"...... On that day in April, I saw you go to the hospital to look for Liu Xuejiao."
Qin Chengyao suddenly raised his head and stared at Zhu Zhiyao. "Does she know?"
"She knew before the competition. Lao Qin, you can't go on like this. Cheer up! There's a misunderstanding between you two. Go and explain it clearly to her!"
"Hehe... I've broken up with her. You can go after her now." Qin Chengyao lay down, letting the liquor from the bottle soak his clothes. He was completely dejected and didn't care about anything.
He had been in this state for several days.
Since Ji Siyue called him out after winning the competition that day and they had a conversation, only Qin Chengyao came back.
First, he smashed all the things in the base clean, then squatted in the mess and cried softly. He curled up into a ball. No one had ever seen him so heart - broken, and no one dared to step forward to comfort him.
Later, he started smoking and drinking, picking up all the bad habits he had had over the years and torturing himself to the extreme.
The others could only hear from his drunken and unconscious words that they seemed to have broken up, and it was Ji Siyue who initiated it.
But so what?
It had been a week, and Ji Siyue seemed to have evaporated from the world. They went to her apartment, but there was no response.
Only then did the others realize that they knew too little about Ji Siyue. When she wanted to disappear, they searched the whole world but couldn't find her...
"Lao Qin, do you think this is right?"
"She wants to break up, so I'll let her. You can go after her... Uh -!"
Before Qin Chengyao could finish his words, Zhu Zhiyao punched him in the face. Then, Zhu Zhiyao straddled Qin Chengyao and rained punches on him. "Damn it! Although I like Ji Siyue, I won't take advantage of the situation! Even if you break up, you have to make it clear first, and then I'll go after her!"
Hearing the commotion, the others quickly came out and pulled Zhu Zhiyao away.
Qin Chengyao didn't move. He just lay on the ground, with Ji Siyue's words on the day she left echoing in his mind.
"Qin Chengyao, I hate you. Don't look for me again. We'll never be together in this lifetime. It's not your fault, but... it's not my fault either."
So, he didn't look for her.
Even when he was dead drunk and his mind was in a complete mess, he didn't look for her. He just turned all his longing for her into liquor and drank it all in one gulp.
He swallowed it with cigarettes, just like taking sleeping pills, which could make him forget these unpleasant things for a short time.
Ji Siyue, you said you hate me.
I hate you too.
...
A month later.
Ji Siyue stood at the airport, carrying her luggage. Her parents were beside her.
She stared at her phone, looking at two trending topics on the hot search.
#Qin Chengyao, the new president of the Qin Group, announces his engagement to his fiancée#
#The Hornets announce their withdrawal from this year's AKM League. The team is not disbanded, but their return date is uncertain#
"Siyue, what are you looking at?" Nan Ye came over and asked.
Ji Siyue put away her phone and smiled. "It's okay, Mom. How do you feel?"
"I'm fine! But what about you? Why did you suddenly agree to go abroad with us for recuperation? Your boyfriend... Why did you suddenly break up with that boy?"
"Don't ask. This is my own business, Mom. Let's go. It's time to board the plane."
"Alas, okay! You're such a child. You always like to bear things alone!"
The announcement for her flight to take off came.
Ji Siyue took her parents and boarded the plane without looking back.
She might not come back to this place for a long time...
Watching the plane gradually take her away from her homeland, Ji Siyue finally couldn't help shedding a tear.
Speaking of it, the reason for her breakup with Qin Chengyao was extremely cheesy.
So cheesy that she was embarrassed to say it.
...
At this moment.
On the top floor of the Qin Group Building.
"Boss, the plane has taken off." The assistant in a suit said to the man standing in front of the French window.
Hearing this, the man turned his head.
"Got it."
"Then I'll go back to work first."
He waved his hand and continued to turn back to look at the sky, as if he could see a very far - away place through the sky.
Ji Siyue was gone. She was really gone. In more than a month, they had only said one sentence to each other.
It was when he was drunk and called her.
He said, "I miss you."
Ji Siyue said, "Get lost."
Now he didn't get lost, but she left first.
He smiled.
"It's okay. I'll play with you, Ji Siyue."
...
It had been more than a month since she arrived in the foreign country.
The money Ji Siyue brought from China to settle her whole family down was almost spent.
Her parents' savings had been almost used up during the treatment in China, plus the follow - up medical expenses. So, someone in the family had to go out to make money.
Ji Siyue decided to earn money.
She hadn't been on Weibo for more than a month.
The last Weibo she posted was the one announcing her breakup with Qin Chengyao.
She logged into her main Weibo account, deliberately ignoring the @ mentions and private messages, and posted a Weibo.
[I'm very sorry for taking so long to tell you. At this moment, I'm in a foreign country. I've made a serious decision to never use this account again. This account holds too many of my memories. I dare not touch it, nor do I want to. All good things must come to an end. See you later. Take good care of yourselves. I'm Ji Siyue.]
After posting the Weibo, she didn't dare to look at the comments and private messages. She directly logged out and uninstalled Weibo.
Her ideal was good, but the reality was a bit harsh.
As an undergraduate who hadn't graduated from a top - tier university in China, she was nothing special in a foreign country. Due to her visa issue, she couldn't find a high - paying job here. So, at first, she started from washing dishes.
After working for a while, she was fired with her salary in hand.
The reason was a bit ridiculous. The boss said she was aloof and not enthusiastic enough when talking to customers. So, using this as an excuse, after deducting some taxes, he fired her.
Back at the rented house, Ji Siyue covered her head with the quilt and fell asleep.
After two months, she finally cried.
She missed home.
It wasn't the home with her parents. What she missed was the high - end apartment near the school in China, the home where she lived alone.
What she didn't know was that in China, Ji Siyue was on the hot search again.
#Shocking! The former goddess anchor Ji Siyue has become a dishwasher in a foreign country!#
There were pictures attached to this Weibo. It seemed to be a candid shot and was a bit blurry.
In the Qin Group Building, Qin Chengyao held his phone and looked at this Weibo. The look in his eyes darkened.