Chapter 70 Ex-wife White Moonlight 3 Foolish enough to think love will never change...
This was truly offensive, especially since the other person was a stranger whom I had only known for a day.
The team leader's smile froze, and he tried to smooth things over: "Mr. Sheng, you're drunk! It's just right, I'm drunk too. How about we go get some fresh air together?"
Sheng Yu's murky gaze still didn't leave Ali. The team leader stepped forward and stood in front of Ali tightly.
Sheng Yu didn't say whether it was good or bad, and was slowly led out of the crowd by the team leader.
Just at this moment, Ali called him.
"Mr. Sheng."
Her face was flushed from the firelight and the smell of alcohol. Apart from the slight fatigue of life in her eyes, she was no different from when she was in college.
"Mr. Sheng is young and successful now. I'm afraid he's surrounded by countless female confidantes. I think Mr. Sheng would be more able to describe the feeling of enjoying himself among these women."
Ali stood up and zipped up his jacket. "Over the past few years, I've felt that dating culture abroad is very different from back home. Luckily, I've gotten used to the direct and enthusiastic nature of the place. I just say whatever comes to mind, without having to guess what's going on."
"However, maybe I should find some time to learn from Mr. Sheng and understand the current dating and love model in China. I think I'll need this information a lot in the future."
After she finished speaking, she raised her eyebrow, raised the wine glass in her hand and toasted in the direction of Sheng Yu.
After four years of dating and two years of marriage, she always knew how to make him angry.
Sheng Yu turned around, a hint of annoyance appeared on his calm face, and a storm quickly brewed in his eyes.
Fortunately, he still remembered to maintain his composure and said with a forced smile, "Really? If Miss Xiao has such a need, I'm happy to serve you."
Ali stopped, smiled slightly and nodded at him, his manners elegant: "Thank you."
In the first few months of their relationship, their relationship could be perfectly summed up in one word.
tit for tat.
Both of them are stubborn and arrogant. When there is a conflict, neither of them will give in and they must compete to see who is superior.
Fortunately, she was a debater in college.
On the day they first met, there was a debate competition going on in the school.
Although she was not the one to perform, she still got the ticket early and waited to watch the final.
But on that day, the president of the news agency suddenly asked her to cover the basketball game of the Finance Department.
The reason was that it was Chinese Valentine's Day that day, and everyone else in the club had gone to celebrate the festival, leaving her as the only single freshman available for assignment.
She argued with the president in his office to no avail and could only rush to the Finance Department with her heavy camera bag, hoping that after finishing her news report, she would still be able to catch up to the debate.
She actually has no objection to reporting on the news.
She was studying journalism and submitted her resume to the journalism club in the first week of school. She was happy for a long time when she was accepted.
But every time such festivals came, she was the only one left working in the commune, under the pretext of giving her important roles and training, so that she could accumulate more experience that would be useful in the future.
It was okay once or twice, but later it became an unspoken agreement within the community.
She hated this kind of tacit understanding.
She still remembers the glaring and scorching sun that day. Her family was poor, so in order to save money, she did not take the school bus and walked to the Finance Department.
Under the scorching sun, the president's last words to her were still vivid in her mind: "The basketball games in the Finance Department are filled with tall, rich, and handsome young men. Senior, this is creating opportunities for you. You must understand his good intentions."
"You're the only one in our club who's still single, so hurry up."
At that time, she wiped the sweat from her chin, feeling dry both physically and mentally.
Who wants to fall in love?
What she hates most is the rich second generation.
The journey that usually took half an hour, when she was young and full of energy, she managed to walk it in just 20 minutes.
The subsequent photography and writing went smoothly, but the game on the field was still not over.
If it wasn't over, she wouldn't be able to write the final version of the competition results.
After checking the time, she watched the game carefully with some anxiety.
Only then did I realize that there was a problem with the schedule: the cheerleaders played too many times and the players rested for too long, which is why the game was delayed so long.
Moreover, there are more men than women in the Finance Department. When the cheerleaders in cool clothes came on the field, the boys in the stands were more excited than those watching the game. They were either taking pictures with their mobile phones or huddled together and whispering to each other, but no one knew what they were talking about.
She immediately found the people from the Finance Department Student Union present and expressed her opinions.
