Fu Ying lay on the bed, staring at the dim yellow lamp on the cabinet, with an earphone hanging on her ear.
Lin Lishan curiously picked up the other one and put it in her ear: "What song?"
Fu Ying thought for a mont before answering, "About unrequited love."
Lin Lishan looked at her, wanting to say sothing, but swallowed her words.
Yesterday, she noticed that Wen Tian’s QQ status was an insect. When they sent Wen Tian to the airport, she asked him: "Who do you like?"
Wen Tian answered, an insect. She thought Wen Tian didn’t want to tell her and was just brushing her off until she saw Fu Ying, a firefly, an insect, in her friends list. So, Wen Tian actually likes Fu Ying.
But honestly, during the first year of high school, they were in the sa class and interacted quite a bit, but nobody thought about it that way.
Later, they chose different subjects, one in science and the other in arts, separated by two buildings, and didn’t interact much daily. Therefore, none of them realized that Wen Tian actually liked Fu Ying.
And there was a sentence on the title page of that book, "In that glorious youth, I was mute."
It’s probably about liking soone but not having the courage to tell her, so he remained mute.
"Fu Ying, I’m going to tell you a secret."
Fu Ying listened attentively.
Lin Lishan quietly said, "I had a crush on Wen Tian during our first year of high school."
"Really?"
"Why would I lie to you, it was only for a short while, and then it faded. It ca quickly and left quickly." Lin Lishan’s tone was light, it indeed seed to co and go quickly, so quick that she didn’t even feel it before it vanished.
Until she t the person who crashed into her heart.
Fu Ying nodded blankly.
"By the way, as your best friend, a reminder, when you’re with your boyfriend, make sure to use protection."
Use protection...
Fu Ying thought about last night, a chill racing through her.
Last night, he, he didn’t use it, did he?
Fu Ying clutched a plush toy, biting her lip, her cheeks turning red.
He, he wasn’t that bold.
"There are stars outside." Lin Lishan looked up towards the window.
Fu Ying nodded absent-mindedly, "Yeah, there are stars."
During the day the weather was fine, at night the stars shone brightly, but another corner of the city was not so peaceful.
Before Fu Ying knew Shen Liguang, she never knew that there were so many people in this city troubled by life and ensnared by love.
Although it was bustling, the worries were nurous too.
A middle-aged man scarred by life’s pressures finally collapsed and chose to commit suicide by jumping from a building after yet another plan was rejected by his superiors.
He worked overti daily to earn money to support his family, thus losing much ti with his wife and children, and not everyone in this world is understanding.
So, his wife, unable to bear the loneliness of an empty house, had an affair.
And with the disappointnt of his work life, the man’s mindset completely collapsed, losing faith in continuing life, and so he chose suicide.
And the man ca, garbed in stars, his gaze heavy, looking up at the fifth floor.
The middle-aged man was already sitting on the windowsill, rely a relaxation of his hand away from falling.
"It’s too late, prepare the safety air cushion."
Shen Liguang imdiately ordered the equipnt and went upstairs. Rescuing was a matter of seconds, never to be delayed.
On the fifth floor, Xiao Wu and two firefighters were calming the man, continuously talking to him.
"Brother, is there a trouble so great you must die?"
"I don’t want to live anymore."
A middle-aged man, his temples graying, crying like a child.
"As long as you’re alive, everything can be overco."
"If you die, then everything is gone."
"Being alive, there’s still hope."
High-rise building, six floors high, no elevator, Shen Liguang quickly led Qian Zheng to the top floor.
"Is the top floor accessible?"
"The property managent has already gone up and unlocked the door."
Xiao Wu had been talking to the man below, stalling for ti.
Shen Liguang secured the ropes and descended to the fifth floor using the rope, where the man was sitting by the fifth-floor window.
Frequently responding to calls together, they seed to have developed an understanding, and several firefighters on the fifth floor were continuously distracting the man.
Seizing the mont when the man was distracted, Shen Liguang kicked the man inside with a forceful push of his foot.
Xiao Wu imdiately pinned the man down. The man struggled fiercely, crying out.
"I just want to die, I don’t want to live!"
"We fight tooth and nail to save lives, just so that you all can live well, you know?"
"Do you know how many firefighters sacrifice their lives each year on missions? Because people like you don’t want to live, we have to risk our lives to save you."
"What’s so unbearable? You’ve lived to this age, try to see things a bit more lightly. If we all thought like you, you wouldn’t believe how many tis we’d wish to die each day."
Finally, the man’s wife arrived.
It’s hard for outsiders to settle dostic disputes. So things they needed to solve between themselves.
When preparing to return, Shen Liguang noticed the small elastic band on his wrist had sohow broken off and had fallen sowhere.
Shen Liguang’s first instinct was to go back and look for it, but rembering it was work hours, he refrained from opening the car door.
"What’s wrong, Captain?"
Shen Liguang redirected his gaze and shook his head: "It’s nothing."
Soone noticed: "Xiao Shen’s wristband is missing."
Shen Liguang smiled: "Perhaps it just fell off."
Soone joked: "Hope your girlfriend won’t be mad, right?"
Shen Liguang shook his head, recalling how the girl was in so much pain last night, biting her lip, fingers tightly gripping the bedsheets, and smiled.
"Ts ts ts, look at the captain smile. Truly soone in love. Did you guys know? The captain’s girlfriend is Captain Fu’s little sister."
"I’ve seen that girl once, she looked quite young."
Wu Xiaowu joked: "Of course, the captain watched her grow up."
Qian Zheng, realizing late: "Ah, I rember now, isn’t it the little girl who got scolded to tears by the captain during the high school fire drill?"
"That’s right."
"Looking after the girl and then taking her ho, sounds like the plot of a novel my sister would read."
Everyone chuckled, and the atmosphere in the fire truck beca lively.
Shen Liguang just smiled and stayed silent.
Alternating between day and night, he hadn’t returned to his apartnt in a while.
Fu Ying felt that being nineteen was going by slowly; the sester was almost over and she wasn’t even nineteen yet.
One more year until she married him.
During the sumr break, her grandmother planned to go ho to deal with so matters.
Fu Ying went with her.
The night before their departure, she received his call.
Recalling Lin Lishan’s words, Fu Ying nervously asked in a soft voice, "That night, brother, did you, did you wear that?"
"Wear what?"
He asked back, smiling.
Fu Ying could tell he was doing it on purpose, got a bit angry, and stopped talking.
"I didn’t wear it."
"How could you not wear it." Fu Ying started to panic, feeling scared, "What if, what if I get pregnant?"
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