pamper her

Chapter 27 I'm Going
In the middle of the night, Li Yan seemed to be having a nightmare, kicking around with his little hands and feet.

Li Mianmian was kicked on the thigh and woke up in pain.

When I woke up, I felt like going to the toilet.

She lingered on the bed in a daze for a while, got up quickly, tucked the quilt for Li Yan, and walked out of the bedroom in the dark, leaning on the wall.

The light in the living room was not far away, Li Mianmian slapped it away, and was about to go to the bathroom, when he saw someone on the balcony out of the corner of his eye.

She was startled, turned her head to look carefully, only to realize that it was Gu Yanci.

He also seemed startled by the suddenly lit living room, and was leaning on the railing, turning towards her.

"...Brother?" Li Mianmian scratched her neck, her voice hoarse when she just got up, "Why are you here?"

"Brother couldn't sleep, he was in a daze outside." Gu Yanci smiled, "And you, did you have a nightmare?"

Li Mianmian shook her head: "I want to go to the bathroom."

As he said this, his legs turned from the direction of the toilet to the balcony.

When she approached, Gu Yanci rubbed her hair, and said warmly: "It's cold outside, go back to sleep quickly after going to the bathroom."

Li Mianmian didn't answer.

She leaned on the railing and looked down. The city was dark in the middle of the night, except for a few scattered lights.

The fashion of the spring night was blowing cold air for a while, and she finally woke up.

"Brother." Li Mianmian looked up at him, "Are you unhappy?"

She also asked this question when she came home at night, and sang him a song to comfort him.

Gu Yanci thought he hid it well, but Li Mianmian was too sensitive to other people's emotions.

"Brother... a little unhappy." The smile on his face suddenly faded, "Because I'm leaving."

"Ah?" Li Mianmian was startled, and exclaimed, "So fast?!"

"Hush—" Gu Yanci pinched her cheek with his lower hand, "Don't wake up Mom and Dad."

"Oh..." Li Mianmian touched her earlobe, then her neck, and murmured, "But why are you leaving? Isn't it half a year before you start college?"

Gu Yanci just gave a faint "um" and then said nothing.

After waiting for a long time, Li Mianmian couldn't bear the chill, and wanted to go back to the room first, so he said in a low voice: "I don't want to trouble you with my brother's matter."

"Ah?" Li Mianmian didn't understand, "What's the trouble?"

"My brother has an enemy." Gu Yanci said slowly, "But my brother has no way to seek revenge from him, so we need to recharge our batteries."

I don't know if it's because he just woke up, but Li Mianmian still didn't understand what he said.

She scratched her hair a little irritably, raised her head and asked, "Then..."

"Mumu." Gu Yanci interrupted her.

Li Mianmian was slightly taken aback: "Huh?"

Gu Yanci turned sideways and looked down at her.

In the dark night, there seemed to be ripples in his eyes, containing an emotion called tenderness.

But there was something more complicated that Li Mianmian couldn't understand for the time being.

"My brother is gone this time. I don't know when I will be back." He said, "My brother is waiting for you at Tsinghua University."

"...Okay." Li Mianmian secretly clenched her fists, inexplicably wanting to cry, "I, I will definitely pass the exam!"

"Ah."

Gu Yanci curled up his mouth to look at her for a moment, then suddenly opened an arm: "Come here, brother, give me a hug."

Li Mianmian immediately threw herself into his arms, the soreness at the tip of her nose could no longer be restrained, tears soaked his clothes.

"At home, listen to your parents and don't argue with your younger brother."

Gu Yanci patted her back lightly, his voice was scattered in the cool night wind, too ethereal to catch.

"Study hard, don't fall in love early, and if someone bullies you, go and talk to the teacher. If you have any questions that you don't understand, or if you have any concerns, you can call your brother. My brother's phone number has always been kept and will not change."

"Okay." Li Mianmian nodded, "Then I must call my brother often."

"Yeah." Gu Yanci continued, "If I'm free, I'll come back to see you when my brother is on vacation."

