Dressed as a top-notch stand-in for the president

When Ji Yu returned to the rehearsal venue, it was time for a break, and Ling Lan was about to come over to share with her the rap lyrics she had just composed, when she caught a glimpse of her red eyes, and she couldn't help but turn pale with shock:

"Your eyes seem to be swollen, are they inflamed?"

Ji Yu: "..."

She didn't know how to answer this sentence for a while, but Jiang Lianque, who was with Ling Lan all the time, was passing biscuits to other sisters around, and when she heard her voice, she was about to come over and answer that she had eye drops and red lipstick. Mycin eye ointment, but after glancing at Ji Yu's expression, the words that came to his lips became another sentence:

"It's almost autumn now, and the temperature difference between day and night is relatively large. It must be because the wind is blowing outside, right?"

Ji Yu met her eyes, heaved a sigh of relief, and suppressed those turbulent thoughts on his face, a smile appeared on the corner of his lips, and replied: "Yes, indeed."

Ling Lan sensed some uncertainty from the tone of the two of them. Just as he was about to take a closer look at Ji Yu's face, Jiang Lianque raised his hand to cover his eyes. His short silver hair was as bright as light to her. The same long golden hair collided together like the sun and the moon. She blinked her eyes, her eyelashes brushed Jiang Lianque's palm, and took a few steps back in the direction of the other party, puzzled:

"Ehhh? What are you doing?"

Jiang Lianque nodded and smiled at Ji Yu, but said casually: "It's nothing, didn't you share your lyrics with me just now? I also thought about it, let's discuss it."

Ling Lan raised her hand to grab her palm, then looked back at her; "Let's discuss it, why are you covering my eyes?"

Jiang Lianque blinked and pretended to be innocent: "Ah, I made a mistake."

But she did take Ling Lan's attention away. Ling Lan, who was particularly concerned about her rap works, immediately plunged into this discussion. After pulling Rong Bai who was next to him over.

……

Wang Luoshui was supposed to be sitting in the director's room backstage, but because the venue of the show was too big and the seats below were not well arranged, she had to come down and watch in person, including adjusting the moving one at the front of the stage. seat.

She stood at the very edge of the first row of auditoriums, and saw the situation of the girls chatting in twos and threes during the break, and also noticed that Ji Yu seemed to be a little distracted and stayed alone on the side.

This made Wang Luoshui think of Meng Rendong who went out with Ji Yu just now, now that Ji Yu is back, where is Meng Rendong?

According to her recent style, shouldn't Ji Yu's stage be chased to the end?

She frowned, and rarely raised her hand to stop when the assistant came to remind her. Thinking of the unreleased interview in her hand, Wang Luoshui took out her phone and sent Meng Rendong a message:

"Where did you go? Did you miss the next rehearsal?"

The news fell like a stone and an ocean.

Wang Luoshui waited and waited, and had no choice but to let the assistant talk about things first, and then the next rehearsal. After finishing her work, she remembered to touch her phone again, only to find that Meng Rendong still hadn't replied.

She could only make a phone call.

It didn't shut down.

But no one answered.

Wang Luoshui looked at the time. It was past twelve o'clock in the evening. By then, the team had returned to the hotel in the scenic area. She checked the night shift arrangement, and after confirming that there was nothing wrong, she notified the assistant, changed her clothes and headed towards the parking lot. go.

……

Rewind the time to a few hours ago.

When Meng Rendong heard Ji Yu's words, her whole body seemed to be nailed in place, unable to move, or maybe it was just that she had been squatting for a long time, so her legs felt a little numb.

Her complexion darkened, and she wanted to warn Ji Yu what she could say and what she couldn't say, but when she touched Ji Yu's exceptionally clear eyes, she couldn't say anything——

A slight arc flashed in my mind.

She suddenly remembered that every time Ji Yu faced her, although he had a gentle smile, he never called her by her name, even on the bed, when he couldn't bear it, he would only act like a baby to her:

"You... you take it easy..."

It was precisely because of this that when Ji Yu called her "Mr. Meng" when they broke up later, it was so abrupt, which made her realize how close they used to be.

But it turned out.

None of that was said to her.

That's why Ji Yu was able to withdraw in such an understatement after giving so much effort, leaving her alone to savor the loss slowly, realizing more deeply every day than yesterday that in the past four years, Ji Yu has been with her What kind of warmth did she bring to her when she was by his side.

It seemed that the dull emotional nerves finally started to work, breaking up and digesting the details that she hadn't noticed in the past four years, so she also unconsciously thought:

Oh, it turns out that the people around me love me so much.

And I didn't see anything at the time.

But she was tossing in the wind and rain of broken love, like a flat boat, which could be overturned by the waves at any time, and she swayed from side to side, telling herself that Ji Yu really loved her very much, and then couldn't help wondering, if she really loved her, why did she still love her? To leave without saying a word?

Where did Ji Yu disappoint her?

