This is the most common day in winter. It is gray outside and the north wind blows non-stop.
Du Siqiu tightened the collar of his coat and said to the person on the phone: "Peng Tao, let's meet. I have something to return to you."
Peng Tao was silent for a moment before answering, his voice still hoarse: "I don't think so, just keep those things as a souvenir... Besides, I don't have time."
She hung up the phone, sighed silently, turned and went downstairs to eat.
In order to accommodate Yao Yundi's schedule, the interview was scheduled for 2:30 in the afternoon. Du Siqiu hurriedly finished lunch in the company cafeteria and began to think hard about the questions to be asked during the interview.
She came out of the cafeteria and just stepped into the elevator when she saw Peng Tao inside. He was still the same, with a habitual faint smile on his lips. Like all the white-collar elites in this city, he wore
She wore a straight suit, silver-gray as always. Her body stiffened suddenly, and she stood beside him with a pale face, unable to move her hands into a more natural posture.
"Hi." He said calmly.
"Hi." She turned away subconsciously: "You're still here."
"Yes, I sent my girlfriend here. I heard that she was interviewed for your magazine's column today."
"Oh." She responded calmly, but there was unconcealable surprise on her face. It turned out that his new love was Yao Yundi!
He seemed to be afraid of being left alone, so he started to find something to say: "Qiuqiu, how are you doing recently?"
She watched the changing numbers on the elevator intently without making a sound. The man next to her didn't even show mercy when they broke up, so what greetings were there now?
"Since you are here, take this thing back." She thought for a moment, took out a small box with faded color from her bag and handed it to him. It contained the last gift he gave her, a white plate.
Armani watch with brown belt.
He frowned slightly: "If you don't want to keep this thing, just throw it away. Why bother me."
Her eyes dimmed and she insisted: "No, this is your thing, I must return it to you. As for how you want to deal with it, that is your freedom...and...please call me Du Siqiu in the future."
There were no farewell words between them.
She tightened her collar again and walked quickly towards the studio. When she entered, Yao Yundi was already inside. Her sexy thick lips and her slender waist made even more graceful by the embroidered cheongsam were all easily identifiable.
. She smiled very appropriately and nodded to Du Siqiu. Her eyes lightly swept over Du Siqiu. It was just an ordinary attitude toward strangers she had never met, but Du Siqiu couldn't help but look at her several times.
He is indeed a well-known fashion designer in the fashion industry, and he is more sophisticated than ordinary people in dressing up.
Du Siqiu had heard of her before. She studied in Italy at the age of sixteen and moved to France after graduation. Now, she resolutely gave up her high-paying position in Paris and returned to China. Du Siqiu couldn't help but laugh at himself: This woman is so outstanding, no wonder Peng Tao would abandon her for her.
This old love of hers.
She tried her best to calm down her emotions.
"Windy, can you tell me the reason for your sudden return to China?" Du Siqiu asked a question that everyone was curious about. Yao Yundi's bold decision once became a hot topic in the Chinese fashion circle.
She sat on the sofa opposite Du Siqiu, her eyes filled with sweetness: "I have a childhood sweetheart boyfriend here, and this time, I am back to get married. We will get married soon."
The answer was expected. She pursed her lips and said with difficulty: "Haha, congratulations. To be able to catch up with such an outstanding girl like you, the other party must have put in a lot of effort, right?"
"Thank you. But that's not the case. I was the one who chased him first."
She took a deep breath: "In general, you still sacrificed a lot."
"Haha, maybe the outside world thinks so. But it's nothing to me. We have been together for five years, and there is nothing more important than our relationship." When she said this, her eyes were as clear as
baby.
They've been together for five years?!
If this is the truth, then who is Du Siqiu, what are the years she spent with him? The whole studio suddenly became eerily quiet, and she heard her rapidly beating heart slowly stabilize. Then, there was a deathly suffocation.
Ha, in the end, she became the third party!
