Chapter 24: The Love I Want
Ye Huayi and I chose a direction along the street with ease and leisure. I lit a cigarette comfortably, feeling that nothing in the world makes me more comfortable than this scene.
I leisurely spit out the smoke from my outlet. Ye Huayi was more than one meter away from me and had avoided sucking my second-hand smoke. This made our companion walk seem to be just a name, but it doesn't matter. Each has its own scenery. My scenery is smoking, enjoying the flowers, watching the moon, and enjoying the autumn wind. Ye Huayi's scenery is obviously not the same as me, so we have a distance.
After smoking a cigarette, I flew away the cigarette butt in my hand. Looking at the trajectory drawn in the air with a touch of red, I was a little stunned. It was not until the cigarette butt fell back to the ground that I came to my senses.
The disillusionment of the smoke finally brought Ye Huayi to me.
"Sorry, Teacher Ye, I smoked a cigarette selfishly." I said to Ye Huanyi beside me.
"Why, I feel that smoking is abrupt and beautiful scenery?" Ye Huayi asked with a smile.
I shook my head and said, "No smoke, any beautiful scenery is not true to me, it is an illusion!"
Ye Huayi looked at me with beautiful eyes......
I smiled and said, "Just pretending to be deep nonsense, just listen to it."
Ye Huayi gave me a blank look: "You are quite bored!"
"I don't deny it."
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The two continued to walk forward. There were no street lights on the road, but the moonlight still pulled our shadows away. A kind of tranquility permeated the mountains and fields, and people seemed to be wandering.
"Zhang Yixi, are the two women who came last time really your ex-girlfriend and rumored girlfriend?" After walking in silence for a long time, Ye Huayi found a topic to prove that she has the potential for gossip.
I curled my lips and said, "I want to smoke when I hear such a question."
"Then you can smoke it, tell me after you finish the smoke."
"You are so persistent!" I sighed.
"I just think that two such excellent women have maintained close relationships with you. You must have many stories in your heart. It is everyone's nature to love to listen to stories, right?" Ye Huayi said with a gentle smile, as if encouraging me to let go of my guard and tell her everything.
Regarding love, I do have a lot of depression in my heart, but I have passed the stage where I need to urgently describe depression, so I don’t have much need to express, so I shook my head and said, “It’s all over, all the happy and depressed, to me, are just fragments of memories.”
Ye Huayi looked at me in shock: "I think you are a bit terrible when it comes to feelings!"
"Is that true?" I didn't know how to answer, so I asked back.
It seemed that he did not agree with my attitude towards love, Ye Huayi did not respond to my rhetoric, but just walked forward silently.
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Before I knew it, Ye Huayi and I walked to the foot of the mountain where I often sat. Ye Huayi was tired of leaving, so we found a flat stone before me and sat down.
I sat down next to Ye Huanyi. The two of them kept a distance of about 50 cm. Perhaps because the beautiful scenery of the autumn night was more attractive than chatting, we both tacitly chose silence and looked up at the somewhat incomplete moon in the sky.
"Zhang Yixi, do you have a dream?" Ye Huayi asked me thoughtfully in front of the sky with his hands.
I asked myself in my heart, “Do I really have dreams?”
“Have you.”
"Have you ever been? Do you have no dreams now?"
"Some, but now my dream is more like a kind of redemption to me!" I smiled and said, then took out a cigarette from the cigarette box and lit it for myself. At this time, I always need cigarettes.
This time, Ye Huayi did not avoid my second-hand smoke: "Will you be very tired if you live for redemption?"
"At least I won't let the people around me feel very tired!" I took a heavy breath of cigarette, then lay flat on the stone, sucking the cigarette but looking at the sky with a little dull look.
"If one day I unfortunately die, I really hope that those who have misunderstood me will carve misunderstandings on my tombstone with their own hands." I said in a very calm tone, but sadness traveled against my body.
Ye Huayi looked at me with a complicated look: "Don't say that, I will feel sad for you."
I smiled, the soft wind made me feel a little tired, I closed my eyes...
My half of my life was a misunderstood half. I never wanted to hurt Wang Mengmeng with evil deeds, but I did this... I care about my brotherhood with the prince, so I would rather pretend that I have no affection for Shen Man. I think both Prince and Shen Man left with misunderstanding and hatred for me... I can't bear to leave An Qi alone. I swear I sincerely wanted to keep her, but in the end she still left with misunderstanding and hatred... And Mo Han, the woman I love, she felt that I was not loyal to love, and I swear that I only loved her in the countless days I waited for her, but she would not believe it... I am willing to create and fight for every woman I loved, but they all left with misunderstanding and hatred... And Xiao Min, who has not really forgiven me until now!
As I thought too much, my eyes became sore. I smiled and thought that tears would not fall like this, but I still felt the warmth from the corners of my eyes.
"You are crying!" Ye Huayi took out a tissue and handed it to me.
"No." I covered my eyes with the back of my hand, but my heart was filled with a heart-wrenching confusion. It turned out that it was so painful to uncover my scars.
"Sorry, I reminded you of those sad pasts." Ye Huayi's tone was sincere apologetic.
I waved my hand and signaled that it was okay. No sadness was everlasting to me, and a glass of wine and a cigarette could make me forget these pains, even if it was just temporary.
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Ye Huayi lay down beside me, and she also looked up at the sky, as if she was thinking.
"Zhang Yixi, you have had so many love experiences. Do you still have expectations for love now?" Ye Huayi turned to look at me. Under the background of the moonlight, her face seemed so clear on this night.
"I'm looking forward to a simple love, so simple that I met her on the streets where people were coming and going. We didn't need words, but just a few eye contact, and fell in love. I didn't need to care whether I had my own good friends who loved her deeply. She wouldn't care how much salary I earn in a month. If we were happy, we laughed together, we cried together when we were sad. We didn't need to hide it at all... This is the love I wanted!"
Ye Huayi looked at me with some trance, as if imagining the kind of love I portrayed: "Is there really such love?"
"No, I imagined it myself."
Ye Huayi smiled and said, "Then you should be a complete idealist?"
"I admit that I am an idealist, but I respect reality more, so I will tell you that what I just described is just what I imagined, and I never fantasized about it that would come true..." I said no longer lying on the rocks, I was afraid that I would fall into those unbearable pasts when I lay down like this.
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I originally thought it would be a very pleasant night, but those heavy pasts desecrated this comfort. Until I returned to where I lived, my mood was still a little depressed.
I drank a can of beer and adjusted my emotions until I successfully diverted my attention. I turned on the computer and continued to do my unfinished work.
Almost an hour later, my phone prompt message rang again. I knew it was sent by Angel. This was the message she sent me three days apart.
Will she answer the question she asked last time, "Can you forgive a man and let women down"?
Chapter completed!