“What if I say I love you?”

“It’s like lighting a candle in a bright room.”

Zeng Li returned home, turned on the TV, and “Memoirs of a Century of Film” was playing on a certain channel, counting the lives of master directors. When talking about the life of director Michelangelo Antonioni1, he read this sentence lines.

Zeng Li stood in front of the TV with a cup in her hand, and didn’t move away for a long time.

This dialogue comes from Zeng Li’s adolescent sexual enlightenment movie. In the afternoon of the summer vacation of the second year of junior high school, a few good girls met at a classmate’s house in the name of doing homework, and secretly watched DVDs together while their parents were not at home/

For the little girls huddled in front of the sofa, the whole movie is completely incomprehensible, and the only gimmick is the naked lust.

Zeng Li curled up in a small corner, looking at the picture on the screen, feeling a little timid and puzzled, but pretended to be disdainful with others.

The next day, Zeng’s father came back and said that he had found a tutor for Zeng Li. She will be in the third grade next semester, and she really needs to work harder in her studies.

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“Male and female?” Zeng’s mother asked, “Don’t bring everyone home.”

“It’s not like you haven’t seen my cousin’s nephew. He is studying at a university in Beijing.” Dad Zeng said.

“Which cousin is yours?”

“My mother’s cousin, the one at the fourth cousin’s house.”

“Those cousins ​​in your mother’s house don’t have any good things…” Zeng’s mother began to criticise her husband’s relatives endlessly, and then the two quarrelled.

Zeng Li pretended to go to the toilet, hid, and heard them arguing about everything from the previous generation to all kinds of things before they got married Zeng Li thought she should get used to it by now, but he couldn’t help squatting on the ground and crying shed tears.

She didn’t know how many times she had encountered this kind of thing since she was young, and it’s been going on as long as she can remember. Sometimes when she went to a classmate’s house and saw a harmonious family, she felt very uncomfortable. Maybe after they leave, they will throw pots and bowls like their parents, right? Zeng Li could only comfort herself in this way.

However, her parents didn’t even know how to hide it, and would quarrel and fight in front of her classmates, so she never dared to bring anyone home.

On the weekend, she thought that the tutoring matter would be settled, but unexpectedly, Zeng’s father brought the boy back.

That wasn’t the first time Zeng Li saw Yu Yi.

Although the two families are distant relatives, they both went to the Ching Ming Festival held in their hometown on Qingming Festival2. She has no impression of dozens of relatives, but she has a deep memory of Yi, because grandma took her by the hand and asked her to call him “Xiao Bai Shu3“.

However, when Zeng Li saw Yu Yi again at home, she became embarrassed. She is no longer as obedient as she was when she was a child, when she would call her whatever the adults teach her. Now it’s hard for her to say “Little Cousin” to a boy who is not a few years older than herself.

Zeng’s father said, “Xiao Li, why don’t you greet him?”

Yu Yi smiled, “Just call me by name.”

Zeng Li didn’t have her own room at home, but only had a small bed on one side of the living room. If she did her homework, she would go to the small desk in her parents’ bedroom, so Yu Yi also tutored Zeng Li in the bedroom.

Yu Yi was a superborn in their family, so he did not get a household registration until he was seven years old. But even the fourth-cousin aunt herself did not expect that her old son was extremely smart in school and was well-known in the entire county. After being admitted to university last year, their school even put up a big red banner at the gate, for fear that others would not know.

After Yu Yi returned home during the summer vacation, many people asked him for tutoring. Finally, at the request of Zeng’s father, he finally set aside every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday morning to tutor Zeng Li in English, mathematics and chemistry. Except for Saturdays, there are only two of them at home. Since he is a relative and a good child, Zeng’s mother had no unnecessary worries, and Zeng Li herself doesn’t think about anything else at all.

She has finished her second year of junior high school and hasn’t had her menstrual period yet. I don’t know if it’s because of this, but she is slower than girls in the same grade to understand the difference between men and women.

Later, on the second Saturday, Father Zeng and Mother Zeng started arguing again. At that time, she was sitting next to Yu Yi, and he was teaching her a geometry problem. Hearing the movement outside, the pen in her hand paused, their voices almost overwhelmed her, so she also stopped. The wait was unless. Finally, Yu Yi got up and closed the bedroom door.

Zeng Li looked at him in embarrassment, thinking he was bored.

But she didn’t expect Yu Yi to turn around and smile at her, “Let’s ignore them, take this opportunity to rest, and I’ll tell you a joke.”

