Outside the cafe, Yunli easily recognized Yin Yunyi sitting at the outdoor table. She was wearing a light green floral dress, almond eyes and red lips, long hair reaching her waist, and she was writing in a notebook with her head down.
Standing beside him was a slender man with Western facial features, light hair and eye color, and wearing a black casual jacket. He had just pulled out his chair and sat down, smiling and saying something to Yin Yunyi, when he suddenly raised his head and noticed Yunli's gaze.
The man stood up again and walked to Yunli on his own initiative.
Yin Yunyi noticed his movements and stood up to follow the man.
The man smiled: "Are you Yun Ye's sister?"
Yunli nodded.
"Hello, I am Yun Yi's brother, and my name is Yin Yucheng." Yin Yucheng pulled out a chair for Yunli, and Yin Yunyi followed him and shyly called out: "Hello, sister."
Yunli hadn't met a stranger for a while. She showed a shy smile, briefly introduced herself, and put Yunye's gift on the table.
Yunli: "Yunye asked me to bring this here."
Yin Yucheng: "I need you to make a special trip."
"It's okay, it's just next to my company."
Yin Yunyi stared at the box for a long time and smiled sincerely: "Yunye said that it took a long time for the classmates to make the gift. I was afraid that it would be damaged, so I asked my sister to help bring it over. Thank you."
Yunli suspected that she heard it wrong: "Oh... did the classmates in the class do it together?"
Yin Yunyi nodded without thinking.
"What's wrong?" Yin Yucheng asked keenly.
Yunli hid the embarrassment on her face and shook her head.
She really overestimated Yun Ye, and even gave her a gift without even daring to admit that she had prepared it for herself.
Yin Yucheng did not force Yunli to stay for dinner, but insisted on sending her back.
It's just a matter of steps.
Yunli was not good at refusing, so she nodded.
"Brother will take you to the car?" Yin Yucheng picked up the gift box and touched Yin Yunyi's head, "Wait here with your sister."
After finishing speaking, he smiled gently at Yunli.
The car parked in the parking lot of the shopping mall. Yin Yucheng drove to the edge of where they were. After Yunli got in the car, he drove downstairs in a few minutes.
Before getting off the car, Yin Yucheng asked her: "I heard Yun Yi say that you are from Nanjing University of Technology?"
Yunli nodded.
"I'm also from Nanjing University of Technology. I graduated the year before last."
Yunye mentioned it before, and Yunli was not too surprised.
Yin Yucheng got out of the car, walked to the passenger side and opened the door for Yunli.
"Thank you for bringing the gift. Go to bed early." Yin Yucheng said warmly.
Yun Li stood there, the passenger window slowly rolled down, Yin Yucheng nodded towards her, his eyes stayed on her for several seconds before driving out of the community.
Finally solved the matter.
A big stone fell in her heart. Since yesterday, Yunli had been worried whether this meeting would ruin Yunye's first pregnancy. Fortunately, everything went well.
The smell of tobacco floated in the evening wind, and Yunli turned around alertly. The shadows of the trees were sparse, and a thin fire was looming in the shelter, where a tall and thin figure was leaning.
The figure moved, Yunli heard the sound of shoes stepping on the branches, and the street lights illuminated his features.
Yunli couldn't believe her eyes: "Why are you downstairs in my house?"
Fu Shize didn't answer directly and said calmly: "I called you."
Yunli looked at her phone. Fu Shize had indeed called her twice more than half an hour ago, but she didn't receive them.
The unfamiliar number displayed on the screen was an unsolicited call from him, which Yunli found strange.
She arched her eyebrows and said, "There was something that happened just now, but I didn't receive it. Have you been waiting here?"
Fu Shize didn't answer. Looking down, Yunli saw that he had her cashmere scarf tied around his neck, covering part of his chin, and he was holding a hollow pattern handbag in his hand, which contained several boxes of small cakes.
Yunli's heart moved and she raised her eyes to look at Fu Shize: "That scarf..."
"Give it back to you."
Caught off guard, Fu Shi pulled off the scarf around his neck and threw it to Yunli. She barely caught it, and the smell of tobacco hit her face.
Yunli felt his displeasure.
I thought he might have an idea. Those small cakes were for her. Seeing his indifferent face, Yunli was temporarily disillusioned.
