After so many days, he is still wearing this bell, does it mean that he still can't let go of himself?
Did he know that today was his birthday when he came here?
Is he... here to find me?
Then why doesn't he come in?
If Xiao Ci has himself in his heart, why doesn't he contact him these days? Or is he doing this on purpose to attract her attention and to tease himself?
Countless thoughts and questions surged in his mind for a while, but Lin Zhiyi had no answers.
After she returned to her room, she stared at the copied video for a long time, and finally took the initiative to send Xiao Ci a WeChat message.
"I know you're back."
After the message was sent, she was actually nervous because she didn't know if he would deny it. But it didn't matter, she had evidence.
But as time passed by, there was no response at all.
how so?
She sent another string of texts questioning: "It's my birthday today. Since you are here, why didn't you tell me?"
The person was clearly outside the hospital, but she really couldn't figure it out.
Still no reply from the other end.
"Xiao Ci, shall we meet? Even if you are tired of me, we should make it clear, right?"
"As long as you say break up, I will never pester you."
She repeatedly stated her attitude and only wanted a clear explanation. However, she sent so many messages, and Xiao Ci still had no intention of responding.
But now that Lin Zhiyi has taken this step, how can she be willing to give up? She doesn't want to continue to be so unclear, and wants him to give her an explanation, which is also an explanation for this relationship.
This idea was so strong that she suddenly thought of renting a house.
Xiao Ci has no home, so the only place he can go to is probably there, right?
Lin Zhiyi immediately changed her clothes and went out quietly.
But not far from home, the ringtone of the mobile phone rang in the car.
She glanced at her brother Lin Zhiyan. She must have noticed that she had come out, so she pressed the answer button: "Brother?"
"Where are you going so late?" Lin Zhiyan asked with concern.
"Oh, a friend came from out of town and said he must give me a gift." Lin Zhiyi lied.
"Which one?" Lin Zhiyan asked.
There are no friends of hers that Lin Zhiyan doesn't know, and all of her close friends just attended the birthday party today.
Both of them knew this.
"You don't know him." Lin Zhiyi pretended to be calm.
"Lin Zhiyi!" Lin Zhiyan warned.
"Brother, I'm just going out for a while. Why are you nervous?" Lin Zhiyi pretended to be relaxed and soothed.
Why is he nervous? Isn't he nervous that she will do something stupid like she did a few days ago?
However, Lin Zhiyan still swallowed his words and warned: "Then come back early and don't let your parents worry."
Although the voice hesitated, he finally relaxed.
"I know." Lin Zhiyi agreed and hung up the phone.
The expression on Lin Zhiyan's face did not relax. He thought about going out and went directly to the monitoring room.
"Master."
"Master."
Usually they rarely come here, but today people came one after another, making the security guards nervous for a while.
I'm afraid I've lost something important, but it's not appropriate to announce it since it's so late.
"Has Zhiyi been here before?" Lin Zhiyan got straight to the point.
"Yes." the captain replied.
"What did you check?" Lin Zhiyan asked again.
"Just the surveillance at this location." The captain replied.
Lin Zhiyan took a look and immediately judged the location directly opposite her window, and ordered: "Tune it out."
"yes."
He just wanted to know what happened to make Lin Zhiyi run out in the middle of the night and lie.
…
At that time, Lin Zhiyi had already arrived at the rental house where Xiao Ci lived before.
She slammed the car door, climbed the stairs, and came to the door in one breath. She subconsciously wanted to get the keys, but found that she didn't bring them with her at all, so she could only knock on the door hard.
It was already early in the morning, and almost everyone had gone to bed long ago. The sound echoed in the corridor very clearly.
"What an idiot, you can't sleep at night."
"Do you still have some sense of public morality?"
"Call the police."
Lin Zhiyi's mind cleared up when the neighbors' voices were heard cursing from upstairs and downstairs.
She didn't dare knock anymore, turned around and wanted to leave, but suddenly heard footsteps coming from the door.
She quickly turned her head, holding her breath as she watched the sound of the door being unlocked, feeling nervous involuntarily.
As the door opened, a girl appeared inside.
"Who are you?" The girl looked Lin Zhiyi up and down with unkind eyes, showing the same-sex hostility towards a love rival at that time.
Lin Zhiyi's inner shock was no less than hers. But she didn't say a word, she just pushed the girl away and rushed into the house.
"Hey, who are you?"
The man inside was putting on his clothes and was startled when he saw Lin Zhiyi.
Lin Zhiyi looked at the unfamiliar face in front of her and asked, "Who are you?"
"Hey, you are very strange. You suddenly broke into someone's home and asked who we are?" This is when the girl finally came to her senses.
"Your home?" Lin Zhiyi looked at the familiar furnishings in the house, but her mind couldn't turn around for a moment.
"Yes, it's not my house - you were the previous tenant!" The girl suddenly recognized her.
Lin Zhiyi also understood that the house had been rented.
"Why did you move in?" Why didn't the landlord notify her?
"It's been a week," the girl replied.
"What about my things?" She hasn't taken away the things she packed last time.
"Lost it," the girl said.
"What?" Lin Zhiyi suddenly became excited.
"The landlord called your boyfriend and asked him what to do with the things, but he said he didn't want them anymore." The girl looked at her nervously.
The look of being afraid of being blackmailed doesn't sound like he's lying at all.
No more?
Xiao Ci didn't even ask her, so he just told the landlord that he didn't want it?
Lin Zhiyi thought so, turned around and walked out.
"Hey, are you okay?" The girl looked a little uneasy looking at her lost look, but her boyfriend held her back.
After all, they still have to be careful when going out.
Lin Zhiyi didn't care about that, whether it was the girl's inner struggle or the boy's attitude.
Those things were no longer important to her, and all she could think about now was the words "No."
These three words without any nostalgia had been thought about a long time ago, and the relationship between her and them was gone, right?
Maybe there was no emotion at all, they were just playing around, and she was just wishful thinking.
But in this case, why did he come back? Why did he appear outside her house on her birthday?
Lin Zhiyi suddenly remembered that Xiao Ci had no home, and this was the only place she knew he lived.
Now that he doesn't respond to WeChat messages and can't get through on the phone, she really can't find him.
The slightest hope in my heart because I found that he cared about me was extinguished like this.
Lin Zhiyi sat on the steps of the unit door, feeling more confused than sad, even though she had already expected the outcome.
What Xiao Ciqian shouldn't do is appear again after she has accepted the reality.
The nights are getting deeper and deeper, and the temperature is getting lower and lower.
Lin Zhiyi's rationality told her that it was time to go home and not let her brother and parents worry.
But she seemed to have lost all her strength, sitting there not wanting to move at all.
I don't know when rain started to fall from the sky, gradually wetting her hair and soaking into her clothes.
Lin Zhiyi couldn't cry. She thought it would be better to get seriously ill.
After all, it was my first love that hurt so much that I could remember this lesson.
The rain above her head suddenly stopped, and a man stood beside her, holding a black umbrella in his hand.
She thought it was her brother again this time, and a self-deprecating smile slowly appeared on her lips. As she spoke, she raised her eyes and said, "I knew you were worried-"
The next words were not spoken because she saw Xiao Ci's face.