The night enveloped the bustling square, and the darkness that should have prevailed was weakened by the clusters of lights connected together.
The noise piled up under the lit red lights, it was very lively. The wind blew the floating light bulbs, making them sway for a while, as if to disperse the light in the night and turn the night into day.
The white mist was shattered and spat out from the mouth, and then swallowed up by the wind.
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Xu Shiyue had never felt her heart beat so fast before. Her eyes were fixed on the back of the person she was holding.
Time seemed to be slowed down at this moment, and the long hair of the man draped over his back swayed slightly in her sight.
The noisy surroundings suddenly became quiet. In the bright light, Xu Shiyue saw Lu Shizhen's face turning around and looking at her.
The stacked and staggered lights generously cast the most beautiful light on this person's face, making every strand of her hair glow.
The beautiful brow peak was connected to the straight nose, the light drew the curve, and every stroke fell in a place that Xu Shiyue was familiar with.
The passing traffic brought a cool breeze, which brushed Xu Shiyue's messy long hair across her face.
On this winter night when the air was almost stagnant, she seemed to smell the scent of roses again.
For a moment, Xu Shiyue's heart almost stopped.
She, she grabbed Lu Shizhen.
She is not dead.
She is not dead...
She knew she wouldn't die...
Xu Shiyue's eyelashes widened and even her breathing trembled slightly.
She couldn't wait to bring this lost person back to her side, lock him up, and never let him leave her again, but then she heard a question in her ear: "Who are you?!"
The voice rose with a strange sharpness, and the question was full of rejection and dissatisfaction.
Lu Shizhen frowned, disgust clearly written on her face.
Xu Shiyue was stunned for a moment.
And the person with a frown in sight gradually changed into a different appearance.
Another completely unfamiliar look.
Xu Shiyue couldn't believe what she saw, and turned around to look for the small yellow glowing ball with a string that she had been chasing all the way.
But the small ball emitting yellow light in the dark was just a specially shaped fluorescent stick in this person's hand.
The red light that blocked pedestrians turned green, and the person who had been impatient for a long time raised his foot and walked forward, brushing against Xu Shiyue's shoulder.
Various lights swayed in her sight, and a fact that made her collapse was placed before her.
Many people around were holding yellow glow sticks like this one.
Even at the stall she just passed by, someone was selling this thing.
The bustling crowd was like the sea with ripples, and she was like a small boat overturned in it.
Isolated and helpless, the life-saving straw she thought she had grasped turned out to be just an illusion of the waves hitting her.
She was so relentless in her pursuit that she didn't know at which second she had targeted the wrong person.
how so…
How could this be possible...
The crowded and flickering lights were divided and overlapped into hexagons in his slightly stunned eyes, monotonously and crowdedly filling Xu Shiyue's sight.
She couldn't believe that the light she had just seen was just a small glow stick, and the person she caught was getting more and more impatient: "Hey, who are you? Let me go! Do you hear me? If you don't let me go, I'll call the police!"
The man was about to open his phone to call the police, but was stopped by an arm that stretched out: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, my friend got the wrong person, I'm sorry, I'm really sorry."
Shen Yanxing chased Xu Shiyue all the way, and finally caught up with her. Before things got worse, he tried to persuade her: "Shiyue, please let go."
Perhaps because he heard a familiar voice, Xu Shiyue's empty eyes reacted a little, and he looked up and murmured, "She is not Lu Shizhen."
Shen Yanxing didn't know what Xu Shiyue had seen just now that made her say Lu Shizhen's name, but the current situation did indicate that she had seen the wrong person just now: "Yes, she is not Lu Shizhen."
The winter wind shook off the snow on the dead branches and blew over coldly.
The girl's eyelashes seemed to be unable to bear the weight and shook several times as the snowflakes fell.
The green light flashed twice at the busy intersection, and the countdown numbers popped up.
In these last few seconds, Xu Shiyue released her hand that was tightly clasped around the passerby's shoulder.
It should be said that her hands fell down weakly.
"How could it not be..." Xu Shiyue's voice was soft and full of annoyance, and any passing wind could blow them away.
The new owner of the Xu family, who had carved out a path in the business world with her ruthless determination, bent her back, and her messy long hair fell from her shoulders as her lowered head fell, as if something had shattered silently.
Shen Yanxing had never seen Xu Shiyue like this before. She was fragile and empty, like a soulless doll in a display window that was meticulously carved.
She felt as if her heart was being pinched, and reluctantly said in comfort: "Shiyue, it's so dark around here, it's possible that you saw it wrong."
Xu Shiyue shook her head, with an indescribable stubbornness in her voice: "I can't be wrong."
Now that things have come to this, Shen Yanxing will not argue with Xu Shiyue.
She knew that Lu Shizhen was the only stubborn person Xu Shiyue was holding back at the moment. Since she couldn't persuade him, she decided to use this as a roundabout way: "Okay, it's late now, almost twelve o'clock, we have to go back. Isn't Yuanzi alone at home?"
When these words were heard, Xu Shiyue immediately raised his head.
She seemed to suddenly remember something, and nodded as if she had returned to life: "Yes, I have to go home."
Lu Shizhen is still waiting for her to come back home...
Xu Shiyue's car had already stopped at the side of the square, and Shen Yanxing helped her get into the car.
As the night deepened, the lights on both sides of the road became brighter, jumping into the car and illuminating Xu Shiyue's face in flickering light.
The light reflected from the glass made her cold, white skin look as delicate as porcelain, softly outlining her profile and adding a highlight to the tip of her straight nose.
