The early autumn night was breezy.
The lights on the riverbank are reflected on the water, creating a shimmering expanse.
Luo Xikui walked beside Xu Ziyu, but dared not look at him, only glancing at the river.
A river breeze brushed her face, blowing her long, black hair wildly.
Because it was sunny when she went out this morning, and she didn't expect to be out so late, she only wore a thin lace dress with short sleeves.
A cool breeze blew in, and I couldn't help but sneeze.
She had just rubbed her arms together to warm them when she felt a weight on her shoulder, and warmth enveloped her.
She looked up at his shoulder and saw a fair, well-defined hand draping a coat over her shoulders. Following the hand, she saw him under the warm yellow river lamplight, his expression as gentle as if a glacier had been carved open.
That was what she had always longed for, but now...
"No need, I'm not cold anymore." Luo Xikui was about to return his coat when she suddenly sneezed several times.
Today, her body seemed to be deliberately undermining her, exposing every clumsy lie she told.
Xu Ziyu adjusted her coat, but didn't expose her, and continued walking slowly.
Luo Xikui followed closely behind, her head bowed.
After walking in silence for a short while, Xu Ziyu spoke in a magnetic voice: "Are you still angry about what happened back then?"
Luo Xikui was stunned for a moment, then realized that he was referring to their unpleasant last phone call, right?
She clearly remembers him saying that he was busy with his studies and couldn't contact her for the time being. She had just arrived in the United States and was preoccupied with important matters. In addition, because of the gap in technical skills between her and her classmates, she blurted out that she would never contact him again.
Actually, she was just using this as an excuse to end things. She didn't expect that he would actually never contact her again, and she had already promised Xin Chun that she would not have any more entanglements with him.
Therefore, they lost contact after that.
"That's all old news, I've long forgotten about it, why bring it up again?" Luo Xikui took a deep breath and said nonchalantly.
Xu Ziyu's face darkened slightly. She said these were old stories, so to her, was he already a thing of the past?
I remember reading an article that mentioned a rumor about her and Cheng Ming, the young pianist she partnered with for her concerto. On the day she won the award, that man presented her with flowers, and she smiled brightly at him. The photo was taken by several media outlets, who dubbed them the golden couple of the classical music world.
The more Xu Ziyu thought about it, the darker his expression became. He looked down at her collarbone and saw that she wasn't wearing the thin chain with the pinky ring. He looked at her hands and saw that they were clean and unadorned.
"What about that pinky ring?" he asked in a deep voice.
Luo Xikui hadn't expected him to ask so suddenly, and almost blurted it out, but she managed to hold her voice back and said calmly, "I can't find it."
"You lost it?" Xu Ziyu stopped and looked at her with a furrowed brow.
Although I knew she had a habit of being forgetful, how could she lose something so important?!
"Probably, it's been missing for a long time." As Luo Xikui spoke, she couldn't help but tighten her grip on her handbag strap. The ring was still lying safely in her lucky bag.
Xu Ziyu's face darkened, his black eyes fixed on her as he said in a deep voice, "Do you know what that means?"
Luo Xikui's eyelashes trembled slightly, her pupils turned away, and she only said, "Whatever meaning it has is meaning from the past."
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