Chapter 004: The Beginning of the Story
Since I broke up with Xu Zhekai in the first semester of my senior year, I have been avoiding him.
After two years of love, I am familiar enough with a person's routine to avoid him on a huge campus, and it is easy to avoid him.
The last time we met was at the graduation ceremony in 2010, when he delivered a speech as an outstanding representative of undergraduates.
On the stage, he was dressed in a bachelor's uniform, and his speech was steady and humorous, and he was calm and relaxed.
At that time, he already had an offer from the University of Pittsburgh School of Philosophy, and as soon as he graduated, he would fly to the other side of the ocean to study for a master's degree in philosophy. As early as the first semester of my senior year, I was admitted to the top 1 university in education in China, and stayed in China to continue my graduate studies after graduation.
It seems that the future of both of us is smooth, but we can't continue to walk together. Many people who don't know the situation think that the reason why we broke up was that we couldn't overcome the difficulties of getting along in a foreign country after graduation, only me and him and 614 other three sages knew the real reason, of course, there was Ji Yang.
At the end of the second semester of her junior year, Ji Yang came to me and bluntly expressed her admiration for Xu Zhekai for three years. In fact, she didn't say it, I also knew, as early as the group game we met at the beginning of my sophomore year, I noticed the emotion in Ji Yang's eyes when he looked at Xu Zhekai, who made us like the same person, how could I not understand her thoughts.
There are many girls who fall in love with Xu Zhekai, walking on campus, looking at Xu Zhekai with a fierce gaze of, but Ji Yang's gaze is more determined than them.
Xu Zhekai is so smart, how can he not understand Ji Yang's thoughts, he just turns a blind eye, and I don't care on the surface, but I will still be faintly uneasy in my heart, Ji Yang's gaze is too inevitable, just like a hunter aiming at his prey, but I can never guess when she will pull the trigger.
Ji Yang asked me if I knew that Xu Zhekai was going to the United States after graduation, and I said yes. She asked me why I didn't go, and I said that my love for him didn't mean I had to follow him in everything. She said she was willing to follow, and that she had already received an offer from CMU to continue living in the same city as him. I said it would be up to him to let you follow him.
Xu Zhekai and I have long communicated with Xu Zhekai about where to go after graduation, and long-distance love is not a problem, so we decided to spend a few years of further study in each other, and then choose a city that we both love after graduating from graduate school.
I am not the kind of little girl who is particularly dependent, I have my own life plan, and Xu Zhekai, whose parents have not been around since I was a child, is also used to being independent, has my own academic and career plans, and respects my choice very much.
So I didn't pay much attention to Ji Yang's seemingly reckless provocation, I have been with Xu Zhekai for two years, and his suitors are not only this one, I have seen more than this, not to mention that I am quite confident in my own attractiveness, even if my "little poplar" is temporarily transplanted abroad for a few years, it will return to my backyard more luxuriantly.
However, not long after the start of the senior year, the "little poplar" was dug up by Ji Yang with roots and leaves, and the position that originally belonged to him in my heart also became a bloody tree pit, with the passage of time, the blood stains were gone, the pit has always been, and there have been no new trees planted in so many years.
The breakup was proposed by Xu Zhekai on the grounds that he might continue to study in the United States after grad school and did not want to delay me.
I don't want to delay me, he did a really good job, maybe in order to completely break my thoughts, he walked side by side with Ji Yang on campus half a month after the breakup. It's so good, handsome men and beautiful women, a pair of beautiful people.
Knowing that I was broken up, 614 Sanxian certainly won't give up. Xiaoru dialed Xu Zhekai's phone on time at half past eleven every night for a week, sometimes scolding without dirty words for half an hour, sometimes sneering without saltiness, and sometimes greeting her parents, grandparents, and ancestors for eighteen generations. Yu Han and Liu Jia were more subtle, using text messages as a position to crusade against Xu Zhekai, Yu Han was responsible for sending ten messages in the morning, and Liu Jia was responsible for ten in the afternoon. The sharpness of the language and the wonderful wording really make people wonder why they didn't report the Chinese department in the first place.
Xu Zhekai is also a wonderful, he never answers, never reply, he never turns off the phone and never hangs up, he scolds quietly on time and on point every day, which makes the fighting spirit of the three tiger girls on our side drop sharply, and it barely lasted for a week before Mingjin withdrew the army.
And from the time I was broken up to the end of Xiaoru's revenge, I didn't have too many mood swings, except for the night when I first saw Xu Zhekai and Ji Yang enter the library side by side, I hid in the quilt and cried for a long time. In the end, Yu Han and the others began to question who we dumped whom.
