Before preparing to meet Qiao Le, Jia Yi first rushed to Lin Xiao's appointment, he chose a rather atmospheric European restaurant this time, which made her a little surprised, Ben held a spicy heart to suddenly come to a table of steak red wine, of course she was surprised.

But no matter what environment you change to, there is still one thing that remains the same, that is, Lin Xiao's focus is still on what to eat and how to eat:

"Wine or juice?"

"How cooked should the steak be?"

"Would you like dessert? Clime brûlée or petit four? ”

……

During the meal, he looked visibly nervous. When the dessert came up, Lin Xiao didn't have the heart to eat it. He folded his hands on the table with an extremely stern expression, as if he was not in the cafeteria but in a first-grade classroom at the moment.

Jia Yi vaguely sensed the unfavorable signal, and when she was thinking about how to take the lead in throwing out the topic to guide the atmosphere, she was still preempted by Lin Xiao, and what he said almost made her so frightened that she dropped the spoon in her hand to the ground.

"Jiayi, let's get along."

Although Jia Yi has always taken precautions, she still feels funny and inexplicably angry when she hears such words with her own ears. Although she felt a little uncomfortable, she still smiled calmly on her face, and pretended to exclaim: "Ah, I was so surprised! Thank you for your appreciation, though, I have someone I like. ”

The man on the other side, who had been stiff, finally had a slightly more violent reaction: "What? Don't you say you're single? ”

"It's true to be single, but I have someone I like."

But Lin Xiao, a science student, seemed to have a long turn in his mind before he reacted. He laughed awkwardly, and moved his habitual movements out of the rivers and lakes again—he reached out and touched the back of his head.

That action also made Jia Yi nervous, and she was busy comforting: "It's that I didn't make it clear at the beginning!" I'm sorry, but ...... Thank you so much. ”

Hopefully, her words really worked, because the man opposite finally showed a little smile on his drooping face, and perhaps he was no stranger to this feeling of rejection.

At least Jia Yi is not the first "evil" person.

Jia Yi quickly ended the meal, ran to the side of the road to take a taxi, and said goodbye to him.

She showed up downstairs at Qiao Le's house on time, but the others didn't show up at the appointed time.

But Qiao Le had already arrived downstairs, and he was in a car not far from Jia Yi, only quietly looking at her who was walking downstairs from time to time, and standing and stomping her feet from time to time.

He didn't want to be in front of her yet, at least not so quickly, his body seemed to be dragged by something heavy, so that he couldn't leave the car, couldn't leave those memories.

The last time Jia Yi waited for him like this, it was when he was about to leave after graduation, Jia Yi decided to go north, and he decided to stay and continue his graduate studies.

Qiao Le was haunted by the unpleasantness of the dinner the night before, he received a text message from Jia Yi asking to meet and did not reply, and he did not plan to go to the appointment, and when he returned to the dormitory downstairs in the evening, he saw Jia Yi wandering downstairs from a distance, looking anxious.

He hesitated for a moment, and was about to walk forward when his roommate Ah Wen passed in front of her, she stopped Ah Wen from saying something, then took out a few books from his school bag, said "thank you" and hurried away.

All he heard was her "thank you", and he could hear her even though it was far away.

He felt that this sentence was the last sentence that Jia Yi left for him.

In the four years of college, all the efforts and past were wiped out by the word "thank you", but the feelings in my heart were not eradicated by these two words.

At this time, he was lying on the steering wheel, as if those two words were still echoing in his ears and above his head, and he was invisibly squeezed by the air around him, and he couldn't breathe.

When the security guard in the community saw Jiayi, he went over to chat a few words, after all, Jiayi had lived here before, and the security guard and her could still chat a few words.

Qiao Le suddenly thought of something, he immediately got out of the car and rushed out.

Fortunately, this time Jia Yi did not hand over the things in his hand to the security guard, nor did he say thank you.

She was overjoyed when she saw Qiao Le's appearance.

Qiao Le's expression became nervous, as if he had just done something out of shape, he deliberately slowed down his pace and walked to Jia Yi.

Jia Yi hurriedly handed him a gift, but he didn't respond, he didn't even look at it, he looked stern, and guessed that he was still angry with her, so he had to take it back, and deliberately lowered his head like a child who made a mistake, playing with the shoes under his feet.

Qiao Le looked at her and said, "Come up." ”

Jia Yi followed Qiao Le upstairs into his apartment.

The room was still familiar, with pale yellow lighting, a large dark gray sofa, a few goblets scattered on the glass coffee table, and the bear slippers she had worn in the corner...... Leaving aside the extra emotion, Jia Yi was anxious to break the deadlock between the two, so he deliberately sat on the sofa without even changing his shoes, and Qiao Le didn't pay much attention to it. He walked to the table next to him, poured her a glass of water, and poured himself a glass of red wine, and sat down across from her.

Jia Yi spoke first, she held the cup with both hands, her two front teeth against the rim of the cup, and looked at Qiao Le, who was drinking by herself, with a cute and begging for mercy: "Good Qiao Le, good friend, don't be angry with me, okay?" ”

Qiao Le didn't even look at her, he still drank.

Jia Yi saw that she was weak, so she sat down next to Qiao Le: "Do you really plan to be so petty?" ”

Qiao Le finally looked at Jia Yi, and frowned: "What? Am I stingy? ”

Seeing that Qiao Le finally responded, Jia Yi's heart was slightly relieved, and blurted out: "That's right! ”

Qiao Le felt that she was unreasonable, and retracted his gaze to look to the other side.

