Zhao Xuning glanced at her sideways: "Is there any difference between what you're saying and insulting someone?"
Liang Shi: "..."
In the end, Liang Shi decided not to hurt Zhao Xuning anymore, after all, he was about to become her landlord.
This house is the best option for her at the moment, so she communicated with Zhao Xuning in a very "friendly" manner.
The house, which hadn't been lived in for a long time, looked lifeless, but all the rooms were decorated in warm colors, which was completely out of place with the current aloof Dr. Zhao.
Especially the master bedroom.
The wallpaper is a girly pink, which clashes with Dr. Zhao's image.
It's hard to imagine what Dr. Zhao would be like in a relationship.
While Zhao Xuning was on the phone in the living room, Liang Shi carefully searched the master bedroom and then discovered the engraving behind the bedside table: Zhao Xuning & Shen Hui.
It must have been carved with a knife; every stroke was done with great care.
To get a better look, Liang Shi moved the bedside table aside.
Then I found a blue envelope under the bedside table, addressed to: Zhao Xuning.
The envelope was still unopened. Liang Shi hesitated for a moment, then didn't open it, but simply dusted it off.
It seems like only couples deeply in love would do something like this.
Engraving two people's names together makes them seem exceptionally close, as if the indelible mark represents a lifetime together.
Liang Shi raised his hand and wiped the dust off the wall, revealing the original text of the line of words. He then discovered that there was a heart before and after both names.
Naïve, but innocent.
When Zhao Xuning came in, he saw Liang Shi moving the bedside table aside and half-squatting on the floor wiping the wall.
Zhao Xuning: "..."
"What are you doing?" Zhao Xuning asked as he walked in.
Liang Shi handed her the envelope. "There's a letter for you here. It fell under the bedside table."
Zhao Xuning was taken aback when he saw the envelope, and then hesitated whether to open it.
Liang Shi said, "Could it be a breakup letter from your ex-girlfriend?"
"No," Zhao Xuning denied directly.
Their breakup was so terrible that Shen Hui wouldn't write to her.
The most beautiful times she and Shen Hui spent in this house were the ones they shared.
The two were both from a nearby medical university. Both of them were a bit of a germaphobe, so they didn't want to live on campus. From the time they met to when they started dating, it was only a month before Zhao Xuning bought a house here. Naturally, the two of them spent the night here and moved in together.
"Then open it and take a look," Liang Shi urged. "What if you've missed some important information?"
Zhao Xuning lowered his eyes, his hand still trembling slightly as he opened the letter.
Although I roughly know what it is, I'm still a little afraid to face it.
She carefully unwrapped it and then unfolded the slightly yellowed paper.
The paper was written in delicate small regular script, filling an entire page with the words: "Wife, I was wrong."
The characters were densely packed together, and Shen Hui, who had mild obsessive-compulsive disorder, made sure that all the characters were neatly matched.
Within this entire page of "Wife, I was wrong," there are two different ones interspersed.
One is "Ningning, my wife, mwah."
Another one is: "Wife, I love you".
Seeing such a naive letter again after so many years, Zhao Xuning felt a pang of sadness.
This must have been when Shen Hui went to have dinner with a junior from her department. When she went to pick her up, she found the junior clinging to Shen Hui's shoulder. At that time, Shen Hui was not as assertive as she is now, and she didn't know that Shen Hui was the second daughter of the famous Shen family in Haizhou City. She thought Shen Hui was a simple and pure person.
The junior almost kissed Shen Hui on the face. Zhao Xuning picked her up that night and drank two glasses of wine in anger.
Even a teetotaler would become dizzy and disoriented after drinking too much. He would lie in bed, hugging Shen Hui and repeatedly saying, "You are mine—no one can take you away from me."
Shen Hui coaxed her, "It's yours, it's yours, no one can take it away from you."
As a result, Shen Hui sent a message to that junior that night, asking if she had arrived home. Later, Zhao Xuning found out, and Shen Hui explained that she had to ensure the junior's personal safety.
Zhao Xuning was extremely jealous at the time. He grabbed Shen Hui's waist, pressed her down on the soft bed, and kissed her until she could hardly breathe.
Their long hair was tangled together on the bed. Zhao Xuning, who was drunk, was being unreasonable. "I'm angry... I'm so angry."
To appease her, Shen Hui said she would write her an apology letter.
When Zhao Xuning woke up later, he had a splitting headache and felt that his behavior that night was too childish, so he didn't mention it again.
But Shen Hui told her that she had written an apology letter, but didn't know where it was.
