Luo Lian was very different this time. He didn't speak very long words. He didn't tell Gu Ziyi that he already knew that Gu Ziyi asked Jian Fan to help.
They experienced a very special time in each other's lives.
Although they are not always together, they still exist in another way.
Neither of them were what they were before they met again.
In just one year, they have changed a lot.
Gu Ziyi looked at his plate, "You eat first, and we'll talk about it after you finish."
Luo Lian picked up the fork, obeyed her words, lowered his head and started eating. It was a bit hurried, because he was very nervous, really nervous.
He ate so quickly that he even choked.
Gu Ziyi immediately reached out and picked up the water glass and handed it to him.
Luo Lian took a sip of water and then stopped eating. "I'm done eating."
Gu Ziyi looked at him, "Would you like to go out for a walk?"
"… good."
Luo Lian settled the bill and paid the tip. Gu Ziyi originally wanted to pay, but Luo Lian stopped her.
Two people came out of the gate.
Luo Lian slowed down and followed Gu Ziyi, one step behind her, not walking side by side.
Gu Ziyi glanced sideways at him, "Aren't you standing by my side?"
"...Oh..." Luo Lian moved forward.
Two people together.
There was silence between each other at first, and Gu Ziyi spoke first: "Do you think it's worth spending so much time on me?" In fact, Gu Ziyi regretted it after asking it. She asked a question she already knew the answer to.
"value."
"Luo Lian, it seems that we have never grown up." Gu Ziyi smiled at him.
Luo Lian didn't understand, "I don't understand..." He didn't understand what Gu Ziyi meant.
Gu Ziyi did not say anything clearly, "Have you ever thought about the answer you will get from me?"
"...I've thought about it." Luo Lian couldn't help but smile, "I've thought about many things." But I didn't agree to the one.
"Do you want... say something else?" Gu Ziyi stopped and looked directly at her.
"Say...what did you say?" Luo Lian felt that he couldn't keep up with Gu Ziyi's thinking.
Gu Ziyi looked into his eyes: "Don't you have anything else to say?"
Luo Lian thought for a while: "I didn't lie, I was serious about you, I didn't lie to you." He knew that his credibility with Gu Ziyi was zero.
Gu Ziyi stared at him for a few seconds, then suddenly smiled: "Your expression now is just like when you confessed your love to me back then." She couldn't remember exactly what she said when she confessed her love. I just remember saying "Gu classmates" at the beginning.
Luo Lian looked at her and said something like this by accident: "Miss Gu, I love you."
Very solemn.
His sudden words made Gu Ziyi slightly stunned.
It seemed that every time Luo Lian wanted to express something solemnly, he would use a particularly polite name.
Gu Ziyi looked at Luo Lian's face, "Old cows can't eat young grass." She couldn't help laughing, her eyebrows were very soft, "You are the old cow, and I am the young grass."
Then she continued: "You are thirty years old, you are an old man."
Luo Lian felt that he might hear the same rejection as before. He felt a little desperate inside and couldn't keep any expression on his face. He had closed his eyes, waiting for Gu Ziyi to pronounce the "death sentence".
"But... try again."
Luo Lian opened his eyes with a "swish", filled with disbelief.
Gu Ziyi stood there with soft eyes and a smile on her face.
"...Are you serious?" Luo Lian said these words, and his voice trembled.
"Think about it carefully. If you can't escape and can't let go, let's try again. The last time, at worst, it will end in two pieces." Gu Ziyi smiled.
"I... I..." Luo Lian was so excited that he couldn't speak.
"You think you're dreaming?" Gu Ziyi tilted her head.
Luo Lian nodded, "Yeah."
"When I saw you just now, I thought it was a dream. I never thought you would come after Rome." Gu Ziyi lowered her eyelashes. She didn't tell Luo Lian anything else about it.
She passed a wishing fountain yesterday and dropped a coin into it.
What she was thinking was to ask God to give her guidance once. If she could meet Luo Lian here, then... give each other another chance.
In fact, this is an impossible thing.
She flew to Rome without telling Luo Lian, and Luo Lian didn't know either. And even if I came to Rome, how could there be such a big coincidence
but…
There really is a coincidence.
When she saw Luo Lian at that moment, she thought it was her hallucination. Later it was discovered that it was not. Maybe God really showed up and gave them this chance.
Gu Ziyi stretched out a hand to Luo Lian, "I want to stay in Rome for a few more days, and I want to go to other cities next stop. Do you want to stay with me?"
Luo Lian looked at Gu Ziyi's hand. He held her gently, "I'll stay with you."
They walked for a while along the streets of Rome, holding hands the whole time.
This was a scenario they had never dared to imagine. I never thought there would be another chance to hold hands.
Gu Ziyi talks a lot, but is actually very boring. It was nothing more than sharing what she had been doing in Rome these days.
Her words were boring and without nutrition. But Luo Lian listened very carefully.
Gu Ziyi's willingness to share these trivial things was what Luo Lian wanted.
He always felt that this was like a dream, that he might wake up suddenly, and then the bubble of the dream would burst.
They walked around for a while and then returned to Gu Ziyi's hotel.
Luo Lian checked out the hotel he originally booked, packed his luggage and moved here. It happened to be on Gu Ziyi's floor, and the guest opposite had just checked out of the room, and he checked in at the door opposite Gu Ziyi.
After the whole day, Luo Lian was still a little uneasy.
Especially at night, he tossed and turned in bed, still unable to sleep. Finally, he knocked on Gu Ziyi's door.
Gu Ziyi was very sleepy, so she opened the door and saw Luo Lian standing there. "What's wrong?" She yawned.
"I... I want to be next to you."
Gu Ziyi, who was so transparent, could see Luo Lian's uneasiness. She understood that just as she could not feel safe with Luo Lian, Luo Lian could not feel safe with her.
Gu Ziyi turned sideways and said, "Come in."
Luo Lian entered the door.
Gu Ziyi said: "You have to lay the floor."
"Um… "
A quilt was spread on the ground and Luo Lian slept on the ground.
There was no awkwardness or embarrassment about sleeping in the same room, so they accepted it naturally.
Gu Ziyi has been walking around these days, and she also walked for a long time today. It is getting very late now. She was so sleepy that she fell asleep soon after lying on the bed.
Originally, the two of them were talking to each other, but then Luo Lian couldn't hear Gu Ziyi's answer, but she looked evenly at Gu Ziyi, so he knew she must have fallen asleep.
(End of chapter)