March 2, 2018.

Houston George Bush Intercontinental Airport.

In a café on the second floor of the departure hall, in front of the floor-to-ceiling glass overlooking the entire airport, Yu Xiaochun and his ex-girlfriend Tang Wen sat at opposite ends of a window-facing dining table.

A reunion in a foreign country that takes place during the Lantern Festival.

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"Hey!"

"Hi... Happy holidays, Wen, no, Miss Tang. ”

"Happy holidays, Koharu. What's the matter, I'm embarrassed to even call my name? ”

"No, no, it's just that I haven't seen each other for so long, and I'm not used to it for a while. Did you cut your hair? ”

"Well, what do you think?"

At this time, Tang Wen, who was sitting opposite Yu Xiaochun, smiled and spread out the shoulder-length short hair pinned behind her ears, and brushed it from top to bottom with her hands. She used to have shoulder-length hair with natural curls, but now her short hair is much straighter, with the ends lined up in a line, a bit like the heroine of a Sassoon shampoo ad on TV.

"It's good... No, I mean, I didn't notice it before, but maybe it's better for you to have a short haircut. ”

"Really?" Tang Wenle blossomed, gently flicked the hair that was scattered on the back of her head, and said, "I cut it before the Chinese New Year, and I want to change my image." A surprise for you. ”

"Give me a...?" Yu Xiaochun's question was just halfway through and he couldn't go on. Indeed, a few years ago, Tang Wen announced that she would come to the United States to see him, but it seems that there is no way to know when his hair was cut. He didn't know whether he didn't want to continue to get to the bottom of it, or if he kept a trace of the fantasy of "what if" for himself, anyway, Yu Xiaochun swallowed half of the question, and just added: "Thank you, it's really good-looking." ”

The woman sitting in front of her is indeed very good-looking. Tang Wen cut her hair short, which was much sharper, but she had bright eyes and bright teeth, and she looked forward to moving, and her eye makeup and lip gloss were just right. His eyes flashed, and he felt bigger and more gripping than Yu Xiaochun's impression - maybe it was the effect of the mascara. Tang Wen wore a black dress with simple lace lines on it, and a goose-yellow blazer draped over her shoulders, which made people feel sexy and cute - and the sexy part was something that Yu Xiaochun had never seen when she fell in love with her.

It was as if he was in front of a stranger he knew the most.

It's like a mysterious and beautiful new world, waiting for him to discover!

"Koharu?!"

"Huh?" Yu Xiaochun, who was thinking about what was wrong, was interrupted by Tang Wen and shook his head vigorously.

"Koharu, let me ask you, what do you think." Tang Wen pretended to be a little angry.

"I... Ah, I'm sorry, what did you just ask? ”

"I asked you didn't return to China during the Spring Festival? Your parents... Uncles and aunts, how are they? When Tang Wen mentioned Yu Xiaochun's parents, she deliberately changed her title to another title.

"They're fine. Now in the middle of the season, I have to accompany Yiming, and I can't leave for a while. The Spring Festival coincided with the NBA All-Star Weekend, and he was selected for the rookie game and the All-Star game, both of which were starters, as well as various business activities, and there were a lot of things, so... But I'm giving them New Year's greetings, and I'll go back to them when the season is over and the summer is over. ”

"You, when you talk about basketball, it's still the same old - don't stop at all!" Tang Wen smiled and complained, while holding the caramel macchiato on the table and taking a sip, deliberately making her tone appear relaxed and said, "When I went home for the Spring Festival this year, my parents actually asked about you." ”

"Oh yes, they're... What did you ask me? Yu Xiaochun was obviously unprepared for this turn.

"What more could you ask. I told them about you and Yang Yiming in the NBA with the Rockets, and they actually knew Yang Yiming, praised you for your awesomeness, and said that you helped Chinese players make a name for themselves in the United States. I told them by the way, I was scheduled to come to the United States to visit you during the Spring Festival, and they both seemed to be quite happy..."

"It's a shame that the old man still remembers me..."

