Secret Love · Orange Raw Huainan

Chapter 56 The Lost East Corner
At three o'clock in the morning, Jiang Baili carefully turned the doorknob and tiptoed in. She saw Luo Zhi sitting on the lower bunk with her knees hugged. The Walkman screen was shining brightly, illuminating her face.

"Aren't you sleeping yet?"

"Where have you been?" Luo Zhi's voice was not sleepy at all, "I called your cell phone, but you kept turning it off."

Belle smiled sheepishly, and said slowly, "The battery is dead. I... went out with a new friend."

"A new friend? Playing until three o'clock in the morning?" Luo Zhi simply turned off the walkman: "Are you crazy?!"

"It's really... a good match."

"Boy?"

"It's a man...not a boy."

"...Big...Uncle?"

"It's not uncle...he's 31 years old...he's not a bad guy."

The last sentence made Luo Zhi roll her eyes, even though she knew Belle couldn't see it.

"Be careful with this kind of thing next time, you really think that you are invincible in Xiaobai Bodyguard."

Belle giggled: "Luo Zhi, you're talking more and more. Are you worried about me so you've waited until now?"

The corners of Luo Zhi's mouth curled up, but her voice was still flat: "My insomnia has nothing to do with you. Go to sleep."

Belle washed and changed her clothes, and finally climbed onto the bed after tossing for a long time.Luo Zhi guessed correctly, Jiang Baili had peach blossoms, so she would definitely not be able to fall asleep peacefully.She stood upright on the upper bunk for 5 minutes, then suddenly turned over and whispered to Luo Zhi on the lower bunk, "Are you asleep?"

"If you want to be eight, hurry up."

Belle laughed foolishly: "Did you know? In fact, he is...he is the sponsor of the school this year. He also attended the reception just now."

"Oh, that's when you saw the halo of the Virgin above your head and noticed you?"

"Don't talk nonsense. We didn't mention what happened tonight. I don't think he saw me and them..."

"Is his surname Gu?" Luo Zhi interrupted her without hesitation.

Then congratulations, your Holy Mother shines from head to toe.In the end, she held back and said nothing.

"I really didn't expect that he would have a religious complex with you... this man?"

Luo Zhi tried very hard to calm down her tone—it was unbelievable for a man to strike up a conversation with her persistently at the venue, but now he fell in love with Jiang Baili again—she actually became twin sisters with Jiang Baili ?

Really hurt my self-esteem.

"You know him?!" Belle patted the railing excitedly.

"Don't worry about it, tell me, how did you know each other?"

Jiang Baili lay back gently on the bed, didn't speak for a long time, only sighed faintly.

Depend on.Luo Zhi said silently in her heart.

"Without him, my snot would be frozen into an ice cone." Jiang Baili's opening remarks were enough to show that her previous hesitation was not artificial, it was really a girlish shyness.

Jiang Baili was walking silently on the path, complaining as she walked why she didn't come out with a pack of facial tissues.Unstoppable tears can be wiped with the sleeve, but what about the snot?The cold wind blew on the face, and although the tear stains dried quickly, the skin seemed to be sticky, tight, and it was difficult to make an expression.

She was hesitating whether to wipe her nose with her sleeve, when suddenly a man's voice came from behind: "Student, please ask, is this road leading to the royal garden?"

"What royal garden? This road is definitely not. If you don't walk out of the school wall, you won't be able to reach the Summer Palace either way." She didn't dare to turn her head, and nothing good would happen if she turned around with a snot in her nose.

"It's not the Summer Palace... I heard that there is a beautiful protected building in the southeast of your school. It turned out to be a royal garden, with rockery and a lake..."

"Over there." She stretched out her left hand and pointed at random, but still did not look back.

The male voice behind was silent for a while, then laughed - the laughter was really nice. "Why don't you look back? I must have bumped into the Faceless Ghost."

Jiang Baili was so patient that her veins bulged, but she still lost her confidence. She asked cautiously, "Uh... do you have facial tissue?"

