A month ago, as a junior student who was out for internship, Gu Tianhai chose to share a house to save costs. At the same time, he also wanted to escape the supervision of his family. He chose Yan Mo's old suburban villa because it was cheap. Unfortunately, he met a very unreliable female landlord.
Yan Mo is a forgetful person who often forgets where she puts her things, so wherever she walks, there are piles of debris. In order to change this, Gu Tianhai specially classified and labeled all the things to prevent Yan Mo from throwing them around.
A week ago, Yan Mo angered him by describing him as an overly feminine manicurist, and because of this, he unexpectedly had his first intimate contact with her.
But Yan Mo, who had experienced many battles, didn't seem to mind these things very much, and forgot about them completely after one night. Although Gu Tianhai was a little concerned, he pretended that nothing had happened in order to avoid embarrassment.
"Xiao Li, please put the design drawings on my desk. I will go to the company to modify them later... Well, just give it to Dai Ning, well, OK..." At this time, Gu Tianhai was wearing an apron with a strange pattern, frying eggs in a non-stick pan. He held his phone between his shoulders and explained things to his colleagues in the company. Yan Mo, who was outside the kitchen, was ready to eat, and sat on the dining table with his legs swinging, waiting to eat.
After Gu Tianhai hung up the phone, he looked outside the hall. Yan Mo, who was waiting for food, was like a child who had never grown up, playing with the knife and fork in his hand out of boredom.
He didn't know much about her, only that she was a senior who was two years older than him and a low-productivity comic book author. If he had to label her, Gu Tianhai would probably label her as a homebody who couldn't take care of herself.
"Haijun, your bangs look really nice, but they seem to be covering your eyes. Let me help you fix them." When Yan Mo saw Gu Tianhai coming out of the kitchen, she hurriedly put down the tableware in her hand and ran back to her room.
When she appeared again, she was holding a black hairpin in her hand. Without waiting for Gu Tianhai's consent, she lifted Gu Tianhai's bangs and fixed them to the right side with the hairpin. Gu Tianhai, who was originally delicate, looked more like a little girl after she did this.
Gu Tianhai kept telling himself to get used to it, as if he was no longer surprised by the abnormal behavior of Yan Mo, a "second dimension" otaku girl.
"Haijun, you look so good like this. Let's take a photo together." Yan Mo, wearing a bear-ear hat, took out his cell phone, confirmed that he and Gu Tianhai were in the same picture, and pressed the shutter.
"Don't call me Haijun anymore, it's a weird name, call me Tianhai." Gu Tianhai brought out the food and emphasized his name again. He began to tidy up his appearance and prepared to go out to work. "Be sure to wash the dishes after you finish eating, don't wait for me to come back to wash them! I'm going to be late, so I won't eat with you."
"Today's food is delicious too." Yan Mo ate the hot food on the table with a happy face, and filtered out Gu Tianhai's muttering.
After changing his clothes, Gu Tianhai glanced at her before leaving. Seeing that she was completely immersed in the whirlpool of delicious food, he smiled helplessly.
The sound of a door closing was heard, and several minutes after Gu Tianhai left, Yan Mo finally remembered to say goodbye to him.
"Gu Tianhai, be safe and remember to come back to cook." Yan Mo hugged the tail of the conjoined animal pajamas and ran to the balcony happily. She shouted at Gu Tianhai who had not walked far yet and waved goodbye.
Gu Tianhai turned around, looked at her bright smile, and felt that life was extremely bleak.
That guy always has a cute smile and gives people a stupid and silly feeling. But in fact, he is a very troublesome person.
"I understand." Gu Tianhai responded, then walked towards the company with the briefcase under his arm.
Thanks to Yan Mo, he always arrives at work at the last minute, and every day after get off work he has to go to the supermarket and queue up with a group of middle-aged women to buy discounted vegetables. Facing employment pressure, he not only has to study his graduation project, but also has to take on all the housework in Yan Mo's home. Such a life is really harder than imagined.
