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13.

A small shop, a simple dining table, and a rattling electric fan overhead. There are two glasses of the most common lemonade on the dining table.

Duan Li silently looked at Ye Ke who was sitting opposite him. It had been a long time since she had seen her. Her original simple and generous face was covered by delicate and heavy makeup, and she was no longer wearing the original innocent but slightly childish clothes, but a whole body. A royal blue dress that looks mature and capable.

Duan Li felt that Ye Ke sitting opposite him was very strange.But it's right to think about it, I will soon join the society, so naturally I can't be like before.He suddenly remembered the suit Cheng Zhensheng gave him. Although he seldom wore it, it was probably his only formal suit.

When Cheng Zhensheng gave it to him, he also told him to wear it when he was working in the future.

"Duan Li."

Realizing that his mind was distracted, Duan Li quickly pulled his mind back, "What?"

"You..." Ye Ke hesitated a little: "How are you doing?"

"Okay? What's the matter?" Duan Li didn't understand why she asked this?

Seeing his straightforward answer, Ye Ke couldn't help feeling a little aggrieved, and she said, "Haven't you thought about me?"

Duan Li was stunned.What does it mean?

"Duan Li." Ye Ke took his hand: "Let's make up, okay?"

After chatting with Ye Ke, it was almost dark.

Duan Li walked slowly back to the dormitory alone, he felt a little dazed now.The chat with Ye Ke seemed unreal, but it did stab a certain part of his chest.He knew that feeling was not reluctance, nor was the pain of being broken up again. When Ye Ke said "reconciliation" to him, the first thing he thought of was neither surprise nor anger.

Duan Li doesn't hate Ye Ke, even if she said such bitter words to her when they broke up.This may be because Duan Li really thinks what Ye Ke said, he doesn't really love her, so even if the two are separated, he can still sincerely wish each other happiness.

When Duan Li heard Ye Ke's words, the first thing Duan Li thought of was his dream.It was the last thing Ye Ke said to him in the dream, "You will be alone all your life".Duan Li recalled that dream, and looked at Ye Ke who was sitting across from him, he suddenly found that he had faced the same situation many times in the past.Duan Li didn't love the girls he dated, but he didn't hate them either.Because he doesn't hate or like it, he always starts a relationship easily, and then leaves resolutely when the other party proposes to break up.

He used to wonder why the other party always showed a hurt expression, obviously he was the one who got dumped, didn't he?

Now he understands.He thinks that giving and giving casually is the most hurtful thing.

Duan Li doesn't know how he developed such a perverse personality, but this kind of personality has deeply hurt the hearts of those who once loved him.

Duan Li thought, what Ye Ke said was right, a person like him is destined to be alone.

Duan Li suddenly thought of Cheng Zhensheng, and remembered that he once said to himself: "Duan Li, you have me by your side."

Thinking of the person who couldn't even eat well without him, Duan Li smiled again.

Even if it's not a lover, at least, it's not a loss for him to have such a person who will accompany him.

As if the troubles just now were just floating clouds, Duan Li walked briskly towards the dormitory.

Ye Ke came to look for Duan Li several times one after another.Although Duan Li had made it very clear when they met for the first time, the two of them could only be friends in the future, Ye Ke also expressed his understanding.But maybe the pressure of employment is too great. Even if they are no longer in a relationship, Ye Ke will go out to chat with Duan Li from time to time, and sometimes they will discuss the issues of the thesis.Duan Li's graduation thesis has been written to a minimum, and he no longer needs to sit in front of the computer for hours every day. Since the girls are so open-minded, he doesn't want to save others' face, so he is tortured by the thesis and has a headache. The roommates discovered that Duan Li was very close to Ye Ke, his ex-girlfriend, during this time.

For example, this afternoon, Duan Li's cell phone rang again.

"Hey!" Zhang Yang, who was struggling with the thesis, raised his head and whistled.

Duan Li didn't bother to talk to him, picked up his phone and went to the balcony to answer the call: "Hello? Ye Ke."

Hearing that name, Cheng Zhensheng frowned unconsciously, and he felt a little pain in his stomach.

On the other side, Duan Li looked at the phone for a while, "hmm, huh, huh", and finally said: "Okay, then you wait for me at the east gate of the school, and I will take it for you." Then he hung up the phone, took his coat and prepared to go out .

Zhang Yang hurriedly joked a few words before he left the house: "You're fine, kid! You can still hook up with me after graduating soon! Don't take graduation seriously!"

Xie Wuming then interrupted: "Do you think Duan Li looks like you? Look at his appearance, you two are not on the same level! Naturally, you don't take graduation seriously!"

"You kid will run on me! Are you looking for a draw!" Zhang Yang smashed Xie Wuming with his slippers.The latter didn't take him seriously at all, and then said to Duan Li: "Hey! When the time comes, don't forget to bring someone over for dinner, future sister-in-law!"