Yu Yi is a cheerful person with good eloquence. He told stories so vividly that Zeng Li couldn’t take his eyes off him. When he was about to talk about the joke, Zeng’s mother suddenly pushed the door open and entered with a bang, which startled Zeng Li and brought Yu Yi’s story to an abrupt end.

“Zeng Li, tell me, if your father and I divorce, who will you follow?” Mother Zeng asked right away.

Zeng Li froze on her seat. She had been asked countless times this kind of question, but was it necessary to continue asking it in front of outsiders?

Before Zeng Li could answer, Father Zeng chased after him and shouted, “Li! Who is afraid of whom? I think you just found another one outside, and you are counting on someone who is richer than me…”

The two of them scolded each other one after another, leaving Zeng Li and Yu Yi there.

In the end, Zeng’s father slammed the door and left in a rage.

Mother Zeng didn’t forget to chase him out and yelled, “When there is a quarrel, I go out to drink and eat with my mother’s money, and the child doesn’t take my surname, so why should I take care of it?” She also threw the apron away, picked up the bag and gone.

Those harsh voices disappeared from the air in an instant.

Yu Yi asked, “Are they often so noisy?”

Zeng Li said in a panic: “No, no, really not.” Afterwards, she also bit her lip guilty.

“Don’t keep biting your mouth with your front teeth, or you’ll get rabbit teeth,” Yu Yi said.

After hearing his words, Zeng Li was even more embarrassed, and hastily let go.

But Yu Yi deliberately bit his front teeth, and teased Zeng Li like a rabbit, but Zeng Li still had a sad face and didn’t smile.

Yu Yi said again: “Rabbit teeth are good, do you know?”

“What?”

“It’s very convenient when you eat watermelon rind, and it won’t stain your face.” He also simulated an action while speaking.

Zeng Li couldn’t help laughing when he heard such a bizarre benefit for the first time.

Yu Yi looked at her smiling face, said “Good girl”, and then patted her head.

At the end of August, Yu Yi returned to school after his summer vacation.

In winter, Zeng Li was in physical education class and suddenly felt something different in her body. She ran to the toilet to see that her pants were stained with blood, and she immediately realised what had happened.

She was the last girl in the class to get her period, and she knew everything by ear. She put some toilet paper on calmly, and then went to the canteen to buy sanitary napkins with her legs crossed.

She went home and told her mother, but Zeng’s mother said flatly, “You know everything you need to know?”

Just one sentence.

Maybe it’s because her parents’ personalities are too flamboyant, Zeng Li has been extremely quiet and timid since she was a child. They lived in a demolition and resettlement house on the edge of the city. The downstairs is a courtyard house. The courtyard was originally a garage, but it was rented out to others for funerals.

The local custom is that after a person dies, relatives and friends must observe filial piety for three days before being sent to cremation.

Most people don’t put coffins at home because it’s taboo, and there are not many places in the city to do this business, so the downstairs yard is very busy all year round. Some superstitious family members will invite people to play, sing and do the dojo, no matter day or night. Neighbours have their own opinions, but there have been quarrels, quarrels and quarrels, but there is no end.

But Zeng Li’s trouble was the dead body parked there.

More than ten years ago, the ice coffins in funeral parlours were not popular, but two simple stools with a wooden board on top, and the corpse was covered with a white cloth. For some reason, the place under the corpse was still An oil lamp will be lit.

Later, she heard from neighbours that the oil lamp is the soul, and it cannot be extinguished for three days. It is not good to be extinguished. What exactly does this not refer to, Zeng Li dare not continue to inquire.

She passed by there several times every day on her way home, and each time she went around far away, her eyes fixed on the white cloth and the oil lamp, and as soon as she went around, she immediately ran upstairs.

In the last year of the third year of junior high school, the school did not have evening self-study, but the teacher occasionally arranged tutoring. Because the family is close, because parents are busy, and because the law and order is not bad, anyway, for various reasons, Zeng Li always goes home by herself after tutoring. She usually arrives home after nine o’clock, which is the busiest time for funerals. Those who come to watch the spirit, some play cards, some brag and chat, some peel peanuts and eat melon seeds. Anyway, there are many people, but it looks lively and festive.

But what frightened her most was not the night, but the morning.