Just a few days ago, Gu Tianhai wanted to try taking turns buying groceries and cooking. Yan Mo got lost on the way to the vegetable market and supermarket. It would have been fine if she had just gotten lost, but she also went to the police station and was embarrassed. Gu Tianhai just got off work when he received a call from the police asking him to pick someone up.
From that day on, Gu Tianhai felt that as long as Yan Mo stayed at home and didn't cause him any trouble, he should be thankful.
If you can't buy groceries, you can at least cook, right? Gu Tianhai still had hope at first. But after Yan Mo boiled vegetables of various colors into a pot of black, Gu Tianhai began to wonder how Yan Mo had survived until now.
When Gu Tianhai arrived at the company, the office clock had already reached 8:59, and he almost didn't have time to punch in.
Dai Ning, who was in the same office as Gu Tianhai, poked his head out from behind his desk, looked at Gu Tianhai, who was panting and stopped in front of the time clock, and said, "Xiaohai, why is it that every day is the last minute?"
Dai Ning is the leader of the project team, a gossipy and nosy young man. Gu Tianhai smiled shyly and awkwardly, explaining that he had just moved and had not yet adapted.
"Xiao Hai, have you heard? The company launched a new project yesterday and asked our group to be in charge of it. They also recruited a person from a foreign polytechnic university..." Dai Ning walked up to Gu Tianhai and whispered to him.
The footsteps behind him gradually approached, and a faint scent of perfume filled the air. Before Gu Tianhai had time to finish listening to Dai Ning's gossip, a girl's greeting came from behind him.
"Good morning." Gu Tianhai and Dai Ning looked towards the source of the sound at the same time.
The girl standing behind me looks like a mixed-race girl. Her skin is transparently white, her cheeks are faintly pink, and her deep, bright eyes make her features look more three-dimensional.
Her pupils were a bit light in color, like a mixture of black and light blue. Her thick brown curly hair fell naturally, perfectly framing her small face.
The girl was wearing a little black winter dress, a loose blue coat, and leather over-the-knee high-heeled boots that covered her beautiful legs. She looked like a fashionista on the cover of a magazine.
"Hello, I'm a newcomer here yesterday. My name is Ye Zixin. I just came back from the United States. I will be in charge of the same project with you guys. Please give me your guidance." Ye Zixin smiled, and her noble aura seemed to permeate from her bones. Gu Tianhai felt that this name was very familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had heard it before.
"Hello, Miss Ye Zixin. I am the main person in charge of this project. My name is Dai Ning." Dai Ning first walked around to Ye Zixin and introduced himself.
"My name is Gu Tianhai, and I'm also an intern who just arrived."
"Gu Tianhai?" Ye Zixin thought for a moment and quickly found this person in her mind. "Are you Gu Tianhai? No wonder you look so familiar. I'm Xiaoxin. Don't you remember me?"
Gu Tianhai looked at Ye Zixin, trying to search for things from ten years ago. It seemed that he had a playmate named Xiaoxin in his memory, and they often played house games together when they were young. Later, she seemed to have gone abroad with her parents and they never contacted each other again.
"Take me around the company and get familiar with the environment." Ye Zixin's ladylike image collapsed after she recognized Gu Tianhai. Dai Ning, who was treated as air, watched her leave the office with Gu Tianhai's hand and continue working.
Ye Zixin recalled her childhood memories along the way. Gu Tianhai was as shy as he is now when he was a child. She loved to bully him and treated him as her protector and boyfriend. Although Gu Tianhai was very reluctant, his weakness was his weakness. As long as Ye Zixin cried, he would be helpless.
When Ye Zixin was a child, she told everyone that Gu Tianhai was her boyfriend and would marry her in the future. But later, for some unknown reason, Ye Zixin went abroad with her parents. Later, Gu Tianhai gradually forgot about this person.
"Tianhai, do you have a girlfriend now?" Ye Zixin asked excitedly, as if she intended to continue to monopolize Gu Tianhai.
"Girlfriend?" The first person that came to Gu Tianhai's mind when he heard the word was Yan Mo, the landlady who couldn't take care of herself. Gu Tianhai couldn't help but sigh and shook his head, "No."