It seems that the word "beautiful" alone is not enough to describe Xu Shiyue's beauty at this moment.
In the dead silence of the carriage, she looked more like a beautiful but boring doll leaning against a display window.
He was in a daze, with his crow-feather-like eyelashes drooping low.
She looked as if she was filled with great sorrow, yet she could not cry.
.
The long night finally came to an end, and the first golden ray of sunlight broke through the sky.
After the seventh day, Lu Shizhen will be cremated and buried.
For someone who just turned 18, this incident sounds particularly cruel.
Compared to the wailing sounds coming from the memorial hall next door, Lu Shizhen's side seemed unusually deserted.
But the person is no longer here. What’s the point of having such excitement and such heart-wrenching crying when no one can hear the sadness
Xu Shiyue stood closest to Lu Shizhen's coffin, looking down and thinking.
Contrary to the white of death, red filled her sight, surrounding the sleeping girl.
Everyone in the family knows that Lu Shizhen likes roses.
But winter roses are like gold. It takes some effort to bring them to Lu Shizhen in the most perfect condition, but this is not a problem for Xu Shiyue.
As long as there were roses blooming somewhere, she would bring them.
Be it money, antiques, gems, or the pearl bracelet wrapped around her wrist, she could just throw it away.
The layers of petals are clustered together, rich and warm.
The bright rose leaned against Lu Shizhen's body, as if it was blooming from her shriveled and withered body.
Really beautiful.
Xu Shiyue just looked at Lu Shizhen's body, which was being decorated by the undertaker with all his efforts, and didn't mind touching this cruel corpse at all.
The girl's slender fingers passed over the scattered long hair, carefully and gently tidying it up, just like she did when they were together in the past.
These days Xu Shiyue always felt that Lu Shizhen was just asleep.
Lu Shizhen could open her eyes at any second, just like the day she came home and this man suddenly jumped out from the TV, smiled proudly and ostentatiously at her, and said, "I was kidding you! How about it, are you scared by me?"
But…
No matter how long the farewell lasts, the moment of cremation finally comes.
The staff from the funeral home came over and pushed Lu Shizhen's coffin away, and Cheng Meiyan and others couldn't stop crying.
That crying sound was not as loud as the tearing howl that came from next door just now, but the buzzing of flies seemed to come from the ground under his feet.
The strong emotions kept hitting Xu Shiyue from under her feet and behind her, weakly and continuously, causing her bones to tremble.
But Xu Shiyue just looked at his hanging hand belatedly, not knowing how to react.
She thought Lu Shizhen would like the roses she picked for her.
After all, it was she who asked me to help take care of her roses in the beginning.
It was also she who caught herself when she was determined to die.
In that red sea of fire that stretched day and night.
No one spoke in the empty mourning room.
The huge space could not contain this sadness, even the wind was silent.
It may be fast, but the minute hand has already made more than one revolution on the dial.
When Xu Shiyue came to her senses, she had already arrived at the outer room of another room. The half-open door could not block out the heat waves inside. It seemed as if tongues of fire were about to burst out and sweep her in.
Xu Shiyue didn't like the heat so she slightly moved to the side and saw the box that they had just received yesterday being placed on the operating table by the staff and filled with things.
It was gray, as if something had turned into powder.
Xu Shiyue just stared at the box without blinking.
She seemed to realize something, but her eyes were empty.
So, she will be stuck in a place like that from now on, right
She loves freedom so much, why should she be imprisoned in this box...
The silver-white hammer reflected a warm and dull light in Xu Shiyue's pupils. It was small yet powerful.
Before Xu Shiyue knew what this thing was for, she saw the staff member raise his hammer and smash something like a bone in front of her.
Piece by piece, bit by bit.
The white gloves took the bones that had not turned into ashes and smashed them into small pieces that could be put into a box.
It's like forcing every soul that doesn't want to curl up in this box into place.
From the spine to the ribs, from the knee joints to the calf bones...
Xu Shiyue's eyelashes trembled slightly. Every hit of the hammer on her bones seemed to hit her body, and every hit connected to her heart, bursting out with unbearable pain.
How painful it would be for her.
It was such a big coffin when I went there just now, but when I came out, there was only such a small space left.
so…
So in this case, she really can't come back
The girl seemed to realize something, and the slight trembling of her eyelashes gradually became more intense.
The crow-feather-like eyelashes were like the wings of a bird, and suddenly their fluttering rhythm was disrupted, and they were hurriedly connected with many crystal lights.
Could it be that the Lu Shizhen she saw yesterday was actually her coming to say goodbye to her
She saw me, and I saw her, so I could leave peacefully and never come back... Is that right
Why do you want to leave
Why leave her alone again
Why…
Why did she think that she could leave peacefully after they met
Why should she feel at ease
How can she feel at ease if she leaves herself alone in this world!
The wind pushed the clouds on the horizon in front of the sun, blocking the windows heavily.
The soil that had withered and sprouted grass again became dark, and the sun was extinguished, like a black hole that would never light up, hanging high and despairingly in the most conspicuous position in the sky.
Living alone...
It's really lonely to live alone.
Xu Shiyue felt an unprecedented pain, as if an invisible hand had reached into her body and was trying to pull out something extremely important to her.
A huge amount of grief gathered in the throat, trying to come out, but it was all stuck in one place.
She just stared at Lu Shizhen's last appearance in this world, with nowhere to go and nowhere to vent, with only a pair of dry and red eyes left.
then,
Finally, tears flowed from Xu Shiyue's eyes.
(End of this chapter)