On the coastal road behind the hospital, Tian Jing was sitting on a bench under a coconut tree. The wind blew from the north, her hair fluttered, and the leaves swayed gently above her head.
She gazed at the azure sea. The morning light was like a layer of warm gauze, lightly draped over this picturesque world.
Lai Yang walked over from a distance, and when he got close to Tian Jing, he clearly saw that the Band-Aid on her neck had been taken off, revealing a scar the size of a fingertip.
This scar is like a reflection of her inner self.
It also reflects Laiyang's distrust of this budding love.
Tian Jing turned her head, the morning light just penetrated the leaves, and star-like dots fell on her smooth and flawless face. She smiled at Lai Yang and patted the seat next to her, motioning him to sit down.
Lai Yang sat next to her stiffly and said, "It's a little damp here. You're not fully recovered yet. Go back."
"Well, I booked a return flight yesterday, and I'll be back this afternoon after talking to you."
Lai Yang's eyes slightly opened, this was not what he wanted to express...
At this time, a seabird flapped its wings and flew from the east side of the water to the west side, occasionally using its claws to stir up ripples on the sea surface. Lai Yang looked at it, and after a few seconds, the quiet voice came to his ears again.
"In 2010 in Shenzhen, I also encountered a fire, and that fire also took my mother's life. But it was also on the night of the fire that I remember a young and stubborn face. When everyone was avoiding the fire, only he broke the glass of my room and poured water into it randomly..."
Lai Yang turned his head quickly, his dark pupils trembling violently, and looked at Tu Jing in disbelief!
The "little boy" that I saved at that time was actually her
The wind suddenly became stronger, the coconut leaves were rustling, and the sea water seemed to be boiling, rolling towards the beach.
Tian Jing gently reached out her hand to push away the messy hair in front of her eyes, half-closed her beautiful eyes and looked at the sea, and continued.
"At that time, due to the toxic smoke, my consciousness was blurred and I couldn't move. But my father told me afterwards that if it weren't for those basins of water that suppressed the flames and bought some time, I might have died in the fire. Later, after I was discharged from the hospital and my mother's funeral was over, my father and I went to look for you... But you had moved away, and no one knew where you had gone."
Lai Yang couldn't close his mouth in shock, and he said in a trembling voice: "At that time, that... the one who sprayed the water gun at me
"It's you? But I remember it was a little boy with short hair?"
"I always had short hair when I was a child." Tian Jing turned her head and looked at Lai Yang.
Lai Yang reached out and pinched his nose, pinching it a little harder to make sure he was not dreaming!
Isn’t this too much of a coincidence
It turned out that Tian Jing and I had met more than ten years ago
And by some chance he saved her life!
Tears suddenly flashed in Tian Jing's eyes, and her voice became sticky; "Laiyang, thank you so much... When we met again on the rooftop of Yunbin Building later, I... I couldn't believe it at that time... After so many years, I can actually meet you again."
She raised her head, her delicate profile reflected in Lai Yang's eyes, and after her tears were slightly suppressed, she said.
"Although you've changed a lot from before, I can still recognize you. Your frivolous eyes and arrogant way of speaking are exactly the same as before..."
Lai Yang clenched his hands tightly and thought of the dusk before the fire that year.
In the public wash area downstairs of that tube-shaped building, Tianjing sprayed herself in the face with water with a water gun. At that time, I was a head taller than her, so I looked down on her and asked her in a nonchalant manner if she had any manners.
Later her father also came. When Lai Yang told her father about this, Tianjing's father smiled and joked, "Look how far the water gun he bought for Tianjing can shoot."
It was precisely because of this bizarre answer that the talented Lai Yang took several basins of water upstairs, wanting to take revenge.
Hiss~
Lai Yang took a deep breath. So, he and Uncle Tian had met many years ago
"Then you, you, you recognized him, why didn't you tell me?!" Lai Yang asked.
"Tell you what? When I met you, you were so emotionally fragile and unstable, and you had forgotten about me, so what should I say?"
"… "
The two looked at each other, and Lai Yang was speechless for a moment. Only shock remained in his heart, which echoed for a long time.
"I see... So you've been helping me and being nice to me all this time just to repay the favor I did you?"
Tranquility neither confirmed nor denied.
After a while, she looked up and said, "It was like this at the beginning. I wanted to get close to you, but I was afraid to get close to you... because I didn't know how I felt about you, whether it was gratitude or..."
She paused, tears welling up in her eyes again.
"As we get more familiar with each other, I rarely think about this question anymore, because I... I... just want to be with you, no matter what the reason."
Tears fell on her fair cheeks, and she took a deep breath and shook her head.
"But Laiyang, do you know? The day you first met my father was the day he and my mother got their divorce certificate. In the month before that, they had actually separated completely. My mother took me to live in Shenzhen and played that song every night. Unfortunately, I'm an Aquarius. In fact... She always hoped that my father would change his mind and come to her, but she guessed the beginning but not the end. The real reason for their divorce was that both sides were not tolerant enough, or it could be said that it was their personalities. It started with a bang, but ended in a hurry, which completely broke both hearts. Why bother to start such a relationship?"
Lai Yang looked at Tan Jing dully. She wiped away the tears from her eyes and looked up.
"And I still see that kind of extreme personality in you... But I think you can change, and maybe after the change... you can no longer follow their old path, but... I also know now that some things are deeply rooted in one's personality and cannot be eliminated. So I said we are not suitable... Because I am very afraid... I am afraid that the end of the story is separation. I experienced that kind of pain when I was a child, and I don't want to experience it again..."
Tian Jing covered her face and cried, her slender body trembling slightly, and Lai Yang's heart was broken by her crying.
yes!
She really saw through herself, and no one had ever seen through herself like this.
After her parents' divorce and her mother's death in a fire, she must have been deeply afraid of the word "separation".
But her act of walking away and her words of never seeing each other again completely tore her heart apart.
Tian Jing raised her head while crying: "Laiyang, I hope you can live a good life in the future... and become more cheerful... happy, and have the ability to keep everyone who should be kept, this is my wish... Our meeting began with a fire, and this fire, let's regard it as the end of our fate..."
She stood up with her thin body, a ray of sunlight shone on her face, making the few tears look like broken diamonds, cutting into Lai Yang's soul.
"Laiyang, thank you... Thank you for appearing in my life. You left first that time... This time, it's my turn to go... Goodbye."