Ying Hui recalled that Mo Sheng never seemed to receive financial help from him, and then recalled what his ex-girlfriend said to him when they broke up, and couldn't help feeling a little emotional.
Mo Sheng looked at him thoughtfully: "Brother Ying, what are you thinking about?"
Ying Hui smiled and said, "No, I just re-understood the word pride."
Mo Sheng was puzzled, looked at him suspiciously, and did not ask any further questions.
Before Ying Hui's parents came, Valentine's Day came first, but Ying Hui was not romantic by nature, and Mo Sheng didn't think about it at all, so they spent this Valentine's Day without any ambiguity.
On Valentine's Day, Ying Hui picked up an international call in the study upstairs. When he went downstairs, he saw Mo Sheng sitting on the sofa with his head on one hand and his laptop on his lap. He didn't notice him coming down at all.
Because of the angle, he happened to see a gleam in the corner of Mo Sheng's eyes.
Ying Hui thought she had watched some tragic movie, but when she walked over, it was just an ordinary web page, and it was the SOSO search page that he was most familiar with.
The search key was a name he had never heard before - He Yichen.
Mo Sheng found him only then, and turned her head quickly, before wiping the tears from her cheeks.
She closed the computer, stood up, and stared down at her toes, looking a little embarrassed.
Ying Hui immediately understood: "He..."
After saying a word, he paused, not knowing what to say for a while.
Mo Sheng looked up at him, her washed eyes were very clear, and Ying Hui could see the sadness inside.
"Did Brother Ying like anyone?" she asked.
"Yeah." Ying Hui answered after a beat, "I used to have a girlfriend at C University. She was very smart and beautiful."
"My ex-boyfriend is also very good." Mo Sheng said in a low voice.
"Oh?" Ying Hui forced a smile, "Then your boyfriend is not as lucky as me."
After all, he's just your "before" now.
Mo Sheng completely misunderstood what he said, probably thinking that Ying Hui said that her boyfriend was looking for her because of bad luck, and a little dissatisfied, she said, "I'm not that bad either..."
Ying Hui didn't explain, and hurried to the study upstairs, but he didn't want to do anything.
Once you see this name, you seem to see it everywhere in your life.
From that day on—
Mo Sheng called He Yichen absentmindedly from time to time.
The inexplicable smile on Mo Sheng's mouth is called He Yichen.
Mo Sheng suddenly felt lonely and called He Yichen.
…
Mo Sheng started to mention this name to him frequently, as if he had finally found someone who could talk about that person.
How smart that person is.
How capable that person is.
…
Of course Ying Hui would be impatient.
It's just that when he saw the sadness and loneliness in her brows and eyes when she talked about that person, his impatience turned into unbearable.
It was accompanied by an unfamiliar pain.
Even if he knew that Mo Sheng was more of a brother, Ying Hui still had a certain feeling that he was confident that there would not be someone better than him around her, so he might as well take it slow. However, this feeling disappeared now, Ying Hui clearly felt the ice wall built up in Mo Sheng's heart, that ice wall excluded all ambiguous things.
He may only ever be able to act as a brother.
Ying Hui gradually became impatient.
So that night came, I don't know whether it was because of a long-term backlog of emotions, or because of a momentary loss of control.
That day he was socializing outside and came back drunk, Mo Sheng took care of him in a hurry.
Ying Hui couldn't tell whether he was drunk or awake. If he was drunk, how could he still remember every detail clearly, and if he was awake, how could he be so uncontrollable by reason...
It seemed that he was half asleep and half awake, and he pressed Mo Sheng under him...
It was early morning when he woke up.
At 0.1 seconds when his consciousness returned, he rushed downstairs.
The downstairs hall was dark without the lights on.
Vaguely saw Mo Sheng sitting on the sofa downstairs, hugging her knees tightly, her head drooping.
Ying Hui seems to have seen somewhere that when a person is severely injured, he will subconsciously use this position of a baby in the mother's body, because he lacks a sense of security.
His hand rested on the light switch and put it down.
Mo Sheng suddenly spoke out, weakly: "Brother Ying, do you... do you take me for her?"
Ying Hui was stunned for a while before realizing who she was referring to.
his ex-girlfriend.
It seems that he only mentioned his ex-girlfriend to her once, and he doesn't remember what he said. She thought... He still thinks of her
Mo Sheng, do you think everyone is as fond of the past as you are
Ying Hui smiled bitterly.
He found that Mo Sheng gave him an interesting dilemma: if he said "yes", he couldn't reveal his heart, and he might never be able to go further; if he said no, he had to admit that he was a rapist.
Although unsuccessful.
Facing Mo Sheng's trusting eyes, Ying Hui finally chose to close his eyes and not answer.
Let her find the answer that best comforts her.
In fact, Mo Sheng was no longer able to live in the same room with him calmly after that. When Mo Sheng proposed to move out, Ying Hui said, "Mo Sheng, go back to China and have a look."