“I’ll be damned…” Lan Mao needed to make a fuss, however when he checked out him, he misplaced his mood, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry… then simply apologize, this brother, why are you pushing me…?”

He was prepared but unwilling. He didn’t even have a look at Yun Li and spoke rapidly, “Sorry.”

As if he was afraid of being overheard.

Fu Shi Ze didn’t let her slip away unpunished, “Say it once more.”

Lan Mao may solely say one phrase at a time, “Excuse me.”

Fu Shi Ze mentioned, “What are you sorry for?”

“…” Lan Mao’s lips step by step straightened as he stared at him, “I’m sorry.”

“Do you could have your eyes on me?”

“I…” Lan Mao took a deep breath and didn’t wish to apologize endlessly, so he mentioned actually to Yun Li, “I’m sorry, I’m not too clear-headed in the intervening time, and I don’t know why I did such a factor. Don’t take it personally.”

Yun Li’s coronary heart had a lingering concern and she or he replied vaguely,

“Brother Ze, why haven’t you returned again but?” The massive man got here out to clean issues over, “You don’t smoke anymore, you haven’t recovered out of your chilly but, have you ever?”

“Hn.”

The massive man added, “This man is drunk already, he’ll know his mistake when he sobers up.”

Lan Mao was aggravated: “The place am I drunk?”

Fu Shi Ze ignored him, “Return ba!”

Feeling that the entire world was towards him, Lan Mao mentioned in an aggrieved voice, “It was this girl who mentioned that I might let her come over and——”

Earlier than he may end his sentence, his mouth was coated by the large man and he may solely set free a strangled cry. The massive man simply dragged him again into the alleyway, “Brother, we’ll depart you to it then. I’ll take him to sober up.”

With these two gone, the already distant location turned much more abandoned.

Yun Li needed to ask him what his relationship with them, however he felt it was too presumptuous. After standing for a second, she clutched the bag and mentioned, “Thanks.”

Not receiving a response, Yun Li was in a dilemma or with out having a approach out, hesitating to say goodbye.

Then Fu Shi Ze abruptly requested, “What did you simply name me?”

“Huh?” Not sure of the that means, Yun Li dared not not reply, “Fu Shi Zhe?”

“Ze.”

“What?”

“Fu Shi Ze.”

“….” Yun Li nonetheless didn’t get it and skim alongside, “Uh, Fu Shi Ze.”

Fu Shi Ze put out his cigarette, “Straighten your tongue and say it once more.”

Yun Li abruptly understood and her face turned purple.

Yun Li’s video was typically identified by followers for her indistinguishable flat tongue. Later, she intentionally tried to regulate it, however a few of the phrases had been at all times indistinguishable, and she or he couldn’t even hear the distinction.

Her mouth moved and she or he started with a mosquito-like voice, however she didn’t have the guts to proceed.

However Fu Shi Ze solely introduced up her errors, not holding on to them like he did to Lan Mao. Then he requested thoughtfully, “How have you learnt my identify?”

“…” He mentioned and in a number of seconds, Yun Li searched her mind and was a million % certain that she didn’t introduce herself the previous few instances she had met him.

There was no approach Yun Li may have instructed the reality. She had particularly looked for the web and acquired the data by this.

Isn’t this a fucking pervert?

She stumbled and defined, “I heard, I heard from the EAW folks, that you just had been their new colleague.”

This was an affordable excuse, and Fu Shi Ze nodded. Glancing on the clock, he mentioned casually, “What are you doing right here?”

Yun Li whispered, “I wish to purchase a fried noodle.”

Fu Shi Ze didn’t ask an excessive amount of and mentioned, “Sure.”

“However overlook it,” Though nothing occurred earlier, Yun Li was nonetheless a bit uneasy in the intervening time, “It appears a bit out of the best way, I’d higher return and order a takeaway.”

After two seconds of silence, Fu Zhi Ze requested, “The place?”

Yun Li subconsciously pointed to 1 course.

Fu Zhi Ze: “Let’s go.”

“…”

After saying that, with out ready for her response, he lifted his ft and walked ahead.

The center charge of Yun Li inexplicably elevated as she watched the again of Fu Shi Ze. After a second’s pause, she catched up with him.

The dried fried noodle store was positioned in one of many alleys.

Though the situation was distant, there have been nonetheless plenty of prospects at this hour, and so they regarded like college college students from the neighborhood. The milk tea store continues to be open, however after the development of the second, the enterprise in entrance of the store is inferior to earlier than.

They don’t say a lot and there’s no extra dialog whereas they wait.

After ten minutes, Yun Li took the baggage.

The 2 of them walked out.

They walked alongside the road, all the best way to the street. Throughout the road was the sq. the place Yun Li had come from, the place folks had been nonetheless dancing and skateboarding.

Fu Shi Ze stopped right here and mentioned, “Go house early.”

“Huh?” Yun Li slowed down a bit, “…Oh, okay. Then I’ll return first.”

After strolling a number of steps, Yun Li couldn’t resist trying again.

He was nonetheless standing in the identical place.