These competitions are organized and arranged by the student unions of each department, and contacting them is the most direct and effective way.
But the man didn't even finish listening to her words. He just said, "That's how it was done before," and turned away with a cold face.
The anger that had been pent up in her heart suddenly flared up, and she stopped the man. The two of them had a debate on the spot, which attracted the attention of the players in the bench.
In the end, the matter could not be resolved on the spot. She didn't know what patience was, so she gave up watching the debate and immediately went to the office of the finance department teachers on Monday.
In this office, she saw the student union members from that day.
He also contacted the teacher from the college to report the same thing.
The matter was resolved quickly, and the two came out of the office one after the other.
She called out to the boy, "Since you also felt that something was wrong, why didn't you report it to the teacher before? And why did you still refuse to admit your mistake that day?"
Obviously, it can be solved by just talking to the teacher.
The boy drooped his brows, put his hands in his pockets, and looked very impatient: "You think I haven't been here before? You think you are righteous and smart."
Parted on bad terms.
Her first impression of the boy at that time was that he had a bad temper, was weak in arguments, but very tough.
Half a month later, she found out that the boy's name was Sheng Yu, the only son of a wealthy entrepreneur in Qingzhou.
It was only after he revealed his identity that day that the teachers in the college began to take the matter seriously.
The two, who later became boyfriend and girlfriend, reminisced about their first encounter. Knowing the truth, she viciously hurled a pillow at Sheng Yu's face: "I thought I had just persuaded the teacher with my eloquence and resolved this matter!"
Sheng Yu smiled and grabbed her indignant hand, kissing it gently: "But I fell in love with you at first sight that day. You won. Don't feel ashamed of this."
Why do we fall in love at first sight?
Sheng Yu himself couldn't explain it, but she thought that maybe there was something wrong with his brain.
Eleven years passed in the blink of an eye. Sheng Yu, who was unable to sleep because of Ali's words tonight, sat up from the bed with a frown on his face.
There was an incessant sound of wind outside the tent. His eyes were cold and he felt that there might be something wrong with him. After all these years, his mood would still fluctuate because of her words.
After a moment, Sheng Yu laughed at himself, his eyes fixed on the void, having not slept the whole night.
*
Ali slept well on the first night in Jiangyuan.
When she got up and washed, she looked at the burns on her hands. They had gotten much better, but she still couldn't hold the camera for any longer.
When Ali sat down to eat breakfast, Song Yuqing and Chen Pei also walked in.
After the three of them greeted each other, the tent was opened and an unexpected person appeared here.
Ali was quietly concentrating on his breakfast. Song Yuqing didn't bother to pay attention to him. Only Chen Pei greeted him, "Mr. Sheng, are you here for breakfast too?"
Sheng Yu said "hmm" and sat down.
The tent was eerily quiet, and the arrival of the team leader broke the eerie atmosphere, but at the same time he also brought bad news: it started raining outside, and the road up the mountain would soon be difficult to walk on.
Ali had already finished eating. Upon hearing this, he checked his backpack to make sure he had brought everything.
When she first went abroad, her health was very poor, her face was frighteningly pale, and she was often sick and hospitalized.
Her colleagues at the company often took her hiking and climbing, and she also found a coach to do some targeted exercises to make her body less weak.
Before returning home, the coach also assessed her physical condition and tolerance and confirmed that she would have no problem completing the journey.
Only after all preparations were made did she book a flight back home.
However, no matter how well prepared you are, accidents can still happen along the way.
After finally walking through the muddy and slippery mountain road, the group climbed up the observation mountain, but the rain was getting heavier, accompanied by cold wind and hail.
The climate in the mountains is changeable, and Ali finally saw it.
Her hands holding the camera and trekking poles were already red from the cold. She quickly stopped and rummaged through her backpack to look for gloves, and a pair of black windproof gloves came into her sight.
Ali raised her head and saw Sheng Yu standing beside her.
She subconsciously refused: "Thank you, I brought it myself."
Sheng Yu raised his eyebrows and looked at the team leader who had already walked a distance away. "Miss Xiao, please don't hold the team back. People who are not strong enough or experienced should not come here to cause trouble."