Zhao Xuning said she was making excuses and hadn't written anything at all.
Shen Hui searched the entire house but couldn't find it.
Unexpectedly, after many years, Liang Shi found it under the bedside table in the master bedroom.
As Zhao Xuning looked at the words in the letter, each word seemed to come alive.
Back then, if Shen Hui had an early class, she would definitely wake Zhao Xuning up. After waking her up, she was afraid that Zhao Xuning would get angry in the morning, so she would quickly go over and kiss her, and put her hand on her waist and act coquettishly, "Wife, kiss me."
If Zhao Xuning had to attend an early morning class, she would definitely make a statement a day in advance, saying, "Don't wake me up, and don't kiss me when you wake up in the morning."
Zhao Xuning would secretly kiss her every time, then prepare breakfast before going to his early morning class.
They lay together on the bed they had chosen, on the sofa, in the kitchen, and in every corner of the house, leaving traces of their joy.
Shen Hui would always sit on the sofa in the living room watching TV, and then wait for Zhao Xuning to cut fruit for her. After eating only a few bites, she would wrap her legs around Zhao Xuning's waist and ask her to carry her into the bedroom.
Back then, Shen Hui had baby fat on her face and was chubby all over, with fullness in all the right places.
She has the face of a first love and a good personality, so many people at school like her.
Zhao Xuning's daily routine was to be jealous, but Shen Hui always coaxed her.
Shen Hui spoke with an upward tilt, tinged with a hint of teasing, "My dear wife is angry again."
"Zhao Xuning, don't be angry."
"Ningning, my wife, come here for a kiss, okay? Don't be angry anymore."
"Wife, I was wrong... I was really wrong."
"Ningning, my wife, I'd like to prepare a gift for you."
"..."
Zhao Xuning was an unyielding beauty on a high mountain in the school, always alone with few friends, except for Shen Hui.
Looking back, during the time they were dating, Shen Hui always made concessions to her.
What she did for Shen Hui seemed insignificant.
Back then, I still had a bit of youthful arrogance in my heart, having been pampered by those around me since I was a child.
She came from a wealthy family and was beautiful, so she received many love letters from girls.
So there's no need to be too nice to Shen Hui, since she'll love herself anyway.
Moreover, she knew perfectly well that it was unlikely that she and Shen Hui would get married.
Her parents could not accept her marrying someone with no background.
From the day she was allowed to date, her parents instilled in her the idea that dating was casual, but marriage had to be between equals.
At first, she was just playing around. After dating for two years, she took the initiative to mention to her parents during a meal that she might marry a girl with no background.
Her father flew into a rage and threw a shard of a bowl that cut her neck.
Back here, Shen Hui treated her wounds and said to her, "Wife, a kiss will make it stop hurting."
...
It seems like all the wonderful memories happened here.
Every word Shen Hui once wrote for her was so vivid that it was automatically read aloud in Shen Hui's childish and coquettish voice.
Back then, she wasn't all thorns.
When did things change?
Between them...
//
"Dr. Zhao." Liang Shi waved his hand in front of Zhao Xuning's eyes, and Zhao Xuning stopped his chaotic memories and came to his senses, replying, "What's wrong?"
"You're asking me what's wrong?" Liang Shi asked. "What's wrong with you? You're crying."
"What touching things were written in this letter?" Liang Shi said, "Your tears are soaking it."
Zhao Xuning quickly raised his hand to wipe the mark, but Liang Shi stopped him, saying, "You'll break it if you do that."
Zhao Xuning stopped, folded the paper, put it back in the envelope, turned around, wiped away her tears, and whispered, "I'm fine."
Liang Shi suddenly asked, "How many years have you been dating your girlfriend?"
Zhao Xuning clutched the letter tightly in his hand. "Six years."
She spent four years in university and two years studying abroad. In her third year of studying abroad, Shen Hui became pregnant, miscarried, and was even misunderstood as having an affair. Shen Hui ended her studies early and was taken back to China by her family.
It was in the hospital that she learned that Shen Hui was not the daughter of an ordinary family, but the second young lady of the Shen family.
That day, Shen Hui lay on the bed, as if all her vitality had been drained away.
Zhao Xuning apologized repeatedly, but to no avail.
They broke up just like that.
She never saw Shen Hui again after that, and knew that Shen Hui would never forgive her.
Shen Hui has an extremely high level of fastidiousness when it comes to relationships; she is the kind of person who will not give others a second chance.
What the truth was that night is no longer important.
The important thing is that Shen Hui saw her rolling around in bed with another woman, even though nothing substantial happened that day.