Just as Fangzheng was feeling worried, Tian Xin slowly said, "Can I tell you a story?"
Fangzheng nodded slightly.
Tian Xin said, "I know a boy. His name is Ding Mu, a wooden name." With that said, Tian Xin glanced at Fangzheng.
Fangzheng didn't say a word and pretended not to know anything.
Tian Xin continued, "I remember that when I was in university, he and I were the first pair of students to report in our faculty. He was first, and I was second. He was in front of me, and he was so tall that he almost blocked my line of sight. After he finished writing his name, it was my turn. I was surprised to see that we were both students from the Fine Arts Department! I gasped. He looked back at me, smiled foolishly, and walked away shyly.
In the end, when the homeroom teacher asked us to gather, we met again. We looked at each other in surprise and found it a little funny. We were actually fated to meet.
They were from the same faculty and the same class. The two of them could be considered to be the most familiar with each other in the class. So we became deskmates. We read books together, skipped classes together, and went hiking together …
After that, I confessed to him. "
Fangzheng looked at Tian Xin in surprise. He never expected the girl to confess first. He believed that it was usually the boys who took the initiative … Fangzheng decisively took note of this point. He wanted to accumulate some experience for his future path of renouncing asceticism and finding a wife.
As Tian Xin continued speaking, a series of images flashed across Fangzheng's mind.
On the school field in the early morning, young boys and girls ran together in the morning. In order to be taller than the boys, the girls kept adjusting their positions. Their goal was to make their shadows a little longer than the boys and regain some confidence in their height.
Before class ended at noon, the boy and the girl sneaked away from the back door.
After class at noon, a boy and a girl, one tall and one short, ran quickly with lunch boxes in their hands. They took the lead and rushed into the cafeteria. Then, they quickly scanned all the dishes in the cafeteria, picked the delicious ones, and ordered more.
However, every time they sat down, the boy would pass the tomato scrambled eggs on his plate to the girl. He said that he did not like to eat tomatoes. But if you don't like it, then why do you want this dish?
The girl always gave the braised pork to the boy. She said she didn't like it either.
Then, the two smiled at each other and lowered their heads to eat. However, in the end, the girl would always eat half of the boy's meal. She sadly discovered that she could eat more than the boy …
In the evening, in the study room, the two of them liked to sit in the corner. One read a novel, the other drew. They did not speak to each other, but they accompanied each other, enjoying the silence that belonged only to the two of them.
University time passed by quickly. The girl watched the couples in the university break up one after another, and her heart was also shrouded in a shadow. The girl and the boy separated. She went to the South, and the boy went to the Southwest. She heard that children in the Southwest did not like to go out. They would usually find a job locally and then get married and have children.
She thought about following them, but she couldn't do it in the short term.
However, when she got off the train, she saw the boy holding his luggage, standing outside the door, looking at her and smiling at her.
She asked, "Why didn't you go home?"
He said, "I don't know. I wanted to go home, so I followed you."
She rolled her eyes at him, then brought him home and introduced him to her parents.
Her parents didn't agree, but they didn't object either. They just let her stay.
The two of them studied together, went to job interviews, and took exams together …
She originally thought that the two of them could be together forever, but that day, her parents returned to their hometown. He went to work, and she was alone at home. She didn't know what had happened. A fire suddenly burned and blocked the door. She couldn't get out, so she could only hide behind the protective window and shout with all her might, hoping that someone would come and save her.
The neighbors wanted to help put out the fire, but the fire was too big and couldn't be extinguished. The door was smashed open, but the fire burned out, and no one could enter.
She despaired, thinking that she was doomed … Under the thick smoke, she gradually lost consciousness.
In her haze, she saw a person covered in a wet blanket rush in. The person wrapped her in the wet blanket and ran out while carrying her, who was almost unconscious.
She didn't know what had happened, but as she ran, she felt her body rise into the air. Then she heard someone scream, and someone shouted, "Catch!"
"It's collapsed! It's over! "
"Move the cars away. The firefighters are here!"
…
She didn't know what happened after that. When she woke up, she saw her parents crying by the side, but the boy was nowhere to be seen. She asked, "Where's he?
Her parents said that he had left. "
She didn't believe it. She called, but no one answered. She asked others, but no one said a word.
It wasn't until she came out of the hospital that she found out that the person who saved her was Ding Mu. Ding Mu had climbed in from a house downstairs that didn't have a security net installed. When Ding Mu carried Tian Xin to the window, the building collapsed. At the critical moment, Ding Mu threw her onto a soft bed that was piled up with many blankets. And he was buried in the ruins.
When the firefighters arrived, extinguished the fire, and found him, it was already …
"I personally sent him back. Furthermore, I watched him cremate." When Tian Xin said that, she stared straight at Fangzheng.
Fangzheng felt a little guilty. This wasn't a matter of appearance, but a coincidence of a door. Unfortunately, he couldn't say that …
After hearing Tian Xin's story, Fangzheng felt mixed emotions. At that moment, he was even more at a loss for words.
Pretend that he was Ding Mu? Make her happy?
But was there a need to fake happiness? Tian Xin was a strong girl. Although she was sad, she didn't despair. Although she was in pain, she wasn't pessimistic. She still had love in her heart because she still wore a brass ring on her hand. It was bought by Ding Mu from a street stall for fun. However, after Ding Mu left, she treated it as a wedding ring and solemnly wore it on her ring finger to show that she was already married.
It was shameful to lie to such a girl.
But should he admit it? He looked at the glimmer of hope in Tian Xin's eyes, but he couldn't bear to hurt her. This was because no matter how he acted, he wouldn't be able to stay forever. He was just a passerby, and a passerby should have the awareness of a passerby.
When Fangzheng heard this, he knew what he had to do. He stood up and said, "You're welcome. There must be a reason why the heavens arranged for us to meet there. I hope you can be happy in the future. "
Tian Xin pursed her lips and smiled. "Of course! Blockhead has always been by my side. I have to live a happy life and let him in heaven see me smile happily. "
Fangzheng nodded.
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