Chapter 086: Paying Back
"Did Wen Luan ask you to come?" Wen Lu seemed to smell a bad smell.
Zhong Zhicheng nodded, "He said he was stranded on the island and asked me to pick him up." โ
"Then do you know that he found evidence of his innocence?" Wen Lu asked.
"He didn't say," Mr. Chung said.
"I understand, he didn't find evidence at all, he came to you just to let you take me away," Wen Lu didn't expect that she was deceived by her younger brother.
So how will she explain when she goes back now?
said to Lu Yaocheng that she ran out in the middle of the night just to relax?
So how can Lu Yaocheng believe her?
"W-are you leaving?" Zhong Zhicheng turned his back to the wind, facing Wen Lu, but his not very generous body opened up a haven for her.
The wind blew Wenlu's skirt, blew away her long hair, and also blew her heart.
She didn't know how to answer Zhong Zhicheng.
She wanted to leave, she wanted to leave very much, she desperately wanted to leave, but she couldn't, she knew that once she left, not only would it not help Wen Luan's matter, but it might even make it worse because of annoying Lu Yaocheng.
The confrontation between sensibility and reason, the balance in my heart is constantly hovering between going and not going.
If Zhong Zhicheng was not here today, Wen Lu would not hesitate to choose to stay, but the person standing in front of her now is Zhong Zhicheng, the person who doesn't have too many feelings, doesn't have too many words, doesn't understand the wind and snow, and even lives like a fairy outside the world.
He didn't say anything touching about love, he didn't do anything romantic, he wasn't annoyed or angry after being deceived by Wen Luan, he just asked lightly, "Are you willing to go", and easily shook her heart that had been firm for so long.
Wen Lu only felt that her chest was torn, and reality and emotion tore it apart, and no one went around anyone.
He didn't even say, Wenlu, do you want to leave? If you want, I'll take you away, to a place where no one knows us, to a place where Lu Yaocheng can't find us. I'll take you wherever you want, as long as you're there.
At this moment, Wen Lu's eyes were already hazy with tears, her throat seemed to be stuck with something, and she said with difficulty: "Zhong Zhicheng, let's go, this is just Wen Luan's joke, you don't have to take it seriously." โ
Zhong Zhicheng looked at Wen Lu, showing an injured expression for the first time, his right hand was clenched into a fist and then released, raised it slightly, and carefully wiped away the tears that were still rolling in Wen Lu's eyes.
Help her wipe her clean before the tears fall, this is Zhong Zhicheng!
Looking back on the past, Wen Lu didn't understand where they started to miss each other. Seven years have passed, and this gradually deteriorating relationship has become an undetected poison that seeps into the blood and bones over time. After being diagnosed, it was discovered that it was already an incurable disease.
Is Zhong Zhicheng late? It doesn't seem to be.
Is she an afterthought?
So why did she realize it later?
Why?
Everything is always irretrievably undone when the most hidden secrets in the heart are discovered.
"Wen Luan's joke, this time I took it seriously," Zhong Zhicheng's hand slid from the corner of Wen Lu's eyes to the back of Wen Lu's head, and gently buckled back, and Wen Lu fell into Zhong Zhicheng's arms.
This is the first time that she and Zhong Zhicheng have such intimate contact.
This is also the first time Zhong Zhicheng hugged her, but he didn't expect it to be like this. There was a smell of the sea breeze on his thin shirt, and the whole person was cold, I don't know if it was because of the wind.
Wen Lu buried her head in Zhong Zhicheng's chest, "Zhong Zhicheng, you are too cold, you know, I am most afraid of the cold." โ
Zhong Zhicheng didn't speak, and the hand holding the back of her head gently rubbed her hair.
With the vast starry sky as the background, the distant mountains, the near sea, the docked ships, and the bright lights are blended into a rich and colorful oil painting. The protagonists in the painting are fluttering in their clothes and hugging each other.
"Come back with me, it won't be cold when you go back," Mr. Zhong said.
A faint voice came from above Wen Lu's head, breaking Wen Lu's tight defense line at once, reason told her that she couldn't go, but her heart gradually tilted in the other direction.
Standing in front of her now is the living Zhong Zhicheng, Wen Luan's phone call, he didn't care if he went to work tomorrow, he still took advantage of the night to gallop over, although he was deceived, he was still determined to take her away, Wen Lu's heart rippled.
"I ...... Can I come with you? Wen Lu asked with extra care, like a child who was hungry for toys, and was afraid to ask for the consent of adults.
"You have to ask yourself, would you like to go with me?" Zhong Zhicheng asked rhetorically.
Wen Lu pondered and struggled, and finally buried her head in his chest and nodded heavily.
Zhong Zhicheng took her hand, did not give her the slightest chance to regret it, took her to the boat, and ordered the captain to sail away quickly.
Wen Lu was shocked, and before she could react, she was taken to the cabin by Zhong Zhicheng. Zhong Zhicheng arranged for her to sit down and brought a thin blanket to drape her.
He hadn't forgotten that she was cold.
Wen Lu was still stunned, she nodded in Zhong Zhicheng's arms, and then her body was taken onto the boat by Zhong Zhicheng uncontrollably.
Wrapped in a warm blanket, she gradually regained her senses, and when she looked back at the shore, the speeding boat had already left a long distance.
The headlights on the pier blended with the starry sky in the distance, and after the boat sailed, the roaring waves brought up, and Wenlu's heart was gradually drowned out by the sound of churning seawater.
