Abyss of ignorance

She ran her fingers over the books on the bookshelf, one after another, as if these books would give her some echoes, but they didn't. Unfortunately, it was only when she was alone that she revealed it so calmly.

On the wall near the bookshelf, there were many paper cranes hanging. She got up and walked over to look at it.

The waiter just brought over ice water and introduced: "This is a small activity we did before the end of the semester. You can write your favorite poems in the sticky notes on the side, fold them into thousands of paper cranes and put them here."

A gust of evening wind blows these paper cranes through the wooden shutters of the cafe. As if guided by a god, one of them swayed its wings slightly in the wind as if it came alive.

"This Thousand Paper Crane..." When she saw this Thousand Paper Crane, her eyes were like stagnant water, and her distant memory was suddenly awakened.

It was a bright afternoon, and the sports meet of Linzhou Middle School had just ended.

Chen Xu, who had won many medals, was not happy. He stayed away from the crowd and sat alone under the acacia tree.

Jiang Yichuan saw her from a distance, as usual, walked over without hesitation, and sat down beside her.

"Don't talk to me..." Chen Xu muttered, and then unabashedly expressed the reason for his unhappiness, and asked Jiang Yichuan, "Yesterday, when I asked Dad to keep you, why didn't you stand up and beg him together?"

Jiang Yichuan smiled to himself, but didn't speak.

When Chen Xu saw him, he became even more unhappy, and pushed him hard: "You're still laughing!"

Jiang Yichuan looked at her sideways. Under the golden sunlight, his eyes were so clear that even the lines of his pupils could be seen at a glance, with a charming luster like amber. He always looked at her with a gentle smile.

"Xiao Xu, I can't live in your house forever." Jiang Yichuan said with something in his words.

"Isn't my home your home?" Chen Xu said stubbornly, still not understanding Jiang Yichuan's words.

"Do you remember what Chen Ma said to you? Your surname is Chen, and my surname is Jiang. This is the difference..."

"But in my heart, you are my brother..." Chen Xu said as a matter of course.

Hearing this, Jiang Yichuan's gentle eyes dimmed, he hesitated to speak, a gust of wind blew, and the colorful flyers left by the sports meeting were rolled up and fluttered in the air.

Jiang Yichuan reached out and grabbed one of the bright yellow papers. He lowered his head silently and folded something.

After a while, in the golden sunlight, a thousand paper crane was held in the palm and appeared in front of Chen Xu. The thousand paper crane's wings, like today, moved with the slight fan, as if they were about to fly high in the next moment.

Chen Xu didn't know that this was a trick to coax the children, but she was still happy.

"Why does this thousand paper cranes move by itself?" Jiang Yichuan liked her curious and surprised look the most. Boys only want girls to be happy, it's as simple as that.

"The origami method I came up with myself, I am the only one in the world who can fold such a thousand origami cranes." Jiang Yichuan said proudly, and then gently placed it in Chen Xu's hand, leaning forward slightly so that he, who was originally taller than Chen Xu, could look at her at his level.

Every time he wanted to talk to her seriously, he would first let each other look at each other and prevent Chen Xu from looking up.

"Xiaoxu, no matter where I go, I will be like this paper crane. As long as you want, I will fall into your palm." He said, being so close to her, she could see her own reflection in his eyes, as if this was the only thing Jiang Yichuan saw in his eyes.

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"In this world, he is the only one who can fold like this..." she said to herself, looking at the special one among dozens of paper cranes, "You said that poems are written in all of these thousand paper cranes?"

The waiter said: "Yes, you can choose one to see if it is a destined person."

Ye Mimi took off the one that moved its wings with the fan, and carefully unfolded the bright yellow paper.

"July [-]th in the Hall of Eternal Life, when no one is whispering in the middle of the night." There is no inscription, no date, only this line of poem in "Song of Everlasting Sorrow".

July [-]th was her birthday and the day he left.

He has been here.

She looked around in a daze, feeling lost with nothing to look for.

He said that every July [-]th, he would leave a book here to prove that he was still alive.

One year is enough for her to put JN003 on the market, but is one year enough for him to survive?

Carefully, according to the original creases, she restored the appearance of the paper crane and hung it in the distance.

"Well, if you don't like this poem, can you try something else?" the waiter asked inexplicably.

"It's time, you're going to close." Ye Mimi said, walking towards the door.

The waiter looked at her slender back, then at the ice water in his hand, and muttered, "What a strange person."

As soon as Ye Mimi came out of the soft time, the lights behind her were turned off, and it really closed on time.

The black Rolls-Royce waited faithfully, and Ah Ruo came out and opened the door for her.

Ye Mimi looked at him: "Ah Ruo, you don't have to."

"I'm a night owl, it's fine." Ah Ruo hurried back to the driver's seat with his signature smile.

The car was driving in Linzhou, which was getting quieter, towards the only place in the city that refused to sleep at the moment - Xingtiandi.

"You also promised something, right? Same as Lin Xiaodong." Ye Mimi, who hadn't spoken all the way, said suddenly.

"I'm different from Lin Xiaodong. I'm in front of you every day. Axu knows that I can't lie to you like this. He didn't tell me anything. If there is one thing, just let me protect you as I protect him." Ah Ruo said honestly, "But that was what he told me when he was discharged from the hospital. I think that since then, he may have been planning something, but he didn't put me in his plan."

"How did you and Axu become friends?" Ye Mimi asked for the first time.

"Mr. Ye, why are you suddenly concerned about my affairs?" Ah Ruo looked at Ye Mimi who was sitting in the back row through the rearview mirror, and said with a smile.

"When you're not working, call me Mimi." She looked at the dimmed neon lights outside the car window, "I just want to know everything about him, everything about Jiang Yichuan becoming Jiang Xu."

Ah Ruo understands - she misses him.

As empathetic as Ah Ruo, he immediately said: "So, my life was given by Axu. When I met him, he was already the son of the famous Mr. Jiang. The cruel truth behind those glamor was only known after I got acquainted with him.

As for me, when I was in middle school, the two labels of sissy and transfer student basically doomed my fate in Linzhou Middle School.Ridiculous, teased, beaten by gangs, these are about all my memories of middle school life. "