Chapter 46: Cousins' Situation - A Separate Side Story - The Fall (Part 3)
The elevator car slowly rose.
The azure sky seemed so close.
Yu Qingzhou gazed at the swaying scenery outside the window, lost in thought in the tranquil space that differed from the noisy environment of the amusement park below.
"—Rumor has it that confessing your love at the highest point of a Ferris wheel will bring good luck."
Suddenly, Li Xiao's voice came to my ears.
Upon hearing this, Yu Qingzhou was slightly taken aback. Before he could even think about the other party's intention, Li Xiao put the dialed phone directly to his ear.
The cool screen suddenly pressed against my cheek.
A familiar voice immediately came from the other end of the receiver.
"A light boat?"
—It's actually Chen Yun?!
My heart skipped a beat.
Yu Qingzhou stared in surprise at Li Xiao across from her, who was holding up his phone with a sly smile... She hadn't even noticed when the phone had fallen into his hands.
"Hey? Why aren't you saying anything? What happened, Qingzhou?"
At the same time, the deep voice on the other end of the phone already revealed obvious worry.
Yu Qingzhou's hand tightened slightly as she glanced at the nonchalant face opposite her.
Although he didn't know the reason why the other party did this, he always felt that Li Xiao was probably up to something bad.
However, at this moment, the most important thing is to end this call as soon as possible.
"It's okay, brother, actually I'm—"
With a thin layer of sweat on his palms, Yu Qingzhou turned his head.
As the sedan chair was about to reach the top, for some reason, the casual words Li Xiao had just spoken suddenly came to mind.
Rumor has it that at the highest point of the Ferris wheel...
Confession...
My heart started racing uncontrollably.
Yu Qingzhou licked her lips, about to say something, when a female voice suddenly appeared in the background of the hissing electricity.
"Whose call was that... Qingzhou? Isn't that your brother?"
The sound grew closer, accompanied by the rustling of fabric, and Yu Qingzhou clearly heard the other person's voice.
It wasn't unfamiliar; just yesterday, he had personally seen the owner of the voice.
She is a beautiful girl with a gentle smile.
I can't remember the name.
But Yu Qingzhou clearly remembered the look in the other person's eyes whenever they looked at Shen Yun; their joy was almost overflowing from their eyes.
Even Yu Qingzhou had to admit that the two of them really looked like a perfect match.
Shen Yun must also like that girl, otherwise, given Shen Yun's personality, there's no way he would have brought her home like that.
so……
Yu Qingzhou's lips moved, but she found that she seemed to have suddenly lost all her ability to speak.
He began to wonder what he had been struggling with all along.
At that very moment, the gondola swayed past the highest point of the Ferris wheel and began to slowly descend in the direction it had come from.
Nothing happened.
Yu Qingzhou claimed that he accidentally touched his phone in his pocket and accidentally touched the screen.
Then he said goodbye in a hurry and hung up the phone.
The Ferris wheel was still slowly descending, and the small cabins were deathly silent.
"What exactly are you trying to do? Amusement parks, Ferris wheels, and that damn phone call—is it fun to play games with people like this?"
Yu Qingzhou spoke calmly, word by word, but the fire in the depths of his eyes seemed ready to leap up at any moment and tear the young man sitting opposite him to shreds.
“That would be wronging me. How should I put it… I just wanted to give you a chance so you wouldn’t regret it later.”
Li Xiao spoke, still in that unhurried, irritating tone.
"Chance"
Yu Qingzhou sneered: "Screw your chance."
He rarely spoke so recklessly; he cursed and was about to stand up when he realized they were still hanging in mid-air.
There was nowhere left to retreat.
Yu Qingzhou had no choice but to turn around again. Li Xiao was there, staring at the former with a determined smile through his emerald eyes.
"Are you done talking?"
Li Xiao leaned closer with a smirk, winking with a grin: "What a coincidence, isn't it? I happen to dislike that old geezer just like you."
Seeing the other party suddenly approach, Yu Qingzhou immediately clenched her fist.
But that bastard beat him to it and kissed him.
The two parted ways soon after.
Over there, Li Xiao frowned, holding her stomach.
