early morning.
Su Peile spent a sleepless night last night. When he arrived at school the next morning, Li Shengyu and Xia Ying were sitting on the steps outside the teaching building, as if they were discussing something. Xia Ying's face was full of regret.
Seeing Su Peile coming over, they both stood up. Li Shengyu looked at her anxiously and asked, "Lele, are you okay? Xia Ying told me about what happened last night."
"Le Le, I'm so sorry. I lost my temper last night." Xia Ying apologized regretfully.
Su Peile comforted her and said, "He will know it sooner or later. It's not your fault."
Li Shengyu looked at her obvious dark circles and guessed that she didn't sleep well: "I didn't expect this to happen. I slept too deeply yesterday and didn't know anything. When I came to school in the morning, I thought Zhengyu came first, but he was not at home and didn't come to school."
Hearing what he said, Su Peile frowned slightly, but still pretended to be calm and said: "He may just want to be quiet for a while."
Maybe if he finds a quiet place to calm down, he will figure things out and stop being angry with her.
"Let's go to class," she said softly, carrying her bag and heading up the stairs, but she was wondering where Jungwoo would be.
When she walked into the classroom, the students who were whispering to each other immediately fell silent when they saw her coming in. She walked to her seat, and the students behind her followed her, and then everyone started whispering.
Su Peile didn't take it to heart. On the contrary, she was really not used to having someone less around her. Looking at the tidy desk and the drawing paper with Li Zhengyu's doodles on it, her eyes became moist. She tried hard to control her emotions and not show her sadness.
At this time, a tissue was handed over.
From this angle... there's only Lee Sung Woo.
She sat up straight and looked up to see Li Shengyu looking at her with concern.
She forced a smile and said, "I'm fine. I just didn't sleep well last night, so I'm a little sleepy."
Li Shengyu sighed slightly, his eyes were a little complicated, but he didn't say anything.
We thought Li Zhengyu would miss one day of class, but he missed three days and no one could find him.
In the end, even the head teacher couldn't hide it for him, and the Dean of Academic Affairs was also alerted. On the fourth day, Li Zhengyu finally showed up in the classroom. Su Peile wanted to ask him why he didn't answer the phone and what he had done in the past few days, but Li Zhengyu just lay on the desk and slept, ignoring her. Even Xia Ying, who was usually so talkative, couldn't talk to him.
Li Zhengyu slept for the entire morning and then skipped classes in the afternoon. This continued for several days in a row. He was completely back to the state he was in when Su Peile first met him. The teachers all sighed at his performance, and the Dean of Academic Affairs angrily said that he was proud and complacent.
On the contrary, Su Peile and Li Shengyu's monthly exam scores were both in the top three of the school year. This time, many people in the school spread rumors that Su Peile liked Li Shengyu, and Li Zhengyu caught her and the two broke up.
She thought that Li Zhengyu would be angry for a few days and then make peace with her like before, but Su Peile was wrong this time. Li Zhengyu seemed to have no signs of making peace with her. Instead, he always avoided her and even ignored Li Shengyu.
Su Peile finally couldn't bear it anymore. On the afternoon when Li Zhengyu skipped class again without any reason, she searched all the places he might go and finally found him in the basketball hall.
He lay on a bench in the basketball hall with his hands behind his head. She tried to calm herself down and told herself to stay calm. Zhengyu had been in a cold war with her these past few days, and it felt like a year to her. She didn't believe that their relationship was so fragile and vulnerable. She thought Zhengyu was just throwing a tantrum.
"Zhengyu." Su Peile called his name and walked towards him step by step.
Hearing the voice, Li Zhengyu sat up suddenly and turned to look at her. There was a thick layer of dark blue circles under his eyes, and his eyes were full of bloodshot. He looked so depressed that it made people feel distressed.
"Zhengyu, are you still angry? The final exam is coming up soon, and you have missed a lot of homework in the past few days."
Li Zhengyu just sat there motionless, looking at her intently, his eyes as deep as a pool.
Looking at Li Zhengyu like this, Su Peile took a deep breath and said, "Can we have a good talk?"
"I have nothing to talk to you about." After a long time, he refused coldly.
