It was Jiang Zhiqing who proposed to meet again after the breakup, and before that they kept each other's contact information.

Jiang Zhiqing was waiting for her downstairs in Li Ling's dormitory.

Li Ling specially put on light makeup, put on pink blush, and changed into a floral dress, she didn't want Jiang Zhiqing to see her haggard appearance.

I haven't seen him for more than ten days, Jiang Zhiqing's hair is longer than before, his bangs cover his eyebrows slightly, and he still looks so handsome, but his face is gloomy and he is wearing a black dress, which makes people feel unapproachable.

Jiang Zhiqing didn't tell where he was going, so Li Ling followed him quietly. Walking from the dormitory building to the most remote north gate of the school, passing a path with no street lights, passing a dilapidated arched bridge, passing through a dark woods, and coming to the riverside where few people have set foot, it is lonely and desolate, only illuminated by the moon, contrasting with the flickering neon hundreds of meters away.

Jiang Zhiqing walked down several cement steps, took out a pack of paper towels from his trouser pocket, took out two, wiped the center of the second layer of steps, and put on a blank sheet of paper, asking Li Ling to sit down, and he sat directly on her left.

The autumn wind rustles the leaves, the cicadas still sing at the end of their lives, and the river is as dead as silence.

They sat silently, and after a while, Jiang Zhiqing slowly asked, "Do you like someone else?"

Li Ling looked at Jiang Zhiqing's cold side face and said decisively, "No." ”

"Then why break up with me?"

"As I said last time, the future we pursue is different. ”

"What are you after?"

Li Ling exhaled a long breath and said gently: "I want a life full of romance and passion, do a lot of adventurous things, go to many, many places, and you yearn for the plain." ”

"Are you tired of me?" Jiang Zhiqing looked at the silent river, his expression was still calm, but his tone was tinged with anger.

Li Ling lowered his head and remained silent.

Jiang Zhiqing took out a square iron box from his schoolbag and handed it to Li Ling.

"What is this?" Li Ling wondered.

"Open it. ”

The lid of the iron box was a little tight, Li Ling tried for a while and didn't pick it open, Jiang Zhiqing simply took it back and opened it himself.

The moment the lid was lifted, Li Ling was stunned, she didn't expect that it contained yellowed letter paper, which they had written to each other, most of which were love letters written by Li Ling to Jiang Zhiqing.

Li Ling has romantic feelings, after determining the relationship, she likes to write a letter to Jiang Zhiqing on Valentine's Day, Qixi Festival, Jiang Zhiqing's birthday or other days, and because she feels that he expresses too little on weekdays, and does not like to say sweet words after being together, she asks him to write a love letter from time to time or say a love word to herself every day. Jiang Zhiqing was reluctant at first, but he couldn't hinder Li Ling's coquettishness, and reluctantly wrote a few love letters of less than 100 words, and later basically sent Li Ling an intriguing good night love message before going to bed every night through text messages, but Li Ling's mobile phone was broken some time ago, and the text messages were gone.

Jiang Zhiqing picked up one of them, opened it and stared at it for a few seconds, and said, "This one is the first letter you wrote to me. ”

Li Ling couldn't understand why Jiang Zhiqing was reading these letters at this time, too long had passed, she had forgotten what she had written, and when she was reaching out to take the letter and reading it, Jiang Zhiqing crumpled it and threw it into Jiangzhong, Li Ling was shocked, and hurriedly pressed his arm and asked, "What are you doing?"

The paper ball floated on the surface of the river, slowly getting wet, the pen and ink blurred little by little, and the handwriting gradually blurred.

Jiang Zhiqing opened another one and said indifferently: "This one was written by you on my birthday two years ago. ”

Li Ling wanted to snatch the letter in his hand, he raised his hand, but she couldn't reach it, so she took his hand and asked him not to throw it, Jiang Zhiqing ignored it and threw the letter to Jiang Zhong.

"This one is the first one I wrote to you, but I kept it for myself before I wrote it. ”

"This is the only time you secretly asked my roommate to pass it on to me after our quarrel. ”

"This letter was written on Valentine's Day last year. ”

One by one, the speed is getting faster and faster, Li Ling tried to grab the box but couldn't grab him, so he could only plead: "Please, don't throw it away again......"

Jiang Zhiqing did not stop the movement in his hand, and finally he directly lifted the box and dumped the remaining letters into the river at one time.

The letter paper fell in front of his eyes, like hail, and smashed into Li Ling's broken heart one after another.

Li Ling seemed to have been drained of his muscles and bones, lost his strength and leaned against the guardrail, whimpering: "Why do you want to do this? If you don't want to see these letters, can't you leave them to me for disposal? Why did you throw them into the river in front of me, without even having a chance to pick them up...... You're so ruthless......"

Jiang Zhiqing said in a low voice: "Since we want to separate, we will divide it cleanly." From today onwards, our feelings, like these letters, are gone. ”

Li Ling was speechless, she deserved it. The decision to break up was made by her, and she was the one who gave up this relationship first, what qualifications did she have to ask Jiang Zhiqing to take care of the past and keep her feelings. She has to bear everything now, and no matter how painful it is, she has to bear it.

She tried to hold back the tears that were about to burst out of her eyes, and choked up and said, "Okay, no delay, no arrears, then I will return to you all the things you gave me." ”

"No need, you just throw it all away. ”

“......”

The two fell silent again, as silent as the moment when the executioner dropped his knife on the execution ground.

I don't know how long it took, Jiang Zhiqing spoke: "Go back." ”

Li Ling didn't react, and his usually smart eyes were dim.

Jiang Zhiqing put his schoolbag on his back, picked up the paper on the stairs, and threw the iron box and paper towels into the trash can by the way.

Seeing that Li Ling was still motionless, Jiang Zhiqing walked up to her and said coldly: "If you want to stay here, I won't stop it, as long as you are not afraid of the dark and not afraid of bad people." ”

"What if I want to stay here, but I say I'm afraid?" Li Ling raised his head and looked directly into Jiang Zhiqing's eyes, Jiang Zhiqing did not dodge.

They had never looked at each other with such cold eyes as they did now, as if they had become opposing camps.

Without waiting for Jiang Zhiqing to answer, Li Ling bypassed him and walked in front. If the answer is destined to be cruel, why bother?

"Take care of yourself. ”

This was the last sentence Jiang Zhiqing left for Li Ling before leaving mercilessly when he sent Li Ling downstairs to the dormitory.

Li Ling went up the stairs like a lost soul, and when a classmate went downstairs, he saw her and greeted her, but she also ignored it. She was in the hallway like a scarecrow, in a silent daze for a few minutes, and a second before entering the dormitory door, she took a deep breath, and the moment she opened the door, she smiled and said, "I'm back." ”

It's just that the person who once loved someone bravely and fearlessly no longer exists.