He eagerly returned it to her.
It seems that he doesn't want to have anything to do with it.
She was a little nervous: "You can wear it..."
"No." Fu Shize: "Thank you for the scarf."
After finishing speaking, he walked away.
Yunli stood there in a daze for a while, her heart heavy. When she opened the door, there was a bang, as if something was thrown into the iron trash can.
After returning to the apartment, Yunli took a while to calm down.
Uneasiness spread in her heart. Yunli tried to distract herself. She washed a sweet potato and threw it into the oven. When the orange light came on, she stared at the dents on the purple-red surface of the sweet potato in trance.
He took the initiative to find her, but not because he liked her.
He gave her the scarf, and he didn't know if it was her imagination, but there was a hint of impatience in his movements.
Thinking of his indifferent attitude just now, Yunli's mood fell to the bottom.
She had to think that he might have thought she was trouble all along.
I came to her just now, maybe because I wanted to reject her again.
The oven was not closed tightly, and the beeping alarm brought Yunli back to reality.
Yunli was eager to free herself from this negative mood. She turned on her computer and continued editing dynamic promotional videos. She hadn't noticed before, but the video recorded at EAW recorded the whole process of Fu Shize's rejection of her, and she watched it several times.
The room was extremely quiet.
Yunli turned off the video. The depression in her heart made her not intend to use any of the material in the middle.
It wasn't until three o'clock in the morning that Yunli finished editing the short film for EAW's dynamic promotion. In the next few days, she only needed to fix the details and finalize it after confirming it with He Jiameng.
After the bedtime, Yunli didn't feel sleepy. Looking out the window, there was a thin layer of frost on the tree trunks due to the cold wave. She sat back down and dug out the materials she had made by hand before.
Following tutorials on the Internet, she spent the whole night putting together a cardboard drone and simply colored it with paint. The video was randomly cropped and only included copywriting at the beginning and end.
—"...I plan to give this handmade drone to a very important person."
So I uploaded this handicraft video to Station E.
The last meeting with Fu Shize was almost the most unsatisfactory one in this period of time. In the next few days, Yunli consciously didn't look for him again.
The video produced by the drone was released for a few days, and the response was mediocre. However, Chen Lirong forwarded the video to her. Yunli was not surprised by this. She is now considered a well-known UP host on Station E, and most of the people she knows Everyone knows about this.
Since the two of them became friends, Chen Lirong seemed to have disappeared. He has not spoken to Yunli or posted on Moments.
Yunli: [?]
Chen Lirong: [Are you planning to give this to fsz? [laughing evilly][laughing evilly]]
Yunli felt that this person's words were quite vulgar, so she didn't plan to reply. An hour or two later, Chen Lirong sent another message: [You can't give him this. This is why fsz suspended school.]
Yunli: [What do you mean?]
Chen Lirong: [Say it face to face [laughing evilly] [laughing evilly]]
At the same time, Chen Lirong also sent her a lot of photos of Fu Shize, almost all of them secretly taken from behind, and without exception, there was another boy in them.
Chen Lirong: [He is really gay, little sister, don’t be deceived [laughing evilly] [laughing evilly]. I can tell you what happened to him face to face.]
Yunli: [Please don’t spread rumors.]
Yunli: [No need.]
Yunli felt that Chen Lirong's words gave people goosebumps. After she retorted, the other party did not reply again.
I haven't seen Fu Shize for several days. After Yunli stopped taking the initiative, the contact between the two of them became zero.
Yunli was a little frustrated.
Fu Zhengchu sent another invitation to play in the small group he created before. This time, without waiting for Yunli's reply, Fu Shize directly replied: "I'm not going."]
Not even a reason was given.
Fu Zhengchu: [? ? ?]
Fu Zhengchu: [Uncle, if you are so unsociable, I will kick you out.]
An hour later, when Yunli looked again, she and Fu Zhengchu were the only two people left in the group.
Yunli didn't expect Fu Zhengchu to be so courageous.
After arriving at the company, Yunli went to the break room many times to get water, but she never saw the figure she had been looking forward to for a long time. After hesitating on his seat for a long time, Yunli went to the lounge to make a cup of coffee.
Fu Shize said before that she didn't need to knock on the door.
