I don't know what happened to Fang Wu and her parents after that, nor do I know if Chen Kun was willing to be together with a girl he liked, but I think it wasn't that important anymore, because when I saw the way Chen Kun looked at Fang Wu, it wasn't because he wanted to take her, but because he just watched her silently. He only wished her well. If she was happy, he would silently follow behind her. If she wasn't happy, he would definitely continue to protect her.
I went home. I didn't like living alone in this empty house, but now, it seems, I'm used to it.
Every corner of this house, every detail, seemed to have a shadow of him, and it was the shadow he left in my heart that lingered.
His voice was muffled. I haven't heard anyone call me that in a long time.
He said in a low voice, his voice hoarse and filled with longing, "An'an."
I kept my hand on my hair, turned the phone to hands-free, and put it on the table.
"Mn, Uncle Huainan."
"Have you eaten dinner?"
"En, I ate. I went to a reunion with my classmates and had a hotpot."
Mu Huainan yawned from where he was. It should be morning in Paris now, I can roughly guess that he should have not slept for the entire night again. That was why he was so tired.
"Uncle Huainan, you have to rest more carefully."
"Right." His voice was gentle as he said, "Tomorrow, the college entrance examination results will be released."
When I heard him say that, I suddenly realized that my days had passed in a daze. I had actually forgotten that the day of my results had already arrived.
"Have you decided where you want to go?" he asked me again.
I thought about it and shook my head. Realizing that he couldn't see, I quickly added.
"I haven't thought about it yet."
I heard him say after a while.
"Come to Paris."
I answered him long ago.
"Uncle Huainan, I don't want to go abroad."
There was a few seconds of silence, then a soft sigh, and I knew he didn't want me to hear it, but I did.
"Actually, going to Paris and the major I want to study doesn't really help much." I didn't want him to be disappointed, and I didn't want him to think I was avoiding him, so I explained.
The other side remained silent.
After a long while, he suddenly opened his mouth and said, "I hope you can come."
After saying that, he gave a self-deprecating smile, "Don't worry about me. I'm not interfering with your decision when I speak. I'm being too selfish."
My head suddenly felt a little sluggish, and my words were a little silly.
"I won't be able to help you if I go, it will only drag you down, so you don't need to think about helping me. It's the same for studying at home."
"But I miss you, Anthea."
He said he missed me.
I was suddenly stunned.
In his heart, there were some complex and strange feelings.
This guy always had the ability to speak such coaxing words to others.
The more he was like this, the more I felt wronged.
Thinking back to that day when he hugged me and called me Jing Yu, I was unable to let go of that feeling.
At this thought, my heart tightened. I also remembered the scene when he touched me and felt a little disgusted.
Thus, she rejected him softly.
"I really won't go."
There was a moment of silence before a "En" was uttered.
Perhaps it was the power of the night that made me feel like there was a trace of disappointment in those words.
After a moment of silence, I couldn't help but ask, "Uncle Huainan, how much longer do you have before you return?"
On the other hand, Mu Huainan's tone was very calm.
"Maybe a month or two."
A month or two, and by then I'd probably be starting school for the new term.
I opened my mouth and wanted to say something, but felt it was inappropriate so I swallowed it back.
"When the results come out, think about the future, and remember to call me."
I replied faintly, "Oh."
"Then quickly go to sleep. It should be late by your side."
I said "Oh" again.
He couldn't help but want to take care of him. "Don't work too hard. I will make money for you in the future. Don't work so hard."
He chuckled and said, "Okay."
After hanging up, I didn't feel sleepy at all. His hair had been blown dry by the air-conditioning and he didn't even need to use the air blower. He turned his head and looked out the window. There were many stars in the sky. The courtyard at night was always quiet and harmonious.
I slowly understood why Mu Huainan would miss me. It wasn't because he missed me, but because he wanted to sleep with me and do things that would make him happy. I kept tormenting him. I'm a fool, yet I took the initiative to send it into his mouth?
Besides, he's the only person she can count on in Paris. With such a big company and the world's most influential Chinese this year, his reputation must be very wide. I don't have the face to go over there and be pointed at by people around him. He was going to have to live the same life as before.
Although the results of the college entrance examination were out the next day, there were too many people checking the results during the day for me to make any calls. Besides, a friend of mine suddenly called and asked me to help replace an absent coser at his exhibition.
I agreed immediately.
It was probably because I had broken away from Mu Huainan's halo. Like the ordinary part-time female students, I wore revealing clothes for the first time, and high heels that I had never worn before. I stood in the middle of the exhibition, walking back and forth occasionally.
I'm probably the most popular of the cosers.
Photographs, autographs, WeChat, etc. There were a lot of them.
Pain and happiness, I should be talking about my current state. I got up before dawn, because the exhibition was in the west farthest from home, and the bus took the subway and then the bus, and I almost fell asleep on the bus stop.
I didn't have time to take off my makeup when I got home. This time my character was King's Glory Joe. She was wearing a pink slit qipao, and her hair was a ball made from two pairs of ponytails. His eyes were big and bright.
It was just that when I got home and opened the door, I was surprised.
The lights in the living room were on. Mu Huainan sat in the middle of the living room as he walked in.
Didn't you just say last night that it will be a month more... This was too sudden.
Mu Huainan sat there, frowning and not saying a word.
The pair of shoes on my feet are at least seven to eight centimeters. Standing in front of Mu Huainan, I keep having the feeling that the length of my skirt is just right caught in the state that he can see at a glance from where he sits.
I looked at him, and Mu Huainan's frown deepened.
My feet hurt so much that I couldn't stand up, so I kicked off my high heels and stepped on the ground with my bare feet.
Before I became a teenager, Mu Huainan never allowed me to wear high heels.