A romance novel written only for you

Chapter 42

The next morning I woke up and found that it was snowing outside, it seemed very cold.But there was no way, because it was agreed to take Shi Lei to eat French food.I had to put on a thin suit and a red tie.Originally, I wanted to wear a down jacket over the suit, but I knew that Shi Lei would definitely not do that, and it was very likely that she came to the appointment in that kind of grand evening dress with a skirt underneath.I had to risk my life to be with her.I looked at my watch and I was out the door at ten past nine.As soon as I went out, I felt the biting cold wind blowing straight into my neck. I stood on the side of the road waiting for a taxi. After waiting for a long time, I was almost freezing, and a taxi was late.The chubby white driver expressed his sincere admiration for my clothes. He said that he would not dress like this for any amount of money he gave him, and he also asked me why I was dressed like this.I told him to go eat French food with a friend.He didn't understand my behavior.He didn't know what French food tasted like, but he said that if he had to dress like this, he would never want to know what French food tasted like.I was sitting in the taxi, thinking about the French restaurant that Shi Lei mentioned.This is a restaurant that Shi Lei and I have never been to, and it just corresponds to the new beginning between Shi Lei and me.We will not go to those restaurants that have witnessed our love again.We are friends now and looking for some new places to witness our pure friendship.Sitting in an air-conditioned taxi, my body stiffened by the cold wind had just recovered a bit when the car arrived at the entrance of the China-Japan Friendship Hospital.I had no choice but to grit my teeth and pay and get out of the car.

The building of China-Japan Friendship Hospital is very high, so it is not so cold to stand at its door.I took out my mobile phone and found that there were still more than 20 minutes until ten o'clock. I sincerely hoped that Shi Lei would arrive earlier this time.I looked across, but I didn't see the French restaurant that Shi Lei told me about.I really hope that the French restaurant is opposite, so I can sit inside the restaurant and wait for Shi Lei.I sent her a text asking when she would be arriving.She will call me back, and I will arrive at ten o'clock.I had no choice but to stand there and wait for her.In the new year, people still get sick.I saw a lot of people walking into the hospital, and these people who walked into the hospital all had surprised expressions when they saw me.They didn't know I was going to eat French food and I wasn't going to tell them.In my memory, I should have lived in the China-Japan Friendship Hospital once.It was when I was in elementary school, and I was walking around my newly built house barefoot, and suddenly I felt a tingling pain in my feet.I looked down and saw that a thick foreign nail connected to the wooden board had passed through the sole of my foot, and its slightly reddish tip was exposed outside the instep of my foot.I clearly remember that I said a word, shit.Then he sat on the ground calmly and called my mother.Time passed quickly in my memory, and it was ten o'clock in five minutes.I don't know why Shi Lei is so punctual, she has never been a punctual person.She used to be either early or late.Maybe she wants to get along with me again through this change.I gritted my teeth and struggled through the last 5 minutes looking around.But 5 minutes passed, and Shi Lei still didn't show up.I thought maybe my phone was a few minutes faster than hers, so I waited a few more minutes.But she hasn't come yet.I had to call her, but she hung up on me.I don't know what happened to her.I was thinking about what to do when I received a text message from Shi Lei on my cell phone.She said: Bao Beining, I might be late for a while.In this way, you wait for me for another 5 minutes.If I haven't arrived after 5 minutes, don't wait for me.Let's meet again another day.All I can say is, yes.

That day I stood at the gate of the China-Japan Friendship Hospital and waited for Shi Lei for another 5 minutes, but she didn’t show up, so I sent her a text message saying, “If you have something to do, don’t come here, let’s make an appointment another day, and I’m leaving.After texting, I took a taxi and headed home.What made me feel a little strange was that the text message I received from Shi Lei in the taxi was only two words, "goodbye".I caught a cold when I got home, and I took a lot of medicine, but it didn't get better.Then I had to get an injection.When my cold gets better, my vacation is over.And Shi Lei never called me.I called her before returning to Guangzhou, but no one answered.I had no choice but to send her a text message saying that I have returned to Guangzhou and I will treat her to dinner when I am free next year.Her text message was received after I had already returned to Guangzhou.She said: Hehe, you just need to remember to owe me a meal.

