The sky was dark and gloomy. Dark clouds swept past, casting shadows. Gradually, the drizzle drenched the streets, the passers-by who didn't have umbrellas, and the faces that were filled with tears from the summer thirst. The rain was good. No one would see you cry when you walked in the rain.
Xia Kezhi walked very slowly. The rain had soaked her clothes. It was so cold! The stranger ran in the rain, brushing past the summer's thirsty shoulders. He did not look back and continued to run. Soon, the street was empty.
Xia Kezhi felt very tired. He thought that it would not hurt anymore. Didn't he already feel nothing when he reached the limit? It turned out that Xia Kezhi had overestimated herself. She still couldn't bear it. She couldn't bear to be betrayed by the person closest to her and trusted the most. The girl who had watched the parasol flowers together for ten years! The girl who sat on the bus and watched the night scene together, the girl who walked through the flower season together with an umbrella! When did she change? When did their friendship change? Why didn't Xia Kezhi notice anything? It turned out that everything was a dream made up by Xia Kezhi himself. Her world finally collapsed. She could no longer be strong. She squatted down weakly and cried loudly. Her tears mixed with the rain and seeped into the soil.
It turned out that the person who could hurt you the most was the person closest to you.
A purple umbrella covered the gloomy summer sky and the cold rain. A pair of white sneakers covered in mud appeared in his vision, which was blurred by the summer thirst. Wu Muqing squatted down, and Xia Kezhi raised his head. He looked at her with pity, and she looked at him in despair. The umbrella fell to the ground. Wu Muqing hugged Xia Kezhi tightly in his arms and hugged her with all his strength. He patted her trembling shoulder."It's okay. I'm here. No matter when, even if everyone betrays you, I will never leave you.”
"W-why? She is, is my only friend. Why did she lie to me too?" Xia was so thirsty that she couldn't make a sound and cried intermittently. She used all her strength to hug Wu Muqing back, afraid that he would disappear if she let go.
"It's all in the past. You still have me." Wu Muqing promised in her ear.
"Since you wanted to lie to me, you shouldn't have been so good to me back then. Then it wouldn't hurt so much now.”
"I won't let you hurt anymore."
"It hurts, it really hurts."
……
The lights were dim, and Xia Kezhi sat on the sofa like a lifeless doll. The rain on her body dripped down, wetting the white sofa and the red carpet. Wu Muqing took a dry towel and carefully wiped Xia Kezhi's face and hair. She still did not have any reaction and allowed Wu Muqing to wipe her hair.
Wu Muqing went to the bathroom and took out a clean towel. He placed it in a place where he was so thirsty that he could touch it."Change into it first. Don't catch a cold."
Wu Muqing turned to leave after he finished speaking, but Xia Kezhi held his hand tightly and refused to let go. He looked up at Wu Muqing and said,"Do you want to know my story?" Xia Kezhi mustered all his courage and continued," I was only eight years old then…"
The dark night, the cold rain, and the sad story were all playing at the same time. After tonight, who would become whose past, and who would become whose salvation.
Under the parasol tree, a lonely figure stood upright, looking at the fallen flowers. Xia Kezhi exhaled deeply.”
It was time to forget this parasol tree, this campus full of youthful memories. It had been five years since he had set foot in this city and this school. This was also the last time. Xia Kezhi had come to say his final goodbye. In the future, no one would remember this painful youth, and no one would pay homage to this sad youth.
From now on, there would no longer be such a girl in Xia Kezhi's memories. Xia Kezhi turned around and left, no longer lingering.
"Thirsty." No matter how determined they were, they still couldn't resist the paleness of reality. Xia Kezhi still stopped in his tracks when he heard the long-lost " Thirsty ". He had just decided to erase everything related to that girl, but she had appeared in front of Xia Kezhi so quickly. The heavens really loved to tease people.
Xia Kezhi turned around and looked at Ren Ting 'er, who was holding a purple umbrella. She still liked the color purple. Since it was so difficult to get rid of a person's habits, why did they change so easily? Perhaps it was all a pretense.
