rose in his heart

Chapter 1 Encounter

He wants roses, not lives.
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In Jiangcheng at the end of September, the lingering heat of summer gradually faded, and a heavy rain in the evening washed the whole city clean.Those sticky and hot things also submerged into the deep night with this rain.

When Xing Zhu woke up, the sound of rain outside the window had stopped, and the ray of evening light before going to bed also slipped away soundlessly from the bedroom, everything was very quiet.

It was so quiet that there was nothing left in her heart.

Glancing at the digital clock beside the bed, it was 20:29.

It has been a week since she returned to China, and her schedule is still extremely chaotic.I can only fall asleep after three o'clock in the morning every day, and I can barely sleep until seven o'clock in the morning, and I have to sleep again at five or six in the afternoon to make up for it.

Although I saved the trouble of having breakfast, whenever I wake up in the dead of night, I will feel a strong emotion rushing to my face.

Like a big invisible net, it silently wrapped around her, and tightened again.

The mobile phone charging by the bed vibrated, and Xing Zhu glanced at it.

It's a message from WeChat.

[Boyfriend: Xiaozhu, are you asleep? 】

Before Xing Zhu could reply, many messages from the same person popped up impatiently.

[Boyfriend: Xing Zhu, let's break up. 】

[Boyfriend: I'll wait for you at the coffee shop opposite your house, and I'll explain it to you. 】

[Boyfriend: Don't make me wait too long. 】

In the empty room, the lights have not been turned on.

Xing Zhu stared at the only light source.

After a few seconds, the phone screen went off.
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After the heavy rain, the nighttime temperature plummeted.

Xing Zhu wore a dark coffee-colored overcoat over a long black satin dress, and his waist-length hair was scattered around his waist in a layered manner. His cheeks were plain white, but they couldn't hide the rich and magnificent facial features.

Pushing open the door of the coffee shop, she glanced around the shop, and finally met the gaze of a man near the window.

The moment their eyes met, Xing Zhu frowned secretly.

At the beginning, he should not have simply set his remarks as 'boyfriend'.

Otherwise, I wouldn't even have to think of his name for a few seconds now.

Zhang Kai, her boyfriend when she was studying abroad, is also a senior and a fellow villager.

Counting today, the two of them have been together for a total of fifteen days.

In the early stage of the relationship, because of her relaxed curriculum, she also went out to eat a few meals with him.Later, they returned to China due to the epidemic, and this was the first time they met after returning to China.

Xing Zhu walked over and sat down opposite Zhang Kai.

Zhang Kai is a very standard financial person, and the Rolex on his wrist symbolizes his connections and identity.

He is also a person who does not restrain his emotions at all. For example, his eyes are undisguised, and he is irritable and boring towards her.

"I've been waiting for you for 15 minutes."

Xing Zhu hummed, "I'm sorry for the traffic jam on rainy days."

Zhang Kai frowned subconsciously, "The coffee shop is just opposite your house, a few minutes away, do you want to drive?"

Xing Zhu asked back, "Otherwise?"

if not?
The simple three words made Zhang Kai silent for an instant.

At this moment, countless past images flashed through his mind, and almost every scene made him as irritable as he is now.

Because the punishment candle is really too boring.

At first, he thought that he had found a white and rich beauty with a thick complexion. In fact, Xingzhu is like a glass of boiled water-flavored spirits—the strength floats on the surface, but it is actually tasteless, boring, and turbulent.

All year round, except for classes, I stay in the dormitory, and I don’t travel or socialize. I don’t even have any other social software except WeChat.The important thing is that you are not coquettish or flirtatious in love, and eating a meal is like discussing the topic of a thesis.

Is this an overseas student, or an old antique?
"What do you think of what I said on WeChat?"

Zhang Kai made up his mind to break up with Xingzhu.

However, if she is willing to keep him, he can still consider...

Before he could extend his thoughts, the woman on the other side suddenly spoke calmly.

"It's okay to break up. Who does the peony parrot we raise together abroad belong to?"

Although he was the one who proposed to break up, Zhang Kai's complexion changed drastically because of Xing Zhu's calm tone.

What do you mean, he is less important than a bird? !
Zhang Kai yelled at the case, "Xing Zhu, you really don't mean anything. Being with you is a waste of fifteen days of my life! I believe no man will fall in love with a puppet like you." !"

As soon as the words fell, Zhang Kai shook his face and left regardless of the heavy rain outside.

There was no one in the store itself, and the movement here made everyone look over.

Xing Zhu's expression did not change, he silently stared at the back of Zhang Kai leaving the coffee shop until he disappeared from sight.

Maybe you understand the reason for his anger, but since you have decided to break up, you don't have to waste energy thinking about it.

She advocates a low-consumption life.

Wake up the sluggish waiter on one side and make him serve a cup of coffee.

While waiting, Xing Zhu turned his gaze to the shadowy pedestrians on the street.

The rain is so heavy, they brave the rain, going to work, school, or a date?

Xing Zhu remembered that when she was dating Zhang Kai, she always felt like a third party on the sidelines, and it was impossible to go to the appointment in the heavy rain.

