Butterflies Fly Over Winter Chapter 55
byChapter 55: Secret Love
Chu Yiqi looked at Chu Rou and spoke in a soft voice, as if he was afraid of getting an answer: “Then why did you stop calling the police at the alley that day?”
Chu Rou was silent for a long time, but in the end she didn’t answer. She just said, “Do you know what I’m thinking about every time I see your face, which looks three-thirds like his?”
No need to answer, Chu Rou smiled sarcastically and said, “Why didn’t I strangle you to death earlier?”
“Don’t be stupid, Chu Yiqi. The fact that we have this little entanglement is enough to make us sick.”
Chu Yiqi was noncommittal, knowing that Chu Rou had listened to a few of his words, so she turned to leave.
Chu Rou stopped her again: “Chu Yiqi, do you think Xi Ai will always be so good to you? People like them are different from you.”
Chu Yiqi stopped, opened the curtain, slowly put on the mask, and then said again: “How could it be?”
At that moment, something seemed to have entered a corner of Chu Yiqi’s heart. The vines grew wildly, so it took a long time before he could see the original appearance.
Chu Yiqi has never been able to tell when he decided to drag Chu Rou into the water completely.
Was it this time, or was it the time when Chu Rou once again used the video as a threat in the days after the castle video came out?
That time Chu Yiqi still compromised.
On that day, Xi Ai was scratched.
Looking at the bright red hands and the knife in Xi Ai’s hand, Chu Yiqi couldn’t remember any details. He could only hear Xi Ai’s voice falling into his ears, saying over and over again that it was not her fault.
Said over and over again, it was an accident that Chu Yi expected to cut her with a knife but she stopped him and they couldn’t stop arguing.
But Chu Yiqi could feel that she was going to stab Xi Ai. Maybe the target was not her hand.
On that day, Chu Yiqi planned a selfish departure.
That day, Xi Ai finally said: “If you still feel that it’s your fault, then you can do it for me. Be kind to yourself, okay?”
…
In the night breeze that spanned ten years, Chu Yiqi finally closed his eyes and finally asked Xi Ai: “If I can’t change the way I used to be, will you still view our relationship this way?”
“What kind of thing?” Xi Ai raised her hand and combed the other side of her hair back. Her eyes were no longer blocked by her hair, and her eyes fell on Chu Yiqi’s eyes.
“Everything.”
Whether it is a different personality or a mental state that may lead to illness.
Xi Ai smiled and heard vague human voices. She stood up, stretched out her hand to Chu Yiqi again, and answered the question: “I’ve always known it.”
I know you don’t want to mention the unspeakable past.
Know all the hardships and struggles you think you have.
So honey, reach out, okay?
Even if you hesitate.
Chu Yiqi looked at Xi Ai, where the two sides met in the middle of the lake, so she stretched out her hand and grabbed a slightly cold finger.
Xi Ai went back and practiced in the dance studio.
Chu Yiqi originally planned to mix two cups of lychee honey and go practice singing, but as soon as he put down Xi Ai’s cup, he saw the news from the lawyer.
Chu Yiqi glanced at his water glass, finally squeezed a piece of chocolate, walked to the balcony, and picked many phalaenopsis orchids.
“It would be easier if I had Miss Xi’s record. After all, you are involved in a biological relationship.”
Chu Yiqi pursed his lips and pressed the voice button: “That’s not necessary. Chu Rou’s handle is as good as this. I don’t want to drag Xi Ai into it.”
She suddenly remembered what Nadia said to her before: “Why does Shiny need you to treat her like the Princess and the Pea and put her in a tall building? Of course, my dear, you love her, but she may not want this.”
Just like when he heard these words that day, when he thought about them again, Chu Yiqi could only remain silent.
What could she do? She just hoped that her relationship with Xi Ai would not be mixed with anything else.
In an office far away in the city, Teng Yan twirled his lipstick in a circle and said something back to Chu Yi: “If it’s convenient, please sort out the case records. Domestic violence is really difficult to prove, so I prefer to establish blackmail and gambling.”
Chu Yiqi has always had the habit of sorting out medical records, maybe he has been waiting for them to be used as evidence.
——She has been waiting for a long time, and Xi Ai has been waiting for a long time.