Xia Kezhi was no longer Xia Kezhi, and Ren Ting 'er was no longer the same as she was in the past. They had both changed. There was a gap of five years between them and the knot in each other's hearts. He was destined to never return.
"Long time no see." Xia Kezhi thought that he would angrily ask her why she lied. But now, he didn't want to know. No matter what the reason was, it would only make the wound deeper. Xia Kezhi was very calm. Like many people, he used the most emotionless words.
Ren Ting 'er approached Xia Kezhi with tears in her eyes: "It's really you. It's good to see you.”Ren Ting 'er habitually held Xia Kezhi's hand like before, but Xia Kezhi took a few steps back, and Ren Ting' er's hand awkwardly stopped in mid-air.
"We can't go back." Xia Kezhi's calm tone and calm eyes were as distant as when he was treating a stranger." From the day you lied to me, we should have said goodbye.”
Ren Ting 'er's face suddenly turned pale, and her eyes turned from joy to sorrow. Her hands hung down weakly." So you knew. I thought you could hide it for a long time."”
"In the past, you were the only one I had other than Han Ge. I was never worried that someone would take you away at any time.”Xia Kezhi's tone was cold.
"I don't want to either. I really, really don't want to.”His voice became lower and lower, trembling. The bitterness and regret in his heart seemed to have found a breakthrough and surged out violently.
"I want to know the reason." Xia Kezhi's icy voice pierced through. The only emotion he had was hatred. Yes, hatred. Xia Kezhi, who had never hated anyone, actually hated the person who had once cherished her the most. Her sorrow could no longer bear her pain and coldness.
" Because, because…" All the words were stuck in her throat, making Ren Ting 'er feel suffocated. How was she supposed to open her mouth? Was she supposed to tell Xia Kezhi that she shamelessly fell in love with her best friend's lover and even looked at him evilly to replace him? That was her most unbearable secret, how could she reveal it? It was too late to regret. Every stroke written in his youth could not be erased. The innocence of the past, the obsession of the past, and the devil of the past could no longer be repeated. If there was a second chance, Ren Ting 'er would never be reluctant to part with something that didn't belong to her, and would never lose the person she truly cared about the most.
Why did people only know how to cherish things when they lost them?
"Reason?" Xia Kezhi repeated coldly. Although he was calm, he pressed on step by step. She really wanted to know what made her most cherished friendship change.
"Because I fell in love with someone I shouldn't have.”The almost imperceptible voice pierced Ren Ting 'er's heart word by word. Each word pierced Xia Kezhi's heart. Suddenly, an unbreakable wall grew between them, separating them from each other and they could no longer cross it.
"Han Yi?" Xia Kezhi asked in disbelief, but his tone was firm.
Why did it end up like this? Why? Anything was fine as long as it was not Han Ge. Once, she naively thought that she could give everything to Ren Ting 'er. As long as she had it, she would be willing to part with it. It turned out that what she wanted the most was what she could not give up. The old man was really cruel. He gave Xia Kezhi the two people he cherished the most, but he wanted her to choose between the two. How could she give up? Was it because she was too greedy and refused to let go of both of them, so she was punished? So Ren Ting 'er made the choice to abandon their friendship?
"I'm sorry." Ren Ting 'er apologized weakly. Although she knew how pale and unnecessary this apology was, she still wanted to say it to Xia Kezhi because she had already owed him for five years. It was time to pay him back.
"I never doubted your words, but you lied to me for so many years.”Her eyes were bone-chilling, and her voice was even more powerless." I used to be willing to give up anything, except for Han Ge.”
"I'm really sorry."
"From the moment you needed to apologize to me, we were no longer friends. It seems that none of our previous agreements have been fulfilled: They didn't watch the Chinese parasol flowers bloom together every year, they didn't go to the same university, and they didn't tell each other that they had someone they liked. Let's make one last promise. This time, we'll keep it, okay? I don't want to see you again. I don't want to hate you.”This was their ending! The final agreement was cruel, but it was the best to keep.
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