After midnight

Qiqi walked into the Black and White Bar carrying a lot of bags. This was not eye-catching, but she was wearing high heels and seemed to want to knock a hole in the floor with every step, which made her quite eye-catching. Perhaps her bright red windbreaker and wide-leg jeans also contributed a lot to this.

Anyway, when she walked into the store, everyone, including Wu Si, noticed her immediately.

She piled paper bags of all sizes on the counter and greeted everyone generously: "Hello, I'm looking for Xiaowu."

Xiaowu? Wusi? Xu Xing looked at her. The rumored Qiqi was indeed an extraordinary woman.

"Xiao Wu? Is it Xiao Wu?" Bai Ming came over excitedly, "Beauty, what do you want to do with my Xiao Wu?"

Before Bai Ming finished expressing his closeness, Qiqi was pulled over by an urgent yet gentle force. Wu Si was shocked that Qiqi actually showed up here so openly and brazenly. Did he want to die? Why didn't he even say hello in advance?

"you……"

"I have something to talk to you about. Let's talk outside." Qiqi suddenly said seriously, no longer showing her casual enthusiasm towards strangers just now.

Wu Si subconsciously looked at Bai Ming, "Go, go quickly. Xiao Wu, treat your girlfriend well, don't be too anxious to come back, it's okay if you don't come back."

"Thank you."

"How do you know that's Xiaowu's girlfriend?" After Wusi followed Qiqi away, Xu Xing asked Bai Ming.

"Oh, this is easy. She is the only one who has come to see Xiaowu for such a long time, and Xiaowu was so worried about her just now. Although the beauty is a little small, she is very cute."

"Okay, go get busy." After sending Bai Ming away, Xu Xing fiddled with the odd-shaped cups on the bar. If only the relationship between the two of them was that simple.

"Qiqi, Qiqi." Wu Si called her softly. He followed her closely and called her while paying attention to the pedestrians coming and going in the mall. It seemed that all the pedestrians were watching them, but also seemed that no one was watching them.

"Wu Si, relax, you believe me." Qi Qi stopped and said to him.

Wu Si lowered his head slowly. Yes, he believed him. But when the clattering sound started again, Wu Si became nervous again. He remained nervous until Qi Qi walked into a coffee shop. This coffee shop was called Ka She, and it was on the first floor of the shopping mall.

After getting off the ladder, Qiqi and Wusi walked straight in, as if they had planned this for a long time.

In the coffee shop, Wu Si sank into the soft brown sofa cushions. He was quiet for a moment and then raised his head. Behind the warm and bright light above his head was the dark and steep roof. The black absorbed his senses and made everything around him suddenly quiet. He felt that in this coffee shop, the aroma of coffee and desserts wrapped him tightly.

He sniffed the aroma and unexpectedly felt satisfied.

"I ordered coffee, just some casual dishes. There's also dessert, you can try it." Qiqi said.

Wu Si's heart rested in place, transmitting the strength needed in his body. Great, he finally put his mind at ease and looked at Qi Qi quietly. Qi Qi looked very beautiful with makeup on today, especially her eyes, which were amazingly bright.

"Qiqi..." Qiqi has changed a lot, maybe it is related to what I want to tell him, Wusi guessed.

"It's delicious, try it." Qiqi forked a piece of the dessert and put it to his mouth. Wusi opened his mouth and bit it off. It was sweet and soft.

"Wu Si, you have been following me but you don't really understand me." Wu Si frowned, he disagreed.

"But despite this, it's enough. On May 4th, after talking to Anyan, we decided to live like this."

"An Yan came to see me yesterday." Wu Si's brows frowned even deeper.

"Really? I didn't know. But I was very surprised that he was the one who told me about your stay at the Black and White bar."

"He came to me yesterday and said some very strange things. Does it have anything to do with your current condition?" Wu Si asked again. He prayed that Qi Qi's answer was not what he thought.