After saying that, he threw the gloves into her arms as if giving her alms, without even a glance, and quickly caught up with the leader, leaving Ali alone at the end.
Ali was not a pretentious person. She sniffed and put on Sheng Yu's gloves.
His body temperature on the gloves had not yet dissipated, and Ali's frozen fingers could not help but curl up, being tightly wrapped in them.
The group walked for about two hours and passed several observation points, but they didn't see any sign of the snow leopard.
Based on experience, the team leader judged that the chance of seeing it was very small if they continued walking, so he announced that they would return and set off again tomorrow depending on the weather.
Ali nodded, his attitude was pretty good.
She knew that this trip would not be successful overnight. Observing wild animals was a highly accidental thing. She might not see any animals even after staying here for several months, or she might see some in just one day.
She wiped the rain off her hat and wanted to take some pictures of the surrounding scenery during the break, but she accidentally took pictures of a few pikas coming out of their holes to look for food at the foot of the mountain.
Ali showed the camera to Song Yuqing in surprise, and both girls were so adorable by the tiny and round appearance of the pika.
The team leader sat nearby and interjected a few words of scientific knowledge: "Pikas are closely related to the rabbits we see every day, but they are smaller. They feed on grass roots, mosses, etc. To avoid predators, they sometimes come out of their burrows to forage for food during rainy days."
Ali turned on the recorder in advance and recorded the team leader's words, planning to organize them into text when he returned home in the evening.
On the way down the mountain, the rain gradually subsided and the mountain became flatter.
Song Yuqing and Chen Pei were still striding ahead, while Ali took the camera and took pictures as he walked, enriching the content of the report.
The team leader reminded her to be careful with her steps, and Ali agreed and put away the camera.
Suddenly, Song Yuqing shook off Chen Pei's hand and ran to Ali.
Ah Li glanced at Chen Pei, who was walking in front of him with her head down, and asked her, "Did you have a fight?"
Song Yuqing held A Li's hand and said reluctantly: "Sister Xiao, have you ever thought about getting married?"
"I thought about it when I was in love before." Ali said truthfully.
Song Yuqing sighed deeply and briefly explained the cause and effect of their quarrel.
She and Chen Pei are both juniors this year and will have to consider graduation next year, but their professional course grades are not good enough. They are not qualified by the companies they want to work for, and they have received a lot of applications from companies they don't want to work for.
Chen Pei has always been very anxious about this matter, and Song Yuqing has been tinkering with her own self-media account since college. Now she can make a lot of money by shooting videos every day, so she can't understand Chen Pei's feelings firsthand.
They originally planned to get married after graduation, but they had disagreements because of what happened after graduation.
Song Yuqing wanted to marry him immediately, not caring whether he had money or not, but Chen Pei insisted on waiting until he had a job and a stable source of income.
The two had quarreled several times before coming to Jiangyuan. Song Yuqing brought up the matter again just now. Chen Pei refuted a few words, and the two started arguing again.
Song Yuqing looked depressed. "Do you think he doesn't love me anymore? That's why he doesn't want to marry me? Isn't it romantic to get married right after graduation?"
"From school uniforms to wedding dresses, this is what's written in novels. Every time I see this kind of plot, I'm moved to tears. Why can't I be the protagonist of this plot?"
Seeing that she was about to cry, Ali comforted her gently, "From school uniform to wedding dress, it's beautiful, but..."
She paused. "But at that time, we were both too young. We knew nothing, feared nothing, and were penniless. We were so poor that we only had a heart full of passionate love."
"This kind of feeling is too intense, and you can easily hurt the other person if you're not careful."
"Maybe in the end, there won't be a happy ending."
Ali looked melancholy and his tone was sadder than ever before.
Song Yuqing lowered her voice: "Sister Xiao, why do you say that?"
Ali looked at the foggy sky and was silent for a moment: "This is how it is with me and my ex-husband."
Song Yuqing was speechless, knowing that she had asked the wrong question, and her face was full of guilt.
Ali patted her gently and said, "It's okay. It happened many years ago. I don't care about it anymore."
Song Yuqing carefully observed her expression and asked, "Then why did Sister Xiao choose to get married right after graduation?"
Ali was stunned: "Because... love."
Love to the point of being reckless, love to the point of only seeing the other person in the whole world, and thus ignoring many things around you.
