(The storyline is completely fictional, the official must not sit in the right seat, if there is any similarity, it is purely a coincidence)

Jing Hao ran back and forth in circles in Headington Park, and soon sweated profusely. She stopped, bent over her knees, calmed her rapid breath, and began to jog again.

There are not many people in the park, but there are several pairs of young people on the grass and under the big trees, looking at them, the picture of Chen Shengshi basking on the beach before appeared in front of me, and I remembered the scenes of the two dating over the years.

From a group photo in kindergarten, to classmates again in high school, to go their separate ways in college, and to meet again at the reunion of old classmates in their junior year, they gradually began to date...... That young Chen Dongliang, that young self...... And with the relationship between the two, Chen Dongliang's parents and his parents' two families gathered together, climbed mountains, and went on outings......

At that time, it was not very romantic and beautiful, but it was generally pleasant.

Soon, the scenes that disgusted her appeared before her eyes: he advised her to please Lao Zheng's words; his vulgar philistine conversations with his office colleagues; He and Rong Shengli ate and drank everywhere, two or three times a day; She and he were on opposite ends of the computer, typing and chatting about nothing, and there was nothing to say without saying a few words...... Also, the WeChat video is the same, he doesn't seem to understand what she says, and she is not interested in what he says; And when they go home on vacation, the two are together, whether they go to Chen Dongliang's house or Jinghao's house, whether they go to the supermarket to buy things, or drink coffee together on the ground floor of the glass building, there is always a feeling of square and virtual, very empty, very empty......

After that, the conversation between my mother and herself, as well as the words that Chen Dongliang just said, appeared in front of her eyes and ears in turn......

She was really tired of running, so she found a wooden chair to sit down, she closed her eyes, she was sad alone in the golden honey sun, and she couldn't say what it was for, whether it was for Chen Dongliang, for herself or for whom, anyway, she was a little sad.

At night, I couldn't sleep quietly on my small wooden bed, tossing and turning in the dark. Looking up at the cartoon wall on the wall, it was 10:55 in the middle of the night. She suddenly got out of bed and sent him an email to Harry, telling him that she had decided that she planned to apply for a PhD at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, or a PhD in Communication Studies at the University of East Anglia, and asked Harry to help him write a letter of recommendation and ask him which school and which major was more suitable for him.

She looked at her watch again, it was 11:5 p.m., and it was estimated that her parents were having breakfast after getting up, so she sent an invitation to her mother's mobile phone for a video call.

At the end of the video, only Jinghao's mother was eating breakfast alone in the restaurant at home.

Jing Hao asked, "Mom, where is my dad?" ”

Mom said, "He went out early in the morning. ”

Jing Hao said: "Mom, what you said yesterday also makes sense, I plan to stay in England this summer, apply for a doctorate and give it a try, and I won't go back first." ”

Mom said, "That doctor, it really doesn't matter if you apply or not. I just wanted you to stay a little longer and come back. ”

Jing Hao said: "That, the matter between me and Chen Dongliang, so be it, we have broken up......"

Mom said, "Okay." You also calm down. I'll check it out again ......."

Jing Hao said: "Don't look for someone to continue to investigate, it's boring, it will provoke him to beat him again." The breakup is not all about this, the main reason is that we can gradually communicate too few topics, there is no mental communication at all, and it will not work for a long time......"

Mom said, "Okay, break up, I think it's right." The point is, if he has a character problem, this is not okay......"

Jing Hao interrupted his mother: "Mom, I know, but we didn't wronged him or misunderstood him, right?" I don't think he's aggrieved. ”

The mother said, "How could you have wronged him?" The evidence is there! ”

Jing Hao stopped talking.

The mother asked, "Jing Hao, are you deliberately looking for an excuse to stay for a while longer in order to break up with him, or do you really plan to apply for a doctorate?" You have to think about it, if you really finish your Ph.D., you'll be thirty-four or five, and you'll be the second Mrs. Chen, after all, you're still married, so what will you do then? Stay there? Or come back? Just one person all the time? ”

Jing Hao said, "Oh, I didn't think about it that much. I didn't even think about whether I would actually do a PhD, so I just applied for it first. ”

Mom said, "We still want you to come back." I've been feeling like you've been telling us something, and that's what I felt when you came back from Christmas. ”

Jing Hao said, "Mom, nothing else. ”

The mother asked, "Well, let me ask you more, have you had a local relationship, or have you met any new boyfriends?" ”

Jing Hao hesitated for a moment, but still said: "It's not the boyfriend you said, and I didn't dating, but I met a person in the UK, a man." ”

The mother let out an "ah" and asked, "Who is it?" Foreigner? ”

Of course, Jing Hao didn't dare to say that it was Harry, and prevaricated: "That, I met in school, I can be regarded as a classmate." Yes, it's British, but we're just ordinary friends. ”

Mom sighed heavily on the other end of the phone.

