Chapter 158: Sad Christmas, Epilogue
It wasn't until the door of the gondola was closed that Zhang Zhoufang realized that the person he was holding did not answer his question. He couldn't help but turn his eyes www.biquge.info and gave her a strange look. As if sensing his gaze, she raised her eyes slightly and chuckled at him. "I've heard it," he whispered, "...... However, it will take a while for the Ferris wheel to get to the top......"
"Huh?" Zhang Zhou blinked, turned his head to look out the window, then turned his head, returned with a smile, and said to Li Ai with some uncertainty, "It should take about fifteen minutes, right?" At this moment, the man in front of him suddenly reached out, grabbed his clothes, and pulled him to the bend of his waist.
"It's been too long, I'...... Can't wait. She whispered, and the hot breath from her mouth and nose hit Zhang Zhou's face, itching for a while. There seemed to be a seductive allure in that voice, which made Zhang Zhou stunned, and before he could react to what was happening, his lips were blocked by the softness that suddenly covered him.
The tip of his tongue tapped his teeth like a swimming fish, and in confusion, he opened his mouth slightly, letting the small tip of his tongue rage in his mouth, but for a moment he closed his eyes in some fascination in this sudden event. Therefore, he did not realize that there were other emotions in her seductive words; So, he didn't see the sudden look of determination on her cheeks after he closed her eyes.
They stood in the ascending gondola, kissing passionately. Speaking of which, this is his first real kiss, right? How could they have thought that this first time would also be the last in their lives?
Li Ai hugged the boat hard, and the knuckles of the fingers that were clutching his clothes were white. She cared about him so much, and didn't want to lose him so much. But...... But it's all coming......
She frantically asked, wanting to remember his taste, wanting to keep his breath, wanting to leave good memories, even if she was on the verge of suffocation, she was reluctant to part her lips and teeth. However, even so, in the end, he and her were separated. At that time, the Ferris wheel was still a little short of reaching the highest place......
The two separated, each gasping for breath. That kind of voice seems so ambiguous in this small space. However, the eyes of the two who separated quietly faded such ambiguity, and what rose in turn was the same thin but extremely firm determination.
After touching the intoxicating happiness, they all calmed down and remembered what they were going to do. It's not unusual, it's not abrupt, it's normal for them. It is precisely because this happiness is too precious and cherished for them that they want to confess everything, so that this happiness can be better preserved, so that they can better enjoy this happiness.
After being silent for a while, after his breathing calmed down, Zhang Zhou raised his eyes, looked at Li Ai deeply, and then as if he had made up his mind, he opened his mouth and said to Li Ai, "I'm sorry, Li Ai ......"
Hearing those three words, Li Ai's body trembled, raised his head in some astonishment, and looked at Zhang Zhou fixedly, his face full of doubts. Isn't it for her to say these three words?
"I was actually able to control the guy in my right eye a long time ago, which means that I could have told you the truth a long time ago, but I was afraid that you would leave me after knowing the truth, so ...... That's why I ......," Zhang Zhou didn't stop because of her consternation. He held his breath and couldn't stop talking like a cannon, telling all his guilt, all his concealment.
He didn't dare to look up at Li Ai's expression, afraid that the courage in his heart would dissipate in an instant when he saw the disappointment on her face. So he kept his head down and didn't lift it up until he had finished all the things he wanted to say.
"I'm sorry, Li Ai, I'm sorry to hide it from you for so long; ......" He quietly lowered his head, waiting for her verdict and waiting for the outcome of everything. However, what he waited for was a sigh. He looked up a little stunned, but what he saw was her tear-filled face.
"In the beginning, I was exactly going to do that. Your worries are actually reality......" she whispered, tearfully looking at the shocked expression on his face, and sobbing to him, stating the fact that she knew would push everything to the brink of collapse.
“…… I'm sorry...... I'm sorry...... Zhang Zhou, I lied to you from the beginning, from the beginning. From the very beginning, I approached you with a purpose. While it was true that those memories were erased by you, I later found them in other ways...... So, everything we did afterwards was actually based on such a scam......"
She spoke in detail, about the three encounters she had with him, about the lies she had carefully conved. Zhang Zhou looked at her blankly, looking like he had lost his soul, and when he heard her use Lu Ji, he suddenly stumbled under his feet, and his back hit the wall of the compartment fiercely, making the whole gondola shake slightly, and Li Ai, who was standing in the gondola, also stumbled, although he did not fall, but the small statue that looked like Zhang Zhou in the purse flew out and shattered.
In that crisp broken sound, Li Ai's speech came to an abrupt end. She lowered her crying red eyes a little dazedly, stared at the small pile of debris, and then squatted down, picking up the debris one by one, as if she was picking up the happiness that had been shattered by her own hands.
