Wait till the clouds clear and the moon appears
Time flew by so fast that the weather became completely hot in the blink of an eye. The days passed peacefully and steadily. Before they knew it, Chen Nanxing and Ji Chuan had been living in Zhaofeng for several months.
During this period, Ji Chuan took care of almost all of Chen Nanxing's daily life. He was very attentive. He slowly figured out Chen Nanxing's taste and cooked Chen Nanxing's favorite dishes in different ways every day.
Ji Chuan has transformed from an agricultural blogger + a borderline blogger to a cooking blogger + a borderline blogger.
It would be a lie to say that she wasn't touched. The better Ji Chuan treated her, the more guilty Chen Nanxing felt. The more guilty she felt, the more she wanted to repay Ji Chuan.
Cars, houses, money... Ji Chuan doesn't want any of these!
He was like the selfless Snail Girl who gave without asking for anything in return, and was only concerned about being good to Chen Nanxing.
Even though Ji Chuan treated Chen Nanxing so well, Chen Nanxing still became thinner and thinner, and vomited blood several times.
Ji Chuan saw it and was worried. He wanted to persuade Chen Nanxing to get treatment but he couldn't bring himself to do it.
Of course, Chen Nanxing knew Ji Chuan's idea, but she still chose to act like a blind man holding a lantern - pretending to be blind, and busying herself with her own affairs at a leisurely pace every day. The charity organization that helps girls in the mountains to study has taken shape.
Not only that, Chen Nanxing and Ji Chuan also took time out to go back to the small mountain village surrounded by mountains and bring Lan Mei out.
The day when Chen Nanxing received Lan Mei's call was later than he had expected. Chen Nanxing originally thought that Lan Mei had accepted her fate, but unexpectedly, Lan Mei ran out wearing a red dress.
Chen Nanxing also kept his promise and used his connections as Mrs. Lin in City B to open a way for Lanmei to study.
When everything is settled, the annual Dragon Boat Festival will be here soon.
Ji Chuan acted as if all holidays had nothing to do with him, and came down from the third floor as usual to ask Chen Nanxing whether he wanted to drink porridge or eat dinner in the evening.
Chen Nanxing recently likes to sit downstairs and read in the evening. Today the weather is fine, and Chen Nanxing sits downstairs and reads again.
Hearing Ji Chuan ask her, Chen Nanxing looked up from her book, confused: "Don't you need to go back for the Dragon Boat Festival?"
"No." Ji Chuan moved a small stool and sat next to Chen Nanxing, half-jokingly confessing: "I told my parents that I'm chasing a girlfriend and I won't be going home this year."
“…”
Chen Nanxing turned around holding the book.
Ji Chuan stopped while he was ahead and brought the topic back to what to eat in the evening.
"Have some porridge at night. It will help digestion."
Chen Nanxing had no objection and nodded. Ji Chuan rummaged in his pocket for a long time and finally took out a ball of colorful cotton thread and held it in front of Chen Nanxing for praise.
"Look, I made it up!"
There was an unconcealable pride in his expression.
Chen Nanxing looked at the ball of cotton thread and identified it carefully: "Bracelet?"
"Hmm!" Ji Chuan patiently separated the tangled cotton threads. "A few days ago, when I went grocery shopping, I saw the ladies downstairs making bracelets. I asked what they were for. They said they were multicolored strings. In Zhaofeng, it's customary to wear multicolored strings on the Dragon Boat Festival to bless good health."
His fingertips nimbly fiddled with the cotton thread, revealing several woven bracelets: "I followed suit and wove a few. Which one do you think is the best?"
With Ji Chuan's expectant expression, Chen Nanxing pointed to one at random. Ji Chuan twisted the one Chen Nanxing had picked in his hand and put the rest back in his pocket.
"This one is for you."
Ji Chuan said softly, squatting in front of Chen Nanxing and holding the colorful rope and looking at Chen Nanxing. His meaning was self-evident.
Zhaofeng has the custom of wearing colorful ropes during the Dragon Boat Festival. Chen Nanxing only learned about this in the first year after being adopted by his adoptive parents and transferred to the new school. At that time, almost everyone in the class, regardless of gender, had a colorful rope tied around their wrists.
The feeling of being out of place among the crowd is one of Chen Nanxing's clearest childhood memories.
It is no exaggeration to say that Chen Nanxing's wish at that time was to have someone tie a colorful string around her neck during the Dragon Boat Festival.
But until she and Lin Shanglu fled far away and escaped from Zhaofeng, she was still unable to wear the colorful rope.
Because no one had ever bought her any, and now she was middle-aged, she no longer had the obsession to tie colorful strings on her hands during the Dragon Boat Festival. At this time, a young man almost ten years younger than her knitted many strings for her, squatting at her feet and carefully trying to tie them on her...
After a long time without a response, Ji Chuan became a little anxious, but he still asked softly:
"Can I put it on you?"
Chen Nanxing's fingers stroked the pages of the book, which showed that she was hesitant. Although Ji Chuan was anxious, he did not urge her. Time flowed in silence. Chen Nanxing seemed to have made up her mind and extended her hand.
After getting permission, Ji Chuan's eyes shone like obsidian, shining in the sunlight.
Chen Nanxing watched Ji Chuan clumsily put the colorful rope on her. Just as she was about to retract her hand, Ji Chuan was quick to grab Chen Nanxing's wrist in his palm.
"Not yet, wait."
