The bathroom was very spacious, and she kept repeating this sentence. Lin Weixia's voice was cold, and she stared at the black spot on the white wall opposite in a daze. She couldn't imagine his expression when she said this.
Lin Weixia felt Ban Sheng's body stiffen uncontrollably for a moment, and then he slowly loosened his hands around her waist.
The power that had shackled her was completely released, and the aura from his body slowly withdrew and then disappeared completely.
After Ban Sheng left, Lin Weixia was the only one left in the empty bathroom. She stood there in a daze for a while, walked to the bathroom mirror, took out two tissues, blew her nose, then crumpled them into a ball and threw them into the trash can.
In fact, what Lin Weixia said to Ban Sheng just now was not only angry words, but also a bit of confusion. With things developing to this point, she could no longer think of how to hold on.
Lin Weixia went to class as usual, went to the library to review, and went to Song Yihang's home for regular psychological treatment. Without Ban Sheng, her life was as calm as the surface of a lake, and her heart was no longer full of ups and downs, but because of him, she was no longer in turmoil.
During the call, Ban Sheng called her twice, but she hung up both times. The phone screen never lit up again afterwards.
Just once, by chance, the windows of several classrooms in the teaching building over at the engineering campus were broken by a snowstorm, and the students there had been borrowing their classrooms for classes for the whole week.
Wednesday, heavy snow.
The snow was falling fast and thick, and everything was covered in white. Lin Weixia was walking in the campus with a book in her arms. Behind her she could hear the sound of dead branches being broken by the accumulated snow. The biting wind penetrated into the cracks between her bones, and she unconsciously held her clothes tightly and quickened her pace.
There is a fifteen-minute break in a class. After half of the class, Lin Weixia closed the "Social Psychology" on the table, took the thermos cup and walked out of the classroom, intending to go to the end of the corridor to get hot water.
As she passed a row of classrooms, a classmate she knew greeted her along the way. Lin Weixia responded with a smile, and her eyes inadvertently turned and paused when she saw a familiar figure.
He was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, and was leaning lazily on the railing with his shoulders slightly lowered. He had a white cigarette in his mouth and was about to light it. Someone spoke to him, and he tilted his face, with his jawline gathered in a nonchalant arc.
Ban Sheng stood there and became the center of the topic.
Lin Weixia clenched the thermos cup in her hand, lowered her eyes, and walked past them without looking sideways. A long-legged girl came towards them, her steps were a bit lively, and she stopped when she passed Ban Sheng, and imitated him, putting her hands on the railing, tilting her head and asking him:
"Ban Sheng, are you coming to the Zero Degree Bar for the football betting at 10 o'clock today?"
At this time, a whirring sound came over, and Ban Sheng's voice sounded a little unreal. He lowered his head to light a cigarette, and with a "pop" sound, the tobacco burned. As he puffed, a wisp of white mist came out of his thin lips and floated towards Lin Weixia. He said:
"Come."
Lin Weixia unconsciously clenched her palms, her nails turned white, and her light blue veins bulged, and she walked past the two men.
Men Zi was the first one to notice Lin Weixia's abnormality. When the two of them were eating at home, Lin Weixia would usually stop eating after picking up two pieces of food with her chopsticks. She was also absent-minded when talking to her, as if she was in a daze.
"Xia Xia, what's wrong with you?" Men Zi said in a worried tone, "If you have something wrong, you will feel better if you say it out loud."
Lin Weixia hesitated for a moment and told her everything that had happened during this period. At first, Men Zi responded with "um" and "like this", but she got angry when she heard the last part:
"Did I hear you correctly? You were determined to pull him out of the quagmire he was in, but he asked you to get off?"
Lin Weixia nodded, she got up and sat on the sofa, picked up a pillow and placed it on the armrest, resting her whole cheek on it, looking listless, and asked absentmindedly:
"Am I pushing myself too hard?"
I've heard people say that after a couple breaks up, the test of love is how much one of them misses the other. Over the years, Lin Weixia found that she couldn't forget Ban Sheng, so when they met again, she tried very hard to get closer to him.
But Ban Sheng always looked unpredictable and at ease. He would get entangled with Lin Weixia and play ambiguously with her, but he would not tell everything. The two of them talked calmly.
She tried to walk into the door in Bansheng's heart, but he closed it.
Men Zi was sitting next to him. Her phone made a ding-dong sound. She opened it and understood. She turned her head to look at Lin Wei.