"Then you're still my boyfriend now, just like when we were little."
"Ah? What?"
"Let's get married after graduation."
Gu Tianhai awkwardly broke away from Ye Zixin's hand, speechless. If the leader of another project team hadn't suddenly come to Gu Tianhai for something, Gu Tianhai wouldn't have known how to get out of this sea of ​​suffering.
"Gu Tianhai, come here and help me deliver the information to Office 302."
"Okay, I'll go right away." Gu Tianhai picked up the information and ran away quickly, leaving Ye Zixin standing there in her high heels with a frown on her face.
Inside the villa.
"A-choo——" Yan Mo, who was sitting at the table drafting, suddenly sneezed. She was wearing fleece-lined cartoon pajamas and was thinking about how to start the draft.
There were rulers and various brushes on the draft paper on the desk. Some part of the draft had been erased again and again by the eraser, but it seemed that the desired feeling could never be achieved.
"How do I modify the details? What lines should I use to modify it? The expression is also difficult to control, it's really hard to imagine..." Yan Mo supported his head with his palms, thinking hard, and picked up the mobile phone aside.
Her face was reflected on the locked phone. She used the screen as a mirror and made all kinds of expressions that could become picture books.
"Master, Master, there's a phone call coming, Master! There's a phone call coming..."
A spoof cell phone ringtone suddenly rang, frightening Yan Mo so much that he trembled all over and almost threw the phone into the trash can next to him.
The caller ID showed that it was her best friend "Yaoyao", but Yaoyao knew that she was a homebody and never visited her unless necessary, so why did she suddenly call her?
"Hello? What's up?" After Yan Mo answered the phone, she heard the sound of bargaining. She knew Yaoyao was calling from the vegetable market. "Hello, you're not calling to listen to how you bargain, are you? Aunt Yaoyao?"
"You are the auntie, I am a pure and beautiful girl... Hey, didn't we agree on three yuan per pound..."
Yan Mo listened to the bargaining for a minute and then hung up the phone. Yaoyao called again, and Yan Mo sighed and pressed the answer button again.
"Yan Mo, I have something serious to tell you. I saw the most beautiful girl from my previous class in the mall today, and she invited me to attend the class party next week..."
"Not interested." Yan Mo made a move to hang up the phone.
"Yan Mo, don't hang up. I haven't finished talking yet. Li Hao has returned to China! He is also coming to the class party!"
Yaoyao hysterically yelled out the news of Li Hao's return to China. At this time, she became the focus of everyone's attention while standing in the vegetable market.
"I also heard about it an hour ago. He abandoned you two years ago and now he's back. You should at least have some courage to find out the truth. Yan Mo, are you listening to me? Hello? Yan Mo, are you provoked? Why aren't you talking?"
Yaoyao's voice was ringing on the other end of the phone, but Yan Mo seemed to no longer be disturbed by her voice.
Yaoyao, who had not received any response, finally hung up the phone, but Yan Mo kept answering the phone, caught in her own emotional whirlpool.
The person who quietly left my world two years ago has once again entered my life. I have made up my mind to forget the past and start over, but I still feel sad easily.
Yan Mo still remembers the scene when they parted at the airport two years ago. Li Hao dragged his suitcase and held her in his arms, and all the tender words were intertwined into an inseparable scene.
The man told her that when he came back, he would give her a grand wedding and make her the happiest and most beautiful bride in the world.
At that time, she thought he was her whole world. She was so moved that she kept crying and thought she was the happiest person in the world.
And now, she was crying simply because she had become the most unfortunate person in the world.
When Gu Tianhai came back from work, he smelled alcohol from the open door. Before he could figure out what was going on, he just closed the door and was hugged from behind by Yan Mo who was hiding behind the door.
"Why did you come back just now? You left me here alone."
Yan Mo, who was drunk and unconscious, fell asleep leaning on Gu Tianhai's back. If Gu Tianhai hadn't quickly dropped the bag to catch her, she would probably have slept on the floor.
