1208 I Had a Dream
She ended the call and walked out of the room. When she passed by the studio, she turned around and walked in, carrying a painting on her back.
Then, she left.
…
Rongyue Mansion.
Lu Huaiyu ca to the door.
She should have arrived by now.
He raised his hand to key in the passcode, but suddenly stopped.
This was the first ti he was returning to this place since that day.
He still rembered what it had been like inside when he left.
He knew that she already knew everything. However, during this period of ti, they seed to have so kind of tacit understanding. No one ntioned the book, the hand-drawn picture, the car accident, or…
His illness.
Until today–
He lowered his eyes slightly, then finally entered the passcode and pushed the door open.
The house was very quiet. Lu Huaiyu changed his shoes at the entrance and walked in.
Very quickly, he saw her.
She was sitting on the sofa in the living room, reading a book attentively.
She was wearing a beige sweater and black pencil pants, and her wavy hair was tied into a bun.
The afternoon sun was warm and bright. It passed through the floor-to-ceiling window and fell on her body, as if covering her entire body with a layer of light. Even the fine hair on her forehead had beco a light chestnut color.
Her eyes were bright, her eyelashes were thick and curly, her nose was tall, her full lips were slightly pursed, and her skin was so fair and delicate, as if light could pass through.
Her side profile was as exquisite and clean as the first ti they t.
She looked up when she heard the voice.
“Second Brother, you’re back.”
Lu Huaiyu walked towards her, his eyes sweeping over the book in her hands.
“The Physical Universe”
He quickly withdrew his gaze and looked at her again.
“Have you been waiting for a long ti?”
Shen Li shook her head.
He sat down beside her and saw that the book “The History of Ti” was still on the coffee table.
There was also a familiar black backpack and a painting.
The painting had not been opened yet, and it seed to be a new one that she had brought.
He paused.
The aning of the placent of these items was clear.
She had even found the na card.
“Second Brother, would you like sothing to drink?”
She put down the book in her hand.
“Black coffee?”
Lu Huaiyu nodded,
“Yes.”
She stood up and walked towards the kitchen. Lu Huaiyu’s gaze was fixed on those things for a mont before he also stood up and followed.
Shen Li took out a traditional coffee pot and a can of coffee beans from the cabinet.
There were many types of coffee pots that could be used to make black coffee. The one she was using was the simplest one, but also the one that required the most skill.
Lu Huaiyu sat down on a high stool beside the kitchen island.
It was not the first ti he had seen her make coffee. She was very skilled, but it was a rare visual enjoynt to watch.
From the cumberso procedures to the final taste, even soone as picky as him could not find a single flaw.
The bitter and llow taste gradually dispersed in the air.
Lu Huaiyu looked at her serious and quiet side profile and suddenly smiled.
“That hand-drawn picture could have been more specific.”
Shen Li paused what she was doing.
His cold and handso face showed a rare gentleness because of this faint smile.
“It’s a pity that I lost a lot of my mory from that day. Although I tried to recall more, it was still very blurry. In the end, I managed to draw that one picture with great difficulty.”
Shen Li did not say anything.
That day, because of the car accident, Lu Huaiyu had recalled an unbearable mory that he had forgotten a long ti ago.
Hence, his illness had acted up.
He should have forgotten everything that had happened that day, just like that ti many years ago.
...
As long as he could leave that mory, he could have recovered.
But he had not.
“He refused to forget.” Gu Tinglan’s voice rang in her ears again. “He had preferred to experience the hallucinations and pain repeatedly. He had preferred to lose sleep all night. He had preferred not to touch a car for the rest of his life than forget.”
“… He had not been able to bear to forget.”
Because she had been a part of that mory.
He had turned his back on his body’s instinct to protect himself. He was afraid that he would forget, and he had thought about it over and over again.
It had only just a silhouette, but he had rembered it for many years.
Just for this, he had not hesitated to embrace the deepest pain in his life.
“But that wasn’t enough.” Lu Huaiyu thought of the past and his thin lips curled up slightly. “I didn’t know your na, age, identity, or address. Even after I searched for you in Lincheng for a year, I was never able to see you again.”
For a very long ti, he had not been able to understand why he could not find her even though Lincheng was so small and he had searched each and every street.
If it had not been for the existence of that hand-drawn portrait, he would almost have suspected that sothing was wrong with his mory and that no such person had ever existed.
...
Shen Li lowered her eyes and her throat tightened. After a long ti, she whispered, “That accident had been too serious. After grandma found out that I had been there on that day, she had been afraid and angry. So, I… never went there again.
It was not just… Yanhui Mountain. After that, she had imdiately withdrawn from the underground racing circle and even stopped going to Wen Xiao’s auto repair factory.
“Yes, I know.”
Lu Huaiyu tilted his head slightly.
“But fortunately, I bumped into you that night.”
It had been drizzling. She had held the umbrella and walked toward the narrow and dark alley.
However, just one glance had been enough.
A hint of a smile appeared in the depths of his phoenix-like eyes.
It was not until that day that I realized that the person I liked was a young girl.
He had known nothing about her.
Yet, he missed her dearly.
Before that day, if soone had said that he would fall in love with soone… That even if he had only been able to rember her back, he would still be willing to bow down and submit. That he would even treasure the book that she had accidentally left behind and would not let go.
He would definitely have laughed.
The black coffee was poured into a cup, and the white mist lingered, giving off a strong fragrance.
She pushed it over.
Lu Huaiyu raised his cup and smiled.
“I once thought that you hadn’t called on purpose and didn’t want to keep in touch with at all.”
At that ti, he would not have imagined that she would be standing in front of him like this as she made him coffee.
She was so close that he could touch her, and he could even sll the sweet scent on her body.
Shen Li knew that he was talking about the na card that had been stuffed into her bag.
“I did find that business card not too long ago.” She said.
No wonder he reacted that way when he had seen the backpack in her bedroom that day.
How could she not have noticed it?
“So you had already given your number.
She said softly.
“So it had been that early.”
Lu Huaiyu sipped his coffee. When he heard her, he vaguely felt that she seed to be a little different from before.
He looked up.
Shen Li also looked over.
“Second Brother, do you like this cup of coffee?” She asked.
Lu Huaiyu paused and nodded.
It was not only because she had made it, but also because she had made the taste that he liked the most.
When she heard this, the corners of her lips curved up slightly.
In that pair of black and clear peach blossom eyes, there seed to be a small stream of light floating.
“It’s because you once said that you liked this flavor of coffee, so I followed the process and technique you taught and practiced it countless tis.”
Lu Huaiyu was suddenly stunned.
He had said that he liked black coffee, but he had never taught her that.
Shen Li said softly, “Lu Huaiyu, do you rember that I once had a dream? And in the dream, I was sick and you fed dicine?”
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