It takes almost four hours to fly from Night City to Tokyo. Because there is an hour time difference between Tokyo and China, when we got off the plane, it was equivalent to only taking a three-hour flight.
Ji Guanning said Luo Xiangdong knew where Ji Guanxin was. We walked out of the plane door and saw a strange and haggard face. Should I hold back from crying? Then I smiled and said to him: Ji Guanxin, I’m here to see you.
I couldn't control the random speculation in my mind, and I had already reached the door of the suite. Just as I was about to reach out and knock on the door, a man's familiar and high-pitched voice suddenly came from the room: "Put it there! I'll take care of you. Three a's and two two's. Will I kill you?"
My fingers suddenly trembled and stopped in front of the door panel. This voice... my pupils shrank, I couldn't believe my ears, was it Ji Guanxin
It had been so long since I heard his voice, but I knew it as soon as he spoke. It can’t be wrong, it can’t be wrong.
Immediately afterwards, several men's laughter came from the room: "Let me go, where did you get so many a's? I was just about to say that someone touched all the a's."
"You are so lucky that no one can stop you. Have you ever used all your skills?"
These sounds all existed in my memory. I thought I had forgotten them long ago, but now when I hear them, I can distinguish them accurately. The person in front is Mai Jiahui, and the person behind is Zhang Danqing.
The laughter in the room continued, and Ji Guanxin said: "I have been sitting in the hospital for a year, and I did nothing else but play poker. When you didn't come, I took the little nurse to beat me, and I treated those little The nurse just needs to open a few tables here."
Cheng Lin's voice came: "You rest for a while, I'll get you a glass of water."
This voice was very close to me. When I wanted to come to my senses, the door had already opened. Cheng Lin took a step forward habitually, and suddenly saw a person standing at the door. He paused. When he took a closer look and saw that it was me, he was beyond surprised.
I also stared back at Cheng Lin intently. After looking at him for three seconds, I couldn't help but look through his side.
Diagonally across the hospital bed, Ji Guanxin, wearing a white round-neck casual shirt, sat on it. In front of him was a small table for patients to eat. But there was a pile of playing cards on the table, and he was shuffling the cards while rolling up his left sleeve.
Mak Jiahui was sitting with his back to me. Zhang Danqing walked to the table and picked up an apple. When he turned around and saw me at the door, he looked at me dumbfounded.
Ji Guanxin didn't pay attention at first, but when he turned his head to talk to Zhang Danqing, he followed his line of sight and looked at me standing at the door.
I have really imagined countless scenarios when I meet Ji Guanxin again, especially when we just broke up. Later, after we parted ways in the imperial court, I felt anxious for a long time, fearing that I would be at a loss and embarrassed if I met Ji Guanxin again in Night City.
But I didn't expect that this farewell and goodbye would be at such a time.
A few meters away, Ji Guanxin was sitting on the bed, holding a stack of playing cards in his hand; I stood at the door, looking at his all-too-familiar face in a trance.
He was not as I imagined, wearing a hospital gown, looking pale and haggard. Like Zhang Danqing and Cheng Lin, he was wearing casual clothes. Except that his complexion was still paler than normal, he looked like a family member or friend of a patient who came to the hospital to visit.
If there is any change, Ji Guanxin is indeed thinner than before. The already long and large eyelids seemed to occupy an even larger area on the face.
When we looked at each other, time seemed to stand still. I don’t know how long it took, but Cheng Lin was the first to cough, and then said: "When did you come?"
I blinked my sore eyes, looked back at Ji Guanxin, and said to Cheng Lin, "Just got here."
Cheng Lin nodded, and then said: "Go in."
He stepped away first, and I stepped inside. Zhang Danqing and Mai Jiahui had already lost their surprised expressions and said to Ji Guanxin, "Go to the bathroom."
In the blink of an eye, Ji Guanxin and I were the only two people left in the room.
I stood two meters away from him. There were so many things I wanted to say to him, but when the words came to my lips, I couldn't say them for some reason.
Ji Guanxin put down the poker in his hand, looked at me, raised the corners of his lips, and said with a smile, "Why are you here?"
His smile was so familiar, just like when he first met me a long time ago, his smile was cynical and mischievous; it was also like when he appeared in Liangcheng later, standing on the second floor platform of my house, opening his arms to me and smiling. Then he asked me if I had thought about him.
Such a smile, coupled with a slightly surprised and somewhat expected indifferent tone, actually made me blur the relationship between me and him.
I stood there, my body a little stiff, looking at Ji Guanxin who was smiling, I opened my mouth and tried my best, but no sound came out for a while.
When Ji Guanxin saw this, the smile on his face became even bigger, even with a bit of ridicule. He said to me: "What are you doing? We haven't seen each other for so long, and you can't even speak?"
Ji Guanxin, he is still him.
I couldn't tell whether I was happy or scared. I couldn't say anything, but my vision suddenly became blurry.