"Why did you drink so much alcohol alone at home?" Gu Tianhai sighed helplessly, frowned slightly, and helped Yan Mo, who reeked of alcohol, back to her bed. Then he squatted beside the bed and looked at the sleeping person, sighing in his heart.
This guy really has no sense of security at all. If no one is watching him, he will definitely be kidnapped by human traffickers.
In fact, if you look closely, Yan Mo is still quite pretty. She is very white, but not too white. Although her facial features are not stunning, they can be called delicate. It was the first time that Gu Tianhai saw her sleeping so quietly in bed, without making any noise, and he actually thought she was a little cute.
"A-choo--" Yan Mo suddenly sneezed. Gu Tianhai, who was squatting beside the bed and looking at her in a daze, suddenly realized that she was not covered with a quilt.
Gu Tianhai wanted to cover her with a blanket, but Yan Mo suddenly opened her eyes, grabbed his wrist, and burst into tears, as if she wanted to pour out all the sadness of the past years: "Why did you lie to me, why?"
"Yan Mo, what are you talking about? You are drunk..."
"Please don't leave, okay?" Before Gu Tianhai could react, Yan Mo pulled him into her arms and hugged him tightly. An inexplicable throbbing filled the air, and Gu Tianhai didn't even know where to put his hands holding the quilt, "I don't want to be alone, and you all leave me alone..."
Gu Tianhai suddenly trembled. The innocent Yan Mo had actually been alone all along. She was alone guarding this empty house, and there was no one to wait for to come back and accompany her. She had actually been pretending to be happy, right? She wanted to use a smile to cover up the loneliness.
"Silly girl, I'm going to live here for a long time, how can I leave you?" Thinking of this, Gu Tianhai rubbed her head lovingly, hugged her gently, giving her comfort and support.
For some reason, he felt that Yan Mo was his nemesis. He could never be decisive towards her and even couldn't help wanting to protect her.
Taking advantage of the alcohol, Yan Mo raised her head and kissed Gu Tianhai on the lips.
This kiss was different from the first one. This kiss was full of emotion, like strong liquor. Gu Tianhai couldn't help but be intoxicated by such a strong kiss, and couldn't help but feel like he liked it. But this feeling turned into powder when those two words came out of his mouth.
"Li Hao, don't leave me."
"Li Hao?" Gu Tianhai, whose nerves were touched, frowned, let go of Yan Mo and stood up from the bed.
Yan Mo fell back on the bed and fell asleep hugging the pillow. She continued to murmur the name with a happy smile on her lips.
A feeling called anger filled Gu Tianhai's heart. He had never felt so angry before. This kind of anger had a taste, very sour, so sour that he didn't want to stay in Yan Mo's room for another minute.
He turned and walked out of the room, feeling like a fool, being played around by Yan Mo and being treated as a substitute for someone else. He really hated this feeling!
Yan Mo woke up the next morning. The sun was still shining brightly, and the temperature in the room had dropped several degrees because the window was not closed. Feeling the temperature difference, Yan Mo wrapped himself in a quilt and walked to the window, closed the window, and then opened the curtains.
She didn't remember how she got back to her room last night. She just yawned nonchalantly, stretched herself and walked out of the bedroom.
The smell of breakfast filled the air, and Yan Mo followed the smell to the kitchen. When she went downstairs, she saw Gu Tianhai cooking in an apron. He looked handsome from behind, holding a pot in one hand and a spatula in the other. Yan Mo quickly took out her phone to take a few photos and greeted Gu Tianhai.
"Tianhai, good morning! When can we have dinner?"
Gu Tianhai did not answer. He brought the cooked breakfast to the table, feeling a little unhappy, but Yan Mo seemed to have forgotten what happened last night. In any case, for a sober person, Gu Tianhai was angry at Yan Mo's frivolous and irresponsible behavior.
"Why are you ignoring me?" Yan Mo pouted, and suddenly remembered the class party. How can she perfectly avoid the class party? She didn't want to go, not only because of Li Hao, but also because she had not been doing well since graduation, and she didn't want to be ridiculed by everyone.
