It gets dark early in Yuncheng in winter, just after 06:30, and the outside of the window is already undeniably black. The darkness spreads out the black velvet, covering the horizon, and countless white spots are falling in every corner.

The night is thick, but the city is still bustling and noisy.

Gu Ran was sitting in front of the desk, with his head slightly lowered, holding a metal pen with his slender fingers, writing something on the pink paper.

A piece of cold white snow floated into the dormitory from the window, fell on the tip of Gu Ran's nose, and turned into water stains in an instant.

Gu Ran raised his head, only to notice the dots of white floating under the window and street lights, he said softly: "It's snowing."

"What?" Ji Lin, who was playing games with his legs crossed on the upper bunk, couldn't hear what Gu Ran was saying, he leaned out from the edge of the bed, and said while playing games: "Xiao Ran, what are you talking to yourself? ?”

Gu Ran turned his head, pointed out the window and said, "It's snowing outside."

"Really?" Ji Lin heard that it was snowing, so he stopped playing games, threw his phone on the bed, jumped off with his hands on the bed, strode to Gu Ran's side without wearing shoes, and poked his head out of the window Look, he said in disbelief, "It's really snowing. I've been in Yuncheng for almost four years, and this is the first time I've seen snow."

"I'm the same as you." Gu Ran said as he quietly pulled the drawing on the left side of the table to cover the pink envelope.

After Ji Lin sighed, he turned around and leaned against the desk, looked down at the gardenia on the sketch in front of Gu Ran, and teased, "Oh, Xiao Ran, you have been sitting here for so long, and you just drew something like this ?”

Hearing what he said, Gu Ran frowned slightly: "What's wrong with gardenias? Gardenias are also works of art."

He couldn't hear what others said about Jiang Zhihe's favorite things, and gardenia was the only plant Jiang Zhihe liked.

"Okay, okay!" Ji Lin hurriedly responded, afraid that Gu Ran would be dissatisfied, so he would give him art brain cell knowledge. After all, this kind of thing happened countless times.

Seeing his expression that you mean whatever you say, Gu Ran snorted softly: "You do this every time."

Ji Lin said injustice: "How can I have it, ancestor!"

Gu Ran and Ji Lin grew up as children, and they never separated from elementary school to university. Gu Ran did not get good grades, and was admitted to the second university, next door to A University, and he came to the next door school for Jiang Zhihe. Lin followed him here completely in vain.

They obviously have different hobbies and tempers, but somehow they have spent more than ten years together with a friendship that lasts forever.

Without waiting for Gu Ran to refute, Ji Lin picked up the neatly arranged books on the table, opened the title page, and changed the subject, "Xiao Ran, have you read the WeChat group?"

Gu Ran followed his words and shook his head: "I didn't read it, what's the matter?"

"It's not a holiday today." Ji Lin put the books back in their place, "So the president organized the game tonight, saying that we should go out for a midnight snack, sing K, and celebrate Christmas together."

Gu Ran laughed and said, "They're all a group of single nobles, hugging each other to keep warm."

"Who says no." Ji Lin asked him: "Then you go?"

"I won't go." Gu Ran refused, "I have business tonight."

Ji Lin was puzzled: "What's the matter with you, you didn't go to Qi Xianle's treat last time."

"Don't you just want to find an excuse not to go out and go out on a date by yourself?"

Gu Ran retorted: "I'm also single, who should I date?"

Ji Lin choked for a moment: "You have to give me a reasonable explanation."

Gu Ran: "I have an appointment tonight, but something is true."

He didn't lie to Ji Lin, he made an appointment with Jiang Zhihe two days ago tonight at nine o'clock tonight, and planned to confess his love to Jiang Zhihe on Christmas Day, and confessing his love is not considered a date, so he didn't lie.

Gu Ran didn't deliberately not tell Ji Lin about this, but he was afraid that he would know that the person he confessed to was a man, so he would definitely pull him away.

Ji Lin wasn't struggling: "Then I'll bring you something to eat as soon as I come back."

Gu Ran nodded, "Okay."

At around eight o'clock in the evening, Gu Ran came out of the bathroom after taking a shower. His hair was wet and dripping. He wiped it perfunctorily with a towel, and then opened the closet to search for clothes.

Ji Lin sat on Gu Ran's lower bunk and tapped on his mobile phone, watching him get dressed from the corner of his eye.

Gu Ran wore a knitted sweater, an off-white short down jacket, light-colored slacks, black and white sneakers, and his hair was blow-dried casually. He looked fresh, handsome, and gentle.

Ji Lin swiped his phone and glanced at him: "What's the matter, you want to dress so nicely?"

