The Third Rose

It was only a few months before the college entrance examination, and it was too late anyway. After discussing with his parents, Chen Xingze decided to repeat the exam for another year.

Wu Xingzhi also contacted the composition teacher of the orchestra, calculated the performance schedule for next year, and spared time to help Chen Xingze take professional courses.

It took about a month to prepare for these things, and Chen Xingze completely changed his face and worked hard.In order to calm down, he stopped all his communication and entertainment equipment.He didn't know that during this time, Mi Sheng had frantically looked for him.

Everyone was urging Mi Sheng, whether it was work or family, but Mi Sheng's heart grew on Chen Xingze.He wanted to find a chance to chat with him, otherwise he couldn't do anything with peace of mind.

But Chen Xingze just disappeared for nothing.

At the beginning, Mi Sheng comforted himself that Chen Xingze should be taking the exam.But the exam is not every day, and there is no need to turn off the phone all the time.After waiting for two weeks, Mi Sheng decided to go to Chen Xingze's city.

Jo blocked the door of the bar and refused to let him go, and he listed the things he should do to Mi Sheng. "How much work is in your studio? Have you found a babysitter for your mother? You still have to find that child before you finish all these things. Mi Sheng, please calm down."

Mi Sheng nodded obediently, "Okay, I know. After I have a talk with him, I will do this right away after the talk."

"Mi Sheng!" Jo squeezed his arm bitterly. "What did you say at the beginning? It's just a dream, so wake up now. You are so many years behind him, do you think it is possible for him to want to go with you?"

"But I have something to tell him, I have to talk to him." Mi Sheng repeated the same words over and over again, his voice getting softer, he raised his head and looked at Jo pleadingly, "Can you let me go find him, please? Just this time, I couldn’t find it and I really gave up.”

So Jo accompanied Mi Sheng to Chen Xingze's city.Mi Sheng didn't know where Chen Xingze lived, so he went to his school to wait.At that time, Chen Xingze was taken by Wu Xingzhi to meet the teacher of the orchestra, and he went there for a long time.Mi Sheng stayed at the school gate and occasionally asked about Chen Xingze's classmates, but like Mi Sheng, they didn't know where Chen Xingze was.

After waiting for a week, Jo couldn't take it anymore, "If you continue to waste time here, I'll go back first."

Mi Sheng didn't speak, he stood at the school gate with his head bowed.His coat was moderately thick, but because his figure was too thin, it looked as if it was only wrapped in a layer of paper, as thin as a withered pine branch by the roadside.

Jo walked with Mi Sheng all the way, seeing his pain clearly.

"You have been insane for the past two days, and I didn't tell you." Jo stood behind Mi Sheng with her hands in her pockets. "Song Boyang contacted me."

Mi Sheng's shoulders trembled, and for a moment, Jo felt that he was even more desolate.

"Actually, it's not the first time. He contacted me once last year, wanting to find you, but I refused. This year..." Jo paused, and then said, "The situation is different this year. Your sister moved away. , Auntie needs someone to take care of her at all times. You definitely can’t go out to work for a few months like before. Although Song Boyang is not doing very well, his job is stable and his life is still guaranteed. It will be easy for you to follow him a lot of."

Mi Sheng didn't look back, "Follow him, have you forgotten how I became like this?"

"So I didn't tell you when he came here last year. I'm not advising you to get back together with him. Song Boyang is indeed a bastard, but don't make life difficult for you. Just treat him as Gao Xiwen, and you both get what you need. After this period of time has passed, you can also make other plans."

Mi Sheng didn't speak.

"I've been thinking about whether I should tell you the matter these days. But seeing how you are now, I have no choice. Mi Sheng, who said ten years ago that I would never do stupid things again?"

Mi Sheng stared blankly at the campus.

When he was betrayed back then, he vowed that he would never repeat the same mistakes.When I saw that kid before, he also said that he would never be hurt by a brat.

The snow is like a mirror, reflecting his indecisive heart.

Mi Sheng shivered in the cold wind, his thin lips were purple and blue, and he still couldn't believe this result.He didn't know when the change started.

"I thought it was my turn..."

As everyone knows, it is still empty.

"It would be fine if I didn't let him drink that night..." He began to forcefully find a reason, it would be fine if he didn't drink alcohol, it would be fine if he didn't confess his love, it would be fine if he didn't go to bed, it would be fine if he wasn't so involved.

If only the kid wasn't so gentle.

The school was in class, and there was a sense of quiet solemnity. For a moment, Mi Sheng didn't even know why he came to such a place.

He hugged his body and squatted down slowly.

The stars and the moon hanging in the sky will not make people sad. People only start to become sad after touching their phantoms reflected in the water.

When Chen Xingze contacted Mi Sheng again, it was already summer.

The college entrance examination was over, and because he had decided to repeat the exam, Chen Xingze was able to face the exam with a calm mind.Wu Xingzhi asked him to rest for a few days to combine work and rest. Chen Xingze turned on the phone after a long absence, and it was empty.

Chen Xingze didn't know that the operator would only keep the records of the last few days for the phones that were turned off, so he didn't see the countless calls from Mi Sheng a few months ago, and he didn't see those messages of weakness and pleading that he sent late at night.

