Yan Yu was stunned by Ye Hehuan's straight-to-the-point talk. He didn't even exchange polite greetings. His throat moved, but he didn't know how to answer.

Even he himself didn't know the reason why he came to the school again and again. He also didn't know why he chose the home furnishing store in city B to inspect it personally among so many branches.

When the picture of city B appeared on the slide at the company meeting, what was he thinking?

...like a seed that is ready to move and suddenly breaks out of the ground.

When I met Ye Hehuan in the shopping mall, some of the emotions that he deliberately concealed were like a flood that broke through a dam and poured out at that moment.

Standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window of the hotel at night, looking at the dimly lit night scene of City B, Yan Yu thought of what happened with Ye Hehuan in the past. He thought he had almost forgotten it, but he found that it was as clear as if it happened yesterday.

Ye Hehuan, who was wearing denim overalls and a T-shirt, liked to follow him silently and would run downstairs to the dormitory to deliver breakfast to him every morning. Sometimes, she could even be seen sneaking around in the corner of the university classroom.

, she was like a little sunflower, always smiling brightly and naively at him.

One morning she didn't show up at the bottom of the dormitory building, nor did she call him.

The Chinese roommate who lived with him jokingly asked: "Ayu, has your little suitor finally given up?"

Yan Yu recalled the situation that day, and he was originally feeling relieved. When he saw her call, he ignored it and let his phone vibrate over and over again.

At that time, he would be so unscrupulous, just because she liked him.

Later he found out that she didn't come that day because she was sick.

At that time, Yan Yu could not forget Zhang Ningning, who abandoned him for his ideals, but he could not resist the warmth given by Ye Hehuan.

So one sunny afternoon, under the campus boulevard, he suddenly stopped and turned around, and said to Ye Hehuan who was following him not far away, "Have you ever thought about which university you will go to in the future?"

Ye Hehuan didn't know why he asked so, and looked at him in confusion.

He continued to speak calmly: "UBC is the best university here. If you apply for this university, it will be much easier to find a job in Vancouver in the future."

"But I couldn't pass the exam, and I want to go back to China after studying." She said stupidly.

Yan Yu: "..."

His right hand grasped the shoulder strap of the shoulder bag tightly, but he continued her words against his will: "Then you go back."

After speaking, he turned around and left.

Ye Hehuan didn't know what he said wrongly, so he followed him step by step, calling him again and again from behind: "Ayu, wait for me..."

As he walked through the corner ahead, Yan Yu suddenly stopped.

Ye Hehuan had no time to stop and bumped into his back. She was afraid that he would be angry. Just as she was about to apologize hurriedly, Yan Yu suddenly turned around. He took the hand she had just raised with a bit too much force and said

: "Do you want to be my girlfriend?"

"..."

The expression on her face was dull, as if she had been suddenly hit by a huge pie and couldn't recover.

Yan Yu looked at her and his mood improved inexplicably: "Don't want to?"

Ye Hehuan quickly shook his head.

"It seems that you really don't want to, so forget it."

She was already nodding her head like a chicken pecking at rice. It took her a while to find her mouth again. For fear that he would regret it, she couldn't wait to say: "I do, I do -"

…

Scenes from the past kept flashing through his mind like a fleeting horse.

Yan Yu's hands in his trousers pockets tightened slightly. On the way here, he thought about what to say when they met. He thought it would be as simple as a social interaction in the business world, but he really stood in front of her.

, but was left speechless by her straightforward question.

They stood on the roadside, and students passing by would instinctively glance at them.

Ye Hehuan broke the silence: "What do you want from me?"

She asked again.

Yan Yu looked at the girl who was close at hand. He was in a hurry in the mall that day. At that time, he was only surprised and didn't take a good look at her. She no longer seemed to have the carefree look in his memory. He was walking on campus with her schoolbag.

There is no difference among the college students here.

But the calm lake in his heart still started to ripple at the moment he saw her, spreading around in circles.

"Are you free later?" Yan Yu asked.

Ye Hehuan didn't want to be the focus of passers-by's attention all the time. Seeing that he didn't directly say what was wrong, she pursed her lips and nodded.

