Extra 13: Low to Dust (Dean)
Although I was still very worried and didn't want to leave, when the maid finished cleaning, I still explained to Xuanxuan, called me if there was anything and left.
Because I knew that Noshi wouldn't want anyone to see her like that, especially when she woke up the next day.
On the way back, I was hesitating to call Arwen, but I didn't expect him to call me.
His voice sounded a little tired, and he asked me if Sister Gu was still there?
Xuanxuan had already told me that Nuoxi rushed into the room with her mobile phone when she knew that Ah Wen was going to propose to Jiayi, thinking that they had already passed through the phone.
I paused for a moment before I sighed and said, "It's not very good, she's drunk a lot, but she's asleep now." β
"You went to see her?"
"Well, Xuanxuan called me." I said this, and paused, "And ...... I told Noshi about your proposal, and I thought she knew about it......"
"You'll have to know sooner or later." Before I could finish my sentence, he interrupted me.
I pursed my lips and was about to ask where he was, but he said, "Are you free?" β
"Of course."
"I'll see you at the restaurant later."
"Okay."
Forty minutes later, I arrived at the restaurant, where Arwen was already there, leaning against the glass door of the restaurant, biting his cigarette and turning his head to look at me.
I got out of the car, took out the key and opened the door, and without waiting for him to speak, I went to the wine cabinet and grabbed two bottles of red wine.
"It's a good consciousness." He walked over with a smile.
I turned my head and looked at him and raised my lips as I handed it to him, "In the break, I closed the door and took the bottle opener and wine glass by the way." β
He didn't say anything, and walked towards the rest room with his wine.
This night was the most I drank in my life, and I couldn't even think about it.
After all, although I will get a little bit of it later, I am very restrained.
We talked a lot, Arwen said, don't hold on if you're sad, I asked him helplessly, what should I do? Cry out?
He sighed, pinched his cigarette and immediately lit another one, I took a sip of wine, and couldn't help but ask him, "How can Nuoxi compare to Jiayi?" β
That's Noshi's question, and I asked it for her.
He took a deep breath of cigarette and exhaled the smoke, directly took the bottle and poured it, and then shook his head gently, "Sister Gu is better than Jiayi." β
"Why ...... that?"
"Fate is a strange thing." He interrupted me again, then turned to look at me, "Fate, do you know what it means?" β
ββ¦β¦ I've been here for so many years. "I didn't have a good sense of reply.
"That's fine." He poured another sip of wine, then put the wine bottle on my table, and leaned back on the back of the sofa, "She is better than Jiayi in everything, prettier than Jiayi, more capable than Jiayi, has a background than Jiayi, and helps me more than Jiayi, I am grateful to her, but ......"
He took another puff of cigarette and spit it out before he looked at me and said, "I don't feel anything for her, I can't go against myself and cheat on her at the same time, right?" β
"......" I was speechless.
"For Jiayi, I don't know what it will be like in the future, but now, I just want to take good care of her and give her a future...... She's been waiting for me for years......"
"...... "Jiayi finally waited for Awen, so what about me?"
I lowered my eyes, looked at the glass in my hand, paused and raised it to him, and drank it all.
He took a puff of cigarette and spit it out, straightened up and picked up the wine bottle and poured it, "Sister Gu is also a human being, she also needs to vent her emotions, but I believe that she is rational...... And you know her situation, even if I like her, it can't be. β
I couldn't help but glance at him, "Who told me at noon today, how can I know if I don't try." β
"Cut!" I smiled and cut off, "When people have brain fever again, I had brain fever at the time, and I also had brain fever when she called me at night." β
"By the way, why are you arguing?"
"She first asked me why I didn't tell her about proposing to Jiayi, and then she said let me wait for another two years, I said I didn't want to wait, and then she said that I was inflated? Is the future gone? β
"......," I glanced at him slightly, "you do swell, and you are very willful. β
"Huh......" he smiled, "I like this as much as you like cooking, you know what I mean?" And I don't like to be tied down...... I've actually been tired for the past few years......"
I looked at his suddenly tired face, and I couldn't say what I felt, so I could only lower my head, pick up the cup and take another sip.
