Lin Yuxi was extremely annoyed and had no choice.
Zhou Yanjing achieved his goal: "Let's go."
Lin Yuxi looked at the road ahead. It was almost dawn, and the mountains and forests were covered with a faint blue filter.
Originally, I was walking with everyone and was focused on climbing the mountain, so I didn't feel scared. After being frightened by the ghost story he just told, it seemed a bit creepy.
She didn't move: "You go ahead."
Zhou Yanjing raised the corners of his lips and asked her, "Do I need to hold you?"
Lin Yuxi flatly refused: "No need."
Zhou Yanjing walked forward to clear the way, and Lin Yuxi followed behind him.
The surroundings were eerily quiet, and the shoes made rustling sounds on the soil and branches beneath their feet.
The light of the flashlight can only illuminate a limited area, and the darkness behind seems to catch up.
After a while, Zhou Yanjing was stabbed by something in his lower back.
He turned around and saw Lin Yuxi with a beautiful but depressed face. Without saying a word, she stretched out her hiking pole towards him.
Zhou Yanjing couldn't hold it back and laughed softly.
Lin Yuxi pursed her lips straighter than a straight line, and her ears turned red with embarrassment: "What's so funny?"
It's not all his fault.
"Okay, I won't laugh anymore." Zhou Yanjing surrendered, "Dr. Lin is thin-skinned and holds a grudge. He laughed at you once and secretly remembered me for another ten years."
He coaxed her like this, with a clear smile on her slightly curved brows and eyes. He retracted the telescopic hiking pole in her hand to the shortest length, and then held the front end.
The traction force was transmitted through the aluminum alloy cane body, and the tension on Lin Yuxi's back was much better.
Zhou Yanjing held her hand and continued walking up, and they both remained silent in tacit agreement. On the dark mountain road, only the light of the flashlight illuminated the two of them walking in tandem.
…
Shi Tang sent Jiang Nan back to the camping base below. There was still a long way down the mountain. It was unrealistic and unnecessary for him to carry the person back to the hotel.
Just wait until daybreak and find a car at the base to take her back.
Young Master Shi had never carried many women on his back in his life. He put Jiang Nan down and said, "You can rest here for a while. I will go up to find them."
Jiang Nan said in surprise: "You still want to go up?"
Shi Tang rubbed his shoulders and back: "I run fast, and I can still watch the sunrise when I go up there."
Jiang Nan stopped him: "Xiao Tang, why did you lie to me just now?"
Shi Tang didn't remember what she was talking about, and he was confused: "When did I lie to you?"
Jiang Nan stared at him, as if to judge whether he was faking: "I asked you about the Yan Jing people. You told me that he went up first. In fact, he didn't at all. He was behind you."
"Oh..." Shi Tang's expression became guilty and he scratched the back of his head, "Maybe I saw it wrong. It's so dark and I don't have good eyesight."
"Xiao Tang, you can't lie at all."
Seeing that he could not be fooled, Shi Tang confessed: "I lied to you on purpose. Why are you looking for my brother? He only has eyes for my sister-in-law now, and he is only thinking about getting back together."
Jiang Nan clenched her hands on her knees: "Did Yan Jing say that himself?"
"He didn't say it, but when you look at him like that, the thought of getting back together is almost written on his face."
After Shi Tang finished speaking, he strode out, stopped when he reached the door, turned around and said seriously: "No. It's three characters."
…
Zhou Yanjing did not lie to Lin Yuxi. The road they took was indeed closer and more convenient. When they reached the top of the mountain, Yu Jiaxiao and the others had not arrived yet.
The sky gradually became brighter, and a bright light appeared behind the undulating mountain line in the distance, indicating that the sun was about to rise.
Zhou Yanjing took out the thermos bottle from her backpack and handed it to her. Lin Yuxi opened the bottle and took a few sips slowly, then screwed on the cap. He took it very naturally and put it back in his backpack.
The amount of exercise was seriously excessive. Lin Yuxi was already tired. She sat down with paper on a stone, raised her calf, and was about to knock a few times on her own.
Zhou Yanjing squatted down in front of her, put her legs on his knees, and used his fingers to massage and relax her calf muscles.
Lin Yuxi wanted to take her legs back: "Don't touch me..."
Zhou Yanjing suddenly said: "During the two years I was in New York, I never looked for Jiang Nan even once."
This topic started without warning. Lin Yuxi didn't know whether she didn't react or knew that she couldn't avoid him at this moment even if she wanted to.
She didn't interrupt, and Zhou Yanjing was finally able to speak.
"You have never come to see me. If you had, you would know how busy I am. I sleep five or six hours at most every day and make do with what I have to eat. How can I have the time and energy to find other women."
"I've lost weight and you haven't even noticed."
"No woman has ever been to the place where I live except for the cleaning staff. There is a photo of you beside the bed. I took it with my phone when we were in the northern suburbs. If you don't go to see me, you will see it when you go."
"I only have that one. The camera took a lot of photos at that time, but unfortunately the memory card is missing."
His topic was very jumpy, and Lin Yuxi listened silently, not understanding where his grievances came from.
"Yang Kang faces me day and night every day. If you don't believe me, you can ask him."
Lin Yuxi said in her heart that Yang Kang's proof was the least credible.
"He is your confidant. As long as you need him, even if he is caught in bed, he can still say it was him disguised as a woman without conscience."
Zhou Yanjing couldn't laugh or cry: "What a mess."
"What do you want to do by saying this now?" Lin Yuxi's expression was calm and indifferent, "What else do you want to lie to me? What else do you want from me?"
Zhou Yanjing felt weak for a while, and he let out a long sigh, feeling that it was his own fault and that he could not survive.
"Don't you believe a word I say?"
"I can't believe it. You said it yourself. The one you love most is Jiang Nan. You couldn't marry her, so you just married me, didn't you?"
Her tone was so calm that it made people think that this person had no emotions and would not be sad or hurt.
But how can you not be sad? Being said that by the person she loved most.
Zhou Yanjing's breathing became suffocated. He never dared to recall what happened that day. He regretted it the moment he said it.
Lin Yuxi's expression that day was dazed and fragile, as if she had accidentally entered a world that did not belong to her.
Zhou Yanjing couldn't sleep every time he thought about her fleeing back.
He held Lin Yuxi's hand firmly, "Those words are not true."
"I thought you were in love with your eldest brother. It was hard to accept and you were mentally unbalanced. I was so jealous that I went crazy and said that to make you angry on purpose."
"I have never loved Jiang Nan." His voice was low and difficult, "Can you forget that sentence?"
Lin Yuxi felt an unreal feeling that she couldn't stand on the ground.
"Do you think I love my eldest brother, so you deliberately humiliated me like that?"
Zhou Yanjing held her in his arms: "I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm a bastard, I'm so stupid, I deserve death."
He hugged her entire thin body, tightened his arms tightly, and kept apologizing. He held her face and kissed her forehead and eyebrows. Every kiss he gave was full of guilt.
"Lin Yuxi, you don't know how much I love you."
Does he love her?
Lin Yuxi felt as if the oxygen in her lungs had been exhausted and she couldn't breathe in new ones.
Emotions were also drained away, so that she couldn't even feel what she was feeling at the moment. Should she be happy that he loved her, or should she feel sad?
She looked into Zhou Yanjing's eyes. When those brown pupils look at you, they always make you feel affectionate.
Is the affection inside at this moment true or false?