"Jung Woo..."
"Su Peile, let's break up." It had been a long time since Li Zhengyu called her by her full name. His serious expression frightened her.
"What did you say?"
"Didn't you understand? I said - let's break up!"
"Zhengyu, listen to me..."
"Enough, I don't want to hear your explanation!" Li Zhengyu interrupted her harshly, "Su Peile, I didn't expect you to be such a selfish person. Do you know that Shengyu almost lost his life four years ago because he saved you. Uncle and aunt didn't understand why he would risk his life to save others, but I know, because Shengyu told me that the girl he saved was the one he liked." Li Zhengyu said with his eyes wide open, his eyes so red that he almost cried.
Su Peile lowered his eyes with a pale face.
"I won't snatch the person Shengyu likes away from him, and I don't want to make Shengyu suffer because he has experienced too many cruel things. So, Su Peile, let's... break up." Li Zhengyu said the last few words with particular heartache.
Su Peile thought that Zhengyu would be angry with her and quarrel with her, and she was mentally prepared for everything, but she never expected that he would break up with her.
"From the beginning, you approached me as if I was your savior, which means you also liked Shengyu before, and I was just a substitute, wasn't I? You didn't really like me."
"You are not me, how can you know what I'm thinking? These are just your wishful guesses. So my feelings are so worthless in your eyes? You can just say no and don't want it..." Su Peile said in a choked voice.
Li Zhengyu's heart felt like it was being cut by a thousand knives, but he just looked away indifferently: "Su Peile, from today on, we have nothing to do with each other anymore."
He stood up and was about to leave, but Su Peile grabbed his arm and said, "Why? Why did you make a decision about our relationship in such a short time? Why can't you listen to my heart?"
"I don't want to listen. From the beginning to the end, I shouldn't have appeared in your world, and you shouldn't have appeared in my world. The person who saved you was Shengyu, and the person who liked you was also him, and you also thought that I was the one he liked. Since you two have a mutual affection for each other, why shouldn't I help you?" Li Zhengyu said with a smile.
Faced with his arbitrariness, Su Peile couldn't help but feel sad and angry: "Li Zhengyu, do you know what you are saying?"
"Of course I know." Li Zhengyu looked at her with determination, and she couldn't find any room for turning back on his face.
Is this really what he wants? Can he give up on her so easily? Is his love for her all fake?
No, she doesn't believe it!
She shook her head and backed away, saying, "I know... I know this is not what you really mean. So, I won't agree to it. When you really think it through, we can talk about it. Now I beg you to go back to class, okay? Otherwise, your grades in this final exam will not be as good as last semester."
"This is my business and has nothing to do with you. Also, don't expect grandpa to help you. If he knows that you are the girl that Shengyu once saved, he might hate you, especially your uncle and the others. So, if you really want to make it up to him, then treat Shengyu well!" After saying this, Li Zhengyu walked out without hesitation.
He didn't dare to look back, for fear that once he looked back and saw Su Peile's sad eyes, the difficult decision he had made after struggling day and night for the past few days would collapse in an instant...
Only he knew how much he wanted to be with her for the rest of his life. If possible, he would be willing to exchange everything for her. However, as long as he thought of Shengyu's pain and torture, what right did he have to take away the happiness that originally belonged to Shengyu?
He knew that Su Peile could not let go of Shengyu, so he had to cut off his feelings and push her to Shengyu's side. Although doing so would make his heart ache to death.
How great it would have been if I had been the one who saved Pedro at the Youth Palace four years ago...
He looked up at the sky, which was as blue as a deep ocean.
After an unknown amount of time, Su Peile walked out of the basketball hall in a daze and walked towards the teaching building with heavy steps.
Not far away, Li Shengyu was running towards her, his school uniform jacket flying in the wind.
She said nervously, "Shengyu, why are you running in such a hurry?" She was really worried that he would get sick because of the discomfort.
"I'm not that weak!" Li Shengyu smiled faintly, "The principal asked us to come over."
"Principal? What does he want from us?"
"The principal will personally meet with all students who are on the candidate list for exchange students."