"Tianhai, yesterday my best friend asked me to go to the class reunion at university, but I don't want to go. Do you have any way to help me avoid the class reunion?"
"Why don't you want to go?" Gu Tianhai asked while washing the pots.
Seeing that Gu Tianhai was paying attention to her, Yan Mo moved behind him and continued, "There's someone I don't want to see, but he's going to a class party, so I don't want to go."
Is it the man named Li Hao? Gu Tianhai asked in his heart, but he didn't say it out loud. He paused for a moment and continued to remain silent.
"This is your business, don't ask me, just handle it yourself." Gu Tianhai said indifferently. Yan Mo felt that this was abnormal, but he didn't know who provoked him, so he just walked out of the hall in a depressed mood.
At that moment, the doorbell rang. Yan Mo was afraid that it was Yaoyao who came to look for her for the class party, so she was too scared to open the door. She walked carefully to the peephole and looked out through it.
Standing outside the door was a girl with brown curly hair who looked like a mixed race. Yan Mo was glad it wasn't Yaoyao, but after thinking about it carefully, she didn't seem to know the girl outside the door.
"Gu Tianhai, open the door, I'm Ye Zixin." Seeing no response when she rang the doorbell, Ye Zixin outside the door raised her hand and knocked on the door.
"Tianhai, there's a girl with brown curly hair looking for you." Yan Mo said as she opened the door. As long as she wasn't looking for her to attend a class party, she wouldn't mind opening the door to let the other person in.
Gu Tianhai's nerves tensed up when he heard Ye Zixin's voice. He rushed out of the kitchen at full speed, trying to stop Yan Mo from opening the door - Ye Zixin always had some tricks up her sleeve, so it was not surprising that she knew his address.
When Ye Zixin pushed open the door, Gu Tianhai was holding Yan Mo under his body with his hands on the floor. Yan Mo stared blankly at Gu Tianhai who suddenly pulled her back and lost balance and fell to the ground. Ye Zixin, who was standing outside the door, looked at them sinisterly in her high heels, like a volcano waiting to erupt.
When Yan Mo turned his head to look outside the door, he felt that the blood in his body had stopped flowing. Because standing outside the door was not only Ye Zixin, but also Li Hao who was walking in from outside and standing behind Ye Zixin.
The moment he saw Li Hao, Yan Mo felt that all the senses in his body had disappeared, leaving only a paleness.
"Gu Tianhai, who is this woman? Didn't you say you don't have a girlfriend? What are you doing?" Ye Zixin's tone was aggressive, but Yan Mo didn't hear her shouting at all. Her eyes stayed on Li Hao, the boy in a gray suit with a gentle face.
"Yan Mo, what are you doing?" Li Hao, who came in a step later than Ye Zixin, also looked at them in surprise. Gu Tianhai hurriedly stood up from Yan Mo, waving his hands to explain that their relationship was not what they imagined.
"She is my landlord, and I live here now." Gu Tianhai explained hurriedly. Firstly, he didn't want to tarnish Yan Mo's innocence, and secondly, he didn't want to cause trouble - Ye Zixin has always been domineering and would never allow others to own the things she likes.
"I don't care who she is, I want you to move out. I am your girlfriend now and you should listen to me."
"I've already paid the rent, how can you just move out like that? And I never said I wanted to be your boyfriend, so please stop making a fuss, okay?"
"You must have been bewitched by her, so you don't like me anymore!"
"What are you talking about?"
Gu Tianhai and Ye Zixin were arguing, but Yan Mo just stood there blankly looking at Li Hao who was facing her.
Time seemed to be frozen here, unable to move forward. The man who had made a vow to her stood in front of her as if nothing had happened after disappearing for a few years. His smile was like a sharp blade, wielding it wantonly in her heart.
Why did he come back? He had been missing, not answering her phone, not contacting her. Why did he come back now? Why did he want to rekindle the flame in her heart after it had gone out? Was this fun?
