Unrequited Love

Luo Zhi spent a whole day reading the introduction to the law in the library, and the blue veins in her forehead were so dull that she received a text message from Jiang Baili: "Speaking of treats, is it still valid today?"

In fact, two days have passed since the last exam of the professional course. Jiang Baili missed the appointment twice in a row, each time she disappeared mysteriously, but sent a text message asking for another day. Luo Zhi reluctantly changed Haidilao's reserved seats repeatedly.

"Well, it still works, so let's tonight. If you dare to break your appointment, just wait for the cake and birthday peach. I will burn it for you every July 15th."

When the two of them were about to reach the gate of Haidilao, Jiang Baili's cell phone rang. She glanced down at the screen, quickly glanced at Luo Zhi, turned her head a little embarrassed, and answered softly: "Hello? Hello?"

Luo Zhi smiled: "I'll go in first, it's too noisy inside, you can come in and find me after calling outside."

Haidilao’s waiters are as enthusiastic as ever, with bright and sincere smiles, without any stylized feeling. The smiles of the waiters elsewhere make you think they are very polite, but the smiles of the waiters here surprise you-why are they so happy?

Her ice-bound heart moved a little bit, melted into crushed ice by the fragrance of the hot pot, and now seeing such vivid smiling faces, she finally felt that her heart began to beat slowly and tentatively .

It's over.

Put away old textbooks, clean the room, buy tickets, and then go to see Tiffany and Jake, who have not seen me for half a month, translate all the part-time materials, complete the missing animation updates, and buy them in the New Year but have not had time to remove them. Feng's "Historical Research" can finally be read a little bit...

What a fulfilling life seems to be easily spliced ​​with the days before meeting Sheng Huainan without any trace. The tossing and turning of the middle half a year has never happened.

Many things can be figured out and seen through, but they cannot be put down or forgotten.

So even if she can't let it go, she can't forget, she can stop mentioning it, and no longer think about it.

The waiters who walked to and fro, as well as the young man shaking kung fu noodles in the aisle, the boiling sound of the hot pot, the swelling heat, the laughter surging like a tide, and the spicy and greasy fireworks in the air. aroma.

Luo Zhi's smile enlarged a little.

The naked poverty and humbleness experienced by the simple boyhood can still be passed by gritted teeth, because I look forward to the "better" in the future, knowing that I can become stronger, and stride across the obstacles. However, at this moment, the slowly flowing acidity on the Mind Shoal can only be neutralized by time.

The unwillingness of love is a reality that she cannot change no matter how hard she tries to become "better".

However, Luo Zhi knew that as long as he was still alive in the lively world, even if he felt only exaggerated heat in the crowd of people sitting in the crowd, it would eventually evaporate the memory over time.

She was in a daze. The waiter came over and asked if she wanted to order. She told the other party that she was waiting for someone.

While talking, someone knocked on the desktop. Luo Zhi only saw the silver ring on the finger that knocked on the table. Knowing that Jiang Baili was back, he threw to her without looking up: "Slowly die, just come back and order food quickly."

"Luo Zhi..." Jiang Baili stopped talking.

She looked up suspiciously and saw Jiang Baili, who was flushed with her neck retracted into the down jacket, and Gu Zhiye, who was wearing a black coat behind her and smiling very gently.

Luo Zhi thought for two seconds, then hesitated and said, "Why don't you be too anxious about it... I said that I can't find foreign aid or take it away. You really want to eat me, it's too low quality!" "

The man behind smiled brightly and seemed to be very happy: "I'll take this meal, you two let go of your belly to eat, how about?"

Luo Zhi gently squeezed the shy Jiang Baili's face, smiled at Gu Zhiye, and said, "I've seen it a long time ago, you are a good person."

"I think your complexion is getting better and better."

Luo Zhi raised her head when she heard the words, and accidentally poured all the vegetables in the bamboo basket into the pot, splashing her own face.

