Chapter 47

“What gift?” Wang Weixi asked anxiously. It seemed that Lan Ling was in a daze and did not hear what he said, so Wang Weixi had to repeat.

Lan Ling came to her senses. She embarrassedly took out a small gift box from under several documents and handed it to her boss. Wang Weixi took it and placed it beside him without a look.

“Got it, you may excuse yourself.” Seeing Lan Ling’s expression, Wang Weixi knew that he could not definitely open the gift on the spot. “No joke. If there is something about our past, am I burying myself? What a gossip Lan Ling is!” Wang Weixi shook his head. This female secretary had already disappointed him many times.

Lan Ling was going to see what was inside the gift box, but Wang Weixi asked her to leave in a tepid tone, so she had to get out quietly.

After Lan Ling left, Wang Weixi and Yi Duanfang looked at each other and took out the gift.

Unwrapped, a delicate gift box came into sight. It looked a bit familiar. Wang Weixi frowned and suddenly recalled the box of Chen Keren’s gift on his wedding day… Thinking of it, he felt uneasy inexplicably.

“Tong Siqi should not be so nasty, right? She is so gentle and kind in my memory, but I don’t know why… she became so indifferent and cruel.” Thinking of this, he couldn’t help but frown.

“Don’t always be absent-minded. Let’s see what your first girlfriend sent you?” Yi Duanfang interrupted his thoughts rudely. In fact, Wang Weixi always felt that Yi Duanfang frowned while talking about Tong Siqi.

Wang Weixi slowly opened the gift box and his heart was beating fast for no reason.

Yi Duanfang also watched it anxiously.

“What?” Seeing a strange doll lying in the gift box, Yi Duanfang sighed with somewhat disdain.

Wang Weixi knitted his eyebrows.

Seeing Wang Weixi’s uneasy face, Yi Duanfang asked inquisitively, “What is this doll for? Is it your previous love token?”

Wang Weixi gasped and shook his head. He took the doll out and placed it in his palm. This was a doll in a prison uniform and its body was wrapped up by cloth.

“It is a voodoo doll.” Wang Weixi said in a toneless voice.

Yi Duanfang was stunned and responded casually, “Voodoo doll? Isn’t it used to curse people?”

Wang Weixi’s face became stiff.

Yi Duanfang stared at Wang Weixi and paused for two seconds before he said with great disdain, “Is Tong Siqi a child? Why did she give you such a thing?”

Wang Weixi pinched the doll tightly. Actually, he was simmering with anger. “She dumped me! Why did she do this now?”

“It’s really childish. When she broke up with me, she acted as if I owed her a lot of things. Now she sent me such a doll. Does she really think I owe her?” Then he threw the voodoo doll away and even flung the gift box into the trash can.

Yi Duanfang opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but eventually, he put on a big smile and patted Wang Weixi’s shoulder, saying, “Don’t be mad. What’s in her mind has nothing to do with you.”

Wang Weixi adjusted his spectacles. It was true that it had nothing to do with him, but what she did made him uncomfortable.

“Well, well, there is still an hour and a half before we can get off work. I am going to take a nap and you can perfect your own plan.” Then he got up and left.

Wang Weixi sat on the sofa. After a good while, he sighed helplessly and picked up the voodoo doll again. Glancing at the gift box in the trash can, he thought for a second and took it out and put the voodoo doll into it. Then he came to his desk, opened the drawer, and put the box in it.

Sitting on the chair, he felt a bit tired. A figure crossed his mind. “Why… Why do I still remember those things for so many years?

“I have never thought of that girl over these years because I hate her most and because she defiled my purest love when I was young.” “But when she reappears again in my life, those things that I thought I had forgotten came to my mind.”

Wang Weixi shook his head helplessly. It turned out that he had never forgotten her. He was just unwilling to mention it.

Some people said that they once tried to forget something, but later they discovered that some things were really forgotten with age.

Wang Weixi did not agree with it, because there was nothing worth to remember in his eyes, let alone to forget. He did not expect that one day he would awake his memory.

Turning the chair, Wang Weixi sat facing the window. Outside the floor-to-ceiling windows, high-rise buildings gathered and almost blocked the sun hanging in the west. Only rays of sunlight shone numerous bustling streets, falling on the high-rise buildings of different heights and filtering in through this floor-to-ceiling window.

Wang Weixi believed that he had nothing to conceal in the office, so his curtains were rarely drawn. After all, once the curtains were closed, the office would become gray, which made him uncomfortable. Moreover, there was a garden not far from his office. In this city full of reinforced concrete aura, this was awesome.

The flowers in the garden were in full bloom, but Wang Weixi could not name them, because he was not romantic. He had never given girls many flowers including Chen Kexin. However, as a high school senior, he had tried his best to save money for several weeks and bought nine roses for Tong Siqi.

He still remembered that Yi Duanfang had once mocked him and said, “Whether you can fill your belly is a question. You actually go to get the extravagant things.” And Tong Siqi also blamed him with joy in her eyes.

“When did we break up?” Wang Weixi fished a cigarette out of his pocket, lit it up, and slowly puffed on it.

It seemed the day after Valentine’s Day.

The smoke was lingering while Wang Weixi’s hand was trembling slightly.

It was the second day after he gave her nine flowers.

It was drizzling on that day. As Tong Siqi was absent from school, Wang Weixi ran to her house after school, but he didn’t dare to knock at the door.

Actually, Tong Siqi saw him.

Tong Siqi, who bolted out of the house, had red eyes and a purple mark on her neck that Wang Weixi didn’t know. Now he realized how naive he was at that time. When he later learned that the purple mark was called “hickey”, he got furious and finally figured out why Tong Siqi broke up with him.

However, he was not sure about it, because Tong Siqi did not say it personally. That was why Wang Weixi became worried when her name came up again.

On the hill where they often went climbing, Tong Siqi said she wanted to break up with him in a decisive tone. At the time, he felt unbelievable and panicked.

He still remembered that he had been madly shaking Tong Siqi’s arms and questioned if she had forgotten their commitments or she gave up their common ideals. As for the roads that they had taken together and the roads that they would take in the future, didn’t she look forward to it at all?

However, he only saw Tong Siqi’s sardonic expression.

Wang Weixi rubbed his temples and didn’t want to recall it anymore.

“Wang Weixi, are you qualified to say those words to me?” This was the last sentence that Tong Siqi left for him. Wang Weixi still remembered that he stood there in a daze, watching Tong Siqi turn and leave, but he did not have the guts to catch up with her.

After that, Tong Siqi was transferred to another school. Her family condition was much better than his, so she went to a high school in the county. Later on, her whole family moved out of the village.

Since then, Wang Weixi had never received her news. He only knew that she was admitted to the best university in W City from his parents’ neighbors.

Wang Weixi, who was caught in the memory, gradually forgot that there was still a cigarette in his hand. Until the cigarette burned to his hand, he finally came to senses. He put it out and sighed.

“Tong Siqi, what are you going to do?” Wang Weixi was wondering with a wry smile.