Gu Ran wiped the hand cream, and raised the corners of his lips when he heard the words: "It's a big deal."

To confess to someone who has had a crush on her for seven years, she must dress up handsomely. Gu Ran even hummed the tune of "Love is Here" softly.

Ji Lin was simple-minded, and didn't hear anything wrong with the tone he was humming, so he "cut" it disdainfully.

Gu Ran didn't care about his small emotions, picked up the phone on the table and turned on the screen, it was almost [-]:[-], he put the phone away and put it in his trouser pocket.

With his back to Ji Lin, Gu Ran carefully put the love letter written tonight into the inner pocket of the down jacket, and then gently opened the drawer. Inside was a small wooden sandalwood box, not very delicate, but rather artificial.

Putting the box in his pocket, Gu Ran turned around and said to Ji Lin, "I'm ready to go out, do you want to come together?"

"No, you go first, I'll wait a while." Ji Lin shook his head at him.

"Okay, then I'll go first."

Ji Lin responded with a nasal voice: "Yes."

Gu Ran stepped to the back of the door, squeezed the handle, opened the door and walked out.

When Gu Ran walked out of the school, he stopped and looked up at the scattered snow floating in the warm honey-colored shimmer under the street lamp.

After a few seconds, he turned and walked towards the alley on the left.

He and Jiang Zhihe made an appointment at Baguiting, not far from the school, and it took about ten minutes to walk there.

The night wind blows into the throat, it's cold and itchy, the ground is melted by snow water, it's wet and sticky, Gu Ran puts his hands in his pockets, and walks quickly to Bagui Pavilion.

When Gu Ran arrived at Bagui Pavilion, there were still 10 minutes before the appointed time, so he didn't find the pavilion to sit right away, but stood by the flower bed and waited.

His legs were cold after standing for a long time, so he simply squatted on the porcelain altar, looking at his phone from time to time,

At [-]:[-], Jiang Zhihe hadn't come yet, so something must have delayed him, Gu Ran comforted himself.

As time passed by, more and more people came to Baguiting, and people in twos and threes leaned together to keep each other warm by holding hands.

Gu Ran squatted on the porcelain altar and rubbed his fingers. He was so cold that he almost lost consciousness. In the crowd, he rubbed the cold brows, and exhaled a cloud of wet white air, which soon dissipated.

He was a little uncomfortable. Jiang Zhihe probably didn't go to the appointment because he found out that he had feelings for him.

I don't know how long I waited, probably when Gu Ran No. 30 took out his phone five times, Ji Lin sent him two messages.

"Xiaoran, why haven't you come back?"

"Is something wrong?"

Gu Ran was not in the mood to reply to him, so he clicked on Jiang Zhihe's WeChat avatar, which was the message he had been sending since 09:30.

21:30 "I'm here."

22:10 "Are you delayed by something?"

23:20 "It's so cold outside, when will you arrive?"

Another one was posted 2 minutes ago, "Merry Christmas, Jiang Zhihe."

Jiang Zhihe didn't reply to any of them, so Gu Ran looked through their previous chat records, not many, after so many years, you can see the top with just a swipe.

He has liked Jiang Zhihe for seven years, but it was just a secret love. The relationship with Jiang Zhihe is like a friend and a stranger, neither cold nor cold.

It wasn't until he was about to graduate from university that he mustered up the courage to ask Jiang Zhihe to confess his love. It doesn't matter if he succeeds or not, but looking at it now, he is broken in love.

When he lowered his head in frustration, there were sparse countdown sounds in his ears.

Time is always unreasonable, the last minute before midnight seems extraordinarily long, and the couple around him can't wait to start kissing.

In the last ten seconds of the countdown, Gu Ran stood up stiffly, and when the lovers were kissing each other, he staggered and turned to leave.

How happy he was before, how uncomfortable he is now. He returned to school with red eyes, but the door of the dormitory was closed, and he couldn't get in.

Standing under the cold and dark dormitory floor, Gu Ran sucked at his reddened nose, snowflakes fell on his shoulders, and soon disappeared again, as if he had never appeared before.

But the smudged dampness on the off-white down jacket couldn't be covered up anyway.

At one o'clock in the morning, Gu Ran had already checked into a hotel near the school.

The layout of the room was very strange, the pale bed was filled with a cold and stiff feeling, and the air floating around was choking and stuffy.

Gu Ran, who was already terribly cold, had shortness of breath and oppressed breathing, which made him almost out of breath. Coupled with the reason of breaking up in love, he curled himself up at the foot of the bed, and let out a soft whimper from time to time.

It wasn't until a ray of light slowly came out from the sky that Gu Ran raised his red-eyed, half-bloodless face and climbed onto the bed with stiff legs and began to sleep.

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