Chapter 69 Chapter 69 THE EN……
Before he could go back, Fu Rouyun knew everything.
I feel complicated.
In the end, the umbrella returned to Fu Rouyun's hands and was held up for the two of them.
I'm sorry, brother-in-law, Fu Rouyun calls Xu Lin like this. You don't want to see your beloved brother get sick from being caught in the rain, right?
Of course, what Cen Xue said was just a general version. Fu Rouyun listened carefully from beginning to end about her family situation and the things between her and Lu Yanxi and Yan Pei, without interrupting him at all.
"..." Cen Xue said softly, "What do you think?"
Ask him what he thinks?
Fu Rouyun had a lot of thoughts in his mind. He hesitated for a few seconds and said, "I think it would have been better if I had been born a few years earlier. If it had been me, I would never have treated you like that. I would have supported whatever you wanted to do. My eldest uncle would still be around by then, right? When you went to college, I would have brought him and aunt over to take care of them... And don't worry about my mom. She's actually the softest person. My eldest uncle's eyes look a bit like mine, which is a sure win. The problem is that she and my dad started having children too late. Ah, I really have to focus on my career first..."
"Stop, stop."
Cen Xue stopped his grand plan and said emphatically, "I'm referring to the matter with Lu Yanxi and Yan Pei."
Fu Rouyun was surprised. "They are my brother's ex-boyfriends. Isn't this something we already agreed on?"
Cen Xue: "...but now you know the details of the past."
"Oh, brother, you reminded me," Fu Rouyun blew on his fist, "I shouldn't have been so polite to Yan Pei just now."
Cen Xue... Cen Xue didn't know what to say.
He was originally very nervous. After all, it was the first time he told everything to others. Even though he was resisting in his heart, he had been in the wrong first, so he had to give an explanation to Fu Rouyun. He was even prepared to accept whatever Fu Rouyun's reaction was.
The past ten or twenty years have been condensed and summarized, and those memories are buried in words.
Cen Xue's own condition was somewhat affected, but Fu Rouyun actually...
Looking at his eyes, he is still the same as before.
As steadfast and attached as ever.
It would be a lie to say that he was not touched. A thought flashed through his mind: how could he have deserved this? He became even more concerned about Fu Rouyun's opinion.
As a result, Fu Rouyun said those nonsense words again.
Cen Xue lowered her head, helpless, and forced a stiff smile, with the corners of her mouth only slightly raised.
He seemed to have given up and let his forehead rest on Fu Rouyun's chest.
Fu Rouyun held an umbrella in one hand and opened the other, looking up with a seemingly magnanimous and forgiving expression: "Come, come, my arms are always open to Cen Xue."
Cen Xue: "Then let me lean on you like this for a while."
"...Okay," Fu Rouyun said, putting aside his antics, "I'm fine with you until the end of time."
In fact, he lied when facing Cen Xue's question just now.
It’s not just that I have no opinion, I have a lot of opinions!
It’s—that Yan Zijiao!
Well, Fu Rouyun’s sense of crisis was rising. He never expected that there was a potential love rival hiding here!
This man, who was isolated from the three of them, had never left Cen Xue's side. Fu Rouyun couldn't help but resentfully criticize him. "Is this man a ninja? He must be a ninja! He should practice stealth every day!"
Now he dares to use all kinds of tricks to seduce his pure and innocent sweetheart who has gone through so much trouble, so he might as well steal her directly in the future?!
This triangle doesn't need any new members!
Fu Rouyun was very angry. This should have been a warm moment with Cen Xue, but unexpectedly, the sense of crisis kept rising.
Perhaps it was because his chest was heaving so much that Cen Xue mistakenly thought Fu Rouyun was really concerned about his past. Furious, Cen Xue couldn't help but look up and ask again, "It's okay. I'm ready. Whether you want to leave or not..."
Fu Rouyun's expression changed in an instant, and he gently pressed his head back.
Said: "This is not good."
