Unrequited Love

Luo Zhi and Sheng Huainan began to send text messages frequently.

Luo Zhi's most gratified thing is that Sheng Huainan is the kind of boy who is more fascinating the more he comes into contact with him. In the chat, he is sometimes sober and incisive, and sometimes there is a boy with little shame and pride.

If you like someone without knowing it, and find that the real side of that person is better than you think, this should be considered lucky.

However, Sheng Huainan responds to text messages quickly and slowly. Luo Zhi often waits until he is exhausted and feels suspicious. After a while, he glances at the phone and feels that it is vibrating; when replying to text messages, he always thinks about it, not only on his topic reply. , And leave a little space for the other party to reply at the end so that the text message can continue.

However, even if it is a little tired, it is still sweet. Sometimes when you turn your head and look in the mirror, you will find a woman sitting inside holding a mobile phone smirking, with strange happiness on her familiar face.

Before the macroeconomics class, she was texting, and suddenly a fat girl came over and said: "Jiang Baili in your dormitory, ouch."

Luo Zhi didn't like this fat girl very much, she reminded herself of Xu Qiqiao who was gossiping in the high school class. She smiled, pretending not to hear.

"I said Belle in your dormitory. Ouch." She repeated it again.

Oh shit. Luo Zhi thought she was more annoying than Xu Qiqiao, because Xu Qiqiao at least cared about her own face, and only told people who like to listen to gossip, and the girl's obsession made her nowhere to hide.

"What does Jiang Baili in your dormitory think? I suspect her brain is sick. Do you know? We recruited volunteers for the Century Economist Forum at our school that day. During the interview, we were in teams of four. The question she asked was, if You and your volunteer partner are working in a room. At this time, several other people suggest that you play poker together. What would you do?"

Luo Zhi was expressionless.

"Then Jiang Baili said: ‘Well, then I’ll tell them, count me.’"

Luo Zhi didn't hold back, but still laughed out loud. The fat girl was very happy that her words had worked.

At this time, Belle came over and threw the homework to Luo Zhi. The fat girl hid aside with some shock.

"Help me hand in my homework, I'll go back to make up for it. It's all copied according to yours, don't put our two together when handing it in."

Belle Cheng Richen looked at the novel upside down, filled the Internet, and then was in a daze. She didn't walk out of the dormitory very much. She often sent text messages to ask Luo Zhi to bring her takeout back to the dormitory to eat, so the date with Gobi must have been much less.

Luo Zhi never asked her and Gobi how they were, but occasionally reminded her: "I've taken the midterm exam, hurry up."

"I don't have any goals. It doesn't matter what, I'll be fine after the exam." Belle raised her head from the computer and smiled at her.

In fact, Luo Zhi didn't have any lofty ambitions, but she was accustomed to going forward and had to fight for it, even fighting harder than others.

People with resentment in their hearts are always stronger than others.

Thinking of this, Sheng Huainan's name popped up in his heart again.

The teacher came in from the door and looked at Jiang Baili, who was yawning but walking in the opposite direction.

In a class of 100 people, it is difficult to remember a person's name, especially Belle, who has almost never appeared.

"By the way, Luo Zhi, come on."

The moment Belle went out, the text message flew into Luo Zhi's cell phone.

Belle said this sentence every day. As if any progress of Luo Zhi could become her own happiness. Therefore, Luo Zhi was very embarrassed. Belle didn't understand anything about her. She didn't know how to make Belle understand. In fact, the eight characters hadn't been written yet.

“I’m actually very simple (simple), that kind of conference is really boring to me.” The macro teacher is the “turtle” of Columbia (Columbia University). Luo Zhi, they are not surprised.

"Okay, return to the book. Basically (basically) this kind of inflation (inflation rate) is very tricky in developing countries (developing countries). Given (in view of) its moneysupply (money supply), This kind of moderate inflation rate (moderate inflation rate) is actually a beneficial thing."

Luo Zhi rubbed his ears and smiled helplessly. At this time, the phone vibrated and an unfamiliar number came in.

"Hello, is it Luo Zhi? I take the liberty to interrupt. I want to ask if you have time this afternoon? I have something to say about Sheng Huainan."

Luo Zhi read the text message several times and responded slowly.

"I'm not familiar with him. If you have anything important, just tell him directly, sorry."

The text message never came.