"I didn't want to do it against her first, just scold her, just scold it, just scold it." He leaned over, snuffed out the cigarette butt, and picked up the bottle, "But, what did she say later, anyway, I've been waiting for so many years, and what if I wait for another two years, I'm very angry, I said that's okay, I don't want the future." β
I was speechless, and looked sideways at him, and he looked sideways at me, and said, "She still thinks the whole world is you." β
ββ¦β¦ All of a sudden, I felt like punching you. β
"You may not be able to beat me, but I promise you won't fight back."
...... "I was so angry that I couldn't bother to pay attention to him at first."
"Then I finished speaking, and the phone seemed to be smashed, and then it was gone."
ββ¦β¦β
"I said Dean, Sister Gu is what you are used to, and Xiao Xuanxuan is used to flying into the sky by you."
"......" As soon as he mentioned Xuanxuan, my head suddenly flashed to Xuanxuan's appearance when she was standing at the door of Nuoxi's room, and I couldn't help but twist my eyebrows and turn my head to look at her, "Awen, I think Xuanxuan is a little wrong." β
"What's wrong?"
My mouth opened, but I didn't know how to describe the feeling, "I don't know how to say it, but she's the backbone of your support group, you pay attention, I'm afraid she'll ...... your proposal"
Before I finished speaking, he waved his hand without caring at all and said, "Feel free, I still told Sister Gu that I don't want a future, what is the support group." β
"......," I looked at him and paused for two seconds before shaking my head, "willful." β
"That's right, it's so capricious, brother swells, drink it!"
"How many times have I said that I'm older than you!"
"Why don't you have any sense of humor?"
"Cheers to my lack of humor."
I didn't know what I was drunk, but I woke up on the couch with a coat over me, half of which had fallen to the floor.
The first time I tasted a hangover, I felt like I wanted to get myself two sleeping pills and sleep to death.
I got up, washed my face, called Arwen, and found that the brother was already lying at home.
"And then you left me here?" I say.
"Brother has drunk more than a bottle, I don't dare to sit in my car, I don't dare to sit for you?"
"......" he said quickly, and it took me two seconds to react to the next sentence, and I immediately laughed, "Okay, you continue to sleep, and I will go back." β
I was about to hang up, and then he suddenly called me, "Dean." β
"Huh?"
"Do you feel a little pain in your eyes?"
βοΌοΌοΌβ I looked at my eyes, they were a little red and swollen, not to mention my eyes, my face was a little swollen, and I had no premonition.
"Hey, hey, be careful when you drive back, when I didn't ask."
I took a deep breath and hung up the phone.
Stinky boy, buried ...... That's how it should be said...... Actually bury me!
I just got home, the phone rang again, I took out the phone to look at it, I couldn't help frowning, paused for a moment to pick up the phone.
Noxi's voice came from the other end, very sober, not as fragile as last night, and reverted to the indifference and rationality of the past.
She thanked me, she bothered me last night, what can I get back? It's been so many years, but she still needs trouble when she gets drunk and takes care of it...... If it was Arwen, what would she say? Will it still be like this?
The corners of my lips curled into a wry smile, "I've been friends for so many years, and I feel embarrassed that you're so polite." β
There was a moment of silence on the other end of the phone, similar to the feeling of suddenly not thinking about the signal, I frowned and whispered, and her faint voice came again, "Well, indeed, I thought too much." β
βοΌοΌοΌβ Why is the tone so wrong?
My eyebrows furrowed slightly, and I was about to ask her what was wrong, but she said, "I still have something, so I won't talk about it yet." β
"......" My heart shrank as it suddenly brought a tone of detachment.
"Goodbye."
"Bye."
Hanging up the phone, I slowly put down the hand holding the phone, paused for a while, threw the phone on the sofa, and went into the bathroom.
Don't think too much, don't worry about the sky, don't get into the horns! Well! That's right, that's it!
I took a shower and woke up in the afternoon, and then I rushed to the restaurant and baked cookies, but Xuanxuan didn't come......
A week passed, but Nuoxi didn't show up, and Xuanxuan didn't ...... Not only did he not show up, but he didn't even have a phone call......
I held my phone and stared at the box of bear cookies for a long time, and finally put it down.
After a few more days, I somehow panicked, I don't know why, maybe it's because I'm used to having them in my life, and suddenly they all disappear, which makes people feel uneasy......
Besides, I don't think I can do that, so what's the need to ask? If Nuo Xi was embarrassed or I upset her, what about Xuanxuan? When you left that night, weren't all right?
