You are chasing a woman, and another woman comes to your city from thousands of miles away and wants to be with you, but she is not your type. How to choose?

Look for it yourself. I don’t know where you saw it. Chapter 24 begins. Chapter 24 After Liao Yinghong ran into the rocks for no apparent reason, there was an earthquake one night before the Mid-Autumn Festival. At that time, I was lying on the upper bunk of the dormitory reading a book. Suddenly, the whole dormitory shook violently like a piece of tofu, and there seemed to be no sign of stopping. Terrifyingly, there was a rumble from the walls and beams of the building. "This earthquake is too scary!" I sat up straight and looked at my roommate opposite Wang Yizhi who woke up from his sleep. "Do it! Run away!" Wang Yizhi shouted, turned over and jumped from the upper bunk bed. "That's ridiculous." Jianhan was stunned, observing our reactions. "Nine Knives, why don't you run away! We are on the third floor!" Shi Xiaolun came back to his senses and shouted at me. So the four of us ran out of the dormitory quickly. The corridor was full of dormitory classmates running away. We all rushed downstairs while shaking strangely, and ran to the square of the dormitory. The square had long been filled with people who had fled from various dormitories. Everyone was discussing how the earthquake lasted so long and was so strong. They began to speculate on the location of the epicenter and bet on whether classes would be suspended tomorrow. Although it was probably a terrible disaster, everyone was immersed in heated discussions. It wasn't until someone heard on the radio that the epicenter of the earthquake might be in Taipei and that it would most likely cause an unprecedented disaster. Everyone woke up from the heated atmosphere and began to rush home to ask for safety. I was very anxious with the empty hand, because the external communication was almost full. I kept pressing the playback button and repeatedly called home, my girlfriend, and Shen Jiayi, but all I heard was a vague and rapid beep. After finally getting in touch with my family and girlfriend, I found out that everything was fine with my family, but I couldn't get in touch with Shen Jiayi. As rumors about the earthquake increase, there are various theories about the suspicious epicenter, but none of them exclude Taipei. I feel increasingly uneasy. The queue in front of the park is extremely long. It will definitely be dawn by the time it is my turn. "Nine knives, why don't you fight somewhere else!" Shi Xiaolun shook his head and suggested: "There are too many people here and the base station is overloaded. Let's go out on bicycles and hit places with fewer people!" "Is this theory correct?" I was suspicious, but my feet started to run towards the carport. "I don't know!" Shi Xiaolun said firmly and ran towards the carport. I left Jiaotong University on my motorcycle and rode to a remote place in Zhudong, stopping from time to time to hit the street. At this time, the streets were full of people wearing underwear and slippers walking out to chat. It seemed that there was a total power outage, and the streets were hazy. It had been a long time until Shen Jiayi was contacted. "Are you okay?" I breathed a sigh of relief. "It's okay, it's just that the earthquake just now was really scary." Shen Jiayi was still frightened. "It's good that you're okay... I heard from my classmates who live in Taipei that the hotel near their home collapsed, so maybe the epicenter of the earthquake really was in Taipei? Well - in short, it's really good that you're okay." I Stop the motorcycle on the side of the road and turn off the engine. When I looked up, the sky was filled with sad sparks. "What about you? Are you in the school dormitory?" "Not really. It was quite scary just now. The whole building seemed to be pulling out of the ground and escaping by itself." "You're so kind. You still care about me so much. I'm really touched. ." She said quietly. "I'm so moved. You are the girl I have been chasing for eight years. If you disappear, who will I look for to recall our story in the future?" I hummed, deliberately pulling away my emotions. After finally getting through, I don’t want to hang up. Because I have liked Shen Jiayi for too long, my girlfriend has always had a grudge against Shen Jiayi. In order to avoid quarreling with my girlfriend, I have less and less contact with Shen Jiayi. The less contact we have, the more topics we can talk about. It was very limited, and we only contacted each other once every two or three months. But I cherish the time we can chat even more because of this. For example now. With a devastating earthquake, that night we chatted in random directions as before, and many memories of our high school and junior high school days were overturned in one fell swoop and spilled all over the floor. My emotions were also wrapped in indescribable magic, wallowing in ups and downs of memories. Shen Jiayi couldn't bear to hang up, and I didn't mind being blown by the wind all night. "Do you remember that on the night when the college entrance examination scores were announced, you once asked me if I would like to hear your answer?" I asked in the direction of the wind. "Of course I remember. I wanted to tell you, but you just refused to listen." She was proud of herself.

