"Your childhood friend didn't come tonight?"
When she was almost at Tianjing's door, she suddenly mentioned Yuan Shengda.
"Didn't I say I was upset?"
After mumbling for a while, Lai Yang talked about the key points of the conflict between himself and Yuan Shengda, and said that he wanted to hear her opinion.
The street lights reflected on her fair face, making her look a little hazy. Her bright black eyes looked towards Lai Yang, shining like obsidian.
"I think you don't understand her mind. It's a bit selfish to blindly make choices for others."
"Well… "
"Of course I can't say that your idea is wrong, but you can't force others. Maybe the things you think are important are not important to her at all, so it's a bit selfish for you to let her go."
She walked quietly and added, "Also, I think you..."
"It's okay, just tell me, I can bear it." Seeing her hesitating, Lai Yang pretended to be generous.
TianJing smiled beautifully and said, "I think you are not confident. You are worried about failure, so you want her to leave quickly, right?"
Lai Yang felt like a knife was stabbed in his heart.
Suddenly I remembered that I saw Gu Qian living a good life after leaving me a while ago, so I was subtly influenced by her.
He also hopes that Yuan Shengda can live a better life and not suffer with the theater.
It was this hidden thought deep in his heart that prompted him to let Yuan Shengda leave.
But to put it bluntly, it’s just a lack of confidence.
I used to be full of energy and ready to take charge of the world, but now I have been scared by life.
"Am I right?"
"Well, half and half." Lai Yang said stubbornly.
Tian Jing snorted coldly, raised her little mouth and said: "You are not only confident, but also conceited."
She walked quickly towards the community with her long beautiful legs, and at this moment, a firework suddenly bloomed in the sky.
With a bang, it shattered into stars, and colorful fireworks lit up half the sky.
She stood quietly, looking up at the fireworks, with something like water flashing in her beautiful eyes.
"Laiyang, look, fireworks~"
Tian Jing suddenly acted like a little girl, pointing at the sky excitedly.
"Well, if you are caught setting off fireworks in Xujiahui, you will be punished to death." Lai Yang said quietly, in no mood.
“… Go ahead, I’m home.”
…
After spending half of a "wonderful" New Year's Eve with Tianjing, it was almost twelve o'clock when Lai Yang returned to his community.
But he could see from a distance that the light in Yuan Shengda's room was still on. After some hesitation, Lai Yang went upstairs and knocked on her door.
"Laiyang?"
After knocking on the door for a long time, a woman's voice suddenly came from the corner of the corridor. Lai Yang turned around and looked at Xu Mo.
Somewhat apologetically.
"Oh, did I disturb you?"
"Humph! You still remember to come back? Are all you men like this? Shengda was hospitalized, and you didn't even bother to care?"
hiss~
Yuan Shengda is in the hospital! ?
"I took her to the hospital at 9:30 pm. The doctor said it was gastric bleeding caused by drinking. Lai Yang, did you do something to let her down? She didn't let me notify you and said she didn't want to see you even if she died."
"… "
Caobao Road, Eighth People's Hospital.
By the time Lai Yang arrived at the door of Yuan Shengda's ward, it was almost twelve o'clock.
The lights in the ward were off, but the corridor light shone through, and the white bed and a hazy figure could still be seen.
Doctor Gang said that Yuan Shengda's condition was not serious. He just needed to avoid alcohol and spicy food, and he would be fine after a few days of intravenous drip.
But this incident still makes Lai Yang feel sad.
"Loud? Loud?"
Lai Yang tiptoed to the bedside and looked at her pitiful oval face under the corridor light.
Yuan Shengda's already fair face looks even paler now.
Her eyes were closed, with long eyelashes curled over her eyelids. Lai Yang took a few glances at her. She had an IV on the back of her hand and earphones in her ears.
The rest of the beds in the ward were empty, and she felt even more lonely lying there alone.
Sitting beside the hospital bed, Lai Yang's heart was suddenly filled with guilt.
For so many years I thought I knew her very well, but now I realize that I don't understand her at all.
How could she drink so much?
Looking at the curtains turning white in the darkness, Lai Yang suddenly thought of the scene when Yuan Shengda first came to Shanghai to join him.
At that time, she came out of the North Station dragging her suitcase. In this Shanghai city where she had no relatives, she became the only person she could rely on from then on.
But what did this person who made her rely on do?
She said she wanted to drink a cup of milk tea, and I just bought her a bottle of mineral water to save money.
But when the theater was short of money, she borrowed 100,000 yuan from her family to invest in it without her knowledge.
Laiyang's eyes are a little red...
"You're sitting here silently, are you trying to scare people?"
The familiar voice suddenly sounded, scaring Lai Yang so much that the tears that were about to flow out were retracted.
"You're not asleep?"
Lai Yang used the light from the corridor to look at Yuan Shengda's angry eyes.
"I was almost asleep, and you woke me up again like a ghost."
Her voice was a little hoarse, but her tone was still as arrogant as before.
Lai Yang chuckled, took the opportunity to wipe his eyes, and moved his face close to his childhood friend of more than 20 years, causing her beautiful eyebrows to frown slightly.
“What?
What are you doing so close? "
"It's too loud, I..."
Lai Yang wanted to apologize, but didn't know how to start. But at this moment, Yuan Shengda's cheeks suddenly turned red, and the fragrance of orchids filled Lai Yang's face with his breath.
"What's wrong with your face?" Lai Yang was a little curious.
"I... I, I'm hot, get away, are you going to die if you stay so close to me?" Yuan Sheng clenched his teeth, his dark eyes trembling a little.
Lai Yang was stunned for a moment, then reached out and took off one of Yuan Shengda's headphones.
"What song are you listening to?"
"What's it to you if I listen to music?"
“… Can we communicate properly? You’re going to scold me when I ask you about a song?”
Lai Yang glanced at her, put the headphones on his ears, and a female singer's voice sounded.
"I have to be myself to the fullest and feel alive. Maybe I have to thank you for not looking back. I have to move forward alone."
LaiYang:…
After taking off his headphones speechlessly, he looked at her and asked, "What's the song name?"
"Strong woman's heart."
Looking at her resentful yet determined eyes, Lai Yang burst out laughing.
She was so angry that she hid the headphones away and glared at him.
"Okay, I'll apologize to you, okay? Don't leave. I'll find a way to get the money, and we'll work together to make the theater flourish. Just treat what I said before as a fart, okay?"
"No, I'll leave tomorrow so you don't have to look at me like an eyesore. I won't delay you and your family..."
Lai Yang suddenly touched Yuan Shengda's hand which was receiving an IV drip.
The words stopped abruptly.
Her dark pupils trembled like duckweed, and her cheeks suddenly turned red in the dark night.
"Alright, we've been brothers for so many years, stop being childish. Look how cold your hands are. Hurry up and put them under the quilt. Can you let this go? Don't be ungrateful!"
"Hmm..."
Lai Yang covered her hands with the quilt, took a breath and continued.
"I've thought it through. If the theater really can't develop, at worst I can find you a Shanghai husband. I'll personally check and find you a rich and handsome man. We can be the wives of a wealthy family. That's great, right? You don't have to leave."
Lai Yang looked at Yuan Shengda, and something seemed to flash in her eyes.
"Laiyang, do you know which TV series the song just now is the theme song of?"
"Hmm? Does this have anything to do with what we're talking about?"
"… It's nothing. It doesn't matter if I don't know. Just let me stay. You have to promise me one thing."
"Don't mention just one, agree to two."
"… Then go buy me a cup of milk tea."
"I'll buy you a der~ What the hell are you doing in the middle of the night!"