Why

    When the box door opened, he was already there.

    On the round table are hot tea sets, dishes and chopsticks, and thin white smoke is still coming out of the hot water kettle.

    There are snacks placed on the table.

    Shrimp dumplings, ginseng soup dumplings, red rice sausage, steamed chicken feet with soy sauce, fresh shrimp balls in golden soup, steamed pork ribs with garlic, steamed prawns and crab roe, fried milk, boat porridge, and the spicy and sour potato shreds she orders every time.

    When he heard the door knock, he raised his head and saw Qi Ranyue at the door. A smile appeared on his face, “Baby, here you come, hurry up. I’ve just made the ganpu tea that you like. It’s delicious. There are also your favorite snacks. I’ve ordered them too.”

    He reached for the teapot with a natural movement, as if she was on a date, as if nothing had happened.

    Qi Ranyue stood at the door without moving, only looking at him with a cold and wary look.

    His hand holding the teapot paused in the air for a moment, then put it down again.

    Qi Ranyue walked over and sat down opposite him.

    The sound of the chair being pulled open was particularly harsh in the quiet box.She didn’t touch the cup of tea or even look at it.

    He gently pushed the cup of tea in front of her, and the heat rose up, leaving a thin layer of white mist between her and him.

    “Yueyue, can we eat first and then talk? It’s been a long time since I sat at the same dining table with you.” His voice was soft.

    Qi Ranyue looked at him, “Let’s get straight to the point, Xu Xingci, so as not to waste everyone’s time.”

    The smile on Xu Xingci’s face slowly faded.

    The cup of ganpu tea is steaming.

    “Now,” Xu Xingci paused, his voice was as soft as if he was afraid of breaking something, “are you not even willing to have a meal with me?”

    Qi Ranyue just looked at him with cold eyes, like a layer of frozen lake, with nothing underneath visible, “What do you think?”

    A light word, but like a slap in the face.

    Xu Xingci was silent for a long time.

    The private room was so quiet that you could hear the sound of bubbles bubbling in the hot water bottle, gulu, gulu, one after another.

    He looked at the table, the pot of tea, and the hands on his knees opposite him. Those hands were once held in his palms, small and soft.

    Xu Xingci finally raised his head and said slowly, “I miss you.”

    When those four words came out of his mouth, his voice was hoarse, as if there was something blocked in his throat.His eyes were slightly red and his lips were trembling.

    Qi Ranyue sat opposite, motionless, but her fingers clenched into fists tightened a little, “Xu Xingci, I beg you, can you stop doing this? Can you let each other go?” The voice sounded like the frozen lake finally cracked, and the water below surged up, bitingly cold, “Didn’t you get what you wanted?”

    “Now you have caused my company to disappear, my house to be gone, my parents to grow old overnight, and even Chen Rong’s laboratory was shut down because of you.” She said the same thing, her voice getting softer and softer, as soft as reading a verdict, “What else do you want?”

    Xu Xingci said softly, with a little trembling, “I want to be with you.”

    “Are you crazy?” Qi Ranyue’s voice was as sharp as breaking glass.

    “My mother passed away.” Xu Xingci said.

    Her breath caught.

    “Last month.” He lowered his head and looked at the cup of cool tea in his hand.

    “Now,” he said, “you are all I have.”

    She sat there, her knuckles white, her mind a mess, anger, fear, and absurdity all mixed together.

    Her voice was trembling, “Didn’t you say that thing can save your mother? Even if it can’t save her, what does it have to do with me? You’ve already got it.”

    He fell silent.

    There was silence for a long time.

    It was so long that she thought he wouldn’t answer, so long that she was ready to turn around and leave.

    “That’s a lie. Qi Yihuai will never give the truth to me.” His voice was very soft, as light as a feather falling to the ground.

    She froze.

    He smiled.

    “What does this have to do with me?” Qi Ranyue stood in front of him, taking a deep breath, her voice trembling, “You should go to him, you should go to the person who lied to you, and it was you who chose to believe him.”

    Xu Xingci didn’t speak, just looked at her.

    “But why do you want to harm me?” Her voice suddenly rose, and her eyes turned red.

    The layer of ice that had been frozen for so long finally broke, and the water underneath surged up.

    “I really regret meeting you, Xu Xingci!”

    When Xu Xingci said those words, he was like a house that had been built for too long and finally couldn’t bear its own weight and began to collapse from the inside.

    After Qi Ranyue left, the box was as quiet as a tomb.

    He sat there, maintaining the same posture, with his hand still resting on the cup of cool tea.

    He stared at the door and the direction in which she disappeared for a long, long time.

    He laughed, and the laughter was so light that it seemed to overflow from the depths of his throat, like a rusty door shaft being slowly turned.

    There was no sound, just the corner of the mouth was slowly pulled upward, making an arc, which made the face tighten. He smiled and laughed, and his shoulders began to shake, once, twice, more and more violently. The shaking made the teacup make a tiny sound on the saucer, and the tablecloth wrinkled.

    “Why? Why,” he said to himself, “You can get everything, why do I lose it? Why do you, why do you!”

    He raised his head and looked at the empty chair opposite, “Then let’s die together.” He took out his cell phone from his pocket, flipped to a number, and pressed it without hesitation.

    It rang twice and was answered over there.

    “Let’s do it.”

    When I got home, it was already dark.

    Qi Ranyue walked into the living room and sat down on the sofa. The scene in the box was still in her mind. Xu Xingci lowered his head and said, “My mother passed away.”

    The tube was connected to the machine, which was buzzing, and the ripples on the screen were rising and falling, as if the breath was about to expire at any time.

    It was not what she remembered seeing in the amusement park. She remembered it as powerful and terrifying, but at that time it was lying on the bed, even breathing had to be maintained by a machine.

    If the heart had not been removed, why was it so fragile?

    She frowned and twisted her clothes unconsciously with her fingers.

    Maybe it’s pretense?

    Maybe it wasn’t cored at all?Those pipes and machines are all props, to gain your trust?

    But the way those tubes are inserted into the body, the buzzing sound of those machines, and the body that is so thin that it is out of shape, how can it be faked?

    “What’s wrong?”

    She raised her head and saw Chen Rong standing next to the sofa, her eyes full of worry.

    “It’s nothing,” Qi Ranyue said with a smile, “I’m just thinking about something.”

    “Yueyue, let’s go out for a walk tomorrow,” Chen Rong said softly, “take some time to relax, okay?”

    Qi Ranyue suddenly wanted to cry, but she held it back and just nodded, leaning her head on her shoulder, “Okay.”

    “Rongrong, has the matter in the laboratory been resolved?” she asked.

    Chen Rong was silent for a while, “Still processing.”

    “Where’s your grandpa? Didn’t he help you?”

    Chen Rong’s fingers lightly scratched the back of her hand, “It’s okay, don’t worry. I can handle it myself, and I don’t want to trouble him.”

    She raised her head and looked at Chen Rong.

    Her expression was calm, and there was even a little smile on her lips.

    Banxia novel, a lot of fun

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