Chapter 9: A Stunning Encounter
How can the picturesque landscape compare to the scenery you gave me?
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After Xu Yun left, I was restless for the whole afternoon, but I tried hard to pretend that I was listening carefully so that Xiaoyuan would not notice anything.
After school, Xiaoyuan, who knew nothing about it, couldn't wait to drag me to the nearest shopping mall in the rain. To my surprise, Xiaoyuan, who usually had no opinions, didn't bother about choosing a gift this time.
She pulled me straight to the men's clothing floor of the mall, and excitedly described to me the gift she had in mind: "Hexue, I've already thought about it. I want to buy a windbreaker for Hua Ziyin. The kind of long, loose windbreaker, when worn, it will be like... like the hero in the American TV series "Sherlock Holmes". What do you say?"
Without waiting for my answer, she stared at the rows of men's clothing with a worried look on her face: "But I don't know what color or texture to choose."
"Of course it's navy blue, made of cotton and linen." I answered so quickly without even thinking, even I was surprised.
"Ah? You even know what color and texture Hanako Yin likes?" Xiaoyuan looked at me with admiration.
"I... I don't know." I lowered my head and stammered, "I'm just guessing."
I didn't lie. God knows what Hua Ziyin's preferences are, but why at that moment, I almost subconsciously gave that answer.
I was puzzled and my head hurt from thinking about it, but the counter attendant showed up at the right time and interrupted my thoughts.
She took out a windbreaker and said to me, "This is a navy blue cotton and linen men's long windbreaker. You have good taste."
Navy blue cotton and linen texture...You have good taste...
Like a spell to open the door of memory, I gently recited these words from distant memories, and the past came rushing back...
In the spring of a year ago, I was still the high and mighty Song Xihe, and Song Hexue was the most special one among my many little followers, because she was the only one among "my people" who would be laughed at by others, but I would not care.
One day, she suddenly showed her clingy skills and pestered me to help her choose a men's shirt, saying that my taste was better than hers. I was entangled by her and reluctantly agreed to go to the mall to help her take a look.
She nodded repeatedly to assure me that she just wanted me to "take a look", but when we got to the mall, she was overwhelmed by the choices and remained undecided.
I was getting impatient waiting, so I pointed at a shirt and said, "This one."
Immediately, a counter attendant picked out the shirt and said to me, "It's a navy blue cotton and linen shirt. You have good taste."
Song Hexue was overjoyed as if he had found a treasure and went to pay the bill happily.
Now that I think about it, that navy blue cotton and linen men's shirt should have been given to Xu Yun later, which also explains why Xu Yun happened to have such a shirt to lend me last time. Because that was exactly the style of shirt he liked, it was not surprising that he had a reserve of it at home.
But, something seems to be wrong...
Could it really be such a coincidence that the color and texture of the shirt I randomly pointed at in the mall just happened to be what Xu Yun liked?
It felt like a sharp needle was piercing my head, and my head was about to explode with pain. However, this was the only memory I had of the shirt, nothing more.
I was so lost in thought as I stared at the navy blue trench coat in the counter clerk's hand that I didn't even know when Xiaoyuan went to pay the bill. It wasn't until Xiaoyuan pulled me out of the mall that I came to my senses.
The cold wind blew towards me, penetrated my collar, and seemed to blow into my heart.
