Another 5 days passed in a blink of an eye, and I finally completed the handover of my work. This was my last night in Xuzhou. I wanted to go home and say goodbye to my father and mother, but I never found the courage and reason to go home. At this moment, they were angry. It would be useless to get back, except to make things difficult for them, so I was still huddled in a small hotel alone, drinking beer, and tasting emptiness and loneliness.

As I drank, I became dazed and saw the guitar standing in the corner of the wall again. However, this guitar was clearly given to me by Jian Wei, but the first thing that appeared in my mind was: Not long ago, I used this guitar to sing the song "Proverbs of Love" for Micai. She burst into tears and I hugged her in my arms.

Thinking of Mi Cai and the battles that happened several times in that room, I finally smiled. I don’t know what kind of intersection we will have when we return to Suzhou this time. I remember she told me: If I go back, she is willing to give me that old house to live in. I hope she still remembers her promise and fulfill it.

I lie flat on the bed without knowing how long it lasted, my phone rang. I thought it was an incoming call, but it was just a text message. The message was not someone else, but Li Xiaoyun. She said: She was waiting for me in the coffee shop where we first met, and emphasized that I could not go.

I feel guilty about Li Xiaoyun, so I didn't think much about it. I put on my coat and rushed to the coffee shop where we first met.

...

When I arrived at the coffee shop, everything was like when the two met for the first time. I looked for it, and Li Xiaoyun was still sitting in the position she had at the time, but I could no longer laugh, just walked towards her with the heavy feeling of guilt.

I sat down opposite Li Xiaoyun and looked at her, but found that her face was so haggard.

I was silent while talking, and Li Xiaoyun finally spoke to me: "I heard from Director Zhou that you have completed all the work handover today."

"Um."

Li Xiaoyun's face showed pain and she was silent for a long time before asking me: "You should leave Xuzhou tomorrow, right?"

I nodded and said, "The train will be at 2 pm tomorrow."

Li Xiaoyun stopped looking at me, and looked at the dead leaves outside the window in a daze...

I don’t know how long it took, but Li Xiaoyun whispered: “I heard that every time I say goodbye, a star will fall, but... even if it falls, it will turn into a meteor’s splendor, right?”

I know that Li Xiaoyun compared herself to the falling star, but I don’t know how gorgeous she will be at this moment of parting.

Li Xiaoyun finally looked at me and asked me with a complicated expression: "Zhaoyang, tell me sincerely what kind of woman it is, which is worthy of your abandonment of our relationship for marriage. You must let me understand clearly and let me live my future life steadily."

It's hard for me to define my relationship with Le Yao, and I ended up saying: "Friends, friends in distress."

"Is that all? Nothing really happened between you two?" Li Xiaoyun asked.

Under Li Xiaoyun's questioning, I finally confessed: "I have had the most decadent days in my life. I slept with her, but we didn't have the love between men and women."

"I can't understand, but the time between us is over, and I don't want to pursue anything anymore. I just want an answer. Now you give it to me!" Li Xiaoyun said in a daze.

"Sorry, Xiao Yun..."

"There is no so-called sorry for relationships. You choose to be together or break up. The only thing you are sorry for is our parents, and we have let down their expectations."

Li Xiaoyun was right, but I couldn't make up for anything after all, so I continued to remain silent...

During my silence, Li Xiaoyun asked me unexpectedly: "Zhaoyang, do you remember the first time you and I borrowed money?"

"Um."

"You are leaving now. Should the two people who are about to separate be together?

"should."

"Okay, now I'll borrow a thousand dollars from you too."

I said without thinking: "No problem." As I said that, I took out 1,000 yuan from my wallet and handed it to Li Xiaoyun.

Li Xiaoyun took the money from me, smiled and said to me, "But I won't return this money to you."

I was wondering why Li Xiaoyun had this move. Didn’t I say that I didn’t owe each other? Why didn’t I plan to return it to me again?

But sometimes a woman's heart is as deep as the sea, and I can't figure out the purpose of her doing so through hard thinking.

Li Xiaoyun did not intend to explain to me, but just put the money in his wallet, then stood up and prepared to leave.

"Xiao Yun, you just said that even the falling meteor will be brilliant for a moment. How will it be gorgeous? I am willing to give it to you." I finally asked Li Xiaoyun's back, which had already left.

"Zhaoyang, I don't want you to compensate for anything more... You must know that not every meteor falls will see it... As long as I know, it's enough to be brilliant before... Take care!" Li Xiaoyun choked and said without stopping, leaving the coffee shop alone. Through the floor-to-ceiling window, I saw her walking in the crowd on the street, and was flooded by neon lights for a moment. I could never see her again. A relationship that once worked hard for marriage ended in the light and shadow of neon lights...

Sighing heavily, I was a little reluctant to leave, but it was even more painful!

...

The next day, I took the train to Suzhou at 2 pm. No one saw me off, and I didn't say goodbye to anyone. This kind of simple departure on the surface made my life in Xuzhou seem like a simple trip. But I just stopped for a moment, but accidentally threw a stone in a river. So I made a beautiful mistake after a "wow". I think I will remember this beautiful mistake for a long time, a long time!

Finally I arrived in Suzhou at 8:30 at night. When my feet left the train and stepped onto this land that I had been familiar with for a long time, I felt mixed emotions. Perhaps my fate has really taken root in this wounded city. After a dream, I will come back. But I have no way to know what the future will look like. I hope that in this city that makes me feel riddled with holes, I can also find traces of happiness.

Take a taxi, go to the empty town restaurant, because there are people I miss, and music I miss, don't get me wrong,.

Still in a constant posture, she held a cigarette in her hand, put a glass of beer beside her, and quietly sang the song she liked.

I put down my luggage and habitually gave her a thumbs up. The first time cc didn't finish singing a song, he handed Mike to the band behind me and walked towards me.

"hi, Zhaoyang, long time no see!"

"Yes, it's been more than two months."

cc spread his arms, I hugged her, she said in my ear: "It's almost three months... By the way, you're late, Mi Cai just left after dinner here."
Chapter completed!