Butterflies Fly Over Winter Chapter 62
byChapter 62 Sincerity and Falsehood
Chu Yiqi looked at Xi Ai. The figure seemed to be in a bad state, but she just stayed where she was.
Xi Ai originally planned to talk to Fu Jingchu and let Chu Yiqi finish speaking first, but Chu Yiqi remained silent for a moment and said, “Let’s go.”
Chu Yiqi seemed to have sipped some wine, and his whole body felt like it had been marinated in green plum wine.
Xuan Yanyue and Fu Jingchu cut the cake together.
Since today there were all those who were close to her, Xuan Yanyue took advantage of the chaos to rub a rouge-colored cream on Fu Jingchu’s face and kissed her.
This scene was particularly blatant, so Nie Chuiying held Shi Yunshan’s hand and asked her with a smile: “Please ask someone in your circle to become a superstitious person. Is there anyone else who is heterosexual?”
“Who knows, it’s all Xi Ai’s fault.” Shi Yunshan shrugged and said, “She set the precedent.”
“Really?”
“Yeah.”
Nie Chuiying smiled and asked her, “But they said you liked me since college.”
“Stop listening to Xi Ai’s nonsense.”
“Xi Ai didn’t say that.”
“Shh.” Shi Yunshan didn’t like sweets, so he fed Nie Chuiying a piece of cake, and his eyes fell on Chu Yiqi and Xi Ai on the other side.
Chu Yiqi had a smile on his face. If Xi Ai didn’t know him too well, she might not have been able to tell that this man was distracted.
Xi Ai looked away, Yaoyao and Fu Jingchu looked at each other, and then answered the phone and went out.
Chu Yiqi watched Tingting’s figure disappear around the corner.
She also felt that she was confused. She was the one who said they were breaking up, and she was the one who came back suddenly. She was the one who said they were friends, but she hoped that Xi Ai would be special to her. She was the one who said she wanted to avoid suspicion, but she was the one who didn’t refuse the kindness and even responded ambiguously.
From Xi Ai’s point of view, it’s like being aloof, giving people hope but refusing to respond, baiting people but not allowing them to stop losses in time.
Xi Ai held her mobile phone in one hand and a cake specially prepared by Fu Jingchu in the other hand, without mango and half sugar.
It was Xu Zhaoshi’s call, asking her about Gu Yu and saying that he hoped she would not approve Gu Yu’s application.
Xi Ai said a few words. Across the dim light, the people in the banquet hall were wearing long skirts. Their long hair was half untied, with a few strands falling on their temples. Their eyes were too beautiful, like the beauty written in the poem with a smile that turned into starry eyes, but she couldn’t be described as lonely.
Turning his attention away, he replied: “I will come over to meet with Jennifer tomorrow morning.”
Finally standing together again, Chu Yiqi couldn’t say what he wanted to say just now. He just said when Xi Ai asked her, “It’s okay.”
Xi Ai actually had a premonition, but she was no longer like before. She could help complete all Chu Yiqi’s unsaid words. She just asked her: “Will you go back to grandma’s house tonight?”
“Well, we agreed to eat wontons tomorrow morning.” Chu Yiqi paused before saying, “Grandma asked me to remind you not to leave until after dinner.”
“That won’t work. I’ll leave at five o’clock.”
Chu Yiqi pursed his lips: “Explain yourself.”
“Yeah.”
The next time I encountered it, I was recording songs the next day.
After recording, Su Luojian asked Xi Ai: “Let’s get together tonight, remember to come.”
Chu Yiqi looked at her and heard Xi Ai say, “Okay, I’ll come right after the meeting.”
…
Xi Ai held the cup, and the ice wine exuded a faint aroma. The ice cubes made a crisp sound when they hit the wall of the cup. Because no one was there anymore, it was particularly clear.
She lowered her eyes, unable to tell what her mood was. Chu Yiqi looked at her. After a moment, he raised his hand and grabbed Xi Ai’s wrist. She said, “Stop drinking.”
In fact, Xi Ai has always been a good drinker, so she is actually very sober. There is a bit of a smile on her lips, but she has no intention of putting down the glass.
Chu Yiqi said nothing, but stretched out his hand and took the cup from Xi Ai’s fingertips.
