I have always relied on this. Luo Xiangdong would rather betray Kuang Yiyang than me. I should have more confidence in him. Just a lot of the time. Human hearts are not controlled by reason. I also wanted to be decisive and decisive, but there were too many uncertain factors around Luo Xiangdong. I'm afraid, afraid that he will be like those people who suddenly left my life and told me to see you later just a second ago. But the next second he was gone.
During a meal at noon, Wei Zheng and Zheng Zeyu chatted a lot with me. They were considered friends enough and said some good and bad things. Gave me a heads up.
Wei Zheng said to me: "Zijin, we are telling you this. We are not trying to make you retreat. You have to believe in Xiangdong until the day he tells you no. Don't let go of his hand first."
Just by saying this, I will always remember how good they are.
Nod. I picked up the wine glass in front of me and said loudly: "Brother Zheng. Brother Zeyu, let's not say polite words, it's all in the wine."
Zheng Zeyu smiled, looked at me and said, "It feels like it was when I first met you, so refreshing."
My friends and family all commented favorably on me. I am quick and easy, but only my previous boyfriends know what kind of person I am. Maybe I am more open-minded when it comes to friendships and family relationships, so when it comes to love, I am very extreme, and I am completely different from my normal self.
I know this is unfair to the boyfriends around me, but love is like this. I can't tolerate a grain of sand in my eyes, and I can't tolerate half-hearted compromise emotionally. Maybe it was because of my stubbornness in love that I forced Chen Wenhang and Ji Guanxin to leave.
I used to feel that I was right in everything, but now I feel that after a breakup, everyone is at fault. I can't undo anything, I can only try to avoid the mistakes I made before when I was with Luo Xiangdong.
When Luo Xiangdong arrived at Night City, it was already past eight o'clock in the evening. He called me as soon as he got off the plane, and I quickly answered.
"Hey, Xiangdong."
When I answered his call, I was in my bedroom, holding my phone and looking through the photos of the two of us taken over the past six months.
Luo Xiangdong's voice was filled with uncontrollable anxiety. After calling my name, he said, "I've arrived at Night City. I just got off the plane. I'll transfer to Winter City in twenty minutes. I'll probably arrive at 11 o'clock at the latest." It’s a cool city.”
When I thought of him traveling long distances here and there, I felt so distressed that even my voice softened: "Don't worry, Brother Zheng and Brother Zeyu have told me, I won't be angry with you anymore."
Luo Xiangdong obviously breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Zijin, wait for my reply after you finish the work. Don't think about it by yourself. You scared me to death."
There was a lot of exhaustion in his voice. This exhaustion not only came from flying for dozens of hours over several days, but also from the exhaustion of his heart.
My eyes turned red as I listened, trying hard to hold back the soreness in my throat, and said, "Okay, never again."
Luo Xiangdong said: "Don't cry, I feel bad."
I was already very cautious, but he still heard it right away. I suddenly burst into tears and my vision was blurred. It's not that I feel aggrieved, I just miss him.
Luo Xiangdong coaxed me on the phone: "Be obedient and don't cry. It's my fault for this. It makes you scared. I'm back. I promise to turn on my phone 24 hours a day from now on so that you can never find me again."
I held my phone and kept nodding, and my tears fell down, dripping on my pure cotton pajamas, only making a circle.
Maybe my mother heard my voice. She gently opened the door and came in. I quickly reached out and wiped my eyes. My mother stood at the door and asked me softly: "Xiangdong?"
I said 'hmm' and my mother said, "You're back?"
"In Night City."
Luo Xiangdong said: "Is it auntie? Give the phone to auntie."
I didn't know what Luo Xiangdong was going to say to my mother, or whether to hand the phone to my mother. My mother reached out and took it with an easy-going attitude: "Hey, Xiangdong."
In the quiet room, Luo Xiangdong's voice came clearly from the mobile phone. He said respectfully: "Auntie, I'm sorry, the news on the Internet has caused trouble for you and your family."
My mother said: "Wei Zheng and the others came and gave us a brief explanation. Since there is a misunderstanding, we can all understand it. But you, who have to go back and forth all the way, please pay attention to your health."
Luo Xiangdong said: "Auntie, I have less than fifteen minutes to board the plane to Winter City. It may be 11 o'clock in the middle of the night when I arrive in Liangcheng. If you and uncle haven't rested by then, I want to see you. "
My mother said quickly: "It's okay, it's okay, come here, your uncle and I will wait."
Luo Xiangdong comforted my mother with a few words, and my mother immediately handed me the phone. I had wiped away my tears, but my voice was still muffled. Holding my cell phone, I spoke out: "You come to Dongcheng so late, and there is no train back to Liangcheng. Be careful when taking a taxi, and give it to me when you get there. Call me and I'll pick you up."
Luo Xiangdong said softly: "Okay, stop crying, otherwise I will feel uncomfortable."
I said 'hmm' and said a few more words of instruction. Because I knew he was about to change planes, I didn't hold him back to chat.