Zeng Li got up at 6:30 in the morning and would going out at 7:00. In winter, before dawn at seven o’clock, the person downstairs who was in charge of the vigil last night had already gone back to sleep, but the person taking over the next day hadn’t arrived yet, and occasionally there would be no one there, only the corpses and trembling bodies under the white cloth. Trembling oil lamp.

Sometimes as long as there is a little noise around, it will make her want to scream.

Later, Zeng Li couldn’t help telling her parents how she felt, but unexpectedly, her parents took her to find the boss, “You scared my daughter by doing business, what should I do? How can I compensate?” Then the neighbours joined in. , It was endless tugging and noise.

Not long after the winter vacation came, Yu Yi came back again.

That day, a group of people had a reunion dinner at the uncle’s house. Probably because grandma was getting old and in poor health, she felt that she couldn’t last long, and instead became lively. This year, her uncle invited all the relatives who could come from grandma’s maternal family. Zeng Li sat beside grandma and listened to her nagging, and saw Yu Yi among a bunch of visitors.

She couldn’t help calling him.

He came over and greeted Grandma Zeng Li first.

“Hey who are you calling, Zeng Li! Why are you so rude? You forgot what I taught you?” Grandma scolded her granddaughter with a little love.

Zeng Li opened and closed his mouth in embarrassment, and finally opened his mouth again and called “Xiao Bai Shu”.

While agreeing, Yu Yi winked at her with a smile.

The cousin also came over, she was not a few months younger than Zeng Li, but she called “little cousin” openly under the order of grandma.

However, she was not as easy to pass as before, and said eloquently: “Little cousin, I wish you a New Year greeting! Gong Xi Fa Cai4, here is the red envelope5!”

Yu Yi took advantage of the opportunity and threw the oranges on the coffee table into his cousin’s arms, “Here.”

“This is our orange, what kind of red envelope is it?” The cousin refused to obey him, and rushed towards him.

Then, a group of half-grown children began to frolick.

Zeng Li watched quietly from the side, feeling a little lost for some reason, it turned out that he was not her little cousin alone.

Zeng’s mother didn’t show up until the meal was ready, Zeng’s father said irritably, “I guess she has something to do and won’t come, let’s eat, it’s not once or twice.”

The people present looked at each other in blank dismay.

After the meal, grandma started chatting with others again, and talked about Zeng Li’s study for a while.

“Your father said that Yu Yi gave you a make-up class for the summer vacation. Did it work?” Grandma asked.

“Yes.” Zeng Li replied.

Yu Yi smiled, “It’s just right, I won’t go back to school until the end of next month, and I will continue to go to your home to give you tutoring in a few days. But I have forgotten all about the exams in the third grade of junior high school, so I have to read books later.”

“You don’t thank him yet?” Grandma said again.

Zeng Li glanced at Yu Yi, “Thank you little cousin.”

“This child talks like squeezing toothpaste, teach me to say a word.” Grandma sighed.

After two or three days, Yu Yi started to provide door-to-door service again. This time, he borrowed a lot of review questions and arranged tasks for Zeng Li in a planned way.

From time to time, Zeng Li’s parents would quarrel.

Yu Yi has almost gotten used to it, and he always has so many nonsensical jokes in his mind to tell Zeng Li.

When the parents had the worst quarrel, Zeng’s father smashed all the bowls, and then the two of them left a mess and left separately.

Yu Yi asked, “What do you have for lunch?”

“There are leftovers in the refrigerator, i’ll just heat them up.”

“And at night?”

Zeng Li thought for a while, “I will heat it up again.”

Yu Yi sighed and picked up the pieces for her.

“Don’t worry, in fact, my mother can’t let me go, she always turns back and cooks for me.” Zeng Li said.

Yu Yi looked at her incredulously.

Zeng Li became anxious, “Really, really, really.”

“Ok, ok, I got it.”

After a while, he said again: “If you want to lie in the future, don’t worry or panic, or you will be spotted right away. Just smile and say to others: ‘Really, it’s truer than pearls.’”

Zeng Li looked at him blankly.

“Xiao Yu.6” Yu Yi called her.

“En?”

“You have to grow up quickly. When you grow up and can be independent after leaving home, you will find that your parents are actually quite good.” Yu Yi said.

“Yeah.” Zeng Li buried her head, and then tears fell down.

Yu Yi hurriedly said: “Don’t cry, you look ugly when you cry, but you look good when you smile, maybe you will look like Wang Zu Xian when you grow up.”