That's it - gone?
She was in a trance for a moment, and she didn't understand why she chose to leave with Zhong Zhicheng.
The dock of the island case had gradually disappeared into the night, and the sudden appearance of two distant lights stimulated her eyes. She saw a car parked at the dock, and the two high beams in front of the car could daze her eyes from afar.
Although she was far away, she could still make a vague view of the silhouette of the car and the figure of the person who had come out of the cab.
Is that Lu Yaocheng?
The first thought flashed through Wen Lu's mind. Immediately, she shook her head and denied that Lu Yaocheng had bad eyes and couldn't drive.
Her eyes kept looking at the dock on the shore of the island.
Until the last glimmer of light faded into the night.
Stubbornly turning her head and shaking off the nonsense thoughts in her mind, Wen Lu looked at the man in front of her with solemn eyebrows, and she smiled.
Zhong Zhicheng looked at her and smiled like a flower, and raised the corners of his mouth slightly with her.
When he laughed, it was really like a spring breeze, like a spring after winter, the east wind blowing, and then there was a blooming purple and red in his heart.
"Want to see the stars?" Zhong Zhicheng stepped forward and sat side by side with her in the cabin.
The cabin is small enough for two people, but it keeps out the cold sea breeze.
Wen Lu nodded, Zhong Zhicheng took out a telescope from the bag next to him and handed it to Wen Lu.
"Wow, how can there be a telescope?" Wen Lu was overjoyed.
"This speedboat is my coming-of-age gift at the age of eighteen. At that time, I always liked to go out to sea, go to the surrounding islands for the night, lie in the cabin and watch the stars," Zhong Zhicheng said seriously.
He rarely mentions his past. He spoke jerkily and hard, which also represented how different she was from him.
"I thought you had only experienced some things to become indifferent and indifferent, but you liked to pretend to be cold since you were a child?" Wen Lu quipped.
Zhong Zhicheng smiled slightly, "I didn't know what the hardships and hardships of life were before, and I spent my days leisurely all day long, and I didn't have a trace of defenses against life. When disaster comes, it is like facing a great enemy, and the whole world seems to be falling," he sighed helplessly, "but all this also made me understand that there is no obstacle in this world that cannot be overcome, and there is nothing that cannot be solved." โ
"Are you saying it to me, to comfort me?" Of course, Wen Lu understands why Zhong Zhicheng, who cherishes words like gold, said such a long list of words.
Her heart was really warm, playing with the binoculars, and gently leaning on Zhong Zhicheng's shoulder.
Looking at the starry sky in the distance, "Zhong Zhicheng, what constellation is that?" She pointed into the distance, "There are a lot of stars over there." โ
"You're talking about the Big Dipper, it should be the constellation Ursa Major," Zhong Zhicheng roughly guessed in the direction Wen Lu pointed.
"Were you originally going to be an astronomer?" Wen Lu looked at Zhong Zhicheng curiously, "How do you know everything." โ
"Maybe," Zhong Zhicheng didn't know.
"Let's go to the planetarium if we have a chance, we will definitely be able to see more clearly there," Wen Lu suggested.
"Okay," Zhong Zhicheng agreed.
She took the binoculars that Zhong Zhicheng gave her and looked around curiously, and Zhong Zhicheng raised his hand to rub her hair simply.
Zhong Zhicheng looked at her with a thousand words in his eyes, but after all, he didn't say a word, just looked at her affectionately.
Wen Lu looked at him with curious and inquiring eyes, and was finally dodged by Zhong Zhicheng, and the warmth of a moment passed away with the sea breeze.
He didn't ask her any questions about Lu Yaocheng.
They tacitly avoided talking about it, everyone knew that there was Lu Yaocheng between them, but they didn't want to spoil this short-lived beauty.
"Maybe it's another situation after dawn, but at this moment, I don't regret it," Wen Lu gave the answer in his heart to Zhong Zhicheng's words that he didn't ask, "Maybe 'stealing half a day' is also another kind of beginning." โ
"I know you don't want to talk about him, but I want to say that if you want to withdraw but are afraid of him entanglement, you can trust me, I have a way to convince him," Zhong Zhicheng knew what Wen Lu was most worried about.
Although some things are deliberately avoided, after all, they are real problems between them, and if they are not solved, there will always be a thorn pierced.
Wen Lu shook her head, "You have already helped me, you have helped my family too much, I can't always trouble you like this." You're just a little doctor in a hospital, and if you want to help me, you'll have to ask your uncle, and even though you say they treat you as their own, it's a nuisance after all. I don't want to burden you because of me. Maybe he will offend the Lu family and Lu Yaocheng because of this. โ
"It's okayโ"
"Even if there is no Lu Yaocheng, how likely are we to fight......"
Wen Lu's words interrupted Zhong Zhicheng.
Zhong Zhicheng looked at Wen Lu with some shock.
"Zhong Zhicheng, will you say that you love me?"
Wen Lu looked at Zhong Zhicheng pleading and sad.
Zhong Zhicheng froze, unable to answer Wen Lu's sharp and direct question.
"I ...... I just want to take you away tonight, I ...... Didn't think about anything elseโ"
"Thank you for telling me the answer before I was self-inflicted," Wen Lu smiled bitterly, "I know what you mean, and I know it's just because I'm worried about me." โ