Cen Xue: "What's wrong?"
"Although I don't mind confessing to you again, and I also felt that I didn't perform well last time in the rental house," Fu Rouyun said a little shamelessly, "but it might be a bit inappropriate in front of my brother-in-law. Can we make up for it when we go back?"
Cen Xue understood what he meant: "You——"
Fu Rouyun placed the umbrella handle between the two of them, pressed his forehead against his, and rubbed it gently.
"I told you, I'm willing to do it. You've actually slowly discovered my charm, haven't you?"
He whispered some examples of heinous crimes, and Cen Xue couldn't help but hit him with her fist.
It doesn't seem like this person is that embarrassed.
Fu Rouyun pretended to be weak and grabbed his hand, "It's so cold, let's go back."
Friendship comes with a few small sneezes, which came at the right time. Fu Rouyun held them back forcibly, but almost sneezed himself. The sour taste pierced his nose and went straight to his eyes. He was really about to cry.
Cen Xue sighed and said, "Let's go back. We'll talk about it in detail when we get back."
In fact, at this time, even if he asked for the stars or the moon, Cen Xue would agree.
*
The ground was slippery in the rain. The stairs were made of cement from years ago and had been polished by the heavy footsteps of visitors coming and going.
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The two of them clumsily clung to the railing and walked down, and the umbrella became a nuisance again.
Cen Xue's thoughts bounced back and forth between "Why not just go back in the rain?" and "Would I be an idiot not to use an umbrella?" The umbrella was big enough to cover two people, and it looked just as big. The wind blew it like a sail, practically blowing people away.
When they were about to reach the flat ground, Fu Rouyun screamed "Ah".
The umbrella finally missed the target and flew out of his hand.
As luck would have it, Youyou landed at the feet of someone at the door.
Fu Rouyun whispered, "...Yan Pei."
Yan Pei hasn't left yet!
Having just finished making up for the class seven years ago, his impression of this person still remained on that naughty, domineering and arrogant second-generation star. The warning radar beeped and he pulled Cen Xue behind him.
"Brother, I'll protect you—"
Cen Xue poked her head out from behind Fu Rouyun and squeezed his shoulder: "You go first, I want to talk to him."
Fu Rouyun turned around, his face full of “No way, again?!”
He was sent away in this way not long ago, and Cen Xue was so angry that she climbed to the top floor of the cemetery. If this happens again, then... then he can only say hello to Xu Lin again!
Fu Rouyun thought angrily.
Cen Xue said, "Go back to the car and turn on the heater and wait for me. Otherwise, it's really cold, okay?"
Fu Rouyun stared at him.
Cen Xue raised her hand: "I swear by Xu Lin, in less than ten minutes—"
Fu Rouyun slid to his knees. The dead were the greatest, and the past was all gone. He quickly stopped her: "I'll be obedient and wait for you."
He was so scared that if he hesitated for a second, his brother-in-law would come to his dream tonight to interrogate him and ask him why he bullied Cen Xue.
Cen Xue hugged Fu Rouyun. The previous dependence had not yet dissipated, but it was even stronger.
Fu Rouyun left the umbrella to Cen Xue.
*
Cen Xue might have been infected by Fu Rouyun's incoherence.
He raised his umbrella to temporarily shield himself and Yan Pei from the rain, but water still kept dripping from their bodies, and shielding themselves from the rain was in vain.
Perhaps the most troubling thing today is whether or not to hold an umbrella, Cen Xue thought, and couldn't help but chuckle softly, but it was just a short breath.
This little episode was drowned in the rain, but it was at this moment that Yan Pei raised his face.
This man with strong facial features has a rebellious look in every curve, making up an extremely arrogant face. There is a legend in the industry that even if he just looks at you expressionlessly, you will unconsciously fall under his aura. He is an extremely aggressive person.
But now.
Was it because he'd been soaked in the rain, had his body become heavier after being soaked in water? Cen Xue couldn't figure out the reason, but Yan Pei before her did look much more dispirited, even his overall aura seemed to be declining.