The more you say it, the more outrageous it is.Duan Li slapped Xie Wuming on the head, "Shut up, you!" Then he turned to Cheng Zhensheng, who had been reading with his head covered, and said, "Zhensheng, I'll call you later, come down. Let's go eat. You recently ate It’s too little, that’s not okay!” He frowned unconsciously when he thought of Cheng Zhensheng’s frighteningly small appetite recently.

"En." Cheng Zhensheng nodded without looking at him.

"Hey! It's not fair! Just call Zhensheng and not us? Or are you brothers?"

"That's right!" Zhang Yang and Xie Wuming started booing again.

"Don't you still have dinner together?" After speaking, he closed the door.

"Cut! This kid has the opposite sex but no humanity!" Zhang Yang muttered while staring at the closed door.

Cheng Zhensheng didn't say a word or look up from the beginning to the end.

When Duan Li arrived at the east gate, Ye Ke had already arrived.She was wearing a pure white cotton dress with no makeup on her face. At first glance, Duan Li thought he saw the Ye Ke who was with him back then.

Speaking of which, he gave her the dress, right?Duan Li recalled lazily in his mind, he suddenly had a bad premonition.

"Duan Li, are you here?" Ye Ke waved to him.

"Ah." Duan Li walked towards the person slowly: "The USB flash drive you want."

"Ah? Oh! Yes! Thank you!" Ye Ke hesitated a bit.

Duan Li felt that his premonition seemed to be right.

"Duan Li." You can also call him cautiously.

"What?" He listened attentively.

"Do you remember this dress? You gave it to me on my 21st birthday." Ye Ke said and turned around in front of him.The pure white skirt dances with the wind, which is very beautiful.

Duan Li still remembered that Ye Ke was chasing after his ear for a birthday gift for a long time, and finally Duan Li really had no choice but to take Cheng Zhensheng to the mall to find one for her.

"It suits you very well." Cheng Zhensheng's eyes were really good.

Hearing what he said, Ye Ke was obviously very happy.She was pulling the corners of her skirt with both hands, lowering her head, her long eyelashes flickering up and down, "Duan Li." She called softly, then as if she had made up her mind, she raised her head and looked directly at the man in front of her, Said: "Duan Li. Let's start over, shall we?"

really.

Hearing the expected confession, Duan Li didn't reply right away.He quietly stared at the girl standing in front of him who was more than a head shorter than him, although she had such a petite body, Duan Li felt that she was very brave.

He had already said that it was impossible between the two, but she didn't believe it, so she was willing to try bravely.Such a good girl, such a good Ye Ke, she should, he deserves another person who truly loves her and cherishes her, but that person will not be Duan Li.

"I'm sorry." He said, his voice soft unconsciously.He hurt her too much.

"Hehe." Ye Ke laughed, very gentle and forced.She was not surprised by this answer at all, she had already guessed how the matter would end.She was just not reconciled, and wanted to take a final gamble, so she lost.

But this time is different from last time, she no longer resents this man, this man is good, everything is good, but she doesn't love him.

"Duan Li." She said, "Can we still be friends?"

"Of course." Duan Li nodded without thinking.

Ye Ke was even happier.That's great, we can still be friends.Obviously not sad, but the corners of his eyes still couldn't hold back the tears.That's okay, Ye Ke thought, let's think of it as a commemoration of her college life that is about to pass away.

"Duan Li. Have you thought about your future after graduation?" Ye Ke is already fine.

"Maybe stay here and work?"

"Stay here? Didn't you say that a company in City B wants to sign you?" Ye Ke was a little surprised.

Duan Li shook his head and said, "City B is too far away."

"Really?" Ye Ke thought for a while and said, "Are you going to have something later? Let's have dinner together?"

"I've already made an appointment." Duan Li was a little embarrassed: "Why don't you come with us?" He thought Cheng Zhensheng wouldn't mind.

"Dating who?"

"Cheng Zhensheng. You know him."

"Oh." Ye Ke nodded, she did know her, and she was very familiar.

"Then I will not bother you two brothers." Ye Ke was very straightforward, but she seemed to see something suddenly, took Duan Li's hand, and said, "Duan Li, can you give me a hug?"

"Ah?" Duan Li was a little confused: "Ye Ke, you... I said, we have already..."

Knowing what he was going to say, Ye Ke interrupted him: "You just hug me. I have no other intentions, I just feel that I am about to graduate, so I will keep it as a souvenir."

What is there to commemorate?Duan Li couldn't understand.But seeing Ye Ke's expression of wanting to cry again, he sighed helplessly, just hug him.

The two hugged briefly for a while, and then separated immediately.

"Thank you, Duan Li." Ye Ke didn't seem as happy as she showed.

"No, it's nothing." Duan Li always felt weird to be thanked for this kind of thing.

"Then I'll go first, and I'll contact you later if I have something to do."

"Well. So do you."

After seeing Ye Ke off, Duan Li remembered that he hadn't called Cheng Zhensheng yet.He just took out his mobile phone, but when he turned his head, he saw that the other party was standing behind him at some point.

"Wow!" Duan Li was startled: "When did you come, Zhensheng?"