After I hung up the phone, my mother sat by the bed and said, "Looking at his eagerness to come back, he is quite sincere."
I sat cross-legged on the bed, watching my mother being frightened with me, and the soreness I had just suppressed came up again. Holding back tears, I whispered: "Mom, don't worry about me, I will take care of myself."
My mother's eyes were red when she heard this. She looked away and said with emotion: "I have also talked with your father. Since you like Luo Xiangdong so much, we won't stop you. Feelings belong to two people. It's okay, but marriage is a matter between two families. Our family doesn't care about it, just because we are afraid that the Luo family will make you feel wronged."
I said, "Mom, don't worry, I can handle it, and you know I'm not the kind of person who can tolerate anyone's anger."
My mother looked at me again, with her red eyes full of distress. She whispered: "Your dad can't even talk to you. He has cried to me several times behind my back. He said that he wanted to beat Luo Xiangdong twice just thinking about you being angry."
I sniffed, reached out to hold my mother's hand, and said, "I have my own bottom line, and I won't settle for anything just for love."
My mother nodded and said, "I'm afraid that your child will be obsessed with love and lose yourself."
I shook my head: "No, the reason why I have been able to talk to Xiangdong for so long is not that I am accommodating him, but that he has been accommodating me."
Luo Xiangdong knows my character very well, and he also knows that I love him not because of money. I have been hurt and had shadows, and the most taboo thing about me is men cheating on me. As long as Luo Xiangdong doesn't touch this, I'm actually very easy to get along with.
Now that a fiancée appears out of nowhere, the worst outcome is that the Luo family will give her to Luo Xiangdong. As long as Luo Xiangdong tells me that he doesn't want it, I will believe him. No matter how many things happen, I will shoulder it with him.
Luo Xiangdong sent me a text message before getting on the plane. There were only three words: I love you.
Luo Xiangdong and I are not people who talk about the word 'love'. Instead of saying I love you, we more often say I like you, and we like you very much.
Seeing these three words, I knew that this was his oath to me and his loyalty to me.
My tears turned into a smile, and I replied to him: I love you more.
It takes twelve hours to fly from Canada to Night City. I have been waiting for this long, and it is not less than the two hours to fly from Night City to Winter City.
After he got off the plane, he still called me immediately. I heard him get into the taxi and said he was coming to Liangcheng. The driver asked for three hundred and sixty six. When Luo Xiangdong spoke to me, he just said "hmm" casually and didn't care much.
I immediately said: "What three hundred and sixty? This is not an exorbitant price. You bargain with him, at most two hundred and two."
Luo Xiangdong smiled and said: "It doesn't matter."
I said, "Even if you have money, you can't be as prodigal as you. Hurry up, why don't you give him your phone number and I'll have a chat with him to see what he means."
Luo Xiangdong was amused by me and said, "I haven't talked to you for so long, and you asked me to give my phone to someone else. Are you crazy?"
I knew that Luo Xiangdong couldn't bargain with the driver for eight hundred and ten yuan, but with this back and forth, talking and laughing, the dull atmosphere between us disappeared.
He was still in the taxi, but he said to me as if no one was watching, "I've missed you so much these past two days."
I lay on the bed, looking at the lights on the roof, raised the corners of my lips, and replied: "Keep a low profile, the driver is still beside you."
Luo Xiangdong said: "I think you still need to take care of others?"
I laughed out loud, turned over involuntarily, faced inward, and said back to him: "I miss you too."
Luo Xiangdong said: "I will go to your house later. Can I take you away with me in the middle of the night?"
My heart beat faster, but I said, "Are you dreaming?"
Luo Xiangdong said: "It's impossible for your mother to let me live at your house."
I said, "That's impossible. Ask Brother Zheng to help you book a room at Fu Lai, and go there for one night first."
Luo Xiangdong said: "Where you live is not the important thing, the important thing is who you live with."
Look at the way he said it without shame. Even though the driver couldn't see my face, I was embarrassed. I whispered: "Are you embarrassed? You're afraid that others won't know, right?"
Luo Xiangdong asked instead: "You don't miss me?"
I quickly replied: "Why don't you want to?" I wanted to die.
Luo Xiangdong said: "If you want me to come with you tonight, I will tie you to my waistband and take you wherever you go."
He said this half-jokingly and half-seriously, but I suddenly felt a lot of emotion in my heart. After only a few days of separation, something unexpected happened. It wasn't that I didn't trust him enough, but that the pressure from the outside world and around me couldn't be handled by myself.
I said, "Xiangdong, have you thought about what to say to my parents?"
Luo Xiangdong responded, and then said: "I have to get through your parents first. When it's daytime tomorrow, you can take me to visit the two elderly families. I have to meet them once."
I said, "Xiangdong, there's no need to be so hasty, our whole family doesn't want to force you."
Luo Xiangdong said: "I can understand your family. After all, you are a woman. It is not good for you to be with me without status or status."