The man took a step closer and touched her arm lightly.She took it and saw that it was a light gray handkerchief with excellent texture.She guessed that the price must be high. Although she didn't recognize the logo, good things could be felt.

Regardless, she was desperate.

"Um... do you have... facial tissue? I said facial tissue, one yuan a pack of heart bondage! This is unnecessary..."

You either get out or give me the Kleenex, I can't take it anymore!Jiang Baili wailed in her heart, and handed the handkerchief to the man behind her tremblingly in an extremely twisted posture.

"No. Don't dawdle, the handkerchief is for you."

There was a smile in the man's voice, although it was a bit teasing, but still kind.She was cruel, unfolded the handkerchief, first pretended to wipe away the tears, then wiped the snot very quickly, trying to make no sound at all, then quickly put the handkerchief into her pocket, turned her head and smiled flatteringly at the other party .

Immediately froze there.

Under the orange streetlight, a handsome man wrapped in a black coat, with a steady and open-minded temperament in his brows and eyes, was smiling at her with a perceptive, narrow and kind-hearted smile.

Jiang Baili suddenly remembered the black car that chased away the punks a long time ago, and the cool boy.It was also the same orange street light, and it was also the same black figure when she was in a panic.She cried out, squatting on the ground and hugging her legs.This time, it really couldn't end.

She's not a Madonna or a Nemesis.She was just an ordinary Jiang Baili, so ordinary that when the boy said "break up" to her, she had no way to turn around and walk away indifferently, nor was she able to slap her hands handsomely to relieve her anger.Wanting to be a little more high-profile, in the end, he wet his eyes in a hopeless way and asked him why.He didn't mention Chen Mohan, he just said sorry, he just said there was no reason.But she was only obsessed with one question, why.

He said helplessly: "You really want to know, I'll make one up for you now."

Not even giving a reason.

The man squatted beside her and patted her shoulder lightly, and said in a helpless tone, "Isn't it just wiping your nose? There's no shame at all."

"I was dumped," she said with a sob. "I don't know which one is more embarrassing. In fact, the most embarrassing thing seems to be that the whole world knows that I love him very much."

He patted her tenderly like this, and said softly: "What does the whole world know? There are only 24 hours in a day, and no one wants to be distracted to see you. So don't spend all your time looking at your ex-boyfriend .”

He walked slowly with her.Jiang Baili embarrassedly took out the handkerchief that wiped her nose and used it again, but this time she didn't avoid him.

"Who are you?" Her nose was blocked and she made a sound like she had a cold.

"My name is Gu Zhiye. I'm a representative sent by your student union's sponsor this year. I'm here to attend the reception tonight."

"My name is Jiang Baili," she said happily. "I'm a sophomore in the School of Economics. I was also at the reception just now."

"That's great, can you accompany me to find the place where the reception was held just now? My car is parked there. I feel that the atmosphere is boring, so I went out to stroll around by myself, but I got lost. The roads of your school are full of twists and turns. Confused. Fortunately, I met you."

She smiled and said "no problem".His car was parked in the backyard of the building at the exchange center.She watched him walk towards an Audi.She couldn't tell what A6A8 was, she only knew it was four circles, and she only knew that it was the car she was riding when Gobi appeared in front of her eyes.Damn tears, the handkerchief has been crumpled by her.

When he opened the car door, he raised his hand and glanced at his watch, and said, "If you don't want to go back, there are still about three hours before the New Year, shall we go have a drink together?"

Jiang Baili wanted to swear to Luo Zhi, she did think about it at the time—but he smiled like a big boy, raised his hands and said to her as if surrendering: "I'm not a bad person, and I'm not blaming uncle."

She immediately nodded firmly, for fear that people would say she was hypocritical if she nodded too late.

In fact, she didn't go to the bar.He suddenly changed his mind, saying that the bar was too messy for her, and asked her if there was any place she wanted to go.She thought for a long time before saying, what do you think of Haagen-Dazs?After speaking, I felt that I was so guilty in the winter, and I wanted to bite my tongue off.She hoped that he would veto it, but was afraid that he would laugh at her.

