Chapter 4: The Same Cloud

Chen Lu quickly stood up after hearing this and took out his phone to check the missed call.

The night in Hangzhou was cold, making Chen Lu’s heart tremble with coldness.

Sure enough, you only made one call, and didn’t even send a message.

Mo Yuqing, do you think I’ll definitely take the initiative to find you again? …

In your eyes, how could I be so humble?

Chen Lu tilted his head back for a while, and after regaining his senses, he swiped left to delete the missed call record.

He glanced at the time again, it was already past eleven, so he slowly said:

“I’ll take you back.”

Seeing that the girl was still looking down and didn’t speak, he added: “My house is nearby, you can’t get back to school from here.”

The other party then nodded slightly, and the two walked down the street together.

“My name is Chen Lu, the road with no way out.” Chen Lu looked at the girl sideways, “What’s your name?”

“My name is Liang Zhirou…”

Liang Zhirou looked down at Chen Lu’s shadow and said, this way she didn’t have to look directly at him, but she could still see if he was looking at her, which gave her a sense of security.

He shouldn’t be able to tell I’m looking at him, right?

“…Thank you for buying me the medicine, I’ll pay you back.” The girl said in a voice like a mosquito, and then she took out her phone from her pocket and pressed it twice.

Chen Lu felt inexplicably warm in his heart when he heard this.

It turns out that even such a small matter, someone would say thank you to me?

Chen Lu was a little dazed, he hadn’t heard a word of thanks from Mo Yuqing.

Not a single one.

Just as he was still in a daze, he saw the girl slightly open her mouth, her eyes blinking, and she said in a daze: “My phone is dead…”

Perhaps afraid of being suspected, she trembled her small hand and held the phone in front of Chen Lu, pressing it twice again.

Sure enough, there was no response.

Even though she herself was reluctant to buy medicine, she seemed to still think that she couldn’t take advantage of others, and she looked a little flustered.

Chen Lu couldn’t help but curl his lips, “You seem a little silly. It’s okay, this medicine is cheap, it only cost less than ten yuan.”

The girl was too embarrassed to speak, she pursed her lips and continued to lower her head.

“Actually, I’m very smart…” After a while, Liang Zhirou suddenly said seriously.

“Okay.”

This girl’s personality seemed very dull, Chen Lu wasn’t in the mood to talk either, so the two walked in silence.

With nothing to do on the way, Chen Lu took a closer look at this somewhat self-effacing girl. When they met eyes earlier, Liang Zhirou gave him a very stunning feeling.

So he was even more curious why such a beautiful girl would keep hiding herself.

“Why are you always looking down?” Chen Lu yawned and said, “You should be more confident, I’ve only seen one person as beautiful as you in my life.”

“Even though there may still be brainless boys bullying you, but the possibility of others coming to help will be greater.”

After a long time, Liang Zhirou slowly said: “This way it’s not easy to be noticed…”

Chen Lu suddenly understood. From what she said earlier about buying medicine costing a lot of money, he guessed that she might not be from a wealthy family. For girls with this kind of personality, being too beautiful is not a good thing.

This characteristic needs to be added with things like family background like Mo Yuqing to have value.

They walked for a long time, but for some reason Chen Lu felt that time flew by, and Liang Zhirou took her to a bus stop.

“I’ll wait for the bus here…” Liang Zhirou held her bus card and said softly, “It’s very close to home after getting off the bus.”

Chen Lu looked at the time, they had walked for more than ten minutes without any delay along the way.

“Do you do this every day?” Chen Lu imagined it and felt like he would be exhausted.

“Rent is cheaper for houses that are a bit further away.”

“Then why don’t you find a job near your house?”

“Even if I exclude travel expenses, I can earn ten yuan more a day here…”

Chen Lu nodded silently, it seemed like whatever he asked, the girl would answer honestly.

It’s a bit magical.

“It’s really hard work.”

As soon as he finished speaking, the bus came. With a “hiss”, the two doors slowly opened.

“Thank…” Liang Zhirou turned her head, just as she was about to speak, she saw Chen Lu shake his head slowly.

Then she walked onto the bus under Chen Lu’s smiling gaze.

The girl just sat down and realized what she wanted to say to Chen Lu, but the bus had already started moving.

She wanted to tell Chen Lu to come to the store to find her when he was free, she wanted to pay him back.

Then she quickly stood up and tapped on the window anxiously.

“The money for the medicine! I will definitely pay you back!!”

Seeing the girl who was so anxious that her voice became a little louder, Chen Lu really found it funny, he just smiled and waved his hand.

After the bus left, Chen Lu, who had just realized, had a smile on his face instantly solidified.

How will she pay me back?

The bus drove through the silent night.

Even though Chen Lu’s face was no longer reflected on the window, Liang Zhirou still kept staring at the bottom right corner of the window.

No one would have thought that thousands of years later, there would still be a silly girl who would use the same method to find the same person.

Another gust of cold wind blew, and the girl huddled into her coat.

It’s so warm.

…

Without thinking much, Chen Lu hailed a taxi and went home.

He and Jiang Chao were both locals, and they could stay out of the dormitory every day if they wanted to.

But in order to maintain their father-son relationship, the two of them still spent more time in the dormitory.

“Master, Lijing Garden.”

“Yo, that’s pretty far.”

“I got lost.”