Jing Hao hurriedly said: "Mom, don't worry, don't worry, don't worry, we are really just ordinary friends, and it has nothing to do with me and Chen Dongliang breaking up." Don't be angry, I didn't say it before, because I've always been a very ordinary friend, so there's no need to tell you. If you have to ask today, I'll just say it in passing. ”

Of course, my mother was worried, she blamed Jing for making friends casually, and also blamed herself for being sloppy - no wonder she came back from vacation, fiddled with her broken beads when she had nothing to do, sat in the house for a long time without talking, put on a string of disassembled, disassembled and put on again, and said that she wanted to "break up peacefully" with Chen Dongliang! Why didn't I react at the time? It's useless to be in a hurry, England is too far away, and she can't fly over it at once.

Mom actually wanted to ask a few more questions, but she was afraid that it would backfire, so she quickly pushed her to the side of the "foreign man", so she endured it and stopped asking. It's just hard to control myself and continue to ramble.

Mom said: "Jinghao, I won't say much about this matter, as for me, I don't express my position immediately, I neither oppose nor support, but you must consider it thoroughly, take care of yourself, and you must be clean...... We know Chen Dongliang so well, he can do such a thing, let alone a foreigner who doesn't know his roots and doesn't know the bottom......"

Jing Hao was a little impatient on the other end of the video: "Mom, don't say so much! Don't tell my dad, I'm afraid he'll be angry, and if he doesn't let me stay and apply for a doctorate, he'll be unhappy if I don't go back on my grandmother's birthday. ”

The mother said, "Are you afraid that your father will be angry, so you are not afraid that I will be angry?" Your dad has something to do today, I won't tell him about this matter first, and you don't tell him, you should think about it yourself carefully, this is not an impulse joke, after all, you are almost thirty! When you think about it, tell your dad yourself. ”

Jing Hao was not convinced, and said, "What's wrong with thirty!" Thirty years old is just the beginning of life! ”

Mom said, "Okay, good, good, good at thirty, it's good to be single at thirty, okay?" It's good to start a PhD at the age of 30, and it's good to finish a PhD at 344 or 356 and be single, very good, okay? ”

Jing Hao stiffened his mouth and said, "Mom, why are you still yin and yang, even if that's the case, what? ”

Mom said, "What do you say?" You don't want to think about it, by that time, some of the children of the same age are almost ten years old, and the family life has been more than ten years, and you are still alone! Do you say normal? All right? ”

Jing Hao said: "Even so, what's the matter? ”

Mom said, "We have said many times that man is a child of nature, and it is best to do what he does at what age. You're not married yet, it's already a problem. It's not that I'm conservative, it's not that I'm blocking you from doing a PhD, it's better to do what you should do at this age first! I won't quarrel with you, calm yourself down and think carefully about whether what I said makes sense......"

Harry has a bad habit of sleeping late, and when Jing Hao sent him an email, he was sitting in front of the computer, and he was very happy when he saw Jing Hao's email saying that he was going to apply for a doctorate.

Harry immediately replied to Jing Hao with an email in English, saying: These two can be applied at the same time, because they are both very good schools, so the application is also difficult, you must have excellent transcripts and letters of recommendation, and there must be sufficient information to prove that your English writing ability meets their high standards, and it is best to prove that you have some unique thoughts or thinking skills, and you need to send a few of your English papers with it. So, prepare now. In addition, if you want to go to SOAS, University of London, I highly recommend you to choose SOAS's East Asian Political Economy rather than Media. The reason is that you have lived in China for a long time and worked as a journalist, so you have a certain foundation and advantages in this field, and this major will inevitably have a large number of Chinese materials to read, which is a strong point for you. In light of the above suggestions, please consider them carefully.

The next afternoon, Harry went out on his own, heading for Blackwell's bookstore on Broad Street, humming a song all the way as he walked with ease.

Passing through the pastures, across the wooden bridge, and then through the forest paths, he walked to the road of the School of Inorganic Chemistry of Niu University, and then walked forward, turned a corner, and came to Broad Street, and two steps to Blackwell's bookstore.

He entered the bookstore, and without even thinking about it, he paced to the "love counter", looked left and right to see if there were no acquaintances, and took a copy of "How to Fall in Love with a Chinese Woman", or like the last time he bought the book "How to Fall in Love with a Woman", he deliberately mixed it in a few professional books, paid seriously, walked out of the bookstore, hummed an English tune, and walked in the direction of the wooden bridge and home......