Gu Ziyi walked out of the team with two cups of milk tea. She handed Luo Lian a glass, "Here you go."
Luo Lian took it.
Gu Ziyi inserted the straw and took a sip. It seemed like she hadn't had milk tea for a long time.
Luo Lian doesn't particularly like sweet things, but Gu Ziyi seems to like them very much. He inserted the straw and took a sip. It tasted very sweet. He frowned, but Gu Ziyi looked like she was drinking well.
Gu Ziyi glanced at him, "Where are we going now?"
Luo Lian smiled: "I don't know either." He just wanted to spend more time with Gu Ziyi.
Gu Ziyi frowned and said, "Are you going to wander around on the road all the time?"
"I want to chat with you." Luo Lian said.
Gu Ziyi stared at him and was silent for a few seconds. She didn't really like their current situation. "Then, let's move forward."
The two people walked further along the street.
"How have you been in the past few years?" Luo Lian asked her.
Gu Ziyi bit her milk tea straw and smiled casually: "It's pretty good." It can be said that her life is going very smoothly. Except for things not going well emotionally, everything else is going well.
Gu Ziyi swallowed the milk tea in her mouth and asked, "What about you?"
"Me?" Luo Lian reviewed his past few years, "Good or bad." The hard work of these years was summed up in an understatement. How difficult it is for a person to live abroad. Whenever he sees fellow international students being able to go home during the holidays, he is also envious.
But, where can he go home
His home is long gone.
Their steps were very slow, as if they were all trying to talk more.
Although Luo Lian could bear it, he couldn't bear it for long. He suddenly asked: "Do you have a new boyfriend?"
Gu Ziyi looked up at him and wanted to say "Does it have anything to do with you" again, but when she saw the look in Luo Lian's eyes, she couldn't say the words and got stuck in her throat.
"Not yet." Gu Ziyi lowered her eyes and looked at the road in front of her.
If there is none at the moment, it means there will be in the future.
Yes, one cannot stand still.
Luo Lian's throat moved and he repeated it several times before he spoke: "Is that person today the one who is pursuing you?"
Gu Ziyi's brows tightened. She was a little reluctant to be interrogated, as if she was a prisoner. "Luo Lian, we have nothing to do with each other. This is my private matter."
Luo Lian suddenly stood still.
Gu Ziyi also stopped and looked at Luo Lian.
The two people's eyes met, neither of them looking away.
Luo Lian looked at her, holding back a lot of words. He wanted to say them but couldn't, and wanted to say them but didn't dare.
Gu Ziyi pursed her lips and said, "Let's go back to the parking lot."
Luo Lian nodded.
They walked back along the road, but there was silence for a while.
When they arrived at the parking lot, Gu Ziyi picked up the car.
The two of them got into the car, and because of the limited range of the car, the silence was particularly clear at this moment.
"I know I have no position to ask you about personal matters." Luo Lian's tone was very low. He was suddenly afraid that Gu Ziyi would be snatched away by others, "But I..."
Gu Ziyi looked forward, not daring to look at Luo Lian's expression at this moment.
"I like you."
After five years of absence, I heard these four words again.
Luo Lian's eyes fell on Gu Ziyi's face, and he waited for Gu Ziyi's answer.
Gu Ziyi was not shocked or panicked. She suddenly laughed, as if she had heard a funny joke. She finally turned her head and looked at Luo Lian.
"Luo Lian, are you crazy?" Gu Ziyi felt that there was something wrong with Luo Lian's mind at this moment.
Luo Lian's expression froze when she heard Gu Ziyi continue: "I don't think you have any reason to like me. If it's because of what happened before, then there's no need to mention our past."
"I'm not talking about the past, I'm talking about now. I like you, sincerely." Luo Lian's eyes were particularly serious.
Gu Ziyi wanted to agree for a moment.
She blinked her eyelashes and stared at Luo Lian for several seconds, then withdrew her gaze and looked forward. "The past is the past. I am no longer in my early twenties, so I am not that easy to deceive. I will not spend time on a love that is a joke, and I will not have anything to do with you. The most suitable relationship after a breakup , that is, we are both dead in each other’s world.”
Gu Ziyi was very calm, so calm that she was shocked. "I don't know what your purpose is for coming back, and I don't know what your purpose is for finding me. I... I don't want to have anything to do with you."
Every word Gu Ziyi said made Luo Lian feel heartbroken.
"What happened before was my fault, I..."
Gu Ziyi directly interrupted Luo Lian. She looked at Luo Lian with a calm look, "We are not children anymore, so there is no need to say this. There is no way I can promise you. There is no need for me to respond just because you like it." .”
She felt that Luo Lian was really childish at this moment.
Ideal love has long since disappeared, and they are no longer that age.
It's one thing to have a good impression, it's one thing not to let go, but it's another thing to respond.
She admitted that she might not be able to let go of Luo Lian. But she is no longer that age, and she has to think about the future. She is almost thirty years old, and what she may need is a congenial lover, a husband, the father of her future child, and a family with her.
Do you want her to have an unsafe relationship at this age without any scruples
You can squander your time however you want, but Gu Ziyi can't afford it in this way. She is not willing to just choose a marriage partner, but she is not willing to waste time like this.
It's too hard and time-consuming... If the ending is not what people want, Gu Ziyi would rather not start it, as it would be responsible for herself.
Everything Luo Lian wanted to say was blocked. Only he himself knows how he feels at this moment.
He moved his lips repeatedly before making a sound: "I will not be irresponsible. I know what I want."
Gu Ziyi closed her eyes and opened them again. "You know what you want, and I know what I want."
"I like you." Luo Lian said these four words again.
Gu Ziyi laughed softly: "Have you heard a sentence? A good horse never turns back."
She would not condescend to choose someone who had abandoned her and teased her.
Regardless of whether he regrets it or not, Gu Ziyi does not regret it.
She wants the minimum self-esteem and face.
Regardless of whether the love Luo Lian said at this moment was sincere or not. Gu Ziyi would not agree to anything.
Feelings are not something that you will definitely get a response if you pay.
Many times, it ends in vain.
(End of chapter)