This is not the result Lai Yang wants to hear!
He thought Tian Jing came to reconcile, but unexpectedly she came to separate completely.
Looking at the crystal ball on the table and the oil painting of her and her mother on the beach, Lai Yang's heart was beating violently.
He already regretted it and wanted to stay, but there was an invisible force strangling his throat.
Moreover, he knew that once Tian Jing said the following words, their relationship would really break up.
"You want to talk now, but I don't want to hear it!"
Lai Yang was angry and continued: "Also, what did you mean by losing just now?"
Tian Jing wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, and a trace of pain appeared on her expression.
"Laiyang, you've really changed a lot since I first met you. You've become more optimistic... and resilient, but you're still very impulsive in relationships, which makes people feel very... uneasy. I've thought about helping you change slowly, waiting for you to get better, and then..."
Tian Jing suppressed the following words. Her eyes, which had just been wiped dry, became wet again. She pushed aside the hair stuck to her cheeks and continued.
"But... I now understand that some things cannot be changed, so I say I lost."
"… "
The sunlight shone from behind her, making Lai Yang's eyes narrow slightly. But when the light entered his eyes, Lai Yang suddenly understood a lot.
It turns out that what Tian Jing once said about having the ability to keep people around her was not referring to career success, but inner growth.
She saw with her own eyes that after she broke up with Gu Qian, she wrapped herself up like a hedgehog, becoming irritable and self-deprecating.
She hopes to change this...
Lai Yang's palms clenched unconsciously. He thought of Tian Jing, who felt insecure in relationships because her parents were divorced, and this was something she hoped to change.
And if I really do it, will she decide to be with me
He has now completely figured it out, but it's too late!
Lai Yang took a deep breath, raised his head to look at the blue sky, and let the tears that were about to burst out flow back.
After a while, he sighed and lowered his head and said, "You came to me just to return my things?"
"Thank you for taking care of me, Laiyang. I'm leaving..."
As soon as Tian Jing stood up, Lai Yang slapped the table and said, "I gave you the things a long time ago. If you don't want them, just throw them away! Don't give them to me!"
"Then throw it away."
"Then I'll smash this crystal ball too. It's useless!"
Lai Yang raised the crystal ball and his expression became ferocious.
Tian Jing had stopped crying, and disappointment flashed in her eyes. She then picked up the houndstooth handbag on the table and said lightly.
"Whatever you want."
After she finished speaking, she walked towards the door with her long legs, while Lai Yang was like a stone man, with his hands frozen in the air.
Just as she reached the door, Jiaqi's voice suddenly came.
"Sister, are you leaving?"
At this time, Lai Yang didn't even look back, but just listened to the conversation through his ears.
When Tian Jing said she wanted to leave, Li Liangxin said there were no flights today, so why not leave tomorrow
"Yes, sister. It's still the peak tourist season. Zhoushan is small and most hotels are fully booked. How about you stay here for one night and we'll send you off tomorrow?"
Lai Yang was basically certain that Li Liangxin and Jia Qigang had been eavesdropping at the door, and now they wanted to help him keep her.
But Tian Jing is already disappointed in herself, so what's the point of doing this
"Laiyang, please say something. After all, I came here specifically to see you. The nearby hotels are really full. Why don't we stay here tonight?"
Li Liangxin's words made Lai Yang turn his head. Looking at the quiet and slender back, Lai Yang swallowed his saliva as if swallowing a blade and said.
"Stay one night, I'll take you to the airport tomorrow."
After thinking for a while, Tian Jing looked up and said to Li Liangxin and Jiaqi, "Sorry for the trouble."
"No trouble, come on, sister, I'll take you to my room."
Jiaqi smiled and pulled Tianjing into the house. Li Liangxin then came over, took the crystal ball from his hand, and picked up the painting together.
"Some things are easy to break and throw away, but it is extremely difficult to find and restore them. I will collect these for you first, just calm down."
…
Night came without any expectation.
When the street lights at the junction lit up in a dim yellow, the whole city looked even more lonely and desolate, like a colorful ladybug.
Whoever thinks dreams are beautiful will become more lonely.
Lai Yang wandered around the street for an unknown amount of time before he went into a folk music pub. The place was not big and there were not many customers.
The boss said he could smoke, so he sat in the corner drinking, swallowing up unspeakable torture.
Lai Yang felt heartbroken when he thought about returning to Shanghai peacefully tomorrow.
But the situation between her and me now can't be resolved with just an apology.
At this time, the bar owner held a guitar and sat in the bar.
On the small stage, after tuning the strings, he sang in an old and sad voice.
Lai Yang had no intention of listening, but when the first line of the lyrics came out, it captured Lai Yang's heart deeply.
"I picked up the pen and wanted to write down some fragments about you. Those memories are like yesterday's moon, shattered on the water~ and I can no longer remember your face completely."
"Remember that time when you slammed the door and left late at night? I chased you on my bike and followed you for four blocks. People thought I was a hooligan, you know?"
This line of lyrics reminded Lai Yang of his first hypoglycemia. After waking up at Tian Jing’s house, he refused to leave that night, really acting like a hooligan.
And then the moment the power went out, her panicked yet charming expression reappeared deeply in my mind.
When he thought about how she would have nothing to do with him in the future, his heart ached again.
LaiYang's tears finally fell. He raised the wine glass and poured all the yellow wine into his throat. Then, the song lingered again.
"The garden road echoes with our fierce quarrels, the moon on the twelfth floor, and those ordinary vows. I can't let go not because I haven't met a better person, but because I met someone who is not blind~"
"I never want to experience the torture of being powerless again. What else can I do for you besides giving my life for you? What else can I give you besides giving you freedom~"
Lai Yang had already burst into tears, and the last line of the lyrics made him unable to stay any longer.
So after paying the money, he disappeared into the night.
…
On the way back to the house, Lai Yang felt a little dizzy.
Stepping on a patch of hazy yellow light, he felt as if his memories had been cut into countless pieces and thrown randomly at his feet, making it impossible for him to tell which ones were real and which ones were imaginary.
In the chaos, he even wondered, has a woman as picturesque as Tian Jing really appeared in his life
This thought was suddenly interrupted by a phone call from Li Liangxin.
Lai Yang looked at the road and saw that his home was only around a corner, so he answered the call calmly.
As a result, the scream from the other end almost tore Lai Yang's eardrum.
"Laiyang! The house is on fire and your girlfriend is still inside! Fuck!"
When Lai Yang heard this, he was not nervous at first, but stunned, and then felt unbelievable and false.
But when he looked towards the corner again, he saw the black smoke coming out of the dim light...