A week after the graduation ceremony, Xu Zhekai flew to a distant foreign land. The day before he left, Li Ran called me and told me Xu Zhekai's flight number and departure time. Li Ran is Xu Zhekai's roommate and best friend, and in addition to Xiaoru and the three of them, another witness to our two-year love.
Of course I didn't send him off, I don't care to imitate the kind of airport farewell scene in the TV series, it's over is over, and there is no need to continue to be involved. Besides, he already has a beautiful woman by his side, so I'll figure out what's going on.
Not long after Xu Zhekai left, we finally ushered in the graduation season, and we ate one meal after another, and the farewell words were car after car, and the four years of fellow travelers finally went their separate ways and scattered all over the world.
Since then, I haven't heard any news related to Xu Zhekai, or I deliberately blocked the word "Xu Zhekai". It's just that in the next few years, when I occasionally dream back at midnight, that once very familiar face will still appear in my mind, and that magnetic voice will still ring in my memory. I can fool anyone, but I can't fool my own memory. I could have announced that I had laid him down, but I would still stare at the empty pit in my heart late at night, the tree was gone, but the smell of him had already permeated every inch of the soil at the bottom of the pit, lingering.
Now, I'm back to the beginning of the story,
"Hello, friend of the other party!" It was our original conversation, reproduced yesterday, who would have thought that our reunion would have to travel through time and space, and the cost is really not low!
Anyway, I finally saw him again.
"Hello, friend of the other party!"
"Hello, friend of the other party!"
"Come on, fight for the finals and quarrel together."
"Okay, I'm looking forward to the next time we quarrel together."
That's all we had on the day we met again.
Xu Zhekai has always regarded the debate tournament as a "civilized person's scolding street", he is not a person who is willing to show his head in various activities, although as long as he participates, there is nothing else to do, he will always be the most eye-catching one on the court. Maybe the more people lack something, the more they need to be proven, and Xu Zhekai has not lacked the appreciation of others since he was a child, but he doesn't care about these halos, but he cares about his grade points, and the value of these activities in his future study and work, so he will still see his efforts in some high-level competitions inside and outside the school.
The preliminary stage of the debate tournament is still a round-robin of group points, all registered faculties have to have a wheel battle, win a game to earn two points, lose a game without points, and the final four teams enter the semi-finals, the semi-finals are decided by drawing lots, and the two winning teams in the semi-finals finally enter the finals.
After round after round of "war of words", the last champion Law School ranked first with a complete victory, the School of Education lost one game to the Law School and ranked second, the School of Philosophy led by Captain Ji Yang lost one game to us and the School of Law ranked third, and the fourth place was the representative team of the Chinese Department.
The results of the semi-final draw also came out, and I had good luck and drew a relatively weak Chinese department. In this way, the semi-finals between the law school and the philosophy school will be a bloody and fierce battle.
The two matches of the semi-finals were played in the afternoon of the same day in the auditorium of the University's Student Activity Center. The first half was a duel between the College of Education and the Department of Chinese, and we won without any suspense. When I exited the stairs on the left side of the auditorium, I met the law school team and Xu Zhekai who were about to play, and it stands to reason that Xu Zhekai and his team should go on the right side of the steps, after all, their seats were also on that side, and the other three members of their team walked on that side. He couldn't be nervous and lost.
The time was rushed, and the light on the side of the stairs was dim, so I couldn't see his expression clearly, but I heard him say with a smile: "Excellent!" Congratulations! I also smiled and replied: "Don't be nervous, wait for you to quarrel!" ”
In the audience, Yu Han, Liu Jia and Xiaoru were desperately waving to me and beckoning me to come and sit. I ran over and sat next to Yu Han, only to find that Xiaoru's family member Jiang An was also here, and there were still a few local remote seniors brought by Jiang An in this row. One of the thin black men graciously handed over a bottle of Coke, "Say so much, thirsty, drink something." "No thirst, no drink, thank you!" I refused and looked at the debate table without squinting, and I had an indescribable mixture of emotions in my heart.
I haven't seen each other for seven years, I should be unfamiliar with Xu Zhekai who is less than twenty years old in front of me, and I should keep my distance from this "scumbag" who "starts and abandons", but when we met in the arena, our conversation was short and casual, as if we had known him for a long time, but I did know him for a long time.
Now I am facing an embarrassing situation, in this time and space, I have to pretend to be unfamiliar with my ex, and I want to reacquaint myself with this 19-year-old ex with the thinking and memory of a 29-year-old, so magical. He hasn't changed, I've changed, will I have further development with him, and if we are still together, won't it become a ten-year-old "sister and brother love"? It's all. "Shen Yiyi, don't let yourself fall into a more chaotic situation, keeping your distance is your only choice." I silently warned myself from the bottom of my heart.