect that he would really fall in love with her, nor did she expect that she would become obsessed.
She had originally thought it was fun to tease him, but she had never expected that her whim would lead to the two of them being like this.
Thinking of the hurt in Shen Yuqing’s eyes just now, she couldn’t help but slapped herself hard.
After slapping herself, she took out the antidepressant from her bag with an expressionless face and swallowed it.
"Tsk, that's bitter."
The cell phone in her pocket kept vibrating. Xia Ruirui took it out and saw that it was her mother.
She hung up expressionlessly, turned off her phone, stood up and walked into the hotel with a slight stumble.
*
On the other side, after Shen Yuqing drove the car out of her sight, he stopped at a traffic light intersection in front.
He arrived at an unfortunate moment and encountered a red light.
While waiting for the red light, a car behind him either pressed the accelerator by mistake or something else and crashed straight into his car.
Shen Yuqing was knocked forward and his head hit the windshield in front.
In a trance, he thought he was going to die.
Even though he was about to die, the first thing he thought of was the empty takeaway box in Xia Ruirui's hand when she got off the car just now.
"Actually, I packed it up for a midnight snack."
fart.
Shen Yuqing fell on the popped-out airbag and sneered weakly: "Liar."
Xia Ruirui is such a liar. She was a habitual liar when she was in school.
When she smiled and told him that she was breaking up with him, he clearly felt her sadness.
He knew that Xia Ruirui liked him too.
Otherwise, it would be impossible for her to have not been in a relationship for so many years.
He asked Shen Qingli tentatively, and when he learned that she was still single, he was so happy.
But if she really still likes him... then why would she bring up breaking up?
Even if there was something unspeakable back then, why did she interrupt me just now after so many years?
Shen Yuqing didn't understand, he really didn't understand.
He loved her, but also hated her. He loved her willfulness and unrestrainedness, but also hated her heartlessness.
The people in the car behind him knocked on his door anxiously, trying to rescue him. Shen Yuqing looked at the door button that was within reach and suddenly decided to just give up.
After all, he was alone and had no worries, so he might as well die.
While he was unconscious, he suddenly dreamed of the day when Xia Ruirui broke up with him.
In fact, Shen Yuqing had a premonition that she was going to break up with him.
He felt it when her grades dropped more and more.
Xia Ruirui was not in a good state during that period. Even in the physical education class which she always liked, she was depressed.
Shen Yuqing thought she was sad because of her declining grades, so he offered to tutor her in physics, chemistry and biology.
But she refused and said that she was not upset because of her grades.
Although she denied it, he still felt upset about it.
After all, she was the only one whose grades dropped between the two of them, and Shen Yuqing felt that he was responsible for this.
He never took notes, but he compiled a list of physics knowledge points for her.
But her grades kept declining.
Later, her parents were called and her father, a diplomat, came to pick her up.
A few days later, her mother also came to the school, found him and talked to him.
At that time, he had a vague premonition that Xia Ruirui was going to separate from him.
At that time, they were not in a relationship, but they liked each other, and their classmates also knew that they liked each other.
He was a little nervous and uneasy, but when she returned to school, he found that he still had a sense of security.
He felt that Xia Ruirui would never abandon him.
At least Xia Ruirui wouldn't.
He even prayed to God that as long as he could get her to stay with him, he would be grateful every day of his life.
He would no longer resent God for the death of his parents when he was young.
Nor would I hold a grudge against my aunt's family for swallowing up a large sum of my parents' insurance money and treating me harshly.
As long as Xia Ruirui could stay by his side, he would definitely offer incense and serve the gods from time to time.
But it didn't work.
She still abandoned him.
She looked at him and said with a smile: "Chen Yuqing, let's break up."
Although Shen Yuqing doesn't like to talk, he is very venomous. When he heard her say the word "break up", his first reaction was -
She is so naive. Only elementary school students would break up with someone.
But when the nerves reached his nerve center, he felt heartache, as if his heart was being squeezed tightly, making him feel suffocated.
He was unwilling to give up and struggled and clung to her, but Xia Ruirui cruelly told him that she no longer liked him.
She said – I don’t like you anymore, Shen Yuqing.
Yes, everyone abandoned him...
*
In the intensive care unit.
Gu Zijin stood by the bed, watching the nurse give Shen Yuqing an injection, and asked again: "Nurse, when will he wake up?"
The nurse adjusted the flow rate of the dropper, turned to look at him, and said patiently, "The patient's survival instinct is relatively weak, but fortunately, the car accident did not cause any vital injuries. He will wake up when he wants to."
Gu Zijin frowned: "What if he doesn't want to wake up?"
The nurse didn't answer, but gave him a soothing look.
Shen Qingli also came in from outside and shook her head helplessly at Gu Zijin.
"I don't know what's going on with Ruirui. Her phone is always turned off. No matter how many times I call, it's always turned off."
Gu Zijin sighed, put his arm around her shoulders comfortingly, and patted her gently.
He looked at Shen Yuqing, who was as pale as a dead person on the hospital bed, and said to her in a deep voice: "We still have to call Xia Ruirui over. The nurse just said that his desire to survive is weak..."
Before he finished speaking, his hand on the side was gently touched by someone. Gu Zijin raised his eyebrows and looked back, only to see Shen Yuqing with a dead fish look on his face.
When Shen Qingli saw her friend wake up, she ran out quickly, shouting for the nurse to come quickly.
Seeing that he woke up, Gu Zijin was no longer worried. He chuckled and touched his shoulder.
"The big lover has finally woken up." He didn't forget to mock him. "Xia Ruirui's name is still effective. He woke up when I told him I was going to find her."
Gu Zijin felt a little disappointed: "What a promising future."
“…” Shen Yuqing coughed lightly, his lips still pale, “Don’t tell her.”
"..." Gu Zijin looked at him with an expression that was hard to describe.
He and Shen Qingli were well aware of the little things that had happened between the two over the years.
It just so happens that these two people are more stubborn than each other and have been hesitant for so many years.
One was stubborn and refused to give up, the other was stubborn and refused to nod.
To say that when Xia Ruirui was in school, she was always around Shen Yuqing, and she never talked about him again after that, Gu Zijin didn't believe that she had no feelings for him.
The same thing happened to Chen Yuqing. When Xia Ruirui tried desperately to tease him, he was stubborn and refused to nod, and as a result, the two of them stopped talking.
He was desperate and hung himself on her tree.
The key point is that the reason why these two people separated was not a big deal.
But at that time, after being called out by Xia Ruirui's mother, Shen Yuqing looked a little listless when he came back.
It felt like all my pride had been shattered.
Although he didn't know what the two of them said in the office, Gu Zijin could feel Shen Yuqing's decadence and collapse at that time.
However, due to the person involved's obstruction, Xia Ruirui probably still doesn't know that her mother went to talk to Shen Yuqing...
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