At two o'clock in the morning, Du Ruo still didn't fall asleep.
She was lying on the bed, staring at the dim ceiling in a daze, her mind was in chaos. In a trance, she seemed to be living in a dream these past few months.
She turned over, took out her phone from beside the pillow and turned it on, the good night message sent by Jing Ming was still there.
She looked at his dialog box, suddenly felt sad, put the phone back, and buried her head in the pillow.
The next day, she got up early as usual, did morning reading, and went to class without delaying anything.
In the laboratory, speeding up is imminent, and everyone is working on solutions. Jing Ming was especially busy, so she didn't have time to tell him. So he didn't care about the bracelet for the time being, and was doing his work seriously.
That night, she searched for information in the library until late at night, and when the library was about to close, her mobile phone turned on, and it was Jingming's message: "Where is it?"
Du Ruo: "The library. What about you?"
"laboratory."
"Busy working?"
"Well, is it going to be closed?"
"Um."
"I will look for you."
"good."
He made a petting Shiba Inu emoji.
Du Ruo: "..."
She packed up her things, went downstairs with her schoolbag on her back, and waited by the side of the road.
It is late autumn, and the yellow leaves of the trees are rustling in the night wind. The street lights are dim, creating a pale golden world.
It was a little cold at night. She shrank her neck and heard the sound of running.
Jing Ming ran over from the end of the road.
She sent a message on her mobile phone: "Don't run."
On the other side, he took out his mobile phone to take a look, but he didn't care, and continued to run.
When he approached, she said, "Don't run away. I won't run away."
Before he finished speaking, he rushed over from the opposite side of the road with a big smile, hugged her in his arms, bowed his head and kissed her lips forcefully.
Her heart thumped, and she felt the infinite warmth in his embrace. His hot breath on her lips could melt her. She involuntarily hugged his waist.
He opened her lips lightly, pecked her lips a few times, and smiled softly: "Miss me?"
Her pupils were clear and her cheeks were flushed: "Didn't I just see it in the laboratory this afternoon?"
"Why do I miss you so much?" He said inexplicably, holding her tightly in his arms, rubbing his cheek against her face like a small animal, "Why do I think so?"
She pursed her lips and smiled in his arms, and whispered, "I miss you too."
Only then was he satisfied, let go of her, stroked the broken hair around her ear, and asked: "Are you hungry, go for supper?"
She said: "If you eat like this every day, you will gain weight."
"I think you're too thin. You're still gaining weight, heh," Jing Ming said, "I'll try and see if you've gained weight." After speaking, he put his arms around her waist and picked her up with one hand.
There was another thump in her heart, and she thumped his shoulder: "Put me down."
He laughed, put her down, took her hand, and said, "I haven't gained weight, I think it's still the same. What do you want to eat..." He didn't catch her hand, but accidentally grabbed her wrist, empty , without the bracelet.
He smiled slightly, and left half of his words. He grabbed her hand and opened the sleeves to see that there was nothing on her slender wrists.
He glanced at her, her face changed slightly.
"Where's the bracelet?" Jing Ming asked, "Why don't you wear it?"
"I..." Du Ruo thought for a moment, bit her lips slightly, unloaded her schoolbag, took out the box and handed it to him, "How about...you take this back."
Jing Ming was stunned for a second, and refused to accept the box: "Why?"
"It's too precious." Her palms trembled slightly, she didn't know whether it was cold or something, she almost couldn't speak, but she tried to smile and said, "I thought this was similar to the gift He Wang and Li Wei received, but I didn't expect want… "
She couldn't tell the amount, she had never heard of that much money in her life. More than 200,000 yuan is an astronomical figure for her, and she can't even say it. What's even more ridiculous is that she couldn't recognize the value of such an expensive item, and thought it was just an ordinary bracelet...
She swayed slightly in the cold wind: "It's so expensive, it's too expensive... You'd better take it back."
Jing Ming's face changed, but he still didn't take the box, he just asked: "I took it back, who is it for?"
She pulled the corner of her mouth with difficulty: "Give it to Auntie..."
He interrupted: "This is the smallest size, she can't wear it."
"..." She was stunned, suddenly at a loss, the hand holding the box was still hanging in the air, the things had been taken out, and there was no way to take them back. She was so ashamed that she was almost ashamed, her mind was in a daze, and she said in a panic: "Can I return it or sell it?"
Even Jingming was stunned for a moment.
He was irritated by these words, his eyebrows trembled, and he was annoyed: "This is the first gift I gave you. You said you sold it?"
"I didn't mean that! Don't say that!" She was in a hurry, and she was sweating in the cold autumn night, "I just said that I can't accept this gift!"
He seemed to think it was ridiculous, so he smiled coolly and asked, "Tell me, why can't you accept it?"