He thought everything was the same as before.

But he still couldn't contact Mi Sheng. In order to relieve Chen Xingze's mind, Wu Xingzhi proposed to take him abroad for vacation, but Chen Xingze didn't go. He confessed to his mother that he wanted to find a friend.Wu Xingzhi agreed and told him to pay attention to safety and go back early.

Chen Xingze went to Jincheng and met Jo, he asked Jo if Mi Sheng was there, and Jo replied that Mi Sheng had left.

"Gone? Where did you go?"

At noon, the bar was closed, and in the dark hall, only a light was turned on at the bar counter, which was a bit dazzling.

In the hot summer, Jo made Chen Xingze a cold drink.

Chen Xingze took the cold drink, thanked him, and asked, "Where did Mi Sheng go?"

"Shanghai."

"Going to work?"

"No."

"travel?"

Jo sneered, and Chen Xingze looked at him blankly. Jo put down the glass and said, "He took his mother to live with Song Boyang."

"Who is Song Boyang..."

"Mi Sheng's boyfriend."

Chen Xingze opened his eyes wide in surprise

Jo: "To be precise, it should be the ex-boyfriend. I remember I mentioned it to you."

As soon as he said that, Chen Xingze immediately remembered, "The one from ten years ago?"

Jo hummed.

Chen Xingze sat on the chair in a daze, "Why so suddenly..."

Jo said: "Misheng needs money."

"Money?" Chen Xingze frowned reflexively, "It's money again, did he go to Shanghai because of money?"

"That's right." Jo admitted clearly, and looked at Chen Xingze, "Why, do you have any dissatisfaction?"

No matter how dull Chen Xingze was, he could still sense oppression and hostility from Jo's tone and gaze.But he still had something to ask. "Just because of that? Just because of lack of money and—"

"Correct."

This time Jo didn't even give Chen Xingze a chance to say a complete sentence. He pressed his hands on the bar and looked at Chen Xingze sternly.

"It's money, do you have any objections?"

Chen Xingze lowered his head, feeling an indescribable discomfort in his heart.

"Little devil."

Hearing this word unexpectedly, Chen Xingze's fingertips trembled.He found that he liked Mi Sheng calling him that more than Jo or anyone else.

Jo asked him, "Have you ever experienced a setback?"

Chen Xingze looked up at Jo.

Jo: "The 'setbacks' I'm talking about are not bad moods, unrequited love, broken love, bad exams, but when you really fell into a desperate situation. Have you ever experienced it?"

This series of "no" made Chen Xingze speechless.

Jo said: "I can tell you that Song Boyang is a scumbag. He is two years older than Mi Sheng. They were together for more than a year at the time, and later they were spotted by a brokerage company together. Back then, the two loved you so much that we agreed To live a bright and aboveboard life, we decided to come out together."

Chen Xingze opened his mouth slightly.

Jo said: "Interesting, isn't it? Mi Sheng also had such a naive time. As a result, Song Boyang got scared and ran away. Only Mi Sheng revealed his identity. Then it was all over. The brokerage company terminated the contract with him, and he owed a sum of money for breaking the contract." Kim. His family was also affected a lot. Did you know his mother was mentally ill?"

Chen Xingze clasped his hands and shook his head slowly.

He didn't know that Mi Sheng was always so cynical that he never told him anything.

"His mother was scared stupid. They used to live on the first floor. The children in the courtyard smashed the glass of their house at night and poured chicken blood into the house. They were later caught and said they wanted to help them exorcise evil spirits."

A thin layer of sweat broke out from Chen Xingze's back.

really.

His first reaction after hearing these things was to suspect that Jo was lying to him.

How in the world does this happen.

Jo: "His father was also angry at that time. He kicked Mi Sheng out and never let him in again. Since then, Mi Sheng has been working part-time to earn money by himself, paying liquidated damages, supporting himself, and subsidizing home use."

Chen Xingze felt as if his heart was being grabbed by something, and it was difficult for him to even breathe.

In the oppressive silence, the wall clock ticked back and forth.

Jo picked up the glass again and wiped it carefully.

"You will never have the chance to experience that kind of life. For many people, for a child like you, even the pain is like showing off. You can look down on him with arrogance while drinking a cold drink like this."

"I didn't look down on him!" Chen Xingze anxiously defended himself, "I questioned him, but I never looked down on him!"

"It doesn't matter what happened now." Jo said lightly, "He has already left, and he didn't leave you his contact information. He just doesn't want you to look for him again."

"Why?" Chen Xingze stood up from the chair excitedly, "I am friends with him, why can't I find him anymore?"

Jo stopped wiping the glass.

"friend?"

Jo thought of Mi Sheng waiting at the gate of Chen Xingze's school during the cold days, and she didn't know whether to cry or laugh.He looked at Chen Xingze, and said to him with unprecedented sincerity: "Little devil, you should take pity on him and don't appear in front of him again."

"Don't call me that!"

Chen Xingze suddenly became furious, and he suddenly found it hard for anyone except Mi Sheng to call him that.He pulled off the bag and left without looking back.