This proposal really surprised Cao Aiqing...
Since the ticket price in the library appreciation hall is very cheap and the equipment is first-rate, Cao Aiqing, who always likes to save money, will often go there to watch movies. You know, this is the most cost-effective place to watch movies in the entire university town, even if Compared with the film school next door, it is not far behind.
It's just that He Tianran took advantage of his position to gather wool, but he still let the girl know that saving money is indeed a mountain higher than the other.
With legitimate reasons and reasonable arguments, Cao Aiqing naturally would not refuse, and on the way to the appreciation hall, the two passed by a milk tea stall, and He Tianran suggested smoothly:
"Wait a minute, I'll make you a cup of milk tea."
"...I don't want to drink."
"Then I'll make myself a glass of lemonade."
"..."
Cao Aiqing was really convinced. This small shop was opened in the library, so the door was not locked at ordinary times. Seeing He Tianran skillfully operating the milk tea machine, she couldn't help but worry:
"Wouldn't it be better if someone found out if you did this?"
He Tianran turned around and responded:
"No, you have to pay, and the QR code is posted at the door. Moreover, their boss taught me how to operate this machine after work that day. He is a graduate student in our Department of Finance, and his is a small shop in the library. The turnover is pretty good, the people who come to help are all students, the labor is not high, the stall fees are also low, and the profit is 10,000 to 20,000 yuan per month, which is quite profitable, but it makes me blind during the winter and summer vacations, but according to his words , pocket money is enough.”
While the man was chattering, he kept holding on to his hands, and soon prepared a cup of milk tea and a cup of lemonade. Cao Aiqing just said he didn't want it, but when he actually handed it over, she still took it.
He Tianran didn't tease her. He took a sip of lemonade with one hand and took out his phone to scan the code.
Cao Aiqing put the straw in and took a sip of the milk tea. The straw made a "sizzling" sound. At first, she didn't take the sip, but with a little force, the pearls in the milk tea poured into her mouth like a thread. , which made her almost choke...
"Ahem...your milk tea has too many pearls..."
The girl's lips were still stained with some milk stains. She quickly covered her mouth with her hands and chewed twice before hesitatingly commenting.
He Tianran said with a smile: "That's right, you can't make enough ingredients when you make it."
The girl blinked and said no more.
The two arrived at the appreciation hall. He Tianran found the power supply and turned on the lights. What came into view was the giant IMAX curtain 22 meters wide and 16 meters high. Also lit at the same time were nearly 400 empty seats.
As soon as the light was turned on, Cao Aiqing, who felt the "booked" atmosphere for the first time, was a little nervous. Moreover, as soon as people entered such a huge enclosed space, their emotions would be obvious. It's not like she had never been to the kind of unpopular movies that were only sporadic. There were a few people present in the screening room, but they were all paid for by themselves...
And this time...
He Tianran said he was testing the projector, but to put it bluntly, he was using public affairs for personal gain. The nature of this was different, and inevitably the psychological feelings were also different.
"Is it really okay if we just come in like this?"
"Oh, what's the problem? You just find a seat and sit down. I'll go to the computer room and take a look. I'll be back in ten minutes."
He Tianran said the next sentence and walked away. Cao Aiqing could neither leave nor leave. He could only take the milk tea and find a seat in the middle to sit down and wait quietly.
The quiet theater and the empty seats around made Cao Aiqing a little uneasy.
"Why does He Tianran like to do bad things every time he is with me?"
This thought suddenly came to her mind. The school shut down the power, he made her stand in the corridor, Qiu You got separated from the group, broke into the radio station without permission, and now during the time when he came to help her, He has already had two fights, and even if he is just looking for a place to talk about things now, he will still come up with such tricks...
"Can't he just be normal?"
Cao Aiqing got angry for no apparent reason as she thought about it, so she took another sip of milk tea.
Accompanied by the surging thoughts, a few minutes later, there was a "click", the lights in the screening room went dark, the movie curtain glowed brightly, and the surrounding surround sound gradually started to sound.
Goosebumps appeared on the girl's body. Although this kind of thing was easy and trivial in the eyes of professionals, she still admired He Tianran's ability when the atmosphere of a movie theater suddenly appeared. .
This subtle mentality of following people to do "bad things" keeps Cao Aiqing's mood at a high point. Although operating a movie projection is not complicated, it is the first time for another person to do this quietly. It is estimated that few people would have the courage to carry out such a process under such circumstances.
