Lin Na's bouquet was originally intended to be thrown to Sheng Jiaoyang.
As the saying goes, plans cannot keep up with changes.
In the end, the bouquet fell into Rita's hand, which made Rita so happy that the whole wedding banquet was laughing from ear to ear. It was so refreshing to help Lin Na stop the wine and drink. One of them supported several others, and none of the other bridesmaids were A place of use.
Back at the hotel, Sheng Jiaoyang thought it was funny when he recalled the scene of grabbing the bouquet. At that time, Lin Na had specifically determined her position before turning around to throw the bouquet. Unexpectedly, Rita was running around at that moment and happened to jump in front of her. Then Lin Na's bouquet was thrown over and fell straight into Rita's hand.
"I think Rita's future marriage partner must be a very strong man, but Rita herself likes tall and thin men. I still remember that in school, all she liked was that type of boy. It's a pity that No one could stand her. Everyone was afraid of quarreling with her because she was always moving but not talking."
When he said the last sentence, Sheng Jiaoyang couldn't help but feel happy.
Shen Zhining poured a glass of warm water for her and handed it to her. He also sat on the sofa with a glass of water and listened to her tell interesting stories about her youth.
Sheng Jiaoyang also rarely mentioned the past.
Until she, Lin Na, and Rita graduated from middle school, the three of them were still known as the Iron Triangle. After she and Rita transferred to school and met Lin Na, the three of them often went out together.
At first, Sheng Jiaoyang only wanted to befriend Rita because she had strange strength and wanted to find a bodyguard who could defend herself at school. Later, after getting along for a long time, she naturally regarded this girl with a bad temper but a straightforward personality as her Friend, while Rita protected her and Lin Na invisibly, she also helped Rita resolve many crises of being demerited.
Some people who had been beaten by Rita had a grudge and wanted to induce Rita to make mistakes and get demerited by the school. Once demerited three times, they would be expelled from the school unconditionally. Everyone knows that Rita is impulsive and likes to take action, so those people thought of various ways to anger Rita, such as verbal provocation, or deliberately pouring water or other things on Rita in an attempt to anger Rita. Let Rita take the initiative to beat someone in a monitored place, thereby leaving evidence for the school to demerit.
After listening to Sheng Jiaoyang and his two friends fighting against the little girls in school, Shen Zhining suddenly said: "I remember that you were quite stupid when you were young."
Sheng Jiaoyang almost spat out the sip of water she just drank. She coughed a few times, looked at Shen Zhining with incredible eyes, and asked, "Where did I go when I was a child? Everyone said I was so clever."
Shen Zhining put down the cup and stood up, leaned forward, put his hands on both sides of the sofa where she was sitting, and said, "If you don't stay, will you follow me every day?"
"I'm still young! Children like to play behind older children." Sheng Jiaoyang said confidently.
"You always climb on my bed and lift my clothes just to see the 'scar on my heart.' Later, Aunt Yang said that this is an invisible scar. Why do you still come and lift my clothes?"
Sheng Jiaoyang opened his mouth, feeling a little speechless.
Shen Zhining raised his hand, took the water glass in front of her on the round table, raised her chin, and asked her with a smile in his eyes: "Is it possible that you wanted to be close to me at that time?"
"To Brother Ning!" Sheng Jiaoyang was dumbfounded.
"Do you still remember what you said to me when I left?" Shen Zhining's expression became serious.
"What did I say to you when you left?" Sheng Jiaoyang looked confused, "I was only over seven years old at that time. How could I still remember such details?"
"Then what do you remember?" Shen Zhining narrowed his eyes slightly, his eyes looking a bit dangerous.
Uh... How dare Sheng Jiaoyang say that all she remembered was bad, such as how Shen Zhining bullied her, and how she foolishly followed him as a follower. She even forgot that she had Why did you let him bully you like a bully, and why did you forget the details of how you got along with him after he came out of the shadows
"I remember-" Something suddenly flashed through Sheng Jiaoyang's mind, "You are a liar!"
"What?" Shen Zhining was stunned.
"You said you would come back, you said you would protect me in the future, but you didn't show up when my mother died, you didn't show up when I was framed, and you didn't show up when I became homeless."
She finally remembered that on the night she left Rose Gold Manor and was taken to Italy by her grandfather, she cried under the quilt.
After Sheng Jiaoyang finished speaking, he fell silent.
Shen Zhining also fell silent. He looked at her so close. When he thought of her helplessness and loneliness at that time, his heart tightened, as if being pinched by an invisible hand, and there were bursts of pain.
"I saw you again after five years. At that time, you were stepping on someone's hand. I still remember that scene clearly. Later, I heard that you disabled one of that person's arms."