"I told you, it's too expensive."
"It doesn't mean anything to me, can you stop…"
"For me!" she interrupted him sharply.
Jing Ming stopped and looked at her.
Trembling, she also looked at him.
No result.
He turned his head to look at the tree trunk beside him, grabbed his hair vigorously, took a deep breath, suppressed the irritability surging in his chest, looked back at her, and said:
"Du Ruochun, can you stop being so hypocritical?"
Du Ruo was startled suddenly, as if his heart had been stabbed by something.
"I've already bought everything, what do you mean by returning it to me?" Jing Ming asked, "What do you want me to do, huh? Tell me, what do you want me to do if you return it to me? I'm fucking wearing it myself." ah!"
Du Ruo was so angry that he could only smile wryly, and said sadly: "Why can't you consider me when you buy things, how do you let me wear them? I am an ordinary student, and I wear bracelets worth more than 200,000 yuan in front of my classmates and teachers? Talk about me, you still like this! Also, how will I go to your house next time, how will I see your parents? Wearing the bracelet you bought for more than 200,000 yuan to see her?! What will she think of me? You ask me What do you mean, what do you mean? Why don't you think about it when you buy something?!"
"Thinking about you? I haven't fucking considered you yet?" Jingming said angrily, "I earned the money myself, not my parents! I passed by a store and saw a very beautiful bracelet. I just thought of you, and I happily thought that it would look good on your hand, and that you would smile happily when you saw it. Is there something wrong? I broke the law by buying a bracelet for my girlfriend? !"
She was startled when she heard the words, embarrassed and guilty, regretful and heartbroken, she shook her head: "No, I didn't say that sentence just now..."
"Have you thought about me once, have you considered me? I try to understand that you walked into your world, and you, did you take a fucking step towards me? Can you try to see my world? If not, let me pull myself to your level!"
She was shocked, stared at him blankly, and suddenly had nothing to say.
He was right, she was wrong.
She couldn't say a word, just shook her head.
He will never understand her shame and humbleness.
The street lamp cast his shadow on her, as if to crush her. His person, his sincerity, his love, his good and his bad... She was overwhelmed.
She stepped forward stiffly and stubbornly, and stuffed the box into his hand: "I don't want it, you take it back."
The action completely enraged him, and he grabbed the box and threw it to the ground.
The box bounced open, and the white-gold bracelet fell out and hit the concrete floor, making Du Ruo startled by the crisp sound.
"If you don't want it, just throw it away!" He said coldly, and left without looking back.
Du Ruo stood there blankly, his heart suddenly pierced like an ice skate. She stood for a while, then suddenly came back to her senses, and hurried over to pick up the box and bracelet.
Under the streetlight, she saw several scratches on the side of the bracelet. She was so distressed that she burst into tears in an instant.
She squatted on the ground and rubbed the scratch with her fingers, as if trying to smooth it out. But no matter how hard you rub it, the bracelet is scratched. She whimpered for a moment. While crying, while wiping tears, while wiping the bracelet.
Du Ruo wiped the dust off the bracelet and the box with her sleeve, and stood up after a long time, holding the box and walking forward slowly, sobbing as she walked.
The fallen leaves shattered under her feet, like the sound of a broken heart.
She lowered her head, tears dripping, and walked in front of a figure.
Looking up, Jing Ming was standing at the intersection waiting for her.
The street lamp stretched his shadow very long, spreading from his feet to hers. From a distance, with his back to the light, she couldn't see his expression clearly.
She stopped crying immediately, wiped away her tears in a hurry, walked past him quickly with her head down.
The moment she passed by, he reached out and grabbed her arm, took her into his arms and hugged her gently, and whispered: "I have a bad temper. Don't cry."
She burst into more tears all of a sudden, dripping wetly on his clothes.
"What's there to cry about?" He lowered his head and wiped the tears off her face with his thumb. She didn't speak, she didn't make a sound, she just shed tears, which couldn't be stopped. He sighed, and took her into his arms again: "Don't cry, I didn't mean to hurt you just now, it's just..."
"Chun'er..." He leaned against her tear-wet cheek, "We will always be together in the future, everything about you is mine, and everything about me is yours. It's just a bracelet, let's not quarrel over this kind of thing , okay? Not worth it at all."
"No noise." She finally opened her mouth, choked with sobs, "I'm not good either, and I said something wrong, but, I really..."
"I understand." He interrupted softly, knowing the pain in her heart, he didn't want her to speak again, and said for her, "If you don't want to wear it, don't wear it. But if you don't wear it, you can keep it, and you are not allowed to say anything about giving it back to me." You can wear it someday. Okay?"
"... Mmm." She nodded and put her arms around his waist.
"Okay. Don't cry." He patted her on the back lightly and coaxed, "Don't cry."