Unrequited love is like a cold that cannot be cured for a long time.
It doesn't seem painful or itchy, and only those who have experienced it know how hard it is.
—Excerpted from Cocoa Bean’s Secret Love Weibo.
That night, it was Zhong Keke who left first.
Just like Jiang Yuqiao's appearance every time he left in front of her in the past ten years.
No extra words.
There was no turning back.
She didn't know if the man behind her would have that strong feeling of melancholy and emptiness like her, but she just repeated in her mind, Zhong Keke, don't look back.
You have lost to him for ten years, and you cannot lose again at this moment.
Fortunately, until she returned to the bar and sat in front of Zhou Mingyue, her face remained calm. If people didn't know her, they would have thought that she just went out to breathe a sigh of relief.
However, only Zhou Mingyue knew.
It's all an illusion.
Maybe the really fragile and slender Zhong Keke in her heart has long since collapsed.
The blind date in the bar is just a farce after all.
As Jiang Yuqiao said, most of them were drunk to open a room, and the rest who wanted to really chase after Zhong Keke were also clearly chilled out by her.
Zhou Mingyue really wanted to have something to do with that handsome hip-hop guy, but Zhong Keke, who drank three cocktails, was so uneasy that she could only take her home.
After drinking, the little girl didn't talk or go crazy. After washing up, she went back to bed obediently.
Seeing her silent appearance, Zhou Mingyue noticed the seriousness of the matter for the first time, but after asking for a long time, it was all in vain. Zhong Keke refused to say anything. The deputy looked very sleepy, "I'm so tired Mingyue, let me sleep."
the next few days.
The days were also calm as usual.
After Zhong Keke gave Zheng Feifei the ticket, he returned to his home.
She didn't go out for a while.
The summer is hot and dry.
She refused all social activities and was alone at home.
As if to make up for the sleep he hadn't slept enough in three years in high school, Zhong Keke's sleep time increased visibly.
After waking up, most of them are playing games and chasing dramas, teasing cats, and living a good life. Before she knew it, the deadline for applying for the exam was coming soon. Xu Lin came back to help her choose, but after all, Zhong Keke didn't want to stay in the local area.
Even if Zhou Mingyue has already enrolled in a local university.
To this end, the mother and daughter also quarreled.
Xu Lin became very popular, but even so, Zhong Keke resolutely applied for a university in a second-tier city.
Not a good university.
Professionalism isn't great either.
Just because that city has beautiful snow in winter, and in summer, you can also go to the beach to blow dry.
That place is called Yixia.
Zhong Keke has never been there, but is obsessed with places he wants to go.
In the end, the mother-daughter battle ended in obedience to the wishes of the parties.
At the end of August, Zhong Keke received an admission letter from Yixia Media University. Xu Lin and Zhong Aishan came back from other places and held a small entrance banquet for her.
The people who came were very close relatives, as well as good neighbors in the compound. The location was selected at a seafood buffet, and dozens of people gathered together and had a great time.
This is the first time Zhong Keke has met with Fu Yuanhang since he recovered his memory.
After not seeing each other for a long time, Fu Yuanhang noticed that the little girl seemed to have grown taller again, her baby face the size of her palm had shrunk, her eyes were bigger, her facial features were more beautiful, and her temperament was not as detached as before. On the contrary, it has the attitude of a little adult.
On the other hand, Fu Yuanhang was a little thinner and darker, probably because he was in love, and his whole person had a rare sadness.
The two were sitting together, and Zhong Keke was nibbling on crabs while guiding him, "Girls are like this, they need a sense of security. If you really like her, be patient with her."
Fu Yuanhang smiled and licked his lips, "You haven't talked about it, it's kind of like a story."
"I haven't eaten pork and I haven't seen a pig run," Zhong Keke wiped his fingers, taking it easy. "You're no better than me, the one who talked about it once or twice."
Fu Yuanhang laughed happily, nodded and said casually, "Yeah, you know girls better than me."
Zhong Keke picked up a skewer and started eating, too focused to speak.
Fu Yuanhang turned his head to look at her, and stopped talking for a while before he said, "Brother gave you the red envelope, received it."