Looking at the hazy night scene, Chen Lu slowly took out his phone.

He suddenly saw Mo Yuqing, who he had set as his top priority for years, and after much hesitation, he still canceled the top priority.

He also went to Penguin and canceled the special attention.

Think about the past when he would send good morning and good night messages every day without fail;

He would actively find various topics every day, and if he didn’t get a reply, he would feel anxious all the time;

He would carefully consider every sentence, afraid of killing the conversation;

He would treat occasional slow replies as resistance to Mo Yuqing’s slow replies.

You’re so cheap, Chen Lu.

Chen Lu smiled bitterly as he flipped through his chat history with Mo Yuqing.

It was full of his own messages, with only one or two replies from her.

Just by randomly picking a page, you could see a sea of green bubbles, with very few white ones.

As he did these things, the night scene outside the window became increasingly blurred in his eyes.

Even though he was canceling the other person’s top priority, Chen Lu didn’t know why he was sad instead.

He sniffled and sent a message to Jiang Chao.

Chen Lu: “Boss, I’m going home, you guys play.”

Jiang Chao: “Go back, go back, these two are real pits, they died almost twenty times in one game, it’s good you’re not here.”

Chen Lu smiled lightly after seeing this, and just as he was about to turn off the screen, he saw another message from Jiang Chao.

Jiang Chao: “I thought you would suddenly get motivated and then win over that part-time girl. (funny)”

Chen Lu: “Go away, I didn’t even add her WeChat, I’m going to screenshot what you said and send it to your girlfriend.”

Jiang Chao: “Σσ(?Д?；) That’s definitely not necessary, get a good night’s sleep, remember to think of us when you wake up.”

Seeing Jiang Chao’s message, Chen Lu was a little stunned.

You can reply instantly while playing games, why can’t Mo Yuqing?

She’s never replied to my messages quickly…

Chen Lu arrived at the downstairs of his house at almost one o’clock.

He deliberately looked at the window of his house and found that the light was not on before he felt relieved.

As long as I go home after my parents are asleep and leave before they wake up, I haven’t come back!

Thinking of this, Chen Lu tiptoed up.

He sneaked into his room like a thief, opened the locked drawer, and took out everything related to Mo Yuqing, ready to throw it away.

He suddenly saw a bracelet with only one wooden bead.

I still have this?

He hesitated for a while, holding it in his hand, and the bracelet was still put back into the empty drawer.

Everything related to Mo Yuqing was gone.

…

Liang Zhirou, who hadn’t felt warmth from others for a long time, had a very heartwarming dream. She dreamed of the past, a healing experience that helped her get through it.

It was more than ten years ago.

A little girl squatted in the sand of the park, silently watching other children climb up and down the slide.

Shui Lingling’swatery eyes were slightly red, obviously she had just cried.

Because she was from a mountain village, she didn’t dare to go up and play with them.

This kind of inferiority complex seemed to be innate, because she had never seen anything that others took for granted.

She also… didn’t know what these things were.

At this time, a little boy walked over and squatted next to her.

“Why are you unhappy?” The boy’s tone was very gentle, this was the first time someone had spoken to her like this since she came to this city.

“Because my dad has an incurable disease.”

The little girl started to cry, looking very wronged.

This was the first time she had come to the big city she had imagined.

Unlike what she had imagined, Hangzhou seemed to only have annoying vehicle horns and the smell of disinfectant from the hospital.

Even though there were people everywhere, the distance between people seemed to be very far.

It was different from the village, no one would take the initiative to help anyone, she could only follow her worried mother around the hospital, asking how to register and pay.

Seeing her mother’s bewildered look when she was ignored, she only wished she could grow up now.

The boy nodded silently, and after a long silence, he pointed to a few children blowing bubbles in the distance and said softly: “It’s best to distract yourself at this time, do you want to play with a bubble machine? You just need to press it and it will fly out many, many bubbles, it’s very fun.”

“My family is poor, I can’t afford this.”

The little girl lowered her head even further.

“Luckily I have two!”

The boy said excitedly, and at the same time, he stuffed the only bubble machine he had into her hand. There was no hypocrisy or reluctance in his childish eyes.

“One for each of us.”

Seeing that the girl didn’t seem to believe him, the boy smiled lightly and said: “The other one is at home, it’s even better than this one, so I don’t want to take it out, I’m afraid they’ll break it for me.”

“What’s your name?” The little girl reluctantly believed him, rubbing her red eyes.

Even though she knew she would never see him again in her life, she still wanted to ask.

“I’m Flame Dragon Warrior!” The boy said and then stuffed all the fruit candies in his pocket into her hand, “Anyway, when you’re sad, just eat a candy.”

“Here you go…” The girl handed the wooden bracelet on her wrist to the other party, “Mom said to give something in return, I can’t take your things for free…”

It was made by herself, so there was only one wooden bead and a red string.

The wooden bead was polished very smooth, it required great patience, it was hard to imagine that a little girl made it herself.

“Thank you!”

The boy was about to ask her name, but he was pulled away by a girl dressed in designer clothes.

……

Liang Zhirou, who was half-awake, smiled lightly, and lowered her eyes to cover her mother’s thin blanket.

The reason why she chose to apply to this university was because she wanted to come back to this city.

There are millions of people in this city, I don’t expect to see you again.

But we can always see the same cloud.