I looked at Chen Man standing in the corner with a daze. Although I was mentally prepared in advance, when I saw her again half a year later, my heart still trembled. In the six months in Japan, it seemed that she had more quietness, but more mature and bright.

The prince turned his back to Chen Man and drank alone in a slutty wine. I pushed him and signaled him to look back.

"Drinking..." The prince ignored me, but raised his cup and drank it all in one go.

Chen Man approached us with a heavy step. She came behind the prince and gently took away the cup from the prince's hand.

The prince, who was already drunk, shouted dissatisfiedly: "Who? I can't rest assured when I drink..." The prince turned his head with anger...

He just looked at Shen Man like this, and time seemed to be frozen at this moment.

The prince was almost unstable. He didn't know whether he was drunk or excited. He lost his composure. He hugged Chen Man's waist like a child, crying so hard that he could not do it himself. The suppressed emotions were finally released at this moment, but he could no longer care about the unpleasantness of the past.

Looking at the hysterical prince crying, I seemed to see my former self. I hugged Mo Han like a child. This is a kind of fear of being abandoned, but also with grievance and heavy love. This feeling of ecstasy in pain cannot be described in words.

Chen Man stroked the prince's hair, raised his head, and she was already crying like rain...

.........

It took me a long time to recover from the loss of composure. Chen Man let go of the prince and sat down beside him. Finally, after half a year, the three of us had the chance to sit together again.

"Senior sister, welcome back. Let's have a drink together." I said and raised my glass.

Chen Man and the prince raised their glasses, and we drank them all at almost the same time. At this moment, I hope that we forgot the unhappy three years after graduation, and everything drifted back to the scene of the first meeting in a swaying manner.

"Senior sister, you will not leave again when you come back this time, right?" I asked Chen Man.

Chen Man said helplessly: "I changed jobs repeatedly and suddenly resigned again and again. Who in the industry dares to use me? I can't go back to Japan!"

The prince and I showed joy at the same time, and I nodded and said, "Then I won't go back. The peonies and daffodils in our China are much more atmospheric than the cherry blossoms in Japan. The great China needs a great senior sister to stay in the country and work together to build a modern socialist country!"

Chen Man smiled and took another sip of wine, while the prince hardly stopped drinking. At this moment, his complex emotions needed to dissolve in the wine.

.........

The night prince was so drunk that Shen Man and I took him to his residence. I stood on the balcony and looked at the night, while Chen Man stayed in the room to take care of him. If the prince was sober at this moment, he would definitely be the happiest person in the world.

After a while, I heard the sound of closing the door gently. Chen Man took a very light step to the balcony, and we stood side by side.

I lit a cigarette, and Chen Man also took out a cigarette from my cigarette box to light it. In this somewhat awkward atmosphere, we all needed cigarettes to relieve it.

I was about to finish smoking a cigarette and finally spoke to Chen Man: "Senior sister, I'm getting married, and Anqi."

Chen Man didn't look at me, but just took a puff of cigarette and sniffed it out gently. She smiled and said, "What should I say except congratulations?"

"This sentence is enough!" I said sincerely.

Chen Man nodded and turned to look at me, rectifying his hair that was blown by the wind, but he was speechless for a long time.

The wind on this night was so cold, but Shen Man and I stubbornly pursued the trace of soberness in the cold.

Chen Man snuffed out the cigarette butt in his hand, lit another one, took a sigh of regret and said, "Actually, we have been making mistakes all these years. I always think that holding you tightly in my hand is a care for you... In fact, it is absurdly wrong... I always think that as long as I am for your own good, everything I do is to be good at it. Although you are eager to break free, I stubbornly hold you tighter..." Chen Man's voice was already choked.

"I love you, but I have never given you love like a lover. I can't give you sweetness and simple happiness. In fact, I lost and hurt you from the beginning. Sometimes I also think: If we have never met each other, what kind of state will we live now?... But fate is so teasing people. It never allows for if... but I still think if... if... if I can choose again, I will definitely be the woman who understands you the most and gives you the most freedom!"

I had thousands of words in my heart, but I couldn't say a word. I didn't feel like this to Chen Man. I wanted to protect her and protect her, but I hurt her again and again... At this moment, I really wanted to ask, what made us impatiently put a protective coat on each other, but once again holding a sharp blade, stabbing the other person to the end of his body?

.........

The wind cuts on our faces, it really hurts, but we can't move. We seem to live in a false and confused world. Although we are trying hard to live a good life, we are lost again and again on the crisscrossing roads.

"When will you plan to get married?" Chen Man finally asked me.

"It's almost time, after the year."

Chen Man nodded: "One month left."

"yes."

After another long silence, Chen Man stared at him and asked, "Tell me why is Angel the last choice?"

After pondering for a long time, I shook my head and said, "I don't know, maybe it's a feeling."

"I understand... Then I wish you happiness. I hope she is really the woman who can accompany you to the end."

I smiled and said, "I won't talk about me anymore, talk about you... Can I forgive the prince?"

"Is it that important to not forgive at this time?"

"I mean, can you go back to the past... No matter what, I always hope you will be happy."

"Happiness is really no longer so important in my life. Let everything go with the flow. Why should I be so anxious to seek cause and effect?"

.........

Farewell to Chen Man, I didn't want to go back to the cage-like hotel. I sat in a taxi, wandering aimlessly in this familiar city, and the car was not fast at all, giving me enough time to see every view outside the window.

Perhaps it was a coincidence, or perhaps it was God's deliberate arrangement that the driver actually took me to the ancient bridge.

When I saw the Taoist priest sitting under the tree, blowing cold wind but drowsy, I believed that this was God's deliberate arrangement. Otherwise, on this cold night, it was already ten o'clock, why did the Taoist priest not leave yet?

"Master, stop." I shouted to the driver.

The driver was a little confused: "Young man, the 100 yuan has not been completed yet. We agreed in advance and I won't ask you the remaining money!"

"Stop the car, I've met an old friend." I nodded and said.

.........

After getting off the car, I walked towards the sleepy Taoist priest. Looking at him who was almost frozen and shrank into a ball, he no longer had the immortal spirit. I wonder if he is still the Taoist priest who can see through all the secrets of heaven?

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Chapter completed!