Li Mianmian grabbed his clothes tightly, choked up and said, "Then you must remember to come back..."

"it is good."
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After Li Mianmian woke up the next day, Gu Yanci was no longer there.

The content of the conversation with Gu Yanci the night before became a little hazy after several hours of sleep, which made her feel unreal.

In other words, even when I hugged Gu Yanci last night and listened to him say those words with my own ears, there was no sense of reality.

Her tears seemed to flow down subconsciously, but the sadness of Gu Yanci's departure didn't really enter her heart at that time.

Because he was within reach at that time, and she was so close to him, it was impossible to imagine the scene of him leaving.

Gu Yanci often eats breakfast here recently.

Maybe it’s because he doesn’t want to eat for free, so he wakes up early every morning, and then goes downstairs to buy some soy milk, fried dough sticks, steamed stuffed buns and the like, and occasionally makes them at home and brings them over.

But today he is not here.

Li Mianmian went to school with her schoolbag on her back. When she opened the door, she subconsciously looked upstairs.

Obviously the door was closed as before, but today she somehow felt that the opposite side was more deserted than usual.

Walking on the road, Li Mianmian felt that the uncles and aunts who were standing on the side of the road selling breakfast today seemed not very happy, and the classmates who met her on the road and greeted her seemed weak.

Even when Nan Shengsheng smiled and came over to share snacks with her, she still felt that the other party was not as happy as he looked on the surface.

Until at night after school, when Li Mianmian walked downstairs and habitually looked at the place where Gu Yanci usually stood, but didn't see anyone——

Only then did she realize that it was not others who were unhappy.

It was she who was unhappy.

Only then did she deeply and truly realize that Gu Yanci had really left.

It was different from when he was too busy to be with her often.

This kind of departure seems to use a sharp knife to cut off all the connections between them. It is a complete blank, a nothingness and a bewildered emptiness.

Li Mianmian walked to the place where Gu Yanci had been standing, and looked down for a long time.

Then she took a breath, rubbed her nose, looked up and walked home.

really weird.

When she wasn't so sad last night, she couldn't help crying as long as she got close to Gu Yanci.

She really felt very sad today, she was so sad that she couldn't get interested in doing anything, and she couldn't be happy with anything she loved to eat or play.

But she couldn't cry.

She just felt empty.

Numbly, expressionlessly, on the way home.

Fortunately, this negativity did not last long.

Li Mianmian was quickly brought back to focus by the pressure of study.

In a blink of an eye, I will be in high school.

Li Mianmian had a hasty birthday after the final exam.

The reason why I said hurriedly was because she had to make up lessons on her birthday, and it was almost ten o'clock when she got home from self-study next night, so she ate a cake with her family.

At around six o'clock the next morning, Li Mianmian was awakened by a ringing bell.

She opened her eyes and reacted for a moment, realizing that it wasn't the sound of the alarm clock, but someone calling her.

Except for Gu Yanci, no one would call her so early.

She hurriedly got up to look for her mobile phone, and connected it just as the ringing was about to end——

"I thought I couldn't wake you up." Gu Yanci's voice carried his usual gentle smile, "Happy birthday, we Mumu."

After waiting all day yesterday but still not getting a call from him, Li Mianmian couldn't help feeling a little annoyed: "My birthday is over."

"Ok?"

Gu Yanci paused for a moment, and then said: "Sorry, my brother forgot the date."

"...Forget it, it's okay." Li Mianmian was a little frustrated, "It's hard to remember my birthday."

She celebrates her birthday on the lunar calendar, and the date is different every year, so she has to pay attention all the time so as not to miss it.

It's actually normal for Gu Yanci to behave like this.

Besides, he must be very busy now, and it's six o'clock in the morning to make a blessing call. She really shouldn't be so unreasonable.

After a few seconds of reflection, Li Mianmian collected her emotions and tried to make her tone cheerful: "It's not too late today, thank you brother!"