Just as she was looking at the box of biscuits and pinching her mobile phone to call her, Xuanxuan's voice suddenly came from outside the kitchen.
"DeanβDeanβ"
"......" was the same voice as before, and the uneasiness in my heart instantly faded, I raised the corners of my lips and walked to the kitchen door, it was her carrying her schoolbag and running towards me with a smile, like a child......
I invited her to dinner that day, and she told me that my sister had been weird lately, and asked me if I had a quarrel with Noxi.
Noshi and I didn't quarrel in the first place, of course I said no.
She looked at me with questioning little eyes, which was cute, and I rubbed the top of her hair and asked if her sister was okay lately.
She lowered her eyes and whispered that she felt cold, as if nothing was upsetting her.
I reassured her, it will be fine after a while, everyone has emotions, and they all need a transition.
That day, I dropped her off at school, and when I got out of the car, she went around the front of the car, walked to the driver's window, and bowed over and waved to me.
I poked my head in confusion, and she suddenly kissed me on the cheek, and I was momentarily stunned.
She straightened up with a smile and waved at me, "Thank you, Dean." β
"......" I raised my hand and touched my face, shaking my head a little amusedly, "Let's go in quickly." β
For the next two days, Xuanxuan didn't show up, and on the evening of the third day, Ah Wen called me with indescribable excitement and told me that Jiayi had accepted his marriage proposal.
I was happy for him, asked him when he would come back, and brought Jiayi over by the way, I invited her to a big dinner, and he smiled and told me that he would come back after drinking with his father-in-law for two days.
However, what I didn't expect was that two days later, in the morning, when I arrived at the restaurant, the waiter rushed to me nervously with his mobile phone.
"What for?"
"Brother Wen...... Brother Wen's fiancΓ©e has an accident! β
My eyes suddenly opened, my heartbeat skipped a beat, and I reached out and grabbed the waiter's mobile phone and looked down, and it was a small article.
The content of the article is that at about 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon, in front of the Nature Conservation Bureau, there was a homicide case, and the victim was stabbed several times by a woman with a fruit knife. The victim lost too much blood after being taken to the hospital and died after resuscitation.
I looked at the word death, and my heart seemed to stop beating for a second, then resumed, and then hit my chest hard, and then paused before moving my gaze......
Witnesses said that the killer was a young woman who had surrendered to the police, and the victim was suspected to be the fiancΓ©e of a popular movie star.
The report also attached a few photos of the scene, but there was no one left, only the yellow cordon and the blood stains on the ground that looked dry, and the reddish-brown color made me frightened, and my hands were shaking.
"Is there a mistake......" I murmured, realizing that my voice was shaking.
"I just don't know." Another waiter came up, "Dean, would you like to make a call and ask Brother Wen?" β
I lifted my eyes halfway through to look at them, then shook my hand and pulled out my phone, "I guess it's wrong...... Arwen didn't even call me......"
That's what I told myself, but I didn't know what I was flustering about, what my hands were shaking, and I took out my phone and dropped it on the ground.
The waiter on the side hurriedly picked it up for me, and then handed it to me, "Dean, are you okay?" β
"It's okay...... I shook my head as I took the phone, "I just felt a little sudden, I ...... I called him......"
I finished speaking, and then with shaking my hands, I pulled out Arwen's phone number and dialed it close to my ear, while I walked in the rest room.
The phone called, it was through, but no one answered, and when it rang and hung up, my heart instantly pulled cold...... The word death flashed in my head, and Arwen sat across from me, looking down at the diamond ring stuck in the joint.
I don't know why, I actually remembered Xuanxuan, very strange feeling, what happened to Guan Xuanxuan? Why did I think of her?
I dialed it again, then closed the lounge door with my backhand, leaning my back against the door panel and waiting......
Ringing again until the automatic hang-up still no one answered, I twisted my eyebrows, and turned out Noxi's phone called.
The phone rang several times before it was picked up, but no one spoke there, and I whispered, half-rang, a sigh that looked like a stuck in my throat came from the other end, very soft, very soft, but I heard it anyway.
With a bad premonition, I paused for a second before asking, "Did Awen's fiancΓ©e have an accident?" β
There was silence on the other end of the phone again, and Noxi's voice finally rang, "Xuan...... Xuanxuan ...... I went to find Li Jiayi......"
My head exploded with a bang, and my whole body froze.