"Why are you seducing my boyfriend? Can you hear me?" Ye Zixin stepped forward and pushed Yan Mo, calling Yan Mo's attention back.
When Gu Tianhai didn't know how to stop the chaos, Li Hao stepped forward to protect Yan Mo and pushed away Ye Zixin's hand that was pushing Yan Mo.
"What are you talking about? She is my girlfriend, it is not your turn to say anything." Li Hao looked at Ye Zixin, and his words without any room for negotiation made Gu Tianhai tremble all over. He looked at Yan Mo inadvertently, and the expression on Yan Mo's face was as sad as yesterday.
Maybe the person protecting Yan Mo is Li Hao?
"Ye Zixin, let's go to work."
Gu Tianhai didn't want to continue pestering, so he untied his apron, pulled Ye Zixin and left Yan Mo's house. He really didn't want to see the man named Li Hao. Yan Mo was sad because of him, and because he treated him as a substitute...
The wind blew in from the open door. Yan Mo looked at Li Hao, as if many memories were being re-edited in her mind. All the memories were beautiful, and therefore became even more painful when she accepted the betrayal.
Perhaps she was not mature enough to forgive betrayal, so when Li Hao stood in front of her, she did not rush forward to hug him, nor did she cry in grief. After Gu Tianhai and Ye Zixin left, Yan Mo raised her hand and slapped Li Hao. The slap left red finger marks on Li Hao's face. He tilted his face, somewhat surprised by Yan Mo's reaction.
"Yan Mo, I'm back, don't you miss me?"
"Why should I miss you? Ever since your phone number became unavailable, I stopped missing you." Yan Mo clenched her fists tightly, trying to stay calm and not shed a meaningless tear in front of this person.
She once loved him to the bone, and cried until her tears dried up because she could no longer get through to him on the phone. She didn't even know what she had done wrong, the man who once said he wanted to marry her and loved her, cut off all contact with her.
"I'm doing well now and have a new life, why do you come back to disturb me?"
"Because you are my girlfriend. I said I would marry you when I come back. Don't you remember?" Li Hao took a step forward, wanting to hug Yan Mo and resolve the two years of indifference with a hug. But Yan Mo, who was stubborn, took a step back and smiled sarcastically.
"Since your phone number became invalid, we are no longer boyfriend and girlfriend. Go away. I don't want to see you."
"Yan Mo, listen to my explanation. Actually, I don't have time to look at my phone..."
"I don't want to hear any explanation, please leave my house!" Yan Mo ordered Li Hao to leave, pushed him out of her house, and slammed the door shut.
Li Hao, who was isolated outside Yan Mo's house, knocked on the door for a few minutes, but finally lost his patience and turned away.
The sound of the departing footsteps lingered in Yan Mo's ears. When the footsteps completely disappeared, she couldn't help but sit behind the door and cry.
All promises are lies, just as all lies are like promises.
Yan Mo hugged her knees and sobbed at the door, and when she seemed to remember something and opened the door to chase after him, Li Hao had already gone far away.
He always disappeared from her world easily, leaving her alone with her memories.
Yan Mo stood on the street, watching the endless stream of pedestrians. They had all kinds of expressions and were heading in different directions. And which direction should she go?
Her life became a mess after she met Li Hao. She didn't even know why she had been standing still. Was it to wait for an explanation, or to deceive herself?
Yan Mo took a deep breath and walked into the busy subway entrance.
The subway station was heated, which was in stark contrast to the cold outside. Yan Mo bought a one-way ticket and took a subway train that she didn't know where it would go.
Some people in the subway were standing, some were sitting, some were looking down at their phones, and some were chatting. Yan Mo, who was wearing thin clothes, hugged her arms and leaned against a quiet corner, looking at the light and darkness outside the window.
When the subway reached the end, Yan Mo walked out. The cold wind outside was howling like a wolf in the north. Yan Mo hadn't been to the downtown for a long time. There were a lot of people in the downtown, and the signs of various stores were standing on buildings of different heights. Yan Mo walked into a bar, hoping to get drunk to relieve his sorrow...