"I didn't have the courage at that time, but it's different now... I want to hear it." "You missed a great opportunity." I smiled. "At that time, I didn't understand why you wouldn't listen to me saying that I like you and want to be with you? You begged me not to say it, and I didn't want to say it myself." "..." I changed from smiling to wry smile. "Ke Jingteng, you are always too confident. You keep saying that you will chase me and marry me one day, but you are very timid when faced with the answer." She mocked me. "Because I liked you so much at that time, so much that if your answer kept me thousands of miles away, I wouldn't know how to face you... face myself." I was very honest, scratching my head. "But I also make mistakes." "Oh? The strong Shen Jiayi can also make mistakes?" "What kind of strong person are you?" She chuckled: "I often hear others say that the most beautiful part of love is the ambiguous period. When we are really together, many The feeling will disappear. At that time, I thought, if you don’t want to hear the answer, just let you chase me for a little longer, otherwise you will become lazy once you catch me, wouldn’t it be a big loss for me? So just stay, no? I told you the answer." "Damn it, I would have listened if I had known it." I said bitterly, "So we have tasted the most beautiful ambiguous period of love, but we haven't reaped the final fruit. Damn it, you really have to bear the consequences. "Half of the responsibility." "Who would have thought that the person who always said he wanted to marry me couldn't bear any setbacks. He gave up after just a few words and went to get a girlfriend within a few days. It’s a lie that she likes me! “Ha, I don’t know who it is? He actually responded to me by having a boyfriend at the speed of light. Call me naive, but I’m not much better! "I went back embarrassed. We laughed and had a lot of fun. Beep beep, beep beep... My battery is about to run out of power and read the warning sound. "The battery is almost out. "Thank you for thinking of caring about me tonight." " "Um. I just want to thank you for telling me the answer back then. To be honest, I breathed a sigh of relief. Your answer let me know that I like you. It turns out that everything is responsive and I am not dancing alone. This is important to me. "I looked at the red stars above the city and said, "My youth has never been a monologue. " "What you said is so emotional. Maybe one day you will become a writer. " "Then, goodbye. "Wait..." she said anxiously. "Oh?" "If the call hadn't been cut off suddenly and you heard another one, it would have stung you for a long time." "I'm all ears." "Since you got a girlfriend, I thought that your love for me would sooner or later make you break up with your girlfriend, and then I could legitimately be with you." As a result, after waiting and waiting, you all have been doing well, which makes me very envious, but there is nothing I can do about it. "What is it? But I am really touched. However, life is not for one person, nor is it for one person. I have embedded another girl into my life, and the same is true for that girl's life. I can't turn around. Just leave, that’s the love I cherish and protect. “There’s no way, that’s the kind of person I am. Once you like it, you have to give it your all. "I admit. "Yeah, I like this kind of person you are. But actually this April Fool's Day, I was going to call you and ask you if you wanted to be with me. "Her tone was brisk and she was not disappointed. "It's true! "I was shocked. "Really. If you answer no, then I can still laugh and say it’s an April Fool’s joke. If you nod and say yes, then we can be together. "Shen Jiayi said openly. In an instant, I couldn't move. "It doesn't look like something Shen Jiayi would do at all, right? "Yes." "Yes, so you should be proud of it, Ke Jingteng." "She was funny. There was almost nothing to say, and I was filled with gratitude. Although I couldn't give her the answer to love she hoped for, this girl I loved deeply did not grudge her feelings. She gave me everything I missed. It fell to the bottom of my heart. Overflowing with warmth. "Without Yue Lao's red thread, it's really hard to rely on Nu's love alone and miss a lot of scenery. "I sincerely hope: "Maybe in another parallel time and space, we are together. "...I really envy them." "She agreed. Shen Jiayi's voice disappeared into the car that lost power. I didn't start the car immediately. I just blankly recalled every word of the conversation just now, imagining the troubled expression on her face that I hadn't seen for a long time. I really wanted to stare at her. Shen Jiayi looked at her as she said these words herself.