During Zeng Li’s high school entrance examination, she successfully got into the middle school in the city, which was a grade higher than the county high school that the teacher had expected for her. However, the parents’ marriage was not so smooth. After more than ten years of quarrelling, the two finally broke up.

The day of separation happened to be the day after Zeng Li received her high school notice, but it was the most difficult and shameful day in Zeng Li’s life.

At grandma’s house, all the relatives gathered together, seeming to be judging, but actually they seemed to be watching her parents perform. Everything belongs to one by one, passbook, cash, stocks, even electrical appliances, furniture, followed by Zeng Li, and finally the house. Whenever they can’t continue talking, the two families, including the uncle and the second uncle, and even the grandmother will participate in it, and each has its own reasons.

When Zeng Li was assigned, Mother Zeng immediately said, “My daughter is mine.” Father Zeng didn’t say anything this time. He rarely stays at home to raise children, and he doesn’t know much about raising daughters, so he doesn’t know what to do.

Grandma Zeng was really reluctant to part with her granddaughter, so she said: “Zeng Li is a child of the Zeng family, if you remarry in the future, and find her a stepdad, what will she do?”

“Have you ever raised them? What stepdad? Her own dad doesn’t care! Did you take care of her homework? Did you go to a parent meeting?”

“Why didn’t I care?” Zeng’s father became angry.

So the two started arguing again.

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Zeng Li stood in front of the crowd, some were persuading her to fight, some were looking at her, and those eyes seemed to be filled with sighs: this child is so pitiful. As a result, Zeng Li would have the same dream countless nights, dreaming that she was walking on the street or in the crowd for a long time, until many people looked at her, and she realised that she had forgotten to put on her clothes.

Then, she saw Yu Yi who was sitting on the outermost edge.

Her little cousin has a family completely different from hers.

He is the last boy in this big family, and the youngest sister is ten years older than him, and is now married. Regardless of his sister, brother or cousin, the whole family’s focus is on him alone. He is afraid of melting in his mouth and afraid of falling when holding it in his hand. Moreover, he is also very upbeat, and everyone in the family is happy when they mention him when they go out.

What interrupted her thoughts was the uncle’s words, and the uncle suddenly said to her: “Let Zeng Li choose for herself, who do you want to follow?”

Zeng Li burst into tears, “I…I want both.”

Mother Zeng gritted her teeth and said, “No way! There is him without me, and there is me without him.”

In the end, Zeng Li followed her mother.

For one thing, Zeng’s mother insisted on taking custody of her daughter, and she even didn’t have to give up the house. Secondly, what she told Yi was the truth. Mother Zeng was worried about her daughter, and she said so, she would still come back and cook for her. So she thought from the bottom of her heart that maybe it would be better to follow her mother. After Zeng Li arrived in high school, she chose to live on campus, and Zeng’s mother did not object. Finally, Zeng Li left the courtyard, left the small county town, and moved to a school in the urban area dozens of kilometres away.

Mother Zeng is a very capable person. After the department store closed down, she studied accounting at night, and later worked as an accountant in a small factory. She was tall, fair-skinned, and looked young. Although she had a bad temper with Zeng’s father, she always greeted everyone with a smile, so she remarried less than a year after the divorce. The other party’s name is Deng Gang, and he works in a bank in the urban area. His condition was many times better than that of Zeng’s father. Deng Gang is a very good person. His wife passed away and he had no children, so he loved Zeng Li very much. But Zeng Li couldn’t accept him so quickly psychologically, so she didn’t like to talk to him very much, and kept calling him Uncle Deng.

Except for life, she and her mother have almost no other communication. The school affairs are only occasionally mentioned at home, and the only ones who can talk are the school classmates.

As for the fifteen-year-old Zeng Li, her whole body was developing rapidly, her chest is gradually protruding, her stature is rising rapidly, and her lips became plump. From time to time, boys from senior grades come to strike up a conversation, but apart from laughing and laughing with girls in the same class and room, she is very cautious in front of strangers, which gives people a cold feeling.

After the lights in the dormitory are turned off every night, it’s time for the girls to talk about their innermost feelings.

Everyone’s topic is nothing more than who in the class seems to be having an affair with whom, who must like whom, or how handsome a certain boy in the third year of high school is, who on the basketball team or volleyball team has changed his girlfriend.

When it was winter vacation, Grandma Zeng asked someone to bring a letter saying that she wanted her granddaughter to go back to live for a few days.