When Gu Tianhai got home from work, Yan Mo was not at home. Gu Tianhai sat on the sofa, and all he could think of was the scene of Li Hao and Yan Mo going out on a date. That scene made him unable to think about anything else, and he felt uncomfortable. This discomfort turned into helplessness when the landline at home rang.
"Hello, is this Mr. Gu Tianhai?" A very polite voice came from the other end of the phone, and the speaker was a strange man.
Gu Tianhai didn't remember any of his friends knowing the phone number here, so he paused for a long time before replying: "Yes, I am."
"Hello, this is Box Bar. Is Yan Mo your friend?"
Gu Tianhai fell silent, a bad feeling spreading in his heart. Could it be that Yan Mo, the guy who always caused him trouble, got lost again?
"It's like this, Miss Yan Mo drank too much and she didn't have enough money to pay the bill. She asked us to call this number and ask you to come over and settle the bill." The voice of the bar waiter explaining the whole story came from the phone. Gu Tianhai held the phone for a long time, not knowing what to say.
"Tell me the exact location and I'll go there now."
Although Gu Tianhai was very reluctant to accept the reality of having to go over to pay the bill, he was very worried when he thought about Yan Mo wandering outside in the freezing cold without any money. Living under the same roof, he would feel bad if anything happened to Yan Mo.
"Okay, I'll tell you now." The person on the other end of the phone breathed a sigh of relief. Finally someone came to pay the bill.
After Gu Tianhai hung up the phone, he went out to find Yan Mo, and took the coat that Yan Mo had thrown on the ground.
Inside the Box Bar, metal instruments made sharp sounds, and the band performing on the stage screamed and roared, as if they were singing with their lives. Gu Tianhai avoided the bunny-eared girl who was walking by with a drink, and the lights of different colors above his head kept rotating, giving him a dizzy feeling.
Gu Tianhai had never been to a bar before, so when he stepped in here, he felt like a headless fly, not knowing where to go.
"Hello, I'm here to look for a girl named Yan Mo. Do you know where she is?" Before Gu Tianhai could wait for the waiter's reply, he heard Yan Mo's ghostly singing.
He looked towards the source of the sound and saw Yan Mo had seized the metal band's stage and microphone. The musician hurriedly switched the song she was singing to avoid causing confusion.
The lyrics displayed on the projection screen were Chinese translations, but Yan Mo sang a high-pitched Japanese song: "I am sinking into the sea of ​​sadness, and even opening my eyes seems like an eternity. Will I fall to any place, where no one can find me? Where should I go, what should I do? Suddenly a beam of light shines in, and I seem to be able to reach it with my hand, but I am swept away by the waves and lost. What is that? It is warm and dazzling, an unconscious fleeting glimpse, who is lying..."
The blue lights on the stage flickered and shone, rippling over Yan Mo like the deep sea. Gu Tianhai felt that Yan Mo at this moment was like a girl from the deep sea, looking at the foam on the sea surface from afar, but unable to reach anywhere.
Gu Tianhai followed the waiter who called him to the front desk to pay the bill, but his eyes never left Yan Mo. A strange thought swept through his mind, he wanted to turn into the light that guided her away from the deep sea, to shine on her and make her smile happily.
"Mr. Gu, the bill has been printed. Please sign your name."
After Gu Tianhai entered his bank card password, the waiter handed him the invoice and asked him to sign. Just as Gu Tianhai signed, Yan Mo walked off the stage, grabbed the wine glass from the people who were drinking, and drank a few glasses of wine without any image.
"Yan Mo, go home!" Gu Tianhai hurriedly dropped his pen, ran forward, pulled the staggering Yan Mo over, and bowed to the men and women who were drinking, "Sorry, my friend drank too much."
"Gu Tianhai? Why is it you? Are you really here?"
Yan Mo burped, and a strong smell of alcohol emanated from her mouth. Gu Tianhai, who never drank, felt that the smell was a bit pungent and held his breath uncomfortably.