The night wind blew, lightly touched my body, and then left gently. On September 21, 1999, at 1:47 a.m., a powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8 on the Richter scale occurred. That night, at the age of twenty-one, my heart was also spinning. The love between me and her finally came to an unsatisfactory, yet solid end. The underground band "Soda Green", which recently released a record, has a great song in "Flying Fish": "What's the point of blooming if it doesn't bear fruit? If you are a fish, you must swim?" A love without fruit will be brilliant as long as it blooms. . Having seen that brilliance, my youth has no regrets. Chapter 25 The Legend of Forrest Gump: “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what flavor you’re gonna get. Movies always contain many classic quotes, trying to teach us that we should look at life with broader eyes, and waiting becomes our motto. But we only superficially praise these giants for their soulful and meaningful ideas, but we can only truly embrace them in one way: to boldly exchange our lives for chips and happily push them to God. Our hearts can be as sharp as iron, yet remain soft enough to accept unexpected landings at any time. At the end of 1999, I had read a lot of miscellaneous books and successfully passed the written examination for sociology research at Tsinghua University. When it came to the oral examination, I needed a "sociology-related work" for the professors to review. However, I had studied management science before, not a sociology undergraduate degree, so I encountered difficulties in preparing the oral examination work. What to do? I thought over and over again that instead of vaguely writing a short paper that was neither good nor good, I might as well write something interesting. That's right, shouldn't professors at the Institute of Sociology be very smart and interesting? So I wrote the first six chapters of my first novel, which I called "Fear" with sociological significance, to serve as an academic paper. This novel tells the story of a college student who wakes up early in the morning and discovers that all the symbols in the surrounding environment, such as sounds, languages, and words, have lost their original meanings. The words have turned into distorted bugs, and the sounds have turned into irregular noises. The college student So in the endless cycle of anxiety, the possibility of belonging is reconfirmed. This is a horror science fiction novel with the flavor of Junji Ito. The more I wrote, the more I gained insights and couldn't help myself. I also added a note to the materials that this is a series of stories with sociological awareness, called Capital Horror Disease. I also wrote the title of the novel I planned to write for six months, which is related to the future of the next three years. Publishing plan. On the day of the oral exam, the professors were confused and all snickered at me. I don’t know if I felt the humor in the novel “Fear” or if I had fleas on my body that day. "Classmate Ke, are you serious about handing in these pages of the novel?" A professor looked at me thoughtfully. "It's so good! Although this novel has not been finished yet, we can already see the potential of sociological significance. I find it really interesting to practice sociology in novel creation..." I explained eloquently. "Wait a minute, you listed a lot of publishing plans. Do you have any relevant experience before?" the fat professor questioned. "No. But my motto in life is: If you risk nothing then you risk anything. If you risk nothing then you risk anything." I gave a thumbs up confidently. "So?" The professor crossed his legs. "I feel that as long as I don't give up my ideal of novel creation, the publishing plan will be realized sooner or later." I smiled. So, I failed. For many years, I could no longer recall the full text of that motto. middle. "So, you want to be a soldier?" Shen Jiayi. "No, I have something more important, I must finish it first." I vowed. "What?" She was surprised. "It may become something very remarkable in my life." I looked at the unfinished novel that had just been posted online on the computer screen. I decided to defer my graduation for a year. After studying natural science because of Li Xiaohua and studying management science at Jiaotong University because of Shen Jiayi, my life was derailed again in the year when I re-sited for graduate school. This time, no one told me what to do, but some kind of strong inner calling. I used the dream price of 2,000 yuan per month, including water and electricity, to rent a third-floor building from the parent group of tutoring students. The owner of my house is a female monk who often travels around the world. I help this person guard her former residence. .

