It was May in the blink of an eye, and Gu Nianxi's birthday was approaching in a week. Just like last year, she ordered a birthday cake for herself and prepared to choose a gift for herself.
Gu Nianxi packed up her desk and got ready to get off work. She got off work on time today because she wanted to go to Mike's store.
After walking out of the office building, Gu Nianxi was waiting for a taxi outside the door as usual, but before she took her phone out of her bag, a car stopped in front of her. She took a closer look and saw a man getting out of the car after opening the back door.
He walked up to Gu Nianxi and asked expressionlessly.
"Hello, is this Miss Gu Nianxi?"
Gu Nianxi looked the man up and down in confusion. He had an outstanding appearance and was well-dressed. He did not look like a man who would strike up a conversation casually.
"Who are you……"
"I am Xia Mo's brother."
Hearing Xia Mo's name, Gu Nianxi was a little excited, "Did Xia Mo ask you to come to me?"
Judging from the man's freezing aura, it's not difficult to guess his identity. He should be Xia Mo's second brother, Xia Kun.
"We couldn't find her, so we wanted to ask Miss Gu if she had any news about her."
"..."
"Miss Gu, please get in the car and let's find a place to chat."
"good."
Gu Nianxi was also worried about Xia Mo's comfort and followed Xia Kun into the car.
Along the way, Xia Kun looked at the woman sitting next to him from time to time. She had medium-length and capable hair and a pair of big, talkative eyes. He remembered seeing a photo of her at the end of summer. She had changed a lot from before.
"Where is Miss Gu from?"
"S city."
“S city, a good place.”
“Did I contact you in France at the end of the summer?”
"Well, I called twice, but there was no contact after that. Can't you contact her? Did you call the police?"
Xia Kun frowned slightly and shook his head, "I sent money to my father regularly, but never showed up. This damn girl is hiding somewhere and doing what she is doing. I really wonder if she was tricked into going to the French countryside to get married and have children."
"No way, she won't be willing to get married at the end of summer."
Xia Kun nodded, and then the two stopped talking. Gu Nianxi looked out the window, and Xia Kun looked at her.
Unknowingly, the car stopped in front of a coffee shop, and Xia Kun invited Gu Nianxi to go in and have a seat.
The two of them occasionally chatted about innocuous topics. When they separated, Xia Kun added his contact information.
Gu Nianxi returned home and had a dream that night.
She dreamed that the sun was shining through the kitchen window, and she was standing in front of the oven with an apron on. She knelt down and took out the cake. There was a sound of opening the door behind her. She heard the sound and looked around, only to see Su Yuheng walking in the door wearing a suit.
"Back!"
Su Yuheng walked up to her with a smile, kissed her on the forehead, then rubbed the tip of her nose with the tip of his nose and pecked her lips.
"Happy birthday, I want to give you a gift."
Gu Nianxi smiled at him and said, but he remained silent and kept a slight smile on his face.
"Dang Dang Dang!" Gu Nianxi stretched out the pregnancy test stick in front of him, "A Heng, we have another child."
He held her tightly in his arms and remained silent.
Gu Nianxi was intoxicated in his arms and suddenly heard him whispering in her ear
"Fool, how can I let you take the blame? Our daughter is still young. She will be an excellent doctor in the future and a very good mother in the future. Our daughter... will get married in the future. Be obedient and take care of yourself."
Su Yuheng turned around and left. Gu Nianxi looked at his back as he walked out of the house, and the cake in his hand fell to the ground.
"Ah Heng!"
Gu Nianxi woke up from her dream, covered in sweat. She sat on the bed with her head in frustration, her heavy breathing gradually calmed down.
She couldn't tell whether that sentence was her imagination or whether she had heard it somewhere.
Gu Nianxi got up and went to the kitchen to get a glass of water, then opened the bedside table and took out a pack of unopened cigarettes.
She also forgot when she started smoking. It must have been the night when Zhao Ziti came to discuss divorce for the first time.
Gu Nianxi leaned against the window, holding a cigarette and looking at the empty streets. She took a deep breath and blew out a big smoke ring.
She couldn't help but laugh, thinking that she had so firmly advised Su Yuheng to quit smoking before, but now she had become a smoker.
The November day was getting cold. She smoked half a cigarette and threw it into the bathroom toilet, flushed it down, and then took a sleeping pill and lay on the bed.
In the past two years, only sleeping pills have prevented her from having nightmares. As a psychiatrist, she can heal people, but she does not heal herself.
The work of going to the hospital to collect cases lasted for two months. After Gu Nianxi completed the work, she finally chose to resign because Frankly expressed his feelings to her.
When she was about to leave that day, Frankly told her that it was Dr. John's suggestion that she go to work in the hospital because he wanted to formally request Gu Nianxi to accept his relationship.
In him, Gu Nianxi saw the second Su Yuheng. She immediately rejected this arrangement. She no longer wanted to be someone else's shadow, she wanted to be herself.
When she handed in her resignation report, Frankly thought she agreed to his request and gave her a big hug despite the strange looks from the staff. Gu Nianxi didn't say anything and returned it to him along with the letter of recommendation he gave her.