"Just arrived." Cheng Zhensheng said blankly.

"Oh. Then you saw Ye Ke? She just left."

"En." Of course he saw it.He saw it just as the two of them embraced affectionately.

"Duan Li." He called.

"what?"

I opened my mouth a few times, and finally said: "It's nothing. Go eat, I'm hungry."

"Hungry?" Duan Li seemed to have heard something unbelievable: "Are you hungry? Go fast, don't be hungry." After speaking, he took Cheng Zhensheng's hand and ran towards the restaurant.

13.

The first time Ye Ke knew about Cheng Zhensheng was Duan Li who told her.At that time, she and Duan Li had just started dating, and they would find topics to talk about if there was no topic, and then they talked about their best friends.

Duan Li told her that Cheng Zhensheng was his good friend, his best friend.He is smart and has a good brain, but he is stupid and can't take care of himself.If it weren't for his supervision, that person wouldn't even be able to eat well.

What Duan Li said was very true, but Ye Ke felt that he was exaggerating too much. How can a person in his 20s have to be supervised by others to eat?

Ye Ke met Cheng Zhensheng before dating Duan Li.In her eyes, Cheng Zhensheng is a much more stable man than Duan Li.He wears a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, and he always looks very quiet. That kind of quietness is different from Duan Li's laziness, it comes from the inside out.He speaks less than Duan Li, and he often has no expression on his face. Such a person always makes people feel oppressed by the flowers of Gaoling.

So for such a person, Ye Ke wouldn't believe it if he said that he couldn't take care of himself enough to need someone to supervise him to eat.

But as the time with Duan Li got longer and longer, Ye Ke found that what Duan Li said at the beginning was true, and he even said it modestly.

Ye Ke watched his boyfriend call and send text messages to others when he was dating, reminding that person to eat on time, choose nutritious food and so on.Ye Ke sometimes even has an illusion, as if Cheng Zhensheng is the one who fell in love with Duan Li.

Ye Ke said to himself again and again: be patient.That person is just Duan Li's friend, a brother, a man...

Like hypnosis, Ye Ke tried his best not to care about Cheng Zhensheng on the one hand, and acted like a baby with Duan Li on the other hand, trying to make him focus on himself.But no matter what Ye Ke did, when it was time to eat, Duan Li would always pick up the phone, call and send text messages to that person over and over again.

Ye Ke felt that he couldn't take it anymore.She broke up with Duan Li, and she wanted him to keep her, but in the end, what she got was "I wish you happiness" from the other party.

Ye Ke understood at that moment.She suddenly felt stupid.All her hard work, all her forbearance, and those unreasonable troubles are nothing to Duan Li.She finally understood why such an excellent person as Xiang Duan Li was always abandoned by others. It was not that those people had no vision, but that Duan Li had never loved them at all.The girls before did not love, nor did they love her.

Ye Ke broke up with Duan Li, but she was not reconciled, she was not reconciled to ending the relationship in such a hurry without seeing Duan Li's sincerity, she was not reconciled to losing to a "friend".

So she went to find Duan Li again in her senior year.She wants to try again, if Duan Li is still willing to accept her, she wants to try to discover Duan Li's sincerity, and this time, she will be very patient.

When we meet again, Duan Li is no longer the gentle and casual Duan Li he used to be.He became wary of his feelings and stopped following the crowd, so she failed again.But this time, Ye Ke had no resentment in his heart, and even the remaining unwillingness disappeared.

There is nothing wrong with this person, he just doesn't love her.

After stepping out of the vicious circle of the past, Ye Ke felt relieved.She smiled and chatted with Duan Li, and then he saw a person not far behind Duan Li looking at them.

It was Cheng Zhensheng.The person who makes Duan Li never forget even falling in love.

Ye Ke saw Cheng Zhensheng, saw him looking at Duan Li and her eyes, she was very familiar with those eyes.Like many times when he and Duan Li went to Duan Li's class hand in hand, Duan Li dealt with the way those girls looked at them.

Ye Ke suddenly felt that everything became clear.But it was obvious that Duan Li hadn't found out yet.And what does all this have to do with her?She and Duan Li are already emotional strangers.

Recalling the way Duan Li called and texted Cheng Zhensheng when he was still with him before, Ye Ke wondered if that man who was always expressionless would show the same sad expression as her?

Then she begged Duan Li to hug her, it was her little revenge.

Ye Ke successfully saw Cheng Zhensheng's face showing an expression like an abandoned puppy, but she didn't feel the pleasure she should have.

Shouldn't that person be jealous?Shouldn't you be angry?Shouldn't it be an even more angry and unwilling expression?But why, why is that person as sad as if he will cry in the next second.

Ye Ke felt that her revenge was not happy, she didn't want that person to show such an expression, that Cheng Zhensheng who is like the flower of Gaoling, he shouldn't be so pitiful...

However, Ye Ke never knew that this little revenge of hers was like the straw that broke the camel's back, blowing Cheng Zhensheng's remaining rationality to ashes.