The room was completely silent, except for the ticking sound of the clock on the wall. It took an unknown amount of time before Su Yuheng spoke up to break the depressing atmosphere.
He had been editing the language very carefully just now. Their story was so complex that it couldn't be explained in a few words.
He sat there quietly, drawing circles on the rim of the cup with his fingers. Gu Nianxi was immersed in this picture, and suddenly a fragmented front section flashed in her mind. She lay on the sofa and looked at it dreamily.
The man hiding behind the computer screen also drew circles on the table with his hands.
Just when she was lost in thought, he interrupted her thoughts.
"My wife and I met at a wedding. She was the bridesmaid that day. Because she was so beautiful, I saw her as soon as I entered the wedding banquet. That day...she was wearing a lavender dress and a flower crown on her head. She
Her beautiful smile touches the hearts of many men. I don’t know who she is. In fact, I am not very familiar with the man and the woman. I went to attend the wedding that day because of my father’s request.
The wedding hadn't started yet, so I felt that the air in the venue was not very good, so I hid outside alone. I found a balcony and smoked a cigarette. As soon as I lit the cigarette, I heard the sound of high heels coming from far and near. It was her coming."
When he said this, the corners of his mouth raised slightly, and Gu Nianxi saw light in his eyes.
She came. This was probably the first time his girl appeared in his life, so he could remember the details so clearly.
"She carelessly threw the bouquet on the balcony. She lifted up the white gauze on the balcony. When she saw me, her whole body stayed there. She was looking at me like I was an alien."
His words made a picture appear in Gu Nianxi's mind.
A gust of wind blew by, and the flying white gauze was lifted up by a beautiful hand. She saw a blurry back figure, and the flickering fireworks at his fingertips. When he turned around, his face overlapped with the man in front of her.
Isn't this her dream?
In a daze, she seemed to be immersed in that scene.
"I have never had any dealings with girls in my life, and I don't know how to get along with girls. I saw that she was innocent and honest, so I teased her. When she blushed, I found it very interesting."
After Su Yuheng finished speaking, he looked at Gu Nianxi. Gu Nianxi blushed in embarrassment. When she realized something, she quickly lowered her head. She couldn't let him see her blush.
"So that's how you met?"
"No, I left the balcony first, and then we met again in the hotel. She and I were together that night."
Gu Nianxi was so shocked that her pupils were shaking. This ruthless man! He captured this little girl on the same day?
Seeing that her jaw was about to drop in surprise, Su Yuheng hurriedly explained, "What you think didn't happen."
"..."
What did she think about? Gu Nianxi was speechless when he said it. He said it as if her thoughts were colorful.
She smiled awkwardly at him, "I didn't think about anything."
"Well, although nothing like that happened that night, we..."
He stared at her closely, not saying all the words that came to his lips. He deliberately titillated her appetite and tickled her damn curiosity. Gu Nianxi wanted to urge him to speak faster, but she was too embarrassed to speak.
"I didn't do that to her because she was still young at the time and I didn't want to scare her."
Well, I still have a conscience.
Gu Nianxi thought to herself and asked casually, "Then she also agrees to be with you?"
"Well, I think she is willing."
Gu Nianxi pursed her lips and asked, "You mean if you really do anything to her, she will be willing?"
Su Yuheng was silent. He looked at her eyes with a smile, "Do you think I will force her?"
"Oh, I didn't mean that."
She just thought this girl was a little stupid, and she just met this man for the first time and was in the same room with him.
"After that night, did you get together?"
"No, I said I didn't agree to date her."
His firm tone made Gu Nianxi hesitate, "Well, yes, you said you rejected her, which means you didn't contact her again after that night. What next?"
"I didn't contact her again after I returned to the United States. At that time, my father wanted to bring me together with her, and he would always mention her in front of me. I don't know whether it was because he was rebellious or because he was afraid to face what happened that night. As soon as he heard about it,
I was very repulsed by her name. In fact, I still hated her at that time because - forget it, let's not talk about it for now."
He seemed reluctant to mention what he was thinking of because he didn't want to interrupt his thoughts, so Gu Nianxi didn't ask further, "Okay, you continue."
"Not long after I returned to the United States, another girl chased me. She confessed to me, but I rejected her. Until one day, my father told me that my wife was coming to New York to study. I mistakenly thought that it was me who came to New York.
I hated her as a pawn in my father's arrangement and just wanted to get rid of her as soon as possible, so I agreed to the girl's request."
"What request?"
"I agreed that she would become a shareholder in my newly established domestic branch, and pretended to be a couple with her, all for the sake of showing my father. The next year, my wife came to New York, and I happened to be near the airport that day, so my father asked me to
I went to pick her up. To be honest, I was very bored at the time, and what I was bored about was not her, but myself. I could have found a hundred reasons not to pick her up, but I was such a contradictory person, and I didn’t dare to face her.
, wanted to take a look at her again. I also wanted to explain things clearly to her, so I went to the airport in person.
I remember that day, she appeared at the airport exit wearing an avocado green dress. My wife was very beautiful. She was the kind of girl who would stand out in the crowd. She had long black hair and fair skin, like
She looks like a peach, she has a beautiful smile, and her eyes curve into two crescents.
She stood at the airport gate waiting for the person to pick her up. At that time, she probably didn’t know that it would be me who would pick her up. I sat in the car and let her wait. I actually didn’t know how to face her. After all, I didn’t know how to face her before.