Like a tamed wild animal.
Cen Xue whispered, "Awake?"
"...Ah," Yan Pei shook his head, looking at the pitch-black umbrella curtain, "It reminded me of a lot of things. I'm quite an asshole, right?"
Cen Xue remembered that day at Yan Zijiao's house. Yan Zijiao said that Yan Pei was in a crazy state during that period and was almost forcibly sent to a mental hospital. Fortunately, he showed improvement after a course of medication, but the medicine itself has a huge auxiliary effect. While Yan Pei was in a trance and dull, his parents decided to send him abroad.
One obvious side effect at the time was some memory blurring and loss.
Afterward, he was shocked by the news of Cen Xue's death, and he could not recall the twists and turns of that rainy day.
The only subconscious impression was that he was "betrayed by Cen Xue".
People grow and change, and Yan Pei has obviously come to his senses.
As an adult in his twenties, or someone who was thrown abroad and worked hard to return to China to struggle in the entertainment industry for several years, his current arrogance and rebelliousness are all earned by himself, and are no longer the same as the youthful vigor he had when he was eighteen or nineteen years old.
Looking back at what I did back then, I can't help but frown.
Yan Pei woke up with a headache, but the rain dispelled all the fog in his mind.
"If I were you, I would leave without looking back," he said self-deprecatingly, "I'm afraid it would be too late to regret it."
Cen Xue: "I don't hate you."
He continued, "I've already started a new life. If I hadn't accompanied Fu Rouyun to the audition, we would never have met again in our lives."
Yan Pei waved his hand: "Then why don't you just go with him? Why do you still care about me?"
Cen Xue pursed her lips and said, "What can I do? I still can't let you go."
Yan Pei was stunned. He never expected Cen Xue to answer like this.
There were some redness, swelling and scratches on one side of his face, all from Cen Xue's actions. In fact, he also had some tinnitus in his ear. He could use so much force, and other than hating him, he couldn't think of any other motivation.
Cen Xue handed him the umbrella handle: "Hold it, my hands are so tired."
It's really tiring. The strength of the person fanning the fan is incredible.
There is still the remains of a half-bloomed rose at my feet, stained with dust and dirt.
Yan Pei took it subconsciously. He was taller than Cen Xue, so some dim light from the sky could seep in between them, making it much easier to breathe.
With her arms folded across her chest, Cen Xue lowered her eyes.
When he was explaining to Fu Rouyun just now, he also recalled what happened that year for the first time in a long time.
He remembered that after escaping from the Yan family's small villa with Yan Zijiao, he never asked about Yan Pei's situation again, and Yan Zijiao never mentioned it either.
The connection between him and Yan Pei was suddenly severed and ended without any result.
Obviously, Yan Pei didn't have a good time during that period.
He had told Yan Pei before that he treated him like that not out of love, but out of pity because he was too lonely and had no one to love him.
But Cen Xue now feels that she needs to be more precise in her words.
"I think another reason I stayed by your side all that time was... I was lonely too. I felt sorry for you and couldn't help but give in and compromise a lot, but I also couldn't let you go."
Whether it is love or not, it always has special meaning.
But Cen Xue did not feel guilty towards Yan Pei. It was as if he suddenly understood everything after seven years and made up his mind about the entanglement between them.
I couldn’t let go seven years ago. Seven years ago, I simply couldn’t let go.
It is special enough for one person to miss another person.
He just owed Yan Pei a sentence like this, so he gave it to him.
Cen Xue left the umbrella to Yan Pei.
Before leaving, he said to Yan Pei, "There's still a lot of unresolved issues between us. Let's talk about it later."
Yan Pei stopped him: "...What if I don't want to end it?!"
Cen Xue smiled indifferently, "That's a matter for the future."
Yan Pei held up an umbrella and watched Cen Xue's back as she left.
Is it meaningful to hold an umbrella even if you are soaked?
