Chapter 3: The Antonym of Hate. Qin Yi follows you.
About three minutes passed, which seemed very long, so long that Yu Han felt that the dawn of New Year's Day had arrived.
The phone vibrates.
She blinked her dry eyes and lowered her head.
Qiny: "There's nothing much to say. If I talk too much, you'll come back. Forget it, all the previous agreements are invalid. You live your life and I live mine, okay?"
After a night of this, he finally sounded like he was surrendering.
Yu Han's tears rolled down as she typed anxiously, "No. Give me your new WeChat."
Qiny: “We didn’t add it before.”
Yuerhan: “Then add it again now.”
Qiny: "I'm going to sleep."
Yuerhan: "Go away! Go away!! If I didn't die in Italy, I would have died in Kuala Lumpur. I'm traveling in Kuala Lumpur, did you see my location? I'm so angry, I hate you, I'm breaking up with you."
Qiny: “…”
Yu Han turned her head and fell down, pulling the quilt to cover herself.
The phone vibrated continuously, but she had the nerve to ignore it.
I didn't expect that I would fall asleep while lying there.
She didn't know what time it was when the sudden ringing of a bell woke her up from her deep sleep.
Yu Han opened her eyes in a daze, her pupils meeting the bedroom filled with warm light. After a while, she turned her head blankly to look for the source of the sound.
It was the hotel landline on the bedside table.
She reached out and picked it up in confusion, putting it to her ear.
A female voice came: "Hello, is this Miss Yu? This is the hotel front desk."
"It's me." She murmured slowly, still not coming to her senses.
The person on the phone asked, "Is Miss Yu okay?"
She closed her eyes sleepily. "Nothing. What's wrong?"
The front desk clerk said, "Someone just called and said it was your family. They said they suddenly lost contact with you and wanted us to contact you because they were worried you might be in danger."
"???" Yu Han's thoughts were cut off, and after several seconds, she said in confusion, "Really? It's okay, I'm fine."
"That's good. Sorry to bother you. Good night, bye."
After hanging up the phone, Yu Han lay down for a while before picking up her phone to check the time.
It didn't take long, I only slept for half an hour.
But there are several unread messages on Instagram.
04:03
Qiny: "Don't be like that."
04:05
Qiny: "What are you doing? Hanhan."
04:08
Qiny: "Yu Han?"
Oh, it seems he was the one who called. You know how anxious I am.
Yu Han pouted and replied reluctantly, "Why are you disturbing my sweet dreams in the middle of the night? Are there any boundaries for strangers? I'm calling the police."
Qiny: “…”
He replied: "Good night."
Yu Han: “…” She became even angrier.
Yuerhan: "I really hate you! Don't worry about my life or death. It has nothing to do with you, don't worry about it."
Qiny: "Don't be like that. I'm sorry."
Yuerhan: "I'm sorry, haven't you contacted me since then, brother?"
Qiny: “…”
Yuerhan: “But how do you know which hotel I’m staying in???”
Qiny: "You've located it."
Yuerhan: “…”
She said, "Oh, bye."
Qiny: "What's the benefit of chatting?"
He suddenly sent two messages in quick succession: "The only consequence I can imagine is that if I talk too much, you'll run back home, but I can't accept that. Other than that, there's no benefit."
Yu Han sniffed and said with great determination, "I won't go back. Can't I move back after graduation? I'll graduate in two years."
Qiny: "I don't believe you won't reply."
Yu Han's expression changed drastically, and she was furious: "You actually just don't want to contact me anymore! You're trying every possible way to cut off contact with me."
The chat box was silent for about half a minute before it vibrated quietly again in the silent night.
Qiny: "At the beginning, I said, you can take it as it is."
Yuhaner: "Then just block me. I won't contact you again. Just pretend that tonight never happened, and everything in the past never existed."
There was a long silence afterwards, until Yu Han was about to fall asleep, when a message suddenly popped up on her phone saying: Qiny followed you.
