"It's snowing." Xiao Yuchen looked at the snowflakes falling from the sky and sighed softly.

"yes, it's snowing." Zhou Zimeng's gaze stayed on her hair full of fine snowflakes, watching those snowflakes gradually melt, and she had an urge to brush them away, but in the end she didn't stretch out her hand.

"I'm sorry, I left like that at the Snail House that day." She said apologetically.

"It's okay." Zhou Zimeng replied lightly, as if he didn't remember the events of that day.

"Is it too late to answer what you asked me that day?"

Zhou Zimeng didn't speak, just looked at her quietly.

"It was a snowy day four years ago," Xiao Yuchen stretched out his hand and tried to touch the pure white snowflakes in the air, "Since the snowy day I left you, I have been looking forward to the snowy day every year." Because I'm looking forward to going back to that snowy day and telling you what I regret not saying that day. ”

"What's the matter?" Zhou Zimeng's voice trembled slightly, and he couldn't deny that he had an inexplicable expectation in his heart.

But Xiao Yuchen smiled: "I want to say goodbye to you well." ”

Zhou Zimeng's eyes widened suddenly, and countless surprises flashed in his amber pupils...... with disappointment.

"I only knew how to cry that day," Xiao Yuchen smiled, but his eyes were full of indelible sadness, "I cried uncontrollably, crying so much that I couldn't say goodbye to you, and I didn't even say goodbye to you, which is the thing I regret the most in four years." ”

"Yes," Zhou Zimeng's eyes dimmed, "What you regret is only this matter?" ”

"That's right," she met his gaze so frankly for the first time, "So, please don't feel guilty for not protecting me, I've had many injuries and setbacks over the past four years, but I've never regretted my choice." ”

"You are really hopeless...... Zhou Zimeng smiled bitterly, and a loneliness that he had never felt before appeared on his face.

"Yes, I'm such a hopeless person," Xiao Yuchen held back the heartache in his chest and kept his smile with all his might, "So you don't deserve to feel guilty for being like this." Thank you for protecting me, and thank you for still sharing the snail house with me, but I'm not going back, so please don't wait for me any longer. ”

"I understand," Zhou Zimeng's eyes gradually became the color of ice and snow, "Then this time, let's say goodbye." ”

"Okay." She nodded.

"I'll come first," Zhou Zimeng's expression was as resolute as four years ago, but there was more indelible sadness, "Xiao Yuchen, from today on, we are strangers." ”

His cold words still hurt her even four years later. But now she is strong enough to stop crying.

She has become strong and will no longer be hurt or looked down upon. This strength, this is the only thing she can prove to him after four years of hard work.

This time, it really was the last time, and she hoped he would keep a good eye on her.

"Yes," Xiao Yuchen struggled to put on the best smile she could show, "From now on, I will be a stranger." Goodbye, Zhou Zimeng. ”

"Goodbye."

The firm back in the memory once again left in the heavy snow, without a trace of superfluous nostalgia. Compared with four years ago, the back is more upright, but it is also more lonely.

This time, goodbye really.