"The first day I met Bryce Luski, my heart was moved. There was a magic in his eyes that made me fascinated."
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"Sometimes, being patient at first can avoid pain along the way."
In the dim and ambiguous underground video room, the aroma of red wine was strong, and the light spot between the glass and the screen was blurry and burning.
Luo Yang looked at the movie playing in front of him with blurred eyes, the love between two young boys and girls. As a bystander, Luo Yang couldn't be clear about it.
She seemed to be Julie Baker. The red wine in the glass quickly reached the bottom. Luo Yang just poured some more from the decanter casually. The dark red liquid slid down the wall of the glass, smooth and beautiful.
Indeed, forbearance at the beginning can avoid the pain along the way, because that pain has long become an essential part of her body, and even if it disappears one day, she will feel ridiculously uncomfortable.
The movie was still going on, and Luo Yang, amidst his entangled thoughts and the influence of alcohol, slowly lay down on the sofa with a pillow in his arms.
Her drinking capacity is not bad, but she has given up drinking for many years, and her drinking level is still not as high as it was at her peak. This time she broke the habit, and it will take time to recover.
It was just a rare occasion to indulge herself. Tomorrow was the wedding, so she could use this method to vent her emotions in a subtle way. She didn't dare to let anyone know, so she only dared to choose a video room that was not suitable for exposure to light in the dead of night. Avoid your own emotions.
The hands holding the pillow were holding on tightly and refused to let go. The movie came to a lonely end. Bryce Luoski and Julie Baker planted a small tree together, and the closeness of the two hearts ended the whole movie.
As he stood there throughout the summer, Julie Baker finally became his rainbow.
When the movie ended, the audio-visual room fell into complete darkness, and the word "end" stayed on the screen for a moment before finally disappearing.
A youth comes to an end, but some people's youth has long been lost.
After turning over countless times, Luo Yang finally had no intention of waking up.
Ye Gu, who had just rushed back from other places, reluctantly dragged his tired body to the villa. He took a long breath, closed his eyes and frowned, and stretched out his fingers to hook in the air.
"Where's my milk tea?"
Liu Min handed the cup over, only less than half of the cup was left.
Ye Gu drank it all in one go. As if he had exhausted all his energy for the day, he opened his eyes and slowly regained his consciousness.
"Mr. Ye, we're home, you can get ready to get off the car."
Ye Gu looked at the window pane with all the lights out. His deep eyes were naturally red at the end. After taking off the glasses he wore during working hours, his facial features were a bit sharp. His slightly cute ears even made him look useless. So scary.
After a long pause, the car door opened, and he turned around and handed the two boxes to Liu Min.
"Keep it well. If anything happens, I'll come to you. Do you understand?"
Liu Min was ordered to be in danger, so he was naturally cautious, "Yes, Mr. Ye, you go to bed early today. I will pick you up early tomorrow morning."
Ye Gu nodded silently and disappeared through the door.
It was already very late, and the aunt at home had already rested. The living room, which was quiet except for the moonlight, was empty. It seemed like he was the only one left in the world.
Ye Gu looked up at the bedroom on the second floor, looking at the crack in the door that had no faint light at all. His brows tightened. He didn't have time to think too much and went upstairs in three steps and two steps at a time.
The action of opening the door was completed in one go, but she was not seen in the room.
Looking at the unturned night light on the table, I felt panicked.
He searched all over the huge villa, but couldn't get through on his cell phone.
When I walked quickly past the corner of the stairs leading to the second floor, the light was on.
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The hanging heart was relieved when I saw the peacefully sleeping figure on the sofa in the video room.
He walked over slowly and vigorously, and along the way he saw open red wine and a decanter on the table, as well as a goblet with light lip marks.
The eyebrows slowly wrinkled, but the person on the sofa didn't notice it at all. He still knew how to find a comfortable position for himself to sleep in. He turned around and curled up into a ball with his pillow and arms facing out.
Her long, jet-black hair cascaded down the edge of the sofa.
Ye Gu was half-kneeling by the sofa, watching her breathing evenly and the strands of hair rising and falling before her breath, which was unexpectedly cute.
He stretched out his hand to touch her beautiful shadowy eyelashes on her eyelids, but within a short distance, the forward movement of his fingertips suddenly stopped.
The index finger slowly curled up, and there was a slight wave in his eyes that could not be blocked.
It's strange that Luo Yang doesn't seem to like makeup, but it doesn't stop her from having a special liking for the ritual of lipstick. Even if she drinks alone in the video room, she will put on lipstick in advance. Just like now, the corners of her lips still have stains from drinking. The scratched lipstick mark.
The reddish trace covered the straight arc at the end of the lips. Ye Gu's eyes stopped here for a long time, the warm and soft touch——
After realizing the picture in his mind, Ye Gu retreated suddenly and bumped into the coffee table. His back made a muffled sound. He endured the pain and sat down on the carpet, leaning against the coffee table in frustration, looking at the people on the sofa.
But as soon as her eyes closed, all his thoughts had no place to hide, just like the stars in the sky, they appeared sporadically after the sun set.
Looking down at the intricate palm prints on his hands, Ye Gu felt depressed.
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After carrying Luo Yang back to the room and settling him down, Ye Gu returned to the study.
Recently, work matters have come one after another, and Ye Gu has no chance to breathe. He leaves early and comes back late every day, and the agreement with Li Yan is about to expire.
I just finished handing over everything today, and finally I can take a breath.
Ye Gu looked at the photos on his phone in trance for a long time, until a reminder popped up, pulling him out of his chaotic thoughts.
