Chapter 4 Tenderness Like Water
Laa...... I am a free-walking flower
Laa...... I am a free-walking flower
The ethereal voice of Sa Dingding permeates the cafΓ©, quiet and elegant. It was still raining outside the window, dripping with the occasional breeze.
Free-walking flowers.
It's really romantic and chic.
Ye Shan thought quietly. However, if she is too free, she is confused, and for an insecure person like her, she needs a stable harbor and someone who can guide her in the direction.
Lin Qinghai.
She couldn't think of a second person but him.
She picked up the coffee and drank it carefully, with Lin Qinghai's gentle appearance in her mind. She was thinking about whether she should move in with Lin Qinghai, maybe that way, she could stop herself from thinking nonsense.
What will the life of two people be like?
She was a little curious.
Putting down the coffee, Ye Shan saw Chen Qihua coming towards him, his expression was a little listless.
"It's been a long time." Chen Qihua leaned back in his chair weakly, his face was haggard, and the dark circles under his eyes were clearly hanging on his fair face.
"What's wrong with you?" Ye Shan couldn't believe that he paid so much attention to his appearance on weekdays.
"I'm sorry, I'm looking for you on the weekend."
Chen Qihua's politeness made Ye Shan feel weird, "What's wrong with you?" β
At this time, the waiter brought coffee, and the two were silent. Waiting for the waiter to walk away, Chen Qihua silently took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, took one and lit it, his movements were not skillful.
"You smoke?" In the first time I've known him for so long, Ye Shan has seen him smoke.
"Smoke occasionally, and when you're in a bad mood."
"You're in a bad mood?"
Chen Qihua smoked a cigarette and did not answer.
"But you can't smoke here."
Before Ye Shan finished speaking, the waiter had already come over with an ashtray.
Before extinguishing the cigarette, Chen Qihua took another sip, then picked up the coffee in front of him and drank it all, and ordered another cup.
"You don't look like you at all today." Ye Shan tilted her head to look at him.
Chen Qihua smiled dryly: "I think too." β
"So, don't you have anything to tell me?"
"Ye Shanβ" After a moment of silence, he left the back of his chair and returned to normal.
"I'll listen."
"Youlin is gone." Chen Qihua lowered his eyes and said slowly.
Youlin - Chen Qihua's girlfriend, Ye Shan heard him say that she is a tall and thin beautiful woman, but unfortunately she has never seen it.
It turned out that it was love again.
"Where?"
"Left."
"Leave? Why? β
"Why?" When the second cup of coffee came up, Chen Qihua said bitterly, "Perhaps, she misses her old love more." β
Ye Shan was silent.
"Actually, she's always kept in touch with her old love, and I know that."
"But you pretend not to know." Ye Shan understood.
"Because, I don't want to lose her. Some things are untouchable. β
Looking at the affectionate Chen Qihua, Ye Shan immediately thought of Lin Qinghai, to some extent, they were very similar. Perhaps, Lin Qinghai is the same, in fact, he understands, but he doesn't say anything or ask anything.
"You love her so much." Ye Shan was thoughtful.
"What's the use, she doesn't care." Chen Qihua sighed softly, "She suddenly told me, let's be strangers." Stranger, that's a terrible word. β
"Yesterday when I went to work, she quietly left and moved her luggage, I know...... She will never come back. Chen Qihua's deep voice revealed endless sadness.
The silent disappearance is the most hurtful, and it is also like Tang Wending, silent.
Looking at the depressed Chen Qihua in front of her, Ye Shan seemed to see herself who had lost her soul at the beginning, and also saw Lin Qinghai, who had been silent, how could she not be a person who missed her old love.
Thinking of this, she suddenly felt that Lin Qinghai was really pitiful.
Ye Shan stared blankly at the coffee in front of her, and suddenly dispelled the idea of moving to live with Lin Qinghai, she couldn't hurt him anymore, and she couldn't take his love for granted.
"It's all over." Chen Qihua emphasized, but he is so reluctant.
"Everything will be fine." Ye Shan muttered and repeated, more like talking to herself.
"There will be better people to love you." Ye Shan struggled to find a word of comfort.
"I don't know why, I'm not looking forward to new love."