Gu Yanci was silent for a while, and asked, "Do you think that brother remembered your birthday wrong?"

"……what?"

"How could my brother remember your birthday wrong?" Gu Yanci said, "My brother just forgot the date, thinking that today is June 25th."

"Oh..." Li Mianmian lowered her head and tugged on her pants, and asked in a low voice, "Brother, are you busy recently?"

"Well, a little bit." Gu Yanci said, "Sorry, brother won't do it next time."

"It's okay if I remember wrongly." Li Mianmian said quickly, "Just treat it as if I had two birthdays!"

Gu Yanci laughed: "It's good that you don't get angry. Brother also sent you a gift, which should arrive today."

"Okay, thank you brother."

Li Mianmian held the phone tightly, hesitated for a while, and wanted to ask him how he was doing recently, what he was busy with, and whether he was happy...

Suddenly there was a knock on the door outside, and it was Lan Qingwan who was waking her up.

Gu Yanci obviously heard it too.

"Then get up quickly." He said, "Study hard, and brother will call you next time when he is free."

Li Mianmian had no choice but to hang up the phone reluctantly.

Gu Yanci said that he would be free to call next time, but in fact he was rarely free.

When he called, it was either during the holidays, or when it was raining or thundering.

Li Mianmian has always been curious, he is obviously not in this city, but why does he know every time there is thunder?

It was as if he hadn't left at all, and had stayed by her side all the time.
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Entering the third year of high school, Li Mianmian's study pressure is getting heavier and heavier. In addition to doing problems every day, she still does problems.

Since Gu Xuanlang transferred to another school, she has become the sole owner of No.1.

However, the pressure of always taking the first place in the test seems to be greater than before, because no one serves as a reference for her, and she is her own reference, so occasionally there is a sense of helplessness where she does not know where to put her strength.

At first, she sometimes called Gu Yanci to chat with him to relieve the pressure.

But then once she heard someone yelling at him over there, because he missed work by answering the phone.

After that, Li Mianmian never took the initiative to call him again, only dared to send a few text messages.

But Gu Yanci's time to reply to text messages was always two or three o'clock in the morning.

He must have been extremely tired at that time, and he had to reply to text messages to himself, which made Li Mianmian feel like a burden.

After that, she didn't even send text messages anymore.

In the blink of an eye, Li Mianmian's high school career was completely over.

On the day after the college entrance examination, the classmates in the class made an appointment to go to KTV to sing.

Since the school said that students are not allowed to go outside for gatherings, they also specially set the venue at a KTV far away, almost half a city away.

After the exam, Li Mianmian went home to explain the itinerary to her parents, and then changed into a skirt before going out.

She had never worn a skirt for three years in high school, and after finally graduating, she wanted to dress up beautifully.

I don't want to show it to anyone, I just want to get a sense of satisfaction from it.

Nan Shengsheng was even more exaggerated than her. Not only did she change her skirt, she also secretly put on light makeup.

Li Mianmian waited for her for half an hour, so when the two of them arrived at KTV, the other students had already arrived.

This KTV is very big, and the two searched for a long time according to the information sent by the class, but they couldn't find the location.

Nan Shengsheng was wearing a pair of sandals with heels that didn't fit well, and her feet were worn out after a while, so Li Mianmian asked her to sit in the distant hall to rest, planning to go to the bar to ask someone.

The golden light in the KTV is shining, the wall behind the bar is full of wine bottles, and the background is also translucent golden glass.

Li Mianmian trotted over, smiled at the young lady standing at the bar, and was about to ask, when a voice suddenly came from inside: "It seems that the signature pen is almost gone."

The voice was so familiar that Li Mianmian froze in place.

After a while, the people inside stood up, saw Li Mianmian outside the bar, and didn't speak for a while.

There was no emotion on his face, only the stiff movements of his hands could reveal his embarrassment and embarrassment at this moment.

Li Mianmian stared blankly at the person, and after a long time, she whispered softly like a whisper in a dream:

"elder brother?"

(End of this chapter)