The text message that Luo Zhi himself sent to Sheng Huainan this morning has not yet responded. Sometimes she feels too stupid to wait like this. Whether she is in class or doing homework, she responds to every text message as soon as possible, but the other party is not.

She turned it off and turned it on again, always hoping that a few short messages would pop up when she turned it on. After repeated several times, she finally felt disgusted by her humbleness, so she simply unplugged the battery and stuffed it to the bottom of the schoolbag full of books—she was lazy. So I was too lazy to take out a heavy book to find the battery, and the phone was able to stop for a long time.

It even stopped until she forgot.

Before going to bed, I took out the battery, turned it on, set the alarm, and found that there were new text messages.

"Tomorrow at three o'clock in the afternoon, the cafe, the debate team has something to ask you to help. Please come. The phone is dead, borrow one from a classmate. Sheng Huainan

Luo Zhi's first reaction was the inexplicable message in the morning. However, she remembered that the morning text message was the number of the dynamic zone, and now the number starting with 132 is China Unicom's number.

She thought for a while and sent the past one: "Didn't we make an appointment to watch the movie together at four tomorrow?"

"? When did I say I want to watch a movie? Do you want to watch a movie?"

"Oh, it's okay. Isn't it three o'clock? I see."

Luo Zhi stared at the bed board for a while, then got up and called.

At 3 o'clock in the afternoon the next day, Luo Zhi walked into the cafe. There were very few people inside, and there was obviously no trace of Sheng Huainan. Someone waved to her, and it was indeed the beauty in red at the supermarket gate that day. Luo Zhi walked over and sat across from her.

The girl wears delicate makeup, a golden-brown silk scarf is tied around her neck, and there is an imperceptible hostility between her eyebrows.

"Hello. My name is Xu Riqing."

Luo Zhi put the phone and wallet in the middle of the table and nodded at her.

"Do you not watch the movie at four o'clock? Will it be too late?" Xu Riqing's smile was obviously provocative.

Luo Zhi also smiled: "Don't you really think you are quite smart, do you?"

"how?"

"You can think of changing your phone number and sending it again, and then calmly bet that I was scamming you after I asked the question about watching movies at four o'clock. It means that you guessed that I was suspicious of you after sending an anonymous text message in the morning. The text message sent by pretending to be Sheng Huainan is also dubious. You are bold, and you are indeed betting on the right answer. However, let's save these suspicions about the circumvention. What if I call Sheng Huainan directly to ask him? Or? , When you texted it was the time for your boy and girl friends to say goodnight to each other before going to bed, you are not afraid that I happened to be texting with the real Sheng Huainan? If I told him about this, then I will call him today Also dragged to the coffee shop, would you find it very exciting?" Luo Zhi folded the paper towel slowly, deliberately not looking at Xu Riqing when speaking, but Yu Guang stared at the other party's reaction: "Obviously, where are you from? Are you confident? You have to pretend to be Zhang Mingrui. Talk to him in advance. It’s not easy to wear clothes."

The person on the other side was silent for a while, and said, "You know me and Zhang Mingrui."

"But I actually know very little about you."

"Since your analysis is so clear, why did you come?"

"Maybe it's curious, I'm gossiping too."

"Since I am curious, why didn't you agree when I texted you yesterday morning?"

"Reserved," Luo Zhi smiled to herself and interrupted her, "Beauty, you can talk about the subject."

"Are you Sheng Huainan's girlfriend?" Xu Riqing looked at her almost resentful.

"Huh? Not really."

"Then why did you just say boyfriend and girlfriend..."

"What I meant just now was from your point of view. Since you think we are boy and girl friends, you should be more thoughtful and clever when you lie, and don't hit the gun."

"Why are you sure I think you two are boyfriend and girlfriend?"

"You came to me for playing one hundred thousand why? If you don't think so, why are you looking for me today?"

Xu Riqing lowered his head, and the spirit he was holding at the beginning was messed up by Luo Zhi. Luo Zhi glanced at the phone whose screen had been darkened, and did not speak.

"You mean, you are not Sheng Huainan's girlfriend?"

"Actually, I don't know him well, that kid makes people feel insecure. You never know what he is thinking, and you never know whether he is true or not."

Luo Zhi said in a stern tone, but he was a little embarrassed. Although it is a lie, it is somewhat true. Isn't Sheng Huainan like this? The only difference is that Luo Zhi himself is also deeply involved.

When Xu Riqing heard these words, he sighed.

"Then Sheng Huainan mentioned me to you?"