Xia had been feeling listless for the entire week, and suddenly came up with an idea:
"Xia Xia, there's a party this weekend, at a resort in Lin City, north of Beijing. It's about two or three hours' drive away, and it's the weekend, do you want to go? I'll take you there to relax."
Seeing that Lin Weixia was still thinking with her eyes downcast, Men Zi continued to persuade her: "Let's go, change the environment, maybe you will suddenly understand the things you are confused about."
"Okay." Lin Weixia finally agreed.
Men Zi said goodbye to Lin Weixia, and it was already dark when she walked out of her house. She put on a beautiful purple smoky makeup, a leather jacket, and a cool outfit today, preparing to attend a theme party.
Suddenly, an idea came to her mind. Men Zi took a selfie with her mobile phone, then found Ning Chao's WeChat and sent the photo to him.
There were seven or eight chat records displayed in front of the dialog box, most of which were one-way flirting conversations between Men Zi and herself:
[Sir Ning, do you want to admire your abdominal muscles? I have set them as wallpaper. ]
Ning Chao did not reply. Men Zi asked again the next day: [Have you eaten? Sir Ning?]
[Sir Ning, what kind of girls do you like? ]
It took a long time for Ning Chao to reply after five hours, and his tone was as cold and inhuman as always:
[Except for people like you, I like them all. ]
Who is Men Zi? She has a heart of diamond, the kind that won't break even if thrown on the ground. When it comes to boys, she only divides them into those she wants and those she doesn't want, and she will definitely get the ones she wants.
The more Ning Chao ignored her, the more excited she became.
After the photo was sent, Men Zi typed in the dialog box, making a clicking sound, and asked:
[Does it look good?]
It was sent out, and within five minutes the phone screen lit up, and Ning Chao replied with one word:
[ugly.]
Men Zi raised his eyebrows, snorted, muttered that it was a lack of taste, put the phone back into his pocket angrily, walked to the side of the road, hailed a car and went to the party.
As soon as she arrived at the party, Men Zi's unhappy mood disappeared. She got drunk at the party and was finally sent home by a friend.
Men Zi returned home, kicked off her high heels, rushed to the toilet and vomited violently. After vomiting, Men Zi staggered out holding the door frame and sat in front of the makeup table to remove her makeup.
After removing her makeup, Men Zi took a bath. After the hot water soaked her skin, she felt much more awake. After taking a bath, Men Zi walked into the room with half-closed eyes, threw away her slippers, and crawled to the bed.
Men Zi was sleeping in a daze, then she remembered something and jumped up from the bed. She fished out her cell phone from under the pillow, and she remembered that incident in the afternoon when she sent the photo and Ning Chao said she was ugly.
The more he thought about it, the angrier he got, so the drunk Men Zi took another photo of himself with his cell phone, then lay back on the bed and sent the photo without saying anything.
It was around eleven o'clock when Ning Chao received the message. The lights in the dormitory were about to be turned off, and the phone beside his pillow made a buzzing sound. He logged in and saw that it was another message from that stinky girl. He nonchalantly used his thumb to blur out the red dot, and his gaze paused.
It is a photo of Men Zi without makeup.
Her hair was half wet and draped softly behind her. She wore a white suspender nightgown with a crescent-shaped silver lining. Her shoulders and neck had perfect and smooth lines. She had a strong complexion, but because she had removed her makeup, her charming facial features had a softness to them.
In fact, the smoky photo of Bai Tianmen Zifa was not ugly, it’s just that the makeup was too heavy, covering up her original facial features and making her look a little distorted.
Ning Chao stared at the photo without moving his eyes away, with a flash of emotion in his eyes. His roommate called him for something, and after calling him several times, he came back to his senses, turned off the phone screen, turned around and asked:
"What's up?"
"Is there a woman living in your phone who is really attractive to you?" the companion joked.
Ning Chao laughed and cursed: "Bullshit."
By Friday, the snow finally stopped, but the snow piled up half a foot high, making it difficult to walk on the road. The city management department began to clean the streets and shovel snow.
Lin Weixia and Men Zi had no classes on Friday afternoon, so they packed up and prepared to leave at noon.
When Men Zi sent a message to Lin Weixia, Lin Weixia was putting on a scarf, tidying up her hair, and going downstairs with her luggage bag.
Men Zi wore a pair of sunglasses on her tall nose. She took the luggage bag from Lin Weixia and put it in the trunk. After Lin Weixia sat in the passenger seat, Men Zi started the car. She took out a steaming boiled corn from the brown paper bag and said:
"You haven't eaten yet?"