After chatting with Teng Yan, Chu Yiqi looked at the time and made a video call with the psychiatrist.
The phone was hung up and Xi Ai had already changed into home clothes.Chu Yiqi asked smoothly: “Aren’t you leaving today?”
A good sentence to ask knowingly.
Chu Yiqi almost bit his tongue after asking.
Xi Ai nodded and said, “I’ll be back early tomorrow morning.”
Miss Xi placed her hand on the water glass, paused subtly for a moment, and then said in a particularly brisk tone, “Is this for me?”
Asking questions knowingly is contagious.
Chu Yiqi nodded, so the two of them walked to the table to place the dishes and chopsticks.
“Where’s the captain?” Chu Yiqi asked.
“She was recording a song, and then she had to record a supplement for Xixi’s MV, so she left together.”
“Yeah.”
Xi Ai didn’t say anything, and she divided half of the mushrooms that Yu Nianxi picked up herself and put them away.
“I’ll look forward to it by the way.” Su Luojian put down the bowl and said, “Remember to go to bed early, okay? There is a commercial shooting tomorrow morning – actually you have a lot to do tomorrow.”
Nie Chuiying immediately followed: “Did you hear that? It’s not okay to stay up late every day.”
“I have good skin.”
Nie Chuiying: “Tsk.”
Shi Yunshan turned Nie Chuiying’s face back, handed her half a bowl of vegetable porridge, and said, “Still talking, you have something to do tomorrow.”
“Okay, okay, I love working, okay?”
I said I would go to bed early, so I washed the dishes, then went back and lay down with my pillow in my arms, then clicked on the ball and played it, and fell into a light sleep not long after starting.
…
The beginning of last week’s group drama on the screen.
Zhou Qingxi opened the door, and it was Zhou Yangxi who rushed into the room first.
The two sisters have almost identical faces, but they have temperaments that can be distinguished at a glance.
As soon as Zhou Yangxi rushed in, he hugged Chu Yiqi first.
Chu Yiqi was caught off guard, so he couldn’t put a piece of green tea-flavored butterfly cake into his mouth, so he had to hang it to one side, leaving one hand free for a long-awaited hug.
Although we all went to the finals together, the two sisters were always closer to Chu Yiqi.
Maybe it started with a guest appearance at a concert.Calculating the time, it happened to be the time when Chu Yiqi had hit the bottom and had not yet started to get up.
Perhaps due to Xi Ai’s handiwork, two people related to that night in the castle received anonymous reports, and after a period of investigation, all kinds of shameful things were revealed.
In the court, both men used the same method to remove Chu Yiqi completely. The complete surveillance video was finally released – including Chu Yiqi throwing the cup and holding the glass shards. Under the dim light, every move was made with determination and desperation.
There was almost no sign of being drugged, but she was extremely fierce and beautiful, and her eyes seemed to overlap with a scene from a movie – from Xi Ai’s debut film, the same loneliness, the same ruthlessness.
Later, Chu Yiqi heard about whose stocks Xi Ai was busy shorting during that time.As for the way I heard about it, it was a friend’s gathering. I heard Xi Yuchuan call me in an extremely distressed manner: “Yes, you are very famous in China, but I heard that bad guy named Chen has gone abroad. Maybe I will still see him stabbing me.”
He couldn’t know what the other person said, but Chu Yiqi saw Xi Yuchuan look at him with a look of concern, and finally said to the other person: “Will you let Mu give you the contact information of his psychiatrist now? You all have some kind of illness.”
Chu Yiqi could almost imagine that Xi Ai was on the other side, maybe under the floor-to-ceiling window, or maybe on the terrace of her villa on the waterside facing the lake. If the time had changed, it would be in the afternoon, and a little sunlight would shine down, and the sparkling ripples would fall into his eyes.And the man smiled nonchalantly and said, “Probably.”
There may be another sentence, I don’t remember the circumstances under which it was spoken, but it was said to Chu Yiqi: “I have said before, none of us are normal people.”
During such a period of neither success nor failure, Chu Yiqi received an invitation – sisters Zhou Qingxi and Zhou Yangxi were holding a concert in the capital, and they wanted Chu Yiqi to be a guest.