Yan Pei thought, this was the first time someone told him that he "couldn't let go", even his parents.
His parents were the ones who let go the most. When love wore away, family affection also disappeared. Everyone let him go, and he always wandered outside of all divisions.
But now Cen Xue's words let him know that there was at least one person who cared about him.
Yan Pei knocked his head, his solar plexus was aching, and he suddenly felt a chill rising from the soles of his feet. He was... scared.
He didn't want to lose Cen Xue and was afraid of losing Cen Xue because, apart from him, no one would be willing to tell Yan Pei that they couldn't let go. He could have just left, but she still left the umbrella to him.
Yan Pei stopped struggling.
Because of the word "can't let go", he raised thousands of words of reluctance. After the useless resistance, he was still willing to follow the rules set by Cen Xue in order to obtain something more precious than this sentence.
For example, love.
…
After returning home, Cen Xue caught a cold again and eventually developed a high fever.
Fu Rouyun accompanied her throughout the entire process, almost giving up the company altogether, as if he wouldn't be okay with Cen Xue. It was only when Cen Xue suddenly woke up in the middle of the night and asked him to retrieve the necklace she had woven that this little dog, who had nearly committed suicide for love, finally had something to do.
Well, although he still couldn't get Cen Xue to wear the necklace he gave her.
But he is the only one qualified to retrieve it!
Fu Rouyun coaxed himself again.
Cen Xue rested for a week.
He felt much better in the next few days, and he chatted with Fu Rouyun about the past.
But more of it was the little things that had happened between him and Xu Lin. Compared to the passionate but short-lived entanglements and setbacks with the other two, it was obvious that the river of family affection was wider. Fu Rouyun finally entered Cen Xue's heart and truly gained a seat.
Fu Rouyun: "From now on, I will treat Aunt Cen the same way I treat my mother."
Cen Xue felt that this was not going to work, "Be less angry with my mom."
Fu Rouyun: “???”
What? Was he such a difficult person in Cen Xue's eyes?!
If Mr. Fu were here, he would probably be so moved that he would burst into tears, and would say: Xiao Cen really understands me. It's really hard to deal with a bastard like Fu Rouyun all these years. It's more painful than going to work.
Fu Rouyun decided to change the subject. After all, the situation on the scene was very unfavorable to his own competitive strength.
"Brother, why did Xu Lin say it was a polar bear's tooth?"
Cen Xue was confused: "...I don't know."
Under Cen Xue's strong opposition, the title of "brother-in-law" was banned.
…
At the same time, in the distant city of S, there was a village in the city.
I heard that a handsome guy bought a two-bedroom, haunted apartment in the shared rental building by the river and has been living there for a while.
I heard that the handsome guy is also very rich. A neighbor saw him call dozens of people to clean up the old house that had been uninhabited for a long time, and it was clean and tidy in one day.
Why would a handsome guy buy such a shabby house when he has money? I don't know, maybe he just has some free time.
If you ask me what the handsome guy looks like, I don’t know. When we occasionally meet, he is always fully armed, wearing a hat and glasses, so I can’t see him clearly.
...Then why is it a handsome guy?
The answer is, being handsome is a feeling.
At least with his height of about 1.8 meters and his tall and well-built figure, he can defeat 99% of the men in this area.
I heard that there are a few young girls living on the second floor. They always run upstairs when they have nothing to do. It seems that they want to develop a relationship. Unfortunately, the handsome guy is a homebody and rarely goes out.
Right now, this handsome guy is at home, tinkering with an old box.
This box was found by Lu Yanxi when she was changing the mattress.
Thinking that there were still many traces of Cen Xue's life here, he only hired someone to clean it and preserved almost all the decorations.
In recent days, he enjoyed discovering various surprises: such as the marks of his height on the wall, graffiti in the corners, and a folded elementary school certificate used as a cushion on the corner of the table... Lu Yanxi guessed that Cen Xue slept in the second bedroom because he once found a junior high school math formula written in black pen on the wall next to the bed, so Lu Yanxi decided to live in the second bedroom.