Unexpectedly, Gu Zhiye smiled indifferently and said, let's go.

Let's go.

Belle appreciated his attitude.Gobi is always sneering at her, as if nothing she says is right.Therefore, she felt that Gu Zhiye was too calm and manly when he said "Let's go".In fact, she didn't know what to talk to him, but she felt at ease in front of him. He was much older than her, and he had already faded away from the anxiety and sharpness of boys like Gobi and the others. He knew how to distinguish between a gentleman and a weakness, domineering and pretending to be cool difference between.

"Aside from studying, what do you like to do?"

Belle tried hard to think about what she could call a hobby, but she came to a depressing conclusion: "Reading novels online, diving on BBS, watching Korean dramas, and I also like Tianya gossip..."

Unexpectedly, Gu Zhiye did not laugh, but continued to ask with relish: "What novels do you like to read?"

Belle was even more embarrassed. She really hoped that she would like some masterpieces of the XX genre, or the early works of the XX Nobel Prize winners.Sitting face to face with such a gentle man, should we talk about this kind of topic?However, she decided to tell the truth.

"Romance novels. Especially early Taiwanese novels."

At the beginning, she had been hiding the sentence from Chen Mohan for fear of being disdainful, but she finally said it openly.So what, she thought, is it up to you whether you have taste or not?
She thought he would ask her what it was with a puzzled face, but unexpectedly, he frowned and sighed in distress.

"It's the kind of small-format romance novel, right? The cover is colorful?"

She nodded.

"I also think it's very funny. What should I do? Will you laugh at me? A 31-year-old man?"

His scowling look was exaggerated like acting, but it was cute.Belle was speechless for a long time, and could only say softly: "Actually... you like watching this, you are a bit perverted..."

Her confession made him smile.

"I had a girlfriend in college who liked these things. I always wondered what was so fascinating about this pocket book, and I felt a headache when I saw the cover. At that time, I was under a lot of work pressure, and others sounded like a family business, as if I I’m a rich young man, I just need to go to nightclubs to burn money—even my girlfriend at the time thought so. In fact, there are a lot of troubles, no matter how much money is, it’s not mine, and my father is very demanding of me, and several other uncles also They're all fighting..." He stopped, took a sip of water, and looked at her.

"Going off topic, what are you talking about? Anyway, my little girlfriend is always stupid, holding a book and nestling in the corner of the sofa, crying and laughing for a while. She is not beautiful at all, and she is also fat, but I like it very much. Her innocence and innocence. However, over time, this kind of innocence made me feel that I was raising a daughter. She had no intention of going to work or growing up, and just wanted to rely on me as a tree. Besides, I had no money at that time, and even Not even a tree. I'm tired.

"We broke up later. She left more than [-] books at my house. I don't know if you said some Taiwanese dialect. One day after a long time, I suddenly thought of her—at that time, all the women I met were... not to say No matter. In short, I miss her very much, so I just picked up a book and read it. The book is actually quite interesting, not so much intrigue, much more exaggerated than real life, and indeed it can coax girls. But more importantly , I saw my ordinary and innocent little girlfriend there."

Belle sighed for a long time: "I'm sorry, I can't comfort others."

"Why do you want to comfort me?" He smiled, looking far away, immersed in memories.

Belle laughed: "It would be great if my roommate was here. She is very venomous, but her words are quite reasonable. Although she is a bit cold, she is a kind person."

"Your roommate?"

"Well, actually, tonight, she accompanied me to the reception. I was going to mess with my ex-boyfriend."

The second part of her sentence made him burst out laughing: "Smash the place of your student union? After all, I am also one of the sponsors. Did you smash it later?"

"No." She shook her head.

At that time, she didn't know that she had unintentionally directed a murder with a borrowed knife, and finally succeeded in ruining the scene.

"I used to be a typical no-brainer, and only knew three tricks - crying, fighting, and breaking up. Today... Luo Zhi said that I have finally learned to be smarter, but I don't like this. I think I have changed."

