"Is that so?" Shen Wei heard Cen Yu say this without turning around, only looking at his palm.
"I haven't finished my work yet, I'll go back first." He waved and prepared to return to the company... Probably because there had just been a suicide incident in the building, when Cen Yu wanted to go to the top floor during his lunch break, he found that the emergency exit door was locked.
There were no companies on this floor, so he simply sat in the stairwell.
Shen Wei messaged him to ask where he was, and he said he was in the bathroom.
It wasn't time to rest yet. Cen Yu looked at the surveillance cameras in the hallway, wondering when the security guards would come up to arrest the person. Ever since that incident, the building's security guards would probably be terrified whenever they saw someone approaching the top floor.
But it wasn't until he had been sitting in the emergency exit for five minutes that he heard footsteps behind him—
Behind me is the passageway leading to the top floor, and the door at the back is completely locked, so no one should be coming from behind.
Cen Yu took out the milk candy that Shen Wei had given him during lunch from his pocket, unwrapped one and put it in his mouth. As he chewed the milk candy, he finally felt that person sitting next to him.
He didn't speak, and neither did the other person.
Cen Yu simply sat on the steps, and after a long while, he asked, "Was it worth it?"
"Stay here."
He seemed momentarily dazed after saying that, as he had just asked Li Chonghe whether it was worth it.
He turned to look at Pei Leyun, who was sitting quietly behind him—
The other person was dressed the same as when they met at the library that day; perhaps for Pei Leyun, that was the most memorable day of his life.
Cen Yu looked at him, and Pei Leyun smiled for a moment, "There's nothing not worth it."
Cen Yu fell silent. He sat in the stairwell, looking at the various messages being chatted about in the gossip group.
“In my dreams… I always see buildings collapsing,” Cen Yu said.
He seemed to be speaking to Pei Lejun, yet also to himself, “Sometimes, I stand there… Actually, there’s an aquarium in my dreams.”
"An aquarium?" Pei Leyun seemed to have become interested.
"It should be an aquarium," Cen Yu said somewhat uncertainly, "but there's nothing there."
"There are some signs on it saying that this used to be an aquarium." Cen Yu doesn't dream much, but apart from this world, the occasional dreams he has are all related to his gray and dilapidated memories.
"I saw a whale specimen."
"And there are sharks soaking in the pool."
"But I searched online later and realized that what I dreamed of wasn't an aquarium, but a marine life exhibition hall," Cen Yu said to himself. "But I was probably quite happy at the time."
Pei Leyun showed a curious expression, "Why?"
"have no idea."
“Maybe it’s because of the person I was with at the time…” Cen Yu could still taste the lingering sweetness of the milk candy on his tongue, “I don’t know who that person was.”
"But I guess it might be my good friend."
Cen Yu looked at Pei Leyun beside him one last time. He wanted to say something, but in the end he kept quiet.
He pushed himself up and asked, "Do you know someone named Pei Hengyun?"
Pei Leyun shook her head, somewhat bewildered.
“…This is also a character from my dream.” Cen Yu was referring to Pei Hengyun from the second world. He stood up and looked at Pei Leyun beside him with a complicated expression.
In the end, I still had to bend over.
He lowered his head and approached Pei Leyun... and reached out to pinch Pei Leyun's cheek.
Although Pei Leyun did not understand Cen Yu's meaning, the obvious closeness still made him obediently raise his head.
Cen Yu looked at Pei Lejun.
Even if their appearances are different, their essential personalities remain the same, he thought to himself, "Open your mouth."
Pei Leyun's eyes widened instantly, filled with a mixture of surprise and disbelief... It felt as if a cat that had always been indifferent to him was finally willing to rub against his arm. He opened his mouth, looking at Cen Yu's face as it drew closer—
A piece of candy was stuffed into his mouth.
"It's quite sweet," Cen Yu said.
"You should try some too."
Pei Leyun: "..."
He paused for a few seconds, the presence of the milk candy in his mouth too strong... He felt disappointed, yet also as if this was how it should be, so he didn't resist. He just bit the milk candy a few times and said insincerely, "So sweet."
Cen Yu leaned against the railing of the emergency exit, watching Pei Leyun chew her milk candy, looking both sullen and secretly pleased.
The time on the screen is 1:25 p.m., and lunch break will end in 5 minutes.
Cen Yu glanced at the security camera in the stairwell. "The security guard hasn't come up...did you disable the camera?"
Otherwise, they should have come up and chased people away long ago to prevent another person from jumping off the building to imitate them.
Pei Leyun sat on the stairs, chewing on a piece of candy, and mumbled, "Yes."
He rarely had a chance to be alone with Cen Yu, and he didn't want anyone to interfere.
When Cen Yu put his phone in his pocket, he glanced at the time on the screen... 1:26 PM, which was about the right time to go downstairs.
Thinking of this, he looked up at the surveillance camera again, then bent down and brought his face close to Pei Leyun's.
In Pei Leyun's vision, only the beauty mark under Cen Yu's eye remained. The other person's eyes were half-closed, and he could smell the exact same milk candy scent... He couldn't help but want to chase after more, but Cen Yu pressed his shoulder down—
"Stop." Cen Yu was slightly out of breath. He took out his phone and glanced at it. "1:29. He's gone."
Cen Yu turned to leave as she spoke, but Pei Leyun grabbed her sleeve...
Cen Yu turned his head, and Pei Leyun looked up at him. He opened his mouth as if to say something, but in the end, he didn't say what he wanted to say.
“Xiao Yu.” Pei Leyun smiled, touching the corner of his mouth. He looked at Cen Yu—
See you in the next world.
...
When Cen Yu arrived at her workstation at the last minute, her colleague was shocked for a second, asking, "What have you been doing?"
"nothing."
"By the way, I heard you went to lunch with that intern?" a colleague asked while slacking off. "What did you guys eat for lunch? If you recommend a good place, don't keep it a secret..."
He stopped mid-sentence, glanced at Cen Yu's expression, and then said, "Never mind, it seems I can't eat this."
Cen Yu: "?"
"I haven't even said anything yet, how do you know you can't finish it?" Cen Yu asked, puzzled.
"Of course, I can't eat spicy food." My colleague turned around and started nervously slacking off again. "Look at your swollen lips, it must have been really spicy."
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