In this super cheap rental house, I fell in love with writing novels. Not only did I finish the 100,000 words of "Fear" that I had not finished at the beginning, but I also wrote several novellas along the way, such as "Forest" and "Shadow" , "Refrigerator", until next year's graduate school exams were about to take place, I quickly picked up the book and read it like crazy, but I kept secretly writing the novel "Strange Dreams" late at night. The moment "Strange Dream" was completed, my tears burst into tears. I know that in a sense, I have confirmed my "connection" to the creation of the novel, through emotion and words. From then on, I had an extremely important bond with the novel. Through novel creation, I can precisely disassemble and combine many of the things I want to express into text stories, and present them on the public network, thereby "connecting" with more people on the earth. That is a desire that I can no longer restrain. I finally have a real dream: to become the king of stories. The umbilical cord that conveys nutrients between the creator and the story is filled with many egos. Fragmentary, complete: conscious, unconscious; performance, mission. And I wrote my feelings for Shen Jiayi bit by bit into stories such as the novel "Yue Lao", and even embedded the names of many friends into several stories to express commemoration. And I know that one day I will put the youth between several of our good friends and Shen Jiayi into one of the most important novels. This novel will no longer be a novel, but a beautiful true record. As you can see. Some people say that whether a person's life is good or bad depends on his consciousness when he takes his last breath, as if the ending is everything and the past does not count. When it comes to novel creation, I agree with this statement to a certain extent - a heart-stirring ending can add soft and strong wings to a story, leading 10,000 hearts to soar at the last moment. I am used to relying on my insight into the ending of the story to deduce a tense ending, all the necessary elements, and even the rhythm of the story... For example, who needs to say what to foreshadow, and who does what. It will affect the protagonist's decisions and so on. But this record of youth, just because it hopes to be full of the most authentic atmosphere, lacks an ending, which makes it impossible for me to see "how to breathe" in this story, so I have been unable to start it. Six years have passed since I wrote the novel. We have known each other since junior high school and have been fighting each other for almost sixteen years. Life is unpredictable. My most respectable love rival, Ah He, his girlfriend whom he had loved for seven years, unfortunately passed away in a car accident. Ahe never had a new girlfriend. After graduating from graduate school, he became a business representative of Zhongke with orders worth tens of millions. Liao Yinghong, who has been framed by me, passed the special book examination before joining the army and will be discharged from the army next month. After the deception, he continued to have ups and downs on the road of love, but he never gave up on finding "the one" in his life. Xie Mengxue, who has a stable relationship with his vegetarian girlfriend, became a dentist. Since I often framed him in the past, I would never go to his clinic to extract teeth. I don't want to hear "What? You want anesthesia? Men don't need that kind of thing!" This kind of bad dialogue. Xu Bochun, who was very poor in English, took a big risk and decided to go to the United States to study for a master's degree in engineering and commit suicide. Before Xu Bochun set off, we bought a bottle of 1990 red wine, symbolizing everyone we met in 1990, and we all drank it happily. It was delayed until the last moment to announce that Yang Zeyu, who had confessed to Shen Jiayi, would also go to the United States next year to study for a doctorate, and he would change hands with Xu Bochun, who was about to return to Taiwan. Du Xinxian, who has always liked Shen Jiayi in the most shy way, went to Nangang to work as a programmer. He was admitted to a graduate school, served as a soldier, and found a good job without inviting anyone. I hope he can reflect on it when he reads this novel. Lao Cao, who was always scratching his itch, went to Tsinghua University to study for a master's degree after working for a year. Xu Zhizhang moved, and the magical courtyard where everyone met to play ball after school only existed in memories from now on. The weird Zhang Jiaxun finally gave up pestering Shen Jiayi and got a girlfriend. Li Fengming, who was born in the same year and on the same day as me, broke up with the girl he liked to meet when we were together in Xinyuanxing, and planned to inherit the family business. Lai Yanxiang, who has not had a fight in 27 years, continues to have no intention of shooting. He is currently practicing magic tricks to pick up girls (don't be stupid!). Everybody took off. A few months ago, Shen Jiayi, a primary school teacher, called me. "Writer Ke, how have you been lately?" Her voice had not been heard for a long time. "It's so tragic, Shaomao Dog broke up with me. What? Do you want to chase me again?" I was lazy. She was stunned for a moment, then laughed. "I'm afraid it won't work this time." She said quietly.