Yu Qingzhou himself was also feeling unwell. He moved his tongue, and the taste of blood in his mouth, which he couldn't tell whose, made him feel nauseous.
The two stared at each other for a while until the sedan chair shuddered as it reached its destination.
...
The SUV was parked downstairs at the apartment building.
Yu Qingzhou got out of the car, slammed the door shut, took a few steps, and then turned back.
"explain."
"I gave you a choice, but you missed it, so now it's my turn."
As Li Xiao spoke, he suddenly lowered his voice and, taking advantage of the moment Yu Qingzhou leaned closer, stretched his neck and gave her a quick kiss on the cheek, a sly and joyful glint in his eyes.
"I'm off. I had a lot of fun today. See you later."
As he spoke, Li Xiao suddenly raised his voice.
Although he was saying goodbye to Yu Qingzhou, his gaze strangely bypassed her, seemingly fixed on someone behind Yu Qingzhou—
Realizing this, Yu Qingzhou suddenly turned around and saw... Shen Yun standing at the door, silently watching them.
"--who is he?"
Shen Yun's mind was filled with the same question.
Who is that person? Why is he here? Why did he... kiss him?
The young man maintained a facade of calm, and he was surprised that he could still keep smiling.
Just a fleeting moment, he even considered rushing between the two and punching that shameless guy hard, warning him to stay away from him, to stay away from their lives—
But he didn't. What stopped him?
Shen Yun looked at the ring on her middle finger; the thin silver band gleamed like a blade.
He stroked the ring, slowly calming down, a sense of powerlessness gripping him, like a rope tightening little by little.
"An ordinary friend."
Yu Qingzhou spoke without looking at Shen Yun.
"A same-sex friend who kissed you, how ordinary."
Even Shen Yun herself was startled by what she said.
Yu Qingzhou clearly noticed it as well, and looked at him with considerable surprise.
Shen Yun immediately realized what was happening.
"I'm sorry, I was just a little surprised. You...you and that person..."
There's nothing there!
Yu Qingzhou interrupted the other person with rapid speech.
Even he himself couldn't tell whether it was more of an emphasis or more of a guilty conscience.
The room fell silent, and the two of them remained quiet.
The silence vaguely reminded Yu Qingzhou of the Ferris wheel from before.
At the highest point, he heard another person's voice on the phone. It was the person Shen Yun was about to spend her life with, the one the other had chosen—
Just then, Shen Yun suddenly stood up.
Yu Qingzhou thought the other party was leaving and was about to get up to see them off.
Unexpectedly, Shen Yun walked over, said nothing, and suddenly stretched out her arms to hug him.
Yu Qingzhou did not feel secretly pleased by this long-awaited hug; on the contrary, he almost subconsciously tensed up.
"……elder brother?"
Yu Qingzhou called out to the other person with some unease.
Shen Yun didn't answer, but simply held him quietly in the same position.
Yu Qingzhou turned his head, puzzled, and from his angle, he could only catch a glimpse of the outline of Shen Yun's shoulders.
He blinked involuntarily, feeling a ticklish sensation as warm breath brushed against his cheek.
Yu Qingzhou was completely baffled by Shen Yun's sudden action.
I don't understand, there was a slight tremor in the other person's breathing.
Amidst the bewilderment and confusion, seeds of unease were quietly sprouting.
"……Why?"
The moment the question left her lips, Yu Qingzhou suddenly felt a lightness in her body.
Then I saw the expression on Shen Yun's face—he was smiling, like any young person in a beautiful emotional relationship.
She just didn't seem like the Shen Yun that Yu Qingzhou knew.
"I proposed to her."
"..."
Yu Qingzhou did not recall ever asking such a question.
But he seemed to hear the sound of buds sprouting, which in an instant grew into tangled vines that climbed up his limbs and covered his entire body.
Yu Qingzhou brushed aside the non-existent entanglements and smiled as well.
"very nice."
He heard his own voice, as if someone else was speaking from afar, while the real him became the one who coldly observed.
--very nice.
Yu Qingzhou thought sincerely, "In this way, everyone can find happiness."
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