So the master bedroom was cleaned a few days late.
The cardboard box was placed under the bed in the master bedroom.
Lu Yanxi guessed that these were probably miscellaneous items that had been put in there a long time ago and had been forgotten by the time Cen Xue moved in. The location was also hidden, and the few tenants behind it did not rent it out long-term, so no one had ever discovered it.
Until now, it has seen the light of day again.
Lu Yanxi cleaned up the things inside and actually found a few Easter eggs.
A broken photo album with a few selected photos in it.
The photo has faded and the details have become blurred, but you can still make out several people in it.
——Two little boys.
What the former landlord’s wife said was right, the Xu family has two children.
A pair of round eyes, a bright and cute smile, and a carefree look.
The one standing behind was tugging at the corner of Round Eyes's clothes, smiling shyly and a little awkwardly, but he looked so lovable that people couldn't help but be partial to him and love him.
On the table next to it, the corners of an old-fashioned cake and candles were exposed.
Lu Yanxi turned to the back and saw the words:
[Photo taken by Xiaolin and Axue on x month x day]
This date is——
While filming "Youth", he secretly looked through Cen Xue's contract with the crew and found out her birthday, which was a day in midsummer.
In order to prepare a birthday gift for him, Lu Yanxi was approached by Yan Pei with bad intentions. The latter deceived Cen Xue's heart when Lu Yanxi was taken away by her father for corporal punishment.
It all started from this day.
But seven years later, Cen Xue told him that her real birthday was in winter.
“…”
Lu Yanxi quickly figured out the coincidence.
It is now clear who the real Xu Lin is.
He collected the photos taken on Xu Lin's birthday in a certain year, trying to see if he could restore them. He took a deep breath to calm himself and continued exploring the old box.
Lu Yanxi picked out a book that was placed out of place.
Because it was stuffed in the corner, a small part of it was folded over, and the paper was very hard, so Lu Yanxi had to use a lot of effort to flatten the book.
After sweeping away the dust, I found out it was a children's picture book.
Lu Yanxi flipped through the book casually and saw that the illustration was a little man made from a snowflake, which made her interested in reading again.
However, this picture book is cheap and the publisher is not a big company. It seems to be something randomly made up to entertain children and has no educational significance. It is more like a children's rhyme than a picture book story.
He read a passage and smiled knowingly:
[Little snowflakes, slowly drifting, flowing into the mountains and rivers.]
[Across the Pacific Ocean, across Oceania——]
[Passing by the Antarctic Circle and seeing polar bears...]
For the sake of rhyme, the errors are somewhat obvious.
No wonder it was put in the box and never taken out.
The protagonist is just a small snowflake, which reminds Lu Yanxi of the person in his heart. With a gentle look, he holds it together with the photos of the past years, leaving them for future recollection.
…
At this moment, the wall-mounted TV was playing a preview of a nature ecology program.
Cen Xue guessed, "Maybe he saw it on TV? Or maybe he heard about it from an adult somewhere."
In fact, it doesn’t matter what the answer is. Xu Lin’s sincerity and everything he has have been put into the old pendant, which will accompany Cen Xue throughout her life.
After chatting with Fu Rouyun for a while, Fu Rouyun even came up with such outrageous speculations as "aliens transmitting brain waves". Cen Xue was a little tired of laughing, so she drove him out and closed her eyes to rest.
In less than a few minutes, Cen Xue fell asleep and dreamed of the past.
At that time, in order to coax Xu Lin to sleep, he would tell stories or read picture books.
To convey genuine emotion, he even acted out the scene and said, "These are all my favorite stories. I slept really, really well after reading them!"
So Xu Lin would obey and quickly fall asleep.
Cen Xue turned over and buried herself in the soft pillow and quilt. She slept soundly, even her mouth curved up in a cute smile.
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