"You missed my words again, and the next time will be..." Before I could finish speaking, I picked my nose. "June." She responded. "?" "In June, I'm getting married." She announced. I smiled. I really want to give her a hug. Then give the groom I don’t know a courageous thrust. "The groom...should be a man many years older than you, right?" I guessed. "Hey, how did you know!" Shen Jiayi was shocked. "I guess you can't stand naive boys anymore." I laughed. She retorted with a smile, and I responded enthusiastically. Seven years ago, I could not have imagined such a scene. The groom is eight years older than Shen Jiayi and is a typical middle-aged man with a successful career. Shen Jiayi has always been much more mature than girls her age, so she seems to be a perfect fit. My beloved girl is about to spread her wings. Chapter 26 "Happy wedding, my youth." I wrote the blessing on the red envelope. On the day of the wedding, all the boys who had liked Shen Jiayi back then were present. Even the long-lost teacher Zhou Shuzhen arrived to witness the historical scene of Shen Jiayi's transformation from a girl to a plummeting stock price. This is simply a grand reunion of old classmates. Half of the visitors are "like-minded" brothers and sisters on the land of love... half of the men can only look at the taillights of Shen Jiayi's car. We took a photo together full of resentment. Xu Bochun is from the United States. I drew a picture of him smiling very much on a paper stand and placed it on the table. Every time a dish was served, everyone shouted: "Xu Bochun! The food is served, the food is served!" We laughed and laughed. , so excited that he would turn over the table at any time. "Really, I always thought you, Ke Jingteng, would be with Shen Jiayi." Teacher Zhou Shuzhen shook her head: "It's no use that you still come to my house to drink tea with Shen Jiayi. You are all inferior!" "Teacher, actually Shen Jiayi has confessed to me, she just yelled, hahaha!" I laughed wildly. "Report to the teacher! Ke Jingteng is just talking, I am the one who really chased Shen Jiayi!" Liao Yinghong poured wine for everyone and shouted cheers. "Come on, you're a cheat! You've never even held hands with a cheat!" Ah He replied unceremoniously. Everyone began to discuss randomly how to tease Shen Jiayi later. "Wait a minute when the lights dimmed and the groom entered, Zhang Jiaxun, you stretched your legs and secretly tripped the groom!" I patted Zhang Jiaxun on the shoulder and said, "Anyway, you have a weird head, and everyone will forgive you for whatever you do!" " I don’t want to, just step on the groom’s feet secretly when we take a photo together.” Zhang Jiaxun tilted his head and thought for a moment, “This is more mature.” "When my friend comes on stage to speak later, Liao Yinghong, go and say a few words, please have some!" Ah He recommended. "Then I will hold the microphone and say seriously: reluctant love is, no, happiness, happiness. Haha!" As soon as Liao Yinghong said it, everyone laughed so hard, even teacher Zhou Shuzhen laughed. Get angry quickly. I had an idea and ran to Shen Jiayi's sister Qianyu, who had secretly helped me, and asked for a strange pen. "Don't move, let's make a prank." I drew a black vein on Liao Yinghong's forehead. "Let me help you." Liao Yinghong was very happy and helped me draw a fat and thick vein. We two "blue-veined people" walked around the wedding in a rude manner, pretending to be unhappy, causing Sister Qianyu to scold us for being childish brats. Yes, we are just brats, that’s why we can’t chase your sister, haha. The wedding officially begins, the lights dim and solemn music plays. Wearing an elegant white gauze, Shen Jiayi walked slowly past us under the spotlight, pursed her lips, and secretly waved to everyone. It’s so beautiful, the spotlight is simply unnecessary. She is the most beautiful bride I have ever