inexhaustible

Chapter 41 Is it fun to bet?

There are not many people in the cafe, and it looks very deserted.As soon as I opened the door and went in, I saw Shang Yunrou sitting by the window, looking at the passers-by on the road expressionlessly, wondering what she was thinking.

The chair opposite her was taken away early in the morning to make room for my wheelchair, which is very sweet.

"Sorry, it's been a long wait."

As soon as I made a sound, she quickly came back to her senses and looked at me.

"No, I haven't been here for long." She handed me the drink list, "What do you want to drink? I invite you."

At this time, the waiter saw a new customer and came over. I didn't look at the drink list and asked him to serve me a glass of lemonade.

"I like the donuts here very much. The chocolate glaze sprinkled with pistachios, the fluffy bread, and the filling that is not too sweet or too greasy, Haiyang will buy it for me every time I pass by here." While speaking, Shang Yun Rou brushed a strand of long hair that fell down her cheeks behind her ears, "But if you eat too much of anything, you will get tired. I know this truth well. So he bought me three, and I will only eat one bite. If I buy a box, I will I will only eat one, and throw the rest into the trash can. This will not only fulfill his wish, but also won’t let him lose one of his favorite things, killing two birds with one stone.”

She clearly still has the same facial features and makeup, but I always feel that she is different today from the previous few times.She no longer piled up a warm smile, no longer exuded an approachable temperament, and she didn't even bother to give a kind look.

Without Yang Haiyang, Shang Muxiao, and the "third person" staring at her, she completely released her own nature.

Apart from the similarity in appearance, I don't think she and Shang Muxiao have even the slightest bit in common in character.But it was only at this moment that I realized that I was wrong. They are indeed brothers and sisters—as long as they want, they can make anyone like them, and as long as they want, they can also pretend to be any pleasing character.

"You came to me to talk about Shang Muxiao, right?" I didn't bother to go around in circles with her, so I got straight to the point and got down to business.

Shang Yunrou looked at me for a long while, then stirred her face and sucked the pipe: "I don't want you to hurt too much, Beijiao, you are Haiyang's friend, I won't hurt you."

I have a premonition that she will have nothing good to say next, but I still can't help asking: "What do you want?"

"Mu Xiao's relationship with you is just to get our attention in another way. I also raised him to grow up. I know his temperament best. He can't be with you for a long time. You are much more delicious now Nazi, sweet and fresh, but if you wait for a long time, you will become a disgusting junk food, and the only way to end up is to be destroyed." She looked directly at me, and said word by word, earnestly, "Don't let love die at the last moment. When it's unbearable, Beijiao."

Her poor analogy aside, she had a point, but alas... late, dead.The death was more than unbearable, it was utterly tragic.

After a night of emotional precipitation, I have been able to look at my relationship with Shang Muxiao calmly and rationally.It has to be said that Shang Yunrou really knows her brother best, she is right, very right.

While agreeing with her, I also felt a little emotional: "Humans are selfish creatures after all, and they put self-satisfaction first. You don't let him interfere with your emotional life, but you have to control his life, right?"

Hearing the obvious irony in my words, Shang Yunrou was not angry.

"You will think that my double standard is a matter of course, but I just try to make everyone look normal. Do you know how difficult it is to maintain the 'normal' in this family?" Before I could answer, She gave the answer herself, "You don't know, neither does Shang Muxiao, no one knows."

She leaned back, folded her arms around her chest, and looked very much like Shang Muxiao when she was expressionless.

"I would do anything to live a 'normal' life."

Dazed for a moment, some were shocked by her words.

Sure enough, as Fang Qinian said, everything was abnormal.Even Shang Yunrou, who looks at the most normal, has become so paranoid in pursuit of the so-called "normal".

"Being with Haiyang is also to seek 'normal'?"

In fact, I would like to ask, is there a prerequisite for her love for Yang Haiyang? Although "normality" is much easier to achieve than wealth and beauty, it cannot be denied the possibility of change just because it is common.If one day Yang Haiyang becomes no longer "normal", will she still be with him?

Or, does she really love him?

Yang Haiyang is my good friend for many years. I don't want him to suffer the same thing as me. He finally regained his love and was hurt by others.

Shang Yunrou obviously knew what I was going to ask, she smiled and said: "Some people fall in love for excitement, and some people are for the succession of the family. Can't I be 'normal'? Just one look, I'm sure Yang Haiyang That's the man I'm looking for. He'll be a good husband, a good father, and that's what matters to me. It's none of their business to anyone else."

The last sentence was already very unpretentious, clearly asking me to keep my mind off my own business.

"I can't change my father's choice, but he is a normal person in the eyes of outsiders. But you can't, your existence will always make our family look 'different'." She admitted generously, "So you are right. For your own good, or for his good, these are my high-sounding excuses, but the truth is... I want to make myself feel better."

It seems that the misfortune of the original family did not only leave a mark on Shang Muxiao.Shang Yunrou's obsession with "normality" may be due to her pursuit of happiness as she perceives it.

