Chapter 5 Fireworks Burn and Fall 5
After the New Year's Eve incident, Qing Nuan just felt very sad. Even Song Yang and Xu Jiarong joined in and said bad things about Cheng Ge.
But no one knew that after Cheng Ge pushed Luo Weiwei away that night, he had been desperately searching for Qing Nuan's whereabouts.
He was not as lucky as Song Yang, who could find Qing Nuan at the door of a closed coffee shop.
Cheng Ge lost his youth.
He missed the sun and he missed the stars.
That night, Cheng Ge wandered along the riverside, from the riverside bridge to the snack street, until the crowd gradually dispersed, until the cold wind howled in the early morning, until dawn broke.
I didn't sleep all night and searched all night.
As soon as he returned to the dormitory, he had a fever and was sweating even under the quilt. His roommates laughed at him for a long time. He felt drowsy and confused, and he didn't know what year it was when he closed his eyes.
He never forgot Qing Nuan, nor did he forget the agreement between them.
After he arrived at University A, he did not find Qing Nuan. Instead, Luo Weiwei found him first.
Luo Weiwei followed him just like she did when she was in high school, beautiful and eye-catching.
The reasons she used did not change. She said to Cheng Ge, "I am new to City A. As an old classmate, please take me to get familiar with it."
Cheng Ge had no way of refusing because everything Luo Weiwei said was so reasonable.
Just like when they first met in J City, Luo Weiwei also lay on the small desk and smiled: "Your name is Cheng Ge, right? I am Luo Weiwei. Now you are my deskmate, and you are a local of J City. You can take me to get familiar with the environment of J City. I am new here and I don't know anywhere."
But Cheng Ge is still obsessed with Qing Nuan, the little girl who belongs to him.
The little girl who timidly hid him under the seat on the train, protected him, and suggested that he call the police.
The little girl who hid herself at the Halloween party in junior high school because she was afraid of ghosts, but was accidentally scared to tears by him who dressed up as a vampire.
The little girl who liked to follow him, sit on the back seat of his bicycle, walk in silence facing the rising sun, and call him "Brother Ge" with a smile.
The little girl who clumsily wore strange clothes in order to imitate her idol Avril, was laughed at by her classmates, and was finally punished by the head teacher to sweep toilets for a week.
The little girl who couldn't see his feelings at all and kept asking him whether his favorite girl was Luo Weiwei.
Cheng Ge waited for more than two years and finally waited for the college entrance examination to end and was admitted to university. However, on New Year's Eve, due to a misunderstanding, his little girl was angry and left.
Just when he was running a fever and lying drowsy in the dormitory, his roommate suddenly brought him a piece of news.
"Do you know Xu Jiarong from the Advertising Department?" a classmate asked Cheng Ge.
Cheng Ge sat up from the bed with a start: "Xu Jiarong? She is also in University A?"
"Yes, she said she was your high school classmate in J City and was looking for you, so I came to ask you first."
Cheng Ge had a hunch that Xu Jiarong's visit to him must be related to Qing Nuan, so he quickly put on his coat: "Yes, it's my classmate. Where is she? Did she tell me what she wanted to see me for?"
"It is said that someone is waiting for you at the school gate. That person's name is Qing..."
"Qing Nuan?" Cheng Ge's voice sounded very excited. "Is it Qing Nuan?"
"Yes, that's her name! She's waiting for you at the school gate!"
Before his classmate finished speaking, Cheng Ge couldn't wait to go out.
After running almost all the way, Cheng Ge finally saw the little figure under the big tree at the gate of A University.
"Nuannuan?" Cheng Ge called out the name softly, as if he couldn't bear to disturb her.
Qing Nuan turned around and faced Cheng Ge.
For a moment, their eyes met.
Qing Nuan choked up a little...
In the past two years, Cheng Ge has changed a lot, and so has she.
Qing Nuan was still wearing the same outfit she had prepared for New Year's Eve, the only difference was that she was wearing a Bluetooth headset - and Song Yang's voice was in the headset.
Qing Nuan was nervous and didn't know what to do. Song Yang volunteered to be Qing Nuan's military advisor and asked Qing Nuan to put on headphones and keep in touch with him so that he could respond accordingly.
Qing Nuan was so annoyed by him that she decided to give it a try.
Cheng Ge in front of him had grown into a handsome man, with handsome eyebrows, a high nose bridge, and a slender figure. However, the sharp-eyed Qing Nuan still found that Cheng Ge had a scar on his originally fair and smooth forehead.
"Brother Ge, there's something on your forehead..." Qing Nuan felt a little distressed and asked subconsciously.
"This?" Cheng Ge raised his hand and touched the scar on his forehead, smiling nonchalantly, "It was from the previous earthquake, when I got hit on the head, and it's left behind."
It turned out to be an earthquake, Qing Nuan understood.
She couldn't help but raise her hand, wanting to touch the scar on his forehead, but suddenly realized that something was wrong and lowered her hand in embarrassment.
Cheng Ge was still running a fever and had a dull headache, so he didn't notice the alienation and awkwardness in Qing Nuan's actions. He seemed to be the warm brother Ge from before. He stretched out his hand and gently hugged Qing Nuan into his arms, just like a brother doting on his sister: "Nuan Nuan, long time no see."
The moment Qing Nuan was embraced, her whole body was stiff, but Cheng Ge's arms were extremely warm, which calmed her emotions.
But Qing Nuan was in a daze and suddenly remembered the extremely romantic kiss between Luo Weiwei and Cheng Ge under the fireworks on New Year's Eve.
She froze again, pretending not to notice, and broke away from Cheng Ge's arms. The corners of her mouth curled up, a faint smile appeared, and her tone was light , a little nervous, and a little polite: "Yes, Brother Ge, I haven't seen you for a long time."
Cheng Ge naturally noticed the change in Qing Nuan's attitude, and he was a little confused.
After a short silence, Cheng Ge pointed to a coffee shop not far away and said, "Nuannuan, let's go sit over there for a while."
When did they become so polite to each other? It seemed as if both of them were carefully maintaining their relationship.
Qing Nuan felt sad for a moment, but a smile appeared on her face: "Yeah."
It was a quiet reunion, with no happy hug or going home hand in hand, but only faint greetings and calmness.
So this is the magic of time.
Time, the executioner, makes people miss the time of growing up with him or her, miss the hardship of fighting in the sea of questions together, miss the gentle companionship during earthquakes and illnesses, miss the sun and stars that belong to two people, and miss the romantic New Year's Eve fireworks. Only the inexplicable strangeness and loneliness between each other, and the cautious and helpless speculation and love are left.