As an investor, Meng Rendong refused to let go of every detail about Ji Yu during the time when she went to "Dream Chasing 100" every day. She began to want to make up for it. With the habit of eating sweets, he also began to reflect on his previous attitude towards Ji Yu, and even learned to discover the starlight slowly revealed on Ji Yu.

She was always imagining when Ji Yu would agree to get back together with her, and what she needed to correct and prepare for this.

Now Meng Rendong finally knows the answer——

She doesn't need to prepare anything.

Because Ji Yu didn't like her from the beginning, and those affectionate feelings were not directed at her.

Turns out she was just a stand-in.

Meng Rendong thought contemptuously, and even burst into an absurd smile from the bottom of his heart.

In the past few years, the friends around her always watched her change lovers one after another, thinking that she was obsessed with Chu Jianyu, but she didn't explain it and let others guess. In fact, when Chu Jianyu left He was only 16 years old, and Meng Rendong was only [-] that year, and he was still at an age when he had a hazy relationship with Ayu...

More of a guilt and despair.

Chu Jianyu was the warmth she held in her arms when she was young, and Meng Rendong changed from "maybe I was destined to be separated from love from birth" to "so there are still people in this world who are willing to treat me well", she secretly thought to herself I swear that I want Chu Jianyu to be happy forever.

But then such a tragedy happened.

Obviously she was nearby.

But Meng Rendong was too late.

She could never forgive herself for being late. In countless midnight dreams, she ran on that road again and again, thinking that she could go back in time and snatch people back from the hands of death.

but.

What she faced was the cold body again and again.

So she fell into that inextricable annoyance, and later entered this business, and happened to meet a few girls who looked like Chu Jianyu. Out of an indescribable compensation, she let those girls go to work. By my side, just looking at them makes me feel comfortable, and I don't even have any thoughts of crossing the line, because people like A Yu should be clean.

But in the end, watching them use their own resources to walk away step by step, Meng Rendong gradually understood:

It turns out that Ah Yu really won't come back.

No one could be her.

In such a waning mood, she met Ji Yu, who had already given up on herself, discarded the almost decaying compensatory psychology, and mistakenly chose the path of "encouragement", watching Ji Yu's sacrifices time and time again unmoved , thought she would be like those people before.

But this time, reality hit her hard in the face.

Ji Yu is not as lively as Chu Jianyu, she is quieter, able to endure the loneliness that Meng Rendong only goes to every now and then, and she does not have the kind of pampering that was raised by care, at least Meng Rendong thinks that if Chu Jianyu Seeing that Yu Neng grew up safely in the Chu family, she must have been loved by thousands of people. How could the Chu family be willing to let her wash their hands and make soup for others?

Meng Rendong gradually looked squarely at the people around her, and in Ji Yu's years of gentleness, she slowly ground her cold heart back to a soft appearance. She really wanted to treat Ji Yu well, even though she had never been in a relationship before. Little experience.

But it was on Ji Yu——

Her indulgence was met with backlash.

Meng Rendong thought that fate would no longer spare time to torture her. It turned out to be the same. When she was a child, she tried to believe in her little mother, but her brother severely exposed her fantasy, which made her so embarrassed that she wanted to escape; later she met Chu. Jian Yu, the result was still in front of her eyes, Chu Jianyu lost his vitality little by little like this; until now, Ji Yu told her the truth when she just wanted to cherish it, not too soon or too late.

Thousands of thoughts flashed through Meng Rendong's mind, and she raised the corners of her lips in a rare way, not wanting to reveal her heart that had collapsed in defense, and even asked in a leisurely manner:

"Is it?"

"What's your friend's name?"

But Ji Yu didn't answer, she still looked at her with that kind of gaze, that gaze was extraordinarily calm, the sinking of the past seems to have been a long time ago.

Meng Rendong asked again: "So you never liked me, right?"

Ji Yu remained silent.

Meng Rendong understood a lot from this long silence, she smiled again, and said to herself: "That's fine...that's good..."

It turns out that you never liked me, that's great, then I finally don't have to feel guilty for letting down a relationship.

I don't have to prepare for those compound ceremonies anymore.

Not to mention running back and forth to this place every day, after all, the morning and evening peak hours in urban and suburban areas are too much for patience.

Meng Rendong thought, she should be happy and relaxed, she stood up pretending to be calm, trying to show her president's aura, and leave Ji Yu with a chic back, but in the end, God refused to save even the last bit of face give her.

After squatting for too long, when she came up together, the dizziness captured her, making her almost unsteady and fell.

Fortunately, she supported the wall, and after walking a few steps forward, she left faster and faster.

Until he walked out of the venue, he looked around in a daze for a long time.

Meng Rendong seemed to remember everything, but also forgot everything. For the first time, he called Uncle Zhang when he was off work and asked him to pick him up.

……

The phone on vibrate mode buzzed constantly on the table, trying to get her attention.

Meng Rendong lay motionless on the sofa, as if she didn't hear it, and she didn't know how long she had been in this state, her stomach was burning with discomfort, trying to remind her that she didn't eat dinner.

