C105 Chapter 105
C105 Chapter 105
This was the first place she met Jun Ziyan, and also the first time she met that unknown little boy.
Could Ye Nanqing be that person … That little boy who she couldn't even recall his facial features?
Xia Huanhuan's body gradually stiffened. She looked at the man before her as he squatted and used his fingers to draw on the sand pit instead of a brush.
The touch of his fingers was like drawing a picture of a child, but he drew every stroke with extreme seriousness. Draw... It slowly appeared in the sandpit.
Xia Huanhuan's eyes opened wider and wider. When Ye Nanqing finished the last stroke, Xia Huanhuan was stunned.
To Xia Huanhuan, Ye Nanqing's painting was vague and familiar. This painting was like the kind of painting she loved to paint when she was young, with her favorite bells, sunflowers, big vases, a small round table, a princess like floral curtain, and a room filled with toys … It was like the design she drew for Ye Nanqing's villa. But the only difference was that her design was a professional drawing method. What Ye Nanqing was drawing in the sand right now was a completely child's drawing method.
"This is the painting that the girl once painted for me." Ye Nanqing then stood up again and stared at Xia Huanhuan with eyes like black jade, "When she finished drawing this painting, she told me that she would give me a home so that I wouldn't be lonely or afraid of all the special students."
Her heart was beating faster and faster. She suddenly thought of a certain possibility, but … If it was true, then it was too laughable!
As for him, as if to prove her guess, he said, "Xia Huanhuan, you always knew that I was looking for someone. But if I told you that the person I was looking for was you, would you believe me?"
At this moment, Xia Huanhuan felt as though her heart had been struck. "Stop joking." She took a deep breath.
His face was solemn and serious. "I will never joke about this matter." Or was it that she didn't want to believe it? He was unwilling to believe that she was the person he had been bitterly searching for over twenty years!
Xia Huanhuan was silent. Ye Nanqing's expression and voice showed that he was serious. They had been friends for a year and had broken up because of this matter. She was clearer than anyone else about the position Ye Nanqing held in Ye Nanqing's heart.
But now, he was telling her that it was her. And Mei Xinyi? Didn't you confirm three years ago that she was the person you were looking for? "
"No, she's not!" He walked step by step towards her, and finally stopped in front of her. "The person I want to look for is you, I am absolutely certain that the person I want to look for is you! Huanhuan, don't marry Jun Ziyan. "
For some reason, when Ye Nanqing said that, Xia Huanhuan's heartbeat, which was mixed with panic, calmed down, "Sorry, even if I'm really the person you're looking for, there's no meaning to it now."
"None... Meaning? " His body suddenly stiffened. Under the moonlight, his face became somewhat pale.
"I'm getting married to someone who loves me only because of me, not because of anyone else." Xia Huanhuan said seriously.
"You've never been anyone's double!" Ye Nanqing growled. From the beginning to the end, she was the only person he was looking for.
Such a Ye Nanqing was something Xia Huanhuan had never seen before. He was anxious, yet also carried a sense of vulnerability, as if if if she said anything else, he would collapse.
However, there were some things that she needed to make clear to him.
"At that time, because you thought that Mei Xinyi was the person you were looking for, we broke up. But now, because I'm the person you're looking for, you want to date me again? If that's the case, wouldn't I have become the substitute that you met when I was six years old? " Xia Huanhuan said quietly.
"Yes, the reason I broke up was because I thought Mei Xinyi was the person I was looking for. However, after three years, I truly realized that the one I loved was you! That's why I went back to you and approached you until I found out that you were the one I was looking for. Do you know how regretful I am? " He regretted not following his true intentions that year and regretted not letting go of her hand due to his obsession.
"But the current me doesn't love you anymore." There were a lot of things that he missed and couldn't go back. Even if those words hurt, if he didn't say it clearly, he would hurt him even more in the future, "Ye Nanqing, the person I love now is Jun Ziyan. So, the person I want to marry is also him."
So, even if he confessed his feelings to her and told her everything, would she still marry Jun Ziyan?