The person’s eyebrows had been darkish, his pores and skin pale and chilly. He was tall and wore a white quick sleeve. His physique is skinny, like a lonely pine, however not too skinny.

For a second, one thing broke by the cage.

A flower, reluctant to sprout, breaks out of the bottom the place nobody is conscious of it. Timid and small, it’s tempted by the moonlight to step out into the world and take a peek.

Yun Li had forgotten her concern of socializing, her long-standing avoidance of strangers. At this second, there is just one thought in her thoughts.

If she didn’t take a step ahead now.

This might be the final assembly between the 2 of them.

However she needed it to be.

There will probably be one other time for them to fulfill. 

Yun Li swallowed and slowly closed her palm: “That, I… can I ask you for a solution to get in touch?”

Fu Shi Ze raised his eyes.

The primary time to do this sort of factor, Yun Li was at loss to elucidate: “I heard them say you could have a chilly, I do know a model of chilly medication continues to be fairly efficient, I wish to advocate it to you…”

He didn’t reply instantly, as if ready for her to complete.

Just a few moments later, Fu Shi Ze mentioned flatly, “Thanks, no want.” Then, after a second of silence, he added, “I forgot to say that I hope my buddy’s conduct won’t have an effect on you.”

A quite simple assertion that immediately shattered Yun Li’s reverie and misinterpretation.

She didn’t must suppose deeply to know what he meant.

It was not that he was considering of her differently.

It was just because his buddy had carried out one thing to offend her tonight. And since he had apologized, it ought to have been an efficient apology.

He didn’t need it to have an effect on her unique plans.

The lengthy, limitless night time, the busy, abandoned streets, the roads that minimize the world in half. There was a pointy chirping within the ears, as if minimize off from the environment, collapsing one after one other.

An uncontrollable embarrassment washed over her coronary heart. 

Yun Li smiled reluctantly and whispered, “It’s okay, overlook it then…Hope you recover from your chilly quickly.”

With that, Yun Li forgot to even say goodbye and simply needed to get out of this place as quickly as doable. The second she turned her head, her nostril turned bitter, she regarded on the course of the incoming automotive and rapidly crossed the street.

……

When she acquired house, Yun Li kicked off her sneakers and threw the bag on the eating desk. She took three steps to the lounge and slumped onto the sofa, sinking down.

He needed to fake that nothing had occurred, however the look on Fu Shi Ze’s face replayed earlier than her eyes.

There was no trace of fluctuation from the start to the top.

It was as if the recklessness and retreat that had occurred tonight due to him had solely been about her. Even when he refused, he didn’t even apologize for the opportunity of hurting her.

As a result of he didn’t care in any respect.

Masking her face with a pillow, Yun Li pursed her lips onerous.

So humiliating.

In such a sorry state.

Why would she do such a factor?

Yun Li desperately wanted somebody to speak to, somebody she may empathize with, however didn’t wish to point out it to anybody. After a very long time, she picked up her cell phone, opened the webpage and began looking out, “I requested somebody for a WeChat and was rejected.”

Many individuals have had the identical expertise.

It gave the impression to be a commonplace, trivial, unimportant factor.

However it doesn’t matter what, most individuals surprise in the event that they had been actually that unhealthy as a result of the opposite particular person wasn’t even concerned about attending to know them higher. Most individuals surprise in the event that they had been actually that unhealthy.

It took a very long time to get well from studying different folks’s tales. Now not unhappy, she sat down on the desk and opened the dried fried noodles that she had placed on maintain for therefore lengthy. 

She took a chunk.

It was already chilly.

Yun Li swallowed it and muttered in frustration, “My coronary heart shouldn’t be as chilly as yours.”

She took the lunchbox to the microwave to warmth it up, and whereas she waited, she turned on her E-site. She had taken a depart of absence and hadn’t posted a video for a number of weeks.

The feedback on the backside of the web page had been all wailing, pleading for the return of the lacking particular person, and a few had even given her a nickname.

Yun Li was amused by a number of of the feedback, so after interested by it, she typed and posted a message.

Tik-Tok sauce: Cease calling me salted fish Tik-Tok sauce and thanks all in your knees, replace it on Saturday night time.

The primary time she posted it, a whole lot of feedback had been scrolled down. 

When she regarded by them, she discovered that aside from urging her to replace, there was additionally a reminder that the five hundred,000 followers she owed hadn’t been paid. She had been requested to make movies on numerous matters, and so they had been so numerous that they had been dazzling.

However the one which acquired essentially the most response was for her to go reside.

The primary time she did it was a novelty, so she went offline after a couple of minutes. I felt that I used to be not very aware of the scene and that the reside broadcast could be boring, so I’ve been reluctant to play this recreation.

The one instances she performed it as a result of he had been inspired by followers.

However for some motive, all of them appear to love it.

She observed that it was late and there shouldn’t have been many individuals there. Moreover, Yun Li was in a nasty temper and needed to speak to somebody. Hesitantly, she returned to the lounge couch, regarded on the digicam to see what she was sporting and the angle, made certain it was proper, after which clicked on the reside feed.

The subsequent second, customers swarmed in.