Men Zi took it with one hand and took a bite. It was sweet and sticky. She sighed, "Xia Xia baby, where can I find someone as considerate as you? Why don't you marry me and I'll give you my salary card."
Lin Weixia was successfully amused by Men Zi and responded, "Okay."
The car drove onto the highway, and the ginkgo trees, low mountains, and frozen lakes outside the car window receded all the way. She leaned back in her chair and chatted with Men Zi for a while. She had stayed up all night to finish her homework, and she couldn't help yawning as she felt tired. Lin Weixia took a pillow and turned to talk to Men Zi:
"Xiao Zi, I'm going to take a nap first. When you get tired of driving, I'll take over."
"Okay, take a rest. Two hours is nothing."
Lin Weixia leaned her head against the back of the chair, closed her eyes and slowly fell asleep. She had a fragmented dream. In the dream, there was a black figure that she had been chasing for a long time, but she could not see the face clearly. Every time her hand just reached that person, the figure would quickly disappear.
When Lin Weixia woke up from her dream, she found that they had entered the Xueyunchong Scenic Area.
The car zigzagged along the way, passing by independent villas and B&Bs. Not far away there was a large animal farm, and from a distance Lin Weixia saw a sheep standing by the fence.
The colorful flags are connected together as the dividing line between different areas. The altitude here is higher, the weather is colder, the snow is thicker, the mountains are covered with snow, and the blue sign is engraved with the five words "Yunchong Ski Resort".
Finally arriving at the destination, the car stopped in front of a blue and white detached homestay. Lin Weixia had just woken up and her shoulders and neck were sore, and her entire upper body was numb. She rubbed her neck, opened the door and got out, then went around to the back of the car to get her luggage.
Just as I was about to turn around, a boy in a navy blue jacket and silver-rimmed glasses came over, a faint smile appeared on the corner of his lips, and he stretched out his hand: "Let me do it."
It turned out to be Jiang Heng.
Before in the bar, he thought Lin Weixia would be bullied obediently, and later he mixed a glass of Fallen Angel for her.
Lin Weixia was about to say it was okay, but he pushed his glasses and said:
"You're welcome. Give me all yours and Men Zi's. After all, I'm a boy."
Men Zi took off his sunglasses and put them in his pocket. He took Lin Weixia's hand and led her towards the B&B, saying that he would show her some fun activities later. They started chatting and laughing. Jiang Heng followed them, carrying the two girls' luggage.
Lin Weixia had a faint smile on her face. When she was about to reach the door, her eyes inadvertently looked forward and the smile on her face froze.
The boy was wearing a black windbreaker, his shoulders slouched over the door frame, his collar open, his slender neck, and he was looking down at his phone.
Hearing the sound, Ban Sheng turned his head slightly, and his cold and indifferent face was facing her. As his neck bones rose and fell, the mole on his cheek became clearer.
Also ostentatious and misleading.
Lin Weixia stopped and saw him turn around and leave, and Ban Sheng also obviously saw her and Jiang Heng behind her, who was leaning against the door frame without moving.
Men Zi hurriedly chased after her, and when she was three meters away, he grabbed her. Seeing Lin Weixia's distant look, he was a little frightened and said:
"I swear, it was Jiang Heng who invited me here. I really didn't know he was here. This place is so remote, everyone drives by themselves. How are you going to go back alone? Let's ignore him and don't talk to him. With me here, how dare he do anything to you?"
After Men Zi's persuasion, Lin Weixia finally calmed down a little. After she calmed down, Men Zi took her back.
Lin Weixia wanted to leave just now because she was afraid that if she got entangled with Ban Sheng, she would become the person without self-esteem and principles again.
Ban Sheng was still leaning against the door. When Lin Weixia passed by him, she felt a burning gaze falling on her. She didn't even look at him and just walked past him.
After Lin Weixia went in, Ban Sheng put his cigarettes and lighter in his pocket and followed her in.
A lot of people came for this short two-day and one-night trip. The first floor was very lively. People were either playing games or drinking and playing with a group of men and women. The air was filled with a youthful atmosphere.
Ban Sheng sat on the sofa, his elbows resting on his thighs, picked up a wine glass from the table, and was about to mix a cocktail.
A boy came over and said fearlessly, "Mr. Ban, since Lin Weixia came in, you haven't taken your eyes off her. Did she look at you?"