"Crazy." Chi Jingyuan cursed and was about to hang up.
"Hello……"
At this moment, a female voice came from the phone, talking about Xia Wen. Her voice was soft and a little hoarse, with obvious hesitation and timidity in her tone: "Is it Ji... Chi, Chi Jingyuan?"
This sentence made Chi Jingyuan stop his fingers that were about to hang up the phone. He opened his eyes and raised his head a little. After thinking about it carefully, he asked with some confusion: "Zhou...Zhou Ziyu?"
He didn't recognize the voice, but there were very few people who talked to Chi Jingyuan in Xia Wen. After thinking about it, Chi Jingyuan confirmed the identity of the other party.
I was just a little surprised for a moment. In February, I met this very young trainee at the entrance of the JYP building. I gave him my phone number out of a desire to take care of the children of Xia Kingdom who were working hard on the peninsula.
But she never called her in more than three months. The reason was unknown, and Chi Jingyuan didn't care much.
Unexpectedly, I suddenly called today, at this time.
"Yes, I am Zhou Ziyu..."
After answering the phone, there was silence. A faint sound of pursed lips was vaguely heard from the receiver, and the other party seemed to be hesitant.
"Tell me, no matter what, I answered the phone. Why are you embarrassed?"
Chi Jingyuan took a breath and asked directly.
"I...I...I'm lost."
After several seconds of isolation, this sentence came intermittently on the phone.
"Lost?" Chi Jingyuan was stunned and repeated in disbelief.
He suddenly felt as if he had entered the plot of some kind of TV series.
"Well... I was in a bad mood today and I just went out for a walk... I didn't expect that when I came back to my senses, I didn't know where I was. Can you... help me?"
Zhou Ziyu's tone sounded a little low and a little embarrassed, and his voice became lower and lower, until Chi Jingyuan had to hold his ears to hear clearly.
"Well, Tzuyu xi..."
Chi Jingyuan's heart was filled with emotions. He didn't know what to say for a moment. He even used Korean honorifics and asked in a slightly fierce tone:
"If you get lost, you can use the map on your phone to check the location, take a taxi and go back directly, or ask passers-by or the owner of the store next to you, or at the worst, call your trainee friends, or JYP Practice Even the student management staff can do it. There are so many ways...doesn’t it seem a little redundant to ask me?"
"…………"
Chi Jingyuan's tone and rhetorical questions obviously made Zhou Ziyu a little dignified. There was a silence on the phone, which was almost dead.
After a long time, there were several sniffing sounds and a weak apology: "I'm sorry...for disturbing you..."
"..."
Chi Jingyuan, who was holding his mobile phone, was in a restless mood because of the nonsensical call from the other party. He suddenly calmed down because of the words "I'm sorry."
The sentence "I'm sorry" contains a lot of meanings, some of which people don't have the heart to delve into.
The figure of the little girl who was out of tune with the surroundings and full of loneliness that I saw in front of the JYP building appeared before my eyes.
She was alone outside now and didn't know the way around. It was getting late, so she was probably a little scared and helpless.
"Wait a moment……"
Sensing that the other party was about to hang up the phone, Chi Jingyuan spoke up.
"call……"
He took a long breath, put the phone on his shoulder, straightened up and sat up from the bed. While getting dressed, he said to the phone: "I'm going over now. Just stay there and don't move. I'll give you a rough look." The location and the iconic places around it told me.”
"Okay, okay, the surroundings around me are..." After hearing Chi Jingyuan's words, Zhou Ziyu's tone became more lively after being dull for a few seconds. After observing the surroundings, he told Chi Jingyuan.
"The place you mentioned is almost to Seocho District. How did you get there? Wait."
Chi Jingyuan got dressed, spoke to the phone and prepared to go out.
He always used Xia Wen on the phone, and his two roommates couldn't understand it at all. At this time, they were surprised to see him suddenly put on his clothes and walked out. Wu Shixun also asked: "Is something wrong? Do you want help?"
"It's nothing, just a small matter. I'll be back soon. Brother Chenghuan, tell me if you ask." Chi Jingyuan shook his hands at the two of them and left the dormitory.
