It was noon when Du Ruo returned to school after finishing tutoring.
At the end of July, the temperature in Beijing has exceeded 40 degrees, and people can evaporate while walking on the road.
There is no air conditioning in the dorms. Fortunately, at the end of last semester, Senior Sister Zhai Miao gave Du Ruo her electric fan before leaving school, which could barely withstand the high temperature. But when I woke up from the afternoon nap, my body was still dripping with sweat.
She washed her face with cold water, packed her things and went to the library to use the air conditioner for self-study. Along the way, the campus was full of parents and children who braved the scorching sun to visit and tour. It was crowded and hotter.
It was cool in the library, and she didn't come back until very late. She cleaned the dormitory where she hadn't lived for a long time, washed and changed all the sheets and quilts, and was busy until late at night.
After taking a shower and going to bed, the electric fan whirred.
Only then did she think of Jing Ming, and she took out her phone to check, but there was no news for a whole day. I don't know if I didn't remember her.
She turned up the electric fan by one gear, turned over and went to sleep.
After sleeping for a while, I tossed and turned a little bit, touched my phone, thought about it, and put it down again.
Three days later, the high temperature wave of over 40 degrees passed, and the temperature hovered around 37 degrees.
Du Ruo stayed in the self-study room from morning to night, reading books and flipping materials every day, without hearing anything outside the window.
For some reason, Jing Ming kept not contacting her. Maybe I was busy with something and forgot.
She didn't take the initiative to find him. Thinking of it from time to time, I took out my phone and looked at it. The message bar was empty, so I threw the phone aside again.
She was calm on this side, but Jing Ming was not so calm on the other side.
Day, day, day after day.
When Du Ruo returned to school, it was as if he disappeared, and he didn't send any messages to ask him.
Jing Ming locked himself in his study for several days in a row, went downstairs to eat without saying a word, his expression was so pale that he owed him a huge sum of money.
She was very angry, but then she thought about it, maybe she was planning to surprise him on the last day.
She secretly hoped to wait until the early morning of the last day, when the news received on her mobile phone exploded, but her conversation bar was quiet.
Growing up so big, Jing Ming realized for the first time in his life what it means to "fall to the bottom of the heart".
That day when he got up early and went downstairs, he only took a bite of the longevity noodles that Mingyi cooked for him, then dropped his chopsticks and left. At noon, a bunch of relatives came to the house, surrounding his ancestor, making the house lively.
Sitting in the living room full of people, he became even more depressed. I don't care about anyone, I always lose when I play games, and the children are noisy and annoying, so I just go upstairs to clean up.
In the afternoon, there was still no movement from Du Ruo.
Jing Ming finally made a breakthrough and sent a message: "Where is the person?"
After sending, he dropped his phone and continued to read, but the other end didn't reply for a long time. He picked up his phone and looked, it wasn't on mute, but there was really no reply, he was furious for a moment, and threw the phone far away.
After staring at the book for a while, I grabbed my phone again and sent a message: "I'll pick you up at seven o'clock in the evening."
Still no reply.
After a few minutes of silence, Jing Ming suddenly pushed hard, and the innocent book "crashed" and flew to the other side of the desk.
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The weather was too hot, so Du Ruo didn't leave the teaching building at noon, so he ate a piece of bread and settled down. I originally planned to stick to it until the evening, but after six o'clock, my stomach growled.
She packed her schoolbag and went to the cafeteria, and went out after eating, and accidentally ran into Li Qinghe who had also left.
"Why are you still at school?" Du Ruo was surprised.
"A while ago Orbit was on vacation, we will meet up tomorrow."
"So are we."
Li Qinghe didn't go to Shenzhen to participate in the racing competition, so he praised: "Congratulations first, you are number one in the world."
"It's the team, the team."
"I'm very happy for you that you can achieve such great achievements with your team." After finishing speaking, he added, "Senior Brother Yi even praised you."
Du Ruo didn't believe it: "Is there? I saw him in Shenzhen, and he was still very serious. It scared me to death."
Li Qinghe laughed: "Really. He seldom praises others." He sighed again, "It's a pity that I didn't keep you."
"Why bring this up again? I've said it before. Although the fight with Senior Brother Wu is not very good, I still thank you and Senior Brother Yi."
Li Qinghe said: "I dare not take it seriously. However, although the team has competition, we are still friends, don't forget."
Du Ruo sneered: "Am I that kind of person, and you aren't either?"
"That's it." He smiled brightly, looked up and saw that he had arrived at the girls' dormitory, and waved to her, "Go in, I'm leaving too. Bye."
"En. Goodbye." Du Ruo waved at him, watched him walk away, smiled, turned around and walked up the roadside steps, and saw Jing Ming standing under the maple tree, his eyes were dark and quiet, looking at her.
Du Ruo was a little surprised. Seeing that there were no students around, he trotted over and asked in a low voice, "Why did you come to school? I thought you didn't come until tomorrow morning."
