After walking a block and taking turns for a few turns, the girl from the flower shop and I finally arrived at a snack bar. She smiled at me and signaled that it was this snack bar.

After saying "thank you" to her, I said to her, "I'll treat you to midnight snacks, thank you for leading me."

She still pressed the conversation with me on her phone: "I will have midnight snacks here every day after closing the store, but I don't need you to invite you, we are just strangers."

I smiled and said, "There is no conflict between strangers and a midnight snack. After I invite you to have midnight snack, you and I can still be strangers."

She finally responded to a pure smile that I could not see in this impetuous society, and then nodded and accepted my suggestion to treat her to midnight snack.

After we ordered two bowls of millet porridge and a basket of buns, we found a corner against the wall and sat down. She then took out a thin note from her bag, as if she was clearing today's accounts. Feeling her concentration, my restless heart finally calmed down, so I emptied myself again and looked at the steaming steamer outside the snack bar.

The shop owner finally brought us what we ordered, and I said to her, "Eat first, the porridge will not be delicious when it is cold."

She nodded, put the notepad with her account back in her handbag and ate it with me. She was very polite and careful, and made a small plate of pickles and gave it to me, so that I could find some food to eat on this boring night.

After I thanked her again, I asked, "I don't know what your name is yet!"

She still communicated with me with the words she typed on her phone: "Just call me Xiaojun."

"Xiaojun!" I sighed subconsciously, feeling a coincidence, because the female singer I admire most in my life was called Yunzi. So because of this coincidence, my favor for her increased a little, and my sympathy in my heart also increased a little. A person always lives in a world where he cannot make a sound, and he must be much lonely than ordinary people... In fact, compared with this kind of naturally unfortunate person, our love that seems to be dead and dead is a bit sick!

I said again: "Xiaojun, starting tomorrow, you will prepare a bouquet of flowers that can express beautiful love every day, okay?"

“Why do you have to do it every day?”

"My girlfriend is going abroad and I miss her very much...so I want to send her a bouquet of flowers every day and tell her that I am waiting for her every day."

"Did she make you feel insecure?"

This was obviously a question Xiaojun asked in his first consciousness, but it was so sharp. In fact, I was extremely insecure in the process of falling in love with Mi Cai, so I once forced her to get married, but to this day I still can't understand where this feeling of insecurity arises.

I couldn't answer this question. After smiling at her, I changed the subject and asked: "Why don't you set up a counter for selling cigarettes? And the cigarettes sold seem to be the ones that students prefer to smoke."

Xiaojun pressed on his phone for a long time before handing it to me: "There is a university on the other side of the flower shop street. There is a student who works in the city tobacco hotel. He will bring some cigarettes that students like to smoke from the store and let me sell them. I don't have a business license to sell cigarettes, so there is no counter... Those students are very good. Sometimes they would rather take a detour and buy cigarettes from me to make some money, but smoking is a very bad thing!"

"Everyone knows that smoking is a bad thing, but cigarettes are still the best-selling product. Many times, many people like to pretend to be confused because they are unwilling to sacrifice the pleasure they produce when smoking. However, those students are pretty good. Although their strength is very small, they are also doing what they should do... Xiaojun, give me your ID tomorrow and I will help you apply for a cigarette sales license so that you can set up a counter to sell it!"

"It's difficult to apply for a business license for tobacco and alcohol now, why do you have to help me?...We've only met in one go!"

I smiled and replied, "You should let go of your guard against strangers, because my motivation is very simple. I just think that when I come to you to buy cigarettes next time, I can buy the cigarettes I want to smoke!"

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After saying goodbye to Xiaojun, I met unexpectedly tonight, I finally returned to the old house with my tired body. After washing up, I habitually lay on the bed and looked at the somewhat empty house. I felt like I had experienced a long enough time, but in fact, Mi Cai was still flying to the United States at this time, and the real time had only been gone for 10 hours.

This is a bit at a loss for me. I can't imagine what kind of situations and scenes will be like when Le Yao gets married, nor can I imagine what she looks like when she gets married. But these will really happen in the near future, especially Le Yao's wedding, which can be counted down according to the day, and she will go to Beijing to prepare for the wedding tomorrow.

So, I no longer think about my relatively distant wedding, but just imagined what kind of mood I would feel when I received Le Yao’s wedding invitation one day... Maybe my mood depends on the partner she married. If that man did not have the romantic nature of a typical rich child and was willing to give Le Yao a happy tomorrow, I would also be happy for her from the bottom of my heart, but I would not attend her wedding because I have no face, and face this woman who had conceived me when the wedding was underway...

The phone's prompt sound rang in the dark without any signs. I picked it up and looked at it. It was sent by Mi Cai. She told me that I had arrived in the United States and was on the way to the hotel. Only then did I realize that it was already the second half of the night in China.

My thinking began to scatter again, feeling that fate was a dizzy thing for me. If I hadn't met Mi Cai, what kind of life would I live at this time?

If Le Yao had not taken away the child we had originally, would we have already gotten married with a child?

With such a series of doubts that I couldn't figure out, I finally sent a message to Mi Cai: "When you return to China, you must marry me, okay?"

Dawn finally pierced the depth of the night. A beam of light outside the window passed through the curtains and swayed at the end of my bed. However, I did not wait for Mi Cai's reply, so my mood fell into uneasiness again due to the sensitivity of this particular period.

Finally, Mi Cai replied to me: "Zhaoyang, can you tell me what happened to make you so insecure? ...I saw your cowardice and restless worry in this question!"

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Chapter completed!