Hearing him say it was okay, the two roommates felt relieved. After Chi Jingyuan left, they looked at the closed door and lay there to discuss:
"What do you think he's doing out so late?"
"Do you still have to ask? Didn't you hear who Jingyuan was talking to on the phone just now?"
"The voice was very low, and it was written in Xia Wen. I don't know who it is."
Hearing Do Kyung-soo's answer, Oh Se-hun chuckled, as if he knew Chi Kyung-won very well and was inscrutable:
"It doesn't matter who it is... what matters is that it's a woman."
"It's better to let a person with Jingyuan's personality, a woman who answered a phone call late at night, put on her clothes and ran out..."
"Tsk, tsk, I really want to get to know you."
…………
He was already very familiar with the area nearby. After Zhou Ziyu described it, he roughly knew where it was. After going downstairs, Chi Jingyuan took a taxi and rushed there.
Unexpectedly, within two minutes of leaving the house, raindrops began to fall from the sky, and it started to rain lightly.
The straight-line distance is not that far. After all, Zhou Ziyu also walks on foot, but it is a little detoured. There are many small alleys. If you are not familiar with the road, it will be a bit unclear.
The light rain was still falling. When Chi Jingyuan went out, he put on a baseball cap and mask to disguise himself. He didn't hold an umbrella. Fortunately, he was wearing a hooded sweatshirt, which had two layers of protection after wearing it. , I don’t care much about the light rain anymore.
After getting off the car and walking some distance, I spotted Zhou Ziyu's figure about ten meters away from Chi Jingyuan.
She squatted under the eaves in front of a closed store, her head lowered, her long hair blocking her cheeks, her left hand holding her leg, and her right hand holding a branch to write and draw on the ground.
Although she is quite tall, she looks a bit small when squatting there. Looking from a distance, she seems to perfectly blend into the surrounding dim light. In the somewhat deserted environment, the sound of raindrops dripping around her embellishes her. More lonely.
She was not immersed in her own world, but looked up from time to time to look around. This time she looked up and saw Chi Jingyuan walking this way. After Zhou Ziyu recognized it a few times, he found that it was the person she was waiting for. He stood up and watched Chi Jingyuan walk in step by step with dazzling eyes.
There was no smile on his face, but there was a hint of joy in his eyes, but the sense of sadness on his body was still obvious.
"I haven't seen Tzuyu Xi for a long time. What a coincidence."
Chi Jingyuan came to her and said something directly.
Although the two of them had actually met once and were not familiar with each other, there was no sense of alienation in his tone.
Zhou Ziyu was in a low mood when he saw it, and he didn't look like he was talking.
But after hearing Chi Jingyuan's words, he couldn't help but reply: "Can you... please stop using honorifics? We obviously don't speak Korean."
"No, I can only show my respect for you by using honorifics. After all, there are very few people who can get lost while walking."
Chi Jingyuan's tone was slightly sarcastic, and he glanced at her up and down. He was a little embarrassed when he saw her standing there, "Let's go, why are you still staying there? Where is your trainee dormitory?"
"In XXXX." Zhou Ziyu reported the name of the community.
"This place is quite close to the trainee dormitory where I lived before."
Chi Jingyuan chuckled after hearing this: "Let's go, go in that direction first. It's not easy to catch a taxi at this time and place."
"But the distance is not very far. If you can stop me, stop me. If you can't stop me, just walk back."
With that said, he set off directly and waved his hand, gesturing for Zhou Ziyu to follow.
Zhou Ziyu didn't mean to refute, he nodded lightly and followed him step by step, slightly half a body behind, not completely abreast.
After Chi Jingyuan arrived, he had no intention of greeting him and left after two sentences.
"To the point where you get lost...don't you still know how to speak Korean?"
While walking, Chi Jingyuan asked casually.
"Not very skilled."
Zhou Ziyu glanced at him and whispered back.
"By the way, when did you come to the peninsula?"
"end of last year."
"Then it's been half a year..." Chi Jingyuan couldn't help but slow down a little, turned his head and looked at Zhou Ziyu with an incomprehensible look, and asked with some worry: "I have been studying for half a year and still can't communicate... Ziyu xi Have you considered taking an intelligence test?"