"Is it all right?" Belle hurriedly handed over the disinfected towel on the table. Luo Zhi took it and gently wiped her face a few times: "It's okay, just splash a few drops."

She used chopsticks to clamp the surplus vegetables in the spicy pot into the creamy white bone soup pot, and laughed: "Maybe because I have finished the exam, of course I am in a good mood."

The meal was a bit boring, but fortunately the noisy background sound around made the silence seem less embarrassing. The behavior of eating hot pot itself was full of participation. Faced with the steaming water, the three of them were still very happy.

Gu Zhiye hardly ate much, and kept helping them order various dishes into the hot pot. Belle remembered to ask the other party halfway through the meal: "Didn't you say you didn't eat? Why didn't you eat?"

"Not very hungry."

"Then why..." Why do you have to come over? She was halfway through, and stopped, "It's better to eat, you will be hungry before going to bed."

"Also."

Belle pulled out a lot of vegetables from the bone soup pot, noticed Luo Zhi's smiling eyes, and said embarrassingly to Gu Zhiye: "Well, I remember you said that you don't eat spicy food, right?"

"Well, you still remember."

Luo Zhi lowered his head and smiled brighter. Feeling Belle kicking herself under the table, he quickly stood up and said, "I'm going to the bathroom."

When she was smiling with twelve white teeth in the bathroom mirror, a figure jumped out from behind and strangled her neck severely: "You want to die, don't you? Are you bored with life? Are you willing to die, I am willing to bury it, believe it or not?"

Through the mirror, Luo Zhi saw the awkward expression on Jiang Baili's face behind him, and his smile continued to deepen: "It doesn't matter whether I die or not. Anyway, I know, you must be reluctant to die."

Belle let go of her, leaned in front of the mirror and sighed: "It's not what you think."

Luo Zhi stopped smiling, "I didn't think about anything, but it was funny that you looked nervous."

Belle lowered her head embarrassedly and put the broken hair behind her ears: "Actually, I don't know what it looks like. It's just that, Luo Zhi, if Jay Chou was eating with us now, I would also blush. It doesn't matter if you like it or not, I mean..."

Jiang Baili was still struggling with her words, Luo Zhi touched her head knowingly, and said, "Uncle Gu is more handsome than Jay Chou, eh?"

Belle immediately raised her head and bared her teeth. Luo Zhi thought she was going to seek justice for Jay Chou, but she didn't expect her to shout with her teeth and claws: "What Uncle Gu?! Where is he so old?!"

Luo Zhi smiled. Love is still some distance away from love. But, it seems, at least a little like it.

The waiter in the bathroom who was in charge of delivering hand towels to customers kept his head down and smiled. When Belle yelled to the top, she realized that she had become a scene of the bathroom and hurriedly pulled Luo Zhi and ran out the door.

Gu Zhiye drove them back to school and, without accident, blocked Xizhimen. "This bridge at Xizhimen..." Gu Zhiye said halfway, and laughed helplessly.

"I heard that no one doesn't complain about this bridge. Why on earth? The bridge is more blocked than it is not built?" Belle slumped on Luo Zhi.

"I heard it was designed because of this bridge, and it looks like a Chinese knot from the air." Luo Zhi said.

Belle slapped and poked Luo Zhi: "Hey, was this bridge invested by China Unicom?"

This extremely boring joke made Gu Zhiye laugh. Luo Zhi saw the warmth of the man’s eye corners and brows through the reverse mirror in front of him. That was the grace and charm that Sheng Huainan and Gobi could not have. There is a kind of inexplicable steadiness and danger, intertwined, and stretched into the right arc of his mouth.

Gu Zhiye said that it was night, worried about insecurity, and insisted on sending Luo Zhi and Belle to the dormitory. When passing by the supermarket, Belle secretly murmured to Luo Zhi, "I run out of sanitary napkins," and hurried in, leaving Gu Zhiye who was confused and Luo Zhi who was slow to react, standing in place.

