Chapter 6: Countdown to Loneliness 7
When Song Yang and Qing Nuan returned, Cheng Ge had already left with Luo Weiwei.
Xu Jiarong was completely drunk and lying on the bar, completely drunk.
Qing Nuan and Song Yang took a taxi and sent Xu Jiarong back to the girls' dormitory of A University.
Along the way, Qing Nuan was silent, Song Yang was silent too, and the atmosphere was a bit awkward. It was not until the taxi stopped at the gate of A University, and Song Yang and Qing Nuan helped the drunk Xu Jiarong get off the car and put her in the dormitory, that Qing Nuan decided to speak out the doubts in her heart.
"Song Yang, Rongrong likes you, do you know?"
Song Yang thought Qing Nuan was joking and asked, "What did you say?"
Qing Nuan said with a serious face, "I said, Rongrong likes you, do you know that, you idiot?"
"How is that possible?" Song Yang waved his hands, with an expression that said "don't make me laugh". "Her first idol is Takeshi Kaneshiro, and her second idol is Jay Chou. When she was in junior high school, she had a crush on a pretty boy in the next class who looked especially like Takeshi Kaneshiro. When she was in high school, she wanted to chase the school hunk who could play the piano and sing. I was afraid that she would embarrass herself, so I persuaded her for several days before I stopped her. I can count the boys she has liked since she was a child. Now you say she likes me, please stop it! I just confessed to you not long ago, and I am nervous now."
Song Yang's series of words made Qing Nuan begin to doubt herself.
But Qing Nuan felt that the way Xu Jiarong raised her glass before clearly showed that she was extremely sad.
"I don't understand what you said, I just think Rongrong should like you, and the kind of love she likes very much." Qing Nuan still insisted on her own idea.
Song Yang was at a loss for words and said with a wry smile, "Stop joking. Do you know what Rongrong is? She is the precious only daughter of the president of J City Bochan Real Estate Group. Do you know what that means? In S Province, all the high-rise buildings and residential communities that you can count that are a little famous are projects of her father's group. She has very high standards. She and I grew up in the same place, so we have been together for many years. If she really likes me, how could we have made no progress for so many years? Besides, she likes guys who look like Takeshi Kaneshiro, and I don't look like Takeshi Kaneshiro at all. She will never look down on me in her life, so don't worry about it."
Qing Nuan was unable to refute. She indeed didn't know Xu Jiarong as well as Song Yang did.
She really only had a vague understanding of what Song Yang was talking about before, and had never discussed it in depth.
But she vaguely felt that what Song Yang said was wrong. Only Xu Jiarong herself knew what kind of boy Xu Jiarong liked. What Song Yang could know was only the part that Xu Jiarong deliberately let him know.
Qing Nuan insisted on her own idea and was about to continue debating with Song Yang, but Song Yang made a "hush" sound and pointed forward.
Qing Nuan looked in the direction Song Yang was pointing, and saw Luo Weiwei and Cheng Ge.
It's already 11 o'clock at night.
On the campus of University A, only the dim street lights on both sides of the road were still faintly lit. Because there is a tradition of holding joint dances on Valentine's Day, the street lights on the university campus are also on all night on this day.
Cheng Ge and Luo Weiwei were taking a walk, the two of them were very close, talking and laughing like an ordinary couple.
Qing Nuan saw the smile on Cheng Ge's face very clearly.
She knew that smile of his. It was the stunning smile he gave her when he turned around while riding his bicycle; it was also the caring tenderness when he sat under the shade of a tree in the afternoon and let her sleep on his shoulder; it was also the beautiful yearning when he recited Tagore's poems to her under the playground with a sky full of stars; it was the smile he had when he said to her, "Youth kisses you with pain, and you repay it with songs."
Now, he has the same smile when he walks with Luo Weiwei.
Qing Nuan was so sad that she was about to cry.
Song Yang, however, laughed gloatingly: "Look, they are together, why don't you consider accepting my confession?"
The result of gloating was that Qing Nuan slapped Song Yang on the head .
Later, Cheng Ge did not find Qing Nuan. He and Luo Weiwei disappeared into the night of A University, and the campus returned to its original silence late at night.
Later, Song Yang and Qing Nuan left University A and returned to University B.
Valentine's Day is finally over.
Qing Nuan lay on the bed in the dormitory, closed her eyes and sighed softly: After Valentine's Day, I wonder how many people will have a Farewell Day?
She once thought that she and Cheng Ge would become lovers envied by others, but now they are separated from each other.
Ridiculous and sad.