Tears rolled wildly in her eyes, but she stubbornly held them back and refused to overflow.
After the interview, she found that her cat-eye earrings were missing and one of her ears was floating. She looked around the studio, but there was nothing on the ground. It was too bad that she could never change her carelessness.
"Are you looking for this?" The man at the door spread out the cat-eye earrings in his palms and showed a proud smile. This man was Peng Tao again.
Damn it, why does he always smile at her.
She walked up to him and snatched the earrings back: "Why are they here?"
"I just picked it up in the elevator. If I remember correctly, this is also what I gave to you, right?"
"It seems that you have really forgotten that these earrings cost my money." That was the first gift he gave her. I remember that when he was about to pay the bill, he realized that he had forgotten his wallet, so he borrowed it from her.
He paid 142 yuan. Later, when the money was not returned, he lied and said that we were together anyway and our lives were long, so we should pay him back slowly.
I never thought that the word "lifetime" can only be spoken to one person.
She suddenly didn't bother to explain, reached out and took off the other cat eye on her ear, put it into his hand and said: "Forget it, if you want it, just give it back to you, just treat it as the gift you once gave me. Now, this
Return the gift to you, you owe me 142 yuan."
He raised his eyebrows: "What?"
"Peng Tao." Yao Yundi's voice came from the dressing room at the back. She came over and saw Du Siqiu, and was a little surprised: "Do you know each other?"
She didn't know how to explain it. Peng Tao was the first to say, "Yes, she is my college classmate."
Du Siqiu dumbly repeated: "Yes, college classmate."
Yao Yundi took her hand and said it was such a coincidence, and warmly invited her to have dinner together.
Du Siqiu smiled awkwardly and declined, saying that he still had a job and would wait for another day. At the end, he said jokingly: "Peng Tao, just give me that little money now. I can fight when I get home."
In front of Yao Yundi, Peng Tao couldn't help but took out his wallet, threw two hundred dollars to her, and said mockingly that there was no need to look for it. What a contemptuous attitude! She resolutely withdrew the hundred dollars and stuffed them into him
He held his hand and raised the corner of his mouth: "It's not easy for you either, just keep it to yourself and spend it slowly. Goodbye." Then, he turned around and left.
She heard Yao Yundi ask Peng Tao from behind: "Who is she?"
"Classmate, didn't you just say that?" His voice dropped to freezing point.
She turned her back to them, and her heart was filled with despair. What kind of luck did she have to let a man play in vain for so many years?
If it were anyone else, she would have shed a few tears. She also hoped to forget this unpleasant incident as soon as possible, but she was Du Siqiu, not someone else, and the word "forget it" did not exist in her dictionary.
"Hello, Feng Xue, it's me." She dialed the number, cleared her throat and said.
"What are you doing?" Feng Xue answered casually, probably watching TV.
"Has the He Youdong you introduced to me last time been sold?"
"Nervous, do you think he is a commodity? I heard he is still single. You..."
"Then you can introduce me to me. Don't ask me why I suddenly changed my mind. There's no reason. I just don't want to spend Singles' Day alone." She said nonsense.
Feng Xue slammed the table over there and said, "Very good, I'm ready to play! We'll talk about it when you come back tonight."
She hung up the phone and wandered aimlessly on the streets with nowhere to go. Her parents' house, her sister's house, bars, cafes, restaurants, and even the apartment building she shared with Feng Xue, no place truly belonged to her.
.
She was drowned in the crowded pedestrian street, and she walked the long road over and over again seven or eight times. She is a girl who likes to walk. She can go anywhere, as long as it does not take more than an hour, as long as she has time.
Everyone will choose to walk. Especially when night is approaching, a person walking slowly under the orange street lights can think of many people and many things, just like a process of rewinding memory, whether it is bitter, gentle or tranquil.
.
I always remember the last words Peng Tao said before breaking up: "Du Siqiu, you don't understand love at all, let's stop here." What does that mean? For three months, she has been tossing and turning over this short sentence, keeping her awake all night.