Belle grinned about to smile, but the corners of her mouth were down, so she stopped it in time.She wandered aimlessly outside the venue for half an hour, telling herself, isn't love selfless dedication, fulfillment, as long as he lives well, then why should she do this?Even though she accompanied him to climb up the "official career" of his student union, those disgraceful days have passed, standing on the top and looking at all the mountains, the one standing beside him should not be a sallow, emaciated, mediocre wife—look, look , the couple in the venue, why is she so obsessed with collecting debts?Is she being too selfish?
But she really hates it a little bit.She felt hollowed out.She had already given him everything, and it was impossible for her to start from scratch.

Then she met Liu Jing—how could Liu Jing let go of such an opportunity to hit her?Gobi used Liu Jing, and Jiang Baili got Gobi's apology and change of heart after crying and making troubles, and Liu Jing, who had been ambiguous, was regarded as an abandoned child by Gobi after the student union canvassing ended.Facing the aggressive and restless Liu Jing, Jiang Baili gained an IQ for the first time in her life.She pretended to be cute and pitiful, and successfully directed the firepower to Chen Mohan in the venue, but at the end she still said softly to her: "I am different from you, even compared to his new girlfriend, he Still love me more, who made me treat him so well?"

Liu Jing finally got angry.Jiang Baili guessed right, Liu Jing wanted to use herself to attack Chen Mohan, embarrassing Baili and embarrassing Chen Mohan—who in the student union doesn't know Gobi and Jiang Baili?Gobi still has to climb up, but Liu Jing has gradually been marginalized. A sophomore deputy minister, if others don't care about her, she naturally doesn't care about others, so what if there is a commotion?

This is exactly what Jiang Baili wanted.She wanted everyone to know that Gobi had let her down, and everyone, including Gobi, knew that she, Jiang Baili, had devoted herself to Gobi and was still repaying her with kindness.Her behavior, although others seem to think it is stupid, but in terms of sympathy, it must be soaring.

Most importantly, her ultimate weight is that she believes that Gobi still has a conscience, and it's not that Gobi doesn't love her at all.

Even if she didn't love her, she didn't feed the dog all the time she spent with him.

"Later... Later, he left his contact information, and he sent me back."

"It feels good." Luo Zhi said lazily.

"I picked up a new friend on the way, so hit it off, of course I..."

"Hey, 31 years old is the time to be attractive. You are young and mature, gentle and golden, handsome and considerate. You actually use 'new friend' to sum it up. It's ridiculous."

"Stop making trouble. By the way, he also said that he will ask you to have dinner with him next time."

forget it.Luo Zhi's scalp tingles when she thought of the man who had trouble with her earphones at night.

"Actually...if he's really good, I think you..." Luo Zhi hesitated, but couldn't get past the ending.

Belle on the upper bunk didn't say a word to Luo Zhi's ellipsis for a long time, and finally turned over heavily.

"He's a nice guy. But I love Gobi."

Luo Zhi was at a loss for words, and for the first time felt that Jiang Baili's sour declaration of love made her not have the courage to ridicule.

Jiang Baili just washed the gray handkerchief carefully and gently in the water room, and hung it on the railing beside the bed, and the fragrance of washing powder wafted to the pillow.Both of these two people once stood under the street lamp, the same scene, but they couldn't be equally moved.There is indeed such a thing as "you have to" in the world. Even if all the men are pulled to the same pose under the orange street light, she only loves a Gobi who doesn't know why.

"By the way, Luo Zhi, that Sheng Huainan..."

Belle opened her mouth, but there was no response for a long time, she was a little surprised, she poked her head out to look at the lower bunk.Luo Zhi was flipping through her phone, and the white light from the screen shone on her face, expressionless.

After a long time, Luo Zhi finally said softly, "Go to sleep."

It was snowing again outside the window.They both thought the other had fallen asleep, but at the moment when the tears blurred, they heard another sob.

(End of this chapter)