After the divorce, Zeng’s father had a grudge because Zeng Li did not choose him at the last critical moment. In fact, he didn’t want her custody first, but in the end he blamed Zeng Li for not being filial, and Zeng’s mother forbade her to associate with her father’s people. Therefore, Zeng Li never saw his grandma for half a year, and Zeng Li was able to return to the small county again with Zeng’s mother’s consent.

During the reunion dinner, it was those people again, but Zeng’s father didn’t pay much attention to her, and didn’t even reserve a seat for her to sit next to him. Grandma’s side has long been crowded with other grandchildren, where is there room for her?

Just as she was stumping at a loss, Yu Yi came over. He grabbed her arm with one hand, held a plastic stool with the other, and led her to their table.

He motioned: “You sit here with me.” After speaking, he placed the stool in his hand at the corner of the table and sat down by himself.

The table he sat at was full of boys or young people who were about his age. They were of different generations, but everyone was happy. When she just sat down, Zeng Li wanted to greet each of them politely, but there were so many relatives, some of them barely moved, she just had an impression but couldn’t call out. When she finally thought of one, the rest refused and insisted that she call them as well.

This made Zeng Li extremely embarrassed.

Yu Yi said: “Little Yu’er, what are you talking about with them? Except for me, everyone else is up to my brother. Besides, why do people call you?” This last sentence was what Yu Yi said to the others, “Can people call you for nothing?”

Yu Yi is a mischievous and eloquent person, he can be the protagonist no matter where he is, he can attract people’s attention all at once, and he can also help others in an instant.

The fourth cousin next to him became more energetic, “Hey, Yu Yi, at worst, call me, I’ll have a glass of wine.”

Yu Yi said: “You’re cheap and good-looking, and you can still get a drink if someone takes the trouble to call you.”

“Then what are you going to do?”

“Look—” Yu Yi stood up, turned around and asked Zeng Li with a smile, “What did you call me?”

Zeng Li didn’t understand why he suddenly asked this, and she didn’t dare to call his name directly when facing a large table of relatives, so she honestly called “little cousin”.

“Hey! Hey! Hey!” Yu Yi responded, then took out a red envelope from his pocket and handed it to Zeng Li, “Here, the lucky money that your little cousin gave you.”

After Zeng Li took the red envelope, the others suddenly threw away the bowls and chopsticks, and rushed towards Yu Yi. The words “little cousin” kept coming and going, and Zeng Li was also amused by this battle.

It was only later that she found out that the red envelope was drawn by Yu Yi from the scholarship he had saved.

After school started, Zeng Li saw a magazine from her deskmate, which contained the line she saw in “Days on the Clouds” during the summer vacation of her second year of junior high school.

—What if I say I love you?

— Like lighting a candle in a bright room.

She didn’t even remember what kind of story the movie told, but when her eyes touched the words, she thought of Yu Yi and love.

Zeng Li felt that a small sprout had broken through the ground in her heart.

Once this kind of idea sprouted, it began to grow wildly.

He is more outstanding and calm than any boy of the same age around her, and he understands her better, understands her fear, her shame, and her fear. Yu Yi is like a beam of bright sunshine, illuminating everything about her.

She had a crush on him.

She looked forward to every meeting with him. Zhinu1 can see her lover once a year, and how lucky she is to see him twice a year. During the holidays, she would persistently go to grandma’s house to stay for some time, and if Yu Yi didn’t come, she would go to find him. But when she found him, she didn’t dare to go forward, she only dared to watch him secretly and from afar, and followed him, not letting him find out.

If Yu Yi came to eat at home, no matter how much others emphasized, she would not call him “little cousin” anymore.

After having this secret, she feels that the world has become more open, she can communicate with her classmates, and she can also talk about her Yu Yi in the dead of night.

She still continued to refer to Deng Gang as Uncle Deng, but it was not as unfamiliar as before. He would bring her souvenirs when he was on a business trip, and he would take the initiative to invite her classmates to visit his home. He didn’t quarrel with Zeng’s mother in front of her, and he didn’t throw bowls and things when he was angry. Even, when Zeng’s mother was too busy, he would take the initiative to go to the school to attend the parents’ meeting, and said to the class teacher with a smile: “Thank you Teacher for looking after my daughter.”

Zeng Li felt that he was really a good person, and slowly began to accept him in his heart.

For three full years, she and Yu Yi spent no more than ten days getting along with each other except for tutoring. However, every line of dialogue and every smiling face every time they met, she deeply engraved it in her mind, and spent the remaining half a year to reminisce.