"What? A list of exchange student candidates?" Su Peile looked at him in shock.
He smiled and nodded, saying, "Yes, I heard that the exchange location this time is France."
"Shengyu, I..."
"LeLe, you don't want to give up, do you?"
Su Peile sighed: "Zhengyu is angry with me now. If I am really selected to go abroad, it will be really over."
Li Shengyu looked at her without saying anything.
"Forget it. Maybe the principal is waiting for us. Let's go there quickly. Maybe I won't be selected." After Su Peile finished speaking, he took the lead and walked towards the school office building.
Li Shengyu followed closely: "Otherwise, let me explain to Zhengyu, maybe he just feels sorry for me."
"No. The knot between him and me cannot be explained in a few words. I want to solve it myself."
"Zhengyu, he..."
"Shengyu, thank you. Don't worry, I won't really be angry with Zhengyu. I don't want our affairs to affect you anymore. That would make me feel even more guilty."
Li Shengyu looked at her with complicated eyes, said nothing more, and walked into the office building with her.
After meeting them, the principal announced that the names of the two people who were finally selected to go to France as exchange students would be announced next Monday.
With their outstanding performance in school, Su Peile and Li Shengyu are undoubtedly the most popular candidates.
In fact, Su Peile didn't want to go to France. She just wanted to resolve her past grievances with Zhengyu as soon as possible. However, after meeting in the basketball hall, Li Zhengyu seldom came to class, and even if he occasionally showed up, he ignored her.
On Wednesday afternoon, Su Peile unexpectedly saw Li Zhengyu when he went to the office. He looked like he had just had an argument with his class teacher, who was so angry that his face turned red.
From a distance, she could hear the head teacher slamming the table and yelling at him: "If you skip classes like this again, I will report you to the school and have you expelled."
However, her words could not shake him at all. Li Zhengyu said disdainfully: "It's up to you. Anyway, I don't want to stay here anymore."
"You! What's wrong with you, kid? Considering your very good performance last semester, I will give you another chance. I hope you will reflect on yourself." Although the head teacher was angry, he still advised earnestly.
As soon as the head teacher finished speaking, Li Zhengyu turned and left the office.
Seeing this, Su Peile, who had just walked to the door of the head teacher's office, immediately turned around and chased after him.
Li Zhengyu chased him all the way to the skyway between the two teaching buildings before he stopped and turned around and asked, "Are you annoying? Why are you still following me?"
"Li Zhengyu, how can you be so disrespectful to your homeroom teacher?"
"None of your business." Li Zhengyu turned his head to the side and didn't even look at her.
"Zhengyu, even if you are angry with me, don't act like a child and cause trouble everywhere. You are hurting yourself by doing this!"
"You don't need to teach me a lesson!" Li Zhengyu said coldly, his face terribly gloomy.
Su Peile looked at him as if he was looking at a stranger.
"Li Zhengyu, are you really going to give up our relationship?"
She looked straight into his handsome face. His eyes were still shining like cold stars as when they first met, which made her heart sink again and again.
His tone was even more indifferent than ever before: "Su Peile, don't think that if you keep pestering me, I will listen to you like before. I tell you, I will never do that again! The only thing that can connect us in the future is that you are Shengyu's girlfriend."
"What did you say?"
"What? You want me to say it again?"
Hearing this, she raised her hand and presented the ring on her finger to him: "Do you still remember what you said when you gave me this ring? Are they all false?"
"The ring doesn't mean anything." He showed a look of disdain on his face, "If you don't like it, you can throw it away."
At this moment, Su Peile was so angry that his body couldn't help but tremble slightly. No wonder everyone said that whoever gives more in a relationship is destined to be the one who gets hurt in the end.
After enduring for so long, Su Peile finally exploded.
She used all her strength to take off the ring on her finger, and then threw it out of the corridor window. Under the sunlight, the exquisite ring turned into a sparkling point of light and fell into the garden below.
"Since you want to break up with me so much and draw a line between us, then as you wish, from now on, you and I will have nothing to do with each other anymore!" After she said that, she turned and ran away, afraid that he would see the tears welling up in her eyes.