"Where are you sitting?"
Not far behind Cao Aiqing, He Tianran's shout came.
The girl immediately stood up, opened the phone screen and waved.
"Here it is!"
"Oh, here it comes."
Cao Aiqing saw a figure slowly walking towards him. His appearance changed from blurry to clear, and finally He Tianran's casual and confident face appeared in front of him.
He spread the five fingers of one hand and grasped the head of the lemonade glass. The straw popped out from between his fingers and was held in his mouth. He took two sips and sat down, then casually put the water into the drink groove on the armrest next to him. Here, he didn't react at all to the noise he made.
Perhaps because she felt a little regretful about her action of standing up to respond to He Tianran, Cao Aiqing attributed all this to the darkness after the lights were turned off. The silence between the two of them now made her feel a little at a loss, which prompted her to take the initiative to ask. :
"What movie are you showing?"
"My colleague said before that the attendance rate would be higher when showing romantic movies, so I found a movie in the computer room. It's a Korean romantic movie called "If Love Is a Will". It's quite a classic. Look. Have you passed?"
"I saw it a long time ago..."
"Ah... let's talk about things while watching. Anyway, we're not here to watch a movie..."
The movie started slowly, and the familiar melody from the movie sounded, as if it could bring people's memories back to the past. The fluorescent light from the curtain hit the faces of the man and woman in the audience. For the next ten minutes, neither of them felt anything. Speak first...
There was such silence until such a scene appeared in the movie, where the male and female protagonists were hiding from the rain in a grass shed, the male protagonist stole watermelon to quench the female protagonist's thirst, and the rainbow on the top of the mountain witnessed the heartbeat of this summer boy, He Tianran slowly turned around He turned his head, looked at Cao Aiqing's beautiful profile, and asked:
"Ai Qing, I have a question. You may be unhappy if I ask it, but I really want to know the answer..."
The girl's eyes were fixed on the plot shown behind the curtain, and she whispered:
"You ask."
He Tianran hesitated for a moment: "Why... we can all see the same world, but Wen Liang... never told me? Is she different from us?"
This question had been lingering in He Tianran's mind just now. Cao Aiqing was obviously stunned. The man thought it was because he mentioned another girl at this time to make her feel dissatisfied. However, the answer Cao Aiqing gave in the next second was even better than him. It's much more sensible to think about it.
I just heard her patiently say: "At the family dinner that day, Wen Liang told me how to love her. I have forgotten many details, but there is one sentence in it that should be able to explain your problem...
She said that the love you gave her made her feel like she owned the whole world...
He Tianran, although I hate you guys very much, I have never seen Wen Liang have such an innocent side. When she said these words, her sincere attitude and the happiness in her eyes were very similar to you in the past. Very similar to...
I can feel that she is not lying.
I hate you, but I don't hate that lovers can finally get married, because this is exactly me... This is exactly what I have longed for but can't get in the end.
This actually made me feel a little pity. This was the main reason why I gave you time. I didn't know what you were doing at the time. Now that the matter has settled, I think about it..."
Speaking of this, Cao Aiqing also felt something, looked at He Tianran and said softly:
"I think the reason why she didn't see the black and white hell in our eyes is because she already regards you as her whole world...
He Tianran, you have indeed not let her down in the past two years, so she is relieved.
Although... from my standpoint, I shouldn't sympathize with you. Congratulations to Tianran... you have done a good job. "
The man just listened to these past events silently, feeling speechless.
His eyes were looking at the big screen. The hero was carrying the heroine on his back under the bright starry night, walking through the countryside and across the wooden bridge dotted with fireflies. They were speaking lines——
"Am I heavy?"
"No, you must not be heavy."
"But I eat a lot."
"Don't worry, you're light enough for me to carry you all the way to Seoul."
He Tianran stared blankly. In a daze, the characters on the big screen seemed to suddenly change. The characters were replaced by him and Wen Liang. They also spoke their own dialogue——
"Brother Tianran, look, everyone has admitted your mistake, so are you still willing to use my old ticket to take me on the bus to the snow-capped mountains?"
"I do, but I also have one thing. Can you help me?"
"What's going on?"
"Me... Since the memory fusion, I seem to have lost something, and I feel that my mind has become a lot more vicissitudes, so I want to give you a task..."
"Stop talking, I know. This is what I want to do. Look, there is a downhill slope ahead. Carry me on your back and rush down! Drive!"