Jing Ming didn't answer, his eyes swept her up and down for a second, and asked quietly: "Did you see the message I sent you?"
She was taken aback and explained: "I forgot my mobile phone in the dormitory."
Jing Ming choked in his throat, and it took a lot of effort not to make his face too ugly, turned around: "Let's go."
Du Ruo followed happily: "Where are you going?"
He said nothing, as if he hadn't heard.
She was surprised, looked at him, but didn't see anything unusual.
Go to the parking lot and get in the car. It was quite normal when it was driven on campus, but it went all the way after the Fourth Ring Road.
Du Ruo grabbed the passenger door, frightened: "Can you slow down, why are you driving so fast?"
He ignored him, his face was indifferent, and he stared at the road ahead.
She was baffled, and gradually saw that he was in a bad mood, but she didn't know why, could it be because she didn't bring her mobile phone? Not so angry.
This man's temper...
Forget it, the more she persuaded her, the more she might become angry, so she simply kept silent and let him let him go. Let's talk later.
The car finally stopped at a Chinese-style courtyard with an extremely classical and elegant environment, and three words were written on the stones full of flowers: "Wu Yuxuan".
It's a place to eat.
As the night fell, the paper lanterns swayed gently in the wind on the Chinese-style corridor, which was extremely soft and beautiful, but the two of them had no intention of admiring the scenery.
The waiter in cheongsam bowed to lead the way,
Jing Ming walked into a box without saying a word, and Du Ruo followed.
The room is huge, with piano, chess, calligraphy and paintings, and elegant decoration.
On the mahogany table, there is an exquisite dinner with complete colors, aromas, slices of roast duck, steamed fish, lily parsley, fried shrimp, dace lettuce, tofu and cucumber soup, Longjing tea, corn juice, plus a drawer of white steamed rice cakes .
Jing Ming sat down first, leaned on the back of the chair, didn't speak, just looked at her like that.
Du Ruo also sat down slowly, guessing that he invited her to dinner, but she didn't see it on her phone, so she was angry. Although she felt wronged, it was fine to let him lose his temper. She didn't want to make the atmosphere worse, so she picked up the chopsticks and put vegetables in the bowl. After a while, she thought of something: "Do you still have to wait for someone?"
"Who are you waiting for?" He taunted.
"Oh, I saw so many dishes, I thought there were others." She lowered her head to pick up the dishes, not to provoke him.
Now that he could hear the turbulent undercurrent in his calm tone, he simply ignored him and concentrated on eating. But, I just ate a big bowl of ramen at school, how can I still eat it. It's a little hard to eat just two bites.
He saw it clearly in his eyes.
He didn't move his chopsticks, leaned on the back of the chair and watched her for a long time. The scene in front of the dormitory tonight is like the scene in front of the bird's nest, humiliation repeated itself.
He suddenly said: "From now on, you are not allowed to associate with Li Qinghe."
She raised her head in surprise: "Huh?"
"I don't like it," he said, "very much."
"Why?"
"No reason."
Du Ruo muttered: "You are not reasonable."
"It's unreasonable, what's wrong?!" He raised his voice slightly, restrained himself for half a second, turned his head to look at the calligraphy and paintings on the wall, and smiled sarcasticly, "Du Ruochun, do you understand the situation? Who is he? Let's eat together Chatting, don't you have a boyfriend to accompany you to find him?"
"You... what are you thinking about?" Du Ruo was ashamed and humiliated, blushing, "I can't have male friends anymore? How could Li Wei hope that Wan Ziang is my friend, why don't you say so?"
"They can, but he can't!"
"Why?"
"If I say no, I won't!"
This man is simply unreasonable! She pushed the chopsticks away, turned away, turned to him coldly, and ignored him.
She was protesting with a stern face, but he couldn't see it, the flames in his heart were smoldering, and the depression and depression of the past few days gathered in one place, it was unbearable, and he could ask calmly: "Do you like it?" Him?"
Startled, she looked at him.
He sarcastically said, "What do you like about that guy? Huh? Let's hear it."
Du Ruo's face changed slightly, and he didn't understand where he offended him. He was so over the top that she could no longer accommodate her: "Can you stop speaking in this tone? Brother, he has a good temper, good character, good grades and good looks. Except for his family background, he is good in everything. If anyone likes him, it's only natural."
"That's right." He leaned back in the chair, pressed his fingers on the table, and said with a smile, "It suits you quite well."
Her heart suddenly felt as if she had been stabbed, her eyes widened in astonishment, and she couldn't believe what he said.
His jaw tensed and his eyes challenged. He did it on purpose, and he didn't admit his mistake.
"Do you have to be so mean?" She was extremely humiliated, "You are rich, are you amazing?"
He asked back: "You have no money, are you amazing?"