After Su Peile left, Li Zhengyu stood alone in the corridor, looking expressionless. He didn't know how long he stood there, but he finally walked to the railing. After a while, he leaned over to look at the place where the ring fell. Then, he walked out of the corridor with an expressionless face...
In late autumn, it gets dark earlier than before.
When school was over, the sky was already dark, with only a few lights on in the entire teaching building.
Su Peile did not go home directly, but went around to the back of the teaching building and walked under the sky corridor. This is the central garden leading to several building areas. She soon regretted throwing the ring here in a fit of anger.
Regardless of whether Li Zhengyu really wanted to give up on her, she didn't want to throw away the ring he gave her.
Because it was the first star in her collection, and to her, this star was worth millions of stars in the sky.
However, she searched every corner of the flower bed but could not find any trace of the ring.
However, she did not give up and kept searching in the flower bed.
In a corner of the teaching building next to it, a tall figure stood there quietly. Li Shengyu looked at the stubborn figure in the flower bed and sighed deeply.
After a long time, Su Peile squatted on the ground and cried aggrievedly: "I really can't find it, what should I do?"
And at the same time.
In the Li family villa, Li Zhengyu was sitting on the carpet in the room, holding a ring in his hand in a daze. After an unknown amount of time, he suddenly reached his hand to his neck, slowly took off the necklace hanging on his chest, and spread it on his palm. Looking at the two rings that complemented each other, his deep eyes seemed to be shrouded in a layer of mist, unable to find the focus. After a long time, he strung both rings on the necklace and put them on again. The cold rings were pressed against his chest, but they made him feel warm and down-to-earth.
Outside the window, in the deep night, unknown stars are blinking mischievously...
For the next two days, Li Zhengyu did not show up in the classroom again. Su Peile heard Shengyu say that Zhengyu came home very late at night. She didn't want him to continue to give up on himself, but she was helpless.
On the weekend night, she learned from Shengyu that Zhengyu had made an appointment with Xiaowei and others to go to the bar street. At this time, she could no longer hold back, secretly ran out of the house, and took a taxi to the bar street to look for Li Zhengyu.
She searched for bars one by one on the busy street. Every time she entered a bar, there was deafening music and sexy women dancing on the stage. She couldn't understand why Zhengyu came to such a place.
She didn't know which bar she walked to, but as soon as Su Peile entered the bar, she was choked by the smell of cigarettes. She ran out coughing, but unfortunately bumped into a few people coming towards her.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Su Peile apologized without even raising his head.
"Hey, isn't this my junior schoolmate?" A sneering voice sounded above his head.
Hearing this, Su Peile looked up at the person she bumped into. After seeing his face clearly, she took a few steps back in fear: "You, why are you here?"
An Qun smiled, approached her and said, "I'm more curious, why are you here? Could it be that Li Zhengyu brought you here?"
"Brother Qun, who is this little girl?" asked a boy next to An Qun.
"Hey, put away your perverted look. This is my dear junior schoolmate. I was beaten up once, and it was because of her that I was accused of being the first to start the fight." When An Qun said this, his face became gloomy and he stared at Su Peile hatefully.
Sensing a bad premonition, Su Peile retreated little by little, hoping to find an opportunity to escape.
An Qun seemed to have expected her to run away. He quickly reached out and grabbed her arm, holding her in his arms. He smiled and said, "Schoolmate, don't run away in a hurry. How about calling Li Zhengyu to settle our old scores?"
"No, help!" As Su Peile shouted, the boy next to An Qun reached out and covered her mouth with his hand.
Being grabbed by An Qun and carried through the dancing crowd in the bar, Su Peile called for help to the people she met around her, but no one cared about her. It seemed that the people in the bar had seen many boys and girls pulling each other like this, so no one took it to heart, let alone paid any attention.
Soon, she was dragged to the back door of the bar. There was a scrap collection station in the dim back street of the bar. An Qun swung his hand hard, and Su Peile was thrown into the pile of debris. A pile of scraps fell down. She stretched out her arms to try to block it, but she was still scratched in many places.
"Brother Qun, please be gentle to your junior schoolmate. If you don't feel sorry for her, then I will." The boy next to An Qun walked over with a lewd smile on his face.