Yun Li adjusted herself and mentioned whats up. Staring on the display screen, he started to learn out the pop-ups and replied, “Why are you ‘reside’ abruptly? –Oh, it’s one of many perks of being 1,000,000 followers, I’m rehearsing prematurely.”

“Why did the background change?” Yun Li opened his lunchbox and easily began consuming, consuming dried fried noodles as she mentioned, “I’ve moved and I haven’t sorted it out but. I’ll get a greater background later.”

“What are you consuming? –Dried fried noodles.”

“It’s so boring, placed on a expertise present, in any other case reside broadcast for what?” Yun Li additionally didn’t care, she mentioned indifferently, “No, you possibly can change the studio.”

“Why do I really feel like Salty Fish is so shut in immediately? ——You bought it mistaken.”

As quickly as this remark was made, the pop-ups had been swarming with folks taking part in:【It’s autism, not autism.】 

“…” Yun Li instantly considered immediately’s correction of Fu Zhi Ze, deep breath, very certain that she didn’t enable the phrases to grow to be warped and rightly dividing, “You don’t confuse between proper and mistaken, I mentioned there may be nothing mistaken.”

Subsequent, the display screen gave her phrases and tongue twisters, as if to offer Yun Li’s normal Chinese language a coaching session.

Maybe she was making an attempt to play alongside along with her followers, or perhaps she was making an attempt to make an announcement for herself, and Yun Li learn each phrase correctly. A number of the phrases had been even improvised and made into nonsensical sentences.

And so it went on for about 10 minutes.

After consuming the dried fried noodles, Yun Li scanned the display screen and caught a phrase within the fixed stream of pop-ups.

——Shi Ze. 

As he exits the candy soup water store, the cell phone in Fu Shi Ze’s pocket rings.

Taking it out, he glanced on the caller ID and pressed the reply button. On the opposite finish got here Xu Qing Tune’s voice: “The place is he? I’ve completed choosing up the automotive.”

Fu Shi Ze: “They’re out.”

“Okay, come to the station.”

“Hn.”

Fu Shi Ze hung up the cellphone and walked out of the road once more with a bag in his hand. He discovered Xu Qing Tune’s automotive, acquired into the passenger seat and put the bag apart.

Xu Qing Tune checked out it as he drove: “This, who’re you going to purchase it for?”

“My dad.”

“Is the previous man nonetheless awake?” Xu Qing Tune mentioned casually, “So are you going again to the maple forest within the northern mountains now? Or are you going someplace with me?”

Fu Shi Ze’s eyes drooped, trying extraordinarily sleepy: “Not coming.”

Xu Qing Tune shook his head and sighed, “You’re fairly enticing to ladies along with your character. I’ve obtained a number of messages up to now few days, all asking me in your WeChat.”

Fu Shi Ze acted as if he hadn’t heard.

When he was weak, dejected and weary, Xu Qing Tune didn’t say something extra and reached out to show off his cell navigation. On the identical time, a tweet from the E web site popped up on the high of the display screen: Your followers @閑雲嘀嗒醬 began their reside broadcast quarter-hour in the past.

Xu Qing Tune clicked the mistaken button. 

He didn’t discover till there was abruptly some noise within the closed and quiet area, and Xu Qing Tune unconsciously checked out his cellphone, solely to discover a woman who regarded acquainted on the display screen.

He additionally gave him an account quantity, and the listing of followers had been all of the upkeepers who had arrived this time.

To indicate that he was accountable, Xu Qing Tune went to his account. Nonetheless, he didn’t trouble to take a look at it and solely scanned it a number of instances. Nonetheless, the software program pushed him on occasion, and he had already clicked on it by mistake a number of instances throughout this era.

Xu Qing Tune was nearly to show it off when he abruptly realized, “Ah Ze, isn’t this the woman who sat subsequent to you the opposite day?”

When he heard the motion, Fu Shi Ze’s eyes lifted.

He noticed the woman he had met solely a short time in the past showing on Xu Qing Tune’s cell phone display screen. She was sitting on the couch, nonetheless sporting her contemporary garments. Her face was small and white. Her face was not a lot totally different from actuality.

Her eyes are large and shiny. She regarded straight into the digicam, much less restrained than in entrance of his face.

Then, the woman spoke out, repeating a phrase: “Shi Ze, Shi Ze…”

In the course of the night time, in ghostly pageant, within the chilly and empty streets, within the reside broadcast room that he by accident clicked into and because the phrases that echoed in his ears, as quickly as he entered the reside broadcast room, the anchor repeated the phrases that sounded the identical because the names of the folks he was speaking to.

“…”

It was a barely weird scene.

Xu Qing Tune was silent: “Why does it seem like she’s calling you by your identify?”

With out ready for a reply from Fu Shi Ze, the woman ended her “Repeater” mode. Then, staring on the digicam, she mentioned rapidly, “He seems like a wolf.”

After a pause, she slowly stifled a number of extra phrases: “—— however he’s a canine.”

A silence fell over the automotive, 

Three seconds later, Xu Qing Tune reacted. He solely caught the final half of the sentence and requested sideways, “You had been scolded?”

Fu Shi Ze didn’t perceive: “What?”

“She mentioned you’re a canine.”

“….”