, but still cannot understand its meaning.
Now it's finally clear. It turns out that he cheated on her first and just found any excuse to excuse her. He doesn't understand love, it's just an excuse.
They arrived home before they knew it. Feng Xue opened the door and let her in. She held her face and screamed: "What's wrong with you? Look at your little face!"
Du Siqiu took off her scarf and hat and hung them on the hangers behind the door: "You came back on foot, how can I not be green?" It was too stormy outside.
"Yes, you are the only one who has such leisure time. Have you eaten yet?"
"have eaten."
"I made an appointment for you at Kaiser's Cafe at 3:30 in the afternoon on a cloudy day."
"Um?"
Feng Xue knocked on her head and reminded: "Well, what, I'm talking about He Youdong!"
"Oh, I know!" She came back to her senses: "How is He Youdong? Is it easy to talk to?"
It's easier for her to do things if she's easy to talk to.
"Well, it depends on the person. He is quite easy-going."
In fact, even if Feng Xue didn't say it, she still thought so. She and He Youdong had a bit of "friendship". They had met twice before.
The first time was in Shenzhen. She and Peng Tao had just finished their quarrel and went on a trip to Shenzhen with the group without saying a word. On that beautiful beach, she hid in a tent and drank by herself until she was dizzy and delirious.
Poor He Youdong, a veteran of shopping malls for several years, was spit out by a little girl for no reason. She burst into tears in front of him and talked about a lot of what happened after she woke up.
It’s nonsense that I can’t even remember.
The second time we met was at Feng Xue’s birthday party, in the KTV box of Sky Mansion. At that time, a large group of friends were noisily playing guessing, singing, drinking, and having fun. Except for He Youdong, who was sitting in the corner and smoking, no one was there.
Noticing that a couple here was having an argument, he heard the uninhibited young man say: "Du Siqiu, you don't understand love at all, let's stop here." Then he slammed the door and walked out.
The girl's eyes were fixed on the door of the private room without any reaction. Her eyes were shining brightly in the dark corner.
He Youdong thought she was crying, so he took out a tissue and handed it over, but unexpectedly received a blank look from her: "Don't worry about it!" She vented her anger on him.
He was startled for a moment, then showed an irrelevant smile, and went to the front desk to sing. Feng Xue shouted in a high-pitched voice: "He Youdong, you finally showed up!" He smiled at her, held the microphone and sang seriously
Pakho Chau's "Enough Bell": Enough Bell has given up, when you are silent and high-profile. When I am going through the lowest ebb, why should I bother you.
His eyes were sometimes distant and calm, and sometimes full of affection. The noise in the box disappeared little by little, and the favored eyes of countless girls were focused on him.
Du Siqiu was sitting in the corner and suddenly laughed out loud. His true self-deprecation was soon drowned in his singing.
Because of those two random acts, she still felt a little guilty towards this strange man.
Feng Xue said that the purpose of He Youdong's blind date was very simple - pressure from family members.
After his mother tried her best to persuade him a dozen times that a man should get married first and then start a career, but to no avail, she finally gave him an ultimatum: If he doesn't see his girlfriend again next month, she will go on a blind date.
He said it himself: He would rather ask a friend to introduce him casually than pay attention to the blind date carefully arranged by his parents. Because the two families used different methods to find out each other's details. The scene was really funny.
After washing, sleepiness gripped her. With the remaining will, she dragged her feeble steps back to the room to sleep. The difference between Du Siqiu and others is that she is a person who must sleep in the room. In other words,
The place where she sleeps must have something upright for her to hold.
For example, there is a strong sandbag in her room near the door, which is the guardian of her nightmares.
Only it knows how hard she has to work to be as smiling as a flower in front of others, and how hard she has to work to make peace with herself behind others. Only it knows that with her hard work, all her disguises have become natural. She is in front of others.
In her eyes, she was always sunny and happy. This chapter has been completed!