When Su Peile heard this, he was so frightened that he didn't care about the dirt and stench of the waste pile. He leaned back and groped for something to protect himself.
An Qun reached out to stop the people around him and said, "Wouldn't it be more fun if Li Zhengyu came? Be patient for a while."
"Senior, what you are doing is illegal. If you let me go, I won't call the police. Besides, Li Zhengyu and I have broken up, so there is no point in you arresting me." Su Peile wanted to negotiate terms with him.
"Junior, do you think I will believe what you say? Actually, I don't want to do this, but who made you meet that bastard Li Zhengyu? I just want to avenge the shame he gave me before. But don't worry, I won't take your lives." An Qun smiled, and the next second he took out his mobile phone and dialed a number.
"Hello, Li Zhengyu, long time no see." At this moment, An Qun's gentle tone sounded as if he was chatting with his good brother.
But Su Peile's heart immediately tightened.
An Qun continued, "Hey, don't hang up on me in a hurry. Didn't you notice that someone is missing from your side?" He seemed to be unaware of what had happened between Li Zhengyu and Su Peile recently.
In the quiet back street, Li Zhengyu's angry curses could be vaguely heard coming from An Qun's cell phone.
An Qun signaled with his eyes to a boy next to him, and then the boy came over and threatened Su Peile: "Hurry up and speak!"
Su Peile gritted his teeth firmly and stared at him without saying a word.
An Qun's expression turned stern, and he shouted sinisterly, "Strip her clothes off for me."
In the blink of an eye, Su Peile's coat was torn off.
"Ah, don't--" she cried out.
An Qun showed a satisfied smile and said leisurely to the phone: "Li Zhengyu, did you hear it?"
Sure enough, Li Zhengyu's angry voice came from the phone, and An Qun held the phone a little .
"Hey, why are you so angry? But if you haven't arrived in ten minutes, I don't know what will become of my lovely junior school sister. I like her very much." An Qun smiled smugly.
"Zhengyu, don't come! Zhengyu!" Su Peile shouted loudly.
At this time, An Qun had hung up the phone, walked to an old stool nearby and sat down, motioning to the boys around him: "Pick a few things that are convenient for you."
Upon hearing this, the boys went to the surrounding waste and dug out sticks and other things.
Then An Qun looked at Su Peile and said, "Don't be afraid, junior sister. If Li Zhengyu knows what's best for him, I won't make things difficult for you."
"You are just a shameless bastard!" Su Peile scolded him angrily.
He smiled, took out a cigarette and lit it: "If you want to curse, just curse. The voice of the school girl cursing is really nice. Cursing a few more times is just right to relieve boredom."
Su Peile was so angry that her blood rushed to her head. She stood up and wanted to run, but was quickly grabbed by a boy and slapped in the face. She fell to the ground with dizziness and tinnitus.
"You stupid girl, if you don't want to suffer physical pain, just behave yourself!" An Qun shouted.
At this moment, a taxi stopped at the entrance of the alley, and a panicked figure ran over, shouting anxiously: "Le Le, Su Peile!"
When Su Peile heard Li Zhengyu's voice, he shook his head worriedly and said, "Zhengyu, don't come over!"
The boy next to her immediately grabbed her. An Qun also stood up and looked at the anxious Li Zhengyu and said with a smile: "You are very trustworthy. It seems that she means a lot to you."
"Mr. An, let her go. Come to me if you have any problem!" Li Zhengyu shouted nervously.
"If I let her go, will you still settle accounts with me honestly?" An Qun looked at him with a smile.
"What do you want?" Li Zhengyu asked him with narrowed eyes.
"When you were in school, you had someone supporting you, so I didn't dare touch you. Now I have nothing to do with Mingxin Middle School, so let's settle all the old and new accounts together. What do you think?" An Qun said, picking up the iron rod he had just thrown on the ground.
"It's fine if you want to settle the score, but let her go first." Li Zhengyu pointed at Su Peile.
"How can that be possible? How can you be honest if you let her go?"
After An Qun finished speaking, he said to the boy behind him: "Tie her up for me."
