Xu Chen has been in Philadelphia for a long time, and it is half a semester in a flash. For various reasons, he changed his contact information, and he could only contact Lin Shuliang and his mother.

Usually he is really bored, he turns around, and every time he encounters a beautiful place, he will take a photo and send it to Lin Shuliang, and attach a sentence: I have time to take you to play.

He really hoped that Lin Shuliang would come, but he also knew that she would not come because she had a better boy by her side.

His life in the U.S. is simple, with classes, dorms, weekend plays, and a visit to a nearby bar.

He often goes to this bar because the Chinese girls who sing have eyes that look like Lin Shuliang, and he doesn't come forward to say hello, just sit and listen quietly.

Sometimes when I see her singing for too long, I will order a glass to moisten my throat and send it over.

Several times in a row, the girl found him by herself, "Are you Chinese?" In Chinese, she is very sure.

"Yes." Xu Chen smiled, "You sing very well." ”

"Thank you." She ordered a glass of wine and gave it to Xu Chen, "You can't always invite me." ”

He didn't refuse, and took it with a smile.

The girl sat down beside him and approached him, intentionally or unintentionally, "What's your name?" ”

"Xu Chen, what about you?"

"Cui Tong." Her head was already resting on Xu Chen's shoulder.

He stood up without a trace, "It's not early, the dormitory will be closed when I go back later, so I'll leave first." ”

He hasn't been to that bar since.

On the way, he took a picture of the street scene and sent it to Lin Shuliang: Beautiful, right? Here, I met someone who was very much like you, but I knew in my heart that there would not be a second you.

He was silent, very different from before, sometimes going out to eat with the dorm people, but not as crazy as before.

At the beginning, he would regret coming to such a strange city, he thought that if he was far away from Lin Shuliang like this, he would slowly forget, but he didn't expect that the more he wanted to forget, the more profound it would be.

But as time went on, he really just seemed to treat Lin Shuliang as a friend to share, and Lin Shuliang would occasionally complain about Shen Xinghe, saying that he was jealous.

Before they became lovers, they were already friends.

It's just that Xu Chen didn't realize it.

……

Lin Shuliang was practicing dance, and an unfamiliar number interrupted her music, and she wanted to hang up, but out of politeness, she still took it.

"Who?"

"Is it cool? I'm Ah Lan. ”

“！” Lin Shuliang wiped the sweat away with the sweat towel and looked at the phone displayed on the screen, "Ah Lan!" Why would you call me? ”

"I'm looking for you for something, I'm at the door of your school's Qianhui supermarket, is it convenient for you to come over?"

"Convenient, come right away." She quickly changed her clothes and threw the key to Xiaoxue: "Remember to lock the door." ”

Xiaoxue looked puzzled, the last time she was like this, it was when Shen Xinghe moved to the new campus, I don't know who it is this time.

Lin Shuliang ran out of breath, and when she saw where Ah Lan really was, she was a helpless little fan, and she didn't forget to tidy up her clothes, "Ah Lan, why are you here." ”

"I took the liberty of coming to you, didn't I bother you?"

"No, no, let's go to the leisure street over there, there is a shop with good snacks, let's sit and say." As she spoke, she had already gone ahead to lead the way.

She practiced dancing for a long time, because there was a competition, and she hadn't eaten in the afternoon, so she ate with relish, but Ah Lan didn't seem to want to eat much, so she ate a little at random.

"Not in tune with appetite?" She asked.

Ah Lan shook her head, "It's not delicious, really." I was just...... I don't eat much. ”

Only then did she remember that Ah Lan said something just now, "By the way, you are looking for me ......"

"I want to ask Xu Chen, you must know his contact information, right?" Ah Lan grabbed the edge of the table with his hand, and he leaned forward unconsciously, looking at Lin Shuliang expectantly.

Looking at her performance, Lin Shuliang probably understood why she contacted Xu Chen.

"Yes, I'll send it to you, and I'll send it to the number you just sent it." She retweeted, "It's okay. ”

Ah Lan glanced at the string of numbers, "Thank you Shuliang, I went around to Shen Xinghe to get your phone number, and now I finally got my wish." ”

She smiled and nodded, and drank a little water, "You...... Like Xu Chen? ”

"Well, I like him. I later learned that he went to the United States, and I hurried to apply for an exchange place as soon as the school started this year, but I didn't have time last semester, and I didn't know that he went there until halfway through. Now, I want to go to him, where is he in the United States? ”

"He's in Philadelphia." Lin Shuliang said: "You decided? ”

"Well, I only know that he is in the United States, but I don't know where he is in the United States, I choose to exchange, just to see if I can get a little closer to him." Ah Lan is a woman who dares to love and hate, saying this, she is not shy, but full of hope.

For the sake of being alone and going to a foreign country alone, Lin Shuliang admired her courage, but still wanted to remind her: "You have to think carefully about whether the funds and your spoken English can support you to go to the United States." ”

"I'm okay with this, my parents are divorced, they both have their own families, they both feel indebted to me, they are all company executives, and they wish I could toss so that I can use their money more, as if it can make them feel that they don't owe me so much." She smiled wryly, tears in her eyes.

"I'm sorry to tell you this." Her eyes narrowed into a line and she lowered her head to eat the snack in front of her.

This kind of thing is the most inconsolable, you can escape from anything, but the shackles of family affection and blood relationship cannot be broken.