Yunli didn't have the courage, so she knocked on the door, but no one answered. She opened the door and went in. There was no light in the room, and there was a damp smell in the air. It was estimated that no one had been there for a few days.
Taking the coffee back to the lounge, Yunli took a sip. It tasted bitter in her mouth, so she added a few packets of sugar.
She suddenly thought that he was not avoiding her.
He Jiameng asked her to watch the finished promotional video on WeChat. Yunli copied the video to a mobile hard drive in advance and played it on He Jiameng's seat.
This short film of more than one minute consists of seven scenes, all of which use VR equipment to try different behaviors. Yunli gave each scene a meaning and formed the theme of the entire clip.
He Jiameng praised him repeatedly while watching, but Yunli was a little absent-minded.
"This theme is great, I'm going to try to attack the boss, nothing is impossible in the world!" He Jiameng made a victory gesture, "Not to mention that even Fu Shize is in bloom. "
Yunli paused while pressing the play button, then raised her head to look at He Jiameng: "Is the iron tree blooming?"
"Yesterday the boss showed me several stores and asked me what places girls generally like. I thought he had someone in mind. My heart was broken at the time." He Jiameng said with a smile: "Later I asked the boss for a long time, and he It was said that Fu Shize asked him where he was dating. Before that, I had always thought that he was frigid. But even he was enlightened, so why hasn’t the boss been enlightened... "
Yunli didn't listen to the second half of He Jiameng's words. She slid her thumb on her index finger and asked carefully, holding back the trembling: "What kind of girl would he like if he is so cold?"
"Hey, I don't know either. The boss just said it's a girl I've known for many years."
He Jiameng also said a lot of things, but Yunli felt instantly deaf, and couldn't even hear in her right ear.
She was stunned.
impossible
"Teacher Xianyun, Teacher Xianyun?"
He Jiameng's facial features reappeared in the out-of-focus field of vision, and her voice seemed to come from another space: "Just post this version of the video."
"Oh, okay." Yunli returned to her seat like a zombie, feeling that all the energy in her body was drained, leaving only the words He Jiameng just said repeatedly in her ears.
The tip of my nose felt sour, and my vision gradually became blurry.
Reason told her that she should go and verify this matter first. She couldn't be so frustrated for no apparent reason.
Yunli opened the chat interface between the two of them, and what caught her eye was still the words "No". She slides up until she reaches the top, almost a one-way invitation, and his response is off-screen.
Holding her last glimmer of hope, she typed word by word [I heard you dated a girl?], before clicking send, his fingers froze.
What answers does she want.
Confirmed, what next
Can you leave yourself some dignity
Yes, it turned out to be such a long pursuit.
She had long since exhausted her courage.
Before today, she could still imagine that one day Fu Shize would fall in love with her. Even just now, she still held out hope, thinking she had seen the light.
The moment when the fantasy was shattered, when facing the reality, I discovered -
From beginning to end, it was all her wishful thinking.
[You are a very good person, thank you for taking care of me all the time.]
[Maybe I am not qualified to say these words, but I hope you can be kind to yourself. You are the best person I have ever met and you deserve the best.]
[I heard that you met someone you like.]
[Thank you for showing up.]
[I won't bother you anymore.]
Yunli typed out these sentences with red eyes and deleted them one by one.
In the end, what's the point of saying this
Everything became ridiculous.
He probably doesn't want to see it at all.
He didn't want her to disturb his life.
Yunli lay on the table, tears falling on the screen of her mobile phone. She could no longer see his profile picture clearly, nor could she see the name she had noted for him. She held back her sobs and clicked on the three dots in the upper right corner. .
Then, clicked Delete.
It was the bravest attempt she had ever made.
She was obviously a person who was uncomfortable talking to strangers. She didn't dare to call strangers, and she didn't dare to talk to friends in the car just because of the driver's presence. She did so many impossible things for him.
But no matter how much she does, she is just a passerby.
There was no way she could remain friends with him.
She didn't even want to shamelessly destroy other people's feelings when she knew he had someone in his heart.
Goodbye then.
My favorite person.
After a long pause, Yunli raised his head.
While editing the copy for this video recorded with Fu Shize, Yunli realized—
This video with the theme of "trying" carries her competition and unrealistic fantasies during this period. When it was released, her bravest attempt also ended.