When Su Peile saw the man next to him approaching with a rope, he struggled hard and said, "Don't touch me! Get out of here, get out of here!"
"Let her go!" Li Zhengyu roared and rushed over.
An Qun stopped him with an iron rod and said, "If you dare to move, do you believe they will do something to her that you least want to see?"
"you dare!"
At this time, Su Peile had been tied up and thrown aside. Her body was pressed against something, and she couldn't help but frown in pain.
" Le Le ." Li Zhengyu rushed forward, and An Qun took the opportunity to pick up the iron rod and hit him. Li Zhengyu was caught off guard and was hit on the shoulder.
Li Zhengyu groaned, gritted his teeth and held on, trying not to fall down, but the iron rod hit his shoulder hard, which frightened the onlookers.
"Zhengyu!" Su Peile screamed heartbreakingly. She struggled constantly, trying to break free from the ropes.
When An Qun's second stick came at him, Li Zhengyu dodged and kicked him, and the two men started fighting.
When it comes to fighting, An Qun is no match for Li Zhengyu. He suffered a loss at the hands of Li Zhengyu in the last fight. But this time, An Qun is not afraid because he has more people on his side.
While struggling, Su Peile noticed a piece of broken glass in the waste pile. She hurried over and tried to use the glass to cut the rope on her wrist.
After all, Li Zhengyu was outnumbered. Just when he was beginning to lose strength, the sound of several motorcycles was heard from the alley. The headlights were on, and several boys got off the motorcycles. The leader was Xiaowei.
"Li Zhengyu, you actually dare to call for help!" An Qun roared angrily when he saw Xiaowei and his men running over.
"There's no need to be a gentleman when dealing with a villain like you."
At this time, one of the ropes on Su Peile's wrist had been cut.
Xiaowei rushed to Li Zhengyu and said, "Zhengyu, leave this to me, you go save Pei Le."
Li Zhengyu nodded and ran towards Su Peile. Someone around him threw a stick in his hand and it flew straight towards Su Peile.
"Be careful, Lele--" Li Zhengyu jumped over in panic.
By the time Su Peile reacted, he had already been knocked down by Li Zhengyu.
A long iron rod hit Li Zhengyu's head squarely and scratched her face.
She only heard a muffled groan from the person on her body, and then she felt warm liquid dripping down her face.
"Zhengyu!" Su Peile shouted loudly, shaking his body. When he looked up, he saw dark red blood staining half of his face.
Blood……
Why is there so much blood...
She quickly stood up and hugged Li Zhengyu tightly, shouting in panic: "Zhengyu, how are you? Don't scare me! You fool, why did you rush over to me? Why did you rush over to me!" She cried inconsolably as she looked at Li Zhengyu with blood on his face.
"Heh..." He opened his eyes slightly, gave her a weak smile, and then fainted.
"Zhengyu! Open your eyes and look at me. I won't let you sleep or have any problems. Do you hear me? Zhengyu..."
At this time, sirens were heard in the distance and the police broke up the fight.
Then, the clear sirens of an ambulance broke the long and silent night...
When Grandpa Li and Li Shengyu rushed to the hospital after hearing the news, the doctor was performing surgery on Li Zhengyu.
Su Peile, with a haggard face, stood motionless outside the operating room door, staring at the glaring red light at the door of the operating room. Xiaowei, who had just returned from taking a statement with the police, stood next to him.
"How is Zhengyu?" Grandpa Li asked Xiaowei directly, while Li Shengyu behind him looked at Su Peile with a worried look on his face.
"Zhengyu is undergoing surgery inside." Xiaowei answered respectfully.
Hearing this, Su Peile slowly turned around, tears immediately welling up in his eyes: "Grandpa, I'm sorry! I'm sorry! Zhengyu was injured because of me..."
"Child, don't cry. Grandpa doesn't blame you." Grandpa Li walked over, patted her head, and said kindly.
"Grandpa..." Su Peile's tears flowed even more violently.
"Le Le, don't worry, Zhengyu will be fine. Let's just wait for the doctor to finish the operation." Li Shengyu comforted her gently, and Xiaowei beside him nodded in agreement.