Crossing out the reminder, Ye Gu left the chair, pushed the bookshelf gently, and a darkroom appeared. Xi Jinzhou once spared no effort to tease him, saying: "Do you know why you have such a room no matter where you live? Because you have too many secrets that you don't want people to know."
It's like the ninth room, which contains secrets that cannot be said or told.
He guarded it carefully and was proud of those secrets.
But Xi Jinzhou was always able to break his illusions mercilessly and ridicule his impracticality to the point. He always said: "No one can hold on to the few remaining memories and live forever in the Java country of the past. ”
It's not that Ye Gu doesn't understand the truth, and he also understands that what Xi Jinzhou said is correct, but because of his stubbornness, he is still unwilling to escape from the past subconsciously.
The light in the darkroom is a warm yellow light, weak but enough to illuminate this square inch.
The faded □□\bear on the table always had a happy expression. Sometimes Ye Gu couldn't understand. Even the honey would have to be eaten one day. Who could be happy forever?
But on his birthday that year, when he heard Luo Yang's blessing, he really naively hoped that he could realize that wish, and that the person who gave him the blessing would also be favored by God.
But reality always likes to play pranks on people. They won't give you what you want. They will only give you endless trouble and pain that need to be solved.
"So you are lying to me, right..." The murmuring voice was something that only he could hear in the narrow space.
He just looked at his idol like a fool, looking forward to the answer that would never come.
□□The bear just hugged his honey jar. He didn't know what to do if he wasn't happy.
His eyes slowly shifted to the glass sugar bowl that had been sitting on the table for a long time. The colorful reflective sugar paper inside was shining, which always made people feel happy.
The rhombus-shaped zigzag glass folds of the sugar jar reflect the warm yellow light and cast it on the wall, casually.
There are origami paper cranes mixed in the jar, mostly blue, with some pink colors. The craftsmanship does not look very skillful. There are even many deep and shallow creases on the small wings of the paper cranes.
Ye Gu slowly opened the sugar bowl, and the sweet smell lingered around him, piercing his heart.
——March
There was a slight drizzle over the apricot blossoms, but it was a rare good weather day on the 12th. The humid air was tainted with the breath of spring and slowly dissipated the moment the sun lit up the horizon.
The figure quietly climbing in a princess dress appeared on the wall next door. However, her feet accidentally slipped. When she looked up again, the delicate and flawless hair she had tied up in the morning had already been in close contact with the earth. The diamond-encrusted crown fell into the grass.
The little girl was stunned for a moment, and then slowly and belatedly felt the pain in her body. The delayed reaction of rain-like cries sounded in the yard.
She didn’t know why she was crying, but she just felt wronged. Her mother told her not to wrong her, so she shed tears involuntarily. This was because she believed in her mother’s words.
It was that day that Ye Gu discovered that Luo Yang could climb the wall, but it was obviously too late when he went out. Luo Yang had already paid the price of climbing the wall and fell into the yard of his house, making his makeup and hair messy.
He didn't know why girls always liked to cry so much, but Luo Yang looked so beautiful when she cried. She looked prettier than other little girls when they cried. She didn't have a runny nose, she just shed tears, and even her tears were shiny.
Ye Gu thought that she must be a fairy in the sky, because fairies look so good when they cry on TV.
It looked so good to see her cry, so he reluctantly gave her his favorite marshmallow.
He reached out and handed the strawberry-flavored marshmallow his mother had just given him to Luo Yang, who was just crying.
He knelt on one knee and said, "Stop crying. I'll give you some candy. Although you look good when you cry, you will get tired after crying for a long time. If you eat candy, you won't cry anymore. Just eat it."< br>
Luo Yang suddenly stopped crying, looked up at Ye Gu, and stretched out his hand to her with the sun on his back.
The marshmallows were very sweet and greasy, but she seemed to have been controlled by saccharin. She actually found them delicious, better than many candies she had eaten.
Six-year-old Ye Gu didn't know why Luo Yang climbed the wall and wanted to ask her, but Luo Yang ignored him and even looked a little angry. She patted the hem of her princess skirt and stood up, arrogantly Then he left and said to him: "Don't tell others what happened to me today, or I will steal all your future candies!"
Ye Guxi Tian, Luoyang threatened him.
Luo Yang, who is celebrating her seventh birthday today, feels proudly that today is proof that she has grown up. She will be older than Ye Gu. She is a mature adult, while Ye Gu is just a little brat in her eyes. .
Ye Gu stood behind and couldn't understand what she meant. He just scratched his head and picked up the crown from the grass where she just dropped it. He carefully put it into his pocket. She must not like the dirty crown. Then he would clean it for her and put it on her.
Next to where the little Ye Gu fell from Luoyang, he dug out a sealed sugar jar from a tree. Inside were colorful and shiny candies, as well as paper cranes folded like frogs.
He lay on the ground, with dirt on his little face, and crookedly wrote with a blue oil pastel on the pink paper attached to the sugar bowl - Happy birthday to the little fairy Ahe!
He really left too fast, otherwise he would have given Luo Yang the jar of candies he had saved for a long time, but it didn't matter, he could wait until her next birthday to give her better candies.
Ye Gu tapped his knuckles on the table, his eyes focused on the blurry colors in the glass jar.
A message came from Xi Jinzhou on the phone: Have the candies been given away?
Ye Gu didn't reply, just letting the message sink to the bottom as the screen went out.
No, the candy that should have been given away when I was six years old has not been given out yet.
(End of chapter)
The author said: Note: "The first day I met Bryslowski, my heart was moved. There was a kind of magic in his eyes that made me fascinated."
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"Sometimes, forbearance at the beginning can avoid pain along the way." From the English-Chinese translation of the movie "Heartbeat"