"It's okay, if you trust me, you can say whatever you want. I'm just worried, Xu Chen's elm head...... But I'm sure your enthusiasm will melt him! She changed her tone and cheered for Ah Lan, she knew Xu Chen, looking at Jiao'er Langdang, she actually longed for warmth in her heart.

But there are no absolutes in everything, what if Xu Chen is muddy. If this is in China, no matter what, Ah Lan is not happy and can go shopping with her little sister to drink and complain, which will make her feel better.

However, far away on the other side of the ocean, all the joys and sorrows can only be borne by oneself.

After all, people who are too far away are not suitable to talk about pain.

Ah Lan nodded thoughtfully, "Shuliang, I know what you said." But I'm so young, and my loneliness can be exchanged for his memory of me in this life, and I am willing.

Actually, I don't know, people, the people you travel to meet will not remember you at all, such as me. He will only remember the people he crossed the mountains to meet, such as you.

You don't have to use this expression, I know he likes you, he confessed it himself. I don't mind, I don't mind and I won't come to you. Shuliang, I like to be friends with you very much, not because of Xu Chen, but because you stopped in front of me that day and helped me fight the bad guys, so I decided to make you a friend. ”

She said sincerely and sincerely, and Lin Shuliang also believed that the singer she liked would be a generous person.

When Ah Lan left, she had a confident smile on her face, with a lonely courage that would never return.

It's just that Lin Shuliang forgot to explain, Xu Chen doesn't like her anymore, she knows it very well.

……

As soon as Ah Lan arrived in the United States, he went to Xu Chen's university.

She found a coffee bar next to her, she didn't know what face to use to meet Xu Chen, she was actually a little nervous.

She was hesitating, when she saw Xu Chen and a few people walking towards this coffee bar with a smile, among the group of people, there were men and women, all of them were full of youth.

Most of them were Chinese, and she could hear them all speaking standard Chinese.

She held up the magazine and read it, afraid of being discovered, like a voyeur.

The boy walking next to Xu Chen saw Ah Lan sneaky, "Xu Chen, won't he like you again?" People look at you all the time. ”

He looked over and saw a large magazine, covering all the people, "You think too highly of me." Today the experiment has finally come to fruition, and I invite everyone to coffee, not to mention anything else. ”

"Just drinking coffee?"

"Then find a good Chinese restaurant and go for a meal." Xu Chen "endured the pain" and cut the meat.

Ah Lan sat diagonally opposite them, she could hear their conversation, she snickered in her heart, Xu Chen's voice was still so good, and the person was also very good-looking.

She lowered her head, didn't notice that the magazine touched the cup, and when her hand moved, the cup "clanged" and fell to the ground.

Everyone looked at it together, naturally including Xu Chen, she was so embarrassed that she kept apologizing to the waiter who came to clean up, "I'm sorry, how much is it, I'll pay for it." ”

Xu Chen saw that it was her, and after being surprised, he went to the front desk to deal with the matter, bought the order by the way, and pulled Ah Lan out.

Outside, Ah Lan lowered her head and looked at the tips of her shoes, "I...... It's not by chance that I'm here, I came here after inquiring with Lin Shuliang. The reason why I hid just now was because I didn't think about how I would meet you. ”

She is frank, but in the face of Xu Chen at this time, she is always inexplicably weak-hearted. In fact, it's because I like it, so I feel that I can't stand in front of him.

Xu Chen pulled a stool for her to sit down: "Why are you here?" ”

"I also came to the nearby university for an exchange, thinking that you were also here, so I came."

"Tell the truth."

As soon as she heard this emotionless sentence, tears flowed down: "What kind of tone are you? Yes, I came to you with all my heart and mind, and it was full of people I didn't know when I couldn't even talk to you. Just to come to you, the funny thing is that I was going to come in the first half of the year, but I didn't catch up, and I realized that you came here, and I begged the counselor before school started, and I was stunned to keep an exchange place. I've told the whole truth, are you satisfied? ”

She cried tears and snot together, and she had no image to speak of.

Xu Chen took out a tissue from his pocket, helped her wipe it clean, sat beside her, and calmed her emotions, "It's hard for you." ”

"I'm not afraid of being embarrassed, I want us to be together." Ah Lan said angrily.

She is a realistic version of drifting across the ocean, no one is hard-hearted, listening to her words, Xu Chen's heart suddenly softened, like frozen snow, poured with warm water, the softest place began to collapse and melt.

Before Xu Chen could say anything, his group of companions called him: "Xu Chen, take your girlfriend and go to dinner together, they have already made a decision." ”

Girlfriend? Ah Lan looked left and right, and Xu Chen was a girl beside her.

Xu Chen smiled, "Don't look at it, they are talking about you, let's go, eat." ”

"You admit I'm your girlfriend?"

"You came too suddenly, I don't know if it's touching or love, I have to figure it out to be worthy of you." Xu Chen was really thinking.

Ah Lan smiled, "I don't mind!" You feel moved and want to make a promise, I am waiting for you with open arms. ”

As he spoke, he opened his arms.

Xu Chen threw the tissue to her, "Wipe your nose first, and follow up after wiping it." ”

As he spoke, he helped her carry her bag on her back.

Lan laughed after him.

In fact, she didn't know, Xu Chen was also laughing. One after the other, like love.

No, it's love.