Luo Zhi nodded, Xu Riqing's beautiful face was actually very haggard, the foundation was thick, but it couldn't cover the bags under the eyes and the acne on the corners of the mouth. That kind of exhaustion made her feel pity, and she couldn't speak harsh words.

"Sheng Huainan... said that he had a little misunderstanding with you and Zhang Mingrui."

"Misunderstanding?!" Xu Riqing's eyes drenched.

Luo Zhi raised his eyebrows and waited for her to speak.

However, Xu Riqing didn't say anything, just lowered his head and bit the wrinkled dead skin on his lips.

"You came to me, what do you want to say?" Luo Zhi glanced at the phone worriedly.

"It's nothing."

"Well, if I were Sheng Huainan's girlfriend, what did you want to tell me?"

Xu Riqing had returned to a cold expression on her face and smiled sarcastically: "There are so many ifs in the world."

"There really is no "if" in the world," Luo Zhi tapped his finger on the table, "but there are many "buts."

Xu Riqing shook her head indifferently, and stopped talking. Luo Zhi suddenly felt impatient and wanted to leave immediately. After a long sigh of relief, she calmed down and said, "Why don't you want to tell me, he actually likes you?"

Xu Riqing was not angry, her voice was only slightly shaking: "So what? You don't understand. Don't ask me for evidence."

evidence?

Luo Zhi suddenly remembered a book by Agatha, Endless Night ("Long Night").

Ellie sits on the ground holding the guitar and sings and plays and the actor is watching her.

Ellie said: "Youlookedasifyoulovedme." (It looks like you are in love with me.)

At that time the story had not yet unfolded. The actor coveted Ellie's family, married her, and conspired with others to murder her. Luo Zhi has always been fascinated by the novel whose case is not complicated. She didn't know if Ellie knew from the beginning that the man didn't love her at all, but that night, she said to her husband in a subjunctive tone: "You look at me as if you love me."

Ellie didn't have any evidence that her husband didn't love her, and even all the details showed the hero's meticulousness-but she just knew it.

Love is just a feeling, but they are desperately collecting evidence. Xu Riqing's evidence is entrenched in the corners of Sheng Huainan's eyebrows. One action, one tone. He never said "I like you" or even "I really like studying with you", so no matter how loudly she shouted the truth about herself, no one believed it.

The corners of the eyes and the brows are just a misunderstanding.

Luo Zhi sighed very tiredly.

"Evidence has an ass. Anyway, if you didn't even hit the IOU, he would not admit it. Can you still eat him?" She chose the most vulgar vernacular, and said slowly, "You are not related by blood. Second, there is no hatred of the country and the family. Falling in love is not a matter of principle at all. Since he likes you, why doesn't he admit it? If you get confused, I really want to smoke you.

Then, for about five minutes, neither of them spoke.

"Is it because of... his previous girlfriend?" Xu Riqing calmed down a lot.

"If it is, then it's even simpler. He still likes people and doesn't like you."

"You said it for a long time, but you just want me to believe that he doesn't like me."

"Xu Riqing--" Luo Zhi's expression was exhausted.

The two girls stared at each other dumbly.

"Is it really hard to swallow this? Is it that hard to admit defeat?" Luo Zhi said slowly, "You just refuse to admit defeat."

Xu Riqing was stunned for a while, and suddenly burst into tears. Luo Zhi hesitated for a moment, looked at the curious customers around with a numb scalp, then sat down opposite and patted her back gently. She was crying, and just whispered in her mouth: "Why and what..."

There were still rough traces of straw sticks on the free facial tissues in the cafe, but Luo Zhi couldn't help but handed them to her. Pick up the phone and turn it off.

After about ten minutes, Xu Riqing finally calmed down.

Luo Zhi smiled relaxedly.

"Laughing?"

"Lovely, I hate that I am not a man."

"If you were a man, I might really like you." The makeup on Xu Riqing's face was spent, the mascara stuck to the lower eyelids, and the whole person became a panda. However, she laughed brilliantly, and that kind of unreserved smile moved Luo Zhi-but when she smiled in front of Sheng Huainan, did she also have no reservations?

Xu Riqing came back from the bathroom with a clean face. Although the acne was obvious, her eyes were bright.

"I still have to think about it," Xu Riqing laughed apologetically to Luo Zhi, "but thank you."

"No thanks." Luo Zhi shook his head.

When saying goodbye, Xu Riqing hesitated and said: "Actually..."

