The Moonlight Never Falls

Part 4

11

I left with Xiao Hui.

He didn't roll down the car window, but kept smoking one cigarette after another.

Choking me into coughing.

Xiao Hui and I knew each other before.

When my family wasn't bankrupt, he confessed to me, but at that time I was obsessed with Yang Jing Zhi, rejecting him several times.

Until last week, he suddenly came to find me.

Xiao Hui said, if I marry him, he would help me pay off the debts.

I asked why.

He smugly said, "I want to prove that you chose the wrong person back then, only I can save you, that poor boy will only drag you down."

Oh, he wants to marry me just for his heroism.

Just to outshine me.

How ridiculous.

Today, I had no choice but to ask for his help.

A phone call would do, I could find an excuse to leave.

I don't know how he ended up at the door.

I coldly said, "Why pretend to be my fiancé?"

"What's the difference? We're getting married soon anyway."

"I haven't agreed to you yet."

"Do you have other choices? Miss Yu, wake up, you owe a lot of debts, anyone who marries you is taking a huge loss, who else would want you besides me? That guy just now?"

Xiao Hui was contemptuous.

"That's your poor college boyfriend, right? Let me tell you, he's just here to humiliate you, he was suppressed by you before and didn't dare to retaliate, now that you're down and out, who knows how he's laughing at you inside."

"That's none of your business!"

"How is it not? He stole you from me before, now I have a chance to cut him in their size..."

"Xiao Hui, I'm not your property! I didn't agree to you before, and I won't in the future!"

I got out of the car, Xiao Hui didn't stop me.

"Whether you agree or not, is it up to you to say? Yu Ming, think about your family."

His frivolous face, somehow, made me think of the past.

Those who gossiped and mocked Yang Jing Zhi were just like this.

Was I also like this in Yang Jing Zhi's heart?

12

The news of my return spread among classmates.

Along with my family's struggles.

My roommate, Wen Wen, reconnected with me.

She's getting married and asked if I was willing to be her bridesmaid.

This was our agreement from before, the later married one would be the bridesmaid for the other.

On the wedding day, many old classmates came, I added everyone's WeChat one by one.

Wen Wen, in her wedding dress, had tears in her eyes.

"Little Yu, I always thought you'd be the first one among us four to get married."

"If I got married, how could I be your bridesmaid."

"You dare say, disappearing for four years, I was so mad!"

"I was wrong! I won't leave anymore, I'll stay and make it up to you."

Wen Wen broke into laughter: "Why did you vanish back then? You could have told us if you were in trouble, we could have helped you."

I looked down at my toes.

Thought for a while, then spoke out the feelings I had kept inside for years.

"I've never faced such a big setback in my life, Wen Wen, do you know? It's like my whole life collapsed, I didn't know what to do, I couldn't face everyone's gaze, even pity felt painful. It was impulsive, I just erased all my contacts."

Wen Wen sighed: "Yang Jing Zhi was almost crazy looking for you."

"What?" I was stunned.

"Didn't you know? He used every method, asked teachers, asked the school, almost went to the police, he was a poor student back then, didn't have much connections, he couldn't find you and went to your house."

Wen Wen saw my expression and continued.

"You know, he's really afraid of your parents... but he gathered his courage and went, but who would have thought, your whole family had left, even your parents were gone."

"That was the first time I saw Yang Jing Zhi break down, he sat at your house's doorstep, crying like a dog."

"Later, he heard you might be in the south, so he went to find you, but still didn't find you, where exactly were you?"

I slowly said, "Guangzhou, Guiyang, Kunming... I can't count, many places. Because we were constantly being chased for debts, our family changed names, almost every half a month, we had to move."

"No wonder he couldn't find you." Wen Wen said, shaking her head. "Anyway, he finally returned to Beijing disheartened, then started working on that person-finding data system."

I didn't understand.

I thought Yang Jing Zhi didn't care at all about my whereabouts.

Before graduation in our senior year, I heard him talking to his dorm mate.

The dorm mate asked him, "What are your plans after graduation, marry Yu Ming?"

Yang Jing Zhi said indifferently, "No."

I was greatly affected that day.

Soon after, my family fell apart.

I directly broke up with him, and he didn't hold back at all.

But looking for me everywhere, what does that mean?

Regret after losing?

I was a bit confused.

Wen Wen threw the bouquet, I was distracted, didn't catch it.

The bouquet landed in Yang Jing Zhi's hands.

The host said, "This gentleman got the bouquet, congratulations, congratulations, good things are coming, will you give it to your girlfriend when you go back?"

"No need for that."

Yang Jing Zhi walked towards me.

Handed me the bouquet.