The old aunt in bed 5 could not read English. She was using her mobile phone to live stream her grandson’s video. When she saw a word, she jumped into it:
"Look! That's Happy New Year. Hi Auntie Bo Niu!"
The young man next to me said, "I must have made a mistake."
"If you can get such a simple two sentences wrong in English, it must be considered a major mistake. The employee responsible for this will probably be fired."
Only Lin Yuxi's body movements froze for a moment where no one noticed.
When Tan Yu came out to look for her, the line of writing had already been finished.
He looked at Lin Yuxi's distracted profile and asked her, "Do you like watching fireworks?"
Lin Yuxi seemed to have suddenly come back to her senses and did not hear what he said clearly. She apologized: "I was so anxious that I forgot you were still there."
"It doesn't matter." Tan Yu said, "Your work is important."
The colorful fireworks show was still going on, but Lin Yuxi turned around and left from the window without finishing it.
"Shall I take you down?" she asked Tan Yu.
Tan Yu wanted to remind her that she hadn't made a wish yet and the cake hadn't been cut yet, but he swallowed the words in the end.
He knew this was a disguised rejection.
Lin Yuxi is a person who cares and takes care of others' emotions very much, thinking more about others than herself.
She was almost never rude to anyone.
The reason for being rude today is probably because he crossed the safety line.
Tan Yu handed her the two gifts he brought, one for Tan Xingchen and one for him.
What he gave was a watch. It was not cheap, but it was not expensive enough for a friend to give as a gift, so Lin Yuxi would not refuse it.
Lin Yuxi accepted it and said to him, "Thank you for today."
On the way downstairs, Lin Yuxi didn't notice Tan Yu's unusual silence.
She lowered her head and thought about something, a little absent-minded.
When I walked out of the ward building, the cold wind blew in my face, and all my weak thoughts became vulnerable.
Tan Yu stopped and said, "Just send it here."
Lin Yuxi nodded, still polite and distant: "Then be careful on the road."
After she finished speaking and was about to go back, Tan Yu stood there and suddenly spoke again: "I was too presumptuous today, wasn't I?"
Lin Yuxi turned her head and wanted to say something.
Tan Yu said: "I came to celebrate your birthday, but you don't look happy."
"I'm sorry." Lin Yuxi said, "It's not aimed at you, I just don't want to cause you any misunderstanding."
When she clearly knew that the other party was interested in her and she had no intention of developing it, she could not accept the kindness with peace of mind.
"It's me who should apologize. I took it for granted. I was afraid that you would be lonely on your birthday alone, but I didn't take your feelings into consideration."
Tan Yu asked, "Does it make you feel burdened?"
"A little bit." It was a bit cold at night, so Lin Yuxi put her hands in the pockets of her white coat and just made it clear this time.
"Tan Yu, you are a very good friend, but I am afraid that I will cause you some misunderstandings and hurt you."
"But I don't mind being hurt by you..."
"I mind." Lin Yuxi said.
"I have been hurt by others. I know how painful it is and how hateful people who hurt others are, so I will mind. I still understand the principle of not doing to others what you don't want others to do to you."
Tan Yu was silent for a while.
"Yuxi, I know that your relationship with Yan Jing made you suffer a lot, so it's hard for you to open your heart to others. But not everyone is Zhou Yanjing."
"I won't hurt you, and I'm not afraid of being hurt by you. I even hope that you don't have such a strong sense of boundaries. Even if you hang me intentionally, at least I still have a chance."
These words made Lin Yuxi's expression become complicated: "Actually, you don't need this."
"No need. But everything I do is done willingly."
"I haven't completed the procedures with Zhou Yanjing yet. I don't know how long it will take. It's better for you to keep your distance from me."
"I never wanted to come between you, so I never dared to pursue you, or even give you a flower, for fear that it would offend you."
Tan Yu looked at her seriously, "You really don't have to bear any burden, just treat me as an ordinary friend. At the very least, don't deprive me of my right to like you, okay?"
Lin Yuxi was speechless. She really didn't know what to say now.
Tan Yu raised his hand, as if he wanted to touch her hair, but took it back halfway.
"Good night, Yuxi."
"……Good night."
Lin Yuxi felt in a mess.
If she had never met Zhou Yanjing, maybe Tan Yu would really be a very good choice.
Gentleman, careful, know how to advance and retreat, always put her feelings first.
Respect and love, this is exactly what she wanted before.
Unfortunately, her life encountered a variable like Zhou Yanjing first.
Lin Yuxi turned around and walked back.
Suddenly a cool voice came from the roadside: "It's so touching."
She was suddenly frightened and instinctively backed away. Only then did she see a dark figure on the flower bed at the door.
When he realized who the voice was, he was so frightened that his heart dropped to his throat.
"Are you sick?" She clutched her chest with lingering fear.
Zhou Yanjing sat on the edge of the flower bed, lazily spreading his long legs, his figure almost blending into the shadows of the night.
"There are many, which one do you ask?"
"What are you doing sitting here?" Lin Yuxi frowned.
Zhou Yanjing took out the cigarette case from his pocket. It was already half empty. He took out a cigarette with his eyes lowered and replied expressionlessly: "Look at the night view."
...Who would sit in the dark downstairs of the hospital and watch the night view in the early morning of New Year's Day?
Lin Yuxi saw a box placed next to him. It was tall, very delicate, and tied with a ribbon. The transparent box vaguely showed the shape of a pink cake in the darkness.
She thought of the grand and vast fireworks just now, which had ended at this time.
Same New Year's Eve, same hospital downstairs.
There is no snow this year.
They no longer love each other.
The wind was strong, blowing Lin Yuxi's hair, dancing wildly in her ears, and her mood seemed to be disturbed a little.
He's here, why didn't he go up?
Lin Yuxi thought for a moment, then forced herself to stop and stop thinking about it.
She turned around to leave when the lighter clicked and Zhou Yanjing called her name again.
"Lin Yuxi."
He was sitting in the half-light and half-dark, and his upright posture actually showed a bit of defeat.
Holding a cigarette between his teeth, his voice sounded lazily, and the emotion in his tone was unclear: "If we get divorced, will you accept him?"
Perhaps it was the shadow of the light that gave people the illusion that the expression on his face seemed a little hurt.
"This has nothing to do with you." Lin Yuxi said.
Zhou Yanjing looked at her indifferent expression, his eyes, heart, and mouth felt uncomfortable.
He raised his eyelids: "Can't I gossip?"
"...I'm so busy."
"The great love saint of our time would rather be hung up to like you. How infatuated. Are you going to be moved to tears when you go back?"
Zhou Yanjing said with obvious mockery on his lips, "You love to cry so much."