Seeing that he looked disgusted with her, Yan Mo breathed on his face even more unscrupulously and moved closer to him: "Xiao Hai, I thought you wouldn't come to see me. I was ready to sleep here for a night, but I didn't expect you to really come. Haha, do you like me? Otherwise, why did you come to see me? Haha, you little brat, why is your face redder than mine?"
"You've drunk too much. I'm not blushing, it's the light." Gu Tianhai turned his head away, but his heart was beating faster than usual. He didn't know if it was because of the warming music and heating, or because of Yan Mo, who was drunk and confused.
Later, he took great pains to help Yan Mo out of the bar. The two stood on the roadside and waved for more than ten minutes, calling a taxi. Gu Tianhai struggled to move the drunk Yan Mo into the car, and then he got in the back seat.
"Little bunny, open the door, I want to come back... No, no, I won't open it, mom won't come back, no one will come!" Yan Mo started to sing the nursery rhyme again. The driver couldn't help but look at her nervous look through the rearview mirror. Gu Tianhai smiled awkwardly, grabbed her waving hands and pressed them down.
"Keep an eye on your girlfriend and don't let her vomit in my car." The driver said coldly. He didn't seem to care about Yan Mo's abnormal behavior, but was worried that his car would be dirty.
"She is not my girlfriend...friend..." When Gu Tianhai said the word "girlfriend", his voice was so soft that he couldn't even hear it himself.
He turned his head to look at Yan Mo, whose cheeks were red. She hiccuped from time to time, and her head was shaking like a child who didn't know the world. It was hard not to worry about her.
"I want to sleep. I'm sleepy." Yan Mo turned her head to look at Gu Tianhai, then rested her head on his shoulder capriciously.
Gu Tianhai's heart skipped a beat, and in order to make Yan Mo's pillow more comfortable, he straightened his back nervously.
Yan Mo seemed to feel that sleeping like this was not comfortable enough, so she moved her head down and landed on Gu Tianhai's thigh. Gu Tianhai looked at Yan Mo sleeping on his thigh, and his heartbeat quickened. Yan Mo put her legs on the seat and curled up like a cat.
In order to calm himself, Gu Tianhai had to turn his gaze to the window. There were sporadic snowflakes outside the window. Perhaps because it was not cold enough, the snowflakes were just floating in the air and could not cover the city in white. The neon lights on the street were flashing, and it was already night without knowing it.
Suddenly, the phone ringtone rang, and Gu Tianhai took out the phone from his trouser pocket. The message was from the bank, and Gu Tianhai looked at the balance notification message, and only a few cents were left of the remaining 2,000 yuan in the card.
After looking at his phone screen and then at the sleeping Yan Mo, he finally sighed. Fortunately, his salary would be paid in a few days, otherwise he would have to beg on the street this month.
"Here we are. Thirty-two yuan." The driver parked the car downstairs of Yan Mo's villa.
Gu Tianhai handed the last hundred-yuan bill in his wallet to the driver distressedly, and then helped Yan Mo out of the car. After the driver gave Gu Tianhai the change, he turned around and left.
"Xiao Hai, come drink with me."
"You're already so drunk, and you're still drinking? Go back to sleep!" Gu Tianhai pulled Yan Mo's hand who was lying on his shoulder, and took out the key to open the door.
The moment the door opened, Yan Mo's stomach churned. She rushed to the kitchen sink and began to vomit. Gu Tianhai, who had locked the door, hurried forward to pat her back, and after vomiting, Yan Mo wiped the corners of her mouth and staggered towards her bedroom. Gu Tianhai helped her clear the obstacles on the ground while reaching out to help her.
After Yan Mo walked into the bedroom, she fell headfirst onto the bed and fell asleep snoring. Gu Tianhai sighed, found a clean towel to wipe her face and hands, and covered her with a blanket.
After Gu Tianhai met Yan Mo, he often felt that he was here to be a babysitter. He wanted to be angry with her, but he couldn't.
"I must have owed you in my previous life." Gu Tianhai sighed, turned off the light in Yan Mo's room, turned around, closed the door and walked out.