Two hours later, the red light at the door of the operating room finally went out.
After a while, the door of the operating room opened and Li Zhengyu was pushed out by several nurses. His head was wrapped with thick gauze and an anti-inflammatory drip needle was inserted in his hand.
A doctor wearing a mask came out right after him.
Seeing this, Su Peile immediately went forward, grabbed Li Zhengyu's hand hanging on the cart, and looked at him with a worried look.
"Doctor, how is my grandson?" Grandpa Li glanced at Li Zhengyu on the cart, then walked towards the doctor wearing a mask and asked anxiously.
The middle-aged doctor took off his mask and nodded, giving Grandpa Li a reassuring smile: "He has stabilized after the operation, but he still has a slight concussion, so he needs to stay in the hospital for a few days for observation after his injury heals. But the situation is very optimistic, please rest assured."
"That's good, that's good. Thank you, doctor."
"You're welcome." After the middle-aged doctor said this, he nodded and left.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief as they watched the doctor leave, as if the smell of disinfectant that was everywhere in the hospital was not so unpleasant anymore.
During the time that Li Zhengyu was in the hospital, Su Peile took leave to stay with him in the hospital.
During this period, Xia Ying and Han Jingjing always came to the hospital to see him every now and then. Xia Ying was even considerate enough to bring her daily class notes to the hospital to lend to Su Peile, fearing that she would fall behind in her studies because of the leave during this period.
After all, he was young and in good health, so it didn't take long for the wound on Li Zhengyu's head to heal. But he had to listen to the doctor and stay in the hospital for a few days for observation.
"I'm not dead yet, can you please stop staring at me?" Li Zhengyu pretended that he couldn't stand it. As soon as he opened his eyes, Su Peile's face appeared in front of him.
"Grandpa asked me to watch you 24 hours a day." Su Peile sat beside the bed and peeled an apple for him.
"Won't you tell grandpa that we broke up? We won't have anything to do with each other anymore."
"Is that really the case? Then why did you try so hard to save me that day?"
"It was my instinctive reaction. Anyone else would have done the same thing."
"Li Zhengyu, stop saying one thing and thinking another." Su Peile peeled a small piece of apple and handed it to him.
"Believe it or not." Li Zhengyu still had a stern face.
"I just believe that you still love me and you're willing to sacrifice your life for me."
"It's Shengyu who is willing to give up his life for you, not me." Li Zhengyu said lightly, looking away.
Su Peile's expression was dazed for a moment: "Zhengyu, I know that maybe it was the coincidence between Shengyu and me that made people feel regretful and sad. But, this may be the arrangement of fate, just to let me meet you..."
Li Zhengyu turned his gaze back to her, and was deeply moved by her words. He wanted to hug her tightly in his arms. However, thinking of the suffering Shengyu had endured, he finally held back.
"Le Le, if any other boy had saved you, I might have been able to ignore it, but not Shengyu. He is my brother, and I have seen with my own eyes how much suffering and torture he endured because of that incident. How can I bear to make him sad again..."
"Then can you bear to make me sad?"
He pursed his lips and didn't say anything else.
At this moment, Su Peile's cell phone suddenly rang. When she saw the name displayed on the screen, she immediately picked it up.
"Le Le, congratulations, the school has announced the number of places for exchange students. You and Sheng Yu have been selected. Please inform your parents and complete the formalities as soon as possible. You have to go to France during the holidays." The head teacher's voice was very excited, but Su Peile felt a chill in his heart...
After hanging up the phone, she looked at Li Zhengyu. He seemed to have heard it as well, his eyes were as dark as the deep night sky.
After a long while, he finally spoke: "Are you going to France? Congratulations!"
"You... really want me to go?" Su Peile looked at him in a daze.
"Of course." He looked her straight in the eyes and answered readily.
Su Peile clenched the half apple in his hand, curled up the corners of his mouth to reveal a wry smile, and said softly: "If you really want me to go, then I will go."
"……good."
I don't know when the wind started outside the window, and the branches with all their leaves fallen were trembling slightly in the wind.