Du Ruo choked, blushing like blood: "Do you think you are good everywhere? Heh, I don't think you are good anywhere. You are arrogant, arrogant, arrogant, and annoying!"
Jing Ming's face turned ugly for a while: "Is it interesting? Huh? 'No one is arrogant and arrogant', just a few words repeated over and over again, I can fucking recite them! You say it over and over again, is it interesting?!"
She was shocked by him, and was suddenly startled: "...it's not interesting." She was extremely disappointed, "I thought you had changed, but in fact, you haven't changed at all."
Jingming was surprised, as if hearing a joke: "I change? For whom? You? Do you think you are helping the poor by being with me? Du Ruochun, I, Jingming, will not change for anyone. What I was before, what I am now It’s the same, and it’s going to be the same in the future. You’d better accept this fact sooner.”
He hurts people, and everything he says is a knife.
Du Ruo felt a throbbing pain in her heart, couldn't stay any longer, and got up to leave.
"Sit down!" He stood still and ordered coldly, "Leave after dinner."
She stopped reflexively, annoyed at her disappointment, she looked at him, and said badly: "I was full before I came!" After finishing speaking, she walked out.
Jing Ming was furious, got up and strode forward, pulling her back.
Du Ruo stumbled into him and looked at him in shock: "Let go!"
He didn't let go, lowered his head, and said word by word: "I said, I will leave after eating."
"I said I won't eat!" She screamed, and pushed him away, not wanting to accidentally lose her footing, and fell to the side of the hollow wooden frame.
Jing Ming was taken aback, and immediately stepped forward to pull her to protect her, but he lost his focus and slammed into the shelf. The boy's thin back hit the sharp corner of the shelf, and his face turned pale from the pain in an instant.
The shelf slammed to the ground, and a boxy cardboard box hit the ground and broke open.
The birthday cake shattered all over the place.
Jing Ming endured the severe pain in his back, and staggered to stand firm, but Du Ruo stepped on something, moved it away and saw two candles: 19.
The numbers have been crushed by her. She was stunned, looking at the candles and the smashed cake, then looked up at him: "You..."
Jingming's anger reached the extreme: "You don't know my birthday?"
Du Ruo was aggrieved and humiliated: "How would I know if you didn't tell me?"
"It's all about me as a Leo. You can't check it even if you have a snack!" He turned around, propped his hands on the table, and his shoulders were heaving with anger.
The situation took a sharp turn.
He didn't look at her, and issued an order to drive away: "You have to go."
Du Ruo stood there, her cheeks were flushed, and her eye sockets were also a little red. She never had a birthday, and she didn't know any constellations. She did it unintentionally, but he did it on purpose. Obviously he was also at fault, but now she has become the most hateful person who needs to take the initiative to apologize.
Why? !
She was about to move and swayed towards the door.
He caught a glimpse from the corner of his eye, and his back tightened.
She still stood still. She can't get out. Angry as hell but can't throw him here.
He was wary of her movements, she finally stood still, did not leave, turned her head to look at the smashed cake, squatted down suddenly, and angrily grabbed the top layer of cake cream.
Jing Ming was astonished, and strode forward to lift her up: "What are you doing?"
She looked at him, her eyes were red: "Didn't you say that you are not allowed to leave until you finish eating? Isn't it because I don't know your birthday? Then can I apologize to you after eating everything here?" She wanted to break away he.
"Are you trying to bully me on purpose?!" He was so distressed that he was so anxious and angry that he pulled her back, wiped off the cake crumbs on her hand, and shouted, "Who forced you to eat? Who forced you to eat?" Eat the cake! You have a softer temper, you will die if you coax me?!"
"Why do you want me to coax you? Why don't you just say it and still rely on me? I just don't know what's wrong with Leo!"
"You just don't care about me!"
"I didn't..." She was so wronged that tears rolled in her eyes, she suddenly looked up at the sky, and endured it.
He was taken aback.
"Don't cry!" He couldn't see her like this, and wiped her eyes with a tissue.
"Don't worry about it!" She opened his hand at once and sat back on the chair.
He stood where he was, his chest heaving, and he didn't catch up.
Her eyes were red, she didn't cry, but she didn't look at him, and she didn't make a sound. I feel endless grievances in my heart, but I don't know where to start. His birthday, he is bigger than the sky, everything is her fault.
Jing Ming sat on the other side, his face was equally ugly, full of anger. It was terrible that she cried and endured everything.
The two ignored each other and were deadlocked.
Everyone feels wronged and depressed, and can't vent. Everyone secretly insisted on not giving in.
A meal broke up badly.
Jing Ming drove Du Ruo to school, and before she got off the car, he said in a cold voice:
"I'll ask you again, do you still associate with that person?"
Without saying a word, she unbuckled her seat belt, opened the door, got out of the car, and slammed the door shut without looking back.
Jing Ming was so angry that he almost smashed the steering wheel.
It's over.
If she doesn't give in to him, he will never talk to her again in his life!