Xi Ai leaned back and changed into a more casual posture. Her eyes stayed on Chu Yiqi’s wrists covered by his shirt. After a while, she raised her eyes to look at Chu Yiqi again.
Xi Ai chuckled lightly and said, “Chu Yiqi, don’t you think you are conflicted?”
Chu Yiqi said nothing and listened silently to Xi Ai’s words.
“You are the one who is determined to break up with me, right? It would be better if you just leave. But I always have the illusion that we are actually… you are the one who feels that it is not so bad. But I always have to emphasize from time to time that we broke up, and you are still the inappropriate person.”
Xi Ai took a breath, took a sip of the wine she had picked up again at some point, and said, “Where do you want me to stand and what should I do?”
Maybe because of alcohol, people will always do things that they clearly think are wrong rationally.Just like Xi Ai’s tone of voice was uncontrollably excited.
Just like when Xi Ai finished speaking, she knocked her wine glass heavily on the table.
Xi Ai was stunned for a moment, and suddenly noticed that Chu Yiqi was scratched by glass shards because he just tried to pull her away.
It was obvious that her palms were bleeding, but Xi Ai didn’t notice. She just sighed, found a band-aid from her bag and handed it to Chu Yiqi.
Chu Yiqi said: “I’m sorry.”
At this moment, Xi Ai said almost at the same time: “Sorry, I didn’t pay attention just now.”
The lighting in the room was warm and charming, but there seemed to be an indescribable sense of distance between the two people.
Chu Yiqi wanted to help Xi Ai deal with it – because in fact, what she noticed was not her own fingers, she only saw the blood on Xi Ai’s palm.
But as soon as Chu Yiqi opened his mouth, he was interrupted by Xi Ai getting up.Xi Ai said: “I’m going to wash my hands.”
“Do you… hurt?” Chu Yiqi had to change his words.
Xi Ai stopped and smiled silently, but she said in a cold and indifferent tone: “It’s okay.”
Xi Ai walked to the room again, and happened to see Chu Yiqi coming out, holding her coat in his hand.
Xi Ai took it and said, “Thank you.”
After saying that, Xi Ai turned to leave. Chu Yiqi held Xi Ai, but when Xi Ai’s eyes fell on her hand, he hesitated for a moment and quickly let go.
Out of nowhere, she asked Xi Ai: “So what did you want to ask about the game just now?”
Xi Ai looked at her, vaguely feeling that Chu Yiqi wanted to tell her the answer she wanted to hear most.
“Forget it.”
Xi Ai stood at the door, looking at Chu Yiqi in the warm light.
I don’t know why, Chu Yiqi was a little panicked, as if his heart was clenched.She wasn’t sure if it was because of Xi Ai’s tone or the look in her eyes.
——She couldn’t even find a suitable description for his eyes. He was a little lonely, but he seemed calm, with a gentleness that she couldn’t understand.
“The truth that I want to know and the things that I want to see have never changed. There are only those two things. I have asked you and got answers, more than once.”
At that moment, Chu Yiqi wanted to say something, so Xi Ai also waited for a moment, saw that Chu Yiqi was speechless, and then exhaled and said, “So you see, why bother? If both parties are unhappy, is there any need to ask?”
Chu Yiqi stretched out her hand, but suddenly she didn’t dare to pull Xi Ai. She heard Xi Ai say: “Let’s go back.”
Xi Ai said “go back” but did not go with them.
She said: “I have to go on a business trip the next day, so I won’t go back there. Please be safe on the road.”
“You’ve been drinking. Do you have a driver?”
“Yes, bye.”
Nie Chuiying was the one who was most sensitive to the change in the atmosphere between them. She almost immediately asked Chu Yiqi quietly: “She, what’s wrong with you?”
Chu Yiqi lowered his head, and it took him a while to react, and said, “It’s nothing, it’s just like before.”
It’s like my identity has changed.
The person who deliberately wanted to avoid became Xi Ai.
Chu Yiqi actually wanted to tell the truth what Xi Ai wanted. It didn’t matter whether Xi Ai was true or not.
——She still wanted to say it.
I want to tell that person face to face that what she wants to hear is a sincere answer.
Early the next morning, Chu Yiqi had no activity, ate breakfast in a hurry and went out.