"Of course I do. It hasn't been that long since it has been - my dad still has a very deep impression of you, and I remember that when you came to me in the summer before my sophomore year, and when I went to pick you up at the train station, my dad secretly followed me to see who I picked up. I lied to him at the time that he was my roommate in the same bed, but he didn't say anything for so many years, and he never mentioned it even after he knew about us, until this time..."

"Oh, I forgot to ask you why you came to the United States all of a sudden?" Speaking of the past, Yu Xiaochun suddenly felt a little uncomfortable, as if a bottle of his cherished old wine was suddenly forced to be shared with others and judged by others, he hurriedly thought of a question casually and interrupted Tang Wen.

"I just want to see you, what's wrong, can't you?" Tang Wen was a little angry when she saw that her topic was diverted.

"No, just asking..."

Yu Xiaochun muttered and lowered his head, staring at the cup of black coffee on the table in a daze. The heat of the black coffee rose and condensed on the lenses of the glasses, blurring the vision.

"You're thinking too much!" Tang Wen announced loudly, "It just so happened that the company arranged for me to participate in a business negotiation, and in terms of overseas mergers and acquisitions, I stopped by to come to see you." Afraid that Yu Xiaochun wouldn't believe it, she added: "So I asked you to meet at the airport, I won't stay long, and I have to catch the next flight." ”

"Where is the destination?"

"Boston, Massachusetts."

"Oh, that's it... I also have friends in Boston, who are very good, seniors in the basketball world. "The person Yu Xiaochun wanted to portray was Kalonsky II's father, Scott Sr. But he also thought that he only had a relationship with the other party, and although Rose's transfer was successful in the end, there seemed to be nothing else to brag about, so his tone weakened.

"Well, that's good." As if out of revenge, Tang Wen's response was more perfunctory.

"Forget it, let's not talk about this, anyway, you weren't too interested in basketball. I'm so sorry that I talked to myself for so long. In the early days of the breakup, Yu Xiaochun really thought about whether there were too many boring basketball topics to drive Tang Wen away. He was desperate to say something else: "And what about you?" Are you married? ”

"Nope."

Yu Xiaochun caught a glimpse of Tang Wen gently turning the ring on the middle finger of her left hand.

"Preparing to get married? That person... The person you sent me the message to me, you two must still be together, right? ”

"Who?" Tang Wen stopped turning the ring's hand and suddenly raised her head.

"You and me... When we broke up..."Being stared at by her a little weak, Yu Xiaochun stammered, "At that time, you told me that you went to meet someone and said that you were going to chase you all the time." When I asked you for the details, you replied to me that we had broken up. That's it. ”

"Oh, that's it." Tang Wen smacked another caramel macchiato and said in a relaxed tone, "I made it up to lie to you, and there is no one at all." ”

"Then why? …”

"It's better to have a long pain than a short one, I think you'll feel better. Forget about me early and start a new life, that's what I thought at the time. ”

Tang Wen tilted her head and observed Yu Xiaochun's expression reaction sideways, unable to take her eyes off it. Her short haircut, with her head tilted, hung down in the air on one side, and obediently pressed against her slender white neck on the other.

Yu Xiaochun remembered the side when he saw Tang Wen for the first time. On a hot September day, the girl who introduced herself on the stage had her hair like a tangled vine, stuck to her neck with sweat, and she didn't have the neat tuft in front of her at all.

Yu Xiaochun's lips were dry, and his palms were sweaty.

"But..."

"But what?" Tang Wen didn't seem to notice this subtle change in Yu Xiaochun's physical signs at all, holding the half-drunk coffee cup in the palm of her hand, hiding her face behind her, and looking out of the glass window. An airplane takes off at a very close distance.

"But it doesn't seem to have been successful..."

The roar of the aircraft engine overwhelmed Yu Xiaochun's monologue.

"What do you say?! Inaudible! ”

"Don't you want me to forget about it and start a new life..."

"Huh? It's so noisy..."

Yu Xiaochun's arms were resting on the dining table, his body and head poked forward a few inches, and under the cover of the deafening sound of the engine, he shouted word by word at Tang Wen's delicate ears:

"I never forget!"