"Are you close with my second brother?" Gu Yao glanced up at him.
"Not really, but he definitely wouldn’t be as righteous and brave as you towards a, um... stranger who has only been seen once." Ais shrugged his shoulders.
"You really don’t recognize ?" Gu Yao switched to a new cotton swab and began to apply dicine to the cut at the corner of his mouth.
"Of course I do. The distinguished second young Miss of the Gu Family, we t once at your birthday party. Oh, that’s right, I still owe you a birthday present. I wonder if you rember that."
"Don’t talk now, let put the dicine on."
Ais stopped talking and let Gu Yao apply the dicine.
Aside from the split corner of his mouth, the rest of his body was just bruised. Gu Yao set aside the dicinal alcohol for him, letting him rub it on himself when he got back.
"Thanks, I have sothing else to attend to, so I’ll be going now." Ais said, attempting to stand up.
"Wait a minute."
Gu Yao hurriedly called out to him, then dug out a handkerchief from her bag and handed it to him.
"This is..."
Ais, finding it sowhat familiar, took it and examined it.
"Rember now?"
Looking at the handkerchief in his hand and then taking a good look at Gu Yao’s face, it took Ais a while to recall sothing, and he said with a hint of disbelief:
"The girl from the bar that day... couldn’t be..."
"It was ."
A few seconds later, Ais laughed in spite of himself: "The difference between that you and this you is too much. If you hadn’t taken out this handkerchief, I really wouldn’t have believed you were the girl from the bar last ti."
"I really want to thank you for that ti. Otherwise, I don’t know what could have happened." Gu Yao felt a lingering fear and revulsion when she thought of the sleazy man.
"It was nothing, but you shouldn’t go there again. It’s not suited for you."
Gu Yao smiled: "Why don’t you think it suits ?"
"I’m pretty good at reading people. You seem lively, but I bet the things you like are more on the tranquil side, right? Bars are fit for people like and your second brother."
Gu Yao smiled bitterly and nodded slightly: "I really don’t like that place."
"When you’re unhappy, there are many other places you could go. It’s not necessary to go to a bar." As Ais said this, his eyes seed to be veiled with frost, and his expression turned a bit lancholic, eliciting sympathy from anyone who saw him.
"Do you often feel unhappy?" Gu Yao inquired.
Ais smiled, said nothing, but his smile was tinged with various types of bitterness, giving off a feeling that everything was understood without words.
The atmosphere turned sowhat awkward. Gu Yao knew she might have inadvertently touched on a sensitive spot that others were reluctant to discuss.
So, she laughed, trying to ease the tension: "Then, what are so places you think are fitting for tis when you’re feeling down?"
"The seaside, yeah." Ais blurted out, then seed to feel as though he had exposed sothing personal after he said it.
"Seems like you go there often."
"...I just think the air is good there." Ais laughed awkwardly, as if trying to cover up.
As Gu Yao watched him scramble to hide his inner turmoil after being pricked on a sensitive subject, she suddenly saw herself in him that evening.
She always felt that a lot of things had happened to him, and they were probably not good things.
Comparing their situations, Gu Yao suddenly felt that her own troubles were not so significant.
"Okay, let’s not talk about this anymore. It’s getting late. I’ll accompany you to hail a cab."
"Alright."
Both of them stood up and left the park.
Ais hailed a cab for her, opened the car door, then rested one hand on the top of the door and looked inside at Gu Yao. He smiled and said:
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