Apple told Xu Tingsheng that the concert she had been looking forward to and working so hard for might not come as promised. Her last performance was still just a platter-style commercial performance like before. A bunch of singers took turns to take the stage, and then each sang two or three songs.
But she still hoped that Xu Tingsheng could come, because she wanted to sing for him once.
Fu Cheng noticed that Xu Tingsheng was lost in thought with his mobile phone.
"What's wrong?" he asked.
Xu Tingsheng handed him the phone, and after he finished reading it, he said, "Are you going?"
Fu Cheng said:
"I won't go, but you should go... This is Apple's farewell, not a farewell to the singer, but a farewell to you. When Yunyao had an accident, after you met, she told us, Her dream is to hold a concert with tens of thousands of people, only one, and then you will be there.
She has worked hard, you haven't seen her for a long time, Song Ni said, she has lost almost 20 pounds in the past few months, and only skin and bones are left. The media sees her current appearance and speculates that she is taking drugs.
Now she lost, she just wanted to say goodbye to you, you go. "
"In fact, no one can say goodbye to really say goodbye."
Xu Tingsheng said this sentence with a smile. He tried his best to make this cruel sentence sound like a joke. When you say goodbye to someone, the goodbye itself is a bond.
"Xu Tingsheng, why go so far in hurting people? I don't know what's so good about your Xiang Ning, I really don't know, I don't even know what kind of person you are now."
The tone of Fu Cheng's speech contained a kind of hysteria that was suppressed with all his strength.
Xu Tingsheng hesitated for a while, then said, "Did she mention her future plans? When will she go back to school?"
Fu Cheng tried his best to calm himself down, and said: "Song Ni said that Apple has suspended school for two years, and it's only been half a year now. She doesn't plan to go back early, maybe find a music bar to sing for a year, and then watch it."
Xu Tingsheng stopped talking, because he knew that if he could be ruthless this time, Apple would have a new life of his own. From then on, there would be no one named Xu Tingsheng in her story, maybe suffer for two years, and then find himself.
Xu Tingsheng remembered the trajectory of her previous life, there was the British baron who was said to be a romantic gentleman, and the sunny pasture in Australia... It was him who pushed her on a completely deviated path, a completely different trajectory.
It is irresponsible to stop.
Going on is a responsibility that cannot be shouldered.
"I may not be able to come." Xu Tingsheng replied to Apple.
"Yeah," Apple said.
…
The taxi stopped by the side of the road, Xu Tingsheng thought he had arrived at the hotel, but it wasn't.
"I'd like to drink some wine."
Fu Cheng dragged Xu Tingsheng out of the car, and in front of him was a small music bar called "Hua Kai". Today, they went from "spring warm" to "flowers blooming", but they didn't see the beauty.
The two were stopped at the entrance of the small bar.
The one who stopped them was a plain-looking woman in her thirties, she said: "The theme of the music in our bar is Cantonese old songs, so, looking at the two students, I need to explain first, if you don't like it, you can Consider going elsewhere."
"It's okay." Fu Cheng said.
Maybe the time is too late, or because of the narrow theme, there are not many people in the small bar, only a few people, most of them are sitting in a relatively dark corner, drinking silently, only after a song is sung, there is a little bit of sporadic applause.
A middle-aged man on the stage had just finished singing Leslie Cheung's "Infatuated Me".
The next one who came on stage was the ordinary woman who just stood at the door, she smiled and sang "I Like You", you can see the sweetness in her smile and feel that she is a happy person.
Xu Tingsheng and Fu Cheng were sitting in a corner by the wall, surrounded by a wall of messages, drinking wine and reading the messages on the wall.
Xu Tingsheng found a sentence, felt that he had found a comfort, and read it out:
"Thank you for not marrying back then."
The time under this sentence is 2004.
Fu Cheng didn't speak.
"I wrote this sentence."
Xu Tingsheng and Fu Cheng turned their heads, and it was the woman who had just finished singing who was talking. She sat down at the table with a glass of wine.
"2004?" Xu Tingsheng asked her.
"I wrote it three years ago. Three years ago, I told myself that three years would be fine. After three years, I would thank him for leaving. So, the time I wrote below is 2004 and this year." The woman said calmly , still with a happy smile on his face.
"So what now?" Fu Cheng asked her this sentence.
"I'm still waiting for him to come back," the woman said.
…
Morning in West Lake City, by the West Lake.
Apple didn't sleep all night, and then started walking along the West Lake at dawn.
It's raining.
Although wearing a peaked cap, sunglasses, and a mask, others can't recognize her as Apple, but she is still such an attractive woman. She just rejected the sixth man who put an umbrella on her head.
Xu Tingsheng stopped the man and said, "What's going on?"
"Beauty, but there is no chance." The man said.
"How?" Xu Tingsheng asked.
"I said to lend her an umbrella, but she said West Lake doesn't lend umbrellas." The man was a little frustrated.
"Why?"
"You don't know the story of the white lady and Xu Xian?"
"So... lend me the umbrella, I'll try."
"Don't make fun of yourself, I'm already the sixth."
"Let me try."
"Okay, if you have the ability, the umbrella will be given to you."
Apple noticed another umbrella appeared above his head. The difference was that the man behind him didn't say anything, didn't say "get to know me", didn't say, "I'm just afraid you'll get drenched, nothing else".
"Thank you, but West Lake doesn't borrow umbrellas." Apple said.
"Really?"
The man behind him spoke, and Apple just stood there. She wanted to turn around, but she didn't dare to turn around. She was so familiar with the voice, but she still didn't have the courage to turn around, fearing that it would not be that person.
The man who borrowed the umbrella watched from a distance, and saw that Apple said that West Lake would not lend an umbrella, but the guy still stood there with a shameless face—"This guy is thick-skinned, as expected, he still has to be shameless to pick up girls."
"Really don't want it? Superman and his umbrella... also don't want it?" Xu Tingsheng said.
"Is Xu Tingsheng?" Apple said with his back turned.
"Yes." Xu Tingsheng said.
Apple turned around.
"I thought Xu Tingsheng didn't care about me," she said.
"Did you ask him?"
Apple shook his head.
"What do you think is the second half of the sentence he sent you?"
"I have no idea."
Apple removes sunglasses and masks.
"Superman and his big umbrella are always behind you." Xu Tingsheng said.
Apple was quiet, maybe for a few minutes, maybe longer, and then burst into tears. She hugged Xu Tingsheng, buried her face in his arms, and wiped away his tears and snot.
The expression of the man who borrowed the umbrella was completely perplexed, "Is this okay?... Is there any reason? Why does that woman look like Apple? Who is that man? I'll go, I just..."
"Is it important for a big star to focus on his image?" Xu Tingsheng said.
"No," Apple said.
"Xu Tingsheng, do you like me?" Apple asked.
"You ask on stage at night." Xu Tingsheng said.