Yan Yu asked for her opinion: "There is a cafe next to the school, where should we go?"

Ye Hehuan did not object.

She originally thought Yan Yu could drive, but he chose to walk instead.

At this point, there were a lot of students on the road. Yan Yu asked Ye Hehuan to walk on the inside to avoid the pedestrians.

No one spoke along the way.

Yan Yu was slightly behind. From his angle, he happened to see Ye Hehuan's side profile, the hair pulled behind her left ear, revealing Bai Xi's neck and delicate mandibles, as well as her pink lips that were slightly pursed because of boredom.

.

Some feelings arise quietly like this, without any warning, but they seem to have been dormant for a long time.

——

Around four o'clock in the afternoon, the cafe was relatively free.

Ye Hehuan chose a seat near the door and sat down. Yan Yu ordered a cup of coffee. When he was about to order a drink for her, she interrupted him: "I'll just drink boiled water."

Yan Yu paused while turning over the drink list, then handed the order to the waiter and said, "Another glass of freshly squeezed orange juice."

Ye Hehuan turned his head towards the window and didn't say anything to stop him. He could order whatever he liked. It wasn't her money spent anyway.

Seeing her indifferent expression, Yan Yu felt obviously disappointed.

The girl who revolved around him in everything before really no longer exists. Now in her eyes, she seems to be an insignificant person.

Silence lingered between the two of them again.

Seeing that he was silent, Ye Hehuan probably had nothing to do. She had nothing to say, let alone reminiscing about the past. Just when she was about to get up and leave, Yan Yu suddenly said: "The person who was with you in the mall the day before yesterday was your brother.

?Looks a lot like you."

"Well, my cousin."

"When you return to China, are you not used to your life?"

"fine."

Yan Yu picked up the coffee and took a sip, only to taste the bitterness in his mouth. When he put the cup back on the saucer, he looked at the girl sitting opposite: "I heard from Tiantian that you have a boyfriend?"

"..."

"Is that the person in the photo you showed me last time?"

Ye Hehuan really felt that such a conversation was very unproductive, and there was no need to continue the conversation. She took her schoolbag and stood up from the booth, overlooking Yan Yu: "I didn't drink orange juice, so I won't pay.

If you have something to do, take the first step."

After saying that, she hung her schoolbag on her shoulder and walked towards the door.

Yan Yu saw her open the door and watched her leave through the floor-to-ceiling glass. Within three seconds, he put a hundred-yuan note on the table, got up and chased her out.

Ye Hehuan didn't go far when Yan Yu pulled him from behind.

Yan Yu looked into her eyes, as if he mustered up the courage to ask her: "Do you like your current boyfriend very much?"

Ye Hehuan didn't know why he asked this, and she didn't like him asking it very much. In her opinion, she and Yan Yu had already made peace with each other. They had liked, complained, sad, and hated, but when he chose

Zhang Ningning, when she picked up the hot water bottle and threw it at him, everything was over, and there was no need for any disconnection.

"He looks quite young. Is he serious about you?"

Such concern is somewhat ironic.

"Isn't Zhang Ningning a few years older than you? I'm not looking for someone older than me, so why should I look for a little brother?"

Ye Hehuan curved his lips and smiled innocently: "No matter if he takes me seriously or not, at least he is very kind to me now and will not let me suffer any injustice."

After Yan Yu heard this, his hand on her arm relaxed slightly.

Ye Hehuan said nothing more, took back his hand, turned around and walked away without even looking back until he walked into the school gate.

…

Yan Yu stood there and didn't move a step for a long time.

That sentence had a great impact on him.

Ye Hehuan said it in an understatement, and it fell on his heart, but it became a heavy stone, and the regret quickly amplified.

Yan Yu did not marry Zhang Ningning after returning to China and joining his family's company, as he expected.

Even though he and Zhang Ningning were very compatible physically, the disputes and frictions became more and more frequent as they got along day and night.

In Zhang Ningning, he could no longer find the simple and clean feeling he had when he was young.
To be continued...