Section 59 Left Ear (59)

  Section 59: Left Ear (59)

  "Okay," I said lightly. Back in Shanghai, I went to a small shop near the train station and changed my phone card again.

  Actually, I don't have to be afraid of anything, but actually, I am still afraid of something. So, it's better to change.

  Is there really true love in this world? It's still that phrase: a peaceful life is the best.

  When I pushed open the dormitory door, I found that everyone in the dormitory was staring at me with strange eyes. I touched my face and said, "What's wrong with me?"

  "Didn't you... have an accident in Lijiang?"

  "Did I... get into trouble?"

  She looks at me, I look at her, let me go ask Lin.

  I rushed to the library, Lin was inside the borrowing desk lending books to others. Seeing my appearance, she rushed out of the borrowing desk and hugged me up and down: "Are you okay? Are you okay, Li Ruo? You scared me to death."

  "What's wrong?" I said.

  "Xu Yi said you had a car accident in Lijiang and are critically ill. Isn't that true?"

  My mind was buzzing. It wasn't until after a while that I asked: "How much money did you lend him?"

  "Seven thousand yuan," Lin said, "my entire savings."

  I hugged Lin tightly, my whole body trembling.

  I decided to go find Xu Yi. I wanted to have a clear talk with him. I took the subway for a long time and walked for a long time to get to their school. All the way, I was thinking about how I should say it when I saw him, how to express my reproach to someone I had deeply loved, but I really didn't have any idea. At the school gate, I saw Xu Yi standing there waiting for me, the gentle breeze of early summer blowing his hair, and his appearance broke my heart.

  He saw me, but didn't take the initiative to come near. I walked up to him as if in a dream, and he stretched out his hand to hug me. I pushed him away, but he continued to try to hug me, so I shouted at him to get lost. He hugged me tightly, tears streaming down his face, and said: "Li Rou, don't be like this, I know I've wronged you, I'm really suffering."

  "What's wrong with you?" I asked him, "Why do it this way?"

  "My dad got out of prison. He said he was wronged by others. He's been bothering me all day, I'm really annoyed, do you know or not, Li Ru, I miss you, don't leave me. I think about you every day."

  My heart softened again in an instant, like cotton candy that had been out of the oven for a long time, shrinking and disappearing in the air.

  "After he left, I didn't work, I'm so tired, really tired." Xu Yi hugged me tightly, "Li Ou, I know you're the best to me, now I finally understand."

  I gently pushed him away: "Don't be like this, we're at the school gate, let's find a place to talk slowly, okay?"

  "Alright." His eyes lit up.

  He and I went to the park near school, where we used to read books together on that stone bench, but the feeling I once held onto no longer existed, and I knew it would never come back again.

  "Why did you cheat on Lin?" I asked him directly.

  "It's not because of my dad," he said. "He came to Shanghai to find me, he wanted to stay in Shanghai for work, but his old friends didn't care about him, he got nothing, and then was hit by a car, broke his leg, stayed in the hospital, needed a lot of money, I couldn't afford it, I had no way..."

  "That's enough!" I didn't believe a word he said, interrupting him. "Your fabricated story can be made into a TV series! Xu Yi, do you know what I hate the most? It's lies! Lies!"

  His face turned pale: "Am I really such a person in your heart?"

  I gritted my teeth and said: "Yes."

  "He suddenly smiled and said: 'That's good too, you won't suffer anymore.'"

  I gritted my teeth and said: "Yes, I won't."

  After finishing speaking, I left the park without looking back.

  Days passed by one after another.

  On Christmas Eve, there was a performance at the sports center. Lin somehow managed to get a large quantity of glow sticks and other things at a low price and dragged me along to sell them. The snow that had been hesitant for a day finally started falling, and it was heavy, covering the entire sky. I stood at the entrance of the stadium with a bunch of colorful sticks in my hand and saw a huge poster with a very familiar face on it - wearing a red outfit and smiling brightly, with her name written next to it: Jiang Yaxi.

  Jiang Yaxi?

  Lynn shouted loudly beside me: "Glow sticks, support your idol! Binoculars, see your idol clearly! Glow sticks, support your idol! Binoculars, see your idol clearly! Glow sticks, support your idol! Binoculars, see your idol clearly!" Seeing me staring at the poster in a daze, she pulled me and said: "What's wrong, Lee Ruo?"