Yu Han finally couldn't hold on any longer and fell asleep in a happy mood.
…
The trip to Kuala Lumpur lasts three days.
The second day of New Year’s Day was Sunday, so Bao Tong had to return home and go to school on Monday.
Yu Han also returned to Singapore.
The high school semester schedule in Singapore is different from that in China. The new semester starts after New Year's Day, and high school is a two-year program.
The two years she spent studying were equivalent to three years' worth of courses in China, so Yu Han devoted herself to intensive studies after school started, and did not spend much time online.
I just check the fan list every time I go online, and I feel relieved when I see a stable number and no one has unfollowed me.
But there was no chatting between them, no interaction.
A kind of damn tacit understanding as if in a fit of anger, but no one unfollowed.
The Spring Festival holiday in Singapore is very short, only two days, the first and second days of the Lunar New Year. These two days of holiday are not enough for a Chinese person to spend, so Yu Han had no confidence in being able to convince her parents to let her return home.
But she didn't expect her family to go back to China for the New Year, so she took leave. Yu Han was very happy.
It’s just that the Spring Festival coincides with the rainy season in Singapore, and the weather was bad on New Year’s Eve.
The plane was delayed for several hours and was facing cancellation. Yu Han was worried for a long time. Fortunately, it finally took off in the drizzle. As she wished, she followed her parents on the journey back to Lan City with a little thought.
When the plane landed in the afternoon, she immediately sent a message to someone: "I'm back home."
I waited half an hour before he replied.
Qiny: “?”
Yuerhan: "Hmph. You don't have to see me."
Qiny: "..." After a few seconds, he sent, "I can't see you."
Yuerhan: “???”
Qiny: "I'm not in Lan City."
She didn't believe it: "Is this true? Are you lying to me?"
Qiny: "Really. I won't be there tomorrow."
The feeling of loss in Yu Han's heart was like a huge rock. "What about today?"
Qiny: "Can you come out today?"
Yu Han choked.
Her home is in the city. She just landed and hasn't left the airport yet. Her parents went to pick up the checked luggage. It will take about half an hour to leave the airport, and another hour to get home from the airport. By then, it will be evening. It is impossible for her to go out and play without eating the New Year's Eve dinner.
Lanzhong is located in Lanbei District, and it takes some time to get there from the city center. It is also not convenient to go out alone at night.
It was not until her parents had collected their luggage and called her that Yu Han came back to her senses.
After getting in the car, she still asked him unwillingly: "When will you return to Lan City?"
Qiny: "Ten days later."
Yuhaner: "..." She said, "Good, I'm dead."
Qiny: “…”
After a few seconds, the other party sent her a message: "Sorry."
At this point, Yu Han completely gave up on the idea of meeting him.
"It's okay," she replied.
But I didn't expect that the next day, on the morning of New Year's Day, when I sent him a message wishing him a Happy New Year, he still replied.
She asked him, "Have you gone out yet? Are we still breathing the same air as the sky?"
Qiny: "Yes."
She said happily, "It rained in the city last night, and it's still very cloudy now. Is there any rain in Lanbei?"
Qiny: "It's raining. The sun is out now."
Yuerhan: "Really? Take a picture and let me see."
Qiny: “……?”
Yuerhan: “Take a picture.”
Qiny: "I'm sorry, I can't take a good photo of the scenery in my room. I'll go out later and take one for you."
Yuerhan: “Then send your own photos.”
Qiiny: "Are you sure?"
Yuerhan: “Sure.”
Qiny: “What happens after it’s posted?”
Yuerhan: “After what?”
Qiny: "When will you come back next time? We'll see each other then, okay?"
Yuehan: "Yeah, that's fine too. I'll be on vacation in March, so I have some time off."
Qiny: "Oh. So you were lying to me before?"
Yuerhan: "..." She was furious, "Wuwuwuwuwuwuwuwu, you are fishing for law enforcement, Qin!!!"