"Even if I were to say that I will only love you for my entire life, that I will treat you well for the rest of my life, that I will care for you, that I will not love you, that you will not want to come back to me?" He threw his arms around her and pressed her against his chest, feeling the warmth of her touch.
Xia Huanhuan's body stiffened. The embrace of Ye Nanqing was something she was once very familiar with. The width of his shoulders, the width of his waist, the distance between her and his heart … She knew it. If he had said those words to her before they broke up, then maybe they wouldn't have broken up, maybe they would have continued …
"I'm sorry, my life has already been promised to someone else." She did not struggle, nor did she hug him back. She just calmly stated a fact, "I love Ziyan, I can't leave him."
His breathing seemed to have suddenly straightened up as both his arms slowly loosened and finally dropped to his sides.
He looked at her and suddenly smiled. "You love him?"
"Yes." "No," she answered with absolute certainty, and stepped back a few paces to put some distance between them.
He did not step forward again and remained standing where he was with his eyes half-closed. His lips were full of ridicule, "Even if you knew that Jun Ziyan was the one who caused our breakup that year, would you still love him?"
Xia Huanhuan was stunned. "What do you mean?"
Ye Nanqing raised his eyes and looked at Xia Huanhuan with a smile that was not a smile. At this moment, he seemed to have returned to his usual calm and graceful manner, completely without the fretfulness and loss of control he had.
"Xia Huanhuan, why do you think I was mistaken about Mei Xinyi all those years ago? Do you think that with my personality, I would easily mistake a person as the person that I have been searching for all these years? "
Ye Nanqing's current expression gave Xia Huanhuan an inexplicable sense of unease. She always felt that what he would say next was definitely not what she wanted to hear.
Her heart that had started to calm down started to beat wildly once again. She wanted him to stop talking and leave right now, but her feet seemed to have frozen, and she just stood there without moving.
In her ears, she heard his voice that was like the night breeze, "He told Mei Xinyi everything you said to me in this sandpit back then. He also taught her to draw the painting you drew for me, and he even made her replace your identity."
"His every word was like a steel needle piercing through her cochlea." "How is this possible? How could Ziyan know —" She stopped abruptly.
She remembered that last time, when she was beside this sandpit with Ziyan, she asked him whether he remembered the scene when she was young and met a little boy near the sandpit because when they met, Ziyan was also standing not far away from the sandpit.
What if he remembered? His memory had always been good. She had forgotten all about the past, but he could remember every detail.
This was the first time she met Ziyan in this sandpit, and she even remembered some things. With his memory, there was no reason for him to not remember, but at that time, he better not say "I forgot" at the beginning.
For a moment, Xia Huanhuan was lost in thought, until Ye Nanqing's voice pulled her back again.
"What, did he think of something?" Ye Nanqing asked with a smile.
"No, I didn't think of anything." Xia Huanhuan bit her lips and said, "When I dated you back then, Ziyan never showed up."
"How did he know about this when he appeared? You can ask him yourself." He smiled faintly. The ridicule in his smile seemed to be directed at her, but also at himself. "If he hadn't done this before, do you think we would have broken up?"
Xia Huanhuan was stunned. For a moment, she could not answer him at all.
Xia Huanhuan returned to B City in a daze. Instead of taking Ye Nanqing's car, she went to the train station and bought a train ticket to B City.
The train station in the middle of the night was much colder than the bustling during the day.
In the waiting room, there weren't many passengers. Xia Huanhuan held the ticket and sat on the chair in a daze, her mind filled with Ye Nanqing's words to her by the sandpit.
Was it because of Ziyan that she broke up with him? The reason why Ye Nanqing mistook Mei Xinyi for her was because of Ziyan?
But at that time, it was clearly the Promise of Ten Years between her and Ziyan. In these ten years, he had never appeared by her side, so how could he know who she was dating? Moreover, he even set up such a trap.
However, if it wasn't for Ziyan, how would Mei Xinyi know about the words and paintings back then? When she was six years old, she had said things to Ye Nanqing, including that painting, but she could only vaguely remember them. She could not remember many details, but according to Ye Nanqing, Mei Xinyi said those words in front of him verbatim.
If it wasn't Ziyan, then who would have that kind of memory to remember such a thing?