Cao Aiqing looked at He Tianran in confusion, because the expression on the other person's face at this time seemed to be knowing him for the first time.
She didn't know that He Tianran was as shocked as this time.
The young man still remembers that Cao Aiqing hated the smell of cigarettes. The little girl’s favorite grandfather died of lung cancer. Later, his father smoked at home, and she confiscated it every time he saw it. One time, she ran into his father hiding in the corridor and smoking. She cried and fussed and shouted that her father was going to die, so she forcefully gave up her father's smoking habit.
These are all small things that the two of them talked about casually when they were in love, but He Tianran remembered them very clearly.
And now, the Cao Aiqing of this world asked himself for a cigarette...
Young people may not understand how much pressure and changes this society can bring to an adult.
But in his mind, the seventeen-year-old Cao Aiqing and the thirty-year-old Cao Aiqing were two completely different people.
"I remember... you used to like sweets, but I didn't expect you would smoke cigarettes now."
He Tianran didn't go to see her again, not because he didn't dare to face her, but because he felt it was unnecessary.
Just like he could tell the difference between warmth and coolness at a glance, now, he could also tell through one sentence that the cold woman in front of him was not the Cao Aiqing he liked.
He Tianran, a young man who has returned to the rational camp, has a unique calmness about him, which makes Cao Aiqing start to re-examine him.
"Suddenly feeling a little emotional?" Cao Aiqing asked.
He Tianran nodded: "I feel a little sad. I don't have cigarettes, but I can give you this."
After that, the boy took out a few candies from his pocket, which he had just grabbed from the wedding candies that Guo Huai had brought.
Cao Aiqing couldn't laugh or cry.
However, she still picked up one, tore off the packaging and put it in her mouth.
"It feels like you've really become a lot younger. Is it because you accepted Wenliang?"
"Accept?" He Tianran paused and asked, "Are you talking about that incident in high school?"
"Yes, Guo Huai and I both thought you would never come out. Do you still remember, when we met at your home last year, you drank too much and said you would hate Wenliang for the rest of your life? You were so angry at that time The look in my eyes is still fresh in my memory.”
Cao Aiqing stared at the man in front of him, trying to catch something interesting from his expression.
"Why do I like to talk nonsense when I drink too much... This problem really needs to be corrected."
He Tianran crooked his index finger and tapped his forehead. He laughed loudly, and he tore open a piece of candy and threw it into his mouth.
He thought to himself that he was really interesting in this world, and murmured curiously:
"Do you think it is easier to love someone for a lifetime, or to hate someone for a lifetime?"
Cao Aiqing was stunned and couldn't give an answer.
He Tianran also felt that the question he asked was a bit nonsense. He still liked the current carpe diem and did what he said every day. This kind of thing that involved philosophical speculation was really not suitable for him at the age of eighteen to think about.
He was about to retreat when Cao Aiqing suddenly asked a sharp question:
"Have you ever liked Wenliang?"
"ah?"
The boy didn't understand for a moment.
"I'm just curious. Besides..." Cao Aiqing's tone was filled with a hint of joking: "Besides, aren't you living together now?"
He Tianran thought about it. Although he knew that the other person was not asking about him, He Tianran, but judging from the sentence structure of this sentence and the conversation just now, it seemed that in Cao Aiqing's eyes, it was impossible for his other self to like Wen Liang. of.
This feeling of doubt made He Tianran very uncomfortable.
"Do you think I'm deceiving other people's feelings?" He Tianran didn't want to beat around the bush and asked directly.
"Isn't this what you have been doing before? It's just that you have taken it a step further now." Cao Aiqing bit the candy in his mouth and smiled coldly: "Using Wen Liang's guilt on you, like a parasite Clinging to her side, although I don’t quite agree with your methods, but for a perpetrator, she should receive the punishment she deserves.”
As these words deepened, He Tianran felt that Cao Aiqing in front of him became more and more unfamiliar. At the same time, he was also shocked by the content of these words. In a daze, he remembered some past events.
It was in September. After being reborn, Wen Liang mentioned something at the food stall downstairs of the boxing gym after learning that he was going to get Cao Aiqing's phone number——
"If I said that your future death is related to Cao Aiqing, would you believe me?"
At that time, He Tianran said he believed it, but he also said that these were things that happened in another future and would not affect him now.
But now, he has really arrived in another future.