Qin Yi laughed.
Yuerhan: "I hate you! Killing people.jpg."
Qiny: "That's great, Hanhan."
Yuerhan: "Don't yell so nicely, or the police will come after me first."
The boy lying on the sofa smiled at his phone for a while.
Yuerhan: "Don't worry, I don't hate you. You can't get what you want."
Qiny: “…?”
Yuerhan: “I’ll miss you.”
Qiny: "Is the opposite of hate to think? I'm not good at studying."
Yuerhan: “…”
The topic came to an abrupt end, and neither of them went any further, as neither of them wanted to die.
During the day, Yu Han's parents went to visit relatives and friends during the New Year, but she didn't want to go and went to play with her former junior high school classmates.
Her classmates all went to school locally. Originally, she, Bao Tong and another good friend Shen Man were all going to study at Lanzhong, but later it was just the two of them.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Bao Tong returned to his parents' hometown and was not in Lan City, so Yu Han could only ask Chen Man out.
When discussing where to meet, Yu Han subconsciously mentioned their school.
Thinking that she wanted to make up for not coming here to study, Shen Man agreed without any suspicion.
The two agreed to meet at a Starbucks near Lanzhong, but Yu Han couldn't find Starbucks. After following the navigation and going around two alleys, a basketball court appeared in front of her.
Several boys in sweatshirts were sitting on the benches beside the basketball court, some on the chairs, some on the ground, drinking water and chatting.
Someone was holding a cigarette in his hand, puffing out smoke that made the sunlight hazy.
Among them, there was only one person dressed in black, leaning against the back of a chair, with his feet on a basketball, doing nothing.
The sunlight on the third day of the first lunar month passed through the boy's face, which was raised to the sky, brushed across his eyebrows, and penetrated into the ends of his hair. His entire upper body was immersed in the circle of light. The light was so bright that she couldn't see his face clearly. She could only vaguely feel the straightness of his jawline.
Perhaps because the area was quiet, several people noticed her sudden appearance and looked in the direction of the sound.
Yu Han wasn't an introvert. Seeing this, she slipped through the small door of the basketball court, walked a few steps closer, and stopped about three meters away from the teenagers. Then she asked, "Hello, I'd like to ask for directions. How do I get to the nearby Starbucks?"
"star……"
"Is it the one near Lanzhong? It seems to be under renovation. It has been closed since the New Year." A boy kindly answered her while tapping off the ash on his cigarette, staring at her curved thin eyebrows without moving.
Yu Han paused: "Oh, is that so?" Then she would have to meet her classmates at another place.
She asked them again: "Then, can we get to Lanzhong from here? It's Lanshi No. 1 Middle School." She remembered that the boy told her last time when she delivered the letter that he was at the back door of Lanzhong and asked her to go through the back door.
She asked the taxi driver to take her directly there, not knowing whether she could reach the old alley today.
"Uh... going to school."
"Go down to Lanzhong." Another boy smoking raised his hand to show her the way. "Go straight along the road next to the basketball court until you reach the end. After passing the gate across the street, you'll find Lanzhong. There's a back door. It's the Lunar New Year holiday, so you should be able to come and go freely."
"Thank you." Yu Han curved her eyes, "Thank you."
After that, she turned and walked out. Someone came in through the small door, and she dodged it. At that moment, she looked back and noticed that the only boy who had not done anything just now was looking at her.
Their eyes met and she stopped.
That face looked incredibly familiar, as if I'd seen it before in the corridor of a hotel in Kuala Lumpur...
The man sat there, his long legs stepping on the basketball, his black windbreaker pulled up to his chin, revealing a face that was not entirely complete but was incomparably perfect.
She rarely sees such a handsome boy.
She stared at him, and this action confused the group of boys. Several of them looked at each other, and finally they all looked at the person she was looking at.
"Looking at you?"
"You know him, brother?"
"You really know him???"
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