Zhou Li: "With your IQ, you don't understand what I'm talking about?"
Xu Siyan: "...impossible."
Zhou Li: "Then you continue to deceive yourself and others."
Xu Siyan: "Why are you so sure? The person she liked when she was studying was me."
Zhou Li: “Because I heard it with my own ears.”
Xu Siyan gritted his teeth: "Zhou Li, is it fun to play with me?"
His anger reached the critical point, as if he was about to hit someone in the next second.
Upon seeing this, Yuan Ye quickly came up and grabbed Xu Siyan, using 100% of his strength to barely pull him away: "Fourth brother didn't play tricks on you. He really heard it. It was the time you two went to Hangzhou to participate in the physics competition in high school."
It was impossible to expect Zhou Li to tell Xu Siyan what happened back then, so Yuanye had no choice but to repeat the whole story to Xu Siyan.
Including the words Ruan Yi said when she was on the phone with her mother -
After Xu Siyan listened to Yuan Ye's words, his right eyelid began to beat violently, "What do you mean I don't remember her?"
Yuanye: "...How do I know? You have to ask Ruan Yi about this."
After he finished speaking, he realized that there was something wrong with what he said. Ruan Yi didn't even admit that she liked him now. How could she talk to him about this?
"What she means is that you have had contact before. How about you think about it carefully, when did you meet Ruan Yi?" Yuanye suggested.
Xu Siyan: "..."
He didn't even know that he and Ruan Yi studied in the same school before, so how could he possibly remember their intersection.
When Xu Siyan was thinking this, Zhou Li suddenly said: "Are you familiar with the elders of Ruan Yi's family?"
Zhou Li's words made Xu Siyan enlightened——
The authority fanatic was indeed not joking about what he said. He had just gotten into trouble and was only thinking about Ruan Yi, so much so that he ignored that there was another insider in this matter——
If Zhou Li's recollection is correct, Ruan Yi's phone call was to Qinghe.
Yuanye: "Damn it, fourth brother is right, why didn't I think of this!"
Yuanye turned to look at Xu Siyan, "Your ex-mother-in-law seems to like you very much. How about you go talk to her while Ruan Yi is away? Or I can go and pick her up for you."
Xu Siyan's lips pursed into a line, his jaw tightened, and he said nothing.
Yuanye waited anxiously: "Okay, please give me a word!"
Xu Siyan still didn't answer.
Zhou Li: "Think carefully about what you want."
He said, "I have a responsibility in this matter and will help you."
——
Ruan Yi did not go home directly after meeting Yuanye.
The conversation just now made her feel a little heavy. Ruan Yi was walking alone on the street in the city center, and she accidentally thought of many things in the past few years.
For many things, she felt that she was sensible enough at the moment, but when she looked back as an experienced person, she still felt that she was not mature enough.
For example, the time she celebrated Xu Siyan's birthday - she still had great expectations, hoping that her relationship could be improved through that birthday.
It was so naive now that I think about it.
There was also the time when he sent his grandfather to the hospital before the divorce - before the trial, Ruan Yi had always been grateful to him for this incident, but when the truth finally came out, she became a joke again.
Ruan Yi laughed to himself, and was finally brought back to his senses by the sound of his phone vibrating.
Seeing Jiang Mingzhu's name, Ruan Yi hesitated for a few seconds before answering: "Mingzhu."
Jiang Mingzhu: "Where are you? I'll go find you and talk to you about something."
Ruan Yi glanced at the shopping mall opposite and reported the address.
Jiang Mingzhu: "Okay, ten minutes."
Ruan Yi waited at the main entrance of the mall for ten minutes when he saw Jiang Mingzhu walking over in a hurry.
The two chose a quieter restaurant to sit down.
After ordering the meal, Jiang Mingzhu said, "I just went to the hospital to see Xu Siyan."
Ruan Yi: "You are here because of his affairs."
She took the initiative to explain some things to Jiang Mingzhu, "Sorry, when he came to see me a few days ago, I used Zhou Li as a shield, which caused you trouble."
Jiang Mingzhu: "No worries, I understand your mood."
Ruan Yi: "..."
Jiang Mingzhu: "It's because he went to your room to look through your things and took pictures of the letters and gifts you gave him to show in court as evidence of your cheating, right?"
When she said this, Jiang Mingzhu never took her eyes away from Ruan Yi's face.
This is definitely the first time Jiang Mingzhu has seen such a panicked and disbelieving expression on her face since she and Ruan Yi have known each other for so long.
It can almost be described as "ever-changing".
Ruan Yi's expression already told Jiang Mingzhu the answer: "I guessed it right, the butterfly is for him."
Ruan Yi twitched the corners of his lips, his voice a little weak, "...Yeah."
Jiang Mingzhu: "You are treating him now——"
"We are not suitable." Ruan Yi guessed what she was going to ask, "In the past four years or so, I have accepted the reality. Let's all be well in the future."
Jiang Mingzhu: "If he likes you now, would you consider him?"
Ruan Yi: "There is no if."
Jiang Mingzhu: "Yes."
Ruan Yi: "..."
Jiang Mingzhu: "I think it won't be long before he will chase you."
Ruan Yi did not believe Jiang Mingzhu's words, "He just felt that I was entangled with Jiang Wan during the marriage, and he was unwilling to give in and didn't want me to feel better."
Jiang Mingzhu: "Do you like Jiang Wan?"
Ruan Yi shook his head, "We are just ordinary friends. I don't want to fall in love. I will make it clear to him."
Jiang Mingzhu lowered her eyes and thought for a few seconds, then remembered a question that suddenly occurred to her on the road.
She considered it for a moment, "Do you mind if I ask you a more private question?"
Ruan Yi: "Huh?"
Jiang Mingzhu: "How did you and Jiang Wan meet?"
Ruan Yi: "Catch butterflies."
Thinking back to the injuries she sustained from catching butterflies and the gift that was regarded as evidence of cheating, the self-mockery in her eyes almost overflowed.
The answer given by Ruan Yi was exactly the same as Jiang Mingzhu's previous guess.
The more she knows, the more she can understand Ruan Yi's current decision.
At the same time, she felt more and more guilty inside.
It was her and Zhou Li's fault, Ruan Yi and Xu Siyan were both paying for her.
Jiang Mingzhu didn't speak for a long time. Ruan Yi could tell what she was thinking from her expression: "You don't have to blame yourself. Zhou Li didn't force me at the beginning. I made the decision after thinking about it myself. He also gave me two I won’t lose anything if you let me get away from the Ruan family.”
——
In the early morning, Xu Siyan was lying on the bed in the ward, completely sleepless.
He was holding his mobile phone in his hand, and the WeChat chat interface was on the lit screen.
That's Jiang Mingzhu's chat window.
Xu Siyan's eyes were fixed on the message she sent an hour and a half ago.
[She met Jiang Wan when she went out to catch butterflies for you. 】
Xu Siyan's eyes were sore and painful, and countless complex emotions were surging in his chest.
At six o'clock, dawn comes.
Xu Siyan suddenly got up from the bed, changed his clothes and left the ward.
He stopped a taxi at the entrance of the hospital and said, "Go to Chengfu Xinyuan."