Being selected as an exchange student to go abroad is something that students envy, but Su Peile is not happy because since she was selected as an exchange student, Li Zhengyu has not appeared in school again, saying that he is recovering at home.
The day before she left, Gangwon City welcomed its first snow.
At this moment, she was standing alone on the rooftop of Han Jingjing's barbecue restaurant, looking at the white city all around her. It was like a thick fog that made it impossible to see through. Snowflakes were falling on the pine trees beside her, and stars of various colors were still hanging on them.
The snow behind her creaked underfoot, and she slowly turned around. Li Zhengyu, wearing a khaki wool coat, was walking towards her. In the falling snow, he looked like a man from a cartoon. When he saw her, a flash of shock flashed in his eyes.
They actually met here unexpectedly.
On the other side, in a quaint coffee shop, Li Shengyu and Xia Ying were also admiring the snow and saying goodbye, but they didn't know it.
"Why are you here in such a cold weather?" Li Zhengyu asked softly, noticing that her hands were a little red from the cold. This fool, she didn't even know to wear more clothes in such a cold weather, what if she caught a cold?
"Yeah. I missed you, so I came here. I didn't expect to meet you here."
Li Zhengyu looked away and did not answer, fearing that speaking would reveal his emotion and reluctance at the moment.
"I'm leaving here tomorrow."
After a long while, Li Zhengyu responded softly: "Hmm..."
"Will you come and see me off?"
"No." He paused, "I have other things to do tomorrow."
"Oh, is that so?"
"Um."
"Zhengyu, are you going to forget me after I go abroad?" she asked softly, her nose feeling sore.
This sentence made Li Zhengyu choke up and almost cry. He turned his head away, but the expression on his face was smiling: "Maybe, maybe not."
"……oh."
"When you go abroad, will you be with Shengyu?"
"Maybe." Su Peile answered this way, but the voice in his heart was saying, no.
She had no way to forget Zhengyu. If he wanted her to leave, she could go. But as for Shengyu, she didn't want to use her love to repay the favor she once owed him. Such a love that went against one's will would be unfair to Shengyu.
Li Zhengyu looked at her, as if there were thousands of words blocking his heart, heavy and extremely uncomfortable.
"Zhengyu, can you promise me that you won't fall in love with other girls casually? Can you leave some space for me?"
"How can you agree to something like this so easily?" He glanced at her and said lightly.
However, what he didn't say was: Silly boy, I have given you all my love, how could I easily fall in love with someone else?
"Oh, I see." Her voice was still soft, but with obvious sadness, which made his heart spasm with pain.
"Zhengyu, can I hug you? Just for a moment, as a parting gift."
He was startled, and a faint light flashed in his deep eyes. After a long while, he nodded gently: "Okay."
Su Peile walked closer to him, then slowly leaned his head on his broad shoulders, slowly closed his eyes, and carefully felt the warmth of this moment.
"Zhengyu, do you know? Rumor has it that if you meet your loved one on the day of the first snow, they will never be separated again. But that's not the case with us."
Li Zhengyu suppressed the bitterness in his heart and said, "Those are all lies."
"Yeah?"
"Yeah. Only a fool like you would believe it." Li Zhengyu looked at the pine tree full of stars, his tone soft but with an unconscious doting tone.
Since he met her, he gradually fell in love with looking up at the starry sky. He also wanted to collect all the stars so that they would no longer be lonely.
But stars are destined to be lonely.
How great it would have been if I had been the one who saved her four years ago.
If it wasn't Shengyu, he would never give Su Peile to anyone else. But this person happened to be Shengyu.
The pain that Shengyu had suffered from burns and illnesses over the years were things he could not understand, nor could he share. So, all he could do was to return Peluque to Shengyu, which was the happiness that originally belonged to Shengyu.
If she left, if time was longer, they might both forget each other.
They are just 17-year-old boys and girls, and may not be so deeply obsessed with feelings.
But...is it really not that deep? Then why does his heart hurt so much at this moment?
Facing the soft snowflakes all over the sky, a crystal clear tear slowly slid down from the corner of his eye...
Lele, I'm sorry.
Sorry, I Love You……