Zhong Ke can worry about his red envelope being swallowed by Xu Lin, and nodded, "I received it, my mother gave it to me, don't worry,"
"Hey, that's not what you mean," Fu Yuanhang thought about his words, "it's this red envelope, it's a bit big."
Zhong Keke's hand holding the bamboo stick froze.
Fu Yuanhang laughed dryly, "This is 10,000 miles away, half of it must be given by your brother Yuqiao."
It has been almost a month since the last time I heard this name.
His thoughts were blank for a moment, Zhong Keke snorted, and subconsciously pulled the corners of his lips, "So many."
The atmosphere was a little subtle for a moment.
Fu Yuanhang paused for a while, then said bravely, "Well, he won't let me tell you."
Zhong Keke lowered his thick eyelashes and stared at the gurgling bubbles in the drink cup, his voice so soft that he could barely hear him, "Then thank him for me."
"… "
Although he had long guessed that this would be the answer, Fu Yuanhang was still in a panic. He leaned back and sighed, "Coco, to tell you the truth, he's been doing pretty bad recently."
Zhong Keke lowered his eyes quietly.
No expressions, no words.
Fu Yuanhang took a deep breath and babbled in a volume that only two people could hear, "A while ago, he went to the countryside with the hospital for support. It took more than half a month since he left, and he lost a lot of weight when he came back. He has a rest day. No, then Director Wu was afraid that he would run to death and train him, and then just a few days ago, he had a ten-hour operation in the middle of the night, and he was exhausted, and now he is still recovering at home."
Hear the words "tired".
Zhong Keke's fingers trembled uncontrollably, and Fu Yuanhang just happened to look over, and the moment their eyes met, she looked away slightly.
Fu Yuanhang didn't want to go around, "Actually, after you two finished talking last time, I should have a chat with you alone, but there's no way. My grandma passed away. It was a coincidence."
Zhong Keke had heard about this before.
I also sent a message of condolences for the first time.
But because she was in a different place, she couldn't get there, and Fu Yuanhang was not in the mood, so the two of them simply said a few words on WeChat.
Looking back now, Zhong Keke is still a little uncomfortable.
It seems that after a short period of time, everything around him has quietly changed. Whether it is Fu Yuanhang or her, they have been repeatedly crushed by life and have to grow up again.
Seeing that the little girl was a little melancholy, Fu Yuanhang smiled, "It's alright, the old man's health is not good, I have prepared for it a long time ago, and now I'm relieved." After a while, there was some pretentious old-fashioned intention in his words, "Just worry about our cocoa."
Zhong Keke pursed his lips.
Fu Yuanhang was silent for a long time, and asked the words that had been held in his heart for a long time, "It's really impossible for the two of you?"
He seemed to guess that he would ask.
Zhong Keke's drooping eyelids blinked, and the light in his eyes was very light.
She didn't know how to answer.
In fact, she had avoided this question for so long, knowing that she didn't want to mention it, and the people around her didn't ask it again.
But Fu Yuanhang is different. He just wanted to make things clear today, "To tell you the truth, I asked him before, and he didn't tell me. I still don't know what you two said that night."
That night, Fu Yuanhang drove to the bar to pick him up. He thought that the two would be picked up together, and even looked forward to seeing the picture of the two men holding hands, but all he saw was Jiang Yuqiao, who was extremely depressed. .
Through simple inquiries, Fu Yuanhang knew that the two had completely collapsed, but Jiang Yuqiao refused to say the specific reason. After that, the two found a random place to drink.
Jiang Yuqiao has always had the temperament of a stuffy gourd since he was a child.
As long as he doesn't want to say it, no matter how others ask, he won't say it.
Fu Yuanhang tried several times, and he just drank bottle after bottle with him without asking.
Later, my grandmother died.
Jiang Yuqiao stayed with him for two days before returning to Tong An.
Because both of them were in a bad state at the beginning, Fu Yuanhang didn't ask, until Zhong Keke's admission letter came down, and Fu Yuanhang also returned to Rongcheng.
This time, he also wanted to take this opportunity to help them sort out their relationship. After all, they grew up together, and he couldn't stand the trouble between them.
But the fact is that Zhong Keke still let him down, "Why should I say it if he doesn't say it."
"… "
Fu Yuanhang choked.