"Yes, it has a lot to do with it." Qiqi held the cup and took a sip of the bitter coffee.

"May 4th, I am not afraid of anything now, because I don't have many days left to live."

Qiqi put down the coffee cup and smiled at Wusi. Wusi's eyelids twitched several times, and shock and pain appeared on his face. His Adam's apple rolled up and down unnaturally, hoping that Qiqi was just joking.

"The boy who was making so much noise just now seems to like you very much. What's his name?"

"What happened?" Wu Si tried his best to control himself and not let out a dull and painful sound. Qi Qi said he didn't understand her, but how could Qi Qi understand him? Did she know what her existence meant to him?

"Everything is fine, May Fourth. It was my body that became ill before I left there."

How could it be, he hadn't noticed anything all this time. Wu Si tried to open his eyes and look at Qi Qi, even though his eyes were sore and bitter. How could it be, Wu Si couldn't accept this, he couldn't accept this.

"May 4th, you must like that bar very much. After you finish your coffee, go back. We can continue hanging out tomorrow."

Qiqi smiled widely again and turned and ran away.

After she left, May Fourth's tears completely burst out.

At 11 o'clock at night, Wu Si finally stood up with trembling thighs after sitting there for nearly two hours. After two hours, he still couldn't figure out anything. Just accepting it was hard enough, how could he figure it out? He even recalled the past over and over again, trying to find some clues, but he found nothing.

In the end, he didn't know what he was thinking. He couldn't remember anything now. He stood up and went back because it was time to go back. He was familiar with every floor and every store in Xishui International. He walked back almost instinctively.

Wu Si stood in front of the door of the Black and White Bar. Half of the door was closed, which meant they were closing. Wu Si was a little embarrassed, but he still waited until he adjusted his breathing before he dared to move in.

But Bai Ming could still tell at a glance that something was wrong with him. Xiao Wu's back had always been straight, as if he had received some kind of training, but now his shoulders were slumped and his face was ugly. If a person cries in pain, he will never be able to hide it, so Bai Ming fell silent.

"Xiao Wu, I put the girl's things in your room. Bai Ming and I will be off work first." Xu Xing pretended not to notice Bai Ming's look and continued, "There are not many people today, so we can close the store after the remaining two guests leave. The guests have already paid, so you can clean up as usual after they leave."

"Okay, boss." Wu Si thought for a moment and said for the first time: "Thank you, boss. Go home and be safe."

"Okay, you should get a good night's sleep too."

"Yeah." Wu Si responded and walked into the bar to count the ingredients that needed to be replenished. He still had a lot of work to do after finishing all this. He had to collect the guests' cups and clean them, wipe all the seats again, and go to the storage room to get a clean mop and mop the floor carefully. He had too much to do.

Oh, and he had to pick up some new boxes of wine tonight. Well, after doing all this, he could lock the door. Once the door was locked and all the doors in the mall were closed, he would be the only one left in this familiar and reassuring place.

After Wu Si finished all this, it was exactly two o'clock in the morning. He thought about it and put out all the rum, gin, gin and whiskey. It would not be too late to do it before opening the next day.

After he finished arranging the items, he looked at the shelves full of wine and finally went to bed contentedly.

He opened the door of the room, stepped over paper bags of various sizes, covered his head and went to sleep.

Wu Si woke up very early, before six o'clock. He liked to sleep on his side, so he saw the paper bags as soon as he opened his eyes. He couldn't help but look at them. These were strange things that suddenly appeared here.

The employee channel of Xishui International was opened at six o'clock in the morning. Qiqi said see you today, but Wusi was not sure when she would come today. Maybe it would be the same as last night, but maybe it would be six o'clock in the morning.

Wu Si got up and washed up. For the first time, he opened the door at six in the morning instead of six in the evening, but there was no one outside the door. Wu Si turned around and went back to the house and lay down again. Not long after, he fell asleep again in a daze.