"Ah~~~~~"
"Hahahaha~~~~~"
His clear vision gradually blurred, and light spots flickered in the man's eyes. He clenched his right hand into a fist and pressed it against his chin and lips, trying his best to control his long-suppressed emotions.
In the past two years, he has indeed lived like a teenager.
"He Tianran, I discovered a characteristic of you when you cry. Do you want to know?"
Cao Aiqing beside him spoke slowly. He blinked twice quickly, turned his head and asked:
"What?"
Cao Aiqing turned his attention back to the big screen.
"You must cry when you lose someone very important. Your tears are all for the person who left."
He Tianran looked at Cao Aiqing's face. This was the first time he was so disgusted that the other person had such a similar and sensitive temperament to his own. He even said in a low voice with some anger:
"I know you too, Ai Qing."
Cao Aiqing didn't look at him, but just responded:
"I don't need you to tell me. My tears are all for myself. I'm sad because even though I knew from the beginning that you had so many shortcomings and that being with you might hurt me, I still chose I lost you, so I cried because I cried that I had become a tragedy without hesitation."
"No, that's not the case. Let me make it up to you...Ai Qing..."
"Why are you so depressed now? He Tianran, let me make it clear once that I don't need your sympathy. Before you say this, don't you first think about who caused such a result?!"
Cao Aiqing turned his head and looked indifferently.
He Tianran's throat was suddenly blocked, and he regretted his mistake just now after his emotions were aroused...
Wenliang was like a thunder buried between the two of them. At this time, they were both a little out of control. Both of them were the kind of people who were very afraid of others seeing through their innermost feelings, but they both had the same ability at the same time. This ability to understand human nature.
"it's all my fault……"
"It's not just your fault. He Tianran, don't forget that you are also a victim."
He Tianran said in a daze: "But... Ah Liang has already... repaid her sin... I have forgiven her..."
Cao Aiqing asked loudly:
"Yes, you have forgiven her. She is clearly a victim, but you still bear great pain even though you know the outcome, weaving a beautiful dream for a wicked person in hell, and even want to hurt me again. You are willing to give up only once and then call it forgiveness. You are really a good person.
I just said that you did well because of the relationship between you and her; now I am scolding you because of the choices you made towards me.
He Tianran, now I have scolded and praised, let's be realistic, let me ask you a question, tell me, why do evil people become Buddhas instantly when they put down their butcher's knife, while good people get everything? Grievance, misunderstanding and eternal disaster? "
"..."
Faced with this question, He Tianran racked his brains and couldn't come up with a reasonable answer.
He just looked at the big screen absentmindedly, looking at the happy-looking Son Ye-jin and the honest-looking Cho Seung-woo, without any expectation of the tragic life they were about to lead.
He Tianran murmured:
"Ai Qing, I don't know how to answer your question, but can you... forget Wen Liang?"
"What did you say?"
"Forget Wen Liang, not only you, I will also forget her..."
He Tianran repeated it, and it was hard for Cao Aiqing to believe that he could say such a thing.
"Wen Liang no longer exists in our world. This is a fact. Although we can't see her clearly, we still have memories that haunt her, making our hearts writhe and ache. We never have peace. Moreover, once the good and bad in the world exist, Reference and comparison will inevitably cause pain. I don't regret the things I did for her, but the grudge between me and her is over, and now it's my turn with you.
Ai Qing, don't worry, God will never treat a good person badly. If the relationship between Wen Liang and I is destined to be a tragedy and we deserve it, then God has given you the best script. The ending is written by you. Don't you If you believe it, just think about the world after the restart...
If there hadn't been that prank, and if love had God's will, there wouldn't have been a tragic future between us. When you were bullied, I would have stood up to save you, and we would have known each other, and even fallen in love, even if it was warm and cool. In this world, such a me would not fall in love with such a her.
Traveling through reincarnation has made the order of appearances in our lives confusing, resulting in so many karmic encounters and mistakes, but those have passed...
Today's world is a world where all tragedies have been avoided and all orders have been corrected. And now we only need to do one thing——
Forget about warmth and coolness.
Let her be completely free, or as you say, let her... die completely. "
He Tianran said this to himself rather than to Cao Aiqing.
There is no way back in memories, and the craziest and most passionate people and things will eventually become a passing cloud...
But the appearance of Cao Aiqing made He Tianran not alone, because there were others like him in this world.
Maybe, he should really follow God's will and live a good life now.
(End of chapter)