As he spoke, Ji Chuan reached into his pocket again. Chen Nanxing struggled without much effort: "One is enough."
"It's different. My mother-in-law and the others said that the five-colored rope should be thrown away after the first rain after the Dragon Boat Festival. But I want you to be safe, so I made you a longevity lock."
Ji Chuan finally took out his favorite bracelet from his treasure bag. Chen Nanxing saw that it was a bracelet woven with red rope and had many gold accessories on it. The most eye-catching one was the gold lock in the middle, which was very delicate and beautiful.
Excluding these, the weaving technique of this bracelet is much more complicated than the first one.
"That's good."
Both bracelets were tied on Chen Nanxing's wrists. Ji Chuan turned the second bracelet, moved the gold lock to the middle of his wrist and admired it for a moment, feeling very satisfied.
"So white, so pretty."
At this age, jewelry woven with red ropes is no longer in line with Chen Nanxing's aesthetic taste, but she still feels very moved. Perhaps it is because people who lack love are always easily captured, or perhaps it is because the love given by Ji Chuan is too hot and too strong.
It was so hot and intense that Chen Nanxing didn't know what to give him in return.
Ji Chuan didn't want money, car or house. It seemed that the only thing she could give him in return was a relationship that was destined to end in tragedy.
He knew clearly that she was about to expire, but he still treated her like this. In Ji Chuan's heart, is it better to have something and then lose it than to never have it at all?
Chen Nanxing closed his eyes and breathed a sigh of relief. He held Ji Chuan's face with one hand, and his flying hair swept across Ji Chuan's face. A few strands of hair swept across Ji Chuan's eyes. Ji Chuan closed his eyes unconsciously due to physiological instinct.
At the moment he closed his eyes, a strange touch suddenly appeared on his forehead, as gentle as a feather falling, or as gentle as a butterfly pausing briefly.
Ji Chuan opened his eyes suddenly, just in time to catch Chen Nanxing's slight retreat. She quickly returned to her usual aloofness, so quickly that Ji Chuan wondered if he was just hallucinating.
"Nanxing..." Ji Chuan called out in a daze, and his right hand unconsciously touched the forehead that had just been kissed. He knew that it was not a dream, because the warmth of her lips still remained on it.
Having been rejected so many times, Ji Chuan has lost his confidence.
"Nanxing...are you...what I thought you were?"
Chen Nanxing stroked the pages of the book, her slightly red earlobes dimmed in the golden sunset. When that corner of the page was almost crumpled by her, Chen Nanxing slowly nodded.
After persisting for so long, the clouds finally cleared and the moon appeared. Ji Chuan was unresponsive for a moment and could not speak. He just held Chen Nanxing's hand tighter and tighter.
One of them was so immersed in happiness and joy that he couldn't extricate himself, while the other didn't know whether this was right or wrong, and for a moment he didn't notice that a pair of eyes in the corner witnessed the whole process.
The owner of the eyes was named Lin Shanglu. He was standing under the sycamore tree at the entrance of the alley, spying on Chen Nanxing and Ji Chuan.
Annoyance, regret, jealousy...all kinds of unwilling emotions surged in his eyes.
It wasn't until the cigarette between his fingers had burned out and burned his fingers that he suddenly came to his senses, and then his stomach suddenly felt a terrible pain.
This is not a metaphor, this is real pain.
His life was not happy after his divorce from Chen Nanxing.
The Star stock market has not been stable. Boyuan Group, Chu Zhenghe's Internet Group from Country M, and some companies have shown obvious malice towards Star. Su Qiao also clamors for an identity every day, but he ignores her, so Su Qiao sits in the company all day long.
After this incident, how could Lin Shanglu marry Su Qiao? Besides, he had already said that his wife could only be Chen Nanxing. But Su Qiao's child was gone, and it was Lin's mother's fault. So Lin Shanglu couldn't forcefully shut Su Qiao out for the time being, and could only avoid Su Qiao every day.
At this very moment, the internet broke out another scandal of Hengxing selling inferior products as good ones...
Hengxing was plagued by internal and external troubles, and Lin Shanglu was unable to take care of himself.
An overwhelming amount of things came at Lin Shanglu, and he was tied up in Hengxing's office building. In just a few months, he lost twenty or thirty pounds and developed stomach problems.
It hurts every time it occurs. It’s that indescribable pain and once it strikes, there’s nothing I can do but curl up.
It was only after experiencing the torture brought by stomach pain that he could understand a little bit of the pain Chen Nanxing was suffering.
So Lin Shanglu traveled more frequently between City B and Zhaofeng, and every time he could only hide in the dark and secretly glance at Chen Nanxing.
He wanted to go forward countless times, but Chen Nanxing's words during the divorce, "Lin Shanglu, I wish you a bright future, and I also wish I never look back," restrained him from moving forward every time.
Now that there is someone else next to Chen Nanxing, he is even less qualified to take that step.
Looking at the figure of the young man hugging Chen Nanxing, Lin Shanglu's heart was stabbed with pain and he couldn't straighten his back. He held the tree trunk and retched silently a few times, staring at that side with red eyes.
When I see the person I love being intimate with another person, my first reaction is not anger, but heartbreak.
What about Chen Nanxing? Has her heart never healed since she first found out about his infidelity five years ago?
At this point, Lin Shanglu finally began to understand Chen Nanxing's suffering, but he didn't even have the chance to atone for his sins.
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