At about half past eight in the morning, the door creaked and Wu Si woke up suddenly. He pushed open the half-closed door and saw Qi Qi also looking at him with a smile.

"The door is unlocked, great. Come on, May 4th, I'll take you to breakfast."

Wu Si couldn't help but follow Qi Qi out, and this happened for several days afterwards.

Every morning at 8:30, Wu Si would always be able to wait for Qi Qi, and then Qi Qi would take him out to walk around the streets and alleys. When it was almost dark, he would be sent back to Xishui International around 5 pm. On this day, Wu Si walked side by side with Qi Qi in the Xinduli where the lights were just coming on, watching the world that was about to go dark gradually light up again.

"Wu Si, are you happy today?" Qi Qi suddenly asked. She narrowed her eyes and casually drank a sip of the honey grapefruit tea that she had been holding in her hand.

"happy."

"Very happy." Wu Si added seriously.

"That's good." After Qiqi finished speaking, the two of them returned to silence, and Wusi also looked into the distance again.

Perhaps it was Wu Si's dull personality, or perhaps it was due to the usual way of getting along between him and Qi Qi, Wu Si seldom took the initiative to ask Qi Qi anything. Of course, the questions he asked during the day, such as what do you want to eat, what do you want to drink, etc., did not count.

However, Wu Si thought this was a good idea and there was no need for him and Qi Qi to say anything more.

When Qiqi was slurping the drink with a plastic straw, Xishui International arrived. She bit the plastic straw, took the last sip, and threw the paper cup into the trash can.

"May 4th, go up, see you tomorrow."

"Ah."

"You have to think carefully about where to take me to play tomorrow."

"it is good."

"Then, goodbye."

"Goodbye."

Wu Si watched Qi Qi walk away, then turned and walked into Xishui International.

Qiqi returned to the hotel and stood alone by the window with her arms folded. From here she could easily see Xishui International, which was a few hundred meters away, through the glass window. She had been living here alone for the past few days.

She was safe in the hotel, so she opened the window a crack to let in the cool breeze.

When she had seen enough of the distance, she looked up again. She had opened all the windows by then, and when she stuck her head out, the sky above her head was a huge hole created by the night. She only looked twice, and then she didn't dare to look again, so she closed the window and went back.

It was late at night, she lay in bed feeling a little tired, but could not fall asleep no matter what. The bed was warm, the light in the room was on, there was no more noise outside, no more children screaming in the corridor.

Her room was quiet and she was alone.

The hotel's security measures were very good, so she didn't need to worry about safety issues. But she still couldn't sleep. Qiqi lay down for a while, then got out of bed and went to the bathroom. When she came out of the bathroom, the flushing sound hadn't stopped yet. She stopped in front of the empty, cold room.

Then she quickly changed direction, pulled out the room card, and ran, leaving the hotel door behind her.

At eleven o'clock in the evening, Su Ziling opened the door of his house and saw Qiqi standing outside, panting but in high spirits. When Su Ziling saw her, he stopped yawning halfway. He was a little surprised but really sleepy, so after letting Qiqi in, he couldn't help yawning again.

Ten minutes later, An Yan came downstairs with wet hair after taking a hot shower.

"An Yan." Qi Qi stood up as soon as she saw him. "Please, can I stay here for a while longer?"

"What? So that's what happened. You can just tell me." Su Ziling leaned back on the sofa and rubbed his eyes. "Your room is still the same. An Yan, I'm going to sleep first. I'm so sleepy."

Su Ziling went upstairs as he spoke. He had his head down, looked listless, and his steps were weak and slow.

"He had a lot of special training today." An Yan explained for Su Ziling, but then he said, "You also heard what Su Ziling said. Go to bed, Qiqi."

After saying that, An Yan grabbed the towel around her neck and wiped her hair while following Su Ziling upstairs. After they entered the house one after another, Qi Qi turned off the lights in the living room. In the dark, she walked into the room. She knew that this was the place that belonged to her, which made her feel familiar and at ease.