"What are you writing? A diary?"
Shen Yiyue finally closed the notebook and put the pen cap back on the pen, making a crisp "click" sound, and Ning Yu began to ask questions.
"Um"
Ning Yu felt a strong curiosity and wanted to know what Shen Yiyue would write in her diary.
Who doesn’t want to know what their loved one is thinking?
But she certainly knew that it was precisely because he was someone so close to her that she should cherish this distance.
So of course Ning Yu wouldn't go to see it.
Shen Yiyue lowered her head without looking at Ning Yu and tidied up the table.
Ning Yu saw that the bookmark of "Snow Country" on the table had reached the middle. If she remembered correctly, the second half of the book was another story.
In other words, Shen Yiyue had already finished reading the story of "Snow Country" last night.
As they got closer, the red areas around Shen Yiyue's eyes became more obvious, and Ning Yu was now certain.
"Why are you crying?"
Ning Yu was more concerned about this than finishing the book. She always felt that Shen Yiyue's mood seemed to be a little off.
Hearing these caring words, Shen Yiyue raised her head and looked at Ning Yu with burning eyes.
There were many indescribable emotions in those eyes. Ning Yu read strangeness, confusion, sadness, and a hint of tiredness.
"What's the matter?"
Ning Yu couldn't bear to see her like this, so she pulled her into her arms and gently stroked her back.
The moment Shen Yiyue's face touched hers, Ning Yu suddenly felt as if struck by lightning, and a strange feeling arose throughout her body.
The feeling is like déjà vu, as if what is happening at this moment has already been experienced before.
The feeling was fleeting. Ning Yu recalled that when they were watching the sunset together on the high-rise building that day, Shen Yiyue seemed to have the same feeling.
"It's okay, Xiaoyu, I couldn't help but finish reading "Snow Country" last night."
Shen Yiyue was also held obediently by her, leaning against Ning Yu's body, feeling the pleated decoration of Ning Yu's skirt and her reassuring scent.
“Is this really a sad story?”
Ning Yu had a guess.
"Um"
Shen Yiyue buried her head in her and refused to leave. A muffled voice came from Ning Yu's body. Ning Yu could even feel the resonance when she said this.
"Some people said last night that they enjoyed watching tragedies."
Ning Yu couldn't help but tease her, remembering the big words she said last night: "If you see too many tragedies, you will feel happy about every aspect of life."
"snort."
Shen Yiyue couldn't help but look up at Ning Yu angrily, as if she was dissatisfied with her heartless teasing, and even her mouth puffed up like a puffer fish.
Ning Yu naturally stretched out her hand and squeezed the pufferfish flat, feeling the soft touch of Shen Yiyue's face on her hand.
She lifted up Shen Yiyue's face, lowered her head and kissed her. Their lips intertwined and then gently parted.
"Hey, you're brushing your teeth. How early did you get up?"
Ning Yu raised her hand and placed it next to her eyes, wanting to wipe away Shen Yiyue's tears, but they had already dried.
"I won't tell you~"
Shen Yiyue turned her head away.
"So, after watching "Snow Country", what do you think, little Shen Yiyue?"
Ning Yu continued to ask, raised her hand and picked up the book "Snow Country" with a bookmark in the middle on the table and opened it casually.
[When Shimamura stood firm on his feet and looked up, the Milky Way seemed to pour down into his heart with a roar.]
Turn another page and it becomes a new story called "Lake".
She really finished reading it.
"In vain."
Shen Yiyue reached out and took the book from Ning Yu's hand, then pulled out the bookmark from the middle. It seemed that she would not continue reading the rest of the stories.
"It's probably about doing something that has no hope and won't change anything."
Shen Yiyue continued to explain.
Ning Yu felt that this concept seemed a little familiar.
"Komako obviously likes Shimamura so much, but Shimamura only sees futility in her."
Shen Yiyue paused and continued.
Suddenly, she seemed to think of something else, put the book aside, looked up and asked Ning Yu: "Xiao Yu, do you know the man who pushed the stone?"
Ning Yu was stunned, then replied:
"You mean, Sisyphus?"
Shen Yiyue nodded immediately and said, "Yes, he was punished by the gods to push a huge rock to the top of a mountain. Every time he reached the top, the rock would roll down again, and this cycle would repeat endlessly."
"In vain?"
Ning Yu understood the meaning of her words and repeated the words she had just said.
"Do you find this sad?"
Ning Yu continued to ask.
Shen Yiyue shook her head when she heard Ning Yu's words, then looked into Ning Yu's eyes and said:
"No, Xiaoyu has already taught me, right?"
Ning Yu was speechless, and after a while she suddenly smiled and nodded.
“Perhaps Sisyphus pushing the stone up the hill is futile, absurd, and sounds sad.”
As Shen Yiyue spoke, a smile suddenly broke out on her face, which made Ning Yu suddenly think of a night when they had been enjoying the breeze together.
“But every time he picked up the boulder and pushed it up again, he was fighting.”
“I realize it’s futile, so I fight.”
“His repetition is meaningless, but that doesn’t matter, because the struggle itself is the meaning.”
As if she had made up her mind, Shen Yiyue took a deep breath, put the gray-covered diary under her pillow, and said to Ning Yu:
"Let's go and have breakfast!"
Ning Yu was about to ask her why she suddenly brought this up when she suddenly heard her exclaim: "Wow!! It's hamburger meat!"
She sniffed the air like a puppy, and could tell today's hearty breakfast from the air just by the smell.
Ning Yu was very familiar with her cute look, so she couldn't help but smile.
"Xiaoyu?"
Shen Yiyue walked to the door of the room, resisted the urge to rush to the dining table, and turned back to look at Ning Yu, as if asking, "Why are you still standing there?"
Ning Yu was no longer in a daze, and followed her out of her room. She couldn't help but look back at Shen Yiyue's pillow and closed the door.
"Sister, what are you two doing in there? I'm almost done eating!!"
Shen Qianqian couldn't help complaining when she saw Shen Yiyue was late. However, before she finished complaining, she quickly hid to protect the hamburger meat on her plate.
This time she dodged the attack from Shen Yiyue, a hungry tiger, on the hamburger patties on her plate.
"What! Sister, you have your own and you want to eat mine!"
Shen Qianqian was now baring her teeth at Shen Yiyue as if she was protecting her food, and she even stretched out her hand to push her sister's face away.
"Hey~ Of course it's the food on other people's plates that smells better, my dear sister."
Seeing that the sneak attack failed, Shen Yiyue sat back in her seat.
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