Gu Nianxi was unemployed and had nothing to do. She chose to travel. During this trip, she found a companion, Mike, whom she met when she was buying a bracelet.
Mike had just returned from country
During the trip, Mike and Gu Nianxi talked about many incidents when he was working as Doctors Without Borders in country
Gu Nianxi tossed and turned about the matter and had no sleep all night.
The next day, Gu Nianxi brought a big surprise to mike. While having breakfast, she told mike.
"How to apply to be Doctors Without Borders? When will you go again? I'll be with you."
Mike jumped up and down excitedly and told Gu Nianxi a lot of details.
After the trip to Italy, Gu Nianxi returned home. She wanted to spend more time with her parents, and told them her idea of becoming Doctors Without Borders.
She was right. Her mother strongly opposed it, but her father supported her. However, her family would never embarrass her. Gu Nianxi deliberately lied to them. She just went to country x with her boyfriend so that they didn't have to worry.
I don’t know if her parents really believed what she said, and they didn’t ask any more questions after that. Her mother just asked some questions about her boyfriend and asked her to stay at home for a while.
Gu Nianxi originally planned to stay in S city for a week, but an unexpected incident disrupted his plan.
Her ex-husband, who had been missing for two years, showed up.
After meeting Su Yuheng at Zhao's house that day, Gu Nianxi slept at home for three days and three nights. She had many nightmares, all of which were about their past.
She stayed home because she was afraid of meeting him again, but Murphy's Law advises us that when we are more afraid of something, something will happen.
Early on Saturday morning, Gu Nianxi went downstairs hungry and went straight to the restaurant to find food. When she went downstairs, she vaguely heard Gu's mother chatting with someone in the living room. She thought she was talking to Gu's father and didn't think much about it.
She sat at the dining table, opened the hot dish cover, saw the steamed dumplings and soy milk fried dough sticks, and ate them with satisfaction.
"Dad, didn't you go to make up lessons for Wu Xiaotian today? It's already half past ten. It will be late if you don't go."
Gu Nianxi reminded her father loudly while eating. Seeing that her father ignored her, she took the fried dough sticks in her mouth and walked out with the bowl.
"You stopped by the dry cleaners and helped me—"
Gu Nianxi petrified on the spot, and looked at the man who was about to leave. She stared at him in surprise, and the fried dough sticks in her mouth fell to the ground.
This was such an embarrassing scene. At this time, she was wearing the cute pink pajamas she wore when she was nineteen, with messy hair, appearing in front of him like a teenager.
She promised that when she saw him again, she would shock him to death and make him regret divorcing her in the first place!
Oh my God!
What is he doing?
"Nian Nian, your brother A Heng——"
Gu's mother just wanted Gu Nianxi to say hello to Su Yuheng, but before she could finish her words, she saw Gu Nianxi rushing upstairs.
"Hey? This kid, Gu Nianxi!" Seeing Gu Nianxi's impolite behavior, Gu's mother awkwardly explained to Su Yuheng who was standing at the door, "Maybe... there is something urgent."
Su Yuheng said goodbye and left. When he walked out of the Gu family courtyard, he turned around and looked at the window on the second floor. He saw the curtains floating slightly. He knew that she must be peeking at him.
The moment he saw her just now, he had the same expression as hers. Father Gu said that she would go out with Lin Yiduo today and would not be at home at 10:30. He deliberately chose this time to go to Gu's house, but he never wanted to run into her.
A positive one.
He came to Gu's house today because he was invited by Gu's father to get a photo. The photo was a photo of them when they were young that Gu's father had been collecting. There were three fathers in the photo, as well as his mother Chen Wanyu and Gu's mother. They were two children back then.
Young people in their early teens are all high-spirited.
When Gu's mother handed the photo to him, she pointed at it and said, "Look, your mother was so beautiful when she was young. Your eyes are just like hers. Take this photo to her and tell her that we wish her a speedy recovery. And
, advise her not to blame your father anymore. Su Yi has not found anyone for her for most of his life. He has always thought of your mother, so no one can look down on him. Hey, why are they wasting like this? "
After listening to Gu's mother's words, Su Yuheng couldn't help but feel sad. Will he and Gu Nianxi be like this in this life?
"Aunt, Niannian... are you in love?" He asked cautiously, waiting for Gu's mother's answer.
Since he heard the news about her boyfriend that day, he drank a lot after returning home. This has been his normal behavior in the past few years. After he was discharged from the hospital, he suffered from long-term insomnia. Finally, he found that cigarettes and alcohol were better than fluoxine.
There are many steroids used, but they are the only ones that can numb his nerves.
Every time when he was drunk, he took out his mobile phone and watched the video of Gu Nianxi singing nursery rhymes to him in Puerto Rico over and over again, as well as the photos of her and the sunset.
He watched, laughed, and cried until he was extremely exhausted and then fell asleep. When he woke up again, he would feel better.
He had been here like this for the past two years, but when he saw her again this time, his situation became worse and worse. He began to suffer from insomnia again. He spent the whole night recalling their past in loneliness. Even if he fell asleep, he would dream about it.
The scene of her lying on the bed covered in blood, after he woke up, he warned himself again and again.