The Most Beautiful Years Met You [139] Whether he takes me seriously or not
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.
Yan Yu likes her plain look in wearing a shirt and tying pigtails with rubber bands, but Zhang Ningning likes to decorate herself. Even at home, she will put on exquisite makeup. Every time she goes back to Yan's house for a meal, she has to make a special trip to the hair salon. The two of them
What was originally a good conversation turned into a meaningless cold war because he touched her hair.
Zhang Ningning didn't like to stay at home. She said, "Yan Yu, I don't want to be a canary just for you to enjoy. I want to have my own career."
She wanted to open a gallery, but she needed a partner because of lack of funds, but she was unwilling to accept his help.
Zhang Ningning ran around with her paintings. The rich lady who was interested in her paintings the day before would try her best to reject the partnership request the next day and send back the photos intact. When she was almost desperate,
Finally, someone came to me willing to invest.
Later, Zhang Ningning learned that the man was the one asked by Yan Yu and that the real partner was Yan Yu.
Most of the paintings sold by the gallery were bought personally by Yan Yu and given to clients with whom he had business dealings. The Yan family company also bought some to decorate its offices.
Some gallery staff even secretly talked behind her back that she was a mistress kept by a rich man.
When Yan Yu came home that day, a fierce quarrel awaited him. Zhang Ningning smashed a lot of things in the apartment. She felt humiliated and accused Yan Yu of smelling like a businessman and being a philistine and vulgar. Unknown to her,
When he was in love, he had already imprisoned her in the cage he had built.
That night, Yan Yu not only felt physically tired, but also mentally exhausted.
Faced with Zhang Ningning's accusation, he didn't say a word.
For a painter with insufficient talent, how could those wealthy people who judge the situation be willing to spend millions on her?
Yan Yu had seen the oil paintings in Zhang Ningning's studio. He had never studied painting, but he also saw that those paintings had no soul and could not see into people's hearts.
Once, he went to the home of a company partner and saw a photo painted by Zhang Ningning in the trash can there. The rich lady even mentioned it at the dinner table to relax the atmosphere. As for the perseverant person she said
The female painter was undoubtedly the clown that night.
The night before he came to city B, they had another argument.
Zhang Ningning changed hands of the art restoration workshop without telling him. Her hobby was painting, and she felt that the workshop would only distract her energy.
She was willing to buy that workshop in the first place just because he liked it.
She wants to live for herself, not become a featureless woman to cater to him.
The beauty in love is eventually torn to pieces by reality...
——
When Ye He walked happily downstairs to the dormitory, he saw Chen Hao, whom he had not seen for a long time, from a distance. His left arm was still splinted around his neck.
This person has been discharged from hospital?
Seeing Chen Hao now, Ye Hehuan would subconsciously think of Zhou Man. For nearly half a month, Zhou Man had been missing except for classes, and sometimes he did not even return to the dormitory at night.
Ye Hehuan didn't tell Zhou Man that he liked Chen Hao, but he guessed that Zhou Man should still be taking care of Chen Hao these days.
Chen Hao also saw Ye Hehuan and walked up to her: "I heard that your boyfriend came to school to find you?"
Ye Hehuan did not explain, especially to someone who once and even now admires him. Any more explanations will only cause misunderstanding.
"I have something to do when I go back to the dormitory, so I'll go up first."
After speaking, Ye Hehuan walked around him and walked towards the dormitory building.
"I didn't expect you to be this kind of person." Chen Hao said angrily behind her.
Ye Hehuan ignored him and went straight up the steps and entered the dormitory door.