Neither work nor school.

Stirring the coffee in the cup, Xing Zhu was thinking aimlessly.

Until a broken street lamp on the other side of the street suddenly turned on, she subconsciously looked over.

The night was thick, and there was a person standing in the rain shelter next to the dim light.

a man.

With a height of about 185+, he is far ahead of everyone in this southern city.The black hair is messy and scattered under the eyebrows and eyes, with a kind of lazy casualness.

Perhaps because of the rainy weather, he was wearing a black waterproof jacket with the zipper pulled up to the highest point and the collar forced up.The black mask three-dimensionally wrapped his high lips below the nasal bone and his distinct jaw—although he couldn't see it, Xing Zhu subconsciously made it up.

The dim light was like an ambient light at the moment, making him different from every hurried gray pedestrian.

He seems to be glowing.

At the table in front were two little girls, and they also noticed the people on the street.

I even noticed that he didn't hold an umbrella at the moment.

The girl on the left urged the girl on the right to deliver an umbrella. The process didn't last long, and the girl on the right picked up the umbrella and rushed out.

Xing Zhu blinked, staring at all this with his dark eyes.

The two of them seemed to be talking, and Xing Zhu took advantage of the situation to see his raised eyes.

The black eyes are deep and pitch black, as if they can blend into the night.

He indifferently rejected the girl's umbrella, and the latter came back with an unhappy face.

"This man is not polite at all, and he doesn't even talk to him!"

"Hahahaha maybe it's because you didn't wear makeup today? Ann, don't be angry, maybe his face under the mask is extremely ugly!"

The girl seemed to be comforted by her companion and laughed.

Xing Zhu caught something that made him laugh, twitched the corners of his lips, and looked out of the window again.

At this moment, the man on the other side of the street seemed to have noticed something, and raised his eyes to look in her direction.

This distance was not too long or too short, enough for her to see those eyes clearly.

How to describe what she saw...

Just like the black cat in the church she had seen, it has a kind of mystery and isolation that cannot be seen by the world.When being watched by him, it seems that people have been thoroughly understood.This feeling is even stronger because he is not the cat.

She had never seen such a person before, and she had never experienced such a feeling that there was a bang in her mind at this moment, but it quickly returned to silence.

The staring at each other through the rush of people was fleeting, a bus passed by, and when Xing Zhu looked under the streetlight again, there was no one there.

It's raining harder and the weather forecast doesn't lie.
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Xingzhu has forgotten that Jiangcheng is also called Yucheng.

She went to study abroad at the age of 13, and it has been eight years so far.She is 21 years old, and the number of days she has come back in the past eight years is only a handful.

So much so that she forgot that like a pedestrian, as long as it is rainy, whether it is light rain or heavy rain, she will wear a pair of waterproof rain boots.

Because the terrain in the north of Jiangcheng is low, as long as it rains, it will form stagnant water.

When I got in the car, I was wet from the calf down.

After returning home, Xing Zhu took a hot bath first.The stickiness and dampness brought by the rainwater floating on the surface of the skin was washed away, and this moment was the most comfortable for her this week.

Wrapped in a bathrobe, she came out of the bathroom and sat down in front of the dressing table.

The square mirror reflects the empty bedroom and the person sitting in front of the mirror.

The skin is snow-white, the bathrobe is slightly open, and there is a long gray scar on the collarbone.Perhaps in order to make the scar more beautiful, a rose was tattooed on it.The long gray scar became the rhizome of the rose.

It's a chic and weird aesthetic.

Like pure white mixed with a touch of crimson, they blend with each other, and finally gain temporary stability in the dynamic.

Xing Zhu wiped his face cream, thinking about something.

After a while, she pulled out of the trance, stood up and walked to the bed.

Picking up the phone, I saw that Zhang Kai had sent her a few more WeChat messages.

Before she could change the note, the word 'boyfriend' was still displayed in the chat box.

[Boyfriend: I've made up my mind, the parrot belongs to you, and you can pick it up when you return to school. 】

[Boyfriend: Also, I know you have no friends in Jiangcheng, so even though we broke up, I am still willing to be your friend and help you repair your incomplete and boring personality.You're welcome, and you don't need to delete friends, just find me if you need anything. 】

Xing Zhu looked at these two lines full of confident words, and pulled his lips.

When he was about to delete Zhang Kai, Zhang Kai seemed to have sensed something, and sent another message.

The hand that Xingzhu landed on the screen also stopped for a moment.

[Boyfriend: By the way, since we have been together for fifteen days, my last question: At a dinner ten days ago, Yu Qing drank too much and said that you had stress-induced amnesia. Is it true? fake? 】

　Hello everyone, a new author is here to report~
　　The new book may not be as fast-paced as the cool articles you read in the bookstore. It tends to be more realistic. It is quite niche and relatively slow. , 1v1 Shuangjie~
　　I hope you can continue to read and feel the story that belongs to Xing Zhu and Chu Jin.The author is making progress and exploring, and it doesn't matter if he is not satisfied.

　　
　　
　
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