"what?"

"For a moment, I suddenly felt that you didn't seem to be telling the truth."

Just as Luo Zhi wanted to speak, the cool breeze choked into his throat, and coughed for a long time.

"By the way, the first mobile phone number to send text messages is mine. Save it." Xu Riqing waved his hand and walked towards the cafeteria.

When Luo Zhi watched her leave, he remembered to turn on the phone again and dialed Zhang Mingrui's number.

"It's okay, it's not too long. It seems that your mobile phone bill is still enough." Luo Zhi felt relieved.

"What happened later? You pinched the phone directly?" Zhang Mingrui asked.

"Xu Riqing cried and didn't know when to stop, so I couldn't make the dynamic zone cheaper, so I hung up the phone for you. Later, I didn't say anything, and we talked about other things. When the mood eased, we came out of the cafe."

"Thank you."

"No need. I'm still thinking about whether I should accumulate virtue or do evil this time."

"It must be Ji De. But your mouth is really amazing. Did you hold you back by saying too little in normal?"

Luo Zhi smiled, noncommittal.

When she faced Xu Riqing, she was acrimonious and righteous, but she was actually very guilty and even a little guilty. However, Zhang Mingrui's existence made her feel a little relieved that she was doing good deeds.

"Luo Zhi, she will come back, right?"

"Well, I think so, at most, crying for a few more times and struggling for a few days, it should be all right."

"She looks shrewd, but she is actually very stupid. If only she is as smart as you."

"Do you think I'm smart?" Luo Zhi thought it was funny.

"Isn't it?"

Luo Zhi knew that she was really not a very smart person. All her cleverness is used to maintain her poor self-esteem.

Last night, she directly sent the two anonymous numbers to Zhang Mingrui. Zhang Mingrui responded to her after a few minutes. The number in the dynamic zone was Xu Riqing's, and the number 132 was from a law school classmate he knew.

"What's the matter?" Zhang Mingrui asked.

Luo Zhi told the truth that Zhang Mingrui quickly called.

"Luo Zhi, can you please do me a favor?"

Luo Zhi slowly listened to Zhang Mingrui's narrative without the following words, and just asked him: "Are you sure we two are saving people instead of breaking up a couple of potential lovers?"

"Luo Zhi, you don't know Sheng Huainan."

I do not understand. Luo Zhi sighed: "Or I am helping you commit the crime. You can use my hand to get rid of Sheng Huainan's love rival's position in Xu Riqing's heart."

"If you have to think that the two of us are mutually beneficial, I can't help it."

"Who will mutually benefit you?"

"Let’s put it this way, I’m doing it for her, but it’s not because I like her," Luo Zhi felt that Zhang Mingrui specially emphasized the word "over", "As for whether you like Sheng Huainan, the answer lies in your heart, I I have never guessed. I have told you all about Sheng Huainan and Xu Riqing. You can judge by yourself if I am right when you see her tomorrow. I just hope you can help her. I believe in your eloquence and judgment. , If you change someone else, you will mess things up, such as me."

After his serious long talk, Luo Zhi was speechless, just saying: "I will try."

Dealing with Xu Riqing's affairs is not difficult. This is the case for everyone, and when dealing with other people's affairs, they are always bold, grasping the main problem at once, but it is their turn to get entangled in the minutiae and refuse to let go. Zhang Mingrui put the phone on Luo Zhi's phone and listened to a conference call quietly.

While Xu Riqing was crying, Luo Zhi suddenly felt that Zhang Mingrui was a very warm boy.

Few boys are willing to go to great lengths to redeem a girl in the same way as a girl, and not to get it.

"Anyway, I invite you to dinner."

"Then the third canteen. I wait at the third canteen almost every day at half past five for fresh bread."

"Like my puppy, I fed it after I got home at 7pm every night in high school, so it started squatting at the door at 6:30 every day."

Zhang Mingrui looks in a good mood.

Before going to bed, Luo Zhi received a text message from Xu Riqing.

"I envy you very much, Luo Zhi. I also hope to have the backbone to be as calm as you do not care in front of him. I don't understand what you said, but I can't do it when I face him. Looking back, I am indeed very Shame, right? If I can, I hope God will give me a chance to say something very dignified and hard in front of him, or to chat and joke lightly and nonchalantly—hehe, I mean, whether it’s true or false."

Whether true or false.

The speaker had no intention, but the listener poked his heart.