The mother is depressed, the father is indifferent, and the younger brother needs to be taken care of. She was just a child at that time. If a normal family is difficult for her to achieve, it is understandable that she wants to have it when she grows up.

I appreciate her candor, but honestly, it's hard to understand her.

"What are you going to do if I refuse your request today?"

She raised her chin slightly, lowered her eyelids, and said the most ruthless words in the softest tone: "I have the ability to make you lose everything, Beijiao, don't force me to exercise this ability. I can cut you off with just one phone call." All the sources of income of Shang Muxiao can cut off the career you are proud of. Do you think there will be a future for a young master who has no money, and an associate professor who has lost his job and is not good at acting?"

She knows all the weaknesses of human nature and how to strike with precision.

I stopped talking, I was hesitating on the surface, but I was thinking in my heart that Shang Yunrou is so powerful, Yang Haiyang fell in love with her, I don't know whether it is luck or misfortune.

Seeing that I didn't answer for a long time, she added with a more warning tone: "I love Haiyang, don't make things difficult for me."

Hey, I'm in a mess myself, so why do I care about other people's emotional lives?

Both left and right are Yang Haiyang's catastrophe, he has to go through it by himself.Just like Shang Muxiao is my robbery, I can only settle it myself.

I nodded and said, "I see."

She raised her eyebrows slightly, as if she wasn't quite sure if what I said meant what she thought.

I put it more clearly: "I will break up with him."

She lowered her arms and leaned forward, a little in disbelief.

"You... so..." She paused and didn't continue, but I think she was probably surprised that I gave up so easily, and half of the surprise, she felt that it was not right to say this in her capacity.

I smiled: "What? Have you prepared a large check?"

Shang Yunrou was at a loss for words immediately, looking at me with complicated eyes.

"Through all considerations, this relationship is no longer suitable for continuing in all aspects. I will break up with him and will not make it difficult for you."

She came to me just because of this matter. Now that it's settled, we have nothing to talk about.

"I have to catch a flight tomorrow morning, and I haven't packed my luggage. If there's nothing else, I'll leave first." Before she could answer, I controlled the wheelchair to turn around and leave.

I said I was going home to pack my luggage, but in fact I only went there for two days, so there was nothing to do.

Now that we broke up, Shang Muxiao has to take back the clothes and accessories that Shang Muxiao left with me, as well as the trophies and binoculars he gave me.

I didn't change the password of the gate, so I sent him a message, telling him that I deeply feel that we are very different from each other, and after thinking about it, I decided to end this relationship.It just so happens that I'm going on a business trip, and I hope he can come and take the things away during the two days I'm away.By the way, return the dog.

Shang Muxiao has not replied to the message, I don't know if he didn't see it or he was so angry that he didn't know how to reply to me.

On the second day, there was still no activity on the phone, and there was no message from Shang Muxiao until I got on the plane.

I'm not sure what's going on with him, hesitant to make a call, my finger hovers over his name, and finally moves away.

Forget it, let him go.

The flight was three hours long. I took a nap and watched a documentary. After the plane landed and stopped taxiing, I turned on the phone again. Before I could even unlock the screen, Shang Muxiao’s call came in. Surveillance is installed near me.

It's just that the text message breakup is not formal enough, and we have been together for a few months anyway, and we always have to say "goodbye" personally, which can be regarded as a beginning and an end.

I stared at the incoming call for a long time, and finally connected.

Before he could say a word, the other side made a preemptive strike.

"Where are you? Why did you answer the phone now?" He asked angrily.

My seat was right next to the hatch, and I was the first to get off the plane.Thanks to the flight attendant for taking down the overhead luggage for me, I went out through the corridor bridge while talking on the phone with Shang Muxiao.

"I said, I'm on a business trip these two days, didn't you see me send you a text message?"

There was a silence on the other side, and he gritted his teeth and asked, "What do you mean? Are you going to break up with me just because I brought you home?"

It was my first time to this airport, so I couldn't tell the direction, so I followed the crowd for a while, and when I saw everyone going down the escalator, I looked around for a barrier-free elevator.With this flash of effort, Shang Muxiao's tone became more and more anxious and gloomy.

"Beika, did my sister tell you something? Where are you now? I'll tell you face to face..."

"Is it fun to bet with Zhou Yanyi?"

As if the pause button was suddenly pressed, he stopped talking for a moment. If it wasn't for the faint sound of breathing coming from the microphone, I would have thought the phone was out of battery.

"'As long as you give him a little warmth, a little sunshine, he will come to my palm obediently', remember this sentence?" I found the barrier-free elevator, and I was at the end of the queue. After a while, people came .

There are too many people, it is not convenient for me to talk, so I can only say in a soft voice: "You have already won, you don't need to pretend to like me anymore, just let me go."

"How could you..." He was completely dumbfounded, and he never expected that I would know about it.

"Take away the things in these two days, and we'll get together and leave." The elevator came, and I didn't want to talk to him anymore, and I felt that I had nothing to say, so I hung up the phone in a hurry.

"Northern mustard? Northern mustard..."

When the phone was put down from his ear, he could faintly hear his screams more urgently than the last.