After returning to Guangzhou, I started busy work again.Half a year passed in a blink of an eye, and it was summer again.Our magazine owner suddenly wanted to do something else, so each of us lost his job after receiving an extra month's salary.At this time, a friend who works in a book company in Beijing called me and said that my first and second novels had been successfully published and were selling well.He predicted that if I could write a third book, it would be popular all over the country.He also said that as long as I agree to write the third book, he can advance me 2 yuan for the manuscript fee, and I can go to a writer's resort newly built by the company in Yunnan to write my new novel.All consumption in the resort can be signed.Faced with such a generous offer, I agreed to him without hesitation.After hanging up the phone, I went to Yunnan alone and stayed in the writer's resort in Lijiang.

The people who live here are all writers, but I have nothing in common with them.I sleep until I wake up naturally every day, and then go for a walk in the street, and come back to eat when I am hungry. I only write a thousand words a day, and I don’t write a single word.Soon I fell in love with this decadent life, and the sunshine in Yunnan made me feel comfortable all over my body.Later, besides writing, I had another hobby.That is to play a super mentally retarded game similar to moving boxes. This game is said to be compiled by a computer genius who graduated from Tsinghua University.The biggest feature of this game is boredom. It has more than 1 levels. You have to go through each level. If you fail to pass the level, you can continue to break through from the level you failed.I personally think that this game may not be able to pass the level after playing for a lifetime, because it has too many levels.I forget to sleep and eat every day, as long as I play this game, I can't even guarantee a thousand words.If I don't say it, I don't think anyone will know why I like playing this game.Whenever I play this game and pass a level, a girl's voice will be simulated in the game and say to me sweetly: "Congratulations, you have passed the level." Whenever I hear this sentence, I will think of The scene when Mengyang told me this sentence in the National People's Congress Theater.At that time, Mengyang just recognized that I was the one who ran around the sports field with her wearing a donkey's head. At that time, she probably hadn't fallen in love with me, and I just simply liked her smile.

The novel should have been finished in three months, but because I was obsessed with the game, I barely finished it in six months.And I have reached level [-] in this game.In other words, I heard [-] sentences: "Congratulations, you passed the test."I have to hear at least one sentence every day, otherwise I am likely to suffer from insomnia. Once I suffer from insomnia, I will get up from bed to play this game, pass a level, and then lie down and go back to sleep.When winter came again, I passed the electronic version of the novel to my friend, and he was very satisfied after reading it.He said that it will be released in the first year, and if it becomes popular, he hopes that I will go to Beijing to sign books in the next year.During the year that is about to pass, I have had occasional contact with Shi Lei, and usually after a while, she would send me a text message asking me how I am doing recently.I said it was fine.Then I asked her how are you doing.She would say, huh, I'm doing pretty well.After sending two messages to each other in this way, it will take a long time to receive the same greeting message.I remember that Shi Lei only called me once, when I just arrived in Yunnan.On the phone, she said a lot to me, rambling.We talked about entertainment news, the Bush administration, and whether there are aliens on Mars.In short, we talked on the phone for more than two hours that time. If my mobile phone hadn't run out of battery, maybe we would have continued to talk.In that phone call, Shi Lei seemed to want to talk to me about all the topics she knew. It was the longest phone call between us that didn't mention love. It was a purely friendly chat for me. feels good.But after that call, we have been in intermittent text messages.

I didn't go home this New Year, and I was playing that long game alone in the room of Yunnan Writer's Resort.On the day of New Year's Eve, I received a text message from Shi Lei's New Year greetings.I told her that I was in Yunnan and didn't go home, so the meal owed to her had to be postponed, and she generously said it didn't matter.She said that as long as I am healthy, she will be relieved.After sending text messages with Shi Lei, I continued to play that game, and I have already played more than 400 levels.But this level played on the night of the New Year's Eve was particularly sad.I've been playing for a day and it still hasn't passed.I insisted on fighting, but I did not eat.I finally passed the level before the clock struck midnight, and then I heard a girl's voice, and she said to me sweetly: "Congratulations, you have passed the level." When I heard this sentence, I inevitably thought of Mengyang.I lost touch with her forever.Now even if I fly back to Beijing, I can't find her anymore.Because she should have graduated for half a year.I can no longer meet her on the campus of Renmin University of China. I don't know where to find her, and I feel sudden sadness.

(End of this chapter)