It was Valentine's Day, and he bought the roses by accident. He didn't like flowers, romance, or holidays, but Ji Qingzhou liked them, so he paid for Ji Qingzhou.
Chu Cheng walked over and looked at the petals, which were no longer bright as if covered by fog, as if he saw his past. The past that he and Ji Qingzhou had once shared, bright and vivid, also faded like these roses at this moment, ending up withered.
Chu Cheng picked up the glass bottle and wanted to throw away these worthless roses, but after picking it up, he silently counted them. Nine roses, not one more, not one less, nine, for a long, long time.
He remembered that the girl gave Ji Qingzhou an extra flower, but Ji Qingzhou returned it. He said, "No need."
He remembered that Ji Qingzhou hung the roses upside down on the balcony and told him not to move them. He waited patiently for them to dry, then put them in glass bottles and let them stay on the windowsill of the balcony.
He must like these roses very much, Chu Cheng thought, and he also wants a long-lasting one. He looked at the roses in his hand and suddenly realized that although these flowers were no longer as bright as before, they were not withered. Ji Qingzhou dried them before they withered, so they retained their blooming appearance.
He put the glass bottle in his hand back to its original place, looked at the roses, picked up his mobile phone, and replied to Ji Qingzhou with a WeChat message.
"I touched your roses." Chu Cheng typed, "I think they are beautiful."
Ji Qingzhou looked at the text he sent, and at that moment, his heartstrings trembled slightly.
He did not reply to Chu Cheng, and Chu Cheng did not reply to him either. Ji Qingzhou was afraid of exposing the secret that he liked him, while Chu Cheng wanted to promise him a long-lasting love.
A person's life is very long, but he wanted to promise Ji Qingzhou a long life. Precisely because he wanted to promise him a long life, he did not dare to act rashly, for fear that he would give Ji Qingzhou hope and then disappoint him.
Chu Cheng looked at the bottle of roses, silently turned off the lights, and left the balcony.
After that, Chu Cheng never went back to his house. He returned to his home, a place where Ji Qingzhou's life was no longer there, and seriously thought about the future of him and Ji Qingzhou.
Chu Xin was surprised to see him coming back, "Why did you go home to live?"
Chu Cheng sat on the chair next to him and asked him, "Brother, have you ever liked anyone?"
"No."
"I guess so." Chu Cheng said, "Unless Xiyu has become a spirit, I guess no one likes you."
Chu Xin put down the pen in his hand and asked him, "Do you like anyone?"
Chu Cheng was silent for a long time before he whispered, "I don't know, but I miss him very much. I want to give him a long life, I want to promise him a life without worries, I want to give him a life of stability, but I don't know if I can do it. I'm afraid that I will meet someone else in the future, fall in love with someone else, and then let him leave. I'm also afraid that I don't really like him that much, but I just haven't liked anyone before, so I mistakenly think that this is love."
"In that case, why don't we separate for a while? You are in the middle of the situation and naturally can't see clearly. Give yourself some time to do other things and not focus on him. Then, after a month or two, when you look back, you may be able to see things clearly."
"What if you still don't understand?" Chu Cheng asked him.
Chu Xin smiled when he heard this, and said very gently, "If you can focus on other things for a month or two, and not think about him at all, and if you see him again and are not sure if it is love, then you probably don't like him that much."
"What if I can't hold out for a month or two?"
"Then at that time, ask yourself whether you like him or not."
Chu Cheng lowered his head and said nothing more.
Chu Xin felt that the thing he was most worried about had happened. He looked at his brother and saw him seriously thinking about his suggestion. He felt helpless but did not disturb him. There was no need, Chu Xin thought, if Chu Cheng liked Ji Qingzhou, then even if he stopped him, he would be with Ji Qingzhou; if Chu Cheng did not like Ji Qingzhou, then even if he did not stop him, he would not be with Ji Qingzhou.
He knew his younger brother very well. He had always had his own opinions and was the only one who could make decisions about his affairs.
Ji Qingzhou found that since he and Chu Cheng stopped seeing each other, Chu Cheng really hadn't appeared in front of him again. Actually, that wasn't true. Before he said this, Chu Cheng hadn't deliberately appeared in front of him. That time in the hospital was just an accidental encounter.
He would still send WeChat messages to himself, still with words of concern. Ji Qingzhou would politely reply with thank you at first, but later, he simply stopped replying.
One day, he received a WeChat message from Chu Cheng asking him: Have you blocked me?
Ji Qingzhou replied in his heart that he had not, but as always, he did not reply to him. One of them had to remain calm so that they would not become embarrassed in the struggle.
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