Zhong Ke looked at Fu Yuanhang with a smile, and there was something in his words, "If you really want to know, you might as well ask him."
This small school entrance banquet lasted until four in the afternoon.
Everyone drank a lot of alcohol. The taxi that should be called a taxi should be called a chauffeur.
Fu Yuanhang didn't drink, so he proposed to send Zhong Keke and the old man back. When the car arrived downstairs, he stopped Zhong Keke and wanted to talk to her alone.
"I'm going to Tong An tomorrow," Fu Yuanhang said straight to the point. "He's very ill, and there's no one around to take care of him. I'll go take a look."
compared to previous attempts.
These words have clearly told her what Jiang Yuqiao's situation is now.
Zhong Keke looked down at the tip of his shoe, "What's wrong with him."
Fu Yuanhang: "I said yes to a severe cold, plus I have been overworked recently, so I need to take good care of it."
Hearing this, Zhong Keke nodded, "Then take good care of him," an indescribable sour emotion leaked out, her voice was a little hoarse, "He... There is no one around."
"Would you like to go see him with me?" Fu Yuanhang asked sincerely.
"… "
Zhong Keke raised his head, a trace of unbearable flashed in his eyes, but he still refused, "I'm going to report to school soon."
Fu Yuanhang shook his head for a moment, and then he reacted, "Yeah, school starts soon."
Zhong Keke hummed, "you go, I won't go."
After all, without waiting for Fu Yuanhang to respond, he turned his head and walked into the community.
Suddenly, Fu Yuanhang's voice sounded behind him, "Coco."
Zhong Keke's footsteps flashed.
Fu Yuanhang: "Can't you really give him another chance?"
Zhong Keke's fists subconsciously tightened.
After all, he didn't say anything, and walked quickly towards the community.
When he got home, the old man was already asleep on the sofa.
Zhong Coco went over and turned down the air conditioner a little before returning to the bedroom.
Everyone could hear her voice, and hurried over, one person and one cat were lying in the dark room, the air was silent.
Zhong Keke looked at the goose down chandelier on the ceiling, uncontrollably thinking of Fu Yuanhang's words, and the scene of her and Jiang Yuqiao in the alley a month ago.
That night, Jiang Yuqiao hugged her tightly, no matter what she said, she never let go.
Zhong Keke's heart softened for a moment, until she saw that Jiang Yuqiao had a silver ring and a black sling hanging around his neck. It was something he wore since he was a child. When he was a child, Zhong Ke could think that it belonged to his mother, because the ring was obviously a wedding ring.
But later, she realized that it was not.
It was left by the murderer.
The murderer accidentally dropped it when he was committing the murder, and Jiang Yuqiao kept it tightly in his hand.
For so many years, the murderer has not been caught.
Jiang Yuqiao has always been obsessed. He wants to catch that person, whether it is for his brother or his mother, going to Tong An is also to get closer to that person's clues, because Tong An is that person's hometown.
If the murderer stayed at that time, he wanted all Jiang Yuan's children to be buried with his daughter. Because of this, Jiang Yuqiao changed his name and even came to live in Lu Tingshan.
Everyone was protecting him and wanted him to be separated from the past, but Jiang Yuqiao never gave up. The death of his younger brother was a knot in his heart that could not be solved. The reason why Xu Lin blocked the two of them was also because of this.
When he was a child, Zhong Keke didn't think it would be like this.
But when she grew up, she slowly realized that this matter was not a trivial matter at all.
He can follow clues without hesitation.
Even confronted the killer head-on.
What about her.
What would she do if something happened to him
At that moment, Zhong Keke blurted out, that is, these words, which completely made it impossible for the two of them.
Zhong Keke understood that she was not important enough to make him give up everything in the past.
At that time, she was filled with sadness and anger.
Can't think of anything else at all.
When these two emotions calmed down, she suddenly realized that what made her sad was not that he was unwilling to give up the past, but that he let her go because of those pasts.
Fu Yuanhang arrived in Tong An the next morning.
The first thing I did when I got there was to go to the hospital to see Jiang Yuqiao.
In fact, Jiang Yuqiao's situation was much more serious than what Fu Yuanhang said. At that time, he had a ten-hour operation and no dripping water came in. He wanted to go downstairs to get something, but he fainted at that time and walked from the upstairs. fell.