She adored this boy so humblely, she wanted to cling to him like a speck of dust, but she didn’t dare to show any clues. She tried hard to get close to him, but it was too difficult.

In the winter vacation of the third year of high school, my father took the initiative to come to the city to find her, saying that he was visiting her, bought her a lot of things, and then told her that he was remarried and the new mother was pregnant with a child.

When Mother Zeng found out about this, she pointed at Zeng Li’s nose and said, “I’m going to give you a younger brother. What your father meant was to tell you not to spoil their family’s new life.” So Zeng Li was no longer allowed to go to grandma’s house. During that Spring Festival, she didn’t see Yu Yi, and she found out later that Yu Yi didn’t go back to his hometown either. He is about to graduate, is doing an internship at a hospital in Beijing, and may continue his studies.

When filling out the application for the college entrance examination, she didn’t want to go to the same school as him, she just wanted to go to Beijing and breathe the air under the same blue sky with him. However, Zeng’s mother said to her: “How much ability do you have, what dreams do you have. Be realistic. It would be good to get a bachelor’s degree in the provincial capital.” That night, Zeng Li took a bath in the bathroom, crying while washing. She has always cried since she was a child, but she had never been so sad and desperate. She was so desperate that she couldn’t help crying, but fortunately, the sound was covered by the sound of bathing water.

Yes, she was too stupid to keep up with him.

Suddenly one day, Zeng Li discovered that she had lost Yu Yi.

Zeng Li went to A City to study at university, and at the end of the year, his grandmother passed away. The distance between them is getting farther and farther, and even the semi-annual meeting is gone.

Later, when she finally met the fourth cousin, he said to Zeng Li, “Don’t you know that Yu Yi has gone to study in the United States.”

“Where in America?” Zeng Li asked, holding him tightly.

The fourth cousin thought for a while, “It seems to be Bentley University, the name is quite long.”

She found the city in the book and measured it with her finger on the map. It was on the other side of the earth, at the farthest end.

During the summer vacation, the fact that Wu Ying ran away from home for love shocked her. While admiring Wu Ying’s courage, she also began to reflect on herself.

Inadvertently, she read a novel in the library – Zweig’s “Letter from an Unknown Woman2“. At the end of the reading, she sat in front of the window of the library and burst into tears, surrounded by classmates and teachers, and there were people walking around, but she just sat like this, ignoring the eyes of her surroundings for the first time, and letting the tears flow.

Back in the dormitory, she was alone at the desk and wrote a letter to Yu Yi. The letter was very, very long, and all the thoughts and loves of a young girl, all the details and emotions, were all transformed into the words on the letter. Several times during the period, her tears dripped down and smudged the handwriting on the letter paper into a fuzzy ball, but she still couldn’t help crying and couldn’t help continuing to write. When signing, she wrote Carol, which was the name Yu Yi knew.

There was no sender’s address on the envelope, only the recipient’s name “Yu Yi” and the vague address “University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine”.

It seemed that in the dark, she was waiting for the judgment of fate. If he couldn’t receive it, then let it be a secret forever.

The moment she sent the letter, she snatched it back suddenly, read it again and again, and finally couldn’t help but opened the envelope and left her mobile phone number at the end.

A week has passed.

Two weeks passed.

A month has passed.

Three months passed.

Nothing came to light.

One night when the Chinese New Year was approaching, she suddenly received a call from a series of strange numbers on her cell phone. At the next moment, as if she had a premonition, the heart in her chest beat suddenly, and she pressed the answer button.

“Hi—” She couldn’t keep her voice from trembling.

“Are you Carol? I’m Yu Yi’s roommate.” A male voice came from the receiver.

“I am.” With red eyes, she managed to utter two words.

“Yu Yi has already returned to China because of urgent matters at home.”

“My letter…” Zeng Li became embarrassed, he must have seen her letter, but…

“I can’t explain the details to you. I didn’t contact Yu Yi just now. If you need him urgently, you can call him.” The other party said.

“Thank you.” She hurriedly went to find a pen and paper to write down what he said. At the end, she suddenly asked, “May I ask what your name is?”

“Ai Jing Chu.” He replied.

That was the first time Zeng Li knew Ai Jing Chu.

His voice was calm and moist, with a unique texture, mixed with lightness and alienation, but it made her world suddenly dyed in color.

Just like the sound of nature, it will be unforgettable for a lifetime.