The falling flames spread along the hay sprinkled on the ground, until they burned to her feet, and Gu Li was shocked.

She touched the broom next to her and scrambled to put out the fire.

But her eyes couldn't see, and she didn't know if she was in the right place.

She felt the temperature around her rise, and the heat swept towards her face with smoke and dust.

Gu Li stood there at a loss, there seemed to be fire all around, and she didn't know which direction to pounce.

The kitchen was filled with hay and firewood, and the fire spread with lightning speed, engulfing the wood kitchen in an instant.

When Qiu Yu came back, he saw that the kitchen was surrounded by firelight, and that familiar figure stood quietly in the sea of fire.

He dropped what he was holding and ran over, trying to pull her out.

Gu Li knew that it was him who came back, but said, "You don't have to worry about me, run by yourself, this house may collapse soon." ”

The burning sound in her ears was crackling and clicking.

Just now, the moment the fire broke out, she seemed to feel a warmth that could heal people's hearts. Just like last night, when she approached Yan Qing in her dream, she felt exactly the same.

She coveted the warmth and didn't want to leave, but wanted more. For this, even if it is to give her life, she is willing.

If you don't return, even if you wait for a hundred years and a thousand years, you will end up in despair. So, what does life and death matter to her?

But Qiu Yu is innocent, and he can't die with her.

The clicking sound in my ears was getting heavier and heavier, and I thought that the beam above the kitchen was about to burn off.

Qiu Yu pulled her desperately, trying to pull her out. However, instead of following him, Gu Li pushed him hard and pushed him out of the fire.

At this moment, the beam completely burned and broke, and it fell to the ground with a "boom", separating the two of them in two different worlds.

In the red sea of fire, there was a sound that seemed to be melted by the flames.

"You go, don't come back. Thank you for being with me in the past three years, you don't owe me anything for a long time, and you don't need to repay the favor. ”

As for herself, she didn't want to live for a long time.

She didn't realize it before, but since Yan Qing left, her heart seems to have been hollowed out, and now she is only a shell. Every day of her life is despair and torment for her.

However, Qiu Yu didn't accept her affection, and rushed into the fire regardless of it, dragging her out.

Gu Li was choking on the smoke and coughing, so Qiu Yu stood aside and patiently patted her on the back.

"Why did you save me? Why not go? Gu Li changed his usual indifferent demeanor and reprimanded him emotionally.

Her unfocused eyes were covered with tears, and she didn't know if it was irritated by the cough or for some other reason.

He saved her, but her dream was shattered.

Qiu Yu didn't make a sound, standing in front of her and looking at her quietly, her eyes condensed with a sadness that could not be described in words.

That person, to her, is so important? She couldn't live without him?

In the past three years, Qiu Yu has been thinking about this problem, but it was not until just now that he convinced himself.

Indeed, Yan Qing is indispensable to her, without him, there would be no her in this world.

For three years, he saw it clearly. She is alive, but her heart has long since died with Yan Qing's departure.

He wanted to change her, he wanted to cure her, and he worked hard for three years to do so. In the end, however, the results told him that he had failed, and that he had failed.

It turns out that in this world, no one can replace that person's place in her heart.

Every one of her wooden figures, every teardrop, every word of rebuke to him was a knife, ripping at his heart alive.

It had never hurt like this, even if it was really a knife to his heart, that kind of pain was nothing more than that.

There are too many grievances and grievances in this world, which are unclear and constantly cut.

"Live well." He still looked at her with that sad and sour look, but suddenly said.

Gu Li was stunned for a moment, and then asked, "Can you speak?" ”

In the past three years, she had never heard Qiu Yu say a word, and he hadn't even made a single sound.

Is his mute suddenly better? Or was he never dumb?

If he could speak, why had he been dumb by her side for three years?

"Who are you?" Gu Li became vigilant.

However, Qiuyu did not answer her words, brought water to extinguish the remaining flames, and went to clean up the pile of ashes.

Gu Li asked a few more times, but he didn't make any more sound.

Qiu Yu cleaned up the ashes, and spent another afternoon building a kitchen to clean up the small courtyard.

He made dinner for her, but Gu Li didn't eat it.

The moonlight is like water tonight, and there is still a figure sitting on the bluestone platform in the small courtyard, but it is not Gu Li.

Qiu Yu, like her, sat there quietly, motionless.

He hasn't done much in his life, and he hasn't gotten along with many people, but she is the only one who has plunged him into the abyss from which he will never recover.

Today, she pushed him out of the flames, and that was with a mortal heart. Every word she rebuked him was piercing his heart.

It's been three years, and he has spent three years of hard work, and in the end he still failed. Neither her eyes nor her heart, he could not heal her.

Since it can't be cured, it's time for him to leave.

Qiu Yu sat here all night, and at dawn, she first went to the kitchen to make breakfast, and then swept a few fallen leaves in the small courtyard.

He subconsciously wanted to shovel the little moss that had grown in the corner of the wall so that she wouldn't slip as she passed. But when I think about it, I don't need it anymore.

Her eyes will soon be healed, and when she can see, she will no longer slip on the moss.

But he eventually cleaned up the moss from the places where she might go. Without him, she just wanted to do more for her.

Three years ago, he never knew that he could be so happy to do things for one person willingly.

He wanted nothing more than to hope that after he was gone, she would be able to live well.

When Gu Li walked out of the door, Qiu Yu was sitting on the stone platform waiting for her.

"I'm here." He said.

Hearing the voice, Gu Li held on to the bamboo cane and walked towards him.

Who the hell is he? Why pretend to be dumb and be by her side for three years? Is it really just to repay the favor?

"You've never been dumb?" Gu Li walked up to him and asked.

"Hmm." Qiu Yu responded in a low voice.