Chapter 34: Contradictions
After getting off work in the evening, Yang Xinyue and Li Muqi were having dinner at Lujiazui.
After eating, the two walked from Zhengda to Binjiang Avenue in Pudong.
At night, the riverside avenue is brightly lit and breezy, facing the Bund of Puxi across the river.
The hundred-year-old buildings on the Bund cast soft lights and fluttered flags on the top, each of which bears witness to the history of the city.
Compared with the Bund in Puxi, Yang Xinyue prefers the riverside avenue in Pudong.
There are not many people, so there is no need to crowd people.
The same Huangpu River, the same river scenery, the same cruise ship shuttle.
The Bund looks at Lujiazui in Pudong, with many high-rise buildings, witnessing the rapid development of the city, while the Pudong Riverside looks at the Bund with its depth and history.
Li Muqi took Yang Xinyue by the hand, watched her eyebrows stretch, and obediently let him hold her, feeling happy.
It's no wonder that people who are in love like to press the road.
Being able to walk with the people around you without distractions, holding hands for a while, she accompanies you, you accompany her, don't do anything, just walk like this, it is a kind of happiness that cannot be found.
There is an elderly jazz band playing on the water platform, playing with musical instruments.
"Night Shanghai", "Night Fragrance", "Rose Rose I Love You", "Shangri-La" ......
It's all a familiar tune.
Yang Xinyue stopped with great interest......
Gradually, there was a circle of people behind her.
Li Muqi stood behind her, wrapped her in his arms, and listened to her quietly.
Yang Xinyue seemed to see a woman wearing a gorgeous cheongsam standing on a gorgeous stage, graceful and graceful, with affectionate eyebrows, singing in a low voice, singing all the sorrows and sorrows of the world......
It wasn't until the end of the song that the people around her applauded and threw themselves into their instrument bags on the ground that she woke up.
Li Muqi lowered her head and rubbed her cheeks against her soft face: "Don't you like it very much?"
Yang Xinyue turned her head and kissed him on the face: "Listening to it makes people feel peaceful." β
Li Muqi was very surprised to see her take the initiative.
In the past few days, this little thing has passively accepted his existence, and it is still rare to take the initiative to get close to him like now.
wanted to lean over and kiss her, but Yang Xinyue avoided her.
"There are a lot of people. β
Li Muqi looked at the crowd around her, so she had to let her go.
That's a good sign, isn't it?
Li Muqi was happy.
The two of them walked on the long riverside avenue, feeling the lights on both sides of the Pujiang River......
In the shadow of the lights, I felt the water vapor of the Pujiang River in my face, and walked slowly.
The two walked to the ice cream parlor and asked for two cones.
"Isn't it rare for Lee to sip on a cone while walking like this?"
Li Muqi squeezed her hand: "What do you call it?"
"Mr. Li, Mu Mu, Ji Ji?" Yang Xinyue joked.
Li Muqi was dissatisfied and glared at her.
"Baby?" Yang Xinyue said jokingly.
Li Muqi's heart perked.
"Call me what?"
"Baby?"
"Hmm. Li Muqi happily responded.
Like a hairy boy, waves rippled in his heart, rolling him up and down wave after wave.
"Obedient ......" Li Muqi called her softly in Yang Xinyue's ear.
The two hugged quietly.
"Oops, the cone is going to melt!" Yang Xinyue jumped up.
Li Muqi looked at it, and hurriedly helped her take a big sip, and was busy pouting herself.
He hadn't had an experience like this in a long time.
Green and youthful.
is like a young man and woman in love, pressing the road together, buying cones together and eating on the street together......
"I haven't eaten a cone in a long time. Yang Xinyue said.
"Then next time I'll take you to eat something delicious. β
"HΓ€agen-Dazs?" Yang Xinyue asked him.
"HΓ€agen-Dazs is something delicious, next time I will take you to eat even better. β
"Hey, I didn't even want HΓ€agen-Dazs to buy it before. β
"He's so provincial?" Li Muqi was a little dissatisfied.
"He's a homemaker. He used to live with his aunt, who was not very friendly to him and liked to quarrel with his aunt. After graduating, he moved out and rented a house. I'm anxious to buy a house of my own, save money, and the house and car are all bought with loans. The money for the renovation was also borrowed. I want to give him money, but he doesn't want it, as if he is afraid that I will share half of him, and his self-esteem is still strong. So when I was with him, I didn't dare to spend money. β
Yang Xinyue sighed with emotion.
Li Muqi pulled her to find a bench to sit on, and wiped her hands with wet wipes.
said: "You are with me, you don't have to be so careful, you can live as happy as you want." I hate betrayal, I don't like women who hide from me. As long as you can do these two things, the rest of you will let go of yourself in front of me. β
Yang Xinyue looked at her quietly: "Do you have a deep relationship with Cui Yuanyuan? That's why you mind so much about her hurt." You've been here for so many years after all. β
Li Muqi leaned back on the chair, reached over her shoulder with one hand to hold her, grabbed her hand with the other and squeezed it in his hand.
said: "Do you think I went abroad for Cui Yuanyuan?"
"Isn't it? She went abroad in your senior year, and then you graduated and went to England. β
Li Muqi recalled: "Not so. Cui Yuanyuan's family is well-off, and her parents are busy with business and don't care about her, so she has been a little rebellious since she was a child. Because the two families know each other well, her parents often ask me to help her with her homework. When I was a child, I always took care of her as a younger sister. Her grades were not good, and she couldn't get into any good schools in China, so her parents directly asked her to go to a university abroad. β
After a pause, he said, "She has an aunt in England, so she went to England." I had a girlfriend in college, and we separated after graduation. When I was in college, I wanted to go abroad for graduate school, because Cui Yuanyuan was in the UK, and my parents learned about British universities from her, and then I also went to the UK. β
"At that time, I just broke up and didn't have much thought, and Cui Yuanyuan was a person who couldn't take care of her. She has had two boyfriends in just one year since she arrived in the UK, and they are both foreigners. She loves the way of life abroad and wants to immigrate abroad. I had only just arrived in England at that time, and she often took me to get acquainted with the UK and played with me a lot. Then she broke up again and cried to me......"
"Cui Yuanyuan is far from the image of my wife, she is willful, playful and noisy, and she doesn't look like a life. But in a strange country, the two of us have known each other since childhood, she is used to my care, and I am used to taking care of her. Slowly we came together. β
"We actually have a lot of conflicts, especially after returning home. Her job search in China is not smooth, and she is not high or low. If she had stayed in the UK at that time, she would have been able to get a green card in the UK soon. I guess it's because I'm back in my country. So she has been making trouble all these years, and I have followed her. Over the years, we have been separated and reunited, and we have tossed and turned many times, and each time it has made me physically and mentally exhausted. β
Yang Xinyue saw that he was uncomfortable and asked him: "Don't you try to communicate?" Both sides have made some changes, after all, they have been walking together for so many years. β
"Why haven't I tried it. I have made too many compromises for her, and both parents have mediated many times. Every time she made a fuss, the two families turned upside down. β
"Her parents are already applying for investment immigration in Canada, and they hope that we will both come over. My parents are slaves, they don't immigrate, but they don't care about their children. But I don't want to emigrate. Cui Yuanyuan has been messing with me because I haven't changed my mind. I thought I would follow her and coax her every time as before. β
"But I'm tired too......"