She looked at him, with a complicated look in her dark eyes, "That's when I realized that you had changed."
Later, she began to be afraid of seeing him.
Later, she followed Lin Na home and saw Lin Yan. All her attention shifted to Lin Yan.
This is really an unpleasant topic. Sheng Jiaoyang slowly exhaled a breath.
Shen Zhining stood up. He walked to the floor-to-ceiling window and looked out at the scenery outside through the glass window. His eyes were full of scenery, but it didn't catch his eyes. His expression looked very heavy.
"I just came back at that time and I didn't control my temper. I'm sorry for scaring you." He said in a very calm tone.
Sheng Jiaoyang looked at his back, pursed his lips, and couldn't help but ask: "Where have you been in those years? Grandpa Shen said you went to study, but you can't even contact anyone in the study institute?"
“I’ve been to many places, including crossing the Atlantic with merchant ships, Africa, and Siberia.”
He spoke very simply and only mentioned a few major place names, but Sheng Jiaoyang had a vague guess about the details. When they saw him again, his violent aura obviously did not come out of thin air. A lot must have happened to him in those years. It was a cruel thing that she couldn't even think about.
Sheng Jiaoyang stood up, walked behind him, put his arms around his waist, put his head on his shoulder, and changed the subject: "What did I say to you when you left that year?"
She couldn't remember it probably because what she said at that time was probably unintentional. What she was curious about was what exactly she said that made Shen Zhining remember it until now.
"You said you must marry me when you grow up and let me come back soon." Shen Zhining's tone became much more relaxed.
"No way, how could I say such a thing? Could it be Brother Zhi Ning that you are coaxing me?"
"Anyway, you have forgotten. Since you say I am coaxing you, I am coaxing you."
After hearing what he said, Sheng Jiaoyang believed it. She just didn't expect that she would say such things. No wonder her mother's last words to her said that she hoped she and Shen Zhining would be together.
After going round and round, it turned around.
"You..." Sheng Jiaoyang didn't know what to say for a moment.
Shen Zhining turned around, looked face to face with her, and said, "We are destined to be together."
"Then you didn't show that kind of intention when you saw me later." Sheng Jiaoyang was also puzzled. If he cared so much about what she said, why didn't he express it and why he always had a look on his face every time he saw her? It was so deep that it made her feel anxious, fearing that she might make this man unhappy.
"Didn't I show it? When grandma gives you a birthday gift, just send someone else to deliver it. If I hadn't been willing, would I have come all the way to deliver the gift to you just to run errands for others?"
Sheng Jiaoyang choked, and she suddenly felt that what he said made sense. If he hadn't meant it, he wouldn't have come to hand over the gifts Grandma Andy gave her every year in the next few years.
She remembered a lot of things again. At the birthday party of the old man of the Lin family, Shen Zhining told Lin Yan that she had met him. She remembered that his original words at that time were, "Once I was entrusted to give a birthday gift to Jiao Yang." "I saw you by her side." She didn't remember that Shen Zhining and Lin Yan met, but she did see Shen Zhining again after she and Lin Yan had just returned to their houses.
Therefore, Shen Zhining should have known that she liked Lin Yan at that time, but with his overbearing possessiveness, he just watched silently, which was really not in line with his character.
"If, I mean if, Lin Yan accepted my feelings at that time, would you also be watching us together like that?" Sheng Jiaoyang blinked and looked at him curiously.
Shen Zhining just looked at her and didn't answer.
"Is this question difficult to answer?"
"If that's the case, I just want you to be happy," he said.
In fact, this is easy to understand. At that time, they didn't have many opportunities to meet each other and spent almost no time together. Apart from brief exchanges, the rest were all memories of their youth. But in the memory, she was still a child. Although he liked her She, but not to the point of thinking that you can only be with me.
But it's different now. They have lived together, and she has quietly integrated into his life. Without her, life will no longer feel good.
"What about now?" Sheng Jiaoyang asked with a crooked eyebrow and a smile.
Shen Zhining grabbed her right hand with his left hand, intertwined his fingers and raised his hand, with two rings shining brightly.
"We have sworn an oath before Jesus and will never leave each other. Even death cannot separate us."
"That's not right. I remember the oath said that we will never be separated until death."
"Even if you die, I will not let you go. We will be buried together for eternity."
Sheng Jiaoyang looked at him intently, suddenly burst into laughter, and said happily: "Brother Zhi Ning, did you memorize my lines?"
She remembered that there was a similar line in one of the scripts she accepted.
"Laughing at me?" Shen Zhining approached her.
Sheng Jiaoyang smiled and was about to run away, but was brought back by his intertwined hand. His other hand clasped the back of her head and captured her raised lips. (To be continued)