seen. The shy Shen Jiayi walked to the stage with her head lowered, and was handed over to the groom by Father Shen. The audience continued to applaud. We returned to laughing and joking happily, discussing how to take photos with Shen Jiayi and the groom after the wedding. "Ke Jingteng, I asked Shen Jiayi a few days ago, and she said that you can kiss the bride during the group photo!" Ah He was very proud, and everyone nodded in agreement. "To kiss the bride, can you stick out your tongue? La la la la la..." I joked, sticking out my tongue to stir up the air. "If the groom isn't angry, let's go and kiss each other!" Li Fengming, who had never pursued Shen Jiayi, was gearing up and looked at Lai Yanxiang: "You've never kissed a girl? Just give it to Shen Jiayi for your first kiss!" "Then Let's play guessing, and the one who wins will kiss first!" Liao Yinghong shouted, and the atmosphere became lively again. But I became mysteriously silent. If everyone wants to kiss, I will never kiss the bride.

I hope that in Shen Jiayi’s heart, I will always be the most special friend. The naive me wanted Shen Jiayi to always remember that Ke Jingteng was the only person who had never kissed her at the wedding. I want to cherish even this little bit of specialness. I am not just a line of comments on her life, but also many unique pictures. After making the decision, I watched the bride and groom kiss, and suddenly thought of a very special and passionate scene. A special edition ending that is enough to bring our youth story to a movie. And the story I had planned for a long time finally had a clear answer at this wedding. No one cried, no one was upset, and no one got drunk on purpose. There are only blessings and nonsense all over the floor.

A tide called youth flooded us. When the waves receded, we all sat on the beach together, soaked to the skin, watching our favorite girl waving her hands vigorously and walking happily to the other end of life. The next wave will take away the beautiful footprints left by the girl on the beach. ?But we are still here. The image of the girl engraved in our hearts will still be there. The pride remains unchanged, and I laugh about the past.

The room full of guests left one by one. Unknowingly, everyone suddenly became quiet amid the commotion. None of these old friends, who had known each other for fifteen years, spoke. They all looked at the wine glasses in each other's hands. "Here's to our youth." I raised my glass. Everyone drank it all. The meaning is still not finished. Later, I learned about it from a Korean movie: French rural legend, if the noisy crowd suddenly quiets down, an angel will pass by... I said, have angels ever left? "What are you going to do as an ending later?" Liao Yinghong burped. "Let's go play baseball." I stretched. "We have plenty of energy. Let's go to the baseball batting cages and meet a beautiful girl who is alone!" That's it. The evening when we all gathered together quietly came to an end with the clang of the catharsis of youth. After witnessing the beautiful happiness of the girl I once deeply loved, I returned to the familiar computer, opened a new file in the word document program, and saved the photos from the digital camera to the computer. The cursor stops on the first line, and there is nothing underneath. The story has a happy ending, it just needs a good beginning. I looked at the photos from the wedding, and my thoughts fell back into many years ago. There was a boy with bad grades and a noisy nature who was entrusted by his teacher to an elegant girl...

In front of the seat, behind the seat. Blue ink spots began to appear on the back of the boy's clothes. When he looked back, the girl's smile had haunted the boy for eight years and bound him for a lifetime. "This story needs a name with rich meaning and soft wings." I smiled. The girl we chased together in those years.