At that moment, he was not thinking about how to protect himself.
Instead, he suddenly remembered what happened when Zhong Keke fell from the upstairs.
Strange to say, the two were even injured at the same location, but Zhong Keke lost his memory, and Jiang Yuqiao just slept for a few days.
This matter frightened Fu Yuanhang.
Fortunately, Jiang Yuqiao woke up not long after, the doctor meant that he was too tired and needed a good rest.
Because of this, Jiang Yuqiao unexpectedly got a few days of peace of mind.
It was these extraordinarily peaceful days, Jiang Yuqiao thought a lot.
He gradually came to understand that something as hard to tell as sadness could not be covered up by busyness or other things, and sometimes the depression was so extreme that even time couldn't heal it.
Jiang Yuqiao suddenly felt that he was ridiculous.
He was so naive that he could really never contact Zhong Keke.
Realizing this, Jiang Yuqiao turned on the original mobile phone, and the first thing was to see Zhong Keke's circle of friends, but the reality was that he was still blocked and could not see anything.
Some things, once broken, can't stop the car.
Jiang Yuqiao went to peek at her Weibo again.
After a month, she only updated one—
[Unrequited love is like a cold that cannot be cured for a long time.
It doesn't seem painful or itchy, only those who have experienced it know how hard it is.]
So, she should have recovered.
But he began to fall ill.
Because of such a Weibo post, Jiang Yuqiao's whole person fell into a depressed mood again. Even with injections every day, his low-grade fever did not subside. Fu Yuanhang knew this and had a good talk with him immediately.
So, there is a red envelope of less than 10,000 yuan for the two of them.
When Fu Yuanhang arrived at the hospital, Shen Xiaoyang, who was in the same department, was beside Jiang Yuqiao earnestly instructing him to take good care of himself while he went back to recuperate. It is not a good thing to have a low fever all the time.
There was still a piece of gauze on the man's head, and he was casually wearing his coat while listening to his babble.
Seeing Fu Yuanhang coming, Jiang Yuqiao smiled and raised his chin at Shen Xiaoyang, "Don't talk, my friend is here to pick me up."
While talking, Fu Yuanhang came in and said hello to Shen Xiaoyang.
Following him to help Jiang Yuqiao carry some things, the two came to the car.
Fu Yuanhang had nothing to do for a while, and planned to stay in Tong An for a while. The elders in the family heard that Jiang Yuqiao was injured, and hurriedly asked him to bring a lot of supplements.
As soon as Jiang Yuqiao got in the car, he saw a mess of colorful things piled up in the back seat.
The man chuckled lightly, "I just fell, so I won't."
"Hey, don't," Fu Yuanhang said seriously, "you fucking don't know how scary you are when you are in a coma."
Jiang Yuqiao leaned lazily on the driver's seat and casually fastened his seat belt, "It's not because of a fall that he fell unconscious."
"Yes, yes, not because of the fall, but because of being tired."
Fu Yuanhang wanted to say something, and suddenly saw Jiang Yuqiao's almost transparent skin and the wound on his head, and sighed, "It's almost time, where are you going to eat."
Only then did Jiang Yuqiao realize that it was time for dinner.
Maybe it was because he had been in the hospital for a long time, he had no appetite recently, but he was a little bored and wanted to go out for a walk.
When Fu Yuanhang heard it, he was delighted, "That's right, you've been living here for almost a week, so you need to go out for a walk."
While talking, he picked up his mobile phone and searched, "But at this time, no bars are open, or we can go shopping?"
"Go to the temple."
Suddenly, the half-closed man's voice was light, as if he had inadvertently said an idea that had been brewing for a long time.
Fu Yuanhang paused with his fingers and raised his eyebrows unexpectedly, "You have a good idea."
Jiang Yuqiao was shaken by the sunlight and closed his eyes, and there was a touch of imperceptible emotion in the clear voice, "Tong'an's Qingye Temple is said to be very spiritual."
Fu Yuanhang said "Huh?"
Jiang Yuqiao, who has always been materialistic, slowly opened his peach blossom eyes, and stared blankly at the bright and lush street scene ahead, his thin lips parted lightly, "I want to go and say goodbye."