"I don't know how long I'll be lost......"
"Willing to indulge in ......"
Chen Qihua said sadly, his eyes were gloomy.
Ye Shan knew very well that he couldn't forget her, at least for a while. Because, forgetting the past is a long process, and it is a very painful process to completely erase a person from the bottom of his heart.
"You're so stupid." Ye Shan said to Chen Qihua and to herself.
"Perhaps, love is to make people stupid." He raised his face and smiled bitterly, even the stubble on his chin looked decadent.
Ye Shan squeezed the corners of her mouth and couldn't laugh. She didn't know how to comfort the lovelorn man in front of her, or the man abandoned by her lover, who was going through what she had experienced.
Outside the window, the rain was still falling.
Looking at the dim sky, Ye Shan began to look forward to the sunny sky, but she couldn't help but feel ridiculous. When it's fine, I look forward to rain, and when it rains, I look forward to it. People's minds are really floating and don't know how to cherish.
After their coffee, they went to another bar.
Lovelorn people need companionship. Ye Shan understands and is willing to accompany her.
Since they met at the annual meeting held by the two companies last year, the two have been getting along well. Ye Shan often felt that even if they were very old, they could communicate with each other so indifferently.
Blue face confidante.
Chen Qihua once described the relationship between the two of them like this, and there is no ambiguity. Time has proven that this is indeed the case.
In the end, Chen Qihua was drunk, so drunk that he couldn't even speak, and his whole person was pale and weak. Ye Shan didn't complain, just sent him home quietly.
"He loves too much, too deeply." Leaving Chen Qihua's apartment, Ye Shan looked at the dark night sky and sighed softly. Not long ago, Chen Qihua also said that she can't love like a little girl, but loving like him is not necessarily much better.
The rain in the middle of the night has a feeling of indifference, which makes people feel chilled and panicked.
Ye Shan suddenly missed Lin Qinghai's warm embrace and his reassuring thoughtfulness, but unfortunately her mobile phone ran out of battery, so she could only rely on her body temperature and wait for a taxi home on the empty street on a rainy night.
"You're back!"
As soon as Ye Shan stepped out of the elevator, a somewhat lazy but familiar voice came from the side, and she looked up and saw that it was Lin Qinghai.
"Qinghai-" Ye Shan exclaimed in surprise, incredulous.
Lin Qinghai smiled and blinked, he looked tired.
"I can't believe it." Ye Shan was a little excited, "You've been waiting for me here?" β
Lin Qinghai nodded, then stepped forward and hugged Ye Shan warmly and kissed her face: "I miss you so much!" This voice seemed to come from a distant pilgrimage place, and instantly dissolved the panic in Ye Shan's heart.
Ye Shan's eyes were red, "My phone is out of battery." β
"I know."
"I'm sorry." Ye Shan apologized in a low voice, it was a sin to let someone who had worked all day wait here until the middle of the night.
"Don't say you're sorry, you're never sorry for me."
"You're too good to me."
"That's as it should be."
"You shouldn't be waiting here."
"That's as it should be, and I like to wait for you."
"I'm afraid you'll spoil me." Ye Shan smiled.
"I'm not afraid." Lin Qinghai said quietly, "I've been thinking about you." β
"I miss you too." Ye Shan hugged Lin Qinghai tightly from the bottom of her heart, and his warmth was a hundred times stronger than that of a heater.
Then they kissed. They draw each other like magnets.
The rain was so light that I couldn't hear it in the room.
Lying in Lin Qinghai's broad arms, Ye Shan felt the sense of security brought by the breath of his skin wrapped from head to toe. Warm and reassuring, this feeling came back to my heart.
She loved him.
She loved him very much.
Ye Shan seemed to really see her true heart.
When he woke up the next day, Lin Qinghai had already gone to the company. Ye Shan was lying on the bed staring at the pale blue ceiling, the breath of Lin Qinghai was still left in the quilt, and her heart wandered with a shallow and faint longing and dependence.
In this city, she only has Lin Qinghai.
No, she still has Lin Qinghai in this city. He was so tender, so considerate.
She had sadly thought that something must have gone wrong in her life, but now she realized that everything was in order, and that life had been going in the direction it should be, and there was nothing right or wrong.