If you think about it carefully, in Wen Liang's diary, when she had a premonition that she was going to disappear, she also mentioned that if she wanted to be with Cao Aiqing in the future, then the current He Tianran would still be "a little bit" short. .
This future world is like a black and white mystery shrouded in layers of thick fog.
Cao Aiqing's words seemed to make He Tianran find some vague clues among the scattered clues.
"You...all these words you said were your guesses?"
He Tianran maintained a stiff smile,
Cao Aiqing lowered his head and smiled.
"Ai Qing, naturally, let's eat!"
A warm shout came from the living room.
"Coming!"
Cao Aiqing responded and turned to look at He Tianran, who was confused.
She passed him by with a smile on her lips, and left a soft sentence:
"Don't worry, I will stand by your side, because you and I are the same kind of people."
…
…
At the dinner table, He Tianran watched in silence as the other three people talked and laughed about interesting things from their high school days.
"Oh, no one thought at the beginning that we would get together in the end." Guo Huai drank and became a little excited: "Especially when I see Lao He and Wen Daxing, you two are really happy enemies... ...Yes, happy friends, I have known for a long time that you will be together sooner or later."
Wen Liang was a little embarrassed. In the eyes of outsiders, it was really difficult to find a reasonable reason for a man and a woman to live together in the same room and invite friends to visit their home. Apart from a close relationship above friends, it was normal for the two to misunderstand.
"Really? You used to worry that He Tianran would be a bachelor for the rest of his life."
Cao Aiqing added with a smile.
"Oh, Ai Qing, it's not like you don't know. He is like a child, and look at him now, he looks like a high school student. I didn't believe the old man said that love comes from the heart, but now I really believe it. But it’s okay, you two have known each other since high school, and finally put aside your grudges and got together, it feels like no one has changed, it’s great.”
Guo Huai looked at He Tianran and Wen Liang sitting together in front of him and said happily from the bottom of his heart.
Cao Aiqing laughed and asked, "Ah Liang, you probably didn't expect that a prank back then would lead to the fate between you, right?"
When this topic was brought up, Wen Liang felt a little flustered. She was about to explain:
"No...no, actually we..."
"drink wine."
At this time, He Tianran, who had been silent all this time, suddenly raised his wine glass and said with a smile: "Everyone is happy today, let's have a drink."
Guo Huai raised his glass cheerfully. Seeing this, the two women also touched it with He Tianran.
Among them, Cao Aiqing just took a symbolic sip, while Wen Liang was concerned about He Tianran's condition, thinking that he still couldn't accept the fact that Cao Aiqing was getting married.
The two men drank the wine in one gulp, and Guo Huai asked comfortingly: "When did you two get together? You hide it quite deeply."
"You misunderstood, we..."
"I said I loved her thirteen years ago, but she just forgot."
Wen Liang was halfway through her words when suddenly, such a shocking sentence appeared in her ears.
She turned her head crazily and saw the big boy in front of her looking very excited towards Guo Huai and Cao Aiqing:
"I still remember that we made an appointment to go see the snow-capped mountains together. Later, she broke the appointment and I was very angry, so I ignored her all the time. I also promised her that I would never lie to her in this life. Now she is finally When she came back to me again, I said to myself, this time, I will definitely protect her and won’t let anyone lie to her or bully her.”
Guo Huai clapped his hands excitedly. Everyone here had known He Tianran for many years. They all knew that the man in front of him had a well-known habit——
What He Tianran said after drinking was always the truth.
Love and hate may sometimes be just a thought apart.
"Did you really say...you love me?"
He had never deliberately distinguished the warmth and coolness of the specific relationship between the two He Tianran, and his voice was filled with an uncertain joy and uneasiness.
The young man grinned:
"You just forgot."
For a moment, Wen Liang's eyes shone with light, and she said to herself in disbelief:
"How could I forget...how could I...don't lie to me..."
Suddenly, a pair of big hands grasped her soft body, which was trembling slightly due to anxiety.
"I did not lie to you."
Seeing the two people's relationship gradually warming up, Guo Huai smiled and leaned on the chair. He turned his head and said to his lover:
"Hahaha, this Niwai really doesn't treat us as outsiders."
"Yeah, it's like he told us on purpose."
Cao Aiqing smiled, looking at everything that happened in front of him, an unknown coldness flashed in his eyes.
(End of chapter)