At this time, the Ferris wheel also turned the rest of the way, and the closed door slowly opened. Zhang Zhou, who was holding on to the wall of the compartment in a daze, walked out reflexively, and behind him, Li Ai, who had picked up most of the fragments, also straightened up, silently followed him, and left the playground.
It wasn't until he walked far away that Zhang Zhoufang came back to his senses, stopped his steps, turned to face Li Ai, and asked as if pleading, "What you just said is not true, right?" ”
"......" Li Ai didn't answer, just stood quietly holding the fragment in place, silent.
He stared at her quietly, trying to get the answer he wanted from her. But...... He waited a long time, but he didn't wait. As a result, the hope in his eyes dimmed little by little in the silence that she represented affirmation, and in the end only a poignant silence and fragility remained.
Something was torn when it was defenseless. Zhang Zhou smiled bitterly, lowered his head slightly, looked at his hands that were trembling unconsciously, and between his lips opening and closing, he was muttering the words that had been muttered in his mouth half a year ago.
"Now, Li Ai, why did you reveal your world to me? Why do you subconsciously, unconsciously want to be involved with me, and you can't ignore the connection with each other? He didn't know the answer to that question until today...... I see, I see...... It turns out that I was self-inflicted from the beginning......
His face was full of dejected looks, and faintly, there was a little more despair, and then, a smile bloomed in this desperate mood. What kind of smile is that...... Hopeless, painful, hollow...... There are too many emotions all together, but it looks like it makes people feel creepy.
He raised his eyes and glanced at the petite girl holding the fragment of the statue with her eyes lowered as if waiting for his choice, and laughed silently and maniacally. Yes, she deceived me, became my companion for that answer, became my dependence, stepped into my world; But what about me? What did I do? In order to keep her by his side, he reneged on his promise and concealed that he already had the ability to tell him the answers she wanted...... She is deceiving herself, why is she not hiding her?
Deception, concealment...... Everything is subservient to our own desires. And to establish such a relationship of desire, the longing based on such deception, after everything is torn naked and bloody, is there still any meaning to exist? He threw his head back and laughed silently and maniacally, but in the depths of his eyes there was a deep sorrow that bordered on substance......
For a long time, he hung his head expressionlessly, stared silently at the shadows under his feet, and then whispered in a calm and unwavering voice, "That's it...... Li Ai ......" His voice suddenly became very hoarse, and Li Ai, who lowered his head when he heard it, pursed his lips in distress.
When he called her name, she could hear the numbness in his words. It is a sorrow that is greater than the death of the heart. She felt sorry for him, and she wanted to reach out and hold him in her arms, as she had done dozens of times in the past six months, to bandage his wounds, heal the pain, and comfort his tired heart.
However, this time, she was the one who hurt him. What right did she have to hug him and comfort him? Li Ai bit her lip, and the palm holding the ceramic shard tightened unconsciously, as if she was completely unaware of the pain of those sharp edges and corners piercing into the flesh.
No, she could feel it, she just didn't care. Because, where can such pain compare to the pain in her heart? And the pain in her heart, where can it compare to the pain in Zhang Zhou's heart? People who have been deceived from the beginning...... It's him! Such pain coupled with his guilt for hiding himself, how painful should he be in the bottom of his heart? Li Ai lowered his eyes, and his eyes were full of empathetic pain.
She understands that the deeper she falls into filth, the more she yearns for purity. So, she could also understand what her initial deception meant to him. There is also a reason why she hesitated for so long and repeated it so many times.
The person in front of him slowly turned his back to her, and whispered hoarsely. "Let's separate for a while, let's calm down with each other......" He turned his back to her, and neither could see each other's expressions, but the inexplicable atmosphere around him made both of them tense their bodies involuntarily.
The person behind the "......" was silent, breathing a little fast, which made him silently close his eyes, and her somewhat petite figure flashed in his mind, but he didn't know what he thought. The steps that want to take a step are stagnant, as if waiting for something.
"Hmm." Maybe only a few seconds later, maybe a long time, he heard the people behind him reply. He lowered his inexplicably more angry eyes, raised his hand and pulled out the scorching night from his arm, and leaned into the dark alley.
As he walked, she raised her head too, and stood in place holding the broken little statue that looked a little like him, silently watching him walk into the dark alley. In a trance, I seemed to see him walk into the bloody mouth of fate.
She subconsciously wanted to step up to follow, but when she followed, she silently retracted the steps she had taken, and watched him slowly leave in pain and silence. Now what qualifications does she have to keep up? She thought so, and after watching him go, and no longer saw the slightest outline, she silently turned and walked towards the apartment where she lived. When he wasn't there, it was just an apartment, not a home.
At that time, how could she have thought that she did not keep up with this step of distance, and in the end, it would become a moat that she would never be able to cross......