Under the white incandescent lamp, his face was half lowered. In the dividing line between light and dark, his handsome face was even more profound: "Say."
Chanel hooked her arms around his neck, gently pressed her lips to his ear and said, "I love you."
She said it in a very soft voice, like she was telling a little secret that no one else could hear.
Su Shijie hugged her gently and gathered the blanket for her. He looked away and said nothing else.
Chanel thought he hadn't heard, so she took courage and said louder: "Su Shijie, I love you!"
Su Shijie's hand holding the blanket paused and whispered: "Yeah."
Chanel opened her eyes wide and looked at him, as if she was disappointed with his reaction, and there was mist in her eyes.
"I know...love is your business alone...you don't need my love..." Chanel pursed her lips and said, "I'm sorry."
Su Shijie clenched her palms a little tighter and stared at the blanket on her legs.
"Don't think this is a burden, I'm just telling you..." Chanel's voice became lower and lower, "I love you, and it's my business alone."
She finally had the courage to put aside everything and admit this love.
All this time, she was the one who was wandering and struggling. She did not respond to Su Shijie's love.
So now, when she says she loves her, it's natural that she doesn't get a response. She doesn't blame him.
"I knew it earlier." Su Shijie finally raised his face to look at her, with a low level of tenderness in his dark brown eyes.
There were tears in Chanel's eyes. She tried her best to restrain herself, blinked, and pretended to be relaxed and asked: "How do you know?"
Su Shijie put Chanel aside, stood up, walked to a cabinet and took out a box.
When Chanel opened the box, she saw the 999 paper cranes she had folded!
The paper cranes obviously showed traces of being dismantled, because although they were folded back together following the traces, they were not folded as well.
Chanel could tell at a glance that the folding was not as delicate as her original folding.
Aren't all these paper cranes buried underground by her? Why are they here?
"Did you dig it out?" Chanel asked in surprise.
"Um."
"When was it dug out?"
"The day you left."
Chanel was silent, he dug it out the day she left, that is, more than 2 months ago, he knew what she was thinking.
However, he never went to find her...
Chanel looked at the paper crane, tried her best to conceal her depression, and said with a smile: "Where's that big paper crane?"
"Put it away." In fact, it was stained red with blood during the car accident, and he kept holding it, so it was already rotten.
But it doesn't matter, every word and every word in the letter has been imprinted on his heart.
Shanel nodded, hummed, and suddenly had nothing to say.
After a while, Chanel put down the carton: "Su Shijie, I want to ask you a question, and you have to answer me truthfully."
Su Shijie seemed to know what she was going to ask, and remained silent without making a sound.
"I will only ask you this last time. No matter what you answer me, I will believe you." Chanel still smiled like that, looking at him with watery eyes.
Su Shijie looked away: "Ask."
"Your illness - is it really just a fever and cough? Is there nothing else?"
Something flashed quickly in Su Shijie's brown pupils: "I'm fine."