So with the doctor’s consent, Chu Yiqi flew back.
The first stage of my comeback is so long-awaited that I feel lucky even when I recall it while half asleep.
It’s like fate has turned again and again, and all the care has finally been taken care of.
…
Following such an illogical dream, Chu Yiqi suddenly saw that the finals of that year were the group night.
Zhou Yangxi should have stayed because he was tied for sixth, but he voluntarily gave up his position.
The two sisters walked off the stage together.
It was supposed to be an impromptu meeting for the six of them, but with only one eye contact, they ran off the field, and the spotlight followed, falling on Zhou Qingxi and Zhou Yangxi.
So that night the six of them accompanied each other, allowing the departing people to say goodbye on the stage – the song was the first time the eight of them collaborated.
So two years later, when Chu Yiqi was supposed to be frustrated, the two of them walked to the audience to watch Chu Yiqi walk back to the stage.
“The first warm cloud…”
Zhou Yangxi pressed the piano keys with his fingertips, and the next sentence fell.
“Appear, the cold green of Wanye.”
“Sunrise over Thousand Mountains.”
“Announcing the end of the long summer.”
“Going to a banquet on a sunny day with thin snow.”
…
“So Teacher Xi, are you free to have an underground love affair with me now?”
Chu Yiqi clearly saw himself in the dream carrying a bouquet of roses and looking up at Xi Ai.
She saw that a face with sharp features was softened by the blues, and a section of black hair was blown up, like the protagonist at the end of a literary movie, looking back from the lover’s perspective, and every pixel was beautiful with its own filter.
It was so real that Chu Yiqi couldn’t even tell whether it was a dream before waking up or a memory after waking up.
Xi Ai happened to take off her mask, and when her eyes met, she saw a patch of rose dyed in the sea of crimson clouds, falling on a white dress.
She looked at Chu Yiqi, her clear and beautiful eyes, all saying: “I know you will definitely agree.”
But Xi Ai took a few steps forward and said, “Why can’t I see the light?”
Hearing that it was a joke, Chu Yiqi smiled and curled his eyes a little.
“Because… there’s no time for business?”
Xi Ai smiled, but without taking the bouquet of flowers, she suddenly took a half step back, knelt down, dropped her windbreaker on the gravel, and stretched out her hand to Chu Yiqi.
It was a silver ring, shaped like a winding flower vine, dotted with some pink diamonds. I don’t know if they were butterflies or flower petals, but at the end they all rushed to the main diamond, like a flowing flower.
It wasn’t until much later that Chu Yiqi realized that there was a line of French on the inside.
The sudden change made Chu Yiqi a little confused. She heard Xi Ai’s answer.
“Teacher Chu, do you have time to fall in love with me for a long time?”
Chu Yiqi stretched out his hand and said, “But you took away the plot I wanted.”
Xi Ai put on the ring and held Chu Yiqi’s hand.
“But I didn’t receive the ring.”
It would be an honor if you also wanted to give me a ring.
Chu Yiqi held Xi Ai’s hand and said, “Maybe you will see her someday.”
It was quite early when they went back. Chu Yiqi pulled Xi Ai, and at some point their fingers intertwined. Under the cover of a spread of wisteria, Chu Yiqi looked into a pair of amber eyes.
“Can I kiss you?”
Xi Ai lowered her eyelashes and saw Chu Yiqi’s maroon eyelashes trembling under the light, and then Chu Yiqi stepped forward, sweeping a little warm breath on the side of his face.
A bunch of hanging wisteria fell behind me, swaying and bringing with it a burst of summer wind carrying the fragrance of flowers.
The moment a petal fell, Xi Ai blinked, and Chu Yiqi bit his lower lip with his teeth, holding a touch of lavender in his mouth, then staggered away, and the petals fell at his feet.
Chu Yiqi grabbed Xi Ai’s collar, swept away a piece of flower, came forward again, and gently bit Xi Ai’s lips.
She didn’t know why, but she tasted a faint smell of roses.
The author has something to say:
Actually, I think of one point, I don’t know if it’s good or bad.
It was probably the time when Chuiying and Yunshan were most ambiguous and tired, and Xi Ai and Chu Yiqi had just separated.
So Ainai, what are you thinking when you see their intimacy?