"What did she do?"

"A very important thing." Luo Zhi's mouth cramped.

"Belle is really interesting."

Luo Zhi paused, then slowly said, "Yes, a very good girl."

She missed the hot pot restaurant a little, because the silence at the moment was too harsh. When Jiang Baili was away, Gu Zhiye stopped chatting with topics, took out his mobile phone and started watching. Luo Zhi stood for a while, yawned, and tilted his head to the side facing away from Gu Zhiye.

She saw Sheng Huainan, walked leisurely with her hands in the garden, passed the school hospital, approached the entrance of the supermarket step by step, and then inadvertently raised her eyes and caught a glimpse of herself and Gu Zhiye standing side by side here.

Luo Zhi watched him approaching all the way, the man casually blended into the heavy night, and the white breath exhaling from his mouth made him look like a slowing train. She was amused by her own thoughts, and suddenly discovered that Dongmen Supermarket was the place where she muster the courage to rush to help him and Xu Riqing for the first time.

Sheng Huainan's eyes were filled with surprise. He stopped for a second and walked over generously, nodded and said, "Ms. Gu." Then he turned around and asked her, "Why are you here?"

The voice is cordial and natural, even with a bit of artificial enthusiasm and familiarity.

Very much like him, but very different from him.

Although Luo Zhi was already familiar with it, every time he met Sheng Huainan again after an embarrassing fallout, the other party would be able to sing and dance to the stage—but this time it was a bit too much.

Actually, I am not the same. Even if the corners of the mouth are sour and drooping, desperate efforts will make it rise to the maximum arc. You can close the door and gnash your teeth, hide and gnash your teeth, and you can only laugh in front of you.

Should I be thankful that I and him have always been the same kind.

"I'll wait for someone." Luo Zhi also smiled politely.

"Oh, wait with Mr. Gu?"

Gu Zhiye couldn't help but smile, and said, "Yes, we are the same person." He finally laughed halfway through the conversation and asked: "Luo Zhi, this student union cadre is your male friend?"

Luo Zhi and Sheng Huainan said at the same time: "No." "Not yet."

What does "not yet" mean? Luo Zhi's eyes rounded and looked at him, Sheng Huainan's expression did not deliberately play tricks on her, on the contrary, it was a little bit of vigor.

She was completely angered.

Luo Zhi lowered his face, trying to adjust his breathing so that the ups and downs in his chest could calm down. She turned her head and didn't speak, but Gu Zhiye didn't even make it out.

Sheng Huainan stood for half a minute, and the silence of the three of them was far more difficult than that of the two. When he spoke again, his voice was slightly muted: "I have something to do at night, then I will leave."

"Goodbye." Luo Zhi nodded goodbye.

"It feels different from the first time I saw you."

Luo Zhi remembered the overbearing and childish Sheng Huainan who had warned him not to be a female college student that day. He was a little sad and sighed, only to see the unpredictable smile on Gu Zhiye's face.

"I said, it feels like you have become different." He repeated.

"Maybe a little thinner at the reception," she said lightly.

Gu Zhiye was silent for a while: "This is very cold."

For a long time, Jiang Baili still did not come out. He lowered his head and lit a cigarette, and said vaguely: "You seem to be very wary of me."

"Where is it. But the two of us don't want to make friends, we want to do so much." She laughed.

"Belle's best friend, of course, should be my friend."

Such a posture and stance complicated Luo Zhi's mood. She bowed her head and tidied the pockets of her coat and said solemnly: "Although I know this is nonsense, I still have to say, please treat her kindly, even if you don't want to Go after her."

"What if I am?"

"Then you must treat her sincerely. I hope you are a good person."

"Say as if you don't believe I am a good person at all."

"Because I really don't believe it."

"Why? Intuition?" Gu Zhiye laughed nonchalantly.

Luo Zhi raised his head and looked at him calmly: "Just by the way you approached me when we first met."