But she just raised her hand and pressed her abdomen casually, as if it could be comforted, then turned over, closed her eyes tightly, and tried to expel all this with drowsiness.

She succeeded.

Meng Rendong finally escaped from reality, she fell asleep and had another dream.

But even the dream never let her go.

She dreamed about the day Chu Jianyu died again.

Chu Nanxing said he wanted to go fishing. Chu Jianyu saw that there was no guardrail in the fishing place, so he accompanied his sister. Yanxi couldn't stand the sun, so he dragged Wang Luoshui to buy iced drinks.

Meng Rendong originally wanted to follow Chu Jianyu and the other two, but the place was too hot, and after a while Chu Nanxing also muttered about wanting to drink water, she and Chu Jianyu looked at each other, and then heard herself get up and say: "I'll go buy it, Just ask Luo Shui where they are."

Upon hearing this, Meng Rendong's consciousness seemed to have awakened, and she desperately wanted to say:

Don't go, don't go.

But he could only watch himself walk away in the dream, and even followed Yanxi's suggestion, saying that there was a summer resort nearby that had a special taste of sour plum soup, and followed them into their car.

When I came back, there were not many people in Diaoyuzhuangzi, but there were waves of dogs barking, which made people feel nervous.

Meng Rendong repeated the actions she had done countless times, dropped the water in her hand, and headed towards that side regardless. When she arrived, Chu Jianyu was no longer visible on the water, and there were rowers all around. The adult who was looking for the water, someone shook his head on the bank, gesticulating something, Meng Rendong's feeling of ominous premonition became more and more serious, and she jumped into the water without thinking.

Chu Jianyu was entangled in the aquatic plants underneath.

It was she and other villagers in Yuzhuang who used tools to cut the grass and rescued the man.

But at that time...

People are out of breath.

Meng Rendong watched coldly as she knelt beside Chu Jianyu, allowing others to persuade her and the adults to help her. Later, the police, members of the Meng family, and many people from the Chu family came, but she still refused to leave.

She couldn't even hear what the people around her were saying.

She just looked up at the gray sky in this dream, thinking calmly:

Again.

In the past few years, she has not dreamed of Chu Jianyu for a long time. It turned out that this dream still did not let her go, reminding her again and again that she arrived too late, she should not have left, it would be great if she hadn't left .

She vaguely felt that she should cry.

But there was nothing, until the dream dimly turned into another paragraph.

A scene she had never seen before.

Meng Rendong was taken aback.

She seemed to be in the ward.

A girl was lying on the bed in the ward.

She couldn't help wondering: This is...Jian Yu...Jian Yu was rescued?

God wants to play tricks on her again?Want to give her hope and make her despair again?What will happen to her in the past, and find out that this person is not Chu Jianyu at all, right?

Meng Rendong stood still, but she saw someone in the corridor looking at this side through the window.

next moment.

The dream has changed again.

A figure appeared beside the girl in the ward, Meng Rendong was neither far nor close, and she seemed to have no way to get closer, so she could only listen to the two of them steadfastly.

People sitting in chairs are telling stories.

The content of the story popped into her ears.

"I once had a friend... She was a very quiet person when she was a child..."

As Meng Rendong listened, she gradually felt something was wrong. When she lowered her head, she realized that her angle had changed. She became the person sitting by the bed, and it was her who spoke the strange story from her mouth. Childhood things.

She was full of doubts, and when she looked up, she saw the patient message posted on the bedside:

Ji Yu, 16 years old, has no dietary restrictions...

Meng Rendong was taken aback, at this moment, she heard her own words come to an end: "Do you like dancing?"

The girl on the bed smiled at her: "Speaking so carefully, are you the protagonist of the story?"

She heard her answer: "No."

"Then you are envious of the neighbor girl named Ayu next to her. Seeing that my name also has a homonym, you want me to treat you like she treats a friend?"

Meng Rendong was stunned.

Although she didn't know why she dreamed of this, but at this moment, her heart was pounding.

She laughed at herself, you are so embarrassing.

When I dreamed of A Yu, I was still thinking about Ji Yu, they are clearly two people, don't confuse them anymore, otherwise you will be sorry for either one.

But obviously thinking this way, seeing the girl's rare bright eyes, maybe it was because of nostalgia, or maybe it was because of other things, Meng Rendong's words coincided with the person sitting by the bed:

"no."

The next moment, she heard this person say again: "Don't be a Yu..."

Meng Rendong laughed.

She stared at Ji Yu's face greedily and curiously. In fact, the person in the dream couldn't see clearly. After waking up, it should be a hazy face, but at this moment, she saw Ji Yu very clearly. , I think it should be because the dream was too chaotic and randomly arranged Chu Jianyu's face for Ji Yu.

She didn't care either.

I just said slowly to the girl from the bottom of my heart:

Don't be a Yu.

Don't be her.

Ji Yu, you must be well, you must be safe, healthy, and happy. There are already too many misfortunes around me, and you cannot be the next.