The four people were left looking at each other, and finally Nie Chuiying slowly said: “I bet a hundred, this time I will chase Xi Ai.”
“Follow a hundred.”
“I won’t bet anymore. This is obviously a fact.” Shi Yunshan said, “I will offer you a hundred, and Xi Ai is definitely trying to catch you.”
Yu Nianxi was silent for a long time and finally spoke: “What is the difference between the two of you? I think this is an obvious fact.”
But Nie Chuiying said: “That’s not necessarily the case. Our Xi Ai is just a little tempered and tired. What’s wrong? I’ll pay a hundred.”
The remaining four people stared at her, and they all chose to side with Shi Yunshan, so another bet was formed later. Shi Yunshan, Nie Chuiying and Meng Yike agreed to make peace with each other for at least a month, and Nie Chuiying remanded two hundred dollars in custody.
No matter what, Chu Yiqi went to Lanxie as soon as he left home. Xi Ai actually preferred to live here when she was working, and she just took time to go to the old man’s place.
The doorman recognized her—she had come here often before, and walked in while holding hands with Xi Ai and talking and laughing.So when she entered, she asked: “Long time no see, how are you doing?”
“It’s okay, thank you.”
“But Miss Xi seems to be away. I went out yesterday and didn’t see her back.”
Chu Yiqi was stunned, then smiled and said, “It’s okay, I’ll go in.”
She didn’t know why, but she just wanted to take a look, even if she just saw something about Xi Ai.
——She actually called Xi Ai when she went out, but she turned off her phone.
When she arrived at the door, she happened to see her aunt coming out. When she saw Chu Yiqi, she smiled and said, “Miss has been away recently. She said she wanted to go out to relax, so she asked me to collect all the dishes.”
Chu Yiqi nodded and entered the password – 3579.
A long time ago, she joked with Xi Ai, saying that this string of passwords was great. Looking backwards, it was from when they met to getting together, and looking forward, it was their respective birthdays.
It turns out it hasn’t been changed yet.
Chu Yiqi smiled slightly.
But after entering, every step she took seemed to be difficult.
She saw that the butterfly notes on the refrigerator were missing.
——Xi Ai used to forget to eat easily when she was busy, so Chu Yiqi would watch her eat well every time he was here.
When Xi Ai was sick a few times, she even wrote down some taboos and appropriate diets, and simply marked the recipes. Xi Ai would stick the paper on the refrigerator every time.
Sometimes Chu Yiqi would leave a note or something for Chu Yiqi if he was in a hurry to catch up with something, and Xi Ai would usually stick it on it.
Chu Yiqi even tried to persuade her, saying that you wouldn’t know how to read so many posts, and they wouldn’t match your minimalist decoration.But Xi Ai said: “I will stick it, anyway, this butterfly note is so beautiful.”
“Tie, anyway, at your house, post, post, post.”
In fact, they didn’t post a lot, because in the future, they would live in a house they bought together.
Chu Yiqi’s chest tightened. She turned around and placed the precious immortality flower she had taken along the way on the entrance cabinet.
What if she comes back…you can see her.
Although Chu Yiqi did not leave a name.
Chu Yiqi returned to Luzhou Island without seeing anyone.
Chu Yiqi curled up and sat on the sofa for a while, and even seemed to be about to fall asleep.
Drowsily, she thought, Xi Ai…
Where could it be?
Relax… She read these two words several times, but she became more and more at a loss.
It was obviously just a normal separation, but maybe it was because the relationship between the two of them had been too awkward recently, or maybe Xi Ai’s attitude suddenly became difficult to predict, but Chu Yiqi just felt that he couldn’t bear it for a moment.
You have to say something sincerely and confirm something.
On the other side, Xi Ai happened to pick up Mu Jin at the airport and talked about something over coffee.
“Why don’t you accompany Chu Yiqi?”
Xi Ai said: “Let’s just relax. I hope we can negotiate this cooperation within an hour, and then I’m going out.”
Mu was a little surprised now, but he subconsciously didn’t believe that Xi Ai really didn’t intend to care about Chu Yiqi.He said, “Are you on a business trip?”
“No, it’s my personal trip.”
“What do you think? If you’re not afraid, she really won’t be looking for you?”
Xi Ai was quiet for a while and said, “I can’t, just take every step.”