Chapter 226 We Have Been Together For A Long Time

On the afternoon of August 8, the two met unexpectedly in the laboratory.

Zhao Yuxi took the initiative to greet him: "Gu Tingzhou, how is your family member doing recently?"

"Sister Zhao Yuxi, I want to know if I have offended you in some way?" As soon as he saw Zhao Yuxi, Gu Tingzhou wanted to tell her all the grievances in his heart.

"You didn't offend me. What's wrong?"

"My enemy lives in the warehouse, and I don't know what to do with him. The person I like lives downstairs, and I don't know either..."

The people living in the warehouse were his enemies. They were sealed in ice by him. They could talk but could not move. The soundproofing of the warehouse was very good. As long as the door was not opened, they would not be able to hear their unbearable curses. But he was not at ease to keep people in the ice. He even had to deliver food to these people occasionally, which made him even more uneasy.

The person who lives downstairs is the one he likes. He sees Song Yihan every day, but as they meet more and more often, the distance between them becomes closer and closer, and he feels more and more unfamiliar with her. Especially this morning when he was having breakfast, he looked at the every move of the person sitting opposite him and suddenly felt flustered: I don't seem to understand her at all.

He thought that Song Yihan was probably not a particularly close or important person to him. The clear and definite feeling of strangeness made him think of relatives, classmates, and teachers.

Every year when he visits relatives during the New Year, he will see some unfamiliar relatives. When he turns around after class, he will see some unfamiliar classmates. As for teachers, they are even more unfamiliar. No matter how many times he sees them, he knows very little about them.

"I can help you deal with your enemies, and I can also help you send away the people you like, but how to treat the people you like is something you have to decide for yourself."

"I don't know. She looks nice, but strange. Does Mu Zhengguang feel strange when he looks at Xu Yingze?"

Gu Tingzhou knew that Mu Zhengguang would never feel strange when looking at Xu Yingze. The two of them would only become more familiar with each other the more they looked at each other. This was an obvious fact. He had no other partners around him, and he envied the relationship between the two, so he used these two people as examples.

"We both have the answer to this question, and our answers are the same. Gu Tingzhou, you shouldn't compare yourself with Mu Zhengguang. He has known Xu Yingze for eleven years, and you have only known Song Yihan for seven years."

Gu Tingzhou whispered back, "It's not a matter of time."

"It's really not a matter of time. I've only known you for more than two months, but when I look at you, I don't feel strange. Meeting a junior high school classmate, one of you is unmarried, the other is unmarried, and the two of you get married. This kind of thing seems beautiful and romantic, but in fact, when people experience it personally, they will find that there are many problems. Rather than marrying each other, it's better to say that you are marrying the person in your memory, marrying a layer of illusory shadow."

Gu Tingzhou was speechless for a long time. He didn't think that he liked that illusory shadow, but he was not sure whether the person he liked was real.

"Two people who meet at that age are still immature. If a boy asks a girl if she is willing to marry him, the girl may say yes. Conversely, if a girl asks a boy if he is willing to marry her, the boy may also say yes, but what can he do if he is willing? Willingness does not mean there will be a result, and a result does not mean happiness. If you want to marry Song Yihan..."

"No." Although no one asked him, his thoughts hidden deep in his heart blurted out. He thought that only in front of Zhao Yuxi could he speak his true thoughts without reservation. Although this idea was not correct and appropriate.

In the past few days, what Zhao Yuxi wanted to know most was whether Gu Tingzhou wanted to marry Song Yihan. What she wanted to hear most was "no". But when she heard this answer, she was not happy at all.

She heard the answer she wanted, but things didn't go the way she wanted.

Zhao Yuxi said earnestly, "I'm not asking you to answer whether you want to or not. If you want to marry Song Yihan, you must at least understand her values, thinking, and cognition."

"Forget it, you should just send her away."

"This is irresponsible. Not to her, but to yourself." Zhao Yuxi spoke a little louder. In his opinion, Gu Tingzhou's behavior was like escaping.

"I……"

"After all, she has taken care of you for several days. You should at least give her something."

Gu Tingzhou timidly hummed like a child who had done something wrong. "I was supposed to pay for the dinner that night, but you paid for me. Now I'm transferring the money to you. Is it just right to give this money to Song Yihan?"

"Yes."

"Is there anything else I can do for you? For example, how do you tell her that you want to send her away? If you can't bring yourself to say it, I'll help you. I'll try to be gentle and polite."

"Sister, you have helped me a lot. Let me do this. If it weren't for me, she wouldn't have come to the Academy, nor would she have been sent out."

Zhao Yuxi saw his sadness and guilt building up. Feelings are invisible, but they manifest themselves in visible forms. Before the feelings become visible, Zhao Yuxi covered his eyes and said, "I'm your sister. How can I watch my brother cry in front of me?"

"I didn't cry."

"There is no difference. I, your sister, can see it... I won't tell you what I can see yet. This separation does not mean a farewell forever. Your work at the Academy of Sciences will soon be over, and you will also be starting school soon. Perhaps a short separation of a few days will allow you to get to know Song Yihan again. If you meet again in the future, you will be able to see her good and bad sides."

"Yeah." Gu Tingzhou nodded vigorously, but his movements were very light, for fear of disturbing the warm hand covering his eyes.

The temperature of tears seems no higher than that of hands.

The notes fell, the curtains parted, and their world was cut off from the outside world.

Zhao Yuxi listened to him crying quietly, her hand never moving away.

After about two or three minutes, Gu Tingzhou's crying gradually stopped.

"Gu Tingzhu, do you know what Xu Yingze and Mu Zhengguang did during those ten seconds when we closed our eyes?"

"know."

"Do you need me to hug you?"

"unnecessary."

"I can tell the difference between truth and lies. Brother, the last thing you should do is lie to me." Zhao Yuxi hugged him tightly, fearing that he would run away. At this moment, she forgot that the other party was a third-order asymptote who could use elemental dissolution, and she also forgot that she was a third-order asymptote.

They are like two most ordinary people in the world, hugging each other because of the most ordinary thing.

Gu Tingzhou wanted to say something. Maybe he should have said it a long time ago, maybe Zhao Yuxi had been waiting for him to say it, but he thought of Song Yihan who was still busy at home. Should he be responsible for that person? Should he be responsible for his roommate? Probably not. Even if he was responsible, it was insignificant compared to his responsibility to Zhao Yuxi.

"Zhao Yuxi, I like you."

Tears welled up in Zhao Yuxi's eyes. She took a deep breath to stop the urge to cry. However, as soon as she opened her mouth, tears fell.

"Gu Tingzhou, I like you too."

"Can we be together?"

"We've been together for a long time."

(End of this chapter)