Seeing that the method of agitation did not work, Jia Yi continued to beg for mercy: "I sincerely apologize, you also know that I have opened a store, I have just been busy recently, so I ......" When she spoke, her eyes unconsciously glanced away, and she couldn't help but feel weak and ashamed of herself at this time.

Fortunately, Qiao Le didn't look at her, and his mood calmed down a little, and after drinking the little wine left, he put the cup aside, turned to look at her and said, "You are busy, I won't mind, but I will feel sorry because I can't help you, but...... Why don't you tell me personally? Why didn't He Xiaoyin or even Yuanyuan tell me? ”

Jia Yi was speechless for a while, she couldn't admit that she had made her friendship with Qiao Le for several years a sacrifice for the sake of so-called love, and she needed full sincerity to chase happiness, but she made him a price that could be lost - this is indeed not a glorious reason.

She was embarrassed and moved uneasily, turned over a pillow under her, hugged it to her chest, and said in a hurry: "I was afraid that you would be disappointed, and I was in a hurry, I ...... I, I know I'm out of proportion......" Before she finished speaking, Qiao Le's body suddenly leaned over, reaching her body, her face was almost touching the tip of her nose, although the pillow in front of her barely left a gap, she still felt out of breath.

He said word for word, "You know I'm going to be disappointed, huh?" The air flow rushed to his face as he spoke, hot and humid, mixed with the smell of fragrant wine, which made Jia Yi feel dizzy, and she faintly felt a sharp current in her abdomen trying to rush upward. She tried to turn her head to the other side to avoid looking at him, but she still couldn't get off the couch, the half of Qiao Le's body that was pressed over, "I said it...... Don't make me want to run away. She said despite her physical discomfort.

Qiao Le didn't leave, still staring at Jia Yi tightly, and said, "It's okay, it's not the first time you've escaped." ”

Seeing that he still didn't have the slightest intention of backing down, Jia Yi immediately said with a straight face: "Qiao Le, I want you to know that I apologize because I broke the contract, not because of anything else. ”

Qiao Le sneered at a dark corner, and continued to turn his face sideways and said, "Something else? Would you apologize for anything else? Not even guilty! When he said the last sentence, he finally moved slowly, and then the whole person seemed to have spent a lot of energy, relying only on two hands, sitting on the sofa, staring blankly, looking at the chandelier above his head.

She finally struggled to sit up straight, her breathing became rapid and her face was pale, if it wasn't for Qiao Le's timely withdrawal, maybe her reaction would have been even more violent.

But for this room, she didn't want to stay for a moment, she was afraid of Qiao Le, she quickly handed him the gift, and said, "Anyway, happy birthday." ”

Qiao Le didn't move, and still didn't mean to accept it.

Jia Yi didn't want to dwell on it any longer, put the gift on the coffee table, stood up straight, and was about to leave, but she still couldn't help but look back, although he was expressionless, but she could feel the pain and entanglement in his heart, the sorrow that tormented him was like dust, falling on the dim lamp, the dull sofa, the cold coffee table, and the pair of slippers that had been cold for a long time, a beam of light came in, and they also entered the human eye, and she couldn't ignore it no matter what.

"Qiao Le, in the past, you were a sunny teenager, we talked about ideals, and always said something that we didn't have, but now, you didn't follow your ideals and chose to go to the investment bank, and I didn't stay in Beijing and chose to come back. Anything can change, you have to learn to let go, even if it's not for yourself, you have to be for Xiaoyin! ”

Qiao Le shook his head and said with a slight sigh: "But I thought that people would not change." I don't think anything that happened will change, and the memory won't be biased. He suddenly straightened up, looked at her, and asked, "Could it be that nothing really happened to us in the past?" ”

His voice was painful, and Jia Yi couldn't help but be moved, and she said extremely uncomfortably, "But...... But I," she sighed, and continued: I ...... Aren't we good friends?

Qiao Le didn't speak, only smiled slightly, with a coldness, like laughing at her, but more like laughing at herself, staring at the already dim hanging lamp in front of her, which was hung up by Xiao Yin at yesterday's birthday party.

He kept staring, as if hoping that it would suddenly light up, so that it would be clear and bright.

The atmosphere around her was oppressive and uncomfortable, and Jia Yi didn't want to say any more, she said goodbye, and walked out of the room, only to hear his voice from behind, almost pleading, he said, "Give me some time before you leave completely, okay?" ”

The old and the new are intertwined, her mind is in chaos, she just wants to apologize, but the situation is so suffocating to her, she has to close her eyes and ask for courage from the darkness, "I won't leave you, because there is no way to leave, all I want to escape is those feelings that shouldn't be stored in zài......" After speaking, she pushed open the door and went straight downstairs, a sound of high heels falling to the ground came from the corridor, sonorous and powerful, enough to step through the silence and darkness, and crush a qiē persistence.

Qiao Le's body, which was originally supported by his hands, was weak all of a sudden, and his whole body fell on the sofa in an instant, not just lying straight, but sinking deeply, deep in softness.

The feelings that should not be there, the feelings that have been in his heart for nearly ten years, as long as she says this, it is enough to destroy the withering and decaying, cut the grass and eradicate the roots, and wipe them all out......