If Ali, who is now 29 years old and has been working in the workplace for many years, were put at that time point back then, even she herself could not imagine what choice she would make.
Do you regret it or not?
"Then...why did they separate later?"
"Because of hatred." Sheng Yu appeared beside them at some point.
Or maybe, from the beginning, he had been walking beside her.
Ali avoided the pair of cold eyes in embarrassment, his hands in his gloves tensed.
Song Yuqing was stunned for a moment: "Oh...but this is Sister Xiao's story, how did you know it, Mr. Sheng?"
Sheng Yu's cold voice came: "Stories like this all have similar endings. Miss Song, do you want to hear it?"
Song Yuqing: ...Can I say I don’t want to?
Sheng Yu's eyes were cold as he spoke slowly, "This is a story I heard. A boy and a girl met and fell in love in college, and got married after graduation. However, the boy's family strongly opposed the marriage and even cut off all contact with him."
"After getting married, they both studied for their master's degrees and worked at the same time. The busy schedules and increasing pressures made it so that even sitting down for a meal together was a luxury."
"Later, the boy unexpectedly discovered that there was a strange man next to the girl. He wanted to question her, but he was more afraid that once the cover was lifted, he would see the ugly truth."
"Later, the girl fell ill, and the boy was away from her because of work. When he heard the news and rushed back, he saw her being intimate with that man. This time, he pushed open the door and walked in, not missing the panic and nervousness in the girl's eyes at that moment."
"After that, the boy worked even harder to juggle work and family, rejecting his family's seemingly helpful offers, which were actually threats of divorce, hoping to give the girl a better life. He knew she had suffered a lot in the past, and when they got married, he vowed to give her a carefree life. But when he returned home exhausted, he received a divorce agreement she had already signed."
"This time, the girl's attitude was unusually firm. No matter how much he begged, she didn't look back and left with the rich man who had appeared in the ward."
"After that, boys will never be able to find her again."
The story was not long and did not have many twists and turns. Sheng Yu finished it quickly, as if he was really just telling someone else's story.
"Ms. Xiao, do you think the two people in the story are stupid? So stupid that they think love will never change?"
Ali opened her mouth with difficulty, cold air rushed into her lungs from all directions, and she couldn't help coughing.
Sheng Yu walked over to her, patting her frail back with his cold hands, his gaze unwavering. "It's just a story, why are you so excited, Miss Xiao? If you get carried away and accidentally take the wrong path, you might not even be able to find your body..."
The suffocating feeling like drowning five years ago once again haunted her. Ali was in a trance and almost couldn't stand, but Sheng Yu had already walked past her without any reluctance.
Song Yuqing looked at Ali worriedly: "Sister Xiao, what's wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell?"
Ali's face was as pale as paper, without a trace of blood. She reluctantly waved her hand, indicating that she wanted to sit down and rest for a while.
Song Yuqing helped her sit down, took out her cell phone and was about to call Chen Pei, asking him to come and carry Ali down the mountain.
But after opening the phone, Song Yuqing hesitated again.
As she stared at the phone screen, she heard a slipping sound behind her, accompanied by falling stones.
She turned around, pale and exclaimed: "Sister Xiao!"
Ali's mind was filled with fragments of memories from years ago, one after another, tearing at her broken heart.
After treatment with a psychologist, she rarely thinks about these things anymore. Why, why do they appear again?
Ali helplessly covered his head which was in extreme pain, trying desperately to get away from those people and those things.
She wants to leave here, leave here immediately!
She kept repeating this in her mind as she trembled and backed away, half of her body falling off the cliff. Sheng Yu suddenly appeared and grabbed her.
His face was filled with a sinister look he had never seen before, and he was practically gritting his teeth. "Very good, you're threatening me with death, huh?"
Ali's unfocused eyes were confused and dim. She felt very far away from him. He was clearly talking, but she could not hear his voice.
She was a little anxious and grabbed his hand, wanting him to say it again.
As if he had heard her thoughts, he said again: "Tell me, should I let go now?"
At that moment, she saw a flash of regret in Sheng Yu's cold eyes, and she felt as if she had fallen into an icy cave.
He...regretted holding her back.
It turned out that he really didn't want to see her again.
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