It’s a bit embarrassing.”
"You mean what happened that night?" Gu Nianxi interjected.
"Yes." He answered Gu Nianxi and continued: "That night..."
The two people looked at each other, and the atmosphere suddenly became a little awkward. Gu Nianxi lowered her head and bit the tip of her tongue, wishing that her soul would leave her body and give her a good beating.
Gu Nianxi! Can you consider the patient’s feelings? It’s fun to quarrel with someone, isn’t it? You have to fight him, right?
Su Yuheng smiled and shook his head helplessly, "You..."
"Sorry, please continue."
He nodded and continued: "She stood at the entrance of the airport and attracted the attention of many men. I saw some men looking at her, and some men asked for her contact information. I was a little angry at the time, so I got out of the car and stuffed her away.
When we got into the car, I didn't know why I was angry. It was obvious that she had done nothing.
When she saw me, her eyes were big and round. After getting in the car, she was very quiet in the passenger seat. I deliberately drove the car very fast just to scare her. She was so nervous that she didn't say anything the whole way."
Gu Nianxi curled her lips and really wanted to scold him. He was so bad for treating a girl like this.
Gu Nianxi's thoughts went into the scene he described. She imagined the girl's appearance in her mind and drew an outline in her notebook.
"Later, I arranged for her to stay in the hotel and left without saying a word. The next day, she called me and said she had something to tell me. It happened that I also had something to explain to her, so we met
Got the noodles.
The place where we met was a local park. She was sitting on the swing waiting for me. The sky was very blue that day, the same color as the backpack on her shoulder. She was wearing a white striped dress and white canvas shoes.
The wind was very strong, and her long hair was blown away by the wind. She tied herself into a simple ponytail with a hair rope.
Just as I was about to walk over, a marshmallow vendor walked up to her and she bought herself a marshmallow."
He described the details carefully and looked far away.
Gu Nianxi drew a beautiful picture in her mind, a peach girl with a ponytail sitting on a swing eating marshmallows.
What a romantic picture.
Such a beautiful encounter made her, the observer, feel so sweet.
His heart must have been moved at that time. If it wasn't for the feeling of being moved, why would the corners of his mouth still couldn't help but curl up when he talked about this memory?
Gu Nianxi wrote down his words in her notebook, but suddenly there was no sound. She raised her head curiously and saw the smile on his face gradually disappearing.
Something bad must have happened after that.
Su Yuheng paused, then inserted his fingers into the roots of his hair to smooth it out. The movement was very charming.
"I stood in a corner not far away and watched her. I didn't walk over until she finished eating the marshmallow. She was still a little nervous when she saw me, and there was still candy stuck to the corner of her mouth. It was very sweet candy."
"Very sweet candy?" Gu Nianxi repeated his words. How did he know that candy was very sweet...
Suddenly, she understood.
He must have kissed her before he tasted the sweetness of sugar.
"Well." He came back to his senses and continued, "She was about to open her mouth to speak, but I interrupted her. I felt a little guilty at the time. I was afraid that she would ask me why I left without saying goodbye a year ago, so
I preemptively told her not to use any tricks to get close to me, not to call me, not to appear in front of me, and never expect me to like her, I..." At this point, his eye circles were a little red, and his expression
upset.
"I went even further and told her that that night a year ago was just an affair, and even if she volunteered, I wouldn't do anything to her."
Gu Nianxi looked at him in surprise, unable to imagine that these words came out of his mouth. How could he hurt a girl like this? How sad she must have been when she heard these words.
"She must be very sad."
"Probably, but my wife is a very good person who can pretend to be sad. I learned this later. I didn't know her well at the time. I thought she would cry and run away, but I didn't expect that she didn't. She looked at
I suddenly laughed, and then she did something that surprised me, ha." He lowered his head and smiled.
"What did she do?"
He looked at Gu Nianxi, his expression softened a lot, "She tilted her head and looked at me and said to me with a smile.
'Can you please be clear-headed and stop being sentimental? Do you think I took that night seriously? I came here today to tell you that we are all adults and everyone knows how to play an affair. If you can't do it yourself, just
No, is it necessary to come here and explain that you don't like me? Only a guy with low self-esteem would yell like this! I don't know if you will do anything to me, but I think there is something wrong with your function.
I can't do it! I'm so angry and jumping over the wall! I came here today to make it clear! I'm afraid you misunderstand that I like you, so it's up to me! I'm twenty years old this year! I'm in the prime of my youth! Don't ruin my reputation and delay me!
'
She kept poking me with her finger while she was talking, and I looked at her fierce look and was stunned."
Gu Nianxi held back her laughter and quickly lowered her head, fearing that her smile would hurt his self-esteem too obviously.
Unexpectedly, this girl is really fierce. She will definitely make him angry when she ridicules his male ability like this.
"Did she just leave after saying that?"
"No, she grabbed my tie before she left."
"Pull your tie...kiss you?"
From the look in his eyes, she could see that she had guessed correctly. Gu Nianxi was very curious about this girl's surprising brain.
Why do you want to kiss him?
"She kissed me and pushed me away. She raised her chin and said that kissing me was like hitting my mouth on a tree stump. It was boring! Tasteless! Uninteresting! She said she didn't like men who were five years older than her. After she left, she stayed.
I stood there stupidly, my mouth full of her marshmallow sweetness."